The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • 5

ONE Bi ONE. guron BASE BALL AN EDITORS EXPERT- ENCE. The doctor said we needed exercise. Doctor knows, ne told ua to join a baae ball club we joined. Bought a book of instructions, and for five days studied it wisely, if not too well.

Then we bought a sugar-scoop cap, a red belt, a green shirt, yellow trousers, etanding twenty rods from the field, a quiet looker-on. I have used up fifteen bottles of arnica ointment, five bottles of lotions, i and half raw beef, and am so full of pain that it seems as if my limbs were broken bats, and my legs the limbs of dead horse -chestnut np for buried alive nnder some snow mound. They would find her when the spring should come and melt the snow ofll Wh en the exhausted Burton came in with his bundle of buffalo skins, they looked at him with amazement. Bat when he opened it, and eet out the little Kitty, and said, "Here, Jones, is this your kitten?" Mrs. Jones could think of nothing better to do than scream.

And Jones got up and took his old partner by the hand, and said, "Burton, olJ fellow!" and he choked up and sat down again, and cried hopelessly. And Burton said: "Jones, old rnaD, you may have that forty-acre patch. It cinie near making me the murderer of little Kitty's father." No, yon shall take it yourself," cried Jones, "if I have to go to law to make you." And Jonea actually deeded his interest in the forty acres to Burton, That is why this part of Newton is called to-day "Kitty's Forty." Jones, poor fellow, chopped oa until the storm came npan him, half smothered by snow and half frozen by cold, in the house. "When there was nothing left bnt retreat he had seized an armful of wood and carried it into the house with him to make sure that he had enough to keep Lis wife and Kitty from freezing in the soon coming awfulness of the night, which now settled downnpon the storm-beaten and snow-blinded world. It was in the beginning of that terrible slorm in which so many people were frozen to death, and hehad flednone too soon.

When once the wood was Btacked by the stove, Jones locked around for Kitty. He had not more than inquired for her when her father and mother both t-ead in the face of the other that she was lost in the wild dashing storm of snow. So fast did the snow fall, and bo dark was the night, that Jones could not see three feet ahead of him. He endeavored to find the path which he thonght Kitty might have taken, but it was buried in snow drifts, and he soon lost himself. He stumbled through the drifts, calling out to Kitty in distress, not knowing whither he went.

After an hour of despairing wandering and shonting, he came to a house and having rapped at the door lie found himself face to face with his wife. He had returned to his own house in bewilderment. When we remember that Jones had not slept for two nights preceding this one on account of his mortal quarrel with Baton, and he had now been beat-irg against an arctic hurricane and tramping through treacherous billows of mow for an hour, we cannot wonder that he fell over his own threshold in a state of extreme exhaustion. Happy for him that he did not fall bewildered on the prairie, as many a poor wayfarer did on that fatal night. As it w.isj his wife must needs give up the vain little searches she had been been making in the neighborhood of the shanty.

Ttiero was now a sick husband with frozen hands and feet and face to care for. Every minuto tho thermometer fell lorer, and nil the heat that tho little cook stove in Jones' shanty could give would hardly keep them from freezing. Burton had stayed on the forty-acre lot all day, waiting for a chance to shoot his old partner Jones. He had not hear of the arrival of Jones wife, and so be concluded that -bis enemy had proven a coward and left him in possession, or else that he meant to play upon him some treacherous trick ou his way Lome. Ho he resolved to keep a sharp lookout.

But he soon found that this was impossible. Tho storm was upon him in all its blinding fury, and he tried to follow the path, but he could rot find it. Had he been les of a frontiersmau he must have perished there, within a furlong of his own house. But endeuv- DEATH OP A CENTENARIAN EC-MAN CS OP UIS LIFE. Judge Bazil Harrison, the piercer settler cf Kalamazoo county, Michigan, died at his residence at Trairie Ronde, near Kalamazoo, oa the 30th nit, aged 101 years and months.

