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McGinty.
Who is the man whose fame is sung
By rich and poor, by old and young,
Whoso name is u ,w on every tongue,
"Blotkinty."
$ie. story everybody knows.
By day and night you hoar his woos,
,And how leo wet his Sunday olo'es,
" McGinty."
In the morning papers you peruse
What seems to be a bit of news,
Oily to find this gas ensues,
" MoGinty,"
When you reach home, your baby boy
Holds out to you his last new toy;_
' What's this ?"' von Ask ; he Dries with joy,
" MaDinty."
At churoh you hear the preacher tell
flow Jonah in the water fell,
With sudden start you almost yell,
"McGinty."
OIs, why could they not lot hisn be
"Down at the bottom of the sea,"
Where lie'cl not trouble you or me ?—
" McGinty."
—Punk
wing Tee Wee.
Wing Tee Woe
Was a swept Ohinee,
And She lived in the town of Tao,
Aud her eyes were blue,
And her ourliug one
Hung dangling down her back ;
And she fall in lovo With gay Win Sit,
When ho wrote hie love on a laundry bill.
And 0, Tin Told
Was a pirate bold,
And he sailed on a Oh"nese junk ;
And he loved, ab, me
Sweet Wing Tee Woo,
But his valiant heart had sunk,
So he downed his blues in fickle fizz, •
And vowed the maid would yet be his.
So bold Tin Told
Showed all his gold
To the maid of the town of Tac,
And sweet Wing Wee
Eloped to sea
And nevermore came back,
For in far Ohinee the maids are fair,
And the maids are false, as everywhere.
THE DO"STERS :
ARomance of Georgian Life
CH..IPTER VI.
Tom had never heard his cousin preaoh,
and, having found out somehow that he
was to do so that night, remained, intend.
ing to return after the sermon, although he
was to ride more than a dozen miles. He
sapped at the Ingrains', accepting, as if
both were the same to him, the superfluous
politeness of Will and the stiff reserve of
Hiram. When it was time to go to the
stand, he offered hie arm to the hostess,
who, taking it, said :
" You all ace what a genuinely polite
man can do. Tom, these boys, not since
they have been here, has either of them
proposed to take me to the stand."
Why, Conein Emily," said Will, " you
have been so busy with culiuery and other
domestic affairs that I hardly believe
you've been to the stand since the meeting
began."
"Makes no odds, sir ; you ehoald have
offered your services the same. Bnt come
on ; they are already singing the first
hymn. I wouldn't go now, but Mr. Ingram
told me this evening ae a great secret,
which I hope it is no harm to reveal now,
that Henry was to preach to -night. Viney
will have to attend to the next table, as Itve
got to hear Henry, no matter how the enp•
per goes.'"
As she moved off with her escort, Hiram,
almost load enough for Tom to hese 1- � Ulm)::,?•• e
:oUlm)" L11 bet._e;
n�re`•hie �on�go
home tonight."
Why, brother Hiram I " exclaimed
Ellen.
" Come ; Iet us be going," said Harriet,
taking Will's arm.
This movement in punishment of his
rude speech angered Hiram painfully. He
spoke not, however, bat, giving his arm to
Ellen, followed the rest. Tom and Dire.
Ingram got seats about midway. The
others seated themselves several benches
behind them, The lad Jerry Pound, as if
he would be seen in fine company, pat him.
self immediately behind the two coaples.
" Hello I Jerry," whispered Will, during
the singing of the second hymn ; " you
here-? " •
'1 Oh, yea, Mr. May. Ma and Unk Allen,
spite of as being pressed with fodder pullin',
wanted me to come, and I thought I'd as
well come and see the crowd and what's
goin' on."
" Things haven't been as stirring and
lively as venal this camp -meeting, have
they 2 "
" No—no, sir. Unk Allen say the very
ad scratch is to pay in this congregation ;
but he asy he mean to see if he can't head
him before the meetin's over."
" Hiiven't got religion yourself yet,
Jerry, it seems 2"
" Not quite, sir," he answered, giggling.
" Unk Allen been talkin' to me straight up
and down when he could oome up with me.
I been dodgin' him because he talk so brash.
He says I'm so far gone, he's (feared salt
couldn't Save me."
" How would it do to try a little salt-
petre, Jerry 2 "
" Oh, brother Will, do hush!" whispered
Harriet. " You see Mr. Doster has risen."
Will at once subsided.
Henry Doeter already had gotten some
reputation as a epeaker, although hie efforts
had been expended mainly among the hum-
bler churches of the circuit. These not his
cultured tastes nor his love and courtship
had• availed to make him negleot, even
when, more than once, in order to fill an
,appointment, he had to swim his horse over
a,creek swollen by reins.
" He have the right sperrit about him,"
said one day good old 141r, Hood, who for
• thirty-five years and more had been fight-
ing hie way among " them Baptisers that
jos ewarme about and around Long's Bridge
and Baffler Creek, He behave like he
don't set hisself above the poorest and the
iginantest of ue all, and my opinion is, if
his life's spar'd, he's goin' to weed a wide
row in the pulpit."
