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GOD A.JSTO tol/Tl COUNTRY
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 18T5.
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A L W A YS LV AD V.VNCTEB
NUMBER 18
Talk with a Bird.
JEAXNETTE O. ANDERSON*.
"Why dost thou leave thy perch, my bird,
And silent crouch upon thy breast ??
Why is thy voice in song unhcitrd !
Why, trcoBure-trove, so silly rest'!
Tho tone's that mind of love?tiro hushed
Thy glossy wings aro drooping now ;
Hath death our little songster crushed
And laid ao muoh of beauty low ?
When 1 beheld thy beauteous wings,
Thy porfeot form, thy satin dress?
My heart to graco, and beauty clings,
I longed for theo to love,?caress.
I took thee ! And the sweet rare strain,
Pour'd from a heart of melody
Soon won from solitude's dull pain
And I retained, imprisoned theo!
Our brief companionship was sweet,
Free from guile, from passion's heat,
From unkind act, from passion's heat,
'Twos gontle, puro; 'twas quiet?still.
Mcthinks I did theo wrong, dear bird
To held thee e'en in kind r?wtr%int,
Since doad?in fanoy I havo hoard
A birdling voico in self complaint.
Doth holy nature fool no pain
When simple insect life departs ?
Her lessons pure, arc useless?vain
When soltish laws rule human hearts.
Sweet bird, thy wail falls on life's dream
And opens memory's sacred cell
Whoro golden laws like jewels gleam
And echo weaves a mystic spell.
Thou'rt dtad, dear bird, with pbunngo rare,
I ne'er enn givo back life to tliee;
Jlutji would havo thy spirit bore
?8 to birds, now haply free.
*s that boost
jrjri
_^*mi6n Itulc" ?hall he (htir shield.
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DUPED.
A. crotchety and contrary old chap
WitB Joel ;; Shellenbarger, n rich old fur
ruer. 'He had made his way in the
World by the doggedest obstinacy?seiz
ing hold of whatever came in his way.
and retaining that hold as though life
depended upon it.
Joel had one eon?a handsome, clear
headed, sound man? straight as ;> young
larch, tall, aud as set iu his wiy, who n
he choso to have one, as Joul himself.
This son, ns ho grew up, had proved n
great assistance to his father in work
ing tho farm, and his services had beeu
made tho mnpt of.
Joel Shellcnbarger and his sou diff.r
ed ofton, but there were two points in
which the difference amounted to so me
thing Ecrious. The hr.st point win corned
education, for which the old man had
profound contempt, aud the son had
net. There was a college some twelve
miles distant from the Shelto-iburgor
farm, and thither Anson betook himself,
iu spite of continued opposition, and by
inc. contrivance and another, kept him
self there till ho graduated Joel Shell en
Ir.rger contested the ground inch by
inch, but was afraid in his selfishness to
do anything moro than bo obstinate,
lest hisson should leave him. That w:n
the first point of diffcronco, and that
was how Anson settled it. The socond
wns not likely to bo so easy of arrange
mont. At college Anson hud fouud
something else besides graduating h >n
ors. He had chanced upon a vory charm
ing oonibinntiou of curls and azure oyos.
a red-lipped, dimpled cheeked fairy,
daughter of one of the professors, who,
inEtcad ot curving her dainty lip nt the
homcRpun suit which his poverty and
his father's niggttrdness compelled him
to -wear, never scorned to bo conscious
of anything or anybody when he was
by. In short, Anson hud iound so am
one to lovo. Some ono that ho wanted
to marry, as he gravely informed his
fnthor.
Bad enough to marry any ono, seeing
his fnthor wasn't through with htm yet;
but a town girl i 11 o should ncvor oou
t.ent. and every Shellcnbarger ncie
vuld go to strangers before Anson
have one, if ho persisted in au
ridiculous!
pruy ffhat harm is thoro in
^ov?n girl V questioned, ?tirb o
when Anson told her, half
laughing, half vexed, and altogether
rueful; for, ^without assistance from his
father, he could not marry Barbie for a
long time yet.
