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THE ROANOKE NEWS. A DEMOCRATIC Weekly newspaper, PUBLISHED BT Ii. M. LONG Si W. W. II ALL. THE ROANOKE .NEWS ADVERTISING BATES. I ! I f 2 00 . I CO 75 cts. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R n. sMirn, jr. ATTORNEY AT LAW, iStioTLAiD NecIc, Halifax Codntt W. C. Fraetlees in the county of Halifax and adjoininit counties, and tho 'Ru jpreuie court of tho Suto. jan 16 ly. QR. E. I'. UUNTErT " SURGEON DENl.Iir. Can be found at his ofllce tn Enfield. Pure Nitrous Oxide Oas (or the Pain less Extracting of Tooth always on baud, June 22 tt. rn w. mason. ATTORNEY AT LAW, GARY3BURO, N. C. , Prae.tlcns In the courts of Northnmpton and adjoining- counties, also in the Federal and Supreme courts. June 8-tf JO,. B. BA.TC HIS LOR. ATTORNEY AT RALUIGH, N. LAW, C. Practices in thn court of the 6th Jurii Vial District and la tho federal and Su preme Courts. May 11 tf. IITeHSN. ITCH W. A. DINS. DUNN, K H N & ATTORX BYS OWSSKLtiORS AT LAW, 'Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N. . Practice in tha Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme ad Federal Courts. janl8 tf ryaoMA-s.N. uill, Attorney at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Practices in Halifax and adjoining Counties and Federal and Supreme Courts. Will be at Scotland Nook, onco every lortaight. A Hi. 28 a H. DiT, A 1 W. W. Hii.L. K A L L D ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WELDOS, K. C. Praotlcs in the courts of Halifax and adjoining counties, and iu the fclupronie and Federal courts. Claiias oollootod in any part if North farolina. jiin 20 1 l AYIN L. HTM AN, ATTORNEY AT LAW HALIFAX, N. C. Practloes in the courts of Halifax and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme ad Federal Courts. Claiaas collected iu all parts of North Carolina. OSst ia the Court House. Jly 4-1-Q. J 9 , BURTON, Jr. ATTORNEY AT LAW, EALIFAX, I. C. Praokice ia the Courts of Halifax -Coaety. aad Ceuutiee adioinlng. In the laa-renae Coart ef the atute, and in tho federal Cearts. Till jive special attention to the eolleo tion ef eJaiuaa,aaii t adjusting the accounts f Iieeuw, Aduiiuioratora and (Guar dians. dee-l.Vtf J M. I S Z A S D, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HALIFAX, K. C. CaW la the Co art Hous. HI riot atten tion givea U all lnaHouos of the profes aiesw jan 12-1 e B. 3 A C H, ATTORNEY AT LAW, StffttLS, HALIFAX fMUMTT, Practises ia tie Counties of Bask, Kdaaseuaa and Wilson. Celleelioas uuaie ia all parts M. C. Halifax, of the laie. jan 12-A i A M K E. H A R A, ATTORNEY AT BKFIELat, At. LAW, C. Practices in ths Counties of Halifax, WaVecembe and Nash. In the Supreme uourt r mo Nlato ana In tho federal Pearls. Celler-llons i t la in anv part ef thn ojtate. Will attend at the Court limine In allux en Monday and Friday of onoli week. ju ii o A XDatW J. BURTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WELDON, N. C. Practices In the Courts of Ilalilm, War ren and Northampton counties and in the anrosao anil rederal court Claims enllooted iu nuy part of North Carolina. June 17-a AMH M UTit.CH. "jyj V L L B N JOIIS A. nooai: 4 MOORE ATTORNEYS AT LAW. llalUttx, N. C. Practice In tho Counties of rTalifax Northampton, Kdgeoomlio, Tltt and Mar tin In the Supreme Court of tlio Watf and in ike 1-odorul Courts of tho Kustorn District. Collections ma-Jo in any part nf Nor! Canullno. ja i j e Oae Tear, in advance. Sir Months, " Throe Month, " JS ! . 1 '' VOL. VIII. SOMETHING LOST, There are cains for all onr losses, There are lialms for all our pain, But when youth, the dream departs, Ic takes Nomttljiug flora our hearts, And it never eoraes again. Wo are wiser, and are bettor, Under manhood's sterner reign, Still we feel I hat something sweet, Follows youth with flying loot, And will never come again. Something beautiful has vanished, And we nidi for it in vaiu j We behold it every where, On tho earth and In tho air, Hill il never ccmi03 airaln. SAVED BY STRATEGY. "Slrangcl what can this mean? this a -stupendnas fraud, a trick, what?" And Dr. Teraeroy stared or al- most vacantly at tee closely written sheet he held in bis band, lie read : "Bit. PoMuitOT, I will notapolngize for the unparalleled service