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THE MORNING EWE.
Bf H. L. DODD.
Bright is the morn, the shy is clear.
The lark's gay carol greets my ear—
- Waits atxny door, th'impatient steed,
To bear me o’er the sparkling mead.
With head erect, and joyous neigh,
O’er the greco-award he bounds away;
Brushing the nighutcars as we pass, * -
From each young blade of springing gross.
" ' 'The curlew, startled from her rest,
With basic forsakes her grassy nest— 1
Shakes from her wings the drops which gleam
Like diamonds in the morning beams.
And with her cry so wild and shrill,
Wakes echoes from the distant hill.
We’ve gained the bluff. How sweet the breath
Which light winds waft from distant heath—
While nealh my feet, with eyes of blue.
The Spiderwort peeps through the dew;
And floats along the busy bee,
.With its low tones of minstrelsy;
And every living, moving thing.
Echoes with joy, “O, this is spring!” ,
Now through the grove away we speed,
Leaving awhile the grassy mead,
To-seek new beauties in the shade—
To chase the-wild bare through the glade,
Or watch the robin build her neat
■ “Upon the hawthorn’s top.roost crest,
Or list (o bounds, whose distant bay
Comes o’er the prairies far away,
Pursued by sportsmen’s stealthy pace,
Who seek the fawn in lawless chase.
There’s joy and beauty all around,
And on the ambient air, the sound
Of gushing music softly floats,
Pour’d from a thousand warbler’s throats,
Who blithely flit from spray to spray.
And bail witlvjoy the bright young day.
Beauteous will be the eight I ween.
When these braid plains, who*e glisl’olug sheen
Is made more bright by gems of dew—
Shall with their verdure blend the hue
and pratrie green;
; 'While the gay lilly o’er the scene
' .Gazes with looks of haughty .pride.
And spreads her petals, richly dyed.—
(The flowrets did not her defame,
When "Vanity” they called bee camel)
Soon, the wild Ipomea’s vine
Its graceful tendrils shall entwine
Around Hie willows, by the brook;
And lowly shrubs, in upland nook,
With flowers, which own as many dies,
As Iris In the summer skies.
O! bright will be this glorious earth,
When June in beauty shall come forth
To let her thousand brilliant flowers
j Look oat upon this world-of oars—
And one bright, fragrant chaplet bring
To crown the closing hours of spring.
Grcencaetlc, lowa, May, 1857.
THE TWO WIVES.
av BETTY IIOLTOKE.
The tea things were removed, the children
had gone 10 bed, and Charles Lighle, throw
ing down his newspaper, seated himself on
the sofa beside his wife. A band slid into
his own, thinner and less delicate than when,
years ago, it had'first met his ; but the same
confiding, loving hand—And out of the ful
ness of her heart the good wife spoke: “I
have been thinking, Charles, as I watched
this bright firelight flickering over our com
fortable room, how happy we live; how
much we ought to do for others, in return for
the blessings, that are daily heaped upon our
heads.
‘‘Yes, Carrie, but these blessings are earned
by daily labor; you women sit at home by
your comfortable fires, and Itule think how
your husbands and fathers are toiling mean
time to procure the shelter, and fuel, and food
of which you are so grateful to Providence.”
An arch smile lighted the still pretty lace,
as the wife answered, “Ah, and you husbands
and fathers enter the orderly house, and eat
the well-cooked, punctual meals, and play,
with the neat, and well-dressed, and welt-dis
ciplined children, and enjoy the evening in
comfort and repose, without realizing how
your wife, with bead, and heart, and hand,
must have toiled to bring about these quiet re
sults. I might easily give you practical
proofs of what I have asserted, but I delight
in.having you think of home as a place of
enjoyment and repose, a warm, sunny harbor
alter the storms and chills of the world out
side ; therefore, I take my own rest when you
take yours. Is not this better than to be al
ways keeping before you, by'help of a little
management, the conviction that I am a wea
ry victim. Our interests are mutual, and I
feel that the knowledge I am resting, adds to
your repose.”
