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'' s B. BROOKS,
-1 iVO COUNSELLOR AT LAW
1 f-uaAND, TIOGA CO. PA.
. of Counselors there la safety.”— Bible.
: — nß . W. W. WEBB,
ruEICE “ vcr Co P,!’' *
0 Farr'?
. l i;aac. first <lnoraboi
Samuel Dieiiim
c .*PIR.
/~\pFICE at his residence near the
\ ) Academy. All work pertaining to
Jine of business done promptly and
‘ [April 22, 1858.]
trrantei.
HOUSE
CORNING* N, Y.
. £ Proprietor,
uten to and fromthe Depot free of charge.
pES' ISTtVi Nli
r ’ WULLSBOKO’, PA.
L. D. TaVLOR, PROPRIETOR.
~ .-perm llv popular house i* ceutrully located, and
j: 'e E i- i'- If to tide patronage of the travelling public.
American hotel.
f CHINING, N.Y..
s FHEEWAN, - -y- - Proprietor.
’-nsct- 25 cts. Board, 75 eta. per day.
t;;!,, .Murchjil, 1859/ (ly.) _ ’
-~~S. C. WHITTAKER,
tfijdmjntthic Physicinn and Surgeon,
KLKLASD. TIOGA CO., PENNA.
putienta in all parts of the County, or ro
ute ibeni lor trcnlmcnt at his bouse. [June 14,]
11. 6. COLE,
BATHER ASV HAIRDRESSER. .
nsoP*in the rear of the Post Office. Everything in
:iti Uae vrill be done as well and promptly as it
b? June iu the city saloons. Preparations for ro
rj-,!}* da mini if. and beautifying the hair, for sale
\ ts < ’ Hair and whiskers dyed any color. Call and
r VelhJmro, Sept. 22. 1559.
GAIIfES HOTEL.
u c. VERIf/LYEA. PROPRIETOR.
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa,
Tin? ">li known holelislocated within easy Kccess
tf dutbest fishing and hunting grounds in North’rn
■i. No pains will be spared for the accommodation
,:p€a*are ?t-ekers and the traveling public,
Apr.l 11. 1559.
THE CORNING JOURNAL.
George W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor.
I*rrd'ii;’ne 1 at Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y., at One
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-.srtr.icliing inio every part of Steuben County.*—
desirous of extending their business into that
cioje adjoining counties will find it an excellent ad
medium. Address as above.
DRESS MAKING,
irr?S M. A. JOHNSON, respectfully announces to
J|_ ihe citizens of WelUboro and vicinity, that she
& taken roams over Niles A Elliott’s Store, where
•** " prepared to execute all orders in the lino of
yRE?S MAKING. Having bud experience in the
’xces;, the feels confident that she can give satisfac
wiaall who may favor bar with their patronage.
Sf!. 2P. 1559.
JOHft B. SHAKESPEAR,
TAILOR.
HWIXr, opened his shop in the room over
Wm Roberta Tin Shop, respectfully informs the
■ an: i-fWollsboro’ and vicinity, that he is prepared
■ s-.f’ute ordeia in his Une’of business with prompt*
U.s and despatch
Cutting done on short notice.
Jfeli-boni. Get. 21, ISsS.—fim
~ WATCHES! WATCHES!
THE Subscriber has cot a fine aasorrment of heavy
EX GUSH LEVEE lICXTEft-CASE
Gi>ld and Silver Watcbes^
*-icb be will sell cheaper than 11 dirt” on ‘Time/ i. e.
h»i!i till ‘Time Pieces’on a short (approved) credit,
dll kinds of REPAIRING done promptly. Tf a
i*b of work is not done to the satisfaction of the party
ft rccring it, no charge will be made.
P*«t favor? appreciated and a contiuance of patron-
W Ltndly solicited. ‘AXEIE FOLEY.
iVelhborc, Juno 24, IS4S.
HOME INDUSTRY,
THE BtTte'CICIBER having established a MAR
BLE M\XUFACTORY at tbo vUlage of Tioga,
'-tro be is prepared to furnish
Monuments, Tomb-Stones, &.C.,
the lest
'ERMOSTiITJUAS GARBLE
*o=ld respectfully solicit the patronage of this and ad=
/ -in* ix-uctics.
