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l0un0folks butisa birthday m little girl freight to day tot is shes jut twice four or four times two perhaps youll sy and maybe thats a better way to make my love seem more for when my pretty r ith was two when she was just half four it seemed as if the love i knew had grown or as ahed eay had grew till it could grow no more she was a little midget then when she was only two and ued to say d jr lord amen brass pp mamma n me again tas all the prayer she knew and now shes four times two 1 dear me and writes a big round hand and when theyre passed a cup of tea bhe makes her dolls exclaim herd i whioh french dolls understand when eight or tiro i scarcely know which birthday i would choose at eigho id hare keening her so four times as much to lore but oh i four times as much to lose at what age did she seem most dear j ah well to tell the truth a different blossom bloomed eaoh year they all seemed awooc bat this one here you know is really ruth how th good news came out ibou the west glison says he will work at his latest in vention until it registers sounds now lost to our grosser senses i would like to tell you of a singular trans mission of knowledge betweec far distant points whioh he may yet be able to explain for it was akin to the telephone only sub limated it would have been a ghost story pure and simple in older times bub to be in keeping with today it is but a beautiful fact which science may yet reduce to useful practioe i was so used to his safe returns from every danger that x had become fairly rea sonable about mr fremonts journeys and my wise loving father took care i should have my mind and time usefully filled we could not look to hear from mr fremont on the unoccupied line of country he was ex ploring that winter of 185351 he must first reach the close at san francisco and our first news most come by the isthmus route of panama at the earliest midsutmror but in midwinter without any reason i became possessed by the conviction that he was starving nor could any effort reason this away no snob impreision had ever come to me before although more than once dreadful suffering and even deaths from starvation had befallen his other expedi tions this time it came npon me as a fact i could not turn from it fairly hannted me for nearly two weeks until young and ab solutely healthy as c was it made a physi cal effect on me sleop and appetite were broken up and in spite of my fathers and my own efforia to dissipate it by reasoning by added openair life nothing dulled ray sense of increasing suffering from hunger to mr fremont and his party this weight of fear was lifted from me as suddenly as it had come my house was near that of my fathers and the younger part of his family when re turning from parties often oame to me for the remainder of the night that the elders might not have their sleep broken in this way one of my maters and a cousin came to me after a wedding ball at general jessups the drive home was long and over rough frozen streets and it was nearly one oolook when they came in glad enough of the bright room and big wood fire waiting them as girls do they took off their ball dresses and made themselves comfortable with loose woollen gowns and letting down their hair while i only too pleased just then to have an excuse for staying up with others made them tea as wo talked over the evening and the bride the fire was getting low and i wont into the adjoining dressing room to bring in more wood it was an oldfashioned big fireplace and tho sticks wero too large to grasp with the hand as i halfknelt balancing the long sticks on my left arm a hand rested lightly on my left shoulder and mr fremonts voice pleased and laughing whispered my name there was no sound beyond tho quickwhispered name no presence only tho touch that was all bat i knew as ore knows in aream that it was mr fremout gay and intending to startle my sister whose ready scream always freshly amused him silently i went back into the girls room with the wnoj but bsforo i could speak my sister looking up to take a stick from me gave a groat cry and fell in a heap on tho rug what have you seen called ont our coueiu mary braton the most steadynerv ed evennatured of women then as now i had not yob spoken this was all in a fush togother when i said it was mr fremont that he touched my shoulder for me to keep still and let him scare susie then the poor child eoreamed again and again wo crushed hor ball dress over her head to keep the sound from tho neighbors but it was difficult to quiot hor tho girls had bsen distressed by my fix ed idea of danger to mr fremont and knew how out of condition h had made mo their first thought now was that my mind hid broken down they soon realized this was not so as we discussed tho strange fact of my knowing knowing and so surely that poace camo back to me that whatever ho had had to bear was ovor that ho was cow safo and light of heart and that in some way he himself had told mo so we talked long and tho girls were too excited for sleep thongh the unreliable little french clock chimed three but a blessed rest had fallen on me and i went off to a sleep that sank into my soul deep and dreamless from which i did not wake until tea the next day when my eyes opened to see my father sitting by my bedside he had been guarding my sleep a long time in fact tho whole household were protect ing it as tho crisis of a fever the girls had watched near me until morning when they went over and told my father who bad in our family physician dr lindsley to look at m bat both re cognized it to bo healthy refreshing sleep my color had returned and tho strained anxious expression tu gone more than any words this told to practiced