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THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN
DT JOHN G. S.LT.E
It is ascertained, by inspection of the registin a of
many countries, that the uniform proportion of male
to female births is as twenty-one , to twenty ; ac
cordingly, in respect to marriage, every twenty-first
man is naturally superfluous.
I long have been puzzled to guess,
And so I have frequently said,
What the reason could really„be
That I've never happened to wed ;
But now it is perfectly clear
I'm under a natural ban;
The girls are already assigned—
And I'm a superfluous man !
These clever statistical chaps
Declare the numerical run
Of women and men in the world
Is twenty to twenty-and•one;
And hence, in the pairing, you see,
Since wooing and wedding began,
For every connubial score
They've a superfluous man !
By twenties and twenties they go,
And giddily rush to their fate,
For none of the number, of course,
Can fail of a conjugal mate;
But while they're yielding in scores
To Nature's inflexible plan,
There's never a woman fur me,
For I'm a superfluous man!
It isn't that I am a churl,
To solitude ever inclined ;
It isn't that I'm at fault
In morals, manners or mind:
Then what is the reason, you ask,
I am still with the bachelor clan ?
I merely Was numbered amiss,
And a superfluous man !
It isn't that I'm in want
Of personal beauty or grace,
For many a man with a wife
Is uglier tar in the lace;
Indeed, among elegant /ten,
I fancy myself in the van :
But what is the value of that,
When I'm a superfluous man?
Although I'm fond of the girls,
For aught I could ever discern,
The tender emotion that I feel
is one that they never return;
'Tiff idle to quarrel with fate,
For, straggle as hard as 1 can ;
They're matched already, you know,
And I'm a superfluous man!
No wonder I grumble at times,
With women so pretty and plenty,
To know that I never was born
To figure as one of tho twenty ;
Bat yet, when the average lot
With critical vision I scan,
I think it may be f.r the best,
That I'm a superfluous man
ItEAIEMBERED BLISS
BY GEORGE D. PRENT/CR
Alas ! alas ! I did not think,
Amid past hours of deep delight,
That aught could break the golden link
That mon between us seemed so bright
We little dream what time may bring—
The heart is a mysterious thing!
A change came o'er thy gent le brow,
And we aro but as strangers now.
Yet sometimes in my sadder moods,
Amid dark scenes of toil and strife,
And oft in woodland solitudes,
Afar from gay and busy life,
Thy image rises to my eye
As bright as in the days gone by ;
Thy voice, low, musical and clear,
Steals like a spirit on my ear ;
The vanished joys come wildly back
Along life's dark and arid track ;
Old thoughts within my bosom stir,
And I am still thy worshipper.
The bird that o'er my pathway flies,
The fleeting vision of a dream—
The star that lights awhile the skies,
Then turns away its Silver beam—
These, these are emblems to my heart
Of what thou vast or what thou art:
The bird, the dream, the star are flown,
And i am left alone—alone.
Yet still I hear with sweet delight
The song the bird sang in her flight;
The dream with all its fairy train
Still haunts the chambers of my brain ;
And ofttimes when .1 gaze afar
Thro' tears where beamed the vanished star,
It seems again to burn on high,
The glory of my clouded sky,
And on its lovely disc I trace
The pictured image of thy face,
And kneel in worship as when first
Its Eden-light upon me burst.
A Night on the Dublin Road ;
OR THE IRISH AMAZON.
BY 3. GOLDRICK
It was a old drizzly day in the latter
end of the month of November (said my
friend C----) that ill luck found me on
my way to Dublin, in quest of a roving
situation. 1 was at that time about twenty
one years of age, smart, ambitious, and
tolerably well posted on the general topics
then distracting public attention in Ire
land, namely, Catholic emancipation, and
the policy of equal rights to all loyal sub
jects, irrespective of their nationality or
creed. I carried letters of recommenda
tion from two members of Parliament in
my own country, toe nobleman in the city,
soliciting his influence with some of the
high custom-house officers to obtain for me
the appointment of guager in the west of
Ireland, a situation for which I Was con
sidered fully qualified, notwithstanding
my youth and apparent inexperience in
the rough duties of an exciseman's life.
Besides a limited sum for travelling ex
penses, I held a check on the bank of
Ireland for ten pounds, the gift of a lady
friend, a near relative to the nobleman to
whom I carried the letters of recommenda
tion.
