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TIONESTA, PA., NOV. 12. 1870. $1,50 Per Annum, She $w$t gtpuMlcaa. 9 runijflincn kvery wedsesdat, by A Legend of HarTCKt, 8o long ago that history pays No hoed nor record ot how long, Back in the loruly dreamy days, The days ot story and rf son;;. Boloro tho world hud crowded grown, While wrong on earth was hard to find, And hull the earth hud never known Tho lorins and faces ol mankind. Wlion nst as liow tho yei'.rs would keep Their terms ot snow-sand suns mid showers, It chanced that. Hummer dropt aslocp, Ono morning, in a llold ol flowers. And whilo tho warm weeks eumo and floil, In all their tondnr wealth ot'chttrm, She slept, with bounteous gelduu head I,uid sollly on her weary arm, She did not heiir tho waving trees, Tho warbling nrook sho did not hoar, Nor yet tho velvet-coated bees That boomed about her rosy oar. In many a yellow breezy mans, Tho rich wheat ripenod l:ir away, 'And glittering on tho fragrant grass, Her silver sicklo idly lay. i But then at IiihI, ono noontido hour, A gorgeous moth, while hovering by, Mistook her sweet mouth for a flower, And summer wuked, wilh startled cry. Sho rose, In anxious wonder, now, To giizo upon the heightened whost, And saw ft plenteous fase-els how Dead-ripe below iho sultry heat. Halt ernzod, she wnndurod east and wo-t, Amid t lie peaceful spacious elimo, Uutd at length, with panting broiBt, Sho stood before old fit her time. With tears ot shame she told him nil, While poinli.ig to tho wheat uniuown, And sail : "What power shall make it fall Kre autiimu s hitler winds have blown T" Then father time, with laughter guy, Bowed a'.l his frame, and crooked his knees, And tossed his while board like the spray That ciowns tlu ert-Hta ol wintry seaa. " Oh, daughter, choer your heart !" he oriedj " Tho wheat shall fall ere lulls tho uiirhl. We two hull mow it, sido bjiside, Aud reap it in tbe t-trirs' pale light !" Ho summer cleared her brow of gloom, , And forth witli Cut her time eho weut, And, haggard ago by youth in bloom, Above tho tawny wheat they beat. Iho lull rii;;!;t the harvest fell; it,. i ...o ... i: i i.i.-.i... r " Tr . v eii.v.u iiiitb ni.iiai'ii mil itiivt IJ1UUV As ancient annuls love to tell, Obi father time h.is Ixime a scythe ! Elijar Fawnit, in A'ieholu. DOHA'S LOVERS. Dora will never forget that day of tho procession ; she remembers the very aits the ban (In played, the glitter of epaulets, the splendidly caparisoned horses, tho Waving Hags. Sho was very happy on that day far happier than she whs lor a lonir, long season afterward. Clement had invited her to go into the city to wit ness the pageant; ho had permission from Air. Oliver, a director of the Rank of Shekels, to take a window in that building, by which the procession pass ed. Aunt 1 1 it ty hid frowned upon the all air, and had told her she was a fool to encourago that young jaekanapi a, anil so keep better matches at a distance. " If he weren't going off directly, I should forbid it," she said. " How can you care for him, when such a man as Simon Cleverly is at your feet, passes me! They're not to lie named in the same breath. Cleverly is tall, Clement Smith ers isshort; Cleverly1 eyes nre dazzling, Clement's are near-sighted; the one has a fortune of his own, the other ha-m t a sou, so to speak." As far the question of money, Dora felt that she would rather share poverty with Clement than dwell in marble halls and fare sumptuously every day with Mr. Cleverly. It so happened that she and Clement were the earliest arrivals at the bank, with the exception of a clerk, and as that person knew Clement, 'and I Jiad a sweetheart to escort trom the suburbs, he soon li ft them in possession. Dora had never been inside tho bank before, 'and whilo they waited aud said their tender nothings, she looked alxiut her, asking innumerable questions, in onlor. perhaps, to postpone the inevitable question. " I here's the safe." said Clement, as they paused before a door. "It's built i.ito the wall. II you open this door, it rings. a bell sonu where in an ollice in Exchange street, and they are warned that somebody is tampering with the safe, and up comes a brace of police men." " Oh, Clement, what a romancer you are!" laughed Dora. " Won't they hear it atThuW Let's see" and she turned the handle of the door. "There! Why doesn't the bell ring?" ''The burglar doesn't hear it, I sup pose, or he'd niake oil'. Maybe it's the inuer door, the door of the safe itself. They don't lock tliis one, you see, and tiny body might open it by mistake. When the bank ollici rs want to open the safe, they know how to prevent the bell from ringing, they tell me, hut