North Carolina Newspapers

T $rtm P UBLISIIED I A: RALEIGH, N. b? ; - v , TE 1 M S : Jne copy one year.. V, I ..... . . ... " " nix moudib., "S ' three months- CLUBS n 'Ube of Trti or more naniea wiU hi tin I'.w eacn-................ -..v.$18 00 '.- - I .12 k . . 1 28 5 1 lie "WORK VERSUS HERB-TEA. 3 1) P. THOKXE. wring Was generally considered not worth knowing at all. As Mrs. j Whitaker drove up she de scried. Aunt Debbie's ample forin out in the garden, bonding over , the sage bgdj At the sound of wheels, she straightened 'up, pushed her sun-bon- het back and peered 6harpy through AJLIGrH, C?,- laSDiY,' JUNE If, 1873. isro. 5. es to see who was going Of -1 Mrs. Whitaker was much ,, ttoublexl ftVimit Sntfan. Ail 'summer she ! had been in a, pale, languid, half-aliye Scqn dition, with no strength, no appotite, no interest in any thing: , : Mrs. Whitaker, having r-evorrSUf ficirtatlv ratified passion for doctoiv had at first rather ' enioyod th i o . .. . i - . , " -j. opportunity of trying tho virtues tho various roots and herbs that hung in drv dnKtv bundles froin the iraniet rafters Susan's life had been made1 a burden to her with doses of thoroug wort, pennyroyal, tansy, dandelion and burdock. There was always a big bowl of black, bitter igrb-tea standing in the pantry, which itas equally th obiect of Mrs. Whitaker's life to in- duce Susan to take, hnd the object b Susan's to escape. ' 1 ; j V ' I . And still Susan j lay around tlie house in an Exceedingly limp j state, reading novels with a languid interest studying her symptoms in the Fami ly Adviser,' and " cutting out; such scraps pf poetry fronj. tho newspapers as dwelt- on '.tho hpllowness Qt' ih.4 world 'nnat)Dreciated loveliness!' und early death. Ned "Whitaker Susan's -youngoi brother,' was- decidedly skeptical ori the subject of tho illness. ' Ifs fibougif ; to rnako ajiy eve mok4 to do av Sa does,' said he,- enorgeticiulj'. I If sho'dj ' get up earlier in the morning and di? a little housework sho'd get well twice ,- aa quick as sho wUl now, 1 dosmg : and coddling.' , . '' v; J ' A great deti you know about it,1 retorted Susan, with considerable jrig-S or for aninvatid ; ' I like to hearboys talk. They know so much in own estimation. i flfl 4,CTfl fine ! What if that teresting young school-master should hear you speak so to your dear broth er t It don't sound very angelic. AA 'nnthmf'' onlv blushed a ' little, and assumed that plaintive, meekly injured look, which says plain ly, 'You'll bo sorry for this when' I'm gone.' :: r.. i ' "i 'J 'Fudge, Sue ?' said Ned, quite un- ,1 Trtf lrank SO SOOOnOV.' and off he went, whistling and ing tho door. -: - : 1 ; a Inot. that there had xv her sjfectac! by. w tiiii x never i; sue . exciaimeu, as Mrs. Whitaker drove into the yard. ' If it lain't 'yoiV -'Mias ;. Whitaker I I was jestthinkin' about you. How dew ye do? Seems- as if I hadn't seen you for an ago. Cum right along in, and Kiahll put your horse out' i Thank you, but I've onlj come for w urtw7j--iwiaiuow at nomer asked Aunt Pebble, after she had ush ered her visitor into the sitting-room, rolled up one green pajer curtain, ;and settlod down to j her r knitting. Aunt Debbie could always talk easior . with her knitting work in hand. ) .'Pretty well, thank you, except Su san, l came over partly to see you about her. She don't seem to get along as I should like to have her.' ' Miss Haskeel was tellin' ' mo, last Sunday, how ailin' Susan's ben, this summer. From what Miss Haskell s,aid I should think she's a good deal as 'my- Melissa .-was,' five years ago. I cured Mellissa with boneseV 'Susan's been taking, that, more- or less, all summer.' r Susan. " We can get along somehow. Ned and I can do the work A r ; 'That's so,' said Ned. 'We'll make a bully team..' : . . '. . ' Don't be so low, Ned, said Susan, who had undertaken the somewhat discouraging task of, elevating' . Ned. Boys resent elevating,' especially by their own sisters, and accordingly Ned rather exerted himself to be. slangy in Susan's presence. ' ; . Bat now a feeble wail was heard from the bed-room where poor Mrs! Whitaker lay, fevered and helpless, on her restless couch. ': ' r ' You must get a girl,' father,' she remonstrated, 'Susan can't fop the work It will kill her. Silljfmlt know how. Oh, dear, if I coulfl only gettrp and take hold myself I (I Can't be reconciled , to lying here when there's so much to do !' " - j To sooth liis wife, Mr. . Whitaker promised to tf y once more, and. finally one night droye into the yard in! tri umph, seated on a small, hair trunk, the owner of the- trunk, an . actual ' girl' in propria persona, band-box- in bo- ' ' Does she cough any ?' ' "Noy x - . ' Because if she did, Colt-foOt tea is a grand thing. Ain't sho bfllious ?' ' I shouldn't" wonder if she was."