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John,'' for a shade passed over the kind ly face. "I don't worry ; but I can't see what makes y<>u con pluin so often oi being tired I am sine the housework ain't so much Other women do it." There was just n little fretfuluess in John's tone, though he did not mcau to be uukind. "I know they do Mrs. Harper has four children, -;nd takes caro of them in addition to housework, besides doing piles of sewing Perhaps John, it is because 1 have not bad experience in country work, and don't manege well I will learn better alter awhile. Now tell me what you did in town." "1 did quite well. Sold the whole crop of wheat at a good price, aud put another instultuent in the bank for the Staulcy farm." . "Your heart is set on that farm, John." "Indeed it is Let me once own that clear of debt, and I shall be a happy man. It is the best laud in the coun try ,-and tho house is twice as largo as this 1" Lina thought of larger floors to scrub more rooms to clean, and additional work of all kinds, and swallowed a little ?igh that nearly escaped her. "John," she Faid, rather timidly "don't you think, if you spent part *f the money on th s house, we might be very happy here "Spend money ou this house !" cried tho attou.irdicd John. "Why, what ou earth ails this house?" "I tntan in things for it. N?W the parlor looks stiff, and is always shut up I was thinking if we had a pretty carpet und some curtains id' white muslin or lace, and a set of nice furniture, and? aud a piauo. 0 Joku, if I could have u piano "' John Reynolds looked at bis wife as if she had proposed to him to buy up the crown jewels of Russia. "A piuno! Do you know what a piaus iaists?" "No. Autit Louise had one, you know, ever since I can remember. But I thipk if we had a pretty parlor to rest in the evening, I could play for you, and fcing. Yuu never heard me play or sing, John." "1 have beard you sing, but not late ly," said John, rather gloomily. "Uh '. that was just humming roun 1 the house j I mean real singing. 1 have lots of musio in my trunk." But you are only a farmer's wife now, Lina. I thought you understood when wo were murried that you were uot to have city finery and pleasures." "So 1 did, John. I doN't want fine ry. I dou't want any pleasure but your love, John. Dou't scowl up your face so. 1 urn silly to think of tbeso things at all. There, kiss me and forget it. 1 am nicely rested uuw, and I'll get your tea in ten minutes." ?fonn pur berdown with a very tender kiss, and fell into a reverie. Lit.a Rivers had been a district school teauhcr in Soottsfield just four months, when John Ifeyuolds offered her bis hand aud heart. She was an orphan lrom infancy, but her father's sister?bad adopted and educated her in a life of luxury, and died without altering a will made years before, leaving her entire fortune loa charity sspluiu. Liua, left alone, thankfully accepted the position ol country school teacher procured for her by some friends, and was thinking me a ii.nl burden when John came to brighten it. She gave her winde gentle little heart into his kecpitrg ivt. once, ap preciating at their lull value bis honest, true heart, bis frank nature, his sterling good qualities, aud looking with the tuost profound admiration up hi his tall, strong frame aud handsome face. It was a perfect lovo-umlch, for John fairly worshipped tho dainty, voliuod little beauty Ivo had married ; and hav ing married her, ho took bei to his home, and iu all ignorance preceded to kill her. There was no blaroo to be laid upon him. Living in the old farm house, where he had pyeot bis entire life, the one ambition of his heart was to oWn land, stock, barns, and a model farm. He bad seen his mother cook, churo, feed poultry and drudge all her life,'and the women he knew did the same, and if Lina made odd mistakes she put a willing heart into her work, and soon conquered its difficulties. Surely, he thought, it was au easier life to be mis tiess of his home, with the Stanley furtn in prospect, than to toll over stupid children in a district school. He had ueY.c?