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In the year of our Lord eighteen, thirty aad two, , , ~ On the la_-t ere of bright, bloom in? May, The twain were made one and with purposes true They started on life's rugged way. How far they have come ! How much tney have seen! What event* have transpired since then . The mercy of God toward them ever has been Through their upwards of three score and ten. • They haye helped one another, true helpers they were, And as true to their conjugal oath, Through sunshine and storm, through com fort and care, The Lord was the helper of ooth. Our father, our mother, as children, we hail On this glad Anniversary Day ; Our love aud esteem for you never shall fail, We'll be true to you both, come what may. You were tender and loving, though strict you were kind. Your patience was oft solely tried ; ForP) mischief and sport we were often in clined, As we sought our deflections to hide. We know now as parent* how gnat is the trust, What trials a parent must ?ee ; A« we think o'er the past, we feel that we m u»t Own our parents more patient than we. Your counsels and kindness we will not fir get, Your love we will strive to repay ; Your pleasure we seek, we honor you yet, And as long as you with us shall stay. Whatever we are, what we may have attained. Whatever our station or place, If the favor of men, if of earth we have gained, Wo owe it to you through God's grace. We are here now together; Ho w oft who can tell .Shall »e all one another thus meet? We leave all with Him who all things doth well, And submissively bow at his feet. There are nine of us children who greet y "u to-day, And three in the Land of the Blest; When our pilgrimage ends G'xl grant that we may All meet in the Kingdom of Rest. SELECT. King William and liis Armies. From Harper's for June.] I. I think it well to announce, right in the beginning of thin story, that Mil** Bmikly is not properly its hero, though some preliminary things must he told concerning him. Although Miles had loved Miss Caroline Thigpen long he fore Mr Hill Williams courted her, yet be never had told her so in set words, uutil—well, you may say it was too late. Vet everybody was surprised. Miles was a most excellent young man, industrious, sober, thrifty, fond of laying up, and had a right good deal laid up already. Then he was quite passa ble as to looks. Mr: Bill could not liave been said, even by Miss Thigpen, to have any advantage of Miles a* to looks. As for the rest, all except Miss Thigpen and his own mother consider ed him the inferior. Vet Dukesborough manners, or something else, put him in the lead on his first entry upon the field. It was then, and not till then, that Miles Buokly made one, and but one, avowed effort, and failing, gave up the contest, and resigned himself to what he called molloncholy. He had never been—at least he had never seemed to be—a cheerful-minded person anyway. His courtship even bad been a rather solemn piece of busi ness, and the final declaration sounded somewhat as if he bud invited Miss Thigpen to go with him to the grave yard instead of taking charge of-his domestic affairs. The ludy, ufier gent ly declining his suit, and claiming the privilege of regarding him as a friend nay, a brother—announced her in tention of ever keeping his proposal a secret, aud requested him to do the same. 'No, ma'am,'said Miles; 'no, Miss Car'line. I f-hall not deny it, nor I -hall not deny it. I'm mueh obleeged to you, and I shall IK; a friend to you aud to yourn. The waound in in my heart, and it 'II stay thar, and it 'II be obleeged to stay thur, hut I'll IMJ a friend to you and yourn." On his way borne he called to his neighbor and friend A brain (jriee, who was standing in his door: 'Mawnin', A bom.' 'Mawnin', Miles. 'Light and come in.' 'Step out here a minute, A born, ef you please.' Mr. (jriee came out to the gate. 'Kicked, Abom.' 'Kicked, Miles? Who?' Me.' 'Kicked bad, Miles ?' 'Powerful.' 'Vour horse, Miles, or a mule, or a steer?' 'Nary one. It's here, Abom.' Then he laid his hand broadly on his breast. 'ln the stomach, Miles? Isaens,' 'and my desires is to tell no lies. I got it from a human person over thar, and that not of the sect of a man person ' 'Who?—Miss Car'line?' 'Kf I was to name the name, Abom, that were the name I should name. Mr. (jriee shouted with laughter. 'Miles Buukly, s*ou skeered me out of a year's growth. I thought you been kicked l»y a team o' mules, or at least a yoke o' steers. Well, looli here, you ain't a-goin' to stay kicked ? 'lt's done d->ne, Abom.' 