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cm JOB PRINTING. .1 cm 1 1 L. Y, ,& E. ?JT, BLUM, I'l BfctfcHKR Amr PROPRIETORS. THE mSS )CB - , DLFAKTKENT I sna NEATNESS, DISPATCH. Terms :Cush in Advance, (hie Copy one year. . . . ; $2.00 44 six months, . . . . 1.00 VERY LOWEST PRICES. 44 three months, . .- VOL XXVI. SVliiberal Disoount to Clubs -e SALEM, X. C, JUXE ;i0, 1878. XO. 25. Sf , -people' Jprtsi. if JU JL 6V Oh, " SORROWFUL, YET REJOICING." oil ! sleepless nights, waiting on days of pain ! - heart, so coin 1 j . .. . t an the i send forth a cry of thankfulness more , ihanuter . -.-- t j ; -i . . . X'au theps "ffcefks au Uv yet -wear a unite y-the feverish eye j. - Sher hosting tear of j,jr, not burning drops of - agony ? 4 ' . - Does not the Savior stand beside her lied, and ease nai'h throe . : His presence just as rear and comforting as when below, J : Here on this earth. He moved, and soothed the smart of anguish sore s In those who touched with trembling faith the hem of robes he wore. -, j . . And our dear Master's gracious presence near ; His love our own ; !' How should we fret at earth's hard chastisements how make our moan i :i : O'er troubles which are ' blessings in disguise," ruled by Ills hand - HU followers calmly face, the fiercest storm. If He command. ;j ' And she who lies upon her bed of pain is far more blest Than hundreds walking heedless, midst life's joys, of His behest. The joys, as flowrs, fade quickly 'neath the touch; hers feed like fire ' j - . - On all od sends of good or seeming ill, and never shall expire. " - ..j . The Argosy' LEAVE ME NOT i Leave me not ! leave me not t thou art my star ; , Without the my nfe would ne dark -I fly to thy bosom when sorrow-clouds lower. As the dove to the sheltering ark. Leave me not ! leave me not ! others are kind. But the light in their eye? is less true ; The heaven of their love is overclouded hy storms, . While thine's ever sunny and blue. Leave me not ! leave me not ! thou art my joy ; J have poured all my heart's garnered store. In one measureless flood of deep love, at thy feet. And the angel's could give thee no more. Leave me not ! leave me not ! mournful thy bird Would fold her bright wings, didst thou go ; And her songs, gushing sadly, would tell but the tale Of an o'erburdened heart in their flow. Leave me not! leave me not ' shadows and clouds. And a lone, weary pathway were mine ; The flowers droop and die when their light turns away , , I ' Like a flower I have lived but in thine. Leave me not I leave me not ! by the days that are past, ' ! Though the world is both weary and wide. The dreariest lot, and the saddest of homes. Were the sweetest. If snared by thy side. THE LION-TAMER. lioness will be the death of you "That vet, Joe. 'Pshaw !" said Joe Amberly, the Lion Tamer" of a large traveling circus laugh ing at the predictions of his assistant. ' 'You may laugh as much as you please, but some day you will find I am right, and that to your sorrow, though then it will be "I have performed with all the animals for some years, and never had any diffi culty." ; - 'You forget the one at Longtown." "That didn't amount to much. I soon brought them to subjection." "But the trouble commenced with this same lioness." ' "Yes; though it wouldn't have been so bad if those cats of hunting leopards had -ssnot set up a yell' and drawn the black tiger Into the affray." NShe has a devil of a temper when it is up is the most treacherous beast I ever fed or had anything to do with. I have been watching her close for a couple of days, " continued the assistant, "and know she is mighty cross-grained. So, depend upon it, you are going to have trouble. 4I don't see why, - more . than at any other time." ' "There are times and you know it, if " you will only reflect and this is one of them. Tf I was in your place I wouldn't , try to show off to-day with any extras, but just give a common pe.rformance and get out of the cage as quick as I could. ' ' "You " know what we advertise, and , what a crowd has gathered." "Yes," with a- laugh; "and I know we never have or do one-half there is on the bills. Paper is cheap, Joe, but human life is precious. Think how poorly off you . would leave your wife and child if any thing should happen to you, and what would become of your wife if any thing should happen to the child?" "Do not mention it." The man who had handled and tamed 1 and toyed with the savage beasts as if they had been harmless kittens groaned aloud at the thought. A man of the most ardent, even passionate nature, he-bowed down in worship to his wife and little girl. And that day it had been advertised that he - would take his child and a pail of blood into the cage with him. It was a very daring, foolhardy project at the best; but how much more so when the beast9 were doubly savage and out of . temper when, the slightest thing might arouse them to all their prestine fury, and the fierce blood of the wilderness assert .itself in all its tempestuous wrath. ; , ' . But the husbandly and fatherjy emotion was soon conquered. The habit of years and his natural strength gave him self reliance; and it would take more than the idle words to turn him from his purpose no matter, how dangerous it might appear to others. To this must be added the etprit da eorp$ that would make him take the most desperate chances before having even the shadow of cowardice attached to. his name. - ; Still, he could not help thinking more deeply, perhaps, than ever before. Was there in reality any danger? He could not convince himself of it, argue the matter as '' he would. ;--v - -f ':: The old lion in the cage, though a mon ster in size, was ' inoffensive, tame and obedienU ? In the language of the keepers, he was "good for nothing but to make a show and set back in the eorner, grind his teeth and growl." Besides, he was a . friend, and upon more .than one occasion . had acted the part of a peace -maker". 