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ORIGINAL POETRY.
TWILIGHT HOL'I
BY W. W. S II AW.
O happy hour of rest from toil,
Thy advent with refreshing power,
Comes silently as richest spoil,
At twilight hour.
When is the hour I lev to stroll
'.Mid hendinjf boughs of eveiy fluwer,
And gather the fnirest of the wholo 7
'lis twilight hour.
The hour of muse ! O sweet art thua
When contemplation weaves a bower
Of grace as full as Nature now
Is twilight hour.
O hour of thought ! of dorpest thought,
When soul and Into are fraught with power,
-And naught but pnice surrounds the spot,
Is twilight hour.
O glorious hour of charming hope !
Thy lurid tint doth now assure
A brighter eve will hence elope,
Next twilight hour.
O blissful hour! A dulcet spell,
Xow we' come as a vernal nhower,
Around m steals within the Icll,
Li twilight hour.
O calmest hour! thy murmuring brceie,
Has lulled to rest the hustling world,
And philomel alone relieves
Still twilight hour.
0 hour of joy ! tby rupture fills,
The fount of lore with fancied bliss,
And rhispersscem to hush the rills
At twilight hour.
O dying knurl with gulden sheet,
Waft in thy breere a holy wish,
To l'egan lands beyond my feet,
This twilight hour.
Stay passing hour I Stay thou my light,
Fain would my being wing its any,
Where glows one hour tnat knows no night
' Long tw ilight hour,
rhilipsbarg, Pa., June 7, 1859,
THE JOURNEYMAN GENTLEMAN.
DV CEORtiK ARNOLD.
Joe Conway was an oddity.
Ho was especially delighted in myste
ries, disguises, unexpected documents, in
trigues, and romance generally.
Consequently, he was always getting in
to very Imd scrapes, and superfluous as
sertion there was always "a lady in the
case."
This made him a bit of a misogamist
an amateuer woman hater.
Yet, for all that, he could not let the
sex alone !
A profound love of nature and dissipa
tion, attracted Joe and myself to a little
villago of D , on the hanks of that
charming stream, the Ereliwon. We went
to fish, to hunt,-to sketch, lo see the
scenery, and to drink, for, as Joe remark
ed, the waters of the Ereliwon possess pe
culiarly refreshing qualities when mixed
with a little cogniac."
The afternoon of the second day of our
;journ founi us saat.id up in a dower
spangled slope, skirted by willows, whoso
gnarled roots were bathed in the pelucid
Erehwon. We had sought the spot, to
smoke, converse, and digest our some
what elaborate dinner, in peace and quiet,
with the beauties of nature before our
eyes.
As is very apt to be the case, when two
young men cet together, our talk was of
women.
Women 1 wha an inexhaustablc sub
ject for contemplation, conversation, wri
ting, oratory, painting, sculpture, and
.matrimony !
it all camnion, said Joe, "women
don't appreciate cultivation, intellect nor
gooa fellowship. All they look lor is
wealth and position, when they love. If
they don't find those nmroblo qualities,
they won't love, and if a fellow hasn't
them, he had better let tho sex alone.
'It takes a gilt key to unlockj their pre
vious Utile luuirU. That's so !"
"You are sadly mistaken Joe," said I,
"and the worst of it is you don't know it.
You are angry with the husband-hunters
who have given you chose, nnd revenge
yourself by damning the whole institu
tion at siiiuity, Your wrong. A man
Hike you, young, rich, and well, yes,
without flattering, I think I may say tol.
erably good-looking, has no chance, Y'ou
see only tho designing ones, who are
abound to marry your bank-account in
spite of yourself, and they Jay oft' their
charms upon you, ad miweam,"
"But wo are.the artless ones, who don't
want money who are willing to sacrifice
ithemselves, and all for that, for the sake
of the tender paaaion ?"
"They are modest. The brazon-faeed
fortune hunters orowd about you, nnd ac
custom you to being sought. The really
good girls require seeking, and as that isn't
& Publishers,
n your litin, von never know how many
U;ce women there are in the world."
"Ml tell you what 1 11 do!" cried Jon
sti.rlmg up suddenly, nnd half choking
himself w ith ft mouthful of cigar-smoke
"I'll test Hint question. I'll do it here
in this very phu-e. Til turn mechanic,
ignore my moiieyiand my family, make
up to the prettiest, proudest girl in tho
village, and show you that she won't mar
ry me poor. Then I'll come out in my
true colors, and show you that my cash is
puissant to that which my conversation
and acquirements cannot begin to do!"