Aside from the noteworthy fact of his great age, his life has Wen prominent from its usefulness, and his name made notorious in Cooper's novel, the Oak Opiiirg," in which he figured under the guise of the "Bee Hunter." Judge Harrison was born in Frederick county, Maryland, about thirty miles from Baltimore, ou the loth of March, 1771. A few years after his birth his family moved to Virginia, and after a residence there of five vears moved to Tennsvl-vania, settling near Lancaster, liazil's life until he was 19 years old was passed in the dull work which always falls to the lot of settlers in a new country. At this age the romance of hi life began. He Ml in love. The object of his affection was Martha Still-well, the daughter cf a neighboring farmer.

Bazil, whose love gave him cou-Gdtnce, asked consent of Martha's parents to their marriage. Her father liked his frank and kindly ways and favored the match, but Dame had high aspirations for her daughter. Grieved were the lovers at this decision, but by no means obedient to the behest of the.f tern niotlx r. In clandestine interviews they renewed their pledges of affection, and encouraged by Martha's father, planned an elopement The was set, but tin suspicious mother kept a close watch on daughtf r. The simple trousseau wa mostly made by stealth, in Mirtha's own room at night, she receiving a little assistance from a sister also in the secret but she happened to be entirely out of shoes, for it was in March, and the young ladies then were not ashamed to be seen in their bare feet while in tho house, aud very crude brogans whtn the weather madj covering for th feet necessary.

But the ctiquetk of Greencastle, in 17LH, did not permit a bride to appear shoeless and slipperless at her wedding. Ready-made shoe were uu known in the town, and the needed article must be made to measure. Several plans failed, and her father was compelled to move cautkmt-ly, in view of tho fact that Dame Stillwell was somewhat suspicions. The matter was delayed for a favorable opportunity, uutil the day before tho wedding, when, further procrastination being out of the question, the father invented a rust to accomplish tho object. In the forenoon of tho last day of grae, he came into the weaving-room where mother and daughters were at woik at the loom, and shortly Wgan to joke Martha on tho sizo of Lor feet.

Picking up a shingle (carefully p'aced within reach beforehand for the purpose) he drew a diagram of measurement of her pedal extremities, the dimensions of which he laughed immoderately about with his wife, to the apparent great discomfiture of his daughter, and then cartlesslj threw the shingle out of the window. Fifteen minutes after, that shingle measure was in Shoemaker Wilkins' shop, and that woithy cobbler worked pumpkin-colored shoes, a paper collar and purple necktie, and with a lot of oth-delegates moved gently to the ground. There were two nines. These nines were antagonists. The ball is a pretty little drop of softness, size of a goose fgg, and five degrees harder than a rock.

The two nines play against each other. It is a quiet game, much like chess, only a little more chaso than chess. There was an umpire. His position ia a hard one. He sits on a box and yells "foul." His duty is severe.

I took the bat. It is a vmurderous phything descended from Pocahontas to the head of John Smith. The man in front of me was a pitcher. He was a nice pitcher, but he ent the balls hot The man behind me was a catcher. He caught it, too.

Umpire said "play." It is the most radical play I know of, this base balL So the pitcher sent a ball toward me. It looked pretty coming, so I let it come. Then he sent another. 1 hit it with the club, and hove it gently up ward. Then I started to walk to the next base.

The ball hit in the pitcher's hands, and somebody said he had caught a fly. Alas, poor fly I walked leisurely toward the base. Another man took the bat. I turned to see how he was making it, when a mule kicked mo on the cheek. The man said it was the ball.

It felt like a mule, and I reposed on the grass. The ball went on 1 Pretty soon there were two more flies, and three of us flew out. Then the other nine came ia and our nine went out. This was better. Just as I was standing on my dignity in the left field a hot as they call it, came sky-rootching toward me.

My captain yelled, "Take it!" I hastened gently forward to where the ball was aiming to descend. I have a good eye to measure distance, and I saw at a glance where the little aerolite was to light. I put np my hands. How sweetly the ball descended Everybody looked I felt something warm in my eye. Muffin yelled ninety fellows.

"Muflin, be Wowed! It's a cannon ball For three days I've had two pounds of raw beef on that eye, and yet it paineth. Then I wanted to go home, but my gentle captain said "nay." So I nayed and stayed. Tretty soon it was my strike. To bat yelled the umpire. I went, but not at all serene, as was my wont.

