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' nervecl,hie hand fie en the fra,y, and made if yoe huy many more flower -Pieces, and probably make
I en hie mind deY 'and night,'and waz v9hat f obildrqzi Will eVe0 bove," seye I., „ " It will said 0, it wai a fearful oversight ; it WOu
him me suocessfele,. , cape ilreesee, ' . ' , , , , I But I eaye,e"Mebby it won't lie noticed
Wall, he bed laid up about nine hundred Abel Said "„it wouldn't eakie;meteh ()tape "Yee it vvill," eaye ho. "1i will .
Josiah Allen and me had vieitors, along dollars towerds a home, every dollar on it for tbeeolitiren'e dreeeee, theyeeteeelittle, '`, notsced." And Says she, "I don't ea
the last of the winter, ---Abel Perry gees fake e"Ped PY hard w°rk and 99°Oeerate4-3 kW only tb,- ay'; tli" weuld har';'". tf-: be i,o4nbetoulf"a'Yr,:ies19fn" ,bultlanTlarax,afii140)13:ww1hrtehili721
from ,w,,e,:( out b6yond Loontewn. , tide deathless hhpe ' ithti , 4Netion, r'Th e long.
They come io good sperits and.' the morn. hguse hc ,,had ot Ids ,p-.414. on only cost sva I, „ The bfby would zok bett • it shOws a leek of reepeet for him IP
nightin, tra,in, and epcnt thuo deeaid three, .peohretlya i'sacitzbeOtt,ptie, and, d011ars. ' Loontown pro. Iseolnigitet:aabnyddirttetivis!?1,1 take eights of crape for 4' narrism'e aak6Ift.'01 °I•lt flown about
s with Ws. • , , 3 s , e , • ,. ' , eee. . , .3 z
' eve'', be had laid u '' e re , and "Yee lint S Annie call uso it afterwards
,
now, the color of a hanclkeichief.horie
Yon abe, thee' wuz relations of ourn, and enabeganen, to ea,ve en the last hundred; for veils. She is. YerY economical ; she takes 3.14/,,nn ti a, `9°In to,, make unnch differelioQ„.t
, , ,
1 And I says,, " 1 gueas wbere Flan/eon
bad been for some time, entiroiY onhohnown 7he eveuldn't run m debt a cent aurwaY, it from me. And she feels jest as I do that '.3 , 441 e taer way.
0 na, and they come a-huntin" us up. They 1,
said "they thought rciatiens or, t0 be') Aheleths : he and S., Annie had come 'wine fathees memory," ger there wuzn't more'n ten or, 4 dozen folk
when he wuz took voyaleut sick there to the baby must weer it iti reepeot do,
h.er i' _ , Aed T don't s'pose ft vans notieed much
!nte'l 10P; enhCllihT:16':°geVrr;;' 'zinhe'' ,,aid,3 for a visit of e"eley'Or.two.i find he being so Says I, " The baby don't know crape from 3 there .when we went ie., We wt in '1
et e ' dee of ntin s u had co e o' ern i
efter reading iny book.), run down and. weak with his hard day a clothes.phe 0) . i Injiu Lfile Meetly, by Abersetereqlleate
" Iliey' told n?°°°) and*" aid, " Wliii'n ' ' i le! to hie eickneeke tito paseed assey the day thuoght of the respect she showed will, sue- we wuy.middlin' long, but rattler thin, ,
'I work, ancl'hisMghte;irl; that he euchnieb• 4 , aeo,"-says Abele", but inafter-years the, to t11440 Mere ehfiw, And as, a prooessio
• 1 didn't add nor demenish %t° that nue efor 1g t there . tain her." The sermon WUZ Oat ao good as to quality
"Wali." For I didn't want to act to e.• Oe
backward, nor too forward, I' jefit ' imp' Wail, 8, Annie wpz jest evereeme with 1 n Wallee says 1, " I guese phe veen't have i but abundant aEl to quantity. It woz, a
kinder neutral, and said, " Wall," . 3' g te-
r' f the dey , I got tberebut the clay I much besides thoughta to livenn, if thing nigh ale I ,could calkerlate, about 4 hour and
' itep-mother to my aunt's second.cousite on , " "
You 800, Aber" f4ther'e sister-in•I 3 ' . awniolel'inl'' she
.134i'llur ithn'entaakkeihsonmreeeairtatteiroens: ' goo ' 1 Pg. I, e little
hints in thi,:*ny, but, 'mthereaeforguarbteorust ltohnegiastjc‘haia4t11"13WheiEllfaedrebdeetno
for the funeral.