Mr. Lighte’s face glowed with pleasure at
his wife’s candid, simple, confiding words;
she (sympathized with and understood him—
she only in the great wide world! How he
loved her !* Howgood, and true, nnd gentle,
she had always been ! Thus he thought, as
they both sat dreaming by the fireside. -
Mrs. Lighle awoke first from her reverie;
she was not accustomed to waste time in
dreams. “Charles, while I think of it, for I
forgot it this morning, the white sugar is all
out, (they had been married a great while,
and the transition from sentiment to house
hold wants was natural for her,) we must have
another barrel.
This brought Charles Lighfe, back to the
purpose for which he bad thrown aside his
newspaper j “Don’t you think, Carrie, that
now we have so, many children, and they all
so young, we might use brown sugar, instead
of while ?”
“What shall I do for company? and, be
sides, children have as sensitive palates as
we. I recollect well bow, in my childhood,
I disliked coarse, cheap food.
“And now your family are all epicures.”
“What! gluttons?”
“Oh, no; hut if meat is an hour 100 old,
or bread a trifle done, or eggs tbo’least a|.
lered, or padding is" heavy, nothing will do,
but you must procure a substitute; the things
are not really bad; many would eat on for
the sake of economy.” ■ -
"fs there no good Prom my epicu nanism T”
“Yes I am willing to own (bat no man in
this city has more nutritions and - palatable
food an bjs table than I; but, Carrie, the
THE AGITATOR
Stfjoteir to tfre or ttje &rra of jFmOom mb Uje SpmO of ©caltfrg Reform
COBB, ST-URROCK & CO.,
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limes are hard, and we must begin to econo
mize.”'- :■ ,-1 -• , .
“Now,;! understand you-f-you have, been
talking - with ’ Mr. Murhe-; I thought you
meant to desolve your copartnership in the
spring; that man will spoil . you with bis
meanness.’’ ---, t -
cannot afford to dissolvedyet; my ram
ify expenses are tod heavy.--And besides, !
am hot sure but what you call meanness in
Murhe, is, after all, commendable foresight.
Do you remember wbat a spendthrift he was
in bis first wife’s day
“No, Charles ;| I remember that when we
were lovers, we used to admire his generous,
disinterested conduct. Ido not know a man
in Boston whose position was more truly en
viable; than his at tbfb lime of which we
speak;” . .
“What I besieged by high and low for help,
never sure of a moment at bis.own command !
Do you call it enviable to -be at every one’s
beck and call? Was a poor family burnt
outf or somebody’s fifth cousin to be. buried,
or a minister to be admonished or supported,
or a returning prodigal; to make peace with
his family, or a lunatic taken to the hospital,
or a city improvement made, no one could
accomplish the object so well as Murke.”
“And his pleasure Jay in his duly; how
his honest face would glow with delight as, in
his boyish days, as he walked up and down
our parlor, relating the success of some be
nevolent scheme. What a pity he could not
have died then; the roguish exterior would
have fallen away from a strong yet gentle
soul, as beautiful an radiant as any angel
soul, as beautiful and radiant as any angel
that ever entered Heaven.”
“But, Carrie, you little enthusiast, what
would have happened to his wife and chil
dren? Had William Murke died ten years
ego,-they might have been in the poor house,
for he had not saved a penny then ; now they
will all inherit handsome fortunes.”
“Oh, Charles! you cannot be in earnest;
the world has not so blinded you but you
must feel that the wealth in his purse is a
poor compensation Tor the wealth that is fast
dying out of his soul. Think what a cheer
less home—think bow his children are neg.
lecled, how ignorant they are allowed to re
main of all thg courtesies and amenities of
life, and what little scarecrows in appear
ance I”
“Scandal! Carrie; scandal!”
“Truth! but a truth is as bad as scandal.
