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À\nxcA-(dvovc Jtofcepeitòent v o l i m i : i l Poetry. I or three years his father and mother re- rose behind Dynefoot, and then to keed ing the path, so that she could not tell ! mained at Harhreek dairy, and Kirstie hy a footpath w hich wound along the top where she w is going? Her heart sank ! heard of him occasionally from them; o f the glen for about a mile. There was within her; she rememhered that it was T H F F HOST T H A T J I M N.1IU. ; but eventually they went to a large dairy no fence or protection whatever; and near that very spot that poor Tom Carson ! dow n in Gallow ay, and for several years | there were several sad stories told o f pco- was killed, and she felt as if she could not KA\<A« 1’ ACD'I i KAILWAY » she did not know w hether he w as dead or j pic who had missed their footing, or, in move another step. Just at this moment IS TI alive; but she did not forget him, and I the darkness, had wandered too, near the a ray o f moonlight pierced through the W u t , R- to that." i«i*l th«* oi:gln»’«'r. ! on fine Sunday afternoons in summer j edge, and so had come to a violent end. drift, and showed her young Arch ie’s ••h««t* ain't th n,’ « ari- apt t<> fi ir; sometimes walked as far as the rowan- Just two w inters before this an unfortu head resting on her shoulder; the face Spirit* rtnn't fimi with lover* much. Am i throtilr valvr* don't take ti>*neh. tree, with which he was inseparably as- nate man had perished not far from the was more boyish than ever in its pallor, And a« for .lint mouth o f the glen. He was a packman, and the rings of fair hair lay damp on his sociated. W ha- happened to him W «- oiio half fact ami the nthi r ¡1 lif whim ' A great surprise was itt store for lier, w ith a donkey, who was well known at forehead. N e w strength scented to come however, tor he came hack to Mr. G ray ’s all the farm-houses; and was, in a way, a to her arms with the sight, and now Kitynij^t- oin- night on the lino, hr - uv a« a voting herd. Kirstie had not heard well-to-do man, with a well assorted pack, courfge and faith to her heart, and she \ lio'T-, a- pia.ii a* tin- moral law went bravely on a few more steps, and .In,I hy ihi' moonlit hank, and thence the name of the young man who was the contents o f which ranged from rib then, to her joy and surprise, found her < unti a drunk*» man with no moro -< n-e bnns and jew elry to note-paper, bair-pins, com ing— indeed, had heard nothing about Than to drop on the rail, and stay-laces. In fact, it was designed self safe out on the hillside, and far past | him. except that he was coming from the Klat a« a ft « 1, Highlands. She was in the kitchen alone to supply all the little wants o f a female the dangerous place. She had passed it A* Jim «Iron- hy wiiii tin- midnight mail when he came in ; it was dusk, anil she population, who were seldom able to safely and quietly, not knowing of the !> iwn w. nt the patri t» Sii am r. v.-r-rd. indulge in the luxury of going a shop danger till it was gone. She had the Tin» atr t f.*r tln-rr came a * Ihntl ' Jim rur-rd. d:d not recognize his voice; but the fire light was shining full upon her as she ping. Tom Carson, the packman, was wind to ciintend with now, and the snow A- hi» tlrrtnrn. thm- in thr r ih with him, h-mii-r atarrd in thr fa< of Jim, sto 'd m aking the porridge, in the cook’s therefore a great favorite, and not only drift in her face; but in her thankfulness And »ay». 'W iu t nnw!’ absence; and after a minute’s quiet sur because o f his wares, hut because he was she felt as if she could overcome every Say« Jim, 'W h a t now y vey he was certain that this tall girl w ith a cheery, pleasant fellow ; and Kirstie thing, and soon was within a few yards of 1 ve ju«* run over a man that - how the grand figure and plain face was no remembered well what consternation was their own door. Then lier strength utterly Thr tirrman «rare«) a' Jim. They ran caused iu the kitchen at Auchensaek failed; she struggled with heating heart other than his old triend Kirstie. It kr... but they never found liouwt nor man. w hen a rumor arose that Tom Carson had and laboring breath against her weak •• l)o you ever herd the coos for ony -1 N try a .ha-low within a mile .. ni turned paie, hut hr trini to «tn lle- 1 body, nowadays?" he said at length, very ¡disappeared; and it was thought that ness, as if it were some physical some one must have made away with him obstacle; and she did manage, though Thrn on he tore quietly. T> ii mile or more. for the sake o f his pack, which, as it was how she never knew, to reach the house, 1 4 UÌ 1 fit-r 1 IÌUU* than hc tl luu<le af. »re. “ Preserve us a ” ” exclaimed Kirstie, N ew Y ear’s time, was unusually heavy. enter the door, place Archie on the long nearly upsetting the porridge in her agi \\ •n!(t y>ii hvlU•vt* \\ ! * ?ho Vf n no \t nlirhf It was only conjecture, however, for noth settle bv the fireside, and then— fell on tation; then, as the fire M azed up and t IJ■ ro«i- tti.i ’ him«" in th«- m«*<ml j.rj m ing could be heard o f h im ; but when at lust the floor perfectly unconscious. Poor O ’!it « ■ »ru«”* 1 !|u* c hnp ariti drop * a >• fore. disclosed the fair curly head and the the snow, which lay that winter for several Laddie ran from one to another, not re- t encore i >VJ\\ li Jar* tlii* ! and merry blue eyes she rememhered so well, weeks, had melted, the mystery was know ing what was the matter, and how l \ nd *<>. Ill fart. she said with tearful eyes and trembling h 1 , jht rh v art solved, and poor Tom Carson with his ing pitifully, while the baby was w ailing 1 H voice: “ Can this l»e you, Archie Hry- 11 »! fu * w ore •!. in \v ini (racked. donkey and his pack were found at the in the cradle. Help, however, was near done* (¡la d am I to see ye back again. bottom of Glen Dyne. It was supposed at hand, and in a tew minutes two men ! ! mph? 1 .