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VOLUME XXXVI.
A CHILD OF NATURE.
lit JOAgl'lX MILLER.
Now beautiful she was* I Haw wild !
Haw pure as water plant, this child,
This one wild child of nnture here
[ Grown tall in shadows. And how near
To God. where no man stood between
I Her eyes and scenes no man hath seen.
Stop still, my friend, and not stir.
Shut close your pnge nn.l think of her.
This maiden by her cabin stood,
The one sweet woman of the wood,
The birds sang sweeter for her face,
Her little eyes were like a grace
To Woodmen of that polituJe.
Aye. she was fair, and very fair,
The rippled riTers of her hair
That ran in wondrous wares, somehow
Flowed down divided by her brow.
And flooded all her breast of snowIn
its uncommon fold and flow.
Yet in her splendid strength, her eyes,
There lay the lightning of the skies;
The lore rage of the lioness.
To kill the instant, or caress;
A pent up soul that sometimes grew
Impntieut; why, she hardly knew.
j 'TWIXT CUP AND LIP.
, One July cyening in 1791. moat of
j the little table* outside the (\ifc du
j Afedi. in the curious old town of Nismes,
were occupied by customers who seemed
to be very much of one way of thinkI
ing, nnd that way not tho popular one , i
| fur tbc language held wa% of a charac!
ter bold indeed, and rarely held in those
days of Terror, when a careless wurd reI
ported in official quartets was good fur
; the utterer's heal.
| What Is the news?" asked a young
: man. who wore his own hair, !oup, fall.
,t.u vli.inl.lpro annroachini/ a !
,un ,w 1 _r* ~. |
! group appareutlj absorbed in a coll. e
i tion of newspapers 1) in;; before iheui, I
j from which first one and then anotnrr
would read an extract. Sometime* two
'quidnuncs broke into quotation simultaneously,
and then it was more difficult
to follow them ; when it so happeucd
three were retailing tit bits all together,
it became well-nigh impossible to make
out what any ouc individual was reading
about; but an all wanUd to disclaim
and none to listcu, that mattered very
little.
The new comer, however, had a Lona
fiiile wish to hear, and was therefore
hailed witli delight.
"What is the Dews?"
"Good news!" "Capital news!"
"Might have been better.*' "The
wolves continue to te?r one anothar."
"But be definite, some one. please,"
said the last arrival.
"Merely an attempt to r ach Robe-"
pierrc and Collot d'llerhois with the
dagger, which has failed." replied tha
one who was quickest with his tongue.
"But the next may succeed !" cried
lucother; pistols will not always miss
fire, Like those of Ladiointl."
I "But will not these futile attempts
: revive the popularity of the wretches?
The potgnard of Charlotte CorJ?y dc.
ficd Marat."
"That was diff-rent ; Charlotte aven:
ged J.umanity, but it is the eneinie* of
tho huuian raco who hive now turned
: upon one another."
"lli*t 1 Parlox bas!"
The warning foico came from a pray
j headed man who had hitherto listened
! in Hilcnce. and as the caution ran from
; table to table, conversation waa hushed,
and all eyes wire turned toward an ap.
proaching figure, whose aspect was certainly
somewhat tiuistcr.
He waa a short, thick set man, with
aqua re, powerful shoulders, remarkably
' long arms, aud bow legs. His broad
brimmed hat was slouched on his close
j cropped head, and tho lower part of his
face was enveloped in a larirc handkerchief.
which oue would imagine must
have been worn for disguise rather
; than protection from the air on tout
warm evening. As he advanced along
! the street ha hod a trick ot glancing to
right and left with a quick motion of
his small gray eyes, which by no means
rendered bis aspect more reassuring
On approachiug the raft he hesitated
as though debating if he should enter
aud order some refreshment ; hut whether
(he company assembled was not to
i his taste, or for some other reason, ho
passed on, and turned up one of the
narrow street a debouching into theopuo
space whore tho cn/e was situated.
' Who is I e ?" inquired the same man
who had previously domauded the news
or the U;:y.
