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you'll let me work Any passage you
11110 tfll WMt won't be sorry for it.
e. Our skipper was a terrible rough
ee�..asee -._ .- -. -. men.. Ho swore a great oath, and
FI : ° a �
� , NU'�fP 11RER 22, ;t1829, turnng to me he said Quartermaster, put the ryoung imp
- in trope for to -night.
ht. 111 awe what
ONLY a BOY, Use beat to do with him in the morn
iteg. If he doesn't go overboard, it's
amtfreonly
e; a bey, vvitlr a heart light anal{ Glasgow he'll land at and not London -
X. am brimming with mischief and frolic doer y' th fe11Aw,
end glee
1 dance with delight and whistle wising,
Asad you think Kula .a boy uever cares for
a }Icing.
But boys have their troubles, though jolly
they seem,
Their thoughts can go farther than most
people deem:
Their thoughts are as open to sorrow as joy.
And each has his feelings, though only a
bay.
Bow oft when I've worked. hard at piling
• the wood, e
Have doue alt my errands and tried to be.
good,
I think I might then have a rest or a play;
But how ceu I muuge ? Can any one say
It I start. for a stroll, it is "Keep off the
erect?"
If I;;o into the house, it is "Mercy 1 what
Et!"
sheers !" idp
s of the est 12e waw tied, tee I
If I lone a by a window, tis « Don't loiter • ,•l cold have been too late, and she'd
If I try to remonstrate I'm ,'As oross as a have been in the poor -house. You see
bear!„ I ran away from home two years ago,
and went to sea, because I was the
oldest of three, and she wasn't able
to feed us all. I've sent her a little
money since then, and I've had letteers
from her, but I've never seen her.
The day before yesterday 1 got a let-
ter saying that poor t3tdllie, my little
sister, sir was dead. It had taken all
her money to bury her, and the quar-
ters rent will be due in a month. If
it is not paid she will be put out, 1
I Wes sorry for .a poor, hut
I had to obey orders, and the irons . The youngster took the wheal, .and . breath nen eeeeeenee
headed her, it seemed to all of us, for' "lt was four utiles above N:atohez,
"4 }T;'r^; r
The youngster wr{M standing there be. • ie SAW 00. Z*p10*toa, 'Vein" a, Tiolcat *pat.
WM. aide in.. We. were talking about stea%nboat One of the ticket age! the
I was born on that coast sir, ie Bald racing an 1 steam boat ace dottts in the Mie .igen Central railre1ed, erne
:,peaking, very slow, and I know every olden uay's, wheu • the than with a ta,n town in Caltatla, was an: y, in
rook on it. I know, beside*, a channel cataract cit his left ops interrupteut ,tepeedeaut penile than who bop*on the port bow. We'll soon be oft' it one of the speakers; with:— ;work with the idea Owhe ran thw
Shall I take you in I "Geutliounti I have been intimately „wholes line. 'ibe boys had numerone
If you think you can, said the skipconnected with about a dozen steam. ,uornp'aiilimats atraiust li, and more
per, do. It don't matte couch differ- boat explosions its ray life, though 1 'than oucr be would have caught it ou'
epee, he says, taming to the mete, ter •never saw lint cue. Da you want the the ear had he not been fenced ,in •
we are bound to to ashore, anyhow. partioul.trsl" wjirre lie could not he got at, Otte
i'11 give Bim the wheel, We all said wedid, and he got his evening five or six of us happened to
meet there as we mineiu criesmade,• and we soon gest onto the fact that the•
general mane:ter and two or three
other oflieiels of'the road were in the
ticket otliee. Welaid our heads to-.
getlier and put np. is jell, Wo all had
our 1,000 -mile tickets, lent r aeli of tle•
six went to the wintlew in turn and
bought a ticket for the nearest station
Fast or west. When all had been
served the first went buck to the win-
-dow end said:
were soon on kris wrists and ankles in
tlae forecastle, He was terribly upset,
at;d when I was on watch that eight,
I went to him and tried to cheer him
up. It was getting on for four bells
when the mate said he'd like to see the
hoy,and he went with me into the for. - open in front, and the steamer ran opposite me, and not a quarter of a
castle, through a passage not fifty yards • tnilo away, she exploded both boilers
Now, my lad,lie says, stooping over across, and in five minutes we were: and went to Hades across lots. 'Tete
hint with a,lantern,tetl us all about it. , at anchor in smooth water. was R Wow, a oc:tsh, an awful roar,
Wheat did you stowaway for i Why' The next morning the skipper says and site was gone. She just faded
- night out in three seconds."
didn't you ship in a sailing vessel if' to Itis passenger; •13ut what of the people" anxiously
you wanted to got home to see your . Here's £15 that I owe you, sir, 'for- P p
mother? saving their ship. inquired cue. .
