U U ~i II =1 ill - C. R. REAP co H. H . t • - 4- For the Itidepind4l Republican. THE KNELL. ' .• • - . ' I-.."Wnr dost thou start, - • Proud Allan Wayne?- 'Tis but the toning b - Telling alpud,, ‘• In mournful strain, 7 . - "Annabel sleepa .In death." Again! 4 hark! rand thou Yea the - knell ' - Bow bast thou kept, . Fatse. Allan Warne, . • 'Vows. at•the - allmade, • - When - to thilside • She trustitie came, . Tender and fair f ' O lost one, slain! Annabel. lowly laid! Come to her grace, • I • Proud Allan Wayne ; cOl4, when the,night winds.blo -Still, if there &rig., Thy .heart's devil) pain ; S.tir, if thou dar'st, ".I-hare not aldim • Annabel - • t = Hark l 'tis the sale; • False Allan Wayne, Beating the marble cold; : • . Counting the y hours . • Of weary. . _ Scourge elite heart .1 That limed in • I. ,Lored with a depth untold. , . Dimock, Pa. • E I or the_./Ftirepencrent Rep CHAT. / . . T"• --44;•141arch 19- 1858. . . . _, „„ . i ' _ •Ms.,AptAzttit:—ltrel pleasantest way to facitAariend, is undoubtedly in - propfia per- .104 1 ;ixben you can sit down and have a. co. ' s y chats, • ".Chat" sounds reminirie,-,does it? myl bac 'lop friend: : .Well, call' itlso ; bet allowlt • be friendly-and confid l ential. ,i • lAr A uld asculinle frtetulship be. the worse tor a li tient re confideneeeralittle lesS reseavb chap is - ti ualiy emOtyhc . i. i in its cementing I -A friend , 6 talk it very well ; but a friend 'with *hum yen Mai s b fety chat, asithe little boanets chat togetWC, is an -acquisitiOn. Sel doth aecp iredir the' wearers"of pantaloons. But; w ten a riendship cannot MI enjoyed -in tqle - ..way abo *0 Mentioned and cornmented ' , upcn.,lioi - afire Able ksithe, abi 1i ty tolenvelOie _ one l ls fochseap representative, - and by the magic pas of a three-telit postage stamp, send it-to chat in our stead. • -Esp.-6311Y to this iand tilted with:Wandering Ytittkee4is the ei- . vilizedsideawf Tinst-offtces a-Ldessing, partial ly Destroying the toil6land fuiltings by wliich alrhost every Attierican is-separated fr . om this friinds. , In sentimentlal I omances (f . a pecu2 l liar style, the heroes tind heroines whthn fate liaS cruelly. parted, are supposed! to ' gaze stefastly at some ".bright particular star:: . preciously.agreed•upon, in the, most roman,. tie! manner.. This everting incense ;of azure bine, brown laza, or park black ei-es, is of-,.. fed up for the purpo'se . of obtaining cons Eda -, doh froiri the ideathat the object of their adira z tit.'n is at theatune fluent nz gazing at the a/me:. The ida is - ayery *deal- Ide l -to: be sure ; bet a commcm•sense substitute for; it, i'4, ' teb watch in.the post-offlee the opening! and I die- tribution of the mail, thinking tneanWhile that perhaps, in otherpostictlices, other 4 are do---. • in l g the carne, wattling, tot- your lettrs es-You are watching for theirs: For ordinary mor ..tis, such' a comniuniri ,of heart 4 is more practical and quite as pleasant. Whenamong strango . rs,t he Weleonied • arrival. 'of a brown p:frer. envlope, with , its •tra-Nel-Worn edges lIIA Zorners i ds a refroshing Oijis in'lthe desert oflone g liriess. The dark stainerfleather'or ean . .. vbss mail bag ;allot a 6 beautiful in appear- slice as a carrier pigeon, but vastlymOreeon, N .l .,enient and us;ful.•ilf -it to a large one and -tenor:llly well filled, lw-lio shall say whether • its lock and rusty chain have not e - ,fOsed over :Mine-hopes and fear in. a single 'year • than, Were ever_ folded. under the Wings lof all the . • t ~ ri , ~ rnessenges doves ur uristenuom 't l Any po et in Want-of a theist . mity see one flung out - Upon - the platferm•at l ia - aitroad station froni every mail. train -I.hat passes; Or, in his . search for Sentimeftilism,'hemay ,enter some Of the °relit distributing post elliceS., and, Watch the '- tipsy clerks assorting the ; private thoughts arid feeling of the public; and after '. l ivards_erowdirig -- -Cachleparated heap of joys •and sorrows, loxes and hates, into its apptol - firiate bag, and - sending, it tin-th to cheer .or • desolate the -hearts o l f whom it may concern. - - " But my Alta is gutting rather dry, as' the that' of a single iodiOdual is eery apt to be.. Peaking inelegant' t,. a cross improves'. eon- _ ersatiun raS well as 'own ;'yet di,qinctive pe - . uliarities are only tube preserved by "breed-, i ing in and in," as thA agricultural!papers say. - A - habit of thinking IttEene's-self is the only neatia,of obtaining the' originality and fresh -less Of idea, so •musts to betiesired in conver satitm. Act i n° amount Of *ideas will secure '• to all th_ ability to talk plea4antiv. ' .People differ iii their power i of attraction; as do..the ores .of iron. Sonicipos: cs a" power which, is to tlami as hativelas is magnetism to the . leadstone; - They ai-epolite and etierteous,a,..s naturally' as Site 1(4(1st-one aforesaidiurns one - end towerits thyoi6rtli. - Others again, al though ;I . E!: Mal. Contain as touch of the true u,etal of mindionlY ne - uirti the ability ; 'to be agreeable, as rtifietal ,mecrnetil acquire their ability to pick ( up needles e ,i. by contact f e i r t t lo s th fr e c is i al t r i e le ad ..e v Marks arc intended to IL-general; there may. be, here and there, e x cep tions cases of indi , - viduals who kave:lacquired +cleaner . prop' pe n : a nt 'r r n i:7lfash i • of the re el ' : ectriity—lof nenius. Prebably the. illtis• t:alon is ab e 'cit : tised up, utiles§ we say , that polit r enes.., like polarity, I s is liable -to sadden and c(insid4ralate variations front lo cal Causes. The,dtiturbing influences "are re-, rieus . . 