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THE ALLIANCE -INDBPBNDBN T. The Ladybug. Ladybug, ladybuff, haste away heme! Your house is on fire, your children will burnt H Dear ladybug, I am so sorry for youl If your house is on fire, oh, what will you do? And your poor little children all burning! Dear me! It does seem as cruel as cruel can be. Oh, why don't you hurry, you slow little eT'? If I knew where you livedlvuld go there myself. The house might burn down while you're turn ing about; Tis because you're feeling so tadly, no doubt, That you can hardly stir. No wonder, poor dear; You must be half crazy such bad news to hear, Though I've told it to dozens, I think, beside? you I feel just like crying whenever I do. Now think of your babies! Run, ladybug run! I do hope some neighbors have saved every one From the terrible fire; and, ladybug, then You can build a new house and be happy again, In Devonshire. It is said that the dialect of Devon shire is so dear to persons born within sound of it that, whatever their after training, they drop into its familiar phrases when under the pressure of Strong excitement. Anecdotes couched in its rough and sometimes uncouth expressions have a charm all sheir own. A crlonel of the North Devon mili ti' was one day reviewing his regiment and seeing a hare jump out in the midst of the men, he shouted, wildly: "There he go'th, a lashing great shaver!" Then forgetting the exact point at which he had ceased giving the word of command, he turned about and asked: "Where wor I, drummer boy?" "Present arms, sir,'"' responded the youth, and the inspection went on. At another time a yeomanry regi ment was enacting a sham fight when a Capt. Prettyjohn was ordered to re treat before a charge of the enemy. "Ketrait! what doth that mane?" in quired the Captain. "Eetrait meanth finning away, I zim; then it shall never be told up to Dodbrook market that Capt. Pridgen and his brave men rinned away." Accordingly, as the enemy came on, bearing down upon him at a rapid trot, he shouted to his troop: "Charge, my bi-ave boys, charge! Us baint voxes and they baint hounds! Us'll face 'em like men!" The collision, as one might guess, was awful; men, horses and accoutre ments strewed the ground on every side, and several troopers were more or less injured. ' "Gentlemen," said one worthy noble man, who loved to use the Devonshire dialect, "I wish to propose a toast; and that there is this here, 'Fox-hunt- tog!'" Lady Kent-Collectors. Probably no city of the world has in its poor so much as London to be ashamed of, and in its dealings with them so much of which to boast. As the need has been very urgent, the re sponse in organized charity has been astonishingly great. London's model tenement-houses are models worth copying in every large due in no mean measure to the plan by which the rents are collected. Miss Octavia Hill in 18d4 began tho system by which women took the place of men as rent-collectors. Ladies in no need of remuneration offered their aid at ence. But Miss Hill saw the wisdom of putting the plan upon a purely business basis, and insisted that the collectors should receive a commis sion of five per cent. She took as her field the very lowest grade of tenement-houses. Besides the mere duties of collector, she undertook to better the condition of tenants. First inducing them to give np living in cellars, and removing other evils, she has gradually educated her tenants up to wanting the best possible quar ters. Through her agency many model tenements have been built. The build ers are always guaranteed a gcod per centage on their investments, and now it is said that a million and a quarter dollars' worth of property is under her management Many other ladies are engaged in the work, and though their achieve ments may not be told in large figures, it is very easy to see what good they can bring about. They must come into constant contact with the poorest classes, and full of the spirit of charity, must see countless ways to help the tenants' wives and children. The men, too, come to look upon the rent-collector, not as a heartless agent to be shunned and put off, but as a friend with ready sympathy and real power to aid. Modern charity follows more and more the good Samaritan example. American workers who copy from Eng land this form of it need never fear ridicule as Anglomaniacs. Wanted to Be Sure. A few weeks ago, writes a corres pondent of the Lewiston Journal, a local hack man was summoned to a clergyman's house to convey hij to .a meeting in another part of the city. On obeying the summons he found an other carriage in waiting, and an im patient driver walking up and down oeiore tho uuor. The minister came hurriedly down the steps and got into the second hack; and the driver pre pared to move oft. &"Ilere, you," called out the prome nading hnckman, "what are you taking the minister away for? There's a couple of you ng folks in there waiting to be married. Why don't he jine 'em before lie goes off? I don't want to wait here all night." The minister's hackman chii'ruped to his horses without deigning to notice the other man's remarks. He was gone an hour and returned with the clergy man, and lo, the same hackman was pacing up and down in front of the house. He was in anything but an amiable mood. "If I was running a buainess Pd 'tend to it," said he, as the minister was alighting. "Why don't he marry folks without makin' 'em wait all night?". "Ask him," said the clergyman's driver, and the hackman followed his advice. "Marry them!" exclaimed the clergy man. "Why, I did. I married them a long time ago. Don't they know they are married? I'll go in and see why they are wating." Soon afterward a blushing bride and a vexed-looking groom came out of the house, and as they were getting into the carriage he said to her; ,. "I told ye we was all fixed,", "Well, George," she replied sweetly, I wanted to be sure of it." She Saw the Ilattle of Waterloo. Mrs. Todd, one of the very few women who were present at the battle of Waterloo, is still living, in great poverty, at Spitalfields. Her father was killed in the battle, and her mother appears to have died of 9 broken heart. Subscribe for the AllianCE-Ikdbfen- L INCOLN D AILY iUN. 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