The Exeter Times, 1887-9-29, Page 3-
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BY 'AMELIE RIVES,
2eape,-.A. bitter eanuery eight M tlie Year et Oracte,11300.,
age& senagiags (megtha a emesee pea:went:a fire turnleg le the bie tireniace--l'intee CriniMet
thetas. ered seateden a settle -At her either epee lean tee fittle leuly Dorotey ales her, Inother, the young'
Han of sundenslee Irani ilumphrey neneox.
Nurse Creneaee..._Ney, now, Lady Dor- leved them both, aud tried es e Chrietien
othy, why wilt thou be at the paine o' Buch not to prefer one before the other ; but
a. clamoring ? Buie then hest heard that svhat with my lady's stealinge of her arum
OW tale o'er s, hundred timee ; end thou too, about my noels. fie I .at at my etitohery,
my lord ? Fie, then 1 Woulclst eeek tp ' and. pepping of eernfits in my pocket
flatter thy ola xturse with this meming when i would. be otherwise engaged,
eagernese ? Go te 1 I Bey thou comet not and teasing, and tickliuge, and snedry
in truth went, ine to drone o'er that Ancient other pretty witoberies es hiob I do not
* narretive. Well, then, an 1 must, I must. et this day recall, I was feily cozened,
Soft 1 Hold my fan betwixt thy dainty into loving her the best. (Honey, 1 cherge
eheeks and the ,obleze, sweetheart, lest the thee hold my fan betwixt thee and the fire.)
fieedend with thy roses into very poppy , Bub to continue. -Mistress Marian was aye
/I And thee my lord, come eloser ee,' and kieelYto me as heart 'could
my side, leee the dreugirefrom the, hitY wine
low Smite thee that "thou howleet 9' the
morrow with a crick thy neek. Well,
well, be patient. All in time, in time, Soft,
aow Y e both mind that 1 WeS S little Mete
b th
when *a; grandmother, the et y
Lennox, did take me to train es her miefds Min% ; and hug my very breath away;
in-weittug. I was jeet turned sixteen that I then, when I had at leat coaxed her to
Ivlartlemas, and 110t a fair sized wench for get down, first the would perch oa one
my years either. Woeld ye believe? I leg and then, o' the other, and then be
mild set my two thumbs eogether at my a -twisting Ve bead now over this shout'
beekbone in those days and my ring-iingers der, now over that, to see how I came on
would all but kuss too. with tale mapinning, that it vvas with a
Lord Hanaphrey.-He 1 ha I Nurse, thy prayer to God that I finally set her night -
*teens would be but ill eatiefied. lovers gown oyer her shoulders, and led her to
under thoee conditions noweder. Eh, Incl. AS' for her preyers-Jesu aid me and
pony ? I pad= her 1--'twas a matter of hours to get
Laoly Dorothea -Hold thy •tongue for ;D.\ her to say. "Our Father" straight through,
what with her. vowing that she wished not
' h* 1 d-
• ;WW1, and °very night did she thank we t
th' prettiest faBhion, when I had combed
eed unpinned her for the „sleight ; but,
Lltrd t had much ado to get Lady Pa-
d:Buie combed or unpinned at ell I Firet
uld she jerep with. both knees upon
the fem ; tbeeefere, I pray thee, teL me fro0 e ,leeeestie
ht, en ,
thine,"like i e MAW diente when e it aloft
Se mho teld lainn and my little lady ei. ere qnaffing, and hie whole Soteufle
filing up, the three fell presently e'phatter. bright and eager, and narrovr like that e' a
ing like Pelmets at E3unriBa, and from ehet fox, but withoet a foe'e enniting. Then he
hour on I had uo trouble with thea. seelned fatehionetl to rue, and ride, 1, ltd. war,
I.vvas pretty to mark them at their an es doth lbecome all men whether oi high or
tastes. They were aye out.o'-cloer Save low estate.
when 'twee relay weather, eed then Then w ant lf within tes enquire atter my
rnethought the castle had eearce room fittle lady; and Jock, vvhe was become a
enough for them. In all their games Mis- footman i' th' castle, slid tell me ef how he
trese Marian was the little lord% eomrade, had Been her mt forth te walk i th' perk an
arid wore a hairnet ts' silvered •wood, ail ti hour gone. So straightway I went in Seach
oarried a wooden sword silvered to metal of her.
her head-eear, and the little lotel Was like- (T9 DB coVeintren,)
wise apparelled. Alia he called her over sew- oweee.--
" Comrade " end clapped her n' tit' should-
er, mankind will (Op nue the other wheu
unmannerly led, Humphrey. Do not t u
' heed him, nurse, hut go on with thy story.
Nurse Grampet.-For all thy laughter,
ray lord, l'd a waist my garter would bled
in ehose days, and was as light on my
toes as those flames that dance i.' th' °hien-
ney. Lord 1 Lord 1 how well I mind Me
e' th' first time that e'er I clapt eyes On
Jock Crumpet 1 I was speeding home
with a jug o' water from the spring, and
,whet with his staring as he stood at th'
road.side to let me pass, and what with a
• root i' th' way, I all but lost my footing.
