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WHILE TBST USt- ,-c^viilser,dbymail»a^ priateeift to each ma^ i niotSer cr cook--o«» „tthe red Circe f««^ 1 and send " " ' in? honest "Pg^Jg^ size will secure tM g^ I du»f» •*^3«' ]ga, of JriMWf '^Tg «fo» 16. or •in *••?•' [OINBOO.. -#' ({ ROUGHIWG IT IN THE BUSH." VII.â€" Uncle Family. Job Ahd His CHAPTER „,,, roCTia i9 a laughing rogue, and not a whit *^' Jiuieetousfjr the smile on his lip, which *e'«*7f,oni an honest heart, which reflects the *o'*?,L soul through the eye. All is hollow aid *** rhin and the contortion rt the lip, like the '"^V^.ir alovr upon decayed timber, only serves to f^^foStVe.otteuness within. '°TT cle Joe I 8ee him now before me, hhia jolly red face, twinkling black and rubicund nose. No thin, weasel- Yankee was he, looking as if ho had !*^ upon 'cute ideas and Bpeculationa all i! life • yet Yankee he was by birth, ay, Vin'm'ind, too for a more knowing fellow bara»Jn never crossed the lakat to abuse R dsh institauona and locate himself com- i^tablv aniong the despised Britishers. £Sn,he had suchagood-natnred, at -;» ' "e such a mischievous, mirthlovmg smile, z\u"h. a merry, roguish expression in 'Le Bmall, jet-black, glittering eyes, that n fcuff:red yourself to be taken in by him, without offering the least resistance to his ""n"tcle"joe'8 father had been a New Eng- ,^a iov.Hlist, and his doobtful attachment tte British Government had been repaid a arant of land in the township of He was the first settler in that d chose his location in a remote take of a beautiful natural '^^h'„ "wr.icii bubbled up in a small stone b^sinin the greon bank at the back of the " Father might have had the pick of the towLship," quoth Uncle Joe " but the old coon preftried that sup of good water to the lite of a town. Well, 1 guess it's seldom I tronble the spring and whenever I step that way to water the horses, I think what a tarnation fool the old one was, to throw »w»y such a chance of making his fortune, forsnch cold lap." " Vour father was a temperance man? " Temperance He had been fond enough of the whiskey bottle in his day. He drank ops good farm in the United States, and then he thought he could not do better than turn lojal, and get one here for nothing. Be oid not care a cent, not he, for the King of E e!a i. He thought himself as good, as ' uv.. But. he found that he would have rk h»rd htre to scratch along, and he ad; t« w was mightily plagued with the rneumstics, and 8. me old woman told him that good spring water was the best cure for that so he chose this poor, light, stony land on ac- count of the bpring, and took to hard worK and drinking cold water in his old age." " How did the change agree with him?" " I guees better than could have betn ex- pected. H^ planted that fine orchard, and cleared his hundred acres, and we got along idick enough as long as the old fellow lived." J L "And what happened after his death, that obliged you to part with your land?" "Bad timesâ€" bad crops," said Uncle Joe lifting his sWjulders. "I had not my father's vit\% of scraping money togetner. 1 made some deuced clever speculations, butthey all failed. I married young,_ and got a large family and the women critters ran up hes-vy bills at the stores, and the crops did not yield enough to pay them mdfrom bad we got to worse, and Mr. B- put in an execution and seizad upon Ae whole conaern. He sold it to your man for double what it cost' him and you eot all that my father toiled for during the last twenty years of his life for less than half the cash he laid cut upon clearing it?" "And had the whiskey nothing to do with this change " said I looking him in the iace suspiciously, " Not a bit When a man gets into difficulticB, it is the only thing to keep him from sinking outright. When your hus- band has hud as many troubles as I have bad, he will kaow how to value the whiskey bottle." This conversation was interrupted by a iineer-lookine; urchin of five yeais old, dressed in a long tailed coat and trousers, poppi.".: his black shock in at the door, and calling out, " Uncle Joe ' â€" Yoii're wanted to hum." " Is that your nephe tr " "No: 1 guess 'tis my woman's eldest m," said Uncle Joe, rising, " but thej- call meUncie Joe. 'Tia a ?pry chap thatâ€" as cunning as a fox. 1 tell you what it is â€" lie w;ii in ike a smart man. Go home, Amnion, ana tell vour ma that I am com- ing." " lwo-.;,^' said the boy " you may go tuE .