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VOLUME 19.
POETRY AND MISCELLANY.
TU RESPECTABLE MAN.
By THE BROTHERS MAYHEW
A highly respectable man
is Iscariot Ingots, Esquire.
:His "Post Obits" on half the "Blue Book,"
And a mortgage or two in each Shiret
And having more cash than he needs,
Why he lends to the poor all he can,
And only takes silty per cent,
Like a highly respectable loan.
lies his house like a nobleman furnisb'd,
Ilia side-board blazing with plate;
And half silver, half gold, you'd declare
It belonged to sonic peer of the State;
;So it did—till he seized it in parent
Of his sixty per eentum per a In•I
,And now he he gives dinners to show it,
Like a highly respeetatle man:
Ilia father itri3W's ILP 7 $ Ollll T.
And tristanutber a dealer in wine,
And his brother-in-law's a Buin.bnaliff,
And his son in the Auctioneer line;
s`ha you've "half-wine" for pour
Then sued, seized, sold by the elan !
For he lova to assist his relations,
Like a highly respectable man
For the Assurance of Lives he's an office,
To make his small profits the morel
If you ask him to discount, he tells you
"For security y ou niu t insure."
Adding, "'all honest men ought to do so—
Besides, it's so easy a plan,
Yid with something to leave on your death-bed,
You die such a respectable 111311.
It to said he's a tyrant at home,
That the jewels h isivife has for show.
Were fill of than salt es for some wound—
That each dianiond hell'd up a blow;
That hie children, on hearing his knock,
To the top of the house alts ass ran—
Itut Rh ten thousand pounds at his banker's
Jle's of course a respectable man.
Yet he's kindness itself to young "bloods,"
And s% hen Lordlings aid,
lie talks like a fither,,lnil asks
/low is sixty per cent to be paid!
Ruth c.travagance really %%mild ruin
The richest in all Ilindostan;
Ilut to serve them he'll do a "Post Obit,"
Like a highly ropeetable man.
Ili+ daughter has married fdr love,
Though she'd offers from persons of tank,
And "my lady" at least might have been
With the money be had in his bank;
Wit since she thought ft to du , grace him, -
She may live in the best tva) she can;
Ho he leaves his ow;; daughter to starve,
bike a highly respeetahle man.
Then lie makes a fresh n ill et cry' quater—
Or when he's ri fit of the "bides"—
Or his wo!e has oillm led bi.n somehow—
Or his ion does not follow his %laws;
AnA ho threateni. to leave them all beggars,
Whenever they come under 1114 ban—
be.meath all his a% ealth to an hospital,
Like a highly respectable Man.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,
%,..53torn for the fjolibaßs/
PS T. S. ARIIIUR
**Didn't ho make you a present of anything, tizzy ? "
asked Margaret of her cousin Lizzy Groan.
•• No, not oven of astrawberry cushion, " spoko up
Lizzy'a sister lane, "that ho might have bon& for at
sixpence. I think ho's a right down mean, selfish, stingy
.so I do; and if he dosu't keep Lizzy on bread
and water when he - gets her, my name's not Jane Green."
" I wouldn't have him, " said Margaret, jesting, yet
half in earnest. "Let Christmas go by and not make his
sweetheart or sister a present of the most trifling value !
He must have a penny soul. Why, Harry Leo sent me
the • Leaflet's of memory' and a pair bf tho sweetest
flower-vases you ever saw, and he only comes to see me
as a friend. And Cousin William made me a present of
a splendid copy of ' Mrs. Hall's Sketches, ' the most in
teresting book I ever read. Panicles, I received lots of
thing& Why, my able is full of presents. "
' "Yon have beeti quite fortunate. , " said Lizzy, in a
quiet voice ; " much more so than Jane and 1, if to re
ceive a groat many Christmas presents is to be considered
to rttitiale: "
"But don't you think Edward might have ttent/ I you
sometokea of good-will and affection in this holiday sea
son, when every one is giving or receiving presents? "
asked Margaret.
"Nothing of the kind .as needed, Cousin Muggy, as
an expression of his feelings towards me, " replied Liz
" Ile knew that I understood their true quality. and
felt that any present would have been a useless formal
ity. "
" You can't say the same in _regard to Jane. He
might have passed her the usual compliment of the sea
son."
"Certainly ho might, " said Jane. " Lizzy needn't
try to excuse him after this lame fashion. Of course,
there is no cause for the omission but meanness—that's
my opinion, and I speak it out boldly."
"It isn't right to say that sister, " remarked Ldzzy.—
"I Edward has other reasons for omitting the prevalent
custom et this season—and good reasons, I ant well as—
'lured. As to the charge of meanness, I don't think the
faetyou allege asufficient ground for making it. "
IN f 'ell; Ido then, " said Cousin Margaret. " Why,
if I were a young men and engaged in marriage to a la
de, I'd sell my shoes but what I'd give her something as
a Christmas present. "
" Yea—or borrow or beg the money, " chimed in Jane.
"Every ono must do as ho or she thinks best," re
plied Lizzy. "As for me, lam content to receive no
Holiday gift, beitg well satisfied that meanness on the
part of Edward has nothing to do with it. "
Bet notwithstatdiug Lizzy said thia,:she could not help
feeling a little di appointed—more, perhaps, on account
of the apponracc l e of, the thing than from any suspicion
that meanness, aialleged by Jane, had anything to do
with the - emission.
