HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-9-20, Page 7"ROUGHING IT
IN THE BUSH!"
APTER VII. (C'onellininin')
I felt for the deeoltete old oreature—tlae
tears rushed to my eyea ; but there vvas no
moiseure in here. No rain from the heart
oould filter Through that iron mil. ,
"Be aesueee, Mrs. R—," eaid Moodie,
"that the deed will be held, sacred; the
place will never be disturbed by me."
" Perhaps not; but it is not long titan
you will remain here. I have men a good
deal in my tine; but I never saw a gentle-
man from the old country make a good
Canadianelariner. The work is rough and
hard, and they get out of humour with it,
and leave it to their hired helps, and then
all goer wrong. They are cheated on an
sides anti in despair take to the whiskey
bottle' and that fines deem. I tell you
what it is, mister—I give you just three
years to spend your money and ruin your-
self ; and then you will become a confirmed
drunkard, like the rest."
The first part of her prophecy Wee OMY
too true. Thank God 1 the Iasi has never
been fulfilled, and never can be.
l'erceiving that the old woman was not a
little elated with her bargain, Mr.
urged upon her the propriety of barring the
dower. At first, she was outrageous, and
-very abusive, and njeeted all his proposals
With contempt; vowing that she would
meet him in a certain place below. before
she would sign away her right to the pro-
perty.
" Listen to reason, Mu. " said
the land speculator."If you will sign the
papers before the authorities, the next time
that your eon drives you to C , I
Will give you a silk gown."
" Pshaw I Buy a shroud for yourself;
you will need it before I want a silk gown,"
WU the ungracious reply.
"Consider, woman; a black silk of the
best quality."
" To mourn in for my sins, or for the loss
of the farm."
Twelve yards," continued Mr. •
without noticing her rejoinder, "at a dollar
a yard. Think what a nice church -going
gown it will make."
"To the devil .with you I never go to
church."
"1 thought as much," said Mr—,
winking to us. "Well, my dear madam,
what will satisfy you ?"
"I'll do it for twenty dollars," returned
the old woman, rookhig herself to and fro in
her char ; her eyes twinkling, and her
hands moving convulsively, as if she already
grasped the money so dear to her mut.
" Agreed," said the land speculator.
"When will you be in town ?"
On Tniesday, if I be alive. But, remem-
ber, ru not sign till I have my hand on the
money,"
"Nevar fear," said Mr.—, as we
quitted the house; then, turning to me, he
added, with a peculiar smile, " Thafe a
devilish smart woman. She would have
made a clever lawyer."
Mondey came, and with it all the buatle
of rnovieg, and, as is generally the case on
such A:lodestone, it turned out a very wet
day. I left old Satan's hut without 1 egret,
glad, at any rate, to be in a place of my own,
however humble. Our new habitation,
though small, had a decided advantage over
the one wo were leaving. It stood on a gentle
snipe; and a narrow but lovely stream, full
of speckled trout, ran murmuring under the
little window ; the house, also, was sur-
rounded by fine fruit•trees.
I know not how it was, but the sound of
that tinkling brook, forever rolling by, filled
my heart with a strange melancholy, which
for many nights deprived me of rear. I
loved it, too. The voice of waters, in the
stillness of night, always, had an extraordin-
ary effect upon my mind. Their ceaseless
motion and perpetual sound convey to me
the idea of life—eternal life; and looking
upon them, glancing and flashing on, now
in sunshine, now in shade, now hoarsely
chiding with the opposing rook, now leaping
triumphantly over it—oreates within me a
feeling of mysterious awe of which I never
could wholly divest myself.
A portion of my own spirit seemed to
pass into that little stream. In its deep
wailings and fretful sighs, I fancied myself
lamenting for the lend I had left forever;
and its restless impetuous rushings against
the stones which ehoked its passage, were
mournful types of my own reeved struggles
(against the strange destiny which hemmed
me in. Through the day the stream moanee
and travelled on,—but engaged in my novel
and distasteful occupations, 1 heard it not;
but whenever my winged thoughts flew
homeward, then the voice oe the brook
spoke deeply and sadly to my heart, and my
tears flowed unchecked to its plaintive and
harmonious music.
In a few hours I had any new abode more
comfortably arranged than the old one al- t
though its dimensions were much smr:Iler. c
The location was beautiful, and I was a
greatly consoled by this circumstance. The b
aspect of Nature ever did, and I hope ever
will continue, o
"To shoot inatvelicus Etrength into rey
As long as We remain true to the Divine
Mother, so long will she remain faithful to
her suffering children.
