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And mother bent her door face a little low0r over her sewingâ€"Icon see the faint blush kindling the cheeks like u dreiuh‘of dawnâ€"us she was obliged to confess that she heard her asking Mrs. Phillips for the loan of her quilting frame, and “could she tell her where she could borrow some clothes props and a couple of flat irons 2” The shout of applause that went up saved mother from acknowledging that her own depart. mont had honored the full requisition for " props" end leaned hall retions of item. « Why, wh'en did you hear it 2" ”had; of my_aiatm_‘s. row (1 Jifl'y nlcd We told him there wbu ( anHw timch before the find- dle of ecembcr, but he said he could wait, and patiently dragged the sled away ywith him. I think we beg an to get a little neared at that, and father stud he understood now Why they borrowed the scythe in November; it was to have it on hand again“ buy buy. eat next year. But mother said we mustn’t judge before We knew more about them. and8 no hushed us up, and went on to tell what a sweet, soft Vvoice_ Mrs. Hedbin had. ueea to IIg In at one end to see by: " Some- thing likofil awz 9" ”lea deii' aomethiii likeg as; ,: gnawing like it; the bill was abougt 9v timed m’ong or that the light: Well, the Habius grew more familiar as ou became intimate with them, and the getter acquainted you became with them the more you knew of them. It Is this way with some people. About the end of the first week_ one of the boys came in and bor- Neft morning one of the Hadhin children came over to borrow a scythe. It was late inNovember; there wasn’t a thing to be mowed in all Peoria County, and there never had been anything to mow on . their reservation, anyhow. I suppose now that they wanted the scythe to cut bread with: the occasional study of the \subject during all these intervening years has reached no better solution than that. But we gave them the scythe, and wondered. l n the afternoon we saw one of the children comin away from Gregg's house with a tub, anfi concluded that the Hadbins were extending their lines toward the left, and were recon- noitering all along their immediate front. The surmise was confirmed in the evening when Mr. Lloyd stopped a moment on his ‘v to the store to any that the Hadbins had - ‘ 'ed all his lamps, and be was going dQOwn to buy some candles. " hat are candles 2" Oh, I don’t just exactly remember what they were myself, dear ; cu never saw any. They were white, strain t things, that we used to__l_ight at one end to see by : “ Some- The Iladbinsâ€"the man's name was 0. E. Hadbinâ€"were neighborly people. Mother said she thought we would like them ; but then her gentle, loving nature always thought we would like everybody. Of course they had no time for baking the first day, so they borrowed nearly all the bread we had in the house and mother sent quite all the butter with it ; that was all right; the Illinois idea at that day was that your house belonged to your neighbor until he got settled, and it did. In that day, if anybody had to sleep in the shed and go hungry, it wasn’t the new-comer, it was the older inhabitant, and the older inhabit- ant remembering how in like manner he had been received, never complained, and never acted as though he was confering a favor on the netw'rmner. I don’t know that the children were quite so unselfishly warm- hearted as the parents. I know I thought rueiully that ni ht at supper of a Hadbins‘ eating our good utter spread thick as mor- tar on their bread, while I chewed the end of bitter fancies with my butterlees bread. For Ihated dry bread; I do to this day. And I hate bread crust ; I am yet given to hiding it around the edge of my plate, and when I see a man eatbreat crust willingly d with oompulsion, I harbor dark sue i- 0 us of that man. I believe him to be e- signing and deceitful._ The new neighbor came in the first day of his arrival to borrow a hatchet ; theirs was nailed up in one of their boxes, and they wanted to unpack their things. That was all right, but I wondered all day how they packed the hatchet; I had an idea that one of the boys must have crept into the last box, and nailed the lid on top of himself. However, that wasn’t the way of it at all ; I mi ht have known better. But I didn’t, and fiwatched the new neighbors unpack all that day with curious interest, expecting every time they opened a new box to see the boy crawl out, a little rumpled by and compressed by the long journey from Ohio, but with that certain air of newness that things long packed are apt t3 have. 1 was sorely disappointed when the last box was emptied and no boy seemed to be missed. l \Vhen a boy in the halls of my fathersâ€" we had two halls, front and back, and then later on I married a Hall, that made three ; in the halls of my fathers, thenâ€"I had only one