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VOL.5.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1880.
, O ; PHICE9,
NO. 37.
E. ff.MUULERt
VYatchmaVer and Jeweler,
OBECiOS
Office f Or. Page' Drog Store.
Canyonville Hotel,
D, A. UETIHIi '
PROPRIKTOtt
ATING RECENTLY TORCH ASED THE
-" CuTotmlle Hotel, 1 am now prepared to
wnita travelers with the beat of aooommodationa,
Teed and stabling lor atock. D.A.I0CV1K8.
JAS, THOllXTOU.
K. ATKIKSOM.
JACOB WAONXB.
X. X. AYBEBSOX
Ashland Woolen Manufacturing
Company,
Manufacturers and Deal in
VMS & Colored Blankets
Plata je Fuse? Cemtamercs, DoeekJiaB,
Flamauals, Kte. !, ..'..
OYER AND UNDERWEAR CtOTH
Made to .Order.
V7 IT. ATKINSON, Heoy
ASHLAND. Jatkaon County, Oregon.
Ha Pa OTANTON,
J - Dealer in
Staple Dry Goods I
Keeps amtUntly on' hand a general assort- !
roent of 1
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, j
TTOOD, TTILLOtf A3D GLAS8WAKF,
AX80 '
Crockery and Cordage
Arallaloekof
SCHOOL DOOKf
, Such a required by the Publie Count Schools
wAMkUatda of STATIONERY, TOYS and
' ' FAHCY ARTICLES
: T rait both Young and Old.
lTltTS AJTD BELLS LEGAL TENDERS
- furnishfe Checks on Portland, and procurer
urara on bad r rancisco.
ClAtlONEY'S SALOOH
JS eareet to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
7 an. Mahoneji Prop'r.
the finest of wines, liqoors and tijrara in Do
' : - laa county, and the beat ,
"v DZL.XjlJh.RD TAU LB
fAiis Stale kept in proper repeln
ferUsa traveling on the railroad win lad thia
pUovei7 handy to visit daring the stop
. ping of the train a the Oak- ;
land, Depot. Give me eoall.
j . l Jab. HASO-Nhil.
JOHN FRASER,
Hens Hade Purniture,
WltBVRi - - OREOOSr.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand. '
RirtTIOC I fcave the htmt stock of
tittil I UnC. tnrnllnre south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Price to Customers
Residents of Donglaseounty are requested to
give me a call before purcbaaiug elsewhere.
fCT ALL WORK WAEBANTED.
EPOT HOTEL
- OREUOS.
Stomas,
- BEEN ESTABLISHES
. and haa become very
A (food Place to Drink Whlaky.
In those days too had not far to seek
for game, and yon could scarcely go
wrong in any direction at any season of
the year. In winter and spring the park
still swarms with game; bat it is neces
sary in summer to know where to look
for it, to understand its mannsrs and
customs, to go further and to work
harder than formerly, for Estes Fork is
civilized. In summer time beautiful
but ' dangerous creatures roam the
park. The tracks of tiny little shoes
are more frequent than the less interest
ing but harmless foot-prints of moun
tain sheep. You are more likely to catch
a glimpse of the flicker of the hem of a
white petticoat in the distance than of
the glancing form of a deer The marks
of carriage wheels are more plentiful
than elk-signs, and you are not now so
likely to be scared by the human-like
track of a gigantic bear as by the ap
palling impress of - a number eleven
boot. Thia is as it should be. There is
plenty of room elsewhere for wild beasts,
and nature's beauties should be
enjoyed by man. I . well remember
the commencement of civilization.
I .was sitting on the Btoop of the log
shanty one fiWho summer's -evening
when to me appeared the strange appari
tion an aged gentleman on a diminutive
donkey. He was the first stranger I had
ever seen in the' park. : After surveying
me in silence for some moments, he" ob
served: '
"Say, is this a pretty good place to
drink whisky in ?"
I replied "yes," naturally, for I have
never heard of a spot that was not favor
able for the consumption of whisky, the
State of Maine not excepted.
"Well, have you any to sell ?" he con
tinued. "No," I answered, "got none."
After gazing at me in melancholy
silence for some moments, evidently
puzzled at the idea of a man and a house
but no whisky, he went slowly and sadly
on his way, and I saw him no more.
Nineteenth Century.
A Flea for Corsets.
Although some women are foolish
enough to dangerously compress their
vitals for the sake of unnatural slender
ness, a fashion writer in a Cincinnati
paper says that no suoh practice is re
quired by the prevailing fashion :
Corsets, as now generally worn, are
more of a comfort than otherwise. The
present evil practice in this direction is
that of forcible flattening the bosom.
About no other article of dress is a fash
ionable woman more finicky. But women
who can afford it have their corsets made
to order, often paying as high as $25 for
a carefully fitted one. , Those who de
mand of their dressmakers that their
bodies shall fit like a glove, without a
wrinkle or a strain, must consent to
wear corsets of the same size and shape.
Otherwise a perfect fit at one time
would not be so at another. Many women
are so soft and pliant that they can be
shaped by a corset to almost any desired
figure; but having chosen a model they
stick to it, or alter their dresses with
every change of stays. Formerly, when
skirts were voluminous, it did not mat
ter what the corset was like below the
waistline; but now, with the skirts ly
ing flat, all the outlines are of import
ance. This has led to the extension of
corsets downward,' until women who are
at all round are commonly encased from
shoulder to leg. The corsets displayed
in the stores, with their ribs of bone
and metal, look like rows of aneient ar
mor. The lenthening is a good thing,
because it equalizes the pressure and
prevents a girting of the waist alone.
The lines of our life stretch farther
than we think. We lay our plans for
the future, and they prove to be tracks
that never end. All our paths go out
into the unseen world. As you look
across the street, the line of your vision
is terminated by some building. You
can see nothing beyond. If that build
ing were away, you could see other
buildings and streets; and if these, too,
were gone, the line of your vision would
shoot off beyond the stars till it hod
reached the utmost verge of the great
universe. So the hopes of thia earthly
life its plans and schemes and busy
contriving? are all endless lines that
reach into an endless eternity. Within
the little circle of yourself, the plans you
make for to-morrow, the wishes and
hopes yon entertain for the coming
-"tbsand years.-you may not -see or
how far your favorite purposes
a off into the distance. Do you
;bink how they touch on the margin
endless future? Do you ever see
ill earthly things are embosomed in
! ways-present eternity? We walk
.day in the embrace of fraternity,
.ssue of every purpose is there; the
)f every plan is there; tho result of
; deed is there. No path will end
side. - - '. .
