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OLU Hl'ISAXCE." v.jul I quote those three words. jjt.v are vo:m of mine. Only, thinking over three or four equally appropriate i cIhko this one as being the i eiit and I ul ways Lad a fancy for odd ihina' And uo for my story. On w,lAt wy n,mt morria8e) nJ her f iuiilf founded their claims to aris ILr.icv I cjiiM never discover. My un cle had been a m -reliant, it is true, and nne of i!"Uide:ubIe prominonce in his day, I h.wt; been told, and bo ba l been hi father bef.ini him, and his father's father before tbu'. That his business in Is most prosperous time was intimately 0BUeeted with China is impressed upon mv Blind (I became an inniato of his llOUSti WI1CU A ivuun 014 JCUIO Uill, 1U consequence of the doath of both my ...ivnts within a woeK of each other. leaving ne w'tu no means of support Bnd uo other relative), by the fact that every first ct J ana saw urigm now mat tings laid on our floors, to remain there until cold weather came again, and that our uiautels and whatnots were decorated with many pretty, dainty little porcelain caps, thin as egg-shells rarities in those davs,' but in tb-sa plenty and cheap Now, according to all I have learnod on the subject, real "Simon pure" aris tnp;U look clown on trade, even if on Hip cran J''&t soalo, and never have any- thing to uo wuu n lunuur luau uuce in a while marrying one of its sous or jjuislitev tt'ho have come into possession of million enough to iilfset tho honor. However, r.r family (I venture to in clude ruyself, none of my cousins being within hearing! assumed all tho airs of elm blue bloods of tho old country. Eleanor, our second, wore a look of deep iudigu atiou lor several days alter a muiilv, clever, good looking fellow, the brother of ouo of her old schoolmates, with a comfortable income, but who was jnnior partner of a firm keeping a retail store on Sixth avenue, proposed for her band. "The presumption of the man!" she exclaimed, raising her arched eyobrows in astonishment, and curling her full red upper lip in scorn, "to imagine for a mo ment thut because I honored him with my company to tho opera two or three times, I would marry him! If his busi ness had been wholesale, it would have been bad enough; but' fancy a per son who sells pins and needles by the paper, and lace by tho yard! Never! I wonld die first." Minerva, fourth, was equally horror stricken at the effrontery of a yonng book-keeper whom her brother Lawrence had introduced into the family circle a rare thing for one of her brothers to do, for, like all other men, ns far as my lim ited experience goes, they scarcely ever thought their companions good enough to be the companions' of their sisters when lie ventured to express his admira tion for her. The young man soon after succeeded to a very handsome property, and becume a great swell "a perfect too too," as I behove the fasliionablo way of expr-.-ssinyr it now is a kind of being after Minerva's own heart; but tlun she was never invited to ride behind his fast horse, and what was much worse, never umiin asked to take the head of his l.llii". A'i.; i: ike manner tho graceful and tv.hn iisttt professor of music, the s.ir.r, .'..v..l iiiitured proprietor of the ex tensive iron works ("wholesale and re tail ) uu the next block, the young artist, who has since risen to wealth and .'am-, and sundry others, all falling short of the aristocratic standard set up by our family, were snubbed by my lady cotis by their brothers, and not wholly nnassisted by their mother. I never had had at the time this story commenced-being thon in n.yoigbteenth year a chance to snub any one; for, lacking tho personal attractions of my relatives, as well as their high-toned na tures truth to tell, having decidedly democratic tendencies I was kept in the bsck ground on all occasions. Let it be remarked in passing that Eleanor eventually married, when quite an old girl, a widower in the milk busi nessvery wholcsalo, however, and tho father of four children. At the same time Minerva, a few years younger, deigned to become tho wife of and eld erly bachelor, somothing or other in tho shoe manufactory, liut they held their heads us high as ever, and declared that they had sacrificed themselves for tho family, undo having failed for the second time through no fault of his on, dear old man a few months be fore ths double wedding. That their "sacrifice" was for the good of thu family I don't deny; but there wus left ut homo after their departure three old maids, a young one, and two helpless young men, who having been brought "up to do nothing, did it to per fectiou. After the failure, uuelo got a situation r.s snnerin'e'iilent of ono the many de i i-;:it.. ri toe largo establishment of 1. 