That second wife is to be bis ruin yet, mark
my prophecy. She has retrenched until she
has scraped all the beauty and polish, and
gilding—all the treasure and worth out of hit,
home, and poured them into his money bags.
Is that ah'adyanlage? Is money better than
the money’s worth ?• Miserly people warship
the symbol, and forget or neglect the truth it
symbolizes.”
“You are 100 hard upon Mrs. Murke ; she
brought her husband fifteen thousand dollars,
and had a right to demand that he should add
his share to the family fund. She is saving
for his children.”
“Of what advantage will money be, when
they do not know how to use and enjoy it?
Wealth only begets vulgarity and ignor
ance upon a pedestal, where they will be a
surer mark Id ridicule and contempt. Bui,
Charles, let us leave the Murkes to manage
their own way, and tell me what you think
of sending the children to dancing school;
they are quite old enough, and if you do not
feel able to afford the expense, I can do very
well without the silk dress you promised me
this autumn.”
“I am tired of those old dresses you have
turned so many times; you must have the
silk, and as for the children, what real need
Is thereoFtheir learning to dance?”
“It is a pleasant accomplishment j it makes
them graceful and gentle; prepares them in
short for the society in which »e hope they
will maintain an honorable place.”
“How ambitions you are! but have your
way, I will trust a mother’s instinct against
all reasoning.”
• The ghos'ts of Mr. and Mrs. Murke had
been.allayed, but only for one evening; day
after day they returned to weary and perplex,
but never vanquish good little Mrs. Lighle.
It was:
“Carrie, Murke has taken a house far up
on the Neck; the rent is cheaper, but that’s
not the best; he assure‘3 me that by moving
to so inaccessible a place, he is rid of scores
of relatives and friends who formerly made
a convenience of his bouse, almost convert
ing it into a hotel. Now, the next house to
Murke’s is unoccupied; had we not belter
remove thither 1”
“4' tnile from our children’s school, and
our church, and your store? Why not go
up iuto the backwoods at once, if we are to
seclude ourselves from society ?
“I wonder if Mrs. Murke ever happened to
read what the bible says about en'ertaioing
strangers; how often w.e meet~lhese injunc
tions : ‘be courteous' ; ‘be hospitable’; giv
en to hospitality’; ‘entertaining the saints’.—
Lei us remain where we are, ray husband;
and while we have a crust of bread lei us
share it with our friends.”
So Mr. Ltghte went whistling to his store,
thanking the Providence that had given him
a wise helpmeet. But the ghosts returned.—
“How sober you are, Carrie?” ■
“To tell the troth, my teeth have ached for
a fortnight, and I am half worn out with
pain.”
“Why did you not tell me earlier? Pray
■go fo a dentist immediately.”
■' “I knew this would be the first thought
with you; and dentists claim such exorbitant
prices, I could not- bear to add one of Dr.
Bemis’s bills to our expanses; but I will
walk as far as bis office with you this after
noon,”
WELLSBOBOUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA,
' “That’sright; yet Carrie, now I remem
ber,'Murke recommended a Mr. Huddle, who
fills leeih for just half what Bemis charges.”
“Is tfiat all he told you!”
“Yes.”
“Mr. Huddle filled Mrs. Murke's teeth so
badly, that in three years they bad half bro
ken out, and the other half were blackened
with decay ; even after this their eldest daugh
ter was sent to the same person, and her fine
teeth will be sacrificed in consequence.”
“But Huddle is making 'a beautiful set of
false teeth for Mrs. Murke.”
“You’ll see if they are not always break
ing, and set in suefi brassy • gold tlral they
will fill bermouih canker.”
“Ah, I yield ; you are foresighled!” and
the husband and wdjp'departed on their way
to Dr. Bemis’s offide>
Yet the ghosts tracked them home again.
.“Carrie, has sent away her
servant; and her board and wages and wasie
are subtracted at once from the family, expen
ses ; da you not think that we might do the
same ?”
