THE HOME PICTURE.
Ons antnmn-night when the wind WM high,
. Apd (he rain feU in. hea,*y ■ dplasbe*. .» I
' Vj4. UtUp .bqy tho kitchen jin), ~ ;
' :i ' in _ , ~j r ; .
Anrfhia*iliter, a turly‘liifr«i ; «bild « “»«» ;
£ Sat looking on justokweto hi* knde* 1 ■ '
Wo blisl wfltit toand lha hotted, _ ,
'■ l As if tdgdt irt’lt/ia trying; _ ‘
, limited the Jaloh of the outerdoor, ;,rh * jn<
■ Then it seemed a baby ohl ji.V.c , a
Now and then a drop down the dh'mnoy canto
' And spluttered and hissed m the bright red flame.
' Pop I pom! and the kernels one by one,
■ Came out of the embers flying;
•' The boy held a long pine stick in hie hand
; And kept if busify plying. ■
He stirred the corn and it snipped the more,
And faster jumped to tho clean swept floor.
Part of the kernels hopped one way,
And a part hopped out the other;
Some flew plump into the sister’s lap,
Some under the stool of the brother. ]
Tho little girl gathered them into a heap,.
And called them “a flock of milk-white sheep.”
All at once the boy sat still as a mouse, -
And into the Are kept gazing;
Ho quite forgot no was popping com,
For he looked where the wood was Mazing.
Ho looked, and fancied that be could see
A. house, and a barn,-a bird and a tree. ■
Still steadily gazed the boy at these,
’ And pussy’s back kept stroking,
TO) bis sister cried out—” Why George,
Only see how the corn is smoking!"
And sure enough, when the boy looked back,
Tire corn in tbe ashes wga burnt-quite black.
M Never mind,” raid he, “ we shall have enough,
So now let's sit back and eat it;
I’ll carry the stool and you the corn,
It’s good—nobody can beat it.”
She took up the corn in her pinafore,
And they ale it all nor wished for more.
HISTORICAL SKETCH.
the boston massacre.
MARCH STH, 1770.
T On Friday, the 2d day of March, 1770, a
soldier of the twenty.ninih asked to be em
ployed al Gray’s ropewalk, and he was re
pulsed in the coarsest words. He then de
fied the ropetnakers to a boxing-match ; and
one of them accepting his challenge, he was
beaten off. Returning with several of bis
com portions, they too, were driven away.—
A larger number came down to renew the
fight with clubs and cutlasses, and in their
turn encountered defeat. By this lime Gray
and others interposed, and for that day pre
vented further disturbance.
There was an end of the affair al the rope
walk, but not at the barracks, where the sol
diers inflamed each others’ passions, as if the
honor of the regiment were tarnished. On
Saturday they prepared bludgeons ; and be
ing resolved to brave the citizens on Monday
night, they forewarned their particular ac
quaintance not to be abroad. Without duly
restraining his men, Carr, the Lieutenant Col
onel of the twenty-ninth, made complaint to
the Lieutenant Governor 6f the insult they
had received.
The colonel deliberating on Monday, seem
ed of opinion that the town would never be
safe from quarrels between the people and
soldiers, as long as soldiers should be quar
tered among them. In the present case the
owner of the rope-walk gave, satisfaction by
dismissing the workmen complained of.
The officers should on their part, have kept
their men within the barracks after nightfall,
Hutchinson should have insisted on measures
ol precaution; but he too much wished the
favor of all who had influence at Westmin.
ter.
Evening came on. The young moon was
shining brightly in a cloudless winter sky, and
its light was increased by a new fallen snow.
Parties of soldiers were driven about the
streets, making a parade of valor, challen
ging resistance, and striking the inhabitants
indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cut
lasses. ,
A band which rushed out from Murray s
Barracks, in Brattle street, armed with clubs,
cutlasses and bayonets, provoked resistance,
and an affray ensued. Ensign Maul, at the
gate of the barrack-yard cried to the soldiers,
‘‘Turn out and I will stand by you; kill
them; stick them ; knock them down ; run
your bayonetslhrough them; and one soldier
after another levelled a fire-lock and threat
ened to ‘ make'a lane’ through the crowd. —
Just before 9, as an officer crossed King street,
now Stale street, a barber’s lad cried .after
him. " There goes a mean fellow who hath
not paid my master for dressing his hairon
Which the sentinel stationed at the westerly
end of the Custom-House, on the corner of
King street and Exchange lane, left his post,
and with his mnsket gave the boy a stroke
. on the head, which made him stagger and ciy
with pain.
