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wen in PUBLISHED es tn Wilgentt cH wahteror paid Ollicegubsorih aid efits che - A.}tbar ldiudvzucmdiw a$§f§lfi§3ngl§$flfit 9 n pripristo)funtik albarroitigesare paid. + erfisen Qifihnfflfifi yat.the usual rates, ©*f ngififi- No nedly, excbuted. _. ie oe wo yu d x TG hat t> Ao h C9 CTC 4904 form » -. OXFORD, CHENANGO CO, N. Y., Febre n 6 - WEDNESDAY, SEPT gril ! EMBER 25 £850.“ ”leklnfififimlqhkmw as o:Xnow,the reason «tell me 1X4 pg‘fhsg lhdipfnstirt Elm. fngtfllwhuhi'é t6\ ifs-21’s; like not- At dts oun copriciqns. will Tanya? ‘i‘lfififhia on Magie Ypfiuwimpréfikzs mature edit nto.liking-ot,disliking:- 0 fafibg‘ffiuralh sad. } Wiffiéixqfif, smiles sometimes repel us ? Brigh; eyes turn our feqlingg-cold ?- What filth‘at' Which corpeg. to fel} us . AD OigE'ghtters is dot \gold ? my? féatuze, plain} on. striking, ._ . Bot a'pbwerwa cappot shun, v our lito and dislitiing , _o un fis. ecguaintgges hath began I a it -or spirit ._ | m,“ Wj‘d‘. pr‘o vs'g nxg—Agnd controle, Everyiinipuli¢ wednharip \/* = ; \°”‘i§§§ns g'ptfis'Wflfitnmé hart sant uigy F‘ am T”: (“Klan Pa i . h[gh disliking - 4 host Egg“; fé'nyiggl-g glgncex ~ #50 Tike résépfim of danger, $. +=» . Though 'no shadow fogs ; -Or that inger strength, still stranger, . OFunseen- unvitered things ! I9 4v?=-oh, can'no brig tell me, .No one.show oufigient cause. ’W§Foufiikings—and m u*. ~*Havé their owanstitictiv .. €O0 GO0OP OREDIT. ica mk ' Let me Sh&W you one of the cheapest BK pieces of cloth I hnve' seen for six months' $ mfd storekeeper to a young thhrried ran,. whosedncome from a clerkehif. wite io § the nelghhorhand of seven hondred . arse = he Th6dgh not 4 as mind aout. the mogey. Your credilififigond with me for any afiaunt/ . lll When Mr. Jacobs went §| me sad mfihh wife of what hy had dine, fiféfflnfiflefiln; woman, was dglightedd ~~ ~> E anid she. \\We want Sheete and pillows badly.\ poul 15 1C - 'You con get a piece} replied Jucobs;- * We wont have to pay for it now.. Rdwhtds will 'send the biff at the end. of six months.~ and it will be gfisy enough to pay it theoy'; * Olr yes, easy enough,' responded his wife corifiden tly. credit account, But, things did not atop there dg too - often like a breach Fren '. supply source, want became more clamorouk than before. Scarce- ly a day passed: thatMr. or Mrs. Jaeobe did wat order somethingfrom the store. not ming, aimplefloulm! that an alarmingly heavy debt was accumulating against thein, Ay to the Income of Mr. Jacobe it was not larges He was, us bast been intimated, n clerk in a wholesale st0re, 'und received a salary dfseven hunded dullars a year, His family, consisted of a wife aud three children and he had found it necess@ry to be prudent in all. his expenditures, in order to ' make both ends meets. -Bomewhat independent in-his feelings, he hud never asked credit of any one with whom we deilt, nod, no one offering it. previous to the templing inducements held out by Edwards, he had ' regulated hig _ayt- Jus Sds to gain funy a “hf; ul‘ ‘niler. Jacabs-no | of fortune. | LeCus see how it was' with t is a pleasure for me to shpw ; 4 a?! gid the storekeeper, denwing\ rom a's I? ilis pieta of elath he had inen- “villi“ throwing it upom the counter - , Fhiére/che added. ia he unfolded the flossy broud clotpy and -slepped his hand upon it self-complatently, ' thera is something worth § looking ut. and iPéhenp us dir. | Only.-four | worth six, every cent of it 1 boughivls at auption yesterday, ot a groat | 2, *It's chenp gnough. certainly,' remarked Jusobe;, Ilfifiill'fiifl'urenlly. ns he hent dawn to inspect the cloth} 'but I've no money to wpure joust now.!