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The Exeter Times, 1886-6-3, Page 6The 13Anie of Waterloo, SET. C. MARDI:UGH. 110Wfrai4110 art thou little And yet hew very .Lir; The frac et thy one brief hour Still lingers on the air. Thy home is where the god of war • Trod, down the brave and true, .nd where went out an empire's star, Oh rose from WittMloo The Soil that nourished thee was red With blood one summer day • It routed beneath its weight oi deed here nations fought for switS. The royal Timor of hie ago Was oonqutred where ye grew, To die witluu his ocean cage, Fair rose frau Waterloo 1 The BeiglIn lion guards the plain Ana Marebaptismal font ; The speinres of the gallant; slain Stand guard at Hugoniont. Thy sisters ia the soft starlight Receive the spotless dew, ..nd wonder where thou art to -night, 0 rose from Waterloo 1 The cannon ruts, those soars of hate, Have va oisod with the years ; The cricket calla his timid mate Where diad the grenadlere. The soaring lark her matins sings Amid the balmy blue; Wtth happy notes thy birtirp`ace rings, Sweet flower of Waterloo. The lambkins sport where battle's wave Beat high that fatetu day, And where the bravest of the brave Went down, the children play. The language that tow petals speak They whieper 'neath the yew, Til blushes crown the lasaie's cheek, 0 rose from Waterloo 1 Now, as I look thee o'er end o'er. And tow I my lips to thine, I hear the tide of war once more Roll down the alliedhiccel But all 1 the Raga that floated then Wave o'er a ponsioned few, And silent is thy n. tire men, Lone rose from Waterloo 1 MY NEW FRIEND. "Oh, come I tog et, Motley," mid the PIM Tt'qu';, ib,,aa a narrow equeak, of canted; but "you're safe now. They won't try it oo atter at " Tay What ?" 1 naturally aeked; for up to this time bed not Oneptied the. exhit- MO Of any- pAgh dangeoenit enitatiltatiens tie those of whfekrWits lsO agetti abbot to hear. "Try whielid" echoed the 4:1erk ; with a know3ug shake of the head. "Come, that's good, mister ; 1 like to see a man cam' it off like that," " Carry whet ?" I asked with some symptoms of anneyence, Vire °hark, however, took no notice of my interruptiou, ALA proceeded : " You knew they thought they could have you up for conspiroom and hand. But old Jadatuson was your friend—he was, He stuck up for you all through. Saye he—for I heardihim— " There's no conspiracy there," eaye he ; " the man'a nothing better than a fool," he says ; "you care all eee that. Talk about conopiracy I he says ; " why, I don't ba. lieve he'll get out of the concern with enough to buy himself a glass of ale and a eandwieh for dinner, when he stoma over the door and we put the shutters up. Tho man hasn't got oraine enough to be a rogue."—Well, you see, mister, we all knew, and they all knew, that old Jadahson was as good a judge of what a rogue wall as any Mall on the rolls; no naturally he had great tellu- rium. Se he got you off lu atyle ; and I'm glad of it. Thera was, however, two er three there that didn't know the old man, and they wore inclined to be nasty ; but there was another party there who spoke up well in your favor. My eye 1 he dld give it to some of 'ern," " Indeed," I ald, " And who was he V' "A friend of you' rs I suppose,' answer- ed the clerk ; " ealdhe knew you well in the butiness. ilis I151110 was Bete, or Crate —no I Smte—that was it. I thought he was going to let fly at one fellow, It was a game ! But when I see what they have all done, it strikes me you wont have a brass farthing for yourself." My well-meaning although painfully vul- gar friend wee right. My oreditorn left me no farthings, or any other coin ; and so total was the collapse, so utterly was I in- volved, that all the furniture worth speak- ing of at No. 9 Victoria Louise Terrace, Kentioh Town, was seized. Our home was stripped from top to bottom ; bilis were attack all over the windows ; auctioneers came and brokers, and Jewe, and shabby hangers-on—of every descrlption, I was go. ing to say ; bat they were indescribable, Sympathising neighbors came in too ; not to bay, but to peep and quiz and titter ; for I fear we had been considered stuck-up people, and it was felt that a little reverse was rathor good for us than otherwise. However, the sale took place ; went off weU, I was assured, for in most sales the geode fetched fully one fourth of what I had given for them twelve or thirteen months before ; and the auctioneer congratulated me. At last, all the hangers-on were gone, and the house was dull and void, save for the few things that were not seized, and a few other articles which one of Susan's aunts had purchased ba&r for our nee. I had no reletives. Susan's friends were quiet peo- ple, occupying a small farm in a Welsh in- land county ; and we determined not to trouble them ; so this aunt, who lived in Leaden on a mall annuity, was the only one who knew of oar downfall. She, then, was the only friend we expected to find at our sale ; but, to our 'surprise, another one turned up in the persen of my former ac- quaintance and recent champion, Mr. Smite, Not only did he appear at