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BV fUARLOTT* N. CORONER. 
Love you. beloved 1 ’tin because I love 
That 1 don’t crush you 
Till each fringed stem of your sweet nature 
Dies o’er its exhaled perfume. 
Tore you -beloved 1 Ko —not as man often loves, 
Whose hungry passions lead him, 
Hut as a Goo who spares, though utorviva 
For the food which t empts. 
Rather than have the blight and desolation 
Of one pointed finger 
Mar the grand anthem of thy life 
With hatetul discords. 
Myriads of syrens tempt mo in thy voice— 
1 turn my cars away. 
Buds blossom as 1 gaze ; I will not pick— 
For then-1 slay. 
Drink?— mctlilnks I might;—hut fires would burn 
Ksich fountain dry 
E'er thirst like mine had grown replete. 
And then, such ashy crypts 
Of smoldering memories, perhaps. 
Might haunt thee! 
Dove thee, heUnrd)— Bow thy head 
Whene’er again t hou doubtest— 
And pray for faith; 
For as a Got) 1 love, and loving, spare ! 
(Bur 
LITTLE BLUE EYES. 
“Can I sit with you?” 
“ Certainly, sir.’’ 
“Nice weather?" 
“Splendid, indeed." 
“Crops growing finely ?" 
“Ye3—couldn’t do better.” 
I was sitting in a passenger coach, on a Wis¬ 
consin railroad, one day, years ago, when a 
good-looking, pleasant-spoken man came along, 
stopped at my seat, and the above conversation 
took place, the latter part of il al ter t hud giv¬ 
en him part of my seat. 
Now, 1 am regarded us a sociable man. I like 
a joke, a good hit; and I think a sour, morose 
man, who uses his tongue only when forced to, 
is bound to die of some terrible disease, and go 
to some place of red-hot punishment. 
On entering a railroad ear I always look about 
for a talkative man. and then I get as Close to 
him as possible and drain him dry, il the joui- 
ney is long enough. 
And I want to state one thing more: Left an 
orphan before I could realize the sad event 
which made me one, I got kicked here and 
cuffed there, and “grew up between folks,” as 
they sav. 1 ought to have had, at the time ot 
which I write, a pret ty thorough knowledge of 
human nature, and have boon enabled to read 
evil in a mail's face, if he intended me evil. 1 
did not pride myself on being over keen or 
extra sharp, but the knocking around among 
strangers ought to have given any ono a good 
experience. 
Well, the stranger and 1 f ell Into an easy tram 
of conversation as we rode together, and in ten 
minutes I began to enjoy his company. He was 
a well-made fellow, finely dressed, and he wore 
a fine watch and a simon-pure diamond ring. 1 
never saw a man who could talk so easy and 
pleasantly. It seemed that lie had but to open 
his mouth, and the words fell right out. 
1 had traveled in the South, so had he. I had 
heard the loud roar of the Pacific, lie knew all 
about it- 1 had been up in a balloon, down in a 
mine, been blown up, smashed up and repaired 
again and again, my new friend had experi¬ 
enced all these things, and was wishing for some¬ 
thing of a more startling nature. We agreed 
on politics, neither hud any religion, and I laid 
never met such a railroad companion. 
Did you ever meet a man, who, though a 
stranger to you ten minutes before, could 
wrest from you secrets which you had sworn to 
yourself not to reveal ; Well, he was such a 
man. It was not long before he commenced 
asking me questions. He did not seem trying 
to quiz or draw me out, but lie asked me ques¬ 
tions in such a sly, roundabout way, that before 
I knew it I was giving him my history. 
I was at that time just ou the point of being 
admitted tqH.e bar of Wisconsin as a student 
of Law & Law of Brie fville. The firm were old 
lawyers with a lueratlvo practice, and It had 
been talked over that in about a month 1 should 
be the “ Co.” of the firm. A year before a far¬ 
mer named Preston, down about four miles 
from Grul'ton, bad died, and his matters had 
been put into the hands of Law A Law for set¬ 
tlement. Preston had died rich. He had money 
in bank, railroad stock, mortgages, etc., and ev¬ 
erything nas settled up to the satisfaction of 
the relict and the fatherless. 
