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the ether partners selected to parley
with the enemy.
Advancing, therefore, with a happy
mixture of confideuce and condescen-
It wasn't a hot day, nor a cold, nor I cion, Sol pluolied the cherries and was Well, you have seen me, now go !
a datnp day, but it vats an atrocious about to present them, when Indepen- But it's a warm day, anal ane very
day, a clammy day, an unbearable day, dence in a calico frook stopped back tired.
a day that makes your clothes stick to with a eo.il :
you like poor relations, that brought
out cold sweats on pitchers and gob-
lets that made your hack a racecourse
for contemptible little chills and the
zest of year body a target for a thous,
and invisible pins and needles, that
made the grasshopper a burden and
the dusty, begrimed city a pendemone
inns, that made Solomon Griggs, bach
• elor, of the firm of Griggs, Makeup &
'Co, the great clothing merchants, shut
up his ledger with a bang and start for
the country by the next train, remark
ing to old Grimsby, the head clerk,
that the city Wes stifling,.
To which that worthy replied :
So it is, but bow a'sout the fellers
hat can't get out of it and must stay
to be choked/
A problem which, I suspect, our
Mend, of the firm of Griggs, MakemWhy ?
& Co, troubled his head very little I You could tell me nothing new.
bout, being just then busy in looking I You are only a crucible for converting
ntothe dusty recesses of that picture , bales of cloth into precious ore that all
riflery, which memory furnishes and the world goes mad over. No doubt
rranges for us all as a single landscape I yon are all very well in your way, but
an ;ing there. I there are alchemists who could tran-
•A. low house with mossy, overhang I mute our humclrum,daily life into Bol-
ing eaves, standing on the slope of a' den verse or heavenly thought. To
reen hill, shaded by branching elms,
with level fields stretching off in the
oreground toward the sparkling water
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turn red, while tears actually started
in her oyes,
What do you want 1 she inquired,
sharply enough.
To see you, replied Sol, who, taken
by surprise, could think of nothing but
the truth.
Keep them yourself, sir ; I don't
care for them.
I thought that you wanted them,
stammered Sol.
So I did, because they were difficult
to obtain ; had they been on your
aunt's table I would not have touched
them. It is the glow of triumph that
gives 'a pleasure to its zest. Eat the
elierries yourself, and good evening
sir ? •
Stop a moment 1 said Sol, not a lite
tle astonished ; that is -1 mean—per-
mit me to accompany you.
No ; you would not expect me to
entertain you, and that would be too
much trouble.
But if, instead,
you
You cannot.
I should entertain
such a one I might listen, but you and
I have nothing in commou.
Not even our Humanity 1 asked Sol.
none side and dusty road on the The stern face of tine young girl soft-
ther, tied there dusty, sweating and tened a little, brit only for a moment,
fired Solomon found himself just about No, she answered angrily, not even
unset. Out came a ruddy-cheeked that. I, you know,am made of the in-
miling old lady in cap and apron, Eerier clay, you of the pure porcelain.
hat had attained a state of snowy Do you not remember how even good,
kind Autit Hester told yos there were
no young ladies with her, only the
seamstress ? You are slightly bored
already and think"me odd enough to
amuse you for a while ; but if some of
those gay ladies—among whom I hear
you are such a favorite—were to come
here, you would not even know lee.
erfection unknown to city laundresses.
Why, btess.me, if it isn't little Sof 1
'hy, who'd a thought of seeing You 1
nd she folded the stalwart bearded
an•in as warm an embrace as though
e were in reality still the Sol of form -
r days, And how do you do, Sol 1
Me hi, come in ; don't stand out
here. You kt.ow the litte path and Good evening, sir.
he way to the pantry yet, I dare say. What a Furious little radicall thought
ome in you needn't start back. It's
my ltach,lel. •
tut I didn't know you bad any
dies with you, Atiut Hester.
