The Fairbury Gazette from Fairbury, Nebraska • 1

jpSSjpHE Ut VUID 40 Wfe PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT sp ADVERTISING BATES 7V Hum Xonparlfl reckoned a Square One 8qnftroJrst Insertion' raefi nulwcquent insertion three month HU HlQjtfr lietvc month Qtmrter Column three monthsrv nix months twelvo month 30 Hull Column thrco month 3000 nix month g-gf twelve month G000 One Column three montty 8600 1x month 252 twelvemonth 10000 MarriaO Not ice ehnrxefl $100 Local Notices fifteen Lent ft line Transient and Legal Advertisement pnyithlo tn advance Yearly Advertisement payable quarterly PROPRIETORS FAIRBURV NEB SATURDAY MAY 18 1872 NO father's credit and perhaps his life hurried away home from giving a lesson at her new The weather suddenly changed and Polly who had brought no umbrella found herself obliged to stand up for a regular London downpour She had scnrcelv adjusted her clothes looking most ruofufly on some spots on her neat and handsome silk dress meanwhile grasping her music roll in her hand like a bnton when Mr Roach Stoker came upon the scene Polly euulil notre- 1000000 per antntm in fuse his offer of a shelter Reach was de MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS IUbivowing to th Pegs Children of thb Blind Lovers A Shout Slipping on a piece of orange peel in the street Providence it lias not been inaptly said provides for the provident Victor Emanuel enjoys the snug little VOL II lighted So was young Samuel Stoker Who delighted in his second name of Reach Stoker he was named after a celebrated divine who had expounded the prophecies Reach Stoker was fond of music went every Saturday to the Crystal Palace concerts and returned so late Unit he was never seen at his chapel It is a way with sons as well as with those of pious nonconformists Sally Stoker named Sarah after the wife of the patriarch and born in days before I) ornamented her name mourned over this ami the preacher himself improved the occasion in his celebrated to Young Men" on what Reach called profanely the that is cm a Bank in both But Reach dressed fashionably rose in his bank shook Ins head when any one talked about marrying said he was a beggar on five hundred a and so he wag a hegger stuc colored kid gloves splendidly cut trousers a glossy hat and unexceptionable boots This did this miserable state of poverty I hinder him from making covert love to Polly When Polly gave her evening lessons Reach who was more than suspected of having been seen at theaters and promenade concerts managed to stay at home to the great delight of Sally and tlie I) lie even joined in family prayer carefully kneeling (fown on a scented pocket-handkerchief He was a universal favorite this young fellow so sober so staid yet so awake to all the doings of the world His father in spite of liis absence from chapel and his presence in a new very high church where he could leave before the sermon looked upon him with high favor Reach on his part coached his father up on the state of the funds and had he advised Pilkerton would have saved him from losses When the congregation upon the conclusion of a ministry of twenty years presented him with a silver teapot and six hundred sovereigns Reach took his father aside made him spend all the six hundred in and in two mouths after sell out at a premium which made six into eigtit Then he split the eight into two parts ami divided them equally between and both went up the first the more rapidly and when Dr Stoker thought lit to retire Reach congratulated the pater as lie called him- upon having a neat little a pet abbreviation with city men for a thousand were quite right to sell just before dividends pater stand quite so well ex die'' touch the interest" said old Stoker: smacks of right said Reach paring his nulls: will tell you always when to sell-out and when to buy to himself: will come to me some So Reach Stoker Tfsfng nt his hank and beloved at home prospered with everybody except Polly Pilkerton The reason was nut far to seek Almost every evening except on those of the music lessons young Benjamin Mansell who also sat under the great Stoker and made liis boots came round ostensibly to talk about the leather market and the price of skins hut in reality to look at Polly Pilkerton Old Mansell antl were boyhood's friends 1 ')lo' class of customers had learned to Took down on the bootmaker In his Mansell was as good a workman as Pilkerton so there could lie no reason for this show of pride But when has pride a reason? Old Mansell a thoughtful man like his son and boot-inakers in general smoked ins pipe thought that his friend a stiff upper and said nothing Young Mansell on the contrary felt the slight and would have resented it but he was over head and ears in love with Polly Love makes a man swallow a good deal Ben thought that he was not tiue enough and therefore improved hiuuelf both mentally and as far as bodily adornment went He was a fine