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paiMing water», lu baa yon Uilnk of parting company na birds, and, above with Ida Richard», you muat for* and beauty of the ever leave my hou»e, and never darken my door» again. I should think yon would look foe higher aoeietv than that of a factory girl." .aedgaaed apon the d art blue waters M Father^1 am astonished at the of toe Sound, lost in admiration word» you utter. Can your heart and astonishment at the view pre be susceptible to any affection or sea tad." ;V • ; r\ f 1 / love ? Hava I not alwaya »trove “ Many a time," anaiaimul she, " I have watched the ships sail gaily by on their way to the open sea, and wuttbed their a f h until they The thought has than entered my mind how like to that ship is my life. I sail onward upon the open There aba ramahiad on til the light shadows daapaaad lata d ncea—remained on til the midn hoar—lay there, sobbing and m rag, until the last anark of Ufa parted and »he waa dead. In the morning, when the i tint» flashed across the horiaon the sun begs* shining, and flowers opened their eye» to day. inquiring _ friands «ought if the thought <4 meeting wMh h lover had taken away the terrosa ^ “% *"•**>* etmma and '"‘ At this point the step-mother u iiii spoke and reiterated wbat she had previously said. All the dignity of Honry’s inde pendence and manhood was stirred within him, and without saying anything more he proceeded to his room and peeked up his trunk and valise, went to the kitchen where his father was standing, Istde him farewell and left the nouse never to enter there again. He went in search of a boarding place, and soon obtained one, in a very nice family. He passed a sleepless night, and consequently arose the next day feeling sad and depressed. He told Ida of what had occurred, .and she sincerely sympathized with him. All the womanly love which she posseaessed went out to him • in • all its • fervency • and • ardor. • Time passed rapidly on and pros pects appeared brighter for Henry. He was looking forward to a happy marriage and life witli Ida. They wore engaged, and were already making preparations for their wed ding, which was to take place in a few weeks’ tim:. Many happy hours wero spent by them in mak ing plans for the future. Neigh bors and friends were calculating upon having an invitation to the wedding and having a good time. How often we build beautiful heart This, my dear readers, la not a fictitious atory, hat a tree incident that occurred in the fall of 1881, near the village of Norwalk, Con necticut Ida Richards, it is full justice to u v . defrayed the expenses of her would-be husband during hie sickness from herown private purse. They are now haried on Pine Island. Travelers mdy see two graves there, side hv side, with their names en graved on the tombstones. There they sleep, and will sleep until the dead are awakened ana judgment entered there according to their deeds. Charles Dickens used to soy tim* his characters became real perooos to him while he was creating them. He laughed at their pranks and wept over their misfortune» It was long before he eoold bring hint- self to kill" Little Paul,” in “ Dorn- bey k Son,” though be knew he must For, as a critic said, who saw that such a boy eon Id not be carried into manhood, “ If Dickens don’t kill Paul, Paul will kill Dick ens.” An incident associated with dram atizing of the “Christmas Carol,” shows the tender syrai “if of tits author. Dickens, whit one of the rehearsals, noticed thal the managers had brought on the stage a set of irons and bandages. He intended them to aid in making the part of Tiny Tim, the poor lit tle cripple, more effective. — “ No, sir, no,” interposed Dickens, taking the managers aside. “ This won't do. Remember how painful it would be to many of the audi ence having crippled children.” as they ap- golden sun- hour, and at l young peo- —like to be as one that terd, strange, this, will rock, covered little plow m t.ty wi the beam cau led near the » view of that New York song writers will find The “ skim ” cats, or should entj water, might the following of much service to not over two inches deep and turn two persons, them in their prosaic efforts: a furrow half the width of the pioW. png man. He A mother song.