Oh, sir, said the youngster, with Aud he gave the youngster an order "Tho people, Well, shots} R hundred
the tears in his eyes, as he sat by the for £100, ' :killed, and something ,likes another
was nothing proud about the hd'idre:d hurt or welded. It was a
lad. There took the money, . pied has brand sight. My Tfather-in-law was
mother's rent, and gave her a snug one of the lost. 1\o artist could do
sum far house keeping. What became such a its s oue
scene nstice on canvas, tliy
wife wcue of the victims. It seem
of bine? Well, he and I have been ed as though the • boat rose twenty
shipmates pretty nigh ever since,
feet into the air and than
though he's heaved many a knot ahead s:2attered
of me. That's hien calling mr clow, into a million pieces One of cry
aunts and two.of my children went to
concluded the boatswain, pressing the their death. Sho was fairy in front
of cue, and 1 had my gaze ou her, and
so I saw every detail. My grand
father was coining down on a visit,hut
ho went to hie doorit. The first
warning of the awful tragedy was"
Any more relatives of yours ou
board interrupted one of the group.
A few. •
Then I move we adjourn. I want
some of thele to' live through it
Aud we walked away and left the
oldlate. liar looking sacl and disconso-
where the breakers 'sounded loudest, and twenty -live years ago. I stood
The big fellow that helped Bite was on the hank just at Iroou, and • just as
told to do just as the lad ordered him. the Octoroon saute booming down the
It was a ticklish time for all hands. river. She was a grand, big boat,
But, all at once, the rocks seemed to loaded with people, and when exactly
If I u.;k a few questions, 'tis "Don't bother
me 1"
Or else, ''Such a torment I never did seal"
I ate e.:nlded or muffed if I make the least
moles.
Till I think in this wide world there's no
place for boys,
At school they aro shockedif I want a good
pl:•.y ;•
At 'wee or at church, I am so in the way ;
And its hard for I don't see that' boys are
tabla.me,
And 'most: any boy, too, will tell the same.
Of course a boy can't know as much as a
roue,
Put we try to do right, just as hard as we
c:n;
Have patience, dear people, though oft we
annoy,
Por the best man on esrth once was "Only
aBoy, '
W,¢T THE STOWAWAY
DID FOR THEM.
EY EDffit1TD LYMTS.
The ice was heavy on the Baltic
-that season,—it was the latter part, of
i3.ive saved £tri, and I want to give
it to her with my own hands. I wish
now I had sent it to her; but maybe,
I can post it to her from London.
perry, if he takes me on to Glas-
gow.
Dashed if the mates eyes weren't
'dim, and I c uldn't see very clearly
myself when the youngster atopped
talking.
Hold up your head, my lad, says the
mate, and I'll say a word or two to the
skipper.
He went out of the forecstle and I
followed hili close enough to hear the
1S76, ar,d vve expected to be in Eng }toy's s'ory tout again.
• land by E'hiristinas, but the -weather
was cool -and fine, and the old boats-
wain found time on Sunday morning
to drop his whistle to the end of its
lanyard, and step into the gallery to
warm his hands for a few minutes.
He lit his pipe with a red coal, . and
turning to the ship's only passenger,
said :
Yon was a sayin' last night, sir,
that you hadn't got nu faith in.stowa-
ways. Well, no more have I, gener-
aIly speakin' ; but I once ran foul of
onb that was not eo bad as the rest:
rIt's nigh on to slit y:�ar ago when I was
quartermaster iii tt steamer -- the.
