'Bir'W. BLAIR. •
VOLUME 26.
gseittt pottrg.
BENBILISKIN,G.
BY BOSE TERRY. - _
When I rumen] ler
The glow of that departed place
Where life beguiled its day of grace,
Far off through all, these misty years,
:ugh-the dimmer haze of tears,
Forever green it seems to me;
mmortal owns on every ree—
A land wherein the very snow,
Lilige,falling flowers, came soft and. plows.
No winter chill to crisp the air,
rmt spring eternal Overywhere.
Dear, vanished land! how fair to see
52h.ase sad, and lovely pastures lie,
That I remember ! •
. I remember!
—The-little-,thister - of - my
Who stoodthoSe - sunny - fields
How fait they seem.? how close they press
-Intent-to-,serreto seem. ?
to bless!
A little worht,' enough for me,
Whose kings I. worshipped loyally :
Her dark eyes shine with' peace .4; eheer
Through
s alt the watches of the night
They gleam with love's divineSt light. •
"'My child,'she says, "I love thee still;
I could not work the wrong or ill;
I wait and watch for some sweet day
To bring thy wearied soul away."
w•ake,.and know that.she is dead;
mnther-love to.heaven fled— , ••,
That I remember.
When I remember
The friends I had so Icing ago,
Whose friendly faces still I know;
Whose faithful love has proved its power,
- And rallied round my darkest hour;
•
Who closer to my soul have stood
Than closest tics of kindred blood;
The.blessoms that ,have grown to fruity
The acorn with the oak-tree's root,
Libel how strong my life has grown,
Although its pillow were a stone,
And thank his mercy who has sent
These angels through the firmanent,
Note dear a thousand-fold to-day
Than in their first and fresh • • -
That I remember.
When I remember
he hungerafter righteousueSe,
Tke hope all evil to redress,
The wishes deeper than the sea,
The•heart•that shrank from xalsery ;
The doubt, and weakness, and dismay,
That clow„ed that heart from day to day
I know tha faith that storms .have tried,
The courage bomb of broken pride,
'The patieuce that can trust and wait, .
Unawed by - cruelty and hate ;
The home that holds me safe at length,
The love that clasps with tender strength'
The hope that rests in God at - jest,
A thousand times.exceed thepast,
'With all its futile hopes and dreams,
Its land of radiant fields and streams,
Its lath betrayed, its vain delight,
As fax as ,noon exceeds the night.
Nor know I now one poor regret
For All that land so lovely yet,
That I remember.
glistellautous gtading.
THE COUNTRY STORE,
It was IA the closing of a bright cheer
ful day, in the month of April, that, im
pelled by curiosity, we wended our way
to the country store, near-by.
"The store 1" What a store-house it must
be, asitot only does it supply a neighbor
_hood with sugar, rice, coffee, articles of
clothing, and other necessities of life, but
also with the news of the day, the condi:
tion of every one's affairs, the latest polit
ical excitement, the , markets, &c., &c.
Mrs. Smith will tell you that Mrs. Brown
is d.,sd, "Samuel beard it at the store."—
Another, 'that Martin will certainly soon
fail, for, so it is said at the store. Or, that
Harmon and his wife do not get along at
all ; poor man, who could get along with
her ? Of course it is all her fault.
All this from the "store."
Can you wonder, reader, that we had a
.curiosity to visit this fertile field of infor
znation.
Its we slowly walked along enjoying
the calm, silent beauty of a spring twi
light, we saw. approaching us, at a quick,
hasty step, a manly form, which we soon
recognized as our newly married neighbor.
A. , luarty oGood evening," and a pleasant
smile bespoke a happy heart. In a hur
ry, John?"
."Yes, Mary till be looking for me, poor
girl, she is not used„to being in a house all
ulone. And then it U 3 nice to have her
Conilinny eVery . evening, And in my own
house, too, that I used to walk so far for,
Good-uight."-
And away he went, Happy man. Hap
py woman. May his heart never change,
and she always apprecime the treasure she
has won. •
He had been to the store.
But a. fly were there when rarcived ;
two or three regulars were silently chew
ing their tobacco and 'soiling the floor.—
Some were at the counter laying in the
next week's supplies ; some were content
to provide against the wants' of the fol
lowwg day. As each had filled the "bill"
and covered the basket another was add
ed to thelounzers; occasionally one would
inlie-nrids-paekages,and, with a passing
remark, leave. , n such• ipstan L= a sneer
generally followed him, a remark such as
"Jake knows - better — thin:to detain any,
he'd catch it, if he didn't be home
jiffy." 'While another in way apology
might say, "I guess he knows his own bus
iness." And thus he is soon forgotten.
