VOLUME V
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OETRY AND MISCELLANY.
For the Erie loon or.
'ZIW wonartqa BEIM AND DRONER.
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'Tway once upon a pleasant day.
When autumn's woods were bare and gray.
7' bat by tome !lives I chanced or way:,
In contemplative mood;
The wind was coaling from the wekt
nom sunny plain and brow n bill c cert.
"%Ind all things seemed to be at rest,
I Except the honey brood.
That they—lbe leaner and the falter—
Were making quite a noisy clatter,
About some . little thing or matter,
TLat was lt itch interest franeht;
't Inch made them 11) about their
V shackled of their heat, y gyres,
E , ett ift as if their 1, ery
, Au enemy there bought.
..thought my pri,enee caused the fuse,
mi made the turmoil and the mu•r, '
,
hike the hristitmiiimt)r
thouglit 1 ‘!oli1.1 Iv gone.
it suddenly the turmoil etopped,
forth tile (3iieei;-lice hold,
lid nit the heel' nroillid hot drop(,••
To hear her tiny tone.
lid thus she spake.—" Peace! 'ware! 1% ild bets!
you could now your good Queen plea.e, '
'lmmo* of order, more of ease—
I cannot th
have is noise:"
, ringlitu ay they , erafed their noisy humming—
ratglitu ay their trembling wing; cen-ed 141)111111111g,
Iticlo-er 'round her form kept coming, . .
"rill all ~.tood on a poke.
Fsen thus again,,heEik)ke and said,
her bright lace gresl tlu.hed and red,
i'rnutel Ale 55 alked is ith :gate') tread,
Awonq the
'n hat foul iliftunianee thl.o
Hal It ontellting I
tfluell Interrupt.] the general Win.,
And !naked act au tittle!"
rfollt the congregation came,
.1 bee xt ho n as boll' old and lame—
poor toot\U all honest name,
Alt thus to her replid:-
-Fair litteen: I thioltit no; in Valli,
'l,) try this Inntwr, 44,AvinItt,
41veti, I atilik,)ou'll not colowialti,
lsor your good bees dertdo.
••I'ur man) lung and %%eau hood;
* •1'I~n, wa.ion, In a sle bought the hint era,
1 To !.ttlter hone from their i!uiveri—
Munching h . % r'y nt%cet;—
: 4 . that %%hen t% inters tuna Otall
And 1% C JlO mare abroad Can roam,
Li parch,' ne. may live at twine.,
Aad u :lei Int ig hate to eat.
"But dale are these ans,wg us now,
1.14 y drone+, of •co‘% ling brow,
rL, n 111 an NN• toil and lA% eat and Loy,—
Whoflite ou w hat «c h;tag,,
- jltot ne%er teat, c Ihetr
Clloeell rraCCS,
tabroad, their t,.liott. facet.,
Imnt they ts ual,l , hq , lay the graei
'flue) deem :he on each t‘ tag.
inl they are e‘rr in our way—
Ai
.e. ening'u do,k, midmorning'. gray.
A'n.l at the noon-Lime of the chi—
'l'u taunt us NI WI the nociliti—
.olic out.' you coarse, imktion tog fool.:
VIJu working Ire... you ...metes. tool.!
r e ore rutottg to higher .chool.,
And drink total:twice( gourii,:"
•• ut on this morn. %%hen I returned.
( 'erlailimed nlth my sn.cen., hard earned
3 y old age was in pain. itiorned—
They eattee 11112 to Le tierce;
A / n irked drone had hired a n asp. .
lii long black Istittger to nut la , p,
And hold me in . lii4 giant grail',
= Mid then my wide to tome:
1 11.1114 Lnlb forleaajNee Inn.lo tlivm frivt
ititliet all kind, of 111 i,ery •
wu the holie.t a tal l in )n'o,
And fear no C 0111,11,1111.111.";
ut not., fair Queen, the tow , hart come
r them to lea.e our rightful hoo,e----
ttik:une
fleferre
' ten ai the old tief . ce.i•ed. it Ilew.
Ih»,edh :111 — the‘%orksogervw.
Ito run their .nuucra through and throli4la
The arts drtl•rrrlrrr
!nag. the %A fide, the sharp a ar cry
f u-zret-:ip :erm."'nad ••tet theta th . e!
ell Lear to more atTronter):"
• In quick, recce. ise tones.
l eft, and as I n cut tny nay,
!leering on the sad alrrai*.
abought I heard a n In-per say—
n ere not bees, hut men"
to %%hid was corning from the nest—
nn sunny plain and lino a hill crcl,
id all things teemed to ho acrect.
Pcept illy thoughts, I ken!
Pa. P..b.
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UP-TOWN CRISIS;
therLeathors's Fret 6 Friday Morning.'
Mrs. Ln
Il!E=:1111E!
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no o'clock, in a certain new fonroitery house,
ionablorreach of Union Square, The two
,note, with the folding doom hhenthed to tho
es, were in faultless order. There was a fire
to grates, to take off the smell of the now fur
the chill of a November day; and just audi
tick of a hhowy Fiend) clock, wound up for
and expected to swing its pendulum that
id thereafter, in the "first society" of New
MOM
ran ink-r 1
;lase hand
1 one of t
an,
ABA 111.
is Jim till
, aning a
Irk,
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nsuspeeting and assenting clock struck one,
ramie of silk down tho battistor of the stair
he lady qf thp ho4se- r (tho ,Fatroldiqg pf
'Wan had fullen in)--sailed i 1,14 the roam.
atcn WILS
'Dm, and
tell budt
"nethe
19 jtiOkinal—aro 'yoit there , "
d, as shO' gavo tho 1)1(10 ctirtaiiis of the frqnt
twitch each.
pie tngui
ndows
"Ye.:
er," said a voice tram tho littlo veranda
olni In il
l e rear.
liocolate hoe!"
