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A STORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION.
CHAPTER V. (CONTINUED.)
His addresB startled her, and a slight
flash of anger came that for an in
stant recalled the tiger glance of old,
while something In the lines of the
brow, in its partial effort to contract,
brought up a face he had hoped, and
even prayed, he might never see
again, either waking orsleeping; but
recovering herself quickly, while she
drew In the loosened rein, she looked
full in his eyes, and in tones befittiug
her type of face, with its brunette
tint, arched brows, Roman nose, short
upper and full under lip, even teeth,
and strong chin, replied, with a sad
dignity,
tlA prisoner of war..'"
Then turning, struck her steed,
which started off galloping down the
road.
An hour later her questioner, who
had not, meanwhile, even though
with inteuBe study, discovered In the
reply any solution to.the mystery of
either the one apparition or the other,
was leading the colt in the same di
rection, going in Bearoh of his "job"
and his destiny.
At the end of another hour of fruit
lees self-bewilderment, to the entire
neglect of the job, though perhaps in
the full pursuit of the destiny, he be
came aware he had forgotten his bus
iness, and stopped to observe where
he was. He was opposite a gate which
opened from the highway into a pri
vate road thatconduoted,by astraight
line across the bottom, to a house
about a mile distant that stood on a
slight swell of ground near to and
fronting on the river.
Contrary to usngo in that new coun
try, whose axe and rifle bearing set
tlers deemed their vocation" was, first
of all things, to fell trees and kill In
dians, and would as soon have
thought of raising broods of the lat
ter as new plantations of the former,
the avenue was bordered with large
buokeye-trees, equally the pride of
the Ohio wilderness and the gardens
of the Champs Ely sees. It was, be
sides made more attractive as well as
useful by a covering of gravel, and by
thorough Pitching at the sides.
The house, seen at the end of the
vista, was peculiar too, in being built
not of logs, or boards, or brick, but of
stone; and though devoid of archi
tectural ornament, except what re
sulted from the useful and comforta
ble additions of a piazza in the rear,
a two-story porch in the front, and
an open belvedere on the roof, was
hy virtue of its liberal proportions,
the material used in its construction,
and the outside aid of a commanding
Bite decked with old trees, shrubbery,
aud vines, besides a garden before it,
where in summer-time sunflowers
and hollyhocks grew a most respect
able and gentlomau-llke habitation,
as it was a credit to the mason who
built it, namely, the late Governor
Metcalf, of Kentucky.
When Bob appeared at the back
door and inquired of ayoung girl who
came to answer his knock if there
was any chance for him to get a job,
he took off his hat, aa he had done
that day eaoh iime he made alike ap
plication. Mrs. Gottel had taught
him that German triok of the hat ;
and though he had, while with her,
often rebelled against her Instruc
tions, yet as she had on parting es
pecially Urged him to do so, on the
ground that It would help him to ob
tain employment with the right kind
of people, he had, for the occasion,
consented to practice it.
A3 he stood, hat in band, decently
clad, and with as good a hearing as
any other gentleman, thero was cer
tainly no objection to be made on the
score of personal appearance.
The young lady, pretty as he was,
and that is saying a good deal, did
not scruple to look at him closely;
then saying, "I'll see," disappeared.
A man of forty-flve years returned
with her presently, who soanned ths
applicant even more closely ; after
which he said :
"So you want a job. my lad. What
wages do you expect?"
I want what you think I can earn
after I have worked with you a while.
But can you board my colt?"'
"Oh yes; but I shall have to charge
vou something. You can't raise a
horse for nothing, I suppose" you
know, In these times. Let us have a
look at him.'
Then walking around the objeot of
sorutiny, with whose points he seem
ed pleased, he asked,
"WThat breed is he?"
"He came of one of the mares that
John Morgan's men rode when they
made their raid."
"That isn't a bad pedigree. Those
fellowa were better mounted than
them that followed after 'em. Sup
pose you call him a Morgan horse ;
though he carries his head and bends
his neck mighty like a Stookbridge
i Chief, and he's the color of Stock-
bridge, too."