1 Lenoir."
! "What ! tho bloodhound of the Convention
? The man who organized
i Robespierre's b-jdy guard of assassins?"
"The same; I remember liiinwell;
he is a native ol Nisuies. being the son
"of a respectable manufacturer there. He
carried on tho business for some time
alter the old man's death, but about six
*1" tli A tr/llllilffl
years ago, suumjr ucium ...? ,
he sold evervthing aud went to l'tirie."
'"Ah, I recollect," said a bystander,
lie demanded tho band of Mademoiselle
tie Montreval, and the proud old baron
bad bitu kicked out of the house by bis
, servants. He left rowing vengeance,
i and I wonder that be bis not taken it.
for tbsy say that he has terrible iuflu..
' cncc."
' Vengeance," cried another; "be
has wreaked it sufficiently on the class,
if he lias spared the individual, a para,
lyzed old man whose life is a burden to
him. And then, if he has generously
left the brad of the girl, who oould uot
lovo bis ugliness, ou her shoulders, be
i at least done bis best to blight her life
i by denouncing poor Henri Kiqurt. her
1 betrothed, who only saved himself by
taking refuse in Kngland, aud leaving
lua estates to bj confiicatod. besides,
i who knows what bo bat eomo back here
iiwr
CAM
"No good. I fear; I almost wonder
why I)e Montreval and his lovely and
charming daughter did uot emigrate
too."
'The old man was too infirm to travel,
and mademoiselle would not leave hiin."
Meanwhile the principal object of
j this conversation continued his way
through tlto streets till ho carno to the
house of the mayor, which ho entered,
and*was received with a great show of
cordiajity.
"Welcome Citizen Lenoir," said the
functionary, a Iran, wizen-faced man,
with timid eyes and a cringing manner,
"welcome once more to the town which
has the honor of beiog the place whore
so illustrious a patriot first saw the
light."
"I do not c*re for compliment*, Citizen
Mayor; you have the letter?"
"Certainly; and3*our boxea have arrived
too."
"Any dispatches?"
"Yes, several. I have had them all
taken to your room "
"Ah, my room. Let me see it, if yon
please"
Tho mayor had appropriated the best
chamber in the house for tho reception
of a gurst ho honored?or feared?so
much But Lenoir was dissatisfied,
and, after going over the whole establishment.
selected a disused and dimly
lighted little room over tho stables for
his residence duriog his stay.
"Such a miserable, melancholy hole!"
remonstrated the mayor.
"Never mind that," replied Lenoir,
"it suits m<j, 1 can go Fn and out and
receive whom I like there without obxerration.
So just send my package
and letters iu there, together with a table
and couch of some sort, and writing
materials, if you please. and then give
me the key of the door."
"It slrtll be ns you wish, citizen Lenoir.
And now you will take something;
you must be faint oftcr your
journey from?whero did you say you
had made your last stay
"I said nothing about it. Anything
will do for me, a crust of bread and a
glass of wine?Spartan f?rc. I loathe
your ari-tocratic banquets."
In spite of which sentiment the fru.
?i J .i - r..?i ..n,i
gai UC Lilt 'CI ill* UCIUl'llOlllU ?i IUU I| uui I
made a considerable hole iu a pate <fc |
foie gr *, washing the same down with
u bnttlo of excellent Pom ward.
When he had finished. he threw his
napkin on the table, and said to his
host?
"The committee are not satisfied with
you. Citizen Mayor."
"Indeed," stammered the poor man,
turning white, ''and yet, in what can I
have offended?"
"You show a lack of zeal. Now, for
instance, that abominable aristocrat,
Piquet, has returned to th:s department,
and you have not arrrstcd him."
"Kiquct! what, the emigre! It is
hardly possible. Pardon me, but arc
you sure ? It seems incredible that my
agents should not bavc recognized him."
