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RIDGWAY, PAV THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1872.
NO. 12.
ELK COVNTY-
POETIiY.
KHOM TFltt OEKMAN.
iIoal$t- tli. crofl, the Dearer IlpaVon j
No cross without, do God within
Doath, Judgment from the heart are driven
Amid the world fntee Rlare and din.
Oh I happy ho with all hid loon,
Whom God hath ot beneath the crew.
Uetivler the cronn, the bettor Christian ;
This Is the touch t on p God applies1).
Uow many a canton would he wanting,
Unwot by showers f j:o woppliiff eye !
The pold by Are is purified ;
Tuo ChrtMiun I. by trouble tried.
Heavier t&e croF. .lit rtronfier faith ;
The loaded palm Ftriken deeper root ;
The vine-Juice nweetly ieeneth
When men have prowd the clustered fruit ;
And courage frrown where danger come.
Like pearls beneath the wilt fea foam.
Heavier the crow, the heart ie r prayer ;
The bruised reeds most frairrant are.
If sky and wind were always fair.
The sailor would not watch the star;
And David's ppalms had ne'er been mug.
If ffrief hts heart ha nevor wrunjr.
H-'avir the cross, the more aspiring;
'rom vales wo climb to mountain rrel ;
The pihrrlm of the desert tirinjr
Koncfl for the Canaan of his rest.
The dove has hero no rest in nifrht.
And to the nrk she win pa her flight.
Heavier the cross, the easier dyincr
Death U a friendlier ace to see ;
T life's decay one bids defying.
From life's distress one then in free.
The cross sublimely lifts our faith
To Him who triumphed over death.
1 1 ton Crucified I the rrosc I carry
The longer, may it dearer be ;
And lest I faint while here I tarry.
Implant thou such a heart In me
That faith, hope, love, my flourish there,
Till for the cross my crown I wear.
THE STORY-TELLER.
A BASHFUL MAS EXPERIENCE.
If there 13 u being deserving of com
miseration, it is the sensitive man. Ho
is the victim of the unfeeling and thought
less, and a source of constant uneasiness
to himself. His misfortune loads him
into all sort of blunders.
Such an unfortunate was Nathaniel
Wilson. Ho secmod to have been born
into the world to afford amusement to
his fellow-beings ; or, as was said of him
by a wag in his native village, he came
into tho world blushing, and had never
been able to get over it. So bashful a
boy was Nathaniel that what littlo
learning he acquired at school was ac
quired through tribulation and pain.
Ho trembled all over when obliged to
rit near a girl, and when examination
duv camo he was miserable indeed.
lie could not nas. a lady on the street
without making himself ridiculous in
trying to avoid her ; and to be compelled
to sit opposite one at table overwhelmed
him with confusion. If requested to
pass a certain article of food, he was sure
to seize the wrong one, and, in his mor
tification, would cap the climax by up
Betting his coffee upon himself or his
neighbors.
The only time that Nathaniel was
ever known to involuntarily present
himself in ladies' company was on the
occasion of a picnic, gotten up by the
young people of the village ; but when
he arrived at tho scene of festivities,
and found himself surrounded by such
nn array of female loveliness, his cour
ago forsook him, and, amid tho jeers of
his comrades, he ran home for dear life.
A scapegraoo by tho name of Tom
Johnson, a character famous for play
ing tricks upon everybody, conceived
the idea of " getting a good ono " upon
Nathaniel. A young married woman
by the name of Mrs. Lane, whose hus
bund was temporarily absent on busi
ness in a foreign country, had lately
taken up her residence in the village
Having learned this much, Tom sought
out Nathaniel, and, in a very earnest
und confidential manner, said to him :
" Nat, I've got something important
to tell yon the best piece of news you
ever heard, I'll wan-ant."
" What is it ?" inquired Nathaniel,
eagerly.
yoico almost to a whisper, and assuming
a most earnest expression of countonancn,
" you have seen this Miss Lane that has
lately moved into the village- V
" Yes," replied Nathaniel, " and a
mighty fine-looking young woman she
is, too."
" That's so," said Tom ; " and what
do you think she has taken a great
fancy to you, Nat."
" Pshaw !" exclaimed Nathaniel.
" Fact," declared Tom. " She was
talking with my sister Agnes about you
yesterday, and when she heard so good
a report of you, and that your only fail
ing was being so shy of women, she
said she wished she could get acquainted
with you, but she supposed that would
bo impossible, ftho said sho had inside
tip her mind that if sho ever married it
would be to soma respectable, honest
man in tho country, for she had become
disgusted with tho deceit and hourtlcss
ness of city men. It's clear enough
that Bho came hero for no other purjxHO
than to pick up some good, honest fel
low liko you."