“No, my dear. lam constantly aud fully
occupied already.”
“I know that;-but Mnrke says you can
get worlds of work out of children; keep
Ellen .at home from school awhile; (he test
from study will do her good. Ned can wail
upon you and set tables; and the little ones
also may gradually be drawn into harness.”
“My children are not colts I”. “Mrs. Lights
had never addressed her husband with so
much asperity before. “It is but little they
could do at best, and why compel them to do
this? Are we not 100 sure that in after life
care and toil will enter ; and well for them,
poor things, if it does not make up the whole
sum of their lives!”
“Let us prepare them for it then, by early
leaching.”
“Yes, by the leaching of example; we
shall never make them industrious men and
women by disgusting them with work in their
childhood ; .let us accustom them to a cheer
ful. orderly household, to palatable food and
decent clothing; they will not readily submit
to a change in after years. Let us make.our
children remember home as a pleasant place,
not as a theatre of exactions, mortifications
and querulous complaints,”
The ghosts came once more, and the chil
dren siding with their mother, this time the
influence of the Murkes was vanquished and
annihilated.
“Carrie, Murke and Ihave been comparing
expenses, and it frightens me to find my own.
triple the amount of his ; we must retrench.”
‘fin what way ? I ana. roady. 5 ’
“In a hundred ways; our house is too
large, our fires are too bright, our table is 100
luxurious, our children dress too well, we
have too much company, our pew at church
is too expensive; the Murkes have a pew
close by the door, they hear quite as well,
and pay only halt the tax that is required for
,ours; they close two-thirds of their house
and thus are rid of the expense ofhealing it.”
“Wail a minute! their water pipes have
frozen and flooded, three limes this winter;
the expense of repairing cost more than seve
ral tons of coal.” ;
“That was only an accident. Murke cov
ers his fire with ashes, and the coal burns
half as long again in consequence.”
“Yes and their sitting room is like Green
land.”
“Cool rooms make children hardy.”
“Oh I father,” broke in a little voice,
heat our room with ashes and water—don’t b
Coming home from school the other day, 1
should have cried with cold, but I kept think
ing of oar good bright fire.” .
“Yes,” outspoke another, “and last week
I called Willie Murke in here to warm his
hands, he looked so cold as he was running
by; and be stared as if he never saw a par
lor before, and asked me if we always kept
our piano unlocked, and lived in the front
room, and had silver spoons on the table and
other plates for pudding. He said he wished
that he had a mother like mine. Why you
can see sparkles of ice on the inside of Mr.
Murke’s hall door all winter long.” .
“Hush, children, don’t interrupt when your
mother and I are talking. The butcher calls
here, Carrie twice, a week ; and Murke says
they use salted and dried meat, which they
procure at wholesale and pickle themselves.”
“Do you like pork very much ?” whis
pered Lizzie Lighle, pulling her mother’s
sleeve.
“And Mrs.- Murke doesen’t use butter nor
pork for frying griddle cakes; a little dry
salt, they assured me, will answer every
purpose.”
“I know one thing, I’m glad mother
doesen’t have griddles greased with salt,”
ventured Lizzie. '
“Then these potatoes, small and poor as
they are, cost over a cent apiece. Mrs.
Murke substitutes Indian corn dumplings.”
“Boiled in water, I suppose, unpalatable!
Give me another piece of chicken, Charles,
if you please,” tyas Mrs. Lighte’s only reply.
“What do they make instead of sweet po
tatoes V asked Lizzie who was very-fond ol
the latter delicacy. •
Mrs. Lighte looked smilingly for her bus
band’s answer.
“They do not eat such luxuries, my child;
Mr. Murke is saving against he grows old.”
