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*?$nr*-J*. wym "V^-^yT^'J IT' in* 1 4Ab!' said Mr. Jones again, more mtWi NOT HEARD FBOM. could almost see the terrified expression up," Mr. Forrest called out. "Put up A MORMON WIFE.V* James JouesWa So Fool. in his eyes when they fell on his your horse in the stable there. We cautiously. "It is not always that a man is ruined father's grim figure opposite. He rose have no servants, and I can't venture 'Before they got through talking by going to speculative markets," insanity Cnsd by Hor Hnsband'sPolyc- ^'41 ?*Win theYouth's Companion. unsteadly to his feet. -r 1 into the rain to help you." -3%XJ% Every Christmas, or New Year's, or another broker came up, another, and amoni Marriage. observed a veteran produce exchange "Stop, sir!" said his father, walking & In a few minutes the traveller stdod still another. Wh lo James was nodding broker the other day. "Sometimes he Salt Lake Letter to N. Y. Sun. to him." "I have a few words to say V^*Fhanksgivin day, Mrs. Forest, placed at the threshold. A tall, well-built to his brother's friends in friendly An honest-looking Englishman named to you." wins, and when he does he sometimes man, with a heavy brown beard and chair at the table for their only son What was said was in too low a Mower arrived here a few years ago moustache which nearly covered his recognition, as he supposed, he had has sense enough to let it alone in the -and child, David, who had left his voice for Mrs. Forrest to hear. There with his wife and three small children, face. been selling thousands of dollars' future. But it is rarely true. home fifteen years before, at the age were a few brief questions, and when and settled at Brigham. The man "Come in, come in," Mr. Forrest worth of oil, which _the sudden drop "A good many years agonever of nineteen. Since he left, no word David answered one of them, he hung was industrious, but he appeared to said. "Why you areas wet as a rat." in the market of fifteen cents a barrel mind how manyI was a broker on his head like a convicted criminal. "Only my overcoat," he answered, be something of a fanatic in religion. &f from him had reached them. The had made valuable. Then she heard her husband's stern the Chicago Board of Trade. One in a hoarse voice. It was plain that the saints had got a faithful heart of the mother refused to voice tor a few minutes longer, and "Well, James Jone3 was no fool, h "With your permission, I'll stop a day there came to the city a tall, red pretty firm grip on him. His wife was think of the lad as dead, and so she David half staggered to the back door, minute in the hall and take it off." a fair-haired, rosy-cheeked little woman, didn't tell who he was. He kept his headed man from Minnesota. He iaid his plate at his old place, and by opened it and passed out. He was a long time getting off his and their children were delicate identity strictly to himself, and hurried looked l.ke a well-to-do farmer, but IT* Mrs. Forrest did not dare 4fc placed a little bouquet of his favorite coat, and when he came in, Mrs. Forrest and attractive. The wife and mother he talked like a thoroughbred operator. out as soon as he could get away ask her husband any questions, but was placing an ample meal on the .flowers. went through the ceremony ot joining He was business from the roots to notify his brother of the great good did not feel uneasy when David did not table. The stranger walked to the the Church after her arrival. The husband **You see, he may come back at any of his hair to the toes of his boots. He appear at breakfast. She concluded window and looked out. luck. As fortune would have it, he had been received into the fold tjime.father, and then he'd understand he had gone to the store not wishing told me that he was part owner in "You have a pretty place here," he found him at "his office, and thus his before he left England. They got themselves to meet his father so soon again. But said. "At least, ft must be an attractive tikat we've been thinking of him all the about thirty grain elevators along a real name was not disclosed. That a little home, and appeared when dinner time came, and he was place in good weather." une." line of a Minnesota railroad. Ihe happy enough until thehusband,overpersuaded day's mistake cleared them $200,000 still absent, her feara were awakened, "Yes," answered the old man, with by an elder of the Church, wheat crop in that section of the state The old man shook his head. or more." and she noticed her husband cast uneasy a sigh, "we are fond of the old house determined on taking another wife. was a dead failure that year, and his glances towards the door every *^8oys like David don't come back, "How did you happen and its surrounding." to know The woman selected was a new arrival chances of business were very slim. time it was opened. She put on her "Do you live alone here?" $arah. Vice drove hinxaway,and vice about the story, if it was kept so se- from Denmark, who could speak no 4I talked with my partner,' said bonnet after dinner, and went directly "As you see," he answered, shortly. -sill probably keep him away. If it's cret?" we asked. English. And for whom it was the to the store. Mr. Bapp was standing He thought the stranger too inquisitive. he, 'and we made