3alv68ton school teacher, who lost
patience with a very stupid boy,
ly told the boy's father, "Your son
tting worse and worse every day."
ont think he can be quite that bad,"
mstrated the partial parent. "Well,
, he Is at least getting worse and
se every other day, or say three times
eek.
ow look out for war. Planet-finder
srs refers to comet-finder Swift as
ing indicated the position of his last
et "in his nsnal bungling way.
Tacuse Herald.
ft. G.T SCROGGS. A. M., M. D.
Pliyeloian and Hnrgeon. ,
Special attention paid, to
erative Surgery and Treatment of Chronio
Diseases.
Bee in rear of drug store nearly oppo-
site the postomce.
Qe bonre Irani I to S eaws afieraooa.
J. JASKULEK,
" , PRACTICAL .
'ATCHMAKER, JEWELER AND OPTICAM.
Kaeefcwrc;, Oregon. (Opposite poatofflce.)
DBA LEE I.v .
atches, Clocks Sl Jewelry. Spectacles
AND EYEGLASSES. '
lx.fnhu flnV anrl Jnwelrv cnrefullv
epaired. All work warranted. Genuine
Irazilian Pebble spectacles and eyeglasses
i specialty.
Oacron nt Csturoral
STOUT DAYS.
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EASIEST EGC JX.
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LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
MX TCLEeUPH TO DATE.
Ex-Senator 3. F. Starbuck ofNew York
died on last Saturday.
Dash Co of New York coffee dealers
have failed with liabilities of $1,400,000.
Cant. Dacy, a noted Fenian leader, died
at Lawrence, Mass., on the 10th inst.
The street car companies of Cblcatro
have been taxed $50 on each car and the
courts say they shall pay it.
The county assessor and eiebt other of
ficials of Decauter county Indiana have
been indicted for taking illegal fees.
By a fire in Philadelphia on the night
of the 11th Ann Higsrinsa'eed 73 and John
Lyons aged 23 were burned to death.
The family of Harry Williams at firvan.
Texas, was poisoned a week ago by eat
ing canned beef, two ha ve died and four
others are sick. . ; S .
Ford (republican greenbacker) received
certificate of election to concrete from
Missouri. The final x-anvass cave Ford
two majority in over 43,000 votes.
Secretary Thompson of the navy will
soon, retire to accent the nreHiriencvnf !h
Panama Canal Co. It is rumored that
chief clerk Hogg will succeed him.
Charles Marshall, a desDerado.- was
haneed by a mob at Bellville Nevada on
last Friday. He had brutally murdered
an inoffensive old man a few days before.
Wade Hampton writes that he will not
be in Washington until after the holidays.
On account of the absence of IS nnnaired
democrats the party cannot elect their
house officers at present.
Delegate Cannon of Utah pronounces
the position tahen by the president in his
message on Utah affairs as false, and
maintains that the laws are enforced in
that territory as faithfully as in other
parts of the country.
There is an active movement to make
the coming Yorktown celebration a suc
cess, and commissioners have been ap
pointed in each state of the union, includ
ing Hon. Irvine W. Stanton of Colorado.
and Hon. Jag. W. Farley of California.
A letter dated at Bloomineton. Putnam
county .Tennessee, to the American, ssys:
in a ngm iz miles east ot urooicsviile, be
tween the Welsheg and Capt. James Davis,
U. 8. deputy marshal, and U. S. commis
sioner G. W. Campbell. Davis was killed
and Campbell beaten nearly to death.
A number of chancres will soon ccrur
in the supreme court of the United States.
Judge Woods of Alabama will succeed
Justice Strong. Justices Swayne and Clif-
lom win also retire soon, the former im
mediately afterthe holidays: Atty. Genl.
Devens will probably be his successor.
- Mrs. Pinkham, of Lawrence Mas.. was
shot and instantly killed on the llth by
her paramour, Mr. uardmaD, a married
man with a family and until recently
overseer of the Washington mills: Ward-
mau subsequently shot himself, and is
not likely tq recover. Jealousy was the
cause.
Members of the senate foreign affairs
committee say that there will be no
interference what ever on the part
of congress in the construction of
the Panama canal, in the manner
now proposed, j and that no inter
ference was ever contemplated except in
the event of a foreign power attempting
buildiug or to control tb canal.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has received advices from Ilnntsville.
Alabama, that illicit distillers who were
interfered with by a U. 8. deputy marshal,
snot anil instantly Killed deputy John 15.
iiaraic. u. n. marsnm ujs is organisms
good force to arrest the parties, of
whom there are four, named Cuibraith
(who fired the fatal shoti. Lemons
and two Corsico brothers. Commissioner
Kauni telegraphed instructions that the
most vigorous measures be taken to bring
to punishment these parties. Everv
distillery must be seized and illicit distil
lers arrested. The attorney general sent
similar instructions to the U. S. marshals.
The president had a lone talk with Gen.
Howard, in I he course of which he admit
ted that he had called him to Washington
to make him commander at West Point.
but had been dissuaded from doing it by
General bherman aud secretary Evans,
not on account of personal' opposition to
him, but because they held that the
change would be too violent in view of
Howard s well known varience, m what
he regards as the correct poticv. as con
trasted with SchofiolJ's admi-tiation. He
promised Howard, however, that he
should have some good place in the east
as soon as no could settle his anairs in
Oregon and take it. He told him, also,
it is 'understood, that lie should nmlto
General 'Jerry, commandant at West
Point.
In the National House of Representa
tives on the 10th Representative Shelley,
from the committee on poatofflce and post
roads, reported to the house to-day his
bill providing for the establishment of a
mail steamer between ports of the United
States and South America, Central Amer
ica, Mexican and transpacific ports, iiub
bell, from the appropriation committee,
reported a pension Din; printed ana re
committed. It appropriates $48,400,000
for the army $l,110,OW for the navy, $250.
000 for surgeons and $25,000 for salaries.
Herbert of Alabama, from tho judiciary
committee, reported back a bill allowing
marshalls and deputies to take bonclH in
certain cases. The' speaker laid before
the house a communication from Gam-
betta, president of the 1 rench chamber
of deputies, in regard to the exchange ot
documents between mat body aim the u.
8- bouse ofrepreeentativer-; A letter from
the Kecretary of state, transmitting two
additional v'olnmes of speeches of Thiers,
presented bv Madame Thiers; laid on the
table.
