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VOL. XXXVII.
MONTPELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1SS0.
N. 13".
The History or American Party Names.
In tin? j ears immediately preceding the
revolut'u n the Knlili party nanus of
whg ami tory camu iuto use in litis coun
try the limner being adopted by tho.-e
woo in ciiiiinou w illi tliu liritisb wliigs
resisted the oppression of Iho co'ortd colo
nies, am! tlm latlrr being applied in re
proach 10 those who called thi-uisnlvts
loyalists. Individuals xvere also failed
torics xvho sided with tiin mother county1
in the war of 1812. hut there K'Vit a
any organization calling itself li ry among
us."
At tin" close of tho revolution American
political parties proper were lir.-t devel
oped under Uie nanus of federalists, ami
tho niiti-fciloralists, who wished fir a
leTigue of convenience In tween thirteen
independent republics. Tim niloplion ol
n new constitution was a triumph of the
federalists, ami they continued in power
through the trto administrations of Wash
ington ami tlie one of John Adams.
About ihe year 17D2 llio name of nnli-fedcrali-ts
was adopted at Ji flei soh's sug
gestion, ami i hat ol republican adopted in
HI place. This party elected liini vice
president with Adams in 17!Mi ami p;c.-i
dent in ism I, ami again in 180-1. It al.-o
' elected Madison in 1Mb", ami again in
1812, ami Monroe, in lis2U.
During .JclVcrsoifs second administra
tion, John Kindolpli bolted froin llio re
publicans, ami toil over to this support of
the fcdeialisls a short-lived faction popn
larly known as " quids." Ill" federalists
called tlieir opponents democrats a uunii
for whioli they ha.l no liking ami
"Jacobin"," while tho republicans re
torted with " lilack Cockad federalists.''
The federals Indium unpopular through
tbeir opposition to the war with England,
and its close in 1815 marked their virtual
extinction, although they made a show ol
supporting Rules K ng against Monroe in
lblti. Monroe's election in lb20 was
without opposition, and then came Ihe
. "era of go id feeling." In 182-1 there w as
no party organizations, and there was no
election of presidents by the people. John
Quincy Adams was chosen by the Mouse
Irom anions the highest candidates in the
following February. Dining his adminis
tration the friends of Jackson, who hail
received a larger number of popular voli s
than Adams, assumed the name of demo
(-rats, and ihe Adams men became known
ks national republicans. The democrats
.elected Jackson in 1828, and again in
1832, Van llurcn in 183o, l'olk in 1.814.
Fierce in 18o2, and Buchanan in 1850.
S During Jackson's first term, the anti
luasouie j arty acquired a 'national im
portance, ami, in l'rl!2, cast their votes fur
William Wirt. Henry Clay being till! na
tional republican candidate- In tin) course
of Jackson's second aihninisiruiioli, I In-
national republicans adopted the name ol
' wliigs, ami put up (ion. Harrison lor their
candidate at the coming election of 1830
'Four yeais later they doted him, as iln-y
,ilid Gen. lay lor in 1818 Upon '.hen
'j f.iiime to eh ot Gen. Seoll in li2, Horace
A Greeley declared the parly to be dead, anil
I so it tirovcil to be, although individual
old line whiga" are exuiul to this day.
I Tho abolitionists never loi nied a ili-uiicl
1 political .:ii'iy, bttt ihcir iliclriues cau.e
into prominence ill 18oj. and in 18-11) the
,5 liberty pany supported Janus G. linney
i for the president. a they did again in
f ISM w ith the kite Dr. En Moine for vice
jirisident. In 1818 the ami slavery men
i look the name of free-soilei's iiickiitinn d
1 ' liiiriihui tiers,'' nnd supported Martin
'Vail liuicli nnd Chtirh s Francis A.l;nos lor
pri sideia ami vice president. The rc.-itil
was the ilcleal of Van liitren's enemy.
Gen Cas, and tho last n itinipli of the
-wliigs. In I.SjJ the free-soil democrats
- supported Juhu 1'. ll.ile lor presiil in.
. lu 18j;j-j-l the northern liigs, ol' whom
' Greeley was, more than any other man.
'tbo leader, gave up lli -ir old names and
came to he known as nnli-Ncbra'kn men.
j! Tlie southei'ii wliigs held on to their name
J a few eais lo"gu', with nothing except
f thai to distinguish them Irom democrats
I lu lsoo-oti the anti-Nebraska men .nnd
fice-soilcrs were merged under the 11:11111
t of republicans, and nominated John C
Fremont against litichanaii. Their first
i national success was tho election of Ein
:;coln in 1800.
'f In 1852 the American pirly, popularly
'called kuow-uoihings, sprung up, and in
185b they gave lo Millard Filiuore enough
Jvoles to defeat Ft'eiuout. In 180'd, the
s dt moerais having split into two factions
I headed by lhcckinridge and Douglass, ihe
remnant of the southern whigs and of
! li-e Americans made up the constitutional
- 1111 It 1)1 parly which supported the Bell and
- Everett ticket. In lb7i ihe liberal reptih-
licans, who were opposed lo the re-election
4 of Gen. Grant, nominated Horace Greeley
S lor picsiiloiit, and a small democratic 1 10-
lion met tit Louisville and nominated
j (Jbas. O'L'onor.
The national greenback party held
convention at Indianapolis in 1870 11ml
nominated I'eler Cooper tor president aad
' Sam F. Gary for vice. Vhkuyo Tribune.
Tun Adams Family. Charles Francis
Adams is a late hour man. He likes to
sit up half Ihe night, reading or writing,
ns be feels inclined. He has three sons,
Charles Francis, Jr., a well known writer
on railroad topics; John (Juiucy, popular
ly known as "Jack'' Adams, and who
possesses mote of the Adams look than the
other sons; Iirooks Adams, a red hot dem
ocrat, who wanted Mr. Tihlen sworn in at
New York, and then ra rch on to Wash
ington. He is ti handsome fellow, bright,
positive nn I with a liberal dose of what
the Springfield Hepublicim calls that
choleric old pepper pot, " John Adams "
All the Ad umes look as if they enjoyed
their nnrning tub us keenly as did iln-ir
pie.-idei.tial graiiilfatlo r his winter mm 11
ing's plui'ge into the lYtoniac. They have
a ruddy, well groomed look, and all earn
tlieir own living, a matter upon which
their father is "eoiisidtrahlys.nl," to use
the rural New Kngland phrase. " Mill
ions to inherit, and not a cent for subsist
ence," is the Adams ni'itlo. It is a good
slock, til il of the Adamses, nnd the fourth
generation is as keenly intellectual nnd as
,ull of vigor us the firs!. Home Journal.
TiiiKtiS Easy and Nor Easy. It is the
easiest thing in the world to liml fault. It
is easy tosav the church is to blame for it.