The street soon became clear and nobody
troubled the sentry, when a party of soldiers
issued violently from the main guard, their
arms glittering in the moon-ligh l , and passed
on, hallooing, * Where are they 1 W here are
tljey 1 Let them come.’ Presently twelve
or fifteen more, uttering the same cries, rush
ed from the south into King street, and so by
way of Cornhill toward Murray Barracks, —
“ Pray soldiers; spare my life,” cried a boy of
twelve, whom they met. “ No, no, I’ll kill
you all,” answered one of them, and knocked
him down with a cutlass. They abused and
insulted several persons at their door, and
others in the street, 11 running about like mad
men in a fury,” crying, ‘ Fire,’ which seemed
their watchword, atm “ they V’
knock them down. Their out®feous beha
vior occasioned the ringing of the hell at (he
head of King street.
The citizens whom the alarm set in motion
came out with canes and clubs, and, partly
by the interference of well-disposed officers,
partly by the outrage of Cris'pus Attucks, a
mulatto and some others, the fighte at the bar
racks was soon over. Of the citizens, the
prudent shouted ‘ Home, home;’ others it
was said, called out. “ Huzzah for the main
guard, there is the nestbut the main guard
was not molested the whole evening.
A body of soldiers came up Royal Ex
change lane, crying ‘ Where are the crowds 7’
and brandishing their arms, passed through
King street. From ten to twenty boys came
after them, asking, “ Where ore they, where
are they 7” “ There is the soldier who knock
ed me down," said the barber’s boy, and they
began pushing one another toward the senti
nel,. He primed and loaded his musket. —
tl The lobster is going to shoot us,” cried the
toy. Waving his piece about, the sentinel
pulled the trigger. «If you fire, you must
die fb| it said Henry Knox, who was pas-
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VOL. I.
sing bjy. “ I don’t care,” replied the - pent!-,
nel; * damn (hem; if they touch me, I'll
fire.” “Fire andibod- d,”.for they were
persuaded he could not do It without, leave
from a civil officer; and a young fellow spoke
out. “Wo will knock him ddwn for snap
ping;” while they whistled through their fin
gers and huzzaed. . , '
“ Stand off,” said the senlryj and, shouted
a loud, “ Turn out the main guard; ' They
are kiiling aientinel,” reported a servhnt (Vom
the CustomHduse, running to'the main guard
“Turn out; why don’t youtiittf.out 1” cried
Preston, who was captain (if the day, to the
guard. “He appeared in a.great flutter,of
spirits,” and spoke to them rdUghjy. 1 A par
ly of six, two of whom, Kilton and" Mont
gomery, had been worsted at'the fppe-ymlk,
formed with k corporal in froht, Preston' fol
lowing. With bayonets fixed, thdy haughti
ly “ rushed through the people” upon the
trot, cursing them and pushing (hem as they
went along. They found about ten persons
round the sentry, while about fifty or. sixty
came down with them. “ For God’s sake,"
said Knox, holding Preston by the coat, take
your men back again ;if they fire your life
must answer for the consequences. 1 1 know
what lam about’ said he hastily, and much
agitated.
None pressed on them or provoked them
till they began loading, when a party of about
twelve in number, with their slicks in their
hands, moved from the middle of the street,
where they had been standing, grave three
cheers and passed along the front of the sol
diers, whose muskets some of them struck as
they went by. “You are cowardly rasqpls,”
they said, for bringing arms against naked
men ; lay aside your guns, and we are ready
for you. “ Are the soldiers loaded,” inquired
Palmer of Preston. “ Yes,” be' answered,
“ with powder and ball.” “ Are they going
to fire upon the inhabitants?” asked Theo
dore Bliss. “ They cannot, without my or
ders,” replied Preston ; while the town
born’ called out, “ Come on, you rascals,
you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels,
fire if you dare.” Wo know you dare not.
Just then Montgomery received a blow from
a stick thrown which hit his musket; and
the word “ Fire,” being given, he stepped a
Utile on one side, and shot Aliucks, who at
(he lime was quietly leaning on a long slick.