The farmer then turned his atten
tion again to Bob. and asked him sev
eral questions, which being satisfac
torily answered, he consented to take
him on trial, and, if his work suited,
to pay him, beside boarding and wash
ing and keeping tho colt, the sum of
ten dollars a month.
The young "Morgan'' was turned
into a rye pasture near the house,
where he soon testified his apprecia
tion of the new arrangement, by eat
ing voraciously and frisking extrava
gantly, while his master was Bhown
to a large garretToom in which were
beds for six persons, and, havlog de
posited his effects, was afterward ta
ken to the barn and, set to work at
ohopplng sheaf oats in a hay-outter.
Mr. Damarin, the owner of the
house, and of the farm (measuring
just one mile square) to which it per
tained, derived his name; and a por
tion of his blood from one of the un
happy French emigrants whose for
tunes were wreoked in the attempt to
establish a settlement on the Ohio
near Galllpolis an attempt which
failed, owing to a deficiency, com
mon to all their nation, of what may
be called the emigrant faculty, or the
faculty of being able to endure a pain
ful existence for the sole benefit and
advantage of posterity. The father
of Bob's employer, who left France
when he was but a boy, and who drift
ed down stream with what little he
oould save from the wreck, till he tied
his boat opposite where the stone
house was afterwards built, had found
it possible to become a baokwoods
man, and after a life of hardship was
able to leave to the only child that re
mained to him the very pretty farm
of "Stone HouBe." The son, although
blessed with five children to provide
for, had found it easier to settle each
one of the three eldest on as large and
rich a farm as his own, by purchas
ing land for them In the further West
and sending them out to be their own
pioneers, than his father had to pro
vide for but one.
The youugest boy, for whom the
home farm was reserved, had, of
course, entered the army when the
war began, and had steadily risen
from the grade of lieutenant to that
of colonel, with a brevet of brigadier
general. His regiment would soon
bo mustered out of service, and his
return to his home was the great
event of the Immediate future of the
Damarin family.
Mrs. Damarin and her daughter
Polly (the girl who met Bob at the
door) had every day, since news of the
mustering out came, enjoyed n good
cry and a good laugh over the happi
ness that was coming, without either
of them being able to tell which they
enjoyed most, tho laugh or the ory.
Mrs. Damarin was a Kentucky wo
man, from Mason county. She was
handsome, and had always been
handsome; was healthy, and had al
ways been so; was cheerful and viva
clous, because healthy, handsome,
and good ; was an excellent wife,
mother, and housekeeper. She tho't
she believed in Old-School Presbyte
rlanism. and was sure she did in the
very theological Breckinridge of her
native State.Her height was five
feot ten inches, and her weight one
hundred and eighty pounds. There
were many such In Kentucky, and if
there were more like her in other
States, well would it be for America.
Polly bade fair to become as hand
some a woman as her mother, and as
large, though unlike her In many re
spects. The girl's hair was auburn
red, and her! eyes of a warm brown
color that suited her hair. She was at
the brother-worshiping age of fifteen ;
and now that her Idol was'about to be
restored to -her, her happiness knew
no alloy, save from the persistent re
fusal of her sole school-mate, compan
ion and friend, Bella Johnston, to be
happy too.
CHAPTER VI.
"What though her angry glances dart.
She's hawk in eye but dove in heart."
The eyes the poor boy had beheld
that day had been too much for him
and too many, and an, excellent
cure for his dazement and amazement
was the discipline of grinding for an
hour at the crank of the hay-cutter.
The monotony of the motion soothed
his senses, and the labor of it opened
his pores and quieted his nerves,
while the sharp lookout constantly
needed to save his fingers from being
chopped in pieces withdrew his
thoughts from wool-gathering, and
fixed them on the practical business
of the hour, which was chopping
oats.