It is easy to say lliat the church xvotild he
all right if the minister would preach and
do as lie ought. Rill it isn't easy to look on
the best side, to see I hat there are hundreds
of faihful preachers, thousand of honest,
sincere men and women, countless acts of
justice, charily and humanity, ivhieh
outweigh all tlio grumbling of all the
grumblers so that it is really only the finest
dust in tho bitlai ce. Eet us be fair and
cheerful, 'ihe world is not all wron
Eevrybody isn't a rascal. Our neighbors
are not trying to cheat us. The church is
doing a good work for the world, and even
the growlers are not half ns disagreeable
as they seem
Home Isfi.uf.xces. Many persons res
olutely put all the pictty ornaments they
possess from sight, look them up in draw
ers or closets, whereas they should put
them in ihe most conspicu ms places m
tlie living rooms of the house. Th"y have
a certain cheoiing ami educational influ
ence bv no means to lie donoised . They
indirectly mold character iiichilJren and
keep up it eheerltil aspect about riome.
Reauty is refiningand improving In nil its
elements.
Tiik Czau's Winter I'ai.ace. A quoor,
story is told ol the wimer palace ol tlie
czar, which may be given na illustrating i,.(.Si f,-olu ong custom, ,f the solemn si
the gieat exl-nt of the place, and the ; nji,.anCB f tho letters he was ciiiting in
l,osii,i!ities of mischief it aftords. In the whUu 111:lr,u. Tho Juno sun was
lime of Xiciiohis. Ihe father ol ihe preeiii !le.u.y .M end of the day's journey.
czar, a nuiuoer ol sentries wei e posien on
ho i oof to en ml
mist lire or Iocs.
l'lndiair the dun ale up there not allogelh
i r so comlortal'lc as could bo wished, this
permanent watch at length connived to
convey on to the roof the materials for a
number of huts or cabins, which in course
of lime tt.cy erected under the shelter of
the chimin v slacks. So snug and eoz
,ii,l tie y manage to make themselves, that
it at length occurred to llio married men
amoi g iheiii that, as theie was plenty of
room up there, they might as well enlarge
their isialdi-lnneuts. Accordingly wives
and families, one after another, found their
way out on to the imperial leads. Several
of tlie singla men ol the guard, finding
such a tempting- opportunity of seftmg up
hou-ekecping economically, look wives lo
themselves, and after a while quite a con
siderable colony had sprung up. How far
the development might have gone on if
the individuals composing the parastic
little village had been reasonably cautious
and carelui in their behavior it is difficult
to guess; but llie establishment of families
among the chimneys ol the palace led
giadtially to the accumulation of domestic
animals. Fowls multiplied amazingly,
and goats bee .into numerous and nourished
so well ill the bracing atmosphere that at
length it was suggested that a cow might
conveniently be added to the farm stock,
llww the animal was clcvaled we are not
infoi'ined, but it is slated as a fact that it
was by some means hoisted to the roof,
.and wits eventual ly the ruin of tho com
munity. The lowing of the cow camo to a
certain official's ears, and led to an inves
tigation and the total breaking lip of the
queer little society. Even at that time it
is said that, the Russian emperor felt so
little coi'lidcncc in his personal security
that nobody ever knew in which bed room
he was going to sleep. A large number
were always kept ready and imoeciipied,
and at bed linn: tho czar would quietly
-lip into any one ol tlicui Seleeled at the
moment. The winter palace is described
as the largest palace in the world, bein
one-third larger than that ol tlm emperor
ol Austria, anil unsurpassed in pomi 01
splendor It is the residence ot tne czar
on the 'ofi bank of ibe Neva, on the site
of a hoii-e which, in lhc reign of Peter
ihe Great, belonged to his high admiral,
(Jaunt Apraxin, who bequeathed it lo
Peter II U was so completely destroyed
bv lire in l.s:; lliat it was necessary to
rebuild n, and imu ol tho not least re
markable fieis connected with it is lhatils
present form was the work of two short
years. The palace is four stories high, or
about eighty fret Tile frontage IS 465
tool in length, and the breadth is Dot) feel,
Tne in ii.ciiial entrance is from the Neva.
and lends bv a magnificent flight of mar
ble steps lo the slale apartments of Hie
palace. A gate :iy, ill the centre of ihe
building facing Alexander's column, opens
into a large court. The most magnificent
apartments are the throne room of Peter
I., w here tlie diplomatic corps generally
present tlieir congraiuiair ns on
tear's day; thu While Hall; the Hall ol
St. George a ir illelogra n of 110 feel
by (it) Icet ; the Gill. 'ryot the Field Mar
shals, and the Alexander Gallery. The
interior is most gorgeous, suites f splen
did h.alls being li. led with nimble, mala
chite, v.i-cs and pictures; whilst lhc crow n
ami o her jewels are of almost inestimable
value.
Tnr. Di.siiin or riiK I'vieamius. It may
not lie aims- 10 notion, here the work of
Protes-or I'iazzi Smith in which he says
thegtcit pvritnid was not a royal tomb,
but "was buiit lo preserve usli onoiuical
lata; and that the s.ipposed sarcophagus
in "ih') kind's chamber " never held thu
liodv of Ktml'ii. Init was made for a met
ric:'! -tnndard. This eminent inathemati
ci 111 li is aUetnp'.eil lo prove that the king
used all Ihe resources of a reign in erect-
in a bile live hundred feet high in order
lo m ike clear lo future ages the points ol
the coinpiss and the precise length of a
lewish cubit; and all this ages before the
Jews had been " evolved." Dr. linigseh
iiDivheio alhi'l'ts 10 his ingenious folly,
that wu remember; but in the course of
his work thu design of the pyramids is
placed lievond controversy. The names
of the principal pyramids are significant
lii-lt. lite coot: xvo-se-iii
the purest of
places; Klia bi. the rising of souls; Men
setn, the lii 111 place; Miter-seiu, tne most
1 oly place; Nolcr-sotu, tlio most Dcatltllul
place; Tat-situ, the most la-ting place;
Mcimiikli, the inn of life; Kha-nofi r. the
'ood rising; En, the soul. These names
tow thai the kings knew what they were-
building. In the early ages every Fhnr-': )mi n uit of temper in her, though noth
auli set about constructing his px raiuid as ! ; to mvm.
soon its he was croxvnetl. Eater, when j "when Hiram made his first voyage, for
these piles hail become numerous, it xvas ; they Wero nil seafaring men horeaooiits,
the custom to make a chamber in the rock nnti t.ru Wus nuihing for a lad to do but
for a tomb. sliitj, uiul l'earl was just a little xvashed-
(Jne inscription relates Iho eeremony of
placing the embalmed bony of a king in
his stone coflin in tho hearlof Ins pyimnut.
His son ami successor spent a long lutio
alone xvith tht! mortal remains ; then he1
came out and ".shut the doors, laying seal-1
ing earth upon them, and pressed upon
them hisown royaUeal, thus commanding
the priest-: ' 1, 1 have completed the lock-
ing up; no other of any kings shall any
more cuter in.' " . !
There is undoubtedly evidence of great'
mathematical kuowledgo ill the construe- j
lion of the great pyramid. Rut because 1
seven hundred and fifty-six. the number of .
feel in the length of one side happens to
be a multiple of the mean diameter of the
earth, it is rather a violent mieicnee to as-
si it III 11 the court architect was acquaint
ed with that diameter. For xve know hoxv
the pyramids xvere made; and If Kliufu
ha.l lived another year the pyramid xvould
have been larger by one course of stone on
each side. It is not. doubled that The
Lights (originally so called, perhaps, he-
cause 1 r.caseil 111 xviuie murine) was
loinh, like all the others, a wonderful
tomb, doubtless, but still a tomb, mid
nolhing el-e. When the pyramid Was
finished there coulil have been no access
1.1 in" nip eimor 110111 xv 11110111 in irom
within, ami the theory of Professor I'roe-
tor thai it xvas used as nn observatory ap.
pears to be baseless. Without telescopes
ami oilier iiistruuieius 01 run astronomer,
.in elevated pldloi ui xvoulil have been
liltle service. I'nficu II. Uiukrwood, in
Allmdia. .
