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Saturday Mornlnaa,
BY
JOHN W. KELLY, Publisher.
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1km Jsoauha.
These ere the terms for those paying In ed
-vDee. Ttie lKD.PiK!ToHni fine lndaoe
menls to adverllwiia. Innu reasonable.
E. ffi MULLER,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
OAKLAND,
. '. i . : OREGON
Offico in Dr. Page's Prog Store.
CanyoiiYille Hotel,
O. A. MSVISB, .- - PKOPMBTOR
rAVING RECENTLY PURCHASED THE
L -nnfiYill Hotel. I am now prepared to
Fd wid iUblingforitock, D. A- LEVINS.
JAB. THOBMTOK.
W. M. ATXISBOK.
JACOB WAONKB.
E. K. AMSKSSON
Ashland Woolen Manufacturing
Company,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Whits & Colored Blankets
Plain mil Fancy Cashmeres, Doeskbis,
Fbuuula, Kte-also,
OVER AND UNDERWEAR CLOTHING
Made to Order.
XV. II. ATKINSON, Wecy
ASHLAND. Jackson County, Oregon.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in I
Staple Dry Goods!
Keep constantly on band
ment of
a general assort-
" EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, VTILLOW AKD GLASSWARE,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
HOIIOOL BOOKS
Ak tarreqa'itotij the Public County School
AU klsuis or STATION KRY, TOVS and
FANCT ARTICLES
To rait both Young and Old.
EUY8 AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Cheeks on Portland, and procures
iraJts on Dan Franeiaoo.
r.lAIIOrJEY'8 8ALOON
Keanst to tha Railroad Depot, Oakland
The finest of wines, liquor -ad cigars in Doj
las county, and the Not
XIir.lUIA.XlD TABLE
ia tha SUtc kepi is proper repain
Fartiea traveling en the railroad will find this
place Terr handy to viatt during the stop
: . ping of the train at the Oak
land. Depot Give ma ocall.
Jab. iaA.nOjKl'.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Fiixnit'ore.
WIXBVB,
OREGON.
JLIpholstery, Spring Mattrasses,
. . Constantly on hand.
Etc.,
aTlfOMITIIDt? X the best stock of
rUilltl Uilfc.. larnlture south of fortlana
; And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
- Resident of Douglas county are requested to
givo me a call before purchasing eisewnere.
g& ALL WORK warranted. -s
DEPOT HOTEL-
. 4AKLASD, - - OREOOH. .
XLichard Thomas, Prop'r.
rpHIS HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED
1 for a, number ot years, and has become rery
pepaJarwun ine traveling puDiic. r irioiaes
SLIkPINO ACCOMMODATIONS.
Aai the table supplied with the best the market
. affords. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad.
Furniture Store 1
JOHN GI LDEI18LEVK
d A VINO PURCHASED THE FURK7-
ture Establishment of Jobn Lebnlierr, is
BOW prepared to do any woi It in the
UPHOLSTERING LINE.
- ' He ia also prepared to furnish
In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper
loan me cneapesu uis
Chairs,
Tablets
Bureaus,
Bedeteacla,
Wa wit stands,
ETC.. ETC.. ETC,
Are of superior make, and for low ,st cannot be
- equal iw in me Biate. Trie
Finest of Spring Beds
And the
Most Complete
Sofas
Always on hand. Everything in ine line fur-
nisliea.oi tne Destquality.on tbeshorte8t
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS MADE AND TRIMMED.
And orden filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
Desirinf a share of public patronage, the un.
derngnal promises to oner extra inducements to
au patron, uiv u e a tnai.
JOHN GILDERS LEVE,
NOTICE.
fcJOTCCE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO WHOM IT
may concern that the undersigned has been
warded tha contract for keeping the Douglas
County paupers for a period of two years. AU
jmcvosi m need of assistance from said county
rant first procures certificate to that effect from
any member of tha County Board and present it
to one at the following named persons, who are
Authorised to and will care for those presenting
Mca eeruneasec unison m reruns, Koseourg; U.
It. KaUoC, Oakland; Mrs. Brown, Ixokin
atkaa, lr. Woodruff ia authorised to furnisi
Bnsrlvri aid to all parsons in need of the same and
wa kaTa keen decJarsd paupers of Dourlaa
Ceeistr. W. B. CLARK.
xrSEEDS !
til mn C? QtJALHY
JktsX. OnDEBS
My attended to and Goods shipped
Jwiih care.
A : naeaeaey e&jo,
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I VOL. 5.
i " ALL SORTS.
"Wo shonlil do many mora things if we
believed less in impossibilities.
Silver is horrid money when yon have
mere of it than you can handle.
In matters of the heart it is usually the
fear of insolvency that leads to bank
ruptcy. The fire-fljr only shines when on the
wing. So it ia with the mind; when once
we rest we darken.
You may shrink from the far-reaehinir
solitudes of your heart, but no other foot
than yours can tread them.
Conscience and self-love.' if we under
stand our true happiness, always lead us
the same way.
Youth will never live to ace unless
they keep themselves in breath with ex
ercise, and in heart with joyf ulness.
What's the difference between Bret
Harte's "Heathen Chinee" and Kobert
Ingersoll? One is AU-Sin; the other is a
Sinnah.
Let those who would affect singularity
with success, first determine to be very
virtuous, and they will be sure to be
very singular.
The disinterested party who is always
finding fault with everybody is bound to
do in the end what the man did when a
brick house fell on him cease his mad
vaporings.
Women is called man's better half, but
she is not half at all. When she holds a
domestic! convention she enforces the
two-thirds rule.
If you get into an argument with a
man and he gets the best of you, knock
him 'down. All men ought to think
alike, and your opinion is of course, the
correct one.
The grapes are ripening and the boy
that hasn't surveyed the situation and
picked out the nicest arbor about town
is behind the times.
The only real bull fight the Spanish
matadores indulged in, in New York was
a struggle with tough steak at the cheap
restaurant.
Capital punishment may not be a
E roper corrective for murder, but we
ave observed that it always cures its
subjects of chewing tobacco and drinking
whisky.
Watch the man who pretends to be loo
deeply interested in your welfare. He
has an axe to grind and unless you keep
your weather eye open he'll use you for
a grindstone.
A man who had been out with the
boys, reached home at a late hour in the
night and found on taking an inventory
of the contents of his pockets the next
morning, that his wealth consisted of
four coppers, a slice of lemon peel, a
chip of sassafras bark, a few bits of
crackesa, several cloves, a raw peanut,
and the stump of a cigar. He has since
concluded that soda water is a good
enough beverage wben not mixed too
frequently with wink Byrup.
The Umbrella.