I am about lonskofyeu; sullies it to say that I have beard your history, beard of your struggles, and realize how hard a task it is lor one so young in the profession and without friends in the great wilder ness of houses called a city. Also, per mit me to add, I have been in formed of the cruel blow you received from the hand of one you loved, who was unwor thy of you ; aud yet I urn not acquainted with you, nor you willi me. Indeed, we have never looked upon one another's face. Nevertheless, I am nbout to request yeu to do me a great favor. Will you come to South Street Church to-morrow at eight o'clock? Come privately, unattended, and never repeat that which takes place there. Will you give me, a stratiger, a lawful claim to your name, and yet not seek to know whom you marry? If you will do so, I will make over to you fifty thousand dollars, 'payable to your order at the city bank, as soon as tho cere mony is over, Trusting that the money will be a temptation to you, I shall at.A iously await you at the oppoiuted time." That was all. There was no signa ture nothing to give any clew to the writers address or abode, indeed, it was so terse and so unfcmiume in its details that be was tempted to believe some of bis male frieads were playing a oke on bim. "I will not go I will not be fooled I" he said to Limself. He flung the missivo down, than he picked it up, folding it carefully, and thrust it iu his pocket. He remembered that he bad a pa tient to visit, and went out; but every where tho contents of that strange let ter were rigging in his ears, lie then went to see bis mother. Nie was suII't ino; even more than usual, and a num ber of duuning kills had beeu left to bis consideration bills which ha bad aot tho most remote idea how he was t meet. lie threw them down and buried bis face in his baud?. "Poverty is a curse, iBetber," he greancd. ' I do not kuo which way to turn." Site tried to cheer him but ia vain. Everywhere be turned, hopeless chaos seemed to envelop him. "Ah, if that Idler were only renl, be thought. "Fifty thousaud dollars would make me rich." And so he fretted and worried aetil the oppoiuted hnnr came eae moment vowing he would not go near tho place, the next tempted to see tho "farce" out. Eight o'clock found bim stealing in. He saw two ladies closely veiled, and a gentleman, standing in the upper part of the building, while tho minister sat in a chair. There was but one ras jet lichted, and be c uld just distinguish the farms. As soon as be entered, the gen tleman spoke to one of the ladies, nod then she advanced to meet hioi. "Are you Dr. romoroy?" sho asked, in a low leoe. "I nm." She led him to where tbc gentleman stood, and be extended bis hand. How do vou do, Pomeroy ?"' he said ; and Pomeroy recognized in Lim the president of the citv bark. "Iamlieie by the request of this young lady," pointing to tha one who bad not moved or spoken, "to inform yon that if you agree to her proposition, I nm author- .Z'dlOiiiV lo V"ih' uiuer liiu sum uf fifty thousand dollars." Pomeroy tried to speak, but his voice was choked. It was Iraud: it was reality. lie stood motionless for a mo meat; then advanced aud offered lis arm to the silcut ludy. She lonk it without ft quiver, and went with him to where the minister awaited them. The ceremony was quickly performed Dr. I meroy registered bis naiiie, and tbco looked with considerable cu riosity at tho bold, plum sigaature "Ellen Latour." which bis bride wrote down. The minister hastily Pilled out a certificate, which be had brought with him by request, nad which the maid and the banker signed as witness, 'i'hc bride took it, kissed it, and tLritst it in her bosom. One rormeat more and t'.ie twn glided away swiftly from sight Dr. I nnuroy wiped the perspiration from his brow, and thcu asked, "Who is she?" ' "I do not kunw, laid tho minister. "I was requested by letter, and paid to perforin tho crremony and keep it s cret. It is perfectly lawful. "And I." said tho bauker, "did not seethe lal)'sface. flie deposited the o o.