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lje mc0, New Bloomficlii, f).
self bcBide Mr. Page, cjooting from the
settee a young man of unromemberable ap
pearnnce, with whom he had been exchang
ing newspapers.
" I think all the better tf you that you
ate not incliued to politics, Mr. rage,"
said the old lady, " where's the use of it ?
a paok of nonsense Just got up to help the
elections, and empty people's pockets.
But I suppwe Mr. Westover thinks he bad
better get himself excited about it now,
for when he's sent away where they catch
whales he'll have no chance. You don't
go to sea, do you ?"
No, ma'am."
"Then pray what may your occupation
be?"
Clara started, but Mr. Page, though his
eyes snapped very rapidly, answered grave
ly, " I am the editor of the ."
'01i dear! that's a poor business, isn't
it?"
" It suits me very well, ma'am."
"You are not bard to please I daresay,"
she returned, when, to the great relief of
Clara, the nowspaper reader, who bad
been hovering near, advanced exclaiming,
" I am happy to And that I had the honor
of conversing with a congenial spirit let
me grasp your hand, sir I do something
in the literary line myself. My name is O.
' Goldsmith Twiggs I presume it is not
new to you."
Mr. Page submissively yielded bis band.
"Glorious places these publio rendez
vous are for persons of our calibre,"
pursued Mr. Twiggs, " to study human
nature and shoot folly as it flies ; but there
may be too much of a good thing, and I
always carry tho beauties of Shakspeare in
my pocket, to pore over when I grow
weary of tho dull realities of life. Con
fidentially speaking, Mr. Page, what do
you really think of Shakspcare's Plays?"
"That there's a good many of them,"
said Mr. Page.
"Exactly I understand," responded
Mr. Twiggs, winking and nodding signif
icantly, "not quite so great for quality as
quantity ; I am glad that I have such good
authority to agree with me. But between
ourselves, I bave now a series of papers
tinder contemplation," and as the roan of
letters began to speak low and look mys
terious, Clara thought it a good oppor
tunity to draw her aunt away.
" There, now, the matter's as good as
settled I" said the triumphant Mrs. Cripps,
' when sbe bad followed the hurried stops of
her niece to tbeir room ; "you don't find
me long hemming and bawing about any
thing I take in band. I've managed to get
acquainted, and all you'll bave to do
will be to talk a little kind to Mr. Page,
and rouse a bit of courage in bim, and
you'll bave just the husband you want."
"My dear aunt, you are entirely mis
taken in Mr. Page," said Clara, drawing
her hands over hoc burning cheeks, and
then she stopped, for she knew that it
would be vain to try to make the old lady
comprehend the force of what was very
clear to ber memory, the moment she
beard bis succinct account of himself, that
be was celebrated as one of the rarest
humorists of the day.
" Why, what under the sun is tho mat
ter with you, Clara?" exolaimed Mrs.
Cripps, in much surprise ; "I've not made
a shadow of a mistake ; Mr. Page is every
thing I supposed bim to be at first sight
He cares nothing about talking and eating,
as you bave seen with your own eyes, and
heard with your own ears, and as to books,
could you bave desired any thing better
than the way he answered that long
tongued, dirty-collared little fellow about
them, and tried to cut the subject short t
If you bad ever listened to husband Diden
. hoover you'd have known how to value it.
If the bime of a book was broached to him,
he would tell what this critio thought, and
what that one said, and how so and so
differed, and then be would spend his own
opinion, the longest, most mixed-np rig
marole of all. No, no, Clara, Mr. Page is
the man and he's right good-looking, too
better than might have been expected of
him."
"Aunt Cripps," said Clara, solemnly,
" I don't think that Mr. Page will have
any desire to pursue the acquaintance into
which you bave so strangely forced him."
