| Show WHAT AT LITTLE LITT LE FOXES din DIP iwas on a visit to my grandfather one of the pioneer farmers of central new york and we had started out for a ride the first house that we passed ris was waa in n so many respects like my grandfathers that it drew my attention your good neighbor seems to have had some ideas lik ilk youn soun 11 I 1 said the inam that built bulit this house had no neighbor of mine now poor man and my grandfather grand father dather drewa drew a long breath these foxes these little foxes allate nobody fears them nobody minds them yet they ruin nuin everything the beasts of prey are not half BO so dangerous er on Li the little foxes he repeated with i th emphasis and his tone was bitter what little foxes grandfather ans any little foxes all little foxes little hins little weaknesses little slanders standers little debts J X haqq them all ail tb they e y do such mischief ehi eki they are so treacherous aud and ruf ruinous f ched they are so little ar yes jand and because they are so little littlee litt lel iel 11 my grandfather paused i I 1 waited in silence and dud he went on ill 1 I n ever rode by that house without yit vit pain and indignation you see bee what a nine rine place it is a good house a hundred acres of rich land and yet it wen westfor went wend for a silk gown that was the little foie fole 11 asiak anslik gowns gown kown aps it went for a silk gown and there thero went with it what wa weft worth greally more than all of it a whole eliol e fam ilys happiness and hope I 1 abhat what is the story grandfather pia uli tell you when I 1 first came to this part bart of the country a young cou couple coupie pie of the name of brown were settled here in a log house they were hard work ing seif self denying people and everything with them for years they pay for their farm and kept adding to td it till ill as I 1 told you they had a hundred and fiat nifty fifty y acres then when I 1 had built me a new house neighbor biown brown had to build him one something illee lik ilk e mino mine mino mine as you see for he iid ild did lid pot got like to be behind I 1 sent my eldest children to an hn agad adad academy eniy envy in the tho next town where they could have better opportunities for learning than were here after a time neighbor brown drown thought it would be a good oda odd thing to educate his children and sent went his oldest daughter to tb the same academy ac 1 itwara a new expense to him but lie he met ine lne t it heen heer heedfully fully and for a time all went well the ya young soung ung woman made him stare ith ath with philosophy her the fond father was more morle than repaid for all mis his sacrifices on her rae rac count account entas but nut as she increased ed in know knowledge so go did she in knowledge ledie ledye dress and find noth nothing ng would do her tut an expensive silk slik gown her hek nid nig mother put herom herow her ofle 4 decant becan We cant anford afford it susan busan laih why not mo mother ther because we have no money to pay pas P 1 ay for aitor it 11 but father oather can pay urit for it in things ou 0 o fk the th a farm farma i nothing can le e spared now v naw law years grain iball dud kud so is everything else eise froni front last year sear 1 albut father might sell kell something it it a ww eo if nothing eise else lit 11 LI 11 1 1 no he needs hii ilithe all ill tho the stock ho he haq has I 1 11 e v theather the Th father entered susan busan ge Iwan lavant fc awk ft bilk slik dress father diary mary y tiles stiles has basone one 11 4 1 now how will she 0 get it interposed the prudent mother lii ill buy it for her mut but how will you pay fot for it trust me the wife said no more and susan had llad the handsomest silk to be found in the next vIl vii village lige and brown had a store bill time in ili lit his life ilfe rethought he thought L nothing of jt it as many others had the same and the merchant encouraged it 14 it comes a g greab great reat deal easier lo 10 say charge it than to hand over the hard earned cash they know this and take tako advantage o of it and so a man who have spent ten dollars at the store if he iad lad had been obliged fo to pay down aown 11 has a store bill of perhaps tim es that amount 1 to pay at the end of the year And Ad suppose it cant be met the mei mel merchant chant puts it into the shape of a note 0 te payable with interest and a fresh account too bad so it is but susan busan brown had her hei and brown had his store bill and andi once onee begun it grew tod too large and anil how hony many debts are aue not se to the command F Is so wise owe no man anything j most debts ought never to have been no one should have an andul i IJ gence that cannot be paid for at once next ext year sear browns store bill became a note with interest but it did not trouble troubie him next year another note was give given n a fl larger one ene