Yet did I swing round alone, holding fast
ray jug, a,nd ne'er one blessed drop o' water
spilled I, for all my tripping. " By'r lay'.
kin 1 uoth he, "thairrt as light on thy feet
.
as a May wind, and as 1 hae I will once
the Barley Break with thee this harvesting , for my little lady put her out wIt er g
. er I will dance with none 1" And i' faith i ter as the sunlight doth extinguish a morn -
'a was as good as his word, for by hook or ing moon.
by crook, and much scheming and planning, Now I had been at the castle scene two
and bringing o' gew-gaws to my mother, months when one day it chances that I hear
and a present o' a fine yearling to my father, my lady a -telling o my lord how as her
that harvesting did I dance the Barley brother, Lord Charles Radnor, dying wife -
Break with Jock Crumpet. And 'a was a less, had left his only son to her care until
feather•man in a round reel. he should some of age. And on that Tues -
Well, 'tyres the year o' my meeting with dey the little lord set foot in the castle;
Jock, thou mInd'st. (And. a cold winter and. my lady was down at the doorway. to
that was --Christ save us 1 There be neer meet him, in a new velvet gown, with her
such winters nowadays. This night is as a wimple emu in fine pearls, and my lord
aummer noon i' th' comparison.) 'Twas the with her; but my two nurslings waxed shy
year o' my first meeting with Jock, and at the last mmute, and would not
my lady your grandmother sent for me to come doyen, but leaned and peered
the castle, to he her waiting -maid. Lord 1 through the posts o' the stair -rail, and
ttivas a troublthe time 1 What with joy at my little lady let fall one o' her shoes ba her
my good fortune, and sorrow at quitting my eagerness to glimpse at her new cousin.
mother, I was fain to smile with one corner And straightway ran the latd and lifted the
o' my mouth and look grievously with the wee shoe, and looked upward, laughing, and
other, like a zany at a village fair. And my lord. and. lady having retired into the
Jock, be would not that I went, for that he dining:hall, to see that some cold -viands
eould not see me, or consort wi' me so of- were in readiness (it being then near to
ten: Jock was aye honey -combed wi' th' nightfall, though not yet sapper hour). -
thing ye Nell " sentiment."A would grin "Ho I thou little cinder witch," cried he;
• on a flower I had wov'n in my locks "1 am the prince that has found. thy shoe,
by th' hour together. And 'tis my belief and when I shall have found thee, if that
'a could 'a spun him a warm doublet out o' thy temper be as small as thy shoe fear
the odds and ends o' ribbon and what not he not but that I will kies thee too 12' ' With
had filched from me when my eyes were that, he ran up the stairway, two and three
elsewhere. And Jock -but 'tie neither here
Ittoi. there o' Jock. In these days thy grand-
- mother had only one child, a little lass, the
Lady Patience. And ne'er was man or
maid worse named ; for to call eucla a
flibbertigibbet " Patience " were as though
one should llareeSfrieltBome colt "Slumber, '
or chrieten a spring broth. ''Quiet." Pe-
tience, quotha 1 'Twee patience in truth a
body had. need of, who was thrown at all
with her little ladyship. But there was
ue'er so beautiful a maiden born 131 all the
broad land of England ; nor will be again -
not though London Tower be standieg when
bread every day, and how a
t fl ahip her father forgave not trespeasers (for
I could ne'er draw the difference between
trepasees and trespassers into her pretty
pate), neither would she ; and how she did
not believe God would lead. her into tempt-
ation at any time, but that it was the Devil;
and how it must anger God even to think of
such doing on His part -what, I say, with
all this, rnethought sometimes it would be
cockcrow ere I got her Safely to sleep. And.
all this time Mistress Marian would be ly-
ing as quiet as any mouse, with her big
plait of hair between her fingers, for so she
always slept, with her hair fast in her
hands, as though she loved its beauty; and
in truth it was the one great beauty she had,
•
QUeeeeet orikatainees.
RXIV011.41,
Sam donee eheut to remeve Weehinge
ton, where he will 'permertently reeide.
It'renk Millet, the artiet, is living in the
little village of 13readway, ebont ears Miens
out of Leaden, Mr, Millet is efwriter as
web es a peinter, and, has the good fottune
te be able to illustrate his own articles, Ile
was a, very euccessful war ccarespondent at
one tilne, and no he is`qatito as StleeeS9f111
an artist.
