ft 4 
me at tho railroad station at four precisely.” 
Patty promised and rati home to Mrs. Poronel. 
*• Where's tny girl?" demanded the matron. 
“ I haven't got any. I’m a girl myself, Bessie, 
at $7 a month—and no followers ^ 
•> what under 1 be =un do you mean ? 
And Patty explained. 
“ Don’t scold, Bcsde—now don t, that t a dar- 
lliiR. I’m Caliph Aarouu Alraacldd in disguise, 
that's all. It will be auch fun! Where’s my 
gingham dress and the little linen collars and 
MOORE’S RURAL NEYY-Y08KEB 
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daughter and three men got lost. 1 slung round 
to see If the could be raised. After we had 
spent the best part of a week, we sailed over 
her and dropped anchor. It was a lovely Sun¬ 
day morning when wo struck her. She lay in 
sixty feet of water on a bottom as white as the 
moon, booking down I could see her leaning 
over on one tide upon the coral roof. When I 
got down to her I saw Hhe'd torn a great gap In 
the reef which she ran against. The mainmast 
was gone and bung by the fore. I clambered 
op. I saw whole shoals of flab playing in and 
rs.Wmu irons’/ For ray bubble would buret up- I saw whomsnoaie o. ssu 
X t ..h.r If I ..—I Au„l B»chel * t^t^S wb^thL 
—toKftlier II l • . th „ Ilk. t„ work wh.u there , 
<*r !.»">■ -I l ?LwbTn ' 
rrs senses '“rrrr : 1 
xtYxs ss? ^ rr ; 
lonG'l blocbbll. blo«M.m«l Mow border.. will ,b.l. lock th ‘”’ b “ , ,» ' 
And Martlm the new maid, settled int.. the open, and out something fell right against me ( 
grooves at once, as if she bad lived all her life 
"''Tbeu'i v-' ?am bo*Jk to like this,” raid Aunt r sMug It from me and went out Into the light 
Rachel ‘‘ But Then, of course, a new broom a bit until i got hold of myself. Then I turned 
sweeps clean, and I’m moat 'fr Ad to believe in back and brought her out-poor thing. bhe d 
anyone since Kcturah Smith experienced re- been very pretty, and aa I carried be I my 
IlLdun and then ran away with my silver sugar arms, with her white face nestling against raj 
. ,,, shoulder, she seemed as if she was only slcep- 
“Tb'isis Mr. Ralph’s room,la It?” said flax- tug. I made her fast to iho line aa carefully as 
tba with her haudi In her ruffled pockets, as I could, to send her up, and the fiib played 
she stood regarding the apartment that bad about her as U they were sorry ebo was going, 
lust been opened to be dusted and aired. At last I gave the signal and she went .lowly 
“Yes thb is my nephew’s room, "said tbe Old up, her hair floating round her bead 11 <o a ptl- 
lad'- “Ho comes out once in a while, and 1 low of golden seaweod. That was the only body 
always ko«|» it ready for him. I’ve no family of I found (here, and I managed after to raise 
mv own. rouse*, and Ralph seems very near to most of the cargo. 
my own, you • “ One of my expeditious was among the silver 
m “Dear me'" said Martha, *‘what a lot of pho- banks “I the Antilles—the loveliest place 1 ever 
♦o over the mantle l” saw, where the white coral grows into curious 
nXlnodtSd treelike shapes. As I stepped along thebot- 
“That, middle one-lt looks a little bit like tom it seemed a* If I was in a frosted forest. 
