South-Eastern Independent, 1871-05-12

Thb following charming account of a pet bird, illustrating in a remarKable de degree - gree degree the power of kindness, was written by the owner to a female friend ; and that friend, as we think, very properly, has fur furnished - nished furnished a copy for publication. All who attended the last meeting of the American fomoiogical Convention, held in iniia iniia-delphia, - delphia, iniia-delphia, will remember the wonderful col lection of fruits, and especially will they remember the remarkable exhibition of grapes, from the fruit establishment of Hetty B. Trimble, of West Chester. Penn sylvania. To that lady . we are indebted for the story of this little sparrow her pet Bessie. It is well known by others as well as ornithologists that female birds will re return - turn return year after year to the same home; but has it ever been proved be lore that we same couole of birds remain true to each other as long as both do live ? Or has it ever been known before that both the in stinct for migration and the affection for mate and utile ones have been overborne by an attachment to a human friend ? Those familiar with the Song Sparrow (Fringilla Melodia) will recognize it at once in Miss Trimble's account We be gin to hear it now (early in March)--the first of the sinzing birds of spring. The note is a short one. but exquisitely beauti fulexceeded only by the melody of the wood room, sometimes they are so nu numerous - merous numerous about country gardens that in the early mornings there will be a perfect ground-swell of melody probably one of me sweetest souneis wis siuo lue suue. " I am no ornithologist ; but I suppose my little net was a song sparrow a little bird of very Quaker-like plumage shades of brown and gray, but as trig and neat as any little bird could well be. " The winter of 1859 was very cold. A young friend who was then living with us was coming home one evening, and found his little bird lying on a snowdrift, appar apparently - ently apparently frozen to death ; but holding it in his hands a few moments, found there was little fluttering motion of the heart He ran up stairs to the parlor register, and by warmth and kindness brought it to. It was some days, however, before she re recovered - covered recovered entirely. She was then turned loose in the conservatory, where she seemed perfectly happy, darting in and out among my flowers. At first, we heard only timid, low notes from her; but as she became accustomed to us, and knew she had nothing to fear, there was often one gush of melody after another. " In the spring the birds began to re turn to their sumer homes birds of her own kind, as well as others ; but she paid no heed to them for some time. However, one day we were startled by a long, loud cry from her, so unusual that every one ran into the conservatory to see what had happened. A little bird was on the out outside - side outside trying to get in. The window was opened; she flew to meet him; and such a joyous meeting it was. The meeting of human lovers after a long separation could not more plainly tell the story of affection. Soon a snow squall came np, and she was too tender to breast it and tapped at the window to be taken in. She remained very contentedly until the weather was quite settled. Now came her trouble, lie wanted the nest to be built in a cedar tree some 200 feet from the house; the would not go. He perched himself in the tree and sang his most charming melodies; while she, on top of the smoke-house, near the house, answered him just as sweetly. But she would not bndge from the position she had taken. After the second day's maneuvering, he began to give in little by little approach approaching - ing approaching the house. Finally, they compromised the matter by building the nest in a goose gooseberry - berry gooseberry bush, near the smoke-house. This was not to her mind; but still it was bet ter than the far-off cedar tree. " In time four pretty little brown birds made their appearance. As soon as they were out of the nest she coaxed them to the house, where her feed table and bath tub were always ready for her. Such a pretty, happy little lamny they were! "The next nest was just where the wanted it in a jasmine bush trained around one of the parlor windows. From this nest came three little birds. " Her table and bath tubs were again brought into the conservatory the flowers now being onto! doors. 1 he side sashes were always open, and she brought all the family to feed and bathe just as it pleased her; and the glass doors into the parlor being open, they would fly through the house as if it was of out doors. " Cold weather came once more, and the mate and young birds disappeared; but Bessie did not go. She tapped at the win dow, and was again warmly welcomed to her quarters amongst the flowers in the conservatory. " Here she spent another gay, happy winter; and it was a constant source of pleasure to us to watch her pretty, cun ning ways, and listen to her sweet songs. "In the next spring (1957) Bessie's owner moved way, and she fell into my possession a very welcome legacy. " as before, the birds returned in the spring ; but Bessie was quite indifferent to them all. But one day, while we were at the dinner-table, we heard what seemed to be a loud, wild scream of joy. With one accord, all rushed up stairs to the conserv conservatory; - atory; conservatory; and there, sure enough, was the mate again. This was repeated every spring