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[The Painful 'scene I have endeavored to por tray, Hayn n writer in New York Grajmic, is founded upon nn occurrence thht recently ennic to the "notice of one of die teachers cm ployed by the Children's Aid Society, and is ho whit more distressing than other scones that nrc enacted nightly.in this metropolis. If I might hope to interest one single render to the extent of in ducing even the smallest contribution towards the noblu charity conducted by that society'I ! should feel that 1 had accomplished something in the cause of humanity ] O, 1 hope she ain't been drinkin'? Yc^m every match is sold: ? But Taint got all the money? Three cents, mammy's, all Isloled. Course I k no wed you'd lick me for it, Lorn mo tell y, how it come? Then, perhaps, you'll whip me easy, 'Less you've been a drinkin' rum. I wns dreadful tired walkia'? Seemed as like as not, I'd drop; So I stopped to rest a minute, Bight afore a baker's shop. Suthin' gripped me in the stummick At a sight o' tbing to cat; Cause I hadn't struck it lucky FindiiV scraps along the street. No ! not yet?just wait a minute Till I tell y', then you may. Since you gave methat pertater 1 ain't had a bite to day; ? And them crullers looked so temptin', I got crying where 1 stood? Never tasted notion' like 'cm, But I knowed they must be good. Then I seed two girls a coinin'? They was just about my size? Dressed so nice and warm and handsome With such purty-lookin' even; Watched'cm walk right in so careless, Like it wa'n't no barm to do; When I see 'cm buym' crullers I went in and bought some, too. (lot three cents' worth?conic out tremblin' Kind o' seared at what I'd done; And a joafin' boy tbat seen nie Snatched 'em out my band and run. Tlien I sot down on the curbstone, Feel in' weak and sort o' sick, Till a pleeeeman conic an' tolu me? Cot up now, ainl travel quick! Lick me now: but you must give me Just one little bite to vat I I can't stand it 'thoilt no supper No! no I no! Don't lie liiy feet! Oh, that great big stick'll kill me! Mammy, I'll be good?I'll try ! Wei!, du n, kill nib -please to kill me I Oh ! Please, please to let me die! WHO IS GUILTY? ?'The man waits outside," .said Air. Spenser Ponton's servant, as lie stepped in front of the low ollico table, piled with books nnd law papers. Mr. Ecu ton's servant was a man <>!' penetration, nnd knew where to draw the dividing line between the commonplace "man" and tbo order of being known us 'the "gentleman." "Let him come in," said Mr. Fenton, quietly as be took a pistol from a drawer laid it on the table and dropped a news paper over it. Mr. Fenton was a lawyer in good prac tice in a large city, ami was known us widely among the class of customers for whom he practiced as a celebrated lawyer of "Clreat Expectation"and fame. The man was admitted, and proved to be a sullen-looking brutish personage. Mr. Pen toil looked once at this square jawed savage face, and judged his man. "You may go, John," he said to his servant. "Takean hour or two for yourself, it yon like " .John went out, and the lawyer then took his seat at tbo table opposite bis client, looking at him sternly. ?'Now my man," he said quietly, "we are together, and I want to know exactly how the matter stands." ?'I am going to tell you how iL stands, honest Injun, I am." "Very well. Now, as to this bank robbery. You say that you can give information?-for n consideration, of ?? course. "For live hundred dollars." "Very well." "Then I'll tell you. The man that put up that job is Seth Amity, tbo cashier of the bank." Fenton started to his feet, and for a moment lost self-possession. "Seth Amity! .Man you urn either drunk or cra/.y!" "Ro I? Then you take mc som'cr's und git mo swore to it. I'll take my alii ilayy and whereas that he's tbo one as pul up the job, I ain't going to swear to j a lie." believe you'd swear to nnytWbag for n dollar, Senter; but that don't matter. Of course, if you can prove wbatypu say the man must be punished. Seth ?jnity? I would undertake to swear'thnt ypu are lyiug.', 3fe ' "I ain't, Mr. Fenton: so help ?ine, I ain't. He's the man us done it; hip the man as put the others up to tbo fastigiings and gave them the impression t<? the safe key and the word to unlocjt the safe by." "You know n great deal aboufcT this matter, it seems to me." [ "Course I know about it. I Ttin't sneaked and crawled there hull nights for nothin'. See here, they are goi|g to make another haul on the bank, \and they are going to meet to nrrango it> to night. Would you dare go with me und listen?" "Can you lead the way?" "I kin, and you'll see what yer pre cious Seth Aunty amounts too." "Shall I bring n poliecman?" "I don't like the cops; but bring one if you like, be can't hurt inc." "Very good, you can leave me njow, but be on hand at