manly young fellow thoughtful and observant and determined to win hts way He did not take a had way to do it Polly- observed his improvement put his with the unerring eonception of women when they are themselves down to the right cause and liked him all the better for it think why you encourage that young shoemaker Polly?" is a bootmaker and we are but and shoemakers are all the sariie said old Pilkerton bitterly The loss of his money had made him very cynical and darling wish was to marry his daughter to a man wild was not only rich but above his own station in life or not" said Polly coloring the insult Is more polite to you than Mr Reach Both were thinking of tljo game person that is a said Pilkerton with gusto sure to rise in the hope he will" said Polly tossing her head That same evening she (Consoled yourfg Ben by going out to walk with him round Russell Square and down by what old Pilkerton called the She had a will of her own this Poft i-i for PAIRBURY Jefferson County Nebraska TERMS: 200 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Poetry VIVE ME THE II AND BT GOODMAN BARNABT JBy mo the hand that is kind warm and ready tive me the clasp that is calm true and steady wive me the hand that VH11 never deceive me-Wive me the rrasp that I aye may believe thee pit a PaIM the delicate vvomau Hard is the hand of the rough sturdy yeoman boft palm oi hard hand it matters uot-never! Give me the grasp that is friendly forever Give me the hand that is true as a brother Give me the hand that has harmed not anofhor Give me the hand that has never forswore it Give me the grasp that I may adore it lively the palm of the fair blue-veined maiden Horny the hand of the workman Lovely or ugly it matters never! Give me the grasp that is friendly forever GVve me the grasp that is honest and hearty Free as the breeze and unshackled by party Let friendship give me the grasp that becomes her Close as the twiuc pf the vine of the summer Give me the baud that is trije as a brother Give me the hand that has wronged not another Soft palm or hard hand it matters never 1 Give me the grasp that is friendly forever Miscellany LITTLE POLLY PILKERTON Old old by virtue of his Being kept a shop in Long Acre lie was the third generation which had dealt in pig-skin and had been duly apprenticed to his father who in his turn had served his own father and had been dutifully instructed in the art and mystery of making saddles The Pilkerton saddle had a good name and the artists who built them knew their own work The shop was excellently kept a pleasant large room smelling of new leather glittering with new bits curbs and snaffles and ornamented with a finely-carved head of a horse upon which the Pilkerton head-stall worked curiously and with a multiplicity of stitches was exhibited to perfection Herein old Pilk erton received his customers gentlemen of large estates masters of hounds young heirs who took an interest in hunting and in horses andYair ladies who would step front their carriages to see theiT sidesaddles built Pilkerton was a handsome dark man on the rigiit side of fartv-ftve bald headed wre)l-shaven and with a neat black whisker His manner was that of a sound honest English tradesman Quickly deferential in taking orders firm and manly in pointing out what could and should be done and of that kind which generally won its own way that to me he would say have work-in leather more than "live and twenty years and I know what can be done with The saddler was a widower his only daughter Polly rising twenty had been well educated at the Misses establishment near Bedford (Square was an adept at music and had carried two or three prizes in French On the whole she was superior lu accmnplishments to the general run of daughters and was -soberly religious bei-ng a Wcs-ieyan ami a Sunday school teacher As a rule tradesmen who miml their shop find that their shop minds them and have at their plenty of money to fall back upon in the rainy day Bat there arc exceptions He was- imt ftVthr- imhh-ft He was- just as the etor-opensmtbject to a run of ill-luck His banker had and in breaking broke some hundreds cf smaller men into little pieces The old saddler however weathered the storm The shop did not look Ices bright and workraaulike but it hud less stock in it Pilkerton was in debt to his leather-seller had to send in his own Rills at an earlier dateand instead of a clerk Polly who never saw her father's customers before came into and ornamented the little flass case which served for a Counting oase and kept his books When sorrows come they come not single spies Pilkerton the saddler tried to hold his own and seeing a contract from a great house for saddlery sent and blessed his luck when he got it! The great Earl Sangpur a military nobleman who devoted himself to his regiment the Redlegs a dashing light cavalry corps determined to astonish the world He had invehted a new demi-pique saddle and as