"Oh, of course he is disguised," replied
Lenoir, "but my information is
correct enough?ouly I ought to have
received it throngh you. lie is closely
watched and cannot escape; yet for old
acquaintance sake I wish to afford you
the chance of regaining the c?nfideuco
that has been weakened. I will therefore
give you the requisite information
by which you can have him arrested
without my name appearing in it. I
will allow the credit to you ?no, you
need not thank me, I have plenty to
spare. And now I will go to my room,
for I have a hard night'* work before
me. If any messenger asks for me, or
any dispatches arrive, let me know at
once."
The mayor when left alone, groaned.
"Poor Kiquat!" he .said to himself,
how could hn be so mad as to come
back ? IIat I must go oa now. and do
Lenoir's bidding. My owt^ head depends
upon it."
On tho the third day from this, Julie
do Montre7al was sitting alone, endeavoring
to Gx her attention on the book
in her hand, when the old servant who
remained faithful to them in all their
troubles announced a stranger and prcs
eutly L 'noir entered. She could not
repress u shudder at the first sight of
him, but mastered her feelings a1 most
instantaneously, and a?ked his business.
"I have coma to nncw my former pro-;
po?al," Haid lie ; "stop, do not apeak (ill
you have heard rn?; out. I urn no longer
in the humble position in wnich you
knew me; I am powerful, and shall he
far more so speedily, for "treat events
are about to happen, and I shall rise
with them. You arc prejudiced against
me, I know, yet you owe uic gratitude.
It was through my influence alone that
your father has been left unmolested
the lust live years, and whether I had
cause to exert that influence in your belialf*
or against. yuU, you know best.?
Whether I continue to do so depends
entirely on yourself, I have been sent
down on a mission which has fo its
principal object the purging of this department
from certain notorious enemies
; the name of Dc Montreval is on
the list of the proscribed, an 1 1 warn
you plainly that I wiil no longer incur
the risk of protecting you without re*
ward. (Joe word more: Henri Unjust
has returned to Franc, so that his life
aUo is in the balance?if you care any,
j thing about him still. Well, you know
j my tortus, they are simple. He my
. wife, and you and your.s arc safe ; re'
fuse aud you all perish Do not reply
to uic, take forty oight hours to eon,
sidor, at the end of that time I will
call for my answer."
lis had hardly fioi-lwd those last
words beforo Julie's brain swaut round
tod tto toattot Wbw rtn rftmnrt
[DEN, S. C., DECEMBE
consciousness he was pone.
At first she thought she could never
brinp herself to make the hateful sacrifice
demanded of her, but terror did its
work, and when Lenoir came again she
promised to be his.
******
A week elapsed and L?noir was still
at Nismes; he sat on his he 1 in the
dingy little room over the mayor's sta.
ble, which he had appropriated, with a
bpok iti his hand, and a manuscript
book, the letters of which should have
been written in blood.
"At last," he murmured, laving the
volume on the table?"at last, I, who '
was spurned from her father's door. I (
shall be her husband, her master !?
Everything sjccecds with ?ne; aod
presently, when Robespierre ia dictator,
what may I not rise tof I have made ,
mv.u?lf nf-n^^snrv to him. and ho will
"V ? J .
not be able to neglect nie; I have taken (
care of that! AnJ does she think. po>r ,
fool, that I shall spare my rival* Hut
my timid friend the mayor wid bear the ,
blame of that business. It is strange, ,
though, ihnt the despatches do not |
come from Paris; five day* after the ,
timv specified ! Can anything wrong ; \
have happened' Ah! no doubt they J
have arrived," he added, as some one .
knocked at his door. |
He rose aud opened it, and received, j
not indeed the papers he expected, but ,
a filo of the Paris journals.
lie took theuj, locked the door again. ,
and returned to his seat on the bed. (
The first words he read struck him like i j
a ihundei bolt. "Defeat of the Con. ,
spiraey ogaiust the Convention. Arrest ,
of Robespierre. St. Just, Caulhon. Sui- ;
cidc of Lcbass." ,
Th.-n further on the whole horrible (
Btory ; the shattered jaw?the state of |
the drunken llcnriot when taken. In |
a later paper there was an account of |
the final scene. which cut off all hope of ]
retrieval. Robespierre was dead I I
Turning over the journal* after real- j
izing thin great fact in a stunned and ,
instructive manner, Lenoir cainc upon a
li?t of uames which once more slimulu- .
ted his attention?a list audi as he had
himself often prepared, of men doomed ,
to the knife, and?his owu name was j
there! i
Lapland.