maybe it's aU humbug. Cleverly told me about it he's teller here." And presently other spectators arrived, and Clement and Dora took their places at the win dow, and caught far oil' tho mulUVd tread ot feet, tho bea'ing of drums, ajid tho hint of a martial tune, .lust then the door opened hurriedly, and an irritated-looking man popped 'in, llkeajack-out-of-a-box. " Who has been meddling with the bank's safe? " he cried. " I don't, think it has been disturbed," replied a gentleman present. Clement aud Dora had forgotten that a safe existed, and had just stepped out upon tho window balcony. " Don' tell me!'1 pursued the irate offi cial. "Was nobody here when you came?" " Only those two young people on the balcony lovers." "Confound 'em!'1 and he stepped up to Clement anil pulled his sleeve "Somebody's been tampering with tho saf" can you toll me anything about it?1 "I T really " stammered Clement, suddenly brought down to earth. "I beg pardon what did you wish P" Tho man repeated his question more angrily. His demeanDi brought the blood in a ilamo to Clement's face. "There was no harm done, I assure you," ho answered. "The door was opened by mistake 11 "Tell hi in, Clement tell him I opened it," whispered Dora. " Worth while bringing a man all the way from Exchange street for nothing! Th t comes of opening the bank to Tom, Dick and Harry! 1 shall have to lay it before the Hoard of Directors, I shall!" "I haven't tho smallest objection," said Clement; and while they returned to tin? memorable pages of the past, where here a rose had heen pressed, nnd there a sprig of mignonette, the pro cession moved into sight, tho music soared above them, the crowd surged beneath; there was rhythm in the tread of the marching feet, and the sun struck sparks Irom the housings of the horses anil the points of bayonets. Cleverly, on a capering steed, looked up anil smiled on Dora, while daggers shot from beneath his brows as he recognized her companion. Hut everything has an end. The last bit of glitter and color finally vanished down the long vista of the street, and the band music became like the unreal melody of a dream. They went and dined together afterward, and Htepped into a picture gallery, and said J gooil-bye at Aunt lutty sgate, since lie expected to sail next morning by sun rise, as first mate in ti e Videtle for Japan. Hut next day he appealed again. "The wind didn't serve," he explained ; " we shan't get oft' till afternoon. Put on your hat, Dora, nnd I'll row you out to the Videtto, nnd you sliall seo how we poor sailors fare." Tho day was like crystal, the river coruscated with shift ing lights, while tho ship loomed up be fore them like, some fabled sea-bird, gigantic Hnd mysterious. Every mo ment was full of elixir to Dora. "Iwish I were captain, Dora,1' ho whispered, as they leaned over the side of the Vidette. and looked into the depths below, nnd at their, own shadows upon the surface, which threatened to become 6ftfft-as"'thB shirf'swayed aild the tide rocked, "and we were bound for Japan together." "It is a long way; you might grow tired of my companionship. Who are those men coming up the side of the ship, Clement? Do they belong to the crew?" "They look like policemen. T suppose that one of the sailors made off without settlingjiis bills." "No, Clement, they are asking for you." " Nonsense! what can they want with me!" Clement turned about, surprise and perplexity giving him an involved expression. He had the air of one brought to bay. "Air. Clement Smithers?" said one of the ollieers, approaching. " You are suspected of having tampered with the safe of the 15 ink of Shekels on the seven teenth of Juno. It becomes my duty to detain you for examination." "What folly!" cried Clement, hotly. " I can explain it all. Tho lady who was with me at the bank is my witness. I can give my affidavit " " But you must come with me; them's my orders." "How do we know but the lady's your accomplice, th?" put in his com panion. - " But I am to sail in a couple of hours," objected Clement. " Ay, the shipjs to sail, but we'll t'ive you another sort of berth." "Tell them," gasped Dora "make them understand tint I pulled the bell, opened the door by mistake, for fun " "Yes, we've heard that pretty story before, but it won't bear washing". I'er haps you took the bonds that are missing too?" Clement's heart stood still. "Are there any bonds missing?" ho asked. "Just as if you didn't know better'n us! If the wind hadn't hauled round you'd got off splendid with 'em." It was all abroad nnd in the daily papers by the following day ; everybody was talking about it- Mr. Cleverly stepped into Aunt Ditty's to eive the latest particulars