"I wish Edwrird had made Lizzy some kind of a pres
ent." said .lire. Green to her husband a dray or two after
the holidays had !paseed; "if it had been only for the looks
of tho thing. Jane has been teasing her about it ever
since, and calls it nothing but meanness in Edward.—
And I'm afraid he is a little close."
" Better that he should ho So than too free," replied
Mr. Green; "though I must confess that a dollar or two,
or even ten dollars, spent at Christmas in a present for
his intended Wide, could hardly have been set down to
the score of prodigality. It does look mean, certainly." ,
fie ii doing very well."
"Ile gets a salary of eight hundred dollars, and I sup
pose itdoesn't cost him over four or five hundred dollars
to lire"-at least it ought not to do so."
"What bought himself a snug little house, I am
told."
"If he's done that, he's done very i5:e 4 11.," maid Mr.
Green; "and I can forgive hisn for not speridinghis mon
ey in Christms s presents, that are never of much use, say
the best you will of them. I'd rather Edward would
hare a comfortable house to put his wife in than use him
loading her Town, before marriage, with presents of one
triish thing or another."
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on the girl something, if it had only boon a look, a plea,
or some such- trifle." I „/
" For which trifles ho would Imyri boon ns strongly
charged •with•meannesa as he is new. Bolter let it go es
it is. No doubt he has good rertSons for his conduct."' —
Thus Mr. Green and Lissy /defended Edward, while
the mother and line ecoldeliebout his meanness; to their
heart', content.
Edward Mayfield, the lover of Lizzy Groan, was a
yonng man of good principles,, prudSnt habits and really
generous feelings; but his generosity did not consist in
wasting his earnings in order that he might be thought
liberal and open-hearted, but in doing reel acts of kind
ness where he saw that kindness was needed. He had
saved from his salary, in the 'course of four or five years,
enough to buy himself a very snug house, and had a few
hundred dollars in the Savings' Bank with which to fur
nish it when the time came for him to get married. This
time WWI not very far off when the Christmas. 'to which
allusion been' made, camp - round. At this holiday
season, Edward had intended to make both Lizzy and her
sister a handsome present, and he had been thinking for
some weeks as to what it should be. Many artieles;bath
useful and merely ornamental, were thought of, but none
of them exactly pleased his fancy.
A day or two before Christmas, he sat thinking about
the matter, when something or other gave a new turn to
his reflections.
" They don't rea'lly need anything," he amid to himself,
" and yet I_propose to Myself to spend twenty dollars in
presents merely for appearance's sake. It this right?"
" /tight if you choose to do it," he replied to himself'.
"I am not so sure of that," ho added, aft 4 a pause.
And then he sat in quite a musing mood for some min
utes. .
"That's bettor," ho at length said, rising up and walk
ing about the floor. " That would be money and good
feelings spent to a better purpose."
"But they'll expect something," he argued with ,
him
self; •• the Lonny will think no strzgo 'of it. Perhaps
I'd bettor spend half the amonnerin elegant hooks for
Lizzy and Jane, and I t the Om) go in tho Way I pro
pose." ' '
_This suggestion, how ver, did not 'satisfy him.
" Better talc all go a the Other direction," he said,
after thinking awhile lon , er; " it willglo a real good. Tho
time will come when I an explain the whole matter if
necessary, and do away with any little 'false impression
that may havo been f tined."
To the -conclusion a l which Eal4ard arrived, he re
mained firm. No pr sent of any kind was made to his
betrothed or her sister, and the reader has seen in what
light the omission was viewed.
Christmas eve proved to bo one of unusual inclemency.
The snow had been falling all day, driven into every
nook and corner. cleft and .cranny, by a piercing north
easter; and now, although the wind hatl.ceased to roar
among the chimuo)s nud to whirl the anew with blinding
violence into the face of any one who ventured abroad,
the broad flakes Nero falling slowly but more heavily
than since morning, though the ground waacovered al
ready to the depth of many inches. It was a night to
make the poor.fecl sober-as they gathered more closely
around their small tires, and thought of the few sticks of
wood or pocks of coal that yet remained of their limited
store,
On this dMary night, a small boy. who had been at
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work in a printing-office all day, stood near the desk of
hie onnployor, wooing to rccoiro hin , nrcok'n wages and
go !lease to his mother, a poor widow, whose slender in
come scarcely sufficed to give food to tier little household.
"You needn't come to-morrow, John," said the print
er, as he handed the lad two dollars that were duo him
for the week's work: "to-morrow is Christmas."
The boy took the money, and after lingering a mo
ment. turned away and walked towards the door. He
evidently expected something, and seemed disappointed.
The printer noticed this, and at once comprehended its
meaning.
"John," he said kindly..
The boy stopped and turned around: as ho did so, the
printer took up a half dollar front the desk, and holding
if between his fingers. said—
" You've been a very good boy, John, and I think you
deserve a Christmas gift. Here's half a dollar for you."
John's countenance was lit np in en Mutant. As he
came back to:get the money, the printer's eyes rested up
on his feet, wnich wore not covered wiih a very comfort
able pliir of shoes, and ho said—
. "Which would you rather have, John, this half dollar
or a pair of now shoes?"
