mi0mm^*Bimm 5 4: fw&jn>\ A-i*&* ^'4^sr^k t-h&Zi Don't Call a Man a Liar. through in their youth, and make the Jenison Wires was a sharp, city-bred When does the sin commence.To dreadful, after long years of prayer and boys Orphan1*day of their suffer justi as they boy, with very little faith in anybody's rlesNWtt tell a man that heuis a liar urf drink deeplyto be drunk, is*a-in ~this struggle, that, hard and as bad as Jenison Friend. yo a are certain that yo can lick him did goodness. His father was a pushing, is not denied. At what print does the Wires was, he could jiot bear it it was money-making, profane man, and his for, as a general rule, when you say that taking of strong drink become.^ a sin? the turning point of the bey's life he got JEMSON'S BET, mother a meek cipher he himself at the it means fignt. I have arnved at this The etate in which the body is when not up fiom his knees and confessed the s?* mature age of fourteen, could smoke and conclusion through sad experience. I excited by intoxicating drink is itl*pl^)- whole thine:-to his uncle, and asked When the widow Coe married Jonson swear, and talk sailor slang glibly, for he know that it is not safe to give the he to his forgivness and the other boys cried erand natural state drunkness isr the Carter she brought him no money at all: had run about the wharves ever since he a muscular Christian. I did once. I am heartily. furtherest removed from- it. Thestate of oniy a small, stony farm in Noppit, that could run anywhere. Mrs, Carter was sorf jrtfitnow as I never grieved ior drunkenness is a state of sin: I what had been her father's, and two wild boys Jason Carter never forgot that day troubled and disgusted to find such a anything else in the whole eourse of my stage does it become sin? We suppose a of ten and twelve years' growth. it was remembered with humility and boy on her hands Jaon consilered man perfectly sober, who has not tasted Jack and Dan were hard subjects for a thankfulness both for, years after, Jenison that Providence had sent the lad therefor anything^ which can intoxicate one glass "We* were standing on the sidewalk in step-father to rule, and Jason Carter told him, with deep feeling, that he his good, and resolved to pray for him as excites him, and to some extent disturbs front of the club, when I made the state found his hands full. Naturally he was had learned then and there to respect for his own boys, to set him as good an the state of sobriety, and so tar destroys meat, talking politics and men who talk a quiet, gentle, but persistent man,+in his religion, and that is the first step toward example as ne tried to set Jack and Dan, it another glass excites him Still more, ^politics, and get angry over it, are, to put youth he had run away to sea, and for desiring and obtaining it. and to deal with him," as he expressed a third fires his eye, loosens his tongne, it niildky, lunatics or else want office. fifteen years had been a common sailor, Jenison never claimed nis bet, but it, with a view to his eternal salvation." inflames his passions, a fourth increases This man made an assertion, touching which had pretty well knocked the quiet when he went home gave Dan his knife The boys thought Jenison was wonderful all this a fifth makes him foolish and the fair fame of my favorite candidate, out of and the persistence into him. In for a remembrance and years after he knew so much he had seen so partially insane a sixth makes him savage which I believe to be untrue. It is probable this time he had learned to swear as a Deacon Jason Carter was dead and gone II many things he nad such a pocket-knife, a seventh or eighth will make him that if it had been as true as it was matter of course, though he had been his step-sons recalled with affection, reverence such marbles, such a swagger! But stupid, a senseless, degraded mass his false, I should have taken the same strictly brought up, and went to church and amusement mingled, the only when his fust round oath came out Jack reason is quenched, faculties are for course, becaue you understand a man has and Sunday-school always. His mother oath they ever heard him speak, and how and Dan were startled. the time destroyed. Every noble and no sense who talks politics anyhow. I would have cried her eyes out to hear 3w it was brought about by Jenison's bet. generous and holy principle" within him think I said that before, but it is all thehim Look-a-bere!' said Jack don't you talk in this fashion, Hut she never Rose Terry Cooke, in Sunday -Afternoon withers, and the image of God is polluted 'same, i