up our minds that HHiy gratification for you to keep a especial desire of the Church to get a "I am one of the twins," responded at the door. "But dinner is ready. Take a we couldn't come within $50,000 of husband that she might be "anchored" Iac at the table for him, you know "Good evening, Mrs. Forrest!" he the broker.Kew York Sun. seat." here. Mower was the man who was paying expenses. We didn't want to said. "Where on earth is David to- ihafc I don't object but I wish you The traveller noticed *,hat at one The Silence of Peace. expected to marry her, and marry her let go, though, because we had invested day?" place there was a handsome china ould make up your mind that he will Ah! If they could only speak. he did. His wife held out strenuously "Isn't he in the store?" she asked, plate and in a glass near it, a bouquet all our money in the elevators, never came back. These yearly rejoinders Ihere is a marble slab at the head against the woman for some time,and with her heart beating like a sledgehammer. of white chrysanthejnuns and red geraniums. and if we didn't operate them and pay only bring the old pain back, refused to live under the same roof of every grave in the National Cemetery Naturally supposing that it the railroad company a certain sum of with her, but at last, under the pleadings "Indeed, he isn't. He came in for a to tell of war. If there is no name and if I could, I should like to forget was a seat of honor appropriated to money we would lose our capital. and threats of dignitaries of the minute early this morning, and handed guests, he moved towards it. Mrs. the word "Unknown" signifies that a &im all together." We have just $30,000 cash. I've got Church and the representations of me a ten-dollar bill, and mumbled Forrest nervously waved him back. soldier who was killed in a certain battle "No, yeu wouldn't, James. He was it with me, and we concluded it would her husband as to his own poverty and out something about ha\ ingforgotten "Not there, sir!" she cried. "Please lies buried there. jfld and disobedient, and brought inability to provide two homes, she to put it in the till. I couldn't make take this seat." be well for me to come down here and It is the guns which are silent out what he did say. He looked pale consented. After that she began to *hame and sorrow over this threshold "Excuse me, madam," as he took make more or lose it ail. Rather and sick, and I am sure ought to have which have nothing to speak for them. appear like another woman. Her hair the indicated place. "I'm afraid you 4mk for all that, he's our only child, risky Yes, but we will fail anyway been in bed." became silvery, her form wasted, and Here aud there one has been saved as will be disappointed in the guest you *nd I'm sure we can neither of us forget if we don't do something.' her eyes were bright and glittering. Without a word Mrs. Forrest hurried expect, the storm is so severe. But he a relic, but the vast majority have "What do you want to do?' that." home. She wandered over the country agreat ought to have tried to come. There disappeared in the melting furnaces, *1 want to put that in wheat or I was just fifteen years since the "WThat did you say to him?" she should be no vacant place at a deal with her little ones, and could be to come out in more peaceful jroung man came home one night in a corn, I don't know which now, and I Thanksgiving dinner." seen day after day on the roadsides cried, passionately, to her husband. 'I form. beastly state of intoxication. It was want you to handle it.' "It is always vacant, sir," Mr. caressing and weeping over them. "You've been harsh and cruel to him, not the first time, but it was the first What of the great barbette guns at Forrest said. "It is a notion of my Sometimes in pleasent weather she did I know, and now he'sgone away, and "I was willing, and so we soon came ^imehis father had seen him in that wife's to keep it for our boy, who left Fort Sumpter, the black-mouthed monsters not return to her home for days, and I shall never, never see my boy again!" to terms. He waited around for a sdndition. He was a clerk in us fifteen years ago. You see, she has when she did she would have the "I told him what I said I would," which roared defiance at Beauregard couple of months "without risking a i dry-goods store, and when he always kept his place on the yearly children decked out in wreaths and he answered, coldly. "One more as he struck his first blow at the -feamehome late at night, his father &up- returns of these days, and puts a dollar. The markets were quiet, and flowers gathered by her own hands in chance I gave him lor amendment. Union? What of the gum muzzles ^osed he had been detained by his bouquet of his favorite flowers near it. there was little chance to make any Yes, I told him he was a disgrace, a the valleys. Her husband followed which belched llanie from the many /business, and went contentedly to bed. It seems to do her good to think he clinging disgrace, for I didn't believe he her and tried to persuade her to return large sums of money. Then he got will come back some day." port holes a* bravo Anderson fought "3Fhepoor wife, who sat up for the wayward would reform. I gave him some money and be heiself, but to no purpose. tired of watching my figures, so one