Ocqrat:, A:..'cpt..4,t.,e;-:._,v4!4isr.-;
Stitct Vzetrg.
iruz ILITTLE 'MADE
'There his touching sweetness in the following
lines, which were originally published in the ,
Chotchmiiot:froui..tho pcnof an anonymous con
tributer : • s
She kneit Iter . down en meekly,
Belieiing none was nigh,
Clasped her little hand . e so sweetlY,
And, then, with upturned eyes--
. . .
Father! please to bless uie,i
• Through rill the long, long cloy,'
And keep ine all so safely, •
Till come agnin'to pray.' .
She simply asked fergiveness
For evil she had done,.
Then said,' Now Pm forgiven,
Through Christ, Gocrs,own dear Sod .
She prayed for loved ones near her,
-For friends..both far and wide;
Said 11 , want thee, God, to bless ihern,
And all the world beside.',
j 4tiltalttnits'.-
Irrvy-n•rr? •
tl.ttatS IDI
Or Wasnaia's Trials and Triumphs."
_ . tAlfttl. J. CUST.W.".
Tug afternoon and :evening - ,.session% of the
Convention passed ofl qnietly;;to the ievident
satisfaction; of all its friends. In the evening,
particularly - , the andienee Was move than or
dinarily large.and brilliant, and the speakers
unusually eloquent. _ • -
The assembly•dispersed . goodhu
mOr- and after 'the crowd had' somewlint 'scat
\ -'
tered, Christine, - . vit : ll her friends, left the
As.thek walkec i l down the pass—
age- that led to Broadway; a liaggar;l;wretch
cd-looking, woman approached Christine,
with the . inquitY - if this. Was Christine Elli Ct.
Christine replied that she wa'S . c6rrect, and,
drawing out her purse, was about to slip a
coin in her hand, but the weunin :shook her
head. -
, . •
Not that' she said, in a h4.;110w 50 - ice ;' I
,
am. Bent to you by one whom Once 'you loved,.
who is dying now, but who cannot, die in
,'. ieace without seeing 5,-otr 4 . For 4 theAove. of.
Heaven. go with me l' . . . i.. • -.
Christine shuddered. That hollOw, sepal
. •chral voice. seemed. almost like a message
from the dead. - . . ,
..- 4 . Who wishes to see me r she a.s t rA, trent-
Iliney. -.- . -•- • . -
.- • y
-. . ' 1 have delivered my message,' replied the
woman. Will you go
fine hesitated. -- The rromnn: noticed
her irresolution. . She looked' fixedly on her
.and. said • ,
. .
' ' the curseof. the dead, restless: in the
grave, will haunt you,'
. and, without andiller
Nvoyd she. turned away. . .
, .
-- 4 Stop, anid - Chilstine, ' I will go. -
:. She turned- to her friends, and e - xplaineil in
a few rapid words, - her intention. . f:xpo,tii
%dons were of no avail ;1 she turned aut
ie
, romp:mica. the warnac,' ' .!. i.. , _ •
‘Then.l will accompany you: said one Of,
the gentleinen. , . • . .
. .
' I was bid 'to bring only, one. ...No harm
will come to. her, ' said the wo..man.. Chtistine
quietly thanlectier friend for his . kind otter,
but said that she Was not afraid to •tiust - her
.
self with her guide, and_ bidding them feel•no
clumsiness about her, walked rapidlS-on.'ivith '
ter.; she did," notwithstanding her • couiliig,'
feel some Misgivings, as she folloiyed .: the •irti.!.:
, titan through dark anti dirty streets i 4 silf : mce.
Some. distance they wkiked . ,when; sedd'eldv,
they - entered a dark 'alley-waf, where', the Ntc ,-
man took Christine's hand, and led lieralog:-
u,shiver -of terror'crept over her as she stepped
carefully ea. Suddenly they emerged again
into light, if the flickering of the tallow can
rile, at the head of a stair-case, - might -be
called so ; this-they ascended, and entered a
small room. - ' • ' '
A miserable pallet laid upon the floor in
one corner of the room ; the woman pointed
toit, and irlisappeared. -
Christine approached the bed, on whi eh
laid the sick person. The moon, which' had
jud risen,shone full upon the, the wan face of I
the invalid, as Christine heneorer her. Long,
fair hair fell over her wasted-form, intangled
masses, and the straw, on 'which • she ,
was ly-;
ing had become tangled among her luxtiri 7 ,.•
ant tresses, - Christine gently removed the'
hair whiehsheded -the - face'nf the invalid, -,
..1
''llls sufferer 'turned - away; with- -P, 'groan :;,'
..
.- Ikea; in a hallow voice, shosaid: 'l,
-. 4 Do you tint knoienie. - Wave yOtt forgot
- tins yourpoor Annie l' -- - - ,-, • - ;
4 Annie- Murrell' cried ; Christine, -much
shocked ~• for,: in - these wan 'feature!, she
. . &mid *hardly feccrgnize ihe frih, girlish face
that lived in her nettory. • ''. • ' - '
. • I "Can it be'piossiblei Poor child I.' Sh 4
• befit over ber, and klisted her brO f w; while
hot tearslell from - her -eyes. . ,
' Do not kiss me,' cried '
~Annie. ': Do mit'
,weep. .Your kisseslp - dyiiur tears burn my very, brain.", lam not werthy that Each as
you Oloidd touch, ice"; and she uttered a
moan that was succeeded by severe cough',
ing • she gasped for breath. Christine rais 7 ;
ed. her i in 4eir ,arms, . Annie pressed a hand
kerchief to' lips • when she removed -it ;
'was stained - witha)hiod: -She
„smiled a faint,
sad smile es,ibe . .looked on it, and motioned
-to be - laid dfiwn again: ,After she bad sol'illi-
What Voxsoieti s 4 her breath, - she beiati :..•-..
' 4 1. knowl.tattst die. l breath;
that I am
- • utterly' lest:, and it was -- :vot for myself that I
sent - for =you::' I' haVe 'auffered, more than
desiththatlest at, , onyi e,clithl tear . ; bet - 1
have a chill`, , ',Oh, Cluistine r 'rle Cried iviiii-I
1 9, ' I hive leit'My own . sonl=--•saye my child!.
Let me Pot drag her down 'after me. Will I
ru promise me theflop 'will 'take her--tbet
you will watch,efer iter-=.thet you . will 44)
w from - her motheei rail' • ' . i ' -..
