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u a rpflU NA2I TI4EK N WINNSBORIO T . AGST 12, 1880.VL V-O 7 VIGIL. Pleep, little flow'ret I with fragrant flowers I 'lio o l W* 10 :s, L close, weary l O 1 a closing Symbol their languorous blise while reposing, 0 rest with these, rest I While the night dow&&Aie,p,W ng.e Smile, little angel I Iifi,t001; teef sIillini l Beneath the white moon,. Drean, little. soul I with their .zapttrpus Image their 9 auty 44 To the daylight d loif. modkni '.0otstepse In an ancient Northumberland mansion two It flre, h which would have astonished a London hor 1 Me (r jj,-j itdahe was 'g ero C. os nhi- I dies that stood near in heavy silver candIc- ] aticks. The younger. y,y IWO closely approaching fifty, was busily en. gaged with a long roll of flannel, from t ast the widowed Mrsa Cros Ad Miss Rorothy Grimble, her . been found similarly 'en auI t ruling her large estate with a firm hand from that writing table, and the maiden I idce in l t fteminine charities of d-f16ttsi -hak feollow Smith id trouble again, and can't pay his rent. Soon I see about that Idle rascal 1" mutterfadi Mrs. t Crosby. "Only a fortnight till a club clay; Won tie i e 0 .. Iee rthe - iously. "Bend them up to the school-house; they t can be made there. ' 16Y10 t041A14lig nOWv, surplitesifo&thd I choir ; can't do both." t .w, B4 0gr,be, At Pe tt icoatg a e pcrthat poor b n erl~adh~~q rcy "Well Aunt Crosby,' remonstrated Mise Dorothy, "yoti can't expdol atman"tbknoi all that a woman generally looks after." Ho " w do know all about Aht aL Anmown open, and the old butler announced the rec tor of'the01rtsNhj *. - . Mr. Pre_dy wasa very quiet, mild-oo1 . t lug man, up a of fif . - entered nervously; fZ cert until he had Ike t4is erful parisionbr, Fb tndedtil snap at him or pat him on the back (mugta Phorleally). lie now received her gracious fttandt~l )feo I " Dn't let me disturb you was just passming-ahein, ahl " - And then the sonte44id-4 Awyi almost Inaudible whisper of a self-evi enI Dolly will talk to you." Very uneasily he approachefl "Dolly," and seated himself on one side of the large workbasket, his han4 ia knees, and his eyet rest d d 9 Ion on the heaps of flanne . "Always busy, always useful," lie mur iur.d. -Xiss.Doroths Indiden:!handi t%itcelid; ' and slfe out the flannel In &'wrong place. Exue.me,'ile -aidI Haiing iin sonXie onfusion.-hitforgbt. to leave out someg miedicinefomkMrs. Brown. will returnt TPhe door had just closed whmen the rector . ."Ad nirablethv.i I Invaluable I" "Au ?" said Aunt. Crosby, sharply turn ig round, and the light from the fire made 10,"did yb k 'I 9 a ywas thinking-aih -whlt~lb~Miauothmy ~vuld be to you B"1l 'mh "' nj~ded CAunt Ctosby, in a torfe 'Ofi. slight'6ltemnt' "n<o nee,oU troubld abbut-that~ till she 1 talks of 'oing." )%$,40; Avery, true, madam. Y ou have auch an amiusing way of putting things I" anid hL ~ a li ~ 1i toi]ag,' ly ne 'hTUe. 'Perhials--ah-she might marry ?" "What is the idiot drivimgat?" said Mra. *CrQsb~y tg herself irate at.so many interrup tioils. ' drry,' d4 you say? she inquired I aloud. "Well, about flve-and-twenty years *ag6f)olly waAa well-lookig young woman. e ltill,:armight marry-now, and so ight I, for.the6m&tter of that, if'any one nakcd mel Take a look at the paper, Mr. Preedy; they'll bring in thuest diveoly; and t pen scratched on again. to hml ad ec try her again, though, see if I don't." *And havlig manfully' turi\ed tIle paper I tcdthe 'ld lady to herself. "I say, I hilve long wlshed,"-and lie had attained.Lhe-fixed-high key in which heo usually intoned the service, and the sound < of lisa own voice tIhus pitched gave him I courage-"to express the admiration I feel< for your niece.", "Well, she's an ocijWiki'tnre, Mr.1 IPreedy," agreed AUuJ uosb,y~ &hnd in (de4-1 p)air at his pert.aha61y she'lut down h4r pen, tightened het pinO)0 glasses on ler nose, and tu40 e~ iseen face full round2 to awtjioty , arksof her visitor. ata h ol make, Mrb. rie thme ch e re~tr e JJi - A glimmermg of the truti.lit up thme oli lady'q mind; aifti'sh'e'relSlied: "Yushould be a better udge of th t - than me( .Alr. Preedy; (I( you want marry her ?" "O)h, Mrs. Crosby, you are tpo2 goQt I1 May I hope?9" With aa odd smmile on -hr dIred old face, Aunt Crosby saldt> ' "fladn't you better deJc her I'll go oYt as sheo comes in." And, suiting t)e action to the word, tl?o mistress of tI'e biansion left the room as hg~r niece entered. r j' iours .after every one had retired, Mrs. Jrosby heard a footstep on the gravel walk jelow the window. ie irot up at once, chqvandle ,tha owiug on a warm but edr iwi, 'e marched, along 1 apas'g'and 'd6wn to the roomin where eposelthe butler;and the plate-chest. I he sound of the old nan's snoring oehqvzd he was uudiqturbe.d. His mistress aPped 9Aax . a . "9et up, th ke's a man walking ider my Wliidov " - Qitickl old' ]tn6s obeyed, and then he alled a yoling 'ootman to assist hiu and ie,. two armed themselves with pokers ind 01lid forth from the bay-win(ow of e.dMpn.qgroomm,,while *r. Crosby, can eqJwbiavi, toodC jus' tithn It. 1,fte' -roilg about f, r a few