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the Bider, wrapped in Ocoee,
Knelt amid deouytheproango and on ruin Over a bed of English viejets, care
hie home • •• fully culling the largest 'and sweetest.
, altd hie piety he'd neSer till that mornin When she turned round1 with her
; been so brisht:
' For he prayed for those who brought hi howls full, her small visitor was no-
-•to that unexpected plight. w. bore to be sem
• Mutsonie worldly • thoughts intruded t Jo
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be woudered o'er and o'er At first madame thought she must
. If they'd buy that day at auction, wh•. . . ,
they gave the might before ; 1 -be inallig atoong the plants; but he
And his fervent prayer concluded wit nolo not find her. .Tisra she .. went
the natural exclamation :
am unto
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*Wows i'elrowed ttitioltlyittat by the her desertiou had been to her yen w(* either usleep or out of the teen). err:meta, huh**
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might read in, her white heir. bite Once 1 ac't your ktlai 6PP6441. 6 Ara" and tiding in a
yfeiter lied vaifithed,, end titungh she weea inieereble, unhappy creel/ore in
Outsells reeehed the door, her small
sumne
mod lAsp serener* pia wised I all her pomp end stetelinese.
( the myeterioue
with the cherub head, and birdlike
er end took out thet little but dreeS, 'hoses and ante
thouaht you would Purely Rues* who ; eirerea to him, and*he Inn
Thula wax when you sow Wet on her. I wet they sent the outline of h
.IJrn• name is not Dada, you know. It the face a the. moon.
In Attie* the Man in the moo
supposed to have Wowed the wra
of the suleand pnoiehment ia came
by the knife (that is the raYS) Of the
latter. This eontinueti until the whole
of the moon is cut and Only a.
littie piece is fen. The moon imploree
the sun to have pity, on him and leaver
this morsel to •bis children, The sea
grant his reqnest end the moon grows
from this little piece ,until at last it is
a full ration. Then the sun begins
carving again.
In Qhina the old man of the moon
is known as Yuelito, and, holds
the reins of marrieges ameng
mortals in hie hands. The fur'
husband and wife are tied together by
an invisible mitten cord, which only:-
severed at death. This must be the
man of the honey moon.
A Slavonic legend. sap that thentoon,
m00% king of the night and husitaed
of the sun, fell M love With the mow-,
nig attar, and wherefore he was cloven
in putiiilnnent as 'we see hinl in the\
sky to this day. •
A Russian myth is told about ma\
who sought for the isle in which there
was no death. He took up his abode
in the moon, •but after - a hundred.
years or So had elapsed death gawk
after hint; furious strugle eitsued,
and the moon proving victorious the
man' was taken up to the sky arid now
shines as a stair near the moon.
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ktebeived nitiessge daily erne faith'e
ixdrattial mite.
lent lied kept hui chapelfull of flames
' 44avenly Are t
Me ned Weer uutteroun feraily, straight
and sturdy as he could,
An4 life 'bops ,were oousidered %Janet.
madly good;
*Whig Atineuder sarry" kept hira till Went
look the proolainatiou-
s'Vointill pay him up thiii season with
-sen'rous, large donation."
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day or two After theetately lady
•was in lter oonaervalory.
JIM they brOnglit him hay and barley,•aud
" steneroorit upon the ear, -
Straw enoughto bed hie pony forever and
year ;
And they strewed him with potatoes of iu-
cousequeuti al size.
AO time °Mous whose rouipleteuess drew
the moisture from hie eyes;
Aud some eider -wore like water, iu au
•, inventory strict -
• And some apples, pears aud peaches, that
-the autumn gales hadpicked ;
Ala ewes striugs of dried-up -apples--
mummies of the frutocreatiOn-
tOame to swell the doleful census of old
Eider Lamb's Donation.
Also radishes and turnips pressed the
punikie's cheerful cheek, .
