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VOLUME 5.
STEWART HOLLAND.
“He had been deputed by the Captain to fire
the signal gun, (when all thq. others hud Hod,) and
amid the melancholy wail ho pursued his duty.—
"When all hope had fled, and tho vessel nearly leveT*
with the bob, Holland w&&.afifin busy with his gun;
His last'shot boomed out as tho'Arotic sunk, and.
he went down with hor—persevering in the strict
performance of his duty.”
Upon tho Arctic’s deck wo a seen
A noble form, and fairj
Firm, resolute amid tho gloom
And scenes of dark despair.
His ear was pained by shriek, and wqiJ,
* And melancholy strain, 1
Of struggling viotims all around,
Who sought for help in vain 1
Doubtless in that depressing hour
Of dismay and pain,
He tho’t of home, and loved ones fair,
He’d never see again !
How’er ho did not flee tho wreck
To trust the trocherous wavo,
Which bore some to suocoring hand
But others to the grave !
His post was at the signal gun,
“When ail tho rest had llod,"
Nor from his duty turned aside,
To dying or the dojid !
Ah ! no response, no cheer was heard,
And hope had well nigh flown ;
But rumbled still o’er mountain learn *
The siguaTs doleful tone !
Tho noblo youth withdraw exposed.
Throughout undaunted stood,
Tho* gathering waters lashed his form
To whelm it in the flood.
And calmly with tho Arctic sunk 1 ,
Whil© yet tho cannon's breath,
Wont moaning o’er tho sea's expanse,
The sigual of his death !
Washington, Oct. 14, 1854.
JUST CHARGE IT. ■
A Sketch for new Beginners in Life
‘Charles what did this peach preserve
cost ?’
. ‘l’m sure I don’t know Hannah.’
‘-“But you bought it this morning didn’t
you V
‘I know I did, but I didn’t ask the price
of it?’
‘Did you not pay for it ?’
‘No.’
‘Why not ?’
•O, because I don’t stop to make change.
1 have opened an account with Mr. Wal
dron, and shall hereafter settle once in
three months. ;
This conversation was going on at team- j
ble, between Charles Mathews and his
wife. Mathews was a young mechanic,
who had just commenced house keeping!'
and ns he was making excellent wages, he (
could afford to live pretty well. Alter he i
had made known his determination lo his j
wife, she remained some time in. silent ,
thought. - -- - (
‘Charles,’ nt length she said, in a very ,
mild persuasive tone. ‘I think it would
be better to pay for things as you take
them. You know you receive your pay
for labor every Saturday night, and you
could pay as you go very easily.’ |
‘I know J could,’ returned Mr. Mathews ;
with the air of a man who has unanswor- j
able arguments at his command ‘hut then
it would not bo near so handy. You see j
if 1 pay my store bill but onco a quarter I.
shall save aH the troubleof making change; j
pnd shall not only save some lime, but ulso j
avoid mistakes.’
.. ‘Mistakes!’ repeated Hannuh. ‘How
cam ,mistakes occur when you pay fur
things as you get them. 1
'‘l will tell you. Sometimes it may not;
ho convenient to pay for a thing when Ij
get it —I may forget my money or 1 may
only take it on trial—then I pay for part
and not for all, some things may get char
ged which I pay for. No, Hannuh, a set
tlement once a quarter wilLhe.the best and
most convenient all around. lam satis
fied with it,’
“%ll perhapsit may*' said the wile,
with an earnest tone and look, yet with a
smile, ‘but 1 cannot think so.’
‘But why not.’ j
‘Why on all accounts. In the first place
you will buy more than you would il you
paid cash. Now you needn’t shuke your
head for I know it. There are so many
little luxuries, jittle extras, which we do
not need, blit which you will be apt to buy
df you do n6t have lo pay cash down. 1
know something about this credit busi
ness, and it is not a fair thing. In
second place, if you pay cash lor every
thing, you will get your goods cheaper. —
A trader will sell cheaper when he can
have the money in his hand than when he
has to carry out the amount to his ledger.’
‘But let me tell you, Hannah, that Mr.
Wuldrpn will not cheat. He is not the
man Vo take advantage that way.’
