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And as the knowledge came to him through observing the daily inter course between Damarin and Bella, it brought no pleasaiitsentation. He had early habituated himself to con sider her coo exalted almost for his thoughts to reach. The conversations between her and her friend in the days when he was their bridle-boy had too fully apprised him how high she placed herself above the generali ty of her fellow-creatures for him to deem himself a fellow fit for a crea ture such iu she. And however she hail modified her notions since then, he was accustomed to regard his sen timents, toward her only as a sort of adoration for a divinity. Yet lowly as he placed himself on the steps of her throne, it was hard to see her ap proached as an equal by one whose devotions were not worship very hard. Robert became melancholy. He withdrew very much within himself He retired oftener to his room, and from the saddle-bags took the photo graph and consulted itt as if for con solation. The eyes were always kind, looking out at him with even more than kindness, but never with love. About that time, the natural revul sion from wickednetjs of all kinds, engendered by a long war, having produced a general awakening on the subject of religion through the coun try, the Rev. Mr. Adumsfall, the Presbyterian minister who has been named, feltit to be his duty to preach up a revival in his church. He wasa mild and amiable man. and though holding severely to the Breckinridge theology, was loath to resort to the extreme measure of expounding it in its fullness save in extreme cases. But dancing and card-playing and gayety. in other forms were becoming so alarmingly prevnlent,-ysnmethitig must be done. BesideBSoJher.congre gations were enjoyingjrrevIvals.-Hand the members of his didnot wish to be out-done. , aga&fep Robert was in a fitfr'tateu to be biought under those influences which prevail in a season of religious excite ment. Little was needed to niHture the d"poudency he ulready felt into that condition of ripe despair whose dark shadow ex ends iuto eternity, entitling the despairing soul to a place on the anxious seat, and whose react ion properly directed becomes the re ligious ecstasy. He was accordingly one of the ver firt to be influenced. Mr. ami Airs. Damarin were already in the church. Their son and Bella, though frequently attending on thf preaching, did notseem to be touched by it. Probably they were neither gay enough nor sad enough to be ef fected as they should. But Polly was wheat ripe for the sickle, and with hanging head and weeping eyes made her way timidly to the fronton the very evening when Robert arose and told his "experience." Promoted af ter tiiis to be an assistant in the good work, it became his duty to question Polly all about her sins, their number and weight, promise consolation to her, stand by and kneel by her, sing anil pray for her and with her. Ami an the attendance of the other mem bers of the family gradually slacken ed toward the close of the excitement, he and Polly alone together went faithfully every evening to enjoy their new ly gotten religion. Polly declar ed, with tears in her eyes, she had never known happinet-s before. She loved every step of the way to the church, and every inch of the way back ; and the distance was two and a half miles. Poor Polly! Pretty Polly ! His religion was a great consolation to Robert. It stret.gthened him too. Much as Polly loved her religion, she did not forget other people. She was ready at every opportunity to be out of the wa3 when her brother and Bella might be thereby left alone to gether. Bella did not like this, and reproved her for it, sometimes softly, butsometitnes pretty sharply ; though sometimes she did not appear to notice the slipping away at all, or forgot to reprove for it. Mr. and Mrs. Damar in did the same as their daughter. The truth is, they had al! set their hearts on the match. But old Hector had not set his upon it ; and old Hec tor was there, and could not be sent away. He was there in capacity of dragon. He was there and here and every where poping up from under the edge of the river-bank, or step ping nut from behind ti tree in the orchurd or road, or approaching the young people in the garden, to offer a flower or fruit, when neither fruit nor flower was wanted bolting into the dairy and propoi-ing to help his young mistress churn, in the absence of Polly, who usually took turns with her, or when unseen in some near covert, whistling or singing or clean; injj knives to make his neighborhood known. Pour Damarin! the task was suffi ciently difficult to make hie approach- GREAT REBELLION. es to Bella's heart, and, supposing that gained, to her hand, without be ing hindered by the inopportune ne sro. Twenty times he was near com ing to the interrogation point, but was as often baffled by the wayward