"I tho 1
'llsn'.
, Now,
11 a b ou
e",
mem:"
udkins, you remember all Mr. Cyphers told
how to behave when the ladies come in
"I can'
Hato'
ih 11 ups
4 , 1 PO W
`help it, Mrs. Loathers!" said the in yieible
shout answering the (local:l23n, "but it flusters
(called '.ltnikins.' so blunt slid sudden likol I
t this chocolate-pot, I know I shall, if yeti coil
en there's company. Why, it's just like WV.
'or, dead husband called up out of his grave,
.plers!• if yon please, morn, let it be 'Betsy.' or
l u dkinte—least-crisp till I get 'used to it. Soma,
,R mg p ,
Mn. Lea
or ..ur,
Bat th
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romonstranc,e, had boon hoard before, and tho
lathe aggrieved Mra. Joining paid no, attention
e hail been Ls:mired, by fashionable Mr. Cy
.t head maids in "first families," weo ikiro;k:s
heir sur-names, for it implied A 14rViestablis 1 1 - •
h two classes of servants--the chumbermaitle
scurbs being tho only legitimate Sally'a and
at the bell, while Judkina Nviga meditating'ano
in,trance, suddenly galvanized Aye Loathere,.
Huddle of the sofa, facing the door, and there
COlllpeSed 71.3 if alto had been sitting on hot/
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'MI7, ORNING, MA ' ell 1849. .
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for her picture, When the gentleman whose advice had
just been acted upon, was shown in by the new footman
Like every unfashionable rich man's ambitious wife,
Mrs. Leathers had one fashionable male friend—her
counsellor in all matters of taste, and the condescending
guide of herself and her husband's plebeian million
through the contempts which form the vistibule to "good
society." Mr. Theodore Cyphers was one of two
dwindled remainders to a very "old family"—a sister,
Who seemed to be nothing but the family nose walking
about in a petticoat, sharing with him the reversed - end
ofcortmeopial ancestry. He was perhaps, thirty-five,
of very g6nteel ugliness of personal appearance, good
humored, and remarkably learned upon the motives,
etiquette, and usageit of fashionable society. Ofa thought
unconnected with the art of gentility, or of the making
of a penniy, Mr. - Cyphers was profoundly incapable.
Skill at thinking, indeed, would have been a superfluity,
for he had had a grandfather, in a country where grand
fathers aro fewer and more prized than' any where else,
and ho had only to do nothing and be highly respectable.
The faculty of earning something would scarcely have
bettered his condition, either, fur his rarity as an unem
ployed—gentleman, in a city where excessive industry
is too ' universal to be a virtue, gate him that something.
to be known by, which it is very devil to be without.
What paid for Mr. or Miss Cy - filters' sustenance and
postage, was ono of the few respectable mysteries of
New York. He had now un then a note discounted
by the house of Leatlitltmd Wall street: but-of
course it was nut taken up a maturity by his attentions
to Mrs. Leathers, nor have we any knowledge that these
promises of Cyphers to pay, were still under indef.:loga
renewal up to th date of the great stockholder's wife's
first "Friday Morning."
It was iu expectation of a proper "reception" call,
that Mrs. Leathers had taken her seat upon the sofa, and
on the appearance of Mr. Cyphers, she came out of her
attitude with a slight look of disappointment.
"I have dropped in early, my dear friend." said he,
to see that everything is comme it faitt. Bless me, how
light the room is! Nobody would come twice where
there is such a glare on the complexion! Will you al
low inc to call (2:char to shut the outside blinds? Cipsar!'!
he cried, stepping back to rho entry- to recall the man
who had let him in.
But no Calmar answered, for the black footman had , a
surname as well as Betsy Judkins, and if she was to be
called "Judkins," he would be called "Furtard," and
lie would answer for nothing else.
"It cannot ho permitted, my dear Mrs. Leathers!"
expo'stulated Mr. Cyphers. when rho man carried his
point, and shut the blinds to an order given 'din by the
name of Fuzzard; "a head servant . with a white craved,
is the only man who can go by 'the surname in a gen
teel family. A trifle—but little things show stvfe. Pay
the man more wava to let Muriel[ ha called Caesar, but"
call him ncrar! Pardon me!" (continued Mr. Cyphers.
.iuddenly changing his tone to an epologic.il cadence.)
"might I venture to suggest a little change in your
toi
tette, my dear Inad,1111!"
"Mine!" cried Mrs. Leathers. coloring slightly, but
looking as frightened as if she hail been polled from
ayrecipice. "Why, Mr. Cyphers. this is the very lasi
fashion, out from_ Paris! 1 hope—l trust—why, what
do you mean. Mr. Cyphers?" and Mrs. leailt. , s , -
ed to the pier glass and looked at herself, behind and
beforeiti rapid succession.
••ror the opera, very well, my dear Srieed," ho 're
!plied, appealingly, or for a btidul all, or rt fete rhampe
ire. It is as pretty a three-quarter toilette as ever I
saw. and sou leek quite lovely iti it, dear Mrs: Leathers,
hut—"
"But what, I should like to linow?"
"Why in your own house, you see, it is sqlish to he,
rather under-drussed; a 4 if sueing people were finch an
even-day' matter, that ton,. had not thought it worth
while to appear in inure than ordinary toilette."
"And so every body in my own lions° IS to look well
but in^!" remonstratively exvlaimod Mrs. heathers.
"No—pardon Inc; morning caps and well sunned
negligcs are very becoming, but is not that exactly. Let
me explain the principle to you. Sitting up in showy
dress to recieve calls, looks, (does it. not?) as if you
made a great event of it; as if the calls, were an uuusu•
al honor—as if you meant to bo extre melt' deferent's)
toward your visitors."