— The chief in ght inches in Ib e effect is, that the inner half of gredients for this popular dish are the sward of the furrow-slim is his hair was mothers and tears. To one part of folded upon the other halt flaw over, ny; his corn- mother take two parts of tears, and grass sides together, and, thus fair, while a sprinkle in regrets freely. The doubted up, the grass is turned into lis upper lip mother must be Carefully separated the bottom of the furrow and cov > appeared as from the father, and no flavor of a laughter, or ered with several indies of friable him should bo perceptible. Serve wore a plain mould. The sod is sure to ro t in three vei-ses with chorus. Iwith a black Thus folded .together, even if on A sailor’s song.— Soak a sailor the surface, it would hardly live, thoroughly in brine until he begins ng containing but well covered with mould, as it' on the little to decompose; add a sweetheart M t U WU B E IT All AM. d. His name who awaits his return; a slight The following is one of the most is, even quack-grass and rod-top roo|o are killed, and rod sorrel may isc. It was taste of mother may also be added. brilliant paragraphs ever written by he thus exterminated. Strange as a plain, hard- Season thoroughly with prayers, the lamented D. Prentice: it may appear, «ho draft is actually and serve up suddenly, cold, with The fiat of death George is inexorable. No lightened. It would seem from as- >mpaniud him seaweed sauce. No chorus. appeal of relief from the he was not so Another kind.—Take two lovers which dooms us to death. We flour id an elegant and grate thoroughly. Remove the ish and fade as the leaves of the riage. But when it is male to northern seas, and allow forest, and the flowers that bloom, [er eyes were comfort that a asnas i ’ was affair him to become well frozen. Stutt wither and fade in a day, having vU lfiv» the wife y, while her the female with repentance gnd de no frailer hold upon life than the spair. Take thsjpld affectiuu and mightiest mtmkrq i Hwst svsr ahratr warm over. Now take the male, I I flaxen, or sought to fathom the mystery widen sweeten thoroughly, and servo both. »rations of men will appear and tint traces of furrows, and isgener- ■ was of a de lay therein concealed. A child song.—This is one of the ist, and her “ Henry, I feel that there is trou as the grass, and the mul sl y ready at once for sowing, mark- most easily prepared dishes. Take disappear | • articulated ble for either you or myself in the that throng the world to a child, young and tender, and kill titudes phe possessed near future; I feel it—I cannot day will disappear as footsteps on light harrowing suffices to put it in think otheiwise. I do not know it very slowly in three verses. the Men seldom think of perfect form. For toll plowing toe Sprinkle freely with tears, and stir the shore. n my readers the nature of the trouble, but it great event of death until the winter grain, the “ skim " sbeuld her in as many golden bars and crystal shadow falls across persons were will certainly oome.” their own path- used, but tor winter-fallo lories. They "Come, now, Ida, you are getting stairs as possible. Turn slowly on i this delight- very nervous, out here in this ro of the inind, built upon unsound a goldennarp gridiron, and serve faces of loved ones, whose living days it may ha beat to garnished with angels’ wings and smiles were the sunlight of their with' it, and ¡ ling the beau- mantic spot It is time for us to foundations. tor about them, go home. Do you not see how the Ho it is in life. We discover that plenty of gravy. existence. Death is the antagonist furrows, the weather, t been there, shades of night are fast ehasing the A temperance song.—To one ten of life, and the thought of the tomb relish tk.and talked twilight tints f ” der child add a drunken father. is the of all feasta We Whip thoroughly. Serve the father do not skeleton 'happy days Ida placed her anu within his, to go through the dark Ml they would and the two walked toward the in wine sauce, but the child must valley, want although its dark passage (tiled down. village. Their conversation need be battered. iradise. We do not may lead to Paradise. was daily net be repeated, as it does not con H 1N U M I U V H SL want to go down into the dark, lys went by cern this story, and as lovers’ words grave, even with princes tor two young do not interest any ons much but proposes but Uod disposes. Down in Wilmington they have damp bed-fellows. In the beautiful dream themselves. One day, while working about a law against the storage of nitro of “ Ion,” the hope of inrtaorteHtv, ! noble girl, Hemy lingered longer than usual the factory, Henry’s clothing was glycerine and other explosive chem so eloquently uttered by the death- her