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Saturban Morning, September 10, 1054.
.4tltridy Voefrg.
AN ANGEL IN THE WAY.
Fair the downward path is spread,
Love and Light thy cocain. greet, •
Fruit is blushing o'er thy head,
Flowers are growing 'Death thy feet.
Mirth and Sin, with tossing bands,
Wave thee on, a willing prey I
Yet an instant pause—there stands
An angel in the way.
Heed the heavenly warning—know
Faired flowers thy feet may trip;
Fruit, that like the sunset glow,
Turn to ashes on the lip.
Though the joys be wild and free,
Even mortal eye can see
An angel in the way.
Wilt jhou drown in worldly pleasure!
Wilt thou have, like him of old,
Length of days and store of treasure,
,Wisdom, glory, power and gold !
Life and limb shall sickness waste,
Want shall grind thee slay by day,
Still to win thee God bath placed
An angel in the way.
Trusting all on things that perish,
Shall a hopeless faith be thine!
Earthly idol wilt thou cherish
Bow before sn'earthly shrine I
Meet rebuke to mortal love
Yearning for a child of clay.
Death shall cross thy Oath, and.prove
An angel in the way.
When the prophet thought to sin,
Tempted by his heathen guide;
When a prince's grace to win,
Prophet lips would fain have lied,
Even the brute the sage controlled
Found a human voice to say
" Master:Finite the not—Behold
An angel in the way !"
SO, when Vice to lure her slave,
Woos him down the shining track,
Spirit handi ere stretched to save,
Spirit voices warn him back.
Heart of Man ! to evil prone,
Chafe not at thy sin'.
Bow thee humbly down, mid own
An angel
t in the way.
/llisteliancous.
Tr:lw;Wed from the French by 0. E. Turner.
The Emperor and his Daughter.
- A few yearm i since, there was in the city of St.
Petersburg a yourg girl, so heamiful arid ou lovely
that the greatest prince of Europe, had he met her,
even in a peasant's hut, might well have turned
his back upon princesses to offer his hand and
BEIM
' Ilut fir from having first seen the light in a pea
/. ant . 3
hut, she was born in the shadow of the
proudest throne on earth. It was Marie Ilicolcew.
na, the adored daughter of the Emperor of Russia.
As her father saw her blooming like the May
11 ewer, arid sought by all the heirs of royalty, he
east his eyes upon the fairest, the richest and the
moist reowerfol of them, and with the smile of a la
titer and a king, he said : •
" My child, you are now of an age to marry,
and I have chosen for you the prince who will
make you a queen, and the roan who will render
you happy."
" The man (rho will render me• happy!" stain•
rnered the blushing princess, with a sigh, which
was the only objection to which her heart gave ut
terance. " Speak, fatheri" she said, as she saw a
frown gathering inx the brow of the Czar. "speak,
and year Majesty shall be obeyed."
" Obeyed!" exclaimed the Emperor, trembling
hr the first time in his life. " is it then only as an
act of obedience that you - will receive husband
from my hands?"
The young girl was silent and ccincoal a tear
" Is your faith already plighted I" )
The young girl was .still silent.
-" Explain yourself, Marie; I command you"
At this word, which sways sixty milliOn human
beings, the princess fell at the feet of the,lecar.
?' Yes, father, if Y must tell you, my - f4tatt is no
longer my own; it is bestowed upon a,yonng man
who knows it not, and who shall never know it,
if such be your wish. He has seen me but two or
three times at a distance, and we will never speak
to each other if your majesty forbid it."
The Emperor was silent in' his turn. He grew
pale.
,Three times he made the circuit or the sa
loon. He ducat not ask the name of the -young
man.
He:would have braved, for a caprice, the mon
archs of the world at the head of their armies—he,
with his omnipotence, feared this unknown youth,
who disputed with him the possession °lbis dearest
treasure.
" Is it a king I" he demanded at last.
No, father."
" The heir of a king, at least t"
" No, father."
" A Grand Duke!"
" No, father."
