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If.hms, fl 00 u year advance,
VOLUME 5.
For 'hr ('! (ini '. !.' jiul lin'n.
V..I Why t!o wmo tlilugi, line mc I
HY A ror.TH:;.
Ah, why ln f .Mnt' thinjj love nip ;
hy "tup In u'uoit my fun;,';
V.'hy rotio'h my hniely liourM
Thnt but f.ir t L:tm were lung?
V,"liy chmiMt for mc their lay,
Thu liiril-i willi iilmiin'i' liri -hi ;
Why s un t v. hi'.. ' r.h
Their I'hoeri'ul, I'mul guml i,;(;!it ?
Why lirrer rmm.1 inn r-vi r,
tMVvot 1'liilu'tinoil'n j .ynis i.ncs;
Why (-..UK. to ire fur svmpi'thv
J'r'mi tmt tin if hr.piy kou, cs ?
Tlit-u why i'.u m -,' lliiivri h.vc mo;
O'j why this kiut!ifit.i s,,,w;
Oh ti'll llltl wlliTl'iot l whi-nce
Ii nil til i sL. 1 .s -ir ... i!w
-a- Tn triTTif fc"i i trm--" t ii m h 1
nv kio.it.st.
THE RACGE? SCHOOLS OF LONDON,
At I I l" I 1 f m . . I
Mill Ut IndllStnal Jclioois (if OUT IttrapoliS. ;
What thej have done and what they arc ;
(Lin" fur the poor.
A meeting of ladies was held on the 0;
inst.
at eWen o'clock in tho Chanel of iCUr' 0UI" 0""ion' wi" cver 1)0 possible i ers' journals are very curious in this par
New York University, to hear n lee- ! o'u rM"S 'glisl, isi; Jjcular. One class ask what the Bible is ?
i from Mr. C. L. Hraee, on the R -ed ! '""I"" , , '"' lnk,,,S ll"r "CI,rcst 11 1 1 '"7 do ot unJorstand the meaning of
the
tli en
iui iiuiii mi, v. u. liliiiu,oiiiiit:itU"eui.i. mi i . '
Schools of London, und also to listed T to 'nd T'0 .",easu "'.o peo c seen to ,
tho reports from tho various industrial '
schools which have been established in our
own city. It is hardly necessary to say
liny thing either in pr.iiso of tlvso ladies,
or tho benevolent work in which they are
engaged their reports arc tho best eulo
gies on both, and we recommend them to
thu careful perusal of our readors of all
cJnsses. Their exertions have been, so
far, attended with the most marked suc
. . . . '
cess, and so long as their management is
( .l , 1 ' j
,, .. .1. ..... , -iv ;-
Viliolacommumtv in tiicir noble enterprise
Thero was 11 largo number of ladies
. ... ., u l. ,....,,.
..-. ,
wnw nave, in inetr own qmei, unosiema-
tlSlld tt'.lf
effected more good among tho
poor, in proportion to their moans, than
many of our largest benevolent institu
tions. Th" meeting was open" J by Mr.
Ijju'ce. lie said :
We havecorno to believe that childhood
nun niii, vi...'.. iiiu.u t
is the same every where ; and even in the
dark haunts of a London, and in the pre- i
cinets of a 'New York, a hou.se ofcrime is j
""".' 'iiuiii. il ..j. .u.v ..-
fiuonces. 1 he idea has spread that liris-1
lianity must descend from its high places
and go down e.mong tho muiuuiues oi mo
children ol ttio vuo nnu uu poor, u socio-
1y would meet tho increasing tide ol vice
and crime and brutality. Nowhere was
it more needful that this thought should
prevail thin in England. I would speak
in no flippant-or disrespectful tono of our
old motherland. Its words of wisdom and
sweet piety sounding in our ears since
childhood ; its vigorous and dignified his
tory; iu" association with great names
which are- even yet the watch-words with
tho nations for whatever is glorious and
free ; its noble and self-renouncing efforts
to nuct the evils which it has brought up
on itself, allow towards her no words of
contempt or disrespect. Yet words can
hardly exaggerate tho immensity of the
evils which weigh upon England. To mo
they seem to rest like a black cloud over
her greatness. The passing traveller can
havo onlv n plimpso of thes? social ills
the citio knows or'en little more ; but let
nnv one designedly penfitrateair..,ng lliem,
anil the impression left upon him is of the
most profound wonder and horror. It
seems incredible. He could not on hear,
say believe in such dark unlmping misery,
such fearful inequalities, such crowded
musses of filth V poverty and crime, as the
fruit even of n heathen and uncivilized
rovcrnmcnt. To find single institution
tilled with wretched, half-starved, degra
ded inornnt littlo boys an ! girls, wiio
literally live in tho street, who have mt
inpli individual on earth that cares for
them3 nnd who are so thoroughly beaten
n-i'.l pressed down in the struggle of life,
that thev como voluntarily nnd gladly from
a lifo o'f roving into tho strict, meagre,
confined life of a charity school, is some- j Worktn classes gave 230 to the school, six of them, some Sli),0l)U more. Truly
thing impressive and saddening, as an in- of the eilects, the report sajthat "w!..-ro. i is not economy a hard lesson for govern
8;anco of ona of tho greut exceptions to the Ls a fow yt.;irs sjrA.o, there were 3 J0 mcnts to learn '
natural laws of society. Hut the next day -bi!1reii in the town, nnd ni in the co. I , , ' : , , ,
in ooothcr district of the same city, to f.u'l j0f AfccrJrn, who prowled about the streets ! A? Anui.i..-I.i ccscrib.ng the death
mip Institution of prociselv tho ime LR(. rovcj ,urowh ,1,,. Coimtrv. cheati.iL-i "n,i b,1'lal 'a T ? c,,1,d a correspon-
i Mr. nnd on the next thystill another,
i .i., i,,r , lav till thr, rvo sickens'
iinU DO Ull UUJ 'J --'- - -
of the wearying monotony of degraded
i -i ii A fiwm Innviiiir tlm 1 nsl ; : IllionS
CnilUUOOiJ , iii ii i i"0
nnd schools to hunt through tne low strecis
uu i .:n.
