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'i! sjf r 4 1 . i 1 I : i- Two little Feet Have Strajei"' " - From out our cosy fireside, Two little feet i'haVe strayed, ,1 : And a lou ily little cottage , ; Their vacancy have made , To-night Ym sad and lonely ; ,Oh ! that they would come tome, ' And fill oiir broken circle Just as it need to be I i I do not hear their patter Upon the kitchen floor, I do not meet the welcome I used to, at the door. In our little home how faintly Burns the tapers to-night, Tor little feet have wandered, And with them, gone. the light. , Hark ! I seem to hear tljem Out at the cottage gate ; -Will they ever wander back again, Even now so late 'i " Xo ; I know it cannot be,j 'Tis but the night wind's, sigh, Telling me that sweetest flowers Bloom only to die. THREE BRAVE MEX. A NOVEL ROMANCE". i Prettv Barbara Ferros would not marry. Her mother was in consternation. ""Why are you so stubborn Bar bara ?" she 5 asked. 'You have plenty of lovers.' 'But thei' do not suit,' said Bar bam, eoollv tviuff back her curls before the inirror. 'Why notr 'Ijwant tWrnarry a man wlio is brave, eqiial to any" emergency. ; If I give up my liberty, I want it taken care of!' 'Silly child ! what is the matter ; with big Barney the blacksmith I 'lie is big, but. I never heard that he was brave.' 'And von never heard that he was not. AVhat is the matter with Ernest, the gunsmith ?' 'lie is placid as goat's milk.' .'That is no sisrn that he is a coward. There is little Fritz, the tanner ; he is quarrelsome enough for you, surely!' 'lie is no logger than my thumb. It is little good lie can do, if the bouse was set upon by robbers.' e 'It is not alwavs strength that t; it takes brains as wins'a fieri well as brayn. Come, now, Bar bara, srive these voung fellows a fair trial.' Barbara tkirned her face before the mirror, letting down one raven iress ainbloaping up another, j 't will, mqther,' she said at last. I That evening. Earnest, the gun smith, knocked at the door. 'You sent for me, Barbara ?' he said going tp the girl, who stood jipbn the j hearth 1 eoquettishly warmiug one pretty foot and then the other. 'Yes, Ernest,', she replied , I?ve been thinking on what you said the other night, when you were here.' ! i 'Well, Barbara?' Ernest spoke quietly, but his lark blue eyes flashed, and he looked at her intently 'I want to 'How?' 'I want to test vou. see ii vou ciare oo a very disagreeable thing.'; 'What is it ?' " i . 'There is an old coffin up stairs. It smells moiildv. Thev sav Eed mond, the -timrdcrer, was buried iri it, but the devil came for his body and left the coffin empty at the end of a week ; and it was finally taken f from the tomb. It is up stairs in the room grand father died ii, and they say grand sire does not rest easy .in his grave for some reasons,' though that I know nothing about. Dare you make that eoffin your bed to niglit? H -.. ; Ernest laughed. '; r'Is that alt? I will do that and sleep .soundly VThy, pretty one, did you think I had weak nerves ?' 'Your 1 nerves will have good proof if you undertake to do it. Re member no one sleeps in that whig of the house.' ,'I shall sleep the sounder.' ,'Good night, then. T will send you a lad to show you the cham ber If you stay till morning,' said imperious Miss Barbara, with a hod of her pretty head, 'I'll mar ry you.' ' ;- ;'. ' . . ; You vow it?' Ernest turned straight away and followed the lad in waiting through di n rooms and passages, up echo ing stairs, along -.narrow. damp wavs, where rats scuttled before toja low .clwmber.' The lad look edi pale and scared, and evidently wanted to hurry away, but Ernest mide him wait until he took a survey by the aid of his lamp: It wa3 very large and full of recesses which had been barred across. remembered thut old grand sire Ferros had been nsane sever al years before his' death, so that this precaution had been necessary for the safety of himself and oth ers. In the centre of the room stopd a coffin, beside it was placed a chair. The room was otherwise perfectly empty. , Ernest stretched himself out in the coffin. 'Be kind enough to tell Miss Barbara it is a very, good tit,' he said- ; , - -: The lad went out and shut the door, leaving the young gunsmith alone in the dark. leanwhile, Barbara was talk ing with the big blacksmith in the sitting room. r . 