The people immediately began moving off.—
“ Don’t fire,” said Langford, the watchman,
to Kilroi, looking him full in the face; but
yet ho did so, and Samuel Gray, who was
standing next to Langford, with his hands in
his bosom, fell lifeless. The rest fired slow
ly, and in Succession on the people, who were
dispersing. One aimed deliberately at a boy,
who was running lor safely, Montgomery'
then pushed at Palmer to stabhim ; on which
the latter knocked the gun out of his hand,
and levelling a blow at him, hit Preston.—
Three persons were killed, among them At
tacks, ihe mulatto ; eight were wounded, two
of them mortally. Of all the eleven, not
more than one had any share in the disturb
ance.
So infuriated were the soldiers that when
the men returned to take up the dead, they
prepared to fire again, but were checked by
Preston, while the twenty-ninth regiment ap.
peered under arms in King street, as if bent
on further massacre. “ This is our time,”
cried soldiers of the fourteenth, and dogs were
never seen more greedy for their prey.
The bells rung in all the churches; the
town drums beat. “To arms, to arms,” was
the cry. And now was to be tested the true
character of Boston. All its sons camo forth
excited almost to madness. Many were ab
solutely distracted by the sight of the dead
bodies, and of the blood which ran plentifully
in the streets, and was imprinted in all direc
tions by the foot tracks on the snow. “ Our
hearts,” says Warren, “ beat to arms; al
most resolved by one stroke to avenge.the
death of our slaughtered brethren.” But
they stood self-possessed and irresistible,-
demanding justice according to the law. —
“ Did you know that you should not have
fired without orders from acivil magistrate - ?”
asked Hutchinson on meeting Preston. * 1
did it,” answered Preston, "to save my
men.”
The people would not be pacified till the
regiment was confined to the guard-room and
the barracks, and Hutchinson himself gave
assurances that instant inquiries should be
made by tho Country Magistrates, i The body
of them then retired, leaving about one hun
dred persons to keep watch on the examina
tion, which lasted till three hours after mid
night. A warrant was issued against Pres
ton,.who surrendered himself to the Sheriff,
and the soldiers who composed the party
were delivered up and committed to prison.
— Bancroft’s new volume of History of
United States. <
The MEANEST WOMAN ON RECORD. 1 I
am afraid, Frederick” said Mrs. Smith, to
her husband, “ that Betsy is dishonest.”
“ Ah, what makes you think sol”
“ Why, I gave her seven opples to prepare
a pudding—and will you believe it, I counted
over ihe quarters, and only found twenty
seven !”
“ Are you eure you counted'right 1”
” Yes, for I counted them over three times.
Heaven only knows where that other quarter
is gone. The world is full of iniquity.”
Betsy was discharged without a character.
“ Sax,” said one girl to another, “ I am
ao glad I have no beau, now.”
* “ Why so 7’’ asked the other.
“ Oh, ’cause I can eat as many onions as
I please.”
Little by little, as we travel through
life, do our whims increase ond become more
troublesome—just like a woman’s luggage 6n
a journey.
ffEIIIISIiOROl r GHyTIO(SAeOUNTy,I^V,^HDR^3DAY.MOBRI^ , 1855.
„ • 1- :■ -i. •'!)' *
Every account received from the war in
the Crimea-is loud: in praise of the “ Minie
Rifle." ,
; These fir.ej artns ' |n~ jhe hands ;of godd
marksmen dealcerlain destruction at an im?
mense apd the wholesale; slaughter
of the, at the batteries, of
.Sebastopol;,has,yyon fotthie. ; weapon of death'
the Boubriqpßt. of,i‘,‘ King oft Fire, Arras,”. S°
I dreadful is,ibisfatal - ball that. the Russian,
gunner, goqsjlpihis .station at an embrasure as';
:to certain death..msi .. u r.
1 Theibarrelofa rifle has* running the length
of its inner .autTdpe,’spituf grooves or chan
nels—hence the’name hi I 'rifle, which tneans a
rifle or'grooved : dith. fOne object of a rifle
barrel is to’|ive :^f eater precision to the hall,
by communicating-'to it a rotary motion. —
This motion "it receives'oti its passage out of
the gun, provided the ball isso crowded into
the barrel as : to ’ (VH up partially or entirely
the grooves; and the more perfectly the ball
fits into the barrel the truer its course, and
the less windage there is; that is, (he less
space there is between the ball and the bar
rel-for the-strength of the power to escape.—
It is estimated’that when the windage is only
1.20 th of the caltjbro of the gun, one third of
the powder escapes,’and of course its strength
is lost.