nnd seo that the poor without nro .iill
worse than the pour within ; lo nnd wnai
should no the cxccpiiom.i
e.asses Hum
boring by thousands ; to sec
still lurther
lue innumerable throng beyond or honest
nnd respectable poor pressed to the las! fori
pubsistenee; to know still more, mat mis
.one city is not worse than, or even so bad
as others in tho kingdom, and to hear that
tho denudation of the agricultural districts
is evert greater than that of tho towns all
this makes n picture so hideous, so horn
He, that one tan hardly believe it possible
in a Christian country and tit this age. I
do not wonder ot a remark mado to mc
by an intelligent, candid English gentle
man, author of several genial works fa vo
rably known in America that if the
choico were given him beforehand wlieth
er bo woulJ be born in England or Spain,
i ... -i . . .i
-''Jl!!.Ii Jh" .jil' axdciauk wigox 5 nnyoTKn
,V1 J5 if paid within three month, tf 50 if paid within six- months.
... .
') tii KO Ins chance among Urn millions, ho
sliuuld mv ut onctj, Npi.in. In fact for
my own part, i can c'.n.lidly sny, tint I
On not know n country in Kuropo wlioro I
miouiu ho ufeau u lot tilling tho nmssrslaltornoon, with nhout twenty
asm I j rout iiiium. An Ituliati Iniv.uroni i
lives in luxury enrupared with a Lt.ndon
vagrant. It is estimated that there are in
Inland tilono 150,0011 vnrant rhildren
that i.;, either orhnr. and homeless
cliildren, thoso en;'m:cd in theft, or ihe
wiiiuiuwu uncles end (iejiraved ch ime-1 teachers all been as resolute as some were
ters. Thirteen thousand uro committed we bh.ml 1 have had our heads broken."
tj prison each year. It is terrible, this j They at lenli, however, man;iged to di
social question m Cre.t Iiiitain. We i vide them. ""W'o soon yot," belays fir-f-houlil
not rashly reprnach her, as with 1 thcr, 'seme of the l.i-Ljrr boys on our fciJe
our own hlavery, (though it) oilier points j and such a scene followed us I shall ncv
of view n widely dil'ereut question ;) iiu. er forget ; some swearing, Konie dancing,
man selfishnc-s, tuicient and traditionary i sumo whistling, und the teachers looking
ri"lltS flf tirnnerlv. illi'nimlilinu n.. I ' mum nl' iIk.i.i ....I.. .... ,l.,il I ...I
" I -J"iiuvi lllllt uiu.
nopolics, who existence U interwoven I
in tne whole structure of society, have all i
tended to degrade and keep degraded cer-1
I tain classes of tho State. Iso complete !
!i f . '" c"ort ,0 cur j
IIU IT f' IIS. I ll'innniill HI hnnrniricm nn,l
crimu by education and training to work,
and by the personal aid of the favored
classes, is the great principle tl e Hugged
.School enterprise is the general name for
this movement. Its history is peculiar.