The umbrella is one of the most curi
ous things in existence. It is happy only
when stolen, or when it can turn wrong
side out. This teemd to afford it the
greatest pleasure. It is the meanest
thing an umbrella can do, and it does it
in the meanest way. Some rainy, windy
Sunday you start "for church. On your
way you have enough trouble with your
rain screen to make you throw stones at
your grandmother but that's enough.
Yon reach the church and are about to
enter the vestibule, when suddenly, and
without warning, you find your um
brella inside out. It is somewhat annoy
ing just at this juncture; there are a num
ber of people passing on the opposite
side of the street and they laugh freely,
lov'y and heartily. What there is to
lauA about when an umbrdla acts
mean I never could understand. There
are people coming up behind you and
they can't get in, (an umbrella wrong
side out will cover the whole front of a
church.) i You proceed to turn it back,
by placing the head end of the umbrella
against the pit of your stomach, then
spreading your arms so th:it you can
reach the opposite sides of the um
brella, you clutch the twa extreme tips
of the opposite rids nervously
and begin to pull. The ribs begin to
bend back m the right direction. iw
erything is coming lovely, the change
back to its right position is about ac
complished when an obstacle seems to
appear, you try ana pun, ana 11 you are
not exceedingly pious you it; but it is
no go. j All this time the people are
cominp- and you are surrounded by a
crowd of church goers, who may be talk
ing sweetly about you; but it doesn't
sound that way. At last the sexton
comes out and pushes on the opposite
side, and by tniscombinedenorttne um
brella is turned. It is done so suddenly,
however, that you run the tip against
the region of the sexton's diaphragm.
He auicklv bends over, you do the same.
heads bnmp and both sit down on the
pavement The next rainy Sunday yon
stay at home. By the way, another pe
culiar property of the umbrelly is that
it is only borrowed ones that turn inside
out. and that too in places where you are
just suflloiently known to have the peo
ple Deiiove tue umurena is a sioieu oue.
The onlv way to humble an umbrella,
which is mean enough to act that way, is
to run the handle right through, take
hold of the tip and march off as though
there was nothing the matter.
R. G. SCROGGS, A, M.. M. D.
XliyIcian and Hurgeon.
Special attention paid to
Operative Surgery and Treatment of Chronlo
Diseases.
Office in 'rear of drug store nearly oppo-
I site the postoliice.
Office hour from I lo eb afternoon
J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
!
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER AND OPTICAN
Rosebtts-K, Orea-oa. (Opposite postofllee.)
' DEALER I.V ..
Watches, Clocks d Jewelry. Snectacjes
i AND EYEGLASSES.
Watclies. Clocks and Jewelry carefully
repaired. All work warranted. Genuine
Brazilian Pebble spectacles and eyeglasses
a specialty.
Oraaron ana California
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TELEGRAMS.
EASTERN.
Vletbrio Defeated and Slain. .
CnicAGO, Oct. 2S: A dispatch received
at military headquarters to-day gives
particulars of Col. Joaquin Terrassa's vic
tory over Vlctorio's baud of Indians.
The Mexican attacked Victorio iu the
Castillo mountains, surrounding bis for
tified position and by simultaneous attack
capturing it. Victorio, 60 warriors and 18
women and children were left dead on
the field. Sixty-eight women and chil
dren and two white captives were taken,
and ICS animals delivered with ell the
arm and plunder. Terrussa lost three
men kill and 12 wounded. Thirty Indians
escaped through being too' late on the
ground, but competnt force is pursuing.
Colonel Buel, through whose hands the
dispatch passed says, ''This is one of the
results of our movements into Mexico,
and virtually ends the war with Victorio
I think I shall be able to head the email
party that has escaped. I shall re-orgrn-ize
here, having columns for operation
both cast and west.
A Poor Man Now,
BosTotf, Oct. 26. John Duff, the builder
of the Hannibal & St. Joe and Union
Pacific Railroads, died this morning.
His property was valued at four millioup.
Kqueetrtansltlp.
Chicago, Oct. 26. In the twentv-mile
race between Misses Jewett, Pinneo and
Buckingham, the former won in half a
second less than one hour. Miss Buck
ingham dropped out after going five miles
ana miss rinneo ciaimeu n. ioui nnu
stopped on the 15th mile. The crowd
was large and wind very high.
A Year's Work.
Washington. Oct. 26. The bureau of
engraving and printing the last fiscal year
delivered 7.lo..i41 sheets, notes and se
curities, of the face value of $7S9,240,950;
lo,:xw,30b sheets of internal revenue and
customs stamps, containing 330,822,260
stamps; and 765,251 sheets of checks,
drafts, etc, for the treasurer of the United
States and disbursing officers of the sev
eral departments, besides a large amount
of miscellaneous work. The aggregate
expenditures for the year were, for salar
ies of officers, etc., on pay roll, $25,863;
ior labor ana other expenses, $SS3,1 i.
Toe Drouth,
New York, Oct. 27. The moderate
rains of the past day or two have brought
but partial relief to the industries depen
dent on water power; the drying up of
streams in the Atlantic States mav be
said to entend from Androskoggan down
to the James, and even some ot the local
rivers, like the Delaware, are fordable at
point where such a thing has not been
known lor many years, ine drought,
however, is felt more seriously at the
eastward, and its effects are beginning to
be felt iu commercial as well as manu
facturing circles. The Boston Journal of
yesterday, says the scarcity of water is
having a bad effect upon nearly all kinds
of merchandise, restricting the demand
especially for raw materials. Cotton,
woolen and paper nulls are ail running
on short time. In 1 enuevlvama, JNew
Jersey and Delaware not a few important
nou&trtes nave been brought to a deau
halt by stoppage of the mills. The Pas
saic and Karitan are unprecedently low.
The Brandywine is quite dry, and at
Wilmington and other places iu that part
of the country several establishments
have been compelled to shut down.
inmmlsg wp the Prospects.
Chicago, Oct. 27. The Times, Humming
us prospects of the campaign, gays it has
concentrated now in Tew York." Before
the October elections it concentrated
elsewhere. Republican tactics do not by
any means include abandonment of Con
necticut. JNew Jersey ana .Maine, iney
are conducting a fairly vigorous canvass
in thoBe states also, so necessary to their
success if they lose New York, but they
have evidently determined to right the
enemy on uis own grounds and make
their victory more crushing by carrying
his center at the tame moment they turn
bis wings. The republicans can spare
New York and the demodrats cannot.
But, notwithstanding this, the republi
cans are making ten times more vigorous
effects to carry that state' than are the
democrats.
A Flyer.
FnoviDEXCE, Oct. 27. At a private trial
at Narrag.msett Park, this afternoon, J.
B. Barnialy's trotter Billy D. with running
mate, made a mile m ziia,1.