Having a g oo *l stock on band be is now ready to ex
all <T«lcr« with neatness, accuracy and dispatch.
All work delivered if desired.
JOITX BLAMPIED.
ga, Tioga Co.. Pa., Sept. 2S, 1859.
IV Iff. TERBELI^
CORXIXG, X. Y.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer) in
pRVGS. And Jftd-ieines, End, Zinc, and Colored
1 1 "■». Oi'j, Varnish,-Eruahe* Camjtkencand Earning
If';e Stuff. S'lfh and GUtag, Pure Liqnofy for
i'utmt Medicines, Artiela Peiinta and Ertuhes,
f-'um/ry. fancy Articles, Elavorttng Extracts, <£e.,
ALPO,
—A general assortment of School Booka-=-
Bhmk Books, Staple and Fancy
e , . Stationary. 1
•7ncian?. Drug-'isU, and Country Merchants dealing
■‘• ) ar fof tbcaboxc articles can"be supplied at a small
on Xew York price?. [Sept. 22, 1857.]
M M«VK AMI Tl.\ SHOP!
OPPOSITE ROY’S DRUG STORE,
11-Scrt S<nt can luy Stores , Tin, and Japanned
II are for one-half the usual prices.
wgcYi, Elevated Oven Cook Stove and Trim
sls,oo.-
Tin nnd Hardware
-pr.ip'inion for Ready Pay.
to, 01,o 1, P '*J' :ln y t,De who wants anything in this line
hi. ?ee our Prices before purchasing elsewhere.
t the place— two doors south of Farr’s IIo
■" .Tfi'ite Roy's Drue Store. CALL AMD SEE
I. . !t „ . .
H. D. DEMIN.H, ?
nnnounca to the people of .Tioga £onnty
f n 'i y. 5 now prepared to fill all ordure for Apple, Pear
,- r ’ N'ecuriue. Apricot, Evergreen ami HeqiduDna
t^vv' UUI lriT '- Al'o Currants ItaApberrleß, Gooseberries,
t,., and Strawberries of all new ami approved rari
—Cotisi'itlng of Hybrid, Perpetual and Sam-
Un*t*. Bdnrbon, Noisette, Tea,
3 <J,una * and Climbing Bosea. ......
RRRP V^J ncl uding aU'the-flpettjCOTvii'
. ,7-/ Tietio3.of Althea/CalycanThus,
p. ar -- Spines, Smuglaa. STibnrumns, Wigllitw 4c,
. LOWER S Paoonfes, Dahlias,- Phloxes. Tulips,
Kte. Hyacinths, Narcissis; Jonquils, XU*
QoI
varieties . . . f -.
Strawberry. 4 do*, plants, $5.
Whdtrwk 11 ?’ solicited.
•NiOtj,'? {l>r Grafting. Budding or Pruning wIU bo
l4 * G -t A-J'frcss
H. P. PEMLV
THE AGITATOR
VOL. VI.
, Bt SYLVIA A. LAWSON'.
I bent to yours my throbbing head,
So silent was your rest,
A. terror and a nameless dread
Thrilled instant throught my breast;
I thought these eyes Would ne’er unclose)
Those firm, proud lips ne’er speak;
I touched the midnight lashes spread
Along your, bearded check.
Ton sighed a long, unconscious sigh,
I knew my darling slept;
And then I leaned my throbbing head
Upon my hand, and wept:
I could not bear'to see you lie
So mute—so dike the dead;
I seemed a lonely watcher by
My husband’s death-cold bed.
X took the life-warm hand in mine
Andkissed it o’er and o'er/
So lightly though it did not break
The chain </f sleep you wore,
Your fingers gave no answering clasp, ’
I could not bear that pain,
So, pushing back those curls at last.
My tears fell like the rain.
Yon started from your silent rest,
Yon ope’d your wondering eyes,
You strained me to your throbbing breast.
And stilled my broken sighs—
Now sweet peace bathes my inmost soul,
Bushed arc its wild alarms,
I sit enwrapped in love's warm folds.
Circled by your strong arms.
—[Peferaftn** Magazine.
FERULING ANNA HAWEES.
“Buzz—buzz—buzz—buzz J”
“Indeed I cannot stand this. You'll drive
me quite crazy with your buzz, buzz, buzzing.
