Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1875, Page 2

EE y _ Throngh leat The air wa Aad onward. thr 1 saw & weary tr Tot on he farst throngh blinding snews And marmuring ty himself he said “The might fs near, the darkness grows Aved higher rise the drifts 1 tread deep each antamn flower ¢ aft of green they whelm fr ho journeyed by my aide ‘Are lest in the surrounding might © Lioved them. oh. no words cae tet! The fove that to my friends I bere We parted with the aul farewedt hee who part to ment ae more “And TF, who face this bitter wind ‘Any n or theae snowy hillects cr ust ead my journey som and fied A frosty couch. « froeem sleep still, and im the wes Twas evenin, A dush of cfowin, I sew the morrow there That promise of » gh crimson lay amt bles And one was there whose sourney ay Into the slowly gathering night With steady step he held his way aming beigh tread or trend eler's placed micn And others came, their journey "sr. greed mistht with worst we shall meet on hight that parts us | chee bat the he aaid fading to rine, refreshed am cht day that yet will shall p ere long— son be gone And t Th hed him aa be rm : til the 1 rom the firmament I, aud be was lost to sight THE SIEGE OF BERLIN. { Tremstatedt from the French of Alphonse Dawulet for The Evening Siar } Some months after the si of Paris, I Was passing along the avenu e Champs Elysees with my friend, Dr. V., when a short time before reaching the point where the Streets meet at the place de’ Etoile the doctor pansed and dircet- ed my Attention to one of the great corner houses so prominently grouped about the | Arch of Triumph. «Do you see those four closed windows upon the high balcony?" he inquired. “In the first days of the month of August, the terrible month of August of last year, so | thick with fearful disast-r, I was called there for a very sad ease of apoplexy. It was the house of Col. Jouve, a cuirassier of the First Empire. an old man possessed with the glory of Bonaparti<m, who since | the beginning of the war had come to live in the Champs Elysees. in an apartment on that balcony. Can you imagine why? To as<ist entry of our troops. P news of Wissenbourg re: from the table. Reading th the triunphai old man! ‘he i him as he rose | leon at the bottom of the bulletin of d he fell thunderstruck. “I found the old man stretched at length on the carpet his room, his face ghastly and du nut Feeel ved a blo upon the face from a Standing ere he must have been very large; lying pros- trate he had an immense appearance. The fine features, superb teeth. a suit of curly hair,and with eighty years that seemel no more than sixty. Near him knelt his grand- daughter all in tears. She resembled him. To see them side by side they were like two beautiful Grecian medals struck from the same stamp, only the « Was antiqu earthy. and a little effaced in its outlines, while the other was respiendent and pure, in all the velvety lustre of the original impres- ston * The grief of the child touched me. Daugh- ter and granddaughter of soltiers, her father Was a staff oMeer of 3 . and the image of the okt r ftched before b conjured up in her mind another imag. jess terrible. I did my utmost t her, bat in ant but littl Was & case of 1 eighty years of age r. For three di: the sick nained in the same condition of f twenty thousand Prussians slain, and the Prince Royal a prisoner. I know not b what miracle, what magnetic current, an ceho of the national joy reached our poor deaf mute, even in the limbo of his paralysis; hitherto the same, on approaching his bed that evening I found him no more the same man. The eye was almost clea less heavy. He had power to and to stammer twice, * Vie-to Colonel.” I sai gradually great success of MacMahon, tares brighten, his form unbend. ~ When I went out the granddaughter fol- towed me. and she was pale as she stood sob- hing before the door. “ But he is saved,” said, taking her hands. © The unhappy child had beea full of cour- age. but she responded : “They will come and placard the truth about Reischaffen— MacMahon in flight, and all his army crushed to pieces.” looked at each other in alarm. She was in despair at the thought of her father. For my part I trembled at thought of the Very surely he wouki not be able to survive this new blow. And now what - saw his fea- y well; I will tell li Tole girl, quickly wiping away the tears, and ail radiant she returned Into her grandfather's chamber. “It was arude task that had ander- taken. The first days were very tiresome. The goo! man was feeble in his intellect, and allowed himself to be deceived like a child. But with improving health his ideas beeame more clear. It was necessary to hold him in course of the movement of the armies, iting into onder for him the military bul- ins. It was truly pitiful to see that beau- tiful child bent overa map of Germany night » and endeavor- 18 campaigi near Berlin; Frossart in Bavari MacMahon on the Baitic. asi For all this she nired my advice, and I aided her as much coull. But it was the grandfather above om we served in this imaginary inva- sion. He had been at the conquest of Ger- many under the First je Knew every of aivance. “ Now that is where P they wil! go; this is what they will do;” and bis predictions were always realized, which conld net fail to render him very proud. Un- fortunately. though we were lucky in taking cities and gaining battles. were never quick enough for him. Th Ratiable! i man was in- Sach day on my arrival I learned of a new feat of arms. taken Mayence,” the granddaughter said, Doctor, we have approaching me with a sad smile; and I heard through thedoor a joyous voice crying, “That i that march! In eight days we will enter Berlin!” At that moment were not more than eight days from. “We considered whether he had not bet- ter be carried | take Berlin was but a under a gta: i fferent miniatures ing the same woman with hair curted, in | ball costume, yellow dress, with leg of mut- ton sleeves, bright eyes and all that. The consuls, the King of Rome, the marshals,the ‘ellow Indies with the upright cut, hizh gir die, and the cramped outfit which was th fashion of i866. Galiant Colonel, it was that atmosphere o* victories and conquests much more than all we said to him which maie him believe so innocently in