? . ' Well, now if she was ' my ;g;irl, I should give her a good dose of blue pill to begin with, and follow it out with a smart course of .castoroile or salts. I should keen, riizht on - with tho boncsct three times a day 'tis very strongthenin and TH have her take a. raw egg in half a glass of cider every iuornin' before breakfast. That's one of the best th.ings I know 'of for -weaklv folks. . Is-he narvcus about slecpin'?' . ' .'. Yes, she is! rather.' , There is notliin' so good for . nar vousness as hop tea. ' uive nor some every night, the last things before she to beijl, aHd make her a hop; pil- roes thoir; !bang- been a low. I guess if you follow her up thoroughly,, you'll bring her out all right. . There's nbthin'like bein' thor ough,' said Au:it Debbie, with the em phatic,air of loDg" experience. After much further advice, Mrs. Whitaker set out for home, burning with zeal tol fallow up' Sasan with all A iht Debbie's prescriptions. Wh at the consequehok would have been to pocarSusajaoneshudders to think.-r-Founatelyjfatieklnl31y-interpo in her behalf. , ; h jt seems a clear case of one ' born intnQ woods to be scared at an owl,' that the oi l Whitaker horso should take into his ancient head to be frigh tened at a mowing machine. But such was actually the fact. A hVyras jogging along, load ddwn, apparently lost in memories of his far-away youth he came suddenly upon Deacon Fos itett's rattling, clattering mowing ma- hand, sitting in state on ihe seat' hind him. . .1 ' The new girl's name was Luna, 'pale Luna,' Ned called her. ;She was tall and bony, wore her hair cut short in the heck, and reioiced in a bass voiceH that was a,perpetual surprise to the family. Luna soon developed ways, that, if not ' dark,' were decidedly ; un comfortable. . Ned " always declined pie, alter ne -once saw uuna, as sue cut each piece, drawing - the knife,- blade throush her mouth, to ' cleanse' itJ,, No matter what she had previous ly been doing,she stirred Mrs.;Whita ker's beef-tea with her finger without going through the deremonyof v wash ing her hands, and tasted it freely with the-same spoon soon offered- the invalid.' She told Susan she liked to make bread, it takes the.' sciind off your hands so nice.' Under her ad ministration. the1 appetites of the1 Whitaker's dwindled alarmingly, Su san, who saw the most of Luna's cook drv. lived fintirelv on crackers. S -When Mrs. Whitaker heard that iia prepared the potatoes for dinner in the wash-hand basin, and put tho'best tea-knives soaking in the bottoin o the ran while she did the. other dish- es, tea-knives whose ' glossy handles were Mrs. Whitaker's pj?ide, her indig nation knew no bounds. '." x ' - ,' I won't have her in "the house . another minute! I can't sleep till she is out of it 1 The idea !, My best tea- . It tastes smarty,' said Sue. lieve I shall put in another 6rnfuL' After getting in four spoonfuls,- they concluded it would 'do.' ' - The bread cazue out of the oven a deep yellow-brown in hue,' and exha ling an overpowering odor ' of soda. Sue made biscuit for tea, and the pigs reveled in new bread for supper that night, Ned, being implicated, swore solemn secrecy, and, as.he used after ward triumphantly to observe, it didn't kill the pigs, either.' .. : " But Susan's experiences were not all so disastrous..'. Mrs. Whitaker was quite astonished to see how things went on. She really began to thinJ tors oi such notable' ifouseKeepers as Mrs. Whitaker are apt to be ' natural1 ooks.' Order and method is the rule of the hous and they adopt, instinct ively, mother's way' of doing things. Ascertain deftness -and skill is heredi tary with them. Perhaps, rif Susan had, as she sometimes wished in5 the old dreamy days, been an authoress,' her proudest -triumphs would have given her no deeper thrill of pleasure than when her father said : ; 'Susan, this is really capital squash pie If your mother don't look out, you'll1 beat her yet, j Just give mo another piece.' ' One day Ned astonished Sue with a bona fide coniplimant. sliy old stop and chat a few minutes wlhSue. " i s, " . . ' fcogers might often have - found a pleasing model for a statute, group il lustrative, of New England lifein 'the Whitaker kitchen,; consisting of ' Sue, in' a big bib-apron, that only