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Ah, tbe wrong that might be righted If we would but see the wayl Ah, the pains that might be lightened Every hour and every day, If we would but hear the pleadings Of the hearts that go astray. Let us step outside the stronghold Of our selfishness and pride; L.et us lift our fainting brothers, Let us strengthen ere we chide; Let us, ere we blame the fallen, Hold a liht to cheer and guide. Ah, how blessed ah, how blessed Earth would be if we'd but try Thus to aid and right the weaker, Thus to check each brother's sigh; Thus to talk of duty's pathway To our better life on high. In each life, however lowly, There are seeds of mighty good; Still, we shrink from souls appealing "With a timid "If we could;" But a God who judges all things Knows the truth is, "If we would." LOf'U OX A LOG. "Miss Becky Newton." "Well, sir." "Will you marry rac ?" "'So, 1 won't." "Very well, then don't, that's all." Mr. Fred Eckerson drew away his chair and putting his feet on the piaz za, unfolded a newspaper. Miss Becky Xevrton bit her lip and went on with her sewing. She wondered if that was going to be the last of it. She had telt this proposal coming for near ly a month, but the scene she had an ticipated was not at all like this. She had intended to refuse him, but it was to be done gracefully. She was to remain firm, notwithstanding his most eager entreaties. She was to have told him that, though respecting his manly worth and upiight character, she could never be more than an ap preciative friend. She had intended to shed a few tears, perhaps, as he knelt in agony of supplication at her fret. But instead, he had asked her the simple question, without any rhet orical embellishments, and on being answered, had plunged at once into his newspaper, as though he had mere ly inquired the time of day. She could have cried with vexation. "You will never have a better chance," he continued, after a pause, as he deliberately turned over the sheet to find the latest telegraph re- ports. "A better chance for what ?" she asked shortly. "A better chance to marry a young, good-looking man, whose gallantry to the sex is only exceeded by his brave ry in their defence." Fred was quot ing from his newspaper, but Miss Isewton did not know it. "Aud whose egotism is only exceed ed by his impudence," retorted the lady sarcastically. "Before long," continued Fred, "you will be out of the market. Your chances, you know are getting slim mer every day." "Sir I" "It won't be a trreat while before you are ineligible. ol.l and wrinkled, and " "Such rudeness to a lady, sir, is monstrous!" exclaimed Miss .Newton, rising hastily and flushing to the tem ples. "I'll give you a final opportunit', Miss Becky. Will you mar " "Not if you were the king of Eng land," interrupted Miss Newton,throw ingdown her work. "I am not accus tomed to such insults, sir." And so saying she passed into the house and slamrned the door behind her. "She is never as handsome as when she is in a rage," thought Fred to him self after she had gone, as he slowly folded up his paper and replaced it in his pocket.. "I was a fool to goad her so. I shall never win her in that way. But I'll have her," he exclaimed aloud. "By heaven ! I'll have her, cost what it may." - Yery different was the Fred Ecker son of the present, pacing nervously up and down the piazza, from Fred Eckerson of a few moments ago, re ceiving his dismissal from the woman he loved with such a calm and imper turbable exterior. For he loved Becky Newton with all his heart. The real difficulty in the way, as he more than half suspected, was not so much in himself as in his pocket. Becky'Xew ton had an insuperable objection to an empty wallet. The daughter of a wealthy Louisiana planter, reared in luxury, and the recipient of a weekly allowance of pin money sufficient to pay Fred's whole bills, for a whole month, she had no immediate idea of changing her situation for one of less comfort and independence. Besides, it had been intimated to her that a neighboring planter of unusually aris tocratic lineage had looked upon her with covetous eyes. To be sure, he was old and ugly, but he was rich, and in her present mercenary state of mind, Miss Becky Newton did not desire to allow such a chance of becoming a wealthy widow to slip by unimproved. WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FKKE, AXD ALL PxY., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1873. But alas for human nature 1 If j Becky was really so indifferent to Fred ! Eckerson, why did she run up stairs I after that interview, and take the ' starch all out of her nice clean pillow- shams by crying herself into