I
fratebbal sparring -
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
CONFIDING IN THE WRONG SOM.
I temperance police.
Finding that she conld not get me
Sunday, the 17th insL, will U a.
I have just returned from a little
A« I have said, I did not sympa- to take pay for it, she ran into the
The ean looks down
A special to the Timet says: Elmer j two
fiftieth anniversary of the visn ,
...
hnruL.I
tnnrnament
with
the
handed
tournament
With» comical frown
| thize at all with their anti rum cru­ ! house, got her hat. and started oft Snyder is a wealthy farmer of Glenn ,
with President Jackson and Vice-PfJ'
On a host of r.loepy eyes.
sade, and after a year or two I bit on I with the gourd as fast as she could City, Columbia county. He is a wi ' gloves I have tilled my nose soak dent Van Buten to Hartford. *
That drowsily blink
cotton waste so that 1 shall not
i
the
following
ruse
for
outwitting
the
!
walk.
I
also
started
from
that
local
dower,
and
lives
alone
with
his
ser
And seem to think
that time there was a grand patau
Lt cannot be time to rise.
* ^‘Ramrods” as the ref irmers weie ity at once, and drove as fast as I v a tits in a fine house close by the this sketch in gore as 1 write.
Jackson was honored by his frij7
I
needed
a
little
healthful
exercise,
i
called
by
the
topers
-
and
of
supply-
1
dared.
Still,
IGiopeJ
that
perhaps
highway. Hu is a prominent figure
The morning breaks
| ing some of my thirsty Maine friends 1 the girl only wanted the liquor for • in political and social circles, and is and was looking for something that as a hero and a statesman. He n 1 I
On stomach-nohes,
against his wish (for U
' with an occasional dram.
That cherries and lemonade.
her folks, or to gratify some whim, deacon in the Methodist Church here., would be full of vigorous enthusiasm, somewhat
had already ridden for days), a
I
I
and
at
the
same
time
promote
the
Ice-cream and cake,
I bought a lot of hard-shelled ; though I might have known better.
About five years ago his wife died.
did
horse,
in
deference
to
the
wish
f
Have helped to make
!
healthful
flow
of
blood
to
the
muscles.
j “cushaws,” or crook necked gourds,
I had not gone more than three The cause of her death was attributed
As well as the oandy trade.
as some call them. These I carefully i miles from the “Corners,” when a to the absence of her only child, a This was rather difficult I tried Geu. Hayden chiefly. There wa>"
The sunlight pours
’ prepared by removing the inside of j wagon, in which were three men, boy, who ran away from home about most everything, but failed. Being a grand parade, military and civic, ¡J I
On hundreds of sores
the gourds through a small hole in came driving np behind my cart at a fifteen years ago. Two weeks ago a ! sociable being (joke) I wanted other even those here who had most abused
Where powder has left its mark:
| the stem end—not negleeting to pre- great pace. A constable jumped from young man presented himBelf to the I people to help me exercise, or go along the old hero were fain to join a,
On blistered hands,
That no commands
I serve the stem to be used as a stop­ [ the wagon and arrested me for vio farmer as his long lost son. Simulta ' with me when I exercised. Some men general acclaim. Jackson rox
through dense throngs all the
Could keep from the coveted spark.
per, or rather to be placed over the , lating the “law.”
neously ugly rumors began to spread can go away to desert isle, and have
stopper.
Well, they toon had me under lock with regard to his past life in Cbi I fun with dumb bells and a horizontal through Main street, and the write:
The mischievous breeze
Sweeps at its ease
I had a dozen of these hard-shelled and key; and a search of mv cart cago and other cities in tho West. ! bar, but to me it would seem dull and remembers how he looked—liftjj I
O’er lawns with snap-crackers lined,
gourds. They held from a quart to revealed anything save a good con The story got about that the young commonplace after a white, and I his hat, his gray, stiff hair brushed
But cannot dispel
back and up, as he bowed right «4
two quarts each, and the shells, when dition of things for me. They cap­ man was imposing on the farmer, but would vearn for more humanity.
