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ch> h les'7paTnter, Stephens" city, toederickco., va„ satobdayTaugtjst mssT vol. i.-no. 3.
Beautiful, laughing summer,
WHh shafts of gulden light,
Lodged in the troos where tliv whispering
breeze
Is fanning a world BO blight.
See how the yellow sunbeams
Chase all the shadows away.
While birds and flowers and nearly showers
Wako up the perfect day.
The pearl-gems that sparkle at evening
Bright diamonds soem at morn,
Where sunbeams float like golden moats
Among the shadowy coin.
The wflil roHe loans from tlio hedges,
Buttercups glow like gold,
While lily-bells in bosky dells,
The mystery of summer unfold.
The sweet fern hauntoth the forest
And the vino-entangled glade,
And sunbeams make of tangled hraku
Quaint pictures of light and shade ;
The merry song of the reapers
Comes o'or the yellow maize,
As they bind the sheaves 'mid falling leaves
Of the golden harvcßt days.
The fickle sighing zephyrß
Now whisp'ring to the trees,
In shadowy bowers, make love to flowers
Already 'trothed to the boes.
The red-cup moss is springing
From out the emerald sedge,
And violets blue, begemmed with dew,
Shine by the waters' edge.
The brooklet with babble and chatter
Comes from the purple hill,
The wavelets gleam like broken dreams
Where shadows aro long and still.
Then it dimples, and bubbles, and babbles,
And laughs a laugh so sweet,
As it breaks into spray and throws it away
Into diamond drops at our feet.
The glitt'ring spray in the sunlight
Seems Btrung on a golden thread,
Anl the bright world gleams like a book ot
dreams
A voluoio of joy, uuread.
The world seeniß full of muaie,
A joyous melody,
The wild birds sing till the woodlands ring
With echoes wild and free.
The breeze sings soft the chorus,
The bees take up the Btrain,
The waves keep time with silvery chime,
A liquid like refrain.
But see, from the distant hillside
Fadeth the purplo light,
Thro' a vale of mist, two lovers have kis»ed,
And Day is wedded to Night 1
g TIGHT FOOTSTEPS.
N OI.H LOVE STOItY.
icient Northumberland man
Indies sat by the fire. Th
— and she was very- old, bu
s a bee—sat at a large wri
3 and turned over numercu
the light of the wax candle
that stood near in heavy silver candlo
sticks. Tho younger lady, and she wa
If, was engagei
101, from whicl
tticoats for thi
ag for twont;
>d Mrs. Crosb;
)ora Grimble
1 similarly em
her estate witl
iting table, ani
lizing the fern
use.
follow Smith ii
t pay his rent
le rascal 1" saic
club-day ; won
'ill be ready fo)
iss Dora,
c school; thej
'
urplices for tht
leed. Petticoats
id I'm sure thai
i as much at the
is if he was in
ed Miss Dora,
man to know all
looks after."
le hasn't got a
low do I know
. generally sees
the door was
utler announced
rery quiet, mild-
He came in ner
ys uncertain un
fed, whether his
itended to Bnap
i the back—mot
received her gia
id with a purr of
•b you. Was just
And then the sen
almost inaudible
ent fact, namely,
n."
lown. I'm busy,
■on."
roached " Dolly,"
i one side of the
nds folded on his
Eand eyes resting in fond admira
n the heap? of flannel,
lways busy and always useful," he
rared, gently.
Miss Dorothy's maiden hand twitched,
and she cut the flannel in a wrong
place.
"Excuse mi, she said, rising in
some confusion, " I foigot to leave out
some medicine for Mrs. Drown. I will
The door had just been closed when
the rector audibly murmured :
" Admirable woman ! Invaluable !"
"Eh?" said Aunt Crosby, sharply
turning round, and the light from the
tire made her spectacles shine as she
sat with raised pen ; " did you speak?"
" No—l, ah—merely was thinking—
ah —what a loss Miss Dora would be to
yon if—ah —she was to leave you !'
" Bless me!" responded Aunt Crosby,
in a tone of slight contempt, " we won't
trouble about that till she talks of
"No, no; very true, madam. You
have such an amusing way of putting
things 1" And ho ventured on a little
nervous laugh, from which he supernat
lrally sobered down the next minute.