As 1 was always light-hearted, smart
on foot, and a good economist, I deter
mined to ride Shanks' mare, and save the
coach - hire, that is, 1 resolved to perform
the journey on foot, and have a pleasant
time on the road-with my guinea. 1 did
not choose, however, to follow the broad
road, too much out up by coaahes, drays
and carriages ; besides, I thought it would
be mortifying to my pride if any of my
old °Mims should chance to be on board
the Imo 'coach and see me, the ambitious
• Ausger, wading knee-deep in mud,
like a County Mayo spalpeen, going to out
down the English harvest. No, I must
not, I thought, take the coach road, I
would travel by a way lesB public. Being
informed, on the morning of the day in
question, that the old road over the hill
was shorter by three or four miles than
the new lines, and that being only travel
ed by horsemen and foot passengers, it
was of course cleaner and more pleasant
to travel. There were plenty of houses, 1
was told, on the way, to take shelter in
from a shower, besides two or three
sheebin taverns, where a man could get a
horn to heat his blood or quicken his
speed, if he were not fool enough to be
tempret.' At this time of life, I could
easily leave three and a half miles of dry
road behind me per hour, and continue
this rate of traveling for half a day or
more, carrying my appointments on the
top of my sheelelagh, if limited means
render it neoe,sary to do so.
I took the old road, as directed by a
huge old beggar man, who, of all mortals
in Ireland, I thought, should know by
roads the best. At first the way appeared
pleasant enough, but after walking a
couple of miles things began to change
for the worse. The road was rough, lonely
and exceedingly desolate looking, with
but few cabins and those of the meanest
and most wretched aspect. I continued
to walk at a brisk rate for over an hour
and a half, and during that time could see
only three or four of those miserable
hovels. It was then about 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, and raining hard,• with a
strong cold wind blowing from the south
west. I was wet through and wished from
my heart to see one of those grog holes I
had been told of in the morning, but such
a blessing could not be seen. It was in
deed a hard road to travel,' as the song
says. At three o'clock the rain began to
fall in torrents, and I was compelled to
seek shelter in a rude crib, that fortunate
ly hove in sight just as I was on the point
of giving up the ghost in hopeless despair.
I entered, almost doubled, (for the door
was not above four feet in height,) saying
my 'God save all here,' the usual saluta
tion in the vernacular tongue, and looking
about for some stool or bench to sit on.
Wet day, sir,' spoke something in tho
shape of an old woman, bent over the
smouldering embers of what might once
have been called a good turf fire.
True for you ma'am,' I replied, shak
ing the rain off my weather-beaten beaver,
and rubbing the fur with the cuff of my
coat.
Sit up to the fire, young man, you
must feel cold,' said the same stooping
effigy, pulling a three legged stool close
to where she was hunohered.
I took the proffered seat and thanked
her.
Biddy, throw me a clod or two,' she
said, addressing a gaunt, ill-favored speci
men of the feminine gender, perched on
the hob stone, with one hand grf sping a
long, black wooden crook, suspended from
an opening in the roof called the chimney,
and with the other stroking the sleek fur
of a large yellow tom-cat, sitting on her
knee. After being twice bidden she
obeyed, furnishing Onn fuel, which I as
sisted to place in position, and soon I bad
the enjoyment of a tolefably warm fire.
How far may I be from the Dublin
road, ma'am V I asked the crone, setting
my hat on, and preparing to make my
exit.
Is it how far you are from the cross
roads, you are after axing?' she demanded,
turning up one of the thinnest and most
cadaverous faces I ever beheld to mine.
4 That's what I want to know, ma'am,
if you please,' I answered.
After fumbling in the ashes with a piece
of stick for a minute, as if in mental cal
culation on some abstruse problem, she
replied : ' The cross roads are about as
far the one way as the other ; make miles
of that, if you know how.'
Do you mean, good woman, that I have
as far more to go on this old road, as I
came I' I asked, looking from one to the
other of the women.
You are but half way,' she said ;
they call it six miles to the cross roads,
either way.'
This is the Half-way House ; the
tavern is over six miles from you, young
gentleman,' spoke the lady on the hob,
with a bashful giggle, and a few more
swings of the long, black crook.
Thank you, Miss,' I said bowing
politely. Auy public houses on the way,
before I reach the cross roads '?'