- " If I only thought you wero in earn
est, Tom," said Nathaniel, after a mo
inont's puuso, and in an animated man
ner; "but I'm afraid you're playing
ono of your tricks upon uio."
" Nat," replied Tom, with an offended
air, " I'm tolling you tho truth. Plenty
of high-born ladies have the sumo no
tions about matrimony as Miss Lano
has; there's nothing strange about it.
And, Nat, if you'll take the advice of a
friend, go and see tho young woman
and gently hint at tho subject. You
are too good a fellow to drono away
your life in this fashion ; get married
-and be a man."
" It won't kill a fellow to call on a
woman, even if he does get tho slip,"
said Nathaniel, in a state c f high excite
ment.
"Of course it won't," replied Tom,
id again exhorting Nathaniel to lose
wme in securing so rum a urue. ho
parted.
Toor Nathaniel was in a pit iablo state
of anxiety and uncertainty. But love,
the grent conqueror. soon decided his
course.
" I'll go and hco hor I" ho exclaimed.
" If a man ain't a man at twenty-six
years old, when is ho going to be Y"
And the next hour saw Nathaniel
Wilson, the most bashful man in all the
country round, attired in his best suit,
and nearly frightened to death, stand
ing, on the doorstep of Mrs. Lane's
dwelling. With a trembling hand ho
gave the bell a convulsive pull. Tho
call was unswered by tho object of his
adoration hei self.
" Good morning," Nathaniel mauuged
to articulate, oblivious of the fart that
it was threo hours past noon.
" Good afternoon, sir," replied Mrs.
Lane. " Will you walk in ':"
Nathaniel accepted the invitation,
and dropped into the proffered chair
with a fluttering heart.
" Nice day," he ventured to remark,
in a husky tone.
" A beautiful day," replied Mrs Lane,
with a cordial vigor which made him
start.
" Nice weather to ride out und see
tho crops and things," stammered Na
thaniel, after a long pause, ' a-heming "
and hitching uneasily n his seat.
" Yes, indeed," said Mrs. Lane, puz
zled at lier visitor's strange manner, and
curious to know what he could be driv
ing at.
Another painful pause ensued. Na
thaniel looked at the lady, then at tho
floor, then at the ceiling ; his face turn
ed all colors, and his muscles twitched
nervously. He felt that he had under
taken the most stupendous and trying
feat of his life. All liis formor missions
dwindled into nothingness compared
with this. Ho wished he was at homo !
But tho lady was anxiously awaiting
his pleasure, and ho made a desperate
effort.
" Miss Lane, I'vo understood "
"Yes, sir'?" replied that lady, inter
rogatively, as Nathaniel's understand
ing met with a quietus.
Matters wcio becoming serious, at
least with poor Nathaniel, and any
thing but agreeable to Mrs. Lane, who
was at her wit' end to know tho mean
ing of such a strange proceeding. To
recede now wus impossible, thought the
unfortunate man, and he braced himsolf
for another trial.
" Miss Lano, I suppose yeu know I'm
a single man ':" he said, and his lips
quivered.
Sho thought hint a singular man, if
not an idiot or a lunatic, ; but she said
nothing, and awaited developments.
" I have been advised to give you a
call," Nathaniel continued, gaining a
little confidence from the comparatively
smooth progress ot the interview thus
far, "and perhaps you might render
me "
Another halt, another cough, and more
nervousness.
" If I can render you any servico I
shall bo happy to elo so," said Mrs.
Lane, thinking that her visitor was la
boring under some mental aberration or
domestic allliction.
Nathaniel felt encouraged in fact,
elated.
What could this answer mean but un
invitation to come to the interesting
climax at once, and relieve both parties 't
No sooner thought than acted, upon.
Wiping his perspiring forehead, he
blurted out :
"Miss Lane, I'm a single mun, and I
want a wife. A friend of mine has told
me that you havo spoken of me in a fa
vorable kind of way, and advised me
to come and see you. Will you marry
me '("
It is strango how susceptible of sud
den change is one's temper, and especi
ally a woman's ! - Mrs. Lane, not dream
ing of such a termination of affairs, was
astounded, and, very properly, highly
indignant.
" What do you mean, sir, by insulting
me, a married woman, in this way '("
she exclaimed; leave my house immedi
ately !" and she opened the door to ac
celerate her offender's exit.
" A married woman O, Lord !" gash
ed poor Nathaniel, who had risen from
his seat and stood trembling from head
to foot, and in his fright and confusion
ho bolted out of the door, leaving his
hat behind him.
On board the train that left the vil
lage of M., that evening, there might
have been seen, in one corner of the cur,
a wne-begorio man holding with one
hand a huge carpet bag upon his knee,
while with tho other lie now and then
wiped his face with his pocket-handkerchief.
