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( VOLUME I. points \\ nslmijj. ' i shall eharoe Movent y-tive eonts T ?" that Swiss muslin dress, witii the llounees ami 111<? la insertion," said I'nsaiuond I {a v for ill, as she shook .ojjt a white, llutTv mass, and pinned it d"ft!\ on a li io wliieh was stretehoil from a silver Liie'i ?reo to a tall. voiiiil' inouiitaiii ash. "It's worth lilt ?re 111:111 t It'll lint llmmi f.-isiliii niu 1 il<? ladies art? s.? distressingly parsimouioiis in their ideas!" 1 ( Tim orainr "dow of the sunrise v ..... was j isi llin<riii<^ it- she if of reddmiin_if arrows across the wooded side of Spieobcrrv Mounrain; the Itirds wore 1 whisilinjr their mating son<rs, and the hidden \vat"rs of Spieeherrv Crook were swirlinjr with merry music ( , atamitd the gnarled tree-roots and moss covered boulders that obtruded themselves across its current. The wild clematis and rank fox oTajto vines that had wreathed them v selves [iieturesc|iie!\ above the deser- 1 ted charcoal burner's cahin were Hut I'M'inif their tendrils in the morninebreeze j and th" fire of dead sticks j was cracking bravelv under a iume r> ^ r"> kettle, where Miss Kayforth's second 1 tnbfnl of clothes was already boiliim like a witches cauldron. l-'or she and (Mar Set on. her roommate at college, had come no here, before the dawn liiid unfurled its pearly banners, kindled their fire and oamo bravelv to work. Itoeu^t it seem ridiculous?" said Rosamond, as she sorted out half a dozen or so of sheer linen pocket handkerchiefs, and plunged then nji and down in the 1 duino'-pail. k-l,:ist nioht, vmi and i were waltzing in j1 the ball-room with those two vouno-j army olVieers; this morning we are j rnttine' nut our wnsli. .Inst hand me n f w of 111<?:-?? clot lies-pins, ('lam. j jtl-'a ...J ! low romance ".ml reality <ln jostle one another in this world,' to lie sure! These handkerchiefs will dry directly, the sun touches theiu,j and then we can hnye the lines for the laree articles. Are you sure the starch isn't lumpy, ('lara? .Miss ('a yendish is so very particular about her lawn wrappers. And how are : the ir >ns healint? upV" t'lara Seton, who had just linished eoiline' tip her inkyddack hair, and had tram Mixed it with a lone shell pin, peeped into an impromptu fur- 1 e'.'o of charcoal that tpowed under 1 t iie slope of a prodigious rock, before which half a do/.en llatirons were set on end." "'They'll lie in prime order in half an hour," said she. "I)<> you sup- 1 pose, Uosy, they'll be there to-nijrht aoain ?" "'The llatirons?" "No, the army ollieers." "Most likely," said liosamoml, ' with a clothes-pin in her mouth, as she stood on tiptoe to hai)<r a milled pei ucoai m UK' urcc/i1. "i Meant, them ask Flora Foster if we were | stayine at the MountainI louse. ' ' ( )h, did yon? And what did she 1 say ?" "Slio said she believed we were i ' camping out somewhere." uSd we are," said Clara, lau<diiiio\ 1 ' 0,01 "And she added the dear cro??sij?v 1 little thine-' that we were artists, who spent most of our time in sketching. There, (Mara, the clothes lines are full at lash We'll adjourn lone--: enon?rh to drink our cold coffee and i r> eat some 'oread and milk. Oh yes! h we're campine" out there can't bo < any mistake about that," she went < oil. with lauidi, as the two jjirls sat tlowKin the shade o> the ha/el bush j esWwiJVnrtukc of their simple n.orn in. .iitjjL.1 . _i . Hint I often wonder what T"ne Mountain Mouse people1 would say if they knew that we were ;ho French laundresses t ? whom th landlord! wife sends their muslin 1 oowns and '-hviss polonaises to he *] 1 * v* done up. What do we care?" rctortedV ('lara, with a sliruo of her shoulders.1' "Nothing in the world. lint isn't it comical, t'lara, when one thinks hack over it all? Mow we came here ^^h our easels and our palettes ami MiTr eolor-tuhes, expoctinof to make our fortunes as artists, painting woodland scenes on hirchhark, and reproducing tl e sunsets on hits of i mill-hoard. And then we discovered < that every f rmer's daughter in the neiohhorliood was doin^r the same thine, and that