• •f m 0 r nOW. • : it*-» a vt Illft»f. But what a start ve gied me, for ninny’s Th v 1 nu t Jim, K 1 -• r. and .*•« id • I I « » * ’- >our that he had been coming to Auchensaek, from Auchensaek entered the cottage. I the time I ’ve wondered if ye were alive.” where he was a great favorite— that he They had been sent rather against their i .. i . - iv- Jim ; * and more, i f - plain “ Alive and hearty." replied Archie, had been overtaken by the storm— that w ill, and felt as if they were on a wild- I it .h o -’ don’ t trouble un- nudili; with rather a forced laugh, to hide the 1 :h eight I ebook the donkey had lost its footing, and in goose chase; but when they arrived at emotion he really felt when he saw how Ttiat gho-t when 1 took his efforts to save the poor animal lie hail the house they were horrified w ith the \ place on an Ka.-ti ru line hut look: i agitated >he was. “ Hut the truth is, I perished along with it. It was a sad state of matters, and thankful that a wearied o’ the Highlands; it’s a dull " ha’ -h »nid 1 inert the tirât trip out story, and cast a deeper shadow o f gloom childish fancy— as they thought at tirst— ■ thing being one’s lane in a house for Hat t- k’ vary hou»e that we talk.-d about, over Glen Dvne, w hich indeed bore no should have been the means of bringing - - e lf - . m l 0 , - . - I. I mon’ hs. and 1 thought I would try the good name already. A s Kirstie toiled up them to Dynefoot so opportunely. im e«« Low Country again.” the hill, it all came back appallingly I ’ - time to » ’ op t h - ver f »o'i-hne««." The children at Auchensaek were ex Archie was surprised to find as time » - 1 r-amuied nil *ti am. afresh to her memory. tremely fond o f Kirstie, and it was a When there rame a .cream pa»sed on and he and Kirstie dropped About half way up tlie steep, precip favorite amusement of theirs, every after From naytlri-mau. au d it broke my dream into tin ir old friendly terms how little itous side o f the glen there ran a very noon as the dusk came on, to watch for ’ V - \ k '» d «oinehody s iv - f. -* Not m : • 1 : ■ •hanged she was in mind from what she nartow, insecure footpath, called the ttie light appearing in her window. l v- tim i rh ir often, and thar ain't no »neh. used to be; the same simple, guileless “ T o d ’s l ’ath,” ow ing to a fox burrow up When,' long after the usual time, none And row I'll prove it " Hark we ran. creature, strong as a rock for truth and Vn i darn tin »kin! but thar a w n mat, near the head of the glen. Few people appeared, they could not understand it right, and thoroughly unselfish. On thr rati. dead. ever ventured along if except the game- at a ll; the anniversary o f her wedding- Smartwd in the head - Mr and Mrs. G iay were so much N -vk Ie a 'I that m- annewr" That'« a’ ! Jim «aid." attached to her that they looked on her keepers and tile shepherds, and even they day, too; what could be the matter? At did not care to try it except in broad day last Mr. and Mrs. Gray became uneasy / » '- • ' l i t rtf. irt th* S - r Yo ik Tim . - alni">f as a child of the house, and yet light. At the point where this path turned themselves, and sent oil the two men, she was so unconscious o f any special off from the face of the hill “ L addie" who arrived at the very time when their favor that she quite avoided all jealousy began again to jum p upon his mistress, help was most needed. on the part of her fellow-servants. Archie then, running a few steps along the path Archie “ came too” after a little; but stayed steadily on the Auchensaek, and A HO M ELY H E R O IN E . and coming back, he wagged his tail and nothing they could do had any effect in bei ime almost as much a part o f the looked up at her with beseeching eyes, rousing Kirstie; so one o f them went “ W i iat can Into come owre A rch ie *” household as Kirstie; the other servants saying as plainly as dog could say in his hack to Auchensaek, and from there was murmured Kirstio Brydone, a s fur tin went and came, but these two remained mute but expressive language: “ Come sent on for the doctor. Poor man, lie twentieth time that day, she rose ami wont fixtures this w ay.” Kirstie did not hesitate to was just sitting down to supper, at a cosy to the cottage door to look for hor litis When Archie had been three years with follow, bad though the way was, for it little party which had assembled to see h'ind. It was between two and three on Mr. Gray, the shepherd at Dynefoot left led, site was sure, to lier husband; and, the " old year out and the new year in,” the afternoon o f Hogmanay, the 1 a«t dav m take a small farm, and Mr. Gray ottered besides, as a little child she used often to when he was told that the shepherd at ot the year. <>n every side iin-lnlatii:? it to Archie, adding, with a sly glance, come w ith her father before she knew Dynefoot had had a bad fall in the glen, ra n g «.« of hills met her eye and seenieii that he would have to look out for a wife what fear was, and therefore knew every and his wife was “ near deid” with carry t.) close in the wide valley from the world i't thafease. Archie thanked him, and turn and bend in the path. T oiling up ing him home. beyond. The sun was low in the west, asked for a few days to think of it, w hich the w ild solitude lier feelings overcame “ Carrying him home,” said one ot the enveloped in a strange reddish ha/e; be Mr. Gray w illingly granted. That was her, and unconsciously forced from her company, incredulously; “ why, it is im hin 1 the hil s to the north threat masses of on a Saturday; and on the afternoon of lips the cry: “ Oh, Archie, Archie! my possible; the woman must be an A m a heava clouds were rolling up, piled one the Sunday, w hich was a bright Septem man, where are ye?” zon.” above another; a hitter icy wind whistled ber