A French traveler, M. Vandal, who
recently visited Northern Sweden to sec ;
the "midnight sun," as it appears on the 1
24th of June, gives the following ac. j
count of the country and its people : "II j
the Lapps deserve the p.ilm of ugliness : j
among all the inhabitants of old Europe, '
their country is assuredly the most ;
frightful of our continent. Horror is j
its special characteristic; stony plains ,
succeed dried up marshes, the soil only
shows at long intervals, covered with a
blackish moss. Yet wo are crossing
forests, but the firs composing them do J
not pa-s three feet in height. The zone
of dwarf trees succeeds that of gigantic
firs, likti Lapps beside Scandinavians
Now and then a strip of cultivated laud j
bring* rest to the eye; rye an 1 wheat '
ripen in forty days, and beneath au un- , ,
setting sun acquire a strange a no rapid
development. In tho north, corn stalks
?! /? <>fion ??illnr f linn tlu> tr.'es. .Sonic-'
timed a few lowly ll jwers tinge tiie hill- I
side with their sickly greenery, scarcely
tail as grass which hag just bfgan to
grow. Hut these fugitive appearances
do not last?the desert begins again.
Tumble down cabins, in which the cat,
tie are Bhut up in winter, occur here
and there on tho plains, and only and
through their ruinous appearauco to the
gloomy desolatericss of the land-capo. (
The country, nevertheless^ not without
its inhabitants; there arc neither towns
nor villages, but the miserable buildings
scattered along the river side ap,.
pear at short intervals. Perched on
blocks of stone, which in winter defend
thcui against the as.-aults of the snow
they look rather like huts affording
shelter to a nomad populution than permanent
shelters lor protection of fami.
I lies unJcr a climate the most rigorous
in tho world. Hro.ul skates stand up
against the walls; their put pose is to
bear tho sledges which were u*ed yes!
terJuy and will he used again to morrow, j
On the threshold half naked children
gaze at uh as wo pass; their yellow
hair throwu like a golden niiubus round
their heads. Sometimes tall men smoke !
t-iiwiu .rrfivi.li/ h.ifiir.* llmir door all I
....... rl/w , ? i
wearing red flannel shirts, scarlet caps I
an J a kiud of sleeveless vest in coarse :
woollen staff, black or green. Tinier a j
sky without light, in a colorless country,
the Finns have a passion for those ;
bright tints and high tone of color which |
nature denies them. The women wear
gowns striped blue and tod and parti- !
colored bodices
The night of June 21 is celebrated '
in Northern Sweden l?y a festival which
has perpetuated itself from pagan times
In Finland it is preceded by a universal
open air bath, taken by persons of both
sexes and all ages, 'flic Jay of the
24th is chosen by young folks for their
betrothal on Mount Avasux. On the
first rising of the sun. a hymn is sung
by women. As soon as its full disk
appears there is hii explosion of joy ;
1 choruses uru sung, long strings of dan!
errs stream along the sides of the rounj
dud plateau of ilic mountain, and bom
i tires mix their pale light wilti the sun's
rays.
It is believed by the Chinese, that
'the inventor of ink is ehirg.'d with
i keeping an account of the manner in
! which all ink is used hero below, ami
that for every ubuso of the rccmls a
| blue* mark against the offender.
When is a soldier no loogoj u sjJJijr?
I NVTrru b%'? NvrttrrtJ*
R 11,' *1877.
. A Scone in Iho Senate.
At midnight the Senate lad worn
out the patience of in audience. 'J lie
lighted chamber grew deserted. Mr.
Wadleigh, Chairman of the committee
whose conduct of affairs was impeached
by the coming vo'e. took the floor lor a
measureless sprcch, prolonged by the
droanitig voice of the clerk as he waded !
along from page t > page of the inter- i
niinable record of the last election in 1
South Carolina. All edge and point j
to the night's proceedings wero gone.
