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iitall0 yeti ever noticed that the mart who's
always tailing you
About thowondeoutt things inee done and what
WS ipittS C.; do'
Is lselblest th e preeseat time -hie purse is
biaste tat, ,
And 41 won4t:yon loan a fiverg-have you ever
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: r4ve.you ever notieed fishermen all have snob
awful hick,
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•-0EAPTY-I1,
No man could bee° foreseen what would
have been the issue of the oonteat. At least
so could not Mr. Swieger ; otherwise his
'deportment, as they were preeently assured,
would have been different. The young men
could not bat separate under the repluaion
of those etalwart army, He looked at
Hiram with angry disdain, as the latter
dereeseiseseesseeee=e-e-See, ereseeseereeseeees
ing given away to his passion ao far beyond I
what he had intended.
" Hime Jyner "-flettening hie lips against
his teeth." want to know how I come
here ? Well, 1 tell you. I see yon and
Henry Dawater a-movin' to theae woods and
I knowed from some o' your talk in the
neighborhood I peered about you was up to
some sort o' devilment, and so I circled
around, I did, and took my .stand behind
that poplar thar. 011,you oan oome down
now, you little verment "-looking up at the
squirrel, that had not yet ceased its coin.
Widnes " von like to told on me, thoug„h
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And while oi great fresh water whales they
eyer•wildly chat,
They brink home tiny minnows -have von ever
'Awed that ?
Rave you ever noticed efticeseekers, ere election
daY.
Grasp everybody's hand and something kind
and fetching say,
But who, when safe= office, with a salary big
and tat.
Forget the humble reter-have you ever noticed
that?
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TlIE-DOSTERS-:-
.A.Rginerice of Georgian Life
' " I crave pardon, sir," Henry answered,
pleasantly bowing. " It was doubtless a
mere vagary of my thoughes to imagine for
moment if that little beast were trying to
express its regret for the words with which
• you just now oheracterized eo excellent a
limo as the Revere aid Mr. Swinger. As a
;natter of fee' 1 a or most positively that I
.did not lue 1,• forehand a word that he
was Main k.oy in his exhortation last
night; 11*1 ••• wee the occasion of his fancied
offenoe.do OUTdel! • indeed," he added,
• smilingly, " doubt if he knew, as he
usually speaks on meth occasions according
• to the inspiration that he feels prompted
by. -Howeverepessing that by for the time,
•d ref rin tt:
you notify me of yoar wishes regarding
,your holm, as yon style it, and eome at-
tendant; that I have had the honor to pay
• to your sister, I will tinnier that my
pressioriallnlong has been that the man-
sion in which yenreside along with 'your
mother and her belonged to them jointly
withyoureelfeand, having been treated by
them, on the few occasions when I heve
been there; with met% coutteonsuessel am
not quite sure this I shall observe that
,• portion of your demand ; .bat I think -yes,
rather think that, at least for some time,
1 will." •
• " I rather think you will, sir."
The eqUirrel took him at his word, des-
cended, tripped joyously to the poplar, and
was soon hidden within its neet.
" And now," Mr. Swinger resumed," you
want to know how I come to part you two?
Well, Pll up and tell you that, too. It were
jes because I were 'opioioned Henry Daws.
ler a- bein' ruther light weight, and not
used to seoh, yon might of ben tuo muesli
for him. Understand? If I hadn't ben
inhere; on them p'ints in my mind I'd a
toed back-andeadet-him-lam-yotetilleyou-
hollered and out with semen' your mean-
ness. The good Lord know I ain't for
flghtin' when it can be help; but when it
oen't, then I'm for pitobin' in ; and when
I am in, I'm for fannin' out the concern,
even if I does have a rewivle on my bends.
And let me tell you, Hime Jyner, if it have
ben me, 'add o' this yearn& of a boy,
no soonerin yon out with your 'audacious
ease, I'd whirled in on you and I'd a
frazzled yon out so thatyou'd a ben thank-
ful to be let take it all bleak. I'm not
a-denyin' I were meanie some o' my
words last night for yon along o' t'other
ongodly °haps, that yon special got right in
the path o' my ehergin' and looked that
impudent that I were jes ableeged togive
yoti a passin' wipe ; • but when you say I
were put up by this boy here -when you
say that, you tell a—.1
"There there Brother Swinvee,1" ex-
claimed Henry, " do not -I beg yon do not
utter the word: •!Mr. Joyner doubtless be-
lieved to be true what he mid."
