SE'wjjjpr* "V. A RESCUEIBOM CANFIBALS. want to take any boarders along? Mrs. "Going-to School." sniffed with disdain at my holding the me, the whole three, I'll spend my whole Post wants to bring i.er sick baby out for mortgage lor my share of the estate. life in making them happy and after 'A Story For New Years. the summer, and that young student on Ready money#would be much better, I'm gone, they shall have the homestead the second floor back is pestering me to BY M. QUAD. "he said but I had my way, and every penny I've got in the world." fluid a came down into the bowels of spend his vacation with us but surely, thank God! And I told Bob up and "Yes. yes." said Bob, who had never the earth to find me, as she usually was Hulda, you would not begin our new life down I wanted it understood that there Do those people who are sighing for a ceased shivering, and was now as hot and compelled to do. There was no necessi with boarders?"no." was to be no obligation on either side departure from,the present sehool system red as he had been white and cold, "I'll Magda she said, with that "No,1 ty for her remaining amid the rust and Hulda and I would take the city house, realize what results might follow? I pay their Doard, Magda this is only a little melancholy, deprecatory, exasperating roaches, the gloom and interminable and.hean the threechildren shouldboard think not. I don't believe they are prepared temporary trouble. I hope to get a pmile of hers and as she went with us. To help along with the expenses stream, of tbat cavernons kitchen floor of for the awful consequences which clerkship but little Bob will never get away she left the germ after .lerof rather I took a few more boarders, and still would follow a departure from the through the stormnever! Keep hold ot ours on Brooklyn Heights. We had kept a bitter misgiving, which ripened into a few more, for one brought another. I monotony of text-books and stereotyped your sister, Bob," cried my poor brother, boarders now for years and years, or perhaps full maturity when wc got nettled in the had a sort of faculty tor cooking, and if class examinations. They must know that aloud voice, "and keep the tail of my the boarders haa kept us or it old homestead, with all our household there's one weakness in the human race the moment you treat a pupil in school coat firm in your hand don't let go, my goodsi about us. These deities wore a might have been a mutual eking out ot more prevailing and besetting than another, hours as if he was not a prisoner, he will son. for God's sake, Bobovdon't let rueful and rusty air. There was some existence. But I took care of the cooking, it's gluttony. I used to do my at once kick up a rebellion and forge this go!" thing out of joint. It was Time himself best to tempt the jaded yet voracious because in that the main strength of books. He got upon his feet, and seemed fbbe no doubt. The tall clock in the corner palate of that yellow dyspeptic Marley, success lay, and 1 didn't want to keep plodding through the storm as he made didn't tick in the old cheery way, but put and gave him many a griui hobgoblin Children are sent to school to learn we his way to the kitchen door. I coaxed boarders all my life. Hulda in mind of some weary jingle she for company after he'd left ray sweet all know that. Certain eminent men him up to the bed in his own old room, When we began it was to please brother had read, with the one refrain of "Never, Hulda, for I couldn't forgive his winning have been called upon, or have called that I had kept aired and comfortable to Bob. He was a well-to-do salesman forevjerforever, never." I never could her consent to marry him, when he knew upon themselves, to compile geographies, lighten my own achingheart. When the in the city, and used to come down to the see, myself, the use of reading rhymes the core of her heart was another's. The arithmetics, spelling-books, readers, etc, morning dawned and the doctor could dear old"homestead with BO many airs either they are too silly or too grave- but coming to the city and finding out how for instruction of school-children. It follows get to us, poor Bob was wild in delirium and graces about him that we grew to Hulda had always been what they called pretty she was had turned Hulda's head. as a matter of necessity, that pupils the only word he muttered or called look upon him with a sort of awe, and romantic. I began to hate the approach Bob's will and cunning were strong have no business to learn anything except aloud were about bonds and bills, dollars wonder if this pinky gentleman in the of ajmoonlight night, for she would sit and