"A son of a reigning family ?"
c• No, father!'
At each step in the descending scale, the Czar
stopped to recover breath.
"A stranger !"
" Yes; lather." _
The Emperor fell back into an armed chair, and
Covered hie lace with his hands, like Agamemnon
a: .lie sac dice of
"1s he in Russia ?" he resumed, with an effort.
" Yes, lather."
"At St. Petersburg!) ,
" Yes, father." •
And the voice of the young girl grew faint.
" Where shall I see him!" said the Czar, rising
with a threatening aspect.
'• How shall I recognize hith To p eat a t h e
r/ar 711th a camp of his foot.
THE:. BRADFORD :REPORTER.
" By bit glean plurne,and his black steed."
" It's well. Go, my daughter, and pray Goi to
have pity upon that man."
The princess withdraw, id a fainting condition,
and the Emperor was soon lost in thought.
"A childish caprice," he said at length. "I am
lootiej► to be disturbed at it. She will forget it!"
and his lips dared not utter what his heart added.
"It must be; for all my power would be weaker.
than her team."
On the following day, at the review, the Czar,
whose eagle eye embraced all at a glance, sought
and saw in Isis battalions nought else than a green
plume apd a black charger. He recognized in him
who wore the one and rode the other, a simple
Colonel of the Bavarian Light Horse, Maximillian
Joseph Eugene Auguste Beauharnois, the Duke of
Leuchtenberg, youngest child of the sin of Jose
phine (who was for a brief time Empress Of
Frkece) and of-Auguste Amelie, daughter of Max
amillian Joseph, of Bavaria, an admirable and
charming cavalier, in truth; but as far interior to
Marie Nicolmwna, as a simple soldier to an em
peror.
"Is it possible," said the Czar to himself, as he
sent for the Colonel, with the design of dismissing
him to Munich.
But at the moment when he was about to crush
htm with a word, he stopped at the sight of his
daughter—tainting in her caleche.
" There is no longer a doubt," thought the Czar,
.otis indeed be."
And turning his back upon the stopified stranger,
he returned with Marie to the Imperial Palace.
Fur six weeks, all that prudence, tempered with
love and severity, could inspire, was essayed to
destroy the image of the Colonel in the bear! of
the princess. At the end of the first week, she
was resigned ; at the end of the second she wept ;
at the end of the:third, she wept in public ; at the
end of the loath, she wished to sacrifice herself to
her father; at the end of the fifth, she fed sick, at
t'te end of the sixth, she was dying.
Meanwhile, the Colonel, seeing himself in dis
grace at the court ol his host, without daring to
confess to himself the cause, did not wait for hie
dismissal to return to his regiment. Ile was on the
point of setting out for Munich, when an aid-de
camp ol the Czar came to him.
" I should have set out yesterday," he said to
himself I should have avoided what awaits me.
At the first flash save yourself from the thunder.
bolt."
The bolt in reAerve for him was ihe following:
He wan usherelf into the cabinet, where only kings
are allowed to enter. The Emperor was pale, and
his eye" was moist ; but his air was firm and reso
lute.
. .
" Colonel Duke," raid he, t nv;loping and pene
trating him with hill glanbe, " YOU are one of the
handsoniest officers m Europe. t . It is paid also,
and I believe it true, that you 'Assess an elevated
mind, a thorough education, a lively taste for the
arts, a noble heart, and a loyal character.
"What think you of the tiraild bhchess, my
.daughter, Marie Nicolcewnal"
This point-blank question dadled the ydting
man. It is time to say that he admired, adored the
princess, without being fully aware of it. A sim
ple mortal adoitles an angel of paradise, as an artist
adored the ideal of beauty.
" The Princess Matie, sire !". exclaimed he,
reading at last his own heart, without daring to
read that of the Czar ; "your anger would crush
me if I told you what I think of her, and I should
die of joy if you permitted me to say it." ,
" You love her, 'us well," resumed the Czar
wilt a benignant smile; and the royal hand, hom
which the Duke was awaiting the thunderbolt, de
livered to the Colonel the brevet of General Aid
de-Camp to the Emperor—the brevets of the Com
mandant of the Cavalry of the Guards, and of the
regiment of Hussars—of the Chief of the Corps of
Cadets, and - of the Mining Engineers—of President
of the Academy of Arts, and the Member of the
Accademy of Sciences of the Universities of St.
