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JUVENILE STOWAWAYS.
HOW TUB VAORANT8 OF* THE OCEAN J
EXISTS.
The good ship K?.one of n popular
Liverpool line, had steirucd past Snndy
Hook, homeward hound, the pilot hud
left, end number 13 pilot boat was rap
idly being lost to our si^ht, when a
scuffle was heard in the neighborhood of
the engine ro..in. and the chief engineer
suddenly appeared on the quarter deck
1> ruling in two smoke begrimed urchi s,
who, in the moat chalunt manner possi
bio, Erst cast their westward to assure
themselves of tlie safe distance of the
pilot boat, and then touching their hair,
for caps they hnd uone, politely address
ed the captain with 1 llea^e, sir, we've
come on 1-oarJ.' The passengers heing
nearly all a??< mbled oti the deck, greet
ed the cool'iasi of the^ouiigragamuIBi^
w ill a about of laughter, in whic't the
captain after vainly endeavoring to look
sovere, was fain to join. Blatcd by tlt-s
succ-.^a, the stowaways farther ingratiat
cd themselves into the good will of the j
passengers by turning cartwheels ex
prossivo of their delight, but were J
promptly brought to their feet again by
a couple of smart but not angry cufis
from the engineer.
The eaptsin now inquired where the
boy* bad bean found, nod was told in
the coal bunker?, whjclt their a; pearnnre
sufficiently corroborated. Upon being
asked alien they came on It nrd, the
eldest b'>y replied; 'Please sir, tttc and
Mi. key (Mit-bey's a New Votker and J
I'm an Eiig'.hJr.tinn), came to the ilitp
last night and uxed the stew-nd to lot.j
us work our passages ncrojw, and he j
wouldn't so we hid oursei vox away among
I lie Coals all lligltt,, and wouldn't have
conn- on deck so soon ouly the fir-mau. I
.-ir. when he was getting coals, bit
Mickey and llif tti the buck with his
shovel atid Mickey c. i> d out. and w?
was ftt?i p'-d hy bin.' pointing to the
cugioerr, '.n il h're wo are. sir.
'And that boy's named Mick>y. c'i?
nnd what'- you Uuuio?.' cii'.j'iir d ihr !
Miptaln.
'Jimmy, sir'
?Of Liroipool ?' I
'Yes, sif, I'm .Jimmy from Livorpoul
and he's Mickey from New York.'
'Very g< od then quartermaster,' Cried
the captain, 'take Jimmy from Liverpool
and Mickey from New York, and throw
t!icm ovcrby.rd.'
'Ob! oh! ronnd Mickey, opening Iii?
mouth for the first timo; 'I won't nev
er stow away again if you'll let me oil
this time.'
'Shut up, ycr fool, Batd Jimmy, lt.
ain't going to do it.'
. 'Aiu't bo!" .said Mickey, somewhat
reassured.
?Of course he ain't; I've traveled on
11th ship beforo.'
'KM ?? bid's that?' said the cap
lain.
'Please sir,' snid Jimmy, T catne
across with you the lust trip but one
sir; I never traveled nn any other line
Jimmy > last impudent fcthirk. of course
delighted tho prt?si-n^prs nnd di?ginted
the captain, who told the engineer to tnk<
the imps into (ho lire ro ?tn and let th?tn
work for their pass ige; but the rngiucci
not wanting to bo bothered by the bruia
(he captain htuidcd th*;in over to the
ijUaiterni stor, and r tired. Tho Ins'
arrangeutent evid ntlv gave great sit is
faction to the boys, who immediately
.showed their dexterity by carrying
stool.-* and chairs ubout for tho (.?die.?,
and in short, proved tlieuiaelt*es Loth
useful and nmur-ing additions to (h
?help' jr v'ded for the pissongers.