bister- j ics on the bed ? It was not all wrath, ' not all vexation, not all pique. There was somewhere deep down in Becky ; Newton's heart, a feeling very much akin to remorse. She was not sure 1 that she would not one day be sorry j for what she had done. She had no ; doubt she could be very happy as j Fred Eckerson's wife, after all. j "But theu," she cried, growing hot ! with the recollection, "he was so rude and so insulting! I could never live with such a man never !" When Fred Eckerson had walked ' off some of his feelings on the piazza, he concluded to take a look at the river. The Mississippi, which flowed within five hundred yards of the house, was at that time nearly at the height of its regular "spring rise." It's tur bid waters, rushing swiftly toward the sea, had nearly filled the banks and, in many places had broken through the levees and flooded the lowlands for many miles. A crevasse of this description has been made in the far ther bank, nearly opposite the house, and the windows of the Newton man sion commanded a view of a vast and I glittering inland sea, not laid down on ' the map. The main current of the : stream bore upon its coffee-colored ! bosom an enormous mass of floating timber, which was dashed along in the boiling flood, rendering navigation i wholly impossible. The waters were j still rising, and the frequent crashes ; far and near told of the undermining power of the current, as sections of the sandy banks succumbed and dis- j appeared, carrying with them the trees I which overhung the stream. j Now it happened that by a curious ; coincidence.Miss Newton also resolved 1 to look at the river. She dried her tears, and putting on her hat, slipped ; out br the back door to avoid Fred, i aud soon found herself at the foot of a huge cottonwood tree on the bank ! below the house. Throwing herself upon the grass, and lulled by the rapid flood beneath she soon fell asleep, j Had she possessed any power of fore j seeing the future, it would have been : the last thing she would have done, ) for although it was very pleasant j dropping asleep there in the shade, j with the soft sunlight flittering through the leaves overhead, the awakening was not at all to her mind. A terri- ; ble crash made chaos of her dreams ; j the tall cottonwood toppled and fell ; : and Miss Becky Newton found herself j immersed in the cold flood, with her ; mouth full of muddy water. In a moment more, somebody's arm was , around her and she felt herself lifted : up and placed in the sunshine, though precisely where, she was as 3-et too i bewildered to know. Getting her eyes ! open at last, she found Fred Eeker- j son's whiskers nearly brushing her face. "Well !" "Well !" "Where am I?" asked Becky, shiv ering and looking around her. "You are in the middle of the Mis- sissippi," replied t red, "and you are in the fork of a cottonwood tree, and 7 u i..if .f ! Aiexieo just, as last as me iresner, can carry you." "ilow came vou here ?" "In the same conveyance with your- j self, Miss Becky. In fact, 3011 and I j and the tree all came together, to say j nothing of a portion of your father's ; plantation, which I fear is lost to him j forever." Becky was silent. She was think ing, not of the accident or their peril ous position, but of her appearan.ee when she was lying asleep on the grass. "How long were j'ou there before this happened ?" she asked. "As long as you were. I was up in the tree when you came !" "You had no right to be up there," she said, coloring, "a 6py upon my movements." "Nonsense !" he replied, "You in truded upon mv privacy, and while you slept I watched over you like the ; ...... . . . . . . 1 . V It . sweet little cherub that sus up aiott. "Thank you for the service, I'm sure," she said, bridling. "You snored awfully." "Mr. Eckerson, remove your arm from my waist." "Then put yours around my neck." "Indeed, I shall do no such thing." "You will fall into the river if you do not." Becky was silent for a few moments, while the unwieldy raft whirled along in the current, rolling from side to side, and threatening every instant to turn completely over and tip them OiF. At last she said : "What are we to do ?" "I think, now that I am started, I shall go on to New Orleans," he re plied. "To New Orleans!" exclaimed Becky. "It is a hundred miles !" "Yes, and the chance of a free ride for a long distance is not to be ne glected.' You can go ashore if you prefer." She burst into tears. ARE SLAVES BESIDE." "You are cruel," she said, "to treat me so." "Cruel," exclaimed Fred, drawing her closer to him, quickly "cruel to you ?" There was no help for it, and she again relapsed into silence, quite con tent, apparently, to remain