She Wiped •thietilie b
s ind ea" erl She'
, *Om z-' , 'r -,.. ' - - -...-.-,-.- .•„ ; -,..., ~ . - ~
• • Aanie,
.1 promise yott : in: lb& .sig :,.i . '
1
Maven that I will.' '-- I -
' •Pod_t,.4 l .coll. You .for s that VrolPl!ill s - tread An . :
11. ' 4 •:*0w ., .1 .010 ) die ; blg , lq 014 ,-of, her
is , Viogid'optin.iind, 4. anAe, fialting.stiraly ;
skiejltia*.the'. gjilK4-1; perdi,tioti l ihat gape.
twitQwvi - e-*Josa 4 :that lik , w9xth ii.iixtrot
hiriiti this. world, and'ioll I—tito *At, Chris
line, the uort : 1 - - • . ~
. . . i . . . - -
.
"..:
.ller voice sank into a whisper.ir . '• tied thinw, and thanied••me for liefiring'it so .
' I ean'hear it; myself,' sllid. said,loarsel y ''' I reasonably. -, , : . • -':
.. t
' let nie see illy child in IreitY.en,' and it will I • ". His words maddened me. '• Harry, I - cried.
soothe half the torments of.hell.' - . .1-you shall not marry that, woman L• , lbw
• Christine.- shuddered . ; but. she felt, that -1 dare you 'so ' peijure yourself / • I am .y4:ttir
their() were the pring of delinurti. She . en- • wile' I. ,
dea6red to soo'th,e the wretched .woman
.be- ; ••,' His cheekS - flushed,. -but . - he I controlled' '
fore her—she pressed her hand gently oilier). himself, and. bade Me listen to reason t but I
fevered brow--4eipoke -to-her'of the love of ,only grew inure violent., ..I threatened to ex
4e-sus—then, as, ithe . grew _Calmer; she said pose - him - to the lady he was to' matay-- e to
softly :.-. . ~ . ' . tell her that I was his wife. '-;Then he grew'
. .
' Sleep now, nay Annie .!'• . .• angry—he taunted pee -he told. the 'I was
. ..-, Annie's eyeS had been half closed ; she guilty of, a crime—that I had committed big
staved "up at these - words'. -i --. . amy, and. that I could be :imprisoned—he
' Who called me that ri slier said. ' M daredme to do as Iliad threatened—ho said
_. .
•Annial He uso to,' cell ni that.' •, - i bitter things, words!that stung me to the very
As she, said this, she burst into a fit of 1 soul7-'wordi:that he, of all men ; should never
. tears,aot violent, but, gentle, end
. Christine I have uttered me. Then, whenhelhad heap
did not attempt to check them. Tears
. rush- I ed upon, me' cruel, 44tel..epithets, till he could .
ed: to lcr own eyes, •as • rte looked or. - the I s.v no snore, he threw down gold I upon the
wreck More Iter;und.remeinbered her as she I table, and. left the•room.. • Never shall
. I for- -
had first known her. I Gradually- Au- gat his looks - as hp stood there; his dark
nie'stears ceased to !low, her sobs grew I
filet- eyes flaslttng,'hia 'eheeicaluslie.d, and his tall'
er,.and fainters she tarned•tta Christine, 'and'' figure *avili up, td its full height. • now.
said' softly,'. - t • my heart yearned for Lis love,-and l instead of
' I must not sleep now. f When I close my that - he offered me gold.. • , 1 •. '
eyes to sleep; it *ill be in !that slumber 'that 1 , I did nor speak-i-I felt' •no ariger—l - wa.s
knows no waking. -,•Let the, talk now,.• while t only heart - -broken, and I looked at him with
1-,can. Let me tellyou. i what 'has lii-otight 'stony eyes awl outward composure, though'
Me hoe. ' ' - ' • - my very heart bled. 1 . .
.. , •
in: a low feeble volne, often interrupted by ' I still sat there, till his footsteps died
her emotion, Annie proceeded to tell the sto- away in the • distance. . Then I' rose-e.my
ry Miter marria? , e, her sUbseqttent unhapoi- I mind was made ups-I.'.Would not be a bur
ness,,lter desertiOn of Mr. ,Howard, and all I
den to him now that hello•longer hived me.
that had happeaed tiering lierstrumgles with 1 His crud words rung in my ears, but even
poverty, and the relief affOrdett her by Harry then I did not hate him. Hate him! Iloved
Lansifig, - 1 - •-1 •t. ' • thin with my whole:Bo4=as Ido Still—as I
.. Often severe fits OfeetighingPreiented her •always shill!. .. ,• - ... '
j . •
proceeding with her: • tale, 'and; panting for 1 ' "I took my child': by the hind and weld
breath,she would . lie' exhausted on her pallet ; I out - of the hoese-7--that' i happy, happy home.
it was evid'ent thtit sho was exerting herself j -When the door •elOsed, it . was
. tt if I were
beyond her strei.f!th, but to . Christine's re- 1- shut out kf Parad i se.. I . thought of Eve,when
quest that she rest now And tell the
.I.intsin- Labe. left Eden behind het ; but she was, not
der of her sal 'story at enure future'time, she alone,' Adam wits Still has, and she went-forth
-shook her Lead:.. : i! `j hand in band with him ; with love and hope
i•
1 My hours are . ninhered;' she said ;,'the -for euittpanions, but. I . walked out. of my
sands ;if life arc alinc - tstf rim, and I must say Etleu, hand in liandi only with despair. •
all ,that ruts so' heavilY On my sOul . now, or " 1 pic . ti4l:4l to inyself:llarry!sreturn to our
it will remain .unspoken forever.' - . home I knew that seeeral days cruuld pass
A'fter "'a Sltort•pausealik,resumed : ' - - befete be ,Would g there, and I . .imagined
' harry took inc lott 'ft omfortable home', his horror On ,Seeing it deserted, the money
and .was,veey kind to me, and to my Rosa.-- I lying_w herey he heti ;left it—all unaltered, all
It was so new and selileasant to me to re- i remaining as he had last :seen . it---only his
ceive aevaryi rig: kindoess, lint] the most deli- Annit), IniSsing.
. •
ente, awl constant attentions, p that I could MA -"I knew then that be would -repent the
but fe*,l,gratkflai for them. I began. to watch i bitte? taunts he hat .heapedupoWi,he,nrife •ef
for his CoMing, and at the sight of him, as his bosom—the Mother of his dead boy.
he -came down the street, my heart .would "•lie did' repent.i I looked
. iii 'the pirees.
throb tnuntit.uonsly ; :th . e, hours seemed long I and among other patlietie• - appeais, 1 • read
when be was away, and when -he was with words that. I knew Tere penned byl his hand
me, time flew, .oh hoe/ -rapidly ! : •. —e olds of sot tow, ; of !eve, and. of:entretity:;
. _ -
. . . .
011tistine, I loved: him with my whole -
heart arid 'o'il, .as 1. - lind never • loved any- I
thin. t• - before hut me child, and he loved Ine i
i r
las foully in return. . .