The pitcher sent in one hip high. It struck mo in the gullet Foul yelled the umpire. He sent in the ball again. This time I took it square, and sent it down the right field, through a parlor- window, a kerosene lamp, and rip up against the head of an infant, who was taking his or its nap in its mother's arms. Then I slung the bat and meandered forth to the first base.

I heard high words, cud loked. When I slung the bat, I had with it broken the jaw of the umpire, and was fined ten cents. The game went on. I liked it. It is so much fun to inn from base to base just in time to be pn' out, or to chase a ball three-quarters of a mile down hill, while all the spectators yell Muflin Go it Home run Go round a dozen times Base-ball is a sweet little game.

When it came my turn bat again, I noticed everybody moved back about ten rods The new umpire retreated twelve rods. He was timid. The 'pitcher sent 'em in hot. Hot balls in time of war are good. I TIT FOR TAT.

Tioby, whilom Register of Probate for Duncan county, was one day riding through the newly-settled towr tf Carroll, and upon the outskirts he saw a log cabin, with a brick oven built upon the outside, and in said oven was a snapping fire, the good hor.fewife be ing evidently on the eve of baking. Tom was an inveterate joker, and the opportunity was too good to be lost so he pulled up, and called at the top bis voice "Hallo Hallo House, there Oat came the farmer and hi3 wife, aDl 'our or five children, to see what was wanted. My good people," said Tom, seriously, "your oven is on fire." Around to the end of tho cabin flew the frightened family, while Tom rode on leaving them to discover the pith of the joke. A few years thereafter, when Tom Koby had given up his Register's berth (given it up to the opposite political party), and was following the practice ad occasion to pass again tkrcmgk the town of Carroll. The place grown and changed and the small wLite cottage, with well-kept garden in bout, he did not recognize as occupying the P01 where once he had seen only a Pr log cabin, with oveu outside.

But there were those who could remembe, if he could not. He was driving slowly alorg through the mud there had been a long storm of rain when a tow-headed lad of some thirteen summers camo rushing out from a shed attached to the cottage, excitedly exclaiming "Hallo! hallo! sir! your wheel is loose!" Tom pulled up instantly, and jumped out into the mud, and examined the linch-pin of the near wheel. It8 the other wheel, sir." Around Tom wallowed to the other side, and made a critical examination there. "I don't see anything out of the way here, boy," he said. "Sartin.

sir, I thought 'twas loose. I saw it (urn around." You young rascal, how dare yon? What do you mean And Tom started for his whip, j. "I mean," 'answered the urchin, placing his thumb to his nose, "(hat the or n's on Jlrc Tom remembered now very well, and giving the lad a silver half-dollar, he said they'd call it square. He had muddied boots dreadfully, but he laughed heartily at the return joke nevertheless. Luv iz a pashun that iz eazicr felt than deskri btd.

It iz common to the yung, middle-aged, and even old fellows hav thought they had the disseaze. It generally makes viktims feel phoolish, and akt phoolish, too. Sumtimes it brakes out sudden, without enny warning, and then agin, it cums on slo, like the rumatiss. I have known sum pashnnts to be in luv six months and not kno exackly what did ail them, and then I hav known other cases whare the parlys thought they was in luv, and nothing was the matter ov them all the time, only they out of a job. Sumthing to do nllwus kures theze kind ov attacks.

When a person really iz in iuv they aint fit for anything else. It unfits a farmer and blacksmith for Genuine luv never fastens its fangs onto a fello being but once; he often gits nipped by it before and afterward, but the fust skar sticks to him for life. Sura people fall in luv every 1)0 days, just for tho phun ov the thing. Real luv wont divide its posseshun ov the heart with enny other ov the pashuns it drives out ambition and takes the stiffning out. ov prlda and 'vanity; A man iz never more pure than when he iz sensibly in luv.