Peiereburg, of Moscow, of Keasan, of the COOR•
Cii, of the Military Schools, &c. All this wi:h the
titletol Imperial Highness, and several milhons of
revenue. •
!' Now," said the Czar to the young man, who
was beside . himself with joy,'! will you quit the
service of Bavaria and t (Tome the husband of the
Princess Marie 1" The young officer could only
fall on his knees, and bathe with his tears the
hands of the Emperor.
ig You see that I also love my daughter," said
the father, raising his son•in-la* in his arras.
The 14th of July following, the tiranJ Duchess
was restored to life—to health—and the Duke
Beauharnois de Leuchtetiberg espoused her in pre
sence ef the representatives of all the royal families
of Eurticie.
Such an act of paternal love merited (intim Czar
and his daughter a century of happiness. Heaven,
which has its secrets, hid ordered it otherwise.—
% Tuesday, November bib, 1852, the Duke de
Deuchtenberg died at age of thirty-five—worthy,
io the last, of, his brilliant destiny, and !eating to
Marie Nicokewa eternal regret.
All the young prmcas of the world will again
dispute the prize of her hand; but she hail been
too happy as'a wife to consent to become a queen.
—Pertn'a Incmaw.
Wives sxo Ciarrra.—ln the selection of a car
pet, you should always prefer one with mall fig
ure., hawser the two webs of which the 'Arica
consist are always more closely interwoven than
in carp/dog where large figures are wrought.
Theis great deal of true philosophy in this
that willleply to matters widely different from the
selection of carpets.
A man,commits a sad mistake when he selects
• wife that cots too large a figure on the green car
pelt of lifo—cr in other words, makes- much dis
play. The attractions fade out—the web of life
becomes worn and weak and all the !gay figures
that seemed so charming at first, disappear like
summer flowers in autumn.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA iIOODRICIL
" aDEAR.ELEBB OP DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER:"
Many a man has made flimsy linsy-woolsey of
himself, by striving to weave too large a figure,
and himself worn out, used up, like an old carpet
hanging on the fence, before he has lived out halt
his allotted days of usefulness.
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Many a m wears out like a carpet th at is never
swept, but by be dust of indolence. Like that
same carpet, h needs shaking or whipping—he
needs activity, something to think of, something
to do.
Look out then for the large figures; and there
are those now stowed away in the garret of the
world, awaiting their final consignment to the cel
lar, who, had they practiced this bit of carpet phi
losophy would to-day be firm and bright as a Brus
sels fresh from the loom, anJ everybody exclaim
ing, " It is wonderful how well they do!''
Wonderftil Curiosity.
The Cleveland Haag fomishes an item worthy
The attent i on of all lovers of the curious. The nov
elty is in Brian, Williams county, Ohio, and is des
cribed as follows:
" It is supposed by some that there is an under
ground lake at the depth of some forty or filly feet,
of considerable extent, as water has been found
for several miles around. This also is apparent
from the fact, that every new well that is bored
effects the strength of the others in its immediate
vicinity, until its stream is elevated, by means of
a stock to an equal heiglit. The amount of
, water
discharged by these fountains, however, is not pro
portionate or equal—they vary considerable in qifl.
Brent parts of the town, the strongest ones being
generally east of Main street. The water can be
raised in proportion to the stream forced up.—
There are several that fill a two inch auger hole at
the height of eight feet above the surface of the
earth, and the others issue a somewhat smaller
er stream to the height of twelve or fifteen feet.—
Some of the large ones frequently throw up small
fish, and, we are told there is a very strong foun•
lain about a mile east of this place, in which fish of
a blackish color, of the length of three inches, have
been seen.