the siege of Ber- lin. Ou teaving him that day we found our mil- itary operations very much simplified. a estion of patience From time to time, when the old man became too impatient, we read him # letter from his son, an imaginary letter, to be sure, as noth- ing could come into Paris, and since Sedan the aide<e-camp of MacMahon had been fined in a German fortress. You may fancy the despair of that poor child, without news of her father, knowing him to be a pris- oner, deprived of everything, ill perhaps, and she obliged to make him speak in these joy- ul letters, @ little brief, as would be written y & soldier in the field, bat always going forward into the conquered country. Some- times they were without nev's for weeks, and hew fortitude fated her. At times the old man Was souneasy that he could not sleep. At those times a letter would quickly come from Germany, which she gaily read to him by his bedside, and calmed his fears. The Colonel listened earnestly, smiled with an air of wis- dom, approved, and criticised, explaining to us the difficult passages. Bathe was delightful above all in the replies he to his son « Never forget that you are a Frenchman,” said he nerous to the poor people. Do not make the invasion too severe." And it Was such advice even to the end; rable exhortation in re the politeness due to we imilitary honor, of the Mingled with ‘these injunctions were some general considerations of pole: conditions of perce to be imposed up« vanquished. In this, I should say, h not exacting “The indemnity of the wa more. What good will it be’ to provinces ‘an France thus elate the admi- d to the proprieties, nm, a true code of age of conquerors. Iso + and nothing uit not th f intense colt f famine. t forts, to the untiring tenderness which increased about him, the comfort of the old man was not for an instant disturbed. In the extremity Iwas able to have white bread and fresh meat for him. There was but little to be had, and you ean imagine nothing more touching than those breakfasts. The innocently selfish grandfather, upon his bed, fresh and smiling, his napkin under his chin beside him his granddaugh paler on count of her privations, guiding bis hands, ‘King him drink, and inducing him to eat all the good things provided. Then, enlivened by the repast, in the ease of his warm room, the north wind without whirling the snow in by . my child, we ate the understoot it w had eaten nothing els: “Day by day now as the conyalesc progressed, our Wisk with the sick man came more difficult. The numbness of his sen and his litahs, which dservet us so well heretofore, began to disappear. Two or three times reecntly the terrible broadsides at the Maillot gate made him spring to his feet, with ears erect. like a dog in the chase. We were obliged to invent a last victory for Bazaine at Berlin, and tell him that the salvos were fired in honor at the Hotel of the Invalides. placed his bed near was the Thurs distinetly the massed tipon th mandet th uttering 4 tion’ id nothing else, but we understood at hereafter it would be necessary to exer- cive the utmost precautions. Unfortunately nsoon enough. One eve the child came tome in good man; ween his teet " ble. «To-morrow they enter!” she said. Was she to open the chamber of her grandfather? The fact is, since I come to think of it, I am reminded that he ian extraordinary expression on his face this evening. It is Pepsible that he has understood us. We spoke only of t Prussians; he thought of the Frene and the’ triumphal entry which 1 has awaited so long, MacMahon descending the avenue in his ‘best, trumpets, his son at the M the old man on the balcony, in the full dress Lutzen, juting the tattered Ma the eagles grimed with power. Poor F Jouve! He was no doubt thinking that we would prevent him ssisting at the movement of our t s he must voi joo much € tement, cise arefal tha he should speak to no one. But the at the same hour when the Pruss were fearfully assailing the long wai leads to the Muillot gate of the Tuille: the window above was quietly opened, and the colouel appeare-t upon the baleony ih his helmet, with his great sabre rious uniform of an anc! Millaud. I wondered greatiy what effort of the will, what surpise of life had placed him uniformed, and on his fect. It was bat he was there behind the balustra: ‘onished to find the wide avenu blinds closed, and Paris sombre house. There were flags every wi soodd—all white, with one to goand m the thought he was mistak n there behind the Arch of Triumph a confused noise, a dark line advancin; into the light. Then gradually the spiked helmets, glistening, the little drums of Jena guiding the march, and under the Arch of the Star keeping time to the heavy steps of the battalions and the rattle of the sabres, played the triumphal mareh of Schubert. “Then in the sad silence of the place a cry was heardea terrible cry: “To arms! to arms! the Prussians fourublans of the advance guard, glancing up to the balcony, saw a grand old man stag- ger. throw up his arms, and fall stil. This time Col. Jouve was really dead” —-2ce-—___—__ The [ucapable Housewife. Her dress is always stained with the drop- pings of her teacup, and she has no interme- diate state between untidiness and finery. She puts on her best clothes for a morning walk, and keeps nothing for her visiting days. Her piano always wants tuning, and she never remembers the date of the tax collec- tors visits. She forgets her gloves or her eard-ease till she has arrived at the hall door, and when they are brought the gloves always Want buttons, and there are no cards in the case. She never learns the rote of post- age, and writes her foreign 1l*tters after the mail has me out. A drive in a cab 1 t and the involves a fight about the fare, and she brushes the muddy wheel with her dress in getting out. She ¢xpects her servants todo everything without ene usually speaks of them as “wretches. exacts obsequious respect f talks before them of their short-coming. gives them needless trouble by her la or carelessness, and, while she does nothing for their comfort, expects them to study hers constantly. She will thoughtlessly ring them up to the top of the house to put on the coals which are in the scuttle beside her chair, and will heedlessly send them three or four