Soma few years back, a poor, crippled
shoemaker one John rounds, of lVrts -
mouth took to his homo a little nephew
jjt OC(.uri,.d 0 llim ,)c cou)
crippled like inmsell. In educating him
call in
one or two other boys who were too poor
Io 0 , Ul0 sohuolsi. T10 c :lss inprenscd
till thero were forty children, twelve of
whom were "iris
. p.:. i ' "co'-, "".-'
Ciy ouicast children of the streets. Some
j,im(,s l(u S(.K)aM
were averse, and the
; kind-hearted man would goeut on the open
quay with a rousted potato, or something
of the kind, to tempt them to enter.
j Where ho could he clothed them
he
I gave them food if they were hungry, and
1 taught them his trade and the "rent truths
he devoutly believed. When li,e good as a school room. Another room is fitted
old man died, the tears of friendless and ! up as n workshop and tho rest as dormi
poor children were dropped on his "rave, i lories. As many of the children sleep in
;lllU 8(Mno mo saiil to have l.unleil ut the
news .-i(J wol.;( ;i,w ,t,c ()- ,!at (ljn
.si,oc.ia;cr's siop; churches and rich
, ,0st.s rpiiic overshadowed it ; but if lhe,e
wns t.vcr a -J Mvmu Presence wilh beams of'
Heaven falling upon earth, it was there i have little other chance for something to
J in the needy workshop, about the poor old eat. Tlio djy is divided into the usual
j cripple and his ranged class. This was common school branches, and some reg
in 183J. In 15-11 the SheiilFof a Scotch ' ular work at a trade, Various trades are
town, Aberdeen, a Mr. Watson, delcrmi
ned to do something to stop the increasing
vagrancy nnd crime of the children of the
place. Ho rightly concluded that igno
rance and idleness were the great causes,
and accordingly opened a school w ith the
singular addition to the usual education of
food and industrial employment. Great
was the scepticism and opposition on ev
erv side, lo attempt to relorm n vounir
1 . ..
Aberdeen beggar ! or expect to do away
with the host oi vagrants! it was liuix- j the Aberdeen schools is about 10 per ol it.
otic. Some friends advanced 100, nnd .milium, each meal costing three cents a When somewhat rested, they question
the school opened with twenty scholars, head; in the London reform institutions cd her of her history and intentions. In
nnu mn lew monies increased io s.xiy.
i . mn.-.t i- : i f
..i-.. i- ... i i .
in i? i j tne ponce were insiructeo io maiio
a general arrest of the begging children,
und send them up to the soup kitchen of
tlie SCIlool. ooine scveiliy-live uoys aim
.i i i. .1 .
,,...!., I !,.,. rtrti.,1 ,.i,,l ,,1, n
"ilia llllt I.IU3 LUIIl..tU. Ull'l OUl II II SLbllli
of fighting, swearing, uproar und obscene
language was seldom witnessed. The
teachers at lenuth named the day; the
children were taught and then led, nnd at
the close released with an invitation to
come again the following day at the same
time, with the nssuraueo "that no more
street beguing would be allowed by the
police, ns" they could now procure' their
food at the school. The "reater nart re -
Urned, and money coming in, tho school
was sustained. It is a significant fact that
at that time the wealthy classes in Aber-
decn subscribed only
ITiO. wliilo the
,, s,r,,,;n,T ,.M!ir vocation, now n l,Pt.i.,
i. i i :.. . ",.k. i. ,,nA ;.:.?..;u
V llllli 13 IU11IJ n I'u ni.i.ii, Him jui-.iiiii,
; cmQ id comparatively unknown." A I
: ...... ..i I. t ..l' il.,i risci-lt. nu.
I1IOIO v . ll L l aiiiiviin ui vii itiu h-wi.-i iu
co,,(.;f,(i )V ih0 police, is that in 1511 the
.- . ' -
number of juvenile prisoners W33 ol ; in
is i- r, . ii. I.. I,,.. 1 .....u J
iOlil, llliei lliu Itllu noil'liil iiu-i i.'1'i.iii.ii,
- '- .'..'
4'l; in lSlG, 2S; in nil), 10; and m
1830. 14. The number of juvenile va
nna encountered by the police in 1513,!
i)0for0 ,G formation of the school, was j
,..1 . :.. n-i'i I 'r,n ..,....,nint
'.",' , ' i ,'. ' j i looks likes an angel, does sho not, moth
spread in London, wheru it was earned T . .
c-iivnu i nl-'' u liii.rn,l t tin mini rnnr S lOKml
OUl mailllV UV lilt: LAOluoua ui .iiusiiijr
. 1.. I il. VJ. in . I,.
school teacherj and tho city missionaries
iwiiuiK-a,
nnd in 1511 a society was formed, with , . '.'""'" ' - r . '
Lord Ashley, now l'Jl of Shaftsbury, for sho 1 ,of us fur
iWulent, called "The Kagge.l School Imsd ho grea mystery.