J 1 bad an opportunity the next day of
?interviewing' Jimmy, who proved to be
? bright ?pochten of tbc 'sifeet Arulr
.that inftst tlic principal 8oaporf> on both
?ido? of the At| m-ig, lu an'wor t* my
i|Ue?tinns uf bow mnny (im- ? he bad
crossed tho ocean, and why bo selceted
this line of ?toaniori, Jimmy replied.
?Pleaiia, sir, P?e buen over four tintce,
and I always c .me on th-se boats, cos, 1
gets ao well treated. I generally helps
to swab the deck at night, sud iuok after
the ladies and geotiesnan dating the
day. When thejr pbys shove|bo arJ, I
runr after*the board*, and,' looking
meaningly at mo, 'tho Indien nnd souls
alias gives tue something for any trou
Lie '
'And where rlrt you pet your food; *
'I goes down in the gantry at nienl
timc and help tho stewards to clem the
dashes, and a Hub get plenty to eat '
*Aud Imve y< u never l-eco 1?cg
ed on nny of your stowaway expe di
tions!'
'Oh, no, sir. The captains nre ull
kind uicn. nnd this hero one wouldn't
hurt o fly. But I wnsn't so lucky,
though, when I crossed with him the
lust titne, 'cos there was a great big tnnn
who was stowing away as will, and they
shoved us down in the fire-rootn nnd
uiade us shove) coals. Oh. my! wasn't
it lud. The hi.' fellow used to faint
nearly every d.iy. One time he got a
regular fit, an 1 had to be oarriod up on
deck: that wan the time when wc u<od
to take the ifd hot co-ib out of tho fur
nace and play the lr<se on 'em. Then
wc cnuldu't see each oflter's fuc< t for
the smoak. Oh lor, it was aw 'ul. The
firemen treated tne well enough, 'cos I
u-ru to make 'e n laugh and sing souks
to 'cm. but ihey used to swear at that
big fellow and throw things at him, 'cos
they thought he was making behove to
faint. But he wasn't. He told me he
bad been starving in Liverpool, and we
was mere nor twenty four boors biding
before wo showed ourselves, an l the big
fellow nearly dropped from hunger and
weakness and if you'd only seen him
tuck into tho victuals the first chance
that he got you'.l a believed that he'd
been starving. However, I seen him in
New York not 1 >ng ago, and ho loo ks
quite respectable, nnd guv me a quarter,
and told me I ought to give up slowing
away.'
'And hire your Ir v Is nlw yi b.-u
confined to crowing the Atlantic Jim
m\.'
?N'o -ir ; T once wo i d w.i fro:u N tw
York to Now Orleans in it piddle butt
'Anl did you secrete youtself in the
co?l hunkers as it-tiil ?'
'No. sir I wi? ifraid. I didn't ku*w
'ha rnj on ?bom ho as. so I hid mjclf
?jt tlie (addle box, Y u k"< w there's
room for three nr f?>ur men in the boxes
but I d dl/t Cnlkilnte nn .what I'd have
to go 'tb nigh. I g t rnysel np in a
corner, to keep clear of the paddles when
ahe star e l ; but when she did start,
nh my! 1 wi* nearly kuo kel into the'
?ide of the ship with the for<te of th^
water wo? wik thrown at me, and I
might jut its wjII u' bo n dr sired ufier
he nhip by a rope, and better too, f r
the foreo ofth water to >k all my brcnli
away. I had to hold nn for four,
h? ur.?, though, ai.d then 1 tried to
?cream, but tho noise of the paddles
drowned my voic ?, and I might h ive
stopped there until we got to New Or
?etil*?, ??nly a pa*?ongcr e:tui" out of on
ri?:sity to look into tho p .ddie box, and
and saw tut t e i.
I was wer .'Aiiiing an J rnnrlitg for my
Ufa, but uob id / lud heard res. and t'ieu
I had gjt into the far corner of the pid
die box, aud they had to stop theetigi le
to let me out That made the captain
md thft engineer wild, and th y k eked
me and awors awful but th?y didn't
hurt me I had a j<Uy trip that time
the passengers give mc a bran new suit
uf cloth us1 and the ciptaio midi? uie
on hi n at table.'