Oreat Windstorms.
A terrible southwestern gale reported
from Plymouth, last night. Davbreak
showed gve vessels stranded but the
crews all saved.
At Plymouth the brig John May, from
Bull river, S. C, for Friedrichstadt. drove
alongside the Batten breakwater this
morning and remains there. Capt.
Mitchell was drowned while endeavoring
to go asnoreon me ureas water. At Brad
ford there was a heavy rain and bail
storm, and heavy traffic was impeded. At
Leicester the rain began to fall Tuesday
and has continued since, flooding the low
lying districts. WinlocK experienced 36
hours heavy rain and many houses were
Hooded. At u r. M. tue gas suddenly
went out, leaving the whole town in
darkness. At Oldham there was a heavy
storm. At South Shields there was heavy
rain.
Fishing boats were unable to go out and
ships put back to harbor. In wealds of
Sussex low-lving lands present the aspect
of lakes, while in Warwickshire the waters
ill some places extend as far as the eye
can reach. Hundreds of acres are sub
merged, roads under water and traffic
much intei rnpted. At Sirley last evening
the barometer fell to 28.60.
Acquitted.
Omaha. Oct, 30. The trial of C.K. Allen
formerly Union Pacific agent at Sidney,
on the charge of grand larceny, termina
ted at Sydney in his acquittal. It will
be remembered that some months ago
fi.'z.uw in gota uuiiion and a small
amount of currency received from the
Black hills en route east disappeared
from his office in mid-day while lie was
at dinner. It bad been taken through a
hole in the floor. After some consider
able search it was found hidden in a coal
pile under the office, except one gold
brick and currency amounting altogether
to about $12,000. The evidence against
Allen was very strong, but not strong
enopgh tosatisfy the jury, who were out
about 18 hours before comint to an agree-
ment of uol guilty. The parties who took
the bullion and hid it under the office,
intended no doubt to come and get it at
the first good opportunity.
Capture of Indiana.
Foh't Keogil. Oct. 30. Capt. Nigging
brought in Rain-m-the-Fat and 530 hos-
tiles. Kittjng UU sent wora 10 uen.
Miles to hold a twelve davs' tongue, as
ha was negotiating through Mij. Walsh
with the Canadians to be taken on exhi
bition through the states of Canada.
Lateat from te TJtee.
Chevesne, Wyoming. Oct 31 A special
to the Leader from the camp on N hite
river sovs Atrcnt Berrv and party includ
ins Meachem of the Ute commission and
four Utes, arrived here on the 28tii direct
from U i'lnoe agency, ihey rougned it
for several days as evidenced by their
bis own report is a much abused individ
ual. Colorow. the White river chief, is
at White river with his camp. Berry ar
rivtd at Rawlins this morning and will
go to Denver via Cheyenne.
" Thk cotton crop of the South will
not be so good as it was thought it
would be a month ago. In conse
quence of the moist weather the
yield has suffered eight per cont, but
tn any case the crop will be better
iban that of last rear. In the Atlan
tie States the yield will be far above
the average, wbilo in Mississippi
Tennessee and Arkansas the crop
wilt be from 10 to 20 per cent, below
that of last year,
(HAS
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KOSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1880.
PACIFIC COAST.
A Mother's Sacrifice.
San Jose, Oct. 26. Last night the
dwelling, bam and hay-stack belonging
io Daniel Nolan, on the old infirmary
groundswere destroyed by fire. Mr.
Nolan was absent at the time, and bis
wife and four children were asleep.
When the mother awoke the house was
filled with flames and smoke. She got
out her baby and two other children and
went back after the four-year-old child.
Sbehadsecured it and had reached within
eight-feet of the outer door when she
fell suffocated. Two men who were pass
ing beard her moans, and at some peril
succeeded in getting her and the little
one out. The mother was literally roasted
about the face and arms. The child was
also badly burned, but will recover, while
there is no hope for Mrs. Nolan.
A Rise in Sugar,
San Francisco, Oct 28. The Bulletin
says: San Francisco sugar refiners have
to-day put up prices jc all round. This
is the first change since September 29th,
and ia the tenth made .this year. The
Btock of raw sugar here has been scarce
for some time, and enforced delay in ar
rival of expected consignment from Hong
kong has made matters still worse, but
for weakness in the New York market
and the fear ot a renewal of imports from
that direction, prices here would have
been advanced earlier in the month.
Revised schedule of American Califor
nia refiners from this date is as follows:
Fancy extra powered ia bbls 13J; powder
ed 12j; cube crushed and fine crushed
124; dry granulated 121; moist granulated
extra golden c, 11; Eldorado c, lOf ; Marip
sao c, 10j; other yellow sugars, lOj.
FOREIGN.
jtteutrala In Pern.
Lima, Oct 28. The ministers of Eng
land, France and Italy have taken steps
to protect neutrals in the event of Chilean
occupation.
Canadian Cabinet Changes,
Ottawa, Oct. 30. Mr. Baley, minister
of eternal revenue, has resigned to take a
judgeship. Mr. Caron, of Quebec, suc
ceeds to the cabinet.
Great Storm in the Baltic.
Copenhagen, Oct. 30. One hundred
vessels, of different sizes, were destroyed
by the storm.
Monument to Freedom.
London, Oct. 26. The erection of the
monument memorial to perpetuate the
of Thomas Clarkson, as advocate of slave
emancipation, was begun Monday at
Wisbeuch, when the first stone was laid.
ARojalRollorK'.
Rely on yourself. i
Bender good for evil,
liesolve on doing your duty to all.
Bather suffer wrong than do wrong.
Rare gifts are seldom used with dis
cretion. Rude remarks manifest a lack of refine
ment. Rely not on the promises of untruthful
persons.
.Revenge is a mean pleasure, and it
dwells in lft tie minds.
Ruin usually follows swiftly on the
heels of extravagance.
Recede not from an honorable position
when once taken.
Regard the rights of others while seek
ing to secure your own.
liestraint is always necessary to those
who have unbalanced minds.
Resolve to be the first in every Rood
thing which you undertake.
Reason rs given to shed light upon the
pathway of human life.
liest and recreation ore essential to
man's welfare and happiness.
Kepel an evil thought and you will
therefore always have room for a good
one.
Rail not at him who disagrees with
you; for the wisest men socetimes
diner.
Remedies are sometimes worse than
the the diseases which they are intended
to cure.
Remember, if young, that soon you
will be old; if old, that once you were
young and sometimes foolish.
HOUSEHOLD RlClrlES.
Cream Pie. To be eaten warm or
cold; very nice. One pint of cream,
three eggs beaten separately, sugar
to taste, pinch of salt, flavor as you
like. Butter u deep pte-disb, or
mountain cake tin, sprinkle with
bread crumbs that have been sifted,
about as thick as pie paste, pour on
the custard and sprinklo over it some
bread crumbs and cocanut mixed.
