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MhvfcH K f i f f r i"" •,'%"* ytot# »ip ij* ' " t'l-nh.m But my heart ah#'mjvgmM As I told 1 totdhqrfan to diatttt lands 4 roam Miivf • >-4 leave IN*, "my.dsereet ̂ And 111 wait yoar coming borne.1 'fei-li •**> <<• u- i ::M >V'-i •,f ->5i"V ..ft feS"1 i:/5 3^/. ?> '••>**; J st<l#r »?<Vf **: . «•*! HID' IP* mabled through the fotest, , Where we'd often been beftm; Then down across the meadow " Till we reached tli© cottas ̂ - !& When abe look m7 hand so % . And said tta sweetest toneg « • • ' "Pll be true to you. my daring, ̂ • .'".1 Aarfmi wait roar coming home.*"? ̂ ' Long month* and years, I wandered ' . OB many a foreign strand, tut the dearest words of any ' \\ »*t That o»me from my native la&d Weare from her, my heart'a own -Dearer than life, I own-- ... *H be true to you forewr, 4 } •ll..4 And I'll wait your ooming home.* *4 ' I am still a weary-wanderer, And the world seems cold »nd lone; Ite the (tear one long since journeyed To the land where angels roam Over flelde of perennial beauty, '"f/X :,j Whence I hear in whispered tone, "Iln still true to yon, icy d; Am awaiting you at home." w car Heavenly Father Wherever I mnst ge, *' 'Xl' And, whatever fate betide me, - me safe from every fOeT ? And, when my wandering's over, - Aad to that gate I come, I know she'll be there To welcome me at home.i, COT, Iowa. ,v<i"s i iv': i id. NICE LITTLE GAM&. • • BT E. B. W. ̂iinik sat before the glowing grate, bis feet on one corner of tike mantel, his chair tipped back. His young wife looked at him, and her pretty black eyes, which only a minute before had been brimful of tears, emitted sparks of fire. Her rosy mouth closed with a firm ex­ pression, and hear dainty foot came down upon the rug in a very decided man­ ner. "1 won't stand it!" she said, under her breath; "I can't--twill kill me to see him night after night besotted, de­ graded, ruining both soul and body. I mnst do something--1 moat save Mw, for my baby's sake!" Then she sat down and meditated. Thqy had been married a little over two years, and the babe in the wicker cradle was a thriving boy. No happier woman than Dolly the world held, but for one thing. Her young husband would drink. He loved his social glass, his wine sup­ pers and club dinners. He did not neg­ lect his wife, but often he came home in, the small hours in rather an unsteady condition. Dolly tried every thing- tears, entreaties, persuasions--but he only laughed her off. . "Where's the harm, Dolly? Can't a leJkpw be merry now and then with his friends?" But Dolly saw the fatal evil growing upon him day by day, and knew what the end would be. She shuddered, and her eyes filled with tears, but the minute after they flashed fire, and she Til try it," die said .to herself ;"if ii does no good, it can't do much harm." 'Then she said, "Frank! * Her husband roused up, and, opening his eyes with an imbecile stare, re­ plied : "All right, bolly." "Frank, ypu believe that a wife should follow in her husbahd's footsteps, don't .you?" "To be mm Ton*!* a sensible wom- jn, Dolly." "And you're a sensible man, Frank. "What's right for yon todo is light for me, isn't it? " "Precisely 1 Just so, Dolly---exactly. You're a wise woman, yon are." Dolly smiled quietly. "Very well, Frank; if you gQto the tavern a*y more nights, r* going, Her husband looked up, half sobered. "Nonsense, Dolly!" he said; "that is running the thing into the ggound. Ton will do no such thing.",, "YouH see that I will, Frank !" she answered, resolutely. "I love you, and what you do I shall do, too! If you see fit to ruin yourself, soul and body, and shame your son, I shall follow your ex­ ample. I care for nothing that yon cannot share. As yon do, so will L" His cheek paled and his lip quivered. He sat silent for a minute, then got up and said: V "Nonsense, little giri! Come to bed, Dolly." She followed him obediently, apd no more was said on the subject. For three or four nights Frank came home punctually, then his old habit mastered him. .Dolly had his supper all waiting, and his slippers and dressing-gown before ;CM' care o dollar extra W» month, ma'am," with wondering shall have "Very w *e Twelve o kusbaaad let himself night-key, and oame reeling into the sitting-room. There sat the maid be­ side the sleeping child. Frank looked about him a little anx- iously. •Ah, fast asleep! Fine little fellow!" he said, bending over the crib. "Mary, my girl, where's yonr mistress--gone to