A circular has been issued by the sec
retary of the treasury, containing regula
tions governing the admission of candi
dates to the grade ot cadet in tne revenue
marine service. The . circular says: A
standard of proficiency wilP be fixed: if
candidates fall below such standard, they
will be rejected. They may, however, re
ceived a recond examination at the next
annual convening of the board of exami
ners. Failure on the second examination
will result in the final rejection of the
candidate. While applicants, as a rule,
will be accorded not more than two ex
aminations, exception may be made
(ranting a third examination in particu
larly mentioned cases where the candi
dates have pasted successfully two exam
inations. Cadets : will be appointed for
the probationary period of two years,
during which they will be required to
peruse a prescribed course of study and
perform such duties on board ship or else
where in the service savm y be demanded
of them. In two years they will, if their
nrobationary service be satisfactory, be
examined for promotion to the gnide of
third lieutenant in the revenue marine
service. ' . .
No local political event In the country
for reveral years has created so much ex
cittment as the deposition nf John Krily
from the comptrollership of New York
city. Republicans and Anti Tammany
democrats rejoice over it whit lammany
Is verv lndlznant. The latnmany com-j
mittee held a meet inst and enthusiast")
rally endorsed Kelly and denounced Til
den and bis party democratic traitors
who sold out Hancock. Kelly sp.keMiy-
ing tbat Tammany's record i.t the w-t
election was clear and bright, aud charged
Cooper aad Irving Hall wnn betraying
the democracy. ; i' Would to God." fee
said. "These well had been faithful to
Gttt. Hancock. Would to God they had
"buried animosities in oblivion, then there
wmilJ be a difl!renttorv to tell and uen.
Hancock would be president-elect of the
United KUtes." Theoihce was of no con
seoaence to bim 4 Kelly) not was he am
bitions to be looted upon as a leader, but
as they made bim so, and expressed con
fidence in him, they ceald cotniti.iiul .his
services ex n time and he wuuid not he
coerced by the press. He s:d that puH
Kc men i-n r.'.irir to the pres could re-
rvivo tL; it i. : rt, ba; he r.t vtr tsutkicu
tj the press l... -lit was r:ht.
Tolman Webster, a saloon keeper, killed
wr i'i . ... f rt.nr : T r
vv in. Btewari,a larnier, at uauiorai, xvo"
tacky, on the 10th inst.
On the lOthMayor Cooper of New York
sent to the Hoard or a mermen lor con
firmation the name of Allen Campbell as
city comptroller, to succeed John Kelly
the scanem or the xammany iiaa aemo
cracv. Camnbell's nomination was con
firmed by a rote of 13 to 9, amid much
excitement.
A large number of people from Kansas
have assembled on the borders of Indian
Territory and express adetermination to
push ahead Into the Indian Territory.
Many have already crossed the line. A
regiment of U. S. troops are near them to
prevent their going any further a.nd a col
lision seems imminent.
The quarantine convention in session
at New York last week unanimously re
solved that it is the duty of the general
sovernment to defray all Quarantine ad
ministration which extends beyond the
boundaries or a single state, and they ask
for an appropriation from congress. Ad
journed to meet at Savannah next Decem
ber. . ; . .. .
Congressional representatives of the
mining states and territories last session
being strongly opposed to numerous land
bills framed by the public land commis
sion agreed upon a short measure as a
substitute for them. The substitute will
not be pressed during this session except
as a means of killing off the land com
mission bills. As representatives of the
mining states are opposed to any legisla
tion at present and ss no bill can well be
passed without their cooperation it is
thought to be doubtful if any further ac
tion upon the subject is taken this ses
sion. - :"
The Evening Express (Tammany) thus
speaks of the Tammany aldermen who
voted with the republicans and anti-Tammany
aldermen and made sure a revolu
tion: To Bernard Goodwin, Robert Fos
ter, Frederick Helbig and Henry Hoffan,
Sirs: You were elected aldermen by the
votes of honest democrats who believed
your professions and trusted in your
honor. You were elected as members of
the Tammany democracy of this city in
the belief that you would carry out your
pledges before your nominations in good
faith. You have betrayed your trust,
repudiated your professions, turned trai
tor to the people who elected you and
branded yourselves as utterly without
private honor or manliness. You have
sold yourselves cheap, very cheap, for the
disgrace and infamy of your conduct will
stick to your names while you live, and
will attach to your children after the
grave is dug for you and you lay down in
it. There is no resurrection for men who
have damned themselves. The parties
wtiose sbject tools you willingly became
will not trust you and have no further
nso for you. Judas went out and hung
himselfafterhegothis thirty pieces of
silver. Yon need not hang yourself; you
are already worse than gibbeted. The
brand set on Cain is harder to carry thsn
death. Live and enjoy the price of your
treason if you can, but if you live to the
age of Methusaleh you will never outlive
the crime of which you yesterday con
victed yourself. Goi The Star, Keily's
organ says: "With the events of yester
day, the profound conviction must impress
itself on the minds of democrats every
where that New York is no longer a dem
ocratic cily. It has been traded off,
handed over to republicans body and soul.
It will no longer roll up those magnificent
majorities which redeemed the state and
placed it in the van of the democratic
phalanx." The Star brands the four
Tammany aldermen who voted for Camp
bell with Cain like ineffaceable marks as
"objects with downcast eyes and burning
cheeks, writhing under the contempt of
their Indignant associates whose recorded
action yeeterday will haunt them during
their lives as a hissing reproach."
A Charleston S. C.,dispatch of Dec. 12th
says: Joe. Barnes, Vance Brandt and
Julia Brandt, aged respectively 16, IS and
15 years, and all colored, entered into a
conspiiacy to rob the bouse of Mr. Ken
nedy in 'Salem, Clarendon county. In
the absence ot her husband, Mrs. Ken
nedy, a young white woman tried to
balk them, but finding her efforts una
vailing ran out of a back door and at
tempted to escape to a neighbor's, when
Vance overtook ber and with a stick of
wood kuocked her down, and although
she beetred for mercy and promised to
give him a:t the money in the house lie
dealt ber two more crushing blows, and
his sister coming op just' then, severed
the bead from the body with a hoe.
When Mr. Kennedy returned some three
hours afterwards he found his wife lying
outside the front gate, mutilated, cold
and stiff, her head almost severed in
twain. The entire cranium was cut off
from ear to-ear, reaving the brains scat
tered aroond on the ground. Several col
ored persons were arrested Monday, but
no clue to their guild beiiie obtained tney
were promptly released. On Tuesday a
colored boy named Joe Barnes was ar
rested. He showed so much confusion on
being questioned as to his whereabouts
Sunday that only a few questions served
to bring out bis iuli confession troin wmcn
the above account is taken. Vance and
Julia denied having anything to do with
it, but the cloths which tney wore Sunday
were bloody, with small particles of brain
noon them. The money and pistol oi
Kennedy lound in their possession were
bloody and on being questioned about the
blood upon their clothes the woman said
they had killed a chicken, and the man
said he bad killed some partridges. On
examination, bloody finger prints on the
hoe handle corresponded precisely with
those on a shawl worn by the woman on
the day of the murder, which circum
stance had as great weight to convict her
as the testimony of the boys. The hor
rible character of the murder awakened
intense Indignation in the neighborhood
and a crowd of 150 white men and 60 col
ored men assembled to punish the mur
derers. A further examination estab
lished the truth of the confession of
Barnes. Negroes begged the whites to
Permit them to take the prisoners and
burn them alive. This was refused, but
a vote was taken whether they should be
jailed and await the court or be lynched.
