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THE LITTLB S^OW-EOY.
?Y MRS. S. C. IIALL.
Many who read this will remember
the heavy snow that gaVo the New
Yeat of 1867 so cold a reception on the
dhy "after" ire birth, when all the people
woke up to see tho whole of their world,
were it town or country, shrouded in
spotless white. Farmer Boyd's sheep,
seemed to know what was on the wing,
for they crowded together under"the
tiecs on tho close of that New Year's
day. as a sort of preparation for the
uight. Tho next moruing, loug before
day, the farmer aud his sons were in the
meadow, heedless ol' the thick blinding
snow, resolved to preserve the flock ;
and if they had not been up and active,
the greater number of F?nfter Boyd's
valuable nouthdowns would have been
buried in the suuW*driit, so sudden and
violent was tiie fall, so deep and dan
gerous were tho drifts.
The farmer said luv should not have
saved half hut for the perseverance of
his little dog?tot a shc< p dog, but a
small pet of his daughter's, a little
sagacious creature 'that was olten snub
bed b< Ciiust it was uot '-thorough bred,"
ond so they forgot that it- was thorough
heart*t/: /a queer thing, who. with a
species of animal economy, always rau
on three legs, giving one of the four
test, aud another a rest in its turn.
Very early on that particular mor.iing,
between scratching and barking ami
whining, she had managed io waken her
master before daybreak on tbe 21 of
January. But that did not content her;
when the door was opened she ran to
? he window, and the firmer, seting it
was nearly blocked up by snow, roused
tii> sons and set off to see after his sheep.
The dog at first wished t accompany
?*lie party, but immediately on leaving j
the porch she became buried in the j
snoWj and (jujckly floundered hack again, i
and alter being called "good dog" and
'wise Peg" by her young mistress, she
sat quietly down mi tho warm kitchen
health, tu t sleeping, however, but cock
ing first one ear, and then the other,
and quietly moving her stumpy toil
wh n the master's voice was heard in
th? distance. The farmer knew there |
would be a still heavier fall, for the
clouds were weighted with snow. ,
"Mary," he said to his daughter, when j
he returned, "see that there is a good j
lot of pea soup made ; the cottagers j
beyond the croft "will be glad of it, for '
their masters are frozen out of work !
I already."
Mary, like a good girl, said "Yes, j
father ;" but while aho ?hook the snow- I
flukes off his coot she- added. "Futber,
what can poor dour Aunt Liddy and
her one armed boy do this weather
"What is that to thee ?" he answered
sharply. Mary said no more; but she
raised her beautiful large eyes to jier
father's and he saw they were full of
tears.
Tho# trees all round the farm looked
lovely, coated with tbe glitteiiug snow,
and one of the farmer's sons cleared a
j plaoe for the wild birds to food on ; "hey
oloared it attain and again, for the snow
I continued to fall.
uO dear'" said Mary to her brother
Tom, "I wish father would forgive his
sister, aud let her and little doe come
here to us; he is so kind, in bis rough
way, to every oue. If she did marry
baddly, sh ; only did her duty as u wile
by refusiug to leave her husband ; and
now that he is dead ?"Marv Hainan!
Tun) rubbetl his curly red bead with
his very red hand. Tom was called
"practical."
"I don't see what little. Joe could do
here, with only one arm. Which ol
them is goneV be said at last.
"'Ihe left."
"Oti ! well, he could 'tend day hidiool
and iSiinday school; t hey might male a
scholar 6f 'him more than ever they
'could make of mc '
"Dear Tom," said Mary, "wo must
get ut father's heart somehow, and ail
Will be wed. 1 rammt bear to think of
their ?tiiiving, perhaps, in that horrid
London.' -
" 1 torrid Li'iidou 1" ropeated Tom. "1
like that I Oranges dow n here a penny
apiece, and there Frank Fowlef got
three for a penny?such beauties !"