'Barney,' said she pulling her hanld away from his srrasn, when he vould have kissed her, 'I've a test any to put yon to before I give you 'answer. There is a corpse lvin kr in the chamber where' mv jraiidsire died, in the untenanted winir of the house. If you dare sit with it all night and let noth ing drive you from your .post you will not ask me aain in vaini' l ou'll give me. a light a bottle of wjine' and a book to read ?' Nothing.' ' -: 'Are these all the conditions you jotter me, Barbara V 'All. And if you are frighten ed, you need never look me in the face again.' . ' So liarncv was conducted to his post by. the lad, who had been in structed into the secret, and whose involuntary start at Ernest's placi d face as he lay in the coffin attributed by Barney to the was natural awe of a corpse. He took his seat and the boy left him alone in tl. e ? darkness, the rats and the coffin. " . .. Soon after young Fritz, the tau ner arrived, flattered and hopeful from the fact that Barbara had sent :br him. 1 V 'Have you changed your mind, Barbpra?Vhe asked. - h vr v 'No ; an d I shall not until I know that you can do a reallv brave thing.' " . . : " . What shall it be ? I swear to satisfy you, Barbara?- 'I have a proposal to make to you. yiy plan requires , skill as well as courage.' , . 'Tell me!' ' - 'Well, in this house there is a man 1 watching a corpse. He is sworn not to leave his post till morning. If you can . make him do it,IIhall be satisfied that you are as smart and as brave as I re quire a husband to be? ; : r 'Why nothing is so easy!' ex claimed Fritz. 'I can scare him away Furnish me with a sheet, show me the room and go to your rest, Barbara. You shall find me at the! post in the morning? - y Barbara did as required and saw the tanner step lightly away, to his task. It was then nearly twelve o'clock, and she sought her ow) chamber. 1 , , Barney had been sitting at his vigil and so far all had been well: The night seemed very long, f(jr he . had no means of counting the time. At times a thrill went through him, for it seemed as jif he could hear a low suppressed, breathing not far away ; persuad ed liimself that it was' the wind blowing through the crevices Of the old house. , Still it was' very lonely and not at all cheerful.' j . Tlie tace in the coffin gleamed white still. The rats squeaked as if there was a famine upon them and they - smelled the dead.?flesli. The thought made him shudder.! He got up and walked about, but something made a slight noise be hind him, and he put his chair with his back against the waif,1 and sat down again. He had beep at work alb day, and at last grew : sleepy. Finally he nodded and snored. iJ . Suddenly it seemed as if some-; body had touched him. He awoke with a start, and saw nobody near, though in .the centre !bf the room stood a white figure, j ,1 'Curse vou, get out of this!' he exclaimed in affright using the first words that came to his tongueS. The figure held out its righjt arm and slowjy approached himV He started to his feet. jThe spectre came nearer, pressing him into the corner. . j i j , 'The mischief take, you!' cried Barney in his extremity. Involuntarily he stepped back j still the fisrure advanced, cominsfi nearer and nearer as if to take him! in a ghostly ' cmbracej j The haiij started up on Barney's head. ' He grew desperate; and just as the, gleaming arm would have touch ed him, he fell on the ghost like a .whirlwind, tearing the. sheet., thumping,. pounding, beating ant kicking more and moreenraged at the resistance he met, , which told him the truth. H 1 ' As the readers know; he was big and Fritz was little ; and whilp he; was pummelling the little fellow terribly, and Fritz was trying to get a lunge at Bar nev's 'stomach,' to take the wihd. out of him, both kicking and plunging like horses, they were petrified by hearing a voice cry:" . - '; " j ".r-: 'Take one of your size1 big Barney!'- . -!..-1 ! Looking around they ; saw the corpse sitting up in his coffin. This was too much. Thev releas ed each other- and sprang for the door.- They never knew how they got out ; but they, got home in hotl haste, panting like stags.; ; 7 I It ' was Barbara ; herself who came and opened the door next morninsr. It's very early: one more little j imn ' oo?l Im nnn TYnra litfln non ' ! turning over in his coflin. : So she married him, and. though she sent Fritz and Barney invita tions to the wedding they did not appear. If they discovered the trick they kept the knowledge to1 themselves,., and' never . willingly, faced Barbara's laughing eyes. ...v . : : V Singular Will : -;'; '.. '.