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10 B e e, MINNIE'S DOWRY. Fromt All (a8 Yeap Zottnd, o, wilatot, no, I ton't go bick ok niy word. o girl fanoles you, and yoi did moa frood tnrn ot I own thaty and Jonathah Tafr- Toji'a ok tfié minn to fobgok ot Lt foryor lle dedlh woltld &8 swinglog on tho lodga-polo of g6tho peaky Tndiab's wigwnrit. Dt ¢horo alr Lo sldes, Brivishior, fo » bataain, and Tve the sight, 1 Ruose, to thok n conditiou to what you call my consout, 11 not see Minuie mutiled o a bef- gkl b, ot iul deal ohfairly with my other hitdraii, that T may provids for her start in life. IThis I say, and this, Frank Moado, i hold to. I¢ you kin clap down €20,000 on that tablo, uay & year heuce, day for day, it doublo thém, sud yousud 3iiunto sholl be man and wito, But i .not, why, neighbor, you'll jost cousider the hywap lias fallen throngt, and malke way for those that &in malntatn s hotsehiold fu o kindor diffei- siak faubion from what you conld contrlve ab _Hurdit ¥at, 1 reckon” Aud the obstinate old tarmor bronght down hia heavy band, with = soiinding elap, on tho mdssivé tablo of biack- . walnnt wood, aud stared mo in the faco with somowhst of the dull, halt-menacing oxpréssion which w note in the eyos of an apgry bull. o o opa of thoso dogged, delf-willed moti who pride thomeclves on o casl-iron cobslstoricy of purposo, snd woll X knéw that oven poor Minuic's tearfni gazo and besoechiug look, far los any Ffemongtranco of iniug, would liave no cffect In modifying tié resolution, L 1t was with a heavy heart that I rode bick to my poor littlo fatm st Bumnt Flat, and & sigh, in iwhich envy hd hd shdrs, eseaped mo ns 1 invol- diitdrlly conttasted fiy foiv innlza-floldd and éparoly-stocked yaid with lhe well-atorod pbha and dorrala ceowded-with cattlo and horsos, of tho optilent neighbor, for tlid hdid of whobe Jourigest dadghtor X wis 4 smtor. L whd por- feelly woll award of dir. Fairlop's covort focan- ing, whon b had hinted ab my makivg way for anothér and A wealthier admiror of Minole's, Sba had attracted; nnfortunately, tho notice of s middle-aged speculator in mining properly, oria Mr, Lloyd; & nitive of Ponpsylvinia I be- 1levo, bist 4 rbsidont i tho little Tavn of Problo, hot fot from the Gotchatopo Pass over the Rooky Mountains, on tho southwéstorn slope bt which ntood my own humbla dwelling, and the mineh rdomier honso of Aiunio's father, Ol Joustliag Faitlop was & not unusual typo of tho Western _ borderer. o Lad como ftom Kep- tucky, a8 hio boaited, & poor man, und; after n struggliog caréor on tho froutler, during which g wifo aud only adn kad Leoss muirderod by tho Indiate, bad become ricki by the gainful trufle in ‘hogs and horticd Lonstd, grost qumititios of whiclt ho roared for thio supply of tho hungry miuéra of Pike’s Peak, The sorvics of which Mr, Fairlop spokeé had simply been tht ohauca had placed it in my powor to eave his lifo i a border raid whon A roving band of tho Blackfcot had awaooped upon & wagon convoy weat of the moin- <aing; Thers was hard fighting, and the old farm- cr, who wog unboreod and prostrate, with s * brace of- tomahawks brandishied abovo his de- fensoless homtd, had givon himself up for lost, when throo stiots from my eix-chambered rovols Y&t had furned th6 tcald. ~Iu tlio firat warttl of fila giatitude, Mf. Faislop Lad readily agroed to regurd mo o8 Lis faturo son-in-laws ratitude, I am sorry tosay, has & tendency to gtow cool after & timo, aud just then, whilo eve- :,vmlnf had prospered with the wealthy Ameri- can aeftler, o steady and eonsistent run of ill- 1uélk throdtened to overwlielm his Eriglish neigh- Vor. By eattlo atrayed; & promisiug crop of young, wheat and another of minize worg de- youred by tne locusts from the aikalino dogerts to the wostward; of niuety choice Merino sheep rocured at much cost from tho Atlsutic sea- oard, (wo-thirda were, through the carolcsncss of their mulatto ehepherd, drowned by a freshict of the river near which they grazed. Ad a. crowning cilamity, o marauding party of tha Crow tribo catrivd off my horaes, on tho ealé of which Lhad in great measnro relied for the meana of extending my narrbw domains; and I fonud myeslf an impoverished man, in Bpits of hard work dnd much self-denial, poorer By far fhisn on tho day whien, with £1,500, my poor grandmother’s legaoy, 1n my poclket, Thad landed on tho quays of New York to oxchauge the position of & brieflesa barrister, with chaw: Bors in Hara contt, Temple, for thint of a farmer tmong the fhinly-peopled Fegious of tno Far eat., Tue siistoitunds which Lad béfallen me wero elorply such as are habitual to tho piomeera of civihzation, in the half-tnmed lands Tkt Jio pear the spus of the gigantic mountain barrior that intersects Nortlr America, but I had hnd, n8 my nelghbiors in general wero not slow to ackaowledye, **o bad timo " of it, in coming in for nearly every mishap, short of being ecalp- ed or having the rocf-{ree burned over my head, froquont on the frontier, The rough, hordy fel- lowa rénlly sympnthized with tho young Brits ishor, - knowing as they did that I had done my best, by thrift and foil, to earn 5 compétencs. by overy mothod known to Western agnculturo. MY, Fairlop, how- ever, who had from the firat deridod my efforts ss an Iwprover; mow proved him- g0l o trug Job's comforter in tha bour of ad- -yardity. 8lick to hog and horn,"” he would say; ‘g good hend of cattlo and lots of live pork, wilh corn-cobs enough to' pat flesh on the beasis, are worth all your new-fangled nousense ten times over, my cbap, Your wheat, and your vines, and your soft-wools might be all very wall in Cali- Tornis, but roughi-nnd.rendy is the watchword here, aa yow'll Iatn to your cost, I expect.” And ho favored thio suit of Miram Lloyd, although Ainnig could nover be brought to regard othor- wigo than with repugoanco the shifty eyes, hooked nose, and grizzled locks of the well-to-do pretender to hor hand, Minnio wny herdolf & gentlo girl, voted on all handa to' be uunusually protty, even for tho wild West, where good looks -ure by no means a rarity, but neitber o robust in bealth nor so résoluto in disposition &s wera hér two sisters, cither of whom conld buck an uubroken Lorse, bandle & rille, or enforca disci- pline smoug a legion of gemi-savage swino, with auy maidens on the frontior, They wers wont Jestiogly to decluro that Minnio was o' clty la~ dy,” und ought to havo boen resred in Now York, uot fr the midst of tho rugged freodom and Goarse plenty of tha Ldian bordor. That Minnieloyed mio I was woll awdre, Ier owu dear lips had shyly whispered the assuranco of her affection over and oyer again, in answer to 4 lover's dodxing persistoncy ; and, apart from £hat timid contossion, I should have been bliind conld I net have secn the brightening of fior dark-biue oyes, tho sudden _change of color 28 the unbiddon flush suffugéd her pale cheok, when I entered the Fairlop dwelling. Sho was usually ailent dud reserved, but with me #he “could talk, dotting fres tho girlish fancics, the dninty littlo thoughts which ~ would have mob with scauty appreciation in hor own narrow homoa cirole. Sho was, indead, botter educuted, fondor of reading and rovorte, jucomparably mororeflued, thau her blunt-apoken, Lonest sistors, who wero, to do them justice, very fond and proud of the slender Little fary, whosa daticacy of aspect and addross contrasted with their own vigorous oxuberanca ol life. Old Fairlop, & widower thesa six years Knu, considered ks youngest child as a poor, helplesa creaturs, uufié to battla with the world, ad thought it would be tho truest kindness to grovldu for het by uniting her to s ** warm" hus- and., And of Miram Liloyd's warmth, ina po- Eupiary sonee, there coula ba o douht, . Twenty thousand dollara! Whero, within o year, could Thope to lay hands on no imposing an amount of casli? Littlo boyond a bare main- tonanco could bo looked for from the produsa of iy farm, now that ehoep-fold, lorso-corral, and sditlo-pon had beou daploted of thuir four-footed tenaifs, - The fow fowls aud pigs, the muizo- flolds aud thio garden thot ho locusts had laft * nilnjured, the tobaceo and the wmiddoer, would insure livelibood for myself and the hired sors vaugs, White aud black. But ae for making » téitine by my bucolical skill, that dream for the present win 4t 8o end. Yob a fortuno— £4,000 storling—I muet make beforo tho year wad out, or