bed?" •:>' "No, sir; sha'sgoneto the Reindeer Hotel* • , * * it%H 7* • He stood aid ̂ "What do you say, girl?" f She went out at 10, air, and bade me tell you when yon oame that she had gone to the Reindeer." The young husband stifled some­ thing like an o«ith, and sat down be­ fore the hearth. Half an hour went by, then he started up and glanced at the clock. " Great heavens! It is nearly 2 now, and she's not here!" He seized his hat andrusbed from the house like one mad. By the time he was half way to th0 Beindeer, ha was perfectly sober. " Could she have! meant what she said? " he asked himself over and over again. Presently a carriage came down from the lighted tavern on pie hill, and, as it passed him, a woman's voice rang out, singing the chorus: We won't go home till morning! It was his wife's voice. He caught at the horses' heads, frantic with rage. Dolly's pretty curly head looked out as the vehicle stopped. "Frank, old fellow--hie--4s that yon? Get in--'hie--get in ! Why didn't you come up?--hie. Oh, we'd a jolly time --hie--we did! Don't blame yon lor going out, Frank. Didn't know it was so pleasant--hie--I---I mean to go ev­ ery night." "You do?" he gasjjed, leaping into the seat beside her. Grasping her arm, he muttered, "Ever dare to do such a thing again, and yottH be no wife of mine!" Dolly laughed uproariously. "Nonsense, Frank! Let me do , as you do; that's fair. Let go my arm! You hurt me! Besides, youll break my flask of prime brandyl Frank, taste a drop." e caught it from her hand and flung it out of the window.. Bah!" said Dolly, her cheeks flushed, her hair awry, "I wish I'd stayed at the Beindeer--hio. What makes you so cross, Frank? " Hush! Say no more, Dolly," he an­ swered, his teeth set hard. "I can't bear it. I--I--may do something I'll be sorry for. Keep silent--I don't want any more orooked words." "Banrt horns, if I die ion it!" cried Dolly. Then she clapped her hands and laughed gleefully, breaking off into: A moonlight night for a ramble! Frank let his head fall into his hands. "Good heavens!" he groaned; "I would rather have died than have seen this night." He got her home and into her own room at last, but she was very unman­ ageable, and persisted in cutting up all manner of capers-- dancing and singing --her cheeks flushed and her hair streaming, and asking if they would not go again another night--it was such fun. His pretty, modest little Dolly! Long after she had fallen into a sound sleep her husband set over the smouldering fire with his face hidden in his hands. "Dolly," he said, when she awoke late on the following morning, "what hap­ pened last night must never happen again." She looked up with Jtor old clear eyes. Vety well, Frank; that is for joa to say. Just as you do, so will I." He was silent a moment. "I would rather die than see what I saw last night over again," he said. Frank," she said, her lips qnivering, "I've seen the same sight once or twice every week since the day I married you, and only God knows what it has oost me.". . He caught her close to his heaving breast "Poor little wife! "> almost sobbed, you never shall see snob a sight again. I shall sign the pledge to-day." 'Frank," said his pretty wife, one day, as they watched their children playing on the lawn, "I fooled you handsomely that night ; it was all make- believe. I didn't go to the Beindeer that night, and not a drop of the hate­ ful stuff had passed my Hps. Didn't I fool yon that bight, and enre yon in the bargain?" "You little witch!" he cried, but the instant after his eyes filled. "Yes, Dolly," he said, drawing her close to his side, "you cured-me of a habit that would have been my rain. Heiaven bless yon for it." THE English troop-ship Euphrates passed through the Snez canal, a dis­ tance of. 100 miles, in fourteen hours and five minutes, the average time be­ ing thirty hours. Since October thirty four of these transports have passed the canal, carrying an average of 1,600 men each. A huge dredge is kept at work day rod night at the Port Said entrance to fcto it dear of [ C " ' i i 1 Same JFeline AntmUfte». Ia point of intelligence the cat has been often unfavorably compared with the dog, and yet it cam be shown that pttss is capable of much natntal ability. Thus Dr. Smelie tells of a oat that had learned to lift the latch of a door, and other tales have been related of oats that have been taught to ring a bell by hanging to the bell rope, and this anec­ dote is related by the illustrious