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BY ][. K. 0. PAR1>KE.
A raw, ell illy wiml bfev from
fint down oil tlie liida of.,the bed a
few iiiiiiiites, iiiul tlreii slio .-said :
‘Well, iSpiddy, we ■ imiet have
breakfast and be read}' logo, ami
1 don’t kiioiv but. cousin Ssolo-
iiion's will be its good a place, as
the soa, and, although it was Au- anv. I wish 1 knew what the
gust, the e\*eniiig' was so cool that
the tiro crackling in tlio gi’oat fire
place was very couifortablo. Two
old meii-^brothers—sat on one
side of the heiu tli, in high, straiglit-
backed chairs; and two old wo
men—their sisters—sat ojiposite
th.ciii. lletween them stood a
round, throe-footed caiidle-starid,
•which held the caudle-stick and
the snuffers, and around it, like a
moth, fidgetted a little girt
After awhile the caudle needed
snuffing again, and she begged to
do it. Site Biniffors in
both lier slender little hands and
stood on tiptoe to reach. Woful
zeal 1 Down came the heavy
smiffers and-pnt the light out.
‘d’iiere,’ said Aunt Patience,
wlio condeiibod all of tliat virtue
in her name, ‘jnst as 1 knew it
would bo!’
‘Xever mind,’said Aunt Spiddy,
whoso .voids of comfort tvere
swift to follow her sister’s shai-p
one; ‘sit down on your little
bench and PlI tell you a riddle :
cT/Ht, in’tty cortt,
a white
Ami ii rutl ruse :
'I’hc lou;jt r aht- Htps
'i'he almvttr site grown.”
Kittv foldod Ikt liaiids to a so-
riout* coiiAiderntion ofsiKth a quoc^r
old woman, and somehow, after
n.vliiU* .die fnrjyot about hvr, am.!
heeame ab.sv)rhtd in watching the
stranjye shadov, ^ stretch tlunn-
sclves up t»
reached tlie
.•alls
Al
till they
last she
laint the top
child I’ aaii]
le while '
ceibiig.
luirst out witli—
'What inaki.s vou
ol' 1 our room black
•Wilt', vie don’t
Aunt Paticw,ce, dinrply.
‘Wiiat inakes_it so bhu'k tlieii ?’
‘It’s because it’s so old. This
lioii.se wii.s built before tlie llcvo-
lution.’
‘Was it?’ .said Kitty, to whom
the lie.'olutipn scenied .:is remote
as tl;e Deluge, d’liey were not
hsTing (.,'eiiteiinial celebratiovis all
tlie time, iiiid slie did not know
i'.s miudi about our early iiistory
‘Yes,’ said Aunt Spiddy, taking
It], the r'minis(‘ence. 'Father built
il li(,-fore be was married, .and
w e'vo all (.if us lived hero all our
lives.”
‘Why, were you .alive in the
Kovolntion V queried Kitty, with
increasing amazement.
‘Yes, I’m the oldest,’ .said Aunt
.S]iiddv, ‘and I was eight when
tlio war broke out.’
‘Wliat did 3'ou do I 1 should
have been afraid.’
‘Oil, they didn’t h.ave much
fighting- near us. Tliey came
here once, themgh. One morn
ing—it was on Monday morning,
tlio btli of .July—.somebody’woke
ns, pounding at the end door.
Mother called from the window
to know wliat he wanted, ‘d lie
red-coats are just olf the town,
and some say ,they are going to
land. If they do, you’ll want to
be out o’ tlie way, that’s alland
off he rode to the next liouso.
‘Oh, dear,’ said mother, ‘liow 1
wish vour fatlier was liere. W hat
shall I do ? Father died in the
ivinter, and motlier hadn’t gait us
ed to thinking fur liersell. she
British were going to do. There
isn’t very much in town for them.’
‘Worried as I was, I (touMii’t
help noticing what a beautiful
morning it was. I • was.used, to
being- up early, but it wasn’t,
more than three o’clock, and tiie
birds ivore singing as tliougli there
wasn’t a trouble in thei world.
Vfell, we got the ehildron upi—
Jesse and lsa.ao and Paiiopce and
the baby—and had oar breakfast.