“VVhy, father, we'H lake care of you when
you are old ; and l mean to have a home just
like ours, sweet potatoes and all,” said the
child ; “yet the Murkes do havo some luxu
ries, for when the cake gets burnt, Mary often
brings (he crust to' school for her luncheon ;
she said her mother told her (hat they’d make
her breath sweet, but solid cake was poison
ous: 1 shouldn’t think she’d give poison to
bercompany.” -
The ghost was banished ; but if}e thrifty
“THE AGITATIOS OP THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING OP-WISDOM.”
~ THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 25, 1857.
woman known as Mrs. Murke, came cine
last lime to the home of Charles Lighto.
There was to be a funeral on the morrow j
the sofa by the fireside was empty, and dust
was gathering over the workbox that stood
on the cenlre-table; a group of children
were huddled together, crying as if their
hearts would break.
Aftei a long life work, she had folded her
hands at last, and the corpse lay waiting for
burial; Carrie, the provideijt_inelher, the
faithful wife, the good, gentlesympatbizing
friend; and as Charles Lighte stbad watching
her, with sorrow too deep for tears. Mrs.
Murke, came to offer consolation. She said :
“Yes, she was a gpod and a kind neighbor
to me. I shall never forgot her early influ
ence over my husbaGd; but Mr. Lighte, we
must not waste time Gn grief; and every
sorrow has its compensations. You have
now one less to support in these hard limes.
Your wife had a great many children, and
was ambitious for them, and liked to keep
up a good appearance in the worM. She
was an excellent woman, but you may find
another that will do as well as she, and your
money besides.”
“Ah,” broke forth the husband, too grieved
for anger, “she spent for us, she watched,
and planned, and wasted all her strength for
our welfare; this house is full of.the works
of her hands. My heart is full of recollec
tions of her patient iove and industry. I
have 100 often pained the gentle heart that is
sleeping here, by repealing your advice.
Yesterday my partnership with your husband
dissolved ; to-day, Mrs. Murke, I beg leave
to dissolve my acquaintance with yourself,”
And- they buried her—that good Carrie.
“With the fruits of her hands” she had
“planted a vineyard,’’ and when she was
dead her husband and children dwelt therein.
The Murkes added gold to gold, and loaded
their souls with that “thick clay.” They
built a fine house, and gave a great formal
party every year ; then covered the furniture,
packed'away the silver, locked the parlors,
and liVed in a few small back rooms. Mr.
Murke’s daughter’s married early, to escape
the ungenial home, accepted the first adven
turers that offered themselves, and one by one
came back to him, with wasted health and
ruined hopes, and a family of children. His
sobs rushed into dishonesty and extravagance,
aud were a disgrace and sorrow to the pa
rents’ hearts.
Doling out, with many a sigh, the scanty
pittance which they consider needful for the
Mr. and Mrs, Murke live atone in their house,
pore over newspapers, and needs discuss
stocks, bonds and notes, and feel poor; as
well they may, who have lost their souls for
the sake of gold which pertsheth.
Mr. Lighle, with sufficient property for all
his wants, divided his-lime between many
households, all copies of the dear one he can
never forget; and in each of which he is
eagerly welcomed and cared for with watch
ful love. His children continually develops
before his eyes the traits which he has now
learned to appreciate in his buried wife.—
They have taken the place in society for
which their mother fitted them, have married
into good families, and surrounded with re
fined friends, and make themselves attractive
by whatever, among the comforts and ele
gancies of life, maybe within their reach.
As Charies Lighle, an old man now, sits
thus at the fireside of his children, and
watches his daughters, ornaments to society,
blessings to their homes, comforts to the des
titute ; and his sons, forward in all gobd
works and manly not of
loneliness, but of gratitude, fill his eyes, and
he thinks how his good wife, “being dead,
yet speaketh.”
Yea, “Let her own work praise her.”
Reader, I would not disparage the excel
lent and needful virtue of economy ; but only
suggest, by this sketch, drawn from actual
life, that there are kinds of waste which
lead to wealth, and kinds of accumulation
which lead to miserable waste.
