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Measuring tho Baby.
i aiiaiu -i ?i\ ?<?
We measured the riotous baby
AgainM the ootmpe wall?
A lily gre > at the threshold,
And 'hi I ay was just as tall!
A royal tig or lily,
With spdts of purple and gold,.
Anil a lies ft like a jeweled chnHoei
The fragrant dew to hold.
, i -a >1 jr 'ft > f
Without the blue birds Whistled
High up in the old roof trees,
And to and fro at the window
The red rose' nickeij her bSe.1 ?
And the wee pink fists 01 fnc baby
Were never n moment sti'I !
Snatching at shine and shadow
'I'll.-it danced on the laltico still 1
His eyea were wide a' blue-hells,
His mouth like a flower unhlowrt ;
Tr q little hare feet, like funny white mice
Peeped out from his snowy gown I
An I we thought, with a thrill of rapture,
That yet bad a totlch of pain,
When June rolls aroiiu 1 with her roses,
We'll measure the boy again.
Ah, me! In darkened chamber
With the sunshine shut away,
Thro igh tours that fell like a bitler rain.
Wo nieasared the boy to-day ;
And tho little bare t'^et, that were dimpled
And sweet as a budding rose,
Lay side by side together,
In tho hush u! a long repose I
Up fro-n the dainty pillow,
W lite as tho risen dawn,
The fair; little faoe lay smiling.
With the light of heaven ihcroon ;
An 1 the dear little haiuli, like rose-leaves,
Dropped from a rose, lay still,
i ever to snatch at the sunshine,
That crept to the shrouded still!
Wo measured the sleeping baby,
With ribbons as white as snow,
Vor the shining rosewood oaiket
That waited him below:
Ami out of* the darkened chamber
We went with s childless nionn ?
To t!i?* height of the sinless angels
Our 1 if lie one ha I grown !
WINNING A LOY EU.
M *? ? i f Mi T -MA ? f i "JJ
'Five dollars! Oh, Bridget, I wish I
kni-'W of any way by which I could Cam
live dollars.'
Our scone was t:o silk lined boudoir,
no pictuiVnjue wooded' ravine fringed
with ferns and. musical with tb* ripple
of moss brnWti waters, but only aSi un
derground fi'y kitchen, with a gloomy
range of wneh tur* mi one si-i?, and a
scantily furnished dresser on the other.
And Miuufc Akorly, a beautiful young
girl of fcvetiteen, sat 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'*7 dear!' echoed Bridget
Mai uy. 'But ?uro that's different thing
altogether '
'We need money so badly,' said Min
nie soberly. 'And now that papa is ill,
and has Itnt bis cilice, we have so little.
Mama mended point lacs for Madame
(. heriu laht week, s.nd got a little. And
Sara advertised for a place as nu?-?ery
governess, but no one answered the
advertisement. I CQ?ld teach, I think,
but every place is filled, aud Mr. Kus
sel says there are ten applicants at least
to every vacancy.'
'Tho pity of it I' sighed sympathising
Bridget, 'when tho likes of me gett>
more Work than she can do. For there's
a jintlcman sent a dozen shirts last night
to be dono up, and its tueself will have
to send 'cm back.*
'How much do you have a piece ?'
Min pic eagerly asked.
'A shilling, Mis?.' *
'That woi/ld bo twalvo Shillings?a
dollar and a half,' said .Minnie medita
tively.
'Bridget, woidd you let mo do ihoui?'
'You, Miss Minnie !'
'Do,' conxod the girl. 'I know I
could. 1 did papa's hist week, and be
never know that they were not ironed
by a regular laundress. I should so
1 ko to cam a little money all of my
own. I could buy mama some wine,
aud Sara a new winter dress, and?Oh,'
with a long sigh, 'I could^ do eo many
nice things if ouly 1 had a little mon
ey.'
1 Well, I declare/ said honest Bridget,
rubbing her nose. 'Aud you Judge
Akcrly's daughter !'
'Wou't you let mc Bridget?'
Minnie had jumped off the wash tubs
and come close to tho good uaturcd
Irishwoman, with sparkling eyes aud
checks deep dyed with the earnestness
of her pleading. 'Please, I could conae
to your house this afternoon, and pupa
would think I was walking in the Park.'