boy, knew better but like many "He will come back to it," she said, to delay the inevitable? A hundred to replace what he stole, and that Then he locked her up or took the day he asked me how much a seat on d|gentle but unwise mother, she concealed quietly. "I've always felt sure that was all. I don't regret a word I said. cannon, manned by Confederates, children away from her. She would the board was worth. her son's vice from his father, my boy would sit there face to face Reproach your own weakness. It isn't find them again, and together they hurled death and destruction at the feprping hemight reform. Her husband with me some day." just to reproach me. Since he has "I told him, and the next day he would return to the open country. fort for fateful hours, and nearly every The stranger's face worked convulsively, chosen to leave us, it is perhaps the -w&s a veryetern man, and was un*$aring All were subdued and sorrowful, and bought one for himself. It cost him one of them was called into lie suddenly moved towards best thing he could do." in his denunciations of the yet the childishness of the mother less than $3,000, and he could easily use in latter years. Can one single the seat, and held out his arms to her. special vice of intemperance. The truth was as pronounced as that of her But though Mr. Forrest spoke in save that in commissions in one week "Mother! mother'" he cried, with tears piece of that ordnance be found today? 4s, she was actually afraid to tell children. She would run with them, this manner, he spared ne.ther money after he began operating. Well, filling his eyes. "Don't you know me? &im. kiss them, build little dams for them nor labor to gain some tidings of his Father, mother, I've come back to things drifted along for a month or so son. They traced him to a seaport in the brooks, construct play houses Great siege guns hurled shot and The night I have spoken of, Mr. you!" longer, until finally some Milwaukee town, and then lost all trace as uttei for thorn of stone, weavegarlands, and shell into Yorktown, Charleston, Petersburg, Forrest had a letter to write, which She fell in his arms with a glad cry. speculators, taking advantage of the ly as if the earth had closed over deck herself and them. If they cried *ept him in the sitting-room 1 ong after Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Island But the father made one step forward him. As months and years rolled by, she gathered them to her, and wept failure of the wheat crop, attempted fus usual bed-time. When the slobtjering, No. 10, and half a score of other and fell unconscious on the floor. It Mr. Forrest gave up expectation of with them, and if they laughed she to corner that cereal. The Minnesota idiotic young drunkard reeled was so unexpected, so almost impossible, places. Who can point out tho spot ever seeing him again, but the mother chided them. "into the room, his father sprung from man, who was about three-quarters that the shock overcame him. where one of these monsters lies resting hoped still. The father grew more &j chair as if he had been shot. He But joy seldom kills, and he was sdon ears, heard all about it, and got it on silent and sad. Time as it passed had to-day? Spoked at his son but did not say a restored to consciousness, and learned the ground floor. When the deal was Finally her mood changed, and, instead taught him that he had erred in the In the lank weeds at Fort Pillow word. Then he sat deliberately down with a feeling of rapture, such as over he had $350,000 in cold cash. of delighting in rambles A\ ith the harshness and bitterness with which lies a disabled cannon. It may be tin, a chair and watched him, with such for many years he had not experienced, little ones, she became absorbed in a he had treated his son, and he would "The next week he sold his seat and that his son had come back a reformed a, look on his white, set face that his spoken of dead. A great shell from a have liked to retract some of his desire for vengeance. She would steal man. 'Wife laid her trembling hand on his went back to Minnesota, whore he is Federal gun-boat inflicted mortal injury. words. Misfortunes, too, had pressed up stealthily to the house which as arm. He shook it off. In a few moments "I did not mean to run away when to-day. He is the President of that If that old cannon could only upon him. His crops had failed three hers no longer, and make assaults on i he turned to her, and said, in a I left the house," David said. "It was railroad now, though." years in succession, he had mortgaged the woman who had usurped her speak, what a story ic could relate of 'hard, merciless voice, only when I was paying the money to his farm in order that he might live "Another instance of good fortune," place. Once she set fire to the the fierce fights in the bend of the "How long has this been going on, Mr. Rapp that I realized the depth of and in a few days, there was to be a premises and then fled. On another continued the broker, "occurred in great river. It helped drive the gunboats my degradation, and I felt as if I .Sarah?" foreclosure of the mortgage, and the old occasion she took her children and was this city live or six years ago. There could never look either of you in tbe "Oh, I don't know, James'" she back again aud