day. Archie asked Kirstie if she would Just at this point a little runlet o f water “ So she is. both in body and soul,” re down the valley, bearing on its wings an take a walk with him to the rowan-tree; which came down from the hill had plied the doctor, who had known her for oi •»• i«ional snow flake; while to the south and then*, at the place where they first spread itself across the path in a solid years; “ and as it is on her account and the great range o f hills rose ;tp, clear and met, and where they had played and sheet of ice. K irstie hesitated, but there her husband’s I don’t mind the long ride distinct in their slight mantle o f snow, worked as children, he asked her if she was no other w ay; it was life or death, over the snow one bit; so good night,and a gains t the• purplish »kv. K irs tie looked would be his life long companion. N o and she must hasten on; so she did cross, j a happy new year to you all.” !*«»un 1 in all directions>, but rotild see one can doubt what lvirstie’s answer was; but her foot slipped, and she narrow ly es Kirstie was “ hear deid,” but she got a '»thin her husband. who had been he had been the one love of her childhood caped falling. The snow now began to great shake, and for sometime was graver «V>»cnt sine e th«■ e iriy m<>ruing. and say- and of her later years, and the sun nevi r fall more quickly and in large flakes, and and quitter than her wont; as if the wings ing to lit r-< It, “ I wish I saw hitn safe slmne upon a prouder, happier bride. she had to trust more to memory for the o f the Angel o f Death had really passed h itile ; it's gatin to he a wild nict, 1 It was an additional source ot happi path than actual sight. Ou ami on she closely by her. One lasting trace she had d' >ui>t.” she1 i.‘lo:«**' 1 the door, am:! return»«! ness, too, the fact that they were to live in went, however, till she had gone nearly a ot her exertions that night— her pretty t. > the !;r>'«i She put on some more her old home, though many a one woul 1 mile up the glen, when suddenly Laddie brow n hair was ever after thickly streaked mtdt• lu r«i It «'Train that the kettle have thought if a solitary place enough, j gave a short, joyful bark, and she saw a , i’ gray. m 1 « b oilin Lr, >• 1 ’ that she might, “ m a«k” It was tlirtc m ips from Auchensaek, and dark object stretched across the path. It , with Archie, after being ill for a long time, tie tea as soon as Archie eanie in; then, about as far from the nearest shepherd’s was indeed A rch ie; lie was leaning ; became eventually quite strong and hearty drawing forward the little table which house, and was away quite up among the against a large stone, which seemed to I again ; but all his life after was influenced w i- all r»-i ly s”t for tea, «lie sat down on bibs, commanding a splendid view of I nave broken his fall; his hair was pow- ! by that wild night in Glen Dyne, and the a low chair and resumed her occupation one of the loveliest of the lovely D u m dered with snow, his face was white and lesson in simple faith taught him by his ot rocking the cradle. A » «he bent over friesshire valleys. It was a roomy, com rigid, and his 1 ips were livid. Kirstie ! wife. the fair little baby it rout; lined the fire fitriable cottage, whitewashed, with a never doubted but that he was dead, and j When the Laird ” came to Auchen built lit up a very homely face; a mouth thatched roof, a nice garden in front, and threw herself on the ground beside him saek next autumn, for the shooting, he rivaling tn width the famous Mep of two elm trees at one side. Inside it was w ith a cry oi agony, w hen suddenly his was so pleased to hear o f Kirstie’s ex Harden's; small pray eyes, and a low the picture of comfort; the kitchen es eyes opened, a conscious look came into j ploit, know ing the glen well, as he did, fore hi .d ; and yet tin- lam- was not with pecially, with its sanded floor clean as his face, and he said in faint, low tones: that lie gave the cottage at Dynefoot to liands could make it; the dresser gav out its redeeming jM>in*s. The large “ Is that you, Kirstie? I thocht I was her and Archie for tlieir lifetime, prom mouth disclosed two rows of pearly teeth ; with willow pattern plates and many col i g tun to uee my lane, and never see ye ; ising to build one, if required, for another tic eyes were frank and sweet, with a con- ored bowls and “ p ig s ;’’ the long settle by ■ mair.” shepherd. Kirstie was amazed beyond tidiup trustfulness in them; and the fore- tin- fire; and the antique clock, which j “ Oh, wheest, Archie, wheest,” she measure with this gift, and it w a s a mys- hea l was crowned with masses of thick, had belonged to Kirstie’s grandfather. j w ailed; “ ye’ll break my heart; dinna j q.ry ju.r w jjy people called her a hero » i|i, brown hair. She was remarkably It stood airiut a hundred yards from the ; speak that way ” ine. — Chamber»' Journal. tall, nearly -i.\ feet, and splendidly pro. mouth of the deep, dark, precipitous glen lie continued, after a moment’s pause: | p »rtiomd, with the exception of her which took it» name from the Dyne, a ‘ “ 1 slipped at the tap o’ the brae, and I irms, which were rather lonp. And at little burn which brawled along at the maun haed warned, fo r i wakened as cauld H i'lef Sayings hy Josh H illin gs. t. he time of her marriape—ju«t a year be- , fo o t, | as a static w i’ Laddie licking my face; so j tore tins— there wa n many jokes pa-«ed Archie l ittered on his duties at Martin I sent him liame, puir beast. N o help j E n n y man w ho w ill spred a slander iz upon the fact that she was two or three mas, and they were married at the H o g ; could do m eguid now, Kirstie,” iie said, a sekond handed liar, mutch meaner, if inches t tiler than her husband, who wa> manay following, at Auchensaek, when as it iu answer to the thoughts which possible, than the one