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THE BEST OF HUSBANDS.
0, I have a husband as good &9 can be;
No woman could a better than he !
Sometimes, indeed, he'may chance to be wrong,
But his love for me is uncommonly strong 1
He has one little fault that makes me fret,
He has always less money, by far, than debt;
Moreover, he wallops me, now and then,
Bat, excepting that, he’s the best of men 1
I own he is dreadfully given to drink;
And, besides, he is rather too fond, X think,
Of playing atoards and dice ; but then,
Excepting that, he’s the best of men!
He loves to chat with the girls, I know,
(’Tie the way with men; they’re always so,)
But what care I for his flirting, when,
Excepting that, he’s the best of men!
I oan’t but say I think he is rash
To pawn my pewter, and spend the cash;
But how can I scold my darling, when,
Excepting that, he’s the best of men!
When soaked with tipple, he’s hardly polite,
But knocks the crockery, left and right,
And pulls my hair, and growls again,
But, excepting that, he’s the best of men!
Yes, such is the loyalty I have shown ;
But I have a spouse who is all my own ;
As good, indeed, as a man can be;
And who oould ask for a better than he ?
THE CLERK’S MARRIAGE.
1 You are a brave young man, or a fool
ish one.’
‘ Why do you say that V
‘ To think of marriage.’
‘ What had bravery or folly to do in the
‘ The young lady is poor.’
‘I do not wed her for money.’ • *’
‘ There would be some hope for you if
she were the possessor of some twenty or
thirty thousand dollars. Bat being as
poor as ycurself, the folly of this purpose
stands out in bold relief. Look before
yon leap, my friend, there’s trouble for
you on the other side.’
4 1 am not sordid, Mr. Blair.’ The
young man’s fine face glowed, and his eyes
flashed with a repressed indignation.
«Not sordid enough, Adrian, for the
.marriage, as society is now constituted.
There are two sides to the question of mar
riage ; the sentimental side and the mat
ter-of-fact side. Now have you looked only
on the sentimental side ; suppose we con
sider the matter-of-faot aspects. You are
a olerk receiving a salary of §l,OOO. How
mnoh have you saved V
‘ Nothing to speak of.’
1 Nothing ! So much the worse. If it
oost you §l,OOO a year to live, from'
whence is to come the means of support
ing a wife and family V
‘Oh I’ve been careless and wasteful in
expenditures, as most young men are. I
had only myself to provide for, and was
self-indulgent. But that must cease of
course.’
‘ Granted, for argument’s sake. The
young lady you propose to marry is named
Rosa Newell.
‘ Yes.’
‘ A charming young girl; well educated,
finely accomplished ; used to good society,
as we say ; and just suited for my friend
Adrian, if Bhe had money, or he an inoome
of three or four thousand a year. But the
idea of making her a happy wife, in the
city of New York on a thousand dollars,
is simply preposterous. It can’t be done,
sir, and the attempt will prove ruinous to
the happiness of both parties to so foolish
an agreement. It is a matter of the easiest
demonstration, Adrian; and I wonder that
so good an accountant as you are should
ere this have tried this question by mathe
matical rules. Let me do it for you. And
first we look at Rosa’s present sphere of
life. She has a home with a Mr. Hart, an
uncle, and is living in rather a luxurious
way. Mr. Hart is a man who thinks a
deal of appearances, and maintains a do
mestic establishment that does not oost
less than four thousand dollars a year.
His house rent is equal to your salary.
Now, in taking Rosa from this home, into
what kind of a one can you plaoe her ?’
A sober hue of thought came over the
young man’s faoe.
‘ You can’t afford to rent a house at
even one-half the oost of Mr. Hart’s even
if you were able to buy the furniture,’
continued Mr. Blair.
‘ We will board of course,’ said Adrian.
‘ Housekeeping is not to be thought of in
the beginning.’
l lf not in the beginning, how after
wards V
The young man looked quite bewildered
but did not answer.
‘ What are yon now paying for board V
‘Five dollars a week.’
‘ You would require a parlor and bed
room after marriage.’
‘ Yes.’
‘At a oost of not less than fifteen dol
lars a week.’
‘We could hardly afford the parlor.’