minutes, he ie Wek4but to Ane in, whop the (tffihger 6fthWo 6pied Wshadow close up o-the gray wall of:the h6use. He irang or.ward, shouting: "I've got him P' And Mrs. Crosby, in a voice worthy of irs. Siddons, cried from the window "Bring him here I Then the butler lending his assistance, a trnugli 'li ")A n dragm ed tot W t dn 11m, sh Ic a n1ld 3arnes cried in the same breath: s .Ur..J?redy " "Let me explain-Mrs. Crosby-il en reat you I" gasped the rector. "Oh, send ,aeid i h .ersontln', then " aid oun )an, confidentially, as he re, but really lingered by door to sten. "Speak, sirl" counmanded Aunt Cros )Y. "Well, th9n," whispered the rector, in agitatd voice, "sle has promised to be ;ine'-abdLI eant -no ha.mi, nideed, ,ind Mrs. Crosby; but I just walked back o loola at-the'light in hei *iidow I4 .: r. TheWiwas an ominous silence, and then aime a-crackle of laughter like the sound f iolly.eayes burning, and Atut Crosby helded out': -$o honie, Mi. J reedy; go home and io o fea l 'We old folks Rhould think of our heuniatisni before we perform as Romeos iUd J'ollets.' Good 'tifit todYoU. CIll bolt be window now, if you don't mind." .."Lbdk at that now,'" cried the young botman, delighted. ."Smame . on you for listening, JamesI" eVlied Barnes, adding with. a growl, aking' us all up fo look at Miss Dqr thyis 'Whier.. Well, I'm' blessed if there s a footlidl an old fool 1" Fool Friends .Nthing hurts a mnan, nothing hurts a at3, so terribly as fool friends A fool friend is the sower of bad news, f slander, and all base and unpleasant Ings. I fqo1 d'"lray k*ws every mean 1 g th en against you and c always know where your party a-losing, and the other is making large ans. e W ' Pi ynu6f he good. ilck your He Implicitly bellves every story against ois 4ddkihly 'subpects your defence. A 0d1fr(fhd isklways full of a kind of tupid candor. ilie-isWo cAdjd that. he', always believes lie statement of an enemy. He never suspects anything on your hie. ,Notl i, leaes -4im like being shocked hlir ,e sr-poncerning some good aan. He never denies a lie unless it is in your avor. Ie is always . finding - fault With his iarty and is continmIlly begging pardon o notihelonging to the.other Side. -HTe'isfrightfully anxious that all can iidates should stand well'with the oppo)s5 iOn. He is forever seeing tho:faults of . his party, and the virtues of the other. Hie generally shows -his clandor by cratehing his ticket. He always searches every nook and eor er of his conscience to find a reason for esrtida fHend or a 'prinitople. In thme moment of victory lhe is magna ilmousl.' on the other side. . In defeat he onsolos you by repeating prophecies made fter tlje, event.. Them fool frleeid regards your reputation s common property, and as common rey' far all tht 'vultures, -hyenas and ackals. Hie takes a sad pleasure in your misfor mes.. .~. . 'j le'forgts his'principles to gr atify your nemies lie forg.lves your mahgner and slanderer vithi all his heart. Hie Is so friendly that you cannot ick im. Ho generally talks for you, but always eots the Other way. liow the Earl.y virginians got Wives. l'he, histeory of the Commonwealth of Tirginia, commnenced with an auction sale -n.ot, however, in a store, but beneath the ~reii trees' bf Jamestown, Where, probably, lie most anxiotis and Interested crowd of uction habitues,ver known.hn .the, history ithme world we gathermed. . TIAa letter, till to ' be sdene dsted. London, ,ugumst 21, 621, and directed to a worthy colonist of hat settlemeont, the writer begins by saying: "We send you a shipment, one widow mnd eleven maids, for wIves of the peop)le >f VirginIa. There has been especial care ni the choice of them, for' there hath not me of them been received but upon good -t edton..Inca e y canmnot be )e puit with^sbeeral householders that have vives, until they can be provided with hus Sewatcr of this pilstle had little Ntdi tb-fnd~ 'that' any Of' tie' "Ithidens ~air" would be loft over. The arch.vyes :ontain evidence to prove that these first aargops'ci TOug l#dies w,ife put uip at auc, aon anmd oii koF'obe liundr'ed And twenty piounds of tobacco each, and it was ordered thiat tihis debt shot#Id have precedence over ill others. Tho'solitary' "one widow" went along with the others, for they could not be0 particular in those days. The gooj nipistar of the pol?gar no' doubt had a bpsy tinrt'that da . H4 did''riot mention any fees, nor did the bridogrooms think of ten tiering any. 4l-,)ves joy and glttdness ; po storms ahead, no inquisitive clerk to stand and say ; "Here's the license, fork .over L t o hilla h~ of the or. lies of Virginia are descended. Atig iooms in Paris. p rovinces of, France you,hire a a ims or a e by the year. The P 1s, less c9! Ot, hire by the'quar. he reader remelier that (0.. to houses, and 'houses entirely oceu pied by one tenant or by one family, aro the exception in Paris, The houses are almost inyarjably,strongly built, compact .stow blocks, -five,- six, or seven stories hk:, andeach floor will generally contain two, three, four, or more separate dwel kipgs pr apartments,.each with its minia ture slle