That night, when he rose and looked out
upon the vast audience before him, it was
apparent that, besides the sum ofit
responsibility, he labored with much em•
barrasament. His face, handsome always,
now had a beauty almost marvellous. The
tinge upon his cheek, destined soon to
deepen, already appeared,as, with some
trembling of voice, he began. Pions as he
was, man -like in all his inetinote, he was
not °omeloue of any referenoe to himaelf
in' the meditation that led to hie text: '" A
rith man shall hardly enter into the king -
dote of heaven" Yet, on its announce -
went, Will May mischievously winked at
Hiram, and whispered, " He's aiming et
no, Hiram('
" Please be silent I" whispered Harriet'
again, in pained remonstrance. Hiram
answered not, but his
grim visage as he
looked, at the preacher showed that he
regarded himself as defied, if not already
insulted.
It appeared soon that the speaker was
Competent to take all the benefit which the
Homan master of eloquence, had taught
may he gathered from embarrassment by
an orator, honardble, gifted, and duly in -
Spired with a sense of the importance of
his theme, Hie hair, worn long as was the
habit then, trembled as be spoke with
tenderness ofthe estate ot poverty, the
seeming mysteriousness of its ever•duriug
existence in,alecomnur. sties, nQOwithstand-
ing our Lord's tender commiseration, the
nooessity of theemo;itinued existence inaton
oordanoe with theeoonomy ot Him Who,
instead of ohiel ng; bad dignified it, lauded,
lived in it While in the form of 'humanity;
blessed it in word and work, and warned
mankind against maltreatment, even its
neglect, He had been speaking but a few
minutes when in was felt by all that a'
great light had risen newly in the Church.
When he had gotten fairly to the discussion
of hie subject he poured forth an unbroken
poets its loss to be supplemented by earn-'
inge from the sweating, labors of others,
living or dead, and such a one of all men,
seeme to me the least al a man."
Fine was the peroration in wbieh he
compared the love of money, even when
fairly obtained and neither meanly hoarded
nor recklessly eguandered, with other loves,
as sooial, domeetio, above ail, the love_ of
God, in which all true loves meet and by
which they are regulated. Daring this
splendid deolamation, to some, perhaps to
but one, yet oertainly to her, his face
seemed radiant as a seraph's. When it was
ended he looked around for a moment ap-
pealisigly, then, bowing loo, sat down, and,
immediately after his soucessor had risen,
left the pulpit and disappeared. Simul-
taneously Tom, taking leave of Mrs. Ing-
ram, retired, and, getting his horse, lett for
home
The effect of the sermon all through its
delivery was signal. Interjectional expree•
sione, first few and constrained, became
mote frequent and audible in an around
the pulpit and the ennlosed apace in front
called the altar. Mr. Swinger's deport-
ment throughout was interesting At first
his face iudioated apprehension extremely
painful. Soon he lifted his bowed head and
looked with beaming fade upon the audience,
as the Soathful orator went every moment
higher beyond his most eager hopes. Fear.
ing he might embarrass him by too hearty
manifestations of delight, now. he would
bow hie face low, covering it tightly with
his hands, and now lift it on high and
sternly contemplate the rafters above, or
endeavor to peer through the darkness into
the forest behind, as if not cognizant of
what was going on before him or indifferent
to it. Often he crossed bis legs and recross-
ed them, or pressing his knees together
held them fast in his arms oleaped beneath,
as if without such precautionary restraint
they would kick, -in front or baok, the
boarding from the pulpit. When the ser-
mon was ended, with a voice heard in the
stilly night more than a mile away, he
shouted, " Glory be to God 1" and it was
echoed by hundreds of tongnea.
Ellen and Harriet both rose in tears.
" Let's quit this place," said Hiram,
rising, low, but hie face livid with anger.
" Not yet," answered Ellen, wiping her
eyee. " Go if you wish, brother, and Will
also, if he's tired. • Harriet end I can gat
back to the tent by ourselves."
" Oh, no," said Will ; " let ns stay,
Hiram, and see them through. Old man
Swinger is on bis high horse, and we'll have
tome tall riding."
Hiram resumed his seat and, leaning
beck, looked with disdain at Mr. Swinger
as he rose with both arms wide extended :
" Brothin and sisters," he began, " the faot
of the business is, I don't feel like ex'ortin'
this here congregation, away up here in
this here pulpit- We've been a-invitin' o'
these people two days, and this make three
nights, and we been polite as if we been,.
a-aekin' 'em to a weddin'..o-r°;; ,;vuay j etilin',
and np tell now. NISI -down tell now they
teen ti inonet'oue few that they have seem
to keer ne more for keepin'theireelves out
of fire and brimstone nor not as mach as
when they tryin' to prize out one o' their
wagging that's been stallded in a mud -hole'
And the long and short of it is, I'm a-goin'
to git out o' here and go to ohargin' on 'ern;
and " (slightly turning his face rearward),
" I want Henry Dawater—Godamighty
bless his sons and body I—I want him when
he rests awhile, and he see me a-wantin' o'
help -1 want him to toiler me and (merge
on. Time he was a•beginnin' to learn how
to charge, well as ookepy the pulpit."