1 The leopards a pair of spotted cheetahs were scarcely to be . tftken' Into consideration. The black tiger, the most tare and strik ingly beautiful animal in any collection, was ordinarily . quiet, though when fully aroused not to be trifled with. ; , ' But the lioness was the especial one to be dreaded and watched She was a beast of uncommon , power, : with massive arms, long, curving claws, tall lithe and nervous as a serpent, teeth sharp as needles, flexile, treacherous, smooth, tawny akin and yellow eyes 5 that ever flashed fiercely. Never, even in her best moods, had she been submissive, and her mildest play was rough fa the extreme. ITheS Hdft-tamer turned 'from hi , com panion to eb and dress for his attractive doing so he visited the double cage, anil made a critical examination of the beasts, who any instant might be to him as fate. There, was nothing to especially awaken fear; and, half vexed with himselffor hav ing been needlessly disturbed, he passed from the great canvas into a smaller com partment, and found his wife and child waiting for him the one a young and beautiful woman, and the other a very fairy of a child, whose hair hung down upon her back, as the brightest and finest of spun silk. 'I am sorry, Joe," said the wife and mother, as her husband entered, "that you have consented to so foolish a performance as the one advertised for to-day." "Why, May?" and he looked more earn estly at her. "Because the ordinary performance is hazardous enough." 'V "Tnen you think this more so!" "I don't know that it is," she replied, having the utmost confidence in her hus band's ability; ; "but somehow I don't altogether fancy having Inez taken into the cage." - "You know my reason for consenting, and that it would never have been given had your assent not first been obtained. ' ' "Certainly, and it was very good of you, Joe." "That it was promised on account of my salary being raised." - "Yes." . - "And that it was to secure the rise of salary, so as the sooner to accumulate enough to buy a little home against the Tainy days that may come." "Yes, my dear Joe; but," with a smile, "had not pride something to do with it? That's the curse of the profession. Each one is always trying to outdo the other, running risks on that account they will not otherwise attempt. "Well. May, I only gave my promise to do the act once, but even now will give it up if you say the word. I had rather dis appoint all the managers and le called a coward by all the rabble in the world than eause your heart ; to beat with fear, or to bring tears into your eyes." "No, no, Joe. Don't think I have lost confidence and pride in you. No. don't think of giving it up. I suppose I am foolishly nervous. But you will be careful, and not run any unnecessary risk?" "My own heart would have to be torn out before anything should happen to our darling;" and he stooped, raised the child, tossed her up, caught, kissed her and hugged her to his bosom. "But vourself. Joe?" "Oh, I'll look out for number one." The conversation did not tend to ease his mind, and before dressing he went out and held another conversation with his particular attendant, and took another look into the performing cage. The animals were m re quiet than when he had seen them previously; the lioness especially appeared in a playful mood, and, with something of a load lifted from his heart, he returned, with but little time re maining before he would be called upon to prove his right to the proud title of lion tamer. And every inch he looked one, as he stepped in view of the densely-crowded assembly. Gorgeous in his new costume, and with a look of calmness and determi nation upon his face, he looked, with his tall and sinewy form, fit to grapple with and overcome the fiercest beasts that ever prowled amid the jungles of Asia and Africa, and made night terrible with their roaring. A burst of applause a perfect tempest of huzzas and clapping of hands greeted him as he swung his little girl, dressed in silver tissue, and with the gossamer wings and tiara of sparkling jewels around her golden curls that represent the traditional tairy, upon his shoulders. V hue looking at his stalwart proportions, the men thought what a dangerous antagonist he would be, and the young mothers shud dered at so beautiful a child being taken into a den of savage animals. With a graceful bow and the dignity of a Roman conqueror, the lion tamer strode through the circle, disappeared behind the cage, and