parents at the white gate that led into the caught by the machinery and he ical compounds within the city lim Greek, finds deep repos» in te was hut a yard of the little cottage "where his was lifted up in the shafting, and its. And so the other day a certain devoted thoughtful soul. When about sweetheart lived. The moon began before the machinery could be stop individual,who had a grudge against every to yield his life a sacrifice to tote, i her part to to show her large silvery face be ped he had sustained several frac a man named Smith, informed the his Clemanthe if they should (he lived with fore they thought of separating. tures of his limbs. Word was im authorities that Smith had large meet again, to asked he responds: |e old person This advent seemed to awaken mediately sent to his father that he quantities of congealed protoxide of “ I have asked which that dreadful al d-fashioned them to a sense of the time and was dving and would live but a lit hydrogen secreted in an outhouse tion of the hills that look d m ques a l, as veiy kind place they were in. If a person tle while, and that he should be in his yard. Two policemen imme of the clear streams that flow for (sr to do very had been near enough, he might brought to his home. diately proceeded to Smith's to of the stars among whose of course Ida have seen the good-night kisses The crnel and inhuman father make an investigation. Smith de ever. of azure my raiasd spirits havs given, and heard the farewell words. sent back this message: “ If my nied the allegation. He said it was field walked in glory. Wa snail meet mother waa After they had parted, Henry son's bones are broken in ten thou a sheer fabrication; the man who again, Clemanthe I ” turned aside into the little path »d his father sand pieces, not one piece shall be j.w a s then that led down to the read. He brought to my honse.” But one day stopped and east one admiring He was taken to a friend's house A gentleman interested in the oil and a doctor immediately summon father was trade informs us that of lata the I. -and time ed, bat no help could he given by makers,of bogus batter, known as the doctors, as the limbs were too oleomargarine, have found u method the front door. much fractured to admit of reset by whieh they can make use of cot " What a picture of beauty; ting. He thus lingered on for a ton-seed oil, in preparing their imi kind, intelligent and graceful. I number of day a tation of butter, and that as a eon’- almost tempted to believe that she race the price of oil has aopre- than a mortal. y risen. Another nan of cot m reet my roe belovad ed when she heard of the terrible ton-seed oil is, in the manufacture' on my aecident that had befallen her lover. the officers laid him on the sofa to of bogus Enough beef suet ttle late. I will She hastened to him as if borne on recuperate, and started fur the yard. is used to lard. the needed firmness, IHonger of her; the wings of morn, and, reaching They found there only the iee-houss powdered give berk of slippery elm is n father’s sake the place, dropped breathless by his packed full. It occurred to them added to give a pleasant odor, and bedside.. Dating the long and weary then to go around to the drug store to prevent rancidity, while an ap watches of the night she aever once and ascertain the nature of congealed preciable amount of water h worked1 forsook his bedside, but was ever protoxide of hydrogen, so they could in to give whiteness and add the near to bathe his burning brow and know it when they saw i t They weight So tor aa lard goes. If to peo attend to his wants. learned that hydrogen in that shape would get over their prejudice Then passed days of anguish,days is merely ice. And poor old Smith ple inst oil, and use the has brought six or seven suits for cooking, they u against the city for damages—one t serviceable and ei suit for each ruined arm, leg, head, and nose. But all the policemen now are studying np chemistry. ," • ---n* smd n doctor, ing day. Great waa the sorrow of --- " I’ve lost - e patient - a ___ friends and neighbors at his un all, there timely tots in the springtime of his life. At the funeral, Ida mourned as ask «T ods of tb#boarders. “Hi if bar heart would rarely break. "When did he diaT "Diet H And when she arrived at the grave, him, he’s not deed. He atop taking my asedíeme, get well n a away without paying the hill. A Lowell firm recently sent i of bflle West tor eoOoolfau. 3 ___ i m _____ f_ a _ ! a «J l a J " ■ -i--- __ «.ti_________ L i m * ¡