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WHITE RL VER.
BY MRS. j. r. n Koor.fi.
Winding through |
Gliding o'er the plain ;
Sparkling in the sunshine,
Laughing in the rain.
Through the busy city,
Through the fields of corn,
Runs a rippling river,
Beautiful as mora.
Pationt in its mission.
Lonely though its course,
Bearing in its bosom
Love's heroic force.
AH subdued and gentle,
Overcoming strife,
For the lives of others
Spending all its life.
As j Maud beside it
Conies .1 thought of one
(Falls a tear—l bide it) ;
Patient as the sun
Was he ever, bearing
silently ;
- - j
c boerTuT itSaTimflcarn,
Tender, true and brave;
Aud a deathless halo
Shines around his grave.
If no revelation
Whispered from the sod
But that form beneath it,
1 should trust in God.
If no light supernal
To my soul was given,
Ilis memory eternal
Were hint enough of heaven.
Muncie, lud.
AN IMPUDENT PUPPY.
'•Whore is Sue?" inquired Mrs.
Mellington, entering the room where her '
' two eldest daughters were employed, the j
one in reading, the other with a hit of
I fancy work.
"I really don't know, mumum," j
answered Ada, looking up from her J
work. "1 have had scarcely a glimpse
of Sui since we came to the country. 1
She appears to have taken to an outdoor |
life, and is uevcr in the house except at j
uight."
"I sn'.v hrr about two hours ago on '
her wily to the orchard," remarked ltose j
"She said she was going to ferd the [
pigs, and would uficrwatjl take a lesson !
in mtiking "
"I wish I could find her,'' resumed i
Mrs Mellington "I nui sure thai Col.
LI a nicy or his son will call this afternoon, |
and it is proper that Sue should be j
present, fcsho did not appear on their j
former visit." )
''She will shock the Colonel by her |
hoydeliish manners, and, as to son, I
hardly think he will particularly admire j
ber. 110 doesn't fancy female society, j
I've heaid, and prefers his dogs and
hoibtss. Aud wasn't he a little wild at [
0 >llege, mamma ?"
"A little toe fond of what is called fun
—nothing more that I haye ever heard i
lie is a clever young man, will be
wealthy, and is, next to his father, the j
best match in tie neighborhood, though, |
us you say, he doesn't appear to care j
particularly lor ladies' society. I fancy j
he looked rather bored while talking to |
that stately Miss Radstock, clever and j
handsome as she is And then he must
know that all the girls are trying to !
secure him, which naturally makes him
shy of theui."
These remarks were clearly intended i
j as bints to Iter daughters, for Mrs.
1 Millington was a genuine mateh-ui iker, ,
aLd hud already married off two j
daughters advantageous : y.
Finding that the remaining eldest j
daughter ha 1 failed to mako the desired
impression on either Col. Ilanley or his |
son, she had bethought herself of
producing Sue, hitherto, as the youngest
and prettiest, carefully kept in tho
background.
Rut, meanwhile, where was Sue 1
She had filled a basket with apples
for the pigs, strolled around the orchard,
admired tbo trees and the fruit, and
climbed a low plum tree, in order to
gather an especially fine one for her ;
father. ID this position ber eye was j
caught by a low line of green willows,
bordering the sloping meadows bcyoud
I the orohard.
"It looks as though a stream were
there," she thought, "and 1 do so love
water. I dare say it is so lovely under
those willows Come, Rolla," calling
; t) a little half-grown terrier, "you and 1
will go on an exploring expedition
together."
Rolla, after coaxing, rather sulkily
obeyed.. He was an ugly little,
orooked legged, hairy muszled pup,
which Sue had, on her arrival at the
farm, begged of the farmer for a pet.
Yet Rolla, despite all the petting, did J
not tike to this pretty young mistress,
but persisted in evincing a decided
preference for the barn and kitoben,and
low life in general She was not
disappointed in her expectation. She
1 found a clear, shallow stream, which ran
j rippling and murmuring pleasantly
beneath the willow*, between thicket of
wild rose and bli'ssomit-g elder.
