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B, &B, B. CHASE, PROPRI
Pre o _dr IPga,
rthe Democrat.
Theanaker Land,
I lore the old mountains, _
I lore the bright rills,
The ppspringing fountains
That gush from the hills,
Where oft in my childhood,
I sported in glee,
forest ai4 wildwood,
Young happy and free.
I thought not of sadness,
I dreamed not of grief,
Rat Visions of gladness
In smiling relief,
Rang over my yillow,
Enchlining each thought, •
For troubles wild billow
No lesson had taught.
A Spirit enchanted
With scenery grand,
Where Nature had planted
' A fair Quaker land.
Deauteons is Prairie land
Laden with flowers,
• Fertile her meadows grand -
Sunny her bowers.
Majestic the mountains,
That tower in pride,
Where the bright fountains
Rosh forth to the tides, -
Where giant oaks quiver,
In the storm crashing, -
And swift rolling river
Onward is dashing. ' •
Bet nobler the mountains
Where stately elms stand,
And brighter the fountains
Of our Quaker land.
I cherish the sages
Teat sleep in her tomb,
Whose glory for ages
The world shall illume ; •
The column. of granite
Despeaketh their fame,
The zephyrs that fan it,
Their virtues proclaim, r
Italias sweet maidens,
Circassian proud. fair,
With praises.o'er-laden
•
Can never compare,\
With Qnakerand beauties
As agile as awn,
That haste to their duties
At gashing of dawn;
Their laugh gay and airy _
Floats over the lea;
Their forms blithe and fairy.
As wood-nymphs can be, -
Ontrival the maidens
With ringlets of gold,
That glitters in Scotia
The land of the bold, -
And when I grow weary
Of this mortal coil," ,
And death dark and dreary
Shall free me from toil
Departed my spirit,
To meet with its God, '
0, may inherit • -
A grave 'Death its sod
Where cool zephyrs lightly
Shall waft sweet perfume
And gay sun-beams brightly
Shall play O'er my tori Th.
ord University. , EcLestrstis.
The Tolloaing are foes composed on the
death of llrs. Betsey J. Dimock wife of Eldr.
anis Dimcck, by a young lady.
Thou art gone to thy rest and we would not
Recall thee, ,
To suffer on earth again sorrow and pain;;
I or :re know that our loss though We deeply,.
deplore thee,
1 onto thy spirit unspeakable gain. • - -*
ou art gone to thy rest and thy warfare is
ended,
, y conflicts with suffering andain now fare oer '
rom storm cloud and ware 8314 anchored
in heaven
y bark shall be tossed with earth's tempest
no more.
•
' b: long was thy journey full lonesome and
weary . _
And oft
bl thy meek spirit was bpwed by the
Mast
Rut lily path through ilee vally led upward`to
, d the crown that is fadeless was thine at
thelast. •
on aft gone from his 814 who must. ever
lore thee" • •
it ew deep 17 there's none butthe stricken may
know, -
o • •
or ezi is the lot of the red here and lonely •
nward through life's dreary desert they go
.ou art gone to that !World where the man.
tight ne'er tedith, •
ere flowers limier wither arta moons never
wane,
hero hope's that on earth by chill frost ear
ly blighted,
• hall bloom in parental brightnees again.
.on art gone and thy children oh:deeply
-they monm thee,
1 11 :at would not recall thee from, heaven Above
Of they know that thy dwelling is - now With
the 'ds,
light a of hia pr
lore: osence whine) itnidom 10
ADA.
re * Nottuj
ft; eseeptuiten g~ to do as he .
ho pleases to do right.
..
'Alway s /things pay yotli tenneules"
l atrespette to 104.4 •
TORS , ;
==M
The Main Law,-
lir , if"—
[Both our readers who favor, 4,,,d thosovho
oppose, the Maine Law, may find perhaps
something in the foilaiving, skOottLthat" wilt
profit Ed.'F'ost.) - -
'That or anything—any-law—ttranny—des.
potism—anything to , kiiep men , (min ruining
themselves, and making beggars of their wives
and outcasts of their children!'
So spoke a young man amidgroup who
were earnestly discussing.thq Law,'
as certain restrictive lignor vie:lsm-es—or
I rather anti-liquor meapures are rin t aea,tr ion i
the state where they were:dist enacted, --His
excited manner dashing - eyes sholv'ed.that he
felt all that ho said. He was - indeed a suffer
er---a sufferer, from a father's habits,of intox
ication. - He keenly felt the disgr(tio to tvhichl
he was inevitably, but still unjustly subject.—
Ho had nearly or quite lost his 4ffection for
is erring parent=for both his parents,indeed.
For while the . errors of one grieved, the cora:
plaints of tho other 'wearied hini. As'had
scarce patience to endure hisyounger brothers
and sisters. - !
