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STROUDSBURG-. MQNROE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 18, 1858.
NO. 48.
VOL 18.
Published lv Theodore Schoch.
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Justices. I.ppal and other lilanks, Famplilr.t5.&c, prin- , , ...J rn...i i.:, ,,. rtn a sum
led with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms abounds, and lound tUS uatue OH a Sign
et this office, board, associated with that of another
CHARITY.
In the hour of keenest sorrow
;rTn the hour of deepest woo
"Wait not for the coming morrow,
To the sad and sorrowiug go
Make it thy sinccrest pleasure
To admioistcr relief;
Freely opening thy treasuro
T' assuage a brother's
grief.
Go and seek the orphan
sij-nms
i
Seek the widow iu her tear.",
And, on mercy's pitiious flying,
Go, dispel their darkest fears.
Seek the stranger, sad aud weary.
Pass not on the other side,
Though the task be sad and dreary,
Heeding not the scoru of pride.
Go, with manners unassuming,
In a meek and quiet way
O'er the father ne'er presuming,
Though thy brother sadly stray;
'Tis a Saviour's kiud compassion
'Tis Ilia righteousness alone,
All unmerited salvation
That around thy path hath shono.
When thy heart is warmly glowing
With the sacred love of prayer,
Be thy works of kindness flowing,
Not as with a miser's care.
Duty e'er would be thy watchword
Pity drop the balmy tear;
To the fallen always cherish
Sympathy and love .-inccre.
A Desperate Resolution.
A young lady who sins herself "Eu-j
3ora, "sends as a gilt-edged sheet on which
she declares in a positive ruauncr that
she is eoin to lead a single life, at the
risk of being culled an old maid. The
poem opens as follows :
TnE SINGLE LIPE.
'A-single life is the life. for me,
For then I can go where I please, and the
flowers I can tee;
I will drink all akme my own lea,
Willi naught but the gay and pretty birds
to see.
It must be very pleasant to see the flow
ers sad "pretty birds" all alone, but to
fit down in silence and drink a cup of
Souschons or Oolong mu:t be dull bui-ncss.-
She goes on to say :
Oh never a man did I meet,
That by him 1 would wish to take a seat ;
Through the voj'nge of life so sweet
A ntl riprlimw I trvir npvfir th.iT tilocsivl niu
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Wc
don't suppose a man would hurt
you if you did hit beside him, and as for
the voyage of life bcin a sweet mixture
of masculiue and feminine happines, there
as no Kuch thing iu the book. But she
lays it down still harder :
But it will make no difference to me,
For a single life I have chosen and so it
shall be;
Oh, yes. n single life is ihe one for n;e,
And bo it forever shall and will he
Ah S that is a terriblft rpsnlntlnn This
declaring to live single to all "eternity"
14 worse than
taiuii'r tuo oiacK veil or
1 .( a
ioininj? the Know
Volh UPS. Still sho.
a v
does uot seem to alter her determination:
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So all alone I'll dwell in some island home.
Where I will raise no great and lofty dome; j
liul a little low and humble cot,
Where contentment and joy shall be my
Jot,
This is worse than ail the rest.
We
could bear to hear that she was goiDg
drink-her tea all aloac, but this retiring t was really very amusing to see what the
to a Mow and humble cot" in some "U1-' fruit and vegetables raised from ourgar
and home" is too much to bear in silence. 'den stood usln. Making use of the little
Won't vou po to the eitv occaionallv ! arithmetic I was master of, I recollect
Won!t vou visit the circuses caravans and
cattle shows, Eudora !
So let' me dwell.
, Where all will vc well.
There mav 1 in peace aud plenty dwell,
' With none but God humble joys to tell.
dm lectin, cnn.nc Wofr-jir
slie will next decideon something dread-
ful. Hero it comes:
I would nol have an old man to boss me round,
T'fi cnrtirr Iphvp iiim dttJnfr rn iiio nrnnnii
For now I can go where I please
Without having an old man to lease.
