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BT J. HOLIGBROKK REYKOLDS,
The rammfr hours all gay with flowers
Have fled into the past.
And autumn days with purple haze
Have come again at lat. -But,
O, those summer hours were long
Without the music of thy sor.g !
The trees were green, and every scene
. Was radiant with light ;
The birds sang'sweet raid snmmer heat,
The days were-long and bright.
But brighter far those.days I ween,
Inihy sweet-presence would have been.
The summer breeze played 'mong the trees,
Swept o'er the fields of grain,
And sighing through the pine and yew,
Awoke a sweet refrain.
But O, that, strain to me so sweet,
Thy voice alone could make complete.
The flowers that Moom'd are now entomb'd,
The hids are luring gray ,
A'id silently from every tree
The leave are dropping 'way.
Atid a the lights of summer flee,
I patiently await lor thee.
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I'e waited long, "but soon ihy song
SmII stir aain mylyie:
Thy spirit tree shall wake in me
The old poetic fire.
j Then, com--, my gentle angel
come.
j Where all will we come thee at home
THE MEAN MAN.
BY CLARA A I UUSTA.
was indipuieily certain that G.Ies
. Ti. r '
Mvrick was a mean man. Ihe fact was;
, . . 1 . 1 1 i '
p;eni a.l over Uuhwoud. It had pased i
inio a pr.verbAs me,, as G.le, My- j
rick."
But Gdes came honestly by hi proclivity
fr meanness. His mother wa highly
" celebrated lor the same quality. People
(..nd -lie timrued her mi!k on the - lep and
then turned it over nd kmtmed the tot-
toin; that vhe skimmed likewise, the water'
in w hich the milk pans were washed ; and
ma le her children go barefoot co d winter
eveuings, for "fear they woold wear their
s'.ockmas ont ! - But then other people be-
sides Anemus Ward will be 4iarkastical
jo.ikniw. !
Any casual observer would have known
that Giles was mean riiy ty looking at
. him. The'very cut of hi- clotnes itiJica'ew
i'. I'hey were always as tih; a- hi kin,
to save clw b.; Hid his coat wai usuaily
buttoned up lo conceal the absence of a
est. Sortie evil minded per-ons went so
tar as to say that Gi'es went without a shirt,
and it.at his collar was the only linen ar.
lic e be allowed ahout his per. on.
Giles was good looking, and might have '
been eomebodv, if he had not. been so '
mean, that he could not aff rd it. 0conr3e
all the girls avoidea him. It is a current
iWel that women like best thoe men who
loaf them with presents, but it's our belief;
,i)a, ,fiey ike,bdt thise men who have the .
bed principles wheiher they ara in the j
habit of patronizing jewelers, and bon boo;
manufacturers or not. A true woman a!-I
ways hrinks from coming in contact with;
meanness and coward.ee ; mid the to at- j
tributes commonly gO'together
It was severe. trial to Giles to be obliged J
to buy -anything. Not because he lacted
ihe money, but because he s. hated to part ,
with it. He had beei known lo stand fur
half a day in a store, trying to get a reduc
tion of three cents u.i a hall dollar straw
tin! Hm made 111 oivn tinnn ln.l the
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and his mother knit his Sunday gloves, be
cause gloves cost so nine ti! He never eat
'anything sweet, unless he was away lrom
hone, aud drank no tea nor coffee ; they
ailco-l the money ! And besides, be al
ways borrowed a newspaper which .is
about as conclusive a proof of his mean
Des as "ban be offered.
At tweuty-three the usual fate of hu
manity befell our hero. Kitty More came
came to HighwooJ to teach school, and
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1 1 I .J - laall tn Irioa tar tin h or Ic 1 1 1 . tr a i r rt .
vi 1 ivo i w u n 1111 11 1 a v w ( 1 iivi
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ty, mischievous, and coqne'.ii-h, ard man
aged-so wei., tuai ai meir sec.nu meeting
meetin;
he was ready to worship her,
in his own.
n.ean way.
Ha had a vague idea that it wa cus
tomary for lovers to make their ni'stresse
presents ; but what would' be proper he
was al a loss lo conceive. He thoi.ght of
taking his white creeper heti over 10 Kitty,
but then the bird was sitting on twelve
eggs, aud would probahfy tia ch le . chick
ens at least; and they would bring five dol
lars in the fail. That would never do!