-=ae ' Doa't want any money.' replied Edwards. * At leastinot from sogh men us you.' Jucobe looked up into the man's face in cie.doubLag to bis messing; , te c i Tu B‘fi‘éfiflefifijfimtfimm-fih ¢ og. sen Fouts + Uk A~¢Creditl [vo no credit. I never asked a man io trust me in iy life,' returned the cus- tempor. , HJ'1l trust you to half that is in my etore,' wif answered. * Thaok you,' said Jacobe, feeling a liitle flattered by;a compliment like this. © But 1 bave no wants in the dry goude lino to thal extent. (A skein of silk and a dozen of but tous for my wife, are ull thai I require at pres- ent,' 'You want a new cost,! replied the per- severing storekeapor. as he lung] his hand up- un the sleeve of Jucobs' coat nd cexamined it closely, *This one is getting rusty and thypadburg., A finn like you efjooid have sume regard to his appegrance. Lei mo ace. two yarde of this bcnuleifui cloth will cost but eight, dollars, and: 1 won't send In your hill for siz manths. Bight dullure for a fine broad clath C6M4LL_Think . of thet! Bargains of this kind don'tgrow on every treoi' While Edwa¥de-tnlked thas. he whe dis playing the goods he wished to sell in s way to let the rich glossy aurfuce catch beet pointe of light, and hingfgiek eyesoon sold hir that his customer.-was becoming tempted. « *P'll cut you off weoat pattern,) said he, tn- king op bis yard stick, * I know you want 11. Don'thesitate uboot the matter.) _ Jacobs did-novsay + no.! aithoagh'the word wak;on his tongom, Wiriis:he yet hesitated. lh‘fwm patiorn was measured off aud eaver- rom t ' Tfififim (is, Pcatts Jo a sarisfied! hall ir}- 'ninpbadt Igrie fFoind Aha mtotskeepdr's Tipe. © fud thid greateet bargath Yiu eger had. Yhu will Want trimmings af cogre6? , ,. '\K¥ he epokd, he turned i eifieéfiel‘éa Yor adding, lining, silk, &2., and, \while Jizobs, aH bewilderkd, mood looking as, eat from P evet ony lad sow The onl, wer ifeely laid out 'This dana, \MF Edwatida'Tized his ¢ 1 Hip hiets aggrif’infinumfi fesling 6f Titghi ~\ |=\ °° ~ dim at the end of thegix months. under the new system.. Let us see {[his 'good credit' has been of any \geal benefit to him. \lt was so very pleaennt to have things comfortable or fgr a little displny, with- out feeling that tha indulgence draineo tha purse too heggily ;, Jhe weak vanity on the part of Jacobs, witeigratified by the Asttering opinon of his honesiy.entertained by Edwards the storekeeper, Ela credit was 'good,\ und he was proud of the fact, But the cay of reckoning was approaching, and at last it cume. Notwitffstnpding the credit at the dry good siore, there was no more money in the young clerk's purse at the end of etx | mouths thin at the beginning. | The cash that would have gone for clothing. when necessity called for additiong to the family wardrobe. fad been {pony (ub, thifige. tifffporchase o esh Barrel Bet ror int foe mm he dollars were in the purse instead of the store- keeper's hands, and tempted ngedlcse expen- ditures. ° As the end of the six months' credit perind fpproached the mind of Jacobs begun to rest upon the dry goods dealer's bill, and to be disturbed by a feeling of anxiety. As the wmount of this bill, he was in some oncertsin- ty ; but he thought that it could not be lees than forty dollars | 'Thit was a large sum for him. to owe, particularly as bernd noth- ing n-head, and his current expenses was I'fnlly wp to his income. As'TC was now, for the fret jime fo his life, that Jucobe felt the nightmare preseure of debt, snd it seemed an times, na. if it would otmost suffocate him. One evening he come home. feeling more sober than usual. . He had thought of nuth- ing algo all duy_\belldel his bill at the «tore. On meating his wife, he eaw that something waw wrong. ~ al © What ails you, Jane \' said~ he kindly. 