Anson' laughed again, but with potna
embarrassment, saying: "My lather is
afraid that a daughter of Professor
Ilalmstcad would not make a very good
farmer's wife."
"Docs he think ?"?Barbie hesitate 1,
looking with so iling perplexity at her
littlo white hands.
"These pretty hands don't know
much about brewing, baking, etc. IS*
aptly; i bcliovi he thinks just tl at."
"Then he thinks wrong," says Bar
bic, reddouiug and looking up at her
lover with a comical little pout. "Didn't
I fchear you say you needed a servaut at
homo ? I've a miud to go down and
offer for tho place."
Alison laughed oujoyiugly.
"Wo need one bad enough, but my
father will not suffer one iusidc tho
house."
"Why, how do you live thoa ? Who
cooks for you, uow ttiut your mother is
ill?"
"Wo do our own cooking," Ansou
said, with a return of the half smiling,
half embarrassed expression. "We cook
for ourselves, or do without."
The very day succeeding tho one
which witnessed this conversation, An
son was nt homo busying himself over
some colinnry operations, when the out
sido door, which stood ajar, was noise
lessly pushed wide open, and a singular
ly attired form presented itself on the
threshold. It wore a red and green
plaid dress, tho checks v^ry large, a
yellow shawl and a very frowsy and
tumbled white bonnet. A red feather
nearly as long as Alison's arm streamed
[ from one side, and within the bvl'.rr-ft^i^
MfiBBP^S"*?mon?e mil Ol t cap wYiichT
' clung oiosc around tho face of the
st ranger. The face, what could be seen
oi it, was a very curious otic to be iusidu
of sn. h a bonnet and cap. J u?t now as
she surveyed the kitchen and Anson-*
herself unseen, the muscles of her tnoutll
twitched nervously, and her eyes I wink
led with roguish br-ghtncss.
Presently Ansou looked that way.
Distantly the face took lugubrious
length, aud coming into the room, the
girl said hesitatingly, but without look
ing at bim ;
"Aii' would ye be nfthcr bivin' a sor
vnut, to day ?" and stood iidgetiug with
the fringe of her shawl.
"1 believe not," said Ansou, coliring
.with some annoyance, pet haps at tho na
tute of his employment.
?'Sure, sir, an' tho lady thatsiiit me,
God bless her swate eyes ! said you'd
be sure tu '.'kr me on her reconiiucudu
tioii^ which 1 has in uiy pocket, an'
here 'tis now."
She gave him a note which proved to
be from Barbie liahustcad. Auson read
it with "try lover like carefuliidss, but
shock bis bead.
"I'm very Sony, my p<or girl, but wo
do not wish to hire a servant."
<-liolii:e your father mayn't object
wheu he sees me," the girl parsisted.
Ansou looked tit the spoiled win to
oonnet and tlie red feather, and repress
cd a sinilc, wondering what his lather
would say. But he was of too kindiy a
nature to be willing to expose even this
servant to his father's rough manner.
He repeated what be bad said before,
assuring her that it would be of no use
to see his father.
The girl stood a moment.
"If you pieasc, sir, I'll just sco him a
moment. llclike he may take a liken'
to the looks o' mo."
And before he could reply she had
crossed the room anil stood upon the
threshold of the next. Ansou followed
presently, curious lo see what kind of a
reception she would get.
? ?Shuro. an' I'll do niorou worth to
vecs," she was saying, with innocent um
phnsis, as Ansou entered
Sho talked rapidly, pouring out such
a torrent of words that the old man
could not, by any possibility, slip ono iu
among them, and sat regarding her with
an expression tf ustouishmcut.
This remarkable volubility completely
bafiled the old mail's slowuoss. lie
could not say a word if ho wished to,
and sho concluded, ' I can cook flapjacks
and corn bread that'd bring the very
eyes out iv ycr head and make ye swally
yer touguo with the delicate somcucss."
Ho asked her, with a sudden smile,
how much she expected to .net for doing
all these things.