The great’object therefore to be obtained,
is a perfect fit to the barrel by the ball, thus
to give’the rotary motion, and to save the
powder. ' t
A French gunsmith invented a rifle which
had its breech pin project wedge shaped,
about two inches into the barrel. The ball, a
conical shaped one, was then dropped into
the barrel, and a' few heavy blows by the
rammer drove the wedge or pin into the ball
so as to fill the grooves in the barrel.
The minie ball, now so famous, is an im
provement upon all balls, inasmuch ns ii
makes ihe powder slug or spread thu ball, in
stead of the rammer doing that work - .
The ball is oblong with a conical point, in
its base it has a conical hollow running half
or two-thirds the length of the ball. ■ A cup
made of sheet iron is placed in the orifice of
this hollow, which at the instant of firing is
driven by the powder with great force into the
ball, thus spreading it open, so as in its course
out to perfectly .slug or fill the grooved bar;
rel. This accomplished thd whole object; it
saves time in ramming, it destroys windage,
thus economising in powder, and makes the
ball perfectly fit the barrel so as to give the
ball a complete rotary motion and certainty
of the direction. Thus the' Minie improve
ment—taking its name from a French officer
named Minie —is a minie ball, not a minie
rifle. The concial shape of the bullet gives
it greater weight of metal than a round one,
affords less resistance to the air, and greatly
increases the distance it can be thrown.—
This shaped ball however, has been used for
a long time by sportsmen.
.A Paris correspondent of the Now York
Tribune, some months since, was witness to
experiments made by Major Minie himself
with his ball, and saw the officer plant three
balls in succession in a' target the size of a
man’s hat at the distance - of three-fourths of
a mile. And this officer said he could do it
all day long, and teach any man to do so.
It is not to be wondered at that the Rus
sians have a horror of Ihe French chasseurs
and the minie ball.
The present popularity of rifle owes its
origin to the skill of American sharp shoot
ers bred and trained in our new settlements,
and who ii#bur Indian and other wars have
shown the efficiency of the rifle ball in
picking 1 off officers, gunners and prominent
objects; but its perfection, we immagine, has
been accomplished in the hands of the French.
- • ' Cleveland Herald.
To the Editor of the N. t
Sin •.-‘-In a forme? number of this paper I
alluded ’to' the use of Saleratus in modern
‘cookery. ' I'have not hesitated to pronounce
it on efficient agent in the production of lHat
most alarming infantile mortality which pre
vails. Your readers know, perhaps, that we
lose about 300,000 inhabitants of the United
Stales every year, under ten years of age ;
and some of them know, if they have fend
all that has been written on the subject with
in a few years, that not a few of these chil
dren might have survived had it not been for
the effects of Saleratus.- , 1 .
Some individuals have doublet! the truth of
my suggestions. They have seriously ques
lioned whether Saleratus is really poisonous.
Such individuals maybe interested in the fol
lowing statement and facts:
I had been lecturing in North Adams,
Mass., on diet and regimen. At the close of
the lecture the Rett. Robert Crawford came
tome and munired' whether I was not fond
of collecting fadts; and when-1 replied in the
affirmative, he gave trie a'particular account
of an incident in Williamslown, which is only
four miles from that plaeel
In the year 1835 on indigent female, who
was desirous of frying to earn an honest liv
lihood for herself and her family by keeping
boarders, rented a hohso in Wjlliamslown,
and took about fifteen boarders. They were
chiefly, if not wholly, young nien who were
attending, the college at that place.
The housekeeper was ignorant of the fash
ionable modes of-cookery, though she knew
that rich foo.d was generally preferred. She
had heard of’ Saleratus; and that by many
Cooks it was freely used. • Accprdihgly, she
procured a quantity and freely used it. The
warm biscuits wore ?o full er itas not only
to give them a yellow of burnt appearance,
but also bjtender them bitter or nauseous to
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TUB; AOtTATIpVt Of THOUGHT 19. THE DEOISNJIHtJ oP s ~;uS 1 PUBLISHERS <ScvPROP.RIM , ORSi : .
V?.’- ,Vt.
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What H a slinle Rilke?