'Aud how did \ou get back to New
York!'
'I wa* afraid to go back the sanio way
si i stowed away nn another boat to
(inhesion ur.d then stowed away on the
regular alveston stornier buck to New
York!"
'And who is your friend Mickey?'
'I picked him np in New York. !Ie'>
. decent boy?hts a father and mother,
and that's uc re nor I h ire. () i, Mick
ey'* all light; bo told me his la her's a
merchant, and ho lives in Rixler avenue
lie Wauls ?o sgti life he does, aud when
In gets'to Liverpool he'll writo hum ?
and make bis lather s> n I bim m ncy tu
pay his fare b ek.'
StihieqtictVr inqu're.?. proved Jimmy's
nceount of himself tobe correct in the
in in, a id Ifta anticipations of the jolli
oes of hit p-isMge vrcro inuro than
realized. Both boys by thoir ulicrity
and willingncs mn-lo tho:nsclce*extro'iic
ly useful to tin. pa-s ngcrs 'sp-ci.tlly to
tho sick enos, and at the con of tl.o
journey a h*n 'sumo little ?ubicription
was got up for their joint benefit. Jim
nit's keosrlcdgr) of lifo has proved o
good service to him, a* be now srrives
in New York regularly dr*?sed i;j a neat
uniform as c iptaiti's boy to the csp'sin of
I he K?,and Mickey has boou restored
to I he bosom of his family, who main
tain a grocery store in the classic uoigh
borltood of Baxter street.
All old farmer said of his clergyman,
whose sermons lacked point, "ah, yc?,
he's a good mart, but he will rake with
the teeth upwar I."
liuin's Royal Road.
Uuder this alii tcrative cnption, a late
issue of the Njw York Herald has the'
followiug graphic description of the
scene in the gold room of the New York
Exchange ou tho 31st ult :
Gold made tunny men sick yesterday ;
it has been making the business inter
ests of the country aiek since the middle
of January. The "bulls" bare succeed
ed in raising the price of the precious
metal in two months over seven per
cent., and yesterday they climbed up
uuothcr round in the ladder.
A visit to the Gold Room recalled
many of those exciting scenes familiar
to tho seeker of fortunes in a lump
This royal road to ruin was crow ded
with the gold cormorants, and the dis
mal vestibule, strewn with paper frag
ments, foul with fetid air, and a shriek
v
pen of th* superlative rank, contained
the chieftains of the Wall street Vox.
It was a field day. All the scenery
of a great gold "spree" was perfect at 2
p. ax, Aruuod the circular railing
inclosing the little bronze fountain
whose pellucid jets of water have so
long fallen into uiud>ly spray after
gathering the dust of tho atmosphere,
was a crowd of aellera and buyers ; they
were of all types?'ypes of the hoarse
voiced, broad shouldered, mustache
{vris'p.l being, whrse business is gold.
I A type outers. He wears r>. Uiamarek
oil r, a blue scarf, and a spting style
I silk hut. and crnv'.ing through to the i
railing exclaims, "a quarter uiiliioa at
l a '*
A wild roar of voices follow at 18?,
:nd tlte type moves frintically ubouf tho
reatibnle, nute bonk in baud seeking
j purchii.es at bis . wu figures The tele
I graph instrument felieks those fatal
figures whi.b have driven so many sneti
to wealth or poverty ch.iuge, and gold
is quoted at 1.181. * r* *
What a howl follow*. The shriekcra,
i ? isii g on their toes, seek for a uew note
! iu the human voice. They extcud thuir
I band?, aa if they were expoundi-ig the
j most exciting pass ige in w ,r J-jliui
! tion, while t! e typical broker put?
tot Ward hi.-, luiigest artu and proclaims,
?275.000 at I8i \" He doe? not ue
gift to turn hia long, white hand over
severs! t'liira and himself bestow |*lance>
, of sileut admiration upon its form und
! whiteness while the indicator moves
J back to 118), and he ndvaeees the price
of h.s coin. I ?in i g th is traiisnclioii
Lei w. two rough, farm or like men iu
j the gallery discuss their profit aud loss.
