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I I“ on. morning in 3 little ltno, Under 3 canopy oi humble ion“; I mixed the reaper! on the he“: ruin Pile high. with cheerful toil. the golden than“. The eager little children stood mud, With tiny harvest-alumnus of the corn Under their urns, shoatwiu. with poppioo “ I don’t know what I shall do with gist 'ere boy,” said Farmer Long to his ,wile, as they sat by the fire that winter morning. “ He's more harum-sksmm than” that State's reform-school boy was. " Well, father, have patience with him for the sake of his folks. I think there’s something in Jim that will surprise you one of these days.” bound, Their mimic lsbor til the mom mom. 1 wmhod the olovmlrum, bountoonl lotd do- seed sown Deep in thy furrows ere lust winter's snow, And in the springtime tender tire were blown Across thee. end God geve thee summer's glow; Where is thy hex-vest of good things end true, The fruit of this thy ground which God heth tilled, The crown of work appointed thee to do, The sheaves wherewith His garner should be filled P Where is the hen-vent joy, thy reaping song, Thy blameless triumph over honest spoil ? Thy deep contentment satisfied and strong. Thefihidren renewing down the ehedy lune; And, lo". elone. l uked my empty heart, “ Where ere the gethered eheevea of ripened grain 7 Why eomee no eound of West joy to thee?" But my dumb heat no ensue:- had for me. “amt," aid I further, “there wu good But are the Autumn noodthne ouno spin, 7 God smote the furrows of my silent heat-â€" The plowshues of strong sorrows and shsrp Delved deeply, striking to tho inmost pert Wherein full soon the good seed gently fell, The which my heat received, repentsnt, gave, And brought to fruit in sesson dulyâ€"wellâ€" And God the in e of that hmest gsve Wins though in ess my sheaves were 'i'hy worthy resting utter worthy toil ? He who gave seedume would thy honest. see." Yet still my hem no answer mde to me. bound With faded flowers of huppineaa and love, What though within my hurt no son; wu found, A reaper”: joy in hmoating to prove? An angel lighted on the now-reaped sod. And bare tho blessed nut-fruits up to God i “I dunno whether he'll surprise me my more'n he has or not. Last 9 ring he made b'l’eve he knowed all bout biling down sap, ’nd surprised me by burnin’ the bottom 11v the sap-pan eont ’nd settin’ the sap-house on fire. Last uummer he broke more tools in hayin’ time than all the rest, uv us together. And dear me I Yeou'd orter seen him dig pertatere last fall I I’ll venter he out every third one in towâ€"struck et ’em ez of he was splittin' rock-maple loge. ”Nd neow he’s broke my best three tined pitohfork in some way, a feedin’ the cat - t‘le. 119’s _only_ sixteen y'r old. . E! be doés this in {he greenâ€"tree, what in hate: '1] he do in thg dry ?” _ __ After these remarks about the boy he had taken to keep until he was of age, the farmer started for the burn. He was bending over the great meal-chest, just inside the burn door, as a tandem team was turning around the corner of the burn.' This team consisted of a wild enrling steer and the boy, Jim Fowler. e “team" was on the “dead " run. The youth had hold of tho steel-'5 tail with his left hand and held aloft a milk- ing-gum} in his right. '«I romieed him a little More he died, (1 take care on ye until yum was old enough ter take care nv yo‘self ; ’nd do well by yeâ€"give ye a common school .eddieation nd no on. ’NdI mean ter do it. if or conduct don’t become onlmr- oble. nt yeou must be more etiddy "nd men-like ’nd not plague me tor death by for recklessness. D' ehear ‘P" “ Yea, 'm goin’ to try, Mr. ng.” “That's the sorter talk. I want ye tor go to: school m' git tor be e: smart Mr. Long was unaware of danger, end when something struck him, and immediately he found himself on his back in the meeLohest, his first thought was of an earthquake or a tornado or some other dread outbreak of forces. He emerged from the cheat just in time to see his lime-hacked steer pass on into the stable and Jim Fowler arise half- etnnned from the floor. “Yeon young ecamp I" he thundered, " yeou’ll murder somebody yetâ€"erâ€"er I 511:1}: if yeou don't stop yer dumbed U The boy did not laugh at the miller- liko appearance of the man. His own face was white as the farmer's as he “ I'm awful sort , Mr. Long." “ I dunno what or yer be or not," replied the latter. “But I'll tell yer noon ’nd here, Jim