art was at a hopeless discount. And next you remember (Mara we tried to play the piano for the dancinof, until the colored fiddler came over the mountain and us altogether. And we had no money to lmy our tickets i back to'the city, nor to pay hotel hills, until oiio fortunate day the i laumlress lost hei temper and loft at p an nour a noun', ami i neipeu Mrs. Fitch out of her dilemma!" i 44And now," said (Mara, uwo are making eight or ton dollars a week." 44Out of the wash till)," said Ifosainuud, hlitholv; "and hoarding our- ' selves. (>h, how thankful I am that 1 spent that long, dreary, dismal winter with old Aunt Abigail, in a i b haunted house where no help could In- induced to stay, and then and there learned to wash and iron equal ^^HB^toanY head* "u ('lsv'^o!'' t^p d >" " 3E merry liosainond. " To think of tln? downfall that our lofty ulcus had. Croat artist n> washerwoman 1 h'rom Prussian hlue and Venetian red to indigo !> ?os and starch!" And she jumped u|> and ran hack to the I toiler, which was now spluttering and Ituhhlino like some infuriated monster. It's hoiliuo over, Clara- it's hoilii??_? vcr!" slie cried, in loud, sweet accents, "lido me. otT with it (luiek, or the clothes will he hunted. "Allow lll(? <*llot,<> !l IVlllll il/.KI, voice; and the next moment tin* kettle WHS SWIllltr olT HlO i III ld'vUM pt M crime noon the ?rra ;s helow, and I Jo. samiiiitl lhiyf irtii round herself face lo faro with Captain A1 ford, the tall cr and handsomer of the two ollieers with whom she had waltzed the midnight liofore. \\ iiile llarry |)ravton, tin* vounoer eavalrvmun, advam-ed through the huMies, with , p tfun balanced ovet his shoulder,''Slid the countenance of one who was sure of welcome. "So this is eamj)!M said he* 'A es," sai<l I'osamond, steelino herself to the oeeasion; "tin's is the camp! Won't you walk in, Captain AI ford? And you, Mr. Drayton?" "lint I shall he interrupting you!"' Kosamond smiledr a cherry sparkle came into her soft, dark e\t s. "A little," she owned. "We are always lutsy ;i; this time of day. I ' I a r i and I. In the afternoon on ly in the afternoon you will proha hly see us at the hotel, in our he t frocks and with our hair nut of eriinpinw-pines. t'aptain AI lord olaneed helplessly around. "( )h, I see." said he. "lint just here you are "Doino- the washing," explained Uosamotid. serenely, "Don't van see I lie dot lies on the lines? And we shall he ironiuo in an hour or two. Wo are woi kii! J- hees. Captain Al? f< ?rd. "Couldn't we helo?' said Marry Drayton, oroumlie<f arms a once. "I'm afraid hot!'' said < lata. "Oh, Captain Aifual, < l ied I,' i i ' . i -.ii i mi i| M I, nil.Mil iiinnt-i" \ i > |r| (I'M lauehter, "don't look so ! >e\V i l< leroi I, I'.ml I'll toll vou tlio Iii'?rilining, the middle am! the ??ml of it at once!" "I suppose von aro doino- this for a joke," said t'aptain AI ford; "or as a wajfcr, perhaps. Ladies do sometimes Let, its I have heard.* I hit i {osniiii aid shook her liettd, -till with the lontiish dimples <rleainin<r around her litis, the diamond sparkles in her eves. "No," sitid she, "we are tn.t doino it for it joke, nor vt;i for a waiter We came up hero as artists, lint we soon found tlistt we should starve to death on art." And she told the w hole of her simple story. "No one know it hut Mrs. Field, the landladv," said she. "Not that wo are ashamed of it, 11111" with a sudden rtsino of color to her cheeks "one doesn't like to he talked ahout, von know." "Ashamed!" cried the captain. "1 should think not. "W'hv, I never saw such pluekv j^irls in inv life." "Yon aro regular heroines," aj> plauded Mr. l)ravtou. M'liev sitt and talked until the hlue shadows crept otf the mountain-side, itn< 1 the tramp of the jruide's footsteps 011 the rocks warned the two nlTieers that it was time to set forth dm their day's expedition; and when tliev vanished into the {dens, (Mara mil IkOsainond stood watching them. "For the last time!" said l*osainoiul. (Mara started. "Why?" said she. "Why, hecause!" said IJosamond. "You will see. It's very easv to ".Ik, but they will not Come buck to us