1 None perhaps affect .it .More violent-_ Iv than a broiled chicken at a railrOad i dinw, : which dinner is_to be eaten in fifteen minutes •,: and morneutark.expectation of the starting of the train. A holei in the elbow - of Yonrcuat , . I repels strongly; lkt this is a digiession.- . . 1 , The thoughts of (the solitary'iddividual are . apt to . .move only in the narrow paths which are marked out bA l t the orefereiaees of hisdis- ' .. . position ; .vet these paths are often well den. In conversat ( ion 'his thought ' e corn: "pelled to keep conipany with' the t o . of 'others, and;being led away into regions I '" l tch'l . his mind's eye tutch never seen before, because ' be has nothing to ay, be, sayi nothing.„- In order . „to converse pleasantly, there must be sumecommon grOlnd over swideli • interchatig: ing thought. eau rouge. • If yini'ate address tag a stranger, this region is as yet unexplor ed, and it is often I diffteuluto determine how , at first to prock:edi . . The mutually efichanted . . ground once entered, all is We 11... 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( 1. 7• , 7 .;., ~..• .e., , ., „4: , : 1 7'T.1. , . 7 a • .• .. 4 - 1 ' ti ie:,;.:l-: E - . 1.-. ..de . .... . ..' C ' '. . \ y -' ,144i , 34 -''iii';i .' ' ;i . ,1 I: i,.. :. , .: : , ''. e , t ...:. ..• ..... : . . .... I‘, .• .. .. 4 .' it .., ~, ._........... ... .:i.,...,..,:::„....,,,.:y, - a ..-:1 - .. --:. - . :-. --.-', '- ' -- ' —• ' - II • —,,,. .J..-. • • • "--" "' '' - s.. ' , , ..,:,. .•,...,, . _ . . .-, . . : . . 7 . . •1 ' ; - • • . :- ' , , . . . . , . . ... . , • • ~ . . , Li RAZIER :EbiTbßS*' „ -‘ ss• - limas K6liean. "Come, " balmy Spring! ethereal mildness, come." One night, a Week ago, I went hunting for ' _otters. These animals are said to he addict ed to out late-o' nights for the,Durpose of sliding down hill, which is s way they have of amusing therthelves 'wherever they find a big snow-bunk. Well, 'somebody else and I -had made an -arrangement to watch" an otter hole from which fresh tracks had emanated for several nights in succession. The ap pointed 'evening came, and ,we set forth upon our expedition; guided, by the. dim light of the stars and a cracked lantern. ' After vari ous wanderings in a general 'direction' ever some ploughed land, we came to the woods., through a bleb glides the stream supposed to be frequented by otters. Here an unforeseen • brier-bush nearly put but my eyes and the lantern simultaneously. -At least the lantern went out, and we were sometime finding where it went to. Of all the feelingS which, I ever experienced, - the feeling for that lost 1 lanternin the brier hush was the most 'un i pleasant ; nnii, ..hb..::,1", it -111 Fla it. tha etns.,ll. %V as g, •e. We Veld our hands in front of 1 our fats, where they served the purpose of visors ; --and looking 'through the cracks be tween our fingers, proceeded slowly, with the 1 feitr of brier bushes before' our eyes. In due s_, cssurse of time we arrived at the destination, where we stationed ourselves and The theohole. l - sheltered myself . from The wind behind a hemlock tree, but being compelled to stand a few feet distant, my situation was about . where the winds whickthe tree had divided rattle togemer again. being ;as it were, in the _fi ems of a compound blowpipe, where no . great amount of heat - was generated, however.-- ; lie stood by a cedar bush, and we bottslook- - •ed at the hole, and occasionally looked at, each other. Neither liking to say fir t; that he wanted to go . home, we staid and stood it. After standing a long While, trying to rest myself on one-leg at a time, I'ventured to ob serve, •very carefully,- and in an undertone, for-fear of scaring the otter,.whose emergence we had been expecting for three hours and a I half, "'at it rather- cold l" "By- George, Pm mostfrozen," growled -Livingston, who, 1 by -the way, was the he so mysteriously Men- tioned as standing by a cedar bush s' and he furthermore added, " Stew me, if-this pays." I told hint that I should- have : no objection whatever to being stewed moderately, and mildly- suggested. that, as be felt cold, perhaps -we had better go home. His. unamiable re ply was, " Come on, then, if you. want to. I'm - - ready, and (guess.- you are-too." I consider ed it-as ungrateful after my kindly regard ; but, as he broke through the bushes,-I follow ed him at a distance which prevented his let ting the sticks which he bent,overtly back in my face. . ' Butsaliat has this rigmarole to do *ith the " gentlMpring," and " ethereal mildness'?" Nothing at all, my dear sir ; but if Mr. Thompson, sato worshipped at the shrine of the muses, had stood - behind that hemlock - tree,:. the idea Might have entered his brain, that winter had rather " stolen. a trtitrch" up on him. The foregoing: words are placed be . tweenAtiotation marks, partly to screen my. self - from the imputation of a pun, and partly beciuse somebody must have said so obious a thing before. ~ . Wits.: sideit - gmvet walk wide enough for two, you' will be pretty sure to find it. The great 'dif ficulty is passing the portal. 