-.ry with me, and requested my a tendance here to n"S'ra vou tint urr promise should be fulfilled." WELD ON, The threo men Separated ; the gas was turned out ; the curtain full on the first act. The t day Pomcrey tried to real ize what be had dooc. He had told his same to the unknown woman, but he thought that could not injure him. "She must havo been in deadly peril," he meditated, "to pay such no exorbi tant price for a simple name." Ho took an ollico further tip towii, aad moved his mother to a nicer home, I'utieuts csmo puuringin; a tlifiVreut class employed tho rich Hr. Pomeroy thuu those who had employed the poor one. Five years had passed sway, nnd lie had gained a reputation nnd added con siderably to his bank account. He had been an indefatigable worker, and now he felt that ho needed rest for a while. "We will take n trip to Europe, mother," he said. "It will do you moro goed than you can imagiue." A great many gentle hearts felt a pang to sec tha "good doctor" leave, although their endeavors to catch hiiu had been in vain. He felt no prefer ence for any ef the opposite nes. He bad recovered from his disappointment, and be ceased to remember that he was a married roan, or to'think kindly of the unknown woman who had so radically changed his life. They traveled leisurely through the tour th(?y had maikod out hd'ore they started, aud one night found tliein in a French village. About the middle of the night the doctor was awakened by some one tapping at his door, and call ing for him to come out. He did so. He found the landlord, who told him in broken English, that one of his countrymen bad just fallen down stairs in a fit, and seeing his name registered as a-i M. D., they called bim up. He went into an elegantly furnished room, where a man, some fii'ty years of uge, was lying in a dying condition, A young lady sat near the bed fanning biiii. The doct ir hastily examined the patient, and found that it was impossible for him to live; but the day passed, aud still another, before he drew his last breath, lie never recovered Ins con sciousness. The lady told Dr. Pomeroy that he was her father. His name was Kugone Sydenham, a native of Kngland, nnd she would like to bave linn Imuerl where he died. They were travelling for the ben efit of his health, she went on to ex;ilair, and be was a widower. Her only rc- muiuing relative was n young slslir, who was being educated in tho t'. invent i'l the Sacred Heart in Paris. Alter Mr. Sydenham was buried, M;ss Sydenham went, under the care of the doctor and his mother, to Paris. Siie insisted upon their tak'i! g up their abode where she had apartments, uul so not a day passed hut she was with .Mrs. 1 onuroy. 1 he old lady got warmly attached to her, and talked dolefullr to her son about the time when they should be separate,. She told theui confidentially not to wonder that she did not mourn for her father, for he had endeavored to wrory her so deeply that it was not love which bcld her to his side ; aud that in nil her life she had never been to happy as now that she was free. Dr. Pomeroy watched her. At first he was very gallant, but at last be be gan to be reversed aad colJ. A feel in" he darod net cherish was crowing iu his heart, and it alarmed him. "I dare not love her," ho muttered to himself. ' I am bound." Then, for tho first time, he felt how heavy were the fetters Iu had f.irg.-d for himself. She noticed the change. She tried to beroihs him to forgot 111 c grief th:.t was evi.Ienlly wearii g on him ; and at last, iu a fa of desperation, he told her all. "I am a married man 1" he Paid, im petuously. "Ilovcyuuj and I am cot free to love 1" She recoiled but bade him tell her all. "Il was cruel, unkind of her to biud you so," she said. "No, no I" he rjicu'ated. Hhesiufd mc she blessed mc and I shall aUas respect b r, but never did my boi ds hurt mo until I met you. Now I bhull be miserable forever." "Vou may meet her." "Impossible 1" "Hut possible," she said, with a sor rowful look. "I know your K'len Laiour. She lives, and I must give you up." ' "You know her I" 'Vts, to-morrow I will introduce you to her. Ste is ai.xi.ius to see you ; she knows you are here, nnd sho believes you loved me, and wondered if you were as upright as she bad aUajs thought you to be." He bowed his face In his bai;?s, and Miss Sydeuhaiu left bim. Tito hour had come which he bad bsped for in by-gone days ho was to learn whom he had wedded ; but it gavo