" Well "-reluotently lowering the arm
he had raised-" I'll do as yon say, Henry.
Meyby he did. Bat is go to show what
fool notions some people have, that they
think eo much more o' theirself than t•other
people know they're worth that they'll go
off half -cooked, and nothin' but a flash in
the pan at that. Now, Hime Jyner, your
father, Zekil Jyner, were a man I thought
a heap of, 'spite o' his .bein' sech a streen-
ions Babas'. But yit he were a man o'
them kind that he'd a never denied a bein'
o' ' that, nor whets(' lever else he might
think it were his jut. : end he were not a
man to jes find fan's aed melte a hullaballoo
with people tbat he have no more 'omission
than you has with me or Henry Demeter,
ary one, without yon jes natohuilly thinks
people belongs to yon to order 'em about es
you please-letinh ?"
" If he is through, sir," said Hiram, sul-
lenly, still 'Wiling only at Henry, " I with-
draw the charge 'which Mr. Swinger -
though with his usual extreme rudeness -
has convinced me to have' been without
jest foundation. It is possible that I was
overhasty in referring in such terms to your
profession ; but the demand I made regard-
ing your deportment towards my family I
repeat, and I shall trust to be able to
enforce it. As for Mr. Swinger, he is too
old a man for me even to think of resenting
his coarse insults."
He then turned and walked rapidly away.
" Old or yoang," answered Mr. Swinger,
loud enough to be heard but for the sway-
ing shrubbery and the sound of the
trampled leaves, " he could fan you ont so
bad you'd have to be took up and took
home in pieces. In my day I wanted no
better fun than to handle eeoh as you, two
at a time. • Sher, boy I alter 1 ''
Henry had sat down again and coverall
his face with hie hands. • Looking fondly
upon him, the old man said :
as Come, my son, take down them hands
and liven up. Iheris nothin' to ory about,
nor not even to be sorry about, except&
it's for not liokin' that bar into some sort
o' shape ; -which, I hadn't ben steered you
was too light weight for the_above, I'd a let
you a dpne it. It ain't °Pen aMeth'dis'
preacher have to fight ; but when he do it's
a positive needoessity for him to whup the
fight, or he'll, git that cowed that he can't
preaoh the blesser' gospel effeeinil like it got
to be preached to make headway with the
gen'rasion o' sinners we has to deal with in
this gen'ration o' people. The good Lord
don't want them he have ohoosed for to
preach his word to go about a-makin' a
practice o' flghtin',and piokin' up fights
with Tom, Diok, ad Harry ;' but nother
do he want 'em to lee a -hackie down when
people tries to ran over 'em. So git np and
look peert. You got to preach agin 10 -
night."
The young man looked np with imploring
remonstrance.
" Yes, sir 1" the elder answered, nnre-
lentingly. "Ito done fixed, Benne as the
law o' the Mede and Persian. This very
night of our Lord some more o' your sweat
and whut else iituff yon got in you got to
come oat. Another reason 1 some rather
you wouldn't hitoh with Hime Jyner, and
look all tousled and bunged up when pm
rix in the pulpit. Come, git up, and march
back, and don't yon open your mouth nary
one time about what have took place this
mornin'. It'll do yon more good than
harm, and in more ways than one. But I
hein't got time to talk about that now."
Taking him by the arm, he raised him
up, and they repaired to their. tent. They
were not surprised to hear during the day
that Hiram and Ellen had left the camp
and gone home. With what little reflection
he had time to give to the Matter, Henry
rather thought he would have thus
advised. With every successive effort he
mite higher in mon's opinions.' The camp
was continued only two days longer then
the usual time, when, owing to the great
strain on tent.hpldere, it was broken up,
and the services carried on for another
week in town. In this while Honey ow
Ellen not at all, though after the return to
itceen he met narreetr daily at the Inveneti.,
" Perhaps you do. It concerns me little
whetbee you do or not. As to the. other
portion, I' must gay to you frankly that I
shall pay no sort of attention to it whenever
• I may happen to meet Mies Joyner, unless
I find thae her will in that behalf coincides
• with' youre."
" In the name of Gocil." said Hiram,
laboring hard to repress the loudness of
• Mein/se, "what ie e man to do in ouch a
ease ? " •
ee After meditatitig -a moment Henry an.