a manger, salon, bedroom, kitch en and filces, varying of course according to the rent paid, and the quarter of the town in which it is situated, Bome of the apartments give on the court-yard, and are.not so gay or expensive as those which give on the street; some of which, and al 4most-certainly the one on the fifth floor, will have a fine balcony. The fact of an apartment being tolerably high up is not considered a drawback in Paris Jules 81 mons lives onthe fifib floor on the Place de 3adolive, and Louis Blanc long lived au cliquienie in ie Rue Royale, before he migrated to the same.elevation in the Rue de Rivoli. Yoii may get more air higher up,:.and-,yowhave: the advantage of a fine terrace-balcory, large enough in many cases to hold the dinner table. In a di trictof Paris like the Quartier Sa'nt-George which Is situated on the slopes leading up to Montmartre, anywhere between the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette and Rue de Moscou, you will get an appartment on the if th floor with a balcony for an annuol rent of froin seven hundred to one thousand francs. It will consist of a tiny kitehen, a salon, a dining room with a stove in it, one or two sleeping rooms; a closet or two, and oflices. The rooms will be small and the ceilings rather low, The first floor of such a house, containing say, dining and drawings rooms, ante-chambers, and four or five sleeping rooms with two or three eryaiuq op i n the attles, would fetc .11nuh as4 tio, three, and even four thousand fr4nba in a year. The fittings of the rooms will not be handsome. In France ,the dining rooms of the great hotels have a speciality of profuse ornamentation, and the foreigner thinks that the French are c'qually luxurious in their houses. This is not so. The ordinary apartment is fur nished in a comparatively mean way. The paltriness of the door handles and latches, to say nothing of their inconveniene, will strikethe-Euglish or American visitor. The French locksmiths are more than half a ceptury behind the times. The ifreplices ae constructed with a view of allowing the heat to escape up the chimney as much as possible, The folding doors, the casement windows, and the polished parquet floorings would give a handsome appearance to the rooims if they were only lofty, but thon again the proprietor, if it be lie who does the repairs, will spoil the whole effect by a cheap and paltry wall paper.. The way you take an apartment or dwelling In Paris is this: You choose the qdarter of the town you would wish to inhabit, and you begin to hunt. Most neople hunt for themselves, though there exist agencies for that purpose. As you pass along the street you will see little placards sticking out at right angles to the wall? by the side of the porte cocherelor entrance of the houses where'the is any thing to let, The placard or ecriteau will say, "Petit" or "Grand apartment a loner presentment, s'addresser.,, I do not ever remember to have seen a placard which told you were you wh !re requi e.1to addrets yourself. As a matter of fact you address yourself to the porter, or the concierge, or the porte-'d wife. Very often the placard will add that the apartment is orne de glaces; but as a rule that is matter of course, it being the rule for the looking glasses in -the various rooms to be fixtures belonging to the proprietor, A bachel or's apart ment, which may mean anything from a couple of rooms to a large.suite, is adver tised as an apartemnent de garcon: the meaning of such a placard is that ladies mned not apply. Small apartments are of ten described as logments, particularly in the populous Cjuarters. A ive in her Grave. The papers of Franklintown, North Caro lina, report a remarkable case of suspended aninmation, burial and resurrection in the person of a married lady in that place, who possessed a gold watch and finger rings, which she often expressed a desire to hiave burled with her whenever she should die. Finally she was taken ill and her life seemed to gradually ebb away until her attending physician pronounced it extinct. At her burial her previously expressed desire was complhed with, and the second night after thme interment a white nian and a niegro wvent to the grave-and exhumed her for the purpose of of obtaining the burled jewelry. As they took the lid off thme colln and the ngro began pulling the ring off hier finger, she raised tip. At this both men took fright and ran away. Finally the negro wont back and she asked him what lhe waiited. He told her lhe waimted her rings and the white man lier watch. She requiestall to see the white man, whom the other soon found and brought to he-. She requested him to go home with lher, lie did so, and when she reached the dboo- she knocked. Her husband opened the door, but fainted when lie saw her, thinking it was his dead wife's ghost. T1he lady is now living, and bids fair to attain a good old age. A Cuban Milkean. , Few matters strike time observant stranger with a stronger sense of their peculiarity than the uuban milkman's mode of supply ing that necessary alhnent to his town or city customers. Driving his