Not that I know of,' was the reply,
followed by another swing, and a fresh
pull at the cat's tail.
Good day, ladies,' I said, bouncing to
my feet, grasping my bag, and out with
me in the heavy down-pour.
What a fix to be in, at 4 o'clock of a
short November day, raining like sixty !
On a lonely outlandish road, dripping wet,
hungry, chilled with cold, and depressed
in spirit. Bat reflections were of no use
—these six miles must be traveled, and
that quickly, or I must be out all nigh
Land of Goshen ! how I did use my pivots'
How I tripp'd it along.
The fast walking soon warmed me, from
head to foot, and about 7 o'clock I had the
felicity of seeing the broad, deep, muddy,
mail-coach road, with its vast thorough
fare right before me. Half an hour more
took me to the tavern. It was a respecta
ble two-story building, reputed for its
good accommodations, and the reasonable
ness of its charges. The proprietor was
a small, middle-aged military-looking kind
of personage ; very polite to his customers,
full of talk, honest, pretentious, rather
noted for his rabid politics, and the hatred
he bore to all who sought by constitutional
means to redress the grievances under
which they labored. He held the rank of
Captain, in the yeomanry, when Napoleon
was in his glory, and England menaced
with a French invasion; and once a Captain
a Captain forever; he still retained the
name, and was known far and wide as
Captain GAB, of the Red Swan tavern.
The Inn Keeper was in his sanctum of
drams when I entered, bag in hand, not a
a very prepossessing looking customer, 1
must confess, for I was wet through, and
puddled all over my lower extremities,
with the deep yellow mud of a Dublin mail
coach road, evident sign, to the experienced
eye of a shrewd ion keeper, that I was not
blessed with heavy pockets.
A glass of malt and cigar, sir, if you
please, I said, kicking my feet on the tiled
floor, outside the counter, and settliog my
bat on three hairs,with wonderous conse
quence. The malt was filled out. from a
decanter on the counter, and disposed of
in double quick , tinie. The cigar was. next
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furnished without speaking a word, and Let me put up your bag, boy,' said
both promptly paid for in broad penny the Innkeeper, as I took my seat at the
pieces. fire.
Terrible day, sir,' I said, lighting my Not for a little,' I replied, I want to
weed from a taper presented by the land- change my shoes and get some other things
lord. He nodded. Shocking condition,' out of it by and by.'
I continued, looking at my nether habili- The ill-favored man exchanged glances
meats. Missed the coach at Bells—no from under his slouched hat, with the other
vehicle available—business urgent, and barbarians about the fire, and all laughed
got to take the road rough and smooth. at the idea of a man changing his shoes
Can I have bedding, supper and break- when he should be thinking of his bed.
fast After a few minutes a sifting cross ex
' Can't accommodate,' was the laconic emulation recommenced. I saw plainly
reply. that I was doomed to some dreadful fate,
Too bad,' I said, can you not con- and was oontemplating how I could effect
trive to find a place for a single man I' my escape, leaving bag, overcoat, and all
Don't keep beds for pickpockets, or in their hands, when a carriage was heard
for the emissaries of Captain Rook,' was driving to the door, and, soon after, a
the civil reply, sweeping my nine penny succession of quick, heavy raps, as if from
pieces with a sweep of his hand into the the bult end of a carriage whip on the
drawer of the counter, and looking at me counter, brought the landlord in double
with the left eye closed. You'll find,' quick to the outside room. After a few
he continued, a more suitable place to words spoken between him and the new
accommodate you three or four miles arrival, the door opened, and a tall, corn
further on. Good night, sir,' and the mending feminine figure, in heavy travel
graceless bigot looked ominously at a ing costume, entered the room where I
brace of brass-mounted military dogs was seated amidst my rude companions.—
hanging within reach, as much as to say, She wore a man's overcoat, close buttoned
Make tracks, or you'll smell powder.' to the chin ; a man's hat pressed down
I dashed the weed from my mouth, drew over her forehead; a long black veil care
myself up stiff as a ramrod, looked him leerily hanging to one side. She carried
straight in the eye, and answered, with in her left hand a heavy coachman's whip,
calm dignity, You'll hear from me soon, while in the other she held a long, bright.