bim no pleasuro now. At on early hour the next day, a ser vant teld him that Miss Latour awaited him in her private parlor, and he was ushered into a s'range room. He s:arce ly lifted his eyes as ho entered, but when he did, they fell np m Miss Sydenham. "I nm llllen latour," sho said, simply. "That is my real name, though I never anticipated revealing tho truth 10 you. L:stcu to my story, before you blame ire," sbe said. ' The man whom yu stU? die wa my stcu-ruiker. He tnimicd my mother when I was hot live jca;3 old, aud sisUr Ada a baby. N. C, THURSDAY, My mother was weakly, and she died a few years later, leaving all our father's property in that mail's bands. He was our sole guardian, to bold our property under his control until wo were married or becomo of ago. He placed mo in the Sacred Heart, and kept me there until I was sixteen, and then be took me out, and proposed to marry me to a friend of bis. I rebelled. One night I heard a conversation between them, aud found that he was selling mo for twenty thousand dollars, that being the sum that was to be paid down to him out of my property, the moment. Turner became my husband. I was shocked. I had no friends to go to, end was totally at a loss what to do. Ho did not allow me to go in'o society ; I made no acquaintances, and instend of allowing me to stay in my mother's buuse, he kept mo travelling around the country. At last I proposed to compromise. I told my step-father to take me to America, and when I returned I would marry his fr'.:nd. He complied, and I got my maid to gossip with, one of the servants in tl.e hotel, aud by chance she told her your history, as her sister worked for ynir mother. Just befero I started for England au uncle of my mother's left mo fifty thousand dollars in my own right, which my stepfather could not touch. I had it transferred to New York, and determined to save myself with it. Hearing of you, I adopted the plan of getting you to marry roe. When we returned to England, my step-father commanded uio to fulfil my promise. I showed him my marriago certificate. Ha sware, but he saw bis case was lost; I had out witted him. I did not leave him, to protect my sister Ada from a similar fate. I never expected to meet you. I intended to have you sue me for a divorce as soon as he should die, and it would uut endanger my safety." ''lint this intention will acver be carried iuto elfrct," Dr. Pomeroy ex claimed. "You will be mine forever, Ellen?" "Yours forever I" she answered. And when they went to seo his mother, there were no three happier people to be found in tho whole world. Years have passed since ther, and Ada finds n home with her sister, .who never repents that she was saved from a lUle worse than death, by strategy, THINGS TO BrREtvlEMBERED, . Mu-ie, oh, ho'V faint, li r,v weak, I . i (. u l'i io- liel'oro I lm hpoll 1 Wliv should I'Voling ever speak, When thou canst braalho her soul well ? l'r'ond-!i i ,'s balmv w.inls may friitn, Love's are cv'n nuiio ta'.so toau tliey j t"i ! 'lis only Music's strain t an swt oily nooUio aud not liet'av. Thomas Moore. Liln is real ! Lifn Is earnest ! And Hi i gravo is no! its goal ; "Host thou nrt, lo (lutt retiirnesl," Was not spokuil of tho soul. Trust no I'uturn, hiwe'or pleasant ! 1, -t th do id r.isi bury Its ileaci ! Ait. -aot In Hie '.ivinij I'lOon:! Hi-art within and tin I o'erhosd I Let us. (linn, lie up aud dniuir, Witli a In art for mi v I'ato ; Slill r-.'-hii-vin.r, uill pursuing, Liarn to labor and to wait. Longfellow. Wi lli and irriMolulo is man J 'i'lie purpose ef to lav, Woven w ith pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. flenirt foe (o h'-s upright inlont, l-'iiuls out his weaker part. Virtue iMi-;aLreH liis ai-nt, tint pleasuro wins his heart. 'Tis hero tho fi'lv ol the wi-sn, Tlirou ;h nil his heart, wo view ; And while his t-i'i;ip (' eh irin denies, II ,s e mseieiieo owns it triiu.- Cowper. A qui t mind, like other blessings, is more c isily List than gaiuud. Anon. Every lot is fcappv to a pcrs in who . ... -, i. . , uvars it wiin tratiq niity. lar.aiiH Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as nil inconvenience j you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away -, many means of doing good, and pro. duces s i much inability to resist evil, bot'i natural, nn 1 moral that it it by all tne-ir.s to be avoided. Let it bo your first earo then, i ot in Ui in any mau l debt. Ursolic not to be poor; whatever you have, spend lcs. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it inakos somo vinous ioipi acticalila and ollieis ex tremely (iiiiicuit. i'ru-aiity is not only the basis of quiet, but of benrficeucc. N.i m in can help others that waeti help himself: we must have enough before we can have to spare.-Dr. Johu- Soli. "Cold words frcczo people, and lint words scorch the n, and bitter words mnke them bitter, and wrathful wvri!s make them wrathful, Kind woids make people good-aaturcd. They do not cost much, yet Ihcy ficcoinpliili much." Scienca is a good piece of furniture for a man to havo ia nn upper chamber, provided he lias common scuse on tho ground llj'ir. Dr. Holmes. TaUo well whuto'er shall chanco, though bad It be, Taka It lor good, and 'twill bo Rood to thee. Thomas Hindolph, May I tell you why it seems to mo a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That wo may forgive it. Dickens. Who will comic? The latest senti mental agony In songs is a tender ballad beginning : Who will co-.no shove mo sighing, When the gra.s grows over mo W can't say positively who, bat if tbe cemetery fence is in the usual rcpai, it will probably li the cow. MARCH 13, 1870. A CAl STORY. I knew by tbe sympathetic glow upon his bald head I knew by tbe emotional flush upon tbe strawberry ead of the old free liver'i nose, that Simon Wbeele'r'i memory was busy with the oldea time. And so I prepared lo leave, because all Ihrsa were symptoms of reminit cence signs that he was going to be delivered of another of bis tiresome personal experiences, but I was too slow ; be got the start of me. As nearly as I can recollect, tho infiictiarr was couched in the following languages We were nil boys then, aad didn't care for nothing, and didn't have any trouble, and didn't care about nothing only to shirk school, and keep up a rcviviu' state of devilmcst all the time. This yah Jim Wolf I was talkin' about was the 'prentice, and ho was the best hearted feller, he was, and tbe most furgivin' and onselfish I ever see well, there could not be a more bullicr boy than he was, take him how you would, and sorry enough was I wheu I see him for tbe last time. Me and Harry was alwnys pestering bim, and plastering borscbills on his back, and putting bumble-bees in his bed, and so on, and sometimes we'd crowd in and bunk with him, notwith standing his growlisg, and then we'd let on to get mad and fight across him so as to keep him stirred up like, He was nineteen, he wa, and long, lank bash ful, and we was fifteen and sixteen, and tolerable hi 2 y and worthless. So that night, you know, that my sister Mary gave a caady pulliu", they started us to bed early, so as the com pany would have full swing, and we ran in on Jim to have some fun. Our winder Itiekt into the roof of an ell, and about ten o'clock a couple of old Tom cats got to rariu' around it, and carry iu' on like sin. There was four inches of snow on the roof, and it was fu zeu so that there was a right smart crust of ice on it, and tho moon was shitiia' bright, and we could see them cats like daylight. First they would stand off and e-ow, yow, yow, just the same as if they was a cussio', one another, yeu know, and bow up their backs and bush up their tails, and swell around and spit, nnd all of a sud den the gray cat be'd snatch a haud ful of fur out of the yallef cat's ham, and spin around him like the button on the barn door. But the yaller cat was ulwnys eame, and he'd coma and clinch and the way they'd gouge, and bite, and yowl, and the way they'd make the fur fly was powerful. Well, Jim got disgusted with the row, nnd 'lowed h-j'd climb out there and shake hiw o(' that runf. lie had recly uo notion of doin' it likely, but wo ever lastingly dogged him and bully-ragged him, and 'lowed be'd always bragged how he would not take a dare, and so na biineby he bighsted up the wiuder, and In and beheld you, he went went exactly as lie was, uolhin on but a shirt nnd that was short, fiut you ought to seed him. Ynu ought to see him crccuin' over that