aober kine from door to door, he deliberately milks just the quantity required by each customer, de livers it, -and drives on to time next. Tme patient animal becomes as conversant with thle residences of her master's customers as lhe is himself, and stops, unbidden, at regu lar intervals, before thme proper houses, often followed by a pretty little calf, which amuses itself by gazing at thme process, iWhiile,it wears a leather muzzle to prevent its interference with the sripply of1nllk in tended for another quarter. There are, doubtless, tivo good reasons for this mode of delIvering milk inIlavam nd the large town!in Cuba. First, the re can be .10 di biting of the article ; and secouu, it is sure t4 be sweet and fresh, ti latter a particu lar desideratum in a elimate where milk wIth~u ice can be kept oply, a brief period wli9l sp,oiling. '.0Of comipe, the effect upo6 te animaul is by fio 'means ~salutary, and a Cuban cow gives about one-thtrd as much milk as one lin America. Goats are driven anout itnd mIlked'mn tihe same man ner. The Howl at befbee's Corner. A few days ago a blunt spoken, hearty looking first citizen of, Bebee's Corners made his appearance oik Griswold street, Detroit. to look ou seine lawyer who would deliver the 4th o July orat on at the Corners. He was on b ess and no fooling. le had been deputiz y his fellow citi zens to make all orrl$Al arrangements, and he hM'deoided id. as to the sort of address wanted. He wos put in communi cation with a young attorney who had an address of four hundred pages of foolscap all written out for such an occasion. Af ter a few preliminary reinirks the delegate began: "Does your addresi'&f6t, to the struggles of our forefathers ?" V. "Oh, yes; I have seienteen distinct re ferences to their peribi, struggles, and triumphs." "Knock 'em right Ithen-cross out every one of them - y fool in the country knows that o forefathers had to struggle. Of course ti did, it was their 'husiness to; they have d all the praise 'ilue 'em, and Bebee's ners won't give 'em another word." "Well, I suppose I can leave out our forefathers," humbly rplied th orator. "Very well. Now, what have you in your address in regard to Gen. Washiug ton?" "Well, I probably mntion him forty or fifty times. Washiagtoi vasa great ian, and we must not forget 4iin." "Strike him right Qbtl" was the flat command. "Washingt was a great and good man. Bebee's Co*ier is as loyal as any town in America, bi we've had Wash ington till we can't rest." The orator made a note of that also, and the other continued: "I presume you have put In a boonm for the Declaration of Inde'pendence?" . "Yes, I never heard of a 4th of July orator with that left out:" "Then you are going tb learn something now. Bebee's Corners %4ould howl all day over the sight of an American flag if there was any call for it, but we're going to take a new departure. No Declaration of Ii dependence in our -oration this year. 8bratch 'or right out." "That doesn't leave me live minutes' talk," said the attorney, as he made a cal culation. ."All I have left tire a *few re marks on the Pilgrim Fathers." "Then knock the Pilgrim Fatheirs higher than a kite before you forget it. We've been Pilgrim Fathered to death in this country." "What kind of an oration do you want ip there I" asked the lawyer, as lils heart began to sink. 'That's what I'll tell you. Can you sing?' "No." "Then you are out iI the cold. We want an oration lasting just ten minutes. We want a sentimental song to lead off, and a funny one to end with. The re marks between the songs can range all the way from 'Daniel hq the Lion's Den' to 'Pop Goes the Weasel,' but they must, be funny. We are a laughing set up there. We go In heavy on conundrums, and we make some of the best - puns going. We shall want, say, ten puns, ten conundrums, two songs, and something to warrant about five grins, and from seven to ten regular old side splitters, and the terms will be $15 cash on the nail. Are you the man ?" "I-I guess not," was the faint reply. "All riglit-'nuff said. I'll move on to the next, and If I can't strike the chap iII this town I'll sail down to Toledo. Bebee's Corners is going to get up and howl this year, and don't you forgit it. Amerlcanizing London. The opening of the new hotel in Trafal gar square marks one stage in what is called Amemcanization in London. Our cousins tell us that we have not succeeded in de veloping the genuine article; bnt we have certainly made a good many steps in that direction. Whether the change is or is not an improvement may be settled by those wimse persons who have made up their minds as to the true significance of modern pro gress. It is cutriousa ta remark that the al teration In the character of English inns was almost the sole case In which even Macauley could not preserve his entire com placency when comp)aring our own time with that of our ancestors, He tries to reconcile himself to the admission of our relative Inferiority by the doubtful con sideration that good inns mean bad roadls. "It is evident," lie says, "that, all other circumstances being supposed equal, inns will be