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hu. i. IIVTHB iUVBR. i'..m through a! .1- ro-s thjir vray, wintry yu.ivs drag slow, skies arc always trrai vc". heat* the weak |. life's amalgamation hacl arc all m» near, jiall. the poor mau' hniirtJ, the orphan's tear, V colli'.' in i-wdt imitation. i ::s Litii, tin: tide runs low. iT'i fit?!. I hi? day* go slow I -,-.re not how it sc-ms, i' dream ray ilr- o i ui.ni v that lie is ij' that he if biti!, lifts hi*- eye*. is s nl, so s '.d :s:..n kcow: li-feii virtu :.U \U W\ goodly ha*!1 Ti« ..'ail uc otic, rativtlit::iv ,t m..y Jiijir, y'. divine ili?' r.«_, .ths miuif manifest, sinul'u" phmo with tin- tide RUNS 1CY lays go h.low, high, tl.i r.s.v„ l.o Hi'." J:thoff it sf ellls luii.:'-- 1 beam my dr- d, y»u :aat life i*-ho''. with"i!!'?n is lU'.U'h the i»'*t nut :i" 'tie wr! stand.-. '•till, n d.iw::- in It)*1 \V» .d-t t! rt'etl- IV'I'II „LJ •eBr ti: I«J:R^'LINSR river I'rtiu,A'»"C.* Jst't-r. Mr. Mnstt'll I'aid HinNoir. •ell!" as lr. Lea the i wood's voice from Der ollioe. The name callcd was ar.'i with the alacrity ot an un rk amuitictii ot piomotion, I re ed to the summons. nali M'lstpU's note tell du.* yester said -vir. Leatherwood, as I enter wa:.t you to ride over to Iieech (1 prtseut it. Ot course it won't 1, for liy his construction or the ant law, a debtor has the ri^ht to three distinct duns in addition race. So the sooner we l*e ehett. r. Here's the note, and an on Trotter, the livery man, for a .Leatherwood turned his writing ifter these inftrdftiou.s. and lett mv 'ow them. chdalt w.e a .:try villasre a ti uiiirs fr»»m the yuuthfui Western wliii li .dr. Loatherwof)d was the :ii inhabitant. roud had so many forks and turns, :ny head got turned at last, and in my stoik of itinerary informa i'c:ug kept replenished at legular I had the consolation, at the fseveral weary limits, of finding .fmany miles out of my way. w that mishap, it was late in the af )nwhen I alighted at Mr. Mil*tells mnot vty tliat I "was won by that eman at first, sight. There was a if sinister 'iniru in Ids ferrety, eves, when m«'t me at the door, i'" ig'.eealile nor tru-t inspiring. •tr an exchange ot ilistant saluta i and an intimation from me that I •ailed on a matter of business, Mr. i invited me to enter, and led the apartment, designed apparent fcerve the double purpose of sitting and uHice. am st-nt here by Mr. Leatherwood," .taking the chair ottered !y Mr. t-'H/'tij request payment of tins note,'' •esame time producing it. •e corners if Mr. Musteli's inouth" down perceptiiily. Ilis brow cloud- Ms futures hardened. Dun number 1 fas plain, had tailed in persuasive :r- Hat for form's sake, I should Raited lor no other answer. Mr. -cli was on the point of giving .lowever, when the sound of ap -""(step?! in the hull atlrai'ted •ttentinii, hn liasty e\cus, he hurried from "'•"ii. closing the door as lie did so. •Mid hear Mr. Mustel! greeting some *!|i'iu he called "Sharker:" ami then an r,,du i a-ti.,r 1 a ui:ce which I reasoned, belonged UH«*8 wt true iw 'tpnb i ciUj)e uanfne. manner was completc His jock was even cordial lir(,-seii ipi3 regret for having axo Wiutui"' VS I 7 id to sav when interrupt n°w, he proceeded Mnndly, i'lnl 0n' 1 je an 1111 a])P(:aran.:es! 0 rk ^V5 pw ^t0 &/T (&8onahh of|vand alter a parting, the warmth Inch contrasted stiangely with the cold i \V nr ,,)e, tin 1 Iteaue:-. wh «ut on a trot of I m.) the vertical motion was somewhat I dispropoi tinned to that in advance." I had reached the loneliest part of the a :d the van wab i»st setting when hear« 1 tim sound of hoofs behind. I uad hardly time to iook, before two basemen cantered up) ()Hf. n uch gI(lf^ lie or t.ie right seized my bridle with -iis ielt h.in.i, and leaping down pointed piStot at luy head. dismount," he ui. i:t('1 T'.ere i m..:.