THE TIMES, NEW THE COUNTRY COUSIN. IT WA.S a pleasant evening and the Fenton fiunlly were enjoying the hret'ze as it nwept through1 the open win dows at their pleasant residence in Phil adelphia. Mr. Fenton had been naming over his relatives which might happen to visit Ihem, and had already mention ed a long lint when his son Tom inter rupted him ly Haying : " Oh ! if you go to vomiting up, you'll ncvergetthrough. " Hut I cay! haven't we any objectionable connections ntall V Isn't there some old duller who'll turn up jubt at the wrong moment V" " No, I haven't any," said Mr. Fen ton. " Mo-o-o," said Mrs. Fenton, rubbing her forehead thoughtfully. "Stop! I think I remember one. Of course 0ivi Jenttha ! I wonder I didn't think before. Hut I don't l-nnw that she is objectionable ; the fact Is I don't know anything about her. She's lived 'way up in Vermont all her life. She is a niece of grandfather's, and Is an old maid ; at least she ought to be, if she Isn't married or dead. Her name is Hev ington Jerusha Hevington. I always thought it such a pity to spoil such a fine name as Hevington with Jerusha. IhopesAe won't come; I'm sure she must be perfectly awful!"' The two young ladies had been looking at their mother in blank silence ever since she had mentioned this unpleasant relation ; Tom had gone otr In a fit of laughter; so that Mr. Fenton was the only one who spoke : " Well, If she comes, all we can do is to make the best of it, and treat her as well as wo know how." " Oh, of course," said Mrs. Fenton. Tom here -looked at his watch, and started Up, exclaiming that he should be late, he had an appointment, and bolted off", promising to be home early. Then Mr. Fenton settled down for a nap; Mrs. Fenton buried herself in Lorna Doone. ; and the girls yawned over a Japanese canvass, fearing a dull evening. The air gently fluttered the lace cur tains, the mellow light shonedown from the many-globed chandelier, upon the fresh white matting, the linen-draped furniture, the pictures and statuetts, the three ladies In their pretty evening dress es, and the old gentleman snoring away behind his newspaper; all was as quiet as quiet could be, when a violent peal at the door-bell made them nearly all Jump out of their skins. ' " Who on earth is that V" asked Mr. Fenton, bouncing up. " I suppose it's Mr. Vanderpool," said Mabel. " Oh, no, he never rings like that, said Florence. The old colored waiter had opened the door by this time, and a loud voice was heard Inquiring, " does Mr. Fenton Mr. Samuel Fenton live here?" " Yes, ma'am, he does," old James answered respectfully. " Wa'al, then, I guess I'll walk right in I seen the fi.lks through the win der ;" and apparently before the old ser vant could stop her, the owner of the voice did " walk right into" the parlor a tall, strong-featured woman, with iron gray hair, clad in a brilliantly flow ered dress that a bulging hoop-skirt showed to advantage, and u shawl of vivid red and yellow plaid. A bonnet of the shape called poke was on her head, and from it dangled a thick green veil. She wore gray cotton gloves, and one hand firmly grasped a lumpy carpet-bag, the other a ,fat umbrella. She looked comfortable and common from top to toe. She peered at the group through her steel-bowed spectacles, and tucking her umbrella under the carpet bag arm, she extended her hand, "Wa'al now, I s'pose you don't know me. I'm Jerusha Hevington yer cousin, Jerusha Hevington." The stricken family were dumb. Mr. Fenton was the first to recover. He took the proffered hand, shook it warmly ,and led the lady to a chair, begging her to be seated ; he could not say she was wel come, but he tried to make her feel as if she were. Mrs. Fenton then came for ward and sitting down beside her, asked her some friendly questions about the journey ; and the girls, a little conscience smitten, offered to take her things. " Wa'al, 1 guess I won't jest now, thank yer I've got to go and see about my trunk in u minute: 1 hed it left in a grocery store jest around the corner. The young man wasawful pleasant when 1 told him that I was one of your folks. " Good gracious ! " thought Florence, with a shudder. " I wonder if she has been going all through the city advertis ing her relationship to us ;" " Wa'al, Samuel," began Miss Jeru sha, " Yer've got two fine, likely gals ; they'd oughter help their mar a sight in doin' house-work and sic li. It must take a powerful heap o' work to keep all them fuasin's clean" with an admiring, rath er awe-struck glance about the room. Then she weut on, " 1 them all the children yer've got, Maria y" Mrs. Fenton answered that she had two more, a son and a little daughter. Mabel