A’OLIJMK ]. oxFOKi), N. c., Monday, august 2, 1875. NUMBER flu We want every futlwv aild mother to read the folloiviiig' sim- })le stoiy, and remembei', ivhilo reading it, that the tdrplian Asy lum was organized to insure a liappier fate to. the friendless or phans than that wliich befell “lit tle Dud,” and will accomplish its object j)rovided.they n ill lend a helping- hand to the -tvork i OJil>y A LIT TJLB Ul'l). She rvas such a ffee tiling that, as she stool on the wooden stool before the table, the little bare, cold, blue arms rested lieavilv on the edge of the pan where she was washing dishes; and, oh ! so slowly the little, blue hands lifted the heavy plates and washed them one by otIB. I think she thought it a part of “Little Dud” to wash dishes, just as it is a part of the situ to shine, or the clouds to rain ; for didn’t She stand hour after hour on lior stool, and make them all clean, ready to be done “over and over ■again f’ Sometimes she forgot, and the eyes stole out of the window, not down the narrow street where the snow whirled and switched around the corners, snatching the breath ot the pinched, hungry mortals who, hurrying past -witli chatter ing teeth, cursed the cold and storm ; ah ! no, not there did she look, but up, up, up above the housetops, where the little jtatch of blue sky used to bo. To-day she could not see the spot of blue, but she knew it was somewhere ; mid that made her think of some thing else—she couldn’t remem ber much—it was so long, long- ago—“twenty Of a hundred” years. It vvn» a room that was -H-ai-m, and there never seemed any dishes to wash. A little vine Aveiit np like Jack the (Uaiit- Killer’s—away up the window. J'he tire made a fairy-dance of fiames for her. And then some body used to sew and »eW, until it grew quite dark, and then she tvould take this same little Dud in lier arms, and hold her close, and tell her wonderful stories un til she fell asleep. There was one she liked best of all—about a Bab)' with the horses and .sheep in the barn; and the shepherds came to see it; and there -was a star, and a flock of angels that sang a beautiful song; and tlio Baby grew up to be a great big man, and he had no home, and he made the sick folks well, and some folks loved him, and some— One day that somebody could not hold her little girl, and she did not sew, but lay upon the bed a long time. One day she called her little girl to her, and told her she -was going aWsty to the beautiful city, where the goofl Man had gosoe befoJe to make her home ready for her, and no-w lie tras calling her, and she must go and leave her little,- bravo girl for a time, but she, too, could come some time. Then tire face gvorv ■white and still. The child’s hand* were quite idle now m the water among tbs dishes, and the tiny lips trembled as tliey whisjrerefl t “J wish the Clirist-maa -would come nowi^right now 1” She s-topped suddenly,- as' a jaspin-g voice said : “Here, ye little Dud, what be ye gazin’ an’ idliri’ rfid the di.shos tor f Be gettiii’ me .this pail of Water now, and be spry.” The child glanced down at her bare feet, and faltered i “0—h ! it’s so cold !” ‘'Don’t bo fine, miss. If it wai-u’t for mo ti takiil’ of )-e, ys wud’ a been froze stiff in tlie strato long ago.” As she spoke, she shuffled from her feet tivo big shoos, and pU.sh- ed tlienl toward the cliild. She stepped into them, lifted the great wooden paih and went clattering down the stail'S: She grasped the icy pump-han dle, and worked with all her might, till a ragged boy came trotting- up, erv ing out: ''.l-Ialloo, you thar ! Wh.ere’d ye get tbeiii gunboats looking down at her shoes. Here he kicked the edge of the pad, and the water Went ,s[)]ash, splash, all over the slioes ftiid the feet in them. She gasped and shuddered with the cold. Just then another i.’oy came, who said a few kind, I'oilgh words, and set her safely on her way. Tlie stops seemed miles aiul miles away, but by-and-by she reach ed them. One by one she climb ed them, making a splnsh of wa ter every time, It froze as it fell, She grew so stiff—one shoe drop ped ofl^—she turned to look after it her foot slijiped, and she went blimp, bump, bump, dow-n the stairs. A door opened .above, and a frowzy head was tlinist out, tlien a woman with a acan-ed face came p.attering down and lifted tlie mo tionless form in lier arms, and groaned bewailed, “O the baby ! and it’s kilt! Lad, run quick for the docther. Tell ’inis lie fell the len’tli ’o the stair,” to the boy who helped lit tle Dud with her burden, and stood looking- on. Slio tenderly carried the tiny form to her room, and laid it on the homely bed. The hard linos in the ivoiuaii’s face were soften ed, tlie wsnn Irish heart was deeply moved. “Had she a heart!” Oh 1 yes—under the povertj' and ignorance and uiiloveliiiess, so far down it seldom came to light. Delicate means could not find it. A tragedy could. Jack came breatliless up the