‘ Hardly,’ said his friend. ‘ Well, give
up the parlor, and take a pleasant front
ohamber on the second floor, at twelve dol
lars a week. But the house is not first
class nor the location very desirable.
These are not to be had in New York at
twelve dollars a week. You cannot afford
for Rosa the elegance of her present home.
Three dollars more a week for washing and
etoeteras, and your income is drawn up at
the rate of seven hundred and eighty dol
lars a year. Two hundred and twenty left
for clothing and other expenses. And, so
far, it has taken nearly three times that
sum to meet yonr own demands. It has a
bad look, Adrian.’
‘ I was wasteful and self-indulgent,’
said the young man, in a voice from which
the confident toneß had departed. ‘ It will
scarcely oost Rosa and me for clothing
one-half of what I expend.’
‘ Say one-half, and your inoome will not
reach the demand. What was your tailor’s
bill last year V
‘ One hundred and sixty dollars.’
Say two hundred, including boots, hats,
etceteras.’
‘ Yes.’
‘You could hardly get this below a
hundred and fifty.’
‘ Perhaps not.’
‘The young man’s voice was growing
husky.
‘ That will leave seventy dollars for your
wife’s olothing, and nothing for pleasure,
' recreation, little luxuries, unanticipated
but 'unavoidable expenses. And if.it be
so with you two in good health, what will
i be the condition of things in siokness and
with Children to . support and educate.—
Adrian, my young Mend, {here is debt,
embarrassment, disappointment and miser
able life npon yon. Pause and retrace
your steps before it is too late. If yon
love Rosa, spare her from this impending
fate. Leave her in her pleasant home, or
to grace that of a man better able than
; yon are to provide her with the external
! blessings of life. Yon cannot marry on
a thousand dollars a year, and it is folly
to think of it.’
‘We could get board for ten dollars a
week said Adrian.
‘ That would soaroely help the business
at all. At beßt, it wpnld only make a
difference in the amonnt of your indebted
ness at the close of each year. It is folly
for you to thins of it, my young friend. —
Yon cannot afford to marry.’
l lt has a dark look, but there is no
holding up now,’ replied Adrian, in a
gloomy way. We have mutually pledged
each other, and the day of onr marriage
has been appointed.’
‘ I am sorry for yon,’ said the friend, a
bachelor of forty, who, on an inoome of
fifteen hundred dollars a year, could see
no possible chanoe for a happy marriage
in the city of New York, and preferred
celibacy to the embarrassments whioh he
saw hundreds of friends enconnter in their
attempts to live in style ont of all propor
tion to their reßonroes. ‘I am sorry for
you,’ he repeated; ‘but if you will bend
your neck to the yoke, yon must not com
plain of the burden you will find yourself
compelled to bear.’
Strange as it may appear, the young
clerk, Henry Adrian, had never before
looked this matter of inoome, expenditure,
and style of living, fair in the front. The
actual aspect of the oase, when clearly
seen,threw his mind into a state of troubled
bewilderment. He went over and over
again the calculations suggested by Mr.
Blair, a book keeper in the establishment
where he was employed, cutting off a little
from one proposed expenditure and anoth
er, but not being able to get the cost of
living down to the Tange of his salary,
except when the style was so far below
that in whioh his wife must move, that he
turned half sick from its contemplation.
The more steadily he looked at the truth,
the more heavily came the pressure of its
stony weight upon his heart; to go for
ward was little less than madness, and yet
how could he hold back now ?
‘ Rosa sat alone, reading, in one of her
uncle’s parlors, waiting for her lover.—
He was later than usual, so late that the
book began to lose its interest, and at last
lay closed upon her lap; while a shade
fell over her expfeotant face. A single
glance at Rosa’s countenance revealed the
fact that she was a girl of some oharaoter.
There was no soft voluptuous languor
about her, but an ereotness of position as
she sat; and a firmness of tone in all her
features that indicated an active mind and
self-relianoe. An hour later than usual
Adrian came.
‘ Are you siok, Henry ?’ asked Rosa as
she took his hand, and fixed her eyes on
his sober face.
‘ Not, sick, bnt troubled in mind,’ he
replied without evasion.
‘ Why are you troubled, Henry ?’ And
Rosa drew an arm tenderly around her
lover.