At that period my love for Canada was a
feeling very nearly allied to that which the
condemned criminal entertains for his cell—
his only hope of mope being through the
portals of the grave.
The fall rains had commenced. In a few
days the cold wintry showers swept all the
gorgeous crimson from the trees ; and a
bleak and desolate waste presented itself to
the 0. eddering spectator. But, in spite of
wind and rain, my little tenement was never
freu irom the intrusion of 'Uncle Joe's wife
and children. Their house stood about a
stone's-thron(from the hut we occupied, in
the same mealow, and they seemed to look
upon it still as their own, although we had
literally paid for it twice over. Fine strap-
ping girls they were, trom five years old to
fourteen, but rude and unnurtured as so
many bears. They would come in without
the lout ceremony, andi young aa they
were, ask me a thousand impertinent quart-
tiona ; and when I civilly requested them
to leave the room, they would range them-
selves upon the door -stop, watching my
motions, with their block eyes gleaming upon
me through their tangled, uncombed looker.
Their company was a great annoyance, for
it obliged me to put a painful restraint upon
the thoughtfulness in which it was so de.
lightful to me to indulge. Their visits were
not visits of love, but of mere idle curiosity,
not unmingled with Maliehius pleasure at
my awkward attempts at Canadian honse-
wiferiea,
Fier a, week I was alone, my good $cotoh
girl having left me to Vieit her father. SOMO
email baby -articles were needed to be wash-
ed, anenater mekhigi a great preparation,
determined to try My unskilled hand upon
tho operation. The fact ia, I knew nothing
about the teak I had imposed upon myself,
and in a few niinittee rebind the skin off my
Vitiate without getting the clothes Olean.
The deer Was open, aa it generally WAS
evernduring the coldeab winter days, in or
der to let in mom light and let out the
smoke, whioh otherwiee would have envel-
oped us like a cloud. I was so busy that I
did not perceive that I was wangled by the
cold, heavy, dark eyes of Mrs. Joe, who,
with a sneering laugh, exclaimed,
"Well 1 I am glad to see you brought
to work at lard,. I hope you may have to
Work as hard as I have. 1 don't e,ee, not I,
why you, who are no better than me, shduld
sat all day like a, lately r'
"R said I, not a little annoyed
at her presence "what concern is it of
yours whether presence,
or sit still? I never
interfere with you. If you took it into
your heed to lie in bed all day, I should,
never trouble myself about it"
"Ah, I guess you don't look upon us as
fellow critter,you are so proud and grand,
I &pose you &rashers are not made of flesh
and blood, like 118. You don't choose to sit
down at meat with your helps. Now,
oaloulate, we think them a great deal better
nor you."
"01 course," said I, "they are more
suitable to you than we are; they are un-
educated, and ao are you. This is no fault
in either; but it might teach you to .pay a
little more respect to atom who are pos-
tressed of superior advantages. But, R
my helps, as you call them, are civil and
obliging, and never make unprovoked and
malicious speeches. If they could so far
forget themselves, I should order them to
leave the house,"
"Oh I see what you are up to," replied
the insoient dame; "yon mean to say that
if I were your help, you would turn me out
of your house; but I'm a free-born American,
and I won't go at your bidding. Don't
think I came here out of regard to you. No,
I hate you all; and I rejoice to see you at
the wash -tub, and I wish that you may be
brought down upon you knees to scrub the
floors."
This speech only caused a smile, and yet
I felb hurt and astonished that a woman
whom I had never done anything to offend
should be so gratuitously spiteful.
In the evening she sent two of her brood
over to borrow my "long iron" as she oalled
an Italian iron, I was just getting my baby
to aleeti, sitting upon a tow stool by the fire.
I pointed to the iron upon the shelf, and
told the girl to take it. She did so, but
stood beside me, holding it carelessly in her
bane, and staring at the baby, who had just
sunk into sleep upon my lap.
The next moment the heavy iron fell from
her relaxed grasp, giving me a severe blow
upon my knee and foot; and glanced so near
the child's head that it drew from me a cry
of terror.
" I, guess that was nigh braining the
child, ' quoth Miss Amanda, with the great.
est coolness, and withont making the least
apology. Master Ammon burst into a loud
laugh. "11 it had, Mandy, I guess we'd
have cotohed it." Provoked at their insol-
ence, I told them to leave the house. The
tears were in my eyes, for I felt certain that
had they injured the child, it would not
have caused them the least regret.