Union." In 1811 it contained' schools, Otrln London lately, 21 pins wcro cx
200 voluntary teachers, a.C.OO scholars, Iructed from the brcastand knee ol a young
andnn annual fund of about $:J00. In woman who had swallowed them some
1852 it embraced 110 schools, 1,769 vol- ti mo ago She had them in her mouth
untnrv teachers, 11,73:1 scholars, and I while taking clothes from a line, and be
about' $24,000 as rn annual fund. Asl ing startled hy a young man in sport, lot
an instance of tho difficulties attending 'them slip down her throat.
, . .
.. . .. 7 I "
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22,
tlw mnnti.;.'in.Mit of out', w e take this ac
: count fn.ni ono of the teacher's journals,
j'" tho lirooko street school, London:
."Wc o)eneil our school this first SunJnv
ads, from
W'o ut.
twelve to twenty venra of mm
tempted to teaeh them, hut they immedi
ately wished to leave tho school. This
wo opposed; the boys got resolute-; so
did some of the teachers. This vcrv soon
hroko out in oneu rehellinn. mul Iim.I tin.
HI (lino 113 Ul'UUI. 11 11 U I'lllCIS
quite e.Uiausted, and thus we got over the
first nftcrnoun." A great obstacle in the
1'.iighsh ellorts has been the ignorance ol
the children. The accounts in the teach-
i i. ..
prophets, but express their faith ,n lor
lunp ' . lors. A teacher reads them Jo-
Vfntl U k'liri' n un i nmnt
j unbelief is expressed. One asks if Egypt
' is still standing? Another, if nil books
' nro true 1 The parable of tho prodigal son
'was read, without very great edict until
; it was explained. The conduct of the
youngest son did not strike thtm ns very
! foolish. It was too much like their own.
jThcy did not pity him for keeping swine :
.seine ot them would have been vcrv "lad
I even to do that. They were struck at his
i honesty in nut even taking tho husks with-
( out leave. It seemed a matter of rourso
i with them that tho father should receive
htm with joy, and they were indignant
wilh tl.c older brother. One of them re
marked, '-I like tV.licr brother best."
! The ragged schools which I visited in Eri
land and Scotland were "eiicrallv mana
ged on the following plan : Some com-
! inon plain building is usually hired, or
I obtained from benevolent persons, the
poore-1 and darken room of which is used
t Hie Ijiniiling as it h i
neeoniodale ; the
; rost C()llf) t;.ir!y ju n)lirn;?
' their breakfast, consisting of a
and
piece
ct
of
', bread. All their m-als are taken
iprn.
as most of them, poor creatures, would
worked at in these schools ; mat weaving,
shocmaking, tailoring, Lvx manufacturing,
thc making of paper bags for "rocerie.s
and all laundry and kitchen work. The
ragged school experiment in Great Hrit
aiu may now be considered a successful
enterprise. The observations in legisla
tion have been so minut-; that tho compar
ative success can be pretty accurately eal-
,1.11-. I
cmateu oi improving n uoy or reloniiui''
i him. The net expense of each child iui
..I c In 1 : .!. . e .c . .
huuui ',-in, unu in ui niiiious reiorm
1 ..lw.l r w :.. ...... cn i'i n-
, nvnuoi ui ihmiiuhsici ?y.,. i uu outeers
of these institutions tell us that very few
oflhosa who pass through the assigned
; eoursu oi iiouaiioa ever turn out nauiv.
T 1 .1 .1 II I r'
I. n, i.-. fin I Tin nl inr l.nn.l nt tli.i ....ct .1.
w. . ....... v.. ii.iiiM, ui u v.woiu
""'line. Mr. liarnall states that in the
' 1 8,1100 prisoners of the Middlesex jails, the
average, expense of each is about ir'tioi).
; Jn a return presented lo tho house ol com-1
mons, by Mr. Sergeant Adam', it appears
-hat there were ol3i) juvenile offenders,
committed for trial nt the Middlesex ses-l
hous during 1 S-tO. The property stolen
by these lads amounted only to CTDi ;
, the cost of prosecution was about 'J.t-Ml ;'
.of their maintenance in prison, near
821! making tho expenses of these 030
boys, in ono year, tu tho public, over 7,-
i OtJl), and then ol transiiortatioiuto thirty-
-lent "I he Ohio Lullivator gives tins beau
' tiful nnd touchin
i" ." imsu ol real li e :
"And now thero came n sadder moment
than all; lettering with feeble slop, the
, , . . . . -
; f"" y - -.p- - j--.-,
I....1 ,.fli,. f, ,,(,,. r r.,,n.:fi.tii .ii In lin r ct iiM.-.
I . , , . ' '
01 Cllliureil. i uu wuu l-iiiuuuii uu; ue
, I -. I 1 I
i.i.!imi- ,'nneil hop Iiiiiii nn linr iift.
