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tj frlrri Sorttji. tib TAMI 1hl4b-mjt. . | It b a tarry cailor nteo ) Oath ihifl his quid all sigh; j j Aid musing o'ir his "Injio inh," Hi spits and pipes his eye. la nil their qiser rarist j. l'»rs»ing,oc« by one. Spare, sochors, •Brian*, hinnacWs, j Mb "forkrent" chims hare done t A room! his snu, ill dawn hb berk, j Betwixt hb »hoetder-blndes. Are Peg. aid Poll, and July Ann, | Aid Mtr, and oiher saaids, And jait below bis collar-booee, Amid-*hip« on Ms chest, | Hehsia mn in bine sad red, A -rising in the ureal. A Mt abaft a pint# craft, L'poa hit starboard lido. There b a thing he nade hitaeelf. The day hit Nancy died. Mayhap it he a loch of hair. Mar hap a "kit* o' rope"— He aaya it is a trie-lore knot. e And eo it b, 1 hope. Naught recks the gentle foremast-head. What shape it wear to you— With sonl oleic, and hand expert. Ha pricked it— ao he keen. The "Ku'erd CeUle, mariner," Hb sugar >oag* and spoonr, Nat dearer than that free-pink heart, Transfixed with fwo harpoon*; j And ondernealh, a grave in blue, A grave -stone ill in red — "Here lbs all right, poor Tom's delight, God (art the mark— tha's dead." j Permit that tarry auarioer j < To ihifl hb qaid and aigh. Nor chide him if bo sometime swear, Vor piping of hb eye. Fee sadder emblem* than the hearts I That, traced at lot ia pink. ; l ftdssa'i leysiisr. ' , * fieri ^tstrllattfi. Pram the Mvdea*' TrsmseApt. , damiclt rwiTonn. 1 bt Cm ax arise, r a. 1 1 Tba shades of a late aatumael e veniag, . aidsd and made mom shady by a strong direralom sf rirsr fog, ursrs gathering fast , aroand a quiet homsateod ia lbs picta risque vallsy of the . Msrrimec. Ths , "criUm" bed been fsd. the long entry half filled with fire wood and "Wndlfogt,' a tremendous 5re roared and crackled in the deep fin -place, where comfortably • seated before the feat, twe pertoai "might bare been eceo " One — «r tdently the lord of the mnnor — was a stontiah gentleman with a rubicund fees and elderly procliritica. Hb companion woe of the feminine persuasion. Perhaps we ought, ia obedience te time-honored custom, to gtvr a detailed description of her— ths color of her hair and eyes, bar complexion and the exact length of her aoes — bat we etoaot; war gaalas is not of the order descriptive. Therefore we Ismp that: Sizeable— (I. «t> not tall, not too short —young, good looking and goad unbared. Her pretty fingers nimbi/ piled the needles — she was engaged in tba construction of a Mae end white stocking. Her companion anirmaly smoked a eery long pipe, the aap aisaled in the red oek fort-eiiofc, and the ancient clock — standing ia its aerner, in the uncertain light - like a high shouldered mammy case — beastly heat the dead march of time. And ae the needles Bear— the old man smoked— and ao id Urn fin. occasionally, wbca a puff of wind rambled in the • wide chimney — the aap Maaed asd spattered as the tormenting «sm* forced it . oat. wad dm dock ticked reaerea- - '"SuLi - --- ; smch an ancloataf-tore r^wTSmIfel.» add Mm vaiea "rldd mac slowly expelled ea ewarrnout ttoutbfrl of ifetfea, whftfe ffegwr-

