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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, L869.
lW IKfcYO Woman, and how She
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^WMManMet**loofec 1 PaStdemdnlum in
rebellionT^V??w?, turned insido out!
WBj?^.^vto .reason a man cannot be al
lowed to sleep in tho morning without
thh evXtfiasting racket raised about his
teassf* * - GMldnear cryidffr?doors slam
ming?I will know the reason of all this
uproar I*
Mr.' Luke Darcy shut tho door of his
bed -oom with considerable emphasis.
*' VtUfa straight to the breakfast par
?or.
AJ1 was bright and quiet and pleasant
tHttfe ^ the coal snapping and sparkling
in the grate, the china and silver neatly
srW4C^**K' ow BP?tless damask cloth,
and the green parrot drowsily winking
hia yellow eyes in ti e sunny glow of the
eastern window?Bedlam plainly wasu't
located just there, and Mr. Darcy went
stormingly up stairs to the nursery.
Ah ! tho field of battle was gained at
last, i t&tlro. Doroy sat in ber little low
chair before the fire, trying to quiet the
screams of au eight months old baby
scion of the house of Darcy, while
another?a boy of five years?lay on his
back,, prone on the floor, kicking and
crying in an ungovernable fit of childish
passion.
,**Ma?* B ur?cy I" enunciated Luke,
with a alow and ominous precision, "may
I inquire what all this means ? Are you
aware that it is fifteen minutes past nine
o'clock ? Do you kuow that breakfast is
waiting P*
"I know Luke?I know'," said poor,
perplexed Mrs. Darcy, striving vainly to
lift tho rebellious urchin up by one arm,
"Come, Freddy, you are going to be good
now, mamma, is sure, and get up and be
washed."
> "No?o?I" roared Master Freddy,
performing a brisk tattoo ou the carpet
with his' heJs, and ohwing the air fil
ing -vulture, Mr.'T>otwj
pounced abruptly down on his son and
heir, and carried him promptly to the
closet, and turned the key upou his
screams.
"Now, sir, you can cry it out at your
leisure. Kvelyn, nurse is waiting fur the
baby. We'll go dowu and breakfast."
"But, Luke," hesitated Mrs. Darcy,
"you won't leave Freddy there."
"Won't; I'd like to know why not?
It's temper, and nothing else, that is at
tho bottom of all of these demonstra
tions, and I'll conquer that temper or I'll
kuow the reason why. It ought to have
becu checked long ago, but you arc so
ridiculously indulgent. There is noth
ing I have so little tolerance for as a bad
temper?nothing that ought to be 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:
"Aro you sorry for your naughtiness,
young man ?"
A fresh outburst of screams and a re
newal of the tattoo was the answer.
"I am sura he is sorry, Luke," pleaded
the all-extenuating mother, but Mr.
Darcy shook his head.
"Entire submission is the only thing
I will listen to," be s ud shortly. "I tell
vou, Evelyn, I am determined to uproot
this temper."
Evelyn, with a dewy moisture shadow -
iug her eyelashes, and a dull ache at her
heart, followed her licga lord down to
tho breakfast table, with as little appetite
for tho coffee, toast and eggs as might
be
A tall, blue-eyed young lady, with a
prolusion of bright chesuut hair, and
cheeks like rose velvet, wus already at
the table when they descendod, by name
of Clara Pruyn, by lineage Mrs. Darcy's
sister. She opened her eyes rather wide
o? the two eutercd.
"Good gracious, Evy, what's the mat
ter?"
"Nothing," answered Luke, tartly.
Mrs. Darcy, you appear to forget that I
have eaten uo breakfest."
-Something is the matter, though,"
said Clara shrewdly. "What is it Eve
lyn? Has Luke had one of his tan
trums ?*'
Luke set down bis coffee cup w ith a
sharp "click."
"You use very peculiar expressions,
Miss Pruyn."
'?Very true ones," .said Clara saucily.
Evelyn smiled iu spite of hcrsoii.
"It's only Freddy, who feels a little
cross, and?1*"
"A little cross 1" interrupted the in
dignant husband. "Itcli you, Eyclyn,
?Vs out to, time tb.it temper was ch:cked.
Ob, that Sarrvt ! what an intoipfsblo
acreecVlrijJibeyieena! upi.b Afa^s-Uke
that bird into the kitolioD? qv I shall bo
tcmptod to wring its nook. Strange that
a man can't havea little peace Once in
awhile ! What docs ail the eggs, EvoJyu ?