The clinging smell
Two of us Anally concluded toplay left to the throngs in the window
carefully dried and shellacked, made tured every gourd five full ones.
That gnn-powder leaves behind.
he grew in the old man’s favor.
billiards, but we were only amateurs and on the housetops, in answer
very good flasks for water, or any
What they did with them I never
The fences display
On last Wednesday a handsome, and the owner intimate that he would the cheers and the waving of hand I
other common liquid that might be knew: I know I never saw them
A sud array
elegantly dressed woman, unaccom want the table for Fourth cf July, so kerchiefs.
put in.
again.
Of fire-works’ oold remains:
drove up to the village inn we broke off in the middle of the first
He was escorted by the finest tnj|j
Where pin-wheels whizzed,
When these were fnll, sealed up
At my trial, they failed to prove— panied,
and secured accommodations for a * game and I paid for it.
And triangles fizzed.
tary line, of calvary and infantn
and
ornamented
with
the
stems,
though
roy
charming
young-lady
Are blackened, unsightly stains.
held in the proper places by glue, acquaintance tried very hard to do few days, saying she was from Phila­
Then a younger brother said he that had ever been seen here. Arehi
The children sigh
they so closely resembled the green so, she being a member of a “Band delphia and desired a quiet room. had a set of boxing gloves in his with flags, flowers and motto«
While
walking
on
the
street
she
met
For the day gone by,
gourds that it would have taken a of Temperance”- that I had actually
room, and although I was the taller, spanned the street. There wan 1
With its fun and merrv cheer.
the lately returned farmer’s son. and had longer arms, he would hold military brigade of nearly 2.(XU
vigilant eye to detect the difference. sold liquor.
But their mothers say
These gourds I placed in the bot­
There was a great deal of fun and They suddenly became intimate, and up as long as he could and I might drawn up in line at the South Greet
Ill accents gay,
“It comes but once a year."
tom of my cart among paper-rags laughter about the gourds; and I until Thursday night he was con­ hammer him until I gained strength to greet the President as he can»
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and tag locks If any one saw and barely »»caped sentence to jail, but stantly in her society. He intro­ and finally got well.
into town, escorted by the Gore:
NEW ENGLAND PEDDLER TALE8.
spoke of them, I replied that it was a had a fine to pay, and lost about a duced her to a few young ladies as
I accepted this offer liecause I had nor's Horse Guards. Major Denslov,
Mrs. Dickerson of Philadelphia, and 1 often regretted that I had not made who had gone out to meet him and
Peddler», like horse jockeys, have lot that I had bought to gratify a week’s time besides.
That broke up the gourd business. said shu was the wife of a friend of myself familiar with this art, and also his companions, officials from many
a reputation for being tricky and for whim.
So it came to paw that a select I used sometimes to meet the young his. On Friday morning the ser because I kuew it would create a States including Gov. Edwards, of
not remembering the golden rule. At
vants in the Snyder household were
least they are frequently accused of circle of my customers in the Pine- lady afterwards, and always lifted my surprised by the non appearance of I thrill of interest, and tire me with Connecticut. Gov. Marcy, of Nev
this, but as a tin peddler of fifty-nine Tree State received from time to hat to her. I really never felt angry Mr. Snyder at breakfast, and as he ambition, and that’s what a hollow York, Vice-President Van Buren,
eyed invalid needs to put him on the Secretary of War, Cass, and many
years’ standing I deny the charge as time a gourdful of something, which with her.
And as the years passed, I changed was an early riser the fact cansed road to recovery.
more. Cannon pealed, bells rang,
applying to peddlers more than to I always noticed they were very
anxious about. On returning the my views not a little upon the tem­ much comment. After waiting until
and cheers went up from lU.Ow
The
boxing
glove
is
a
large
fat
any other class of traders.
they determined to call him.
Not only do I deny it for myself, gourds to me, they filled them with perance question. Intoxicating liq­ 10 o’clock
with an abnormal thumb and throats.
to his room they found the ’ mitten,
but for the majority of the men who water or grain of some kind, and uors are working the world vast evil. Going
a string at the wrist by which you tie
The Governor’s Foot Guard wsi
door
locked.