‘ Sit down, and 1 will tell you. The
trouble concerns us both, Rosa.’
The young girl’s face grew pale. They
sat down close together, holding each oth
ers hands. But in Adrian’s countenance
there was a resolute expression, suoh as
wesee on the countenance of a man who
had settled a question of difficult solu
tion.
‘ The day fixed for our marriage is only
two months distant,’ he said. The tone
in which he spoke chilled the heart of
Rosa. She did not answer but kept her gaze
upon his face.
‘ Rosa we mußt reoonsider this matter.
We have aoted without forethought.’
Her face became paler, her lips fell
apart, her eyes had a frightened expres
sion.
‘ I love you, Rosa, tenderly, truly. My
heart is not turning from you. I would
hasten, rather than retard, the day of our
marriage. But there are considerations
beyond that day, which have presented
themselves, and demand sober considera
tion. In a word, Rosa, I cannot afford to
marry. My inoome will not justify the
step.’
The frightened look went out of Rosa’s
eyes.
‘ It was wrong in me ever to have sought
your love.’
Her hand tightened on his, and she sank
close to his side.
‘ I am a olerk, with only a thousand
dollars of income, and I do not see muoh
beyond to hope for. Rosa, the furniture
in these parlors oost twice the amount of
my salary. The rent of the house in which
you now live, is equal to what I receive in
a year. I cannot take you from all this
elegance into a third olass boarding house,
the best my means will provide. No, no,
Rosa, it would be unjust, selfish, wrong,
cruel. How blind in me ever to have
thought of so degrading the one I love !’
The young’ man was strongly agitated.
‘And is this all that troubles you,
Henry V
-‘ls it not enough ? Can 1 look at the
the two alternatives that present them
selves, and. not grow heart-sick l If we
each taking different ways in
life—oh, Rosa, I am not strong enough
to choose that alternative!’
And his form trembled under the pres
sure of excitement.
‘ You love me, Henry V
The voice of Rosa was calm, yet bur
dened with feeling.
‘As my own life, darling ! Have I not
said so a hundred limes V
: . ‘ And even as my life do I love you,
Henry!’
For several moments; her faoe lay. hid
den in his bosom. Then, lifting it, Rosa
said: .1,
‘ I am glad you have spoken on this
subject, Henry. T could not approaoh it
myself, but now that we have it before us
let it be well considered. Your income
is one thousand dollars V
‘ Yes.’
< A sum large enough to supply all the
real wants of two persons who have. inde
pendence enough not to be enslaved by a
mere love of appearance.’
‘Why, darling it will require more than
half of. my salary to pay for respectable
boarding.’. :
< Taking it for granted that, after; our
marriage,. T am to.sitdojyp in a boarding
house; .with jhapds feMpMad; .depend
ent on your labor. But 1 Bhall.not .sp
a THAT COTTOTHT IB lEI MOST ISOSFDOUB wUial LABOB OOMMAHDS TUB 6BBATBBT RUWABD.” BTJGHAHAN.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28,1862.
construe my relation to my husband. I
will be a help mate-for him.' I will stand
by his side ; sharing life’s burdens.’
‘ All that is in your heart, darling, I
know,’ said Adrian. ‘ But we are hedged
around by social forms that act as a hind
rance. ‘You cannot help me. Sooiety
will demand of us a certain style of living
and we must oonform to it or be pushed
aside from all circles of refinement, taste
and intelligence. I cannot accept this
ostracism for you, Rosa. It is not right.
‘As if a false, heartless world were
more to me than a true, loving husband.
Henry, the central point of sooial happi
ness is home ; as the home is so will our
lives be—rather let me say, as we are, so
will our homes be—centres of gloom or
brightness, and what others may think of
us is really of little aoeount in making .up
the sum of our enjoyment as we pass
through life, but what we are in ourselves
is everything. We must be the centres
of our own world of happiness, or our lives
will be incomplete. Can a fine establish-
ment like this, in whioh 1 live in weak de
pendence, fill the measure of my desiros ?
