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!day 1, 1859.
IMPORTED Lubiii" , i, a lso, Glenn's Double Extracts,
for the handkerchief, at
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va.. 19,'59. Opposite Coln. Bridge, Front Si.
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nooms.---ioo Doz. Brooms, at 'Wholesale
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Coldo, Whooping Cough. Croup,&c. For sale at
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Family Medicine Store, Odd Fellows' Hall.
October 23,185 n.
Patent Steam Wash Batters.
quip:se well known lloilere ore kept eonotnolly on
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my by D. F. AP1'01,1),
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DEM
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Columbia, July 30,1859.
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MRS. WINSLOW'S Soothing Syrup, which will
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and Rams, to which he CAIN the attention of the
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Locust sti eet.
December 12,1.857
, FANCY TOILET SOAPS.
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COLOGNE WATER by the pint, quart or gallon
Glenn's Extracts tor the handkerchief by the
lance or pound, or in any quantity to Fail parchnser'
Blear Gligiors,
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00
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Drpertien, and Arroyo Root Crackers, for in
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April 16. 16:19.
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Gro s9. cery Store, Comer Frost and Union sts
Seedless Raisins!
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N0v.19, Grocery Store. No H. Locust et.
Turkish Prunes!
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S. EUERLEIN'S
N0v.19, 1469. Grocery Store, No. n Loom at
SHAKER CORN.
JUST receiTaid, a first rate Jot of Shaker Corn, at
of lI.SUVD*I4'S
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140r.26, 1959.
glltttirrns.
The Shadow in the Railway Car
"Will you mind having the window up,
old fellow?" said I to Charley Howard,
ono foggy afternoon as we were traveling by
railway down to Scotland together, "it is a
precious raw day this same twenty-ninth of
February."
"Twenty-ninth of February!" repeated
Charley, like a parrot, pausing with the
window half up in his hand, "is it possible?"
"Possible, alLeit improbable, I admit,
seeing it comes but once in four years. But
what on earth is the matter withlou, Char
ley? It is Leap-year, certainly, but what
of that, unless you have been trifling with
the affections of some fair damsel who will
pursue you to make you an offer, which she
is entitled to do this year! Is she after you?
By Jove! I believe you are afraid she will
come after you here."
"Fred," said Charley, in a subdued quiet
way, very unlike himself,—for a noisy fel
low is Charley, six foot high, and always in
the open air. I believe he thinks a house
need only consist of a bed-room and dining
hall, with perhaps a lean-to for a billiard
table on a wet day. "You know lam nut
a fellow to take nervous fancies: into my
head; don't laugh now, if I tell you a very
strange thing that happened to me on this
very line, four years ago this very day."
"I had performed about half the journey
in much comfort," resumed Charley, "when
the train stopped at a junction station about
five o'clock in the afternoon. There was a
a good deal of crowd on the platform, and,
secure in the-purchase I had made of the
guard's promise, I amused myself by watch
ing the people elbowing and pushing each
other about. There was one figure, how
ever, which attracted my attention by the
contrast it formed to th"st. It was a
lady, wrapped in a long white !mimeos,
which looked cold and chilly that foggy af
ternoon."
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"Possibly her dressing-gown," said I; "an
ill-judged costume, certainly."
"She was apparently young, for the tall
figure was very slender; but she had so
thick a veil on her face I could not distin
guish the features. She alone seemed to
know neither bustle nor hurry; she moved
slowly along, with a sort of undulating mo
tion, and with the utmost unconcern walked
up and down until the bell had rung, and
the train was just starting, when, to my
surprise, aim stopped opposite my carriage,
gently opened the door, and placed herself
on the opposite side to me. 'hang the fel
low,' said I to myself, 'I thought he told me
the door was locked.' But there was no
time fur remonstrance then, for the train
had started. She sat quite still, with her
veil down, and I began to wish very much
to see her face."
"Very pardonable, as you thought she
was young," muttered I.
"There was a long bright curl hanging
from beneath the veil which took my fancy
very much"—
"I should have taken the curl, I think,"
said I.