errands when a little forethought on her part would have made ove enough. She never interests herself in their welfare, hardly knows their names, never spares them when they are ill, or thinks of how she may save trouble. She provides no wholesome ile st Mterature for ir leisure reading, does not Inquire aft the pro- investment of their lit savings. yer habitually tempts their honesty by leaving her purse or her letters lying about, and yet ir wages are always in arrear, and she frequently suspects them without eanse. She charges m with theft and untruthfalness on the smallest grounds, and constantly fan- cies that they are looking at her through the ——— or listening behind the door. She is indignant when they give her notice, and refuses them & character when she finds that they cannot compel her to give them one. She knows nothing of them after they leave her, and never concerns herself to get laces. She expects them both to be up be- the morning and also sit up late for her at night. If she is ill, they must at- tend her like nurses, rise to her call at all the night, and work for her in every tas if they loved her.—Saturday ; Sue Gor Her Dress.—The Littleton (N. C.) Republic tells about a little six-year old in Monroe, who went into a store where father was lounging the other day, a slyly approaching him said: “Papa, won't ‘ou buy me anew dress?” «What, buy you dress, Susy?” “Yes, won't “Well, I'll see. I easy. or new dress herself!” ‘The ce saw the point, aud the new dress was purchased. SFA sn who lodges over a butcher shop in Paris feels much aggrieved at the an- nouncement on the shop window that «Kill- ing takes place daily in this establishment.” The doctors considers that his professional skill is impugned by the notice, and resents it pudicientty to go to ldw about it. BOGGLEBERRY'S WOOING. UProm Tins'ey's Magazine} What, you never heard of Boggleberry? A few years since he was one of the foremost men of his time, especially in his native pa- rish, St. Patrick te fant. and the tnitu- ence he possessed was enormous. The exer- tions of Nicholas Boggleberry ought to have left an indelible mark upon the calender of time. and that they have not lone so is only another proof of the mutability of human greatness. By trade he was an oil-and-color-man, but by inclination and practice a _vestryman; one of the very first water too. Not that his du ties as member of the assessment, the sewers, and paving committe: »ssed the whole of his attention, no, he had a finger in nearly all the parish pies. He was a churchwarden, he was on the Board of Guardians, he was a Trustee ny clothing fand, he was the Secretary (Hon. of course) of the society for supplying the benight-d female natives of Fiji with tooth-brushes and chignons; he was an auditor of the distriet coal club; he was one of the borough champions of Liberalism, and as such found a good deal of work to do for “the party,” he was a Past Grand Master of the Hearts-Are-Trum} Longe of Old Fel- lows; he was a ranger ot the Nothing-Like- Leather Court of Foresters; he was Chairman of the Bricks-and-Mortar Building Society; in short, it would be easier to set down the prominent offices Boggleberry did not hold in the parish than those he did. The claims pon his time and attention were as varied they were numerous; but he seemed born for parish work, and, throwing his whole soul into his duties, became one of the most cele- brated men in the vestry. Remarkable as it may appear, the worthy oil-man’s labors did not meet with general approval. A section of those who pretended to know him well averred that Nick Boggle- berry was a busybo iy, and as such ought to be put down; another section said the man mst be a fool to neglect his business ay he | did; whilst a third (and, Z) Set asserted that tions were not quite so disit appeared; inasmuch as he f attain a ttle 1 soap, rice, s anxious (so rume These statements solely by jea nthe great vestrym: nt of his am hition, you might as well have tried to pull down the Monument with a wisp of st or attempt to blow up the Royal Exel with a halfpenny eracker, or reduce him to he level of his detractors. Boggleberry had zht hard for his position, and meant to t: he had studied parish law until he Leould almost quote) every clause ction of the more recent acts. He had p sanitary la at his fingers’ ends; in union chargeability he was well versed, anil the complex questions of local taxation he had thoroughly mastorel. If there was deputation to wait upon the Chanc f the Exchequer, the Home Si Commissioner of Works, invariably one of its portance had i relating to a_ri yard of @ refr: heen made th eretary, or the First Boggleberry was nd such im- riain matior y ass th ctory dairyman, that hi y abuse. ac- ixture of Billings- yilman Was cer- A accomplished master; bat, be this the result was the same as though Mi the choicest flowers of rhetoric, leberry was & man who looked at As it may nad ust Be s business was an exceedingly Prosperous one. In his father’s time the shop had been so carefully looked after that how it needed but little supervision; and from his early youth the aspiring Nicholas had felt that a higher destiny than the mere vending of turps, dips, seaps, and pickles lay before him. Accordingly, when at the tender age of fiv forty, he became an orphan, he adver for managing man. and was fortunate in meeting with Thomas Ferrars, a good-looking, active young fellow, who hala rouple of years previously been bitten b: nga business in a néw neighborhood, Where inhabitants were at a premium and waste land at a discount. He was single had no ineumbrances tn the shape of a ¢ Pendent mother or sister, and. furthermore, haut still remaining in the bank a small serve fund. So, accepting the limited salary red (for Boggleberry, when his own poeket was concerned, hiul, like Mrs. Gilpin, a frugal mind), Mr. Ferrars forthwith be- came installed in his new situation. He lived upon the premises, was found to be trustworth ito have a proper app elation of hi importar al attainmen ve of satisfac cup of the was one drop of bit- ti seemed to taint all the rest; his ance Was not prepossessing, Boxglebe as extremel gly stout,—the latter vestry jollific r tstature, but excecd being one result of the 1 ons provided at the expense