best where time means of locomotion are worst." In time seventeenth centuiry a traveler required twelve or thirteen meals and five or six nights' lodgings between York and London. Now lhe fInishes lis journey between breakfast and dinner, and meals are taken (If the word 'meal' be not dishonored by applying it, to such miscel laneous feeding) during the wretched ten minutes for refreshment. .The argument will hardly bear Iivestmgtation as it is statedl -"other circumstances" wIll certainly not, be equal wvhen locomotion becomes easier. Improved means of traveling implies an in creasedl number of travmlers; It means In this palrticuilar case that whole classes which used to be sedlentatry have become mov able, anid thatt those who move, move ten times as as often as before, if Deople make fewer stoppages between London and York, there can be no doubt that the number of pecople in want of a lodging somewhere has mncreased at a- much greater rate than the total population. If the old road-side inn Is deserted, the innsi 'in the great icentres have done much more than simply absorb the custom of their prcedecessors-they have tapp)ed new sources of demand. A Good Ortindstone. It should be strong1 simple, and cleamn; the troutgl. expand(edl to catch as much as posible of thme drip water and grit ; a mnovab)le shield, securely hinged, to keep the water from splashing, and yet permit the stone to be used from either side; reas provided, upon which to rest tools and the rod for trueing the stone, these rests being arranaged to move towairdsa the cemftre as the stone wears smaller. Thme bearings should be generous in size, p:'oper provision beIng made for oiling without washing time grit inte tihe bearings with the oil, and the ends of the bearings being protected by some do vice which effectually prevents tihe entrance of the grit. The stone should be secured to the shiaftI by nuts and washers, and the washiera fixed so that they cannot turn Wyith the nuts as they are screwed lip or uni screwed. In hangig the stone, great care shtould be taken to hang it true sidewise not only for convenience in uising, but be. cause a stone that is not true sidewise can never be.kenit true ede*e.m A Checkered Have "Perhaps, after all, the most successful game one dau play the world over Is 'bluff,'" said old Judge Van Snyder, the other day, as he looked up from reading the arrangement for the coming yacht races. "Don't catch the idea," said his old crony, Diffenderfer, waking up frem an after-ainner nap. "I was thinking," said the Judge, retro spectively, "of a famous yacht race I at tended in New York harbor a long time ago. It was between an English schooner named the Sylph, I think, and the famous America. There was a large party of us young bloods aboard the Judges' steamer, and the betting ran very high. Of course till we New Yorkers wanted to back the America. "And didn't you?" yawned old Diffeu derfer, settling for another forty winks. "I'm coming to that. No; I just said, we were all anxious to bet on the home boat, and we'd done so if it hadn't been for the action of a loud-voiced but shabby looking sport, who went around sneering at the Yankee schooner and claining a sure victory for the Sylph.' "Couldn't the police stop it?" growled Diffenderfer, opening one eye to take aiim at a fly on his nose. "Stop what? Why don't you pay atten tion to what I am saying? Well, this fel low kept annoying everybody by his insin uations and vociferations until ait last I pulled out a handful of gold and said to him, 'My friend, you seem to do a good deal of talking on small capital. If you tire so sure you're right, back your opin lon.' And everybody around chimed ii, 'Yes, young man, put up or shut ip.' " "Hll Hail" said old D., vaguely. 'Dev ilish good story that!" "Don't be ai fool, Diffenderfer," said his claim, testily. ''If you haven't, the decency to-" "Go on, my dear oh( boy," saitd Diffen derfer, 8itting up with great resigatitlon. "I hear every word you say." "Oh, you (o, ehl ? Where was I T well, this fellow kind of sncaked off at that, but, just as we were offering the odds on the Amorlea, he came shouldering his way thrdTugh the crowd, holding in his hand a big bag that seemed fairly bursting with twenties. 'Where is he ?" lie shouted. 'Where is that young flat who wanted to bet with me V Come, now -'ll go you one thousand to one hundred the Syllh winsi' andl he shook the bag in my face." "Did, oh " said Diitendenfer, drow sily. "Yes, sir, he did. Well, I was so much taken aback that I hesitated. 