oin. If there's anything a man dislikes, it is to sec a woman strike %J"i' herself." onsense!" said < Mara. "hi is true*" nou'dcd Itosamond. Vou will sec." But law prophesies failed. Tint two huntrcs stopped on their way back, to leave some squirrels and a tempting branch of wild plums at the r.harconl cabin. The next day they strolled up aeain. "It's a deal jollier up here than it is down at the hotel," declared Alford. "If we shant bore you," said Drayton. And so thev kept eoinino until the end of the season arrived, garlanded about with still ni-rhl frost , scarlet leaves and stealthil\ -dn ppiup nuts. "Do you l<now,v said AI ford, mournfully, "the re^imcnt^t ordered to l.ri/ona? And I've ^oT to report lit headquarters next week." Bosamond viewed him 'with ay in |i'iiiK'in: ?*YI*?S, "Is Arizona so very bad?" said she. ' I I shouldn't mind it," stain* i mored the yoiin^officer, "if von worn tp>inir with mo. Tell n?o, I Josh,. would would you ho willing to tfo. to Arizona for inv sake?" * "Hut," faltered Rosamond, "what would 4Mara say to inv leaving her,: when we've always been in a sort of partnership, you know?" Captain A* 1 ford's arm stole softly1 & y 2 T70 "Y"OTJH WOJRD CONWAY, aionnd Miss I?a\forth's trim waist. "Hilt KllppOSO YOU fill 111 a IK'Vi part nership;'" said lit*. "As for Miss S(>t<hi why there's i >ru\ton wors11i11^ the very lmuuul she wulks on, yon know. ( (iino! a unit \rizona? It would 1 it? tin- (1 anion of Kdon to mo if you wore there. W on't \ on rsy \ os, dear I 'osainond ?" And how Ivosamond and (Mara rejoiootl in spirit that they had sa\< d up euou_di inoiiox from the proceeds of their summer oinnn ii.o> in Imv I ? 'JS two neat little trousseaux! "After all," said Ilosamond, j"V* fully, "there is notiiino- like hcintr independent." "llarry says," whispered (Mara, I tliat i ih'M'I' looked so well in my' liTe as when I stood there hanoino out clothe > on the mountain side." And \\ ill declares," added IJosaiiiond, "that ho fell in love w'tli hum when ! tried to lift the hi o kettle i oil the lire, and couldn't. I )ear t Mara, what fortunate eirls ue are!" "And what happy oiils we are!" cried (Mara. TIk' ltlanUet IMsli. "The lirst time I struck the hot-1 loin," says a pearl diver, "I couldn't helieve I was there. It was as clear as air, and the fishes swiminino, urouno- luie'ut have heen taken for I?ir?Is. I landed on a kind of sand hill when they lowered mo, and h el to walk id tout lift) feet down into a valley like before I truck the shells. They wen all in a hunch stret lied aiuim- in a i idoe. looking like a < hlaek mark aoainsl the white holtom. i < * i * i l; 14 " 11 a 111 j m i\ a ltd when I ?>ot alniio-side I li('u;||| ti-l toss them in. I reckon i had filled ' 1a 11 a dozen or so. when ail a' 011 e I saw a kind of shadow moving over ali. At first I thoii?r|u it was the s< !n>011 or, and then, perhaps, some of tin- other divers coining down, and then it left; l?ut ail :t once it came a train and crew so dark in a eeond that I turned quick and L di .1 up. ami ifinv hair hadn't l?een -ehi down liy a Conner rati it would have ri/. rinht on end. There, a nioviii' over 111 was what I took to li1 a hircl u'lniut thiilv feet tier ss. It was wheelitm- round and round, fluppin<r in. bio wiuofs; ju>t as you'vo seen buzzards or onirics <lo, overlietul. Down it came, lower ami lower, and I a-eroue hiiu_( as flat as I coultl o"? l. 1'he nearer it ool the hiooev it looked, and as I see it was il-settintr on me I took the pike I always carried, and as it wheeled aroitml over me I let r> drive. I lit * i it? Well, I reckon I did. The next thine- 1 knew I was slundiu<r on m\ . head, rolling over and over, then j yanked sideways, half drowned, and then I reckon I I oat my senses, mil when I eatne to I was 1 v in" on <i ok and all hands looking at me. \ on i see the eritter had ^ iven the water j such a swirl that I was knocked end for end, and my |>i|ie and line twis- : ted around and around s<i that I couldn't breathe, ami, of course, that i pulled the line and tin men tluuie- lit ' I liatl jerked in to eoiue u|?, so the\ hauletl