•w`C swered, "What would yon do, pray, sir,
if
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'e object of of your present ire, insteadof
- myself; were milefilative, Mr. Thomas
Doster ? " Then FeiTigain looked up at the
quirrel, Which had run np to a higher
einab, and was cbntinning its warnings
With deep acorn Hiram replied, " But
:eler M. Thomas Doster's leaving the camp
eldteappoar Fourth of July oration I should
have Made through him the demand just
t to you in person. It is not relevant to
consider what I might do were he in your
case, notwithstanding I will say that his
vicarious visite and attentione to my family
are disgusting to me ; infinitely leas so,
however, if for his own personal ends,
would they be than his conaine's. No one
• wild regret more than I do, on &Ilse:mounts,
• that I have not to deal with that gentle-
man, who, as I have always believed, has
• sortie eense of honor and responsibility,
instead of his preaching cousin, who seeks
to thrust himself into my family, and
that, as I verily believe, by 'maligning a
man whom everybody who knows my
sister, and whom she- herself until lately,
te • have been expecting that she would marry.
• It yon were not a preaoher-even as it is I
oan hardly refrain from putting on the
blaok cloth you wear to soreen your peraon
hem violence each Dierks is would disgrace
you in her eyea and others'. And I now
warn you, sir, that unless you cease
• . your --.''
Hold, eir-hold for a brief Moment, I pray
; yon," interruped Henry, etill sitting, as
, ram Mood withering with passion. " Mr.
e Hiram Joyner, I do not know how much I
• ought to feel gratified by your words in
4 - praise of my oonsin. If they, had been more
• .te ' cordial they woad have approximated
•. ; at e . nearer hie desette. But, sir, it is not true
•• that I °veir sought; and I olaim to be a man
' incapable of seeking to win the hand of any
s
e tie woman, or any other object, that I may
it eleetn neoessery to my well-being, by the
employment of such arts as you mention.
• Having answered this much to the insult-
• ing charge whioh your manliness, if seems,
was not enongh to withhold you from bring -
e,• ing without 'proof, I have now to add that
• my profession, or, the better to snit your
taste, the sort of olothee I wear, will help I
trasteto defend me against many a real
danger, but I assure you that I neither
rely upon them -as much as a jot now; nor
shall 1 hereafter in any possible conflict
with you. For the sake of ()there of your
* family I restrain the words that would rise
to my lipe itt farther answer to your
chargee and yonr threatenings except to
weer that I brand the former as grossely
Jfai'se, and that I depise the latter as vain
. _ menaces of childish braggadocio."
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,Ho then rose atid looked with calm
defiance upon hie adversary.
" God ' exclaimed Hiram, overpowered
• by rage. Tithing a step backward and
closing his &Igen tightly he raised his hand
on high Henry sprang forward and seized
hie arm. At thetimonient, like the bull of
Marathon or him tit Bain, Mr. Swinger
rushed 1 rom bellind.the *plait and so he pnt
himeelit between the combatants, elbowing
Ahem npfirt futile in raerey Anne
and its extent to not allot them until some
time afterwardi. -Seethedonly to fhatIe
felt in the great revival was Mr. Sveingee's
interest in the fortunes of his dear protege,
and in their private interviews he spoke of
them in cheerful hope.
" Go on, my boy, wan your Jukes, and
attend to them the beet you know how.
Nos only the good Lord, but everybody
„eceleee-teerereresease4eeeteseretemeee-eeeeteerese
to hie, juty. When -this meetin' is over,
then we can see how it suit to move. Hime
Jyner settee' at you ain't pinto do yon
any harm, epeoial when it's found out how
you mod np to him. That part got to
come out certain if the rest do. Whatever
yoa do, don't let Tom know yit how it all
were. Tom's fiery hissed!. We beet for
him not to know all abort it, so he 0a31
keep goin' there and keep you posted hove
the land lays. You better not go anigh the
•Jyners' yit awhile. They ain't no doubt
Rime's told his people all about it -bull-
headed feller that he ia-7.itavoitztViii
Jyner that yon has respects of her feelin's,
and it'll make Ellen madder with /lime
and more determied to lean on you, and
it'll fetch things to a head quicker. The
old lady come of fightin' etook, Babtia.' as
they was, and she ain't goin' to think lees o'
you for standin' equer' up to Hime, her
own son if he do be; and es for the young
'an, it'll aagaehuate her stronger. Wim.