Can it bring peace and contentment ? No,
no, Henry ? The humblest apartment
shared with you would be a palace to my
soul, instead. I am not speaking with
the romantic enthusiasm of an ardent girl,
but soberly, truthfully, Henry. No,
dearest, we will not make our lives miser
able by living apart, beoause we cannot
make a fine appearance in other people’s
eyes. God has given love for each other
and the means of happiness if we will use
them. Let us take Mb good gifts in thank
fulness. You have an inoome of one thou
sand dollars. We must not expeot to
live as those of two, or three, or four
thousand dollars a year. Be that folly
far from us Henry. I am equal to the
self-denial it will require,if the word ‘self
denial’ is to be used. Are you not, also ?
Oh, Henry ! is there any joy to be imag
ined beyond that whioh flows from the
oonjuhetion of two loving hearts ? and
shall pride and a weak spirit of sooial con
formity come in to rob us of our bless
ings ?’
The young man had oome sternly re
solved to put off the 'day of marriage.—
He parted from his betrothed that night
looking forward with golden-hued hopes
for its arrival. They had talked over the
future, practically and sensibly. The
lover’s fond pride, whioh had looked to a
fair sooial appearanoe for his young wife,
gave place to a better view of things.—
He saw his love had fixed itself upon a
true woman, and that the sphere in whioh
their lot was oast all attainable happiness
was in store for them, if they would but
open their hearts in an orderly way for
its reception. One thing said to him by
Rosa in that evening’s talk we repeat, for
the sake of young wives or maidens on
the eve of marriage :
‘ Be mine, dear Henry,’ said she, ‘ the
task of ordering and regulating our do
mestic affairs in conformity to your means.
I will give all thought to that. Your in
come is fixed, and I shall exactly know
the range of expenditures we must adopt.
Do not fear debt and embarrassment.—
These wretohed forms shall never enter
your homo wMle I stand sentinel at the
door. If the husband gives his life and
care to work, shall not the wife do the
same 1 If he provides to the best of his
ability, shall she not dispense with wise
frugality his earnings ? She that fails to
do this, is not worthy of her position.’
‘ And so you are bent on this folly ?’
said the bachelor clerk, on the day pre
ceding that on which Adrian was to be
married.
‘ Yes, if you choose to oall it folly,’ was
the answer.
‘ Where are you going 1 to Saratoga V
‘ We shall go nowhere.’
‘ What 1 Will you not make a bridal
‘ No. A olerk who only receives a
salary of one thousand dollars can’t afford
to spend it in making a bridal tour.’
Mr. Blair shrugged his shoulders, and
arohed his eyebrows, as muoh as to say, if
I couldn’t afford to make a bridal tour, I’d
not marry.
On the day after Adrian’s wedding, he
was at his usual place in the counting
room. He reoeived from his fellow clerks
a few feeble congratulations, and most of
them thought him a fool, to burden himself
with a wife not worth a dollar.
‘ When I marry, I’ll better my condi
tion—not make it worse,’ was the unspoken
thought of more than one.
‘ Where are you boarding, asked Mr.
Blair, indifferently, two or three weeks
after Adrian’s marriage.
‘ Nowhere,’ was the reply, ‘we are at
housekeeping.’
‘ What V
‘ At housekeeping.’
‘ What is your rent V
‘ Two hundred dollars, and a half of that
my good little wife is to pay in music les
sons to our landlord’s diughters. We
have two pleasant rooms in a third story,
I furnished these with the money it would
have taken for the bridal tour. Rosa hps
the use of the kitchen, and insists on doing
her own cooking and house work for the
present. I demurred, and do demur, but
she says that ‘ work is worship,’ if per
formed conscientiously and dutifully, as
she is performing it. And with this we
are very happy, Mr. Blair, as you shall
witness. To-morrow you must go home
with me, take tea, and spend the eve
ning 1
Mr. Blair aocepted the invitation. He
had met Rosa occasionally before her mar
riage, and knew her to be a bright, ac
complished young woman, fitted to move
in refined and intelligent ciroles; and he
felt some ouriosity to see her in the new
position of mistress and maid to her own
household. The Third Avenue oarß bore
the two men a long distance from the oity’s
throbbing heart, to the more quiet exteri
ors, where they alighted, and after a short
walk, entered a modest looking house with
well attended shrubbory in a little front
garden. To the third story they ascended,
and there the young wife met them. Not
blushing and with stammering apologies
for their poor home but with suoh ease and
sweet self-possession, and suoh loving
smiles about her lips that Mr. Biair found
himself transferred to an earthly paradise.