" Then he'll be even more of a fool than
I think him, and the proper person to fol-'
low up so you needn't cry about it. I
thought you bad a better oonceit of your
self." ' ' ' . '
Clara for a moment was in despair at the
impracticability of her aunt, and then sbe
thought, as she had often done before, that
it would be wiser to take a hearty laugh at
it, which she did, though with tears in her
eyes.
The graces of Miss Bumey were by no
means impaired by the exbilerating breezes
of her healthful retreat, yet before the
month was half out. it was questioned,
particularly by certain young gentlemen,
whether she was really beauty after all.
A strong proof in favor of the doubt was,
that she quite forbore to exact the tribute,
which, as a beauty, was her prerogative,
not withstanding each of them had sum
moned resignation to yield it, and appeared
satisfied, simply, to walk and talk with
that quiet, plain Mr. Page, who, to be
sure, was a good sort of fellow, and capital
at a dry joke, but still was, In short alto
gether inferior to themselves.
Mr. Page was not what Is called a ladiea-
man, but he had too much taste not to be
an admirer of loveliness, such as was ex
emplified in the person of our young he
roine. Therefore he had no unwillingness
to second the advances of Mrs. Cripps, and
he did it with a tact that gratified Clara,
by assuring ber that he placod her attrac
tions quite apart ' from the old lady's ma
noouverings. Then, when, afterward, be
found, by reading the most expressive of
fair faces, that be was understood .and ap
preciated, and when his delicate humor
was rewarded by the sweetest laugh that
had over mug in his ears, be began to ap
prehend that it was all over with him.
And Clara, it was strangely unaccountable
to her how she had missed discovering at
the very first, how handsome he was, and
she often, by way of extenuation, repeated
to herself that she had done justice to his
eyes. As to his conversation, she could not
pretend to do it justice ; she regretted he
did not talk more, but what he did say she
considered all the more striking for being
so condensed, and the manner of it that
was irresistiblo ; she wondered whether
Ella, the paragon on her imagination hith
erto, could havo been at all oomparable in
play of fancy, in droll humor, in quiet,
simple, natural wlttiness, to the charming
Mr. Page. But sbe kept all this to her
solf. Aunt Cripps soon grew impatient, and
began to talk about going home, especially
in the presence of Mr. Page, and to Clara
she became more and more urgent in her
charge to "hurry, hurry, and make good
use of ber time," which charge was now
heard with blushes instead of smiles.
Though Clara had always insisted upon
ber matronly supervision over her rambles
with Mr. Page, the old lady showed an in
creasing proneness to loitering behind,
hurrying ahead, and diverging to opposite
directions, and one day, near the termina
tion of the period to which she had actually
limited her sojourn, after inveigling them
to a shaded bench between two sycamores,
with a tall screen of young locuBts separa
ting them from all other loungers, sbe en
tirely disappeared. The two) had ventured
upon the perilous undertaking of analyzing
each other's characters, and Clara wound
up an eloquent disquisition by remarking
laughingly that tbero were times when she
bad observed her companion to assume an
air and au expression of countenance,
which made bim look as if he possessed
not an ounce either of sense or spirit. " I
have more than once suspeoted that the
manner was put on voluntarily," added
she, " and would think so still, if I could
see any possible reason for your doing it'
Mr. Page merely smiled, and then, ap
proaching ber more closely, he said, color
ing and stammering, "I learn from your
aunt that you will leave this in a day or
two, and I have been anxiously waiting for
an opportunity like the present to express
myself on a subject nearly connected with
my happiness. Yet now that I have it, I
cannot summon words for my purpose. I
believe I am a fool In reality 1" and then he
slopped until Clara bad tied six or seven
knots in her bonnet strings.
"Never mind that, Mr. Page!" inter
posed Aunt Cripps, appearing from the
further side of tho thicket, where she had
stopped, unable to resist her desire to
listen to the result of hor stratagem ;
" Clara and I won't think any the less of
you for being a little foolish. If you wish
to pop the question, just go on, and don't
mind me I'm used to such things."
" Ob, aunt ;" faltered Clara, growing
pale, and leaning her face in ber hands.