On New Year's Day tho^ "Auot
Lidd" who had such a strong hold on
Mary Boyd's sympathy was literally
without lire, aud aI m ost without food ;
the miserable attic ?b?*? eh.; starved
and shivered let in live bittor wind, and
that day littla Joe had douo everything
but steal nf .beg to procure his mother
food. One gentleman who bad tossed
hint three pence fur holding his horse
aaid he was a hue little fellow, uud it' he
had two arms instead of oue, he would J
get him into the, shoeblack brigade. Joe
colored, but quick Jy recovering himself, !
answered : "Please, sir, R willing mind j
is equal to another arm." |
The gentleman smiled, shook his head,
and trotted off. Poor Joe put up his
hand to the remains of his arm it had
been amputated just above the elbow in
coosequeuco of an accident; "I only
wi?h 1 had to do all 1 could do with one
anu," he murmured. Ho wandered up
and dowu the streets; the air was grow
ing colder aud colder; he was very
hungry, but he passed tho temptations
of bakers' and cooks' shups, tightcuiug
his fingers more closely on the little
coin.
"I may get something for mother ; I
have another penny," murmured tho
boy. He entered a baker's shop and
asked for a penny loaf, lajiug down his
three-pence.?Such a fat, jolly baker,
rolling und l.iUghing behind a counter
piled with cukes uud dainties, looked in
tais pale, pinched lace, bluish from cold.
"Only a penny loaf New Year's night,
my little man ? Well, there it is."
Joe took it up ; us the buker took up
the coin he fixed his eyes on the boy,
and said, steruly, "You are young to
follow so bad a trade; this is bad
money."
'?Bad money," repeated Joe. "O, sir,
I had it from a kiud.gentleman for hold
ing his horse."
"Have you no other money ?"
. "Another penny."
"And why did you not pay for the
luaf with that
"Please, sir, I wanted change ; I
wanted to buy something more for my
mother," and bis large blue eyes filled
with tears.
. "I must ktn^4^M>?l^l^ -*h ^
a shame fur a gentleman to do such a
thing as to give bad money to a child
like that 1"
? Please, sir, I know he didio't intend
it; he spuke kiud to me; he didn't
know it was bad."
The jolly baker looked alteutively at
the little boy.
".See here, my lad, if you knew the
coin was bdd, the sin will be heavy on
?you; but I bpli.evv you did not ; you
wanted too'd for your mother, aud you
would uot let blame fall ou the absent
?two r'ght things. Gud help you
child !" he added, pityingly ; "you look
half starved ! Give me back thai loaf,
and here is a bigger one; and, missis '.
hand over one of those ouucesof tea and
half pounds of sugar wc made-tip for our
p tor customers ; and there's three penny
pieces tor you, little one ; only always
look to your silver before you pass it in
future!"
Joe could not speak for quito a min
uto ; ho walked to the shop door, aud
then turned back.
"If you please, you do uot think 1
knew that woney was bad !"
"No."
"Thank you, sir, I'll?never forget it
?never, sir !" and giving vout to one
large sob, he left the shop.
There was feasting in the widow's at
tic that night; to be sure, Joe was
obliged 10 make a candle screen with
his hat, or the poor thin little candle
would havn been blown out by the wind
that whistled through tho chattering
window ; but. (hero was a bluish cup ol
??'?? ?-:**t .:. li'Tui v? v>.. mm
milk, and a tiny little firo ; and there
was much thankfulness fur what would
have seemed to many vnry small mercy ;
and there wa* earuest prayer, and, hud
diud under thoir scanty olothing, tho
mother and child slept aoundiy and
?iwok'c in the morning to the conscious
ness that as tho snow, having found its
*ay through the panes of the attie whi
tlow, was heaped on tho floor, aud the
leighboring roofs and chimneys wore
tike mountains of "dazft?ug white,"
thore must have been r."heavy fall"
during the night.
?? We're snowed up, Joe'" said tho poor
widow ; "and tho eud will soon come ;
this cold will kill mo."
"Not a bit of it, mother," said (Uile
Joo, cheerily, while moulding a 6uow
ball out. of the snow uu the floor.
? I Khali go out as a suc-wboy, while
you remain .there, just a? 1 wrap you up,
aud see what lots of cash I shall earn
God has sent the snow to be our ifVie?d.;
the' fiitnc Snail make us uro,"
"?*y peer niurroed child V whispered
tbc widow to Ucrcclf, fci.it God bp gra.
ciously^ ^cPnluiTP^W^ neart'!"
Tho snow had rarWj as^heavily and
as tapidly in London*^? in the county.