while she lived. Whenever we heard that peculiar, wild, joyous commo tion, we knew that her mate had come; and, on going to see, always found him there. One year they raised three broods of birds; and it was not an uncommon thing, at that time, to see the parent birds and the twelve young ones all feeding at the same table the youngest yet so young as to oe tea Dy tne old one. " This little pet was with us seven years. we never doubted her identity; but a dipt feather and a defective toe made this identity unmistakable. " The same great joy was manifested to toward - ward toward her mate at each annual return in the spring ; but the last one it seemed al most beyond expression it even attracted the attention cf the neighbors. I remem ber one day an uncle of mine called us to look at them. They would sing to each other, bow their heads, flap their wing?, fly down on the ground, roll over aud over; in snort, tney acted as if they were nearly crazy with happiness. Two or three days alter this I heard a flutter in the conservatory ; and, going to see what was the matter, I found my little pet lying ner ieea basin, in a spasm. 1 took her up, stroked and patted her; and. as the ht passed off, she nestled down in my hand, and turned her head up to look me. The bright eyes were swollen and bloodshot Soon she had another spasm. and another and another. Then her little feet flew out, and soon she lay dead in my hand. How it all comes back to me as I write ! It seemed as if a dear little pet child had been suddenly snatched fromns: and as to the poor little mate, anything more neartoroKen i never saw. there was no more dashing about through the house and out among the trees ; no more gay songs ; but, instead, he moped about with now and then a little low wail, that seemed more like "ween." "weep" than anything else. In the lall he went away usual; but we never saw htm again to know him. " Bessie's conduct toward me was often very amusing. Traits of character were manifested that instinct will nt explain. in the mornings I should begin water watering - ing watering my plants, or other work, before I had attended to her wants, she would fol follow - low follow me about scolding and darting down me as if she intended to peck my eyes out ; and this would be continued until I I a f

Maxt Tears ago there lived an Emperoi who cared so verv much about ha vine new clothea that he spent all his money merely lor tne sake ot being very smartly dressed. He did not care much about his troops ; he did not care cither about going to the play or driving out, unless it were that he might show his new clothes. He had a new suit for every hour in the day ; and, as one usually says of a King or Emperor, he held a private council, so of ltim it was said, his Majesty sat in council with his tailors. In the large town where he resided people led a merry life. Day after day iresn visitors arrived at court ; one day, too, a couple of swindlers, who called themselves first rate weavers, made their appearance. Ihcy pretended that they were able to weave the richest stctTs, in which not only the colors and patterns were, extremely beautiful, but that the clothes made of such stulTs possessed the wonderful property of remaining invisible to nun who was unlit for the office he held, or who was extremely silly. " What capital clothes they must be! thought the Emneror. " If I bad but suit, I could directly find ont what penpli in my empire were not equal to their office and, besides, I should be able to distinguish the clever from . the stupid. By Jove, I must have some of this stuff made directly for me I " And so he ordered large sums of money to be given to the swindlers. that they might set to work immediately. The men erected two looms, and did as if they worked very diligently; but reality they had nothing on- the loom. They boldly demanded the finest silk and gold thread, put it aJ ui their own pockets, and worked away at the empty loom till quite late at night. " I should like to know how the two weavers are getting alone with mv stuff.' said the Emperor, one day, to himself: but he was rather embarrassed when he remembered that a siily fellow, or one un fitted for his office, would not be able to see the stuff. 'Tis true, he thought, as far as regarded himself, there was no risk whatever; but jet he preferred sending some one else, to bring him intelligence of the two weavers, and how they were fretting on before he went himself. Every body in tne wnoie town bad heard ot tne wonderful property that this stuff was said to possess, and all were curious to know how clever or foolish their neigh- Dors might be touna to be. " I will send my worthy old minister.' said the Emperor at last, after much con sideration; "he will be able to say how the stuff looks better than anybody; for ne is a man ot understanding, and no one can be found more fittteJ than he." So the worthy old minister went to the room where the two swindlers were work ing away with all their might and main. Liord neip mer thought the old man, opening his eyes as wide as possible; why 1 can t see the least thine whatever on the loom!" But he took care not to give voice to his thoughts. The swindlers begged him most politely to have the goodness to approach nearer to the looms; and then pointing to the empty frame, asked him if the colors were not of great beauty. And the poor old minister looked, and looked, and could see nothing whatever, for, indeed there was nothing ' at all there. "Bless