again it thundered place must pass out of his hands, absent so long that search was made SQbbed. "I've seen him two or three faee again. I shipped as a sailor in a are two men whom I'll call Jones, because at them as they finally ran the for her. After three or four days she "It's no use striving any longer, 'times under the influence of liquor, but vessel bound to Brazil, and when I that sounds something like their gauntlet it iell into Federal hands it Sarah," he paid, drearily "I do not was found several miles from home, aever so bad as this, James.. I didn't reached there I left it, and found work name. One was John Jones aud the was retaken by tho Confederates it know where to look for help, and we almost dead from hunger, and the tell you, because he promised to reform. up the country. I dfa not write, for other James. They were twin brothers, must submit and leave the old homestead. children weak and emaciated from the saw all the horribleness of war before Oh, don't be too hatd on him I thought you'd rathar think of me as i Father was born here, as well and looked so much alike their same cause, and all crying bitterly. father! Pray, don't be too hard upon it was thrown down to sink away in dead. My business prospered, and as myself, and I hoped to die the ,fum!" She had dug small holes in the ground, then, after I had accumulated some wives could hardly tell them apart. the solt toil and be half hidden by the house in which he died. We'll barely "Too hard!" he repeated, looking which she called their graves, and the property, I began to long for home, For some strauge reason they dressed it weeds. have a roof over us at Myron Cottage, -with angry disgust at the young man, little ones were waiting with her for and lor mother and for you. And so exactly alike, too, and I would wager On the ridge above Vicksburgttie but at least it will be our own. We who was huddled in a heap in a large I have come back to see if you still the last dread summons. Three men $10 against a brass button that didn't think much of it when your ridge from which a hundred guns hurled arm-chair, trying vainly to sit erect, care enough for me to take me back." found difficulty in overpowering her, aunt left it to you, and now it's our couldn't tell which was which when with a sillv, drunken grin on his face. shot at tho Tederal craftone may despite her weakened condition, and It was a Thanksgiving supper they last refuge." ^Toohard! Why, if I turned him out you saw them standing side by side. the entire party were then conveyed find two cannon, defaced, crippled, had that night, for the interrupted of the house this-very night, and disowned "It will outlast our time, James," Why, when a man who had been to town and cared for. The children dkiner had been entirely forgotten. useless. They will never thunder htm as my son, I should be do*ng she said, sadly. "There's no one to went to their father, and the woman Do you think that three happier people drinking saw them together he would again. If they could speak! Just right. And yon have kept this come after us, unless David comes was placed in the asylum at Provo, could have been found in the world generally think he saw double. John think of the story they would tell, beginning from me? How could you, how dare home." where she now is. on that Thanksgiving Day? was a petroleum broker and James you, do it, and thus become responsible Mr. Forrest shook his headt. hHe had with Sherman's attack, and A' ceased to combat wha said for this disgraco? I might have ]r was an insurance agent. Both lived ending on that glorious Fourth of July Charmed by Pretty Frida. checked it. Now it's too late. Look What Two Ladies SaidA Lesson ^b his wife's monomania about the in New York. Every once in a while which witnessed Pemberton's surrender! Afc that idiotic face the stamp of the return of his son. She always insisted For Young Men. Frida Friedman's pretty lace and James would go down to the Exchange Between those dates weie hundreds drunkard who is past recovery is upon that in the family devotions he engaging manners, says the New York to see his brother, and in that way Three months ago a young man of of days and nisrhtsdays of it. I'ts too late!" should be prayed for as still living, Journal, won her many admirers during twenty-two and his mother landed in met a good many business men, none battlenights of alarmweeks of and with a cruel pang the father uttered "Oh, don't, James!" his wife cried, Detroit from an Eastern State with her voyage across the Atlantic as a of whom ever knew him afterwards tha name of the boy he believed .Icneeling beside him. "I did it for the starvationmonths of suspense and less than $20 in money. He had steerage passenger on the steamship dead. from his brother. One day the market 'hesfc- Don't say it's too late' He's horror. These cannon could tell us been promised work,but reached there Belgenland, Irom Antwerp. Her large fcut a little more than a child yet, and "It will be our last Thanksgiving was going up like a rocket, when all, but they arc torever silent. to be disappointed. The household 'had.company has led him astray." dinner on the old place," he said the blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and her exquisitely James was to the pit looking for