-.sd -sSl h?r yourself. She has wanted food cut this hour, and you'll catch it " Auiv rail the dutiful son, but not before he had" applied his fort finger significantly tothe side of his rose, and, with a knowing fitk, ptituci in the direction of home. Lucie Joe obeyed the signal, drily remark- ing tlwt J2 could EOt leave the barn door- without the old hen. clucking him back. At this peiiod we were still living in *^id Sitau's log hou39, and anxiously looking out for the iirst snow to put us in possession oftbegoori. substantial log dwelling ccsu- pied by Uncie Joe arsd his family, which 'msisted of a blown brood of sev-n girls, ^d the highly-prizsu boy who rejoiced in ^lie esciaordinary name of Ammon. Strange names are to be found in this Ires country. What "think you, gentle fSider, of So!o7nonSly, E-ynard Fox, Hiram ^}tfU,d,nd Prudence Fidget; all veritable names and belonging to substantial yeomen -^ter Amnion and Ichabod, I should not be at all surprised to meet with Judas-Iscariot, filate, and Herod, And then the female ^Ppelatioas But the subject is a delicate oce, and I will forbear to touch upon it. I nave csjoyed many a hearty laugh over the stratge affectations which people designate nere Kry handm me name?. I prefer the old nomely Jewish names, such as that which it Plea'ed my godfather and godmothers to "ll^w on me, to one of those high-sounding =nn«ianities, the MinervAS, CindereUaa, •*â„¢eria3 of Canada. The love of aingnlar ^es i3 here carried to a marvellous ex- "t. It was only yesterday that, in passing r'otigh one busy village, I stopped in as- towshment before a tomtiatone headed I"'"â€"" Sacred to the memory otSUtnce ^^rnian, beloved wife of Asa Sharman." w»8 the woman deaf and dumb, or did her ?|«nd8 hope by bestowing upon her such an ®*«ible name to still the yoice of Nature, «l check by an admonltary appellative, *« active spirit that lives in the tongno of *o«w? Trdy, Asa Sharman, if Ay wife T^ulent by name as well as by nature, tiion *•* a fortunate man! "i to retam to Uncle Joe. He made ^yWr promises of leaving the readenoe " ««Wboight, the moment^ had sold his erops and conid remove his family. We I coold see no Interest which oonid be served by his deceiving ns, apd therefore we be- lieved him, striving to make ourselves aa comfortable as we coald in the meantime in onr present wretched abode. Bat matters are never so bad but that they may be worse. One day when we were at dinner, a waggon drove up to the door, and Mr. alighted, accompanied by a fine-looking, middle-aged man, who proved to be Captain S who had arrived from Demerara with his wife and family. Mr. who had purchased the farm of Old Satan, had brought Captain S over to inspect the land as he wished to buy a farm, uad settle in that neighborhood. With some diffioolty I contrived to accommodate the visitors with seats and provide them with a tolerable Fortunately, Moodic had brought in a brace of fine fat partridges that morn- ing these the servant tranSerred to a pot of boiling water, in which she, immersed them for the space of a minute â€" a novel but very ejcpeditions way of removing ^the feathers, which then come off at the least touch. In less than ten minutes, they were stuffed, trussed and in the bake-kettle and before the gentlemen returned from walking over the farm, the dinner was on the table; To onr utter consternation. Captain S agreed to purchase, and asked if we could give him possession in a week " Good heaven " cried I, glancing re- proachfully at Mr. who was dir^cussing bis partridge with stoical indifference. " What will become of us Webre are we to go?" '0h make yourself easy I will force that old witch Joe's mother to clear out.*' •• But 'tis impossible to stow ourselves in- to that pig sty." " It will only be for a week or two, at farthest. This is October Joe will be sure to be off by the first of sleighing." " But if she refuses to give up the place " "Oh, leave her to me. I'll talk her over," said the knowing land speculator. " Let it come to the worst," he said, turn- ing to my husband, "she will go out for the sake of a few dollars. By the-by, she refused to bar the dower when I bought the place w^. must cajole her out of that. It is a fine afternoon suppose we walk over the hill, and try par luck with the old nigger?" 