"I'd rather have the new shoes," replied John, with
out hesitation.
"Very well; I'll write you an order on - a shoemaker.
end you can go an is fit yourself," and the printer turned
to his desk and wrote the order.
As he handed to John the piece of paper on'which the
order was written. the . lad looked earnestly into his face,
and then said with strongly-marked hesitatioe •
"I think, sir, that my shoes stell'do very well if mend
ed; they only want mending. Won't you pleture write
shoes for my mother instead of me?"
• The boy's voice trembled, and his face was suffused.
He felt that he had ventured too much. The printer
looked at him for a moment or two, and then said—
' "Does your mother want shoes badly?"
"Oh. yes, sir! Sho doesn't earn much by washing
and irouiug when she can do it. but she sprained her
wrist throe weeks ago,. and hasn't
. been able to do any
thing but work a little about the house since." -
"And are your wages all she has to live upon?"
I "They are now."
"You have a little sister, I believe?"
"Yes, sir."
"Does she want shoes, also?"
"She has had nothing but old rags on her feet for a
month.".
"Indeed:"
The printer turned to his desk, and eat and mused for
half a minute, while John stood with his heart beatings
loud that he could hear its pulsations.
"Give me that order," the man at-length said to the
boy, who handed him the slip of papei i He tore it up,
and then took hie pen and wrote new' order. ,
"Take this," he said, presenting it to John. "I have
told the shoemaker to give you a pair for your mother,
yourself and your little sister; and hero is the half dollar,
my boy—you must have that also."
John took the order and .the money, and stood for' a
few moments looking into the printer's face; while his
lips moved as if he were trying toSpeak; but no sound
came therefrom. Then he turned away and loft the of
!lee without uttering a word.
"John is very late to-night," ear the poor Widow El
liot, as she got up and went' to the door to look out in
the hope ofseeirig her boy. Supper had been ready for,
at least an hour, but she didn't feel like eating anything
until John came home. Little Natty httd fallen asleep
by the fire, and was now snugly covered up -in bed. As
Mrs. Elliot opened the door, the cold air pronged in upiin
her, bearing its heavy burden of snow. Stitt shivered
like one in la sudden ague fit. said shutting -the door.
quickly murmured— . -
"My poor boy—it is a dreadful night for him to beout.
and so thinly clad. I wonder why he stays so late away?"
The mother heid hardly -uttered these words when the
door was thrown open. and John entered with a hasty
step, bearing several packages in his arms, all covered
with snow.
"There's your Christmas gi t, mother."'said he. In a
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delighted voice; "and here is mine s and there is Net
ty's:" displaying at the same time three pair of shoei4
paper of sugar, anoth l er of tea, and another of rice. •
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Mrs. Elliot looked bewildered. •
- "Where d i d all these come from. John?" sho nekvd.
in a trembling voice, for she was overcome,. with surprhie
and pleasure at this unexpected supply of articles so much
needed.,
John gave an artless relation of what had passetthe
tween him and the printer for whom he worked, and,ad
ded—
"I knew the number yen wore. and . I thought I would
guess at Netty's size. If thoy tidal fit. the man says be
will change them; and I'll go clear back to the store Ao
night but what she shall have her now shoes for Christ.
man. Won't sho be glad! I wish she - were awake."
"And the tee, finer and rice. you bought with the
half dollar he gave you?" said the mother.
"Yee," ropliod John; bought the tea and euga for .
you. They'ro your Christmas gift from me. And the
rice we'll all have to-morrow. Wo i u't you make ua, a
ricelpudding fur our dinner?" • •
"You're a good boy, John—;33 very gmid,boy,"- slid
the mother, much affected by the gen:mous spirit her,stm
had displayed. "Yes you shall hays ql rice-pndding.r—
But take of your wet shove, My son—they are all wet--
und dry your feet by the fire." •
I'No, not till you put . Netty's shoes on to see if th# fit
her." replied Juhn. "If theytion't lit, I'm going back
to the mere for a pair that will. ! She shall have her pow
shoes for Chriptnias. And, mother, try sours on—n4ay ,
be they won't do."
To satisfy the earnest boy. Mrs. Elliot tried on Nottra
oboes, although the child was sleeping.
"Just the thing." she said.
"Now try on yours," urged John.
"They couldn't fi t mo better," - 9441 the mother, as the
slipped on ono of her shoes. "Now! take oft' . your wet
ones, end dry your feet,befote the fire, while I put ilitu
suppor on the table."
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John, satisfied now that all was right, did as his moth
er wished. while she got readv their frugal repast. Bath.l •
wore too much excited to h ave very Loon appetites. As
they were about rising frOm Die table. after finishing
their meal, some one knocked at the door. .lohit open
ed it, and a froutlenfan cargo in and said, farniliarly--
'glow do you do, Mrs. Elliot?'i
"Oh—how do you do, Mr. Alayfield? Take a seatti'•
and she handed her visitor la chair. •,v!
"How has your wrist got, Mrs. Elliot? Are you 'shoot
ready to take my washing again?"
"It's better, I thank you, but not well enough for thit
and I can't tell you whoa it will bo. A sprain is Yo long
in getting well."
"Bow do you get elong?!' asked Mr. Mayfield. "Can
you do any kind of work?"'
"Nothing more than a lAtio about the bongo."