ming, Henry Dawater, is a kind o' oreetere,
I don't keer how ekeery they make out
themselves, they want them they goin' to
eake-up-with-to-befestrectoi.nothine. epeeist_
them that has two lege. A man got to
study wimming to find out all about 'em,
like I hod ' to do when I were anourtini
Hester, and they had me up a tree. Why,
air, in them times a feller, and he were
Heater's cousin, and he have prop'ty, and
he were a big feller and a fighin' feller, and
he wanted Hester for his own self, he did=
for she were pretty as a pink -and he made
all kind o' game o' me. And I took it,
because I were steered o' mispleesini any
her relation ind kinfolkseafidlieteetle more
and he'd a got her. At last, whee I see
how things wan a gwine, I got desperiti,
and so one day I meets him in town, and
he hadn't hardly 'wren said the word
beaus to me before I lit on him, I did, and
I wore him out. Now whut you think were
the upshot o' seoh as that ? Well, sir, the
very next time I see Hester she were oomin'
out o' meetin' •' for I dannet not come
anigh her ma'shonee ; and when she see
me she hewed, she did, and she smile; and
the next day, when I wet that all a.trimb-
iin'-for she were a beauty, I tell yon, boy,
and she hold her own now along with any
of 'em yit, as people can see for theyself-
but, when I got thar, of she didn't rise,
and, as I understood the motion, she hilt
her arms open. She always say she didn't.,
All the same to me. Into them arms I
flewed, mime as a sparrer from a hawk, and
thar I ben ever since, blessed be God 1 And
what's more, her ma, that feller's own
blessed aunt on his father's side, she got
rioonoiled to the match, which up to then
she ben horstile, same et I come of Tory
people. No; air; that's wimmiog the
world over; and main reason I parted you
and Hime, I were feared o' your light
weight. 3ut yon showed the sperrit, and,
aa the feller said, that are suffioient. No,
sir; that skrimmage will go to fetch the
business to a oompermise quioker than if it
hadn't happened. It would of done it
quicker if it had ben the Mays, which they
ain't that awful inreenions about Babtisi
as the Jynera. Yit, my eon, yon done
right in follerin' your instink o' love. I
believe in her strong as pizen, Berne as I
did thirty year ago. A man got no business
a-wantin' to marry any female girl without
she seem to him at the very top o' creation,
so to speak, and he feel the inetink o' love
breakin' out all over him ih spots big as a
sheepskin. No, sir 1"
Henry smiled, as well et the speonlations
of Mr. Swinger on his own romantic ex-
periences as at the intimation thus given
unintentionally of hie partial regret that
his young friend's affections had not found
a lodgment somewhat further down the
river.
. CHAPTER IX.
W ether or not Mr. Swinger understood
ha n nature as well as he churned, re-
juatified his predictions. Ellen pru-
dently refrained from expressions of much
feeling et home. She Managed to see Tom
Doster on the day of her return from the
campground, and in the interview both
gave and received some salutary advice.
Two weeks afterwards, when Mrs. Joyner
found out that Henry had been in the
neighborhood and had called only at the'
Mays', she amid to Hiram :
" You've made matters worse by your
tooth% interference. Ellen has seen that
Henry Doter i quite able to take care of
himself against`violent young then like you,
and though she don't say so in those words,
it's plain to me thet, just as I'd be in her
place, she thinks more of him than she did
before; and it would have looked much
more decent, beside being .better every
way, if the young man, when he was down
here, could have come right on to the house,
instead of having to meet the child at the
Mays'. The respeot he showed for himself
es well as ne all by keeping away proves to
me that he's a gentleman, and it he wasn't
a Methodist preacher I don't know_thet • L
should feel so mnoh opposed to it. As it
is. you've put it where Ws worth nobody's
while to say anything about it, one way or
another.
" I've done my -duty," answered Hiram,
bluntly. " Ellen, as she alweye has done
in spite of my advice, will do as she pleases,
especially when you don't -try to hinder
her ; but such things are very far different
from anything pa ever entioipated."
Then he went oat, in order to let this
remark, es he knew it would, rankle in his
neother's mind.
Mrs. lNlay also had her words of indigna.
tion for lEtiratteg conduct and admiration
for that of Henry.