and assure Dora that she should not be annoyed. " Hut Clement is as innocent as you are; it was I who opened the door," she explained. "Nobody suspects you of taking the bonds, child. You wern't about to sail for foreign shores there's the rub. I'm afraid you'll have to go into court and give testimony." " You don't believe that Clement is guilty?" " It looks black for him. I suspend my judgment." " Hut you believe nie when I assure you that he never touched the safe." "I believe every word you utter. Hut that will not convince the directors or the jury. If no bonds had heen missing, of course opening the door would have given no concern." " It is so unexpected, so undeserved! " " That must be proved." "Air. Cleverly," she asked one day lata, "what will they doit Clement is is found " "Several years in the State-prison at hard labor. I believe." " And nobody to keep' up his heart, to tncourag") hi in . He will get hardened by such injustice, ' she signed. As the time of his trial drew near, everybody spoke of Clement as one al ready condemned. " I'oor misguided fellow !" they said ; and even Aunt II it ty hoped he was supplied with tracts. In the mean time it almost seemed as if Cleverly had stepped inU) Clement's nich. Ho was always at Aunt Ilitty's, and going away late; and Aunt Hltty was usually ill with neuralgia, whic h prevented conversation on her side, whilo Dora had nothing to do but keep the ball rolling, and was never weary of talking of Clement's case. " You are profoundly interested in this affair," Cleverly said to her one night when she had stepped out upon the pizza to wish by the new moon, and he had followed. " Nothing interests me so much." Mr. Cleverly winced. " What would you do to prove his in nocence?" "Anything that was right." " Would you marry some one else, if that would save hiin?" "Some one I do not love? Would that be right?" "Where would be tlia harm, if he preferred to marry without love, rather than not at all?" "These are mere idle words, Air. Cleverly." "No, tliey nre not mere idle words. Listen; you will do anything to save Clement Smithers. Is it wrong to make another happy, and save a Iriond from ruin? Tiien marry me, Dora, and I will save him; I give you my word." w ny wilt you make such acondttion if it is possible for you to clear him? Why will.you not accomplish it gratu itously P" "Hecau30 I love you, and I am not Quixotic. At present your story is not credited; you are suspected of a weak ness for the prisoner. Were you my wife, that prejudice would be cancelled. Marry me, dear Dora, nnd I swear to save his name nnd credit, or forfeit my own." "How could I do such a thing, even to save Clement?" "It is in your power to decide whether he shall sp nit his best years in prison, in the pursuit of menial tasks, in a con vict's garb, in the society of abandoned men, imhittered by injustice. It seems to me that you can not hesitate." Was it true, then, she asked herself, that it was in her power to save Clement from ignominy, and did she hesitate? Did she r.ot love him well enough to sacrifice everyt hing for him ? Daily she reached the heights of renunciation, daily she slipped hack into the vallev of humiliition and self-Jove. Every day Air. Cleverly pressed his suit, waxed cloqivrt, convinced her ignorance by plausible proofs and promises, and one day he carried his point. " Yes," she assented, feebly ; " I will marry you to save Clement." " I accept the terms," he said. " You will marry mo for Clement's sake; by-and-by you shall love me for my own." She could make no objections to an early wedding, sincit was only as Air. Cleverly's wile that she could influence Clement's fate, while Aunt Ilitty, un aware of tho conditions of the contract, at. that time, pressed the matter forward with leminine alacrity. "I'msorr for Clement Smithers," sue confessed, " but you couldn't marry a felon if you loved him to distraction. Air. Cleverly says he prefers a wedding in church. Shall it be satin and tube? 1 But it seemed as if Dora had but a shadowy interest in the preparations, such as a ghost might have. It was toward dusk of a dark after noon, always darker in the place whero Clemsnt awaited his trial than else where, that Air. Oliver, one of the bank directors, was admitted to an interview with the prisoner. iou Have come to beg me to confess what I have done with the bonds?" laughed Clement, bitterly. "No," replied Air. Oliver; "I have come to tell you that the bonds have been found." "Found!" " Exactly. We had a wind-storin on Air. Cleverly's wedding day. You have the newspapers here; vou must have read of it ?" "I read nothing here; I have been composing a satire on