" .Vhat ; many her?"
"Not much make her ask me t, and
then laugh at her."
I confess that I secretly hoped Joe
would not tost the question, lie was a
capital fellow, as licit in accomplishments,
and cultivation as in money. Now I knew
very well that D .contained some very
charming girls daughters of retired sea
captains, merchants, ect., who, honever
much they might love a mechanic, would
see him hanged before they would many
him. Au eonirairc, a young gentleman of
wealth and position, would prove very ac
ceptable. But he was determined, and when I re
turned to the city, in a few days, I left Joe
arranging a chest of carpenter tools and
getting himself up in a pair of blue over
alls and a paper cap !
Joe had a wonderful talent for doing
everything tolerably well. He played up
on half a-dozen instruments, could sur
vey, and dabbled in fine arts, understood
short-hand, a little surgery and medicine,
was a finished jockey, a fair gardner, had
built a stone bridge, written an epic, and
half-soled a pair of boots !
ll'ith these somewhat varied accom
plishments, he had no fear, of course, but
what he could get on very well as a car
penter. No one knew him at D , and
when ho introduced himself to the "boss"
carpenter of the village, he sueceded in
pursuiiding him that lie was a journeyman
of unsusuai talent.
He received several commissions during
the first fortnight of his experiment, hut
on the whole, it was rather luckv that ho
was not compelled to subsist on the pro
ceeds of his labors. Otherwise, he might
have found it difficult to pay his hoard
especially as he commissioned me to send
linn some live dollars' worth of cigars ev
ery week.
l.ne day after he had nearly exhausted
his patience, and had done no end of plot
ting and planning in vain, the village car
penter nsked him to undertake the resto
ration of a cornice on Onejoftlre oldest and
most aristocratic houses in 1) .
Joe agreed, and in n short time was
mounted upon the scaflbld, about on a
level with the third sto:v w indows of the
mansion of old Commodore Hulkington,
dexterously making his measurements and
plans for a new cornice.
It was not an easy task, for the work
was elaborate, and the weather warm.
Two days elapsed, and Joo had only got
ready lo commence putting up the brack
ets which sustained the heavy mouldings.
Lunch-time came, and the amateur car
penter, getting in the shade, unpacked his
little dinner-pail, and began a repast at
once simple and nourishing, when he saw
that the window nearest to him was open,
and that some papers, laying on the escri
torie inside, were disposed to blow away.
"1 know it is n trespass," meditated he,
"but it is for the proprietor's good I'll
step into that room, and save, perhaps,
somo valuable documents."
A little gymnastic exercise brought him
down from his scaffold, through the win
dow, and into a very elegant chamber.
"Ahem," said he "a woman's room."
There were paintings, slatuetts, ormolu
ornaments, and forty other luxurious
nothings, such as women of tasio love to
gather around them. A euitar reposed
upon the bed, with some books in French
and Italian. The couch itself bore the im
press of a form, as if the tutelar deity of
the chamber had been lying down, and
passing her time with music ami litera
ture. There was a portfolio open upon
table, with a pretty little water color
1 Al 1 1 11 j 1 I to
kotrli. linir-nnishoil n. won tcu'icw nlir:.-
. , . .a , , .
1 y
ry m uie corner ..ore cviuence u 1110 cm- experienced an emotion of pleasure a
tivated taste of the occupant, and every- copiousness of the presence of some in
thing about the chamber, from the i bed, i visible but charming sumt, and 1 have
w ith its shower of snowy curtains falling j lmuIe bol(1 to t,,ltfr oftu1 believing that if
from a massive gilt ring to the canary , you kncw my motives, vou would forgive
bird in the window, bespoke a refinement j I110
and delicacy on the part of whoever had I The. young lady was begining to feel
arranged the apartment, seldom found, ..ipd. All women like admiration, even
except m yourgand beautiful women who lrom t)loir (s0.cilnej) inferiors, if it is del
aspire to have their surroundings like ieutely expressed.
themselves. The conversat'on proceeded. Joo proved
"Something elegant about this," said'to the fair essayist that she was in error,
Joe, gathering up the scattered papers, 'ani ng toiinded her by the depth
and rjlacing them beneath a naner-weiL' it ..t i.; i. .m.