Descending and slowly advancing, in
language and tones mingled of disgust,
edmonitiou : command, threatening, he
roared : " AU yon everlastin' sinners and
worldlyane, them among you that they feel
that if yon ain't anxione; you some rather
keep out of hell than go thar, I want you to
Dome into this here altar here, and drag
down on yoar marrer-bones and acknow-
ledge to Godamighty ef not quite all, some
of the biggest o' your meanness, and beg
him if he can't be kind enough and eondes-
oendin' enough to spar' you. Come on," he
thnndred, as they began to pour in, " come
a right along. It ain't yit quite too late,
but it's a been a-gettin' late on you, and
that rapid. 0 yon money-gittere and yon
money -lovers, with your brosdoloth and
your high -heel boots, and them that's too
etingy to bay 'em I 0 you that has land and
niggers and horses and mules and cattle
and sheep and hogs, and all the 'pnrten-
anoes to them a-belongin', end a-expeotin'
all them to foller you to the grave, and
wait on you and pomper you, thar, and
some of you the more you've got, the
meaner and stingier you've got, and it's
come to that that whut you've got does yon
no more good then thefift' wheel of a wag.
gin, and eo the good•for-nothiner you've
got, all of you come along ; that's a right ;
come a right along ! It may be a hard
p'ints for the old ship o' Zion to take yon
all aboard with all your ongodly baggages
of sin and wickednness she have to k'yar
for some of the torndownishest among you.
But come along ; she'll take you on, even if
yon sink her. And them that mayn't feel
ike a-comin' plum in to the alter, let them
knuckle down whar they seta, and we'll try
stream of elognenoe to the end. Not die)
praising riches, instead he highly com-
mended efforts to obtain them by indnetry,
frugality, and all fair methods, and for
purposes reconcilable with . the airtime of
charity and religion. He held up to scorn
he miser, but the spendthrift he denounced
with greater severity. Among many things,
e said
"" We cannot but feel some compassion
or the unhappy miser who, in his insane
d
read of want, denies to himself even the
ecessaries of his being. Yet at last is
here not something of the remains of lost
manhood in thus looking with apprehension,
vain as it is, of becoming dependent in old
age upon the charity of mankind ? Indeed
yea. Instead of him, even him, it is the
spendthrift who, rioting in the inheritance
devolved npon hien from the industry of
his forefathers, ie of all most to be despised.
The miser, ae if he expected to live forever,
works and eaves, saves and works, in terror
of dependende at some period remote, when
his lovers and friends, few as they maybe,
will have departed and left bis alone. In
the ease of Finch a man, along with what ip
less contempt than pity,we must mingle
some rite/seat for *the relic of a nobleness
that his own hands cannot wholly destroy.
But the spendthrift ! Counting not upon
immortality in his earthly being, and not
even upon the entire indestructibility. of
What othere have gathered for his enjoy,
went, which he sees wasting continually in
hid profligate hands, he complacently ex.
to do somethin' for 'em even thar."
By this time he had advanced quite near
where our party was seated. Th 9 girls,
following Dire. Ingram, who, tit 'los Dos-
h
f
n
ese
ter's departure, had moved and taken a
seat syr phew, knelt upon the straw, and
hi
Willi,�,>lrr May, ,)(felt reclining, leaned . a
head n on. the bench in front of him. But
Bira r rose, and,. standing erect, conspion-
nue among hundreds, confronted the
preacher•with menaoing' look. The latter,
ae he admitted afterwards, felt violently
aroused all the native combative temper of
his being before this enemy of all goodness,
eepeoially " of hie beloved Henry. He
paused a moment, as it reveilvine how best
to meet such audacious "defiance of one of
whose personal malignant hostility he was
well convinced ; then regarding him with
scorn, burst forth thus ;,
Yes ; and you oonoeited, extravagant,
impident young chaps, that T ain't shore
but whut you're the triflin'est of the whole
lot, that you do nothin'• but ran, about and
spend the money your daddies worked for,
and died and left you, and a-ependin' it on
nobody and on =thin' but your own
k'yaroasses, and then mayby a•expeotin' to
marry them that got prop'ty when whut
you got is done squandered and gone I
pass eaoh as you by as them that's made
up their mind to go to the,devil what hot ;
and if so be, why, go ! and,Godamighty, if
He can, have mercy on your mean, ornery,
good•for-nothiu' souls 1 "
Waving his hand with contempt, he took
another stride, when an object of nearer
interest was presented before him. For
several miuutee Jerry Pound, not able to
back himself through the pressing throngs,
had been crawling, or so endeavoring, be-
neath the benches, and at thie moment had
risen, perhaps to get more air, climbing by
one of the pillars of the arbor, behind whittle
he tried to dodge from his uncle. When
the latter espied him he laughed aloud, and
with the fiercest glee shouted :
" Oh, you needn't be a -trying to dodge
behind that thar post, Jerry Pound. Ye're
like a rabbit that's ben runned into his
holler, and yon got to twist him oat with a
forked stink. To think, my own sister's
son, that's made her peace with the good
Lord a long ago, and with the egzample of
each a mother, and at Beth a time when he
see this ,people's hearts a•workin' up, and
him a•tryin' to dodge the onlieet nnelo he's
got, and hide behind the arbor post,
rather'n he'll have saved his everlaetin'
no -'count soul !—I dealer' it's jest too bad
for a body to put up with for any use
ander the san. Ih hi ! you dodger'! You
find you can't dodge to the extent you been
a-aoantin' on. Onae't or twiae't before I
didn't know but what I had yon ; but you
that slink and elickery that a body, same as
a eel, they got to pat sand in their hand to
git a livin' holt on you. Come along here,
sir."