When Joe got oat at tfe street door the
streets wer? uoaily^locked up, the
uii i nib uses did not jj10? tne CRbs
that appeared came^J&^t with all the
dignity of horses; bu$o? most remark
able thing of all was fi* interna silence
of the immonse city. Although Kensing
ton is generally ocWpdered a quiet,
dignified suburb, Mp it has, io our
opinion, a more thnuJf 'f.?bare of noise
and bustle; but ou'tW^d of January it
was as though we wdp"striojten with a
plague. The only ao*nd in our villas
was made by the roughf^ioes of specula
ting navvies, who kerJjBoutinually sug
gesting that we nioa$ have the snow
cleared. "Clear your snow ! clear your
snow !"?terrifying tfie sc.Vtnts by in
formation conveyed d^? lh? areas that
if we did not "clear <'ar snow, we'd be
had up aud punifihed."*""w"rHC than not
sweeping chimneys raejnJar it was."
Boys crept abou3|wllh*s1ioveb3 and
brooniB, but were "k^pt^n, awe by the
navvies, who monopol^ed the trade.
Littlo Joe was s&sWruU perplexed,
after bis deienmn>i| iou to go out as a
"snow-boy," the factj&at he had neither
shovel nor broom,
After a little confederation, heedless
of aunw drift or siflM'*8 bower, he took
bis way to tbe bake^'s> and entered the
shop hopeful.
"l>rnt those boys,X! eatd' the baker's
wife, "they neithcrt^rve uor take rest !
What do you want wiM ?"
"IMease, ma m, jilvj-had a broom and
a shovel I could earntsomcthiug for my
mother by clearing aw"}' snow."
"Well !" \
"I thought the ?$8 gentleman here,
who was so kiud to rj^e yesterday, might
lend them to m<\ Another and 1 had a
beautiful tor. lu4t wght?thank you,
ma'am; but we haw very little of aiiy
tbjnv !';.r to bf. .it?i^Pk~?~- .
The baker euterci'iho'shop b. fore his
wife had time to answer.
"A shovel aud a broom, is it ?" paid
tho jolly baker. "Aud because 1 was"
kind to you yesterday, you expect me to
be. kind to you to-da}-?"
. "Hope, sir, not quite expect."
"Oh! oh!", said tho baker, "chops
words, dees it? And if I did lend them,
how do 1 know yoirwmld return them?"
.%. . - -?
,VI would promise pou, sir; mother
knows I ucver told a lie in my life; you
might go to mother and ask her."
The baker lent the child what ho re
quested; tit five o'clock he had uot re
turned.
"I told you so," said the baker's wife.
"Yes, my dear; but as you did not
believe what you said yourself, how
could you expect -mo to believe you ?
The child has an honest face ; has, I am
sure, bceu well brought up, aud, more
over, is very like poor Liddy Boyd."
"She was a fool/' said tho baker's
wife.
"Becauso she married the man she
loved ? Did not gou do the same ?"
"I did uot marry a scamp," answered
the baker's wife; and though she was
dusting the counter with her apron, she
looked proudly at her husband at the
same time.
"Here comes our little snow-boy,''
said the baker, as doe, weary and foot
sore, but smiling. Wont past the window.
"Here's your shovJfcarid broom," said'
tho little fellow, ."und many thanks, sir;
and; please, i want a two-penny loaf;
and hero ore tho coppers?.1 made
( leu peri ce halfpenny ; aud at oue house
the lady, besides the money, gave me
this tract, and a great bun."
"Which yo? ate?" said thu baker's
wife.
I 4'0 no! be exclaimed; "I kept it for
mother."
I "What is your mother's name ?" in
quired the baker.
'Mrs Loyd sir "
".Mr?. Lloyd?" he repealed. "Liddy
Lloyd V
"1 dou't know, sir, as to the Liddy ;
I never heard her called anything but
Mrs. Lloyd. I call hor mother."
"Was her uame Boyd beforo sho mar
ried '!"
"It might be, sir ; she has a brother, I
i know?Uncle Boyed."
j "Docs he not take caro ofhor?' '*
j "No, sir ; he's very nn?d, sir, 1 know,
to mother; and (die prays so i^uch for
him; double to what she do?* for me.