away for all lluo were worth, and that's what saved my life. What was it? Wiiv, uothin' l>ut one of ? I I It I . i4 muse sea inns inauhci nsii ihint her men called it and they all say I had a narrow mil for it. That wis the way, aecordin to their say,' that the fish <roes to work to eel away with a man. They lirsl seitli down on yon like a blanket, and there you a rod* "Tlir I)evlls ( ode." ( /'<t// Mul! (}n:: th . The lioyal Lib ary at Stockholm contains a remarkable literary curiosity called ihe ^Dexil's Code," which is said to be the largest manu-1 script ill the world. ICvorv letter in this jrijrantic piece of work is as beautifully formed as if it were mill- ; utely and carefully drawn, and it j seems almost impossible that it should | have been done by a sincfle human beinir. The ,vl)evil1s ('ode" was! brought to Swecden from Sweeden top Prague after tlie thirty years war,!' and the Ih-iitur/n- //minj'i'iinrii X>ihnii/ tells the following story of it ori<jdn: ,\ poor monk who had been condemned to death was told that his sentence would be commuted if were nolo to copy the whole of the 1 code in a single nieht. Kelvin^ <>u tin* impossibility of the t.id< his 1 jndoes furnished him with the ori<b mil, pen and ink, an 1 h-ft him in his well-barred prison. A drowuinoman eatehes at a straw to save; him sol, and the unfortunate moid, bcjoui 4 ? i : . i - : . *' i - ? - to try IMS msi I llipossi IMO laHK Willi tin* vain hope of accomplishing it. Ilefore lonir, however. lie saw tluit 11<* could not save liis life by 11ih ov.'ii weak exertions. Afraid of a cruel and certain death, and perhaps doubting the promise of a bettor life hereafter, heinvked the aid of tIn* I'rincc <?f I)arkness, promising to surrender : his soul if lie were assisted in nistask. The dark spirit appeared as soon as lie was called, concluded 111?? cont.net, sat down like any copying clerk, and the next day the Devil s 'ode' was finished. Never abuse a mule behind his back. 1 . X ? ? itcuk WOR] s. (\, Til riJSDAY, MA .) oil 11 I on iind Iti'iiur* ^anl. . ii hi vo'ir issue '>1 t!iis dale I note u sdiiii1 remarks on lln Imttlo of Slii- Sl loli, iii which (ion. i h\i iroo ml i-, rcpros ntoil as stMlino that (ion. " \ Ibort Sidney John-ton was not do- !l serviu** of the credit for the june- ; NV lion of liis own forces with those of '* Itcurcoard at t'orinth. Ii was m\ , ootid fortune to liear lett'i to to n. Johnston from friends so intimate 11 that he could n<>i well ignore them. " It was niv further oood fortune to reach him in company with t 'ol. j j' Love, of ti.dvestoii, probably the " oldest and most urominent friend lie Vi had in tin* world. (Jon. Johnston's; u headtjiiarters at the time were at the s risiiominoti Hotel in t'orinth lie moved the week alter to the t'olletfe huildino*, and lie had no room to j P accommodate t'ol. Love, even mem- '' hers of his staff occupy inn- nunrtcis '* on the lloor. Ivxplaininn this to t'ol. !... (Jen, Johnston turned to mo , a>ul said: "There is room on the floor of t apt. IJre'vster's (ids adju- . taut) room, and he is, no doubt,; ^ soldier enough to share his lilatfUets with von." I jrladlv emhraecd the opportuuitv, which wouhi throw me into iuifiicdiato intercourse itli a man whom, in common with most j. fexans, 1 rei>arded as die man of the nation. '1 litis pu the \Jblli, %J111?, !jSt h an I \JPth of March, I think, I was;' in the Too.-;i to which he resorted after the j iross of t lie days w< nk, to converse in the confidential manner which 'heir personal relations war-, ' ra ited, with ('<>1. Love. I renieniher distinctlv. ainono other things i iess lit fertile public ear, | d ins si v ri".\ i:\ r, which I have olten repeated orally, _ *v11i;it 11? had reeeivol oreat ?*r?*? 