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1^fWK*d* Woman, and how She
.1 .t ? Mtua/ w4? m.i mi ?.. t
??""rSculani'let'loose 1 Pandemonium in
rebellto^ oufc!
\^ai^s,j$o , reason a man cannot be al
lowed to sleep in the morning without
tbJb everlasting racket raised about his
<e?*sT Children cryiilg?doors slain
ming?I will know the reason of all thin
u^Voair !
M>f. Luke Darcy shut the door of bis
bed-room with considerable emphasis.
**ld "IFMItL straight to the breakfast par
lor.
AU'lraft bright and quiet and pleasant
tlMfe ; thV?oal snapping and sparkling
in the grate, the china and silver neatly
arranged ou tho spotless damask cluth,
and the green parrot drowsily winking
hla yellow eyesitt tto snnny glow of the
eosteth'Sriudow?Bedlam plainly wasu't
located just there, and Mr. Darcy went
stormingly up stairs to the nursery.
Alh ! tho field of battle was gained at
last.. Mrs. Darcy sat in her little low
chair before the fire, trying to quiet the
."creams of au eight months old baby
scion of the house of Darcy, while
another?a boy of fire years?lay on his
hack,, prone on the floor, kicking and
cry tag in an ungovernable fit of childish
."?Mst; J>ar?cy 1" enunciated Luke,
a slow and ominous precision, "may
I inquire what all this means ? Are you
aware that it is fifteen minutes past nine
o'clock f Do you kuow that breakfast is
waiting ?"
: "I know Lake?I know'," said poor,
perplexed Mrs. Darcy, striving vainly to
lift the rebellious urchin up by one arm,
4,Cflise, Freddy, you are going to be good
now, mamma, is sure, and got up and be
washed."
* "No?a?l" roared blaster Freddy,
?performing a brisk tattoo ou the carpet
with bis' heels, and chwing the .?ir fc
Cife^^s^n* rX,,^ ^,, .7
pounced abruptly down on his son and
heir, and carried him promptly to the
closet, and turned the key upon Iiis
screams.
"Now, sir, you can cry it out at your
leisure. Evelyn, nurse is waiting for the
baby. We'll go duwu and breakfast."
"But, Luke," hesitated Mrs. Darcy,
"you won't leave Freddy there."
"Wou't; I'd like to know why hot ?
It's temper, and nothing else, that is at
the bottom of all of these demonstra
tions, and I'll conquer that temper or I'll
know the reason why. It ought to have
boon checked long ugo, but you arc so
ridiculously indulgent. There is noth
ing I hare so little tolcranee for as a bad
temper?nothing that ought to bo so
promptly and severely dealt with."
"But if he'll say he's sorry Luke ?"
Mr. Darcy rapped sharply at the pan
els of the door:
"Are you sorry for your naughtiness,
young man ?"
A fresh outburst of screams and a re
newal of the tattoo was the answer.
"I am suro ho is sorry, Luke," pleaded
the all-extenuating mother, but Mr.
Darcy shook Iiis head.
"Entiro submission is the only thing
I will listen to," be s:tid shortly. "I tell
vou, Evelyn, I am dotermiucd to uproot
this temper."
Evelyn, with a dewy moisture shadow
iug her eyelashes, and a dull ache at her
heart, followed her licgo lord down to
tho breakfast table, with as little appetite
for tho coffee, toast and eggs as might
be.
A tall, blue-cyed young lady, with a
profusion of bright chesuut hair, and
cheeks like rose velvet, was already at
the table wheti they descended, by name
of Clara Pruyn, by lineage Mrs. Parry's
sister. She opened her eyes rather wide
as the two eutercd.
"Good gracious, Evy, what's tho mat
ter?"
"Nothing," answered Luke, tartly.
Mrs. Darcy, you appear to forget that I
have eaten 110 breakfest."
"Something is the matter, though,"
said Clara shrewdly. "What is it Eve
lyn? lias Luke had ouo of his tan
trums ?"
Luke set down his coffee cup with a
sharp "click."
?*x"ou use very peculiar expressions,
Miss Pruyn."
"Very true ones," said Clara saucily.
Evelyn smiled in spite of hcrsoli.