'Happy is be to whoin some passing incident or thought off ers the latch-string. Yet every atie ought tO have at command an assortment of aktdeton Ickve, the forms of which he can vary at will to Suit the wards - of whatever lock may pre sent itself. Of• the numberless contrivances of this kind, there is no one In more common use or capable of a more extensive and varied application than that muct-abused subject, the weather. Amiable reader, whoever you may he. don't refrain from using it, for fear I of being laughed at. It's only a skeleton, like to which every body 'carries more artless, ~and he who laughs at you has his as well as thereot, perhaps of, his own invention, and perhaps not. ' 'An individual friend of ' Mine, now some thousand or more miles from here, in the unlimited southwestern , portion of thetnited States, and not id all likely ever to see witat I tun about to 'write, was accustom ed to prAkee his temarks, especially those addressed to young ladies, with the invariable vestion, What do y-u find to kill time?" Aet this same individual had the audacity. to sneer, in the presence of some fair young damsel.s, the light of whose ' . countenance we all wished to enjoy, at those who used . the weedier as an introductory subjecteofconver sation. Some three or four of his compan ions,, deterniined to have. revenge for the par tial eclipse •which they had suf3ered -in the bright eyes of th . eir dulcineas, (he did take the shine oflof some of us,) thereafter used - no commencement except his favorite in terrog,ation, which he had hitherto consid ered. net without reason, as bis chief collo quial ornament. The miserable skeleton was, in a single evening., as completely used up as were the wit and wisdom of its owner, who was compelled to retell' to his native ele ment, thd' weather. ' • • • Spz•ah'ing of the• weather at this season brings' to mind BAYARD TAYLOR.—Tbe editor of the Plym outh (Ill.) Locomotive, who was a, printer in the same office where Bayard Taylor "serv ed his time," tells 'the folloWing interesting reminiscence of thi earfi life of the now po eytraveller ' " We had the honor to succeed him in our term: of "Devilship" in - the Village Record 'Office, WeSt.Chester, Chester County, Pa. We well re member the time when he staff t,- ed s out upon his first "tramp." With his atrial' satchel containing a change or two of linen, and with fifty cents in capital. be com menced hill career in life.. Thwapprentices in those days had to carry papers through the country on horseback, and our route was past.his house: We do not know of a single time:: through rain or shine, that Old Mr. Taylor - did not meet us .at the end. of the lane with a happy smile,. wishing us a good day, and as we would hand him the. weekly Record, he would remark "a fair exchange is no robbery," filling one .side of our saddle bags with nice apples and grapes. He was a member of the Society of Friends; with his arm and family around him, he was 'a happy' man indeed. He used to inqiiire anxiously of Bayard, and said he liked to ramble too much; he was not steady enough." Little he knew.tben that his son Bayard, the print er's apprentibe, would be one day qtintsd as, the greatest traveling lasuiciaii that **rim could boast of."• „ • d r a.rinig.qopit,-[mc) *..l__:&.ltß,-V:„.'lA. r - 4 • ' Pursuing a Wid . - tinder ,. Difficulties. The (fireyruil, (0. 'Journal, spins. the fob r lowing yarn, which, however faulty in its facts, is readable as a romance. The editor was pronipted to " rpetuate" it, by observ: Ing in a Pittsburg4aper. the marriage an nouneetr4nt of aemiple whoformerly resided in flucyrvs. The yrn is reeled off in this fashion i I , Twelv ' yeats eg the bride wits' a yOung lady of wenty, ti daughter of a wealthy literal= ;in Washi , fan, Pa. In her father's employ - air et . yoif g man named 'Robert —, who, the path lady being bewitching : ly beauti uLas in d' rte hound, fell_desperate ly in lov with hcr.i. - She reciprocated . the at taehment,and they ere betrothes. Unfortu ' nately, the lady's fit her' entered his protest against. this •;plea,siirit arrangement, and ac ' cordingli. the young people put off' the happy day indepnitely. About a year afterisirds she received a most tempting proposal, which urged 4 her lathed she accepted,' and to the eternal despair of poo r Robert, was married. But alas for the p bridegtoom ! Scarcely three months had e apsed when - ri kick from a vicioulthorse kill him. • Robert consoled the wido l , and de ' rmined at the end of a -year or ao to tnarrher. He had too much respect ter her to es his suitlmmediately, did not for fift en months, when he and 'il pro posed. rro his hor or, she informed him that she was Weedy ed ed, and that in three months incire her s cond marriage would be consummated. T o years passed. hi the meantime the wiBcolv and her husband had re. moved th Syracuse" N. Y., and Robert, pos sessed b some strngehallueination,l'ollow ed them That s on' he cholera swept that ei, 'city, and, among its victims Was the second husband; Robertllod a year to pass, and wan on the _poi t of' Urging his claims, when - he received i invitation to her wed ding ! She was to e married to her late hug band' q rtner. , bert remonstrated: The t i i `'.-- e.: lady ass red him hat her present step was not one Of love, b t , purely of necessity.-, The partnership a irs pf her late lamented, 4 , were ifi such' a state that settlement was ire possible;.tinkto- sa*eitnmense losses -she had determined upon imarrying the - surviving partner.;, She assu led him, also, that her serf timents !towards m were unchanged, and. Ilea shohld she ev r become a widow again, 'she woChl give hi :the pref e recte.. She was marriedi and in a hort time removed with her third huabandte Detroit..hdiehigan. But a fatali4 seemejl I to. pursue her. Herself and husband were on board a steamer that was wrecked nea r Bufflilo, some years since. The husband peri ed, and she escaped only through the super uman exertions . of a friend who happened to eon board. This friend Was young , unma ied„ and his gallantry in spired such sentir ents in the breast of the widow, !pat she arried him before Robert had ti m e to claim- er. When he learned the il state oflaffairs .he was• somewhat indignant, but she ; told • him t e eircumptanceviand man. Well uisiiit s ttlq . ) , .Uli w aits Lam ra i ~,,, :43 16.84 II ever File became vildowed again, she would most pOsitively Itrry' him. The lady with her fousth husban , settled upon a farm near Bucyruii,, while Robert removed to Mansfield that he Imight beear her. In the course of li a year :they rem red to Pittsburgh, where rho busliaria wentl nto the mercantile business lon Liberty street r -residing, however ! in Al -1 leghimy city. 