She seated herself on the grassy baok,
j took off Srst her hat and then her shoes
and stockings, and allowed the coo!
ripplea to dance about her white feet
Then sbe became interested in watching
some insect life on the surface of the
water, and when satisfied with this,
resumed her shoes and stockings and lay
I back on the- cool turf, dreamily reciting
J. snatches of poetry.
A stray sunbeam glinted on nsr
! rippling brown hair, and the eyes that
looked up through the waving f !Jf;c
} werj as deeply bluo aud oiour
summer sky overhead. Pity that thi»re
was uo stray artiit to gaze upon the
1 pioture.
Suddenly Sue awoke to the fact that
J Rolla had disappeared. lie had been
smelling about the bushes, and had now {
stolen off ou the track of some scent,
perceptible oniy to his own keen
I olfactories.
She lifted up her voice, and called in
her sweet clear, girlish tones :
1 . "Roll* ! Rolla!"
In answer tuerc was presently a
rustling amid the elder bushes, and forth j
stepped not the culprit Rolla, but a very
j handsome young torn, equipped with "a '
I gun and game bag.
She sprang up. Each stared for an
instant at the other ; then the gentleman, j
gracefully lifting bis hat, said :
| "May 1 inquire, Miss, what you want i
j with me ?"
"Want with you?" responded she, in i
! surprise.
"Yes ; 1 was crossing the fiold yonder,
j when I heard you call me," ho replied,
with a slightly demure expression sbout
j his mouth and eyes.
"I called you ?" said Sue, indignant- i
; ly '
"Yes; you called 'Rnlla,' very dis \
tinctly and earnestly," replied he, bit'mg
the corner of his moustache, "'and I, of
obeyed tHe summons, and tin a* '
your service. My name is Rutland, or j
; Rolla, as I am familiarly called "
Sue surveyed bim from head to foot. !
"Oh," said she, coolly, "it was a mis- 1
take on your part. It was not you, but
; the other puppy, I was calling. Hi s
name is also It >1 la "
"Indeed ! where is he !" inquired the
i gentleman, looking around with a great
expression of interest.
I ."lip has run away from me."
"I wonder at him. In fact, I really ;
! don't see how he could have done it," j
■said lie, looking at Sue, aud slowly
( stroking his moustache.
She drew herself up with a great as
sumption of dignity.
"If you will try, sir, you will find how
: it can be done," said she, loltily.
•"And if I don't want to try ?"
"Then the other puppy must make
you. Here he is, just in time, Here,
j Rolla, good dog ; bite at hiui, sir 1"
And Sue clapped her white hands to- '
( getber, and tried to whistle, as she had
soen her papa do, to the great amuse- j
' ment of the gentleman.
Rut, instann of gallantly rushing to
the attack at command of his mistress, !
Rolla frisked up to the stranger with
| extravagant demonstrations of delight, i
"O, ho knows you," said Sue, con.
temptuously, "and so you didn't run."
"Yes; Rolla knows his friends. In
| fact, he's my namesake—an honyr con- j
ferred upon me by the admiring par
tiality of farmer Hawcs."
"lie belongs to me now, and 1 mean
to ohange his name," said Sue, posi
; lively.
"Pray, don't. You have no idea how
[ musically it sounded across the field. I
fancied some wood nymph—or—dryard |
I —was calling to me. Belongs to you
now, does he ? Happy dog !"
And he stopped and patted Holla's
head.
She turned sharply.
"Are you going away, sir, or shall I ?"
sbe demanded
"Oh, I would not for the world in
oommode you 1 And I beg you to ra
member that I came only because I fan
| oied you were calling me, having prob
ably me passing I saw you Irom
j the bank above. Pray, excuse the mis
i take, and ullow me to wish you a good
: evening."
And with a courteous bow, he disap-
peared among the buslns.
She stood looking iudignaotly after
him until he disappeared.
"The impudent puppy !" she murmur
ed ; "I never heard of such assurance."
And then a slow smile rippled over her j
face which Bhe lemorselcbsly checked by
biting the corner of her uader-lip.
"Come, Rolla," she culled in a sub
dued voiee, "come, sir, and go home; j
and see how you get into scrapes again." j
She climbed the bunk into the mead !