Fowler, what's what. When yer father died yoou hadn't a rel- stive left.” 7 7 A “ 'w‘ No, air. they wan '1: none loft ” broke in the youth; and the tears filled his Two Important Papers. Id Harvest 'l‘lmo. ea Jennie is, e! ye can. Yeou er tew years older'n she is ’nd y'aint nowhere side her.” “ I know it. I aint nowhere side by her. ” ' Jennie, the farmer’s daughter, was a bright girl; and as pretty as a pink. Jim did not wonder that her father and mother were proud of her ; or that they felt there was a vast difference between him and her. He thou ht there was himself; and he believ she did, for one day of the last summer, when he stumbled on her flower-bed, she spoke sharply at him and. if he had not mie- underetood her,_oalled him a ‘_‘ beggar." He was careless and stupid; if she had said as much, he would have thought it justifiable under the circum- stances. Bnt for her to speak in that wayâ€"as if his misfortune was his fault â€"made him almost hate her. He did not answer back. but the look he gave her kept her from ever repeating the taunt ; and also from forgetting that she had once made it. Yet he continued to be the same care- less “ Jim ” up to this winter morning. But when Mr. Long had administered his reproof and returned to the house to rush the meal from his clothes, the youth fell into a profound meditation, out of which he came: with this ejacula- tion : “ I’ll do it 1" When the next term of school began, there were two scholars from Farmer Long's. Jennie and Jim. They went together; but they sepa- rated when_they got there, for Jen'nie was in a higher department than Jim could enter. This was the first term the latter had ever begun with a deter- mination to learn. That he was now so determined is proved by the answer he gave to his teacher on the first day of school, when she asked him, among other things, what he wanted to do; it was this: “ I want ter git ter know 62 mtgh ez Jennie Long does. ” How did he come out? Well. he went to school every term for three years. He studied evenings, and all the time when not at work, during vacations. By incessant devotion to his books through those three ears, he was able to master all the text- ooks used in that institution. For the last two terms of his course, he was a member of J ennie's classes. ' He graduated when she did; and, in most of their joint studies, was ma_r_ked several points above her. How did Jim think he came out ? Going home with Jennie that last day, after school had closed, he repeated the words Mr. Long had spoken three years before : “ Y'aint nowhere side uv her ;" and thought they were truer now than ever. Had the “want ter git tenknow” which he began, given place to a “ yegt ” 1939 li_k_ely to be setjsfied ? If Jennie had been aware that her own views concerning the result of their rivalryâ€"if it was suchâ€"coincided with Jim’s, she probably would not have expressed herself as she did to her mother, that evening, when they two were alone. “ I suppose,” said she, “ he thinks he’s done a wonderful thing ; but I don’t. If I had studied and studied and studied as he has, I should have been far ahead of the greatâ€"great ~â€"giant. But of course I don’t care a flg_a_bout it, instants.” Whether Jennie’s remarks indicated a happy frame of mind or not, might be 8 question. But without question she used a happy word when she spoke of Jim as a giant, for he was a mighty outh. Jennie was really petite. She new it ; but it (lid not trouble her that those girls who were familiar with her called her “ Little Jennie Long. ” ‘ A Jim knew that he was of great stature for his age; and was a little sensitive on that point. I don’t think he fancied being called “ng Jim.” And it may have been his aversion to that name that accounted partly for his blushing so deeply one morning of his last term. when he had taken his seat at the open- ing of school. Some’mischievous outh had written a stanza on the black oard â€"â€"which was on the wall that faced the seatsâ€"and written it in such a large hand that every scholar could read it from where he sat. This is acopy of the lofty verse that the teacher hastened to erase as soon as she discovered what the scholars were laughing at: “ But one dares write â€"-whst every one knowsâ€" That several little tellers fret, Because a chance they never get To walk and talk with Jennie Long. Who hinders them? Big Jimâ€"the strong. He comes with her : and