The work of procuring water is simple and easy.
There are seldom any stones met with, to obstruct
the course of the auger, and but one or two days
are required usually to sink a well, of five or six
inches in circumference, the necessary depth.—
Water is found at an average depth of fortytwo
feet. The auger passes through a loose sand until
strikes what is called a " hard pan," a bed of solid
blue clay, of from 2 to 3 feet in thickness, and of
such a nature that it requires a drill to penetrate it.
Immediately below this " hard pan" lies the water,
embedded, it is supposed, In quicksand, as for
some days, and in some instances weeks, large
quantities of fine white sand are ejected by the
water, but the stream finally becomes entirely pure
and clear and no sand is alterwardsseen.
No season or state of the weather has any effect
upon these living fountains—neither the drought
nor Hoed can change their currents—They are ever
the same—their source is inexhaustable, and there-
fore they cannot tail."
A Snowy &roar BY Dicxxas.—Dickens tells the
following story of ao American lea captain On
his last voyage home the captain had on board a
young lady of remarkable perscihal attraction—a
phrase i use as one being entirely new, and one
you navel ittefit *lth ih the newspapers. This
young lady was beloved intensely by five young
gentlemen, passengers, and in turn she was in love
with them all very but without any par-
ticular preference for either. Not kndwing how to
make up her determination in this dilemma, she
consulted my friend the catgain. The captain,
being a man of original turn of mind, says to the
young lady, " Jump overboarJ and ihark the than
who jumps aver you." The young lady, struck
with the idea, and being naturally fond of bathing,
especially in warm weather, as it then *is, took
the advice of the captain, who had a boat ready
manned in case of accident. Accordingly, next
morning, the five lovers being on deck, rind look
ing very devotedly at the young lady, she plunged
into the sea head foremost. Four of the lovers im
mediately jamped in atter her. When the young
lady and her four lovers were got out again, she
says to the captain, " What am Ito do with, them
now, they are so wet 1" Says the captain, " Take
the dry one !" And the young lady did, and mar
ried him."
Worse AND Trans.—These two topics are pro
perly put in connection al the head of our paragraph
says the Boston Post, since, as the logicians, say,
" the latter flows naturally irom the former." As
pathos and June are nearly opposite sides of the
same thing, so women cry as easily as they laugh,
and, We two inclined to think, enjoy the latter di
version quite as much as the former. The " luxury
of wo," as some sentimentalist calls it, is to them
a satisfaction even more intense than that of mak
ing a lover jealous or a rival envious. Sometimes
indeed; crying becomes en evil, (a ' crying evil' of
course,) like any other amusement when it is in
dulgeJ in to excess. Tears, no doubt, may be
" run into the ground," which is certainly carrying
the thing too far. Yet,except for real,heartfelt grief,
handsome eyes, whether black or blue, aro not of
ten spoiled by weeping. As water always finds
its level, the lachrymal fountain usually regulates
itself—" a wise provision of nature," as the moral
ists say. When a man cries, he is either io deep
affliction or—drunk, : 'But, fortunately, women can
.weep withoul•griel dr in ebriety. Let 'em weep. fo
dam a woman's eyes would be as unkind as it
sounds profane. Let her cry, if she likes ; she
will better for, and look none the worse. Take
away her" rights," . if you will, but don't• deprive
her of this most beautiful ana valuable " water pri
*
(40 , One eat of beneEmencs, or act of real use
fulness, is worth all the abstract sentiments in the
world.
The rain ! The rain !