ice, and diggiu' bis toe nails and fiager nails in to keep from slippia' au' above all, you ought te seed that shirt tail a fl-ippin' in the wind, and them long ridiculous shauks ef his a gl steilin' in the moon-light. Them company folks was down there under the eaves, the whole squad of thorn under the ornery shed of old Washiu'tnn Bower's vines nil sittin' round nbout two dozen sasscrs of hot candy, which they'd set in the snow to cool. Aud they was a laughii.' nnl talkin' livclv, but bless you they didn't know nolhiii' about the panorama that was goiu' on over their heads. Well, Jim ha wcut a snoakisi' right up uribe knonn tt tl.cn cats; they was a snitchin' their tails nnd yow-yowiu' ar.d threaten iu to clinch, you know, aud not rayiu any altii.tion, he went a sneakiu' right np to the comb nf tho roof, till he was in a foot and a half of them, and then all of a suJden he made a crab for the vallercatl But by goh ho missed fire aud slipped his holt, and his heels flew up and he U ipped on his back, and sin t oil of that roof like a dart; went slashin' and crashin' dowa thrnuMi them oil rusty vines, and landed right in the dead centre nf them couipauy people I snt diwn llko a eaitliqaiko 'u Hum two ili.ju sasscrs ol red hot Cindy, and let off a howl that was lark Cut the tumbl Them gals well, they looked, you know. They see he wasn't quite diessed for compaay, and so they left, All done in a secoud ; it was just one little war whoop, and a wbishl of their dresses, and blame the weuch of 'cm was in sight anywhere, Jim, bo was a sight, lie was gornied with that biilin' but molasses candy clean down to his heels, aad had more busted saisrrs haagiu' to him than if he was a Injun princess aud he come a pianciu' up stairs just a whoopiu' an' cussiu', and every jump ho gave shed some chita, aad tvery squirm that be ftftehed be dropped sme caady. And blistered I Why, bless your soul, that poor crctilr coulda't reely set diwn comfortable for as much as four weeks. Ran Frenches New Later: "Ny dur lint'." stys Mr. S.ulr.ke, who has be.n os tensibly iliirK.ihoolinjf at Pan Muten all the dny and night prcviou."did the olllee liov briny yeu thorn d.icki I slut! I told him.'1 1 No, sir, he diJ hot," replied Mrs B., in ao icy and nppalliitg manner, "but ths butch, er'l boy has been here to say that, as he can not fill your ordsr lor wild duck te day, he sends you a balLdor.co .tamo oucs iG8tCid."TbUau. It is said Henry Mil. never popped (he qui-Mmo. lie msmed bla wives first and icd them sf'.ctrtaidd. NO. 2. A WIFE WHO IS SELDOM AT HOME. When the peddler rang Mr. Bird's door-bell, the other day, Mr. Bird bin self opened the door. Mr. Bird had the baby upon his arm, and there were four other children at his heels. "Is the lady of the heuse ia?" asked the peddler. "Certainly she isu'tt" replied Mr. Bird. "She is nnt. She is perruaially and eternally eut I" "Wbcro ra I see her?" "Why go dowa to the Woman Suf frage club roams, and if she is not there, go to (be society for tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, nnd if sho has left there, visit the hall of the Assoc'at on for alleviating tbe miseries of the Senegal bians, and if she has finished up there look for her at the Church Aid Society, or at tha O'.h Ward soup house, or at the homo of the one-legged, or nt the ref uge for infirm dogs, or at the hospital for the asthmatic, or the St. Polycarp orphan asylum, or at seme of these places. Ifyougetoa her trail you'll see more paupers, and strong-minded women, and undor-clothing for the healhea than you ever saw in the whole course of your life." "I wanted to sell her a cool-handle flat iron, just out. Do you think sbe will buy one?" "She will if you can prove that the naked cannibals in Seneganbia are yearuiog for cool handle flat-irons. She would buy diamond breast pins for the nigeers if they wanted them, I believe." "I intend else to oiler her a new kind of immovable bcir pin, which " "All right I You just go down to tha home of tbe one-legged, and pursuade those cripples te cry ler immovable hair, pina, and she'll order 'em by the ton." "Has she any children? ' ' Well, I'm the one thit appear to have era. just now, anyhow." 