with such rapidity as to astonish the audience, stood within the compart ment where the huge lion was lying and the agile leopards leaping about, and had placed his child between the claws of the greater brute, and she was playfully toying with its shaggy mane. For a time he made the leopard&lcap about him as kittens jumping from corner to corner, resting . upon his shoulders, bounding lightly overthe extending whip. Then he prepared to throw the two cages into one. ; "Let Inez out now," whispered the attendant, uneasily. "You. have done enough already to keep your promise, and the audience won't know the difference." "No; I will go through. Mind what I told you, and have things ready in case there should be trouble, though I don't fancy any." Then he continued aloud, so as to be plainly heard by every one, "Hand me the pail of blood." A cold shiver, a supernatural awe, ap peared to pass , through the frame of all, as the vessel, dripping with crimson drops, was given to him, and more than one asked themselves if the man was mad to thus not only risk his own life, but that of his beautiful child. And when he loos ened and thrust aside the partition, and the fierce lioness and sleek tiger came bounding in, their breath was absolutely suspended, and their hearts momentarily ceased to beat. " -Down!" ; The tiger obeyed, and the foot of the lion-tamer was upon his neck. "Up!" And the leopards were purring like great cats upon hei , shoulders, while the lioness lay crouched with her tawny paws thrust through the bars and growling severely. "For mercy's sake, let her alone," whispered his attendant; "and mind not kick over that pail. nine Diooa Bnouia be spilled, it would be all over with you both. All the men in the world couldn't save you." 1 i 4 'Stand ready, but keep still. The brute shall mind." ! His child was sitting on the back of the lion, and smiling in that den ot hor rors. ' Her confidence in her father was sublime was as perfect as her love. She never dreamt ofJear when he was near to protect, and while the lookers-on shud dered, she innocently deemed it a pleasant pastime. "Down!" m The leopards leaped to either corner, and crouched down. r . own. Slowly and slowly they turned round as if waltzing, the low mutterings of the beastii be-oming more plainly audi ble every moment, and her yellow, feline eyes snapped with hidden fires. With an amazing exhibition of strength he wrestled with, tripped and threw her from him. and the canvas tent rang again. But instantly she was upon her feet, lash ing her sides with her prehensile tall, d rawing back her lips so as to show her teeth, and uttering the deepest and fiercest of howls. "For the love of mercy hand out your child Joe,"" said his attendant. "Wait a moment. I shall I done very quickly." The crowning feat was yet. to come. It was one upon which he had bestowed much time, and upon which he had prided himself was. a tableau of wild beasts, with manhood and childish beauty for the central attraction. t He stepped to the. corner, led the mon ster lion forth into the centre of the cage, made him lie down, placed the little girl upon mm and strode astride. men a shrill whistle brought the cheetah leop ards bounding upon his shoulders and standing up with paws crossed altove his head, the black tiger erect upon hU left, and throttled with his hand But the lioness failed to do her bidding and take her place upon his right. She lay in the act of springing, and at but a little dis tance, j "Come." There was ' movement, and the whip was raised and fell heavily upon her head. That was all that was needed to awaken her latent ire. and. with a roar like that given in her native forest, she sprang with almost resistless force toward him. A sharp, st in trine blow on the bridge of the nose for a moment cowed her, and she micbt have been conquered had Bhe not partially fell upon and upset the patl and deluged the floor or the cage in blood I Then all became the wildest commotion the most terrible and savage sounds. Every ' beast sprang down, lapped the blood, and then turned upon him. Even the veteran lion appeared to forget the long years of training, and something of his young forest life blazed forth. Amberly comprehended all in an in stant, and the father triumphed over the actor. He snatched the now terrified and screaming child, sprang with her to the door, thrust her into the hands of the watchful attendant, and would have fol lowed, had not the lioness grappled and drawn him back, rending his shoulder with his sharp claws, and causing the blood to stream over his rich dress. He was fighting against the m-t des perate odds, knew it. backed into the corner, and called for bis irons. One, red hot at the end, was handed to him. but at the first stroke the lioness tent it whirling. and her sharp teeth almost met for a mo ment in his thigh. "Hand me something sharp with which I can brain the brute! Every thing upon which hands could be laid was thrust to him. but he failed to reach them, and the danger was becoming more and more imminent. The blood had been lapped up clean all were mad with desire, the tiger and the leopards crouching upon him. Then the majesty of command asserted