In a country store, as in life, one comes
and-dealurand --goes and- is forlotten:
As the evening advances, the company
increases, less dealing, and more talking.
-Thii-elerk=lazilV - throws - himself on the
counter-to-yawn; and-occasionally - puts - in
an opinion. The proprietor retires to a
corner to look oyer his•books, scan the e
vening paper, or hold a little private con
fab with a favorite lounger.
What a medley the conversation.
What interest is talon_iii_alltopicadis
-411880:1, aI each Seated on a nail keg, or
three-leged stool, or counter, gives his o
pinion, c oiner iu comment or significant
shake of the head.
There are married men and single, em
players and employees, landlords and ten
ants.
And ;That are the subjects to-night?
Let us ibten. .
, "Well, Mike, y. ur boss sold his cattle,
I helie*e." "Ye• and did well, got sev
en, and -re-put-o , -nearly three hundred
poundiTspiece. I all that a good job."—
"It is (*., ',can't o that welL"
Boss ors it all, doubt he is in the sta
ble nolir currying hem off! they go nest
•
Jest you e your place, Mart, is
it truer Well, nobody could live with
old Petes, he'd - haie a fellow working day
and night and then be growling all the
time ytt. , . •
•
"1 jwuldn't stay. at such- aplace my
self; .but there is Dick, he bas just such a
tap 4,41,1 1 is good_enough_toatick-to-him.'2-
_
doff„eare what ymi say; . Wheeler
,us Right. Of course we are
up .early in'the morning., but never up
late in the evening ; he :always likes to
help his wife at the flower beds, and fix
in the yard in the evening, and I have
plenty' cf time to o my ,chores, and
we are.dways ah wsth our work."
'Oh, 7es, but Di k, don't you know the,
fellows tre all laughing at you for being
such bol‘for old Wheeler. I get as
much 'a3 you a month, and don't work
„half as lard. Of Bourse we are a little
behind iometiraes , but what's that to me,
I put;'iz my time,4ud my month goes as
i
feat, aul Preston is glad to be pretty civ
il, foityai know hands are scarce, ain't so
'Turner?" 1
- "Ally yes, I always find it so. I nev
er cool get a boy to do for. me what Dick
there Noes for Wheeler, and I pay as
much rages as he does."
"W(11, I don't know, I always was 'sat
isfied vith my place, and didn't. want to
leave, but may be be is a little tough s "
Evil seed, carelessly scattered, may fall
upon isaaile soil and field an abundant
crop corruption.
A 11,t•Ly step upon the porch, the floor
opens and a man of middleoge enters,
'basket in hand ; his butter anakegg,s are
for sugar, coffee, h, few yards
oaf'gin ham, some and "Have you
some nwe oranges?" "How much are
they ?" "Let me have ten cents worth ;
its what I used to speed for tobacco, bus
Bate is so fond of oranges, I quit chew
ing and can now afford to take her a few
occasionally, which does me more good
than all the tobacco."
His basket packed, he starts for the
door halting to speak a word to an old
schoolmate and still a friend. "Can't you
sit down and talk a bit, $ fellow never•
gets to see you?"
"Indeed you must excuse me, for I prom
ised Hate to be back soon as possible. I
have been reading t 4 her and the children
during the long evening, and they are so
happy to have me with them. Come to
see me and I'll talk with you, and bring
- Mollie and tip children along. Good
night ,
"I".psn is the worst married man I know;
I thought k wouldn! last, but he's been
mari- leh me see, nigh on to fifteen
year ind he is getting worse instead of
better Now I like ray wife about as Well
as az ybody, give her plenty to eat and
good quarters, and .think we get alon !:
very Lice*, zbut I don't'like to be tied t.,
her (Troia string. ' Irettet she is genera
/) a little dumpy nail out of fix in th
evening, and baby inapt to be cross, s`.'
that tliey are better left to themselves.