justice instead. I did not know Cleverly was married." "No?" It was a furious gale, and the old elm that stood near the Church of the Heavenly Manna broke beneath it. A splinter s'ruck Air. Cleverly as lie passed from the carriage to the church door. It proved his de.:ah-blow." "Poor fellow! On his wedding day, too! Hut what has that to do with me or the bonds?" "Air. Cleverly was our teller, you re member. Yesterday the bonds were found among his personal effects. That is all." "That is a good deal," said Clement, a new color Hushing his face. " I should not have thought it of Cleverly. How ever, let us speak no ill of the dead. ( )u hi;) wedding day, too! Who was he going to m irry ?" " Aliss Theodora Gray." "Aliss Theodora Gray! My Dora!' he cried. The cloud that had lifted for a space dropped again over Clement, and he walked out of prison more hope 'es and heartlass than he had entered. He iisked no questions; he did not seek I Dora. 1 he captain or the Swan, about I to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and I he accepted the situation without a mo ! meat's hesitation . I On the homeward voyage he put about I to reMeve a shipwrecked crew. " You'l! never catch me at sea again," one of tie I rescued confided to Captain Smithers' ! mate when sho had gotten to rights on board the Swan- " Bet ween seasickness I and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see, I the doctor prescribed a voyage for my I niece; a love affair, you know lowered I her system. I wonder if shipwreck is a I tonic? Save us! who is that? The i captain? Why, man alive! it's Clement I Smithers! Dora! Dora! there was a I Providence in our being wrec ked, after tail. Goodness! what's the matter with I the g'ul? Captain Smithers, don't you ' kn,.u f.-i.,,. ,L9 '.... know you go to , Dora? She looks as if the were going to taint." I And Captain Smithers went. llarit ri , Batar. Ad rice to traveler, liny a bottle of Dr. Bull's C'ouyh Syrup the only tiling to stop a buck. SLAIN BY AN KLK. low 'eitrnl II. C. Hull, a Veteran, Met ft Vlo!ent I)efh"Two Other Men Killed The IVtofR I'rivnte Pni k In nicts 1 IO Antler WouivH In rive Minutes. The Philadelphia Times condenses from the Osborne (Kan.) Farmer the following graphic account of the fatal struggle at Hull's City, Kan., between General H. C. Bull, aided by several of his employe, and an infuriated elk . Itjs well known all over Kansas that General Bull, savcral years ago, in closed and fitted up at great expense, a magnificent park, through which hun dreds ol visitors have walked during the last summer. The general was in the habit of strolling about the inclosure before breakfast every morning. About half-past eight o'clock this forenoon he went in as usual and attended to the feeding of tho wild animals, of which there is a number. Among tho animals, are three elk, one a large, antlered male, a royal specimen of the moose family, and tho general's particular pet. This elk never before exhibited any hostile sums, and the writer, as well na num berless others, has time and again patted him on tho nose and rubbed his glossy coat. Hut when, at nine o'clock this morning, Robert Bricknell, one of the hired men, was standing near the main gateway he heard cries for help in a voice which he at once recognised as that of his employer. Bricknell ran for ward. As he approached he saw that the elk was endeavoring to paw the general down whether in play or not lie failed at tho first glance to see. Gen eral Hull evidently was on his guard, however, and bo seizing two clubs Bricknell was at the general's side in a twinkling. Both men grasped th:jir clubs, the general saying: " Now. Rob ert, I'll soon test his mettle.1' Without a srgn of warning the now infuriated beast made a ol uirge at the men, stt ik ing General Hull and knocking him down with great force. The eik then drew back and made a second attack on Gen eral Bull, this time with increased force, using his antlers with terrible effect, piercing the prostrate body of the gen eral through the breast until the prong protruded, then tossing the form high into the air and thrrAving him over its head. The elk then resumed his attack on Bricknell, inllictiiijz terrible injuries, whilst doing which George Nicholas, another cmployee,who had witnessed tlio occurrence, ran to tho rescue with a heavy club of hard wood four and one-half feet long, and about two inches in diameter, with which he expected to so disable the ani mal as to compel it to desist.. With re doubled fury and madness, however, the elk caught the club in its antlers, making indentures in.it and rolling it upon the ground with great force. At this time there