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The fragrant dew to hold. ' I' i / '? V ft t. Without tho blue birds Whistlad High lip' In the! old roof-trees, And to and fro at the window The red ro.*d rtftiked her bees ; And tlie wee pink fists of th?; hauy ' Were never a moment stD ! Snutchiug at shine and bliadow That danced on the lattico still I His eyes wer? wide a* hluo-hells, His mouth like a Hower unblown ; Tr o little bare feet, like funny white mi-:e Peeped out from his snowy gown I An I *e thought, with a thrill of rapture. That yet had a tottch of pain. When June rolls aroint 1 with her roses, We'll me isuro the boy again. Ah, me! In darkened chamber With the BUnetliae shut away, Through tears that fell like u bitter rain, Wo measured the hoy to-day ; And the little bare f^et, that were dimpled And swwet as a budding rose, Lay side by side together, In the hush ef a long repose! Up fro-n the dainty pillow, W lite as tho risen dkwn, The fair Utile face lay smiling, With the light of heaven thereon ; An 1 the dear iiltle hands, like ross-lcavus, Dr jl'ped from a rose, lay still, ! ever to snatch at the sunshine, 'J'li it crept to the shrouded still! Wo measured the sleeping baby, With ribbons as white as snow, Kor the shining rosewood casket That wait oil him below: Ami out of tho darkened ebamber We went with a childless moan ? Te the height nf tho sinless angels tint- little one ha 1 grown ! WINNING A LOVER. 'i ???> ; i / I*.* t -nil i n ' jj 'Five dt liars! Oh, Bridget, I wish I know of any way by which 1 cculd Earn live dollars.' Our iconc was no silk-lined boudoir, no pictm^pque wooded* raviac fringed with Terns Rnd, musical with th? ripple of moss brown wattirs, but only alt un derground ei'y kitchen, with a gloomy ntuge of warn tubs on otic side, aud a scantily furnished dresser on tho other. And Minnie Akerly, a beautiful young girl of poveuteen, eat perched on the aforesaid tubs, swinging her pretty little feet to aud fro, while a stout Irishwo man, with a basket on her arm, stood opposite. 'You, Mi?i,r dear!' echoed Bridget Mai uy. -Din sure that's difl'ercat thing altogether ' 'We need money so hsdly,' said Mio uio soberly. 'And now that papa is ill, and'has lout bis Oflvco, we .have so little. Mama mendfcd point lace for Madame t.-heriu last week, and got a little. Aud Sura advertised for a place as nuraery goTernrss, but no one answered the advertisement; t could teach, I think, but every plncu is filled) nud Mr. R?s sel says there arc ten applicants at least to every vacancy.' 'Tho pity of it I' sighed sympathizing Bridget, 'when the likes of uie gets more Work than she eau do. For there's j it jintlcuian aent a dozen, shirts hist nig1 ' ' to be dono up, and its meself will have to .send 'cm back.1 'How much do you have a piece ?' .Minnie eagerly asked. " V<y?niing, Mis?.' ? 'That Woifld bo two Ivo ahillings?a dollar and ;?. half,- said .Minute rnodita tivcly. ?Bridget, would you let mo do them ?' 'You, Miss M in nie !' 'Do,' coaxed' the girl. 'I know T could 1 did papa's last week, and he never knew that they were cot iroued by a regular laundress. 1 should so 1 ko to earn a little money all of my own. I could buy mama som? wine, and 8ira a new wiutor dress, aud?-Oh,' with a long sigh, 'I could do so many nice things if ouly 1 had a little mon ey.' 'Well, I declare,' said honest Bridget, rubbing her nose. 'Aud you Judge Akcrly's daughter !' 'Won't you let mc Bridget ?' Minnie had jumped off the wash tuba and come olose to tho good naturod Irishwoman, with sparkling eyes and check? deep dyed with the earnest noes of her pleading. 'Please, I could corae to v"ur house this afternoon, and ptpa I ? ?' 1 11-.111-1.....-> would think I was walking in the 1'ark.' 'Pute you'd be kindly welcome, Mi??,' ac eticcl Uiidget. 