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LEARN A LITTLE EVERY DAY. UttU rlile make wider -tre tmheU. Ptreenlete ell the rlter'a flow; RWers Join Ihe ooeae billow". Onward, onward m tbey f Life U " of mal'l fragment, i Rbade and eoiielif. i, work aod pt; 'omay wr, witl greatest profit, aualiUlcovr-ry day, lnyd irele b.MidW lianenU,' Diop ot laiu 0 mo tl ihoweia, fceoonda mki fj flii mlnut., Awl'tV ml n f make the honre ! Let on hMtf o thim end catoh I hem, A thy pj u no our way Anil with lione-t, trnn rndeaor, laraaliikeeidy. , Lata rod mini ti iking raMg, Cull 'rJ from k y page. Here a Hue n I thaio wntenoa, 'G4lnt tlielonul) time of age; At onr worn or by the wayaide, WbD tbe un-iliine'i making bey, Tbne we m) by help of beavrn, Uro liuluteiy 'y- A TOUCH AND GO. I )- a U rqnlnkls. On a pleasant morning of the last day of September, 1840, the brig Penn sylvania, Capt. L., hoisted her jib, set ber topsails, aud, wind and tide both favorable, pointed her bowspirt down tho Deleware, bound for Mautouzus. A few hour carried her to the bay, theiice to the capes, and with a frosh . breeze from the northwest, fine weath er, aud au easy sea sploshing in bright drops on the deck or breaking in soft murmurs ugaiwt the ancient crait, witn all sail fuirly drawing, dipped her time worn nose into ihe blue water and went forth gallantly to meet tho elements he had so long defied. The land grad ually faded into dimness, then was lost to view; the light-house sank down as it were into the sea, and when the sun rose the next morning after leaving the city nothing but "tho blue above and the blue below1' was visible from the deck. The "nkipper," like the vesstl he . commanded, bore the marks of age. The storms of life, both land and sea, had long been buffeted, and now, when his few scuttered locks had turned white as tho fuuin so often thrown upon " them, and when he should have long since rested his timeworn timbers in some snug harbor, securely anchored until Davy Jones should call him on dock for the last time, necessity still compelled him to "go down to the sea" in search of a livelihood. Collins, the mate, was a tall, bronise-facod, Brown beurded bpecimen of the Yankee sailor. Young, quick, strong, fearless, you could tell ut a glance that he "knew the ropes," und how to handle them. Four men and a boy, and six passengers, made up a ship's company of thirteen souls, all told. Some of the pasengers were related to each other; all soon I ecame acquain ted for in the narrow limits of a small brig's cabin at sea, people do not stand on ceremony. Nothing special occurred the first few da s out to vary the monotony of life at sea. The wind blew fair and stei-dily, and as we neared the dark, tepid water of the gulf stream, a heavy ea began to tell upon such of the pas sengers as were subject to sea sickness. Six days out brought ns well down toward Abaco, one of the Bahama is lands, usually the first land seen by vessels bound for ports on the north coast of Cuba. Indications began to show themselves of a change in the weather, which so far had been more than usually favorable. The wind became fitful and unsteady, veering to ward all points of tho compass, and finally died away in a calm the, sun blistering hot, the sea emcoth, glassy, with a rip;le. A calm at sea is always an annoyance; but down in these lati tudes, at this season of the year, it is a warning to prepare for'danger. As the day wore on, a close, stifling atmos phere made the heat unendurable, and the suu went down into the ocean en veloped in a seething mist, which teemed to boil from the water as the round, red globe disappeared from view. Night closed around the brig gloomy and oppressive; a few stars struggled dimly through the murky darkness and then went out, and a feel ing of coming peril caused an awe track silence among those on board. The old craft creaked and groaned as though suffering from present or ap prehensive pain, and at times strange moaning would come up out of the gloom, pasting through the rigging and away again out seaward, causing a momentary chill through thoM who beard them, faint glimmerings of light playing through the air, making the darkness, if possible still darker. Every preparation was made to meet the coming storm sails taken in, loose spars secured, hatches examined, boats made safe for an emergency, and then all hands took their elation, hoping for tho best. A bright, long-enduring flash lighting up the gloom with a pur lld hue, making hip, pus ngeis, end crew viaible for au infant, and thfii louring the blackness of the night still more hideous. A derp, dull sound (rum the southward- not tlund'.r, for it was ojntinnd and increasing, groing louder and swiftly coming nearer, until with a mighty roar, it burst upon 'us. Up almost to the bursting of the hur rienno npon the brig, to steerage wny eould le got upon her; but a slight puff of air driven before the gale brought her head around, so that it did n t take her all abeam. As it was, she laid dowu for an instant, as though ab.'Ut to go over; but the old vessel was not so cauly overcome, and, rightiug bravely, she idiook the foam from off her sides and flew away before it. A delugo of rain accompanied the wind, and so immense was the body of fulling water that it threatened to swamp the ship, and it was only by knocking planks out of the bulwarks that she was kept free. The howling of the wind and the seething of the rain was deafening no orders could be heard, and so through the long hours, until morning, she drove ulong. The light so anxiously desired cume at lost not the bright sun, break iug through the east, but a dull, leaden day forcing its way through sheets of rain and driving spray. Suddenly the rain ceased, a veil of mist was lifted from off the waters, and right before ns, straight