iag in concentric circles sbur* hb rent- i rnbb head, gave him mscb the appear- , snce of a rirsr god crowned with fog. "Beknae I spose it wasn't so writ," j he at length replied, i "Were you aerer fa late?? j "la what?" i "In lore — I mens were you erer troubled with the tender passion?" j "Wot is the aatsr of that ere eomj plaint!" j "Why, Unci* Daniel. what a question | — it ain't a complaint at all. It ta a | j kind of all-orcr-iah sort of feeling— a > i combination of the pleasant nod painful ; Sometimes you eeem to tread on aublimatsd nlr, and tbea ou Scotch thistles — at one time yon pity klaga, at naotbtr you eury beggars— now yoa — * "Stop, atop," cried Uncle Daniel, hb face litis* with a luminous idea, "it's the ferern ager I bad it in '52 out in York State. Thorns taiy moch the symptoms. Fust I was hot, then cold— taatwU* — fust cold, I ben hot. I fslt awfully while tba fits was on, and srer ■o m'neb belter when they want on. Yoa, I've find If Elieu laid aside her stocking and laughed till the tears rolled down her pretty cheek s. "Whnt a funny man yon are. Uncle 1 Daaiel. Flow aha)] I make yoo antler- > stand my meaning! Lore ia the affee- 1 j lion, the liking, you know, which a man 1 i fee la for a woman and tie* vtrsm j "I don't know," slowly responded j i Undo Daniel, knocking tbo ashes oak of j ! hb pips, and chatting his eyas to concentrate thought, "I don't know uboot 1 j ths rt'aay ratty, bnt I her experienced j that ere lHtia." j "O, my gracious, -Uaaia! then you | baea in lore! how droll! How time*? Come bow, be honest, rrfueinrt ... iJ._ j { Thai old man refle«Ud a moment aad then aakad, "Does faueies 00001!" ! "What do yoa mean by fancies, i Uncle?" | "I mean the natral attraction of a 1 pattieut glnerally." "No, bo. Only real likings, you j Only those rases whea yoo felt ; H woaki be a great aatisfecttoo to ba , torn aaonder by wild horses, or eat into : little fiat bits for the sake of tba loved ; one." Daniel reflected again, aad gave as tha result that he bad always esUrtaiaad strong prejudice agninat wild horses, aad that he eoaaidered tba ckoppieg promts mora ohjaeftonabla stfll. Bet that on at tenet two occasions "them llklna bod him it weer him pretty strong. " - "Well now," asdd EUee, rolling op her work aad seating herself on a low stool elwwa by the oM man's knee, "tail me all aboet It, won't yee, Unky dear?" Daniel shook his hewd and made n feint of refilMeg hie pipe, hat the Mae , eyes of Mb hwioe were •» beseechingly hptornvd, there was no resisting. 60. after cleaving hb threat, aad modestly , promising that "twant uo great," lie j beganr- ' "Forty-eight yean ego I wws twenty- | two yuan old. aad waa considered a[ likely yowngster. Father waa wall ta > do ia the world, aad I do suppose I , might bav bad my pick of most of Us gab in the neighborhood. Bat aomabow or uothar I didn't koer much about am, as beyond goia home with cm from singia school awd sich like, I hedn't ^jqach eoaegre with any of ea. But ■ abdaq th« time oar school mpnn got married, aad tha eomarittaa went over ; ta Dracut aad hired Deacon Spaldia's , young eat darter to take her place. The , first time I not eyes oa Peraely Bpaldla . I frit thai I was a gower. Sethis gowned to go right through me, awd^l kia . pretty nigh aeratchiog right out. At fust 1 didst kaow what ailed me, didnt , know hot "twaa a cowpls sf wedet mil perm in t an sal oral us, bet got ao relief Howsoever, to make short story, I soon faawd eat 'twas tha school Barm, set 1 the andean, that the pain was bare ia- • stand of there, <aad Uncle Daniel iadir eated the locaJlrtee by placing his brown forefinger on tha eaeaad aad. than en v tba feet bet tow of Me uapas' - «■ smb; c ceat.) in short Twee a Tikia I--