It's only teacliael, 1 tell you—Rach-
el Hart, the seamstress. Are there
women in your city that you are
raid to face a little eountry girl T
Little, indeed, thought Solomon, ae
e aeanowledged his aunt's somewhat
eculiar introduction—and not pretty
tiler—with large eyes of that. uncer-
in gt'ay that sometimes beams dark -
bine and then deepens into brown,
th smooth low forehead and light
awn hair tightly drawn across each
r, just reavealing its 'crimson tip ; a
co irregularly featured, and rendered Sol couldn't answer the questions
ill more striking by the 3ineular con- satisfactorily, but be went to bed and
sat between its extreme puler and dreamed all night of the little Diogenes
e intensely scarlet lips --tile person- in her calico frock.
cation of neatness, the embodiment That week and the next hIP waite.i
reerte • patiently for the first glimpse of that
Ari add little person, thought Solo- remarkable garment coming round the
it, but it's none of my business. corner, but in vain. And when, in
ismiseing her from his mind, he - such a careless manner that it was
ceded to the much more imports quite retr,arkable,he wondered audibly
business of malting hitnself percep where that odd little girl lived whom
r at Autit Iiester's tea table. be saw on the eve of arrival. Aunt
Sol+iwou did ample justice to the Hester answered dryly
Ivy bread, golden butter and lus• Away up— thereabouts, pointing
s strawberries, and tater, as that with her hand,
by was indulging in a stroll across She boarded, she believed, with
fields, be lifted up his eyes and bes. some queer sort of folks there; though,
tlie• littler seamstress, whose exist., for that matter, she was queer enough
he lied quite forgotten, under a herself; And this was absolutely all
ble cherry tree, making a des. she would say on the subject.
to effort to seize ittempting branch The next day Sol took it upon him -
lowest bough, revealing: iii her self to wander up that way, there..
n e very neat foot and ankle, abouts, and %vas revvarded with a
looking almost pretty with leer glimpse of the calico frock' going
cheeks and sparkling eyes. through as broken gate, and, following
, Sol was a gallant man—de. it aloeoy, came up with the wearer as
the precut chevalier of the she tvtts,,about to enter the dilapidated
Griggs, Makem it Co ; so froiib door, at which piece of imperti•
ver, at onto or twice hap• notxt o she liras so mach incensed as to Mr Griggs, I believe you are good
Sol,with an uneasyciaugh,as he watch-
ed her retreating figure.
After all he was not quite sure that
Clic had not spoken the truth. If the
calico frock had been a flounced silk,tor
instance, how many degrees more def.
erential .would have been bis manner
in presenting the cherries 1
Query the second.
If the calico frock had been walking
down Broadway' about, four o'clock in
the afternoon, would be, Solomon
Griggs, of Griggs, Makem & Co., as
willingly escort it across those green
fields, where if the robins and blue
birds did make reroarks it was in their
own language?
I can't help that. It's not my fault,
is it?
You might ask mo to walk in and
sit down, if yon were not as hard-
hearted as a Huron.
This is not my house.
You would, then, if it were ?
Well, then, I am thirsty ;•. give me
a drink.
There is the well, and an iron cup
fastened to it by a chain ; help your-.
self.
But she was gone ; and the next
time he inquired for her, Aunt Hester
told him, with a Malicious twinkle of
eye, that she had gone to the. city to
find work.
Perhaps the good soul had. been
troubled with visions of a tuture Mrs
Griggs, and was no' t altogether dis-
pleased that au unsurmountablo bar.
'tier was placed between that odd
Rachael Hart and her nephew Sol,who
was a good boy, but didn't know the
ways of women.
Be that as it may, her joy was; soon
turned to mourning, for Solomon re-
ceived despatches requiring his imrne-
diate presence in the city. At least
so she said, for Aunt Hester was. im-
movable in her conviction that that
Rachael was somewhere at the bottom
of it. She even hinted as much to
Sol when he bade ber good-byee but
he only laughed and told her to take
care of herself.
After all, business could not have
been so pressing, he spent theagreater
part ofhis time wandering through
lanes and back streets, not unfrequent-
ly dashing down alleys with thee, iuex-
plieible exclamation' of. That's her !
from ,whence he always returned very
redin the face and sheepish in: expres-
sion.
Three months had passed away,
when lie nearly ran against a little
woman, who looked up in his face with
a sardonic, smile,
Your eyesight is not so good in the
city, Mr Griggs. You don't know me
here.
Rachael—Miss Hart, I have been
lookingfor you everywhere I—a here
do you live?
She hesitated a moment, then said
shortly ;
Come and see.