1 in who sold "pins and iitu lies by Uio paper, and lace by the yard" (hci was now at the bead of the firm, an i had a pretty-like wifo and two pretty children), and we dismissed one of our servuuts, and wore obligod to move into a smaller house. ' But, in spite of all onr efforts at econ omy, our income proved vastly inade quate to our expenses, and this was the cause of so much bewailing and bemoan ing that our house seemed bereft of all gladness and sunshine. And one even ing, after Ethel, our youngest daughter, had burst into tears "because Aunt had declared it wonld be impossible to have ife-cieam, wine jellies, and similar dair ies every day for dessert for the suffi cient reason that we could not afford them, I ventured to suggest to the weep ing damsel that if she found life posi tively unbearable without the above mentioned luxnries ( all the Egberts, by the way, .were extravagantly fond of gaod things' to eat) she might crochet mo of the worsted orticles she was in the habit of making so artiically for er3elf, and sell them to Mr. Lee nude's emplover, I was about to say, "en I was" interrupted by a shrill shriek "Work for a store!" she cried, "I uld starve first." "You wretched girl, how could you mink of such a thing!" added my aunt. "Ethel, my darling, calm yourself." "It ia not enough that strangers should presume upon onr poverty," joined in Cleanthe, also frowning upon me, "but one bound to ns by the ties of blood, though it must be confessed more alien than many a stranger would be, must advance ideas that shock and wound n. Imagine"-turning to her brother, Ro land, who lay on the only lounge in the tu 'ia, complacently regarding himself in the the mirror on the oppusite wall "that importineut Mrs.Bradshaw comin here this morning, with the air of doing a kindness, to offer me a position as toucher in her academy!' "Groat heaven!" exolaimed Roland, springing to his foot-and the cause must be a tniehty one that brings Roland to bin feet. "One of my sisters a teacher! Good heavens!" and be went stacipiug aronnd the room in the new suit of clothes aunt had paid for by parting with her handsome pearl ring." "Whatever is done, we cau do noth ing," sobbed Ethel. "Of oaurse not," replied Roland, grandly; "the women of our family never work." I thought so myself, "Nor the men eithor, except poor old uncle, who is fasgingata desk from morning until night." "But our iucomo mast be inoreasod," said Alethea, looking up from her novel, and joining in the conversation for the first time. Alethea was our eldest, aud still wore her hair iu the fashion of her youth, a loose curl dangled over each cheek-bone, being fully persuaded that no othor fashion was half so becoming or graceful. "Discharge the chauiborxaid," pro posod Elhed, "und let Dorothea (I am Dorothea) do her work. It is about all slio is lit for. She never had a bit of tine fooling or stylo about her." "No, she never had; she always would bite her bread," sighed my aunt, "and sho has seemed sadly out of placo among my children. She comes of a working race, and her ideas and tastes smack of trade, trudo, trade." I dis sovered in aftor years that my aunt's grandmother on the maternal side inado a fortune out of tobacco. "But discharging the chambermaid won't help very much," said Alethea. "It will not," agreed Roland. "What is saved thereby will no more than find me in the little extras no society man can do without." "Dear! dear!" aunt took up the bur deu again, "could I have foreseen that your father would havo come down in this way, I never would havo married him. I really don't know what is to be done, unloss we emigrate to ,some coun try place where we are unknown, and where it don't matter how or in what stylo we live." "The country!" screamed her children in chorus.. "Better die at once!" I can't imagine whore I got the cour age to do so after my late sharp rebuffs, but at this moment I blurted out some thing that had boon iu my mind for sev urul w tit lis "Why could not Alethea aud Ethel room together, and Alothea's room, which is the ploasantost in tho house, be li t to a lodger? ono who would " But here 1 paused abruptly. Alethea had faiuted iu the arms