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'Wliy croak' your doleful notes of woe 'And -such dislike for writers show? ,Vhp fain would shed a gleam of light To dissipate our moril night ; A little faultless light bestow, And thus jour love for others show- "Why shun the path of fragrance 'sweet In a few minutes, Mrs. Mark- ham appeared. . .."lieturned at last," , cnea sue warmlyj shaking his hand. "My dear rani. ' ''There's riot much left of me little better than half," said the soldie'r. "I left my poor arm in i the West Indies." - "Poor, -dear Paul," said the lady. "And how) is your leg ?" "V ery. poorly. 1 am troupiea with daily exfoliation of the bone." "Poor Julia ! she sighed. "She! will be much affected at the change in me, will she not? said mere loveliest things in nature meet, asked the braye captain. To scent an imaginary flaw And others -crush with your huge paw, '''When by a little faultless light, You might afford sueh pure delight? , 'When forest songsters sweetly sing, "Why pluck the plumage from their wing Because you think the jackal cry . Much sweeter than such melody ? ' Attune your harp, and give a note Without a beam or smallest mote. "; A Writer. " T0""E." : " 1; ' ' If 1 were a snow flake Dancing in the air, ' I'd fall upon my darting - And nestle hi her hair ; ilM watch her happy eyes, H ' And see her sveet lips pout, For me 'twould be a paradise Until I got thawed out. Then down her face. to gently drop, Toconsmnatemyblbs, ; I'd -give myself a sacrifice, , . In one delicious kiss. -1 - - . "Ohiidear, no ! I was .thmking of the qhange ;in her." "AVhat, haven't you heard?" "STot a word." -: "All ! I see she was afraid to write jyou. She has lost her beauty." : i "Possible?" "Yes you know she was never vaccinated." i 1 . "sever vaccinated !" 7o -and she has had the small pox very badly' Poor Julia. She has lost the sisrht of her right eye. I.TT J " T I! 1 1 iter iace is very mucn uic.cuiureu and her nose is terrible red." "A red nose ?" "Yes. It dosen't matter so much about her eyes-she wears ; blue spectacles. "51ue spectacles and a red nose? exclaimecl the Captain. - "But you don-t mind that. Beauty is nothing," said Mrs. "T.X- ft ATV ' ' 'Trien torsive my aecepxion, ? . - r m:VJ i - t said the . Captain, i Mere my ' fllny enou-hlo see a lady and nneecVdly' found lef; arm as sound as ever, I .nave capital stones, iunny epoun xo , lf -nir - -l--ii. no wound iipon iny cheek; Ican, make any one laugh: . , half a dozen I was mpaken. dance from dark tiirdaw.'i:;'; You see the old man was trf ! e 'tt-i kJ !i,7- ,H' . , .ii.i-'S ho lilro a mnst lamrwtender ana jclow cuuia. juu ub, ou wuw v to learn me to snoot DiacKDiras r itv --j Ty,AAw ty.Ho - 1 i I - ,: : lu nicely dressed. A bachelor adds, :t - L d w ri.Ti , , .i . 1 x "hut without anv sauC6i" ' i iiij tuiu wjuu YYjm- corn antt gUCri tnmgs, bo inaia --- --- v , .