‘You misunderstood me, Charles. Do
you not know that ail traders can afford to
sell ‘cheaper for cash than for credit ?—-
Mr. Waldron, for a five dollajr bill, will
let you have more sugar than lie would
for the same amount entered at different
times on Ins ledger. ,He can afford to do
v sbi ' Traders like to secure cashcuStoni-
Ltersi l think' you will fjnd itto ouradvan
liajno. to ‘ try thU cash aystenj. Now |do
[jttbt believe , you would have bought this
iiietich' preserve if you had to pay the cash
■for it? V... ~Vv:.
Ir ‘TBut I, bought that juat to please, you;
BHaiinah, and 1 thought you wduffehcept
R'&'ibtefulty,* 'returned;the young- hu,a*
;h a tone which showed that his feel*
Rgs'weVe touched. ,
■ ,*( know ypfi did,’ said the wife, .laying
M|tsinid afieigibhately upqn his shoulder,
‘and I was grateful, for I know ypu would
do anything to please roe ; but for the
helping you I Would forego all
these things. Perhaps,L. and the wilb
spoke very low—‘you might be able to buy
a little cottage of your own one of these
days.’
For several days Charles sent only
such things up from the store as were ac
tually needed. At lengthens he went into
thestoreone day on his way to work, he saw
some splendid locking pickles in fancy
jars. He had ordered the Articles he need l
ed and was’about to leavojwhen Mr. Wal
dron spoke": ‘Mr. Mathews, don’t you
want a jar of those pickles ? I carried my
wife in a jar last evening and she thinks
them superior to- anything she ever saw
before;’
Now Charles know that his wifo had
plenty of plain pickled cucumbers, some
that her mother had put down lor her, but
Mr. Waldron’s wife has h«d some of those
fancy ones and why shoulan’t Hannah? '
‘Shall I send you up ajar ?
‘How much aro they ?'
‘Only a dollar.’
..‘Yes, you may send up one, and just
charge it il you please.’
‘O, certuinU ; anything you want-vou
may order at any time, and you may ho
assured we shall he haApy to accommo
date you.’
Now this was flntteriag’ to young Malle
cws feelings, to think.tlfat the trader had
so much confidence injiirn, and he went
away with an exceeding good opinion of
himself and iiis credit,.and of the. store
keeper in particular.
‘Only a dollar !’ Yq| only a dollar on
the traders books, —ilrit is nothing. But.
a cfßliar right out of ole’s pocket, that is
different? Charles Mithews would not
have bought those piclje's if the cash had
been required for«theini
‘Ah, Malhews, loot hero ; I’ve got
something lo show yo«j.’ This was said
by the trailer to the yjung man on the
very next morning afir the purchased!
the pickles. ’ I
And so Mr. Waldrop led our hero out
to the back side ofthekture and opened a
hex. i
‘There Mathews, tjn’t those nice or
anges V : r
‘Theyrire nice,’relied Charles. And
so tJiev rtrtllv Avert 1 . *
‘I knqw your wife urould litre somo of
these, l earned some-la my wife, and she
wanted |ue to save hcrjfour or live dozen.’
‘Theje are nice. How do they come ?
‘Lefs see ; I can send you three
dozen ip for a dollar; I got those very
chntfp. : You know they are retailing at
five an| six cents apiece.’
‘Yes| Well you may send me up three
dozen. : Just charge tfiem if you please.’
‘Certainly! anvthitg else this morning?’
‘I believe not.’
Arnfso Mathews vent on. This morn
ing dullnr—to-morrow ' perhaps
fifty c|nts. It didn’fecem very much.—
The yiung man keptjust as much money
in his pocket ns he hadn’t bought'
them. ‘Only a dollif,’ ho would say to
himseT, that is not fiuch out of twelve
dollniva week.’ At(l so.it might not be;
but the trouble the next dollar
was ‘«nly a dollar.’ iHe forgot to add this
dollar!with the forrmjr and call it two dol
lars, q'nd with the jext call it three and
so on) J t
Ore evening Chnjes came home with
a goli chain nttachtp to his watch.