"So, to begin a conversation, I said I was
afraid she might find the carriage smell of
smoke. As I spoke, she turned her head
towards me. am afraid then, sir, that I
am a most unwelcome intruder in your car
riage, for I must have interfered with your
smoking.' As she spoke, she lifted her veil
and—upon my life, Fred, I never saw so
beautiful a face. It was a perfect oval,
with beautiful soft brown eyes, very deli
cately traced eyeballs above them, and long
lashes that rested on her cheek when she
looked down."
"How they must have tickled," I once
more interpolated.
"The only fault of her face was perhaps
a want of color."
"Result probably of dissipation—hot
rooms," interrupted I, but Charley got im
patient.
"Positively, Fred, I will tell you no more,
if you won't attend."
"Attend, my dear fellow! my little re
marks are all to show the unflagging atten
tion with which lam listening. But go on
Charley, I wont say much more if I con
help it."
"What more I have to say will soon be
said," continued Charley, speaking more to
himself than to me—which was rude, but I
forgave him. "I have seldom had a more
witty and intellectual companion. She
could talk of every subject delow the
stars and some beyond them. I can't
talk to women generally;
.for I can't
pay compliments, and never go to the opera
Biit this woman was-as reasonable as a man
while she was us quick as a woman."
"Ah, intellectual women—wisdom and
water; I know," suggested I, but this time
so low that he dil not hear me, and he went
on.
"It bad meanwhile got dark, but there
was a young moon, and by the uncertain
light of the lamp I could see the soft out
line of her figure and the dazzling white
ness of her hand, on which I, for the first
time, noticed a wedding-ring; but, to my
surprise, the hand was streaked with blood.
'Good gracious! madam, I am afraid you
have hurt your hand,' I said, starting for
ward. •
"'I have not hurt it,' she replied faintly,
'it is stained.''
"She did not attempt to move it or to
change her position, and I sat looking at it
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4,1;
and at the wedding-ring, and wondering
what her history was, i. e., thinking it must
be a mournful one, for she never once
smiled—not even the shadow of a smile—
all the time we were talking, though we
were witty enough, as I have told you—"
"I heard you say she was," I replied,
"and don't deny the possibility of that; but
from what I know of you, can scarcely
credit it of you toth."
"—when a sudden gust of wind coming
whistling down the cutting, extinguished
the lamp—" ("What a disagreeable smell
it must have made," said 10 —"and left us
in perfect darkness. 'How very unfortunate,'
said I to the lady, 'just as wo are coming to
a tunnel, too.' I thought I hard a faint
sigh and her dress rustling. I remember
thinking how cold it was in that tunnel.—
There was such a rush of cold damp air
over us; then we began to emerge and I
wondered with a kind of a childish specu
lation how soon, by the feeble moonlight, I
should be able to trace her outline on the
opposite seat. I sat with my eyes fixed on
it, but could see nothing. It is too dark,
thought I to myself, though I could distin
guish the divisions of the seats and my
cloak and rug on ono of them. We must
get the lamp relighted,' said I, aloud, but
there was no answer, and I shivered at the
sound of my own voice. I bent forward
and felt over the seats. I could feel nothing
there. I spoilt match after match of my
cigar lights, as I endeavored to make one
burn. I thought we should never stop
again; at last, however, we came to a sta
tion, and I halle'ed eto the guard to light
the lamp. 'The door is not locked after all
your promises,' said I to him, 'take it out
that way.'
"'I beg your pardon, sir," said a porter,
'the door is looked;' and he lighted the lamp
from the top.
"I was alone in the carriage. 'Good hea
vens!' said I, 'whore is the lady?'
"The mon stared at me. 'I tell you
there was a lady here,' I repeated, 'she
must have got out in the tunnel.'
"'There was no lady, sir,'said the guard;
but the porter, with a mysterious face, shook
his head, and said, 'Ala, you've seen her,
too, sir, have you?'
"The train, however, went on that mo
moment, and I had no time to investigate
the matter further. Well, Fred, what do
you think? Don't think me mad, for it is
true."
"Mad! certainly not, my dear fellow, only
a little sleepy, as indeed your most interest
ing story has made me." .
"I was not asleep, Fred," replied Charley:
"I was broad awake as lam now. Besides
the porter evidently knew there was a mys
tery."
"Oh, if you are going to make the whole
turn upon the porter's shaking his head, I
have done with you," said I, incredulously.