It wasn’t much more than foiu-
o’clock wluin a neighbor’s boy
came miming ’cross the lots,
through the orchard. He said
the regiilar.s were coming towards
shore in their little boats, and al
most everybody wa.s starting-
away. Tltefe wore two great
ships and forty or fifty little' oues,
and they ’d sailed up from A otlt^
and were going to New Haven.
Mother liad iiiif her spoons and
gold beads, and some bard money,
and fatlscr’s shoe-buckles, and an
old silver tea-pot and sugar tongs
that she set groat store by' be-
can.se they liad been her mother’s
mother’s; so slie hadn’t thorn to
iniiik about.'
‘Where did she hide them ?’
said Kitty.
hSbe, buried ’e.m down in a cel
lar, in a'dark edrnef. Thiit roiiiid
table over there -was buried four
ycar.s.’
‘Why, did they steal tebies.,
too -I’
‘No, but tliQY were awful de
structive, and tliey’d break aii}--
tliing they saw, ’specially- if- tlicy-
tliought ’tivas aiiy-thingjanyliody’d
ciiTtf: about-/.and-this is ii very-
nice table ; it’s solid -.vood.
‘Well, niotliQi' put some bread
and chee.se and a tin cup in a pil
low ca.se, and thei-rslie looked all
around th'd rooms, find wo
i-iway. It -was a dreadful
There -n-ere some sick folks, and
they had to be moved, for tliey-
didn't -want to be left, and thfcre
-(voiihlii’t anybody be so haa-d-
bearted as to desert tlie.m. There
ivere some Tory families, au.d
tliev stay-cd at homo. The baby
was iniglitily pleased to bo out ol
doors.’
‘Who evas the baby V said Kit
ty, looking from one wrinkled
face to another.
‘Easter, She -was your grand
ma, and a proper, heavy Child,
Mother carried her part of the
w-a.y, but she wasn’t- very' .strong,
and 1 lielped lier, and 1 tliouglit
mv arms would drop out, they'
aelied so, .Tesso was bigger and
stronger, and be would have help
ed, but mother sent him to jias-
tm-e to get tlie cow and drive it
on to cousin Solomon’s. Part of
the way' -ive had company': -w-o-
meu and children and old men.
All who were able stayed behind
to fight,
‘The road lay right away from
New Haven, and when we had
w alked tw o or three miles wo sat
dow n to rest, for what with being
lip so early and' the worry and
the long walk, we were all tired
out. It was a real pleasant place,
I'iglit in a piece of '.voods. AVe
had something to cat, and Faster
had a nap, and-th^p-iye. -went on.
When wo reached,cousin golo:
mon’s, Nan-c.y camp do-wn to meet,
us. fjlio said she, had bufai wafgh-
ing- for us all, thebmoruing, .for^
some folks going beyond bail tp|J,
her the-British w-ere,at lAfost.^a^
ven, a-ad shyglmd been. tvaiTlpd
about UB ever sinco. Jesse-camo,
by iuul by -vyHh tile- eoty. We
stayed tliere three days. Then wp
he-ard they.bad,;had,a %ht,; sutd,
after robbing liouaes and ,setting
fire to »t>r(3B, they had gone away
in their boats tovrard Fairfield.
Tliey set fire to a good many,
housea .at West Ilavea, a-nd motlv
er sent Jesse to find out whether
ous-’s WK8 standing. When he
came back and said it was, moth
er cried, she -was so thaiiki'uk She,
said that ■ksm the hardest part of
going; she didn’t kii,ow wdieiher
she should ever sac her home
again. ^ .
We, (diildren liad a real nice
visit. . A?e didn’t get away' very
often, and fiousiu Naupy -vyas tiiij
kindest, pleasantest w.qinan I .^ver
kiie-w. We wqnt home In .an ox
cart, and we found evarvihiiig just
aaw@ left it,—the breakfast table,
and,, all,—only' the, butter plate
lay upside down and cracked in
. po-nonotiicAS, CiiiiiosiTr.
A geiitJeman lii iiig on AYright-
viile So'aml.liiis-an apple irqp two
or thres years Old, which Ijo tran.s-
*1 planted in tho-' early part of the j
Veai-.