bfd adiou to tho hopes of hailng charming Minnio ad iny wife. Mr. Fairlop was ono of thouo etubborn men in whose dull’ eyos mgrc{ ia o Weakness and relenting a foiblo, o might not abeolutaly compol Minnio to marry thiram Lloyd (in Americd publio’ opinfon forbids any vory violent demonstration of “parental des. potism), but of o surety bo would fako menna of- Lectually to provent any further futercourso bhe. tween Lig daughtor” and mysolf, Yen, I must becomo tho D‘Fusunusor. within ' twelve mounths, of £20,000, or forover for- foib the hope of calling Minnie mino| Yot low, without enticipating s miracle fo bo worked ot my bohulf, could I expcet to become tho owner of sucha lump of solid colu? Amer- few'ts tne traditjonul El Dorado of tho specula- tor, the'land whore fortuncs grow and dwindlo like the gowd of tho Prophet Jonah; amd uenoé, parbaps, I folt loss despondent than I ml‘gm liave dona hnd I beeri at home i England, Jut I bad had too much oxpoiicnco of {he sountry of wmy adoption to beliove that woalth” or compotence can Lo suddonly and iy ;cqn}rcd on tha western gida Of tho Atlantle. “For commercial sucocts T was without 3l Jadder wherowitls to climb, Politicatly I was 4 serapger I tholand, ~ One way, nud o6~ way 1loe, scemod Y""‘""“’"" One ¥inging, tempe- g word sounded n my enrs a4 1 lay nslden, Atil tHnt word swas=goldl; - Oloan by, nmong tho Bleiras, for huudrcdflunnd ousauds of mfi.’lu wost and south; to soktll And. édbt| goid and el yer woro to bo had for the gathoring, for thoso whoso Juck or skill gulded thom aright, I had tnlkod with tnu,wmmr minors ot o kpow the dork a8 Swell s tho brj "‘B 6ldd of the gold- dooket' | vanturescitio " ite=ths O ehio g dlsabpointimetib; tho bevkin hoallli; i dostitution; thnk wera the modd of milug an k- yonluror wilu began, high of lieatt apd stroug of hond, It waa o lottory, with torriblo porconte 8go of blaiks, uiiger, fovar, flood, niid tho risks froth whits olfuinwe and 'réd-#iinijod tbh- bera, 1av160, &s I knéiy; hieavy toll oh tho voltis teor army of diggors, But if thoro. wort man! blnnlual1 thore wero somo prizes, dazzling, supor] bails that drow aflor thom b minas of tho covatoul, atd pebpled Ittish after Ris, it the eltort to grow rich by & fottundtd fifid.’ I had spokou with mon who in b ddy ad been lifted {from poverty to opulence, amil had heard thom desoribe the florco joy, the Lalf-ineredulous ex- II[QTUBIA of, that tkinmplisié hoe, Hillibrto T ligd resfsted tha sllurotuouts of thd gold-digger's mllin%. but it bitd_obaiitred to tle; tndrd lElulh once, to traverad tho hills in. compavy with pro- fessionnl prospoctors; mon whoso restless llvos wero pssod in the quest for burled trensurs, snd who, 11 e rodb hlong, lind poilited out sitndey spots ns all but cortain to larbor the piecldiis metals. Now I wan not; hatitally; of o spbcus Intivo turn of lud, aud it took the oollapke of my modest schionio of ncquiring n subatantial in- como Dby agriculltire, coupled illy Jondthin. Tnirlop's dbslatation that bk dipglitor bride- groom mubt Lo proparad with 820,000 dtt tho wedding-day, td indute me to turn my bick on tho rogulor mdufilry of n farmer's lifo, and to cast in'my lot with that of ihe toiliog thousands, wh stiivo to ivrcat from tho ptuiiy wiidernekd ths lidden riclied, I met to work; then; matfully, linvibgy o commton Inducefnent to gustnih my onergies; and behig young, strong, snd jnurci to tho Inbors which await tho wottlor In tho buokwoods, and having withal o rotertive mem- ory for tho bints and warnings whleh_mfi nilning acquaintances had leb drop, I mot with greator success than ofton acerues to o heginner, - With- {u 16 miles of my home at Burnt Flat was a par- tinlly oxplored reglon of ravinod and gullics, whonoo both Fold and silver had been collected in considerablo quantitics; until faélnon, a8 po- teut in theso wild regions ns u Balgravis, had drawn off tho diggers and dolvera to ngiwer gulchos and pligors. . With the ald of my hiréd haiids I bulit o dam across 0 miountsin stream, iever set known {o run dry in tho sultry soason, Bot up_ cradle; wsicves, and tho other rudo plant of the solitary adventirer, and ercetod a slinnty of bark an pfdlb_nn]rhllgfl to gerve s n shelter by night. ‘Lhis dono, I Hout bock my mon_fo_the farm,.and applied myéol! sorlously to tlio almost hopeless dotorprise, Not that my hard exertions—aud I worked vory hard —wero unrawardod. The daily ylold of” gold- dust washed from the sands of ‘the fiver waa saroly losa than of 1, ocenslonally of 8, 4, or & ouunces. Twice, among the Lbroken quartz-stones of a reef, I camo upou 8 pocliet of vuggets, tho net value of whicli fniounted to sovoial hundred dollars, sod often, whon secking for gold, I mot with uncxpected [dmps of virgin il ver, well worth tlio glunulnfi. But all did tiot go smootlily with iné, 1 gpita, ot thtse happy acaidonts, My dam was broachod by & suddén tlood, and it cost mo ninetcon daya to fepdir tho damage, which the tmbid watek liad dotg be- tweou suoeet and moourise, I Alni{ tivo blidlts, and never oxtracted fromeithor of thotd di miteh old a8 would maka a Indy's wedding rihir, ‘L'vico henrd a paniher gnarhing and whitiing arouud my door of tough baik, aud anotlor time I fan soma risk of being robbed by o puity of Indiin prowlers who infested * my . lonely Ata. tion, bogging, brngginf, and threslen- ing altesnately, uutil drove _them off with my nflo. mado & money, howover, ond on my occasional visils to tlio fownship in senrch of provisions, was wormly grooted. by my well-wishers; and much encouraged by Minuie, wha iad tho spico of _xomum{‘q in Lier iiituro, which s soldom, 1 thiiik, Incking in that ot & woman, and who was af Girsh very coiifident and ganguiuo a8 to liek {ruo lover's apecdy and com- ploto success. 'I'hero wore croakerd, liowever, ho shiools thoir honds, and pithily remarliod thal gzo,ooa could not, like pea-nutd ar clond beriles, Do picked up overywhor, ‘L ho propheta uf ovil, in the long run, Scoméd likely to approve thomeolves accinato, for nionth aftor month slipped by ; autumn gave placa {o wintor, winter to epriog, and Iwas yory far from my goal. Mr, Fairlop began to givo ominpus Lints that tho day of gruce was alnost apaiit, and Hiram Lloyc's hatoful shadow frequoutly darkened tho door of tha rich ectilor; whilo Miunto, who had learned to_look on my undor- taking as all but hopoloss, groir palo and thin, and thora vwaa at times & weird, won glanco in hor dear eyes, a lhectio crimson on Lier pale choek, which boded no good. Lvon ofd Fairlop #ay i, ond groflly fold ‘me that his daugler wus “frofting horaolt 31l and usalosily. Still, bo would not relent, neither would I desist, 8o long a8 strongth wos spared to mo, from toils thar overy day grow more uurémitting., At last I acknowledged to m{lsoll that the task was a sheer jmpossibihty, I bod but s shotb week or two left ont of my, yenr of. probation, aud little thau ono-third of tho Jargo suin was forthcomiiig, 'fho_rest lay hidden in tho mfigcd dapths of tho Sierra, Yo, deapmamgl,v, ol? mecliani- cally, I lsbored on, deadening thought by dowpright bodily esliaustion, s nddmg, oyery day, to the shining heap that Iay buiied benéath tho rude hearth of my bovel. 1t was now somo time sinco I had visited oither Burnt Flat or Fairlop's Olearing, ‘ho forfonis were full of molted snows, andtho bridlg-road difffonlf, while 1 wag averso fo discontinua my foil oven for & fow hours, Dut three days romained to e, and, unlees in that briof space somo oxira ary stroko of good furtuno should bafall mo, frrawell to all my bright day-dreams of o bappy Lifb with Minole, / I had Inid mysel! down to eleop, worn out with toil aud carc, and stopt soundly, wrapped in the buffalo-robo that did duty for o bed, my head pillowed on my saddle, and my weapong, rifle aud revolver, by my side, I was awakened abruptly by tho sound of my OWD name, 80 it seemed to me, uttered by & fe- nlo voico, unlxkel{ a8 was_such & contingency in that remoto nook, ¥or a momont I thought that the eighing of tho sind, or tho seream of a bird of pray perchdd on the tha cliffd above, had deceived my car, but nof It was 4 womau's volco calling ou * Frank! Frank!"