Such extravagance would ruin the whole
llyrick family ! , Then he thought of a
string of onions , a link of sausage ; a pair
ol old pantaloons lo make a rug ot ; a piece
of spotted cheese some new potatoes ; bai
nothing seemed to be just what was want
ed. .'.", . . . . . '. .
So be asked Sam Smith what he gave
bis girl. Sam said the last thing was a kiss
-the last but due,' a belt ribbon.
Giles thought U over, -and made op bis
mind to a belt ribbjti .. He thought he col'd
aflord to s.pead a ninepence, when he went
to Dover to sell his wheat ; and if be could
get one lor that why it . was - as gjooJ as
purchased ! He laid awake, ball the night
t elore hi journey, thiukiug about he ex
pense he was going to incur, and tne next
morning he w&s so excited and ' red in the
, face, that his mother inatsted on his driak-
i p. t k '- t" i r6r-rmlnt tea io cairn hi' nerves
before he started.
He sold his wheat for sevnty-fi ve dollars
tied hi horses up to a tree, and gave
them the hailing hav he had brought from
borne ; and Ihen turned his steps towards
a milliner's shop. He went in feeling very
magnanimous, and fiiierinir the le i cent
Diece he was so soon to be rid of Hi re-
quest to; ook at some belt ribbons was
M . . . .
speedily compl ed with and the counter was
' J r
strewn with the glistening moite ant, que
He selected a gorgeoue flair of red and.
yellow, with spots of gree:i, and ordered
three-quarters of a yard cut oil, and wrap--
ped up. It was done.. - ' -
'What be thcjince of that gimcrack
he in q n iroCH oiling out his wallet
' Filiy cents and cheap at that," replied
the glib tongned milliner
' Fitly cents !" cried Gile slapping his
hands on bis knees, "why i! aint worth a
nixpence ! Ketch me giviog fifty cents lor
t"
Me started for the door in utter indica
tion. " - ,
Stop sir,'' said the milliner, ui is cut
off, and done up. You'll have to take it
We don't ioke children's bargains here."
"I i''ut lake it I' I wont e cheaied out
bt haf a dollar that way ! No urnu. by a
7 long rhrtlk 1";
"But ou muni take it,fir !''
"I cin't pay filiy cents, wh it's awtul !
I sot ont :o give it to a gal. if I could have ,
got it for a iiir.ei.ei.ee, or thereabouts!'
She's a smart one and when we re mar- !
ried, I could git a niuepei.ee wor h out of
her in odd jobs, raking nay, and sich but (
fifty cents ! I'd see her d.irned lust!"
And anain Giles made lor ihe door. He j
' ..-I .i. . i. nJ,in,a
and instead of finding him-elf in the Mree
as he had expected, he was in the w.rk-
r
grounded by : pretty girls and ,-rino-
line. -v. .. ,
"Stop him, there airls !" crie.I the mil- Palmer aid thev eat ire mend. ..:! for peo
liner, appearing at the door with a yar 1- ' j-isi going to change their conamon.
stick, '-he'- tried to chat me out ol fifty j Asi-oou as dir.i.et was over, they s oftd
cents ! D u't let him go ! Corner him !" tp.nd ite p.iron performed the ceremo-
Gdes leaped frantically over, and into ny in hi bert s; le.
band-boxe arrtl . bonnet lrine but the ! '-Well, now. parson, tell us the damage,"
girls were in for the jTke ; ail egress, ex i -id Giles bracing hims-ell up for the shock,
cept bv the window, wa cut off He ca,t ! ' One dollar is the legal lee," blandly re
one glance bark at the irate f.c of the 1 p'ied .he burson, ' but we alwa). take just
. . .. .1 ... . ...... It
iilli.,er she wa coin. tig with the yard-
stick ! it wa-sufficient to decide him. He
da-hed out the -a.h with one b owol hU
uanea oui ine fau in one u.uv ui un.
fit. and jumped throu&h ! As bad luck'1"1
would have it -U aligriteH exactly in the ;
arm., aod in the basket, of a Mreet market
a . .