of the parish vulgar crities intained. His would have been y destitute of hut for the y locks which sprouted of his nis fe as irregular and bis nos. rich mellowness rs; as tions of fruity por ied to take, it need sc loctor’s orders, in or might bear up against the heavy upon it. His legs, too, w parison with his huge body; they were sh spindly, and, about the region of the cal ofodd sha wari an irreverent eye, might be bear a resemblance toa battered and deca pumpkin, into an extremity of which a cou- ple of Uwigs had been thrast. Now Nicholas Boggleberry, like many another wise man before him, bad the mis- no cards, no fortune to fall in love. had thought himselr superior to such folly; but in a fat: moment Annie Bond, the draper's daughter, came, saw, and conquered. His ensiaver about the last person one would have thought capable of seizii 2 Pan : ri njou, Mrs. Manning. or any 'y of reputed uncontrollable will, had polineed upon or Roggleberry, his captivity would have been less surprising. But to think that a fair-haired, blue-eyed, frolicsome lass, who had but just passed her 2ist year. ald so completely shear the locks of the local Sam- son, was a circumstance almost unparalleled in its absurdity. Boggleberry felt his weak- ness; but, as he remarked to Mr. Ferrars in the privacy of the little parlor at the rear of the shop, it was not every one who could rea- lize the extent of Helen's influence in that memorable affair at Troy; neither eould an unimpressionable world feel the power which tra, that “serpent of old N: ¢ over the vacilating and misguided Mare Antony. History supplied many ex- amples of Boggleberry’s consolation, and it Was but natural he should ‘t those most calculated to shed a reflected lustre upon himself. The enamonred vestryman did not, how- ever, allow the passion of love to overcome the claims of his parish, and oft had the com- plaisant assistant to bear ‘is master’s a logics to the fair Annie. Highly pleased with his factotum, Nicholas treated him as a rsonal friend, and poured into his ear all his eager aspirations, and the various mo- tives which had induced him to seek the hand of the charmer. In addition to her good looks, Annie Bond had several recommenda- tions. Old Nick considered that, notwith- standing she had for two years past served behind her father's counter, she was notin the least imbued with the folles of the age, and therefore might be expected to readily indorse his well-considered opinion: she was already in ion of a snug a nuity left by a deceased maiden aunt; furthermore, old Bond was reputed to be “warm” from a monetary point of view, and Annie was his only child. With the wisdom characteristic of Boggle- berry, he took care to be sure of Annie's ac- ceptance of him ere he made his pore Loye-making was an art somewhat forei; to him, despite his oratorical readiness. If he had gone to Miss Bond's feet u) a uestion of local rating, upon a dispute rela- lve to the power of the licensing mi ‘trates, or upon an ingement of the mon. Lodzing-house act,she would have felt no diffidence in the matter. But old Bond was pon the St. Patrick the Verdant Sewers Committee, and having received an inklin, of his brother vestryman’s ne gop broach: the matter to his daughter, and so effectually paved the way, that when Nicholas dropped upon his knees: was : once. — a folk reaps Cod Bond's conduct hi mn actual y Boggleberry’s promise that, for the future, all the long- cloth, dannel, and toweling required for the work-l should come from his future fa- ther-in-law’s shop. But this could have been nothing but vile calumny; and Mr. Bond very properly showed his disregard of such slahders y at once a toa order, which, strange! enough, came a few after the betro! > was succeeded by many others. With so man; rochial matters on his hands, Nicholas not much time for court- To his confidant and general manager he Intrusted at the preparations for the wed- ding. Boggleber imself seldom went in the direction of draper’s establishment; it was a great lation to him, in his philanthropic efforts for the well-being of the parish, to know that his affianced uttered no complaint at his prolonged absence. “yr Tom,” remarked one evening, after Ferrars had returned from the s¢ of his betrothed. 5 Fond my wish th t corducced in the quietest presents, -ringing, or any rabbi M ir, desires bel xt month she will ha preparations, and coinci gestion that the marria brated on that day,” res: As the church is onl wantto do the thing as no bridesma d ¥ other respect ponded Mr. Perr a from the house we shall walk, you know. 1 impressed upon ty a Tatr shoald manner pos bl no sh of thats tomesct your wishes By the 19th vecompleted all her ides with your sas we should be rs quarter ofa mil» I cheap as Tcan. I have no money to waste upon absur ities. Whatever the affair comes to Mrs. Boggle berry that is to be will have to make it up — out of the housekeeping money.’ costs dependet upon be invited, si “First ofall there's my: nie, her fath er—you man,—and Annie's two he the bridesma ids—girl. for they always seein to be langhing but we must have em, I are compelled to have that hard mass of called a Girton commonly here's six of us altogeth “But wouldn’t you iny try: Why, To such a thing. 1" n accompli: face assumet st and kno Ferrars ventured an obserya will ehureh ceremony,” jon, that how many were to self,then there's A Act an my be cousins, who are to is I don’t like a bit, me: Suppose, just as we ht ike. brid er.” ite any of the Vos- You must be mad to think of Bat there you don’t know what ish in the matter of S eyes here ty, and his ontinued shall have just simple rh here. There's no 1 won't J *. perhaps, we might tind the rou ting for us on our common home. 1 an old foot v bat Ldon't mind that, I know my own business best. TUL go to-morrow and give directions for the banns to be published for the first tine on Sunday next. “As for all the other arrangements, [shail leave them to you; only Pmust beg you'll not tell the tomers or anytxxiy upon what day cis fixed. I don’t want a lot staring at me and wanting to d health. If Miss Bond likes to inct xpemses, she'll have to Just bear that in mind.” Mr. Ferrars nodded 1 instructions, t t ah this the disecu Boggleberry de dying a cor » Be ah ,oint of