his goods were there, and the couple And what o! the hundreds of field day before Thanksgiving. "A lonely The drunken boy laughed idiotically. molded form, combined with brother, who didn't happen to be in hadn't enough money to go away on. batter es? Each gnu came Lo have its one, indeed. I wonder if in all the a mass of golden hair, made her the It was therefore decided to rent rooms at that moment This, remember, was name and history. Each one came to world t^ere is a couple as lonely "G'long callin' me clile. ole ooman! and remain and search for work. The belle of the steerage. the good old times in oil when the and desolate as we are." Bes' poker-player in town! Los' ten have its friends and adiuireis in brigade. young man made every effort, but She took the attentions pleasantly market used to break loose like a She did not speak, but slipped her dollars. OleRapp's money though. Each new scar added to its ii3t was unsuccessful. His money was and chatted gayly with all who came hand is his. He pressed it warmly, Took it out till. Gov'nor looks mad. freshet of friendseach battle proved it more nearly gone, and house-rent wAoming in her way. She made many friends, the faithful hand which had never vWhatermatter?" I James stood around a minute or due again, when, one eveningas he worthy of confidence. Think of tho 4 and among her ardent admirers was wearied in its tender care of him. and *''0h, hush! hush! hush!" the distracted two waiting for John to come in, when passed up Grand River avenue, he Rudolph Strauss, one of the Belgenland's battles of one of those rusty, defaced there the old couple sat, silent and mother said, taking him by heard one lady say to another, as he noticed a man on the other side of engineers. Every moment he thoughtful. They did not need to the hand. "Come to bed, David! Oh, and useless pieces could name! they stood in iront of a bakery: could snatch from his work he spent the pit he had been introduced to. speak. Each knew of what the other vdo^come!" The drunken boy pushed Think of the thrilling incidents it at the fair Frida's side. was thinking. The mother said in her \hdr aside. He nodded to him, and the man yelled "Dear me! but I wish I could get hold could relate! She liked his huseblack whiskers and heart, "Dear Lord, bring our boy back "Gov'nor mad!" he muttered. of some old-fashioned doughnuts, such something back to him, but the noise In the roadside ditch between Fredericksburg dark eyes, and listened to his descriptions to us." The father thought, "Lord, "'Won't be 'suited! Gimme satisfaction as mother used to make." and confusion was so great he couldn't and Chancellorsville one of America with wrapt attention. help us to bear patiently the afflictions of gentleman. Ten paces, pistols," "I've said that every day for the past understand what he said. So James When she arrived at Castle that are bringing our gray hairs with lies dead, and so buried out of sight -and as he maundered on, his head ten years," replied the other. smiled pleasantly and nodded h.s Garden, Strauss came boldly forward sorrow to the grave." 'sank on the table before him, and he that few eyes rest upon it. On the The young man followed them home ane demanded Frida's baggage. hand in reply. Then another man slept heavily. Thanksgiving day dawned. It was field of Antfetamover in the woodswhere and made a note of street and number. "I am her uncle," said he to Superintendent "Don't try and get him away," Mr. a dismal day. The rain poured, the yelled something at him and James He then laid out all his money in flour Hooker rushed at Stonewall Jackson, "and want to see Forrest said, sternly. "He shall stay wind blew, the sodden leaves covered and lard and carried the goods home nodded again. Then a lot of other Jackson and could not drive himlies that she is well taken care of." ifcereall night, and I'll sit up with the earth, the whole landscape was and said to his mother: brokers began yelling at him, and he another. No man can say that a third Mr. Jackson, having his suspicions '3um. You heard what he said!" with dreary. "The people of Detroit want oldfashioned kept nodding like the head of a little aroused, refused to let her go. can be found, though he look over every ahitter laugh. "Our son is not only "It's pretty dismal, isn't it mother?" doughnuts. You shall make Japanese until his neck ached. "I am her sweetheart," he pleaded, & drunkard, but a thief. Let him stay said the old man. "It's a good thing field of battle known to history. them and I will sell them from house changing the claim. there. I want to get accustomed to we don't expect guests in this storm. "He thought tney mistook him for What of the pieces which, flamed and to house. I will start out with the "Will you marry her?" asked Mr. the disgrace which has come upon me, Well, I suppose we ought to be thankful first batch to-morrow morning," his brother, and wondered what John roared at Bull Run, Williamsburg Jackson. ami a night with that object before for a shelter this weather, and The doughnutsfour dozen of them had done to make himself so extremely Carnifex and the Seven Days? What "May be, after I've known her long- aoe will help me to realize it. Do you food enough to keep us from starv- were ready by seven o'clock, and in popular, but