When I get home baby'll be asleep a
sbe petty ~'sleepy and then all will"
right." s'
We
W e have no comnients, but cannot it
press the sigh, "Poor man poor worrianT
And thus the evening passes; the pr.*.
pest of the growinecrops, the defeat
anti-license, the Modoe • Indians, all li
rufles in the general quiet of the nei:l
- were handled, turned and tti , -
ed. Some occurrence of trifling unpl: z
antness between two neighbors, comm
ted upon until he who was present, z d
who side, of course, was advocated, It
deep aggrieved at what he had sea y
giv..% thought before. Ten o'clock, d
still ;zany remain. The proprietor co to
his zsh, locks' his safe, and with a y vn
Po- , to the other part of the house. zhe
yawns too, cljses the shutters sits
ague 1, then repeats his yawn, and
ers the. samplei front the porch.
ytt . l% !ling, takes a seat again, or Deal
gal -t the counter,/as if expecting a
net 1. but all theeo hints are old and
out schemes, and= still the conve
goes on. Hark! 'What step is that!
very uesteady, as . I" c o nies in mi l
prow hey the eOlllll
"1 want a pint, ' p molasses Old a
pound of your eheiyi sugar." '
And as,ke takes 4
,p abd puma from
at sik,
the door, Ik" • '• ~:: ' riuMsrks,"yoli may
just charge i "" - 1,
"Confound --lir s I don't know
sria- • tt- : 04, rirt.. - .\ --, Tr r-i-yr,
tru , l bin), and yat+.osr ijall I refuse,
" Why; I ire he works; I paid him
four dollars, tterday."
"Yes, but we has he been to-night?
I'll bet he ‘'t a cent of the four dol
lars left ;if Ad he'd pay; he always
does—he li to pay, and always - , gets
better this/hen he his money. ..He
wouldn't hi asked for that black'sugar
'and molassag he'd had money. If he
gets here bare he gets to the tavern,le's
all right, agc buys good articles and pays
for them, 10,t, he can't leave the 'Golden
Crown' wit lia cent in his pocket."
Poor nuii! he staggers home with his
pound of suiar and pint of molasses;
oranges fotilis wife; but then they say at
-the-ostore 2 -kat-slie - is - 130 - crussTirro --
scolds the mr fellow, and thet
not a week ut what she is rutin
mother's or some other place, at
instead of braying at home like
ought; is it any wonder hespent
nings and money, too, at the y
Crown." It is, of course, all
Walter thilkiit is a shame
scold him so ,-,,Try time he g
boozy, a fellort wants a little
and it will ht ppen the hist,
while. So the poor fellow wat i
unfortunate man inhaving a sti
-
But the night wore on, and
1 )
ter the poor tired clerk had y
hinted, pit out all fhP lsim_ps_l)
•
l a,
he held is his ud, the compai
ed, and re, fill of thoughts, st
home, rte sat4ied With our lo
a Couato storei and full of wol
men cap, evening after evening
themselfes- to illms congregate
lounging, away from their home
sweetefit-part-ofrlife.—Lancasti
ner: .'. !
li-
Making 'Pun of People.'
Trailing in a stagecoach, sags a writer
in a coNomporary,l met with - a ydung lady
who seemed to be upon the constant look
out foisonnething laughable. very old
barn Was made the subject of passing
joke, ithile the cows and sheep I irked de-,
murely at us, little dreaming hat folks
could'be merry at their expeu .
_All this was, perhaps, harmless enough.
Animals are not sensitive in that respect.
They are riot likely to have their feelings
injured beruse people make fad of them,
but when. m come to human beings that
is quite another thing.
So; seemed to me ; for, after a while,
an aged woman came-running across the '
fields, lifting up her hand to the coach
man, and in a shrill 'voice begging him to
stop. The good-na-turned coachman drew
up his horses, and the old lady, coming to
the fence by the roadside, squeezed her
self through between two posts which were
very near together.
The young lady in the stage-coach made
some ludicrous remark, and the passen
gem laughed. It seemed very excusable;
for in getting through the fence, the poor
woman made sad work with her old black
bonnet, and now taking a seat beside a
well-dressed lady, really, looked as if she
had been blo arn there by 'a whirlwind.
This was a new piece of fun, and the
girl made the most of it. She caricatured
tilt old lady upon a card, pretended to
tits a pattern of her bonnet, and in va
riant other ways sought to raise a laugh
qt her.,
At length the poor woman turned a
'ls face toward her and said :
. "My dear girl, You are now young, heal
- ; and happy. lam now old and for
m. The coach' is staking .me to the
' th-bed of my only child. And then,
.dear, Isbell be ! . a poor old woman, all
one in the world, 'oirere merry girls will
ink me a very amusing object. They
'll laugh at my old-fashioned clothes
4 sad , appearance, forgeting that the old
omen has loved a•,tl suffered, and will
ye forever."