- 'i.. '. . . - i '".' " Awealtiiy gentleman in New York has added a codicil to' his will ordering that after his death his! body shall be injected with petroleum, placed in a metallic coffin and then deposited in one of the retorts of - the Manhattan Gas Company's works. ' If afterwards no one wishes to inter, hu ashes they are to be delivered tb the Central Park. Commissibners, to be used as fertilizing material on one of the flower beds near the music stand. V ; i r I ri- JE2?There is nothing like "home rule "and a hiekorv stick. E0T7 - 014 UlzlZTJ got .MS Kme, : r ' ; . . - j : : I "' ' , . ' A correspondent of the Jackson (Miss.,) -Neics, tells how Geri. Jack son got his title of Old . Hickory. He says be got the story from Capt.v William , Allen, a near neighbor of the Geh(iral? and who messed with him during the Creek war. During the campaign the soldiers were moving rapidly, to surprise the Indians, and were without tents. A cold March rain came bn,; mingled I with . sleet, which lasted, several days. Gen. Jackson got a severe cold, but did hot complain as he tried to sleep in a muddy bottom' amonr, his I half-frozen soldiers. Capt. Allen and his brother John cut down a stout hickory tree, peeled off the bark,' and made a covering for the General, who was with difficulty persuaded to crawl ptoit. The n ext morning " a drunken citizen entered. the camp, and seeing the tent kicked it over. As Jackson crawled from the rui is, the toper criedj "Hello, Old Hickory ! come out of your bark, . and jine us in a drink." I - ; CanTjury Ne7s. : j The belle of Danbuiy7 ' is in mourning for a poodle departed this life yesterday ibr Sausage Land." It was "the ugliest beast we ever itched to kick and vet we "loved her, loved her do Don't throw any more lor old boots or hoop skirts in the street but hand them to your next door neigh bor. T ' ; . - ; We enjoyed a hand-organ sore hade for two mortal hours :last Saturday afternoon! We fired our very soul at the fiend and even that shot missed him. The wretch did not cease until we flung a copy a the The News at ''him- and this knockeel him down-idead (shot.) .uumo pianos, lor Degnwiei's are advertised in London We want one bf those things for the Dan- uurv House. - - 1 If a stick of wood is too long a few times i take it out for the stove, kick iv, with your heel. The and saw it off. Danbury News. A : The Znpercr's Heart.. j When Napoleon the Great Died at St. Helena, an English physi cian took charge of his heart, de positing it in a 8ilverbasin filled with water. Two. tapers burned near it, but the custodian left ner vously anxious while watching it through . the night, - and did not sleep. In the silence) of the mid night he Iieard a rustling sound, then a plunge into the water and rebound on the flooiv-all occurring with the quickness of thought. He sprang to the floor from his bed to see an enormous rat drag ging the precious relic to his hole ! A moment i and the,! heart which had been too vast in tts ambition to be satisfied with the 'sovereignty of continental Europe,! would have been more degraded tliauthe dust of imperial Casar. ' JgThere was a great stir, says Punch, in our garden the' Mother day. The potatoes were ready to jump-out of their skinst,The beets turned red to its very roots. The celery, lost their heads, and the cabbage their; hearts. The peas spihV their pods ; with excitement. The'asparagus could with difficult ty be kept in its bed, . I The pars-: ley; curled itself up in j a corner. The cucurnber alone maintained its . habitual coolness. n . The cause bf this commotion . was i the pres ence of a noted-vegetarian. The potatoes never took their eyes off him: f : ; -:i5if-; ; XL If some men died and oth ers did; not death :would i indeed be a most mortifying evil. ' -Stray TiwAts. ' .We are all'liunfcrs iir the field of life. S6me.otVu3 .bi-inc dowii our game ; but .tlie most of us end 11 t. m a wild-goose chase. ?. Were it not for the clouds that darken Us, there would be no rain- bow in our lives. T j When you read, read the best f books : it costs vou no more: and what you get will help to correct, ii 1 1 . ii i anu ouna is like from God voice with the utterance jof false hoodi " '-" . V -; )' -: It is not in placing the words that the efiect of tlie good writing consist; it is in the thought bring ing its own word, that leaps to it like the particle to the magnet, i j i We are sinning when we think we are. . ; Perhaps the nearest good next to doing good to your "neiglibdf," is to benefit your enemy. But some people heap coals of -fire on their enemy's head to scorch him, thus making use of a Christian precept :o do evil. . : ' : , - ; Idleness is the great slough into which the vices of the world drift and settle, to rise again in miasma. It should , not , discourage us if our kindness is unacknowledged'; as has its influence still. .' ' , We govern our passions ; but in general we let the passion'"' first have a trial.' Gardening rcn Shares.. A good story, arid all the better in being true, is told of one of our citizens, who let a piece, of ground io ii: man . on snares. ne, man would hire the lot, but. tlie j owner, doubtful of getting any money