'Oih, you're backing down, tire you ' said the fellow with a grin. 'Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Mr. Know-it-all, I'll just bet you a Cool thousand to fifty that the America losses.' I was so astoishlied ait the main giving such tremendous odds, and with the coin right hi sight, too, that, I saw at once he had a sure thing, so I refused to bet: 'Put up or shut up,' said the man wi I the bag. I'11 make it two thousand.' "You took him ip then ?" said Diffen derfer, shading his eye with his hand. "No, of course I di n't, I saw that-we till saw-that something was up. So I just backed square down, and went quietly around hedging and laying any odds they wiate(I on the Sylph. Most of the swells did the sine, and were surprised and de lighted to find that there was t crowd of hard-looking eustoners on board who took our bets, though we had to give the biggest kind of odds generally." "Well-and then " "rhe upshot of the whole matter was that the America won by fiva miles, and evqyy decent-looking man on the boat Wa1s cleared out. down to a cur ticket. Tile rouglhs had won all the money. As our party landed at the wharf, and till looking very savage at our stupidity, the 'bluffer' alluded to winkedl at the .crowdl and tossedl his baug overboard. To our Pamazement it floated lightly off. 'Whtt did you have in that big bag ?' I aked. aOh,~ nothing ina the world' replhed tile 'capper,' as lhe skipped over the rail, 'but ai. box of checkers I bought from the stcwtard.' Now, whiat do you think of that 1" But Diffenderfer was snorinag like a cof fee mill, so the Judge drank the sherry out of revenge and sanoozed off himself. The Busby Crane. There was a good deal of excitemeant uip around Sprning Mill lately over the Buzby Patenit Crane and Derrick. The machine was inivented by Buzby for the pnrpose of unloading canal boats, and he claimed for it that with a man and a mulIe, andi boy to dIrive the mulec, lie could take a load out of a boat anid whtizz it tashoro in almost less than no time. Whean Buzby had set up the maclilne lie asked us all (down to see how it worked, Hitched to thme sligle tree of the polo was a very large and fat mouse colored mule, which seemed to be asleep. The ditty de volvhtig upon that mule was to march around a circle pullinig the po010 after him. Whean every thing was ready Buzby ordiered the boy to stat t thme mule. The miulo appearedl still lingering ini the hand of drneams. TIhae boy hit the mule with a stick, and the man on the boat emuitted some horrible epithets descriptive of the mule's fearful peculiairties. Result : coin tinued quiescence on the part of the animnal. TIhen Buzby rushed up and bomb'arded the ribs of the mule with a couple of bricks, while the man on the boat, having recover ed lis windl, brethed forth a dlozen or two assorted.adjectives of a peculiarly offensivye natuire. Biut the mule was either thinking of the events of its past life or meditating dleeply on time uncertainties of thme future, for lie remuainedh perfectly calmn. T1haen the mani on the boat, beside him. self with rage, seured a piltchlfork, and letaping ashore with venomous criticisms on the eccentricities of mules streaming from lia mouth, prodded the animal fiercely with the prangs. T1his seemed to attract theo muale's attention, for lie laid back lia ears andh kicked thme man eIght feet away plump into time river. When the man emergedi, <lrlpping, lhe referred tor the mule's conduct ini some1 observations which were not more distinguished for their intense energy than for their picturesque variety of metaphor. When lie was pacified, sand persuaded freim murdering the mule, Buazby sent up to the store and purchased a pack of fire crackers. The boy was placed on the mule's back, and lie crept slowly to the rear, when heo reached over and tied the crackers to the tall. When he had die mounted, Buzbf fixed a cigar to a long stick and ignited th~e bpack. A very animated explosion followed ; but the mule manifested nao interest in the nroceedinga exeentinlr thnt. ho lifft hin FOOD FOR THOUGUT. Very young men, like young fruit trees, require frequent trimming. Every man is "a man after God's own heart" for the functions that lie does best. We must not look around on the uni verse with awe, and on man with scorn. Aspirations after truth and virtue are pledges and beginnings of irumor tality. Wnat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free meandering brook. The man with a shabby overeoat is the first to complitin of the heat of the northward soaring sun. If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that Is the person of whom you ought never to speak. It is always safe to learn, even froin our enemies; seldom sare to venture to instruct even our friends. There are two classes who do not bear prosperity-one of them being those who do not get a chance. No man is called on to lose his owni balance for the advancement of the world In iny particular direction. "What struck you most in the equa torial rigions?" asked a gentleman of a traveler. "Theio sun,t" wd the reply. Do you know on what bushes a little peace, faith and cont,ntment grow? Go a-berrying early and late after Ltem. Much charity which begins at home Is too feeble to get out doors, and much that begins out doors never gets into the hone circle. That life is long which answers life's great end; the tree that bears no fruit deserves no name; the tnan of wisdoin is the man of years. Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a i(reater inceitive to tenderness and pity thati any other luot,lve whaloever. If God has taught us all truth in teaching us to love, then he ha givei us an interpretation of our whole duty in our own households. lie who imitates what is evil alivay. goes beyond the example that is set; on the coutrary, lie who imitates what, Is good always tails short. "Miat is wisdom ?" asked a teacher of a class of small girls. A bright eyed little creature arobe and answered: "II torMaUlon 01 the brain." The world is a bee-hive in which we are all hunting for honey; the few are successful, but the Mally only receive stings and pains In the effrrt. The only thing American about a brass banu is the way small boys pad dle through mud and dust to CALClI enough o U4U tune to whistle. To ill the sphere which Providence appoints is true wisdom; to discharge trusts laithfulay and have exalted ideas, that is.the iission of good mnen. Our true acquisitions lie only In our charities. We galu only as we give. There is no beggar so destitute as he who can afford nothing to his neigh bor. First among the thinge,to, be thank ful for is a thankful spii't. 8omne poo plie would grumble at the accomloda tions in heaven if they ever got there. Our endeavors are In vain without God's blessing, yet in vain shall he ciallenge a blessing that endeavor not. Sloth is no less guilty than covetous ness. In the light of eternity.we shall see that what we desired would have beeti latal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well be ig. It is not the p)oetry, the splendid 1m ages, the lol ty moral of the Scrlpture tnat makes it a two-e.ged sword, but its living truth and its practicai ap plIcation. Time Is the greatest innovator, and if tIme of course alters all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end P "But then, 0 my friends, If the soul is really Immortal, what care should be taken of her, not only In respect of the portioni 01 tige which is called lif'e, but of eternity 1" KCeep your promIse to the letter; be prompt anid exact, and it will save you niuui t,rouble and care through life, and win for you the respect aind trust of your friends. A woman dreamed that she saw her husband kissing a certain neighubor's wile, and she awoke and struck him across the lace and broke his nose. Mlan is nowhere safe. I love mny friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see themh. Ilhate thema comnionly whmen I amn with them; they belie themselves and deny mae contInually. When we have learned to offer up every.d-aty connected with our situa tion in life as a sacrifice to God, a set. tied employment becomes just as' set.. tied] as a habit of prayer. - Christianity Is no thing of modern birth, to end in death; it is older th~an time and will continue on beyond time ; born out o1 God and his iternity, trail ing on the path of immortality. Weoll!I well I ,Soleo tereo, 8acco drlu' (Italian proverb), many a full sack comes from a crooked furrow, and lie who will be captain of none but hontest men will have small hire to pay. We speak of the snow as an image of' death. It may be this, but it hides the everlasting life under its robes-the lihe to be revealed ina duo time-when all cold shadows shall melt away be fore the ascending Siun and shall not be unclothed, but clothed upon, and mortality shall be swallowed up 01 lile. Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to -show pluck, and ,woe be to the coward. Whethier passe.I on a bed of sickness or In the tented field, it is ever the sachie fair flag, and admits of no distincotion. D}espair and postponement are coward ice and defeat.'- Meni were born to sue coed, not'to Lall. It is of .dangerolus';pnsequence to ' represen to man hiow pear he to the levelt ~fbasts, without s. Almi at the sawno time his likewise dangorous to s~ greatness- without his more dangorous' yet is.1 norant of either; but v,or O" that he shot:14 bW pade eons bib voice and gave a loud and hideous bellow, which convinced Buzby the animal -con. sidered himself, somehow, the central point of a Fourth of JAy celebration, and was trying to contribute a vocal trifle to the enthusiasm of the occasion. The dampened man on the boat then engaged, in language luxuriant with wicked expressions, that the mule should be run out of the way so that he could operate the machine himself. It struck Bnzby as* a good idea. lie told the boy to lead the mule away. The boy unhitched the traces and Irle<. The mule seemed perfectly con tented where he was Then Buzby and the boy and the man leaned up against the side elevation of the mule, and pushed. The mule glanced lazily around at them, re maining firm, then he swept his near hind leg under and out again suddenly, flooring the three pushers. instantly. Then he turned to one of the bystanders and distinct ly winked twice. Skeptics 1-7o ques tioned if lie really winked, but the man who saw him do it is ready to make an afildavit to the fact. Buzby then ordered the boy to hitch the mule again, lest he should happen to change his mind and resolve to quit unexpectedly. The man on the boat adorning his language with new and startling floweri of rhetoric, alleged that he would fix the brute. So he collected some kindling wood and shavings, and prepared to start a