Sam Slick, of Slickville. It occurred sev­ eral times that his servant entered the library without having been summoned by his master, and in all these cases the domestio was quite sure he heard the bell. Great wonder was caused by this, and the servant began to suspect that the house was haunted. It was at length noticed that on all these mysterious oc­ casions the cat entered with the servant. She was, therefore, watched, and it was soon perceived that when she fonnd the library door shut against her she jumped on the window sill and thence sprung at the bell. Cats do not like being transplanted from one place to another, as the fol­ lowing anecdote will show : A family named Shuker lived at Dawley, in the county of Salop, bnt had occasion to leave and go to Nottingham. They, of course, including a fine cat, which had been in the family for years. Arriving at Nottingham, the cat showed signs of dissatisfaction with her new abode, and after a few days disappeared. Shortly afterward the cat walked iiito the old house at Dawley, to the great surprise of the neighbors. As might be expected, she was very footsore and lame. When it is considered that the distance trav­ eled on foot by the cat, from Notting­ ham to Dawley, is over seventy miles, the feat seems wonderful. Hundreds flocked to see the four-footed pedes­ trian, and large sums were refused by the owner for the favorite. „ A family in Callander had m their possession a favorite Tom-cat which had, on several occasions, exhibited more than ordinary sagacity. One day Tom made off with a piece of beef, and the servant followed him cautiously, with the intention of catching and adminis­ tering to him a little wholesome correc­ tion. To her amazement she saw the cat go into a corner of the yard in which she knew a rat-hole existed and lay the beef down by the side of it. Leaving the beef there, pass hid him­ self a short distance off, and watched until a rat made its appearance. Tom's tail began to wag, and, just as the rat and killed it. A lady residing in Glasgow hid a handsome cat sent to her from Edin­ burgh; it was conveyed to her in a close basket in a carriage. The animal was carefully watched for two months; but, having had a pair of young ones at the end of that time, she was left to her own discretion, which she very soon employed in disappearing with her two kittens. The lady in Glasgow wrote to her friend in Edinburgh, deploring her loss, and the oat was supposed to have found some new home. About a fort­ night, however, after her disappearance, from Glasgow, her well-known mew was heard at the street-door of her Edin­ burgh mistress, and there she was with both of her kittens; they were fat, she very thin. It is oiear she oovdd carry only one kitten at a time. The distance from Glasgow to Edinburgh is forty- four miles; so that if she brought one kitten part of the way and then went back for the other, and thus conveyed tfeem alternately, she must have traveled 120 miles. rniCSBNCS OF MIND. A little time ago a young man died in Philadelphia who was popularly known, from his swiftness in running; as the 'Deer." His history was a singular one. A few years since he was a ragged, shrewd lad, peddling newspapers aboot the railway depot. One day he hap­ pened to be on the line of the Pennsyl­ vania railroad when he saw am engine rushing down the track without any driver or tender. By some ehaneeit had been separated from the ears, and was driving on alone. •The boy knew that it wouli meet an express train this side of the next sta­ tion. He had about four minutes' start, and darted down the tradk after it The engine was, of course, at full speed, yet nobody but Dear oould have won in such a ra^e. He did win; was cool enough to re-' member the signal to the station-keeper necessary to have the switch placed so' that the engine would be turned cm to another track. It was done just two seconds before th* express train went thundering by. i Deer, for this service, was granted by the Pennsylvania railroad corporation a monopoly of the newspaper and book trade on its trunk }route, and from this he derives a handsome income. It was to the boy's coolness, as well as his fleetness, that hundreds of human be*' ings owed their lives. Another instance of the effect of pres­ ence of mind in the face of imminent peril occurred a few weeks ago in the «ity of New York, when a manufactory employing several hundred hands was fonnd, by a boy of 12, to be in flames. Instead of yelling fire, as most boys wonld have done, he went to the fore­ man and whispered to him his discov­ ery. In five minutes the men were dis­ missed, and it was not until they had reached the street that they knew danger they had escaped. A panic would have inevitably re­ sulted in great loss of life. Now boys cannot be taught swiftness of foot,, but they can be taught self-oon- trol, and the rare ability of keeping their' wits about them in sudden dan­ ger, whioh is a much more useful qual i ty . • . - • • • • - r . _ MJLPPT TMOVQMTB.