™ and I hasti- 1y started up, and, opeuning tho door of the ki, bohéld in' tho eilvery moonlight the outlines of n fomnlo form, Ilunying up, I saw with infiniio surpriso thot it was Minnie horself who stood beforo mé, She looked strangely pale, but vory penutiful; her dark hnir, no doubt loosened in tho rough and rapid ride, hupg loose about her shouldors, and lior manner waa singulsrly oars neabkudd oxcited for oné usually so gontla and meek. % Thig is o time for Eleopl” slie snid, eager- ly; “Up, up, and be doing, bofora the.precious hours are gone, ‘Take what you nped for dig= giug and cowo with me, my own! I have rid: deu fast aud farto guids to whera it awnitayou.” *Whas, Miunje?" f asked, much perplexedby Ther words and manner. J “@old!" gho raplled, with a quivering empha- sis. *'Much gold! your fortuus, love, and iy dowry, 1 will bo your guide.” . “ You, darling,” I aniwored, trying to take fiof liand; **you are il}, I foar, or in distress, snd ——"" Bhe intorrupted mo at once, brinking Dack, et tho samo timo, 0 8 t6 avoid iy touck, * Jfrank,” sho asid, with passionate, pleading earnostrcss; '‘lob me bavo my way in tbis, You'll novor repout it, bolive me, Do Mianio Fairlop's bidding, without remonstranco, with- out question, for this ouce. Coue, come, why aro you go sluggish i : . Puzzled by slinnie's vehemont onorgy of ad- dress, so utterly now to my, I thought it best to hwumor hor, and accordingly fotohed from my hut tho piok, shovel, crowbar, and lightod lantern, saying, with o smilo, that I was now reddy, hito a truo knight, to oboy my lady’s bohest, ‘At the same timo I Jooked around, \\'audcrlngly, for lier horee, I remembored, howaver, that sho might robably have secured tho bridlo to & tice in tho hioket within easy riflo-shot, and made_up my mind not to vex lior byidle quories, With a wave of lier whito heund slie eigned to mo to follow, and get forth, at a rapid paco, to- wards the frowning gorge of tho Sasquowish torrent, threading her way, without hesita. tion, among bowldors and {angled brushiwood, until, in @ narrow and gloomy ravine, sbo halted bofora o biack stouo that bore gomo fanciful ro- semblauco to a pulpii, ‘*Ilerol dighoro! " she sald engerly; ** worls, Trauk, a8 you nover worked bofora, ~You stund upon gold," Bho gave no renson for this bold nesertion, but thers 13 gomething coutaglous 1w strong sud genulne conviction, and in_this inatanco I surs rendered myuall campletely to the fmpulse of thie moment. nnd, eloaring awny with my shovol the black alluvial soil, slruck” lustily with wy pickaxa into thd rooky stratum boneath. o fur as Icould distinguish by the dim lysht of tha Iantern hosido mo, the miliiorals which my pick disturbed wero proclsely such as I had mot witl iy twonty excavutions eagerly comwonced aud abaudoned in disgust, Yos, thero woye thocnrved guelss, the brittle horublonde, tho fullaclaus sporklo of yellow mica, tho blaok Lasalt, tha wator-tvoin gravol, varled by thin siroulks of milky ‘1“”” or of dark ferruginoussand, What could lavo caused Miunie's vinit, bor fanoy re. spocting tho richinees of this particular spot, and tho singular altoration In hor manner? Bo fur a6 I knew, sho had nover bofore entored the pevine whither alie had enfiled mo, winte of gzold- dinping sl who nocossarlly fgnorant. Was hor pilod aifeoted, by, Ho montal ‘strain which sho uad fof Anfitb tind ondired; or-= 3 1141 What trnd tlintf 'Hho lllulh; pbint ot Hy pieke Tind glnrcnri WU & dnit thud, dito Bomuthing Sotor thail rook; koftéd over thinh thd tinkdonbd elhy thht pnbh 8 98 nidth trotibla in clenving tiedngli u,.s'i»“l' of iy & delbd-p irbhin, hnd ih fronihy thy tool I ricoitfithrdd n Bligght but puiacptflxh’! rodldtineo. I hold \xgl. witlild ~tho rddliis of tlie ll%bk_ tint wkrtinttbd trom ¢1ts ntory, thib elid of Eho piek andlo| o flako of somothiug j'u_lluw aitd hr“;h wad atloldug to the polished matal, Anothor Vlow, atid Ajotiier, ind T hid tratifixed, wiid wan drdgiing to tha siFfaos, 8 whighty; wedse-hnpad e Saba, with thtads of gojd atd small Guliaa ot or: ugflmn duiart nl[uf(hg tolt. Gold! g0l I foll bhs iy knds, nid; I d sort df ainizd- mont; lifted the llugo nUgRdt i hiy outspread Liids, It vha heuvy, fiom 20 to n? poiihtly ieithl; dd T Rtidadod § Ilchnlmi\r of Lho virgih whiitdl a8 seldonit gladdoite tho dfe of & digger, And worth, ab 'tho loWest cbnipu- takion, €0,000. Iald tho ihish down b (ub prakh bestds imo, it Jooai iip; ia H L0 otk 4n bxplandtaii; at Minnla'a phlo lnvnlg fnce, Hot syea flashed, atid Lidk Ipd ko thombling, * Qultk; Franl, quick 1" shs eried ; ook nnhworll Jke n i, dutd do hot lthgot oh- tlia voby thitcsliold bf ydur fortudd, Win wealtli, winmio; Fdflr Hohy,- afid 8pato fiot ol ot toll it thd foiv honehi thag ard lofti—ao8, 6oé; to yollow volb youder, trondlng soutl. That 1 #lint tlio thinets Eall & boart-lodb, 1 it not? Follow it, atid bo tieh: I 11l light you da yori' dig," slio addot; shatehing “up the Clantorn; abd holding 1t g0 ad to turow lta ploam ibio tig aliallow pit: +hero, Atire chnn& , My byd catght {hd t8ll-talo glitter of f thick throad of gold-duarle, tronditig Houthwatds, &s Mionio had wild. Add fow I el réapluloly {0 iorls, btriking #ijels bIGWH 44 nwokt th echoos of tho oliirs, iwhile Mibnlo, holdiig up the light bverhond, encotirfged 1o witli fond arid Ldpeful words to fr6blt oxertioud, ‘[ho woather wagatrendy {ntonsoly bot, At lonst to Eijlish dfipkbcitdon; afid fiolt the lightnine bogon to pliy dulbrg tho . sorkited crests of thb niodntdips, oud ths thun- dof peowlsd afir off; bubt ws ‘era Uoth too thuch éxelted to lbed tho slgus of i coning ftorm, ud it was not Ll thd Lonvy riin sot it witli aliost tropical profusion itliat I remeitibored thdt Mitnly wad tod tondor dnd delicatd to o exposcd to thb puluhi:o'f the dowiicoming delugo; And, lifting tlio blus Mox- icin pofitlio wlich I bad tlirown asido for tho phposs of &hhm froer play to my Hmbs, I trir- ed to wrhp it round Her a4 somb brotectibn from thi elomehts, o my aurprigb, Bliv was gdne, Tihe ldntorn stobd” o n jotting frag- ment of rook, but of thé far glil who lhad w0 Iately been besldo i thera wha not # trace, I swent It sesroh of lor towhrds the hut, eallifiyy but her nanto, with avery torm of atidetitment, Dbut tho hdllow echoos Bloya re- Litiuted tha Botind of my voled, nok could I flud any sigiis of Ler, althougli I mado tho circuit of tlie brako whére I preéiumed hor steed to have been tbtlibred. Had she, in soine suddon im- puilad of mildeii coyiiess or caprice; romounted er horso and ridden off bomowatde, witliout o word of adieu, or bad shodroadod lest Ler fathor should disebver and resent ber abaence? Could it bo that her mind was disordored, that—no, tho ecgiiracy of tho information which sbo hiad nn'unied 116, whetco atquited I could not guess, 68 to the whereahottts of the gold-veiu to which sho hud led mo, vouched for tho clenrness of hor Intellect, howeyer wild pud unususl might have been hier words and l_nmrin%‘ wider (he fv. l:llzuuce‘ of stiong excitotént, Bleanwhile, I bad otlier matter t0 occupy iy thoughts, Tho sind- deb stroke of luck brovglit with it & hiduntitig foar leat somo_baleful chanco should futerveno to blight my 16viving prospocts, . ¢ Thtre's many o slip Lebwixt the dup dnd tho 1ip,7 b & proverh which, 16 clabsle Latin a8 in bLotiibly Eviglibh, kopt roging in my oars, 48 if o lfl'bckiu;& split. wore whisfleratig’ tho -~ wordn. W iL ono of thosa thoukand mishaps that await thd gold-digger should mat tho cotiplotoncss of niy didcovéry? Tl burstitig of a water- Bpotit, & chianco ncountet witlt lurkhig Indlans or ithito *road:agents,” an httdek of tho chu{h tey fover, of tho iilbrupt dipping of tlie vein into Dard ergitalline rock, which tuubt Lo slowly nt- tacied by dnlld dynimits, would upict all my calculations, ‘I'ieid, was not o moment to bo loit, lest somd iucidont should fob nfo of my vew-flodged hopes; and Aecdidingly, boedldes of thd fiéavy fain, I diagged mybell bick to tlie fiéshiy-turned soil, eud labored om, until at length, fairly worn out, I rank dowri on the edgo oHi 6 pit aud foll dsleop througli shesr exhaus- tioti. Tio first rays of tha morning sun falling on my faco aroused mo, aud f raised wmysolf on my albow and, ionlmd around. Mewory, however, #oon brought back to me the ovents’of tho past night,—AMiyuie's stravgo visit, ber unaccounla- blo dequinintancs with thd oxistéics of tho gold- niige, thia Jabors {bat had led to siich rick ro- sult; the newly-kindied hopes that had sprang ur ns fortuno smiled upon us. Thero lny the glittering hoap of unggols, of ollshapes and sizes, from tho flaka likie