'Perhaps—ah—she might marry."
"What is the idiot driving at ?" said
Mrs. Crosby to herself, irate at so many
interruptions. "Marry, did yon say?"
she inquired, aloud. "About twenty
five years ago Dolly was a tine-looking
young girl. Still, she might marry now,
and so might I, for the matter of that,
if any one asked me! Take a look at the
Times, Mi - . Preedy ; they'll bring the
tray iv a moment," and the pen
scratched asfain. \
"What a cruel old woman!" said the
rector, mentally. "She won't let me
speak! I'll try her again, though, see if
And having manfully turned the news
paper inside out, he gave a preparatory
ILlgh.
'Mrs Crosby, I have long wished—"
"Why can't he keep still?" muttered
2 old lady, sotto cocr.
"I say I have long wished"—and he
d attained the fixed high key in which
he intoned the service, and the sound
of his own voice thus pitchod gave him
courage—"to express the admiration I
feel for your niece."
"She's an excellent creature, Mr.
Preedy," agreed Aunt Crosby ; and in
despair at his pertinacity, she put down
her pen, pinched her glasses tighter on
her high nose, and turned her keen face
full round to await the further remarks
of her visitor.
'■What a wife she would make, Mrs.
Crosby!" said the rector, enthusiast!
cally.'
-A faint glimmering of the truth lit up
the old lady's mind, and she replied,—
"You would bo a better judge of that
than I, Mr. Preedy. Did you want to
"Oh, Mrs. Crosby, you are too good.
May I hope, then ?"
With an odd smile on her puokered
old face, Mrs. Crosby said, —
"Hadn't you better ask her? I'll go
out as she comes in."
And suiting the action to the word
the mistress of the mansion left the
room as her niece entered.
That night, at about half-past twelve,
Mrs. Crosby heard a footstep on the
gravel walk below her window. She got
up, lit her candle, threw on a warm but
faded dressing gown, and marched along
the passage and down stairs to the room
Efhere reposed the butler and the plate
hest. The sound of the old man's
noring showed he was undisturbed,
lis mistress rapped sharply.
"Get up, Barnes there's, man walk
ing under my window!
Quickly old Barnes obeyed, and then
he called up a young footman to assist
him, and the two armed themselves
with pokers and sallied forth from the
bay window of the dining-room, while
Mrs. Crosby, candle in hand, stood just
within it. After prowling about for a
few minutes, the men were about to
come in, when the younger of the two
spied a shadow close up to the gray wall
of the house. He sprang forward,
And Mrs. Crosby, in a voice worthy
of Mrs. Siddons, cried from the win
dow, —
"Bring him hero!"
Then, the butler lending his assist
ance, a struggling, expostulating man
was dragged into the presence of the
owner of the mansion. Turning to vent
her wrath upon him, she exclaimed in
amazement, and Barnes cried in the
same breath,—
treat you! guspert me roi.w • » i
send away the servants, pray, do!"
" 'E 'avo been h'after somothin',
then !" said the younger man, confiden
tially, as he appeared to retire, but lin
gered at the door to listen.
"Speak, sir!" commanded Aunt
"Well, then, whispered the rector, in
an agitated voice, "she has promised to
be mine—and—l moan no harm, in
deed, dear, kind Mrs. Crosby ; but I just
walked back to look at—the light in her
There was an ominous silence, and
then came a crackle of laughter like the
sound of holly leaves burning and Aunt
Crosby chuckled out,—
"Go homo, Mr. Preedy; .go homo and
go to bed! We old folks should think
of our rheumatism before mo perform
as Komeos or Juliets. Good-night to
you. I'll bolt the window now, if you
don't mind."
Bat that, now," cried the young
delighted,
c on you for listening, James,"
old Barnes, adding, with a
growl, "waking us all up to look at
Miss Dorothy's winder! Well, I'm
blessed if there's a fool like an old fool!"