thesale but Lame up to me, and calling me "old fellow," said he was sorry to see such goings on in my house, that he know all about the doing a which 'nad Md to it, and ooneidored I had bean scandalously used. Little as I had liked the man before, I re• membered his exertions with my creslitors on my behalf, and ware melted by his sym- pathy now ; so warmly shook the hard he extended, " Now, old boy," he continued, " what would you like ma to buy in for you ? Just my the woad, and it's yours, even it 1 have to kick the whole of these swindlers out of the room to get it," I was more staggered than ever at this question, and could hardly get out my an - ewer, that I would not trouble him. He cat me short here. "Trouble 1 Nan sense ! No trouble at all. 111 get aome• thing back Mom their olawe—I'M TO I he is jnet putting up that marble cleck, aed heck! that hoolanoned old villein has bid fifteen ehilliege for it I Why, it rnuet be worth ten times as mach." With teia, he began bid- ding ; and bit ail°, I rnay even say hip swagger, woe eo iropressive, that the men allowed him to have the clock for thirty shillings ; while I am convinced they would have run it up to treble the money with any other stronger. So the sale was over; the brokers and all the attendant vampires had gong ; the carte, which had ben Mennen; about all the oftelnosn, were gone also ; but the mares cf rrendey feet m er all the rooms and on the staircase were not gem, nor were the wisps of dirty straw which lay in every cor- ner and behind every door. My wife and myself were sitting in what we celled our breakfast -room, which looked out on the little sloping front garden with which all the houses in Victoria Letitia Ter- race were furnished. Not that we were looking out then for the gas was lighted, the blinds were down, and we were seated, talking sadly enough, in the room, which seemed so baro and wretched compared with its aspect of a day er two before. I pretended to bear np confidently, for I saw poor Susan's eyes Mill with tears when she looked at the naked boards where had been such a comfortable dark carpet; or glanced at the common wooden chain and table bought back out of our kitchen furniture, and now forced to serve instead of our plain but handsome leather -covered amts. She tried to hide these tears from me, and every time she caught my eye she smiled ; but her lip trembled so in the effort, that itwas almost worse than the burst of mobbing sho was trying so hard to keep back. The soli- tary item whioh reminded ns of our pre- vious comfort and smartness was the marble clock, which ticked on the mantelpiece ; and we bad already said two or three times over, how greatly obliged we ought to feel to Mr. Scate for his kindness, I have said I pretended to bear up cheer- fully; it was all pretence, for nothing oonld be more utterly hopeless than were our prospects ; and what made us more misor- able than we should otherwise have been, wart what had previously given us great joy, Saran expected to have a baby in about a couple of months, and what wore we to do then 1 Before that time arrived, it was clear that we should find another home, for qaarter-da,y would tome, and it W AC hope- less to think of going on where we were. Oar present house was large enough to justi- fy us in letting one floor—the card, indeed, with the simple annbunoement "Apart- ments," still hung idly in our window ; but where was the furniture to come from ? " Don't you think, dear," said my wife, trying to epeak without a oatoh he her voice, "that we might buy some plain furniture from people who will take month ly payments, and see— CHAPTER I. When the sale was over, and tho brokers had all gone—But stay 1 This teener toe abrupt a style cf oomnaencing my story, as the reader may perhaps wish to know how it was we had the brokers in at all. Well, mine was an experience which is only too common, and was distinguished by no 'special features of romance, or even of pea Whos, although it was painful enough to me aa well es to Swett, my wife. My name is Matley—Lnke Medley ; 'clerk in the city of London, plodding along :pretty contentedly t a hundred and forty ,pounde a year ; and I was engaged to be enarried to Miss Everett—the Susan j est re- ferred to—and our ambition being of a limit- ed kind, our marriage was to take place when my salary was raised to one hundred and fifty pounds, which, at the timetwhen I have decided upon commencing my name tive, I hoped woulcl be in the next year. But unluokily—I may say ao now, although I did not thluk so then—a distant relative, from whom I had entertained no expecta- tions, died, and left me about a thousand pounds. Sagan and myself, as I need hard- ly say, got married without waiting for the expected advanoe. Thia would not have mattered so greatly, in fact it would be the best thing I could have dons, had we acted as we had original- ly intended, which was to have invested nearly the whole of this money in the pur- chase of a couple of little houses, and plod- ding on with my clerkship as before. But, as ihlluok would have it, I. was in the whole- sale wine -trade, and one of our travellers— & very clever fellow I always considered him, end so without doubt ho was—hed re- cently left, to set up in business for himself ; and he showed me how it was possible to do netted more good with seven or eight hun- dred pounds, than jnet to get a rnie,erable five or six per cent. on home -property. I do mot wish to dwell on this part of my story. so will only say that I invested my Et 'le f ortuee in the business, and at the -end of the first hal-year 1 received a die -l- amed at the rata of twelve per cent. per 80 - num, The second half-year was marc sum cesaful Mill, a rather larger dividend being shown ; and then, as aesistance was requir- ed for the fuller development of the busi- ness, I gave up my clerkship, to take a more active position in the coneern. I was often surprised—at first almost shocked at the style of people with whom our new business seemed chiefly to be tran- sacted ; they were, With scarcely an excep- tion, vulgar, common people, and more given to drinking and smoking than is ces• tomary even in the wine trade—as I had been used to it. Among them was one young man—he (mold not have been thirty —who nsadto coma in frequently, and whom I at first disliked greatly; but my partner extolled him as the very imporsone,tion of liberty and honour, Hie name was Scate, and I understood that he represented an in- fluential firm in the City. Whether my partner had spoken well of me to Mr. Scate, in taro, I did not know, but the latter was always very courteous to me—after his style. I could hardly tell what ho oame for, but faecled, from occasional hints, that there were money transactions between him and my partner ; bat the latter always laughed off my inquiries, and said I should soon see what his business was. I certainly had an impression that, little as I llked the appear- ance of Mr. Scate, he really did come on business, which was more than I could be- , lievo of many of onr visitors, and was part- ly inclined to credit what my partner said of hie extensive transactions, Well, one day, five weeks after my teat dividend was received, I found, on arriving at the cse, a letter from my partner, re- gretting that circumstances altogether un- foreseen, and entirely beyond his control, had compelled him to leave for America ; he regretted alto to say that the stock— which had been mysteriously' disappearing of late—could not meet the demands and liabilities, and he adviaed me to put myself in communication with some experienced solicitor. As soon as I recovered from the shook of such a letter, I did seek a solioitor ; but in one respect I need not have troubled myself, for at least half -a -dozen experienced solici- tors put themselves into communication ' with me, much to my discomfort. The case was such a bad one ; eo many people had been " let in ;" the trading had been so reoHess, and the disposal of all the beat goods so suspicious, that serious thoughts were entertained of prosecuting me for franc/; but thin was happily abandoned. I learned how near and groat had been my danger, from a clerk who was in the employ of one of tho hoatile eel:behove. He had scraped an acquaintance with me while serving me with writs and all sorts of pre- cisions and worrying. notices ; but he was always cheerful and tooular even over 011011 work as that ; and when drinking a glans of port in the deserted counting house where the vvretchod bizaineoe had once been carried on, exhorted me to cheer np also, " You're 1).; -14 Icon tell you that," leel to hoar It,' 1 replied. -eas somewhat doleful, • have been any. ehue,,kmy bead to she p used, for this woa oily another clanger, a fresh numb% Into debt, " Perhaps, then., dew," she resumed, " some Wm might take you as a traveller. I have heard chat some peemone make a great deal, of money in that way." I abook my head again, Some persons, no dealt, did. well • but I knew beter;than she did, the long, slow, hopeless task it was for an unknown msnto form a now eatmeo- tion. " The foot is,"—I began ; when e loud double knook at the street door inter - meted mo. My wife turned pale; so did I, as Lizzie, our little uervant, ran to the door, Lizzie had begged her mistreas not to send her away jinn; yet ; for, as sho oalti,,ohe bed bteu In a many houses where they was sold up, and so didn't; mind it ;" and added, that ahe would rather stay with tto for her " vittlem nor go out/where oleo for wages ;" ao she stayed. When Lizzie had opened the door, we heard somebody inquiring for Mr. and Mrs. Matley. The servant's reply was beaudible; but the voioe said: " Down- stairs, aro they ? All right ; don't you trouble ecu;'111 find them out ; they want mind an old friend intruding." Then foh loved. a step on the atairs, a tap at our room door, and then the evell-kuown figure and foam of Mr, S :ata became viable. YOUNG FOLK$. Hal's Misfottune. " Ray ou piled your wood Hal " No, not yet ; bn; Ian just going to." "Potted up yew apples ?" "No ; they won't take long." " Father paid we wore to do our chores early. you know." " Yea, I'm just going to." Bat Hal kept oe trying to melte