tlic s¢alé of soma mbi-~ atrous {lsh to the quoerly-shafien block tliat resembled an old fragment of eowng tred-root trabemated into gold. Altogethier tho **pile,” iu minere’ parlanco, s ‘)mbubly of n vatuo of soma 89,000, which, with what I lind painfully amnsed fi Uio cotrsd of Iiborlous ionths, ado up two:thirds of the stipulated sum. Two days remained to mo it whicli to becomo master of thio remahider; and tho biight glesm of tho yéllow veld, croppitig tiirough the rocity side of the exeavation, stemed to beckon me on, How I worked during thobo two days and nights can ouly bo guéssod by those whom somo mighty impulisd lind cdtised -to put 8 consecutivo stiairi on nerve aud musclo for manhy hours togother, c¢rushliiz down bodily fatfgue, 88 it woré; by forco of wiil, It Is seldom with impunity thac such & toll con Lo levied on the vital enorgies ; but I was young, strong; and in Iove, and whon the deathly falutness of extroma exhaustion came upon mo, ofton would Minnie’s sweet.image avise bofore me sp if to nrge mo on, snd, Anteus-tike, I felb reieived vigor to re- dumo my task. _ 1t was a Inbor for o glant, I have sinca heard how at » lator time mingis from other spots ocamd worderingly to survoy tho pit that I had dug, marvaling that ono pairof handscould hava douo go much in so brief s space. l'or nl- though tho vein coitinied to yield fta golden trbatures, trouding to tho sonth, it had to bo traciad out, évér doepor and duey{er. belotr tho stony pidtform of the raving, uniil at last I was plying oy pick Inn tuoneled arch of my own cutting, T badceased to count or estimata tha probable value of my winniuge, ond it was not ubtl tho evening of tho lust day that I finally do- gisted from my toil, and, spresding out my gold- én atoro o thio carfhen floor of my but, agsured royeelf that it was, at tho vory loast, worth twonty-cight or twenty-nino thousand dollars, My wotk was done, my roward secured, and I foil asleop, and dreamed of happincas soon to be realized: Thore was nob ithor heart in all America when, soon after suntiso on the fol~ lo\fluq moraing, [ eaddled my horie, and, With tlio lcathern big that held iy treasure Bocuroly strapped baforo ine on my sure-Tooted steed, Bot off for Jounthin ¥airiop’s farm to clatm my bride. Bomehow, 88 Idrow near my journey's end, sud approached tho woll-known dwelling of tho xich farmor, my bigh spirits flagged, and a chill ran through my llmbs, a8 if my hoart within me liad forebuded evil. I drow rcin, and rode slowly up to tho trollised porcli. scrooned b{l traibng robes that Minnio had planted. Ihero seemied to bo an unwonted stir about tho farmer's doorwdy. A little knot of them, in thelr glossy Sunday suits of biack broadeloth, stood conversing in ani_undértone beneath tho shado of the poreh. hoy turnod to look ut e, 18 I rodo up and distotntod. Ono of them was on sequaintanco of mine: 1fo bent forward and spoko & word or two to tho rest, aud I notod that there was a look of sorrow, pity, surprigo, in all thelr sun-burncd faces as they fixed their éyes on me, I Drushed by ‘them sand en. tored the house. Tho fitst woll-known faco that ¥ boheld wus that of Tanny Fairlop, Mionio's oldest eister. Sho covorod it with hor hnnds, and burst iuto a_passion of weoping g our oyes met, thon hurtled away; and I honrd hor call **Father! father!” "And {ben old Faiflop, jo blick too, camo with halting stop ot of an juner room. C Lor thio very firy time siuco I hind known bim, tho rough, #olflah old Kentuckion seomed sort- enod, "hero wora bears In hisaycs, and Lls voico was gentlo nd lio wald ;¢ Toor fad, poor Jud, I'm mafu sorry ; dou't yor knoiv It thon?”. “*Know. it, know what 2" I asked lioarssly, ns I looked to right ond lott, bowildored, The farmor Jnid hig brond band upen sy arm and drow o for- ward, oh into tho inuer room, * God forgh‘u mo, I was too hard with the protty tlowor," Lo sald, gmunm'g. Lo gea hor alive again, aven ay the wifo of the poorost man fu tho country or {be State, I'd givo evory réd cent of niy fortuno, but it's too lato now," Yos, old Jonnthan Tairlop liad spokon truly, Tt was too late. ‘Fhiere luy my poor Minula {u her cofiin, enltn, peacoful, ‘waxen-white, boauti- ful with that straugo fleoting beauty that the dead someiimes wear, aud with o ‘swoot, sad ‘#mile on hor maidon lips, euch ag o tred child wight wear when iuto u drosmless sltnbor, Doad| The pure white shioud, tho black Inor, tho closod eyes that should no more wolcamo me, told thoir awn taio with tortible distinctuons, And now [ know for tho flrat time how weak, worn, and ill I waw, The volces of those around ma soundod a6 if they came from o great way off; tho solid eavth voekad nnd ractedd s the walis Awnm avonnd falliug “boei shawn THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 18TA-~TWEL o; and T foll swooning on the floory and renmom= Ler nothing moro thaw,that all graw dutl, Whon I rotogored from the fever,.brought on, no doubt, by over-fatigus and exposuro to the wentlior, coupled with intengo montal excitomont, thoy told:wme, sot unldudly, how. Minnig i ceadod to bo, Hitaw Lloyd'h adlt, onedurngtd ) hiér tathor, tho old uinb’s, poremptary commani thit nlio khiotld gieo up all fden of tha ' trash or # Britigher " whg cotifd not:pay bia way dnd maiutaln n wife, Aud my apparont failuro in tho nuunl?l to wrout from tho soll the nocodsary sum i whlch tho farmor bad atiptilated, hind raved too mueh for that doliedto findd And thit Bohmitivd orguiization, *“It enmb .sud~ donly ot tho Ingt,” hLer alster Enid. Tuin, frail, and wastod, tho montal, sgliation bad Fr\wod a bitedon too hioavy for lior Lo boar, and at pnrth tho Inborihyz Noart bid edasbd to buat, autl With foarcaly a whiipéred wWotd 6f farewell or forgivonesa sho. wan gofo, Strangely cuough, aho had dled; no far as X could gathor from thoso abait hor, almost ot m\? #amo hour as thal at whileh ptiu biad apyentad bafors ma ab tlib dobr df miy Mut, sngorly callliip Upbh md to seok for $18 bitfad mfid o whicll sho lad 8o unorr- ingly guided mo, Aud shen I honrd this thera chuié & rblapao fn my.illnoas, aud, delivlum sot- ting in, thero onsued a voriod during whicl I waa in houtly dangoer, tdlking,’ o8I thonzht, alwnys with niy dond Minnio \vhom I should never meot agdin Hllws to should moet fu Heavon, 5 Loy woro tondor with mo durlug tho time of my convaleticonco, and it was in kindness, doubt~ 1dBe, that thoy strove to potsuade mo that I had but dronmed ‘of Minnib's visit; that my mind, gorely tasked and hgitated) hnd deécelved mo; and that the spot wheneo the gold bad, boon ox- tracted had been dno which 1 lind noted as o like- 1y ona in oma provicus ramble, hnd had sought undor tho {mptossion that I was guided to il t D -hor of wiiom my thouglits wots full, I imfletfi and lot, thom speal, My own _conviotion remasubd unnltored, That my dond love had been with mo wad o comfort of which I would not lat thein.rob mo, but. X sald nothing, £ Uowed my hoad, and sllowed them to beliovp mo & convott to tho bypothosis thiey anggoutod. I goon lofb thnt&)m of tho country, settling in Californis, and working—ns others soek rofugo in atrong Stink—to bunish thomournful thouglts that wore with. mo over. Thogold I had won {rom tho boil sufliced to purchaso. a large extont of virgih soil, how blooming with vinoyard and corn-field, and I am n rich man, and envied, and all hns thrivan with mo. But tho zest of hffiliu gono out of mino, and I wish, how I wish, that the weary pilgrimage wero uver, and I atrest— 84 o is—forover. TURKISH L1 FE. Mr, Oscaiynn’s Leéctirs Eefore the New Yoric Liborid Clnbe .. Fromths New York Republie, . Mr, Oscanyan, formerly Turkish Conaul at this port, delivored a lecturo on * Domestic Lifo in ‘Lurkey " beforo the New York Liveral Club, nt Plimpton Hull, on Friday. e began by deserib- fug the interior of Turkish dwollings, and.tle mode of lito of thoir occupants, ‘Lho Virkish huabond, it would appear, hina & pottion of tho houso not apatt for himsolf, whoro lio_ recolyés and entortniua bis guosts, juab os the worden hovo thefe borém, which “is inviolate, ‘ho speakor alluded to tho trict obsorvanco by the woinon of tho modest custom of remaining veilod in the presenco_of strangera. In alluding to polygamy the speaker sata that Brigham Young hod only rovived tho practices of thoso aucient Arabs which Mohemmed. bad clicok when ho_enjoinod tho tiue K tuko a8 wives two or threo womien, a3 hio plerscs, and no mote, and if ho takes anotheritis tobe ovoof tho slaves whom he hos sequired, this timting Mohammodnns to thréo wives aad: one ot cotorn, _Uriontal houses liavo imindngo gakes, and Lnockors aro usod istead of, bells. Tho alnve who admits. the Orfental visitor roceives Lis slippors ou entering, Al thio Turkish Liduiscs ato throo stories high, and what ansivers to the Amorican parlor or ittiug-rooni 18 at thoe top of tho houso, ‘L'hid is the caso because tha I'utka aro groat admirers of natural kconory and selact a8 tho chojcest raoms thoso on tho upper flocr which comimand the best viow., Around tliroa sides of 'Turkish aparlments ora wido sofas, tho “gttoman” belng omisnomer and toknown u Turkey, Mr Oscanyan stoled that upou his fisst visit to this country he called upon a young lady and w8 vory much astonished ab Deing informed by tho servaut that sbb wis © sliling upon an oftoman in the back parlor,” "rblcfi made him loth to intrude, s he was unwilling to Bco ono of lis coputiywomen In such ao jie propor position. 