Misrule and no rule made bedlam of the
Drunkaid's Home. As ho declaiined, he felt
a gentle touch upon his shoulder, iinti looking
up, perceived that it was an old Frjend—ono
of the people called Quakers—wbbiwished to
draw his attention: As the old gentleman .was
a Friend in a double sense—personally as well
as by sectarian designation, Andrew Wallace ,
left tho company in! which he was standing,
and walked away with tho Soaker:.
'ls thee Tato ri,ght, Andrew, 'in making
thyself quite so free on a, sore subject! Did
thee never think - that perhaps it might draw
too much attention to thy poor father's weak.
ness
Weakness—the Old man is—''
• Honor thy father and thy mother, An
drew, that thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'
'Honor, how can I honor' such ; a person,
friend Hoopes?' I
Rebuke not anelder, but entreat him as a
father. Now, John Wallace is not only an el.'
der as touching theel but he Is thy father lit-1
orally. Iles thee
,entreated him r
'A thousand tineesi friend Hoopes, y thou
sand times! And' is !not my mother's life a
whole' life of entreaty?! Wo have begged and
implored him—reasoned and argued with him
—threatened, pleadednd promised. But it
does' no good. He will lot sober a week
at a time—he never considers the comfort 'of
his family, and but for ale-they would want
the necessaries—not to say the comforts of
life. So Igo 4with all', my might for a law
which shall prevent valtures from growing
rich upon our own.j witchedness. , I am for
the Maine'Law, and nothing short of it!'
' And I, too, am a frind of the ,Ifaine Law.
And if everybody wouldsupport and maintain
it, there would be' none of the so ow in the
world Which flows from man's inn inh umanity
man. But while we are waiting for the law
givers,
given, can't thetkdo something thyself for thy
father!' - I !
have done—all—t
'Not all, Andrew. Will thee let me;show
thee! Where' is thy tether. to-night?'
'ln some drinking house.'
i
In which drinking house, Andrew ? Come,
thee should know something ortliyfather's
haunts and habits!, for it might be of benefit
to him.' Does thee Stooks tobacco, Andrei.!'
'What has that; to do With friend
Hoopes?'
'Never thee tnitid, Andrew, but answer
what I ask thee. Does thee smoke tobaccO 1'
I Well I do, then.":. •
Don't thee be short And surly An i lr e w.L.
I I know thy father does, for those who drink
always smoke. ! Don't answer !me. I don't
say that ' those who smoke always drink, tho'
oftentimes the leiser fault does proddco the,
greater. But Ain going' to give . thee some.
Beflere
Andrew_ was puzzled as to what his eeecn.
friend could aiming at. Friend Hoopes
took him into a large store,and while Andrew
stood wondering 'what alicould mean that he
saw, the Quaker bright & small but very com
plete and somewhat heaiy assortment of gro
eeries. - He borrowed of the Shopheoper a bas:-
ket to pick thent4n. r- '
4 Shall I send them!' naked the grocer.
'No; . this young man will 'call for , :them,
presently. Has thee good segaisr 7 -
Tile grocer • pointed.to his stock, and Friend
Hoopes selected a i handful, et - tandem, ye sue
[pect for he was „no judge - alba article;
' 'Come, Andrew, he said and they Walked
forth, the young man still eery =much:of a
17 4 141 q 4 : 211 °n• `; 410 W., Andrott'!, hero - aro thy
Began, Light one. Here, boy, said the Qua
ker, beckoning up a-little pocket edition 'of
uninhood, in wheel month a 'agar stuek, like
the handle of 'Does not smokift,r
make thee sick toy, lad!' - •
Well, it tion'tcold Hess '
Come, now, my son, I see the Weed does
not improve thy : EMU:WM Daes.tkoo know
when thee hegan to.smoke tebeieOrt'
-The boY drewlaik, inclined to harbor some
slight suspicion that tct ought to be isluoned
el Wane% and Pritietod that he Wes not go
ing to lleinade Dune of. - •
4
Well, well, rtiy lad, toe my friend here or
thy the, tor he stnokes, toc? i - -
ADdrew seas kat1140564 irefuae io have
anything -to d 9., with the Segine x tor c ould',
-not imagine [What trap Friend: Hoopes seas
peparor for iNm; Bet tilp quaker inshited;l
, I
t
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and rfteid the leklaugh of the boy's compan
ion's,.the seprwalighted, and the Quaker
and his friend:went their way.
'Thee knows,. ;Andrew, when :thy 'father
could find him, I • suppose.'•
. • Well--I am now going home, for , 'Rebeces,
• • .
will wonder what has becomo of me, this even
ing. - And she will 'wondespore at my fumi
gation, foil do believe .ttie smoke: from
,thy
segar, and the young smoker's, has permeated
through the texture of my habiliments, even
to my linen. Never mind, „
Andrew! I Can
ebidO'cven tobacco.snieke, 'in a - . good cause.—
Go thee to thyfather, and say to him, 'rather,
will thee take a weed?: for. that is . what the
flash peoplo,call it; Ilierceivoin,thO papers.