Carlo ell upright and hold a pipe in his mouth. Tne eitting up was a MOM% as long as Carlo Was hold up, but he weakened down in a moat provoking manner as soon as left to himself. The pipe fell to the floor and want to pieoea just as Hare father looked ia at the eked door. " All done boys ?' " Yea sir, said Hal's brother:3 promptly. " Well—alinorit," said Hel. " The General and his stall, with a de- tachment of soldiers, aro going to pass along the Winburg road this morning : thought if you had all finiohed your work we might walk over there and me them, Hurry, then 1 there will be no time to "Harrel 1 w!tot a frolic 1" The bays whose work was done rau to gat ready. Hal knew better than to leave hi work undone, for his father, with all his indulgence, wee stria, and Hal had had enough disappoint, merits through his heedless, dawdling habits to have taught him bettor. "111 help you," said little Tom, kindly, as he made a rusluto pick up the apples. Tney were soon gathered, but in poor order, and then Hal initiated on Tom's leav- ing him and going with the others. " I'll catoh you," he said. " I'll ride the pony and go 'mom lots,' He piled the wood, but co badly, in his hurry, that it fell down and had to bo done over. Then, out of breath and fearing he would entirely lege the fine sight, he threw himself, °methane hatless and shoe- less, upon the pony's bare back and rode quickly across the fielda. " I won't go around by the bridge " he said to himself. " 1'11 go by farmer Allen'e ford ; hell shorten tho way a great deai." Bat as he came to the brook he saw that it was so much swollen by late rains that he felt a little doubtful about the wiadom of trying to orose, and wished he had gone around by the bridge. "Bot it's too late now,' he said, If I don't hurry up I sha'n't see a thing," He dashed in and urged the pony on, " Hello, there 1" cried a man's yoke. " Dou't you try to cross; It's too deep. Look out now 1 thero's a big hole right ahead of you ; if yon get in it's ten to one you'll never get out." " Het reined back his pany, which was already fioandering about as if in great doubt of hie footing. From farther down the bank if ermer Allen came on hie own horse, picking his way along the shallower places and growling at the folly and stu- pidity of boys. " There 1" ho grumbled as he at last seized the pony and turned him the other way. " The next time you come foolin' routed in deep -water 111 leave you to gat out as best you oan—see if I don't I" In a very crestfallen spirit poor Hal turned the other way. "11 only the General's a little after time," he said, " perhaps be there soon enough yet. I do believe I hear the drum and fife now, Get np, Pony 1" Pony did his beet, but alas 1 when Hal at last reached hie brothers, whom he found in a state of delighted excitement, he oonld only catch a faint glimpse of nodding plumes over a cloud of duet in the far die - tome. "Out, if you had only been here. We cheeredand waved cur hats. ' And the General took off his hat to us.'' " And Inc going to be a General myself some day," added Tom. " Such a horse as he had—and a sword 1" " Always late, poor Hal 1" said his father. Ineking pitifully at his boy's rueful face. " When I'm a General," said Hai pat- tiohly, " I'll take my own time to do things, and not always have to be hurry- ing.' '11 you are ever a general or any other great man, my boy, you will find it your first need to be prompt and diligent in all you do. But be euro that no one who is s, trifler and a laggard as a boy will ever be a great mon or a gcol one, which le far better. A soldier of °tenet must always he up and about his Master's business. If you ever expect to do Him good and loyal ser- vice, Htel, you mutat make your firat fight against the faults that beset you now, When yeu roach home go to your room and learn this verse: " Not slothful in business ; fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' " Aha 1 you did not think of Gulag tee 1" he exolainaed.—" No 1 I thought not ; but I got home emly, and I couldn't rest with- out coming round.—Your setvant, Mrs. Matley. I ought to apologies for intruding like this but I know you will excuse me. I am a plain man. Everybody knowa me ; and Ned Saito is here to say that he never heard of such acanduloue treatment as your hueband has met with, ma'am. That's whet I am here for." Although the man's voice, air, and man- ner altogether wore terribly vulgar, there was no resisting this ; at anyrate Susan could not mist it, and her teem broke out in earnest, and thanking him warmly, she invited him to be seated and stay a while with De. " It's what I came for, ma'am, if you will excane my raying oo," replied Mr, Saab, "I came to talk things over with Mr. Matley—and yourself of couroe—andta see if we can't do something to make *fetters straight, I'm in rather a large Wily of business myself, and have friends who are very isflueutlel. They could make room for a dcz'n like Mr. Matley, and be glad to get aura man. Yes, ma am glad to get them, for men like Mr. Motley are not to be 1eund at the corner of every street. I saw him in businees, ma'am ; I know what he is capable of, and will take care that others know it too." " I am sure I don't know how to thank you f or this disinterested kindnees," began my poor wife ; "to strangers too, who' — " Then don't thank me, ma'am," blunt- ly interrupted the ether—" don't thank me, at anyrate till I have done something more than talk about my good -will. As for being strangers, ma'am, I don't intend to remain a stranger any onger. This is not a time to etand on a lot of ceremony, and Ned Sante never cared for ceremony. He's a plain John Bull, he le.