I thought I had asked you to sec that
they were boiled fit for a Christian to
cat."
Mr. Darcy gave his egg, shell and all,
a vindictive throw upon the grate.
Evelyn's brown eyes sparkled dangerous
ly as she observed tho manoeuvre, but
she made no remark.
"Aud the plates are as cold as stone,
when I've implored you agaiu and again,
that they might be warmed. Well, I
shall eat uo breakfast this morning."
"Whom will you punish most?" de
manded Miss Clara. "Evelyn, give me
' another cup of coffee j it is perfectly de
lightful."
Luke pushed his chair back with a
Tcngeance, and took up his stand with
his back to the tire, both hands under
his coat tails.
"Please sir," said the servant, advan
cing, "tho gas bill?tho man says would
you settle it while?"
"No I" roared Luke tcmpestuousl),
"Tell the man to go about his business j
I'll havo uo small bills this moruiug, aud
I won't be so persecuted !"
Mary retreated precipitately. Clara
raised her long brown eyolashes.
"Do you kuow Luke," sho 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 aud
kick your heels agaiust the carpet for a
white. It's an excellent escape valve
when your choler gets the better o*
you."
Luke gave bis mischievous sister-in
law n glance that certainly ought to havo
annihilated her, aud walked out ot the
room, clostug the door behind him with
?i B.fng that would hear no interpretation.
Then Clara cainc.aroim^^^^i^e?-:
tWAf^'""'-:-'1'' hc-i^pink iTaco in Evslyn'.s
neck.
"Don't HCold tue, Evy, please?I know
I've been very naughty to tease Luke
so !"
?"You have spoken nothing but the
truth," said Evelyn, quietly, with her
coral lips compressed, and a scarlet spot
burning on cither cheek. Clara, 1 some
times wonder how J can endure the daily
cross of my husband's bad temper."
"Temper !" said Clara, with a toss of
her chosnut brown hair. "And the poor
dear fellow hasn't tho leait idea how dis
agreeable he makes himself."
"Only this morning," said Evelyn,
"he punished Freddy with unrelenting
severity for a fit of ill humor Which lie
himself has duplicated within the last
half hour. I am not 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 he is beyond the power of cure?"
"I hope not; but what can I do?
Shut him up as he shut up little Fred
?V ?"
Evelyn's merry, irresistible laugh was
checked by the arch, peculiar expessiou
in Clara's blue eyes.
"The remedy need* to bo something
and sharp," said Clara, "atld this
dark cioaot system wrtr,:u!y combine?
both requisites. Tears and hysterics
were played out long ago in matrimonial
skirmishes, you kuow, Evy."
"Nousetise !" 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 lloor.
"I'd like to know where my silk hand
kerchiefs are, .Mrs. Darcy ?" no fumed.
"Such a state as my bureau is in is
enough to drive a man crazy I"
"It's enough to drive a woman crazy,
I '.hink !" said Evelyn, hopelessly,stoop
ing down to piek up a few of the scat
tered articles.
"You were at the bureau last, Luke
It is your old fault I"
"My fault?of course it's my fault!"
snarled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy'm
poodle a kick that sent him howling to
his mistress. "Anyth ng but a woman's
retorting, recriminating tongue. Mrs.
Darcy, 1 won't endure it any longer!"
"Neither will I !" said Evelyn, reso
lutely advancing, as her husband plunged
into the closet after his business coat,
.??jd promptly shutting aud lockii'g the
door, "I tjiuiV^I'v? e?duied it long
enough?and here, is an eud of it !"
'^jrfl. IfJaYcy^, "open the door !" said
Luke, scarcely ?tjle,'' to J?f^it .the evi
dence ot his own senses. . .
"I pnalt aq' uo> such thing," said Mis.
Darcy, composedly, beginning to re-ar
range shirtsj stockings and flanuel wrap
pers iu their appropriate receptacles.
''Mrs, Dur?ey !" roared Luke, at a
fever beat of impotent rage, "what on
earth do you mean 1"
"I mean to keep you iu that clothes
press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made
up your mind to come out iu a more
amiable frame ot mind. If the system
succeeds with Freddy, it certainly ought
to with you; lam sure your temper is
much more intolerable than his."
There was a dead silence of full sixty
seconds iu the elost, thcu a sudden 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 bear you."
"Will you obey me?"
"Not until you have solemnly prom
ised me to put some sort of eontrol on
that temper of yours; not until you
pledge yoursell to treat your wife ?8 a
lady should be treated; uot a menial."