"Then you don't onto a n•thiiig at all?" •
"No, air—noth;ng."-
"flow do you Manage t. live, Mrs. Elliot?" ; 1 ‘ .
"%/o have to get along I~he best wo can on Johil'itAwo
dollars a week."
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You can't live on two d
"Two dollars a week! idlark
a week, Mrs. Elliot; that i impossible." I ,
"It's all we have," saidlthe widow.
Mr, Mayfield asked a good many more question4llMit
shoWed a very kind interekt in the poor widow's - alkina"
When tin must; to go pAva. flu said _ I - --5 " - --
"1 will send you a saw things to-night. Nirs. Elliot, as
a Christmas ,present. Thls is tho season when friends
remember each other, and tokens of good will are passing
in all directions. I think I.cannot do better than to spend
all I designed grving for this purpose, in waking you la
little more Comfortable. So when the man comes with
what Isbell send,lyou will know that it is for you. Goal
night. I will drop in to see you again before long."
And ere Mrs. Elliot could express her thanks. Mr.
Mayfield had 'reti red. - I
Not a very long time passed before the voice of a men.
speaking to his hiwee, was heard at the doter. The ye
hide had moved So noiseiessly on the snow-covered
street, that his approach had not been observed. The
loud stroke of a whip handle on the door caused - the ex
pectant widow r :and her onto start. John immediately
opened it. .
"Is this Mrs. Elliot's?" asked is carmen, who stood
with his leather hat and rough coat all covered with
=
"Yes, sir'," replied John.
"Very well; I've got a Christmas pr.sent for her,. I
rather think; so hold open tho door until 1 bring it in."
John had been trying on his new sh, l oss, end had got
them laced air about his ankles just as tile carman came.
So out he bounded into the snow, !earl the door to take
care of itself. and was up into the car o twinkling. It
did not take lung, with John's 'Lolly° liatanco. to trans=
fer the contents of tho car to the wi ow's store-room.
which bed boen fur a long time wanting in almi?st every
thing. • •
"Good night to you. madam." 'said the cnr7 nu. as ho
wes retiring-, "and may to-morrowbo the merrst Christ
mas you over spent. It isn't every one who has a friend
like yours."
"No—and may God reward him," said Mrs, El1p:ot
fervently. as tlio man closed the door and left her akin;
with her children.
And now•the timely preaont was more carefully exam
ined. It consisted of many articles. First. and not the
least welcome, was half a barrel of flour. Then there
was abag acorn map!, another of potatoes, with sugar.
ten, rice. molasses, butter, etc.; some warm stockings for
the children. a cheap thick shawl for herself, and a pair
of gum shoes--besides a good many little things that had
all been selected with strict regard to their use. A bate
chicken for a Christmas dinner, and same lasses of fresh
Dutch cake for the children, had not been i fcirgotten.—
Added to all this' was a letter containing five dollars. in
which the generous donor said that on the hest day he
would send her a small stove and. half a tou_kif coal.
Edward Mayfield slept sweetly and soundly that night.
Ou the nest day, which was Christmas, he got the stove
for Mrs. Elliot. It was a small, cheap and economical
one. designed expressly for the poor.. He sent it with
half a ton of coal.
Three or four days after Christmas, Mrs. Green said
to Lizzy and Jane, as they sat sowing—
"l declare, girls, we've entirely forgotten our washer
woman, poor Mrs. Elliot. It is Borne weeks since she
sent us word that sho had sprained her wrist, and could
not do our washing until it got well. I think you had
better go and eoe her this morning; I shouldn't wonder
if she stood in need of something. She hes two children,
and only one of them is old enough to earn anything—and
even he can only bring home a very small sera. We
have done wrong to forget Mrs. Elliot." •
"You go and see het; Lizzy,"_ said J ane . - don't
care about visiting poor people in distress; it makes me
feel bad."
"To relieve their wants, Jane. ought to make you feel
good." said-Mrs. Green. "
"I know it ought; but I had rather not"ga."
"Oh, yes, Jane," said Lizzy; "you tumid go with me.
I wont you to go. Paor Mrs. Elliot! who knows how
mach she may havo suffered?" -..•
"Yea, Jane, go with Lizzy; I want you to go."
JUae'did not like to refttis positively, so she got toady
and 'went. thoagli with a good deal of reltietance. ',Like
, a great manyothere; she bad no taste for "iiiartes of dis•.
tress. If she sputa relieve a want by puitiai 'hit6d
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behind her and not seeing the object of penury, she had
no objection to doingio; ;butte look' Santini in trie'prea
was too reVoltingfoleisenillive feelings. . ' '
WhenLioyand Jane entered the brimble home Of the
widow, they found everything' comfortable,. neat 'aria
clean. • A small stove was upon the hearth; and. though
the day was very cold. diffused - a genial warmth through
out the room. • *re. Elliot sat knitting; she r appeated as
triune!), glad to, see the'girfs. Limy inquired bow her
wrist wal.l i ow she` was getting along, and if she stood
in ;teed of anything. To the last questloai she replied—'
"I should hive wanted almost everything is risks me
comfortable, had not Mr. Mayfield, one of the gentlemen
I washed for before I hurt my wrist, remembered me at,
Cbristinns; , . He sent mo this nice little eters and a load
of coal, .a half barrel of flour, meal, potatoes, lea, sugar,
and I can't now tell you what all—besides a chicken for.
our Christina+ dinner, and five ' dollars in money.' I'm.
sure he couldn't have spent loss than twenty dollars.—
Heaven knoWs I shall never forget him! He came on
Christmas eve, and inquired so kindly how I was getting
eking; and then told ma that he would send me a little
proton' instead of to 'thole who didn't really acted any
thing. and, who"rnlght well forgive him, for omitting the
usual compliments for the season. Soon after he was
gone, a man brought use car load of things, and on
Chrtstnias day the stove and the coal came "
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Jano looked at Liu}, upon whose face was a warm
glow Rodin whose eyes was bright light.