Thy father will take it , witheuta doubt. Then
they wilt be on terms, andAhee will say,
' , Father help me home with •a basket?' Thy
father will go , with thee. Take the groceries
home, and if thy father and mother suppose
then has bought them, ,nover heed their
mis
take. To.iorrow return , tho empty basket,
[ and let me seet bee; Andrew, in a day or two,
and wo wit talk more of the Maine Law.'
Andrew•would have questioned or debated
'the point, but the - old Friend was gone. His
pride rebelled at the gift of groceries, but as
he suspected his shrewd friond had a purpose
ander it, he decided to. carry out the surrges
tion of the Quaker. All happened as Friend
Hoope; had 'predicted. John Wallace Was
surprised to see his son enter the bar-room,
whero.ho sat—his nightly custom. lie WAS
angry, for he expected unkind Words, and a
scene. i But when Andrew offered him a segar,
he took it ivithout hesitation, judging from
this coMineneement_that his son did not in
tend to shame him before his boon compan
ions. ;
, I haVern basket to take 'home, father, will
you hap Mei'
The father - rose without a word, and as they
poised- ont, Andrew, who began to discern
somethink, of the:spirit and purpose of the
thing; made a casual remark or two, which the
father pleasantly - answered. And as they took
the basket home, the father ventured.= asser
tien-which was not quite the'truth, nor all a
lie, to wit:-that ho thought they wanted
some things' at home, and was , going to get
them to-morrow.
When they reached home, Mrs. Wallace
was suiprised and pleased, but was too wise
to say anything . to betray the unexpectedness
of the provision made for the family. • She
busied herself in packing away the contents (il"'
the basket; ; , and father and son smoked their
sitars in coinfort,:•while--the little- - Wallaces
climbed round them:M:ld admired the spiral
wreaths of vapor 'as they, ascended. Now,
Mrs. Wallace did not like'smoke—but shesaid
nothing. 0: 'sober husband and a - kind son
could atone for a much greater inconvenience
than even this. The news of i the . day—the
relative strength of &Ott and Pierce,tho Fish.
ery question,,the 'French Dictatorship, and all I
other current topics; camelinder revicW, and
I broth Son - and; wife - wondered how much gene
ral inforamtion and shrewd observation John
Wallace had hitherto reserved for the benefit I
of beer...sato - ens and tap:too:to. All retired
quietly and cheerfully at an early hour ; and
;Mrs. Wallace enjoyed the first- undisturbed
and quiet:Sleep, for mane a.month.
Li the Morning John 'Wallace awoke, as
usual 'with a parched thioat aid a furred
iongue. Helms surprised td . find his wife up
before Lira. He 'dressed himielf with' - the
trembling hands,of the hibitual drinker; Who
hairiot yet talMn his morriingpotation to stay
his nerves, and ho stole down the stairs, in
tending to slip out for his draught, and return
befere ho was "missed. But as he descended,
savory smells saluted his nose, s and ho - hearda
hissing fry im tho' hitched The door stood
open, and his watchful vifo ll stopped
` 4 Come John: she said; idOo't do out before
breakfast. iiidt ready, and . will lola by
He - could not persist in his`pnipose ; but sat
down at once tot - hearty breakfast, - nicely
Served, a Cuppr tyke of Well reado coffedwash.
ing down comfertabla inbitaitlals, and mill- -
Vened - wittr - the' eheerful- conversation; of his
1 wife and son, steadied his - fierrei,andetrength.
s ped his hands; fie:wondered that ha had so
well succeeded without a morning dram; No
ono said a word, direct' or indirect, upon' lig.
nor, - or the 11rtuor law;';; m* father, and son
toek their hata,and s walked air far as:their Ways
lay together, to their daily , labot: When they
separated; Andrew was - -o f . thought and
hops; and not a r little WoOder at the wisdom
of his.quaker adviser:- fie. raw the' drift and
intention °fall that heliad ieeonnoended, and
neede4 :go' hint •to ent*olli the1)10 n'hiCh
Friend IlOclperi - had suggeiled.
_
It walla long forenoon... Anfrew was iii the
habit of taking 4 a bite,' as it is teimedijmile
,
lone internal between a:•irieehatue'.s` 'early.
break* and his Atnner lei it
this dajii heyevia!bers4 hii father . And itis
well that lie' The dettion- cir6llol2llBBl
.