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The transfusion of tho blood of one
Ito that of another was first at
l in 1667.
idea of stereotyping originated
filliam God, a printer of Edin
in 1725.
a wore no less than eight hundred
i Rome, some of them capable of
; eighteen hundred bathers,
pound of iron, worth five dollars,
when made into watch springs is worth
$250,000.
lian soldiers are taught a trade,
i allowed, when off duty, to earn
ham paid $200 for his burying
-1 King Solomon gave $250 for a
from Egypt,
popular legend of tho "Babes in |
>od" is said to be a disguised re- I
the murder of the young princes
lard 111.
a the Carthageniuns were defeated,
rore found among their baggago
pairs of handcuffs designed for
xpected captives,
tblo among the Saxons, the rank
sts waß strictly observed, and by
,ws of Canute, a person sitting I
hi 3 proper station was to bo
out of his place with bones,
it the privilege of taking offence.
The slang "to chouse" iB from a Tur-
Iword "chicous," or interpreter.
\ chicous being attached to the
isy in England committed, in
a fraud on tho merchants of Lon-
So he who cheated was said to
is, chause, chouse, to do, that is,
s chicous had done.
A recent [articlo states that the Chi
nese make most of their paper from the
830, while tho Japanese use the
of the paper mulberry. The In
aper, used by artists and engra
vers for proofs, is made of bamboo, and
comes from China. The Chinese are
rocked in bamboo cradles when young,
fed witn bamboo, and beaten with it
when they are growing up. They live
I it in their houses, and, in fact,
; bamboo one can scarcely un
d how a Chinese population can
illac'sassassination of Henry IV.,
Prance, resembles somewhat the
of Guiteau. On the morning of
, 1610, as his majesty was about
or a carriage to visit Sully, his
ir of finance and chief adviser,
as ill, the assassin rushed up to
d stabbed him to the heart. He
larpened a dinner knife on a
nd carried it a long time awaiting
ortunity to commit the murder.
I heard the soldiers of Parn say
c king made war against God.
g that inasmuch as the pope is
id God the pope, he determined
their enemy out of the way. Af
ing scorched by fire, he was torn
>y horses.
Self-KeHance.
English writer says that American
en are more self acting than they
England, where they have a some
unwise domestic paternalism,
j which encourages a costly dependence.
The result is, that many parents have
to keep their children at a period of life
when children should be prepared to
I keep their parents if need be. The
| American habit of training their child
j ren to independence, which they in-
I terpret as meaning self dependence, has
' much to be said in its favor.
Texas Mustangs.
I lev. W. H. 11. Murray has evi
)und employment that he likes
horse breeding. He writes on
cally to tho Boston Herald that
just the place for the business,
tho tough little mustangs are
t stock to take hold of for im
rit. He declares that they trac e
igin back to "raco of equine |
il queens," and have only dete I
under hard usage. "I have I
M little 800-pound horses," he 1
•avel HO mil os, with a 180-pound
under a Southern sun, in a ride
juntry, without roadways, from
sun, and that, too, with little
erhaps nothing but the grass
i got from tho prairio at night.
Many of them pace—pace like the wind
I) fast that they play with you
■airie, though you havo a blood
t that can run liko a greyhound,
rot—trot naturally—with stifles
and perfect knee action, and
lothing but trot, however hard
pressed. I have raced through the
prairie grasses and flowers at tho rump |
luustang stalion 15J hands high, j
sod bay in color, with a tail black
ht and that would sweep the
1 afoot, and been unable to break
ora his trot or range up to his
lthough my mount was a three
r bred mare of 1,100 pounds
;, that took to tho chase with her
lazing and ears laid back in a way
lainly told her rider that she felt
. deal as he did." Mr. Murray
9 a cross from a thoroughbred
n, believing that it would increase
se without losing toughness, and
36 the best saddle horses as well
Some Juvenile Sayings.
11857, during the pioneer days of a
village, now a flourishing com
al Western city, a teacher, wearied
;ho duties of the day, returned to
aarding-house at twilight to find
, a child of three summers, the
if the household, in bed. The
ion wan asked, "Lillie, have you
your prayers?" "Yes." "Who
ou say them to, Lillie?" "There
t nobody here to say 'em to, so I
em to God."
grandfather, coming to read his
■, found that he had mislaid his
acles, and thereupon declared, "I
lost my glasses somewhere and
read the paper." A little three
i-half-year-old girl, desiring to as
him, answered, "G'an'pa, you go
de and look froo ze window, and
lold ze peper up, so you can read
hnny's mother was reading to him
t cleanliness. "In Africa," she
, "it is dreadful to think there are
y benighted tribes who do not know
t soap is, and who do not wash from
year's end to an another." "Wiss
lb a 'nighted tribe," said Johnny.