father, it is true, but as he is in no wise a singular man I mention him in the plural â€"I remember a neighbor who located a claim adjoining our own happy and peaceful demense, where we abode under our own vine and :fig-tree, and children clustered “ like olive plants round about the table " three times a day, and fluttered and swarm- ed like barn swallows the rest of the time. STORY OF A BORIHHVING FAMILY. We have u good share 0! worldly gear, And fortune eeeme secure. Yet my good man is lull 0! fear-- Mielortune'e coming euro 1 He points me out the nlnuhouse hill, But cannot nuke me toe, For I never trouble trouble till Trouble troubles me. He has a sort 0! second sight And w hen the at is strong. He sees he) and the good and right, The all and the wrong. Heaven’s cup at joy he'll surely epill Unless I with him be. For I never trouble trouble till Trouble troubles me. I) good mon in o clover nun. Which no one will plan : lle lieu Awake to plot and p on ‘ (loimt lions in the way. While 1, without a thought 0! ill, Sleep sound enough tor thvee ; “Burl ncvu 0mm hon!“ tilt Trouble tmubleo me. A holiday no new: flx _ ,lfiut ho it two ' twlll uln; An when m sky I. clear at (I: ‘ ,‘ llo koowb it won't remain. He is always prophesylug ill, To which I won't cum. ‘ For I never. trouble troul-le fill Trouble trouble->310. The wheat will 9.9" w m ~ “‘00“th gnen field V or no r 3 en) ’ .’- You hm u’ haw“: P'- s It will not sell. it never wllll But I wlll wnlt ud see For I never trouble tumble tlll Itouble trouble. we. I 1" Never Trouble Tumble. [ed “'0 told him chum snow [finch befoi'e the find- LLLIA,,QII land‘ironi 1th“ thefin-aued hii Bahiiies‘ ‘ with greet success. r: IAgrg‘uthondon merchant took the whole pmvieion contract at that time and the Cork mtrchanta combinedm engrou.the market” This Was the moment chosen by Calla hen to me the reward The study he’h be- htowe ‘30 inquiring ‘ and syetenietically upon the business of his choice. Alarmed at their position, one of the Londoners came ‘ over and was still more dismayed when he reec ed Cork. Young Cello hen introdum ed himself, and what was tien thought a" most presuming thing on his part, he gave a. dinner to the Lou loner, to which, however. he had some difficulty in getting guests. He soon ahoWed the London firm the game it should iley. and to their enlightenment ex-, pounded all the resources at their commend. A share of the contmct was immediately given him, and before the year expired the some firm handed Callaghan £10,000 on his own word, after having hesitated only nine months before to take his bond for a few hundred. ' fimfly obtain the Kia ho was .i und_ from this find» liarsuod hi nuiki’fcmlfifi" ‘c‘ho 113‘ at; ish‘ ll "3’01“.“ Il' One of the ableat and most accomplished merchants that Ireland ever produced was Daniel Callaghan. He set up, when but a atripling, in the butter trade, but was re- fused credit for £400 at Tonson \Varren’s yank, unhiqfirgt experience. He, hoqueb 11. n. . the side i ce line, three tubs that‘belonged to Greggs, loyd s lamps, Knowiton’s wheel- barrow, Mrs. Richardson's preserving kettle, Warner’s spade, Phillips quilting-frame, iWeston‘s buggy hemess, and a variety of things belonging to everybody in the neigh- borhood except to ourselves. We had a re- oe tion, and the neighbors came in and iden- ti ed their pro arty, and took it away, and we‘snw the He bins no more. But I have often thought that people hadn’t got borrowing down to an exact science when Solomon wrote, and that when Poor Richard said, "He that goes a bor- rowing oes a narrowing,” he must have meant t at one fellow did the borrowing and the lender did the sorrowing. I am older now, my children, than I was when I was younger, and I nave learned that there is nothing in the world that will make a man hate you so bitterly as to owe you her- rowed money that he eannot pay. The Hndbina moved the next week. The day they moved they sent word that they would be beholden to us for nothing, and so ajht book ‘11 ogr old_things._ They_aent, via When he thought of that he could stand it no longer He went right off and joined the Children of Light, a new sect in that. neig hborhood that was running a sort of a faitgh cure fake on commission. And he was gone. Mad was no name for what he was. He told people that he had been deceived in men before. but never so bitterly as he had been in Deacon B.â€"never. He wouldn’t have believed then one man could treat another so. He had heard of mean men In Ohio, but he had to come VVeat to find them. And a brother in the Church, “ Deacofi," he' said, “I heard that you took up that note yourself to-day." “ Yes,” father said he did ; he didn’t want itito go toprotest,and so he paid it, and Mr. Hadbin could pay him when times were a little; easier, gildâ€" But Mr. Hadbin waved his hand with a gesture at once injured and sorrowful. “ Well,” he said. Ҥ \vuuhl never have believ_ed fihat of you. _t\‘c}'tl." That evening Mr. Viitknr/rirlriCadet]; the loquuid voryutgngry.