0, lot a drop of water not to cool the tounge, but
to refresh the languishing earth, which pants for
the living brooks and the descending rain ! Is it not
the paUering of the small rain upon the roof! Can
it be the sweet trickling of the beginning shower
on the quiveringleaves of the great elm before the
door I—No, it is not the rattling of the rain upon
the small roof, nor the delicious sound of bright
falling water- drops from leaf to leaL It id the
brown sun-baked dust caught up by the strong
south wind, and, dashed against the lately green
foliage and showered upon the dwelling. 0, south
wind, once so liberal of moisture, when moisture
was not needed, where are your overflowing foun
tains now Have you notcome directly horn your
ocean home, or has old Neptune laid an embargo
on his treasures! •
Thank Heaven ! the distant thunder precludes at
least, en approaching shower. Is it not so! Ah !
we have mistaken; it was the report of cannon,
announcing some miserable celebration. We have
heard that the roar of artillery is eflectual in dis
pensing clouds. It so, pray cease from firing, your.
idle revellers! Hush, and be still, while the ele
ments are 'Neatly collecting in their airy store.
houses the tountains of plenty to this thirsty, suff
ering land. W here is Aquarius of old, who is rep
resented as pouring cataracts of water from his
pitcher upon the earth I Astronomers assign to him
the performance of this useful office in January
alone ; when oar farms do not want copious
draughts of water, as in summer. If he cannot be
spared from his official duties, has he no relative,
is there no Aquarius, jr., who might be appointed
to water the earth in the dog days?
But the clouds are gathering apace. The horizon
darkens.. The bees are hurrying home. The
house-flies gather in the palor, and bite worse than
ever. The dry leaves and loose hay are whirling
in eddies. The sea bird screams on the shore; the
peacock does the same in the poultry-yard. The
minosa begins to close, and the cake of soap grows
moist. The cat frisks round the yard, and the
cattle round the pasture: Universal stillness reigns,
interrupted only by the occasional sighing of the
winds as at the approach of some great event.—
The rain is coming; the rain is upon us ! Stop, stop !
Is that the sun, whose upper fimb shines like gold
just as it sinks below the western horizon I—lt is
indeed that glorious luminary, and he promises
distinctly a beautiful day to-morrow, in whicn no
one need carry an umbrella—a promise often here.
Wore received with smiles and approbation but
now with a rueful countenance andt open censure.
Alas! all signs tail in dry weather, excepting
drought ; they are pretty sure to hold good.
A kind of calenture is beginning to seize upon
the imagination, and men, for the want of reality
fancy they are sea-green seas in their arid wastes
and reviving icebergs in their rocks. In return for
our waking disappointments we dream of the white
cold surf upon the sounding . beach; the white
thread like mountain cascade ;the thundering cata
ract. But most of all, perhaps, one delights in this
universal dryness of Nature, the brassy color of the
sky reflecting the premature brown and yellow of
the burnt-op earth, to recall soft pictures of green
bill and vail 'y under the weeping skies of May.
The chattering brooks, like merry little children,
were then running about everywhere among the
trees and long wet grese. Water—the very word
has a moist and joyous smell and sound—was
gushing all around on the surface of the ground and
below the surface. The leaf then glistened with a
brilliant radiance as the sun strqck it and glanced ;
that sun was then 'welcome. The tree, the grass,
and delicate beautiful flower then had enough of it,
and was not dying as now, with fatal thirst. Who
does not wish the days of mud, good, deep, and
plentifully supplied with water, would return to us
once more? Is there a man, we will notsay patriot,
who would not be happy to go over shoes in water
this blessed day, if thereby his country's crops
could be secured ? Happy people they whose lot is
east in the vicinity of the great or little lakes or
rivers: Even a frog pond is a heritage in these
days not to be Ileipised, and a water privilege
must be of indescribable value.—Newark Daily
Adverti:ser.
Neaten AWAY—We can read those solemn
word's hpon our very nature. The ruthless hand of
time is constantly heaping upon our heads the
weight of years, that, like an inctibiie. will ethyl:tub
to press us down, until at last our feeble frames
will totter and sink inte the grave. It is, indeed
but a " step between the cradle and grave."—
Scarcely have we passed from the tender mother,
where we were nursed and protected, until we
again must loan upon the arms of a dutiful Child,
and trust to his kindness to support out feeble limbs.