1 felt so anxious about the result of the negotiation, that, throwing my cloak over my shoulders, and tying on my bonnet with- out the assistance of a glass, I took my husband's* arm, and we walked forth. It was a bright, clear afternoon, the first week in October, and the fading woods, not yet denuded of their gorgeous foliage, glowed in a m°llow, golden light. A lofi purple haze rested on the bold outline of the Haldimaud hills, and in the rugged beauty of the wild landscape I soon forgot the purport of our visit to the old woman's lo » hut. On reaching the ridge of the hill, the lovely valley in which our future home lay, smiled peacefully upon us from amidst its fruitful orchards, still loaded with their rich, ripe frnit. " What a pretty place it is 1" thought I, for the first time feeling something Tike a local interest in the spot springing up in heart. "How I wish those, odious my people would give us possession of the home which for some time has been our own " The log hut that we were approaching, and in wbich the old woman, R re- sided by herself â€" having quarrelled years ago with her son's wifeâ€" was of the smallest dimensions, only containing one room, which served the old dame for kitchen, and bed-room and all. The open door, and a few glazed panes, supplied it with light and air while a huge hearth, on which crackled two enormous logs â€" which are teclu ically termed a front aad a back stick â€" took up nearly half the domicile and the old wo- man's bed, which was covered with an un- exoeptionably clean patched quilt, nearly the other half, leaving just room for a small home-made deal table of the rudest work- manship, two basswood -bottomed chair- stained red, one of which was a rocking- chair, appropriated solely to the old wo- man's use, and a spinning wheel. Amidst this muddle of things â€" for small as was the quantum of furniture, it was all crowded into such a tiny space that you had to squeeze your way through in the best manner you couldâ€" we found the old wo- man, with a red cotton handkerchief tied over her grey locks, hood-fashion, shelling white bajh-bcana into a wooden bowl. Without rising from her seat, she pointed to the only remaing chair. " I guess, miss, you can sit theie and if the others can't stand, they can make a seat of my bed." The gentlemen assured Her that they vrere not tried, and could dispense with seats. Mr. then went up to the old vomen and proffering his hand, asked after her health in his blandest manner. " I'm none the better for seeing yon or the like of you," was the ungracious reply. " Y ou have cheated my pcor boy out of his good farm and I hope it may prove a bad bargain to you and yours." " Mrs. R " returned the land specu- lator, nothing ruffled by her unceremonious greeting, " I could not help yonr bon giving way to drink, and getting into my debt. If people will be imprudent, they cannot be BO stupid as to imagine that others can suffer for their folly." " Siiffir '" repeated the old woman, flish- ing her small, keen, black eyes upon him with a glance of withering scorn. " You suffer I wonder what the widows and or- phans you have cheated wonld say to that? My son was a poor, weak, silly fool, to be sucked in by the like of you. For a debt of eight hundred dollarsâ€" the goods never cost you four hundred- you take from us our good tatm; and these, I s'pose," pointing to my husaand and me, " are the folk yon sold it to. Pray miss," taming quickly to me, " what might your man give for the place!" Three hundred pounds in cash." "Poor sufferer " ageun sneered the hajf. " Four hundred doOare is a very amall prc»- fit in as mwy weeks. Well, I guess, you beat the Yankees hollow. And pray, what brouaht yon here to-day, scenting about vouHkeaearrion-crow? We have no more Iaiidforyo«tosl«Mfr«nns.^ Moodie now stepped forward, and briefly exDiyned oulf dtnatlon, oflEarin^ Ike cM woman anytWna inj»«« to give ly the ^taoe^and redcTe wifli her son untO he j»- Bioved fiom l*e pre nisee which, he added,} must be in a very short time. The old dame regarded him with » bmt emOetiuaiei "I gmii Jee irffl ttfe hii' own time. The houe ia not .l^uilt idiich is to reeeivi^liai a^lik aH Ow dita to tnmliis beskitof^waj^ uikrthlireiHilip in die vildemMp.;:] %o«jirer« fliSei^MBMi you bought a farm of that man without getting along with it the right of possession. But, Mrs. R your son promised to go out the first of sleighing." " Whengh " said the old woman. " Wodll yon have a man give away his hat and leave his own head bare? It's neither the first snow nor the last frost that will turn Joe out of his comfortable home. I tell yon all that he will