-. er you are still willing to fulfill couid be of some use about the An old bachelor. captain flv your engagement with me V . farm because I wasn't big enough opinion being asked abtjttt a fjiture 'With all my heart,' said the to do much. My gun was a little state, he answered, thft he. never Captain. - I am grieved for the singie barrel shot gun, and the old troubled himself aboiU,tate affairs, loss of your beauty I confess ; ;but man can-ied' an old Queen Anne The best inyestmejt an r 4-old your heart . and mind are dearer mUgfcet " that weighed a ton ' and bachelor' can ;make,these hard fhfln vnnr TiPrsnn:' ! ' ' I j " i:w 4lnWnrlorolnT timM ia' o nir "hia ffllar and a 'Excuse me for a momenta said L.-.inVAd lilcA a mule. The old half arid set the '.Torek Ughtfor lilt; muy j- muat iciuc iui wanted m to snoot me oiu oneear. , . ;..- i.. ! .1-. ... -' .- ' -r i: : . ' ' t - ut J t luumeuis. In an instant she diant mall the fflory other charms. nnA ihnutthtYd trvher oneUin nf o:hHlaciV.in';l?lAr.rvi. Pmi1 b.H flhft Tinw fin vmi like -f li -.Pxi ::-t:J:-;"X'l, . 6 . ,.x, . ,? fljfji I -uut, nme, ana so i uwi. ,.iei w iuc a nxue aymg 'You are an arisrcl.' said 1 the ; . : Captain holding ner in ms -ars.. 6nt the -fields.; Hiram said: j. pilffrini , fothers-thW heroes of 'How could you treat me, so .cruel- tDo VQU see them marks on the T7Zf hhor orator stock -an i.and, V on eacn side , - - ,v i i r x That's melting love ! The- author is iViaiKnaui wnu vvua raviamug uciiu- ate. If uE"s heart tilul herselt. ou love Julia ioi .,-!i.-,1t-.; effA- Tf "tvv hpnrt: titni hfirseit. r x ou love juna ior i iv.lv" liiklf it t utv., siam j-. v M . : r - v is frozen and cannot be melted, by "that her heart ; you always told her SO. now flake, he nrht to' wish1 he was a And as VOU are SO 7 , - - CD I . V - , . snow ball. Eds. TIT FOR TAT, A CHARMING LITTLE STORY. "Was there mained and disfigured yourself, why, you can symuathize with and coasole each other. ; Three arms. and thre eyes between you." j "And a red nose and blue j spectacles !" groaned the Captain. I "TTiiqTi I "hck'Ttk primps .Tnlin..' Riiul L L 1 1 - ' A JL . aud.agreat lv with the pectacles ? 1 'Tot beauty the red nose and -rrr-vTrl hflT .OOlfl itnO 1 f .' 1 j -11 ! 1 I , . ,! . I mcttJ-ia ten, . . vain .'we have mends m camp oa win' i . -j 4 ii -i jtr 11 I -"v. iui. wno exposed your j emu uaiuny., and it is only tit for tat.'.; T Mr- i: 'I deserve it all,' . said the yap- tain, "and:' here: I avow I am cured ofjealousy ..forever.?. : ; j i V hen they were married, which' ,n eacn siae ftb bther: evening DeSad re- of a . queenTs crown well . that gponaed a sad looking tian sitting means ten,. f balls and five slugs-- Qn the platform. That tfWs about Bat hpw:uchpowder r I In old bachelor left ony-te. . . 'OV. dhe, ;don tiatter ; put -- Sabitdayl and, com in three, or four han.dfulls. . :,, ,mnV Qi,n rnk rtrard . So I load her up yay, and d tnhad it was an awful , charge 1 had ..--A--iinr AMl V1 cyuioc, . txxcj ' p-ood manv DiacKDiras dux every . . . r . . v. , . handsomest couple that ever sub- j Wont to puU' the trigger, I A. bachelor saysit.yim nana a mittpfl tn thp. matrimonial -.nooseL' :. . - j t ladv newsnaner. wita .aDara sense sta fnllnwpd AS' a r matter, of T - -7 -1 - siarteu OUl. , X leveieu uci they, were pronounced the blackbirds, but eyery mest counle that ever sub- 21 t ;a, a ii - v, or T 4. .Aj WooVanAd T ladv a- newspaper, wita-.av.para 5 . I - . A. s - , ' i im..