"It's only Freddy, who feels a little
cross, and-^i"
"A little cross !" interrupted the in
?i?fnaat husband "lie!! you, Eyolyn.
it's quite time tb it temper was checked.
Oh,-thatvM-ot;! what an intolerable
Sorockb^AJatUeena? ujU-L JlityLfctke
that bird into tin: kitohou? or I shall bo .
tcmptod to wring its neck. Strange that
a man can't havca little peace Once )t\
awhile ! \Vtiat does ail the eggs, Evelyu ?
I thought I had asked you to see that
they were boiled fit for a Christian to
eat."
Mr. Darcy gave his egg, shell and all,
a vindictive throw, upon the grate.
Evelyn's brown eyes sparkled dangerous
ly ns she observed tho manoeuvre, but
she made no remark.
"And the plates are as cold ns stoue,
when I've implored you agaiu and again,
that they might be warmed. Well, I
ahull eat do breakfast this morning."
"Whom will you punish most V* de
manded Miss Clara. "Evelyn, give me
another cup of coffee ; it is perfectly de
lightful."
Luke pushed his chair back with a
vengeance, and took up his 6tund with
his back to the fire, both hands under
his coat tails.
"Please sir," said the servant, advan
cing, "the gas bill?tho inuu says would
you sottlo it while?"
"No!" roared Luke tempestuously,
"Tell the man to go about his business ;
I'll have uo small bills this moruiug, and
I won't be so persecuted !"
Mary retreated precipitately. Clara
raised ber long brown eyelashes.
"Do you kuow Luke," sbo said de
murely, "I think you would feel a great
deal better if you would do just as Fred
dy does?lie down flat on tho floor and
kick your heels against the carpet for a
while. It's an excellent escape valve
when your choler gets the better o*
you."
Luke gavo his mischievous sister-in
law a glance that certainly ought to havo
annihilated her, and walked out oi the
room, closing the door behind him with
?i K.tfng that would hear uo interpretation.
I Then Clara ??????>? o ?>-??! ^ ^?^y - ' > ? -
?J'a'uTF^"' '? * hii'~pinE Vf.ice in Kv ily u's
neck.
"Don't BCold inc, Evy, please?I kuow
I've Leen very uaughty to tease Luke
bo!"
<%Yuu have spoken nothing b no
truth," said Evelyn, quietly, with her
coral lips compressed, and a scarlet spot
burning oil either cheek. Clara, I some
times wonder how I can endure the daily
cross of my husband's bad temper."
"Temper !" said Clara, with a toss of
her ehosnut brown hair. '"And the poor
dear fellow hasn't tho lea*t idea how dis
agreeable ho makes himself."
"Only this morning," said Evelyn,
'?he punished Freddy with unrelenting
severity for a lit of ill humor which he
himself has duplicated within the last
half hour. I am uot a moralist, but it
strikes me that the fault is rather more
to be censured in a full-grown reasoning
man than in a child."
"Evelyn," said Clara gravely, "do you
suppose hois beyond the power of cure?"
"J hope not; but what cau 1 do ?
Shut him up as he shut up little Fred
dy?"
Evelyn's merry, irresistible laugh was
cheeked by tho arch, peculiar cxpession
in Clara's blue eyes.
"The remedy needs to be something
Short ami sharp," suitl Clara, ';aU(l this
dark cbact system c?.;!"i.;!y f-ombiue?
both requisites. Tears and hysterics
were played out long ago iu matrimonial
skirmishes, you kuow, Evy."
"Nonsense !" laughed Mrs. Darcy,
rising from the breakfast table, in answer
to her husband's peremptory summons
from above stairs, while Clara shrugged
her shoulders and went to look for her
work-basket.
Luke was standing in front of his bu
reau drawer, Hinging shirts, collars, cra
vats and stockings recklessly upon the
bed-room floor.
"I'd like to know where my silk hand
kerchiefs are, Mrs. Darcy V* ho fumed.
??Such a state as my bureau is in is
enough to drive a man crazy !"
"It's enough to drive a woman crazy,
I think!" said Evelyn, hopelessly, stoop
ing down to pick up a few of the seat
tered articles.