I f . . . . , .
Ion the escritoire, must investigate this
j here's an opening for a splendid bit of
romance poor young carpenter, and rich,
loveiy women, en i muu uimuir, uieio
have been bushels
of mvels written on
the same riot."
After a hurried examination of the room i
he regained his scaffold, and consuming
his lunch, set once more about his labors,
a little moro hopeful than before.
Thus passed a week. Joe got into a
very impudent habit of entering the chain-
ber almost daily, in hopes of meeting the
fair occupant of so charming o temple.
Ho became familiar with all the books and
music, whistled the canary bird into a
convulsion of song, and drove himself half
craiy with speculations upon tho fair un
known. He had heard her sing very sweetly of a
morning, when she opened the window
and just cought a glimpse of her form j
but she, seeing him, had withdrawn sud
donlv, and he had not been able to discov
er whether sho was beautiful as a rose or
ugly as a camel.
lie had found upon a half-finishod son-
net, on the table, several long, brown
hairs, appaientiy plucked out ma fit of
abstracted meditation.
"KXCF.I.SIOK."
CLEAUFIKM), PA. WEDNESDAY JUNK 23, 1858.
Evidently the girl was a blonde.
Ho had found gaiters, of delicate colors
und wonderful smullness gloves of cor
responding delicacy tasoful and artistic
dresses and sucqties.
What will you say, oh, my mat ter-of fact
and practical reader, when I lull you that
my friend Joo Conwuy, fell in love with a
woman ho had not yet seen of whom he
as yet, knew nothing about?
Yet he did.
Quite naturally the erection of tho cor
nice progressed but slowly. The master
carpenter wondered at it, but Joo assured
him every morning, that it would only
take a day or two longer.
One fine afternoon, Joe found, lying on
tho escritoire, an essay on music, written
in the same beautiful hand which he hud
so often seen and admired on the margins
of books, and papers in the chamber,
(irown impertinent to an alarming extent,
he laid down a saw which ho had uncon
sciously brought with him, and perused
the essay carefully.
It was well written and powerful, but
there was an error in the philosophy. It
will be dull for me to explain here, the
mistake which Joe saw ut once it is e
nough that the fair writer had confused
the Taws which govern melody and har
mony, and Joe devoutly wished an oppor
tunity to point out the error to her who
made it.
lie was just meditating an Btistle. to be
left with the essay, when the door opened,
and his dtnsc inronnue entered?
Figure to yourself a voting girl say of
nineteen or twenty whose every line and
contour spoke of grace and health whoso
neach tinted cheeks, bright eyes, and lips
like the inner fold of some, tropic shell.
told of viva ;ity, freshness, and purity.
Her hair was of that peculiar imle brown
almost a wood color 'vhich may perhaps
ue ocst uesoniieu as a mingling ol ashy
golden tints, and Ml in tangled masses
half ringlets half disorder on each side
of a neck white and delicate as the petals
oi me ncauuiui cameiia.
She did not scream when she saw the
carpenter sitting colly in her nrm-chalr,
making himself objectionably at home.
She only opened her large gray eyes, hes
itated a moment, and said :
"Well, sir!" with an accent between
surprise and disdain.
Joe arose, and bowed politely.
"What do you wish, sir?"
Joe was put somewhat to his trumps.
"I w Uhod to see w hat kind of a fairy
inhabited so delightful a domain !"
Truly a nice speech for a journeyman
enrpented to make to Commodore ilulk
ington's only daughter.
"Possibly you are not aware that you
are intruding, sir. You will oblige me by
departing,"
"Certainly," said Joe, now in the full en
joyment of the romance of the thing,
"certainly I will go, but you must pardon
me one thing 1 wish to explain a little
question, n;i which you have doubts.
Hainidi.y, .. ...usic, appeals to the intel
lectual, oi iiasoning portion of the soul
melody, to the passions and fellings."
The young girl looked a little alarmed
and drew back a few steps-
"No !" said Joe, divining her thoughts,
"I am not insane. In your essay on mu
sic, you say that 'education refines and
intensifies our preeeptions of melody.'
You should have said 'harmony,' for that
rules the brain, which organ is susceptible
to the influeneo of education. Melody is
lord of the heart alone, and you, made
moiselle, ought to be well aware that the
heart cannot be taught either in music
or in love !"