I The coach now sipped before a poor
coking house, and the old lady feebly de
@ended the steps.
"How is she?" vas the first trembling
nquiiy of the mother.
"Just alive," said the man who was
leading her into the house.
The driver mounted his box, and we
were on the road again. Our merry young
friend had placed th. card in her pocket.
She was leaning her lead upon her band ;
and you nity be suri! I was not sorry to
'see a tear upon her young cheek. It was
a good lesson, and one which we greatly
hoped would %to her ;,00d.—Ladies Repos
itory.
CARE Fon tar l'Esr.—.lSlany are care
less in the care tf their feet. If they wash
them once in aiaionth they think they are
doing well.. r4ey do not consider that
the largest pore; of the system are loca
ted at the bottom of the foot, and that the
most ofibnsive Witter is discharged ithro'
these pores. Tlis}l wear stockings from
the beginning to t 44 end of the week with
out change. Thelnockings become per
fectly saturated with offensive matter. It
is sickening to be ip the presence of such
Persons. 111. health is generated by such
treatment of the feV, The pores are not
only repellauts, but .I)sorbants, and this
foetid matter, to a ; - eater or less extent,
is taken back into t system. The feet
should be washed . dn. y, as well as the arm
pits, from which an ~ d 'ensive odor is also
emitted, unless daily ablution is practiced.
Cleanlidess is nest t.. godliness. A. man
or woman can neither be well nor feel well
unless frequent bathin g ;
practiced.—
Stockings should not be worn moxe than
a day or two at a tune. They may be
\icirn for one day, and then aired and sun
ned and wornanother day; but to wear
the same stockings a whole week, is not
doing justice to . yolir feet, nor atir health,
nor your CODSClelleitt--Burat World.
and
Is a
ove-
korn
don
'Tis
ap-
There are 4,000
sic in the United S
there is
g to her
east once
: woman
• his eve
" Golden
fault.
sr her to
a little
meanies,
nee in a.
voted an
Id—foz-a-
The_Preacher—at—the Pump. '
The Sunday School Worker says : -Many
years ago a certain minister was going
one Sunday morning to his school-room.
He walked through a number of streets,
and as he turned a corner he saw assem
bled around a pump a party of little boys
p eying marbles. On seeing him approach
they began to pick up - their marbles and
run away as fast as they could. One lit
tle fellow not having seen him as soon as
the rest, before he could succeed in gath
ering up his marbles, the minister had
come to him ant placed his band upon
his shoulder.—Therwere face to face, the
minister of God and the poor, little rag
ged boy who had been caught playing
marbles ou Sunday morning. And how
did the minister deal with the boy ? That
is what I wanted you to notice. • •
He might have said to hitn, "Whßt are
you doing there? You are breaking the
Sabbath. Don't you deserve to be punish
ed ?"
last, aft
ned and
.he one
dispers
ght Our
aging at
der hoiv
content
and in
, lose the
Ezami-
But he did nothing of the kind. He
simply said, "Have you found all your
marbles ?"
"Then," said the minister, "I'll help
you." Wherehon he stooped down and
began to btok for the marbles ; and as he ,
did so he remarked, "I liked to play mar
bles when I was a little boy very much,
and I think I can beat 'you.; but," he ad
ded; "I never played marbles on Sunday."
The little boy's attention Was now ar
rested, He liked his friend's face, and
began to wonder who he was. The min
ister said :
"I'm going to a place where I think
you would like to be; will you come with
me 11"
"Why, that's the mink.' \2,r's house!" ex
claimed the boy, as if he did not suppose
that a kind man and a minister of the
Gospel could be the same person.
"Yes," said the man, "I am the-minis
ter myself; and if you'll come with me I
think I can do you some good."
Said the boy, "My hands. are dirty; I
can't go."
But," said the minister, "here's a pump;
why not wash them ?"
Said the boy, "I'm solittle I can't wash
andpump at the same time."
"Well,". said the minister, "if you'll
wash, I'll pump."'
• He at once set to work, anal%rmped
and •pumped ; and the boy washed h i s
hands and face till they were quite clean.
Said the boy, "My hands are wringing
wet, and I don't know how to dry 'em."
The minister pulled out a clean hand
kerchief and offered it to the boy.