of my aunt, who, glancing nt me over the top of her oldest daughter's head, commanded me in her deepest tone (aunt had rather a bass voice) to leave the room immediately. But iu a short time, during which things had been getting worse and worse, and we had been reduced to rice pud dings for desert on week days aud apple tarts on Sundays, I was allowed to pre pare an advertisement for the morning paper in which was offered to "an elderly gentleman, who must have excellent references, a fine room in the house of a family of refinement, who had never be fore taken a lodger; for the privilogo of occupying which he would be expected to pay a liberal equivalent." I disapproved highly of the wording of this cull for help, but my aunt and cousins insisted upon its being couched iu these very terms, and so I was com pelled to yield, inwardly convinced thut it would bring no reply. But it did. The very afternoon of the morning it appeared in the paper, a carriage with a trunk strapped on behind drove up to our door. An old gentleman got out, hobbled up our steps, and rang our door bell. "You must see him, Dorothea," said my aunt, leaving the parlor, followed by a train of her children. "It isyour affair altogether. I will have nuthing to do with it." "We none of us will have anything to do with it," chimed in my cousins. " We were not born with tho souls of boarding house keepers;" and away they sailed as I opened the door to the second- a little louder than the first ring of tho caller. He was a short, slightly formed old gentleman, with big, bright black eyes, bushy eyebrows, aud a long whito mous tache aud beard. "You have a room to let?" he asked. "I have," I auswored, ushering him into the parlor, where ho glanced keenly around, and then as keculy into my face, while ho announced in a decisive tone; "I have come to take it. My luggage is at the door. Be so kiud as to tell me where to direct the man to carry it." "But " I began in a hesitating way, utterly confused by the stranger's brusque, not to say high-toned manner. "But me no buts,'" quoted the old gentleman. ' lam Amos Griffin, lutcly from England, where I have been living for the last twenty years. Since I lauded in Now York a month ago to day, I have beou boarding at the St. Nicholas. But where is your mother?" I hastened to assure him that I was empowered to negotiate with him. "Ah, indeed! Well, then. Ill go on, though it appears to mo you are rather young for the business. Yoa 'have never taken a lodger before.' I am glad of it, for reasons which it is not neces sary to explain. Yon want a 'liberal equivalent' for vour tine room; I am pre pared to give if. That leaves only one thing to be arranged. I should like niy breakfast at eight precisely every morn ing." "But we did not propose to give breakfast." t . "I know vou didn't; but 1 11 give yoa anothir 'liberal equivalent' for it. "ton can't be very well off, or you wooldn t take a lodger; and the more liberal equivalent- you can get from him t-B better. Will you be kind enough to show me to my room?" "Yes, sir," I replied meekly, com nletelv succumbing to the big black eyes and strong will power or the Iran looking old man. and totally forgetting to ask for the "references" insisted upon in the advertisement. Whereupon he ' stepped to the front door and bpekoned to the man outside, who, taking the tM'.k upon his back, folio -d inm, i." fil'uved me, to the aec ' ''l r'-s . -..i "Au," said onr lodger, as no entered it, "this is not bad --not at all bad." And it wasu't. As I have said before, it wa1 the pleasnntest room in tho lions", , and I had airaugud it us piuiiu hi 1 j could with the means at my command. Fortunately this included a number of nice pugraving an. I vises, uui a ii.i;a.'i ous bamboo chair with a ernusou cush ion, and a fooUtool of like color. And tho fragrance of liouoysuckies that stole in at the window from the bilcouy, ami the two or three siiubcamc tuut had found their way through the IniU-clo-ed bliud.t, aud chtuiMd in triumph on the wall, and a half-dozen gayly bound books (mine) on the mantel, and the ivy growing from a red pot on tho bracket in the cornor, all combinetl to make the room a pleasant place indeed. Mr. Gritlln had been our lodger ex actly two years, during which I had pre pared and superintended the serving of his breakfasts, and taken the entire chargo of his room "as well as if I hail been brought up to that sort of thing," as my cousin Cleanthe remarked; and