^-i JiT-riiir rn i^ tfiu'iam'WW" g'Sr FOB THE YOIJNG PEOPLE. Africa. There was the honest Alsatian raises his eyes, he meets an inexorable ceived a sabie cut on the head which laid Walter Bixton," rejoined the wound face, swarthy and bronzed fey the look. i her prostrate by the side of her husband. ed man, feebly. A Child'* Calendar. sun, the surroundings, whitened and At last the blacksmith speaks: From the sight and that blow she never A, convulsive shudder ^passed through softened as brilliant colors are by a high "Lad said he, "there is the anvil, the fully recovered. I. his frame, and he expired. light. The sight calmed him suddenly, toolsthey are yours, and all that 'also," April! summer's coming! Now begins the "Meanwhile, Bixton, terribly frighened, year. and he laughed at himself. A Physican's Crime*, added he, pointing to the little garden m* had run over to Dr. Melville's house. For the snow has melted, and the blue-bird's spread out"before them, full of sunlight I am a good one to worry myself in Well?" asked the doctor. here' "That is a splendid cheme of yours, Dr. and buzzing bees, and green peacefulness, this wayas though our Christian would Woolly catkins swinging on the alder-bush "You did not kill himhe recognized Melvile. I shall be glad to help you," like a picture, seen through the smoky think for a moment of turning Prussian "Whisper, "Leaves are startling! we can feel me!" gasped the villian. Understand me well, Bixton. Tl frame of the doorway. "The beehives the he who brought down so many during them push!" The Doctor uttered a blasphemous oath. thing has to be done to-night." vineyard, the house, all belong to you. the war. Some one is now with him," continued Well?" Since you have sacrificed your honor for His good humor being restored by this Bixton, pantingly. "Oh, hide me, Now, look across the streets at that May' the leaves are dancing in the sunny air' these things, it is but just that you should thought, he gayly finished his dinner and hide me!" 'JV i Ferns uncurl, and blossoms spring up everywhere. window. Old Brotherton sleeps in that have them. You are master here I am then went to La Ville de Strasbourg, to No, no!" cried the baffled physician, room. He is very stout, and in this hot going! You owe five years to France, and drain a couple ot glasses of beer. Sweet the breezes-blowing where pink mayflowers Get out of my house this very moment, weather keeps the window of M3 bedroom I go to pay your debt." hide Now Mother Lory is alone. After haying or I shall shout for the police open all night. Methodical in his Under last year's leaf-fall on the warm hillside. put the babies to bed (they are still "Lory, Lory! where are you going?" Bixton implored him not to give him habits, he alway gees to bed at nine heard in the next room, prattling like a cries the poor mother. up. but Dr. Melville, who was perfectly o' lock. At that hour I have seen him nest of young birds going to sleep), she "Father!" entreatingly falters the son beside himself with rage, began to shout: enter his bed-room night after night gets her work and begins to mend, sitting but the blacksmith is gone, with long Watch! Police! Police? June' why, e^ ery June day is a happy dream' lighted candle in his hand. To-night in the garden, just outside the doorway. strides, not turning once to look back. Buttercups and daisies, strawberries and The constable across the street heard shall lie in wait for Brotherton in From time to time she sighs and thinks: cream! At Sidiebel-Abbes, at the headquarters the shouts, hurried over to the house of the open window Ot the adjoining room, Hush' hid in the clover, would youever think "Yes, I suppose fer they are cowards of the Third Zouaves, there is a new volunteer, the physician, and took the despairing All the glee could come from iust one bobolink? from which I can see distinctly every and renegades, but nevertheless their aged 55 Bixton into custody. thing he does in his bed-room which is mothers are very happy to have them re- At the station house he immidiately on the straight line with it. turn." She remembers the time when A Well-Matched Pair made a clean breast cf the whole transaction, I am a dead shot, and as soon as he her son, before he leit for the army, was July' off at sunrise picking blackberries' whereupon Dr. Melville was likewise enters this bed-room I shall fire the airgun, A lady traveling in England tells the on that spot at the very same hour of the Climbing after bird's nests up the tallest trees' arrested. which I have considerable improved, following: Along with my brother, who "Helping" in the having' On the pond afloat, aay, attending to the little garden. She The physician had regained his presence at him, and shoot him through the heart. Hunting water-hllies in a leaky boat. was colecting matter for a work he was looks at the well where he filled his watering of mind, and denied Bixton's charges In all probability he will drop dead on about to publish, I visited the interest pots, in his blouse, his long hair on against him with the utmost coolness. the floor without uftering a scream. But, ing town of Hexham interesting at his shouldersthe beautiiul, bright hair August! lire-flies brighten when the