I must and will have silence. I find that plain,
pleasant persuasion will not dp; I shall be
forced to resort to a harsher method. Now
listen one and all, while I assure you that the
first scholar, old or young,- miss, or master,
young gentleman or lady whom I shall see
whispering without leave, I will ferule !*'
The teacher, Air. Arthur Stone, closed his
bearded lips firmly, and glanced about the old
fashioned school room with h determined ex
pression, as he ceased speaking, fie evidently
ment just what he had said—meant it in the face
of the stalwart young gentlemen, and pretty,
witching, bright-eyed girls aroilhd him. For. a
moment there was a dead silence among all,
while every'eye was fixed upon the handsome,
resolute face of the teacher. But in the little
crowd of eager, up-turned faces, there was but
one on which his eye sought intutively ; drawn,
as it were, by some strange mesmeric power. —
One face, and one at that moment which was a
pretty picture of piquant beauty, with its saucy,
inquisitive blue eyes, which met 'his own fully
anddaringly;—its strawberry red mouth, pursed
up by the most provoking and daring of smile?,
that said it as plainly as Words could have said
it. “You won’t ferule me, Arthur Stone, if I
whisper ever so much/'
A sadden flash of anger reddened up into the
cheeks of the young man, and shot from the
depths of his fine gray eyes, as he said .detoi
minedly, in answer to the smile the red
raotth and blue eyes, and the toss of dainty
head—“l repeat it: I will ferule the first schol
are whom I see whispering without leave."
This time there was no mistaking it; there
was a perceptible motion of Anna llawkcs'
pretty head, an unmistakable light in her eyes,
and a whole unbroken sentence wreathed about
the curve of her lips, as she turned carelessly
to her books—“ You can ferule me if you
choose," she said mutely, not believcing that be
would venture to do it.
“And I certainly will,” was the silent reply
of the young man, confident the while that sho
would not allow him an opportunity of putting
his threat in execution. But he was ill at ease
as he turned moodily to the arithmetic class
from which his attention had been drawn hy the
unusual confusion. Affairs had taken a .disa
greeable turn, an unexpected course, arjd what
ever he might do, he could not better them.—
There was but one for him. He must'put a
stern face on the matter. He must maintain
his dignity as a teacher, even if he was obliged
to thrust aside his own wishes and inclinations.
Anna Hawkes, pleasant, witching, graceful
Anna—the one bright star that threw so much
light upon his arduous, tiresome duties; the
warm hearted girl who had grown nearer to
him as the dull, wintry days went by, till he
had dared hope, silently tint earnestly, that
some time he might he more to her than any
one else in the world, even if she, came between
him and duties, must bo sacrificed. It was a
miserable thought, and he greeted it with a)
long, deep-drawn sigh. »
Not once during that forenoon, did he ven
ture to look towards Anna’s seat, or allow him
self to pause anywhere in her vicinity, fur fear
his ear might be greeted by a provoking, odi
ous whisper. Not once, I say, but I must ex
cept the long recess, during which he watched
her eagerly, as she bent over her slate, working
out her algebraic problems, apparently tost to I
everything about her. Two or three'tinies he
started from his seat to go to her assistance, as
she knit her white brow perplexedly, but a
strange, new feeling like pride, kept him back.
He thought he had never seen her look half so
pretty or loveable as then, as she sat there
bending thoughtfully over her book, with one
band running rapidly and gracefully over her
slate. Her dress of dark crimson cloth, with
its full sleeves confined at the wrists by black
velvet bands, fastened high in the neck, but in
such a manner as to display her full, white
throat, was strongly becoming to her. He had
never thought of it before, but there was a
certain refioement in her taste that was truly
pleasing. It was visible in everything she wore
—the dainty cambric collar confined at the
throat by a small, cameo breast pin ; the knots
of black velvet ribbon fastened about her luxu
riant brown braids p the petite black silk apron,
with its girdle of silk chord, and full large,
dropped tassels, and the' slender,'shining little
kid hoots that- peeped daringly out from the
folds of her ampjo skirt. In all his life, Arthur
Stone bad never looked upon a face or figure so
pleasant or captivating. But as he watched
her, she raised her eyes to his face. In a mo
ment the pretty seriousness which had rested so
becomingly on her features was gone. A pro-'
voking-smile curled upon her rosy month, and
went with a sudden rush of triumph overlier
whole face, dilating her finely curved nostrils,
and sweeping like a sunshine ever the blue- of
■O, Pa.
