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CHAPTER VII.

"THAT TWO DOLLARS HOPE LONG DEFERRED.
The little woman went into trade.
She sold the old newspapers for six
cents. The orange-peel speculation
resulted in failure. Nobody would buy.
Meantime, that two dollars, you
know" was drawn from the bank per-
force, to pay the washerwoman-a poor
old woman who needed the money, on
which Mamma Mullen felt a sinking of
the heart, and was obliged to do that
sum about the "Idyls," ETC., twice
over, before she could quite recover her
usual cheerfulness.
Also the "dodge," though in splendid
working order, was SO continually trip
ped up, and circumvented by the
CLAW" that its young inventor might
almost as well have spared the car
horses the shame of their defeat.
"The Christmas-rose will be very
small growth" they told each other.
One-two-three-fou weeks Such
weeks The hours in them had feet of
lead, and were lame besides. Darkest
Of all, came to be that hour known as
the postman's. No such heart-shaking
houi III ohO JOol, 40, II JOu arc ~ hul-
lein person, or like those who joined
David in the cave of Adullam, and you
are at the crest of the wave, and letter
will tide you over, or dash you down in
it's CULTS, you very well know. The
"Hour" quite overshadowed the Null
lein family. When it began, everybody
grew nervous while it endured, every
body started at each tinkle of the bell,
and watched slyly out of window. When
it ended-ohl the miserable blank
worse even than the torture of suspense!
and when the member from outside
who had been absent meanwhile, re.
turned-there was another trial. The
vague expectation, the quick glance at
the table and into the faces of the
stayers-at- home, the pathetic attempt
at indifference on the part of every
body and the determination of every
body to show no anxiety, and to see
none!-ah! let it pass! 1t is easier to
write than TO witness.
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India.

The armies of the native chiefs of
India, together, number 315, 900. The
ar tillery numbers $500 large guns.
Hyderbad heads the list with 36, 800
infantry, S,203 cavalry, and 725 guns.
Bundelcund comes next with %, 163
infantry, 1877 cavalry, and 421 guns.
Cashmere has Is, 436 infantry, 1893
cavalry, and 81 guns. Gwalior has 49,
050 infantry, 5000 cavalry, and 90
guns Kattywar, Is, 800 infantry, 1000
cavalry, and sos guns Oodeypore, IT,
600 infantry and 6,240 cavalry. None
of the rest exceed H. 900. Surat has 18
guns and no infantry. Cochin has 3
guns; Travancore 6 and 60 cavalry.
Several of the States have no cavalry,
but two or three guns. The moral to
be drawn from this formidable-looking
array is, says the Times of India, that
it might one day be turned against old
England, and, as there are just six
times as many native soldiers under the
orders of native chiefs as there are
British soldiers in India, the conse-
quences might be unpleasant.
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CHAPTER VI.
MARKET-woMAN-sAUL AND PAUL-sIMPLl
SUMS.

MARKET-woMAN-sAUL AND PAUL-sIMPLE
SUMS.
And now you are waiting to hear
Mamma Mullein's business that is, if
you want to hear anything about it.
trust it shall not shock you. She was
market-woman ; not that she brought
eggs, and butter, and fruit, to market.
Had she done that, she might have
been rose-woman instead of mullen.
woman, and this story could never have
been written. But there are 30 many
sorts of markets-as market where
your nice fresh ideas will bring fair
price. Of this order of market-woman
was Mamma Mullen. She was liable
to ideas. There are some people who
regard such a person with suspicion,
but, though DESTROYS to please all read
ers, L must give my personages as find
them. Ideas are often good for checks,
but they more frequently stamp the
man or woman subject to them as
dangerous. The world is like Saul.
1t accepts the thought, whether in writ
ing, marble, pottery painting, politics,
warfare, preaching, invitations, no mat
ter what, as the Hebrew King did
Goliath's head. But it never forgives
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THE peasants of Translyvania have a snpersti
ton that, at the moment when the old year merg
into the new, the cattle speak but in Language un
known TO men, and that whoever hears them dies.
Pile wood on the FIRE, wilhelmina,
Here's Caspar come home from the plain
The wind whistles bleak 1t the Intel,
The frost-fairies tap on the pane.
Tonight the Old Year il departing
With steps that are tardy but sure
Between the wild gusts OF the night-wind,
His footballs are heard on the moor.
The herdsmen have gone from the pastures
To their huts on the edge OF the pines
The makers crouch close in their novels;
The miners lie low in their mines.
For, tonight, when the Old Year expiring
To the Coming Year waves his farewell,
Uplifting their heads ia the cow-pens
The cattle strange things will foretell-
In words so unearthly and weird
That the wolves to their coverts will iee,
And the imp-lights will fade In the marshes,
And the owlet will cover in her tree.
And II unto ears that are human
Go floating the mystical words
That, iuet az the Old Ytar out-passes,
Gush forth from the lips of the herds
Deaths dart like thunderbolt flashes
And lifeless the Listener falls,
As the New Year sets foot on the threshold
And his shadow towers up Oh the walls.
Ho Caspar, the herds must be talking
The step Of the New Year arrives
Draw your cloak over yo1r head, Wilhelmine,
On our knees let Us pray for our lives {!
-AppletonS journal.
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CHAPTER V.
THE CHRISTMAS ROSE.