'
Roys, KEMF.MBF.lt Tills. If you speak
r,, ,.,hi u,,f.i ,0 ihit ri.riit time- if
..,1!. ,...r,ii 1,. i...vo iH.i,lo i!ih
'"ood inipres-ion; if vou do not trespass
upon tlm rights of others; if you always
think of o hers as well as yourself; if you
.1 1 ,o v'vs.,ifi,rliilv'f,iriv.ir,l! if von
do not forget the courtesies which belong
lo your potion, you aro quite sure to,
accomplish much in life which otherr with !
equal abilities fail to do. This is where
ilm .,.. Is not lo 1I11. mvift. nm- I he halt la In I
t), i,.,,nu- It is whern von make neonln
t,.,.l that vou .,! unselfish and honornblH
and U Mihful nnd sincere. This is what
,,ei,.iu ! look-bur for in men and it
astonishing how much men are able
win for Self-respect and sueeess and use
fulness.who possess theso qualities of good
breeding. It is almost thu turning point'
of success in practical lifo. I
1
Tho Slouc-Cullcrs's Slory.
ne wag wiitlin' over his work, care-
Uint,,, s0w1t to rest upon the bosom of
tlu ,r0!l, Atlantic, whose waves wa-hetl
the shores ot the iittle seaport tovvu ot
Monk I on
A stranger handsomely dress-
ed in cray. wiih luge, lustrous brown
c-.es. came 10 the fence that was around '
tiie vard where the stone-cutler worked.
mill read the lettering almost completed,
upon the tombstone:
HIRAM GOEDBV,
Aged 35,
LOST AT SKA, JANUARY- 18G0.
The last six was nearly completed. A
strange pallor gathered for a moment upon
Ihe stranger's face, and then he drew n
lontr, deep breath, and said
" Is not ten years a long time to be cut
ling Ic.lers on a tombstone, friend? '
Eh, sit ?''
The stone-cutter looked, shaded his eyes
with bis brown hand, as he turned his face
to the selling sun.
" This is 187C," was the gravo roply,
' and Hi rani Goldby must have been till
)ears tinder the waves."
" WV'll, sir, that's tho question is he
there? '
" Is he there?" Ycur slone tells us he
is, nnd has been for teu years.''
' Yes, sir, so it does so it does. And
yet she has ordered it. She came over a
week or so back with a worried look upon
her sweet face that I have never seen any
thing but palienl in ten long years, and
she said to me ' You may cut n stone,
Davy, sho says, ant! put it up in the
church-yard, anil I don't want to see it.
I'll pay you whatever you choose to ask,
Davy,' she says; 'but lie's not dead, ami
dou't want a tombstone.' ' Eor, mum,'
says I, ' he'd a turned up all these years if
he was not dead.' Rut she shook her pret
ty head, the prettiest I have ever seen,
sir, and she said: 'My heart never told
me that he was dead, Davy, anil I'll never
believo il till my heart tells me so.' "
" His sweetheart?" questioned the
stranger.
" His wife, sir his loving, faithful
wife, that's had poverty, ami loneliness,
and misery, her full share, and might ha'
bettered herself."
" ilow was that?"
" Air. Miles, sir, the richest shipowner
hereabouts; he waited patiently for seven
long years, trying to win her. Then ho
-aid that she was free, even if Hiram came
back."
"Enoch Ardeu," muttered thu stranger.
" What did you say, sir?''
" Nothing, nothing. What answer did
the willow make, Mr. Miles?"
" ' If lliiam's dead,' said she. ' I'm his
faithful witlow while I live. If Hiram's
living, I'm his faithful wife.' Maybu you
are from the city, sir, and have heard the
story of our I'ei'rl ?"
""What story is that?"
" Well, sir, it's Deen told many times,
more pai ticul 11 ly in tlie last year, lull
you re we come 10 what I know of it.
There, Unit six is done, and I'll leave ihe
Script iiro text lilt morning. 1,' you'll
come to the gateway ami take a seat on
some of the stones, I'll tell you, that is if
you care to hear it."
" I do care," was the grave reply; " I
want very much to liear ihe story. ''
" .Uayoe you re soinu km to thu l'earl ot
Monklon that's what they call Mrs.
Goldby hereabouts. E is a matter of thiriy
tinee iears back, sir, that there was a
wreck oil' Monklon rocks, that you can see
from lien-., sir, now tliai 1I10 tide s low
(li uel rooks, they are, nnd mi.iiy a wreck
they've seen, the more the pity. You see
them, it ?"
" 1 see them."
" Well, sir, this one wreck, thirty-three
years ago, there was nothing washed
a-lkiie bill a bit of a baby-girl three or
lour years old, w ith 11 skin like lily leaf,
and ureal black eyes. Hiram Goldby
found her 011 the rocks. lie was a boy of
twelve years, strong and tall, and he car
ried the child in bis anus to his mother.
You may see the cottage, sir, the second
while one on the side of the hill."
" I see it."
' Well, Hiram took the baby there, and
Mrs. Goldby was the same as mother to
her a good woman. God bless her soul
the Witlow Gohloy."
Is she dead, then?"
" Aye, sir, six years ngone. The baby
I was telling you of, sir, talked a foreign
lingo, and was dressed in rich clothes,
tletl. 111 list lmvn cost a newer of inolinv.
j;ul ni;vl,r would Hiram or the widow sell
them, putting them up carefully in ease
,w (.,,it waa uvur iuukL.,j for
she was
that pretty, sir, and that dainty, thai every
body called her l'earl, though she was not
like our girls, but afraid, always deadly
ifraid of the sea. I have seen her clench
her mite of a hand and striku at it, fur she
1 out a-fretting until he camo home
1 strain. And it was so xvheuover he went,
. rm. t1(.v wero sweelhearts from the first
time hti nestletl her baby face on his breast,
when he picked her up from the wreck,
gile Wils sixteen when she was married, as
ncar as we coulil cuess ; Hiram xvas a man
; f twenty-four. She prayed him stay at
l0lue then, and he staid a year, but he
fretted for tho sea, and ho went again,
thinking, I spose, that his xvifo vvould get
usu,i jIill3 ,,u wives hereabouts must do.
i(ut sho never did. Il xvas just pitiable
u, se0 ;r j,0 about as white as a corpse,
xvhen Iliram went away, never looking
t il0 80a xvithout a shudder like a death
chill. All through tlm war it was just
awful, for Hiram enlisted on board a man-
o -xvar, and t'earl xvas just a shadow when
he camo home the last time."
"After the war?"