me!" thought he to himself, " am I, then, really a simpleton? Well. I never thought so. and nobody dare know it. I not fit ior my office! No, nothing on earth shall make me say that I have not seen the stuff!" " Well, sir," said one of the swindlers. still working busily, " you don t say if the stun pieases you or not. un, beautiful, beautitul ! the work is admirable!" said the old minister, looking at tne beam through tns spectacles, " mis pattern and these colors welL well; shall not fail to tell the Emperor that both are most beautiful." Well, we shall be delighted if you do so, said the swindlers; and named the different colors and patterns which were in tne stun. The old minister listened at tentively to what they said, in order that he might be able to repeat all to the Em peror. The swindlers then asked for more money, and silk, and gold thread, which they said they wanted to finish the piece they had begun. But they put, as before. all that was given to them into their own pocket, and still continued to work with apparent diligence at the empty loom. Some time after the Emperor sent another officer to see how the work was getting on, and if the piece of broadcloth would soon be finished. But he fared like the other. He stared at the loom from every side; but as there was nothing there, of course he could only see the empty frame. " Does the stuff not please you as much as it did the minister ?" asked the men, making the same gestures as before, and talking of splendid colors and of patterns which did not exist " Stupid I certainly am not," thought the new commissioner ; " then it must be that I am not fitted for the lucrative office. That were a good joke! -However, no one dare even suspect such a thing." And so he began praising the stuff he could not see, and told the two swindlers how pleased he was to behold such beautiful colors and such charming patterns. " In Indeed, - deed, Indeed, your Majesty, said he to the Em Emperor, - peror, Emperor, on his return, " the stuff which the weavers are making is extraordinarily fine." The magnificent brocade that the Em Emperor - peror Emperor was having woven at his own ex expense - pense expense was tlie talk of the whole town. The Emperor wished to see the costly stuff while it was on the loom ; so, ac accompanies - companies accompanies by a chosen train of courtiers, among whom were the two trusty men who had so admired the work, off he went the two cunning cheats. As soon as they heard of the Emperor's approach, they began working with all dilligence, although as yet there was not a single thread on the loom. "Is it not magnificent?" said the two officers of the crown. " Will your Majesty only look? What a charming pattern! what beautiful colors!" said t'uey, point pointing - ing pointing to the empty frames, for they thought the others could really see the stuff. What s the meaning of this? said the Emperor to himself, " I see nothing ! This - terrible matter! Am I a Rim nip ton. or am I not fit to be Emperor ? Why, that the worst that could happen to me. Oh, charming; the stuff is really charm charming," - ing," charming," said he then ; " I approve it highly !" And he smiled graciously, and examined the empty looms minutely; for he would not for all the world say that he could not see what his two officers had so much praised. The whole suite strained their eyes to discover something on the looms, but they could see as little as the others. At the same time, in order to please their mastcr the Emperor, they all cried, " Oh, how beautiful !" atd counseled his Majesty have new robes made of this magnifi magnificent - cent magnificent stuff, for the grand procession which was about to take place. "Excellent! charming!" was echoed from mouth to mouth, and all were extremely pleased. The Emperor was as satisfied as his cour courtiers, - tiers, courtiers, and conferred on each of the cheats an order, which they were to wear in their button-hole, and gave them the title "Knights of the most honorable Order the Loom." The night preceding the day on which the procession was to take place, the two men stayed up all night, and had sixteen candles burning; so that everybody might see how they worked to get the Emperor's new dress ready in proper time. They pretended to unroll the stuff from the It she and A the any on the to

With the advent of the bright spring days, me aengntiui ana healthful exercise of horseback riding again becomes possi possible. - ble. possible. As it is every year becoming more fashionable, the following hints will help many wno are novices in tne art oi man aging a horse, ard some who think they know ail about it it-There - There it-There are lew prettier Eights than lair equestrians, provided they know how to nde ; and, although it seems paradoxical to Bay so, yet it is not every lair eques equestrian - trian equestrian who can ride. No lady can cse a spur without damaging her habit more than her horse. Extreme neatness is the desideratum in a rider's make-up. No flying ribbons or feathers, but a plainly- made, well-fitting cloth habit, with a white linen collar and cuffs, fastened without rib bon or color, unless it be of a silk hand kerchief round the throat A top hat with a lace veil, for use as well as orna ment, twisted round it and over the hair, black gloves, and nothing can look better than any lady when to attired. lour norse is at tne door, and now comes the tug of war. You have got to arrive at tne top ot mteen, it may