were two bodies lying prostrate, and with equal heroism and courage William Sherman, a third em ployee, hastened to tho combat. The elk served Sherman the same as the other men. catching him in his immens . antlers and throwing him over the tence. Airs. Bull was meanwhile a horrified spectator of the terrible tragedy, and wild with grief and terror ran to the village crying for help. A number of men made haste to reach the scene of the disaster, but arrived too lato to be of any service. They found General Bull terriblynnangled and quite dead. Again and again diA the beast charge the rescuers, but ho was stoned off and finally drive n to the extreme end of the park. There he was lassoed and tied to a tree by means of a stout cable rope. In captivity he still paws and stamps the ground with un bated fury. Poor Brick nell died before the elk had been cor ruled. Nicholas breathed his last about eleven o'clock. A surgical examination showed that General Hull's wounds num bered forty-four. The wound that caused his death was from the antler, which entered the chest at the right nip ple, pas-.-ing diagonally through the body and coming out on the left side abwut the fifth rib. The heart itself was torn and both lungs pierced. Bricknell received thirty-two wounds one under the right arm, penetrating tho cavity of the chest, and one in the groin, ripping open the bladder. Nicholas was wounded in sixty-four places ene being over the stomach, penetrating the ab dominal cavity, and one in the right side, opening into the chest. General Bull was ono of the most able and popular men in the Slate He was born in Wisconsin, and tit the breaking out of the late war was a member of the Wisconsin legislature. Ho went into tho army, served gallantly in a number of engagements, and at the bat tle of Pea llidgo had his thigh broken, which misfortune terminated his career as a soldier, but left him a brever briga dier general. After he had attained an age wljen men usually retire from busi ness, he came to Kansas, and after pome changes finally went into the new county of Osborn and established himself. He selected a naturally beautiful spot. On the north side of the river the wide bot tom is shut in by a few line of hill's; on the south side high bluffs, rising almost Irom the water's edge, shut in Hie pros pect; up and down the valley may be seen the fringe of timber which marks the windings of the south fork of the Solomon. In this beautiful but lonely spot the old generii and his noble hesrtedwife selected their home. The Sea Serpent, The sea serpent is classed by some nat uralists us a reptile, and by others as an animal, hut this trilling disagreement has no c fleet on the general health of the monster. He is always in n jolly mood and the best of spirits. He is not quite as domestic in his nature as an old tom-cat, or a boy with three stone bruises cm each foot, but he is sejjoin met wit It any great distance from home. There is abundant evidence to prove that he knew all about thin country before Columbus did. At lea.-jt, the first one set n in America by white linn acted as much at home as a hired loan in the pantry, and at no time dining the lat four hundred years has the market been short of a full supply. Sea serpents have been met with only 150 feet long, but the majority of them are at least double that length. A sea captain who would come into port and make oath that he had seen one less than But) bt long would be laughed to scorn and advised to go West and become a Buffalo Bill. There is no doubt that one of the monsters can keep riitht on growing as long an he w ants to, and of course each one is ambitious to spin out as far as he can. During fly time a sea 60rpent 300 feet long has a great advan tage over a cow or a mule a faet which naturalists seem to have overlooked en tirely. While these monsters are no doubt somewhat given to roaming around, they nre seldom found curled up under favor ite cherry trees or in arbors resorted to by moon-struck lovers. While other snakes go t heaps of trouble to get into a house and curl up in an old straw hat on the top-shelf of a bedroom closet, the sea serpent keeps him elf modestly in the backgroutd. This animal is not gregarious in its habits. Two sea serpents aie never seen together, and it is seldom that two are seen the same week. Their plan seems to be to go it alone. Each one then secures all the glory and all the plunder, and there js no give away about it. Their ptiucipal lood consist of tough old ships the older and tougher the better, and it nny red nosed sea captain or swaggering mates happen to slip into the monster's mouth along with topsail