PlIiI Armotir, the millionaire meat-paeker
of Chieago, has given' $400,000 for a missien
which is said to 'be a model of its kind; It
iso established in Chicago, and there are one
b, d hildren no the roll.call. There
conversieg. , The month 9f August was quite OA notable is a school, a kindergarten, and a 4tSPPIISEtry
But my little lady, they both agreed, was in int way as the awful Jely that preceded connected wieh this znisslou, to which only
a fairy prinome ; ana, Lord. Lord I 'ewould it, This aumater we have bad the meet the pooreet and the neediest are admitted.
take me from now 'tit Martiemes next to comfortable August for many years, as well Mrs. Beery Ward Beecher is about tp
name the perilous 'sesPeS that did heis'il as the hottest July within the inemorY of entee upon a journalistie career, having ar-
isen They fished. her out of moats, they the preeent generation. Ever 4400 the ,ho, t ranged with the manager of e newenaner
bore her font blazing castles, they did drag spell broke the Weather has been es steamier syndicate to futnish a series of articles for
her from the 1114170 '0 dragons and other qood as it was persistently bad dnring the Boioenulailttrayuaenoud BC Canada.
a. t ii Mrs.
s.thIle•ozghlieor 1., Bi ttotphicis4
wild beasts I know not how to name. free weeks between June 29 and Aug, 2.
dire straits at the claws o' gobliu creatures. once risen to 00 °. For an equal period be- will be such as to 'interest women. It ie
seid that although well paid for this work,
Thrice was the little Lord of Radnor in Since the latter date the mercury has not
Three times did his comrade respite him or Aug. 2 the days on which the thermo- .
by thwacking upon the chair whith did meter failed to register 90 t' or over were
repreeent the dreadful beast, till I was in exception. The humidity that belonged to
sore dread there would be no mending of August was InisenPropriated by Juba The
it and me, mayhapdismiseed from the fine, ceol Bummer days that experience leads
h xis to expect eome tune in July were post-
ed until August. The dog days were all
The riSherY. 00P4tuiseien.
is be hoped. that the Fishery Com
Mission which has been ePPointed will man-
gge to come to each a finding aci well be Bat"
ISfuotory to ell paeties, eencerned. This,
however, would be seinethieg little eltort of
mireculetis, ler the conflieting eleiine are
wonderfully wide apart. The British GeV -
eminent, acme all things, doee not itsant te
quarrel with the United States. It would
submit to almest any lenuilietion Sooner
04111 1110,t and WOUlil think little of letting
the Yinikees have it ell their own way.
The delusion Btill prevails among English
statesmen that Capeda is so eutirely the
persenel property of Britain, if suoh
phrase may be used, that it can be treated,
used, or saceideed in any ppasible way that
may seem for the iuterestaof the Irepeele.1
power, withont any consideration of what
may be for the interest, honor or integri
ty
el poor " dependency." l'svery bound
pay dispute and subsegeent treaty has been
settled 911 this principle, end it is as lihelY
as net that the fishery dispute wnl end in
much the same fashion. This is certainly
not encouraging for Canada, to be made, as
it were, eorb of seepegoet to bear trway in-
to the wilderness and at her own expeuse
d short comings of Imperial ne-
-e for carelesenem, And e way
'twas all' o'er, and the little princeSe itt
1 to aot person and / Jul d ys The perfect days of moderate
Y •
erature clear air and brisklareezea out
se ety, was
wed my little lady to the little lord, while
Mistress Marian leaned on her sword to
witnecis the doings.
One day, in their ravings through the
park, they came by chance upon a door in
the leillzside, but so o'ergrown with creep -
Mg vines that, had not the little lord
stunabled upon it, 'twee very like it had
been there to this day without discovery.
of the North-west, making life a joy and
personal amiability and good citizenship as
easy assbreathing, have come one after an-
other with a tegularity that would be sur-
prising, if anybody paid the same attention
to a run of good luck as to a run of bad.
People don't. Compare the amount of
d d fed to re.hreaheii and Iludner,
Well, no sooner do they see the door the amount of time spent in analyzmg and
they must needs open it, spite o' all my 'discussing the meteorologial conditions, the
scolding, and peer within. 'Twee but a 1 amount of mathematical ability displayed
deaksome hole, after all -a kirri o' cave in calculating averages and deducing mean
i' th' hill -side, which they did afterward 1 temperatures during July and during An -
find out from thy grandfsether was used 1 gust. While the long hot ewe lasted
in time of war. And indeed it teemed al -and it seemed eternal -the sense of direct
safe place, for there were two flinty bolts injustice and. personal grievance grow
as big as my arm, one o' th' made and I steadily, until exasperation almost reached
one o' th' outside, and the creeping thing 1 the boiling point. When the era of compen-
hid all. As thou mightst think, it gritty sation arrives, appreciation and gretitude
to be their favorite coigne for playing their I diminish about as fast as the cantle for
dragon and princess trickeries. I would 1 thankfulness increeses. Who gives a thought
sit with my stitohery on a fallen log 111 to such an extraordinary swoon of comfort -
the sunshine, while they run in enci•out o able weather as we had through August and
th' grewsorne hole, But in all their frol- i early September ? It is human nature to
Joking my little lady could, ne'er abide the 1take it as a matter of course. Does any -
eight o' their swords, and she pleaded ever body stippose that peens and praises of Au-
she undertakes it more for occupa ion
tusul for the pecuniery reward., gotiators. Unless, to be sure, thebelief eau
Bret Haste has grown so tray that those 1 he difIuSed that in making such secrifieee
test as much et they please to the contrary,
British statesmen of ell parts know very
little abont Canada and care infinitely leas;
while the latsh cliffloulty and not a feeling
of general pi ilanthroPy makes them have
exae mated idea of keeping thingssznooth
d t berus whenever thought necessary Web
Charles Williams, the war correepon en . • '
He has ailvery grey hair, playful blue eyes,
who has t Canada will just have to hope the best, laut
shall not be disappoinMd.