Ob Mose.s! What will tho ucorde sav
n.. t T tfli-oc tlip fnr.li rial, nut nf
a manly form, who might otherwise be
aoving in all the dignity of human great-
ness, instead of bein" left "silting on the
cround." We wouldn't do any such thing
"TCndnra. It's cruel, it's inhuman, it's
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dreadful, it's oh Eudora 1 vo,co aud t0 00 particular about grammar
- -- . 1 and the subjects I talked on; but some-
3- "My sod, would you suppose that times forgetting myself I would revel in
the Lord's Prayer could be eDgraved in a the proud memory of tho locks and keys
space no larger than the .area of a half I bad handled in happier days and com
djmej mence a history of my exploits in that
:' Wellyes, father, if a half dime is es line, when wife would look as though she
iargeinevprybody'seyea asit iain yours, I was going to sink through tho floor. In
think .there woukUbecno.diflicuUy in put- fact ebe wished to keep a perpetual look
ting it on about four tiroes. 40n my lips, (so far as our antecedents are
THE BAC?SjfirjriI;
on,
MY WIFE'S COUSIN.
Sorun time ago, I called on a cousin of
my wife who resided in the city of Phila
delphia. I had not seen bim for a long
time, but having understood that ho was
iu affluent circumstances, I was but little
prepared for the condition in which I
found him. Through information dcriv-
man, over
a dark aua ainsy suop. ine
isign purporting that they were locksmiths
land bell hangers; al.-o that locks were
repaired and keys fitted. With ceremo
ny, I walked into the gloomy recess,
where there was a blacksmith's forgo,
and where among sevoral muscular look
ing men, up to their armpits in work was
"my wife's cousin." He received me most
cordially, and for a moment intermitted a
htiie kev on which he was engaged, and
itho shake of my own dexter by oue of his
i broad, brawny hands, can liken to noth
ing near than the shock of a young carth-
qunke.
i "Take a seat, tako a scat," he observ
ed, "and just as oon as I finish this key,
we'll make tracks for homo."
I of course replied that I was in no
hurry and at once became interested in
the facile manner in which he was meta
morphosing a rough casting into a finish
ed key. As t-oon as it was completed,
he wa-hed the worst of the dirt from his
hands, hung up his work apron, and then
putting on his coat and hat remarked, in
a cheerful tone:
"Come, now, Cousin Aleck, let's go and
seo whether wife has got any tea for us."
After we were in the street, our conver
sation insensibly ran ou business, and 1
took occasion to say to hija that I had
been of the opinion that he had retired
from his trade on a handsome competen
cy. "Don't say a word about retirement"
he replied, ''it nearly makes me sick to
think of it. People talk of retiring from
bu-iness while they are healthy and able
to work; v.hy, I tell you, Aleck, they
don't know what it means. I didu'tknow
what it meant until I tried it, but wow rc
! tircmcnt and ruisory sound to my ears,
(like words of the same meaning!"
Perceiving that he had struck a subject
on which he could easily be communica
tive, I looked inquiringly, when he rejoin
ed, "Perhaps you never heard the partic
ulars of tny retiring."
On my replying that I had not, he pro
ceeded. "You see, Alek, it is about
three years ago, that hawng as you
would say, a competency, I made up my
mind to stop work, and move into the
country. So I sold out my share of the
bu!-iness to my partner, spent a year or
more in looking at two or three score of
country places, and at last found oue that
my wife aud myself were considerably
pleased with. Fine double house, four
acres beautffully shaded, vegetable gar
den not to be beat, and soil of a superior
quality. The place is still in my posses
sion, but before I would go and live on it
again. I'd give it away; yes, Aleck, I'd
sec it sunk in the middle of the Dead Sea.
.
liut i m netting a
little ahead of mv sto-
ry. 1'or two or three months, matters
and things went on very well, because I
had something to atteud to iu making a
few little improvements about the house
and iu furnishing a number of the doors
with locks of my own invention; but as
the whole premises were in excellent re
pair when I bought them, I soon came to
, isoon enrau iu
nothing to look
a point where there was
after but the cultivation of the garden.
I was not long
though in making the dis-
coverv that I had no genius or taste eith
! cr for diS8in8 arou.nd J?0''?' Pul,ioS UP
weeds, anJ so as wne uiou i wisii me gar-
ucu
;n to run to waste, I employed a regular
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rjU"ll!U "DIUCUCI LV bail) IUU LUiUC
hand-
isomely through.