nine." He arose and unlocked the. door, and Senter shufflco out in his sullen manner. As he passed down the wide Rtairousi?n young man brushed passed him rapietfy, and gave bint a look of "silent scorn. Senter stopped on the stairway and look ed after him. "That you Selb my boy. You are down on me for a traitor and informer, but I'll fix you yet!" The young man tapped at the door uf Feuton's room ami entered. The lawyer looked 14? at him quickly, and tin oxp.es sjon of doubtful moaning "passed over bis face. "Conti morning, Seth," he said 'Mow do matters go on at the bank'.'"' "They are in trouble, of course, i'v there is absolutely no clue lo""the >c1TumN reis who robbed the sale. They were cunning enough not to take anything ex cept gold?actually leaving 11 large quantify of indes, which they might have bad as well as not." "Do you suspect any one connected with the bank?" "I own 1 have my suspicions, Mr. Fen ton, but L have no proofs, ami as the man and I are not good friend-', it might look like personal enmity on my part if I spoke of ii.*' "flu-sale was opened with the kc) and word." "Yes; that is tin; puzzle, for only two of us had the word.?The key is another matter, and it might have been taken in a (I r/.en ways. Why, if the tlireetois did not have the utmost confidence in ine 1 might have been suspected myself Are you going to the house?" '-'No; but you must give the. mamc of] the man you fuspcel; of course it will go no further than myself." "Henry Dann, the assistant t astier," replied Seth, slowly.?"You know that he has not been friendly with me since he knew Mary and I were engaged: for he hoped to succeed himself." "Umph! You are going to the bouse to ace Mary?" "Yea I thought perhaps you were go ing down. I can't stay a moment; so good bye, and if you lind out anything let us know tit once." lie hurried out, and Fenton remained with bis bead upon his hands, in dee]) thought. He had trusted Seth Amity so far that hi: bad accepted him as tbo alli I anceil husband of his only daughter whom he loved as lew parents love their children. He knew that his informer was a brute, but a good spy, ami ho had given him trustworthy information before and it looked bad for Selb. If it proved true, ho would be tbo one to break the daugh ter's benrl and consign Selb Amity to a prison cell foi years. Hut he had been retained hy the bank officials to work up this most audacious robber)' and be would do bis duty. Seth hurried down to the ears ami stopped up to the Fenton residence. As he went up the steps the door opi no I, and a young man stepped out, who east a savage glance at him, and passed by without saving a word. "What is Henry Dana doing hero?" he muttered, "and what a malicious glance ho gave inc. I must understand this matter at once." He touched the boll und sent up his name by the servant who answered the call. Directly after the girl came back with a card, upon which was written in a deli cate female hand: "Not at home, to Mr. Amity. I will never see you again. Mauy Fkkton." He looked wildly at the servant, and then, tearing the card in pieces he stamp . ed upon them furiously, and hurried out into the street; his heart fuii of doubts and fears. Mary had refused toseo him ngain Who had poisoned her mind against him nnd how should he unravel the web which fate seemed weaving around him? Sonter was on band at the appointed time, and met Fen ton at his office, where they were joined by n policeman. Fen ton bad armed himself, and after a stern command to bu careful what he did, the , informer took tho lead, walking several paces in advance of the other, and not appearing to belong to them. He took a cab at a corner stand, they followed his I example; and after ordering their driver to keep the other cub insight, they drove through the city, and half an 4ior.r aftor alighted in a side street, where the houses were of the first class known as suspi cioits. The cabmen bad their orders and drove away, and Senter joined the party. "Where is the place; you go?" said the policeman. "Gentleman Tom's:," replied Center. "Tom keeps .a .little game of faro, and a good many rough customers bang around him," said the policeman. "Will you go iit?" 'lOf eourso/lsaid Fen ton quicily. ''You are game," muttered the police man. 