Fastening his teeth together as if to re-
strain intemperate wrath and objargation,
he oanght the fngitive by the arm and
dragged him with such force that when he
reaohed the aisle partially cleared by the
people, he fell prone upon his knese. Then
Mr. Swinger, seizing his coat Dollar with
one hand, and with the other the trousers
around his middle, and prying, " Cler the
way thar for this waggin-load of ini-
gaitty 1" made for the altar. Arrived there,
he released Jerry's collar, and let his head
come down quick but unhurt upon the
abundant oat straw, Baying, " Thar ! any.
how yon shall go through the motions ! "
Then high above the cries of mourners
and shooters rose the jubilant wail of Dire.
Pound, as, pushing her way within, she
lifted her great tarkey-tail and fanned her
son, wedgeel,eneeng the kneeling multitudes.
P: Swinger, panting, turned towards the
pulpit and oried :
" And now, Henry, my boy, I ain't
agzaotly broke down, bat I'm a -tired a.
haulin' and e-totin' o' that meas. z ud yi-,"
softening to the prostrate boy, ' there is
many a heavier load in this congregation
than what that poor orphan boy is, which
he's hard-workin' as the days is long, and
'twer'n' for his playin' marbles of a Sundae,
and Bich, ef he had grape he'd be the ekal of
many that think theireelves far above him.
But Dome along, Henry, and go to ohargia'
awhile tell my wind come fa'rly baok.
Whar's Henry ?"
One of the preachers whispered that
Henry had left the pulpit and the stand
immediately after his sermon. • The words
of disappointment, if any were uttered,
were silenced by the lifting of a hymn,
during the singing of - which many, in
answer to Mr. Swinger's charge, and many
more in spite of it, Dame and knelt within
and around the altar.
Suoh was the beginning of a revival long
remembered, in which many were added to
the Charob, among whom, I hardly need
mention, was that reprobate Sabbath -
breaker, Jerry Pound.
CHAPTER VII.
Daring the sermon of Henry Doster the
attention of all persons, even those of mod-
erate culture, had beenfixed by the power
which an eloquence unrivalled in their
experience mast exert. He bad traneoended
all expectation, showing at the same time
that he had kept a reserve of strength yet
greater. Many times during its delivery
the girls most interested in hie endeavor
shed tears, Harriet as freely as Ellen. Even
William May was touched with something
like a generous enthusiasm, ander the im-
pulse of which, at the close, he said to
Harriet :
"II didn't dream that he had such powers.
It beat anything I ever heard."
When the charge of Mr. Swinger was
over, smilingly he looked at Hiram, whose
face was red-hot with resentment.
" said the letter, " if Ellen wants
to stay longer in this pureed plane, you can
see her to the tent. I want to speak to a
person outside."
He left at once, and, paesing out, made
for the preachers' tent, and •inquired for
Henry Doster. He was answered that
Henry on his return from the stand had
thrown on his overcoat and walked out,
saying that he would stroll for a wbile in
the woods at the rear. Hiram walked back
and forth for some time ; then returned to
the tent. The girls had retired. Never
had he felt so wrathful. He believed fully,
that it had been preonnoerted between
Henry Doster and Mr. Swinger that this
movement, covert in one, audaciously
open in the other, was to be made tipon
him. In vein Will May, who said he sus.
pected nothing of the kind, advised him to
let the matter drop.
"Hiram;' he said, " I'm afraid yon are
going to do something imprudent. Henry
Doster alluded no more to you then to me,
or to any other young man of our habits.
He is too mnoh of a gentleman to have
meant anything personal of any individual
in a pulpit discourse. As for old man
Swinger, you warted him by rising when
yon did, and getting as it were in hie path
with threatening look. He can't stand a
dare, being plaoky to the backbone. Let's
drop it and go to bed."