Zlehoted to tlje Sftnmon of the area of iFreedom and the Spread of healths Reform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNEIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
A WIFE’S FOEil
WELLSBOROj TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING..MARCH 15, 1860.
her eyes, making such rare dimples about her
ohin, as one might have supposed to have been
fitted by the cunning fore-finger of Cupid him
self.
Arthur Stone was vexed, but was too much a
man of the world to allow the young girl to
.know how much she was capable) of annoying
him, and so after the first flame of petty anger
had died oqt from his cheeks and forehead, be
said in a voice, the coolness of .which surprised
even himself:
“Can I be of assistance to you, Miss
Hawkes?”
“None, sir, thank you. I have quite con
quered my exercises alone to-day.
Foolish fellow I The very coolness of his
manner betrayed the secret which he strove to
hide. There was little need of covert if there
was nothing to conceal. And so it was that the
forenoon slipped unpleasantly away, and the
afternoon came in its stead. The teacher’s
rule so far was a good one. If Anna Ilawkes
had not been present Mr. Stone would have
counted it a success, but as it was, he was in a
constant tremor of fear.
A raised hand in the neighborhood of her
seat and a timid application fur assistance was
met with something like an unreasonable frown.
In a hurried and nervous way he proceeded to
explain away the difficulty to the timid appli
cant, anxious to be free from such dangerous
surroundings. Just as he was congratulating
himself upon his success, and was about turn
ing away, a rapid whispered volley of words
rattled past his cars. He knew the source from
whence they came as well as did every scholar
that heard them. He could not pass thought
lessly along.
The dread alarm had come with such a sud
den distinctness as to surprise him into an in
voluntary start. Every pair of eyes were turned
inquiringly and curiously to his face. lie was
forced into doing his duty. The heavy beard
about his mouth was friendly to him then, for it
covered a suspicious pallor that settled there as
he turned about and rested his eyes sternly
upon the blushing, piquant face of Anna
Hawkes. She was the picture of innocence
just then, with her brown lashes drooped low
upon her cheeks, and the .pearly white teeth
crushed cruelly down upon the crimsVm of her
lips.
' “Miss Hawkes, can you tell me who whispered
a few moments since?”
“Yes, sir/*
The white lids were thrown wide open, and
the clear eye fixed firmly upon his own.
“Who?”
“T, sir/*
“‘Will you oblige me by Stepping this way a
moment !**
He led the way out on the floor.
“Yes, sir, certainly,”
Shq followed him .promptly, pausing beside
the desk and resting one band prettily upon its
top.
“I suppose you listened to my rule this
morning V 1
“Yes, air.’*
“You understood it, too, doubtless ?”
“Yes, sir, perfectly/’
‘‘Understanding it perfectly, then, you have
been pleased to break it. Can you name my
duty
“It does not admit of a question. Ferule
me, sir.” She commenced drawing a slender
gold ring from her left hand. “This hand ?”
she asked suddenly, looking up in his face.
“We have plenty of time, Miss Ilawkes ; do
not burry*” he said, evading her question. “I
have something to say to you.”
She leaned her elbow upon the desk, and her
burning face upon her hand. “I shall be happy
to listen to you,” she said.
“I will trouble you but a moment* only to
say that I regret more than lam able to cy
press, that a scholar whom I have endeavored
to treat with uniform courtesy snd respect, and
in whose advancement I had felt a lively inter
est, should by so glaring a misdemeanor, such
an utter contempt of my wishes, avow a disre
gard for me as a teacher and a friend. Such a
display is unpleasant enough if a mere child
'Wilfully breaks the rules of a school, but when
instead, a young gentleman or lady so far for
gets him or herself, it is intensely painful. 1
assure you that I deeply regret this.”
Anna bowed gracefully as Mr. Stone ceased
speaking* Again her white teeth were dented
into her lip, while the brown lashes trembled
close upon the deep burning red of her cheeks.
“Your hand* if you please.”
The little white hand was reached forth as if
it wore to receive a caress instead of a blow.