the Government looked coldly on it had obtained from His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief the great favor of presenting the regiment with saddles looked upon this craze with a kindly pity but the earl had proved himself a household soldier to the backbone and had once added twenty pounds per man to the regulation price of the horses of the regiment Sangpur was beloved by the men but hated by his officers whom he put to all manner of expense does a he once said in nay-regiment with less than three thousand a year fV and the- question was unanswerable Messrs Moses Machetli Co the well-known army clothiers of 8t streot took the contract English society will not allow the real workors to do such jobs without a middle man Moses Macbeth Co thereon sent round to various saddlers and Pilkertow-whosc name stood very was selected to carry out the order of hundred and fifty saddles as per got the best man in the mi said little Moses (a red headed Israelite with a Roman nose and a heavy mustache dressed in the most perfect civil-military costume) He had originally been a tailor at Chatham but had in spite of two bankruptcies which ill-uaturcd persons said made his fortune is of Long do" said the earl who knew the fame in the hunting-field Why then did ho not give the order to Pilkerton? This is one of the mysteries of trade got to find him the said Mr Moses with a jeer good workmen are so can draw Mr Moses when part of the order is said the nobleman kindly Moses Macbeth Co did draw poor Pilkerton did not Like an old-fashioned tradesman ho likdd to have his money in a lump and had a pious horror of prepayment His spirits rose with his luck and he worked bravely at his oontract The Wesleyan minister under whom little Polly Pilkerton sat was the llev Samuel Stoker a pious man who did not disdain to sport an American degree of 1) Dr Stoker had prospered lived In Bedford Square had a son who was in a good position in the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank and a daughter who when poor Pilkerton lost his money tried to help Polly by taking muslrf lessons from her Miss Stoker was very stupid but very good uutured and Polly was de What two colors are Indiscernible? Invisible green and buff What bclongB to yourself and ia used by everybody more than yourself? Your name A Scotch florist in Hamilton Ont baa every variety of flower native to Scotland that ever bloomed A photographer advertise Babies taken and finished in ten which is rough on the babies Wnr is a horse the most curious feeder in the world? Because he eats best when he has not a hit in his mouth Why is a young lady just from boarding-school like a building committee? Because she is rfady to receive proposals There are said to have been nearly a hundred thousand dwelling houses unoccupied in Pari all the past winter A young lady went into a music shop and asked the clerk if he had Loving Eyes" He replied told so by the gfrls" It is thought to be pretty well settled that the first book printed on this Continent was issued by Combeyer in Mexico the year 1544 Accohdino to Punch the postal card system work as well as was expected the postmen not being-so prompt before having so many cards to read Some of the patriotic women of Rome propose to give Garibaldi the pleasure of viewing his owft monument by erecting one to him while he is above ground A new Chinese temple was recently consecrated in San Francisco with no less than seventy Gods two of which are twenty feet high and correspondingly large A nrRtNo poet finds a safety-valve for his afflatus thuslv Come on ye frog nd bird Monqiiltoee If roo plc-Ane Thin being froze for eight long month In u-itnm thnn trillimr flflM If yon please hie being froze ror eight Ion Ie worse than killing An old bachelor at a wedding feast had the heartlcssness to offer the following toast: The gate through which the happy lover leaves his enchanted regions and returns to earth" A collection of 273 specimens of postage-stamps was lately sold in London realizing 1252 1 7s lid A fivc-cent Confederate stamp unused and very scarce brought £5 and a two-cent Memphis stamp the same price The following curious advertisement appeared in a New York paper: "Fifty dollars will he paid to any person who will in a short time convert a aby low-speaking man into an impertinent loud Said a Detroit lady to a gentleman of that city not a musician I said he I were the proprietor of a hand-organ set expressly play I get sev-giity-nve out of Nearly fifty years ago a writer in the London Time began a leading article with the phrase thundered forth the oilier etc Hence some of the Time' contemporaries called the paper The and the title still clings it TnE discovery is announced In Hungary of an almost entire human skeleton together with a stone hammer at a depth which according to theories of modem geologists would prove that man must ave existed long before the mammoth The word