"(jive oidcr.-. to sell, I lull you, then
1 you'll know how you stand to-night.
Don't you see the price will tumble aud
tall below 18 to night.
??Yes. but it must go up,"
"Pell, aell, I toll you I"
Another mart staggers into the gallery
and begins to defy the rules by smoking,
when the peremptory voice from the
; pit issues forth :
"Tut out that cigar !"
The ahrickere stop?they always stop
i for a little lun ? and when the pursued
; drops bis cigar the auction proceeds
There is one tall, smart character
there who dc.-crves immortality if ho
always bowls as he howled yostcrday?
the crier, lie is s perfect urtist on
? a'ling name.-4, aud ao are the weary, toil
woru clerks who sit in the tribune au 1
relapse so handsomely into fashion ible
lassitude?artists iu sighs and yawns
j What a wearisome occupation is their to
listen to tho shouting ul millions, to i
witless the n.omen'ury transfer of for
tunes; to biltold the poor Lecomo rich
1 and the humble become arrogant ; and
yet, like the spple woman iu the streets,
1 live from day to day their same routine
lives ! Hut every interests in the Go! 1
! lloom \e.?tcrd iy The curbstOQO brokers,
"hu are COutcnl to rcrept a commission
of one thirty se.'ond of one per cent, for
their operations; the ill clad country
man who sells out his farm for a few
thousand d 'liars sod comes to the city
with all bis baggsge iu a small hand
parcel, iu the Impc'thal be may become
a Daniel Drew or Jim Fisk, as he hai
' read the story of their rise in the vamp
od up ws-ukiies ; the victim of aevoral
failures, who goes to tho "street" tc
regain a fortune which he has thrice
lost ia titc counting room ; the heavy,
hold operator, to whom sueh a clique
movement aa that of yesterday ia a mere
ripple ; and the silent, thoughtful gather- ?
er of rich daily balances, whose capital
is his 'Skill in detecting the careless ad
missions of thoso around Lim?these
' netc a fen i f the men who made the
Gold I',>)..iii echo and and ring. It is a
study to look down from the gallery
during one of these field days and
measure the brokos below, wild in their
excitement, irrepressible in their fun
aud quick to catch the bid or offer of
every fresh operator who dashes up to
the railing. It is their "circus"' now ;
but how long will it continue ? The
first gcutlcmau who expressed himself
to the reporter stood in front of the
Stock Exchange iu Btoad street.
"What dees this movement mean 7"
"It means simply this, that it is a
clique movement to put up tho price af
gold in order to counteract the moral
effect of the announcement of. tho
Treasury sale of $G,000,000 of gold."
'?Then it h?B no bo;tom to it f"
?'None at nil, in my opinion. You
know us well aa as 1 do, about the put
ter. '
The Bloody Outbreak in Louisiana
The Buliimors Gazette contains the
following brief but clear account of the
bloody affray that occurred iu Louisia
na on Sunday. By some arrangement
thut wc d.? not understand, we hare no
exchanges from New Orleans of a later
date than the 14th. Our Baltimore
eotetnpororios are, it ' seems, moro for
tuuate. The Gazette says :
A serious riot has broken out iu
Graut Bariah, Louisiana, ou the upper
waters of the Red River. The iustiga
tors of the riot, according to the stuto
moot published iu the New Orleans
Pirayune, wcie two uvgroes, both incur
h\. rs of iVeWogg'a Legislature, who, with
a baud of aegroor, took forcible possess
ion of Culfax. (he coui ty seat of Gra it
Parish, ousted the authorities, drove all
j the ubito men from the place, and broke
into "ml pluudcrod their houses. Those
colored men v ho did not sympathize
w.ih the marauder* mere also driven-oil.