\ ow, the dog followed with a subdued aud
culprit-like mien. Rut suddenly he
gave a short, sharp bark, and at the
siuio in >uient another and stronger
| sound smote upon Sue's car It was ti )
low, hourse, sobbing murmur, which '
seemed to swell into au angry roar. t
"II I were in Africa, I should faucy
that a lion's roar !" thought Sue, curi
i ously looking around.
In an instant her oheek became deadly
i pale, and she stood breathless and trans- 1
! fixed, as a huge animal, with lowered
bead, and eyes gleaming through sliaggy
j forelocks, emerged from a thicket HI j
some distance, aud came slowly toward
; her, tearing up the earth with hoofs a;id !
| horns. i
Rolla, after a burst of obstreperous
| barking, turned and ignotniniously flvd.
She strove in vain to follow his exa>n- i
| pie. Her limbs felt paralyzed, and she
i turned faint and sick.
The bull came slowly onward, now
j lowering his head, then uplifting it, and
i staring fiercely and threateuingly at the j
| figure in the centre of the field.
Suddenly a voice shouted.
"Don't be afiaid ! Throw awuy your !
red ebawl! Now run—run to the near
1 est fence—while I keep him off!"
The assurance of help at hand in- |
epirei her. She tore off the light
zephyr shawl, which had attracted the
attention of the bull, tud ran as fast us
tier trembling limbs would curry her.
How she got over the fenoe slie never
knew. Indeed, sho knew nothing dis
tinctly until the gentlemau she hud
! characterized as an "impudent puppy," '
I lightly leaping the fence, threw him- j
self, rather breathlessly and heated, on
! the ground neur where she had sunk
J the moment she had found herself iu
„
safety.
"Oh," said Sue, half sobbing, "I am
so glad you oame 1 That awful creature ;
would have killed me?"
"I fortunately heard him bellowing, |
and, remembering you, came just iu
time to keep hiui off."
"Weren't you afraid ?"
"Oh, no! I u«ed when a boy to bait
these animals for my own amusement.
Rut you see I can be of more use to you
than 'the other puppy.' Where is
he?"
"Gone. Deserted me in my hour of'
need," she replied, smiling faintly, as
she dried her teats. "Rut I've hud
enough uf him. I'll give hiui away and
get a better and bigger dog to accompany
me on my walks, if thty are to be as
dangerous as this one."
"Am I big enough ?" inquired the
| gentleman. "I'll take the bst care ol
| y° u "
"O, I don't k now you yet, you see.
1 I will ask papa," slic answered demuic
'y
j "Certainly—by all means ask papa!" |
i said he, eagerly.
"I'm going home now," she said, !
riling
"Won't you permit ma to see you
safe ? There may be more cattle around, j.
to say nothing of snakes and owls."
"Well, I think you may come, though j
we are near home uow. I can see papa
i Rilling on the verandah, reading; and j
| there in the orohurd is my basket of op-
J pies, which I gathered for the pijjs. If j
you won't mind, I'll feed theui now, aud ■
carry the basket buck."
"I'll eujoy it of all things," he assort
ed.
Lifting the basket he carried it for
her to the sty, where sbe amused herself
with tossing the fruit, one by one, to the
eager, pushing crowd within.
"So you take an interest in those poetic
animuls?" remarked hor oomponion, as
he stood curiously looking on.
"I feel dorry for them, they aro so
ugly and dirty. Nituro seems to have
treated tbem unjustly, poor things, iu
■ making thein BO inferior to other ani- !
mala. Rut then, the little ones, wtih
their pink noses and funny eyes, do look
so chubby and innocent."
She tossed some pigs to tho little
j ones, and looked thoughtfully.
"lliey remind me of a picture I paw
1 lately—Circc, surrounded by a herd 0!
! swine, into which sho had transformed
! lier admire s, and would never have im
agined how much expretsion there was
in the way that they wriggled and
groveled at her feet."
"I see that picture now, at leaet some
thing like it," the gentleman remarked,
looking from Sue to the pigs. *
And again Sue repeated to herself,
"What an impudent puppy!" as she
dropped mote apples into the stye.