Luv iz a grate hnmanizer it makes the inde az gentle az a duv, and polishes up the rustik like a three months' tuition at a dancing skool. It iz hard work to be in luv and not akt phoolish but luv iz the only thing I kno that makes pholly excusable. We allwus lafT at the yung, when they are in luv, and pitty the old ones. Au old man desperately in luv iz az helpless az a lost child. He wanders abcut heedless, not knoing whare he iz, nor whare lie iz going to.

What sense he ev hav haz li ft him, and he wont take nobedy's advice. We could spare allmost enny other pashun ov the heart better than we could luv, altho it haz made az mutch trubble in this world az enny ov the i rest. JoaJi JC tiling t. MIST MMm t01M)K. Two littl ill arc lrtir tho ou To littrp ran ib! fun Ti Mrd cw bullJ tut uvt.

Two lilt irnn ra mother WmX. Ttii lit t'r nmt go to iu Two little Xrt hi my Utile men, Two liltl-rj- ojwn mnj rKe, Two rt on littl tu r. Two htt l.J anj rrt. Two little ho ou two l.ltl fil Two little l'i a ud or. little cliiii.

Two brW with alinl lu Two httle ehouMrnt, rhubb and atrour. Two Ititie 1-k all day tone. Two little i'rvrri doM datlitiK Twice d.a he kreel by my aide e-li day-Two ISttle foldfd bauds, aoft aud li-ou, To lit lie errlids caet meekly down Aud two litile arf-' fnard littn la lrd, Oxir at th and ou at th head." St. Sif -Ais'iMbe Si-j ttmltr. VARIETIES.

SrmrrD hose ia not in style for firtv enginca. A max in New Orlesns warned his wife not to light the fire with kerosene. Her clothes fit his recoiul wife remark ably well. KxAri once described tho terrible beat of hell by saying that it as so hot that if a man were taken out of it and plunged into the hottest firo of an earthly furnace he would freeze to death from the transition. Tu'kins aroused his wite from a sound sleep the other night, saying ho had seen a ghost iu shape of an let me sleep," was the reply of tho irite dame, "and don't bo frightened at your own shadow." Will you take some strawberries?" akcd a Judy of her guce-t Yes, madam, I cat raw berries with enthusiasm." "Do tell 1 Well, wo haven't anything but cream fcnd Migar for 'em this evening," the matter-of-fact hostt ss.

Yoc musicians ought to be happy fellows," said 11. tho other day to a bandmwster. Why said th leader. Because you need never want for money when your funds run short, you have only to put your instrument to your Hps, and raise tho wind." A uovASTitr York, Rh, girl thought to Maud Mutlerizo aud rako the meadows sweet with hay." Hh stood oTer a yellow jacket's nest as he hwnng her little rake. First jump from the score, eleven feet Distance to the house, hall a mile.

Time, two minutes. A c.UAVFMuuen, walking in the streets of a couutry town tho other day, chanced to turn nnd noticed two doctors walking beside him. He stopped till they passed, and then followed on behind them. And why is this?" said they. I know my place in this procession, raid he.

On, the skeeter.thc beautiful rkector, filling tho air with melodious meter; linker our huts and tickling our nose, taking a bite through the hole in our clothes in through the window and opening the door filling our chamber and seeking the sweeter, ever is found the untiling musket ter. Tnis is the way it generally is Mrs. Joueswill reinaik to her undutiful litllo son Why ain't you like Willy Brown Mia. Brown will reinaik to her hop Till "Why aiu't ou like Jimmy Jones The boys have lots of fun laughing about it, especially hen they are stealing watermelons to-, gether. a yovno law.

Mis Mollio Clark, a.rd 17, whose parents reside two and a half miles west of Craig, has hal, within the piiKt few years, a number of very remarkable somnambulic sleeping spells, which have attracted considerable attention. The three latest spellt tint shi hs hid lasted respectively thirty-six hour, 101 hours and fifteen miuutfs, ond thirty-six hours. She neither eas nor drinks during her prolonged sleeping si IN, and talks of celestial things, such as the angels, heaven, departel rienK te. She frequently deplores, in he sleep, the necessity of icniaiuing in this woil I vl trouble. Her descriptions of thrt scenes in the heavenly world aro at times rapturously captivating.