waaoriginal- snt Italy ly applied to the Papal Government being the in respect to the rest of the Continent Now all whq hold a belief in the unbounded supremacy of the Pope and the union of church with state are called Ultra-montanes A bstern New York miss unguardedly made the remark in the family circle recently that when gentlemen eat warm maple sugar It gets into their mustaches ami makes them Her father is curious to know how she found it out Tue Maine lumbermen predict that fife years hence at the present rate of destruction the forests of that State will be wholly cleared ot timber The lumber crop this year is estimated -SA 700000000 feet Of this amount the Penobscot lumbermen cut 226000000 and the Kennebec men over 100000000 ITiie Count dc Grasse was once wounded in the knee with a musket-ball The doctors cut and hacked and made many incisions when getting out of all patience the Count asked why they cut him up so much are seeking said the surgeon the ou mention that before? I hitve the hall In my In Providence no one ia eligible to membership of a fire company unless he possesses a good moral character The department ia said to include prominent church members active Sunday School Missionaries large booksellers and the most respectable men in all departments of business Thb Marquis of Lome's brother Lord Walter Campbell who is in business at New waa recently introduced to a young American who had drank wine enough to be supremely candid and the words Walter caused him to say in a loud tone played these English lords are base counterfeits I have no objection to meeting Mr Campbell but I want anybody to pretend no Is a Lord Campbell accepted apologies and remarked that ha himself would wish to see the credentials of any one pretending to ha a nobleman instead of accepting him on trust accepting Thb railroads iu England accord ins to the London Builder comprise 14247 miles of track now being worked in the United Kingdom on which have been expended 2600000000 This sum is equal to five times the amount of the anousd value of all the real property in Grtiet Britain and two-thirds ot the national debt After deducting all the expenses the gross net annuel ravens the roads exceed by 110000000 the total revenue from ell source of writing enue of Holland Portugal Denmark Sweden Norway An army ef 100000 and servants are ut the employ of the companies and the value of tho slock exceeds 100000000 said Polly taking hold of his arm so closely that it made him shiver delightfully tll me more about the when Mildred have him and in love witli him all the time you IIow stupid women are are they not Ben Polly: how can I think so when you can take all the points so well They iu-e not stupid They think with their why they break them so often putting to an improper purpose But Ben if a Miss it Mildred rejected you on your baing not a patrician you wiiat should you do Ikn I should break minePolly if 1 loved her ns 1 can that?" said Polly with a feigned-funny little laugh With ail my miml witli all my hear! and with all my here he gave arm quite mechanically on his part a tremendous squeeze and the same delicious shiver ran through her frame and my neighbor as said Ben in the Church Catechism which Dr Stoker pleaches against Polly" Is it said Polly The tone of her voice was strangely altered Gracious! ten Ben IIow late it is Wlmt will poor father say ir The old saddler -worked away at liis contract early and late and took so much trouble that each saddle was indeed fur uished per Seven hundred and fifty Raddles take a good deal of work and leather and work and leather have to be paid for Pilkerton was too proud to unburden himself to Moses Macbeth Co and it would have been of little use had he done so He followed a well-known custom and made use of a little paper instrument lie iu the slang of Mr Reach Stoker a drawing upon Ins old friend Mansefl who was a warm" man so -far as a few hundreds can make one warm for Mr Mansell carried out the fiction like a man and a brother tradesman some in the city discounted the bill and Pilkerton was furnished vyitli cash Still although the bootmaker1 had obliged his early friend with the use -of his name Pilkerton did not think it any more proper that the son should marry his daughter There was therefore some little coolness when Polly came home but the saddle contract was so nearly done the money was so sure to he paid and the saddler was too lull of hope to be very full of anger So father and daughter found the time go very pleasantly Polly thirikiug of the Daughter" and admiring her lkn when lie recited Romeo and Juliet" while the father stuck closely to work with his men paying them liberally too until the-whole seven hundred and fifty deml-piqtie saddles were delivered to Mr Moses wher looked somewhat coldly at them before-Mr Pilkerton but was loud in his praises of the work to Lord Sangpur Had the saddler heard the words uttered by the Jew to