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"I b'lieve I'!l sell the firm, Jane Ann, and by a house in town; Jones made an uffer yesterday-he'll pay the money down. le said he wasn't anxious, but he had the cash to spare, And reminded me that nowadays cash sales are very rare. I The farm ain't worth much anyway, the soil is mighty thin, And the crops it yields are hardly worth the puttin' of them in; Besides that pesky railroad that they're put tin' through this way Will cut the old place slap in two-Jones told me so to-day. I ain't afeared of work, you know-my daddy allas said, 'There ain't a single lazy hair in Nehemiah's head.' There van't no lazy hairs, I know, in that ca head of h is, For he did the work of three hired men in spite of rheumatiz. No, no, I'm not afeared of work-of that I don't complain I've tried to work with willin' hands in sun shine and in rain; And I've allas wore a cheerful face, except at times, maybe, When them giddy, head-strong steers 0' mine would 'haw' when I yelled 'gee!' Perhaps it may be sinful for a mortal to find fault Wi. toiling hard both day and night, if lie .,nly makes his salt, But I've thought while cradlin' rain-lodged oats on the side-hill over there, That my cross was most too hefty for a small boned man to bear, it's allus been my custom when a-plowiu stumpy soil To hum some good, old-fashioned hymn-it sorter eased my toi,; But I tell yo-u what, 'twas pretty hard to I sm,.ther the words of sin Whene'er a springy root 'ud break and whack me on the shin. I mention these 'ere things, Jane Ann, be cause I'd like to lead A peaceful, blameleis kind o' life, from all temptations freed, But as long as Hessian flies exist and tater bugs abound There'll be some tall profanity at times a floatin' 'round. So now if yon're agreed, Jane Ann, I'll sell the farm to Jones= He'll find that what it lacks in soil is well made up in stones And we'll move into the town next week -what's that you're sayin', wife You'll never leave the good old piace as long as you have life? Well, there it goes again, I vum! Go on and have your say: You're bound to wear the breeches--in a fig gerative way; But you'll find I'll have my way this time, old girl, as well as you, So if you're bound to stay right here, by grannies I'll stay, too!" 200,000 POUNDS. --0 I shall never forget the uncom fortable position that I found my self in through too free a use of that unruly member, the tongue. I was a young fellow then, clerk in a London bank. Mfy father was an officer in the army, and be often told us boys that setting each of us up in some business or profession was all he could ever do for us, as the scanty pittance he would leave behind him must be ione~ soiely to my mother and sister. But my brother and 1 were energetic a~nd hopeful. Sio long as tiach 'day brotigh t us enough to satisfy our wants, we recO Itleof the futgro. One bleak, cold, January morn ing I was greatly surprised, on my arrival at the bank to find my father pacing up and down before the building. I was not living at home just then, and his presence there made me fear lest some thing was wrong. "Phillip," he began, "are you in ime ? Can you spare me three miates?" "Yes, sir," I replied, "for a won der. I see I an; ten minutes ear lier than I need be. Wh.at is the matter ?" "Do not lock so startied," ho said. "Nothing is wrong. You know Mr. Fosberry ?" "Oh, you mean' the half-cracked old man whbo is awfully rich, and is nmy godlatber, as well as co>usin, thirty times removed ?" "Yes," was the reply. "Well, -last night I received a letter from Shim, alter years of silence in which he asks after you." And e read me the letter. "What a queer old boy !" I ex claimed. "Whbat does he mean ?" r- I did not eatly understand "Mean I" cried my father ex citedly, snatching the letter from me, and crushing it into his pock et. "Mean-why, to make you his heir, Phillip-his heir!" "Whew !" said I. blushing; "that's a good idea!" "You nust apply for leave and go off at once." said my father. "Strike while the iron's hot. It's a splendid chance, Phillip, splen did! Use it well and your for tune's made." So I thought, applied for leave, %nd set off for the Paddington Station soon after, with my ears ringing with a legion of instruc ions for pleasing old men, given me by my fellow clerks. The on ly one I could clearly remember was to rise whenever he came in o the room, and then eschew very comfortable arm chair for rear he