yards, bowsprits, capstans, etc., the serpent is not to blame for it. While children may cry for this rep tile, they hadn't better fool with it, as it is plain that he is very whimsical in his nature. Captains have taken one stiff glass of grog and gone on deck to be hold a sea serpent liumping away from the ship as fast as he could go. Other captains have taken two glasses of grog and seen the serpent swim all aroundthe ship and lift its head thirty feet in the air and open his jaws as if he scented roast chicken. It may all be in the grog, or it may be the variable nature of the serpent. Until the real truth is known the tow-headed boys of the land had better not run after this marine novelty. While it is known that the house fly lives six months and tho elephant 100 years, nobody knows how long it takes a sea serpent to die of old age. He may droop and die just as he has learned the ropes aud come to know all about tho bunko-game, or he may hang on and witness the passing away of seven gen erations of long-lived ol Jack Tars. It is perhaps just as well that some little mystery is allowed to enshroud this strange inhabitant. If wo were privi leged to slam him around as we do mud-turtles, or kick himjout of the pnth as we do an old hat with a rock under it, we should feel a contempt instead of an admiration for him, and when a ship came homo and reported seeing a mons ter sea serpent in the neighborhood of section three, township eleven, in range thirteen eastfi the captain would he asked to look in our eyes and answer if he saw a vegetable garden there. De troil Free Press. The Malarial Poison. Intermittent fever, maish fever, ma larial lever, lever nnd ague, "chills" those ar! a few of the names by which the; doctors and tho people know more or less of oue of the most widespread and familiar of the ills that flesh is heir to a malady that seems to oi cur at one time or another in all countries where there are to be found water, sunshine and a soil reasonably rich in decayed vegetable elements. In countries where the soil is less rich in vegetable ele ments, the fever is restricted to the neighbor hood of inundated lands or marshes, or ponds of variable level, became in these situations the; abundance of decaying vegetable subsistence is very great. In such countries the opinion is general, and is perhaps accurate, that the poison lsnl marshy origin ; but in countries where the whole soil is rich enough to be in this particular like these marshy lands, it lias been long recognized that the poison had no necessary relation to marshy situations, but was in fact telluric, and that a short rain, which only slightly moistened the surface of the earth and a few succeeding hours of sunshine biip- hdied all the conditions necessary for the eiaooratton ot the poison that produced this fever. But what was that poison? Within a ft w years ingenious endeavors to solve this problem have multiplied. In the present year some experiments have heen made at Home which appear to be more fruitful than tiny hitherto recorded; or, in the words of the; report read to the Academy cf Rome, "the in vestigation was rewarded with com plete success." These experiments were conducted by Signor Tomnmsi, of Rome, and Prolessor Klebs, of Prague. They together spent some weeks in the Aigo Romano, and made repeated examinations of the lower strata of the atmosphere, of the soil and of st.ignant waters, and succeeded in isolating a microscopic famrus, speci mens of which, being placi d under the kin of healthy dogs, caused distinct and regular paroxysms of intermittent fever and produced in the spleens id' these ani mals that peculiar condition which is a recognized part of tne pathology of this disease. In the medical world this achievement must be regarded as an im portant one. To people at large it may not seem a great affair to have ascer tained precisely what oart of the elements of a poisonous soil it is to which its poisonous nature is due; but it mii-d not be too hastily judged that this knowledge will not involve an import ant advance in the capacity to deal with this noxious product ot the earth. New York JAraUI. An Iowa paper tells the story of a lady who took her child into a cemetery fur the first time, and upon showing him the marble ligiu'o of a lamb upon a grave was appalled to bear hini exclaim : "I sup pose an old sheep is buried there.1' The Tatchwork Spread. Tho cottage stands back from the siiiowiilk, In front is a lare willow tree, While nestling among the morning glories A flower hanging basket I see. Mmleiru vinos climb o'or the window And gay lady-slippers so re.l, -While motlior, she sits in her roi k'ir, Ihiiy making a patchwork spread. 