the nobleman Ire would have been full of praise if not of pudding However the -work-merited all that was said by Moses Macbeth Co better saddles were never delivered and my lord drew a cheque tor the balance due on the spot Messrs Moses Macbeth Co did not goimsl do likewise They well knew the value of money and sent poor Pilkerton wearily back with hardly a sovereign in his porket He had exhausted all his own money and the bill as well and sat down miserably enough to wait His contract had taken up his whole time lie had even otlended some of liis best customers and he sat in liis almost empty shop lately so full of bustle with his strong muscular hands spread idly before him dull father to said Polly apparently as gay as a lark men generally are you're not idle: why you are always at work- All work and no play you knorv why you go and smoke a pipe with old Mr shall he thinking of that comes due next week" sighed Pilkerton mind got all our accounts out and if they would only pay but my customers are all out of town and that man Moses I never saw a Macbeth about a funny the same that Ben talks about so said Polly to herself must pay she said aloud was a ready-money job and at a ready-money said do wish they would think so You see gentlemen of their persuasion have not got to do us they would bo dono Ben says they or else they would bo whispered Polly much like them But there are good amongst them Hallo! the postman with a Pilkerton lurried forward and trembled as ho took a letter stammered hardly knowing what he said: made a mistake with that fresh hill of mine it come due and this a writ is it Poor old fellow 1 Jie was too innocent of those Useful bits of paper father 1 what is He had torn open the letter and one glance at it was enough for him Messrs Moses Machetli Co could not pay him the money but they did the next host thing they could: they put his debt in a schedule Polly I said the poor man big drops gathering on his bald the something Jews! Isliallbc sold up stock lock and barrel frame and flap headstall and Then lie sank on his stool and taking up his leather cutting-knife threw it oil the floor with such force that it shivered like glass the blade flying out of the door and nearly cutting a tail oft' Then the good and he was good swore a great oath that he would never work more a man said Polly trembling at his groat rage and yet somehow admiring him ia said he and work for those desperate these fellows who take centracts screw you down to the last penny and then aided by the law cheat you out of that These men who live in great houses upon the fat of the land and the lives of the poor Be a man! he a slave! hv heavens! the fellows who slouch about' and work are right after all How many honest tradesman and his family havo been brought to misery and starvation by sueli be well And i I had thousands now Polly they should ho yours wish you had with a gulp and a sob rather you'd take nic for nothing All for lore Polly for true love It is the best thing in the world and never wears And then with truo delicacy horn of his poetic temperament Ben so comforted Polly that while he was there at least the young girl felt brave and comforted In the mean time Mr Reach tried to press his suit which wag not of the kind of cloth that was and offended Polly mortally He as Polly might have might have helped her but he made her love in his obscure hints condition and Polly Hung away from him in disgust And yet wlmt a power lias money Polly's -two lessons te Miss Bally Stoker produced some fifteen shillings a week and this was the gold am' silver band which held Polly to her engagement and 'also to enduring Reach's presence That gentleman himself mortified by Polly's refusal gloated over the coming misfortune of tier father all the more so as he had found out by ocular demonstration that Polly had preferred a plubian young bootmaker to an aristocratic banker The notion that they who made sound hoots could he preferred to those who took care of other money in banks which sometimes cracked and let the money run was he observed to himself absolutely revolutionary he said Reach to himself put a spoke into liis When one is (availing a great and to the honest saddler this was indeed the sooner it is over the better As the time approaches a sort of desperate courage is given one and poor old Pilkerton who would be a broken man on the morrow was absolutely a brave and ready one bn the evening before the fatal day He balanced his hooks made every thing as clear as daylight performed the place of a boy and swept up the shop ami polished the snallles and curbs himself as if with the presentation of the bill one of the commlsioners in bankruptcy and a file of policemen would walk into his little shop und declare him ruined Now father it's all ready" said Polly ruefully with a sad smile if they come at six in the morning" they are bound to present it beforo twelve" talk of- if father Let us