itself. "Come, Samson." The old lion came forward at the words, seemed to comprehend that something was wrong, thrust himself letweeii his master and his raging mate. and. when she turned upon him, sent her rolling with a blow of his great paw. The lion-tamer might have escaped, but, bleeding, wounded as he was, he would not retreat, and turned his atten tion to separating the now tangled mass of fighting animals. Picking up one leop aid after another he drew them into a further corner of the cage, dragging the tiger, with the lioness clinging to it and tearing its glossy hide, thither, tore open its paws by main strength, hurled it buck and shut the partition, turned, reeled to the door, fell upon it and was dragged through to safety, even with the lioness rattling behind him as it was closing. A few steps taken, and the lion-tamer fell fainting by. the side of his already In sensible wife, who lay with his affrighted child hugged closely to her scarcely-beating heart. Then the silence that had been as death was broken by the most tumultuous shouts, and breath was drawn again, and halt fainting women and fear-pahied men felt as if a mountain had been lifted from their hearts. Lame, torn and weak, the lion-tamer entered the rape the next dav before the most unprecedented crowd, it having been advertised that he would do so in his blody clothes, but never again could he be tempted to take the child or pail of blood behind the bars. WILD STRAWBERRIES. i 'Crime!" The lioness grumblingly arose, crawled suddenly to his feet, rose and laid her o-rpat claws unon his shoulders, making him swerve with -her weiaht, and ra ised buUdangeroua performance; but ' before her terrible head upon a level with her "More Strawberries?" said Mm. Wylde, with a perplexed contraction 'of her brows. Yes," said old Phillis, the coot "I've made two short-cakes an a pie. an' dar ain't nigh enough left to fill de big glass dish for tea." "Dear me !" said Mrs Wvlde. "what thall we do?" Lisette is dressing, and Maude never could endure the sun. Bar bara" to a slender young girl who was curled up in one of the deep window- seats, reading "you'll have to go." Barbara Wylde roused herself out of an Arcadian dream of Du ken a Little xselL and fixed a pair of big blue eyes on her mother's troubled face. "Go where, mamma?" "Down to the south pasture lot for wild strawberries. The ground is crimson with them there, and Barbara Wylde scrambl d down out of her high perch. "Mamma, said she, "what a nuisance all this is I 1 don't believe Captain Ell wood Severn is worth all this trouble. I don't believe he'll fall in love with either Maude or Lisette. And I think preserved eooseberries are quite good enough for him." ' "Hold your tongue, child !" said Mrs. Wylde, sharply. Takethe basket and go for the strawberries at once." "But it is so hot, mamma!" "Put on tyour broad-brimmed straw flat" ; "And I haven't finished mv novel. pleaded Barbara, with her mind reverting longingly to Little .Nell. "Nonsense " said Mrs. Wylde. "You read too . many novels, a deal, for a child of your age." -' - And Barbara disappeared.' unwillingly enough, into the apple ' orchard, across which a sinuous path, bordered with but tercups and read clover, led direct to the velvet slopes of. the "south - pasture. where the ripening fruit of the wild straw berry shown like tiny rubies along the course of a musical little brook, all fringed I.I. l. n 1 1 ...tl T niui rcvus Kiiacia auu will cni iok ferns. "Strawberriea, Indeed !" aald Barbara to herself. "It's dreadful to be the young est of a family of girls, and have to pick strawberries for one's elder sisters' beaux." And he pushed the yellow curls oat of her ej-es, and went to work In lugubrious earnest, pcrpplng the largest and sweetest of the berries Into her little round rose bud of a mouth, staining her drew as she knelt down to seek th - shy treasure under the clustering green leaves, and crimson ing her hands with the haste she made, "I wonder which of 'em be U marry? ' said .Barbara to herself as she paused a minute to listen to a robin which, perched on the boughs of a feathery elm beyond the brook, trilled out his barcarolle of glad music "Lisette U the prettiest, of course. and he can't Lnow what a dreadful temper she's got. But Maude is literary, and has read all the new books, and am talk so well. Gentlemen like Intellectual ladies. I wish" with4 a sigh "that was intellectual." And our little maid fell to work at the strawberries a rain for full five minutes. And then she shook her basket, aitd peered down into Its depthswith. eyes of azure despair. "Not hair full. aid she to herseir; not a quarter full." Oh. dear me ! how I wish some one would come to help me ! And there u some one stretched nrovok- Ingly in the shade under Squire Dallaa's big oak by the stoae wall where the sweet briers grow. Teople have no business to lie in the shade when other people have to De wortlng hard in the sun? And I do believe its Squire Dallaa's new hired man. and he ought to be at work in the hay- field instead of lying there under the tree with a book. And. Barbara added, sur veying the distant faineant with resolute blue eyes from beneath her uplifted