come to Americe to lecture, is a tall, wen- it a clear case for thinking of the blessed -
of the London Daily Citronic/e,
built, and well-preserved man of forty-nine. ness of those who expect nothing, for they
and a fresh sun -brown complexion, the re.
suit of his long years of service on the re-
mote frontiers of Europe. Now that Burn-
aby is dead, and Archibald Forlsee marri.
cl. d etired Williams lathe first "se-
who have not seen hun since e left neer
to aeeept the Glasgew COD sulate would hard-,
ly recognize him now. His hair, which is
rather long and lice in inasees on his forehead,
is snow-white, while his mustache, which is
very heavy, is still steeled with brown.
His complexionis florid, but h�ld mao yet. en e is not at all
Mr. Herta makes his home in Londonin the with thelelustering and aggressive Yankee,
stout, nor does he look like an
family of the Belgian Minister. and lea.cls them to throw a eep to that Cer-
• she is promoting the nnity and perpetuity
of the EiriPire, 'Elle fact 18 let people pro -
ti ernes One daY shall ne'" gust fairly balanced the profanity of July ?
SEASONABLE JOKES.
Analysis has brought to light the .fat
that ie cream frequently contains glue,
but it never seems to hurt the girls. Some.
Nellie Grant Sartoris, d.aughter of the how Ws always the young man
dal" among the English war correspenclents. that -
t G ral Grant lives in Soutlaamptoe,1 ets stuck.
England. Her home stands near the river,
and is as comfortable and as picturesque as
most English homes ,re. The house is two
Id and has been added to by
When the school terna's dreary bother.
Glad vacation time supplants, _
Then the boy 'sighs forth," Dear mother;
Won't you please halfomle my n ants?"
" (. don't think I shall like this place,
a said a young rnan to his fiancee as y
each, generation. Besides, country
house, her father -in -lave has given her
strolled along the walks around the Toronto-
, -i E„xhibition Ha,11. . "Why net, Cha,rlie?"-
honks in London. She is very comfortably
fixed as far as money and houses go.
Because they illuminate their grounds too,
Sartoris is the mother of three children ; the
brilliantly at ht " he replied with a sigh.
g
ci forget, though I live to see doornedaY) We doubt it very muun.
oldest, a boy, is ten, and the yoangest, a,
" You no doubt know, my , friend," he
the,/ did crown her a queen, and then my And yet the whole difference of tempera- girl, is six.
knight. She pleaded that prettily' ag.ainst ,ful season wlaich culminated on the last day
, New York State Steiaogra.phers' Association,
Colonel E. B. Dickenson, President of the eald m a moat great trouble withwhiskey ie." "Yea, sir,"
i My manner, what
lor would have it tlaat she dubbed him her tura between the hot wave and the delight- ;
it methought the veriest boor in Christen- 1 of August was a matte, of eight
and. one' ' regards Phillips Brooks as the fastest s -peak- re•plied the party addressed,. who was a re -
little
would 'a given in to her, but my half degreesFahrettheit. This show son what Ng, oee gular whiskey encyclopedia in Personal ap-
her % throne o' flowers, and when She was and What an insignificant ohange in the stenographer eon report him accurately, and Pearanee. "Yes, sir, I knew. The great
g trouble with whiskey is it's too scarce.'
little lorcl Was stanch. So they made a narrow margin human comfort depends, er M America , if not in the world.
seated thereon, Mistress Marian handed physical conditions it requires to make us a , the u 1 ki b t cl *th
n y way e can e repor e wi any • • • •
her the great 'wooden sword, and my lord, community of sweltering, snarling, ea g
877 Tin- I compare their notes after they have written showing the 'visitors from the metropolis
degree of satisfaction is by two exPerts who 1 The enthusiastic young agriculturist was
kneeling, bade her strike him on the shout. ill-natured miserables, instead of the jolly, them out. Mr. Beecher, he says,walan easy over the home farm. " Are you fond of
" Rise, Sir Ernie, my knight for ever- ' creatures that we really are -just at pre-' man to report He considers ordinary beasts, Miss Cockaigne ?" he asked the
more 1" ' sent. spea ere ye o aven an idea m etrheads
and yet think they must speak as giving the , Turniptops, " V70+8 the unexpected rePlY,
k h h 't ' thair young lady of the party. " Really, Mr.