Miss Clark has a presentiment beforehand when a spell" is coming on. When she comes to, she has not tho leai knowledge of what fdie has been talking about in her trance sleep, and she feels a degree of bashfulnesi for being tho object of so much attention by tho people. During he trance sleep she- has lx-rn visited by all the doctors within a radius of twenty miles of Craig, but none of them have been able to account for or assign a cause for her remarkable condition. After she wakes up she feels a slight stupor, which wears away as she goes about her work. She soys the next sleep she will have will bo the longest of them all, from which she will not awake in this life.

Miss Clark is now stopping in the family of Mr. Duncan Parrish, at Craig, Mo. Holt Count) (3o.) Sentinel. INTEMPERANCE. One great ccuse cf intemperance among the American jfople is over work.

In the heavy stiugglc for existence which goes on all around each man is talked more and more ail day long. His xhansted nature seeks stimulants not merely to supply exhaustion or drive away care often simply io drive away dullness. Another cause is found in the abnndtnee of money in some people's hands. Without legiti mate resources for recreation, men fall back upon sensual gratification. The remedy for this is in mental cultivation.

How to ttay the dtzianda cf overwork and competition, cr to t-bate the strag gle for existence, no one can snggett Nor can any one, we fancy, devise any public measure for rtlk-f. Bnt ech individual may gauges hi own strenrr'b, and refuse to it hy auy do- la-ive and fictitious stimulant SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 187. THE FORSAKEN. written by "fllfU" Mrs.

rtejla i3B1 iwL-), at the ae of fourteen, faid wm tuot btact fill ff the kind evcrwrit-W lae read it," he remarked, "more than toSy increasing adniira- Aad the strictlh cf tUU opinion we rs- plnlitj II hath been fr n0 die Thera tear gome jining, bidding heart to iJb'U Oer eeery bi r. B'il la tnat Lour cf rain aud dn 1 Around my bumble couch and shed On farewell tear WSo'd watch life' fat driartlu( ray In deep And loothe my int ou lt way With holy rrj-er? Wbat mourner round my bier will come, In weeds wee, And follow to my long home, Solemn ud slow When liog oo my cUyny beu, In ult-ep. Who Ui re, by pure an -ctlou bd, Will come and weep By toe n.n the ri-e Tpon my breast, And bid it rheer luy dark reps My Iowiy reatT 0nU I but know, when I am Ixw lu tin- ground, Oue fall Uf ill heart "would there be kr yiug Watch all round, A if aooie gem lay rliriucd beneath. That iMKl'a rold KlMiii, Twuuld the of dt illi Aud liht the tomb. Yen! iu that hour, If I cmild feel I rora hall of glee Aud Ix-auty's i.resenoe would ati al In htpj), And come and alt aod wwp by me Id uifc'bt'a nix hi.

Oh! I would ak of lutmory No other boon. But ah a lonelier fate la mine, A deeper woe fnira all I love In ynuth'i aweei time I aoon uxn go lrau round me my pale rubt-tfef white, In a dark ot To alf ep through aSh'a lotip, dreamlike n' Lou and forgot. AV771 loirrr. V.1 KbWAKII EOtll.EHTOX. It doesn't do men any good to liv apart from women ami children.

ci-vei knew a hoys' school in which there was not a tendency to rowdyism. An lumbermen, fiskrrmeu, sailors, and al other men that live only with men, ere proverbially a hidf-bear sort of pcojjl rentiers nun soiien down when wotue and children come but I forgot myself, it ia the story yon want. Burton and Jones lived in a shanty by themselves. Jones was a married man, but finding it hard to wife iu a down East village, he emigra ted to North Minnesota, leaving 1 wife nnder her father's roof, until should be able to make a start." II and Burton hnd gone into partnership and pre-empted a town-site of three hundred and twenty acres. There were, perhaps, twenty famil scattered sparsely over this town-sito at the time my story begins and ends, fo it ends the same week it begins.