‘VVnere did yotfget that asked his
wife. 1
‘Ah,’ returned lla-husband with an ex
press vo shakeor th'l head, ‘I made a bar
gain n this chain.. Now guess what l
paid or it.’ j
‘II ne sure I can’ljguess.’
"‘0 but try —gucis somelhifig.’
‘Well p.erhaps tm dollars.’
‘Ten dollars !’ (choed Charles, with a
sort jo f disappointed look. ‘Why, what
are yob thinkingpf? Jack Cummings
bou| ht this chain,two months ago, and
paid twenty dollara for it—why just heft
it <nd see how seavy i' % is. Eighteen
cart :s (jne. JnckVns hard up for money,
and let me have a for twelve dollars.’
‘ t ischerfp, tpj>osure,’ returned Han
nal, bi|t yet not with so much pleasurea
ble surprise as husband had anticipa
ted ‘But,’ bhe idded, ‘you will feol the
losi of [the money.’
I ’ool I I havft rtioney enoOgh. You
kniwllhave speit but very little lately.
I hive keen prettf saving.’
1 f’orga one thing, Charles.—
Tlit mtjnuy whies you have in your hand
is lot jburs.’ 1
Notjmine?’ J
No, jit belong to the store-keeper and
he jutcher trod to our landlord, you
>W (ley must be paid.’
lionlt you fiil about them. I know it
i’t c<kt me.4iiywhere near twelve dol
j a tq live, lor I have made an
mtrte,\ There is Wilkins who works
lit sitje of,iie,in the shop, he has four
idren, and i nly gets the same wages
t f do, and! ff* 'b* l®ys U P some tßree
four dollars sjery week besides paying
i rent.’,
‘Yes/ said
/aaintpeei
was telUi
do
loj
el
innab- I know he does.
S wife (he other day, and
me how well they were
CLEARFIELD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1854.
getting along. Mr. Wilkins takes his has
ket every Saturday night and goes over
to the market and buys his weeks'quan
tity of meat and vegetables, and trades for
cash so that he gets everything at the best
advantage. So he does at the store. He
Ipys in a quantity of nil these articles
which will keep, and buys them as cheap
as he can. Butter, eggs, cheese, apples,
and such, he buys when the market is full,
and when they are cheap, and he always
buys enough to last his family over tho
season of scarcity, when such things are
high. Ilis butter for instance, he bought
1 for eighteen cents a pound—a large firkin
of-il and it is much sweeter than that for
! which you pay twenty-eight cfcnts.’
| ‘TU’eniy.eight cenls !’ repeated ilia
young man in surprise.
‘A es. I asked Mr. Waldron’s man who
brought it up, and he said it had risen
to twenty-eight cents. Air. Wilkins-got
fifty dozen eggs some tinto ago for twelve
cents a dozen, and his wife packed them
down, and‘they kept well. You will have
to pay Mr. Waldron thirty-three for those
you sent up yesterdny.’ 1
Charles Mathews was somewhat aston-
I ished at this view of the case, but it could
not be helped now; and tho subject was
| dropped. Ilis gold chain had lost its
charm. Tt did not look so well ; even in
! his own eyes, as hud the simple black
’cord which ho had worn before.
At length the end of the quarter came
round. The first bill paid was the rent
which amounted to thirty.one dollars.—-
Tho next hill, the butcher’s was s3o.
Charles was astonished to see how tho
meat hill footed up. But when ho saw
how many steaks he had at seventeen cents
per pound, the cause" of wonder was at an
end. Next lie puid the baker’s bill which
was thirteen dollars. When he had como
home m the evening he.had paid all his
hills except his grocery bill.’
‘Mr. Waldron sent in his hill to day,’
said his wife after supper.
‘Ah, did he ? let me see it.’
. Hannah brought it and Charles looked
at it. He was astonished at its length, and
when he came to the bottom of tho col
umn his lace turned a shade paler. It
rooted up just sixty-five dolllars—an av
erage of five dollars a week.
‘This is impossible!’ he uttered as fie
gazed upon it. But he examined the tjifi
le re n t articles, and he could remember
when he ordered them. Those things
which cost only a dollar, looked very in
nocent when viewed alone, but in the ng.
gregate they had a different appearence.