"Yes, sir; but he made no money of any
account, and so he went again, alter slay
ing at home a long time. Well, he never
oame back. 'Twasn't no manner of use
a a-lelling l'earl lie xvas lost; shed just
shake her pretty head and say : He'll come
hack.' Not a mite of mourning would she
xvear even after his own mother save him
up and put on black ; for. sir, it stands lo
reason no s ueau years ago.
"It seems bo,"
Of course it does; nolxody else doubts
it but Mrs. Goldby. Old Mrs. Goldby's
last words were,'l in going to meet Iliram
of and they pay the dying know. Rut even
then that did not make Pearl think so. She
; wore mourning for her who had been the
I only mother she had knowed of, but no
weeds, Weeds xvas fur widows.Bhe said, and
she wasn't a witlow."
" Rui the stone!"
"Well, sir, I'm coming to that. A year
ago, sir, a unu gemiiemnn 110111 trance
came here hunting lor a child lost on this
coast. He heard of Pearl by happen
chances, il there Is such a tiling, and came
"'' . .whn saw tha clothes he just
. Minted like a woman.
"She wss related, then?
I The stranger's voice was husky, but the
'' lr w" K'"w.'"j,
" ller 'aluurt 8"'-
" look, ner wy '''
" H ti led to. He told hor of a Splell
did home he had in New York, for he'd
followed his wife to a boi.ne they had never
reached. Ho was neb and lonely. Ho
lit begged her U) go, but she would not. 'Hi
to ''" " "
...Ol - I- ..... t l. 1.1 .. I
He win una mo where ne leit me.'
"On what has Bhe lived !
"Sewing, sir. mostly. The cottage was
old Mrs. Goldby's and bless you, Pearl
did not eat much more than a bird, and
bcr dresses cost next to nothing, litit
w,,'rei! " "lenyiny; sno was very poor
very, and yet the grand house and big
fortune never tempted her. Si her father
came on nnd on to see her, until April.
And he died, sir, mid left our l'earl all his
fortune nnd Ihe big house in New York.
Hut she'll not go, sir, she'll die here, wait
ing for Hii Hiu, who'll never come."
, in" T .'. 1,1:1 ":lu
"een :.n mauen 111 ins uniiti am sa ,1 :
1 ,'l1ru WI,S a I ' w.c c k in the Pacific
ocu:,n - l).'Ty- J0-"8 '"M1 yu"' !!?' ''" 0,'
m m only was saved saved, Davy, by
savages, who made him a slave, the worst
of slaves! lint one day this sailor saved
tho life of the chief's daughter, who was in
thu coils of a huge snake, ami the chief
released him. More than that, he gave
biiu choice spices and woods, and sent him
aboard the first passing ship. So the
sudor landed in a great city, sold his
presents and put the gold in safe keeping
Then he traveled till he reached the sea
port town where he was born, and coming
there at gun-et, heard the story of his life
from the lips of a m m cutting his tomb
stone.' Not a word spoko Davy. Standing
erect, he seized an immense sledge ham
mer, and with powerful blows from strong,! l""""ul "a "l,u"' T u' , .
uplilted arms, dashed Ihe marble inUW! f !Uul th W"'"W "
Iragmenls. Then, panting with exertion,
he hehl out his braxvey hand to tho stran
ger a stranger no longer.
" I've done no better work in my life
than I've done in thu last live minutes,
Iliram Go home, man, and make 1'earl's
heart glad. She don't need it, Iliram, she
don't need it. The neighbors drove her
to ordering it, twitting her that now sho
was rich she grudged the stone to her hus
band's memory. So she told mo to cut it,
but says, ' Don't put dead upon it, Davy
put lost at sea; tor iliram s lost, but tie II
be found and come back tra me.' She
never looked at it, Hiram, never. And
there's not an hour, nor hasn't been for ten
years, that she hasn't been looking for you
10 come back. Go to her, man, ami the
Lord's blessing be upon both of you."
00, grasping tne nam, Drown Hand,
Hiram Goulhy took the path lo Ihe liltle
while collage in w hich he had been bom
forty-live years before. The sun had sot
and tho d arkness was gathering, but a lit
tle gleam ol light streamed fiom tho xvin
dow of iiis cotingo. lie drew near softly,
and standing on the seat of the porch,
looking over the half curtain into thu
neat, but poor sitting room.
" It was not the grand house, Pearl's
heritage in New Yol k, but l'earl herself
was there. A slender woman, wiih a pale,
sweet face, and black hair sue othly hand
ed and gathered into rich braids at the
back of her shapely ncad. Her dress xvas
a plain dark one, xvith white ruffles, cull's,
and an apron.
Sho had been sexving, but her work xvas
put aside, and ptesetitly she came to the
open xvindow ami drew aside the curtain.
Shu diil not ee Ihe tall figure drawn clo-e-ly
against the wall in the narrow porch;
but her dark eyes looked mournfully to
ward the sea. glimmering in 111" half light.
"My dulling!" she whi-pered, "are
you dead, and has your spirit come to lake
mine where we shall part 110 more?''
Only the xvash of llio xvaves below an
swered her. Sighing soi'tlv. she said:
' Is luv darling coining? I feel him so
near me I could aim. 1st grasp him. '
She stretched on, her arms over the low
window -ill, and a low voice answered
her: " l'earl! l'earl!"
The arms that had so long grasped only
empty air were filled then, as Hiram stood
under the low window.
" Do not niovo. love," she whispered,
pressing her soli lips lo his; "I always
xvaki) when you move.''
" liul now." he said, "you are already
awake. See, l'earl, your trust xvas Heaven
given. Il is myself, your fond, true hus
b.nd, little one, xvlio xvill never leave yon
again."
" It is true! You have come!'' she cried
at last, bursting inlo a torrent of happy
tears. "I knew you were not dead. You
couldn't be ldcad. and my heart not tell
mo."
It was long before they could think of
anything but the happiness ol a reunion
after the many years of separation, but at
last, drawing l'earl closer.Hiram xvliisper-
etl: " I walked from J , and am enor
mously hungry."
And 1 earl's merry laugh chased the
last shadows from her happy face, and
she bustled about the room preparing sup
per. " Supper for two!'' she cried gleefully.
The grand house in Xew York is tenant
ed by its owners, ami Hiram goes to sea
no more; hut 111 the summer lime two
happy pcoplu come for a quiul month to
thu white collage at Monklon, and have
always lo listen to Davy's tale of the even
ing xvhen he xvas cutting Iliram Gohlhy's
tombstone, and ended by smashing it into
atoms.
"For," is the invariable ending of the
tale, "l'earl xvas right anil wexveto xvron"
all of us; for Hiram Goldby xvas lost al
sea, sure enough, nut lie xvas not dead,
ami he came 10 her faithful love as she
always said he xvould."
The New Rannek. Upon the declara
tion of war in 181l' tho town military
authorities re-organized by the election of
new officers and a general brushing up of
accoutrements. Just before the battle ot
Plaltshurg a town company in that vicini
ty elected a stalwart but rather illiterate
lellow by the ntitiid ol Jonathan Pillsbury
captain. He lull that the eyes of the
whole state ol .New York xvere upon hi til.
He encouraged his Aimpiny to bo brave
in the coming battle. Hu ub'sured them
that ho would " behead them as long ns
there was a man of them left, ami that his
own name xvoulil go down to posterity."