1 ' What would I have not done or sutler-
1 . ed- for . ltim ? And when' he , proposed to me 1
i to becoitie Ills Wife, rthought it . almost too i
! great a IMopittesi. lie.did not deceive me-
be .l
I he told incthatiiit tl , e eve of the law ournn- I
,
:ion would not. valid', but he told me l,
iiin God'S sight it would be sacred, and thatd
} 'he would allkitVs consider it so ; -and when-\i
ever the.tleath !or Marriage of 1 .6.' Howard
should releasr the frOje him, that he would
I . .openly acknowledge Me as his wife. Ile ask
ed
rtr.l if I would agreei. to this; and With per- 1 ,
fe e t wiliingties-s I gate my cousent. I true. i
, Ited hint implicitly, ,and then, 1 know no I
thought of deeieving :me had . crossed his I
mind - . l i
~ .
"I cHe spolat t 6 me Offilieworl - Ols opittion.j- .
' Lealv smiled: : The iwOrli I What had I tel
il I
do with that .1 i He Iwas all the world to me.
'I Ile - 1.c. , ..ed use 'to I .1 . • ;wart—kite.tailed me his!
!I
~ p . . .... l .l
&ohm* his Wife—and.l . was too happy to II
:•--' ~. ~ . I _
~
speak; .
1 -
' ' That night, in at little chapel,- we were
'' married by a' onittis4ei,; for thought the Gum i
1 was.nothing in lavvo et I felt that it hallow. '
ed our union.'',.l WI s his wife, and I repeated
lover and oxer again tu.iinyself, with a thrill
.of
i x,deltlrt, the wo7cisl'. tilt death ass (loth part.
I•And when I Wits ii.r.iistrOs of the 'quiet seclu-
I dell home IL:try Orovided for us, how, Imp-.
py.l wts; :, 1 . .
How I tried, t i 4.3,1 be
.ns little expense to
biin as possible, foOlatry was not rielt.- 1
lloWTharti I toiled, lo ptepare dainty dishes
for him whenhe'cln,:te-to seta - the—in-eVery
thing.l.-studditl It's pleasure,this taste.
- . ' As - I .sat With ity sewing in my hand,' l
)
and
.110-..yt . by tity s'tle, in my
own little room,
how often.l ug:ed ti) contrast my: present life
with my .paSt,:anclithe -thought that Ji was
bound -to my Itusblind-..--0 thought that • once I
Made ;no shitddert-noW,Jilled rue with j9y.
' ' How I...dreade4 the .return• honie of the.
man who had' first! calk ed ine wife, and now
how I - countedo4. hotirS• that *Orated me'
,frOni ley' It &handl ' I. wiis -- very'happy; ' and-,
so . .was harry'; a d .when my beautiful biey. l -,
was. horn. I felt tl I had nothing more to
ask:for. lf pOssi:. le, Harry • was ; kinder
.than I
.ever—he' was vei . • 'food 'of our bal.Y. and very.;
proud of hitn 7 -11'W , ‘ . .. , 1 %i . ith - trie . niore - now,,
and fati houra t itt‘ould ctiress'andplay with
our-Freddie, tint! he 'W0n1,51.-tell- me, Aver the
cradle- what,--he would do for. and ,With : lliii, ,
wheal g :e greW•tofbe* man: So five years of
perfect t ul ip lieSi paSseit . ; end - thee . our Fred-I
die- . died.; 1t.',.. - 4arli!, broke ,' nir i heart. ' I
thought it weuli kiittne. . Would -to Hefts--
ea. that it. hall-that'! 7 lind. laid. my bead
doVra
. grass.under-theirreep with my boy in
- . -.. „,...-p"
was ~_ ,- , • e
my arms.. That` ;lie' uegtatting, co sof- ' I
row.. • • • - 1 1-. • - .'i •- •. -
'l'llarty fried to Soothe mein my griek he'
tOo s . fikfis alitiostbeart-broken afzooploss ; but
1 could.. not beiOrrtforted, and. graAlually he.;
-grew-ti red Al qtiy' sad; face. ~ pa. came : les*
f requ i e fi t ty. • . !Ite WAS stir kind to tries . ' tll.lt.. I
f4lt ri c iiiitigi.: ilnie' words the' utterelt •were
036`Satieltseviir irisr:atientiovs ' aptdeiiente . ,.l
hitlle•spirit't4st prompted ''them , I kneW
i115 1 .4, 1 1P.tiv4., t . ',,1ck0.,1taug10,1. , 1.,c0t. a. forelio-.1
diem .£ what . Sas, ..te \l hpfgen t .even. >p4.),Eq'j.,'
would 'edriiii tomysiz fllle.thoi..!ght,that,float
ed throgii*l - iiiia.. i: . ! . ,. -
".. '. 4,- lint tirfaill, that; when the thaw eairie, t
.wakurpreparetV63r.it..- i-..When--.he told 'in
t4t: 4,:wt*..4.4 1 P,i11Y.0vk0. in.debtAp4 , that
Lie f v/I'4, g0je09... eie!ty , * . Ot1: -. .eliuke,e,i ' tout.
the lie A IJUldiniiiayilOe me.. and would
alWitiaiorOid4 for me,
I looked'at hint With=,'
ouvii woid.„.aid. felt tiaelc: . ii. ti - iwcitin. : '
When 1: r,eonyiprO?. - my eonseionsnek . .l was in
hii i a i ms , r i 4*,,Wgke. 4pdirig;over, , ,.oll) ;....10:1t,
as BOott as he 1tativ .. rny..e1e.5 . ;.91i . 91.0..4.,
.he: left:
. the:rOom, - 114, 49cling.,*. servant ' ill: hie.
place: : , '- i - '. 3. ..- ..-.- 4 .i .:..:.-, ~. .....
..,.
. -.* . S e ierailaya iviae./CherettAiertiriaistaiti:'
Re wiw ti.'.017-I;irei 'waif lead**. - And ;--, Ii- . 4 0 ; ,01 '
that I. was;44ped that - Acthaiir.6!.ega =tips :lir e an-; bit, - that:± ,I i had • .theriilied • - Pitati
hopes. no stiekii of his leiriloglise'.4 . spt,
A. WEEKLY' SOURNAL-DEVOTF:I) I TO 'POLITICS, NEWS, 'LiTEIIATURE, ~LGTtItIULTURE, SMNCE, AND MOUTHY.
Scentrne, ,Sisquetanita -- 6 oantg, fenn'a,thars4an %it
„
touched tilv• heart. Ile!, implored
me to :returti;for R s sake, andja voice in •
my - heart urged sntio comply';''
.but at,'l had
nearly -resolved to return, I stew hiS•ntarriage
in the paper. The Words scorelied'itiy-brain.