1o alko disabitsed bis auditory of the popular beliof that tho fotlowers of i~ lam elt cross-legged, sluting that thoy kneoled. ithe Sohammedans J,'rrmt oiro_anotlier by touchs ing the forehend and then tho moiith, and tho shigo ropresentation of # Tiurkish saloam i au sbsurdily.. Tho spoakor exbibited chibouque and narghile pipes, aud Mustrated the privciples of Loth, Orentaly, ho oaid, donot smoke as wo Qo, by drawing in tho smoko iorely into tho mouth and immodintely expelling, but in- bale it iuto tho junps. Ho thoughb that ths kind of smoko was n benelit fvsteud of gn mjury, and assisted respiration. o also exhib- lied a Lurkish coloo-cup (about tho kize of an ogg-cup), and stated tha tho visitor (oven if sho wero o fady) was al\mfi‘u olfcrod o pipe and a cup of colfeo in“Furlish houses, wlich it was con- sidored n brench of etiquetto ta declive, In the caso of tha caller Leing & lady, sho need énly plnvo her lipa_to tho mouthpicco of the pips. o ‘Purkih costumo, ho #nid, Lad Hnderguno girent moditication of late yoars, tho Eiiropoin style of dress having been Jai gely adopted. Ono. of tho reasons that tho JuniZavies—a military order—woro disbanded wai that they refusod to adopt the Buropean modifications in costume preseribed to thearmy by the futhor of the pres- ont Snitan, The 'Turks retumed their hoad-gear, the fgz, indoore—not from any religlous scruple, 1ike tho Quakerk, bub slmply becanso thay eov= midered it docoroas to remain covered, A gontle- man in the sudionco hore inquired why the Turks took their coffee in such diminitive cups snd in such small quantities, to #which Ar, Osenpysn responded that ab evory houdo Vigited they waro expected to drink coffoe, dnd therofore took only.a email quantity at a time. e very humoronsly desoribod hig sousatious of uauses in drinking colfeo, withmilk and sugar in 1t, and tea=which tho Orientals uso only a8 & mediciito for colde—from o toasoup, which ho ehuractorized as European small soup-turcen. ‘I'ho Jecturer concluded by ronding passagea in Turkisl from the Koran, at the request ot one of the audience, —_—— CADENABBIA, No sound of Whécls or hoaf-biat hidsks Ts ellence of the summer, duy, Au Ly tho lovelieat of wl Jaked Twhilo the idio bours away, T paco thio Jeafy colobande, \Visoro Jovel rauchies of tho plane Aliov o woase a oof of eindn Twporvious o tho sun und ruin, At timen s audden yush of afe Fiutturs tho lazy leaves o'erhiend, | And gleatns of sunehiue toss und fiara Liio torches down tho path I Lread, Dy Somari¥a's marden rato T xbako the markio atalrs Ty saat, And bear tho water, us I walt, Lapping tho steps bencath Iy feet, The undulation sfuks and swolls Along tho stouy Iumpuu, ‘And far away thio tohtiny Uells Tlukl upgn the ialiors" nets, Bilont and slow, "!g tower and town ~ Mo freighied birges como ud go, helr poudont sbadowa glidiug duwn 1y town aud tower submeryad bylos, Tho hills sivéep upward from {he siora With villus scatierod une by oug “Upon their wooded wpurs, 2nd lower Bellsgglo blaziug 1 tho sun, Angl dlinly scon, a tangled mizda I;l Wlllllylllld woods, of Jht ahd sty Stands beckoning up tho SIEIVID Fisa Varenna with 1ts white cascade, Tdsk myaclf, Ta thia s droam ¢ Wil 1t all vanieh fnio wir 2 1Is thoro a 1and of such suprems Aud perfect beanty anyiviira t @ivedt vislon 1 Do nok Fudé aivé, Ln}gur uutil my boart shall tako Tuto fisclf tho slminer day, And i thio beauty of tho lake, tuger until ujion my bratn ' ‘stamped anjmayo of tho acene; ‘Then fade $nto tho uir ugnin, And be as f thou badut not bean, =Henry IV, Lonwfetlow tu the Attantio Jor December, ————— Lecturlng Qitcen Victorii, The Y.ondon World has takon to teaching Quoon Vietoris good manmors. It fltst losron touolies tha propricties with rogavd to the visle to Englaud of tho Imptoss of TRusuls, and s ‘aa follows: '*Bupposing you worp ou olderly ludy aud yaurson had murriod the ouly danghter of tho richust, grundost, and most important of your noiuhbors, by whom evory possible attention hind 0 you sud yours ; und bupposing on tho evo of your daughtor-in-luw’a confinenmont Tor mothor came from o long distance to sy with ber in hor London houso, dou't you thnic 1t would be murulr docent usnd pulite—wo will By nothing of rb itio—hahnvior on your part to coudo up from tha far distant pinco, whore you pousist f1i burying yourself, to tho greal confu- wian of tho Liisinogs which it is vour duty to dis- chargo, aud uhow sone puisuunl civilivy to your mort 7 C IR FARM AND GARDEN, oW tho Poeopio Prospos and Are Ei blen. to Rido in Onrringea~The Bikect of ttendy Pny on tho Busiiness ot tho Conntry—~About Duckon and the True clty o Ploking Thom Allyo—1s Kok for Sholtex«iéits — Attt Lidhtlng of Grapes=Vines=Annltorat- ¢d Hohey=Bilie Graw—A f0alfDay on the Luwi—Autiitiie ol A Hitak Welt RReglon, Frtii OUF Agricultural ¢ pondent, Curasteian, 111, Nov, 19, 1874, Rialng fnto the villhgs h Féiv dafa sinco it & neighbor, ke romarked tho groat incronso of cov- ered carringos of all kipds. * Fivo yonra ngo,” #nld ho,** there wore not ono-tenth ns rmany ; and 5ot Inspite of tho panio and tho Grangers, thero hias been a vaat inoronso In the number.” g NO MORE 8O TIAN AMONG THE FPANMERE, wae my foply. And this rominda mo of an old aunt, who bad tho rhoumatlsm, a erick in tho back, and half-n-dozon similar nilments, and yob ®ho would do twico a3 much work ns any other parson; in short, it appeared thar, the more that sho was afilloted, tho moro. shie could do. And 80 it apponrs among businéss mon and farmora: giva thew a panie or o short arop, and it is won- dorful how thoy will bégin to sborten up thoir oxponses in & thoussnd ways; and, the first thing thoy know, they havo n surplus of eash on bad, Tho loskonell demand for godds bogots Bhitp éompetilions, Ahd moderato stoeld aid eartied, Whd qliték ealos aisfed at, Tho yehulb 18 bobtor nop,profit, £or tho doad wolght la Al thrown off. Now woe bave five livery-stables to flfidltéh yonrs afzo, And nll of thei well patron- 2l s hoto bds Dot mord A8k maney made by tho doalers and manufacturers of tho villags, or rathor mora eaved ; and tho same stato of things 1itd pedchdd tho dotutry. Tho réndy jiky that Lt tho farnlor to pirchato his supplies reduced cost has boon of 8 much value to tho denlor ag to himsolf, by takitig away thit canker of tho dealéf, bad debis. It ia this that Lhe énab1&d tho dealor And xaWd of Business, purchdsb a citriafio and to i b -iofa that do- livors fukditnre; dry goodh, nnd gioceries, dating 0 week, takes the familyinto tho esuntrydn Suiiday, #nd ollon iftér 6 o'clock on thé long stuier-ovénlugd, Al of thlé rods to show.tho .general prospority of tho country, and that sll thia ery about linrd Hkiea Las tio keul foundation, . Ouo ot tho points B aconomy made by tho farmers has boen fu tho purchase of farm-implo- monta, Thesd Nive leon reduesd fii cont from 20 to 25 por cont: -Tho cause of thiis redugtion has boen e READY iy, - and this roady-pay sysiem. was, inaugiyated by the Farmer® Clubs, and not by tho Graugos. This lattor closs hits, by n seeret hriangoinont, chitied out whit tho Clubs did ‘openly ; not only to their own ndyaiitago, bt to that of the manu- facturer and tho denler, \Whon tho faimer pays cash down, he carofully examinga the articla 1 oll its fentures, aud then takea guod eare. of it, This oppears to bo n Umvorsallaw, The teuth s, tho thing purchuged on timo is loss cared for, 68 thd pomon doca not ranlizo that it ig bis; but, whon it 8 paid for, Lo no longer bas o divided intbrest, but foels full ownorship. T'on, again, whoa fio s to poy caah in hand, i dood niop purcliagé mare, than his neods da- mand, and ho thus economizes his tesotrces, nnd thia'éna frent Ienk i stopied. 