‘How much shall you lay up this quar
ter, Charles ?’ kindly asked the wife, as
she came and leaned over her husband’s
shoulder, and parting tho hair on his fore
head and smoothed it back.
‘How much shall 1 lay up?’ he repent
ed. ‘Not much, Gef the slate and let us
reckon np. Charles was resolved to be
frank aljout tho matter and let his, wife
know all.
The slate was brought. First Hannah
put down one hundred and fifty-six dol
lurs as tlie quarter’s wages. .Then came
the rent, and the butcher, and the baker.
‘Now you may put down twelve dollars
for this chain —and twelve dollars for sun
dries—that means cigars, tobacco, nuts,
beer, sodo, theater tickets, and such things.
Now take all that from my quarter’s wa
ges and see how much remains.’
Hannah performed the sum and gave
fifty-two dollars as the result.
‘Fifty-two dollars,’ uttered Charles,
sinking back into his chair, 'and wo have
not bought .one article of clothing or furni
ture. Fifty-two dollars with which to pay
sixty-five. There is thirteen dollars short
this quarter, and I had to save thirty at
least.’
‘Well it’s no use to mourn over it,’
said the wife in a cheerful tone, for she
saw that her husband felt badly. Let’s
commence again, there’s nothing like try
ing you know.’ *
For some moments Charles remained
silent. He gazed first upon the bill he
had in his hand, then upon the figures on
the slate and then upon the floor. At last
he spoke ; there was a peculiar light, in
his eye and a flush upon his countenance.
‘Hannah I see where the trouble is, and
I must freely admit that I have been
wrong ; if I had paid for everything ns I
bought it, I should not have been where I
am now in pecuniary matters. You are
right, I see it all now, I have not estima
ted the value of money as 1 ought. Let
me once get up again to whore 1 began,
and I yill, do differently. I must step
down to the store this evening and pay
Mf. .Waldron what I have, and'the rest I
will pay him when I am able.
*That;ma!ter can bo easily settled,’
said Hanrmh, with a bright, happy look,
'I hav.e more than enough to' make up the
amount of that bill.-. It is money I had
when we were married. Wnita moment.’
Charles protested njost earnestly against
taking his wife’s money, but she would
listen to no argument on the subject. . It
was her will and he must submit. So he
went down and paid the grocery bill and
on bis way home tie sold his gold chain
for fourteen dollars, He feit happier when
he got the old black cord once more about
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his neck, and the money now to commence
the quarter with.”
On the next Monday morning the young
man went into the meat store to send* home
a pieco of meat for dinner. -
‘How much will you have ?’ asked tho
butcher. -
Charles got thus far, and then he stop
ped. He had always been in the habit of
ordering an indefinite quantity, and leav
ing the butchor to cut it off at the highest
figure, and charge the highest prices; and
then he remembered how much was usu
ally wasted.
‘L*t me have two pounds*’ he said.—
He stopped and saw it weighed and then
paid .for it.
When he went home at noon ha found
that his two pounds of beef had made
enough and there .was none to waste.—
The next morning he went to the store. —
Mr. -Wuldton had some nice figs just come
which he showed. Fora moment Charles
hesitated, but then he remembered that
lie had to pay for all he bought,'he conclu
ded not to take them, lie found that
things were not qmic so enticing when it
required cash to get them as when the pay
ment could be poslponed. lie paid for
what he bought and went his way, and
thus filings went on through the week.—
When it came Saturday night lie knew
that all the money in his pocket wus his
own, after deducting the rent. That eve
ning he went over to the. market with Wil
kins, and bought as much meat and vege
tables as he thought would, last him thro’
tho week. He found that he made a sa
ving of at least 20 per cent by tljis opera
tion, and when . opportunity offered he
made the same saving in other matters.
At the end of that quarter Charles Mat
hews did not have to get any slate. He
puid his house lent, and then he found he
had thirty five dollars left in his pocket.