in the direction in which we were running so close that the beat of the surf mingled with the roar of the hurricane was a rocky coast, a light-house standing out on a point a few miles ahead, and through an opening in the rocks could be seen the raging waters beyond. It was the "Hole in the Wall,' on the southwest point of Abaco. The voice of the old skipper rang out clear above the storm : "All hands set the foresail quick, for your lives depend upon it;" and springing tothewhecl,thehelm was put to starboard, bringing the brig's head off shore to clear the point. The sail was soon set, and the strug gle began. It was. life or death ; one touch upon those sharp coral rocks and the voyage of life was ended. The passengers . mostly were on deck, holding on and sheltering themselves as best they could ; the sailors in a group under the lee of the forecastle, looking out toward the fast-approaching danger, The old captain stood to the wheel, his white locks streaming out to leeward, his eye ranging from the point ahead to the foresail, knowing that on that piece of canvas hung our only chance of safety. Collins had stationed himself in the fore rigging, scanning with fearless glances the rocks ahead. In an instant he v as at the captain's side. "Capt, L., the brig is making too much lee way ; she will never clear the point; we must get the fore topsail on her." The old man shook his head. "She can't stand it, Collins; it would take her mast out" "She must stand it, sir; nothing else will save her." . A moment's hesitation, and then the order was given : "Jump up and clear away the fore top-sail." Now, sailors are used to obeying or ders full of peril, climb the shrouds on dork and stormy nights, to go aloft and lay out on the yards, the life-ropes slip pery with ice.and hold on with benumb ed hands, certain death howling round and beneath them, in a single misstep, and it is but seldom that a sailor hesi tates; but here it seemed so impossible to maintain a hold against that raging tempest that not a man stired. Throw ing off his pea-jacket Collins sprang in to the rigging and began to climb the ratlines. Men will follow a brave lead er; the crew soon clustered close behind him, and with great excertiona the sail was set The effect upon the brig was tremendous; she tore through the waves, at time burying the forecastle; everything on the lee aide was afloat, and she seemed like a madman rushing to destruction. Suddenly the wind lolled, died away, and was gone; the brig lost headway, and was driven broadside on; an Im mence wave lifted her high in the air, and bore her helplessly toward the rock; hope left as, bat we were not yet lost. Coming beck right owl of the direction opposite to which it had blown waathe wind; the brig' head wore around off shore, aud amid the boiling of the surf, breaking like the booming of artillery against the rocks, she hot by tho point out into the open tea be yond, and the danger was paused. . We gsced upon each other as toeu do who have looked in the valley, but J netted by withont entering; and more than one "Thank Gd !" was uttered for that narrow ctenpe. As I turnrd to look back at the fast receding light-house, I fflt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and heard a voice slog out: "I say, M- , that's what I call Touch and do!" It was Collins, and I gavo hi in a hourly shake of the hand, for I felt to his daring we were iudebted for our lives. Squ iring away, a fow hours brought ns on the lank, wbero we let go both anchors, and rodo out tho gale in safety; and wheu we arrived at Matanzas it was lo find every vessel in the harbor sunk or destroyed, und a large city in ruins, showing how fearful had been the hur ricane. Many years hovo gone by aim e that dreadful morning. I have passed that simo spot often, in storm and in sun shine; the. old brig is buried beneath the sands of Eatteras. Capt. L. sleeps the sleep that no hurricane blast can awaken; but I have never forgotten the clear, musical voice of Uoiiins as he clapped me on the sholder with : say, M , that's what I call Touch and Go." Mary Anderson's Quid. It is well known that Miss Anderson is addicted to tho gum-chewing habit, and that when she goes upon the stage she sticks her chew of gum on an old castle painted on the scenery. There .was a wicked young man playing a minor part in the play who had been. treated scornfully by Mary, as he thought, and he had been heard to say he would make her sick. " He did. He took her chew of gum and spread it out so it was as thin as paper, then placed a chew of tobacco inside, neatly wrapped it up, and stuck it back on the old castle. Mary came off when the curtain went down, and going up to the castle she bit like a bass. Putting the gum, which she had no idea was loaded, into her mouth, she mashed it between her ivo ries and rolled it as a sweet morsel un der her tongue. It is said by those who happened to be behind the scenes that when the tobacco began to get in its work there was the worst transformation scene that ever appeared on the stage. The air, one supe. said, seemed to be full of fine-cut tobacco and spruce gum, and Mary stood there and leaned against a painted rock, a picture of homesick ness. She was pale about the gills, and trembled like an aspen leaf shaken by the wind. She was calm as a summer's morning, and while concealment, like a worm in an apple, gnawed at her stom ach and tore her corset strings, she did not upbraid the wretch who had smug gled the vile pill into her countenance. All she said, as she turned her pale face to the painted ivy on the rock and grasped a painted mantel-piece with her left hand, as her right hand rested on her heaving stomach, was : "I die by the hand of an assassin. Women can't be too careful where they put their gum." Milwaukee Sun. Praise