ness of the woman he loved, or the iu-the-waywarduess of the black man he hated. At length the avowal came, and the proposal, and though clumsily enough-done a woman or a man not in love could have done ten times as well must be met. The3T were rid ing home from church together at the time, and had just turned into the av enue. Bella remained silent. "Did you hear me?" ho gasped, al most inaudibly. Bella was Pi lent. With an apple twig, carried for a whip, she brushed a portion of her horse's mane the wrong way, then brushed it back again to lite right side, then to the wrong side again. The cause seemed decided, and in favor of the suitor "Speak !" he cried, gaining courage and voice; "do speak, Bella! for God's sake tell me yes!" She slowly lifted her head, thathad bent over the mane as she combed it, and locked him full in the face with eyes full of unmistakable love, more of love than he had dreamed of before as dwelling in woman or angel. His accepted heart almost burst with joy. "No, no," he said, "do not speak a word. We know each other now, Bella. Thank you, and thank God !" And he put his arm about her waist and kissed her, which can be very well done on horseback, if the cava lier is adroit that is to say if he rides on the right side of his mistress and ?he is willing. After this Bella gently detached his arm, aud said, in a per fectly calm, though deep and strange voice, "But I must speak now, General Damarin." The voice was not Bella's, neither were the words she was about to speak. Utter them not! utter them not! It is folly perversity, and bitter pride, would use those beautiful lips, warm mm their first luch2Jve BeHa! Bella! close them firrnlyJuntil your spell of evil shall haypased oyer ! ' -V, ftaln, come wet me; sun come dry me ; uo way, wlille man, uon' como nigu me' chanted Hector from a brokpn hay stack be.ide the avenue, on the top of which he was pretending to be at work arranging a "cap" to shed a coming rain, no signs of which were visible, though. He was handling the pitchfork in aTrantio way, toeing the bay in every direction, while his eyes and lips stuck out, and his great no-trils dilated quite preternaturally. The moment after Bella, turning her head, caught sight of him, a mats of the hay, which he had flung perpen dicularly upward, descended on his head aud shoulders, covering them completely. Bella broke into a laugh jtiul whipped her horse till he gallop ed away from Damarin, who did not overtake her until the horse block was reached. There, as she continu ed to laugh, while he could not for his life command a smile, the advan tage remained with her, and she es caped into the house and got to her room without a further word Mrs. Dan arin and Polly, who were on the look-out, and had seen the way she alighted, aud her appearance as bhe passed swiftly by them and as cended the stairs, eagerly seized on the general and hurried him into the parlor that they might hear his re port and enjoy every word of it, for ihey felt sure he had succeeded. Nor did the story lie had to tell, and which he was forced to give in all its details as the only way to make them com prehend the exuet measure of his suc cess, alter their opinion. Polly was about to fly to the arms of her friend, to welcome her as a sister; but her mother restrained her, saying: "You had belter not go yet, my dear; she is not ready, perhaps, to talk with you on this subject. And, William, if you take mi' advice, you won't press the matter any more for a day or two, unless you observe the signs to be entirely favorable." Meanwhile Hector had knocked at the locked door of Bella's chamber, and knocked several times without its being opened. At last he called to her, and when she found it was he, was admitted. "Why. Hector, whatdoyou want?" she inquired, with a most severe dig nity. "Oh, missis Miss Bella!" he broke out, "it won't nebber do it won't nebber do in dis world." "What do you mean?" she asked. "My young missis mustn't marry no Yunkee ablishun officer. Tink ob de 'spectnbility ob our family. Tlnk wot ole missis say, s'posin' she was a libbiu. Tink wot ole mossa saw Tink wot Mass Ned, dat's gone dead tink wot him say ; and den Mass Charles, he shoot um. Miss Bella; don't do um. Oh, Gorra mighty, don't do u m !' By tlits time the extravagance of his words and manner, despite their earnestnes-, made her begin tosmile. "Why, my good old friend," she said, "if I understand what you are talk ing aboDt,' It Is something about which I have not needed your advice. There! you needn't say anything more on the subject. You may go now." "I isn.ta-gwine to go," he persist ed. "I mus' talk, an' I's gwiue to talk. Nobody cep'n Hector's here formin' hoonah, an' I no gwine for to let hoonah do no shish wrong ting. Dis yer family is berry good people. But isn't no fuss family. Dey's got land, hut dey never hab nary nigger, no time. Dey's