The next day, as we were standing at
the door, my husband was greatly amused
by seeing fat Uncle Joe chasing the rebellious
Ammon over the meadow in front of the
house. Joe was out of breath, panting and
puffing like a steam-engine, and his face
fluehed to deep red with excitement and
passion. "You ---- young scoundrel 1"
he oried, half choked with fury, 'if I catch
up to you, I'll take the skin off you 1"
You — scoundrel, you may have my
skin if you can get at me," retorted the
precocious ohild as he jumpedi up upon the
top of a high fence, and doubled his fist in, a
menacing manner at his father.
"That boy is growing too bad,' said
Uncle Joe, coming up to us out of breath,
perspiration streaming down bis face. "It
is time to break him in, or he'll get the
master of us all."
"You should have begun that before,"
said Moodie. "He seems a hopeful pupil."
" Oh, as to that, a little swearing is man
ly," returned aid father; "1 swear myself,
I know, and as the old clod crows, so crows
the young one. It is not his swearing that
I care a pin for, but he will not do a thing
I tell him to."
'Swearing is a dreadful vice," said 1,
"and, wicked aa it is in the month of a
grown-up person, it is perfectly shocking in
a child; it painfully tells he has been
brought up without the fear of God."
"Pooh 1 pooh! that's all cant; there is
no harm in a few oaths, and I cannot drive
the horses without swearing. I daresay
you can swear, too, when you are riled, but
you are too cunning to let us hear you."
I could not he p laughing outright at this
upposition but replied very quietly,
'Those who practise such iniquities never
ake any pains to conceal them. The con-
ealment would infer a feeling of shame;
nd when people are conscious of their guilt,
hey are in the road to improvement." The
man walleed whistling away, and the wit:Ikea
hild returned unpunished to his home.
The next minute the old wotnan came in.
I guess you can give me a piece of silk for
a hood" said she "the weather is growing
considerable cold."
"Surely it cannot well be colder than it
is at present," said I, giving her the rock-
ing -chair by the fire.
" Wait a while: you know nothing of a
Canadian winter. This is only November;
atter the Christmas thaw,iyou'll know some-
thing about cold. It s seven -and -thirty
years ago since 1 and my man left the
Inneted States. It was called the year of
the great winter. I tell you, woman, that
the snow lay so deep on the earth, that it
blocked up all the roads, and we could drive
a sleigh whither we pleased, right over the
snake fences. All the cleared land was one
wide white level plain; it was a year of
scarcity, and we were half darned ; but the
severe cold was far woree nor the want of
provisions. A long and bitter journey we
had of it; but I was young then, and pretty
well used to trouble and fatigue; my man
stuck to the British government, More
fool he 1 I was an American born, and
myheart was With the true cause. But
their father was English, and, rays he,
I'll live and die under their flag.' So he
dragged me from my comfortable fireside to
seek a home in the far Canadian wilderness.
Trouble I I guess you think you have your
troubles t bet what are they to naine ?" She
paused, took a pinch of snuff, offered me
the box, sighed painfully, pushed the red
handkerchief from her high, narrow wrink-
led brow, and continued :—" job was a baby
then, and I had another helpless critter in
my lap—an adopted child. My Sister had
died from it, and I was nursing it at the
satne breast With my boy. Well, Wo had to
perform a journey of hen hundred nalea
tahne children, all our household still Our 'Voyage and Wan buried at oda. Congratillatione in order? Charley (faintly)
Way lay chiefly through the forest, and we ••••ifiSeCly She tehl pie that eihe levee anotlaer,
rued° but slow program, Ohl What a bitter VVithout heart there is rto home.— Prod (sytnpathiziugly)—That's tough, Chat,
celd night it was When We reedited the Byron . ley, rater all your detrotion, Charley—
Swampy viten& where the city Of Rochester Jetinoiplea one nety importaht, but they Tough Why, Fred, in the /net three
now stands. The oxen were covered with f need to be adorned by the grantir to render months her fathot's cloghas bitten Mo no less
Widen anti their breath sent &Otis of thorn attractive, thee, Oven bitten
steam. 'Nathan,' says n to my man, emu
must etop and kindle a fire; am dead with
cold, and I fear the babes will be frozen.'
We began looking about for a good spot to
• eamp in, when I spied ei light through the
treen It was a lone shanty, moumed by
two Eremite hamberers. The men were
kind ; they rubbed our frozen limbs with
snow, and shared with us their supper and
buffalo skins. On that very spot where we
camped that night, where WO heard nothing
but the wind soughing ienong the trees, and
the zushing of the river, now stands the
great city of Rochester. I went there two
years ago, to the funeral of a brother. It
seemed to me like a dream. Where we Lod -
dared our beasts by the ahanty fire, now
stands the largest hotel in the oxby ; and my
husband left this flue growing ountry to
starve here.