'fpert followed them, and 1 finding lemploymnt, determined to watch I the chabees close y: One slav he was pass-, ing thel store of Mr. --- %lien he saw ~a rerribirrecimmoth'n. Ru:hing in; he saw Mr. —, a manaled. rpse upon the floor'. A bask of rice whic was being hoisted, had fal len and killed hi instantly. He inquired t, if any one had b n sent to.aequaint his wife of the accident. es. the first clerk just start ed. Looking on e more, at poor Mr. —, to make sure that 'he wrui perfectly dead, Rob ert started for A eghany as fast as his legs could carry him, The first clerk was only a trifle ahead of litm. and Robert, knowing the irlortance of being in time, from past ex peril nce, and faring that .the clerk had illde signs Opon' the w . ow, ran like afi,lndian. Side by side they ran, imtil they reaphed the Hand street Bri , ge. The clerk-Was obliged to stori, :o maki3.ehange, while . Robert who i t paid toll by the 'ear passed wi(hinit delay. He reached the- ouse, told the heart-rending news, and obtain d a solemn pledge from the wido* before th clerk arrived. Triis time she wlis true' to, er/promise,and after a year had pii.ssed, they } were married. As all her husbands died w, filthy, Robert is very com fortably fixed., . 1 !is history shows what per severance will -a omplish. 1 . Tns RELIGIO. time in the c names of some ( early idays, and price,:, from ih taphs that with tirtues of not the smallest Christian humil cies ! 1 Superstition to longer 'deifies the dead, but affection an elizes them. ,For my part, I tlu9k if I w e bedaubed and bedizened 1 with one of the awdry epitaphs I have some. time i seen in a untry churchyard, it would be e ough to ke me get up in the - night andteh it ' L There was our old ac quai. tanee, far er Vee'aey's fat wife, who re tiem semlca (as so e onerNaid of her like) " a fillet ot *I real lion castors;' decked out in a li suit ', f virtuesw hich might not have misbe come a seraph Several - others of cur tie quaiatanees I a nd were such wives, moth ers, peighbors, friends ; so charitable, gen ii Ile; forgiving Surely the 1 parson in our time must Iwo) bad an easy time of it, an abso ute since, with such a flock. Itlii really - Ma to see so much wickedness above grciund,ttind so much goodness under it. AM if they could -but 'change places, what a pleasworld it would be! Or rath e er, perha ps, world to say, " Who can wonder that 'much iniqUity, is left among the 'living, whEln truth cart loads of all the cardinal and other virtues, tire thus yearly 'shoveled into the earth by the undertaker 1" Any way, ho ever, it is a pleasant thing to -see )our old f4i ende improved by keeping, and' looking' tier in . their winding sheets thee ever thedid . in silks or satins.— Grey sot? Letters: . 1 That 4as a wise nigger, who, in speak: ing lof the hapiuess of married people said, " Da r ar penal; sltogedder bow day enjoy ' detiselves, 1 , ONTROSE, 11111. OF EPITAPIIB.--I spent some ri•hyard, spelling out the :f the old inhabitants of our with 'pleased stir (as usual), truthful epi :y of them were decntated . !•hich, while they : lived, I bad` suspicion • so artfully had y conceal ed their excellen r Aas: : 4.y,-.8..PR1L 1, 1858. 1 ` sON "e . I ____ 11' 1558711 M INS. 1 1, . , ' Is thou hest crushed a 80. or, . The root ;may not be bli ; hted, . If thou.bast iluench'd a lamp, Once more it may be lined ; 1 But,on;thylhatp, or on th lute, 1 The strip g which thou hest brpen, Shall never{ in sweet senglagain. Otte to thy . touch a token. If then , haai loos'd a bird, 1 ; I . ':.' Whose voice of song could cheer thee, Still, stilthe may be iron - Prom the skies to wart e near thee; • But if upon the troubled ea ; ii Thou halt thrown age unheeded, Rope not that wind or wa l es shill"bring The treasure back when needed. If thou.hasi. bruised a vii, The summer ' s breath l healitig. • And Its cltister yet may glow t . ThrOugh the leaves their bloom revealing; But if thou hest a cup o'etthrown , - With a bright draught Oli'd=ohi 'Myer Shall earth give back tha laviah'd wealth To cool thy parch'd lip a fever. The heart Is like that. cup, If thou Waste thelove a bore thee; And like that jewel gone, , ' Which the deep will npt resters thee ; And like that string of harp or lute Whence the sweet sound is seamed; Gently, Ohl gently touch the chords, • go soon forever shatter'dl ~ Fawn Life Illustrated. JOHN WHITE AND WEAN BLACK. (ANOTHER SENSAiION ST4RY.) BY C. EICISSIIRS, :111. CHAPTER L -PRELIMINARY We know a good stork .. It is true. All the incidents' happened !very much as we shall relate. - The moral is uneiceptionable. It is about John White,nd Susan Black. - " CHAPTER 11.--rRI3AD IT. John White was raised on a rough, rocky farm in the State of ConOecticut. .:Susan, dit, to. Sohn knew soniething about hard work . . So did Susan. John had a mechanical genius.' Susan had not._ A neighbo? 'of John's, hay: ing emigrated to a smart. manufacturing. vil lage in the State of New York, wrote to John that he would give hint twenty dollars a month. John went. CHAPTER 114-14ARVELOVA - - - John saved his wagesq His employer en gaged in merehandise, and put John into the store. In process of time Mr. Smith (for such was the name bysilliiebsJohn's employ. er was known) went tc} the West. John bought'him out. J9hn White became a mer chant on his own . account.. He, was reported, to be worth four or - five thousand dollars. I CRAFTER IV . THE GIRLS. There were young ladies in those days.