?Pute you'd he kindly welcome, Mi??,'
ac eued Diidget. 'Only?
And away rati Minnie in great glee,
to make nil necessary preparations for
the afternoon work.
't woh't tell Sara,' she thought, 'nor
mama, because they'd be sure to cry and
muke a fuss over it. I'll just steal quiet
ly away after I have made the omelette
for pupa's, lunch. Only, if Mr. Russell
should call?' and the long faco foil for
a second?'but perhaps In; won't. Any
way this is one of the opp irt-untltea to
help myself that I have sighed f? r s ?
long, and it will bo throwing luck away
to neglect it.'
And so >Sinnie Akerly stole away at
two o'clock, much to the displeasure of
her elder sister 8ara.
'I think she might have stayed to
road to papa,,' said hhe, 'iiistvad of leav
ing it always to nie.'
'My dear.' said conciliatory Mrs.
Akerly; you must remember that she is
very young, and needs more relaxation
thau wo do.'
'Relaxation ?' If they could have
set n Minnie at that moment, with flush
ed checks aud sleeves lolU.d up to the
fair round shoulders, working ns if her
life depended upon it, tiny might have
taken a different view of mailers and
things in genural.
And the |next day she went again to
iron the hi.iris that she had washed 30
daintily.
'Shure, Miss, you're making them look
like- while satin,' cried tho admit itig
Uriduct. 'And it's yorsclf would make
a daceni liviu' intirely, us a la undrew
so you would ! (July ita make my heart
auhe to see the little white hands of you
all blistered and burned with the irons,
printed with the euds.'
'My band?,' said Minnie contemptu
ously. 'A little ^lycoi ine aud a week id'
kid glaring and they'll be all rig'ul
again.'
'M'.rriod !' said Kugine Rii'sell medi
tatively. 'And why shouldn't I get
married, Helena? Is Dot a man all lite
happier for uniting his fortune with
some truly congenial foul?'
Young ladies iinw-n d iy* fltv all so
rashly aud t?i\i:<l.' -iid Mr. Kussell's
mature, a!rung-minded lister, who was
sewing diligently away on red flannel
shirts for the poor.
'Most young ladies I ^ra:it you,' said
ilugcue. ?Rut nut all, Helena.'
'Rut you are tito Tory 000 to he im
posed upon aud blinded,' Said Miss Hel
ena Russell, who never yet left ofF re
garding her younger brother as a very
small boy, who required admonishing
and lookiug after, in every respect.
'Now you arc judging unfairly, ITol
cna. You have Uevor scjii Minnie
Akerly.'
'l'vt: heard of her though,' said his
wister. ?SltO waltzes, and sings, au 1
plays croquet.'
Ts any one of these three a capita 1
crime, Helena?' laughingly dj.minded
Etigeno.
'Nonsense?you know that is not
what I mean. Rut it would ba lilSro tu
the point if she could sew on buttons
and iron shirts.'
'Perhaps she can,' suggested Kugenu
UuSSch
'It is likely ?' contemptuously retorted
Miss Hulctia.
'Suppose we declare a truce upon the
subject,' slid her brother. 'It's quite
plain thit wc never cau agreu upon it;
aud in the meantime, what do you say
in going around with wc to sec Mrs.
Mnlouey the laundress '{'
'Mrs. Molonoy ? Oh, the laundress.
Yes, I suppose we ought to see her
about 4thc summer's washing. Rut is it
necessary for me to go myself!
'It would be better, I suppose.'
'And rather grudgingly Miss Russell
went to put on her walking habiliments
'And sad, disagreeable part of the city
to come to,' the said, elevating at the
same time her skirts and her patrician
nose as they wended their way to tho
regions of tenement houses, groeories
and small thread and needle Stores that
stretched westward, not far from the
palatial residence of Filth Avenue itself.
'Yet people live here, Helena.'
'Yes, and I suppose they like it.?
Why, don't they go West? I'd send
'em thore, if I Was the government,
whether they would or not.'
'Then it is fortunate that you ar? not
the government,' dryly responded tho
brother. 'This is the number, I believe.
Halloo! my littlo man'?to a dirty-f.iool
urchin, piddling *in tho gutter?'does
Nn. Bridget Maloney ttve hore ?'