"I thought othitn aniid the wedding, fes,
tivities; with erowdi of the gay about' him,
receiving their congratulations, witl) his bride
on his arm, and th& bh sh'tin her cheef,riS he
whiSpered Ovoids of -endearment to iher, while
1, his wife in the sight of God, Wei toTotten
oty.cast. -
4.1 was,naddruetl—l tins reOcless. Oh,
Heavens she tourhaired, buryit her face
in her hands t *can • say no inol-c4,.. From
that.l.;.ine 1 was utterly lOst. 1 never saw
i..l.arry:azain, and Psunk deeper aid -deep er, lower and towel,. till here am, al %leek . 'of
what was onee Annie ~hurray--.-al. vile, vile
wretch, '4'-ith but on spark . of virtue remain
i•ng, ivy love . for my innocent 1 osa. For
her safe I-have endured this wreiched life,
that FWoultOong 4ince, .but ter her, • haVe
flung away as worthless. Now , I must.die.
I lime endured what you' , can never know"
—she shuddered asislie spake--" hut the ag - -
any of the thought that 1 mu.t leave my
child amidst all that it vile, with
,na hope
before beig of auglitisave her makes fate—
, that was worse Hiatt all; • • •;'
"That poor creziture who led you • here,
sinful wie'tch as she is, - felt for me; she has
been , a mother,' a id she. knew what
was a mother's love:, She has been . very kind
-to me, and when I leard, - tis I chanced to do,
that you were here bhe promised to bring
you to me.",,
•
A fit of coughinghere interrupted Annie..
Christinie raised bet quickly, she gasped
,for.
Liehth, she turned her eves wistfully to.ward's
her sleepingebild, r ho lily. on the - ,straw near_
her. . Christine read tier glance.
Dear Annie," she said; " she shalt' be my
own. 1 accept, the . sacred trust." _' • .
A gleani• of joy flail:led in din mother's.
hollow eyes there - was - rattling in her
throat. '•-•
" Oh, : God 11, 'shii • indistinctly - artictilatcal,
and with this invocation
,her spirit.passed to.
its Maker. -
Christine hiitl.be ,dotitritiftlycotthepallei
and,
_wit -h :streaming eyes, tlmugh no Rofnau
istl peuredlorthprayer,.for... , tho repose of
her, poor friend's .. • .
.She iVentio the door and'ealted
ance; -the 'Womatt - Whohadgnided
er appeared; and rip!
could
_be done for .../).!nnie was
Would te k , - Pod 'that list
said the Woinan, in a hollow vo
Cliristine'alieart ached, fniter, yet . site
biit • she re
proached I iersel f for the instinctive feeling !of
disgust, , Did not our Lord speak compass,
ionately . to streh.as 4,lie I.
,Shetlibught of the,
touchingstoiv of the'woman "wto, was a,sin
net," and wits kind words - and kind leeks;
she add reised •tlie:pnor ioetote her.—
She atitollt4.4: with:tier .as? to-. the: funeral of
11er...friend ;, she-litan):6diter,for , her kitnlums
to her during her Siekneis, and recitwited her,
Lo eritarp there Wiat: the; climber, and child;
during her airm - .llE4&xatiri 364tice, • to' Mike
.afrangements t then , taeksing her, -mud, she
slipped intuit a- gold -Coin • - of 'tonsiderable
volueond.withdrP,,4: - ; • • !: ' •
Tfrg Ind • pat;Sed; the sun *WI r)fiitig.
Ai' ; her
• eyes' , .were add, Witt 'anti4s - sire " 'went:on,
but she tookdivad,:ftleitinte•in Weing that Or
wits, done that,rerttaiped •for friendly.liands , to:
• •••
:-. sl3 ' l9,niftineralprofersli i en,fYll+iyced 'Annie
Mtirrty" tOtret Pint restitig-place ; f;no parade'
of ftineititiiiw infritaitAhere't tint 4
sliaCerecluournevir siciodiby 'diet • gra Ve,:iitd ne
her. 41.40494,1" viksientrastelloAlke - . ground
•sa qs ", 6•l •4 l 6otii ! l4, r#, 1 0.44PY 4 .4 ( 1gAr3. 1 i to - 4 1 40."-
th,e tj,Pft-t4 , riuk,
notiseeratiou'otimOnarAy mound.. !..Igottioto.-,
.httilintid, i- sister 'stood . by ibii,
"greV4 - 3•tif bet who
. so lovely. and 'bah:wadi oblyra Anti, sObblitg.'
child; Christi ao, :and tho poor, guilty creature
Who' bad Ininiooo to her, liken lover sad
other friends had failed her, jow bewailed I
her sad fate. Of all the troops ),:if frier:o4 •by I
whom she had once been surrOnded, these
three atone remained to p:ty the'. Last tribute
to her Memory. iisimple stoneimarked her
testing-place, in a quiet hook iiii.Oreenwood ;
a plain slab, 'bearing as its only, inscription,
" A t; *IE."
I wonder if any little girl; th4lreads this,
ever wondered how ; many peopl. are all the
time.at iforkitt! making the !things Which
they every day! use - :' Oen be' more
common, and, yOttifiay Think, amore simple,
than a•needlet! Yet, if you:do:not know it, I
can l tell , yon, that it takesitt great many per-.
sons tomakei:a needle,: and it takes a great
deal of ItimStOo. Let us take *peep into a
needle factory . : • In going over the -premises,•
we must pass hither.and thither, and walk
into the next street and back !again, and take
a drive to a mill, in order. to, see the Whole
of the procesi. We find one chamber of the
shop is hung around with coils of . bright
of all thicknesses,,—!fretn the st o u t
kinds used for Codfish! hooka to that 'of the
finest cambrick needle. In la !room below,
ttts.of 'wire, the length of two ineedles, nre
cat by a vast pair of shears fixed in the wall.
A bundle has been cut oti, the • bits need
straightening, for they catne!off from coils. •
'The' bundle is thrown into :a red hot tut-
ace; then taken out, au.d_ rolled buekwaidS.
and forward - until the wires are straight,--•
This process is called ' rubbitigStraight:—
We now see a mill-for grindingHne.edles. We
go down into, the bafttnent. and find - a nee.;
die pointer settifig down on his - ! bench.
,lle
takes, up .two dozen- or so of, the wires and
rolls them between his thurith and 'fingers,
with !their ends on the grindstene, 'first one
end.and then the otter. ' We 'Lave now' the
wiresfstr,tight i and pointed qn !both ends.—
Next is a machine that flattens gutters
the heads of ten thousand needles an hour.