As it lay so tenderly and trustingly upon the
broad hand of the teacher; he inwardly cursed
his stars. lie called himself a brute, a tyrant,
a knave, a monster, lie had a mind to get
down on his knees and pray for a big mouthed
earthquake to come and swallow him ; for a
sudden flash of lightning {in the winter time)
to melt him into nonenity ; for a whirlwind to
sweep him with its rapid, rushing winds from
the face of the earth. Strike that little dim
pled hand with a cruel two-inch rule ? He had
rather cover, aye, blister it with kisses, instead.
It trembled within his grasp, and about the
mouth of the owner a little white line was
islanding the redness of her lips. For a mo
ment he thought he’d kneel before her, and ask
her to give the pale prisoner entirely to* him. —
It would be his hand then, and no one could
blame him for not wishing to injure his own
property. A thought struck him, lie might
strike his own hand instead of Anna’s. He
could shield her and take the blow himself.—
lie was in a mood for cracking every knuckle
that he owned. He raised his ruler. Anna
raised her eyes to bis face. Ilia fixed, deter
mined expression startled her. She would bear
the blow without starting, she thought, but 0,
she would bate him, hate him , as long as she
lived 1 As the thought passed through her
, mind, a gay, dashing sleigh drawn by a pair of
fine horses came rapidly up to the school house
door.
■ Lucky, lucky, Mr. Stone, thq/rule fell harm
lessly on'the fair rosy palm of Anna’s hand,
and he turned his eyes toward the window, and
exclaimed hurriedly: - - ’
‘"The Committee, Miss' Hawkls. Yon can
take yj’ur jot’new ; bn* remain to-night after
school. Even for this interruption I should not
feel justified In letting the affair pass.”
“The last committee man upon earth that I
would caio to see/’ exclaimed Mr.' Stone to
himself, as he bowed low before the pompous
young gentleman, known by the cognomen of
Dr. Wesley Barker ; who rapped with his whip
upon the door—said young gentleman being one
of wealth and education.. But the teacher did
not care a fig for his wealth~he did not envy
him—or anything for his education —his _ own
was quite equal to it. .But what he did care for
was, that Dr. Barker was a great admirer of
Anna Hawkes, and in the present state of af
fairs he did not-care about having rivals around.
Everything went along smoothly during school
hours, as it always did during the visits of the
several committees, but the mojnent school was
dismissed, Dr. Barker stalked across the school
room floor, and 4 up to Anna Ilawkes’ seat. Mr.
Stone bit his lips with vexation. Ills rival
made his appearance quite in the nick of time.
He despised meanline'-s heartily, denounced it,
but now in spite of himself, he stopd and lis
tened eagerly to catch the few words that
dropped from Dr. Barker’s and Anna’s lips.
•“I’ll ask Mr. Stone to excuse me,” be heard
Anna say.
“Which of course be will do/* replied Dr.
Barke *.
“I am not so certain/* was the smiling reply,
as she darted towards his desk.
“I hope you will pardon me for daring to ask
such a thing, bat Dr. Barkerwishes me to drive
with him in his new sleigh, .which I am very
anxious to do, and so I'd like to be excused
from remaining to-night to take my feruling,
promising to come early to-morrow morning/'
Mr. Stone bowed and said, “very well/*
‘though the words almost choked him. He se
cretly wished Dr. Barker and his new sleigh in
China, and himself free from the vocation of
school teaching. lie thought as he stood mood
ily by bis desk watching Anna Hawkes pin
her plain shall closely about her throat, and
tie under her chin the blue ribbons of her quilt
ed hood, preparatory to her drive with Dr. Bar
ker, that he was the most miserable man in ex
istence, and that he would purchase a farm,
work- at shoveling on the railroad, would rlo
anything rather than teach another school. ( lle
had engaged already to take charge uf the'yil
lagc academy the following spring, but now lie
resolved that he would not do it—he wo'uld
throw up the engagement at once.
“No doubt she thinks.me a very brute/* ho
said to himself, as the gayuquipage went dash
ing down the street. Perhapaafter all, she had
•not meditated, that ruthless, attack upon his
dignity and patience. Indeed now he thought
of it again, the whisper was more like a sud
den exclamation than anything else. Yet ho
had not given her the slightest chance for an
explanation, but like the executioner who loved
his occupation, hurried her forward to the pun
ishment—the dolt that he called himself. He
had a very poor opinion of Arthur Stone j;ist at
that moment. He was sure that he. would like
to horsewhip him.