untiring, and anyway Hulda grave from these books. It a teacher should and francthns of dollars. His long white high hat and lioen duster could be ourBob out-of-doors and run the risk of the ague up poor David Devine, and agreed to fingers seemed to bold a pen.and scratch, take it into her head to explain to the that used to kick all the bottoms out of and when the air grew chill enough to marry that grim and greedy Marley. I scratch the weary figures upon the counterpane pupils the difference between poetry and the chairs, and never bad a whole knee in have.a comfortable fire on the hearth, lay awake at night worrying about it till my eves and brain ached for blank-verse, or explain any interesting his breeches: that robbed the birds' nests Hulda spoiled it all by begging me not my heart was so sore perplexed for poor very pity. question in natural history, she should be worried the schoolmaster, was nearly to light the lamps, and there she would David.and wrathful against Bob, anddistrustful severely reproved, because none of the For two wretched days and nights he damned in the millrace and had his leg. eit in a blindman's holiday. I began to of Providence. I grew desperate schoolbcoks refer to such things. struggled with this sordid misery, the broken by a fall trom the hay-rick. Nobody get the rickets myself and though I and wicked, but David stuck to his faith, The other day I met a bit of a girl going fiend of commercial fret and disaster would f'ream he had ever a kink in wouldn't have owned te it for dear fellow, though he hadn't strength to to school with tears in her eves and never letting go his grip but New Year's bis leg, now that he had got to be a commercial the world, was sorry I hadn't brought stick to the old spot where he had been Sander's new speller in her hand. She morning dawned clear and bright, and man. He was as straight and out with me Mis. Post and her baby, and so hapoy and so miserable. He went could spell, but Sanders had told her, and before the eastern sky had quite lost its tall as the finest of our scarlet-runner the young student on the second floor out as a missionary to some of the cannibal her teacher had cautioned her, to commit glory Bob fell into a deep, untroubled baejk. For one thing, I hadn't enough to Jk. poles, and butter wouldn't melt in his islands, where I wonder the women to memory the fact that "Words are sleep. How white and wan he looked! do Chloe did all the kitchen work, mouth, he was that smooth and sleek and didn't eat himhe was so handsome either primitive, derivative, simple or How thin and bloodless were the once Hulda attended to the bedrooms, and the sott-spoken. How surprised we were and so good. compound." The child didn't know busy fingers that now lay limp and still! cooking that was left to me wasn't worth when be proposed himself to go and hear whether the word "primitive" meant twin The very name of Marley became an At noon-time the sky was all one blaze mentioning. It was enough to break Davide Divine's first sermon, holding the hitching-posts or afire alarm, and when I abomination to me, and I forced a promise ot cloudless sunny blue, and to keep the one's heart to see the dishes come and go 'i $ hymn book all the way, and cairymg asked Her the meaning of the word from Hulda that she wouldn't marry room dark I strove to fasten an extra untouched and untasted. I would almost Hulda's best shawl on his arm! I used to "compound*' she looked from] an applepeddler's for a couple of years, during which time shawl over tne window. Suddenly I have been glad to see tbat greedy be his favorite in the good old days when wagon on to a lamppost I hoped for heaven knows what that was heard Bob whispering my name in such Marley come in for one hearty meal. he didn't know a 6u nose from a Grecian and back, as if the significance strange or remarkable. I had small doubt a strange voice that I got"down quickly There was nobody to brew or bake for one, and Bob found my carroty hair of the word hovered between but that poor David was food for the fishes and went over to the beJside, and was nobody to mend or make for and, ah and freckles much finer than the silken the two. I didn't explain or astist her, of or the cannibals, for I had heard no puzzled to hear a low laugh from his me!! what a bitter cry I had one day when locks axd delicate complexion of Hulda course. Because Sanders put tbat sentence1 word from him but I kept on praying trembliner lips. his speller it follows that pupils I stupidly stumbled into Bob's snuggery, He used to call Hulda the miIK and water and hoping for a hurricane that might "Say Mag," he whispered, "don't