"You were at the bureau last, Luke
It is your old fault I"
"My fault?of oourso it's my fault!"
suarled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's
poodle a kick that sent him howling to
his mistress. '"Auytii ng but a woman's
retorting, recriminating tongue. Mrs.
Darcy, 1 won't endure it any louger!"
"Neither will I !" said Evelyn, reso
lutely advancing, as her husband pluugcd
info the close* after lilj. buaidevs eo?,f,
aud promptly shutting and lockiug the
door, "I think ,Tvo endured it long
? V - ?' ' :' '"-''l1 Vi T>?' ' ?
enough?and fyero^is an end ot it I
"Mrs. !bnrcv, opeii tho door !" Haid
T tu J b> -LufJl oisffli.ii ri> tit:.'/it , ? .
J^to, scarooty ?typ to jjratlit cvi
deuce of. his, ownsouses.
?UflBalf do up such thing," said Mrs.
Darqy,' composedly, begiuuing to ro-ar
rango shirts', stockings and flannel wrap
pers in their appropriate receptacles.
''Mrs, Dar?cy !" roared Luke, at a
fever heat of impotent rage, "what on
oarth do you mean 1"
"I mean to keep you in that clothes
press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made
up your mind to come out in a more
amiable frame of mind. If the system
succeeds with Freddy, it certainly ought
to with you; I am sure your temper is
much more intolerable than his."
There was a dead silonce of full sixty
seconds iu the eloat, thou a suddeu burst
of vocal wrath.
"Mrs. Darcy. open the door this in
stant, madam ?"
Dut Evelyn went on humming a saucy
littly opera air, and arranging her
clothes.
"Do you hear me ?"
"Yes?I hear you."
"Will you obey mo?"
"Not until you have solemnly prom
ised me to put some sort of control on
that temper of yours; not until you
pledge yoursell to treat your wife as a
lady should be troated; not a menial."
"I won't!"
"No?* Then iu that case I hope you
don't tind the atmosphere at all oppres
sive there, as I think it probable you
will remaiu there some time 1"
Another sixty seconds of dead silence,
thcu a sudden rain of Ik els and hands
against the relentless wooden panels.
"Let me out, 1 say, Mrs. Darcy ! mad
am, how dare you perpetrate this mon
strous piece of audacity?"
"My dear luko, how strongly you do
remind me of Freddy. You sex- there iff
'm/'Jii'"-" I UaVC >v> littkir*?kmmm}' f <*
a bad temper. It ought to have been
checked long ago, only you know I'm so
ridiculously indulgent."
Mr. Darcy winced a little at the famil
iar sound of his own words.
Tap-tap-tap came softly at the door.
Mrs. Darcy composedly opened it, and
saw her busbuud's little office boy
"Please, mem, there's some gentlemen
at the olliee in a great huTy to sec Mr.
Darcy. It's about the Applcgato will
case."
Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant ; there
was a triumphaut rustle in the closet,
and her determination was taken at
ouce.
"Tell the gent leinen that your master
has a bad headache, and won't be down
town this morning."
Luke gnashed his teeth audibly as (
soon as the closing of the door admonish
ed him that he might do so with safety
"Mrs. Darcy, d i you presume to inter
fere with the transaction of btr inesa that
is vitall) important, ma'am, vitally im
portant !"
Mrs. Darcy nonchalantly took up the
little opera air where .-lie had left it, let
ting the soft Italian words musically oil
her tongue.
"Evelyn, dear !"
"What is it, Luke ?" she asked mild
ly.
8'Please lot ::.r out. My dear, this
may be a j ike to you, but?1"
"I assure yet, Luke, it's nothing of
the kind. It is tho soberest of serious
matters to t ie. It is a question whotlu r
my future life .shall be miserable or bap
py
There was a third interval of silence.
??live!)n," said l.uke, presently, in a
sudducd voice, "will you open the door?'
"On one condition only."
"And what is that !"
"Ah, Im S" thought the little lieuten
ant-general, "he's beginning to entertain
conditions of capitulation, is he ? Ort
condition," she added aloud, "that you
will break yourself of the habit of .speak
ing crossly ami sharly to rue, and on all
occasions keep your temper."