As soon as- time ciame for observation, he
took note of what was around him'.
The furniture of. the room into whioh he
had been ushered, could scaroely have been
plainer. In the centre stood-a -small
breakfast table, oovered with a snowy cloth
' and set- for three persons. Four cane-seat
chairs, a work-stand, a hanging-shelf for
; ‘bogks; and a mantis ornament; or tyro, of
-no special value, an ingrain oarpet on- the
floor, and plain white curtains, looped' baok
with blue ribbons, made up the complete
inventory, for there was a piano against
the wall, the dark case and plain style of
which showed it to be no recent purchase.
The instrument had been Rosa’s as the
observant visitor correotly inferred.
After a pleasant talk of some minutes
Rosa left the room, and not long after re
turned, bearing a tray on which were tea,
toast, butter, biscuit, cold tongue and
sweetmeats. There was a beautiful glow
on her face as she entered, but nothing of
shame or hurt pride. With her own fair
hands she arranged the table, and then
took her place at the head to serve her
husband and his friend. The heart of Mr.
Blair glowed and stirred with a new im
pulse as he looked into the pure, sweet,
happy faoe of the young wife, as she
poured out the tea and served the meal
whioh she had prepared.
After supper Rosa removed the things,
add was absent nearly half an hour. She
returned through her chamber, which ad
joined their little parlor, breakfast and
sitting room, all in one, with just the
slightest change in her attire, and looking
as fresh, happy and beautiful as if enter
taining a drawing room full of company.
The evening passed in reading and pleas
ant conversation.
As Mr. Blair was about retiring, Adri
an said:
‘ Do you think, now, that we were fools
to marry ?’
Rosa stood with her hands drawn within
the arm of her husband and olasped, with
a faoe radiantly happy.
A shade crept over Mr. Blair’s counte
nance.
‘ Not fools, but wise as others might be
if they were courageous enough to do as
you have done, Mrs. Adrian;’ and he took
the young wife’s hand. ‘ I honor your
bravery, yonr independence, your true
love that was not overshadowed by world
liness, that mildew of the heart, that blight
on our sooial life. You are a thousand
tinfes happier in your beautiful seclusion
than any fas Mon-loving wife, or slave to
external appearance, can ever be.'
‘ I love my husband, and I live for him.’
Rosa leaned dose to the manly form by her
side. ‘ I understood, when we were mar
ried, that he was a life toiler ; that onr
home was to be established and sustained
by the work of his hands, and I under
stood, as well, that I was not his superior,
but only bis equal, and that if it was right
and honorable for him to work, it would
be no less right and honorable for me. —
Was I to sit idle, and have a servant to
wait on me when his was a lot of toil? No,
no, no ! I had my part to perform as well
as he, and I am performing it to the best
of my ability.’
‘ You are a true woman, a wise woman,
a good woman,’ said Mr. Blair, with ardor,
‘ and you will be as happy as you deserve
to be. I thought Harry a fool to marry on
a thousand dollars, and told him so. But
I take baok my words. If such women as
you were plentiful we oould all marry, and
find our salaries ample. Good night, and
may God bless you.’
And the bachelor clerk, who could not
afford to marry on fifteen hundred a year,
went to his lonely home —lonely, though
peopled thickly—and, sitting down in his
desolate chamber, dreamed of the sweet
picture of domestio felicity he had seen,
and sighed for a sweet Mding place from
the world, and all its false professions and
heartless show.
Parson Suxely’s Experiment
A SKETCH FOR WEATHER GRUMBLERS,
The small parish at Fallowdale had been
for some time without a pastor. The
members were nearly all farmers, and
they did not have muoh money to be
stow upon the support of a olergyman; yet
they were willing to pay for anything that
could promise them any due return of
good. In course of time it happened that
the Rev. Abraham Surley visited Fallow
dale, and, as a Sabbath passed during his
sojourn, he held a meeting in the Bmall
church: The people were pleased with his
preaohing, and some of them proposed in
viting him to remain with them, and take
oharge of their spiritual welfare.