be six teen nanas. xruzznng as tne performance appears as you stand on the ground by his. side, ana tne monsters towers above you, nothing but knack is wanted. Do not be in a hurry. Place the right hand firmly on tne ten poinmei ana ine leit nana nrm nrm-ly - ly nrm-ly on the squire's or servant's shoulder. Stand steadily on the right leg, and place the left foot in his right hand. Wait one minute, until you are both sure the other is ready, and if you spring at the mo moment - ment moment that he lifts the hand yon are mounted gracefully, without an appear ance even ot uuhcuity. it is quite un necessary to send a man s cat flying into the road, or put your knees into his eyes ; nor need he grasp yon fast, as if yon were a sack of flour fixed to a jointed crane, whilo you clutch and scramble op your saddle as if you were climbing the side of a man-oi-war out ot a cuaay-boat .Noth .Nothing - ing .Nothing can be more inelegant. People think they cannot help it, and rather than look to ridiculous they have a chair or step brought, and "get on for themselves.'' It is much better to "get on " properly ; besides that, when you do, your habit is properly placed and set straight. Once mounted, take up your reins, and have your stirrup long enough ; that is, have it so long that the leg is al almost - most almost straight before the toe can reach it. Be sure all is right ; then let your horse slip off quietly. Nothing is a sign of worse riding than a flurry and flutter to get off in a grand commotion, like froth, that sub sub-tides - tides sub-tides into flatness very soon. Sit square, the right knee pointing in a straight line between the horse's ears; ride on the snaffle if you use a double-rein bridle, re reserving - serving reserving the curb for emergencies, and treat your horse sensibly; he will appreci appreciate - ate appreciate it. If he is ft good one, his good qualities will be drawn into notice, and the worst animal, with rational treatment, 6hows the best he is capable of. Trotting is the pace at which horse and rider show to the best advantage. Any old screw can canter, but not every horse can trot well, nor rider "rise to it," if he can. Rise to your trot straight forward, without stop stopping, - ping, stopping, keeping the action of your body with that of your horse. Your position should always be as if your eyes were fixed be between - tween between the horse's ears. Borne people rise quite independently of the horse's action, and having got their weight off the saddle on to their left leg, they stand in their stirrups, and only preserve their equilib equilibrium, - rium, equilibrium, and set back into the saddle by a sort of twist, which, has the appearance of tne part ot a cork-screw that is turning in the cork. When this movement is appar apparent, - ent, apparent, we may know that a fast trot would be impossible. Should the pace increase, the rider would find it hopeless to try and screw back, therefore she would cease to rise, and the sudden tightening of the rein breaks the trot into a canter, and the most beautiful action of the horse is lost. The art of riding is in the hand. A horse walks, trots or gallops, his worst or hia best, according to the handling he receives. Keep the left "knee slightly pressed to the saddle, and rise from it by the muscular action of the limb liotn the knee to the waist, rather than give pressure of the foot in the stirrup. The stirrup is intended rather to rest the leg than for anything else. A spur is never needed. There is no horse that a woman cannot ride without one that she will be better able to get on with by having a spur. Try and let a horse understand what you want him to . do, and in nine cases out of ten, if you . can do this, he will do what is required much abetter for himself than you can teach him. Usually the rider is uncertain, first, what she wants done; then, often, if leaping is intended, her courage fails her, her nervousness is insiantly communicated to the horse the reins are more instan- tancous conductors tnan any teiegrapn I wireevercould be; and then he is blamed, when thus hurried and confused, for mis understanding and blundering through ' what, if left to himself, he would have done perfectly welL Always have both hands ready fore the reins, so that at any moment, by taking them two in each hand, the most perfect control is obtained. A horse cannot turn if you keep his head straight, the hand low, and the whip held upward across the rider's kness. It is then reafly, without difficulty, for instant instantly - ly instantly strikir the horse on either shoulder or flank, as I ybe needed. A whip should not be eg M for ornament but use ; and should n . touch a horse but in chastise chastisement - ment chastisement Unless it be carried upright in this way, it is impossible to avoid iu constantly tickling the right flank. This distracts a restive horse, and the most unimpressible acquire a kind of motion which is very ugly. Lynchburg Republican. Mb. Greeley sent 8 letter to a friend the other day, declining to serve as one of a committee on political affairs in New York city. The recipient, it is said, unable to decipher the epistle, passed it over to a neighbor of the philosopher of Chap Chap-paqua, - paqua, Chap-paqua, who read it before the Agricultural Society as an essay on the advantages of cultivating tha ever-blooming variety of radishes. to is to