in Fred's arms, and evincing now no disposi tion to rebel. For once in her life 6he was dependent on a man. "I want to go to New Orleans," continued Fred, after a pause, "be cause there is a young lady of my acquaintance residing there whom I have an intention of inviting into this neighborhood." "Oh!" , "If we don't gi and if we get safe ) to New Orleans, out of this scrape, her to come any- I shall write for way." "Ah !" "I shall obtain board for her in St. Jean, which will be convenient for me as long as I remain your fathers guest. I can ride over after break last every morning you see." "She is an intimate friend, then," said Becky. "I expect to marry her before long," he replied. "Marry her! Why you you pro posed to me this morning." "Yes, but you refused me. I told you then you would never have auother chance." Becky was silent again. It is a matter of some doubt whether, had Fred at that moment, sitting astride that cottonwood log, with his feet in the water and his arm around her waist, proposed to her a second time, she would have accepted him or not. To be sure a marvellous change had come over Becky's feelings since her tumble into the river. She felt that one strong arm like that which sup ported her was worth a thousand old and decrepit planters, and she recog nized the fact that a man who could talk so coolly and unconcernedly in a situation of such extreme peril was of no ordinary courage. But she w as not yet quite prepared to give up her golden dreams. The dross was not quite washed out of her soul, and she did not yet know how much she loved Fred Eckerson. Besides she did not half believe him. Their clumsy vessel floated on, now root first, now sideways, and now half submerged beneath the boiling current. Their precarious hold be came more uncertain as their frames became chilled by the cold water, and every plunge of the log threatened to cast them once more into the river. In vain Fred endeavored to attract the attention of some one on the shore. The cottonwood retained a course nearly in the middle of the stream, too far from either bank to render their outcries of much avail. As it grew dark their situation seemed more and more helpless, and to Becky there appeared to be no escape from certain death, either by drowning in the darkness, or by exhaustion before daybreak. et to die in this man s arms seem- j ed not wholly a terror. She could j hardly think, if death must come, of, any way In which she would rather j meet it. Was it possible she loved : 1. : , 1 i . - 1 i-.unv ( within the valley of the shadow be- 1 fore she could know her heart? Had she loved him all along ? While she j was thinking about it, chilled by the , night air, she fell asleep. When she ' awoke the stars were out, but she was j warm and comfortable, liaising her 1 head, she found herself enveloped in Fred's coat. "Fred !" "Well !" "You have robbed yourself to keep me warm. You are freezing." "No 1J ain't. I took it off because it was so awful hot ;" and, taking out his handkerchief with his disengaged hand, he made a pretense of wiping the perspiration from his brow. "How long have I been asleep ?" "About three hours. We arc drift ing ashore now." "Shall we be saved ?" "I don't know. Put your arms around my neck, for I am going to take mine away." Becky did this time as she was bid. She did not only throw her arms quickly around his neck, but laid her head upon his breast without the slightest hesitation. In the darkness Fred did not know that she imprinted , a kiss upon his shirt bosom. I "Hold fast, now !" he cried. "Hold j on for dear life !" j The log had been gradually nearing j the 6hore for some time, and it now shot suddenly under a large sycamore which overhung the bank and trailed its branches in the brown flood. Quick j as thought Fred seized the limb above ; his head and pulled with all his might. ' The headlong course of the cotton- ! wood was checked ; it plunged heavily j and parti v turned over; its top be- ; came entangled in the sycamore, and a terrific craGkling of limbs ensued. With a sudden spring Fred gained j the projecting branch, dragging his j clinging burden after him. In another j instant the cottonwood had broken away and continued its voypge down the river, while the bent sycamore re gained its shape with such quick bound that the two travelers were very nearly precipitated into the stream again. Fred, half supporting, half dragging Becky, worked his way to the trunk by a series of gymnastics that would have done no discredit to Blondin, and in a moment more both had reached the ground in safety. "That is a business we are well out of," he said, when he had regained his breath. "Now where are