Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1872, Page 3

Human Life. IV.—Tus Excnastep Parmcuss. ‘There was a tremendous we a ing the noise or which 2B Bede chi wih, bor briatt bie ores, ‘ab, 1 su; his te the fe hada at Tom's place, a ee of the ag on the rock By thee tnep cliffs foot to be correctly d; but what or hin ad bray or, ‘As the ocean away, oH £0. im the routine of parochial medi- | Yoice in thehall. He had Aad she longed for the milk-white shining foam, im to convey this sword | cal Fl ape ee Te naavesd to the 3 he to his father. a rorssage «Parish .”” Tom would sa: “+ What's the meanii And stretched ont her han ther, but I can not now 4eliver it. “have only two ailments. Either i ‘nt no telegram! Te bring the white feathers home cat surviving relative, I hand the sword to you. | eise it's ahum. If it's ahem, give ‘ “and all this extra’ And otill as she strayed the tide ebbed fast, aha them Epsom salt. tf Brown you g0 if, this goes Abd the white Bat shrank from the them the other.” uw? “Y @® siterative—give | (tries! it's some im Mudthe w Bye the full played nd the feathers t Aud the soft loving wa’ lased And [carricd my dead ae many years ago. Picture to yourself a deep chasm in the earth, erewned by a rough, diserde t ‘is ‘of brush-wood, rk, littered over by rusted fragments, and that, crouched in q whi bh peer out en breken basket pes, iS a gre sionevery now and then scream ot a shot, the hoarse pufi of asheil, vi- ‘ate overhead. duty in the trenches. ‘We are at breakfast, and we are breakfasting ip unwonted luxury; for we have secured a con- migrment of eggs, and each man holds one in b chipping the outside shell, tng the preliminaries as much as hance the enjoyment of {the delicious morsel within. We are breakfasting in comfort too; fer the guns are quiet this morning, and there are no signs of that infernal caunonade which @ften precedes a sortie from the opposing works. Delmere’s servant, aladof wo eye-fight, is at watch in an embrasure close at dat the flash of each gun he calls out tous the description of missile that is being band, and is ¢! band. an led against us. “* Shot!” “ Shot!” “Shot!” goes on in pleas- antiteration, For shots we don't care a button, and eat our breakfast in peace. “Suri!” screams the lad; tle like so many rabbits, each to his pet ong the gabions. r. Whieh of eballenge yo: ensign had the be= Every other man bh: the scramble. t of 70 bis mast s triumph. afterward. ‘Teo late. We threw onrselves down on our faces as a blindin, the ver; jumped + All righ r feet again. “Yes, all right; narrow shave. Come, Dele mere, old fellow, jump up! face bal still held bis eg; ‘There was «+n the smile was bl pain Tran to bim fragments of sheil im grave face as I finished piled his cap over his ey 1 grasped him byt se much! ‘There never was such a fuss in a regiment as | when it was known that little Delmere : He was our pet, that boy. From the drummer -lad to the east-iron old colonel, there 3 ii regiment that wouldn't He was such a delicate dainty little chap, fresh from school and home, garments, full of fun aad frolic, r liow at heart. ped to see him once. We had a long consultation about him, we doctors, and by amputating both his legs at the hip-joint, he might be saved—that is We deceived the badly hit. radiant in hi and yet a reg We really ho; agreed that possit there was no other cha ee r boy, though. We told hi Redonelcs, we might save the other. ever was alad so absurdly glad to have h’ you that J went in began that op. eutott. [don’t mind telti my tent and cried before 1 tien; and I'm not given to the melting mood either. Aud then, {u my heart, Leursed all the | great powers of civilization, all the leaders raceswho work such woe on poor humanity They had taken away my boy, whom 1 loved | 1 cursed them, and vowed I would never serve them more. ter the operation he sank. He was sen- sible to the last, and had us all in to say good- by. It was on the wth September, | remember, and the sun was getting low. There had been heavy firing all day, so that the ear had become deadened to it, and all of a sudden the firing ‘cheers in the i fast and earn- ad how sunk back, powered by the coming chills of death. more than a brother; an: Soon d.anud we heard rin ords in my ear, but What's the row?” eri re pital tent. Thank God! mselt w I'll die like a soldier!” He sank back and died. Betore he died he had made me his confident in a certain matter which is the groundwork of this story. He gave mea bundle of letters, a miniature, a tiny scented had worn round hix neck trusted to we which [ solemniy vowed to per- form. I was also to take his sword back to his tather, and a few keepsakes to other friends. So soon as I had buried my friend I obtained ‘on urgent private affairs,” and went home, and when I got home J threw up my com- leave. mission. I—I~ Scrrey. It was a hot day in October, and [ was toiling ud-hill in Surrey, oppressed with heat and thirst; but soon I reached the to) down npn a richly wooded valle which a silver stream wound in a devious chan- uel. Following the course of the river, I pres- « : came to an anci s Sweet ful spectac’ on nose and a give effect to the sketches. that I might enliy vested on the bi and then I walk Is this Deimere a agricelturist who was y the wall. « Yes it be,” said } Now Delwere Park was the object of my quest; here I had to fultili my mission. is The house itself I foun: in the middie of the park—a large white house with aclassic portio contrasting oddly with the striped sun-blinds and trim lawns about it. I hate these big houses, with thei d style; nothing but the lore I bore my friend would have made me visit such a house. There you please to want’ Is it barrometers?” he said, looking again at the sword-case; “cos if it none.” is, we don't want Jn course he is,” said Part of the servants. “- Sir Frederick don't know who you are, Sir; but if vou wish to see hiw particular, you ean | it inte the library, and see bim in the library. I followed the serv: there I found Sir Frede: ~ Who wes hilled im the trenches, you mean.” jad the little fat hands caught none. wat down by the steep ciiff's foot, Wu ths wanes coved ta chonae taste med, foam flowel to hec as she sat, As though ‘twould at last be kind. her soft white fe: to her chin, ‘There was a big bottle of chalk mixture on a lower shelf, an immense jar of Epsom salts close beside it. E: thing else was it away of of the lads so that he couldnt ‘on didn’t send it by rai; are here. you’ it No? then if you've extra expense, as far as London e ‘8 travel third m, It was with an easy mind, therefore, that I left the shop to visit my fair and distinguished patient. She looked wondertally different now— su you came, if_up to that extent hi jburse you. Not that uch intrinsic value in the article; you ood one in Holywell street-for Sue mely obliged London Spectator. THE BREAKING OF A SELL. | }.