'Thie plow that ia pnid fcris olled sod honsed, and 8o it iy with all.othor implements ; and this care doubles tho valuo of n roapor, mower, tvagon, ar other Implentent, 88 icprasorves it from rust and rdt. ‘I'bion tho ‘bigh' price of farm-labdr, and ita poor quality, havg turned tho farmers’ attention to tho odondmy of labor, and it I8 wppliod to a botter advantage, Ivis n trito snying, that it is an il wind that blows nobody good. . In this ro- speet the panio blow cousiderablo good, and to~ day the majority of dur farners nra e 16 1 e bfi:x;lmn OFF roi; 1T, ag 1t has compalled economy, business-prodané i Lk, . 110 1 ioh £0 FOA0E 10 by Lo laome hghtniug-rods, = sewing-machines, aud similar ®oods, at two prices, bocausa ho can get them on. timo. ", Thbn ho lias becsmo nioro socinl, bocauso of thé Farmoral Clabs and tho Grangd ; niad, what is bottor, has bLetolie o move goneral feader of tho nows of tho ‘day,'and cousequéntly bettar posted as rogards tho wmarkots nod tho worla's doinga, Al theso ihitigs combined havo enabled him to owuql\mfl;y or cirriage, ind como up Lifgher ia tho fleld of kational onjoyment, Yesterday & briokmiker sald, * Mr. Rural, aro you swaro that tho farmors are putting np o roat many brick housés? I am_ solling .fm. le tho brick. to thé farmors that I sell ta tha town. Thioy are 1ot Suly bnildits new housos, but put- ting in collora _ond éibtatii, which boa trely inorensod .vhy busitese, verv much to my sur- prige, for I was nwaro that the demand for build: ings in town had fallon off, but this now domand Jias mod than Ada it up. Avd tion tlieso man pay cash,. ahd I libar Little ¢omplaint of hard times.” Tho fact i8, fow farmers ndw tall about selling out: and thoy aro disposed to put their farins and fo¥m-buildings in tho bost possiblo order for comfort and couvenience. Farme honges ato bofng T to grade, and nico briclk walla put under ther for collits, ciatatpd cou- strueted, abd Bakemont-stables gut uilder tho barna; and gl chis {9 the rdsulb of tlis panic, that quicted down our peopla to. tho aober busi- ness'of 1ifo, and Which lins cnabled tha citizén and the farkior to ride in bis éarringo, Ducxs, - , TowoyDA, TII., Nov. 10, 1874, Nh. 4 Ronin "8 : Lart bprtug b fiond gave mo # dozon durlss' egaw, and Thave eight young ducks, Now, I wish yoit to el me when to pick them, and Baw T cnntell o ho fexthers aro Fipe. WL past of the bedy sl 1 pick tho Joathiors of?. I wua not Vronghl p on i Tarm, and over saw s duck or gooin picked for tho feathors. Ithink o thake somo nico pillows from iy ducks, Will I flud St pratitable to Focl duckd for. tholr eRE» and fenthera? - Plesso giva mo al tho {aformation that son can, o tho suboct, Husboud thinke that I will grow tired of my ducks, us thoy aropralty free feedors, aod have 10 licsitation’in Jetting mo know whon they are Bungry ar’\;lry. . na, P, 31 Diclea are kept for thiot ogiga and flesh ; and {ho feathors, excopt tho pickin, 1o timé of Xilling, aro of no greis value, Were Itoown a thousand ducks or geose, I'iould not have them plucked alive. Tho pioking of geoso ahd duoks, wolees dons by an export and at tho proper time, 13 o cruol act,—at best ono that I profér to bo oxcused from, L havé nover found ducka vory profitable, probably for the rongor that 1 have o wpring or small brook for them to dabblo in. They must Lisve ivater constantly, had thon a goop for thom ut night, whoro they can bo agoure fromn rats and othot vorniin, and for their nosta, Ducks Iny during tlie night o carly in thé morn- ing, and nioniot fot ot of tho duck-houso until thoy gn\-n laid, a8 thoy fro not particilar whoro they drop their eggy, unloss thoy coneluds to sit on them, whea they eclect some secludod place, and Iny in it with givat rogularil "Jy but this is not tho ense at any other time, ag thay oftan In; in shpllow water, When o boy I uséd to buni ducks’ opéa in tho sballow wwaters Of the crooks, It i probable that thoy aleg laid in tho dep Wa- tor. A I grow older, somo ono siggostdd Ehnf if tho ducks wore shut i at night, we could o tho aégs. Acting on_thia {dox, I mido & pon, aud kep them in until 8 or Do'clock in tho moim- {n;;'. and thon lot them go to tho brook. I found 1s a groat savine of Jabor pnd of wet foot, with @ largo increnso in‘tho iumber of ogpa sécured, Youug ducke are best fof niatket, aud thoso of ifie’u’r.flrld ate afgo tho bobk aud most divet, ag of ducka becoio wolay - and quarcols somd. For, thia Téason, tho breeding ducks _whould.. bo killed ab two yoars 1d, or Fathar- the socond. fally and thd Foun, 3un|.'s, {h-& w8 Intonded. for tho tablo, ot zhfi close of the saason; at that thao théy ought to he.dn good flash, with & nico cont, of Fastners, ‘that pay for the pleking. In doin i!‘lls. out off the head, and bo earelul to talo oft thio fouthora while the body 8 yet warm, After tho foathors, ko off tho down, but da ok Eéald thom, s thab 1ot only injuros tho feathors, itk the skin will not bave thnt plunip, ruddv appoarance as il pleked dry. OF couiss tho young ducks ehould not be phicked, as it Wwould seriously fujure thony for the table, and tho Joying ducks inust not be interfored with, on pcconnt of the égga; abd, 4h thoy nre to bo Lilled in tho fall for thelr Neeh 2nd foathors, it is of courso shoor crucity and nousenso Lo thinlk of taking off thelr feathers at any other Lime. . . . n tho caso of goewd, we puisue a differont courno {n rogard to the laying goose, as g.ua old aeso aro.bottor than young ones for breoding, fter dociding a8 to thy numbor to wintor over, tho young poouo ni Lillod, und the feathiork plncked o8 in the casa of duckn, It was & lato. pluckod gooao tht drew Irom tho oot tho ox- Proasiong © " Thaiem, plucked gooso o .. Upturmed hov stantlog eye, No doubt that sholooked upon gvory ono With sugpicloms’ Do, madum, I beg of you, Jot tho duolks go unplucked until ripo tor the table, aud do it sfter tise hoad hiaa dropped from the blovk, and tho bird has mado {te laat fluttor, when you may ry-plek thom ut once, ard thus make your hlcnlpil awe with tho cousciousnoss of not bhaing erugl, . + I'he parson who fnvented the plucking of livo = aoso and duoks has dono much to harden the honet 6f tho Inrinor's Wild whon in search of neyw fonthor-bode: ! o) Dt 11, 678 7o ' ‘Garkswond, I, Ve, . Mi, @ Renan eBrn s T want fo pidt b sleliobiolt on thonarth of my housn and orhard, 1 thought ot plnting bokscller s0od, bt do not kngw whon to plant ior—whalior in tia fall or spring. If fn the Apring, how do yo0 keop the hged ? Pioaso answor through itk Cuinuxe, sud oblige, G W G & T1i% kedds of, tho box olilar Ao tine I Boptéms n' Atid shonld he sowa ik o Covor thoth f fiicli ddop, hnd il o iiiface, or, poc ddwn firmly, Lot Yo plants rem: bods ono songon, and, R:e followi, placo whoto Lhoy nvato stand, This tréo trang. lante frdt-rato, nn it haa an abundancs of broun roots, Tho seods may Lo mixed in damp pand or moes, and planted carly in the spring § but tho nurserymon always plant thom in zEm fall. BM‘URA%}KVIN'E!. [ ny, Piks Co,, 111, 4 Mo * RunAL 7318 § I wintio ,.x;n’i“xffi& ‘31.3;& finés, and wonld 1ké ta know I it Wil do well to plant 110\ 88 woll 4 {1 tho spring, Bhould I let onecano row o flrst goanon 7 What i1 th_best grap for (atnily,bé et the Concord 7. Shhll T cover {ha vines mv‘i\'l'}‘lb;,?v IA‘:""{{’ mc\n\ of :u-:m 1-:uai hofimy- for | Al 50, he noly freapds, sach ub 1) - 165, Ay bettot i tho Diluwaren ¥ T , plant in tho W S miE s Fnrd Franks, ,Ir yoi plant nofy, the plantk lionld be Hire- tactod from belng thtown out by froat, oithor by s mound of latl over them, “or covered with atraw, I Am planting this fall, and, as soon ns | tho gronnd freczes, Bunll puton stray or prairie- | lgng ok protection, Currant nnd grape cattingi Bd troated n tha kome waunoer, Ohe, tive, or threo_ canes bo allowed tho first ond all ‘subsequont yoars; but, in puttig, I .only use ono cine, and that & vigorous oue, and, if pos- giblp, one withéut latorals. No pinching Dack {n bummer {8 pormitted on wmy vines. The