How soon do we find our eye growing old and the
world gradually receding, as it were into a mist I
Our cheeks become furrowed ; our limbs grow
weak and palsied ;our heads are silvered as it Nos.
soming for the grave. Our feeble frames are rack.
ed with pain, and " nature's sweet restorer" comes
not to the eyes, as if kindly waiting us to watch ;
for we know not what hour in the night the mes
senger Maf summon:us hence. Like the pearly
dewdrop before the sun's ray—like the rose of
summer before the autumn blast— like moon-beams
on the dark blue sea, we " are passing away."
irsairy or I irc.—The following, from a late
speech of Mr. Benton, is a touching exhibition of
the vanity of political ambition
I have gone through a contest to which T have
no heart, and into which T was forced by combina
tion against li(e.and honor, and from which I glad
ly escape. What ie a seal in Congress to Met I
have eat thictiyeard in thihigberit branch of Cut
icle*, have madia name to 4tliCh I tan add noth
ing, and I should only be anxinu to say, what has
been gained ? .1 have domestiC aftections, sorely
lacerated theselatter times ; a wife `V'ehom
have never negleeted v anci who needs my atten
tion now more than ever; children some separated
from me by the expanse of oceans and continents,
others by the slender bonds which separated them
from eternity. I touch the age which the psalmist
assigns as the limit of ,trianly life, dud must be
Thoughtless, indeed, if I do not think of something
beyond the flitting and shadowy pursuits of this life,
of all of which I have seen the Vanity. What is
my occupation Ark the undertaker, that good
Mr. Lynch,:whose face, present on so mart, mourn
ful occasions, has become plessent to me. He
knows that occupies my thoughts and cares ; gath
ering the bones of the dead—a mother, a sister, two
eons, a grand-child : planting the cypreso over as
sembled graves, and marking the spot where 1 and
those most dear to me are soon to be laid.
The last new Novel. The Forked
Lightning and Mysterious Knight--
A No vellin Four Parts.
FART FIRST
Heavy masses of lowering pitch colored clouds
obscured the translucent sky—hoarse Muttering of
grumbling thunder reverberated•through the atmos
pherical alr, strongly indicatiie of an aptirottehing
tempest. The hour was midnight, and the night
was dark as Erebus— not a living human seemed
to be stirring save—a stalwart form, close mantled
in a cloak of folds voluminwis—he eat gallantly
astride a prancing charger of a dappled gray—his
course was westward bound—silence reigned su
preme—not a sound was heard save the portenti•
ous thunder, and the pattering of the stallion's
hoofs as be went cantering on through mud and
mire—not a soul was abrdad save the steed and
his gallant rlder—and the rider was the Myste
Knight !
PART BMOND
Sulfa!). a sharp peal of thunder, accompanied
by a vivid Winding streak of !mined lightning,
brightens up the inky sky—when--ha! what do
we see? The prancing stallion, lies gasping on the
road, a lifeless lump of clay, struck to the earth by
forked lightning—his flesh is yet quivering with
agony, though his vital spark has fled to parts un
known—but the gallant rider—the Mysterious
Knight where is he? Ha! thanks to a merciful pro
vidence:he is safe—he has escaped the shafts of
the finked lightning—it flayed his steed, but only
scorched him. Fortunate Knight.
I=l
Torches are seen gleaming in the distance—they
approach.—A neighboring Nobleman hearing the
unearthly yell oj,the dying steed left his castle to
proffer aesistante to the benighted traveller—he
finds the Knight gazing with 'wildered air on the,
dead steed, atupified at his tremendous loss—he
takes himjtome to his Baronial Castle—the Knight
after imbibing a few tumble's of " halt and half''
recuperates—the nobleman introduced hint to his
only daughter Imogene Clarrissa Lucinda Beiride
ra de Potts—she is beautiful—the Knight falls in
love at first sight—lmogene does the same.—Fig
(romantic incident)addresses her on the spot—she
refers to Papa—Papa consents, having learned that
the mysterious Knl;;lrt is "some pumpkins" in his
native country—the wedding- day is fired—a
hogshead of ale is tapped—thirteen beeves are
butchered—and the pair is wed. The Knight is
overjoyed at his good for une, anS well he may be,
fur—(See part 4 h )
RA HT ForIITIL
She was worth filty thousand dollars
GEO
linlckerbocklann.