Some colemporary, who has rather a live
ly sense of the ludicrous, tells a mirth-pro
voking story of a traveler, who quartered at
a tavern in Yaukeelaad, on a Sabbath not
long since, which is so good and so charac
teristic of a class who glory in “cutting a
dash,” that we reproduce it here :
“He prepared himself to attend church,
but not possessing that very important chattel,
a watch, and being particularly desirous of
cutting a dash, he applied to the landlord for
the loan of one. The landlord, possessing a
very powerful alarm watch, readily complied
with the request, but previously wound up
the alarm and set it at (he hour which he
supposed would be abdut the middle of the'
first prayer. The dandy ‘ repaired to the
church; he arose [with all the grace of a
finished exquisite, at the first prayer, and
stood playing very gracefully with the bor
rowed seals, when suddenly be jumped as if
he had discovered a deu of rattlesnakes ; the
whizzing of the alarm commenced! The
people started, the dandy made a furious grab
at the offending watch with both hands out
side the pocket, and tried to squeeze it into
silence, but in vain ; it kept up its fur-r-r-r-r,
and it seemed as though it never would stop!
The sweat rolled off the poor fellow, he seized
.his hat, and making one effort at the door,
hurried off with his watch in one hand and
his hat in the olher amid the suppressed
laughter of the whole congregation.”
- “Sir,” said a little blustering man to a re
ligious opponent, “to what sect do you sup
pose 1 belong?”
“Well, 1 don’t exactly know,” replied the
other, “but to judge from your size and ap
pearance,- ) should think you belonged to the
c|ass generally called in-sects.
PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS.
Give Him a Trade.
If education is the great buckler and shield
of human liberty, well developed industry is
equally the buckler and shield of Individual
independence. As an unfailing resource
through life, give your son, equally with a
good education, a good honest trade. Belter
any trade, than none, though there is ample
held for the adaption of every inclination in
this respect. Learned professions and specu
lative employments may fail a man, but an
honest handicraft trade seldom or never—if
its possessor choose to exercise it;. Let him
feel 100, that honest labor crafts are honora
ble and noble. The men of trades, the real
creators of whatever is most essential to the
necessities and welfare of mankind, cannot
be dispensed with ; thfey, above all others, in
whatever repute they may be held by their
more fastidious fellows, must work at the
oar of human pragres, or all is lust. Biit
few brown-handed trade workers think of
this, or appreciate the real position and power
they compass. j
Give your son a trade—no matter what
fortune he may have, or seem likely to in
herit, Give him a trade nnd an education,
at any rate a trade. With this he can battle
with temporal want, can always be independ-'
eat ; and better is independence With mode-:
rate education, limn all tire learning of the !
colleges and wretched temporal dependence.!
But in this free land there can be, ordinarily, '
no difficulty in securing both education and :
the trade by every youth, thereby fitting each
and all to enter the ranks of manhood, defiant'
of those obstacles which intimidate so many j
tradeless, ptpfessionless young men. Such'
are the peculiarities of fortune, that no mere!
outward possessions can be counted as abso-i
lutely Secureor protective to man. Hoardedi
thousands may be swept away in a day and!
their once possessor left with neither thej
means, of independence nor of livelihood. . |
He was a wise Scandinavian king whode-|
creed that bis sons must learn useful trades !
or be cut off from their expected princely in
heritances; They demurred, but one obeyed
the decree. In lime, also, revolution came
upon and overthrew- him, and he fled dis
gusted, wandering and companionless, save!
his wife and children, his sole resource forj
livelihood a recurrence to his humble, but;
honest and useful trade. The sons of thej
rich-as well as the poor should be strengthen-}
ed by this possession. If never used beyond!
the learning, no harm is done—while possi-|
bly it may be of incalculable good. ; !
t Saturday night
What blessed things Saturday nigms are,}
and what would the world do without them ?