served to setoff her plump,) rounded form, with sleeves rolled up, a pie-plate graceful ly poised on one little hand, .with; the other deftly cutting the edges of - the cirust, listening with rosy '.cheeks and downcast eyes to Charlie,, who looks manly and handsomei in spite of his ir't-sleeves and overalls, as he: leans, tiat in hand,; against the pump, v.T'y4th his lips, of tie weath- U'H spies. - . i 5' V V interest Charlie took in Mrs. Whitaker's health Was truly , touching. He called so often to inquire for' her, and listened so politely - to all her symptoms, that Mrs! "Whitaker took a over It was mutually agreed ; that , the marriage should be celebrated that very day, so that ho would return to his business a married man. Accord ingly;ihey proceeded to k neighboring, clergyman, by whom the ceremony of o hanging Mrs. Gray's name wS spee dily effected. - There might have been a ook of .triumph in the hew Mrs. . Pendleton's eyes, but if so Job did'nt see it. He was only too happy in the ' thought of presenting to his friends so charming a woman as Mrs. Pendleton. . He was very' complacent, in the thought. of the surprise and envy, he would occa sion.. ' ' v ;' - " .' i -: ;i 1 ml x 3- 1 1 " li..A.njviliofij vt t . - . Mr. Pendleton. ; . " j ( Me, too?' . . And me, too T j -'LiVely litUq "darlings,' murmured the mother, in fond accents. ' Their spirits are' so irrepressible. Yus, chil dren, I am sure your new papa who loves you dearly, will give you a cont, all round.- Won't yoj Job,! darling ?' Mechanically thV" unhappy Job jnvt his hand into his pocket and drew forth, a handful of copers. He had but five. Accordingly he gave the . eldest boy a three cent piecewhereupoh the second began to cijy, because . he had only one cont, and tried to get away from Jiis brother. Thereupon 'Vsue! She wished him tom 'tn Tinn hvfc!oset . ' " T"V - 7- o T.T i .; himself, and she would follow in three days.- When he remonstrated, she urged that the change was so hew and; sudden that she had not had an op- great fancy to him, - and was always portunify to settle her . arrangements. This was -plausible enough ana after positive assurances that on Saturday morning' she would start for the city, (it now being: Wednesday) Job- reluc tantly bade farewell to his wife; and as in the solitude of his old bachelor telling every one what a remarkably nice young man Charlie j : Goodman was : on which occasions Sne general ly. discovered she had an- errand ;in the kitchen or any whete . out of the room. In short, Charlie not only. lov- Pen- growinj handsome," Sue,' You're said he. -. Sue thought Ned was making fun of her, thereby, for once doing him an injustloo. For there is ho surer cos metic and beautifier than 1 house-work, when not carried to . excess. No amount of dumb-bells, flesh-brushes, ' constitutional' walks and drives gives the energy, the brisk circulation, the cheerful tone to body ahd mind '. that comes from the vigorous, varied exer ciso of house-work.' Sue flew briskly around the house now, singing, as she made beds up-staiiv with ' the fresh morning air sweeping breezily through the open windows, now sweeping the gitting-room now i kneading dough, now out in the garden for vegetables, ali this varied work bringing every muscle into play the ' more, healthy,, becausd not done deliberately and with 'malice aforethought' 'How do you feel, to-da Susan? queried Mrs. Whitaker, anxiously. . 'I really don't . know, ' mother,' , Re plied Susan, laughingly. 'I' haven't had timeto think.' , ;-' ' And so Sue had grown plumj. and rosvhad a buovant step; a lkrht and ed his neighbor as himself,' but-a great j'days, wended his way ;to the count- deal better. J As for Sue, the memory, of the young school-master had faded like a morn ing dream. She came to feel such an interest in Charlie's prosperity, that, rather than nave him waste so" much time, she consented, in the spring, to move permanently over to the Good man house. Sue "made as brisk and blooming a hiatron as one often ;soes, and they lived happy forever after ward ; as happy, at an events, ass possible in a world : which sometimes has sharp trials for even the most lov ing and united, hearts. : 4 If any one still asks what cured SuT san, I shall reply by quoting Miss Al- cott : ' Love and labor,,two- beautiful old fashions; that beg'an long ago, with the first pair in Edea.' . : ' - from a , ..hfeihfl chine.