1 iI mot<\ indeed, than lie ilcscrvcil in a (!l military point of view for his ram|t;ii<r11 in I tali. lint when tin? his- : s' torv of this war is written my ro- ' treat from l>>wlino (Jreen with jh to !ie ?ja\e th ? ovael mimher of men on his master roll at the time sl thr move war eomnieneeil |;{,tt()l) " ami some; I can not now oive M'( precise lionres| , and more than I' d,()(M) oi them on the sick roll, and !l nit withdrawal of Iieanrejrard's for- 11 res from t'olnmhti.s and junetion with NV them at this point, in the fare of "1 two armies, earh nnmherin<r nrarlv " three to my one, will he classed with the oreatesl military movements of a y aoe." There was no intimation ? of any one having a share in his s* plan Imt himself, an ' any one who knew < leu. Johnston e\ en so slipht- i ly as i did would kl.nw tlia* lie would assume no credit due to another. lie had the modesty of true! oreat ness. 11 is apt nova I of I Jean- j s( reoardV. co-oneralion was hetirty and i t generous. (Jen. I lean regard has S: unfortunately shown in his every (-' utterance since the war, heoinino 111 with his "hirst llntlle of Mammas" in llie ('rutui'i/y a disposition so en- w tirely contrary to this a desire to '' so appropriate to, himself all that, was darino or sueeessfnl, and to nltri-i'' r"> Inite to others; 1! that was weak | ("' and unfortunate in its results limit'' lie lias alienated from himself in a u ereat decree the hive and ailmiril- ' tion wliieli were felt for liiiu iu all the early part of the war throughout lie- South. The name and fame of .\lhert Sidney Johnston have hut n orown <ind increased with the pas- 'M siu^f years. I'ut justice should lie done to till. w and the charge of Mr. Davis of di latoriness on the part of (Jen. Iteauremird must he new tind stranpe especially Id these who were on that Moody held, A eiroutnst nee, s 1 i?r111 in itself, I helieve, prevented |M the luittlo lieeinino' on Saturday morninir, April ">. and as it hits pos- ,,, silde never been in print I will state it. si The rcojinent to which I was tit- \j taehed thj- Kiphth Texas cavalry, (| better known as, {,, l ine TKXAS UA NO tuts j?' was on our exteine left. ( )u the nfternoon of h'tiday, the I I i h. iinuie- ' ilirttely after taking our position, a ' detail of ten men and one ollicer I )1 from each company was ordered on ' scout duty under eotiituaml of Mijj. ^ llii'Tison. About h 11111?* From camp, looking across a Hold to our lefr, wo c. saw oil a road oarallcl to oh a compii' v of Inderal eavaly apparently ^ i?o tlii' same husiucas as ourselves. \ siiiall j.art\ was thrown into the j Held,- while the rosl of iho command under the guidance of one special j M scout, -tort< -( 1 for the crass roads to ; a 1 cot thorn off in their return to camp, j I" Wo failed to do .this, hot drove thorn |'n at close ipiarters across the bridge j *' over ()wl crook. An thoy wore; protected hehiod a heavy fence made ^ of puncheons and loop-holed, our a' stay io that quarter was decidedly short, I>111 at the cross roads we stood picket till nit/lit. During the night a tremeodoos rain fell, and so wo were poorly protected, our arms, were wet, and, as we feared, unsafe M to risk an encounter. When we | si wore relieved- ahout daylight ofjhi the loth and returned to camp, i a permission was ashed of" (,'oh Whw a| ton to discharge our wet arms and j di reload. It was granted, but discip- j In line was a thing unknown ot that' lr ' -yi :-c ^.istod -x-otxir cot > _?<;. ins?. me in tint lliuitrcrs, niul almost ninediatelv tin' whole reiriment ere einut vino their revolvers and lot onus' and tin* few rilles in the antnuml an \t*i were over live undiod strotio and intirc tliat half ad two revolvers eueh, the tiring aN verv liv.dv for a time. In a >\v minutes a meiuher of (Jen.! ,.l.i.>.1..... 1..1V :.i: i "hii.'UMI i, i 11 rauir I I u 111 ^ \ i [? ill :SI speed, ami, seoin?_j 1!?? eoiuli >no; a ITairs, ordered ('ol. Wharml to report lit olloe to t i I'll. .lolm011. Ilo diii so, ami on Ins return le ivoillmmlt u :is i iiiiium1.ii ti'l >' t 'illm1 (o nttiMition ami reeei voi I a tstioation from tlie Colonel, who; us ooualy ready with toiiouo or .von I. lio started seareelv ahlo i ? outiol his voire ami in tonus kmc foreihle than polite that, suposino, from tho amount of lirino, lat ho had Ihmmi attacked on tho' ft wiiio, < ion Johnston II \ l> slofl'Kli to forward movomont of his troops n tho rioht, and tho plan of halo hod boon so disarranged thereby int tlio attack would necessarily o postponed until tho next day, i'h a possible result of uncovering i is plain to the enemy. When it is remembered, as it will 11\ all survivors of the Kiohth 'oxas ravelry, that wo wore (Jon. ohm.fon's pots, tho olToct o' suoli a mmm'Ii can ho unaudited. I have ill ays fell that had this unfortunate reuinstaneo not ooourrod the at-! 