—And now, govar- nor"—this was of course to me—" though Mrs, M atloy probably dont go in for such things, I have taken the liberty cf bringing round a single bottle of sherry. If the quality can be beaten in all London,I can only say I have never seen the quaity to beat it, ' Suiting the actions to the words, he drew from one packet of his long overcoat, which was white or drab, and made him look like a grazier, a bottle of sherry ; and then he produced a knife with a number of blades and odd appurtenances, among others a cork- MrOW. All this was utterly opposed t our habit?. We c tied not for drinking at ell, save our meals ; end wine we drank but rarely. We, however, were heeitating, and restrain- ed by a fear of seeming ungrateful to onr new friend. He had no sem of hesitation about him ; ro while we faltered, he had called Lizzie the servant, who at his cern- mend brought two out of the few odd tum- blers whica were left, with a wine -glass, " Depend upon it, ma'am," said he, as he handed the glen to my wife with his polit- est air, in which—ungrateful an I felt it was to notice it—I could not even at that new merit refrain from seeing something of a. invagger—" depend upon it that the worst thing yen clan do is to give way. I am cure if you keep up, y 3ar Outland will keep up also. Wby, ma'am, I have been in fixes twenty times worse than this, twenty times over, and I have got out of them—and here I am ! my own maeter, and oaring for no- body,—And now, ma'am 1" continued Mr, Scate, " I have ranoh pleasure in drinking your health, with prosperity to you and your worthy hueband, Why, in days to come, we shell have many a laugh over these times. —Your vary good healths, both 1 —Yon must not think, ma'am," continued our visitor, " that I have intruded upon you for nothing, or jest to say a few unmeaning words ; far from in As I told yon before, I have heard all about the shameful way in which Mr. Matley hag been treated, and I have spoken to some friends already in his behalf, I hope you will not think It was taking toe great a liberty.'—My wife as- sured him that he added to the obligation by doing so.—" And I am pleased to tell you, ma'am," he went on, " that there is something more than a chance of an open- ing. I am not authorized to make an offer to -night, and therefore, looking at the mat- ter purely in a business light, I ought to have said nothing about the affair until g was so authorized. Bute -if you will excuse my saying so --I was so ehooked at seeing these goings on, that I oould not keep oh lance, and I thought yeu would be no dispi- rited at such misfortunes that yon would be glad of even a glimpse of hope." " Glad of it I" I said; " am more than glad. I do not Iwo* how to thank yon nut. ficiently for the interest you have taken,'— just then clone another loud double knock, and, as before, we.heard L'zzle open the door, and a short converaation followed; then coming to the breakfast -room door, she maid : "Oh, if you please, mum, it's a gentleman as wants to see the apartments." "S30 the apartments?' we both eohoed. " Oh. he oan't. Tell him, Lizzle."— "'No, no l—normense 1Excuse nee for the interruption," said our new friend ; " but if I were yon, I nhould have him in, and see what he is like ; I should indeed. It may come to nothing, of course ; but it's a °hone°, and my maxim in business is, never to throw a chance away." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Jut in the Niok of Time, "Geetlemen," urged a merchant at a meeting of hie creditors, "give me one week more, and I will be able to pay you all in frill. ' " What anemones) oan you give us," they detnanded, " that we will be paid et the end of that time ?" " My dere Is to be boycotted to -morrow morning." All played out—Open air concerts. REHR AND THEO. While a Southern military company was in camp reoently near Augusta'Ga., one of the privates made more teen hie expenses by opening a barber them where he Aver. tetdoon"tt! and hard boiled egg for t An express train on the Central Vermont itaihney dashed round a curve the other day, and rushed headlong into a herd of oattlo blookiog a cloning Five animals were killed, but the train did not leave the rail% • A writer In the Boston Transcript explains to his own satisfaction how the slang eaters chew and swallow glees. He thinks they educate their throats as dose tho sword nwallower, and then introduce a tube whioh roc:elect the glom and holds it until it oan be removed without deteotien, Georgie planters kill a good many wpm and the my of