'This way, then." He opened si gate and by the talis mnnic power of cor tain words and knocks they were soon inside of the house, in which the gambling was hi full blast. Sen tor led the way up stairs to a small \*oom which was carpeted so thickly that their footsteps could give no sound. S6h ter moved a small panel, scarcely an inch across, and motioned to Fen ton to look : in. Ho applied his cyclo the opening. I and saw tluvc men seated at a table, ul | most within reach of his hand, eonvcrs ing in low tones. All of them were mask ed closely,and two of them called the third by name, at diIll-rent times, and the name was?Seth Amity. Fen ton listened and heard the whole plan of tho proposed robbery, and be knew that the matt whom be I ad trusted, and to whom he hud been about to give his dnvghtcr in marriage, waiavillian and a partner with robbers. All compunctions were at an end, and tht' last words be beard as the men arose were these: "I have invested the pro coeds of our last haul in Chicago in such a way that. it. will give me influence enough with that obi shark Fen ton, to induce him to hurry up tho marriage with his daughter. They are over forty thousand in gold in the bank, and the specie will How in heavily to-morrow. This will make us rieb enough to retire and live like honest ineh.V Twice during the nest day Seth passed Mr. Fen ton in the street with wild excit ed look in bis handsome face, and the lawyer f.,und it hard to believe the evi dence of his own curs. Seth did not look like a criminal hut rather one whom some unexpected sorrow had driven to despair. At night three men, with hats drawn closely over their brows, crawled through the alleys at the back of Morton's Bank ami reached a door, which was opened by a key, und they entered. A man lay sleeping on the Ho r, who was quieklv overpowered, bound and gaged, flic one who appeared to ho the leader showed them the way to the place where the other watchman was seated, nodding over u table. He was disposed of nseasily sis the other, and K it upon the floor help less, and then the lender produced tho key to the vault, nnd opened it easily enough. Tho floor was quickly strewed w ith small canvas bags, each of which represented si large sum of gold, j As they were gloating over the prize, which far execded their expectations, then' came st sudden rush of men, and the three robbers were secured before they bad time to think of danger. "Taken in the net Seth Amity," said Fen ton, showing himself. "You cannot hop..' for mercy at nty hands." One of the officers removed his cap and held up a lantern; and they saw not Seth Amity, but Henry Dana, his dark face distorted by rage. "I am beaten ; take me to prison; let nxe hide mysolf from tho whole worldf" said Dana. So the three robbers went to prison,aud Seth Amity was cleared in the eyes of all men, nnd what ho cared for most, in those of Mary Fenton. Dana had told her that he robbed the bank, and that the officials had proofs of bis villiany, and she was strong enough to cast off the man sho believed to be a villiau. She mado ample atonement for those moments of doubt, for she is now his wife, and will love him the better becaiisc sho sinned against him for an hour. The stolen property was nearly a'.l re covered and returned to bank. Dana was sent to Sing Sing,where ho was found dead in his eel', six months after the pris on closed on him. Whether ho died by his own hand or conflicting passions of bis own heart, no man knows. . Matrimony an? Drvottcn.?An aged Indian, who for many years had spent much otbis rime among the white people ooth in Fensylvanin and New Jersey, one day about the year 1770 observed that the Indians had not only a much caisicr way of getting a wile than the whites, but were also more certain of getting a good one; -'For," said ho in bis broken English "While man court?court?may be one whole year!?ay be two years be fore he marry!?well!?maybe then got very good wife?but may be not!?may be very cross!?Well now, suppe.se cross! scold so soon as get awake in the morning! scold ail day! scold until sleop; all one!? he must keep bind White people have law forbidding throwing away wife, be he ever so cross! must keep him always! Well! bow does Indian do!?Indian, when he sec industrious Squaw, which ho like, he go to him, place his two fore fingers close aside each other, make two look like one?look squaw in the face? sec him smile?which is all one?be says Yes! so he take him homo?no danger he bo cross! no no! Squaw know too well what Indian do if he cross!?throw him away ami take another! Squaw lova to cat meat! no husband! no meat! Squaw bo every thing to please husband! he do the same to please Squaw! live happy!'' Josh Billings thus speaks of a new agricultural implement, to which the at tendon of fanners is invited : "John Rodgers' revolving, expanding, uncere monious, self-adjusting, sclf-controling, self-greasing and self-righteous boss rake is now forever offered to the publik. These rakes are as easy to keep in repair as a hitchiu' post, and will rake up a pa per of .fins sowed broad cast in a ten acre field of wheat stubble. These rakes kan be used in winter for a ben roost, or saw ed up into stove wood for the kitchen fire No farmer ot good moral character should be without this rake, even if he had tew steal one." A man who had recently been elected a