‘ _ , “ I haven’t said a word to him about it," said my father grimly ; “ he is enough of a buflnegs man.to kypw llgwjlpese thingq go.” _ “ Don't worry M r. Hndbiu about it now,” pleaded my mother ; “ he’ll pay you some time." So things ran on, and week by week our little home began to look more desolate and bare, as one‘ thing after another *went into the maelstrom, until finally Mr. Hadbin, who seldom‘did any borrowing in person. struck father for his autograph on a. little thirty-day note for a. trifling amountâ€"forty dollars. Father yielded ; the note fell due ; and the owner of the borrowed name had to pay it himself. Once Mrs. Hadbin came in, and in the sweetest tones you ever heard, begged mother to save all our meat bones for the dog ; they used all theirs for making soap, she said. Soon after they heard a mouse in their pantry, and came and borrowed our eat. We never saw the cat on our own ranche again. Sometimes, in the silent watches of the night, we could hear her wailing in plaintive cadences, as though her heart was breaking with nostalgiaâ€"she had always been inclined to nostal ia, and even when she was young, she won] make Rome howl if we turned her out of the kitchen at nightâ€"but she returned to the home of her childhood no more; She was borrowed. ‘Gad Hadhln, Kittle‘Hadbin, Jane Growl-â€" Hadbin’s hired girlâ€"and the Hudbin twins. They settled in our tpew and spread out over ‘ndjacent‘sections o the court of eGen- tiles. We scattered as shes w thout a ‘shepherdi that Sunday, an utter-ward ;cam on an abandoned claim that nobody :wou d think of borrowingm Thetni ht all the male members of the oongre a on of our home tabernacleâ€"father and t e boysâ€" nailed their boots to the iloor before going to bed, to prevent their being borrowed be- fore morniug. The next day passed oll' quietly, and none of our out osts were driven in, but Tuesday morning ‘eorg‘e and Gad came over to borrow our dog to go hunting with. We loaned the dog rather sorrowfully, although mother said, “ Why, let them have him, you Ioolish boys; Zach will come back himself.” That sounded reasonable. but» --as I am relating a matter of history I cannot conscientiously omit any pant oi the truthâ€"he never did. He came home with the Hadbins all right, but he never came back to us. They didn't tie him up, but the do seemed to realise that he was borrowed y a borrowing family, and that settled it. He knew he was doomed never to be returned. He would come to the fence sometimes and look in at us so earnestly and longingly that it would melt a heart of ice, but when we called him “ good old Zach,” and tried to coax him in, he would we his tail sadly and go drooping back to the adbin reservation. Tho Iladbinl were Baptists, and I eup- ee for that reason they raided my father‘s nheritanco oftener than they did the bord- era 01 Philietia and Edam. l‘hey know the practical duties of the diaconnte. The first tits: thsy came to chugh Mr. lladbiu naked ‘ 01‘ ' W ‘ ' ' ‘ ear the worn- in‘ . Coituinly,‘ rather 11mm. And in eai_ed__lh_‘9§heg_ Hamlin,“ Siagen lindbin, Rom. J'. 3033mm. nco. He, howove ho wasd ‘,o ' rsuud hi bnhi cad ,9 (in-bat filsh“ Do you know why this duck is called the Whistler? It fliesy so fast fith at it makes its “inqs fairly whistle throu h the air! The gunner, waiting in nmbus, “dean toll of its approach by tlgio shrill sound , and can got ready to tak_o its position Ififoro It. comes ready to take its osition 'lfiforeflt cornea within gunshot. t is also coiled Go den Eye. hreat Head, and Spirit Duck. ho Indians gave it the last name, because it allows the hunter to come very near it, and then before he can twang his how, the duck has vanished below the water. This fri ht. ens the superstitious lndiau. lle th him that such rapidity of motion can only be due to magic, and shudders at tho thou ht that he has tried to shoot it spirit. It bui (is its nest in the top of o toll dead tree, so old and Worn that the bark and branches have fallen oli', leaving only it sli per-y pole. No- body knows how the tent or young duck. lings et from the nest to the water. Legend ltyl t at the mother bird curries her babies} At last a etablemnn came in sight ; he1 took in the situation at once. Picking up a club, he came quietly behind the young beer, and gave him such a. clip that he and- denly lost all interest in my leg, and at once commenced to nurse his own head. .. ‘ I drew from this incident t ' ‘morel z" “ Don't fool with grizzly been 0 any age.” \ ing fellow. and this one seemed to invi familiarity. I came near enough to pat hi on the head, and in so doing ‘brought m‘ leg so near that little “ Griz’ could embree it by his fore-pawn. He was very afl‘ectio: ate, and huged my leg more closely than cared for, but I knew that it would not (it to pull awe from him. Soon the cub mad‘ demonstratmne with his teeth. As lon a he nipped at my tall knee-boots he di n harm, but, as his nip! .oemg _hi her em higher up, his endearnnenth wonkfdease t1 be plenaant. 