About a year before bis death, being pinched 
for money, and not wishing 10 sell anything at 
a sacrifice, Preston had given a mortgage on his 
farm for three I housand dollars, iv bile t he pa¬ 
pers read “ for one year from date," there was 
a verbal agreement that it should be lifted anj 
day when Preston desired. A month after, 
when, having the funds to clear off the paper, 
the old money-bags holding il refused to dis¬ 
charge, wishing to secure his interest for a year. 
I was on my way to ascertain the dale ol' ex¬ 
piration. A fire among our ofiicc papers had 
destroyed the memoranda, and I must go down 
and get the date from old Scip, who lives South 
of Grafton, at out live miles. The stranger had 
pumped all this out of me in ten minutes, and 
yet I never once suspected that hi? was receiv¬ 
ing any information. 
“ 1 am not positive," I added, “but I am pret¬ 
ty sure that the time is the thirteenth, which 
would be Tuesday next." 
"And then your folks will send down the 
money and discharge the mortgage, of course," 
he queried. 
" Oh, yes, I shall most likely bring it down,” 
I replied ; and it never occurred to me how im¬ 
prudent I was. 
He turned the conversation into other chan¬ 
nels, and did not onee attempt to pump mo 
further. We got to Grafton at 10:50, and to my 
great surprise, he announced that he was to 
stop In the town on business for a few days. I 
had not asked his name or avocation, while he 
knew everything about mo. 
We wont to the hotel, had dinner, and then I 
secured a livery team and drove out, getting 
through with business, so that J was back to 
take the 3:80 express cast. My friend was on 
the porch of the hotel as I drove up, carrying 
that same honest, dignified luce. 
“Well, did you find out?" ho inquired, In his 
pleasant way. 
“ Yob; it is on the thirteenth, us I expected," 
I replied. 
We had lunch together, and when we shook 
hands and parted, I had no more idea of over 
ineetiog him again, than 1 have of knowingyou. 
In fact, he told me that he should sail lor Eng¬ 
land within a week or ton days, and should not 
return to America. At parting, he gave me 
his card. It was a modest piece of pasteboard, 
and bore the name of “ George Raleigh," in old 
English script. 
Everything at the office went on as usual, and 
the thirteenth came at length. Law & Law had 
arranged for me to go down with the money, 
and I looked upon it as a business of no special 
importance. 
“ We know you are all right," remarked the 
senior partner, as I was about to go; “but I 
■want to give you a word of warning, neverthe¬ 
less. Don’t take any .stranger into your confi¬ 
dence. until you have passed out. the money, 
and look out who sits next to you." 
It was something new J'or him to caution me, 
and I could not but wonder at it; but In the 
bustle of getting aboard the train, 1 forgot what, 
lie had said. Ordinary prudence had induced 
me to place the money, which was all in bank 
bills, and divided into three packages, under my 
shirt and next my skin, where the deft hand of 
u pick-pocket eould not reach it. 
Interested in a newspaper, time, flew by, as 
the train flew West, and at length the hoarse 
voice of the brake man warped mo that I had 
reached Grafton.* I laid leaped down and was 
making for the livery stable, when 1 heard a 
familiar voice, and looked op to see Raleigh. 
He was seated in a buggy and had seemingly 
waited for me U) come up. 
“ Don’t express j our surprise,” be began, as I 
stopped at the wheel. “ 1 did intend to go away, 
but l changed my mind, and like this seetiori so 
well that 1 am going out to-day to look xt a 
farm, wit h a view of purchasing. Come, ride 
up to the hotel." 
Wo rode up, ordered lunch, and while we 
were discussing it, Mr. Raleigh discovered that 
the farm he was going to see was just beyond 
that of old Grip's. 
“ How fortunate! I eould ride out with him, 
sec the farm, return in his company," and he 
was greatly pleased. 
1 was also pleased. If any one had told mo 
as we got into the buggy, that George Raleigh 
meant to return with my money in his pocket 
and my blood upon his hands, I should have be¬ 
lieved'him a lunatic. And yet George Raleigh 
had planned to do that very thing. 