Salad of Beets. This salad is par
ticularly good jast now, when both
beets and potatoes are new and ten
der. Boil in salted water equal
quantities of both, and set them on
ice to get cold. Just before Bcrving
cut them into thin but regular slices,
dress with pepper, salt oil and vine
gar and garnish with watercress,
Onion Sonp. For ton pints of
soup cut four large onions into little
pieces, brown them in two table
spoonfuls of beef drippings or mutton
gravy; add to this five spoonfuls of
hour; poor some warm water upon it
ana let it toil, in serving the soup
add some slices ot bread, according
to tho quantity of flour, making the
soup more or less thick.
TTIT A5D HUMOR.
ine JNew uneans itcauune says:
"Never marry a woman without sense.
unless you are a tool yourself."
London Truth ha heard that M. Ash
mead-BsirtleUe, M. P will introduce a
bill next session to enable a man to mar
ry his grandmother.
Under the direction of a competent
cnemist, tue tatty matters contained in
the soap suds from the , Paris laundries
are collected and employed in the manu
facture of fine toilet soaps.
Mistress (horrified) "Good gracious.
Bridget, have you been using one of my
stockings to strain the colfee through?'
Bridget (apologetically) "iis, mum;
but shure I didn't take a clane one."
Syracuse Herland.
A couple of lovers went together from
Ripon. Wis., to Fond du Lac, and tele
graphed back to the girl's parents; "May
we get marrieor r lease wire consent
immediately, as ceremony will be pef
formed this evening anyhow." F
A photograph of the express train
known popularly In England as "The Fly
ng Dutchman" has been taken as it
dassed through Twyford Station, on the
Great Western Railway, at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, bj a photographer
of Henley.
"One Touch of Nature," Etc. Street
preacher: "I now ask, brethern, .what
ean I do to move you what shall I do
to move you in this world of wicked
ness?" 'Airy: "Send round the at guv'-
nor that 11 move em. '
A droll fellow fished a rich old gentle
man out of a mill pond, and refused the
offer of twenty -five cents from the res
cued miser. "Oh, that's too much!" ex
claimed he; "taint worth it!" and he
handed dock: twenty-one cents, saying
calmly as he pocketed four cents, "That's
about right.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of
luck. Let not poverty stand as an
obstacle in your way. Poverty is m
comfortable; as I can testify, but nine
times out of ten, the best thing thai can
happen to a young is to be tossed over
board and be compelled to sink or swim
for himielf. In all my acquaintances,
I have juever known one to be drowned
" s worth saving.
wr. -la -'-afc
aSBBjaaaayiiigJ,
Independent in all Things Neutral
ROOM FOB YOU.
Who shall sweep a-vrar the errors
Crowding on us from the put ?
Who shall clear the mints and shadows
That the future overcast?
Soon we busy teeming millions
Will hsTe ended all this strife;
And the myriads crowding on ns
Must take up the task of life.
Ah ! the workers In the vineyard
Are too faint and all too few.
And the field of honest effort
Ever waits, young friends, for yon.
Boom for boyhood, strong snd sturdy
Boyhood manly, brave and true;
Boom for honest, lusty rigor
Kooio, my young friends room for you.
Boom for every sweet-voiced singer
That can thrill the heart with song:
Room for though snd words, snd actions
That will drive the world along.
Statesmen, warriors, men of science,
Once, niy friends, were boys like yon;
And the grsndeatjdeeds of hiiitory
Are the ones thkt yon may do.
A SOLDIER'S KASSOa.
"You're Bojcrdss, Jean!" pouted pretty
little Marie-Yerneau as she looked np into
her lover's face with a most bewitching
little mom.
"It is very easy to call it cross, Marie,"
was his rejoinder; "but you and I both
know that what you please to term my
crossness is a very different matter. It
isn't that I doubt your love, either, dear
est; but I could hardly get word or look
from you last night. It's the glitter of
the buttons, I think, that's blinded you."
In an instant the girl's coquetry had
vanished. He had spoken the last sen
tence with some strange, new bitterness,
and it brought both sadness and contri
tion to the lovely, laughing face.
"No, Jean," she answered. "It was
nothing but my silly, idle vanity. One
would suppose I was the only pretty
girl in Lorraine, to hear these idle fel
lows talk; and, in listening, I begin to
believe so myself. But it's not the but
tons they wear, Jean. Oh, do I not know
how cruelly it hurts you not to don them
in your country's defense, and the rea-
son which prevents you? I won't make '
you jealous again, dear. It's only that
I'm fool enough to like to hear the
foolish things they tell me."
Poor little Marie! She knew that she
should find it very hard work to keep
her promise; but'Bhe loved Jean bo
dearly that she would turn her back
henceforth on all these brave young
French soldiers, who found her presence
such charming relief to the tedium of
barrack life.
She felt quite rewarded, too, when
Jean stooped to kiss the red, upturned
lips.
"I don't mean to be a tyrant, Marie."
he said. "It's early to begin assuming
that role; but you know it's never been
an easy thing for me to stand by like a
coward when my country needs me, and
last night 1 felt that even you had gone
over to the enemy, sometimes 1 don t
know which way my honor lies whether
to go or stay. You may see me with
buttons yet, Marie," he added with a
sickly smile.
The girl s color fled.
"You wouldn't, Jean, do such a wicked
thing for it would be wicked! You
know what the doctor says tliat, though
you may live to ripe old age, your heart
so anected that tue excitement oi
action would produce instant death.
x our mother has given three sons. You,
the youngest' are left at home to be her
support. Your going would kill her as
well as yourself."
It is for her, rather than myself, that
I stay. Why Bhould not my life be of
fered up for .t rance as well as another.
though it may be in a different way ? I
wish the conflict might be ended for me.
I wish that I might be conscripted.
Three times mother has raised the money
by bond and mortgage, to buy me off.
There's nothing left now. She would
have to let me go.
And I do you not think of me,
Jean?" sobbed the girl.
"You'd only love me better, he an
swered. "I'd wear the buttons then, in
whose reflection you could catch sight of
your own pretty face."
"Hush, Jean nusni
And the man was fain to soothe and
promise what she would, ere the smiles
came back to uie dimpled moutn.
Marie had spoken truly when she had
said that she had not meant to wound
her lover. She had loved him long and
truly all these years. She could hardly re
memberthat time when she had not loved
him certainly not when she had not
tormented him with jealous doubts. But
she would do so no longer, not even
when handsome Ricard, the sergeant of
the guard, who danced so divinely,
should come pleading for one waltz.