Bat Hiram sat before the tent for hours
and brooded.
On the next morning Henry Dexter oatne
there to hold prayers and to breakfast. All
met his oonrteoae salutation with flea*ti-
nem 'except Hiram, who, not 'appearing at
prayers and coming to the • breakfaet• table
after the bisecting was asked, died not notice
the reverend guest,
Mr. Swi
" • n r came oheavy down on' sin
gar n
ners in general last night, Mr. Ingram,'(
(laid s young roan who sat near the host.
" Oh, yes," answered Mr. Ingram " the
old gentlemen has his ways; but it there
are any 'getter men, I don't know wbsre to
go to find them."
Some of his remarks," said ` Hiram,
ti were, grossly insulting to me,at whom
thee' were'openly pointed. But he bas not
the edaoetion nor the breeding to behave
otherwise. In this case 1 have no doubt
he was put up to it by come one else,"
'�Mr.Iugrem frowned.. enry paused in
hie eating, his face pale and bis eyes dil-'
acing. Ellen hastily retired from the table.
Harriet, her cheeks slightly reddening,
glinced momentarily at Hiram ; then,
having caught Henry Rosters eye, put her
finger to her lips. Instantly he smiled, and
addressed a remark to Mr. Ingram upon a
subject so remote from Mr. Swinger that
Hiram, anguishing from the contempt thus
put upon his words, rose also before his
breakfaet was finished, and, as Henry was
in the ant of leaving the tent, said to him,
abruptly
" I wieb to have a few words with you in
private, sir."
" Certainly, Mr. Joyner. They told • me
at our tent last night that you had palled
for me, and it was partly for that I came
here this morning. Shall we take a walk 2"
" Yes, sir, wherever you say."
" We will go to yonder woods, then," he
said, pointing beyond the preachers' tent.
When they had gone, Ellen said to her
friend : " Oh, Harriet 1 Harriet 1 brother
is beside himself. After that insult at the
breakfast -table, there's no telling what he'll
say or do when he gets Henry off to him-
self. I'm almost sorry I didn't tell him
everything."
" It would have made matters worse, my
dear. Be sure that Tom's counsel is the
beet, and don't be afraid bat that Henry
will take care of himself."
" Poor brother has started' the issue, as I
knew he would ; but I did not expect it to
come in that way."
" Nor I ; yet it is the very best in which
it could have come. It's just a piece of
splendid luck ; 'that's what it is. Oh, I'm
so glad that Tom went home het night !
Cheer up, little one. It will all come right,
and the sooner for that very walk that
Hiram is taking with Henry."
Then she put her arms around Ellen, and
almost bore her to their ohamber.
" Come straight with me and finish that
breakfast, miss," said Mrs, Ingram, enter-
ing the room. Ellen obeyed, and neither.
referred to the occasion of her having left
the table. Yet the hostess could not for-
bear saying to Harriet afterwards: " Some.
body will have to put a strait -jacket on
Hiram if hie foolishness is not stopped. I've
never seen Mr. Ingram so angry. He
declares that but for Ellen and hie mother
he would have ordered him from the, table
and the tent. But did ever a man show the
gentleman more beautifully than Henry
Doster ? I don't blame Ellen for being so
in love with him ; she just couldn't help it."
" He did indeed, Hiram is either worse
or he has hese sense than I thought.. Bat
he'll see that his conduct will have expedit-
ed what he hopes to prevent.'
" How?"
" Never mind now. You'll see before
long."
" I wieh I hadn't invited him to this
tent."
"1 am glad yon did, and thankful that
he came."
The woods in the rear of the preachere'
tent, to the extent of twenty acres or so, by
immemorial usage were regarded as not to
be entered during the camp except by the
clergy or others accompanied by one or
more of them. Hither these were wont to
resort, sometimes in twos and threes,
sometimes singly, in the intervals of their
service at the stand, for the sake of exercise
and meditation. Thither these young men
wended.
" The fall will soon be npon • us, you
notice, Mr. Joyner," said the preacher,
pointing to the browning and yellowing of
the forest leaves, as they were entering.
My object." answered the other, " was
not to disanes the seasons with you, sir,
but—."
" I did not so understand yonr request
for an interview," was the qaiok reply ;
" but I suggest that we postpone referenoe
to the matter yon have on your mind until
we reach a spot where we may consider it
without incurring risk of being observed.'
" As yon please, sir."
Nothing more was Field by either until
they had proceeded a distance of a couple of
hundred yards, to a spot where was a dense
growth of dogwood and crab-apple. Here
Henry halted, and seating himself upon the
trunk of a tree that had fallen, he looked
up mildly and said :
" Wen, sir, as your business eeeme
urgent, too mnoh so to be pat off until I can
get through with some rather preening en-
gagements, I am now at your service.'