"I could make it a good romance and call
it the Porter's Wink, if that is all that is
necessary. Seriously, Charley, how can
you be such an old fool? You had been
dreaming, or else eating cat-pie at the last
station.
Charley shook his head, and began mur
muring something about not eating cat
pie at stations."
"Well, at any rate," said I, "I did, the
very last time we stopped; nod I think it
must have been an old Tom; the remem
brance of it makes me so uncomfortable I
must go to sleep at once." Thus speaking,
I wrapped myself up well in my rug, as I
naturally did not believe a word of the nar
rative with which my friend Charley had fa
vored me.
I might have been asleep half an hour or
more when I suddenly woke up, feeling
thoroughly Chilled and uneasy, and, looking
up, saw Charley who was sitting opposite to
me, with such a look of terror and amaze
ment on his pale face that I immediately
put down my uneasy slumbers to his ac
count.
"Good heavens! Charley," said I, "how
the dickens do you expect a fellow to sleep
if you sit pulling such long faces opposite
him. No wonder I could'nt keep quiet.--
What is the matter now? Still thinking of
your mysterious fiddlesticks?"
"Hush!" said Charley, "there she is!"
'jumped round—sure enough, next the
other window on my side sat a' lady,
wrapped, as Charley had described, in a
whim bournous; the curl, of which ho had
spoken escaped from under the thick veil
which concealed her face from us. I'm not
such a fool as I look in general, but I must
say I was a little staggered for a moment;
my next impulse was to enter into conversa
tion with her.
"I beg your pardon, madam," said
raising my hat, "I am afraid you must have
thought I used strong language just now,
but I felt myself aggrieved by my friend,
as I am a very light sleeper, and I consid
ered he had disturbed me by the very dis
agreeable face he was making."
"I should not have thought you so light
a sleeper either, sir," replied a sweet, low
voice, as the lady bowed in return, "for you
did not seem to heed the bustle of the Junc
tion on my getting in." So saying she
raised her veil, and the identical soft brown
eyes Charley had spoken of gazed sadly at
me from her astonishingly white brow.
"Take some sherry, Charley," said I,
handing him the flask, for I saw his whole
frame quivering. "And may I offer you
some, madam?"
"None, thank you," she replied.
Charley's hand shook so he dropped the
stopper, and it rolled towards her. She
picked it up and restored it to me. Her
glove was off.
"Heavens, madam, it is broken! It has
cut your handl" I exclaimed; "it is bleed
ing."
"I have not hurt it; it is stained," was
the quiet answer.
I was getting very uncomfortable; how
was this? I know one often has a feeling
when a thing takes place. I have done this
before. I know exactly what's going to
happen next; but it was something more
than thnt now. Was I dreaming? Surely
not, for I heard the train go whizzing on
through the evening air, the occasional
wlistle, the flash of light as we, passed a
station, stopping sometimes, and hearing
feet crushing the wet gravel; while all the
time Charley sat opposite, pale and strange
looking, and I could see his lip tremble
when the light shone on him. Beside me
sat our silent companion, still and motion
less, her face resting as Charley had . de
scribed it, on the stained hand. I tried to
shake off the feelings of dread that wore
creeping over me, and turning to her began
a conversation with her. I found that Char
ley indeed lend not exaggerated her powers
of mind, and wo were still talking, (she and
I), when I became aware of a singular move
merit in the carriage in which we wore,
which increased till wo were swung violent
ly backwards and forwards. Then there
was a tremendous crash, the carriage upset,
and all seemed going to pieces. An immense
spar struck the lady violently on the head;
I heard a crunching of delicate bones, saw
Charley sinking under another; I mysclt
was stunned by the concussion. When I
recovered, there seemed nothing around me
but a mass of broken timbers; but after a
time I distinguished Charley lying bleeding
and insensible under the debris.. The greater
mass, however, seemed on the lady's side.
I groped my way to her, and shuddering to
think what I should find there, with no ex
pectation of there being any answer to my
question, remembering what I had heard
and soon against that small head, I asked
how much she was hurt?
"Not at all, I thank you," replied the
sweet low voice I never thought to hear
again. "How is your friend?"
"He is insensible; I cannot, I fear, extri
cate him. Can I assist you?"