c
,ad feet mere and more, as years went by, ATTehreser/iodalayawA.1! rnlinlejael,stnewd,i8liete,00arnitn'tbt° I i. theyIbedungt spoke. And 1 couldn't contend, ParalYzed.” =
her father's side. And Abel said that " he 1 wwz(n,t took. Things went eight on " there over seven hour, and his legs uruz
that it wile a burnire sbame for relations to funeral w
not now mid love each other." Ile said 1LIZ to be on the Sunday fo leei:u-g.e,i, for truleY' assic" bad liittle boy imaidteueee �u a And I whispered back that "oven hours',
'1e felt thee he lovedJosiehandmedearly." and on thaYA'hel and • Annie now bent I8iihnaicilarto°ceecat acnn.? wifortIcwollun ajinilsnanrea bed- hie feet out and Pinch gem ;" which he did.
• elm ated or not. I kinder said, "Wall,"
I didn't; say right out whether it wile re tneir energlee• i quilt and see and
go on. Lhut 'I sithed con- But it wuz long and 'beim:. My' feet got
To begin with; S. Annie'. had a; hull •suit I I," so would take us into the night, and to stretch
aggin.of clear crape made for herself, with a veil 1 Ptaat and frequent, end when I wuz all to sleep twice, and I had hard work to Wake
And / tele Josiah, in ;perfect confidence that touched' the ground ; the also had groans., ,
alone in the room I hedu/ged in a few low 1 'em up again, The sermon 'meant to be
ant the wood -house cbember, "that I had three other suits commenced, for more j
fled! nearer relations then Mr. Perrygses common wear, trimmed heavy vritb crape Twodressmakers wuz in the house, to i sight about him, and then he kieder breech-
, about Her/risen, I s'pose i he did talk a
killed a fat turkey, and 1 baked it, and done
folks wuz to us." ,
Howsuillever, 1 done well by gene Joeiah week, for she said "he couidn't stir out of i and °Ierke wet" °mile arcnind? il not °ftner'
one of which she ordered for sure the next
I State bill ; he kinder favored it, .1 thought.
? , stay all the time till the dresses wuz done ;1 ed off onto polities, and tIten the Inter -
other things for their comfort, and we had
quite a good time.
Abel was rather flowery and enthueias-
tick, and his mouth and voice wuz ruther
large, but he meant well, I should judge,and
we had quite a good time
1(1 ed, .1.alwaye feel that mourners must do as
they al'e a mind to about • crape, with for
and tromblin',—that is, if they are well oil;
be and eau do as they are a mind to; and the
re same with inotnunente, flowers, empty
et eeaphes, etc. .BLit in t4if4 Case, Abel Perry,
k weuldn't be a-doieg my duty if 1 didn't
hr spok :II all that nieneY on what Ilf entirely onneces-
: h,ern,1 rtie isnodu' I s 1? -171 attr el' lleofotkinata tehoell
is world with nothin' to stand between Own
or and want hut the means their pa
purpose a With.' care Of kam., it seems to me
worked so hard for and left for the exprees
a foolish thieg, and n cruel thing, to spend.
a Onnecessery 1" says 11 Abel, angrily,
`4 say, Jo/gall Al/ell's wife, that if it
twourz2otn IY9Pre•°11rA evirQoirntrVialti°t114rfinhpiP slaylii:°uhled)
e "if it, its too hardly trampled on."
" hain't trampled on you," says I,
" ner hain't had no idea :Mgt. wuz only
fitatin' the eolerun facts and truth of the
matter. And you will 'see it some time,
Abel Perry, if you don't no."
Says Abel, "The worm has turned,,gosiali
Alice's wife 1 Yes, I feel that I have got
to look now to more distant relations for
comfort. Yes, the worm has been stepped
on too heavy."
• He looked cold, cold as a iceickle, almost.
And I see that jest the few words I had
hadn't beep be aVtigeheyt stionutlInahvV bgele%
took. So I said , no more. For a,g'in the
remark of ehat little bed boy cents up. in my
mind, and restrained me frem sepal any
more.
the limese 10 any other color but black." / with Pa'ekagee of Intnirnin' fl°°ds, and I Wall' we ail got driPPin' wet aegein'
I knew just how dear , crape wuz, and1 li mournin' jewelry,. and albumin handker- ,' home, for Abel infested on our fretting out at
taelt/ed her on the subject, and says i:e_ge. ; chiefs, and mournin eteckings, and mournin' 3, therye, for he 'had hired some onconamon
"Do 'you knOve, S. Annie' resses those d '
i etookire-supporters, and mournin safety. ' high singers (high every way, in price add
of yourn will cost a sight ?"