" ell, don t mind the expense he put
me too in the way of guano, new fangled
gardeuingtools, 3nd patent watering ap
paratus for I hud fully expected to spend
! money, and thanks to our previous ccon-
to omy, we had money to spend; but, Aleck
that I cyphered up
that I cyphered up the cost of some of
ithe table nxins, aud the result was cu
, cumbers, seventeen cents a piece; green
; peas, a dollar and three quarters for a
1 half peck; currants, fifty cents a pint;
j beets, fourteen cents each, and everything
CISC 10 proportion. All tUlS 1 CarCU HOCO-
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ng about; but somehow I felt out of my
1 gearing in not having the right kind of
employment. Wife did her best to coax
mcinto gentlemanly ways; had the old
tmecoamcai grime luuiuutmv ouuuucu
t I . J Chham mnilf Alnnnn) Alii
OUt 01 my UaUUb UUgvi uuwa titaucu vu.
and rounded so as to make it appear
that I had never done manuel labor.
"Then we mast get behind a couple of
Morgan ponies which 1 had purchased,
and make fashionable calls jn the day
time on those who bad called upon us:
and wifo wanted trie to soften down ray
ft. a . a a a
concerned) with the key in her pocket.
But I sighed for tho shop, and time hung
so beaviiv on my hands, that an hour
sD-nt in stupid listlesaness about the house
' seemed longer to me than a day did, when , County are as densely populated as any
i I had orders ahead for locks, and was ' other section of the same extent in the
driving hard to get them finished at a State that is, of strictly farrniug country.
certain time. My youngest brother, who j The people there are mostly Belgians,
'is a oollego bred man and lawyer, sent and are settled compactly together each
! me, at my request, a fine collection of j family uponforty or eighty rarely upon a
I books on all imaginable subjects, so that larger tract. Tbey are just beginiog to
; my library outshone that of the parson how openings enough among the trees to
i and indeed any other man in the place: ( raise what tbey need for their own con
but I found I had no more taste to sit sumption. We can scarcely expect any
i down and read than I had for trimming surplus from" them for some years, but it
currant bushes. Time was, after I had j will come by and by; and we are confi
' finished a hard day's labor at the shop, dent that the Peninsula will be one of tho
i when an hour at books was a real solace,
and I also believed an occasion of improve- Probably no other race on this conti
ment. Then I envied those whose leisuro nent could have gone into tho woods and
niinu:Pfl thfim t.n feast on books perpetual-
ly; but the mistake I made
ine to discriminate between
Yas in lau
mental hab-
its and requirements of the professed
student and those of the
working man.
JL.U JUw w.a.w. I Q 0
at my country seat draged heavily along., tween New York and the West. The
Visiting was a perfect bore, for cot feel-( purchase of forty or eight acres of land
ing the slighest interest in such masculine generally took all that was left and af
topio as corn, grub3 aud mauure, and tcr throwing up a rough block house, tho
caring less for the feminiuo ones of dress( first question which presented itself to. the
and local gossip, I did not know what to head of the family was how to get food
talk about. Books set me to sleep, and' for his littlo ones until an opeuing could
not having the society of my two boys, 'be made in the trees, and the season roll
who were off at a boarding school, I bo- I around with tho fruits of the earth.
came fully satisfied that 'nothing to do' j Shingle making has generally been the re-
iTn 1 1 a tcrntphpri eonditton niu time
was equal to uaviug overytuiug to suuer. j sort in sucii cases; but tnc naru times 01 , the future, detect tuteves, and recover
,My most delightful place of resort ( last year and the general crash in every-j lost property. His neighbors were aston
was a blacksmith's shop some two miles ( thing reached the shingle trade, so that i&hed, and one and all said, 'Abdallah,
from tho house, where occasionally I. none but a Belgian pioneer could have j tho barber is certainly mad 1' But it
would handle the hammar, and clang a. faced the task of making a living for his 'chanced that a certain lady returning
little on the anvil, but my wifo
making
the discovery one day that my hands were
getting grimy again, I was obliged to own
up to the cause of it, and this to my sor
row was succeeded by a positive prohibi
tion on her part from my taking any fur
ther exercise at tho forge. After this,
when I would sometimes ride past the
ehop behind my prancing Morgan horse,!
the tears would ntart in my eyes at beaug
debarred the only employment which was
in the least adapted to my taste or capac
ity. "But, Uousin Aloot, to shorten my sto
ry, wife perceiving my unhappinesa was
increasing, at last consented to move back
in town, and let me resume my business.