Only 24 voted to wait on tne law, ana u
was determined to hang ttiein to trees
nearest the scene of the crime. Halters
were obtained and fastened to a limb Of a
tree. A cart was placed nnder the limb
and the prisoners ordered to mount. Just
then, Joe liarnes begged to oe auowea to
pray, and commenced by saying that he
had never prayed letore and never ex
pected to again. -."Nothing was said by
either of the others except eroans and
"Lord have mercy," from Vance. Hand-
kerchiels being tied over their laces, tne
cart was pushed away and t he trio were
soon dangling in the-i-ir..
A gasslx and Home.
-' A good anecdote is told of the late
Prof. Agassiz and Home, the spiritual
ist. They happened to meet in a railway
earriaae. and, getting into , conversation,
Home complained, of the prejudices of
men of science, who refused to invesii-
eate the phenomena of spiritualism.
. "Mr. Home," replied the great geolo
gist "I never refuse to investigate any
thing which promises to advance science.
and nothing will give me greater delight
than to. investigate the marvels which
occur, as ihey say 6 your meetings.
"Well, then,1 said Home, "coma this
very nigb.t nd witness the appearance of
the spirit IaBd,T.:s5gH-s ?-'.,--.
?x ?'othiag will give me more pleasure.
answered Agassiz,1" "than to be one ef
the cuests around' the table when the
spirit hand ftppearftT My opinion is that
it is physical hand, with a little phos
phorus rubbed over it; but I am open td
conviction. - All I ask is that I shall have
the privilege of patting my stiletto
I.tlirons-h it. If the hand is a spirit hand.
no harm will oceu?; : if rt is a. nntaaa
hand, I feci '-confident ia'ttj power to
trauRUx it oa the UU, much to the das-
comfort of use row -.sc.
ll.)m decli1
t t:o t it. kn.su a wact
of taJh, ) s
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nly ire-
THE STAR.
',. !: .ixSM. ICSES. ' -
Come stand at my knee, little children;
I'll tell yoa a story to-night,
. While the stars in the heaveci above nt
Are shedding their silvery light.
I'll tell yoa of one, little children.
That shone to the long, long ago.
And when you have heard, yoa will call it
A beautiful atory, I know.
It was night, and the sky was illumined '
With many a bright shining aUr,
But one in the eastern honson
8hone clearer and brighter by far.
There were waituhers who gazed on its bright-
B8il, ' i - - ' - .
And followed it beautiful rays .
With hearts overflowing with gladness,
. With soDgs of thanksgiving and praise.
For it showed jhem the way listen, children,
It showed them the way to their king,
And they joyfully followed its guiding,
Their love-laden offerings to bring.
Tbey followed iaor thought to grow weary,
Their bosoms; with joy were aglow,
And they found Him draw nearer, dear
children, j
. For I would speak softly and low
They found Hint a babe in the manger;
. Thia story you've often been told,
And yet it is new, little children, '
'Twill oeverj no, never grow old.
They found Him a tabeia a manger,
Our Jesus, dur Saroar, our Kingl
The sadly sweet story forever
Though Heaven's nigh arches will ring.
Twas for you and for me, little children.
He laid all His glory aside,
And left His bright home to be homeleai,
And sorrowed, and suffered, and died.
Then, oh, let ui come with our offerings,
Our bearta and praises to-day;
Then strive to be stars, brightly shining,
Bo show unto others the way.
OUR LAST CHBISTXAS.
A OIBIj'S 8TOBY,
BYG.DB&
Last winter, when - money was so
'tight" and times so "hard" that it af
fected even "hearts' and "good cheer,"
we three girls, Lou, Nell and Susie
Waters, agreed among ourselves that we
would have no "tree" and make no holi
day -presents. We knew of several
families, a great deal better off than we
were, who had given out among their
friends that they would "neither give
nor receive,' this year," so we thought
we might as well follow their example.
It s nothing but an old heathenish
custom, anyway," said Lou, the eldest of
us three, and our walking encyclopedia.
The Romans, you know, gave presents
of gold and silver fruits and coins to one
another on the first day of the new year,
and the old Germans used to burn the
'yule log' about that time of year, and so,
when the early . Christians took the
twenty-fifth day of December on which
to celebrate the birth of our Saviour,
they adopted both customs, and in that
way we get our 'eifto and our Christmas
tree nothing 11 ut an old heathenish
custom." A I
We all tossed tar heads upon receiving
this information, and . congratulated
ourselves upon being sensible and civi
lized sufficiently to put away these' old
time Roman and Saxon observances.
We missed the pleasant little secret
preparations, however, which had always
given a certain air of excitement to the
tew weeks previous t our holidays; the
wnisiung in closets of some ball hnisbed
little gift whenever the reoipient-eleet
made her appearance, the little, bright
teg ends of ribbon and velvet, xephyr,
that nsed to make our dingy sitting
room carpet look almost like a Turkish
rug, with -its bright patches of color,
scattered here and there; indeed the
whole house had a vejry different sort of
flavor about it, and in our secret hearts I
believe we all felt a sad regret over
our decision not to make each other any
present. ;;,vl
"W hat shall we do to-morrow, girls?"
cried Nell, aa; we sat talking together
after onr return from the chnrch, where
we had been hehvinz festoon the holly
and evergreens , for the morrow's ser
vices. - - ;
'Dol ' Why do' as we always have
done, of course!" replied -Lou, a little
sharply. "Go to chnrch in the morning
come home to - turkey and cranberry
sauce, and then sit at the parlor window
the rest of the day i S i .
And see the children's brisrht. happy
faces as they troop by, going to 'grand
ma's;' little trirldwith new dollies, and
boys with drums and horns," and I
almost sighed as X "thought there would
oe real giving Ubristmases , in some
houses if there wasn't ia ours. '
'Bah I Those terrible horns!" said Lou
with a shudder. 1 don't see why they
are not prohibited! They no doubt are
re no ot barbarous ages also. Why
can't people be civilized and sensible in
their observances of the day?"