That was ull his—he did not owe a penny
ofit. ’ r
‘Ah, Hannah,’ he said ns ho held tho
money in his hand and looked at it, ‘now
1 see'how easy it is for u man lo be wrong
and his wife right. This money all comes
of paying as I go along. , It is very sim
pler and easy to say : ‘Just churge it !’
and a man tnay easily buy things under
such -circumsianeos,- but when-the day-of
reckoning comes theso three simple words
that sound so innocent when spoken, are
found to be costly things. ’ I would not
have believed it had 1 not tried it. 1 could
not have believed that a man would pur
chase so many useless articles simply be
cause ho conld have them charged; But
1 see it now and ifl refused to follow your
advice at first, I have gained experience
enough to lead me to follow it the more
explicitly now.
Charles Mathews never again allowed
himself to be led away by the credit sys
tem, but he followed the cash rule punc
tually, and the consequence has been that
he cannot only now buy any quantity of
produce, wood coal, &0., at cheap cash
prices, but he has cut off the expense of
house-rent, for he owns a snug little cot
tage in the suburbs, and it is all paid for.
Probably few great philosophic states
men—few men, that is, who acted inti-.
mately in public afluirt as well an contem- 1
plated them from the closet—ever quilted
the stage without a feolinjjof profound dis-1
appointment. Whether successful or un
successful, as the world would deem them,
a sense of sadness and disappointment
seems to prevail over every seutiment.—
They have attained so few of their objects;
-they have seen so much more than ordi- j
nary men of the dangers and difficulties
of the nations, and of vice and meanness
of public men.. Not many Englishmen
governed so long or so successfully asSir
Robert Peel, or set in such ha|o of bless-1
ings and esteem; yet shortly before his
death he confessed that what he had seen
and heard in public life had left upon his
mind a prevalent impression of gloom and
grief? Who ever succeeded so splendidly
as Washington? Who ever enjoyed to
such a degree, and to the end the confi
dence and gratitude of his country ? ‘Yet,’
says Giiizott, towards the close ol his life,
in the sweet and dignified retirement of
Mount Vernon, something of his lassitude 1
and sadness hung about the mind of a man'
so serenely great —a feeling, indeed, most
natural at the termination of long life spent
in men’s concerns.’ Power is n heavy
burden, and mankind a hard task-master,
to him who is struggling virtuously against
their passions and errors. Success itself
cannot wipe out the sorrowful impressions
which originate in the conflict, and the
weariness .contracted,o.n r th e -scqqe.of aq
lion is prolonged even in the bosom of re
pose.
o£r Alfred Artis,ofShelby county, Ohio,
wris tried last weelt and convicted pf mur
der ’in the first degree, The cb»fge
against him was, that aboiifa yeprfg*. h®
cabsed., the,, death of bis ow» I daughter,
quite a young girl, murdarfhg ber by the
slow process or starvation, exposure, ops
the most disgusting dud fiendish cruelties.
Another daughter, older than the deceas
ed, was witness against him.
‘O, three or four’—
MISERY OF STATESMEN.
THE PAGE OF CARDS-
A nobleman in London, who kept a
great number of servants, reposed con
siderable confidence in one of them, which
excited a jealousy in the others, who, in
order to prejudice their master against
him,, accused him of being a notorious
gamester. Jack was called up and close
ly interrogated; bur he denied the fact, at
the same time declared he never played
a card in his life. To bg,more fully con
vinced, the gentleman ordered him to be
searched, when behold a pack of cards
was lound in his pocket. Highly incens
ed at Jnck’s want of veracity,' the noble
man demanded, iri a rage, how he dared
to persist in an untruth. . ' ~
“My lord,” replied he, “I certuinly do
not know the name of a card ; the bundle
in my pocket is my Almanac.’’ .
“Your Almanac, indeed ! then I desire
that you will prove it.”