I pine, and etc., etc., et9, etc.) etc, in notes) to sing at the grave.
" Coat ?" says she, a -busting out a•cryine re Every one of 'era, 1 line-, advrenchiug . And so we cueensbarked in the drippin'
everything I can to respect his memory.
"What do 1 care about cost? 1 '11 d boads offen ' skies of that house that , rain, on the wet grass, and formed A pro -
She wuz very freckled, and a 'second -day i 1 , Hartle:in had wOrned so hard to get for Isis 5 cession s,egin. And 'Abel had a long exer-
Baptist by perswasion, and was piecing up ' • , 3 • ' t
do ie in remembrance of him." wife and little ones. I cise right there in the rain. But th s• ' '
., . e intim
a crazy bedquilt, She went a-vismin a :
• • . , Says I, gently, "S. Anme, you wouidn t ; , Wall, 3 he day of the funeral come. It I wuz kinder terkey, and curgue, and they had
good deal, and gotI forget him if you wuz dressed in white. And
pieces of the whnraenge as for respect, such a life as his, from all 1 wuz a wet,drizzlyday,but Abelwuz up early, !got their pay beforehand, so they hurriedit
dreesee where she visited for blocks. So it
wuz quite a savin) bedquilt, and very good- to see that everything wuz as he wanted it through, And one man/the tenor, who was
hear of it, don't need crape to throw respect to he. dretful afraid of taleba' cold, hurried through
on it: it commandsrespect,d t 't .
an ge s i ,
leokin' considerin.
, from everybody." As far as I wuz concerned, I had done my , his part and got through first, and started
,
But o resoom an con inue on. e s a Bute,
t ' d ' t* Ab 1 1 duty, for the 'crazy beclquilt wuz done.; and ', on a run for the carriage. The others tood
folks made us promise on our two sacred f ..
i odd to the newhbors if she d idn't dress m
e - a m as ey oo e a 1 piece wuz ni ,
e
,. , .1 would.r .
says Abel " 1 look d t ' though br ins ight totter th 1 k d t • their grounds till thefi 'eh d
honors Josiabes honor and mine that we 4 * I I ' ' ' '
would pay back the visit, for US Abel said,
' ' black," says he, in a skairful tone, and M ,Ann spread it out with eemplaceney over , believe they had had chills : it sounded
I
ft, I felt that it wuzn't my fault. . Sally i but they exit in some dretful cursus quavers.
"for relatives to live so clost'to each other '• , the lounge, and' thanked' me with tears in like it,
and not visit bad? and forth, win' a 'burnin' a
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sheme and a disgraCe." And Joidah pro- 1 'would ruther eesk my life than to her eyes, for my noble deed. Take it altogether, 1 don't believe any -
make talk I" •And says he
nave"her fail in duty in this Way : it would Along quite early in the eraornin, before body got much. satifgaction 011t of it, only
autirWouldn't promise on the New Testa -
raised that we would go right away after worth when folks talk ?"
entirely—they wuz wilted all down ; and she
. n whae is iiie the show commenced, I wene in to see liar- Abel. S. Annie spelt her dress and bonnet
rison.
tackled it in a new place (more luny than '
I turned around the crazed block and ' Be lay there calrn and peaceful, with a ordered. another suit jest like it before she
entlinsiestiek) ; btit eeti gin gthla ' plain
newt, as Abel wanted ue to (he is deetful ever it seemed ), an says e, reelean. , from a atmosphere of show and ehaini and Wall, the next mornin' early two men
look on Ins face as if he hadegot away t 1 slePt.
pkinities that we Would go, and Iiid-out' to iokly,-- I had got into the great Reality of life. come with plane for 'Monuments, Abel had
keep our two words. •
telegrafted to 'em to come with plans and
beset me one day to' go over to 111.,,Per-
So long a week or so after tangerine Josiah
bid for the job of eurnishin' the monument.
