Connecticut western news., 1889-04-24

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 Sanchos lay stretched dead on the hearth. The fires were out; it had grown very cold.
 ssThere's one comfort" said Aunt Alantha, although her teeth chattered so that she could hardly drink the >catnip tea that faithful Francois Lad brewed in tin canister. "The rascals didn't get anything for their pains!"
 "How do you know2" said I.
 sI know g variety of things" said Aunt Alantha, curtly. @
 We gave the alarm as soon as possi- ble, but in those wildsrnesses it was about as practicable to track band of ruffians as to follow the flight of the wild geese who flew shrieking over our heads toward the South. All ef- forts were vain to trace their wherea- bouts.
 "Aunt Alantha," said I, "you must go back to Albany with me. It is not safe for you to live so."
 Katherine" said Aunt Alantha, sI shall never leave this house alive. It is my home, and here I mean to stay" She spoke the truth. The chill and the shock, added to the in6rmities of age, brought on an attack of pneu- monia, which carried her off in three days.
 Papa and mamma hastened to attend the funeral. A lawyer from Troy came peeping and prying around with steady insistence which reminded me somewhat of the burglars. -....
 "There is will, said he, ''leaving everything to her niece Emily, the wife of Cicero Kyle"
 ''Then our fortune is made!' cried mamma.
 "But, apparently, there is nothing to leave but this house, two hundred acres of mountain land, and these few sticks of furniture"
 "Then," sighed papa, five are as poor as ever. She must have spent all her money in speculations. What do you say, children? There are some fine views hereabouts. Shall we come here and live2'
 "No, no, no!' we all cried in chorus.
 "Very we'll, said papa. "Mamma is the heiress. What does she decide?"
 gro sell everything at auction," said mamma, ''for what it will bring; and to leave this gloomy place."
 But it was not until we had com pleted all the business forms, and were climbing into the wagon that was to take us to the Lake Champlain boat, that Marian uttered cry of surprise.
 "What is that hideous thing they are putting into the back of the wagona" said she.
 "The case of stuffed birds, as live!" said Letitia. 'sIt must be mistake"
 'I bid it in myself, at the auction, !" confessed I, hanging down my head. 'It was only three dollars. And Aunt Alantha said she meant mamma to have it.'
 '.Mercy!" cried mamma, 'I wouldn't give houseroom to such an atrocity."
 "But mayn't I keep it myself9" l pleaded. ''Aunt Alantha thought so much of it."
 ''Let the child have her way," said papa.
 So that Aunt Alantha's case of stuffed birds was finally set up in my room at home, where it was unspeakably hideous, and nearly gave me the nightmare, until I got quite used to it.
 In the spring, when we cleaned house, the maid thrust her broom handle through one of the panes of glass; and knocked mangy-looking yellowh ham mer off its perch. I picked it up.
 "Poor thing!" said I, "It's coming all to pieces"
 "I guess, miss," said Bridget, "the moths have got at lem, worse luck"
 "How heavy it isl" cried I. s'Gra- cious me, Bridget"
 "Arrah, miss,i full of money it isr shrieked Bridget. s'It's stuffed vic bank bills, wid golden coin in thu midsht of it..
 So it was. Every bird from the wet chippee up to the solemn and puffy blue plumed woodpecker, were so many impromptu bags of gold and notes.
 In Aunt Alantha's sly craft, she hao disposed of her money where no earthl, person could expect to find it, and w had received our inheritance at last. "And it is all little Kate's doing,'' J said papa. elf she hadn't bought il the case of stuffed birds at three dollar wasn't that the sum, daughter?- where should we all have been?" - } Of course the thing got into the news papers, as such things always do headed "strange Eccentricity of singl Lady" And, unused I, if those burglar , should have chanced to read it-burglar do read the papers sometimes, I suppos II wonder what they thought?-Satu' ) day Night.
 Severe Self-Judgment. A Pontiac little boy was told at Sun dau school th at when ha died ha wo,,l,