Créton, Walter, Eurdalis, Iong, Irealla, kud othor noy gkepés hitve,not stood Woll in Coutral Illinols, and will néod mora cara than a farmer will probably give them; st lenst I cannot afford to spend time with thom. Inregard to mnother gapo lator than tho Coneord, the Catawbn (e as good s nn{ for Pilco County; though it will not fivo aunnal crops, yeét ita fruit fa desirable, nnd, with tha oxdeption ‘of hard. wintors, 1t will' do quife will, ADULTERATED HONEY, Tho_Natjonal Bookeopers'. Assoclation have Liad tpls subjoot undor considoration, and . re- tpy\;qn_l adyeragly 1o tho practice, . Tho telograph ns only alludéd to the subject, snd no tufi re- port bas yob ronchiod ue. Lut it may as well bo stated in what consista this ‘adnlteratfon, go that piéoplo miy gunrd against 16, It i simply, the hest whito ‘'vorn-starch ‘or inigar-loaf ®irup Alavorad with honoy, Tho honeycomb s placed on the inside of ,tho-jor,. noxt the glass, and the jar filled with tho' cloar, transparent sirup. Tt 14 & o0 Sudgs Who can détoct thie Aiférance when applicd to the motning *slapjacks,” Tho decoption vonsiats insolling ono pound of honsy, that costs 28 contn, and thw'se pounds of sirup, that costs 10 conts pn\x\‘,\g, ltogothor for, 85 conts & poul hetlor buglbess, than ‘solling pure hanay, 1o by B0 by tha fAgaies: 1 poutid Piro combhone; 3 pounds birup. 1 glass Jor i HONFY. s, . Totalcos! 1y & pounds honey and Jar, at 35 conts, Troft, . Sean’ e e W43 Tigures are rather usoful in this conneotion, and tho hausckeoper can use them if sho plenses, only that sho,may havo to_purchago the' comb- honoy sirup, and §ars, at retall, and, tho, profit | would bo Jesd, ‘Tina is all therd Ia 13 regnid to adnlterated hondy, * Thera ‘3“0 geoat barm in making persons be- Jiova thht thoy are enting liohoy justead of corn- tarch sirap, providing their faith 1 étrong; but | s | 03 acra of any corn on the farm. When fired drained, five yoko of oxon,gould not have draws & plow th:.nugh &, pack of {ty and yot, lest yoar, & sinelo span cP. Tiorsea, had 1o difiloulty in proparing it for planting, | Wa have hiul four dry Bongons in aiiocosslon, nod It fis possible that. wa may hiavo a chagb, And thoh thés ‘opon ditohot Mur‘;l?y o Vory importank part in the deonomyof 0 m. . &% Ou tho 16thand 1014 wa hnd & good rnln-fall, thint will pat tho Iana fn gwdeonfimo for fall- plawing, and this part of tho fam-wo:-'i( sbouls now bo pushed rtonrm!. for ovary fiiroir Lurnéd i & fufrow for the spbing's woble, Tt thig yaly will propatd tho Jawd’ for thid wotting of orehiord-treds, grapesvines, abd shrabs, nkt theso up weh earth to nruvvt eaving out, with b froat, or boing swayed. sbou! ho wisd, Hiacs thu pianied do. well, mfl'&ia‘g}‘ef [ foagontbly lakdy, Tho fall-sebting of t¥ced undor favorabld onditidus ndt anly foiwnrds the worl of apring, but the trees make 8 bettes growth,, But theso romarks avs confined to deciduous trees, and do not includa the conifeks, hics avo baltch 0t SUUIAE ehnly 1) tHo Wisinid . Wintor-hoat hod mide w IAl‘:am‘d\vth 1t sBite bf droighty thie chiuch=bug, aud the grashops pors; Al thddo who hiave straw to sparg should pprend it on the whoat aftér the ground becomed frozon, Jadwpia o feest wosty s U Wrky-gohtyd axn itr-didatia 0 ontiHues netivo. GAs I8 boing struék on Aevéral Tatms naar: here. In ons cdse it id uaed for hoating the hpuso; and athors sro preparing to .\It\}\_r.u it in, tho samo wanner. Theonp ,n; 3 fook doep, arid tho oWs atriak .ot tho adfolns ing fatin laet’ wdok {8 65 feot. Tho Ak iafdd Inyer of rottsh todd Abdub 8 or 4 fobt thiok) and & Toiv feok below i nn sbitndant supply df witor: Many WTlB havo beon bored through this poe stratum to tho wator, aiid lhfl}nuu Jaat p‘ogad 289 20 fadt of tater, umug:m ok tn'u {50 Bibbles. tup, and, on bl pAsdsd thirough o mia. bitths frooly, tlylvmz ot o great amount of, host: . 1t is perfeatly inodorous, aud _of 'novpluo for light noloss passed throush naphthia, bat 1t %vtu.ofi: an futonda heat. Tho indicdtios nth thit ¢ SRR 00 zomasiah B e A able aa el trict of Iroquois Consty, gl urhmn A REQUIEM, it lorpyeith BYBH. Stel § A6k T8 Kncseed bl Aoty u\n?l.'z:c‘;b - 3o never miabéd b Hght or Drey . ir?ofi;:::afu“{;n dupintes .. o ol 'm 18 Foniho ma‘r"u_: 5“{.;‘“ “:’“’“ nt over apokn for Acrnps o} s Ot chawed a diver g, T 0 o ip- THo tack his part with othér dotgs- .. Jle nover. n‘?hked. not hul; e y 1ils compades to ineatigats, I Z\urm{;uod & post or treo, {0 was tho chobklént pup . 'That ever grotwlod nbiont & bhtd © ° y Wion dttier dorgs come ug J ifo novor falled, on no accout, 0ld wotnen £0 8UROF, ., 4 -+ Axi" orlpl;‘a.h:g& ?:fi' t0'tormsit 53 a8 eapic| 0¥, ., . ke 3y hoht s brok; I'm minch ittt © - Ti6 was thie chorHTaNoRt i 3 k - That very tbrod o fady’s akirt 0 Or chawad alipper up, ot de 3y leutt o broke, Uon musth ibhoR ) ¢ T id geoat saipithy, Afd ghosved it 11 o st . FiisEt1add tor plad 0 ade kilin Wb *{fost yny time o' day, « O . * DIy heatt {6 bfdke, 't tnulki concernddy . o was tho livelldst pup. .. e That evory treod ¢ Thomas- . Oz clinyed o kltfon up, For ettin Jocos ’iie'ni- it técatntd iad e 1% is tho poor housckepper who pays tho bills for elrmp instéad of boney. Patcrfamilias wonld do Wl to_ try thig gort of adultordtion; and, if it works tell; they mny havo chonp honey to Ro witl thé uckwhofy cakes, Thogrocor can mako & proflt by thus adulterating tho hobby that ho sends to his patrons, and thus save tho profit. of ‘tho middlomen thut stand botweon him and tho n}xlmihy _Not that tho consumer will b partic- ularly bongflted; but thit the procer may havé a Yotter proft, and, in,the end, do nwiy With tho professional konoy-manipulator, ¥ % DLUE-ORASH, The_true blie-prass ‘does not seera to hivo lind Al smuch nttont{on (rotn the hauds of our: graus-farimers 2a it dosorvés, . It scems 80 thoronghly ndapled to onr climato ond o most . solle, that it joaves liitle to bo wighed for. _Orchard.grass 18 often selocted becauso 1t 15 supposed Yo b6 tho ouly ono that will thrive under partlal ghade ; b in I'unmy)\zmh_&'dod:, after thd scattering kinda only fnteresting to tho Lotauists aro et neid, the grent blks of thie grassy crop in wood- lunds is of tho bluo-gruss, ‘Ihis acems muen botter understood {n tho Weat thon here, Whengver o clearing {3 made, 86 as to still leave good portion of standing timbor, 1a §a often_dona in Iliinols und Indians, §t 18 ok, orcliard-grass, biit blud- fEmaen; Wat fa closesl for thoteding down.. Iadoed, 2 ia doubiful whother orchard-frass would iive ani 46 well fn ao much kiada s blue-jrasa will, Ho, for thé urpose of makiig grise-lawde under the'sudde of recs, although this is often 6 severo that nuthing whatever will grow, bluc-grass will laat Jongér thun any other Lid,, 5 . Wa have of colrsé the quoition b6 ariso herd that ‘often does when talking of grasees, What do s niéan by blue-grass ? Tt nocms to Lo recognized tlint the bllesgrass: of botanists ds not the biuc-grase of ‘agriculture, The blue-grass of tho botanist haua flat ‘culm, and 18 tather u worthless thing onywhere, SHIl 1t 1a fruly a bine-grass, winle the agricultoral bluo- 8 18 ratliér green in color lnstead "of blue, and ia fidtad 1 shost NaFthern atores ealled » groo-gers, 1t $a rocognizail; however, thint the celobrited blug- rass bf Rentueks * Iy this ¢ grosn-grass,” and it is uscless to contend ngafivst a succostil numo, howeyer foippropriste, 1t i3 Tatker Loo bad that ouo can nover gt o o grass question without having to oxplmh jn detail what is yneant ; but tho confuslon kas. been, 50 widesjiread that it sotma necossary dn_order to avold Deing toisuidersivod.