"1 wou't !"
"No? Then in that case I hops you
don't lind the atmosphere at all oppres
sive there, as I thiuk it probable you
will remain there some time !"
Another sixty seconds of dead silence,
thcu a suddcu rain of hi els ami bauds
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 see there is*
'U/ilw'"-' *? have v lit?e^h?-? ni?rf r m
a had teniper. It ought to have been
checked long ago, only you know I'm so
ridiculously indulgent."
Mr. Darcy winced a little at the famil
i?r sound of his own words.
Tap-tap-tap came softly at the door.
Mrs. Darcy composedly opened it, and
saw her husband's little office boy
"Please, mem, there's some gentlemen
at the office in a great hu?ry to sec Mr.
Darcy. It's about the Applcguto will
case."
Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant ; there
was a triumphant rustle iu the closet,
and her determination was taken at
once.
"Tell the gentlemen 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 be might do so with safety
??Mrs. Darcy, d > you presume to inter
fere with the transaction of business that
is vitally important, ma'am, vitally im
portant !"
Mrs. Darcy u nchulautly took up the
little opera air where .-he hud left it, let
ting (he soft Italian words musically oil
her tongue.
"Evelyn, dear !"
"What is it. Luke ?" she asked mild
I.V.
?Tlease h t :r.c out. My dear, this
may be a j ke to you, hut?f f
"I assure yo*i, Luke, it's nothing of
tho kind. it is tho soberest of serious
matters to no. It is a question whether
my future life shall he miserable or hap
py
There was a third interval of silence.
"Evelyn," said Luke, presently, in a
suddued voice, "will you open the door?'
"On one condition only."
"And what is that !"
"Ah, hn !" thought the little lieuten
ant-general, "he's beginning to entertain
conditions of capitulation, is ho? On
condition," she added aloud, "that you
will break yourself of the habit of speak
ing crossly and shariy to me, and on all
occasions keep your temper."
"My temper, indcod 1" sputtered
Luke
??Just, you? temper," returned his
wile, t.creuely. "Will you promise ?"
'?Never, madam !"
Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair of
hose that required mending, and pre
pared to leave tho apartun ut. A;, the
door croaked on its hinges, however, a
voice came shlly through the opposite
keyhole.
"Mrs. Darcy, Evelyn! wife! wife!"
"Yos."
"You arc not going down stairs to
leave mc in this place?
"I am."
"Well, look hcrV?I promise."
"All and everyth ?\g thrft T require ?"
"Yes, al! and everything that you re
quire?confound it .1! I"
Wisely deaf to t' o muttered sequel,
Mrs. Darcy openedehe door, and Luke
.,(..!!.! ^..? l?^l.;...? ..i.-Vtf A....*.
tho top of her shinieg brown hair.
Suddenly a little detaining hand was
laid on his coat slccj'o
"Luke, dear?"
"Well ?"
"Won't you givo ihe a kiss ?
And Mrs. Darcy iurst out crying on
her husband's ehoul >er.
"Well!" ejaoulaU ft the puzzled Luke,
"if you aren't the gl j?test enigma going.
A kiss ? Yes, a ha f doa^n of 'em if
you want, you kind >earted> Httlo turn
key. Do not cry p I, I'm not angry
with you, although 5 isupposc 1 ought to
be." j
"And may I lef l; eddy out?"
"Yes, on tho stunt 'terms that his papa
was released. Evclt i, was very intoler
able?"
"If you hadn't be jn, Luke, t never
should havo venture ^ on such a violent
remedy.
"Did I irake you^ery unhappy?
"Very."
And the gush of \C.irm sparkling tears
supplied a dictiouarylfull of words.
Luke Darcy buttonfed up his ovorcoat,
put on his hat, shouldered his umbrella,
and wfent to the Ajplegatc will case,
musing as ho went u?>n the new state
of affairs presented hf elf for his consid
eration.
"By Jove," he ejaculated, "that little
wite of mine is.a'Xi-iid woman and a
plucky cue !"
%ut a laughing on
the steps.
It is more than
? j
his stock of bad U
ings that d-v. ^
never ??aW at
?able thft he left
[r in tl- > law build
?
fltt. -jftd Clara
r^dd y
elenicnt in his infantifle disposition.
.Men. after all, are but children of a
larger growth; and to Mrs Evelyn
Darcy had reasoned.
- ??Wm>?- i?
Don't do it.? Don't speak that harsh
unkind word, and thus make Bad the
heart of another. Speak gently; 'tis
better.