der nith the flat Bide o' th' sword, saying, reasonable, easy-going, end. benevolent
' • k
She got out the words as he bade her, '
hardest work to stenographers. "If you mean that for a declaxation I must
but when 't came to tho stroke,.what with Seen ana Heard in a Bank. A well.knoven belie cif New Orleans has a refor you o mamma.
eyebrow, so that the blood. trickled down into a certain bank and asked for certifi. I Pni:ate,
light on the silver,. she brought down the As queer things happen sometimes et the passion for Brezilian
s gwhich are Bur -
heavy blade edgewise on the boy's pate, banks as anywhere else. It was ziot lona I Poeed to live on air. S e wears them m
laying wide quite a gash above his left ago that a galootish-looking fellovr walke her hair and about her dress, not only in Taxing Laud. -
her natural fright, and what with th' sun -
but inpublic. Sometimes, when in t What is meant by taxing a farm or any
hie cheek. When she saw that, me- cote of deposit. He counted out his money hurry to get home, she will patronize the piece of land to ite full velue "without im-
se&tned all the blood in her body went to and handed it through the window. The ) democratic street -car, where she is the ob-
of all the passengers on account of to the State, andthe improvements" to the
proveneents ?" The "land," it seems, belongs
then her smock, and ran and got her arm into his box. Then taking his greet can. the bugs crawling over her garments. These occupant. The land is public property;
keep his company, for she turned whiter teller took it, counted it, and threw it i• served
about him and saith, o'er and o'er again, vas -covered book, wherein are entered the bugs do not roam at will ;hey MU go to
certain distance and no farther, for they axe
a the Aprovements private. " Improve-
" Ernie Ernie ! I have killed thee 1" ' signatures of the thousands of people who
it ments'• do not take merely the haps of
held by a fine gold chain whieh is pinata to buildings, etc. The value of a swamp may
ld Oates of the bank he tlu•ew ess
h d Some years ago this was a paten- be originally nil or next thing to rt. Drain
• ' ld be worthsay
And I followe,
, for I knew uot what
liaht of it and wetting his finger 'in the around anti passed it through for the galoot
He leughed, to comfort her, an
• ' The next instant, when the teller 1 lar
freak of fashion, and there is a possibi- thoroug y a
lity of its being revived. t a dollars an acre. Does that land, accord -
'step ata leap.
lug to George's plan, continue to be worth
nothing with the " improvements" all in
Bob Burdette's Advice. all ? lf so it could be subject to no tax, for
ttge son vgen you hem a mu growliag the land without the improvements" was
would happen an he claimed his Ines as a
he had threatened (knowing as did I, that blood, drew a cross onhis brow an s •
in verity my lady's shoe would 'a Leen a "Nay, thou bast not killed me. And looked up, the depositor was half way down
tight fit for her temper). mareo'er, I am not only thy knight, but the big banking room with the great book
But when he was arrived at the top, lo 1 thy ReeCross Knight into the bargain, and under his arra and -making for the door.
they shad both fled, neither bad they left thou my lady forever. See 1 I will seal There were the money boxes to look out for
so much as a ribbon behind them. Then e she ' and. drawers to close, and the clerk could
the lad laughed again, as pleasant a laugh .
as &ea I heard hi all my days, toad quoth
he, "1 would be but a poor prince an I
had not to search for my little princess."
ff h starts and r after him, up and
nothing, and yet the improvements
ortli any
and ere on her white brow. She shuddered and around 100 feet of counters. He didn't try and scolding because Moody gets$200
yott win without the laud could no e w
thee with my very blood
could draw back, he had set aleo cross get out in pursuit only byrunning own
fell seweeping, and drew her hand across 'to do all these things. Be hallooed to the perceive that be never worries a. bit because
week for preaching Christianity" thing either. Who is to decide ill such a
when she saw that she had but smeared it 'stop that fellow with the greet canvas coy- Ingersoll gets $200 a night for
atheism. You will observe tbettheinart who t° the
preaching puzzle what belongs to the State and what
"improver ?" Bach factor was
her brow to wipe away the ugly stain ; and nearest customer he saw outside to run and
' ered book. That was no dicfflult matter. •
is unutterab y s ocite eceuse . urPhY
1 h b 1V1 necessary to the other being of any value
and yet it is said the land is to be value&
t a week for temperance work, iteems
without any reference to the " improve -
last trump sounds. down corridors, in at half-opee. doors, out on h.er hand, she trembled more ever,
be
Me seemed she was
unquiet days, till at last, for the sake o' 1 I do but relate this story, to show
so tiny was she ; and her' face like a fair the inanner o' httle lady on her
titan lf rite u on balconies, hither and thither, after and it was not for some days that 1 could , The man west making his way palate y an
' quiet her. • t f 11 He thought that that forty-poutd
slowly down street, and came back cheer-
.