-.!-. n ta t, r b- n a f r i" 1 ri it 1 1 r iiirn 114 Hf it
'j' r-
ifi ml: ahfiin ilie t,:reat4!
at.d the confe
quence was. her very tert sq.ia-he, and j
the lair proportions of her Shaker bonnet j
were knocked into a corked hat ! Of course
the woman w a- mad It must be an an
. ge;ie teinpered 'einate who can keep coo!
' when her bonnet is Minahcd.
. S:ie called on Giles to settle the d-nages
or lake the consequences. He p.erJ
taking ,o.vir,g, and took to h,s heels The j
woman followed-a huge bee, brandished
in o..e hand, a ,d a mammoth turnip in the
other ready" to anhdate
him as soon as
she got near enough.
Giles had little flesh to er.cumber him,
and he ran more easily than his pursuer,
who was slightly etilioi'potul ; t'ul fortune
favored her, aud Giles slipped down on a
, a momeni he was upo j
; him, belaboring him with the
t,ee, fcut ;
nnl fnr , moment. He was Upon his feel I
. wrath was half '
- ,Iirnio at his !
spent. She took aim wilh the turnip at his
head, but she bad not practiced much in
j prrjectiles, and ihe vegetable, instead of
I hitting ihe mark., went cra-h through Hig-
gins' grocery window s n utiin t o kero
-sene lamps, and a g!as jT of patent cough j
candy. And amid the uproar consequent j Too much company is worse than rone,
thereon, Giles leaped over several small j n hour's industry is far belter than a
boys, some fences and gurers, heaps of , month's mourning.
coal and terrified women, and escaped ! Kind word are the flowers of ber.evo
But he had split his best CDat entirely down ; , k(( d deed, (ie ,r(Jll
. 1 1 I . a . i .
lue uacK, ami 101 ui nraw uai, uiai was
new the foregoing summer. His mother
boxed his ears soundly, and sent him to
bed e-opperess, aid he dreamed ol the
orison nil night.
The r.e.xl .lay he was 'arrested at the suit
of the milliner, the market Aoii'an, anil
! (li--inso! the urooerv : and wa- obliged lo
,iliar 10 save, h.mself trom iail.
- - - j
Yon may well gues that it was like part
ing soul and body. His mother kept him
011 hall allowance for six weeks afterward,
and he gof so thin that it ! would have re
quired a spy glass to see:l his shadow, un
less the sun had been remarkably brilliant.
As for Kitty he never desired to set eyes
on her again
It was a long time before he dared to
look at another woman, but at leng'h Patty
Jenks came to Higiiwood on a vi?ii. She
was a girl alter bis own heart, he fondly be
lieved for if he was mean she was iiiemer.
Immediately he began lo be atteii'ue 10
Patty, and she being .without a home had
no ot jeciions to stepping i -to the wcm-
ionaWe living." So she played her cards
accordirgly, and flattered Giles' weakness
with the utmost skill.
On Christmas night there was 10 be a par
ly at Hooker's Hotel in Greenburg, twelve
nules off at.d all ihe High wood beaux and
belles werepti the qui vive. Giles felt as if
he ought to lake Pa.ty vm he dreaded, the
expeoe. Many sleepless rights he pass
ed in consequence, "and at last decided tha'
it could be managed., ,
He could carry their supper in his pock
et, and some oats lor the horse in a ba, and
go in the old sleigh to save wearing out the
runuers. pf the new.bne- The' uTght was
'f r ii-'f e- ', ptrp':J;nTW rntfl, h"? Citait
did not take the buffaloes, for fear the snow
might fly. on them and wet ttietur so ney ;
' kept themselves as comfortable as they j
could wnh the horse blanket
The party was pleasant, all enjoyed
themselves even Giles. When supper was
I announced he spoke to Patty, and they
went out ic the woodhed, where, by the
t L U - tA . I t M r-.
, li-ht of the moon, they a.e the silt H"y
, L i t. .Kot -,i
i donghnuts, and cheese, .hat Gilea haU.
1
brought in his pocket.
A little after midnight they started tor
j home, but had proceeded only about two
j miles, when the old sleigh parted the top
j. remaining behind, 'and the bottom going on
j home with the horse, at a 2 40 pace,
Patty aod Giles were deposited in a snow
. drill, lrom which they were fished out by i
the lest of the party, and Pally was taken
' on board by some ot her acquaintance.