who originated it. ii'tio md slight, with a fair, boyish face, j there was a dance in the barn and general were passing through lier mind at the I Menny people are like an old hen with wl. cii made him l»M»k younger th;m merry making. And so time had slipped moment. “ My leg is broken, and I ’ve i ,,n, chicken— a grate deal ov fuss and K r-ti*\ though he was twenty-five, and away, every season seeming happier than hurt my side; and w i’ the darkness and hurry, hut very little dispatch. -tie w is only twenty-two. Archie Hrydone tin-last, Kirstie thought, and happiest of the storm there’s nobody tit to help me, A ll lies, before they bekum current, let them laugh away, and could well all the dark days of winter since a little gin they wore here, anil it wad tie hours pass thru three hands; the fust i/. sum tl'Ant to do »•», for none knew so well as blossom came upon a November day and before anvIxaly could come. O Kirtsie, very diskreet person, who looks wi//', and him se'f what a treasure he had g»*t in this rilled their cup of happiness to overflow woman, 1 maun leave ye and the wee only hopes that things ain’t so and so; h »mely wife o f hi«. ing. It was a lovely, lair little infant, bairn ” he added, with a choking sob. the sekund iz a lawless gossip, who haz When Kirstie \s is a little lass o f eight ' with Archie’s blue eyes and flaxen hair: Kirstie did not answer for a moment; no doubt hut what things are so, or even y* ars old her father and mother died of and lie was, if possible, more passion l and then her face was lighted up with a wttss; tin* third iz a malishus vampyre, fever within a few wee as of each other, ately fond o f it than Kirstie herself. look of high resolve, and she said: who fully endorses the foul blot, and in l left her a friend levs orphan. Strange- i Kirstie thought o f her happy lot with a “ Mony a time, Archie, have I won spreds it broadcast thru the land. . • cii"ugh, h»-r fa’her, who was a sltep- diep, unutterable thankfulness as she sat dered why the Lord gied me my great Fridc and anger are closely allied. ic rd ai,o, had hail this very herdinp of j absently rocking the cradle. She was one strength and my lang arms, hut I see it Diskreshun iz the smartest thing enny Dynctoot, and the < »ttage to which -he o f those women who have great difficulty now; and it it be i I its w ill I will save you mail possesses. I f he haz got plenty ov i turnc i as a bride was the same in which of utterance; whose words are few but 1 this nicht.” branes with it, lie iz a giant; and if he -in- had pas«i d a happy childhood. Mr their thoughts m any; and, above all, her “ Y e’re no fit to carry me,” Arc hie re- h lint got much ov enny, he iz a respek Gray, the farmer ot Auchensaek, lier religion was truly a part of herself and of ' monstrated fee b ly ; ‘ and think what a road, tut»lo pigmy. lather’s master, to ,k lii r to the farm- her daily life. The sun had now set, and Kir«tie.” He who haz got nothing to do in this house, and there «he remained till she was darkness was coming on, w hile the w ind “ Do I no ken the road better than ony life but toamu/.e hisself haz got on hand married, first as a little herd girl, then as 1 whistled more shrilly than ever, and with herd in the country,” she replied; “and we the hardest kind ov a jo b i know ov. nurse to the children, and finally as dairy an eerie sound which made lier shudder. ; maun ask for help higher than man’s.” Thare iz nothing w e are more apt to maid. It was dtirinp tin- two or three She was becoming really anxious about As she knelt beside her husband, with parade before others than our cares and « iminers which «he spend herdinp the A rch ie’s long-continued absence. He had the snow falling on her upturned face, ami sorrows, and thare iz nothing the world f " * ' - that she first knew Archie lirvdonc. left home in the morning with the tirst the wild w ind whistling round, and in lie was a delicate, puny boy, who even peep n| daylight to clim b the hill, accord few and simple words, as if she was kares so little about. Take affability, good sense, honesty, then looked youtig tor his years, and ids ing to his custom, and intended to come | speaking of a near and loving friend, and good breeding, mix then together, parents feared at one time that he was home, a« he usually did, about eleven. asked the aid o f the Alm ighty arm to and shake them well and yu hav the in going to l»e lame, though In- grew out ot She tried, meanwhile, to calm lier j guide her on her perilous way, and to gredients for a gentleman. it afterward. His father had taken a anxii 'y by thinking that something might keep her feet from falling, Archie liry- T he good things a man dttz are hard to dairy on the ncighhorinp tarm of liar- have happened to one of the sheep, or ; done, even in the midst o f all his pain breck, and Archie was set to the task of that he might have been detained gather ; and weakness, felt that he had never be remember, the evil things are dredful easy. ict'ilinp, a very necessary one in those ing them into the folds in preparation tor fore truly known his wife. She then 'I rutli kan stand alone, but a lie haz to ureat stretches of miMirland and pasture, an approaching storm. At length she lifted Archie, as gently and tenderly as where there were few, if any, projier hcaru the dog scratching at the door; and she could; but he gave a deep groan, and lean on sumthiiig, generally another lie. A tru friend iz one who ain’t afrade to fences. jo\ tally said she to herself: “ lie canna she found that he had fainted quite away. tell us ov our faults.