[impatient of ;the disapiwintment °Utile morn;
bag, Waiyal: furious clamor against Yobs
hands
abstinence. - The Oer man's
hands shook, and - he -, could With ;liiiilaihy
place theta upon =his tools. His )letul, was
eoqused, and .his: mind Wandired,. Ile was
faint *a:44 8 4 8 00s 61 . 1 .. ma began . !'e ParleY
with resolution , when:lol*w dolled hint. , 4
the.window, -.-?... - I }:
L
i Come ; rather; with tne a serAn4 r , _ •
:_' , Here'siheri I kat li'LlicitiLfurth along,
forinoons,', sa id ho' as they !Sn;erad ritatape,
Mee eatinZ / o i l2ll s , ' - ,'
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MONTROS
, TA., THURSDAY, DECEM.RE
glasses, while Andrew ordered coffee for_two:
This with • some slight flied, not' enough' to
spoil their dinners, steadied - John - Wallace i e
nerves again, and ho returned to his labor,
cheerful though not exeited--aMnor qUito
stronp•perlmp's for the asoment r as he would
hare been,- had_ho taken his usual unhealthy
stlinidus. Thus tho day passed. The dinner
Was eaten with a pleasant relish,---the eien
lag was spent at home; - •
• ' -
Andrew in a few daye sought his hone,st
Quaker friend again.
,• '
- Well,' Andrew,' said- Friend-, Hoopes,
'what does thee think of the Maine L2IIV,
now?'.
Oh, I hair() been so busy that I have no
thought of it at all; ' .
Indeed theo'has,'my" lad,' said the quaker,
after he had listened to Andrew's narrative of
of his proceedings. - 'Thee has heen thihking,
of the Maine Late all the lime. ' But what
does thee particularly wish to say to 7 day?.'
'Father is getting very uneasy.
ho miist.ge.down to-night to that - old haunt
of his.' .
Well, Andrew, thee most go with him.'
•' Ho don't want me. Ho says- he trill be
: home earlyand not 'drink'
Ho wilt drink, Andrew, if he goes without
ithee. But I should hake no hopes 'at all of
Ihim, if he did not feel an obligation to go to
Ithe place.'
Andrew made no reply, but looked Mu our.
rise. :0
Can't .thee' guess, Androwl Thy fither,
would be glad' tolorget the place foreer—
hut ho owes a'small'auta there, -witheut any
doubt.' ...
• •• I
'Anil what shhll I do,Then
Give hini the mone
hot himself—and go 'w
'What, pay the Pick
rished
s us so long! I
And thee diet root
Theo helps him to mak
drew. A debt is n deb,
conscience. Let him b
the hold of the tempt°.
think linw .thy father
knows that spirit•von'
familiars, are every day
only keeps out of the
his reekoningP •
There ts force in wh
'There is truth, Andr
rice. Has thee money
'Not mach.
. .
,-_ 'Take thisond . paykneit, thy' leisure. - - Now
don't make a noise, - and 'lsipltitter l ' arid Parade.
Thee cannot afford.to h -a, - violent reformer,
just yet; and when thee n afford it, thee will :
have learned that gentl ess izi'strongcr than
violence; arid sunshine bro-vcitierful . than
tempeSt. - - Has thee' any of I those ..segars
I I
/ leftr .. • . . 1 1 1 . 1 I: •.
~. - •' - '
Andrew* smiled.
.'I thought so.- - 11! se much.the better.
• , -
Thee can go
,down wt ' thy father to-night,
and call. for .segars. Then 'thee can read' :a
handbill, or anything, to turn thy back while
I thy father quie fly :_paya his score. The land.
lord will press:him - tO l drink, butl
he won'tdo
ik—and he must not,..Afairew-not even atiass
of porter'. -. And then :- never need enter the
pace
a ° M.'
I - '.," - ' - - . - • .. .- -
• Oricemore'Androir ollowed I the wise old
1
, Friend's advice,:and•th ,- event. proved - him as
)
shrewd and .Polite as ha was 'kind. - The debt
was settled. The drink was refused. The
tavern-keeper - was' quietly rebuked inn - the act,
and could nothnindiufni - the honor and - integ
rity of his former - customer. Nor could he
refrain from ficiping that his reform might be
permanent. - We may mention in'Parenthesis
that this little affair, drove one .rinn-selhir out
of the - business.: He felt ashamed' to pursue
a trade which ruined' his patfonand moved
- . . . recover
hissuccessful- - efforts . of ' a son - ; to recover
hie Cattier, hairenouneed the_eiilltrafic. -- But
to return to mil' story. ' -"' -I I - -
.'.,--
.. `. Ina fewWeekemere, Andrew-called , .an
the-Quaker to - .refund the inoncy. leaned, and
also the price Of the basket of- diciceifes.: - . • - ':-
. ,
' And how is thy father now, Andrew'
'He continues perfeatly sober, thanks lo
yo:nr wise advido. - •
And .whOt dins lino think of the .Maine
_
taw, now. . ' /
I hava not titougliit at all:
'Oh, but thee is mistaken—as I said before.
,The "Maine of Chris
litianity as regards man end man, Is Written not
M.the statues of the State Of Maine, but in the
New covenant or Testaineit—and I felt a
concern to teach it too' thee, Andrew, When I
heard thee talking so loudilid to so little Pur
pose, that evening thee knew& It is written
in the hook .of.Mathew;' and was spoken by
the 'greet Law giver 'of: tho 'NOW Testament:
fThereforo all things Whatsoever that ye syciuld ,
that - mei should de tO 'you, ye even so to
them, for this is* Tas LAW l' - Nowthis' my
Main.Lattr and thew sees -will - -not petition
the-Legislature anything' 'shout it, - And then
has been acting neder it, Andrew. Just per-
severe, and thy father ' will slionfali into the ,
spirit - .al it, as Well 'as thy Mother: And if thy
father chance tostumble, - as he may,d e n,l for.
get the Main Zuw,'hit keep It in prec.