*!, There is no power in the wondlhat is so magical in its effects as human sympathy. No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so muoh as respeot- able selfishness. Human things must be known to be loved; but divine things need to be loved to be known. Human life defined by a line is (us uncomfortable as would be the human figure defined by a wire. No mere certain is it that the flower was made to waft perfume than that woman's destiny is a ministry of Jove. Tears are the gift which love bestows upon the memory of the absent, and they will avail to keep the heart from suffocation. Mothers never do part bonds with babes they have borne; until the day they die each quiver of the life goes back straight to the heart beside which it oegan. Men and women receive in this world much of what they deserve. It is like a looking-glass--this big world. Grin and smile to it and it will smile back; scowl and it frowns. Many an unkind or sarcastio word, dropped carelessly, as a minute seed often fructifies into a whole garden of oxious weeds; spring up, they have forgotten how, but the words are there. Garments that have one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a person's good name once tainted with reproach. The harp holds in its wires the possi­ bilities of noblest chords; yet if they be not strnok they must hsng dull and useless. So the mind is vested with a hundred powers, that must be smitten by a heavy hand to "prove themselves the offspring of Divinity#,* • •r - TBUB. Mi* - In one of the naval battles during the war of 1812 an English officer was shot to pieces. He lost both his legs and one arm, and recovered. The brave girl to whom he was engaged to be married received a letter from him can­ celing their engagement on account of his crippled body. " If you have body enough left to hold your soul, I will marry you," was her noble reply. A similar incident, it seems, occurred in our civil war: ^ There may sometimes be met in the streets of Portland a bright-eyed, rosy little woman usually accompanied by two ohildren, one a fair little girl, and the other an apple-nsnmching urchin. Nothing extraordinary about that, but thereby hangs a tale. At the time of the " late unpleasant­ ness " this little lady's lover was a sol­ dier, and was down with Phil Sheridan in the Shenandoah, where he lost a leg. Her friends notified her that of course she would regard the engagement as eanceled, " I shall do nothing of the kind," she replied. ** What, marry a one-legged man?" "Of course I'm going to! Why, blees your souls, if they'd shot James aU away and left the leg, I'd matiry that!" " Thank heaven," saya a local paper, "she was not reduced to that! James has a good cork leg, a good situation, and one of the truest and best little in Christendom." EDUCATION JW WMWA. We have been apt to consider China as a 'heathen oountry, and such it is from our Christian standpoint, but it ia far from an ignorant land. It has, with­ out doubt, according to Jtomes' Edu­ cational Monthly, over 400,000,000 people, of which vast number there is scarcely one who cannot read and write. It has 2,000 colleges, and their libraries outnumber ours ten to one. There are in that land of pig-tailed Mongols 2,000,000 highly-educated men, while there is hardly a woman who is educated of all the vast number of its peopld, and not one who is thought to have a soul. Education is principally a dis­ cipline of the memory, and their schools are based upon an entirely dif­ ferent idfa from ours. A live Yankee schoolmaster wonld find little employ­ ment in China, even though he under­ stood the Chinese language and litera­ ture perfectly. 