Josiah liked Abel ; there wuz stutthin' in
his intense way --
"It is pretty hard work to keep folks •• It wuz a good ' face, and the worryment
fromtalkine to keep'enafrom sayin surithine" and care that folks told me had been on it
But I see from their looks it wouldn't do for years had all faded away. But the look
to say anything more, ao I had M set still of determination, and resolve, and bravery,
and see it go on. —.that wuz ploughed „too deep in his facet°
At that time of. year flowers wuz dretful' be smoothed o•ut, even by the mighty .hand
high, but S. Annie and Abel had made up that had lain on it. The resolved look, the
their minds that they must have several • brave look with which he had met the war -
town.
fiower pieces from the city nighest to Loon- fare of life, toiled for victory over want,
.
4toiled to place his dear and helpless ones in
One win going to be a gate ajar, and one a position of safety, ---that took wuz on his
wuz to be a gate wide open. And one wuz face yet, as if the deathless hope and en.
to be a Fig book. Abel asked tue what deavor had gone on into eternity with him.
present. Ani I mentioned the I3ible. the big high flower pieces, begiertin' already
wonld have a Bible ; e didn't think it 'Wall, it's bein' slide a oncomrnon bad day
would be appropriate, seein' the deceased ; there wuzn't many to the funeral. But we
wuz a lawyer." He said "he hadn't quite I rode to the meetin' house in Loontown in a
made up his mind w hat book to have. But, state and splendor that 1 never expect to
anyway it wuz to be in. flowera —beautiful ag'in. .Abel had hired eleven mournin%
bed -sick there and died. flowers. ' Another piece wuz to be his coaches, and the day bein' so bad and so
I told 'em I felt like death to think I had name in white flowers on a purple back-
.
descended down onto 'em at such a time.
But Abel said be wuz jest despatchin'
messengek for us when we arrove, for, he
said, "In a time of trouble, then wuz the
time, ie tier, that a titan wanted his near'
relae4e.ekatt to him."
Antrim eaad we hed took a load teen
him by appearin' jest as we did, for there
would have been some delay in gettin' us
there, if the messenger had been despatch -
He said "that mornin' he had felt so bad
that he wanted to die,—it seemed as if there
wuzn't nothin' left for him to live for; but
now he felt that he had aunthin' to live for,
now hie relatives wuz gathered round him."
Josiah shed tears to hear Abel go on. I
myself didn't weep none, but I wuz glad if
we could be any comfort to 'em, and told tem
se.
vexes.
• sides, Abel and S. Annie selected one that
Isis intense enthueittstick nature and extra-
vagant methods that wuz congenial to
Josiah. '
So bein' agreeable to the idee, we set
out after dinner, a-layin' out to be gone for
two nights and one hut day, and two parts
of days, a-goin' and secomin' back.
:WWI, we got there oxiexpected, as they
henVenne onto us. And we found 'em
phsireed into trouble.
Their only child, a girl, who had married
a young lawyer of Loontown„ had jest lost
her husband with the typus, and they wuz
a.makin' preparations for the funeral when
we got there, She and her • husband had
come home on a visit, and he wuz took down
book I thought would be prefferable to re -1 And by the side of him, on a" table, wuz
But Abel says, "No,he didn't think he to wilt and decaY'
gr o pansies. Ilie name wuz William
• Henry Harrison Rookyfeller, And I says
to Abel,--
" To save expense, you will probable
have the moneygram W. H. II. E.
says he.
Says I, " Then the initials of his given
names, and the last name in full."
"Oh, no," he said; " it 'nue S. Annie's
wish, and bitten, that the hull nam should another one, and two old maids, sisters of
be put on. They thought it would show
I sayer, " Where Harrison is now, that S. Annie and her children of course had the
Aberee° who alwaYe made a Point of attend -
more respect " era s, they each one of 'em had one.
liain't a-goin' to melte any difference ;" and first one, and then the minister had one, and
says I, "Abel, flowers are dretful high this one of the trustees in the neighborhood had
time of year, and it is a long narae." another : so We lengthened ,out into quite a
But Abel said, ag'inthat he didn't care for orowd, all etollerin' the shiny hearse, and
expense, so long as respect wuz done to the the casket all covered with showy plated
memory of the deceased. He said that he nails. I thought of it in jese that way, for
and S. Annie both felt that it eine their Harrison. I knew, the real Harrison wuzn't
And,I told Sally Ann, that wuz Aberses wish to have the funeral go ahead of any ere. No, he wuz far away,—as far as the
wife, that I would do anything that I could other that had ever took place in Loontown Real i 8 from the Unreal.
or Jonesville, He said that S. Annie felt - .