But they are splendidly dressed when they inake the
calls, Mr. Cyphers!"
Yes, but it is, as ono may say open to supposition
that they are going somewhere else, and have only ta
ken your house in their way—don't you see? And then,
supposing nobody comes—a thing happen, you
know, my dear Mrs. Leathers; why, there you are —in
grand : toiletto--ovidontly oxpectmg somebody,. of course
mortified, yourself, with the failure of your witinee, and
what is worse, seen to ho mortified, by iteighbors across
the wav!"
"Lirt mercy of coarse!" exclaimed Mrs. Leathers,
discovering. that there was a trap or two for the Unwary
in "geed society," of Which she had been entirely un
suspicious; "but what am I to do? I have no time to
dress over again; Mrs Inguiplius might be here, and
-1.1.):!" intermitted Cyphers, with a prophetic forebo
ding. that (spite of his influence with Mrs Ingulphos,
and the hundred and fifty "At home on Friday morn
ings" which had been loft on peOple sho did not know,)
Mrs. Loathers would have very few visitors for many a
Friday morning yet to come, "Oh, my dear madam, yon
are abundantly in time, Pray go tip and slip into your
prettiest demitoileite, and take your chance of any one's
coining. It looks ivell, in fact, not Mho ready when
people' call: not to have eNpecled them so early, as it
were. While you are gone, by'llie.hy, I will make a
little arrangement of ?mir place to sit, ect., ect., which
strikes] time, at this moment, as a matter we had quite
oyerloOked, go, my dear Mrs. La miters:"
It was upon the colt of Mrs. Ingtilpims, so confident
ly alluded to by Mrs. Leathers, that Mr. Cyphers secret
ly buil(all his hope of making his friend fashionable.—
Mrs. Ingulphos , s carriage, seen at any door for half an
hour, was a sufficient keystone for a new aspirant's arch
of aril l ocracy; hut of such domenstation, Mrs. Ingtil
plitts7as exceedingly chary. Tho sagacious loader of
Fashion knew that her house must, first of all, be attrac
tive aild amusing. Site was too, wise to smother its
agreeableness altogether, with people who had descen
ded, tram gremdfathors;hut, to counteract this very drowse
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of dwindledem, ithe required of the grandfatheriess eith
er twenty or talents. Mr. Cyphers, in making interest ter
for Mrs. Leathers, had net pleaded her wealth, Thal
was now so common as to have ceased to be a distinc
tion, or, at least, it was a distinction which, in mount
ing to Mrs. Ingulphu's drawing-room, Mrs. Leathers
must leave in the gutter with her carriage.
.
Wh l at Nut Loathe,rs was lilts, after-"getting inside a
door, Was the question. She might ho dull, if she was
Knickerbocratic; low-born, if stylish and heantifnl; scan
dalized if willing to undertake- wall -flowers and make
her fascinations useful. Put she must be something be
sides r ll ich and vulgar. Cyphem could plead for her on
none of the usual grounds, but with a treacherous inge
nuity. he manufactured an attraction which was, in fact,
a slander on Mrs. Loathers. reminded Mrs. 'ITU!.
phus that foreigners liked a house wheto. the married la
dies world flirt, and vihispeted, confidentially, that Mrs.
4,,,eattiesti had a dull money-bag for a husband, and (to
use his own phrase,) !'would listen to reason."
MM. legitlphus said she would think of it, and upon
this encooragenient, C}•phurs cherished a hopo
would cull
With tho nid of Judkins and Fuzzard, Mr. Cyphers,
on Mrs. Loathers' disappearance. made some important
changes in the furniture of the front drawing roem, A
fancy writing desk was token out from under the pier
table, opened, and set upon a work-stand in the corner,
the contents scattered about in epistolary confusion, and
a lounging chair wheeled up before it 4 With sonic cat
echising. Judkins remembered in embroidered feot.sttiol
in ono of the closets up stairs, oud Oa was sent for and
placed in front of the fauteuil. The curtains Tall let
down, except ono, and the sofa wheeled upwith its back
to this ono entrance for the light, Mr. Cyphers saw that
he could do no more.
"Now my very expeditio us biro. Leather ho Said, as
she entered, in an unobjectiotiable Morning dress and a
cap rather unbecoming, "cue little word mOre of gener
al directions. Ladies love to sit wiilt their backs to the
light, in a morning call, and, as the sofa is placed now,
they will easily take a sent in a becoming position, and
without any inconvenient drawing up of a chair. As to
yourself, sit you at this desk and write—"
"Bless me! I have nothing .to write!'! - interrupted
Mrs,. Leathers.
"Oh, copy an advertisement from - a newspaper, if yg:u
like," resumed 'her polite'instructer, "but write some ,
thing, and let it be upon note paper. You must seem to
be passing your morning quite independent of visits,
and to be rather'broken in upon than otherwise, by any
ono's coming in. Fashionable people, you know, admire
most those who can do without them. I think that's in
Pelham."
"La! and must I write till somebody comes?"
"Dip your pen in the ink when the bell rings: that's
all; and write till their cowing in makes you look up,
suddenly and tutcousciomly, as it wore. Stay—suppose
I s it in your chair, and show you how I would -reCoivo a
call? You are the visitor, say, and Lam Mrs. Leath
ers?" •
Mr. Cyphers crossed his feet, in nn elongated position,
upon the embroidered footstool, and threw his handker
chief over them in imit••tion of a Petticoat. just, (thick
!
sing a toe and an instep; then, taking up a pen, he went
through the representation of a lady surprised, Writing.
by a morning call. As, Upon Mrs. Loathers' trying to do
it after, him, he found there wore several other points in
is her attitude and manners which required slight amen
dationove will leave these two at their lesson above stairs,
and take a look into the basement parlor o& the story be
low.