"But that is such a little thinsr. kou "
spoke up Nell; "and it seems to give the
rogues such exquisite pleasure to blow
them. ; For my part, I like to hear them;
they seem to tay over and over again,
'Merry .Christina is come; let all the
world rejoice? ".' '
'le8." said I tuunicar in with Nell:
"they're like the trumpet in the organ,
when our organist accompanies the choir
in the Christmas carol, 'Peace on earth
and good will toward men!' What does
'good will' mean; Lou?"
"What a question!" replied Lou, col
oring a little as she explained. "As if
you didn't know it meant the feeling of
kind-heartedness, charity, and gonorosity
toward one another!"
"Generosity. . Then it must mean
'giving,' Lou," said I with a curious
sort of smile.
And the old Romans were right after
all, then!" cried Nell, a little timidly.
however, as though she felt she was
uttenntt heresy.
. "Pshaw!" said Lou, in a cross sort of
voice; "I believe both f you girls are
Pagans at heart, you harp so continually
upon heathenish 'customs, l actually
think Gussie would like to have an idol.
I have seen her fairly bow down before
that statne in Mr. Harrison s gallery.
"Why: Lou Waters! How hateful you
talk. To be sure I -- do worship the
bcautif ul-v-bni an idol! Who ever heard
of such an accusation in the. nineteenth
centaryr and now l was cross
"See here, girls, where did the custom
of - decorating ' churches with . greens
originate? Da you know. Lou?" and
Nell, who waC always our peacemaker,
and usually tnrew oils upon our troubled
waters, aftked this question, knowing
Lou would prefer answering it to con
tinuing our little squabble.
"I don't recollect the first introduction
of decorating churches, but I dare say
it ia a continuation of the old custom ot
the Druids, who strewed their altars
with holly and miste-toe during the per
formance of relitnons rites. They re
garded the Wilet3e as an especial gift of
heaven, and vhonsht it contained some
divine virtue. Tho Romans and Greeks
also decked aud ernanienwxl their, tem
ples, you enienib,?, and "
."And so," intwTinted I. hotly, "it
was just a fx of fffroa old heathens who
have sft oi r pood old fa&Iiions for it w
a pood ens j, thai of givinjr presents;
:jind a beau.T' I ow," that of tho Christ
; bim trpa; aad a bni, , rightful one,, that
nf ad...- '?:'.' c. 'ireh in co-ameiuor-tioa
r.; , 1(i Li., o.ldayl"
ijoa tx e,!. u .r..l rwell ftnt nedita.
tt;j over fy L.J v-or-, '-:! it w&s still
aai'j.-icl ' Lcl car Luis s'tting-
room, that mother opened her bed-room
uoor at length and peeped in.
"What is the matter, girls ?" said she,
x naa tunuu tusi .ou were disputing a
while ago, and now this - strange silence
seems quite as alarming. Where are
your merry Christmas Eve voices? I
aon t bear the pleasant tongues and
cheery laughs as usual on such anight 1"
We all looked at one another. It was
true. We had Bpent the moBt unhappy,
disagreeable Christmas Eve together that
we have ever spent in all dur Uvea. Ah,
there was the lack of "peace and qood
wW toward one another; and, heathen
ish though it be, the merry Christmas
cheer is the little leaven that lightens the
whole world's heart onjonce a year !
We looked at one another, and then
smiled, and as the old deck struck
't.1i 1 l
laughs burst out en the air like glad
wens oi unristmas morning.
"Don't let's be sensible and civilized
any longer, girls," cried L "It's a great
deal nicer to be heathens once in a year,
and give gifts; and after this let's have a
tree, if it's only a pine branch, and hang
up onr Blockings if there're only holes!"
and then we all shook hands on my pro
position, and each stole mysteriously off
to her room to fashion some little pres
ent for mother on the morrow, for it was
too late now to make or bur each other
anything. '--.... V
JNext morning, when we all came rush
ing down to. breakfast, the room rang
with our merry, Christmas greetings, ana
each girl's face was radiant with love as
she handed to mother her little offering.
"They are out of our heart, not onr
pocket, mother," said Lou, as she gave
uer nor gut; n was ail sue had,, a little
boquet off her plants, some geranium
leaves and a rose-bud.
Nell then came forward with a plate
and a napkin, which contained her gift
a prettily iced cake, which she had set
up half the night to make.
And mine? Of course they all knew
what mine would be. I will copy it
here, saying first, by way of preface,
girls, if any of you, have made up your
minds, on account of the "hard times."
to be "sensible" this year, don't! not in
the way we were, I mean give some
Ihing.to each one of yonr beloveds who
have been aceustomed to receive, let it
be ever so trifling; but let it be a gift
prompted by true feeling, for After all, it
is the sentiment which makes the gift
rare and prized!
Some Astonishing Memories.
Of Fuller we are told "that'he could
write verbatim another man's sermon af
ter hearing it once, and that he could do
the same with as many as 500 words in
an unknown language after hearing them
twice. One day he undertook to walk
from Temple Bar to the . furthest end of
Cheapside and to repeat on his return
every sign on either side of the way in
the order of their occurrence, a feat
which he easily accomplished." And
what has lately been reported of the Rev.
Orlando Hyham, as an example of his
most distictive faculty, "that his n-emory
was such that as he read Caddr'l and
Scott's Greek Dictionary he destroyed
the successive pages, content with hav
ing mastered their contents," is told of
Biship Bull, at the end of a masterly ar
ray of intellectual powers:
"And as his reading was great, soj his
memory was equallv retentive. He never
kept any book of references of common
places, neither did he ever need any;"
the writer adding that, "together with
this happy faculty he was blessed' with
another that seldom accompanied it in
the same person, and that was an accur
ate and sound judgment." Memory was
in a past day more systematically culti
vated than with us. People set them
selves tasks. Thus Thomas Cromwell,
of the Reformation period, as a traveling
task, committed to memory the whole of
Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testament-.
Bishop Sanderson oould repeat
all the Odes of Horace, Tully's Offices,
and much of Juvenal and Persius with
out book. Bacon alludes to receipts for
its improvemont, as well as what herbs,
in the popnlar niind, tend to
strengthen imperfect memory, such
as onions, or beans, or other
snch vaporous food. Again, he writes,
we hnd - in the art of memory that
images visible work better than con
ceits" in impressing things on the mind.
A fact which finds modern illustration
in the case of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
waiter who daily receives some 500 hats
from chance persons dining together in
one room, and without any system of ar
rangement promptly returns each hat to
its owner, explaining that he forms a
mental picture of the wearer's face in
side his hat, and that on looking into the
hat its owner is instantly brought before
him. Again, to recur to Bacon's specu
lations, he finds that "hasty speech con
founds memory. . Again as writing
makes an exact man, so "if a man
Writes little he had need of a great mem
ory." And he criticises the exercises
used in the universities as making too
great a divorce between invention and
memory in the cultivation of both
faculties. Blackwood's Magazine.