offered to send for her little sister, thinking that a child might converse easier, but Miss Jerusha answered, with such evident alarm and disrelish, " For law's sake, no I I can't bear children," that she drew back, oHlmded. Mrs. Fen ton looked annoyed ; but Miss Jerusha, unabashed, began to complain of the awful drought up In their place, while an awful silence fell on the rest. A quick, light ring made the girls start and fervently hope that It was not Mr. Vanderpool I am sure for the first time in their lives. To have Mr. Van derpool, of all beings in the world, to see this dreadful relative Mr. Vander pool, whose father belonged to the oldest of Knickerbocker families, whose moth er was an F. F. V., who was so fastidi ous and refined himself ! It took only a few seconds for this to rush through their brains, when in Mr. Vanderpool walked. He was greeted in a rather embarrassed manner by them all, and inveigled into a seat as far as possible from Miss JeVusha, on pretence of its being cooler by the window. Hut Miss Jerusha didn't mean to be left in the back-ground she got up from her chair and stalked over to the group. " Who's this young man V'slie bland ly Inquired, indicating Mr. Vanderpool, with her cotton forefinger. Mabel, with a very red face, introduc ed " Miss Hevington," mentally grate ful that the name wasn't Mulklns or Snooks. Mr. Vanderpool made an astonished bow, but Miss Jerusha held out her hand and gave his an unmerciful grip, ex claiming heartily, ";I'm real glad to see yer, mister. But see here, sis" to Ma bel" I ain't ashamed o' bein' your cousin yer might have introduced me as sich." Then ordering Mr. Vanderpool " to set down on the sofy," she took her place beside him when he had obeyed. " Wa'al, now,I didn't spect to see sich a fine young feller the fust night I come a beau o' yourn, I spose V" she said to Mabel, in a loud voice. Mabel wished that the earth would open and swallow some one of the party. " Wa'al yer needn't get so all-fired red ; yer ain't got no call to be ashamed o' him ; he seems a nice miff kind o' young man." Mabel felt the cold shivers run up and down her back, and thought she knew the meaning of purgatory now. Miss Jerusha, quite blissful, turned to Mr. Vanderpool, and put some searching questions with regard to his "trade." Mr. Vanderpool politely answered that he was studying for the bar. "Hum! bar-tender; I shouldn't hev thought it !" was Miss Jerusha's com ment. The girls sat shuddering, and wonder ing what was coming next. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton were holding a council of war in the back parlor. Miss Jerusha was silent for the space of three minutes, gazing upon Mr. Van derpool with such ardent admiration that he began to feel nervous. " You're awful like Linus Swine field!" she exclaimed at length " the fust beau I ever hed. I knowed him when we went to the deestrict school. They useter call him Tiggy then, and none o' the girls could bear the sight o' him, and when he growed up, I was the only one who'd go to prayer-meetin' with him. My stars 1 but he was pow erful, like you. He'd jest the same kinder tow-colored hair, and kinder whlty-blue eyes. I was awful fond o' him." She sighed, and edged a little nearer to the now thoroughly uncom fortable Mr. Vanderpool ; then she sigh ed again, and edged still nearer. "You're dreadful like him," she said, and buried her. face in a big red handkerchief, and groaning, moved nearer still ; another groan, another sigh, made the girls rise in a fright. Was the woman crazy Tf Still another sigh and groan wedged Mr. Vanderpool against a sharp corner of the sofa. He, somewhat alarmed, tried to get up, when Miss Jerusha, with spa. modic twitches all over her face, threw her arms around bis neck, exclaiming, convulsively, " My dear, dear boy I" Mr. Vanderpool Indignantly struggled to release himself, but the clinging arms refused to be unhooked. Mabel and Florence stood wringing their hands in despair. Mr, and Mrs. Fenton rushed to the rescue, and in the scuffle that en sued off came the poke-bonnet and green veil, carrying with them the spectacles and gray hair and there was Tom's curly brown head confessed. " Oh, Tom, you dreadful boy I" cried the girls, as Tom sank down on the sofa shouting and shaking with laughter. It took about the space of a lightning flabh for them to grasp the situation, and such peals of laughter rang through the rooms that it is a wonder that the neigh borhood was not aroused; but then it was hearty rather than nolny, and that makes a wondrous difference. Tom, with many chokes and roars, told how he had managed, winding up with : " Nurse and cook and old Tim acted like regular trumps. How I did fool you all I but by Jove I thought I was gone when Mab wanted to send up for Dot; she'd seen the rigging up in the nursery, you know, and she'd have let it all out. Oh, dear, it's the best fun I've had slnco I left the academy. When I called father'Samuel,' 1 thought I would explode on the iot. Oh dear !" , And, would you believe It V Iheyoung scamp persisted in wearing this outra geous get-up all the rest of the evening, and when Mr. Vanderpool finally took his leave, Insisted upon escorting him to the door, where he bade him an affec tionate farewell, assuring him that " he was powerful like Linus Swlnefield." --- -- ..