PART H.
T 111: LI. tT111:115N HASE3IENT
A P.M of beautiful patridges, cooked to a turn, hud
just succeeded a hags, dons in portwine sauce:the'pota
toes were hot, and the pint bottle of champagne had giv
en place to a decanter of bherry, at the right hand of Mr.
Luther Leathers, dining alone in his basement parlor.—
A fire of bituminous coal burned very brightly - 'in the
grate. Dividing her attention between watehilig the
the blaze, and looking up placidly to the face of the
stock-broker as he soliloquized over his dinner, sat a
hunchback girl of nineteen or twenty, carefully propped
on a patent easy-chair upon wheels. T There .was no
servant waitimr ea. table. The hrstod i.,,1 irntor Iva...
within Ar. Leathers's reach. and tho bell-h edit was nt
the right hand of the pale and patient looking little crip-':
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pie in the corner.
"Lucy, my dear gill," said the carver of the partridge.,
holding up a bit of the breilst of the bird upon his fork,
"1 wish I could persuade you to lake a bit of this. See
how nice it fouks"
I know oil wish it,"lshe answered, 41 an affec
tionate half sMile, "and you would give me your own
health to enjoy it, if you could, but I have no appetito to.
day—c mit sympathy with you's."
Leather s was a shoit,'Stottt man of about fort. He
had a face roughly lined with anxiety, and a knit con
traction of brows, which showed a habit of forcibly con,
eentrating his attention at short notice. The immediate
%%entity of his mouth, howeVer, was pliablef and good
humored, and in fait, looked as if neither care nor"
meanness had ever beet' permitted to luive a pull upon
it. His hair was pushed rudely away from a compact,
well-filled forehead, the lids were habitually drawn to
gether mound his small twinkling gray eyes, and his
head was set forward uiton his shoulders, in the attitude
of one giving close attention. A very carelessly tied cra
vat, coat sleeves turned hack over the wrist, and hands
that tividontly never wore a glove, showed that the. pas
sion fur fashionablV life, which reigned up stairs, had lit
tle influence on the thoughts or toilettes in t to baiement
below.
Yet, to the policy or proceeding of his wife, to her ex
pensiveness, or her choice of friends, her hems Of go
ing end coining, her intimacies or her ambitions, Mr.
Leathers "mode no manner of objection. He differed
wholly from her valuation of things and people, and per
haps, there was a little dislike of trouble Mikis avoidance
of the desperate task of setting tier right; but thorn was
another and less easily divined reason for his s strange let
ting of Mrs. Leathers have her own silly Way, so 'entire
ly. There was u romantic chivalry of mind, laid awo,
undeketed and unsuspected by himself, is a corner qf
his cayacious brain, and, silly.wonlau as she l was, ho had
monied her for love. In the suburb where ho had found
tier, she was a sort of school girl belle, and; as ho had
not then struck his vein of pi osperity, and was but a
poor clerk tvith his capacities unsuspected, her station in
life was superior to his, and ho had first taken her to ids
bosom with the feeling of a plebeian honored with the
condescending affection of a fair patriciom
To this feeling of gratitude, though they' had' so es
sentially changed places—he having given h 3r a carriage
as a millionaire's wife, and sho having only grown silly,
and lost herbeauty—ho remained secretly and sUpersti
tiously loyal. It was his proud pleasure to give her eve.
rything sho could ask for, and still retain his not i nitml at
titude as the receiver of favor. He never, by look or
word, let Mrs. Leathers understand that rho promise of
eternal love was not a promise, roligipusly to pay. Of
the dis-illusion in Ills heart—of his real judgment of liEr
character—of the entice ultandenment, by his reason, of
all the castles in the air - for which ho had romaMically
married—she, fortunately never had a suspicion, Or ask
ed a question, and ho would have cut off his hand sooner
Allan cnlightenlier. In public ho assnmed 6 Manner of
respect and devotion, because his good sense told him
there might be those who would think ill of her if, ho did
not. Ignorant of the motive, and his APpeararteo nat
being fashionable, Mrs. Leathers would often rather have
been waited on by Mr. Cyphers, and this the husband
saw without uneasiness, and would have yielded to, but
for the wish to servo her, in spite of herself, With this
sinffle exception of occasional contradictoriness, end the
exercise of quiet and prior authority es to his own hours
of dining, and his owu couthuts, and those of hunChback
4 1 ucy. in the basement % the stock-broker and his estobt
thihruent wore under the apparently Complete onntrol of
Mrs. Leathers, and thereby in a state of candidacy far
admission jut° the. list of New-York fusing::nide aristoc
15:521
Of course. Lett(here, tho stock-broker, had a hottrWand
like other hearta. bumen and disappointed, it might have
buried it. hopes without a funeral, and sought coueola
lion elsewhere without a dream. It was necessary that
he should !eve and love well; How long a want of this
nature may go unexplained in the breast that feels it—the
love-needing man being ri:iserablo ß ha tinows
,n,c4
dopetias on circa
ning to turn-his 1,
upon himself to
to get it, he was ac
Et nominating coma
house. Compeller
report upon the co
ed to see, in one of
whose pittiful dud
His unemployed F
her, and took her
and horses on the
her—and thencofo i
(engrossed with be
void in his existent
Lucy had no otk
was enough. Het
pick up in en alms
passionately fond o
not at home, she w
chair, or with her
her except at brenk
an. angel, and so, h
tear in his throat, it
night and morning
ty lies sighed in v.
every day, Leather,
own house, having
liege, on her way
eager happiness, u:
basement door and
Lucy dined with hi
ment of his enterim
lion, for anything I:
involuntary smile, a
against his heart in
said. She showed
talked most about I
of the conversation
of his mourninOhi
tointments.