.Zebra—lyin' at her warf in Calcutta,
. and lottdiia' for Glasgow. The Hoogly
was crowded with Bailie' 'vessels that
':couldn't get no crews, and most of
. their own men had deserted, and
:shipped in steamers that was goin'
-through the Suez Canal, that had just
keen opened. They all wanted to get
home quick, you see, and to go by the
newfangled route, and not to make a
four months' run around the Cape,
The steamers had all the men they
wanled,'and a sight more ofrers flout
good, able-bodied seamen than they
could take. The Zebra was to touch
at Londonherry on her way home, and
the night that we cast loose at Cal.
Gutta, with the pilot on board, and
:dropped down the river with the tide,
the stapper'was grumbling like a bear,
b,ecauw,e, some ]row or other, be had
shipped five more men than he want-
ed. Three of thein were Irishmen,
and like the rest of the crew,they had
got a'vance irglea for a months pay,
and cashed them ; so, to say the tt uth
tie teas afraid they'd tali a French leave
at Londonderry.
The pieta bad gone ever the side
the watch had been spt,and the Steam
er was driven down the Bay of Bengal,
and •c 'ttin' well out toward the Indian
‘Oceen, when there was a row for'ard,
xtid tie boson carie aft to where the
skinner was standin' on the poop. Ile
ryas rlraggin' a youngster, about six-
teen year old, by tits collar of the
;sects along with hirer
l honked lam out of the fore hatch
e, er boner, he says. I heard him
p• rrtivhing around, and I raised the
i,-,lc!•wsy, and there he was.
1 were trytn' to net out, sir, said the
ef, very bold and polite. I suppose
The skipper thought about it for a
few seconds, Then he spoke ; and we
both knew by the tones of his voice
that one of h:s hardest fits was coming
on lit'"
T doir't see, he said, what I have to
do with all this. I don't want any more
hands, and € won't have any more.
But we can 'stand another passenger.
You say the youngster has £15.
Well he can pay pert of his fare, at
least, and I will give him a cabin
berth and set him asbore at London-
derry, Go and get the money from
hire.
But the mates face showed plainly'
enough that the irons should go on
him first. The skipper saw it, are,
calling to me, he told me to u }iron th,
lad and bring him out to the for
castle.
When he was on the main deck the
skipper said to him : .
Youngster, the mate tells me Char
you have £15 about you,
Yes, sir, said the boy,
Hand it over, says the skipper
shortly •
The boy turned white, but he pulled
a little canvas bag from his bosom
and gave it to the skipper who count-
ed fifteen tenrupee notes out of it.
Now, this, he says, won't half pay
your.tassage to Londonderry; but I
won't be hard on you. You can go aft
and the steward will give yQu a berth.
The youngster walked aft without a
word, and from that minute until the
vessel was off' the coast of Ireland
he hardly spoke at all ; and some of
the passengers, who didn't know his
story, said he was going home to die,
he drooped and looked so weak.
It was an awful night that saw us
off the coast of Loadendery ; a dead
lee shore it was then,and the steam-
er, with a broken }shaft, drifting hard
on to it. We could bear the waves
breaking near us, and we had passed
the light that we should have been
making for.
Mr. Reynolds, said the skipper to
the mate, as they stood together on
the bridge, we'll be on the beach in
:half an hour.
Seems se;', mays the mate stiffly, Ice
had not liked the skipper eince the
hay's money wins taken froth hint w the
Bay of Bengal.
The water was far too deep to let
1 ne a stowaway, but I'm a sailor, and go au anchor, even if ono could have
av illict'to work. I asked for a berth
'wood the, Zebra, and couldn't g et.it ;
when they 'thought I was h;oiu'
?e1+c111 ire tits din::y 1 t.lipeled in tea
to—fella I'm beeed d to Magha:rtiafe- le,
ist i s e .ton teeny, where icy mother
held, which it couldn't tit that ;ale.'
1'c;ough head sail had been ret to keep
the seemlier front broaching to, but'a11
heeds sew that, rte things were going,
else would coon be on the racks. '
Suddenly the skipper btartcd rte
It sal 1 tl i�t tee is' any pay, but if etene elle touched nun on the Owelder,
fire out of his pipe with his thumb,
an going out on the deck, where the
captain wanted hien to muster the igen
for Sunday service.
Baoholttra' )3uttous. .