of Women. Says Jared Sparks : "I have observed among all nations that the women orna ment themselves more than the men; that wherever found they are the some civil, kind, obliging, humane, tender, beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. Theydonothesitate.likemen, to perform a hospitable or generous ac tion ; not haughty nor arrogant, not su percilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society; industrious, economical, in genuous, more liable in general to err than man, and performing more good actions than he. I never addressed my self in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civil ized or savage, without receiving a de cent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wander ing over the barren plains of inhospit able Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Fin land, unprincipled Bussia and the wide spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold or sick, women have ever been friendly to me, uni formly so; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of appellation of benevolence, these action have been performed in ao free and ao kind a manner that, if I waa drr. I drank the sweet draught, and if hwurrv. ate the coarse atonal, with a I doable nlish." I Crse4 By 1Nm Herd. from tie UlUe Rork (Ark.t On I e , ' A very sad death occurred In the pen itentiary yester Jay. AH deaths are 04. The death of the old mau, arouud whose bed a family assembles, is sail. The death of an iufant, whose eold hps are sealed by a lis of mother' devotion, W sad. But t f all deaths the death from a brokeu heart i the Maddest T. E. 8nlivn, alian Wm. Ddtucy. a youug mau of 23 years one of the train robbers, recently sentenced to seventy yoars In the Ark-anna reuueuuury waa tho victim of a broken heart. Sev eral day ago he bseotne gloomy, and going to Dr. Lcnow, prison physician, complained of being sink. Upou exam ination the phy-i' i m discovered the min was not suffering from on percep tible disease, bat that his pnlso w:;s 110. He was orderod to the hospit.l. where every possible eare was given him. He revved after a time, .but every one oouldsee despair written ou his counte nance. He entered the prison cheer fully and spoke lightly of his long sen tence, bnt after a- while a letter came, When ho read the lines his spirit sank Tears told of a misery that ink could not express. He went again to Lin bed. The shadows are gathering fast and night is oppressing me with its durn- stondinsr near. "One crime, und then ilnntti in n nnnifantiiirr. Mv father who has preached the gospel for years, who many and many a time clasped his bands above my head and prayed, has been humbled in his old age. And My ' mother! if I could only hear her voice. J But walls and law are between ns. I , am as one who is dead. She. could 1 come to me, but I can not go to her." His thoughts wandered. At times he seemed to be at church, listening to his father preach : and then he seemed to be playing with his sisters. He smiled and laughed softly. "Ah!" he would say, "your brother never forgets you. Sud denly his face grew dark, and waving his hands wildly he began to mutter broken sentences. "Seizing tho bridle rein he sprang upon his antagonist's horse and dashed away. "He's reading one of those wild books that we ued to steal away and devour, said one of the dying man's companions in crime. '"Halt !' he exclaimed, drawing a re volver and leveling it at the head of young Horace," continued tho sufferer. Sowly and sadly they left the cbnrcn and walked along the well-worn path to the rude grave of .Lawrence. Standing near the stone placed there by the In dian, Casper and his fair companion" and muttered incoherently, the sentence dying away with a deep groan. Sudden ly he raised himself, looked intently toward the door, and slowly sank back dead. Ttvo Affectionate Rivals. There were several men clustered around the stove in the back room of a Galveston saloon, and some how or other the subject of newspapers came up for discussion. One man said that editors were more jealous of each oth er than any other class; that they never had a good word for each other, etc A long-haired youth with a Solemn look, spoke up, and, heaving a sigh, said he had had some experience with edi tors and he found them the reverse of jealous of each other; that a Texas edi tor was always willing to deny himself comforts for the benefit of a brother editor. "Where did that happen?" "It happened in a western Texas town where I lived," sighed the young man. I had dashed off a little poem of ten or nfteen stanzas aoout '.Beautiful Spring.' There were two rival papers in the place the Bugle and the Trom bone. I had heard that the editors were deadly enemies and sighed to shed each other's gore, and I was afraid that if I let the Trombone publish my poem first there would be a deadly encoun ter. "I finally resolved to have it appear simultaneously in both papers. When I called on the editor of the Trombone he said the editor of the Bugle had a large family, and that he would prefer it would appoar in tbe Bugle, as person ally he loved the editor of the Bugle. I went then to the Bugle man, and he sam ins emior 01 me lmmoone was; bis warmest personal mend, and that he .would be glad if I would let him have the poem, as it would be pnttimr bread in his mouth and clothe on his back. "So. owing to the love those two edi tors had for each other, I conldnt get my poem into either of their papers, and it hasnt been published yet I never saw men so anxious to helo each other out of disfreife," and once more the long-haired poet sighed like a bel lows. There waa a pause, and the old with 1 frost bitten nose drawled out Ter never tried then eame editors with a cash advertisement, did yer?" 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