the argument. and St. Benjamin d that work accrued t t . Benjamin was ete. mup a’ bill amount quite suffiel fortunate pauper a Lib Certainly Be in a daringly ori fection whic from their lov oung Ladi ers. for the aid he rendered, certainly have been case of St. Patrick t Jamin the Bountiful was and led altogether to. se St. Patrick for leg: w his betrothed, sed into that enth During thi vices of Mr. Ferrars were i pespones until t ne V observed re lo exerci upon the i St leflant; thy for the short, whereby both expenses en the u i life pension. wooing was con- iginal manner. He and, when he nitsiasm of af es are apt to expe: time the s¢ i Bat must creat ermant vs. St. Ben- settled, and Heaven summoned pa- in the n and the lawyers only knew when that would be. the in ed nuy March went out, and 4 i ials— April—the month of ame in. On the evening of the ninth day Boggleberry, re- turned to his residence in high spirits. his face beamed a triumnp manner partook of a highly becoming @ bride- adapted to Boggh wonder tha rving & sh se of his elation. a ry slapped him upc said, “Tom, my boy, though the borough had free of expense, and were getting up a monial to me for my sery pul of customers, seiz Ferrars had no sooner closed the half- © opening into the sk Upon phant smile, and his certain jauntiness groom, bit searcely 1 ed the arliest opportunity of following his em- er into the backs parlor, and inquired the than Be on the shoulder, i I'm so ple electe: ‘ice Perceiving he was expected to speal, Mr. Ferrars observed, that a man on the ey fed to such @ charming and sensi- amsel as Miss Bond mest neces- fec] some degree of Marriage be blowed!”” eberry i t, but won in the Vest out any prelimi motion that stand on when case will cost the parl th et the bill” Flashed and exhanste: the great Boggleberry h ‘3 Jones and | thought to-day t6 cateh 1 njamin any did you you know, the rate-payers will of exhilaration. thundered Mr. Bog- a greaty ory Lve © opposition inatrap. With- , they brought on sto press our Af- thi if at per WAS. hollow. pesenes y tom al with his smc ere dropped into a chair, and set to winking at his assistant with vehemence. had overed himsel about to-morrow? The Sunday. completes “Everything's settled ful Ferrars. “I told call for her at 11 shary > continued Boggleberry. when re all the other arrs he somewhat, “how banns were out last ements answered the datt- s Bond we should “Tom, you're a capital fellow. I shall make you a handsome resent one of these days. A gratified smile appeared upon M rar’s face, but he manifested no furth er- token of appreciation of his employer's thoughtful- ness, haying learnt from experience with Boggleberry, “one even a more indefinite per people rich in promise, b ance “There's formal business is to be t not trouble myself about that. Tom.” And with that Mr. Bos: that, of these days” was riod than with other ut poor in perform- a vestry meeting to-morrow morn- ing,” continued Nicholas, “but onl, a little x T shal ransacted +80 Good. tired tohis apartment to enjoy the s.eep of the just. Exceedingly resplenden next morning, when as descended to breakfast. nt did he appear the 9 o'clock strack he He had jaken some e in dressing, for the claims of the parish t had until now prevented him trying on his new clothes. fe selected a shirt which was found to be minus sundry buttons; the ma- genta tie he had chosen for the occasion coull not be persuaded to set lroning of his collars his have bestowed less care flat; and upon the laundress seemed to. than was her wont. Then, as though the vexations he had un ter- gone in dressing were not enough, he discov- ered on raising his window-blind, that even the elements were against him.’ A stealy, drizzling dull leaden as meant to continue all da: breakfast, he found Mr. rain had commenced, and, if the tof the sky could be trastad, On descending to Ferrara attired with becoming’ smartness, and as that gentle- man’s spirits were even usual, Bobet pated! and ie tookoa More buoyant than gloom was soon dissi- less ruefully at the un- romising sloppiness of the streets. “Bound t have cabs, after all, Tom,” he murmured with a si “A frai ,* responded Mr. Ferrars. “Oh, by the way, ‘there was a note left here this morning for you by a boy. Don't know who he was.” Mr. Boggleberry took the epistle, glanced eagerly at its contents, with anger, and indign: @ gasped, ** Ing hn hfs eyes as and his face ion gleam- » J thought settled that affair yesterday. ‘Here's an anonymous communication begging me to beonmy followers closely; and hintinj the Ny in try to mir case. “Could ‘anyth! nate? Perhay my marri uard, and watch Jones and his that to- 6 St. Be: be more unfo1 wind and Jones will presume upon my anticipated absence. Was ever such audacity? But, by Jove, Fillet him have it.” Mr. leberry led threat by a thump upon table, which the cy and sau- cers dancing, and, rising to his feet, seized umbrella. “I shall go into it. I can devote an and wiiljoin you at the fire in the vestry. If there t. This matter is more wedding.” And with this trotted off to maintain fend the honor of St. dreary What a walk it dripped from his umbrella and, the wind being in his face, a sensa- tion of dampness soon became perceptible about his knees, whilst th eee ; : to denon. the integri! Patrick the Ve! "t Tean’t help ‘tant than my r. Boggleberry ity and de- rdant. im] it was! The rain on to his should- hansoms urged on the mud and slush, to a degree tearful Surely ifever man was &@ martyr toduty Boggleberry was that man. After his great oratorical effort of the previous day, it was certainly both annoying and disap- pointing to hear that Jones was not yet in- clined to throw up the sponge. leverry would not have been surprised to his opponent before tering the vestry-hall = only member present. im, but en- bund he was the je | and espied an hour rival of A, bit still no Jon -s; rith “he a~ eo EXt quarter, the formal business had been gone through and the meeting s:oo4 rned. nfound the fellow!” thought Bogztr- ‘ged into the rain ant oh out ale oo berry. ashe again em siush; “after my putt a it in the hope of obtaining a vehicle | Curiosity of the messenger spectily be | aroused by Boggleberry’s an ious at myself So m: of the way, he might just as well have ev He