rou Martha 1 declare-" Here and there trailed long fronds of green and 
“Doe-It?’’lisped Martha Innocently, as she crimson seaweed. Silver - bellied fish flashed 
looked Into her own smillug, saucy eyea, under about among the deep brow n and purple eea- 
.1 fringe of crepe hair. ferns, which «oa$ high aw my head. > ar as I 
“It’s my nephew’s sweetheart," went on the could see all round In the transparent water 
carruloUB old lady, “the gal he loves the best ware different-colored leaves, and on the floor 
fn all the world " piles of shell* so bright In color that it seemed 
“ Are they engaged ?" Martha asked, the tell- as if 1 had stumbled on a place where they kept 
tale roses dying her cheek as she gently spoke. a stock of broken rainbows. AiU v walking the 
“ Well no, not exactly. T guess she’s rather Inside out of halt an hour, 1 thought 1 had b«t- 
nrettv but sho’s got nothing of bbr own, you ter get to work aud blast for treasure. A little 
‘ . and there’s A’mira Playfair-tbo one on bit on from where I sat were the remains of a 
tbo'loft-hand edge of the chimney -” t reasure ship. It was a Britisher, I think, and 
“The one with the twisted nose?” roguishly corals had formed all about her, orratun about 
nBleed Martha. what was left of her. The coral on the bottom 
' rinr uoao may be a little to one side,” se- and round her showed black spots. That meant 
verclv remonstrated MU* Rachel,‘‘but hand- a deposit of either iron or silver. 1 made fairly 
some is that, bandsmia does, and Almira has good hauls every time I went down, and sold 
|30,000 in the batik." one piece I found to BAHN0M of New 7 ork. 
“ My 1" cried Martha, opening her eyes wide; ** After 1 left there I had a curious adventure 
“$30,000, ma’am! I should think Mr. Ralph W Rh a shark. 1 was down on a uni ty rock bot- 
woiild marry her at once.” tom. A man never foeJw oomforti l le on them ; 
“ So lie ought," said Miss Rachel* rubbing her bc tell what big creature may be hiding 
spectacle glasses vehemently. “ She’d have him under the huge quarter-deck sea leave, which 
In a ojlmit®—»o all the neighbors say ; but he’s jjrow there. Thu first paitof time I was visited 
just possessed In love with that little Perunel py a porcupine fi*b, which kept sticking its 
girl. He v.ould rather work for a crust a day, quills up and bobbing in front of my helmet, 
■with her to share it, be flays, than to marry Al- g, oon after 1 saw a big shadow fall across me, 
mira Playfair with all her money.” and looking up there was an infernal shark 
“That Is noble <>f him !” cried Martha, with playing about my tubing. It makes you leel 
sparkling eves; ‘‘I respect him for it. I—I chilly in the back when they’re about. He 
mean l should respect him for it if—" came down to mo ailek as I looked up. I made 
“ Well, I don’t see what it Is to you, one way him and he sheared off. For an hour ho 
or the other," tartly broke In Miss Rachel, worked at it till I could stand it no longer. If 
" Just give the room a good dusting, that’s all y 0ll ,, an kcop your head level It’s all right, aud 
I ask of you, for as like as not, Ralph, will be you’re pretty safe if they’re not on you sharp, 
here to-night." This ugly brute was twenty feet long 1 should 
“ To-night 1" cried Martha, aghast. think, for when J lay down al! my length on 
“Yes, to-ntght. Why shouldn't he ?’’ That t jj e bottom be stretched a considerable way 
was Just what the little nerving damsel could a hoad <,f mo aud I could see him biyoud my 
not answer. feet. Then I waited. They must turn over to 
“I must go away this very evening," she },Re,and my laying dowu bothered hitn. He 
thought to herself as she polished away at the swaD1 ovor two or three l imes and then skulked 
claw-footed old mahogany table. ‘‘Because if off t 0 a big thicket of seaweed to consider. I 
he should come and find me here—Ob, good knew he’d come back when he’d settled his 
gracious!" mind. It seemed a long time waiting for him. 
She dropped her duster in dismay, for there A t last became viciously over me but, like the 
stood Ralph Penrhyn before her, with all his t,j ma before, too far from my arms. The next 
six feet of altitude, hla brown eyes twinkling time I had ray ohan e and ripped him with my 
mischievously beneath tlietr long lashes. knife a» neatly as I could. A shark always re- 
“ Patty,” he eriec, " is this the story of ‘ Cin- members he’s got business somewhere else 
dere laund the Little Glass Slipper i”'’ wl,en he’s cut, so off this fellow goes. II is a 
“No," she answered, <oYorlue like a whole ,, ur i 0 us thing, too, that all the sharks about 
garden. “ It’s the ?lory of a Haughty little girl will follow la the trail he leaves. I got on my 
who could not bo satisfied without finding out bauds and knees, aud as he swam off l noticed 
whether-" four dark shadows slip after him. I saw no 
“Whether Ralph Penrhyn really loved her mur0 t hat time. They did not like my com¬ 
er not," he finished the hesitating sentence, pany.” 
