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Ju'y 2, 1872 21
POKTltY.
Only A Baby.
TO A I.lTTI.K ONK JUST A AVKI-.K OLD.
On 1}- n babyj
Thout any liair,
'(Vpl just n little
Fit/, here and there.
Only a baby,
Xainc yuii have none?
Barefooted ami dii.ip'cd,
Sweet little one.
Only a baby,
Teeth none at all,
"What are you ^x?nnl for,
Only to sipiall?
< )nly a baby,
?lust a week ohl?
What are you here for,
You little scold?
Tho Baby's Reply. ;
Onlv a hahvi
? What should I he?
Lots <>' hijr folks
l'eeii little like hio.
Ain't dot any hair!
I\s 1 have, too*
S'jtoa'n I hadn't
I>ess it tood grow*
Not any teeth ?
Wouldn't have nm ;
Don't dit my dinner,
(Ina win' a bone
What am I here for?
'At's pretty mean;
Who's dot a Letter right,
'T ever you've seen?
YVhvt 'tu 1 dood for,
I >id you say?
Kher so many lings,
Kbcry day.
'Touive I siptn 11 sometimes,
S\)inetiin<?jb.l bawl;
Zoy dassaut spank me,
' r?usc I'm so small.
SELECTED STORY.
THE FARMER'S STOllYi
IVY M A II Y KYI.i: DALLAS.
"Seen you <it on loo fence, sir, writing
in that little hook. 1 thought perhaps
"Von might he writing poetry. A good
many folks conic down hereof a summer
and make poetry about the sheep and the
moon. Peggy reads 'em -out to me in
the paper, and the stories too, sir. Do
you write stories ? Yes? Well, that's a
gill. If .I had it [ think I could make
one about what has happened to me.
Peggy snys it could he done.
"Now, it's all plain sailing, nothing out
of the common ; hut I wasn't always a
well-to-do old farmer. Once I was ti far
mer's hoy?a hand?with nothing of my
own hut n stout heart ami strong limbs,
and good health.
''Matty's the night, when lite stars were
in the sky, I used to go out to the great
pasture where the sheep browned all day,
and sit and think thoughts I had no
words f'-r, and make beautiful pictures
for myself iu my mind, not line ones, sir.
This is what 1 used to sco the oftencst:
A little cottage willi a wide firc-p'aee,
such as they bad in my day. A dresser
with a row of doli* upon it, four chairs and
a table of white pine. When 1 had these
I was to marry Peggy Grey. l?u? when
1 rhoubl have them, and she Ihm* white
wedding-gown and the bouse linen,
neither of us know.
"?She put her sixpences into a red
earthen savings bank, ami 1 kept mine
in tin ohl glove. For two years we bail
been waiting and hoping and wen; not
much nearer than at first. Somctfcncs 1
felt down-hearted. Sometimes bet little
letters were a bit sad. And just as I sat
in the meadow I knew she sot before her
kitchen fire in the house where she lived
at service. Simple folks wo were, but
we bad hearts, and felt, pcrhnps, as deep
ly as greater folks might.
"My master, the fainter, was a close
man. He squeezed as much work out of
bis hands as possible. But it was a
Btaid) place, and be paid till bo promised;
so I stiiid, never thinking what trouble
staying would bring me to?trouble that
never would have opino but for Mark
Ilulker. A good-lor-nothing fellow he
was, a d-rfgraco to tho rest of us, and ho
cheated the master und left his work un
done. So after hours master setyme at
his stint, and, it being indoor work, I
kept at it all night. The old num. liked
that, and set nie a new task every*jiiight.
All the better for me, I thought, be
would pay me extra, and what was wea
riness to me if it brought nie nearer my
Peggy. So I coupled the hours' SroJ*k.as
so many shillings. But when Saturday
night came he gave nie just my week's
work.
" 'Master,' said I, 'I've workcdlovcr
hours every night, you forget that.';;*
" 'I hire you by the week,' ho ;:9{tid.
'I'll give no more than one week's wjjges.
So, if you don't like it, there aro pnnty
of strong lands to be had, if you arc grow
ing lazy.' Then he turned his bae^ mi
me, and.Mark laughed. That angered
me, and words fell from my lips. |>VYe
had a quarrel, master and J, and 1 caBed
him a 'niggardly old rascal ;' and with
Mint he dismissed me from his service.