The house of Mr. Had?ot was eutered
i by (he rnff.ans, and tho coffin, contain
I ing a dead child, was taken rrvuy aud
broken open, uuder the impression th t
I money was secreted in it The b dy of
the rdii'd was l< ft rxro ad on tin road
I i.util it was replaced by other partie
and leturiied to the bou*e. In the
meantime it appears tint Mr. I'ndunt
niudo his escape, und Collectiug a haul
; of twenty five men notified tlu negroes
' to send a?;n their women and children
I as he intended to attack them Tho
I latter miivi brought to New Orleans by
the steamer Southxrtstcrn furnishes the
j bloody sequel. 1 he negroes, to the
. numb r of some four hundred, the r
{ nughly armed, eutreocbed themselves in
the court hou?e and liuilt breastworks
! Ou Sunday fladuot's forjo had been in
J creased to a hundred and fifty men
j drawn from the surrounding parishes
, The breastworks were stormed and
i taken after two hours' fighting, and the
negroes then took refuge in the court*
j house, barricading the doors. Fight
' ine was then rewound, hut at a later
hour the- uegr<cs threw out a fl^ ol
\ truce, but fired on the besieges as they
! anvi.nced, wounding several, and among
I them Mr. II.-idnot moitally. Finding
[ it impossible to di dodge the negroes by
force of arm?, the court-house was set
on fire, and as they eaino out from thu
burning building they wore shot down
by lhe infuriated whites. It is estiutn
ud that one hundred negroes were
killed. 'J he others, taking to flight,
were holly pursued. Such is the ac
count which we publish of this sanguin
ary affair. It is the first fruits of the
ohf-tinntc policy of Genera! Giant, in
recognizing a .State government which
the Senators who most steadfastly sup
port him, have declared to be illegally
Constituted.
From a telegraphic dispatch which
wo find in our Northern exehauges,
dated New Orleans, lftth April, we gel
iho statement of the Captain uf die
steamboat bouthiceHern, who arrived in
New Orleans 00 that d.ty :
We arrivod at Col fax Sunday evening
ing ubout f o'clock. Found that the
white paopld and shoriff, I suppose at
their head, bad cipturcd the town after
haying a conflict with tho negroes. It
was reported to mc that about lot) ne
groes had baen killed and many oihera
Wiuuded We saw from the boat b ft ecu
nr twenty lying arjiind on the bank
dead. One white man was reported
killed, whoso nntne'I did not learn, and
two very seriously wounded, Messrs
Hadnot and Harris Mr lladuot was
shot through tho bowels and supposed
to l>? Uioltally wouudol. Wo brought
Harris nnd Hadnot down from Colfaa
to Alexandria. Three or four other
white men wert slightly wounded*
About 100 negroes escaped, bat it was
reported that the whites were still pur
suing. All of the leaders of the riot
escaped, especially the white men.
The negroes having ambuscaded
theruselvos iu *'ho court-house, and the
whites, boding there was no other mode
of nttack left them, set fire to the
building. The whites numbered in the
ticighborho>d of 150 men. The fight
lasted from 12 o'clock until nearly 5 P.
M. The whites are now in possession
of Culfax, and when I left, last .Sunday
night, everything was very quiet.
Murk T?Tn!n on the Car-Hook Mur
derer and the Pardoning Power
Murk Twain has the following rich
sa'ire on the Footer Murder ease. It is
absolutely clothed in purple aud reive'
of humor.