I 1 including interest Ili lyl terest and an unpaid bala baia balance balanca nce nee of another store bill heavier interest was not asked for money was scarce brown kept failing for several years once sliding downward it is hard to recover ones self at length eisaw the surveyors at work on that part of his farm lying next nest tomine to mine he was with them going to sell beli I 1 asked him im going goin a to give lyme a mortgage ly 1 M 0 I 1 11 1 all ail ali ah hows that nat ches one e hes got gob some of my notes nad wants J pitied him kim and pith with with good food iea lea reason son he was never the same man again an incubus i lay upon him destro destroying yin his courage his very life if he could couff not pay his hia store bill how could he lift a mortgage his farm must go no helip forit for it the grasping usurer had done his work and made his own the handsome fanin farm which another man had earned by the sweat and toil of many an hour by bunning cunning small advantages fastened to a little debt how indignant I 1 felt how sorrowful too tog when my good neighbor neigh meigh bor put his furniture into wagons put his ax plow and hoe and took toz his way to an humble homo home far from us to begin lifes toil anew youth all ail gone hope almost dead courage almost failed muscles and heart weakened and all ali this wrong and ruin grew from a little thing a school oris gown do you wonder I 1 hato hate the little foxes look out for thein them child watch for them dont let them spoil vines while you ou arb are safe from them thein no one 1 is safe 1 we rode euln silence and I 1 m mused used and trembled so things life is made up with them shall shail ruin which shall bless god of wisdom direct nie me I 1 prayed boston recorder A NOVEL et MODE imode OF or DEFENSE NS N S I 1 A correspondent of ther field r says one fine summer r dv evening devening ening while sailing up the estuary of the he tay TY I 1 observed serva two large lige birds on orl the water which at a distance appeared to ba be wild geesee followed small objects more like water rats than anything else one odthe of the old birds dived whiz which dispelled the idea that they were geese for mhd they y dont usually go under water on its re appearance its mate with the little rat creatures hurried up to it and received what it had llad fished the bottom on nearing hearick these birds boeing eing anai ous to bring them under closer bloser observe tion tiong feider I 1 discover discovered ed they were a pair fair 0 of felder ducks dueks wi with th their little brood tho the male bird had lost its beautt beautiful ful winter clurn plumage i aga and the tho h duek duck looked equally tawdry both devoted demoted parents ll 11 having v disposed of part of the their r dresses to I 1 make mako provision ion lon for their offspring tho the old olt birds as tho hoat boat approached them grew restless and frightened frighten edi utter uttering im lot loi low croaks of alarm and swim min ming around and around the young brood as asinto if ta elle eile irole them from dan ger the young evidently understood the barnin warning C notes of the mother and appeared t to look more to her for pro tee lection tec tion than to the mate male and baid their instincts were true as ag instinct always is not so reason for the drake craven as he lie was took ta tonight llight leaving the helpless mother and her he r young to their fate with curious but scarcely justifiable interest I 1 followed them up the duck no longer swam around her little ones but went in a straight line from the boat bot and by some natural power submerged her body until only the line of her back and her neck were above the tho water she still repeated her cries erles of alarm and the little ones at last seemed to runn the surface sur fice fico of the water until they got to the mother back and each taking hold hoid there the duck instants instantly y dived 1 carrying the brood with her after a few seconds one after another of the little ones came up and last of all tho the mother at some distance dIs talice she slig called to her toddled towards her and I 1 left them admiring the stroll strong air affection action and solicitude solicit udo manifested fc stu by this thia noble bird for at its young such as might shame many bein beings n s of a m much uch higher order THE tim springfield wass drass mass rass A union says that in all its more beastly arid rid lid disgusting forms of licentious licentiousness ness nees and aud nd profligacy is on the rapid increase in all ali allour our new Eu england augland gland giand cities and towns and nobody ean can ean can blink it out of sight without doing violence to his k know knowledg now leda and sincerity THE IRON HORSE timothy snodgrass has been scooting I 1 in around 0 u lid iid at the tho west and as some of his is experiences are aro rather amusing wo we copy an extract