- Up went Instead, one snort, goou-iob - il- -one MUtop sideways;, and. previous. Vixuvu i . - -i t . t . i wl mf flirted and ;' rode knives I I've been sa particular never gpavkle in her eyes, the radiance in even to damp the handles,- and always kept them put away in tissue paper, and now they're ruined I Do get her. out of the house before she spoils eve-, rythingjin it, and poisons us alll' Luna went. Susan cleaned up the house, and played,, whatever other ca lamity might be in store for theih, theyf might atleast be spared another girL Susan was much .better now: Her mother's illness had taken her out of herself, and obliged her to make some exertion, one wert into nouse work wifch a will, equally pleased' and surprised to find herself really good for something. Ned helped her ail-he could, and novel were some of the ex had not loved, but' flirted Perhaps Susan, having ing elso lto do, had pleased hersof by hoth- fancying she was in love with this gay deceiver. A girl ruust Mrs Whitaker was one of those (rnde- r.tWfl irrepressible women, a ; scru pulously neat and exact housekeeper, bothering who loved hard work for its own and ' didn't want any round.' - At one time, Sue had quite a -mania for coQkiug, but Mrs. Whrtaker af or ! W awkward struggles with the bread dough, said: n.-m a ' let me take it. fn "e'to drit myself, than to see ; v for merll keep the sitting-room u. Jv . ; take care of your in.oruci, t -...-I. iJuv.ii mask.' . - r-. room, " , j j fimncrht And now rs- ;HP nzL so delicate she relieved her .of nfl Unht duUes, and left her ithnothiugtoreah, own experience. tne.wu i i one jump siaewayB,, ana away ue plunged down the hill, twitching the- jeina frorh Mrs. Whitaker's hand by the suddenness of this unexpected start.'- A big rut at the foot of the IjiiJl over goes the wagon on top of Mrs. Whitaker4-and Deacon Foskett and his hired man run 'down the "Hill to find Mrs. Whitaker V with one leg broken, a sprained shoulder, anc any amount of bruisas and wrenchings. I What was to become of the" Whita ker's, now that the" main spoe of th e domestio wheel was useless ? They hire a girl, of co arse, suggests the in telligent reader. But hiring a girl in It's easier Tully was no sup trifling matter. A Own inf. 1 '. . .-a tliA Tinman heart 11 ythemsTOS be ground, to know all the weariness of an her say- small factory in the village absorbed all the -Americar girls of the vicinity, who would otherwise have worked in families, and thre being no Catholic -church within 10 mili3S,,the Irish girl I who could her induced to live , op, a farm was a rarauvis, indeed. Mr. Whitaker devoted a week' to driving oyer the hills in 'different di- muBtl iemp- aimless life. V 1 .j t,iwih- re- cstAmber came, auu - UCW"1"" ' . T ..nn,rr . - -. O - (.tAte 01 aiHUMuiiig, i. :aA in a- Staw i eameneB8..rii"S. svatAimt Debbie Dunbar. sickness. T7 maa n. woman W vaai Aunt vovw - in .. i bicjuicdo. . . : family of her own sue brought i:,;ilamra:u1 .vQtnATlCe 1U inht a fully though aU the muinps, ;n irifant flesh IS mea- cessiuny infant flesh is heir de8'trSv7expeWmentinVoua y ides acting as adviser, gener- Shborhood. : What al for tue : AOT ahnnt idoc- rctiona ia pursuit of various myths aro ever vjossible cirla that vanished into tin air on eloper inspection. Now Mrs. Haskell had heard of a very nice girl over in Berjjham. Franklin Les ter's wife's sistei, who waauanxious to secure a place. By the time Mr. Whit aker "had. reached Benham, tbe nice Whitaker girl had engaged to teach : a district school. Arrived at home ne round Mrs. Goodman had sung to Susan the praises of a ce:-tain "'widow-woman' on Stony Hill. Mr. Whitaker hies hm to Stony Hill to find the ; widow gone to keep ho ase for her brother, j I declare,' sai d Mr. Whitakea. to Sjasan. as he reurned, girlless . and dispirited, from tis long drive, I be lieve if I wanted a wife I "could get six periments of what Ned called the new girls.' . Ono dayj Susan , decided to have baked beans for dinner. She . put something like two quarts --boiling. By ind,by, ; looking .in', the pot, she was dismayed to find it full of beans to the very brim. She took out nearly half, but still the beans continued to swell beyond, her wildest fore bodings. Ned came in to dinner to; find an immense dish of baked beans crowning the dinner-table, while several pans of the same aerreeable edibles. in. various stages of donenoss, wero ' standing around the kitchen. Whe-ewl' exclaimed Ned.; "'You're a good provider,' Sue, but seems j to me you' are rather overdoing this bean business. I feel about beans as the old lady's" hired man did about liver. He liked it well enoai for 50 or 60 dayB, but didnt care about it lor a steady diet. Don't laugh, ed,' said poor- Sue, looking anxious aud. exhausted. 