To begin 1t had happened month
or two before that they found them
selves in possession of surplus two
dollar note. That is, of two-dollar
note which need not be paid over at
once to landlord or shoemaker. 'sThis
note was deposited by reclamation in
the "Sixpenny savings" as beginning
toward growing the Christmas-rose.
Henceforth the family leaned much on
it, and it often came up in conversation
as that two dollars, you know"
Then the three Mulleins had each q
little plan for growing a Christmas rose.
Master Mullen invented what he
called the dodge" as this There are
certain transactions in business, so much
matter of course, that you are startled
to reflect on the number of persons who
earn a living in these very departments.
Who thinks how notes, bills and mes
sages, get about? Yet they certainly
don't run on casters, as young
Mullen, with his wallet chained about
his waist, might have assured you. If
you have an eye for rosy boys, 1 dare
say you have seen him aud if you have
observed him, arms up, hands clinched,
running on a sort of dog so as al.
ways to keep pace with the car or stage
in which you were riding, why then you
have seen the "dodge." There are
lines on which boy of determination
may keep neck-and-neck with the
horses. On such lines Mullen pocketed
the fare and ran the route. There are
lines that defy the best breathed "run-
ners." On these, as a boy of honor,
Mullen rode. He reported himself to
the house among the earliest of the
runners, and, nevertheless averaged
thirty cents a day by the dodge"
There are six days in the week,
6 X 30=$1. so. 1t lacks six weeks of
Christmas-tide: OK 1.S0=$1O.SO.
But
The world is under the reign of laws,
and the Mullen household was under
law of necessity, that, do what they
would, was sure to levy q tax of, say
thirty cents on every fifty cents amassed
by the dodge" for matches, soap,
paper, car-fare-something of the sort.
After the eleventh or eighth" collision
between the claw" and the dodge, :"
it certainly occurred to Mamma Mullen
that things looked discouraging and
she sighed. But the young inventor
went sturdily on, with pluck and an
undiminished faith in the virtues of the
dodge" quite delightful to see.
The little woman such very little
woman She was preparing to go into
trade--in orange-peel and old news
papers-when she could find a buyer.
People do buy such things somewhere,
you know.
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Pith and Point.

A CITY that scots Pittsburgh.
BEST known general-General de-
bility.
AN article you can always borrow-
Trouble.
A mother-in-law in house is q we'll
spring of jawy.
The last gentleman in lady's
thoughts is generally the first as well.
"CoRN bread 2" said an Irish writer;
1--WE haven't got it; an isn't it corn
bafe we mane?"
THE bed on which Partisan husband
poisoned his two wives was sold at
fancy price to Nine. Tussaud recently.
AND thus they went foot and foot
together
Two soles with but a single squeak,
Brogans that clump as one.
SUNDAY school teacher-"Nex Sun
day we'll have the death of Moses"
Overjoyed pupil" Then he did die at
last. j."
HEAVEN bless you," said JOIN.
Henry, cit was the preitiest fight you
ivory keys like mad, and the piano
forte nobly.
DIR. JOHN HALL says that in England
people are divided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church.
men and absenters.
A POPULAR clergyman says it is in
teresting to observe how many people
go to the circus, "iust to please the
children" and very curious to notice
that sometimes it takes several able
bodied men and motherly women to
look after one little boy or girl on such
an occasion.
THE Obzor, newspaper of Agram, in
| Croatia adds to each announcement of
death, the name of the medical practi-
toner who attended the deceased.
This gratuitous advertising will be of
great benefit to the most numerously
mentioned of the medical gentlemen,
is adding, as it inevitably must, to
mans engaging him to attend his wife's
relatives.
A CONTEMPORARY gives the following
advice to a correspondent "We have
to decline your article on the Decline of
Aristocracy. We have left out several
of our own articles this week, and yours
is worse than any of them. Take our
advice, and write few very short
pieces; write only on one side of the
sheet write plainly; and then take
your pieces and burn them in the
kitchen fire."
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
Oh the SHOWS, the beautiful snows,
Wetting your ankles and damp ming your toes,
Binding your eyes and tickling your nose,
Filling your gloves till your hands are "half
irose :"
Under your neck-tie, melting IL goes,
Down your backbone like a trip-hsmmered rose;
Stufing your and spelling your clothes.
Making you think, as IL shiverlpg blows,
That it came all the way from where Boreas grows.
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CHAPTER TX.