The Best Bread Source Work. Dead Beats Extinct drummers. The Best Substitute fob Silver Gold. A Minister of the Exterior The tailor. A Constant Gleaser The tax-gath erer. To rob a man of his money is to wound him in the chest The man who sat on a paper of tacks said they reminded him of an income tax. They are talking in California of build ing a 12,000,000 ship canal by the aid of a lottery. . Consistency Asking a blessing before eating, and abusing the victuals tnrougn the entire mcaL A wise man advertises extensively, be cause he believes that many columns fur nish a good support A onAiNT old Srotch proverb runs thus " An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." The policies of the Mutual Life Insur Insurance - ance Insurance Company, of Chicago, are not loaded with unjust restrictions. Rarer than the Phoenix," says De Quincey, " is the virtuous man who will consent to lose a good anecdote because it is a lie. If you were to die to-day, would you lAve your family independent of charity ? Insure in the Washington lue insurance Company, of New 1 ork. A brewer, who was a director in a penny savings' bank, remarked, as the de posits were added up at tne end oi tne year: "Well, this represents thirty thou sand pints of beer not drunk. As Irishman meeting another, asked him what had become of a mutual friend. " Arrah, now, my dear honey," answered he, "Paddy was condemned to be hanged, but saved his life by dying in prison." The following is an epitaph on the death of a young lady engaged to be mar married - ried married : "The weddins-dsT appointed was. And wedding-dres provided ; But ere the weddtne-day arrived 6ue sickened and ahe die did." The head of f Vermont railroad shop was applied to for permission to work on Fast Day by a couple of men who were noted for their laziness. Permission was riven, "foresaid the chief, "you can't either of you work hard enough to break ii.. ,i A showman in the State of Maine wanted to exhibit an Egyptian mummy, and attended at the court-house to obtain permission. "What is it you want to show?" inouired the iudge. "An Egyp tian mummy more than three thousand 111 tVi ihnwnun " Three years old," said the showman. "Three thousand years old !" exclaimed the judge, itimnins to his leel ; anu la me cruier alive T " Martha, my dear," said a loving hus husband - band husband to his spouse, who was several years his junior, "what do you say to moving to the Far West?" "Oh, I am delighted with the idea! You recollect when air. Morgan moved out there he was as poor as w are; and m three years ne uieu, leav ing his widow worth $100,000." A cthious movement of the magnetic needle was noticed by an observer in Italy during the eclipse of the sun in De December - cember December last The needle followed its usual course until the beginning of the eclipse. It then retraced its steps till the intnt nf totality, and immediately af terward began to move westward until it nna rcgnmua ut ew!.po.iw mwiujuwii when the eclipse commenced. That was a very happy unconscious pun which Professor G , of Rochester University, perpetrated in his class room th ntherdav. He had been dilating to some extent on the character and career of Lylwarch Hen, the Norwegian poet and wishing to illustrate the author's style, he remarked: "I will read you one of his lays." A slight smile came over tne faces ot a few students at this, which gradually spread, until the whole class was in a tu tumult - mult tumult of laughter before the Professor saw his joke. A physician of Newburyport, Mass, as we learn from the Herald of that city, wished last autumn to read a German work in which a new theory of disease is developed. The book had never been translated, and he knew no word of Ger German - man German ; but since November he has learned the language so as to translate the book, which is somewhat remarkable, as works of urienc are the most difficult reading to one unfamiliar with the language in which they are written. Few men of sixty would undertake such a task. Premium. A furrier In Port land nnwmn. offers a premium of a hun dred dollar set of furs, to be awarded by a competent committee at the next Oregon State Fair, to the lady who will exhibit th lwst three loaves of bread, to be made three consecutive bakings, not less than one week apart, witn receipt ior lumuus, inw nwn handwriting: and also will state upon honor that her father, husband, brother has not complained of missing buttons on Sabbath mornings for the past . . 11 1 .1.1. . nl.n MMrl year: ana wno snau ue nuic - . . H 1 1. IT 1 T .3 1 'I An Hundred ana i amtec iuuuw piano or organ, thus combining the useful and ornamental. Dr. Thomas Hume, an English physi- .... - m . e r. F .Y.t. cian, waited to tne oiueo ui u m morning newspapers, and silently placed upon the counter the announcement, oi mo death of some friend, together with five shillings, the usual charge lor the inser insertion - tion insertion of such advertisements. The clerk glanced at the paper, tossed it on one side and said grutiy, "Seven and six! I have frequently," replied Hume, "had occasion to publish these simple notices. and I have never before been cnargea more than five shillings." "Simple," re repeated - peated repeated the clerk, without looking up, 'he ficvpn Anil MX i" Hume produced the ad ditional half crown, and laid it deliberate deliberately - ly deliberately by the others, observing, as he did so, with the same solemnity of tone he had used throughout " Congratulate yourself, sir, that this is an expense which your executors will never be put to."