'Yes, but, Miles, I've knowed sich us that oadone. \V by, Sarann kicked i rue three times han' rannia'; bat I told her every time she done it that hicb talk as that didn't phaze me. That's women, Miles. Tbem s their ways. They aia't a-goin' to let a fel low know, not at the first off-start, that tbev goin' to have him. I don t know what it's for, 'ithout it's jes natchellv to try to git the whip-hand of him at the start. It's the natehel instinc of the woman sect. You #o back to C'ar'iine Thigpen, and don t let on that you 'member anything about her kickin' of you, and that you ain t even phazed by it. You're sorter slow, old fellow—that is, in sich motions— but C'ar'line Thigpen got too much sense to give up sich a chance.' 'Xotber person, Abom,' replied Miles, most mournfully—''nother person, of the male sect.' 'Who's he?' 'William Williams.' 'Who? liill Williams?' exclaimed Mr. Grice, in astonishment and disgust. 'That's the name of the name, Abom.' 'Well, Miles Bunkly, ef you can't whip out Bill Williams, even with his Dukesborough ways be got by livin' in town six months, all I got to say is you ought to git kicked by a yoke o steers, and run over by the keart in the bargain Such and similar remonstrances were ineffectual to make Mr. Bunkly con tinue the contest. He retired at once, leaving the field to h:s rival. At the wedding, though be did not join in the dance, nor even in the plays, yet he partook sufficiently, it was thought, of meats, cakes, and syllabub. Mr. Bill and Miss Caroline, her brother Allen and his voung bride Betsann, were specially attentive to bis wants. He yielded with profound sadness to their persistent offerings of good things, and the more syllabub be took, the mourn fuler grew his deportment. I o several persons, mainly elderly, be said during the evening that it was the mollon choliest of all days to him. 'Yit, furthersoraemore,' he would add, with touching unselfishness, 'ef her v. ho is now Missis C'ar'line Wil liams, and who were Miss Car line Thigpen, be it her or IHJ it hern, ef her or them might ever want for anything which it might be her and their good rights or their desires - , and ef then I'm a-bvin' —providing, you understand, I'm a-livin'—they shall have it, ef it's iri my retch.' 11. Some four years passed. Mr. Bunk ly, though plunged in bis dear melun choly, yet attending punctually to his business in a gloomy, slow, sure way, made good crops, sold at good times, added to his land and plantation stock, and claiming to despise wealth, heaped it up more and more, as if to show, evidently, bow vain are earthly goods for the happinesa of a man in whose breast is an incurable wound. Mr. Bill Williams was getting along too, better than had been expected and prophesied. Much of the exuberant vivacity contracted by Several months residence in town had subsided in these four years of living with a wife (a set tied 'oman, he styled her) who war probably the most iudustrious woman in the neighborhood. He well knew that everybody believed Miss Thigpen to have made a mistake in preferring himself to Miles Bunkly, and he had said to himself at the beginning of hi* conjugal career that he should take it upon himself to convince the world that it was mistaken. When his twin sons, Romerlus and Rcmerlus, were born and named, he felt that he wafc making reasonable headway on that ambitious road. Then he too had add ed somewhat to his estate, and his wife, a famous weaver, had picked up many a dollar by her extra work. They diil not rise ns rapidly as Miles, but Miles remained but one, while Mr. Bill, so to speak, had been two, and now he was four. People can not ig nore figures in such calculations, es pecially when they represent mouths. Never mind, thought Mr. Bill—never mind. Thus the contemplation of a former rival, with whom, however, he was on the friendliest of terms, spurred a nature that otherwise might have been wanting in the energy becoming the head of a family. The corning of the twins lengthened, strengthened, and sharpened this spur wonderfully. Only one thing interfered with the happiness of that risiug family, and that was becoming serious. It would sting the wife painfully sometimes when she would hear of the practical jokes put upon her husband, who had become rather liable thereto by what had been considered in the neighbor hood bis too great forwardness of Hpeech and other deportment. Too great a talker, as from the very first she had told him he was, she would tell him further that a man who got into scrapes ought to get out of them. In these four years he had sobered much under that benign influence. Yet when a man has once been the butt of a neighborhood ridicule, it requires time to release him even when he ban ceased to deserve it. Sometimes it seems that the only way to obtain such release is to fight for it. I hat exigency, in the opinion of Mrs. Wil liams, had now arrived. One night, when the children had been put to bed, she said, 'William, you've got to whip somebody.' Hhe spoke pointedly. Mr Bill looked behind him at the trundle-bed, and asked hiinflelf, Is il Bom, or is it Heme?' 