Parewo4 'Andre and return •to no
whothWer Wee But stop one
moment. If thee!Al, thee can Titt'ignokina,
and ab'iiatvtiiy. fath er
.
aid have' tolerated it only , foilhe'e;Pediency
lii•l' l3l 4 fa'agaPisiC.h .43 Maht*Lava;
Would - thee liki'lNi_inOhtit: -- pol fllBtEitlf 1 . 0 1
iiitfOkay*Ve#l'
100, for a .rnotnent,
.at the condition 'Of' a
7
. . .
majorityof tito:,wities of respectable farmers,
:aye, and ' of men of all other ,classes in your
own County; ',Whit are the,"duties, which, by
general conieat ? devolvdupon them?
. What do you' sir, and jo u, expect of the la.
dy who presides per your household? Did
you over consider for a moment, bow many
and, various and 'cimstant are her cares and
trials?,
, --Yon are, perhaps, an amateur farmer; you
have, like ja true-and. thriving Yankee, built a I
large 'and 'elegant liousel--Ziot so much because
you need it, as because•yeur neighbors live
fiue houses.'And,besides, you are a growing
man irithe world, and have been Representa
tive,to tho Legislature, and aro I;able go
Congress, or bo,F4aident of the Cnited States.
There is no knoivin,g what may not befal you,
and it is well to keep up appearances Yn the
world, and be ready for-any honors that may
be thrust upon you.
You have
,a largo family of childreh, mid,
they aro all to be educated, and of course have
no time to work. Your boys -must be fitted
for college, and your girls must be teughtmu
siepand French, and drawing, besides the com
mon branches of learning. Your Alcife is ex
pected to see, that Your elegant house and fur
niture aro kept in cirder-that tho ehildren,are
kept neat and orderly,at all times. You have a
fancy for Dovon-and Ayrshire and Short-horn
cows, and perhaps exhibit thJm at the Annual
Fair, and your tvifoi must take interest enoughin your affairs to lohk well to the dairY.
You have, a great propensity to Clear up
swamps, and build stone walls, and improve
your farm, and you kitehen, is filled With hir
ed' men, and nobody but your wife knows what
to get for breakfast; dinner or supper fir them
or the family.
to pay it, if ho hes it
h him, when ho'does
ockot 'who has impov
' can't recover the do-
Then, you are a generous, hospitabldS ort of
fellow,-and often inVito ypur friends franc oth
er towns, whom you' happen to meet, home to
dine, and your wife is relied un,to do the thing
up handsomely, for the credit of the establish
ment; and, although.the three young,eat chil
dren have just had the whooping cough, and
have ItePt her :ftwakt; half the nights' for ihe.l
last month,!the amiable lady is expected-to ap
pear at the table, diessed like the wife of a
gentlem'an, as blatfd!nsa moonbeam, and play
the agreeable tcl your guests, with the same
matronly grace, as it she bad paised the whole
morning, over her beoks andmusii,
You expect 'to - see your - breakfast upon the
table punctually at the hour, mid the children
,er thy father, unless
ain his integrity,-An
. and it preys on his
quits with Satan, and
will bo lossed. Just
must feel, when he
r, :and his impi, and
ying that thy father
y to cheat him out of
t you say.'
w. Now take my ad
' washed and . neatlf dised in their, places, at
the table. Yen expect to see ilie.,tablelhand
somely, laid, and the food properly cooked and
served up - . Yew 'expect the geed lady , to be
ready and at leisure; at all times, morning and
evening, to reeeiie Oails of friendship or cere
mony/And especiallitheseof your ou , n friends.
You expect to find your wardrobe always in
perfect order, with n:ri button or loOp'or string
wissitig.,'lf'a child is ill, there is nobody but
the tnother'to swatch
, over it by night or by
day, and the •depieS;ing, never-ceasing, solici
tude, and exhausting ()times due from a moth
er to her infant, earf i bo delegated to na other.,
In short, sir, yen expect your - with to be at
the same time coos and chambermaid, lady
and serving girl, ;Milo - and seatnpstreis_ and
governess, leundresS and daryrimid.
At length you see,.with a sad heart, that her
eye is losing its lustre—that her form is be-
Oriming daily more frail—that the elasticity of
her spirits is :gone, and at last the _thought,
tho sickening; crushing thought is forced uponl
you; that'she, whose youthful image, radiant
with health, and Imppiness; - has never passed
from-your heart—she; who alone has remain
ed to yea true and donstaiit, through sickness
and health,,in trials' and. presperity—she, tiro
mOther of your children, who has long been
about yeti and your Pleasant honsehold, like a
good angel,' doing,all kind °dices for 'you .and
your loved f ones=she:who'. is more =to you
than all the world.beilde---ntay ale.