daylight But his denials were unavailing in the even if he does cry out no one will hear least to him, for it was a fine field for that was cut off when he joined the face of thedamnatorycircmumstancial evidence ailb him. Then, Bixton, your part of the task historical researchalthough, for my In the swampy meadows grow the tall "catstails," zouaves Suddenly she starts. The door confirming Bixton's statements will commence. As soon as darkness sets own part, I found little to admire beside in the corner of the garden wall, which against him. Inditments for murder in By the shady brooksule who (an feel the heat in to-night you will have to conceal yourself its ancient church. The circumstance opens into the fields, is open. Still, he the first degree were found against them feet9 While the -water npples o\er naked in the woodshed adjoining Brotherton's which more than anything else secured who enters creeps along the wall like a at the next term of the Circuit Court. house. A few minutes before nine the dingy town a lasting place in my thief, and slips between the trees and When the trial came off an able defense you will approach Brotherton's bed-room memory was our taking a lodging with beehives. Wild grapes in Septembei tempt to climbs was made in behalf of Dr. Melville, window close enough to see what takes an extraordinary pairan old man and Mother and leaps, whose counsel strenuously tried to piove place there. As soon as I have brought woman, husband and wife, who lived In the fragrant orchard apples lie in heaps, Her Christian stands before her, his that Bixton had insidiously robbed the down the old fellow you must climb into 'Round the cider presses, thronging with the by themselves without child or servant, uniform disordered, shamefaced, confused, Doctor, and stollen the articles found the window, enter the adjoining room bees, subsisting on the letting of their parlor and with thick utterance. He had with him with the intention of saddling Don't it taste like honey, sucked through where Brotherton's desk stands, break the and two bed-rooms. They were tall, returned with the others, and for the past sti aws like these the guilt on Melville's shoulders in case desk stand open and take from it all the thin and erect, though each seventy years hour had hung about the house waiting he should be detected in his crime. papers and money it contains. No one of age. When we knocked at the door for his father to go out befoie he dared Notwithstandirg the able speeches of will hear you, for no one but Brotherton Jolly.crisp October' Then the che&tnut burrs for admittance, they answered it together toventure in. the defendant's lawyer, the two prisoners heves in the house. Then you come quickly Rattle down like hailstones if the least wind if we rang the bell, the husband and wife She should scold him, but she cannot. were found guilty, and hung in the presence stirs' over to me, hand me the papers, and I invariably appeared side by side all our It is so long since she has seen him, and Gold and crimson leaf showers from the treetops of an immense concourse of people will let you have one of my horses to ride requests and demands were received by kissed him! Then he gives her such fall, on the 21st of Januarv, 1832. off toward Florida. Do you understand Squirrels scamper gaily o'er the old stone both, executed with the utmost nicety good reasons for returning He was so me well, Bixton?" wall and exactness. unhappy away from the forge, from his One of Stanley's Adventures. Perfectly, Doctor." country, spending his days so far away The first night arriving late by the Well, then, here is a darklanhen and While Stanley, the African explorer, from those he|loved,and the discipline becoming Gray skies November bring the first light coach from Newcastle, and merely requiring an excellent steel jimmy. Have you a was working his way down the gi eat river more rigid from day to day, and snow a good fire and our tea, we were watch." whose union with, the sea he was the first Whirling softly downwaid tee the white being called a Prussian by his comrades puzzled to understand the reason ot this flakes go' No, Doctor." to discover, he had thirty-two adventures because of his Alsatian accent. In dear grandma's ^kitchen peering, lager double attendance and I remember my Well, you may have this silver watch, with the hostile natives, in some of which She believes every word he utters. She eyes brother rather irreverently wondering Bixton and here is a $10 bill to get you he lost a number of men. One of these need but look at him to believe. Spy out "such a turkey' such Thanksgiving whether we were always "to be waited some refreshments. But beware of getting adventures is thus described by a gi aphic pies!" Still conversing, they go into the low upon by these Saimse twins. On ringing druuk." correspondent of the Boston Journal: studded room. The little ones, awakened, the bell to retire for the night, both I won't drink any thing but claret, The inhabitants had assembled on the come in their white dresses, with bare thing, "Christmas'" cries December. How the appeared as usualthe wife carrying the onex Dr. Melville. But tell me bank, seeing this curious boat filled with rosy