The banner of the company had emblazon
ed 11 11011 its folds, in addition to the stars
and stripes, the emblematic eagle, folding
in Us nitons the legendarv scroll, " J-j
Pluribtts Unuin."
The captain eyed the eaglo xvith admira
tion, but was puzzled at the significance
of tho motto. Seeking light ujon the
suhject ho was informed by a wag that il
was the name ot the first captain ol the
company. A bright thought dawned upon
the uncultivated mind ot Captain Pills
bury, lie quietly look the flag lo a sign
punter, and Had the name of the " hrst
captain '' obliterated, and his own subsli
luted, and thai company rushed into the
fight bearing a banner wiih that strango
device, " E. Jonathan Pillsbury."
An Indian Preacher's Gravis. Tho
grave of an Indian aHstle, St. Aopinquid,
is on a high hill at York, Me. I In. was
oonverted and passed (if y years in preach
ing to the sixty-six Indian tribes of the
country, and (lied on the first of May,
1662, at thu age ot nlnety-miir. tits fun
eral whs conducted with great pomp, and
the Indians sacrificed 25 books, 67 does, 3
ermines, 22 hnffaloes, 110 ferrets.833 mar
tens, 210 wolves, 83 wildcats, 492 foxes,
620 heavers, 400 li-hes. 9J hnars.Uti moose,
50 weasels, I'M) ottors, 52 raccoons, 112
rattlesnakes. 2 catamounts. 900 musquash
es, 69 woodchneks, U500 minks and 58
poroupineg. uis toombstona beaM the
inscription :
F-reBGUt, useful; absent, waaterl;
ttived, desired; died, lamented.
I'ackhone and Grit.
" The sfiig.i has gono, sir, but there's a
widow lives here, and she's got 11 boy, and
he'll drive you over, lie's a nice little fel
low, nnd Deacon Rail lets him havo his
leant for a tritle, nnd we like to get him a
job when we can."
It was a hot (lay in July. Away up
among the hills that make the lower slope
of the Monadnock mountain, a friend lay
very ill. In order to reach his temporary
home one must take an early train to the
nearest station, nnd trust to ihe liimbeiing
old coach that made a daily trip to K .
The train was late; the siago after wailing
some time was gone. The landlord of the
little white hotel appeared in his shirt
sleeves nnd leaning his elbow on the bal
cony rail, dropped down on tho hot and
thirsty traveler what comfort could be
extracted from the opening sentenco of
my sketch.
' Would lie not come in ami have some
dinner?" " Yes." " Would he send for
the deacon's team?" "Yes" " Ami the
boy?'' "Yes."
And the dinner was eaten and the team
came round an open buggy and an old
white ItorsH, nnd just as wo wern boi ted
. 1... .1 r 1.. 1 1 . . u -
boy.'
In his mouth was the last morsel of his
dinner; he had evidently learned how to
" eal and run." His feet were clad in last
winter's much worn boots, xvhose wrink
led legs refused to stay within the limits
of his narroxv and faded trousers. As his
legs llexv forward his arms ftoxv backward
in an inollentual struggle to get himself
inside of a jacket much loo short in the
sleeves.
" There he is," said the hostler, "that's
tho Widow Beetle's boy. I tol l him I'd
hold the home while ho went homo to get
a bite."
The horse did not look as if he needed
to be held, but the hostler got his dime,
ami the boy approached in lime to relieve
my mind as to whether he would conquer
the picket or the jacket xvoulil conquer
him ami turn him wrong side out.
He xx'ns sun burned and freckled, huge-
mouthed anil red-haired a homely, plain,
wretched little Yankee boy; ami yei, ns
xvo rode through the deep summer bloom
rut fragrance of the shaded road, xvindmg
up the long hills in the glow of tho after
noon sun, 1 learned sucii a lesson Irom the
little fellow as I shall not soon forget.
He did not look much like a preacher ns
ho sat stooping forward a little, whisking
the Hies from the deacon s horse, but his
sermon xvas one which I wish might have
been heard by all the boys in tho land.
As it was I had 10 spur him on noxv and
then by questions to get him to tell about
liunsell.
" My father died, vou sen, and loft my
mother the little broxvn house opposite the
tavern. You saw it didn't you, sir, tho
one xvith the lilao bushes under tho win
dow? Father xvas sick a long time, and
when he could not work ho had to raise
money 011 the house. Deacon Rail let him
have it, a little at a time, and when father
was gono mother found the money owed
xvas almost three hundred dollars. At
first she thought sho would have to give
up the house, but the deacon said, Eet it
xvait awhile,' and be turned and patted me
on the head, and said, ' When Johnny
gets big enough to earn something I shall
expect him to pay it.' I xvas only nine
then, but I am thirteen now; I remember
ed it, ami I remember mother cried, and
said, Yes, Deacon, Johnny is my only
hope now;' and I wondered and wondered
what work I could do. I reallv felt as if
I ought to begin at once, but I couldn't
think of anything to do."
" Well, what did you do?" I asked
quickly, for I was afraid he xvould stop,
and I wanted to bear the rest.
' Well, at first I did very funny things
for a boy. Mother used to knit socks to
sell, ami she sewed the rags to make rag
carpets, nnd I helped."
" How? What could you do?"
" Well, the people who would like a
carpel could nnl always get the time to
make it. So I xvent to the houses among
the farmers nnd took home their rags, old
coats, and everything they had, and out in
the woodshed I ripped and cut tlieni up.
I hen mtlher sexveil them and sometimes
1 sewed some, too, and then I rolled them
into balls am! took tlieni back to the own
ers, all ready lo be woven into rugs."
" Rut did they pay you for your xvork?"
' Oh yes, xve got so much a pound, anil
I felt quite like a young morchant xvhen 1
weighed them out with our old steelyards.
Rut that was only ono way; we'vo two or
three old apple trees out in tho back yard
by the wall, and we dried the apples and
sold them. Then some of the farmers
who had a
r..,.,l I.... I ...
send them to us to dry. and xve paid them
.,J1"i iti.oiv .11, pies oeii.ui to
so many pounds
all dried, and had the
rest to sell.
" Rut you surely could not
tlo much in
ways liko these.'"'.
" No, not much, but, something
and xve
hail the knitting. '
" Did you knit?''
" Not nt first, but after awhile mother
began 10 have the rheumatism in her
hands, and the joints became swollen and
the lingers twisted ,and it hurt ller to move
them. Then I learned to knit; beforo that
I wound the vai n for her. I had to learn
to sexv a Jittle, too, for mother don't like
to see the holes without p itches."
And bo looked halt smilingly at the
specimens on his knees.
lint you din not menu tiiose.-' saul 1.
Yes, sir: but I was in a hurry, and
mother said it xvas not. done as it ought to
be. They had .just been xvashed, and I
couldn't xvait for ihem to dry."
Who washed them? '
I d'nl. and ironed them, too. I can
xvash and iron almost as well lis mother
can. Sho don't mean to let me, but how
is she going lo help it? She can hardly
use her hands at all, nnd some days sno
cannot leave her chair, so I had to learn to
make the beds and to scrub the floor, mid
to xvash the dishes; and I cook almost as
xvell as a girl."
" Is it possible?'' I shall have to take
supper xvith you on my xvay back to the
city and test your skill."