This iiidivivuul was no other
than poor Nathaniel Wilson, who, filled
with grief and mortification at his ri
diculous performance of that afternoon,
had hastily gotten together his worldly
all, and was flying from tho scene of his
disgrace.
But " all's well that ends well ;" and
never had the proverb a more striking
illustration than in the cruel hoax of
which Nathaniel Wilson had Iwnii made
tho victim. But u few days hud elapsed
after Mrs. Lane's interview with Na
thaniel, when that lady received news
of the deat h of her husband, which oc
curred nevernl wwlm previously in the
distant country whither tin hud gone.
In the meantime tlm heartless joke that
had been played noon Nathaniel had
come to the ems of Mrs. Lune, und with
it so favorable a mention of Nuthuniel'g
moral standing in the community, that
the lady, in hor goodness of heart, wrote
to Nathaniel u hitter of regret for tho'
injury she hud innocently done him, and
assuring him of the respect with which
sho had come to regard him.
The missive received from tho over
joyed Nathaniel a prompt response. A
correspondence was established and con
tinued between tho two so ludicrously
brought together, and, in littlo more
than a your after his departure, Nathan
iel returned home to consummate in
marriage the court-hip bo inauspicious
ly begun. Ilia short experience among
strangers had wrought a wonderful
change in him ; the awkward, bashful
fellow had indeed "made a man of him
solf," and none aire more highly esteem
ed in the village of M., than Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson.
Tho Watch and I ho Turkey.
As a certain learned Judge in Mexico;
sometime sinco, walked one morninginto
court, ho thought lie would examine
whether ho was in time for business,
and, feeling for his repeater, found it was
not in his pocket.
" As usual," said he to a friend who ac
companied him, as he passod through tho
crowd near tho door " as usual I have
again left my watch at home under my
pillow."
He took his scat on the bench, and
thought no more of it. The court ad
journed, and he returned homo.
As soon as ho was quietly seated in his
parlor, ho bethought him of his timepieco,
and, turning to his wifo, requested her
to send for it to. their chamber.
"But, my elear Judge," said she, "I
sent it to you threo hours ago."
' Sent it to me, my elear 'f Certainly
not."
"Unquestionably!" replieil the lady;
" and by the person you sent for it."
" The person I sent for it !" echoed tho
Judge.
" Precisely, my dear ; the very person
you sent for it. You had not left hoipo
more than an hemr when a well-dressed
man knocked at the door and asked to
see me. lie brought one of the finest
turkeys I ever saw, and said that cn
your way to court yon met an Indian
with a number of fowls. Having bought
this one at a bargain, you hael given him
a couple of reals to bring it home, with
the request that I would have it killed
and put to coed, as you intended to in
vite your brother judges to a elish of
molk to-morrow. And ' O ! by the way,
senorita,' Baid he, 'his excellency the
Judge requested mo to ask you to give
yourself tko trouble to go to your cham
ber and take his watch from under the
pillow, where ho says he left it as nsual
this morning, and send it to him by me.'
And of course I did so."
" You did '(" said the Judgo.
" Certainly '." said tho lady.
" Well," replied his honor, " all I can
say to you, my dear, is that you are as
great a gooso as the bird is a turkey.
You've been robbed, madam ; that man
was a thief ; I never sent for my watch ;
you've been imposed upon, and, as a nec
essary consequence, tho watch is lost for
ever." The trick was a cunning ono ; and,
after a laugh, and tho restoration of tho
Judgo's good tempor by a good dinner,
it was resolved actually to have the
turkey for to-morrow's dinner, and his
honor's brothx rn of the bench to enjoy so
dear a morsel.
Accordingly, after tho adjournment of
court next day, they all repaired to his
dwelling, with appetites sharpened by
tho cxpe-ctation of a rare repast. Scarce
ly had they entered the Wuse and ex
changed the ordinary salutations, when
tho lady broke forth with congratula
tions to his honor upon thn recovery ot
his stolen watch.
" How happy am I," exclaimed she,
" that tho villain was npprehended."
" Apprehended !" said the Judgo, with
surprise.
" Yes ; and doubtless convicted, too, by
this time," said the wife.
" You :'.ro always talking riddles,"' re
plied ho ; " explain yourself, my elear. I
know nothing of thief, wate-h, or convic
tion." " It can't be possible thut I have been
again deceived," quoth tho laely ; " but
this is the story : About one o'clock to
day a pale and rather interesting young
gentleman, dressed in a seedy suit of
black, camo to the house in great hasto
almost out of breath. Ho said that he
was just from court ; that he was ono of
the clerks ; that the great villain who
had tho audacity to steal yeur honor's
watch had just bee-n arrested; that the
evidences was nearly perfect to convict
him, and all that was required to com-
Elete it was the turkey, which must bo
rought into court, and for that ho had
been sent with a porter by your express
orders."