Sir Innkeeper, and I hope wisely apologize silver-mounted duelling pistol the coni
fer this insult offered to a gentleman, and panion of which she carried conspicuously
one too in the service of his King and stuck in her belt.
country. Good night, Mr. Gab.' And She was above the medium height, of
seizing my bag, I dashed from the sign rather corpulent build, blonde complexi m,
of the Red Swan, like a sky-rocket, with perhaps about thirty years of age, with
eyes flashing fire and bosom heaving with elastic step, haughty bearing, and a clear,
rage. sweet, musical voice, which she used with
How the puddles leap'd, splashing about an authoritative and commanding air.—
my legs, as I slough'd it along, talking The innkeeper followed close at her heels,
to myself, cursing bigotry, and vowing to await her commands, with evident
retaliation on the diminutive ()hurl of the uneasiness depicted on his ugly counte-
Red Swan. name. The whole group of rowdies were .
About an hour's hard walking brought equally confounded, and shrunk like
me in view of the tavern referred to by cowards from the presence of that singular
the tory Captain. It was, viewed in the woman.
dim light of the moon, a long, low, mur- I stood up, and made an easy, and re
derous-looktng barrack of a place—a kind speotful bow, which she deigned slightly
of carman's inn. (God bless the markl, to return. After looking peeringly into
about twenty miles from Dublin, in a the eyes of all my companions, without
lonely part of the road, with no house uttering a word, she did me the honor of
within half a mile of it. The dwelling a similar scrutiny. I could not help smil
part, barn, stable, cowhouse, and a large ing. It was a weakness of mine whenever
open shed, were all in one range, several I met the fixed stare of a pretty woman.
rods in length, with deep sink-holes filled She smiled in return, and asked in a sweet,
with mud, and stagnant rain water in front, low voice : Do you belong to this
between -it and the road. So villainous house I' No, ma'am,' I answered, shak
was the aspect, as I approached the door ing my head. Are you of this party '
that 1 really imagined there was not a she asked again. Never saw one of them
sound pane of glass in any of the four before, and hope I never shall again. I
windows on the front side, through every am a stranger, ma'am, aid bound for the
one of which appeared, stuffed out, an city on urgent business. The storm
old coat, hat, or pair of ragged corduroy .drove me to take shelter here for the night,
breeches, any available dud to exclude and I shall leave, God willing, if my life
the pelting rain and piercing cold of the be spared till I see the full dawn of day
night. to-morrow morning.'
The door was lying half open, and I Consulting her gold watch, and pre
entered, a single tallow candle was burn- seating it to me for inspection, she said :
ing on the counter, dimly revealing the It's ten minutes, you see, to eleven.—
interior. It was a groggery of the most I'm going to the city, have a fleet span of
unblessed aspect, with but little induce- grays, and commodious phmton. 1 must
went to put up the night in. But any of necessity be there at three o'clock. if
port in a storm,' says the mariner, and I you accept of a drive I shall be glad of
was resolved to use it in such an emer- your company, for I'm alone.'
genoy. Then, sinking her voice to a Whisper,
The host was behind his counter, a she continued ;
huge, blue;;-whiskered, uncouth kind of I called here to see if the notorious
person, wearing a gray 'iricze. coat, slouched leader of this banditti were in, but he is
felt hat, and no neck tie. His features not. So much the worse ; the scoundrel
were coarse and repulsive, while the twiu- is, I fear, strongly posted in his old haunt,
kle of his small gray snake-like eye, as he just as I expeeted. Well—will you accept
looked at me from under the turned down of my invitation I There is no time to
brim of his old hat, had something in it, lose.'
sinister and murderous. You do me an honor, madam,' I said,
Can I have a bed here for the night I' but I must confess that at this late hoar,
I asked, not much oaring whether 1 could and under the circumstances, I'm not, as
or not. you see, in a condition to appear in corn
' Are you alone, boy?' he demanded, re- pang with a lady of your rank.'
garding me attentively. Nonsense,' she replied, smiling, what
Alone,' I answered haughtily, not have you got here V
quite satisfied with his calling me boy. Nothing, ma'am.' I answered, but
How far do you travel, youngster a light carpet bag '—taking hold of it in
Again he demanded, leaning over the my hand, and pulling out a shilling to
counter to inspect fay walking gear. give the landlord.