IVUV'.ll IIIUIU'I I' "II' '- I"-' il". vi. in ,i.-
rent's breast, and sobbed oul her grief.
u 1111 ,,(".v Wl
niK.' lllCn
With holy words thu old lady comforted
came nnd bowed her head
iu louu iuiu mat U..1IHI, iiiiiiui. mvo. uuu
. . i i. .i.... ....... :..r.,i c.,. ivi...
i '
whispered tho mourner. Slicuan
ancel, tnv child,' replied the grandmother
- 1- I ,-
i ii kit iinin I, in v iivi.'ii nvi.rwnn. i li-i I.Mr iiir-ii:
to politics, mtkiutpiir, aguicultfue. molality, and foueign and noMEs-nr; into.mc.patk
M 7,. if r; ,,,.... .! if ..nt nnM ....til tho rvn-rMion ol'tho ver.r .'-2 00 will boehanwl.
'i.i- l!i ' Imrt't'l'l '. .k'..'cikj.
DltllAM Ol' Ml S! AI'll .
I w:ir .-!iTiiinr hist nklit jn a m -v hunt 1ml,
Ari'l llin lulli.winj; vi.ii. u i.-iuin i nl . my h'.'n.l :
I was wi'iiiiin;; r:y way ilmvii ."1 ri'i'l l.-..-t liii,!it,
Ami ju.-t at I In- iliaiiioiiil 1 muv a s:j.hi
HI 1 ell! v 1' uir lines ::uil l n lilt!.
Whi.h win' im ri-ily "lii.k'.i: ' t.a ir l.ii.-l!,v v.i-s
OvtT Ihc j.t:i:i w I'.irh ! In ir ii.im .viti. lui-niii); up,
Ami n'uniiiin; thuirji y f t t ! t li-i' ivi' hiiiiiin up
All I'il' lino hi ili miiiri a the i niniil hail i':uii il
Tn s!;m ;h :m up in tl.' ir .tirly i . u s I:,, t.
Oni' f it t.t.l Ii llmv ii- lii as t'.liiiuliii
1 1 i ' i hi' w:H ii iluti'li i!R IV'. m CI , fiiiil'iii ;
Hi' v.:". vt-r.v wi'H liil.-.l villi i.uis in the v.nml,
l.lll lili'i-.l. :.-im llu'illn Wi:lk. WllMIIIII'll hi'll' rl'.K.J,
Aiut In' i (l'Ti'il ii lion in whiili i.ll il'.l uijrci',
Tn i .'ill mi tlnir IVi.-ii Is tui.l in kaniiiiiiy
Tn nii.-t'. t!lli.ilii,ii of si.isari' it ml pn'rk
I'nr 1 ho tuwii ul'iiixTs wl.H dill nil tho wi'i k
In tin- wiiul Iiu,; who ii nil (,r tltfju lu.il;
I nun lln mi mill nl'lln'.hi.-lit o thi'irnalh mi tho V(,1;,
'J'd liiilhl'ully do nil the town niiIit lvuiiiro
In kei-j.-iri!,' it I'leaii, as a!l wi.iil.I ilf-in'. (t'ultcrs,
Tin re's tlii' hi-i.ii.-i. nml tin-nwump uinl llio lillM up
'J'lii' i:r:is nil n i irn.it cil ns ifwiili '-un.l nil ters:
I lii' 1 1 1 ;i i ! i Ihul wn ihivimI. willi
timi in tlie mini,
Thrown luifk:inla mnl furwaril
ruuil !
oh liuu't it kiuk
Why, i ! Ii ,-r Fiifli ciiinvil in urn! your innrp,
WuiiM niri'ly mnl" nil thnt wi'.s il'iiio 1 ('
'l in y winil.i mi vi) nil tho li.iini.y. hi.iiic ull tho n oil;,
Ami rule nkniluti'ly as u.iy uhi Turk.
Ifiny ttnry i. trui mnl trim il ilm..a poimh,
W hy it is not thu K'ts ki hecuusn 'tis a tin-run.
JlrsTA m .v.
," " ' " i ii iirrT-wi-gyrf
A SKETCH; BIT NOT OF FANCY,
nv Ji'H,x ( itAMnit.
It was a pitiful story. The poor crea
ture who had walked twenty miles that
day, in the heat of a July sun, could scarce
ly speak from very fatigue; and when
she had ended her sad tale, thqi'e was
scarcely a dry eye in the w hole company,
albeit tho bar-room of the villa go inn was
j crowded w ith sturdy men to w hom tears
were novel. Her
funt as I ever saw
baby
-as sweet r.n m-
iy motionless on iicr;
.
breast: and thou'di the mother know it
-
not, it never would move again save in tho
agonies of death.