'I've had a really dreadful time with the things. I positively believe three beans would "have been enough." j . Susan usually had very good suc cess with her - bread. But one day there arose ah unforeseen complica- Shei.hat? easier than I can 'Don't try ant one girll' father,' Baid tion. ' The sporTge hd SQUred in night. - - ; ed.' she said, 'did you ever tice how much soda mother uses when the Sponge is sour ? I'm sure 1 don't know.'.- ' ' ' ' V - -,- ' ' ' Nor L I eruess she iU9t stirs it o , till it tastes all right.' She put in a large tea-spoonful soda. Then she and Ned both and smelt it. ' v ' j "Taint right yet, -said Ned, with an air of ' wisdom and experience. ' Dab in some more.' j' In went another spoonful. Auoth - i . er testing by the cooks. no in of tasted looks and spirit that comes sound mind in a sound body. One Monday, Sue was in the clothes yard, trying to hang out. the . clothes. She was short,, and.the line high np, and the wind blowing a gale. It cer tainly was a provoking wind. It blew Sue's sun-bonnet off, and her curly brown hair into all sorts of wild tan gles and tousles, and the table-cloth she Was trying to hang up kept flap ping back all over her; Sue stood on tint, straining her arms up, and i 1 T----. - . , struggling in vain with the refractory table-cloth. ' : Let me help you, Susan, jsaid . a pleasant, manly voice; ,.. - i Sue extricated herself from the ma zes of the table-cloth, to find Charlie Goodman ' beside her. Charlie was working in his south lot, which joined the Whitakers' gardon, and seeing his noiVhbor's distress, had come to tho , . rescue, hke the kind-hearted fellow he " was.' . ; j . . 4 - 'Oh, thank you, Charlie,' (said Sue, with perhaps more color in her cheeks than the wind was solely responsible for. It was so vexatious tojbe caught looking sol And Sue hastened to roll down her sleeves, and conceal her blushes under her sun-bonnet, while Charlie hung up, the table-cloth, and let the line down within her reach. It is as pleasant for a woman to be helped, as for a man to helpV Sue felt quite a glow of gratitude' to Charlie. How niceit is to be taUT she said. ' I'm ever so much obliged to you.' Not at all. I'm glad to j do it. . A little body like you ought ;always to have a tall man ' round somewhere handy, to help her,' said Charlie, lOok-J ing not unadmiringly down on the flushed face and tangled brown curls under the sun-bonnet 'Nonsense, Charlie 1 laughed . Sue slyly, stooping to pick up a clothes Charlie went back to his work, won denng he had never noticed before what a pretty girl Sue Whitaker was. Somehow Charlie found a great deal to do in the south lot that fall. . Any deficiency on his part, hitherto, in ' noticing' Susan; was more than aton ed lor now. lie always had an . eye out in the direction of the Whitaker mansion. The number of errands he discovered that necessitated his 'jus running over there, was really surpri sing. Of course, he was often thirsty. and obliged to step into the kitchen for a drink of water. Then, nothing could be more natural than that he . foil's Oomf oster. . BY CABOT-tSE F. FRESTd?f. . '''' ' 1 Up to the age forty, Job Pendleton was a batchelor. There f?err some who tl)Hht ho wool 4 always, jonain; po. but in so thinkincr they did not allow for the fascination of .widowhood. Mr. Pendleton'met Mrs. Grat . dur in? a briet soiourn at Conway, a de 0 " lightful village among the White Hills; It might have been the beauty of the season and the suroundmg scenery that made him more than usually im- ing room jot Messrs. Jones and dergast, his -employers., , Arrived, in the city, Mr. Pendleton, studied assiduously- the; advertise ments undei the head . 'To .Let.' - At last became upon the tollowing no tice - ' - . To Let Furnished. A small house containing hve rooms, lhe owner is obliged to move to" a southern clime for the benefit . of his health. Very desirable for a small family; Lninedi ate possession will.be . given.' f .' That will be the very thing' thought Mr. Pendleton. It will be much bet ter to hve snugly in a . small house than to be cooped :up in a boarding house. And I don'tthink it will be any more expensive, which is ' certain ly a consideration, for my income not very large.'