"Tbca ysa rrere really la lore, ancle?"' j • j ioterreptcd Ellen. "WM, I don't exactly know whether' ' I wee in that ere, bet I was In a pertik- 1 I erlcr atresg liking, end it was very dls- . j tressio while it tasted. I've bed the toothache, fever u»ger, Mice, tic- j r Yes, yes, never mind about that,"' again interrupted (be impatient Ellen. ' "I'm dying to, know Ip.w it came out j Yoo didn't merry her of coarse?" ' ' ' | 'Wei, no. Cna't sxeetly say 1 did--1 ! bat I never kim so nigh doiu ou'i afore ' ' 1 or sioce." ''Oh, that's *0 nice. How nuer the ' 1 ■ hymeDeel slur did yon get, un-l»?" ' ' 1 'T'donT know nothiug sliont your " -high men all hsltrre, bnt the cbnngs of ' a single rjllatile In a talk I bed with 1 that ere gel, weald have tied me up 1 1 fenter'o— " Uncle Iteolel was at s low J 1 1 for s simile, so be said "gat out. " 1 "Only one syllable, ancle?" "Nary another. This is i!i*» way it 1 t wns. I kept growta more end more 1 1 : tnirerabler, til! nt list I kim to a deed 1 , kerchunk, end I says to myself, 'Daniel.' 1 says T, "pot yourself out of misery at 1 L *oj> I- '! will,' says I. Thin 1 ■ | whs of n Saturdsy - tiic next nigbt. Bun- ! 1 | day, found «e fa Cnp'n Knos Jinktos' 1 1 1 j perlor, (Pcrmely boarded at Cup'c ' • Enoses,) with ■ pair of asw boors and a i 1 ' well greased heed. From sewen to eine ! 1 ' I talked with Cep'n Knot end Mrs. 1 1 j Cnp'n Enoe, making ryes nt I'ermrty I ; | when 1 could get a cbaaee. Bime by ! ri C»p'e Eros end Mrs. Cep'n Knos went i off op staim nnd there wns me and Per- 1 i mely ell eonl tune, She sot one side - I of the room end 1 tot t oilier, aid titers 1 ! we sot and sot till it was ever so much 1 J o'clock, nyther sayia nother to (other j i At feet I got ep and went in the winder ■ 1 to see if I couldn't find nulhin to suggest so Una hsl I dlfek — ■*iyo hms shn 1 gate, a mn, i uenff cJipwirilll (TOTW moon. After fletnin my none agin tb# 1 1 Iglnre n long spoil, 1 turned riglit square j ! round and snye—"7h# moon wtVf Sonl) 1 ' lyrth/* juf/itM," says I. One wonld : nnteraUy spoee that wonld hare brenght 1 I Permely oot, hnt it didn'-'t she never i 1 I atirred more'a she'd bin a stork of stoae 1 tor a heathen idle. 80 tbsr we sol and 1 ret agin " "My gracious, bow funny!" exclaimed \ Ellen. , "Funny! wal 'twas noything bot fnnaj . I to me. Id gin a boot to bia in a bam I Me-hen's oust. Ilowaevrr, I felt tbe J , lime bad kim to do or die, aad I broke ; 1 right out. I "Miss Spsnidin!" says I. "Wall" says aba.

"Permely," seyal. "Wal!" , "Will yon bev me!" , "No!" "Yoe won't?" ( "I wonHr1 ' Good night," anys „I. "Good might," mays she. That night I slept better than I'd ( | done for three weeks. I'd got a load j off my stomach." "And do yon Ml) that bniag near 1 1 married, Uoele Daniel?" , ! "Why in eowree I do. Bht could htv i [ taM yu jest as well aa we— but 1 am 1 glad the didn't. That ere gal married . Isaiah Cnmstoek arterwarda, asd she l drav him fust to drink nnd then to self , suicide. I nee crowner of tbe jury that ( sot on Isaiah, and while we act oa the . body we conld bear her acoldin in the t next room Hks sixty. 80 we gin in the* t tbe suicide waa jnattfinbie, only that ; , he'd orter done it to her rather than , hiasclf." , "Now, nwcle, fefa knre the other wpi- j I node." I "Tether whatf " t "I mean year other love adveatere.'H t "Ob! that wan*t much wf aa advaatare. - Yoa see I hadat much 10 do wife the » hmislaa stfT fev several yearff after I Permely mltteucd me", end "mVJe\p" my d mind d»A i didaT kaer a cure for an tbe S peUyoowta that ever was spun. I was ^ wrong though is my waieoUtiaas LMdy . Baker «ak that coureit right oHofmo. n She waa 'ten and bred in onr neigbbora hood, bat srent aany nhen she wan a - little galfiwliwwwith aa, Alt of tern op hi Cohort, aad anrer kim back *111 (be