At ".lawn you go,' he said. 'YotCvo
worked to-day, and have a right to j}B|r
bed at night, but at dawn you go.' ?fc
"I marched out of the room, . w|tb
words I never sh >u!d have used, and $tp
to my giirretj and threw myself on -apy
bed. But I did not mean to stay to jbo
turned out. At midnight I rose softly,
made up a bundle , and climbed but ofin
window. I cut my htm:1s with the gl ate
of a broken pane and the blood dropprju
down upon my clothes. But I was &H?
angry to feel the pain , and I bound un<
Iho wound ? with a handkerchief. Theffg
1 trudged on, meaning to look for worjsgj
next t.uy. So I turned my stops in th&J
direction, and kept mu-.iintil ntghT" fcfr
The::, faint and wenry, I lay down under
some bushes and fell asleep.
"Out of that^jleep I was aroused by a
shout mid tho clutch of strong hand--.
Men stood about nie. One shouted my
name. They h< ld mo. last and bound
me. "1 struggled, but it was no use.
Numbers were against my single strength.
"'What are. you ? Kobhers? I've noth
ing worth the (akin/ I said, at last; and
when standing still, I saw faces I knew
about me?those of the farm hacds at
my old master's. '"You km w well what
we want, Jack Marlomc,' .-aid one. If ho
did-speak an if. word at last, he w as a
good man tili the main, and you'd worked
for him three years. You mite have ans
wered him as you liked, but to try and
murder him was too horrible. Wc didn't
think it of you, .lad; ?wc didn't think
it. ' ''Murdered!'' I cried. 'Is old master
nvurdercd? Why lay it to m< ? I -wear 1
never hurt him.'
"'If ho is not quit dead it's none of
your fault,' cried another mm. 'Don't
perjure your self?look at the blood on
your clothes.'
"The blood from my hand was in blots
and smears all over my vest. I felt my
heart turn sick when I took hoed of it.
"Master will clear me,' 1 said.
"'He says it was yon,' said one of the
men.
'At hast, be nodded Yes, when we
asked him if \ oil did it.'
"'Then old master not. right in bis
mind,' I said. 'He'd never be against
me-'
"After that I heard the whole. Mas
ter bad paid the men end dismissed
Mark . He. bad only said, 'All right;
I'm tired of work,' and had eaten break
fast there, and left in sipht of all.
But I was gone; and when they found
that master, who was always up at cock
crow, did not rise at nine, they opened
his door ami found him on the floor
senseless?they thought dead at. first
lie had been robbed of his pocket-book,
a watch, an old fashioned pin, he always
wore in bis neckerchief?the painted
head of a lady set around w ith what he
used to tell us were pearls- an ornament
older than his grandfather.
"They found nothing about me of
course but the quarrel und my cut hand
made tub case bard against me. The
master dying,'a* they thought him, h.
j been able to spook at Odd times; and said
that, to the best of his belief, I was his
assailant. It was dark, to be sure, but
in the struggle ho felt that the man
woru i cup, and I was tho only hand
who had anything hut a straw hat.
Besides, he came from the inner passage
and down the stairs, and did not break in
through door or window as a burglar
would have done. And I was the only
missing member of tho household. So I
la) in prison with tlys awful charge upon
nie, until they knew whether master would
livo or die; and my greatest grief was for
Peggy.
"'Keep it from her,' I begged them,
'until she must know.'
"And they were kind and did it; and
her letters were sent to me in prison. It
was a vrcary time, and the one drop of
comfort in it came with those letters. I
had had five from her when, at tho end
of one came this :
"DeAiI jack: I never hide anything
from you, and not to boast of my con
quest, a thing I'd never do, but just to Jet
you know that I keep no secrets to myself,
I must tell you what has happened.
"Our master has hired a man, a lazy
fellow, that 1 disliked at first sight, Mark
Hulkcr by name, and what should he do
but take a notion to me, or pretend to do
so, trying his best t-? sit up with me after
work hours, und following .me. about
wherever I go of a holiday. Then be
tries to make, me like him by telling the
how rich he is. Four hundred dollars be
has laid by, he says, ami has a gold watch
like a geutlctnan. Tho other Sunday I
was dressed for church, anJ up he walks.
"'Why Peggy,'says he, 'you've no pin
to your collar.'
"Said 1, 'I can't ?fio&d money for
finery."
"ri lu n sayri he,'Now how lucky it is
that I've one to give you,' and he pulls a
pin from his pocket.
*'Jaek, I couldn't hclploo ingatit. It
was a lady's portiait, with hair ail white,
though she,was so young?like an old
woman's. He said it was powdered a
I they-did it in old times ; and a pink dress
j ?and all about tiny stones, and no big
'gcr than a silver quarter, altogether
How be came by such a thing, goodness
know.-! Hut of course I wouldn't have
it. Says he ; 'Now do lake it, LVggy.
I want to keep company with you, and
now yon know 1 ho truth.'