I was 00 much interested in the old wo-
man's narrative—for she was really possess-
ed of no ordinary capacity, and, though
redo and uneducated, might have been a.
very superior person under different oircura-
stanoes—that I rummaeed among my stores,
and soon found a piece of black silk, whioh
I gave her for the hood she required.
The old woman examined it carefully
over, awned to herself, but, like all her
people, was too proud to return a word of
thanks, One gift to the family always in-
volved another.
"Have you any ootton-batting, or black
sewirilk, to give me, to quilt it with ?"
i• e
"Humph 1" returned the old dame, in a
tone which seemed to contradict my asser-
tion. She then Nettled herself in her chair,
and, after shaking her foot awhile, and
fixing her pierceing eyes upon me for some
minutes, she commenced the following list
of interrogatories "Is your father alive ?"
"No ; he died many years ago, when I
was a young girl."
"Is your mother alive ?"
styes.,
"What is her name ?" I satisfied her on
this point.
"id she eyer teeny again ?"
",She might have done so, but she loved
her husband too well, and preferred living
single."
"Humph 1 We have no such notions
here. What was your father?"
"A gentlemen who lived upon his own
estate."
"Did he die rioh ?"
" Ho lost the greater part of his property
from being surety for another."
" That a a foolish business. My man
burnt his fingers with that. And what
brought you out' to this poor country—you
who are no more fit for it than I am to be a
fine lady ?"
"Tho promise of a large grant of land,
and the false statements we heard regarding
"Do you like the country ?"
"No; and I fear I never shall."
" thought not ; for the drop is always
on your cheek, the children tell me; and
those young ones have keen eyes. Now,
take my advice: return while your money
lasts; the longer you remain Canada the
less you will like it; and when your money
is all spent, you will be like a bird in a cage;
you may beat your wings against the bars
but you can't get eut." There was a long
pause. I hoped that my guest had suf
ficiently gratified her curiosity, when she
again commenced "How do you get your money? Do you
draw it from the old country or have you
it with you in cash ?"
"Provoked by her pertinaoity, and
seeing no end to her cross-questioning,
replied, very impatiently, "Mrs. R
is it the custom in your country to catechise
strangers whenever you meet with them ?"
"What do yea mean?" she said, coloring,
I believe, for the first time in her life. •
"1 mean," quoth " an evil habit of
asking impertinent questions."
The old woman got up and left the house
without speaking another word.
Tim SLEIGEf-BELLS."
'Tis merry to hear, at evening time
By the blazing hearth the sleigh -bells chime;
To know the bounding steeds bring near
The loved one to our bosoms dear.
Ah, lightly we spring the fire to raise,
Till the rafters glow with the ruddy blaze
Those traimerery sleigh -bells, our hearts keep
Responsive to their fairychime.
Ding -long, ding-dong, o'er vale and hill,
Their welcome notes are trembling still.
'Tis he, and blithely the gay bells sound,
As his sleigh glides over the frozen ground ;
Hark 1 he has pasted the dark pine wood,
He crosses now the ice -bound flood,
And hails the light at the epee door
That tells his toilsome journey' e o'er.
The merry sleigh -bells My fond heart
swells
And throbs to hear the welcome bells ;
Ding-dong, ding-dong, o'er ice and snow,
A voice of gladness, on they go.
Our hut is small, and rude our cheer,
But love has spread the banquet hero;
And childhooa springs to be careered
By our beloved,and weloouie guest.
With a smiling brow his tale he tells,
The urchins ring the merry sleigh -bells;
The merry sleigh -bells, with shout an
song
They drag the noisy string along;
Ding.clong, ding-dong, the fathers come
The gay bells ring his welcome home.
From the cedar swamp the gaunt wolves
. howl,
From the oak loud whoops the felon owl;
The snowstorm sweeps in thunder past,
The forest cracks beneath the blast;
No more I list with boding fear,
The sleigh -bells' distant chime to hear
The merry sleigh.bells with soothing power
Shed gladnese on the evening hour.
Ding-dong, ding.dong, what rapture swells
The music of those Joyous bells
411any versions have been given of this song, and
it hal been set to naueie in the States. I here give
the original copy, written whilst leaning on the open
door of myshanty, and watching Mr the retorn of
my,husband,
TO BD CONTINUED.)