1 And this was the spectaclo which
i :reeted the horrified gaze of Mrs. Mol
llittgtmi us she step- y' jfc, ***. . J
vliere her husband was reading, and
j iooked across the lawn to the oichard
| the tea lublo was ready, aud she was |
j expecting Sue.
"Mercy en tne !' she gasped "Why, j
Mr. Miflingtou, only look! Thero is
| ictually Sue with (Jol Ilanley s sou
| lced:ug the pigs."
Mr. Mulliogton chuckled.
"\\ el 1 , my dear, 1 don't see tho harm :
I if it, if they like i:. Though where she
j eoutd have picked him up, I cau't im-
I agine."
Meanwhile, Sue and her companion i
1 leisurely crossed the orehard and the I
j iawn.
"Now, I'll introduce you to papa,'
she said. "Only I don't know your
name."
"Oh, perhaps he knows it, and will
introduce me to you. Mountims, call !
me anything you like."
So Suo walked straight up to her j
| lather, and, putting her baud ou his j
1 shoulder, said :
"Papa, I've had an awful fright. I 1
was ohasod by a raging mad hull and !
my puppy ran away from me. and au i
| other with tho very same nuuie, saved
| ue; so I'vo brought him home with j
me," nodding in an introductory manner j
toward the guest
"Eh 1" said papa, looking up ; snd j
| catching t|ie expression of thj two faces 1
j before him, he fell invO the humor, and.
is he lose, said, with a wave of bis hand
' toward the waiting tea table : "Very ;
well, my daar, we'll feed him."
So Mr. Rotund Ilanley sat down to \
the table with the family, and witb an ;
j utter absence of that unpleasant restraint ;
j which Mr. Mcllington had remarked in
| his intercourse with Miss Radstock; and,
despite her vexation at Sue, the meal !
: pas.-ed off agreeably.
Ol' course that was not Mr Han ley's
last visit to tho Millington's—of course '
there were frequent calls, with walks ]
and rides, in all of which he fulfilled his
pi limine of taking care of Sue; and
J when, at length, he asked the privilege ;
lof taking care of her through life, she
1 did not say nay
Lately, when Mr Hanley was boasting
I that his wife had accepted biin on their
I very first interview, by referring him to
| papa. Sue looked around and said :
"Vou were an impudent puppy that
day, Roila, as you are still."
Good Advice.
William Wirt's letter to his daughter
; on the "small sweet courtesies of life,"
! contains a passage from which a deal of
happiness might be learned :
1 1 want to tell you a secret. The way
to make yonrsolf pleasant to others is to
show them attention. The whole world
is like the miller of Mmsfield, who
; "cared for nobody—oo, not he, because
nobody cared for bim. And the whole
; w.'rld would serve you so, if you gave
I them the same cau.o. Let everyone,
therefore, see that you do care for theui,
by showing them the small courtesies, in
| which thero is no parade, and which
i manifest themselves in tender and affee-
I tionate looks, and little acts of attention,
giving others the prelerenoe i>• every
' little enjoyment at the table, in the fL-ld,
walking, Bitting or standing
'•'Fears to me your mill goes awful
slow," said an Impatient farmer boy to a
miller. "I oould eat that meal faster'n
you grind it." "How long do you think
you eould do it, my lad (" quoth the
miller. "'Till I starved to death," an
swercu the boy.
A Kentucky girl died with the heart
disease a few hours af;cr her marriage
Tins proves (oat youug wouteu shouldn't
| marry uolil alter ih.y bad give.i their
| licul'io auay.
NUMBER 23.
Some Men's Wives.
Three men of wealth, meeting, not
long since, in New Yjrk, the conversa
tion turned upon their wives. Instead
ot finding fault with women io general
and their wives in particular, each one
i obeyed the wise man's advice, and
'•gave honor" hi* wile "
' I tell you what it is." said one of the
i men, "they may say what they please
about tho nselessness of modern women,
but my wife has done her bharo in se
enrinj, our success in life
' Everybody knows that her family
i iv*B aristocratic, and exclusive, and all
that, ind when I married her she had
never J nc a d.ty's work in her life;
i hut when W- fc Co failed, and I had to
commence af th» foot of the hill again,
she discharged the servants and chose
] out a neat little cottage, and did her
. " "p'ug untii I Wia bettor uff
j again."