"Do not mind me," sheanSwered; "zo at
once for assistance for your
"But I cannot leave you." I was trying
to remove the spars that lay over her; how
she could breathe under such a weight as
tonished me, for I conhl not move one, and
they lay right on her chest.
"Only assist me to extricate my hand, and
then hasten away," she answered; "you
cannot help me otherwise."
With the greatest exertion I managed to
effect an opening, through which she passed
her hand. I started, for the blood seemed
fresh on it. The next moment I remembered
the singular stain. I took hold of it to pull
it through; it was deadly heavy, cold, and
sent a shiver to my very ssul.
"Now go," she said, "you can do no more
for me, and your friend's life may be at
stake. Oh go!"
I had indeed been neglecting poor Char
ley. I now freed his head and chest as
much as I could, and then crept out to see
if I could get help. It was a frightful scene
as I made nay way out; there were a few
glaring torches brought from the next sta
tion, which we were near, and people run
ning madly up and down; whilst amongst
the broken timbers, you saw mangled and
bleeding bodies, hopelessly entangled.--
Another train, running into ours, seemed to
have caused the accident by throwing us
down an embankment. I was fortunate
enough to fall in with the guard of our
train, (who hoppened to be an old servant
of our family and knew me well,) directing
some fellows with spades to dig for the pas
sengers, and prevailed upon him to begin
with our carriage.
I set them to work on poor Charley, who
was still insensible, and climbed over to the
other side to encourage the lady. I found
her as I bad left her.
"Make haste, my lads," said I, "the lady
is still conscious."
"What lady, sir?" asked the guard, com
ing towards me. "There was no one in the
carriage you recollect, Mr. Frederick, but
you and the poor gentleman. You told me
to lock you in."
"But there was a lady, I tell yon, got in
ofterwards—there is a lady—here under our
feet—help me to move these timbers, man."
Tho man stared at me, as if he thought
me insane; but helped to remove one or two
spars, and she raised herself on her arm.
• "Gently, gently, man„" said L "You will
let that fall on the lady's head again. Can
you rise now, madam?" and I held out my
hand.
"My good sir—my dear sir—there is no
one there," said the guard, catching my
outstretched arm. "By heavens, I think he
is gone mad! Mr. Frederick!"
"No one there—what do you mean?" said
I, shaking him off. "You must be mad.—
Come, madam;" and as I touched her cold
hand she rose to her feet, as if she cast the
timber off her like water. "You will set her
cloak on Tire man!" I exclaimed, rushing
on the guard, who was waving his torch so
close to us, I thought the light garment of
my companion must catch the flame.
"Now do'co come away, sir—there's noth
ing theie—nothing but the broken timber,"
replied the man, soothingly. "I believe the
poor gentleman's head is turned," he added
to ono of the other men.
A fearful sensation overpowered me—was
she then invisible? By this time Charley
was extricated, and with the assistance of
one of the men, whom I retained to help me,
we carried him to the station-house. The
lady walked noiselessly by our side. Ido
not know if the other man was aware of her
presence. I almost thought that Charley
felt it, unconscious as he appeared, fur the
expression of his face changed as she came
to his side. It was a mounful walk; but we
reached the station-house at last and placed
him on the one side of the sofa, in the wait
ing-room. The lady stood by his side, like
a tall statue, still wrapped •in heir:white
cloak. She was still standing there when
I came back from inquiring fur the nearest
doctor; one had been sent fur, and was ex
pected to arrive immediately.
"A doctor is coming," said I; "perhaps
we can do something meanwhile. Can you
chafe his hands?"
"Is this likely to warm them?" she re
plied, softly, laying her icy hand for one
moment on mine; the touch almost para
lyzed it.
"You are ill yourself!" I exclaimed.—
"What can I do? Rest yourself."
"Rest. Oh, Heavens!" she answered,
waving me away. "Do not think of me.—
I cannot rest, attend to your friend."
The advice was good. I knelt down by
Charley, loosened his cravat, and endeavor
ed to stanch the blood that Sowed from the
wound in his head. She stood at a little
distance from us, her arms folded on her
breast, and an expression of intense agony
on her pale face. I was still busy with my
friend, when I heard the clatter of horses'
hoofs outside; the door opened, nud at the
same moment a dreadful shriek ran through
the air, and turning, I saw the lady had dis
appeared, and a stout, middle-aged man
standing in the doorway. That dreadful
shriek had penetrated even to Charley's
slumbering brain; he opened his eyes, and
faintly asked where ho was.