When the horn sounded for supper
he followed the other farm people to
the washing place by the cistern, on
the baok piazza, and there, taking his
turn, washed, combed, and dusted ;
then'entered with the rest the large
kitchen, where a long table was pro
fusely spread.
At the upper end of the board the
family of the employer were placing
themselves, while the employed took
their seats at the foot, all as in feudal
times, only the fare was such as feu
dal oastles could seldom dispense : for
was not this in the lap of the Ohio,
and was not a Kentucky matron pres
ident of the household ?
Without taking his eye3 off his
plate, Robert accepted and ate all that
was offered him by those sitting near,
and rose at the end with a donscious
ness that his new start In life was
being made under most favorable au
spices. Following his companions
out of the house, ho strolled with
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them to their habitual place of resort
for rest and gossip during hours of
leisure. It was on the bank of the
river, without the gate of a flower
garden that was in front of the house.
A bench had been made by turning
upside down an old dug-out canoe,
on which those found seats who did
not prefer to He on the clean grass or
lounge against the trunks and roots
of the great old apple trees that shad
ed the place.
These trees were the only survivors
of a flourishing orchard that formerly
stood at the back of the log cabin
built some sixty years before by the
first proprietor ; all their fellows, fol
lowing the fate of both the cabin and
a frame house that succeeded It before
the Stone House was built, bad one
by one been undermined by the con
tinually widening river, and swept
away on Its swift current.
The ruins of the brick chimney of
the frame building still .lay on the
shore, fifty paces out from the foot of
the steep clay bluff that formed the
river's bank, which rose to a height
of thirty feet above its gravelly base,
that made the shore, and sixty feet
above the level of "low water."
Before bed time the new comer had
made good progress In getting ac
quainted with his future comrades.
Early next morning Mr. Damarin
gave Robert, as he preferred to oall
Bob, his orders for the day, and ex
plained the routine of work specially
allotted to him. Among other things
he was to rub down, saddle, and
bring to the door soon after breakfast
every day two of the horses for the
use of "the girls," who, it seemed,
daily rode over to the parsonage,
about four miles distant, where they
received private instruction from the
excellent and also reverned Mr. Ad
amsfall, a Union refugee from the
valley of the Holston, and the officia
ting olorgyraan of the church where
the Damarin family attended. One
of the girls was Polly Damarin, and
the other Bella Johnston. Prompt to
the hour, Robert led the steeds to tho
horse-block, and having tied one of
them near by, held the other beside
the block.
Presently the girls appeared. Pol
ly, coming first, greeted the timed
fellow with one smile for recognition,
aud three for his awkwardness. Af
ter she was, by his truly awkward
help, mounted, he led up the other
horse for the other girl, resolving as
he did so to commit none of the blun
ders he did in his first attempt, but
mnklng as many others in their stead.
"There, that'll do, thank you. I've
got It now. Let go, please.' exclaim
ed a "voice he hail heard before.
The steed flung his head free from
the hand that still clutched the bridle
at the bit, without power to obey the
request to let go, and cantered away
with the girl of the portrait the
prisouer of war.!
During that forenoon Robert re
solved a score of times to run away,
each time in a different direction, and
as often altered his mind. Hi3 uncer
tainty arose from more inability to
fathom his own emotions, and under
stand why heshould wish to go.
Being, of course, destitute of any
notion of the romantic, though his
heart cried out "Run," his head could
perceive no reason why it should
transmit the command to his heelB ;
so he staid. But he suffered horribly,
aud when at leugth the two young
horsewomen on their return came In
sight, racing with each other down
the avenue, ho went out to meet them
with the feelings of one who advanc
es perforoe to receive a third visit
from a ghost.
But the girls had oome home In
gleesomo mood, and under cover of
their merry nonsense he was able to
attend to his duty. And the daily
recurrence of that duty, which he
learned to perform better and better
each time, because before many days
the chief pleasure of his existence,
and, more than that, the efficient
means of his elevation and advance
ment. The girls soon began to take
notice of thelrhuinblo attendant, and
in time learned to like him. Con
versing occasionally with him, they
began to feel an interest in knowing
his history, and put him questions on
that point, which he evading to an
swer, they became even more inter
ested in his mystery.