the rest of the family, with tho exoeptiou of uncle, who became quiio friendly with him, had only met him somo dozen times at which times they assumed their most dignified dignity-when he was Hiiddenly taken sick. "It's an old complaiut that will earry me off sometime," he said to me, "but I hopo not this time. Anyhow, Little Honesty," (a name he had given me from tho first I hope I deserved it!) "live or die, I infeud to remain here. Nowhere else could I bo ns comfortable. You must tugago an extra servant, and vou aud she together must nurse me. 1 should certainly die with a profes sional. By-tho-by, who is your family physician?1' 1 told him. "If I am uot batter, send for him to morrow. I am going out only a few steps," meeting my look of surprise. "I want to see my lawyer, and 1 sha'ut take to my bod for several days yet." That afternoon, t iking caro uot to re peat the old gentleman's exact words, but putting his remarks iu the form of a request to be allowed to remain, I stated the case to tho family. "Going to be ill?" exclaimed Alethoa. "Dear me! how disagreeable!" "I'm sura I don't want him to stay; he might dio hero," said my auut, who had the utmost horror of death. "He's an old nuisance, however," pro claimed Ethel, "and always has been, aud I blush that any relative of mine should degrade herself so far as to bo come his servant maid." Hero 1 will mention that my cousin Rolaud, a few weeks before this, had married a young lady with a largo for tune, aud out of this fortune he geuer ously proposed to mako a liberal yearly allowuuco, beside which came many gifts from tho married sisters, whoso husbands had prospered, aud thereupon had been obliged by their wives to share their prosperity with us, that we might live at least, as Minerva expressed it "with clegaut economy." And so we were not entirely dependent upon our lodger for desserts aud several other things. But to go back. "Ho is uot au old nuisance," said I, indignantly. "He is a kind-hearted old man, anil 1 am very lonu oi niui. "Good gracious!" "Yes Miss Ethel," I went on, "I re peat it, I am very fond of him, and if my aunt will allow me I am Bure my uncle will I will take all the xtra care resulting from his sickness upon myself, and no one clso shall bo annoy o J iu the least. After living beneath our roof for ,two years aud contributing so bounti fully to our comforts you needn't glare ut mo, Cleanthe, ho has, for I urn quite certain no one elsoiwould have paid us so liberally it would bo the greatest in gratitude, not to say cruelty, to send him among strangers now that he most needs care and kindness." "Aro you quite through, Mins Rey nolds!" asked my aunt, sarcastically. "I had no idea vou were so eloquent, never having heard you preach before. But on one thing I am determined you shall not call in our doctor to your pa tiont. Ho is a perfect aristocrat and has no idea thut we keep adodger, and 1 do not wish him to know it." "Theio's a young saw-bones a few doors below, drawled my youngest gen tleman cousiti, who resented my wait ing upon any ono but himself; "he'll do for yoiiT fine old nuisauce." That very evening Mr. Grilliu had a bad turn, and I seut for the "young saw bones a few doors below," in great haste. He proved to be a Dr. Rice, a frank looking, brown-hairod, gray-eyed, broad browed young man, with gentlo voice and quick light step. And the old gen tleman, taking a great fancy to him, do cided on retaining him -a decision that relieved me greatly, bearing in mind as I did my aunt's ommandin regard to our family physician. ' And from that time for throe months, although very seldom confined to his bed, our lodger .never had a well day. At tho end of the three months, how ever, he began to mend slowly, und nt the eud of two more he was on his foet ajain. And then ho told me he had made up his mind to return again to England. "lam sorry, very sorry, to part with you," I replied, "but I suppose it is right that you should go." "Well said, Little Honesty. And now let's begin to pack," said he. Dr. Rice and I went with the old gen tleman to the steamer that was to carry him away, and waved a last farewell to him iu the midst of a crowd also wav ing last farewells from the pier, as the vessel slowly moved out into tlijj stream; and then we returned to our reqieetive homes Ui read tho respective letters ho iiad placed in our respective hands with his final good -by. Mine I read in the privacy of my own room at first; and when I had partially recovered from my astonishment and de light, I flow down stairs, called the fam ily together, and read it to them. It was as follows: "Dear Little Honesty: Had I died which I didn't, thanks under God to yoa and Dr. Rice I should have left each of my dear young friends ten thou sand dollars io my will. But having lived, I am going to do a muck plea aanter thing I am going to give them the teii tlio sin l at nnca. My lawyer will i-eym; r 'ii i. w. Auori flnrrix. "P - Mi.