'Nary one,' was the audible answer 'lt's somebody bigger'n them, hardei to whip, and a more deservin' ol it.' Then Mr. Bill peered through the window into the outer darkness, and speculated if there were insubordina tion among his little lot of negroes. 'Nor them neither. It's white folks it's Mose Grice, that's who it is, am it's nobody else—that is, tostart with. Mr. Bill was startled. Colone Moses Grice had indeed been extreme ly rough with Mr. Bill on several oe. oaiions, and (l>eing a childless married man, and thought to Ije sore on tha point) had especially and re pea ted I J ridiculed the father of the twins. \ei he wttfl a man ol means, a cousiderabh BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 14, 1881 fighter, and Colonel of the regiment. So Mr. Bill was obliged to be startled, and bo lo< ked at bis wife. 'You've been joked by ."Mose Griee, William, and poked fun at, and made ! game of by him, until I den t foel like ! standin' of it no longer, nor 1 don't i think Horn uni Heme would feel like standin' of it, not if they were big i enough and had sense enough to uu ; derstan' his impudence.' 'Why, Car'line—' remonstrated Mr. Bill. 'Oh, you needn't be a-Car'linin' o' me !' she said. And never before had Mrs. Williams addressed her husband in precisely that language. But her feelings had been hurt, and allowance ought to be made. She cried some what, but tears did not serve at once to produce the softening influence that is their legitimate result. 'There's brother A lien,'she continued, 'aad which Betsann to me herself that Allen told her that the fact of the business was, if you didn't make Mose Grice keep his mouth shet, 'specially about Rom and lteme, he would ; and then there's Miles Bunkly—' 'Oh, Lordie!' exclaimed Mr. Bill. 'There's Miles Bunkly, and which Betsann say is about as mad as brother, and which, ef he ain't any fighter, y it, when Mose Grice was one day a-makin' game of him about his molloncholy, Miles told him that his molloncholy was his busiuess and not his'n, and that if be kept on meddlin' with it, he mout ketch the disease, and Mose Grice let Miles Bunkly's molloncholy alone, hedia.' 'And then,' Mr. Bill said afterward, 'Car'liue sot up a cry, ehe did, and it woke up Rom and Reme, and they sot up a howl apiece, and I says to my self, I'll stand a whippin' from Mose Grice rather'n run agin sich as this.' 111. After that night Mrs. William 3 did not again allude to its matter of con versation, and was as affectionate to her husband as always. Mr. Bill gloried in the possession of her, and he had good reason. lie brooded and brooded. The allusion to Miles Bunk ly stung him deeply, usually imperturb able as his temper was, though not a jot of jealousy was in the pang. He would have known himself to be the greatest of fools ty feel that. Yet, easy-going, self-satisfied as he was, he knew that other people, including his brother-in-law, still regarded his wife less fortunate than she might of been. The more Mr. Bill brooded, the more serious appeared to him the relation of his case to that of Beveral others, es pecially Colonel Grhe. Superadded to a.general disposition to impose upon whomsoever would en dure him, Colonel Grice had a spite against Mr. Bill on account of the friendship that, since the intermarriage with Miss Thigpen, had grown up be tween him and A brain Grice, the Colo nel's younger brother, whose relations with himself were not only not fra ternal, but hostile. The Colonel was a lighter, and had managed somehow al ways to come victorious out of combat; for he was a man of powerful build, and of great vigor and activity. Some, indeed, had often said that he knew whom to encounter and whom not. His position of head of the regiment had been obtained at a time when mili tary ardor, after a long peace, had sub sided, and leading citizens cared not for the eclat of the office. He had sought it eagerly, and obtained it be cause there was no strong competitor, and especially because his election was expected and intended to ridicule and discourage regimental parades. He was greatly exalted by his election, and became yet more overbearing whenever he could do so with safety. 'That's Mose,' said his brother A brain one day to Miles Bunkly— 'that's jest him. He'll impose on any body that 'II let him, arid he'll try it with anybody that he thinks likes me. He's been so from a boy. He imposed on me till I got big enough to whip him, which I done a time or two, and then he quit it. Hut he took his re venge on me by cheatin' me out of part o' the prop'ty, and he done that the quicker because he knowed I, bein' of h's brother, wouldn't prosecute him for it. That's Mose—that's jest him.' 