Those breathing moments in the trampling!
march of life; those little twilights in tbe[
broad and garish: glare of noon, when paler
yesterday looked beautiful through the shad-}
ows, and (aces “changed” long ago, smile}
sweetly—again in the hush when one remem-i
bees “the old folks at home,” and the old!
fashioned fire-place, and the old arm -chair,;
and the little bro.her that died, and the little}
sister that was “translated.” , , I
Saturday nights make people human; sell
their hearts to beating softly, ns they used to|
do before the world'turned them into wax
drums, and jarred them to pieces with lattoes.-
The.ledger closes w|lh a clash; the iron;
doored vaults come to with a bang'; up got
the shuttdrs with a will; click goes the key[
in the lock. Ilia Saturday night, and busi-j
ness breathes free again. Homeward, ho !|
The door that-lias been ajar all the week gen-;
tly closes behind him. the world is shut out !l
Shut out? Shut in raiher. Here are bisj
treasures after all, and not in the vault, and|
not in the book—save the record in the old;
family Bible—and not in the bank. ; ;
May be you are a bachelor, frosty and for-j
ly. Then, poor fellow, Saturday nigh's nrej
nothing to you, just as you are nothing to[
anybody. Get a wife, blue-eyed or black-!
eyed, but'above all a true-eyed—get a little}
home, no matter how little, and a little sofa,;
just to hold two, or one and a-half, and then!
get the two or the two and a half in it, oh a!
Saturday night, and then read this paragraph;
by the light of your wife’s eyes, and thank!
God and take courage. i
The dim and dusty shops are swept up;
the hammer is thrown down, the apron is
defied, and labor hastens with a light step
homeward bound. i j
“Saturday night,” feebly murmurs the lani
guishing, as she turns wearily upon her couch}
“and is there another to come?” J-
“Saturday night, at last!" whispers thel
weeper above the dying, “and it is Suhdayi
to-morrow, and to-morrow !” |
Elder Jones was not remarkable for his
eloquence, nor was he a very good readerj
especially among the hard names. But hq
said that “all Scripture is profitable,” and
therefore ho never selected any portion, but
read the first chapter ho opened at aficr he
took the stand to preach, he sturai
bled in this way upon a chapter in Chronicles;
and read; “Ebeneuzer begat Phineas, and
Phineas begat Abishua, and Abishua begat
Bukkie, and Bukkio begat Uzzie,” and sluml
bling worse and worse as he proceeded, he
slopped, and running his eye ahead,.and see;-
jngj nothing better in prospect, he cut the
matter short by saying, “And so they went
on and begat one another to the end of the
chapter.” , j
She Painted.—A servant girl in a coun
try town, whose beauty formed a matter oif
general admiration and discussion, in passing
a group pf officers in the street, heard one
of them exolaim to his fellows. “By Heav
en, she is painted!” “Yes, sir, and by
Heaven only!” she very quickly replied,
turning round, >j [
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NO. 48.
©mr <£oFcrspons3nut.
Fkieud Cobb; I received this morning 4
copy of ihe Agitator of,the 14ih of May.
and in looking over (he editorial department
I discover an “amende" coupled, with on er,
tract from the Jackson County Banner' 1
wherein I am informed that the editor of that
paper ,i‘stili lives,” and that “out town is still
growing,” &c., all of which I am happy (a
learn, fas, after such a burst of indignation as
was contained in bis article there must have
been great danger of a collapse. But as the
town and its denizens were not annihilated
by my letter complained of, I propose to offer
certain explanations whiclt are due to myself
and also to the citizens of Black River. Falls ;
In the first place said offensive letter was
not written for publication, but waa a private
letter written to my wife, and designed only
Tor herself and immediate friends to peruse.
This fact the editor of the Banner might have
learned by a reference to the heading of said
letter and your editorial remarks thereon, ,
Secondly, my design was not to eulogize
or disparage any particular portion of the
west, but to give my friends at home a de.
scrip'ion of what I saw and my impressions
thereon ; and, as circumstances directed mv
course through the village of Black River
Falls, I saw no good reason for omiting what
I there saw, and the impression such view
produced.