let up under the eaves of the garret, and saw baby, and I was the one he came to in must earn it. even though their teacher sweep every Marley off the face of the mother know. I crept in through the tbfre the broken fishing rode, the old all his scrapes and short comings. But. could not write it dwn and spell half the earth. Whenever Marley took Hulda window, and left some of my pants on rabbit hutches, the bird"traps, kites, marbles, somehow, after he got to the city I never words correctly. That same little girl, out he broughta carriage, and as it wasn't the gooseberry bushes below you'll patch and heaven knowg what and all! I could tied much lavor in his sight, and hardly ten years of age, must learn from Bob's way to waste any luxury, he used 'em up, won't you, Mag? And keep mum couldn't get the boy out of my mind, had no relish for a dead delight. The the same book that "indorser is one that very often to occupy the spare seathe about it. Such a lark as we had last and began, now that" I had plenty of time, boy was gone from me as utterly as if indorses," and that "an appf llor is one and a sister of Marley's, a high-nosed, night! Dave Devine and I painted the to think tbat I might have been a little he lay in the old church-yard by sister that makes appeal," and wiiile she may high-colored, big-toothed young woman deacon's horse white and red but kee hard myself, and grew to wonderful Betty'd side. The memory of him was learn the words by heart, she will know called Juoith. I saw what was coming, mum, Mag not a word for your life!" about the children of Bob's first wife that far sweeter than any present delight in their meaning just about as much as her and I told Bob he'd regret it to his dying I kept mum. God knows I couldn't Id given over to the clutch of Judith his prosperity. teacher knows why Lake Michigan is day, but he married Judith Marley speak. had got my boy Bob back Marley without one word to cheer or I was always opposed to giving up the longer than it is broader. within that year. She disliked the trouble again, but there was a sore tugsring at comfort. horntstead when mother and father died, Around the corner they buried a fourteen-year-old of housekeeping, he brought her to board my heart-strings. The doctor came and and going to the city to keep house for The hard northern winter came on boy the other day. He with me. They took a suit of rooms on lingered long, then he turned to me Bob. But Bob persisted, and won over apace. All the little brooks froze tight, didn't die of scarlet fever or any other the second floor, and before she had been "My work is done," he said. I was Hulda, as he always did. I think he had the tender green of the larches and willows pronounced disease. In fact the" doctor in the house a menth she began to raise afraid from the first it would be useless a sneaking design from the first that had given way to red and gold, and never made up his mind what to call it. cain as I knew she would. Of which I a higher and better work has begun. Hulda should win the admiration f one at last there was no color or substance The boy became pale, haggard, and was very glad. I should have been sorely There is a some one down staira stranger of his employersthe batchelor member left them but their skeleton branches thin, suffered much with his hear), disappointed if she had lorced me to love to you or me, or this dear laa lyinj of the firm of Marley & Brothers. He against a leaden sky. The snow came and in his last hours be talked wildly uud her, as did the fond, flighty first wife of here. I wouldn't like to bring a new came out with Bob in one of the vaca4 down in whirling drifis, and day in, day strangely. Bob for to hate the Marley's had become face among you just now. but this one tions, and certainly seemed to admire out, the clock ticked the doleful refrain. "He "vas such a good boy. and he studied my sole strength and tonic during the will do. Bob," he said, leaning over my Hulda, as one might say, ravenously. I got out ome patchwork, but put it so hard,''wept his mother and I took days of endless labor and weariness ot poor brother"Bob, here is an old friend He ate more in a quiet way than any person away againfor who would inherit my a look at the dead boy's schoolbooks. He body and soul. The spite I had against to prayjwith us.'" I ever saw and it seemed a very handwork?and made up my mind we'd had been studying mathematics, history, the whole Marley race, that had spoiled Then there came into the room a man high compliment, in Bob's eyes, that have no New Year's danties that year to orthography, writing, natural philosophy, my