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SELECT POETRT.
i
A TWILIGHT SCENE.
BY WHS G. WHTTTIEB,
The twilight deepened pound us. StM and
black ( . . ; I f- .
The great woods climbed the moutUin at
lour back. - j ".' . J '. - '
And on their skirts, where yet thdllnjer-
jingday: . r ... : j
On the shorn greenness f the eleaeng lay,
The brown old farm liouse like a biid'i nest
bnosr; I
With home-like sounds jthe deseii tut was
i stirred. 1 i
he bleat of sheen along the bill jq beard.
The bucket sp1 aching injthe cool.seet well.
The pasture bars that clattered asfchey fell.
Dogs barked, fowls fluttered, catfo lowed;
the gate J
Of the barnyard creaked beneath tbj merry
dear
The pastoral curfew of the cow-bell rung.
SELECT STOEY;
From Beeton's Annual. :
My Sisters' Sweethearts
! ana Mine. !
A Tale of the American War. 1
! BY A C. S. "OUTLAW."
Who does not remember the first
shot fired ? the takinir of Fort Sumn-
ter and the battle of Manassa, or Bull's 1
, . 1 I
Ruol as Yankees call it ? What I an
electric fire ran thronah all veins then,
as victory was shouted from State to
State 1 Andalleyes'gathered gladness
ia this first sunshine of our triumph !
Who would havethought at that time
niit YnnlcpA hppf fnrt mutton, and
Thanksgiving Day
urkejs would jgetj
the better of Confederate valour II
There had been j a bit of a scrim
mage one day near the jWhite House,
just a little brush, in which only a fe
hundreds or so got upon their bajiks.
without any prospect of rising, -and
my corapanyfor I was a captain now
had been mighty busy planting them
HOf shnrowu cMldrehrfiVU"", 1 Ieei Dtingsici m
L, they swung, ; j - . 'f'tifS'-' What 'did Ij? fasten hiirHfcr,f
1 Th wMm nnA nf l,1r,r,0r-,.,1 vr I self On to iTrere CL4 pOUt
And down the shadowyj lane, in tinkting 1 jeft Jt at home, I do. An3TjUS
I ; '.0 I 'I
in, and I was jogging back to camp a day. link I can git you some but
tired as a dog, and thirsty as a peck termiik and eggs, jibbleum if dat'll
of dusty when: I heard a fellow com- do.'
iog along behind me clickety-click as Ot course, that would do, although
hard as he could tear, bawling at the
top of his voice ... -
O stick your toe-nails in th cround-r- I
Stick your toe-nails in the ground ;
j. nai w neu you re ueau juu mnj ,uo luuuu i
If you belong ;to the rebel band, 'j ;
If you belong to Dixie's land.
Oh ! here's my heart, and here's my band,
We are fighting for our homes, j
!
O keen your hat upon your head i
Kesep your hat upon your head, j !
For you won't want it when you are dead.
If you belong to the rebel band I
If you . !
'Dick Boyle V I shouted, r'ybu are
!" mm 1 -m-r " i-i
mean, nornd mean i x ou are tne
meanest man alive. Why didn't you
let me know you were in camp, you
miserable old fellow ?'
"If youbelonsto Pixie's land,
Oh! here's my heart, and here's my hand,
V e are nghting for our homes, ' '
responded Dick, in a mellow voice.
striding up to me, and staring till his
eyes were a caution to gas-lamps.
' Well, I am astonished !' he cried,
'1 am some. This is a surprise, jit
so. wny, unarlie, man, vour sister
-a-vv
told me you were at Vicksburg., j
'So I was, but I'm here now, Dick.
S just get outside of my horse, as you
seem ; tired, and Vll walk along by
your side, and you shall tell me all
the news from home. When did you
hear from Ruby ?' j j
Yesterday . And the last news is,
that Miss Mamie has kicked you and
accepted Frank Spence.'
'Dick, you always were mean, and
now I see you are quite demoralized.