Did ynu ever, says theNew'York
.'Ileal, iee a man in the solitude and
privacy of hes study attempt to sew
on a button by himself? It is in all
ons of the most interesting'perform-
ances in the.world.
First 'runts for the button.
Generally,''"to•secure it, he robs Peter
to pay I'autl and cats one from some,
other garment. This may be much
larger or smaller than the size he is
- Young man, I think you hove medic
a luistak'.
I guess not, •
I got a ticket for that's 3®
cents. I gave you a dollar end you'
gave the 92 cents beck.
Humph t T'iutt'a ferny 1 mutteretel •
the yotteg man .as he trout in the
ehauge and corrected the alleged error.
Then the second Dame np and said :
Young mite, I dont' want to beat
this railroad, l: bought a ticket to
R—, which is 25 cents, gave you
half a dollar, and you handed me out
00 cents.
I did eh'? glreried the agent, at for
flushed np and took in the change.
Then the third, fourth, fifth and .,
sixth mall wont up with a similiar ,
story. The big ufiieiale wore taking it
all in, and .they got very nervous,
The young luau was whiter than chalk
at the en:l of it, and he was not wrong
to believing that' he was doomed. ,
Next day he was replaced, atvl I learn
-
a few weeks later that he had quit'
running a railroad and gone into a
woolen mill. It cost each of us -a.
. The Leisuro of the Farmer small sum out of our own packets to •
le like Euclid's point, imaginary. - work the snap, but it was pro bone,
The model farmer its depicted by publico, and worth double the amount_
agricultetr'al • papers, is most busy
wearing. He bunts for a needle. while at leisure. It is then he per To Ren oniber Nsaraao.
Probably Le goes out and buys a forges those odds and ends at work, “Whenever you have.* name on the -
package of needles. He always choses those many little "chorea" which it is end of your tongue, and cannot far
the largest, having an impression that so debirabie to have done, and by such the life of you recall it," said a' friend}
the large needles will sew stronger labor 'this praise-worthyperson is "begin
than, the small ones. As to the threed, of mine, at the letter'a,'and .
slie gets the coarsest he can find, and fabricsall stray ti:reaclssed to iof thee o web taf ul letter ix retnahecl that`beg sibs namaed when e_
this lie doubles. He takes the big time that would otherwise run to
needle in one hand and the coarse it will come to you. Sometimes the'
waste. It is then that ho mends and most prominent letters in a al irne ist
black thread in the other, bites oft r
the thread to the. desired length,then oils his harness, wends and paints his Ab o d o f eh 1 j k 1 m rr n?+ T' i2 ;•sem
be tries to twist it to a tinepoint. wagous, ploughs harrtws, and other that's part of it—ing. Now'I will bid
Generally in tbis he succeeds in ak- '`eyspihtovor, or the bends
rttsliin1►h industrious gin. A b d d e f 1; h i j k 1 m n o p r
ing two and three fine points out of >; b grind stone. r r thing, Nowt am getting to it." ,
one end.. Of course he cannotget 811 It is then he invents send enanttfecturea Again and then ho ran dowu the
of these0f points through the e1mao'hines,of varied agricultural utility, alphabet until the _ letter "w was.
o puts into elaborate repair his barns, was reached, "There it is—Worth-
eye at once. • --stables, sheds and workshop,gives
Ile tries hard to make the needle . P iau as I can do it every time. 1 t
local habitation and a name' to many isg all in practice. By ranting down
and thread get on friendly terms with an 'airy nothing,' and wild conceit of the alphabet I can recall the tante of
each other.' Seinetirnee the needle an irresponsible' editor, his eye all the nearly every person I have known
sticks, and sometimes the thread. while in a laborious 'frenzy rolling.' during my tong lifetime. In reading;
hintbry, the Bible, or •any particular
work,' can keep the prominent raaprte
in my mind in just this manner.
Practice it and it will be worth some-
clay."—St. Louis Critic.
Sometitns's he really imagines he hes
threaded the needle. It is an ocular
delusion; the thread has missed the
needle s. edge by half an inoh. It is
harder work than sawing wood.
At last the needle is threaded,
Now he tries to sew the button on
without taking off his trousers. This
proves a failure. He twists himself
into an uncomfortable position and
so would sew. But he can net sew so.,
He runs the needle in his finger and
makes an inaudible examination.