They gave him advice, which it Is
to be hoped was well considered on
their part, for, were it good or bad,
he was sure to follow it. Thus he be
oame a regular attendant at ohurch,
and when one day they detected him
with a quid of tobacco in one cheek,
before Bella had half done storming
at him the weed was discarded, and
forever.
They discovered one day he was ab
solutely unable to read, and thence
forth his instruction in reading, writ
ing, and ciphering became their dally
business and his very great pleasure ;
and as he had uncommon aptitude,
there Is nothing wonderful in the fact
that, with such helping, he learned
what was essential in all three studies
before the end of a twelvemonth.
But twelve months is a good way
ahead of our story. Bella had called
herself a prisoner of war. The rea
son why she Insisted on giving her
self that singular designation will be
found iu the following extract from a
letter written by Colonel (then Cap
tain) Damarin, dated from Northern
Alabama In the spring of i862, and
addressed to his parents :
"....We have overrun a good deal
more ground than we are able to hold,
and must soon prepare to get out of
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1875.
this; indeed, we are doing so now. I
have found myself a good deal em
l, 'arrassed by a charge which Provi
de nee see' fas to have cast upon me in
a al.agular manner. Two weeks ago,
wh'k'J employed on detached service-
with tiree companies of ourregiment
under i.y command, we came upon
some of 'urchin's men just as they
were abou- to sack a seminary for
young ladk's, situated about thirty
miles from h& re, the inmates of which
we were able to save from frightful
treatment. Among the scholars was
a girl from Soui'h Carolina thirteen
years old. Soon a ter we expelled tne
ruffians, and while"
a squad of our
men were guarding" the place, my
command was attacked by the rebels,
and though we manaft ed to drive
them off no thanks to Turchen's
fellows, who ran at the fiYst fire it
some way happened in the confusion
of the fight that this poor 0L$ld re
ceived a disabling wound, thouah not
a very severe one, and got separated
from her companions, who escaped .to
the protection of the attacking force,
while she remained In our bands.
And as we were compelled, a few days
afterward, :o abandon our position
and fall back to the river at this point,
she bad to be brought along, and was
placed with our wounded on board a
transport steamer used as a hospital.
To-day ft 13 determined to send this
transport home with a load of the
more serious sufferers, and as the
country about here is in a dreadful
condition, overrun by stragglers from
both armies and by gangs of disorder
ly negroes, and as there is much con
fusion and uncertainty In all our
movements just now, I see no better
way than to leave her on board, and
let her go with the rest to Cinoinnati,
In the hope that ray dear father will
be so good as to meet her there, and
see that she is kindly treated and put
in a safe way to be returned to her
home, which is somewhere on the
Wacoamatv River. The surgeon in
charge has promised she shall remain
on board the bout until father can get
this letter and go down-to receive her.
"She is a beautiful aud intelligent
little creature, but full of the strang
est notions, and a good deal of a spit
fire. "One of my men Insists that she
was In the act of firing a pistol at our
party from the ranks of tho assailing
force when she received her wound ;
but I can hardly believe it. However
this may be, she hates and scorns us
as only a she-rebel enn, and, in fact, is
more violent than any I ever met.
Would yon believe it? she has taken
up the idea that we captured her in
battle, and that she is actually a pris
oner of war! Nothing I could say
had the least effect In dispelling the
notion, or abating her extreme rancor,
and she parts from us as her mortal
foes. But pleaso do not let this at all
prejudice you against the poor unfor
tunate child. For me, It is rather
amusing than otherwise.
"I can not write more. The stew
ard of the boat is John Grooms, a
Brush Creek boy, and ho will dispatch
this letter u3 soon as he gets to Cincin
nati. He will also hand you two
hundred dollars a portion of my pay
lately received, and which I beg you
will use, so far as may be necessary,
for the beueiit of tho 'prisoner."