Hie calmness, eo different from what he
had expected, irritated • Hiram yet more
He said bluntly, as he well knew how :
" I've been intending for sometime to
tell you, sir, that I wanted you to stop
your visite to my hoose and your attent-
ions to my sister."
" Why have you not done so, Mr. Joy-
ner, before now, when you find me so pre-
occupied ? "
" Because I have not had a suitable op-
portunity, sir. I intended to wait until
the camp -meeting was over, and would
have done eo but for year thrusting for-
ward last night that old ruffian to insult
and outrage me, and I determined then to
wait no longer. I sought yon last night,
but was not able to find you.'
" So they informed me at our tent on
my return from a walk. To whom do yon
allude in year use of the word ' ruffian ' ? "
" I allude, as in spite of your pretended
ignorance you know very well, to old Mr.
Swinger "
" I did indeed suspect that yon were re•
fering to that gentleman, startled as I was
that a man young man as you would speak
thus of one eo much your elder, whom you
must know to be held in mnoh respect,
indeed in mnoh reverence, wherever he is
known."
At that moment a, slight noble among the
leaves was heard, and a gray squirrel came
tripping along and made for a large poplar -
tree near by, in a fork of which was a nest.
Arrived there, the pretty thing turned sud-
denly, ran up an adjacent oak, and, halting
on one of the lowerbranches, commenced
chattering earnestly, as if in admonition to
the two men below. Henry Doster l000ked
up as, brandishing its full•epreed tail, it
continued to pout forth.
" Your attention, sir 1" said Hiram, in
commanding tone.
(To be Continued).
Sore Witten, the annexationist Mayor of
Windsor and the man who was sure of a
portfolio in Meredith's miniatry bad the
Tories been successful at the last Provin-
cial elections, in hie inaugural address to
the Windsor Council declared commercial
union with the ` States was impracticable,
bat that he was a strong supporter of
political union.
--Mrs.. Harriett Beecher Stowe made
$200,000 out of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It
gave four millions of people their freedom.
—A now Irish ballad, mnoh sung at the
higgh•oless London ballad concerts, ie
called " I'm off to Plelladel hie he the
g
Mornin ." p •-
—It's a very wise father who knows as
nagoh ay hie son.
WON MRS OF laIKAN MECHANISM
Movements of Nerved. Aud $Iu solea in
Playing a Pince of 1tIuiaio.
Science, says Sir James Paget, will sup.
ply the natural man with wonders un-
counted. The author had once heard Mdlle.
Janotha playa presto by Mendelesohn. She
played , 5,595 notes in four minutes and
three sounds. Every one ofttbese notes
.involved certain movements of a finger, rat
least two, end many of them involved len
additional moyement laterally as well as
those up and down. They oleo involved
repeated movements of the wrieta, elbowe
and arms, says a writer in the "Popular
Science Monthly," altogether probably not
less than one movement for each time.
Therefore there were three distinct
movements for eaoh note. As there were
twenty-four notes per second, and eaoh of
these notes involved three distinct:
musical movements, that amounted to
seventy-two movements in, eaoh second.
Moreover, each of those notes was deter-
mined by the will to a chosen plane, with a
certain force at a certain time and with
a certain duration. Therefore, there were
four distinct qualities in each of the 72
movements in eaoh second. Suoh were the
trenemissions outward. And all those were
conditional on consciousness of the poen
tion of eaoh hand and finger before it was
moved, and by moving it of the sound and
the force of eaoh tonoh. Therefore, there
were three conscious sensations to every
note.
There were 72 transmissions a Buena,
144 to and fro, and those with oonetant
change of quality. And then, added to
that, all the memory was remembering
each note in its due time and plane and was
exercised in the comparison of it with
others that oame before. So that it would
be fair to saythat there were not less than
200 transmissions of nerve force to and
from the brain outward and inward every
eeoond, and daring the whole of that time
judgement was being exercised as to
whether the mesio was being played better
or worse than before, and the mind was
eonsoioue of some of the motiome whioh
the mama was intended to inspire.
A Foreign Opinion.
Presumably on the prinoiple that of two
evils one ehoald choose the lesser, end that
viaeroyal courts are a bigger plague than
divorce courts, the Chicago Canadian
American thus presents its views regarding
the Foster -Chisholm alliance and the
eooiety gossip of Ottawa, winding np with
a political prophecy :
A few years ago a well-known resident of
Hamilton, Ontario, whose belief in certain
theories found expression on many public
platforms, created a tremendous sensation
in the Province by suddenly, leaving the
country, to the regret of soores of friends,
some of whom he had rained by his speca-
latioos. A disgraced wife, with a family,
was, however, equal to the task before her,
and thereafter not a penny of D. B. Chis-
holm's money passed through the hands of
Mrs. Chisholm, who pluckily engaged in
literary and other work to keep the wolf
from the door. The husband threw all the
responsibilities on the shoulders of the
wife and mother, and she, like a Mae wo-
man, bore the burden uncomplainingly.