"So says 1 : 'I want neither your com
pany nor your present-,and plea-,- remem
ber that hoi cafter.'
"It was rough, I know, hut 1 Ivale him
so. And I was none too rude, for ho
bothers me yet as much as ever. Though
you know it ho were ever s?o good and
handsome I am always your own Peggy,
and think of no one else."
"When I read that you could have
knocked me down with a feather. The
pin was the one the old farmer had lost,
I knew, and it was Mark who was' the
thief, ntul who had tried to murder him.
"1 sent for the lawyer who was to take
my side, and who bad all along believed
ma innocent. 1 gave him the letter.
"it's old master's pin,' I said. 'What
shall 1 do, .-it ?'
j "And he said?'You <a:i do no'.hing,
my poor fellow, but wait and hope. 1
! have a clue now and I'll follow it.'
I "Then lie went away, and afterwards
: I heard what ho did. Mo went down to
the |>!aee where Peggy lived, and took
her out of danger of eaves droppers and
told her all that had happened. The
brave girl trembled and wept, but she
spoke out.
"'He's innocent,' she said. 'I'd not
believe him guilty if an angel told me he
was.'
"And the lawyer said, out of his heart,
though she was but a serving lass ?
'"He's worthy of you, Peggy Grey, 1
do believe, and that is saying a good
d-al.'
"Then bo asked her about the pin, and
the two had ti long talk. It ended in
Peggy bur.-ting in'o tears, and promis
ing to do anything and everything he
asked, if he would but tell me why she
did it.
"He told me r.fterw'hrds, and it was
I bard work for lit tie Peggy with her hon
est heart. Bless her. She turned her
self around and made a different creature
of herself, and she tried to make Mark
Hulkcr think she had been coquetting
all tho while, and, oh, how she cried w hen
she (old mo that she let him hiss her,
and put his arm about her waist. But
she gained her end by i\. One night my
good old lawyer and two other men were
shut up in the pantry with Peggy's mas
ter, aud she dressed in her best, and wait
ing lor Marie Ilulker.
"That night she had promised Mark to
take his pin, and if ho proved he bad the
money he bragged id', to promise to marry
him, and Mark came as merry as could
be, and a little the worse for liquor]
"?Now:, lass,' said he, 'a promise is a
promise. There's the money to count and'
the watch to look at anil the pin to wear.
Now 3'nu'll have trie?'
"And just then the pantry door opened
behind him, and a hand came down on
his shoulder.
".'We'll have yon, my fine fellow,' said
a voice, end there and then they arrested
him; for the money and tho watch and
tho pin -were old master's; and one.wlnj,
his son James, was there wkli the detec
tives.
"He ga ve up all hope from that minute
and eon fosse i everything. How he bad
made up his mind to rob old master thai
evening before be was dismissed. How
be bad seen nie climb out of tho window,
and so dressed in clothes like mine, and
made his plans to throw suspicion upon
me.
"My Peggy brought me the good news
first; brought it into my cell, and threw
herself, weeping, into my arms, crying
out, 'You're free, darling; free and clear,
thank heaven.'
."They did not hang .Mark; for master,
after awhile, got better, and, in the end,
quite well. Put they punished him for
thc/robbcry and for something he bad
done of the same kind before ? ever came
to master s.
"And n ; for the old man, when he was
well, he Wii; so son v for the charge he
had made against me, though he bad
honestly believed me guilty, as 1 well
knew, that he made me a pr?scnt of a
little farm, and stocked it for me. And
the wife gave Peggy her outfit; and here
we are us happy the sheep in the
meadow yonder, or the bees in the hive
hard by. And when wo hear talk of
books and plays, Peggy says to me: Jacks
if they only knew our story, they'd
make one of it, I'm very sure and as
they say you're a writer, why I tell it to
you, sir."
Yoottn f.i:s ( o.\i uiM.s ^ip) < lo to
Gi.oky.?A gontlman in this city sent
word to Voorhces that "all his old
friends win- getting into the Grcely
boat; thai be was too good a fellow to
leave behind, iit-d bo had better com
along too, before thny shoved oiT."
Voorhces received the mossage, and
seat this back : He was pretty much in
the condition, he wrote, of tho boy at
cam;) meeting, whore nearly all the poo
pie had gone toward on the anxious ben
ches, and be was left blooming alono.
At last the minster saw him and came
up. "My young brother," said tho
preacher, "why do you Ht here alone?
Why not come to glory?"
"All them gals goin to glory?" asked
t!i? boy.
"Strato as a shingle." the preacher
replied.
"No sw itc h' off nor mithin?"
"Through by daylight;" nnswerd the
minster.