• Said the boy. "But it is Clean.
"Yes," was the reply, "but it was made
to be dirtied."
The hoy dried his hands and face with
the handkerchief, and then accompanied
the minister to the door of the Sunday
school.
Twenty years after the minister was
walking in the street of a large city when
a tall man tapped him on the shoulder,
and looking into his face, said, "You don't
remember me?"
"No," said the minister, "I don't."
"Do you remember, twenty years ago,
finding a little boy playing marbles near
a pump? Do you remember that boy's
being too dirty to go to school, and pump
ing for him, and speaking kindly to him,
and taking him to school ?"
"0 e said the minister, "I do temena
ber,"
"Sir", said the gentleman, "I was that.
boy. I rose in business and became a
leading man. I have obtained a position
in society, and on seeing you to-day in the
street I felt bound to come to you, and
say that it is to your kindness and wisdom
and Christian discretion—to your having
dealt with me persuasively—that I owe,
under God, all that I have attained and
what I: am at the preslet day."
GIVE TEEM COLD WATER.—It is very
doubtful if there is a single possible dis
ease in which the patient should not have
cold water acilibitunt. Oh how babies of
ten suffer for cold water I A. nursing be.
by is given, no matter how thirsty, noth
ing but milk. The little lips are dry and
tracked and the little tongue so parched
it can scarcely nurse, and yet it has noth
ing but milk to assuage its craving thirst.
Try it yourself, mother, when you haves
fever, .and we are sure that ever after,
when your darling is dying with thirst,
the tea spoon and tumbler drtold water
will be in constant use: Deny it milk and
give it plenty of cold water, and it has a
chance s of a speedy recovery.—.Dr Aio
Lewis.
sand bands of mu-
President Grant is fiftpone yenrf old,
; ; I r )i`J
ICIUNTY, PA., THITRSDAY, JUNE 12, 1873.
TRUE LOVE.
A maid reclined beside a stream, •
At full of summer day,
nd half awake, and half a dream,
—_Ske_watched the ripples play;
She marked the water fall and heave,
The deepening shadows throng,
And heard, as darkened down the eve,
The fiver's bubbling song;
And thus it sung, with tinkling tongue,
That rippling shadowy river—
" Youth's brightest day will fade away,
Forever and forever 1"
The twi-light past, the moon at last
Rose broadly o'er the night, "
Each ripple gleams beneath her beams,
• wro lit ill brignc —
The_hea_ving wateraglide along,
Bat mingling with their voice.
The nightingale now pours his song,
And makes the shades rejoice ;
And thus he sung with tuneful tongue,
That bird beside the river—
" When youth is gone, love shines on
Forever and forever I".
"No," said the boy, "I havn't."
Said the boy, "Where do you live?"
"In such a place," was the answer.
A Martyr to Leisure.
Robert Dale Owen, in his autobiogra
phy, thus describes one of his father's part
ners in business :
—A man of letters, educated to every
classical attainment, and the inheritor of
a princely fortune this gentleman has been
able to gratify, at a wish, his cultivated
tastes. Hi s marriage was fortnnate, and
his children . grew up around him with the
fairest promise. He bad a handsome town
house in a fashionable square in London,
and a country seat six or eight miles off
in the midst of one of those 'magnificent
England parks—the ideal of stately ru
ral elegance—with its trimly kept lawn
and. its wide-s readin: chase dotted over
i .
nth c umps of nohlao d trees, where the
\
i \ it
deer sought re ge, from the noon-day heat
and a lair at ' - ghtfall. '
Its owner ha raveled over Europe, and
brought back, mementoes of the jour
ney, paintings • d statuary by some of
the best masters ncient and modern, with
which to adorn ' favorite retreat. The
house itself , - in - 1 'Of r spent - some happy
days, with its r marble columns and
baiustrades,was a fine specimen of the pur
est Palladio manner, where all that lux
urious refinement could devise had been
unsparingly laVished.
There my father--rduring a brief inter
val in his own public life of
t; incessant bus-,
tle—found his friend, witlino occupation
_more pressing than to pore Over the treas
ures of his library;and no'graver care than
to superintend the riches of a conservato
ry, where wealth had brought together,
from half the world, is , choicest plants
and flowers. They spent some days of un
disturbed quietness ; not an incident be
yond the conversation of a sedate and in
tellectual fatally circle and the arrival and
departure of a friend or two to break the
complete repose. .