She was no common beggar. There
was n digi.ity in her appearance, as she
, ,i
,. her appearance, as sho
vards the open door of the,
crept slow ly towar
hotel, that cotnm
Tr 1 V,:- ' ., .
w iio, a moment be
ociorc, were lining ino air
wilh their noisy vociferations, were silent
as she passed them on her way to the
house. I ler poor leet, tidily though coarse
ly clad, were blistered, and every step
nil hi in uu -I i.n mi ii.in.s in uiuuil. duo-
, , , . . i
mi 1 1 nsikr-i ni'rni'ssinii In n tl :m lir.nr
i..r- ;n ..ri.i.,i cm....
I : "... .. .
and to moisten her lips with water; hut
tlinsa routh b:
lacu-ttoo.isuicn, rauieie
i that day for a frolic, could no! witness her
I ' '
i- a. i. in Mim.-i i ii ir s uiiiuo ou. u u oiou"in
i , p , . . , , ,P
lu.i- n rili-ii.. urn. inr 1,1.1..)., .... .l,l..i,.
nv..: i i..
t. i v-ii.iii iiiiw.in.i IHOI.-.IV.I '. ui-iiiiii
i- , i , ,. , . , .
a Ii e wniskev ho on v stiuiiil.mt he
i v.i . .i " i i
k 'wi ill I i : I I'r Mill' 'r u ' i - :i I ii 11
,. , , . ,, ,
third a herculean monster would have
! relieved her of her child had she not dun
nervously to it. It was a delightful ex
hibition of heart. Sho rccieved their at-
Mentions with a modest gratefulness that
alone would havo won my sympathy, had
not her forlorn appearance already com
pelled it. She had been was still
beautiful, though sorrow nnd unkindncss
had sadly marred tho lines of grace.
She was evidently of genllo lineage, and
w hen she spoke, her language assured m
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010 sunn, h i. oi nieir uuwoiiuiy iiiuuies,
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i oiey nm-w uui tn.ii uns imgiu uu uin usui; , ,
they meant well and kindly. Wliethcrj
she felt that tho interest which they man-j
uesn-u was sincere1, or wiutuer neaven
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ini ntll-nitr. ir nril.s rod n 1 rf-vnnlc Mini !,.!
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lowed, 1 know not ; but she freely reveal
ed her history to that ungentle crowd,
whose exclamations of surprise and anwr,
mingled with threats, and now and tli m
a big round oath, uttended her narrative to
its close.
It was the old story. Living happily
and peacefully in her father's house a
country rectory in England she had
h.veu, "not wisely, but, Ioj well." For-
bidden bands and a long and painful s'.rug
gle between right and wrong between
1 1 v ti nun uuii niau iuu.jiit.il uv a nils.-
. J 1 1 .
mm i'il n nni'innn 1 In eti nnu-ni i .i
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b' w,"l - 11" " 1 i
pair fi 1 to this land, and lor u time lived
in comfort and even luuiry. Iiut alas,!
'lie romance was exhausted when she bo- i
cone a moiher. I
On the same night, w hen tho dtct faint
cry of the infant fell on her ear, tho i:n-
n.'ln.J f.lt,,, r..os,.. llw,,.. l.ll, r.
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Penniless, friciiilless, homeless, with her!
first returning strength she set forth with:
her baby on her painful P'lfi'ti---j
ueaiynuu loot-sort, sue jm siaggereu
along, day alter day, over the wild roads
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M tne w est the oiny aim ot her journey
being to reach the sea-coast, w here she ,
hoped to beg a passage home to her father. !
Poor prodigal ! there wcro fifteen hundred:
long miles between her and tho Atlantic,!
and yet her energy was unbrokeu. She.
felt that if she could but reach her father,
the only friend sho had on earth, nil would
bo forgiven. So sho struggled on, day af
ter day, bearing her infant on her bosom, I
stopping seldom, and only lor a Unci rest.
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burden, tho child was evidently din:
when sho entered an humiilo tavern on a
prairie in Illinois, whero tho sccno of my
story occurred. Il had doubtless drawn
tho poison of death instead of tho nourish
ment of hfo from its mother's breast ; and
tho excessive heat of thu sun, w hich pour-
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ed down upon them us they passed across'
the shiuli'less prairi", hud completed t ho I
woik. Even as she vmM her narrative,
tho poor thing shivered and groaned faint
ly ; ono or two convulsive motions of the
limbs ; one or two painful gasps, tht-n a
slight quivering of the lip-i and it was dead,
dead in its mother's arms !
Then I saw the perfect exhibition of
human agony. She uttered no words, but
despi'.'rspokewith u thousand tongues from
every feature of her countenance. It
was more than she could endure. Her
hands relaxed their hold, and the corpse
would have fallen to the ground had it not
been cauht by one of the bystanders.
i
She turned as pale as death, and us rigid
ns marble, nnd tho pext moment sho loo
lay stretched bvfore us. Her heart had
literally broken in the violence of her an-
guisii, and mo stream o! i.emd that issued
from her beautiful lips plainly told us that
all efforts for restoration would be useless.