Bursting
open
the
door
are engaged in the business—not in­ carefully restored the stem to its Almost any effort for the suppression they saw the old man lying at full it on, so that when you feed it to your under command of Major Calvin Dai
of their use—where the promoters of
cluding, of conrBe, the many self place.
adversary he cannot swallow it and It was his first appearance in com
This kind of smuggling went on it are earnest and sincere—is te be length upon the floor bound and choke himself. I had never seen any mand of the company. He “still
styled “agenta,” those hawkers of
gagged.
The
ropes
that
bound
him
patented articles who are found in for a long time, withoat interruption. commended and encouraged.
were wrapped around his arms and boxing-gloves liefore, but my brother lives;” and in honor of that event of
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every State of the Uuion. But in My customers were not informers, as
they were soft and wonldn’t hurt 1833, the old company have extended
THE DOG OF MONTARGIS.
legs with a double twist, while the ' said
defence of the old-fashioned tin-ped- you may suppose. I felt in no dan
anybody.
So we took off some of our to him a complimentary parade and
A dog carved in the mantelpiece gag was tightly wedged in his raiment and put them on. Then we banquet. If accepted, it will tats
dler, with horse and cart, I pick up ger of being betrayed by them. They
mouth.
Cutting
the
cords
and
lifting
would
have
lost
a
band
sooner
than
I
over
the
fire-place
of
the
dining
room
the cudgels.
hands. I can remember dis place next Saturday afternoon, th«
him to hie feet they administered shook
We were as honest as other men! given the slightest hint to the "pro | of the Chateau de Montargis is the restoratives.
tiactly yet that we shook hands. That lfith inst. At the time of the parade,
hibitionists.
”
! only thing which remains to remind
and I wish I could say as much for
was to show that we were friendly fifty years ago, President Jac Loa
When he had sufficiently recovered and would not slay each other.
Nevertheless, I did not make much i the present generation of the famous
all the women we have to deal with.
said he had never seen a finer mili
the
old
man
said:
“
That
young
man
Not that I intend to be disrespectful money out of the business. It was duel which took place between the
My brother is a great deal younger tary company than the Foot Guard.
to the ladies, for I always enjoy trad­ not done by me for money, nor had Chevalier de Alacaireand the faithful was not my son. I have been cruelly than I am and I so warned him not What, would he say if he saw them
ing with them But during the last I any idea of turning my cart into a iiound of Aubrey de Montdidier. The deceived and robbed,” pointing to a to get excited and come for me with now?—[Hartford Times, June 11th
sixty years I have obtained some very traveling rumshop. I never carried latter was murdered when out walk safe which stood in the corner of the anything that would look like wild
clear glimpses of the workings of more than the dozen gourds at once, ing in the Forest of Bondy, where the room. The servants saw that the and ungovernable fury because I
GOISG a - fishthg .
the feminine mind when it is intent and these moxe to gratify a little chapel built by three merchants who safe had been opened and the con­ might, in the heat of debate, pile his
circle of genial old fellows whom I j were saved from robbers by an ap- tents scattered about on the floor. jaw up on his forehead and fill his ear
upon making a bargain.
“Last night.” continued the farm full of sore thumb. He said that wuh
Did we not go fishing it would not
During the whole of my long ca know, than for any motive of gain. . parition of the Virgin is still the site
One day I stopped to trade at a ot an annual pilgrimage. His dog er, “the young man and I remained all right, and he would try to be eool be slimmer. Conversely, if it wore
reer, I can truly say that I was never
not summer we would not go a fish
guilty of but one trick of which I am house near the “Corners," in the attempted to defend him. but was tip till about 11 o’clock, talking about and collected.
really ashamed; and in that I was town of F----- , where there had of left for dead by the assailants. The the Western States. At last he
Then we put our right toes close ing.