Miss Hulkington was astonished.
"Sir," she said, "1 do not know what to
make of your conduct. You are very im
prudent and very very "
"Audacious! Yes, I acknowledge that,"
interrupted Joe, "but you must pardon
nie. 1 lust entered your room to place
somt papers in safety, which the wind was
Jnloiit to blow out of
the window. Once
inside, the air of elegance and refinement
exhibited here attracted me. Doubtless
you have noticed that one's surroundings
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knowledge, and tho elegmco of his dk
tjon
I On leaving, he held out his hand-al-
most as soft and W i tn n.i her orn be
( stiilling the last traces of a fulse prejudice,
gave it a cordial presure.
1 " l nil liuvi nor. Intitr wnrL-mt at vnnp
trade?" she said.
"Sinoo my boyhood," unblushingly an
swered Joo, "out lie glanced at lus
hands "1 have generally done the nicer
j kinds of work joinery and the like."
This excuse passed' very well with a
, woman who hod never had the honor of
the acquaintance ot a mechanic before.
The next day, when Joo heard tho win
dow opened, ho presented himself, and
after exchanging salutations, the twain a
gain fell into a discussion, which became
so earnest that Joe was compelled once
more to 3iiter the room .
Alas for the progression of the new cor
nice! For two weeks this Btato of affairs con
tinued, and at the expiration of that time
Louise Hulkington was compelled, maugre
her pride, to acknowledge to herself that
, she loved Joe Conway the journeyman
carpenter. "'
j lie would not believe it. Heentradiet-
ed his theory of the mercenary character
of women.
And, 1 notice, we never believe anything
Which contradicts our theories.
Finally when tho cornice had to be fin
ished, Louise petitioned her father to have
an ornamental wardrobe put up in her
chamber, Of course, Joe had the task,
although tho old commodore grumbled
terribly ubout employing such a slow work
man. It took Joo six weeks to make that ward
robe !
By the t line the job was done very nice
ly done, it was too Joe's theory was quite
done up, and the sweet Louise Hulking
ton had promised to become his bride in
spite of her father in spite of her father
in spite of Joe's blue over-alls and paper
cap in spite of tho notions of the world.
Sensible girl
There was only one thing left for Joe to
do to reveal to her his true position,
which I was very hnppy to corroborate.
Throe months afterwerd, I said good
bye to a newly wedded pair just starting
for Europe, on a honey moon trip.
As I held the tiny white gloved hand of
the bride, and saw her charming fuce be
neath the gossamer-tissued veil, depend
ing from her "love of a bonnet," 1 said to
her proud and happy bridegroom
"Well, Joe, if you remember our con
versation, on the banks of the Erehwon,
last summer, you can toll me what you
think now, of the sentiments you then ex
pressed." "My dear George," said the Journey
man Gentleman," there are exceptions "to
all rules."
FIRST LOVE.
A 1' LEASING SKETCH.
"Am I your only and first love?" asked
a bright eyed girl, as she reclined her clas
sically moulded brow upon the shoulder
of her lover.
"No, Leily, you are not my only, not
my firt love; I have loved "another.
Long years beforo I saw you I loved ano
ther and I love that other still."
"Love that other still, nnd better than
me! Paul, why do you tell mo that?"
nsked she inising her dark blue eyes and
gazing steadfastly into those of her lover,
half in astonishment, half in sorrow, while
her jewelled fingers tightened convulsive
ly upon her orm.
"You asked me, Lclia, and 1 answered
with truth and sincerity ; you would not
have me to deceive you, would you ?"
"You love her stiil, then ?"
"1 love her still."
''And better than you do me ?"
"Not better, but as well."
"And will love her still ?"
"Until death, and even beyond death ;
over her last resting place will I strew
spring's earliest flowers, and bedow the
sacred gpot with the purest tears that love
ever shed."
"Handsomer than 1, is she not?"
"Her eyes were black ns night, and her
hair in glossy blackness outvied the wing
of the raven. She hasn't your sweet blue
eyes, nor yur soft brown hair; yet, oh!
Leila, her eyes have been the sweetest
eyes to mo that ever looked tho look of
eternal loe."