—Twx VALLEY oF Tux Snavow ov Deatu. My story opens with a death which happened heart, Was of such rare beauty. I,couldn’t look at her without a feeling of half intoxication. Such as I was, my life was at her disposal; but of what ayail my life? It was moncy she stood in need had only five-and-twenty shillings. Itold her as much. “Five-and-twenty shillings, have you? To me that seems a fortune. manuscripts; I have written, oh, so much these last few months—my only escape was to write; my heap of white paper a little tunnel, as ma dull and dreary world into a bere every thing is fresh and bright.” trap-door,” I suggested, ‘such as the enchanted princesses passed down, when they danced their shoes away in the garden with the talking trees.” * Or the hole in the mountain that leads into «Can you tell me,” [ said, ‘where I can find @ young laly known as Miss Coustance Darre) cousin, I believe, of my tate frien there any old serv: give me a clew to her | | “Now if you want to begin peering and pry- | ing among my servants, [ shall withdraw may ‘ant living here who jee here, here are approbation of your cond: will consider this interview at an em pof men. Then, James, show this gentleman out.” ‘The baronet returned to his books without a syllable more of kave-taking. the house, knocking my feet against the stone sill of the entrance toshake off any dust that might be upon them. How should I find out Constance, nee Darrel? As [returned by the park stile I mot the young sketchers, who were evidently daughters The ducnna was wandering on the other side of the wall, gathering wild flow- were nice, fresh-looking girls, with hair hanging down to their waists, brown, fearless eyes, and bright and pearly I took off my hat. “Pardon me if Telaim the privileges of a brother artist; and ask to look at your sketch of Fey 're not worth looking at,” cried the ‘mere sketches.” Ishould like to see them, nevertheless. I may. mayn't 1?” “Oh yes, if you'll be quick,” said the elder port-folio “Old Ellis I walked out of The group ix merry enong! ter abound. There are Major Brown tain Dove and two or three subalterns, among whem is Ensign Delmere, and the teller of this le, who is the assistant-eurgeon of the Md wf, of which regiment a working party is now Chaff and laugh- «Come, Lady Charles, this is not practical. to carry on the campaign. five-and-twenty shillings? Tcon'dn’t think of any thing. There was a heir to the estate and title, at it should be born in these squal- might taint its birth with suspicion. ‘The inspiration came upon me with a flash— go and take possession of Delmore We must have mon What can we do wi V.—Tue Starr. ‘Where was the soi-distant Sir Frederick? He wasin London, I knew, attending the mto~ mological Society’s meetings. dent disciple of thi girls? Gone to Brighton, to be out of the way heard they were thing to be done was to send three One to the housekeeper at the Hall to send a “for Lady Charles,” to meet her at the m station that evening. One for the family doctor at the village, to Charles at the Hall that night. 1 local lawyer, to meet Lady Charles's man of business at the same time and place. She shrank from all this, implored me to give it up; but I would not. ‘In justice to your child,” I said, and silenced — aim Pe grams cost three ings. Poor Constance had only one dress left her, the cot- ton one in which I had first seen her. she seemed a queen in that old cotton dress. The housekeeper at the Hall might have a dit- ferent impression. Fi Were wea dou le was an ar- erfully quick Where were the girl, handing over her will be cross if she catches us! The sketch was initiated, “C.D.” «Then you are Catherine Delmere?” I said. and away we | “@have often heard your cousin Charles talk r Charlie? and are you a Catherine, in abreath>~ eat friend of mint. But I am ‘am only a surgeon.” litele disappointed. I too felt the pang, and would fer the moment have given any thing to have been a soldier. 1 me where I shall find Miss Con- Catherine blushed to the eyes. “Oh, I don’t know indeed; you musta’ ‘There’s something dreadful— ‘Ah, here is Ellis, we have been showing our sketches to this gentleman, who knew poor Cousin Charlie.” « Bat come along, my dears,” said Ellis, bus- tling up like an old hen. « have spoken to come this moment! 