How much liquor have you put your
self outside of to-day j
'I would be sorrv to tell von re-
. . . j j ,
sponded Dick, in a melancholy 'tone,
'You'd be sick if I did. The fact is,
I have swallowed water ; I haven't the justice of this reproach.; A sUd
had half an inch of whisky in me for den call through the camp roused us
a week.' all, and our division was marched off
'Now Dick,' said I, 'I wdndersuch to a wood ; at ?bout "three miles dis
a lie as that doesn't lift, you right out tance, when we once more lay down
of your boots, and send your soul to to sleep. j!
jnej Yankees, because it is too mean to
go anywhere else. Ain't you asham-
ed of yourself to tell such stories '
It's true, it is ,so,' said Dick, rue-
fully ; -'and the sooner I can put my-
self outside of a cocktail or a julep,
the; sooner you'il get Miss Mamie's
message, that's all. ' My tongue is'too
dry to fejll it now. And as to my
boots,' continued Dick, with ci)mpla
cent priJe, fof course don't wonder
at your remarking them, j They are
good; -ain't they; first rate, eh? I
goi them yesterday from Yankee
colonel, I j made aa exchange with
hirn.' ..' "' ' -i;
j An exchange I why, what had you
got to make a swap with P. -
! fOb, only a little lead. I didn't in-
tend to bestow it on him, only he! rnt
JMiustu uuicasan( Willi a Dig
sword he had buckled himself toj so I
was; obliged to waste a shot on him,
upon which ! took his boots in return.
I knew he wouldn't want 'em in the
hospital, j Indeed, he said W himself,
and he was altogether so polite-' about
it, that, upon my word; Charlie, I felt
well, I felt real bad, vand that4 the
truth. In fact, it's owing to him I
am so dead tired to-day, I sat up witii
him. last nigh t in the hospital. You
know this is the first time I've shot at
a fellow whose face I could ej and
up and told him so, too, when I was
giving him a drink out of ray. flask !;
that's how he came to request my-ac
ceptance of the boots I
"Oh, keep your shoes upon your feet
' Keep yonr hoes upon your feet, j r
For you wiilwant them in retreat J : ,
If you belong to the rebel band, V
If you belong to Dixie's land.'
sang my poor friend, ruefully,1 as he
clasped my hand, ' H
'Ah, Dick, I answered, we Are all
ge"nS Old Sambo, who always
. . . " ! k. I
answers when asked what he has to
W VVeI1' Massa auabo of dis
war dat, what 0Id Sambo got Bay-
les Dut we ve gt fighlitout
to the biter end said Dick, '$o
PTlial s tne use ot being tired ? 1
there any chance of supper ! 1 feel
as If I could carry safely any amount
beef, and ten inches of whisky
punchy !
13y this time we had got into
camp
and seeing an old darkic, I shouted
out to him j !
;'I say, Sambo, what can you bring
us to eat ?' X vj
'Lor-a-mussy, Massa, Sarnbo got
j noting had noting but dis jar pipe
there were other things that would
have done better, but ince they were
not to be had, we roasted" In egg f
and diank the buttermilk, and felt
happy. j
"Well, Charlie," observed Dick,
I think your mess is something like
ouis, when I was middy in a big ship
oil Saint Helena, and ive made Fred
Stanly caterer, and he w;ent
ashore,
and bought one barrel of beef,
and
three barrels of mustard. V
'Something, only here the
mustard
is turned into gun-powder, and .here's
no beef at all.'
'You needn't tell me that,'
remark-
ed Dick, with a deep sigh, as he', roll
ed himself into a ball, and betook him
self to his slumbers.' '
In about an hour, as I was still
smoking and ruminating, Dick awoke
suddenlv. and cried out in an anxious
voice
h I say, Charlie, what's the
matter ?
I WW . 1 "XT V ' ft. 1
nave tne xanxee's snot me
I feel
very warm at my back.'
And no wonder, I answered, con
vulsed with laughter ; 'your coat-tails
are on fire.'
'You'll never be married in that
coat now, Dick, my boy, but you'll
certainly be buried in it, if you don't
He still, and let me put the fire out.'
' 'Now, wouldn't that ,be news for
the tailors if there were any cloth left
in the Confederacy , said Dick, rue
fully, as I poured t ie rest of the but?
termiik over the spilce-tail, and stamp
ed out the smouldering flame J Could
vou not take more care of I ft friend
I ' ' ' i
than to let him burn up his only coat V
I But there was no time for disputing
'I tell you what, Charlie,' said
Dick, as he spread his blanket over a
swampi and laid his head upon a pine
stump, 'such luxuries as these are too
much for us naval - fcljownj;' we ain't
nsed to 'em. I'm beginning to ee
that campirgning1 don't siiitj my con
stitution." I'm getting enervated and
demoralized. Wou!d you jbelieve it
now ? I'd rather be iu the hr4, dry
ban!:, than lying on this soft couch.