"My temper, indeed !" sputtered
Luke
"Just your temper," returned his
wile, fcrcuely. ' Will you promise ?"
"Never, mad;.in !"
Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair of
hose that required mending, and pre
pared to leave the apartmeut. As the
door creaked on its hinges, however, a
voice came sh:11) through the opposite
key-hole.
"Mrs. Darcy, Evelyn ! wife! wife!"
"Yos."
"You ure not going down staiiv; to
leave nib in this place?
"I am " 1
"Well, look Iicre4-I promise."
"All and evorytvng that I require ?"
"Yes, all und every thing that you re
quire?confound itl.ll 1"
W isetjf Aeaf to iw 'muttered sequel,
Mrs. Darcy oponed'i|no door, and Luke
stalked sullenly out,tlookiug right over
the top of her shining brov/n hair.
Suddenly a Iltfcle Retaining hand was
laid on his coat slcoi'O.
"Luke, dear?" 1
"Well?" "t
"Won't you give pe a kiss 7"
And Mrs. Darcy ' rurst out crying on
her husband's shoul ler.
"Well!" ejaoulaU rl the puzzled Luke.
' if you aren't the gl latest enigma going
A kiss ? Yes, a ha, f doa^n of 'em if
you want, you kiud- feartedr littlo turn
key. Do not cry p t, I'm not angry
with you, although '? suppose 1 ought to
be."
"And may I lef lJ eddy out ?"
"Yes, on the buum Stenns that his papa
was released. Evcf was very intoler
able?"
"Ifyou hadn't b?*n, Luke. I never
should have vcutureu on such a violent
remedy." \
"Did I irakeyouAery unhappy?"
"Very." I
And the gush of warm sparkling tours
supplied a dietiotiiiryaftill of words.
Jiuke Darcy buttofred up his overcoat,
put on his hat, shouldered his umbrella,
and went to the A*plegatc will case,
musing as ho went uvon tho new state
of affairs presented itXelf for his consid
eration.
"By Jove," he ejakdated, "that little
wife of mine is.? fold woman and a
plucky one !" \
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tho steps.
It is inoro thaDjfcolablo tln>t he left
Iiis stock of bad ton:;?/in tl ^ law build
ings that d-Y, >? ^^elyu^^^ Clara
element iti his infantile dtspositiou.
Men. alter all, are but children of a
larger growth; and so Mrs Evelyn
! Darcy had reasoned.
Don't do it.? Don't speak that harsh
unkind word, and thus make sad the
heart, of another. Speak gently; 'ti.^
better.
Don't make the burden of tuiothei
heavier when it is in your power to
lighten the same. Keep in good humor;
anger is a waste of vitality. >.'?. mau
and no boy does his best except when
chcci ful.
A light heart makes nimble hands,
and keeps the body healthy and free.
Don't let others say that you are sel
tish. and care only for yourself.
Don't live for your own comfort and
enjoyment alone ; live for others.
Don't ii tglect that precious soul com
mitted to your charge) remember it
must live forever.
Don't tiii-ii away from the Bible; it
is the book by which you will be judged.
Lkahm to Wait.?Of all lessons that
humanity lias to learn in life's school,
the hardest is to learn to wait. Not t?>
wait with the lolded hands that claim
life's prizes without previous effort, but
having struggled and crowded the slow
years with trial, see ny such result a*
effort srcuis to warrant?nay, perhaps,
disaster instead. To sfaud firm at such
b crisis of existence, not to lose hold or
to relax effort, this i.- greatness, whether
achieved by man or woman, whether the
eye of the. world note.-; it. or it is reeordt d
in that l".,.k which tin light of eternity
shall alone make ch ar to the visi in,
A Vai.uaw.k Boy.?"What can you
do?" asked a travelerofa country urchin
who was in front of a farmer's house
tickling a toad with a long straw.
"Oh, 1 can do inor's considerable?I
rides the turkeys to water, milks the
geese, cards down the eld rooster, pnt.>
up tho pi-^s tails in paper, to make 'cm
curl, hamstrings tho grasshoppers, make
fires for flies to court by, keep tally for
daddy and mammy when thoy scold at a
mark, and ruts the buttons off daddy's,
coat, when hc'.i at prayer in the mom
ing."