THAT HIRED GIRL. 
When she came to work for the family on 
Congress street, the lady of the house sat down 
and told her that agents, book peddlers, hat- 
rack men, picture sellers, ash buyers, ragmen, 
and all that class of people, must be met at the 
front door and coldly repulsed, and Sarah said 
fthe’d repulse ’em if she had to break every 
broomstick in Detroit. 
And she did. She threw the door open wide, 
bluffed right up at ’em, and when sho got 
through talking the cheekiest agent was only 
too glad to leave. It got ao after awhile that 
peddlers marked that house and the door-bell 
never ring except for company. 
The other day, as the lady of the house was 
eDjoying t> nap and Sarah was -wiping off the 
spoons, the bell rang. She hastened to the door, 
expecting to see a lady, but her eye* encounter¬ 
ed a slim man dressed In black and wearing a 
white neck-tie. Ho was the new minister. - and 
ho was going around to got acquainted with the 
members of his flock, but Sarah wasn't expected 
to know this. 
"All— um— is Mrs.—ah— !" 
“ Git!" exclaimed Sarah, pointing to the gate. 
“ Beg pardon, but I’d like to see see! 
“ Meander!" she shouted, looking around for 
a weapon, “wo don’t want any flour-slfters 
here!" 
“You are mistaken,” he replied, smiling 
blandly, “ 1 called to-” 
“Don’t want anything to keep moths awaj 
fly J” she exclaimed, getting very red in the 
face. 
“ 1b tho lady in?” be inquired, trying to look 
over Sarah’s head. 
“ Yes, the lady’s in and I’m in aud you are 
out I” she snapped, “ and now I don't want to 
stand here talking to a fly-trap agent any long¬ 
er! Come, lift your boots 1" 
“ i atn not an agent," he said, trying to smile, 
“ I am the new-” 
“ Yes, I know you; you are the new man with 
a patent fint-lrou; but we don’t want, any, and 
you’d better go before I call the dog 1" 
“ will you give the lady my card and say that 
I called ?" 
“No, I won't: wo are bored to death with 
cards and handbills and circulars. Come, I can’t, 
stand hero all day.” 
“ Didn’t you know that I was a minister?" he 
ask«d, as he backed off. 
“No; nor I don't know it now. You look 
like tbo man who sold the woman next door a 
dollar chromo for eighteen shillings." 
“ But here is my card.” 
“I don’t care for card', 1 tell you! If you 
leave that gate open I'll heave a flower pot at 
“ 1 will cal! again,” he said as he went through 
the gate. 
“it, won’t do any goad!" she shouted after 
him; “we don’t want no prepared food for In¬ 
fants—no piano music—no stuffed birds ! I 
know tbo policeman on this boat and if you 
come around here again he'll soon find out 
whether you’re a confidence man or a vagrant!” 
Aud she took unusual care to look the door. 
—Detroit Free Press. 
—--•- 
HOW TO GET RICH. 
Several, of the richest men in this country 
have given in sententious language the secret of 
their worldly success and fortune. “There is 
no secret about it," said Commodore Vander¬ 
bilt; “all you have to do is to tend to your 
own business aud go ahead—except ono thing," 
added tbo Commodore, “aud that is to never 
tell what you uro going to do till you have done 
It." Asa Packer recently gave his idea of the 
way to get rich in this remark “ Economy 
and safe investment are about the best raeaus 
of attaining financial prosperity."-George Law 
also, who Is a tolerably rich man, remarked In 
conversation, “ there is nothing so easy as 
making money, when you have money to make 
It with ; the only thing is to see the crisis and 
take u at its flood aud when further pressed 
to tell t in* secret of hi* own success, ho quickly 
respondedDetermination to work, aud 
working.” A. T. Stewart told an anxious in¬ 
quirer that he “considered honesty and truth 
• ... . t . _ i .a, £ ,4.-*. »> n* ^ 4 U A 
hand* and knees, and as ho swam off I noticed grea t ;i • t j^ tbo gaining of fortanc." To these 
four dark shadows slip after him. I saw no observation* we add that of Rotb3chlld, the 
more that time. They did uot like my com- f Cllill( j er 0 f the world-renowned home of Roth- 
£abbath Reading. 