[fleets of Saleratus,
the taste; Mhny'olhef arliefe were'fillep
with-it- in -like ’-manner,- -In endcfiVoHlijg to’
make' : light 1 ptlddlrrga, hdwevef;she;Used so
much oflhe Sriidle; it'wffB'sald,- Bs|td;irhfider
them 'as heavy,; almost s 6, as 1 iead?”’’jr|i9,;
studenls’called these puddings', Ky'the c prtmO;
of ; ,, tw ecijlc gfdvitpj n J 6othqLVyhenever-.
they wistiedwa, asFtq bp
helped!io aomO of itKe”specificjjrayjiy^-! <•
’ After the fanie of li Tew mpjiths a'diseape
broke out, among, these , siv*(tenls—-so severe
that many if in! be coniagipus. Of
(Kb wholo’ numl)of, thirieen werp.cqnnßpd for
. a r i o ng'linw>;ty)d.the.fputieemiv .jya? .slightly
affected fpr a.fpw. days, Thp hpupa, became
nanqe orihe peBl.hqpse,,..:,,Two
of the patients,died ; another
deai)i; and eleveq. finally recovered- .tu-Mi, >;
The, individual-who escaped the • disease
wholly was Prof. Tatlock; now ofthe Will,
iamstown college. The one whai was- only
-alighlly affected was the Rev. Mr, Ornvfford,
my informant, - The latter had n 6 doubt-p
never had-any—that the disease was -chused
solely by-theSalaratus. I saw Prof. Tdflfldk
subsequently, who'confirmed the statement of
Mr, UraWford, aid very little- of ihe food
which was so filled with Saleratus; and the
biscuits they seldom ever, lasted.'
Lalso Saw and conversed freely With Dr.
Sabin,’one-of the two, principal physicians
who attended at the “’pest-house” during lhe ;
sickness aforesaid,"and Who is still a practis
ing physician in VVillamstown. .lie told, trie
that,‘to thepreseni day, neither Kb nor his
associate, Dr. Smith, had ever entertained a
momentary doubt that the whole, trouble was
caused by Saleratus,
The nature of the disease was somewhat
peculiar; but in every particular-gave indi
cation that the citadel of life had been at
tacked by no mean or powerless enemy,—
The bowels lost their tone, and there was
great muscular prostration. Blisters applied
to any part of the system, were sure tb be
followed by almost immediate mortification of
the part. In short, the disease was one of
the, most severe ever known in that regiop.
But, if (he more excessive use of this irri
tating substance is liable to produce such
terrible effects, can the lest excessive use lof
it, where prevails, bd. en
tirely innocuous. ,1 . . (
Many tell us they do nonuse it to, excess,
though they are well aware that many others
do so, -But so it is with alm’osttfcvery abuse.
I have seldom, if ever, mel with a person
who would Confess to the ’ error of tight-la
cing—though I have .met whir-thousands who
feriew that such an abuse prevailed all around
them.
I was recently, taken to task by, a venera
ble housekeeper of this Commonwealth, for
saying that the use of ten or twelve pounds
of Saleratus in a family was- by no means
uncommon. “ VVby,” said she, “I do not
use so much as this in ray great family.”—
“ How large is your family, Madam 1” 1
inquired. “It consists of ten persons.”—
“ And how much Salerolus do you use year
ly ?"• “ A pound will last me three weeks.”
" Well, Madam, that is between seventeen and
eighteen pounds a year.” She was surprised,
and said she did not use so much ; a pound
she said, wonld last her nearly four weeks.—
But this, to her surprise, was’thirteen pounds' -
a year. '
There can be no doubt that the sub-inflam
mation of the-alimentary canal, which the
habitual use of this alkali induces, both, on
children andadujts, is one cause of that dread
mortality which prevails among the former;,
but which, in summer and autumn, when
other caused cooperate, proves peculiarly
alarming, For my own part, I can hardly
resist the full conviction that', of the 300,000
above mentioned, who die prematurely, at
least 100,000 might survive, but for the ef
fects of Saleratus. . ,
WM. A. ALCOTT..M. D.,
AunußN-DALK, Mns9., Dec. 29,1854.
Taking tub Scent odt of .Clothes. —
Sitting op the piazza of thq Cataract., Ho
tel was a young fpspish-lookiog ; .genllemnn,
his garments, very highly scented with a min
gled odir pf musk.and cologne. A .solemn
ficcd, odd-looking man, after passing the dan
dy several limes, with a look, of aversion
which drew general notice, suddenly slopped,
and in a confidential lone said ;
“ Stranger, 1 know what’ll lako that scent
out-of your clothes ; you—” - ’
“What! what do you! mean, sir 1” said
the exquisite “ fired with' indignation,” start
ing from his chair.