'Only-?' And uwuj rab Miunie in great glee, to make all nocesstiry preparations for the altdruoou work. ?t won't tell Sara,' she thought, 'nor mama, bcouuse they'd be sure to cry and make a fuss orer it. I'll just steal quiet ly away alter I have made tho omelette for pupa's lunch. Only, if Mr. Russoll should call?' aud tho long face fell lor a second?'but perhaps ho won't. Any way this is one of the opp irt-uniliea to help myself that I have sighed fi f s ? long, aud it will bo throwing luck away to neglect it.' And so Minnie Akerly stole away at two o'clock, much to thtj displeasure of her elder sister Sara. 'I think she might have stayed to road to papa.' said she, 'instead of leav ing it always to me.' 'My dear.' said conciliatory Mrs. Akerly; you must rcmoinbsr that site in very youn^, aud uccds more relaxation thau wo do.' 'Relaxation ?' If they could have seen Minnie at that moment, with flush ed checks aud slucves lulled up to tho fair round sl.ouldcra, working as if her life depended upon it, they might have taken a different view of matters and things in general. And the 'next day ahc went again to iron the bhirts that bbc hud washed 30 daintily. 'Sbuie, Mies, you're making them look like whim satin,' cried tho admititig Bridget. 'And it's yerself would m.tke a dacent liviu' imiroly, as a lauudresx fo you would ! Only its make my heart uehc to see the little white hands of you nil blistered and burned with tho irons, p-rbilcd with the suds.' 'My hand.*,? said Minnie contemptu ously. 'A little glycerine aud a week of kid gloving und they'll be all right again.' 'M'.rriod!' said Euginc Russell medi tatively. 'Aud why shouldn't I get married, iTaioni'J la ffut a mau all lifo happier for uniting bis fortune with some truly congenial pool V Young ladies now.;? rl iys ate all so rat avJ trivial.' enid Mr. Kussella mature, strong-minded tisier, who was Hewing d'digently away ou red flannel ahirts for the pom*. 'Most young la lies I grant you,' said Eugcuc. 'Rut not all, Helena.'' 'But you are tho rcry one to bo im posed upon aud blinded.' Said Miss Hel ena Russell, who never yet loft off re garding her younger brother as a rerj small buy, who rci-uired admonishing and looking after, in everj rospect. 'Mow you are judging udfaifly,'Hel ena. You have Uevor scjn Minnie Akerly.? 'I've heard of her though,' Hai l bis hinter. 'She waltzes, and Mugs, au.l plays croquet.' 'Is any one of these three a cupit 1 ] crime, lleleua?' laughingly dj.minded Bugeno. 'Nonsense?you krlow that is not what I mean. But it would ba in ire to the j' lint if shtj could aew on buttons and irou shirts.' 'Perhaps she can,' suggested Eugene (tussoU 'It is likely V contomptuouslj retorted Miss Helena. 'Suppose we declare a truce hpoo the subject,' slid her brother. 'It's quite plain that wc never can agree upon it; aud in tho meantime, what do you say in going around with inc to toe Mrs. Mnlouey the laundress?' ?Mrs. Molouey ? Oh, the laundress. Yes, I suppose we ought to see her about 4the summer's washing. Rut is it necessary for me to go myself! 'It would be better, I suppose.' 'And rather grudgiugly Miss Russoll went to put on her walking habiliments 'And aud, disagreeable part of tho city to come to,' she said, elevating at the same time her skirts aud her patrician nose ns they wettded their way to tho regions of tenement houses, grocories and small thread and needle stores that stretched westward, not far from the palatial residence of Fifth Avelino itself. 'Yot people lire here, ftelsua.' 'Yes, aud I suppose they like it.? Why, don't they go Wast? I'd *end 'em there, if I Was the government, whether they would or not.' 'Thon it is fortunate that you are not the government,' dryly responded tho brother. 'This is the number, I believe. Halloo! my littlo man'?to a dirty faooJ Mrs. Bridget Maloney ?re here7' Master Malonoy pricked up Ina ears. 