' waa growed op. And when I seed her at meciiu the next dry srter she got ' hum, hrr ry*s looked so blew, her heir j no red, aod her mouU was puckered up so pretty, I wsntcd to bite bet." "Why, ancle! Bite ber!" i "Ssrtlily— I'd bit her In s miuit. 1 St Mikil pe»r» wss nothing to her; tbey duo't raise sich gals now." 1 Here Uncle Daniel pensed. end with bis elbow* on hit knees, resting hie comfortable double chiu in both buffds, and closing bis eyes, wss evidently traveling ' bark on tbe long bridge of years, to ' contemplate the charms that bad so ' smitten bis yenibftii fancy "Well, Uncle Daniel," at length tuid bis ocice, pinching bis irg to rouse bim "Wei," replied the old men, wiping ' hie eyre with e blue eottou handkerchief, ' and blowing his no«e very hard indeed, J ' "Wal. in short, I'd got the likins agio ' thi- wmt kind, bnt hedn't forgot thr 1 time 1 bed when 1 uxtd Permely 8pnul ' din, and 1 hough I'd 1 gin the shvep pet- 1 and the Rnudlel wood lot tn hcv got ' that gal, I dareeui go nighct her I got ) , mrlaechollc and lost my eppetiti , for ' a fortnight I couldn't eat nothin { , but bread and milk and tatsagis, with be now and then a ruw turnip I t tuk to preasin mj hair so dredfully that ' 1 mother had to lock op tbe lurd firkin 1 1 also hollered in my sleep, and even ' i tried 10 write poetry " j "lis, ha, ha, poetry? Say, unrle did really coort tbe muses?" . "Who in thunder are tho Mime*? I never courted anybody bat Pertucly end Liddy -never heard of the Muse* - must bvv bin n Dreeot family, by the name." I "Oh, lor. Uncle Daniel, how stupid j you srs. I only meant to ask if yoa did realty essay to mouat Pegasus?" I "Pig - what?" , that?" "Oh. yet, yes," said the eld men, "I 1 j understand, now yob talk English. Yee, | I I did try, but I don't think I hed 1 net- j ! re I gift for it Ef I hed poatry in me, ' I dredful herd to get out. seemed to | stick and bang powerfully, must be* bin 1 of * cocked hat or three cornered kind; ' ' twant what they eall flowin, any way At fn« 1 was Inspired, I know. I wss ; asleep whwn I wsa took, and waktd up | 'with a hell 'arse chalked out en hit I brain, but 'twas awful cold, eo 1 dldu't 1 i get np end write it off, as I'd orter. '< | Next morning nil I could remember j j wen — j -ail, UMr-AS uely— Oh Uihly LhUee." There I broke, end for two weeks I j

' couldn't find e rhyme that seemed Bp- I prieta. Chickadee bumblebee, apple- j ' bee end rich like wns continually runnio j through dt mind; el last 1 struck off t j boldly, nod fetched anotheV line, tlaa; , • Vou «lt«ll M iar *bieh— ebiskf, teddy." Beyond this I could t go, so I gin op poetry and uied prose, but though I" spilet n quire nf paper, 1 eould nevur get farder'n — "Miss Baker.— I now take ' my pen In hand" — end there I oilers eot \ like n si Ad on bsre ground; I never ' could Ull what I took it In bend for " "Well, uncle, whet did you do then? ' 1 Did yon finally propoee?" 1 "1 dU an I diduT. rarsonally spnakI lag, I sWwf; by proxy I did " "By proxjl How was that?" r "Wal, yarn sue, Moses Fendergrass t aad me bed oilers Ma thick as three in > a bed -oilers told one anther everything > —so one day, erter I'd gin op tryia to » write, I ape and tells Mose all about i». 1 Au says I to Moee, says I, bedat you > J just as Uvea ask her for me, ssyi I. He | said be bed. So to mak* * long Story - ehort, one bitter cold Bight, Moee end i I started far the booae where Liddy ; lived. It maa agreed that I sboold suy V,n tbe wood AM .bile Mssttsrik . iutd sot matters right. Moee knocked 1 at the door and wewt ia, aad I sot down r on the ohoppia lag to wait tha iasoc r Moee thought ha conld fix thfega ia half , an boar, aa as it was right o'clock whre I be wewt ia, I calculated on bain ta parar disc nboat half arrer; tret there I sot . and aot, till I beam the clock strike * nine, than I had to get np aad stomp , an threih »/ bands to feqp from freexin. , Tsu o'clock, then eWrea struck, and still ire Mow! At last, just ahoot mid