Don't make the burden of nuothei
heavier when it is in your powt r t..
lighten the same. Keep in good humor;
angor is a waste of vitality. No man
and no hoy does his best except when
ein ei ful.
A light heart makes nimble hands,
and keeps the body healthy and free.
Don't let others say that you arc 1
fish, and care only for yourself
Don't live for your own comfort aud
cujnymcul alone; live lor others.
Don't it iglect that precious soul com
mitted i" your charge; remember it
must liv lot ever.
Don't turn away from the Bible; it
is the book by which you will be judged.
Lkakn to Wait.?-Of all lessons that
humanity has to learn in life's school,
the hardest is to learn to wait. Not t>>
wail with the loldcd hands that claim
life's prizes without previous effort, but
having struggled and crowded the slow
years with trial, sec uv such icjuU as
effort s.cais to wViTant- nay, perhaps,
disaster instead. To stoud firm at . uclt
a crisis of existence, not to losu hohl or
to relax effort, this is greatness, whctli ;r
achieved by mau or woman, whether the
eye of the world notes it. or it is rt cordt ?1
in that 1.k which the light of eternity
shall alone make clear to the vision,
A VaI.I .\lll.E BoY.-?"What can you
do?" nsked a traveler of a country urchin
who was in front of a farmer's house
tickling a t< ad with a long straw.
"Oh, 1 can do mor's considerable?I
rides (ho turkeys to water, milk> the
gees-', ends doWU the old rOOStcr, ptit.>
up the piijH tails in paper, to make 'cm
curl, hamstrings the grasshoppers, make
fires for Hies to court by, keep tally for
daddy and mammy when they scold at a
mink, and cuts the buttons off daddy's
coat, when he's at prayer in the inoru
ing."
A country man who had never paid
moro than twenty-five cents to sec an
exhibition, went Wednesday night to a
Pittsburg theatre to see the "Forty
Thieves." The ticket seller charged
him fifty cents for n ticket. Passing th?
pasteboard back, ho quietly remarked,
'?Koop it, mister; I don't want to sec
the other thirty-nine," and out he inar
ched.
Keep jour Little Brother out ot'
the Room.
John Smith?you've- hoard of him?
is very bashful; is too bashful, in truth.
Ho was born and raised in the'country.
His father gave him a good education,
and allows him plenty of money. Hut
John, with all other attachments, never
could accustom himself to the society of
females, not because he did not 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 cither?that John's lather had some
very important business to trausact in
the city, lie also hud 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 being 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 spectneles.
John was ushered into the parlor fa
new thing for him), and motioned to a
seat?no ! a sufa, (another new thing.)
But WO must use his own language : I
took nvy seat and ^ladc observations.
Everything was fine . bine carpets, line
sofas, fine tables, fin" curtuius, fine books,
tine everything, ami especially a tine
young lady, who was dressed in fine silk,
fine salin, and who bad fine curls, and a
fine appearance generally.
After chatting with the old gentleman
a few minutes, he took down his hat,
told me to make myself at home for an
h^ur or two, and left?left me alone with
bis daughter, aud a small mischievous
boy, jJie young lady's brother. 1 didn't
relish the aitualiou at all. The idea of
i keeping a city belle engaged in convcrsa
m^^i for iw^^j^s; pel dj^^^^^nce^
reigned in the pallor for a snort tune,
you may but. I amused myself as much
us possible with the boy?that is. I
loan, d him my knife ami watch-key, and
watched him cut holes in the carpet with
one und spoil the other. I dou't know
what I would have dorm had it not been
tor that boy?he was so good to attract
one's attention, you know.
It'.- true he asked some startling ques
tions, occasionally, such as this, for in
fetni.; Are you goin' to court sister
Emily '" but sueli things must be ex
pected under such circumstance.
Mi.-s I'huiiy, thinking, no doubt, that
to be a good hostess, lh.it sin- must keep
liergttest engaged u con versa tiou, asked
me "how I liked country life," etc. She
said that - it must ben beautiful sight to
set; tin- laborers, male and female, romp
j ing on the new mown hay on New Vear's
j Day; that she always did think she
would like to spend a Christmas in the
country a tiut-gathcring with the village
bids aud lasses ? lh.it it always hud been
a mystery to her, how they got eggs oil
thr trees without breaking tb- in."
In return, I thought to keep up my
point id' the conversation, it w.is necessa
ry for me to quote poetry ami the line,
which I did. Among other quotations,
1 unfortunately repeated the well-kuowu
line o-i' Shakspearo
I "There is a divinity thai shapes ?>ui cuds,
i Rougli !iv>? (hcai a ivc will."