Giles as left behind, and had the melan-
' choly hatilaction or walking ten miles
in
I his thin boots, and Ireezmg both gieat loes
uearly off.
Toward spring, he and Patty concluded
to be irnTried. The young lady's Iriends
warned her ol the pecuniary disposition of
her intended, but Patty smiled knowingly,
and -aid she's rik it. 4 Alter she once gt
him fast, they might hang her, if she didn't
manage him.
And as she had a red head, they said
perhaps he won'U get ine upper nana oi
him. They boped so, any way.
The happy couple went to the house of
Paron Palnwr to be married. It was about
three miles, but they walked, because the
frozen ground wore out the hordes shoes so.
Giles had somehing done up in a bun-
die under his arm; and Patty carried her
' u'-,l.linr 1rfK in a Land box. so that It
misi'l not be soiled.
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It was jiis: dinner time wh.'n they reach-
....... i.ii
ed the I ar-oi. s, and. o, cur-e he o , d
wnai c.r .riei.u- are .
"Moll, ele ver, remrneo o. e, ,
undoing his bundle and dispUjii.g thre
' . .
links of sausage lo the amazed minister,!
" f'P ou'U accept them ere
Times i3 J
' hard, a .d it's pretty hard work lo gel mon
" rn Lr ntv A ti, I'm fihIet"J lOVe.!
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beMdes and so is Fdtty ; good atteriioon. - 1
The. par.-ou stood aghast, bat his wife 1
was a woman of spirit; minister wives al- ,
j ways should be. They're fulflciently 'put j
upon" even then, poor iouls. j
lake your ruhMfli!" she cried, throw- j
ing tfie bridal tee alter them into the street.
You:ro ;he meanest njau i n the tootstoul,
-od your . me.mit tl. )oo e, ;
snch a thmg ,s poible . ,
;1 na. k you," said Giles 1m real ond
of sasMugers, ana uere s euuu i f
Unies.' i
He sprang forward to recover
,,,.. them hilt
'
the parson's dog forestalled
off wi h the plunder.
I I
im, and made
,
To this day Giles mourns about the loss.
Pativ kept her word. She did manage
her husband. He is just as completely un
der her thumb a the world is under the
'"' pea nts money iccaici, ,
1 L - ... I.
is lhe be" dressed woman in town, and car
' w,'h a h,h hand generally.
J Pour Giles! he is olten heard to declare
! that he wishes he was dead only coflitis
t . '
COal so mucu ninuey :
Dewtlrops of Wisdom.
Tears are no sign ot a soft heart; water
is distilled lrom rocks.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with'
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repentance.
In order to deserve a true friend jou mast i
first learn to be one.
I! a man is not eati-fied with a little, it
' verv cenaio he will never have enough
.
T her are two nuts ot sunint? a reouta-
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tio i to be praised by . honest men or, j ut mamti.
abused b- rogues.- - J 0ad evenini, while at a ball at Glasgow,
We should not forget that life is a flower, ; my attention was taken by a lady ol unpre
. which is no sooner blown than it begins to tending appearance, bm whose reinarka-
whither.
itvUIICLUUU VlUt J UI UV ll 'ivv w i -j -
. ment will do more. Encouragement af;er
i censure is like the sun alter a shower. '
When we fancy that wo have grown
wiser, it is only, in many instances, that
new orejtidices have displaced old ones.
Men ol geiiiii. make the bet husbands ;
a Ii.oi has 100 in lie h opinion ot his on
) Oear self, and too Intle ol women
to 1 1
easily governed.
Pride is a vice not only drea.ifrilly mis-
chiefs in human society, but perhaps, of.;
all others, it is the most insuperable. bar to .
teal inward improvement. j
Tui nihar Hjv. aevKr.1 oHnilempn wera
- 1 " t 1 f
discussing the alarming prevalence of ihe
., , - ,
f-rim fit wile-deser'inn. a woman e'oDin-i'
.;,k n,hr m . r,r. e ll V r, n vr n
Teuton, who bad beeq listening with great
atlention. stenoed up and in an excited
K . .. ....
manner said- 'If my v.fe runs avay m.t
anoder man's vile. I stall shake him out or
, her breeches,' if she bad been mine own)
' fpir, main Got, , " ; ' ,
WHY I RAN AWAY.
j. ...