1 seated myself on the stile, and watched them out of sight. Presently a Vittle Iad, in miniature leggins and smock-freck, came up to me from the di- rection in which the young ladies had gone. *« Be this for you, Sir?” oes the shell, right in the middle of agments whiz and gh seeking out our hidin, We take our seats at the fest Delmere triumphantly raises his hand in mm, my boys, can show that? I ‘There wae a general laugh. The raw youn soldier too?” eried Ci ive board once o wn aw is nces would be 4 thrown away hisegg to reigneerenod ave the door shat in our faces. Con- stance had, for lack of bread, pawned all the ‘garmentsshe had ess and a black Astrak et were redeemed at a cost of nine shillings. Robed in these, as she came down to the cab that stood by the squalid lodging, she seemed a very empress, Cab elghteen- for my queen, self, two shill Fortunatus’s, inexhaustible! “1 and-sixpence left. Once seated in the trainand whizzing away to Hurstham, a profound depression succceded the excitement of the day. All kinds of gk haunted me. We should fail, we mominiously turned out of the Hall as impostors, perhaps handed over to the police. For myself I had no hope; it was ever my lot to and want would track me all the days of my life. But for her, for Con- stance—ah, my ideas grew clearer as of her; the swarm of buzzing, stinging thoughts he lad at watch in the embrasure looked too and grinned, enjoying the joke and you shouldo’t my young ladies. Children, e cried, as a lurid flash darted across traveling-jacke A SHELL!” he sereamed, a second eet of tiame sprang out in i nee; first-class to Hurstham ist of us. Then it was over. We shillings; third-class for my- arse was, like e said, in @ hoarse 2 d still three- It van the sketch of the brid rnderneath was written, “©. Trinity » treet, Southwark.” dge folded up, and 2. D., post-office, ¥ in an easy position on the ground, his turned toward us, and jn one hand he a fittle upraised. on his facqgbut in a moment arred out by @ spasm of intense inquiry at the Trinity learn nothing there A tee to the letter-carrier failed to elicit sny information. I wrote to many peo- ple, friends of the family, for informa one answered me. purse was gettin, rolately up and stie t po-t-offi He had been struck by two h thigh. my examination, and be unsuccessful: mi! fr Twas walking wn Trinity street, with some yague idea in my mind that somehow I should | Beet Constance and recognize her, s umbled against an old ‘Tapes, who was at Thomas's with me, and who <arried oft all the prizes of my year. «7 Allo, ‘Arry!”” he shouted—It was a standing j ke against him that the only bone hi the aitch bone—“what are doing now? Army, ain't it? What Looking out for ajob,eh? VW e wife has lately been confined of ber third; wants a change. I'm worked to ceath; want a change too. Go to the seaside tor @ month, and you take the practice. Two reunds a week, and board and lodging. You Come home, and stop with | m. till T go, and 1’ initiate you into the run of a. 2 would have liked to live | ‘The train stopped; I Saw a carriage standing ellow-student, Tom | «Is Lady Charle’s carriage here?” I shouted, jumping on to the platform. ht—met,” said the footman; “where's ip’s luggage?” VI—Tae Fisisn. r didn’t know us from Adam and Eve; I could tell that by her way only been there a few weeks, however, and she morant of the family con- nections. All the principal servants were in town with their master. mained, and eyed me suspiciously. as if he half remembered me. “Are you her ladyship's wall temiliar with w: The housekee didn’t like to appear agree? All right. ‘1 m’s place was a shop—dectded! shor ,except in this, that he never sold any- thi g, save perhaps a penn’orth of hair-oil You see, the inhabitants got a) their drugs at the parish expense: but the | pe Fish wouldn't stand bair-oil. | dspensary, mind you. “No, I'm only her secretary; and! desire you'll address me with more respect, Mr. Por- ©: Cea week or so. ‘The man grumbled and growled, and retired The doctor came bustling in, up to Lady Charles—the law and made him sit down, order: freshment, and then commenced my story. He was a young man; fortunately for me, a youth of d ambition. My story charmed him, I could see; I found he caught as} that burned within me. I tol he early friend of Chai vs we had been at Westminster together; t ¢ had joined the 103d Buffs against his father’s wish, who intended bim for the Guards, that he mht servefwith me and see some fight: hin of his sad death, and of the se- cret he had confided to me—the secret of his to his cousin Constance. showed him the proots. Yes, everything was in order—with one exception; and my heart sank as I saw the lawyer put his finger on the blot. Yes, the certificate of marriage was in the name of Charles Doughton and Constance Darrel. Teried; “I have his | ‘coast ee | isarivalsled. Aw: It was also a From eight to eleven we ¥ ited the parish patients; from twelve to five need at the shop; from six to nine we m; after that we were only liable to calls. For all this we hy ndred a year, all told, including midwifery ad to find our own drags, : d were looked up to by the medical officers rot nd about as bloated sinecurists. We had the ilege, moreover, of attending to our private P actice in the intervals of our public duty. What a wretched little hole it was too, 'T: } ace! A frowzy little sitting-room—consulti 1com, Tom called it_was at the back of the ich looked into a little dominated by squalid roofs chimneys. And then the drawing-room u stairs, with t out-look into the chandler’s sho; Spposite, its photograp! reruons—horrid, waxen water-lilies, cracked lookin, Tors that was! nd was shown presently. And to the library ed in some re- got nearly two a) d vaccinations, hi wk of the tire jim how I had Delmere from He had been whisper: ting on one elbow. is taken!” cried some one, run- “cried little Delmere. drawing f Mrs. Tapes and her Pp, Stiff and proud; “thank God! bard-featured chamber of hor- ‘om observed he hoped I’d make use of that room for reading of an even- ing. I'd have committed suicide if I had. 1 us:d tospend my evenin, Shove’, and play stand; aid thes come home and sleep in the lit- tle den, and so managed to fight off the horrors Thad almost forgotten about my mission and My quest, when one night, just as we were shut- ting up, an old woman, not a regular patient, came in,and asked if I would give her some medicine for a young woman as fering a wine-bottle at the y hat sort of fits?” I said. methink of that sort; regular faiuting- “Ts ita parish case?”"I said. “Oh dear, no, Sir. The young woman can sy for herself, Sir; only I have come unbe- ‘nown to her, Sir, asshe wouldn't like no no- tice taken of them."” me and see her.”” Sir; I don’t think she'd like that. @ Young lady, Sir, who's got iuto young lady! What's her name? “ Cuoline Davies, Sir,she calls herself; only I don’t think that's her real name.” go and