It was a lovely day in June, and the cool 
breeze and the sight of meadows and green 
groves, made my heart grow larger. My com¬ 
panion was very talkative, but ho didn’t even 
bint at my errand. He talked as far away as 
he could. 
“Oh! excuse mol" he exclaimed, after we 
had passed a mile beyond the village, and were 
among the farm houses. “I should have of¬ 
fered you this before." 
He drew from his pocket a small flask of wine 
and handed it to me. Now, 1 was temperate in 
regard to drinks. In fact T detested t he sight 
and stool! of anything Intoxicating. Hut I hud 
not. the moral courage to toll him so, and to 
hand back the fiask undisturbed. I feared to 
offend him, and so 1 drank, perhaps, three good 
swallows. He called my attention to the woods 
on the left, us he received back the flask, and 
when I looked around again he was just remov¬ 
ing it from his mouth, as If he had drank hearty. 
In about five minutes I began to feel queer. 
The fences along the road seemed to grow higher 
and the trees to grow larger; something got 
into my ears so that the rattle of the buggy 
sounded a long way off. 
“ Jlow stniogc! why, I believe 1 am going to 
lie sick!” 1 exclaimed, holding on to the seat 
with all my might. 
“ You do look strange," he replied, a snaky 
smile stealing over his face; " I should't wonder 
if it was apoplexy.” 
I did not suspect the game he had played. 
His words were like an echo, and his face seemed 
twice as large as it was. My head began to 
spin, and my brain to snap and crack, and I was 
greatly frightened. 
“You are bad off," he continued, looking into 
my face. “I will drive as fast as possible and 
get a doctor.” 
My tongue was so heavy that 1 could not re¬ 
ply. I clutched the seat, shut my eyes, and he 
put the horse at his best pace. We met a farm¬ 
er’s team, aud I can remember that one of the 
occupants of the wagon called out to know what 
ailed that man. Raleigh did not reply, but urg¬ 
ed the horse forward. 
About three miles from Grafton was a long 
stretch of forest, and this we soon reached. 
The pain in my head was not so v iolent, and I 
was not so badly affected when opening my 
eyes. I hail sett led into a sort of a dumb stu¬ 
por, with a brain so benumbed that I had to say 
to myseif, “ This U a tree, that is a stomp,” etc., 
before T could make sure that I was uot wrong. 
Half a mile down I lie road after wo struck the 
forest, and then Raleigh turned the horse into a 
blind road leading back into the woods. I eould 
not understand what he intended. 1 tried to 
grapple with the question, but could notsolve it. 
“Well, here wo are!" exclaimed Raleigh, 
when we had reached a point forty rods from 
the main road. 
He stopped the horse, got out and hitched 
him, and then came around to the wheel. 
“You don’t feel just right, hut I guess you 
will bo better soon,”he remarked. “Come,let 
me help you down." 
He reached up his ar es, and I let go the seat 
and foil Into them. It. seemed to me as if I 
weighed a ton, but. he carried me along without 
an effort, and laid me down within about a rod 
of a fence which ran along on one side of an old 
past ure. Just now I began .to get a lit tle bet¬ 
ter. The effects of the drug wi re wearing off, 
and I got. ft faint suspicion that something un¬ 
usual had happened. But I was powerless to 
move a limb; the sensation was like that when 
your foot goes to sleep. 
“Can you speak?” inquired Raleigh, bending 
over me; “because if you can it will save me 
some trouble. I want to know just where you 
have stored away that money.” 
Now 1 began to realize my situation. His 
face looked natural again, and the load was off 
my tongue. 1 also 1'eJL that I could move my 
fingers a little. 
“ George Raleigh! are you going to rob me ? ” 
1 asked, finding my voice n( last. 
“ Well, some folks might call it 4 robbing,* 
but we dress up lbe term a little by calling it 
tlie only correct financial way of equalizing the 
floating currency, so that each one is provided 
for and no one left out." 
“ You shan’t have the money. I will die first!” 
I yelled, rising a little. 
“Ah, I see—didn’t take quite enough!"he 
coolly remarked. “ Well, I have provided for 
this." 