- v er. an 1 I must 'have it vj pointed I'clut'* A eii, whatever yon, '•tlier biuv in myself would i I ad«. ."' i the prudent course surrendereu :u uisertjtjon. thotlgi doubt ri«*d. «?yii s dir^'' of f.i'f. '"Too hfe! !..:• »idiHiiV, em iy hear!, nusiru t" hear. un.» .ilied in prayie !ler nule aw^.y in peace. At a lati wood at 1.. wholf vtoi-v. He made servant. 'hun- Viilvt© pock-. wotllii n .. till »ave In less than ha if a minute money passed from my possession t.« ti^it of the oi-aicr oi the pistol, whohe eomjianion, luereiv a looker-on, was ready, i i:: 'f hi- Tl. i'tnuk ti l'A i la v Mr. dd Leatiier him the eply, but rang for a.} me the first police- i man you m""*. he said, when the servant! entered. IJy a lew hing questions he drew I out "What minor iact^ iiad before omit- I ted, by wlwch time the servant had return ed with an ollic-r. I supposed the object was put the authorities on the criminal's n k with-' out delay, .fudye of my -i rprise, there lore, at what ibiiowed. I "I give this young man in charge,'' said Mr. Leatherwood. ••He pretends to have been robbed of a considerable sum entrusted to him hut are too suspicious t!* i- tigation.-' "rtaciiy d".' w».- the nevt curt re piv. fii'^e [iretervled roidieiies are an i old dodge an i this one doesn't appear to have been very adroitly planned. For instance how could anyone have known you had the money about youj" i The p"iiceman took my arm. when Mr. i.e.ttherwo.id resumed: "I would not have him s-nt to prison till after ex amination to-moriow. Keep him safely till them and I will see to the expense." Thus, though held in close custody, I was spare i, for the present, th" degrada tion of confinement in jail. I will not prolong this stop, t,y a cital of my feelings till the following af ternoon when I w.'»«s brought before a magistrate. Sir. Musteli, who had been sent for.was the first witness called. His testimony was lull and circumstantial, and true,— every word of it. "Call Mr. McLure," -do the prosecu ting attorney. I started at tie- none. So did Mr. Musteli, even mou: than myself. Hut imagine my amazement when, from an person ap- adjoining room, th pea red who had denti' ii or berv. "Be sworn. Mi Mci.r.t-." -.i: i 7 torney. I could -tl on my-'-: my liberty to iie sworn away oy ti wretches of whom I was the victim "That tion of a Mr. Mc- wlucii there was a pause. "What ^V'W'in Ltrui.|!fit Bob McLure,v Lure?' 1 a Viw. ...1 :,.i" ... -I'l. Darrell "Yes. hei' it. The r»ll of hi duced.every on U I ready for the note. Tell ^»«ld have called b,lt for 2^' as a 8ur p«» pn^. How I had mi«- I would have P()'0f.'y, had I know n how to itotp!teIiiC0Vnte(l out d'ullv f, the money in criflp viorr"tiir»U and new, which I an 'nside iiocket, i a nt)te on tho tahlc ti rOWil,|?late a,Kl 1 ha1 i would reach home at Hr li ^tell came to the gate to see me Was e v i man is one .«{ the viliians who did the deed'' I cvclaimod. "Silenf e 1" shouted the tip-vi.1. The witness, with ncrfei-t cwu.iies. weii us accuracy, narrated every lax as i* occurred. I was nstonnilcd. to see u man thus criminate himself. Hut a few more questions served to eh ar tie- .• h-r up. a detective. know one Sharper a:rested him histn hi- iiv prof- I'hat ••Do v -1 do. What ^'arningly from Mr- i ^lio iinniediately I'omiucted his Jrs to a par: nt' ouse out of liear- :.!l'Ct'n i mrerteiti v A r.i ilav i! an hour Mr. Mu- i ft.Ci v ^ThenSt was thst Mr. Musteli friend cntered^^ O N K I V A N O N Y A K O A \TV\l\)\\\ A Y HE POOH HOLDIEII. A l'h-a, Vn\ fa u my place: wa without u »\tapoji. I had taken no prca-tiim?. for mv vlclejise iOr I i.rto not expeeted to he the hearer i "1 my present charge. Hen: I wa :i. s'.r* u ded spot, it tin mercy d' two .... ~A i tor. ot th« l»nkr uitMoMapue. inn