^cen velvet carpets and lace cur tains, grand pianos, dainty silks, and other surrouudiugs thot had boeu Lina's from baby-hood. Ho had never heard the wonderful music the little white hands, all rough and scarred now, could draw, from the ivory keys of au organ or piano, or the clear, pure voice in song. It was an unknown world to John, where bis wife's memory lingered as she. scoured tins, strained milk aud cooked lingo dishes for the farm hands, lie would have thought it wicked waste, if not positive /fokWJiity, to draw from the hank bis hardt^hed savings to in vest them in beautifying his plain, com fortable home. And Lina lashed her consciousness sharply, telling herself she was ungrate ful, repining and wicked. Was uot h^r John tender, true and loving ? Where among her city frieuds was there a heart like his ? Had she not knowu he was only a farmer ? And so the dear loving little Woman toiled and slaved, undertook tasks far beyond her strength, worked early and late, until just one year after his wed ding day John Reynolds, coming home to bis tea, found lying upon tho kitchen "oor a little souseless figure, with a face like death, and hands that sent a chill to his very heart. The doctor, hi stiiy summoned, looked grave and advised perfect quiet and rest. A girl was hired, and John teder ly nursed the invalid, but though she grew better the grow pale and weak. "Take her away awhile," said the doctor; "try change of n r. She is overworked." "Bui" said honest, puzzled John, she. does nothing but the housework for us two. She has no child, and our sewing is not much. ' Tho doctor looked into his troubled face. "You aro a good man, John Reynolds, and a strong one," he said. Will you let me tell you a fSw plain truths ?" "Yes. About Lina ?" "About Lina. You remember, do yoit not, the tiny, antelope you admired so much in the menagerie we had here last summer ?" "Certainly," said John, looking more puzzled then ever. ' Suppose you had bought that little creature and yoked it with one of your oxen to a cart to do tho ?nute work V "I'd been a fool," said John ; "that little thing couldn't work. It was just made pretty to look at and to play." "That's it, John. Now I don't think God ever made any woman to look pretty ami play, but lie made some Ihr the rough work of this world, und some for the dainty places, some to draw men's souls to heaven by gentle loveli ness. Your wife is one of the latter. If you were a poor man I would have held mv tonciin hut von ?m ?? r?f*h - Give your wile a servant; let her have books, music, pretty things around her. Lot her rest from toil, and you may keep her oy you side. Put her baek in bet old place, and you may order her tomb stone, for she will soon need it. Dou't put your antelope beside your oxen, John/' "I will not ! Thank you ! I under stand. Poor, loving, patient heart." "That's right ! 'l ake her now for a little pleasure trip, and got back her roses." Lina clapped her hands when John asked her if she would like to spond n week in New York, and really seemed to draw iu new life from the very idea. It was delicious to see John's wide open eyes as be entered the parlor of tho great city hotel, and was shown into the bed-room, whose beauties wero quite as bewildering. "The best room, bo had told the laud I dy, and l?iua> could not repress a cry of delight at the vista of a cosy sitting room with a piauo sti udiiig invitingly open. "Oh, John !" sho said, won't you go in thcro and shut tho door for five minutes, plcaso V John obey#d, of course. John, she thought gratefully, refud?i her nothing now. "How hicky I bto?gHt soraq of my old dresses !" Lina thought, "t have not worn them since I was a school marm. Fancy Mrs. Reynolds scrubbing the floor in this dress V * John rubbed his eyes and pinched himsolf as a little figure trailed into tho sitting-room, made him a sweeping courtesy, and went to the piano. Was that the little woman who had worn print nnd bun-"bonots so long ? The fair hair was fashionably dressed, and bands of blue velvet looped the goldcp curls. A dress of braa silk, with softest lace trimmings and ornaments of pearls, had certainly made a lady of Lina, The piano was yielding its most bewitching tones to the skilled little fingers, and John's bewilderment was complete, ?vhen a voico of exquisite sweetness, though not powerful, began to sing. Only ono aong, f?ll of trills and quavers, aud thch Liua rushed from the piano into John's arms. "John, my darling,'* she said, "hold mo fast. Don't let me slip from you!'' "O Lina," h groaned. "I was not fit to marry such a dainty bird ! But I loved you, dear little one." "Aud I love you. John, rough old John I Let me sing again. I am very happy to day, my dear husband." Rut no wonderful trill filled the room now. In a clear, pure .voice, full of expressions, Lina saug. "I kuuw that my Redeemer liveth." Every word fell like hot Hoars on poor John's heart, until as the last chord trembled upon tbe air, Lina turned to him, stretching out her anus: "Take me in your arms, John !" lie took her tenderly to tho room she had quitted so gaily, and replaced her finery by a white ' rapper, whose lace trimmings