see her anyhow,” Icried. “Show By the Lght of a gutterin, garret I saw a fair or, rather, she had holding her forehead between her hb: ing hopelessly at the ceiling. * I've bi it the doctor to see “ But Ll won’t see him!” she cried. jamping up and putting her hands out before ber. letter here affirming th: “ Such a misdesc! said the lawyer, “if ription would not be fatal,” other party to the mar- t of it; but it throws an awk- What induced him | to do such a foolish act?” «Why, it was in this way—they were married ns. They should have hada swallowing an affidavit. She father—why didn’t Charlie Delmere could never haye perjured “One kind of deception’s as bad as another, Brighton parish church, where the family had been staying— you know what interminable lists of names the: gabble over there. So Charles thought they’ pe notice among all these names; but as servants of the house went to church, to make alleafe he gave in his name as Charles Dough- after all, to which he was as much entitled as the other; for his father’s name was ugh he took the name of +f What foolishness! license—it’s on! han; he hadonly a he get a license?” was my aod same time. said the lawyer. re fone bridge of three ‘din trees, the ven- erable bridge seemed to me a cool and delight- treat after the heat of my walk. ters rippled and gleamed, the swifts flew up and down and through the arches of the bridge. Here I would rest for a while. the buttresses of the bridge was an old lady in bombazine. A placid old dame she was, with book on her knee 1 was rather puzzled at the position in which I found her; for she did'nt seem an obtrusive old ¥, and yet her pose was somewhat conspic- «. But hearing a little tinkle of chatter and laughter, I looked farther, and saw reclining on a grassy bank higher up ‘the stream two girls | sketching; a third was sitting by the stream, dropping the petals of flowers into the river. | ‘The old dame was evidently placed there to 1 felt it also incum- bent upon me to pose myself on the bridge, so he landsca: wear enough to see the faces of kuew by the busy working of their penci! they bad taken alvantage of their model, ve till they bad done with me, slowly onward till L came to the eutrance to « park—a fadiler stile in a wall. k, my lad?” I cried toa sauntering along Seated on one of really Doughton, alt Delmere wien be cameinto this property.” wasn’t the marriage acknow- ir John died, if they were too much afraid of the ola man to own to it before?” r thing was friendless. e her, expecially when they found no register of the inarriage sh taken place; and you'll mind that as she knew | nothing of the change of name, she couldn’t they offered her a small pen- sion out of the estate, which she refused, and went away and tried to support herself as @ gov- | nd then her state revealed itself, and r thing; and then writing: she could | i el ‘iversal, when, b; candle in a dreary ecstatic the yell universal, 7 alleged ‘to have give the clew. So obliged to leave, she tried to earn a livi paint a little too, and sold sketches to the little then i found her and brought hi 1 mean to stand by | rT.’ “And so will I,”*said the little lawyer; ‘and [I hall win. Possibly the .mari might have been voidable—I can’t say that hand; but, at any rate, it can’t be voide ‘There would have been a difficul in identifying the parties o = letters we have i. But, after all,”"he went again, “what do we gain if, — vorable point—what n' “Why, Lady Charles would be entitled to jointure.”” I'm afraid not. “My diarlady,” I said, coming forward, «I woul. n’t intrude upon you, but I was most anx- ious tosee if you were really the person ge to deliver, for whom | icy trac 1 have a mesa; are here, and by el over no heir male? matter from the “I think not; when did Sir John die?” he said, taking out “ Yes, at six o'clock in the evening . Now what is the date ber, at five o'clock,” said I, which I had been tryin; the hour if I eould; bat predeceased his father, and his no dower. Behold, on one ade, friend, but your not permit you to ‘ical advises, yourself.” As for what og gen you ent proof in m} De you mean to tay Sir Jolinss dead?” ate’ Porter, looking | po op oS “It's Sir Frederick nows bee l eell use: we don’t Of them or * Will you take im toy card Tala, ar, certainly Is your master 1 think so,” said James, the difference between a vi barometers and Mr. Henry Baker was not so Feat as to cause any increased alacrity stance go forth from her husband's roof-tree ad E mmwell; trayel and excite need hardly say T rei r tick—a middle-aged friend Constance. Give me th stcel-culored + ew o “< with hardly a crust needy sargeon’s rothing hetter—with fi in bis pocket: my beart sank within 3 ive-and-twenty ‘By Jingo! T heard the ball. Se, man. I knew hall. Lown I funked the encounter. But coming down the opposite stairs, radiant and beaming, was the 3 all ‘through the house there sounded the feeble piping ery of a new-born infant. ‘The effect upon Sir Frederick was ical. He put his fingers into his ears, and ran head- long from the hall. Stop, Mr. Frederick, stop!” cried the doe- | tor; “stop, and see the young baronet. Yes, we're safely through, genilemen; mother doing charmingly. Extraotdinary idiosynerasy | that of Mr. Frederick's—never could ablile the squall of an infant. Always went away when his own were coming, and didn’t come back till they could be put away out of ear-shot. “To think of my old friend Constance, being married to poor Charles all the time, the sly young pnss!—Come, ‘Thomas, start off, and set tie Ghureh-belts ail arringing Broach a cask of old Sir John’s prime stingo in the hall.” And there ended my knight-errantry. From that time forward Constance had no iack of friends. Piping swells were her trustees, bland baronets were her bankers. Does she ever think, I wonder, of the young parish doctor and his five-and-twenty shillings? . ADDENDA BY A FEMALE Haxn. Did I ever forget him, 1 wonder? and yet, | would you believe, the foolish fellow never came near me, to let me thank him, for ever so many years. But he came back to me at last, and—well, we put an end to the romance of the thing by getting married.