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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.