Good oijiht, sir, an?. mistross!" He
paused, and then asked, "If it was to
suow again tonight, air, would you
please, loud me them things again ?"
"I'll lull you aj mi go alcuc,"
answered the baker. "I shall go with
you to aee your mother."
Joe wna.Very glad when the baker,in
closed hs solitary cold band in his large
wann che ; and when the child said he
must stop and inquire at the coal-thed
about coach, his friend only laughed and
astonished him by the rapidity and the
magnitude of his purchases?hotsuup
and meat from a cookshop, ten, sugar,
three large caudles, and a hundred of
coal, and all for Joe's mother ! At last
the child burst into tears.
"What is the matter now, little, snow
boy ?" inquired the baker.
"Nothing, sir ; only mother will have
all she wonts without my help I"
"2fo, my child; it is all through you
that she will receive this little help from
an eld friend. If you had not practiced
self-help, and loved yout mother, you
would nbfr have enlisted my sympathy
and had my help 1"
"Mother was afraid ol the snow,"
said little Joe, "but I told her it came
for good ."
"Did you ever hear this, little snow-1
boy," inquired the baker?" 'That all
thiugs work together for good to thoso
who love the Lord '!' "
."Yes, sir ; mother has said it, though
she's so dull at times. This is the house,
but I think yon are too broad aerosi the
shoulders to get up the top stairs." For
an instant the baker doubted and looked
inquiringly at the child ; could it be
that he had made up a story about his
mother. But Joo added, "You can get
up sideways, sir, as the landlady does
?vheu she comes for rent.
I think we all know b$ this time what
a kind heart the baker had, and can be
lieve that he felt very sad when he saw
the once pretty and bright village girl n
faded wornout woman !
"Joe should not have brought you
her*?. Mr. Glascotc," she said, drawing a
threadbare blanket around her. "I dn
i.ot want to iutrude uiv poverty on any
one." - '
"Mother/' interrupted Joe, "the gen
tlcmau's very kind, but wc have money
of our own, mother. I earned ter.pence
half-penny as a snow-boy ; did 1 not tell
you the snow came for good ?" i
"God sends poverty as well as riches,' I
observed her visitor, "aud if-wc knew '
all, one is often as great a blessing as I
the other; your life fell among hard i
lines, but that will make you the hap- '
pier, perhaps, by and by. At all events. !
among all your trials" (the baker laid
his hand on Joe's head as he spoke) "he
gave an angel to your bosom."
'That's true/- eaid the widow,; "but
see how greatly even my pour child has
been maimed and afflicted J"' ?*
"Losing my arm'" exclaimed little
Jue. "Why, mother, that's a blessiog !
?I'll have the one-armed boy lor my
doo,' said oue lady, and the gave me two
pence, and wheu the other lads said they
would do it quicker, she repeated, 'Slow
and sure.' A great big navy, who at
first pushed mc off the pavement, when
he saw I had but oue arm, patted mc en
the back till I shook again, and said 1
was a brave little man. and he would let
mc sweep where I liked ; he spoke as if
the street belonged to hi in. Mother,
my half arm gets mo smiles and kind
words and friends; I was right about
the snow, mother; I was right about
the snow !"
It is wonderful whut good may be
dono by a little thought, and a littlo
time well laid out.
1 ' .-Uuu i.jo way iu i'ir.
Boyd's farm, aud iu a very few days at,
"tcrwavd the farmer's widowed sister aud
hor little Joe were beneath the shelter
?f his roof. Mary's mother had been
' dead two years, and Mr. Boyd's sister ii?
considered even by Tom to be ti comfort
in tho house; und Joe?even now Joe
can do with his r.n?-? arm what Tom with j
his too, 1 am sorry to Bay, is never like
ly to accomplish?ho can write his uo
cle's letters, and past up his uncle's bills;
and what is better, he is bright and
cheerful and grateful. His um lc says
tho littlo "snow-bo}-' could find etraw
berries in a bed of nettles 1
Tho conjunctive mood?thought of
matrimony.
What gkows bigger the moro you
contract it ? Debt.
The best authorities on the borso
condomu the use of the check reiu as
cruel and injurious
A man in Middlebury, Yt, attempted
to commit suicide the other day by
touching off a can ol powder in his
Luad
?lter Ghsefey-Wfcatf
THK CONQUEST Of AMERICA? TH*i OON
SEQUENoEs) OF HORACE GUEBLEY'h
EJECTION?rROPUETIC TAL?.