flower, so fresh and pure. Her hair was
shed about her face like sunlight on thistle-
down, and her eyes made a shiuing behind
it, like the big blue gems in her mother's
jewel -box. When the laughed, ib was as
water falling • into water from a short
height, with ripples, and little murmurs,
and a clear tinkling Sound. But she was
ne'er more at rest than the leaves on an
aspen -tree. Hither and thither would she
flit, this way and that, up and down, round
and round, backward and forward, about
and about. I' faith, ofttimes would I be
right dizzy come nightfall', with following
et her; for ere I had been at the made a
clay, she took so mighty a fancy to me,
that naught would do but ehe roust have
me for her maid • and so my lady, who
(God pardon my 'boldness 1) did utterly
spoil her in all thinge, gave me unto her as
a nursemaid. --But sure ye are a -weary o'
this old tale
Lad00.
y Dorothy and Lord Humphrey in a
breatle-OaYt go nn T()
to think it all right 'adieu the. barkeeper
takes in twice as much nneleY la a. single raents." A swamp undramed, Is, say,
wortrt
It has no wtarket value. The
The laborer is worthy of his hire, my nothb3ct
necessay drains -without the swamp also
peace, I did slyly lea i • th dire°. 1 horror my little lady did ever hold swords ' book, he saint was his cerbficate of deposi . a
A rather nice -looking but matronly look- • • •
tion o' th.e great nursery. There, catch- and bloodshed.
Well, to continue-- ing young woman began eposi g 00 h were worth noshmg. Could no in
. 1 boy, and he pest as worthy of it t e
dark hair, but my little lady like to stifle, little lord to a place o' learning; and aftee. the young man at the window. made bold to your soul worth less than the man who is
Is the man who is honestly tyrine. to save exist. Who shall say then what the man
congress ? field owes to the State, and what be may
wherest and my truant elves confessed, Mis- ; This could not last for aye, and when two week at the same bank. she osane so reg. • pulpit as t stump
tress Marian frowning and biting o' her more years were sped, his uncle sent the ularly, always with the sante amount, that -who transforms the sWaarip into a iertile
ing eight o' a little red petticoat, he enters,
with both hands over her mouth to hide her ; ward to travel to and. fro upon the earth, congratulate her that she was doing so well Isn't Moody d d dc a I -
trying his level best to go to
mug as oo wca s nger rightfully keep to himself. He offers to
Nurse Crumpet.- ell, well, o' all the
stoty-loning bairns 1 But I must invent me
a new litittory for the next time o' telling."
Lord Humplirey.-Nay, that thou 'shalt
not. We will ne'er like any as Well as we,
like this one. 'So despatch.
smiles, and her blue eyes dancing a very after the manner of Satan in the Book of lin' her business. soll ? Isn't John B. Gough as much the ren e angina avvamp but he can g
t th ' 1 et
B rle Break o' rnirth among the yellow ' Job (God forgive me but't has ever seemed I "Don't
• h t to me) And we set not eyes on iniendlY
I d e.tone. " My husband is a bar- •
give me away," she saidein a
Do
you ,want to ,getlall the Pod in the world to -pay Mead of humanity as the. barteuder ?
h' so that you may be able to pey
nt of the la;nd ? Then Government con -
nothing .for it; He rents it when drained
and cultivated at $3 an acre, Is he bound
all that to government as the fail
straightway sit down upon their feet, neith- I trers Marian in long kirtles, and their hair the good things fiscates all, ho,then is to say wha
Then there was much parley o er the fit- hint for eight years. Now in that tune, lol o ,
o' the shoe, as both damsels did ',I was married, and my little lady and lelis. a Ingle price for the
sheavem o' her tresses.
for a long time Would they move an eyelash, looped up upon their heads. Mistress Mar- Short, Bird Stories. Retnember, my boy,
Ararse Cruntpet.-But my lady had also
an adopted daughter, a niece o' my lord's
-one Itlistrees 1Vlaria,n Every -arid she
walked beside the little Lady Patience as
night might walk beside day, for she was
as brown o' skin as a mountain stream,
and her hair like a cloud at even -tide, dark,
but of no certain color, albeib as soft as
ravelled silk, and marvellous hard to comb
on account o' its fineuees. Mistress 1Vistian
was full head and shouldere taller than her
sousin, the Lady Patience, and she could
lift her aloft in her arms, and swing , her
from side to Elide, as a supple bough swings
a bird. And her eyes were dark, and cool
to gaze into, like, a pool o' clear water o'er
autumn leaves, and sometimes there were
glints o' light in thein, like the spikes i' th'
evening -star when thou dost gaze steadily
upon it Black and white were not more
ilifferent than Wete they, and they resenibletl
even less in mind than they did in body.
When Lady Patience waxed wroth her
clieeks burned like two coals, and thou
°midst hear her teeth grinding together,
like pebbleisgteezed 1' thipelm o' thy hand;
but when Mistress Merian was an -angered,
the blood rushed back to her heart, ,aaad she
Was whiter than a lamb at the shearing, and
her lips like white three.cls. Then would
the light Blioot and spin itt her eyes, and
her nostrile ends in and out, like those ef a
fretful horse. And she was fierce after the
manner of a man rather than of a maid.