And she -said "everything wuz a•bein' that Wall., we filen Into the Loontown naeetin'-
doae that wuz necessary. She didn't know that it wuz all that wue left her now in life,' hetiM in pretty good shape, tholigh Abel
memory of such 0. funeral as he deserved. hadn't no blaek handkerchief; and he look -
of but one thing that wuz likely to be over. Says I, "There is his children left /or , ed worried about it. Ile had shed tears a -
looked and neglected, and that wuz the her to live for,"says I,—" three little bits of tellin' me about it, what a oversight it wuz
erazy bedquilt." "She said "she would his own life, for her to nourish, and cherish, while 1 wuz adixin' on his monrnin' weed.
rove to have that finished, to throw over a and look out for." . H • lato is head to have a deeper
lounge in the settize-room, that wue frayed "Yes," says Abel. "And she will do that ,weed at the last minuth, ao I fixed it on.
out on the edges. And if 1 felt like it, it nobly, and I will help her. They are sIl Re had the weed to come up to the top of
would be a great relief to her to have me goin' to the funeral, too in, deep•black his hat and lap over. I never see so tall a
take it right offen her hands, and finish- it." dresses." He said "they 'wuz too little to weed.
So I took out my thimble and needle (I real But it suited Abel; he said " he
fee it now, but in later and maturer thought it showed deer) reelteot.”
always carry such necessaries with me, in a years it would be a comf(1rt to 'em to know " Wall," says 1, "it is a deep weed any -
buzzy made expressly for that .putpose), they had took part in such a funeral as that way—the deepest lever see." And he said,
and I sot down and went to piecue up. wuz goin' to be, and VUZ dressed in,black." as I wuz aesesviee it on, he BohOldill' his hat
There WOZ seventeen bloeks to piece up, " Wall," says I (in a quiet onassuinin' for me, "that Harrison deaerved it; he
each one crazy as a loon to look at, and it way I would gin little hints of my mind on deserved it all." 3
wuz all to set together. the subject), ' I am afraid that will be But, as I say, he shed tears to think that
on a visiting tower the week before, and coI-
She bad the pieces, for she had been off about all the comforts of life the poor little his handkerchief wuzn't black -bordered He
looted of 'em.
Sol sot in quiet and the big cheer in the
sittin'-room 3 and pieced up, and see the
,
preparations agoing on round us.
I found that Aberses folks lived in a
house big and showy -look in'ebut not so solid
and firm as I had seen. j
It wuz one of the houses, ounside and in- t
side, where more pains had been took with
the porticos and ornaments than with the
underpinnine
It had a showy and kind of a shaky look.
• A I found that that extended to Abel fees
busleefie arraingments. Amongst the other
ereaments of his buildings wuz mortgages, 1,
quite a lot of gem, and of almost every
variety. He had gin Isis only child S. Annie•
(she wuz named after her mother Sally Ann, i
but wroth it this way),—he had gin S..Annie ,
a showy education, a showy weddine and a
ehowy settineout But she had had the '
good luck to marry a sensible man, though
poor.
Re took S. Annie, and the brackets, and j
gin r, moved 'em ell into a good seneible
1
pian and hanging lamps, and baekets, and
eryst • bead lambrequins, leer father had
smelt house, and went to work to get a
practice and a livird. He wuz a lawyer by
perewasion.
Wall, he worked hard, day and night, for
three little children come to 'ern pretty fast,
and S. Annie coneturted a good deal in
trimmin's and cheap lace to ornament 'em:
she vvuz her father's own girl for ornament,
But he worked so hard, end had so many
irons in the fire, and hop' 'em all so hot,
that he got a good living for 'em, and begun
to lay up money towarde bying 'on a houee,
a home.
He talked a sight, BO folks said that kiiew
him won, about hie comennin' desire and •
aim to got his vvifn and children into a little
Oiinne of their own, into a nide little haven,
yeller° they could be a little sheltered „from
the storms of life if the big waves should
Wash him away. They say that that Wue
ew a.turnm one to the funeral,
thee in order to occupy all the coaches,
amt Abel thought it 'would look better and
more popular to have 'em ell occupied`, we
divided up, and Josiah went 10 000, alone,
and nesorne as a dog, as he said after-
wards to me. And I sot up straight and
oncomfortable ireanother eno on 'ern stark
alone.
Abe 128.C1 one M himself, an his wif •
And after a good deal of talk on both
wuz -very high mid plated.
The 121011 stayed to dinner, and I said to
Abel, out to one side—
"Abel, acilittb.enl, that monument is a-goin' to cost
• "Wall," says he, "We can't raise too
high a one. Harrison deserved it all."