“ Oh, get mad; now—swear, pitch round,
fight, just because a man wants to do you a
kindness 1” coolly replied the stranger. “But
I tell you 1 do know what’ll lake out that'
smell—phew 1 You just' bury your clothes
—bury ’em-a day or ttvo. Uncle Josh got a
foul of a skunk, and he—”
At this instant there went up frdm the
crowd a simulfarieons roar of rrierrimeht, and
the dandy very sensibly“ cleared the coop,”
and vanished up'stairs. ; '
A Deep Fubbow.—Judge Coulter, of Ver
ginia, when first appointed to the: bench, had
jurisdiction overona of the mountain coun
ties. The district was- made up.of many, wild
and unruly, fellows. . One of the Judge’s firsl
acts was to impose a heavy fine, by way-of
upon a rough and hardy back woods
man, for disorderly conduct. As the'* man
was leaving'lhe court room, in charge’of an
officer, he tumid and addressed the Judge—
“ Your name is Coulter,'is it notT’
■ "Yes.” ■ 1 ; j ,;";
“ Well, all T hive to say is, that yob are
seuing your coulter rather too deep for 'a
man who is pfowing hew 'ground.” ~ . ,
It is recorded that the fellow’s; tvii, saved
the. fine. '
Flour is falling.
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- A“l<Uerary” Review!
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riJ ;,/ BY JOB, A JEHSKX MUTE. / ~
XETSteB OF XIZZIB, WRITTEN' TPMB.JOSePh
MOUNT, JANUAKIf‘2Sth, 1854.
Joanri Mouirr, Deaf ami Dumb Institute, 1 Ptiitodcl-'
r:. ■ . - r.. • i'( ~
This is the production- of a deaf and dumb
lady, who lives among (ho mountains of
■penflsvj'vhnip:' It occupies' four,pirges/wril
leij, in n delicate hand, ariti‘ consists
vpn kffoivs' how fhaiiy lines,'Tit atipun|s. in
Btpk|ng ;, 4 ihpughlB,, paginal, and .generally
welppxpresssd., 'Tjteiji begins by Vying,
I,v»ps,yery,gli,tl to. hear from, you when 1
'feceivetl your letter ufid paper on Tuesday
evening last. Tour letter gave me much
"pleasure.” 1
Much pleasure! - My letter gave you iTluch
pleasbre! I’m glad of it.
She goes on to say: *• I did not get the
letter and paper on Tuesday mdVfitng, as the
mail did not corile up' till at 10 o’clock. Be
fore' I got these things, I thought you were so
sick that you could not go out on account of
the cold weather. Sister ’ brought them /in
the'cVehihg.” {
Sick? No, dear. j.
■. “I am. glad that your health is improving.
You must lake care of your health, as the
weather is very variable.”
Thank you, Lizzie, for the interest you
take in my health, and beg to assure you
that it is on the mend.
!*. We-havo had a slight full of snow ibis,
week. The weather has been exceedingly’
cold since last Monday."
We had o'heavy fall of snow here in Phil
adelphia on Friday, the 6ih ull. I have not
yet taken a sleftgh-ride. My sore hands (the
effect of bathing them with the medicine) for
bids that pleasure. I must suffer for a while.
' “ I am glad that you think of coming up
lo see mo in May. Be sure and come up.
How anxious I am to see you.” '
1 “ I’ll see about it, dear Lizzie.
“ When I'wrote lo you some time ago; I
advised you not to write much for the papers,
for I feared that your jbealth might be injured.
You appeored not to mind me. You ought
not lo write for the papers, that is, to the in
jury of your health. Will you take my good
advice?”
There is no resisting! O, if I could eat
the good girl up! Who but Lizzie could
have treated with indifference the sufferings
of a third-fate writer ? I ask the question
w ith my arms akimbo.
“ To-day is your birth day. I wish 1
could make you a handsome birth-day pre
sent,”
Much obliged lo you, sweet girl, for your
kind wish. A lot of girls shook hands with
me on my birth-day, offering me all manner
of compliments. 1 was sorely tempted lo
kiss, and did ■ kiss Miss Walker, a young la
dy, whom I think the prettiest of her sox. I
earned for myself a boxed ear, but, believe
me, I enjoyed it hugely.
“ Did you ever rend “ Ruth Hall.” It is
Fanny Fern’s. I did not read it much. It
is n very remarkable book. Sister Jane bor
rowed it from a friend.”
I saw it, but did not examine it; yeti in
tend to- buy it. 1-admire everything that
comes from her pen. She is a graceful wri
ter,' notwithstanding much that has been said
to the contrary.
“Marriage-is a very serious one. Ido
not think lightly of it.”