'Are you sick? ' No,' was the simple reply. | But hor eyes | drobpad no she made it, and her husband saw that her lips elightly quivered. j 'J wish you bod thken. a plese oftmuslin/'? Bo u piece of muslin whs produced on |h¢\ Now Ipr m-th V-p/‘fi' gi av., vaninge on the whighagould t bmi 1 ' Oof bodies hate (Beene linle betiertlthéd, dnd our Tove. of disploy gratified to rome extent. But, has all that wrought a compenantion for this day of reckoning ' _ ,, I -- * Boor Mre. 'Jones was Sadly was 'she repentiag of Hergart in the folly they had commitiedy +} « : ' Tea time camestot neither the Rusband nor wife could do mich more-than taste food. 'That bill for a hunired and twenty \dollars Thad taken away tiff &ppetites. The night thatfollowed pr‘y 1 to neithér.of them (a roiteshing | stomb And in morning aypke soberrafnded. and «dijtle inclined eau g P reation. | Yat one thought was in the soul, bill. of & Hrriide! |, * Whigs will yor ! voice that was 7 te Jim ito . her ihuahaifl’n‘ra’ééw th. gli & f dycs, ns she laid Hor:tinndivpon his Austhg hid to pause as he was'about ledving the- house. : 41m surb.1 donltt know, esid«ithe 'yourg I suppose, and ask lim to wait, 11301”)! am sute I had rafer taken good horee-whipping. 'Gaod éredit He'll sing a different song nowy | o- +C tho' lov Ror n moment.or twa longer the husthad and wite stood Jooking nt qne-another. 'Fhen us guch: henvily wiglledz'gfi focfiér turned, a- way and lett the houagy \Hla *Fbai to busi vod hy. Mr,.Edwards' gfoce=-but, Ire pow |avorted the street where;, lived, . and tas x wor oal the bn y v tha time, ag haar This desk, ghd giving his mind op to Froubled thoughts/'+* Justnt this'moment thg,eenlar partner to the estoblishment,came up and stoud .besiile him. p ite! © Well, my young friend' skid he, kindly. * how afe you geting along? - |- Jneoby tried tosamile and loolecheertal fe [he repligd-- ., . j | _ } Pretty well. air' But his yoieg had in it a touch of desporideney. |_ 'Ligtimbsee' remarked the employer, after a pause ; Yyour regular year ls up. 10:day, is it not 7\ w u nom * Yes, sit! replied Jacobs, hig heart sinking more heavily Tn'h‘ia busom, for? the question suggested & distfinege from his place-busi- ness having) baen Gull for some sine. 16 +1 was lodking at your nrcoiint yesterday / (eflpflmd‘mx’enalwflmmiwnd stot Afeff Have you nothing. whead;21 drawn close. [fifsolfif depth-g f am eorry to say,' revurned Jacobs. ' Livicg is expensive. und 1 have six. mouths to feed.! * That being the case,' enid the employe: 'as you have bees faithful, und your servi cen ace valuable, we must add son.erhing . to your anlary, Yor now receive seven hun- dred dollurs ?' * Yes, eir? © We will call It $650. A sudden light fished into the face of the unhmppy clerk; seeing which, the employer, already blessed in Ueuiqg unother, added- ' And it aball be for the lost ag well ss for the coming year. 1 will fill you out 'a check for n handred and fiy dollars, as the butanee doe you up to this day.! The feelings of Jacebe was tou much agi- tated for him to trom himself with oral thanks ne he the cheek which - the employ- er immediately fllePup } but his countenance fully expressed Ine gratelal emotions, A littlo while afterwards, the young man Edwards; and | man. gloomily * L shall five to gaeifduard= | yusthg jn his acorl for} . The. Newspapers The old farm-hoose wore a.quiet, plensant look, ns the sitting sun glided its small win- dows. dver which ”l’he loxurant grnyagvlnns 'enrefully© trained. In the open door eat the farmer, with a litte woroteo covered book in his hand, op which his attention had been fixed for the Jast finlf hour. , He was a man of method and ordgr-old Richard Heath- and gside from his regular nécount books, i which were kept with scropulouslcare, he al- waysaet down in his litle book; <in the sim- plest roaoper pogsible, all. hfs expenses. (no very complicated account, by the way,) and aiPitd8bstved \during the year, In the rea metal Pu v ike drain jugtireako ab MMMMM from. thg pleasant expression wile and addr F < mighhyoylga'f R face He he rirned inm [aw herby her yirdity old fashioned namo. , _ 4 daid-ha;tthis-has been a locky 45m How when we mov- , gd on to “Ii-5 glues, twenty five years ago, that we shdlffil' ever get five Jhu'ndred‘u year 'out of the rocky, barren farm? » ' It doesspay fav a-good deal of hard Work,\ sgid she, 'to odes low different . things look Irom, what they did then ' 20. 