A fair counterpart of the pupil's thoughts
were those uf the teacher. It was a dull, drea
ry drive that Anna Hawkes took with Dr. Bar
ker. She hadn't a heart to enjoy 4 "after the fully
of the afternoon.
“lie thinks that I do not care for nor respect
him,” was the thought upermost in her mind,
whichever way she turned. “And this is the
return I am making him for his kindness to
me—all the interest he has taken in my studies
both in and out of school, 0, if he could but
know the truth.”
“The truth I”* the young girl startled herself
by these words. And what was the truth? She
burled her burning face in her hands as she
asked herself the question. It was this. She
loved Arthur Stone I loved him better than life
itself! A cry of pain went from her lips, as
the knowledge settled down upon her heart.—
But what proof had she given of this? What
proof that she was any other than a vain, selfish
thing! None, a'as, none! Like any woman
who is conscious of her power, she gloried in
hers over Arthur Sttjne. But how was he to
know that it wso* any bat the glory of a fickle,
heartless coquette, rather than that of a strong,
loving, truehearted woman, who makes her
power a golden chain about the heart of the man
she loves, by which she draws him tenderly
towards her ? How. 0, how was he to know
this ? The thought was agonizing to her.
She resolved at last to go to him in the morn
ing and confess her fault, humbling as it was.
He should know, at least, that she held his
feelings too sacred to wound them wantonly.—
But in the morning she was sick and feverish,
scarcely able to lift her head from the pillow.
She could not see Arthur that day, and so she
must contentedly wait for the next. Against
her wishes Dr. Barker was summoned, who
croaked dubiously of a. fever hanging about her.
She must be careful, be very quiet and follow
hia directions, ho said, and he would come again
in the afternoon to learn how she was getting
along. He came in the afternoon, but at an
unlucky bout*. Anna sat back in the rocking
chair by the window, looking eagerly up the
street. But while he paraded learnedly hy her
side, he sa\| a rapid red stain through the white
ness on her cheek, and an eager light break out
from the clear blue of her eyes. Arthur Stone
.was passing by the house, and viewing with a
scornful curl of the Itp the handsome equipage
of Dr. Barker. He did not look beyond it to
the pale facie bent so eagerly towards him, but
turned his eyes coldly away and walked haugh
tily down the street, while Anna sank back with
a sigh into the softly cushioned
Next morning she refused to remain away
from school another day. Arthur Stone would
say she was cowardly, that she feared the fer
uling, that she absented herself purposely, be
. cause of the misunderstanding on Tuesday af
ternoon, which she was too guilty to face again.
She would go to the school though she dropped
fainting'on the way. She could not rest until
her mind was unburdoned of this heavy load.
So she went, pale and -trembling at an early
hour to the school house. * "
. “How be scorns he hates me 1”. she
thought, as Mr, .Stops, quietly raised hia eyes
to her face and bowed a silent good morning as
she entered the room. How could she over face
1 that stern, coll gaze, and njake excuses for pot
keeping her appointment of the previous morn
ing! -i .
"I-was too ill to come yesterday morning,”
she said, in a trembling voice, “or I should
not have broken my promise. Will this morn
ing do as well ?”
Mr. Stone glanced keenly into her face.—
The blanched cheeks and white quivering lips
testified to the truths of what she said.
“Aretyou able to be here now ?” he asked
in a tone of voice that had more of tenderness
than aught else running through it.
“Hardly. You can fer—ferule me, and I
will go home,” she said, while her cheeks
crimsoned with shame.
Mr. Stone bit his lips to keep back a reply
which rose involuntary to them. Again was
that tender, white hand before him waiting
meekly for its punishment, now weak and
trembling from illness. Did,she think him a
brute? .Quito evidently from her action.
“I—l regret that ,1 wounded your feelings'
on Tuesday,” she said, raising her eyes to his
face. “I am thcmghtles, I hope -not hearties?.
Will you pardon me?” The' question was
asked in a low, quivering voice, half choked
with tears.
“Pardon you?” Mr. Stone repeated the
words slowly, in nuclear, emphatic tone.
“It is too much to ask? You will not refuse
me—you could not refuse me if you knew—”
“What?*'
“How utterly miserable I am. I cannot stay
here—here*a my hand—be quick—let me go
home ?”