10 k would have boon made oil aturday ami under inuoh more ivorahlo oiroiinistanoes for the; oiifedoralos than on the suererdinjr; uv. As to the (m)lidmt of tho hilt tie lor the death of (Ion. .1 olm stoii, it is always Ihmmi my own impression 111 < I in 'his I was harked at the MM* l>\ tin* whole re<riinent)aild ill is, that w hile "itiiI in some I irectious, <>oi>. I'eattreoard was not k> m il! np'i'i ,i ?n-cat ami sudden iner^- in \ in the field. < Vii, lohti oil's death was not known in onr 'oinient until nioht. but the conrtine orders we reeeived, tnd aj?nrcntlv useless a: d unreasonable lovemeiits we were called u|ioii to lake, indie.tied to all that something as out 01 oear. I do not venture) n opinion as to the prol>al>le remit i case no accident had occurred to len. Johnston, hut the mineral "lino was tersel\ expressed hv oil" I niv comrades. "If hen. dolman's head had lived we would live beaten thein into the river." .Mot her. Not hi no is more enohliiur than to e a child devoted to its mother. Inn >w much more beautiful to see the line tender care exhibited win n that hid is orown til) to manhood or wo- ! anhood. It is an old theme to sino ie praises of tho mother, but the orld sinos thorn vet, and will sine mm forever. Manv a stern heart; is crown softer when cazinc upon to innocent love of a tender mother | lerishinir her beloved child. If! tore is anything (iod-like in 11 lis.! orld, we believe it is a mother's! .ve a love that beuins with the irliest hreatli, eontinues through 1 To and ends not with the jrrave. i nly a mother can know the pan^s i nised hv the wayward actions of I u* child, only a mother can tell the avenly rapture that fills the heart hen that child litis been redeemed. ".My mother! At that holy name \\" i 1 11 I 11 111 V ImWIIIII llll.l-i.V M irl. I. < >1 feelinj; whii'li no time can tame, A which for yours of fame, I would not, could not crush!" I .on I Macau lev pays the following mut'iful tribute to his inolhcr: "('liildren look in those eyes; listi to that flear voice; notice the feel<r of eveji tl single touch that is be- | owed upon you h\ that hand!! lake much of it while vet you have, ml most precious of all jrood ?jifts, si ivilljr mother. Head the unfathom?le love of those eves; the kind ixiety of that touch and look, how-1 /or slight vour pain. In after life :>u may have friends, but never will mi have iienin the inexpressible! tve and gentleness lavished upon ! mi which none but a mother be-J owsl Often do I sijrli in the struj/- i les with (he hard, uncaring world.! ?r the sweet, deep security I fell hen, of an evening, ncstlino in her isoni, I listcnc I to some ouiet tsile,! lituble to my a?(e, read in her un- ! rino1 voice. Never can I forj/ct her; veet irlauees east upon me when I ipeared asleep; never her kiss of| iaee at nio-ht. Years have missed! xny sinee we laid her beside my titer in the oh I church-yard; yet, ill her voice whispers from tho j rave, and her eye watches over me, I ; I visit spots huto since hallowed ? the memory of my mother." A Heaver's instinct. An old hunfer living in the ('ra"fc* fountains caught a voting' beaver ton after its birth and carried it to, is cabin, where he LTaduHllv niadt^ pet ) p t e rug n 11urn imsrarzre-sr." to wall, the component parts of which were firewood, hoots, articles of clothing and otla r tuovahle articles in the house that could he , reached os* transported. To add to' tin? confusion, a basin or bucket of water, if possible was capsized and Hooded over t lie lloor. This little animal, who had never scon a stream 1 or a <lani to know cither, was busily at work enoa^eil in dnin<r what his forefathers had done a thousand) wars neiore nun. While nil other onine or