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Endeavor.

A moaning cry~as the world mils bV.
Through gloom of cloud and glory of sky-
Rings in my ears forever.
And I know not that it profits a man
To plough and sow; and study and plan,
And reap the harvest never.
“Abide, in truth abide,”
snake a low voice at my side.
“ Abide then, and endeavor !”

Amheven though, after care and tall.
I should soc my hope: from a kindly soil.
Though late, yet blooming ever.
Perehance the prize were not worth the pain.
Pcrchanco this trotting and walsting of brain
Wins its true guerdon never.
“ Abide, in love abide,"
The'ten’der voice replied.
“ Abide thou, and endeavor l"

“ Strive, endeavor : it profits more
To fight and fall. than on Time's dull shore
To sit an idlerover ; »
For to him who bares his arm to the strife,
Firm at his post in the battle of life.
The victory faiieth never.
Therefore. in faith abide,”
The earnestvcice still cried.
“ Abide thou. and endeavor l"

Old Sladger’s Daughter.

It might be said of old Sam Sledge!
that his counting-house was his temple,
his desk was his altar. his ledger was
his Bible and his money was his god.
Next to his money he loved his only
child, his daughter Julia.

One could hardly realize that Julia
was his daughter, or even that she bore
the unromantic name of Sladger. She
was beautiful. well bred and moon}.
plished, and was sweetly winning in
manner.

Old Sam had determined that Julia
“ should wed his friend Alderman Chon-

zle, who was worth a mint of money and
would be mayor at no distant day. It
waean excellent match frdm every point
of view except one—Julia's. Julia
would have nothing to do with Chozzle,
much less would she marry him. The
matter was often debated between father
and daughter, if that can be called a
debate, which was all command and low
_ voiced argument on the one sideyand all
tests and silent obstinaoy on the other.

Had Chozzlc had no favored rival in
the field it is possible the poor girl
might have been bullied into accepting
him. But there was a rival. He was
an artist. He was very pocn He was
a complete failure in his profession.
He was exceedingly romantic. and his
name was Vandeleur de Vere. Anyone
must see at once that these were quite
good and sufiieient reasons for any young
woman falling in love Wlth‘llim. At any
rate they were quite sufiiciont for Julia.

At last Chozzle became too much for
Julia, even though she wasn’t married
tohim. Her life seemed all Chozzle.
Her father served him up at breakfast,
at dinner and between meals. ‘ At last
this incessant Ohozzle diet. as it may be
called, became intolerable. So Julia
Went out one fine morning and married »
Vaudelcur do Vere according to a pre-
arranged plan.

Now, if there was one man old Sam
objected to more strongly than another,
it was Vandeleur do Vere. He branded
him. with fine scorn, as “one of them
good for nothing. ascetic fellows "—- by
which he was understood to mean the
great msthotic brotherhood in general.
When, therefore, he received a letter
from his daughter, putting him in pos-
session of the state of afi'airs, imploring
forgiveness for herself and “darling
Van, "the old man's feelings may, to use
a novel phrase, be better imagined.
than described.

In their rooms in a back street, Mr.
and Mrs. Vandeleur do Vere awaited
the outraged parent's reply with a good
deal of anxiety. They did not expect
that he would come round all at once— .
that would be too much ; but they did
hope that he would. after his first fit of
passion, accept the inevitable, and his
son-in—law. '

But they were soon undoceivcd—not
quite so soon, however, as might have
been supposed, for two days elapsed be-
fore a letter made its appearance, bear-
ing on the cover the stifl’, awkward
writing of Samuel Sledger. When it
did come, the young couple found it
very brief and to the point. It was
addressed to Mrs. V. dc Vere, and ran
as follows : . '

“Mann: :——Yonr favor of the 4th in-
stant at hand. and contents noted. As
you have made your bed. so must you
and your va bond lie‘. You have not
broken my cart b your wicked and
disgraceful conduct, but you have closed
it against on forever. I am a man of
my word;t at you know well. I cast
you off ; I disown you as a daughter, I
forbid you or your M. de Vere to set
footin my house under any pretense
whatever, and I tell you now, once for
all. that you shall never have even one
penny piece. or the value of it, from
me. It will be nits useless to write 'to
me, as all your otters will be returned
unopened. Suntan Samoan."

Writing to the obdurate old man under

, the circumstances was certainly afor-
lorn hope, but the young people did
write—more than once, on each time
the letter was duly returned unopened.

To do Julia and her husband justice,
they bore up under their misfortunes
pluckily. Van painted by the porch,
rood and acre. but‘ the pictures would
not sell. By the time all J ulia's trinkets
had been turned into money. and actual
starvation was stm'hig the young couple '
in the hoe—for dealers and art shop-
keepers wouldn't even look “peer Van's
productions now—the landlady who was
getting anxious about the rent, which
was rapidly falling in arrears, volun-
teered this—to Julia—very mysterious
piece of advice.