workin people, dey is; dey isn't true an' true gentlemen and ladies likeyourown. Dey neb ber trabble wid coach-an'-fo' aud two footman an' six outrider, like your ole gran'fader b'longs to. Dey neb ber keep,no race boss. Dey no put uo trVe tousand dollar silber plate on de table, like ole missis bMongs to. Dey nebber fight no duel. Dey dun no who is dere gran'fader. Dey isn't 'spectable, miosis; dey's low people." ' Hector .'stop talking in that way !" cried'Bella in anger- "Don't let me hear you say another word against my friends. They are as good as I am yes, and as respectable as any body.' "Berry well, Miss Bella," he re joined, in a solemn manner, as if closing one chapter ami aboutopening another. "Now I tell hoonah dis one ting; an den I go. Dat night when Mass Ned was shoot, Mass Charles sen' me yer to dis house for to min' hoonah. An Mass Charles 'e say, Hector,' 'e say, 'dat ar dam Yankee ablishunist officer 'e uo 'count. Meb hy Miss Bella she. want for marry um some day, den you tell Miss Bella, case she marry um, I nebber speak to she no mo." Dem berry word e say. Now hoonah kin do wot hoonah like. OleHectordone talk." And shaking his head, ho walked solemnly aud sulkily out of the room. CHAPTER XVI. "Mount! mount ! and to the rood, my men, Right southward is the way; We 11 follow to their farthest den The robbers add their prey." Early the next morning Robert and Hector, each with a sack of corn on his shoulder, started on their way .across lots to the "out pasture," as a field remote from the house was call ed, to give the horses kept there their daily feed of grain. "Hector,"said Robert, as they went along, "you haven't told meyet what price I ought to ask for Major. If I sell him, now is as good a time as any; but I d n't know that I could bearwto part with' him, even if anybody woujd offer .me five hundred dollars.?!-, . ..y-e "Fibbhiindre.dj,dollar!"''exclHim3d .Hector, contemptuously. , " W.ell, list ready nnwi foe stalk. Dat boss he go in two-tirly-fibe tree time last week. Wit! a good weicle he kin go in two-tirty, dats for sure. Hoonah no kin sell um for any shish price as a jockey kin, wot know how for cheat properly. But if dat ar boss dunuo fotch tree ton-and dollar, dou' sell um, dat's all don' sell um." "Three thousand dollars! Hector, you don't say three thousand dol lars?" "Tree thousand dollar; does you yedily?" Robert let his sack of corn slip to the ground, and, feeling his knees grow weak, sat down upon it. "An', wot will hoonah buy wid de money ? asked the old man, enjoying the astonishment of the one whose good fortune he had just announced, and which he had in some sort him self created. Robert needed to think before ans wering. Ho thought of a tour in Eu rope. He thought of buying an inter est in a steamboat. He thought of studying for the mini.try. He tho't of putting up a distillery to make oil anil unlimited wealth, as they were proposing to do at Flaming Rock. But whatever castle in the air he built, when he looked toward it to see if Bella was there, he only saw her enthroned above it, not within. "Does you yeddy ?" said Hector. Wot will you do wid dat tree tous and dollar, s'posiij'you git um?" "I think I'll buy a little farm," Robert answered, not caring to ex pose to ridicule the plans and specifi cation's of his castle-building. "No. no ; don't buy no little farm. Little farm for poor trash. Buy a shop, an' keep it. Wear store store close ebry day, an' make you'self look dis zackly like a true an' true gentleman. Den all de ladies come to de shop for buy tings, an' fall in lub wid de good-lookiu' shop-keeper. Den" (confidentially) "hoonah kin marry Miss Polly, an' hab big farm. Whah ! whah ? whah !" And he let his sack fall, and gave his whole body up to laughing, after the manner of his people. The laughing accomplished, both of them resumed their burdens and approached the pasture fence, over the lop of which the horses were al ready reaching their heads expectant ly, Having distributed the corn in the several compartments of a large trough, giving to each just six ears. Hector add Robert both began to look for the tl ree thousand dollar animal they had just been talking about. Major was not there! Ho was not in the field. He was gone ! The old man was aghast, and the youth was stunned. His just dis covered wealth, his long loved pet, his pride, his hope, his tour to Europe, his steamboat, his oil distillery, his pulpit, his shop, his castle in the air, had been stolen in the night. There was no doubt to hang a hope on. Ma jor's well-known hoof-tracks through ' Used K' the gate way into the road were easily discerned. The gate had been care fully closed on all the other inmates of the pasture, and he, the prince of them all, had aloie been taken. On their returning to the house and informing Mr. Damarin of the calam ity, a council washeld. which came to the conclusion