. Mr. Pendleton accordingly sough out, the landlord, and soon ' concluded an arrangement for the : - house. He dispatched ajetter to Mrs. Pendleton at Conway, which he judged would be sure "to reach her before she left (hon the, lady received the letter,, . she, aid is hoayjin and earth for a sinner's see saw jdown low, hero and high up yun- : ! t 1 ' 1 1 i ji . cior, 4 a nave neara tno cnpturo ram bled from generation ' to; generation jfouosis to .iwoveiation), but I could nevor find that ' doctriuo.. No, honey, Laz:his had , more than I10 de served when-he was laid nt the ruto and so lias every sinuer whou tho Lord . lireathing and praying a gives i him ground.' Aunt Dinali,' said Willie, after long and pitying survey of her 'palsie.4 "hands aud almost useless feot, 'it your old sins havo been forgiven, ' .1 think you are right sure of "heavon. You I couldn t sin much nowf you wars tn W 'BovsHvill bo boys." remarked Mrs Pe'ndletoh philosophically. ' -.''It's rath er a pity,! Job, we hadn't got a, larger house.' 1 - ' Job sat down to his dinner with his children! around him. ille ate little, but the children seomed blest with ra venous appetites., Job reflected mood ily that his salary would never ba suf ficient for such a brood of cormorants. However it could not be helped. His employers, in consideration' of his -peculiar circumstances, and the rapid in crease of his family, have raised his salary two hundred-dollars, but even with this he firids 'it hard to make both'tmds meet, in these timjbs. . ' MoraL Don't marry a 'vyidow till you hayo ascertained whether sho has incumbrances. (youth tnink oid Uina -. 1 - smninsr he pressible. .. . - ' . ' " . At all events, certain it was, that he snort pot' into the' habit of taking a . D- -j - walk, every morning, but not alpne. Mrs. Grav. with her mountain hat w - . . r half covering her face,;. was alwdy ready to accompany him.- : - Before going any further, let me de scribe Mrs. Gray. She had been pret ty as a girl," aniLat thirty ' seven she was Rill r P-ood-looking woman, I 11 bfs . . O "X have incautiously naniedher age. None tn lndrfi of her fresh complexion j o- -, , - . would have taken her for more i than thirty. Slie seldom, or never, spoke of Mr. Gray. . Mr. Pendleton some how conceived the idea that . she had not been happy in her first marriage, but felt too delicate tot question her on the subject He felt sure if ' such were -the case it was not the fault of Mrs. Gray. In the midst of Mr. Pendleton's en joyment; he received a letter from his employer he was bookkeeper 01 a city firm summoning him to the city. He communicated this intelligence to Mrs. Gray on his next walk. He thought she sighed. . I do not dare to think you will miss me.' he said. She put her delicate handkerchief to er. eves, and, with a voice broken by emotion, faltered out : . 1 'Indeed I shall, Mr. Pendleton. Con way will lose its attractions for me af ,er you are gone. . Mr. Pendleton brightened up. 'Perhaps I have said more than I should, said the widow, bashfully look ing down. 'But it's so.seldom that I meet with a congenial soul that . I forget mvself in the pleasure of their com A pany.' . 'Dear Mrs. Gray,' said Pendleton in a little tremdation, 'although our ac quaintance has been brief, to me it has been so oleasant that I wish it would always last. 'You are very kind,' murmured Mrs. Gray. , I have never -till now" met a woman to whom I felt, I could safely conhde my happiness Our acquaintance has been most happy. Mrsl Gray, you become ' my wife ?' : Mr. Pendleton felt . an to harselt -S I only hope the house will fee large enough.' , ' r- Why there should be any doubts in her .mind considering'thaLthere were onlv two of them is oertaihly, . sur prising; but perhaps future events will show what she meant. According to Mr. Pendleton's pro gramme, his . wife, on reaching the Boston depot, was to hire a hack .'to carry her immediately to -the house provided for her. This 'was because he would be so occupie'd by business careslhat he would not be able to spare the' time. About six o'clock, Saturday after noon, Job left his counting-room, with a light heart., He knew that his wife must be already in the city.