with her goes ; And thinks she wants him to, I s’pose." When Jim’s eyes caught that, his face tinged very _red,_ as red ssâ€"Jennie’s. The youth that wrote that poem “dared’ to write it; but he did not dare to make himself known. Of course it was nothing but " boy's play,” but Jim felt that he was near enough to being a man to look at it from a man’s stand-point. And looking at it in that light, he thought it'proper to tell Jennie that night when they went home that he was very sorry that some mean fellow had annoyed her in such a way; that he would find out the puppy who wrote the nut! and give him asound thgaahing. Without moaining it, perhaps, Jeannie said some. things, before they reached her father's door, that were calculated to mislead Jim, as to the place he oceu pied in her thoughts. It was nothing positively encouraging; but something that came nearer to being that than any- thing ahe had ever before said to him. Of course it must have been uninten- tional, for nothing in that line was repeated during their walks to and from But Jennie, to the surprise of Jim, could not see wherein she had been in- jured to an extent that demanded any such course as he proposed to take. And she dissuaded him from his ssngninsry purpose. Not easily, however, but by arguments made in an earnest manner, and urged more and more strongly, un- tillre yes conquered. school the remainder of the term. And when the term closed, as was said before, Jim felt that she was farther from him than ever. He saw with the olearness oi vision that is characteristic of young men in his state of mind, the hopeless- ness of any attempt to make himself her equal in any respect, and then noted as a youth in his circumstances usually does. He intended to remain with Mr. Long until he was of age, for he knew he could be of great service to the farmer in the two years that intervened between the present and that time. And he wished to repay the latter for his kind- nose to him. For the first few months of those two years, he was apparently quite sell-pos- sessed in his association with Jennie. But that is all that can be said to his credit. He broke downâ€"utterly sno- oumbedâ€"before six months had passed, groposed; andâ€"told Jennie he did not lame her for ~not caring for him, and hoped she would forgive him for ofl'er- ing such a poor creature as himself to one like her; that he could not help it; that he felt he must know what he was to her, and now he did know._ Jim had discovered Jennie the evening when he asked that question, sitting on a bench under the great maple. back of the house. There she left him, and went into the house; and there (or a long time he remained after she had gone, sitting in her lace, with a sense- tion at his heart unli e anything he had ever before experienced. Not contented to let “ well enong " alone, he had gone from the negative comfort of con- )ecture into the positive pain of cer- Th'e next morning he entered u n his labors with less enoonragementt an Jacob did upon his, alter Laban’s second promise. Loss by as much as a refusal is less than n mornings, _ _ . And Jennie? If her night’s rest had been less sweet and refreshing than usual, she showed no signs of it. She appeared to be merrier than she had been for some time. Early in the day when she and her mother were engaged in the labors of the household, she sur- prised the latter very much by a “ sea- son” of laughingâ€"a season of very viole_nt laughing. _ _ “ J enme'l ” Exclaimed Mrs. Long, at last, dropping into a chair, “ What does ail yo_t_1? " ‘7 Why, mumma, it’s the funniest thingâ€"I’ve been proposed to.” figmgoeeq to! By whom? ” “ By our Jim, Jennie? ” “ Our Jim, mamma.” “The foolish boy i Of course you told him, kindly, that you both were too young to think of marria 0. Your father was twenty-six, and I as twenty- two when we were married. What did you tell him, Jennie ? " “I told himâ€"no ! " “That was right; only 1â€"1 hope on did not hurt his feelings any more t an was necessary. I trust he will forget all about it soon "â€" “ What, mamma? " “ I mean, Jennie, that I hope he will see how foolish he has been, and forget all shout you hefoxle he goes away.”