— N . Y. Weekly. Iritlicir pastoral employment the two ! he tar oil n o n ;” but ouopening the dour, \ “ M aybe it’s better,” she murmured; “ he • i.ildrcn hi came inseparable compan- the dog, instead ot running joyfully to J win mi know till the danger’s past.” Then, i ris. Archie was a smart hoy, and a the fire or curling himself up beneath with another upward glance for help, she — It is said that there is a dog in Iowa co id reader, and many a lesson he pave one id the l»" 8 s a« he usually did, began ; set out on her dangerous way. It would which its owner, a farmer named Tre I', i-tic, who was a diligent, though not to jum p fawningly upon her and to whine *hy this time have been perfi ctly dark, but maine, values at ¡ffi'J.OOO. W e have a dog '■■ry |>*, pupil, for at all times lier pitifully: she could not understand the there was a little moonlight, just enough ourselves which we value at somew here in J ■ m w us infinitely preater than her infel- reason of this at all, win n suddenly ail i to show the mere outline of the path and the immediate neighborhood o f that sum, •1 ' At other times he would road aloud idea hurst upon her minil which speedily | glen. The path itself was by this time hut to a warm personal friend, who want • h r while she worked her stocking; became a certainty. Archie was ill, had covered with snow ; every step was taken ed him badly and seemed to think he u. -! -h- b-ri-il by an old plaid, which pro- : hurt himself, perhaps, somewhere on the in uncertainty; she hardly knew if she . couldn’t get along without him, it is not id ti l them alike from sun, wind and hills, and the dog had conic for help. Shw were keeping the path at all. Strong as wholly impossible that in some moment convivial joy,w hen the heart beats high ra n , they passed many happy hours.- shook off a deadly laintncss which crept she w as, she staggered at times under her h m ».!v Archie thought lie must learn to ! over her at the thought; and,rousing her burden, while everything around looked and warm with dance and song and ban- weavi- sto< kings for liituself,and under self, she drew the tire together in case of wild and weird in the half darkness anil the 1 ‘i»et wine, we might be induced to sell Kirstie s tuition soon became nearly as sparks, placed tlie cradle on one ot the thick falling snow. Laddie trotting in him for fifty cents.— Courier-Journal. i e ver at it a- she was herself, anil so her beds for safety, and throwing a plaid front o f her, and guiding her on her wav, ! --------- ------------------ '.ream ot a companion knitter tinder the about her followed the dog. was the only gleam o f comfort she hud. I — About 10,000 barrels o f shell oysters n w in tre. was realized, though verv dit During these preparations “ Lad lie” She went along more by instinct than w ill be shipped this season to foreifp cit- ter* nt ly from what she anticipated, a.» had »food Still and motionless as a statue; sight, and after a weary y while she began ies from N orfolk, Va. Shipments to va- Shipments to va • l ri «n u t u "!ti 11 w - l ut when she moved toward the door he to think that she must becom ing near the rious dealers in the United Mates amount i w ’ i > happy «timmeri- j ; i ï -< d in tfii.i jum ped with delight, fawned upon her, mouth of the glen, when suddenly she re to nearly 400,000 gallons. The canning w av, and tin n Arch ;i . having outgrown ami lick’d her hands, and then b winded membered the sheet o f ice across the business is rapidly increasing, and now his laniere«», was sent aw.i. to tatui si r li t tily forward in the direction o f the pathway. I f she could hardly cross it amounts to about 130,000 cans each sea vice; and when he liccaiitc "M i r went to -•ten fhe ordinary nuilc along Glen then, what was to become o f her now son. The oyster beds o f Virginia cover the Highlands as a shepherd. Koj- tWo D\ in-w<n to clim b the bleep hill which w ith a heavy burden, and the snow cover. an area equal to 010,000 acres, Miscellany. NUMBER I FGREST-G HO VE, WASHINGTON CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1874. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. W jiat is a rebus? A kiss repeated. M an is caught by his tongue; an ox by his horns. The C z a r’a W in t e r P alace. a hunter k illin g for sport. One hunter had fifty robes packed for transportation, and while off hunting for more the Sioux came up and burnt most of them.” T he W inter Palace at St. Petersburg is an enormous pile, constructed o f a s:one, T h e y have a novel way o f enjoying the reddish in hue, which, when fresh hewn I k we seize too hastily we may have to honeymoon in Detroit. A man named from the quarry, ran be carved almost as Schuyler L on g was married ou a recent though it were wood, but which hardens drop as hastily. W h en is a lover like a tailor? When Sunday evening to a w idow named Up- considerably by exposure to the attnos- dyko, and the next day both were after sphere. The W inter Palace communi he presses his suit. B oston recently had fresh cucumbers warrants for assault and battery. It cates, by a bridge somewhat resembling seemed that she wanted some money, and the Ponte de Sospiri at Venice, with an at a dollar apiece. he didn’t have it to give, and she said he older palace—the Hermitage, so much af A lw ays tell the truth; you will find it was a pretty fellow to he strapped on the fected by the Empress Catherine. The easier than lying. first day after marriage. One w*ord old Winker Palace, burned down in 1837, “ F lesh for fuel" is the way they head brought on another, and they had a fight was built by an Italian architect named kerosene fires now. which left both looking as if they had Rastrelli, in the Empress Elizabeth’s E x p e r ie n c e is a torch lighted in the fallen through a sidewalk grating. reign, and so vast were its dimensions ashes of our delusions. Miss F rank P o ttle , a school teacher that it was said to he inhabited by more A n Iow a engineer married a young lady in Fryeburg, Me., was brought before a than 6,00ft persons. The Imperial H igh while waiting for a late train. Justice o f the