—Gerinantoion Telegranh. _Tue TRIBUNE was the firet to pginzgmb tho fact thut' Keutucky blue-grass was identical with the June-gins3 of Now York aud NLi'z‘: Eogland, the mun-fimas and wide-grass of Ohio, and that thie Boglish or bluc-gruss” of the potavist (Poa compressa) wan not the Kentucky blue-gross (Pou protcnse). That it is, tha bost lawn-grdss, wo have long kuown, and are plossed to, deo Mr, Meohai add hiz eunnmour to that fact. Who blua-grass 1s b Jitt]o slow In makhig d good tukf; but, when made, it1s ono of tho very best, In the trane-Missouri country, the gramata.grass will ocoupy theé samo position as thoe blue-grass here, -Xentucly blue-Fiass hns becohie o lame g0 toll kniown that nll othors may weli bo drapped, oud thid valbdblo grisa known by thab namo; but it s Wwell tliat ogr,_Eg\d}mju diirymen undorstaud tho fact of its idéntity, ps, many of tem haye tho ides &nuc thoirs fs au’ infarior ya- riety. Intha Kentucky bluc-gruss region, tlo limestone that forms tho soil contrins a large bor cont of phosphates, that tonds tondd n deop- or hud to thd grass and give it moro yigor: z . A MALE-DAY ON THE LAWN. At i sonson of tho your, s little attonton ust ho given to tho lawn, But then thero are many farm-housos without o Juwn, = Very truo, thon, where thoy aro wamlug. g0 and mako ote. Bot apart 100 feot squaro, if 1o moye can bo af- forded, or, hottor," ono or two scres, and plant sorto kind of tieca on it for no farm-house lins & coltntenatico withidub zf’uus: you might na ol nLtopt to sob off a man for compauy withiout o hiat, cont, and boots, or o ludy without rufllos and o bonnet. . A grass:plat aud troos nbous tho houso make's Iown, No ditllcult task, ono might supposo, and yet thers are too few of them, nud must of thom are too small, Tho faimer who has 8D dcred of land can afford ouo or two of thom to inalko_liid Lonso mord Rlcfmnnt, a8 the grass may bo cut and fod to tho horscs and cows whon grown;, aud thus malko the lawn o cashe paying Institution. And yot wo noed not bo so niggardly that we canoot plant a fow sbrubs, roses, and horbatéous plants, uud, at this soasol, o small bod of tylips. A hundrod bulbaof ixod tulls will Gost no groat unm; bk, it that Is too_mueh,. cut down the uumber to.suit your own idons § Lgl_ plant o fow at ledst, , You' mfiy Bpada & Airip aloug the mafi path; in this inhko @ trénol 4'111¢hea decpy puk n an Inoh of sand, aid on this tho bulbs of Lillph, say 4 to 6 inolios njiart ; thon add Auothdr inch of sand, dnd Allup with tho earth, aud thon raka tho bod aiodth, If yoit have woll-rotted manuto, mileh the hod 2 inchos deop, or cover with loives, aid thio bad §s ready for winter. Aftor tho soason of growih is avel, It la batter to take up tho bulbs, and lob theni dry 1 a cool, shady place, for i mokith dF two, dud Boit thow ont, pliuiting hio Jargo bulba by tholnselves, aiid gruw)llr o amall oned for fututo blodunng. ~A hall-day speut in planting Lilbis and Bliruda ls a hat-dny well spent, In gomo, paity of tho country, tho firuuufl is alrandy frozen ; bib thoh wo may yob avé & full month of fine autumn-weatlier’ih whioh to do up a great deal of worlk thiat nsually gaes ovor until spring, o, 1T 18 A goOD TINE to ciit tho satoi-spraists from tho orelitrd and tho tlindo-troey, and to tidy up the favm in gonoral, Thu corn-orop Is #o light that wo have considors nllo time on onr hands for other work, Tho dry, loag, plensaut autumn has nducod many farmors to cut ditehies, aud oyory Yond-sorapor i the country is in uso, Td will vastly improvo niny farms, ospecially those having ponds and largu wet places, Some years sgo I had a mile of npen diteh eube. A past ot this was sthrough o pioco of Jow dand full of flags aud willowd, 'J'bAn was pasturo sothe yoars, and lust apring o dozen ncrod of 1t broken up and planted to ‘s rosult iy, that it turn aoublo to tho cora, J 0 dafix.. e widde 'om falic hiw tnterestin ' . Tiis world of mikers: Sl g 3iy licart is broke, P'm much oprrésied, | Ho was tho porslatentest pup, . { Thih over eliascd o Fbster ‘Folind Cr etiaswdd & ehlekon tp, Me's gone ! Tnd yyor 12 13 dark and drese T'w ead and lorely now, |, ., ¢ 3 And gloomty zotrospectioli alfs o . Upon thi AT 35 Neatt 1 broke, I'n mrich EhigFAed; 0 Was ho aTectionatest piip THdt ever wagged a friendly tall i . . -OF canglitd o broaklaat up, . .. ... - Peleq Arkcright in York Graplidé, An Irate Lnwyer. Fromthe New Orteand Tintes; Nov. 13 s In the Fourth District Court oir Klvradey transpired an animated dpisode, uck by .any inoans Howy on the billg; and which not ouly digs teacted the Bencl; bot vodtly caused the Dar and numerons lookers-on. i < . Judga ‘', Drouet wasexamining o witness and Judgo Stnckalford, of tha othor gide; objocted to & question and atated hia reasons. . £y hr: Drouct presonted bis argumonts dn favor of the propriaty of tha questian. sidis Judgo Lyuch ruléd dainst him; and edid far thiar that ho wishod Mr. Drouct would ndt con= tiually disputa wtith the Court:, ., , ., . . Mr.. Drouat—I never; if it plense your Honory disputo with the Court. I only subinib, niy rea- song, and if the Court docs 1ot coneur I submit to ftsralimgs. . iy B Facth Sy e Judgo Jopeh—You will hava to submit fo ity rhling. (Vo tha witnesa]—Leave tho atandj your examination ig fluishad: .. . . o 3. DIt your Honor please, I havo not yob finished my cross-examiuation!,. . . . . Judge L.—8it doiwm, Alr,, Drouat:. The ex omination is contludod and tho witnoss dise Alr, DI trost tho Conrt will diioi o €6 aak tha witnees o few more queations. S _ Judge L:=~git dotvn, Ar. Droiok, or I will minlke you it down.. Pt 3+, D.—I ligvo boon slitiiig, &1l def, atid have & bisadachie, IE14 4 rofief £or mb to dtdud, . Judge L.—Sit down, Mr. Drouet, Ar, Sheriff, put Mr. Droust into his seat. ) g Mr, D.—I do not tecognizo any potver in_this Qoutt fo make me sit_dowsi whea I am ebuduct= g & cado, * Iwill not gl dowo; o Judgs L=l llid yoi 950 for cohtariiot of Court, aiid commit you for tweity-Lour Liows to tho Parish Prigon, .. . ¥ And hero Mr. Drouet, who; contrary. to his usiinl badit of gottiug excited at onte, hadl beon vory chim and rospecifil, lobt his Slm—hcf b Mr. D.=-Yon cau goird and bo i youcan fino giid Do ou aro o d-=d nddttatur s you aré a fcoundrol; o lias, and s d—d New Or- lonns rough T And with mnny furttier inaledictions on the Judgo and his roniote anctstars, of slie Mussul- man neoner of condeinnntion; alid with the pos. itive absnthtico of ® salutd in o roglin of tha Colurt's eoriorosity not honvrably intoifored with plnch tho days of mntornsl Cortedtion, Alr. Droitet was ordered to prison: - Bubsoguently his sontanoo was susponded Locause of tho lhess of mombors uf his sami) e A fiindred Extinct VoltdfiGeds Frai the San Feanclieo Chroiflile: ol Monday Thé Academy of Sclehes thiot ol ¥ ovening: Dr. Hurkuess spoke of- disicoveries mado by himselt in pares of Flimdb ant Liossen Countlés littlo kiroirn hichdrto: A ttact bf ouuuu-x contalning about 8,000 tquard mhiles L deséribe itob only 8@ volennle, but showiitg tidtes of re- cont voleanio actloh and lavihg within ita liols 100 extilict volcancts. A larde bratef oh tho Qividing-line of the two doniitied LHd damimed up thio fako, glviuz it & iiew outich A4d bprosding ity watera over sn aren of 8 #quire milen:- The volcanid couo 18 higher thail Vosuvidd; -Ashes and Bcorim ero scattéred all dowhn its Bides, In difforent parts of the Jale are’ stumpes of traes; somo of thiem 456 fut in hoght, nud _showlng above the putfate, Bomo ot them; standing in tho liva, afo -only partiatly ' buriod "tlirodgh, indicatlig that ho -miattér efedted from - the Voleano wns ‘nbk all in o ihelfed atato, Tu othér plides gcour Found eavitien, which word doundad by Dr, Hark- fiéan and bin pirty; and btutnps found ob the bot= tomd, Iligher up, tho troes; thotigh untodthed by ihe favd, were buribd by the heat,' ‘o groivth of 4 portion of the treus aineo thoe srup- tion shows nbout twenty-five aunular rings. ‘the Juvis from the. volcaro covers gbout 100 sqtiaro milod. Ab old resident of Red Dinff, whe wis in the nefghborltodd - in 1853, told the doetor that he saw o bright bhest of flane rislng from thd motinthin, Whioh contined dirlng bia entiro siay. Bhaved Hehd, nnold Indisn of the Mll Otdok tribo, sdya that in kls youth tho regiun Was alive with yolcaubos i oporation. Witchiristte Near the clabslo islo of Lannos, in thd Qieok Arenlpolago, s tho compatutively unkigwn fsland_of Aplow utrw. Tie Intter |sland hay larely badh iavaged { lac‘m‘ and fhie local nuthoritios toolded thia the ‘mat ioa tho result of witclicraft, BSoveu objectlondbla oid womoa ivero thorefuro arrdstod tor witbhicraft and thiown into prison, T'here tlioy remalnod fur sbyerat . wobky, while tho looustd continned ticle mvn{wu undismpyed by tho punishmoit which had fillen upon _tho witchos, ‘Flie authbrition having dis- covorall tint nild mohsirba hed fio influcuco upan sither witehoa or loduats, thoy wers sbout to buiry tho misorablo vld woman_alive when tho urmmmvlng Tark, w)m vas thd Goverrior of tha cluster of_islands of wltich Aglos Btrala furied port, Apddunly intokposed his Authority s oe stored tho sovou old wdmen §o thels Ly