'I hate the case, Abom,' answered Miles, 'because 1 has that respects of Car'line Williams that it mortify me, and make me, so to speak, git inollou cholier than what ! natehelly am, to sec a man that's her husband, and the father, as it were, o' them two far pinks of boys, runned over iu the kind o' style that Mose run over him, nigh and in and about every time ho come up along of William Williams. I never keered no great deal about him, with them town ways o' his'n, iintell he were married to Miss Car'line, and then I knowed that there wereobleeged to be that in William Williams which people in general never supposeued.' 'Ah, Miles, old fellow,' said A brain, 'you ought to took that prize, and you'd 'a done it ef you'd 'a listened to me, and been perter in your motions, and hilt on longer.' 'No, no, Abom,'answered Miles, his arm giving a mournful deprecatory wave. 'lt were not my lot. I tried, and I tried honest and far. 1 were not worth of Miss Car'line, A bom. 1 didn't know it, but (be did. Ami yit I could see it hurt her to put the waound where she knowed it were obleeged to stay. I wasn't a up poscnen, though, as to that, that \V il Ham were worth of Miss Car'line neither, liut Car'line Thigpen—l ain't a-speakin'o' your wife now, Abom, and a-leavin' of her out o' the case— Car'line Thigpen, but which she is now Missis Car'line Williams, is the smart est woman, and got the best jedgment, I ever saw. And sence she have chooßcd William Williams, I been certain in my mind that there wer« that in William Williams that tin balance of us never BUppotwned, ant which 'II show itself some day if Wil liani can ever git farly fotcb to a right pint.' Thus that nature, upright, unselfish simple, fond to persuade itself that i was unhappy, took its chief solace it rontemplat tig and magnifying its owi ( disappointments, and iu sympathizing j with those who had been their chic I occasion- IV. It was mus-ter day for the battalion i Colonel Grice always felt it hisduty to beat these occasions, preparatory to, the re o 'ime&tal parade. The exer- I cises, after many hours, were coming to an cud, as the companies marched, I with short intervals between, down the one street of the village, prepara tory to disbandment. Alternately had the colonel been complimentary and censorious, as he rode, sometimes in a walk, other times at full gallop, up and down the lines. "I'eerter, peerter, major," he re monstrated with Major Pounds, re spectfully indeed, but with a warmth that seemed difficult to suppress— "perter ; make them captains peerten up their lines. My blood and thun der! my Juberter and Julus Cajsar ! if tha enemy was to come upon us with fixted bannets— Oh, you've done your part admarrably, major. It's them captains." It was just before the final halt that the colonel addressed Captain Collins, whose company was in the centre, and then immediately in front of Bland's store. "Ah, Cap'a Collins, look to your rar. It's so fur behind that it look like two companies 'stid o' one. That sergeant o' yourn you'll have to talk to aud drill in private. He's arfter makin' twins out o' your com pany. Sergeant Williams is a great man for twins' you know, cap'n. But you better tell him to make 'em keep bis cubs at home. We want solid columus when we come to the field of battle." The warrior enjoyed his jest, that had been heard by all in the company, and others besides. But he did not allow himself even to smile when at the head of the military forces of his country, in order to keep himself ever on the alert against sudden attacks of of her enemies. His gloomy brow in dicated indignation at the thought that a petty subaltern, from some vain notion of making his own domestic status the model of tho nation's princi pal means of defence, sought to demor alize it, and actually invite invasion. "My I jord!" said Allen Thigpen, when they told him, "if Bill don't fight him lor that, 1 will ! To think that Car'iine's feelin's is to be hurt by hearin' of sicb as that!" "I don't think, Abom," said Miles (who overheard the remark), "that it can be put off any longer. Ef there's that iri William Williams which I been a-supposen is oblecged to be {bar, he'll fetch it out now. Now you go •right on home, Abom." Miles said afterward, "My respects of Abom was that as he wouln't stand up to bis brother, it wouldn't look right to be agin' him." When the battalion was dismissed, Allen walked rapidly to Mr. Bill. Tho latter was wiping the tears from his eyes with his handkerchief. Hav ing finished this operation, he went with a resolute step towards Bland's piazza, whither Colonel Grice, after dismounting and giving bis horse to a servant to hold had repaired. "Ah, Mr. Bland," said the colonel, about to light a cigar, "you peaceful men, you who follow in the peaceable wuva—departments, I might ruther Hay of dry-gooods, and hardwar, and molasses, and blankets, and trace chains, and o.bei sicb departments, so to call all o' the various warieties of a sto'-keeper's business you don't know—l may say you don't dream— Mr Bland, of the responauability of a military man whose country's enemies may be at tho very gates—" "Colonel Grice!" said Mr. Bill Williams, in a