Donald .Lean and myself were good
friends at fourteen years ol age, and we
both regarded with a little more than friend
ship pretty Hellen Graham, our oldest girl
at school. We romped and danced togeth
er, and this lasted lor such a length ol time
' at li i'B Wilt ICCM HIT rt KJ I I'OI IIUVIIIIOIIl
'
that I look back upon the mystery ol two
. ' '
nwri ran innini; . Iripnr!. Ism Ine lime
. t . - . 1 1 i r I.J . a
was to cotne when jealousy lit the spark in
my bosom, and blew into consuming flame.
Well do I remember how and when the i anj at ner requegi, proceeded to relate my
Creen-eed monster parpetraled this incen- j ford adventere with Helen Graham, paint
diary deed. It was on a . cold Ooctober j jng jn glowing colors the amiability of my
evening, when Hellen, Donald and myself j love.
were returning with our parents from a j Her mirtb during the rociial bocame it-
neighhoring hamlet. As we approached a J repressive. At the couclosion, ehe re
ford, where the waier ran somewhat higher j marked
than ankle deep, we prepared to carry
Hellen acress as we were accustomed to,
with hands interwoven, "chair fashion,"
and thus we carried our pretty, passenger
over ihe brook.
Just as ws were in tha middle of the wa
ter which was coM enough to have frozen
anyttiing like feeling oit of boy le hardy
than ourselves) a taint pang of jealousy j married, and Helen and 1 made our bridal
nipped my hean. v'hy it was I k not, j trj(, t0 :he old place. As we approached
for we had carried Helen aero- ihe :rork j lK m our carriage, I greeteJ a stout lellow
ere now widio it enmiiou. but this evening j vvorking in a field, who seemed to be a bet
I thought or fancied that Helen gave D'ni j ler brrl 0 laborer, or small farmer by in
ald an undue preierenco by casting hef quiring some particulars relating to the
arm around his neck, while she studied j neighborhood. He answered well enough
herself on my side by holding the cuff of j aIllt wa, about to give him a sixpence
my coat. J I when Helen stayed rny hand, and cried out
No flames can horn so quick or with so j jn lhe 0j,j nyle
I itlld fi-el a jealousy. Before we h id reach "Hey . Donald, man dinna ye kea your
ed the opposite bank I had wined D maid
at the bottom of "the sea. Being naturally
iin pet noil-, I burst oui with
'Yn deed ua haud sae gingerly, Helen,
as it ye feared a fa' 1 can carry ye
than Donald can carry hall o ye."
li hter i
Surpri-ed al the vehemence of my lone !
our queen interposed with the admission
, . . , , ,
tnal we were ouui Mruiig aii'i uiai auo
had
Qjn
no i lea of sparing my power, lint
aid's fire was kindled, and he utterly denied
that I was a: all qualified to compete wi h
. . i i I .,i
him in teats of phy-ical courage. On such j
topics toys are generally emulous, and by j
the l. me we reached the opposite shore n j
wa-settled ttiai tte poir.t i-t.o..ui oe neter- .
mined bv our singlv bearing Helen across
-
the lord tn our arm,.
Hiuti vru tn .bmimim. w ?rr, rarned her;
- - - -
iOt eaity, a id I retueJ wiiu mett pri-j
vately in advance mat the one who ootaiu
ed the preference would really be the per-
. - . n . . .
sou who stooii tiignest in ner auections.
.s. uu.... .tvu.-
eflori, a.id I verily believe to this day ihal j
I could have earned Donald and lltleu on
either arm like leathers. Bat I must Uot
anticipate.
We sotfered the rest of the party to psss j
quietly along, and then teturned to Helen
IV, th it.j n!tTr-,i! fjr I f rrieit her l:Le an
d .
I .U(iknown be,ore that I em-
t.eaolUu, forra. and ,e!, ores- i
. ,
sure ui uci cuceik ognuni .uiuc t.v
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O W 1111 III 1 II III , UI I.IIICI " .Win.1 , w . ...til- 1
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ma lint siia. in ihe verv ileenesi Dart of
ute. but ala- ! in the very ueepest pari 01
the lord I trod on a treacherous rt oi wood,
which rested, I suppose on a smooth stone.