Upon the merits of this proposition there
was a long discussion. Parson Surely
bad signified his willingness to take a per
manent residence at Fallowdale, but the
members of the parish oould not so readi
ly agree to hire him.
‘ I don’t see the use of hiring a parson,’
said Mr. Sharp, an old farmer of the plaoe.
‘He oan do us no good. A parson oan’t
learn me anything.’
To this it was answered that stated re
ligious meetings would be of great benefit
to some of the younger people, and also a
Bource of good to all.
< I-don’t know about that. I’ve heard
tell of a parson that oould pray for rain,
and have it to oome at any time. Now if
we could hit upon-BUoh a parson as that I
would go in for hiring him.’
This opened a new idea to the unsophis
ticated minds of Fallowdale. The farmers
often suffered from long droughts, and af
ter arguing a while longer, they agreed to
hire Parson Surley, on the condition that
he should give them rain whenever they
wished for it, and, on the other hand, that
he would also give them fair weather when
required.
• Deacons Smith and Townsend were dep
utized to make this arrangement known to
the parsen, and the people remained in the
ohuroh while the messengers went upon
their errand.
When the Deacon returned, Mr. Surely
accompanied them. He smiled as he entered
the churoh, and with a bow he saluted the
people there assembled.
‘Well, my friends,’ he said as he asoend
ed the platform in front of the desk.
* I have heard your request to me, and
strange as it mayjppear, I have oome to
aooept your proposal; but Ido it only on
one oondition, and that is that your request
for a change of weather must be unaui-
This appeared very reasonable, since
every member of the parish had a deep in
terest in the farming business, and ere
long it was arranged that Mr. Surely
should become the pastor, and that he
should give the people rain when they
wanted it.
When Mr. Surely returned to his lodg
ings, his wife was utterly astounded on
learning the nature of the oontraot her
husband had entered into.; but the pastor
smiled and bade her wait for the result,
‘But you know you cannot make it rain,’.
ponas^d ; ;Mrs. Surely; ‘and you know,
too, that the farmers here will be wanting
rain very often when there is none for
them. You will be disgraeed.’
‘ I will teaoh them » lesson,’ returned
the pastor.
‘ Ay, bpt you cannot be as good as
your word ; and when you have taught it
to them, they will turn you off.’
‘ We shall see,’ was Mr. Surety’s reply,
and he took up a book and commenced
reading.
Time flew on, and the hot days of mid
summer were at hand. For three weeks
it had not.rained, and the young oorn was
beginning to onrl up beneath the effeots of
the drought. In. this extremity the peo
ple bethought themselves of the promise
of their pastor, and hastened to Mm.
‘ Come,’ said Sharp, whose hilly farm
was suffering severely, ‘ we want rain.—
You remember your promise.’
‘ Certainly,’ returned Mr. Surely. ‘lf
you will call for a meeting of the members
of the parish, I will be with them this eve
ning.’
With this the applicants were perfectly
satisfied, and forthwith they hastened to
call the flock together.
‘ Now, you will see the hour of your
disgraoe,’ said Mrs. Surely, after the vis
itors had gone. ‘ Oh, lam sorry you ever
undertook to deceive them so.’
‘ I did not deceive them.’
‘ Yes you surely did.’
‘ We shall see.’
‘ So we shall see,’ added the lady.
The hour of the meeting came round,
and Parson Surely met Ms people at the
ohuroh. They were all there—some anx
ious, the remainder curious.
‘ Now, my friends,’ said the pastor ris
ing upon the platform. ‘ I have come to
hear your request. What is it ?’
‘We want rain,’ bluntly spoke Farmer
Sharp, ‘ and you know you promised to
give it to us.’
‘ Ay—rain—rain,’ repeated half a dozen
voices.
‘ Very well. Now when do yon want to
have it?’
' ‘To-night. Let it rain all night long,’
said Sharp, to whioh several others im
mediately assented.
‘ No, no, not to-night,’ cried Deacon
Smith. ‘ I have six or seven tons of well
made hay in the field, and I would not
have it wet for anything.’
‘ So have I hay out,’ added Mr. Peok.
‘ We won’t have it rain to-night.’
‘ Then let it be to-morrow.’
‘ It will take me nil day to-morrow do
get my hay in,’ said Smith.