Peace tor w hipping one of Chamberlain used frankly to confess that T h e most original phase o f society life her scholars. Miss Pottle’s weight seemed he had not the least idea of how many in Washington is the card announcement i to be about ninety pounds, and her apartments there were, or who lived in muscles, judging by her delicate hands them; and it is said that when, while the o f birth. conflagration was at its height, the fire I n Philadelphia it is now considered and slim wrists, were not much devel men ascended to the roof, they found the oped. The whipped scholar was a strap proper to speak of a dentist as an od ont* ping, ugty boy, and sixteen years old. leads inhabited by whole families o f squat ologists. Learning that the punishment had been ters, who had built log cabins and kept T h e Cincinnati Volk«bladt styles the well deserved the Justice expressed ad poultry and pigs and even coir* among the ladies engaged in the whisky war “ corset miration for Miss Pottle’s pluck and dis chimney-pots. The origin o f this strange dragt M>ns.” colony was ascribed to the circumstance charged her. P oliteness is like an air cushion; that it wan customary to detail for service T h e W innipeg Manitoban says: “ A on the roof o f the p a:aco a certain num there may be nothing in it, but it eases large covered sleigh some twenty feet in ber o f laborers, whose duty it was to keep you wonderfully. A ccording to the experience of pawn length, belonging to Mr. Davidson, of the water-tanks from freezing in winter Moorhead, Minn., arrived in town this time hy dropping red-hot cannon b ills brokers, the jiast was the hardest winter week, laden with apples, pears, grapes, into them. Perhaps the oversetting of known in many years. eggs, butter and other luxuries. There one of the stoves used for heating the bul “ T h e insurrection o f prayer” is what was a stove in the sleigh which kept the lets was the primary cause o f the fire of the Graphic calls the operations o f tem fruit from freezing, and we are glad to ’37. N aturally these poor fellows tried perance women in Ohio. learn that the enterprise w ill prove a re- to make themselves as comfortable as they A se sn e to rs wife, on being asked where I munerative one to the proprietor. He could in their aeries. A chimney pot her husband was, replied that she was has already sold out all pears at 50 cents does not afford a very complete she.1er very much afraid he w as Miss-ing. each; apples are going fast at three for from the asperity o f a Russian January; A j e w e l e r labeled some diamonds in ten cents, and eggs at 75 cents per doz.” and logs for fuel being plentiful, w hat his window as being as sparkling as the I t is reported that a new and alarming was more reasonable than that the cistern- tears of a young widow, and afore last horse disease is aflecting the stage and thawers should utilize a few billets to ing. street car lines o f N e w Y o rk . A large build themselves huts withal ? A n d a T h e Chinese have a saying that an un number ot animals have been prostrated, calf, discreetly smuggled up to a house lucky word dropped from the tongue hut the mortality, except in the case of top in its tenuerest youth, w ill grow iato cannot be drawn back hy a coach and sixJ one o f the stage lines, is small, and in a cow in time, w ill it not ? Eighty thousand workmen had been horses. most instances the disease yields rapidly employed at the erection of the old palace, to medical treatment. The symptoms are T he N e w York papers now favor k i l l ing criminals by an electric shock, which los 9 o f appetite, swollen eyes, which dis which was most splendidly decorated, is easily administered and produces in charge a yellowish matter copiously, and and the loss o f valuable furniture and swollen legs. Stupor follows, with great works o f art at the fire was, o f course, stantaneous death. immense. The catastrophe took place in W h e at seeds can bear for several weakness. Rapid recovery follows the the night, and it was w ith the very gitat- return o f appetite. hours a temperature as high as the boil est difficulty tha. the guards and police ing point of water without losing the A n Illinois youth is in trouble, and could prevent the mob from rushing into power of germinating. writes as follows to an editor for advice: the burning ruins, not for the purpose of O n e cause of coal oil lamp explosions “ Lately becoming acquainted,” he says, plunder, but with the view o f saving the is said to be using too small w icks, by “ with a young girl attending school, 1 oods and chattels o f the “ Little Father.” which a space is left at the edges for the was smitten with her, and she appeared he soldiers were imbued with the same to regard m : favorably. She is very communication of explosive elements. feeling; and it is said that the Emperor S in c e the ladies of Ohio have begun much of a lady, although hut sixteen years Nicholas, who was watching the progress tlieir raids upon the bar-rooms some pla o f age. I sent her a present o f a hand of the flames with the greatest composure giarist has remarked that Solomon in all somely hound book o f poems costing $ 8 , was only enabled to put a stop to the self- his glory was not a raid like one ot these. which she returned with a note, staling sacrificing efforts o f a party o f grenadiers her father would not let her keep it, for who were trying to wrench a magnificent T h e r e is a man in Kentucky who lias, which she was very sorry. D on ’t you mirror from the w all to which it was for several years past, been drinking coal think it was an insult to return the book nailed by hurling his double-barreled oil. lie takes a teaspoonful at a dose, without more of an apology ? H ad n ’t I lorgnette at it. Nicholas had the strength and he says it has cured him of consump better whip the old