“We are going fishing next week,’
outwitted by a young lady. She late been several “rum cases” tried. animal recovered, and going to the started to talk about my real estate, together, and I told him to be on his
came within a hand’s turn of sending There were three or four women at house of a friend of its last master, money, bonds, Ac., but I never sus­ guard. At that moment I dealt him said Mr. Oldboy, “and I want to U
me to jail. If I bad been a handsome this house, and as usual, they camo was successful in bringing him to the pected anything. Shortly after I a terrible blow aimed at his nose, but sure we’ve got ad our things together.’
“Got a tent?” asked his partner.
young fellow, the case might have out to look over my tin ware, prints, spot where the murderers had buried went to bed. I soon thought I heard through a clerical error of mine it
the body of their victim. No clew a noise, as though a door had been went over his shoulder and spent it­
“Yes. I’ve got a tent.”
been different, or it might not, I can- and notions, in the cart.
Women always will do that, wheth­ was found to the assassins until one opened and 6hut, and I got up and self on the wall of the room, shatter­
"And a boat?”
say, but she was a young womau of
“Yes; that's engaged."
good character, and she was acting er they want to buy or not; we expect day when the friend was passing with looked out of the window, but as I ing a small holly wood bracket, for
"Whisky?”
in defence of a cause which she be­ it. It is one of the things a peddler the dog through the line aux Ours, couldn’t see anything I went back to which I paid him $3.75 afterward. I
must
accept
good-naturedly.
bed
again.
I
soon
fell
asleep.
How
the
animal
flew
ata
man.
who
proved
“Lots of it”
lieved to be a just one. The story is
did not wish to buy the bracket be­
When
I
first
began
peddling,
this
long
I
slept
I
don't
know,
but
I
was
to bo the Chevalier de Alacaire. He
“Some pilot biscuit?’’
against me, but I am going to tell it.
cause I had two at horn«, but he was
habit
of
the
women
made
me
angry;
would have been strangled had not roughly awakend by a gag being arbitrary about it and I bought it.
To begin with, I was not, in my
“Yes, a whole box.”
younger days, a temperance man. I for I thought they did it to make me some of the passers-by interfered. forced into my mouth, and before I
“Five or six dozen of bearf
We then tool; another athletic
was born in the old Bay State before work, in folding things up and put­ The matter was brought before King could help myself I was bound and posture and in two seconds the air
“Yes.”
the temperance movement began. ting them away again. But that is Charles V. who ordered the Cheva- gagged. In the partial darkness I was full of poulticed thumb and
“Cigars?”
My folks, in common with all other not the reason. They cannot help it; | lier and dog brought in his presence. saw two figures. After they had buckskin mitten. 1 soon detected a
“Hundreds of ’em."
families, always had liquor in the it is natural to them. And they like He considered that a combat was securely fastened me one of them chance to put one in where my bro­
“Plenty of whisky?”
house; mid when any of us were not to see a peddler fold and replace his necessary, and gave permission for went to the bureau and coolly lit the ther could smell of it, but i’never
“Yes.”
lamp.
gobds
carefully,
even
if
it
takes
him
f
the
trial
by
battle
to
take
place.
The
feeling well, or were out in the cold
“Ham and canned meats?'
knew just where it struck, for at that
half
uu
hour.
[
CheValier
was
to
be
armed
with
a
and camo home chilled, mother would
“As soon as the light was turned moment I ran up against something
“Yes.”
You would think, perhaps, that ’ club, and the dog was to have an up I recognized the face of the young with
prepare a little cup of “toddy” to
“A good lot of beer?”
the pit of my stomach that made
they
did
not
care,
or
realize,
how
empty cask to retreat to. The sin­ man whom I thought was my son and me throw up the sponge along with
warm us np and prevent our taking
“Yes.”
much work they make the trader; j gular duel was to take place behind the stylish woman who had stopped some other groceries, the names of
cold.
“You’ll want some ice.”
So I grew up in the belief that it but they do, and that is the funniest ■ the Cathedral of Notre Dame, on the at the tavern. The young man which I cannot now recall.