bonfire under him. When the 8tuff began to burn the mule stood firm upon three legs, and felt softly around hin with the fourth, scattering the fire far and wide. Those who disliked Improper language were shocked at the terms employed by the man on the boat to characterize this out rage. Another fire was kinailed and pushed under the mule with a pole, after it had kindled into a fearful blaze. At first the mule apparently tried to save hinself by throwing a hand spring; failing in this he strove to get up on his hind legs. When lie found this wouldn't work, he started around the ring with a jerk, knock ing Buzby flat with the p2le, nearly brain ing the boy, and hurting the boatman so severely that he fairly tore the English lan guage into shreds in his anxiety ts do justice to the situation. Then the mule revolved like lightning for about ten ininvtes, at the end of which tinie he broke loose and drifted down the road toward home, leaving Buzby's Pat ent Crane and Derrick a heap of splinters and old Iron. Patent rights will be sold cheap to those wlho apply early to luzby. Discoveries of Little Things. The art of printing, probably the par cut of more good than all others, owes its origin to rtide iipressions taken (for the aitsemient of children) from letters carved on the bark of a beach-tree. This was a light matter, which thousand would have passed over with neglect. Gunpowder was discovered from the falling of a spark on sonie materials mixed in the mortar; or perhaps we should rather say that artil lery was the conisequence of this spark and the due observance of the circunstance. The stupendous results of the steam-engine may all be tracerd to an individual observing steam ising from a bottle just emptied and placed casually close to a fire. He plunged the bottle-neck into cold water. and was intelligent enough to notice the in stantaneous rush which ensued froia this shuple condensing apparatus. Electricity was discovered by a person observing that a piece of rubbed glass or some sinilar sub stance attracted small bits of paper, etc. Galvanism, again, owes its origin to Ma (lame Galvani's noticing the contraction of the muscle of *a skinned frog which was accidently touched by a person at the mont ent.of the professor, her husband, taking an electric spark froAn a machine. le fol lowed u) the hint by experiments. Pen dulum clocks were invented from Galileo's observing the lamp ini a church swing to and fro. 'iThe t.elescope we owe to some children of a spectacle-maker placing two or iuore pairs of sp)ectacles before each other, and looking through them at a distant ob ject. The glhmpse tihus afforded was fol lowed up by older heads. The baromeser originated in the circumstances of a p)umIp, which had been fixed higher t,ban usual above the surface of a well, being found not to draw water. A sagacious observer hence reduced the pressure of the atmuos phtere, and trleed quick silver. l'Te Ar ganid lamp wats inivented by oiie of the brothers of that name having remarked that a tube held by chance over a candle caused it to burn with a bright flame-an effect before unattainable, though earnestly sought af ter. Without, the Argand lamp, lighthouses (to pass over minor objects) could not be made ef icient, and oin the im porlanice of these it is needless to dwell. Meimories of Mount, Vern~on. "Wec wander all through the sadi, silent mtansion. We look at the spindlelegged furniture, and at the rusty key on the wail, the key of the Bastihe. We see Washing ton's vest and small-clothes in the glass case, andc a lock of his hair anai original let ters byJ us haund and Lafayette's. We see pretty Eleanor Eustis's wedding-gifthlarpsi chord, thtat lher stepfather brought from. foreign lanids for a surprise when shte left hor girlhood's home. The pretty Eleanor. is buried long ago. All traces of her pink and white beauty have left the earth; here stanids the dusty harpsichord ; brought by strange hands to her old home. The room that interests the, mlost is the tiny attic cha,nuber whtere the devoted widow passed her clays after her huusbandl's death. 'rTe large chmambler below was closed after his decease. None entered it from that time on. A rug and single bed Mrs. Washing ton had moved to the attic room, and here, winter and summer, shte watched with longing, crazy eyes thne tomb thtat held hdr demal. There was no .place for stove or gratte; all (lay, in the room under the roof, . sihe sat b)y the small, window (her feet in winter on a zinc foot-stove filled with coals), with a shawl wrapped about her bent form, trute Marthta Washington, first lady of the land I First in elegance in times of peace ; in courage in time of war ; in faithfulness in time of death. All women look with tenderer eyes at the small marble resting place tIhan at thne grander casket by their side. One bears upon it a dIraped flag, cut in the stone, a shield and crouch those words din the eyes of loving wives; they piec the hearts of lonely widows, and bind all true and fervent woman hood close to the form that sleeps so dreamiessly beside the one sihe loved truly and long.