A few days since, the head of one of our most prominent banking firms pro ceeded to Washington. He was accom panied by an amanuensis, who wrote in short-hand as be opened letters and ilicui ed to him. When half of the journey was accomplished, the stenographer returned to New York to write out in full and dis dispatch - patch dispatch the answers to correspondents, and the banker was joined by asecond, to whom he dictated daring the remainder of the trip. But a few years ago, this now mil millionaire, - lionaire, millionaire, whose name is familiar to every one. was a poor farmer s boy. lie beg in life with no rich or influential friends to aid him, but was wholly dependent upon his own exertions. He, however, possess ed a stout heart and a resolute purpose, and determined to inwrote evfrv moment. The incident we have recorded above was a result of this determination adhered to, and reveals the secret of his great success. Though he his hundreds ot subordinates to do his bidding, and could devote him self wholly to eise and enjoyment, he yet labors constantly, not permuting even hours of travel to pass unimproved. And what is true of this individual, will be found to be true of all successful self-made men. They have begun their careers with a keen realization of the importance ot time, and of the necessity of making every moment tell, it they would achieve pros perity and eminence. Those who wait upon luck, or a stroke of good fortune, to carry them forward, will never niaRe pro progress, - gress, progress, however great may be their abilities. " The Creater gives brains," declared Montesquieu, " but he does not guarantee them." There is a story told of a landholder, who, unable to make a living from his farm, and steadily running behindhand. leased half of It to a peasant for a period of years. At the end ot the time, the tenant came to him with an offer to purchase. Greatly surprised, the owner replied: " This is exceedingly strange ; pray tell me how it happens that while I could not live upon twice as much land, for which I paid no rent, you are regularly paying me two hundred a year for your larm, and are able in a few years to purchase it." The peas ant replied ! " The reasen is plain you sat still, and said, go; I got up, and said, come: you lay in bed and enjoyed your es tate ; I rose in the morning, and minded my business." There is very much sound sense in this homely response. While the great mass of humanity take the world easy, and wonder at the same time why more " grist does not come to their mill, ' a few are at work early and late, improving every moment, and they ultimately achieve financial success. The same is true of those engaged in other than strictly business pursuits. No matter what may be their surroundings, their advantages or disadvantages of birth, they are the successiui men who look upon time as precious, and permit no ouu mo ments to go to waste. Elihu Burritt, while pursuing the avocation of a blacksmith. mastered eighteen languages and twenty twenty-two - two twenty-two European dialects. Hale wrote his UontemjHation while traveling on las cir cuit Samuel Smiles tells us that one of his friends, an eminent gentleman of London, learned Latiu and French while running bundles as an errand-bov in Manchester. Dr. Mason Good, he adds, translated "Lucretius" while riding about the streets of London on professional -rieita. Dr. Darwin composed nearly all his works in the same way, while driving about in his sulky from house to house in the country writing down his thoughts on little scraps of paper, which he carried iirmiit with him for the nurnose. Dr. Bumey learned French and Italian while proceeding from one musical pupil to another in the course of his profession. Kirk White acquired a knowledge of Greek while walking to and from a lawyer s office. Daguesseau. one of the great chan cellors of France, wrote a bulky and able volume in the successive intervals ot wait ing for dinner; and Madame De Gcnlis composed several of her charming volumes while waiting for the mncess to wnom she gave her daily lessons. Stephenson taught himself arithmetic and mensuration while working as an engine-man during the night-shifts." Watt taught himself chemistry and mechanics while working at his trade of a mathematical instrument maker, at the same time that he was learn learning - ing learning German from a Swiss dyer. And so we might go on, were it neces necessary, - sary, necessary, enumerating instances of what indi individuals - viduals individuals have achieved by employing all their time. Generally speaking, the differ difference - ence difference between those who succeed and those who do not succeed, may almost be said to represent the difference between those who improve their odd moments and those who do not Hearth and Home.