The partners had disagreed, quarrel ed and divided their interest. The land was all shared between them ex cept one valuable forty-acre piece. Eae of theni claimed tLis piece of land, an 1 1 1 1 a me quarrti nau gone so High between them that the neighbors cxpeetet Al. -1. -w nieui io tuootat sigm.

jn iac it was understood that Hurton was on th forty-acre piece determined to shoo Jones if lie came, aud Jones had sworn lo go out therj and shoot I.urton, when the right was postponed by the nnex peeted arrival of Jones' wife and dren. Jones shanty was not finished, ai Lo had to forego the luxury of iightiug Ins old partner in his exertions to make Lis uife and baby comfortable for the mght. For the winter-sun was sur rounded by aua-dogs." Instead of one sun there were four, an occurrence not uncommon in this latitude, but one which always boded a terrible storm. In his endeavors to care for his wife and child, Jones was mollified a littl and half regretted that he had been so violent about the piece of land, bnt he was determined not to backdown, and he would certainly have to shoot Bar ton or be shot himself. When ho thought cf te chances of being killed by his old partner, the prospect is not pleasant.

He looked wistfully at Kitty, 'his two-years'-old emu, and dreaded that she should be left fatherless. Nevertheless, ho would not be backed down. lie vcnU shoot or be shot. nile father was busy otherwise, little Kitty managed to get the shanty uoor open, mere was no latch, and her prying fingers swung it back. A gust of cold air almost took away her breath, but she canght sight of the brown grass without, and the new world seemed so big that the little feet were fain to try and explore it.

She pushed outthrough the doo-r, canght her breath again, and started cS. down a path bordered by sere grass and dead stalks of wild sua flower. How often she had longed to escape from restraint and padd'e out into the or.daU alone! So out into the orlJ fv reiicir'Sia her liberty, witb tra blae sky above, and the russet prai-r beneath. She would find th path went to. what there was at thewd cfjheworli What did she care if her nose was bluTith'cold, and chubby hinds red aa beets? Xow thn Pwel to turn her head away froai soaemde blast, a forerunner i the storm.

But having ga5ped a 1 noaet she quickly renewed her brave 1 Si 13 an'h ihQ unknown. child a her WiiJ hicx, KOTUIXG EXTRAORDINARY. Col. Stuart, iu his "Army Reminiscences," relates that, when a subaltern at Gibraltar, he was one day on guard with another officer who unfortunately fell down a precipice 400 feet high and was killed. Xow my non-military readers should understand that as the guard reports there is a snull addendum, N.

B. Nothing extraordinary since guard-mounting," the meaning of which is that in case anything particular should occur the cilk'cr commanding tho gn-ird is bound to mention it. Our friend, however, said nothing about the accident that had occurred to his brother officer tnd some hours after the Brigade Major came to his quarters on tho part of the officer commanding, with the report in his hand, demanding an explanation. The Brigade Major, addressing him, said "You soy, sir, in your report N. B.

Nothing extraordinary binco when your brother-officer, on duty with yon, has fallen down a precipice 4'K) feet high and been killed." Well, sir," replied I din lift think there's anything extraordinary in it ava if he'd faun doon a precipice 400 feet high and no been killed, I should hae thought it very extraordinary indeed, and wad hae put it doon in my report." i.terestim; personal distort. About thirty years ago the Delaware bridge was, just as it is now, much in want of a coat of paint, well spread on, and the managers then ordered its being forthwith done. As the job at that time was a pretty largo one, several painters were employed, and among the party was a young Jew, who received G'2 cents per day for his labor, and his brother was then employed by Asa Packer at 100 per annum. But low-wages and salaries did not stamp out their ir.doniit.ible energy and perseverance, for shortly afterward they both went to California, where there was then a wide and profitable field for energy and enterprise, just 6uch a3 they possessed and used to great advantage, which secured to them a large amount of wealth. In duo time they returned to New York, which gave them a mere suitable field for employing their large capital for a time in mercantile pursuts, but latterly prominent bankers large financial operations on their own account, and agents for the Messrs.

Rothschild. Now, reader, who do yon think these two young Jews are, whom we hastily described Why, none other than the Messrs. Seligmans so prominently connected with Uncle Sam's $179,000,000 of 5 per cent, bonds. Ration (Pa.) Free Press. BENEFICIAL TO CORONERS.