doing it is thus described ; "Catch one of the birdit, tie it to your body, and walk through the field with your gun cooked and finger on the trigger, The cries of the bird will cause others of its tribe to flock around you and they oan be easily it hot," A box was reoeivel at the U. S. Govern- ment Redemption cffioe the other day whioh oontained coral's of burnt paper, whioh the sender said had been billamounting to $10,- 000, which had accidental' y been burned and whioh he wanted redeemed, It did not take an expert long to determine that tho °entente of the box were pieom of common writing paper and a few two•dollar bills that had peen burned and mixed. The eixtoen year-old daughter of William Fordyoo of Wabash, Ind., rather enjoyed the company of Al, Watkine, a bartender of that town and a married man. Oae eve- ning recently while the twain wore walking together M. Fordyce overtook them, and with a pocketknife cut Mr. Watkins so bed• ly that he is likely to die. Fordyne, who has been arrested, says that he was only doing his duty ant was proteoting his daugh- ter's good name. A Spanish vessel laden with molasses went !whore on the Florida coast come days ago, and all but one of the crew escaped, thanks to the assistance of the residents of that neighborhood. When the wreak broke up and weeks of molasses began to come ashore, the Captain and the crew stood by with axes and broke them np ea fast ao they came within roach, refusing even the empty casks to the men who so recently helped save their lives. "t -.11111•411.. - The Girl at the Front Gate. Heaven Mem the girl at the front gate with pooh-bloore on her cheeks and love - light in hor eyes. Some men would shut her out of our literature, but I am not one of them, Tho girl at the front gate oan never grow old to those who have bean there with her. Years may come and go, but the mu- sic of the low voioo at the front gate will not bo otilled, and the memory of the cherry lips we kissed at the front gate will hold ont faithful to the end, What if the old gate does sag and its hinges rattle, and its latch refuse to hold it shut ? What if the posts are shaky and some of Its pickets gone ? We love the dear old relic still. We love it for the sake of the girl who used to stand out there by it with roses on her cheeks and nectar on her lips. We held the old gate up and counted the stars, and bid good-bye and then counted the stars again, How many times of a night was good-bye said? How many times did lips meet over the dear old gate? The old gate knows, but it will never tell. The old front gate may have counted the kisses, but I never di& And I am sure that the girl with the peach -bloom cheeks never di& And what of the girl with the peach -bloom oheeks ? Ah, me I She married another. She forgot her vows at the old front gate, as some girls will, a,nd married a richer and handsomer man. And 1? Well, I went off to another front gate where there were other partoh-bloom cheeks and ether lips as sweet, and just as many stars to count. And now I have a front gate of my own, and a girl of my own with peach -bloom cheeks who counts the stars with the boy of the girl whose vows made with me at the first front gate were broken, But he 18 a true, good boy, and my girl is a good, true girl, and heaven bless them both as thoy stand to -night at the old front gate. ---matishaneenweeenew.--. Branum sayho has wanted $5,000 on boomerang% This is surpriaing, as it hos boon taken for granted that all the money invested by the great sheiWrnan in boon ha- rangues has returned big dividends. " Why were you not at churoh loot Sun- day, Clara 1' asked Amelia, " I couldn't go ; didn't have anything to wear, 1 ehall go next Sunday, if my meek is done," "Oh 1 you nook -religious thing 1" Aeronaut Wells of Indlanapolie says that he once mode an ascent frem Buenos Ayres, and while far above the Le Plata River taw the sun set. Soon after the wind ceased and the balloon went down to the water. He threw out all balloon and then, 'sitting in the hoop, out away the oar. At tide the balloon shot up to such a height that the sun, which had set hours before to the per- sons below him, again appeared. The effect was as if the sun was rifting in the west. Mrs, Allay Pollard is celled a representa- tiVi womanof Maine, She lives in Skowhe- gan, and auperintends a farm of 200 acree. Lest summer, besides doing her housework, she made butter and cheese to sell and plott- ed and canned more berries than any one else in that neighborhood. Through haying she milked four cows every night and took all the cam of the pigs and hens. She livea five miles from the church, but she goes there regularly every S anday. She reads the paper daily and is a vvell- informed and vigorous old lady, Deafness appears to be exosptionally pre- valent in Kennebec coanty, M line, and in Martha's Vineyard, A recent scientific: in- vestigation of the matter shows that is both dietnots there is abnndant evidence of her. odity and especially atavism. In the fam- ilies affected there wore also found blindness, insanity, idiocy and deformity, and in some caeca a