He went to the buggy, procured ropes and a 
gug, and kneeled down beside me. I had but little 
strength yet, and he conquered me in ft mo¬ 
ment. Lying on my right side, looking toward 
the fence, he tied my hands behind me and 
then forced the gag into my mouth. 
“There, now! You roc you are nicely fixed 
up, and all because you acted like a fool, in¬ 
stead of a sensible young lawyer soon to be ad¬ 
mitted to the bar." 
& While ho was speaking indeed while ho was 
tying me, 1 had caught sight of the white face 
of a little girl looking at us from between the 
rails of the fence. I could see her great blue 
eyes, and know that she was frightened. There 
were red stains around her mouth and on the 
little hand resting on the rail, and 1 knew that 
she was some farmer’s child searching for straw¬ 
berries. I could not warn her of her danger, 
and I feared that she would he seen or heard. | 
While Raleigh was tying the last knot. I winked 
at the little girl as hard as 1 eould, hoping that 
she would move uway. But film did uot go. 
“Well, now for the money!" said Raleigh, 
and ho began searching my pockets. He went 
from one to the other, removing all the articles, 
felt down my boot-leg, and then finally passed 
his hand over my bosom uml found the money. 
“Ha! here it is!" he exclaimed, drawing out 
the puekagos. “ I don't hardly believe t Hat old 
Grip Will set* any of tins to-day," 
He sat down near my head, undid the pack¬ 
ages, and was cool enough to go at it to count 
the money. As he commenced the little girl 
waved her hand tome. My heart went thump¬ 
ing. for 1 expected she would utter a word or a 
shout, but ehe sank down from sight, and t 
caught a gleam of her frock as she passed 
through the grass. 
“ You see, my young friend," remarked Ra¬ 
leigh, as he. drew off one of his boots aud de¬ 
posited some of the bills in it, “ there’s nothing 
Jlko transacting business as it should be trans¬ 
acted. Some men would have shot or stabbed 
you, but it is only the apprentices who do such 
work. All the real gentlemen of our calling do 
business as gentlemen should." 
He drew off the other boot, aud placed some 
“ fifties’’ and “ twenties” in it, and then con¬ 
tinued: 
“ I have it all planned out how to deal with 
you as soon as T get this money disposed of 
around my person. I shall lay you on your 
back and pour the balance of this wine down 
your throat. There’s enough of it to make you 
sleep until to-morrow night, and by that time I 
shall be hundreds of miles away. As soon as I 
see that the drug has taken effect, 1 shall untie 
your hands and remove the gag. When you 
come out of your sloop if you ever do—you 
had better crawl out. to the road, where you 
will most likely meet some traveler soon. 1 
want to use the horse and boggy, otherwise I 
would leave them lor you." 
How coolly ho talked! He Heated the mat¬ 
ter as if it were a regular transaction in which 1 
fully ucqulesccd. Ho had me a fast prisoner, 
and I felt that he could do just as lie pleased. 
While I was thinking, I saw the little white 
face appear between the white railB again, but 
in a moment it faded ?iway, and its place was 
taken by the sunburned phiz of a farmer. He 
looked from mo to Raleigh and back again, and 
I winked at him in a way which he readily un¬ 
derstood. Ilis face disappeared, and I felt that 
I should be saved. 
"No, old Grip wou’tgclhistin to-day,”mused 
Italelgh, storing away the bills in his pockets. 
“You will go back to Luw & Law feeling put 
out and cut up; but they shouldn’t blame you 
—it is not your way at all. True, had you mind¬ 
ed your business on the car and not been 
so free with a stranger, this would not 
have happened. I was on my way to Milwau¬ 
kee, and had no thought of such rich pickings 
here.” 
1 saw nothing of the farmer. Raleigh finished 
his counting, and I made up my mind that the 
farmer was afraid to interfere, and had run 
away. My heart went down as Raleigh got. up, 
fori saw that lie was about to carry out his 
plan of further drugging me. He turned me on 
my back, sat down astride of me, and then 
pulled out the flask. 
“ Now, in just a bout a minute we’ll be through 
with this business," he remarked, trying to put 
the month of the flask between my jaws. 