MEE
He did not conic
self, why this or th.
there was sympath .
Iwith earnest attontit
, tted at heart by he
ftis daily recital,
usually occupied th
with his good diunc
up his chair to Luc
the passing of his
newspaper.
_Little stuff for po try ns there would seem to be in
Wall-street mornim,s, Leuthi•rs was not undramatic in
his view of his own worldly position, and his descriptions
of Guinness operations to Lucy. lie had, early in life,
cl
looked askance, w th some bitterness, ut people with
whom he could no or compete, and refinements and
advantages he cool never attain. Too sensible a Mall
to,play a loosing gale nt any thing, he had stifled his de
sire to shine, and lo Iced down the natural chivalry, for
which, with his had of graces, he wai so certain to lack
appreciation. In g ring up all hope of distinction in
matters of show, however, he had prepared himself to
enjoy mine keenly tho satisfaction of controping thoso
promacyoiier the.very thro9o of the empire that had ro.
jected and exiled him, which gave his hush's's: the rest
of a tourney, and mode him dwell on tie details with de
light in Lacy's eager anti syttinpathelie
The houshold, itt short, went on very haynoniotuly
Mrs. Leathers was never up at breakfast, and usually
made her dinner of the lane!t in her boudoir, lat which
M'r Cyphers daily played a pa`rt, mid drank hir bottle of
champagne. Leathers was asleep when A.; went to
bed, she asleep when he got up; she spent lunacy with
out stint, and used her carriage as she gad ML Cyphers
pleased, and that made nil coinfortablC (Mors stairs
Balpip. Loathers was autocrat undisptited, and all was
happiness there,
WII I. MRS. t,la I 0
By the French clock, it was getting towards half-past
four in the drawing room. At five minutes to four Mrs.
Leathers ba i d ordered Fuzzard to oil- the joint of the
door bell, for it was inconceivable that nobody should
have come, and perhaps the bell wouldn't ring. Ladies
itt good society would give up .un acquaintance rather
than split \ their gloves open with straining at a tight hell
liandle=l4o Mr. Cyphers seriously assured her.
The afternoon worn on, and still no sign of a visitor.
Of lrer unfashionable acquaintances she was sure not to
sec one, for, on them, Mrs. Leathers had left "At
Home" fur Saturday, to preservo an uncontaminated
ridW' for the list made out by Mr, (cyphers.
Mrs. Leathers walked the room nervously, and at
every turn, looked through tho faro curtain of the front
window,'
"I'll more from this house," said the unhappy Ao.
mon, twisting her handkerchief around her elbow and
thumb, "for them aro those Sned9n girls opposite, with
their bonnets on, peeping through blinds, and if no
hady comas, llu y'll sink away thernselves and tell every.
body else. Mr. Cyphers! if .somei ca9iago don't stop
at the door before dark, I shall did! Haw ennui you to
put thoso nasty Snedons on the list, Mr. Cyphers? To
leave a card and not to have it remitted, is so mortyfy
ing?" :
"Nasty iSinedelis ns you say,"
it's no 11150 despise people till y
rofilso. Wait till they want to coin
Mrs Inguiplins is corning!"
"Why do tho Snedons know 1117. !algid!)ln's?" in
quired Mrs. Loathers. half incredul usly.
"Know horl—sho couldn't liyoJitlomt them!" and
glad of anything to takci off the nt !blot) of his fiieml
from her disappointment, and enliven the dullness of
that very long morning, Cyphers- proceeded M 'define
the Snedeno, .
oThoy are of a class of famiiica," ho continued, "corn -
mon to every well-regulated aids, nod all
regular failures—a sort of . eollapsed looking troop of
yekting ladies, plain and good for nothing, but dying to
bo fashionable. Every stylish person at the bead of a
set has ono, such family in her train."
"But what on earth can tho Sll6 s liellS do for Mrs
Ingulphus?" inquired Mrs. l i eallAers, rather listlecsly.
"Why, they piolt up her scandal, do her cheap shop,
ping, circulate what she wants.knowit, put down reports
about her, collect complements, entertain bores, praise
her friends and ridicule her rivals—dirty work. you may
say, but lots to be done! No 'position' without—l assure
you I have come to that conclusion, Its natural history
thero is a corresponding class—jackals. As clever
what-d'ye-call him says, ty leader of fashion withollt a
family . of girls of disappeiuted prospects, is like a lion
starying to death far want of jackals." -
"Twenty minutes to live!" digressed Mrs. Leathers;
.elwonder Whirs. Inguipbus is sick! Oh, Ztir. Cyphers!"
she continued, in a tone of as inttelt anguish as she could
probably fool, "caul you go round and implore her—beg
ltorv—anything to make her conic—only this once! You
told me you knew her so well, and abe was certain Who
hem t"
Cyphers„ in FBA, had about given up Mrs. Leathers's
"Friday morning" l as a failure; but he went on cons*,
lint. The light perceptibly lessimeti in the room., It
was exhient:that the evening, without any regard to
Mrs. Leathers's feelings, was about to close over the via.