At this juncture, the boy, who bad
perched himself upou my knees, looked
very earn stly iu my laue and said:
"Divinity shaped the end of your uoto
mighty citrus.' I'm certain that I
w i.-Iu d :?> niebody would spank the young
rascal. We talked of hills, mountains,
valleys, cataracts?1 believe I said water
falls, when the boy spoke up and said :
"Why, sister's got a trunk full of em
up stair.- -pap say.- they are made ol
horse-hair."
This ro vela tiou stiuek terror into me
aud blushes into the checks of my fair
companion
It began to bo very apparent to me
thai I must be vor) guarded tu what I
said, lest siid boy might slip iu his re
marks ut uncalled for pi.ices; in tact 1
turned my conversation to him. I told
him he ought to go homt with me, and
sec what nice < bicker..-, we had iu the
country. Uuluckily I mentioned a yokts
of calves my brothers owned. The word
calves ruined n!i. The little fellow
looked lip and said: lister's got a
dozen ot 'em, but she don't wear'em
only when she goes up town o' windy
days''
"Leave the room, you unmannerly lit
tle wretch!" exclaimed Emily, "leave
immediately '"
"I know what you want mo to leave
for," replied he; "you can't fool me?
you want to sit in that man's lap, and
kiss him like you did Bill Simmons the
other day-?you can't fool me, IUI- j?s'
tell you. Gin mc some candy, like he
did ; then I'll go. You think because
you've got the Grecian bend that you're
smart. Guess I known a thing or two.
I am mud at you, anyhow, 'cause pap
would a bought mc 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 mc
with that glass eye o' yours, 'cause I
ain't goin' out'n here, now that's what's
the matter with the purps. I don't care
if you arc tweuty-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 he
got out of the scrape.
The Houest Lawyer.
"Arc you the lawyer?" said a young
man, hastily taking off his bat.
"Yes, sir, that's my business; what
can I do for you ?" x
"Why something of a job, I reckon.
Tho fact is, I have gotten into a little,
trouble, and want a bit of help." And
he took out a five dollar bill aud laid it
on the table.
The young lawyer made uo motion to
ward taking it.
Client.?Why don't you Like it ? I
don't call it pay. but to begin with?a
kind of wedge?what do you. call it?
Lawyer.? itetentiou foe, I presume
you mean.
Client.?Just so, and by your taking
it you a:e my lawyer. So take it.
Lawyer.?Not quite so fast, if you
please. State your case, aud theu I will
tell you whether or uot I will take the
r*^ jjty~B^^S^^|^y^|J^|^BlByr^i%8'^,^aBq JVai
ply this: Last spring 1 was doing a lit
tle business by way of selling meat. So
I bought a yoke of oxen of old Major
Farnsworth. 1 was to havo 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, whole's the trouble?
Clieut,?Why, they say that, as I ou
ly gave my note for them, 1 need not
pay it, and 1 want you to help me to get
j clear of it.
J Lawrer.? How do you expect mc to
do it ?
Clieut.? I'laiu as day, man; just say,
Gentlemen of tho Jury, this young man
was not of age when he gave Major
Farusworth tho note, and, therefore, in
/air, the note is gooO iur nothing? that's
all:
Lawyer.?And was it really so?
Client. - - Exactly.
Lawyer.?How came Major Fnrns
worth to ht you have the oxen?
Client.?Oh ! (ho godly old man never
suspected that I was under ago.
Lawyer.?What did you get for the
oxen in selling them out ?
Client.?Why somewhere between one
hundred and thirty, and one hundred
and forty dollars. They were noble fel
i.iWS.
Lawyer -And .>o you want me to help
you cheat that honest old man out of
these oxen, simply because the law, this
human imperfection, gives you the oppor
tunity to do it! No, sir; put up your
retention fee. I promised my dying
mother never to do such a thing, aud I
will die first. Aud as for you. it I wan
ted to help you to go to the State's prt
Bon, 1 could take no course so sure as to
do what you oiler to pay me for doiug.?
Ami, depend upou it, the lawyiricho
does help you, will bo yo.tr worse enemy.?
I rlead minority! No; go sir, aud pay
for your oxen honestly- -ami live and act
on the principle, that, let what will come,
you will be on honest man.
A New Orleans widow of a week was
wooed by au impulsive suitor, who, after
obtaining her consent to a marriage in
a fortnight, borrowed ton dollars, and
deserted her. She told her tale to the
Recorder.