tone nobody had ever heard from him before. The colonel turned to see who called. Mr. Bill was standing on the ground, Allen Thigpen and Miles Bunkly by his side. "Hello! Bill," said the colonel, with careless cordiality. "What'H you hare, my dear fellow ?" "I'II have satisfaction, Mose Grice. I'm not a fightin' man, and I know I have sometimes been kecrless in my talk, yit I never went to hurt people's feelings a-pnrpose, and I always belt myself more of a gentleman than to insult women and little children, and which you can't say for yourself with out telliu' of a lie, and a fightin' lie at that." Those words operated tho greatest surprise that ever befell Colonel Grice. I'artlv in astonishment, partly in wrath, and partly in deprecation, he exclaimed : "What in this omnipotent wold! Is the Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment got to study his langwid ges—" "Come, Mose Grice," said Miles, Hlowly but distinctly, "the muster's over now, and William Williams is your ekal, and he is liable to have liis satisfaction, onlest you apologizes for your langwidges." "I don't want his apologies," said Mr. Bill. "I won't have his apologies, lie's got to tight, 'ithout he gits on his horse and runs away." "I can't stand that," said the colon el. Throwing <>ll his coat, he came rapidly down the steps to where Mr. Hill similarly stripped, awaited him. V. Whoever has not seen a combat between two powerful, irate men, with no weapons other than those supplied by nature, has missed the siirht, though he may not regret it, of a thrilling scene. The blows, the grapplings, the struggles of every kind, are as if each combatant had staked every dear thing upon the result, and set in to save it or to die. The advantages on this occasion, except the right, were with the colonel. Taller by an inch, though perhaps not heavier, agile, practiced, and in the full maturity ol his physical powers, he had, besides, a contempt for his adversary, and ex pected to prevail speedily. Mr. Bill himself rather counted upon this re sult; but he had made up his mind that such was preferable to what he would endure without any attempt to punish this persistent insulting rail lerv. He had never been a partici pant in a light of any sort; but he hod labored habitually at the heaviest work upon his farm, and had broken, uuassisted, many a colt, horse and mu'e of bis famous Molly Sparks— th • most willful actl indocile of dun? He had now the special disadvantage of having been upon his feat during se\ eral hours of very tireson.e exer cise s "He'll try to ride you, Bill," sai I Allen, hastily,' but you keep him off. He can (ling yo i, I expect; but yo 1 can outlast him in J : eks. Don't let him ride you." As the colonel advanced, Mr. liill— But, alas I I am not an epic bard, nor even a Pindaric, nor is there one whom I can command to duly celebrate this combat. Mr. Bowden, the village postmaster, was a person somewhU addicted to poetry (reading it, I mean), and he was heard to say sever al times afterward that it reminded him, he thought, more than any fight be had ever witnessed, of the famous one between Dioinede and Mars on the plain of Troy. But ibe school-master, who was a Homeric scholar, rather intimated to some of the advanced pupils that Mr. Bowden did not seem to him quite clear in his mind which was Mars and which was Diomede. For a first fight, and that with an ex perienced antagonist, Mr. Hill conduct ed himself with surprising dexterity in the giving and evasion of blows, and when evasion was not successful, with becoming fortitude It was, however, a tiresome business. He showed that, and once after putting in one of his best, when lie was attempt ing to withdraw himself from the return, he had the misfortune to tread upon a corn-cob that happened to be lying in his rear. This turning beneath him. he lost his balance, and the colonel rushing upon him, lie fell to the ground upon his left side. 'There, now!' said Miles Bunkly 'Hadn't been for that confounded corn cob—' Unable to finish what he would have said, he raised his hands on high, and clasped them in inteuse grief. Whispering to Allen a few words, he took out his handkercbif aud cover his eyes for a few moments. 