stances; but as Leathers was begin- -
1
1 -escapable business faculty of attention
o what the deuco ho wanted, and how
cidentally appointed, by the whim 'of
tnittec, one of the :wardens of a poor
for his clutracter'S sake, to visit and
dition of this es:ablislunont, he clia:zc•
f the wards, a little orphan hunchback,
clicate face excited his compassion.—
cart sprang to the child—ho adopted
tome—gave Mrs. Leathers a carriage
-auto day, to tippet's() and propitiate
ward hitd an object of affectios, which,
siness as ho was,) sufficed to fill the
I e. ..,
or !ante that she knew of, hut that
education had been such as ihe could
house, but she was fond of reading and
f music, and when her benefactor was
as -happy with her books in th e arm
piano, and Mrs. Leathers seldonn saw
fast. Lucy thought the stuek-broker
her, he was. He loved her with a
nd kissed her small white forehead at
with a feeling many a brilliant beau=
in to awaken. At half-past three,
alighted from the omnibus, at his
perhaps, passed Ids wife in her car
up from Wall-street, and, with un
!explained to himself, went in at the
I sat down to his punctual dinner.—
in or sot by the fire. From tho mo
she had no thought, wish, or ntton-
I him. Her little thin lips wore an
rid her soft blue; eyes fairly leaned up
a l their complete absorption in what he
lthe moat pleasure, however, when he
!itself, and by questions and !endings
she drew from hini daily, the history
hopes, successes, obstacles or disap.
Is to, her, for he did not confess to him.
t '•operation" had pleased hint, but
• in-having its mere mention heard
eness, and he felt expanded and light•
smile or MA of congratulation.—
•ith its interruptions, and digressions,
hour of dinner, atd then, genial
and his day's work, Leathers drew
's and had no earthly desire, save
vetting between her talk 'und his
PART 111
choed Cyphers. "hot
tt have sotethitigt to
to a party itemise
iting r hour. Meantime. however. a' scene had been go
ing;_on in the basement. which eventually bud an imporp
taut influence on Mrs. Leathers's "Friday mornings,"
and of which we must therefore, give the reader a
glimpse, though (our story is getting so long) we must
confine ourselves to its closing tableau.
PART IV.
wit Vl' BROUGIIIIIIS. imatzrues.
A !UIDDLE-AVED man, ft a very high-bred mould of
feature, sat on the forward edge of a chair, leaning far
over the table toward Mr. Leather. He was dressed
for n dinner party, and a pair of white gloves lay on thd
cloth beside him; but his face looked very little like that
of a man on his way to a festivity. The sweat'stood in
large drops on his forehead and upper lip. His closed
left hand was clutched in the palm of his right; his el
bows were crowded to his side; his drawn up shoulde'rs
crushed his white cravat into a wisp under his ears, arid
he sat with his mouth partly open and eyes glaring upon
the stock-broker; 'as if expecting lite or death from his
immediate decision.' Lucy sat on he'r chair looking on,
but not with 'her ordinary calmness. Her lips were
trembling to speak, and her thin hand clutched the heti
die of the lever which moved her patent chair, while her
little bent back was lifted front its supporting cushion,
with tho preparatory effort to wheel forward. Leathers,
on whom her moist oyes were intently fixed, sat gazing
on a bundle of papers, with his under lip pinched be
tween his knuckle and thumb.
"Think, I implore, before , yon decide," said the visi
tor, at last, breaking the silence. "You aro my last hope!
I could not plead with you this morning in Wall-street.
ruhrld betray myself to people coining in. I did not
(lieu think of asking you again. I went home, despair
ing. Afraid—yes afraid—to stay alone with my own
thoughts, I dressed to go out. My wife will be hero in
a moment to toko nae up, on her way to a dinner party.
Oh God! how little she dreains we ma y bonars to
morrow!"
Ile pressed his forehead betwee his two hands for a
moment, and crowded his elbows d&wn upon the table.
Lucy rolled her chair a little foiivard, but Leathers
motioUarlier back.
"You may i think," he re:mined, "that I) might go to
others—more intimate friends—in such o,stretnity—fami
ly friends. But I know them. It would' bo utterly in
vain, Mr. Leathers! I have no friend, much less a rel
ative, in the world, of the least use in misfortune. I had
strained my credit to tlurlast thread before coining to you,
in Wall-street. Why I suddenly resolved to conic to yon,
here, with no claim, and at such an unfit hour for busi
ness, I know not. Instinct proinpted. It seemed to
me, while I was dressing, liko limo whisper of an an
gel!"
Leathers, made a movement as if to veal:.
"Take c f ore. sir! Tor God's sake take aro! With on.!
%void yen /nay bind mo to von while I live, with the grat
itude of de . peration, or you plunge me i nto ruin!"
Tha stack-Molter took up the sehedalel of property
‘vhich lay before him, and, after an instant's hesitation,
pushed (Mint across the table. During the half-hour,
Mille prou l i d ingttlphus, the milliondire, had been plead
ing with him for salvation front ruin, ho -hid not been
osaminint these, though his eyes were bent on them.—
ha hod astisfied himself of their unavailable value, be
fore his refusal of the morning. The struggle in his
heart Mftween pity and prudence occupied him now:—
110 Loow that the chances Were against 1)14 ever seeing
again the very large sum necessary to proveut the pres
ent bankruptcy of Ingulphns, and that a turn in business
might make the same sum urgently necessary to filth
self te.morrow—bUt his compassion was moved. lie
would have refused over again, entl.ight and without cm
oniony, in IWall-street; but,ingulphus had taken him at
a business disadvant4ge, with his heOtt uppermost and
open, and tt pleading angel listening at d looking on.
Ati,the three sat silent, pity gradually overcoming the
reluctant_prudence of the stock-Maker's judgment, there
was a dash of jvhetals and hoofs upon the clean pavement
pear the cmh-stone, a sudden pull-up, mad the splendid
equipage of the intfulphus"s stood at Leathers's door.—
Lue'y's. heart sank within her, for she had been praying
to H eaven, with all her might of sympathy and inward
sympathy and inward tears, for the success of the plea
and she felt that the influence of this ostentatious arrival
was unfavorable. Leather's looked over Ms shoulder in-
to the street, and ruse from his chair asibe footman iat
livery crossed the sidewalk to wring the bell,
"For God's sake!" gasped L thQ despereto !deader, in
an agonized tone,knittitig hichandS together. and turn
ing his face with tho movement as the stock-broker took
his stank before the lire.