Bob for me, and wheedled my sister 1 with brown skin ana lusty growthhis whi'e he was eating, his grave, owl-like stare us dolefully out of countenance. and two or three other things, and when into a pertidy,that broke the manly heart hair was almost white, but his eyes had eyes were fixed upon Hulda, though why Poor Caloe was getting dyspeptic already his mother "came to remember," she iecalled of David Devinethe spite 1 held tor a familiar loving glow dear to tne olden I can't say, as I always did the cooking. with overfeeding, and even her wool that his lessons kept him at his them one and all keptlMe in me when I time. I did not care to question who he I used to tell our young preacher, Davy didn't tighten up in the old vigorous books Irom breakfast till nine o'clock in should have otherwise have fainted by was or wheme he came, but knelt silently Devine, that he couldn't expect the hot way. the evening, and that she had sometimes the way. Bob saw that we couldn't live at the bedside while he prayed. place would have the terror for me it It was the third day before New Year caught him working mathematical examples together, and took a furnished house Bob's lips moved, but only with some Lad for others, seeing that 1 was used to when a storm set in of hail and snow and on the Sabbath, in order to be down the street for Bob was a big mai boyish memory, and hour after hour went the hottest corner and rather liked it. sleet, so that it was all we could do to get "perfect" on Monday. I soon lound where now, and one of the partners ot Marley by. The day was at last waning I was David made some kind little reply in nis the dumb creatures about the place he had left off in his arithmetic. It was Brothers but before Judilh went awa alone with mv brother. I heard the pleasant way: and I must say my choice housed and fed. When all was done I an example reading about as follows "It she gave me what she called apiece light breathing of his children, and mine for Hulda had always been this handsome, set the logs to blazing upon the hearth, A, has ten oxen which weigh eight hundred her mind. By the grace of heaven it now, in the room close by the low iair-worded, pure-hearted, Godloving and happily kept a warm drink in the pounds each, and has fourteen happened that Hulda said one littl voices of David and Hulda reached me young neighbor of ours. He had ashes for Chloe. who was still fussing mules which weigh four times as much, word or two in my defense, when the tert once in awhile from the lower floor. I always cared for her since they were about the kitchen The wind roarea and one-third ot the mules tall into a magaat turned upon her, and, among might have been a hard and bitter woman, children together and I knew father and around the house, swinging the branches mud-hole, and four of the oxen lose their other insults, accused her of entrapping but as at lsat the day went out and mother would have been well content 10 of the tiees against the weather-boarding lettears, what will be the weather next her brother into a marriage. Hulda oifl took Bob with it, I felt a grim delight in have Hulda the parson's wife in the old and said I, "Hulda, God save any poor week?" not reply, but there was something in my sore and aching heart thai he was Dutch cnuTch where they had gone together creatures at the mercy of this storm tonight her face that frightened Judith. She I do not say that this example killed beyond the reach of tlie Marleys.Harp- year in and year out, and now lay 1" tried to eat the mischievicus words, but the boy. If "it did, all right. It was r' Magazine. resting close by. "Amen 1'' saia Hulda. I knew that the Marley link was broken. there to oe learned, and he must learn it Hulda was little more than a child, At that moment we both heard something Poor Bob took up his wife's quarrel, or die. Just imagine how utterly unfit tplulierM. BuaiMluM. but was taking kindly to the wonderfully like a human voice Btrained to the though one could see this second honeymoon that boy would have been to society and Chicago Journal. pleasantly ways of Providence just then: utmost, and Hulda started to her feet. of his had rather a bitter flavor. I Mil. EDITOK.Allow me to say a few business circles without being able to and after mother died she clung more "Be *|uiet, Hulda," I said, myself far words of the greatest importance to the felt sorry for him and the three poor little answer such examples off-hand! and more to me and David. He and I from easy "its only the shreaking of the public, through your journal, in regard to step-children as they went soberly I was talking with a school teacher