— And beautiful, dashing !da . nisels they were, too. Of sdine half•a-dozien; It was hard to tell Which was the belie of 11: and town. Certain f it 101 was' that 0 strove to outdand outshine plishmentss and - pariiedlar blandishments.— They all sang sweetly, danced gracefully, read novels tearfully, played the piancif y prettily, and traded at John's store.. "Mr: White," for thus he was addresSed by the ladies afore said, waited on them , personaflx. His clerk could never exphiiit the goods satisfactorily. John was all ,pohtenesS. His very nature was to please hisstiAtomel , s; Therein he -found his advantage. cUAPTER r.-rtnr. VISIT. John Wiiite bad occasion to visit the land of his nativity: it was known all through the village, tliatlie wasito be absent for a few days: On 'the evening: preceding his depar ture he was tendered a lcomplimentary pasty. He accepted. -All the iladiea who had dis tinguished themselves ;as his most faithful and persevering custorners were present.— They were dressed splendidly. - They put on their sweetest smiles.- They were positively charming to behold. John . felt as happy as a man can feel and ltv. • eHAPTER Vi.H-TIIE RETURN. John was, absent )114 three . days. Hive turned accompanied With a young lady.— Good help was scarce; and it was known that his boarding-house keeper was,. greatly in need of a trusty and industrious servant.— John's companion was evidently not Irish: Perhaps she was a si4ter, or cousin, or some plain farmer's daughter 'who had come on a visit. John and his companion had not been very long in the store before he was ccingrat ulated on his safe rOurn by neatly all the marriageable female* of the place. He re ceived them most graciously,. Indeed, he looked so happy that each supposed, when he so cordially grasped her hand (as his manner was,) thathe was surely in love now, if nev er before. John did mean" - something; •no doubt. CIIAPTSIt CA.TASTtiOPIIE. • So soon as order wa s restored, John pre sented his companin. "Shall I have the pleasure to introduce to these good ladies, my friend=she that was Miss Susan Black, now Mrs. Whiter' Some folks looked thun derstruck. All soon retired, With as little noise and confusion 1 - as could have been .ex pected under the ejOumstances. C,EIAPTEit Vlll.----711Z-I.7PROAR. Hard things 47ze said of John for the space of three weaks. The whole village was scandalized. It, was a living shame for John to throw himelf away.. It was a dis• grape to all the neople to bring such a" no `better than she 'sbduld _be" 'into the place, when there was so !Many, twice as accomp lished and four times as well dressed, and who could be had, for the asking, c, CHAPTER IX.L—.Trne VIEWER UP. Disappointment lurks in many a prize.— What can't be card must be endured. It is of no use to cry r spilled milk. Though John's wife was n t handsome, - she was, in the language ' f S , omon, the wise man, " a good thing," ' John and his wile lived happi ly together, and prospered in their business. And it was not many months after their marriage when the very same ladies who were so indignant at John's'choice, and who had even called John's wife a "whitewashed blackbird," became very frequent visitors at her ticnise. Certain it is that not one of them ever decl Mr tion, wb the most . But it is a radiant, sunny spirit, which knows how to bear-little trials, and .to enjoy little comforts - , and which- thus extracts happiness from every incident of life, rivet the ;Qty The Autoorat of the Bre DY DR. W HO SIN has many tools, but dle which fits them all. - -I think, ,Sir,---said dent, —you must intend tha sayings of the Seven Wise you -were speaking of the oil I thank you, my young f reply,but I must say S 4 than that, before 1 could .prt the number. —The schoolmistress how many . of these sayings record, and what, and by sir 2 --Why, let us see,—th, Benjamin. ranklin, "the after whom /his lad was nami he said a great many wise don't fe — ti sure he didn't speaks as if it were old. 131 ft so neatly ! "He that has once done, will be more - ready to do yt he whom you yourself have Then there is that gloriot adox, uttered by my friend, i ono of his flashing moments! "Give us the luxuries of dispense with its necessarie- To these must certain! other saying of One of the "Good Americans, when Paris:" divinity student this, but said nothing. he schoolmistress spoke didn't think the wit meant It was only another way of a heavenly place after New A jaunty-looking person with the young fellow they j dently a stranger,—said tin wise man's saying that he I about our place, but he said it.A civil cariosity the company to hear the f I beard him distinctly young fellow who 'broug Shall .1 To which Go ahead!--Well, he said' I heard :" Boston State-House is he hub of the so lar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston Man, if you had th tire of all crea tion straightened out fora crow bar." Sir,----said am gra „bed with your re mark. It expresses with pleasing vivacity that which I have semetit es heard uttered with malignant: dulness. The satire of the remark is essentially,true f Boston,—find.of all other eonsiderable—hn in - considerable= places with which I have - • d the privilege of being acquainted.. Cockn;ys : think London is the only plaep in the iv rid. Frenchmen —von remember the line about Paris, the Court, the World, dtc.---4 recollect well, by ,it which ran thus Nowt tj,, rirettes.w et d • • - Ct.*. trr4e y" as Paris is the 'universe t a Frenchman, of Course the United States .re outs,ide of it.