NRMEsIs-THE FATE OF THE DODGE"
Enter the ~asherwoman. Nobody
had expected her. If she had been
Nemesis herself the family could not
have surveyed her with more dismay.
With what was she to be paid? The
young inventor looked at the dis
turbed face of his mather, and gave q
great gulp.
"How much is it, mamma 4? There
is the dodge, you know !" and Mamma
Mullen felt the two dollars thrust into
her hand. Yes, there it was, and there
was the washerwoman. The Mulleins
looked at each other incredulously.
Their last hold on their one loved holi-
day was slipping from them, and they
hardly knew how to believe it, after all
the toll, and the patience, and the self
sacrifice, and the planning If the
washerwoman had but known it, she
was being paid in dramas, in concen-
tration of much that was precious. But
it looked to her poor enough note,
unaccompanied by an extra fifty cents,
or so, in honor of Christmas. She
thinks they have forgotten it forgot
ten it, poor souls and stands her
ground. Mamma quakes before her,
and answers her but feebly. Still she
stands Will she never go? An awful
silence. Convicted felons might wear
the open and cheerful countenance OF
the Mulleins. The Nemesis of the
wash-tub losses her head, founces,
makes a remark, TO the door-knob APP
parently, about the poor returns of
stinginess to stingy people in the long
run-but she goes Mamma Mullen
is free to cover her face with her hands,
and the young inventor to press soft
cheek against hers, and call her his
dear, good, lovely mamma.
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CHAPTER III.
MULLINS AND Rosf S.

What has this conversation (which
actually occurred) to do with the story ?
Wait little.
not Christmas-story, for, in fact, they
had no Christmas at all, and it was i'm
possible that they should have had, and
they ought to have known better. 1t is
written to be read after Christmas, when
the bills come IN, and the indigestions,
and the doctors, and you and your
wife have come to an understanding
about the current expenses, and the
Christmas brightness and the Christmas
snow have given way to raw, dipthe-
rite fog, and no end of slush. Read it
then!
And now, they ought to have known
better, as 1 said before, for they we're
mullen people, and there is nothing in
a MULLEN that can produce a rose. AS
regards manners, morals, and ideas,
they might be American velvet-plants
they we're. But, as regards sterility
of resources, and the figure they cut in
the world, and the estimation in which
they were held, they were MULLEN
people; growing on very black hill
side, too.
And always haunted by the desire and
intention to grow rosesl The ordinary
mullen accepts the situation. But
these human Mulleinsl-they would
behave like roses. They were always
outwitting Step-mother Fate. However
she snubbed, and twitched, and set
them in corners, they were ready for
her. Take away the carpets, and thew
stained the floor walnut.brown. DEM
them bureaus, and they Transformed q
packing-box, dollar looking. glass
two cigar-boxes, and some old cbintz
into dressing table. Send them away
hungry from the greasy table of their
clearinghouse, and they smuggle slices
of bread, buy three cents worth of but.
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CHAPTER ".
PARASITES AND NUIsANCEs.


Hitherto have introduced these people
as "They." That was from cowardice.
Seldom has writer more Objectionable
personages i'll hand. The Mulleins were
three mother, daughter, and son.
1 have read recently that women
without money were very nearly in the
position of parasites - also, that ga
woman's business is to amuse and serve
man, and make his life agreeable, and.
when not so engaged, she isanuisance. )"
The mother and daughter in question
were without money, and there was no
"man," as an excuse for their exist
ence and not even the entireness of
love, in which they lived with the Boy,
and he with them, can altogether atone.
L assure you L feel it but then what
would you have? This is mot Christ
mas story, but story of aggravation.
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CHAPTER III.
THEIR CHRIsTMAs-FEvER.

Now that you comprehend them, you
will not be surprised to hear that these
people, who were in want, had resolved
to keep Christmas.
And you will add almost of yourself,
that these are precisely the sort of peo-
pie who are sure to take the Christmas
fever, and to have it hard, and to whom
it's wreaths and tapers and carols are
full of meaning and delicious charm
and you would be quite right.
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CHAPTER Y.
THE LITTLE WOMAN AS A BUYER.