Meanwhile, the new corner, who proved
to be the doctor, advanced hastily towards
me, and in agitated tones inquired in the
name of Heaven who that lady was?
"I know nothing of her," said I, "except
that she traveled with us part of the way.—
Where can she be gone now?"
"Do not go. Do not go after her," ex
claimed Charley, faintly detaining me, as I
was rushing from the room. "Is she gone?
It must be about the time she disappeared
before."
In spite of his remonstrance, r, however,
went out, and inquired of the people in the
outer room which way the lady in the white
cloak had gone? They all denied having
seen any such lady either enter or go out,
and even the man who helped me to carry
Charley, evidently thought I was delirious
iu talking of the lady who bad walked by
our side.
I returned to the waiting-room, where the
doctor was binding up Charley's wounds,
and told him of my fruitless researches, and
asked what be knew of her! He replied
that he did not know her; but was struck
by her likeness to a lady whom he had at
tended in that neighborhood some years be
fore, whose husband had been killed in a
railway accident, not far from this station.
"What became of the lady?" I asked.
"She died," was the short answer.
fancied I heard a moan run through the
building as be spoke, Lut it might have been
merely my excited fancy. Ho was not at
first disposed to communication on the sub
ject; but Charley's hurts were severe; for
some time ho was under Dr. llealall's treat
ment, and from him we at last gained the
history of the lady whose mysterious like
ness had disappeared so suddenly on his ar
rival with us. She had confided it to him
on her death-bed.
It appeared she had married a rich cotton
spinner, many years older than herself,
and in order to save her favorite brother
from disgrace and ruin, she had forged her
husband's name to cheques for an amount
which freed her brother. The husband,
however, had discovered the fraud, he put
the police on the track of the brother, and
carried her off with him, intending to take
her to Glasgow, to confront her with the
manager of the bank there on which the for
geries had been drawn. They seemed to
have had a frightful quarrel in the railway
carriage, he had reproached her with her
dishonesty, and she fiercely upbraiding him
with wishing to deliver her brother to jus
tice.
"Sooner than you should Succeed!" she
cried in her passion, "may we never reach
our journey's end—may I rather see you
dead at my feet!"
lie started up, saying ho would travel no
longer in the same carriage with her, and
thrust his head through the window to call
to the guard that he wished to change his
seat at the nest station.
As be stood with his head and part of his
body out of the window, she saw they were
corning to a tunnel! They wore on the line
next the wall; she saw itcoming—and com
ing, but she would not speak. The next
moment there was a blow—a crunch, and
her husband's corpse fell heavily accross her
lap with the skull fractured by concussion
against the wall. How she traveled miles
in the darkening afternoon of that awful
twenty-ninth of February, with that dead
body on her knee, her fair hand Adige,' by
his blood; how when they found her at last,
she was almost paralysed to idiotcy; how
$1,50 PER YEAR IN-ADVANCE; 02,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
kil4
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she lingered but a few weeks after hini;and
then faded away a prey to the deepest re•
morse, time and space fail me to tell here;
but Dr. Ilealall's narrative was ar solemn
as it was thrilling, and both Charley and
I left M—, sobered and saddened men.
[From Once a Week
How an Advertisement got a Wife
"Tobacco is the tomb of love," writes a
modern novelist of high standing; but,
with every respect for his authority. I beg
to say it was quite the contrary in my case.