'Now I'm going to gore up how. much we've spent! said Nir. Heath; 'don't make a nolee with your knittfo' needles, 'cause i! kpois.me oul?) ~ ooc . His wily uid. down her knitting gn perfect good humor, and gazed out over the broad rich fields of waving grain Whir'hgrmfim} tall! atopud'the laden npplie trede, thi dpe of liventy five years' the simple sound [ofthe name site bore in youth means fiore fogp wife thap: all.ths pulling epitheta of dear | eapJavg, and darling. #4-faviehly uttered. in n ' long-priat courtehip. - Very plefeant was the retrospect 1a Milli- \éerit Heath. 'The picture of the past 'had on it rome rough- places. &nd some hard trials bup no marred; lig eunny nspect. , There werssmiliog {aces. on children 's inces,\ without which tio Yie picture is- bénttiful. 'Soft blue eyes shining with anclooied gladngas, and wavy Ainir flouting carelessly oven unwritten fore- heads. She forget, for ,aymoment how. tifgy | gto the young mosher, apd tiny hands jot luviogly over her bosom, bind .uestled ap. df old, (Tho affusion. vihished A het three yours 5g 0r8, fort 'home on the sep. Once ouly hid'tidinge rewebed her of the wanderer. homesickness, io that light and careless way that reathed the mother's heart mure surely thio repoing aod complaint. To know thi be suffered with a strong heart, with noble. unyglding resolotion, gave her a fealing of pleasure, not unmixed with pride. * i affectionate mgther 'to herself; und 1 read the paper ao carefully every Week, that if 11 says ihything ubout the ship Al'red sgiled in 1 shall be sure: to see t-, * Mre. Hearh,' sard ber husband. interrup ting her meditations somewhat rudely, we've epeot thirty dollars more than usual this year: where can it have gane to T * b he new harness' soggested Mre. Heath i 'That don't come every year, you know.' © Well, lkfire‘l. twenty dollars neconaled for © We Bad the garriage fixed up when . you bought the harnees.' continued the wife. | * Well that was eight dollars; that's twen- entered the store of Eawards, who met him' ty-eight dolizrs-that we don't spend every with a smiling face. , year; but theother two, where enn they have 'I've come to seitle your bifl,' anid Jacob#.| gooe ?' Giancing his eyes hastily over the + + Bomething is wrong, Juna,' said the hus- | * You needn't have thighled memorandoc book, he continaed : 'll tell band. | that,' replied the rtorekeeper, \though money you what it's the newspaper cost just Iwo hls costomer agaid, rob- |. +A) handr 'T ears stole to the wife's chask from beneath her half-cluaed Jide-tha bosom lubored | with the weight of some pressure. 'Tell ind, Jane,) urged Juzobs. is' Wrong. | YnuF manner elarms me. Are any of she children gick PV > . 'Oh, no,no, Nothing of that? was quick- ly replied. | Bur-bui-Mr. Rdwards has '¥éhi in his hill\ _ tot /\s That was tobe expected, of evorse.' said Jacobs with forend | calomess. * The credit it was for only six months. Bot, bow mach is the bill? \His voice was unsteady as he asked the question. 2009 vasd wanty dollars} Add ears. & Wm ib atariled hus £1an # Vuifiéfiéfiw of ign max-Tan? «is always accepiable.' The money was purd,nad the bill receipted \when Edwards, robbing His hagds, un ection 'ifany thing | pééuliar to him when in a happy Irame of op in the chamber. : mind, said - ] ' And now, what shall:} show you ?' ! _' Nothing,! @us thg young man's grave re- Ply. #0. ! *Nothing! Don't eay that' replied Bd: wards. 