Now, that is a good Lizzie; come down
and I will give you my heart and fortune—
but, bless me, I cannot afford to marry.
“Write me, s6on. A thousand kisses to
my dear Joe."
By Jove, your “ thousand kisses” are worth
more than popper, silver and gold put togeth
er. lam by all odds the happiest Joe in the
world. As .to writing to you, I will do it as
soon as I command lime.
i -To conclude; the above extracts are given
with their peculiarities of language, pronun
ciation and .style unaltered. A few more fa
vors of the same sort from Lizzie, and I will
be glad : to review them in the columns of the
' Agitator.
Cure for the Toottmclie.
A TtIUE STORY
Beauty has charms. So it has, almost
equal to music. Il may soothe a savage—a
savage breast. Il did soothe or charm a-Ger
man music teacher one day last weclr. He
was charmed ivith the beauty of a Indy bright
as a star —lovely as those who dwell beyond,
or in the shining orbs. He sow, and she
conquered. He saw her in lha street, and
•followed. Oilier poodles have done the same.
She entered a store —so did he. Not because
he wanted to 1 buy goods, but he thought an
opportunity rtiighl occur for him to speak
■music tb' hq'r, or hear the music of hel*
speech.'
" Oh, what a voice! —more sweet than his
own fiddle} ; and its tones'vibrated to the very
bottom of his largo beer barrel. And'her
smile—il Struck him to the heart, for he
ihought she smiled upon him. Perhaps she
did;-"- 5 We Smiled at a bigger fool in the circus
, the tnher night.'’ She looked at silks. ,He
.tried Id suit hifiiself with a new pairo/glpves.
Both' werehtfrd to suit, and timesped, At
length she'deft,’and took a stage for her home
up town. He took the same mode of getting
away froth his homo, and, went up by the
same conveyance, without any definite place
in -view at which bo should, pull the.strap.—
Ho Wailed'patiently for the lady to give .the
first pull.’ Sb,a got out, and entered a brown
stone front.,, Ho opted, the spot, and ended
his ride al’tho next corner, and cnrno back,
looked up. to .the cold walls, and, thought—
yes, ha thought of the warm heart within,
aod the sweet face that smiled—was it ai o t
fot.himl. , V. vi ‘ V
f ! V l j&w. '*“■
-P^VJBS'But, k>™'f
Mate&e, shopfdbtl w whpjhqbiro
Wi whjsri |hp .door., wa?" pMijpdl „ Fo/juno
,cart\9't<LiU aid, showed him a dentist’s
sign;'. ’. ■■ i
• t \i «. 4mycd
.S^??Ihtt.w?H(f?]Kod,; 1 h tt.w?H(f?]Ko d ,; ihe
U ¥ we
i-4 ?‘ h ?>neT' : - y , ‘
...Not but wpjkJ_?|.—you can,,wait fpr.pirn,
’., “Pfyjttis, cortpintyjan.yoyr eompapyony
length of time— inot til)
night or,raqrorng/’ ; '“ ." .'[ /
..wjyfj to, ike pat%,-«
. Bot|i were seaieiph.fhe eoaia, and time,went
dtjP'pn'ihe lpye I JWell/b’p ibppght
sbV.’ He ibbughl 1 that , eypry. j
' srnfled upon him was maaP (6 jpfp.,.l Perhaps
hebfforcd his to (ter acceptance, ~.S|je didjnot
■occeptt' only served hid
B(robkeV.r : ,|Spfew tlipe, (ill a loud riog ihe
dbbrjbell marked a period,',. n , t .,
. ran tpopen the doOr, andstppped
tot a 'few’nasty .words vviihthe, new -cojncr,
and iheti came in and said ; ''“'My, husband
doctorj” ”• -,; . „ , . .-j
(fler'yisiior wanted to‘pep one just as.jppch
op ihe o(ber.'J f(P .wpiild very gladly frave
given ike room to either, but r ihe two-.stopd in
He looked anxiously tbwards,. the
fatal'cKdfoier who fjad policed him info ihe
’snb feign'd she; smiled,' showed her
teeifij aridl 'vanished;. The teeth reminded
him of bid own;
The doctor looked stern, and said sternly :
“•’Did you wish to see me, profess.ipnall,y sir I - ’
Of course ho did. What else could bp say
he wak ihefe for? He thought pf the,..de
cayed tooth’, and thdugnl he would .have |ju>t
out to get out himself.' It wo£ 001 exactly a
a looth for a tooth, bul'lt soon will pc’-
■\ r
He took his seat,'.and tho- doctor
the nippers-"and—drew the wrong toot^V —.