— "See Naples and then die "—lt is quite as. had with smaller 1 have been about, lecturing,'you know, -arid are found the fol lowing propositions to held . true of all of them. 1. The axis of the cart' through the,centre of cad city. 2. ff more than fifty since its foundation, it is 1 by the inhabitants the (whatever its nn be). 3. Every collection of comes togetherto listen t 'variably declared to be a ligent audience 4. The climate of the .1 favorable to longevity. s.lt'contains several . p -ent littlo knowtr tSP Lim of them,- you may perhap bet., sent short pieces t. some time since, which we Oined.") Boston is just like othe —only, perhaps, consid. fish-market, paid fire-de monthly publications, a spelling the Egg,lish lansu ,to look down on the mol you, though, if you wan the real offence of Boston water shed of its intellee .be drained. If it would first-rate men, instead o (no offence to the well-k which we are always pr spared such_ epigramma. which the gentleman has never be_ a real - metropo until the:biggest centre ones of their talent and served, by the way, that ally live in two great citi so jealous of each other,, ler cities situated within sin, or suction-range, of pretensions of any of why 1 Because - their thor and rising lawyer have been drained off t city,—their prettiest gi to the same market; all there, and all their comes froilk there. I 111 cities. ___ ---- Would 1 be so any particular example Did you ever see. Well, tihouldn't'you li• foot intn one? With • est consideration I mu: med. Besides, some of t charming. If they hay a few stately mansions here and there an old and story projecting, ( shooting-the Indians k door with their tomtit! scattered about, those built something more t and standing like archi ped by the former dil 'refluent 'wave has left , 1 if they have garden. trees that push their b board fence and drop wa)k,—if they have a streets, enough to bet claiming decays-4 thi. after my life's work 11 high' sta- Many of have both . MMM VIE* " =MG= those tranquil places,. as,. sweetly s it s any cradle that an old man may be rocker, to sleep in: I .visit such Spots always,with in finite delight, My friend, tie Poet, *ays, that 'rapidly growing -towns are most . lunts vor able to the imaginative and reflective fac ulties.. Let a nian litre in one of these quiet places, he Says, and the wine of his soul, which is kipt thick and turbid b.r the rattle'of busy streets. and; as,you bold . t up, you may see the sun through it by. trix and the stars by night. —,Po' I think that the little vii have the conceit of the great toins believe there 'is much difference. You critic Monthly, ut Table. 2E! lie is the han- he divinity stn . for one of the Men of Boston er day. iend,---was my ;, , rnething better end to fill oh anted to know 'there were oil am said. • how they read . Popes line in the, s town in our State of Massachusetts 4-- they read it [ re is that one of eat Bostonian," d. 'To be sure, , things—and I orrow;'this,—he t then he.applied —Everyperson's feelings have a front door and a side door by which they in y be entered. The front sleor is on the str.et.— Some keep it always open; some k p it latched ; some, locked ; some, bolted; with a chain that will- let you peep :in, but n.t get in ; and some nail it up, so that notion can pass its threshold. • This front dour leads into a-passage which leads into an ante °ran, andlhis into the interior apartments. The 1 vou a kindness ;il another than lobliked." ~, 1.1. epicoyean par. I.the historian, in side. door opens at once into the sacred bans bets. . . There is almost always at least one ey i to this side door. This is carried for years hid den in a mother's 'bosom. Fathers, broths era, sisters; and triends, often, but hy no means so universally, have duplicatesi of it. The wedding ring conveys a right to one ;—• alas, if none is given with it ! . . If nature or accident has put one ofi these keys into (he hands-of 'a persou who hr .the torturing instinct, I can only, soleinnl pro honnce the words that Justice utters over its doomed victim,- The Lord have meow on your soul! You will probably go mad With in a reasonable time,—ce, if you are man, run off and die with your head on a curb stone, in Melbourne Or San Franeise ,—or, if you are a woman, quarrel and Brea your heart, or turn into a pale, - jointed petri action that moves about as if it were alive, o play i i some real life:tragedy or other. , - ' . Be very careful to whom you trust no of these keys of the side door.. The fact 13t uos• sassing one renders those even who , are dear to you very terrible at times. You Can keep the world out from your front door, lor.,re - - mire visitors only when, you ari,rey for then ; but those of your own flesh-an blond, 1 or of,certain grades of intimacy, can come in at the side door, if they • will, at an/ hour and in any -mood. Some of them have a scale of, your whole nervous system, and eau play, all the gamut of your sensibilties -id semitones,—tooching the nakitl ncrs pulps as a pianist strikes the kers'. of his . instrus masters of this nerve-playing as Vieu. temps . or Thalberg in their lines of performnee.— . Married life is the school in which - tbe most accomplished Artists in this depart'nt are nl , 'sena. A delicate woman is fire bes instru ment ; she In magnificent such a masstificent con pass of sensibilities! -From the deep ta,war moan which follows pressure - On the great nerves of right, to the sharp cry • as the filarn i 6nts of taste are struck with a crashing sweep, is a range which no other instrOment pdssesses.- A few exercises on it daily at home lt a man wonderfully for his habitual labors. and re, keel] him immensely ,as he returns fioin them. No stranger can get a gres, many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it wellasrent,child, brother, sister, intimate; Be very careful to % whom you give a side door key ;' too many hale them al-ready. ~,,,,,'- . . . . —You remember the old story ,of the tender-hearted man, who ptaeed-a frozen .vi per in his bosom, and was stung by t 'when it became thawed ? 