And - noiv, perhaps', an effort - is made to re
lieve her,and changes dreeffected in the house
hold arrangemend housekeepers and ser
yenta' are Procured; the daughters - ere. called
on to aid in the domestie affairs ; and'tho grand
schemes'.of, linprovement tire
,stispolided, and
no cotiMatfils'invited, llut'it is all in vain.
The hectieflush is on her cheek, and sorrow
and fearful fdrebodirigs sadden every heart.
Fora.time, almost like a pure spirit from
the feats of blise,sbe.klidee about from robm
to . room, still watchfUl for the comfort of oth.
ors, and forgetful of cl!f:
, .
.But, I will not attOmpt to all up the picture,
mid - trace the sure decay of strength sad' bean
ty iftul life , by' slow consumption.' 'At length
"there is rest itiHeaien." • ,
800 I exaggerated the trials of a Now Eng
land wife? S wish it were true: that no 0130 of
'us could call to'inind an original,,. from Which,
ray picture Oght Intio been drawn I . I Wish
it were true no one If It's 'Were conscious of
past thoughtfulness, or arweasonahle exactions,
by Which as -undue portion' of life's: - burdens 1
fume been ufitin.the Ise* least able to bear
Washing day is a day in the calentier to be
retnembered—n day phew woman reigns en-
Prer o o!`rnrins in.more, eevesibtiaPP:day
which furnishes an"eitonse for cola - Coffee an 4 a
Pirfred frP dinner — a #y-,7lfea Avery ,'Wetliad,
claims as part of heittirarogatlve,, .to wear her
hair lay/VA 411' :tinpistoind even "Kick . the
wee stools - ow the'irilekle;" - ifillie feels in the'
852.
Women in ., the Coventry.
!-. nos MR. , . RENEWS , ADDRESS.
_•
-i':..,WASIIINg:PAY,
humor,—.a day, when .the i good' man of the
house is brought fully' to appreOato his own
littiendis, to feel that he is but a grasshopper
in the sight Oen); Woman,.armed with a mop
or waterpail. : - ..
. . .
And 'this noted and jtMlly.eelebrated day
, , ,
cornprises'one.serenth of a trian's life, and" he
who has reached his granil clhriactOic,has liv.
ed through nine whole years . orwashing.days
' - 21 consideration as terrific to the YOung
h'ouseholder i as itis consolatory to thoSe in old
ago, who believe that the trials of this World
are to be deducted from the 'discipline of the
From the importance of this subject, inVolv
ing as it does, one-seVenth• of all our earthly
happiness, ono would suppose that philoso
hers and stateamen; lnyiug aside their Other
/cheines for the amelioration of man's cendi:
tion, would • haVe devoted themselves exclu
sively to the abolition ;or mitigation - of mail
ing
days. • '
nut the world has gone On," as Dickens
has remarked, "and revolv'ed round the sun,
and turned on its own axis, and had lunar in-
Iluennes;Onit various games of that -sort," and
washing; days have come and gone, and tho hu
man Mai has, rather increased than lesSened
in !limbers,. and men have ,ettled down upon
the idea that the trials of that dreadful day,
like the existence of sin on earth, are to be .l
reckoned among - the inscrutable dispensations
of Piovidence, to be p ttiently endured, with
such courage as wo can put on for the occa
sion.
•
To be sure; like old father Adam, in the.
garden, men areprone to oh4rge this evil, like
all others; upon the woman, and I propose, - by
way of illustrating my subject, to bring the
question directly before the appointed tribunal,
- whetherthe worst trials of Washing, - day, like
Most others of clothe:Stic life,• are not fairly
chargeable upon the want of proper attention
and foresight on the part of themen..
• And leharge'upon our prisoner, in the firSt
place i that he,,and the large class whom herd
..
rfrepresents, : haVe - net Made suitable arrange_ ,
ments for the convenient supply ofthe two es
sentials:of househeePing.:•-zrood and ziritcr,..
Your wood-house; sir , i 6 not near,enoUgh to
your kitchen. Your Wife is obliged Obi out
of doors . in Sdrumer . and ; Winter, : to . reach it
•:--perhaps to iri) down - a - flight of steps; and
bring :her wood up. "'Often she'fifids-to - dry
fuel:6l,Siiitablo kind cut and apt it for itse;and
you would be ashamed to haVe it known, how
Many times•aheilfaa - talmit thoaxc.imlur own
hands to Matto 4:tory - mil-
. negligenee:
, Add - then - the - water-awe - have - Olt seen it
again again f and - you:cannot deny it. ;In
stead-of Itiving4 , _eisteru,olaoft water,. with
p in your .Ivasb -LOOM, Or_ -aqueduct
leading into-yeurhonse, you , have,..'vear::after
year; 'depended on:a 111011 of hard water, - jive
,
rods 011 With h: 'we osi - that leans hard to the
East; arida sweeploAded with old cart- - boxes . ;
litiOne - ond;aridia - erciohediole:and leaky buck
'et at the other;:nnd fhe girl> Whotn . you took
yonugand blooming from her home, and.vow..
ed eheriah;goes, there,- day after
day; , and;year after year,' and 'draws water for
het. : : :
Andagain, what sort of a :cash-boiler does
she use? .