Master Maloncy pricked up hin ears.
?It's mv uiothcr,' h? said ; 'an' its in
the basement you'll findt her.'
Mr. Kussel, with his sister standing
austerely by, tipped once at the door,
twice three times, before* Mrs. Malonoy's
tine contralto voice shouted out :
'Como in, whoever >you may be. an'
do not stand there knock in' the door
down. Och, an* beg. your pardou. 1
didn't know it was the quality.'
But EugctiQ Kussel stood Btill in the
doorway, his eyes glued to tho scene
that met their gaze?Minnie Akcrly, in
n buff calico dress atnl White apron, iron
ing diligently away, with a pilo ofsnowy
shirts "on her left haul), and a basket of
sprinkled linen on tho right. And Min
nin herself* colored ifko tho 'red, red
r>Be,' for a minute.
'Why am I ashamod?' sho resolutely
asked herself. 'Am I doing anything
wrong? 1 won't be r-.uoh a fool I'
And with this doughty resolution in
her mind, she glanced calmly up, the
pink shadows still glowing on her check
'Good-altei noon, MsVV Kussel,' she
said calmly.
And 1'iU^eri''stammonngly introduced
her to his sister, who had stood judi
cially eyeing the whola.-Scono.
'It's the ecu tic mad a wantiu* his
shirts, an' sure tlvy laro they'er uot
done yet, cried blundering Bridget.
?Hut tlwy wiit be s Km,' said Minnie
ipiietlv?I am on the last one now?if
Mr. Kussel will sit do ami aud wait a fe.v
in in utes."
?You, .Miss Akorly, ironing my shirts?'
'Kven so,' M innio answered. 'The
truth is, Mr Kussel, :4re are poor ; and
although ironing shirtajs not so genteel
an occupation us gi vingf.mn-ue lessons or
unking wax flowers, I am giad to cam
a little money in anyway. 1 believe
those shirts will giro'fatisfact ion,' and
?die smilingly glatu'ol? tho completed
pi!..
Miss Helen came forward with her
gray c)c? fairly lumi'luis-with satisfac
'My dear,'' s.iiu she;-1 cou.JVt. have
done them better myself, aud that's say
iu? a gorrd deal.'
A id she nodded, in an approving way
at her brut her;'
Minnie Akerl? went hint a with tho '
I.?!!??.?? ntid a h.tlt in hoc piuka<, tin* ..; ....
triumphant little eapitaiii? you exjt oc 1
held.
'I don't think Mr. Hussol was very j
much fihoeked,' sho said to her?ell ; 'tor j
he said ho would keep my secret from
papa, and promised to call this evening.'
And three months afterward, when
Eugene Kussel was married to Minnie
Akcrly, ho wore one of the very shirts
that had been washed and ironed by the
bride's fair hands.
'I could not be half so proud oT it,'
he said, 'if it Were f.nhi * tied out of
cloth of gold.
SATED BY A DREAM.
BY KATIK UAl'li ST. JOHN.
'I do love yottj dearest Olive !' ex
claimed Eldred Thornton earnestly, ntid
ho gazed with admiration on the beauti
ful girl who sat, with pouting lips, at
the piano on which he was leaning.
'I doubt it not, but theu-?'
Here Olive E*ty hesitated, and a
deep crimsou suffused hor cheeks and
brow.
'But then! what is it sweet Olive ?'
exclaimed Eldred, quickly.
'Ah, l?dred, you know there is n
great barrier between us, which, if uot
removed, si.all ever keep us spirt;'
?A hairier ! What is it? 1 see none !'
'Dear Eldred, you do see it?you for
get you iudtilge altogether too freely in
intoxicating drinks. This is the barrier
to which I allude, ntid oho which must
be removed before I consent to bo yours.'
said Olive, and Jtho expression arouno
the ruby lips grow moro dotcrmitied.
Eldrcd Thoiutou bowed his head in
slience for fully live minutes; but when
he raised it again, ho looked straight in
to the beautiful blue eyes before him
and, in a voice busky with emotion,
said :
'Dearest O'.ivo, I confess 1 have beeu
hitherto a toper, yet 1 sincerely hope
that in the future 1 will kuep the
promise 1 am ulout to make you to
uight :
'Never will 1 again touch liquor or
frequent the tsveru. Erom this day
forward I wiil do all I can to atone for
my past life.