“If you can’t sell 'cm."a'nd she in-
dicated t‘ue blushing canvas, “why not

spent ’em 9"

“I—-—I beg your pardon, I don’t quite“
understand." replied Julia, looking a
goml deal bewildered.

The landlady, in a tone of incon-
ceuled pity for her ledger's ignorance,
explained that “ spouting " the pictm
meant pledging them at a pawnbrokor’s
for whatever he could be induced to
lend upon them.

Julia shrank from the idea'atfirsh/
and Van was indignant when 'it was
suggested that he should pawn his works
of genius just as it they were’flat-ironl ,
or Sunday suits. But Julia had grown
more practical of late—was beginning to
come out of her shell, as the landlady
said—and soon reconciled herself to the
notion of obtaining small advances
upon the husband's pictures. . _

The work of pledging them was by .
no means a pleasant one. Only a few
pawnbrokers here and there could be
induced to lend anything upon Van's
priceless art treasures. And theseh'who
lent anything at all lent vow. .10!!-

 

 

little, grumbling that “pictureswaso ~

drug in the market," and suggesting
that they were prepared to make mils ‘
liberal advances uponany articles of-
eolid commercial value. _ ,

In their keen‘str-uggle for life ball!
Van and Julia became smart and art-
ful to a degree which surprisedcven
themselves. Van very recon got-to know-
the sort of pictures upon which most
money could he lent, and was lavishin
the use of his brightest colors. Butte
Julia must be given the credit of hit-
ting upon the idea of Van's producing
endless copies of his most popular piece
-—a red-cloaked maiden walking in a
gambogo corn field under 3 W3

ultra-marine sky. Van soon dropped
into the knack of “knocking off" these
masterpieces at a terrific rate. He
Worked upon some‘ half-dozen at once,
first putting on six brilliant skies, than
calling into being six fields of waving
grain, and then introducing into each
the simple maiden in the excruciating
scarlet cloak.

For many a week did the young
people live upon the proceeds of their
gaudy manufacture, but there came a
time when there was scarcely spawn-
brokcr in New York who had not in his
keeping one of Van's outrages upon
nature.‘ But it gradually became harder
to part with them, Or any picture at all.
and the young people were getting
terribly anxious about the future.

“Van, dear," said J ulia for the thou-
sandth time. “we must have money
somehow. I’m getting desperate. I
wish, oh, how I wish I‘could earn some ?
But what can I do? I was never taught
anything useful. I can play, decently,
it‘s true, and I can sing; that’s one
thing Icon do very well. But where
can I sing ? I have never sung in pub-
lic. I have no recommendations nor
introductions. I shall never make any-
thing by singing." " '

“I'm afraid you're right, darling,”
said her husband, gloomily, as he
clinked the few half dollars remaining
in his pocket. “ You could never make
a public appearance unless—4' and here
he smiled at the quaintness of the idea
-"unless you make it in the public
streets, like that girl we saw with a
crowd round her the other night, don't
you know? Haw delighted your amiable
parent—confound him l—would be if he
how it. Wonder what he'd do 1‘"

Julia was aIWaye ready to laugh at
a quaint conceit, even in the midst of
their poverty. But she did not laugh
now. She started as Van spoke, and
turned quickly away from the table.
Van rose also, went to his easel, began
misrepresenting nature, and in that
pleasing occupation very ‘soon forget
about old Sludge: and the can'tatricc of
the pavement.

All that day Julia was exceedingly

I quiet and thoughtful.

“Van, dear, " said J ulia, suddenly,
when they had been sitting talking for
some time after tea, "I'm going out."

“All right." said Van, "I'm ready.
Where do you want to go ?"

“Oh, not far! there are several little
things to buy. I can get them quite
well by myself. You needn't come."

"Needn't come! But I don't like
you're going out alone at night, dear.’
Beside, why should you go alone i"

“For a woman's reason. BecausoI
want to. Now,- don't be angry, Van.
You must let me have my own way. I
won’t come toany harm, Ipromise you."
And Van gave in, of course.

But he had a fresh remonstrance to
make when he saw Julia wrap herself
in a faded old black shawl, and put on n
bonnet which had long seen not only its
best but pretty nearly its worst days.

“What on earth are you putting on
those wretched old things for 1" he in-
quired. ”We are poor enough, good-
ness knows, but you have some respect-
able clothes left, anyhow. "

“For the sake of economy. Idon’t
care how I look about here," and with
that silo hurried out.

Julia walked rapidly. looking neither
to the right nor left. She feared if she
proceeded slowly, or hesitated, the
courage to carry outthe resolution she
had-inade might ooze away. I -

At last she arrived near her father's
house. a handsome corner building. It
was about nine o'cloek, and old Sam and
his guests, as ho was giving a dinner
party, were in the brilliantly lighted
dining-room. .