I bad no difficulty in renewing my en
gagement with my old partner, and hence
you see me hard at work and happier
than the President. I am perfectly able
in a pecuniary point of view, to live with
out work, but I have learned to my satis
faction two important truths: First, that
we never enjoy ourselves so well as when
we are usefully employed; and Second,
that there is no occupation on the whole
for which we have been so long accustom
ed and which has hence become to U3, as
it wore a second nature."
I was much pleased with the good sense
of "my wife's couin" as evinced in the
small section of this autobiography which
he had given me, and very soon after ho
had finished it, we reached his dwelling.
If his shop was dingy, there was no dingi
ness here. The edifice was built on the
Philadelphia style, having a large dining
ble kitchen iu the rear of the dining room.
room back ot the two parlors, and a no
Tim ivlnlf flnnr ni urrU na rlin .nirv nnrl
pleasant bod-rooms above stairs, were to a hundred pounds. Among hundreds j ferred to her. Guilt is always pale, tho
probably adorned with a better descrip- 0f families, there are but two or three 1 p0et says. Sho herself had stolen the
tion of furniture than was owned by the pairs of oxen, and we did not hear of but king's ruby, and believed that the astrol
Govcrnor of Pennsylvania. Everything I one horse in tho whole settlement. The ' 0ger was aware of her crime. So when
was in perfect order, and although the I roads, indeed, do not permit of the use of j tho messenger had departed, leaving the
blacksmith's wife was somewhat uppish
. . . w..i
, jn bof noliorjgj X soon perecived she was
I . , hnnw.MnnT nn,i tunt mv fr;find
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was proud of his house and proud of his two
!Son3 who had come from boarding school
to spend the vacation.
I - . a -m a -
I touud that theso lads were quite in
i . . . t.t Wt, ;ntonfi
cd fjr tho lcarnc(1 profesgion3. While
profes
one of them entertained with some music
on a parlor organ, the worthy Smith beg
ged me to excuse him for a few moments,
after which he rc-appcared in perfectly
clean linnen, and a suit of dainty black.
Wo supped at a table spread with tho ut
most profusion, and in the evening, some
company coming in, conversation and mu-
sio filled up the passing hour. I was
deeply interested, and concluded that ray
"wife's cousin," tho locksmith and bell-
banger, was a wise man, and that unwit
tingly ho had discovered the true phtlos- j king a comfortable
opher's stone. Daily work was to bim asJu0USCWC f0Und a in
necessary aa daily oreau, ana tnc ion oi
the shop only served to enhance the plea-
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surcs and recreations or a reunea ano
happy home. On taking my leave, I re
alized that I had been taught a valuable
lesson:
Employment is the healthy lot of life,
and ho that would seek happiness in a
state of perpetual repose, betrays a pro
found ignorance of the bencficient laws
which govern it:
RSr"baro. can vou tell rao way a man
who has had his eye 'blacked
.r Ima 1-i.irl Ilia nrn K1 nnlrpft ' to Mhn finfl
is like one
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of the colored race?"
"No, I can't. How is it?"
"Well, it's because he's a dark-eye 1"
a?-An Irishman was about to marry
a Southern girl for her property. "Will
tUa icim o n in hn vn'nr tcnflilnrl
Villi I .1 ! . W w wm. ..wav
wifo r saw toe minister. x oa your nv
ItXT
erence, and the nagers, too," said Pat.
Keen out of bad company .for,
ohanco is, when the devil fires ipto a flock
. ,
he will hit somebody
Life on the Peninsula.
It will surprise very many even of our
own people when we state that Kewaunee
county and the southern portion of Door
gardens of Wisconsin.