have some tea" It was a little past six Old Pilkerton was as obedient as a child Polly led him in and poured out his tea and stood up to suy grace Now all was to pass from him the old man looked round the comfortable room with a sigh audit groan and thought how dear it was to him liis home had never looked" so well so homely yet so neat and comfortably warm We thank Thee for this our daily skid Polly witli tears iu her voice We have wept and we have not been comforted we have prayed and we have not been said old Pilkertcj savagely Don't said his plorlqgly Rap rap How both started It was "the wlidwits in tlirf iniddlcof the shop with a registered letter With trembling fiuger9 Polly signed for it' and took it in this she said some pertikler for saddles witli drawings them swells think every thing belonging to them It was just one week before Christmas Day: for bills will come due through feasts and fasts except ou the free days and the new Bauk and sometimes new saddles were mude up as presents so the old man was not perhaps far out Let me open the letter if its said Polly forcing a cheerfulness and sitting down after closing the glass doorof the parlor "IIow nice and red and warm postmen do look I)o you like your tea father well my dear perhaps its tho last we may have Ym they are drawings my! Oh! father dear father look She opened tho letter found two stiff cards which caused tho old saddler to utter liis -remark and then unwinding the string which bound them pretty tightly ojiened six new crisp charming-looking pieces of copperplate engraving worth at least fifty pouhd each for they were hank notes When old Pilkerton fully comprehended that they were real he laid down hia bit of bread and butter smoothed his handB upon his apron and fell down on his knees crying fosgive me for my wicked Tfun lie gavo way to torrentjpf tears in which Polly joined him laughing and choking in the meanwhile with one hand round his neck or sometimes patting his back while- she said Gry away father it will do you Christmas came and went the bill was paid Old Pilkerton wanted to rush at once to old Mansell waving his notes over his head but Polly told him to bear himself like a to change some of tho notes and to await the clerk A very gentlemanly ruing man called and presented the bill just about twelve whereon Pilkerton took him into his glass cupboard and My clerk produced the money from the desk and it disappeared at once in a black I leathern pocket-book chained around the young waist Then the old man got his bill and when the clerk waa gone tore it into fragments and vowed he would never take a contract or draw a bill again His shop was not shut up A customer more thoughtful that' the rest paid his bill and put our old saddler in possession of some ready money and to disappointment Polly got another engagement and determined to give up her friend Sally Stoker finding out that it was not as old Pilkerton lpng protested (hat it must be that generous man the who had furnished the money a mystery said Polly we will rake the money together bit by bit to pay our generous benefactor when we find him" mysterious providential So was that old bad debt turning out so wonderfully a month after That gave us a hundred towards it said we should be said Polly To which the father gravely replied Mansell was for once in his It was curious that the opposition he had shown' to that young man had not decreased nor the admlra ration he felt for Reach Stoker It wns more than a week after Christmas that Polly meditating still upon the grateful mystery which had saved her as these! Many a tender gal and many an honest hard-working mother Polly thank God! my fal her tatnerl 1 never heard you say so before What wicked mon they are! May God forgive them! Bqt father arc you sure this their said the father third time My mates warned me to look sharp Old Mansell did and he knows a thing or Will you get any thing when the lawyers have done their worst and had their pickings? No do you suppose Polly as those gentlemen work for their own families or for their creditors? Why they are ns clad when a bankruptcy as an undertaker is when a funeral coming off!" iRd the world must be it is not a good just now About half a crown in the pound is aU that will come to the eighth better than the tithe of mint and said the saddler bitterly will that aid you? When does the hill come a week: the bankruptcy maybe settled in six you go through the court too -said Polly with a sudden inspiration 1 said the old man a gleam of humor sparkling in his eye I Polly? No: rather go and rot in prison and lie a journeyman again and make saddles My right hand forgot its cunning let the worst come to the worst earn a crust for my father! dear old cried Polly come into the hack shop und let mo kiss you: you're all a man father and you al ways These good people although so shaken to their bases that they were quite subdued and spoke almost ina