'It's my mother,' he said ; 'an' its in the basement you'll find her.' Mr. Kussel, with hie sister standing austeroly by, tapped once At the door, twice three times, before Mrs. Malonoy's fine contralio voice, shouted out : 'Conio in, whoever "lyou may be, an' do not stand thero knock in' the door down. Oeh, an* beg your pardon. I didn't know it was tho quality.' Hut Kugcno Kussel stood still in tho doorway, his eyes gfoed to the scene that met their gaze?Minnie Akerly, in n buff calico dress nnd white apron, iron iug diligently nwny, wit|t a pile ofsnowy shirts ~on her left hand, and a basket of sprinkled linen on tho tight. And Min nie herself colored luto tho 'red, red roBe,' for a minute. ly 'Why am I ashamod'?* sbo resolutely nsked herself. 'Am "doing anything ?WfOiij^ ? I rroii'l be such n fool !' Aud with this doughty resolution in her miud, she glanced calmly up, the pink shadows still glovrtng on her check "Good afteinoou, 3l|y Bussel,' she said calmly. And Kugeno ?tnmnjt,?ringly introduced her to his siiter, who had stood judi cially eyeing the wholo;8Cene. 'It's the geutlem.tuY a wantin' his shirts, an' sure th"y laro they'er not done yet, eri<-d blunde|f1tg Bridget. 'Hut they will be .* >oti,'said Minnie quietly?I am on th*> ta'^t. one now?if Mr. Bussel will sit down aud wait a few minutes.' 'You, Miss Akerly, ironing my shirts'" 'Kven so,' Minnie 'answered. 'The truth is, Mr Kussel, :ir6 are poor ; and although ironing shirHte not so genteel an occupation as giving7music lessoin or unking wax flowers, lam glad to earn a little money iu anyway. I believe those shirts will givmBfeisfaction,' and sin- smilingly glatt : l'it tho completed pile. Miss Helen came Forward with her gray eves fairly lumi'Jtya-with satis?c ?ion. '.My dear,'" saTu suc^"'! couldn't hare done them better myself, aud that's say tug a good deal.' A id -it:- nodded, in an appr >ving way j at her brother.! Minnie Akerl.f went home with t'te ! ddlln? and a halt in hoe ptoku?, tii?i ;.c. triumphant little capita.ii. yju erjr be" held. 'I don't think Mr. Hussol was rcry | much shocked,' she said to herself; 'tor j he sttid he would keep my secret from pupa, aud promised to call this evening.' And three mouths afterward, when Kogeue Kussel was married to Minnie Akerly, he wore one of the very shirts that had been cashed and ironed by the bride's fair nands. T Could not be half so proud of it,' he said, "if it Were f.ttlti mod out of cloth of gold. SATED BY A DREAM. BY KATIE MAUD ST. JOHN. '1 do love you, dearest Olive!' cx claimed Kldrcd Thornton earnestly, and ho gazed with admiration on tho beauti ful girl who sat, with pouting lips, at the piano on which he was leaning. '1 doubt it uot, but then-?' Here Olive Esty hesitated, and a deep criiusou sutfused hor cheeks aud brow. 'But then! what is it sweet Olive ?' exclaimed Kldred, quickly. 'Ah, Bid red, you know there is a great barrier betwoen us, which, if uot removed, hi.all ever keep us apirt:' 'A barrier ! What is it'( 1 see none !' 'Dear Kldred, you do see it?you for get yr.u indulge altogether too freely in intoxicating drinks. This is the barrier to which 1 allude, and onu which must be removed before I couseut to boyours,' said Olive, nnd {the expression arounti the ruby lips prew moro-dotermiued. Kldrcd Thornton bowed his head in alienee for fully five minutes ; but when he raided it again, ho looked straight in to tho beautiful blue eye? before him und, in a voice husky with emotion, said : 'Dearest Olire, I confess I have been hitherto a toper, yet I sincerely hope Mint in the future 1 will keep the promise 1 am ul out to make you to night : ?Never will 1 again touch liquor or frequent the tavern. Erotn this day forward I will do all I can to atone for rriy past life. 'So help me, Ood Y 'Thanks thanks, Eldrod !' exclaim cd 01i?"), in dolight: 'now I ma be jours without one cause for regret/J All Kldrod Thornton said waa to shower kisses on the pretty face held so enticingly up to his. Then turning orer a leaf of the 'Home Companion,' which lay before Oiive on the piano, he joined With her in singing Balfe's beauti ful strains : "When othor lips and other hearts Their tales of love shall tell." ? ? * ? ? '?et out, you little surse I Let'?