Near thirty miles,' I replied, commenc- It's all right, your honor,' said that
ing to unbutton my overcoat and shake individual, too glad to get rid of my lady
the rain off my hat. friend and myself as soon as possible. We
Your name, with submission,' he left the house and found the lady's phaeton
continued, coming out from behind the standing at the door, the span of grays
counter, and assisting to divest me of my pawing the road impatiently to be off with
coat. their fair mistress.
I told him though I did not like the The rain had by thia time ceased, but
familiarity he was beginning to assume. the wind, which had veered roun ito the
What's your business lif it's no harm southeast, was blowing in fitful gusts,
to ax I' was his next inquiry, taking hold rendering it necessary to fix on our hats
of my bag, as if to feel its weight. . tightly to keep them from blowing off our
A traveling quack-doctor,' 1 answered heads. The moon, then near her full, was
humorously ; do your family need any at her southing, and plunging madly
prescriptions I' through the heavens, dashing the heavy
Don't know but they may, boy,' was black clouds before her as if she had been
the reply, letting go the bag, and catching a thing of life. Things looked weird and
hold of my right hand to examine the tex- desolate all around. No thoroughfare then
ture. I laughed. on the road, the way was quite clear, as
You pretend to tell fortunes,' I said, we could see ahead. The deep ruts and
what luck do you make out for me?' little puddles sparkled in the light of the
You don't get your grub by hard work- moon as she emerged from behind some
ing, I see ;' he said, grinning horribly thick bank of clouds. It was difficult to
from ear to ear. Excuse me youngster, hear what was spoken, from the blowing
I like to talk to a promising gossoon like of the wind, unless one spoke as if to some
you.' deaf person, and therefore little was said
All right,' I said, forcing my hand from after we got under weigh, for near half an
his grasp, and looking him straight in the 1 hour. The whip was unsparingly applied
face, with a proud ourl of the lip, and a I by the Amazon, and the grays dashed off
haughty, disdainful air. He drew back a at an incredible rate, causing the gutters
listle, shut one of his murderous peepers, to fly from the wheels like lightning. I
and grinning again continued : never had been on this road before, and
You're going to the city, are you?' knew nothing of the way or direction we
Yes, sir,' I replied, with stiff affected were going.
accent, and an indifferent swag of the I We came to a thick clomp of trees, and
head. j were apparently entering into some gentle
' Do you know any body there I' man's domain, when she drew up to a stand
Hundreds,' I answered, growing tired j still, and looked peeringly around her,
with this hateful catechizing. stooping her head the better to see in
Where do you hang your hat on Sun- among the bushes. We bade:row a little
days I you have a good Catholic nose of shelter ; but the noise of the wind blowing
your own I see.' : overhead among the lofty trees resembled
I'm a Catholic,' I said, and that was I that of the ocean in a storm.
no lie, for Potestants maintain that What is it, ma'am ?' I ventured to
their religion is the true Catholic, or uni- ask with some misgiving that all was not
vernal faith of the Bible and primitive right, and that, after all, it might have
church. - been safer with me in the den of blank
Go regularly to your duty j whiskers, than in the elegant carriage of
Stop, sir,' I cried, assuming an air of this fine lady.
gravity, and shaking off his hands. Ask She made no reply for half a minute,
co more questions. lam cold, wet, Ilan- , then, putting her mouth so close to mine,
gry and peevish. Show me to some place that she nearly touched me, she said in a
where I can see a fire, and don't any longer low whisper, Robbers ! I'm waylaid.'
make a fool of yourself.' Heavens !' was my exclamation.
Come along,' he said, loading the way Where are they, ma'am 1' and I stood up
into a long narrow tack room, nieanly in the phaaton to look around.
furnished, but with a good turf fire burning Sit down,' she cried, taking me by the
on the hearth, around which sat six oaaeven arm, and forcing me bank to a sitting pos
swabbish-looking fellows, drinking, scirok- true.
ing, and playing cards. Are you courageous she asked, bring
-1 did not quite like the at pearanee of ing her face so near mine that I might have
this place, nor the company I had got kissed her.
amongst, and wished from my heart I had Could face_the devil,. ma'am,' was my
been again on tlltt road , bad air the night reply, stamping my f,00t,,0n. the fl oey of the
was. But there was no use in betraying'
Tear, and I sat down among them, inten&r.
ing to make myself ikgreasble.
