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7- 4 41 P.IN , -8 C' TH RS.4-.-FM DT 3)EXA GLABK WHILTK~eY $ poine Ido not undersund 'T1 tkeek Wdisemble *by at tbe touob of someone's hand My Angers glow and tremble I Though thereos tothing to appal In eonerww's bonny eyes, Wbiashould they make mine shyly fall. 'Tis Something to surprise. When someone'. footsteps follow mine, * I wonder *hy they falter; Tie somethng I cannot here define. * mnOthing I wold not alter. so0meone', voice I would follow through, Death's Itaters, dark and cold, Nor heed their chill or somber hue, For love Would make me bold. And for the Pak9 of someone there, Heaven will brighter be, And sweater smues wil angels wer When sorneom smiles on me. RHL UMATICS. SY J. L. HIIERsEY. Uncle Ben in his younger days had the rheumatic orfuL Poor soul I it's a wonder how he lived through it all. You see,. when Ben was young he was an orful critter to skate. He'd skate for ever and the day afterwards. He sed he l9ved tha fun, but his father sed it was only to git red of choppin' wood and doin' the chores round the house. Ben's folks were a lazy pack, and liked to be off half the time. But Ben was a trim mer on skates, and was off most every night when there was a moon. One or ful cold night when the cronometer was clean away down below nero he went off on the river, and when it come 9 o'clock hi- folks begun to look for him back. He did not come. The clock struck 10 then 11, and no Ben. Ben's father got a little skittish, and put on1 his long-tailed blue surtout, and tied up his ears in a hankerchef and starfTcW 'rtcr him. When he got to the river lie hallooed for Ben, and Ben's voice come back rather faint in reply. The old gent made for the place where the voice t;ounded, and there was Ben with all his lower parts in water, and S h#*, ali1 should6rs sticking up throigfi thiegaelid ice ! Ye see, the ice hd broke tfroigh and let -him in, and *%r he gould git out had closed up a1ound him and frozo him in fast. You neef not say iffs hot a fact, for we had soue'fi66fb We~ther down here in Ine thir-tyyears ago. Wall, Ben's father cum along and took him hhe arps and triel' to hoist him out, bu, la I ho might have as well tried to stir, old .Ossiper mountain from .site restingplace, Ben wouldn't start. The old gent got mad and swore a pirit<>f the.-biggest kind of oaths ; and *ies he give <it up and sot down. Ben agas as patient as Job, and waited as kifid ak could be till his father had g ot breath. " Take oil your s'tout, father," BeZ he, ,His father di-right 'up and pulled and dfedidrway, ortIiis coat till the inspira 4~treardgwi his (orrmd. After iplgf .it he got the thing off, eied his ears and went for. hIafi'houir's hard pullin' 'to~l' earth, an4 -his -~ '~'ut under Sne arm 'A ~ dtifer and started for Au. soo a taTgot 4here Ben was put 'into a hoJ A jpl ptigfed full of hot drops sn@.kon-pepper. The next morn ing hd:iyas as well as could be expected, epcetjbright hip, which pained him tertfy ' They sent foi the doctor and he an ealyzed thim, aiid--said it was a case of rlydttte, and would plague Be'n aw 16n~~ Luive4'by spells. Wall, Ben got better, and t'f~ whe&di- 't ajust the same as ustu I .t.be 20- years of agd. ~him a watch, ant though sarkin' the gals ju t th~ lolows did. ~ iglity keerfulicrit tei' vna 1 ~ e wats a little yo.*m "said to let hin) and .ga.g god thong ,at nie he guessed he must be going, and she asked him to call again soon. Tbank you," said Ben, blushing clead back "lhind his ears, "I shill drop'in often." And he did drop in often; so..often that Johnson's folks began to smel q rat, and used to have a fire in 0e best room when the.evenings were chilly. Wall, the matter of four ; months slipped away, and Ben thoxight .he'd staid with Hitty long enough to pop the question. He consulted I his father about it and the old gent thought he might as well ask her and be ~done with it. - So one Sunday night Ben fixed up in his best rig and went over to Johnson's. It was a little rainy that evening and the dampness went right- into Ben's hip, but he thought of Hitty and didn't mind it. Hitty met him at the door and 'peared powerful glad to see him. Ben got a little bolder when he seen how smiling she looked, and he jist slapped one arm around her neck and rumpled up her muslin collar so it looked like a dish cloth, and give her a little mite of a smack. , She blushed and told him to go way tvith his nonsense and tell her the news, Ben was