"Miss Burnoy," said Mr. Page, earnest
ly, " I have given you the entire devotion
of my heart will you allow me to oflet my
hand also?" .
" Clara, say yes," whispered Mi's. Cripps,
peremptorily ; " don't be ashamed ; who'd
bave thought you sncb a baby ! if you
don't say yes, I'll take Mr. Page myself ;
and frowning with a severity she bad never
before shown to Clara In ber life, she
flounced away. Clara had not seen the
frown, but she had heard the threat,
which appeared to her ao supremely lu
dicrous, even beyond the usual devices of
ber aunt's, imagination, that, in spite of
ber mortification, sbe burst into an irre
pressible fit of laughter.
" I am glad to see you laugh, dear Miss
Burney that is, if you are not laughing at
me" said Mr. Page ; "it seems to be an
assurance that you will listea to me, with
good humor, at least." -
" That you may begin fairly," returned
Clara, "I give you permission to withdraw
your proposal."
" Do you wish me to do so ?" asked Mr.
Page, looking In her face so anxiously,
that abe replied, in great trepidation,
" Come, let us go to the house ;" sbe did
not, however, draw away the band which
be placed in his arm.
" Well, Miss, I hope you have come to
your senses, " said Aunt Cripps, swelling
with dignity, when Clara, all blushes and
confusion, came into her room ; "do you
intend to bave Mr. Page, or are you de
termined to leave him to me ?"
"I have agreed to take him myself,
aunt," replied Clara, not certain that sbe
durst venture to smile. '
" Very well ; I'm glad you've got; over
your nonsense. Mr. Page 'is a man in a
thousand, and I bad no notion that he
should be lost to the family. Now, we'll
have to bo off to-morrow, and begin prepa
rations forthwith. There's no end to the
sewing and trouble when people make up
their minds to get married. And you'll
have to oommence tbe house-keeping part
of your education, which you can do at
once. You couldn't bave abetter time for
it, this being the pickling and preserving
season. To be sure, you won't bave so
much to learn aa if you were getting
another sort of a husband, but, I dare say,
you will like to have nice things yourself
sometimes, and it would be as well to
teach Mr. Page to care a little about them,
just for the sake of appearing well in com
pany. You'd feel queor if he would make
such a blunder at your table as not to
know a haunch of venison from a sirloin of
beef."
The old lady opened the door to go
down stairs, and Clara heard her exclaim,
" Dear me, Mr. Page, do you lodge in that
room ? I didn't know it before ! It's well
you are to be one of tbe family, for you
have no doubt heard plenty of our little
confabs."
A new idea struck Clara, and wheu she
met Mr. Page at the foot of the stairs,
waiting to conduct ber to tho tea-table,
she asked, " Was Aunt Cripps right in her
conjecture just now? and if so, pray con
fess all you have overheard."
"The most important item was a very
original piece of ad vice' '
" Which you have just been persuading
me to follow," added Clara.
" Just so," answered Mr. Page, smiling :
"for by undertaking, for tbe amusement of
tbe moment, a novel experiment, without
a single thought as to how far I durst pre
sume to carry it, I very clearly identified
myself with the respectablo character I at
tempted to personate."
" I should think you must be disappoint
ed in your niece's match, my dear mad
am," said an old friend of Mrs. Cripps,
who met ber, for tho first time, some
months subsequent to Clara's marriage ;
" after knowing your opinions about a bus
band for her, I confess I was surprised to
hear that she bad taken a man of so much
character as Mr. Page."
" Pooh 1 pooh I" said Mrs. Cripps eleva
ting her eyebrows, and lowering hor voice
almost to a whisper. "Mr. Page is the
very man I thought him at first. People
bave got a great idea into tbeir heads of
his wit and wisdom, and it's well enough
he can pass himself off for it but between
you and me, it is not all gold that glitters
if you were at home in their house,
as I always am when I go to see them, and
had a chance to know how he pets his wife,
and lets her have her own way in every
thing, you'd agree with me that if he is not
a fool, be is so much like one that it would
take a wiser poreon than either you or I to
find out tho difference."