This is what may be said of such a gift as at a recent meeting cf the Paris Scientific Academy was presented to that body by one of its members, M. II. S.tinte Claire Deville, a suggestive name, by the way. The gift was a perfectly tight vial containing about lo pounds of osmium. The distinguished chemist making the presentation stated some interesting facts.

Osimium is the most powerful of all poisons. Twenty pounds of it would poison the entire population of the world. One thousandth part ot a grain of osmie acid, set free in a volume of air of a hundred cubic yards, would possess such a deadly influence that all persons respiring the air would be nearly killed. Worst fact of all, no antidote to the poison is known. We hope the Paris Scientific Academy will be very careful of that bottle.

We don't care to see it A description is entirely satisfactoiy. SIONS Or RETURNING PROSPERITY. The immersa crops of wheat which have rewarded tho toil of the farmer are a certain indication of prosperity in all branches of business. That this is the opinion of business men, is fully demonstrated by the fact that our wholesale merchants are having an unusual number of calls, and sell larger bills than at any time during tho pas-t year, enmuar reports reacu us uvw New York and other of supply, and we accept this fact as a most certain evidence of returning prosperity. Many branches of business which have been suspended dur-irg the summer, will be revived during the fall, and by next spring every wheel and spindle will be in motion.

There can be no donbt of this. The prosperity of the fanner is the drosperiry of everj thing, and there was never a more prosperous season for those encaged in agricultural pursuits than the one now drawing to ft Toledo Blade. But I don't like 'em too hot for fun. bizzness just az mutch oz it duz a stu-Aft awhile I srot a fair cliD at it and dent at law or larding-skool miss. oring to keep the direction of the path he heard a smothering cry, and then saw something rise np covered with snow, and fall down again.

He raised his guu to fire, when the creature uttered another wailing cry so human that lie put down his guu and went cautiously forward. It was a child He did not remember that there was such a child among all the settlers at Newton. But he did not stop to ask questions. He must, without delay, get himself and the child to a place of safety, or both would soon be frozen to death. So he took the little thiug in liis arms and started through the drifts, and the ehiH put its little icy lingers on Burton's rough cheeks and muttered "papa." And Burton held her closer, and fought tho 6Uow more courageously than ever.

He found the shanty at last, and rolled the child in a buffalo-robe while he made the fire. Then, when he got the room warm, ho took the little thing upon his knee, dipped the aching fingers in cold water, and asked her what her name was. "Kitty," said she. "Kitty," he said, "and what else?" "Kitty," she answered nor could he find out more. Whose Kitty are you Your Kitty," she said, for she had known her father but that one day, and now she believed that Burton was he.

Burton sat up that night, and stuffed wood into his patent little stove, to keep the baby from freezing to death. Nev er having had to do with children, he firmly believed that Kitty, sleeping snugly under blankets and buffalo robes, would freeze were he to let the fire sub side in the least. As the storm prevailed with unabated fury all the next day, and as he dared neither to take Kitty nor to leave her alone, ho stayed by her all day and stnff- ed the stove with wood, and laughed at her droll baby talk, cud fed her on biscuit and fried bacon and coffee. On the morning of the second day, tho storm had subsided. It was 40 de grees cold, but knowing that somebody might be monrning Kitty for dead, he wrapped her in skins, and with much ifliculty reached the nearest neighbor's house, suffering only a frost-bite on his, nose by the way.

That child," eaid the woman to whose house he had come, "ia Jones'. seed 'em take her onten the wagon, day before yesterday." Burton looked at Kitty a mordent in perplexity. Then he rolled her up again, and ttarted cut, "travelin Lie mad," the woman said. She watehed him. When he reached 'Jones', he found Jones and his" wife sitting in utter wretchedness by thofire.

They were both sick from grief, and unable to move put of tho house. Kitty they had given half the night to finish the pumps in which the runaway bride was to stand at her wedding on the niorrow. The next ly at dinner time Martha flipped away, and, with Lor father for a wit ness, she and Bazil were made oue by the village justice. The outwitleJ mother of course was indiguaut at first, but soon relented, and thus, on March 17, 171)0, was begun the matrimonial journey of Euzil Harrison and Martha Stillwell, and for nearly seventy yean did the two lire together as man and wife, until June 7, 1H-j7, when the union was broken by her death. Four vears after this occurrence, Harrison and his wife went across the Alle- ghenies and settled in Franklin co.ir.ty, where they lived until 1S10.