•'Then you do not need anything?" liaid Iritty.
"No, I thank you. kindly. not now. lam very come
fortible. Long before my coal, flour, meal and potetoel
are out. I hope to bo able, to take in washing again; and
then I shall n 4 need any assistance."
`'"forgive rtte, sister. for my light word's about Ed
vard," Jane said, the moment she and Lizzy left tiie wid;
ow's house. "Ile is gOMoraus • and noble-hearted. I
would rather ho had thine this than made ma a present of
the most costly remembrances he could find, for it stamps
his s charaCter: Lizzy, yommny well 'be proud of him,"
Lizzy did net trust herself to reply, for rho could Oink
of no Words adequate to the expression of her feelings:—
When Jane told her father about tho widow—Lizzy was
modestly sileUt on the subject—Mr. Green said— .
" That was nobly done! There is the ring of the gen
uine coin! 114 proud of him!"'
Tours come ihto Lizzys eyes as sho heard her fathor
Oink So warmly and approvingly of her lover."
Next your," added Mr. Greon,` "we must take a
ion of Edward, andirnprove our pyittem of holiday p
traits. How many hundred's and thousands of dollars
wasted in useless souvenirs Mid petty take. that to
de a. lasting good If the stream of kind feelings stem t
ed into a better:c:hannel."
On Thursday evening as Mr. Jeremiah Higgins, f
the towikcif Litchfield, Conn. v:as leisurely strolling all
Broadway, he was accosted by a very gentldmanly It
ing individual, who very politely. inquired if, he wo
not like to see the eclipse of the 1M)011 a little in adv l nce
of the rest of the people of Gotharn:: Mr. Hi gin's yes
ltupentrttnittritittprat this andoinicemeht, and , as a at
tetegv e
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_f °m be to shown ,tke,,sv hit
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Cliriotity. The siredW WI
I* Mr.Biggin's arm and hey
marched together to ghcrwood's on the corner of Park
Place and Broadway, where they indulged in sundry
plates of oysters and numerous "private" drinks, for
which the resident of Litchfield, Conn, made himself
responsible. Afterroachingthe pavement tho stranger
asked Mr. Biggins if ho was prepared to look at the
eclipse, and receiving an answer in the affirmative, they
proceeded arm id arm to an opposito corner, where the
proprietor of a mammoth telescope was stationed with
the apparatus, which was open to the inspection of all at
the remarkably low sum of ate and ' a quarter cents per
head. Mr. Higgins "planked the dough," but having
previously indolged in several glasses of the genuine ar
ticle, he was unable_ to see the moon in consequence of
the lolescope becoming refractory and not keeping its po
sitio i !Ong enough for him to bring matters to a focus.
" How creation long it is a getting right!" ejaculated
Mr. Higgins, bringing his right foot before his left with
eimmendabfe dexterity. " I never saw such a one on
arlh."
•
Have patience" enid tho stranger. "you must not
espect to eeo it in an instant. Remember it has thou
sbnds of miles to travel! Have patience."
6' tell you afore and tell you again, I would have ,pa
lienCe, but she won't have anything to do with mo."
" Now mind—let me havo your watch and toll) you
whel , to keep your eyes skinned?" said the strangorJ and
you ill not have to strain them so much.
MT. Higgins handed him the watch aud• comme ced
observations.
"It's coming now, look sharp. quick," said the stran
ger. giving the emigrant from Litchfield apricot/lunar:l;
••look sharp. I tell you it's abouh"
." Do me so again." vociferatsod Mr. Higgins. I
(col it's a coming." .1
There was no reply to thisllast observation—all Was
silent as a country churchyard in October. Mr. Higgins
looked around; the stranger had disappeared, not only
with the apurtenancos of his own individual anatomy,
but with Mr. Higgins's gold watch and.his Packot book
containing $153.
He was not lung in discovering that he had seen the
gcliise. "and nothing else."
.tk i very respectable looking lady, says the Boston Mail,
stepped into a store on Washingto w street. a few days
ago, to'buy a sleet reticulo;'the clerk handed out a vari
ety of sorts, sizes opd prices, all of which the lady de
liberately viewed, handled and commented upon; until
at length, having made her selection of a small one,
$2 50, she gave the clerk a ten dollar note to deinct that
amount; the cleik went to the desk. and returning, gave
the latter her change.
•Why here's but two dollars and a half 7' said abe
Exactly, madam,' said the polite clerk.