'Bill,' said Allen, 'Miles says you hold on as long as you can. If you git too badly used up, he'll help you to take care 'o Rom and Heme.' Then Mr. Bill Williams was worth seeing, though prostrate on the field. These words fell upon his ear with a force irresistable. But for Mr. Bow den's incertitude as to the impersona tion of those combatants of the heroic age, he might have compared these words of Miles to those of I'alla.s, when "Jtaged TydiooM, ItoundlpMs in hit* ire: Till las commands, and I'ftlluH lends tliee force.'" As it was, Mr. Bill pronounced the names 'llom' 'Reme' once, and then he gave a groan that sounded less a groan than a roar. And then iu spite of the superincumbent weight, ho sud denly reached his arm arond the col onel's neck ami drew his head to the ground. It was said of Miles Bunkly by peo ple of veracity, aud those who had known him longest and most intimate ly, that this was the only occasion dur ing life whereon he was known to have shouted. Then, with the mildness yet the solemnity of an experienced good man whoso admonitions thereto have gone unheeded, he remark-id to the Colonel, as the hitter's body was slow ly but inevitably following his head beneath Mr. Bill, like the stag in the aDaconda's mouth, 'You see how it is, Mose ; I told you, if you didn't mind, you'd ketch the molloncholly yourself gomo day.' The Colonel, apparently concluding that the time had come, said, a* dis tinctly as he could, 'stop it, Bill; I give it up.' 'Let him up, Bill,' said Allen ; 'you got his word.' 'No, sir, not till he's apologized. He's jest acknowledged hisself whip ped; lie haint apologized.' 'l'm sorry, Bill, for bavin' hurted your feelin's and your wife's,' said the Colonel. 'So fur so good,' answered Mr Bill, leisurely stretching himself at ease on his foe, us if he would repose after his fatigue—'so fur so good; but what about Romerlus Williams and Rcmer lus Williams?' Ho never called the full names of his boys except on iop pressive occasions, 'Come, Bill,' said Allen, taking him by the arm, 'enough's enough.' Mr. Bill rose with the reluctant air of a man roused from a luxurious couch whereon he had been indulging, though not to the full, in sweet sleep and sweeter dreams. The colonel arose, and unpitied of all, slunk limp ing away. Miles Bunkly, the t< ars iu his eyes, laid his hands on Mr. Bill's shoulders, and said: '1 knowed it were obleeged to be in you, William, ef it could b" fotcli out; and my respects of a certain person was that, that I knowed she'd fetch it out in time. It's done foteh out, and from this time forrards you and yourn may go 'long your gayly way down the hill o' life, and all I got to siiy to you and them, William is, AN IT! And now go wash your face and hands, and go 'long home to happiness and bliss. I don't sav you never deserved 'em be fore, but I do say you deserve 'em now.' VI. 'My!' said Mr. Bill, when ho had washed, and was feeling the knots and bruises on his face, and trying to open his eyes 'niv ! but ain't it tiresome ? I rutber iiuiiil rails all day 'ithout my dinner, or break two o' Molly's colts, mules at that, than to have to go through sieh as that agin. I hanky, Miles, and come and see u fellow.' lie bade all adieu, and went oil home, where something in the bosom of his family awaited him that is worth re lating. The news bnving proceeded him, his wife, a pious woman, was a little troubled in her mind at first for having given to her husband tins spur to a feeling that was not entirely eon sistent with duty : yet when they had told her the whole story, she rose laid aside her work, went to her chest, Hot out her very best frock, and every thread of her children's Sunday clothes, including many a ribbon that hud survived its ancient use, and arrayed i bcrsell aud them to greet the hero up cn h's return. The whicker o" oM Molly at the foot of the lane, and the answer of the colt in the lot, anno i>ic ed the joyous moment. Dismount iiir at his gate, Mr. Hill would fain have ndulgcd his eyes with 'hat goodly > ght ; but one of them was entirely i.ml the other partially closed. He became aware of the rushing into bis arms of a persou of about the size of his wife, and justly guessed to be her, and the cries of two children which he rather thought were fami.iar to his ears. For the boys, when they saw their father all battered aud bruised, set up a veiling, and a retreat. *\ou Horn ! you Heme!' cried the indignant mother, laughing the while, 'if you don't stop that crying and making out like you don't know your father, I'll skin you alive! Come buk here, and if you as much as whimper, I'll pull oIT ell of them ribbons, strip you to your shirts, and put you to bed without a mouthful of your supper !' They came back, did those boys. 'Look at him, sirs. Don't till me you don't know him. Who is it ?' 'l'appy,' said Rom, on a venture, followed by Kerne. 'And ain't he the grandest man a liviug ?' 'Klh'm,' said Horn. 'Eth'ni,' said Heme. 'Now git behind thar, aud le's all march in.' 'Aud we did march in,' said Mr. Bill afterward—'me and Car'line, and Heme, Rom ; aud as we was n-march in' along, I felt—blamed if 1 didu't— like King William at the bead of his armies.' Miles Bunkly bad become too fond of LIB 'niolloijcholy' to let it depart entirely ; but its severest pains sub sided in spite of him, now that the rival who had been preferred to him hud justified the preference. 