.again the needle slips into the fleshy
part Of We.hand,which induces a very
audible dash from the operator. The re-
cording angel kuows what is going on in-
side of hiip and debits him with every
item He sews hard.
He has forgotten all about the
necessity for a thimble, Ile jams his
thumb down on the needle's head, and
itpunetures his thumb or•runs ruder
the nail. By and by he sews the
button -eye foil of thread. His big
needle dove not pass through any
more, He must stop. He eude by
winding the thread as matey times as
it will go under the button, and per-
haps he leaves off with two or three
inches of thread sticking outside.
A woman can, through many out-
ward indications, tell when a man has
been trying to sew on a button. He
doesn't know the shibboleth of needle
and threed, and it catches somewhere
every time. At last the button ie
sewed on, and be is proud of his
work,
Never 'whip a horse when it is
frightened or nervous, or try to force
it up to the objet that has caused the
alarm.• Draw in on the roine;
sudileiily speak oat with ' assurance
•that you are not afraid, then turn the
animal a little away from the unpLzes.
ant sight and t,id,it to go. A blow of a —Tire Times will be cent trots WAS till Slcrron'a Club welt inurediateitelieee
whdel) upon, n frightenedhone gives it' the enol of the year for 10 outs, band for Crcnp,W'h„opingeongh ext Stnorcbii:s. ',Perste by
double sea;.e. for rjolent !Lacon or call sad subscribe, c;. I:.winiaiu,.
:['iiia improving every hour like the
bee, the leisure of this assiduous person
is reduced to a fine point, existing only
in the imagination convenient indeed
to agricultural editors and other rustic
advisors, as expressing a season for
the doing of impracticable, chimeroial,
unprofitable and quite impossible pre-
formances, but having no appreciable
existence, capable of being enpressed •
in hours and minutes.
•
Balmily Applos,
A trip through the orchards of al-
most any section of Western Ontario
discloses three facts. 1. Lack of
manuring. n. Lack of pruning. .3.
Tho vJoli-broil Girl. point
varieties. On the latter
point the Country Gentlennau, of
She never accepts a valuable present Albany. N, 'Y., replies to a correspon•
from a gentleman acquaintance unless dent as follows : An inquirer who,
engaged to him. _ intends to plant a small apple• orchard
She never takes supper or refresh- this fall or next spring, wishes a good
'ments at a restaurant with a gentle- selection for family use so as to have
man, uuleas accompanied by a lady good table and cooking fruit the year
Worthen herself. , • through. Such aselection should
She does not permit a gentleman to comprise thoe;e of the best neualito
join her on the street, unless they are rather titan market varieties, although
intimate acquaintances. both should be eontbined where pram -
She Hover accepts a seat from a ticable. At the sane tithe poor bear -
gentleman in a street oar without ers and pretty scabby fruit are not
thanking Hint. wanted. There should be it larger
She Haver snubs other young ladies itumber of sorts than for the market
less popular or well -favored than her- orchard, because some of our best
self fruits 'do not bear every year, and a
She never laughs er talks loudly at larger number will be more likely to
pa bile places. furnish an average supply each ' year
Sho never wears clothes so striking than only a few, Among the best
as to attract particular attention in early varieties are Yellow Tranepar-
public, cent, Early Harvest and Primate; and
She never speaks slightingly of her a few weeks later, are Early Joe,Peno-
mother,--,�olre?crl, ni, and at the west, Carolinas Red
June. Larger collections will embrace
A bur
bus}noels teen of I�`lesborton Summer Rose, Early Strawberry, Fall
recently rendered a steternent of Late
'Orange,
early winter dvarieti Lowell.s
account to a minister who was at one art Fall Pippin, Fameuse. Tempkine
time a resident of Maxwell. The
letter was retuned. It :had been
opened by some person, and en the
'back of it was written: --"Mr. Black is
Xing, and Wealthy for the West;
and longer keel tng,.wlnter apples art
Swear, Rhode Island Ore!eeing,. J one -
Red Cannel:a
in heaven and his wife is in Pert while etherlsewin rn bei vat oust oboes,
, Peery." y
y by different persons.
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