'Iho garden U teeming wilh flowers, Tho bright portulaccas in blooro, With myitlo and gay creeping Charlie, And sweet heliotrope sheds perfume. Cut brighter und sweeter than any (iay flowors that grow in their bed, Is the dear ono that sits in the rocker, Busy making a patchwork spread. With pieces of muslin beside her, Knufi one ot a different hue, Some light and some dark and soma flain one?, Some well worn as well as some no w. How deftly she puts them together, The bright ones surround c.ich diuk shred, So that when it is all completed 'Tia a beautiful patchwork spread. The children are home for vacation, They gambol and play in the room, And swiltly her neodle i plying, And she blithely singing a tune. I think ns I watch her spare figure, Some few silver hairs in her head, How much that our lives twined together Kesemblo that bright, patohwoik spread. Some ilays have been happy and joyous, And somo have h id heartaches and tears, Y"ct bright they appear altogether, For now ne:irly twenty-eight years. God giant when our lives are both ended And s-jwn with sweet love's silken thread, Our children will think ol us kindly When they look at that patekwerk spread. Onnond Place. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A silent school-house makes a noisy bar-room. The annual tea crop of the world is 631,000,000 pounds. Kind words can never dye.- It is different v ilh the gray-haired bachelor of youthful tendencies. liackland Courier. It is a fact that many a fellow has learned through experience . that a woman is never merciful to a timid man. Waterloo Obsemr. Tho Boston Courier discovers that when two young men meet they address eac h other as " old man," and that when two old fellows meet they say "my boy.'" ' England has no merino sheep, except in her colonies; Russia has lsJ.OOO.OOO merinos, France 0,(100,000. ' The merinirtj and grades in the United States exceed S5,000,000. There is an oak tree near Raleigh, N. C, which, at the sun's merid ian, covers with a shade a space of nine thousand feet. It would afford shelter for 4.500 men. Farmers are just now laying in their winter's fuel, sind the more grown-up daughters, the bigger the wood-pile. Allowance must be made for sparks. Middklown 'IVans'-ript. Fast young men, like fast horses, have records. Those of tho former are kept at the police court and some of them can show a gait that would make Rarus feel like a dray-horse. Keokuk date City. Now fades the glimmering landscape on tho lea, Now ludes tho fly, the gnat, and all the rest j Now walks the street, oh, painiul figl't tn see, The man whose winter u'.sler shroud 1" glimmer vest. Hairkcyc. The Japanese government had in its service eighty Englishmen, thirty-one Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen Germans, seven DiVehmen, four Ital ians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two Austrians, two Portuguese and one Rus sian, making 181 foreigners. The Russian navy now consists of twenty-eight ironclads, four frigates eleven corvettes, thirteen clippers, twenty-one fcteamers, twenty-two gunboats, 111 torpedo boats, twenty-seven schoon ers and 117 sailing vessels. This arma ment is manned by 3,h71 officers and SH. WO men. Of the miles of telegraphic wire in use in tho English colonics, India has 17,810 miles; Ceylon, 75 miles; New South Wales, o,o73 miles; Victoria. i,ws5 miles; South Australia, 4,('0l miles; Western Australia. 1.507 miles; Tasmania, 7.rl miles; New .'aland, 3.307 miles:" Queensland, 5,033 miles; and the Cape of Good Hope, 'J, 150 miles. The wasp feeds on tho hollow peiioh. Ami the thi-tlo down is blowing, blowing; Tho I'tM ii is de-el, and the morning re I lu the eastern cloud is glowing. Tho holly-oak stuff is broken in two, And the weed-tlies are all flaring; Time ii shaking "io sliinxi.-h sainU, And the year, the your m v earing. The peculiar pe bbles know n iiVus tralia us the traveling stones have iong been regarded as great eunositie . S'mi lar one. have just been ilis ovtred in Nevada, almost round in shape, and in large as a walnut. The cause of tl eso stones rolling to a common point from distances of t'iive or four lc t is the loadstone or magnetic inn ore of which they are composed. An energetic girl in the coat hern part of France "he ard that a gay youth had been slandering her. She came up be hind him while he was walking with his sweetheart and threw vitriol into his face, destroying his eyesight and spoiling the beauty id his pretty com panion. Evervhody sympathized with her and she was aci'iintcd, alihoiuh confessing that she had im diluted the deed for two years.
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