Sam Sladgor had changed a good deal
since. his daughter's departure from
home. He looked aged and haggard.
He missed her sorely. and yearned to
have her back with him; but he had
stuck stubbornly to his determination
to have nothing further to do with her.

“He had found, too, to his bitter
annoyance, that the opinion of nearly
all his friends was that he had treated
his daughter with undue harshness and
sOVerity, not to say actual cruelty. He
feared that Vandeleur might be driven
by poverty to resort to any shady means
of getting a living that might present

themselves, and he was filled with a
vague terror that he might thereby find
himself—the respected Sladger—in-
volved indirectly in some scandal
brought about by his son-in-law.

The old man was not happy. But on
this particular evening he was less un-
happy than he had been for a consider-
able time, for among the guests was one
of the “hobs" he worshipped. . ‘

“Well, as I was saying," remarked
the aristocratic gentleman, continuing a
conversation, “there was quite a scene.

Regular excitement ; everybody upset.

lar to blame. But a scene is a thing I
really cannot stand; and so I've never
been to the house since." '

There wasa murmur of applause at
this very spirited and aristocratic way
of treating the affair, which had hardly
died away when Sladgcr's face suddenly
became ashy pale.

He hurriedly drank a glass of wine,
and listened with feverish eagerness,
for it was something he had heard Which
had caused the blood quickly tolcave
his cheeks. Yes, there was'nc mistake.
Tremulous and low at first, but growing
louder and clearer now. a woman’s voice
singing a simple ballad could be board.

There was nothing much in that to
other hearers, but there was a good
deal in it to old Sladgor. It was his
daughter's voice. Surely he could not
be mistaken! Making some trivial ex-
cuse for going to the window, he raised
the curtains and looked out. There
before his very doorstep, was a cinall
crowd; one Of those crowds which
spring up lP‘NOW York as if'by magic;
ond in the centre of it was cycling
woman wrapped in a faded md old
‘lblack shawl, with. a patched and
shrivcled bonnet on her head. Inspite
of this it was clear from her general

not that. she was not a woman accus-
tomed togot her living by singing 'in
the streets. Some in the crowd were
sympathetic, others were mirthful and
others, again, merely looked on and
wondered vaguely. " ’
Old Sam knew her in a- moment. He
had not mistaken the voice.“ ' It was his
daughter he saw before him."He looked
out at her for some moments, unable to
decide howto not. He must not have a
scene, and he must have his daughter.
~He cursed himself for having held out
so long. This sort of thing must be
put ‘a stop to, at all hazards. His
daughter singing in the streets! It
would certainly come to be known and
talked-about. The scandal would be
too great?
Leaving the dining-room with as com-
posed an air as he gould assume under
the circumstances, he' went quietly to
the hall door. opened it and passed out.
Ashe did so the song came to an end.
Stepping up to his daughter who looked
at him with steady eyes, he said
aloud: ‘
"Very well done, young woman-4
very well done! You must be tired.

 

001119.19 and take a little refreshment!"

I don't say there was anybody in particu- .

appearance and the timidity of her mali- .

And then, in a tone that reached only
her care, “For heaven's sake, J uliu.
come into the house and stop this hor-
rible masquerading! You’ll disgrace
me forever! Don’t hesitate or make a
scene. I wouldn't have a scene here
for anything. l'll take back all I wrote
you. I dare say your husband's a very
good follow—in his way. I'll make
friends with him too. You shan't want
for money, either of you." And so
saying, the old man drew her into the
home.

What passed between father and
daughter then, is, perhaps, hardly worth
relating, but a reconciliation must have
been effected, for the young couple

licst terms.

, Strange to relate, Sam has come to be
fond of his son-in-law. for Vandeleur
has madea nameas the founder of a
new school of art, by his friends and
admirers called the Mystic, and by his
detractors called the Moonstruck, and
which, whatever its claims to consider-
ation. is talked. and written about a
great deal. and that is the main thing,
after all.

Julia says she has no secrets from her
husband, but, all the same, Vandcleur
has never learned what became of his
wife when she donned the old bonnet
and shawl, or how it was that Sam
Sladgcr's heart warmed so suddenly to
his runaway daughter and her artistic
vagabound of a husband.

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A Silk Dress.

 

 

“There's Annie Beldon!" said Aunt
Jane, looking up from her hitting as
the heard the sound of footsteps on the
plank walk which lay along the front
fence. “Poor sent! Inevor see her
that I don’t think of that verse in the
Bible which says that Iitem him that
hath not shall be taken even that which
he hath,’ '-’ and she sighed deeply.