1 J"i/ 11 i • AN honest Hibernian in recommend­ ing a cow, said she would give milk year after year without having calves. "Because," said he, "it nans in the brade; for she of cos stilAfeneyei: had VVMMWVF WMU MV| AW AM--N ASI SI ie; for she MP GOOD MJLNNBBS. , **»• w.MotMoar. ̂ *Tis a rule of manners to avoid exag­ geration. A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much. In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the to express admiration. A man makes his inferiors h|s supe­ riors by heat. Why need you, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip, and tell eagerly what the neighbors or the jour­ nals say? State your opinion without apology. The attitude is the main point. As­ sure your companion that, come good hews or come bad, you remain in good heart and good mind, whioh is the best news you can possibly communicate. Self-control is the rule. Yon have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and tntn all his strength to beauty. For example, what a seneschal and detective is laughter! It seems to re quire several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man. Sometimes, when in all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of him, a course nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy. The great gain is not to shine, not to conquer your companion--then you learn nothing but conceit--but to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown, horse and foot, with utter destruction of your logio and learning. There is a defeat that is useful. Then you can see the real and the counterfeit, and will never accept the counterfeit again. You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you. You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible. Yon will accept the fertile trath, instead of the solemn, customary lie. When people come to see ns, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you said, to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, "I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it." The law of the table irf beauty--a re­ spect to the common sort of all the guests. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any -rtion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law; never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk shop " before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and haters from insults, whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose ^laily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must learn to adorn every day with sac rifioes. Good manners are made up of patty sacrifice* FJBMAEM DBZIVAC Above all other features whioh adorn the female character, delicacy stands foremost within the province of good taste. Not that delicacy which is per­ petually, in quest of something to be ashamed of, which makes merit of a blush, and simpers at the false construc­ tion its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark; this spurious kind of delicacy is far removed from good sense; but the high-minded delicacy which maintains its puve aad undeviating walk alike among women and in the society of men--which shrinks from no neces­ sary duty, and ©an speak, when re­ quired, with a serioasxtess and kindness, of things of which it would be ashamed to smile or blush-- that delicacy which knows how to confer a benefit without wounding the feelings of another--who Can give alms without assumption, and pains not the most snsoeptible being in creation. MOW WASHINGTON LOOKED. Count Axel de Fersen, aid-de-camp to Rochatnbeau, in a letter written to his father, in Sweden, dated Newport, October, 1780, now first published in the ".Magazine of American History," writes, "I was about fifteen days ago at Hartford. I had time to see Gen. Washington--this man illustrious, if not unique, in our century. His handsome and majestic, while at the same time mild and open, countenance perfectly reflects his moral qualities. He looks the hero ; he is very coli; speaks little, but is oourteous and frank. A shade of sadness overshadows his countenance, which is not unbecoming, and gives Mm an interesting air." CnoTO* X.AU, whence 2few York oity derives its supply of water, is patrolled daily by a competent person, who goes up in a boat along the shore on one side and down on the other, removing all dead fish, brush and driftwood. Last year the water was covered with a light aoam, hut its f4>i] |̂tjt>p, to ba pftrfffpt,. . . . - V- a- • JRRATFJ < - fell the light at eventide; : : Bells rung aMmitjr for a village bud*. "'i ¥f; Over the »!epwMl thettfrb* of *tmr " • •- .