This was the early davs of the war. and
Lorraine could not look already to the
fate m store for her. when she must
dance to German music, and correct her
musical patois into the difficult German
tongue. But day by day, France's need
was growing sorer, and the conscription
more pressing. No longer content with
her willing, she must have the unwilling
sons as well.
Marie's heart trembled every time she
heard of a fresh list. One evening, at a
little daneo, Pierre Ricard approacbed
her.
"I've not had a waltz for a full month.
he whispered. What is it, mademoiselle?
Aro vou angry with me?
What could sue say? uis nauasome
face was close to hers, his pleading eyes
more eloquent than his voice, the music
giving forth its most tempting strains.
Just one round," sue tnougnt to ner-
self. "Jean cannot be so foolish as to
object to that '
But once under the spell, it was not
o easy to break it off, and when the mu
sic died away her partner said in a low,
imploring tone:
Won t you come out witn me under
. .... .
the stars for a little while? I have some
thing to say to you.
She let him lead her where he would.
but she was still unprepared for the hot,
passionate words, which rang out on the
night air, and siiranK away as sne lis
tened. "I am betrothed," she said. "Surely
you know to jean. i
"Ao, 1 did not know," lie muttered.
between his set teeth. You have played
with me, mademoiselle you shall re
gret it!"
With these words he took -her back
into the ball-room, bowed and left her,
Uue week later Jean Jtoyers name
headed the eonscription list Marie's
heart swelled with pain as she saw the
announcement of the news.
It was more welcome then, when, in
the evening s dusk rierre Ricard ap
proached her, with outstretched hand.
"I was ungenerous a week ago,' he said
"I want to ask your forgiveness and to
express the hope that you will still let
me be your friend."-
Frankly she accepted the proffered
truce.
The man's eyes were veiled by the
down-oast lashes, and she could not guess
the wave of triumph rising in his heart.
"You are looking sad, mademoiselle,
he continued. "I have no right to ask
yoa why, and yet if you would give
me this little proof of your confi
deuce "
"I think, she answered, "that yon
nave won it. ' Look ! yoa may so it
here."
She held up before htm the paper
on which, that day's conscription list was
printed. . '
Again his eyes glittered, "but his Vrice
was very low land careruiiy moauiatea.
"1 see.-h
said, oureiy, maaemoi-
selle, you dff
would notb !
"It is not
pasaic-
not . Sujely you
t,with
er tone,
NDEPENDEN
in Nothing."
10U do not undernt.fl.nii. Tfa yrnnlA
have gone long ago, but that it dooms
mm to certain death; and he is the last
of four sons whom his mother has given
to France. His heart is affected. Three
times that suffering mother has bought
ma laiKaae. one can no longer do so;
her little all has gone. Ah, this will
cost two lives hers and his! I I am
young; I must live and suffer 1"
She stopped, choked by tears. Ricard's
nana cioseu over hers.
1 will save your lover, Marie " he
whispered. "Will you trust it to me ?
Say nothing he would not accept it, if
ii ajiew ; um meet me to-morrow, at this
hour, on the outskirts of the wood, and
it will bring you the amount of his re
lease. I will tell you then how you may
pay the debt, so that it.need not trouble
you."
Then, ere she could raise objections,
she felt her hand carried to his lips, and
he was gone.
How she had misjudged him! How
good, and noble, and true he was!
She coultl hardly refrain, the next day,
wheu Jean came, from sounding his
praises in his ears, but that Jean himself
was so strange in manner and watched
her so furtively.
It was because he thought that he was
so soon to leave her, she reasoned ; yet
of that he might have spoken. Now his
lips were compressed, and an unwonted
pallor was on his cheek.
She grew nervous, too, as the hour ap
proached for her appointment with
Ricard. What should she do if Jean
did not leave her? If the money were not
paid by early morning of the next day,
it would be too late! The thought gave
her courage.
"Good-by, Jean!" sho called, gaily.
stooping over to kiss him. "I have an
engagement for a little while. Wait my
return here."
He sprang to his feet, and seized her
hands ia a grip of iron.
Where are you going. Mane?' he
said, in harsh, guttural tones. Tell me
as yon value your future peace!"
I ve not yet promised to obey." she
answered, in forced lightness, striving to
hide her fear at his manner.
Then he dropped her hands, and she
hurried out. Already she found Ricard
awaiting her, pacing impatiently to and
iro.
"I thought you would never come."
he said. "Here, Marie, is what I promised
you!" and he held out a little bag filled
with gold.
A sob of gratitude rose in the girl s
throat.
But the payment of my debt?" she
Baid.
"I have loved you, Marie," he replied.
tenderly. "I ask but one payment, and
that, that once you will let me kiss yonr
lips. My darling, I live a soldier's life.
I may die a soldier's death! You will not
then begrude the one little boon I crave,
as a token that yon have' forgiven the
harshness I once showed, and accept my
peace-offerings."
An instant Aiane hesitated an instant
only. Such a kiss could do Jean no
wrong some day sho would tell him
and with tkis she upraised to the man
bending above her the young red lips.
His kiss just brushed them, when a
shadow fell across their path, and
Jean - sprang from the wood between
them.
Something glittered in his hand, but
Ricard caught and held his arm.
"It is well! said Jean, slowly and in
gasps. "Neither of you are worthy the
stain of murder on my son!"
"Jean," pleaded Marie, "I will tell you
all! Listen!"
But, shaking off her hold like a viper's
he strode off into the blackness.
The next morning, at daybreak, he was
marching to the front
Poor Marie: They were sad days to
her that followed. Ricard pressed his
Buit in vain. His presence was hateful '
to her. He it was who had driven Jean
from her side.
Then Ricard, too was ordered to the
front. A few hours before he marched
he came again to plead with her.
"lour lover never will come lck
alive," he said. "Besides, he would no
longer be your lover. Why, then, will
you not consent to become my wife?"
His persistency stung ber.
"Because," she said, "I would rather
have Jean's frowu than your smile, his
scorn than your love. I cannot help it.
I love him. I can never love you!"
"So be it," he answered, growing very
pale. "You have lost me, but you will
never win him. Ah, my lady, 1 have
not forgotten. He will never come
home. He will die on the field, believ
ing you false. You never accepted the
debt, but I had my payment. Ha! ha! it
was planned well!"
A gleam of the truth broke m upon
Marie's mind.
"You planned it then that Jean should
see!" she said. "You broughthim there.
Yon made him think me false. Oh, cow
ard! 'It was worthy of you 1"
The next month the war was ended;
but, spite of the doctor's prophesy, Jean
ittiyer nad come bravely through the test
of battle, with a record for which he had
no reason to feel shame.
His heart had given him no trouble.