?So help me, Ood 1'
'Thanks thanks, Eldred !' exoluimod
Olivo, in dolight: 'now I can be yours
without one cause ibr regret.'J
AH Kldrud Thornton said was to
shower kisses on the pretty face held so
outicingly up to his. Then turning
over a leaf of the 'Home Companion,'
which lay before Olive on the piano, he
joined with her in aiuging Balfo's beauti
ful strains :
?'When otbor lips aud other hearts
Their tales of love shall tell."
* * * * ?
'(Jet out, you little sursu 1 Let'?
hiccup?'me alone. I won't go home.
D'ye -hear that now 7'
'Oh, father, do come, poor ma is very
sick,' pleaded a little girl of about ten
years, as sho looked imporingly up at
the inflexible face of tho man who stood
before him.
'I tell you I Witt not. Enough?so
clear homo with you, aud don't bother
me any longer.'
Little Edna Thornton, for she it was,
with three convulsive flobs, turned slow
ly from the door of the 'Beehalt Tavern,
aud walked towards her cheorlcss home,
while Eldred Thornton staggeringly
entered the den of infamy.
Sitting down in the m >st quiet corner
of tho tuvirn, he rusted hid head in
baud ami fell asleep.
While in this state he had a dream ?
duo summer days.
lie thought he was once more stand
ing at the piano, pleading with Olive
for her consent to their marriage.
Ho went through the same speech
which he had gone through on that
night, when promising to abstain from
iutoxicating drinks.
Then he heard a loud voice saying :
'See, Eldred Thornton, how well you
have kept your promise?behold the
wicck !'
Then he saw the youug and beautiful
Olive?the blue eyed girl whom he had
promised to love and cherish lyiug cold
and dead in a cheerless room, and by
her side little Ivlna, nryiug as if hur I
lulle heart would break and murmur ? I
' . !
'Oh, oianitna, mnm*m, I to!! hi:n yoii
w<t- kick, but. he would u <t come. He
.??in ke r ? roughly to me, tmij the papa
that used to he so kind to us. OV dear. I
.i .-.?? ?!' ?od the cnild'a wail of anguish
rang OUt mournfully.
Suddenly K. Ircd Thornton awoke,
aud found th'u terrible scene was but a
dream ; ami he murin ircd :
?My Cud; 1 thank thee 1'
Thea flashed upou him the words he
heard his little daughter speak about a
ball*un hour ago.
'Oh, father, do conic, poor ma is very
sick,' aud, perfectly tcrriflod, ho ex
claimed :
'IlcavcDs! has it really ootue to this !'
?What is it you say ?' asked the bar
tender, blandly.
?Nothing sir. What do I owe you?'
'Seventy cents.'
'Here you are sir. (Jooddny.'
Leaving the 'Beehalt l'avcin,' which
had become his general place of resort
only lour fchwrt yars alter his marriage
with her to whom he bad promised to
abstain from Iii? previous bad habits, he
walked rapidly towards his residence.
A great change had come over Ed
ward Thornton. 'He now felt how un
just were his acti' ns, 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.
Then again ho thought how he would
endeavor to utoue to Olive for the dis
tress he had caused her And poor
little Kdna, his only child, how could he
meet her after the brutal language he
had used in addressing her?
At last he arrived at his homo, and
with burning brow and besting heart,
he entered the Ionise, prnyiug inwardly
that his neglected wife was not sick a*
his child had informed him.
Finding no one in tho small though
tidy parlor, he vent iuto the kicheu?uo
one there!
NN hat ! Where are his wife aud
daughter ?
Surely there cannot be anything
wrong ?
Softly he approaches the bed chamber
and taps lightly on the paucl ofthc door.
In a few minutes he is admitted, and
all his fears vanish.
His wife ii propped np in an arm
chair with Kdna, the only solace of her
life, kneeling beside her.
'Olive, oh, denrcst, Olive !'
'Ja that you, Eldred ?'
'Yes: here I am craving pardon for
my past life I'
Eldred tank on bjsknecs, while a
ook of as.i*mWm\i ov* Oliver's
pale, sorrowful "sVc*.