> hiceup?'mo alone. I won't go home. D'ye -hear that now 7' *Oh, father, do come, poor ma is very sick,' pleaded a littlo girl of about teu years, as she looked imporingly up at the inflexible face of tho man who Btood before him. 'I tell you I null not. Enough?so clear homo with you, aud don't bother i nie sny longer. j Little Edna Thornton, for she it was, with three convulsive sobs, turned slow ly from the door of the 'Becholt lVvorn, and walked towards her cheorless home, while Eldrcd Thornton stflgget+in^ty ontetod the den of iufamy. Silting down in the most quiet corner of tho taviru, he rested his hoad in hand and fell asleep. While iu this state he hid a dream ? me summer days. lie thought he was once more stand ing at the piano, pleading with Olive for her consent to their marriage. He went through the same speech which ho had gone through on that night, wheu promising to abstain from intoxicating drinks. Then he heard a loud voice saying : 'Seo, Eldred Thornton, how well you have kept your promise?behold the wicek !' Then he saw tho youug and beautiful Olive?thu blue eyed girl whom he had promised to love and cherish lyiug eold aud dead in a cheerless room, and by her side little Edda, crying tvs if her little h':;rt would break, and murmur tug: 'Oh, minima, mamfni, I toIJ turn yon were nick, but, he would nut come. He spi k ; f> roughly to mo, t"?, tho papa that u-v.l t:? he go kind to us. Oh, dear. I ?> ?!' and the child's wail of anguish rang out mournfully. Suddenly Eldrcd Thorutou awuku, and fouud tnis terrible scone was but a dream ; and he murmured : ?My God: 1 thank thee !' Thou flashed upou him the words he heard his little daughter speak about a half an hour ago. 'Oh., father, do conic, poor ma is very sick,' aud, perfectly tcrriflcd, he ex claimed : 'Heavens! has it really come to this !' ?What is it you say V asked the bar tender, bluudly. 'Nothing bir. What do 1 owe you 7' 'Seventy ceuts.' 'Hero you are sir. Good day.' Leaving the 'licchalt Tavern,' which bad btcoiiie his geueral place of resort only lour short years after his marriage with her to whom he bad promised to abstain from lii> previous bad habits, he walked rapidly towards his residence. I A great change had come over Ed ward Thornton. *He now felt how un just were bis actions, aud as he walked along, he turned over in his mind many a plan, which might enable him to re trieve his former standing in society. Thon ugain he thought how lie would endeavor to atone to Olive for the dis tress be had caused her. And pror little Edna, his only child, how could he meet her after the brutal language be bad used in addressing her 7 At last he arrived at his homo, and with burning brow and beeting heart, he entered the bouse, praying inwardly that his neglected wife was not sick as his child had informed him. Finding no one in tho small though tidy parlor, ho went into tho kichen?uo one thoro I NN hat ! NVhere are his wife and daughter 7 Surely there cannot be anything wrong 7 Softly he approaches the bed-chamber and tarts lightly on the panel ofthe door. In n few minutes he is admitted, and all his fears vanish. His wife is propped up in sn arm chair with Edna, the only solsce of her life, kneeling beside her. 'Olivo, oh, dearest, Oliret' ?J.? that you, Eldred 7' ? ? i 'Yes: here I am craving pardon for my past life I' Eldred sank on hia knees, while a ook of; l i ^sajjiuW crTet Oliver's pale, Borrow fid *ahoe. To What was owing this sudden change 1 It waa t u-ely the work of Ood. Little Edna lifted her dark bine eves to her fatber'a in blank dismay* 'Dearest Olive,' he murmured again, 'I have como to be forgiven, and renew the promise I made yon long ago I' 'Thank Ood !' said Olive fervently. 'Do you forgive V 'Wih all my heart. Oh ! Eldred, I have prayed fervently for this hour 1' Eldred covered his face and sobbed bitlerly. 