oe asioc. w:nist walking nea, die ma., in M. James Park, as was ^hat'l have doiit ni respect tiie luslnon oi the nobles and lops oi his if }VM\ known how ume, his grace uuserved a midU( -aged ,• gentleman in a half-military gaib. do-fid- J1 When the day lived to- ti o dinner had i arrived, the ofiicer apjteared at Montague Ilou-c, where the duke received him with every sign ol courtesy, ami even re spect: and when he expressed his.surprise at being o honored, the duke took him quietly aside and told him. with an air of great gravity and secrecy, that he had a particular leason l'oi his conduct. "To tell you the plain truth,'' said his grac-, "there is my house a lady who has often seen you, and lias become to much interested in you and your fortunes that she very much wishes for a persona! in terview with you, and i am anxious for reasons of my own, to fall in with her wishes, I'poti my soul, she is a most worthy and excellent lady, and 1 think, mercies of a strange woman—a married 'man, too, as he was, uith children to boot. ILL his perplexity and di.-trcs, there!" re, ne began to mutter his fears that "really there must be some mistake,'' and added, "Some one or other lias been trying to impose oi: your grace, or else on me. I he tact that 1 have a wife down in i orkshire, and she is the oniy person for whom 1 c.re, or ever did care, ami know of no iudv has at. me. "Nev-.'i su-i u ].ied tlic good-natui o iuke: "u harm sh:'.ll happen to you or' y jvi-1 iobow me into the next apart ment', my good friend." And with these words lie led his gue=t into a Mimptucus diniiv'-roon into which he had no soon er entered than he -aw his wife ami his three rosv, cuntriaed children, for whom the duke*had M-iit down into, Yoiksinre, and whom he had brought up to the great metropolis to meet him. At first ne Iciv not only perplexed, but alarmed, for were tnev liis v,-i!e ar.d clnidren, or only their gho.-ts and wraiths.' A ch»?er inspection, howevev. soon icassiired him that the ob tects ol' ill- love .nd allction were pres- :1 surpi is but ous. Here was another Lure was ...... Musteli belonged to t.ie sauic ban'.. ker did. McLure wound himse i inti til iatter's confidence, ami through him secured an introduction to Musteli the .lay 1 called to collect the note-at whu time the scheme was laid to pay the st bills to me, and rob me of them dt. wards to prevent the ilisroycry -an n terprise in which the detective, for rca bons of his own, consented to bear .. i iK'foie him in the lk-sh and before -1 third course of the dinner was over :d men i his an is ^yUb"i^',r i^' Ptudy ol'the t,('ounter,»,i4 Detector. 1 edly the a\cr.s(.M*-ir wear, but exceedingly '.eat and precise witlikl in t!ie c:::t :7nd I -i- i. arrangement of his dress. And it so 'i') The otth'1 is invited and presse Mo-! stay the nigh: at Montague 'House i of returning to his dingy and o i n»o i b! 1 od i n g. ready with an explanation. fudgings. and to spend a day deo'irture. the duke called the poor ofreer into his study, and presented him with a legal document which secured to him a comfortable annuity for life, re marking at the same time that he need ready led no hesitation in accepting it. -You must know,'' added his grace, with unr'V -I am trying, though rather late A Vl W necessity on half pav, by ri'ason of the conclusion of peace. He learned, turiher, th:»t the jioor ollicer had a wife and family down in Yorkshire then nearly a week distant from the m tropo'is— o whom lie s^nt regularly ha!:' pi»y, wh:it he suppo^te-.i himself in I poor lodgings near Cha.-ing Cross upon the re^t. living on from day day in the hope that he might somehow or other obtain an olhce under the Government, or trom the Horse f-b.tanls, whic'. t(i y happened that tsvo or three days runn in a i A\'alkii si"»w!y along the he noticed the poor gentleman walking of Centra! V !k .:r. this c:t v. at the same hour of the day, in the same almost place, with a grave and solemn step, and couple. 