“I have that, and I have lots of
was right, to drink liquors now and part of it; and think very much more snot termed the Island of St. Lonis. laughed quietly, and taking up my
canned goods, plenty of beer and
My
brother
then
proposed
that
we
then. None of our family were of you if you have unbounded pa­ which now fronts t'ue Morgue. It trousers took the key of the safe out take off the gloves, but I thought I cigars, no end of whisky and bread,
has been transformed into a garden, of the pocket and deliberately pro­
drunkards, though I must say that tience with them.
not sufficiently punished him, and and everything I can possibly think
A bright woman always knows that j and those who sit down there after ceeded to open it. The pair then ex­ had
one of the boys camo very near to
that another round would complete of, and yet it seems to me I’ve left
she
has
several
weaknesses,
and
she
visiting
the
relics
of
Notro
Dame,
or
being one. He saw the awful preci­
amined the contents. The money the conquest which was then almost something out”
pice just as he came to it, and stop is apt to confide in a man who she before peeping into the Paris dead they put in the valise which the wo­ within my grasp. I took a bismuth
“Got your tackle, haven’t yon?”
sees
knows
it.
and
has
a
heartful
of
I
j
house,
little
think
that
they
are
within
ping short, turned and escaped it. It
men carried, while the papers were powder and squared myself, but in
“By George,” shouted Mr. Oldboy
patience
for
her
whims.
It
took
me
;
i
the
limits
of
the
famous
champ
clos
isn’t every one can do that, so don’t
tossed about as you see them. After warding oil' a left hander, I forgot “you’ve hit it That’s just it—fish
thirty
or
forty
years
to
learn
even
so
where the dog compelled the assassin they had taken everything the young about my adversary’s right, and ran hooks and lines, we’ll need some of
go too near.
When I began peddling, I carried much of woman nature. I don’t of his master to confess his crime.
man came up to me and laughed in my nose into the middle of his box them, won’t we? I knew I had for­
Within a few hundred yards of the my face. ‘Good-by, papa,’ he said; ing-glove.
a bottle of “West India” tucked away pretend to know much about women
hearing that I had in­ gotten something.”
in my cart. I did not drink, as I yet; and, in fact, I never saw the man public garden is the Sorbonne, famous ■I’ll pay your respects'to your son jured him, I retreated rapidly on my
I do not know why it is, but for
for the experiments conducted there when I get back to Chicago. He elbows and shoulder-blades to the some reason nearly every fishing
have said, to excoss, but used perhaps who did.
As I have said, there were three or by At. Paul Bert and other vivisec- wants to hear from you.’ They then
a quart in a month. That was about
corner of the room, thus giving him party carries with it a lot of hook«
tho kind of person I was then, as re­ four women at the house, one of them | tionists, who have never paused to went out, locking the door after ample time to recover. By this means and lines which are only good to
a
very
pretty,
blue-eyed
yonng
lady
think
of
the
agony
they
are
inflicting
gards temperance.
them.”
my younger brother’s features were tangle tip and catch in the drooping
From 1850 to 1858 my “round"— about twenty years old, who seemed on the animals who are not only the
This morning a detective from Chi­ saved and are to day as symmetrical branches of the whispering trees.
to
be
a
caller
or
visitor.
She
camo
to
I
most
faithful
companions
of
mnn,
and by round I mean the route over
cago arrived in the village looking as my own.
which I sold my goods lay through the back of the cart with the others, I but who can, according to history, for two persons whose description
More truthful words were never
and
while
peering
in,
her
sharp
eyes
enter the lists in favor of those whom tallies exactly with that of the | I can still cough up pieces of box­
a portion of Southern New Hamp
they regard as their natural pro­ farmer’s bogus son and the fleshy ing gloves, and when I close my eyes spoken, says an exchange: “The
shire and two of tho western coun spied one of the gourds.