'Tanl, why do you wish to break my
heart ? Why hove you taught mo to love
you so wildly and blindly, and then in
I the midst of my happiness tell me there is
. and impassable barrier between us? This
I night, Paul, we mustl part forever! I
j would not hnvo believed this, had another
j told me!" atid her eyes grew dim with
tears.
"Be not too rash, Lei'ta ; hear me to the
end ; you love me too dearly to part with
me thus; think you that you could not
share my heart with one that 1 so dearly
love ?"
Never, Faul, never!"
"You shall, Leila, and must! Listen
for a moment, while I tell vou of mv first
love, ond I am sure you will bo willing to
share with he then."
"I will listen, Paul, but will not shnrc
your love ; I must have all or none; I am
, selfish in that respect, and who, that loves
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IUIt'1 VI
"Forget her, Leila, never! I would not
lose one jot of her pure ofiertion for the
fairest face that ever bloomed ; no, hot for
tho girdle of Venus, or the love of a se
cond Helen!"
"Then, Paul, you arc lost to me forever;
wo must part. Farewell to our every
dream of a brightened future. I love you
too well, and am too proud to share your
love with nught created. O I Paul I you
have wronged mo deeply ;" and her ex
quisitoly chiseled lips curled with indig
nant sorrow.
"Step, Leila, or ou will deeply wrong
mo also. I met this loved one, as I said
before, long years ago, in ono of the swee
test and sunniest vales of our broad Illi
nois ; wandered with her hand in hand, for
years besido the sparkling waters of my
childhood's homo. Hirst, by her smiles
of exquisite sweetness, sho taught my
heart that she loved me with unutterable
fondness ; and never hove I doubted ; my
trust in her has ever been steadfast and
fearless ; never has her eye looked coldly
on me, and never will it, till tho breath
of the death angel shall dim for tho long
sleep, uit in the still hours oi night ha o
I been awakened, as if by the gentlo fan
ning ot tho sleep-god s wing, und beheld
that face, thoso eyes gazing upon me with
all tho beatific tenderness of a guardian
angel over a repenting prodigal ; and a
kiss would fall upon my brow moro sooth
ing than the dews of Hermon. The same
gentlo hand has led menlong(life's flowery
wsy and beside its unruflled waters ; and
if ever my arm was raised to do a deed of
wrong, or my heart steeled to conceive it.
that gentle admonitory voice came whis
pering in my ear, and stayed the one mid
way and drew the iron from the other. And
I do well remember in my manhood's
riper years, when deep sorrow fell upon
my soul, and I would fuin have drunk ob
livion from the wine cup's fiery brim, that
same dark eyed woman came, and bade
me in the mime of God, to shun the fatal
snare; and, twining her arms around my
neck, while her eyes beamed with love's
deep inspiration, she poured oil upon the
troubled waters ; told me of purer hopes
and higher aims, and in my ear whispered
a golden word that has outlived all sor
row. Leila, would you know the name of
my first love ? 'Tis mv Mother !"
"O, raid, I'll forgive you, and will share
your love ; indeed I will."
"I knew you would, Leila. Second love
is as dear as the first."
A Tale of Horrors An Incarnate Fiend
Can it be ?
Governor M'Willie, of Mississippi, is
charged by tho Vicksiburg Southren with
having pardoned out of the Penitentiary a
man named I'yson, who had assassinated
another man by the name of Nelms, for
which he was simply sentenced to the pri
son for fourteen years. That paper says
of the criminal ;
He waylaid his victim, with whom he
had a deadly feud ; brought him down at
the first shot, and then, emerging from
his hiding place, taunted his dying victim
with words of insult and reproach, and fi
nally concluded by placing the muzzlo of
his gun to the body of Nelms and firing a
second time. This shot produced instant
death, and so close was the gun to the
victim that tho flesh of the murdered man
was burnt by the explosion. Having com
pleted the work of slaughter, he deliber
ately mounted his hor e.rode to the house
of Nelms, culled his wife out, informed
her he had murdered her husband, 8nd
directed here where to find his mangled
corpse I
Dyson is a blond-stained, blood-thirsty,
incarnate fiend. He is not a man but a
ferocious tiger, ard Governor M'Willie
has no moro right to turn such a beast
loose upon the community than ho has to
open the cages of a wholo caravan of Ti
gers. His antecedents are well known,
too, and they should have forbidden all
hope of executive clemency. The murder
of Nelms was not his lirst taste of blood.