MEM
Got a military education,' I. said, with
assumed pomposity—laying my right hand
on my left side, as if an officer's sword
hung there.
Glad to hear that,' was her reply.
Here, take this,' handing me a cooked.
pistol, and bidding me use it only at her
word of command. gße careful,' she re-
marked ; it is a hair-trigger and will go
off at the slightest touch.'
She took the other from her belt, laid it
across her lap, g athered up the reins, and,
after again carefully looking through the
bushes on both sides of the road, put the
horses in easy motion and rolled on.
We had not gone more than ten or
twelve rods when, at a hollow place in the
road, with a large tree overhanging half
the way, two men emerged from behind the
hedge, one laying hold on the bridle of
the horses on the right side of the phmton,
while the other levelled a pistol at my
head saying. • g
Stir a limb and you die.'
Your money, Mrs. Dasher,' demanded
the other robber at the rein with a voice
like thunder. You carry five hundred
pounds in gold and bank notes. I know
all about it. Delay half a , minute '—the
word was not finished, when the man
covering my head leaped into the air, shot
through the brain by the unerring aim of
my fair companion. A cut of the whip on
the right-hand grey, and off the phaeton
dashed, trampling the..other villain under
the horses' feet and the wheels of the flying
vehicle.
Two shots from behind the hedge were
fired at the carriage without effect, while
the wood resounded with the hell-hound
cries of perhaps a dozen more of the
banditti.
But we were safe, nor did we rein up
till we had left the wood four or five miles
behind us.
When we were eight or ten miles from
the city, and in a populous part of the
unary, she became more communicative,
and told me her story in a few words. She
was the widow lady of a rich merchant in
the city ; had large money transactions in
the country, and was returning with £l5OO
in gold and Bank of Ireland notes, as was
known to the robbers. One of her man
servants, she said, knew all this, and was
an accomplice with the banditti. The
house she met me in was their rendezvous,
and there she expected to find the villain,
but was disappointed. She gave me
her name and address, but charged me to
keep the affair of that night a profound
secret.
Of course I promised, and kept my word
till I left Ireland.
After driving me to a fashionable hotel,
she alighted, introduced me to the clerk,
then in his office, and after being in private
conference with that functionary, shook
me by the hand, giving me something
folded nicely in a piece of paper, which
she bid me look at when I went to my room
Then mounting her carriage she drove off,
waving me a last adieu as she 'turned a
sharp corner.
After some little refreshment, I was
shown my room. On examining the little
parcel I found a valuable gold breast-pin,
with a ten pound note on the Bank of
Ireland.
,Next day the clerk refused to take any
pay, saying, that was all settled by the
lady.'
The bulletin of next evening contained
an account of the shooting of a noted high
way robber, ten miles from the city, long
the terror of the road, by some unknown
person. This was hailed as good news,
and soon the matter dropped without fur
ther investigation.
I met the nobleman to whom I had the
letters of recommendation, obtained the
appointment of Guager, held the office for
nine years, but never since heard anything
of the fair widow, Mrs. Dasher, my Amazon
friend on the Dublin road.
Love in a Well.
Thirty years ago, when my hair was
brown and my limbs young and active, I
was sent, by the firm in whose service I
was engaged, to collect money in some of
the New England villages. The country
was new to me, but I had full directions
given to me, and started off for a few
months to make our customers pay for
their silks, calicoes and notions.
1 had fared pretty well on my errand,
and was putting up at a country inn, when
one of our customers invited me to a gath
ering of young folks at his house. lat
once accepted the offer. There I met with
Mary Lee, and lost my heart instantly.
As I was returning to the inn, after
leaving the party, I met with an accident,
that colored my whole future life, gave me
its greatest joy and its heaviest sorrow.—
Crossing a field, in the darkness I set my
foot upon a plank which tilted, and I fell
down, losing consciousness before I reach
ed the end of a subterranean descent.—
How long I lay insensible I cannot tell ;
but I awoke in bitter agony, feeling that
I was fearfully injured. I called and
groaned, but the darkness above was un
broken by any friendly gleam of light—
the heavy silence cheered by no succoring
voice. Day dawned, finding me still sen
sible, suffering and alone. As the streaks
of light broke above me, I saw that I had
fallen down an old well, half filled with
rubbish, and covered with loose boards at
the top. One of these boards had given
way under the pressure of my foot. £his
well, I learned later, was on Mr. Lee's
place, and was being gradually filled up
with any dirt that would have been other
wise carted away. The customary stone
work around the top had been long ago
removed for the convenience of backing
up the carte. How I had strayed . from
the road on the large, open field can only
be explained by my ignorance of the lo
cality, and by my castle-building, inspired
by the sweet face of Mary Lee.