Tho following is supposed to have
been written in 18?2 by Max Adcler
who was a witness to the terrible scenes
which occurred at the time of which
the story tells :
"You ask me to tell you, my children,
of tho eveuts which immediately pro
ceeded the destruction of the once great
Americau Union, and the capture of the
country by its present European rulers;
and to say something ?lso of the causes
which led to these deplorable results. 1
undertake the task with a heavy heart,
for whenever I revert to that terrible |
time I cannot help contrasting our proud j
condition up to that fatal year; with the I
humiliating position occupied now by
the American people. The story is aj
short one. In th? fall of 1872 Iloraoe
Grecley, the editor of a newspaper in I
New York, was elected President of the
United States. The people voted for
him because they believed him to be an
honest man. But he was vain and weakr
and he eutertained certain fanatical and
preposterour notions?about agricultu
ral matters, for instance he was deter
mined to force upon the people at all
hazards and despite *alLopposition. He
believed, among other things, that every
man ought Uf go to the West to earn
his bread, and long before be *7as chosen
President he used to advise -e arybody
to move to that region as a cere for all
j the disasters |wbich could be.all the
human family.
"As soon as he reached the executive
mansion, which we used to call the
White House, President Grecley organ*
ized an army of two hundred thousand
i men, and proceeded to force the Seaboard
States westjrard' at the point of th*
bayonet. The utmost violence Was u*edv
Those who resisted were shot down, and
their dead bodies were carted off to a
I national factory which trie President had
' established for making domestic fertilis?
era All tho large cities oP tbe East
I wore depopulated, and towns Were empty.
The"'army swept befo.e It millions of
men, women and children, untH'the va*t
plains west ,ot Kansas were readied,
when the pursuit ceased, mid the army
was drawn up iu a continuous liuo with
orders to shoot any who attempted te
visit the East. Uf course hundreds of
thousands of these poor creatures per
ished from starvation. This seemed to
frighten President Grecley, aud he sent
a message to Congress recommending
that 700,000 volumes of a cuinic book of
his, entitled 'What I Know About
Farming,' should be voted for the relief
of the starving sufferers. This was done,
aud farming implements and seeds were
supplied ; and then the millions of
wretched outcasts made ou effort to till
the ground. Of the results of this I
will speak further on.
"Iu the meantime the President was
doing infinite harm to tho country in
another way. His hand-writing was so
fearfully and wonderfully bad that no
living man could read it. Aud so, when
he sent his first annual menage to Con
gress?the document was devoted whol*
ly to tho tariff and to agriculiuro?a
sentence appeared which subsequently
was ascertained to b? ,J :-'"v^?,ilou
I of rutabagas uud beans is the only hope
of tho American natiou, I am surje.'
The printers not being ablo to inter
pret this, put it in the following form,
in which it went forth to the world :
j 'The Czar of Russia could jjnot keep
i cleau if he washed himself in the whole
I Atlantic Ocean once a day.' TMs
perversion of the message was immedia
tely telegraphed to Ku?sia by the Russ
ian Miuister, aud tho Czar was so in
diguaot that ho instantly declared war.
' Just at this time President, Grecley
undertjok to write some letters to
I Prince Bismarck upon the subject of
; potato rot, and after giving his singular
views at great*length, he couoluded with
the statemeut that if the Emperor WU?
j liam said that sub-soil ploughing was
I not good io light soil, or that guano
I was bette.- than boueduM, be was 'a liar,
ja villian and a slave.' Of course tho
Emperor alt-o immediately deolared war,
and became an ally of Russia and of
England, against which latter country
Mr. Greeley bed actually begun hostili
ties^ already, because She Queen in her
speech from the throne, had declared
tbe Tribune's advocacy cf j tar:*" ch pi~
_j_ , aasaaaaaiayaaassay
iron incendiary,; sad calculated 10 ?*
turb; the peace of nattou*,|
-Unhappily, ta? Was
measure of oar daastcrs. Tho smaaakmV
had scot to the Empeeot of
enpy of his book, ?Abo?tWbatlKooV
Ac,' with hi* autograph upon a flf4eaf.