-. ., . left a slight be u'i'. i .":;. ii XgWit. She wiil tiud it uu luu I'm,- M.eif of the closet in tho room I oc. ; .: when I was her conuu Dorothea umer." Ethel for diko forgot her grieefnl, gli.ilCg 'p. .Slt. ht.lt t'td ll.M.i,' I"." sfa.r". !:U m-r younger brother was be fore her, a:id si e was lain to s';.rl back in he did ilow n t!n ba'ti'er, und landed in our midst with ttomeihiug in Insulins. It whs a Luxe framed photograph of Amos Gri!!in, wi,h a card attached bear ing these words: "Au excellent picture of 'An Old Nuisance.' " I man led Dr. Rice. A Hanker ("ingliter In the Silver chapel is the tomb and marble elligy of that beautiful woman, l'hilippina Welser, whoso photograph you see in a!l tho shop windows of Innspruck. Her eyes were divine, it is said, dark blue, her hair golden chest nut, and the skin so transparent that "tho red wino could bo seen as it run down tho lovely throat." In tho photo graph her beautiful faco rises up, like a lovely llower, out of a high ruff, a su perb jeweled collar, with jiondant jewols is bound close about the high mounted neck of the rich dark velvet robe; the hair is parted and rolled back from a high, broad, intelligent forehead that has nothing Greok about it, but is a clear, good, Anglo-Saxon brow; on tho head is a net cap made of small gold rosettes, with pearls, und a jeweled bor der around it. The arch of tho del ii a to eye-brows is perfect; th eyes havo a bo nitehing expression that is both cour ageous and pleading; sho had a shapely nose, a lovely mouth and chin, and an expres sion of dignity, refinement, and geutleuess; perfect womanly loveliuess characterizes this pictured semblance of a woman who was tho most beautiful of her day, and whoso romantic history has iuspired many a poet and dramatist. Sho was the daughter of a rich Augsburg bauker. Ferdinaud, nephew of Charles V., fell madly in lovu with her, and they were married secretly. Sho was tho mother of two sons, whoso portraits you cau see at Ambras.the charming castle on tho Mittlegebargo mountain slopes, a short distance from Innspruck, where i'hillippina and Ferdinand spent their long, happy married life. Tho em pernor 1-erdinaud was naturally very angry at this marriage, but during one of his visits to Inuspruck.the lovclr woman came with her two young boys and begged him to forgive hor. History tells a pretty, touoh'ug story how ho had only to look at l'hilippina to jiistify his sou. When Ferdinand, the emperor, died she lost her best and most power ful friend. Her mother-in-law was for ever taunting her. So one morning the poor woman Jay down in her bath-tub aud drowued bcrsolf in order that hor dear husband might marry a royal wife. You can seo tho bath room at Schloss Ambras, but the custodo ilonios tho legend I am happy to siy, and I am uu willing to believe it. Her husband the Count of Tryol, mourned her loss. Tra dition says ho was frantic with grief and built the beautiful Siberne chapel where each lie buried. True, he married again ouiy two years after hor death, and his second wife was out) of his own rank, tho daughter of Duke William, of Mantua; but ho never livd again at SoIiIosh Am bras. Iiihdruck Correspondence Bos ton Advertiser. An Arlisti: Young l.adj'.s liooni Teoitlo furnish their rooms now ac cording to their caprices. The personal comes out. Tho rich literary young lady fits up her room with furniture of au antique pattern, with bookcases in dark wood or oak, with a tiled fireplace aud brass audtrons, n Venetian mirror, and deep, luxurious rugs. Sho has raro engravings and a Sevres writing table. Simple, but choice, one says on eu teeing. If she is a fashionable belle, her room will ho festooned with pink or bluo silk, covered with lace, or tufte.l satin let into tho walls. Lona; mirrors well bound and the furniture will ho of ormolu. Tho spirit of Pompadour breathes from tho interior; it is all roses aud bluo ribbons. The artistic youug lady has '.hree im portant caprices