-Jji4- owit-Ti YT.t nnf rf it. .Tni'i flvlinft Of Son.ooi-ourexchanges.aropu S p.vfir seen such a "liush I here comes J una, saiu iftaloua fellowi always . coiitrivinsr Mra. Markham. "Don't appear some hew test to subject; my af- shocked, J ulia, my dear, ; here's fections too?" ! said Julia Harvey the Captain."; : n W sister. "Mrs. Fannv Mark- " The door opened and Julia en- ham, as she handed her a letter. tered. ; She had painted her face It was from Julia's lover, Capt most 'artistically ; a pair of blue xraui vyucox, an omcer in an iu- epeuuu;.ea wuwmcu uci Lii,,xtiv.xv fantry regiment, who wrote to pre- eyes, but the -marvelous feature of pare her to receive him. He told her face was" her nose it glowed her that she would find him much with all the brilliancy of a car-; changed, for, he had been wound- buncle. ; M .' ed in the leg and lost his left arm; "Oh, dear Paul," said, she; that he had felt it his: duty to say "poor dear Paul ; how much you that he should not hold her to her have sulfered." engagement, though he loved her "I have onearm left for you to as devotedly as ever. " ; '.. lean upon," said the Captain. Kow it happened that Julia had t'But you are lame. We can a correspondent in the army, from never dance 'j the Schottische any whom she discovered that the more." H captain had received no injuries, "I don't know but I can man and that his story was concocted age it, all but the side steps and firLlitinnal test of hoDs." said the Captain ruefully. the, deyotedness of the fair one. ;' ; "But don't you find me hideous? tWft'll Tn.v him nfffnr this trick, asked the fair One. : : Julia' saldM:Marliam.- ! "Kot exactly,' said; the poor "Come with .me and ril mstruct uaptam. ne;xip 01 yuur nu& j vnn how tn i rivG him nhanp-e1 in rather a warm color, ; to be sure his own coin, i "Oh, the doctor says it will setr Shortly atter'the ladies retired, tie into a purple, by-and-bye. : Captain Wilcox, pluming himself ' 'Oh, he does, does he ?' said the n hW fifm fpcrpTYi: - wnA alone in the Cantain abstractively. , : drawing ropm. v He had buttoned 'Do you think I should look bet his arm up in hislcoat, andlet the ter with a purple nose ?' asked sieeve nang empty, wmie ne cuim- o uuu,. j ; : ? 'Sneak not of it' said the Cap- vwxwbv, Cm liaiLliig 'gu-tj uuu. " I . ' i JT . ' r ' ' 1 Aft tain. 'But tell me. when you cheek to cover an imaginary sabre heardof my injuries, were you not mi f - - . ? inplihnrl tn Tvlinnnish mv hand V lishing as curious, item a state- .W old mSS teres, felt in tlie paper tVtholadj, ment to the etfectt that a horse.m -and ttere too oiamrestmg. -l. xhiA-m Iowa polled the plugout of a bar- r'tovemrl nMng paragraph-cbntmed."'-rel, for the purpose of plafangMs JU-; it fad toVdaM thirst.. do not see . antf&igg V.'iid &-liiir ' working with a ! seSg Machine ow rfj the horee She was a smart rj. tftaid she'd thunder storm, olVbacelo.. oue,;hadpuUed toe barrel out o ,d we, ghe ouldv saV3itis alo daneerousSle tne iDungnoie, anuaKsai iQe the gun !' the old man ing near '.some sewing! maclme with te plug, or it the barrel had g W me xne 8 a ; . wear flb&cOiln.there i 8a5Ld;he 'took aim at sapling no thunder sformV H and slaked lua tmrstwitn tne nqrse; - ----. ,- p A . j v.