'Oh, my dear father, don't cry.!' pleaded little Edna, she laid her little hand softly on his heal.} In another moment, she waa pressed to her fathof's heart. O, what a h?ppy moment for these three?one strayed sheep jreecored?a husband and father saved from a drunk ard's fate. Gladly will we draw a veil over such a scene as this, for, though'one of'hap-. piness, the heart is strangely moved at such a flow of feeling Which character izes one like this. v* Eldred Thornton _faithfully kept his last promise, and was ever known, after wards, as a man of exemplary habits. lie soon regained the position he bud lost, and with Olive and hia darling little daughter, resided agaiu with honor in the house of his forefather*, which he had the happiness of agaiu calling his own. The First Catilaet. TUB MSN Wl!0 SURJtO'JKDSO V.'ABltlNO TOIfi Mr; Farton, in the Jdnnnry Atlantic, thu* describes Washington and ltls first Cabinet: Age had not quenched the vivacity nf either of the fodr Secretaries: JeT lers ui. 17; Kuox, 40; Unndolpb, H7 ; Hamilton, Si. When in the world's history, was so young a groups 1 charged with a task so new bj difficult,* 80 1UO tueiitous 7 Sueh were the gentleman who were gathered round the council table at the j Presidents house in New York in 1780 : at the head of the table General Wash ington, now fifty-eight, bis frame ?s erect as ever, but his face showing the decrepitude of a thousand auxiouihours he had passed. Not versed iu the lore ol school?, but gifted with a groat sum of intellect the eternal glory of this mn.n is that he used all the mind he had in patient endeavors to fiud out the right way, ever on the watch to keep out of his decision everything hke biaj or pre judice; never deciding till ho hid ex hausted every source of elucidation wilbiu his reach. Some quaatioas ha could uot decide with his own miud, and he kuew he could not. In such oases he bent all his powers to ascertaining how tho subject appeared to iniuds fitted to grapple with it, and gettiug them to viow it without prejudice. I am delighted to learn that Mr. Car ly 1 ?:- can seldom hear the name of Wash ington pronounced without breaking forth with an oxplosion of contempt, especially, it is said, if there is an A uteri, can within hearing. Washington is the exact opposite of a fell Oarlyloan hero. Ilia glory is that ho waa not richly en- I do<\od, uot sufficient unto himself, nor indifferent to human rights, opinions and preferences; but feeling deeply his ueed of help, sought it where it alone ?ras to bo found, in miunVMrcd by nature and training tb supply his lack. It is this hoartfealt desire to bo right which shines so aft'actingly fiom the plain words of Washingtou, aud gives him rank so far above the gorgeous bandits whom hero worshippers adore. On the right of the President in the place of honor, sat Jefferson; not forty* revon, the senior of all his colleagues, older in public service, too, than any of them ; tall, ereot, ruddy: noticeably quiet, and unobtrusive iu his address and demeanor; the least pungnacioui of men. Not a fauatic, not an enthusiast; bat an old fashioned whig: natured upon "old Coke," enlightened by twenty five years intense discussion?with pent tooguo, aud sword?of Cokean prluoipU" from the latest commeut*^ Up0n (j0^a ?the ruins of the Baatile??0)1 his red Faris waiscoat gua breeches, he was an object of particular interest to and, doubtless, often relieved the sevorty of business by ^ne thilulluas, Ill<*el?i out of hisr^?WWWfc *x?*\*m* ba%e4 Opposite him, on the President's left, has the place of Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, in all tho alertness and rigor of thirty-three yoars. If *H?t? ,; had matured his tsllent, It Had n&JfcaVH ened his self-suffioienojr, beeeasei,M$l$?' ?U bis short life had been success, enj|-t had assoeiated chiefly with mon wh<? possessed nothing either of his fluency or his ariJhemetio. A positive, merit, little gentleman, with as firm p faith in the apparatus of finance as Gen-?, oral Knox had in great guns. He wne. now In the fall tide of activity, lobbying measures through Congress, and organi sing tho Treasury Department?