Turning she led the way th"rongh
narrow streets, reeking with filth, and
teeming with a wretched population,
up a flight of broker} stairs, into a
dingy little room whose only redeem-
ing feature was its perfect cleanliness.
Will you be seated, v1r Grigg 1 she
asked with a scornful. smile. Now
that you Inion my residence, I trust to
have the pleasure of seeing you fro.
quentl y.
And you live in this den ? asked
Solotnon, Heedless . of her sarcasm.
How do you stepped yourself?
By my needle.
How muck does it taire to keep up
this magnifieent style of living
By unremitting exertions I can earn
two dollars a week.
Great heavens 1 Why didn't you
come to me 1 he asked.
For two excellent reasons : First,
should not have known where to have
found you; secondly?, I should not
have come if I had.
Of course not. Your pride is to
you meat and dril,k, Still, you might
have conte, We are in need of hands,
I don't believe it.p You wish to
cheat me into accepting alms.
There is our advertisement; read
for yourself 1 polling a paper from his
pocket.
The sunken eyes gleamed eagerly.
She was human after all, and was
even then suffering from the pangs of
hunger.
•
tnan, she said, bursting into tears. I
will work for you gladly. I am star/.
ing.
And she did work, early and late, in
spite of Solomon's entreaties, refusing
to accept anything but her wages, de,
dining to receive his visits, sending
back gifts, steadily refusing above all
to becorine his wife, though she had
softened wonderfully towards him.
You are rich ; I =poor ! she said
in reply to hie passionate arguments,
You are handsome ---I am ugly ; the
world would laugh, and year family be
justly offended.
I have no family, and as for the
world, lot it Ian n bh ; I dare behappy in
spite of all.
I will not have. you.
Do you love me'K
I will not
answer Solomon was obliged, to rest says she.
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are hood Wife, bet a, erect
Stranger.
In the diaries of the late !lir Cope,
R .A, published by Bent ey on, t e
following story is told by siater.in-
law :
She meta farmer friend, and said
to him, I hear, John, that you are
lately married ; who is your wife 1
Weel, Miss Benning, I don''b quite
IrIlow,
How so ? where did you meet with
her i
Aweel, ye see, Miss, I went to t'
market, and as I was going T seed a
canny lass walking along the road and
I says, Woe' ye get oop an ride T Aye !
says she.
So she got oop, and I aired her, are
you gangin' to market 1 Ay, says she,
have you ; and with that What for 1 says I. To git a plane,
contented.
Time passed on. A financial crisis
carne, and with hundreds of others,
down went the house of Griggs, dakem-
k Co.
Solomon sat in his' office gloomily
brooding overhis ruin; gloomily think-
ing of the woman whlase'lov-e be had
so long and fruitlessly tried. to win,.
Sb I set her clown i' t' market and
left her ; and as I came backs' t' even-
ing there was this same lass walking
t' sante way oop hill. Sea epake to
her again, and Axed her, Ha' ye gotten
yer place 1 Nay, says she,..bhanna,
Will you git oop and ride•1. Ay, says
she.
Se. she got oop, and I axed her,
darkly wondering if it were not better D'ye think my place would suit ye 1
to cut short an aimdess, hopeless,. What place is that 1 says she.
blighted life. In the little drawer on Why, to be my wife, says
the right lay a brace of pistols, a press dontt mind, says she.
ent from young Maketn. when he went So we got wed, and she's a rare good
to California. Sol took: them out— . wife but she's a perfect stranger to
they 'were loaded—it war but to raise. me..
than so, adjust the trigger so, and --For Young or. Old.Lady wants to see you, sir. G,I,.;•rLENES,—One of my little girls (aged
Can't see her. What can a woman, 4 years) had been trouble with costiveness
want here 1 Shut the door. If any di5fin, its orst form since infancy. We tried*
reutwremedies which game relief one calls, say ]'in out. using, but as soon as discontinued she
while
Once more he took up: the pistol,but would be worse than beforeusing. She
lost her appetite and was growing weak and
this time it dropped from his nerveless delicate. A frieud of mine who had used
handsl, for apair of arms- were around di B. B• gd results. fthe m
decease advisewitb d meranto try. andor alsosathee
his neck and two clear, gray eyes look- 13icrdock tills, which we did, She did
ed lovingly in his, while; the voice that not take the contents of, onebottle before •
, it relieved her, and not only relieved her•
was sweetest to him. whispered soft, ; ,bat permanently cured her, for she bas•
lv : net been trouble once since,aud elle is now
• 1041it years old.