With a quick rapid movement, the teacher
grasped the little feverish band that was out
stretched to him, covered it oyer and over with
fervent and passionate kisses,
“Forgive you/* he said, while his fine eyes
grew deep and tender in their.expression, “for
give you, yes, a .thousand times, and then not
be able to show you a millionth part of the
love which I bear for you. Forgive you—but
I’ll dare ask more than you dare hope, perhaps
more than you care to hope—that you will love
me, that you will place yourself and this sinned
against, abused little hand in my keeping. Tell
me Anna, have 1 asked too much ?”
The answer was faint and low that came
from Anna Hawked lips, but nevertheless it
was a satisfactory one, for the sweet little
mouth from whence it c:fme took immediate re
ward in kisses.
So it all ended. And in a few weeks after
Anna Hawkes became Mrs. Arthur Slone,
much to the satisfaction of the wondering
school rit Elton.
Ax Exon nous Lie . late of
Mississippi, who has been noticed in Harper
heretofore as a gentleman remarkable for a
proclivity to exagg Tate and tell hard stories, on
one nccision wa-s seated in front of the princi
pal hotel in Clinton, amusing a group of gen-,
tlcmen with his peculiarnarratives, when he de
livered himselfoXs follows:
“Gentlemen, in oast .Tennessee, where I was
raised, I knew a man who ha‘d the most aston
ishing strengthen ins jaws and teeth of any
man that ever lived. I saw him once standing
on the sunny side of a barn, with his old wool
hat under his arm, filled with black walnuts,
and he just put them in his mouth and cracked
them as easily as one of you would-crack a
chestnut
The auditors exchanged looks of incredulity,
A quizzical andjaectious blade, known asKon
tnck Sachelford, was present, and heard the
Judge’s story, and remarked:
*jso doubt. Judge,'of the truth of all you
have said. Some men are remarkably strong.
Now, in South Carolina, where X lived, one of
my neighbors was noted for the extraordinary
muscular strength of bis arm. I remember to
have seen him take a hard pine knot, place it
in the hollow of bis arm at the elbow, and, by
suddenly bringing his forearm upward, he split
the knot into splinters and pressed out all the
turpentine in’a stream !” •
The narrative of Kentuck was received with
peals of laughter. Judge M became indig
nant, and springing to his feet with clenched
fist and flaming eves, exclaimed :
Kenluck , that's an enormous lid"
Snrx ArrECTATiox. —There is nothing more
beautiful .in the young than simplicity of'char
acter. It is honest, frank and attractive. How
different is affection ! The simple minded are
always natural. They are at the same time
original. The affected are never natural'. And
as for originality, if they ever had it, they have
crushed it nut, and hurried it from sight utterly. 1
Be yourself then, young friend I To attempt
to be anybody else is worse than folly, it is
an impossibility to attain it. It is contemptible
to try. But‘?uppose you could succeed in imi
tating the greatest man that ever figured in
history, would that make you any the greater ?
By no means. You would always suffer in
comparison with the imitated one, and be
thought of only as a shadow of a substance—
the echo of a real sound—the counterfeit of a
pure coin I Dr. Johnson aptly considered the
heartless imitator (for such is he who affects the
character of another) to the Empress of Russia,
when she had done the freakish thing of erect
ing a palace of ice. It was splendid and con
spicuous while it lasted; but the sun soon melt
ed it, and caused its attractions to dissolve into
common water, while the humblest stone cottage
stood firm and unharmed. Let the fabric,
though ever so humble, be at least real. Avoid
affecting the character of another, however
great. Build your own. Be what God inten
ded you to be—yourself, and not somebody
else. Shun affectation.
White, in his work entitled “Northumber
land,” furnishes the following: good reason for
sobriety : “The road is pared for a short dis
tance on the outskirts of the town, an l there
by hangs a bale. A farmer, well known for
itis love of good liquor, was accosted by an ac
quaintance: “You’ve’no been drunk on the
road lately, Jamie?” “Na," answered Jamie,
“the road’s nae been sae soft to fall on sin’ they
payed it."
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market tight if they are in ihn unfortunate hab
it --f getting sc themselves, i
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NO. 33
Scenes la the Life of a Showman.