I can see calcium lights and bine most unfortunate day in the career
“Oh,” said she, "do let. me look at tectors. The Rue aux Ours exists
ties of Aluine. I had not boon trad
woman who put up at the tavern. phosphor escent gleams across the
ing in this section very long, when that droll, crook necked squash!” still, and bibliophiles who study the The man is thought to be a confi­ horizon, but I am thoroughly con­ of any young man is the day on which
he fancies there is some better wav
the Neal Dow temperance movement and at once she pulled one ot them I history of old Paris, comparing it dence man of Chicago, “Fly Bill.”
vinced that there is no physical ex­ to make money than to earn it; for
with modern times, can point to the
begau. and tho “Maine law," wholly from under the paper rags.
ercise
which
yields
the
same
amount
It chanced to be one that I had spot where the dog of Montargis first
from that feeling spring the many
prohibiting tho sale of all intoxicat­
of health and elastic vigor to the extravagant and visionary scheme«
HUNDliEDS OF WHALES.
ing liquors, was enacted. That was received back from an old customer seized the assassin of Aubrey de
puncher
than
the
manly
art
does.
which are indulged in for the purpose
a law, too, as many persons well re­ only the day before, full of barley­ Montdidier.—| Paris Letter.
“I would swear that we saw, not _ To the punches, also, it affords a
member, which was supported by a corns. He had neglected to glue on ANOTHER COLORED * CADET AT WEST hundred, but hundreds—hundreds of a large wad of glad surprises and nose of gaining a livelihood without labor
AV hen a young man becomes thor
strong and enthusiastic temperance tho stem as carefully as he should
POINT.
whales—genuine sperm whales. It bleed, which cannot lie too hurtful oughly infected with this feeling, he
party, a law that had genuine vigor have done. While the young lady
The examination of the applicants was the most extraordinary sight I to those w’ho hauker for the pleasing is reaiiy to adopt any means for the
was holding it, the stem came off and
to enforce it.
for admission at West Point has ever beheld Now, see here! I am nervous shock, the spinal jar, and the accomplishment of his objects, and. if
Then camo dry times in Maine! some of the barley ran out.
That circumstance I might perhaps been finished, and out of the 152 who not telling this for the sake of telling pyrotechnic concussion.
he is foiled in his efforts, upon the
Not a drop of liquor could be had
That is why I shall continue the crest of the wave which he has al­
a big story, but because I believe its
legally for love or money; and dili­ have explained satisfactorily to her, applied 37 have been sent away, hav­ publication
may
put
some
whalers
on
exercises
after
I
have
practiced
with
gent searoh and chase was made for if nothing else except the barley had ing been found deficient. Among the track of making something hand­ a mule or cow catcher two or three ready mounted, and in full view, is
all illicit fellers, and for drinkers, too. run out. But something else, not the latter is William Waite of the some. The ■ facto are big enough in weeks, and feel a little more con- the temptations to crimes, to shield
him from the disgrace which he
Yon may be suro there was moaning perceptible to the eye. but appre­ Oberlin district, Ohio. His alternate
and need no enlargement fidence in myself.
thinks must inevitably follow in the
among tho sto ady old topers, and not ciable by the nose, also came out of was John H. Alexander from the same themselves,
district. Beth camo to West Point from me.”
the gourd.
wake
of defeat To those he yields,
a little discontent am ing the moder
T he C ardinal and the S moker .— and the
She first sniffed, and then put it to after a thorough competitive exami­
The speaker was Cant. Brandburg
he realizes he finds him
ate drinkers.
it is Cardinal Manning who re­ self the first
nation at home.
her
pretty
little
nose
and
sniffed
of
the
brig
William
Phipps,
which
violator of the law, and s
I had a groat many of both topers agaiu. Then she gave me a quick
Alexander has been examined as arrived from Aux Cayes with a cargo lates this incident as having hap­ criminal in the eye of the community,
and moderate drinkers am m'g the
look out of the corners of her Waite's alternate, and he has passed of logwood—a weather beaten old pened to himself:
people on my route. Often, with a little
One night I was returning to my and the inmate of a prison, waiting
a most creditable examination. tar, who is known everywhere in New
blue eyes.
all brought about for the want
wistful look, a man would beckon m e
residence
in Westminster, when I trial,
I knew in an instant that I was Waite failed in grammer. Alexander York nautical circles. The rest of
of a little manly firmness in the out­
aside.