"Scveittydivo cents a week," was tho
prompt reply.
With a still more cunning laugh,
Joel offered her half tho money. Gr ally
to his amazement she agreed at once
and he found himself, to uso his own
expression, "in lor it." To add to his
chagrin, Anson stood by, laughing with
i utensj enjoyment.
But the girl, without further ado,
proceeded to disencumber herself of her
bonnet and shawl, and vanish in the di
rcction of the kitchen before anything
could be said.
As she shut the door she stole :.
glance at Anson that made him start and
bite his lips, and presently he stole
k itch on ward also. She was already at
work htiodling a broom like an adept.
and grumbling in her rich tongue at the
dust that had accumulated in the corn
era.
Plie did not look up as Anson entered; !
but he s t (i? WU ttlld dtliberated, aud
furtively watched her. For some time |
she seemed unconscious of his scrutiny; j
but presently she turned and clasping
Loth her little hands upon the top of
the broom h audio, said, with a mixture
ol bravado ami, archness too natural to
be mistaken :
"Well, Anson, what do you think '"'
The young mau laughed and looked
at uo-ed iu the staue breath.
"'1 hen it i-s you, Barbie '{" he sad,
? I was suspecting something of t;t?
sort "
"Not till ! iookcjl tit you," said th-i .
<_ir! roguishly retreating as he approach
^mmmmmmmU^-? . ? wmr - , ? ?
'?J'o you thltik/M is ([utte the thing,
Barbie '!"
"Shu;.: 'ail why ain't it. t'io thin ; f ?r
it poor girl t!i be gottiu' lier living ill
li ill ly and lto:ie-ii ly t"
??Does your lath r know of thi? lVir
bio '. V. !. .t would he say V persevered
Alison.
??Sl ice, an it's not my own ladder
would be iiitcrfWiu' wtd jmc, would
bei1" sa d BiddyJ in vain v.ere all
rcmotutinuros with the r;>_"t:-:h and
willful girl, Hie persisted in being
Biddy evcfli to , him, und maintained a
distance between him and llarbic in her
own j io] er self. A unoyed, provoked,
ohnrs>rincd, almos t angry, the ad % cut of
hi> father (or cd him to retire from *.h*
kitchen, for ftnr of betraying Barbie's
secret, which ho would not have d >n ;
for a good deal.
It vns several hours before he could
return to the house, his futhe! upou one
pretext or another having detained him.
When t.t last they entered together,
kitchen and sitting room, buh of which
had Inch b it in a n.o>t untidy state
when they left there, had undergone
such a rtmkuruble renovating process
that old .Joel drew back at first, thin!'
ing that he had set foot in sot nobody
olio's house instead of h is own.
Supper was sinotiking on the table;
such a supper as old Joel, at least, had
not .seen for months. To crown till,
Mrs. Shellenbarger was sitt ing propped
up with pillows, in a great easy chair,
ami looking wonderfully Contented, ami
with reason?the poor lady had not had
a woman's hand about her, before, sinoc
her illne.-s. Jool Shellenbarger sat
down to tliO dniittly spreid table, and
made a most hearty and kei illy relished
meal, glancing askance at Biddy in an
while Anson, btrungc to say, ate very
little, and ho watched Biddy askance,
too.
1 haven't time to givo particulars,
but having mndo a good beginning,
with a truo Irirli felicity, Biddy estab
lished herself, in a short time eotnpleto
ly in the j^iiod graces of tho obi man
lie hud a lurking likeness for neatness
and good order, and Mrs. Shollcubarger
poor woman, wasn't a neat housokeoper.
Under the new reign, order grew out of
chaos, tho. houso seemed iu holiday garb
nil the time, ami an atmosphero ol so
cial cheerfulness porvaded overywhore.