'I've jost got M' a besotifol lot of , spring goods. & |_ 'Eya uo more money & spre. answered Jacobs, \ R ''That's of no consequince. Your credit is good for any ambuht. - - *A world too goods[ gA.\ said Jacobs. ba- to? \ Whar abe * Mygost credit has taken Whondred and do fa: mean P asked kitay serlod®ly. \** die | weary dailars out of my, pockes,\ feplied Ja- dellare, and we can do without it. It fun't «cany thing to eat, or to drink, of wenr. do enyihing with It, and you abwnys lay it 1 It may as well be lefi | out as not. and I'll stop my subscription. right away.' Oh,! said ho wife, 'you don't know how much 1 set by the newapaper-1 always have a sort of good {eeling when | mee you. take it out ofyour hat and lay it on the kitchen man- | telpiece. jost as 1 do when some of the chil- dren come home. An@ when I'm tired\ ci down with my knining worksand read. (1 can {knit just as last when I am reading.) and feel so contehted. I don's beftere Queen Vicio: ria herself takes mote solid comfort 'than 1 do. sitting by that east window 61 t summer of- igmoon, reading my-Gewspaper:' . 4. ; a answered her husband, forthe mani of ray | ding wher to aay. _ a mo ou -*] never neglitet anyihing efée for toy read- jog, Cr 17 asked Mre. Héati, \- Ro, 4 don's kpow as yurt *moswered her osband ; bor it seema to.ma) anexira like; gdab‘iiép» Ra added, ta a food that shop- ed plainly enough be wished jo stop the caa- mtfim 5 1 6 eins Q,«P“\ . _ *Labell take the paper.\ temirked tis wile, \I bara to go. core fors. A| | Thimmagoatapoken engrily. betic | p47 . ”Mg fouling F dni ne he'past y lor nligy fife For The were clmngcxf. undafimosl neigd haree a? L quigh iy thoughuglshec. gullflgigfigfigbfgfirqfllg’ J’SI-Y'hflf’é left The letter époke of hardship and + | I 'He will surely come back, murmured the | However, with a cola);1 endableqwish to re- move the unhappizgss yqu‘ggdggg}, heeog gested that 'as the papers,.weng carefolly saved. and as she had, found them ioterestifig, she could, fetid them all over ggain, begin- ving at January, god laking pBe p week clear through the year-they would come.out e- ven,\ be concluded, as it werg.s single fact that they should do #9. * Nothwithetsading this admirable propost- tion he still felt. some uridasifiese. 11 follow- ed him-as he walked up the pleasant lage to the pasture, and it made him speak more sharply than.was his. wont, if-the cows stop- the grass where. it Jooked. the. greenest and weetest on- the preoubled-him ~ heacdwhippwifo--ifll. hin.tp agpper in chegiful did notcare mu all, ' . hl . cop ® About a week after, this, sa 'Mr. Heath was mowmg one morning, he way- surprised to see hig wife cqming. out _.dressed ns if lor a figs}; 'L am agingfs‘uid she to spend. the day wnh-Mrsz-Brown— Pvedgli plenty for you to eat\ And so saying, she walked rapidly on. Mr. Heath thpugh bood \it just fiig.e- nough to say to hisbsell, 'She don't go visitin' to stay all day. ouce a year hardly, and-4i's strange she should go is; ng.ume.' Very long the .day .ggemed to him ; to go in for loncheon, dinner apd supper, und have mobody' to speak tog to.find everything, so stull, 'The old clock tighgd stiller than usual he thought ; the brood of prey white chick- evesghat were nlwayst peering pround the \door. had wapdired off somewhere. ard left Tig ome x. bpt to Pos, him cut so when hé was doing imy figuring. 'I'm glad; he said io himself, us he began fo the road at sypset. \that Milli- cent doh't go.g, visitiol o}}ithe tigne, qe some ! woinen do-there, she is just coming? 'How tired you look,. said she came up. 