want to make it strong, and get let daddy hear no such talk as that he'll did his lather would have used the rod, or June. and defiled. This is sin awful sin for you to understand how I got my orna tune ye, ef he does, and no mistake." but he also was speared the trouble, foi drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom mental eye. both father and mother died before Jason Whe-e-ew!" responded Jenison I Miscellaneous Items. ot God." But where does the sin ^hocame back and when he found they were ain't a baby: I guess I'll swear if I want I mildly suggested that a man begin? At the first glass, at the first step gone he never went back to Tolland, but to, for all him he ain't so pious himself, would make such a statement as that Bob Ingersoll says: "Women has the towards complete intoxication, or at a after he got tired of sea-going took to pedd I bet, but what he rips out sometimes!" was lost to all sense of shame and would right to do as she pleases." Well, whether seveth, or eighth? Is not every step from ilg notions about the country, and at last "He don't! he don't uever!" the boys be guilty of any base crime. she has or not, that'3 exactly what she the natural state of the system towards married the widow Coe and settled down exclaimed in unison. He disagreed with me on that point, doesit she's married. the state of stupid intoxication an advance in Noppit. "H'm! I guess you don't hear him As for himself he never made a statement "What is wisdom?" asked a teacher in sin, and a yielding to the unwearied the old feUow keeps shady before folks, except upon the most ample proof. He had stopped swearing long ago for of a class of small girls. A brighteyed tempter ot the soul? -John but he used to swear like a Botany Bay My candidate was the meanest man unItung. under dear old Father Taylor's preaching little cieature aiose and answered: Bright. pirate. I've heerd pa say so!" he had been converted between his two 'Infoimation of the brain." x\- The boys were shocked into momentary I told him he lied. I have been kicked last voyages, and, though profanity had silence, but recovered themselves The latest style of kids is the twentyseven-button Katlter Close. by a mule have fallen out of a second become a habit with him, he had conquered soon. gloves, which aie joined afory window cn a hard pavement eaten A story published in a French journal is it at last, aftear years of patient I don't believe "it!" said positive back of the ears and serve to keep the .green persimmons, heard Miss Blow read going the rounds respecting a South endeavor, and now was so gentle, and Dan. hair from tickling the neck. poetry for two hours and a halt hunted, American gentleman, in Paris, who lost was so pleasant, and pious that Phoebe rode a sharp backed horse of mustang parentage, And if he ever did, he don't now,' Oil of eucalyptus is said to be an excellent the other evening at the house of one of Coe thought her last days would be her an adept in the ant of bucking," added reasonable Jack: "he's awfu local anaesthetic. A drop placed our countrymen, a diamond valued at best days. suffered grief of various kinds, and still good he's a professor he prays in meet on cotton or wool and inserted in the 12,000 francs ($2,40). The next morning He had come to know the widow Coe clung to life but all these are feathers in m' and to homo, too, and he don't nevescold, cavity will relieve the toothache. a groom found it in' the court-yard from being an old shipmate of her the balance, as compared with that little nor swear, nor nothin'. Scurcr and earned it back to its- owner. That '^Beg pardon for stepping on your brother, John Wires who had also left word liar. ever he licks a feller he did give Dae personage sent for the honest groom into train." said a fop at a ball then added, seafaring because he had injured a knee, and me one whalin', but he'd oughten Immediately after saying it, I sad his smoking room, and showed himself you ought to have had a cow-catcher on and become to lame to climb rigging so hev, that's a fact. Dan he told a thun downnot in the way people usually sit very much pleased at getting the it." And I would have caught a calf," he set up a small shop in Boston, where derin' lie and I backed him up. I tel down. I sat on the rim of my right ear said the lady. jewel back again. He laid* it tender in a he sold tobacco, twine, and other odds ye! we was sore for one spell aitei he about ten feet from the spot where I had drawer of his toilet table, and then putting and ends but he had been married and A Scottish clergyman quoted