a bunch uf peacock's feathers, a brass put full of cattails and a medieval candlestick. These are tho essentials. Japanese fans as a matter of detail; un easel, few straightbacked chairs, a brown curtain embroidered with sunflowers and a Persian cut. With all the stiffness and the preference for a certain dirty yellow which has become tho passion of the followers of Ciniabuo Brown, those modem esthetes do some times mako very pretty mollis. They are quaint aii'l individual, but tlinio is no doubt that the "high artistic crazo" has produced soiao very ugly effects. Tho severe si illness of the cattail has entered much into modern embroidery. Every one feels for the stork which lias stood so long on one leg. "The ''' wn. t'.Kt'ii no, n till mm ft .i r liiivjr." all are stiff and dismal. They are the pendunts to the "lean disciples of Biirne Jones." Tho I'ostlethwuitis and Bnu thornes and their female adorers look like a Btork on one leg. Tho hero of a modern esthetic comedy says, as the highest synonym of despair, " 1 feel like a room without a dado. ' It is one of tho plcasantost caprices of modern luxury that women have their bedrooms and boudoirs furnished in col ors which will set off their favorite drosses, and add china to match tho bedroom. Tho faculty of Purdue College, in Iu diana, decided thut the Greek letter so cieties wielded an evil influence ovpr the students, and accordingly demanded from them a jdedgo to withdraw from membership, on pain of dismissal. The bovs refused, a test caso was niado in tho court, and the Btudetits upheld on the ground that the faculty had assumed nnwarrantuble authority. It is said thut tho faculty will tako the case into the United States Snpreuie Court. Plantation Philosophy Laziness iz de mother of promises. Der man what tries tor Iia a bov ain't cot half as much sense ws do boy what tries to be a man. De man wid eddvcation sin t got mgu as m Jch excuse for tellin' a lie as de igno rant mn 'iim de lirned inau hb cot a bigger range of trnth. Th" J- neriry Hial Bucfcrd. 'i he eni'' ey l!i iuls micci".! U g. - to develop i iy i i.ily in life. Tin-cum aeteristics cf the boy will 'commonly prove those of the man, and the best characteristics of young life should be encouraged and educated in the wisest possible manner. The following siory h!ri'iin!v iibisiut tin trnth: About thirty yew ago, said .1 mbr P , I stepped into a bookstore iu Cincinnati in st arch of some books ilmt I wanted. While tin re, a lil'le laKi.'cd boy of twelve years of ao came iu and inquired for a geography. "Plenty of them," was ttie falc-man's reply. "How much do thev voV! ' "One dollar, my lad." "I didn't know they were so much." lie turned to out, and even opened '.he door, but closed it again and came back. "lve got sixty-one cents," said be; "could yon let mo have a goography, and wait a little while for tho rest of the money?" How eager his little bright eyes lookod for an answer, and how ho seemed to shrink within his ragged clothes, when the man, not vory kindly, told him ho could uot. Tho disappointed little fellow lookod up at me with a very poor attempt to smile, and left the store. I followed and overtook him. " And w hat now?" I asked. " Try another place, sir." " Shall I go too, aud see how vou suc ceed?" " Oh, yes, if you liko," he said iu sur-" priso. Four different stores I entered with him, and each time he was refused. " Will you try agaiu?' I asked. "Yes Kir; 1 shall try them all, o" I should not know whether I could get one." We entered the fifth store, and tho little fellow walked up manfully and told the gentleman just what ho wautcd aud how much he had. " You want the book very much?" asked tho proprietor. " Yes, very much." " Why do you want it so very much?" " To study", sir. I can't g to school, but I study when I can at home. All the boys have got one, aud they will gat ahead of me. Resides, my father was a sailor, and I want to learn of the places where ho used to go.'' "Well, my lad, I will toll you what I will do; I will let yon have a new geography, aud you may pay mo the ie mainder of the money when you can, or I will let you have ouo that is not quite new for fifty cents." "Are the leaves all in it, and just liko tho other, only not new?'' "Yes, just liko tho new ono." "ft will do just ns well, then, and I will have eleven cents left towards buy ing somo othor books. I am glad they did not let mo have ouo at the othor places." Last year I weut to Europe