THE LITTLE WOMAN As BUYEN.
The little woman, who has slipped
ont quietly, comes in and sits down by
the window, although it is cold. She
has been trying to buy Christmas
wreath with her six cents, but there are
none to be found at cheaper rate than
shilling apiece.-LOuiSe Il. F.rniSS,
az AppietOn' 8 Journal.
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Al STORY OF AGGRAVATION.
In DIuttitudinous Chapters.
CHAPTER l.

The AMERICAN vELvET-PLANT.
My dear, said Mrs. Scroggs, "you
must get me at once an American vel.
vet-plant. [ have been reading its de-
scription. 1t is charming"
"My dear, said Mr.. Scroggs, "there
are several growing out there on the
hill. Which shall l transplant for
your"
What do you mean 2" said Mrs.
Scroggs.
"The American velvet-plant' is the
mullein.' said Mr.. Scroggs.
q" Pshaw = said Mrs. Scroggs.
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to be expended for winter clothing,
and for the Christmas rose ten dollars
might be spared for that and there
was that two dollars, you know"
After this calculation, Mamma Null
lein wrote with more spirit than ever I;
and the inventor of the dodge came out
in new character, as "The Filial
Fib." He discovered that all we'll
regulated boys spent their evenings in
unceasing efforts to attain a good writ
ing hand.
Also, that his only hope of achieving
that desirable result was, in copying
each evening, till bedtime, numerous
pages of his mothers manuscript.
Whereupon he acquired his title of
the Filial Fib, and, let us hope, the
good writing-hand.
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the David. 1t "eyes" him from that
time out, look out for javelins l beg
pardon, have shunted the story of
the track; but only to show you how
Mamma Mullen sometimes made money,
and sometimes failures.
Two and two make four. You see,
of course, that Mamma Mullen, who
was already in the habit OF conveying
ideas to market, was specially DESTROYS
of brisk holiday business, and wrote
night and day to secure not two, but
a dozen, strings to her bow. Thus :
For the Popular CroUQuiti, "Work-
ing Idyl." For the Excelsior, "a
CAROL For the Chignon, three APP
propriate articles. For the Wo' kstand,
ga Little Preach about Babies" For
the Halfaton, a Review" For the
Kaleidoscope, the prose version of
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon. "
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

- 49, -
FiI,Sr RESHYrEHIiH-Scrvices on t!N' q!
aud 4th Sabbaths OF each month; morning
and evenings Rev DR.. Lane, Pastor. Sab
bath School every Sunday morning at 3 o.
clock. i. Gilmore, Superintendent.
PrrSgYrnrIAN CHrRcn.-Alaiu street, be-
tween 7th and Sth, W. L. Hill, Pastor; Res
ilencc, Wand and Sth. Preaching every
Sunday,at l0i 4. N. Sunday School ut 9
A. NJ. lecture every Wednesday evening.
Sermon to children every second Sunday,
alternate months at 3 ?. VI. Preaching in
Pleasant Flats, the iSt and ID Sabbaths at
.2l P. ". In Bruce's Chapel, Mercer's Bot
tom, on the 4th Sabbath Mt - ?. VI. At
Pisssh Church every other month at .! p.
", and ut the Upper. Flats whenever 18th
Sunday occurs.
Protestant EriscorM CnrGciI-Hcv. I.
II. Lacy, Rector Services rs follows At
Christ Church, Point Pleasant, every Sun
day morning ut 10! o'clock, except the, ID
Sunday in each month, and every Sunday
evening. at 81 o'clock, except the Sd sun
day in each month. Sunday School at 9
O'Clock. T. Striblins, Sup't Ncstry meet
ing on the evening OF the ID Monday in ey-
cry month. Services at Bruce's Chapel on
the ID Sunday at l0l A. NJ. Mason City
on the Sd Sunday at 8! P. N. West Col
umbia the Sd Sunday at 6l P. NJ.
VI. +. CnUEclI-ScrviccS on the lst and
Sd SabbathS Of each month, in the even
ins. &C. Wilding, Pastor. Sabbath school
every Sunday morning at . O'Clock. l..
priI1J.
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The Worn, in the l1usclcs.