hand. he ihall work ; he shall help me? "Young man?" she called out. The robin trilled on, the bruk made a cooL tumultuous splashing over the mossy stones that formed its bed, and no answer came back to Barbara tire the flutter of the leaves in the hazel copse under the hill. Young man, I say !" she called out again, this time with a certain accent of the imperious in her voice. The recum bent figure under the ok tree straightened itself up at once, and made haste toward the stone wall that separated Squire Dal las's domains from Deacon Wylde south pasture lot. "I beg your pardon," said he ; "but did you call ?"' Of course I called," said Barbara, thinking within herself how tall and straight and darkly handsome Squire Dal las's new hired man was. Don't yon think young man. you ought to be at work?" ; "At work?" repeated the SpanUh L rowed stranger. "Well, perhaps I ought." "There's no 'perhaps' about it," said Barbara, brusquely. 1)f coarse you ought And since you don't rhHe to work for your m-istei, you may a well be working for ." "My master?"' , "Squire Dallas, of course," aald Bar bara. "Dear me, kow stupid you are!" And how, may I venture to ask. did you Know who I wna? he questioned, iu an amused sort of way. "Uh, It didn t require any great exer cise or brilliance for (Aa( re ponded Barbara, with a wise little nod of her head. I knw Squire Dallas has got a new hired man ; and if you're not he who are vou?"' "That Is the question, "said the stranger. gravely. But we mustn t stand talking here, went on Barbara, ia a busine like way. "Take the locket ami go to picking straw berries Just as fast a ever yoti can, lecaue we re to have company at our bouse I ni Hartiara Wylde, you know, young man and I must get hack with the berries for dessert as quickly as possible." "All right," said the stranger; "I n tol erable quick at this sort of thing. I be lieve." t "I hope you are, "i said Barbara intent on extricating a tiny mee-pricker from the point or her stained roreflncer "and at other things too. Because, if you're not. "lie won t, ehr Barbara shook her head. 'The hut man went away because he couldn t en dure the squire driving ways," said she. un. l was to sorry ! lie was nice, lie used to lend me books and things over the rence, and be taught the district school In the winters. I used often to come here and talk with him over the stone wall, be cause, you ace, it's lonesome up at the house if I ao have two grown sisters. Llssette la crosa with me if I ask to borrow any of her books she has a dreadful tem per, baa our Lisette and Maude Is too in tellectual to trouble herself about a slip of a girl like me. Grown, sister are dread ful," with a solemn shake of the head. "And I supose you are not grown, said Squire Dallas' hired man. with a curious gleam of amusement around the corners of hi mouth h "No," said Barbara, "I am only sixteen. and I haven't got trains to my drr yet Hut pernaps when Uie girls get married. and one of them la' sure to marry this Captain Severn Oh, take care, you're tipping all the berries out upon the graft ! Squire Dallas won't keep jrou a week tf you re as clumsy as tHaL But the hired man luckily succeeded In righting the basket before lu crimson con tents were irretrievably lost "It's all right" said be. "See how rapidly it is filling up. But suppose this Captain I forget what you said hi name was?" "You mustn't forget things," said Bar bara. "Squire Dallas will never be suited ith tkat. He's a very particular old gentlemen. I men ton these things, you know" with an air of mild patronage "because you seem 1 ke a nice, respectable young man, and I should like you to keep the place." "I am much obliged to yo'i. aald the stranger, hurriedly putting a strawberry into his mouth." "Now you are eating the strawberriea," said Barbara, severely. "You shouldn't do thaL" "One or two Is of no consequence, apologized Squire Dallas's hired man. "But I was going to sav, suppose this com company gentleman "Captain Severn, his name Is," Inter posed Barbara. "Yes, suppose that Captain Severn shouldn't fall in love with either of your grown sisters?" "Then he'd be a very great disappoint ment," cried out Barbara, "because Lis ette is six and twenty, and Maud; says she'll cut her throat sooner than be an old old maid." "He might fall in love with ." sug gested the y i King man. regarding hi pretty enmpanioo with a sidelong glance frutn beneath his long uahea. "WUhM" repeated Bruar. Me! a little girl that wears drew without trains, and isn't out of her stales yet ! That's a likely thing. Isn't It! Now. I tell you what, young man, yiu are talking a great deal ton much and working a great deal too .Utle. , Pcrhap. If you re crjr smart with the berries, I'll bring you one of PhlUU's tarta, ami pat It on the stone fence to night Phill'is does make the dehciousest strawberry Uru f ' "That would be delightful." aakl the stranger, promptly. Barbara gavea'acrvtiatziDg glance Into the berry boket . ,. ."I begin to think we've got almost enough.',' said she, - " "Not vet," pleaded her companion. "Yes nodded Barbara. "And mam ma will be in a hurry, and Maude will scold dreadfully if I am nut there In time to do her back hair." "It