—Harper*s Bazar. + COASTING. BY BENRY WARD BEECHER. Mr. Bonner:—How long is it since you had a | sled? Did you ever bave one? Perhaps you were brought up where there was no snow. If so, I pit: zou rounded into has not had chilblains, been rubbed, suow-balled, and who has not been upset on an’ iay hill and rolled over, sled and boy, in ® promiscuousheap. You may put on all your armor, and make be- lieve that you are as good as another, but if yon never slid down hill you shall not be elected | honorary member of the Hyperborean Boys’ Sled Club. 7 Blessed be New Bedford! What now? you | will ask. Moved with a sympathy for the wel- fare of the boys, once upon a time the aldermen set apart a hill street in that beautiful, and, ever since, blessed city, for the especial use of sleds. They devoted it to all boys and girls un- der seventy years of age. One street there was where sleds ‘were not obliged to keep out of the way of wagons and horses and policemen, and angry old gentlemen, who had been tripped up, or sent flying over the boys’ heads. Nay, night after night, snow was carted upon the bare spots, | or water eprinkled when it would form ice. ‘Was not this an enlightened view of an alder- man’s duty? Ought not every boy to vote. when be grows up, for such wise counsellors? | May the winter fall lightly on their heads, and | the summer sing sweetly over their graves, while nodding flowers beat time. We have just had sent to ns from Pennsylya- | nia a new sled, and, as sur® as you live, its name was, in large letters, Dexter. ate in every | other respect, it has one original featfre worthy of note. An iron rudder is ingeniously fastened | between the runners in front, with hand-cords at'ached in such a way that ‘the boy c with it or use it as a brake. In this may mount his feet upon the «led and sit as free 4s aking, guiding his sled as easily as all kings are known to guide their kingdoms. Perhaps no improvement will ever enable a sled to give more pleasure than the rude old rattletraps that country boys knock up tor themselves. ‘This was the most primitive form of our recollection; two staves of a barrel, fastened together with a cleat at each end, the board at one end being wide enough to furnish @ point of contact for the owner. These re- quired some skill in management; yet, as they could be made in ten minutes, a whole school, npon a sudden snow, could be started down hill in an hour of two, with such langhing, scream- ing and hallooing as would wake the seven sleepers. Next in rank are the board-runners, shaped out of solid plank, and floored over strongiy. Coarse, ungainly and heavy, as they were, ome great sliding has been done on them! it is not the handsomest horse or sled, or editor that gets along best—is it? Then came to our admiring eyes the ‘tamed sleds, with open sides, tine runners well shod with steel, and at length iror-framed underpining all through. Tovall modern days, added a blaze of paint and names lofty as the stars. We admit th: great im; rovements are made in beaut convenience; but is any better slidi these supcrfine sleds than used to be, a is, done by the old, rude, homely fanm country make? [For that word see W. OF sll positions, the worst, the most inexeusa ble the front, steering is ungain! posed to ¢ E The position the head is thrust forward and ex- ger, and in case of need, the body aheipless position. Next is the side-saddle saddle posture, or when the boy sits curled up upon the rear of the sied, with one leg under him, and the other project ed backward for a rudder. ‘The upright posture, with legs extended over the sides, or carried forward between, or even in front of the runners, is the true position for a bold boy of the sled. He bas the use of his whole body, andthe perfect control of his sled; and if he comes to harm, it must be set down to that large account of profit and loss which every spirited boy runs up. Let no man revile the Joys of iee-clad hills, or ridicule the task of tugging a heavy sled up the hill for the sake of rushing down again! Ah, yes—but that downward rush is ecstasy. Clear the Here goes! Right behind y We go, every yard quick- ening the rate: we come to the jumpers, and fly through the air as if shot from’ a catapult, and strike down — with a jar that makes the sled creak. ar the coast! here we come! The boys draw aside. Neck and neck we glorious! There is a sturdy old farmer tho never could find out what boys were made for. He won't get out of the way—not he! He shakes his cane as a warning. Top late—we strike him just above the ankles and he goes over our head like a shadow, but we hear him come down behind like a substance! In @ second we are away and out of reach and hearing. Of course there is a fuss and we are called up and the mas- | ter, with a twinkle in his eye, scolds us and says we must say we are sorry; and everybody sa) served him right, the old curmudgeon, he ought to have kept out of the road, and we tind our- | selves the heroes of the school. Then who will f when our pretty consin wanted to take a cruise on our sled, and how our sisters too were the guestsof proudly polite boys, and how the courtesy of the hill. ‘was shown to the girls as ardently and disinterostedly as ever it coul occasions. Perhaps the teacher was willing to show his | condescension, and take Pe ou a double sled. Great was the hurrah raised for him, and ousturn at the bottom of il, the sled out from under hjm, and he made the few re- maining yards of distance without help, and turned up quite like a heap of dirty snow. Ah, Mr. Bonner, let you horses slide; come | | tuke my new sled Dexter, go up to the Wes chester bills, and spend a’ day in “coasting aud come back declaring that of all races, none, for pleasure, can beat a sled, with a good fellow on it, upon @ mile-long hill, with a smooth and ok -New York Ledger Germany and Russia. THE ANTI-GERMAN PARTY IN RUSSIA NOT IN THE ASCENDANT. ) (Berlin( Dec. 