___ “ Oh, oertainly Iâ€"I hope he' willâ€" will forgetâ€"andâ€"see how it is, before then. He’s poor, you knowâ€"very. Iâ€" I told him so. I wanted. toâ€"helpâ€"him forget, as you say, and so I said in case I married, in the course of twenty or twenty-five years, I should probably wed a very rich man; then I shouldn’t be any trouble to myâ€"hnsâ€"husband; but_t_h_at I shouldn’t do for a poor man at all." “ Well, Jennie, I do sincerely wish that he may soon care as little for you as yon d9 for him._” ' As the months passed away, Mrs. Long, watching Jim, concluded that he had not snfl‘ered much by the rejection he had received. The kind-hearted wo- man was glad to think it was so. 00nâ€" aidering all things, the less attraction her daughter had for the young fellow, the better. Jennie, also, hoping as we may sup- pose that Jim, for the sake of his peace of mind, would outgrow his affection for her, after a little while, decided that he had. She was very glad of it. And yet there was atinge of melancholy in the discovery. She was glad for his sake, because he had suffered so; but it wasâ€" abstractly consideredâ€"a very solemn thought that so strong an attachment was so short-lived. Not that she would have had it last longer in this particular caseâ€"oh, no; but there might come a time when she should want to know that the one who had so great a regard for her was to have it forever. But what was she to expect? Was Jim a fair sample of man_kind in this respect _? If Farmer Long had been an observ- ing man, during these days he could have seen coming into J im's face some- thing that could not have failedtore- mind him of the time when the youth's mother and Mrs. Long were girls, and the best-looking ones in the village. The father's strength had come into Jim’s body and limbs, but he was get- ting his mother‘s face by installments. These were to be his possessions when he was of age. where, his disa;1pointment.Bnt that heart of his kept orever answering “ slay another year.” He was in this state of mind the day before he was twenty- -.one After dinner that day he went and sat on the bench under the great maple. He went there that he might be alone to de- cide whether he would follow thedictates of his reason or give way to the longinga of his heart Reason at I 135 emried the day. He arose from his as at, and said aloud, and decisively: “ I nImIIg " It wad settled. He had ‘I I I the family all al 3 that he should {r 1, away M101) be me of age. He was «:1 1d they know It nd had become reconciled to (perhaps As his twenty-first year drew toward its close, he could not tell whether to be glad or sorry for it. His reason told him to go and forgetâ€"he had not forgotten, you seeâ€"in the exeibementof business some- u ' ]_3y Jim.” atraigh’t ahead now, and det'ermined nd‘ to look back. wished)“. He was not upon lookin straight ahead now. and determined no And he did look straight aheadâ€"look l' he stared, {or just a second or two. and then went ahead, straight and fast. Up the slightlyoasoending meadow Jennie was running toward the house; and not far behind her was the fonr-year-old lime-back, nrsuing. It was fortunate for Jennie ong then that Jim was near: and that he was “ big ” and strong and brave. Jim was bent on getting between Jennie and that mad brute, and he could not stop to find weapons. He rushed past her, and at that moment her strength gave way and she fell. If Jim had made a mismoveâ€"bnt he did not. With great dexterity he seiaed the animal by the horns as it came up, and putting forth all his strength drew its head with such force and suddenness to one side as to throw it down. Then springing to where Jennie had arisen and stood an- able to move, from fright. he caught her in his arms and bore her to a place of fliety over the wall. Whex'l Jennie could speak. “she turned to Jim and asked: “What 11 you had been killed ' " 0, there would have been a beggar less, that's all,” said he, and he walked nwgty. An hour later Jim, in a deep reverie, was sitting under the old maple. He heard the rustling of a dress, the sound of approaching feet, and then Jennie’s gentle call, “ Jim ?" He arose and looked at her. “Jim, do youâ€"hate me? " “ No, worse than thatâ€"for me." “Worse? Then youâ€"don’tâ€"leel to- ward me asâ€"as, you did once ? ” “ No, {or I love you more." “ Truly, Jim ?" “ Truly." “Well, then, you may read what I have written on this paper; but don’t open it till_I get a long way 03.”: _ She handed him the paper and turned and walked in the direction of the house. Jim was not long in opening that note, and reading : Don't go away. J ERNIE." Nor did the writer of it get a “long way " 03 before he qvertook her. When Jim and Jennie entered the house together, a little later, Farmer Long looked at them sharply for a mo- ment, and then, as if what he saw war- ranted him, he arose and also handed Jim _9. Herzegnsaying _as he did so : _ _ . “I s’hd like ter have yeou look this are dookerment over’n see of it is ker- reot. I don’t want no mistake ’bout it. The place that jines mine was fur sale'n I've bot it. This ere’s the deed on’t." And so it was. And that “ docker- ment " was made to run to James Fowler and his heirs.