stay here, if it is only to plague you." Threats and remonstranees wwe alike use- less, the old woman remained inexorable and we were just turning to leave the house, when the cunning old fox exclaimed. " And now, what will yon give me to leave my place " " Twelve dollars, if you give us posses- sion next Monday," said my husband. " Twelve dollars I guess you won't get me out for that." " The rent wonld not be worth more than a dollar a month," said Mr. â€". â€" pointing with bis cane to the delapidated walls. " Mr. Moodie haa offered you a year's rent for the place." " It may not be worth a cent," returned the woman " for it will give everybody the rheumatism that stays a week in it â€" but it is worth that to me, and more nor double that just now to him. Bat I will not be hard with him," continued she, rock- ing herself ta and fro. " Say twenty dol- lars, and I will tnm out on Monday." " I dare say you will," said Mr. â€" " and who do you think would be fool enough to give you such an exorbitant sum for a ruined old shed like this " ' Mind yonr own business, and make your own bargains," returned the old woman, tartly. " The devil himself could not deal with yon, for I guess he wonld have the worst of it. What do yon say, sir " and she fixed her keen eyes upon my husband, as if she would read his thoughts. " Will you agree to my price " " It is a very high one, Mrs, R but as I cannot help myself, and yen take ad vantage of that, I suppose I must give it." "'Tis a bargain," cried the old crone, holding out her hard, bony hand. " Come, cash down " " Not until ym give me possession on Monday next or yen might serve me as your son has done." "Ha " said the old woman, laughing and rubbing her hands together " you begin to see daylight, do you! In a few months, with the help of him,' pointing to Mr. " you will be able to go along but have a care of yonr teacher, for it'p no good that you will learn from him But will you really stand to your word, mister?" she added, in a coaxing tone, " if I go out on. Mondav " "To be sure I will I never break my word." " Well I guess you are not so clever as our people, for they only keep it as long aa it (uits them. You have an honest look I will trust you but I will not trust him," nodding to Mr. " he can bny and sell his word aa fast as a horso oan trot. So on Monday I will turn out my tiaps I have lived bore six and-thirty years 'tis a pretty place, and it vexes me to leave it," continued the poor creature, as a touch of natural feeling softened and agitated her world- burdened heart. " There is not an acre in cultivation but that I helped to clear it, nor a tree, in yonder orchard but I held it while my poor man, who is dead and gone, planted it and I have watched the trees bud from' year to year, until their boughs overshadow- ed the hut, where all my children, bat Joe, were born. Yes, I came here yonng, and in my prime and must leave it in age and poverty. My children and husband are deaul, and their bones rest beneath tne turf in the burying ground on the side ot the hill. Of all that once gathered abouf my knees, Jos and his young ones alone re- main. And it is bard, very hard, that I must leave their graves to be tamed by the plough of a stranger." • (TO BE CONTINUED. MSffm^'nwssr ami Case ef a ¥•«â- â-  Man Wke Teek t» tke At the Sltten' HdepiCal «here is a litHe woman who has gone through saffering enough during the last few days to kill any ordiiuury Imman being. As the story goes she arrived here from the East early last week with the intention ot making her home with her brother, who has been a {nrominent business man intlds. city during the past few years. She exptected to be met at the depot by her brother, but he did not show np, and she came down town and went to a hotel, for she could not find her brother at hit place of business, and no one seemed to know where he lived. The day after her arrival she started out to find him. After a long search she found him. but it was a sad meeting. Her brother was stretched on a bed and seemed to be in a dying condition. He failed to rec3gniz3 her, and in fact, did not appear conscioua at alL He had become a confirmed morphine fiend, and was then stupefied by the drug. When the girl looked on him, or his skele- ton, and remembered wnat he had been only two or three years ago when be came to this city, she broke down completely, and had to be carried from the room. She was taken to her lodgings. Now comes