Johnny blushed, and I added :
" It's a pity, my boy, that you haven't a
sister.
. ," I bad one," ho said, gently, " but she
died: and if she had lived, I shouldn't
have wished hor to lift, and bring wood
and water, and scrub as poor mother al-
wavs diil Soint'tinies I xvish I could have
sprung all llio way from a baby to a man.
It's such sloxv work growing up; anil it
was while mother was wailing lor us to
grow up that she worked so hard."
" Rut, my l.tiy. you cannot expect to bo
son and daughter and mother all in 0110.
You cannot do the xvork for a xvhole fam
ily." " Yes, I can; It isn't much, and lain
going to do it, and tho work my father left
undone. I'm going.to pay that mortgage,
if I live."
" Heaven grant you may," I said, fer
vently, under my breath; " for not many
mothers have such s son."
" Mother don't know I mean to do il,
and she Is verv anxious I should go to
school, and I mean to sometime, but I
know just' where Iho boys in my class aro
studying, and I got the lessons nt homo,
Mother reads tneni to 11111 0111 01 uie 0001..
while I am washing the dishes or doing
her work, and we have groat fun. I try
to remeuieber and repeat it, ami if xvo
come lo mivtliing we can't make out, I
lake il ovei to the teacher, in Ihe evening ;
she is very kin I. she tolls me."
Very kind! Who would nut he kind to
such a boy? I felt tho tears coming to my
eyes at suoh a sudden vision of this son do
inc girl's work, while his poor old mother
hehl the book in her twisted hands and
tried to help him to learn.
" Rut all this does Rot earn money, my
boy. How do you expect to save if you
give your lime indoors?"
" till, I don't do gill's work all (lay; no,
indeed! I have worked out our taxes on
the road. It wasn't much, but I helped the
men to build a stone wall don'n by the
river; and Deacon Rail lets me do a great
deal of xvork for I1I111, and when I get a
chance to take anybody from the hotel to
ride, ho lets me have his team for almost
nothing, and I pay- to him whatever I
make. Ami I work on ihe farm with the
men in milliner; and 1 have a cow of my
own ami sell tho milk at the tavern; and
we have some hens, too, and sell the eggs.
And in Ihe fall 1 cut and pile the winter's
wood in the sheds for the people who
haven't ny boys -and there's a good
many people about here who haven't any
boys," ho added, brushing a fly from the
old horse xvith the tip of his whip.
Alter this xve fell into silence, and rode
through the sweet Nvxv England roads
with Monadnock rising before us ever
nearer and more majestic. It impressed
me xvith a sense of his ragged strength
ono of the hills, " rock-ribbed and ancient
as the sun ;" but I glanced from tho moun
tain to the Utile red headed morsel of hu
manity al my side with a sort of recogni
tion (if their kinship. Somehow they
soemed to belong together. 1 felt as if the
same sturdy stulf were in them both. It
was only a fan ty, but it was confirmed the
next day, for xvhen I camu hack to town
after seeing my invalid friend, 1 called on
Deacon Rail. I found him white-haired
ami kindly lace I. Ho kept the village
store anil owned a pretty house, and was
evidently very well to do. Naturally we
talked of John, and the deacon said to mo,
with tears in his old watery biuo eyes:
" Why, bless your heart, sir, you don't
think I'm going lo lake bis money do
you? The only son of his mother and she
a widow, ami all tied up in double bow
knots xvith the rheumatics beside! True
enough, I let his father have the money,
and my wife, she says, says she to me,
' Well, deacon, my dear, we've not got a
child, and shall be just as xvell off a hun
dred years from now if thu widow never
pays a cent; but 'ording to my calcula
tion it's better to let tho boy think he's
payin;' she says I might as well try to
keep a barrel of vinegar from workin' as
to keep that boy from workin'. It's the
mother in him and its got to xvork. Wo
think a good deal of the widoxv, Mandy
and me. I did before I ever saw Mandy,
but for all that xve hold tho mortgage, and
Johnny wants to work it out. Mandy and
me, and we are going to let him work''
I turned away, for I xvas going to sup
at Johnny's house; but before 1 went I
asked the deacon hoxv much Johnny had
ilready paid.
" Well, I don't know; Mainly knoxvs I
pass it to her she keeps the book. Drop
111 before you go to the train and 1 11 show
it to you.
I dropped in mid the deacon showed me
the account. It was tho book of a savings
bank in a neighboring town, and on its
pages were credits of all the liltlo sums
ihe hoy had earned or paid ; and I saw
Ihoy wero standing to Widow Reebe's
name. 1 gruspoil ttio deacon s nana. 110
xvas looking away over tho house-tops to
xvhero Monadnock xvas smiling under the
goog-night kiss of tho sun.
' Gootl-by, sir. good-by," he said, re
turning my squeeze with interest. " Much
obliged, I'm sure, Mandy and mo, too;
when wo see it xve know tho real stutl it
takes to make a man and Johnny has got
it: he is like that mountain over there
chock full of grit and lots of backbone."
Hoxv Tin: Utf.s Eivk. The Utes live
principally on bread and meat. When
they can't get bread they live on meat.
mil xvhen they can t get meat they live on
bread. When they have a great quantity
of provisions on hand they eat il all up
before getting any more. The same is true
when Ihev have a small quantity oil Hand.
They aro dirty. They are even very dirty.
Ihcir meat is generally periniueii to 110
about on the "round or any place. Each
Indian family possesses any number of
dosrs from o'e'lit to fifteen, and these ani
mals help themselves lo tho meat. After
they have satisfied themselves, and when
the Indians become hungry, they cut off
this same piece of which llio dogs feed.
Thev generally boil llieir meat, but some
times lltey broil it. They put it in water
ami let il remain only a lew minutes, pist
long enough to heat, when they take it out
ami bee-iu to eat. They use the same wa-
t,. ...,.) il,,, ..iii.r, o.til f.ti' bftiloitr over iLnil
I .ni' ' o. 1 r
,,,, wrim until fill, w:,lir llPt'Ollli'tl !L 111!!'
I fe(.t s'n71)0 ,)f ,illhi Um. j,ol jrcnerallv does
service lor tlie inure i.iiiiny. 1111s particu
lar pot is a frying-pan. When tho Utes
get out. of bed they wash their faces and
bathe the baby in it, after which they bako
the bread and boil the meat. Then they
eat out of the vessel, and then the dogs
lick up the leavings. They clothe them
selves xvith skins of animals or with
blankets. They generally lake a blanket
or a skin and cut a hole in the middle of il
and throxv it over their heads, cutting
arm-holes and fastening the garment at
the waist with a xvido belt, while they
close tip the neck with a buckskin string.
W hen tho garment wears out they cut tlio
string and let it drop, but not before.
Sometimes the Indians will wear as many
as five of these garments at a time, al
ways keeping the cleanest ono oil the out
side. Josephine Meeker.
Woman's Nomi.e Heroism. An inter
esting incident is lold of the lato Gov.
Buckingham, of Connecticut. During an
important ollicial consultation in regard
to the xvar, tin old and feeble woman
dressed in simple mourning xvas ushered
into the room and told her story to the
sympathetic governor. She was a widow
and her only son, xvlio had gone as private
in the 11th Conneciicut regiment, bad
been killed in a recent action, leaving her
alone with her grandson. She drew out a
roll of bills from a much worn iocket
hook anil asked the governor lo take from
it llie value of her son's rifle and give hor
an order for it on his captain.