A country man who hud never paid
inoro than twenty-five cents to sec an
exhibition, went Wednesday night to a
Pittsburg theatre to see tho Forty
Thieves." The ticket seller charged
him fifty cents for u ticket. P:tB3iug th"
pasteboard back, lie quietly remarked,
??Keep it, mister j I don't want to SCO
the Othci thirty.niue," aud out he mar
ched.
Keep your Little Broth or out of
the Kooni.
. \o if u ;' ?: ',f.rrr ? ?> 1 - PI
John Smith?you've* heard of hiui^??
is very bashful; is too bashful, iu truth.
He was born and raised in the-country.
His father gave him a good education,
and allows him plenty of money. But
John, with all other attachments, never
could accustom himself to tho society of
females, not because he did uot like the
girls, but because his shy nature would
uot permit him to associate with the fair
sex. It once happened?not very long
ago either?that John's father had some
very important business to trausact in
the city. He also had some very par
ticular affairs to atteud to at home, which
demanded his personal attention, and not
possessing the power of ubiquity, he
delegated his son John to transact that
in the city.
Johu buiug thus commissioned, im
mediately proceeded to the city, and to
the residence of his father's old friend,
whom he found to be a very nice old
gentleman, with a beautiful daughter,
and gold spectacles.
John was ushered into the parlor (a
new thing for him), and motioned to a
seat?no ! a sofa, (^another now tiling.)
But Wo must use- his own language : I
took my ,'seat and .uiude' observations.
Everything was Hri?:'i hin? carpets, line
sofas, fine tables.?fin** curtaius, fine books,
tine everything, and cspectially a fine
young lady, who was dressed in fine silk,
fine satin, and who had tine curls, und a
fine appearance generally.
After chatting with the old gentleman
a few minutes, he took down his hut,
told me to make myself at home for an
hour or two, and left?left me alone with
his daughter, and a small mischievous
boy, jJie young lady's brother. 1 didn't
relish the situation at all. The idea of
I keeping a city belle engaged in couvcrsa
Jur_ I v.-_3jj?ifc^sj J'"vdj^j^i^^jj^jjc^
reigned in the parlor for a snort tune,
you may be* I amused myself as much
as possible with the boy?that is. I
loaned him ray knileand watch-key, and
watched him cut holes in the carpet with
one and spoil tlie other. 1 d'iu't know
what I would have done had it not been
tor that boy?he was so good to attract
one's attention, you know.
It's true he asked some startling ques
tions, occasionally, such as this, for in
stance; - Are you goin" to court sister
Emily '" but such things mu.-l be cx
pectcd under such circumstance.
Mi.-s Kiniiv. thinking, no doubt, that
to bo a good hostess, that she must keep
her guest engaged n conversation, asked
im' -how 1 liked country life. ' etc. She
said that -it must be a beautiful sight to
sou tin- laborers, male and female, romp
ing on the new mown bayou New Year's
hay; that she always did think she
would like to spend a Christmas in the
country a tiut-gathering with the villago
bids and losses* that it always had been
a mystery to her, how they got eggs off
the trees without breaking lliciu."
In return. 1 thought to keep tin my
point of the conversation, it was necessa
ry for mo to quote poetry and the line,
which I did. Among -aber quotations,
I unfortunately repeated the well-known
line of Sliukspcaru
There i- a divinitj thai shapes oui ends,
Rough Stew tkcui us vvt .?id."
At this juncture, the boy, who hud
perched himself upon my knees, looked
very earn 'stly in my face and said:
'?Divinity shaped the end of your noj-o
mighty curus." I'm certain that I
wight d st mebody would spank the young
Pascal. We talked of hills, mountains,
valleys, cataracts?1 believe 1 said water
falls, when the boy spoke up and said :
??Why, sister's got a trunk full of 'em
up stair.- ?pap says they are made ol
horse-hair."