Had I been writing with a view to publics
(ion I probably should have omitted to state
the worst features of the case as they pre.
senled themselves, for I did not suppose at
the time I was there, that all the people (here
were of the character I saw, for the refined
class of community would hardly be found
congregated in the bar-room, or in a drunken
frolic in anyplace; and said bar-rooms were
the only places assigned us during our short
stay in the place, as none of the proprietors
of the “hoteils” offered us more quiet or com
fortable quarters. These bar-rooms were
mostly filled with drunken men, and perfumed
with the odor of bad whiskey and tobacco
smoke; and in one of them an old fiddle lent
its aid to make at least that place hideous.
What I stated I saw was true, but I did not
intend to include all the citizens of the place
as participants in the bar-room amusements ;
for I have no doubt that many good citizens
ol the place condemn whiskey drinking and
its legitimate fruits as heartily as I do myself.
From the lime I left the boat at Lacrosse
until I arrived at the “Fails,” I beard but one
answer to my inquiries concerning the place,
via : “It was a hard place and was told
when I spoke .of slopping lh«re over Sunday,
that I “had belter not do -o for it was the
worst place (morally) in W> iconsirr.” Now
having heard this story repeatedly I was led
to repeal it in my letter, and from what I saw
as I passed I think t was warranted in giving
my opinion that the .description was not given
inaptly.
Pei haps the-i previous reports of the place
served to prepare me to see with prejudiced
vision, and that the black cloud of evil repott
was hovering over my imagination, and thus
the conclusion. But I have now heard a
more favorable report of the place through
the article in the before mentioned Banner,
and if 1 am to judge by the spirit theremani-
Tested, and the" language .there used, 1 must
acknowledge a certain amount of “refine
ment” due at least gome of the citizens ol
that place.” ' .
I wish to inform the Banner that I am not
“afiaid of Red Shirts;” in fact 1 have a de
cided penchant for them, having been in the
habit of wearing during the winter from two
to four of them at a lime, and can testify from
observation ond experience that they as Ire
quenlly cover noble and generous souls as do
satins and fine linens.
But to conclude, 1 would again say that
said “offensive” letter was not written with
“malice aforefbought” for-the purpose of
prejudicing the public mind against any
place, and was not intended, for publication ;
and if any injustice has been done to any
place mentioned, it was not intentional; and
if 1 again have occasion to visit the “Falls”
I shall be happy to make the acquaintance
of the more refined part of the community,
and thereby hope to receive more favorable
impressions than on my first visit, and wilt
cheerfully give publicity to such impressions.
1 am much obliged to the editor of the
Banner for the information in regard to the
country round about the Falls, for it was
nearly { dark when I left the place and of
course could not observe the nature of the
country for the 10 miles we travelled that
night. I was informed by a fellow traveler
that it was poor, bat from where we stayed
that night we found good land for several
miles westward, and for aught 1 know it may
be equally as goad wbero we passed during
the night time.
Hoping the foregoing will be satisfactory
to the injured feelings of the parties aggrieved,
1 will defer farther remarks until I am ffivor
ed with the opportunity of again visiting the
place, at which lime the editor of the Ban.
ner implies a promise that- if 1 “have sense
and mind my own business” they will “take
me in” and treat me with hospitality, and
should any sny “let it be recorded,” 1 will
answer through a letter to you, “it is record
ed.” In the mean time let publics opinion be
suspended, and may all join with me in wish
ing peace and prosperity to the country round
about, the people in, and the town of Black
River Falls. “So mole it be,”
There is not much of interest lianspiiing
here at the present time. The public mind
is just now reposing on the bosom of the sea
of strife, in the midst of one of ihoso pro
found calms, which are said to always follow
a siofm. ' C. V. fT,
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