The Knickerbocker for August, sets our some
good things on its " Little People', Sale Table."
" Our 'Ann' has a little girl to help her with the
'„house•work'—as sal generis a little creature as
the sable Topsy. A few days since, when 'A
-nn'
came in from having, she said, a short ‘chatter .
with a friend, she dritected her little' help' in Berne
misdemeanor, and proceeded to reprimand her 114
it. In the course of tie . Anna•' mad' versions, she
said :
" Do you think you are fit to Elie?!'
" I do' no !" eaid the little girl, taking hold of
her drew and impeding it, " I guest!, so, it I ain't
too dirty !"1
"When my grand-mother, (long Fil.Ce in flea•
ven) was about three years old, she was taken to
the funeral of a deceased play-mate. The tittle
corpse was lying in its coffin, around which Row•
ers were strewn ; and Fhe being lifted op, kissed
is colll cheek, whispered:
" Please give my love to God P'
"This strikes me as one of the sweetest ex
pressions I ever hoard made by a child."
"Cur little Charlie has always been in the habit
of saying a little prayer before going to bed. A
Few evenings since, all things being ready for re
liring, and when he was about to kneel at his mo
ther's knee, he stopped, and looking earnestly inn).
his moitieraii lace, said :
" Mamma, I aria tired of saying somebody else's
prayer; mayn't I make one mvsell
His mother said, "certainly, my boy, if you
really wish to."
He knelt 'very relerenily and clasped his hands;
then, wi.h the earnestness of unallected childhood .
Aid to hie mother;
Mamma r if I get stuck, will you help me out r
'• My Mlle boj after listening route time to hie
mother's efforts to gel a peddler In throw in some
thing' with everything she purchased, cast his
longing eyes on some primers in the trunks The
peddler, reading his Wishes, offered to give him
one. The little fellow hesitated, and when urged,
said : ' I don't know as E will take it, unless you
will fletoti: in somdfring."
" A little girl bad been iilaying in the 61 reet until
she bad become pretty well covered vi ith durit In
trying to Wash ii off she didirrirse' enotigh water
to prevent the dust rolling up in finds older rhaii
aerself,wfur a solution of The rzOtety. , It was e*
plainetrat once—to/lir satiSfaction, at 'teat
you're:ttiede of dual, and if you 'don't
atop you till Wash yourself away !" •
This opinion, coining horn an elder brother, wait
decisive, and the washing was discontinued.
'One day a little school-mate of Willie's was
in here, and the two got to disphtint, about the
number of days M the week; Willie persisted tha
there were seven, and his little opponent, stoutly
maintaining that there were only vii. 'Well,' said
Willie, 'you say them over and I will count.' So
the days were named and counted, from Monday
to Saturiay, inclusive; and then there was a pause
which Willie broke by saying :
" And Sunday "
llo!" said his diminutive
,opponent, with d
look of suprethe contempt, taint belongs to the (+Mei
week '
"One pleasant day last summer, I took my seat
in the stage coach bound hom Fall Riser to C
Among the passengets was a little gentleman who
had possibly seen five summers. The coach bei..g
quite full, he sat in the lap of another passenger.
While on the way,something was said about pick
pockets, and soonthe conversation became gene
ral on that interesting subject. The gentleman
Who wa+ then holding our young friend remarked :
"My fine fellow, easy 1 could pick your
pockets l"
"No you couldn't," replied he ;
looking out for you all the time!"
haintuck and (ho Fiddler.
Ott board the steamer Indiana, in one of be[
trips down the Mississippi, was a large number of
good natured passengers. Ttie'y were seeking to
while away the hour according to their several no
tions of pleasure, and would hare got on very well
but for one annoyanCe. There happened to be on
board a Hoosier on the Wabash who was going
"down to Orleans," and he had provided himself
With an old violin, fancying that he could fiddle as
well as the-best man, and : - lanting himself %%here
he could attract notice, scraped away. The rfellow
couldn't fiddle any more than a setting hen, and
the horrible noise disturbed. his fellow passengers
excessively.