Over I rolled, bringing Heieu with me, uor
did we rise nil iairiy soaked from head to
lout.
1 need not describe Ihe taunts of Donald,
or the accusing silence of Helen. Iloth be
lieved that I had fallen from mere weaks
ness and my rival demonstrated his superi
or ability, by bearing her in his arms a
long way 011 our homeward patn. As we
approached her home, Helen, feeling dry
and tetter humored, attempted to reconcile
ine. But I preserved a rnoody silence. I
was mortified beyond redress.
Thai night 1, packed up a lew things and
ran away. My buy ish mind, sensitive and
irritated, exaggerated the negation which it
had received, and prompted me lo beter
resul s than generally aled such irregclari-
1 Edmgbur, where I lound
. .L .1 II . . . .
an uncle, a Kii.a-neariea, c:nu..es- m.u,
gladly gave me a place in his house, and j
I employe.! me in his bu-mess. Wealth'
i flrAd in uoon h 1 in. 1 became his partner
",'...,,, !oi5r lhe
j -
: eoiitiiient, ani in.aiiy reiur.iec ,0 """-J
.... ... ..,..1 ;n v, aiori'iin,
j ii.i, eu u- aicu, auu, in ci..j, . . w j i . j
j ble beauty, hign-tone.l expression, mdica-
1 a mit it ol eHraoriiiiidrv power I wa
I
! introduced, but Scottish names bad long)
been .unfamiliar to my ear, and. 1 could not
catch her-. It was lleien something , there
wa- something in the face, loo, fiat seemed
laiiuliar eotnething sujeitive ol pleasure
ami pain.
' W !.unn.r,a watt ui-nilainlnit thivt eveil-
ing. 1 learned wnn'.ui oiuicu.iy ie. n.s
fK.r. She was trom the country, h?.d been
I w ell educated, her parents had lost their
nrnnorlr lld she Wa 1IOW KCl'lUg aS gOV"
. . : .Tt L. . ft.!..
g o the cny
fCII)att;J ,ier conversation,
anJ wm C;VllinUj!lr ren,:nded by her grace
i aud refinement of manner (hat she was ca-
nable of moving wi'U distinguise 1 success
I dl 10 0 .
in a lar hi-'her sphere than that which
.m lliu" 'I"""
for-
t 06 see ro ed to have allotted , her,
I WW
j naturally not talkative, nor prone 10 confi-
this young
' dnce i Dut there was mai
in
inspired both, and 1 conversed
; wb ctl ' P " .
witn Jier as i nau neve, ucmio . . , -
! with,any-lady,, ; Her ueauons about .the
varions countries with which I was Umihar
indicated a remarkable knowledge of litera- j
lure, and she possessed a large store of
useful information. . ' -j
We progressed in intimacy, and, as our )
conversation turned upon the causes which j
induced so many to leave their native land, I
I lauhinxly remarked that I owed my own I
travels to falling with a pretty girl while
crossing a ford.
I had hardly spokeo these words ere the
blood mounted to her face arid was suc
ceeded by a remarkable paleness. I at
tributed it to the heat of the room, laughud,
"Mr. Roberts, is it possible that you have
forgotten me ?"
1 gazed an instant, remembered, and was
durubtounded The lady with whom I had
thus become acquainted was Helaii Gra
ham herself.
- I hate, ande do you, reades, to need
lessly prolong a story. We were eoon
old lrens
The man looked up in atonishment. It
was Donald Lean. His amazement at our
appearance was heighiened by its style ;
and it wa wi:h the greatest difficulty we
could induce him to enter our carriage and
answer our numerous queries as to our
friend'".
DifTereni men s'art In life in different
ways ; I be'.iave that mine, however, is the
only instance on record of gentleman who
n . .. , . a. . t K anI I. Q I". T II A fct 1 Ct mil I H fT II V tf
ri ,
with a pretty girl in a -trearn of water,
r ' . , . . .