'My respects of William Williams,' he would often say, 'is that, that it ricouciic me and do my molloncholy good that he's the husband and the protector, as it were, of—well, ef I should name the uamc, it would be Cat Tine Tbigpen that were.' For sonic wciks immediately follow ing the day of the fight he had been observed, from time to time, in the intervals of other business, engaged with a work seeming to take much painstaking, the result of which will immediately appear. One morning Mr. Bili, standing in his door, called to his wife : 'Come here, Car'line, quick ! Who and what can them bo youder a-com in'up to the gate? 'Somebody,'pear like a-lea liu' of a par o'dogs hitched to a waggin.' Mrs. Williams, looking intently at the comers, cried : It's brother leading of a par o' calves yoked to a little cart.' She was right. 'Good gracious, brother—" But Allen paid not the slightest at tention to his sister, not even saying goodmorning. 'Here, Kom ; here Homo' (his busi ness being with them), 'here's a pres ent for you from Miles Bunkly ; and he in particular charge me to tell you, aud which ef you weren't old enough yit to have sense enough, 'twouldn't be long before you would be to un derstan' sieh lungwidgcs, that his re spects of your father was that, that ho sent you the folierin' keart and steers, and which bo made the keart with bis own hands, the paintin' and all, and likewise broke tho steers, and which they're jest six months old to day, and which you moutn't believe it, but they are tr/in calves, them steers is, of his old cow Speckle-face, and which ho says is the l>est and walliblest cow be ever posessioned, and which them was the very words he said.' Then turning to his sister and brother-iu-law, he said, 'Mawnin', sis ter Car'line; mawnin', Bill.' . Mr. Bill roared with laughter; Mrs. Bill shed tears in silence, both in their unbounded gratitude. 'Aml twins at that I' said Mr. Bill, 'jes' like Kom and Keine !' An idea struck him as with the suddenness of inspiration. "Allen,' he asked, vaguely, 'does you know the names o' them steers V •No, Bill; Miles did'nt—' '.Makes no odds ef he did. I names them steers; and you see they're ad zaeily alike, exccptiu' that that one in the lead got the roundest—a leetle the roundest—blaze in tho forrard.' do ing slowly to the latter, and laying bis hand upon his head, he said, 'This here steer here is name Micrlus. 1 Then walking slowly down around the cart and up to the other, he laid his baud upon his head, saying, 'This here steer here is name Bunkoiius.' Then he took his boys, lifted tlieni into the cart, contemplated all with a satisfaction that had no bottom to it, then waved bis hand in preparation for a harangue that few other things could have prevented than that which immediately transpired. Miles Bunkly himself appeared at the gate, and walk ed in his lace wreathed in melancholy smiles 'Why, Miles, you blessed ever'astin' old fellow!' exclaimed Mr. Bill. They were people too honest and plain to feel any embarrassment. Th« generous donor at once took the cart lilies into his hands, and led the pro cession several times about the yard and the lot, as innocent aud in many respects as much a child as those on whom lie bad bestowed his gift. Tho anlor of Mr. Bill could not be subdued as he looked upon the scene. Tears like those in his wife's eyes came into his own, and hit said, soltl.v, to her and to A lien: '1 never speetod to live to see sieh a skene and sieh a ewent. Thar they Koe-t, Itomcrlus Williams, and Keiner lus Williams, and Mierlus ahem ! Williams, and Buukcrlus Williams, and Miles iiunkly hisself, and the keart and all; and I'll chaunelge, 1 don't say I his county, but this whole State o' (Jeorgie, to pcjuce a skene and pejuce a ewent a lovely as the present skene and the present ewent on this lovely mawnin' like It do look like, Allen — . it do look like the families is united and jitided together ' Mr. Bill's | throat choked up with just enough ADVKRTI§IK» ITATKK, One « jer inch. Figure cork d0r.1.10 tLcxe rati-*; tddilontl oI.ArgCH »!iere if •. V.'.\ cr monthly change.- are n ale Io •! auvenisrc e .fe 10 ctaU per line for i.ret inecitkn, 11 d 5 tint* pvr lii.e foroach a d :.i_i a! i: > o:; .n. Mm.a;. ixiLtl d<;ail s pub» li'.hcd f'eo <.f cl aigo. 01-iti vy ; olicep chatged as .dvt rt wiiwfLta. M il i >ayt HP W (K n handed in. Aii'iiii.is'Notices. ; Executory aid AiCioii tratcrs:' Xc ticca. $3 each; EMn>y, Caatioti and n.6Ho;;i:ioii Xoti*.*.s. not exceedii.g ten lii.ee, each. I Fioni the fact tlifct the C'TIZKS ig'he oidert eetahliohed and woet ex cnsivoJy circulated It*, i publican newspaper in Uotler couulr. (a lti pub lican county J it must he apparent "to hu.