I have had a good time, a very good time. I've been over to grandpa's. My cousin Dick is there. My father and Dick s father are real brothers. They are stopping at grand grandpa's. - pa's. grandpa's. I like Dick. He Is a city boy, and knows a great deal. He wears fine clothes. They are almost too nice to sit down in. and his boots shine so you can see your face in them. He's older than I am. He's taller. He owns a sweet little pony. I should wish it was mine if it wasn t wicked to do so. He savs be would like to live on a farm. They don't have farms in Boston, where he lives. I wonder where they get eggs, and butter, and other things. Dick has got parlor states. 'I hey have rollers on them, and you can skate in the house. He brought me a large rocking rocking-horse - horse rocking-horse with a real horse's tail to it I made believe I am a soldier. Dick made me a soldier cap out of a Youth? Companion, and l tied a scan around my waist Then we played highwaymen. Dick held my horse. He said I must give up my money. 1 did. 1 only had a cent, but I told him I would owe him the rest He said " Debt is a very bad thing." think so, too. I owed Peter Cole three pins for a rosy cake, and it worried me about paying it The first three pins I got I gave Peter Cole, lie manned me. lie said I was honest I was little then, and I meant to say " Honesty is the best policy.' But I didn't. I aeid " Honesty is the beat policeman. ewr langnea ont rrai loua. Dick is a very obliging boy, J.wilr do inst what I want him to. We played ani- ma is, ana maae oeueve ue some junet ui . , , 1 - l: j r beast and the otner was to guess wnai animal we meant to be. I growled. Dick said that was a wea sel's squeak. I meant it for a -bear. I guess I haven't got a very gruff voice. Dick made a growi. 1 inougni ne meant it for a lion. I said so. He said it was a rat caught in a trap. I like that play, out 11 was tiresome. Then we played war. We put two chairs together and covered them with grandma's shawL and put three piljows behind them for men. We threw a runner nan at mem. 1 Kill ed two men. Pillow-men, I. mean. I shouldn't like U kill a real live man. He might not like it I should think it was unpleasant to be killed. Dick is a very brave boy. He is not afraid to be out after dark. We played night at grandpa's. We pulled the cur tains down, and then we rolled the big cricket over the floor. That was for thun thunder. - der. thunder. Dick flashed a match. That was for lightning. This was our play for a storm at sea. The sofa was our ship. Dick was cap captain, - tain, captain, and I was a passenger. Dick has been in a storm, and he tuows ail about it If it was like this, it must have been awfuL Grandpa came in, and we got htm to make believe he was another ship. He was very willing to. He is real obliging. Our ship rolled, and I tumbled over board. Grandpa saved me. I was very much obliged to him. He said it wouldn't do to have Johnny Punks lost at sea. I am Johnny Punks with grand pa. Grandma then came in and said she had never heard such a noise in all her born days. She was mistaken. It was a great deal noisier when they were putting up the stove in the parlor. Grandma thinks boys are always noisy. I guess they can't help it very well. They have noise in them and it must come out Grandpa tells her that quiet boys are al most always in mischief. I think he ought to know. He was a boy once him self. It must oe a good many years agu. I wonder if he remembers it I guess he was a very, very quiet boy for he says he was always in mischief. He's altered since. He didn't know gradma then. Dick wanted to play tag, but grandma said it was too noisy for the house. We went to the bam. We looked at the pony, and Dick said we had better go ride on it We got on. I rode first, and Dick held me. . . We rode over to mother s and then went down to the brook. It was froze over. I guess the fishes had shut up their houses tor the winter. It looked so. We called at the store and bought two candy sticks. Dick did. He gave me one. It was very good. I would like an another - other another just like it now. It is very cheap, only one cent a stick. I should think Mr. . , ... r. 1 - 1 c Uooding wouia eat 11 oiien muiscii. Ml. Gooding is our storeKeeper. ne says he likes me. I don t know why. I buy all my candy there. Perhaps, that's the reason. Dick and I forgot to play tag. It does not matter much. Dick likes to see Joe milk the cows. Joe is Grandpa's hired man, and he is a verv rood man. He's funny, and can make pictures on the barn with a black stick. He made a picture of me as I shall look when I grow up. It had whiskers. I don't expect to have any. I may alter my mind. But I have had a good time with Cousin Dick, a very, very good time. Youth' 1 Companion. " I o' as in .1 ,

" It is related of Guard that when a young tradesman having bought of him and paid for a bag of colTee, proceeded to wheel it home himself, the shrewd old merchant immediately offered to trust hia customer for as many bags as he might de desire. - sire. desire. The trait of character revealed by the young man in being his own porter, had given the millionaire confidence in him at once. His reputation was made with Girard. He became a favored dealer with the enterprising merchant, throve rapidly, and in the end made a for fortune." - tune." fortune." Exchange. That sort of thing might have worked well enough with old Girard, but it don't fool anybody now. I have tried it I bought half a pound of tea at Penderry's the other day, aft r reading the above paragraph, and wheeled it home in the most ostentatious manner, just to see if Penderry,-who was looking on, wouldn't offer to trust me for all the tea that I wanted, but he didn't On the contrary, I heard him speak up sharp to a clerk as I went around the corner, asking him if that tea was paid for? I afterward took a wheelbarrow and went to a flourstore on Central