Moreo'er, the was full a year younger then
the Lady Patimice ; but she looked it not ;
rather aia her laclyehip look full two years
younger than 'Mistress Marian, And 1
ting , in fair share that the Goverrunent can claim,
till his lordship, with a twink o' his eye at Mu was yet full head and sb.oulders above A1313{6;1,10 canary hasn rainiaturewellin its costs less thau corn whiskey ; a box of cigars 11 the land W" "iginallY worth nothing*
that always eon -thane nothing with
the world are the cheapest. Spring water
me, did suggest corns and bunions as kb rea- I my little lady, and her skin as brown as cage, with it bucket, the Olittin of which
will buy two or three biblee ; it gallon of old must nob
all. the increased value to be reckoned as
pretty to mark how like little chicks be- '', slender as a sunray. drink it drawe up the placket, much to the brandy costs more than a barrel of flour; a
math their dam's feathers, first one little I They would speak to me sometimes of i . m twenty minutes titan his church subserip.,
delight of the children in the neighborhood. . t
"1011 hand" of
poker often costs a man more
• " improvements ?"
son for their 'havior-and, Lord 1 then 'twas ' ever, But my little lady was as bright and reaches to its' perth. When it wants a
the rich lace o' their petticoats. And ere i were saying great things of him, and how, an immense hawk that hit him fair on the, tion costs more than a revival of religion; VISE SAGS BisTYs. CHARLES
foot and then the other aid steal out from • Lord .11 d a h h folks1
9. nor, an ow t at great A. coyote in Walla Walla, was attacked by tion amounts to in three years ; a State elec
slipt the shoe on my little lady's wee foot, fr person altogether ; but as theyears went by head and then make a snap et the hawk you can sleep in a church every Sunday t ___.
tnornin 0 for nothing, if you are mean enough , .r., .
one cotild cry " Oh !"for a pinch, he had he was become a soldier and a marvellous , back of the bead. The coyote would. duck his
o1er, whet I did most marvel at, wa8 only sometimes my little lady would pull twentei minutas tl 'coyote was trailing in
the dust. to dead heel your lodging, but a nap in a, i "-ore is the nurse of Young desire. , 1
Pullman car costs'you 2 every time. Fifty 1 A eat is free to cottemplate a monatc i.
cents for the circus an a penny for the lit -1 The lovelist things in life are but shade
and had kiesed her right heartily. ealore- ethey seemed not so ready to talk o' him but could not reach it, and at the end of
that she neither cuffed. nor sought to down my head as I smoothed the bed- u es tee ,
miff him, but clropt down her head , clothes over her at night, and quoth she : llookliffe, says the London Fiekl„ that was
A Partridge waa found its a vra.ss field in tie ones to put in the missionary box; one ow&
dollar for the theatre, and a pair of trousers I Nothing that is not tree can possibly be
city nussionaey gets $600 e year ; the horse 1 -
face, and moved that foot whereon he had changed'? Aily hair hath not darkened rearing a white barnyard chicken. When 8'nd a od.
set her shoe, gently back and forth as much, heth it ? Dost think his curls will the chicittell wee caught the bird evinced frayed at the end, be.ggy at the knee
utterly bursted cis td the dome for the poor •,, go
head until her hair made a veil before her 1 "'Nurse dost think he will be much
though the leather was stiff to her ankle, ' be different from what the were when 11 the si ns of distress eSlially shown if the enei g 1 il eM 4600 a week and the Regrets are the natural property of gray
nearly to death, and. comes out 840 in debt. next door.
Y g
as a very cow's. Then the young lord a d - .
or mentor Was to return the next week, h In boy if you ever find youraalf I We start from the mother's arms and rush
leughed again, and cried out, "Ha 1 the , "'
ewe., and meseemed in truth the whole castle was
went and kneeled before her in mock falih.: i waxed distraught.
ox -eyed Juise I" or some such apery,
ion, as before a queen, and quoth he, "Pair It ie not in my po-wee to tell o' the' do -
goddess," (for 'twas afterward explained logs, but suffice it to say, my lord did cozen
to me what manner of being was a g.od. them all, and come a full day ore he vette ex-
dese, namely, some kind of a, foreign fairy) peeted.
----" Fair goddess " quoth he, 1 how me , When he came, Mistress Mariau was
how I may dispel thy vvra,bh," And etill zhe standing i' th' great door o' the castle, in
scowled on him, but spoke no werd. And her hawking gown& green velure cloth toned.
he continued, and said, "1 prithec, fair , all with silver dud : ner plumed. hat was on
lady, cast but one Smile upon thy bumble ' her curls end her hawk, Beryl, on her fiat.
knight " (thou mind'st their pretty foolery `• And she 'turned and beheld him. Neer did
has stuck i' my old at unto this day.) t I see verier light in earth or eky, than Rath -
I
Then she answered and with : " Thou ed late her face as their eyes Met. And he
silly lad, how can I be a gothlest and it doffed his hat end came nes beside her on the
lady both in ote ? Thou hazt not even step, end saith, with the old laugh, but
enetigh wit to make it geed. fool. So P' (for gentler, "Web met, comritde,"
Mitres a Marian hail a sherp Magee at VOW whim he called her "comrade" 'twits
, as when jock ata call me "sweetheart" in
But he was not so inch as refilecl, end " the olcl days o' om -wooing, She Went red
times).