One marning the obi mau ended a
grumbling complaint of Anson with;
?? never sco no good como of odoidation
yet. If it hadn't boon for that colloge
Slushiest* you might have taden a liding.
ta a Ftnsible girl, und she to you.'
lie glanced at Biddy ?8 she spoku
She turned scarlet, mid came very near
Jt'Cprong the dish she was hoidiug* Lt
? as not the first timo Ansou had heard
t|on insinuations, and he rather enjoy
d Biddy's trepfdutiou.
'Sec here, father,'ho said roguishly,
\just pick tue out a wile; and see what
'rill come of it.'
I 'The only girl I duow of worth hav
Uig wouldn't have you, I daro say?
ould )ou, Biddy?' Joel said, gram
iing, but turning suddenly to the
id.
? 'SI uro, sir an it isn't tncself that he'll
bf after having any man till I'm asked.'
'Biddy; will you marry me '.'said An
son, gravely extending his hind.
'I will that now,, said Biddy, prompt
It putting her hand in Ina while old
J .-el can c near choking himself with
awjiizcmcnt. it was ton late to recede,
[ever, whotlur he ha I really wishc d
fit ch thing or not, as they soon made
hwn understand. II.' wont out of doors
? si ntly privately pinnhing himself to
i'.R/crtain if ho wore really in his senses
o&hot. Seeing the two standing by
th3 window in closo conversation soon
at'tinr, be crept with the saiiie laudable
intention toward lb -in under cover of
tho bu lie.- that grew by tin; houso.
pNow, Barbio,' Anson was sayiug,
ladgdilingly,'what is to be done next?
1 ^c'tiht say you l::?vo manage i wonder
r.
hi
Bi k\y at ':'
SJSut Biddy at ally screamed Joel,
w t'n a Hidden sc..-? ic'ou of what be
M:/\v ii'-t what, as he .-.t-.uied out of his
t0 hir; but what do you Bitpposo
io-x pa\ when In knows you're uot
I'idJy. tlie Whito frill.of
i?r c^ose cap a.-, i iitm^th^T^T^^Qf^V.z
1 l?ghud, though, when she saw him and
deliberately taking off her cap, shook
her bri_ht uin Is all about her fie..-, and
rcuchiug towards him hur lis:Ij hau J,
said ;
'?i?hurc, sir, :;n' ye won't b% after
hating a poor girl because bur name's
Barbie Ilalmstead instead of Biddy
O'Flyhn !'
"You?yon Prof. Halmstertd's girl ?'
?'Professor ilalmstead is my father,"
.-aid Barbie, i-: her natural voice.
''What's that
Barbie rcapeateJ it.
"A nd you'u- not Irish ?"
''.Never a bit !?'
The ill man stool a moment, olouds
gulhciing in bis face.
"Wi II, Ans?n,' bo' said, rather sauci
ly. 'you huvc outwitted me again; much
goi d may it do you. Vou'd better get
out ib.; horses now, and take Ilalmttead
girl home, lie must want to soc her by
t his lin o "
"Yes, sir.'' And Anson colored with
minglod anger and atna/omotit.
Barbie di 1 not ch in go counton nice,
however. Extending that pretty band
of hers again, she said, sweetly: " You'll
shake hands with mo, sir?"
J ,>id Shellcnbargcr t trued back and
gavo his hand awkwardly. The girl
took it in both hers, bending her bright
arch lace toward him, saying.
"J shall come luck sumo time, sir.
Will you bo g'ad to see mo ?'
"Ye'yca come back j Biddy??I mean
Miss O'Flynn--! mean Miss"?
"Uarhio," suggested th ) girl quietly,
bo'tor. 'l iiere, Alison, make the most
on,' !".
Barbie did c nun buk. in a very few
weeks, too, and noboby waJ gladder to
?e : her than J i I though lu was a lit
shy at first of I'rofossor Ilalmstead's
giil. Sho soon made him forget every
thing save th ii shi) was Alison's wife;
and tho way he bum irod that sly pu s
to .sundry grants ol money, rcf urnisliiug
and l(-pairing, etc.. 1 couldn't bear to
tell.
? mmmma ?? ? ? ? ? ?