“Well, sir, I will begin. There are
four suits in the pack, that intimates the
lour quarters in the yean.; as there are
thirteen weeks in a quarter; thereavo the
same number of lunations ; the twelve
signs ol the zodiuc, through which the sun
steers his diurnal course in one year; there
are fifty two cards in a pack, that direct
ly answers for the. number of weeks in a
year; examine them more minutely, you
will find three hundred and sixty five spots,
as many us there aro days in the year ;
these multiply by twenty four and sixty
and you have the exact number qf hours
and minutes in a year. Thus sir, I hope 1
have convinced you it is my Almanac )
and by your lordship’s permission, I will
prove it mv prayer-book also*
I “I look upon the four suits as-repre
senting the lour prevailing religions: Chris
tianity, Judaism, Mahomeluffism, and Pa
ganism ; the twelve court cards remind
| me of the twelve Patriarchs,- from whom
; sprang the twelve tribes of Israel, the
'twelve Apostles, the twelve articles of
! Christian faith. The king reminds me
iof the nllegianco due to his majesty. The
I queen, of the same to her majesty. The
ten brings to my recollection the ten cit
ies in the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah,
destroyed by fire and brimstone from
the'.pn plngues of Egypt ; the ten command
ments ; the ten tribes cut off for their vice.
-The nine reminds rue -of -the muses ; the
nine noble orders among men. The
eight reminds mu of the eight beatitudes ;
the eight persons saved in Noah’s ark ;
the eight "persons mentioned • in Saripture
to be released from death to Life. The se
ven reminds me of the seven administering
spirits, that stands before de throne of]
God ; the seven seals wherein the book of!
life is sealed; the seven liberal arts and
sciences given i>y God for the instruction
of man ; the seven wonders of the world.!
The six reminds me of the six petitions in
tho Lord’s prayer. The five reminds me
of the senses giveji by God to man, hear
ing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling.
The four puts me in mind of the four
Evangelists, the four seasons of the year.
The three reminds me of the Trinity pthe
three hours our Saviour was on the cross :•
tho three days he lay in the tomb. Thej
two reminds me of the two testaments;
the two contrary principles struggling inf
man, virtue and vice. The ace reminds
me of the only true God to adore, wor-|
ship and serve ; one truth to practice, and
one good master to serve and obey.”
“ So far is very well,” said the noble
man, but I believe you have omitted one
card, the knave.”
“True, my lord, ihe knave reminds me
of your lordships informer.”
The nobleman became more pleased
.with Jaclc than before, freely forgave,-him,
raised his wages, and discharged the infor
mer. '•
Nature the best Doctor. —The latest
discovery which the old school of medi
cine has made, is the fuel, that nature un
assisted, will cure disease oven of a violent
character. Experiments havealready been
made in several diseases and with results
highly satisfactory toall lovers of progress.
Dr. Died, the physician of an hospital in
Vienna, gives eighty-five cases ol pheumo
nia, treated by blood letting, of which 16
died, or 20.4 per cent. One hundred and
six coses treated by tart, emetic, of which
22 died, or 20.7 per cent. Ono hundred
and eighty-nine cases he left to follow the
natural course of the disease, only requir
ing a low diet and rest; the result showed
only 14 deaths, or 7.4 percent., revealing
the fact so astonishing to himself, that*"*®
plan which has been universally/' <r3U 'j t
in the old school, and which ,j U H?|
as the very best means to W employed in
ti?is disease, is about times morefahd
than when, left & die hands of nature
alone: “an m-° snt 5 nt of success say#Prof.
Henderscu’F , ‘ unn PP roache d in the P“ bll3h
ed experience of any otherallopathiophy
sim'an of the country.’.’ , ~ ■'*'
will not strike, t4eo l: .b4dvman > ”
said a Quaker day, “but twijj let this
billet oT wood fa'll ‘on thee,” and t>.» tb«t
precise moment the “bad .man” wasfjoor-
Jed by the. weight of a'walking stick that
the Quakerbqd beeoknown to-carry,-
OirVVon’t go off—Girls after they are
i thirty year# of age. ; - 1
NUMBER
DR. BEALE’S CASE AGAIN. -
The New York Evening Mirror of
cember 4th, contains a very interestjWMt?
letter from a New Hampshire physician on'
the Beale case..
The fetter-writjer says : f have had some
experience with the different anesthetic
agents which have bden employed for the
past eight or nine years, and mv own ob
servation and that of others with whom I
have been in comrntmitnfrion, has TeeiT
such that I’ deefn it hazardous for any
mail to administer them to females without
the presence of third parties, or under
such circumstances as would render it e’a
sy to disprove any unfavorable charges
■that might be preferred by the subject.”