A physician came, but she was beyond all
his skill. The poor wanderer was ut
rest and may I be forgiven, but the doc
tor's annnouncement that ho could do
nothing, sounded pleasantly in my ears.
It was best that she died thus.
As they lifted her corpsa to bear it to
a room, there fell from her bosom a loc
ket of gold. At that moment ono of the
company a pale young man who had
been for some thvs uu inmate of tho inn,
and whose quiet and solemn demeanor
had enveloped him Jn mystery sprang
forward und graspedthe locket. Touch
ing a spring it flew open, disclosing
what the others never knew but the
voting man leaped wildly towards the
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ifi wI)cre flowcrj ()f ,k.w ow
can-xttAcA nnd overspread her
An, I llm.n f-i A,,t ll.nt l-nnnlir..!
Innelv grave, they buried her and her
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A WHALE STORY.
! Nearly three years since, in company
w'uh over one hundred oilier piissensers.
-i I .i i - in i . i. i
! I sailed in the ship P ymoii h, Cap am I'u
. ' y ' I
soi:. Irom San r rancisco to :e-:iio. A few
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n.ivc mil n
sixty or seventy feet long, and which kept
in mil e,-.mn:i nu
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in our company tn
ntii-Joiir days, and
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only left ns when wo "ot on
: d
soundings
"I . . i I mi
i ciose to our port ol destination. I his
. . .'. . .
I whale most ol the lime kept three
y un-
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nv;i.-iai ULVU31UI1S uiu ueei iiiuit nave
touched him, ns we could see that his back
was scratched by the copper. He would
come up to blow every twenty or thirty
minutes, ranging a few rods from the
ship almost always to windward and
then resume his berth under the keel und
whether we went fast or slow it was al
wuvs the same to him. On "oinv; down he
would almost invariably come within two
rods of the ship, with Ins head opposite the
mainmast, and slowly settle to his place,
his flukes being even with the rudder. On
one occasion we lay becalmed for two or
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three days, with two oth-T vessels about
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Our whale paid them a
op 10ur or two each but nlw-iys
cn'(j0 b'xt-k to Iiis nuarlors fterhehiid
.pp'VwittiVo r,vc ,,r si ' d-ivs'tt-o ro-tiled
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to drive h'.ui oli" by firing into him; and
la few days afterwards the effort was re
peated, but ho would not hau: us. Tl.ir
: ty or forty heavy riflo balls were fired in
to him, some of which struck him in the
blow-lio'e. On one occasion, a ball hit
I him nt the bottom and drew blood, but all
i to no elii:et ; an I except w hen he gave a
! slight shiver, we coold not perceive that
i he kit t!..'.i, although many of the balls
i struck him when not more than two or
thrco roJ from t':? ship. On the day af
" ",v- " "ni
ter the shooting, nt cverv shot hole
i .
i would appear a sma
. 1 '
I white bulb, but in
three or four more days he would show
no sign of being injured. During tho pas
S 'go we were eh-se to many other whaic?
but our Khaic paid not the slightest attuti
lion to them. Persona on beard, who pro-
fessed to know, called litis a Xt'fihcr jj.J:
tout Whal
wlv-ther correctly or not, 1
. T-l
cannot say. J-jJtkw'
J r
c.
D;V C.'i.orps.-Two bo-s u.non- the
bl.iekherry bushes, some one or tuon.iles
, sn w nH ,,;,ri
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a noiti0 !llkC ,,unt!cr'
On'- who was a lit
tle timid, said to the other, "Come, 1'red,
h t's go home it thunders." The oil;1 r
not wishing to return home so soon, de
nied that il ihund -red al ull. Directly the
rumbling noise was again borne on the
freshing breeze. "What's that then I" in
quired the other.
"Why, Fred, don't you know whet that
is? If you don't, I'll till yo'.i. You know
it has been dry weather for a Ion" tune.
what clouds thero are fioalin rbout are
, jj f y 0J M'P !S i 1HS. II n d V ..VI ill"
wind blows it rallies ti em.'
The Clinton, N. Y.. Cuurantsays that
the people of that vicinity w ho believe the
second coming of our Lord is nt hand,
huvo been selling their property to pay
their debts and prepare for the advent.
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NUMBER 44.
FIMl'D, IRIJIE, AND I'CIIRABLE SHRDER.
Yeiiraure (fa Hcturned Cajurnnn.
The following story, from the Cincinnati
Jlicjitlirr, of the .r;h inst., is probably but
one of many sad episodes in thu life of in
dividuals connected with California ad
ventures :
W'o were informed last evening by Mr.