long history of consanguinea.1 marri- ages. InMmtha's Vineyard the distribution of deafness coincides with that of certain soils and its eastern boundary is also the typhoid fever line. Tobacco blindness is becoming a common sec 5ion. At present there are several per- sons under treatment for it at one Landon hospital. It first takes the form of color blindness, the sufferers who have smoked themselves into this condition being quite unable to dietinguieh the color of a piece of red Moth held up before them. Sometimes the victim loam hia eyesight altogether, Although smoking Is to a large extent the cause of ,tho malady, and so gives it its name, heavy drinking is also pertly reopen- ', Able. David Van Dyke of Ma.son, Ohio, 70 years old, owns a home and lot, and that's all; and owes a large debt contracted by going security for a friend. As long as Mrs. Van Dyke lived the house and lot could not be attached for the debt, under the Homestead Exemption law. Bnt Mrs. Van Dyke died a short time ago, and mit was at onoe brought against the widower and the Sheriff advertised the property for sale. Under the law Van Dyke oould not now claim a home- atead, as his wite had died, and he had no minor children or unmarried daughter living with him. The only way of escape was to marry again, he thought, and so he went to Cincinnati and called on several women be- fore he found one to suit him. At lad he bit on Mlso May Jones, who was willing, and they were married the 6% of last month. That was but a few days before the day fixed for the sale, and the prooeedinge in execu- tion were stopped at onoe. The case was then argued In the Common Pleas Court, and the Judge has jut deeided that It was not necessary that Van Dyke should have been a married man at the time of the levy on the property, but that it was sufficient to entitle him to have the homestead exerop tion by becoming the head of a family any time before the actual sale, ' CATCHING THIEVES, Hew Two were Nabbid by the Clerko. The topic of eonversation in a ester° one night loot week was the oapture of thievee. A grizzled old dry goode clerk had just re. latod the story of a lone burglar being pin - nod to the floor by a lot of heavily -laden oholving toppling over on him as ho was climbing up to reach some unbroken pack- ages of velvets on an upper shelf. Thin, he said, snit an incident which occurred in alontreal during the earlier years of his busi- ness °career. He Mao related an inoldent of his more reoeut experience in which one of a gang of burglars effected his own ospture in a very peculiar nie.nner. It ocourrod in Whithorne, Baker & Jeff era's atore in Hali- fax, when ho and another clerk were sleeping in a room on the emend floor. Their window looked out upon an alloy ia the rear of the buildirg, and as it was a warm night in July the window was open. The rear windowof the cellar opened into shal- low areas or pits protected ,by iron gratings whioh were securely fattened 1 41. to the stone- work with melted lead. . be windows swung inward on stout hinges, and were fastened with an o:dinary spring cupboard oatoh. In warm weather these windows were frequently snepended to the ceiling for ventilation, and the grating was regard- ed at full protection against thieves, Beath window had its own area and they were not oonneoted. ,onthe wiett 1 em opeaking'about," mid the old clerk, "Ned Small and 1 hand been to the theatre, and we let ourselves into the store at about half poet eleven' As we were gcing upstairs Ned mid in a low tone of voice, ' I smell brimstone,' I laughed at him and went on upstairs. He followed me up, and after closing the door of our room, raid 'Phil, I am sure some one has been lighting matohos down utak% I don't know what's the matter with your nom, bat I moiled sulphur as plain as you'll smell it some day.' I ridiculed the idea, and told nim the smell came from new blankets near ' the door that were ordered for sa Si, John's firm, He appeared to be setiefied, and we both turned in. I went to sleep as soon as my head touched the pillow, and it seemed all if I had not taken forty winks before ho shook me up and whispered : ' Ned, Ned, hist ; there are burglars dowm stake ; get your theater quick and follow me.' I was awake in an instant and pulled 011 my trou- sers. Then I took the old Colt from a holater where it hung on the sideboard of the bed, and followed him quietly out to the flow of the mualin room. We went to the light well quietly as oath and looked down. I didn't dare to breathe herd, all I listened and plainly hoard the shuffling of feet and and low voices In the liter below, Ai mo- ment later I saw a man gliding silently along toward the rear etaira with a pile of goods in his arms. Nod fired at him quick- er than lightning, and be dropped the goode with a yell as he ruched down the stairs, Curses and the stamping of feet follow- ed, and two men rushed peat the well. I fired at one of them and the other turned loose at 113 without stopping. Ned ran to the back window and I started down -stairs. I didn't atop to think of the danger until I heard a shot