perfectly sound one, upon, one side of iho
dlher, j
Of coutse it was a mistake—a hlqqdy
mistake—hut easily remedied by pulling an
other. TBe doctor would lake no excuse,
and applied the instrument again and drew
another sound tooth. The decayed one now
stood aloh(>, and the doctor thought, might
perhaps get well; he was tolerably sure lio
had • cured tho musical' gentleman of his
toothache, and very kindly told him to pay
five dollars, and if his troublesome tooth
should 6v6r plague him again, all he had to
do waste follow his wife borne and he would
pull all the teeth out of his head.
If you can’t git them that you want, you
must taka them that you can git, and that.is
how I came to marry Palsy, Love will go
where lis sent anyhow, and the harder a chap
loves a gal, the poorer a.chance he stands of
gitlen her; the thing is just bore; the more
he loves her the more shy and trembling bn
is, and be can’t, half 1011, bis leeling to her if
he tries—while the capeless and unfeeling
chap, that’s got no more love' in him than a
boss, can have a dozes gals after, him at
once. ‘
1 have thought the heart is like mud 1 fur*
lies eggs ; you dent the shell on one side —a
dent on the other side, made in the same
manner, will bring all smooth again.
So with the heart; one gal makes a dent
it remains bruised, till some other gal presses
it,l pushing out the old bruise and carving a
new one.
.Well, accidents will happen, folks will
laugh—llio world is moro fond of fun than
logic—and they might as well laugh at me as
any body.
So I ogree(j to tell you about my court*
ship. I wan’t, Patsy, but my first sweet
heart iyas a proper handsome gal. I worked
for her faijier. ; Ohio was ail in the woods
then, and everybody lived in. log houses.*—
Down in Cleveland there was a store or two.
And my three hundred acres that is worth'
now one hundred and .fifty dollars an acre,
wasn’t worth when I bought it, only three
dollars. Pshaw, pshaw I how limes is
changed. Glad to get corn bread and gravy
then—had to. go thirty miles down to Cbng- -
rin to mill, d always used la go upfor boss
Instead of himself, for I only hefted ninety*
pounds in weight, and made a lighter load i
over a bag of -corn .on horseback. Let ms
see, I weigh one hundred and eighty now..
Well, I twenty.five years old just
about, and in love with boss’s daughter but
always thought dKo felt a leetle above me, for
I was not quite as tall as she was anyhow,
and Working for 8 dollars.a month, and had
lu dress in'tow liheri'nt that! ' "
You never see one of them logging frocks,
made like a shirt, out of flax low, did yer 1
Well,' f bought this blue coat when I mar
ried Palsy, thirty and five years ago, I ijfver
wore any but that, and if it was Sunday to
day, I should have it on, for I despise exlrav
agance and new Tangled flummeries and
tingumbob noodles round ye’r houses.
I was in love thirty five years ago, head
over'heels, and never dared to say a word
about it.
Her name was Jerusha. I longed to '.ell
her bow my hear! swelled and burnt for her.
as It thumped ngdinst my chest; but I never
screw my courage up to the pint—but thought
I would some day ; I’d been alone with her
many times, and had resoWed on poping it
right out, but tho 'stillness ‘was ns awful on
them casions ns the roar of the Niagara, and
my heart would feet all oVer like your fillip
finger when you hit your elbow gin a thing
accidental, a tarrial tingling, fullness.
Cuss my luck, Wid Ito myself. One
Sunday, night I cum hum from the mill after
a three days ride, and Jerusha had a benu
dressed as smart a%a dancing master. My
Jienrt jumped into my gullet the
I see him, ‘ -
_ I felt down in tho mouth,- for 1 know I was '
a gone fellow. He 'hdd : 'bn broadcloth.—
Talk of yobrnew fonglod Gossop and Gro
shot) houses now, but- folks in them days did
n’t have' but one ;,rbpm down stairs, and a
ladderto go up stairs:' apnnchco’ri'lVoor was
good enough below,’and .oak 'shahkers split ‘
dht by hand kivered'the chhmber‘floor; Is
was so in boss’s house,’arid I slepfup ip tho
chamber. I want you to-remeVnßer'nty tow
shirt, and I want you to imagine my fcblings
N. Y. Tribune .
Early Courtship iu Ohio.