' John didn't have much lo leave bis
bov besides a g.anl name and a patriotic
example," said the old lady; hut I want
to tret thai rifle so th.it the boy can be re
minded often of his father while bo is
I'lowin"; up."
The governor xvas deeply nll'eetetl. lie
refused the money, told her she should
havu her sou's rille even if ho had to go in
person to tho regiment to get il. After
taking the necessary directions from her,
he gavn her his arm as she rose to go,
escorted her lo tho door, assisted her off
tho steps, and then wiih a courtly bow
bade hi r good-bye and returned lo his
ollice.
Gentlemen." Haiti he, " what are our
labors and sieriliees compared to hers?
The daily ovidetiee I receivo of tho hero
ism of our Connecticut women inspires
. , , ..!.: . ..1 1 ,J
j
j ""
me won tionii'ience as noiiimg eisw coum
The. national convention xvill be compos
ed of 7o0 members two for each Benator
and representative in con gress.and two for
each territory and the district of Columbia.
There aro 7d senators and 293 representa
tives, ami H territories, besides thu dis
trict. The sout hern duleg ens n i n'v-ir
27(i o 21 m ne fun oau thir I ot" the
whole.
A little fellow in Connecticut usked his
parents to take hiin to church with them.
They said he must xvait until he was older.
" Well," was his shrewd suggestion, in
resKnse, "you had better take me now;
for when I get bigger I may not want to
go."
The Rrattlcboro Itrformer gays that a
well known lawyer of ono of our promi
nent towns, being rather perplexed over a
point of law called at the office of a brother
attorney lo consult with him upon the sub
ject. 1 lie latter drew himself tip and said
wiln great dignity tbat he usually received
pay for his advice. " Then," said lawyer
number ono extending fifty cents, " tell
me nil you know and give me back the
change."
American clocks and watches aro sold
for less than those of English nnd Swiss
manufacture in England and Switzerland.
And yet the skilled labor in this business
is not cheaper with them than with us.
Therefore, by sheer superiority of intelli
gence and of perfection of machinery, xve
have lieen cut out by tho Americans of 11
a trade in which xve formerly held our
own. Tho game may be said of a di zen
other trades, in which we have stood still
xvhile tho Amrricnns have progressed. '
London Trul'i.
The Holks of Fate. In tlio period
between midnight and G in the morning,
the animal vital processes aro tit their
lowest ebb. It is in theso limes that those
xvlio are enfeebled from any cause most
frequently die. Physicians often consider
these hours as critical, and lorew'arn anx
ious friends in respect to them. From time
immemorial thoso who have been accus
tomed to xvait and attend on the sick have
noted these hours most anxiously, so that
they have been called by one of our old
writers " the hours of fate." lu this space
of time the influence of the life-giving sun
has been longest withdraxvn from man,
and the hearts that are even tho strongest
beat then with subdued tone. Sleep is
heaviest and death is nearest lo us nil in
tho hours of fate."
" There !" she cried, in an excited voice ;
I should like to know what's become ol
that ambril. I sot it up agin tho counter
when I come in, and afore I could turn
round, it's gono and it xvas only Monday
that I gin four and six for't!" " What
kind of an umbrella was it, ma'am?"
askod Iho polite clerk in his blandest tones.
A spick and span new gingham, young
man, was tho eager response, " with an
iv'ry handle ou't, and a" " Like the
one in your hand, ma'am, for instance?''
" hakes alive! she exclaimed. Ami one
might have thought sho saw a serpent
rather than her oxvn "spick and span ging
ham," with its "iv'ry handle" clutched
fast iu her hand. She colored tin like a
druggist's wintlow, and xvent off amidst
unintelligible excuses. She never felt so
flustered in all her born days, as she told
Jemima Ann xvhen she got home.
Harriet Reecher has well said, if house
keepers would take more pains to cook
xvell tho coarser articles of diet, people
would not caro nearly so much for food
that is liner and richer. Take ns simple a
dish as " hasty pudding " xvhen properly
made, is a dish "fit for a king," hut xvhen
half cooked or seasoned, it is lit only for
pigs or chickens. Cooking is just as truly
a chemical process us any result secured
in a laboratory. Antl, us in chemistry, thu
least deviation Irom proper proporlwim in
a given compound xvill give a result en
tirely different from the ono souuhl, so it
is largely in cooking. May Heaven bless
tho careful, conscientious cook she is a
means of grace as well us of health for
who can praise and serve his Maker as he
should xvith a diseased stomach or a gorged
liver?
A Tax or Millions. Pittsburgh, cele
brated for its whisky, was, it will he re
membered, tho theatre or a very destruct
ive riot in tho summer of 1877. The loss of
life was large and the destruction of prop,
erty amounted to millions. A prolonged
legal contest lis to xvlio should pav for the
property losses involved xvas decided by
the supreme court on the 0:h tilt., nnd by
this decision Alleghany county, which in
cludes the city of Pittsburgh is held to be
liable. 1 his is a serious peeeniury respon
sibility which the taxpayers of Pittsburgh
anil ol Alleghany county aro thus required
to assume. It involx'es, however, a si"iiili-
cant and wholesome lesson which eu"ht
not lo be lost either upon the taxnavine-
citizens of Pittsburgh or those of other lo
calities. It is notriotis that itoxicating li
quors xvere the fuel which fed the flames
of the destructive riot. Drunken rioters
thronged the streets, plundering and ap
plying thu torch. Ry tho votes of Pitts
burgh electors a liquor-doaler was placed
at the bond of tho city government, antl it
was only through tho interposition of out
side forces that order was finallv restrrml
Kor every dollar of revenue which liquor
dealers have paid into tho public treasury
for llio privilege of can-vino: on llieir
dangerous and inflammable business, tho
taxpayers must needs now pay out many
more. And who will, or can. atone for the
fearful loss of life?
' Took it Oxvlt." Fretl, the porter at
tho general offices of tho Wisconsin Cent
ral, walked into the shop of a watchmaker
from " Vatcrland " with one of tho speed
recorders used on that road under his arm.
He wished to have it repaired. Now n
speed recorder is nothing more than clock
work cast in a cast-iron box of peculiar
shape. Rut it nex-ertheless is a very mys
terious looking affair to those not know
ing what it is. In fact, a speed-record
might readily pass for an infernal machine
and no doubt they are considered as such
by all train men xvlio are obliged to toler
alc them on their trains.
As has been said, 1'red walked into the
watchmaker's, ami placing the recorder
ou the counter, was surprised to sue the
old gentleman point towards the door.
Aot exactly uuuorstanuing xvnat this
meant, Fred opened his mouth to state his
errand, and was still more astonished to
hear Hans exclaim, in a very determined
tone :
" Took il owul!"
" 1 want to have It fixed," says Frod.
" I lole you, took it oxvut!" exelaiuis
Hans.
Let mo show you the clock," says Frod,
proceeding to open the box.
" No clock thero!" yelled Hans, "I
tole you, took it owut!"