a text of found it out." been standing when I made uss of the his hand in his pocket, he pulled had one son, called Jenison. This boy Scripture in his prayer, and added for expression quoted above. I am not |'Well, I kno he used to swear aboard out two cigars, which he offered to the the instruction of nis audience: "IPor that, was about the age of Widow Coe's youngest used, to sitting in that position and do ship. I've heard pa tell more stories groom. The honest fellow accepted O Lord, is the correct translation of the son, for her brother had married soon not think it agrees with me about him! They called him 'Still Jase,' them, but went offsomewhat discomfited. passage." after she did, while he was still a sailor to be sure, but when he got riled, the fur I have heard of people who "got up on He told the story on getting home. Hig and when Jason Carter began the peddling Octave Feuillet says "Providence has flew' I'll bet my jacknife I can make their ear" and walked off. I wish I master heard it and sent for him. business John Wires had told him so ordained it that only two women have him swear inside ot next week knew how to do it, and would have pro "Have you smoked the two eiga/s?" to stop when he went through Scianton a true interest in the happiness of a man pelled myself away from that spot immediately "I'll bet my head you can't!" retorted said he. and see his sister. his-ewn nr other, and the mother of his Dan if I had possessed this happy "No, monsieur." The children were small, and their children. Besides those two legitimate faculty. I proceeded tc bring myself to "I don't know as I want your head for I will give you five hundred* francs father living, when Jason fh saw them kinds of love, there is nothing between a perpendicular fully intended to use the anything, but I'll bet my knife against for them." and they learned to look for "Uncle Jase" the two creatures except vain excitement, means of locomotion which nature had that cake o' maple sugar you've got in "Will you, indeed, sir??' eveiy spring and fall with delight, for he painful arad idle delusion." given ihc but when I came right side up the closet that I'll set Uncle Jase a swearin' "Yes here is the sum-i Ybw are an always brought them marbles, tops, candy, something heavy ran up against my nose, befoie next week's over. honest lad, and I am gladito pay a premium A little boy in a Sioux* City Stonday string, and made them bows and and as I felt rather tired. I sat down on for having you in my service. Now, The boys weie so sure that nothing school pu* a poser to his teacher. The kites, sure passports to a boy's heart. So any other ear. I like a changeit is too go back to the gentleman'who owns the could make daddy swear, and so pleased lady was- telling her class how God punished when their poor drunken father died and monotonous doing the same thing over diamond and say to him, 'Monsieur, I with their first bet of any importance, the Egyptains by causing the first the widow tound herself left without a and over again. told my master of your generosity but that they accepted the teims at once, and in each household to be slain. The little penny, she moved over to Noppit to live Somebody took my large friend away, he is afraid you may deprive yauraeM'of Jenison began to cudgel his brains for boy listened attentively, and at the proper with her fathei: and when he died, too, and I was quite pleased when he wasleaving the pleasure ot smoking to-day to make tripping uo Jason Caitei's tongue. interval mildly inquired: her all be had, the farm from gone. I have concluded to look twice at up for two cigars you have given me What would God have done if which he had sci atched a scanty living, One day he slyly let dowi? the bars into a man before I give the lie again My He told me, therefore, to bring them back there had been twins''" and she tound herself alone and helpless, the field of clover, getting up before eye is in mourning, my nose swelled to sbe listened favorably to Jason Carter's light to do it: the two cows, turned out of Gail Hamilton's latest epitome o Mas the size ofa citron with the color of a blush I mention the- five hundred proposal, for he was as tired of his wandering the barnyard to nip at the roadside until sachusetts That lovely, beloved, bu tose, and my store clothes look as if they francs, skV life as she was of her loneliness, Dan or Jack could drive them to pasture, exasperating old State, so rich and prosperous i had been run through a patent sausage "Certainly not" and married him. The boys were glad, accepted the