stair's, followed by a thoughtful- faced man, who stepped to the bed where the ivoraaii, nioaniiig and weaving back and forth, chaf ed the little, cold hands. He examined the bruise* in a silent way. He wrapped her in a blanket, .and forced a draught between her teeth. Soon her eyes wearily epeSied. He held her pulse, and, looking quickly up, asked-, “Is she youf child ?” “Arrah, no ; her ma was aled- dy born, but she come poor as the rist o' us—,*lie kipt a bright bit ’o a room till she died, (iod save hen soul 1 She had only the otto chick, and I had me own four cliildlier to mind after; then I took- this oiie—ease a spare pe-ta- te is better nor none for it. I have dun what I cud,, doetlier,” The eyes in the blanket were vsdde open,- looking up in t-lie doe- f'Or’s- face, and a faint voice chirp ed : “Is )-ou tlie Olirist-man come to take mo ? J.famnla said )*t!ii would come. I knoW where your house is—see !” And the little fiil-gor pointed out the -window, ftiviiy Uj) where the spot of blue lay bctwoBii the white clouds. “The gate was itll shut up just now ; you left it ojien when yon came tlii-ough, didn’t you ?” isiie lay iipon liis lifedst, and lie held lief closer. “Will you take me np ? I’se noffiii’ but a little Dud, bdt 1 want to see my mamma. 1 -n’.-lilt to—.” And the eyes grew heavy, and the voice stopjied, and the-breatli went out. The totll'd fifllod doffll the strong man’s face. The awe struck woman sat motionless, and the boy lay sobiiing on tlie floor. Something had gone out of the house forever. Out of the cold, out of the soil, out of the hal'gll Words, out of the unlovely, into the beautiful man sions.—-T/w Chriitinn WKukly, GraiKliiia’s Story. ‘ Just one more story grandma; alxnit iVlien you were a little girl and lived in tlio woods,’ said Frank. And gT,andma droW off her spectacles and shut her book. She leaned her head back ag.aiiist the largo oasy-ehair, and shut lier eyes, thinking. I remember as if it were oidy yogterdtUy, she said, raising her head and looking at the children who had gathered around her. 1 was only seven, and ni)' little ba- b'V' brother wasn’t a year old. ‘I’m going to the spring-house,’ said ^ niotlier, ‘and you must stay in the room and rock baby, if he wakes.’ So I took my kiiitting, for I had learned to knit, and was very proud of the stocking that was gt'owing under ni)- hand. It was a cool da)', late in the fall, and the doors wore all shut. Baby slept and I knitted for half an hour. Then he awoke and began to or)-. As I got down from methefs great easy-chair, where I laid been knitting, 1 thougbf I heard a strange noise outside. It wasn’t Lion, for he had gone off with father to the mill. Something rubbed against the door and made the latch rat tle. I felt afi-aid, and -went to the door and fastened the bolt, I S'tood still, listening, with b.aby in iny arms—ho had stopped crying —and I could hear my heart beat, thump, thump, thump ! All at once there came a short cruel kind of bark, and then a snap, A moment after the win dow broke with a load crash, and I saw the long- head, open jaws and fiery eyes of a -wolf glaring in upon me, An ang;el sent by ou-y good Father in heaven must have told me in an instant of terror -svliat to do. The -wolf was- climbing, in through the small window, and to have lingered but a second or two '\vouId have lieen death. Moved as if b)'- a pciver not my own, and without tliink- ing- -what best to do, 1 ran, -with baby held- ti-g.htly in my arms,- to the stairs that went up into tire l-oft, AYith- a savage gro-wl he sprang after file. As he did so I let the door -which-shut like a- cel lar door, fall ov-er the stair--^i-ay, and- it struck him on the nose aiul knocked him back. A chest ^tb'bfl nc!ii-, fthi.l Soif'iBHiing- told me to pull this over the dUdf, So I laid baby down, and di-Hgged at the chest with all my strength. Just as I got the edl-iier over the door, the -tvolf’s liead struck it anil knocked it np a little. But be fore lie fcb'tdd strike it again I had the chest clear across, ’I'llis would not have kejtt him back if 1 had not dragged anotiier cliost over the dool-) and piled otef so many things on top of these. Hoiv srtt (igely ho did growl anil sliarl' But I was safe. And now' I grew frightened about mother. If she.shouldcome back from the spring-house, be would tear her to jdeees. There was only one window or 0])ening’ in the loft, and that did not look tow-ard the spring-house ; and so there was no -way in which I coiild give llCf wal-Uing, of let her know, if she had seen the wolf, that we were safe. For a long time the ivolf tried to get at us, but at las^ I eould henr liim going down ffio stairs, lie moved about the roorir below, knocking thitigs about for ever so long, and tlieii I lioard hiiti Spring up to the window. At the same moment I heard my father’s voice sliontingnotfaf off. Oh, liqwmy Iieart (lid leap -with gladness! Then came Lion’s heavy bark, wdiich grew excited, and soon I lleKrd him yelping down the road in the -wildest -svay. Th« wolf was still in tlie window. I could hear him struggling and breakinf jiiocos of glass. Lion was almost upon him, -tfiiew lUy father called liim off' in a stern command. All was quickly broken by the efftek of a rifle,- tvhieli sent a bullet into tlie wolf’s head, killing him in stantly. ‘Father ! father!’ I cried, from the loft wim1o-«t He told me af terward that 111)' voice came to him a* from tlio dead. lie ran around to that side of the house. Mother was with him, looking as wliite as a sheet. I saw' tlicni both clasp their hands together, and lift their eyes in thankfulness to God. AVlien I tried to pull the chest aw'ay, I could not move tlioiii an inch. Ill my great danger God had given me strongtb to drag them over the loft door, but now' that tlie danger was past my lit tle hands .were too weak to re move them. So father had to climb up a ladder to the loft w'iii- dow, and release baby aiidine from our place of refuge. Mother did not know anything of our danger until she had fin ished her W'ork in the spring- hofuse. Just a* she eame out she saw'the w'olf’s head at the -window', and at the same moment father and Lion appeared in sight. Presence ol‘ Mind. It ia a great gift to h'ff-i'e' fifJl possession of one’s wits- in a time of danger ; to know what to do, and to have nerve and e'Olffage to do it. A miner recently showed a cool bead and rare bravery.' A short time ago,.ia the bottom of the new shaft Of the WoodvJHie mine, three men had just prepar ed a thi'ee-fuse blast, had- liglrted the fuse, jumped into the bucket and started for the surface, when, tlu'diigh the carelessness of the engineer, the engine cmiglit on the ceifirfe and refused tti InOVe.- Hoi-e the three men hung; witiiiii si.x foot of the blast; for soihe lit- tlb' time ; lint it st'etiitjd like liolirs tti them. At laiit tiiio tif ihe piu-e ty; Benjaiiiiii Kendstll by nitiiie,- realizing that soniethitig mtlSi htl wrong On top; Jtiiiijitid fibril 0(8 bucket, and prticBoded It) extin guish the slowly-burniitg- fuse; T'vO pieces wore jmt out h'itli= out difficulty; liut the tliii-d lio found it impOssiblo to reaGi, fis it had all-eady burned in the drill liolo. Tlirirt lie tUiiied to clirrill back to the bucket; hut it was tod late I his companions were llien being hoisted to the siri-facO; Wlio can imagine the mental ag on) endured by that mail tvlieil he saw that he had heeii left Id his fate, arid was liable at aifV moment to be blown into etorlri- ty! , With ft despei-ate i-eSolvO; lid started to climb Up the tiriibera; Iriit he had rio't gone more tluifi five or six feet on his way -\vliori the blast exploded; ihrowdrig a shower of roekif iiiitl dirt faf nbUte his Ite.'td. Fortunately; Kendall -was but little injured, receiving niefoly a few slight scratches On his hands.- It w'as a very close call,- and ond that will long be remember'e'di Tile engineer wris discliargod. A Stkangk Story,—a Cu'siouff incident is feportetl iff the Amer ican papers' About ten )-oar8 a^d' a Jew m straitened circumstances- left Transylvilnia for Afn'efica to improve his position in the Neiv World. He left a wife and- sever al children behind, and promised that as soon as it was ivithin' hi» means lie would send flVem qtotae' money from America. There' fortune smiled on him, and tv4en‘ he had amassed a stlm of 60,-000* florins he resol-fed to refn'fri home and supriso his family wfitli' I'lis- wealth.- Be started tvifhoilf hav ing apprised Ifis family of hi-s- in tended return, and on liis -iVaY home ho' arrived at Hamburg,- hero he was seized -ivith so dangerous an illness tliat ho made a w'ill beqffeathing all his property to his wife. lie recovered,- how ever, only to find that during his jlhiess hi,* money had been .Stolen from him by a man who had nnrs- ed him. A few beKc-volent per sons, sympathizing with his mis- fortune*,- collected ffb'fyttt oiie hun- dred florins-,- -tid-rerewifh the un fortunate' JeTf resolved to feturn to Ameriea ifl order to retrieve liis fortune,?. In the meanwhile the' nnrss' had decamped ivith his lioo- ty to America, where, sboftly afteri hisarrival he died suddenly.- The Americ.in aiithoritie* sent the cofo fin, with- tire 60. GOO flOfiris,- to 'fransylVainia, and a-sthe iVill -was also found- in the eof^T,- tlio aii- thorities at the satne (imeacquain- ted the relatives-with the death- of the testator. After the usual pe riod of mouriiing,-tfite iVife con- trac'fe'd a sO'coiid mam-age. The first h-Lisba/fd had, bo'weve, again saved a considerable simr ofmoney' and eventually returned to his- native country to find liis wife' married to another man. It is- stated that a conference of rabbis is about to bo lield to' deteniiino' to which of the two husbands th'rf ivomaii belong.?. —Jririr-h ]Viiii!l.

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