Late
^Ood rains had" fallen, the treq
budded afresh and bloomed, and
again .presented every imlica-
tiuu. of vigijrous life. About a
Score of nppio formed on. it and
grew- to a good size. ’.nie
me, ma’am, I’ll show you wliori
tune.
tw(j, right in tlie, middle of the
kitchen floor. Every door in the
house -ft-ais open, and someb.ody
had ransackeu tlio oliest of’ draw
ers, but wo never iiiisaud,-,.suy-
thiiig. 1 suppose they wgrp kkik-
iiig.-for mittiey.
' About tyi'o ■ yearn afterwui-d a
man came to. the door and aiiked,
mother if lie might go up ipfo tlio
garret.’
‘ .'AA'liat do you -wiuit up in my
gan-et!’
‘ ‘J (anno to get g c.oat that I
hid liei-o, when the BrlUsli cxime
this way. Tho, day was Iso hi>t
1 .had to falco my' coat,' off .find
carry it ou my arm. I _^(^uldn’t
be plagued with it, so as I was
passing luii-e 1 went up inti) tlie
garret and hid it in a hole iii tho
cliiiiiiiey. If you’ll go up with
Tho. tree aparentU',. died,
in ■ tho sj'i'ing after some
drought came on, and, to all ap-
diod.
pearances, tlie tree agaii
The leaves all withered and fell
off, and all the apples except one
fell off also. Since tlie rains of
the early pM't of last month, the
tree Imd ag-lln returned to, life,
and n-ow it has not enlyt a full
supply of luxui'iaut foliage, but
that one .apple is still on it, and
tlio tree i.s in full bloom. This is
rather an unusual vegetable phe
nomenon.-^ WUmmgtun Journal.
Ji-K-ESEffiCE OF JIIISD.
There is a lesson for niothors
oouUiiuod in tho .following inci
dents, clipped from aaa old maga
zine :
“About a half century' ago Mrs.
Maiivoi's lived in a small country
town in one of tiie Nortlieni
States.
She had, several small ehildron,
and lived in a I'ai'ge Uirco-story
house. There wa*) a scuttla-dooi-
in the roof of tlie house,' Viith a
conveiiieiit ttau"way ’,teadihg 'tb ,it,
and tide door was, often left,open
in pleasant -W-eatiier.
Mrs, Msnveri bad^.a good old
iieiglibor hying,oppioslte, or noiu'-
ly opposite, in just sucii .a , posj-
ti.on, however, as to, compiand a
■good view of Airs. Maiiver’s gar-
[e, . ■ o
ret wuidonis. , , ,
One beiiufilul .gum'inor after-,
noon, a^.All's.-AiapVers I'JF
ed in tlig large,copl hall „'r'oikIng'
(bain, neiu-bbor Ctrecn
child !-’- 'ftiid Mi'f!: AIativer.s.
‘Wliat sliall we do ? what shall
we do. All's. Alanvers ■’
■ ' Mrs. Maii-vers stepped to tlio
door where tbo’cbihl could beai-
witliout soiling bor and called as
neady in her ' usual voieo as she
could, ■
‘.\iini6, come iSi now, de.ar!
Afo h,- r wants
You could almost kOo tbe throb
bing of lier heart !*he lintcned.
I ' Ita,'thti come patter
ing down, and now tlio child
stands by her yido.
‘Thank (rod !’
‘^rhaiik God!'
Green, ‘and don’t
liai'd upon, the dear child, Miss
Manvers.’
I don’t recollect whether Annie
was very severely punished for
hai- temerity, but 1 do know that
sli8 never ventured to take walks
upon tlie top of the house again.
TIiObo facts I can voiicli for, as
tliG little Annie of fifty years ago
now occupies the euine chair and
writes with tho samohand that Ido.'
echoed Mrs.
lot’s bo too
C'b&Sdrcsi ai CIsus'vh.
’tlB.’
other
went up, and sure
enougli!—li.e took away two or
big stoneS; and there lay his
captuiii’s coat, just where he put
it. It wa.s such a bunch of wrin
kles i don’t believe it ever did
come smootii. We’d been uj)
there time and again, but we’d
n I * rance of calmness as she, entered
Iievei- tliought ui any thing being .g.-^
there. Ho couldn’t have hid it in
one of our city chimneys. Motlier
brought out some wonder cakes
and cider, and they had a long
talk about the war.’
‘And did anybody find the
beads and the other things V
‘No, motlier looked to see if
tliey' were safe, and tlien she loft
them tliere till peace w;a3 declar
ed, for we didn’t know but the
British might oomo again.’