determined to tell. the hull story of his fection as soon -as posibble. So, soon arter she'd invited him 'into the fore room and got him comfortable in the corner, he took out his watch and sed that it was jist 7 o'clock. "Afore 8,"usezhu o hiUtelf, "I' hev it all decided." "Hitty," sez he, putting back the watch into his pocket, 'Jo youlove spruce gum?" "Wall, yes," sez she, " pretty well; only it's apt to make my teeth ache." Ben. put his hand in his pocket, and pulled out something wrapped up in blue paper. " Here, Hitty,. hopping big piece," sez he, " and w 'uoio git it all chawed up, let ie know I'll bring you some more-our woodN is full of it." "Thank you, Ben," sez Hitty, opening thepaper, and biting off a piece ; "it is first rate, ain't it?" "Yes," sez Ben, gapin; "I think so," and then there was alougsilence. "Hitty," sez Ben, all of a sudden, rolling his eyes up to the plasterin. ."Wall, Ben," sez she, looking up to see if Ben had discov ered any cobwebs. "Hitty, Xlove you better'n all the airth; better than skating, better that our forty-acre timber lot! ! ugh-blast it-ugh ! Tarnation tako it!i It's enough to make Belezebub cry for massy !" And 1 Ben, went dancing round the room, like a wild cj/itter. Hitty stood still in the middle of the room, with her blue eyes starin eanamost out of 'her head. Ye see she despised< any one~ who swore, and wouldn't have kept :ompany with a swearin man for the orld. And Ben would swear atr timcs jist to git the wind off of his stomach. he said. You see how it was. Jist as he'd got in the middle of his luv i storjg, a terrible pain seized him in his i hip' and he stopped his luv telling, and t went to swearing. Hitty wouldn't hear i any of his explanations, but told him he I needn't oum -to visit her any more, and r she give him back the spruce gum, ppiper and all. "'Ben tried hard to make her under stand that it was his rheumatiz that hwore, not him; but she only pited to. the door, and told hin make himself ~ skeroe,. Poor Ben offord her his watch iL'd E let him stay, but she profused , cidedly, and he tooIlidp his hiat '( off acussing and raving like aRu Uncle Ben's in old bachelor to this ~ day, all, a hq on. 9eduit of Jauis rheumnatis. 'ke has to go with~ a cake now, and wear a mustard-seed -poultie?, on his back every dull, rainy spell, and it mixes up in all his worldly affairs. Ongh he sot out to jine the'ohurch, and t live a dgfrent life, and got all ready to i be baplle, and the minister had got c his coat off and was in the river wading a roued to~4pdhe best place to dip him 4the people was 'al1 gathered ofthe river singingi hofold hymn, "Down 'to , when 1: P ao g as though a hr It. An e d fewpear g like a rver , pit ~ 1mfnkter, was terribly a 4~eoutof the water as ~ 117,l,put onhis coat, and E ~muttering "Oh, what de-. 1< ls the worldomixng to?" b~ the water the best way * he oould. The peqle,*jat had enoQW from miles rpui& 4a 4rdipping went pff feeling disappointed. Yet th y liad something t9 talk and laugh over oi viks after. Ben never would-git ready Agin; the rheuknatia in his hip has been his pm. shment in LVlife, but he hopes it will not mar his future life. Now, if you go to Ben's home on the roling Renebec, down in the Pine Tree State, you'll git the hull story of his rheumatis, and the niediceens he's tried, and the linaments he's rubbed inenough to fill a big newsper heapin' full. Everything on airth, all the patent things that anybdly heerd of, from vine gar and alt up to Higin's ile of brick pig seed has gone into that hip of his Uncle Ben says if it hadn't the rheumatiz he might have ried, and raised up a family fc to handed down his nanme to pom1posi "Then I might have joined hechur<h and been shure of going to heaven,but the fates are agalust me. But I hope when the great incoming day comes the Judge will put down all my sins to rheu matiz. If He does, I shall git a free ticket to the new Jerusalem, and sing and shout as hard as any of them, if the rheumatiz don't follow me."