' Why, yes thore is," expostulated Fred
" Just look Here," and be made a move
to open the box, but Hans headed him off,
Jerking an old musket from under tho
counter he leveled it nt tho astonished
Dorter and yelled ;
" Mein Got in Himmel! I tole you took
it owul! You oan't blay only such trioks
ofurme! Uud now I lole you took it
owut or 1 plows your tain hot oft!"
A lecturer xvas explaining to a little
girl hoxv a lobster cast his shell when he
bad outgrown it. Said lie, " What do yon
do xvhen you havo outgrown your clothes?
You casl ihem aside do you not?" ' Ob,
no." replied the little one, "we let out the
tucks. ''
When "Triad" Stevens was a young
lawyer in the Pennsylvania courts, licence
lost his case by what he considered a
wrong ruling of the judge. Disgusted, be
banged his laxv books on the table, picked
up bis hat and started for the door with
some vigorous words in bis mouth. Tho
judge, feeling that bis dignity was assailed,
rose imprcrsix-ely and said: Mr. Stevens I
Mr Stevens slopped, turned and bowed
deferentially. Mr. Sleveus, said the judge,
do you intend by such conduct to express
jour contempt to ibis court? And Stev
ens with muck seriousness answered:
Kx press my contempt for this court! No
sir! 1 xx-as I lying to conceal it, your
honor.
Hints to Laky Travelers. When I
was a school gil I, about to take my first trip
alone from home, nil elder brother gave
uie some practical advice, so good that I
have always heeded it since.
Always have enough small change at
hand to pay the porter or 'bus driver with
out giving him a bill or largo coin to
change; for if he lias any undesirable
pieces of money he xvill certainly put
il on you. Resides it saves time and
trouble" lo have the right amount all
ready.
Do 1.0: carry all your surplus funds in
your pocket book, so that any ono can seo
it every time you show your railroad
ticket. Yisti may lose it.
Look al'ier your own baggage when it
neetls to be're-checked, then you will know
it is all right.
If you xvi-h to knoxv anything about
your roitle.ask the conductor or some other
ollicial. the chances are that your felloxv
travelers do not know any more about the
matter than you do yourself.
Carry no jewelry in sight. It is unsafe,
as xvell as in had taste.
.Make no acquaintances. A model trav
eler is civil to all, but beyond that keeps
his or her oxvn counsel.
Samuel Likes Chicken.
Samuel came in from doing up his
chores the other moruing and said, "Wife,
there's an old hen siltin' on the roost this
morning that's spoke for. She is so fat
that she just hangs over Ihe pole liko all
possessed, nnd her head lops to one side,
and her comb is fadcy and she looks as if
she was not long fortius life.andl thought
maybe xve'tl heller kill and eat her. Take
a fat fowl before they are sick lo speak of
when they begin to feel a little doncy
iikc and you know the meat would bo as
gootl as ever, xvell fixed up xvith cream
and butter.''
I just looked at Sim my very piercing
est. I said , " Dry up; just drv up, Mr.
Slarkey."
Ho began in a xvhining tone, "I can't
for tho life of me see xvhy tho flesh of a
well to do old hen, fed on good yaller
com, and clean, juicy gravel and the
greenest of grass, shouldn't be good to eat.
Why, we c.iulil make at least three meals
out of il if nobody conies anil it would
stive quite a slab of side meat, and I know
she's fat by the room she takes un on the
roost." '
I gave him another of my looks. I felt
my eyes blaze a'tuost at the man's putrid
ity. I said, "Slarkey, xvhen xve stood up,
clinched hands, in lilt) presence of the
preacher antl tho witnesses, littlo did I
tlreum lliat tho hour xvould come that you
would ever propose eating dead chicken
xvith me. That old hen has been moping
mor'11 a week! Her flesh is in the first
stages of decay !"
"lam hungry fir chicken; have been
this gootl xvhiie ; ' he ntisxvercd twisting a
waistband button, and lolling his tongue
Irom one side ot Ins mouth to the oilier, in
a 'shamed way.
"Catch one then." I said, "and I'll see
that your hunger is assuaged without eat
ing that old pining carcass out there on the
roi st."
"Very xvell," he. said, glibly, and wag
gled oil' and got some corn meal and called,
"ehooky! chunky', cliooky!" and xvhen
he got a cluster of 'em all about him he
grabbed for one and il juked away be
tween bis feet.and he stood there, clutching
at one of his boo s. Drat the diatlcd
things!" he growied out, and then lie
iniitiereil lo himself, now, mother, sho
coulil 'a lit right down onto it qnicker'n
tt xviitk; but 111 manage 'em, and then
I'll have my satisfaction biting them after
they'd' cooked. I'll show 'em see 'f I
don't.
I stood behind the door and laughed at
his droil antics; poor felloxv! he did want
chicken for dinner, and iifterxvliile 1 went
out anil helped him. Ry this time the
fowls xvere scared at his floundering at
tempts at catching them, and it required
strategy. I lied a cord around a slick
about a foot long, and tilted a tub up side
wise on the slick and scattered corn about
it, and under it and when tho chickens
gradually walked under tho tub, I jerked
tho string, and took my choice eut of tho
four prisoners.
Samuel was right about the three meals
out of ono fat fowl. Women always say
ono fowl will make ono meal. I will tell
yon hoxv lo manage; maybe it will bo
now to some of tho young housewix'es.
Let tho chicken bo stewed in plenty of
broth. One meal can be made of some of
the pieces fried for breakfast. Fry brown
in butter. Another.can bo a pot-pie made
of the boniest pieces, in with some of the
rich broth. Make a dough with sifted
liour, into which you have put tho usual
allowance of baking powder, a lump of
buttor, nnd wet it up with sweet milk.
Roll thin, cut into strips and drop into the
boiling broth, and boil twenty minutes, or
perhaps a little longer. Dispatch is tho
word in making chicken pot-pie. Another
is to take a pint or so of the broth thicken
ed into a good gravy, with cream and
butter, anil pour into a tureen over some
warm baking powder biscuit, which have
been split open and laid in tho dish. Put
on the cover, stand away, and next day
when cool tho mass will cut out in slices
which can bo fried a light brown in hot
melted butter. This makes a very nice
dish. Or, instead of this latter way, cook
somo rice in the broth ; or, lot it come to
tho boil nnd drop in with a spoon, here
and thero so as not to cook all up to
gether a thick batter made ns we all
make pancakes, only don't put in so many
eggs. there! that s tho three or lour or
maybe five meals out of one large, fat
hen, which Is certainly better than ono
great pot full to be culled over, nnd lots
left to stanilnbout in the way. My! how
my man did enjoy the fowl ! He said, "Oh
yum! yum! Reeky, but you do cook a
chicken powerful nice! It was a lucky
day, dear, that 1 went out to buy calves
for John Rickets and stopped at tho bars
to ask you if your grandad wanted te sell
his'n. Why, the minute my orbs beheld
you, I thought to aysolf, 'I'll hov yon
girl if she'll hcv me, nnd no knife shall
cut our lovo in two.' I have thought tbnt
you use a good deal of cream fixing up
chicken, but then, as the poet says, 'We
can not livo always' and we'd better lay
holt of the best that's eoin'.'" ilfrj, Sam
I Starkcy in Ohio Farmer.