eyes that some electric change had restored the peaceful currents of the blood with sleep and appetite strength soon re turned bat the true good medicine was my absolute certainty of safety for mr fremont my fatheri first words to me had been child yon have seen a vision v and law yerlike he questioned and cross questioned me thoroughly as he had already the two girls this vision as he named it inter ested him deeply he knew me to be sound ly healthy he had sect the sudden genuine fear holding and altering me as an illness would and now as suddenly and complete ly as a northwest wind clears the air and leaves it fresh cool and life giving this vision hsd swept away ail clouds t tear and bronght me new life we all talked it over with friends often there was no way to verify what mr fre- montd part had been during those two weeks we must wait until his journey over by summer at the earliest he should reach san francisco and then the only mail was nearly a month via the isthmus but in early april there came to washing ton overland a mormon elder named babitt from the settlement of parowan in now south utah mr babitt brought us lettors from mr fremont written at paro wan and added many details of personal intelligence the winter had been very harsjf and much snow falling drove off the game mr fromont had in his party but few of his old companions men whose experience and nerve give them resource and btayiog power in emergencies tho new men became near ly demoralized under the trying ordeal of cold and hunger and were almost given out whon after forty days of increasing want they reached this smill mormon settlement there they were taken care of with a true hospitality and kindness whioh none of our family ever forgot oae good man fuller had died the dy before but they brought him in fastened on a horse and christian burial was given him while men and women with true christian kindness patiently nursed back to life those nearly exhausted most of the party were unwilling to go farther and remained there for whites and indians agreed that no one had ever been heard of again who had tried to cross into california on that line ab mr fremont persevered mr babitt aided him in all ways to refit and cashed his personal draft on a san francisco bank a trust nover before shown a gentilo by a mormon now the fact was verified that there had been a starving time that it had lasted through january into the next month that the last fortnight had been desperately almost fatally exhausting quite so to poor fuller this foitnight was the period dnring which i know of their starving the relief came to them when they got into parewan the evening of the sixth of february whon i was maao to know that also that same night every family took in some of the men putting them into warm rooms and clean comfortable beds and kind- faoed women gave them reviving food and pitying words mr fromonbs letters could not say enough of the gentle pitient oaro of these kind women and of his own great relief of mind after this we heard no more until the twentyfifth of may when he telegraphed from new york as his steamer got in from aspinwall and by set of sun he was again at homo soon he was told by my father of what i have been telling you hero his lawyer- habit of mind had made him minutely verify what we three women had to tell but there was a point beyond on whioh tho geographer- astronomermind fastened the point of time ab nearly as wo oonld nettle it two a m was the hour i had the flash of information that all was well again the girls had stayed out lator than usual as it was an assembly of family friends for a marriage festivity and the long rough drive over frozen mud of the old washington streots was necessarily slow our old coaoh man objeolcd to being out after twelve and we saw with a little quake that it was near ly one when they camo in after that camo the undressing theleienre- ly hairbrushing the long gossip ovor the evening as thoy took their tea and this bronght it to about two oclock time did i ot enter much into our former e sy going southern lives and wo wero three young women amused comfortable and what did it matter an hour more or less after the shock we were too deeply moved to do otner thin feel properly wo should have looked at the clock made a minute of the facts signed it and put it on record but wo did not know about all that those day we only knew it was nc3ring one when the girls came homo about two when the fire grew low and quite three when ovnrpiworing sleep sent mo off to bed next morning when the baggtge oame tho journal of that time was taken out and wo read tho ontry for the night of their arrival at parowan tho bringing up of the journal to tho latest waking hour being a fixed habit we read parowzn february gtii lln 30m p m and tho brief record of the arrival their safety and comfort and the goodness of overyono to them he had been around to each of his party for a thankful goodnight and had seen them caoh in warm beds he wroto of tho contrast to tho bad days just piot and of his own quiot room with its fire ot logs and tho big white bed waiting him to which he mast go now far he was fatigued and it was near midnight then there followed the wish that i could know of this comfort and of his mind at 0360 and at that moment i did know for the difforonce of longitude makes washington two hours and twentythree minutes later than parowan so that lib 30m r m there would be in wash ington lh 53m a m about two oclock i wide awake was in th front ball i opened the door there stood joe his eyes blazing and oat breath ant before i could think twice he yelled ive got my flannel drawers onl i told him i was glad to hear it and inquired after his health with so much kindness that he