- Delightful my father thought it, in con
trast with the busy turmoil he had left;
and one day he said to his host, "I've been
thinking that if I ever met a man who has
nothing to desire, you must be he. You
have health, cultivation, a charming fam
ily. You have gathered round you eve
ry comfort wealth can give, the choicest
of all that art and nature can supply.—
Are you not completely happy ?"„
Never, my father said to me, would hp
forget the sad, unexpected reply : "Ha
py ! Ah, Mr. Owen, I committed one fa
p-
tal error in my youth, and dearly, have I,
paid for it! I. started in life without any
object; almost without any ambition. My
temperament disposed me to ease, and I
indulged it. I said to myself, "I have all
that I see. others contending for; why
should 2. struggle ?" I knew not the curse
that lights on those who have never strug
gled for anything. I ought to have crea
ted for myself some definite pursuit, lit
erary, scientific, political, no matter what
so there was something to labor forti,nd
overcome. Then I might have been hap
py.
My father suggested that he was scarce
ly past the prime of life, and that in a
hundred ways he might still benefit oth
ers, while occupying himself. "Come and
spend a month or two at Brasfield," he
added: "You have a - larger share ih the
Lanark mills than any of my partners.—
See for yourself what has been done for
the work-people there and for their chil-.
dren ; and give me the benefit of your sug
gestions and your aid."
"It is too late," was the reply. "The
power is gone. ' Habits are become Chains.
You can work and do good ; but for me
—in all the profitless years gone by I seek
vainly for sonigthing to remember with
pride, or even to dwell on with satis
faction. I have thrown away a life. I
feel sometimes, as if there were nothing
remaining to me worth living for.
And neither then, ,nor at any future
time, did this strange martyr to leisure
visit the establishment in which be had
invested a hundred and fifty thousand dol-.
lars."—Atlantic Monthly.
The Number Seven.
On the 7th day God ended his work.
•On the 7th month Noah's ark touched
the ground.
In 7 days a dove was sent.
Abraham pleaded 7 times for Sodom.
Jacob served 7 years for Rachel.
And yet another 7 more.
• Jacob mourned 7 days for Joseph.
Jacob was pursued a 7 days' journey by
Laban.
A plenty of 7 years and a famine of 7
years were itcretold in Pharoles dream by
7 fat and 7 lean beasts, and 7 ears of full
and 7 ears of blasted corn.
On the 7th day of the 7th month the
children 'of Israel fasted 7 days and re-
mained 7 days in their tents.
Every 7 years the land rested.
Every 7th year the bondwen were set
free.
Every 7th year the law was read to the
people.
In the destruction of Jericho, 7 persons
bore 7 trumpets. 7 days: on. the 7th day
they surroupded the walls' 7 times, and at
the end of the 7th round the walls fell.
Solomon was 7 years building the tem,
ple, and feasted 7 days at its dedication.
In the tabernacle were 7 lamps.
The golden candlestick bad 7 branches.
Nuaman washed seven times in the riv
er Jordon.
Job's friends sat with him 7 days and
7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7
rams for an atonement. 7k-
Our Savior spoke 7 times front;.ili - -
cross, on which he hung 7 hours, and
ter his resurrection appeared 7 times.
In the Lord's prayer are 7-petitions,
containing 7 times 7 words. s
In the Revelations we read of 7 churches, -
7 candlesticks, 7 stare, 7 trumpets, 7
plagues, 7 thunders, 7.vails, 7 angels and
a seven headed monster.
• .Georgia has not a aisles) Republican
newspaper.
"I DARE NOT."
A group of boys stood on the walk be
fore a fine large drug store, pelting each
other with snowballs. In an unlucky
Inoment, the youngest sent his spinning
through the frosty air against the large
plate glass of the druggist's windoW. , The
crash terrified them all, but none so much
as the little fellow who now stood pale
and trembling, with startled eyes, gazing
at the mischief he had wrought.
"Won't old Kendrick be mad ? Run,
Ned! ue won't tell. Run quick !"
"I can't !" he gasped.
"Run, I tell you! he's coming! Cow
ard ! Why don't you run? I guess he
wouldn't catch me!"
can't run l" he faltered.
'"Little fool ! 101 be caught ! Not spunk
enough to run ayvay! Well, I've done all
I can for him7xnuttered the elder boy.
The door opened; an angry face ap
peared.