;acher. —"Why did Eve eat the J
c?" Child.—"To make her fat."
[y aunt, while biaiding the hair oj
cousin, aged three years, told her
at God. When her hair was dressed
ran to join her brothor, aged five,
i was swinging in tho garden. "I
w who made you, Buddy," she oried.
ho was it, Sissy ?" he added, feeling
superior age and wisdom, but grand
lumoring her desire to give informa
i. "Dodl" said she. "Yes, but
i made God ?" he inquired. She
mptly and confidently replied, "Ho
le hisself !"— San Francisco Po.il.
Disparaging the Prophets.
L is just as well to bear in mind,
m you read the wild prognostications
dr. Vennor and his great rival, that
dn fifteen hundred miles square no
re makes a rainy day on this conti
it than a fly-speck on the dome of
capital makes the District of Co
lbia, or even all of the dome, black,
ybody can say, "there will be rain
I thunder-storms and cyclones in the
United States during July," and it
would be a mighty safe thing to bet
money on. What we want, what the
country clamors for, is a man who can
tell us when and where the oyclone is
going to strike, and whom it will hit.
And up to date that man hasn't said a
Eint the weather.
A New Instrument.
musical instrument is called
lico. It is formed of fifty pieces
1, and has a key-board as long
10. Half-tones can be played,
yed with two little hammers;
hammer has two prongs, which
actave ; the treble hammer is
,nd plays the melody. The tones
nstrument resembles the human
iIOS SPRAYS.
ishionable than ever.
sets are in high fashion.
Is grow in popular favor,
to polonaises is a fixed
is a new shade of this
pink is much worn at |
reable materials are again
ircelain blue make an ad
nation,
shionable colors for trav
chamois and fawn,
d collars as largo as the
tippets are again worn.
II garden hats take prece
othors for country house
tvorn over the tight sleeves
i and bangles over the
imes are worn out of doors
.ey are indoors in the coun
ters and flowor fringes were
is forms at the last Queen's
Mb
hing are now given a
1 with a willow split in the
dge.
id Lisle thread buttonless
o much worn now take the
;y gloves.
;es and ornaments imitating
rflies, agraffes, etc., trim
able hats,
and poke bonnets of Ma
re rivaling the porcupine
d ready straws,
t, precisely the color that
inch shell, is the popular
ilor for evening wear,
ire made more decorative
lery, lace insteps, and gold,
nd bead work,
beetles, and even little
in and silver worms, appear
iwers, feathers and ribbons
nots and hats.
len Who Succeed,
lifference among men, of
is energy of character or
;. Given tho same amount
ad integrity, and the same
i, and energy will make
nqueror. The want of it
ther a failure. Dead-beats
without force. They had as
c as any of their compan
s went ahead and carried
3, while they were lying by
dispirited and despondent,
/c, vim, perseverance, pa
lance in well-doing, to win |
i. And the young man who
, profession without this
wee will not earn salt to his
Be will drag along through
b help of friends, getting
with them for being a well
in, in delicate health and
'ho real trouble is he lacks
lis is just as true of the min-1
the lawyer or physician. I
it enough, and piety with
ng is not enough. All the
lebrew in the world will not
in for usefulness in the min
ants push, stamina, vigor,
solution, will, determination
ord, energy. If the youth
tie Greek, he knows what
ans, and without it Dr. Parr's
of Greek will not help him
as or success in the pulpit.—
Observer.