promised to call again a vjry little girl in the infant euss came borne last sunday and told her mother that the teacher hsd taught them a new song on expressing a wish to hear it the mother was much astonished at the following sent ence wbioh was all the hild oonld remem- ber im a little greenhorn among a half a cheese the words whioh had been mis understood by the child were these i am a little gleaner among the harvest sheaves a bay fourteen years old recently import ed from kentucky handed the following in as a composition on breathing the in struction was tell all yon can about the breathing he said breath is made of air we breathe with our lungs our lights our liver and kidneys if it wasnt for our breath we would die when we slept our breath keeps the life sgoing through the nose when we are asleep boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe they should wait till they get out of doors boys in a room make bad unwholesome air they make carboniclde carbonioide is poisoner than mad dogs a heap of soldiers was in a black hole in india and a oarbod- icide got in that there hole and killed nearly every one afore morning girls kill the breath with corosiu that squeezes the dia gram girls cant holler or run like boys because their diagram is squeezed too much if i was a girl id rather be a boy i can holler and run and have a great big dia gram rujsny little 8t0bies little dot mamma papa was readin in tho paper bout a oatmeal mill that exploded awful in chicago mamma i i suppose the meal was not managed carefully little dot i dess so may be they dldn put enough sugar on lb little toe who lives next door to me is a queer chap about three yen old the other morning my doorbell rang and as i a farmers tanehters domestic bs- again we are round to the christina holidays and that dark side of farming to me the pig killing is over at last and it is the worst time i ever remember it has been so miserable with extra work and dirty doors father knows i dont like to have the carcasses scraped near the house and generally takes them ont of sight bnt when doing tie work the other day the weather was drizzling and chilly and he had them in the sholtor of the shed before i knew it and there were pools of gore all over the mass oloso to tho woodshed door and from there it would be brought into the house on the mens boots i had not looked out of the door while tho work was going on for the sight of it always distresses me but when they had dono calling for hot water and seemed through the business i glanced out there were burt and iom diok taylor rob windless harry brompton all with their hands in their pockets looking on and father finishing off the animal bub i did not take time to look at the boys for the dirt and bristles and running red pools on the little white patches of snow canght my eyes and i could have cried to think the nuisance had to stay there for ever so long why will the mn folks be so careless of the comfort and happiness in little things of those they profess to love t i try to for get the matter and work hard ab preparing sausage and potted meat pickle making and lard rendering bub that unnecessary blot on my housewifely pride seemed too muoh for me and when in course of a day or two some of the girls oame in to ask me to paint them little things f it christmas they stopped dismayed why charity i why didnt you send them behind the barn they chorused because i said 1 am not able to watoh half a dozen men who have no more brains than as many oalves and dont oaro how dirty the door yard is and then our indignation meeting passed several vehement resolntions we nn- ainmioualy resolved first of alljthat there is no necessity for men being so selfish and heedless or thinking as some do that be- oause they are farmers they need not be particnlar as to appearanoes either of per son or property j seoondly that suoh far mers girls are glad to go to tho city that thoy are likely to detest the mountain of work that looms up all tho year round and is topped by pig killing tho city servant has everything to her hand theres a man to attend to the furnace bread and bntter milk and everything else are brought to hor door tho fowls for tho family are plucked and dressed there is no thrashing to be done by haif a dczm dirty boys and men who come in full of dust and loavo their tracks marked with groin and ohaff ovou in their bedrooma when they take oc their clothes what wo want ia refinement among tho younsr people of both sexes and more thoughtfulcees to savs work a young girl who was visiting in this neighborhood last summer in speaking of a car tain family said the daughters aro re fined and well read bat the boys are borrs and no one conld deny that she was right and i bay that going behind the plow feeding animals sowing or reaping need not make a man rough and coarse this is done by the company he keeps men who do not know any better and who mako ont that farmers mnst be rough and sneer at refine ment till tho boys learn to imitate them instead of aspiring better things i am tired tonight there is little hope for anything else for me than this weary round of dntics bnt evon this montonoua llfo would be rob- bedof half its paiu and soreness if thoughtful lovo on the part of the stronger members of the lamily lightened its burdens burt when he wants to go out early nover thinks of lighting the fire before he calls mo or after for that matter though it would bo a groat comfort to me and yot when ho and father ore away or if they arc all vory busy at work i do not think it bsneoth my dig nity to feod the horses or any other animal without being asked it is these mutual acte of interest and affection that give one courage to face the troubles of lite that beset us all