stood within the porch of the vestr: ances at bis wateh. Cab after cab dashed by, but all were occupied. Then suddenly the neighbe ing church hat a nuisance’ lock boon “it's twenty minutes’ wa andI dare say they hay time. through the rai legs would carry me fort th the he aimed ov k to the started him. Again ¢ ar of 11. ar here, chareh, by this No help for it, L suppose, but to plod And plod along he did as fast as his spindly | Mid hy shoulders grow wet with the pelting rain. his clothes received fresh di and the exertion of wal speedily »sits from t ing ata bri he road: isk rate praduced an exudation from his forehead both embarrassing and uncomfor table. “Well, if this is what people cail th sure of getting married,” mutterat Bogg'e- with Jonas and with everybody and every. PAN SAY is, YOU won't casch me | berry, wroth with himset thing, “all } atit again But th - longest b post tedious walk with | marriage hat be auth » | their attend e Jey! nos: the rain, Aya. he grumbled, now plea ne has a turning and the end; so at last Nicholas ame within sight of the church where the narranged to take place, outside three cabs with horses deep in the peaceful almost d-enched to the skin, “well, as there's only | five t ay y felic poo rs and varying the theme young thi of their own ty the eare pener ‘re in the Wedding!” Rogge berry mark, that hy thought of sciousness that with and bes look a very invitin However, ther e The first obj tered was, well beean “t'that A thousand parde if you forgive pany will. Detained couldn't get a i r the side of the smaili waiting?’ “OF ¢ ment, said, mony is at’an end? gieberey. re ignatures in and witnessed unmi. Bond the bride of Thomas he assistant anc duped Bogg attempted groon he could only uh Pardon me,” riage 1S perf ctl plied with.” dious Ferrars. the wa: and returned to Mr. And did no one stay to the perplexed old man? Yes, 4 Boggleberry rou vestryman of and stoutly proclaimed that had he k and the minister. cused his brothet 1 exis they—in the vestry? smirked Was so felt haifinclined to bestow a guerdon upon the ven how Dboantitul peared was immediately checked by the con covered boots: tiered trousers he certainly did not was no tim eherry at once m: mony! what ceremon, within his own, as darted to the register on the tabl stakable q had ten minutes pre Tf a look could have wi {the marriage was not a le: Pushing his way through the thin tin childron and experienced matrons, Ww! arms akimb and utterly reg drizzling rain were prophesy 1 just with sunt B vested himset nfided it, with his drippi ot the fussy and vestry now. pleased with able lady: his muc pride-groou for ps, my dear me the rest on pa b; tell you all abo aly Ferars, ng bride. gas; the registry.” Ferrai a lo ly good. Tb wa. fitted th Bond's: , Anni tr: gaze as nnis, attired in a costume w! her fair complexion and Lit fingers; and simultaneously it th eman’s mind that he bad ing so charming. nony, of course, y, 1 think two vehicles wouit of ho, witin the f of his U pew- ingairet rejoinal Oh, its a this re- regrets, the com- ; then ut it, by ho stool by re the cabs rse they are. Now, Annie, come and he Mrs. Boggleberry,” replied Nicholas, The minister, who had hitherto been seated atthe table, rose, and gazing curiously at Boggleberry, whose face shone with excit~ re you not aware the cere- ‘ped Bog- red the oilman’s e-messenger, ars would have expired where he stool. berry, despite his corpu- spring upon the put his weight was against him, and ion ina shriek alone. replied the minister bride- s by Li- nd all the formalities have been coim- “And the anonymous letter this morning?” exclaimed Boggleberry, turning to the perii- “Was contrived in order to get you out of Boggicborry, sank speechless into a chair, while the wedding-party « * vestry 5 fath nl mae wn the underhand work going on he would have seen Mr. Bond at Jericho ere he wou! ! he got him the order from the work-house for flannel and towellin ng. By-and-by his re proaches slackened, and then Mr. Bond ex- plained that Ferrars at first had been earnest in his master’s cause, but that the result the frequent meetings of the young people Was that an attachment a peed up them. daughter wedding a tertained no love; and He (Mr. Bond) wou! ma betwee 1 not think of his n for whom she en- us it came to pass that he had winked atthe conspiracy to forestall poor Nichol: Besides if married, Boggleberry would be unable to devote so much time to the vestry, of whi was such an active, zealous, and usefal membe nd none of them liked the idea of Annie robbing the parish of his services. ‘The mi ister aided in the work of pacification, at last Poggleberry became reconciled to the state of a irs. Before they had gone a quarter of a mile from the church, Mr. Bond proposed to Bog- Sides. @ Now what an arrangement satistactory to all ‘errars was & valuable business man, ery one admitted. rs, aided by his father-in-law, were to put it Fer- £1.44 in the oll-shop—would Boggleberry ac- cept him asa partner, and leave to him, as before, the entire management of the con- cern? The pat vestr, he pressed hy companton's arm, and a word of protest allowed himself to become one of the guests at the wedding breakfast. Te ‘misn's eyes twinkl: without n,” hesaid, calling Ferrars aside, while Annie, accompanied by her bridesmaids, had gone to don her bonnet ere starting for the wedding tip, “although I shall now be able more than ever todevote myself to pa- oe matters, I feel you have not acted right me.” ‘Sa; replied Nicholas. « is to say, my paris! your ear.” yell, Mr. Boggleberry, I haven't; and if » caused you any pain, I’m truly sorry for not another word about it, my boy,” love my country,—that .—better than Ido my- self, but you may make amends for my dis- appointment. Stoop, and let me whisper in Tom did as requested, and when he had heard Boggleberry’s mysterious communica- tion, gave vent to a hearty laugh. “All right,” he said; “the first boy, I prom- A year after, Mr. Ferrars was able to di- rect the attention of the customers of le berry & Ferrars to the spectacle of a bald old ntleman dandling a bouncing infant, whose lelight it was to grasp at his nurse’ But the old man eng’ raged the sport, for the chil: tinted nose. encoui raby oyed and was godson, and bore the name of Nicholas. —_—_-.8e-—— Tue Domestic Cat.