before he had made up of those which thundered up and down er," said the engineer. fp to bed. I must take his management ing." half an hour he had sold them and was his mind about the matter tbe market "Well, you'd better get right out of out of your weak hands." tho Shenandoah aud the Luray? Wht "Is that all we have, father?" asked back. Next day he sold twelve dozen, 1 here," advised the superintendent. changed and began to drop like hail of the hundreds which belched shot' his patient wife. We have health, and **You won't drive him away, James! and the next thirty. He had struck Strauss didn't wait for a second invitation, hope" Teyu'li give him a chance? You will in February. The crowd grew frantic and shell at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,Gettysburg. a good thing, and he had sense but hurried away. A few "Hope of what?" he asked, smiling gjve him one opportunity to try to reform! enough to manage it. He started out and the noise increased to bedlam Chickamauga, minutes later another individual who sadly. "I think, my dear, you and I Don't turn him out into the to take orders from house to house, then the bottoni was struck and the Appomattox? Of the hundreds not^ & claimed to be a philanthropist arrived shook hands with hope long ago and wicked world, to be lost forever!" she and the result was astonishing. confusion began to subside. one single dozen have'been preserved, and asked for the fair Frida. He said bid it farewell." -jjlea^ed, with sobs. Her husband did Two girls had to be hired to assist he had come on the Belgenland, and, "While James was watching the through these twenty years of peace. ofc immediately answer her, but at 'Hope of a home where all these longings the mother, and he had to hire two fearing she might not be treated well, last he said,, and heartaches will be over. 0 scene with considerable curiosity, for The burden of silence is upon them. boys to help deliver. He now fills orders would take her to Passaic, N. J., until James, what can take that from us?" I will not drive him away yet. He he had never been in a lunatic asylum They may exhibit their scars and rust,' for three hundred dozen doughnuts she got a place. His name, he said, was shall have one chance morea single "You are right," he said solmnly, daily and the women have divided and was unaccustomed to such but the secrets of tho battle lie safely* it Henry Frank. one. I'll make him understand that, "and I needed the reproof. We will up the time so that one is constantly sights a broker walked, up to him and hidden in their black depths. Theyi" He likewise was advised to depart, yAien he can understand anything. make this a kind of sacramental day, at work turning out the goods. held out his hand. could tell of fathers, brothers, and sons/ and did so. Scarcely had he gone Sow leave me with him." and wrestle with our griefs, as Jacob Flour is purchased by the barrel and when two tall youths entered the garden, of heroes and cowardsof advance*and did with the angel, until they bless us. 'Well, Mr. Jones,' said he, 'you've The poor mother crept weeping to lard by the hundred pounds, and the and in a pompous manner demanded Why, there is a traveler out in this retreatof gallant charges and her bed. She left the door partly open made a pretty good thing out of this.' business finds new customers every to see Frida. They said they rain! He looks as if he didn't know ^between the rooms, that she might bloody repulse, but they are silent forever.Detroit day. "Yes,* said James, thinking he alluded were her cousins. Mr. Jackson didn't which way to go." "watch both husband arid son. Mr. There is a lesson in this for the hundreds Free, Press^ \ijg| to his curiosity being satisfied. think so, and they concluded they i {Forrest sat rigid and motionless, as if "Call, him in, James," said his wife. of young men who roam about 'I suppose you have cleared a neat would call again. "I am glad the Lord has sent some he was carved in stone, but the boy a city declaring that there is nothing It is stated that a pi uit Las been discovemt "I'll have to put her under lock arid little sum out of this deal?' to eat our Thanksgiving dinner with -fllepb on heavily. Towards morning to do, and no way open for them to in SoutU Amt:r ca which possesses strong efcetr key," said he, laughingly, "for evidently us." *"Ah?' asked Mr. Jones, in surprise. ihftbegan to move uneasily in his seat, make a living. They may not all turn properties. On bleakn-r a twig a aloc 'some one is bound to get hor tthen raised his head from the table The traveler obeyed the call of the $ 0* doughnut makers and peddlers, but 1 fe.t, and a compass affected at a diciancj away.'* old man, and dashed into the yard. nd straightened himself up. The there are other fields to be worked, 'Yes,' said the broker. *I believe some feel o:n the plant. She will be taken care of by the emigration mother, whose eyes had not closed "Stranger, this is a heavy storm and if well worked, must give permanent I owe you something over $15,000 on commissioners until she Be* through the whole of that long night, come in and stop until the rain holds occupation and fair profit. Co'ncse lauudrfea at St Helena, are taxed that 100,000 barrels,* %L* cures employment* *x WSflPW quarter* *M *\ft