On receiving the above letter both
Mr. and Mrs, Damarin went at once
to Cincinnati, and brought back to
the Stone House with them the
wounded aud disabled but uncompro
misingly rebellious Miss Bella John
ston. The kindness with which they
nursed her might have mollified one
who had been less thoroughly ground
ed in the gospel of State rights, nulli
fication, and secession ; but no freshly
caught tiger's cub ever proved more
untamable than she. Though evi
dently an affectionate child, thoughts
of parents and home, so naturally
present to one In hersituation, seemed
really to give precedents to thoughts
of the war, of the part her native
State had iu it, and of that State's
grandeur and chivalry, its sovereign
ty and nationality. All this, which
seemed so ridiculous to her protectors,
who had only that weak sentiment o'f
sectionalism which prevailed in the
Northern Border States, wa3 the re
sult of efficient causes of teachings
whose character and objeot all the
world now understands, acting upon
a peculiarly ardent and self-devoting
nature. It was nothing less than the
much glorified national or provincial
egotism called patriotism, pure and
exalted ; patriotism, hot and furious ;
patriotism, blind and gone astray ;
but still patriotism of the very same
quality which moved Joan of Arc and
Charlotte Corday to do unlady-like
things, and make themselves conspic
uous and Charlotte and Joan were
much older girls than Bella.
She soon recovered of the wound,
and when she beoame fully aware
they were laughing at her in earnest,
learned to hide her feelings, and cov
ered up tho fire of her wrath under
the ashes of her dessolation, where
they smouldered in secret, with only
an occasional gleam or flash, which
would sometimes burst out when the
family conversed in her presence, as
they freely did, concerning the war
and the tidings of its progress. But it
almost killed her to sustain the pres
sure of the moral atmosphere in which
she was, that bore down upon her
breast and brain as with the weight
of innumerable pounds to every
square inch of their surfaces. And
the result was an anomulous mental
and moral condition, whioh ended In
produoing a oharaoter needing to be
judged with charity in order to be
judged justly.
One of Bella's faults and the hard
est of all to forgive was her not feel
ing, or at least not manifesting any
sense of, her dependent condition.
She had not scrupled on her first
coming, and repeatedly afterward, to
declare she oould consider them only
as enemies of her country, whom it
was her highest duty to hate. Nev
ertheless, while earnestly trying to
perform this patriotic duty, she could
not help finding out before she had
been with them long the goodness of
her two elder foes, and.tbe lovableness
of the younger one, who insisted on
loving and making love to her wheth
er she would or not; and in the end
became truly attached to all three,
though perhaps without kuowing it;
and with the exception of ocoasTonal
scenes of unpleasantness, her deport
ment was that of an adopted daughter.
For Captain Damarin, however her
captor, as she deemed him she was
better able to retain her cherished ill-
will, since he remained constantly in
t.he field, and down to the close of the
war did not ouce return home.
A gjeat grief was added to Bella's
cup after her arrival at Stone House.
Mr. Danmrln made faithful efforts to
communicave with her family, iu or
der that he might restore her to them.
Nothing was elicited until after more
than a year, when a letter was receiv
ed from the overseer of the plantation
of Mr. Johnston. It stated that the
gentleman in question had three
mouths before undertaken to run
through the blockade in a schooner
ladeu with his crop of rice; that he
was supposed to have escaped. capture
but had not since been heard from ;
that anxiety on his account, and grief
for the supposed death of her daugh
ter, had caused Mrs. Johnston to fall
Hi and die; that no near relations of
the family remained in the neighbor
hood ; that the two brothers of Bellu
were officers under John Morgan
when he made his raid, and were
thought to have been killed or to
have escaped across tho Ohio River
during the fightatBluffington Island,
as their names were not on the list of
those oaptured.