I know it ' would be better tor me, to
I shall apply at once for a place in the
navyJ ' ' r ' ' '-'
'Bully for youl old boj, if you get
j . ' t -
it ! - Ask for me, too, will you ?' and
so saying, and thinking of Mamie, I
fell asleep 1 :j-
To be Continued.
ti
of bloed in an adult averages thittj
pounds, or full one -fifth of the entire
weight. I ' . - "
The heart is six inches in length
and four inches in; diameter, and be its
seventy times per minute ; 4,200 times
hour ; 190,800 per day ; 36,772,200
per year ; 2,665440,000 . in three
scores and ten ; at each beat, two and
a half ounces of blood are thrown out
of it ; one hundred and seventy-five
ounces per minute!'; six hundred and
fifty-six per hour t seven and three-
fourth'tons per day. All the blood in
the body passes through the heart in
three minutes.
The lungs will contain about one
gallon pf air at their usual degree of
inflatiop. ": We breathe on an average,
1,200 per hour ; inhale 600 gallons of
air, or 24,000 gallons per day. ' The
aggregate surface of the air cells of
the lujigs exceeds 20,000 square inch
es, an area very Irearly equal to the
-. . vi-"'
The average weight of the brain of
an adult male is three pounds and
eight ounces ; of a female,' two pounds
and four ounces. The nerves are all
connected with it, directly or by tn
spinal marrow. These nerves to
gether with, their branches and mi
nute ramifications, probably exceed
10,000,000 in number forming a bo
dy-guard" outnumbering by, far the
greatest army ever marshalled ! . '
: -THe akin ia composed of Jhree lay;
ers, and varies friom one-fourth to one
eighth of an inch in thickness. Its
avenge area in an adult is estimated
to be 2,000 square inches. The at
mospheric pressure being about four
teen pounds to the square inch, a per
son of medium ize is subjected to a
pressure of 40,000 pounds.
Each square inch of skin contains
3,500 sweating tubes, or perspiratory
pores, each of which may be likened
to a little drain tile one-fourth of an
inch long, making an aggregate length
of the entire surface of the body o
201,166 feet, or ft tile ditch for d-ain
ing the body ! almost forty miles long,
' Man is made marvellously, f Who
i eager to investigate the curious, to
witness the wonderful works of Om
nipotent Wisdom, let him not wander
tne wide wide (world round to seek
them, but examine himself.
"The
proper study of mankind is man."
GEORGE p. PRENTICE.
I was wandering through the ho
rooms, at midnight, in 6eircn or a
proof ' reader, ! when I stumbled upon
that of the min whose magic name
yet gives significance to thejourna
he founded and made famous. " It was
a little room, lit by one gas jet, tha
flared over ' a low cot bed, one table
and a few chairs, all of the severes
style of upholstery. From amid a pile
of papers knee-deep, scissors in hand
rose up the poet journalist. I coull
have then andj-tbcreictBibreod-tbc-dear
old gentleman, had I not been
shocked into' a sense of propriety by
his "Unexpected appearance. I had
not seen Mr! Prentice); for years, and
was not prepared; for the change he
presented: Never, at his bekt, caring
for his appeal ances, i he had, in the
heat of this July night, discarded all
wearing apparel, save his linen, pan
taUons, andj slippers,4; while his hair
stood out like quills upon the fretful
porcupine. ; He welcomed me hearti
ly, and I was glad to learn that his
health is better now than it has been
for years, ;. u -: ;;:..:
Few men have wielded a wider in
fluence in bis day and generation than
tieorge D. ! I'renUcc, : nd even now
the ibadanr . of hi 1ime mi tn
- . v.
breathe ever aWtgije character to thef
journal h ! originated; - Bitlookif'
back over his career, an admirer CtMA.
wish he had other surroundings thai
theses ; Perhaps, however, he won!
not be happier. Berrineer-like h
probably clings to his old ways froij
choice. Don Piatt in tha Cincinna:
Commercial,
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