`•Who did this?" came in fierce tones
from the °wrier's li s., "Who did this I
say ?''he sgouted us no one answered.
The treinbling, shrinking boydrew near;
the little delicate-looking culprit faced
the angry man,.and in tones of truth, re
plied: . E.
"I did it, sir."
"And you-dare tell me of it?"
"I dare not deny it, sir; I dare noftell
a lie."
The reply was unexpected. The stern
man paused ; he saw the pale cheek, the
frightened eyes'wherein the soul of truth
and true courage shone, and his heart was
touched.
• "CoMe here, sir; what'S your name?"
"Edward HoWe, sir. Qh! What can I
do to pay you ? I'll do anything,"—his
eyes filled •with tears,-:-"only don't make
my'mother •pay it, sir!"
"Will"you shovel my walk when the
nett snow falls ?" '
,Ned's face was radiaiitiis he answered:,
"All winter, sir., I'll do it every Owe,
and more too, sir. I'll do anything."
"Well, that's enough; and do you know
why I left you•off so easy ? Well, it's be
cause you - re not afraid to tell the truth. 7
I like a boy that tells the truth always.
When the nest snow falls be sure you
come to me."
"I 'will, sir."
"We'll all help him !" shouted the.oth
ers ; and, as they turned - away,.. t hree
hearty cheers rose for Mr. Hend ricks, and
three more for the boy that dared notrun
away.—Child at Home.
There was an amusing scene oti board
the Louisiana mail boat• the other day.—,
There was the usual conglomeration of
passengers in the cabin just before the boat
lauded; and amid the general hubbub of
conversation a man remarked incidental
ly;
"Now in Jersey, where I live—"•
Instantly an old man, whb sat moodily
and silently pondering by the stove for
some time, sprang to his feet and exclaim
ed :
"Stranger are you from New Jersey ?"
"And willin' to acknowledge it?"
"Yes, sir; proud on't."
"Hurrah Give us your hand !" cried
the old man, fairly dancing with exults
tation. "J'm froin New Jersey, too ; but
I never felt like declaring it afore, Shake!
I'm an old man. I've traveled long and
thr. I've been in every city in the West;
steamboated cn the Ohio and Mississippi ;
been to Californy, over the plains and a
round the Horn ;. took a voyage once to
Liverpool ;—but, in all my travels hang
me if this ain't the first time I ever heard
a man , acknowledge that he kum from
New Jersey."
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.-Dr. Gay had
for sometime, missed the hay from his
barn, and was satisfied that it was stolen.
With a view to detect the thief, be took a
dark lantern, and stationed himself near
the place where he supposed be must pass.
In due time, a person whom be knew
passed along into his barn and quickly
came out with as large a load of bay as
he could carry upon his back. The doc
tor, without saying a word, followed the
thief, and took the candle out of his lan
tern, and stuck it into the bay upon his
back, and then retreated. In moment
the hay was in a licht blaze, and the fel
low, throwing it frOm Mtn in utter con
sternation, ran away from his perishing
booty.eThe doctor kept the affair a se
cret, even from his own family; and, with
in a day or two, the thief came to him in
great agitation, and told him that he wish
ed to confess to him a great sin ; that he
had been tempted to steal some of his bay;
and, as he was carrying it away, the Al
mighty was so angry with him that he
had sent fire font heaven, and set it to
blazing upon his back. The doctor a
greed to forgive him on condition of his
never repeating the offence.—Dr. Spang
ue's American Unitarian
A few evenings ago. at a private Tarty
up town, ayoung; ma sat talking to nit;
beloved,
beloved, when she sadenly grew pale
and.fainted into his arms. Now, what did
the young man do? Did he rush around
wildly, frantically, seize a glass of water
and dash it into her face, and thereby spoil
her beautiful complexion ? Not a bit of it.
Recognizing the exigencies of the case, he
just simply unfastened her dress, and un
hooked her corset stays. With a sigh of
relief, she returned to consciousness, and
sweetly murmured, "Thank you, dear
Charles.' Charles was posted. He knew
hat was the matter. Pass Y.
paper.
—*bat house pet is it that is more gen
erally sought after, and valued,
yet more abused, tramped upon, kicked •
about, looked down upon and, whipp -
Mau auy akar ? A. earriat..
The cheese i» ntiticr than the pen.
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A youth following his own bent
to-geriWitraightena—areuinstantes..