To what was owing thin sudden
cranes 7
It was surely the work of Ood.
Little Edna lifted her dark bine eyes
to her father's in blank dismay.
'Dearest Olive,' he murmured agaih,
'I hare come to be forgiven, and renew
the promise I made yon long ago 1'
?Thank Ood !' said Olive fervently.
'Do you forgive V
'With all my heart. Oh 1 Eldred, I
hare prayed fervently for this hour I'
Eldred covered his face and sobbed
bitterly.
'Ob, my door father, don't cry!'
pleaded littlo Edna, she laid her little
hand softly ou his hoai.j,
In another moment, sho was pressed
to her fathor's heart.
O, what a happy moment for these
three?one strayed sheep .restored?a
husbaud and father saved from a drunk
ard's fate.
Ciladly will wc draw a veil over sjuch
a scene SB this* for, though one of 'hap
piness, the heart is strangely moved at
such a flow of feeling wiiich character
izes one like this. 'A
Eldred Thornton faithfully kept his
last promiso, and was ever kuown, after
wards, as a man of exemplary habits.
He soon regained the position he had
lost, and with Olive and his darling
little daughter, resided agaiu with honor
iu the houso of his forefathers, which
he had the happiness of again calling
his own.
The First Cabinet.
TUB MEN WHO lUBROUNDBD WASHING
TON.
Mr. Parton, in the Jan nary Atlantic,
tho* describes Washington and Ills first
Cabinet:
Age had not quenched vivacity
of either of the four Secretaries: J?f
fcrsoii, 17; Kuox, 40; Randolph, H7;
Hamilton, 33. When in the world's
history, was so young a grouped charged
.villi a task i,o new, sj difficult,* so luo
mcntous 7
Such were the gervlemnn who were
gathered round the council table at the
President's house in New York in 1780 :
at the head of the table General Wash
ington, now fifty-eight, bis frame as
erect as ever, but his face showing the
decrepitude of a thousand anxious hours
he had passed Not versed iu the lore
ol schools, but gifted with a great sum
of intellect the eternal glory of this man
is that he used all the mind he had in
patient endeavors to fiud out the right
way, ever on ihe watch to keep out of
his decision everything like bi*j or pre
judice; never deciding till ho in 1 ex
hausted every Bource of elucidation
within his reach. Some qusstioes he
could not decide with his own min i, an 1
he knew he could not. In such oases
he bent all his powers to ascertaining
! how tho subject appeared to minds GtteJ
j to grapple with it, and gettiug them to
I viow it without prejudice.
I am delighted to learn that Mr. Car
lyle can seldom hear the namo of Wash
ington pronounced without breaking
forth with an cxplosiou of contempt,
especially, it is said, if there is an Ameri.
can within hearing. Washington is the
exact opposite of a fell ?Jarlyleau hero.
His glory is that ho was not richly an- I
do wed, uot sufficient unto hituicelf, nur
indifferent to human rights, opinionsaud
preferences; but feeling deeply his need
of help, sought it wlaeiv it aloue was to
be found, in uiiu?*sTrit<.d by nature aod
iraining to supply his lack. It is thin
hoartfealt desire to bo right which shines
so affaolingly fiom tho plain words of
Washington, and given him rank so far
above the gorgeous bandits whom hero
worshippers adore.
On the right of the Presidobt in the
place of honor, sat Jefferson; not forty
?evon, the seuior of all his colleagues,
older in public service, too, than any
of them ; tall, erect, ruddy: noticeably
quiet, and unobtrusive iu his addross and
demeanor; the least pungnacious of men.