This revelation struck terror into me
and blushes into the checks of my fair
companion
It began to be very apparent to me
that I must be very guarded in what I
said, lest said boy might slip iu his re
mark;' at uncalled for places; in t.iet I
turned my conversation to him. I told
him he ought to go home with me, and
5=ce what nice chiokons wo had iu the
country. Uuluckily I mentioned a yoke
of calves my brothers owned. The word
oalves ruined all. The little fellow
looked lip and said: - Sister's got u
doze111 of 'em, but bIip don't wear V.ni
only when she goes lip towu o' windy
days."
?'Leave the room, you uumanocily lit
tle wieteh i" ? sela'imed Emily, l'ieav?>i
immediately !"
"I know what you want mo to leave
for," replied he; "yott can't fool me?
you want to sit in that mati'b hip, and
kiss him like you did Bill Simmons the
other dayr?you can't foH me, IUrJeV
tell you. Gin me some candy, like lie
did ; then I'll go. You think because
you've got the Greoiau bend that you're
smart. Guess I known a thing or two.
I am mad at you, anyhow, 'cause pap
would a bought me a top yesterday, if it
hadn't been for you getting them curls,
dog-gone yer ! You needn't turn so red
in the face, 'cause I can't see it for the
paint. There ain't no use winkiu' at me
with that glass eye o' youro, 'cause I
ain't goin' out'u here, now that's what's
the matter with the purps. I don't care
if you are twenty-eight years old, you
'ain't no boss o' mine, you old fool."
That is all of the story that John re
lated. He says he don't know how be
got out of the scrape.
The Honest Lawyer.
"Arc you the lawyer?" said a young
man, hastily taking oil his hat.
''Yes, sir, that's my business; what
can I do for you ?" s
''Why something of a job, I reckon.
The fact is, I have gotten into a little,
trouble, and want a bit of help." And
he took out u live dollar bill and laid it
on the table.
The young lawyer made no motion to
ward taking it.
Client.?Why don't you take it ? I
don't call it pay. but to begin with?a
kind of wedge?what do you call it?
Lawyer.? Kcteutiou fco, I presume
you mean.
Client.?Just so, and by 3'our taking
it yon a o my lawyer. So take it.
Lawyer.?Not quite so fast, if you
please. State your ease, aud then I will
tell you whither or not I will take the
ply this: Last spring I was doing a lit
tle business by way of selling meat. So
I bought a yoke of oxen of old Major
Farns wo rth. 1 was to have them for
one hundred dollars.
Lawyer?Very well?what became of
the oxen.
Client.?Butchered and sold out, to
be sure.
Lawyer.?By you?
Client.? Yes.
Lawyer.?Well, whore's the trouble?
Client.?Why, they say that, as I on
ly gave my note lor them, 1 need not
pay it, and 1 want you to help me to get
clear of it.
Lawrcr.? How do you expect mc 10
i do it ?
Client.? l'laia as day, man; just say,
I Gentlemen of the Jury, this young man
was not of age whou he gave Major
Karnsworth tho note, and, therefore, in
fair, the note is good for nothing--that's
all!
Lawyer.--And was it really so?
Client. ? Exactly.
Lawyer.?How came Major Karns
worth to let you have the oxen?
do nt.?Uli ! the godly old man never
suspected that I was under age.
Lawyer.?What did you get for the
oxen in selling them out ?
Client.? Why somewhere between one
hundred and thirty, and one hundred
und forty d-dlars. They were noble fcl
loWS.
Lawyer -And so you wan! tue to help
you cheat that honest old man out of
these oxen, simply because the law, this
I . . .
human imperfection, gives you the oppor
tunity to do it! No, sir; put up your
retention fee. 1 promised my dying
mother never to do such a thing, aud I
will die first. And as for you, it I wan
U d to help you to go to the State's pfi
Bon, I could take no course so sure as to
do what you oiler to pay me for dung ?
! And, depend upou it, the la\ry< r uho
</"('? help you, will 09your worse enemy.?
Plead minority! No; go sir, and pay
for your oxen honestly--and live and act
on the principle, that, let what will oomo,
you will be (in honest man.
A New Orleans widow of a week was
wooed by au impulsive suitor, who, after
obtaining her consent to a marriage in
R fortnight, borrowed ton dollars, and
deserted her. She told her talc to tlic
Recorder.
' Well, exclaimed the surprised ofljclul,
'this is a littlo ahead of anything I ever
heard of."