~Is It nicely. set in ,brick-work, in a
convenient-place for use: or does sljc hang a
big kettle on - a . - crane,• half-the length of the
house from her wash-bench, or is she,,for want
of a bettor,. compelled to use a half-sized-tin
boiler on the cook atove.in dog-days I
- And where is be clothes-line? ' Ilave you
'provided, in some sunny spot, sholtered from
the winds, one of the rotary frames lately in
troduced, on which the whole wash may -be
hung by ;a woimm,lp a feW moments, without
,moving her basket, or have you some corivex
nient out-building, where the lino may be kept
always stretched, without being slagkened by
[the weather? -,
' No' suCh thing, sir. In the first place, the
line is not half 'long enough, for % yell , never
have retnrned the piece you borrowed to do
up your hroken wagon shaft,' and you never
paid IMF 1 attention to the' oft-repeated, quiet
suggestion, that things were not, -,exactly• con
venient for drying the clothes, end so the fe
males of your household; after working in a
_ifot rooni over hot
_wetter,.-half the day,. must'
find a plitce to dry Their clothes as best :they'
.can. And we all know how it is done, for we
see - it every Afonday of ourv
lieh t
The line is first tied, telhe old !veil post. .
is then carried, to a post -in the garden. fence,
next,n hing stretch is made to the, old ste:eel .
appleiree, and a turn taken round one of its
principal limbs, , -,then round the; latch ."of .the,
wood.house doer, and, lastly : back to the well
pest, - forining an irregular: parallelogram, with'
thO.longest sidei supported by -the long-han.
died Pitchfork tmd the rake r borrowed 'from
' thebarn for the occasion!.
And now, what- says the accused to, our
chargttli It will avail nothing to_ set up Rev:
erly in his defence, for do haslbeen truly said,.
to hava - ,Ptr.t.tau Tam!' ann. ratisto NE:num—,
"no ntan,is so poor as'to be obliged
his pig trough atrtfte fr9llt,goor,". and we may D r : a :pm e niht, h, 14, 1 4Thiiet * :vit,. 41,47
add, no Mania too poor to split his; own Ore- covered'n method whereby cattle;
wood:and bringthe.wator,to'wash teeth ever.expeseAniry4is maybe
succpsafal
And a 4 he may as Weil ol* gitilty,' and . 0ug'0,3,11 p. I.;
save onr , jury. ihe trouble egr a verdict, the topth,are removed to make itapfatre4
;henceforth, we will,chaiti a fair'pi"florAialf at• that the nerve.iliaxpoSed:'. 7 Tho flag is ttleq ,
the iriala of WashMg day.uPon the neglect to perforated thio n gh. the into: the . Demi
provide the hest pessibie'cOriveniences for per 4- cavity.7.:-.The opening'should bp of about tha
f o rmai #bat ts at.bost dialigraalla Office - eke of-st sinarli knitting ieedie-;:ita,..ohject
Inn - •- • - - to open the blood van* of the verro, - wn
at once lifikneicntby the - tlow'Of vie
I.4itt*Al.Vo l tured ,1 k? mode Plot : rt. -blood. - - The nivitYorthethokinay. V le4 v l 4:r'
thig iihtit: s t,deetur*t.nlir 'a ,abject filled tkielezAt.fe* of pin or ill'oorti'
ou9 go' - buty and-4re.worn-lfkif sectenieit:. This pktuaktuttrilw
Nein E wi land tom. utc. tko tb ia tij a4,_ titem an oomd ber, of neute.. Bll
Those: edtddit~
blir * 44 7k i° ! 11°4 ' hPailY: l3 P.9i 14filleiittd:ptemortt tali* -
• -
' '
votumrix- -
the wives of • our fanners as_ ito constitute'
Meat objection to the deice of asirieultirn:aik
a . businesi3,‘with any conaldpritq man; result*
as we hare seen, In part frorolthe want of set t ::
rants; or , reliable help: This 'difficulty euiseig,
le4itimately ; froM principles ;Of - ogind . cty l
linherent in tlio Constitution' a, Our Ginressi t
men t, and whiekwe should !fat Ira. tOchtinigo i
But this is by no means the whole secret of . '
the trentle. Faust"!
. 1 / 9 09: 9 45
which 'allusion has already biFri . 11 :al), -
others may readily be named:
r Men.