laughed even againgmost heartily. „and he as the ribbott itt his eleeves'• and when the
field : "1 do not pereeive that then art not ' falcon fretted and !shook its'bells, lm did pet
fashioned either as goddess or lady, there- his hmia,oria. stroke it, and, lo I it was gill
fore be my eomrade, arid we will fight to- 1 and seelned to feel him es ite inastee„ And
gethet for t, e weal o' yon fairy ptinceee." I wondered all this time where could. be mY
All at once she latight d too, ad yielded little lacly.
han her hand, end said : "T like thee, 1 To this day I have neier Mon so hentlsome
the young lord. He was tall aria
their natural offspring are molested. .
place where the bird was found is nearly a
mile from any farm buildings,
William Allen, of SeatFranoisco,a boy, shot
and wounded a large hawk that was soaring
t 1 xis After it
go. But Mistress IVfarian said never a ra,ce scoops hi $2,000 the first day, and the What ie got by force must be maintained
locks like it heifer on ite cud And church fair lasts a week, works tvventy-five by force.
or thirty of the best women in America Charit be ins at home, and justice begins
eyes were every whit as dark and solemn
h" word.
and I saw that she looked at it from he was a, lad? And walla have to tell
still held aloof, and thewed upon her dark me
One day I learned of my lady how that
der her heavy hair. But Misttess Iffiteian 1 her " No" a dozen tinies ere she Would let
fell he hurried to pluck off its large feathers • -
. sneeriug or scoffing DOCEMISO once in a win. e
when the rd s on ea, o a preac r ge in a o to the d st hovel.
away with a wease
about his body and sank its beak ferociously Y h f 11,e tt. g r 1 weli'le better to have conquered one true
even it Luxurious salary, or a temp
ermide heart thanE d
bird u.delenly threev its wing g
k hile both hands were
worker making money, go Out in the dark )ng an .
and feel ashamed o yourself, d if ou1 liere's the rule for bargainers ; Do other
don't feel above kicking a mean mean kick , men, tor they would o you.
into is
pinioned. Filtelly he released one just
enougb to take out a small penkaife with
whish he stabbed, the hawk. The stabs
had b t little effect. Fortunately a man,
Martin Welch, came along and rescue le
young and almoet exhausted hunter. He like a bone at a dog, the doner is no
vsill soon be all right agoAtt but a slight scar fitted by the gift, and the receiver is not,
will remain for life. The hawk measured and eerteinly ahold not be, gratified."
eight feet from wing to wing.
yourself. Precious little does the religion l A great man will be great in misfortune,
and chavity cost the oldboy, and when the' great in prison, great in chains.
money it does give it( flung into his face, ,
There are some falsehoods ea which nee
Judged Him Wrongly.
"You dowt look well this moruing ,
Peter," he said to his bookkeeper, " and
your hancle are shaky. Too ratich whiekey,
I 801313058 9"
"-No, sir," tesponded Peter, " not
enough whiskey. Hy the time '.I get it scapegrace of a fariner's son, has genera y
couple more cocktaile , down 111 be ell fleeted as the central offendet, and miminal
assaults upon wOmen seem to most rise in
-------41'------ tlioSe regions which might he sepposed to
right." •
Few ittf es are without the sad expesienee be the chosen abodes of innocence and ease.
that faith once shaken is ever aftet suepicions It is seareely possible to take up a paper
of betrayal; and the spark of love thet, billies withont notioing en affair cif tide kind,
dull but too often goes out without a °hence What is the cause? Is crime becoming. more
? is it only better reported 1
1 beteg rekindled,
The moral condition of the Province is at
presmat not by any meeme what it ought to
be and the rural clietricts seem to be worse.
All the worst crimes that have for e good
many years past been committsd have had
their soenee Ontirely rural quartere. The
' d an" on ells farm or the yoeng
mount as on bright wings toward hcavert.
Everybody profits by tbe indiscretion q
his neighbor, and the people of the best Ili'
pute the most.
What ars we but coeches ? Some of .4
slow coaches; some of us fast coaelms,
OU
,pe,ssions are the horses; end Tampent
IIi
mals, too.
He said : " nette is 13rnie ; and I like straight as an oak, With cerls the color of ,
What is thy name ?"
req.
Dr. McGlynn 8ayg that " poverty is a di
seitee,” and to this the New York Triben
very pitliny and very poiattedly replied
Perhaps., but ii the patient treat it with hy
podermic injections of honesty and stead
application of industry it tan be ovetcorne.'
"Dais is quite true, but it does not follovvi
that nothing should be done by the tuactl
meet of just laws tO give the pocx and weak
abetter chance than they have often had,