" Why, William," she said to her son,
'Sally Joyner ought to be proad of each a
young man for Ellen's:1 bean, ehd if she
waset -840/1 m Baptist, and act pond of
Horeb because Mr. JoYner etarted it, elle
would. Upon my word, when I heard how
he had behaved to Hiram in what was the
moat uncalled-for attack I ever heard of,
to say nothing of camp -meeting going on at
the time; declare, Methodist preacher as
he is, I couldn't but wish--. However, I
won't say that; bet you two boys, Want°
May and Hiram Joyner -how' have you
tvOckori abused your cippoettinities 1 I've
patience WW1 either of you! -
Will leinghed es he turned awayr rot -
" No; you won't ; not ei" ate yott-te- Piavt ei-Thirgiricontier eh& Woo& Iesetine n
not gold Allen Besieger know hiesselt." only to those immediately intorafteed in it,
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AMOY Illnete Anderson, whose fatherie
land and negroes were just across theriver,
river, was • beginning to seem in his eyes
about the equal of anybody.
In all this while the mind of the pastor
of Horeb had been anxiously exeroised, in
spite of several quite unexpected immer-
sions, whioh there was no denying were ow-
ing to the late Methodist revival. Ile tried
on prBr'erZekol Jynerr, and aa lestke
more and rd a loot my appetites mei
viotualee'
(To be Continued).
Principal ateGregoris. Strange Weems.% "
Since the lest day of last year I have
(says Prinoipal MuCiregor, of MoMaeter
University ) been leeting what advantage
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good had come out of each a whirlypool, a
he was wont to oharsoterize the ()Imp meet
ings, but he
miniings, brood over the Poseia
loos of at lost one favorite lamb. • Ontaid
of hie own home, except when in the pnlpi
9r when engaged otherwheres in religion
(partionlary denominational) disonesiou, h
was far from being a wordy person, and h
seldom meddled, except when appeal wa
made to him, in famdy matters among hi
congregations. Oue evening Hiram Joyne
came over to hie house, and after merely
saluting Mrs. Bullington, asked her husband
for a eer'y te on ervet'o Al ter th
here may end. • I am asill lying on my
back in bed with a weak opine and the
lower part of my body paralyzed. Thiel
far I have had no return of power to the
paralyzed pens, but the day of possibility
and hope is not gone by yet. I am Low re.
oeiving treatment , from Dr. A.
B. Judson, iiof the great uaiesionary. Hie
special department is orthopedic surgery,
and by the applicationof brace pressure to
the spine with cautery and stispetesion heig
e Paw wocrkins, for q. repuuml ofAheop.t.0 •
e emeans now ewp oy e ring
about nci improvement in the ensuing eiz
weeks I may then have my spine opened
by Dr. Weir, one of • the foremost
of living surgeons. The operation ia
rare and oritioal and has been at-
tempted only within recent yeses and
chiefly in America. Yet thougbeeitical
the leading eurgeone in thie oity tied the
risk of life in the operation mut& leo than
I was led to regard it before coming here..
I have learned of a number of eases of
paralysis in which the operation has been
-performed in-thitreitye -None-of-these-were
followed by fatal issues and in about belt
of them large advantage was gained. Yet
no very accurate prediotion can be made
regarding results eine° the operation has
been performed in very few cedes, perhaps
not more than 25 or 30 all told. The phy-
sicians here agree that my paralysis is due
to a slight displaoemene of Iwo or three
vertebrae in the spinal column, and that
, this displacement is due to some external.
e injarywhich has wrought some decay in
the bone and thus given nee to the curve- -
cure. Dr. Weir telTh me he believes that
any tendency to decay in the bone at the
point of injury has been whofly ires&ed,
and that it te fortunate for me, ei a it _is
often progressive and therefore mom-
, ponied with dangerous ulcers and &bosses -
a He gays he regards my case as quite hope-
ful, that I have two good chances of
encovery,--one-thecrugh-the-preeeet-orthras
interjections' things frora Mr. Bullingtone
being more than common, awakened some
ourioeity in hie wife.
" Whut in the world Hiom Jyner want
'ith you, Mr. Bull'n'ton, make yon look so
serious? I dou't know when that boy ben
fo this house before."