bait, entered the clover, and and powerful that can shed her machine. would not have that man's The servant brought to-his- master the for they loved him, and they never had rioted in its fragrant crimson spheres, reformers-like water from a duck,s back, temper for anything in the world. following letter: loved their own father and Jason was as half killing themselves with greedy feedJack and sail along steadfast and stately* under "Myfiteairsir: I was- very glad* to- get good to them as if they were his own,ing. found them, half an houi a shower-bath of selfconceit and wrongheadedness back my diamond. I have six-,alike,,and though a certain thrill of emotion shook after chores were done, in the condition SightsBy a Boy. that would sink forty fathoms "Boys9 intended to have them set for waistcoat him when his baby daughter came, that that results to cows from eating green deep a weaker commonwealth." buttons. This is why I was- so sorry to never had troubled that worn old heart clover, and Uncle Jason worked over the Talk about -fee women and the darkies,-and One of the most remarkable things in lose one them. As toth oigars, I can in any emergency of Jack or Dan. But poor creatures all day, without a word of the^theall the rest of 'em human natuue however, is this willingness well afford to give two to youa- senvant, then Celia was a girl of course that made impatience, though he said more than none of 'em tall are half so badly used oft woman to sacrifice a girl's life for for I have 5,000 drying in my secretary. it different! Jason, when compared with once: "I wish I knew who let down as boya.are. I know a lot and can give the chance of saving the morals of a Youis, with great regard,' his predecessor, was as mild and pleasant them bars I'd kinder like to say a word you all their names. Ask 'em all. scapegrace man. If a pious mother "X. 2L" about the house as a spring day after a in season to him." They'll tell you, to be a boy is to be can only marry her son Bfeelzebulb. The signer of this precious- epistle is stormy winter. He became a useful and The pins were tauen out of the ox yoke somebody without aright in the world. to some "good, religious girl,'" the a bachelsr, and has an income- ofS $40,- prominent member in the Noppit church, and never found egg shells strewed the You're" to take all the sass that's chance of his reformation is greatly 000. and never was heard to utter a profane or mow, while the family never could given you, and give none back, 'cause increased. The girl is neither Here nor impatient word. Jack and Dan loved ao. have any eggs for their own use, the nests you re a boy. You are to pay full tare there, when one considers the necessity him as much as healthy boys ever love Elizabeth ef Bassi* being always emptied the great gray in the cars and omnibusses, 'cause you're for saving dear Beelzebub.Edward, Mgrgleton. anything but mischief and meals, and The- Empress Elizabeth of Kuassia, cat's tail was singed to bareness and her a boy, and not a child, and never have Phoebe was entirely happv. daughtes of Peter the Great,, has- been ears snipped, but Uncle Jase never swore a seat, because you're a boy and not a styled! "hnmane Elizabeth," because she or lost his temper bis scythe-snatch disappeared, man. SFat lady gets in after is's all full, A few days ago a petition was filed ia True, they were poor Jason bad a few made at vow, upon her accession to iiiflict but he borrowed another the aad looks about her everybody looks a Texas court, in which the plantiff we hundred dollars laid by, but the Noppit no capital punishment daring'her reign grindstone was soaped, the bay-cutter an old Mesican woman. The Count, as farm was to support the family, so he at JJ&SL. Old gentleman says, My son," and site is said to have shed fears- upon broken, hoes and rakes disappeared -when reprovingly "Conductor says, "Come usual, wanted security for cost. laid out his little capital* or part oif it, the news ot every victory gained by her wanted, and reappeared wher* useless now, bey!" You've paid your six Said the lawyer, She is not required* a good breed of sheep, which found troopsy from the reflection that it could his razor was mislaid and hopelessly peace. No matter, that's nothing. You to give a cost-bond. She is a pauper, aaal abundant living among mullens, hardhack not have been obtained withoudr great dulled when he found it, and a thousand will make aa affidavit to that effect ihavc been on your legs with a bundle and huckleberry bwahes, and paroved bloodshed. But although no cnminal petty annoyances heaped