And to this day, Mrs. Cripps thinks
Clara owes her good fortune, to having
taken the advice given her, in the first
paragraph of this story.
A Spelling School Lesson.
As tbe season for spelling-schools is ap
proaching, we would suggest the following
lesson. It contains very many words in
which mistakes are likoly to occur :
"Tbe most skilful gaugor I ever knew
wai a maligned cobbler, armed with a
poniard and a ferulo, who drove a pedler's
wagon, uBing a mulloln-stalk as an instru
ment of ooercion.to tyrannize over his pony
shod with calks. lie was a Galilean Sad
duoee, and he bad a pbthisioky catarrh,
diphtheria, . and tbe , bilious intermittent
erysipelas. A certain sibyl, with ( the
sobriquet of " Gypsy," went into ecstasies
of cachinnation at seeing bim measure out
a bushel of peas, taking up two peas at a
time, and trying to separate saccharine to
matoes from a heap of peeled potatoes,
without dyeing or singoing the ignitible
queue which be wore,' or becoming paral
yzed with a hemorrhage. Lifting her eyes
to the ceiling of the cupola of tbe Capitol
to conceal ber unparalleled embarrassment,
making an awkward courtesy, and not
harassing him with mystifylngs, rarefying,
and stupefying innuendoes, she gave him
a couoh, a bouquet of lilies, mignonette,
and fuohsios, a : treatise on mnemonics, a
copy of tho Apocrypha in hieroglyphics,
daguerreotypes of Mendelssohn and Kos
ciusko, a kaleidoscope, a dram-phlal of
ipecaouauha, a tea-spoonful of naphtha,
for deleble purposes, a ferrule for a cane, a
clarionet, some licorice, a surcingle, a cor
nelian of symmetrical proportions, a chro
nometer with a movable balauoe-whoel, a
box of dominoes, and a catechism. The
gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier
and a parishioner of mine, preferring a
woolen surtout (his choice was referable to
a vacillating, occasionally-occurring ldio
syucrasy) wofully uttered this apothegm ;
" Life is checkered ; but schism, . apostasy,
heresy, and villainy shall be punished."
Ibe sibyl apologizingly answered : "There
is a ratable and allegeable difference be
tween a confcrrable ellipsis and a trixylla-
bio diuresis." We replied in trochees, not
impugning her suspicion, nor harauguiug
the audience. Thus "Gypsy" remained
in the ascendant Her ascendency can nev
er again be .queried by any queasy vulgar
quean. , ,
tJT Religion is to live according to the
commandment of God, which la in ac
cordance with the laws of love.
The Hoy's Investment. "
riMIE following stories are told of two
JL Nantucket boys who afterwards be
came famous in their several walks of life.
Both died within a few years, upwards of
80 years of age the one, Capt. Stephen
West, sailing as a whaling captain for
most of the time, and always, except on
his Inst voyage, in the employ of Beth
Russell ifc Sous of New Bedford ; the other,
Jacob Barker, as merchant and banker in
New York and New Orleans, achieving and
losing a colossal fortune, and well known
in this country and Europe for bis sbrewd
noss, energy and capacity. "
Captain West commenoed his career as a
boy on board tbe sloop Speedwell of New
Bedford, and it was while in tbe Speedwell
that Jacob Barker, then 8 years old, came
to him with a ninepence (twelve aud a half
cents) which bo bod had presontod to him,
and said : " Stephen, I wish thee would
invest this money, on thy arrival in Boston,
in somotbing that will pay." Stephen ac
cepted the business, promising to give it
his best attention. On the arrival of the
vessel in Boston he looked about for a prof
itable investment. Going up Long Wharf
he passed a table where an old woman had
exposed for sale in tempting order ber stock
of apples, nuts, and candies. Amongst
this assortment Stephen's attention was at
tracted by the sight of some beautiful sticks
of sugar candy white in tho centre and
entwined with stripes of red in a most
attractive form. It was tbe first of the kind
be bad seen, and be immediately decided
ou a purchase and procured twelve sticks.