Mr. Oglesby, his lace flushed with visible
signs of the source of his wit. rcsj
from page to pago with a meaningless
question, and the Senate, weary and ;
sogged to that last paint where int rroption
is a joke makes a laugh, rippled .
into merriment evrry time the broadshouldered,
smooth faced Senator spoke, j
Mr. Wndleigh, a short, squat man, not j
r>v?r facile nor dignified, added his
share of euffoonery. It was hard to-j
look with patience at the last struggle
of a great party in an historic chamber
sinking to this sttdo pitch. Mr. Wau-|
leigh'y manner invited interruption, j
ind inlorrnntioriM name on all hands 1
from the sleeping aud laughing Senate. '
Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin a tall mau, ;
lcrid in speech, had something to say j
by way of interruption, and Mr. Ransom
interrupted liitn. Page after page of,
reputed evidence were read, charging
Rutlcr with crimes as startling as thoy !
were false, and it came about by those i
urns of debate, which edJv around the j
nterrupliotis of heated m^n, that the
;ouiuiittcc-, and Cameron us chairman, '
was put on its defence f>r hearing this I
iccusing evidence last November with ;
dosed doors. There was n dodging j
:his point. Mr. R aujom held Cameron
5nuly to it. Men listened, laughed at
:he evideut likeness to a cross-examination,
when Ransom leaning forward, his
band to his ear, said : '"I did n >t hear
he witness." These closed doors, this
faint touch of unfair accusation, uudid
ill the hoars of dreary reading.
The slow delay was to go on without
i caro for the miooiity making delay.
Then Mr. II >ar spoke wi'h a good manner
and a bad .cause. It was a harder
light than the afternoon's attack on a
man charged with bargaining the seat!
lie stands indicted for buying. Very
dexterously, standing among the empty ,
desks on the Republican side of the |
empty chamber, Mr. Hoar turned the |
current of remarks and brought Mr.
Ransom to his feet. Dark haired, dark
skinned, flushed to a darker color by
excitement, bis voice husky with passion,
he shouted his answer with a vehemence
that woko the sleepy chamber. It was
necessary that some things should he
said by the majority, become a minority,
which had been said before. Hoar ;
said them. Ransom answered tiie old j
answer, and that was a Certain unusual i
Liinil as he lintel to a new change in
parties the early memories of the Senate's
opening years, as he re ruin led tin
Senate that it was keeping knocking at j
its doirs the kinsman of its earliest, ol 1 e-t
jurist, the elder Butler. IIis nephew
tlie younger Butler, sat behind, by ill
chance 1'atterson at his side and Cono-j
ver hard by. ft was scarcely fitting
that Bu(l*r close as he was, should visibly
prompt the man making his gallant j
defence. First by one Senator and I
then by another, Jones and Gordon. he I
Rent sentences of suggestion. anJ there
was something in these messages com- !
ing from the man freshly attacked that
wound Hansom to a pitch of higher and
higher excitement. Ha nil hut pavo
the lie to the placid lacd New Kn- i
glander, who sat twenty feet off. He i
raised his voice until the sleepers on the j
lounge* roused, and men in the easy,
deshabille of a night session stood in '
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\ 110 SllllllUty Ul Will? L'lUiilv i'/"III u "M.i. |
Still he spoke, his face crowing darker, '
his voico huskier, his gesture violent, j
ami through his vehemence there came J
a fitness that the return of South Caro- .
lina to its o.'d representation in the S miato
should be s> demanded. Unvoice
had thickened to a hoarse whisp-r as he
dropped to his seat, fainting, flushed i
and dizzy. Oil the instant Hoar began 1
to speak, but opposite to him there was '
a stir a call for water, the lusty gathering
of a little group of frightened men, !
and out of it Kansom was led, limp, j
Mumbling, feeling bis way wifh uneer- ;
tain steps, his shoulders drooped, his J
arms swinging, his face purple, his eyes i
staling; all the gl ry and strength gone ;
out of the stung speaker. Very ten-!
derly hiseid corps commander, (iordon,
carried him to the cloak room, nnd the !