- He ran up the steps of his modest - dwelling,' and, without the ceremony of ringing, entered. He turned the knob of the riffht hand door which led to the sit ting room. Before ne could open .it, there seemed a scampering and rush of many feet, f Could his wife have company so soon ? - But on opening the door no one was visible b ut Mrs. Pendleton, late Mrs. Gray. There seemed to be a little more than ordi nary flush upon her brow. But Job did not notice it. He advanced has tily, and bade her a cordial welcome to her new homei When he had time to look around him, hq 'noticed a nma.ll can Iviner upon a chair. . . Sister,' said Willie, as ho laid 'his curly head in my lap, and held up a pair of small grimy hands, 'sister, this is good dirt. I brqughfold; Aunt Di nah some water from tho spring a'nd made up her fire. Need I wash my hands for supper ?' . T 5 -- 'Willi 0 is only half a, Pharisee,' said his brother Julian, who is fond of texts reflecting on the otherfpeople. .Hois willing enough to eat with unwashed hands, if ho does blow his own trum net. What do you think . he asked Aunt. Djtnah this evening any other . property; besides her - cat,' and hen, and her poch tree. " And she said, 'Yes . niastiv tlia blessed Lord in: heaven is my 'portionand he knows, just what old Dinah wants, ahd when to send it to her.' And then Willie went diving into his pockets anc Lone and repenting until hdr head Ik under the soil. The Lord,, he toudtod : my -foet -aid he "laid his hand on mine, ho. saith j Be still and sin no more, bat he hasn t stillod my.hoai-t.yet honey. Ho hasn't stopped it from thinking evil. ,Y"ou S.e tho little birds how -they fit in and out and try to build in your long porch at home. . Mmy H day l ye swept 'cm out, and their trash nest after 'em, and ' just so with me now. All day long I sit here think- inrt tiriil fl-A mill '.ii ' "b f1 iuo srni iuuujjuuj : iiiey come and gp; they. are like tho birds; I can't hinder; 'em from flitting ia . and - out but I niusn't let 'em build their uots.' 'Aunt Dinah's spring' ripples on, and tlie cabin still stands. on the hill but woods grow upon the hearth, aud the araichair is gone, for Aunt Diha hSs forever put off poverty, old ago and blindness. i . They wore laid asido with the worn- I out garment of flesh, and 'Aunt Dinah' 1 now 'sees the King in his vboauty.'.-- 1 Christum Weekly, V "Cast Adrift." This is tho title of a now book by tho author of "Tubek Yeauh is a Mks Tkaij," just issiaod by J. M. Sto.d.lart & Co., of Philadelphia. "Cast Adbi rr," like the "Man-Trap," is anothor sor rowful ! revelation ; a lesion and a ?: if 8he had warnir'fpr e People. DoahV with incompprauce onlyas an. incident bf hisHhom'e, the author, in his romauco ; of real life,- draws aside thq, veil that hides tJio victims nt other tor- rible vices, after thoy have fallen to tho lowest depths of degradation, whore the vilest and most abandoned of so ciety nera together in our city -Wlums- o; i i - i;!r u.i i.u fished up a biscut-and'throo lumps oI men ana women, -i m l t- ? 1 1 and tells the story of sorrow sulfar sugar, nd told Aunt Dmah sho v was ftnd hLan debomolL Uke the prophet Elijah. s ; . it really exists in j Christian America, 'Her hen's nosC continued Willie with all the earnestness and power that pursuing tho subject, in a basket under Aunt Dinah's bod and she gave tun o r arret in mm os, yet with a 'iruardodncs-4 of detail an'ddescriptio'n that must loavo the book without objection, even from the most scrupulous, i ' It is the same iu sizo and' ra-ice aa the auihor's jirevious work, "Throe Years in a Man-Trap,", contai us a number; of spirited illustrations, an'd ttUU mo -1, 1- o ijitto canvass for this work. Wo yo:i there to-niorrow. .but I. ran-homo so fast tho marbles in my pocket broke it. The hen's name is' Sai-ah, ahi her cat is Old Tom: Aunt Dinah says they aro the best company she lias, except you So whou. 'to-morrow came, wo set nnt to rftdeem Wiliio's promise. Our way lay inrougu tue vvw jsjiera old fields which cover so much t old Virginia. Hares ran almost tame in ffln niirrnw footbath before us. and re-- commend -all seeking remunerative eraployiueut and thoso who foel daair-t ous of circulating good literature )A apply early for an agency to tho pflb- Anatomy pf -1 the Negro. wild grapes huttg in clusters from the festoons ' overhead. The chinquapin bushes, with their myriads of shining PaoFssoR Aa assiz in a roceut leo turo onitho distinotien of the different Traces of man, said that he had pointed brown nuts, eyed us' through, the put over a hundred specific differences shghtly parted burrs, and all abound between- the bonal and nervous sys- us lay the sumach, the? poor man s terns ofithe white man and the harvest, which springs up on every swamp and hillside, and oflers to -the landless and the lazy Hhe delight of 'gathering where they hve not strewn.' A httle brook led us to 'Aunt Dinah's spring' at the foot of a hill, and high er up stood Aunt Dinah's cabin, with Aunt -Dinah heraelfdozing in her arm- 1 Mary,' said he, playf ully, ' how long chair The bent, weired figure, the is it since you have taken to wearing boys' caps ?' - . 