major of militia, nnd who was not over burdened with brains, took into bis bead on the morning of parade, to excrciso a little by himsilf. The field selected for this purpose was bis own apartment. Placing himself in a military attitude, with sword drawn' be exclaimed : Atten tion, conpnny! Bear rank, three paces march'.".and ho tumbled down into the cellar. His wife hearing the racket, came running in saying, "My dear, have you killed yourself?" "Go about your busi ness, woman," said iho hero; "what do you know about war?" While on the Pininsulnr during the war, an officer came across a private bc longing.lo one of the most predatory com panies of tho Irish Brigade, with the life less bodies of a goosoand ben. tied togeth er by the legs, dangling from his musket. "Where did*you steal those, you rascal?" "Faith, I was marching along with Color Sergeant Mnguiro and the goose?-had cess to ill?-cntho out und hissed the American flag." "But tho hen, sir; bow about the hen?" "Tho bin, sir, bless ye, was in bad company, and laying eggs for, tho ribblos." ^^^^^^?^?^^?^???*^B<M^?^??l?^^|^~^VMnyl?^^?i?~ iri A. pin bos as much head as a gro it many people, who think they &ra srnurt, and a great deal more point. A youg man who bad j<?st returned form u sequestered village declared that it was so still at night in the country tav ern where he lodged that you could bear a bed tick. A country lady tells of a smart wife, that hclp.d her husband to raise seventy acres of wheat. The way she helped him was to stand in the doorway a&d shake a broom at him when be sat down to rest. A judge once said to a prisoner,"Have you anything to offer to the Court before sentence is passed on you ?'* The prisonc?* ? at once anscrcd, "No. Judge, I had ten dollars, but my lawyers took that." Among tbegiftriofabrido was a broom, with tbo following: "This trifling gift accept of me, * Its use 1 would commend: In sunshine use the brushy part, In storms the other end." A friend of ours thinks it a mistake to suppose women have stronger attach ments than men. A man is often attached to an old hat, but ho asks, "Whoever heard of a woman being attached to on old bonnet?" A rheumatic grocer, living Mp town, is now spoken of as the most polished gen tleman here. His loving wife bathed-? him thoroughly with what she supposed was a balsamic preparation for his ills, and afterward discovered that ehe had used furniture polish. A dirty man, soliciting his friend's ail vice bow be should dress himself for a masquerade, the following answer: Only just wash your hands and face and put on a clean shirt, and I'll be hanged if nuy one will know youi ^ "If tbisjury convicts my client,';said a Missouri lawyer, rolling up i.is sleeves and displaying bis ponderous fists, "I shall feel compelled to meet caeh one and hummer justice into bis soul through his bead." Verdict of not guilty Perhaps iL is not generally known that eating a few grains of parched coffee after onions, will entirely remove the upleas nnL odor from tbo breath. As this disa greeable effect is quite an objection to a popular vegetable, it is well a specific should be known. Two babies were recently shipped sev eral hundred miles by express, in Oregon, and arrived at their destination nil right; but the poor express agent was almost worn out telegraphing ahead for milk, shingles, etc., for spanking purposes, and other necessaries. "I suppose," said a physician smiling, and trying to be witty while feeling the pulse of a patient, who hnd reluctanty submitted to solicit his advice, "I suppose you think me a bit of humbug." "Sir," gravely replied the sick man, "I was not aware that you could discover a man's tl.o igbts by feeling bis pulse." ? An Irish domestic, newly e??g*g*dj presented to his master, one morning, a pair of boots, the leg of one of which woa much longer than tbo other. "How comes it, you rascal, that theso boots are not of the same length?" "I really don't know, sir; but what bothers me most is that the pair down strirs are in the same lix." "Now, Johnny," said a venerable lady 1?) her six-year-old, nephew, who was per sistently denying an offence of which she accused him "1 know you are not telling the truth; 1 see it in your eyes." Pulling down the lower lid of the organ that had so nearly betrayed his want of veracity, Johnny oxultingly replied, "You can't tell anything about it, aunt; that cyo was always a little streaked.,' "You have hecrn, gentlemen of tho jury," said an eloquent, advocate?"you have hecrn the witness swar he saw tho prisoner raise his gun; you have hecrn him swar he saw the Hash nnd hcerd tbo report; you have, heorn him swar ho dug tbo bullet nut with his juekknifc, and you have seen tho bullet produced in court; but whar, gentlemen, >Vhar, I ask yon, is the man who saw that bullet hit j th,t\t dog!"