After this letter was received there
seemed nothing further to be done,
since, If Mr. Johnston or either one
of his sons were living, and should re
turn to Waccamaw, he would be sure
to learn news of Bella, aud make
proper exertion to recover her. In
expectation of hearing from some of
them, the remaining months and
years had gone by, leaving a strong
presumption in the minds of Mr.
Damarin and hi3 family,- though not
in Bella's, that all were dead. And
now the war had ended, though she
was urgent to be sent forthwith to
her home, and was at the sarme time
In daily hopes of seeing some one
from there come and claim her, Mr.
Damarin was in doubt what steps to
pursue, and waited, and urged the im
petuous girl to wait until his son
could return aud give his counsel. In
this last he had no little trouble, since
the strongest reason for delay, name
ly, the presumption that all her fam
ily were dead, could not be told her;
and she was at times more difficult to
manago than ever before.
And thus matters stood at the time
when Robert Hagan obtained employ
ment at Stone House.
TO BE CONTINUED .
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Tree Culture.
Under the act of Congress offerlug
1G0 aores of prairie land in the West
ern States to any person who will
plant 40 acres of the land with trees
and oultivato them for eight years,
about 1,100 persons had taken up 17G,
000 acres of land in Minuesota, up to
January. By the effort of the State
and associated Individuals, it is esti
mated that 20,000,000 trees are now
being grown in Minnesota, besides
those planted under the congressional
grant. A report on the subject says
that the cost of planting and of culti
vation ismarvelously small, In many
cases not exceeding two to three cents
a tree. The patents for the pubile
lands offered bv Concress are not Is
sued until the end of eight years of
continued cultivation of trees.
How to cure CHILLS. A. lady
writer gives what she believes to be a
sure cure for chills. She takes about
a pint of new milk and stirs into it a
tablespoouful of ground ginger, and
then heats the milk as hot as it will
do to drink without burning the pa
tient. This is given to the patient as
soon as he feels the symptoms of the
chill coming on, and he goes to bed
and covers up warmly, and the milk
aud the ginger throws the patient in
to a perspiration, which breaks the
chill. After this a pill of blue mass,
or some medicine that will operate on
the liver, is given and the patient Is
Cured.
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A foreign journal points out a mis
take which very frequently Is made iu
removing grease spots with benzine or
spirits of turpentine the solvent Is
applied with a sponge or a piece of
rag. Thi3 tends inevitable to spread
the grease. The stained portions
of the garment should be laid flat
between two pieces of soft blotting
paper, and the upper sheet well soak
ed with benzine. In this way, If suf
ficient time be given, the whole of
the fatty matter becomes not only
dissolved, but absorbed by the paper.
VOL. 20 -NO.
WHAT THE ASIXA1S THOUGHT.
i Story for Little Girls.
Little Bessie Is a bright-eyed littlo
girl, about six years old. She lives in
one of our largest cltle3 In the winter,
but in the summer time she goes to
the country, where she ruus wild over
the fields, plucking the dasies and the
butter-cups and making garlands of
clover and the wild flowerd. In the
winter time she likes to walk out with
her papa In the beautiful streets of the
great city, and see the shop windows
filled with pretty Paris dolls and won
derful toys. Altogether, she is a very
happy little girl.
Bessie has a little frleud named
Stella, a few years older than herself,
with whom, she spends many a happy
hour. One day she invited Stella to
spend a week with her in her country
home. What a pleasaut time they
had at the old farm, watching the
meu make the hay, the women In the
dairy making butter and cheese; and
visiting the different animals in the
pasture and barn-yard. There were
all kinds of animals on the farm, as
you will presently hear.
One bright afternoon in tho autumn,
these two girls Btarted" off together all
alone, to visit another little friend,
Julie, at a neighbor's house. They
were neatly dressed, and hand In
baud went off as happy a3 two kit
tens. They had got part of the way down
the road, when it was so dusty they
thought it would be better to go over
the green fields by a shorter cut. So
they climbed through the bars of a
fenoe very carefully, and were de
lighted to find themselves in the
greeu fields.