Observe the lilth.s ;utter s' at, the be: d of your
needle. Nest comes the pinching of the
eye, and the boy that .does it pUnthes . eight
'thousand an hour. and he does it so fast that
lyour'eye can hardly keep pace! with hlm i —
The piittin • follows, which running a - tine
wire through a dozen, perhap,, of these twin
needles. , ' '{
A ,woman, with a little- anvil before her,
files between the beads and, separates them:
They are nciw'eompleted - needles, but rough
and. rusty; and what is worse, they easily
A..peOr'needle you "%l,'•otrld say.' But
the hardening. comes , nest. They are heated
in batches-in furnaces, ,and, Wfien red .hot,
are thrown into a pan, of. cold :Water...Next
they must be tempered ; and this i:s done by
rolling them backwards and forwards - on a.
hot metal plate. The polishing still remains
`to be 'done.. On !1. - very -coat - Se needles
are moee !. to the; number ,of' - forty , or afty.
thousand. Emery dq-eliaspreitei over them,
°Us sprinkw'..,an4 sofi c imi daubed by spoon
fuls over the eluth ; the cloth is then rolled
liar& and with several , others of the sane
kind, thrown into a sort of wash pot, to roll
to and fro for twelve hours inure:. They
come nut diity enough; but after rin.int* in
clean loot water, and tossing in: saw dust,they
lodk as can be, mid :ire ready to be
assorted and put up fur Talc, lira the assort
! ing and putting up in papers, You may imag:
I ine, is quite a work.
This ma- was eminently 'qualified by na
title with the bodily and imentai qualifica
tions fOr a tribune for the people. In stat
ure he was lofty, in figure he Was large. His
bold ; good-natured.face was an advantage--
ps i were his manly appearance and, bearing.
tlis voice was deep, musical, ]sonorous,, and
manageable. -Its: traitsforinations. from: the
higher to the lower note's were . wonderfully
effective. No man hal a 1 clearer or . more
distinct-prdhateiation—at tinrev, - it even went
to.the :extent of almost srllabliF'.ing the words.
lingerlingly,.as, if he ;loyed to.nt ter the
.words, would he speak of 'CaUrtholic E-inan
cee-pation I' He rather- affectki a full Irish
accent„ . on which was grafted some-,
thing of the Foigardlsm tthh h , in his youth,
had attached itself to him Im'hen• he .studied
in France.. No one, 00 .noticed his eana
ciOus chest could wonder that O'Connell was
able to speak longer thart•MoSt.titen:without
pausing to take breath. When making a
speech, his month, was_ verY expressive'; .and
this has been 'noti ced as, the Characteristic of
the featureS.in Irish faces. In his eyes (of a
clear cold blue) there _was speculation.
licit the - trtie Irish expression got' feeling, *pas
siort,land intellect played about hiS
Loniting; • Iti mas lie spoke, a close observer
might•almost note the sentiment -about-to
cornofrotn those lips,- befoM,the words bad
utterance.- ! -.just rts wo see the lightning be
fore We War the thUnder•peal. „
•
nis eloquence teas eminently
Irish:wen/in .general, have 'the gift •of
gab.;' that is, the f)ower expressingl their
sentiments in public with eac .to -themselves
and their hearers. It . g),yes , zthent .little
trouble to Make :a speech mind this faculty
and this facility arises,' very i probably,: froth: .
the political - circumstances Of their country'
as Mucli as from anything else.• In England
there ; is per necessity why aMan should have'
deeded political . Ireland, no
main da re he nentral. Persons may disagree
an'-they do; but they nnitelia despising- and
condeming the unhappy wight who does not
belting tOeitber party. A Irishman in Ire;
land;, must be a partisan. itileing so, there i 4
no earthly reason Why, attending any public
meeting, heshould not •
.be Jnrlnced folake.
part in the proceedings, an make' a speech! .
Oratory is a very catching thing ..listening
begets the I lesivero be listened : to,- io . turn. ;
and, once that a *man \l* licard, 'his, own
voice in public,..depend on ; ' t ifs. Mitt be
Aous-to bearTit'again. : • ;
A I . ' • •
el r-,4ess o , hoh rs,helf the battle ; in
nubliti life,-is an essential 4f.P . nblin - speaking.
llowover,it is not. the esseritial.'!„ There must
be a,copious flow of wordita retMil and 'bap
iv selection of . lunguageatt ,earatrstn* Of '
manner-=a knowledge of human character
abOye ell; a - considerable - deltrie of
information - , with cerirtiri ?ortiOn",of
,` imagination 4.ll.obrupact4 which e -breathes
fervor and poetriiruOire:lsriiikew . ,ipeach.4—,
Great is theorator'si" poWo i . • can touch
the huMartlM . ol:-415.#1i4 irrova, the *rot;
impinge'etriockar-: 3 -4re'carie‘itifthe riaptilier
will ashi - piagswi—he (sari comfort the afflict
, ea, Ida% hope into the eivre:sed, sleet the
her thith
thit
rayed.. .
with ,-her,"
plakirig a Need)4.t.
Daniel °leoninell.i
BY S. MAtEENille.
ruing, 'Buick 2L 18-54.
ppressnr, and -make ill-directed.. power and
'niiglit tremble an their loft t . hrianes..
Ireland has been part•teularlh piofuse in
herOontribution -of eminent orators. : Burke,
(Canning, Plunket, Grattan, Shiel, Wellesley,
and Curran stand pre•embient upon the roll ;
but 1 dcibt whether O'Oennel,. ivheri - ,, the
length o his reign is considered, as well -as.
the great extent of his intliieitee,derived chief
ly from his power: RS speOter, was not•
greater than any of these (great orators. He
had less '7it than Canning,. less imagination
than': Curran, tee philosophy than Burke,leSs ,
'rhetoric than Shell, leas Ore eloquence than:
Plunket, less classical _expression than -Wel
loley,letis pathos than' Grattan ;• but he had
more poiccer than any ,of- there. .There was
wonderftil c 06.3 in his language. • And when
addressing nn Irish audienpe there was such
an _alteration. of style—now rising to -the loft
lest, !and noW subsiding to the most familiar
I —that be carried all 'mitts with - him ;• and , '
those who listened see - intitt i as under the
spell' of an e.uchanter, so.lcompletely did he
move them 'ns•lie pleased, I Judging by their
eeet, O'Connell's speeches must ; be consider . -:
among the . best, if not the very best of the
time and. the country. I • •
versitility as a speaker was
wonderful. Ile was 'nth things to all men.'
In ni-vie* . of the case; and when this. did not
succeed,; would convince them •by subtle ar
girment,l bold declamation, and a natural 'el
oquence. At a political imeeting,:where be
had Ito address a multitnde, they .would al
ternately smile or get enraged; as 'he jested
with or excited their fe - eli'igs. In parlitnent,
which be did ,not enter until he was fifty-four
tears old; •he generally more calm, more
careful,. more subdued, rnore solicitous in his
chei'ce of words, and more vigilant in restrain
• ing•lthe manneriof deliveriie• theni.