" And you gave it to him ':"
" Of course I did ! Who could have
doubted him, or resisted the orders of a
Judge '"
" Watch and turkey both gone ! Pray,
madam, what are we to elo for dinner 'f"
But the lad had taken euro of her
guests, notwithstanding her simplicity,
and tho party enjoyed both tho joke and
the-ir viands. M.iyer'n Me.vico A It Wan.
A Slight Mlntnke.
Tho following anecdote, which first
appeared in tho newspapers many years
ago, is said to have been founded on an
actual occurrence. Although it may
not illustrate tho democratic simplicity
of tho peoplo of Vermont to-elay, it is
nevertheless a good Btory, and good also
for many years' longer life in tho news
papers :
" Hallo, you man with a pail and
frock, can you inform mo whother His
Honor tho Governor of Vermont resides
here?" said a British officer, as he
brought his fiery horse to a stand in
front of Governor Chittenden's dwelling.
" Ho does," was tho response of tho
man, still wending his way to a pig-sty.
" Is His Honor at home ':" continued
tho man of spurs.
" Most certainly," replied frock.
"Tuke my horso by the bit, then,"
said the officer. " I havo business to
transact with your master."
Without a second bidding, tho man
did as requested, and tho officer alighted
and made his way to the door, and gave
the panel several hearty raps with the
butt of his whip for be it known that
in thoso days of republican simplicity
knockers and bells, like servants, were
in but little use. The good dame an
swered tho summons in person ; and
having seated tho officer and ascertained
his desire to sea tho Governor, departed
to inform her husband of the guest's ar
rival ; but on ascertaining that the of
ficer had mado a hitching-post of her
husband,' she immediately returned and
informed him that the Governor was en
gaged in the yard, and could not verv
well wait upon him and his horse at the
same time ! The predicament of the of
ficer can be better imagined than de
scribee.
A Strange History.
Gcorere Washington Webster, who re
cently committed snicido at the North
Farm ot tho Shaker iamuy, at canter
bury, N. H. (a brief but imporfect ac
count of whose life is given in Tin Con
cord Monitor), was, as the writer says, a
" natural son ot a weaitny ex-mayor ot
Boston," who .was only 18 years the
senior of tho subject of this narrative.
His mother was a handsome young
woman from Hooksett, N. II., who did
servico in tho family of the parents of
tho young collegian, who uftorwards
roso to distinction in tho city, while his
ruined victim was cast out. When tho
young child, tho fruit of this illicit
union, was a few years old he was sent
to Hooksett and placed in the care of
his uncle, who is now living on the old
farm whoro tins young lad spent some
ten years of his early life. At tho ago
of about 10 ho went to Pembroke to live
with Capt. Jacob Sawyer, a retired busi
ness man. with the privilego of attend
ing school at tho local academy. He
soon attracteel tho attention of his teacher
by his brilliant natural gifts, and was
pronounced tho best schoiar in tho in
stitution. By the solicitations of his
frienels, his uncle, who know the cir
cumstance's of his birth and wealthy
connections, which up to this time had
been kept from the boy, took him ' to
Boston, and obtaineel an interview with
his father, whom tho young man very
much resembled in appearance. The
father was pleased with his intelligence
and ambition, and, on condition that he
would have his name changed, and he
and his friends keep the whole matter a
profound secret, promised to send him
through college and prepare him for a
profession, but nothing more, furnishing
him with money, watch, and clothing.
Having been brought up a Methodist,
ho went to Newbury, Vt., to a school of
that denomination, where he fitted for
collego under tho legal name of George
Washington Webster, hinting to his fellow-students
that his father was an
eminent lawyer of Boston, loading them
to infer that ho was a son of tho Hon.
Daniel Webster, then tho only eminent
lawyer of that name in the city. From
Newbury ho entered Dartmouth, where
ho graduated with high honors in 134",
losing ono year, however, of tho course,
on account of disease of tho mind. He
was generous, high-spirited, social in
his feelings, witty, eloquent of speech,
ef poetic tastes, fervid in religion, but
of strong passions, inheriting many of
his eccentricitios and faults from tho
broken nervou9 system of his unhappy
mother.
Dunne: his oallego oouvso he taught
school in Chelmsford, Mass,, twjor threo
winters, and before his graduation mar
ried a vory estimable lady of that place.
After leaving college he went to Moad
ville, Pa., whero he spent throo years
preparatory to tho ministry, and after
ward settled in heeling as a L nitarian
preacher. Hero ho attempted to unite
the liberal elements ot tho place into a
Union Society and Church, unel camo on
to New England to obtain funds with
which to erect a church cdifico for this
purpose, preaching in Boston, Med ford,
and some other places, meeting with tho
desired success. This was in 1851-32.