looked like fair-work to his unaccustomed eye. "Are you ^ti rod, lovo/!'" he asked, with a spasm of terror at bis heart, as be looked at the white wasted face. "Yes, tired, but happy, John ?" and j with a little siijb of entire content, Lint nettled down ugaiust the warm heart, whose every throb she knew was all her ? own. Mrs. Reynolds was to erpcrioncc her shale of astonishment during her holi day, and it commenced by the apparition of John tbe next day iu a new suit of handsome clothes, that well became his manly figure. There was no foppery, but he looked a gentleman, though he made more than one grimace before he got, as he isaid, "well shaken iuto his store clothes." '?J'ut .lohn." she cried,"the Stanley farm ?" "la sold, dear. You were right ; wo will make our borne ho lovely, the Stan ley farm will ue\er co.-?t ate a sigh. 1 have hired two new bauds, so as to have a little more leisure." Can I describe that week- ? What was new to Johu was old familiar ground to Lina. Central 1'ark was not Soon exhausted, and the little guide grew stronger aud rosier every day, in John's thoughtful ca.e, that provided plenty of pleasant excitement, but guarded against fatigue. It was early in tlio afternoon of a sunny day, when a train drow up at the Sco'tt-fiild station, and John banded his nvudctiijg wife into at nc?- little one lu.rsc carriage waiting for them. "A new po: chase, dear," he explained. Wo are to have a drive every after* uoon. Dr. Grey son proscribed it." The house stands where it had always stood, but Fomebow it has gradually been undergoing transformation us if fair hands were upon it. Tbe dull little sitting-room has been papered, eavpeted, curtained, transformed into a cosy dining-room. The still par lor is a bower of beauty, with a Quo piano, the daintiest of furniture, soft muslin curtains, aud a carpet covered with bouquets of esquiViio flowers; tho bed rooms are onrpotod brightly, ami rejoico iu cottage sets, and \a the kitch en the must good uuturod of stout Gor man girls, awaited Lina's astonished gaze OU hor return from the city, and fairly shed tears when sho a(ldrossod her in her own language Tbe neighbors sturod an I wondered. Comments upou J (din's folly and im providence fell from many lips, and (>ld men, shaking their heads, prophesied ruiu for tho Reynolds farm. Rut John was as muoh astonished as any of them, when, after a few years, he fou*d the farm yielding him a larger ioooine than ever boioro. "I do believo, Lina," ho said one day to.a matronly little woman, who was dressing a crowing baby, "that your flower garden last year wne worth a thousand dollars to old." "John!" "You 8<ee it was to get you tho infor mation aboiit the flowers that wo first begaa to take agricultural papers; thoro I found so many useful hints, that I begnn to think that I knew nothing about farming. One book after another crept into the house, and tho time I thought would be wasted, taken from farm work was spent in reading. Now, look at the labor-saving machines I have bought. My orchard is going to bo the best in the country, too.'' ^'And my podltry yard, John ! It was the papers and magazines that first gav e me the idea of a model poultry yard. What fuu we had getting it started." "Yes, indeed. That New York trip was the best investment I ever made, Lina. I saw so many things there that I recognired as old friends when I met them agaiu in print, -the threshing machine, the rotary harrow, tho im proved plows." "Ip bcat9 me, John," said his uncle one bright day, "where you find so much money for tomfoolery, newfangled and nousense and fallals for Lina, and yet give so much in charity. I thought you wero crazy to buy that Stauley larni." "I was once, but I have something better now than the Stanley farm. I have, learned how to manage my ante lope." "What?" But to this day John has never ex plained that riddle to bis puzzled re lations. Telt/ Your Mother.?I wonder how. many girls tcUtheir mother every thiugT? Nyt tbjpS9/**youug ladies" who, going to and from school, smile, bow aud exchange notes nod cartes de visite with young^mcn who make fun of you aud your pictures, speaking in a way that would make your cheeks burn with shame, if you heard it. All this, most incredulous and romantic young ladies, they will do: although they gaze at your fresh young faces admiringly aud send or give you charming verses or boquet. No matter "what other girls may do," don't youdo it. ScllCol?girls flirtatious may end disastrously, as many a foolish and wretched young girl could tell you. Your yearning for somo ouc to love is a great need of woman's heart. But there is a time