avenue ; bought a small bag of flour, twenty-five pounds, I think, and loaded it on, the head of the concern looking at me with, apparent interest " Now," I thought " is my opportunity. This is a Girard feller. He will tell me to come and get all the flour I can wheel away, and pay when I get ready. Per Perhaps - haps Perhaps he will offer mca partnership m fciav store." Then I spat on mv hands and whipped them over my shoulders to euwmago a vigorous circulation, rubbed them to together - gether together smartly, and, clutching the han handles - dles handles of the barrow, started off at a brisk trot I had proceeded about a square when I heard some one shouting after me. Looked around, and saw the jBour man coming on a dead run. " Ha, ha !" thought L " the thing works admirably. The example of Steve Girard is not lost I have revealed a trait of char character - acter character in being my own porter, to say noth nothing - ing nothing of my beer, and my fortune is made f The flour and feed man recognizes my mer merits, - its, merits, and comes to offer me a partnership !" As he approached I saw he had some money in his hand. " He is at least" I said, " going to return me my money." There was a severe look on his face as he ctmeuptome which did not accord at all with what I had pictured Girard'a countenance to have worn when he gave the carte blanche for coffee. While reflecting that it might be " hS way," he said : " Sir, I want you to go right back to my store. " It is coming now," thought I, though I did not quite like his tone. " Wheelbar Wheelbarrows - rows Wheelbarrows are about to receive their reward. He is going to offer me a partnership ; per perhaps - haps perhaps to turn over his entire business to me." I was consequently elated. Then I said to the flour and feed man (just as though I didn't know, you know, the clever things he meant to do for me), May I inquire for what purpose, sir?" "Certainly, you may," he replied, frowning worse than ever. " You shoved this counterfeit bill to my clerk, and you must come back till I get a policeman 1 Oh 1 von naedn't try to look so innocent! 'spicioned you when I saw you running round to my store to get such a little jag flour as that. Watched ye to see mas ye didn't steal nothin'. You see you can t fool an old hand." TTer was a turn in affairs that wouia astonish old Girard himself. I tried to explain. Assured him that I supposed the note to be genuine. He was incredulous for a time, and was disposed h nave mo locked up and the wheelbarrow detained a witness, dui uiuujv j redeeming the note. The wheelbarrow Duaiue 10 " - - bug A man can't mate a cnaraciex " "J such way. And the chances are that he will lose what little he starts out with. Fat Contributor.

Every mountain, valley and cascade of Northern Georgia has an Indian tradition connected with its history. The Chero- kees used to relate one which they said oc curred at Toccoa Falls many years before the white men came to their country. They were waging a fierce war with a powerful tribe who lived on the lowlands southward. During a hard-fought battle so happened that th Oherokees made captive a dozen of their foes, whom they brought home to their country securely bound. Their intention was to sacrifice the prisoners ; but as they wished the cere mony to be imposing on account of the fame ot the captives, it was resolved to postpone the sacrifice till the time of the full moon, in the meantime, tne unero unero-kee - kee unero-kee braves went forth again to battle, while the prisoners, now bound more strongly than ever, were left in a wigwam near Toccoa, in charge of an old woman noted ior her savage patriotism. borne days passed, ana as tne unfortu nate enemies lay in the lodge of the old woman, she dealt out to them a scanty supply of food and water. They besought her to release them, and offered her the most valuable bribes; but she held her tongue, and remained faithful to her trust was now a morning of a pleasant day, when an Indian boy called at the door ot the old woman s lodge, and told her that saw a party of their enemies on the other side of the mountain a few hours previous, and it was probable they were coming to tne rescue ot their fellows. ehe heard the intelligence in silence. Re-entering the lodge, another ap peal for freedom 'was made, and the prisoners were delighted to see a smile playing upon the countenance of their keeper. She told them she had relented. and promised that she would let them es escape - cape escape : but it must be cn certain conditions. They were first to give into her hands what few personal effects they had left, must depart at dead of night, and that they might not find their way back, must consent to go blindedj for two miles through a thick wood into an open coun country, - try, country, where she would release them. The prisoners gladly consented, ana as the hour of midnight approached it was accompanied by a heavy thunder-storm. The night and the contemplated deed were admirably suited. She tied leather bands over the eyes of her captives, and having severed the thongs which fastened their feet, led them forth with hands still bound behind their backs. They were fastened to each other by tough withes, and were in this way led on toward their promised freedom, intricate, winding, tedious was the way; but not a murmur was heard or a word spoken. Now the strange procession reached a leyel spot of ground, and the prisoners began to step more freely. Now they have reached the precipice of Teccoa and, as the woman walks to the very edge, makes a sudden torn, and the blind captives are launched into the abyss be below. - low. below. A howl of savage triumph echoes through the air from the old woman-fiend, with the groans of the dying in her ears and the lightning in her path, she retraces her steps to the lodge to seek re repose, - pose, repose, and on the morrow to proclaim her cruel deed.