as follows when we got to the depot dept I 1 went around to get a look at theiron horse hoise hoi se Thunder atlon it no more like a hoss boss than a house if I 1 wt was lis dis goina oin oln to deac describe ribe the ani mule id say A it looked like well it looked like darned if I 1 know what it looked like unless it was a regular he devil snort in smoke all around and pantin and hevin hovin and sw swelling ellin and chabin tip up red hot coal coals s like they was good A feller fetter stood in a house like feadin him aletho time but the more ho he got the more he wanted and the more he snorted after a spell the feller batched him him bim by the tail and great jericho he set up a yeli yeii that split t the he ground for morein ii noren noron a milland mile mlle and ahall a bain half and the next nest minute afelt my legs a baggin C and found myself at vother eother end of a string 0 vehicles I 1 but I 1 had three chills and a stroke 0 of f patsy pasy in less lesy than five minutes and my face had a curious brownish yeller seller groen green bluish color in it which was vas perfectly unaccountable un fable table well wells says P I 1 corm comm com corn merit is super superfluous and andi andl I 1 took a seat in the nearest wagin or car as they call it a cons con arned long steam steamboat boar looking thing with a string of pews down each side bif bip big enough to hold about a man and ahelf a half justas just as I 1 sat down the horse hollered twice and started off like a streak pitch in me h ead cad first at the stomach of a bix big irish woman woman and she gaye gave a tremendous grunt and then matched me b by the head and crammed me under the seat th the cars ears was andt and earin along at tit nigh on to lorty thousand miles an hour and everybody was a bobbin up tip arnd arid down like a milisaw mill saw and every wretch om olm had his mouth wide open and looked like they was laffin but I 1 hear bothin the cars kept up such a racket they stopped all acome at once onee and then such another lafr laff busted out 0 them passengers as asi I 1 never hern be before fore laffan at me too what made me mad naad and I 1 was mad as thunder too tog I 1 ris ria up aua and my fist at em says I 1 ladles ladies ies les and gentlemen look a here im a peaceable stranger 1 and away went theiarn the darn train like tiro the smallpox small pox was in town jerk jerkin lill iril me down in the seat with a whack like ill vil been thrown from the tho moon and their cussed mouths flop hopped Tied open and the feller fellers went to lobbin tobbin bijil up and down ag again 11 I 1 pu put toil toll on anair an air of magnanimous co contempt n atempa like and took no more notice of em and ani vorst very naturally went to bobbin epand up and down myself 11 sixt vears years ago says the troy N Y speaking king of the tile great western wes terii lakes jakes there thera was se ardely scarcely a craft on these waters larger than an indian canoe cance how the tonnage of side wheel steamers alche is tons in isi the gross grogg amount of the tho lake litke independent boythe oythe of the property constantly changing hands cost of oc vessels and aud profit passenger trade amounted to in 1851 it had increased to and adin in 1861 to 5 at tho the t rate of increase the elie lake commerce in 1871 swill amount to tho the enormous suin sum of Sl I 1 in tu 1839 the northwestern lags lakes were heie here n navigated kviz avig mated gated by agoo vessels whose aggregate burt burthen hien fien was waa tons they tily were weno manned by over 1 Is seamen navigating over miles of lake and river coast and transporting in m aver over of exports and in imports to sto STUMPS mr J X barns of baltimore removed it troublesome stump from near his in the following manner last fall with giunch auger he bored a hole in the center of the stump ten inches deep and into it put plit about half a pound ot of oil 0 vitriol iud lud ind and corked the hole bole up tit tight this bri spring rig the whole stump and roots extending through their ramifications were so rotten that they were easily eradicated lador LABOR laborsaving SAVING ap hardworking hard working farmer who attended the late fairah fair at br brattleboro Bratt leboro wrote as follows to a local paper A careful examination of all the laborsaving labor saving agricultural ri cultural al machines establishes the fact that the days of hard life destroying i labor on the farm are about being numbered nuin and that in rural life there are arc to bo greater opportunities 6 for 0 r leisure for intellectual improvement and practical progress 0 I 1 pvn lck y thene THERE is a workingmen working mens 8 clubhouse club 1 house in glasgow where for twelve cents and a haifa month months a 4 man can have a quiet 1 place plaice to smoke his pipe read all the tile principal papers and magazines or while away an evening with innocent games |