—It is the fashion, we believe, to entertain strong and unreason le prejudices against the domestic cat. Its finest and most conscientious efforts in the musical line get only the applause of bootjack bottle, and, in short, a generally wi unpleasant feeling exists in regard to it. ack ‘ind and Let those who indulge in this malevolent state of mind read of this cat of Sprin, The master of this cat of leaving a kerosene lamp burni: on a bracket in the hall. when all were asleep, blush. order, the wick cai cell id, the lam] There was appa- Tit., and in the habit all t One night, lately, it out of ENIOUS INTERPRETATION.—Mr. Tyler, ING: in his « Primitive Culture,” thus ay ition this work the law of in: “ Obviously, the four-and-twenty blac! a ‘and the pie that are four-and-twent ity hours, holds them is the under]; with the overarching of nature it is, that sky. ‘when the pie that is, that when the da; ‘sing! The ky. plies to m) i: ids of sunrise.’ a7°The Pope has in! |, in at cli-~ cal letter, that a jubilee will be celebrated in 1875. Such a — “4 1688 — affairs, both as a means of special ga for the faithful Divine favor for world at large. ap- ch he Here ping the hand of Annie, which he had Poor mud-stained Mr. “the f THINGS GENERALLY. BY MAX ADELER —My life insurance agent, Benjamia P Gann, to whom Thaye alluded at length iu my book, is still around, and be is sull can | ¥. ssing actively for his company. A day | two ago he dropped in to persuade Mr. Py | tan to take out & policy, amd the following | conversation ensuei | Gunn—"I called — Pitman—0 Ger OUT! | Pitman— | want any a r * vouve tackled Tain’? a-going tom uh a Tailed t the Pence Pitman.— Gun And of course yon are willing tohetp atong any scheme witch will pus an end to war acd murder? Pitman tainly Gant sien tome 1 am acting in behal Ihave on hand @ magniticent plaa for prodactag permanent peace on earth and p tag armics uscless. Why did Cain kilt Abel Pitman.—*T dunno.” Gunn.—* Because he hal no partiontar in terest In keeping him alive. That's the son. Why did David bang Goliah, way did the Romans butcher the Carthagenians, why Aid the Modoes KILL ( Canby, why dit old what'’s-his-name burn Ridley aad Latamer at the stak Pitan. —Hangat if t know!” Gunn.—* Why. because it wasn't money pockets of any of thos the other chaps walking ai life Do you suppose Brutus stabbext Clesar if Crsar’s a Mutual ¥; wouldn't it rede au Wats to kill another ws thet all hands will be per ° alive a Unis ts 1 your sword into spears Um 4 pallry commission or two. love Im trying t» clevate te Christian etviliz ” « me th 4 Ant I ask yo Society, to et who are carrying sas low payab) tons Will rise make our policies ny age, or will put in the Ton "dry the widow's t ery of the orpaan. Go in f dollar policy, and I assure a hos w the white-robed angel of will resound from the star- ry vaults of heayen, and over the smiling earth the songs of love will still the of the war-hors¢ and the boom of ore Will know the felicit o race and y Pittman pron vit ay.” 1, nS I've got an ut 7 and Dra een anxious to keep it years now, and he —Uolonel Bangs of the Argus is not much of a classical sc it, but his ignor: not embarrass him. The other day some- body wrote to ask him to please explain in the “Argus the meaning of the pliras hie six aliter seni! aud Bangs respond his editorial columns as follows ; “The meaning of tie quotation is chvious to the intelligent reader at a glance, but a tree translation of itm 7 “To Si Hie! to say sent 3 We giv. ang at the same time we we inst the continual use of the um bed. aglish track ofa y scandal which throws that atl rifle Mail into the shade. rar line of canal boats plies the Schuyikill canal between Philadelphia and) Reading. Two yearsaxo there were but three boats on “h painted black, and worked by two brown muics. Last year the captain of one of the ve ther sub- of the . the + Roar 2 spent a weeix in y after he left th jeginiat aria, of 5 eap- propriated 2600 to“ Improvements of Inland A Travel. a new boat was = % Maria” and her 3 luxurious! aket with red. pat on hide.” Te esident of knocked off from plug to- veco and began on a costly brand of fine cut. These evidences of the acquisition of sudden wealth, alone would induce suspi that something is rotten, but the evidence becoracs overwhelming when I add, thatin making preparations for the annual regatta, in which the Gander line rans races against the “Con: shohochen Revelee” and other boats of the cooter line, he has just paid $100 for an ad- justable gunpowder detonator, warranted to give six explosions a minute, which he pro- poses to adjust upon the tail of the eream- colored mule aforesaid for the purpose of ani- mating it with enthusiasm. hen I tell you that the captain, while in Harrisburg, écn- Unwally slept with the legislator who pushed that bill through, and on one occasic his socks. perceive that Iam trail of one of the darkest and most infam cases of legis! corruption that sof 2 i pont b —I seein some of the papers that Prince Demetrius Tschawtschawalze has been ar- rested in Moscow, for swindling. I te particular interest in the prince, and different to his antecedents, but, asa mere matter of curiosity, I really would like to know whether he marked that nameon his shirts by beginning at the lower end and working up to the collar, or whether he ran it cat-a-cornered across the back. Im: such a name on an umbrella handl, would hang 0 Frosted ts. Mr. James Hogg, in the December Garden, has the following, which may be serviceable to some of our readers at this season: Winter is now fairly upon us, and we may expect accidents by the frosting of plants in our greenhouses and dwellings. Searcely a winter passes but some of our gardening ‘ac- quaintances are thus annoyed. During the winter we sometimes have mild, we might say warm, rainy days, Closing at sunset with the appearance of a continuous wet or fozgy night. But suddenly, (we have sometimes seen it take place inside of thirty minutes,) the wind comes around from the westward, and we have the thermometer at zero or be- jow within an hour. Before an increase ofheat can be got up in the greenhouse the cold has t in, and the plants on the frontsheif are ted, and, if not |y attended