combatted the privations of forest life
with the patience, industry, and success
which these people have. They were
poor, with few exceptions, reaching; here
witn the exhausted purses alter running
the caunt ec or emiirrani swinaicrs ne-
family by manufacturing shingles at tho j from the bath walked through tho bazaar
ruling prices. It was done, however. , with her veil torn; she appeared in great
The very best quality of shaved shingles ( distress, and upon hearing the cry of Ab
were made in large quantities and sold , dallah, sent one of her slaves to him with
for one dollar per thousand, and even
even
less. Another thing. Some of
manufactured lumber by hand
statement will hardly be credited,
is no less
a fact
that the Belgians
with a common "whip saw," manufactur- Poor Abdallah, bc.wildered, gazed upon
ed the best pine lumber at a less price ' the lady, and gaining time to invent an
than it could be made for with all the ap- j answer, said: 'She can will the pearls
pliancea of steam engines, muley saws when they are near, for the veil is torn 1'
and the most improved styles of mills. j These words were reported to her by the
As handsome lumber aa we ever saw has ; slave, and she uttered aery of joy. 'Ad
been made by them and sold at So. 50 mirable prophet,' she exclaimed; 'I placed
and 86 per 1U00 feet ! In such ways as my pearls for safety in a rent that is in the
this by hard and persistent labor they ' veil of the bath;' and she ordered Abdal
gathcrcd together the means of obtaining lab to be presented witb forty gold pieces,
their daily bread, and little else they . Now, it should be known that in tho Per
needed; for some dry bread and potatoes 1 sian baths there are screens, tho name of
formed tho bill of fare for six days iu tho ' which is the same as the native word for
week, and the seventh a little coffee, mix- 'veil.' So Abdallah, by a luck accident
ed with chicory, for economy's sake, made of speech, had not ouly saved himself
a sort of holliday of Sunday. Butter and from the bastinado, but he gained forty
milk" and eggs, there were none, for there pieces of gold.
were no cows nor ben. j At length, another lady, the wife of the
Last week we were in tho mill whiohdoea king's treasurer, made her appearance,
the grinding for probably half thecountry. and just at that moujeut a messenger from
It is the rudest structure iramaginablc. ' the treasurer came up to Abdallah, in the
An overshot wheel turns ono btone slowly, baxarr, and spoke to him. Tho lady stood
and the bolting apparatus is propelled by ' close by, and listened. 'Abdallah,' said the
a woman. She stood there patiently the 1 slave, 'my master bas lost the king's great
day long, turning the crank with one ' ruby; if tnou can'st road the stars thou
hand, and with the other supplying the 1 canst find it; if not thou art a pretender,
screen with the unbolted flour. Tho mill and I will assuredly cause thee to be bas
wos thronged with customers, men, wo- 1 tinadoed.' This time the unfortunate bar
men, and children, who brought the grain , ber was at his wit's end. 'Oh, woman I' he
I around. Some of them come five, six.eight
nn thoir iinnns :inii wiiill'u lur il lu uu
. ...;ina Krlnrtinrj nnnli n lnnd nf frnin fiftv
. n-.
whecled vehicles to any extent. They are barber petrified with perplexity, sho ap
nntli! n rr Tint, trails. " 1 nrnnn.llfi d him. and said, iu a soft tone
UVSltJIU .
If? - a? M mm n n A ft
and a
boy hitched to a wooden drag, preparing
the ground for next season's crops. Most
of the tilling is done by means of a sort
of grub hoe; though lately the more for
tunate manage to get some plowing done.
We met a woman and her son on the
way to Green Bay with a basket of chick
ens and 6omo other littlo produce. They
had already walked eight miles, and had
fourteen more to go making twenty-two
miles. Their marketing would bring
them in town perhaps one dollar and a
half.
At olle bouse where wo stopped in, the
, i.nn.iq woro flt dinner: a loaf of black
bread aud a kettle of coffee were all that
we saw on the table. Thoy dipped the
'bread in the coffee, and scorned to be ma-
raeal. At another
man cutting up a pig.
So marked an iustance
stirnrised us. until we
of
extravagance
were told that a
bear had killed it tho night before, aud
they had rescued it from his clutches.
The bears are very troublesome, carry
ing off pigs and calves. Some of them
aro killed occasionally.
j Wo havo already noticed the beginning
of a town on tho Bay shore Uycksville
which is. likely to be their principal
Tiost on the western side. Hero aro one
A
or two taverns, or places where the trav-
. inr ma, find st for the nitrht ond
r..a 1
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verv 00j et0re kept by ijlr. Vfan LycK.
very goou muru uupv uj v..
His establishment embraces almost.every
thing needed in a pew country, from
wooden-shoes to sacks of flour. And not
clmoa for WO HOtlCCd SOmC
'fine sboes for women and boots for men.