on him in vain all day. Who cares? you're a boy! Now Why, she used to own real estate*'' in due time a profitable investment. For was formally executed in public, yet the he only said to his- wife: "Ir does beat a horse has such"a load given him as he observed the clerk. in those days dogs, the eurue of New state prisons were filled with wretched all, Phceber what's- got inter things this I know she has got nothing, now," England, were by no me&as comm@n to can carr^, and a man won't take any suffers, many of whom, unheard of and week seems asif 1 never was so pestered. retorted the lawyer. the country there was ao reason* for naaore than he can walk under. Ask boys unknown, perished in damp, unwholesomedungeons. It ain't in human natur for things to happen Have you collected your fee in keeping them, and fairness had money w&fijt grown folks think they can carry. The state inqjuisstion, or so somebody's a doin' ors't I feel to advance?" and mutton instead of bydrphobia and There is no limit to it. secret committee appointed to jftftdge persons believe but I declare for't I can't see into't You bet I did." horrors. The wool sold well always-and Who doesn't know a boy who does a suspected of high treasony had constant a mite It's all right, then I am satisfied she kept the family in stockings, for Jason's ^atari's work, and does it well fora tenth occupation during han reign many Jack aadi Dan began to trrjmph, only is a pauper now," sight the clerk. Wh&wife could spin and knit with wonderful of what a *aaa would get for it? underwent the knot, and expired under one day more of the week was available, rapidity the lambs he had not room, to "aaa?Vseenan advertisement for a boy The spirit of self-sacriSce is one of the the terrible infliction. Bab the- transac- and Jenison was- put on his mettle, and raise were sent to Hartford and soldi to who writes a good hand, understands great beauties ot holiness. Susband tion which reflects the deepest disgrace laid plans accordingly. They had prayers the butchers, and now and then a ta*j old accounts, is willing makeshimself useful, yielaing. to wife, wife to husband boasds^wit his parents, i trustworthy, no upon her reign \aas the public punishment always before breakfast, andt the weather 1 wether went to the meat-man's caat in brother to brother sister to sister of two court ladies, the Countesses was so warm, and the kitchen* so hot that the shape of juicy*iuarters. But the glory IfcftttKfidence about him, the recommenda- friend tofriend in great thingsv but in Bfestuchef and lady Lapookia, each of Jenison set the outer door open wide thismorning, of the flock was a big black-faced ram, *\&ons required, and twenty dollars a week small, especially. Ffrst and formoat whom received* fifty strops-of the knot im and stepping out just as his who terrified maiauding boys anil intruding wages? see that the spirit is wSth you at home the open squaie of St. Petersburg theiir uncle laid* down the Bible, under pretext vagabonds, and asied no better &SK boys whetner old foks don't make then carry it abroad into the "world. It tongues were eut out, and they were barv of scaring, an old hen away,the boy opened fun than to send somebody heels* over -as much fuss about such places as if they is a strait that will sweeten happiness iahed into Siberia. One of these ladies, a little- side gate into trte lot wheae head whenever he had a chance. were doing you a favor that would set and brighten troubles and when the Madam Lapookin, esteemed the handsomest he nadprevously driven the old ram, and, Jack and Dan had brought hsn up yon up in life. soul is- ready to wing its fSgbt to its woman in Russia' was accused* laying the train of salt to a big lump on from lambhood, but he was no longer a Who wants a boy anywhere? Yuor eternal home, it wilL have the unspeakable carrying on a treasonable correspondence the doorsteps, retreatedi speedily to the lamb, and of his painstaking education inters don't in the parlor. Your father consolation of knowing that it has with the Frandh ambassador butiiexueal kitchen* and knelt down next Mr. Caster only one trait stayed by bun, a distinct dtoriHt he always asks if you are not wantto not lived to itself that it has left the crime wasber having commented too feeely where he had left" his chair. Billy had and angry recollection of the rod that something somewhere. You woaid happier and better ia some degree on the xmours of the empress. Even seen the tin pan in Jeaason's hand, and had not been spared on his early and stake your mbther's head ache every than it found it