There was refusals in the attitude of Leathers, and
in his brow, compressed with t h e etlin.t to utter it.
tkin, whit° fingers of the' little hunchback gently
took the hand of her bentfractor---now brought within
her reach—and held it to her lips, while the tears drop
ped upon it ficely..
tuy sak,..."'` tite murmured, in a tone of appealing
and earogßing tenderness, which a moro Itard•lioarted
man than her Lonecantor would havo been troubled to re-
rued and opened his large eyes with an
Isudddea tendernev upon her,
Leathers tt
expres,ioa of
"Fur pow
givitp4 her a
l ake be it. then, my suieot child!" ho said
•i 53 with a rdpid moFetnents, as if his
lly broken through its restraint with ilia
'ad lent it.
bent had joy
inipulso sho I
"And now'
ho continued ,
fur ihe }aka of this angel, Mr, lug!'lyhtts,"
•
But the sudden rush of hope, and the instant 're.
taxation of dtApair, were too lunch for the high-sttung
frame of ther p roud suppliant.
Execited to tho utmost tensiett by anxiety, and dotthtr
less far mouths utmost overdone with sleeplessness and fatigue,
his nervous 4stem gave way, and as Leathers turned to
him from Lucy, he fell fainting front his chair.
To ring the hell and send suddenly to the carriage for
`Mrs, Ingulphits, was the wink of a moment; and, to the
astonishment of the Snedons opposite, and the mingled
relief and surprise ofCyphors and Mrs. Leathers, mite
were peeping at the carriage from the drawing-room win
dow, the Queen - of tho up-town fashion run up the steps,
In fall dinner dress, and wont in at the Leathers's:
A present of a bouquet with the Snetlens's card the
next morning a•'as the beginning of Mrs. Leathers'ii rec
ognition by the discriminating paste-board of fashion--L
' hut there aro many; Who (till they road this story,) have
considered Mrs. Leitthers`s adiniSsioit to the "Ingul
phus's set," es one of the most inexplicable mysteries of
this astounding century.
•
MAXIMS ON MONEY.—Tho art of hying easily as to
money, hi to pitch yourscale of living one degree below
your means. CuriaeYt and enjoyment are more dopen
;lent upon eeriness iu the detail of expenditure, than upon
ono degree's ditibreuce in the twele.• Guard against
false associations of pleasure with expenditure—tho no
tion that because pleasure can be purchased with money,
therefore money cannot he spent without enjoyment.--
Whit a thing costs a man is no true measure of what it
is worth to him; and yet how• often is his appreciation
governed hy no other standard, as if there were a• pleas
ure in expenclittiroper cc. Let yourself feel a want be
fore you provide against it. You are more assured that
it is real want; and it is worth while to. feel the relief front
W it. _ When you aroundecidedas to which of two courses
you would like best, choose the cheapest. This rule will
not only wive mopey„ but save also a good deal of trilling
indecision. Too' nuch lobo, leads to expease; because
when 'a - man is in want ofobjects, it occurs to him that
they are to be had for money. and he invents expendi-,
tam in order to, my the time,
+Weasel to Rock of Nora Lolly,
or TIIE I. O. fir O.F.
nt Rocky Mount:
Wearied, thirsty, nod distresbcd.
punting for the cooling "bunt.
Israel's children totrayi:d to rot,
Asking in Jehovah's uame,
Furth refreshing waters carpe,
Thus, whilSt in this world of tare,
Oft; as helplesi brothers come,
lAA them Kin your bounty •bare,
Finding in your heart a home;
And in you a Horeb pro%
Daubing at its sprinz, of lot c.
And n fell e'er in 6,,rrom.'s
Brother+ of our ctiaskir baiter
Call in truth, 0, may )on light
'fht• Of l os I`, vtilt FriendArip'a hand,
('hanging nn ith it , cheering ray
Sorrue,'., night to dos vtl3 day
,ch 10, 1910
31:1
6 FAN POSITION OF GERMANY
The Frankford Nssembly, with a prescience for which
we had cored to give her crod:t, has come to a resolu
tion which will establish tlio German unity, and raise
that country into one of the greatest powers of Europe.
It has resolved to put Austria out of rho question In Its
plan of intigration, . and to treat if as a neighboring
state. - By l this meansfit takes a most ample and practi
cal revenge for the contempt with Ivhich Austria has
treated it, and for the 'murder of Robert. Blem, its envoy.
Hitherto, all advances of the Assembly towards Austria, •
have been met with the most marked • discourtesy.—
Windischgrata retused to ace the envoys, and, to put the,
matter bey nd remedy. 'actually shot ono of them. The
Assembly Towed to avenge his death, and it has done so
in the most conceivably masterly manner. It had no
armed powe r; it not, therefore, inflict a punk.
meal th? sword. But it has exorcised a legislative
power which has sti tick' far deeper. Austria has alwa:ts
that is. since the cleCtion of the !Ions() of Hapsburgh to
the ituperitil dignity.;claimed the imperial crown of Ger
many its a sort of heqloom. If there was ono country
mole than another on which it looked with jealousy, it
was Prussia. In thii 'Mind pride,_and in its irritation
, , , , ,
agaitr , i. a piepte risen from tura , itioin .tt ,
etter
nich policyl to assert its freedom, it forgot for a Moment
the prosinisto greatness of Prussia. It saw only a con
federation (if people c,x l oreising rights most hateful to its
domineering tomper. l and 'assisting its own subjects to
assert thdo l fame. It mado no scruple, therefore, to en -
no
deavor to stamp on this great popular poWer: it used disguise in expiession t,f its hatred and contempt. It
pooh-bootie(' its advances, it violated its sacred charac
ter, I
and the law of nations, and shot its envoy.