for everything. D m't let the bloom ami freshness of your heart be brushed off in silly flirtation. Heilderx yourself truoly intelligent. Aud, above all, toll your mother everything. "Fun" in your dictionary would be indiscre tion in hers. It would do no harm to look and see. Never be ashamed to tell her, who should be your beat frieud and confide^, all you think and feel. It is very strange that so many young girls will tell every parson before "moth er" that which is most important she should know. Iiis very sad that indiffer ent berson* should know more about her fair young daughter than she her self.? Fanny Fern . A (^U a It KU PrJmTRR's I'novPT't.c ?Neversoddbstthou an article lor publi cation without giving the editor thy name, for thy uame oftentimes socurcs publication to worthless articles. Thou shouldst not rap at the door of a printing office, for he that answeroth the rap swoareth in bis sleeves and loscth time. Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques tions, or knock down type, or the boys will love thee as they do shade troe?? when thou loavoth. Prefer thino own town paper to any other, and subscribe for it immediately. Pay for it in advance, and it shall be well with thee and thine . A Poser.?"Ma, if I should die and go to heaven, should I wear my m >ire antique dress ?" "No, my love ; wc can scarcely sup pose that we shall wear live attire of this world in the nest." "Then, tna, bow will^llx angels kuow I belonged to the best society ??" A Quaker, who had been troubled with rats, iulor.n-i a friend that ho greased a thirty-foot board, filled it full of fish-hooks, sot It Up at an angle of forty-five degrees, aud put an old cheese at the top. The rats went up, rd id back and he caught thirty of th?m the first ni^ht. How to Put on a Cdrset? At this juncture tho coroner desired to show to the jury the course taken by tho ball, add for this purpose produced the corset worn by Mrs. B?ckhaft at the time of the tragedy. "You flee," said he?and hero ho drew tho corset around his waist, with tho laces in front?"the ball must have gone in hcra from be hind. No that can't be, either, for the doctor says the ball went iu front. Con found it. I've got it on wrong. *Ah I this way." Hero tho coroner put the corset on up side down. "Now you see," pointing to the hole in the garment, which rested directly over the hip, ''the ball must have gone in hero. No, that can't be, either, for?" Here Mr. Mather, tho handsomest man on the jury, broko in : "Dr. Still man," 9aid he, "you've got that corset on wroug." Here Dr< Stillman blushed liko a puppy. "Well," said he, "I've been married twice, and I ought to know how to rig a corset." "Yes," said Mr. Mather, "but you don't. You had it right in the first place. The strings go in front, and tho ladies clasp them together iu tbe back< Dou't you know? I think I ought to; 1 havo beeu mar ried. If you doubt it, look herCj ^point ing to the fullness iu the top.) How do you suppose that's goirjg to be filled up unless you put it on; as I suggest V' "That," said Dr. Stillmen, "why that goes over tho hips." "No, it don't," said Mr. Mather, "that fullness goes eomowhore else?this" way," aud bore Mr. Mather indicated where he thought the fullness ought to go At this a ?ale-faced yo?ng man With a voice like a robbin, and a note book under his arm, said he thought ladies always clasped their corset* on the side. The pale-faced young man said this very innocently, as if ho wished to rouvey tbe iuipreswiou that he knew noVting whatever of tho iriatter. The jury laughed the pale faced young man to scorn, and ouo of them intimated that be thought the young man was not half so green about womans' dress as he tried to appear. Tbe young man was a re porter, nnd it is therefore probable that his knowledge was fully as limited as was apparent from his suggestion, the juryman to the contrary notwithstand ing. Here anotVr juryman discovcredthat Dr. Stillman bad the corset on bottom side up. "Doctor," said ho, "put it on the other way." Then the doctor put it on in fctme order, with the lace ?in front. This brought the bullet boles directly over the tails of his coat. "J dou't think,'' said Mr. Mather, "that tbe bullet went in there, Dootor." "No, I don't think it did," was the reply. Confound it, it's mighty lunny ?six married men in this room, and not one that knows how to put ou a woman's corset. - ?? ?????-. inn ? "I Taki.s it All dk Same.?An honest, thrifty wcll-to-da German in a Connecticut city1, applied to a wealthy landlord, who rents a groat many houses. "The house is to let, certainly," said the owner, "and upon inquiry, I find you to be responsible and a suitablo man for n tenant; you shall have it/' \ era goot, Mr. tt?