aav double, remove them POETRY. before speaking cr.nfM.-utly. Dos’! bt too LBILD “John, where’s the “ It is in the corn houM.* •V “ No, It to not there; I looking there!* ’ “Well, I know it to; I sew ll there not half an hour ago.” “ If you saw it there, It moat be there, l*UOt Clinton mlc|icmlcnt. of course. But suppose you go and fetch M” 1 John goes to tbs oorn-houss, and pres­ ently returns with a small axa in hto hand. I'ttdmiutovtrd tte tell “ Ob, it was the axe I saw. But the AMteMteSriTaw uS* -te to »«i handle was sticking out from a half bushel measure.. I thought it was tha hammer.” 1 Itote Ite twwtol tow “ But you said positively that you did 4 Mb lwM Ite I BNli VOL. V.-NO. 18. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1871 WHOLE NO. 226. see it, not that you thought you saw it wliMtel>wlH •/• aii There to a great difference between the two K answers. Do not permit yourself to seeks ficwaljr tetertaf <ter -te to mm itere I She choked a little and atopped- blln tales extant may, if thquired into, Lost an arm, and been elected Governor of I introduced him, making fearftti work of a positive statement, even about small 6 Well r said Mr. Gumywhat did disAsly , but the thought of her mother's YOUTHS’ DEPARTMENT matters, unless you are quite sure; for if I canaot mate Mai date I long nulfcring withnh thisii>!« honor, the con E as easily accounted for os that apper­ Wisconsin three times! 1 am I tod I the Job. Wteu p»M<te ted. Toutear” shortened up my name )*v “ Mr. Ls-Ls-Levtaga, 1 let me ao-ac so­ you do, you will find the habit growing •o lon| wateted ovar with parental car*. • idrTStion of the1 serious consequences of taining to the good Mrs- Wharton, which THE FIRST PAIR OF BOOTS. For several years, the word “ water ” le! me ao-sequaint you with M!r. W Wi- upon you, and by and by you will begin ** I saw, at the bottom of the bed, a most declaring themselves ghost-seers in the has this advantige over all other ghost With with Mr. With With Witherel” hideou s a most detestable froe—gibber town, aaa of the disastrous effect upon stories j it is perfectly and literally true. was the moet difficult one in the tonvua«t Or all tte tXIagr s boy |«u fo make loose replies to questions of great Balora tte thought coma* that te to mot tteral for me to utter. I used a great deal ot Leviags looked a! him ; then locked at Thera's doimb ttelarar suite importance. Don ’t be too certain !” ing, and making mouths at me/' their property, and of the hannlessnese of me, andl>eg*B : Or m tte A m trim hsKso well Of tot,at boa tte •leapcool, fwak*,break “ A face !'* the ghoat, induced her to summon up her water—always drank it at meals, and oar KIOW ABOUT btammeb - ”Wh wh-wh «dial na-a-s-ame did you A* hte Oral pair of boote u Yea, I could see only the free—except, courage, and bear on. Bhe did more. WHAT I many ora the struggles I have hod at hotel ■IBCELLANE0U8 ITEMS. Withk my Aralflr*l breathing uL tte asoratag air B IN©. tables to get a gloss of my favorite bever sna-a-y? ” Tte day te dmut*<l tte shining pair Mj auul go* ttp. a 1th V>y, indeed a hand upon the bedpost) because When a little inured, she one night sprang Hs wrestled feorfWly with that first With fflbtenlng ropp«r rip«, • a To Rim who f a v« my boy; it peeped round the bedpewt from behind out of bad, rushed round the root of it, age. The grimaces I would moke at the B** m«rk.-d aa era to hte life Horn DnooRATioas. —Women. ■ *omaa tte ate tteagfct that—te to not Item I the curtain. The curtains are drawn down and out upon the landing. The stairs BT LUTB ▲. TATI/OR. uttering table girl, would cause fi half- word " what.” The contortions of kis Which nothing can scfipM. LAnranv Wrr —FUt-iron-ry. * suppressed laugh from some one sitting fees were frightful to Withered and Wteu at the deyto calm eloaa, to the foot of the bed." were still dim in the dawn; but she Tax success of Mr. Greeley in wriftng amusing to me. Mr. Withered did not get Behold hiIm •li-ntting to and fro Hi iu sots or the D et.