feet, to embrace and welcome the stockings look bedroom candlestick, the husband at the pleasehow much money will I be likely strangers approaching, and Stanley's men big brother. Loaded down with bundles in the chimney door. I gave her directions about breakfast to find in old Brotherton's desk?" said they thought the cries, which were nook'" His mother would have him eat, but for the following morning, when the Tumbling up at day-break out of downy beds, "Oh, at least $2,000, Bixton. I saw almost deafening, of a friendly nature. he is not hungry still he is thirsty, and "Santa knew we wanted just these skates'and husband from the door quickly answered him put nearly that sum into it this very But Stanley thought not. To him the gulps down great draughts of water, over sleds"' for her. morning." cries seemed warlike. 1 However, visions all the beer and white wine that he has Depend upon it, she is dumb," All right, Dr. Melville, all right. I of eggs, cnickens, fresh milk, and, perhaps, been drinking since morning at the inn, whispered my brother. shall be on hand to-night." goat's flesh, for his exhausted men, January's buried in a great snow-fall to give him courage to face what he But this was not the case, though she So saying, Walter Bixton, a young man flashed before his eyes, and he gave the On with coat and mittens! out to slide and knows will be his father's anger. rarely made use of the faculty of speech. ball! of twenty-five, left the office of Dr. Melville, signal to put into the cove. They hear steps approaching the house. Merry 6leigh-bells jingle in the frosty air, They both attended me into my bedroom a middle-aged physician, with No sooner had the boat reached the It is the blacksmith returning. And the grand ice-palace rises white" and fair. when the old lady, seeing me look with whom he had held the foregoing startling sloping bank, than it was hauled fifty "Christian, it is your father. Quick some surprise toward her husband, said: conversation at Mobile, Alabama, shorty yards upon the shore by an nundred hide yourself, to give me time to speak to "There's no offense meant, ma'am, by after noon of a very sultrv June day, in hands, and before Stanley and his astonished February hurries. Only twenty-eight himto explain." i the year 1831. my husband coming with me into the men could realize where they were, Days of wintry weather' 'Tisn't long to wait She pushes him behind the huge porcelain Icicles, a dropping, shattered lie in rows, chamberhe's stone blind When Dr. Melville was alone in his they found themselves the center of a circle stove, and with trembling hands Poor old Winter's white coat many a brown "Poor man!" I exclaimed. "But why, office he drew himself into an easy chair, of savages each of whom was aiming patch shows. takes up her work. then, does he not sit stilH Why does he and was soon absorbed in deep thought. an arrow directly at the unlucky wights. Tn her haste, the zouave's cap has been Every now and then he uttered a few incoherent accompany you everywhere?" There were several hundred of these left upon the table. It is the first thing Hear the river's sentences. "It's no use, ma'am, your speaking to people, called the Bumbrich, after the vanished9 March' has winter that Lory sees as he enters. The mothers Ah, Jim Brotherton," he murmured, my old woman," said the husband "she name of their island on the shore, and rush! patter and her agitation betrays her. The Wading through the door-yards in big rubber "you are going to foreclose that mortgage can't hear youshe's quite deaf." Stanely says that he expected to be instantly truth flashes across Lory's jaindhe sees boots, on my house to-morrow! I guessnotI massacred. His gun and those of I was astonished. Here was compensation it all. You may catch spring peeping outin crocusshoots guess not not! You are a childless his men lay in the bottom of the boat, Could a pair be better matched? Christian is here,*' he cries furiously, widower, worth over a hundred thousand and to stop to pick them up would have Man and wife were indeed one flesh for and grasping his saber. With a wild 'dollars, and you want to deprive me ot brought a shower of arrows and instant he saw with her eyes and she heard with LORY, THE ALSATIAK. gesture he rushes toward the stove, behind what little property I have. I told you deatn. his ears! It was beautiful to me afterward which cowers the zouave, pale and to-day that you would regret your hardbeartedness, So endeavored to reason with the savages, to watch the old man and woman Translated from the French. sobered, leaning again9t the wall for fear and you laughed at me. and showed them some clothes and in their inseperableness. Their sympathy Lory, the blacksmith of Sante-Marieaux-Mines, of falling He chuckled diabolically. I guess beadb, which they accepted. They crowded with each other was as swift as elec was not in good humor that The mother throws herself between notI guess not!" he repeated. around the boat, however, and one night. He was vexed and ill-tempered. tricity, and made their deprivations as them. Then he sprang to his feet, and took man took hold of SttUiley's hair and gave Usually when the torge fires were out, naught. Lory, Lory! do not kill