to, will Yt surely be killed. Frosted plants should be immediately watered overhead with cold Water—no matter if it forms ice when sprinkled on them; that will do no harm. leat should be gotten up as ~ ae coe in the heatin; a & this comes warm, sprin’ water, so_ as to get house full of warm vapor. The vapor distributed over the house equalizes the heat, and, condensi: on glass, forms a thick coating of frost. This frost, by completely closing the chinks and lay ‘of the glass, assists in keeping out the |. Continue this, and also continue the 5] a or ing of the plants until no upon them. heat on suchan occasion be allowed to exceed 50 di until the sun net se arte a ys ‘or 70 ‘Tost thus treated, do not require tobe kept shaded This practice will a) strange to some, but {t is the only one which bas teen cuccens? ul in our own , aad we have often oceasion to pursue it. ON CHRISTMAS DAY a little boy, in shipwright, applied ai the sonsuen's hos peng he you do your terrific best w | me I woult Now, wh entire eivi into our company, sotiy wilt to | ~ nooks, for | ry | winter stores.—{ December, «Home sin 3 aC Chester, Bngian. | diester Guanian gives the Mary Lancaster... was ind | came home drunk, and Kieket | which she was preparing (rhisdinner He then thrashed ber, apd fh ® passion the prte j over threw at bim a sharpentag steel, and caused his death. The prisoner was a vacy banl-working woman, and in spite of ier | husband’. brutal treatment of ber hed dene hor best to make his by coment abie. The jury found the prisoner cadlty Mr. Justice Bret, addressing the privoner, then said.“ believe that af ta | right to act acconding to your own feelings I | sho sanhappy bas Asay nomung about | band of yours. As far as TL can 5 | a rewpectabic, hant-working, wit, and 1 feel bound to say a ere than your bus Was Lhave seid of. There are tions eren wore th brought forwant very last day ¥ | committed agatust —y fone IL is only when he has driven you to dosper | ation by i-tr ale day, and I dare say was i treating gow 2 i, tome Tart) . Without the intention of striking him. It did strike him, and y« sliate ly ran for assistance, and did a mal to save him. All th on your sidle—all the re band’s; aud Giod forbid that tf you. I will be no party to it make this judgment allow it tof A convicted tien is not passed, and i i « a nould partes I will not oven 1 will not ° w judg ne world Goxd forbid they ewer ing. during whieh ) nee Lo come up and nobody you t ment # t will ever call ups should. (Hen he prisoner lett the The Thad a pair ot jet-black y twin brothers, of Very 1 lowed me when J walked and they usually « hunted “the Texan h m the adjacent mesquite prairie or when [angled in my fish ing-boat on the 7 very much attac and sat near me or slept under my when I was reading or w sessed unustial tt Hlow-cyed cate day, 1 was sitting in my rooms of an wnt them sprung su blow upon thy tracted my ne slightly, but as they sort t they wish did something of Uh aside my book wh them w: ime to give or play with theta, I did not pag lar attention te it, aml resumed may soon one of them leaped tires a in the air and struc | or, And instantly the othe most as high as my head and k tarantula from the cotlar ¢ | (eli heavily upon ately “made by faciag the | raising its two foretegs at Uy ein with a fore with other placed himscif in the . the spider made a farious but fectual spring ai the one which faced it ) the other behind gave ita sharp pat upon the | head with his paw which paralyzed it. 1 them took it up with a pais 5 } Upon she top of a large use futl inseetivorous yellow antot western Texas, which is very diferent from the grazing ant. | for which it is oft | unobservant peopl horticulture. | Myriads of t | soon covered the black, hairy carcass, a @ | disappeared with it in’ t subterravcam | vault, where D suppose 1 Was added to taetw ant Show How to Reduce Gas Bills. {Crmmoncenion to Chicago Tribune) Probable not one person in ten who paya Sas bills ki Ss anything about his met, much less how to read its record, personal experience, I can assur that it pays, in more ways than possessed of such knowles; Do we bw our lamps all day, or extinguish them ? Be equally carciul with your gas, and remember that you le hot stopped consumption when you ba y turned itoffat the burner. ¥ save one-tenth of your gas bill by going eaat night, or morning, when need no more light, and turning it off at the meter; and the greater the length of pipe in your house, the larger in proportion will be your saving, for, no matter how tight and periect your fittings, there is always some leakage. This yo if nothing more. Again, gas is always com densing, and the waste Irom this cause alc at tines, ts beyond calculation, a £ the length of pipe the more wast Witisexpected thal ever es through the m Service pipes ix registered. I you exclaim, * Would to God it wre ie t follows then that if gas is shut off be fore it gets into the meter there can be ae registration. Have you never heard your meter giving forth a cracking, snapping sound in the daytime, when you were ying no gas? It is recording th the leak: age and condensation; and you will find 1. im dollars and cents in your next bill. But there is SUill another saying. Ifeach one of those persons who have complained that their bills psent great irregularities will learn to read meter, and on the day on which the com- pany’s agent calls to “take it” “take il” alse. themselves as soon as be is gone, they will find, as many others have found, a very large- sized African stowed away among the figuras rendered in the company’s bill. I do net mean tosay that there is any dishonesty. But Lhave known very great mista’ to hi . and to the cred! Lot the companies T sa. it they have always corrected em when shown. A Goon EGé is alive; the shell is porous. and the oxygen of the air goes through the shell and keeps up a kindof respiration. Ag soon becomes state in bad air, ti for a long time; or the shell may be varnished, which excludes the air, and then, if kept in @ moderate temperature, they may be kept good for years. French poultry raisers are very successful, and ship maiilious of eggs te England annually. Fresh it at the center, old are not healthy hens. If ‘y are og better than if they are eat all sort of food.