'V:dci ::y I'.id oj t.are. liecommg They ted in the ywitiemun'sappearan^c, i sweet caused inquiries to be ,de tlirougli •'inic ht 'He- was o e •••earW to. -liUl- i intuit i the dak about him. and with dfiiculty, one ol his gentlemen, found out iiort'.on of hb privat-? hi gentiem..: irom on= .c ctliern counties, who i life .... i rc in order i'''!H and had j.i rve'l wi'. distiia u-.'i:, i i i. '.'Vf-nts with credit, in more than 'lie foreign countrv, but wat no v pla°ed 1 I id a little to lii^ income. The duke, having assured i.im.!: at the veteran, was worthy of relief, deter mined to make him happv quite in a way of his own so he sent his servant with a polite invitation lor him to come and dine with his grace at Montague llou.-e ^Vliitejlab. Ti:e untortunate o!5 cer stared in ama/.ement, as well he might, at t!rst thinking it was a joke, un til he saw the ducal crest on the top of the sea! of the note, lie soon, how ever, sufficiently recovered Ids self-possession to reply that he thanked the his kindness, and would obey ircumstances mon? at the day and hour named by him ithout iuves- jot the less, however, w^s he io-d I wonder how the duke had found him out, For a year and still more why he had chosen' thus heaven, God i hono 1d,u. :ie Ie., might heard his ca between vou and me, that she looks upon thirteen years passed, and in charitable you with no slight regard/1 actions the .onely widow7 hushed lier The poor oiheer on this began to feel a heart s yearning and at last became re little alarmed: for he did not like the signed to "bide the little time that sep idea of being handed over to the tender arated her ironx those gone before,"' as other widowed mothers ise.sidi! her who Keen :nterest in 1. !»•. in life perhaps, to do the best that I v«'ith that can my monev, of winch I 3mv kl30w what lo do with sure v,,w viore ..s d-:ne .'.self SO. I sfit- that I should not i... •oui' isi'i or wle. avc founil more pleas" trom mv ouflav. IW-ame ll Komaii "luud'r. mother and soi and. past tj.it nv .r :u silver white iiid cnergv iile: young, spirit every feature. inking contrast to the abundant, snow-wiiite iiair tl, r. a-, over ins i.row. -ike crested wili'C.v. an actr. e sea. glows i An ordinary. ..i iver :eadily at the speci devoti"i: xistinj: tweeii tlue two is iilmost paramount worship. Tiiey idolize each other, as oved eafh otner motlicr and son nwc be!"- -die feels that she has recovered he: v child, by a Jod given instinct. lamentable than r.^n- IV rht ii. istunce. The Aithei, or, threw ail oj wii' tee one iiave joined f, the lew remaining soldiers me neither appeared among ture i. missing, or dead. I»ut sands of others passed into oblivion thus in the teariui slaughter, and left only a name in the hearts ol the mourning :ew. The willow applied to the government for news the hospitals and prisons were searched, the death records scanned with the eager, tearless eyes that searched also every face in tattered uniform. Every I cripple II i blessing her boy's sake, that it might rebound upon him living or dead. Thus tiiousan wen :n sit were a few in the garde sr.t leaning Instinct, imys.iology iady to his si fac" beneath in-taut .-.he la !.::11, those longing arms about his neck. "Dear God, timu didst spare my her friends he .rd her cry. And th agony of hear: burst its dried fountain and the shot k u cannon's thunder that had stilled the ooy's intellect was also broken, perhaps by that fervent prayer, and his recognizing eyes awakened to sense again in his mother's arms. Noliler Tluin a to m un- i.r two with his wife and children there er, who had never been in a theatre n. before going home. He lid so, and ex pre.