should want it. I felt bursting with importance, and ac ually treated myself to a glass of ot whisky and water at the re eshment room. "Hello, William !" suddenly cied a voice. "Why, Jack, what brings you cre ?" I replied, recognizing an >ld friend. "I'm going down to Gloucester," aid he. "Where are ycu off to ?" "Oh, to such luck !" I said. im off beyond Hpreford, to iu mor an old gentlieman." "What ?" said Jack. "Conle along, and I'll tell you all about it," said I. "Second lasS. Yes, aIll riglit. Herce we are." After we -got set,led in our places, an old man got in. He was poorly fixed, and had a green 0hade over one eye, .vhile his ther. loled wea and drooping. We grunted pur strong disappro val a his en.trance, and made mutual grimaces, but as his blind eye was towards us, they were doubtless lost on him. As the train moved off I told my story, which you know already. "Well done, Phillip. Your bread is buttered for you !" he exclaimed, when he had beard me to the end. "What a glorious chance! Man alive, 1' wish I was in your shoes, that's all !" "Yes, yes, my boy. All right !" I exclaimed. "Wel, it's a shame if 1. don't secure a good smoke. be fore the light of my pipe goes out in obscurity. .Po you object to smoke, sjr ?" This latter question was ad dessed to the old gentleman in th6 corner, who appeared a cu rious mass of seedy old coats, rail way rugs, and newspaperS. "I do object very much," w'as the old gentleman's gruff reply.I "Very sorry, sir,'.' said 1.- "I'll keep my head" out'of the window, then." Shame seiges me when I recall this incident. In lieu of' attend ing to the old man's wishes, I coolly lit my pipe, and though I knew the wind would blow the smoke righbt into his eyes-thoiugh I heard him growling n ith rage I puffed on heedlessly. I should be sor'ry to be so nido, n'ow, b'ut you see I was young and very ex cite. The -short January afternoon was drawing to a close, and very soon after we were dependent on the lamp that hung from the cen ire of the carriage roof for light. Whether it was the old man's example who had gone to 3leep, or the mnonoton6ds noise of the train as it speeded along, or that our powere of chattering were ex hausted, I know not, but anyhowv we too began to feel inchined for' a nap. But we found the lamp an intolerable nuisance, with its in cessantly flickering light. "J3other it I COaLt we blow it out?" I exclaimed. "Not if we cracked our cheeks. But I've a notion !" cried the ready-witted Jack. "Hand me the old bov's hat." "What for ?" I asked, as I1 hand ed the article in question. It was worn arid rusty, but well brushed and well shaped. "To make an extinguisher of," said Jack, and so saying, he fitted it on to the lamp, making the globe act like the bald head of' the owner of the hat. It fitted to a iety and so tightly as to keep well in its place. The arrange ment answered splenididl, and not a glimmer of light was to be seen. When the train stopped at Swin den we awoke, and rushed out of! the carriage to get refreshments, quite foretting our fellow pas senger and his hat. On returning we found they had both flown. The train started. and when we arrived at Gloucester, Jack left me. I had a cold, lonely journey to my destination, a little station just below Hereford. When I arrived it was nine o'clock; a dark, raw night; I was very sleepy and tired. For some mo ments I could not find my port manteau ; then my hat box was missing, and while I was search ing, the guard was exclaiming about the delay of the train. At last it was all found, the guard whistled, the train moved off, and I was left standing on a little country platform, in a strange place. "Any cabs or flys to be got here?" I asked the station mas ster. "Dear me, no, sir," was the re ply. "But we can get you some thing down in the town. Where is it to, sir ? "I want to go to Mr. Fosberry's of Castle Hall," I replied. I paced the wretched little sta tion till the conveyance came, with my mind full of the coming meeting. I asked the driver how far we had to go. "How far, sir," said he. -Oh, only about four miles." I got in, and wp bowled along the glark narrvw lanes. After half' an hours drive we entered some handsome iron gates, and drove into wbat seemed to me, in the dim light, a very extensive park. The whole aspect impressed me with the idea of a grand estate. And I questioned the driver on the subject. "Indeed it is a big place, sir-," said he. "It's about fifteen miles round