KEEP A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW. 
Keep a light iithe window burning. 
Faint though it* glimmering be. 
It may lighten some homeless wanderer 
Tossed upon life's dartc sea: 
It may whisper thoughts of comfort 
And hope to the ainktns hearts 
Of the beacon that fadeless gleameth 
When the sunbeams of earth depart. 
Keep a light in the window burning 
Brilliantly, for a sign 
That upon you the “God of Israel ' 
Malsetb His face to shine: 
Hoping that some long-lost mother, 
Waylaid tu the path of sin. 
May descry it" welcome glimmer 
And joyfully enter in. 
Keep a light tn the window burning, 
Te who tu tho Lord rejoice. 
And y> ith hopeful souls are waiting 
For the souqd of the Bridegroom's YOice; 
Till the light ol His glorious presence 
Extinguish tin- feeble ray: 
Like the morning star It shall vanish 
In the light of the “ perfect day.” 
[M. A. Maitland. 
WAITED POWERS. 
Among the numberless marvels at which no¬ 
body marvels, few are more marvellous than 
the recklessuess with which priceless gifts, in¬ 
tellectual and moral, are squandered. Often 
have 1 gazed with wonder at the prodigality 
displayed by nature In the cist ns, which unfolds 
hundreds or thousands of Its starry blossoms, 
morning after morning, to shine iu the light of 
the sun for an hour or two and then fall to the 
ground. But who among the sons and daugh¬ 
ters of meo-gifted with thought* Which wan¬ 
der through eternity aud with powers which 
have the Godlike privileged working good and 
giving happiness—who does not dally let thou¬ 
sands of these thoughts drop to tho ground and 
rot? who does not continually leave bis powers 
to draggle in the mold of thoir own leaves ? Th« 
imagination can hardly conceive the bights of 
greatness and glory to which mankind would 
be raised If all their thoughts and energies were 
to be animated with a living purpose. But, as 
In a forest ol oahs, among the millions of acorns 
that fall every autumn, there may perhaps.be 
| one In a million that will grow on Into a tree- 
somewhat, in like manner, fares it with the 
thoughts and feeliugs of man. What, then, 
must bo our confusion when we flee all these 
waste! thoughts and feelings rise up iu tho 
judgment and boar witness against Ufl !—[Julius 
Hare. 
-* ♦ ♦ - — 
RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
It was tbo incorruptible integrity of Job and, 
in a higher sense, of the Redeemer himself, 
that saved them from the temptations of the 
devil. And It Uaa true now that no one can 
successfully meet tho power of tomntation un¬ 
less he is righteous, as that a soldier could de¬ 
fend himself ugainst a foe w ithout such a coat 
of mail. A want of Integrity will leave a man 
exposed to tlie assaults <<t the enemy, just as a 
man would bo whoso coat of mall was defective 
or some part of which was wanting. 
The Klljg Of Israel was smitten by an arrow- 
sent from a bow drawn at a venture, “between 
tho joints of hi* harness,” and manj a man who 
thinks he baa on the Chris* mu armor Is smitten 
in tho same manner. There is some defect of 
character; some want of incorruptible integ¬ 
rity ; eome point that is unguarded, and that 
will be sure to be the point of attack by the 
foe. So David was tempted to commit tbe 
enormous crimes that stained lit* memory and 
Peter to deny hlB Lord. So Judas was assailed, 
for tho want of the armor of righteousness, 
through his avarice ; and so by some want of 
incorruptible integrity in a single point, many 
a minister of the gospel has been assailed aud 
' has fallen. It may he added here that we need 
l a righteousness which God alone can give—the 
righteousness of God our Saviour—to make ii“ 
i perfectly invuluerable to the arrows of tho foe. 
i —[Albeit Barnes. 
“ Well, what do you think?” 
The question was, what Aunt Rachel thought 
some ton minutes later, when she came In und 
found her nophew and Martha the housemaid 
whispering behind tho muslin curtains. I know 
what l should have thought that a wedding 
was very Imminent. 
Bo it whs; and Aunt Rachel consoled hei-aelf 
that, after all, $10,000 was a snug little fortune. 