Bee Hyoterles.
Probably bee culture has .made as
rapid march of improvement during the
past five years as any branch of agricul
tural pursuits. During the present sea
son the same care and expense has been
employed in selecting and importing bees
from Italy, the island of Cyprus, and
the Holy Land, as has been employed in
the perfection of onr various breeds of
horses and cattle. Although we do not
have the best pastnrage in New England
n . . ir . , . - . . i . .
ibh is louna in tne Dasswooa ana wuu
flowers of the West, still many bees are
kept here with profit, even in the old box
hive. How much more, then, might be
expected with the new appliances of
frame hives, comb foundation, the prize
section box, the extractor and smoker.
With the aid of a little smoke an expert
will open his hives and remove the
brood, bees or honey, show you his choice
queens, and discourse on their fine points
with as much accuracy as the best horse
trainers or herdsmen. ; On holding up a
frame of brood he may aay : "You see
this queen is laying, for here are eggs
t less than twenty-four hours old. See
what a prolifio queen she is; does not
miss a cell," or "I do net like this queen;
she lays too many drone eggs; I will kill
her and put in another. You ask, "How
can you prove that workers only live thir
ty or forty days of labor, b ut live all winter
without labor?' Jte will aay, "If I re
move the queen from the black colony
and replace her with an Italian queen,
who begins to lay : immediately, ia
twenty-one day her eggs will hatch, the
black bees will continue to die till they
are all replaced with Italians, and we
note the day when the last fly dies.
"Do all bees ating?" "No, the. drones
are as harmless-as flies. Queens will not
sting yoa, though they mil biteVwd will
fftihga rival to death in five minutes
after being hatched, - The werkers.
which are the only ones to be feared at
all, can usually be subdued by blowing
smoke made from punk among them.""-'
j v orcestcr opy, 4 . ...
. A young lady artist, who receives
pnpilfs was called upon the other day by
a i-s of. 13 who announced her inten
tion tii taking lessons. "Do -von take
I lessons H water colora or in oil?" asked
h artistivOh, as to that. returned
iho viBit jiippantly, "mother says I
shall take thi-th;a kind, but I'm bound
1 11 take tha Uick US 1 or I won't take
any.".
A cetv. j ,ul critic is so fa'l of
melody f nt u euls his soup w..a
tuning fo:.
HOW I GOT PROMOTED.
A dxtecttvx'b story.
"Tom," said the chief, "there has
been a rather mysterious robbery at Bar-
rowtown, and it's likely to give the 'lo
cals' some trouble. I wish you to go
down as soon as possible."
; This order I received one hot day is
August, on the day after the robberr
had taken place. Of course I did not
let much time pass before I was at the
Btation and fairly started. Once there.
Barrowtown is a quaint, picturesque
nttie town use many others in goodly
England. It seemed almost too dull to
be able to boast the doubtful honor of
having had a full grown robbery. Still
I like the qniet little town, for it was
there that I had gained my first promo
tion..: -.
I was met at the station by the local
inspector, a stout, pompous excitable
little man, who looked doubtless as to
the prudence of the Scotland Yard au
thorities in sending down such an ordi
nary looking mortal as myself.
un, he remarked at last; "so it s you.
young man, is it? I don't think we are
likely to trouble you much this time.
The fast is, ahem! we have caught the
culprit ourselves." , .
I merely bowed and expressed a wish
to see the prisoner; and we both set off
for the county jail, perhaps a mile or so
away. .- , -
Well, it certainly seemed as plain as
day to me that the unhappy wretch on
whom Inspector Muggridge had laid his
fell grasp oould easily have proved an
alibi, had not that worthy officer contin
ually interrupted him with:
"Better keep all that for your exami
nation, my good fellow, or it'll all be
brought up against you, you know."
x toia mm seriously, as soon asx could,
in private, that the man he had arrested
was no more guilty than I was; but he
simply smiled incredulously, and asked
who else could be the culprit, as this was
the only really abandoned character of
the town, and it was plainly the work of
some one who knew the place, "iieside,
he added, "it isn't very likely that any
one could beat me on my own ground
where I know everybody, you know; and
if he didn't do it, who did?" With
which really unanswerable argument he
accompanied me to the scene of the rob
bery, where we were shown over the
premises by the mistress of the house.
When I saw the ground floor window
by which access had been gained to the
house, I quite agreed with the worthy
"local" that it was not the work of a new
hand, and that from the fact that his
footprints, whenever we could trace
them, showed no hesitation, but rather a
thorough acquaintance with the grounds,
the culprit, whoever he was, must have
had some opportunity of visiting the
scene of operations, and probably lived
somewhere in the neighborhood.
It seemed that the thief had entered
the house by a window in the rear, and
carried off a small box of valuables from
the room of the master of the house, who
had been staying at a friend s on that
night. Both these facts showed an inti
mate knowledge of the premises on the
part of the culprit, and strengthened our
former belief. We were informed that
the lost casket an ordinary tin cash-box
had been almost filled with various
articles of jewelry, and therefore the lass
was rather heavy. Of course the knowl
edge that there would be a good reward ,
for the recovery of the missing prop -rt
did not abate my zeal. Still, in spite of my
eagerness to discover the culprit, I oould
make but little of the case, and even
have come over to the opinion of the j
local" but for a very important fact, i
namely, the footprints in, the garden bed
were all smaller than those of the pris
oner. Now although a man may wear
boots Several sizes too large for him on
occasion, vet he can hardly walk with
comfort in shoes an inch or so too short.
Verv much annoyed at my want of
success, and dreading the chaff I would
be sure to get when, compelled to give
it up, I should return to town, I was
not particularly delighted next morning
to see Mr. Muggridge coming up the
road to the house accompanied by the
editor of the Barrowton weekly Banner
who had determined, he said, to write
up the account of the robbery himself.
But there was no escape; and so,
prepared for a host of questions; I
was walking slowly to meet mem
when mv eve was caught by some
thing bright among the bushes by the
wayside. Yes, there could be no doubt
of it; there lay the lost box, empty of
course. Without stopping, however, I
walked as calmly as possible on to the
inspector, and was introduced to Mr.
Shear's, the editor. It was simply won
derful how obliging 1 had become. X
even, when Mr. Uuggndge nintea that
he was pressed tor time, volunteered
myself to give Mr. Shears the informa
tion he wished, and to go over tne prem
ises with him. Once left alone with the
zealous representative of the press, I
gave that gentleman all the points of the
case, and a few more, as you shall see.