13)Correspondence London Times.) | For the present, and probably as long as Alex- ander II. occupies the Russian throne, the anti- German tendencies which have been lately rife ‘among our Eastern neighbors have no ¢! of asserting themselves in effective way. more it i thought here—and vo doubt with Tea- | if the Gzar availed himself of this come out so yery son—t ‘ portunity to strongly on the | fubject of his political Tcanings, he fas done 20 j with a view to disabuse the French of the hope they seat Bicen 4 ees Dia Nno ames al- | liance. ts oy (ap pregnant | 5 point by M. Thiers eeaage, mayeterioug they were, betrayed too m Tooked clther’ here gh St Pe me as that anybody supposed the temporary, | trator of the French republic, as he is pleased | ys Iosward tr aky imeaes eeeee eS OS | { rived from the of the great Northern court; but inthe Ialal doce maa eens uch 4 @ paseege Intoan document there Tuuch to remind. Us of the dangers employed by his Imperial to amuse his countrymen that rsion te at the drat reversion feos it ~ .¢tes unruly compatriots Mike alludonn P= "steal bent eave of making should har a6 te thatsuch a 9 Thi .« Beem necessary, when MTU ety eocume monitors, is Orleans claims that whose ears ints far back that he cannot himself at. "SEo dirs. Partington says she does wish would hurry up and pass the silver serviee in Washi wt thang . ‘time Mr. Musso and his wife have lived happily together. AFPOINTING A FUNERAL, esterday afternoon Mr. Musso, wishi see his father-in-law in rebation to some fast troubles, sent h of the | Seay e aud no more. ‘lerk, a young boy named Mahoney, to Mr. Groves, with @ request that he should cali upon him. Mr. Groves asked what was the matter, and, upon the clerk telling him that it was in Teference to the trouble between sso and his wife, he said, “+ You get ready to go te the: back and grave at te Joe Musso to six o'clock, for I will be in the! TRE BLOODY WORK BEOUN. The young man returned and delivered the ais ‘all | 1,600 reams superfine intoa rear room got an im- me containing four loads, | ; Ehich he placed behind his counter. A fow | :Wreanesnperfine Printing F minutes later Mr. Groves, aceompanied by his bard «i , wife, entered the front door of the grocery, and sizty pounds to the ream of without saying ® word, and commenced firing. e Musso, who immeditely afterwards return- 74 "sage guper@ine Printing Paper. bard-sined right,” and goin, mense navy six ed the fire. While in the act ot firing the second inches. and weighing forty five pou ads to the time, Mrs. Grovesand her da so, ran between the parti ping the shooting. were alike futil firing, Mr. Groves firing tiemen centinned FOUR PERSONS SHOT. The last shot of either gentleman took effect, £000 reame s shot through the 5 m his pistol had str Groves in the shdomen near the navel, and te re ncae ond weighing twenty-one p: passin, ctly through, went out of his back. | ,. After the smoke biewaway it was found thet | CLASS 6.—Warrine Barcae-To be of ang se poth ladies were also shot, se = , Foam, per wounded in the calf the leg, and Mrs, Museo ig | 2.08 Teams Quart» Post. 10x16 inches coreamieat Quarto Post, 10 ponnds to theream, , Mr. Musso bei while a bullet one can bea perfect man, | Mrs. Groves being rfection on every side, who | ine the two ladies were conveyed to Mr. Musso's | 74% reams Folio Post. 17522 inches. Musso himself waiked to the house of a Mr. Roushe, where a surgeon was si moned. A few minutes after his arrival at Mr. | 0 reams Imperial, 225¢x31 Inches | ‘aptain Athey, who had heard of the | reams Cover Paper, measuring 20x25 inches, arrested him, conve ing, } him first to the Adams street station house, and | ‘*Teams of any required size not eoumsrated t, to the jail, where he | 0 al Manet grneeding 21x09 taches ns were CLASS 6.—€ then, at his own remained durin, ned to dress, the wounds of any required weights.) and the ladies. It is feared that the wound of | %@ reams Cap, 13x! phe ve fatal, as the bullet that 300 reame Cap, 14x17 passed through him was a very large one, and color or colors. made a rough, jagged wound. r. Groves | Mr. Groves will A Novet Discovery.—A process by which | the heat in the warte steam ve used to heat the boile! t other, {60 reams Blue Quart er now obtained by the consump- a has been discovered. | Zyyreema yellow Do Ph eceodiygindh ye th Pe yore power | 70 reams gold Envelope Paper, 19x24 inches. other, ie exhaust am from _ ce ral ost” u t 0 | One of them can bo takes tohert Cher ni oe | CLASS 7-—Paren on Post’ Oerice Bian ChASS No. 2—RNVELOPES the other, and no fuel. fire When two estabiisl man, Or chimney will | §W reame,measuring 3x3 inches, weighing torty- 4 be required for it, and its engine will ran with- two ponne out attention so lon m = plied to heat its boilers, furnishin, B of power fully equal to that of the firstengine , “ "PAM, Measuring dix32 from which the waste steam is received. The second boiler is heated by passin, waste steam through its flues, and is fill volatile liquid, com bisulphide of carbon, which h ind at the tempera ure of exhaust steam bi gives @ pressure in the boiler of sixty-five pe Oe The vapor formedin this “? "amy, boiler is used to drive the second engine instead of steam, and after being used is condensed cooling, ‘pura used continua arranged on this Atlantic Works in as the waste s! ‘sup- | *@0 resus unt steer | yone | ‘abren- fi 1" wi asa tad 200 reams, measuring 18x29 inches, weighing thir- | 9, . the ty pounds per ream Hive, with = CLASS 8 —Sizep ayn CaLenxnernn Tivren Paint 2. of the Ing Parka w or] inted, super-calen- gh thew pounds to the inch ly with small loss. Two engines to the ream of S00 sheets. ian axe mow running ot tae | 140 Feamia tuperfine creamtinted. super-calen t Boston, and a careful measurement of the power of each proves t of the vapor engine to be the greatest.