After they had walked for a little
while in tho meadows, they saw a
funny sight. All the animals of the
farm were running toward them, and
soon overtook them. The little girls
were quite freighteued at this, and
started to run as fast as they could ;
but It was no use, for tho animals ran
a great deal faster than they could.
So, tired of running they sat down
on the grass to see what would hap
pen. "Don't let's be afraid" said Bessie.
"Tdon't believe they mean to hurt us,
for they are all good animals.'
Such a noise as they all made, talk
ing In their funny way. "Quack!
Quack!" said the duck, "Mo-ow,"
said the cow, "Ba-ah" said the sheep,
"Cock-a-doodle-doo," said the rooster,
all talking at once.
"Oh dear," said Stella, '-what do
they all mean, I wonder!"
"I don't know," said Bessie; "I
never heard such a noise before!"'
Presently a white dove flew over
the barn "Coo-oo," said he; and
then a peacock strutted along, and
gave a loud Bcreacn.
"Oh," &ald Stella, "how funny!
Why, I heard some ouo talkiug, and
suoh a funny voice, too ; and the two
little girls were very still, and then
they understood what the animals
said.
"Ba-ah," said the sheep; "mighty
fine indeed thoao girls are, dressed up
iu a sacqUe made of my wool, aud
stockings on; and flannels, all from
my warmcoat, which was cutoff last
year."
"Mo-ow," said thocow, "and those
shoes were made out of my calf that
was killed last year."
"Bow-wow," said the dog, "and
those shoe-strings were mado out of
my brother's hide."
"Pis-h-sh," said thepeacook, "Stel
la's got ouo of my'-feathers in her
hat."
"Hiss-i-ss," replied the old white
goose, "thatsacque Is trimmed with
my feathers."
"Nelgh-gh," cried the old horse,
switching his tail around "what
would they do if they hadn't an old
horse's bones to make those fine but
tons from."
"Coo-oo-o," chimed In tho dove,
"that little girl has got the white
wing of my poor sister In her hat."
Both the children burst out laugh
ing when they heard that, for by this
time they saw the animals' did not in
tend to harm them, and they enjoyed
thajoke very much.
"Ho! ho!" said a little gray squirrel,
"the little monkeys laugh at us do
tbey," and he curled his busby tail
over his back, "what would they do,
indeed, if thoy had not a squirrel's fur
to Hue their oloaks with?'
"Go back to your hole,' said an old
goat, very Indignantly, "they havn't
got on any fur cloaks in summer time;
but if they hadn't killed my .poor kid
they would have no nice gloves to
wear!"
"They are all robbers," said the
rooster, as he strutted about ; "if they
had anything on thetri belonging to
my family, I would take it away from
them!"
"They are robbers," said an old hen,
with a cluck! muck! "Each one of
you take what belongs to you, my
friends."
"You're right," said the sheep, and
all tho animals chimed in "Yes.
you're right I"
"Bow-wow! Cluck-cluck I Ba-ah!
Mo-ow ! Pl3h ! Cock-a-doodle-doo-doo!"
and amid all the noise the ani
mals surrounded the girls.
The dove pluoked out the white
feather from Bessie's hat, the peacock
took back her feather, the old sheep
bit off the stockings and woolen
sacques, the dog untied the shoe
strings, the cow took the shoes in her
mouth, the horse pulled off all the
bone buttons. Such a pligh they were
In!
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"Well!" said Stella, "I have got
my straw hat on ; that didn't coma
from any animal.'
"Yes," said Bessie, "I have my gold
ring on, too.
Then the animals all laughed In
their funny way, aud the old sheep
sam, -jsa-aui iuuo girls; now run
home and tell your mothers that they
can't dress you up fine without tho'
aid of all the poor aninals; and when
ever you meet any of us, always be'
polite, aud say, Good friend, I am In
debted to yon for something, and I
will never let anyone harm you.
With that the animals all laid dowri
tho things they had taken off, aud
ran away together. The little girls
laughed at the fun, and soon dressed
themselves, and ran off to pay the'
visit they had started to make."