tlmt the thief was one of the famous Cavern Counfy band, who ueveftouoheti'arty but blooded animals, whiali they cplTeed with enterprising rellarch through out a large-portion' of the west, and after secretingthem 'till pursuit blew over, ran them off over the moun tains to the New York market. "And if one of them Cavern Coun ty boys is got the colt," remarked the Kentucky member of the council, with a feeling of State pride natural to Kentuckians. "you'd better not foller hint very fur over the county line, or you'll never get back your self." "Dick is right," said Mr. Damarin. "If you go where you have to fight the gang, the odds will be against you. How far would it be safe to fol low the trail, Dick? You have been all over the country, I believe." "It's ten chances to one," said Dick, "that the gentleman that's taken the colt won't leave theriver till becomes to a little road over the hill that takes up just back of the first log house you come to after 3ou pass Led berry's Lauding, and leads into the county froad by one of the forks of Broken Jug Creek. If Bob kin get thar first that is to say, if he kin get to go a piece on the county road afore the other gentleman turns into it, and find a good ambush, I reckon the colt may be captured with a .surprise. That's the only chance I kin see, and I don't think much of hit " Here the whistle of the packet sounded from down the river. "There's the boat coming!" ex claimed Mr. Damarin. "Has any thing passed up during the night?" Nobody bad heard anything except tow-boats. "Then, Robert, suppose you get right aboard the packet and get off at Ledberry's Landing. Since you tell me the hoof-prints were made after the white frost came, I'm sure the thief hasn't got more than two hours the 6tart of you." "But,', interrupted the general, "two hours on Major's back are equal .to four on a common horse." "Don't you see? A thief that runs oil a horse by daylight dare not.ride at full speed, and must double about, too. That fellow has crossed the river, or willTcross it, back and forth nevprnl timps . hptwpun tins nnil Tieri- ' T . "4 - . berry s. ioiertpif you want to pur sue your property, take any of the horses you choose ; but! would advse you to go by boat, and she will be here in ten minutes. I beg you be cautious my boy. Is anybody going with you? Don't you want to go alone. Dick?" But Dick had left .Kentucky for reasons which still remained valid aud good in law, and pleaded rheu matism. Old Hector, however, vol unteered. "Somebody must go,'! he said, "to fotch back Miser Robert, case him moot go too fur." And Hector also was provided with a good mount. While the horses were being sad dled, Polly drew near to her father with, "Father, it isn't safe, you know it isn't, for Robert to go among those dreadful people. Do don't let him gi, ; please don't." "He must judge for himself, my dear. The poor fellow has his all at stake. That colt is worth a small farm ; and if he's the man I take him to be, he won't give it up without a chase. I have a good deal of confi dence in Hector's prudence. What a true friend that old darkey is, eh ?" Polly, in a most embarrassing dis tress, which dared not declare itself, next went und expostulated with Robert. But he was desperate. "If I don't come back with that colt under me, Miss Polly," he said "I don't want to come back at all." The general offered Roberta revol ver aud ammunition, but he declined, saying he would rather be shot than shoot. Hector took them, however, remarking that he would "heap rud der shoot dan be shot." At the last moment, before the went on the boat, Polly came running down the bank with the eaddle-bags, which she had taken from where they hung over Robert's bed, and filled to their ut termost capacity with provisions for the journey. After thanking her for her kind providence, the first thing Robettdid was to ascertain that the miniature had received no hurt from having the half of a boiled ham thrust down upon it. About three hours later the pursu ers were put off at Ledberry's Laud ing, which was twenty-five miles above Stone House, and in one min ute more were galloping with all pos sible speed on the county road, which led away from the river and toward the hills in a southeasterly direction. Hector was the better mounted of the two, which was fortunate, for other wise he would have been left behind by his hotly impatient companion, who had been suffering perfect tor ment from the delays of the boat in making her half-dozen stoppag'es on the way up, and now whipped his horse furiously. In about three miles from the landing the3 came to where a bridle-path intersected the road, coming in on the left, and each leaped from his horse to examine the ground, and eaclr immediately recog nized the hoof-prints of poor Major. "Too late, Misser Robert," said Hector. "Less go back.'' " "Go back if you want to, Hector; but I