, Mr, Van Dvck seems to be uomg a pay-
; l ; .nJ l,o nnrrlir tn fnr bfi IS
, I II IT IUINI1IKH. UUU WW w fc . - "
.1 - . T t-1- it
j pleasant and sooiauie gBuuouiau
Years
hence, when another generation shall havo
ornwn ud and taken tho place of the pres
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a.i.nt nn thn fin 1 ni ana nrosnerous men oi
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LL1U CIMb Vf.w, I 1
'f the Penipsulajwill.reniembpr the stories
' a.:. r.tin.). lio'wlaliinc in. ilirt new
country with wonder. Tho "gentle slopes great firmness and solemnity, 'There is
and groves betwecu'' will bloom and bios- one of them 1 And on the last day, he
som with all the wealth of a rich country, said, in an excited mauner. 'There are the
and Kewaukee county will rank with tin whole forty of them I1 What was hi as
first in tho State. Green Bay Advocate, tonishment when, at the instant, a violent
a- ; knocking was heard at the door 1 A
The Fortune of Abdallah. j crowd of men were admitted, and one of
A PERSIAN STORY. ( them, evidently the chief, said : '0, Ab-
.-! ,itii. i .i t i.
Abdallah was a prosperous barber of
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sing beauty, but excessively vain, so that
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his whole substance was consumed in pro
viding her with dresses, trinkets, and tho
luxuries of a miniature harem.
Above all other women, the wife of
Hassan, the king's astrologer, was envied
by the wife of Abdallah, the unostenta
tious barber; for this lady affected great
grandeur, and could afford it, on account
nf tYto Inrirn snlnru nnrl lmnflrrro nrngnnfn
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Une day tnc discontented beauty an
nounced to Abdallah that she would no
longer continue to live with him unless he
gave up tho miserable business of barber
and adopted that of astrology. In vain
did he represent to her that trimming
beards was bis habit, while of astrologi
cal predictions ho knew nothing; she in
sisted, and the unfortunate man infatua
ted by affection, resolved to obey.
So observing the eccentric practices of
the astrologers, ho took a brass basin and
a pestle of steel into the bazaar, and smi
ting his basin, cried aloud that he would
calculate nativities, predict the events of
this message : 'If you are an impos
this message: 'if you are an imposter,
them j my husband shall cause you to be basti
Tbe j nadoed; if you are really an astrologer,
but it ( inform me where I shall find a necklace
havo of pearls which I have lost this day.'
. ovniui moil . -i.iiuu u i tue uuiuvi ui iuu.
' He meant his own wife, but the wife of the
(rnncnrxr tulio Hlood DV imagined lie TO
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I confess that in an hour
of avarice I took the jewel. Kestore it,
without sendiug mo to condemnation 1'
Abdallah sternly replied 'Woman, I
knew thy guilt. Where is the jewel ?
She answered 'Under the fourth cushion
from the door, in the apartment of Kasb
om, my lord's Georgian slave.' Abdallah
hastened to the palace, was rowarded with
a robe of honor, a thousand gold pieces,
and a costly ornament.
Urged by his wife, Abdallah essayed
once more. Tho king's treasure had
been broken open, and forty chests of
money had been discovered. The royal
astrologer had tried every sort of divina
tion aud failod, and was;thercforc in dis
grace. But the fame of Abdallah, which
wos now spoken of iu all Shiraz, had
rl tliR oar of the kinc. who sent for
him. and gave him audience in the Hall
of Kalnet Serpenchideh. 'Abdallah,' he
said with a severe expression in his face,
?. M 2 truly able to read the stars ?'
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Put me to the proof 1' auswered the bar
a v -a w j - a
ber, who was now prepared lor tuo worst.
'Then discover tho forty chesta of money
which have been stolen, as well as tne
criminal. Succeed, and then tuou suaiu
marry a pnnces3, and become roy minis
ter; fail, and I will hang thee 1' There
tt havo been forty thieves I saw ixu-
dallah, making a fortunate and not very
difficult guess. 'Grant me forty days 1'
'Forty days thou ahalt have,' said the
kinc, 'and then thou suait uie, or n iu.
riches and honor.'
So tho barber went home-and told his
:r nid. ! havo forty days to live;
I will sit upon my prayer mat and raedi-
,t VZ,
of deah Give nio bo-The ."fort, beans. ! since. The evening or a 1 the day prcvi
At Z hour of evenin prayer, daily I oua, she had been complam.ng of a severe
tm riw Jho one thaC by counting the pain in the head and eyes more p.rt.cu
will give the one, b r . Ju(1 of her u3tomsh-
remainder.l may
rlnvq I have to IVO. one uuuiiuicu,
ever day at the exact hour of sunset, Ab-
dalfah gave her a bean, arl iVid, with
.""' - . euiroicger nou anaic receive
cold uutouched, but
spare our lives 1' In supreme bewilder
ment he answered : 'This night I should
have seized thee and thy wretched com
panions; tell mo on thy head, how know
et thou. that I possessed this knowledge!'