• Tlie great secret of hi.povier as a speaker
way his earnestness. over harVn great
objciet in view, and he al imys applied him Self,
with a Strong - and.earnest, Mind, to achieve
that ob;eet. Whenever lie pleased, he could
riselto the greatest height of eloquence ;•but
he preferred, when speaking to the people, to:
use language which • each could understand.
-Ile !varied his speeches 'With bandiage and
jokes, which, merely I:nriiorous made his
Smile , and kept them in good temper
with each other,
with tLemselves, and with.
him. 'The Irish , who thronged to hear him,
be hr
treut'to be . amused as N‘l i ell as to
.ueff,..' . .Nor'did he dissppoiut them.
. . .
, -
1 Yfr. Maelrlay on - G e orger ,Foxttitd
!,.
Ilse Quaker's. ; •
•
. Mi. :Mactday, in- his mew volumes, is severer
than ever upon Williani Penn.. The - folloW.:- . 1
iiig is . the great liis.tOian's description of l
Geerge Eox, tb,;l founder of Quakerism :. • .
it Whi'ic London was'ipgitr.ted by the news
::tit a plot had been discovered,(feorge.Fox,'
the founder of the sect ofQuakers died. .
` l . Morece,
than, forty years had elapsed since,
FOX bad- begun to see, visions and to cast out
rleOls: lie was then 4. youth 'of pure morals
and, grave deportrrient,j With . a preverse tem
pe.'r,- with the education of a laboring man,
and with a intellect it the most unhappy of
all; states—too much disorde.ed for liberty,
and not snfficiently di4ordered for bediain.-L-
The circumstances in which. be was Placed
we're such 'as.could scarcely fail to bring outt
the strongest. forte the ;constitutional di sease s
of Lis mind. At the time when his faculties
were ripeiling,. Episcopalian, Presbyterians,.
Independents, BaptistS, were ;striving for the
9 •
masterv,•and were,. in every corner of the
reidin, refuting and reyiling each - other." • He
vrandered from congregation Pitongregation;
he: hearckpriests harangue c agit,inst Puritans .
- 7 ,-, lie . heaad Pu Titans harangue afia r inst priests
=and he in vain applied to doctors of both
parties for spiritual direction and - console
thin. • One jollpild clergyman cf the Angli
.
can communion told•biin to-smoke tobacco
21n4 sing Psalms ; another advised him to go
and lo , e some blood. I The young inquirer
turned in disgust front these advisers . to the
Di's.senters", and fountllth,ein alto blind gui(lt,s...
After a tine he catneqoittio conclusion tha t
no human! behig.Was icompetent, to instruct
;him in-diiiine things,!and . ,that the truth had
been cOminunicated to him by • direct inspi-,
ration froth Heaven, 1 Ile argued that a, the
diY:ision of languages began at-Babel, and Ha
ttie persecutors.of 'Christ. put on the cross an
ins,criPion in Latin. Greek, and Hebrew, the
knhwledge of languages, and more especially
of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, must be useless
- ,
tole Christian minister. Indeed, he- was' so
-far.froM knowing many languages, that he
knew atone; nor' can 1 the most corrupt pes- j
'1 ,
sage ia Hebrew be more unintelligible to the:,
unlearned than his English often is to the
most acute and
. attentive reader. One; of the.
preitiolis• truths which were divinely revealed
tultl4 new apostle was, that it•ivas:falsehood ,
r and tuluLttion to Use late seeond r person sin
onlar.l Another Was, -tht. to' talk of the
month:of:March was to: .vtas to worship the ',
bloodthirsty god Mais. and • that: ''.to talk. of '
Monday wits to pay.. idolatrous hemag 'to the -
moon.;
,To, say good morning or:good even
. ing Was h%,•fhly; reprehensible,for those phases
eVidently imported that Pod :had • Made •Dad
days and bad- nights. A Christian was
betindl to face death itself rather than 'tough
hiS hat. to the greatest of mankind. . When
Fox was challenged to produce . Any., seriptyi
ral'authotity -for this dogma,
„he cited . the
pri:ssage in Which . it iS - writfen - that Sliaiiiao,
Alshach,; and Abednegti ' were:: thrown into
the fiery furnace with their ham on and,-if
liit ow n Iterative. may : he - trnsted,
.the Chief
! JUstice of England Was •altogetlier.unable,to r
l'ariS'e 4 ser this arguinen - eicept. 'by ,ciying"out,
, . . , ~...
die him ttwayi.jailer i .' - • , /
l' -- ,
.‘ -FOx insisted• ranch on the not-less Weighty
aignment that ;he Turks. nerei, ;show' - their
bare .heads to their sliperiors; And. he asked,
wth great, animation, ~whether. those ~ who
b re the': name. of.-Christian :Christian: r elight not to,
st rpi i ss 'the T.tirks/in virtue .' • •13owin,g ho
i i
st :ettv --- probibitedi-land, indeed,' seemed to
oonsitier,it as the : lettoet:of gatrtoigni influence,
er, as, he observed , , the - -woman , In: :the,
Gispel,. Avhile ehe had- A. spj,ti ,of : infirmity,
`a,as bowed trigitlieti,nrid ceased to hew as
-seen italDiiitie Tiovior IE4 liberited ,ber'from
..the tyranny:Of the evil'otto.: • 114:expositions
, . - . .. ..
of the rttingkrterelet f every •yeeol
,lier kind . TriOARO_ whinh:,44:l4en, in, t„hol
appretensien:or all Oluj e e4tre,.o*.(itecesk
duritig'sii,teen centuries; fignriittvii t '!4 con"
.trued: literally ; - 'yniaintgea•trhieliliuttintt•
:being t'oeferei - hitn hid evi*tuidertittitid tit'artt
ether:then s litey4 . .eense.,7 tte, -, :eoclt..rned fir
`‘T
i • 1 l itliYelY.', Thus, _r!fic!):-. 0 .1tP14,.4. 11 400 0 1 1 ::07-.
primp:44 in rohishtbe duty of patienoe under
I;i:try is. enjoinedjte .4144noett.,the
_iloottial
t t **defence spina . tiisto atiti-etiOdits
is unlawfuL Otithe other . hand, the_ - plain
commands to baptize with water, and to par
take of bread and wine-in vommentoiation
of the redeUiption of 'mankind, be .pronounced
to be allegorical. He long - wandered - from
place to place, teaching his strangetheology,
shaking like an aspen leaf in his paroxyaras
of fanatical excitement, forcing his way into
cherchesl- 7 which ,te • nicknamed 'steeple .