He remained in Wheeling sonio two or
threo years, but in 18.14 returned to
Massachusetts, living for a while in or
near Boston, supplying destitute pulpits
in the vioinitv, almost always walking
to and from his appointments. On one
occasion ho walked to New Bedford or
tall River (the writer has forgotten
which) on Saturday, preached on Sun
day, and walked back to Boston on
Monday. In 18do he accepted a call
and settled oyer the old parish in Bed
foril, a few miles north of Lexington.
Here "he preached ono year, exchanging
pulpit services with tho writer in Feb
ruary, 18yb, but m tho following spring
ho resigned his connection with the
parish, attempting some innovation in
the church which tho members did not
approve. Still residing in Bedford, he
became more cccemtric in his ways, tak
ing long walks, sawing wood for poor
widows, sometimes letting himself at
haying to the farmers in tho town, but
spending most f his time till the year
1801 in writing a book in favor of poly
gamy, and in studying the problom of
perpetual motion ; claiming at ono time
that ho had discovered tho secret, and
seeking to borrow money to put it in
operation. On the breaking out of the
Rebellion he enlisted as a soldier, first
burning all his sermons, but charging
his wifo to preserve with the utmost
care his MSS. on polygamy. Not liking
the dull monotony of the camp, ho de
serted, was taken, and, I believe, after
some slight penalty and reprimand, re
stored to his place ; but, repeating the
offense, ho was tried as a deserter and
sentenced to death. But his wife and
friends interceded, proving his course to
bo the result of mental disorder, and he
was pardoned. Subsequently bo was
discharged, and returned to his family,
but not to live with thorn.
Of his history from that time till his
melancholy death at Canterbury the
writer knows nothing. His mother
married a Boston merchant and after
ward diod in an insane asylum, leaving
a large family of children. Having
known him for more than forty years,
the above statements are substantially
correct, lie wus not jar irom oo years
ot ago at his death. ( 'or. of Norfolk
County Gazette.
OniaiK of ah Old Proverb. The
following account of tho saying, " those
wio live in glass house shouldn't throw
stones," is interesting. At the union of
England and Scotland (in 1707, we bo
lieve), great numbers of Scotchmen
Hocked to London. Buckingham hated
the Scotch bitterly, and encouraged
marauders to break the windows of
houses occupied by them. Some of the
sufferers retaliated by breaking tho win
dows of the Duke's house, which had so
many that it was called the " Glass
House. " The Duke complained to the
king, and the monarch replied. "Ah.
Rteenie, Kteenie ! those wha livo in glass
housen' should be carefu' how they fling
stanes.
The Loves of John Wesley.
strscEnrELE fotnder of a great
SECT.
Tho story of Wesley's love affairs, never
given so fairly and so fully as now by
Mr. Luko Tyerman, in his " Lifo and
Times of John Wesley," forms a strango
and most remarkable series of episodes
in his lifo. The first occurrence was
during his mission to Georgia, whero he
formed a deep attachment to a Miss So
phia Hopkey, ni.,'Co of the chief magis
trate of the colony. Tho earlier biog
raphies of Wesley reprosent tho affair as
involving a conspiracy on the part of
the young lady and her friends against
the reputation of the youthful ascetic.
But so unlikely an account is now elis
crcditod, and is totally disclaimed by
Mr. Tyerman. Certain it is that Wesley
was deenly in love ; certain, too. that he
referred the case to his Moravian friends
and advisers, who decided accordingly
that he should proceed no further in tho
matter, and ho is said to have acriuiesed,
saying, " The will of the Lord be done."
However this may havo been (and it
seems doubtful whether he voluntarily
gave up his attachment), tho sequel is
equally strange. For wo find him a few
months after publicly refusing tho sac
rament to this samo' lady (then married
to a Mr. Williamson) when she present
ed herself . at the Lord's table. The
gronnds of his refusal have never been
cleareil up ; but it was largely in conse
quence ot this behavior that he drew on
himself thooeliumand prosecution which
elrove him out of Georgia.
r or some years after this ho persisted
in his resolution of celibacy a resolu
tion whie'h certainly was most advisable
for ono who had embraced a lifo of self
denial, labor and homelessness. In 1743,
too, he published his " Thoughts on a
Single Life," extolling that stato as the
privilego, if not tho duty, of all who
wero capable ot receiving it ; and threo
years after, in a published hymn, which
is clearly autobiographitial, expressed
himsolf as follows :
" l have no nharer of my heart
To rob my Saviour of a part
And defecrute the whole ;
Only betrothed to Chrint am I,
And wait his coming- from tho ky
To wed mr happv poul."