Who is Old? A wire man will never
r,lsl oul - As jong as he can move and
lireathe he wilj do s-meihing for himelf,
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,aM honr o( ,Uf, ,,Ie Washington wes at
. i.- i..:- . ,' i
worn. io were r ranann ai.u 4oung,..w
Howard ard Newtou. The vigor of tl.eir
J(Ve(, )6ver jgeajej. fto rul eer marred
their spirits. It is a foolih idea to suppose
..... i: .!.,... .i .1.
not the day-laborer in science, art, or be
nevolence ; bet he only who fuflers his en
ergies to was-te away, and ihe springs of
lite to become motionless, on whose hauds
ihe hours drag heavily, to whom all things
wear the garb of gloom.
A western editor says that in the town
where hi paper is published, "a rattle-
suake was killed a few days ago by a man
with thirteen rattles."
.
A dashing and fashionable widow FBys
"
. . . , 1
she thinks of sueing some gendenian lor
breach of promise, to that the world may
know that she is in the market
.
A mi-erable old bactelnr, who forgets
that the present is leap j ear, says, "If you
meet a young lady who i not very shy, you
had better be a hula shy yourself."
A doctor advertises in a country paper,
that "whoever uses the Vegetable Univer
sal A nti-Purging Aromatic Pills once, will
noi have cause to use tliero agaio." We
lather think they wont.
An old maid says that this war will leave
so many widows anxious to marry again,
that a modest girl will have no chance.
Evetybody will be after that "last man and
last dollar" with .matrimonial designs.
Poor acquaintances are apt to develope
blindness. There's Muggins never sees
his friends Slender, Short ai d Seedy, and
all because they have become poor. For
aftec;ing the sight, it is marvellous what
power tiicre is in poor folks.
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i ' ' ' ''- uc.,c-;.,
1 , ,e world the devil lie informed r.is as-
j IOfii!.hej audi-nce that he would dwell
brietly in the flesh, piss rapidly over the
world, 'and hasten as fail as he could 13 the
devil.
"The man who raieJ a cabbage head
has done more good thau all the metaphy
sicians in thrt world."
Then," replied a wsg, 'ycur mother
ought to have the premium."
"Well, Snow does yon still pay yer dis
tresses to Miss Mornnrglory !"
"No, 1 dusiri ; I'se sacked her!"
"What lor, Snow ?"
"Cause when I asked her to decept my
hart an' hau', she said she would rattier be
excused."
"What did ye do ?"
"0, jest like ua ignimus nigger dai 1
was, 1 'ecused her
The several clergymen of Madison, Wis,
eonsin, each lound a nice ham on the door
6teps"oue' morning, recently. Of course
they weie taken in as "burprise presents."
A day or two afterwards, the college stew
ard misaed a quantity' of hams ihat ha1
been provided for x? "corummoas," and
it turned out tht some s udeat naa stme o
, dis,flbuteii lhem among the elerT
j gy as a practical joke. The. facts did. not
come out m season to tav i vu,
An Adventure in the Alps.
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P"SB0R TtkdauJWcndino a
pro,es(,or Tyndall sends. to the London "
Jimgg a narrative of raiher exciting ad.
,. he Alos. On the 3d of Jly ha
nd ,WQ riendl, wilh a conple ot gnides,
Jenni and Walter, ascended the Piz Mont-
eratch. The ascent waa accomplished safe
ly but not the det-cent, which was mado
along the Morteratsctt glacier:
''We at length reached the point al which
it was necessary to quit our morning's
track, and immediately afterwards got upon
some steep rocks, which were rendered
alippery here and there by the water which
iriekled over ihern. To ouf right w a.
broad couloir, which was once filled with
snow, bat this had been melted and refroz
en, so as to expose a sloping wall of ice
We were all lied together at this lime in the
following order ; Jenni led, I came next,
then my friend H, an intrepid mountaineer,
then bis friend L, and last of all, tbe guide
Waller. After descending the rocks for a
lime, Jenni turned and asked me whether I
thought it beter to adhere to them or id
try the ice slope to our right.' I pronounc
ed in favor cf the rocks, but he sepmed to
misunderstand me, and turned towards tbe
couloir. He cot ateps, reached the snow,
and descended carefully along it, all fol
lowing h'kgn, apparently in good order.
