, 1873-05-25

MY bed 1aceu "lnaoW, ana oy -foising myself
cd to be tho main street. To my aatonishment,
I beheld q lonely country road winding up
sterile hill and disappearing over the ridge : In
q cornfie1d at the right of the road was
small private graveyard enclosed Sa BY erumbling
gestiye Of life was this little corner-lot occupied
By death. L got out Of bed and went to tho
other window. There had m. uninterrupted
Wow Of twelve miles = Of, OPEN Landscape,
With Mount Agamenticus in tho purple diatanco.
claimed, " Greepton doesn't appear to Le q very
cloaely packed metropolis r. That rival hotel
which had threatened Mr. SeWeil overnight was
not deadly weapon, looking at it by daylight.
'.By Joyel" / reflected, - maybe I'm in tho
Of the bedroom door, was q faded timetable
dated Greenton, Aug. !, 1889. -.
1 smiled all the time waa dressing, and wont
smiling down stairs, where found Afr. Sewel,
assisted by one of the fair sex in the first bloom
of her 80th year, serving breakfast for me on q
small tabe-in tho bar-coom =:
st Ioyerslept myself this morning. II remarked
npoIopetically. " and gee that am putting you
to some trouble. In future if you viii have mo
called, I will take my meals ut tie usual table
Thofe"
At tie what ?' seid Mr.. sexe1l. -.
"I moan with the other boerders."
Mr.. Sewell paused in tho act Of lifting a chop
from the 1iro, and, resting the point of his fork
against the woodwork Of the mantel-picce, grin
ned from ear to car. o.
9 Bless you! thore isn't any othor boarders.
There hasn't Eeen anybody: put up here eence-
LET me see-senco fatler-in-law diod, and that
YVES in the fall of 40. To be sure, there's Silas
he's regular boarder; but don't count him" !"
Nr. sewell then explained how the tavern had
lost its custom when the old stage limo was brok-
en- up by the railroad. The introduction of
steam was, in Afr. sevoll's estimation, q fatal
error. "Jest kills local business. Carries it off
I'm darned If know where. The whole country
has been sort o 1etrograding ever sence steam
was invented"
"You spoke of having one boarder," 1 said.
SilaR7 Yes: he came here the summer
'Tilda died, size that IVES 'Tilda Bayley,-and
he's here yet; going on thirteen year. He
couldn't live any1onger with the old man. Be-
vas hard nut, Yes" said Mr.. sewell, crooking
his elbow in inimitable pantomime, altogether
too often. Found dead in the road huggiug 3
three-gallon demijohn- Habeas corpus in the
barn" added Mr.. Sawell, intending, presume,
been deemed necessary. s:sllaa,'' be resumed,
in that respectful tone which one should always
adopt when speaking Of capital, ''ls man OF
considerable property; lives on his interest, and
keeps . hoas and ahay. Hos great scholar,
too, silas; takes oil the periodicals and the
Mr.. sewell was turning over = third chop,
when the door opened, aud etoutiah,- middle
aged little gentleman, clad in deep black, stepped
"siias Jaffrey," said Mr.. sewell With compre-
henaive sweep or his arm, picking up me and
the newcomer On one fork, SO to speak = be
acquainted F"
Mr. Jaffrey advanced brisk1y and gavo me his
hand with unlooked-for cordially. He was .
dapper little man, with head as round and
nearly as bald as m orange, and not unlike an
orange in complexion, either he bad tWlnkllng
gray eyes and a pronounced Roman nose, the
numerous freckles upon which Were deepen
cd by his funereal dresH-coat and trousers he
reminded me Of Alfred do Mussott,s blackblrd,
which, with it's yellow beak and sombre plumnge,
looked like an undertaken eating m omelet.
" ailas will take care OF you," said Afr: sewel,
taking down his lat from peg behind the door,
" I've got the cattle to look after. Tell him, If
you want anything"
While ate my breakfast, Mr.. Jatfrey hoped
up and down the marrow bar-1oom and chirped
away as blithely as bird on chcrry-bough, oc-
casionally ruffing with his fingers slight fringe
Of auburn hnir which stood up partly round hs
head and seemed to possess q luminous quality
".Don't I find it little slow up hero at the
Corners? Not at Ill, my dear Cir. am IN the
thick Of life up here. So many interesting
things going on al over the world.-inyentlons'
discoveries. spirits. railroad disasters. mys'
terious homicidea. Poets, mnrderere, musicians,
statesmen, distinguished travellers, prodigies OF
all kinds, turning up everywhere, Very fo"
events Of porso1s escape me-. take al1 daily
city papers,, thirteen weekly journals, all the
monthly magazines, and two quartcrlios. I could
not get along with less. couldn't il you asked
me-. L never feel lonely. How can I,
being on = intimate terms, as 1t wore,
With thousands and thousands of people ?
What an entertaining creature she is!-now in
Missouri, now in Indiana, andnow IN Minnesota,
always On the 20, and all the time ahcdSang nee
dos from ynrious parts Of her body as it si1o
really euioyed i'll Then there's that versatile
patriarch who walks hundreds Of miles and ssws
THOUSANDS Of feet Of wood, before breakfast, and
.shows no signa Of giving out. Then there's ttlat
remarkable, ona may say that historical colored
woman who knew Bonia1nin Franklin, and
fought at tho battle OF Bunk-no, it Is the OLD
negro man who fought at Bunker nddl, A, mei9
is quito curious to observe how that venerable
female slave formerly an African princesH-!s
repeatedly dying in her hundred and eleventh
year, and coming to life again punctually every
six months in the small TYPE Paras1aRns are
no fewer than 287 Of Gen: Washington's col
orod coachmen have died ~.
For the soul Of me r couldn't tell whether this
quaint little gentleman was chatting me or not
I laid down my knife and fork, and stared as
him. @",
s.Then there are tho mathematicians be
cried yiTaciously, without waiting for q reply; r
= take great interest in them. Hear this
and AIr. Jafrrey drew newspaper from poeke1t =
in the tail OF his coat, and read az follows: " ~
] has beer t estinated at al ne sar;e s9nrfs Z a Co.
tcere placed end to end, they ,coHld reach 2 ana
x times around he globe. OF .courae, :" contin-
ued Ar JafrreT, folding up the journal rehect7
lively, "abstruse calculations OF TINS hlno aro
not, perhaps, Of vital Importance, but. they N n
ously, now" he said. halting in front OF a tne