THE OCEAN PERM,
On the peak of the" Etruria" now flies
the blue ensign of the Rope Naval Reeerve,
this exceptional hoeor and privilege having
been conferred upon Commodore Cook last
month.
Scientifically, politically and socially
considered the maiden voyage of the 6' City
of New York" across the Atlantic was ene
of the most notable in the nautical history
of transatlantic navigation.
LATE CABLE NEWS,
PEARLS OF TRUTH, Familiar Expreesionti that are Generally
If you would mete soellething• troir Mtiet It Is a peouliQatir°ftaeodultWyro°fUghtt. man memory
Brutal Murder in Leudeu—kmdau Rulers NOMething, to iscluote proverbs and po-try, and almotei
is,T0 even
—Where g istheBorulangioto and
defog 0 re- They who talk much should beWare of invariably to Place the credit where it does
these who listeniattentively. not belong.
henarn, 1886, have 'mite Undone() thorough- "Au mince of cheerfulnese is worth a pound Nine men out of ten think that "Tho Lord
lY eneited as it is to -cloy. The Whiteohapel of adness to serve God with. tempers the Wind to the shorn lamb "
continues undetected, unseen, end unknown. as
`The most brilliant qualities become nee, from the Bible. whereas Lewrenee Sterne is
fiend has inurdered his fourth victim arid still
There is a panic in Whiteohapel which will
instantly extend to other districts sbould he
change his locality, as the four murders are
in everybody's mouth. The papers are full
of them, and nothing else is talked of. The
latest murder is exactly like its predecessor.
The victim was a woman street walker of the
lowesb clam She had no money, having been
refused lodgings shortly before beoause she
lacked 8(1. Her throat was cut so cora-
pletely that everything but the spine Wal%
severed, and the body eves ripped up, all the
,viscera being scattered about. The murder
n all its deteals was inhuman to the last
degree, and, like the others, could have been
the work only of a bloodthirsty beast in
human glove. It was omnraitted in the
most daring manner possible. The victim
was 'found in the beak yard of a house in
Hambnry-street at 0 o'clock. At 5: 15 the
yard was empty. To get there the murder-
er roust have led her through a passageway
In the house full of sleeping people, and
murdered her within a few yards of several
people sleeping by open windows. To get
away, covered with blood as he must have
been, he had to go beck through the passage-
way and into a street filled with early market
people, Spitalfields being close by. Never-
theless, not a sound was heard and no trace
of the murderer exists.
The Czar and Czarina have left their cap.
ital for a long sojourn of two months at
Gatsohina, them modern Italian residence,
as far as mere outline goes, suirounded as
It is by. long avenues lined with poplar trees
and brightened with rose hedges. It is here
that the Emperor and his beautiful wife fend
their most tranquil happiness, for their
marriage, under purely conventional aus-
pices, Is one of the few blissful ones among
the crowned heads. The Empress will soon
be 40, according to her birth record, but she
is only 20 in joyousness and activity. She
is the best waltzer, horse -beck rider, and
lawn tennis player at Court. She shares
the studies and play hours of her child-
dren, and never interferes openly in poli-
tics. The Czar keeps her well inform-
ed, and many a knot has been daintily
untied by her courteous tact and womanly
intrigue. The Cate receives his visitors en
promenade, and they are obliged to follow
Iiia steps and his will at the same time. Alex-
ander III. fears to got skint, and his country
life is devoted to the defeat of the encroach-
ing obesity.
No one knows officially the whereabouts
of Gen. Boulanger, and while he ie reported
to be in Germany en route for Russia, a know-
ing one states that he is, or bas been at least,
enjoying the delights of a villa in joyous com-
pany. If he goes to St. Petersburg he will
be received by the RedicaIs.
Married in Spite of Themselves.
Some years ago, when free love notions
were running around loose in New England,
a Boston man and woman who had imbibed
of these doctrines nivel they affected to de.
miser all the common conventionalities of life
came to the conclusion that they would live
together wit hontgoing through the ceremony
of enerriage. They had both moved in good
moiety and made no secret of their inten-
tion. In fact, they announced it to every
one they met Staid old Boeten's arhtocracy
was shaken to the depths.
The man was prevailed upon tt give s,
morerntwaochteoefite.:::::' are not sustained by, foreehao:
vol-
Henever Wyheothateasnbaotclyceent efoortgtihveensuanbuiemneemen joy. knowo ate onion.
waters " is also aacribed to the sacrecl . .