-Uncss mon that it is the nuditim they should tue in advertising their bns ness. NO.; 0 space left to allow of breathing, but of not another word 'Alien,' said Miles, when, the visit being over, they were on their way home, 'to think of \\ illiam n-coupiin' of my name along with them lovely boys! Well, Allen, 1 never expects to git intirely over my molloncboly, but I tell you, Allen, I were never as nigh ol bein' of riconciled to it.' (AMEROXS THICK AT. PoniMjlvauin InrtiiMlries will not 3,c Left ai I lie Slerej ol a N. V. Tribune, < The Republican party does not con sist of the Cameron family. That ia a fact, it teems, which the the present Senator of tlst iiame does not know as well as his father did. Nor does any man named Cameron own the Republican party. It is possible that he may have a bill of salo of some individuals. Uut the party belongs to itself. It has a right to govern the State of Pennsylvania, because it con sists of a majority of the lawful electors of that State. It has a right to tum ble Mr. Cameron overboard whenever he does not wish to execute its will, and, with the right, it has also the power. Moreover, it is the abso lute right of the party to give free and full expression to its will in its con ventions, so that Mr. Cameron and all ot her persons may understand what it wishes. If any boss attempts to de prive the parfy of that freedom in the expression of its will it is high time that he should be treated aa the sailor was treated by the whale. The Republican party of Pennsylva nia will lind its task made very much easier by Air. Cameron's threat in re gard to tariff. The State ol Pennsyl vauiohasau opinion on that subject which no member of the Cameron family ever created or will be able to overcome. It was an opinion strong enough to control the affairs and the vote of the State before the elder Cam eron was in public life. Pennsylvania trusted most foolishly those Democrats who shouted for 'Polk. Dallas uud tho Tariff of' 42,' and the elder Cameron first gained a seat in the Senate as a Democrat ia 18-15 by reason of that misplaced trust. His party, false as usual, repealed the tariff of 1842, and though it was done without his aid, at the next general election Pennsylvania gave a Whig majority, and Mr. Cam eron was retired from public life, a Whig taking his seat in tho Senate. The younger Cameron can easily trans fer himself to the party from which his father wisely escaped, but he cannot yet even tho Democratic party in Pennsylvania to 'oppose tho tariff,' or to defend any Senator who opposes it. lu fact, the Pennsylvania Senator who opposes the protective tariff simply cuts his own throat politically, and de parts from public life forever. Mr. Cameron's threat that he will Instray the vital interests of his State unless he is permitted to be its Boss will convince a great many practice.) and sensible men in Pennsylva nia that he ought to be deprived of all power as soon as possible. Ho has been trusted with great power as an agent of the known Will of Repub licans of that State. Tho man who can threaten to be false to such a trust unless suffered to have his own way in everything, is an excellent man to put where treachery by him will be harmless. It was Mr. Conkling's opinion, also, that his party deserved to be beaten in tho Senate and in this State, because it did not wish him for dictator. It may be doubted whether Mr. Cameron will succeed in u part iu which Mr. Conkling has failed. Th« New York Senator did make tho Senate Demo cratic for a short time. It would havo been much easier for Mr. Cameron to turn over his State to the Democrats if he had not threatened to fight against the protective tariff. The answer ho will receive, we suspect, will teach him that Pennsylvania does not pro pose to leave its industries at the mercy of a Boss who threatens them. An Old I'iii.xlc llmlMt'd. Professor Tobin, of tho Louisville Polytechnic school, tho other day,says the Courier-Journal, at a hotel dinner table drew tho following diagram on tho back of a bill of faro : 'Now,'said the Professor to the in terested lookers on who inquired as to the object of his sketch, 'the object is to trace this tirguro of tho circumscribed square without removing tho pencil from the paper or retracing any of tho lines.' 'Can it be done?' asked half a dozen voices at once. 'You can all see mo do it,' and as ho spoke the pencil Hew around the various curves ami angles and the figure was complete. In less time than it takes to write it all the gentlemen had taken out their pencils and were had at work on the puzzle. Their micccss was about uni form—each man found himself one lino short. Nervous debility, the curse of tho American jsjoplo, immediately yields to the action of Brown's Iron Bitters. Caiiirroii Kxoomliiv lllniMClf. If there had been still lacking one supreme reason frr the dethronement of this unprincipled machine leader, be lihh now himself furnished it. * * * lie has boldly flung down the gauge of defiance to the entire people of Pennsylvania.—liAWMMf MM Era. "Itouuli «■» HnlN." The thing desired found at last Ask Druggists for on Rats." It clears out rats, mice, roaches, Ilies, bedbugs. I Be. boxes. 1-jySubßcribe for the Cituxn. L