the estate. Eh, Mi-. Fos berry's very rieb. People do say be has two hundred thousand pounds to leave, ~f he has one penny, besides this proper-ty." My driver- jumped ' down and~ pulled the bell. Thbe pealriesounded through the hou~se like the clang of a triumph. A footman in liver-y flang open the door, and I was ad mitted into a hall glowing with ligh t and warmthb, and thben show n into a large, brilliantly-lighted dawing room. Soon we were at the house. A moment later and the t.all foot man rea ppeared. He apologized for his ~iaster's non-appear-ance, and requested ime to obey the in stuctions of a note which he handed mc from a massive silve: salver. I tore it open. and recad : "MR. PHILLIP FOSBERRY XXIL Lors: The next time you tr-avel by rail do not smoke nor annoy old gentlemen ; do not make the~ in - firmities of ag-c and seediing pov erty' ydui1aughig stock ; do not tell your friends of your gr-eat ex pctations ; o pop speaxk of your ld prack-brained relatives; do not make extinguishers of old-gentle me's hats ; do not be slangy, vul gar' and insulting to strangers; do not nourish vain hopes of inher-it ing me, and finally, do n ot lose~ any time in leaving forever the house of your old 'firewo9ig of a felow Lrveler., -- Parttir FOSnBERR. P. s.-i enclose a ?20) note to pay your expenses." * * * * * How I grot out of the boese how 1 got back to the station, and spent the night in a wi-etched inn-how I returned to town and told to my enr-aged r-elations my woeful tale, wherecin I played such a soi-ry part-bow my abject let ter of apology was returned un read-I cannot tell. I only know old Fosberry died worth the ?200,000, leaving his niece sole heiress, and that I quarrelled with Jack E~vans about Iit, nor have I ever spoken to him since. The population of the G.erman empire is 75,000,000. The time that tries men's soles --'TLar-'s. V,istUantens. 110W NEW YORK LIVES. 840,000 of the Inhabitants in Tenemen1 Houses. There are. says a New York paper, according to the records ol the department of buildings, 21,00( tenement houses in the city 0. New York in a total of 78,0-C buiHings of all kinds. Taken all through the city, the new and the old, the first and the second classes, they average four stories in height, and are constructed to hold twc families and a half to each floor, or ten families to a house. Ac. cordingly, if all these buildingc are full, the tenement house pop ulation of New York is 210,000 faimiiies, whicl, at five persons tc a fanilv, would make 1,050,000 men, women and children. Thi is evidently an overestimate, but certain experienced agent s of tene. ment houses on the east side say that twenty per cent. is all that needbe deducted for houses or partE of houses not occupied. That de duction leaves a net tenement house population of 840,0, souls. It has been said that the tene. ments averaged two and a hall families to a floor, or ten familieE to a house, but the population i; not at all equally distributed ; in some buildings there are as many as five families on a floor, and io others one or two. Most of thC buildings are so built as to effect the greatest )osslble economy iri space, in ventilation and in safety High and narrow, with contrac ted h4lways and wails of thc minimum thickness allowed b the department of buildings, witL little or no open space in the rear and frequently a rear tenenenl building instead of a court, they are hardly bearable as places ol habitation in the winter, and stil less so in the summer. Indeed, il has become a common sight t( see ther inmates sleeping on sum mer -n ights on the roofs of theih dwellings or in carts in front o: them rather than suffocate withir doors. It is their cheapness anc their cheapness op.ly that gives them any attraction to the poor and their cheapness is due to th< possibility of packing them witl tenants and to the practice o: building them on the most econo mical plan. The tenement houses are not as many suppose, confined ex clusively to the lower districts they are found all over the city and fringe the island on the ex treme east and the extreme wes: sides all the way up town. Thi most fashionable part of Neu~ York is flanked by them on eithc. side, arnd a straight line dowi from Murray Hill to first avenut on the one side, and from Murra) Hill to Tenth avenue on the other would discover some of the very worst of thece dwelinogs. They are congtantly increasing. too within the past eighteen muonthi 800 