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THB COURIER sr-. v V A ft I - y 1 VHEN PA TAKES CARE OF ME. When Pa takes care of me. He ays to Ma," By Jing! It seems that everything Comes on me wnen I've got the most to do, But I suppose Fve got to get it through With; so you needn't fuss one bit about Him; I'll take chargei:of;him while you are out.'' ., But Ma makes him repeat all she has said About what he's to do ; guess she s afraid To let him try his way Of watching me, the day When Pa takes care of me. When Pa takes care of me, He puts me on a rug, He gives me a kiss and hug, Then brings in every pillow he can find, And piles them up in front, at sides, behind Me, "So that you can't hurt yourself, he says, , And then he gets me picture books, and lays Them down beside me, and my blocks and toys, And says: " Now go ahead and make all the noise You want to : I oon't care." And I sit ther and stare, When Pa takes care of me. When Pa takes care of me, No book or toy or game Seems, somehow, just the same. And by and by I'm through with every one, And when I cry Pa says, "Have you begun Already ? What's the matter, anyway ? There's everything you own! Why don't you play? Stop crying nowl You won't? Well, what is wrong 1 Come, now, I'll sing." And then he starts some song About "Bye Baby Bye I" And I lie flat and cry, When Pa takes care of me. When Pa takes care of me, He grabs me up at last, And starts to walk, real fast, And talks to me, and pats my back, and tries To act as if he liked it; but he sighs, And sighs, and keeps a-lookin' at the dock, And out the window, up and down the block, For sight of Ma; and when she does come in, She grabs me quick, and says, " It is a sinl" And Pa looks mad, and I I'm glad the time's gone by When Pa takes care of me. Francis Churchill Williams, in August " New Lippencott." Instinct In a Bird. A traveler relates thai while passing through a small forest in Brazil he was attracted by the rapidly-uttered cries of alarm of a bird, and, wishing to learn the cause, he made his way to the tree whence he thought the sounds proceeded, and, looking up, saw that a serpent was slowiy winding Itself P toward a nest of unfledged little ones. While watching its movements the male parent bird arrived, who, cir cling twice or thrice over the top of the tree, swiftly darted further away into the forest, and In a few seconds returned with a large leaf in its little mouth, which it instantly placed over the nest, and then flew up higher. Meantime the serpent wound itself slowly up the tree and reached the nest, but, on putting its head over the side, quickly started back, descended the tree, and was lost in the under wood. The traveler, being deeply in terested in the singular incident, aft erwards learned from some of the na tives that the leaf of a certain tree if a deadly poison to the serpent How had the bird acquired a knowledge of this? What mortal can say? What philosopher can explain? The COURIER And any One Dollar Woman's dub Magazine 1SI.50 THE hORRORSOFST. DOMINGO. It Was Jmt u Iliindrsil Yrr Ago That They Occurred. An hundred years ajro tho island of St Domingo wus tho fairest and rich est in tho western hemisphere, says the Hartford Cuurant. For fifty years it had been growing in production and wealth more rapidly than any other European colony in America. It was the emporium of tho western world It filled the coffers ol Europe from the exuborant fertility of its soil and well Barned its title of "La Heine des An tilles." Tho French portion ono third only was tho most productive, and tho valu6 of its proaucts was estimated at 175,000,000 francs an increase of 100,000,000 francs in a quarter of a ;entury a sum which represented tho Heasuro of toil exacted b human jlavery. Tho population of tho colo ny was 570,000. Of this number 40, D00 were whites of all classes, 30.000 rt'ero mulattoes or free people of col ors, 500,000 wero negro slave. Among iho white was a class of vagabonds jcatterd throughout tho colony, a worthless set on which tho mulattoes Bestowed tho epithet of "les petits blancs." The African slave trade was it its height at this period. More jhan 300 vessels left tho coast of Africa laden with their human freight in ;hains; 15,000 annually perished on '.he passage; 20,000 yearly found their tray into the slave marts of Saint Do iringo. Tho revolution in France created political disturbancej and differences imong tho whites" in the colony. Tho people of color claimed equal rights with the whites; their claims were re acted, thoir leaders were arrested, iried, .nd put to death. They turned a the negroes for aid. These had been juiet witnesses of this war of caste. They w ero now wakened by a senso of iheir own condition. They joined with iho people of color, and insurrection Degan on the night of Aug. 21, 1791. Incendiary fires broke out in several plantations in the plains of the north. The negroes, under the lead of one of ;heir number, a fearless giant named Boukman, now commenced to plunder ;nd buru indiscriminately. By tho J6th one-third of the plantations in .he great plain weie in ashes. In a week the wholo plain was swept by ire. The desolation and ruin was ilmost complete from the sea to the mountains. The ecil ran with the jlood of the unhappy planters and iheir families. 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