-tUtf mo?t conspicous man in tho adrainistrtftto'tf; . except the Presidsut. ? > aaaM As usual, his unseen work wSs. hi'. bcSt. In organizing a system of collect* ? :_i._:_i _- .v tug, jkccpiug auu uiauui-nug tue revenue ho employed ?o muph fact, forethought and fertility Jthat his successors have '' each, in turn, admired and retafneff'llf9 Imost important devices- Ho 'arradged" the syslom bo that the Seectary of Uie Treasury, at aoyf niomant, cohhl fearfttj-i the wltolo working of it; and he held at command oil the resources of the United - " Ulf. "il P'lt4'S States subject to lawful use, without be iug able to divert one dollar to a : p^2r< pr.8c not specially authorized. He could not draw his own pittance ef salary without the signature of the four ehicf officers of the department?comptroller, treasurer and register. GttANiiY Copi?ems.?The first copper coinage of tho United States was mads in the yoar 1737, and Jqoneciicut Oa*. claim the distinction. .These coppers wer? made at Granby, by John Higley, a blacksmith. At that time" (Jrikwf was almost a wildern c-ss", end money was to be had with great dimoirlty. The few coppers coius in circulation were British hair- pen nies'? ttd'larteio^*r Bigloyiifcjlfci less obtained thoeapper from the fsmouf eld mice near Granby; and ie would scent to have been valued three times as much as old King George's half-pennies, The coin itself represents a deer, said also bears the inscription: "Value-aue as you please,", the reverse being,. MX'anf good copper, 1737, with three. pj?f%i hammers crowned indicating thai John Higley thought that labor yet would ba king in America of the future. On tfte other side, "I cut my way through" wftbr a broadaxe in the center, indicsting again that Aigley'a ide* asf^^a She axe would: e*t its waj through the;.prima. eal forest of New England. Of the Granby coius there are not a dosen gen uine ones in existence. -mum i J ' Gold is a speciality of California but must people will beustouishoi, tw leant that California gold exists in other de prosits than those of the. gulches and poartz hills on the Golden States. Re* cently an inn keeper in Switzerland un dertook to carve a California 'hatt-g&d d scovered deep down in the pofojn* strata a nugget of pure gold of tho sise of a walnut. This discovery may give* a new direction to the effort pf gold hun ters, &ud we may yet live 'to see pig gold quoted from the bills of lading of California ships. The mining of Cali fornia hams, if carried on to any* great extent, will, of course, greatly increase the price of pork^but if it proves to be as successful as the pearl fishery we shall soon look upon the,pig precisely ae we do upon the pearl1 oyster?as only* the worthies? i nvelojVt^vfcrlbg^theprWious deposit within.' Probably those gentle men who formed a company, to., collect tho diamond and rubies of Arizona will lose no time.in, fo^mipg? a pig .mining gold compa^j&Eu jnvRR to pre-empt all the wild pigs oC CflfMtt.'' i The heathens ideas/yf tfo uses and habits of deep sea telegraphic cables are rather peculiar. Some of these innocent Confuoians ranke a living by fishing Up the wires, cutting them and selling the pieces. Occasionally they bury' their dark ways by resetting the cable like a. verbena or a geranium, in order that it rosy grow and serve for future pro vis . ? ?-. i -*? 10U. The simplicity that believe* jjj are the innumerable *- \ . _ *"? n a ads of God a shin mg linger* A. . . j J?. piercing the heavens, is u .uitely more blessed than the, astute skepticism that boiievos nothing. You may glean know lodge by read* iog, but you must separate the wheat from the chaff by thinking. ? .,fft<i i il U<|r*%s<'r . ?