They then msved into Kentucky, aud a few years later started as pioneers for the new State of Michigan, taking their location in the now county of Kalamazoo. During his long life Judge Harrison has seen his children increase and multiply, and at his death upward of 200 descend ants Lore his name and honored him as their ancestor. Until a short time before his death the patriarch retained his faculties unimpaired. 110 OLD TIIEY ARE. A correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives somo figures showing the present age of many persons now liv-iEg John Qaincy Adams is 41 Geo.

Wm. Curtis, 50; William It. Alger, 51; Edward Everett Hide, 52; Wi liam B. Washburn, 54 Julia Ward Howe, 54 Harvey Jewell, 54; James Rassell Lowell, 55 Edwin P. Whipple, 55 George" B.

LoriLg, 57; Nathaniel P. Banks, 58; Richard H. Dana, 50; Henry Ward Beecher, CI; Harriet Beecher Stowe. G2 Andrew P. Peabody, G3 Wendell G3 James Freeman Clark, C4 Oliver Wendell Holmes, 64 Peter Harvey, Ct; George S.

Hill-iard, Robert C. Wintbrop, 65; John G. Whittier, CO Henry W. Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 71 Mark Hopkins, 72 Leonard Bacon, 72 Lydia Maria Child, 72 Catherine E. Iecher, 73 George Bancroft, li Caleb Curbing, 74 Richard H.

Dana, 57. To keep moths out of clothing Jlix half a pint of alcohol, the eame quantity of spirits of turpentine tnd two ounces of cnxnphcr. Keep in a stone bottle and thake before using. The clothes cr fnrs to be wrapped in linen, and crumpled up pieces of blotting paper dipped in the TquiJ ere io be placed in the box with then, so that it smells strong. TLis rcqniies renenLr.g once a year.

yon bet it went cuttingtho daisies in the right field. A fat man and dog sat in the shade of an oak, enjoying the game. The ball broke one leg of the dog, and landed like a runaway engine in the corporosity of the fat man. He was taken home to die. Then I went on a double-quick to the field, and tried to stop a hot balk It i came toward me from the bat at the rate of nine mile3 a minute.

I nut up my hands the ball went singing on its way, with all the skin from my palms with it More raw beef. That was an eventful chap who first iuvented base-ball. It's such fun. I've played five games, and this is the result Twenty-seven dollars paid out for things. One bunged eye badly bunged.

One brokfn little finger. One bnmp on the head. Nineteen lame backs. A sore jaw. One thumb dislocated.

sprained ankles. Five swelled legs. One dislocated shoulder, from trying to throw a ball a thousand yards. Two hands raw from trying to stop hot balls. i I 1 A lump the size of a hornet's nest on I The Prince Imperial stands eleventh left back.

in a class of thirty-two cadets at Wool- A nose sweetly jammed, and live uni- wjcjj in artillery, te is fourth; in forms spoiled from rolling in the dirt at fortification and geometrical arming he the bases. j9 eighth; in mathematics and me- I have played two weeks, and don't cbanics, tenth in military drawing he think I like the game. I've looked over stands fourth in history, eleventh in the scorer's book, and find that I have i landscape drawing, twelfth in chemis-broken several bats, made one tally, try and physics, twenty-first He is the broken one umpire's law, broken tea 1 yotmgest ia the class except four, and windows in adjoining houses, killed a has had to follow the course cf instruc-baby, smashed a kerosene lamp, tion in a foreign language. Tkoe best broken the leg of a dog, mortally in- qnited to judge are completely satis-jured the bread-basket of a spectator, gej th his prcgrf rs in this respect. knocked fire other players out of time by slinging my bat, and knocked the The Jewish population of Londcn, in waterfall from a schoolsia'ani who was 1 1SGG, amounted to.