It was, therefore, with great surprise,
and not without sonio scandal, that in
1749 his friends heard that ho was en
gaged to a Mrs. Grace Murray, a young
widow who had nursed him in a" short
illness, and who was actually nccqnipa
nying him at that time in his 'ministerial
travels through the country. This
young woman hud boon brought up as
a maid-servant, and was a person of
small education, though of great at
tractions, and a fervent convert to
Methodism. Sho was a person of singu
larly impulsive ternperamont, and, with
an utter disregard ot delicacy and honor,
in the midst of her engagement to Wes
ley allowed herself to coquet also with
one of his lay preachers, John Bennett ;
and lor some months tho most extraor
dinary alternations went on, her choice
resting sometimes on one, sometimes on
tho other of her lovers, with passionate
assertions of her entire elevotednoss to
each, and this with intervals occasional
ly of a fow hours only.
Charles V esley, eusgusted and indig
nant, strove to put an eml to the scan
dal. His brother yielded, and met the
lady to say farewell, no kissed her, and
said, " Grace Murray, you have broken
my heart." A week or two after she was
married to tho inferior suitor. She and
Wesley eliil not meet again for thirty-
nino years, hlie long outlived her hus
band ; and when in Lonelon she came to
bear her son preach in Moorefields sho
met her venerablo lover lovor still, ap
parently, for tho interview is described
as very anooting. Henceforth they saw
each other no more, and Wesley never
again mentioned her name. Through
long years Grace continued a course of
Christian usefulness, and lived and died
eminently respected. She lieain Chinly
churchyard, in Derbyshire.
I; ncletorred by his lornier experience.
in 1751 Wesley again ventureel upon an
engagement which actually resulted in
marriage. Now, too, tho lady was a
widow, a Mrs. Vazeille ; her first hus
band having beon a morohant who had
left hor a small indopendenoe. There
was littlo in her to deserve the! attach
ment of such a man, either in character
or intellect. She, too, liko Grace Mur
ray, was of humblo birth, and, like her,
had been a maid-servant. Having dur
ing her widowhood joined herself to the
Alethodists, she was naturally pleased
and flattered with the attentions of their
renowned head. Charles Wesley again
interposed ; but this time in vain. It
soon appeared how ill-advised a union
had been contracted ; and after a tow
years of wretched married life, marked
on her part by outrageous ill-temper.
jealousy, violence and even treoohory,
which her husbanci on his side boro with
the pationco of a Socrates, tho lady one
day took horsolf off and lived in a state
ot separation Irom nun till her death.
" Non earn reliqui, non dimini, non revociJio
1 did not forsake hor, I did not diS'
miss her, I will not rocall her" was the
husband's apt and pardonable exclama
tion when he founel her gone. Sho takes
her place in the foremost rank of the bad
wives ot eminont men, worthy to be
classed with tho wedded companions of
Socrates, ot Albert JJurer, of George
Herbert, or Richard Hooker ; she was
the most vicious vixen of them all.
It may be imagined, without doing
any injustice to him, that when his let
ters were stolen, interpolated and torged
by his wife, for the purpose of injuring
his character, the grieving spirit of the
old prophet may sometimes have said.
" Graco Murray would not have done
this." At the same time we must, in
justice, say that Wesley cannot Ue who!
ly exonerated from blame ; for, setting
aside the question whether, after, elect
ing to marry, ho was not hound to do
more for tho comfort of his wifo, he cer
tainly save occasion to her iealous tem
per by his unwary conduct, and, most of
all, by his unaccountable fondness for a
certain Sarah Kyan, a quondam maid
servant, like the others ; who, although
she was the wife of three Ik'ma hunbands,
so won the good opinion and confidence
of Wesley by her ostentatious dovout
ness that ho actually appointed hor ma
tron of Kingswood school, whore he ne
opssarily paid froquent visits. No sus
picion can really attaeh, of course, to the
fair fame of one so pure and unblemish
ed as Wesley ; but it was difficult for a
jealous wife to think so. And assuredly
we must say of him, adopting a well
knswn phrase of Mr, Froudo's, that " in
his relations with women he seemed to
be undor a fatal nocessity of mistake."
Out of Work.
Everywhere we hear this complaint,
but it is generally from felons who
have no settled occupation in life, or,
next to none, follow somo precarious
clerkship. Or, if it is of thoso who en
deavor to follow a mechanical trade,
they aro persons who are not " up " in
their calling. Workmen of any handi
craft who aro masters of their business
selelom want for work. But tho number
of " miserable clerks " no other-words
will express the subject out of employ
ment to-day in New York, Boston, Phil
adelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chicago,
and other great cities of tho land, is not
only lamentable, but enormous. Mer
chants, bankers, and business men of all
kinds more especially thoso who labor
under a reputation for benevolence
ate inundated by applications from per
sons thoroughly deserving, who are re
duced to the most tlesperate straits for a
bare subsistence.