on one of the iinest vessels that ever plowed the wators of the Atlantic. Wo had very beautiful weathor until very near tho end of tho voyage; thou camo a terrible storm that would have sunk nil on board had it not bann for tho captain. Every spar was laid low, tho rudder was almost useless, und a Rreut leak had shown it self, threatening to fill tho ship. Tin crow were all strong, willing mon, and tho mates wero all practical seamen of tho first class; but after pumping out for ouo whole uiuht. an I the water still gain iug upon them, they gave up in doapair and prepared to take thu boats, though they might havo known no small boat could live in such a sea. Tho captain who had been below with a chart, now came up. Ho saw how matters stood, aud with a voice that I distinctly heard above tho roar of the tempest, ordered every man to his post. "I will laud vou safe at the dock in Liverpool," said ho, "if you will bo men. He did moor us safely, but tho vessel sank moored to the duck. t ho captain stood on tho clock of tho sinking Teasel, reioiving tho thanks aud blessings of the passengers as they passed down the gang plank. As I passed, ho grasped mo by the hand and said: "Judge P ,do you reooguize me?" I told him I was nut awaro that I ov?r saw him until I stepped aboard of his vessel. "Do you not remember that boy in Ciiiciinuti?" "Very well, sir; William Havorloy." "I urn ho," ho said. "God bless you!" And Go I bless noblo Captain Ha verley. it Ili'lgliam Young's (J rave. They say that Brigham Young's gravo is looking as bars aud desolate as a boul evard now. At first, while her grief was fresh, the widow used to march out there five abreast, and just naturally delugo thu grave with scalding tears, and at that time tho green grass grow luxuri antly and tho pigweed waved in I ho soft summer air; but us Hue learned to control her emotions tho humidity of tho atmos phere disappeared and grief's grand irri gation failed to give down. We should learn from this that the man who flatters himself that iu marry ing a whole precinct during life he is piling np for the future a largo invoice of ungovernable woe is liablo to got left. The prophet's tomb looks to-day like a deserted buffalo wallow, while bis widow has dried her tears and is trying to make a mash on the Utah commission. Such is life in the far West, and such tho fit ting resting place of a red-headed old galvanized prophet who marries a squint eyed fly-up-the creek, und aftor wards gets a special revelation requiring him to marry a female mass meeting. Let us be thankful for what we have instead of yearning for a great wealth of wife. Then the life insurance will not havo to bo scattered so, and onr fricudi will bo spared the humiliating spectacle of a bereft and sorrowing hord of widow, turned loose by tho cold hand of death to monkey o'er our tomb. Bill Nye. Gen. Oglethrope, tho founder of Georgia, used to tell of I missionary who flattering himsjlf that he had thorougly imbuod American Indian with the right spirit in which to take the Lord's sup per, said: "Do you feel a mental com fort, an inward refreshment from the holy cup?" "It is very good," said his promising proselyte, "but," with a anile, "rum's bettor." tfiioitr hits. Poetry is si inconvenient as a chur- U'k'iu mistress. To select well among old nitidis is a'most equal to inventing new oucs. Iroublet. At last we know the secret of thkor mit ThoreauV seclusion at Wahlun l -iid. lb) was an a.iiiiteitr tlilte plavitt'. - Pliihnl-lphia Bulletin. To think piipeily one must think iii'li'peii''iciit',. , eainlidly and consecu tively, only iu this way can a traiu of reasoning be conducted successfully. It is by studdying the reonrds of tho past that we learu to read with tho hiuli- est intelligence and profit the transac tions of the present. Rev. S. P. Hor ron. There are six different typos of tho Goddess of Liberty afloat in this country and ono of 'em is dressed in a way yoa wonld like to see your sister adopt. Sumorville Journal.. You would think there was a Fourth of July celebration np in Now Hampshire now, the Ucmocruts make so much noise slapping each other ou the back as thev repeat tho news from Ohio. Lowoll Citizen. It is stated that when a young man in General Robert Toombs' pr.'senco ob jected to Milton's "Paradise Lost," that it was obscure, loombs Bind with pity: "Milton was blind; ho coiildu't seo to writo for fools." A recently superseded foreigu minis ter, while pausing 'through