strikes roe." said the stranger, with a half smile, "that you're a good deal like Cinderella In the story tooks." Barbara considered the matter for a second or two. "So I am," said she. "I never thought about It before ; but I do believe I a little like Cinderella. Bat dear me! there's no ghva slipper for me. And as 6 you. young man." relapsing at once into the severe Mentor again, "you haJ better get back a fM as possible to your work ; and don't let Squire Dallas caU h you loitering again, if you have any re gard for your place." The strauger stood with dofTol cap and altitude of chivalrous attention. "But you'll not forget the strawberry tart?" said he. "Certainly not ; If once I can retold PhllUY s bark turned long entngh to steal it out of the milk mom,' said Barbara. And off she tripped, with rosy stained lips, gokirn hair floating recklessly in the wind, and light elastic feet bnwlog down the buttercups and red clover as she went "Dear me, chile," said Pblllt. as she came into the kitchen, rosy and breathlesa with the tmie she had made, "what a lime you s ben 1" "Not half an hour," cried Barbara, flinging away her hat, and splashing her face with cool water out of the bucket "Has he come. Phlllisr "De company young man. miss? said PhillU. "No he ain't An Jlirs Lisette she's a scoldln 'cause you ain't ben to ar range de mses for de big bokay in de middle ob de Uble : an Mis Maude she done can t fix her hair to suit her ; an dar's de mlaus caliin' now. Ran, Miss Barby, run !" "There, mamma, I tohl you so !" said Mias Maude Wylde, the -Intellectual member of the farailv. "It will be an in convenient crowd if "Barbara come to the table." "It her wait," said Lisette, serenely. "But I won't wait flashed out Bar bars, her blue eyes glittering with Indig nation. "I trill cotue to the first Uble. After arranging the roses and gathering the wild trw brnie. and M-unma. u it right to kt-p me in the bark kitchen all niydays?" "My dear! my dear!" remonstrated Mr. Wylde. "you are forgetting yourwlf." "And I do so want to see Captain Sev ern I" added Barbara, 'resolutely choking down a big sob which rvwe to her thrt What nonsense !ald Lisette, the dove eyed beauty with the rippling hair and the a m a m. a f complex ton ei ne ana sno meat, and they ate tt toother, he and Barbara JIke two srhool children, ocj jib the Uwn.'while.Mas4 yawned be&iod a txak, and IiarUe aodly wondered. f"w kat on earth CaptaliJ N-vrrn rvoJ4 An4 amuse hisa! in the cTUcTiT a tVikl JOs. Barbara," : r'' t A nd w hea the red leave of 1st Octnbea choked np the title stream lcskkfvhlb mey uaa gauirrra wim stmwM-mes. ire , was a weddie g at the Wvlde bocneud; aad the-bode. was. Maude the Intel- toriujd as the lovely Meii. tut utile axira. , "Dar's nAacroonUn" tt tree ve." ,ll ..t.?TC''. 1. .V. .it. t:. miec aa Cake Captain Severn would hk at jr" But I may look at him. I suppose t la tr 4 It i'sui cried Indignant Barbara. "And I'm six teen years old. and yve no right to treat roe like a baby. "Children ! children ! dont get to quar relllag." aald Mr. Wylde. -And Barbara can sit Just here behind the tea urn, snd 1 dare aay we shall have plenty room." "There I said uaroara, wun a trium phant grimace at her sister. "Horrid Utile spoiled child T asld Maude. "Barbara always get her own wsy," commented Lbwtte. Hush!" said Mr. Wylde, acthorita lively. "Here come your papa np the laurel walk with Captain Severn." Lisette peeped from behind the fold of the fluted Swiss curtains, Maude ran to the Venetian blinds of the bay-window, and Barbara climbed with slxieen-year-old sgllity into a chair to peep over her sister's shoulder. "Oh. gd gracious !"' cried she, drop ping from her aerial perch with startling suddenness. "What Is it?" said Maude. "It's Squire Dallas's hired man ?" gasped Barbara. "H'JUlf" said LUette. "I I don't mind about the first Uble " said Barbara, turning pluksod white, like a w a a a l or ana-Lancaster rose ; -i a rsmer eat In the kitchen with PhillU." And away she darted like a scared young doe, before any one could stop her. "Go awy !" said Barbara. Indignantly. She had cried until her eyelashes were all glittering snd her cheeks stained with tears, to say nothing of the crumpled stale of her sash ribbon and while muslin dress, and now she sat crouched under the shadow of the great flowering almond bush, as If she would fain retreat utterl) out of the world of sight and hearing. Captain Severn stood Immovable before her, with folded arms and questioning Spanish eye. I shall not go away." said he. "until you have pardooed me.' How can I ever pardon your Cashed out Barbara. "You have Imposed upon me. you have practiced upon my cre dulity. " ou asked me to gather strawberries and I helped you." "You allowed metosnppnse that you were Squire Dallas's hired man. "I claimed no identity one wsy or the other." pleaded Captain Severn. "I was try in g to find my wsy by a short-cut serosa the fields to your father's bouse, and sat down under the oak tree to rest And when you called me I came, like a true knight of old. N-w If you can convict me or any serious ocense in ail mis, i stand ready to abide the conscqnencea." 