am going forward.1' "Now, now, lobk yer, Misser Rob ert; way's de use? Major got the start n we, an' sure's deLord we neb ber ebtcb um." "We can catch him." cried Rob ert, already IrTthesaddle, atjd trying to clear his bridle from Hector's dou ble grip. "Before hn gota9 far as this Major must have gone thirty miles, and that without any corn, while our horses haven't gone three. Then those tracks are as fresh as if made only a moment ago. Let me go, I say t And off ho dashed followed by the other, who found It hard work to overtake him. For two hours more they continued to press their steeds without either one saying a word to the oth'er, though the npg'ro would now and then mutter somewhat to himself in his Carolina patois. At the end of that time he recommended his companion to unbuckleone of the bags and eat "some o Miss Polly's grub." "Do Lord bless do sweet chile!" he added, as Robert, though far from being hungry himself, rec ognized in the request a suggestion that his companion was, aud handed him a liberal supply, which he man aged to eat while bis horse galloped. Up to this time but three travelers had been encountered ; and though each of these was accosted and inqui red of, from neither of them was any information obtained. One had been passed by a horseman going at a rapid trot, but the horse was a bay, and not a 6orrel. Another had come into the road, and had seen nobody at all. Tho third, who had traveled a long distance at a slow rate, had met and been passed by so many, he could not recollect whether he had seen any thing answering to tho descriptit n of Major or not. This one remarked that "them horse-thief gentlemen are sharp enough to dodge out of the way of folks they want to avoid ; and that is right easy done in a woody country like this yer." When Hector had entirely finished his dinner, in eating which ho had fallen behind his companion to en joy a decorous privacy, be wiped his mouth aud cheeks, aud recovered his place in front. Then he began to look about him. The steep, rough hills among which they had entered soon after leaving Ledberry's Land ing had gradualty softened' iuto others of more gentle ascent, and the clear ings, no longer confined to the nar row creek bottoms, were scattered over slopes and summits as well. The road mounted and descended with an easier grade, and farms of consider able extent came into view. Having observed well the landmarks, the old man turned his attention to the fea tures of Robert, to observe how far the long hard ride had tempered him down to bear a serious expostulation ; for the time had com for his friend to make a resolute effort to arrest the dangerous pursuit. Taking advan tage of a long ascent which compelled them to walk the horses, he began by calling attention to their fatigued con dition, then to the lateness of the hour (though it was not much past noon), then to tho badness of the road (though it was really ti good deal bet ter than it had been.) Finally, turn ing aud looking Robert in tho face, lie abruptly asked, "Wha' for hoonah no shoot ?" to be contintjkd. This story is published by Messrs. Harper fc Bros., N. Y.tCoinpIete.and will lie sent by them to any partot the United States, post age prepaid, on receipt of titty cents. The Centennial. 'Is you gwlne down to dat meetln' at de church to-night?' asked Si, when ho met Pete at the Kimball House corner. 'What meetln' is dat?' 'De cents tenyal meetln'.' 'Is dat some new-fangled kind of pertracted meetiu dey's gettin' up round hyar?' asked Pete. 'No, you ignant nigger! Dis hyar fa a meetin' about de celebration obde. Fo'th ob July Iudemancipation Dec lyrashun next year at Fillimudelfy, and dey calls it de cents-tenyal, kase all de nigger isn't suspected to gib roor'n 10 cents to'rds de ixpenses !' 'No, dis nigger aint gwine, kase dat is some more ob dat tom-foolishness whar dey swindles a nigger on sibil rites, and gits 'em into dese hyar ins kurreptions! I'd rudder spend my dime for a prize-box wid a tin bre3-pin in it. I would.' Si thought a minute and then said : 'I bleeves you's got me on de hip, Pete.' And they both went their ways. Atlanta Constitution. The Methodist Missionary General Conference have just resolved that the appropriation for 1876 shall be limited to $075,000. Of this sum $195,000 is to be appropriated for for eign missions. 'Jim Henry,' said his wife with sto ny severity, 'I saw you coming out of a saloon this afternoon.' Well, madam,' replied the obdur ate Jim, 'you wouldn't have me slay iu there, would 3'ou ?' my . p My native city ha3 treated me bad ly,' said a drunken vagabond, 'but I love her still.' 