new ones have been p)ut up some cdown town below Houstor street, and others up town as fai as Harlem. The distress of th< time has not relieved them o their usual class of tenants s< much as it has filled them with new claga, wh iformerly inhab ited privte houses. The cheape: tenements arc better patronize< than ever, and land owners n b< would not venture to builA or dinary dwelling hou3ca to stan< yacani, are willing to take ad vantage of the present low pric of labor by erecting tenements which insure a entfe~ and steady thouigh slow, return for the in vestment. In most of 'these houses ther< arc from fifteen to twenty families and in some there are more hud died together, and making lif bearable as best they can. Th crowding would be less tolerabl but for the fact that, by thei male tenants at least, the t6ne ments are used almost exclusivel: Ias sleeping places. In the sprin, and summer months the womet too, forsake the close building for the not much fresher .ir ok Lb curbstone and the pavements ow1 side. A walk along First svenu< i th locality indicated, afte dusk, at this time of the year, willi di5cover the doorsteps alive with womn inursing their infants, an. with young girls gossiping among themselves or flirting with the' young men; the sidewalk and roadway literally snarming with children screaming and shouting at play, while the .cene is lit up by the brilliant lights of the myriad liquor saloons. Perhaps the most noticeable fea ture of this tenement house dis trict is the extraordinary number of liquor saloons it contains. At a casual glance one . would say that there was a grog shop to every five houses; on one block there are no less than severi. These are different in appearances from the German larger-beer saloons 6f the lower districts as the people who patronize them are from the German beer drinkers. Instead of the low-roofed, dark basement, with its modest little counter and its sombre proprietor dispensing beer from behind, one sees large, showy stores, brilliantly lighted witbout and gorgeous within, with long mirrors reflecting the array of shining and vari-colored glasses ranged along the counter. Times are very hard among the tenement house people. Hardly a house but has one p)oor family in distress because the father or hus band is out of work. There is no mistaking the signs of real bard ship. Many of these people are in rags and inauy more have not the means to buy a meal for their farnilies, who have to depend to a great extent upon the charity or good vill of neighbors. And ten ement house neirhbors are usually very kind to each other, not know ing when kindness will be needed in return. You CAN NEVER RUB IT OUT. One pleasant afternoon a lady was sitting with her little son, a light-haired boy, five years of age. The mother was sick and the child had left his play to stay -with hers and was amusing him -self writing his name with a pen, Scil on paper. Suddenly his busy fingers stopped. He had made a Imistake, and, wetting his finger, he tried again and' again to rub out the mark, as he had been ac 'ustomed to do on his slate. "My son," said his mother, "do f~ you know that God writes down - all you do in a book ! Re writes every naughty word, every diso ,bedient act, every time you in .(dulge in temper, and shake your ;shoulders or p)out your lip ; and, ,my boy, you can never rub it - o.ut. The little boy's face grew very red, and in a moment tears iran down his cheeks. His mother looked earnestly on him. but she said nothing more. At length he came softly to her side, threw his arms around her neck, and whis pered, "Can the blood of Jesus rL b it out 3" -Dear children, Christ's blood can r-ub out the recor-d of your sins, foir it is written in God's holy Word, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleansetb us from all A colored brother wyas telling his young friend that be ought to ~ino the church. Said George: "I would, but de temptation to do wr~iong is too strong for me." S"W har's yer~ .backbonc, dat ye can't r-ose up and stand tempta tio.n ?" exclaimed br-other Peter. -"I was dat way myself once. Right in dis yere town I had a chance 1to steal a pair of boots-mighty fine ones, too. Nobody was dar to see me, and I reached out my hand, and de debbil said take 'em. Den a good spirit whispered for me to let demn boots alone." "An' you didn't take 'em ?" "No, sahb; not much. I took a pair 'o cheap shoes off do shelf, an' I left dem boots alone." e CoRRIN's WoE.