'A young g'rizzly is a moat comical-1001 The only live grizzly that I saw in Cal“ fornia was a young one in captivity. In small town, where out party stayed 0 night, I Went out to the stable in the mo ing to see how our horses were being our for, and in the yard I found a young zly fastened by_a ohain. , The story of a men who reared s lion’s cub only to fell a victim to its up etite when it was grown, was told by the reek writers for the lesson which it taught. This story of the young rizzly, so far as i goes, has the same signi wanes. It is to] by a Professor on his [return from 9. Gave went. exp}ore§ion In Qelifornie_: 0n the eighth night after the seal had been devoted to the Atlantic, it blew tre- mendously. In the pauses of the storm a wailing noise at times was faintly heard at the door ; the servants who heard it thought the Banshee came to forewarn them of an approaching death, and buried their heads beneath the quilts. \Vheu morning broke the door was open- ed ; the seal was there lyin dead upon the threshold. He had Come fimck to die at home. He was sadly emaciatei and died of hunger, grief and exposure, the victim of a cruel superstition. To this cruel proposition the superstitious owner consented, and the afi‘ectionute and confiding creature was robbed of sight and the next day was carried out to sea. A week passed, the cattle grew worse instead of better, and the hog confessed that she could not understand it. The master of ihe heuse was immediately apprised of this unexpected and unwelcome visit. In the exigency the old dame was awakened and consulted ; she averted that it was always unlucky to kill a seal, but. suggested that the animal should be depriv- ed of sight, and a third time carried out to sea. - It was doneâ€"a day and night passed; the second evening closedâ€"the servant was rukin the tire mgr the nightâ€"something sci-angled gently“ at the doorâ€"it was, of course, the house dogâ€"she opened it and in came the seal ! Wearied with his long and unusual voyage, he testified by a. peculiar cry, expressive of pleasure, his delight to find himself at home ; then stretching him- self before the glowing embers of the hearth, he _r_en into a deep sleep. Next r. orning another cow‘ was reported sick. The seal must' be removed. A Gal- way fishing-boat was leaving Weetport on her return home, and the master undertook to carry off the seal, and not put him over- board until he had gone some leagues bo- youd Innie Bofliu. The boat returned; but what was the surprise of the family next morning to find the seal quietly sleeping in the oven. The poor animal overnight came back to his be- loved home, crept through a window and ocgnpied his favorite resting-place. A ‘“ wise ” woman was consulted ; and the hag assured the credulous owner that the mortality among his cows was occasioned by his retaining an unclean beast about his habitationâ€"the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would continue and her charms bexncqual to avert the malady. The superstitious man consented to the hag’s proposal ; the seal was put on board a boat, ca: ried out beyond Clare Island, and there committed to the deep, to manage for himself as he beat could. For four yehre the seal had been thus do- mesticated when, unfortunately, a disease called in the country the crippawnâ€"a kind of paralytic aifection of the limbs which generally ends fatallyâ€"attacked some black cattle belonging to the master of the house. Some of them died, others became infected, and the customary cure, produced by chengingfihein to drier pastures, failed. A PET SEAL. Seals have been domesticated, and make interesting pets. The following )uthetic but tragic etory is related in “ The ’aesions of Animals." About forty years a 0, says the writer, a young seal was tukcn n Clew Bay, and domesticated in the house of a gentleman whose home was by the seashore. it grow space, became familiar with the ser- vants, and attached to the house and fun- iiy. . Its habits “zero innocent and gentle 3 Daily the seal went out to fish, and, after grow 'dIug for his own wants, frequently rought In a salmon on a turban to his mas ter. His deli ght in the summer was to bask' In the sun, aind In the winter to lie be- fore the fire, or, ffiermitted, to creep into the large oven whic at that time, formed the regular appendage of_ an Irish kitcheq. it played with the children, came" at its master' a call, and, as the old man described it, was “fond as a dog and playful as a kit- hm H STORIES 0|" ANIMAL LIFE- Tm: Wms'r; Youxa szzu.