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Again, we hear people say: "The proof
He who heih not yet forgiven on enemy of the pudding is m oheWiug the string.
has never yet tasted one of the sublime en- Thie iii arrant neneenaao and the -proverb
joymants of life. says ; " The proof of the pudding is in the
_r. . . important, but thereof and not in cheering the etringn
r momies are very important, but they
iteed to be adorned by the graces to render N°tIling 18 more eernmen than to hear
themattraotive. " A. Man COOVeiload against his will
le of the same opinion still."
" lie who hears the law, and does not prate. This, is an impossible condition of mind,
tiae it, is like e. man who ploughs and sows for no one can be convinced of one opinion
but never reaps." and at the same time hold to an opposite'
Prase when the reasons for it are given la .
one. What Butler wrote was emmentey
double praisemensure,without the reasons for atnieible :
It, is only half censure. "Heofthhaist °ewer: poipieinie aorsisasilt..leis will
We are sent into this world to make it bet-
ter and happier; and in proportion as we do .A farneue Pitheage of SeriP.thre is often
so we make ourselves both. muquoted thus: "He that is without Bin
among you let him oast the first stone."
Pride and opulence may kisa in the morn-
ing as a raarried couple, but they are likely It should be : "Let him first ca.st a atone."
to be divorced before sunset. Sometimes we are told : "Behold how
great a fire a little matter kindleth, whereas
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in St. James said : "Behold how great a mat
our neighbors are of less consequence to us ter a little fire kindleth," which is quite a
than one of the smallest in ourselves. different thing. ,
Praise, when the reasons for it are given,
We also hear that "a miss is as good as a
is double praise, centrum, without the which is not as sensible or forcible as
reason for it, is only half censure. the true proverb : "A miss of an inch in as
The essence of true nobility is neglect good as a mile."
of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and "Loon before you leap " should be :
the beauty of grace end action is gone, like "And look before you ere you leap."
the bloom, from a soiled dower. Pope is generally credited with having
One by one thy duties it thee ;
Let thy whole strength gin:, each ; write.n. immodest words admit ofmo' defence,
Let no future dream elate thee, For want of decency le want of sense,"
Learn thou first what these can teach." though it would puzzle any one to find the
verses in his writings. They were written
Worning or not working for her living by the Earl of Roscommon, who died before
has nothing to do with a woman being a Pope was horn,
lady, in the true sense of that terra. It is Franklin said, "Honesty is the best
the considerate heart and the gentlemanners,
not mere wealth, that makes a ladY• policy," but the maxim 15 01 Spanish origin,
and may be found in "Don Quixote."
It is he who possesses the strongest and Ale
best equipped mind, the truest and firmest
Fiat Money.
prinmples, the deepest and fullest nature, -
that mast thoroughly and successfully per Speak to an opponent of enationalcurrency
forms the finial' duties of life. for Canada issued direct by the government,
Occupation of some kind is necessary, if irredeemable in gold, and he holds up his
we would be either happy or healthy. Never hands in amazement and more than hints that
be idle because you think there is nothing there may be a vacant bed in the nearest
to do. As if there ever could be a want of lunatic asylum. He becomes facetious and
occupation in this world 1 talks about "Fiat Money." He conjures
no a huge printing press turning out oar -
Little infirmities of temper should be borne rency by the ream and winds up by stating
with, especially in the home circle; but that money must have intrinsic value. Gold
people, guilty of such infirmity, ought not has intrinsic value and therefore gold is the
to presume on this. To " bear and forbear " , best medium of exchange.
is the wiseat of mottoes for the domestic
hearth. What is a, gold sovereign or a gold dollar
but fiat money? Place a gold sovereign on
It is easy to say "know thyself;" but a railway track in front of an approach -
who is to introduce you? Most people go ing train, and of what value is that sovereign
through life without making the advents, as a medium of exchange after having been
geous acquaintance in question; and if a flattened by the wheel of the oars? Its
triend should take theliberty of introduoing intrinsic value is still there; its weight is
you to yourself, you hate him forever. the same not a particle of gold has been
•
Domestic happiness lies within the reach lost, and yet no one would think of accept -
of all. If husband and wife love and respect ing that sovereign for a debt or for merchaxt-
each other, and live for each other, excusing die sold. Why is this? Simply because
faults, then happiness ia certain. Otherwise, the government imprint on the sovereign
it is not. Love without charity for each has been obliterated. That gold coin obtain.