whisper were not without a secret sustenance of hope Polly counted up all the silver spoons ran in and out her little glass case and added up the bills again to try and make them a pound or so more in case she had mude a mistake against themselves Sought Mr Reach StoRer and asked what was to be done when a hill became due: upon which lie said it like a British what if you Mr Ihen you may he" Was going to explain about renewal but Mr Reach hadasmall opinion of a knowledge of business and was silent for a time then said dishonored for of course friends have been applied Polly blushed and remained silent she had it upon her lips to ask some help of Reach but her heart failed her As for the clerk lie knew all about the failure of Co and knew very well that his fathers old friend and disciple was put in great straits thereby He loved Polly after liis fashion wras jealous of young Mansell but having liis ovvn little game to play would not hold forth his finger He however took care to warn the divine against lending money on are too generous returned the son with a slightly-perceptiblc sneer wholly lost on the preacher is not to be expected that a man who subscribed a-girrm-R trr yrmrtcsHtTmnfaf -should' Imrv row a hundred You may have such an my said Dr Stoker a day or two afterwards you are a also amoug the said his sister "Father means profile I have put all his money in the and they are moving up not a penny to play guess what I was about to say" said the DD Pilkerton came to me and wanted to borrow money" liis impudence" said next Sally Stoker turned pale She was about at instance to preface the same request father!" she said could have done it He is a most honest a falling one sir" said Reach remember never catch at a falling knife or a falling friend 'Tis a Scotch proverb and indicative of that shrewd gjtnd cautious people" old man safjl Sally you remember father when he was much Holier tiinn we are how he befriended you and stood by you in the controversy about the sons of Noah Bother the sons of Noah Sally!" said Reach we not befriending him by taking music b-ssons They are worth every penny we pay Mr Reach" said Sally indignantly- and she hurried frhm the room to have a good ery Sally was the only one who lelLtoJierMendij: wC In the mean time the poor old saddler and his daughter fell from hope to hope deferred and from that into a profound melancholy as the time -drew near To almost the last moment he was ready to rust to any broken reed of hope rather than have his bill and his name dishonored He would havo applied to his friend old Manseil And have urged him to renew his hill hut he could at present only scrape together a few pounds liis debts seemed to lie accumulating anil Stoker's almost severe rejection accompanied with some of that religions adviee which is so singularly unpalatable when offered without any relief of his petition quite unnerved him He could not apply elsewhere and he sat down to wait as the Roman In his dungeon sat down to meet the assassin who was sent to dispatch him must be sold up Polly If old Mansell chooses to put the law in force what am I to do Polly was almost as hopeless as her father The only cheerful person about her was young Ben who quoted generous bitsof stage-plays and poetry and nlways declared thfttjliy a poetical justice the good man nine times out of ten came up all right in the play but the play the world Ben i heard say a great deal 1 No it Polly You shall go to it when we are talk so returned Polly can yoti hard-hearted it is Bon and father so troubled and cut up I wish it was all What the marriage Polly said Ben dryly the dreadful bill you cruel wretch you one she said flashing at him an indignant and reproachful look have to marry a Law said Ben is that nil never he a beggiir when my wife ami God gives me strength and health Polly cry If that wSs all i( would lighted lie talked of everything then led up to the races There'had been some steeple-chasing in tho South and he had understood that an acquaintance of he would not say had dropped some-thingon the race What is ped something Borne Who was it?" "Why less than Mr Mansell the Poor old said Polly the old it was the young" he take to her Ben And he lose money at large heavy sums when her father was sutler- ingl" head was as she afterwards said In a whirl you sure of this dreadful accusation Mr Reach?" said Polly -sharply for to her a gambler wus a creature to he ever avoided close home now I will leave you so sorry" said Reach as they ap-proached the door rejoicing that- he find planted a wound that would rankle: Miss Pilkerton Oh yes! we men of business are sure I was told of tho namu (Mr Reach helled himself) ami on the 18th of settling young Mansell who had been saving up money drew the whole six ponies" What are ponies "Ponies? oh! I forgot six fifty-pound for I paid it him Good morning evening I should The arrow sped and a wondrous effect it had upon Polly In