'why didy!t you spesk «abgut it, nud. 1'd have bargeased up and cnme after you?' .a, *I'm.not very lired,' sheanswered ; but her lopke hejiefzerg indeed, her busband de clared sheJook tired like for a day or two af- ter. - \ What was the amazement to see her go a- way the next Taesday in the same manner we before, without saying och about it be- fore ghe stafted. ff, 'To his great diesatiefaction, <everythingy seemed that day to«pnrigkero! his wile's new propensity for going awny from home» 'A mnauglogit want cold feed in hay-time.' grombled he; is he sat down nlone to dinuer. Jn the sume grumbling madd he recounted the mishaps of the moring, which seemed to luve been mach niter the manner eet forth in a certain legend of old time, for he ambel- lished his recital y allusion to **The.sheep's in the meadow, Thecpw‘l in the corn,\ \ adding that meg wouldn't have been thare if Mre. Heath bad been nt boa, becnuse she'd lve geen 'em belore they got in and holler: ed. She would have the oxen to before they | got neroge the river. ond saved him the iroub- lo of geting them hack. ull these untoward events to her nbeence he said Iinacil consotingly, won't go any more ; she was a home body.\ Mrs. Heath did go againthough, and agnin; , to huabnod took counsel with himeell no to what he should do 10 slop this gadding,' Seated on the door step, in the shade of the ways and measures, talking nlood all the ume. and having the sauefaction of nobody to dispute him ped while he was driving them home, to crop i. one, 1hht, he concluded she [- I newepaper.alter |. “£11:qu But nfer xrm-kmg' 'I guess she , and the day she went lor thefourth ime. her ' old treea he epent an hour or two devising | none tfpntergficct s ESn fojshing hbr ehe eaid cect t t ages * 1 dont think did:ggite lightggj'gé‘l 'I don't think 1. gldy t Thoabadd, <~ ~* . And so the spark w migh have figfigfib‘wuco hir Ing alf domméigtic®poneb [ roof.\ He gdbscrlbeg’ or ether} reipor Tong d berth het wher i fiafiififl f lol Fear Mopirign fix Harti apprehension of fatoreeyif. ., Habitdiminigh- ¢x fear, when “(Buffing up Maggi} tions ; and Jncreases i1, wien it confiemit: fig first assopiations. A eolgier, whohas.qf {escaped, begins to, disppite mgzmoflmeggpfl dying and fighting s he gonogotapleq vith * fighting a sense ol. duty. find a Jovg of glory. Habit, I should think.swould incremafihemeur sation of fear in a prison. who had undetgone iwo br three painfol operktions, and was a- bout to another. > A man works in a gufgow- der-mill every. day I mos! sungl’fofiimhiéi you would not be mush pleased to enter for half an hour :syou bre 'masociared with the manufactory hotbing but i the.qcecidents x50 have heard i isexposed to; he Bus nesociated with ihe numberless«lays 'be has passed there in perfect security. For the gafne a stands ungon- nies oer a \depends bo me - ludg nuptém mifer : descends by. his rape. \The t dseociatione are altered by gx- perience; therefore, in estimating the degres in which homtan creatores are qndefilhe in- fAuence of this passion, we.must always re- member their previous habits. A wom@n conceives, early in life, suShdreedlhtnolinns ; of war;apd-aif the Instrggients, of war, that no degree of materizP tefldefixfigg, probably, € would influerice.her to Iake @ sword and pis- $635 ygifid‘ High; but in the time.of £1!)- lie piague. she would despise ber curse her sick husband or her childsengand expose: berself to death as bodly as any grenadfr. In the last attack upon Egypt wur soldiers bébaved with the most distin- guished courage;, bot a physican tid what, suppose. ng qofi\ £jq.thdz.whula army would hyve dared 5 heve dang,-he slept for thy 8, 'nights in the'shéets of a'prrignt who hag-gied\ <f thephigne. If thk. question had-beép 10 pnspbote: «olagectipuie * -004 dite go earth no mjacupr=were coucefned \he whs . a perfect héro.- Sidney Smith. \ 's . wss q* te The following anecdote, which ara find floating.in:the sea of journalism, strikes usaf conveying an important moral : Sriowixe to Oxe's Rieats.