r night —when I'd got to be !e*tlo betfer'n I a f.-oze tatvr, oat be comes, I rushed up r to bin, an with a shskln voice, "Mo. > Mo-Mose" says I, "wba-at dus 1I.0 sa-u-ey?" Bays I. "Danl " says he, "pen my soul, I forgot to ex her'-' r Jest six weeks arter, Xfose nnd Liddy, wich was twain, was made one fl«sb!" ' A TUX »»R BKAMbU lilt MIL}: THROldn RTIKT IBAB. 1 A— 5 Daring Jsnntry, reed Ocncri* aod ) Exodus. , February, read to tbe l()tb of Deuteronomy. | March, road to the 15lh of 1 Sesnuat. April, read in the llltb of 2 Kings. * . I May. read tolhu Mb of Nsbemiak ^ I Junr, rewd to the lOOtH I'sshn. Joly, reed to the 50th of Issfsh. , ! August, read to »be 80th of tEkckle!' . September, read to tb# end of the- . j Old Tvstamebt: . I Oetober, rciwl to thr end i j November, ns'tl to the end of T Co1 i rintkluce. r ' Decemhet, rend to the end cf New , 1 Testament. i About sixty-five to seventy-five pages i per month, or about two pages for erery t week dsy and foor pages fok. erery Sunday. » 1 I The st>orc plan is offered by one who has regularly adhered to ft for thtrty-om ) sncressive years as e daily derations! exercise, end feeling that it is tbe [ "breed of life," he is afraid oew to dieI coulinue it. Reader, if yoo hare ne ! paste e copy nf thie ane ou > 1 tlh- Inner cover of your Bible aeulfy is. THE 1IHTKK1 OK IT. Two darkies had bongbt a qosntity of pickled pork in pertncrabip;'but Sam I I berjpx pp piece yp hia ' lias's keeping. Ths next morning they I met, when Sam said, , "Good mornipg, Julius. Anything ■ i happen strange or my*trnoua in yoar , ) wiciaity lately?" ,.|f, "Y'aas, bam; most strange tiling* » happen at my honie yrsurday night. ; All mystery — all mystery to me." "Ah, Julius, what was del?" ■ j "Well, Sam, I tole yoo now. bis morniu I went down into de ceilsr for to t grt e piece ob hog for dis darkey's I brcskfs*, an I put my baud down into '. > de brine an fell round; but no pnrk r dar — ell gone, couldn't tell whpt beweut ! wid it; to I turned up the barl, an Sam, as true as preachin, de rats eat a bole ; clsr froo de bottom ob de barl, and • j j j. . ..l .« .

de pork all out!" I Sam was pctrifisd with. astonishment, j bot presently said: "Why didn't de hrinc run out ob de | seme hole?" "Ah, Sam, dot's de mystery — dot's de mystery!" Miss Caliale Mather, daughter .of-* prominent Chicago merchant, has instituted e suit to recover from Dr. Aaron PBuey, of fee same city, the sum «f125,000 for au alleged breach of promixo to marry. The Doctor did not marry her, bat adding inenlt to injury, actually ' perpalrated matrimony whb his house keeper. The plaintiff1 is young aud fktr, aad tb# defendant ss old men. C. I*. Dsboix, H»q., of New London, inventor or the Fog Trumpet, took Ma machine to Eogfeod, experimented wftb H at Dungenesa lighthouse, and Uotwd ths foreign eontrivaoces #11 oot of bear ing! Consequently tbe Eogfe* Board «f Commerce bought it, tod wfll pM t eoe op at Cape Ram — "Ah, Jem my,' said a sympathising friead ta a man who was jast t«» In* far tbe train, "yoo did not res feai enough." Tee, I did,- rued Jwmwj.— J nre fret nooagh, hat I did nut laavn heme cam rewuffh." . , . —A subaar, Wfeiw en taring hi* bad eUe _ nald Bight "Of aH-.th, wagaaf getting a living lh« wcryt s man eautd M- • X> w would ba going ahooi town *nch aigfife .. aad gsttiag tttto bad for folka" ' 1 —AH the blows we ttrikwshoald he for a parposa. Every .nasi drivna shfaM^ u another rivet hi the machine of iha ifeTverp'. — The roira g#i* ho*-* from toag Ultiag, but sprakiii' eyes c.e rprek C» for e**rj ' V : 'V-:- V- -