-â€"-.S'pringfleld Repubtican. I saw a shark of a strange sort one day when we were a thousand miles from land. It had fallen a dead calm. There was not a sign of a breeze anywhere be- tween tho north and south poles, so far as we could tell. It was ‘ust the day for turtle, and, sure enong , we sighted a brace of them sleeping on the surface half a mile off. The starboard quarter- boat was lowered, and we went off and picked them up. After that, we caught three more, but a breeze springing up the boat was called in. When we were hoisting it up on the davits, it got a little jammed, and, through the clumsi- ness of the man who was minding the falls, it also caught under the channels and got a little strained. Well, the evening was as glorious a night as ever was seen in the North Atlantic, the moon at the full lighting up the sails that loomed like great ghosts against the stars, and the bark jogging along wit_h a six-knot breeze just abeam. _ The captain's wife was on deck, look- ing over the rail and enjoying the scene. Suddenly she called the oflicer of the watch and asked him if that was a shark under the quarter following the ship. He said it looked ‘ ‘ mighty like a shark ;” in fact, he though it was some big fish or other. I looked over the side, and certainly there was something there that looked like a fish eighteen or twenty feet long, following the vessel as sharks often do, and vaguely seen near the surface in the light of the moon. The captain, who was below, was now summoned. On looking over, he un« equivocally pronounced it to be a shark and a rouser at that, and called for a harpoon. To quiet the anxiety of his wife, he stood in-board as ho balanced the murderous weapon to hurl it into the quivering flesh of the bloodthirsty monster. “ How is it, Miss. you gave your age; to the census taker as only twenty-five when you were born the same year was, and Iam thirty-nine ?" “Ah! you hnvo lived mgqh In“: than I, sir.” “ All readv I" said he to the men who were at the fine attached to the harpoon, to haul in the fish. “ All ready, air I” they replied, taking a firmer grasp of the line, as the harpoon was plunged with accurate aim into the shark. “ I've got him!" cried the captain with en- thusiasm}, and the men_ pplied with a vim, and fell flat on their backs as the line came home perfect] slack. They had not got him after al , and this was the reasonâ€"because there was no shark there to catch. It was nothing but the shadow of the quarter-boat which had been out after turtle that day. When it was hoisted up, you remember, it had been strained, and that made a small leak in two laces on each side of the bilge near t 18 stern, and through these holes the water in the boat dripped drop by drop in the boat's shadow, just about where the gills of the fish would have been, which only made the shadow seem more life-like. They did not get over laughing in the torecastle about that shark for some daysâ€"Appleton'a Journal. “Dm Jul: A Strange Shark. A Reverie. In the golden glint of the Inmmor’l sun-â€" In tho own-on glow of 3 day nigh donoâ€" Ou the hum of I stream. with its w‘ 0n the but; of n strum, with m utter. clearâ€"- At the side of one my bout holds don-â€" How benuwous is this “to i In the put with memories dim or bright-â€" In the silvery sheen of the pale moon's lightâ€" On the snowy bsukn of u utroam loo-boundâ€" Boreft of my loved oneâ€"all sorrow mundâ€" How sad, how dreuâ€"the life I. In the future with premium golden brightâ€" In the mom um follows the darkest nightâ€"v New berne on the dtrk streamâ€"now netting- the shoreâ€" To put from my loved oneâ€"ah! nevermoreâ€" How donâ€"ohm“ life. Items of Interest. A sham-pooâ€"afiected contempt. The Vienna and Constantinople rail» road will be 1,010 miles long. Ancient soldiers were trained to fight with either hand. The common school system may be traced back