After a little while he stopped, turned,
aod looked upwards at the last three inert.
He said something about keeping carefully
in the tracks, adding that a false step might
detach an avalanche. The word ws
scarcely uttered when I heard tbe sound of
a fall behind me, then a rash, and in tie
twinkling of an eye my two friends and
their guide, ail apparently entangled togeth-
er, whirled past me. I suddenly planted
.my sell to resist their shock bnt in an in
stant I was in their wake, fortbttr impetus -was
irresistible. A moment afterwards
Jenni was whirled away, and thus alt five
of us found ourselves riding downward
with uncontrollable speed on tbe back of ia
avalanche, which a single slip bad origina
ted. When thrown down by lhe jerk of
the rope, 1 torned promptly on my face and
drove my baton through the moving snow,
seeking to anchor it in the ice underneath.
1 had held it firmly thus tor a few seconds,
when I came into collision with borne ob
stacle, and was rudely tossed through the
air, Jenni at the same time being shot down
upon me. Both of us here lost our baton.
We had, in fact, teen carried over a crev
asse, bad hit its lower edge, our great ve
locity causing as to be pitched beyond it.
J was quite bewildered, for a moment,
but immediately righted myself, and could
see those in front of me halt buried in the
snow and jolted from side lo side by the
ruts among which they were passing.
Sudddenly I saw them tumble over by a
lurch 01 the Avalanche, and immediately 1
alter wards fonnd myself imitating their mo
tion. This was caused by a second crev
asse. Jenni knew of its existence,- and
plunged right into it a brave and manful
act, but lor the lime unavailing. He is over
thirteen stone in weight and he thought that
by jumping into the chastn a strain might
be put upon the rope, svflicient to check
the motion. He w or, however, violently
jerked ont of the fissure, and almost squeez
ed to death by the pressure of the rope
A long slope was below ns. which led di
rectly tlownwarJs to a brow where tbe gla
zier suddenly fell in a declivity of ice. - At
the base of this declivity the glaz.er wa
cut by a series of profouud chasms, and to
wards these we were now rapidly borne. '
The three foremost rasn rode upon the
forehead of the ava'anche, and) were, . af.
times, atmo-t wholly immersed in lh
snow ; but the moving lava was thinner
behind, and Jenni rose incessantly aod;
with desperate energy, drove his feet inli
the firmer subs.'ance underneath. His voice
shouting, "Halt ! Her Jesus, halt!" was tbe
only one heard during the descent.
A kind of condensed rnemery, socli as
that described by people who have narrow
ly escaped drowning, took possession of
me; and I thought and reasoned with pre
ternatural clearness as I rushed along. Our
start, moreover, was too sudden, and the
excitement loo great 10 permit of the de
velorement of terror. The slope at o.ie
I paCe became less Fteep, lbs speed visibly
slackened, and we thought we were com
ing to rest; the avalanche, however, cross
ed tbe brow which terminated this gentler
slope and regained ils mction. Here H.
threw his arms around his friend, alt hope,
for the time, being extinguished, while I
gra-ped my belt and struggled lor an in
stant to detach myself. Finding this diffi
cult, I resumed rny pull upon the rope-
Mv share m tte work a, I fear ir.fiute--
i eirnal, but Jenui's powerful strain made it
I sell felt at lal Aided probably by a slight
i chance of inclination, he broughl the whole
to rest, within a hr! distance of the
chasm-over wh en, had we preserved tr
spetd. a few secoud would have carried
o. None of us suffired serious damage.
H. emerged from the snow with his iore
head bleeding, but the wound was. superfi
cial. Jenni had u bit of 'flesh removed
lrom his hand by collision against a stone;
the pressure of the rope had left black
welt.- on my arms, and we all experienced ,
a li'.gling sensation over the bands, like "
that produced by incipient fros-bit, which
continued lor several days 1 found a por
tion of my watch chain hanging round my
neck, arid another portion in my pocket
the watch itsell was gone "
On the I6ih of August Profesor Tyndall
made an expedition in search of his watch,
wnich was four.d alter a rattier perilous
search.' it bad remained eighteen dsya
in the avalanche, but the So;. He at ion of its)
key at once restored ir J.'ie aod it ha -gone
with unvarying reguUiity vr stn