Snake Beats a Locomotive. I
Shenandoah Valley fast ex
ed the mile cut, immediately
Mechanicstown, Va., the en
i horror-stricken to see what
ed to be the end of the rail
1 of his rushing locomotive
pidly away from him. His
ht was a broken rail caught
>t, and he expected an instan
tiock. Wonderment usurped
af fear when a second glance
five foot black snake of the
nown as "runner," gliding
ivay from him on top of the
he excitement of the moment
ought the throttle, he threw
>pen, and the train bounded
tnder the impulse, but the
ntained its lead, although the
train was running at fully fifty miles
per hour, and when the end of the cut
was reached and an opportunity afforded
to escape, it left the rail, ran out into an
open space, coiled itself up, threw its
head into an attitude of defiance, and
died right there.- An examination
iTr.Ms of* \y j XXI.Si.
An English writer estimates that
there are 40,000 Americans in England
The Brighton Railroad tragedy has
made revolvers sell like hot cakes in
Last year in France thero was only
one person in 7,0011,000 killed by rail
road accidents.
The Grand Stand at Epsom, which
dates from 1828, pays itß shareholders
forty per cent.
M. Ferdinand Lesseps has been
elected President of the Geographical
Society of Paris.
Bernhardt says she has $100,000 in
cash, $90,000 worth of works of art, and
$50,000 in jewels. What sort of men
are the French to lot her remain unmar
ried?— Boston Post.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is a
resident of Oxford, tho peculiarities of
i which are that being a university town,
no liquor is sold, and there is no rail
road depot within a mile.
In the trial of Mrs. Fletcher, a Boston
spiritual medium, for swindling a dupe,
she asked the Court's permission to in
troduce the testimony of a disembodied
spirit. His Honor said no.
"Halloa I" With this exclamation the
hunter came to an abrupt halt. The
concluding chaptors of the thrilling and
absorbingly interesting story of "The
Scout and the Indian" will bo found in
our waste-basket.)
Vennor says that the presence of the
comet indicates a hot July. The peo
ple of this country have suffered so
much of late years from the driving
snowstorms and bleak winds of July
that a little balmy weather during that
month will indeed be a pleasant change
Brave Joe.
Some of our readers may be inter
ested in reading the following account
of the marvelous tenacity of life shown
by a fox terrier under the following cir
cumstances : One day the dog was with
my keeper in a wood. He made a bolt
after a rabbit which crossed the shoot
ing path, and went into tho covert a/ter
him. The keeper called and whistled,
but Joe, usually tho most obedient of
dogs, answered not, nor could he be
found anywhere. For some days and
nights search was made for poor Joe,
for he is a great favorite. The search,
however, was in vain, and Joe was given
up as lost. My keeper had no doubt
that the dog had got into a hole after
the rabbit, and had by digging buried
himself, and so perished. Three days
afterward some workmen, engaged in
tho next wood, heard a dog barking as
if in distress. I heard the cries of the
the animal myself, and one of the men
(tho keeper's son) went in the direction
of the sounds to see what was the mat
ter. The sounds led him to a large rab
bit run, and then the barking ceased.
By putting his head to the ground he
could distinctly hear the animal breath
ing. He ran for a "pick," and in a short
time dug out poor old Joe, worn to a
skeleton, his eyes choked with earth
and unable to stand. The dog had dug
himself toward an outlet, and would
have dug himself out, but was stopped
by a root of a tree across the hole. The
poor animal licked the man's hand to
Bhow his gratitude at being released,
but had no strength to do more. He
was taken to the keeper's house and fed
sparingly at first. He soon recovered,
and is now brisk and well as ever. Joe
was thirteen days and thirteen nights
underground, and during that time
could not have had a drop of water to
drink, or anything to eat either, unless
he devoured a rabbit, whish is not
likely.-— London Field.
. .
The Horse's Friend.
Even a horso may find it advantageous
to have "a friend at court." A market
gardener noticed that a basket in which
was placed fresh carrots was frequently
emptied. He asked the gardener, who
said that he could not understand it,
but would watch for the thief.
A quarter of an hour had elapsed,
when the dog was seen to go to the bas
ket, take out a carrot and carry it to the
Dogs do not eat raw carrots, so fur
ther inquiry was necessary.
■servers now found that the dog
ness with a horse, his night
n ; with wagging tail he offered
the fruit of his laroeny, and
the horse naturally made no diffloulty
about accepting it.
The scene was repeated until the car
rots were all gone. The dog had long
made a favorite of this horse. There
were two horses in this stable, but the
other received no notice, much less car-