He had previously, in a most base and
cowardly manner, murdered a lawyer na
med Moss, of I)e Soto county, by shooting
him in the back as Moss rode from him.
He had murdered threeof his negroes.and
one of them in a manner so horribly ap
palling as to cause the death of his own
wife. Phis case occurred at hisown table,
and the victim of his fiendish rage was a
woman. Tuking ofTense at something the
woman did, or omitted to do, whilo wait
ing nt the table, ho rose, drew a bowie
knife, and with a single b'.o'v, ripped her
open. His wife swooned, and when she
awoko to consciousness he had cut the
negro's heart out, and, with it upon his
knife, he thru.it it into her face I She swoon
ed again, and the result of her horror and
fright brought on convulsions, from the
effects of which sho soon died.
Tho Governor of Mississippi, in this
event, beats the Governor of Ohio in hit
acts of executive clemency.
Baboox at Home. A new work has just
been published in England, by Capt. A.
W. Draysou, of tho royal artillery, entitled
"Sporting Scenes among tho Kaffirs of
South Africa." We extract from a review
of it the following amusing description of
an ape family :
'l watched thorn through mv glass, and
was much amused at their grotesque and
almost human movements, some of the
old ladies hud their olive branches in their
lips, and appeared to be 'doing their hair'
while a patriarchial looking old fellow
passed backward and forwards with a fus
sy sort of look ; ho was evident!' on sentry
and seemed to think himself of no small
importance. The estimate of his dignity
djd not seem to be universally acknowlcd'-1
ged, as two or three young baboons sat
close behind him, watching his proceed
ings. Sometimes with the most grotesque
movement and expressions, they would
stand directly in his path, and hobbfo
away only at the last moment. One da
ring youngster followed cloao on tho heels
of the patriarch during the whole length
of his beat, and gavo him a sharp tug at
his tail as ho was about to turn. The oid
fellow seemed to treat it with the greatest
indifference scarcely turning round at
the insult. Master impudence was about
repeating the performance, when tho pater,
showing that he was not such a fool as he
looked, suddenly sprang around, and,
catching the young ono before ho could
escape, gave him two or three such cuffs
that I could hear the screams that result
ed therefrom. The venerable gentleman
then chucked the delinquent over his
shoulder and continued his prom in ado
with the greatest coolness. Tho old ba
boon was evidently acquainted with the
practical detans ot Solomon s proverb. A
crowd gathered around the naughty child,
who, childlike, (seeing commiseration,)
shrieked all the louder. I even fancied I
could see the angry glances of the mama,
as she took her dear little ret in her
arms, and removed it from a repetition of
such brutal treatment.
BfOuWe have some funny stories about
tho freshets in tho West, but here is one
from the Memphis Appeal which is a tri
fie ahead of any of the others ! "The Kato
Frisby on her" last trip", had among her
passengers a gentleman of Bolivar, who
was going to see a friend of his hfty miles
up tho river. His business was this: One
day last week ho saw a nondescript sort
of article floating down the Mississippi
near his limitation : it resembled a minia
ture Noah's ark, with the hull knocked off
rr' !, X?V,lL :
of a friend residing fifty miles up the river
The contents were not greatly injured.
He tied the store to the shore, and started
offtolet his trading friend know whero
he might find hi ot ple of business."
(TERMS
1 $1 25 per Annum-
NEWSEHIES-VOL. III. NO
Seeinc the Elephant a c
Dun Kico had the misfortune to shot
his show up atZanesville, Ohio, on that
peculiarly unlucky day, last Friday Jth
day noted m all the newspapers for tor
nadoes, deluges, thunder storms, and all
the promiscuous deviltries of tho c-le-menu.
We will let the Aurora teh how
the 'show' showed ;
Now the canvas gives a jirk to the lo
ward ; circus man shouts out, "Guv roZ
broke! " and out breaks Madam, the fin!
'"KfS ftl,-,1A"other Circus ma 'hout!