other's weaknesses, is not true love. ed its money value by fiat of the goeern-
Common sense is looked upon as a vulgar anent and directly the evidence of that fiat
was obliterated from the coin, it lost its
quality, but, neyertheleas, it is the only
onisman to conduct us prosperously through commercial value. This is only one example
the world. The man of refined sense has out of a thousand that might be given to
been compared to one who carries about with prove that all money is "hat " money, and
that no medium of exchange, or tool of trade
him nothing but gold, when he may be every
moment in want of smaller change. —for that is all that money really is—need
possess intrinsic value. What gives money
The every day cares and duties which its value is the government atamp, and
men call drudgery are the weights and man- the government might staxnp a cork or
terpoises cf the clock of time, giving i**-- piece of paper, and give it a greater value
pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a by so stamping is, than gold or diamonds
regular motion ; and when they cease
dinner party, to which were invited prome to possess. That those who make adprofit out
of gold and are deeply interested in the ex-
pansion or oontraction of its volume 'should
oppose a national currency is eattral enough.
Oar true knowledge is to know our own But the great bulk of the people, and espe-
ignorance. Our true strength is to know daily those engaged in producum the wealth
our own weakness. Our true dignity is to ef the country, are not the men who make a
confess that we have no dignity, and are profit out of gold corners and their interests
nobody and nothing in ourselves, and to are not the interests of bankers and gold
oast ourselves down before the dignity of speculators. No solvent nation has yet
God, under the shadow of whose wings and issued a flagellai irredeemable currency, a
in- the smile of whose countenance alone is legal tender for all debts, including them
any created being safe. due the governruent, that has had any rea-
If language is the expression of thought, son to regret the step. In not a single soli -
then the speaker must see to it that he has tary case has such a. currency depreciated
thought to express. The vacant mind and in value.— [The Labor Reformer.
the frivolous character may indulge in many
words and continual talk, but can never
originate fine language, for the very first
elements are lacking. What is not worth
thinking or feeling can clothe itself only in
language not worth hearing.
Oar true unowledge is to know our own
ignorance. OLIT true strength is to know
our own weakness. Our true dignity is to
confess that we have no dignity, arid are no
body and nothing in ourselves, and to east
ourselves down before the dignity of God,
under the shadow of whose wings and in
the smile of whose countenance alono is any
created being safe.
If language is the expression of thought,
then the speaker must see to it that he has
thought to express. The vacant mind and
the frivolous character may indulge in many
words and continual talk, but can never or-
iginate fine language, for the very first ele-
ment& are lacking. What is not worth think
guage not month hearin,.
nent society people, including the Governor hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no
of the State. When dessert was put upon
rho table the talk became general, and soon
tuned upon the perverse couple. The men
and woman answered every question put to
them with the most perfect equanimity. Fin-
ally the Governor took a hand in the con-
vereation. After asking a few questions
and commenting on the answers thereto in
a calm, judicial manner, he turned to the
man and asked:
"D3 you, Mr. ---, intend to love and
cheriala this woman as your wife for good or
evil?"
"Yes, sir," answered the man calmly.
"And do you, madam, intend to obey
this man as your husband for better or worse,
fox good or evil ?"
"1 do, sir," answered the woman polite -
Then by the power invested in me as
Governor of this commonwealth I declare
you to be man and. wife."
And thus the plans of the couple were
frustrated.
longer swings. the bands no longer move,
the clock stands gall.
Clinging to the Past,
Ecuador is a country in which the past
still reigne. The buildings are sever repair,
ed; the Indians, remembering the ancient
glory of their ancestors, have no songs and
no axnusemente, and the Spanish inhabitants
are too poor and too proud to get much active
pleasure from the present. One peculiarity
of the Indian, showing his attachment to
custom, lies in the fact that he will only
trade in the market -place in Quito, where his
or feeling clan clothe itself only in hoe
ancestors have for centuries sold their pie- le8
duce.
A traveller upon the highvvaye may meet
whole armies of Indians bearing loads of Careless of Her Health.
supplies, but he can obtain nething from
them until they have reached their accus-
tomed place for barter.
The Indian will even carry goods ten miles,
and sell them for less than he wis offered at
home.
The author of "The Capitals of Spanish
America" says that lie once met an old wo-
man trudging along with a, basket of fruit,
and though he offend ten cents for pineap-
ples, which would only bring her two and a
half in the merlon elle preen red taking the
dusty journey of two leagues, to being reliev-
ed of her burden at once.
A gentlemah living some distance from
town says that, for bear yearn he tried to
induce the natives who Viewed every morn-
ing with packs of alfalfa (clover) to sell him
Moine at his gate; he wee invariably compell-
ed to go into town to bay ib.