The next afternoon as soon as a copy
of the limner came to the house where
the robbery oocurred I had for the last
two days spent from the forenoon until
dusk there I turned to the end of the
column devoted to the "Great Robbery,"
and read, with a chuckle, the announce
ment that "the loss of the jewels would
be less felt had here not been between
the two bottoms of the box almost two
hundred pounds in bank notes, of which,
unfortunately, the numbers had not been
taken." ; .
Probably the intelligent reader sees
my plan; but certainly I did not choose
to explain it to Mr. Muggridge, when.
an hour later, that worthy but excitable
gentleman rode up, very, hot and. very
red, up the shadeiess road, to complain
of my having "made a confounded mess
of the account, you know." I simply
advised him to wait for a very few days,
and then I would be happy to explain
everything I knew."
That evening, as usual, I left the
grounds at dusk, after spending most of
the day in watching though apparently
engaged in something else whether any
one went near the spot, a few hundred
yards from the grounds, where lay the
box on whioh l especially depended as a
bait to hook the thief. By walking
slowly I managed to let the shades of
evening close around me before I was far
beyond the spot where X had made op
my mind to watch and wait. .
Eight! Nine! Were they never com
ing? and was my trap laid and baited in
vain? Ten! Surely thev should have
come by this time. Still . Was that a
sound on the road? . Yes, and coming
from the village.: There were evidently
several of them, and I began to regret
not having brought some help. .Nearer
they came laughing and talking, as I
cautiously drew further back from the
road. And now thev were oortosite the
spot where the box iay hid. But what!
They've ; gone by, and in ' the hearty
guffaw of a man furthest away -aV the
three, I- recognize .Farmer- Lobbins, an
honest fellow, whose acquaintance I had
made during my short stay. ' After this
sell I had almost given tip, and actually
making up my mind to. Abandon the
affair, when a faint sound frota
down the -road made te crouch as
low as possible once more. : It made no
hoax thia time. A short, thin man.
whom I easily recognized as a man of all
work who had been helping-, tie jrsr-
doner that day.-., was wiSiinr ateauibiiv
down the road, close to tits bashes. I
soon as ha reached the vlier t.
box hod txvu t-'iT
t,-n to a! I Urn i ; f,
I felt sure; a&i so,
cat the 1V-T,
n, Is i.t a
IS ',.
s.":i !
'Xn'.s i
a j."a V .? r
r kcgi - r t 4
posed treasure, the capture was then
made.' "
"Oh! why, yea," observed the worthy
Mr. Muggridge, who was ia the office
when I brought in the prisoner that
night, "I thought as much; I've had my
eye on that fellow all along."
The man made confession; indeed be
was caught ia the act, and could not
deny it. The jewels ware all recovered,
and the reward proved very useful in
helping me to marry and settle down
quietly, when, one month later, I re
ceived my promotion.
A TblePs SulcUe.
Another strange story illustrative of
the extraordinary ecceatricitiea for
whioh Russian military officers of late
years have rendered themselves - un
pleasantly notorious, reaches us. from
St. Petersburg. It would appear that
on the 17th nit, a lady of rank was
traveling on the Fastova line of railway
in a nrst-oiass compartment, the eniv
other occupant of which was an elderly
cavalry captain, with whom ahe casually
entered into conversation, r Arrived at
the Ustinovk station she summoned
gendarme to the window of her
carriage, and informed him that she
missed two hundred roubles from
her hand-bag, and suspected her travel
ing companion of having stolen them.
A few minutes previously - she had re
quested him to take her ticket out of the
bag, which he had done, and since that
time she had discovered her loss. Search,
was forthwith instituted upon the Cap
tain's person for the miaairur monev. and
a hundred-ruble note waa found thrust
into one of his boots. No sooner had
this evidence Of his guilt been brought
to light than he produced a small parcel
of bank-notes from his pocket, with the
remark:- ' . :
"As you have got the 100 rubles. I may
as well give yoa the other 60." "
Xiireotly after he had spoken these
words he drew a revolver from the breast
pocket of his coat, set its muzzle against
his right temple, and blew his brains out.
Insensible to the dishonor of theft, that
of detection seemed to him so insup
portable that, rather than endure it, he
died by his own hand. London Tele
graph.
Japanese Art. .
The enthusiastic worshippers of Jap
anese art who have become so very num
erous of late will be pleased, or the re
verse, according to their disposition, by
some remarks on the subject in Sir .Ed
ward Reed's new book on Japan.. Sir
Edward Seed observes, modestly, that
"his own opinion of Japanese art wonld
carry but little weight , with it," so he
gives instead a series of conclusions to
which Prof. Anderson, of Toledo, who
is a diligent student of the subject, has
arrived. Prof. Anderson considers that
originality of design is not strongly
marked until within the last 200 years,
the earlier productions being chieSv
"variations of Chinese models." The
composition he describes as always good,
and the drawing almost always conven
tional; while - he will horrify some
of the Japanese devotees by his
declaration that their perspective is al
ways false, except in modern pictures.
where the artist has received education
from Europeans.
"Any painting." he says, "in which
the laws of perspective are observed is
not a specimen of Japanese art."! ... Chia
roscuro he pronounces absent, and he
causes Sir Edward Reed to express some
slight dissent by stating that "there are
no shadows in any true Japanese pic
ture.". .The older Japanese painting
Prof Anderson declares to be chiefly calli
graphic, the modern chiefly decorative.
In old times the importance of calli
graphy was so great that in both Japan
and China "a single character written by
notea caiiigrapaer would often com
mand a higher price than the finest spec
imen of pictorial art." London News.
m -
Pekiij or Elxctbio Lajcps. Not long
ago a person was instantaneously killed
in Manchester by inadvertently touching
the exposed connections of an electric
lighting apparatus, and the other day a
stoker was killed in the same way on the
new yacht of the Czar of Russia. There
can therefore be no doubt that the elec
tric current of an ordinarily powerful
electrio lamp is quite capable of causing
death to any person who is unfortunate
enough to come into contact with it so as
to "shunt" the current through any of
his vital organs. Is passing from one
hand to another the current is forced to
traverse the breast and lungs, not to
Bpeak of the heart and spinal cord. For
this reason it is absolutely necessary that
the greatest of care should be ex
ercised in handling electrio lamps
they a.-e at present con
structed. There is no danger at all
short of actual touching with two
distinct parts of the body in such a man
ner as to discharge the current between
them; but a person ignorant of the so
tion of the lamp may commit this blun
der at any moment, for electricity is in
visible, and there is no sign to be seen of
the deadly and subtle power which may
be lurking in the metal work, some
thing more than care on the part of those
using the electric light would seem, how
ever, to be necessary. There is room for
reform in the construction of electrio
lamps. Hitherto the attention of inven
tors has been chiefly directed to the
proper working of their devices snd the
insurance of a brilliant light; but hence
forth some regard will probably be paid
to the safety of their apparatus.' Bars
wires and terminals ought to be abol
ished, or at any rate guarded from acci
dental touch, and electrio lanterns made
as harmless as ordinary oil and gas
lamps.