Efher is described by the letter writer
as nearly or quite dethroning reason,
sometimes for hours, and frequently hur
rying the imagination and feelings through
indescribable scenes and visions of the
wildest tumult.
i The writer then furnishes a number, of
i instances in elucidation of bis theory, from
: which we take the fallowing : . .
“For instance, a married lady, residing
in Roxbury, Mass., went to the office of
■ her dentist in Boston, and inhaled ether
for the purpose of having a tooth extract,
ed. VY'hen consciousness returned", she
opened her eyes for a moment, then cov
ering her face with her hunds, burst into,
tears, saying, as soon us-she could speak,,
‘,‘l thought it was George,” her husband’s
Christian name.
She had imagined she was in her own house
kissing and caressing her husband, and
.though she saw that that partof herdrenm
must be false—she neither being at tjome,
nor in company with her husband-—yet
the dentist stood over her, which render
ed it sensible for the kissing caressing to
be real, by supposing that she had mista
ken him for her husband. She at once
adopted this version of the case, and it re
quired the strongest assurance on the part
of the dentist, many times repeated, to
quiet her ; and, though her judgment was
at length convinced, she having confidence,
in ijie gentleman’s integrity, yet an im
pression was left upon her mind which
wak not effaced for vyeeks afier; but noth
ing bnt her continued confidence ih the
dentist, upon hii re-assurance, prevented
a very unpleasant affair.
Not fur from thesame time,the same den
list hatj the following case., lie adminis
tered ether or chloroform to a Miss some
fourteen years old, in the presence of her
mother," who stood over her .until the efi
feet passed eff, when the girl declared that
I the dentsit bad-been kissing her, and her
! mother found it very difficult to persuade
| her out of, that conviction. This same
young lad)'came in ugain some time after
j ulone, and had a tooth extracted under the
influence of some one of ihese agents, and
insisted in Faying the office before . she
had fully recovered her strength, ulihough
she talked quite rationally. The dentist
tried to persuade her to allow him to call
a carriage, or to accompany her home,
but shdAvould not submit to either arrange-'
i mem,-and left the office alone. Her home
wns but u few blocks distant, and after
reaching it, she becumo delirious, and de
clared to her-friends that the dentist had
treated her with great severity after she
recovered from the efiects of the ether,"
and nearly drove her into the street, that
she begged of hihi to call u carriage for
her, but he would not do it. Her frieflds,
on inquiry became perfectly satisfied, tiipt
it was all n delusion on the part of the
young lady, but they could never affect
her mind or feelings toward the dentist.
Several years have passed s'inco, and tho’
her family Have still been under the advice
and practice pf this dentist, ns before, she
has never yielded, and will have no inters
course with him.
How Guns are Spiked.—A correspond
dent of the London Herald describes how
the Russians spike the guns—“ The spikes
are about four inches long, and of the di r
mensions ofa tobacco-pipe; the head flatj
a barb on the point acts as a spring, whic*
is naturally-pressed to the shall be
ing forced Into the touch,-holev Upon
reaching the chamber, of thy gun, it re
sumea its position wnd u k* impossible to
withdraw it. 1 .; It can only be got out by
drillin’' —no eas.vtask, as they are made
of slee h ao d being also loose
in the tp** sn 'holo, there is much difficulty
in rowing a drill bite as effectually aq i$
?k ould do. Its application is the work of
a moment—a single lap on the flat head
with the palm of the band sufficing.
’ 1 ” ■' 1 ■* , i, I »
; Singular Accident. — George .
of Fox township, Elk cpunty, a.few dpyjp
ago j jwns driving a yoke of sfee'rs, wherj
one brthe?b»l>ep»me stubborn, and made
a. lunge ut hfm, and booked out ond ofhia ,
eyes and oiljenyisp injured ,him. ~ •
Boston Bee toys: “A mancap
get along without advertising; so icon
wa<*on withdut greasTng, but it gpee rather
bard.” ' V'";'
ftSCTho river Amazon in South Abiarv
ica,; drpins a district of country twice- as.
lairge'as the whole Mississippi Vajley.'
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