Out of tins n I of ye as soon as you can I"
1 hen helter-skelter, down off the seats
pitching tumbling, crowding teaff
tugging, dragging, screaming women, oryl
.ng children-every body making for the
door-while the great old rag was jump ng
and swing about over head upon its tall
poles like a craw balloon ; an 'extra hea
vy blast of wind, and down came a wet
dirty, heavy thing, trailing over the peo
pie, while the women gave one grand
scream, and he men dodged each other
and every body else out of the way of the
fulling poles. ' 'i
"At this point in the performances peo
ple began to "see the elephant" distinctly,
s'cene 1,ShlninK ed upon the
se,Twhiehd thre Were b0,,ne ft"J Bes
ses, which once were gay in their bright
colors, nmv 1 i i . ""fc"
dy, and altogether ridiculous looking 1
tZ Znl0 Justc'lel from under
the probtru e canvas were holding their
UieHe0:!1' h " I0l8e,,'
then best through about a foot deep of
mud and water. Men and boys went about
wslT'.'l w,ith0,,t hats' whi
were taken oil by the fulling tentand the
mud running off1 the end of their noses,
rr.ends were hallooing to each other in
ho night and storm. Sarah Jane was cry
ng for Mary Ann, whom she said wL
d ad. Polly was stuck fast among tho
seats, and many other girls were in unfe--tunate
and unbecoming situations. Pa
rents were seeking their childron.children
were crying for parents, any of whom at
hat moment might bo floundering under
the canvas l,ke a polywog caugfit in a
cofleesacksein. While into all this lan
scene walked the brigandish looking show-
noiv, aias I CIMUl.u.) .i i
, " .'""""'g torches stuck upon
poles, illuminating a picture which, could
H be described, would cap the climax ot'
the ridiculous, and the rest of this thril
hug story will, we hope, bo found in th
eW 1 ork Ledger. Price five cents a c
py. B3uThe following are from Harper'
Magazine :
Davidson College, North Carolina, con
tributes a good story of a man with a very
bad habit, As it is nil about lying, tbi
reader will believe it or not as he likes:
"In the old North State lives a certain
John Long, who draws a long bow whef
he has any thing to toll, and his charac
ter for truth and veracity has been below
zerow for many years. Captain Johnson
had been so taken in by ono of John's out
rageous stories, that he said to him in
pet:
"If you make me believe one of your
lies again in a month, I'll give you flftv
dollars."
John pretended to be quite hurt by the
ofler, and went ofY. A few din's after
wards he was riding by the Captain's post
haste, on horseback, when the Captain
called out to him :
"I say, hello, Johnny ! stop and tell iW
a lie or two this morning !"
John rodo on, but cried most dolefully i
"No timo for lying now ; brother Jiinmv
has just been killed in the machine, and
I'm going for the old folks." On he went,
Captain Johnson ordored his horse ami
rode over to see tho deaa man and offer
his services, tut found him alive and well,
ginning cotton, and in no danger from the
machine. Just then John rode up and demanded
the fifty dollars. The Captain declared
that it was a rascally trick, but ho would
have hod to pay the money if John ha 1
not let him off."
Guard Aoainst VuxaAiuiv. Wo should
guard against tho use of every word that,
is not perfectly proper. Ue no profane
expressions ; allude to no sentence that
will put to blush the most sensitive. You
know not the tendency gof habitually
using indecent and profane language. It
may never bo obliterated from your hearf
AVhen you grow up you will find at your
tongue's end some expression which you
would not use for any money. It was on'1
you learned when you were young. B
beiug careful you will save yourself a
great deal of mortification and sorrow.- -Good
men have been taken sick, and In
come delirious. In these moments the
have used the most vile and indecent lar
guago imaginable. When informed of i
after restoration to health, they had r.
idea of the pain they had given thci
friends, and stated that they had learn e i
and repeated tho expressions in childhood
and though years had passed since, the
had been indellibly stumped upon the
heart. Think of this, ye who oro tempt
ed to use improper language, and nevci
disgrace yourselves.
B3a,A good deacon making an official
visit to a dying neighbor, who was a very
churlish and naturally unpopular man,
put the usual question "
"Are you willing to go my friend ?"
"Oh yes, (said the sick man,) I am." i
"Well, (said the simplo minded deacon
I am glad you are, for all tho neighbor
are willing." - . -
IQpAn old Dutch tavern keeper wh'i
- third wife, being a-ked hi.'view. t
matrimony, replied, "veil, den you aee
the first time I marries for love dat Wav h
goot; den I marries for peuly dat warn
goot, too apout as goot as do first; bir
uis time I mrrie for monr, ind "ai
j potter axIwMlt.
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