I have read the Poster petitions. Tilt
lawyers, opinion do not disturb me be
cause I know that those same gentlemen
could make ss able an argument if favor
of Jndus Iscarijt without losing my
temper, To my mind Judus Iscariot
was milling but a low, mesa premature
Congressman. The attitude of the jury
docs not unsettle a body, I must admit;
and it seems piain that they would have
mod.tied their verdict to murder in the
aecond degree if the J udgo's charje had
j permitted it.
I Hut when I come to the petitions of
Fester's friends, and fiud out Foster's
true character the generous tears will
flow?I ear nut help it. How easy it ia
to get a wrong impression of a mm? 1
perecive that frort childhood up, he lie*
beeu a swuet, docile thing, full of pretty
..ays and gentle impulse-; the charm of
the fireside; the ad oiraJ'on of ^spoiety;
the idol of the buuday school. I recog
nize in him the divinest nature that has
ever glorified any mere human being 1
prtccive that the Sentiment with whb h
' he regarded temperance was a thing
which amounted to the fraulic adora
I tinti.
j I freelj confess '.hat it w*s tha mos*
j n.tttrral thing i.< the Wutld for su:h an
i organization as this to get drunk and
? instill a stranger* and then beat his brains
j out with a c.ir-hook beeuu-te he didu't
j ?< din ire it. Such is Foster. And to
I ihiuk we came so near losing him! How
j do we know that he is the sdvent! And
' yet, after all, if the jury had not beeu
j hampered in their choice of a verdict I
think 1 ccnld eonaout to lose hitu?
The humorists who invented the trial
i ?J iUT7 played a eolosaal practical joke
I upon the wor'd, but since we have the
system we ought to try to respect it?a
: thing whieh is not throughly easy to do
! when we refleot that by corn man 1 of the
1 law the criminal juror must be an in
tellectual vacuum attached to a ni.dting
heart and perfect imaeciroiiian bowels of
I eampassion.
j I have had no experience in making
i laws or amending them bnt still I cannot
. understand why, when it takes twelve
men to inflict the death penalty npon a
person, it should take any lens than
twelve more to undo their work. If I
were a legislature and had just been
elected, and had not time to sell out, 1
would put the pardoning and commut iug
power into the hands of twelve able men
instead of dumping no large a burden
upon the shoulders of one poor petition
persocuted individual!
Mark Twain.
Hartford and the Charter Oak.
0
Iloston is celebrated for it*, monu
ment to the lamented Mr. Hunker Hill,
Pmvidenco for Hoger Williams,
Philadelphia f"i its butter and Quakers,
and Hartford for its Cha-ter Oak. Mark
Twain has visited Hartterd. He saw
the oak. Likewise heard it spoken of.
He says :
I wont over Hartford with a citizen
whose ancestors came over with the
pilgrims in the Quaker City- in the
.Mayflower. I stiould say?and ho
showed me all the historic relic* of
Hartfotd. He showed twa a beautifully
carved chair in the senate chamber,
where bewiggod and awfully homely
old lima governors of the commonwealth
frown from their eauvsse overhead,
"wade from charter nek/* no Mir}'* 1
gascd upon it with inexpressible solitude.
Ue p.hqwed me another carved rbair in
the house, "Charter Ota," 'ue sate], 1
gsred einafrV w iih iotr&ef?/' HWf He?
looked at tho rutty, stained, end.fasnoo*
old charter, aud presently I turned to
move away. But he soleinuly drow at*
back and poiotod to tiro frame, '"^har
tcr Oak,"- he tsid. I WOTFhr^od. Wn
went duwu to Wndsworth'e Alhe&seusa,
and I wanted to look the picturaf^,.,
but be conveyed mo silently to a corner,
and pointed to a log rudely shaped
somewhat like a chair, and whispered*
"charter oak." I exhibited the ac
cu?toui?d rcreriuce. He showed me a
walking stick, needle-case, a dee; coHar,
a three-legged stool, a boot jack, a dia
ucr table, an ten pin ?Hey, a tooth
picker?