The Emperor mistook the signature for
a caricature of toe Austrian eagtej afta
be readily joined in war against ???
United Sutes; whim Prance Waa***
roked to theanmo act hy tho'fo*? that
wben the French Minister came to call
on Mr. Greeley to present his credentials,
the Preiidaot, who was writJo? aa
torial at the tiseo, not comprehending
the Frenoh language mistook the
bassador for a beggar, aoa without looky
iqg. up banded him aqss*t^?s*??
order for a clean ahirt and a grabbing
hoc, and said to hiss, '??W<?^Pil|
man?go West? ' * ^
"So all these nations joined in making
war upon the United Stoffe l'hay
swooped down trpoo our coast and landed
*tti?h<mt' oppoiitsw, ^ J^P* oa****
portions or oar .ta^Npjn^Duuiry woto
absolutely desertod. ?he President Wae
afraid to call away the army from Kan
sas at first, for fear lbs milfapWf people?
would come East In spite of him. But
at last he did summons the army to hie
aid, and it moved to meet the enemy.
It was too late I Before the troop
reached Cincinnati the foreigners had
seized Washington, and all the cona?ry
east of the Ohio, aud bad hung tho
Prcsideut (whose loss was not regretted,)
the Cabinet aud every tnomber of Con*
greas. Tho army disbanded ia alarm
and the invaders moved ? to the Far
West; where they foandtao ?BgoilltoO
dying of starvation became shay ha*
followed the advice of Greeley,? hook to
'Try for your first crop to raise limes,
and don't plant mote tha* a bushel of
quick lime in a hull' Of course these
wretched people mere at the am*3f of
the enemy who?to his credit be it said
?treafed them kindly, red thaav aa?
brought them back to their home*. Yoa
know what followed ; hbW PriaOe Itei
crick William, of Prussia ascended the
American throne and tkfrOttttdlltfaW
tions that ensued- It was a feaf FW
blow to Republicanism, a blow ftwm
which it will novcr recover. It made
us, who Were freemen, a caticra of slaves.
It was all th<* result of our blind coo
fideuce in a misguided old mas who
thought himself a philosopher. Msy
Heaven preserve you, my ohildren, from
tho remorso I fee! when I tuiatarOUt
thas I voted fur that bucolic editor."?
Cincinnati itimet.
Young alligators, for bets, are hawk
ed in the New. Orleans streets.
An organ grinder' of flfeftlKfetlrfaai,
has a bank account of $10,000.
The new leap year style of popping
the question?'Don't yoq^JjfaW to
wash dishes tor yoW^^PRaJrP'
A papor, iu puffing a certain map,
says it is the "best ever-made for a dirty/
man'e face. We have tried it, end
therefore ought to know."
A policeman asked a drunken ftsthiop
whom he could scarcely see iu tho dim
light, ol a cell, "Are you colored?"'
"Colored, no ; dis yer chile bora so.**
Researches in Chinese archives chow
that the architect who designed and the
engineer who built the groat wall wore
women.
Chii>??"? !fl ??*'? * s?? - --
pav- i-" .,& ? -wv oamoiisa*
meut of some Holy Tree coffee rooms
for the laboring classes; and with Spat
prospects of success.
A salute was fired Jon the fhaloi
Irland shore in honor of tho Democrat
to nomination. A kiod %es?tsd Irish
woman, hearing the guns said: ?There
they go again! trying to bring op another
dead body.
"Ceorge," asked the teaoher of a
Sunday school class, to whom all other
shall you wish first to so* wheo yow gat'
j to heaven. With a fao* brightening tip
I with anticpatioc tbe little shouted,
j ,'Gerliab."
The last joke on the autber of ??
What I Know about Farming, is a re
cipe, whioh is attributed to him, for the
cultivation of fish balls. It ia as
follows: 'Never pat over five potatoes
in a bill with u codfish if yea woald in.
sure a crop."
The postmaster Pepsrttatet has de
cided that thO new postal cards shall ha
three inches Wtfts ?afr Iva ?cd oa&
forth ioehos tog. the stamp and Hae? to
be engraved on them in a variety of col
ors. All ot the colors now io iu?o 00
pclj^c 'iiatpp will be u^d