'Probably.' replied a gentleman, 'her still is all that you do love.' Two heads are better than one, from j a hatter's point-of view. .' --.. Bewildered Democrats. Chicago Inter-Ocean. GeneraKJrant is a terrible thorn (a thesido of democratic politicians, ad' nothing that he haaone has ao sore ly perplexed them as his recent mes sage. They seem to stand In helpless despair, not knowing which way to turn. We hardly think ;that the ad vice now vouchsafed to the democrat ic party by the leaders was everparal-' leled before. Generally the course for the opposition to pursue has been plain. They had nothing to do but antagonize whatever the republicans proposed. But It has actually come to a point where they dare not.do this, aud they are extremely wretch ed about it. It Is intensely amusing to watch the efforts of these shrewd' old politicians to get around the Pres ident's recommendations regarding the publio schools, and the taxation of church property. It is rendered still more amusing by tho fact that in discussing tho proposition they ate constantly coming to blows among themselves. Forlnstance.one newspa-" per opposes the recomendationsof, the President, aud calls upon the derno cratio party to combat the proposition, because it is an attempt to punish the Roman Catholics. Hardly do we read this before wo seo iu another democratic paper, the World, the fol-" lowing : "The truth is that the new burdens the President seeks to impose'on reli gious bodies In this country would fall with most force upon bis own friends, the Methodists having some $10,000, 000 moro of property to be mulcted than any other denomination. It would be Bad If the exhibition of these facts should induce Bishop Ha ven and his two hundred followersto reconsider their recommendation," The democratic organ in Cinoinnatl declared last week that the presi dent's plan was an effort to establish a "state religion," while bis obronlo reviler in Chicago has been moaning over the fact that it was a plan to pro scribe all religious bodies and "heath enize'1 the public schools. In' the midst of this, up pops a democratic club In Washington and indorses the presidential proposition, thereby ar raying itself against its fellow demo crats who were preparing to attack the' plan. To make confusion worse con founded, tho New York Herald of Friday points out the fact that the proposition of the president Is aclever trap to catch democrats, and It warns them not to step into it. It says the only way to avoid not being caught is to turn in aud support the plan with all their might and main. The Pres ident hopes, it continues, that they will epposo and make war upon his suggestion. If they do, he will have the very issue he wonts upon which' to go before the country. Now, what, is a poor, distracted democrat to do? Has it como to this that the only way I to beat the republican p resident is to carry out hl3 recommendations moro vigorously than his own party friends can do it? Verily, It looks as If the political miiienlum might bo at hand. And let it be marked well, for it is an exceptionable occurrence, that the worst that can be said against the president's suggestion Is, that ho has proposed a plan that will entail a greater burden on his own religious denomination than on any other: Barrels 3Iade of Taper. It Is very probable that paper will soon largely supercede wood as a me terial for barrels. The paper Is made of straw, is very strong, and the barrels, being of a uniform cylinder, can be stowed away without loss of space. No hoops ore required, though they may be used w'here rough handling Is expected. Iu some recent experi ments paper barrels have shown re markable Btrength, and resisted heavy inside pressure without bursting. They are not only made watertight, but impervious to air or moisture, saving their contents from being af fected by odors in cellars or the holds of vessls. The cylinderical form, also, gives great advantage in handling these barrels, rolling in astraight line, whilo the stave barrel, from 'its shape, always rolls into one corner. Mural New- Yorker. X Tough Foot. They tell.bigetoriesabouttbo tough feet of tho Louisiana darkies, but the Vicksburg negro is' always ready to compete for the medal. One of them entered a blacksmith shop the other day to sell a horee-sboe, and he plac ed his foot on a piece of hot Iron just cut from a bar. It was a full minute I before the heat struck in, and then he' gave a leap over the anvil, and utter- r-eaa terrioie yen. The smith askea him to explain, and the darkey res ponded: 'Why, I'ze bin etaudin'ondatpiece ob red-hot iron !' 'And you didn't know it?' No. notzactly . but I smelt sunth-' in kinder curus for a good while, but' I fought dere was a dead boss around' here somewhar!' The cold weather i3 at hand ; now hover over the stove, and avoid fresh air and exercise, If" you would never' see spring again. Omnibuses originated in Paris la' 1827. The other kind of busses, which, are specially desired by young men and maidens, were discovered some years previously. It is impolite to say a' man hsa J "cheek ;" eay "fanciful 'area." IV. "I I m 1 1 j - i 1 1 , 1 Jfe