Says "Won't that, and all these funer-
al expenses, take about all the money he
left ?"
"Oh, no," says he. "11e had insured
his life for a large amount, and it all goes
to his wife and children. He deserves a
monument, if a man ever did."
" But," says I, "don't you believe that
Harrison would rather have S. Annie and
the children settled down in a good little
home, with soroethin' left to take care of
gem, than to have this money spent in
perfectly titmice! things ?"
" Useless !" saYs,, Abel, turnin' red.
" Why," sa'ys he, if you wuzn't a near
relation I should resent that speech bit-
terly."
" Wall," says I, "what do all these
flowers, and empty earriages„and silver-
plated nailer, and crape, and so forth—what
dOee alt amount to 2"
s" Re pect and honor to his memory,'
says Abel, proudly.
Says 1, " Such a life as Harrison's had
them ; nobody cleuld take 'em away, nor
derninish 'em. Such a brave, honest life is
crowned with honor and respect anyway.
It don't need no crape, nor flowery, nor
Menu:nes:Its, ,to wiz
'ern. Anct at the same
time, says I dreamtly "118 man is mean
no amount of crape, or flower,pieces, or
"flowery sermons, or obituaries a-goin' to
cover up that meanness. A. life has to be
lived ont-doors, as it were it can't be hid.
A string of inournin' carriages, no matter
how. long., hail* a -pin to carry a dishonor-
able life into honor, and. 130 grave, no mat-
Iter how low and humble it is, is a -going to
cover up a honorable life."
" S i e as Harrison's don't need no
monument to carry up the story of his vir-
tues heto the heavens ; it is known there al-
ready. And them that mourn his loss don't
• need cold marble words to recall his good-
ness and faithfulness. The heart where the
shadow of hie eternal absence has fell, don't
need crape to make it darker.
" Harrison wouldn't be forgot if S. Annie
wore pure white from day to day. No,
nobody that knew Efarrison, from all I have
'beam of him, needs crape to remind 'em
that he wnz once here and now is one
Howsomever, as far as that is coneeria-
AiltrVAM
leafeel.
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•A ,QtTEIST'ION' OF, PRIVILEGP.
.Lao!,y TS V1MY *lilt, Brit W,tat YOita EXdusm volt LtAirric SQ17ErZED'
itSpiring vrottP)iatke':',SUDELY 11/AD 1,UP Tilt• L'EllEDTY l'itE PatS4
South ADIeriou Oompetition.
Ie this Northern Continent to be indite-
trially syvamped by Smith America ?
Would seem so. Apparently $outh Amerlea
could supply the whole world with feed
if it were rightly managed, and thiBgB ai
present look aa if it would Boon be ito
'managed, cattle can be leared and fed in
numbers, and at prices, which it is confi-
dently said, will maker all 'competition hope -
will, Canadian farmers have to turn to /
less. with wheat, 'hat ,that eerie
Don't know but something else will DO
dOrIbt tUril up, and at the vverst the laud
will not go out of cultivation unless some.
thing profitable take its place. LA any
case people surely will not be more likely to
die because Wheat and meat become espe
cially cheap and goed. Better that than
the opposite, 4,4 in the meantime
let the work of the present hour, what-
ever that may be, be proceeded with.
Pew think of the productive power of Smith
Aineripe in suck important matters as bread
studs and butcher meat. It will 04 hoW-
ever, be long before every one will be made
to think of what southern land can do, /13
is but a short time since the Argentine Re-
public and Uruguay began the export oit
United States. Lase year they
proviaione. Indeed five years ago they ina-
ported their breed stuffs from Chili and the
exported
cereals to the value of seven millions and a
half dollarf3 and it is expected that the ex-
port this year will be at least doeble that
sum, The great Perapas are rich beyond all
estimate, and naillions of cattle can be fed
and sheltered on them. During the /alit eeee'''
" it wuzn't iny funeral."
Truly, as the young male child observed, A5erv;ennttYnteRepublic has itereased 154 thc
or
yeers the o ulat' f
We went home elmost immejlately after-
wards, my heart nearly a-bleediu' for the
little children, poor little creeters, and Abel
actin' cold and distant to the last.
And we hain't seen 'ern Bence:" But news
hart come from them, and come straight.
Joalah beerd to Jonesville, all about it.
The miller at Loontown wuz down to the
Jonesville raill to get the loan of some bags,
and Josiah happened to be there to mill
that day, and beered all about it.