It had been turned into stone, he said to
himself. Life was no longer sweet to
him, therefore it was spared. He wished
almost that he might have changed
places with one poor fellow over whom
he Btooped, whose moment's were grow
ing very short; but he started back
in the pallid, blood-stained face, he
recognized Pierre Ricard.
Just then the dying man opened his
eyes.
Mt is fate!' he whispered. "The note
you got I wrote it. ' She was true. It
was a debt she paid. Tell her I sent
you, and gave it back from your
upsr;
blowly he articulated each word; but.
though Jean only half grasped their
meaning, it was all made clear, a few
days later, when Marie with her little
hand tight clasped in his, told him the
story of his would-be ransom.
But when be drew her to him, at its
close "doubt, shame faced, had forever
fled, and in its stead was purest rever
ence for the noble woman who was so
soon to merge the claim of "sweetheart
into the holier claim of "wile."
"Banged" Heads and the Hereafter.
I read a few days- ago that the Bishop
of Cincinnati had forbidden," banged" or
"frizzled" hair to be worn in his diocese.
A large confirmation was held lately in
St. John's church (Romish) in this city.
The young girls were told beforehand by
their minister mat ine ruBoop wouiu not
lay hand on aay "frizzled" or "banged"
heads. I am afraid iu many instances
the "banged" and "frizzled" heads dis
appeared only for the time of confirms
firm. T jir.pl v. too. the ecclesiastical po
tentate of Montreal issued an edict
against the female members of his
congregations appearing m tue cnurcn
with a shawl or some kind of flow
ing drapery to screen their forms from
publio gaze. When we were in Rome in
1841 no lady was allowed to go without a
veil over her face into any church where
the Pope was to officiate. I remember
one day in driving out we suddenly met
the carriage of the "Holy Father," Greg
ory XVI. and found that he was to holy
some sort of a service in a neighboring
church. We gave orders at once for our
carriage to follow, but were respectfully
told "Signora" myself) could sot go In
without a veil, which appendage I did
not have at that moment. To rush to a
shop and buy a strip of black lace and tie
it on over my bonnet: took only a few
minutes, so that I ws soon "armed and
equipped according to law." Provi
dence J oum&L v
My Little TTIfe.
Mattie had a fiery temper, but that was
her worst fault When she married
Marsh Hunter people said
"She'll make his life a warm business
for him."
But Mattie thought differently.
"I will show them what a triumph of
love I will work. Til teach them I'm
not the vixen I seem."
And so she married him. The wedding
was a very pleasant affair something to
look back to ae long as they lived. Mat
tie looked very sweet in her new white
Swiss. Her long, jetty curls trembled
and shone in the brilliant light, her eyes
sparkled like twin stars, and her soft
cheeks were mantled in softer blushes as
she leaned trustingly on the strong arm
of the stalwart man who was to be her
gnide and guard through life.
The honeymoon was rich with the
Eleasures of new married life to the
umble pair; but the time soon came
when the bride must leave the old roof
tree for the untried realities of a home
of her own. This was the first sorrow
the trial of leaving home and mother
but it was fleeting, for, in the excite
ment of the "setting up" housekeeping
in the white cottage on 'Squire Black
burn's farm, the little sorrow was
drowned.
It was very funny, and Marsh laughed
and Mattie laughed, when just they two
Bat down to the little new table and ate
the viands prepared by Mattie's own
hands.
Everything was new and strangely
sweet. Everything went on nicely.
and Mattie was triumphant. But all
things earthly mustchange. The weather
grew warm and the kitchen hot, and one
of the hottest days of the season Mattie
had the headache, and the supper must
be ready at 5 o'clock. Mattie tried hard
to get it ready, but burned her wrist;
then she burned the bread. Then she
looked at the clock, and saw that it had
stopped, and looked out at the door she
saw Marsh
Is supper ready!" he asked, and she
blurtered out something and they had
their first quarrel.
Oh, dear me, the first quarrel. How
sorry it made the poor little woman.
But Marsh looked sullen, and went ou
without kissing her. They never talked
that quarrel over, simply because they
were both too proud to broach the sub
ject After 'that qurrels came oftener
and easier. They did not mean to quar
rel, but somehow angry words would
come up.
Alter awhile a littie boy came to their
household, and it seemed for a month or
two a good deal like the well-remembered
honeymoon, but Mattie's wretched tem
per would fly to pieces, again, and the
happiness was spoiled.
'it s curious we can t get along with
out so much quarreling," said Marsh one
winter day.
Mattie felt the tears in her eyes in a
moment, and her heart softened towards
Marsh, and she was about to confess her
failings and ask forgiveness, when he
continued:
"It's all your hateful temper, Mattie
you know it is."
That was enough, and what was meant
to be a reconciliation was simply another
quarrel.
"Oh, dear me; it's my wretched tem
per I know it is," sobbed Mattie; after
Marsh went out, "but he needn't have
said so."
"H 1 only wasn't so blunt," said Marsh
to himself, with a sigh.
So things went from bad to worse.
Little mistakes were imagined into terri
ble wrongs.
The neighbors had their fill of gossip
about the matter, and finally one day
when Marsh was away Mattie thought
the thing over.
I am a wretched little nuisance.
she said mentally; "I don't know why I
am so, either, but I cannot help it," she
said, despairingly, her eyes filling with
tears. "I've a great mind to take Neddie
and go home, and stay there. My shame
couldn't be any greater than it is."
bhe clasped the baby cloee m ber arms.
and the tears fell fast on his curly head.
Her heart seemed bursting within her.
but she wrapped the child in her shawl,
and with a quickening pace she fled the
place and hurried across the snow-
covered fields to her mother s.
"What's the matter, child ?" asked her
mother, as Mattie, pale and shivering.
ppeared at the door.
"Don't ask me, mother." sobbed the
wretched little woman.
"You ain't left home ?"
"Yes, mother, forever."
"Don't say that to me. You shall go
back this instant," said her mother,
thinking of the scandal that was sure to
follow such a proceeding by her misera
ble daughter.
"Ob. don t mother! and Mattie
looked the picture of despair.
Tell me about it, my child, said the
mother, melted into tenderness by the
look.
Then Mattie. through her tears, told
her mother all, and ended with these
pitiful words:
"But. oh. mother. I do love him, the
father of my child I love him, but he
doesn't understand me. If he could but
understand me!" and she fell sobbing be
side her mother s knee.