strike the wall near my head. I drew back into the shadow lol‘e stairs, and just at this instant I • heard' /ired fire a shot from the window. Tnen I heard a pounding and swearing In the cellar and et and at the same time a policemen rapped in front of the store and tried to get in. Ned cams flying down stairs and rushed into the cellar, while I let in the offisers, who follow- ed him. I got down just behind them, and Ned pointed at the open window and mid : 'That's where they got in and where they got out.' Then he whispered to the sergeant : ' Ono of them made a blunder and is trapped behind that middle ' window.' One of the policemen olimbedcriiet of the open window and lit a m etch t o)k down the grating, and when the match flared up we p'ainly sew a man's form shadowed on the gime. " ' Yes, heet here,' said the policman 'I eee he le,' said the sergeant, and then etrik- ir g a match he lit a gas jet. •' Pulling back the catch on the nth he raised it and said, 'Come out of there, my boy ; you aro eafely trapped and the jig is up.' A burly young fellow about twenty years of age crept out and held up his hands while we covered him with our revolvers. The other policeman came beck through the window with a revolver whioh he said the captured burglar pushed up through the grating before he gave himself up, By the time we got him into tho street four more of - floors were in the front of the store and one of them had a wounded man whom he cap- tured while corning in the direction of the shooting. The min had a ball in his thigh, and I felt sure he was my game. The fel- low we captured in the collar was, doubt - les, the ono who waited at the top of the etairs and shot at me. He made a mistake and tried to climb out of the wrong window, knocking or pulling the meth down behind him. It fastened on the inside, and thero he was like a rat in a trap. Nod got all the credit for the capture, as he should, and I admitted that I would have slept while the thieves were carrying away t he building if It had not been for his efforts, " Yon had better put them down on a piece of paper," said Mrs. S. on giving her first order, "Oh, no,' said Mr. S., ''my memory is good." "ell, then, a spool of 60 Coates's black thread," " Yes," " A yard of not toe light and not too dark calico, Yea," "A email hammer, a can of peaohee of the Pasadena brand, a dozen smell pearl buttons, two yards of cardinal ribbon, silk on one nide satin on the other." " Yea," mid M. S., thoughtfully. "A pair of slipperfor baby, a dozen lemons, a good tooth brash,' a pineapple, two eateries of sky-blue German yarn, at ounce vial of homeeepe,thie nux vomica pellets, "Wait a /mond," said Mr, S., counting on his fingers " And a bottle of vanilla, extract and a yard of triple box -platted orepo llseo inching and throe yards of small °hocked nainnook esd—" But Mr. 5, had seized his hat and wan running for the station, What the poor man brought home was ,a yard of bedtioking, three garde of Meek crepe, a bottle of vinegar, eight yards of nankeen, a sends ibrueh, a pound of green yarn, sixty spools of ooat thread, a yard of very black calico, and a pint bottle of homec. opothic pills. " There, my dear," throwing down hie package triumphantly, "I don't think you'll find a thing missing, Who says n man oan't do chopping ?" " Keep Your Mouth Shut." Dr. Hall advises every one who goes out in the open air from a waem aeartment, to keep the month shut while walking or rid- ing. He tap "Before you leave the room, bundle up well gloves, cloak, and cordforter ; shut your month before you open the street door, and keep it resolutely Mos. ed until you have walked briskly for some ten minutes ; then, if yon keep on walking or have reached your home, you may talk as much as yeu please, Not so doing, many a heart once happy and young now lies in churchyard, that might have been you and happy still, But how ? If you., eep your month doled and walk rapidly, the oir oan only reach the lungs by a oirouit of the nose and head, and beoomes warmed bo - fore reaching the lungs, thus musing no de- rangement • but if you conver' ee large draughts Of cold air daeh directly In upon the lungs, chilling the frame almost instant- ly. The brisk walking throws the blood to the surfaoe of the body, thus keeping np a vigorous circulation, making a cold impoe- sible, if you don't got Into a cold bed too quiokly after you get home. Neglect of tome precautions brings sickness and pre- mature death to multitudes every year. ----sessess-soesnoos Good Hens, A young married lady who moved into the country from a city home oensidered the keeping of hone as a pleasant and profitable duty. As she became more absorbed in the puranit, her enthuoiasm inoreased, and hens and their care wore the favorite subject Of her thoughts and conversation. Daring ono of her animated descriptiona of her encomia, a friend inquired,— "Aro your hone good hens?" " Oh yea," she replied in a delighted tone. " They haven't laid a bad egg yet 1" - " I hear that Ellkbam is oinking slowly," yott Muldn't expect him to sink ra. pidly," He's had no doctor, so far," rg