Tux Gulcxer or Zaeapshxn. Profes
sor Muhketoff. the Russian geologist.
andM. Iyauoff visited the glacier of
afshan, one of the greatest ia Central
Asia, hist summer, and were quite suc
cessful in their explorations. The
lower extremity of the glacier, says Pro
fessor Mush ke toff, is at the height of
9000 feet. ! The Galtcha people, who in
habit the upper valley of the ZaraJshan,
have never ascended the glacier. They
say that on the summit of it . there are
two great pillars of stone, between
which the traveller must go. and that
the - pillars would certainly crash
together ; if ..'--:: any one ventured
into the icy solitude. A tunnel, no less
tnan awu feet long, runs tracer tno fna
cier, being the bed of Macha river. I he
temperature during the day was a
high as va dej, and Gurm toe
night as low as 24 dog. On Ui fourth
day the explorers reached the first
watershed, or rather the first ieeshd.
The whole length of the ghwicr to tl.is
point was sixteen miles, tha widta i". "'.
one mile. Six other glaciers, ev.i cs
which is greater than the groatc-t Al--e
glaciers, fed the principal ones. Atl s
head of it there is a wide cirque cp
ing to the east, aad several pchts arou-.a
it reach 20,000 feet. The descent a i .?
other slope f the mountain r.Je
far more steep aad dicalt thaa tlte -cant.
The crevasses are nat-e-'-i .!
the glacier has several fjreet f s .
the ineliii&iioa of whicis is no 5
50 degrees. :-ThV explore!
pe!!e:l to make uss of esaall a s I
to cut steps ia the ke. -.
Ttr. OT.a ffy U p.... 'T ii I t t
wii.i his hfiid t ri ar i h f i
sUnr, when a lttus ipy si-cks 1
' l I '.-. t .... .- . . r t
I c. l.'-w t'O""1" " - ? 1
i -""'-,...
. . . a .
Now, taere v- i
iion.
And the you::;- e it i
father, "f.4r p -.-3 r
i;oods tbat fi" ,j U j
And he ilwi t . i :
I nd the yoaai--sr s'-a ;r;
t n oil cloth gr.p a, .-i. t
the country.
And it curie to t - t
t ven unto Enc.w." 0 f .;
lieth against Lrt-i .
a i &
Ana wtsa tj c - s
fates of the city, 3 i
cancicg. .
: And he got him v.ij '
t hen ho arose
lierling at the r .
6
ith a Binag sLt ff t
and the younger a tr, ;
done.
2ow in the sw,! v. : : '
lis arose and was alor.e, i
tie gold and sJver ?:e ri- .
; And it was so.
And he ars and eat d n ,
his elothos ral tLj-ew a !
03 himself.
And he went and Jolted h'
a citizen of tlit country, s -,
him down into a prospect tu
d.f. -And
he Lai Ecvcr U r-jra c
Wherefore h.?i L r .:
hinds and lay Id of t'. s L
shovel, wasrsfiJi thfv s .
shovel, he struck Ins e.V.v
w all of the eUaft wboreia 1 s t
hi poured tie esrL.i an 1 ' a 1 -
a,rainst the tack of bis n k..
.; And he waxed exec r.j w;
And he tris-J vea y. t e - .
bald the hiralle c-f Hi
.a t
bugled between L;s ler
hisearniga fail cf a,o- -a
id the prorykry Li- h is 1 j ,
round about. .
And he wLt not why ii a-s ?
Now, after many days. th
with their shovels, and "tie v.
their picks, and tho blast'-?
b asts, and the hoku-.n vl.s t'
h tnded themselves tor;-,!., e r,
st .id to his fellow:
Go to! Let us strlls. .
stroke:
, And they ihat stroke v
studs of the saa for ne:.
they were terrible as an arai r ;
nn-s.
And they blew rpoa tLs r
and the cornet, and sacl-r.t, t.
aiid bass drum.
Now it came to pass i" , t ; a
sen joined not s& t. .
strike, U8ider went Le cut s j
nir oc the highway, l,-t st r r
it at did tr.ke should U' v -fh.tten
him out. ciA s-r 1 1
his home packed in iee, .
oiler the tahhion cf Cat p. -;:
And he befiia to be in wiv
: And ha we it aa4 joiaei .
a citizen of taat c --.tiuy; f
him into tha lunch t a i.-
And be fia wo-JI L ; -up
with tha a2s-ar . s c
indistrucUt'.c v j r
Wiiich the tourir;' . J, r 1.
And no cau to c ' '
' And w'uon be f." i)
Hw many hif f i" .
on the farm w.'h r I
spar, a, j. r !
And u rrt-inu .
lunch basice-is se j r ;
hi father.
But when Le vi j-
te egraphed to Ls f .
cow and mso n.-rry,
had struck Ur
ffl.uipaiil1.rt f "
"Now the t - .
fit Id plowing v . , t
asd when ha c. .e I
:r to
t r
he use he h-uid '
And ha ivulu r
tbe thicjs v-erfr t
And Le tx k l
led her a-, c
co tenth this i. .
ly I.
hand, and s i:
And she sis - .1 a 1
"This, thy fc.-. . -dead
and is .
to have ah; 1 ci 1 .
AndtLeeluPr ' 1
Government t 1 j I
hct under t r
up an arm'i Iff;:
aoiwi? the ft 16, ,
gi icj h.s 1 y. 2s
And he got L j
la'v, and he re-; .
in which tii y - - t
singular the L':
fruichise, tti' , 1 '
equity toj.-tr ?.
angles, crooks, v-...
latid or silver or; , -Acmes,
and eL -t. i
firmly by tles
And it was w.-1 fa
Not far f . 1 Ij '
to s some of
sc ed res pee r-' f
They weref. -of
lovers, ! n - 5
couples w8"? -1
wia their i " 1
wedding ah t v
nutters have c' -the
four ici : '
lof at the k i I
laly exj r" " a
litieal lue . z 1 - 8 !
asxed L&r i -hi
r, but r, ".' ;
inj as a
net Demrrt. i
sir " - stull Lc r
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