I looked from the window just in time
to see Annie Beldon before she turned
the corner of the next street. She was a
faded, careworu looking woman, a little
post middle age. with dark-brown hair,
thickly sprinkled with grey. — Her dress
was a rusty black cashmere, her black
shawl was decidedly shabby, and her
crepe bonnet was shabbfcr still. She
looked neither attractive nor interest-
ing. and I turned from the window and
took up my crochotfng again, remarking
only that "she looked as if she had.-
had her share of sorrow. "

"Sometimes I think she has had a
good deal more than her share," said
, Aunt Jane. “ I know dozens of
women would have sunk into the grave
under only half as much. And the best
of it is, she don't never complain. She's
the cheerfullest soul that ever breathed."

“Does she live near here ?" I asked
more out of politeness than from any
real interest in the subject.

“ No ! but she was my next-door
noighbbr for twenty-five years when
this was a farmhouse. The town lay
two miles of then. and we never locked
to see it grow up right to our verydoore.
Annie wouldn't be wearin’ such shabby '
clothes if there hadn't been a mortgage
on their place. She could have sold
every acre at a good profit if it had
been free. "

“Tell me about her, Aunt Jane,"I
said, as the old lady paused. "You'll
have plenty of time before supper."
ff ”they me, child, there isn't much to
tell, 'n' maybe the little there is wouldn't
prove very interestin' to you. I know -
Annie looks chubby, 'n' old, 'n' grey
now. 'n' not much like what she did
thirty years ago. We was girls to-
gether, ’n' she ms the prettiest an' live-
liest little thiugI ever saw. Her eyes
was as black as coals, 'n' her hair hung
in long curls to her waist. She had a
laugh 'n' a good word for everybody, 'n'
more beanx than she could. 'tend to.
There was only two of 'em, though.
that she favored at all. One was Tom
Layton—4"

“The owner of Layton Mills?" I in-
ferrupted.

“ch ; but he didn't
then. He was only
there, 'n' though he was a savin',
industrious young man, noone looked
to see him get to be a millionaire. But
he had a good salary, 'n' his father was
well-to-do, 'n'he was reckoned a good
match, for Annie. For a while folks
thought she'd marry him; but he warn't
a professor, 'n' Annie set a deal by her
church. She allowed if she married it
~ man who never went inside of one she'd
be false to her principles, for the Bible
says the righteous shall not be yoked to
the unrightecus, you know.

"Tomteok it real hard at first, but
he didn't hear Annie no ill will, 'n'
when she married Luther Beldon he
sent her a handsome present.

, "Luther, he was a really steady
young man, but somehow or other he
didn't have no luck. He had a good
farm, but, work as he might, he never
made nothin' oil‘ it more'n a bare livin'
'n' mic had to pinch 'n’ screw to keep
clothes to their backs. She was a
master hand at managin'. 'n' she worked
nke a horse, but your after yearweut by
' ‘n' they didn't get no better 03‘. Drought
'n' only frost, ’u' too much rain kep' 'em'
fliers behindhand, ’n' jest when they
was goin' to do better thcro'd come
telnethln' that would put 'em back-

on the mills
superintendent

n.
"Luther he got discouraged, but
Annie she never lost heart. Leestways
she never seemed to. When they'd come
over here 'n' Luther he'd get to tellin'
how crouways things ullers went for
him, she'd allers have somethin’ cheer-
ful tosay. She'd tell about it was a
'longlano that had noturnin', 'n'itwsii
allots darkest jest before the day, 'n'
there was allcrs a silver linln' to every
cloud, till Luther he'd get pleasant
again 'a' ready to laugh with her over
their troubles.

“‘ ' 'tIgot a treasurein mywifc?‘
he'd say. ' 'Long as frosts 'n' mildew 'n'
floods don't. take her away from me, I
guess I can get aloug.‘

' “They were over here to take dinner
the day I was thirty. I was wearin' hr
the first time a new black silk dress
which John hedgivon me for a birthday

handsome, ’n' Luther he didn’t seem to
keep his eyes ofl it.

' “ I wonder when I’ll be able to give
you a black silk, Annie l” he said, put-

an» chair. ‘We've'been married seven
years 'n' I ain't been able to give you
nothin' better'n calico)

"'I don’t need a silk,’ says Annie.
'I’ve got all the dresses I can use now.’

“Luther locked at her real steady a
minute. Then he says, sorter slow 'n'

' quiet, fFor all that, I mean to get you
one, Annie. 1 want to see how you'd
' lock in it.’ - ’

“ ‘ No better'n I look now in my blue
delaine.‘ says Annie.

“ ‘We'll see but that.’ says Luther.
‘Idm'tcarehowhardtimesare. Imean
to live till I*get you a black silk dress.’

“She laughed 'n' told him he’d make
a peacock’ofhor if he couldfb‘ut for‘all
her brave words I know she was down—
right fond of pretty things, 'n' it really
hurt her to have to wear all! fhdd
dresses, 'n' boancts five years behind
the style. But she never said so, ’n'
she’d walk into church Sunday after

 

and the old man are now on the friend- _

present. It was thick 'n’ soft 'n' mighty ,

tingh'uermsround her assho stood by

 

Sunday ,in her old blué délii'i'nc ahd
yellow straw bonnet. lookin' as sweet 'n'
happy us if she‘d been dressed like a
llllilf‘n.