Coming to Chicago a year, or two ago,
she obtained a divorce on the grounds
of non-support and desertion. Shortly after
she married the Hon. George E. Foster,
Minister of Finance for the Dominion.
That is part of the story ; the other ie now
coming to us in chapters. Sooiety at the
capital of the Dominion is creating it by
dividing on the subject of Mrs. Foster's
social status. One section adheres to the
belief that there is no stain upon Mrs.
Foster's oharaoter ; and the other, with
ears open to a hint from Rideau Ball, the
official reeidence of the Governor-General,
regard her as one of those horrid divorced
women whom Queen Victoria would ex-
clude from court. In some way or other it
is supposed that Lord Stanley of Preston
represents Her Majesty in Ottawa's society
circles, and therefore Balmoral rules should
be applied in Mrs. Foster's case, good
woman though' she is. In advocating such
long-range ostracism some Canadians are
making fools of themselves, as well as
elevating Rideau Hall and its 000upants to
a place mach above the level of native
society. In the political world of the
Dominion Rideau Hall is an unimportant
factor ; why should it be the dictator in
anything? However, in ten years from
now the Dominion will not be served by a
Governor-General from the Mother Coun-
try.
Explained.
"Why, what's the matter, Berryl 2 Have
you typhoid or what, that yoa'va lost all
your hair ?"
"Oh, no, but yon see I went to Bar Har-
bor last summer and got engaged to eight
men, and when the season was over they
each demanded a look of my hair."
While on a trip through West Virginia
some years ago I spent a few days in the
little monntain•bound village of Hinton.
In wandering about I happened on a little
frame shop, far ap on the mountain side,
on the platform of which were seated the
usual number of loungers. The exterior
front and side, was hung with numerous
specimen articles of the goods for Bale
within, and the top of the equere exten-
sion gable bore in letters over four feet
long, extending across the building, the
word " Store." They are a very pleasant,
homelike people down there, and rather
enjoy a joke, so after making a small
purchase and conversing a while
with the proprietor I asked him if
it was the custom in thet locality to make
eaoh canine parry a placard, "Thio is a
Dog,' when at large. He was puzzled at
first, bat, noting my upward glance, he ran
his eye over the great display of goods and
up to the big sign, and laughed heartily as
he said: " Wall, stranger, that sign was a
right smart waste o' work, wa'n't it 2" I
thought of the little Hinton store with the
big sign when I read Mr. Mnlock's " Loy.
alty" resolutiontyesterday. Is this " label-
ing " idea, this vociferous protestation of
possession to be confined to loyalty only?
or is it to be carried into basinees as well ?
Really, now, isn't it childish ? Imagine a
good M. P. going back to his constituents
with a placard on his back bearing the
legend: "I am the People's Model Repro-
sentative," or " I am Something of an
Honest Man," or perhaps " I'm a Dandy."
These profuse protestations of loyalty are
surely not necessary, and - but it may be
as harmless a way of earning their indem-
nity as members can indulge in.
•
Storm Ahead.
" Fine night," said Smith to Jones as
they deme out of the olnb.
"' Yee," answered Jones as the clock
begun striking the hour of 12, " it is a fine
night, but I aspect it will storm when I get
home."_ ,
-'r Bor feet flew," read Iohabod; hut.
Jonathan spoiled the climax by saying,'
" Then she must have had soar toes,"
Michael Devitt is working up the forma
tion of a labor society in. Great Britain
ana Ireland. Eight hours and the Henry
George taxation ot land are in the plat•
fornfir
BACK TO .&J R>(. A.
The public men of the United States are
puzzled about the negro problem. Few, if
any, 01 them would care to go back to than,
old conditions ander which the negro weal
enslaved, but it ie ascertained that, on the
whole, the preoent condition of the negro its
worse than that which he occupied before
his emanoipetion, The eenee of freedom is
worth a great deal, but it does not make ups
for the lank of food, olothicg and shelter;
a sufficiency of which hundreds of thoaa-
ands of the colored people appear to be uu.
able to obtain as free laborers. The New'
York Bulletin affirms that •there has been:
no lack of consideration and of kind treat-
ment on the part of the superior race, no
neglect of effort to provide the means of
education ; on the contrary, the States
have done what lay ' in their line-
ited .;power to improve ,the negro'(
condition and eociat efficiency, and
that equally from humane sentiment aa.
from interested motive. Bat all eaoh helps
were powerless as against the qualities and
instincts inherent to and ,inseparable from.
therape. The fundi mental factor in the
case ie that the negro race was organically
developed and mentally and physioally
limited under conditions of climate and.