'This, bag is two dollars and a half, is it not 1' s,ays
• latly.'holding forth the purchased reticule. , 1
`Two dollara and a half is the price, =dui.' ~
'Then why do you take out seven dollars end a bear 1
'Why, madam, this reticule le two dollars and a half—
•Yety well, sir.' ears-the lady. , l'
1311nd that one attached to your dress, beneath your car
at, is firs dollars more... said the complaisant clerk,
ping up the lady's cardinal and displaying a very hand
rail steel bead reticule, there secreted. The lady be
e quite agitated.but the humane clerk assured her it
all perfectly right.
You don't for a moment suppose. sir,' said the lady,
ft low, beaky voice, 'that I Intended—'
9, certainly not, madam!' said the clerk..
. 1 ', i o l , it's all right, madam. perfectly correct,' conticiu
t
. .
Good morning. sir; said the lady bowing anirgrinning
handy smile., _. , ..
. ,
Good, 'mbiating.', responded dm gentientsnlY clerk;
' c the tad" 4 l act of the premises.''' : • ''' - '
'I Y.* 0 dr., !,‘
No fancy sketch. &hi. ' ' , , - ' - '
A YANKEE ECLIPSED
HE HAD HER THERE!
AT x. . wlt
• -
Oh: where are they; the !tient!' I loved
ebildbood.s i juinny hours, • '
And thotewitb' boot in youth! roved. -
To cull the Vitt±il dowers;
And, htter 0 1 111, ow where arethsy. •
; The friends of manhood's year*.
.7 4 0 . ,wh0m, it seems but yesterday,
• , / bade adieu in tears?'
'ihose abseut ones are far from me,
For whom my heart lam yearns,
Pnbarked on life's tempestuous sea,
Where rnent'ry darkly turns.
And some have tone the may of earth.
O'er whom my spirit weeps.
For colder o'er each homestead hearth
Worms:dation wok •
Ah! one, a friend of long ago,
Smiled sweetly when 1 came,
Death passed across her beauteous brow,
Apd jell sue but hei name.
And one, the friend of youthlW times,
Whose hand I seem to clasp,
is far away In distatit
The stranger's hand to grasp.
Another one, but leiter-night,
I bade a lung
Whose voice was soft and step wasted.—
' Whose eyes were heavenly blue.
Thus all h ve gone—each absent friend—
never to return,
- While trann`ry o'er their sad fats ben4
Like mourner's o'er an urn.
A TALE WITH A MORAL.
ni CATHMtIKE stuawici
I dreamed,l•viits:iittingini,an eminence wh.re the
whole Scene affiffritiitliefore me; scenes, plains, cities
arid country—the world And its actors. An oid man with
the noble head and serene countenance that befits wisli
dem, stood beside me, and'', turned a perple”'d gaze on!
the multitudinous family, to 'ask him. "Who ts it that so!
many seem confidently expecting. and so many others tol
be blindly puriming?"
"She is immortal." he replied, "whose home Is not'
Of_thie world. In truth , she rarely visits it, Be,
colp
, .
Odes is reserved for these who. in the language of Scrip
ture;Althall see God as he is. for filey shall be like
Her name is Happiness. She Is never fond of those '
who seek her fur her own sake.rl
"Why then are 'id many plirauing her?" I asked;
"why do they not learn from the experience offothera?"
"The 'desire of her presences is born with 4min; the
child cries for • her; some areignorant !of the means 'of
attainitig her; some delude themselves, and Others: are
deluded as to the•mode of winning her; few are willing
to pay the price of her friendship,, and fewer still receive
the truth that she does not abide on earth. with those most;
worthy of her presence. To them her visits' aro rare:
and brief but they are content to dwell among her kin- I
i
dyed, Submission, Tranquility, • I 'Contontinent and Pa
tience. Take this," he said, giving me a curious eye
glass. "it will enable you to see the distant, to penetrate ;
eiery'seeret path, and to discern untold thoughts."
I took the glass—it. fulfilled his promise. I now be.!
held the whole world in pursuit Of this enchanted being!
Some. were Crossing the 'wide Sea. some treading' gin'
wilderness; Illassenl were crowding into cities, and others
flYlngio the country in quest of iher, ', They looked for
..oe'wUoiteune vlui-hewur nears w, im. was ,at nest vas
inexplibablo to me, those that most eagerly sought her,
and sought nothing otae, newer iiy any change round her.
• Tired of my general observathin, I finally confined my
attention to two young persons who began the course of
life together. One was a beautiful girl called Brillanta,
Whom I sew in a French boarding school with teachers
in all the arts and various branches of learning
" Why du they confine me here?" she exciaimed pet
tishly; "they tell me I was born for Happiness and I have
not io much is heard the rustling of ist;iwings in }bb
tiresome place. Well; I must worri it thr ugh; but when
school days are over, and I am out and Surrounded by
friends, and followed by lovers and go. at I will to operas
and balls, then Happiness will be my constant ,compan
ion." ' 1 - I,
l
1
The golden future became Brillama's present. I saw
her wreat'ied with &wets and sparkling with jewels, ad,
mired and flattered, and hurrying from one scene of
gaiety to another; but instead of the companions she pre
sumptuously expected, there were only Pleasure and
Exetement, and at their heels Society and Weariness.
" /pas!" exclaimed Brillanti, "Happiness is not yet
with/me, hut she will come to my wedding—with the
bridal gifts and festivities—she will take up her abode in
my binntrious home!" But true love was not required at
the Wedding, so Happiness refused to be theca. Vanity
and Pride wore among the guests, and were soon follow
ed with the fiend Disappointment . Happiness could not
breathe the air they infected.