“Well, Luther he never came over
lure after that without he had some
rmnurk to make about my black silk, ’n'
he stuck to it that he'd give Annie one
like it before he died.

”But year after your want by -'n' my
silk was all were out'n I’d got another,
'n’ still Annie's best dress was a cheap
dclaine, 'n' it wasn't often she could
even afford to buy a pair of cotton
gloves to cover her hands. Things
hadn't got better with Luther 'n’ they
had other things to sorrow for than
losin' their best horses ’n' cattle ’n'
their crops. They lost their six chil-
dren, one after the other. Three of
them died in one week of scarlet fever,
'n' the others was sickly little things, 'n’
went off in slow consumption.

“If it hadn't been that she had to
keep Luther up, I believe Annie'd have
give way many a time; but for his sake
she didn’t show one-half she felt. An'
she never lost faith in the Lord. She
said His ways seemed hard, but that He
knew what was best for her.

“ Well, time went on, 'n' about five
years ago things seemed to take a turn
for the better with Luther. His wheat
crop turned out well, ’n’ he sold it to
good profit, 'n' he got his corn ofi‘ the
bottom lands before the river rose, 'n'
that was a great help to him. He
seemed real cheerful, ’n' told John that

'he was just beginning to .enjoy life, ’n'

if things went well he’d soon have the
mortgage cleared off the farm.

“The weather set in cold 'n' stormy
just after Thanksgivin', 'n' one after-
noon I was out in the chicken yard
shellin' corn to the hens, 'n’ all muflled
up to my eyes, when I heard a wagon
stop at the gate 'n' there was Luther a
noddin' ’n' beckonin' to me. I went
down to the gate to speak to him, 'n'
before I got there he was tellin’ me how
he'd sold Tom Layton a colt he'd been
raisin’, 'n’ he was on his way at last to
buy Annie that silk dress. He asked
me about the number of yards he ought
to get 'n' where he should go to buy, ’n’
said he could hardly wait to get it now
he was ready. He was going to give
Annie a surprise. he said; she didn't
know what he was goin' after.

“ Well, the tears was in\ my eyes as I
watched him drive off, pleased as a child
at the,idea cf surprisin' Annie. But I
never guessed what the black silk dress
was to.cost her, poor soul ! ,

“It began to rain soon after Luther'd
gone, 'n' poured down for upward of
four hours. I was at the winder when
he went by on his way home, 'n'-'I
noticed he didn't have his overcoat on,
’n' I wondered what he'd done with it.
for I was sure he'd had it on when he
stopped at the gates Annie told me
afterward that he'd taken the coat of!
his back 'n' rolled the black silk in it to
keep it from gettin' wet. It wasn't even
damp when he unrolled it an’ showed it
to her, but he was wet to the skin him-
self, ’n' in a few days thorcwas a doctor's
buggy at the gate. John he went over
to see what was the matter, 'n' found
Luther walkin’ the floor and groanin’
with pain. The cold had settled in his
side ’n' the doctor couldn't give him no
relief. But he said be guessed he‘d
pull through all right 'n' there wasn't no
need to worry.

“Miss Parsons was makin' the silk
up. Luther wasn't satisfied till Annie
had gone to the village 'n' got some
one to work on it, 'n‘ she thought best

,to humor him. ,Hc wasn't no better
when the dress came home. 'n' the doc-'

tor was still 'tendin' him; but no one
'lowed he was anyway dangerous. It
was John who brought the dress home
from Miss Parsons' 'n' he said Luther
was just too pleased for anything to see
the bundle.

“ ‘ I'm goin' to'havo Annie dress right

"up in it,’ he says. ' 'n’ you 'n’ Jane must

come over after supper ’n' see how she
looks.’

“Well, as I heard afterward, John
had hardly gone when Luther began to
tease Annie to put the dress on. She
wanted to get supper first; but he
wouldn't hear to it.

‘ “I've been waitin' nearly twenty
years to see you in that dress,’ he says,
’n' I won’t wait even an hour longer.’

” Well, Annie she made him lie down
-for he'd been walkin‘ the floor con-
stant nearly all day—’n' she went into
the bed-room to put the dress on. She’d.
got the skirt on ’n' was fastening the
waist, when she heard a queer sound
from the spare room where Luther was
lyin'. She stopped a minute to listen, ’n'
then called to him to know if he wanted
anything. There wasn't no answer, 'n'
she crossed the hall 'n' hurried into the
spare room. Well, child, she found him
dam his face turned toward the door
as if he had been lookin' for her, ‘n' the
sound she'd heard was the death rattle
in his throat.

“ When John 'n' I got there he'd been
dead only a few minutes. 'n'.I tell you.
child, it was a sad sight to see her
kneelin' down by that low, bed in her
new black silk, her arms round that
deadman 'n’ moanin' 'n' shudderin' over
him'n'boggin'him tospeaktoher.