that It has been the bare recital of sueh an affecting scene knew it meant salt he followed the trail somewhat stupid youth. To the day of 'time you come near her. Old ladies snap .ss aitMial to its eart My mission. as that off a woman of great beauty and surely to-the door, and having beg&n to Billy's death a little stick, shaken before ^you up. Young ladies hate boys. high rank bublicly axposed and scourged nibble the lumpr,hearsl an earnest and accustomed "Woman can raake man better, but sh anything, would send him, "^head on," at IToung men tease you, and give it to you toy the cammon executioner must excite voice near by and lookaa up has no special power over brutes hence that luckless object and the boys often if you tease back. Other fellows it's the strongest emotions of horror and forbidmjto into the kitchen door Jason was- pray- she must first destroy whatever brutalises amused themselves by elm bing the pine because they're aggrevated so, I know venerate-the|o|mo|yo^riuw ing earnestly, and the rest had their eyes her companion, or she can bave over him rail fence and dangling: a small switch --*&1 wayswant to fignt, if they don't know cess who, with.so littleW ard tc-her own 4 closed and heads bent all but Jenison, little influence for good. Intoxicating andfull in Billy's sight against a Trig post you^and when you get a black eye sex, could issue such barbarous who was watching Billy from under his liquors are, in all countries, her deadliest .the result was sudden audi severe to Billy, a torn^jacket, you, hear of it at home. arm. As he- saw the ram look in, he foe, destroying her home and loved ones, and he might bave seriously injured himself EVery man ot boii^ a^d reft VYon look back and wonder if you ever picked up a short switch from under hischavr and the susceptibilities of the race of improvement. if daddy, as the boys called Jason, had mires a woman a^| wom|ig werethat pretty lilfcle tellow in petticoats and it held threatningly over his uncle's The present activity of women not found them at this port one day and steps out of this character' a thousand" that everybody stuffed with candy and back, Billj save one great leap across in the temperance reform is, without m. strictly forbidden it. Cruelty to animals things that in their appropriate sphere wonder whether you'll ever be a the floor, charged Uncle Jase in the rear, exception, the most hopeful sign of the was one of the few things that roused his would be afmired, becon disjrustmc wn*a to be liked by the girls, and treated and sent him sprawling. *iH^ times. But I wish they appreciated more choler and made him imperative. and offensive. The^appropriitJ cha politely by tne otber'feUows and do as yon "Dn that rami" he roared, in a icevo than is yet apperent the necessity of preserving One summer Mrs.. Carter recived a letter actei of a woman demwria leliuaji choose. And you make up your mind of thunder. the fruits of their labor*. For, say from her brother asking her to take appearance nd mfnuem^toement of *fWday notio^a^boy any longer what you will, temperance reforms have Jack ^ancC an sprang up at once, his boy for atfew, months his wife was sentiment* gentleness of speech, modesty than you can help it ami when- youi been spasmodic. '^Reformed. men arouse drove Billy out, and shut the door, but so feeble that she was going home to her libeling tod action a shrinking from ttfrandfatheror somedboy complains tha* a community and^for awhile, it is a before they could speak their father was father's with the baby and a young child, notoriety and pubUc gaae, aversion to al $e*neno boys now," you wond cauldron of repentance and reform. So far on his kneeB, at prayer again, pouring out and Jenison could not go with her for the that is coarse and rude, and anm,1Sncfiw tt*fc remembers the life he led, that he so good. But, during that time the liquor such earnest, humble confession of the want of room. Mr. Wires did not want AM* consider It as a subject of rejoicing. abhorrence of all that tends indelicacy seller retires to his den and shuts the door sin he had been betrayed into, such tearful him in the city with him at a boardinghouse, and impurity, either in principle or action, ffcore Is only one comfort in it all: -only waiting till the excitement sub- petition for pardon, suoh heartfelt but was willing to pay his board these are the trafta^bSh are 3 do Wttg will grow up, and when they contntionfor a lapse that seemed to him 1 sides, and he can come forth again, mired and sought for in a woman. all they went in Noppit so he came. generally forget