'houses--interruptingpmyers and.sermons
clamor and Scurrility, and
„pestering rectors
atOusticei, with epistles inueh - twernbling -
burlesqUes of those sablitle odekin which-the •
flebrew,prophetis' foretold -the calami . ies of
Babylon-and Tvre. lie soon acquired great
notoriety bY tliese feats. His strange
. face, .
his strange chant, his immoveable hat, and
his leather breeches, were known all oifer . the
country ; and be 'boasts that as soon as the
rumor was,beard, the man with the leather
breeches is'coming,' terror,seized the hypo
critical, professors, and •'hireling priests made
baste to get - outof his Vtay. lie was repeat
edly impriSoned and.set in the stocks, some
times justlY,for disturbing the - public worship
of congregations; and sometimes unjustly,
for merely\ alking nonsense. Ht.t.soon gath
,ered around him a body of diseiphis, some of
whom went beyotO him in absurdity. He
has told us that on of his friends walked na 1
ked through Skipto4 declaring the truth,aud 1
that another was divinely moved to go naked, 1
during sever a l years, to market-places and, to
the houses of gentlemen and clergymen.—
Fox complains bitterly that theme - pious nets,
prompted by the Hol y. Spirit, were requited
by au runtoward geneistion with hooting;
pelting, coach-whipping, and horse-whipping,
but though be applauded the zeal'of the suf
ferers, he did not go quite to their lengths.
Ile sometime?, indeed, was impelled to strip
himself partially. Thus. he pulled. off his
shoes and. t walked baretoot through , Litbh
erying—' Wool° the bloody city but
it - does not appear that he ever thought it his
duty, to appear before the public without that
decent garment from which his poptear ap
pellation was derived."
•
. 1 1 LoveLetteir.
A pretty 'actress - in one of the , theaters-of
the Boulevards had received every day for :
sotne time a little licultiet of violets.,
.She,
.found it inber.hux eyery evening,' and . this
simple hemage.: from 'an - unknoWn: admirer
touched her heart in spite Of . herfieif. -
It was in vain that while performing she
looked enCall among . ..the audience, in the .
oreliestra. in the side scenes, even; :she saw
nothing by which she . could identify the
giver of boqUets; - and,: thereupon, - her
tuntaivatiiin cantered otf,for the imaginations
of actreasscan•glillop e t/ . as iv e ll a s o f ott i ...
err.-
\ . t as it ' ', a foreign },since, who wished to
touch he heart before placing at her feet his
hand and his treasures
WAS- it a too timid . artist, who dared
not.deelare his passion I
She interrogated the Lox-keepers, the ma
chinists • 7 1 e.verrhody . employ e d, about the
theater, but glm no information' ;.'yes
the boquets came regularly. - -
The oliter evening,as she, WAS preparing to
go upon :the stage, she r. 4. ceiced her nival
boquet, but, this time it was accompanied be
note.
•
. At. lastr--s cried. . 1
She opened it hastily and .
MADEMOSEILE hafe" loved von for, a
tong time. Could one see you. without lov
ing you 1- . 1 come every evening . to see you
to admire, to - applaud• you, to en „ y the brilk
iancy of.your eyes, the charmof your
lie iS bete' exclaimed the actress, he
peeped through a hole in the curtain ; but
the andience had notesseinbled. She resnm
her.reading:
—' of four voice. Ali '. beautiful
and fascinating you are„and how - happy are
those whO: approaelt -you! • What . would I
not. give to bealwap near you?, • Could all
the treasureS \ of the earth pay for one of your.
smiles I !'NOI'•
Ah I it•is very pretty,
.siglietl the actress,.
and she Went ou, turniNg over the kaQ
' - •
and- yet : I dare , to love -yon,l and
to tell yen so, and what is more, to suPpli
cdte youlnot.to refuse my liomage; • •
is becoming quite eiplicit.. shall
soon know.' And she •
—Amy' homage. If - this avowal of 'my.
lore does; not offend you, place the boquet of
violets iniyotir corsage. Oh !..then I shall
be the happieSrol:men '
. .
',What! "no sigrnattit.Cr she cried. .No
name ! Ali here's a pasteript."•• 'lf you .are
curiouS,te - know who it is that writes to you,
look up into. the fourth g,allary ;- - rny. legs wilt
be hanging down. • -. •
Tiffs billet fell from the hand of : , the ae
iess, and , her
,arm was near dropping from
der shoulder.
Illy Intended,
"Is she . not beautiful' • Round face, rosy
cheeks, ripe'lips, arid rOngish eyes. Yes, it is
her picture ; it is just like tier." tilt may
gaze your fill at it, old chum, fur I shall -not
show you.tho original, not yet ; I am afraid
of you, You aro such,.a
from
with the girls,
they all run away me when .you come.
But she is all my own. 'We aro protnised to
each other, and' ortii_of these days the knot
is to be tied. You thonght I would , never go
so far asithat. did you not, old fellow I You
thought ought to remain a bachelor, justnfor
the sake; of keeping you company, if for :loth
frig else, - but I know I want some one to sing
to me and sew on my buttons. • Will you`
come and.see us when we are Married I. You;
must drop in at any time and make you if
at,heme :Katy will always be glad to The
you, or any other (rimy). it(tnine. lam sure
she will always hainor me in this respect,and
will always have the elothSpread for oompo-
nv, and look smiling and really good lair A Kentuckian-was
d
e 'uint at shoNt
eel when I.Liring a friend home -to. dinner.-.• *t e as ~
Vitt have;Come to an , understanding already; -bourn was sitting; ihCie 11,4911. th*: - Esinn.
that there . . shall bone ‘.srashlag,..4y,' . exal t tuk- ,b ers were boarding. 'f l4*enstissi *Se
periodical clianitigri in our boursiaklNintig,luid,, ploying freely at the tahhi the *Ails by which'
consequentlY,rtio'scolditig no I .ita they designated~ • th e ir debatep o -7-=
never to smoke -cigars, and she:wilt not put thus s - - -
h er hair, i n papers. ~-1 ate ismer tousaysge, 44.Virillzthe mother frgittrttasida hate urn
and rite i5'00,44. I t 4 i,POUt•`` She is not 4 . 6 .49 7 ' goodness to pass thir 111441 w " the:
-her,eyes:eacifspend , ars orestiat - et. the mem* Op fr i,s%:lso:r gpt~ pets hand ,the .
and I shall not look, glues when Salt •„, , ,
Asks for -11 new bonnet;' 0 we 'gist t'a_ a: - &woof s ,
:mod couple, Masse you /San sis'hids'atk` iks'tg °tl b `ln
find tottiantle . ideit rastritimay 1 0 0/11* _
creature, in's * / 144 tit
*Nat ;!0 , 04 was then satislled 000! 11 t riseiateo4s*:4#4leiood:
Wrl-4hP 2 0 1 1 1 d. 41*6- s_ _ 41444141 :_ t e fati;'- ‘ 1 0 ° NiAttnetbitallt , Of
B u (lCity goilkoevas, be at:pos..4 - .
bllTa ' a fir 'Girlie , mitY; fills. I tti"!. Sir The :luau iichlk.VoreAlltitotted by tie
boraitiotioo twit sio inn livirilift gm. no* bark -9( .
suraW-ID l :Aave . boa of
nal 40004 = nor:cll)s`f4o..,t...