and this is one of tho secrets of happiness in every homo the doctors bad break two agents for anew kind of chum oame to the house of br l of panola- coun ty mies in the evening and were invited to spend the night while one was caring for the horses the doctor conversing with the other found the men were from a place where he practiced medicine in his youth inquiring about different persons he at length asked and the misses brown where are they t they were without doubt the most ugly women i ever saw yes said the agent what became of them one is my wife there was silence the doctor presently left the room going to the stable hesaw the other agent and made a confident of him winding np with well they were uncommonly ugly women did you ever see them i yes and he married the other dr l claims that this is the only break he ever made in entertaining strang ers a convinoing point a man once called upon a boston portrait painter and asked him to paint his father but where is your father asked he of the broth oh he died ten years ago then how can i paint him asked the artist why was the reply i have just seen your portrait of moses surely if you can paint the portrait of a man who died thous ands of years ago you can more easily paint tho portrait of ray father who has only been dead ten years seeing the sort of man with whom he had to deal the artist undertook the work when the picture was finished the newly blossomed art patron was called in to see it he gszed at ib in silenco for some time his eyes filling with tears and then softly nd reverently said so that is my father ah how he is changed a gruel husband mrs jason jehiel ive had the awful est scare i opened the door and found the worstlooking tramp i ever saw why i couldnt say a word for ten minutes mr jaaon do you know which way he went i would like to get his makeup if it had that effect on you spoke before thinking an agreeable young man was calling with due ceremony on a nice auburn girl the other evening when her brother tom just arrived home from oollege on the evening train rushed into the room and embraced his sister why how plump youve grown edith i he exclaimed youre really quite an arm- ful i isnt she 1 exclaimed the agreeable young man and then he felt a chill racing down bis spinal column that is he exclaimed ive no doubt of it i the brother looked carving knives at him and the maiden blushed fnriously 1 mean er said he i should judge so 1 lwiston journal fiuit of experienoe bobby has been imparting to the minister the important and oheerfnl information that his father has got a new set of false teeth indeed bobby replied the minister indulgently and what will be do with the old setl oh 1 spose answered bobby theyll cut em down and make me wear em brilliant durable i economical diamond dyes excel all others in strength purity and fastness none other are jus as good be ware of imitations because they are made of cheap and inferior materials and give poor weak crocky colors to be sure of success use only the diamond dyes for coloring dresses stock ings yarns carpets feathers ribbons c c we warrant them to color more goods pack age for package than any other dyes ever made and to give more brilliant and durable colors ask for the diamond and take no other a dress dyed a coat colored garments renewed j cents a child can use them at dniggistt and merchants bye book free wells richardson co montreal p q for canoes send tor 111 oatilosiue wm english pcterboro ont kniningswnronimachines tumors ulcsks scrofula etc cured permanently without the knite apply to dr w l smith 121 qjeon st b toronto ganger toronto cutting 8c3h0oi gentlemen desirous of acquirnga thorough knowledge of garment cutting should visit us scientific and reliable systems taught whereby perfect fitting gar ments are produced oi tw with fult information on application s cottfc an prop 122 tonga st toronto moneys vsabluhed 1860 0 03 iwuit rates or euponaenoe solicited hj1 1kb financial agt 72 knir st k toronto cancer and tainors cured j nofcnttaj book free drskcmicilael no 63 niagara st buffalo k v m imical in8tkcmext8 send or our lance illust ated catalogue of bind instru meuts violins guitars flutes etc and all kinds nf trimmings aarcnt for frenches and dewitta plays builand3 music siobe 37 king st west toronto ont oteroiothing tha body while there are many who negleot to supply themselves with a sufficient amount of clothing during the cold months there aro those who overdo the matter and on the first approach if cold w rather surround themselves with woolens and furs and extra wraps to such an extent that they are kept in a state bordering on perapiratian the whole winter through suoh imprudence as regards clothing occasions a relaxed condi tion of the skin and of the body in general and renders the individual exceedingly sus ceptible to colds and henoe should be avoid ed christian guardian not a case of wont i desire to insert this small advertise ment in your paper tomorrow morning said she this said the advertising clerk looking it over will go in the wants hvo you no wish column no mum then sir said tho young lady from boston haughtily you need not insert it i simply wish a situation as governess that is all this ia not a case of want is there any nowepaper printed in english in this place the irrepressible book agent mrs blifkiua time midnighthorrors 1 husband i husband 1 i hear some one bur rowing through the wall mr bifkins well well 1 it must be that book agent i knew wed all be in bed by eleven oclock aud i told him to call at halfpast effeot of a pullman oar whats tho matter with your sister mrs tortuous v there aint no tellin only shos been travellin and ketched cold i hoar 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