Only a few days ago, a gentleman dis
covered, in the conductor of the car in
wnicn no was travelling, an old ac
quaintance, formerly a clerk with a
salary ot ttirue thousand elollars, who
was thankful to havo even his present
employment. Nor is he tho only ono
of this class so engaged. Tho evil is.
moroover, an increasing on, and peoplo
would do well seriously to bethink them
selves of a remedy. Evon oleiks who do
got work have, ordinarily, so poor a
futuro befnr.-i them, that tho fascination
thi employment has can only bo ac
counted for by absurd notions of its
gi utility. ' If persons had rather
Bturvo in a " genteel " manner than
tako off coat determinedly, and go to
work, why it is their own affair, we sup
pose. But it is time people s eyes were
opened to tho enormity of the evils they
genorate by crowding tho unproducing
ranks of lifo, and letting the producing
go unfilled.
I hero is a great demand tor men, for
workers but tho market for dronos, for
loafers, is always full. Peoplo of sense
havo about arrived at tho conclusion, in
plain language, that " any fool can be a
clerk," while to bo an efficient cabinet
maker requires qualities by no moans so
easilj found. The result is that tho
supply of tho clerk class is enormously
in xcess ot tho demand, and as a nat
ural consequence, their salaries can be
screwed down to tho very lowest limits,
and this fact tho capitalist is generally
at no great hesitation to improve upon.
Not only is tho numbor of clerks kept
ir above tho demand by the hosts strug
gling for aelmittaiico to its " honors "
who think it i3 more " genteel " than
manual labor, and by tho influx of fe
male labor that is setting in that direc
tion, but tho business is often perpetua
ted from fathor to son. Boys are put
into tho runks of clerkship who aro en
tirely unfitted for servico there. A
clerk, having a boy of fifteen, goes to
the head of a house in which he is him
self employed, solicits a placo for his
son, and congratulates himself on having
by so doing contributed at least six. dol
lars a week more to tho scanty resources
of home. Wero ho to reflect that he is,
in all probability, condemning tho lad
to tho chronic impecuniosity under which
he himself groans, ho would bo less do
lighted. These children should be kept
in view, antl their real interests cared
for. They shoulel be rescued from that
most miserable of all lives, the constant
struggle to maintain appearances; tho
shabby shifts and mean devices to appear
something which they are not. This is
real poverty.
This, too, is what makes the carpenter
or the shoemaker, albeit his actual gains
in money may be ttio same, so fur richer
man than the clerk, lie has a good
fire, plenty to eat, and warm clothes.
His wifo cooks the chops, and does tho
woshing, and doesn't care who knows
that she does it; and their means amply
suffice for a lifo which is perfectly nat
ural, genuine, and above-board in every
resptict. And the West beckons to peo
ple who might otherwise fritter away
their lives at homo in the bondage of
clerkships. We have a boundless terri
tory to be developed, virgin soil to bo
upturned, and lan.s which will grow
yearly in value, to be obtained on the
easiest terms. There aro men in the
Western States who had tho oourage, in
early hto, to leave the counters of Chica
go and nt. .Liouis to rough it in Cali
fornia and Colorado. Tboj bought laud
for cents which is now worth thousands
of dollars. They dug the ground which
Denver and Sacramento now cover,
Their vigor and physique is certainly as
good to-day as that ot their fellow
clerks, whom, at nineteen, they left at
the desk, while they havo more dollars
than tho others have cents.
The striko for increased wages in Eng
land, Germany, and France is on tho in
crease, and bids fair to succeed, more or
less. In Germany, where it has boen
carried on, very persistently, since the
ending of the war with France, it has
ended in a general rise of 25 per cent, in
the price of labor in a single year, with a
reduction of the working hours from
twelve to ten. The German agricultural
laborers are endeavoring to obtain laud
proprietorship, and thoso who fail in this
endeavor are emigrating to the United
States. At present the number of Ger
man is greater than the number of Irish
immigrants, within the last nine months,
A negro in Mississippi the other day
climbed a tree to saw on a limb upon
which a swarm of bees were settled,
nen tne limb tell the whole swarm
settled upon the he-id of the unfortunate
man, and stung him to severely that he
uiea in en minutes.
Eacts and Figures.
Gosport, Ind., has a man who hears
trough his mouth, external auricular
organs being wanting.
A Canadian Leander is going to niakct
a hero of himsolf by undertaking to swim
six miles from Buffalo light-house in
Lake Eric.
An Fnglish farmer in Iowa sent to
London for a sced-sowcr at an expense
of $250, when a better one could be got
at home f or f 40.
Wisconsin papers' complain of a man
who was mean enough to elope with the
only school-teacher in Green Bay, thus
shutting up tho school.