fur- ' bearino animals of the northwest are ' likely to be exterminated without dissenting \oiee the poor little j harmless and hanl-working heaver | has found a fast friend in the eattle- v men ami herd owners. Tito reason is obvious. lu this ureal dry country and climate the streams ami water holes on the. ranifes are few i 1 j | and far between. Moisture is the : cat l Io nian's greatest want. Now, a j ' beaver destroys nothing hut trees, and as there are few of the latter on I the ereat treeless plains of Montana, \ the beaver of necessity lives out1 shrubs and roots and builds his dam ' i where he may. This just suits the cattleman, who limls in the insiouiliII cant little (puulruped, compared to his 1000 pound steers, a most val-I | liable aiiy in pro\idino- ponds and | drinkino- places where there's none before. No/# / i'<iwt, <<'<> < dll. , Voting' Men and Single Idt'e. <| ; I It is undoubtedly true that a 1 sino'le life is not without its advantages to some. There are hundreds ; . of youno men, as there are a like | number of yimnc women, to whom s married life would be unsuitable ami , unwise. It is an incxeusable sin for any youn?* man of hereditary ill health or deformity to assume mar v i iaoe, and to such a one sinole life 1 has its advantages, even thouoh it I holds out few pleasures. Ilut that ' youiio* man who is possesseed with evei'N mental ami bodily equipment, i and marries not. fails in one of the : most palpable duties of life. lie de- \ pnves innisi'll ol tile's most iclined t ami exalted oleasnrcs, of some of its strongest 111?*? 111ives to virtue and , aetivity, and sets an example unwortliv of imitation. Nothing lias, or i . slionld have, a greater refining or . inornli/.ing inlluenee to a vuiuii' man rj . I than marriage. If ho remains unmarried, he. lays himself open to alluring viees that ha\e no place in his > eye or mind when his attentions and 5 his alTeetion are entered upon a do- ' voted wife. Marriage changes the 1 ^ r? n _ current <?f a man s feeling, and gives ' him a centre for his thoughts, hi-- af 7 feetions and his aets. It renders him ^ more virtuous, more wise, and is an incentive to put. forth his host exertions to obtain position in commercial ireles. It is conceded that mar- | riage will increase the cares of the young man which he would not eneon ter if lie remained single, but it ' must be granted, on the oilier hand, !.' that it heightens the pleasures of life. | 1 If marriage, in some instances within ^ If our knowledge, litis semmed to he a i hinderanee to certain success, the * countless instances must not be for-' gotten where it lias proved to he the | incentive which has called forth the | best, part of man's nature, roused him a from selfish sympathy, ami inspired / in him those generous principles and \ high resolves which have, helped to | de V p lot IC li i I ll i ll I I > : < -lui i:< et <' I- 1. Ill .1" .. t I " *M I I IovimI iiii< 1 limmrcd l>v all within thoj sphere of its influence. Matrimony, ' if is true, is charro'tible with number. . . t less solicitudes ami rosnonsihilitiett, ^ ami all youn^ men should fully mi- ^ derstaml tliem before entering upon | it; but it is also full of joy and Imppiness that is unknown to the bachelor. !1 % Foolsea p. I Kvery one who handles paper j reeooni/.es foolscap as a sheets ] measuring Idxlb inches. This is , used as a standard size all the world | over, ollirially and coininereially. v It will, therefore bo intorostino to know where and how this word or- j ioinated. After the execution of1t'harles I, of Kn^land, ('romwcll and 1 his staiT, in or<jani/.in?j the eonunon- , * wealth, made till possible effort to ' remove everything which had any-i ' t hi no to do with the old monarchy. f The paper in official use up to that ' time had tis a water-mark the kin^s f crown; ami, when Cromwell was1. ' asked what should be put in the place of this crown, to show his overwhelming dislike of everything ' appertaining to ro\alty he directed f a fool's cap to bo put in place of 1 the crown. This was done, and ' when ('harles'l I ascended to throne of ' Knedaml, it w as tit first forgotten to i 1 replace t W cup by something else, ' and when Todis, v the Is.iriff was afraid to do anything to recall things ' dangerous ypitom h, and _so it was," lic^lrrt yfoX .4 the^ fccii Jt.s a w a11 \ all ] "o / NUMBER II. 1 I IIIIIOI'IMIS, it . ...: .. .1 t ..? i .. ..... :4., it n a > ' IS tllill MIUH? ll^? >\vn par. The hest ii11tstrnto<I paper out A lanknote. The oecan is 111<? a t'oo<l lionse-^ a ift' \ i?rv tid\. A llowery sthm < It An address Ifore it millers' convention. Some men tire so onnerous that liev are always willinir to oive away a hat the\ tloti't want t hemselveH. t ustoiner: I to you have '\ioht hoiudits?' ' Salesman- "No, inarm, I have to work so lianl day-times, I deep powerful sound." A recent novel savs: "And lie vent to he<| and enjoyed a sound, 1 realities* sleep." I low ran a man mi joy an vt hi no when he is iim-onsctins ? An Irishman, watching a oiune of ?ase hall, was sent to orass hy a foul, vhich struck him under the lifth rih. 4A fowl, was it? (tcli. sure, I thought t was a mule." "I'odsnap, don't you think pen iiauufucturcrs are a had lot of poo en?" "Not particularly; wh\ ?" 'They make people ieel pens \<u mow," "( Mi!" Henry I5er?rli has printed a set of hit tecu rules on "I low to Approach i Kickitio Morse," to which we uplend a fourteenth, "Let the liir.'d .ia11 tackle him.' .lay tiould says that it made liini cry sad to oo t?> church when a hoy. le made a cieat, many other men ad when lie left the church and vent to Wall s11 "That fellow is carrying thino> villi :i hioh i;a11<I hero lo-ni^ht,'' renarked IMiasa.'sius, when tins waiter >ussed bahincino a loaded tray at inn's length above his head. l>ls it that when a wild ffooso's uate dies it never takes another?" is Is s a \ i >i i n o widow. \ es; but don't vorrv about that. The reason it acts hat wav is because it is u iroo.se. I >id you break your father's will? \ es. I supposi , then, yon are ijnite ieh now? No; poorer than ever bebre. I low is that. \Oil see, I Hoke the will, but the lawyers broke ne. Health journals insist upon people eposino on the iijdit side only, oid claim that it is injurious t<> lie hi both sides; but we don't know vhere they will lind healthier men halt lawyers. New York inaminii, "Where have 'on been, my son?" You no blood "To a bull-liolit." Mamma "A bull-liolit ?" \ oiino blood ;i:is, maw. I've ?e?Mi down in W all street." "Now, .Johnny," said the patient earlier, "put away that pockotkuife tml pay attention to what I am sayno. If you had an apllo which you visited to divide with your little siser, how inueli would you t(ivo her?" 'I'd oive her the core," said Johnny. A North ('arolina neoro liavino icaril that es-(!overnor Jarvis lunl >een appointed Knvoy Ivxtraordinary ind Minister Plenipotentiary to lira :il, said to a friend: "tiovernor .birds has b.'on appointed an oxtraordi ...I ?.. ii... : .Ill ? j??< ? ? II* ? III* J M I I | i? | I I I il r \ 111 irazil." I!iihI>aii<1 (impatientIy to wife) ) old you I only wanted lialf a cup of a, and, as usual, you've Idled it up 0 11 in top. I )on't you know what iitlf full is?" Mother-in-law (grim* y) "She ought to know l>v tfVis-r''* ime. \ ou'o' been half full often nough." ?-TiTi Mr. Talinage says: Th ifo is made un of a of inks, long links ron links, solei^ ink.but thev ^ C'' -loti11 ol* noslinl J a . ,w >ut why not ad ** ^ " ago 1 it;I<s, b')i A lady travel iort w as annovei the lainoiis .faineA < ions bf a frllow-'V^. *??*' ,'i,mI tr>f , , >f them always ou he eonduetar ei te? v ?h?^s ier dress and ash., ,uu| children. '* lave vou not any rdi'in. Try tliom (pitting' in the r aeket- puneher si \\ ponded: "No,* ' irotnid any when . ** \ re, l<ariniii'.r I tuple ?^~ .always complete . I here are MiMie in.,,. can -upplv * 1 < 111 >?I in 11 &i i ti/l . .F fill, ** ?* i i i . i ^ ' u.rr< bnpti. - \ 1114 . ^(loniram, H )U.sc<>, llerian the arc well *?,#r, ;iA ^\ caver, a Cooper^ > Mason, ^ ;ft', a Upijje', a Miller, a I>rcv<?r-^ "ii;yi^-r, a Turnea, a Tav!or/S'%, {HAcr. h'ei !?. fir.si time ie-^v^ InTe DO l^uoillSOIl II) eolor>v\ >res * ^riVv>l"