— Bor Mistrrss—“By the way—Anna—Hannal Is your name “Anna” or “HL ny w Cook (tartly)—“Which my name is Anna, ‘essful re will be required rigidly to conf: s7-The Danbury News speaks of a dejected individual who asked the editor what the eS ae was for inserting a notice of the death of his Sen b On being told that it would be do . he brightened up considerably d that “death had been robbed of halt its died by 8 bo charge | Lvited Stater Post Orvice Derartwayt. } ASHINGTON, December 15, IS71.{ w Sealed Proposaln will be seceived at the Contract ab r yeurs, from July 1, 15 79 From the Washington of she Orange a y Post Office to station ndrin Railroad, Ma: yy, except Sundar, om. H. B. Anthony. © Return trips from said ry and one trip on Sunday. Station to post office, two daily. 4 it office to Baltimore and Obio Rail- ‘ Bei i daily except Sunday, pip) trips frem eaid ublic = = 5 From the post-office to Baltimore and Potomac [PD BOPOSALS FOR WRAPPING PAPER AND ailroad station, two trips d one on Sanday’ jon. to. posto uuday, and oveon Sunda From the post-office to the Potomac steamboats (mail live), two tri one on Sunday. Betui boats te post-office. two dail . nse to the Department at the Blank Agency of the From the office to the —— coy Post ‘Om it. Washi "De my hree per ‘The quality and the cotienated quantity of each artic! ails except St turn m . i Wasuinoron, D.C., svelock, except Suiday.and Twine for the use of t offices i ss. ips trom said stcaun- Statre, for one year from the let Say of Pebeneee (mail line) three trips per we from said steamboat to pos ‘Itimore Orange and Alexandria Railroad opt Sunday, and From Baltimore and Ohio Railr: Potomac steamboats, three trips daily, except two on Sunday. Beturn trips, two tripe daily, Sunday)” Return ept # rm trips, | 19 two daily, except Sunday,aud one on Sundiy. First Assistant INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS, INCLUDING CONDITIO be in after life on more important H dexter- | went © « The hour of arrival ; Wasbington Cir t and departure from the Ogperel, Post aan mse ixom tie Hach Uidder must furnish with bie proposal | be a all times wader | antes of bis ability to comply with ail liable perenne to be carried in eutethatial “Awards will t SAY Tor deemed most advantageous tothe De; 2 tected by a suitable waier- | Fyo sufficient sureties will be required teach am depredations; and when carried int must be gery by at least one person to be subject at oan trol and approval. ‘. Ade Sor tule conien are to cover e!? trans. °osidered sufficient cause for the forfeiture or the the driver as driver, and guai Postmaster’s cont ons. harness, 1 times to the hit ; Gaice, and to al ralvonds od sieambsnte Bide not made in conformity with this advertise. | mail ited States | congressional, documents and Sree Fa; Posmaner Gcocrel rorerrss the right te oF nature, amounting (jt 5 daily; and it must be dist ;™ 4 a during the cont fen ench corvice, oF Say snereane at its bull to arrive on sched mectty | be ‘ou thé envelope “Pro- | t term ite. and adpeeta tote Fieet Assatant Post ‘athi removal | deco} a.4t General. , there is to be no senate! ution of pay. | PROPOSALS FOR LETTER B raters 1 r | faltare uf the maile Cnr a We EA!) CRESWELL, | j | | } is PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS. | PROPOSALS FOR TAPER FOR THE PUB- Preresats FOR STATIONERY. Ovrece ConcREssowal PRrwree.,, Wasuinorom, DCs Dee. tai 't En ppmeeance of the prev’ nee the fourth pec. “Biavk forme of Propessie. stating the aualit cotmnated quantity of em! my Terslohes eenpRtication to the First ay Postmaster Fach | must be signed by the individaal or firm, it. and be ced certified to req 1. the into for all that may be needed during the CLASS 3.—Unxcarexnerty Parnes. Parser reams of fine Priating Papor, aucaleadere’, fort; five pounds to the ream of 200 sheets. CLASS 2.—CatenpsRen Parxry ArER. 15 600 reams of euperfine calendered Printing Paper, me ‘24x3e inches. and ne fity m Pirasaring 2234 inches. and four pounds to the ream of and ete ; | | t | meted UU the Remsen Genera a eave thease | & i ¥ i + 8 * oral 2. pert detailed for that pose. emy to the ream of 00 shocts she aibere bo Salives te a resmenay staes, one weeks at farthest. or 0 delivery eS Selent be cued: or py aBeveot cause to annal the comtract. at ¢! im ret a pulled out arevoiver | CLASS 3.—Sizep azn Catexocnea Prierixo | Pastmeater General nek Hea cond | APE Bend of the Department will in ail cases d-cide he first shot missed whether the articles tendered by the contra tor are measurin, Mx | of the kh quality required by the contract The Postmaster Genernl reserves the right of re ter, Mrs. Mus- | ream of B00 sheets, Jecting any cf all bide i tw Tis jodgmsnt the ister A view of stop- 0 reame unper steed and super calendered:15xm | cess cf dhe tl sae r § inches. eight thirty-five poands to mi hearty heir effets and entreaties 1 seo rt, eam 300 shade. Sete baie the amount: guelity aud descr 10° reams en; sized and su; ealendere |, meas article: ree aul Mr. Musso Uring Mx31% inches. od weighing Atty pounda $n She tones ef ale chests. | ESTIMATED QUANTITY WANTED FoR THE CLASS 4.—Mar Pare . Roe asi CLASS No. 1—PAPER_ eee anaes eee - 490 Sheets 10 tue Ream. ali to be Carwiet Nc Me, rrp ing eeeaT ny meetin 1, Wreams of Coo jar Paper, fat, 1s paunde te | 10 reams of Foolscap. fist, 4 pounds to the ream, T red weights.) pounds to the per ream. 2 reams of Legal Cap, fat, ream 4400 reams ¥ 1p; 13164 oF 14xI7 inches 3 220 reams Double Cap, 16%2x25 of 17x25 mches. 2500 WxB% inches 5.400 reams Double Dem: per re 120 reams of Quarto Post, 12 poumils to the ream, per Foam. 30 reams of Quarto Post, laid and uncaleadered, » te ream. per ream saa ee ible Folio Post, 22x34 inches bed oy a 12 reams Media. 18x33 inches. 7 Sreame of Fello Post. fiat, I by #2 inches, 28 | 1,300 reams Royal, 19x24 inches. le 7 um- | 200 reams Super-royai- 30x28 inches, BOTS S Dogtle So. watee, Mest quality Gat. y 23 inches, 25 pounds to the ream, per | poh pecan aK, mine, Seat | % Srcame of Bagiich Handmade Cop, 16 pounds te 10. Sreams of Flat Cap, wove 20 pounds to the ream, | nilla, of any required eiabt. ame of 8 1 ORED Wuirive Parean tte ed 1.6reame of Super B. wal, fat, 0 by 2 inches, 52 | | somalia bot wos 12. Greame of Lmperial Uap Paper, lat, 22 by 39 inches, laid,of any required | 13. spreamecct best Packet Note, white, wo pounds ihe ream, ream Post, 17x22 inches, bine 04. ap igous of Commercial Mets ie he | | D» 1634x26 inches, blue | § poande « } ¥ : } the ri ream | y Mextois inches: bine. | 15. 