Abel had got the monument. And the
ornaments on tt coat far more than he ex-
pected. There wuz a, wreath serunning
round it clear from the bottom to the top,
and verses a kinder runnin' up it at the
same time. And it coat fearful. Poetrya. up, they say, costs far more than it
duz on the level.
Anyway, the two thousand dollars that I overflow of wealth. In 1885 there were
wuz msured on Harrison's life wuzn't quite iforty.one millions Of alaeep in the United
enough to pay for it. But the sale of his Staths and 100 millions in the Argentine
law library and the best of the housen stuff Republic. The same thing with horned
Paid it. •The nine hundred he left went, ?mtge. There is capacity for rearing sheep
every mite of it, to pay the funeral expenees, and cattle in those countries to feed the
and mounded for the family. " whole world and the ease and cheapness
And, as bad luck always fellers on in a with which this is done will in a few years
procession, them mortgages of Abel's% all revolutionize the food traffic of the world,
run out sort o' together. His creditors sold :and the farmers of the States and Canada,
him out, and when his property was all die 'as well as of Britain, had better look out.
posed of it left him over fourteen hundred
dollen in debt.
The creditors actel perfectly greedy, so Aibitrat4On•
they say,—took everything they conkl ; and
one of the meanest ones took that insane The fair, reasonable and Christian idea of
bedquilt that I finished. That wuz mean. nations settling their difference% and dia.
GLU and the city of Buenos Ayres has grown
faster thanMinneapolia. To tempt iramigrante
into the Agricultural districts the goveria-
xnente has enacted lend laws of extreme
liberality. Bach head of a family is en-
titled to 250 acres free, and as muck mere
as he desires to purchase up to 1,500 acres
for seventy -Eve cents per acre. Free trans-
portation from 13uerioe Ayres to the place or
location is -granted to all settlers and their
families, and all settlers are exempt from
taxation for ten years. The result of all is
an amount of progress, of which few in
North America have any idea, In 1886
nearly 900,000 acres of wild land were
ploughed and planted. One firm sold 1,200
reapers, and others smaller numbers. Ele-
vators are being erected on the banks of
rivers and grain shipped directly to Europe.
In sheep and cattle there is lik
They say Sally Ann crumpled right down putes by arbitration and not ny setting men
when that waz teak' some say they got unsightly and most brutal work of cutting
bolt of that tall weed of AbeFses, and som,e each other's throats is gaining ground.
lath ride he took in Loontown.
dispute it; some say that he wore it on tnelPerhaps the progress in such a direction ha
But, howsoinever, Abel wuz took sick, lalow,but still there is progress, and the feel -
'Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything ing will gether strength as the years go by.
their support, S. Annie wuz took down
fez' An English deputation lately waited OD
with the typus, and so it happened President Cleveland with the view of urging
very day the monument was brought to the
the the plan upon •the people of the 'United
Loontown Cemetery, Abel Perry'ses folks States, and was well received. Of course
wuz carried to the county house for the nen.
the reply of the President was cautious end
winter, S. Annie, the children, and all. I committal, still it was favorable, so it
And it happened dretful curets, but the i could not well with decency be otherwise.
town hired that very team that drawed the Nations will sometimes disagree even when
monument there to take thefandly back. both are animated with the strongest desire
It wuz a good loam. it° be fair and reasonable. What more
The monument wuzidt set up, for they an tural in such cases than that the wleile
difficulty should be left to ties decision */
who have no quarrels with each other to the
lacked money to pe7 for the underpinnin'.
(Wuzn't it.cur'us, Abel Perry never would wee.
neutral and trusted parties? Something
think of the underpiunin' to anything ?) But --"` justice may in this way be secured-,
ib lay there by the side of the road, while in the old fighting way even an ap-
white shape. a gm' proach to equity can scarcely be expected.
But I believe it wuz because they
And they SaY the children wuz skairt, and 1
wns many cases, the contending parties have to
Thousands of men are slaughtered and
cried,tvhen they went by it,--criedand wept. ; millions of property destroyed, and then, in
cold and hungry that made 'em cry. , treat with each other just as they might
don't believe it ern the monument ' j havedone at first, and with far better proe-
Josiah Allen's Wife. pects of a reasonable and righteous settle-
ment. It -would be simply a diegrace to the
civilization and Christianity of the two
Rie Tents. nations to see Britain and the United States
going to war with each other, and especially
Gentleman—Uncle Zeke, how much will on an insignificant point of national etiquette I
you charge to whitewash my fence? , Even supposing that arbittations are some -
Uncle Zeke—Ef you brings de fence heah, times not regarded as having been arrived
I'll do it fer nuffin, sell; but 'n case I goes at on right principles, is it not infinitely
to de fence I has two dollars a visit, an a better to acquiesce in them than to go
visit calls for one coat of 'Uncle Zeke's King about burning each other's propertyand tak-
Gawge whitewash, you to pervide de King ing each other's lives? Was it not infinitely
Gawge whitewash.