Senate's ea<y lounging room the rest of
the night was the sick raom of a man
sick nigh unto death, three doctors and ,
a dozen friends banding and working
over an unconscious, hard-breathing pa
ticnt.
Tongues.
Tongues is very good to etc with, r n J
helps a feller to wissle like Fixty I likes
tongues when they belong to a pig
what's been pickled. I guess pa don't
like tongues of any kind, for he says
ma's {jot the ''devil's own tongue.*' Ho
says Iter's is u wagon tongue, hut 1 always
thnrt wagon tongues was them
poles what they tie the horses to with
leather ropes when they wants them to
pull a lode.
I've just read this over to pa, and he
says he'll give nic a good spaukiu' uu~
less I keep my tongue between my teeth.
Thunder! how does he expect a feller's
; goin' to ete his vittels or wisscl, I'd like
to kuo. That's all I kno about tongues.
Hawk shouting forms quite a business
in Custer county. Colorado. iSixty cents
per bead is paid by the County Treasu.
rer. One tuau brought iu sixty u few
s^Vl
NUMBER 22
Curious Wills.
Pinedo, tl?c Portuguese Jew, wel!
known in Amsterdam for his enormous
wealth and liberal donations, died about
the middle cf the last century. His
will, testifying to a noble and generous1
nature and disposing of the large for-1
tune he had made in the most mngnaui- j
mous and tolerant spirit, is to be found
in Scott's Mirmorabilia Jmlaica'' lib.
iv., cap. 18, as follows :
' I bequeth to the city of Amsterdam j
the sum of five 'tons' of gold." (The j
' ton of gold" is valu-d at 100,000 florins??30.000.)
"I lend to the city for
ten years, and without interest, the sum
of a million and a half of florins. Ji
give to the chri-tian church*'.* at Auistntn.
and nt the Hague, the sum of
10,000 florins each, and to the church
at the southern part of Amsterdam,
20.000 florfns. I give each Christian J
orphanage in the two towns the sum of;
111,000 crowns I give to the poor 1
forty .shiploads of peat.
* 1 ftii'A fr* lit.* iirnlnn wlin vlrnl fii';l I
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quit the orphaitage 1.000 florins, and
to the cue who shall fellow GOO florins,'
I give to the synagogue at Amsterdam
two ami a half 'tons' of gold. I give to j
the Portuguescorphanage30,000crowns
I lend to the Government, at three per;
cent, interest, ten 'tons' of gold, on con-i
dition that the interest he paid to the!
Jews domiciled at Jerusalem, the capital
to talon g to the Government in perpetuity.
1 leave to'he General synagogue I
5.000 florins. I ^ivc to my nephew:
Ovis. thirty one 'tons' of gol-l, wi'h all
my hout. sj.inil uppurtimnnnecs. I give to
my widow ten 'tons' of gold. I give to,
my other relations in equal portions!
10 000 crowns. I give to each of my
neighbors who shall assist at my funeral |
100 ducats 1 give to every untnir-.
ried pcrs oi of either sex who shall be
present at my buri al 100 florins, and to ,
every priest at Amsterdam and at the |
Hague 100 crowns, aod to every sacrU- J
tan 50 crowns."
Interesting to rcord is the last will j
and testament of th-> celebrated Saladin,:
who was born in 1130. and died in 1193. |
after tilling the two continents of Europe
and Alia with his faiue. Sultan'
~r I? l.? ??..J A rnKin i
Ul IIU Ui/Iiij'41'ivu UJIIU, iu.il/iu,
Persia. Mesopotamia, and capturid Je-'
rusalem in 1137. Hi* conquests sufficed
to enable us to judge of the crteut of
his power and wealth. At bis death,
however, lie 9howod that no one was j
more intimately onvinced of the utter
hollowness of the riches and greatness
?>{ the world. lie ordered by bis will,
first, that considerable soun should be
distributed to Mussulmans, Jews and J
Christians, in ord -r that the priests of the |
three religions might implore the mercy i
of God for him; nest, !:c commanded
that the shirt or tunic lie should be:
wearing at the time of his death would be
carried on the end of a spear trhougliout
the whole camp, and at the head of hui
army, and that the soldier who bore it
should pause at intervals and sty aloud: 1
"Heboid all that remains of the Katpr- j
ror Salalin; of all the states lie had '
conquered; of all the pnvinccr lie lrid
subdued; of the boun lless treasures lie j
Ind amassed; of the countless wealth he ;
possessed, lie retuineI, in dying, nothing
but bis shroud !"