"Well, parson," said the boy, if all
them gals is goin' to glory, I don.t see
as its much mo o'ino a-whittl' hero I'll go
'long too."?St. Louis Dispatch.
Hoys Who Smoki:.?The Davenport
Dkmo?KAT has an editorial in a reeent
issue in which it says:
"A physician of this city has investi
gated the effect of smoking on 38 boys,
bi t ween the ages of nine and fifteen, ad
dicted to the habit. Twenty-seven pre
sented distinct symptoms of nicotine poi
son. In 22, there were serious disorders
of the circulation, indigestion, dullness
of in* and a marked appetite for
strong minks ; in 8, t ore was heart af
fection; in 8, decided deterioration of
blood; in 12, there was frequent epis
Iaxis'! 10 bad disturbed sh i p, and 4 had
liberation of the mucous membrane of
the mouth."
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A Nw Use for. Hum.
The scizutc of liquor by the State, con
tables in Massachusetts furnishes .many
n refreshing little incident which helps it*
make litetolerable in that dryland thirs
ty bird.: At North Adants.tho other
day, a resolute... .officer seized a jar of
something aud took it before a magis
trate, when the following interacting ex
ami nation took place.
Tlie attorney for tho prisoners asked tho
constable if he knew it was liquor, Ho
replied:
"Yes, it was rum; T drank some of
it."
The prisner, n woman, was culled.
"Did you have any liquor in your
house when the State constable called
there?" .
"Yes, I had fomo in a jar.
"How long had you had it?"
"About six months."
"Did you have it for sale?"
"Oh, no; [ don't sell liquor."
'What did you keep this rum for?
'I kept it to wash the jba'fvjr."
| "Had you ever Washed the baby in
this.nun?" ^ .
"Oh, yes, often? I used to turn tho
ruin out in a dish, wash th" baby in it,
and than turn it. back into the "jar."
There was laughter in the Court, arid
the State constable declared tlhlt ho
would seize no more lujuor kept in a jar.
.Flush language?Telegrams.
The end of tilne?Tlie letter E. ^
Why are elections Jike .tents? Becnuso
the canvass ends ntThc polls."
Dr. Franklin says that "every little
fragment of tlie^ay should be saved."
The savages arc unjustly styled igno
rant for any healthy Indian is a well red
matt.
There is one thing that can always bo
foutfd ?and that's a fault. - '? ?
'Dobs thinks he emld sing. "Way Down
on the Old Tar River*," if no could, get
the pitelj.
A Carlifornia sheccp-raisor owns 90.
jOOOshcep, which bring him a yearly in
come of ?100,000.. ? '
\ lvuutuck}* paper says: "Thcfamoui
Dr. Mary Walker, E*yp, spent her youth-:
ful days in manufacturing compound
cathartic pills in B reck in ridge County.
An Iii.-h editor says he can see i?r>
earthly season vhy women should not bo
allowed to become medical men.
Bad cooking on the part of the wife is;
held by a Texas Judge to be good ground
for divorce. If this ruling obtains
throughout the country the lawyers will
all get rich.
An enthusiastic editor, speaking of a
new pritna donna, says: "Her voice is as
soft as a roll of velvet and as tender its a
pair of slop shop pantaloons."
A litt tic boy accosted* his papa thus:
"Papa, are you growing still!" "Nu
dear; what makes you think so?" "Bt
cau so the top ot your head is coming
through your hnir."
"Father, why don't wo ever see any
faces at the window?" asked a son of hi.?
parent, as they were passing an insane
asylum. "Because their heads arc turn
ed," was the ail'eetionato father's reply.
Once, during the war, B.trnum was at
Washii gton exhibiting General Tom
Thumb and Admiral Nut Mr. Lincoln
said : You have some very small gener
als, but I think I can beat you.
The most popular musical composition
now snug in New York commences with:
"Father, may 1 go out to vote?"
"Yes, my boy; and freely;
Put on your ohl white lint and coat,
And vote for Horace Greeley I"
I.-/" \ ;?( wen
An old lady gives this as her idea of
a great man: "One who is keerful of his
clothes, don't drink spirts; kin road tho
Bible with spelling tho words, and eat
a c?ld dinner on wash days without
grumbling."
Did you present your account to tho
defendant?' inquired n lawyer of his
client. "I did sir." "And what did hpsfty? *:
"lie tohl me to go to the devil." "Tk?u,
what did yon eor; -Why then-cnnio
t6 \on."
.m ? 9 m: ??' ? . -I
Without being political; :\*o rw?l sayH
that the Sntick colder i* not a shttvry?
cnblcr. . ,,,.. ? q.