"Let me advise you. my child," said
the mother, softly stroking her daugh
ter's glossy hair. "I've passed through
it all, and' I'll tell you a seeret There is
almost certain to be mistakes come up
between husband and wife, and often
words are spoken that are regretted a
moment afterward. But. my child, such
a word can do no harm if repented of
and a confession made. If you nave said
anything to wound your husband's feel
ings, no matter what he may have said to
you, go and tell him you are sorry, and
I know that he will not only forgive you,
but will beg you to forgive him. The
hour that follows will be more delightful
than the hour ef your wedding. Le me
tell you a little instance in my own life,
And her mother told of one of those
little family differences that come up be
tween so many worthy oouples. The
story ended so pleasantly that it soothed
the tempest in the breast of the heartsick
daughter.
After the story was done Mattie still
kneeled, resting her tired head on her
mother a knee. Her mother stroked
her glossy hair in silence for a quarter
of an hour, but Mattie s thoughts were
busy. Suddenly : she arose, took her
child into her arms and wrapped it close
in ber shawl, she prepared to go.
" Where are yoa going, my ohild?
asked her mother.
To make my confession, answered
Mattie through her tears.
"Heaven bless you said her mother,
When Marsh Hunt came home that
night a pretty sight met his view. The
fire was burning brightly en the hearth
and before it stood Mattie. dressed in a
neat calico wrapper, with snowy collar
and cuas, ana a scarlet bow of ribbon
at her throat - Baby sat on his pallet
before the fire, crowing lustily, and beat
ing the floor with a tin rattle.
Supper was on the table, and the tea
was steaming on the hearth. Marsh was
cold, but such a scene warmed him. He
went straight to the pallet and com
menced a romp with the baby, Mattie
went and knelt there too, determined to
make a confession, bat she did not know
how to commence. It was easy to think
of beforehand, but when the time came
she was lost. There was an awkward
pause, then both spoke at once:
"Mattie, I've been"
"Marsh. I'm sorry'
Their eves met. and each saw tLe ten
derness in those of t;' oter;
J
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NO. 30.
now told in an instant. Both made their
confession.
MarBh opened his arms and Mattie fell
sobbing on his breast, while baby looked
on in amazement From that hour they
were me nappiesi oi con pies,
, Dr. Paley's Fanoos Illustration.
The following is a condensed statement
of the famous watch illustration of Dr,
Paley: If, he says, in crossing a heath,
I pitched my foot against a stone, and
were asked how it came there, I might
reply, without necessary absurdity, that
ior aught 1 know it nad jam there for
ever. But if, instead of a stone, it were
a watch, the unmistakle evidence of de
sign in its mechanism would compel the
inference that somewhere, and at somo
time or other, it had a maker, who com
prehended its construction and designed
its use. And the inference would still
be the same, although, the finder bad
never seen a watch made, nor was him
self capable of constructing one. Neither
would it invalidate this conclusion, that it
sometimes went wrong, since a machine
need not be perfectly in order to show
evidence of design in its construction, or
that it had a few parts whose relation to
the general effect was not apparent. Nor
would any man in his senses think the
existence of the watch accounted for by
being told that it was one out of possible
combinations of material forms, and hap
pened to assume that particular form; or
that its form could be attributed to a
principle of order; or that its mechanism
was no proof of contrivance, but a mere
motive to induce the mind to think so;
or that it was the result of the laws of
metallic nature, since law presupposes
an agent, being itself only the mode ac
cording to which the agent proceeds.
Nor, again, would the discovery that
this watch could re-produce itself lessen
the force of the inference, since,
however far back the series may be
traced, the evidence of design re
mains, implying the existence of a de
signer; and this implication cannot be
avoided by supposing the series of
watches to nave been infinite, and con
sequently to have had no first, for which j
it is necessary to provide a cause. Here
would be contrivance, but no contriver;
proofs of design, but no designer. But
in reality, the maker of the first watch is
the maker of every watch produced from
it; the only difference being that the re
productive power imparted manifests a
more exquisite skill in the artificer than
the making of a single watch. Now, as
every indication of contrivance, every
manifestation of design, which existed ia
the watch, exists also in nature, only in
vastly greater perfection and variety, the
conclusion is irresistible. Design must
have had a designer; the designer must
have been a person, and that person is
God. "
One From Whose Lips Jewels FefL
Of all the fairy tales dear to as in
childhood, we gave the preference,
after due consideration of the charm
of "Cinderella" and the "Sleeping
Beauty," to that of the two sisters
who were rewarded by the fairy that
interviewed them at the fountain, and
besought each in turn to relieve her
thirst, the one receiving a good and
the other an evil gift. Everybody
knows it, how the obliging maiden
gave water to a lovely lady at the
pring, and upon opening her lips to
elate her adventure at home pes.T)st
and diamonds tell, .lrom them in
profusion- which sent her ill-natured
sister in turn to seek so good fortune,
and how the latter, unable to pene
trate the disguise of the fairy, crossly
repulsed the wrinkled old woman
whom she found there, and in conse
quence conversed in toads and Tipers
instead of jewels. It now appears
that this tale was prophetic as well
as symbolical, or possibly it was his
torical. At auy rate there are. if we
may believe a correspondent of the
Banner of JJght, persons who would
be living mines or wealth u their
speech could be stored up. At the
funeral of an excellent woman in
Peabody, Mass., the other day, her
friends were addressed by Miss
Lizzie Doten. "A gentleman saw
the words as they as they fell from
Miss Doten s lips form into beautifully
colored jewels, each facet a difference
hue, and as they fell making a bril
liant shower of light and color." We
have all heard of honeyed words,and
oily speech, of weighty argnment,and
spicy discourse, and gems of thought,
ot "thougts that breathe and words,
that burn.", but we have always
believed these , expressions to be
figures of speech. A continuous
shower of words made visible strikes
us as wonderful in latter daysto say
the least. It is probable that lady
of the jeweled speech is a lineal des.
cendant of the good sister who gave
drink to the fairy; or it may be that
the observer is an opium eater, and
the brilliant spectacle existed only
in his imagination.
The London correspondent -of the
Boston Advertiser says of several gen
tlemen who nave made experiments in
ballooning : Mr. Lefevre, the President
of the Balloon Society of Great Britain.
assisted by Col. Noble. Sir John Adge
and others, organized a series of sunul
taneous ascents, which, with two excep
tions, proved successful. Aerostatics
and aeronautics engage the attention of
many scientific men; but up to the pres
ent time the secret remains undiscovered
as to how a bird supports and directs it
self in its flight through the air. . This
secret is being dilligently sought after,
ana when found will form a guiding prin
ciple in aeronautics. Mr .Templar and Dr,
Lawrence Hamilton were at one time de
voting their united energies in trying to
solve the mystery, and it is to be re
gretted that Dr. Hamilton found that the
prosecution of his work engaged too
much of his valuable time.' A great deal
of money is required for carrying out ex
periments, and I am glad to learn that
tne government will give material aid
for the furtherance of this end in the ser
vices of efficient officers and men, as well
as by a grant of money. For meteoro
logical purposes, and. under certain eon
ditions, for military observations, bal
loons may be of great service. Let us
hope that before long aerial navigation
may prove a practical fact. .