Pilrewise beaus enough to furbieh half of
Boston for a week,
Aud some butter that was worthy to have
•Satiapson for a foe,
,and some eget, whose inner -nature held the
legend -“Long ago";
A.nd some stove wood, green aud crooked,
on his ilower.beds was laid,
Fit to furnish Are departments with the
• most sub,tautial aid,
All things uueppreoiated found. this night Won't you run away again if I put
their true vocation
Voice and movement came to Meditate
Van Dyck,
neareet can come to swag
ddenl from somewhere near,' She bad been ilI or sea era wee,
ks
San a
PO this 00 now' if 00'11 di J. conte through her bicknese the thought of
fowers. I the child had haunted her ; and partly
Turning quickly, madame saw al because she could hear nothing of her,
cherub head • parting the branching partly, perhaps, because she was sick
leaves of 4 tall white lily just beside I and nerrouti, she began to have
ehe
You talked ,just like that when you
I•Id I voice and was saly aaw 4hio t,a sit up, ere little. Where is that man 1
th
Now, moer don't call bire that
man, Fred is not very far away, you
may be enrol. We only live a few
streets off, When toy he come and
seeyoul
At once. forgive him everything
on one condition. You are ell te
come and live here with me. 1 can't
be separted from you agai.t. And if
ha and I are each careful to mind our
own business, we shall be a model
mother and sorein-lave.
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her.
She bad not heard * sound till
then, and there tees that strange eland
again,
Madame .put her head to her aide,
strange fancies about her.
She was Ito like Laura when she
was little, she thought, and 00 one
ever saw her but me, It was very
strange,
Oh, she murmured, in an accent of And then as Madame Sat there
litiogled pain and fright, it is Laura're alone, her door opened a little, and
Nee over e.gaite--Laura's very fano. then a little more, end the child she
The child stood still, looking at her was thinking of came softly into the
WWI her lovely, shining f•yes, her rootu.
small halide fluttering like two wings She was dressed in. some kind of
of a bird. • dewy blue material, which looked as
Suddenly madame caught her in if it might have been cut from a cloud
her arms and kissed her with such fer in the sky, and her fleeting golden
vor,end hugged her so tightly, that the hair surrounded her head like a halo,
child called out, •sharply : Laura's face, Laura's dress that,
Dada 'fraid. Put Dada down this keep locked in the drawer
inotnent. in this rooni. Oh, what can
13ut she did not cry, as Madame it wean ? ,mademe uttered.
Van Dyck noticed approvingly. Dada love oo, the child cone.d,laying
her velvet cheek against the gold fine
gent that were Clutched upon the arm
of madame's ebair.
Madame Van Dyck suddenly leaned
forayer&
In heaven's name, who are you,
child ? she cried out, wildly.
•1 the museuni of known , as Bider d R •
Douation:
ThereWerebisouiis whose matsrial was
there own secure defeuce ;
There were :lances whose, acitmness bare
the sad pluperfect tense;
There were jellies uudissected, there were
mystery laden' pies;
•-There was Weed that long had waiter' the
• sigusi to arise, ,
There were cookies tasting clearly of the
dear and musty 'past ;
There were doughuuts diet in justice
'mouget the metals might be classed,
'There were chiakelis, geeee and titriSlYit
that had long been oil probation,
Now received in full connection at old
Elder Lambs Donation,' •
'Then they give his wife a Wrapper made
-
for sorne one not so tell, 2
• A taIltey brought him'a- tvisiity slippers,
, every pair of .which was smith ;
And they covered him with sackcloth, a
it were, in various bit- 4
.And- they clothed hie- helPiesa children i
a warcirlibe of mists; •
And they trimmed his house with .‘ We -
;mine," and bric-a•bracieli trash,
And one absent-minded mother brought
live dollars all in cash 1 .
'Which the good old pastor 'handled with a
thrill of exultation,
'Wishing that in filthy lucre might have
come his whole donatiou.
Madame obe3 ed, laughing as she
had not done fol years.
Now, you email mystery. site seid,
as the set her upon her feet, what
next ? *
The child held up the short skirt
• of her gayly embroidered dress in her
wee fingers ;
Dada want fowers now. Dada want
et bushel of fowera.
Madame proceeded at once to slit
as nearly a bushel of her choicest
blossoms as her tiny skirt would hold,
taking whither • ones Dada herself
ordered with the babyish imperious-
, 'ness of a thoroughly spoi!ed child,
She is Laura over again, just Laura
over again, madame kept repeating
to herself, with lips that trembled a
little. I cen't jmagine where she
comes from. • But she "shan't escape
this time as she did before.
rniii came at last, in eplerftior; but She was bending at this moment
"Lni Grippe" or Influenza can be quickly
cured by the use of Wilsou'e couipoundof
WIId Cherry. the old reliable remedy for
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup,Colde„
coughs and other diesases of reepiratory
Byrom. 'Wilson's Wild Cherry heti been
in use for many years and *highly main.
mended by alt who know its virtues, bold
by all prominent druggists.