3
The Bald Judge's Be.ldaess.
lie was ton years old. lie bad a red j
noso, tears in his cyos, ragged clothes, <
au 1 he was awful sorry.
"It makes a shiver run up aul diwu
my back when I thiak of this boy s'and. (
ing on a street corner calling podeitri- i
aus names," said hi* Honor, gravely.
"It was fun," trailed the lad.
Tliink nf his calling men 'old bald
headed,' and the like of that !"
' Jiui put me up to it''
' I dou't want to saw him in two, and j
it's to) late ft) use hiui for lush-bait, but!
litis boy needs reforming."
I'll reform, I'll reform," cried the!
lad.
"I don't want to send him to prison,
and yet I fear that ho will turn out a 1
bad boy."
' Try me?try nic?I'll never call
names no more," sobbed the b >y.
His Honor left the chair, walked down '
to the boy, and putting his hand on his
head, he solemnly said :
"Hub, a bald-headed man isn't to
blame for it. He'd have hair there if
he Could. I am bald, but wo always
pay one hundred cents on a dollar, and
never dead beat a street car. You may
go home, but if you come agaiu I shall
know that you want to turn out a Dick
Turpin, aud I shall deal with you accordingly.
\m A Beautiful Thought.
! When tho summer of youth is slowly
! wasting away on thu nightfall of ago,
and the shadow of the path becomes
i deeper and deeper, the life wean, to its
j c!o?e, it is pleasant to look through the
vista of time upon the sorrows and i'ei
licitics of our early years. If we have
, a home to shelter and hearts to rejoice
with us. and friends have been gathered
I around our firesides, and the rough
I places of wayfaring will have been worn
and smoothed away in the twilight of
life, tho many dark spots we have passed
through will irr-?w brighter and more
beautiful. Happy, indeed, are those
whose intercourse with the world has not
changed the tone of their holier I'eelingi
or broken those musical chords of the
heart whose .vibrations are so uicloJious
so tender and so touching in the evening
of thcit life.
A popular clergyman in England re.
ecntly gave a lecture on '' Fools." Th<
tickets of admission were inscribed
' ' Lecture on Fools. Admit oue."?
There #is a largo uudnfuc*.
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.
That Fetched Him.
When a Michippnder was brought
into rout ton a charge of assault and
hn?l#irr nrnftfmid bv }.K wife. li!<4 llt.liOf
VU ?> W J , ...... ~J
asked liim why lie struck her:
"She called me a worthless loafer, lul
that wasn't if"
"Well ?"
' She said our whole family wasn't fit
for fish-bait, but I didn't get u:ad at *
that."
"Well, what was it thou "
' She s! ook her C>t under niy nose,
and said I was too Ijzy t> die, but I
kuow'd she was excited, and I let her
pass. She's got a fearful temper, your
Honor."'
"I wi.di to know if you hed sufficient
cause of provocation." said the court.
"I guess! had. Judge. She came
closer up and spit in- uiy face, and fluid
1 was ipeaner than pizcu; but I uida't
hit lier for that."
"What, then V
"I kuow'd her temper, and f there
and whistled 'Hold the fort,' and I was
bearing aud bearing with her, when ?! e
turned around and gin tny e., >n dog the
smashiugest kick?lifted him right um'n
doors outer his head ! Thst il-tchod
rue. Judge, if tficro had been fort*
iions and a cur.cl in the road, I'd hare
skinned her or died trying."
Silent Men.