'You never, aerer. will be able to for give me." sobbed Barbara, again miring behind the end of her blue sajdu. "Little Barbara, aakl Captain Severn, falling on his knees, as If it were the moat natural and conventional thlog in the worU to do, "will you forgive aw?" And what could Barbara say but Tea." Captain Severn Insisted upon his straw berry tart that evening, according to gree- Id tW tV.'.Us L she t!rred the wvddiag Its' " '' " '., fc ; U'BVAAIXE EAaTHOUAttS. ' TKaTTlWxWf TnLTAXTC PtTT; e ri.i i i , j ajicts. ' " ' , rura Cctamkt Vf India, an XnlUh Journal, we' make , the folio wlo . ex tract : The post fifteen months have baea fruitful ' of 1 rolcanrc oTsturtsvocea, scarcely aay part of the earth having remained ua visited by the unwelcome phenomena oq a more er lea extroslve scale ; and Use last month of 147? and the first three month of the current year have been paxtkakrly .prudoctiva of what Dyroo would call young eartluiuakr." While this has Lm the case in those parts of the earth' sur face which are inhabited, and where the phenomena can b aged. it U not to be expected that the much larger area which is covered by the sea should escape these viaitauoxia. Tbe appoaraoc and disappearance of volcanic reel and island which are noted to ha to occurred from time to time are proofs that the vast unsteo land beneath the aea are the sornes of volcanic disturbance ; but It ia vary sel dom that these occur re uce are actually seen by the crew of Teasel happening to pass at the exact lime. Tha report of two ach coincidence bare reached ua from two far distant quarters at the aante time. Tbe master of the BriUa baxkD. M'B. Park, which arrived at Cowea, Isle of Wight, some days ao, from I U la via, report having seen several submarine volcanoes on Jao- uary 2a, at 7 x. x., in latitude -"U N. and Loogitode214 W about VCU mile S, W. of r4erra Leone. Large volumea of water were thrown about 100 feet into the air, and the whole aea in tit neighborhood was ia a state of violent cucnmoUoo, with a atrvog no de re or rent ; The' weather waa calm, but with clouds and rata ; s-wnds a of distant thunder accompanied the out burst. Tbe other report U from New Zea land. Captain He lander, of the steamer Go-Ahead, while oo a voyage from (i is borne to Auckland, reports having witnessed a curious pbeiwmenoti on De cember 1st last, between 8 and r. ., when about fire mile from land, off Open Bay. The sea a short distance ahead of the vessel was observed to be a mass of seething form, travelling at a rapid rate toward the veeL The course of the steamer, waa changed in order to avoid the disturbance, and though It cleared tbe outer edge of the agitated water, the Influence was fell for sums time, and the vessel pitched violently until long after the actual scene of the agitation waa parsed. There Is no doubt that the plenome noQ waa doe U volcanic forces a alight shock of earthquake hating been fell alCisbom on the preceding even ing. When w consider that I he ob served e&ccU of vulcanic force on the habitable glob occur on an average once In three days i I easy? with such example before us, to imagine that an inceaant discharge of the pent-up furtea of tha interior of the earth la going on, and that not a day, per hap hardly an hour, pai without some disiorb ance occurring In some portion of the oceans and continent which the earth comprise. Haste tripe up our heelal fetters maffi3lr 3TATC i Itoietfienee drW Ibe.l Vod air It b gmal to be deaf when the shuuleref tetflna to talk. t , j , -i-IMhkf doea rHt'drtwn rare, but waters it and fcadkeai it grow faster. Knvy makes ta see what will arte toaxnioiLeraandr6t)rrteire what buy justify. . LVcesicy is the lease of aU law-, but jst U is the law which is the tmml strictly observed. The c!.!e proiertlm of wLhm are to LW mindful of thrhg past, careful of thing ivseent, and irovident of thing to come. Mr. JLarar the British Ambassa dor, to Cpnstanlinopie, ha received tlx decoration of the Order of tlx- (iraixl Cross of the Haih. Crown Point, N. V., farmers are happf tO discover" pntstO tU dnsd a ith myriad of liny lice chnglng to' them to show the cause. A BONANZA. 1110,000 XT TUS BuTTOat OT T1K Xt souat BJVEJt, A co rrr pood eat, writing from BLs inarck, aajs: . - In the Missouri below this point U a bonanza amounting tolllO.UOln gold. In 14. oppuaitr Bismarck, there was massacred a Usatload of miners return ing from Montana, They had in the bottom of their fiat or macklnaw 1 1 10,- OttX There were eighteen miner, a woman and two glrU. They atom! a short time at Fort lierthold atd were there warned ty F. F. G Irani against going on at that time. Glrard was the trailer at IleTthold. The Indians down the rirer were tod and the prospect of trouble good. The miners, how ever, declined the advice and thought they would push out for tbe next Landing. They had wrJi them a little cannon and plenty of artua. An Indian afterward related to Glrard the story of their fata. When thry were nearly opposite the present site of Bbmarck they ran Into an Indian trap. : On the east hank of the river the Indians appeared and fired a volley Into the teat. Tbe miners steered over to the west side to escape tha rank, t'p rose from behind a sandbank near the water' edge another