- Who was Caln'i Wife. THIS HKV. C P. M'CAHTY, who preaches every Sunday in the University Building, Washington Square, New York, as pastor of what is called the American Free Church, en deavored to answer the question of "Who was Cain's wife 5"' Sunday evening, Nov. 20th. He took his text from the 4th chapter of (eneBis, and the 17th verse. The preacher said that ho had selected the peculiar subject an nounced at the request of several mem bers of the congregation. Maintaining that the old theories as to the meaning of the Bible stories had ceased to be tenable because of the increased light of science, he said that the theory held by many as to Cain's wife would also have to be abandoned. " The orthodox answer to the question," said he, " is perhaps Cain married his slster.J-' Well, 1 don't think lie did. Now, I am not going to shirk the answering of this question. I have a theory of our race which others do not believe in. Nine out of ten believe that the human race came from one pair. I don't believe it. Do you say that is heretical V Perhaps it is, but this is not a question to be answered by those who cling to the old theories. That old theory can never answer it. In the first place Cain could not have married his sister when he de parted to the land of Nod, because he had no sister. When Seth was born Adam Was only one hundred and thirty years old, a very young man for those days, and Seth was his third child. There is no mention of daughters. In the second place, Cain departed to a1 country w here there were people, and he feared these people would slay him be cause of ids crime, and the Lord recog nized the reality of this danger and set a mark on him that he might be saved. The Bible nowhere states that there were only two people originally created. Ad am was the generic name for human race, and male and female created he them. Do you believe that negroes and Chinese are the descendants of the same progenitors with overselves? I don't. Cain went over to the land of Nod, and there became the chief of a race which he found there. He built a city. He couldn't have done this alone. This, then, must be my answer to the ques tion ; there were races of people upon the earth at the time Cain was driven out a vagabond, and from this race Cain took his wife." The preacher dwelt at considerable length on the lessons to be drawn from the life of Cain, and exhorted all to avoid the Utile sins, for even Cain did not become a murderer all at once, but was led up to that great crime by envy, and jealous feelings. Strange Fish. IF IN this country one met a troop of fish walking along a dusty road, he would perhaps be justified la thinking that the age of fairy tales had come again, when frogs wooed kings' daugh ters, and the birds held sage conversa tions on every tree. In some foreign lands, however, walking-fish are com mon enough. There is a fish found in the seas around Ceylon, of so grotesque an appearance that a picture of it would look more like a wild dream of the ar tist than a representation of a living ob ject. This singular creature is one of a group in .which the carpus forms arms that support the pectoral fins, and thus enable the fish to walk along theground almost like a quadruped. On the rocks of Ceylon, washed by the surf, there are other little walking-fish which run up the wet stones with the utmost ease and rapidity, and climb up the smooth face of the rocks lu search of files. Many of the fresh-water fish of the same island possess the power of leaving their native element, and returning to it again after long pilgrimages on dry land. When the pools they inhabit get low in the summer season, they start off, and, Jed by an as yet unexplained in stinct, shape their course through the grass to the nearest considerable body of water. The fish most often seen on these excursions is a species of perch. It grows to about six inches in length, the bead is round and covered with scales. The expedition is made generally at night or early In the