-?, you matccs just as many questions as you min i. 1 I takes the hoiiso when you gets ready." Two days afterwards, the house own er called upon tho Gorman. "Well," he said, "I've inquired protty generally concerning your character aud means, and as everybody tpcuks of you as an honest, respectable man, of abundant property, you? can have the house." "Yell, den," said Hans, " I takes do house. And I wants to tell you I've asked ail about you among de peoples, and dey say that you is do imianest land lord iu de town ; but 1 takes- de house all do iwuie." A little boy who loved to wast his evenings- in store* aud listen to the im proving conversation of the elders while helping himself to sugar, was told the other night that bereifter he must slay ut home. '-I wish I was a man," he said. "And what would you do it you wore a man?" ssked his mother. "I would get married, Hud I'd go to the stores every evening." A very obedieut boy. A wise man gives this advice, wliLh is always timely; Pay. your little out standing earthly bills, and don't romance about falling du?j of Heaven. Ask tu* Old Woman.?A gentle man travelling o?t Wo? relate! tttf fbl lowing incident i Riding horseback 'just at night through the Michigan; I Came "moHTre OTauWof * clearing, in the middle of which stood a log house, its owner sitting in the door be'fore^niiaj'f Se^fer^b^u^^fei^tt?^nSi ensued: "Good evening, sir," said1 t. "Qdod ev?nlng? . _k a "Can I get a glass of iriilk from yoii to drink V* ' Well, I don't know. Ask the old* woman." ? am 'O i>tl1 ' .M>^; - By this ^ieae hjfl ,ttjii?ij*s standing by his side. ,:Oh. vos." saud ahe, "of course ysa can." ' 'While* drinking Ht sj|ft& dfldWr "Think wc arc r goiag to have * storm V* "Well I really cl^at't k now. Ask thai old woman?ehe knows." "I guess we srrsfffjnrmairj^UaWa//^ said tho wife. tfjfc Again I asked. "How much laud have yon* got here?" "Well, 1 d?n't know/ Alk faoU woman?she can tell." "About 19 acres," said she, >gaift answering. ? Just then a troop of children came running and shouting around the corner of the shanty. "All those jour children ?" said I. * "Don't known. Ask the old woaua -sh?w/dcsV' ?ww?w I didn't wait to hear tho reply, but drew rain aud left immediately. i Good Feelinos.?We know a blvJrffc old fellow who sometimes hits the nail on the head more aptly than philoso phers. Ho once hoard a loan for "good feelings." Everybody and said the min was' possesssd of e cellcnt feelings. "What has ho done?" asked the tfft geniiis. U V: lAl "He is is possessed of tho moat bo novelent feelings," was the reply. "What has he d?oiJ?" oried fellow, again, 1 Jl1 *fl* By this time tho cohnp'any thought necessary to show some of his favorite doings. They began to cast about in their mind ; but the old man still shout ed, "What has he done ?" They owned they could trot n a trio anything in parttcuV lar. i ' Yes," answered* the cynfc, "yocf say that he is a man that has good feelings. Now, gentlemen, let mc tell you that there are people in this world who git a good name simply on rtecooint of their focliiigs, You can't tell n*o, one gono rous action they ever performed in their lives; but tliey can look and talk' most benevolently. I know a man tit this town that you would all call a surly, rough and unaniiuble man, and yet he! has done' more acts of kindness m this I county than all of you pit together. You may judge people's actions by their feelings, but I judgo people's feolings by* their actions." Two Causfs and* Onb ErPKC*.?*' When Doctor Dodgo, an cccontricf phy evils of tea and coffee, ho happfctred to' meet at tho breakfast tablo a witty son* of Erin of the better class-. Conversa tion turned upon the Doctor's favorite* subject, and he addressed our friend as> follows: Well," said the doctor, "if I convince you that they aro injurious to your hoalth will you- abstain from their use?" "Sure I will, sir," "How often do you use tea and cof?* fee?'* "Moring and night, sir," "Well," said the doctor, "doyou ever experience a slight dizziness of the brain* on going to bed?" "I do?indeed I do," replied the sow of Erin. t . ( ? ? "And a sharp pain through the tem ples in the moroiog?" "Very often-1 do, sir." "Well," said ehe doctor, with en air of confidence and assurance, "*htit is th* tea ami coffee." ?<* "It was, indeed? Faifh, afcnl ? always thought it was the whiskey I drank.', 'J be company roared1 With laughter,, and the Doctor quietly retired. A Dunb man recently went to law with a deaf man; the latter, sf eofo? was the d6raadaa-&.