A few 3-cars passed. "Happiness had never been,
never will be hero!" exclaimed Brillauta. "My husband
is so tiresome! my children teasing, my servants so tor
menting. I will go to foreign lands, I will explore other
countries—surely where so many rush to seek Happi
ness sho must be found." Arl away went Brillanta,
but- the chase was vain; she never got so much as a
glimpse of Happiness, though she went on pursuing
death overtook her. A mist that had - been l gathering
round her settled into derknres, and I saw her no More.
- She whom 'I have seen start in the career of life v lib
Brillanta was named Sereua. She came forth daily from
a home where all sweet contentinenta %ere from Gad
loving and God fearing parents, to her wthool tasks. She
had an earnest and /weal' countenance, but what chicili
struck me about her was unlikeness to the rest of the
world. She was not "'pursuing Happiness. She was too
modest to claim her presence, too burnish, to expect.—
She was so occupied with her tasks and desires that she
had no limo to think of herself, but she was eager enough
to obtain the acquaintance of Happiness for others.—
What disinterestedness, what self-forgetfulness she
practised to achieve this, and strange to say, when asked
and sought this eluding being, and when clouds gathered
heavily around Serena, so that Happines could not come,
(for her nature required bright skies,) she sent her helped
handmaid. Patience. and Serena was content and gate
ful. " How many unexpected, undeserved meetings I
have with my heavenly friend :" Serena would 'ex
claim. And, as I . saw. HaPpinesv daily saluted her to
the lovely aspect of nature, in household loves, in' the
prayer of faith, and the peace of acquitting conscience
To Serena, in a:due tithe came the wedding day.'and
• with the illimitable hope and right confidence_ that be
longs to that period of a woman's life, she said, " Hap.
pines.. you will of .course preside at this festival. "
"Of course. " replied Happiness. " for where my
best friends gathei on the wedding day—love. fidelity
and moderation—am I ever absent 1 But remember
my dear Serena, my stay cannot be too long ;, care. tri
al, sorrow. mutt come to you cannot consort with
them, but they will prepare you for my constant society
,hereafter. and make you relish it mo r e, keefily. Care.
trial, sorrow, stern sisters. who come to all, did come to
Serena, but they, were not always present, their terrors
were converted to tt precious ministry by the unfailing
pressures of Serena's best friend Religion. ,
My eyes, followed the whole emir's. of this " traveler
between life and death." and I saw that she met Happi
netts on nanny.ini elevation In her life. at many a bright
spot ar inddes turn; and finally when the gates'of death
;oPeortd to her. I saw bib telestialiftistidi nyitb airin k rt i o .
meeting bee, teldiide with her tor ever and ever. ,
CI
HOW THE YANKEES MAKE A LIVING.
• A Writer Of the Boston 'Recorder. who has lately Womb.
elled through Connecticut, thus describes the way MI
which the people gain a livelihood:
Beginning in the northwestern part of the Brata.....
Where. by the way; serge Of nature's tine noblemen
dwell—we find many furnaces (Molting down iron ore of
the best quality from their Pwn mins*, making each from
two to three tons , of pig iron,per diem, andeach censum..
ing at a single bleat of eleven Months a million bushels"
of charcoal. There is a shop manufacturing some of the.
most delicate and best cutlery and another making hugo
anchors and chain cables for our navy, from iron wrought
at their own puddling furnace: , .
Fifteen miles eastward is a village of fifteen hundred
peoplo, situated at the outlet' of a splendid sheet of water.
which, in its decent of a hundred and fifty feet. carries
nil needed machinery. Here the business is scythe mak
ing. Another town is famous for its brass kettles— : in
'article made nowhere el 4 in the eation, and the trade
of making which, it is said; WWII ----- WC - IM$ll from England.—
Hard by are two contigudin tdeQ ,.... as,Made densely pOpu
lons, even on the ruggeii hillsides!, nd independently
rich by the manufacture of brass chice. These articles.
Of the ordinary kind. misting front ,ett.illings to two
i t
dollars, aro Sold over the World at an advance of- 500 to
1,000 per cent. .
Coming further eastward. into Hartford County. you
find a gang of hands digging copper ore from the bowls
of meiher earth—then youlenter a town of is thousand
people. supported entirely by making axes., Following
the Farmington river. and passing many establishments.
you alight at a town ef fifteen hundred inhabitants,right
in the gorge, where the river, in its dashing freaks. like
a lover within:t eyes, instead of making its way easily and
honestly don n'to New Haven, breaks its way through
the Tulcott mountain for the purpose of Malting a"nnion
with the' Connecticut. These people are Scotchmon.
making carpets. But this is only s part of the establish
ment; the remainder i r. locatedkten or fifteen mile:mirth
oast, where is found a
,mmunity of eigi:oen hundred,
from the some country. nd engaged in Lite business.
ry
OtPresbyterian, in the y twp towns. are three old-fash
ionedl
Presbyterian char I es. Passing by a community
of Shaker!, who supply the land with garden seeds and
brooms and Hazard's . Well-knon powder. whims the .