“‘Heisn’tdcadl'shc saystomeasI
came in. ‘Hc has only fainted. 011.
June! do something for him. Get hot
water, ’n’ you'll find camphere in the
pantry on the lowest shelf to the right.‘

”But I saw that hot water 'n' cam-
phero wouldn't be no use, 'n’ I told her
so as gentle as I could 'n' begged her to
come away. She wouldn't listen tome
at first, but after the doctor had come
'n' told her it was all over 'n' poor
Luther died from apoplcxy of the atom-
ach, she let me take her to her qwn
room. ,

“As we was crossin' thchall she heard
the drees rustle 'n' she stopped and
looked at me pitiful.

“ 'Eo never. saw me in it, after all,’
’n' she broke down 'n' cried as if her
heart would break.

“After poor‘Luther was buried 'n'
there was a stone put over him 'n' his
debts was all paid, there wasn't nothin'
left for Annie, ’n' she was glad to take a
placein the mills. We wanted herto
come here. but she was too proud to eat
the bread she hadn't earned, she said.

“About a week ago I was out with
Miss Sniper gettin' subscriptions for the
church carpet. 'n' we met Annie on the
street. Miss Sniper. she ain't over sen-
eitive‘herself 'n' she don't giveno one
else credit for bein' so, 'n' she don't give
no one else credit for boin' so, 'n' she up
'n' asks Annie if she didn't ever wish

she'd said 'yes' instead of 'no’toTom.

Layton.

“‘Never,‘ says Annie. ‘Had I my
life to begin again I would not alter it
as far as Tom Layton is concerned.’

"!But it’s pretty hard to have to
work for him, isn't it? asked Miss
Sniper, 'n' I felt it in my heart to hate
her for asking such a thing.

"But Annie only smiled. ‘1 con-
sider myself fortunate to be able to earn
such good wagec,’ she says, and she
walked away smilin' still.

"I was glad Miss Sniper didn't know
anything about that black silk dress.
If she'd said anything about that, Annie
would 'a' broke down. She's got it
pmked away at the bottom of her trunk,
poor soul, ’n' she never speaks about
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IRISH SOCIABILITY.

.—

Sociable gatherings afford an Irish

peasant the means of recreating himself
which he likes best. The coupling of
funerals with weddings and fairs is
characteristic; indeed, the word “fun-
eral" has been known to be used by a
countryman as synonymous with a large
gathering. Joviality goes hand in hand
with sorrow at a wake, manifestations of
grief being confined to the room where
the body lies, though many cottages do
not permit of such an arrangement, and
drinking and weeping go on around the
very coffin. A wedding dfi‘ers the addi-
tional attraction of dancing, of which
the Irish countryman is genuinely fond.
Schools of dancing are established in
the‘ winter moo the, and on Sunday after-
noons, in the summer, boys and girls,—
these words are as elastic in their appli-
cation as the Latin juvenis—asscmble at
some favorite crossroads to foot it to the
scraping of a blind fiddler. Their danc-
ing is not graceful. because it is appar-
ently dc figueur to keep the body as stifl
as possible; but it serves to exhibit a
very remarkable faculty of keeping time
and is, in all other respects, an excel-
lent and healthogiving exercise. In hap-
pier days the friendly relations between
landlord and tenant were periodically
cemented, when any occasron for rejoic-
ing adored, by the giving of bonfires
and dances, in which the "quality"
Would figure as performers and not
merely as spectators. For we know of
several Irish ladies who have turned
their leisure during a winter residence
to account and mastered the intricacies
of the jig and reel stop.':_',; In one such
case the‘ instructor, having to take his
pupil’s hand to perform some evolution,
was seized with sudden shyness, and
suggested imploringly, “Maybe ye'd
have a mit or a bit of paper." Vocal
music enters to a certain extent into the
recreation of the country folk; but their
songs are more curious than beautiful,
and we never remember to have heard,
or heard of any concert music among
the country people. Then there are the
fairs where the stick comes into great
play, and old scores are settled or new
ones run up. The worst feature about
the'fairs is the drunkenness that they
encourage. Paddy is seldom a habitual
druukard, but at intervals he will exceed
and it takes very little of the poison sold
under the name, of whiskey by rural
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“Yum walla, wells, wop to men. Pot
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since I heard that cry, the crier being a
pot and kettle tinker, a caner of chairs,
and a mender of umbrellas. He was
soldering a cooking utensil when, with
the heodless audacity of beardlcss youth,
I told him no one could understand
what he meant by his cry. “Why don’t
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shouting Yum wells, walla, wop to
men ?" “Well, young fluffy, I won‘t
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of peepcrs, 'cos you raw-checkers don't
know what is manners. My cry ,has
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'Cos why? It's a rouser for the whole
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brings it out. When you have growed
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shave, and if you take to a public line,
just you get a my what is a rcuser, and
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'fetch the halfpence, though so be there