-Chi.. cago Ledger. WMAr BRALL THE JOT DOP The very basis of the healthful prog ress of any nation or country is the practice of some mechanical industry by the majoritv of the men. A certain pro portion may earn a living in commer cial pursuits or in the professions..n4 some may procure a living as on keepers, bar-tenders, loaftern ad tra Iu. - But very few can be supported in iI ness or in vice without laying a w burden upon the industrious classes. late years a serious social danger threatened by the action of the various trades' unions in refusing to admit boys into shops as apprentices. one years ago there was a class of apprentices in every large shop or factory, and in time these boys became skillful workmen Now the supply of such'artisans is cut af po t very source, and the conse ruence . ust be-and is, for we are all discovering it in the most palpable man. ner-inferior materials and workman ship in nearly every tool and machine that is purchased. "The farmer payf.' for all," not only for inferior work . mntrained artisans, but for the suppof >f idle boys and &. vicious, dangerour nen that idle youths iwit invariabl3 >ecome in time. Fortunately there is one industry into which every boy will be welcomed. L'here is scarcely a fermer in the land vho is not prepared and ready, nay,. ~ager, to accept the services of an ap >rentice for such a remuneration as alhor may deserve. Board, clothes and little spending money lie is ready to live, and, in addition, to teach him the >ractice of his art,- which is certainly as ntricate as sawing wood or hammering ron. There are no trades unions on he farm. The farms will receive all the >oys that workshops refuse,. and ithe >oys will have no cause in the end tc egret the ill-nature and selfishness tha' Irove them there.-Raurat New Yorker Many a fine simile has been destroyed y the discoveries made of epe years oncoeng the upas of Ja was poken of as growing ten o 'e way from any other plan Oimil ondemned to die- were ' &a eha f suffering the pen or gathering ome of the poison fr -9the tree, and nly about two in tw stirviived the iPfton- Of the I where the tree reit was said, " Th are nofu bie 1waters, nor has ara44, ten vermin been se Sbirds fly so nearthsh' vi reach them, they fall victims to spoison. Also, in less than two ionths only 300 persons remained out i. 1,600 wkpo were compelled to live 'a few miles of this tree." ~ etree is bad enough, but less of a ' a than writers~ would have us be-) Iisa variety of spurge (A nt'aris rawhich, when wounded, ex a poisonous milky juice. Itgrow ri company with other tree., with arming them, and has boon cultiva e: ai botanic gardens. Birds and* ave often been seen to perch upo yta ranches. The juice is very irritabg nd produces a kindl of paralysis if intro ticed Into the system. When mi rith certain other poisons itf pas, which in Malay langu oison, or, specifically, trange to say, this poiso >ngs to the same faknily #E read-fruit tree, which fur K -Ad. icellent food for man, &W it A UM'Oya thekO past Verf Shortly after the occupatioA of Pensa cola and the expulsion of the 0 authorities from Florida, by (. 3ak son, Mr. Edward Palfrey, au old citisen of New Orleans, now dead, was wont to relate that, while standing behind the cofnter of the National Bank, his atten tion was attracted toa group of miutary officers who entered the bank and in quired for the cashier. The ohief of the party was a man, gaunt, stem-featured, spare and wasted of form, but erect and firm of carriage. The cashier having appeargd, the chief introduced himself: "I am An drew Jackson, Major General of the ted States army, commanding the now occupying Pensacola. My soldiers are suffering greatly for the want of provisions, clothing and medi cines. Immediate relief is required, and Imust have $20,000 to purchase them sup plies. Here is my draft on the Govern ment. I desire to have it cashed." The cashier was appalled by this de mand. There was no authority to honor this check. The courteous but firm manner and the prestige of the chieftan, however, restrained any such intimation from the cashier. Requesting the Gen eral and his staff to be seated, he retired to the rear offie of the President, communicated the appalling demand the conqueror of Florida. dent was equally za ngr to o he egy qn rt e -e sub ect. was referred i should be b min itat that time 'Gen. Jackson was regarded useat deal of bitterness and dia a large political party in the try. Ho was lookoa upon as a dan umng -illitary chieftain .nterityand freedom, of our civ ons, and especialy of such institntion the gre#t National Bank The (Urec the New Orleans bank were, doubtless ewliat pervaded wiJr entiment. till the rules of fl ied *ii: , declining -to i equired by Gen. ident was instruqt. 