and mure numerous band. The first volley killed the wboie crew, except one man wounded and the woman and girls. Tha cannon waa fired once, and over went the boat, drowning the sur vivors. The Indiana pulled the boat ashore, found little or nothing, and then pushed her tnta the stream to Coat on to her wreck, u Glrard says he never aeea anything in the Missouri that look like a lost boat without thinking of the VI on tana mackinaw and her gold. "lie has al ways teen on the lookout fr the wreck, a he believes the geld wa so securely boxed up that tt is still t start, and tf found, tbe treasure c uld I rescued. It U ftirnewher between Bismarck and the gulf. Imbedded in the aand and muX Some dredging boat or lucky fiaherman may drop on it. Glrard still look for It, and hew ar sensible man. Tbe probability Is that the hidden hotianra is not far from Bismarck. In Germany fUh are not causht for port, and the law fixea the aiie of those that Deed not be returned to the water. Thus, a salmon must he sixteen inch long, a perch five and an eel foerteen. A newly weddM pair In A lama, Ith liana, were bring "eTnsdrd," the other eight, when the bride was killed try the wndilred fxteaainnaket in the hands of one of the party. "All fur fun, you know. , . ' i Life la a stream which continually flows down and nevtr retuma. i We de daily, for each day tales away some portion of our lives; the days which are past are fc-ooe' forever; the prenstit moment only l our own. ''-JArneig' tTveevtWs bibt at th Pari Exhibition are those of Norway. Sbe presents various leaned feb aklns for gloves that of Ua eri prepared for harness, and machinery bands sixty feet long from that of tbe whale. The man who lire rtgtt, and Is right, has more power In Lis silence than another has by bis word. Char acter Is like bells wbkh ring out sweet music, and which, a hen touched acci tk&taUy Ten, resound with sweet music. In the ) ear 1"0 there were hut fony-nlne llbrariea in the United States, containing In the aggregate HJ.lMJ vol- , umea. There are now in the country 3,62 libraries. All the Ubrariea con tain H,lMt,CM volume, not Counting those In common and Sunday schools. CmL Wild, a Swiss artillery oScer serving in the Haaslan army of the Caucasus, in a letter published In a Zurich paper, says that the Itussian have lost more men by war typhus since the conclusion of -acv than they lust by battle throuKbvut Use entile campaign In Asia Minor. If, when In Varie, a valet de is auiiuui to hate yuu visit one ot tbe minor theatres, aod joe go with htm and pay the admission for U h, tt I well to know that afterward tbe vat hot only receive hack the money yvu gave for hi ticket, hut lhv a percent age open every franc you spend in the houaew - . i The milling industry of this coun try ll to rank belt to thai of iron. The number i f mills is over2i,uw; afordlngemplojttirnt to over Cm.imj men, whoa annual wage art about iJJ.UJJ.wu and laming oat yearly alaxit ZftuuJ.UUO barreia of fiuur. of which 4,iJ,UAi are exported to foreign ccuntric. " , A cnl.is.vil statue of the French Republic a woman wearing a bemlet and culra, resting her rlrtt hand a the table of the law. and holding In her left an olive branch has bren fin ished by M. Cb-airgex and ap;reed by the Fine JLrta ftamiaun. i it will stand in the Champ de Mars, facing M. lUrtboldr statue of Liberty.; Mr. Bryant a first collection of poesas Ld not &1 kis yoatkf al pocktt. A gentleman who long axe fsirchasrd Jar five dollars a copy 4 this first edi- I km 4 now very rare, took the hook to the veta-rabie poet, asking that he should write Lis autograph Uherelu. Mr. Bryant complied, aartng, "Five dollars is more than 1 received on that whole edit ion. 1 I-ope villa at Twickenham, the place which he port hawed In 171", and where be resided tratil hii death, in 1741, has just been ofTrred for sale, and bought in for7J,tOJ. The property Included the whole of the grosnda, five acrca In eaten t, a 1th the cedars and other valuable growing timber, to gether with the crSebrated grotto wbkh the poet formed, and which Is said to remain intact to the present . . . . , .... J A no tuber of Lutchera aai provi sion dealer In Idverpool, Ho land, have clubbed together for an expert- mental imiaortat ion of lire hog from I hi country. Ihy have rurcnaaed a steamer and had her fitted for the ac commudaliuq of 2,U bog, between decks, beside a large Dumber of cattle ea tbe main deck. If the venture turns out well they propose to establish a full line of ateamers for this bo.Cr.es. Facilities have been provided for kill ing and dressing the hg on board in case of necessity. Charka Dickens 'Vacant Chair' was lately sold in London for thirty one guineas. Its original rice was sixteen ahillinga. The axle was that of the eSecta of the late Edward Wilson, the well-known Australian newvpeper proprietor. He purchased the" Yaraxt Cttair, with evrral odds and ends, at the Dickens aale, GadahiU, lor X3t Resold, the entire lot real lied only m ThU dor not imply that Pickens lit erary popularity has decreased, hut it doeanssaa that the Foster Uography has dont Ua work, and that . the per sonal prestige of the great not tlu has greatly decreased. V it S , . i i !