we ?" He looked about. A light was glimmering from a habitation behind them, a short distance from where they stood. Becky could not walk Without great pain, and Fred lifted her lightly in his arms and started for tlie house. It proved to la? the dwell ing of a small planter, who was not lacking in hospitality. Here their wants were quickly attended to, and under the cheering influence of warmth and shelter Becky was soon herself again. The drove home on the following day, Fred having procured the loan of the planter's horse and chaise for that purpose, promising to return them by Mr. Newton's servants the day after. The morning was bright and clear, and the fragrance of the oiange groves was in the air. Becky, who had main tained almost utter silence since their escape from the cottonwood, was no less silent now. Fred himself did not appear particularly communicative, I and many miles of the long ride were taken without a remark from either. It was Beckv who spoke first. "Fred." she said. "Yes P "You have saved mv life, have vou not?" "Happy to do it any day," he re marked, not knowing exactly what els to say. "I thank yon very much." "Quite welcome, I'm sure." There was another long silence, broken only by the sound of the horse's hoofs upon the road. Fred himself seemed to have lost some of his habitual ease, for he kept his whip in constant motion, tuid held tlie reins nervously. "Fred"!" "Yes!" "Are you going to write to that young lady in New Orleans ?'' "I s'pose so." "Hadn't you better try again be fore you before you write?" He turned his eyes full upon her, and opened them wide. "Try again ; try what ?" "I've been thinking through tbe night," said Beekj bending low to hide her face, and carefully separating the fringe of her mantilla, "that per haps if you asked me again the same question that you did yesterday morning I might answer a little dif ferent." Becky ?s head went agaiust Fred's shoulder, and her face became imme diately lost to view. "You darling!" he exclaimed, "I never intended to do otherwise. The young lad' in New Orleans was wholly a myth. But when, may 1 ask, did you change your mind ?' "I have never changed it," she riiur- mered. "I have loved vou all the tune, out 1 never knew it unti: last night." Aud to this day, when Mrs. Becky Eckerson is asked where it was that she fell in love with her husband, she answers "on a log !" Sauatooa lawyeis are unequal to the exercise of a complete dance, and this is the way the- manage to slide out. "Eli Perkins" is our authority. The young lady is introduced to the substitute with tlie following casual remark : "I give and bequeath to you, to have and to hold in trust, one-half of my right, title and claim, and my advantage, in a dance known as a 'Railroad Galop,' with Amelia John son, with all her hair, paniers, grass hopper bend, rings, fans, belt, hairpins, smelling bottle, with all the right and advantages therein; with full power to have, hold, encircle, whirl, toss, wig gle, push, jam, squeeze, or otherwise use except to smash, break, or other wise damage and with right to tempo rarily convej- the said Amelia Johnson, her hair, rings and paniers, and other articles heretofore or hereinafter men tioned, after such whirl, squeeze, wig gle, jam, etc., to her natural parents now living, and without regard to any deed or deeds or instruments, of what ever kind or nature soever, to the con trary in anywise notwithstanding." it-hool "Jaiiks Jknkint." said a msi;ltr to ono of hi.- Tilirdls. "what 13 an average?" "A thing, sir," answered the b hoi nr uronmtlv "that hens lay eggs on.' , , , ... - .... 1: 1. Whv do vou say that, you foolish ( bov?" inquired the jiedagogue. ..ii ir " Jul the votith, "I "Because, sir, said the J " J . , heard a gentleman say the otner ia j as how a hen would la', on an average, j a hundred and twenty eggs a year." J What kind of essence does a young man like when he pops the question ? Acquiescence. Terms; S2 per year, In advance. NUMBER 33. mothkk 1:11:. BT TIIK "l'AT coNTiuutrron." In wiilirig the biographies of eminent women it is eminently fit that we begin with mother Eve herself. Evo Ix-lored to one of our Just families in fact, the very first. She was related to the first man on the Adam side, although she had deep cause to lament that bhe ever left Adam's side. Philosophers who have probed deep into the subject connect Eve's early career as a rib with tho female fonduess for a rib bon. Eve became Mis. Adam; arid tbey lived very happily together for a time. There was 110 other woman for her to be ! jealous of, and her husband wasn't jiestered with dressmaker's bills. She wasn't tor tured bv discovering love letters from