'Byjpe way, returned hia wue, that reminds me, I have a little sur prise in store for .you.' Indeed I' said Job, amiably. 'Uome, I am all curiosity.' ' Excuse me a moment.' Airs Pendleton hurried out of the room but quickly returned too quick ly, alas ! for her husband s peace 01 mind. Behind came, ranging down wards like a row of stairs, six children three boys and three girls the two oldest boys with their hands in their pockets, the youngest girl with her finger in her mouth . , Mr' Pendleton rose in consterna tion, and glared wildly at the children. Now children, said Mrs. x'endio- ton, 'what do you say?! Welcome, papa !' screamed tne ju venile tribe.in chorus.- Ms this a dream?' -ejaculated Mr. will Pendleton, with a look of affright. . 'No. Job,' said hia wife unpressive- lv. 'thev were' my children, they netnro. n He saysi their-frames Are. alike in "no particular ; that no bone in the negro'a body is relatively the same shape, siaej r articulation, or chemically of the same composition "as that of the white man. ' ' The negro's bones contain a Jar greater proportion of calcareous salts than those of the whitenian. Even the 1 negro's Mood ' isj ohemically a ' very different fluid from that which courses in the. veins of the - white man. Tho whole physical organization. of the ne gro differs quite as much from the white Euan's as it do s from that of the chimpanzee that is in hia bones, are pressure from the hand which he held yours. They have already learned to ahd without other reponses he knew love you from my description. . von hia suit had been favorably received. J yon love papa, children f Whether it was at the widow's sug gestion or his own,' Mr. . Pendleton could not, for the life of him tell, t somehow before the interview was Ys,' repeated the children in cho rus. I . ' Papa, won t you give me cenw 1 asked thg second boy, edging up to gray head, and' the - wxmkled, black face, with its almost grotesque con tour, were familiar enough to Willie jfiad me,.but the sightless eyes 'nd the withered hands crossed on her lap had an unspoken pathos that always touch ed my heart, j ' ' ' We exchanged 'salutions with all cor-1 panzce has not jtnubj embny and fullness of detail which gress tot becmo a Aunt Dinah loved, anc . the miscella neous contents of Willie's basket hav ing been examined and. admired, we sat down, and, lika'Bunyan's Pilgrlrna, we fell a-talking-U-untiL! Willie, who knew all Aunt'. Dinah's s ways brought her Testament tnd laid on her lap. Its owner had -never learne d a letter, but the book opened at her favdrito chap ter, and tho leaves were yellowed by time, and black with smoke and much handling. This evening Aunt Dmah asked for the parable of 'Divers and Lazarus,' and when the reading was ended, she said in her broken ' Eng lish : '-''.- ' f 'Before the dear Lord taught me better, I thought Divers went to tor ment because he was rich, and the ah gels carried Lazarus Jto heaven because he : had such a hard time here; but no, honey, not so. The blessed: Saviour nromised the kincdom oi heaven to A. w - - - the poor spirit, not the poor in pock et. Tne Lord, he never made his muscle4 nerves and fibres, the chim- farther to . pro-' hite ? man. This fact Bcience inexorably demonstrates, i 1 Climateihs no mop tq do with the; difference' between the white man .audi; the negro than it has with that be tween the negro and the jchimpanzae, 1 or between the horse and the ass, or 1 the eagle and tho owl Each is a dis-1 tinct and separate creation. The ne gro and tho white man : were created as specifically different .as the owl and the eagle. .They were designed to fill different places in the system of nature. 1 The negro is no more a negro by acci-l dent or nisfortune than the owl is the1 kind of bird he is by accident-or mis fortune. IThe necro is no I more the white man's brother "than the owl is the sistei: pt the eagle, or the ass the brother (pi the horse. How stupend- ' ous and yet how simple is the doc trine that the Almighty Maker of the universe! has created ' different species of men, just as He has ' different spe cies of te lower animals, to fill 1 diffe-1 rentVladea and offiees in! the errand machine ef haturo. i ; Whether Professor Aqassu has carri ed hia reasoning on this subject a ht tle too fir, we leave for the reader to conclude.. : 1 -4- Auntebbie r $ :