is no more head nor tail in it than you
can find in an oyster without spec-
tacles.” Often, since my chin has be-
come daily shaveable, 'I have been
reminded that there is much sound
sense in the advice of "Yum wella.
wolla, wop to men. " What is the use of
a cry unless it is a rouser? And loud-
ness alone will not do ; for a customary
noise, however loud, is not rousing,
since after a while the ear ceases to
notice it, and so some of us are undis-
turbed by the rushing, rumbling, and
shrieking of the railway trains, or by
the maddening din of street trafilc or by
cock crowing or by donkey braying, or
by piano thumping of little girls learn-
ing to murder music. The itinerant
jobber, though bull-voiced, would not
have excited attention by crying, “ Any
umbrellas to mend ?" but he was heeded
when he bellowed the novel cry, ”Yum
wells, wells, wop to men."

THE MOOSE NEARLY EXTINCT.

The time is close at hand when the
moose will become extinct. Pursned at

all the seasons of the year by roving '

Indians and hunter traps, to say noth-
ing of the common ruck of sportsmen,
bulls. cows with young, and half-grown
calves are killed indiscriminately at all
seasons. Those creatures are the largest
of the deer family. measuring, when full
grown, five feet eight inches to six feet
in height, and weighing twelve hundred
pounds or more. They have a coarse,
erect mean, while under the throat
dangles along 13ft of hair. Animals
indigenous ‘ of these high latitudes
usually assume a white for during the
winter months ; that on the moose, on
the contrary, becomes much darker in
color. Their antlers are foliutcd, and
of immenscweight and size, averaging
'six feet h-om tip to toe, and weighing
upward of sixty pounds These they
shed in January. By the month of
June they have again attained the nor-
mal size. Their‘fore-legs are so dis-
proportionate in length as to seriously
intorfcre with their grazing ; conse-
quently, when feeding upon grass,
they will, if possible, pasture upon a
slope. Their hind feet are splayed. and
furnished with long, loose, horny points,

- which rattle as they shamblc along.

Notwithstanding their awkwardness and
great size. when “alarmed they travel
with astonishing speed. seemingly im-
possible in an animal crowned with
such immense and weighty antlers. His
heed-gem. however, gives him, when in
flight, less trouble than his legs. The
head curried so high as to. prevent him
from seeing the ground directlyin his
front, causes him to trip and. stumble
over the fallen trunks and branches
which my lie in his path. The cow-
mcoee is somewhat smaller than the
male; her coat has a more reddish tinge.
Early in life she gives birth but to one
all ; as she advances in years the num-
ber isincremd to two.

W
FORM VERSUS FARMS.

A Western lumber buyer thinks that
if the original black walnut forests of
Indiana and Ohio were standing to-day,
they would be far more valuable than
the farms, to make which they were
cleared away. Miles and miles of fence
in those States. he says, were laid with
black walnut rails. Afarmer who began
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ber, eighty acres of which he burned
up. After thirty years of'-cultivation
the farm is worth $8.000. Ifithadits
walnut timber .back it would be worth
.100. 000. This farmer is only one among
thousands who for years girdled, cut
and burned the great forest they found
occupying the land. "

is Strange as Fictlu

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Comparisons arc frequently made
between yacht racing and en-- ”urn coach-
ing Some people are :nnrn tenough
to think that the former lm\' in on insti-
tuted for the purpose of‘keepiug alive
the nautical tastes of our ferefathors.
just as the latter had been started for
the purpose of pr: serving to some of-
tent the sensation which were experi-

before the “steam put" hissed the
“Tantivy team" from off the road, yacht
racing had come into favor, and, though
the speed of the competing vessels could
not compare with that of the racing
boats of the present time, skilful sea-

siasm was greater even than it is now.
As earlyas the year 1720 a club, now
known as the Royal Cork Yacht Club,
' was formed by the gentlemen who used
to cruise inside Queenstown Harbor;
but it wasfnot till about 1815 that some‘
fifty noblemen formed themselves into
a club, which is now identifiable as the
Royal Yacht Squadron, the most aristo-
cratic yachting club of the world, and
the only one in Great Britain the mem-
bers of which are entitled to fly on
board their boats the white ensign of
her Majesty’s navy. The early mem-
bers of the squadron were those who
had been connected with the senior
branch of the service, and ready, of
course," like all old naval officers to
oppose innovations. Up till 1815 the
ofiicers of the navy had not added
greatly to the progress of science, and
those of them who belonged to the
newly-formed sailing club did not at-
tempt to improve upon the old-fash-
ioned types of yachts, with their blufl',
cod-like heads, and their lean, mackerel.
like stems. Fifty years ago a yacht’s
length was just three times its breadth;
but about that time Wanhill of Poole
began to lengthen and sharpen the bow;
and in the north, Fife, of Fairlie, on
the Clyde, father of the present noted
yacht builder, turned out a boat of
thirty-six tons, named the Wave, which
was very sharpabowed and high in the
bilge, the breadth of which was just one
third her length of kee. The latter,
after being given a Inaden heel and
ballast, beat older boats of exactly double
her size, and so the bluff how was made
more narrow still, and the mackerel-like
tail lengthened out and made more full
and shapely. The Poole builder then
began to seek stability, that'is, roughly
speaking, “self-righting power," by
depth, and boats have been getting
deeper and longer ever since. Leaden
keels began to be generally used. and
the shifting of ballast was allowed, then.
and for many years afterward, each com-
peting vessel having generally five or
six tons of-‘shot, such as is used by
sportsmen, infbags, to pile up to wind-
ward as soon loathe vessel changed her
tack. In nai‘m'w water and a head wind
this work was. exceedingly heavy, for no
sooner wasvrthe'last bag shifted over
from the lee to’ the weather side than