11 we take a aid -blood-. t: ea creature into our bosom, better li shoOld sting usand we should AL. e,6... it.. 4 A- _L - j r should slowly stem into ournearts I -arm tt iro nos - or min t r have seen faces of women that were fair to look upon, yet en could seethat the icielet-were forming rou d these women's hearts. I knew what freling im age lay `tin the white breasts beneath the lacesi , . 1. - A very simple inkllectual Anecha ism an swers the necessities of friendship, 'arid even of the most intimate relations of li C. :If a watch tells us the law and the mirute, we can be:content to - carrs it about wit? us for a life-time, though it has no second hand, and is not a repeater, nor a musical oath,—oho' it is not enamelled nor jewslled.-4 abort, though it has little bbyond the wheels requir ed- fur ktrustworthy instrument. ad ed to a facegood fa and a pair of useful han s. .The i i more wheels there are in a watchlror -- A brain, the more trouble they are to takif i Cire ilf. The Movements-of exaltation • winei belong t to the genius are egoistic brthetr very na ture. A calm, clear kind, tfot subject to the, spasms arid crises thatsare so often inet with in ensatiise or intenselyperceptis'e at uressfis} the best basis for love . or friends ip.—Oh- 1 ,„ serve, lam talking about mindit.: I won't say, the more intellect, the less es ' city for - loving ; for that would do wrong t -the un derstanding and reason ;—but, on . the other hand, that the brain often runs \ a 'ay With the heart's best:brood, which gives the World j i a few, pages of wisdom or sentime t orpoet ry, instead of making one other •Ii art happy,- 1 I have to question. ,: i . . • If one's intimate in love or frie tisihip can not or does not •share all one's Intellectual tastes or pursuits, that is a small.l matter:— Intellectual companions can he ' 4 . i and easily in men and books: s After all, if •e think of i i it, most of the world's loves and riendships have been betwein people that co Id not read nor spell. ~ W . But to radiate the beat of the ar •to a clod-,- which absorbs all thetl into it, but ,never warms heneat shine of smiles, or the pressure of ife.,and we . will be added that ttiest of men they die, go to looked grave at out, and said she any irreverence. saying, -Paris is York or Boston. vho had come in call John,--evi re was One more railcard; it was iidtet know who. I as manifested by iurth wise saying. ‘hisperinw to the k , i t him to dinner, the answer wal, this was what sticks out visibly and every town or ', - ears - have passed . 'ffeedonately styled l iood old town of" e may happen to • is inhabitants that a stranger is in remarkably Intel- ace is particularly rsi ef b a n e n s : , ° , *l p t e Ci v e r is t e o o m rt n e a t : n :::- e "respectfully de- places of jts size; ing its excellent artment, superior d .correct habit of . e,it has some right of cities. Pll tell to know it,'what is It drains a large ; and will not itself uil) send away its its second-rate ones, own excelitioas, of ud,) we should be is . remarks as that quoted: There can ) is in this • country, r a p drain the; lesser ealth.-1 have ob. the people . who Iv es are by .no means as are those of mat ,' the intellectual ba ne large onei, of- the r. Don't you see remising young ,au. nd large capitalist - the neighboring big his - been *lifted their ambition points n gilding OP.-glory to little- toad-eating [good as:to spetify 2-oh,—an example! ear-trap ? Never ? I e to See me ,put my !entiments2of the high t beg leave to be ex- 1 . e smaller cities are an old church or two, of former grandees; welling-with the sec or the convenience of ockine, at the front wks,) - 7 — if they have, • ~ ighty square houses . 1 • n half a century ago, ectural boulders drop wium of wealth, whose em as its monument,i 1 with elbowed apple ! .neffes over the high 1 sir fruit on the, side 4 little , grass in the side ken quiet without pro . k I could go to pieces, ere - done,, in one of , • - Hn;r "dA are- but porta of one stupendous Hot 1" '- 1 -this is the great martyrdom beings,—rnoat . of all in that per da fa. where young Womanhnottki, flee. _ S. FIRE-ARMS FOR I s m IS Orleans 4. • paper says that semovetnentits fuet for ladies in that city, to arm .• thern elves, with light little'pistols, for j)roteetion against in t sult. They had better"depend, o the' Dutch ess of_Devonshire'a .yeapon—=the light of their eyes. _ r. 47 "-Itlyiiheer, do vpu-kn ice call our limy Hans - " DOn9t, really."' "Weil,l will tell' you: D call ourboy Row, it bis na MOM 'LOOK OUT TOR. fratitaltGii Some years ago; the manager of w el l" regulated \ theater somewhere along titellne ' of the Erie Canal, engaged a . good•loOking and brick young lady. as -asuperntlaterary. It happened that the voung lady in - iptesti,m, had formerlyoffibiatZd in some rapacity as a "hand". on board s :veinal, boat, a &let which she was?, extremely anxious to , conceal. She , evinced] much anxietito master the details of her newly chosen profession, and soon Lexhihp ited a more than ordinary degree of comic talent. I She was duly promoted, pndla:tiine becanie a general favorite with both manager . and public: , ' 'One night she was announced to appur in a favorite part; ibd a couple of boatmen fonnd their way into, the pit,. near the footllghte, particularly anxious to see the new inmate. dienne. l'he house was - Crowded, Ansi 'Aft the subsidence of the geutrataripleiuite which greeted her appearance, one _of • the boatmen slapped his companion on the shoulder, and With an emphatic expletive,' exclaimed, loud \ enough' to be heard over the house: on't I now lied I" ell, " Bill, I know that gal !" • .