The Consolidated Virginia Mine
will yield between $1,700,000 and 1,
800,000 in gold the present month, of
which it will distribute lo'tho stock-.'
holdgrs the usual monthly dividend
of $1,0S0,000'. There would be no dif
ficulty in increasing the product id
$2,000,000 monthly, but It Is deemed
prudent to work tho mine to tho ca
pacity of ten dollars per share month
ly, In order that this magnificent re-
turn to the share-holders may colP
tlnue for years to come. Tho people
of Nevada have become so acoustom
ed to immense yields In the mines of
the Comstock the dividend In the
aggregate almost equaling tho entire
market value of the mine from which
they are disbursed in one or or two'
years that even the glgantlo achlev
ments of the Consolidated Virginia'
excites in them but littlo wonder.
Nevertheless, the monthly yield of
the mine is the most wonderful of all
tho world's history of gold and silver
mining. When it Is considered1 that a
single mlue is produoing bullion at
the rate of about $20,000,000,. ye'arly,
and dlvidiug among Its stockholders
nearly $13,000,000 per annum, the'
wealth and magnitude of the deposit
may be better realized. When it is
remembered that a single mine is
turning out gold and silver at the rats
of $60,000 daily, tho mind becomes aJ
most bewildered in contemplating the
possible productof the Comafock' when
a dozen other mines shall be added to
the list of dividend paying companies.-
Jfebraska's Big Corn.
Lincoln. (Neb.) correspondence of
the Chicago Times: "The farmers of
Nebraska are preparing to pull their
ooats,to gather the heaviest corn crop
ever raised in the State. The best of
It stands from 10 to 15 feet high, and
the ears from twelve to eighteen inch
es in length. The yield will bo all
the way from 40 to 80 bushels per acre.
A story, amply vouched for, camo to
me last week, that a farmer Iu John
sou county had gathered 108 bushels
and 40 pounds from on'6 acre of bot
tom laud. The ground was accurate
ly measured and the corn was accur
ately weighed by a committee of geu-
tlemen appointed for that purpose.
The measurement was made in a con
test for a prize offered by an agricult
ural implement firm in Tecumseb,
for the best acro!of com."
Department Expenses
SThe Warrant Division of tho Treas
ury Department has been ordered by
Secretary Bristow to prepare, for the
Ceutennial Exposition, a statement
showing the expenses of each depart
ment of the government since its or
ganization. This will involve great
labor, and will not be completed un
til some timo in June next. The
showing for the Navy Department is
the only one completed. From this
it appears that the department has
cost the gbvernment since its org an i
zation $1,000,000,000.
Domestic Economy. "Jane has
got a very nicely turned ankle, hain't
she?" said John to his wife the other
day. And then John noticed a very
strange, unearthly gleam In the eye
of his spouse, which made him feel
very uncomfortable he knew no's
why.
But the next day the place which
Jane had filled in the domestic econo
my of the household was occupied by
a middle-aged woman, with ankles
like those of a Mullingar heifer.
To insure health for Children
Give them plenty of milk; plenty
of flannel; plenty of air; and let
them have plenty of sleep; and they
will seldom If overall anything. That
is, milk is the best diet; tbey must be
warmly clad ; must be much out
doors ; and must be always allowed to
sleep until they awaken of their owii
accord. Indian Pudding:. Boil a quart of
milk and stir in four tablespoonfuls of
Indian meal and four of grated bread
or crackers, three tablespoonfuls of
sugar, four eggs, a piece of butter as
largo as a walnut, and a little salt.
Bake It three hours.
One more Michigan editor happy!
The Lowell Journal says : "A Fori
Wayne man sends us five cents for a
sample copy of the Journal. It'd
enongh to make adversity getright up"
and howl, to see old prosperity ouddlo
up close to us."
eb Crummet says man' must be
lieve himself what he Is not, as no
man is pleaded with what he is.-
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