-February is draw r ing to a close and still Mr. Corbin, of South Carolina, is compelled to sit in Sthe colored gallery of the Senate SChamber and contemplate Senator 'Butler nursing his wooden leg in a s richly upholstered chair on a salary of e$5,000 a year. We feel authorized -to say that the spectacle causes his ,patriotic heart to bleed. r [Baltimore Ga:ette. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisementz insertEd a- the ratk of p1.00 per square (on- inch ) for first insertion !nd 75 cenrs for each subscquent in-erzion. 10; (llumn ::dvii erLens :e per cent. on above. -Notices of nc-tings, obsitunrics and -ribuis ofrespert, -zamc rates per lqulr as ordinaly advertiserieurs. Specinj Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. A dverrti',en.ent s no nu :e: 'with the nurr b)o ) ;:! s nj1! wi- t:- kept in till forbid. a!id charged accordingiv. ela mr.icts made w,ih u:rge adver. N'ibral ded rc! its oj :;ove rates. 0: JO B PR;U,.1Tj.r,,,9 I NE.TXEs, AND DIsPATCH. TERMS CASH. REA'D ijjc5, Y OUNG L& DIES. We eard a very pretty incident the other day, which we cannot help relatiur-g. A young lady from the South, it eer:, was wooed and won bv a outful hysician living it C:diria. When the engagemel't w,as :Ide the doctor was rich, havir, been very sue cessful at San Francisco. It had not existed Six months. however, when, iv an uo-brtunate invest ment, he lost the enitire -heap." This event came upon him, it should be added. just as he was about -,> chaim his bride. What does he d(; ? W hy, like an hon orable arid ebivalrous young fel low as he is, he sits (own and writes the lady every particular of the unhappy turn which has takenl place in his fortunes, as suring her that if the fact pro ducad any change in her feelings toward him, she is released from every promise she has made him. Arid what does the dear, good girl ? Why, she takes a lump of pure gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and having it mnanufac tured into a ring, forwvarded it to him with the following Bible in scription engraved in distinct characters on the outside: "En treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; f >r w hither 'goest will I1 go, and whither t.&ou Iodgest will I lodge ; thy peCople will be my peo pie and thy God my God ; where thou diest w ill I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee." The lover idolized his sweetheart more than ever when he received this pre cious evidence of her devotion to him both in storm and sunshine. We may add that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, and he subsequently re turned to the North to wed the sweet girl he loved, and whbo loved him with such undying affection. Reader, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as close lv as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pretty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives. The curious fact has conmc to light, from official investigation of the statia tics, that the Indians are not decreas ing in numbers, as is generally be lieved, but are sensibly and meas urably increasing. The investigation was decided upon last year by the Comnmissioner of Indian Affairs, and and has been prosecuted diligently by the medical attachee of tbe Indian Bureau, Dr. George Kellogg. The rate of increase has not been deter mined, but the statistics examined by Dr. Kellogg, as furnished from the seventy odd agencies under the control of the government, put the fact be yond dispute that the births among the tribes are in excess of the deaths frodi normal causes. Allowance iss made even for death from dissipations and, in fact, for every ordinary cause. of death among the Indians exept gun-shot wounds or injuries in battle. The census of the Indians shows a total of about 170,000. GAMIBLING .-'rom one end of the coutgry to the other, there seems to be a deteriiation to put a stop to this the vilest of all practices-the one which umrkes friends enemies, and sheds the blood of good men on all sides. Half of the sudden and dangerous encounters between sportive characters, spring up over the gamn bling table. There is a law which provides for the punishment of those who follow the practice, and it is r.he duty of certain officeials tesee that it is executed. In our country and town this evil was some time ago car ried on to a great extent, but of late we have heard nothing of it. So we hone that the atmosphere hereabcuts