'•And my wife," said a second, "warf
an only daughter, caressed and petted tc
! death, and every dy siid, 'Well, if he
| wiil marry a d>li lik-j that he will make *
the greatest mistake of his lile;" but
when I came home the first year of our
! marriage, sick with the fever, she nursed
me back to health, and I never knew
I her to murmur because I thought we
i couldn't afford any better style or more
: lux'T'ps "
"Well, gentlemen," chimed in a third,
"I married a smart, healthy, pretty girl,
but she vas a regular blue stooking.
j She adored fennys m, doalcd on Byron,
read Emerson, ai.d named tho first baby
i Il«lph Waldo Emerson and the second
| Maul; but 1 tell you what 'tis," and
tho speaker's eyes grew suspiciously
moist, when we laid little Maud in her
I last bed at Auburn my poor wife had no
j remembrance of neglect or Btinted
motherly care, and the little dresses that
1 still lis in the looked drawer were all
; made by her hands " — Journal of Com-
I merce.
STOHMB >N LAND AND SEA.—The
people who dwell in large cities and
! hill\ regions have but faint conceptions
i of what stviu'B in- upon plains, prairies,
! and af s»a Wh»rc neither hills nor
J forests b;eak tho force of the wind, hurri
canes, cyclones, and violent storms are
j sure to prevail. Whole villages and '
towns on tho \V estern prairies were des
troyed during the past season. A fearful
| tornado swept across McLean and Scott
j counties, Illinois, entirely destroying the
! town of 01ee;\ and blowing down in its
1 3 - . . ~r SlQlo. QAmA
five hundred houses and barns. Mr.
and Mis Iteese wore blown out of their
: bed and landed in a wheat field, a quar
i 'er of a mile from their ruined house.
| The tra;k of the storm was three quar
j ters 1 1 a mile wide, and at one place it
j seemed as if a torrent of water from the
I clouds followed the track of the storm.
At sea a'so there were fearful storms
which made navigation tho more dan
j gerous as the North Atlantic during the
. spring was full of icebergs The unus
ually mild wiuler had loosened immense
masses of ice from its moorings io the
1 Arotio regions, and one result of thi#
will be a cooling of the ocean during
June and a possible re !notion of the
temperature on our coast until mid-sum
mer. Man has made marvelous con
((•iis's over nature. Steam is at his
command. He has dmwn lightning
frim the cloud Io communicate thought
Irom cli tie t) clime almost instantane
ously, but, as yet, he is powerloss against
the hurricane and the flood
Unmarried Women.
"T »m not afraid to live alone," said a
noble woman, "but i dare not marry ua.
j worthily."
Is there no fine heroism here 1 I
think thai to submit cheerfully to a eio
. gle life where circumstances have been
unkind, to ohonee it from a high sense of
duty, or to accept it for the sake of loy
alty to a high ideal, is as brave a thing
as a woman eat. do. Hut, after all, the
woman who does this simply demands to
be let alone. She begs that you will
suppose her insensible to a stab because
she does not cry out. She has her pride
and her delicacy. She urges uo claims
upon admiration, but she has no con
sciousness of disgrace — Lippincott.
—■ » ■
When a boy walks with a girl as
though ho were afraid some one would
| see him, the girl is his sister. If he
walks so close to her as to nearly crowd
her against the fence, she is the sister
of some one else.
We a canal boat pass here yester
! day named the "Biindle Cow." We
suppose they steer the boat by her ud
l der.— While/mil Time»
The great sjcret of living happily is
11 Ire usefullyt Selfishness and idleness
are bitter foes to comlort.
Preserve the privaoy of your house,
uiarriauo state a-id heart from lelativos
and all the world
The Christian is not ruined by living
in the world, but by the world liviog in
him.
He that pelts every barking dog must
pick a great tuauy alouea. *
»•+? u iT