morning, whilst the grass Is wet with dew, In its dis tress, however, It is sometimes compelled to wove by day, and Mr. L. lyttrd records that on one occasion he met n number of them travelling along a dusty road under a broiling sun. Anecdote of a Newfoundland Dog. A GKNTLEMAN acquainted with the Newfoundland fishery was once possessed of a dog of singular fidelity and sagacity. On one occasion a boat and a crew in his employ were In circumstan ces of considerable peril, Just outside a line of breakers, which owing to some change in wind or weather had since the departure of the boat, rendered the return passage through them most haz ardous. The spectators on shore were quite unable to render any assistance to their friends afloat. Much time had been spent, and the danger seemed to increase rather than diminish. Our friend, the dog, looked on for a length of time, evidently aware of there being great cause for anxiety in those around. Presently, however, he took to the water, and made his way through to the boat. The crew supposed he wished to join them, and made various attempts to induce him to como aboard ; but no ! he would not go within their reach, but continued swimming about a short dis tance from them. After a while, and several comments on the peculiar con duct of the dog, one of the hands sud denly divined his apparent meaning. "Give him the end of a rope," he said; " that is what he wants." The rope was thrown the dog seized the end In an in stant, turned around, and made for shore where a few minutes afterward boat and crew thanks to the intelligence of their four-footed friend placed safe and un damaged. Was there no reanoning here? N acting with a view to an end, or for a given motive V Or was it nothing but ordinary inatinvtt Keeping Down His Temper. WHEN M. DE PEHSIUNY was a French Minister of the Interior, he received a visit, one day, from a friend who; on sending up his name,was shown into the great man's sanctum. A warm discussion arose between them. Sudden ly an usher entered and handed the Min ister a note. On opening it, he at once changed his tone, and assumed a quiet and urbane manner. Puzzled as to the contents of the note, and by the marked effect it had suddenly produced upon the Minister, his friend cast a furtive glance at it, when, to his astonishment, he per ceived that it was simply a plain sheet of paper, without a scratch upon it ! More puxzled thun ever, the gentle man, after a few minutes, took his leave, and proceeded to interrogate the usher. "You have," said he, "just handed to the Minister a note, folded up, which had the most extraordinary effect upon him. Now it was a plain sheet of paper, with nothing written upon it. What did It mean ?" " Sir," reylied the usher, "here is the explanation, which I must beg you to keep secret, for I do not wish to com promise myself. My master is very warm, and very liable to lose his tem per. As he himself is aware of his weak ness, he has ordered me, each time that his voice is raised sufficiently to be audi ble in the ante-room, without delay to place a sheet of paper in an envelope and take it to him. That reminds him that his temper is getting the better of him, and he at once calms himself." Tidings of the Paper Canoe Man. A Savannah letter says: Mr. N. H. Bishop will be remembered) as the young man who visited Savannah in the winter of 1874VZ5 in a frail paper canoe.in which he was making his way from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. After Mr. Bishop left our harbor only incidental tidings were heard of his wbereabouts, and nothing certain as to whether he ever completed his long and perilous watej journey. Everything is cleared up now by a let ter from Mr. Bishop to Mr. J. W. Chad wick, of Charleston, in which he says he made the entire voyage In safety, and that he is engaged in writing an account of the trip, which will doubtless be as entertaining as bis story of his journey in South America. Mr. Bishop is not only a traveler, but a man of enterprise and industry. Al though fond of adventure, he has seri ous objects in life, and is the president of a company for packing fruit at Manahawken, Ocean county, New Jersey. Don't Do It. Don't ask the Lord to keep your "gar ments unspotted." He isn't renovating old clothes. Don't linger where your "love lies dreaming." Wake her up and tell her to get breakfast. Don't turn up your nose at light things. 1 hink of bread and taxation Don't insult a poor man. Ills muse ies may be well develoned. Don't put on airs in your new clothes. ivemeaiix-r tUat your tullor w suffering DR. SCIIEXCK'M STANDARD Ii EM EDI I IS Til standard Fenifirl lfa fur nil iImubi nf tl.A 'unit are Hchenck's i'lilmniilu Hvnip, Hchenck's Hea Weed Tonic, and Rehenck's Mandrake I'llis, mill If Inknn tutrni-a tlx. i ... n .... .i......,i . - ........ u.'iai7 iii-.iii UJCU, t. To. these three medicines Dr. 3. It. Hehenok, of rhllndelphla.oweshls unrivalled success In tile treatment of pulmonary diseases. The 1'iilmonlR Syrup ripens the morbid matter III the limn 1 nature throws It off by an ensy ex pectoration, for when the phlegm or matter Is rie a slight couch will throw It oil, the patient has rest and the lung begin to hen I. To enable the pulmonic syrup to do this, Dr. Rohenck's Mandrake Fills and Hchenck's Hea Weed Tonlo must be freely used to cleanse the stomach and liver. Hchenck's Mandrake Tills acton the liver, removing all obsti notions, relax the gall bladder, the bile starts freely, and the liver Is soon relieved. Hchenck's Hea Weed Tonic Is a gentle stimulant and alteratlvet the alkali of which It Is composed Mi,? won uie looa ana prevems souring, n as sists thedlgestlon by toning up theslomach to a healthy condition, so that the food and the Pul monic Byrup will make Rood blood: then the lungs heal, and the patient will surely get well if eare Is taken to prevent fresh cold. All who wish to consult Dr. Rchenck, either personally or by letter, can do so at his principal office, corner of Hlxth and Arch Hts.. Philadel phia, every Monday. Hchenck's medicine nvn ni,f tiv nil At,niatm throughout the country. mch&upr. VEGETfN e rURIFIES THE MOOD. Renovates and InvlxoratcR the Whnl System. Its Medical Propertiet Are. Alterative. UUIIXI H. UflLB Jllll Kl.ll!. VKGKTINE Is marie excliMlvxlv from fho (i.. of carefully selected barks, roots and herbs, and so jlnnmlv conceit I rated, that II will .., .on.. eradicate from the system every taint of Scrofula Scrofulous Huuior. 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Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the lleart.Headache.Piles.Nervous ness and general Prostration of the Nervous System, no medicine has given such perfect satis faction as the VKtiETINE. Jt purities the blood, cleanses all of the organs, and possesses a con trolling power over the nervous system. The remarkable cures effected by VKOETINK have induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we know to prescribe und use it In their own families. In far VECiETlNE is the heat, innm.lv .11.. covered for the above diseases, and Is the onlv v All. .1.1 a Til il .! t,fT1ltJ.l,j-l. 1 . . .'. J iiit. uicr iu iviy t ujuriuu via piaceo. Derore tue public. Tim BESTEVIDEXSE. The following letter from Kev. K. 8. Best, Pas tor of M. K. Church. Natlck, Mass., will be read with Interest by many physicians. Also, those aulcring from the same diseases as afflicted the son of the Hev. K. H. Best. Mo person can doubt tills testimony, as there is no doubt about, ti.e. curative powers of VKGKTINE. , Natipk. Mass.. Jan. 1, 1874. nil. IT IP C'ri,-r:wn , liunvllli. It i. .. .......CT . Joni mi. HOIIHTV KlfUU reason ror regarding your Vegetlne a medeclne of the greatest value. We feet assured that It bas been the means of saving our son's life. He Is now seventeen years ol age; for the last 2 years he has sutlered from necrosis of his leg, caused by scrofulous affection, and was ro far reduced thai nearly all who saw htm thought his recovery impossible. A council of able phvslcion could give us but the sllghtst bo)io of liis ever rally. Inj. two of the number declaring that be was be yond the reach of human remedies, that even amputation could not save him, as ho-had not vlor enough to endure the operation. Just then we commenced giving him Vegetlne and from thai day to the present he lias been continuously improving. Helms lately resumed his studies, thrown away Ills crutches and cano, uurt walks about cheerfully and strong. Though there is still some discharge-from the opening where the ltmb was lanced, we have the fullest confidence that in a little time be will be perfectly cured. He has taken about three dozen bottles of Veg etlne, but lately uses but little, as he declares that lie Is too well to be taking medicine. .Respectfully yours, K. H. BEST, MKH. J. 6. F. BEST. ALL DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. If VEOETINK will relieve pain, cleanse, puri fy and oure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying physicians, many rem edles, suffering for years, Is It not conclusive proof, If you are a sufferer, you can be cured r Why Is tills medicine performing such great cures? It works In tiiti blood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly be called the GKEAT BI.OOI) PUUIFIKK. 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