'Iiccdii'e I bavc a cum top for a feed ing bcttk; this i the nicest thing you ever saw. "Now." said Mr. Bird, "I'll tell yeu what to do. You get those paupers to swear they can't cat I ho soup they get at the soup house with spoons, but they must have it (rem a bottle with a rubber nnzr.le, and Mrs. Bird will keep you so busy sup plying the demand Hint jou won't havi a ehiince to ilep. You just try it. Buy up the psupers! Bribe 'em!" "How '11 I know her if I ste hert" "Why, she's a large woman with a beat noEC, and she talks all the tine. You'll hear hor ta'king as soon as vou get with in a mile ol her. She'll asked yon to sub scribe to tho Senejamblan lund, and to the Asthmatic asylnin bclors yeu can get jour breath, Probably she'll read yeu lour or live letters Irani relorued canni bal?. ISttt don't you oiiud 'oca, Mv opinion is thewrete 'en harself." "Shall I tell her yu told me to c&ll upon hci?" "It don't make any dilTreace. But vou niioht mention that since the toft homo tho buby has hiul four tils, Johnny hsi lallen out ol the pear tree and cracked hit skull, Mary and Jim both have something like croup, and, Tornmv has been bitten by Jones' dog. It won't excite her; she won't care a cent; but I'd like her to have the latest nevs. Tell her II sbo can man ace to drop ia here for a minato between now and tho Fourth of July, the roiubt maybe wash the baby and give the other children a chance lo remember how elio looks. But she needn't come if it will in teriors with the happiness of Ike one lecgod mendicants or make her asthmatic miserable. Mind and mention it to her now, will you?" ' I will." "All right thrn. I'll go in end put some Trent) sticking plaster on Johnny's skull. And with tho baby singing a vociferous solo, and the other children clinging to his legs. Mr. ISird retreated nnd shut the door. Tho peddler had determined to pmposc to a girl that eight. lie changed his mind, nn 1 ronslvcd to remain a batch elor. Mux Adler. d - FEMALE DUEL.' A gned deal has lately been heard ef the proprrna of Icmsle emancipation in Russia, but it is somewhat ! a novelty to find the Kutsian Indies fuming ia the character ol ihiriiists, as was tne rare not loag since with two bcllrs ol IVtigorsk, a wjll known faOininsbls icsort on the i orthern slepe ol the t'sucies. A dispire sio-e between lliorivsl lirsntu's, uprmein'.; out of the attention psid to eicli in turn by a hand mime ydting cuvnlry lii-er quartered in tho neighborhood. The nuarril ran lo high that ono of the Amnzms at length din;iulclicl her maid to tho oilier wi'h lorurii ciiaiiciigt-, which was instantly ac ceptcd. The belligerents met without seenn Is in a lonely place outside the town esch erunl with a brace ol loads 1 pistnli. I.elore, liowtvtr, they had ever taken up their respective portions, tbc trembling ol the one laui hand ea'ired ber pistol to explode prematurely, sending a bullet through the dress of the other, who idirick td and Ml down in a swoon. The aisail ant, frightened eut ol her wits, fl inj-, away btar weapon, and rushtd to r.ise Hie iu poned corp'e; bat Ixr untrtlrl il antac nniit, recovering her rrasrs as suddenly a she ha l lost them, clutched her by the lour with one hanJ, while boxing ber e.u with the other in the nirgi;tic stile, The firing laving now reascd, tha battle pfo eecded hand to hand. Lick" nf hair rib buns, nnd shr-ns cl clothing Hew In every direct'0 i, anil but lor the timely advent 1 1 three or four pnlieemca the aflrsy might havo failed like the somewhat similar com bat of the Kilkenny eats. The military Lothario's only remark on hearing the ttery was, "It's lucky they took to clawing sell other instead ol me. ' Man woz V'oati'd a little lower than the acgells, and he has! been a gating a little lower ever since. A widower, wbea shewing a friend the cinerary urn iu Which ioeel tl remains et his dear drnsrtrd, let it (all It brolte and icatUred otcf the carpet. H runs (nf a s-rvtnt anil when sbe sppesrtd aid to liti :" Jsss, sweep up JOJt uiilretl, I I Ms M fit 4 0 46 ft Me 7M a O log a t 8 00 10 00 16 00 20 00 I 2 Ono Square, Two Sqnaroa, Threo .Squares, 8PACX ,8 00 1H iO 00 SO lli 9,0 BO is be so m 20 00 4 to oo to e -uur oijutircs, Fourth Corn, Half Column, . Whole Column, Ono Year. 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