I interrupted him aod said, "Xaver"
muid?We'll bunch the wbolo lumWl
yard, and call it?" ^'O
"Charter Oak," he said.
"Well," I said, "now let us go aod
see soiua charter oak for a change." ,u
1 meant thst for a joke, but how was
he to know that, being a stranger ?' no*
took me around and showed me charter**'
oak enough to build a ptaokroad front
here to groat Salt Lake city. It iff pjs
shame to coufes,s it, but I began to get e>
little weary of charter oak finally ; and
when he invited me to go home with
him to tea, it filled me with a blessed r
senso of relief. Ho introduced rue to
his wife snd they left me aloaa s sweets it
ent to amuse myself with their little)*,
boy. 1 said, in a gr.ive, paternil waj.I%tl,.
"My son, what is your name?'*
And he said, -'Charter Oak Johnson.'
This was sufficient for a sensitive*
nature like mine. I departed out of
that mansion without another word." . it
The Crown of (Jold- 7 11
ibdi *fe*? ?"??$'-? !??!????
is
??Chiidreu. if eaoh of you were give*
a rrowu of gold^what, would yon do with,
if.' asked the ?uporintaudent^^
Sunday school.
"I would sell mine and buy tho & ?
soldies^ coat and a_ tail fur hat like
father's when he marches with hie
regiment," was Johnny's tpiick r-spoa*e.
"1 would buy a big baleo*," ffaMi
Willie. wt . ,
/
Robert said he would his crown n*j
his head and walk through the street,
thst people might know how great and
rob be wa*. bnels
"I would rather have a box ef earpen^?
ter'? tools," said Claud.
Henry who had been reading ebon*
the poor Indians thought that he wunld
like to purchase Bibles and comfortablo
clothes te carry to them.
"Now I would like to know what tho
little girls Would do, said the superin
tendent.
I would kesp my crown aal weir it
when I hare my next birth d?y pirty
replied Dora, smoothing baot her long, \
brown eorls.
"1 think I'd rather liare a big wax
doll, aod a doll's house full of ail aorta
of nico furniture," eagerly spoke ep
little Bessie.
L ? I woulJ giro mine to Mrs. Gray,
get some medicine for sick little Jenny,'
timidly replied Katie Brown. "Tkey
are ao poor; yes, a great deal poorer
than we are.
Mary had tried to speak, but there
was something ia her throat that almost
choked her.
Presently the superintendent noticed
her, and his kind "Come, Mary, it ia
your turn now," encouraged bar so reply.
"Oh ! sir," said she, "I would lay my
crown at Jesus' feet !
Dear little readers of our paj or, what
would you do had ynn a crown of-fold?
-e-Morning Light. >
Brilliant Sermon**
Sir Astley Cooper, en visiting Pane,
was asked by the surgeon, en th%f of the
empire how many titans he had ?er?
formed a certain wonderful feat ef
surgery. Ho replied that he had per
formed the operation thirteen time*.
"Ah, but, numsiour, 1 have dor,* hin?
one hundred aud sixty tiiuo. , !le?
many times did you save his life ?" eesu
tinu-d the curious Frenchman, after he
had rooked into the blank aeaa-ue-moot
of Sir Astley'a face, "I," said the
Baghshman, "saved ele-veu set tvf t??
thine. n. i How many did yon enea out
ef the one hundred and sixty!" "Ab,
I pjonsiear I lose dem all, j^j|^yat>
' atiou^was very briitiant.'*
Of fcoV many poV^tr^sAerV^lgh*
the same verdict ^?'gtvert! VtMaf %re
Moi **Past?isa heeV jMs# tr|fs>ld|ifs(p ?* ferjr
j hrilliaut. Thousands arc aUraeted and
[ operated on by the rhet'orleiaeVarf, but
?wh*>: sbhenid h??? t**ej eif hin
?fW;1- ^*SfMHwV?r:
lilbos were very bnlluul. ?Si>urjeo>li%