When you were rich, I rejected ylott,• Firyns Ti> >�otus, Sarepta, Out,
Now that you are pooh I came to• ask + •
,you. it you will Luke tfie 1 Cruel Pr,zatteea.
And Solomon,, like a sensible roan.' A writer in the Stockman
put up the pistols and took the calico ii, later some thoughtless practices from
frock instead which farm horses• suffer, which can be
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enumer•
!remedied by a little„ thoughtful cousid-
lior.LowA:Y'S. OINTMENT AND ParLs.--- melon. tion. He says.:; The n10 t f�t'uel
Chest and Stomach. Complaints.— • thiug tient farmers and others' , with
The source and centre of almost every their boresdisease
them without sliest thawing
departs. i
Holloway's Pills exercise the inestitn- i the bits nut. Some of the neighbors
aile power of thoro}ighly cleansing i say they haven.'t tiese to hold, bridles
each component part of the blood, and I by the fire. ' T usually dip ray bits in
rendering this fluid fit to perform its 1the watering troughs, which'is just as
important f>nuctione, They mope most; geed: As aoc,rt as t%ie are wet the
sueeessfully with chest • diseases, , cy they
stomach complaints, liver disorders, � wall not stick to th'e month. And,
and many other :maladies, which were ; some peoplewillleave the breast straps:
once the besetting dangers of mankind i down where bey are trot holding up a:
at certain seasons in town and country.
The directions for use eatable every' neck -yoke. Sometimes. they have.
one to regulate the operation of these , heavy froze on them; which strike the
Pills with the greatest nicety. Oltronic•I' horses lege quite hard. I have, seen,
invalids, nervous sufferers, with breast for week
And w• s,
whom other treatment has failed to all farmers plostraps l�ai•tt�ng the homes nearly everyrelieve, are respectfully invited to try step the+. took. Let ns try to be moreHolloway s celebrated medicine, whish y
will strengthen and cure them. considerate and thot✓ghtful.
Farm and Fireside.
For rheumatism, a liniment of, oil of
wintergreen and olive oil .afforde great
relief. °
Glycerine and rose water, mixed in
the proportions of otieethtrd glycerine
to two-thirds rose water, is very good
for the hands.
Mothers who leave several children
to send to schoitl, will be glad
to know how to make their own ink
instead of buying tie many bottles of
it as are usually required.
A very excellent black ink may be
made as follows : To one gallon of
water, add one-eighth of a pound of
gum arabic, oneeeighth of a pound of
sugar, one.eighth of a pound of copper.
as and three eighths of a pound of
powdered nutgalls, and let it steep in
an iron kettle for one hour. To make
red ink, pet one teaspoonful of aqua~
ammonia in an ounce vial, add guru,.
arabic the tdza of two peas, six grains
number forty carmine, eight grains
number six carmine ; fill the bottle
with soft water and itis ready for use.
To make blue ink, add rain water to
Prussian blue until it is of the desired
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Cut. l;
A Saving of*anure,
It is becoming quite ho fashion with
fanners who stable a lirge number of
cattle to use their horse manure as an
absorbent in the cattle stables. This is
a good plan and the effect will be still
better if land plaster is sprinkled in the
stalls and gutters twice a clay. Writing
on this subject a correspondent of the
Rural New Yorker says: My method of
saving horse manure is a simple one, and
it is strange that more fanners do not
adopt a similar plan and save their ina-
nuro piles from heating, after whiolithey
are worth no more than so much saw-
dust. Here is tho receipt : Just dump
your horse niunure in the hog yard and
Ulna preserve both itatd the hog manure
iii perfect state. I manured four Acres
of corn last season with the manure from
three hogs and a few loads of horse ma -
mire treated in this way.
Tai simply epidemic It:iiuenz s; Wilson's
WildClierry'will aura it safely and quickly.
Get the genuine, in white wrappers only,
and see it as directed for xa-flnetara„