r VUl^UJIK ]. UXFOlU), X. t’., \VKI)XK«!)AY, JIH.Y 7, 1X75. NUM15KK. 27. From {lie Yot'itb’s ('oiii|'uiion. Tllli Mt:03t0»S ItlA’Q. i;y kffkcca iiafdiyg dayis. XoM' I. hope—bet, as I I'eineni- ber Ibe way.s of garbs and boys, 1 nm not at all srire—that you will find til's story more attractivebe- cause it is in all essential particu lars absolutel)- true. It is of a curious thing that hajipeued to an old gentleman— i’arsou Adams-^ivlio taught the little ciiiljreu in Vailstown their A, B, C!’s in his diniug-ropm, and made them ready t(> g'O to tlie big woodeli academy, cstatilish- ed at the toj) of tlie street, by two Youug felloivs from colleg'o. Now every term the number of the jiarson’s siiholars grew fewer. N'ot tliat the people in Y^ailstowu had not the profouiulest respect for tlie old man. No. bVhen lie Was a vouiig man he had gone out as a missionary to Brazil, with his wife,. and labored there for his Master until he came liome, old and broben down. And ’\biils- town was a little vain of having a citizen who could talk, as an e\ er\ -(la3^ matter, of the Amazon and cott'ee-fazondas. Whenever a stranger was in the villuge, I’arsoii Adams was sure to be a.sked out to tea with him. But teaching the children was another thing. The old man ivas one of the most godlr' and iin- ifo'fldl v.of men,—that everr bodj- iickiiowledgod,—but the \-oung- sters did as they pleased with him. lie was read}' any day to lav down the )irimers or slates, and toll them hunting or snake stories hv the hour. Besides, the academy wa.s so magliificently (ircek, as to jioriico, and its Young “i’ernapabs” so full to ov- crtlowiiig of all elas.sic.al kiiowl- -dge, tliat the town felt a jiridoiii snpiiortiiig it, and eveiy mother tl lio sent her little Bob or Betty to it, had a vague conviction that she thus became allied, .somehow, to Homer and Thuevdidos.- d'he old pfirsftti, tod,- w;ss sub' jeet to file inflammatory rheuma- ti.-ni, and as the sipiire’s wife said to Mis. I’otts, ‘‘Of course the poor man was not e-vactly to blame; but for a teacher to sit with one leg bandaged rvith red flannel was nut calculated to imbue his scholars rvith that—tiiat venera tion for learning which—if there bo one thing, Mrs. Potts, ivhich I desire for mv' Joe, it is vouora- tion for learning,—and the par son has been swathed in red flan nel Jfow for three weeks.” Joe, therefore, with Mrs. Potts’ Bill, were sent to the aeadeny- at the first day? of the next quarter. The old jiarson, who had dolf- ed Ilfs red fianuel, and gone back to ordinary trousers,: sat all the morning waiting fot sclmlars-. When noon came, Mrs. Adams and Dolby^they had Init one child, Dolly—‘had to ring the din ner-bell two or three times before fh« jiarson came hobbling out, laughing and rubbing his hands as usual. AVell, mother, I hope we have something good. Pm fairly rav enous, I can tell v’ou. llillo 1 Potatoes and milk. No tea, Dol ly ?’ ‘The tea’s all g.one, father,’ what about meat ?- Why,, it’s- lii-ere tliaii weeks since wc had meat. Not that I want it. I’m better without it. Ihit .^•ou’ro a strong-, growing- girl, Dolly, and mother, here, begins t(.) look pale and ])eakod.’ ‘It couldn’t be managed, father, that’s a fact,’ said Dolly, laugh ing. She was like her fatlier, and could extract a laugh out of tlie very poorest materials for a joke. ‘The last chicken is killed, and it took every penny of the tuition money from last term to pity tlie hills. Ihit we shall have plenty now. There were a good many children to-day V diie old gentlemaids face grew sad, and ho fingered Ids baked potatoes nervouslvi ‘There were just—two, Dolly.’ There was a blank silence. ‘I am sure,’ said old MrS; Ad ams’ gentle voice, ‘as long as we have potatoes and milk we ought to bo thankful.’ ‘jUit if we could double our thankfulne.ss with a chop or chicken !’ said Dolly. And then she and her father turned tlie whole matter into a very g'ood joke. But a week later she came to him with a letter in lier hand, ‘Father, Pm going to leave YOU. I wrote to Mrs. Sands, in Brookl}'!!, to know if she still needed a governess, and she is willing to take me.’ ‘Dollv, iin’ dear,’ stretching out his hand to her, as though he was su'ldenly blind, ‘1—wly, you can’t go !’ — suddeiil v —‘ Ytou’re nothing but a child !’ ‘No, I’m a woman—seventeen ! ': Audi must, father ! In a little while—we’ll—we’ll starve, sir, to state the case plainlv.’ 'But the old jia.r.son found no j)laco for a laugh, now. lie wont oiit and wandered aboiit, looking more shrunken and older each (lav-. ‘Doll\',” said her mother, ‘t-our lather will die without you. Dolly winkeil the fears from her eyes' resolutelv. ‘We shall all die together if I stave’ ‘Don’t joke about it, mv' child.’ ‘1 do not feel like joking, mother.’ ‘If ho or T are sick next winter, wlio will take care of us V ‘I. have thought of all that. But this is summer, and God will |)rovide for us for the winter.’ Dolly laid lier hand over her breast, and looked straight out of the window. When her mother said, with a sob, ‘I thought I could have kept V'oii with me, Dollv,’ she did not dare to look at her, as she knew she would cry out with the j)ain tugging at her heart. She started to Brooklyn the next Satiirdavz N othing haj)pen- od worth noting, excejit that she heard, for the first time, a strange stor)’-. Her fatlier always wore a Icommon-looking ring of jflain gold, with a black or brownish stone. lie jiut it on Dolly’s fin ger the night before she went away, saying,— ‘If is a lucky stone, my dear.’ ‘Who gave it to v'ou, father?’ ‘A negro I used to know. It is of no value. I liad it set my self, and thoro is but little goM,. as- 3'ou see:- When he had' gone' out Mrs. A-daais said.,,- ‘I believe v'our father is sujier- stitious about that ring, and wants to give )'ou the good fortune that goes with it.’ ‘Wlio was the negfOj iHother?’ ‘Yes, I will tell ') (.m. I should like you to hear the stor\-. Y^our father’s he'iiltli failed in Brazil, as 3‘ou know, after thirt)' jmars’ ivork therCj and the jjliv'siciaiis ordered him horno: You were a fat little girl of ten then,- Y'our Uncle John wrote to us that if we could reach liome bv’ a cer tain da_v, the 8th of Aj-n-il, I tliiiik it was, v'our father could obtain a ])Ositiou as librarian in a large juiblic librai’v' in Pliiladclphia. But the post must be filled b\’ that time; to dela\’ was to lose it. The salar}- was large. It seemed as if comfort and hapjiiness wore provided for us for tlie rest|Ofour lives. We had some dear Iriends in Philadelphia, too, and we re membered some cosov old liorl.ses in the suburbs, —Germantown and Camden,—in one of which we planned we -would live. ‘ The San Juan was the vessel wo were to sail in,—the only one by which we could reach the States ill time. The evening before our dav" for dejiarture we went out to Took at Rio de Jeneiro for the last time. I remember looking at the black jieaks of the Organ Mountains against the red sk\’, and the wliite sails moving softh- across the great glittering bay ; and then at the strange old Span ish houses, half decaved, hidden behind jmhiis and brilliant mass es of scarlet flowers ; and the nar row street witli its filtlij- gutter in the midst; and contrasting it all with prim, neat, homo-like Philadelphia, and longing so eag erly to got awav'. ‘Y'our father had left me, for a few minutes, seated on a jiarajiet that was built just above the bar-; but lie came hastily back, lead ing a negro by the hand. Doll v, you can liavo no idea of the-mis ery of that poor creature! He was one of the public, porters in Rio Janeiro, wlio carrj^ loads in stead of mules. lie was covered with sores, half naked and whol- Ij-' starved. If v-ou had seen liim, standing in the midst of the won derful flowers, oven tlio beetles that flow about him looking like jewels, YOU would not have blam ed vour father for what he did.’ ‘lie did jierfocth' right. YVhat was it f ‘‘riiere was no place, no hospi tal or asv'liun there then, V'ou un derstand, to which ho could take the mail, and he was dying. So —so—lie brought him to our own house, and took care of him until he died.’ ‘And gave up the appointment in Philadeljihia I’ ‘Y'es; but what else could lie do, Doll}' I YVe could not leave the poor creature to die when God had sent him to us. And V’Our father tlioiiglit if he told him of Jesus, even so late as it was, he might understand and believe.’ 'And did he ?’ ‘1 don’t know,.’—thoughtfull}-— ‘I don’t know. It was- ver}' lalo, you see. He was verj' ignorant, and had lived aiuoiig tlie moun tains.. Aataf t'li'e' miners- at Serra de Frio* are a bad class- of men, 1 am afraid. “YVhen vour father would ask liiin if he believed; lie would say, ‘I believe itl.t/ifit; seilver,’ itud did not seem tq be able to go farther than vaftir frttlief'fi goodness. It wail two weeks liofore he died, and then we sailed.” “But the .stone I” “0, the stone! He-gave it to j'our father the uigllt liS died, saying it iVas it eliafmed Stone, and that it tjlessirig (if some Sjiirit went with it; diie itegfoes be lieve in stitih thiiig's.” “I thiiik a blessing of some sort ought to go witli it,” said Dolh', turuiitg it on her finger, the tears in her eyes; Someliorv this picture of the tropical cif-j' had cast a glow over tlie little street qf Yuiilstown, and the story made he'f own sacrifice appear small and light; Dolly did not meet, at Mrs. Sands, with the legitimate fate of governesses iii novels. She was not treated cruellj'i—tiot even snubbed ; nor did au}' handsome son of the famih- fall in love with her. She liad a comfortable enough time, and was ver\‘ fond of Mrs. Sands, and