-sed^his deep si nse ol gratitude for the'hospitality so kindly and so unex pectedly shown to him. lew mornincs afterward, when he was packing up his traps preparatory to 1 outh ie ciian w'ii.OiieMSo-u.tu s lis wealth into riel that flowed from .Southern hands ami hearts to sustain their acts and princi ples, and when his iife blood also ebbed with the crimson tide of thousands, the mother clasped her si\teen-yeai-o bov te he: heart and whispered, "I fetid have you and remember, my boy. and be guided through life by therecol!- t.'-n you are the son of a hero." The. proud boy lifted his head ami re plied. "Mother, the son of a hero, and of such a noble mother, is nolongeruchild: lie shall prove to ids country tl nature of his blood." That night t:.e o v was not to join their solitary devotions, but hand she held a slip of paper, agoni/ed prayer tormed only fo. iuke i'or "Cod -pare my boy!' lis sum- Fired \\ith ooyish ambition gone to shoulder a musket to fL n it' need be, to die also, like a her in ::er and her ords :to the lat one cry went up pare my.boy." Then desolating war ended—\ back no more. Xo one The regiment his father headed before •re do ng. jumped and skipped about the room, One day i'le joined a party of friends laughing idiotically, every gleam of m State insane asylum. There teliigence fading from their faces. Mie peered into tne :he silvery hair. The next her knee- .fore1 ghtlv -ped oy: The boy had been captured among -he dead and dying on the battie field, no* hurt but razed with the -icarful scene. Ilis name and purpose was a blank to him. am! the government had placed,, him in an asylum. That is the historv those two white-haired people it: i' .. J7 Mercury. li.oman. incident o. the leading celebrated »ne night I reuiember a whimsical curring in a theatre where member of tlie company was for his magnitifer.t physique he was enacting Yirginius, and his moth her life before, happened on this inva sion to in one ol the boxes. Fresh from her native Yorkshire village, it will be readiiy imagined that she was .s«me what bewildered with the novelty of the scene. When her son appeared, she was amazed at the grandeur of his presence in fleshings, sandals and toga. His ap-j pearance caused a great deal of enlhnsi- share of the valuable tusks of ivory was astie applause. When it had subsided considerable. the proud mother, unable to restrain her self, and to the astonishment of ail IT'S an easy thing, we are informed around her, said "I'm "So glad you like bv J. Joshua Jenkins, to bear the tooth* him. He's my son." Whereupon the aehe in the jaw of your neighbor. NO. rn an. He would liavt •lieeman."— 77/ IV u e o i mother '.»»iean e ti:',: center of attra and one admirer cxclaiined, l^Veb, Ma vour Ho dame, you may well b,1 proud of son, for he looks as god-like as a man." "Ah," sighed the poor obi lady in reply, "I don't want him to be Ko- ked sp!( Marnz ndid A CHEMIST S COURAGE. Ant'C'iUitis Ulu-ira'in^ Sir IlmnjjJii'cy Davy's Daring. I siime nuua! and physical courage u. :i Davy displayed in his youth, by de.iberately taking out his pocket-knife, and excising a part ot his leg which had iecn 'oitten by a mat! dog, and cauteri ing the wound with his, own hands, was exhibited in his chemical investigations. His discovery that nitrous gas, the vapor ••t' aqualortis, is not injurious to the health, resulted from experiments OR his feiwn life. He obtained the gas in a -tate of purity, and though very well aware of the danger he ran if the received theory I its deadly powers were true, wdiit detuoK'd, he resolved to inhale it pure form. f!rad :«diy increasing ii ho ii its dose, he ultimately succeeded in breath ing four quarts ol the gas from and