the used to talk the matter over, even to the wind." the terrible disease diphtheria, which is down to their fine n*w house. i other day who will certainly come to furnishing up of the old parsonage, raging with great destruction of lives But again we heard the voice, and some bad end if he does not change his never dreaming but tbat all would be I had Huiaa to mysen now, and will throughout the country. It has raged here again we heard my name. I reached for opinions. He had the audacity to bold right. It seemed as natural to me as confess that I left no stone untu'nedto to a fearful extent, quite a large number my cloak and hat, and I buckled on my that children west to school not as prisoners, seed-time and harvest that Hulda should accomplish my purpose. I spared ot cases proving fatal. rubbers, while Hulda stood trembling by, but as pupils, the social equals of marry David, and walk up the aisle in neither her suitor's age nor his infirmities, when suddenly the door flew open, arid a There is a family here by the name of teachers, but obeying orders because realizing her plain silk gown and close bonnet, and repeated with many a shy exaggeration, great Light, who moved here from Rochester that discipline advanced the interests eust of storm and sleet came pelting and everybody should say what a sweet the taunt of Judith. So all in, driving before it a man and jiome this season. Mrs. Light saia to some of of all. He held that it matt* red wife was the young nastor's. poor Marley's entreaties, and the th-eats children he was huddling before him like the nei&rhnors that before moving here not how the pupils learne i toat Michigan But in the meantime Bob married a and wrath of Bob, were unable to mend sheep in a tempest. They were blinded she bad an attack of the diphtheria, and was bound on the south by Ohio and Indiana, fashionable city girl, and in the hot sea the mischief ot one woman's tongue. with the storm and half frozen, Let the cured hermit by the use of kerosene oil so long as they came to a distinct sons he brought his wife and children Hulda gave up Marley, and settled down boy dragged his sister by the hand, and as a gargle, swallowing some but the knowledge of the fact, and he thereforo home. I couldn't find much fault with with me into old-maidenhood and the poor Bob held the youngest child in his remedy was so simple that our citizens said to his young class in geography: the girl, though I tried to hard enough dreary monotony of keeping boarders arms. didn't think anything of it until five of "Now, children, the President of the she spent too much time distorting her Even Hulda was past middle age when Joseph Jelley's children were taken down "Don't you know us, Aunt Mag?'' said United States used to live in Ob:o, and pretty hair out of its natural coinelim ss, he came down to me that morning on wiih diphtheria. Their throats became the little fellow. I'm Bob, you Vnow. Senator Morton, now dead, lived in Indiana. and put as many queer artifical humps the kitchen floor. Aa I said, there was swollen and cankered terribly. Mrs Jelly The wagon all broke down, and we're Tell me in what direction those about her as a camel butjsbe had a winsome, no necessity for Hulda's remaining "5 sent after her neighbor, Mrs Milliette, jolly glad to get bo ome." Here the little two States lie trom Michigan." cheery way with her, a*d I always among the rust and roaches, the clatter wno had lost a son by the disease, to ascertain man began to cry, for his brave heart It is very wrong in him, because the of tht- dishes, and the bustle of the black whether it was really diphtneria V had weakness for beauty, be it in man, was over-burdened, and the child in Bob's pupils take real pleasure in hunting out serving-maids. I had kept Hulda the r not Mrs. Millete pronounced it woman or beast and, besides, she always arms took up the refrain. Bob himself the answer not regularly laid down in lady manager of the house. Her laces diphtheria in a very dangerous form. had a good word tor the| young parson, was white a9 the snow outside and seemed the text-books. This teacher sets anotr.er were real, while mine were any twopenny Mrs. Jelly said she would use Mrs. Light's often luring Marley away with her dazed and bewildered. awful example. Right in the face of the cheatery that came to hand she remedykerosene oilwhich she gave coquetry and wiles, so" that David could "See here, Mag," he stammered out, fact that there is a school-reader conturning rustled in her silks, while I got about in her children as a gargle, also had them have a word with Hulda. "I've brought the children to you to the