Mr. Stewart's fortune is estimated at
between fifty and sixtv millions. Com- :
fortable amount, when there is a margin
of ton millions to guess by.
Two English ladies, tho Misses Chares
worth and Sims, lately married two
South Sea Istandors in Australia the
first marriage of tho kind on record.
An Indiana maiden suing for breach
of promisd, has put in evidence not only
the letters of tho faithless one, but also
her own, to show the depth of ruined af
fection. A woman in Manchester, England,
has beon arrested for chloroforming wo
men, and while they were in an insensi
blo condition, cutting off und stealing
their hair.
There aro twe-nty female physicians
in Berlin who are justly entitled to be
called famous practitionei-s. They have
amassed individually ample pecuniary
means, it is saiel.
A Michigan paper thus delicately an
nounces a death from a " non-explosive :"
" Mrs. Maria Flamoly gave up tho bad
habit of using korosene for kindling fires,
on Thursday last."
Believing in the proverb, " Never too
old to mohd," Prof. W. L. Mitchell, of
tho Georgia University Law School, lias
just commenced the study of Hebrew,
aged 70. It may bo of service to hiin as
he grows up.
A female book agent recently called
the Governor of Rhotlo Island, from his
place in tho Senato, during an important
debate, to solicit his subscription for a
book sho was selling. Tho interview is
said to havo terminated abruptly..
Dr. Holmes talks, in his pleasant way.
of lawyers, ministers and doctors, whoso
several virtues aro summed up in tho
single sentence, " Tho lawyers aro tho
cleverest men, the ministers are tho most
learned, and the doctors aro tho most
sensible."
There is a woman in Springfieltl who
is eleterminod not to bo cheated. Sho
purchased a spool of cotton thread at a
dry goods storo.tho other day, and insist
ed on having tho clorlt unwind and moas
ure it to muke sure that it did not fall
below 200 yards.
Dr. Oscar Liobrich, tho inventor of
hvdruto of chloral, has introduced a now
organic compound callod croton-chloral.
by which tho head may bo rendered in
sensible while the other parts of the body
remain unaffected. It therefore promise's
to produco all the good effects of hydrate
of chloral without any drawbacks bedng
attached to its judicious use.
The heat was s intense at Adeluiile,
South Australia, last January, that busi
ness nearly coasoel, sleeping become al
most an impossibility, and even a colel
bath was scarcely attainable, the water
works being heated to soventy-nmo de
grees. For twelve days tho mercury rang
ed in' the elay up to one hundred ftnil
eighty degrees in tho shade.
Tho oftcn-inootod question whether
the great lakes have tidal movements
will probably bo settloel this summer, u
series of observations being about to be
instituted under the direction of th
United States Coast Survey, to ascertain
tho cause of tho rise and fall of the waters
of Lake Superior, which have for some
time past attracted tho attention ot the
curious.
Country banks can take no better pre
caution than to have a first-class safe
with a lock very elitncult to open, but at
the samo time they ought to have some
body around who knows how t-o open it
in case of necessity. A New Hampshire,
bank lately obtained a valuublo safe
with a patent combination look, and
stowed the valuables therein, but every
body torgot the combination, and it
took a brawny blacksmith all elay to
got into it.
The English Anti-Tobacco Society,
wanting evidences of tho evil effects ot
tho wood, took into their service Professor
Newman. He had never used the stun
in any form ; and tho arrangement was
that he should tako a good smoke, get
sick, and then describe his horrible sen
sations in a course of lectures. The Pro
fessor got his pipe aud smoked about half
an hour, but singularly enough he did
not get sick at all ; and, so far from being
utterly aisgusiea, ue just Keeps on smoa
ing, and the Society folks are a little
discouraged.
A droll account is given by tho Gor
man St. Petersburgh Qazettt of the ex
traordinary way in which a professor of
magio has announced his arrival in that
country. A distinguished looking gen
tleman enters a hairdresser's shop on the
Novsky to be shaved. Mons. Philnppe,
the master, not being home, one of his
men undertakes, that anxious and deli
cate task. The gentleman sits down,
the operator tucks in the inevitable nap
kin, luthers tho hirsute chin, carefully
strops the chosen razor, and with hands
jerked out of roach of tho impending
cuff, is going to begin operations,' when,
to his amazement, he discovers that he
is about to Bhave his man with a carrot !
The stupefied friseur stares at his custo
mer, states at the carrot, then, throwing
the vegetable away, and silontly pick
ing out another razor, again comes tn
the charge with a cucumber ! ' The
devil !" he cries, aghast, when his mas
ter, entering, undeceivos him as to the
infernal character of his subject by ad
dressing the geutloman as M. le Profes
seur Welle. The writer does not vouch
for tho truth of the story, but has read,
it in sober German print.