AA'ith a warning click and
whirr, tlie tall clock struck iiiiife,
and tlio four old people foldeii
their hands and bowed thefi heads
in silent prayer. Tiie fading cm-
bois were carofuny buried, and
slec]) and silence blessed tho an
cient roof.
Aiiticip.ated' sorrows are har
der to bear than real ones, be
cause Christ docs not support us
lui-dcr tlieip. In every slough we
'I'nav sue the footstep.S' ol Christ’s
flock who have gone bofere us.-
hej- babq to. slepp, ueig-hbor G're'en
ciune, runniug’ ill 'biit of breath
and pale with ail'right; ‘Oh, Mrs.
Alanvci's ! your AVillio and ,G,eor-
dle are a-teeforiiig out o’ the gar
ret wiiidq.w 1 they .'have put out a
Icpg bpard iiiul oiie'isdu thC out
side and t’other—'
Airs Alaiivers waited to bearno
more, but made Ij^i^w.ay as best
shot .could up jtlids'e long, long
stairs, and piittnuf on an appear-
A[y dear boys and girls of the
.Sabbath school, everywliero, in
tho city and in the country', wo
-would ui'g'c you all to attend tlie
[ireacliuig of the AA^ord. Tlie sab
bath school is not enough. ‘The
gospel is to be preached and must
be lieard. Tlie children may'
Jioar' and, understand it. Dear
young-plb6ple do - 11(1^ tuni your
backs iipoli Jegus. Afeet liim in
the public ‘Cijiigi-egation.
Listen to his ministers when
they' preach. Do not' merely
move about thedoorspftbeeliurch,
in they gallery' or -the leeturo
room : but go into'the pCiv with
y'(i>iu'father'or motlier," get into
the.-Clnti'cli with your lieart, fully
and forever iiisidc the kingdom.
How beautifuF it is to see a
c'dng're'gatiob where lliorc are
cliihiren liere'and tliere, jilentv
qf them, all through the cltnrcli,
from the 'steph oftlie piilpi't clear
back to tho doors ! The singing
would be sweeter, the preaching
nfoukl b(i bfettor, and, best of all,
everything won Id'be happier, aid
itiore like Jnses.—Lililg Banner.
the gar
I (Hily want AA''illie.’ And taking-
hold of tlie end of the board
where Geordie -K'as sitting, ‘Come
in, Willie; mother wants you,
now.’
AAJiat she did with the boys;
wbon she had them safe, I won’t
say ; but she was an .excellent
woman, and whatever she did
was right.
It might have been two or throe
years afterward, the same Mrs.
Green mada-.lier appearance at
Mrs. Alanver’s door in pretty
much the same way', only w'ith a
face rather more 'terror-stricken ;
‘The . Lord have mercy upon us,
MissManvers ! little Annie (wlio,
by'-tlie-way, was a special favor
ite with the good neighbor), your
little Aiiiiio is walking- on top of
the house ; I saw her just iiow
walk out to the end, lean her
hand against the
look over !’
‘Al-ji'ciful God,
clumney' and
How TO Khmove AA’ARr.s.—
AA'^.arts are not only very' troiiblo
some, but disfigure the hands.
Onr readers will tliank ns for
calling' their attention to the fol-
lo-R'ing }>erfect euro, o-i'cn of the
largest, without leaving a scar.
Take -a small piece of raiv beef,
steep it all niglit in vinegar, cut
as much from it as will cover tho
wart and tie it on ; or, if the ex
crescence is on the forehead,
fasten it on with strips of plaster.
It may be removed duringtlieday
»nd ])ut on every night. In one
fortnight the "wart will die and
peel oft'. The same prescription
will cure corns.
iirestrvo mv
“Afariar,’-’ remarked one of the
horny-handed sons of toil to Ids
wife, “pears to me it t.akes a sight
o’ calico to n-ake you a dres.s,
those hard times. Can’t yer econ
omize witli one of them ar pull-
b.aeks tlie city gals iVe;)!'1” It
was then that Jlariah fired the
bread-board at bim and remarked
tliat slie wasn’t “g.iin’ to stop tlio
c'l'uul; tion of bioul in her leys
ifor no bald-lKaade.l ol.l nem:-,-
!i.i;'u!.m ”
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