—A lgerians. t>ra wa aaak rapoea, She stole a look at Mr. Gurney. He was was confident that she raw something a book on what he knows about farming, nsar, and draw on me the inquisitive, im­ Um sartor floor! r*» with hto mother, •*. rtuf ap our prayer, the school. I think he was resigned , I Tun Quietest Tiuxo im V eils.—Nuns W het'er 1 may te ••jhjT — rolling his head ; and there was s working moving there—passing down to the has emboldened me to write a newspaper pertinent gsse of others. 1 think that Hte csst-off>ff •hoaa tb 1 one* adj•diiil red any slight, infrequent departure* 1 hare don ’t think he wanted it very much after An «•! never mora. The Prettiest Thimo im Braids .— 1 am la eaMru arayiag about his mouth before he asked — halL As soon as aha could make article on what I know about stammering, we hod stopped talking to him, but I had Hair. For oar boyre eplrtt,et>i though -tel* not them “ What time did you sup that night ?" the servants attend her, she tnld them she I am confident that I am much better iu ever mode from the practice of totol a bad Tte crooking of thoae boots, to him, my revenge on him Tor taking me from la mnstc sweeter fir Nottteeaf Whara, then, tote? 4‘ Now,” she replied, “ you are not going believed somebody was in the house; and formed on my subject than Mr. Greeley uence, have been oainc to my difficulty A Woman ’s Beau Ideal —The marriage 03 Tte farm 1 ante to we in getting water when 1 wanted it my work. Than over cants from riolia, tic. to any, I hope, that it was nightmare. all tha four women —two todies and two upon his, for he has entirely failed in his Bo much about stammering» now a few Ptano or golur. Wanhat tte rateaot that te need to a ear. Moat people would ; but I hoped that you maids —went, armed with pokers and efforts to alee dried apples from the seed Many amusing incidents occurred to me, A brass andiron to made of brass and The grave, that now doth pre»s words about how It may be cured. Perhaps tbs thosght-that most of all . Upoa tte can. -off dreea, knew me better than to suppose that 1 eat shovels, and examined the whole house. while I have never failed, when called only a few of which I will relate. In the winter of lwAt-4, a man came Ho puffh him op wi Jb prids- - Iron. la but hto wardrobe locked -te to not there! such suppers as would occasion night­ They found nothing, neither in the chim­ upon, to stammer to the satisfaction of Iu the spring of 1858, I was attending Is, that toward mauhoed be has mode The artist’s adieu to hto pictures—You through the town of Madrid, Bt Lawrence A great sod rapid si rids. We Uveal In all the pan mare, or that I should not know night­ neys nor under the beds, nor in shy closet private friends pr public assembHea. school in North Bridgewater, Mass. Re­ be hanged! mare from reality.” —nothing, from cellar to attic. And when Sometimes it has required extra exertion County. New York, where I was then liv ­ He Uvea; nor, to tte test. turning home from Abington on foot one ing, aud advertised to cure stammering. 1 What'si's happened to his fast, hs wants What Bute to round on both ends and Of savin" him at'aln will 1 despair; *• Hut, my dear Mis. Wharton, what else the maids had recovered a little, they for me to fill the measure of expectstion, afternoon, I met a man, who stopped me Thee nslghtiora alt to know, „ Jptefffte 1 eee him now ; can 1 say ? ” agreed what a tireaonic and wearying and give as great an arnouut of English, to Inquire the way to the town from which muled upon him and paid him $50 (sJ 1 the Ate so, with panto jinside hte boots, high in the middle ? Ohio. / i AM talto teal teow money l had), to cure me, and gave him Out collinghe must go. Paradoxical .—The best time to catch I aee It written, >7 Tth >« ehalt ere me there?** ____ 44 Perhaps you had better listen farther thing it was when todies took fancies. disjointed in a different manlier from that I hfi Just came. The fellow stammered ray note, (which has never been presented before you say anything." This was only their first ntoht of disturb ­ in which Webster or Worcester disjoints fearftuly. I began to tough at first then Ttey'ra jost ss flns s pair, te thinks, soft water is when it is raining hard.