into a sak bug. He experienced a giddiness accompanied with loss of sensation and voli-tien, a state analogous to intoxica tion, "attended," as he says, u by a highly pleasurable thrilling the chest, and limbs. The objects .around became daz zling and my hearing more acute. To ward the last inspiration the sense of muscular power became greater, and ft .ast an irresistible piopcnsity to action was indulged in. My gesticulations were various and violent. In ten min utes I hud recovered my natural state of mind.'" And what arc we to say of the daring of the following experiment, at which ho was again operator and subject? He was curious to know what clicet drink would have on a person under the influence of this gas. He drank a bottle of wine about eight minutes. "I perceived,"1 says he, "a sense of fullness the head and throbbing of the arteries. I lost the power of speech and was unable to stand steady. In an hour I sank into a state of insensibility, which I remained for two hours and a hall. 1 was awakened i.er lioy came hy severe headache and nausea, and my had seen him. •'hn.lily mental debility were e.xces In this state I bre-ithrr sire, ve ouarts he imagined her son ol" gas lora minute and a naif, but it He had not been must have been impure, fer it had no eftect." He then respired twelve quarts of oxygen for nearly four minute?, without any material change in his sen sations. The severe headache continuing1 he respired seven quarts of pure nitrous oxide lor two and a half minutes. After the third.respiration the headache van ished. Brilliant ideas passed through his mind. He jumped and danced across the loom, but languor and depression succcf ded, which gradually wore of? fo ray received her ward evening. said the 10 u- In his treatise "Concerning Nitrous Oxide," he records its amusing eflect on several of Ins friends. One of them danced about like a spinning top, and got so pugnacious that he struck at whoever happened to be near him. Its influence on such chneen souls as Coleridge and Southey was by no means brilliant. They and skipped about the The experiment upon himself, by which Davy proved that hvdrocarbonate acts as harmless"' patients sitting i. One wiiitcdmircd man. against a tree alone. a sedative, was fearfully daring. It whatever science or i no foolhardy bravado that was the may call it, led the tive power with him, but the love of ii1. She peered info the I entitle investigation. He savs he anxious to compare effects with those nitrous oxide. Emboldened by first experiment, from which felt no excessively painful results, introduced lo: was no sci- was ot a h# he marts ot gas into a long i silk bag. After a forced exhaustion of the 1 tings, and the nose being accurately closed, he made three breathings of the hvdrocarbonate. The lir-t produced a feeling of numbness: the second tooic away the po.\ er of vision and enfeebled the other -enses: the third sent lnm away in a swoon and just left him power to throw away the tube from ids lips. After a short interval ho recovered a little, and was able to whisper, "I don't think I shall die." i'la^Mig 17-. finger on his wrist, he found Ids pui.sv beating with excessive .uickness. In about a minute he was abic to walk, but lor an hour was weak and giddv. and conscious of a pain .ue or/hi* -t. 1 Great illej.lumt Hunt. A missionary living among tho Dutcl r.ocrs oi Natal says that a hunting party came upon a large herd of clo uts, and, as they lired at the leader. the entire herd fled. They were in a vaL'ev, and, in. trying to escape, they ran around in a circle .'50(1 yards in di ameter, and were shot down. After a w:dle a new leader broke out of the beaten track, and led off tho remainder of the herd in safety. Ninety elephants lay dead in the valley, and each man's