Twenty-one years ago, I was sitting by
my fireside, totting up inniimerable r ages
of my bachelor's housekeeping book, taking
exercise in arithmetic on long - colUmns of
"petty cash"—comprising items fur carrots
and bath-bricks, metal tacks and mutton
chops—until, tired and wearied, I arrived
at the sum total, and jerked the book on the
mantel-piece. Nearly at the same time I
placed my had in the pocket of my dressing
gown, drew out a leather case, and lit a
principe, I placed my feet on the fender and
sighed, exhausted by the long job of do
mestic accounts. I was then in business—
'twas a small wholesale business then, 'tis
a large wholesale business now—yet ;me
morning's totting of carrots and bath-bricks,
of metal tacks and mutton chops, would
tire me a thousand times more than twenty
four hours of honest ledger-work. I sighed,
not from love, but from labor; to tell the
truth I had never been in love. Is this to
go on forever! thought I, as I took my third
whiff, and looked dreamily through the
thin smoke as it ascended between me and
a large print of the capture of Gibralter
which hung over the chimney piece. Am
I to spend my prime in totting up parsnips,
and computing corrots, and comptrolling
washing-bills? I sighed again, and in the
act, off flew the button of my neck-band, as
though some superior power had seasonably
sent the accident to remind me of my help
lessness.
The button settled the business; though
as it slipped down inside my shirt, and
passed with its mother-o'-peal coldness over
my heart, it for a moment threatened to
chill my matrimonial resolution. I pitied
my own lonely state, and pity, we know, is
akin to love. But how was the matter to
be accomplished? Most men of my age
would already have adjusted their inclina
tion to some object, so that having made np
their mind and counted the. cost, little more
would have remained to have been done than
to decide upon the day, and lay hold upon
the license. This, however, was not the
case with me. I had been too much occu
pied, teo idle, or too indolent to devote time
or make the effort to "form an attachment."
It was through no disinclination or difficul
ty to be pleased; for bad any young lady of .
moderately agreeable powers taken the
trouble, she might have married me long
ere then. I should have even been grateful,
to her for taking the trouble off my hands;
but I was too bashful to adopt the initia
tive.
I was a bashful man. This weakness
came from the same cause as my Uncle
Toby's—a want of acquaintance with fe
male society, which want arose from anoth
er cause to my case—namely, too close an
application to business.
Accordingly I thought of an advertise
ment, yet with no practical design of doing
business, but, as I persuaded myself, for a
joke. So I scratched with a pencil on the
back of a letter, the following:
IV'nxrEn A Wtrc.—None but principals
need apply. The advertiser does not re
quire cash, but only a companion. He is
six and twenty, and, tired of single, lie
thinks he can settle down to married life.—
As men go, be believes he has a moderate
share of temper, and want of time is his
only reason for having recourse to the news
papers. He has enough means for himself
and a second party, and is willing to treat
at once. Ile is quite aware that a great
many attempts to convert his honest inten
tions into an extravagant joke will be made,
but ho warns all rash intruders. If he
finds a man hardy enough to make sport of
his affections, he will thrash him—if a wo
man, he will forgive her. He has a heart
for the sincere, a horsewhip for the imperti
nent. In either case, all applicants will be
promptly attended to, if addressed to P. P.,
to the office of this paper.
I felt proud of my composition, and puf
fed away my principe with a vague glee
and anticipation of something coming of it.
I had no very great idea that anything but
fun would result; and I certainly had not
the slightest notion of involving myself in a
personal collision with any one. Still the
presentiment that it was not destined to be
all a barren joke, pressed upon me. On
Saturday the advertisement appeared, and
I heard its style canvassed by all my friends,
and it was jokingly suggested by more than
one, that I was the domestically destitute
individual who put it forth.
On Monday morning I sent a boy to the
newspaper office for P. P's letters. I expect.
ed he might be followed by some curious
and inquisitive perms; so I told him on his
way back to call at a bachelor neighbor's
of mine for a book. The trick told. The lad
was followed by some persons who never
lost sight of him until they ran him to my
friend's, and then went back and announced
that be was the advertiser. I thus discharg
, od in full one or two practical jokes which
my neighbor had played upon me. The
answers were of the usual character—sever
al seeking to elicit my name, and still more
suggesting places of meeting, where I was
to exhibit myself with a flower in my but
ton-hole and a white handkerchief in my
hand. One only looked like business. It
was from a lady. who proposed an interview
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in a neighboring city, about forty miles
north. She said there was something so
frank and straightforward in my advertise
ment, that she was convinced it was real,
and she could rely upon my keeping her
name secret, if after we met nothing came
of the meeting. She would, therefore, see
me at the —, at—, on a certain day,
and if mutual approbation did not tallow
the inter - view, why there was no harm done.
Most people would have put this down as
a trap to give me a journey for nothing.- I
did not. A presentiment impelled me to ac
cept and keep the engagement.