Loudon oa his return . to this country, registered himself ut Bowles' American Agency as "Colonel , American Minister, , in ronght for homo." "No, I never beat a strange dog when ho comes into my yard and scratches up the tl nver garden," said the mild-faced gentleman; "I shoot him. An ounce of prevention, you know, is better than a pound of cure. Boston Transcript. "What aro the uiuo muses, pa?" asked a little boy who was reading mythology lore iu the lower class. "It is when the homo 'nine' is beaten iu a game of base ball, then tho nine muses over it," was the reply. Cincinnati Saturday Night. A young man in Westorn Illinois ad vertised for a wife, his sister answered the "ad," aud now the young mm thiuks thero is uo balm 10 advertise ments, while tho old folks think it's pretty hard to havo two fools iu tho family Boston Post. Rev. J. C. Sullivan was tlieoldorly and respoctod pastor of tho Methodist church at Salem, Ohio, but he had to resign when it eamo out that he had written to young Mrs. Halwio, one of his oonvorts: "I hunger to press your protty ond per simmoti-liko lips to mine. "Did you say, sir, that I looked liko the monkey in that cago over there," asked Filkinson in angry tones. "No, Filky," repliivl Foggs; "I simply said that the money looked liko yon; and to toll tho truth I dou't believo the brute more than half likod it either." A lady who had quarreled with her baldhcaded lover, said, iu dismissing him: "What is delightful about yon, my friend, is that I have not tho trouble of sending you back any looks of your hair." His reply was: "Had you giveu me one, you would not know whoso locks you wero sending." k Steeple Climber Hun 'In? In .tlUVlr rnr Above tmi (."VueiiiJ. "The longer you live the more you Und out," remarked Mr. Joe Weston, the steople-climber, to a couple of newspaper men lately. "I had an accident lately which taught me something." "What was it?" was tho simultaneous inqniry. "It was a ourions ono. You seo I was on top of St. Paul's spiro on Spring stroet. Wo had rigged ropos to remove tho planks of tho scaffolding. Tho way we do that is to fasten a block to u post or trcie on tho other side of the street, and another to the steeple, and splice the ends of the rope together to make au endless ropo of it. If you fasten to It anything you want to send below tho weight of tho load takes it down. I had tied tho last plank to the rope, and it was going down. I were a handkerchief tied loosely around my throat. The wind blew out an end of it and it caught on the removing rope and wrapped around it. I was imme diately caught up, first tho hondker ehicf and then my beard passing into tho block. Now, if I had an assistant in the stroet below he would have noticed the plunk stop when I was caught that way, and as ho could not see anything wrong above he would have pulled on the rope. Thon I should have been choked to death by my handkerchief and my board, and part of my face would have been torn off. Persons in tho street below would have noticed, perhaps, that I was very quiet, but they would not havo suspected thut I was bunging by my neck. "Thut pull stretched me eighteen inches. As soon as I realized tho trouble I reached below, and taking hold of the rope, pulled back on it uutil my hand kerchief came out the sheave, aud I dropped onto the hooks below. I could barely touch them with my feet." "Do you mean to say that you bad nothing but hooks to staud on?" "Yes, the hooks on the scaffold. You sue, we had sent all tho plunks below. I was saved by the skin of my teeth." Cincinnati Enquirer. Re llcillhy and Handsome. Young women: It is difficult to think of a picture more grateful to tho eyes than yourself, as you pass upon the street in becoming costume; you are handsome we'll agreo, but are you taking thut cure of your health which will make you at forty, when you ore the mother of a fine family of childreu. a robnst, hapdsomo woman, looking even better than you do now? You are? We dou't believe it, and you don't oither. No vonng woman can rise iu the middle of the forenoon, read trashy novels, take no exercise except an occasional pro menade, eat sweatmeats, do uo work, and keep late hours, aud ut the same time lay a foundation for good health at forty. It is all very well to be handsome at twenty, but to be healthy and handsome, both, at forty, is more greatly to bo de sired. Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air wovsn children of light Molescbott. 0