of the tenant, proposed to let it. upon tie promise of j receiving halt", the products. . Occasionally during tie summer he passed. the spot and; was pleased- with the cultiva tion it was receiving, and with its goodly show of vegetables. : jHar vestJ time carne 'and :passed; aiid he heard nothing from his tenant, till, in response to af f hint the lat ter sent him oiiq; watermelon ar 1 three shriveled cucumbers. ' Ihtli nan tat this shabby j tfeatmenf li e called on the man arid asked him what ft meant. '.'Why, you" sec. squire," replied the . tenant; tl pesky boys stole all your half I the melon and v cucumbers,"! ; " Healta frca Flowers. , It is reported that an Italia professor has discovered that ' f u mes from flowers have a cli : -cat ; effect ; on the. atmospherec . -verting-it3 oxygen into ozone, vr. 4t) us increasing its' health-ir ting power. As thej; result Cx ... researches: he states 'that essenc of chcrrb," laurel, ! lavender, min juniper, melons, fennel and b gamot are among those which velopthe largest quantities bfpzii. . while anise' and thyme develop " in a '. less degree. Flowers ! de.. tiite of perfume have no such efiec He1;: very natually' ftecpmmeiid that dwellers iff mafehy localities and near places effected with ani mal emanations should surround their homes with a profusion of the most : odoriferous . flowersa ecomdation fwhichH the Creator, through1 their beauty and fra grance, . addresses to the senses of sensiblepeopleJ Jf 1 ':; " " ; ; ; ' . i 1 ' ' - ' C jJC'Malce mse of your time if thou lovest eternity ; know, yester day f cannot be - recalled, ; to-morrow cannot be assured ; to-day is only thine ; which if thou pro crastinate,4 thou losest ; which lost is lost forever; one to-day is worth tvvxrtoorrbws.' C i ' ; ; t3,;Xo other living .thingcan go so slow a3 a boy on an errand. VOU Un. A CTOOa DOCK: ltan.'r?nniratMl hini to m? f . a voice,. from nature, or'iflji meant it too I almost thiiik. . Do not confound this H M i l ; ; Tte'Stelei mi' jf8 nJv? 1 "- wron? ttr" he sucithcrMh norkm; ed no ne "f"06, ' I For euch a tmy little sm ? Iti . t - , , . . f Kenreged ray hand that wasnt right ; Why will men hive such wicked ways? iil wasn't lor a,minute--qnjte ffBut in it there were days and days. rjjiere's mischief in the moon I know ; XX after all, Im not to blame ; le took the, kiss.- 1 do', thin' '?Ce qmte Avithout a sense of i It wonder wlien he'll cor LIPS .LElxGTHEi; inNfuch is said about de rlicv of our age. It ls th ' 1 t'T a iz we n ave io i i n e vigor ar.a strength of our forefathers, air r " ' a. w t mil, Mit statistic' aiu growing weaiv-. ana sicmy, , card ully .gathered, different. storv.:- The fell, a ve: ajvrage si cf Englishmen is lar was three centurici man mi 1 armour -worn by the. l that time cannot ba day, save by small men. a go duration ' of life i piiii P"1 ion avc; Ion ger. : Axicuratc 1 'registers. lirita hpnn Iront. in -J-onfatriV ainf' LJSJ). The average of;-Jife was thp only twenty-two ; years and : sbmonths ; it , i3 now' oyer fbrty y?S rs, or nearly double.' In France"4 fdi hundred years agb; the aim-.;, a 11 a ortnlity iu I'aris was one iu i ?cn ; now ir js one m tmny-two ?h ehaws about the same. ratio ir ( u ::ova. In Eiigiand tWo j,; as WT4 cv; iu thirty-three; now it is 011 and fin ibrty-two. It is pleasant to ,v that .the; world is improvmg, ' that the vigbraud health of ouKrace: are gaming-steadily m- stea n or neei l n i n cr. pT'Some-students fixed up a ght iand : placed at onfthe stair- ca of jTroy Newspaper office -tholbther night, and then retired ai4iawaited developments. .One off te;leditbrs;; came alon and diillj't get frightened. -He disrob ed t, and now, wears a fifteen dqltiar pair bf pantaloons, aten-dol-larjryest; a; seven-dollar V pair of boqls and an. eight-dollar hat. wliji-e one of the' student goes a- w-itnout a vest, ana another o around ' through "the least ented streets wearing a very nt pair of inexpressibles. H7KIIere is a bit of con versa- irately overheard ; in a street i II -ovidencc, R. I.: (harlie, (lid you ever hear it it a person iouna a TOur-lead-pver and put it in their shoe. 1 rst deutlemani or lad V thn walked with would bo husband or wife V -: ' . Uill'm positive l Faw ner wiuk, , 4 T -if o, never heard of it before." '11, 1 found one and patft s.' . 'Loo .this morning, and you "r. it one I have walked I wonder if it's true. - - .li; oiiicer of "any sort hvS .lit to 'meddle in politic. v;ill keep him busy ii' a' :I.;'nl to his duties. r miiig pays; we. tarmmrr. will ;:i3Wh: portfb ' cf A sin-liughtv : IfiJ, A critic puMn great man ' A roaring trad: ameagerie '- : jrbA-:ond : l maimigo net: .
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