Mew frequently is the honest and
integrii; of a man disposed of by a
smile or shrug7 How many good and
generous actions have bcon Mink into
oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamp
cd with the imputation of proceeding
IVoiu bud motive.-*, by a mysterious and
seasonable whisper !?Stornc.
People who dance never pay tho fid
dlcr. It is those who get up tho ball.
His Time- for Fitldliu'*.
A Bible canvasser called info a house
(in Macomb sticet yesterday to see if ho
couldn't sell u book. A small lathe
girl opened the door in answer to his
knock, und just as he entered a man
silling ou the odgo of a forlorn looking
bed raised a ?ddlo to his shoulder and
commenced scraping out a tune.
'Have you a bible in the hou-'C V ask
cd the canvasser as he crossed the
room.
'-?ary l'ib'e,' answered the man,
'and ?
OKI Dan Tucker
Drcampt a di cam !'
'Or a hymbook V coatinucd the can
vaescr.
'No?nary, and ?
If you love nie "Wollte darling,
, Let your answer be a kiss.'
'I am agent for the sale of this Bible '
said the agent, taking the volume out |
of his satchel.
'Couldn't buy ono cover, and? |
Oh, dnikics bow my heart grows weary, j
Sighing for the old folks at hr.nc'
'I can sell you the b iok lor a small
amount down and the balance in week
ly payments. A groat many ?
'Bibuls are all right, but E'vo got a
sore foot, and ?
'Twas a calm stiil night,
Aud the moon's pale light.'
'If you do not care to read the b>ok
youisclfyou should uot rel'uio your
children permission,' remarked the can
vasscr.
'And the old woman's up stairs, 6ick
with fever, and?
They Wok her off to Georgia
To toil her life away.'
'But it seems hard to think that you
arc permitting yourself and faintly to
live in'ignor.inco. of religious?'
j 'Bibuls is till^Hit, and I'd encour
age them if times was.i't so blaste 1?
Ha ! hn ! hn ! yen nnd me ,
Little brown jug do i't 1 love the?.'
'I hive a smaller coition tike this ?
You can have that ijy paying Offcy cents
down and twenty five cents per week
until p iid up.'
'No use, etrangor,' ropliod tho man;
there hain't nothing to do, money is
tight. and ?
I've wandered this wide world,
All over.'
?I wish you would cease that fiddling
aud tinging for n mo ncnt ami let mo
ittlk to you said the agent.
'Bibuls is all right, you is all right,
and?
Uh ! this world is sad and dreary
Everywhere 1 roam.'
'Won't you stop for just one mo
incut ?'
I'd like to oblige you, but now's my
regular ti.ue for (iddting and singing
and?
Up in a baloon, 1 oya,
Up iu a balloon.'
?Then I can't sell you a Bible Task
cd the aget:t.
'Don't look as if you could, for ?
I've wandered through the village, Tom,
I've sat beneath the iree.'
And the canvasser left tho house in
despair.
The ?reiiiiin of tlic steam healing np
paratus at the Central depot-yesterday
found a penny [as he was raking ovor
the hut ashes in tho furnace, nnd be
took it up with the tongs and placed it
on n bench outside to cool off. It had
bat lily commenced to cool when ^n
heavy man named Johnson, living i n
Saginaw, came along. Ho was talking
business with a friend, and as bo came
to the bench bo parted bis coat tails
and sat down on the penny, remarking :
"As 1 was saying, you can have forty
acres for?whoop! Thunder and,biases
?ouch ? dash it?gosh to whoop I" Ho
galloped around iu wild atnazetnout, tho
hot penny sticking ;o him like a brother,
aud it was two or throe minutes bel'oro
any one found out whether ho hid
dropped down ou a tack or beau bitten
by a dog. There was a heavy arotua o I
burning cloth and blistered meat, and
?v'r. Johnson stretched forth his arm
and exclaimed that ho should devote tho
remainder of his lifo to hunting down
the fiend who thus planned to waylay
him.? Detroit Free /V?s.