"villanous saltpetre" is made in to an aboitination to cast
missiles at the igezicaus!, and also seine. distilleries, too
detestable to blot paper •t h. you enter a growing town
r
where are male paper, [
cloth of ditTurent kinds. iron ware
and card teeth—the las sotto order, and in, quantities
sufficient to straighten all the fibres that ever grew on -a
I sheep's back or a coned plantation. .
'Passing through the city of Hartford, which our bird's-.
eye view seems to make only a mast for trafficking in the
workman - Ship of other and finest bends, you fiud a town
of thiee thousand inhabitants, manufacturing various
sorts of brass-wire, to mention which kinds would be to
write half the names of articles in a hardware shop.—
Hooks and eye'e must be particularized, enough to hook
together all the Itidiesi . dreess in the land, beside those
of ono-half Quoon Victitria's'aubjects.
But to return to the Connectictit river, Coll in our rapid
flight.wo kave,already crossed 'twice, and, in making
our way is Tolland county, we entered the region of cot
ton and x+eolbat ;. andfilm. at he (pallid a heautil
Ma lil
like. ttered memoral) eby the t• Lite o yoor baron,
who died bn its banks, you must stop to see a village of
twelve inindred people, grown u in the courso of a do
zen yeare,i having some six or o gbt mills making sati
nets and the nicest cassimere in the oountrv. In other
sections of the country are AUDIS el, cotton end woollen
mills, machine &hope.
Here, too, is a town, and it ia
tua," with four or fire silk factori
of oar tailors olitiin their Italian s
Here the screw-nuger was invert
to speak of all. Hard by. in Wi
pulation of eightaen hundred m
the eastern part of tho county,
stream, in the apace of twenty ,
conou'factory villages. -
In New-London county is ma
in a variety of forme. In Norw
mills abound. And bore. .ona
owner informed me, made $260
annum. New Loudon and Ston
out of dui whale fishery. ' Lyme.'
of fie Conn( c icut, furnishes sea
and Liverpool packets, and seam
Sailing up that river. now'filled
pas a quarry of free stones. T
a branch of a large establishete
which monopolizes the whole In
ivory. -Here you'find ii:orycom
brolla tips, dice, and ull kin& of
of the elephant's tusks.
Then you need not smile at a veritable establishment
for making patent inkstands, ,e playing thirty - men.--
Next you will find a shop tarni•g axe-helves: next a
screw factory. Then you will p. -a, on the bank of the
!iver. another quarry, a rich" v in. of gneiss, splitting
about as redily as chestnut timbi. . a vein about twenty
:ods wide, from whence have bee sent vast quantities of
'of stone. to various parts of the - id - on, and to the West
Indies. And then - another quarry of red sapdatone,
employing three hundred Irlshat-ri and their overseers.
I had almoit forgotten a whole town, made rich by the
manufacture of all kinds of belle such as sleigh, horse.
clack, and cow belle. In this c ty, it is uo easy task to
tell what is manufactured, excep coaches, clocks, intel-
!eat, theology, law, and physic. airhaven furnishes the
whole of Now England and som . portions of New York
with oysters. "
Waterbury. with almost four
make buttons, brass wire, and pin
there is Burminghtun and Ansoi
Lige!, making cutlery. pins, and
them, a largo establishment mak
the like. Thence you will pass
r art of Fairfield Comity, and here
with hatters in abundance- He
for the Ikitir Yorkers are ;made,
1,,,
ISOPATIIT—Is the title of an o ' er original Conant of
medical cure, which; it seems . as lately made its sp.
pearance in Paris from German . 'lcon:dirty in applying
upon the afrectued organ -the a me organ taken from
a healthy animal. Perhaps afe examples may render
the matter clearer: If the patio at be consumptive. they
apply to his bosom a breast of veal; if the liver or heart be
affected. a'bullock's liver or heart is applied over the
diseased spot, if the hearing be . erectly.. boAllthi will
give you a night cap, supplied ith calPs ears. This
may seem strange. and yet this s the system now' pd.
Tanned. Itis talked of a great deal; fame has seized
upon it, the wise men are disc. , lag it, the acadirdee
are examining it.. numerous Speriments have been
made of it in Germany, and, as t Paris, there is a crowd
of adventurers In every profession, in search of sew
discoveries, in the hope of making, with the aid of new
systems, a reputation and fortune which they could not
realize by received methods. We can cumber several
Parisian doctors irho have already docUred — themsedv"
isoiathists.
UT Dobbs, the portrait painter. nape that; eser3rthlng
+odd be in character. - For instance. intarCh 'werreato
eb4ltitriiiliin 'tracing paper.' end wedding notcce on
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NUMBER 31,
our own dear "
Man
a, where the great patt
tying silk and twist.—
ed. But time will fail
wham County, is a rip
king cCt)ton cloth. In
the v alley of . a single
ilea are at least twelve.
I ufactnred India rubber
h woolen and edit=
single paper mill, the
000 worth of paper per
ngton aro growing rich
situated at the month
aptaina for the London
n to man their yard..
ith'eeines for shad, you
on you enter a shop,
t located in 51eridan,
Mesa of manufacturing
a. piano forte ksyr, um
krnamental work made
thousand inhabitants.
by the ton. And then
ia. two contiguous sit--
hardware. Just above
ng augers, chisels. and
estwatd hitt _the_storth_
you twat actraintance
- 'it is the superb hats