man if he don’t apolo of a giant, and the well-aimed missile tion. gize for the insult ?” shattered the mighty sheet o f plate-glass S omehody says, queerly enough, that to fragments. H is Majesty turned, Boston, having swallowed various other Too B ig a Brice. laughing, to an aid-de-camp, as the gren neighboring towns, “ is now greasing the adiers held up tlieir hands in horror. ears o f Malden, preparatory to degluti “The fools,” he said, “ w ill begin to risk tion.” A few years ago it w as my fortune to be T h e sand blast is now used for cleans traveling down thr Mississippi on a small their lives in trying to pick up my opera- ing the trouts o f buildings. It is said to steamer. I nail frequently noticed a tall glass. Tell them that they shall he fired The story ot accomplish the removal of the dust and and powerful man who was among the on if they do not desist.” soot without injuring the ornamental passengers. He seemed restless and mel the sentry who refused to leave his post carvings. ancholy. Even the presence o f his really and perished in the flames, because he A p h i l o s o p h e r says that “ a true man interesting family seemed to bring no re had not been properly relieved, is prob never frets about his place in the world, lief. I cannot tell how this man and my- ably apochrj phal— at least it is told of but just slides into it by the gravitation sell found ourselves seated together and half a dozen sentinels, at half a dozen o f his nature, and swings lucre as easily in free conversation, nor how he came to fires. as a star.” The Winter Palace was rebuilt in a year tell me his history. He w as from one o f the Eastern States, The Em peror sent tor an architect and B ecause the Indianapolis Coffin Com pany propose manufacturing 30,000 cof had lK*en apprenticed to learn the black told him that the new house must be fin fins annually a N e w Y'ork lunatic wants smith’s trade, had been harshly dealt ished within twelve months, or he would to etiange tne name ot Indianapolis to with, and had run away. With scarcely know the reason why. And N icholas was no money he had worked his way to the not a Czar to lie trifled with. At the end Deathopolis. A D e l a w a r e physician some time ago Ohio, and there, by a few months’ work, o f the stipulated term the new W inter grafted a piece of his own skin 4 white) on had clothed himself and obtained some Palace w<u finished. A grand hall was He given at court, and nobody was sent to the body ot a negro. It grew, but at the money to prosecute tiis journey. end of three months w as as black as the took “ deck passage” on a steamer for St. Siberia. T o be sure the enterprise had Louis, helping to wood the boat and not been completed without a considerable surrounding cuticle. doing some other hard lalair. By the expenditure o f rubles, and even o f hum tn T h e Boston Journal tells of a gentle time lie reached St. Louis lie was out of life. In the depth o f winter more ’ th tn man in that city who has been brought money, and hired himself at low wages six thousand workmen used to be shut up from a condition of ill-health to robust to a blacksmith. Receiving barely enougu in riM>ms heated to thirty degrees Reau ness by simply drinking a half tumbler of for his current expenses, and being forced mur, in order that the walls might dry the warm bullock’s blood twice a day. hy an cxactingemployer to work early and more quickly, and when they left the pal A t Nashville, Tcun., recently, a child late, he determined to try his fortune at ace tney experienced a difference o f fifty of John Eats, ten weeks old, was found Chicago. The canal was about to be or sixty degrees iu the temperature. These dead in a bucket o f water at the head o f constructed, and he got a contract to do little atmospheric variations wi re occa the parents’ bed. It is supposed the child certain work as a blacksmith. H e was sionally fata! to the peasants; but what fell from the bed into the bucket and was able to buy a few boards with which cared they? To die for the Czar (there is tints drowned. lie made a shop like an inverted a popular Russian drama on that theme) T h e Supreme Court o f Illinois, in a re V, in which he sheltered his few is a sweet boon to the loyal Muscovite. Here cent decision, has affirmed tne principle blacksmith tools and himself. The actual palace is an enormous paral very hard and lived lelogram, o f which the principal facade that an express company cannot be held he worked for the value of a package of money lost very cheap. In a short time business is 450 feet long. It has often been com while in its possession as a common car throve so well that he built a better shop pared architecturally with the (ex) toy d rier, unless the value o f the package be and hired an additional hand. lie soon palace at M adrid; but the Czar’s residence truly stated before the contract lor car became rich in the possession of vouchers is on the bank o f the broad and beautiful to the amount o f a few thousands, deemed Neva, whereas the abode of defunct Span riage is entered into. good, when the canal failed, leaving him ish royalty only overlooks the miserable W h e n the brave women of the Missis sippi Valley sing hymns all of a cold penniless. N ot discouraged, he “ up and little streamlet called the Mancanares. During eight months out of the twelve winter’s night before village bar-rooms in at it again,” and the second time gained a order to scotch the snake in the glass, and j f*’w thousands only to lose them by a sim- the W inter Palace is inhabited hy the im perial family. There is one apartment in tlien throw calcium lights upon men who *l!ir 1111 fortune. ‘ ....... Again the brave blacksmith took up the it, however, which should not be passid wander toward the prescribed places of It is a little plain drinking, it is safe to believe that