• , " Pshaw !" said Bill. " " dry - up. " Its,Sal fluk ins, as sure as, -you'io ,bora, She's old Yiu daughter-dna °used to mu the Injured Polly;' and she used to sail with him.',' • , "Tom," said Bill, you're a fool, and. if you don't stop your infernal clack, you'll set put out.. Sal Flukinsl xOl% know'. a sight if you think that's her."- • . 'Dom was silenced but not convinced. He watched the actress in all her frictions vv4lii intene interest, and ere lotighbroke .out. again : " I tell . ye, :ill, ...11. You can't fool me—l know•her too well . Bill, who was a good itral?interested iu the play, - was out of all patience at this persistent interruption on. the part - of Tom. He gave ' him a. tremendous nudge in, the ribs with his elbow, as an emphatic hint to keep quiet. Tom, without mingling the" admonition, • said, " You just, wait, fix her—keep your ' eye on her." ; Sure enough he did. fix het. • Watching his opportunity when .the actress waa deeply absorbed in her part, he, song out'ui . 2 voice 'And rung through the galleries : •. • "Low Bridge!" . From -force of habit the actress` Instantly and involuntarily ducked her head • to Avisid the anticipated collision.. Diiwn cattle 'the louse - with• a peifect thunder of applause at this palpable hit, high above which iTom's voice could be heard, as he.•retotned Bill's punch in the ribs with interest:, " Didn't 'sell ye, old boy ? • I knew 'twat her. You canifool me." • • . WINTEit, MID ,SPRING An old man• was sitting in :his lodge, by the side , of a frozen. stream. It was the close. Of winter, and his fire was almost out. Na appeafect very ofd •and very desolate. His locks were white with age, and -he trembled in every joint. Day after day pissed in sol itude, and he he and nothing but the sounds of the tempest,. sweeping before it the nave. fallen snow. ' , •One day, as his fire was just dying, ahand some young man approached, and entered his dwelling. His cheeks were red with the blood of youth, his eyes sparkled , with ani mation, and a Smile played upon his lips.— He walked with a light and quick step. :His forehead was bound with a wreath of Sweat ~•rass, in place of a warrior's frontlet, and he carried a bunch of flowers in his hand. "Akin-y son," said the old - man, "1 happy to see you. Contain. Come, telt me of your adventures,, and what "stranize lands you have been to see. Let us pass the woo together. tell yotrof my prowess and exploitsond what I can perform. Yots shall do the same, and xs.jrillitmulti ourselves." wrought antique pipe, an.l baiting fiitedit . with tobacco, rendered mild by an admixture of certain leaves, handed it to his guest.— When this ceremony was concluded, they be-, gan to speak. "I blow my breath," said the old. mass, - , " and the streams stand , still. The water becomes stiff and hard as clear stone." • ".1 bienthe s " said the youngf:man, " and flowers sprin up all over the - plains." • ".I shake my locks," rettirted•theo)d man, " and sitter . coVeri the land. The leaves s fitll from the tries at my command, and my breath blows them away. Ttlic,,btrds - get \ pp, from tineafer, and fly to . a distant land: l —; The animals hide themselves from my breath,. • and the very - ground becomes as ,hard M. Bing 4: lA ake my ringlets." rejoined the yoUng 1 1 / 4. man, " ‘.id warm - showers, of soft' rain fall ;upOn the earth. . The plants lift up -their heads tni of 'the . earth, like the eyes 'of iebild-- , i ren glistening with delight. My voice reCalle . • thie:birds. • The warmth of -my 'breath nit.. hicks ,the streams. Maisie Ms the groves wherever I walk, and all nature rejOines." . ..ktlength the sun began to rise: A gentle warmth came over the place: \The tongue of 1 the old.'man berame-silent. The robin and bluebird hegan- to sing . ow the top - of the ledge. The stream began to murmur liy•thb. door,. and the fragrance ot growing hell* and flower. came softly on the vernal breeze. paylight fully revealed to the young man. the character of his entertainer. - • „When jai , looked upon him he had the visage of rebtoan,. [Winter.] Btreanis began tit float fr,tro: his eyes. - 'As thesun inereased. he • grew le4 and less in stature, and-anon had:tteltedCOM -pletely away. Nothing remained on the place-of his kidge-fire but the miskodeed,4 small white flower wit t• i . ,:.-ttlere;r-Ifen ry B. Schooleraft. . ?, . . . ~' • . , cations in IMPROPRIETY Or SPEECII.--We otletShear persons speak of 'en use,' union , '.etc.. A.; properly Might they say, 'an yeaf. l .-- When u at the - beginning of .a. word has the sound of yoo, we niu,t.trest it:tp_ &consonant, (lr and use a instead of an b o e it.. So in the word one, the yowel lurund t ;preceded By the , consonant sound of `is, as if t P'e'ru wiisn" --- and we might as property - y- ,' an wonier" as say such ..'en one.' Before weir& coir k = mencing with A Pilent i cry must be used; ini 'am hour," an behest. man,' etc. * Befine words commencing with_h aspkratedL we- nee g; as' a hope," at high hill,',' a humble cot,' Oa Do, We aspirate the Ain Atirr.bfa - Yee: 50 say •Webster and the most:modern an thoritiefs.—Sarpmei Selloolitiitathk. . • . I is poured h the sun `hand or lip, If sensitive etual auto the sacri- ! , 21=1 • tar On 's young child bah* told - Alia . hi most be broken of a bad habit, hSaptiallY " Papa, hadn't t better be jietidetir reason we e." E • r;'• •-- 1123 ••• - • e ' ' ft , ` 4! -- • ;;•.; 7 • - ";!,• -4,,P4.5;•,_ ISEI WNW Bill, that's her-,--h4ew IP, i liall
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