'the conclusion of the dso with alt the sauvity und on Qocasions. pen his seat and advano c un )behind which the ents the old ohief as erstand ~yosir, to say th i , having h money of the Unitedl es ini its vau~r declines to advan'ce h sum of inoneyksuffioient to supply the immediate needs of 2,000 patriotic soldiers, whom I hav*e left in the swamps of Florida, ex~posed to fever and starvation ?" "With profound regiet, the rules must be observed." Whereupon, with flashing eye add that terrible aspect never forgottena by any one who ever beheld'OAd Hickory in a rage, the. General, raisj 131s gaunt-. leted hand, brought it do' with great forc3 upon the counter, exelaimilng: "By the I I wifll.eto perve your rascally bank as I h4 thie Opn iards in Florida, as equally enemies oF the people and of liberty,'~ With this fearful men 'and voy~ he strode with his staff out..ohe hank. As he emerged from the b the General Encountered two Irish-bp citizens and muerchants of New Orlea, who had heard of the. c~wof Ethe bank, and had e~d to j~ the General, with offers ieeda'fdrfurnsh all that he J'y is oat--anct !yntnsear for t/ a rpairs than are brns of of buildings a ~or the six mo 1 show. I ~hat 1,100 ne ee somnmenced to4~~ $14,800,000 00O Soa rhis is $8, thani was :euIso ink th and doub n the K Cas4 owed I tCou qidj Lud tran~9 y '~1~' 1~dst fl~ ~ Ionjr og be:f: th* 9tfaman discovered that th#,ifani i.ty I a curative power w tratedPeria. Whie at hdiraz, on business oonneh4 bthe overland telegraph, he was'VIkit by a Persion noble. Hay reoeved a parlyto stroke in his sh'gider aA arm, the nobleman e-t'in4*e Vfthe Englishmands in Oible ectrloity-would not cure himt4 He had h&ard 'that there were magi cians in England who outed 4ll diseases by the aid of this fire. * The English man, having moderated the Persian's expectatiol by remarking that the statement was an exaggeration, accom panied him to the ofilce of the telegraph. A poweful battery had just been pre pared, and the ofil in charge readily consented ,to opert the paralyzed arm. To the two poles of the bettery a copper wire was attached, and at the ex tromity of each wire a damped sponge. The Persian was , ted to tightly rasp one of the yZ arm. Timidly lying e tonished tti "W a mtoment," the. Engliff. man, the other spong orn the 's M W -aleaWith p ep anw el of the-oom, amid 1% .,of theoffiaials. cited, the next dag a nobleman had receiVOWA4 a partial cure, tleo frigh refused to submit to second ioation of the "ivisibl fire." One shock was sufficient, fi declared 4l the stars of the were visible to him ift that ments He would visit the' Iegra and look -.with 'a* at' tawh chines. Mohleali sbald4 fl be would b Without word. Anbier an, who quered his fear, while te~gaph, tonehed one of the of theiMachine. As h feltio n tido, .IMd hh hnd on-ehe vter A- undden'yell And a bkk The asn too.la, awytseok &ug operation, in the least A Russian ma the oo tnent. o is Vosedc*# stmudM vestigation, tn nourishment othe' and spoiled fis( n a four days. Mt0r weeks more water, cials aS lion, Coii% e the oor victini to G'npyin' a ea leseg h~i coieljd with ver pin, and a i e 40othew in flaeein thtofoi sco, mn uty, -Wis. Two lit spectively 8 and 8 in the woods alwneM ortly a , 9. unaa - SO0Y?0 2, 18$s22. In the yea1762, sn extronlinary in stance of avarie ocourred in Fraioo. A mier of the na .of sum had amassed enormous wealth by the most sadid parsimony and the most discreditable extortice was rqueq-sd. by the Goverment to advanoe a au of Money as a loan. The miser, to wh9m a fair interest was not inducement s1M. ciently strong to enable -khim to part with his treasured gold, declared his in capacity to meet this demiud; he plea .severe losses and the utraOst pov LFearing, however, that some of hzsjihbors; among whom he was very unpopular,would report his immense wealth to the Government,he applied his ingenuity to discover some effectual way of hiding his gold, should they attempt to institute a search to ascertain' the truth or fasehood of his plea. With' great care And secrecy he dug a deep cave in his cellar ; to this receptaole for- his treasure, he descendefby a ladder and * door he attached a spring utting it would fasten . r disappeared; in A ~the house was -oexplored, and the but kno Poscue goisips began to ndsor had fled- with where, by living free from the de nt.. Some time which he had wen were busily Ip the prog ret 'with the th the key in ew batck the hi Ag \ ~~Wa aoun W t1 yio 1pon hisfamnin sin~,howjp t4 huid the -~' er of gold, mu e hom hie had ruir 4aOrse upt i wlen tl, m< x dly~x ata o rniht Tb q**. ~ h parniupI of Z Io for Utio p A shyg flIr ajj. -i'y r v. n*roma n o r