" I ought to look ser'ons, oman, if I
don't. Mom Jyner Her'ous too, and well he
wont be. I didn't know tell now the intrust
he take in Horeb, whioh Zekol Joyner
thought and believed he were foundin' on a
rook- ewhen-he --bailt-her3-and-hime-nor
nobody else ever etpeoted-aeoh a thing in
this whole ontimely world as to see a
Meth'dis' come& down here and breakin' of
her up by marryin' into a fambly that nother
wants him or hien. Them reports about
them girls was jes the fact -truth, and Hiom
Joyner say that If eomethin' ain't done, and
that soon, both them famblies is broke off
from Horub. For you kuow well enough,
to my eorrer, that them Mays they ain't
never been good, genuine, Babtiel like th
joyners, and when that preacher; that he's
Tom Dorrister'a cousin. and Tom a.helpin
him -my Lord 1 And when he have took
Ellen away, Hiom say they wren to go
Tom and Harriett in time, and I can't tel
the time I felt like I ben afeelin' for this
lest hour. When I ben ooantin' on Tom
Dorrister for ' one o' the very mini
deacons when he got ia little more
age and expeunoe on bis elnielders
and as for the helpin' support
the paretor a000rdin' to his prop'ty, he ben
the one most 'pennance was to be put of all
of 'em. I wouldn't of believed it of Tom
Dorrister. And not only so, but I always,
tell this newe, counted on the jindin' o' ther
benne wheneoever they got married that
everybody never had ary seoh a thought but
Ellen and Willem May, and Hiom Jyner
and Har'i't. And I'll jest tell you how it'll
be. The old man Swinger'll be the one to do
the marr'n'en that Dorxister preacher and
Ellen, and then he'il hop up and
put Torn and Har'i't through a
bein' of Tom's cousin, and in
course a wantin' back his fee he paid ole
Br'er Swinger, and I ehaen't be even invited
to nary one o' their weddin's. Ain't I got
cause to feel eer'ous, omen ? "
"Oh, Mr. Ball'n'ton," began'his affection-
ate wife, with comforting intent, " if it's the
lots and lotteries of them young people—."
" Don't talk to me about your lots and hit.
teriee, f emale 1" he bawled. " Your lots and
your lotteries don't do any good to my
mind, the fix my mind's in."
The good wife subsided, and could sym,
pathize only in silence with the multitudi.
nous oomplainings of her lord before sleep
that night came imparting temporary
relief.
The next morning, after awakening, the
first words that Mrs. Buffington overheard,
sounding as if they come np from the bottom
of an extremely deep grave, were, ",Woioes
the time have some when woicea got to be
raised and let out in seoh a quan-derous-
come off ! "
About an hour after hie breakfast Mr.
Buffington rode over to the Joyners'. Dis-
mounting solemnly, solemnly hitohing his
horse, he walked ,as if his lege barely were
able to take his gigantic form into the
piazza.
" Brother Ballington," quickly said Mrs.
Joyner, even before taking his. hand, "you
are not well. I saw it the minute I laid
eyes on 'you. Take that rockingeohair,
unless you are afraid to nit out in tbe open
air, and I'll have Nancy bring a dipper of
cool water from the 'well."
He let himself down upon the rpoker, and
waved his hand with some defiance to the
open air, as if the harm it could do, added
to, that already poured !nen otheesoarcee,
was merely contemptible. And.,when able
to °peak though in. much feebleness, he an-
swered " How. do you do, Sister Jyner, ?-
No, Sister Jyner, •I ain't afraid o' the
Pr. That ar can't hurt erne. You Said
somethini about water, it I heerd correct,
Slater, eyner'and I'll acknowledge my mind
were a.runnin' on water the minute yon
spoke. No, no, -oh, no 1 t' And he raised
a hand in mournful, firm deprecation as the
lady started into the house to cad for the
beverage. " My mind, I say, 'Ave been
a-runnini on water more here lately,then I
'member it have ran thar, epeoial hence I
were old enough to be oonwioted o' the
value not ece_eancheforehe-drinkienr'itee
Jtizaye for she present. Feet is, I never
doubted nor wished to deny the good Lord
made water for man and bead to drink ;
one thing. But the maimed thing,' if I
understand the Soriptur i water, when it
were made, it were made for people to git
down into it, and have theireelvea dipped
into it, or !either, an the Soriptur' say,
baptized into it, by them He have app'inted
the authority to wash away their sins. And
r well 'members how that need to be the
ideas thee Br'er Zekol Jyner had on them
same snbjeots, and I couldn't begin to tell
the times, -me and him, that we always
went together in our mind, same ef we been
two black•eye peas. But, a-1att him a
bein' now dead and gonad, and the left here
and entryin' to peg away beet I oan by
myself -no, no, Senor Jyner, I don't want
no water to drink, a yit, a ripe 0.7denyire I
won't take a gourd after a white. Wbar's
Ellen ? "
" Harriet came by here a little while ago
and got Ellen, and they rode together over
to Sister Dowries."