men i hammer, and this time seemed to succeed. bv in utter silence. will attend lodges less frequently than He bought real estate for shops on which room, most modestly furnished, and con ; he organized a new business, which grad taining a simple cainp bed w ithout cur Usual. J o n a t h a n T a ia o t t , the well-known ually became extensive. The profits were tains. It was here in the beginning 01 potato-grower o f Rome, N . Y., tells the large, but the risks were so great that re- 1855 that “ Gen. Février turned traitor.” Boston Cultivator that repeated experi : pcatedly all his property had been in and that the Emperor Nicholas died from ments have taught him “ that early sorts peril. Fire, fraud and misfortune had a terribly brief illness, which, at the out require richer land to give their best kept him in perpetual anxiety for years, set, had been deemed to be merely a slight yield, as they grow in less time, and con I hut at lust he succeeded in securing a attack o f influenza. The room, as is eus- sequently must be better fed, or they are \ competence that was beyond the reach of tomary in Russia (and in some parts of of course small, and the crop w ill not be all ordinary contingencies. In a word, Germany likewise) has been left in pre lie was rich and able to retire from cisely the same state in which it was when remunerative.” ! business. the spirit o f its mighty master passed D e an S w if t ’ s recipe for courtship: This narrative, o f which only an ab away. The Em peror’s gloves and hand T w o or throe ileurs. and two or three sweets, stract is given, was related in a quiet kerchief lie on a chair; his military cloak Tw o or three halls, or two or three treats, Tw o or three serenades, given as a lure. and unpretending manner. In the hangs behind the door; a half-finished let Tw o or ttiree oath« how much they endure, , description even of some ludicrous in- ter is on the blotting-pad on the bureau. T w o or three message« sent in one day. | cidents lie showed no signs of mirth There is the pen with which he wrote; Tw o or three times led out from the play. Tw o or three tickets for two or three times. 1 or even cheerfulness in tbc reminis there are the envelopes and sealing-wax T w o or three love letters w rit all in rhymes. cence. Throughout he displayed only he used. The shadow of the hand ot T w o or three months keeping strict to these rules 1 unrest and sadness. Said he, " I am Death seems to pervade the whole place. Can never fail making a couple of fools. j only forty, and yet look at these deep You creep away hushed and awe-stricken T h e Galveston (Tex.) A'cw# says: “ Our w rin kles' and this grizzled hair. See from the potency of that presence .—Hat - interior exchanges report trichina pre | liow bowed I am. 1 have never used rum per'» Weekly. vailing in many towns of Texas. This i or tobacco, and have been temperate with- strange disease lias appeared in Northern, | out meanness in my appetites. And yet — A man went into a butcher shop, an’I Central, and Western Texas simultaneous : I am a broken dow n man. To get this finding the owner’s w ife in attendance, in ly, and, although but few cases are i fortune I have sacrificed most vigorous the absence o f lier husband, thought he reported in each locality, consternation 1 health, and am sure to die in middle life.” would have a joke at her expense, and has followed its appearance everywhere. ! He paused a moment and then added: “ I said: “ Madame, can vou supply me wit 1 As generally believed, the disease is j have won my wealth by such self denials, a yard of pork?” “ Ves, sir,” said she caused by eating infected pork.” I risks, reverses, hardships that if I were And then, turning to a boy, she - added : A humor had been current for several | again a blacksmith’s apprentice, as when “James, give that gentleman three p ig ’s weeks that upon the farm of I. Finch, I ran away, and I knew that by enduring feet 1” ' near Janesville, Wis., were found unmis w hat I have I could attain as great wealth — A few days ago a very handsome lady takable evidences of the presence of an as I now have, I would uot dare to under thracite coal. This decidedly ungeolog- take it. It has cost me a great deal too entered a dry goods house and inquired fo r a “ beau.” The polite clerk threw ieal fact— if it were a fact— excited wide m uch!” spread remark, and a couple of ( liicago This man is not a solitary case. There himself back and remarked that he was coal dealers paid a visit to the locality, and are thousands o f our successful money at her service. “ Yes, but I waut a buff, after a day’s examination arrived at the makers who are paying a big price for not a green one,” was the reply. The conclusion tbut somebody had been their fortunes. It is not charged that young man went ou measuring goods im they are dishonest or in a wicked line of mediately. “ salting ” that coal-mine. C olorado papers continue to complain business, but sim ply that they sacrifice — A skittering broker in N ew Y o rx of the needless slaughter o f buffaloes. too much that is better than money in lately atked another, who had a order to get money iu quantities which The meat sells in Greeley as low a» three than a a comfort, comfort. bald pate, why his head was like b hash cents a pound, and s o m e has becD sold for | make it a burden rather than two One paper naner say»: two rents cents. One says ‘‘ The whole and which, so far from adding joy to life, in a b-boarding-house. The disgusted valley is alive with hunters and teams. in uiiiuv cases brings life itself to a prema friend, on admitting that he didn’t know', The Lies and Sioux are also m ixing in. ture end. The price is surely too big.— was informed that ’twas because th there’s a h hair h-b-here and th tbere. and they got b ojjin g mad when they find I*ret. Tuttle, in Interior. f