Boil which, on the one hand, made his
wants few and simple and, on the other,
required from biro the minimum of physf
cal and mental effort. When suddenly
transplanted into entirely different natural
conditions and required to supply, not
the limited wants germane to hie speoial
nature and capabilities, but the mueln
larger wants of a higher rano and a higher
civilization, he was put into conditions to
which he was in every sense unequal. Under
the compulsion of slavery, artificial prate -
sure end the supervision of a higher raoa
could force out of him a larger utility and
productiveness than that which would have
come spontaneously under native condi-
tions. And even when elavery was abet. -
hilted, he had a certain stook of practical
knowledge and of industrial habits,
acquired from his servile condition, which.
have contributed materially to his welfare:
But these qualifications have to contend.
against a nature constitutionally indolent,.
passive, unambitious;'improvident and ,in-
different to the etimalating wants of loftier
races, and there has been a constant con-
flict between the ipberent qualities and the
acquired habits, in whioh the latter have
been steadily losing ground. Today, the
problem with the Southern negro is how to
provide not comfort, nor competence, bat
jest so muoh.of:the plainest necessities of;.
food, clothing and ehelter as is neoeeseryto
the degree of nhyeioal stamina' essential to,
productive efficiency. He is making no
progress towards conquering that problem:
onthe contrary, the prospect of his solv-
ing
oleing it seems to recede farther at every step.
The landmarks show unmistakable
evidence of retrogression. - He is no longer
able to provide a eueleienoy of nutritive
food ; he cannot adequately protect
himself spinet inclement weather ; an
unrestrained sexual immorality is spread-
ing the seeds of enervating disease through
a large proportion of the race ; and thea
there is in steady progress a process of
physical deterioration which is constantly
diminiehing the • value of the negro to
society and therefore to himself. Concur=
rutty with this tendency, the increase of
the population is at a rate so high that the
children suffer from insufficient nutrition.
and grow np into a maturity of feebleness
that ourtaile their vain for the purposesof
labor, whilst the enpply of labor is abnor-
mally gaining on the demand.
One of the suggestions for the solutionof
the problem is the deportation of the
negroee from the Southern States to their
original home in Africa, where, it is
argued, they would exeroiee a civilizing
influence at a time when the commercial
nations of Europe—England, Germany and:
Portugal—are endeavoring to open up
and develop the " dark continent.'
The theory is that a colony of
100,000 Southern negroes, educated into
white civilization and speaking the Eng-
lish language, might render important ser-
vices as a connecting link between the ex-
tremes of a high civilization and barbarism.
They might prove a valuable contiogentfor
police or military purposes in regions where
whites could not exist, and thus do their
share towards civilizing the preeent in-
habitants. Brit the remedy seems inade-
quate. A few hundreds of thousands would.
hardly be missed from the millions of
negroes in the Southern States. Their
planes woald be quickly supplied by the
natural increase of population.
A peculiarity of .the case is that the,
foreign -born white residents of the United
States were ihstrumental in freeing the
slaves. Judge Altgeld figures out in the
February Forum that the election of
Lincoln would have been impossible if
the Know -Nothing cry of " America for
Americans " had prevailed at an earlier
period in the history of the country. Tha
total population of the States in 1860 waa
31,183,744, of whom 4,099 152 were foreign -
born, and of the latter only 216,730 were
to be found in all the eleven States whish
seceded. The remaining States had a total
population of 22,313,997, o1 whom.
3,882,422, or a little over one•eixtb,
were actually foreign -born. In every
State carried by Lincoln there was
a large foreign population, which was
mostly, and in some States entirely.
Republican, and which continued to ba
Republioan down to a very recent date
and if the vote of thie class had been
omitted in 1860, it would have reduced
Lincoln's vote to such an extent as to
defeat him in most of the States whioh he
carried. The eleven States which in 1861
hoisted the flag of secession had a papula-
tion•of 8,726,644. Of these only 216,730,
or about 2- per Dent:, were foreign -born,
and they were subsequently fonnd to be
Unioniste. Will it tarn out chat the
migration in the first half of the nineteenth:
century -from Europe to the United States
will be the cause of an equally great migra-
half ?from from America to Africa in the latter
Filling up in Anticipation.
The teacher of a private school allowed
her pupils only one drink in the morning.
unless they had salt meat for the first mead.
When one day a child asked for the second
supply, she wee therefore cross.queetioned,
e Had you salt meat for breakfast?"
" No," was the innocent reply. " Bat
we goining to have it for dinner l"
—If Henry George, the apostle of sooiaa
reform, were penniless to -morrow be would
have very little diffionity in getting employ-
ment as it typewriter. Several years'. prac-
tice have enabled him to attain such a speed
on theinstrument as would put hundreds
of professionals to'the blush.
—A Baltimore woman carries her, ideas
of modesty to each an extent that she has
made trousers for her piano 'ego, and all
Baltimore is giggling.
:-Chioago;peopleoughtnot to, complain
of aspersions on their artistic sense when:
the Toter Ocean heads an aeconnt of "" The
Angeles " with ",Hear Dem Bells."
The Newport News, Va., ship -yard is
nearly ready, to begin' work. t s the
largostin America, and has a water front
of 1,600 feet. Henry'Loaitsky, formerly
of Cramps, is superintendent of eon- -
striation.
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