SY Dii l 4. DIMPU23; I
1
We never
_
..,,,.. yet saw a genuinely luishful nut,
who iwas not the soul of honor.: Though such
may blush and, stimmer,and shrug theirshoil t
tiers nwkivardly, tumble to thilov forth, will{
ease, tho thoughts
,that they 'weuid, expeas,,
yet ,commend them to is for friends: ' .
7f4ere are fine touches - in theii'cliariteteink
that, imp will inellewand bring out'; percep, ,
Lion' as - delicate as the faintest tint Is, to 114
unto ding rose; and their thoughts are, nom%
the I is refined and beautiful that tbay do not,
flow'
Eii
with the impetuosity' of, the sintilow
siren lot.' -
1 Vtio are astonished that - such men are not,
appriated; that ladies with really good hest?*
and Cultivated intellects, will rewsrd the pall , hint BirAlustachio Brainless with Smiles NA'
attea l tions, - because 'he can fold a shawk
graccifully, and bandy compliments with Am,'
islan'lelegance, while they will not condescenk
Ito lo; upon the worthiesiman Who feels lon
them' a reverence so great ths , every mate
&nor is worship. ' • ' -
- The roan who is ba?ltfal in the Presence ,qt
ladie.4, - 1:s their defender whet, ; the loose tongue,'
of th 4 slanderer Weuld define them; it is not,
he wlo boasts of cenquest or dares to talk
glibly i of failings that thust alone, in liis imig t . . ,
inatioh ;. his cheek will flush with resentment ' ,
his oilti,thish with angetc a . t.,:lear Al name of!'
women coupled with a.co.irso oath and yet het'
who mould dhr to defend•them, is least honor;
ed bylthe majority of our sox."
Wiy) ever heard of a baahful libertine,! 'Tina
anomaly was never. seen.- Ease and elegancq,
are -bls requisites; upon hie lips sit flattery;
ready), to play ,evert:sliko to blue .
_fixes and
1 Ilack;:-, ho is never ionPlnasedi he never blush.,
es. 'Per a glanceihe is in. raptures; for, a,
wordie would professedly, lay, down his life ; "-.
Yet i is be who fills on?' vile city dons with
:sreckS of female purity; it is he who pro,
farms 'the holy name of mOthei; i desolates this
1
shrine where domestin happineis is, throned;
inies.th;;:teurt that,:trusts' in - him; pelluisq
,
the verY'air. ,he breathes, - and rill under thq
mask of a polished gentleman. ,
Ladies, a werd in your , ear: have you Inv,
lers, and wouldyou possess a worthy husband!
Choosci hiin whose delicacy .of department i
whose' sense (Spar worth, leads him to stand,
aloof, ‘vhile others crowd around you. If hq
blushes, stammers even ht yOrkapli4ell, eon ; '
Isider-thern So many sig,ns of exalted opinion, of
,
your sea.: It hejs' retiring and modest, let noi
a thousand fortunis weigh hi* - dovitt in' the
balance, 'for", depend upon -A, , with.lite YOur
life will be happier trith - povertY, titan with
many another surrounded by the splendor:olt
paltteee'.-0/ire Branch.- . ' '-.. : [
Aaccoori or RamaSoN.-=Hisl fellow villa ;
gent relate,.with wide - eyes, that he IMO II hap ,
manuscript book, in which :holucessantly rch
cords the ends of_thouihti;bite Of,observatiok
and experieice, and "facts of ali kinclar'4 kin 4
of intellectual and ' scientific" ya4- i blig, 1141:
whiei all shreds and renmants v of eolwersatioA „
and reminiscences of i waysido ioyeries are an,
continently thrust. • This work goes on, they,
aver, day and night; and when' ho travels, the.
ragbag .travels too; end groi4 more plethorio -
with each mile of the jouilMy. "Awl a sfory' t
which Will one daY be a:tradition, is perpetuay .
t er " in , tho l villige. that;iino,nigfit, before hill •
wife had become ccimpletely accustotoedto Wig
habits, She e a woke' suddenly, and hearing him
groping - about theloom; anxiously— T ,
‘• MY Pa ‘linwen I f _ '
_ , • . - •
"No, my love, only nn idea:=7,llontes of dig
Doan LAST--ftatturs,—A.coffeepot! : :-
dont of the - Cleveland Heraldclainis tho
to he
_
solver, of tho great probloin'of, ' , squaring tliq ; -
circleP, which has erac,64, so many brains fin:
ring three,or four' , thousand years, and isul
beep stunibliug block to the greatest math*:
Iniatkdatis:okibo - world. ' Thnluippy: 'goidue*
panto Theodore Faber; and be , cleans hi,
note_4o . clia. Herald,4Pd / 40 .f7.' 5 ih;4842, Wigt= ` -
the following announcement and challenge':-.r, • ,
"The diameter is, contained in the circuintbi l
snec, Oiactly, and'. '13445.37
,111sthes
inaticiani anireipeOttitllkinviied prove tipt
contrary.". ilern's a. OtMco , for the ppntrt
cyphers:7,-; , '
nun a