she rushed to the shop in again to the little parlor and fell upon her knees crying "0 father! father! found out who our benefactor child! that bothering young Ben in the shop a upon some pretence or Out rushed Polly dragging in Ben as tonished and alarmed Is It?" he asked said Polly beseechingly "promise me you will never tell me a faiso never said Ben never you sent tho three hundred saved my cried old Pilkerton taking hold of Both his hands won my said Polly falling on his neck ami kissing him said the struggling hero rather ruefully and blushingat his secret doings having been found out thought won tlmt before and 1 going to be beholden to money for a heart of gold worth more than a bag of gold Polly shall have both Ben One got you darling and when paid you the shall havrthe other-And tho earnest girl her heart bounding with joy work my fingers to the hone rather have them as they are snid Ren seizing her pretty hands and covering them with kisses and provided you ami tho governor aro willing take them Would you he surprised to the form of is 1 That Polly married Mr Ben Mansell and that old Mansell came down on the occasion 2 That Lord Sangpur came to congratulate Mr Pilkerton on the new saddles of her celebrated regiment the Redlegs and hearing then attd there of hts misfortune vowed to make it up to him somehow and really did so 3 That Messrs Moses Macbeth Co finding many tough customers in their third bankruptcy paid in full and got it annulled 4 That Messrs Pilkerton Mansell arc celebrated saddlers by appointment to II It the aid II etc etc 5 That Mr Reach Stoker wus a Mfe too venturesome with the and that the funds of those islanders let the in If you arc 1 must have told my story very badly Society Courting In Siberia When once the young bean among the Rorakas becomes infatuated he makes known his passion to the father of his and expresses his desire to strivr for Uttnd A kind of contract- is Immediately entered into by which the young man binds himself to the father as a servant for a term of years at the expiration of which time he can have the pleasure of learning whether the daughter will have him or not In this manner if the father be the happy possessor of beautiful daughter he mav have half a dozen men ready to do his bidding at one time When the term rtf servitude expires one of the larger youths is select cd and all the old women of the place artued with sticks and pieces of seal thongs are stationed in the pologs suspended around the room The daughter then appears thickly clad in skin gar ments followed bv her lover when a race ensues around the inclosure the contestants dodging about among the pologs To win hi! bride he must overtake her and leave the print of hia nail upon her person before she can be rescued by the old women who during the race impede the lover as much as possible by beating him with sticks and tripping him by seizing his legs as he rushes by them The advantage is all with the girl and if she does not wish to become the wife of the pursuer Bhe can avoid him without difficulty On the contrary If she like him she 'manages to stumble or makes known her wishes to the old women who then only make a show of impeding her pursuer Sometimes the lover la so desper- Ke 1 he returns to the father and binds himself for another period of years for the privilege of making another London Family Herald I In order to get rid of the annoyance of constant requests on the part of minor criminals before tho Police Court for the suppression or their names the Lawrence Mass authorities have made an arrangement bv which the name of any person not Charged with a grave offense will be omitted for a dollar the money to form a fund for tho reliaf of destitute and deserving persons in us to to quite a proper placo a Kludy to walk so said tlier and you and mother Used to go a courting round there when London half so full" said Polly with a laugh holding up her face for her father to kiss I can take care of myself and Ben and I have walked and talked together since we were ten so clever and so fond of poetry and me such pretty This was true Beil was an enthusiast never talked of himself hut when lie hud read some noble hook or poem and he was always reading and spouted it out to sometimes the people thought the young couple quarrelling: they had not come I tluU 'yet they had not even made love But if Ben had puzzled his long head for a and ho was no he could not have hit upon a better way to catch Polly When he recited ih Ills grave tones and manly voice ami his good taught him more by liis own heart than by the "Penny lie took in and the quarter lie spent at a elocution Polly insensibly connected herself with the heroine and Ben us the nearest male creature at baud as the hero and her pretty eyes turned onjiis often glimmered with dewy tears Under the gas-lumps Ah! those happy autumn walks 1 happy Russell Square! happy Fondling then so appropriately named i.