Man in the Itoon.
Opp suPlirtsrrrloNs. oe ODD PEoPLE
AsonT Tau STRANGE ODD inVT11.
eh, Louis Republic,
The myth about the men in the
moon is of great ,antiquity : how old
we know not. 1 robaiily it dates far
bayond the time of Moses ; for many
aucient stories tell of the man who
was punished by death for gathering
stieks on the Sabbath (Number. xv,
32a6); and although no allusion was
That moment the door °Pent'd made in the Bible record to the moon,
again, and a figure entered • that was yet it was generally supposed that
the unfortunate Sebbath-breaker was
sent there and compelled to stay in
the moon forever thereafter. A well..
known German legend tells about this
man, and affirms that he was caught
up by the moon, fagots' and all, and
stands,there till thig day,
Another tale told in Suabia relates
to a manakin who etole wood,'and is
still to be seen in the 'neon. A Dutch
any of my letters, and when you Bead
household myth accused the man in
then back without opening them, 1
like a magnified Dada, face, dress,
Loving eyes and all.
Laura, screamed -Madame Van
Dyek. Have yen comeback to me ?
Qb, mother i cried:Laura, and then
the two women were sobbing in each
other's
shouleVie ;me before"ii 1 had
thought you? would have let me, Laura
said, crying. 'But pin never auswered
„..i'Tstke me to Thyself in mercy, Lord, b qult„ony to the nearest door—one
fore my next donation I
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optive into the parlors—and search -
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MYSTERIOUS OEM
Bit eAtiouSig copesp.
She was such a dainty littriwnl
Iltay, With her sad. tklicate, Intoglit Madattle'Vati D/ok Was the WidOW
face her snow-% htte hair, het black, of a rich man, whom she married late
ed there thoroughly berrelf.
Afterwards she questioned the
servants again; but as before, no one
Lind seen any child—no one but inad-
did not dare to ootne myself.
• Letters ? exclaimed Madame Van
Dyck. I don't Know what yon mean.
I have never had a line from you since
you left molar that man.
• 1 wrote yen several times. The
letters'were all returned to nie
opened. I can,eboW thein to yeti.
Madatne's housekeeper was summon-
ed.
Site turned white at the sight of hr
mistress' daughter and confessed to
everything. She had stopped the
lettere herself, and soot thein %melt,
thinking that site cold rob bor
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tress with more inienutity, es long as
she could keep her daughter from her.
Mother, said Laura, suddenly, look
at that child
Dada had clitnbed upon a °hair,
taken out a heilderchief, exactly two; their way, And the woman because
inoses end a half square, and was omit? she churned butter on Sunday.
postelly Ana quietly crying,all by her Northern mythology tells about a
self. ' giant who inhabits the moon and. is
What are you crying about, dear 7, supposed to cause the elth and flow of
asked her tnether. the tide. When he stoops the wave
No answer. cover the shores, and when lie stands
What is themetter, darling Laura erect they recede again. This resent.
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the moon of stealing cabbages on
Christmas eve; the neighbors caught
him just as he Was walking off with a
good supply, and they wished him up
in the moon.
He stands there to this day bearing
hie load of cabbages. It ia.said that
he turns round once every Christmas
eve, but astronomy does not support
thetlteoiy. itt Sylt the man in the
noten was a sheepeetealer, and it was
hia custom tO entice the sheep with a
bunds of cabbages. Sad to relate, he
was also placed in the niooli
as an everlaeting warning for other
sheep -stealers.
In Schaumburg. Lippe, a man and
• Woman were sent to the moon , the
Man because he prevented people from
going to church, on Sunday by strew-
ing brambles and thortisbushes in
• •
, laticing eyes, bright as stars.
•• ".141entrild was et mere beby, not
.01.0re than three =or four years old.
ttlitie had on. a white slip and tiny
oeeerlet shoet, but. wore neither ,eape
Aar nat.