the strange part of the story. The unfortunate girl refused for five days to eat food of any kind. She visited her brother daily until the fourth day, when she became so weak that she coald not leave the room. Up to this time her broth- er had failed to recognize her, and this fact alone seemed to break ber heart. On the fourth day she could not leave her room, and would most probably have diedaU alone had net tome of her brother's friends learn- ed about the case. They immediately took steps to relieve her. When they reached her room she was in a frightful condition, and a physician was called in. But he could do nothing for her, as she was starv- ing to death, and positively refused to take nourishment of any kind. Her newly made friends did not know what to do, but it was finally suggested that she be taken to the Sisters' Hospital. At that place she was placed under the care of one of the best nurses in the institution, and, after a while, a little nourishment was gotten down her throat, and she began to im- prove. Yesterday she was restine quite easy and may recover, but no one would recognize her as the same rosy cheeked girl who arrived in the city only a short time ago, full of life ttnd health. She has not lost her mind, and, when she can be induced to talk, her oonver- tation is just as rational as ever. It seems that she and her brother, who are alone in the world, were left a fortune rf about $40,000. He left her at school in the East, and came out here to go into business. For a time all went well, but one unlucky day he fell in with one of those depraved creatures, known as the California Opium fiend. He soon acquired the habit, and it grew on him so rapidly that he lost all control of him'^elf, and went to the dogs as fast as possible. He seldom wrote to his sister, but she had been provided for, and as soon as her school days were over she startet) for Los Angeles, and arrived here as above stated. But she had exhaust- ed her means, and bad nothing left. Her brother has also gone through their fortune, and to-day they are both as poor as paupers. Almost every cent of the $40,000 has been spent in dissipUion, and the young man, who bore the very highest reputation only a couple of years ago, is a perfect wreck. His days are numbsre J, and his mind is about got e, .and the poor sister, who knew nothhig of the terrible shook that was in store ior her, is at the Sisters' Hospital living on the charity of kind hearted sti ang (rs. What the outcome of this will be none can tell, but the noble-hearted men who have interested themselves in the unfortun- ate couple have written to their eastern relatives, .and will raise money to send them back if their relatives will take them.â€" Los Angeles Times. t The British N. P. When England was pr'ttectionist Sydney Smith wrote of the N. P. of his day :â€" ••Taxes upon every article which enters into the n oath, or cavers the back, or is placed under the foot. TaxeS upon everything which it is pleasant to see, fear,, feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth, or undfT th earth, or anything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the ra.w material, taxes oo every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of miD. Taxes on tbesauQo which pampers mac's appetite, and on iht drug that res- tores him to health on the erminie which dccarates the judge, and on the rope which bangs the criminal on the poor m^n's salt, and the rich man's spice on the braes nails of the coffin, and on the ribbons of the bride at bed or board, couchint or levant, we nmst pay. The schoolboy whips bis taxed tcp the beardless youth manages his tiixed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road and the dying Englishman, ponrirg his medicine, which has paid seven per cen:,, into a spotn that has paid fifteen par cent., fiinga himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 percent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundrisd pounds for the privi- lege of patting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying hiip in the chance' His virtues are handed down to to posterity on taxed marble, and he will then be gathered to his father's to be taxed more." A Great Thimdeistoim in Bossia. On the night of June 10, from 9 p. m. till four o'clock in the morning, the universicy city of Eharkoff was visited Iqr a thunder- storm which for violence and deetmctiveneaa beats the record of 60 years. Immense trees