him! It was from a wardrobe an air-gun, whose lock it a violent wrench, thinking that it was and tfte sun had set, he sat on the bench I who wrote him to come backthat you he examined carefully. a cap that would come off, disclosing in front ot his door and enjoyed the pleasant A Female JBelle of Old Ireland. needed him in the forge!" "From here to Botherton's house is wool. fatigue caused by honest work and She clings to his arm, weeps and en-, almshouse on Blackwell's Island, about twenty-eight yards. Now, this airgun This was hard to bear, and meantime, the heat of the day. Before dismissing treats. In the darkness of their room N. Y., a woman above one hundred carries its small iron bolt twice as one of Stanley's men received a stunning his apprentices he would drink with them the children are crying, frightened by the years old has just died. She had spells far. Let us try it. There is a crow on blow from a spear-handle. Then the explorer long draughts of cool beer, while the voices, so changed by passion that they of leeling young, and would tell over to yonder church-roof. I will kill it." made another little speech, asking factory hands passed, going from their do not recognize them. herself the events in her life of fifty and He took aim and fired. The crow fell for food and to be allowed to continue work, lhat night the old man remained The blacksmith stops, and looking at seventy-five years of ago, but could tell dead. his journey, promising more cloth and at his forge tilllt was time to take his his wife Ah! you wrete him to come Ha! ha! ha!" he laughed, almost aloud, little of the last ten years. She came to beads. seat at the table, and while he lingered back? Very well let him go to bed tomorrow It will be bad for you, Jim Botherton!" this country in 1825, and has been supported no longer, he seemed to g"o unwillingly. The savages then made several ferocious I will see what is to be done.'' Evening came round, and, as Dr. Melville Looking at him, his wife thought. by chanty ever since. In her demonstrations, rushing down upon On the morrow Christian, awakening had predicted, a minute or two after 'Whathas happened to him? Perhaps he him, gnashing their teeth and shaking young days she was a favorite domestic from a heavy sleep, full of nightmares nine o'clock, Jamfes Botherton, a wealthy has bad news from the regiment, and dare their spears in his very face but they did in the household of the Marquis of Beresford's retired merchant, who lived all alone [in not tell me? Perhaps Christian is ill!"! and causeless terrors, finds himself in the not kill him, and finally retired to consult family. Although living under She dared not ask hat the trouble was room that had been his in childhood. his cosy frame house 011 Ochiltree street, This mortal agony of suspense lasted the roof of the leading Orange family of but busied herself in keeping quiet the The sun is shining warmly and brightly entered his bedroom with a lighted waxcandle from nine in the morning until three in Ireland at that dark and troubled perid, three little blonde heads that chattered through the leaded, diamoned-shaped in his hand. No sooner bad he the afternoon, during which time Stan.ey she nevertheless wedded an outlaw with around the table, while munching their panes, over which a hop-vine makes a crossed the threshold of the bedroom did not get out of his boat, nor did he a price upon his head. He was taker* radishes and cream. verdant network below the hammer than a bullet hissed through the open take his eyes off the islanders. prisoner at the memorable battle r* At last the blacksmith put away his sounds on an anvil. window, and entered his left breast. He At last seeing no chance of anything Oulcrt Hill, and sentenced to be hppgpr', plate in anger: The mother is at his bedside in fact, sank to the floor with a low groan. but death, he gave the signal to his men His young wife heard of his ?ptivr *cd "Ah! the wretches' Ah, the scoundrels!" so much did she fear her husband's anger A few seconds later, young Bixton to be ready at a certain cry to drag the sentence, and invoked the all-powerful that she had not left her son during the climbed into the windov and threw the boat into the water. Presently the islanders Marquis of Beresford to interpose his What now, xiory, with whom are you night. Lory has not slept, either till glare of his dark lantern into Botherten's began to return, and something told clemecy in saving the life of her patrsotic angry?' morning he wandered through the house, ?Jp5 face Stanley not to wait. husband. "With five or six scoundrels," he weeping, sighing, opening and shutting It wa* deadly pale. The eyes looked So he shouted the wbrd di command, burst out, who have been going about the clothes-presses. Now he gravely enters The Marquis, for once in his life, was glassy and riged. and the boat flew down the slope into the town since morning, in French uniforms, his son's room. He is dressed as for inclined to be merciful to "rebels" and He is dead'" whispered the villian, water, his men diving all around it like and walking arm-in-arm with the Bavarains. a journey, with high leggings, a broad gave a reluctant premise that he would who rushed into the