On , the arrival of the Spoodwoll at Nan
tucket, Jacob was already on the wharf,
more anxious for tho result of this first ad-
ventuie than aftorwards of the argosies of
wealth that bore tbeir burdens to bis stores.
tho first salutation was,. "Stephen, has
thee purchased anything forme?" The
reply was that he had, but the vessel must
first be secured, the sails handed and the
decks cleared before tbe cargo could be
discharged. Jacob's anxious hands soon
aided in furling the jib and putting every
thing in order, when they " went below"
and Stephen spread before his delighted
eyes the first mercantile investment. Highly
delighted he stepped on the wharf and was
soon surrounded by a dozen boys, with
whom he commenced bis trade, and with
such success that before he bad reached the
store at the head of the wharf be had sold
the whole adventure for 37J cents, realizing
a profit of 200 per cent, making what be
termed " a very good turn of it." This
was tbe first act or turn of business that
this great merchant and financier accom
plished, and not even those very heavy
loans, to which our government in the day
of her financial difficulty was obliged to re
sort to him for aid, gave him so much
pleasure as this first adventure of his boy
hood. ' , '
But tliis adventure would be of slight in
terest had it not a sequel in the lapse of
time. Several years afterwards Mr. Bark
er had become , a confidential clerk to tbe
substantial mercantile house of Isaac Hicks
& Sons, New York. Mr. West arrived in
New York an officer in the ship Brothers,
Captain Thaddeus Waterman, from Liver
pool. While in Liverpool Mr. West bad
laid in an adventure In a lot of beer. On
his arrival iu New York he was mudh
troubled and perplexed for money to pay
the duties, then bigb, and tbe other matters
relating to It. The adventure was in dan
ger of being lost, when he recollected that
bis old friend and schoolmate, Jacob Bark
er, was ' in New , York. Jacob had already
some fame as a clever man for business and
shrewdness. As soon as West could leave
the ship.be sought out Barker at thecount-lug-room
of the Messrs. Hicks, and stated
his perplexities regarding bis Liverpool ad
venture. "Give thyself no uneasiness."
replied' Jacob, "on that business, Stephen.
I will attend to it for thee. Enter tbe beer
at tbe Custom House . I bave plenty of
money by me to pay the duties. I will not
only pay the duties, but attend to the sel
ling of it for thee. Thee only deliver it to
my order when I send one." The next day
the order came and tbe beer was delivered.
In the evening while Mr. West was writing
in the cabin, Jacob came 'on board aud in
formed him that he hod sold the beer ex
cellently well, and in proof opened his
handkerchief and turned out on the cabin
tuble a large sura of solid Coin. The sale
was well done, and muoh beyond West's
expectation ; but, sailor-like, be shoved
back tbe money, saying, "Take your pay
Jacob, aa much as you want" "Not a
oeut, Stephen," was the response, " not a
cent ! ' Does thee remember the sugar
candy?" and with a hearty good shake of
tbe hand they parted. 1
Epitaph.
John Bpollmaa's like will ne'er be fouud ; . -
He dytd tor all tbe country round i , .
Tel bear with patience, Ifyoa can,. , .,,
The base Ingratitude of man
Wben death approached, with aspect grim, ,
Not one of tbtm would die for him s
Bo leaving all his worldly pelf.
Poor John at laat died for himself.
tJT A day or ' so ago the daughter of a
German grocer In Rochester, N. Y-, was
married. Her father, with pride and a spice
of humor, placed a placard in the window,
bearing this device : " This store is olosed
ou account of some fun in tbe family."
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TENANT HOUSE, CARRIAGE HOUSE, NEW
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There are also TWO GOOD APPLE ORCH
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