- - 
LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN, 
_ 
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BOYTON. 
The sea is terrible not only for those who go 
down Into it in great ships, hut still more so for 
those who do so without. Of the latter class of 
adventures a correspondent who has interview¬ 
ed Capt. BOYTON relates the following in t he 
Gentlemen’s Magazine: 
“Soon afterwards I worked down Into the 
Gulf of .Mexico. The first coral I raised was in 
Cdtoehe. Knocking round about there I hoard 
the loss of the schooner Foam. The first mate 
aud three men were saved- but the captain, his 
After a short period of experience in pearl 
diving and the loss of nearly everything that he 
possessed (Including hi* diving apparatus) l.i a 
great conflagration, Capt. BOYTON In a sort of 
desperation took service Iu Mexico and led an 
exciting life till, growing tire'! of the semi-bar¬ 
barian mode of wail are, he deserted, crossing 
from Matamoras at midnight in an old tub o[ a 
boat iu which ho expected every minute to go 
to the bottom. Arriving at Brownsville, ho 
“fixed himself into hard work” ut a dry goods 
store. Then bw wrote homo and, hearing that 
bis father wca dead, (.tow restless again and 
“waded away north,” through Victoila, Bau 
Antonio, ItidiauolK, and by a schooner from 
Galveston, whence ho proceeded through New 
Orleans,Savannah,Charleston and Wilmington 
to Now York. There ho stayed until he had 
filled bis pockets again and, having set himself 
up with u di\ iug suit, he shipped fur Havre. 
-- 
The beat way to enjoy things is to use them, 
and thus get the worth of our money out of 
them. There In no souse in gorgeous parlors 
kept in daiknes*. 
sohild & Co., who ascribed his success to the 
following:—“Never hrve anything to do with 
an nnluekly man. Be cautious and bold. 
Make a bargain at once.”—-As a preparation for 
success In life, next to good health and a .--ound 
constitution, nothing Is more valuable than 
the faculty of saving. As a writer of the Specu¬ 
lator lately ?aid, there is no greater bleselng for 
people Of moderate means than tho possession 
of a year’s expenditures ahead, aud few things 
uro harder to attain or more rarely found. John 
Jacob Aetor sold it was easier to make a fortune 
after having saved the first thousand dollara, 
them to amass that sum at the outset, aud so a 
year’s Income once obtained, Is a foundation 
atone of confidence and capital, on which one 
may erect one of the loftiest and most am- | or oecause .v e*<o ™ 
bitiuus edifices. A man with a year’s Income cause it enable* him 
“laid away,” a* the Scotch say, Is twice the have been less fortunate, 
mm with double his income uud tm store, not to bo eelf-isclated, and t, 
only because ho is not in debt, but became he itself as « del) ^■ J j 
c m afford to try life in bis own way, instead of muted Horn an itell 
the ways other people are willing to open out spiritual grace. lh e 
I for him, because be la not afraid of an experi- all who are admitted t. 
mont because, in fact, he can use t he great should learn to regard 
B Zol of all success. He can wait. ever they may be. -Prin a 
CULTURE WITHOUT GRACE. 
There Is no more forlorn sight than that of a 
man highly gifted, elaborately cultured, with 
all t he other capacities of his nature strong and 
active, but those of faith aud reverence dor¬ 
mant. And this, be it said, is tbo pattern of 
men in whom culture, made the chief good, 
would most likely Issue. On the other hand, 
when It assumes its proper place, Illuminated 
by faith and animated by devout aspiration, It 
acquires a dignity and depth which of itself it 
cannot attain. From faith it receives its high¬ 
est wild moat worthy object?. It ia chastened 
and purified from se.ir-reverence and conceit. 
It Is prized no longer merely for its own sake, 
or because tt exalts tbe possessor of it, but be¬ 
cause it enable* him to be of use to othere «hc 
have been less fortunate. In a word, il ceases 
to be self-isolated, aud seeks to communicate 
itself as widely as it may. So culture Is trans¬ 
muted from an intellectual attainment Into a 
spiritual grace. This seems the light in ■which 
all who are admitted to a higher cultivation 
should learn to regard their endowments, what¬ 
ever they may be. —Principal Shciirp. 