**dame Van flyeketartedviolerttly
At eight of ber standtng there so and..
enly ea if she might have dropped
,i,rern the ceiling. Then ;Le said 410°"Pt one -
She fell in ler° with a bandeo
in lite without loving. Pfve rats
after he died, leaving her all hie pro
perty r‘for he had loved her,
-Therd,Was one ohila--a little girl—
whom madame adored with an abso-
lute idolatry
The child; was very lovely, very
Werni hearted. vex,' selfewilled, and
was never dallied the *leanest m'hilnt
,oeftly
Who rtre. you, little one WliOre
0100 you womat from
litelrabyfte ciesraeb matiatas fear -
It" eheWattle
ti* estt of gt.eeeon& off
itoti eltett sertterca. *bo
thrdd ivy Arittien4o4 ter
ykift ' land, attyingt
radial A
wept
Owing to the unprecedented demand for
plate,glaes it has advanced considerably in
price. Messrs IlfcCeusland & tiou,Torinite,
fortunately made contract before the
advance for a very eousiderabie quantity,
and arellius enabled to offer their petroiis
this season a decided advantage iu price,
the quality.being,superior any ever pre-
viously imported.
• Mow Many Mails for the Cow.
Governor Hoard says ; It '
totem a small mailer /to discuss,
Whether a dairy herd shouldbe fed
twice or three times a day, yet if twices,
is enough, as many believe, it is not
so very small a matter, No doubt
that iiistattee could be cited on eithele
side, which, taken alone, would ettee4
to settle the question, If a cow ia
underfed in two meals, or if her two
mettle are void of proper nourishment,
even if in full quantity, The addition
of a third feeding mey increase ti.
flow of milk or add to her weight of
flesh. There is no doubt that cow'.
maybe fed go they. will, flo about all
they are capable of doing by either
two or three Meals a dey, Ilotb sys-
tenis have been practised, and it can
hardly be said that there is very muck
difference so far ea the cow is concere
ed, She can take • her food in tWe
Mester or in three, according to the
convenience of the feeder, and 'grile4
do Scent .in quality and quautityit is
a. great eOnvenierice to have our stock
accustomed to the two:meal syatera.
It is especially convenient in the win,
teiseason, when the days are short
and the cattle are taking but little
exercitte. In a Old barn. 130Seibl/,
Cattle might need to be eating tott
Of the time to get food enough to keeli.
warm, but dairy men haveno use fOr
cold barns for their cows, Stables
should be so warm that rib exceislin
amount of hay and gram will be re.
toired for maintaing enieml hod.
The cow' has a stonteeh ,ntetle to
hold tt large quantity of ooaree, par-
tially meeticateri food tlixt, can be
Mastinated at, leisure. WWI) animism
to diel barn, we are usually Satisfied
that two meals for overage daily stook
asked her mother..
Pada kying about dose letters too.
Uktilknitl Van Dyuk laagiod aloud.,
tTpon winos the tottelut little
yonott,Man when she was seventeen; litreatote gravely put her handkerchief their shoulders the bucket Sueg and
and megeme, ordered 'hem to leave her in her pocket again, got down (rent the pole Shutt!. They were placed in
haute, artd never entee it again. her seat, and began ta latish too. the 18o011 and are supposed Ip regulate
f,thejeind Of it Woe !het Laura Van It is strange 1 never thought of her her waxing and waning. This recalls
Dyck, in *rinds and angry nienietit, being your ch(14, Laura, said teadettin. the familiar nursery legend of Jack and
dint hat the pole ei 'the heathen
San any *to lice lover and erried I i rke ou
him.
bles the Seendanavian myth about
130 and njoki, wbo Were taken lip to
heaven by Mane. They were on their
way to the well of Byrgir, bearing on
So every ono says. 1 thought you hits been transformed into the axis are fully ns adoptable to the coo/ sted
h f e
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prottd, Pessimist
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ast profftable to tbe oownerI.hoped the eigllt Of her *weld soften hu*. , three' mettle. We 'have been surpriod
your heat towarilt toyol. 1 bectribt In Minden mythology the moon— to see how cptickly the flew* wield
her limira terielit* 1 hed i key to tClbitndre of So-' h a utilise deity, ' ad
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