"Well, exclaimed the?urprised o?jcijl,
"this is a littlo ahead of anything I ever
hoard of."
? Yes, sir," replied the lady, "it docs
?o boat all, uot that I care anything ab
out the money, but I don't like being
look i "
CAfT; A.-.lAHtitp?.
young mau stood \ift\tm **ft*\gh
auglors ou n bridge. I?b *?S t*0?*
dejected. At iaBt, apprbaoturig ftrJ'
ailed with wholesoind ef?o1Sl5,1
^bedi r?h>*o?3m ?**??!??
1 "Ifnow I b*4g**Mi nW*?"
py, I could sell theto a* ft fl4*MjPI^I
buy food and lodgidgsfjj i***C litjjal
? "I will give you just as many ^j|TV,
as good fish," said the owner, wb?
eed to overhear liis Words", ff^?it^?^a?
me a trifling favor."
"And what is that?" asketj
eagerly. * ' A
"Only to tetid td this Iis? Uli I
back, I wish to go on a short i
Tbc proposal was gladly ee
The old man was gone so long
young man Ijcgrtri to he lmpaiic?l?
Meanwhile, baited hodk, a**^1**]
man lost all his depression in the,
meot of purling them in ; and,
owner of the line returnod he had I
a largo number. Counting
them as many as were in lEV1
presenting them to the yomig
old fisherman said:
"I fulfill my promise from the fish jOtfc
have caught, to teach you, whenever Jfllj
see others earning what you m"%/^&A
waste no time in fruitless wvMaVHnv
cast a line for yourself^.
A mau that was up to a thing or twd
once offered to bet that he could fftSM*
that this side of the river waa the &f/Uf
tide. His challenge was so?? accepted;
and a bet of ten dollars made j
pointing to the opposite shore 0? flfo
river, he shrewdly aflked:
"Is not that one tide of the rim
"Yes," was the immediate answer.
"Agreed," said the man; "and it not
this the other side ?"
"Yes,"' saldvthc other.
"Then," saidathe man, "pay nie tfe?
veortnat-yf's sure
is tlie other side."
The dumbfounded antagonist, axvi
conic by this profound logic, iuimcdidt^
ly paid the money.
The Bourbon Prince and Mist II ?mal
have again been married, This time bf
a Catholic clcrgymau at Jersey Cftfc.
Eugenie's last dinner toilet was a\
moonlit j*iay train* over white satin, w*A
uarcis?US snd diamonds iu her phttt*9&
hair.
Young ladies should never abject Id
being kissed by an editor. They should!
make every allowance for the freedom 0T
the prcs*.
A Yankee doctor has discovered a tfeW
tonic; it is extracted from sausage*, attfft
called "sulphate of canine."
Do tho best you can tffiatevet you, do
Jcrtako. If you arc only a!fti:c'ct-sweep'
er sweep yoitr very best.
It is unwise to worry about What cart
not be helped, and foolish to worry about
what can be helped. Therefore tMnjr '
not at all.
The ruiu of mo?t men dates from sonie
idle hour. Occupation is an armor lo
the sotii.
Always refuse the added which rias
sion gives.
Mosloi the shadows that crosso#p^iiJl
through life arc caused by our Standing
if our owii lighl.
If we would have powerful mhids, iW
must think, if we would have fuihfui
hearts, we must love; if wc would ba*w
strong muswolos, we must labor. These?
iucludo all that is valuable Id life;
A tor hi to garment appears Worse with
slight soiling (ban do colord garments
much sailed; so a little fault iu a good
man attracts more attention than grave
offeuses iu had med.
A colored woman, while blackberry
iug, was run over and killed by the
Northeastern cars on Sunday last.
A large tiger made it? appearance newr
the junotiou of Toby's Creek, Above Cof.
Brown's mill pond, in Barnwell District,,
on Mohday last.
A joker lately declared thsl ft blitfd
man, by taking something from the
breakfast table, recovered his Slgttt.
What did he take ? Ho .ook a tea-cup
and saucer (sow, sir.)
It is true of many persons that their
memory is nothing but a row of hooVs to
baug up grudges on.
Not so niauy are the blades of grattr
growing iu the field as are the gift* sjsjB
mercies of God to those that have ft H0?
in which they can grow.
A wealthy and eeocntiio Ohioau hat
made a will disinheriting all his heirs,
and giving his fhrtuno to fouud an "i? <