ajoining room, broke so many muskrats, in their eagerness to Some more of those who have hat, and a heavy iron-bound stick he interest himself in saving from the gallows open the desk, and took from it a bundle escape the javelins and arrows which what 5o they call it?chosen-Prussia goes directly to the bed. the hero of Oulert Hill. And. so of papers tied together with red tape, and they knew would come. for their country and to think that every "Come, get up." the story goes, that as Myles Ryan was a large package of bank-bills. Stanley picked up his elephant gun day we see those false Alsatians returning! Christian, somewhat confused, is about about being led from his dungeon to the "By George!" he muttered, gleefully, and, as an islander bounding on to the What drink did they brew them?" to put on his uniform. "No not that," scaffold, a tree pardon was granted him, there is at least four thousand dollars beach was prepairing to fire an arrow But think, Lory, poor children it is says the father sternly. without his knowledge of the influence here!" after the boat, he shot him, and the immense not quite their Ht,ult. They are sent to Trembling, mother interposes: "But that saved his life. The "pardon was read He returned to the bedroom where bullet, passing through the savage's such a distanceAlgeria, in Africa. They he has no others." in the presence of the yeomanry, who Botherton was lying, and threw the light body* killed another behind him. are homesick out yonder, and what a "Give him mine. I have no further use were so enraged at the escape of one of of the lantern once more upon the victim's Meantime it was discovered that tne f^^M strong temptation it is to return to Iheir for them.'' *& face. Suddenly he uttered a loud their victims, and he, too, the most dangerous oars were lost, and Stanley's men were native land and be soldiers no longer. While Christian is dressing. Lory folds cry of terror and dropped the dark lantern. and conspicuous of the batch of paddling with their hands as fast as they Lory struck the table with his clenched the uniform carefullythe short jacket doomed men that they concluded he should could to get out of arrow-range, when fist. and the full red trowsers. The bundle Botherton was not dead. He had opened not escape their vengeance, even if a they weri. horrified by seeing thirty-six "Hush, mother! You women don't made up, he hangs about his neck the tin his eyes very wide and whispered: royal pardon had been granted'. ."^L A* savages put off from Bumbrich in three t f$ understand. Forever living with children, r" box that contains the way bill.Now Ah, is it you, Walter Bixton?" Myles Ryan had scarcely emerged from canoes. and for them alone, you make everything let us go down," he says, and The young man tried to escape, but the precincts of the prison gates when he The men in Stanley's Boat were anxious *?f\ small enough to fit your babies. Now I all three descend to the forge without exchanging Botherton had grasped his left leg, and was clasped in the arms of his rescuer, the to fire at once, but he ordered them to ai- &V telLyou these men are scoundrelsrenegadesthe a word. i|JP| held it in a grip of iron. A horrible struggle faithful Catharine, whose heart was too low the canoes to approach, and succeed SsJy^* and every one is at vilest of cowards an if our roar,1 The bellows ensued. In order to free himself from full to express her gratitude save in tears. ed in sinking two ot them by firing into Christian were capable of such infamy, work. Seeing once, mure the qpen shed, the old man's grasp, Bixton stamped him their sides at the water line. While the happy couple were walking as sure as my name is George Lory, and of which he had thought so often when repeatedly in the face, disfiguring him arm-in-arm, alternately embracing each In two minutes two dozen savages were that I served seven years in the Chasseurs far away, the Zouave remembers his horribly. At last he made his escape struggling in the water, and beating other and offering fervent prayers to of France, I would run my sword through childhood' and how often he has played through the open window, while the old away for the shore with, vigorous strokes heaven for the miraculous escape of Myles his body!" between th* heat of the road and the man cried loudly for help. the third canoe renounced pursuit, and from the gallows,they were over taken by a In his excitement, half raising himself sparks of the forge glittering in the black A night constable heard him, and was Stanley and His men foun themselves safe, troop of yeomen, who fell upon Myles and from his seat, the blacksmith pointed to dust. A feeling of tenderness comes soon by the victim's side. but still half-dead from hunger when sabred him to death. The devoted his saber hanging on the wall above the over him, and an intense desire to obtain "I am shot!" gasped Botherton. they joined the main body of the Catharine, in striving to shield him from portrait of his son, a zouave, painted in his father's forgiveness, but whenever he "Who did it?" asked the constable. expedition. the merciless blows of his assassins, re- zst^j-^v^ fcffc am R9*C9Wa5S*WHSF'**'*s WWWJSB5Wrf-i^s^w=T' s-ejji^'WN-jWLt'^ws^^-^Tasgioa^^