history of William Penn and tne a gingham gown but we worked tojetb swallow some. The children recovered "He's worth a dozen of that bald, board tor awhile. Everything at adventures of Mary's little lamb, he takes er, Hulda and I, and the time had come rapidly, and in a few days were out on blinking Marley," she would say, "and sixes and sevens in the city Marley & a magazine or newspaper into bis schoolroom, now when we could shake the dust and tne street. I'll do what I can, Magda, to toil Bob's Brothers have gone to smash but I'll and says ashes of this drudgery from oiir feet. get something in the way of a clerkship Another neighbor by the name of %JZ plans." "Now, children, 1 shall let one of you It was growing hot for the season of the again, and pay the children's board, you Louisa, railroad trackmaster at this place read this report of recent excavations at pp She was such a good-ratured creature year. I had been thinking all the morning know they shan't be a burden to you, had three children taken with diphtheria, Pompeii. Before we read, let some one I wish it had been God's will to spare her to he i young orood of which she was of the buJding larches out on the Mag." and cured them with kerosene. tell me where Pompeii is." old homestead, and the tender green of William Emery had four children A burden! It didn't seem much like "In Italy," is the answer. over-fond but while they were three the willow slips down by the meadow. taken down, and gave kerosene oil, and a burden. Such a glad commotion as "And what happened the city?" manikins the gay young mother got cold It seemed to me I could hear the young they recovered. those little ones created, Hulda and No answer, because it is not down la and died, and notling must do but we lambs bleat, and catch the milky breath Robert Gillette was taken down, and Chloe putting dry clothes on them, and their readers. i -must go to the city and keep house for of the cows as they chewed their early cured himself witn ken sene. tricking them out as if for a baby masquerade. "It was buried by ashes and mud from Bob. Hulda's tender heart was wrung for cud. It might have been the steamof the The hot posset was poured John Reynolds, of Ingraham, had a an eruption of Mount Vesuvius," he said .P I 'Bob's widowed and lonely condition, but boarding-house breakfast that dimmed down their little throats, and a bountiful daughter and niece cured by kerosene oil "and now where is that mountain?" I could see under hisstiff,hard melancholy a biter quantity of worldly forethought my eyes as I whispeied to Hulda: supper was given them of hot milk and after they were given up for death by the 1 "In Italy." "It's all settlad. The boarders must buns. doctor. JR* i* and speculation. "Correct and it again shows signs of be told to-day. We're rid of all this din What is most astonishing is that not a "There'll be something grand for "W 1 knew what was coming, and, indeed, an eruption. We will now read." and drugdery. I've paid the last deariet cen single case where they used kerosene oil breakfast," I said, looking upon them as 1 was prepared for anything. What did it In halt an hour not only one class, bat ours1] on the homestead, and it's has proved fatal. The remedy is simple greedily as ever poor Marley did upon master now that the blessed old home.steid the whole school, has learned geography, to have and hold forever." and certainly cheap, and always at hand Hulda. How the old kitchen echoed wanoutof our hold? I had kept history, natural philosophy, and something "And shall we live there alone, Mag- in all families throughout the land. with their romps and capers! They were i some of the mahogany furniture, much of art, in the one lesson, and each da?" sne said"only you and all handsome, every one of them, with Also, George Gillette had three children to Bob's disgust,w who seemed to cheapen pupil goes home to relate what was read, the richest acres had,an spoke slight i '*r shall take Chloe to help tliouV the Bob's fine make and build, and beautiful taken with the same disease very to discuss it, and perhaps to learn new house," I said '"but as to livfpg alone, eyes like the pretty dead mother's. bad, and they were cured with Kerosene. ingly ot the knots and gnarls in our dear facts. However, it iswrongvery wrong. that's what I theught we'd oeen working^ "Bob," I said, choking yearningly Yours truly, P. LAWREXCK. do spple treesi that every body knew all the sweeter. Bo What is to become of oar children if |we *S and praying for. Yon certainly don't over the thought, "if you'll give them to West Cbazy, N. Y Oct 21. I permit such things? MM *usfe &*