I rolled rny head to one side and he did not 
succeed. Ho was jamming the flask against, 
my teeth, when I caught ihe sound of a soft 
stop, the crush of a club, and lialeigh rolled off 
my body, lie tried to leap up, but three or 
four farmers struck him down, and one of the 
blows rendered him senseless. Before he came 
to I was free of ropes and gag, and wo had him 
j.iedy bound. 
Over beyond the pasture a farmer and his 
hands were raking up hay. “ Little Blue Eyes,” 
only eight years old, had wandered off alter 
strawberries, and had fortunately witnessed 
part of Raleigh s proceedings. She luid hurried 
buck to her father and told him that “a man 
was all tied up out there.” and he had returned 
to the fence. Understanding the situation, ho 
and his men had moved around so as to secure 
an advantage, and Raleigh’s capture was the 
result. 
When the rascal found his senses he was ter¬ 
ribly taken aback, and cursed enough for a 
whole Flanders army. We took him back to 
Grafton, and when I last saw him he was on 
his way to the penitentiary to serve a sentence 
of fifteen years. 
The mortgage was lifted after ail, and the 
gifl which Law & Law sent little Katie Gray, 
kept her in dresses for many a year. 
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SOCIAL SPLINTERS. 
Commodore Green of Eavaunah, Ga., lately 
extended hospitalities to the delegation of an 
agricultural convention. As one member was 
curiously examining the beautiful collection of 
statuary which adorns the palatial residence, 
Mr. Green, who, it seems, was everywhere and 
with everybody, tapped him on the shoulder 
aud said:—“Ah l Mr. . I see you are an 
admirer of the beautiful; would you not like 
to inspect some of the fine arts?" “ Well,"said 
the delegate, us he deposited a welt masticated 
quiil of Virginia weed outside the window, “I 
don't care if i do, as I am a little dry,” 
A very serious insurrection broke out in Ma¬ 
nilla recently. Several priests were concerned 
in the nlfatr, but the Governor waa not to bo 
overawed by them. When a priest went to ask 
him to spare some prisoners who had been 
brought in, he answered “ I know my busi¬ 
ness ; you go and attend to yours. J shall shoot 
the rebels; you can pray for their souls." This 
is a new application of ” division of lubor." 
A party of men animatedly engaged in dis¬ 
cussing polities before a country store, attract¬ 
ed- the attention of an aged agriculturist. 
“ Thor’s sumthin’ the matter here," he observed 
to his wife; and, drawing in his team, ho lightly 
shouted to a consumptive individual on the 
outskirts: “ What’s a foot? ” " Twelve inch¬ 
es,” wus the sardonic reply. The aged agricul¬ 
turist swore some, and drove on. 
A CHUMist's apprentice, during the perform¬ 
ance of the last scene in “Romeo and Juliet,” 
became po excited by the apparent reality of 
the stage business that he Jumped from his 
seat, dashed his hut over his forehead, and shout¬ 
ing, “ Hold him lip, Juliet, while I run for the 
stomach pump! " rushed out of the theater. 
One of Darwin's strongest arguments in favor 
ot his theory that man is a descendant of the 
monkey 16, that monkeys always part their hair 
in the middle. It is it noticeable fact, however, 
that monkeys have quit it since it has become 
fashionable among certain mcu. 
A traveler asked an emaciated Georgian if 
the cllmato of the rice swamps was unhealthy. 
“ Wa’al no,” replied the royal native, “ 'tain’t 
unhealthy ; we have the fever and ague all the 
time in these parts, but then wo enjoy a power¬ 
ful under-tow of health." 
An Indian complained to a rutnseiler that the 
price of his liquor was too high. The latter, in 
justification, said, “ that it cost as much to keep 
a hogshead of brandy as to keep a cow." 
“ Maybe he drink as much water," replied the 
Indian, “ but he no eats so much hay." 
A minister not long ago preached from the 
text, “Bo ye therefore steadfast;” but the 
printer made him expound from “ Bo ye there 
for breakfast." 
No man cuu put his neighbor's hat on the 
owner’s head properly. Did you ever notice it ? 
The owner of the tiie always replaces it to suit 
himself. 
The last novelty in sewing machines is one 
that will follow the thread of an argument, 