'Wc heard, said the chief of robbers, 'that
the kinjr had sent for thec.
?hereforo
one of us came, at the hour of
listen at thy door, and beard
'There is one of them.' We
sunset, to
tbeo say,
would not
netieve ma story, and sent two to ascer-
tain it, and thou wast heard to say, 'there
are two of them;' and this night, 0 won
derful ! thou didst exclaim, 'There aro'
the whole forty;' but restore the king's
money, and do not deliver us unto tho
executioner.7
Abdallah promised to do what he could.
Being admitted to the palace, he declared
that owing to some mistery of the stars, it
was given to him to discover either the
thieves or the treasure, but not both. Tho
monarch at length, contented to take the
forty chests, and fulfiled his promise to
Abdallah.
From the Country Gentleman;
Tatteniiig Hogs.
To give hogs a start, when first put up
for fattening, there is in my opinion no
better food than good ripe pumpkins boil
ed aud steamed with a moiety of potatoes,
and that well seasoned with meal scalded
in and mixed with milk. There is a sweet
ness in the boiled pumpkin, which is vcry
attractive to his pigship. Indeed all tho
trouble with thi.i kind of food is, that it'
i3 difficult to get enough to supply their
wants. The writer has fed to a pen of 20
two kettles, of 60 gallons per day for
some two weeks. I think to commence
on it is even preferable to hard corn.
While upon this subject, allow me just
to suggest how large an amount ol good
fertilising matter is usually thrown away
in feeking our pork. Tho common course
is to have an enclosed pen for the swine
to cat and sleep in, and all the manure
made usually goes into an uncovered
back yard probaly a real mud hole,
where the manure made from feeding a
large quantity cf grain, if- allowed to go
to be leached and evaporated by tho
rains and sun; and when we come to gee
out this valuable compound the nest sea-
son,
to apply to our soil, we nnd it like
the irishman's
flea not there. iow wc
all talk about the value of swine's manure
and with truth, for it is indeed supposed
to be more ferilizing than that of any
other animal. This being so, why not en
deavor to save it, and not actually throw
it away in the mauner described? If no
better remedy presents, just make a tem
porary cover to the hog yard of rough
boards, or anythiug that will keep out
water, and just supply the pis with plen
ty of material to work up muck turf,
straw, weeds, leaves, or indeed almost
anything of a decaying vegetable nature,
and the thing is done , when perchance
ihe next season you will find that instead
of five loads of leached manure, you will
have just four times the amount, acd a
little better article at that.
Now, brother farmers, is this mere
theory, and as such, unworthy of a trial
not worth the time and expense? We
all know "the more manure, tho better
crops," and will not a course of this kind
tend to enchaucc the manure heap?
W. J. Pettb.
I Wonder',-
When a young man is cbrk in a storo
and dresses like a prince, smokes 'foine
segars,' drinks 'choice brandy,' attends
theatres, balls and the like, I wonder if
hes it upon the avails of his clerkship ?
When a young lady sits in the parlor
all day, with her lily white finger cov
ered with rings, I wouder if her mother
den't wash the dishes and dc the work in
the kitchen ?
When a deacon of tho church sells
strong butter recommending it as excel
lent and sweet, I wonder 1
When a man goes three times a day to
get a dram I wonder it ue
. and by go four times ?
I When a young lady laces
' third smaller than nature mc
dram, I wonder if be will not oy
her waist a
nature made it, I won-
ir if W nrt'ttv fiifure will not shorten
her life some dozen years or more, be
sides make her miserable while sho does
live ? .
Wbon a young man is dependent upon
his daily toil for his income, and marries
a lady who docs not know how to make a
loof of bread, or mend a garment, I wou
der if he is not lacking somewhere, say
toward the top for instance 1
When a man receives a periodical or
newspaper weekly, and takes grea de
light in reading them, but neglects to pay
for them, I wonder!
A very singular circumstance happened
' to a voun, lady in Cincinnati a few nights
, -; - - hQMmAi t0 find. tho
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following morning, th.Uur
she had become completely
that, during tho night
oro3-eyedj,