Washington never made a ..pecch. inthe
zenith of his faine he once attempted
it, foiled, and gave it up confas-vd anl
ubcdied. In framing tho usi'nr .?*i
of the United States, the labor was almost
wholly performed in committee: >f
the whole, of which Georg-i Washington
tra< the eh lirunn; but ho m ?>i? two
speeches during the convention of a
very few words each. The con vu*ion,
however, acknowledged the unsur
spirit, and historians affirm that if it h?J
not been for his personal polarity mid
tlic thirty words ofhis first speech, pronouncing
it the best that could be
upon, the constitution wouid have surely
been rejected by the people. Tbor.vis
Jefferson never made a speech, lie
could not do if. Napdcon, whose executive
ability U almoit without a par -lie!
said that his greatest difficulty ?js ij
finding men of deeds rather than wor Is.
When asked how he maintained his influence
over his superiors in age and experience
when commander in chief of
an army iu Italy, ho said, by reserve.
The greitncssof man is not measured
by the length of his speeches aud tlueir
number.
S?n3iblo Parents.
A young lady of Ballarat. England,
about canteuipiating matrimony, was
asked by her friends what kind of wedding
presents she would like, and leplic 1
that she would prefer usetul to ornamental
ones, llcr wedding j uirnoy
consisted in going from the house of
tier parents i> a cottage in the vicinity,
an^up m arriving there sue found a
barrel of 11 iur, ajar ot batter. ? com- ?
p'.ctc set of cooking utensils, a piece o*
merino, a set of crockeryvvaic, knives,
forks, spoons and glassware, enough
household groceries t> last six ui >nths,
and'on her parlor table a receipt for the
prcpaynicut of a year's rent for t;?o cottage,
with two . 10 notes pinned to a
paper, on which was written, "To ptir*
chase something useful"
Was not this the right kiud of utilitarianism
for a young eouplo of i.Jti,ft.i
means, about starting out upon the r
matrimonial career, and was it r >t unro
beautiful than duplicate plated 1-jia
knives, and other trash tlu. .a vo
upon like occasions.
Short Charity Ssruiou.
Dean Swift once preach;-' a '
serin >n in St. Patrick's Pith -d. .1. J.'u.
lin.the length of which disgusted ru-?y
of his auditors; which, cvaihfr his
knowledge, and it fallingjo uts lot Si.on
after to preach another swruon >f ih:
like kind ia the same place, he I-ok.
special ot'o to avoid falling ,:o the f.?r
mer error. 11 is text was , "lie M:at
hath pity upon the poor leau-'th anto
the Lord, and that which he-'i.ib -n
will Hopiy Iiiui again." Ta tlc;u,
Jailer repeating his text in a more than
commonly emphatic maimer, added:
I "Now, uty beloved brethren, on Iftr
! the terms of the loan. It you k-% the
security, down with the d'l-f." ?.;;c
|quaintucss and brevity of'i-.i swmou
produce 1 a very largo conirbntioa.
A foreign journal says that the war
in Bulgaria has had one w:\ '-'.iri-os
effect, which will greatly interest nUttr.ilists.
The swallows wliich 1>"' i{?,.b
j and some other places marc i!uu two
weeks ago have returned n a sutc if
I gre it excitement, and retaken possession
of of their oM nes's wi h much
clamorous indignation. It is ucneialiv
j supposod that they have bean frightened
hack by the noise of the artillery.
A lady sent a note to the newspaper
i to pet a recipe to cure lite whooping
I cough in a pair of twins. Uy .1 mistake
a recipe for pickled onions was
: unconsciously ins .rt 'd, and her nam:
I attached, and received this an-wr
(through the "Answers lo CorrcspouJlents:
Mrs. L. li. II?If not ton young,
, skin them pretty closely, iui'ii "';c in
scalding water, sprinkle plentifully with
, .salt, and immerse tlicui for a week ia
strong bring.
Plenty and indigence depmd upon
t the opiuion every one has ol the n; a ad
riches, no more glory or health,
- have uo more beauty or {.leisure
their puncisor is {'loused to tvad thaw. I