' Yes, sir," replied the lady,'"it does
so beat all, uot that I care anything ab
i out the money, hut i don't Hkw being
1 tooled "
Cast; jto.iLlMliqttwv I
young mau
anglers ou a bridge. B> waliJKr
dejected. At last, apVoaojnB%T
611cd with wboleaomd'^OoBffiJ*
sighed; ' ?I
' "if now I had these I
py, I could sell thorn at It fck
buy food and lodgings". (?j *
i "I will give you jiuit ?s many
as good fish," aaid the owner, *
ced to overhear hie Words,'If ^f??
me a trifling favor."
Ani what is that?" ask*!
eagerly. " : A
"Only to tend td this line till I
back, I wish to go on a sh?rt?rja
The proposal was gladly so
The old man was gono co long
young man bc-grtti to he ?fa^dftfifo
Meanwhile, baited hodli, and the
man lost all bis depression in th
ment of purling them in ; and,
owner of the line rcturnod he had
a largo number. Counting
them as* many as were iri tHe'
presenting them to the youiig UUMf 4Rp*
old fisherman said: i ! nivf*
"I fulfill my promise from the fish
have caught, to teach you, wheneverJflL,
see others earning what you ao*ftt^l
waste no time in fruitless ivlMtfg^Hii WT
cast a Hue for yourself" *'lix
A man that was up to a thing or twd
once offered to bet thai he could JttflfttV
that tht'i side of the river was the '?ih&
side. His challcngo Was sdbtt scc?{>)g#r
and a bet of ten dollars made; whejl,
pointing to the opposite shots tt? Wm
river, he shrewdly tdked:
"Is not that one tide of the river ?*'
"Yes," was the immediate
"Agreed," said the man ; "aud il not
this the other side ?"
"Yes," aaidVtHc other.
"Then/' sajdatho man, "pay me feint
ton
i* the other side."
The dumbfounded antagonist, otefi
come by this profound logic, immediate
ly paid the money.
The Bourbon Prince aud Miss
have again been married, This time
a Catholic clergymau at Jersey City.
Eugenie's last dinner toilet was a
moonlit jji-ay train" over white satin, wftft:
uarcissus aud diamonds in her pinked
hair.
Young ladies should never ?bjeel
being kissed by an editor. They she
make every allowance for the freedom
the prc.X.
A Yankee doctor has discovered a ?eW
tonic; it is extracted from sausage*; sttii
called "sulphate of canine."
Do tho best you can whatever you\ un
dertake. If you are only alftre'ct-siree?
er sweep your Very beSt.
It is unwise to worry aho?t *aat call.,
uot be helped, and foolish to worry rfbefcfcV
what can be helped. Therefore *^ty
not at all.
The ruiu of moat men dates from sotrie
idle hour. Occupation is an ari?dr to
the soul.
Always rofusj the adiico whieh risii
sion gives.
Mostoi the shadows thatcros*otb$jtttl.
through life arc caused by our Standiog
in our owii lighl.
If wo would have powerful mUlds; we
must think, if wc would have fdihf?i
hearts, we must love; if wc would hart*
strong muswoles, wc must labor. ThbsW
includo all that is valiiafc'lu lu life;
A White garment appears Worse with
slight soiling than do colord garments
much sailed; so a little fault iu a good
man attracts more attention than grave
offenses in bad mc?.
A colored woman, while blackberry*
ing, was run over and killed by the
Northeastern cars oa Sunday last.
A largo tiger mado its appearance? n*?ir
the junotiou of Toby's Creek, above Cef.
Brown's mill pond, in Baruwell District
ou Monday 1.1st.
A joker lately declared that a bllffd
man, by taking something from tho
breakfast table, recovered hia sight.
What did he take? He took a tea-cup
and saucer (saw, sir.)
It is true of many persons that their
memory is nothing but a row of hooks'to
hang up grudges od.
Not so many are the blades of ffHtlf
growing in the field as are tho gift* m$M
mercies of God to tbewe that lute 9> toil
in which they can grow.
A wealthy and cecentvio Ohioau bac
made a will disinheriting all his heirs,
I and gi.i?g his fortune tu fouud an i
tiruia'^v for cats."