Although the dreaded trichinac IS
supposed to find its most fiyorca
home in the muscles of the admirers
of pork diet the impression is not
entirely corfsct. The -disagrecablc
microscopic worm may fRa lodge
ment in the human system through
the instrumentality of other meats
if they are not properly cooked.
Several cases have occurred sscent=
.ly in the Southwest, and the -halict=
ed persons aver'that they. have: not
tasted: pork. The Physicians pro-
fess to be incredulous, but the pa
tients insist that they have not eat
en- any of the dangerous flesh. Near
ly all the sufferers appear to be at
tackled in the same manner as those
who were unmistakably affected BY
the use of pork, although the sssnp-
toms are not so dangerous, and have
not as yet proved fatal in many in
stances.
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A good joke is told of a certain
Dublin professor sticklcr'for ven
tilation. Being put in room at u
hotel with another guest, he asked
the latter to raise the window at
night, as the air was sos close. q
can't raise it" said the guest, after
working very hard at the window
for while. 4Then knock pane Of
glass out" said the professor, which
was done. After while,the profess
sor got up and broke, another pane,
then he was able to sleep; but in the
morning he discovered that they had
only broken into a bookcase.
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Barbara. Fritel,is Once More.

s AsFsedetick, Nd letter. to the,
Baltimore Sun says: The letter in
to-day's Sun from the Los Angeles,
Cal, Bulletin, over the signature of
aAn ex-Confedcrate," relative to.
Barbara Fritchie's flag Haunting in
the face of rampant rebellion in this
city during the late war, has excited
no little comment here. The state
ment of a so-styled aex-Confederate,"
that Stonewall Jackson ordered his
dust-browned ranks to halt in front
of Mrs. Fritchie's house, and that
bullet from his gun was one of the
many that hit the flag she held, is a
base calumny without shadow or
resemblance to the truth.
In the first place estoncwali' Jack
son did not even pass the house on
his way to Antietam. Having par
taken of Refreshments at Judge Mar
shall's on Court street, he passed ina
'mediately down to Church street, and
up what is called Mill alley to Pat
rick street, some distance west Of the
residence Of Dame Fritchie. In the
second place, not a gun was fired,
and only as late as Yesterday an old
lady, a relative of and who lived in
the house adjoining that of Mrs.
Fritchie, Informed me that Madame
Barbara did not wave flag to, the
seonfederate soldiery and the whole
matter is a myth, having its prin-
cipal foundation in Mr.. Whittiers
imagination only. This fact is well
known here.
1t is true Mrs. FritcRie was truly
loyal, notwithstanding her ancestral
toryism, and although in a decrepit
state would frequently hobblc to the;
door and endcavor to drive away
those collected there for the purpose
of resting by assailing them with
language more pungcnt than parlia-
mentarS.
1t seems however, that short dis
tance above the residence Of Mrs.
Fritchie, one Mrs. Quantrill, sister
of the late Hon, George Sands, did
wave flag in the presence of the
enemy, and had it stricken from her
hand by a Confederate officer, who
was afterwards either rcprimanded
or his action severely disapproved of
by his superior officers. The above
is a plain, unvarnished statement Of
facts, and although it may detract
somewhatfrom Mr.. Whittier's beau
tiful poem it is nevertheless true,
and abundant evidence can be had
to suhstantiate the same.
II
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- -.Ir ~ :. = ~ t
Would YOU keep your rosy coll,-
.plexion wear thick soled shoes, ~
Would you enjoy quiet content do
away.Fith airs and pretepees. {.
Would You have others respect
your opinions, hold and never dis
own them yourself. 4. a..
Would you have good health, 50
out in the sunshine Sickness IS
worse than freckles.
Would yourespect yourself, keep
your heart and body clean. ss
Would YOU 5etain the lave Of, q
friend, do not Be sei6shly esacting:
lvonld you gain The confidence Of
business lnen, do not try TO- support
,ths style fsor epiplayrr
wouldsyou never be told Z hs' 70
not ask personal questions. 8
Would you sleep ~ellaad have a
good.appetite;; .attcird to your own
business.
Would yel have the respect of
men, never permit yourself to in
dulge in vulgar conversation.
Workiag Hymg;
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COtNTY DIRECTORY.

Judge Circuit Codrt.Hos. Jos. SMITH
Residence Ravenswood, Jackson County.
Clerk Circuit ,Court-C. B. WAGGESER.
Clerk County Court--E. kMDERIISG.
President County Court-B. ]. REDMOND
Prosecuting Attorhes-D. ". PoLsLEY.
= Sherif'-CoLrMBcs SEuoSi
Jailor-J. JEwETT.
Surveyor ei Lands-GEo. W. PcLLrS.
Assessor Dist. No. l-JAcoB RorSii.
deputy Assessor-D. s. YASMATaE.
Assessor Dist. No. 2--,JouS {. BUCKLEY,
Sup't Public Schools-D. T. GUTHRIE.