‘ .theword “Roddy about" was given,
~ and it was necessary to throw the shot

back again to the side from which it

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:A WONDERFUL arousranv LAKE.

There can scarcely be as great a nat-
ural wonder within civilization, and at
the same time so'littlo known close at
hand, as Crater Lake. Situated twenty-
two miles west of north of Forth Kla-
math, in Klamath County, directly on
the summit of the Cascade Mountains
and about ninety miles east of Medford,
it is easily accessible, there being a
good mountain road 'to the very top of
the walls surrounding it and fine camp-
ing grounds about half a mile distant.
The lake itself is about six by- eight
miles in diameter and ranges from east
of north to west of south.
of the water is 6,300 feet above sea level
and is completely surrounded by clifi‘s
or walls from 1,000 to nearly 3,000 feet
high, which are scantily covered with
fir trees. To the southwest is a circular
island which our party named Wizard
Island. It is 600 feet high, and in the
top is a circular hole, or extinct crater,
475 feet in diameter, named by us the
Witch’s Caldron. The base of the island
is covered with very heavy and hard
rocks, over which scarcely a score of
human feet have ever trod. Further up
are deep beds of ashes and c'
ing evidence of the most. ' a use heat in
days gone by. Within the crater, as
without, the surface is entirely covered
with volcano rocks, but here it forms
one of the hottest places it has ever been
my lot to witness. Ninety feet below
the crater's rim not a breath of air can
penetrate, while the sun beats down
upon the rocky surface and reflects its
rays from ten thousand upturned stones.

forming a very furnace.
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2315‘s}! 01‘ “AULD ROBIN. GRAY.”

This exquisite ballad was written by
Lady Anne Lindsay, (laughter of the
fifth Earl of Bnlcurrcs. She was born
on Nov. 27, 1750, and at the early age of
twenty-one produced the ballad which
Sir Walter Scott says “is worth all the
dialogues which Corydon and Ph iis
have had together, from the days of
Theocritus downward." In 1793 Lady
A. Lindsay man‘led Mr. Andrew Bar-
nard, son of the Bishop of Limerick, with
whom she went out to the Cape, on his
appointment as colonial secretary under
Lord Macartney. Mr. Barnard dying
at the Cape, his widow returned to Lon-
don where she enjoyed the friendship of
Burke. Windham and others until her
death, whichoccured in, the year 1825.
It was not until she was in her seventy-
third year that Lady Barnard made
known the secret of the authorship of
this ballad. An amusing story is told
in connection with its production. On
Lord Balcarro‘s estate was a shepherd
of the name of Robin Gray and for some
not of his Lady Anne resolved to immor-
talize his memory. Upon her little

- sister entering her room one day, Lady

Anne said: “I have been writing a
ballad, my dear, and I am oppressing

. my heroine with many misfortunes. I

have already sent her Jamie to sea.
broken her father's arm, made her
mother fall sick, and given her said
Robin Gray for a lover, but I wish to

. load her with a fifth .sorrow in the last
_ four lines. Help me to one, I pray.”

“Steal the cow, sister Anne,” said her
sister. Accordingly we are told that the
cow was “ lifted. ”

W
HE WAS A BUSINESS .HAK.

It was at a railway junction in Illinois.

. Several passengers were waiting for the

train, and one of them was so nervous
and impatient that a fellow-traveler
finally said: -

“You seem to be very anxious to
reach home." -

“SoIam. Every hour is worth ten
dollars to me. I got a dispatch at
Pekin that fifty-one of my hogs have

» shown the first symptoms of cholera."

"And you are in a hurrytoadmin-
ister a remedy of course ?”
' “A remedy? No, siryi don't fool
away: my time and money on remedies. -
Iwant to get them hogs into Chime

and sold before sundown to-morrow,

and it's

 

going to be a mightyclcse

shave."

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manship was displayed, and the euthu- ,

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