to the your 800. The young gentleman who flew into a passion has had his wings out. An operator in a spool-threw factory will make thirteen and a half miles of thread daily. In the time of Romulus, 750 3.0., women were subject to capital punish- ment if found drunk. Furniture can be nicely cleaned with diluted tea. N o doubt this will suit tidy housekeepers to a T'. Parlor matches don't go ofl’ any better, though they make more fuse, than those made over the front gate. Oh the com. the horrible corn, Burning at night and aching at morn; Under somebody‘ a foot half of the time, Throbbing with ymilieu-y almost sublime, nging,_ Beecher-’3 first tour lectures in San Francisco brought him $2,300, 82,150, 82,500 and 82,500 again. “Anything new with you today ?" inquireds man of his friend who was. sufl‘ering from inflammation of the lungs. “I should think so," replied the sufferer. “What is it ?" said the first speaker. ” Pneumonia,” answered the victim. A fisherman at Kingston. 111., new a oofiin floating down the river. 'The tide took it toward the shore and he pulled it in. Holes had been bored in the top, and inside he found alive baby abont ‘two months old, with a nursing bottle half full of milk; And highly hateful soowl Upon the young man who has decided to raise a full heard for the winter. ~- -New York Graphic. Fruit culture is making rapid progress in the United States. According to re- cent omoial statements the land appro- priated to this branch of industryis 4. 600, 000 acres. Up on this there flourish 112, 000. 000 apple trees, 28, 000, 000 pear trees, 112,270, 000 peach trees and 11:1,- 260, 000 grpa e vines. The total value 0! the fruit crop throughout the United States is set down at 8188, 216, 700, an amount equal to half the value of the the wheat crop of the countr. Toward that large sum apples are aid to con- tribute 850. 400, 000; pears, $14,100, 000; peaches, $46, 185, 000; grapes, 82,118, - 000; strawberries, 85,000, 000, and other fruit, $10, 432, 000. The sleep of winter and that of night are difl'erent in those animals which are torpid for months. The bat, the hedge- hog, the tawrie, the marmot, the ham- ster, the tortoise, the toad, snakes, mol- lusoa, spiders, bees, flies, bears, badgers, etc., retire to their closed holes, and, in various degrees, undergo a temporary death for four, five, six and seven months of the year. They usual- 1 roll themselves up, but bats suspend t emselves in caves. Those who .lay up provisions use them before they become torpid, and on reviving before they venture abroad. Their temperature lowers ; their respiration is less fre- quent and at intervals the circulation is reduced ; they lose their feeling, the di- gestive organs are inactive and they snfi'er loss of weight. The confined air in which they shut themselves, added to the cold, is a cause of their torpidity. Facts lead to the belief that some birds hibernate. Some Interesting ”MOS. Dates are generally dry reading ; but there is sometimes a significance in the mere grouping of dates; and the reader will find such significance in an atten- tive consideration of the following events, all occurring, he will observe, within the limits of a little over a century : Postofilces were first established in 1464; printed musical notes were first used in 1473; watches were first con- structed in 1476; America was discov- ered in 1492: the first printing press was set up at Copenhagen 111 1498; Copernicus announced his discovery of the true system of the universe in 1517 ; Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future engraving in 1527; Jergens set the spinnin -whe¢l in motion in 1580 the germ of 31 the busy wheels and looms of ten thousand future factories ; modern needles first came into use in 1545; the first knives were used in England, and the first wheeled carriages in France in 1559; the first newspaper was published in En land in 1588 ; tele- scopes were invents in 1590; Spencer, Shakspeare, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho Brahe were oontem oraries in 1590 - these are some of t s more im ortsnt headlands‘of European history w thin s Bliss your flatâ€" Bhow ma the sign of the chi-rop-odiat! While the woods turn ml and ranch, And the swallow ukium tho weir, And the derairr rose of summer Doth poetic bosomu cheer, While waiting for the winter winds, Which through the forest bowl, The barber doth bestow 3 wierd L118.