were torn up by the roots and whirled away for hundredi A yards, the roofs were lifted clean off many of the houses, number- less windows were pulverized, atone walls blown away, eto. Patek's Museum of Waxworkp was so«ttercd to the wiada. Some buildings liave been so utterly demol- ished that litorally a stone is not left npoii a stone. At preaent tiie etreete of Khaitsvff are strewn with trees, faricki, stones, rbon, and other tokens of the violenoe vS. the stonn. The gardens and orchacds of thedtyan daaotote; not' a^ fnii% aot eveaalcalis tMOAb, «ad Ae^fenei^oCOnaTa, peopled witii tall, ban. laiOkM teeas^ doid^n- waddea » atady ia OQfoiplaM. lirj) irsE battler â-² HiisiaaMUteterMky tke â- erotosn ef Mountains, miles away from settlements and wkmt9 liHoiona hacklebuvies frow, lattle- snakes^mvti't^en' round for hiany years past, and this summer theyseem to be morenumer- otts than usual in two or three localities. The Shawangnnk rattler is a gamy snake, and rarely, if ever, turns tail even in the faoa of desperate odds. Daring the past two weeks huckleberry pickers report having had some â-  lively enoounters, though nobody has been seriously hurt. Ocsasionally a rattler will crawl to a village and make itself at home in somebody's door yard. An instance of this kind occurred a day or two a^ in the hamlet of Accord, which is situated at the base of the Shawangunk Mountain and in dose prox imity to the Delaware and Hudson CanaL Cbarles Walker lives in Accord, and when he saw an odd colored, iliiny thing near bis door- yard he made an investigation, and it was near being the death of him. The intruder was a rattler of the moat venomous kind to be found in the mountains, and it soon made Mr. Walker understand that it would not give an inch and that it would fight to the very death. The reptile was ready tospriug at Mr. Walker when be saw his peri' audit was the work of an instant to pick up a club that happened to be bandy at his feet and to hit the snake a vigorous whack over the head as it sprang towards him. The blow stunned the rattler for a EC'jond or two, and then it coUed itself and sprang twice at the man who had made it feel the weieht of a heayy oudgd. Both times Mr. Walker escaped from being bitten by the tangs. All this time Mrs. Walker was in the house. As it fortunately happened, she stopped her household duties for a moment to take a look "up and down the road" when she saw the desperate position cf her husbannd. Some women would have screamed, and later on would have run to a neighbor's for help or fainted, but Mr Walker basn'c eot that kind of a help pate. In an instant she saw that what had to be done must be done quiokly, and then she scurried into the kitchen, where ber husband's trusty shotgun was in its customary place already loaded and ready to be fired. In a jiffy it w as in Mrs. Walker's hands, and in another jffy there was a puff of smoke, a bright flash, and a ringing report and a dead snake lay stretched ac her hus- band's feet. Then Mrs. Walker did scream just a little, and her good man told her what a brave little body she was and how muoh good sense and timely presence of mind she had exhibited. Other people have congratu- lated Mrs. Walker, and now si e laughingly says cbat she fails to see that she did any- thing for peopl 3 to •nako a fuss over. Never- theless she saved her husband's life, it is fair to presume, and there is no doubt what- ever about the fact that the snake was one of the largest seen in Accor d in years. "Irjnn 5o Unierstau'" A good story is told in one of cur ex- chtngea of a major of ar;itlery, who hid c immacd of a fore in tne t«r VVost. He was frequently lamenting that hia right arm could nut he more often used against the Indians. Finally one di..y he took one o[ the small howitzers, which defended the fort, and had it secnrely iitraped to the b^cli of an army nmle wicSi the muzz'c projecting over the animars tail. With this novel gun Ciirriage he procJi^d- ed in high feather with the c^ptiiu and .a sergeant to.a bloffou the bank uf the Mis- souri, near which Wis eaciniped a bicd of friendly Indians. Tne gun was duly loaded and primed, the fuse interte.'