A Frenchman of very delicate nerve, and a very
fine musica l , ear, was cspebiallY annoyed. He
fluttered, and fidgetted, and swore at the "Caere
fill ler."
The passengers tried various experiments, to rid
themselves of the Hoosier and his fiddle, but it was
no go. r• He would pray just as long as he d—d
please." At last a big Kentuckian sprang from
his seat, and saying, fix hiin, placed hiinselt
neat die fiddler and commenced braying with all
his might. The effect of the move was beyond
description. Old Kaintucky "brayed so loud" that
he drowned :be screeching of the fiddle, and amid
9 rshouts of the passengers, the discomfitted Hoo
sier retreated below, leaving the victory of the un
equa! cornest wi'h the Kentuckian and his singular
impromptu imitation of Balaam's friends. The
delight of the Frenchman knew no bounds; quip t
was restored for the day. Soon the Kentuckian
felt the boat. The next morning aher breakfast the
passengers were startled by the discordant sound
of their old tormen:or. Hoosier had discovred
that the coast was clear, and was bound to revenge
himself on the passengers. Loud and worse
screamed the fiddle. The Frenchman just seated
to read his paper, on the first sound rose and look
ed anxiously around, shrugged his shoulders and
then shouted " Pare le he queek—gneek, Men
Dieu! Yore is Monsieur Kentack, de man that
played on the lickass?"
CHEATING THE PRGITCH —A man who would
Cheat the !Winer would steal a meeting house and
rob a churchyard. If he had a soul, ten thousand
of in 3 size would have more atom in a mosquito's
eye than a building in the Pacific ocean. Ile ought
to be winked at by blind people, ar:d kicked across
logs hj , ctipples.—ifen Hui bar Wolrerinc
Amen ! such a being would steal the molasses
out of a sick nigger's ginger cake, take from a
drunken man's mouth his last chew of taba , -r-oi
walk at night through the rain to deprive a blind
sheep of its fodder; travel fifry miles on a fasting
stomach to cheat a dying woman out of her coffin,
and steal wad out of a dead hog's ears. Such a
man ought to be lied to a sheep's tail and bunted
to death —Porrnce Inquirer.
Yea, tholeands of stlch souls as that man'a would
rattle in a mustard seed, dance country dances on
the point of a wasp sung, or march abreast through
the eye of a cambric needle.
A Solar microscope won'd fail to di.onier them
and when found they would not fill the smallest
cranny in creation —Hudson Punt.
`tea, and that ain't all. Such a fellow would rob
a lame gooses nest of the last egg, steal a rats tail
from a blind kitten, for there is nothing low that lie
would not do. He should be tiedup to a broom
slick and scolded to death by old iinaids, and then
his bones should he made into butons to be worn
an the breeches of convicts —Rising Sun Mirror
EICriLI,II RAtt.ROAD CARS —lll England all the
railroad passenger cars resemble little old fashioned
coach bodies, stuck on low wheels. They are di
vided into compartments, with Iwo seats each,
six passengers riding in a compartment, or three
on a seat. Thus three ride with their faces forward,
and three backwads, just as in a coach Theta
are doors on each nide of each little compartment.
When you take a seat you are contined to the little
compar merit in which }on hopper; to^be,
the journq. You cannot move about, or Loin one
compartment into another, or from one car to anoth•
er,.for here are no facilities of tl.in hood, and no
meah4 of gettirve from one car to another while m
'nation. The English enjoy these liMe bani box
card, and declare them itifiricely supe...r
01 Our sixty feet traveling saloons ; but they have
never fried our ears. -. . On the contrary we have had
ha benefit of DO' b kinds. AU the cars, when rail•
roads were first began nu this
,counfry, w'e'e built
oa the English plan; but their wele.long ago di . •
nraed by the travelingcommunity as inconVC/3/011l
and uncomfortable.
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