The young lady who'turns up her--nose
at a Shoemaker is apt to: marry a. 'min ~
mho takes a cobbler down:'
The
can use a postage stamplwien--
.:
The first time it will cost You time cents,
the second time fifty dollars. . -
O P. A. local paper in lowa repards,the*Oi
dental shooting of a doctor, and tali
"strong fears of his recover ~"
ao'` t s well eqough," said Sinsoil;'"tironll
a spade a spade, but I can't seethe Sense '
in calling stockings, hoes." '
"Why do you 'always biiy a. 'sedan f 3
. 4
class ticket ?" asked 'a gentleman ofiniS
"Because there is no third-Class," repli' • Al!
thelatter._ - 4 '4 ' •
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A little boy having broken hiszocking
lnirse the day it was brought, .his mother
began to rebuke him. He silenced her , .
by inquiring, "What is the good of a hosS .
till its broke l"
,
They tell of a woman in Baltimore whci
has provided• her blf w t two.,--huvrtred—
airs of stockings, woolen and cotton,- 7 ..
She is evidently intending to organize * hose company somewhere,
Those reports of earthquake shockafrom
Illinois were occasioned by the inhabitants,
of the ague districts getting their work i n
at the same moment, and shaking by coup-.
ties and townships. „
negro porrthe starid,rts
Witness, •and, t u. 4aqulrettif,he`tull'
derstciod the. natu •eau', ciath:'; efWoe
eerting; Walther' : "if Iswear
to a . lie I mutt sf kto him I" ••-
A chap given to statistics` eatirdateit,
that over two thousand toes.' were frOzen
during the last winter by young. ladies
- keeping their beaux lingertng atthe gate,
instead 'of asking theta into the parlor. ,
A yOung 'clerk in a Dubuque fancy
store, who had been requested. by 'a lady
'customer to send home a spool of thread'
which she lied purchased, hjred an ex
press wagon, in which be placed the spool,
and so drovelo the lady's home where, he
deposited the spool in the hall endwise,
like a barrel....
More female tyrany. A man up is Bris
tol, Vt., lately gave his wife -a good flog
ging. The next day a
.delega4on of wives
waited upon him with - cow hides. The,
man entrenched himselfia a smokehouse
armed with four even-shooters and a shot
gun. He says he guesses he knows , when
his wife deserves a thrashing. -
A foppish young countryman was searn
ing for a stray bull. Meeting a.very pret
young girl on the highway, and „Wishing
to show hisl smartness, he asked :
"Miss, have you seen anything of a gen
tleman cow in This part of 'the neighbor
hood ?"
' "No," she replied, "hut I tan see a gen,,
tleinan calf not tar off."
I sometimes go to see an amiable Welsh;
lady, who has been a number 'of years iu
this country, but who does not always . •
quite understand me. They had been hak
mg the other day when I. went in to see,:
her. I caught sight of avery large
indeed it was the largest pie I. ever saw,
and I remarked : "That's a family pie, •
isn't it?" "Why, no it isn't," said she.—
"It's an apple pie."
.
A young lady of fashion in the city
S., being very found of drainatic perform-.
auces, attended the theatre not Inang'4,ie
nings since. Unluckily for her, as the se
quel will' show, she wore a pa'
which is inflated with air. 1.41
in her seat tO enjoy a gond 11
humorous portion' f the play,
a great pressure to-beat on th
sable article of the modern to)
a natural consequence, it ex:
a noise that would discounth
ary musket.. The result can
agiuod.
Tim Maginnis' was one day ,
with others around the wagon
tryman, who wassailing heal)
ter. A young lawyer had
bargain thr a quarter,
to Tim said : "Carry this hoi
cut it up : "
"All right, me covey," Bali
placing it on his shoulder he'
Next day the lawyer, meeting
him "what he had done with
"Faith, didn't ye bid me to
and be the same token, I did _
me. Troth thepubi woman says may
saints bless ye for yer kindeasS to, the poor.'
Some time ago two ladies from : the coun
try on a shopping experliti4n.*the city
dropped into u hardware store' 'where ag
ricultural impliments are'sold. They hail ,
read John's advertisement, and therefor
innocently inquired.for "crwiles."
storekeeper said it was rather'hite in tlj
season for the article, and he had sold
be had purchased. The ladieiclooked
each other wonderingly, and,-whisper
laughingly, when one turned to the blu
ing Johu,remarked :
"Out of salmon ! I thought babies
always in season !"
The man who thOnght,
g einess without advert4o
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