^, and the mule pMked to the edge of the 'olulf The mijor remarked something ahout the moral effect the exbibitin was likely to produce upon the Indian allies, and stepped g«yly forward and apnlied the m«tch. The curiosity of the mule wa.s aroused. He jerked his head arcnnd to see what was fizzmg away there on his neck, and the neck, second bis feet were all bunched together, and making forty revolutions a minute while the gun was threatenig everything under the canopy within a radius often miles with instant destruction. The captain shianed up the only available tree. The sergeant threw himslf flat on the ground, and tried to dig a hole with bis bayonet to crawl into, while the fat major rolled over and over in agony, alternately invoking the protection of Provic ence, and cursing the mule. Finally the explosion came, the ball going through the roof of the fort. The recoil of the gun and the wild leap of the terrified mule carried both over the bluff to a safe anchorage at the bottom of the river. The discomfited party retarned sadly to the fort. Shortly after tJie chief of the Indians ap- peared, and announced briefly: "Injun go home." Questioned as to why, he thus explained: "Injun ver' brave, help white num. Injun use gun, use bow arrow, use knife; but wnen white man fire off whole jackass Injun no oadetatan' no think right. Injun no help nm fight that way." What it OoBts to Dress Some Babies. A rich b'.:iby's Uyette now costd $500 or and indndes sofc, silk- warp flannels handsomely emhroidered, fiae-knitted shirts of snowy wool, beautiful hand-wrought dresses, no B frilled and heavy with embroid- ery and lace, as formerly, bat made of the finest French naibsook, tacked and hemmed by hand, with rows of drawn work as fine as lace, and pretty stitchiogs of briar work in fine floss, all wrought bv baud, with real lace edges of narrow Valenciennes, and costing, plain and simple as they are, some- times $50 $60 and $75. A wrapper, sha»l and little sacque of fine silk flannel, em- broidered with forget me-nots in the delicate blue of the natural flowers, of white daides with yellow centres a little cloak of heavy white silk, wrought with the same tine briar stitchings in silk, rows on rows a little close cap of tbe same material, embroidered (all over with liny silk sprays and tiny silk socks of pretty tints are included in the lay- f tte, which ia as dainty as a mother's loving fancy can design. Tbe baby basket is a mass of lace, frills and libbons and thin muslin, lined with pretty satin or slleaia, and costs all the way firom $5 to $40. The bassinett, or cradle, is another pretty bauble of brass or white willow, white enamelled, canopied with satin and lace, with linen furnisbiogs hemstitched as finely aa a lady's kerchief and covered with a soft silk quilt of down. On,e noted baby born in New York not long ago, had a cradle of mother- of-pearl in ttie shape of a sea shell, with legs aud handles of solid gold, lined with amber satin, and with a canopy of satin and rare old lace falling from a e;oId framework and sweeping the floor. The linen was hem- stitched and edged with real lace by the fair hands of the happy mother. Fiva sets of diamond buttons, six gold rattles, a solid silver toilet set, solid gold safety pins, dia- mond amulets and rings enough to cover every little fiager and toe were among his biby presents. Then there's the christening and a robe which coats from a $100 to $1,000 a mass^ rich lace and fine stitching, some- times made of point lace, and, like, a wedding dress, worn at the ceremony and cever worn again. Old daikeyâ€" **Who am dat young gem'en wliat^ pnttin' on am along de stnet?" iOndm manâ€"" He is a iwofeedonal hssaball plgyer. The Bostons have offered $0^000 tebiin." "Huh! He can't pot on no â- ^ cmh me. My old maaa sdNued d«t forme nany ft tiiiM." Unjost .tispicions. " Robert," said his wife, suspiciously, "where have you been? You're late to dinner." " I've been assisting in an humble way, my dear, toward improving the breed of horses." " Oh, I was afraid you were at the races." A Fond of Moimation. Countryman (to the celebrated Hindoo Snake Charmer)â€" I s'pose you know a good deal 'bout snakes. Mister Hindoo Soake Charmerâ€" Snakes,|ur, have been tiie study of my eventiul'fif e. I know all about them. Countrymanâ€" The hull bndneas Hindoo Snake Charmer â€" Tee, dr. • Countrymanâ€" Well, I wish yon'd tell a feller where the body leaves off an' the^tail begins. HiB Gieat ICsrtane. Teaoherâ€" "Try to remember tills Milton the poet, was blind. Do yon think yon oan remmnber it?" *Yss, ma'am." "Now, what waaMnton'fl great miafor- tune?" "HewMftport." 1 i I I 1 1 I X. I I 'i ' f., Gdi ft yonng ISOOftyear?" aakafto ' ha will be l ee p oad wat Yea, k* â- ^'