ViitiOif'.).3:,-:.lt**!*lg.
A _ 4 411
The Ssittkir Bird ,
It is not a bird of pp?", but - liressitireiy
grain, like the galinacm. Whew fell 11911 , 15 ,
it measures two feet from thesied- of`:i
has four or five long feitherit .tipped. yids
white. Its feet are , furnished with font kiati
two in front and . , two behinki and,' -are
guarded with sharp needle-like Atli; ,The
color of the bird. is :e mottled yel.loedeaPlY4
_and it rarely attainathiweight otf si.-.1)00104
Its beak is two and a-balf inales- . 1 4 314-60 1 1
-very sharp and. hard. When this bil4;llido
*a rattlesnake—and rattlesnakes ire. tit be
'found in great numbers inßotithernifortit
ia, whenever the
. ground is covered- y the
cactus plant--‘it immediately 'pr.: - ',e4=41,41h with
the greatest caution and dispatch, to: gather
the .fallen bs cactus fruit ' and dry 10, iipa ,
etly enclose hi`m•to the bight, of foOt:
more 7 -tbti spikes and -spine* , - ,of *ate,
strong and sharp as nee,dlc,s, 'Serving. ea
insurmountable barrier to the, .escape -oftile.'
snake.' This being accomplished, the hinf
gathers with its feet. and claim =the you*
cones of the'pine,which areas be
- as stones
and boTering over enemy, lets I, one by
one. from a height of five or six feet„.npoatbir
infuriated-reptile,-who surrounded by , prmt
les and points wherever be turns, As _sobs
tally aroused to-the danger of his positioni
The bird with Malicious' screams; 'continues to i
drop cone-after cone, until his forsisiOrlalli.:
ted, and then - pecks•the snake . to death with
his iron beak.—Farmer's Journal.=
Rick:
One of the greatest wags in thiscity ft Ore
principal salesman in Willev's book store ort
Broadway. -We refer to W. nonten t " .
a young gentleman who itit4ela slightly nn
his shape: , and sells pods with a ant:nese ow
ly equaled by that of Smith, the , peripabstits.
operator in razor strops. •
Last Monday an old lady the store and in
quired for A . treaties on, Angels: She ni'ade
the inquiry of a hoy,,an4 WA§ told that they
hadn't got no such book: -
This remark caught ear, and
WI ire alWays sells something , to everybody
who enters the storeihe - atepped fetwarkand -
addressed the old lady;
'-We're just out of the book yote.rein search` '
of Ma'am, bur we'Ve got Fox's Book of-Msr
ti•rs,cratnmed full'of picturesndid book
for a present:- , •
Law sakes tell . r - exelaimial . the'
customer, examining the hbok.; why litte'S'
a picture of a chap driakirePizen4wl "he- 'a' -
a lib; of men saw a'' a -Toot; _f 'a' heed\
- I . ,:srmtk man there,_Ma'am ' etifihnett
th;:. Aalemuen. clueidating the pictimi,."is tak.:
big a melted lead sangaree; and 'the' other
ge.ntleman is about to be preforated •in. the
iut'estines with n-patent mantireforL I gluts* -
you'd like it better than a 'work on
Wal, now thatc:is a better bolPli.
thari Any thin t ,w,else. - What
,mought it bet
' Twenty shillings, ma'a m - lerf•ctisP
„ - _ •
book thee
Wal,_ dew .it ,dartef•'?".:3„iit`tot
calkelate to,luitiCA
ent. She Wantedsomethiag - ,- - -341.9nt;:ingol, . -
but I never was no great haudibiatigelcto •
how. s, •
• The lady • hanaed him vilt Parel'Cs
each containing fifty copperail:iiileompletet ,
the amount ‘by adding tithe batter ed shit-
lings and a dubious looking sinpie, - the
whole • savoring powerfully of maceaboy-stittff.;
The sale cotupletti, and the customer gone,' 1
Mr. B. called up thric boy. Sonny:- said he,
when you're asked - for a thing whioh you
haven't got, always *haw the nearest artieb
like it that j yau hove got.l .
The uridlin looked tsflectivel - ana .
about t% ask the re , :enit)lance betwein 'Lives' -
of the.Angels' and 'Fox'S Book of 'Martyrt; ll - _
but he dian't.—Neta York paper.
. .
Two Ilstits.4‘ I remernber , utys n
-1
•httoj'ostinagter Genet-al of the. United tares,
' Ihitiffirst -time .l' vitjitpd BUrlingiciil,
_t. as
JIWYe Of the SuprA.aue•Ciitirt. I bad eft-it '-
~ ~ . , , •
inany years neiors - a poor boy.' ./tt tue Mile
I left there were two. families J)f eipecial. nob") - -..
for their standing, and wealth. Each ofithent
had a son -about my own age: I was very
poor, these boys were very !ich. During the•
long years of toil Wilich_pdsiied before my re-- - -
turn, Iliad - almost forgotten--them,- they had. _
long !, - Igo forgotten me. , - -
t Approaching the, court house - , for the Arit, ~.
time, in company of several gentleman of tha
bench and bar I noticed, in the courntetaiei
yard, a
sold at
with w 1
to ask
to Mr. - . 4
that un
tool cal
even• Ao.
lies anti
I had
own fait
his'very
debt.
• ' 1' wi
almost,
4exm iibioibed in the business berei* lA. One. of-the fiat eaiseicalled, originated= , in a low
d rtmlteti quarrel between:Mr. II: Ana' Mt. A.
Mr. IL,- thcmght - I, that -Is a, familia! =l4 •
Can lit &e I - In short,l found tintijt 11/1111WIL - -
tieed . the son pf theother'• wealthy qian te- •
ferred-`to'' '• - I vas - overwhelmed alike with.
aitouishinent and 7rthankskiiitig—astonisitp. -- Y
moot: at .the ~ehinA:w,..in our, relative pent; -,
tion4 .aini ilaankiettirttig" that I was not born:
to. iaterit weatth-, istithout toil:
'Titose'lathets;prOvide best foti , theft ch 7.
area who leitite,thini 'with the- higlieet
eatioit moreli; toat--khe
Enouty,
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