" Rode to Sister Dorristeris 1 The good
Lord fiend it were to stay thar!" he said,
with solemn heartiness. " That ie of
course, I mean when the child git ready to
leinveethe pertanohol ruff. Ent it give me,
her _tome, site/eye te,•, DOM- -beteer-ohanee„
toOopt'ire my mind of some o' the load that
look like I can't .rileep o' nights aethinkie
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pedio treatment, and if that ahould fail
another through surgery.-Ceenadian Bap.
A Boy Worth Millions.
The youngest millionaire in New York
city ie little Marthell Roberts. His father
was one of the great merchants of hikday,
and when he died some four years ago he
left an estate valued at $10,000,000. The
little boy did not have this entire fortune
bequeathed him, because there were other
claimants with equil rights to it. When
Mr. Roberts died he was an old man. Hia
widow, one of the beautiful Soong ecioiety
women of our metropolis, and the mother
of little Marshall was hie second wife.
She is now only, 30, but is stepmother to a
lady of 40 and stet -grandmother to a.
young lady of 20, while Master Roberts,
aged 10, is uncle to a maiden twioe
his age. When Mr. Roberts • died
he lett a will dividing his • 'Money
among' . bis wife, his grand -daughter
and his little son. The son has half of
the fortune for his own ase, but until he
comes of age hie mother is to have the
inoome from the $5,000,000. He has a
tutor who lives in the house and looke after
his mental training. He is beiug educated
after the English fashion and learns lie
Latin and Greek with his English primer.
Mre. Roberts is proud of her bright, hand- -
some boy, and takes every pains to make
him a healthy, educated gentleman.He
este plain food, sleeps on a hard mattress.
is taught to know the value of money, and
in every way is trained with the same rigor
as a royal prince. His fortune is -most of.
it invested in real estate and 'Government
bonds, and four or five well known men
are hie guardians. His income, when he
comes into his fortune, will be $200,000 a
year, which ie almost $850 a day, or $22
for every hour he lives.
Thoughts By the Way.
The man Who fears God shall be taught
,
by God in God's own way. --Dr. M. R.
Vincent.
Bowe one said of a fine and honorable
age that it was the childhood of immortal.
ity.-Pindar.
Sin is to be overcome, notrmnoh by
fiv
maintaining a direct opposition o it as by
oultivating opposite prineipleae- i alter.
Ali our notions take their lines) from the
complexion of the heart, as landsnepee their
variety from the light. -W. T. Bacon..
On a SUM dial which siande upon the pier
at Brighton is inscribed this most hopeful
line : "'Tis alwaye morning somewhere in
the world." .
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is
the most powerful influence in the world,
next to the might of the 'spirit of God. -
Spurgeon.
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s•-•Reentifullertle year in its ooming endive
itp going -moat beautiful and blessed, be -
0411E0 it is always the year of our Lord. -
Lucy Larcom.
Not a Hopeful Case,
Mr. Peinwed-Then yon re dee to marry
me?
Mrs., Mainohance-For „Ale ‘:present I
must. Myhusband is in good health and
we are the beet of friends. 1 will kaepyoar
address and if a vacancy should occur I wilI
drop you a lino.
, The Florida otenge- eneop this year ifie
re'okoned at 2,000,000 boxee.
Sedlier's Catholic Directory for 1800
gatimatea the Catholic peptilation of the
United States at 8,277,039 There aro
8 332 prieets, 7,523 ohurehee, 3,302 ohapele,
35 di-Nil-60ot deinenarien with 2 132 stn.
dehte, 102 colleges, 635 aeaciemies, 5t3I
charitable inntitntione end 3,194 parochial
schools with 633,238 ptipile.
Arohbiehop Felines organ, Le Seniority
Religeuse, denounees thiepropood taxation -
of religions property.
The Rev. Dr. Lynkan Abbott is drawing
nearly as large ootgregationa to Plymouth •
Church no Henry Ward Beecher did in hie,
• I mete d eysee • Inetel a teeStoiday
Abbott took took rather ft. peesireietio view ot
the eountrY's future. •
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