un known fumbles in Adam's coat tail pockefcf and Adam never blew her up because his buttons wer&u't sewed on. I've never saw a fashion, plate, never wore high-heeled shoes (she made A slip, but she couldn't make a slipper,) or chignons ; aud if there had been lots of newspapers printed, she wouldn't have known how to make back numbers available. It never occurred to her to go into the lecture-field, and as for voting, she did not know what it meant. If they were going out to an evening party she didn't keep Adam waiting lor her until he was ready to Adam everything! and ho was never known to come home with an other man's hat or overcoat on. How Eve could live without another woman to gossip with it is hard to under stand at this day. but she did. Adam is supposed to have been kept in a glow of continual happiness by the reflection that he hadn't any mother-in-law lying around, and couldn't have. Oh, but thopo were delightful days when our parents, in their simplicity, wandered about Eden Park, hand in hand, discussing the improvements that might be made; here an avenue, thero a promenade, here an archway and thero" a tunnel for an e'lHiient pije. They might have had a plan for filling up Deer Creek for what we know. There is little record as to how mother Eve employed herself when not wandering in Euen. There was no sew ing society for her to be president of, there were uo clothes to bo made up for the littlG heathen, as thci-j were very little, heathen until the set tlement of New York city. ho couldn't play the piano, because she had none. Had sho possessed one cr those boons she would probably have driven her husband out of paradise without the intervention of the serpent. She couldn't paint or " draw. There wasn't a drawer on earth at that time to say nothing about a pair of 'em. Sha couldn't receive calls, except when Adam called her, and got no invitations out to tea. She was totally ignorant of the de lights of shopping, and never attended a matinee in all her life; When she went out to promenade she never looked around to see what other women bad on. Tbore was gome compensation for being the only woman in the world. Eve wasn't bothered with a "hired girl." She didn't know what it was to have a Bridget in tha kiichen. She was spared the annoyance of changing the kitchen girls every week, and there were no "fellers" hanging around the kitchen steps. Everything seemed to go well with Eva until the fruit season set in, and then well y Jcuovrd. tho vtory. She was tempted into an apple tree to pluck some fruit that wasn't quite ripe, and fell. Ad am fell, too that is, he fell-to and helped eat it. although, with a meanness some what characteristic of his sex, he endeav ored to throw all the blame on the woman when detected. Too lazy to shake the tree himself, he was ready enough to partake of the fruit when brought to his baud. After this faux pas Adam and Eve were obliged to take their respective leaves of Eden. They were fig-leaves. Eve had suddenly become possessed with a love for drci:s, and from that early ieriod until the present, that love has gradually increased among the sex, until now it amounts to a veritable passion with many of them. Eve founded a very extensive family. Besides the Massachusetts Adams, the entire hu man family may trace back to Mr. and Mis. Adam, if their traces are long enough. We don't learn that Eve cut up very much, after that affair in the garden. If sha "raised Cain" it was because Cain waa tough and hearty. If he had been a sickly child perhaps she wouldn't have been able to raise him. It is recorded that Adam reached tha good old age of nine hundred and thirty years before he died, but no mention is made of Eve's age when she passed away. The well knjwn antipathy to telling her aire which characterizes women in all age ! ami under every clime, may peiuaps ac- count for this. I T::p. Brnnv Sturv Teli. Ir Right j vvhii.f Yoi-"i;t; Ar.ci'1 It. The papers are leli.-iMii'iU tbe old Berry story, but they don't conclude it in accordance with the facts. This is the correct version: - A cel cbialid coineili.iii arranged with his green .l. rci: or.o I'eny, to pay him o.uartriv : .t Berry nce sent in his account long be- the .piaitei was un J hereupon tha "lineman, .11 great wrath, called upon tha rocef ,aid to hms. j., a yreUy mt(!,? 1enj. . vo havB Mnt m your j,,- Berry, before it was dice, Berry. Your father, the elder Berry, wo-dd not have been such a goose. Berry." But you needn't look so blue, Gerry, for 1 don t cai e a srrav. Berry; and if you come here again before Jvne, Berry, I'll kick your rap, Berry, until it is bbxi-k, Berry,
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