Morning dawned, and I was lying al
most frantic in my agony, when I heard a
young, fresh voice singing above me. I
called out, loudly—
' Help ! help !'
' Where ?
The singing ceased, and the question
came in a startled tone.
Here ! I have fallen down the well.'
The boards above me were pushed
aside, and the daylight, further advanced
than I had perceived in my darkened po
sition, poured in.
Down, here Oh ! you must be fear
fully hurt. George ! John ! Come quick !'
Hurrying feet came above me.
Some one must go down,' said the
pine,
g Have you a rope 1 2
Aye, the.old rope te.here •, but We not
•
to the: use of ,i0341' she
-BUOIELNAN
over and above strong. It won't bear a
man'
g I will trust it. He has fainted.'
I was too much exhausted to answer
any of the questions they shouted to me.
The reaction of promised relief was too
great after such a night as I had passed.
Before I could realize the purport of the
last sentence, .I knew, by the darkening
of the open month of the well, that some
one was descending. I felt the dress of
the brave girl touch my cheek ; I heard
her pitying tones; I knew she raised my
head as she stood in the twilight beside
me ; but I could not speak. Others had
hurried to the house, and one for the sur
geon. Wine was lowered, and she knelt
beside me tr revive me-by it. Two long
hours, as I learned afterwards, passed be
fore the arrangements were completed to
hoist us up, and she had not left my side.
She bathed my face with the water they
lowered ; she gave me wines she spoke
words of cheer and comfort; she aided
me, when the basket was at last lowered,
in rising from my painful posture, and al
most lifted me into the carriage after
reaching the surface of the earth. And
when the long fainting fit that followed
above ground was succeeded by days of
delirium, she was my faithful nurse. How
I loved her cannot be told.
When the truth became known that my
left arm and leg were crippled and useless
forever, then I tried to smother my love,
and learned of her love for me. Mary
Lee, the pet of the village, the idol of
home, the centre of many loving hearts,
loft all to follow her crippled husband to
his city home.
If by the exercise of my brain I have
made work for my hands—if my right
hand has earned a luxurious home—if by
the love of a lifetime I have humbly en
deavored to make her happy—did she hot
earn all this, and more, aye, more than I
can ever give her '+'
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Lave been cured since November,lBfa,' by the vari
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Institute on Orange street, between Duke and Lime streets,
Lancaster, Ps.
NOT ONE OERTIFICIATB
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established in Lancaster, but this system of pristine tate
been left to sink or swim upon
ITB OWN MERITS,
some of the most respectable and substantial citirwhe of
Lancaster county, have been treated and cured, an pate be
seen by reference to themselves, or the books . of the
Institute.
DISEASES
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number of instances, after all other systems and medicines
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.
and
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PROLAPSUS UTERI
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and all nervous affections yield to 'the action of the Gal
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One would be led to suppose, from the practical' fienloll.
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vatriam in the above diseases, that its efficacy ae a Thera
peutic would be doubted by no one, and yet we occasional.
ly come across an Individual who will not believe, simply
because the Medical Faculty, as a general thing, have not
taken hold or it, to them we would say that there lobar&
ly a Braithweites Retrospect published but what refers to
the healing properties of Electricity, and that if the
faculty understood more about it they would prefer it to
all other remedies, also, that some of the best Phy
-BiCiana In the Unite States have adopted It. Hereafter,
however, in order to gratify all, there will be at the lust'.
lute an eminent Physician of
FORTY YEARS ACTUAL PRACTICE,
and we cordially invite•the diseased of all classes to call
and examine into the merits of this system, as consulta
tion and advice, together with pamphlets, will be given
Free. of Charge.
GEOR.E W. FREED, Medical Electrician,
Orange street, between Duke and Lime streets,
.t 27 If 421 Lancaster. Pa.
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tried many things said to be cures without any relief. I
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Prom the wonderful improvement it has made in my
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Black Cassimere Pantaloons,
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sep 29
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