\Vhavt
this pulley
- i
no more den'it than of our own exiiteneo that
dietatild by the old arch foo of freedom.
%Y lizivo never for- a moment believed
that front this country he still rules Austria.—
•
a l ns are now aware or' this, and publicly avow
till not be long before we Shall see that arch
es of depotism again on his way towards Aus-
In this case he has met with a master stroke
Baron Viin Gager!). Von Gagern, immedi
he !mirth+ of Blum, hastened to Berlin. His
a mYsterv—it is now clear. Ho saw that
coin mittttd itself he.tond remedy, by tho etre
ei•ocution• that it had made a deep
in heart of the German people, and opened
Oirect union. with Prussia. The result is
the Frankfort Assembly has passed a resolu
in;:r. Austria no (Millen of the German empire.
t-17, that there shall be nn emperor,
oerial clown shall be offered to :one of the
There can ho no other than PrusL
this dignity. This is felt, and al
ie other princes. The King of Pres -
f Germany. Germany will become
t empire, and the gerionn union
Otl!c r than
The Germ
it. No sit
Mepitistopl
trig. But
of policy in
atelv after
abject was
Austria ha.
cious act ofl
wound in t
the door to
complete
lion declar
and, by a ii!
and the im
Kings - of; '
sin who cult
EOM=
aspire. to
detl trr lb
ready cone
siu will bo.
i miporor o
nd coiltpa'
Llinhc .
one great a l
will be esta
We cannot me 11 a
century which ca b
Gagorit. Itllta4 at of
tour and blOod-guilty
the German union.
stroke of police during the present
put in comparison With this of Von
co avenged Germany of the hau
insole nee of Austria, and has sitv ed
The rrankfort Assembly was fast
sinking hal eontemp
power to 'enforce tber
and Prussia i had re-sr
Inoue° woL Itl have h
• ...
It passed &tomes,' but had no
n. Had it only waited till Austria
ttled their affairs, the certain conse
that tli tld hr ,1
_hey won. -Javo unites
iembly, and scattered the; union be
toldiers. Von Gagern saw this, and
f statetnanship, lto has at once se
uNtria front each other: punished
its insolence, nog attached Prussia
I nd its ambition to the Germanic
it is the honor and" greatnoss of the
a. Austria now aces this, and
otraee the bliinder. It hastened to
I hostility towards the-confederation,
t—i t only waited till its oWn affairs
i.ow wait lung , onongh. Tho die is
and put don the As
fore a half million of:
by this (441 d'ourn
voted Pcusida and
Austria coldignly fa
with all it 4 nterests
union. Ili iiceforth,
'German cbnfedcpii
would g,:ve l a world t
dot-Vitro tha it had n
felt no contempt far p
are oettled.l It ma)
casti and P
end placed
pride of pin
rankle fore
topics once
and Germ,
allied to the great Germanic nation.
V at its head, wilttower above Austria in the
kce,, and ra i nutin a thorn in its side that must
ver. Thns is the great Menernich-Mephis.
more check-mated. Thus hi Robert Blunt
fly avengezl, and thus is the unity of the Ger:
saved! All honor to Von Gngern.
=2!IIMI
ha our it
thu hateful
tvo are inelj
of the nu 4
splendid ati
tional Assi,
'ofonnd satisriction iit tho blow thus given to
policy and the sanguinary :crime of-Austriit,
Lned, in a great degree, to overlook our disliko
inn King, and to hope that at the head of so
empito - ,' and with the check of a Constitu
el tnblv ho will be more careful to act as ,
be
gat monarch. Ilis threetest and deepest in
e to maintain the freCdont and prosperity of
It will ho a glory such as-no King can des
a people Of Filch a character, and of 40,000,000
in lhp spitit'of intelligence and freedom. It
comer' d gr ,
Ceres{ will y
Germany.
piso to rnlo
in number,
will bo his 1
on the dos
cafelii slid wisest cour,e, Ifho attempts to put ,
otic sere*—thero stands Austria, ready to lis4
and to-avail herself of it to regain
ucuco at his cost. We behold, therefore, in
•
►
o f tiiings, the strongest guarantee of Ettro.'•
Tho bend of a dangerous alliance of the
ten to any
her lost
this posiiian
Peon periee.
thrco Northern Powers is broken—that is, of alliance
against public liheity.—France.' were it 50 inclined,
would find such a !Germany rim will, now consolidate
itsell;.l;e power is bo insulted or invaded with
• Peace and friendship will bo the ohvi-
impunity
ous policy.i But there is ono consideration for oursave#
arising out [ of this new turn of affairs, of the deepest im
part. Germany, and espec;ally Prussia, has long had
ambitiousyearningsl for a tleeti-a great merchant float,
protected diy a national Davi . . Germany under such
auspices will seek. and that earnestly. eagerly. indefati
gably, to tt l lauttracti n o and -to trade. That it will iudutgo
it s envy jo.dous.‘of our greatnees, is felt by every
ono conversant with 'Germany, and is already shown by
sending to i tho United States; • and not to England. for
Wilms to 41.rgiiiiize-tho now Hoot.L?ndott Standard.
I
qy Says orals-occasion - in which SOMflt3 made
. "Seattus 'rose last. He spoke little more
runes. lint every' ward was full of weighty
d when he sat down his reputation as an era
oustituticinal lawyer was established." Our
rotors will do well to ponder this 'live minutes
heir henna.
hlvr.tav
a speech
than five
matter; a
for and a
Congress
opsech,in
NUMBER 44,
OM