-.-or iftherfuo-hadtiulled the hbrse on the the other side of the road, A Dandy of .texnly haying. Lout of ; ma blrrel,tand slaked! his hnd 1 TW- Peen aniiT ' V thirst with the bung-hole-. Or it: the r- j - "CT Ii -"( f4v- ' bung-bllehadpuUldthethirstout earthquake, and saw Queen to .decide whether ' "Vi Vii '.vji.:" Annfi wmrmiff end over end in i11aH nl1 nrnni' rnvirty.nia'asre.: ottoe-wana aKGa witn tneparrei, oru mo uunei juuu. - ' , , .,, . , . . t . hv ""-..t nuUed the hore out of the :bfe ? n,e Hel' t ?n! lt owmS howiyou, hole arid plugged bis; thirst, whh d T Z, Sabbaths,-coming to quiet. a little while, all the wTeek day noiRfi an d Ktrife.'-are all like isla green, fruitful, and flower laden, that time. 1 I . l - L'u.-w lr-k -k - W 1 f-f Olf- ik-f I III- smiling ax one lruin mo juiut u. , , 1 7 " ,1 . . wild ocean and storm tossed waives, Truth and love are two of the rebuketo-fteiaw.iiian zu:a A,La twAA,- TTir rwnwp.rfnl thin ra in the world: ner : "Ain't you ashamo 1 01. youi?T UU3iJS 111 IXIU BUUU UCOC1 U3, v A-AJ. x ' : O - ' . Hi fl . ' - 1 j iriff shades and pure water springs and, wnen . xney nom go lugemer, beives iu ub : :' j j r--.i -.L r v.oxr Mnnnt:. I.a e.lv Tvithstood ' 1 mv house, when aifuijferal took' ior. me iireu iraveiei... j , crronm fi n al 1 v Vnnearedat a wirn dow andadmmistereiaijathmg: 1.1-1 x xT, j ':. The golden beams of truth and place here but four day's ?ago.1 tu: j.-fh)m;the' the silken cords of love,; twisted " if'ir.Oij nrut-. -x4tc- rirnrt r fnr Wnst. " u AnVfilfcii ' if? aUvbodv with -f If -you .would 'ConvinarA ,. man nniirtino- vfir'-inouires-an anx- " oWAot nlonhft: whether ' thev that he does .wronjsrvMO XteJ& JttoJt .;.!it ....-. .'1U1 --"ir-:,J io not care to cuuviucu tdiu. meu vill believe wliat' theVt??1! me. and ; lne true Daxenis 01 noomiy cuine them see.4 ; ' ? . . r . ' . !. f:4" '; 5 M TT 'J. JT. iVv niX- , - kinder. Sorter. notr but ratner more irom .neaven not lrum mc pu i t : 4- x' ' i. 1-4-4 lk- nr'ci 'rk f An fh' ttKiA lanimpn with 4'. IXViJl. Xivb o kinder X .5 BUrtvx. 'sorter: not! than kinder kings of earth, who tap-men with An exchange asserteM-;therp, - t -! 1 v r ' iv; cmrwici on1 ' 'tpwililpi hitter ifia man m Georna. sovtmcr that wife, he always wili insist on tak- UVtu v-.- v-- J w 1 r . . j , . . v inclined to relinquish my hand V ing a receipt. . "... 7" sarscasni upon manhood call them he fishes with a railrparlme and The force of habit-'We know a nnhle : - " ' 2- ' 1 smokes a stove pipe, f nirr-rj orAntleman-who is i so extremely - " : m r-'-l ... . . ' '; ..' ir -;t "v .re. -xt:viii i W,; ,. on RT.Pi.lr no harsh words of Earth.' lhc Old firentleman WNlO . TXJKCd hA nava! a comnumenu even ui ma -.sue is um.-aumci, auxx. uuu xcn i w. -5- ;r " - jt - ' , t- . . -i - --i ' vj :x l -.i-.a f , cj . j : . - -i -ii.- x i t . . . . - a i r rr ,t pitwi rr.ui 1 1 ktm vkpii u liimiiv viv f : o of fas, her sons, have added a wrinl had it knocked souh Ikle to her brow, f ; ;; : : jing event." a i $ 1 1 I y I. - i
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