This was in the old coaching days, when
a man had time to make an acquaintance
in forty miles, not as non', :iirdirrlrlib'at
your journey's end before you have looked
round your company in a railway carriage.
There were but two insides—myself and a
pleasant, talkative, elderly gentleman. Shy
and timid in female society, I was yet es
teemed as animated and agreeable enough
amongst my own sex. We had no trouble,
therefore, in making ourselves agreeable to
one another; so much so, that as the coach
api.roached G—, and the old gentleman
learned that I meant to stop 'there that
night, be risked me to 'Waive ceremony and
have a cup of tea with him after I had dined
at my hotel. My "fair engagement" was
not to come off till next day, and, as I liked
the old gentleman, I accepted his offer.
After my pint of sherry, I brushed my
hair and went in search of my coach com
panion and my promised cup of tea. I had
no difficulty in finding him out, for he was
a man of substance and some importance
in the place. I was shown into the drawing
room. My old friend received me heartily,
and introduced me to his wife and five
daughters. "All spinsters, sir, young la
dies whom an undiscrimipating world seems
disposed to leave upon my hands."
"If we don't sell, papa," said the eldest,
who with her sisters seemed to reflect her
father's fun, "it is not for want of puffing,
for all your introdttations aro advetiso
meats."
At the mention of the last %Ford, I felt a
little discomposed, and almost regretted my
engagement for the next day, when that
very night, perhaps, my providential oppor
i tunity had arrived.
I need not trouble my readers with all
our sayings and doings during tea; suffice
it to say, that I found them a very pleasant,
' friendly fittnily, and was surpriseclea End I
forgot all my shynes3 and timidity, encour
aged by their good-tempered ease and con
versation. They did not inquire whether I
was married or single, for where there were
Ewe unmated daughters, the question might
seem invidious. I, however, in the freedom
of the moment, volunteered the information
of my bachelorhood; I thought I: hid no
sooner communicated the fact than the girls
passed round a glance of arch intelligence
from one to the other. I cannot tell you
how odd I felt at that moment. My sensa
tion was-between pleasure and confusion, as
a suspicion crossed my mind, and helped, I
felt, to color my cheek. Presently, however,
the eldest, with an air of indifference which
cost her an effort, asked where I was stay
ing.
"At the hotel," I answered Keith
some embarrassment
It was with difficulty they restrnined a
laugh; they bit their lip 4, and I had no lon
ger any suspicion—l was certain. So; after
having some music, when I "rose to depart,
I mustered courage, as I bid them good bye,
to say nside to the eldest:
"Shall P. P. consider this the interview?'
A blush of conscious guilt, I should-rath
er say innocence, told me I had sent my
random arrow to the right quarterv.so
pressed the matter no further at that mo
ment, but I did her hand.
I remained at my hotel next day . ,until
an hour after the appointed time, but no
one made theirappearance. "Then,"tbought
I, brushing my hair and adjusting my ern
vat, "since the mountain will not come to
Alahomet,homet must go to the moun
tain;" so I walked across to my old friend's.
The young Indies were all in. The eldest
wns engaged in some embroidery at the
window. I had therefore an opportunity,
as I leant over the frame, to whisper:
"S. S. is not punctual."
Tho crimson in her face and neck was
now so deep, that a skeptic himself would
no longer doubt. I need say no more; that
evening in her father's garden, she confess
ed that she and her sisters had conspired to
bring me up to G—on a fool's errand, never
meaning, of course, to keep the engagement.
"Then," said I, "since you designed to
take me in, you must consent to make me
happy!"
"And what did she say, papa?" asks my
second daughter, who is now looking over
my shoulder as I write.
"Why, you little goose, she promised in
be your mamma, and she lins kept her
word."
ISelecte.l for the Spy
Preventives of Evil.
The following excellent article shoal be
read by the young and by those interested
in their welfare. Its suggestions areappli
cable to other forms of evil, and especially,
with porno modification, to the use of intox
icating drinks:
LEAR:VINT:TO PLAY CAna. —Whereistho
source of all the evils of gnalhling? What
is the fountain from which these bitter wa
ters flow. Are we wrong in answering that
they all come from learning to tree the toots
of the garnLicr. We know there art many