Nor will the neeivee sell at wholorale.
They will give you a gourdful of potatom for
a 'Arany air often as you choose to buy, but
they will not sell their stock in a lump.
They Will sell you a dozen eggs for a real
Saloon passengers on the ,Alorika's" lest (ten oentlin but they Will nOt sell five dozen
trip to New etk rnede up a puree of 427 for a dollar,
for the widow of one of the steamer's coal
ox. cart, which carried, besides me arid °flintier° whe c116a ftom iteclt dir4894° Prod (to ohdru)— What luck, Charley?
Miss Lulu (to .grandmother)—George and
1 have just returned from the beach, grand-
mrinama dear. The lake to night, as it re-,
fleets the rays of the moon, is file placid and
beautiful. We sat there for nearly two homer
drinking it in.
Grandmother—G raoious, child, tie oughtn't
to drink too much on it it'll make ye sick.
About two hours later a mountain lion
came along, and smelling venison, proosecled
to examine the tent. It did not take him
long to discover that nobody was at hoine
and to crawl into the tent He bit a sample
out of the deer, and finding it good decided
to take the whole piece. It did not oome
down eerily, so Mr. Lion sprang up and
grabbed it. His whole oeight thus added
to that of the deer meat was too nmeh for
the ridge -pole, and it broke in two. The
tent eollapsed entirely, and the lion was
Two English Stories.
The stories of the sayings of parrots rarely
tax the credulity more than does one which'
is told by a clergyman the Rev. William
Quekett, of England, whose autobiography
has lately been published in London. The
writer, whose memory goes back to the days
following the battle of Waterloo, wishes his
readers to believe this anecdote of the Duke
bf Wellington:
An old lady, coming with the rest to
wel-
come the victorious duke, made up 1-er mind
to give him a present, and the most valuable
thing which she could spare was a parrot.
She had not a. little diffioulty in getting ac-
cess to the duke, but she finally succeeded
in reaching his presence, and offered him the
parro c.
"1 tbank you very kindly," said Welling-
ton, "but I do not want a parrot."
Tho old lady turned to the parrot.
" Polly," said "this is the duke."
Whereupon the bird exeleimed, "See, the
conquering hero corms 1"
"Oh, 111have her I'll have her et said
the duke; and Polly became his property.
Much more worthy of acceptance is an-
other story, told in the same book, of an ac-
cusation of witchcraft brought by some farm-
ers of Cadbury, Somersetshire, where
Mr. Quekett was a curate between 1826 and
1830, against old woman. Several of the
farrhers' cows had died, and the woman wascharged with killing them by witchcraft.
There was but one way to prove, the farm-
ers said, weather the women was a witch or
not, and that was to find a horse with three
tenni in its Ieft hind Ohm, and scratch the
Woman with one of the nails.
While the farmers were hunting for the
horse with three mile in its left hind shoe, a •
veterinary surgeon ascertained and explain.
ed the muse of the cows' death. They had
died from eating a great quantity of vetches.
Dr. Downes of Lakeport, Cal., had a pet
deer to which he was very much attached.
Joined in canoes. Of courae he thought Linn fall it ran away to tbe mountains, and
himself caught in a trap, and began layin§ that was the last he eaw of it until the epting,
about hini. in every diteotion with bot when One day it appeared in the door yard,
teeth and Male. Thie animated aotion and, Walking etraieht to the Doctor, laid its
htiTnnorraetceltiteIabtahteoftetilliet wtoreetkabittnertrannaawtahYei as Wag the Doeter. It hung around him hi
head on her ern' seemed greatly pleatiedi
ttwalotinogf the voenngireieensteamonegn, yTouhaoto.efitmerangolorine ratheranreixistuarailywtty0,01artde dal:race:xi
stood looking at tho ruined tent, and Won" aa though it Wanted the Doctor to follow it,
TdehrolinegveifnitsloinmwialeadgPneeert, thineldt befInt ilh (lb ttotk4et.* ttdd ellr !Mid t'sh°0* hoTtihsee cltiereeretil6ydtholattilisareefatnn.
teml °v" the
gre"dit ahd their bent wh
ich lay hidden in the bushes, The Doo,oirtihhtne•WhTth'7gile.anetheraeertoOt helittlethinglnhisarmsana carriedho5ilthgiiinotveaigoialtihecave,iithoe,ththothetionowingatdshowin4
tnotith withrecks, 1 umnietiikably that was jot what oho wanted,