Borrowing money is a bad habit;
and borrowing trouble w no better.
Some people aro always borrowing
trouble, and io the way making not
only themselves but every one
around them uncomfortable. They
have contracted the babit of taking
a discouraging look at everything,
What they do not spend lamenting
over toe unalterable pass they ua
vote to the prognostication of evils
to come. It is a most pernicious and
disagreeable babit. There is do sso
of regretting the past except so i&r
as to profit by . experience io the
future; while half the evils
gloomy.mindod person is always
predicting never happen. Cnitivate
a cheerful spirit, not only oa
own account
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The Three 1. ,
A peasant was teklr. j a
He was mounted on a d v.
goat, with a bell tit-1 ar.
was following him. Tl rr :
this little company go r.vi.
to enrich themselves.
Said the one, I .
fellow's goat in such aw-,
never be able to at,k it
And the other cried.
wit to rob him of the a&s oa t
mounted."
"Oh. truly, what an ey-
claimed the third. triL.t -say
if I meant so to cc I
clothes that he will aetu&L t i
to me?"
The first rascal followip - V
softly, by stealth took the L .
goatsneok, fastened it to x a
and made off with his booty.
The man. still riding fj ,
sonnd of tho bell constancy t
and never for one instant i.. .
the goat was bo longer ther-C
and-by he happened to turn at
ture to yourself his astern:
he could not see the r,c:
had been taking to market
A tout
seiir
everyone who passed be sV-cJ ne
ms goat. .Presently tue socond
met him, who answered, "At thr
of yonder lane I saw a man ran
dragging a goat along with bin
lhe countryman jumped iron
saying. "Please take eaarge of
ksy'-ondran after the thief in the u.
he supposed him to have fc-fceu."
When he had been running hi;1ier aud
thither for some time,he caias back to
end that neither ass nor keeper to ne
seen. Our two rascals had nl: "a.Iy get
faraway, both well content w.:a their
booty. The third now awaited tl.a
simple man, leaning against a well by
which the latter must pass. Then with
loud wails, he began to lament so bitterly
that the loser of the ass and goat was led
to accost a person who Sft-sed thus
afflicted. Approaching he said, "What '
are you grieving about? J ara sure yoa
cannot have had as much ill luck as I
have had.' I bave lost two animals, the
price of which would have roaie my
fortune."
Oh. but think what loss mine is!"
exclaimed the thief. "Have you, liks
me, ever let a easket full of diamonds fall
into a well when yon are toid to carry
them to the judge? I shall perhaps be
hanged for theft '
But why do yoa not go down into tue
well?" asked the countryman; "it is sot
very deep.
Alas! I am not clever enouea. sau
tho rogue. "I .would . rather rua the
risk of being hanged than drown myseif.
which I should certainly do: but if
there were anyone willing to do me thi
service, I would gladly give him tea
pieces of gold."
"Promise me those ten pieces of gold,".
cried the poor dupe, thinking the sum
would more than repay him for the loss
of his animals, "and I will get yoa your
casket back'"
No sooner said than -done. He threw
off his clotber with such rapidity, and
descended into the well so quickly, that
the robber saw at once that be would
scarcely have time to possess himself of
his spoil. The countrvmaa having
reached bottom of the well without find
ing any casket there, came up again, and
was speedily aware of his new misfor
tune. Thus clothes, ass, and goat had
sons; and theu
all hrs-tLcsli-
scarcely find people charitable enough
to be willing to clothe him.
The moral is, be earful of the company
yon choose. I Illustrated CariMun
Weekly.
Save by a Farret.
They sat together in her parlor.? Al
though the furniture looked to be solid
and substantial, it could not have been
so, for they both occupied one chair
away over in the eorner.
"Another year is almost past and
gone, said she, "and looking throrih
my diary I almost feel as if I hadn't im
proved one bit since it began," and sua
shuddered. . '
He thought that she might be cold acd
be put his arm around ber to find out
where it was. ;
'Do yoa ever feel that way?" she
asked with a winning smile. We say,
"with a winning smile," but as there was
no light in the room we only imagine it,
as there are always winning smiles float
ing around where there are two lover in
a room all alone. -
Yes." said he. "When the yea?
started off in its first lap I swore off, and
1 find that it's a bad precedent Yt hen
a man begins on the first day of the year
to swear off, he generally contracts a bad
habit and is compelled to keep it up for
the remaining three hundred and sixty
four days, twenty-four minutes and
twenty-four seconds." .
"I hope you haven t drank anything
this year," whispered she; "you know
that you ' promised me that you.
wouldnV - ;
The dastardly liar said that he hadn't,
but only twenty minutes before as he
passed by the corner drunk-store-ha had
taken a bath, and then rubbed his mas
teche full of cologne and chewed nearly
a bushel of coffee.
"That's right, dear," and she tried to
crawl into his vest pocket
"Who does oo love?" he asked.
"Oo, pet," came from the fair maiden
with large blue eyes and feet Not blue
feet -
"Oh, pet, do yon know what year this
is?" she asked, as she endeavored with
all her might and mala to get on the
other side of the chair without going
around him.
"Yes, darling," he answered, "this is
1880. 'Why?" and he put his right arm
around to see what his left arm was do
ing, and it took him nearly five minutes
to find it. - --s.
"How many times does four go until
1S80?" she asked, with another winning
smile. ' '-
He shadered, and his hair began to
crop out one by one. He saw the thrift
cf the catechism, and con Id have told ail
that was in it from "who made you?"
down to the little boy catching a snake
with "Finis" on its back.
: "Upon my word, I believe Tve for
gotten to register," he recporded, "and
as I will be away on the nest days of
ragistfation, I think I'd b -luc go now."
"Oh, dear, let it go! One vote won't
make any difference. wIo stay! We'll
have such a nice time,"
He settled down, determined to. brave
it out .--.-";-
: "Yes, said she, afUr awLre, "this i
loan year, and I had aliao-t f -.rt-r-1 tea it."
lllls UIB9 sue wits a -.r-i,r ..,-irjfir.
sie had ttarted out with t. c'-' rjn3
tion to pop tie on mi'.oyx cr s let pc p
him.'-"-
She talked bout 5xl. asjf e,--r ?s, er-v-nt
girls and groreru smI Lvi ti a I
g in to unfold from s: -: i I -r,
He finally saw t' t no y.?yo-.it cf
it, and deU r:T-iw- i t t j fcet fe L 5' .z
aid then use use c-'
He got d&wu ca i
jtst got bar "yi"
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