Thus the objections came up for two
succeeding days, and at length, by way of
compromise, Mr. Sharp proposed that they
should have rain in just four days.
‘ For,’ said he, ‘by that time all the hay
which is now out can be got in, and we
need not out any— ’
‘Stop, stop,’ uttered Mrs. Sharp, pulling
her worthy husband by the sleeve. ‘ That
is the day we have set to go to Snow-hill.
It musn’t rain then.'
This was law for Mr. Sharp, so he pro
posed that the rain should come in one
week, and then sat down.
But this would not do. ‘lf we oan’t
have rain before then, we’d better not have
it at all,’ said they.
In short the meeting resulted in just no
conclusion at all, for the good people
found it utterly impossible to agree upon
a time when it should rain.
‘ Until you can make up your minds on
this point,’ said the pastor, as he was about
leaving the ohuroh, ‘ we must all trust in
the Lord.’ And after this the people fol
lowed Mm from the churoh.
Both Deacon Smith and Mr. Peck got
their hay safely in; but on the very day
Mr. Sharp was to have started for Snow
hill, it began to rain in good earnest. Mr.
Sharp lost his visit bat he met the disap
pointment with good grace, for his orops
smiled at the rain.
Ere another month had passed by,
another meeting was called for a petition
for rain, but with the same result as before.
Many of the people had their muck to dig,
and rain would prevent them. Some
wanted it immediately—some in one, some
in two, and some in three days, while other
parishioners wanted to put it off longer.
So Mr. Surely had no ocoasion to oall for
rain.
One year rolled by, and up to that time
the people of Eallowdale had never onoe
been able to agree upon the exaot kind of
weather they would have, and the result
was that they began to open their eyes to
the fact that this world would be a strange
plaoe if its inhabitants should govern it.
On the last Sabbath in the first year of
Mr. Surely’s settlement at Eallowdale, he
offered to break up his connection with
the parish; but the people would not listen
to it; they had become attached to him
and the meeting, and they wished him to
stay.
‘ But I oan no longer rest under our
former contraot with regard to the weather,’
said the pastor.
‘ Nor do we wish you to,’ returned
Sharp. ‘ Only preach to üb, and teaoh us
and our children how to live, and help us
to be sooial, contented and happy.’
‘ And,’ added the pastor, while a tear of
pride stood in his eye, ‘ all things above
our proper sphere we will leave with God,
for he doeth all things well.’
The White Sparrow.
“ Sleep le the worst of thieves;
He steals half oar lives.”
In most parts of Germany, there passes
ourrent among the people this proverb :
“ He that would thrive
Most the white sparrow soe.”
The meaning of this proverb is not, at
first sight, so apparent as that of some
others that oiroulate amongst ns, such as
( Early habits make the man, ‘ Honesty is
the best polioy,’ &o.; but the moral sig
nification it is intended to convey is not
the less true and important. I will, there
fore, here relate the story oonneoted with
its origin, even as I received it- myself,
from the lips of an old and valued friend.
There was an old farmer with whom ev
erything appeared to grow worse from year
to year. His cattle died one by one, and
the prodnoe of his- land was not the half
of what it ought to be; in fact, all his
property was, to use a very familiar ex
pression, ‘ going to the dogs.’ Ia short,
scarcely a week passed by that either the
tax-gatherer or the pawn-broker did not
OQtne to his window, and,. addressing him
with a oourteons bow, say—-
‘ I am really very sorry,. Herr Ruck
wart, to be compelled to put you to inoon
venie'noe, but I am obliged to do my duty.’
. The old friends of Hen Ruqkwartj aTso.
tried to do their dpty to him. They ad-’
vised, they entreated and they helped Mm,
but all in vain, and so one after' another
gave Mm up in despair, deolaring with a
sigh, that as for poor Ruckwart, there was
no use in trying to help him —he was past
being helped.
He had one friend, however, whose heart
was in the right place, and who was not
only a good man, but a very clear-sighted
one. This friend thought he would not
give Herr Ruckwart up altogether, with
out making one more attempt to save him.
So one day he. led the conversation, as if
accidentally, to the subjeot of sparrows,
relating many anecdotes of these birds,
and observing how greatly they had mul
tiplied of late, and how very cunning and
voracious they had become.