I know what to expact. caught, though she did not say a was way up in grammer and stands the
met
a
poor
man
carrying
a
basket
corroborated his story, which
set of life to Drompt him to choose an
“Haven't got a drop of anything in word for a moment or two, and then 98 in arithmetic. What makes his is as crew
follows: A few days ago, when and smoking a pipe. I thought over avocation where the penny earned
yer cart, have ye, Mr. K—?”
only asked me, innocently enough, case interesting is the fact that he is about eighty miles east by south of this Aristotelian syllogism. He who
Whan I replied no, he would turn to be so kind as to sell her one of a colored boy. and he has already Cape Henry, the brig sighted a school smokes gets thirsty; he who is thirsty would bring with it its sure reward
Then let young men spurn the idea
away in great aa ineva. or perhaps those droll little gourds.
donned the cadet uniform. Physi­ of whales. As they forged slowly 1 desires to drink; he who drinks too j of obtaining money without render
vigorously borate Neal D >w. or urge
I tried to plead off. I wanted to cally, mentally, every way he is super­ northward the ntimlier kept increas­ much gets drunk; he who gets drunk I ing an equivalent; let them be ready
a» to bring him a “quart” the next carry them all home, I said, which ior to Whittaker when the latter first ing until the water seemed fairly goes to hell. This man is in danger
■ and willing to occupy positions in
titnifcTni from “ovor Huupshire was very true.
arrived on the post. He is 19 years alive with the enormous creatures. of mortal sin. Let us save him. 11 ’ life which will give them the best
affectionately
addressed
him.
way.”
But she pouted and seized another ! (’> months old and weighs about 135 For three days the brig had them in
possible opportunity to develop their
"Are yon a Catholic?”
I sy.n n hiz ' I with thos i thirsty one—one or the full ones, too, as it1 pounds. He is a dark mulatto, moves sight, many of them coming within
natural talent, and do good to others
“
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am,
thanks
lie
to
God!
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onei. I did not favor the "law.” or happened—and said that I must, and , quick, has a bright, intelligent count­ gunshot of the vessel, and furnishing
while helping themselves.”
“Where are you from?”
enance and kinky hair parted in the a target for the captain’s rifle, a
any s».% of prohibitory law then. I that I should sell her that one
“From Cork, your reverence.”
I was now in trouble. As coolly as middle. His voice is pleasing and his species of sport which furnished him
loot.11 n_>>:i prohibition as a f.snat
“Are you a member of the Total
icil rai I on eviry man’s rights, and I conld. I replied, "No, no; I cannot demeanor is that of a young gentle­ much amusement and did no damage
M ould E at for T wo .—A young
heneo I In I n> ompunctions in aae- do it.” But she had the gourd in man who has l>een carefully brought te the whales. There were literally Abstinence Society?”
ster of a dozen years went to pM®
“No, yonr reverence.”
her hand, and 1 conld not very well np. Dr. Alexander says he passed a several hundred of the whales, which
inr th 1 law ova I»I or broken.
the Whitsuntide holidays with his
“Now,” said I. “that is wrong. grandmother, in the country.
But tho m in who brok» that law get it without taking it from her by most excellent physical examination. were of the sperm varieties. They
A West Point .licer said, "I do not were tranquilly swimming around in lx>ok at me: I am a member.”
did it at no small poril! The temper force, and that I wouldn't do.
In the evening, when they sat
“Faith, may be yonr reverence has down to «tinner, the grandmother
She offered me fifty cents, and held believe he will lie tabooed in any way. a circle, and wore apparently looking
anoe poople w«r? alert an I moroiless
need
of
it
’
cried:
Evervwhara tho State swarmed with on to the gourd. I would not take I am satisfied he will be treated well, for a good feeding-ground. Tw>
I shook hands with him and left
"Watchmon Club«,” "Temporanoe the money—I knew better than that especially by the first class. Yon see days after the sperms had passed out him
“Oh. my! There are thirteen of
us"'
Bands” and vigilance committees. —but T assured her. sine he would ( the old feeling has died out, and the of sight the brig encountered quite a
* a boya do not believe it pay« to do such j « ’
Sums of tho women, indeed, were have it, that I would make
-><--1 school of humpback
"Don t be worr. -d, grandmother
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