Not a fauatio, not au enthusiast ; but su
old fashioned whig: natured upon "old
Coke," enlightened by twenty five years
intense discussion?with pert, tOQgUQ
aud sword?of Cokean prluoipla* ^r?an
from the latest com mouthy Upon Coko
?the ruins of thb fc as tile ?still his red
Taris waiscoat and breeches, he was an
object of particular interest to all men, '
and, dottbtloss, often relieved the severty |
of busin ess by pome tsrilliqf iriWiW ,
out of hie heCpr^B^iiL' expsrience. r.j^fc
Opposite him, on the Pr?sident'? lejlj.
baa the place of Hamilton, Secretary or
the Treasury, in all the alertness and
yigof of thirty-three year*. Tf time
had matured hie tallent, It had not l4s*>H
eued his solf-sufGcienoy , becaase, a* vet,
all his short life had been ?ueccfts, and ,
had associated chiefly with men who
possessed nothing either of his flnency
or his arithemetio. A positive, vshs*1*
roent, little gentleman, with as firm s>
faith in the apparatus of finance ss Gen*
oral Knox had in great guns. He wise
now in the fall tide of activity, lobbying
measures through Congress, and organi
zing the Treasury Department?the' m?eS
couspicous man in tho administration^
except the Presideut.
As usual, hid unseen .Work wM. his
best. In organizing a systom of collect* ?
ing, keeping and disbursing the revenue
he employed so much fact, forethought'
and fertility gthat his successors hsVefJ
each, in turn, admired aid retained his
'most important devices- Ho arranged '
the syslom so that the SeWary 0$ >t&*
Treasury, at any moment, could survey
the wholo working of it; aud he held at
command all the resources of the United
Stales subject to lawful use, without be-'
ing able to divert ono dollar to a pxtr*
pose not specially Authorized. He cou!d:
not draw his own pittance of salary
without the signature of the four chief
officers of the department ?; >mptr )ller,
treasurer and register.
OitANiiY Coi?i?e:i8.?The firstceppcr
coinage of the United States vai tnMe
in the yoar 1737, and JonnooCiput, Qoujfc
claim the distinction. These coppers
were mado at Oranby, by .Toho lligley,
a blacksmith. At that time' Uratiby
was almost a wilderncj^aqd money was
to be had with gre ?t dim?irlty. The few
coppers coins in circulation were British
half pennies and fartoing*.- Uigley d^Mfibt*
less obtained theeoyper from!thc fsmeusr
old mind near Oranby; and it woukj
seem to have beou valued three times as
much as old King George's half-peaniea?
The coin itself represents a dW, Ma
also hears tho inscription: ''Value me
as you please," the reverse being, Ml'anf
good copper, 1737, with three, aladgw
hammers crowued indicating thai jtolys
lligley thought that labor yet would bo
king in America of the future. On the
other side, "I cut my way through" wftht
a broudaxe in the esst et, isai^tSashasj
again that A igley's idea *he
axe would o?t its waj thrpagh ,^ftyny
eal forest of New JfjBglasd. Of law
Granby eoius there are not a dosen gen
uine ones in existence.
_ i w ? -' - '_
Gold is a speciality of Oalifoiflia bat
must people will be ustoaUh.pl learn
that California gold exists iu other de
prosits than those of the. gulches and
pourtz hills on the Golden States!' Re
cently an inn keeper in Switzerland ifcii
dcrtook to carve a Califotiiia hats gnd
d scovered deep down in the/ porpjne
strata a nugget of purs gold of the size
of a walnut. This discovery, may give
a new direction to the effort of gold hun
ters, aud wc may yet live to see pig
gold quotod 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 suceessful as the pearl fishery we shall
soon loo!; upon the pig precisely as' ws
do upon the pearl' oystef?as only' the
worthless en vef >pVcdvorlbg the ptacious
deposit within. Probably those gentle
men who formed a company to, collect
the diamond and rubies of Arizona will
lose no time iu? forming . a pig mining
gold compa^jfinf proceed* to pre-empt
all the wild pigs of CalrfoydW.? i*
Tho heathens idcaa/pf fehe uses and
habits of deep ses telegraphic cables are
rather peculiar. Some of these innocent
Confuciaus make a living by fisning Up
the wires, cutting them and selling the
pieces. Occasionally they bury their
dark ways by resetting the cable like s>
verbena or a geranium, in order that it
may grow aud serve for future pro vis
?-. ,? skI
I0U.
The simplicity that believe* *!
i *U0 MstsaasW
arc the innumerable -~ .,
. ids of (jod s shin
ing finger** . ,
ptorctug the hoavens, is
? u .uttely more blessed than tb* astute
' skepticism that believes nothing.
You may glean knowledge by resd?
ing, but you must separate the wheat
from the chaff by thinking