the children, especiall}’ tlie baby. But the salar}' which the Sands were able to jiay her barely suf ficed to keep her father and moth er on the haresf necessaries, with no chance of saving a pen- »y- It was in November when the summons slie liad dreaded all through the fall came. Her fath er was ill, and she was needed at home. She packed her trunk, her heart heavier than ever before. YYhat was to be done for the winter ? If she had but a few dollars to take home with, her! But she liadbutlittle more than would pa}- her fare. It was not Dolly’s habit, hoiv- ever, to go v-eojiing through tiic da}'. She went down to the jiar- lor with a clieerfnl face. ‘I am ready to go in the morn ing,’ she said to Mrs. Sands, ‘but for an errand to Crosby’s, the jeiveller’.s. I left iny ring there last week. The stone wtis loose in its setting/ ‘1 shall go with you there,’ said Mrs. Sands. She had become very much at tached to Doll}’, and was more disajijioiiited at her summons homo than she had thought it right to say. 'rhe two women walked in silence down the street, Dolly’s brain full of wild plans for making money. If she should write a book, now whieli would have a great success, and sell for thousands of dollars! But she was a stujtid girl, and it was not liko- iy that— ‘Dolly Mr. Crosby is speaking to you.’ They were standing in front of the glas.s counter, and the jeweller was turning the ring over with a singular tenderness of toucln ‘I beg your jrardoii,’ said Dol- ly. ‘I su-pjrose you know Miss Ad ams, what is the value of your ring I’ ‘It has no Value,- my father told me, but as a, souvenir’ ‘I must beg your pardon then. The stone is- a black diawioiid, from the' BVatdlraW mines, I infer, and exceeding!}' rare’’ , ‘About how much,’ said- Yfrs. Saiids, sBeillg that Dolly v as speechless,—‘about liow liiuch is it tVofth f ‘If tile young lady is inclined tj part with it 1 trill give her tlii‘h6 thOu.siind ctollars. But I think it only fair tc) tell yOil that yOii could Oblain a much higher sufii from a New Y^Ofk dealer, I have ;i different class of custollieis frbni theifSi* Doly was illiiiOSt stunned ivitll the .shock; There is no use lingering ou the sttfly. Tlie iiext day Jlr: Sands took the stone ami sold it to Ball ife Blat'k Ibr eeVeil tliousaud dollars. So Dollv Went home trith soma money lit her pocket, after all. They are living no-iv ili bile of the cosey old houses in Geriuau-, town, just as her inother had jtlamied long agb. 'I’he old par son loiters out, jjart of every day, in one of tlie great libraries, thankful that he has not the car e of them, and then goes libmo to dinner, frequently taking some old crony with him. And there is no brighter Or rosier face than Dolly’s to-day, in the Quaker city. Oood Food uud ^ood jiei&ltli. The following article ou good food and good liealtli, -which -we take from the Carolinian may pay for a careful perusal:— liecordev; ‘Upon this topic Professor Blot thus expresses himself “Tlie man; who does not use his brain to select and prepare his food is not above the brutes that take it in the raw state. It is to tlio physi que what education is to the mind, coarse or refined.- Good and well prejiared food beautifies the mind. People’s taste is in food as iff dress, difibring not only in colors, b',it also in sliape, therefore by our variety of dishes and our difterent sU'les of decorating them, by the ease that they can be jn-eparod in the clieap-est as well as in the most costly wti}', we think we meet all wants ami and tastes. In fact, to use a very' trite remark, ‘you cannot make a gentlomau by feeding him on cod-fish.’ ” J'here is no country where there is so much dyspep sia as in America, because our' people pay but little attention tet food and eat to much Jmeat for the exercise they take. If one has mental labor, fish every sec ond day, at least is requisitOj Soup sets all the glands at Work, and ju-ojaares tlie stomach for the most importantjfuiicti onsof tligesj tion, and therefore should be ta ken at dinner every day. Beef broth i's to old age what milk is to the }'0ung. Cookery properly attended to keeps man in health ; if the stomach is out of order the' brain is aftbeted. Wo have the soft and hard jiarls in our anato my, and the bile,; and therefore' it is- requisite to vary our food. We should eat mofe fruits vege tables, soup and fish.- Fish and cheese are the best articles of di et to give the children. Wo of the United States have the most money of any people, and the greate.st abundance of raw materi al, yet we live mc're j)oorly, com paratively, than any civilized na tion.- For instance there is a mil lionaire in Brooklyn who has j)ork- and beans every second day for' dinner. YV'iinkles arc jiroduced bv the want of a varictr of food.-

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