-Qld stories very often have a forcible epplication to pres» ent thnes. . The . following aneeduce we met with lately in un exchange paper : 'How is it Jobo. that you bring the wogon home in such a condition I' *I broke it driving over a stomp. ' Where P' * Buck in the woods. hnlfia mile or go.' * But why did yfifirun byainst the stomp 7\ Couldnt you see to drive sirnight P 'I did drive struight sir. and that is the very reason. why 1 drove aver it. The stomp | was nuggly inghbe middle oftye.cond:', .. . tw y Then did you mt go. round in?\ _ i' Berause sir. the stump had no gight in { the middle of the road, and 1 had in it? * 1 * True Jubn, ime stump ought vot to have 'been in the road. but | wondar that you were ; so fuglish us not to consider that it wasthero and that is was stronger than your wagon? * Why, father. do you stppose | am always yoing to yreld up my riglis ? Not1#l am | dgtermined to stick up to them comte what will? 'Bot what's 'he use John of standing up. td rights when you only get a greater wroug by so doing 7\ . *1 shall stand , up for Ne m at all hazards) * Well Johg, all | live 1o soy in this-here- alter you must furnish your own wagon.) Lae aon Carrter Progors. -We bear from France of astonishing reoulis obtained with carrier pigeons. hy the which in Belgum devoted themselves .to the prodaction of this bird in perfection. (\They nre imined so d# to iruverse the iholo of France from the 'end to thr other in lese than a dny ; Tetefily w number were sent to Pampelona I Spain is Life, with the q- - to be lefJoose and retorn by fight to Brus. sele On the 10th ult. the Pigeoh-raiging Society enlled the Visible of Brussels, let fiv Ii's hard to think of her gettin' to be n visitiu' woman,' egid he. 'and it's clear it an't right Keep her at home.' Iv'e read in the Bible. (otd Richard's Bible knowledge wae somewhat confused, and hrequotanons enried | don't falighily from the scripiural phrase 'Keepers at home, ) but i( tos ' he added, with the rue eciened of n sincere man. shat hus- bands mst eet great store by their wives and treat 'em welk ['ll harness op and go alter her to night, and comin' home Ell imik it over wih her and tellper how bard iiquakers me feel; and i\ that don': do Pll=-try Sxmething cise « In groordance with this praiseworthy ree: olution ho might have seen aboot sorset Hiffching at Mr. Brown'« door ; fot etrange'enoogh. Mre. Heath's visit had been danr, bestopped in amezement at eating his wife in the kitchen taking off a wastes wash- apron, atld potting down her eleeves, which been rolle¢ if-tos bing.*-B money frompBfre. Brow. won't it be so thai Loan do youf washing again' Ji has begin great favor to hive pou do it whied've been «> poorly, answered Mre Brown 'and \Pm glad 40 pdy forin This takes Bor times, and bere's toro doBifa -= Grldbisk Lshall be 83 pigenn« from Lyona at 5° A M. Prizes L want scold Millicent ; | istered and heard her say as she wot some! ery, 14312. , | were given io the owners of the birds Evhich should guirkest reach Broesels. The firit prize was wan hy Vr J Vanhacled. whose phreos arrived 31. minutes: past 2 o'clock P M : she eeconil prize was | won by a pigeon which came at 39° mnoieg gast 2; the thid {at 20 minu'es before 3,\ (¥#e dniante Trim Lyone to Brassel# byfihl toad 4» absor 650 miles, which the fire\ fiigeon flew in T$ bouts. ! Fe Orp Barmsioms Tare qufzggigTbe following stausties of bactiéififs mhasere for- nished by a married\ Indy 4*Bachetoracbeo- pecked by their hougekeapere. 31855 pester» ed by legiry hunting rebstives. 3,000 pude- made at the same plice. Going op (o tht. vaored by enomi and selfish cares, 2004 iryabled and tormented by cephars andi ces, 1 883 ; crabligd, grose-gramed apd, claie in ljelntdeclin®; 8.594; happy, 20 Orig one-log getin nscss K3 The lag; convict In the 4 | eseapepuer worn # Ewan“. He crawled into a cans Brg of his E: fesea' fit? tables 4 coup Epi at &