< 4-ttSght-Urd wmtited " day l* ^ Soflt fell the light at eventide; • A murmuring voice by the rirersMe .v * Sang sweetljr low; flowers, side by Me, "J fflrat their eyes a&d facee bide. ' "~V|S Soft fell the light at eventide. And throngh the forests and woodlaoilU wide' That voice so soft and sweet and low < *»• *old the advent of night to ill Soft fell the light at eventide; ' L The world is fair and bright and wift f *o weary souls who on the billows ride*. Ask strength of Him until eventide. '" farewells are said at eventide, ̂ •ows breathed soft at eventide, k' A Mute lips in prayer at eventide; Beautiful, beautiful eventide! The babe is kissed at eventide; How calm the Sabbath at eventide! Alt hope, life and death at eventide; - Bwutiful, eventide! , # * MJBTWAPKWT, Wis. »' *•?>*,J : I *rii KNEE-MOTIONAL play--When an angry mother lays her offspring across her knee. "I AX going out with the tied," said the blind man; and tn'« dog led the way. ; . r i THKBB is nothing mysterious; , about mosquitoes. It is easy to see how they may-nip-yon-late. , ,/* "THERE must be lawn order," saidthe Judge yesterday, pushing his little mower vigorously. A TERRIFIC engagement took place on the 5th ult, between the Chilians and Bolivians; One Brigadier General lost his hat. w AM Atlanta darkey; who tried to send one of his children through the post- office was arrested for an. attempt at blackmailing. Trr for tat. When the English sent their competitor over here we had to •shell out to pay Bowell; and now they are obliged to shell out to Parole^ too. AM Irishman, referring to the sudden death of a relative, asked if he lived high. "Well, I can't say as he did," said Terence, " but he died high--he was suspended." < THE woman who can engineer a fn1 neral and make $6 go farther than* a man can $10, and do all sorts of super­ natural things, always acknowledges de­ feat when it comes to taking a fish off a hook. FRESH young actor to Sotherh: "Mr. Sothern, if I had been an actor as long as you have t should by this time be the owner of two brown stones. Sothern: "Certainly you would, my boy,'one at your head and the other at your feet." THESE is a live sensation among the colored people in Collin county, Texas. They see nightly one black and two white horses coursing athwart the sky, the black one presaging death and the white ones offering 1 ransportation to the land of the angels. "DOCTOR, my daughter seems to be going blind, and she's just getting ready for her wedding, too! Oh, dear me, what is to be done?" "Let her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means. If anything can open her |«fMVmarriage will." ] ' tH May, when warm, soft breesss;blb», > < : is j Tlie niaaher, blithe and gay,,, l{g few#I . glooms radiant in a new spring, solt, ^ , ' H i s u l s t e r f i r e s a w a y ; . ' j ? . when east winds blow eold and j His spirits get reduced; if ••••"SB J^e hastes to shoot the new spring ssitjp >, The ulster rules the roost. t --AMMS Pott. K . > ., AM Iowa editor acknowledges * pres­ ent of grapes ia rather ambiguous " lan­ guage. He says: "We have received a basket of grapes from our friend W., for which he will aocept our cothpH- menta, some of which are twto itdMfe im diameter. * ^ "MOTHER, what is ah angel? " ^An angel? Well, an angel is a being that flies." "But, mother, why dee* ^papa call my governess an angel?" "Weil/" explained the mother, after a moment's pause, " she's going to fly immediately." --Unknown. _ . BKSKK a straw-stack eat a treap-- ™ " A jolly tramp, and wise-- Who, while he patched his tattered petit,; Did thus soliloquize: • ; j ̂ "It seems sew sad that my lone life " , Doth ever downward tend, ,A'*1 And rags me into wretchedne^J, But still I'm on the mend. • And when X needle little cash, I make no loud laments, : • , But by a straw-stack alt me dA#ti And gamier in my cepta." ̂ Air ambitious clerk in a wholesale grocery establishment resolves to enter the civil service, and sa presents him­ self before the examiners. One of the questions is, " What is coffee, and where does it come from?" " Oh, come now you know," sayB the candidate, "I can't give away the boss--allow me to plead privilege. That's a professional saoif t.* A GENTLEMAN. . Let a man, however plain in appear- anoe, be a gentleman, and women will smile upon him. Save ns from your plaid-painted, bordered-vested, bi vated, cologne-sprinkled, must ached,1 beieweled, brainless exquisite! Ghs us a well-informed, plainly-dressed possessed, intelligent masculine, feotly at home upon all subjects, Who can argue without loss of temper dignity, and who S||p ioxgeig^lM oatowwaaiL "••"•V" ' r