Herr Ruokwart shook his head gravely,
in answer to this observation, and said—
‘ They are indeed most destructive erea
tures. For my part, I have not the slight
est doubt that it is mainly owing to their
depredations that my harvest has of late
years been so unproductive.'
To this oonjeoture his old friend made
no rejoinder; but after a moment’s pause,
he continued the conversation by another
interrogatory—
‘ Neighbor, have you ever seen a white
sparrow ?’
‘ No,’ replied Ruokwart; ‘ the sparrows
which alight in my fields are all the com
mon grey sort.’
‘ That is very probable, too,’ rejoinded
his friend. ‘ The habits of the white spar
row are peculiar to itself. Only one comes
into the world every year, and being so
different from Ms fellows, other Bparrows
take a dislike for it, and peok at it when
it appears among them. For this reason
it seeks its food early in the morning, be
fose the rest of the feathered tribe are
astir, and then goes back to its nest,
where it remains for the rest of the day.’
* That is-very f’ exclaimed Ruok
wart. ‘ I must really try and ■ got a sight
at that sparrow—and if possible I will
catch it, too.’
On the morning following this conver
sation, the .farmer rose with the snn, and
sallied forth into the field. He walked
around his farm, searched his farmyard in
every quarter, examining the roof of his
garners and the trees of his orchards, to
see whether he oould discover any traces
of the wonderful white sparrow ! Bnt the
white sparrow, to the great disappointment
of the farmer, would not show itself, or
stir from its imaginary nest.
What vexedethe farmer still more, how
ever, was that although the sun stood Mgh
in the heavens by the time he had conclud
ed his round, not one of the farm laborers
were astir. They, too, seemed resolved
not to stir from their nests. Meanwhile,
the cattle were bellowing in their stalls
with hunger, and not a soul was near to
’eed them
Herr Ruokwart was reflecting on the
disadvantages of this state of things, when
suddenly he perceived a lad coming ont of
the house, oarrying a sack of wheat on his
shoulders. He seemed to be in great
haste to get out of the preoincts of the
farm, and Herr Ruokwart soon peroeived
that his steps were bent towards a public
house, where Casper had unhappily a long
soore to pay. He hastened after the as
tonished youth, who believed his master to
be still in the enjoyment of his morning
nap, and quiokly relieved him of his
burden.
The farmer next bent his steps to the
cowhouse, and peeping to see whether the
white sparrow had perohanoe taken refuge
there, he discovered, to his dismay, that
the milk-maid was handing a liberal portion
of milk through the window to her neigh
bor, to mix with her morning onp of coffee.
‘ A pretty sort of housekeeping this is,’
thought the farmer to himself, as he
hastened to his wife’s apartment, and
roused her from her slumbers. ‘As sure
as my name is Ruckwart,’ he exolaimed in
an angry tone, ‘ there must be an end to
these lazy habits. Everything is going
wrong for the want of somebody to look
after them. So far as I am concerned,’
thought the good farmer to himself, ‘ I will
rise every day at the same hour 1 rose this
morning, and then 1 shall get my farm
cleared of those who do not intend to do
their duty properly. Besides, who knows
but some fine morning or other, I may suc
ceed in catohing the white sparrow !’
Days and weeks passed on. The farmer
adhered to his resolution, but he soon for
got the white sparrow, and only looked
after oattle and his corn-fields.
Soon everything around him wore a
flourishing aspeot, and men began to ob
serve that Herr Rnokwart (Backward) now
well deserved to bo called Herr Vorwart
(Forward.)
In dne course of time his old friend
again came to spend the day with him;
and inquired in a humorous tone—
‘ Well, my fine fellow, how are you get
ting on now ! have yon yet suoceeded in
catohing a glimpse of the white sparrow V
The farmer only replied to this question
by a smile, and .then, holding ont his hand
to his old friend, he said—
‘ God bless you, Herder 1 you have
saved me and my family from ruin.’
Often, in after years, when Herr Ruck
wart was a prosperous man, respected by
neighbors, and beloved by his well ordered
household, he was wont to relate this his
tory of his early life, and thus, by degrees,
the saying passed into a proverb—* He
that wonld thrive, must the white sparrow
see.’
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