????> ? ?? ? ??????? i ? ? -
Ifslandor bo a sn.iko, it*is a winged
one. It Hies us well as creeps. ? Doxi
f//<ts Ffrruhl,
How to Estimate tho Profttsofa.
Farm. ,At
The farmer Hycs in his wSfu house.
The use of the house, which he does
not pay for. is as ?euch a part of his
income as the monry Which'a salaried
man pays for rent it- of \ igj and should
be counted as such in in estimate or
tho profits of the farm. All things pro
duocd on the fium dnd cocBume&on the
farmer's table, includiug tho vegetables
from the garden, the eggs and milk
used in cookingyhte as much a part of
his income as the tponp/i^aid/Tor suoh
things out of his.salary.is of tjio salar
ied man. If a farmer gives his wife
bud children ' a pleasant ride fa towa,
using his own hows cod wagon, the
value of their uso is part of bin incemo
froui his farm, nd truly as the money ?
man pays out'of ? bhv salary foi* carriage,
biro is ol his. Tho ,oprreof,'r.ulo for
estimating the income jfrom. a larm is
substantially' this: Give credlb for
every aciclo produced/ used di expend
ed in any way whatever, no matter 'how
small in value, as well as for cash re
ceived for products sold, and for in
creased value of farm property, and
charge against the farm for interest on
capital invested, and for ali expendi
turcs. The farmer that' will'do this
from year to year 'will not 60 much feel
like complaining of the unprofitableness
of farming as compared with other pur
suits. The fact is, not ono in a hundred
farmers take into consideration the lux.
ury and comforts of froah eggSj ,butter1
milk, fruits, etc., that thoy would have
to pay high p'rice3 for if thoy lived iu
towns, or llo without them. . . ?
Keen tho Farm uiid Home T?*?y.
... Wt%m,... ?^ ^?^,4.-...-e
Somebody, wefknow n06 who, wrote,
years ago, tho following gqod .advioe.
Like other good things, it comes to the
surface occasionally,1 and will bear re
pealing: r 1 r
If you get a moment of time, spruce
up; put tho gate on the hinges, put a
little paint on tho pioket fe?co you
built last year; tHm up tho dooryard,
make it cosy and invitjng. _ Do not say
you can iiud uu timo to attend to these
things. Tho faot is, you have no right
to bo slovenly. It cau do no good, but,
on the contrary, it will mar yourfpeacei
wound your self-respect and impair
your credit. Then, by all means, spruoe
up a little, at odd l im and even Liatea
too, for that matt er. It will make yon
feel vastly better, and, may be, trifio
proud of your predy liomcstead. Your
w ife and children will be made happier
for it, your neighbors will bo enriched,
beautified and blessed by it." Your farm,
will be worth tuoro money id the rfrarkefc
and of greater value to you at hotre, if
you spruce up a little now and then.
When I was a boy there waabut oao
permanent ambition among my com
ladca in our villagoon tho west bank of
the Mississippi river. That was to be
steamboat man. We had transient
ambitions of other sorU, but thay: were
only transient. When n circus came
and went it left us all burning to become
clowns; the first negro minstrel show
that came to our section Joft us all
suffering to try that kiud of lifoj. now
and then wo had a hope that if wo lived,
and wore good, God would permit us to
be pirates These ambitions faded out,
oach in its turn; but the ambitiou to be
a steamboat man remained.?Mark
Twain, in the Atlantic, I
Conk _(to fellow servant who has been
alter a new place)?"Well, 'lijza, will
it suit?" Eliza?"Not if [knows it 1
Why, when 1 got thoro, blest if there
wasn't the two young ladies, of the
'ouso both a usin' of ono piano at the
s.tino time! Weil, thinks 1, this is a
coming down iu tho world 1 So I
thought i was best say good morning!"
?Punch.
An inebriated man/ Walking along
too street, regarded the moon with
sovereign contempt. ''You needn't fool
to proud," he. said. "Ypu are only full
ouco a month, and I am full ?V?ry
night." ? 1 ?<
They take lifo easy in Mississippi,