2 reame of Commercial Note, best quality, 7 from one engine can | 10 reams Medium, 18x23 inches, blue | ss amd gt a ee x the | 400 reams Double © 28 inches, bine. 36, 15 Team ate Paper. best quality, 6 pounde uble Cap. 17x28 inches. Post, 10x16 inches | Ad | 200 reams butt Doable Ca . 7x38 ine’ yellow or buf, royal, re Term oard, Parker's Treas. ary , 100 pounds to the ream. per ream we sized f wrath nape am 19.3080 Envelopes, best Manilla paper, 15 by 9 inches, gummed, 1', inches in fap, per thous a 2, 5:0040.,g00d Manilla + 10% by SN inchs to-+8 n paper 10% by S's inches ream weighing 'y «ix pounds per ream. ighing forty pounds 460 eheete, 7018 light co ream ine cream-tinted, super-cal f x40 inches, weighing Bfty-fve Pounds to the ream of 49 ahests } oF tho by | 1400 reams superfine cream-tinted, smper-calen- | light buff, extra thiek, No.9, 12 ped into the boiler again, and dered. 26138 inches; weighing seveaty pounds | f thousand. per thonsend, ann cream Imi i 24538 inches, weighing Aity poaude ty | 28, 1500 do-,doul the reams of 40 she=ts. Ibe 7 of per thousand’ per = Troponsls wi berscelved for the whcle quantity, | 3. 94000 Semel pate ee i” papers: a or for any portion not less than ove sixth « ~, ‘lesignated in Classes land 2, and for the whole quan- nocahwomise dee ee # 000 do., double thick, ors — Bo. 5,6 tbe tity ,or any portion of the papers des in Ulass | 9) being uot lees than 14 cr per thousand. Ber theuems ne fourth. Samples of the ‘od, per them suality of the paper, in ail the classes, will be f 32. 3400 do., double thick. cream laid, No. 4, 4 bs 13 ‘ov per thousand, per thousand. ished Upon applicat this office. and the to the sampler furnished ASS No. 3—-PRESS COPYING AN) OF) Rach clase will be considered soparately.and be | “LASS KA deena NDUM BOO: + Subject to a separate contract, but bidders may of- | 28. 1 dozen Presse Copying Beoks,14 by 30 inches, Ab! ter for one or more of the os in the same pre beet parchivent pager. half bound, gcuaing > pagal. K leatber backs abd eorners, unmbored No proposal apd lettered to order. 1.00 pages each, each. 5 ey Papen 3 deren Press Copying Books, Eis inchee, beat lee > in| © rene T, white, half bounl, genuine a> or bidders, if hie or thelr Russia eather backs snd corners, lettered to der. shall be accepted. shali turnish the articles order. 1400 pages each, proposed for:and each proposal must be accowpa n Press Copy ed by ing Books. 10x12 inches, best m1 Satistactors evidence that the person or per- | uch. paper. . half bound, genuine ts making said proposals are manufacturers of Russia Ieather backs and corners. autabered in, the description of paper whic he or thes And lettered to order. 1,000 pagos ack, each. 0 0 furnish, 6. S dozen Pros Copying Books ‘same size. paper, the paper in the several classes must be de and binding, uumbered and lettered toorder ivered at the Government Priut joe, in the | G0 press rach. carl City of Washington, in good 01 all | and every extra charge of expense, and subject to hhe inspection, count. w of surement all resp: Congressional Printe satisfactory, ngof an inferier article lure to supply the be considered a violation of the Pens PERHOLDERS, PENCILS, at any time, act. iMott's Now. 384 and 46, per gros Blank proposals will bs furnished upon afiplica- »; ton at ths of and po proposal will b= oneliered {conform exactly thereto dorsed on the envelope, Pro ‘aud addressed to the Jount Com fuairaan of the Seuate Com ‘uittee on Printing, the Hou. Juhu Beatty, Chair ‘aan of the House Committee ou, Printing. of A Congressional Printe . dircction of the doint Commities of Comer ees om | * 10 40. per gross e Ac rinting. : : 5 me a s ht daily, except Bun, *°e23-8.4t yngressional Printer. | 2. 10 grees Ciothiers’ Hollingshead's viawt tain Pen, No. 1, per gTOne 10 gross Perry & Co.'s, No. 127, gilt tips, por gross Fountaler Sorte, per do. Classic, No. 3, per ms Faleon Pen, No 48, per z. Post Orrice Serenrasst-t . 22, 1871. Sealed Proposals will be received at this Depart ment until the 24th DAY OF JaNcamy, IStz, Be 12 ‘ noon, for furnishing W: ing Paper and +} BB 1572. the said articles to be detivered free of ex: | Kross 12 frome roan. % leFeauired are apeclied below tn Wgroes ao Bank Pen, No. ,per Railroad station to Seed to weigh of poumds tothe ream, each | 12 grown do Merchants’ Pen, No. two trips on 150 resume of W: pe inch in 12 gross, ata . Pier Rice. per arose, ly. si to weigh $5 pounds to the ream, — ma t St ad station to 9.909 penetra Cotton. wt dine in talic to weigh | rdocy boxee Gillott'+ Bost Swaat Gelli Peve, oon ig ty we xe be | 2 dozen boxes best Quill Pone, per box. so ‘arto prevent their becoming losse _ ‘EX-HOLDERS. Baltimore and Potomac Bailroad station and ir 5 | 6. 10doren best Rubber or Gutta Percha Pen-hold to Orange and Alexandria apace station, 6.600 vonnde —. > Es balls to cept § 5 o weigh from one to iriper two daily, except Sunt Bre from 9) 10 % yards’ to the potind. to be jay. From Baltimore and P. fo Potomac steambc ere, aanorted zen to pereous who oe jou to fet A Postnibwter General, Washington, More or less than the estimated quantities Mh Ep mg hn mye gg en may sequlzo, at the discretion of the Postmaster bid, and ‘a certifieste from that each guarantors ‘be made for cach article separate! iy. if | a j 76. Ndoren Paper Folders, pelithed ivory, 9 inch, m7. vwditen irom Paper Weights, round, 3% inches contra | 7 we doren Iron Pape sights, oval,$ inches'ai b) : to furnish ly any article con- | © “ ™ < tracted for, OF am aitempe tor hpone Cony og we upon the De- | Y inferior, in opinion of the v General, to these i be coptract. went will not be considered. ANCEP. Post OF orn. Deraatmenr, Wasntxctox, D. C., December 22, 1871. {