better and more honourable for Britain to
pay the teeneva award, and for the United
States to hand over what the Halifax arbi-
trators said was due for the fish, than to
answered all my questions
Houseveife—" Well, Bridget, you have more monstrous than to hear ministers of
satisfactorily, the Gospel, in a childish, bombastic fashion,
and I guese you can 'begin Monday."
Girl—" Shure, mom, it's a noice singing the praises of soldiering and pro-
Newleddy yez are, an' it's pined Oi wud be to ieniatihmelinrghtehaertsbensueficht ncilfenwadro'n'Iths= that
A Literary Servant,
have taken the old way? Nothing can he
werruk fer yez; but Oi wud ax yes W£O3 Goa hi
quest on.• pe w eh they pretend to preach,
Rousewife—" Well, what is it ?" and that the Prince of Peace has in elsem
New Girl—" Do yez belay° Baconian 1 war is,
neither loyal subjecIts not honest men. If
wrote Shakespeare or did he ! In literairee , the Ten Commandments, ministers of the
as it reelly is, the praetical repeal of
matters Oi must be in hoc wid do family or Gospel ought to be ashamed of themselves
my happiness is non arenpus go braugh." when they give any countenance or ereour-
____ i amement to the war spirit either by " bless-
, 6
mg baseness" or by preaching eermona
• She Was Puzzled. 'which can, if successful, have no effect' but
Ito stir up anger, hatred, and all kinds of
" I am very bhirsby," remarked Mrs. evil feeling.
Fogg, '4 but I don' like to go to the drinkia
fountain; there are such a lotof men there.'
"You have just as `good a right as they
have," said Fogg ; "don't ydu see the ire.
thription hi plain letters, ' For man and
beast 2' Come along "
There is nothing in which there has been
made a greater improvement in those last
diva than in the matter of trained and pro-
essional nurses, as there is no line of life in
" It is till very well for you to say 'come which women may more properly and
along.' replied Mrs. F. "But you know more beneficially find scope for their ener-
I'm not a man." gies, as well as an honourable =ens of sub -
At Unfortunate PamilY•
"Yes," observed a Nebraska Mayor,
"both my brothel% died suddenly."
"How was that?"
"here were two of thern—Williain and
John. William was murdered in his sleep."
"How sad I And John ?"
" He waslynehed for _murdering William.'
Archibald Forbea, the famoue war corree-
pendent, when he made his first visit to
America was is splendid specimen of healthy
manhood. Ile arrived in New York from
England the other day e more wreck of his
teenier eelf. He lab at once for Washing-
ton, the home of his wife's family, and there
• be hopes to get well; bat he is so feeble at
present that he on seareely move about his
room.
Ben Franklin Was the first to suggest that
ships carry oil to pour on the rough waters.
Ile also advised ship builders to separate the
ship's hold into water -tight compartments.
These two simple devices have saved many
a ship.
sistence, than in caring for the sick aud in
watching over the dying. Thoao who Meow
anythintr of what bospitals were even
twenty years ago, will bless God for the
change that has been effected. It is just
Be well not to recall what nurses in pablic
institutions were is quarter of 1 century ago.
As I rale thgy wore ignorant, untranned
and to often utterly unfit in every way
for the work to which they wore set, They
were generally rade, rough and onetilti-
vated, as likely , as not to he Sairy Gamps
and to sleep and snore more heavily and
more frequently than the poor viothn under
their charge could stand. instead of all
what is the general chareeterof $11011
now? In many eases they are both gentle
women and gentlewomen. They are train-
ed to their wads' and lake a 1•,ride and a.
pleasure in it, They aro peid, hut, they
are net mere mercenaries. -Tile patients
my hoe often kiss their elsadows on the
wall, as the wounded soldier ki-,sod that ot
Miss Vioreece Nightingale, but they ere
cheered by their presence and entered by
ihtir attentions. " Ministering angel "
does not describe to strongly the character
and work of many an hospital and pro-fE,s,
sional nurse.