Henry I'oslock, Jr. of Dayton, of the fol
lowing parti. tula rs of u distressing occur
rence which tool; place a Tew miles from
Osbornf, on the rail-road between Day
ton and Springfield, on Thursday eve
ning last. It appears that about three
years since, a firmer named Win. Kick
ells let his family to feck his fortune in
the pold mines of t'nlifornia. About sev
en months since Mrs. P.. icceived infer
' matioii bom u pcitain representing- him
! self as coming direct from Sun Francisco
that her hushund hud died of chronic di
larrh(ra. Tho wifo believed the story and
' manifested much distress of mind upon tho
- receipt of the intelligence. Her informant
j whoso name is Win. T. Gaylord, rnani
' festcd much sympathy for Mrs. It. in her
I bereavement, and frequently visited her
I house lo condole with her in her nfll-clion.
1 ho unsuspecting wife, appreciating tho
kindness of Gaylord tendered him tho hos
pitalities of her house and home. Gay.
i iord with an npparent indifierence, decli
ned the ofi-T but finally proposed to accept
the same on condition of marriage. Tho
astonished Mrs. II. ut first declined, but
afterwards agreed to let the matter stand
' open until Gaylord should cnll again. In
I the interim, Gaylord abstracted from the
pos'.-ofiice all letters directed to Mrs. R.
and one from her husband ho opened, pe
rused and then destroyed. Tho letter sta
ted that he did not intend to return home
for three years, but was very anxious to
see his wile. Gaylord again called upon
Mrs Uicketts, unl insisted upon an an
swer to his proposition. Mrs. 11., after a
few moment's reflection, consented to the
union, nnd tho timo for the marringe was
set. Thu day came, they were married
and by their marriage Mr. Gaylord camo
into possession of a farm valued at sever
al thousand dollars. Soon after their
marriage Mr. Gaylord proposed to his w ife
to sell out nnd move to Kansas, and there
locate for life.
The wife consented, and the firm was
advertised for sale nt a sacrifice The
advertisement appeared" in the Dayton and
Cincinnati papers, und much was said in
regard to tho sale of the "Riekctt's Es
late." The advertisement, as it appeared
in one of our Dollar Weeklies, was seen
hy Mr. Uicketts in San Francisco. En
raged and chagrined, Mr. U. took the first
steamer and arrived in Osborne on Wed
nesday evening last. Mr. K. mado dilli
gent inquiries, aud learned the facts as
ubovo stated. Arming himself with a
knife nnd a brace of pistols, he went to his
houso about 10 o'clock at night. All was
quiet. Uie'-ctts rapped at the door sever
al times. It was finally opened by Mrs.
Gaylord, nnd Uicketts entered. Mrs. G.
threw on her dress, and lighting ihe can
dle turned to look at the stranger who had
come at such nr, unseasonable1 hour of tho
night. A shriek, and tho expression of,
"Great God ! Uiekeiis, is that yen f0.
lowed, and tho astonished and affrighted
wii'u fell insensible to the finer. Gaylord,
who was in bed in an adjoining room,
rushed out to see what h-d happened.
Uickettn immediately seized him by the
throat and plunged the k.iilo into his
nn.l then went to where his unfortunate
wile was lying, cut her on the shoulder
r.nd neck, tiien left the premises and Ins
not since been heard from. The w ile, re
covering, informed tho neightnrs of what
had transpired, nnd iminili.ite search w is
made ler Uicketts. Gaylord was lying
very low when Mr. P'os 'l'-k list heard
from him, and thn probability is that he
must die. Lickeils has undoubtedly made
good his escape.
C4rCf.pt. U. 15. Forbes, of IJo'ton, has
publi: I'.-'d v. letter respecting thu loss of the
Arctic, in which he says every such ship
should havo a certain number of picked
i.n ti, sufficient to s'eer tne iJ.ipnnd have
strict charge of tlm h'-ats and life-saving
fippanitus. Each beat should havo its
crew nnd c'tain, and theso should be
made epert in tho business of launching
it, so tli-u ili ' cka.,''e r. any deadly blun
dering in the moment of i aneer piay bo
obviated as much as possible. Some such
system will th-nbtless be adopted after a
lew inoro astounding sea-catastrophes.
CCrThe Legishiturj of Sou.h Carolina
has enacted that bowio knives, dirks, Ar
kansas tooih pick, revolvers, and other
pedal weapons, shall Lo no ioiiger offered
for sale or carried in that Slate, nnd also
tiiat any cne who shall kiil unother with
sin II weapons shall be held guii'y of fel
ony without benefit of clergy unless it is
in self defence aIh-u a vordict of not
guilty may be re:ur..cd.
CCrDysentrry, of a malignant charae.
tor, is said lo picvinl to nn r.larming ex
tent in the tow n of Florence, fitunted near
tiio borders of Washington and leaver
counties. In two families, named M'Lnugh
lin, nearly all !ho members havo fuller,
victim.''.