A showman meats with strange sties. He
sees human natures she arc, unmasked & with
out no close on, & he must be stoopidpr nor a
ded kab boss if he duzzent stock Bis’ Branes
with soreral kinds of noliege. •.
The undersined won’t Boste, Ime a Ameri
can sitterzun I go in for the fast-sailin, snag
hilt & fnll-mand skeaner United States, whitch
rpns herself, she dnz, & on'whose decks 1 man
is'.as good’s anuther man. & frequiently moore
so if be conduoks hisself strate. To use a
fraae, Ime naity & to the mnnnere
born, & don’t want to put on airs ctmplv be
eaws Ire met with grate sneksesa in the show
perfesbun (wbitch Ire bin into goin on twenty
2ye res.) My wunhy projennyt ors was una
ble to giv me a cussycal edycasbun, & all I
noseT pickt up
"4s I snled, as I saled,"
to kote from Capting R. Kidd, sellerhratcd
pirut. But thank lIoTn my sire and sireress
gave me a good name, 4 I pint with feelins of
pride and pleshnre to the fact that nnn of our
family was ever in Congrisa or on the New-
York perlice, or Arms house Guvncr.
The ensooin seena in my checkcrd karreer is
respectably submitted:—
I pitcht my.tent in a small town in Injianny
one dav larst season, 4 while I was standin at
the do|e takin munney, a deppytashun of Indies
came up 4 sed they was members of ,fhe Bunk
umvilllFemale Moral Reform & .Wimin’s Rites
Assoeiashun, and they axed me if thay cood go
in without payin.
“Not exactly,” ses I, “bat you-can pay with
out goin in." j
“Dew you know who we air?" sed one of the
wimen—a tall & feroshuis lookin critter, with n
blew kotton umbreller under her arm—“dew
you know who we air, Sur ?”
“My impreshun is," ses I, “from a kuiscry
vcw, that you air Females.”
“IV e air, Sur,” sed the feroshus woman—“we
belong to a Sosicty whitch bleeves wimin has
rites—which bleeves in rnzin her to her proper
speer—whitch bleeves she is indowd with as
mutch intelleck as.man is—whitch bleeves sho
i-, trampled on & aboozed —& whitch will r“aist
hensdth & forever the incroochments of proud
& domineerin man."
Durin.her discourse, the cxsentric female
grabd me by the ooat-kollar & was swing'm her
umlireller wildly over ihy bed,
•T hope, marm,” aei I, startin back, “that
your intenahuns is honerable? Imealoneman,
hear in a strange place. Becides, Ive a wife to
hum.”
“To?,” cride the female, “4 shcs a slave!
Doth she never dreem of freedom—doth she
never think of throwin off the yoke of tyrinny &
thinkin & speakin & votin for herself? Doth
she ever think of these hero things?”
“Not hein a nntral born fool,” sed I, by this
time a little riled, “I kin safely say that she
dothunt.”
‘-‘O, who.—whoti” screemed tlio femalo,
fwingin her umbrellcr in the air,- “0, whot is,
the price that wooman pays for her expeeri
unse
“I don’t know marm,” bcz I; “the price to
my Show is 15 cents per individoonl.”
can’t our-Sosiety go in free?” asked tlio
femalo.
“Xot if I know it,” aed I.
“Crooil, Crooil man 1” she oride, & bust into
tcers,
“Won’t you let my darter in !” Bed anuther
of the exsentric wimin, takin me afeckshunitlv
hy the hand. “0, pleese let my-darter in—
slices a sweet gusliin child of natur.” ""
“Let her gush - *.’’ roared I, as mad as I cood
stick at their tarnal nonoents ; “let her gush ?”
Whereupon they all sprung hack with the sim
ultanious obsarvashun that I was a Beest.
“My female frinds,” sed I, “bed you lecvo,
Ive a few remarks to remark; wa thenpwall.
The femalo woman is 1 of the gratest iustiton
shuns of whicth this land kin boste. It r » im
possible to git along without her. Ilad’thare
bin no female wimin in the world, I shoi.d
scarcely be hear with my unparaleld show
on this very horscpishus occashun. She is
good in sickness—good in wellness—good all
the time. 0, wonman, wooman 1” I crile, mv
foehns wurked up to a hi poetick pitch, “you
air an angil when you behave yourself; but
when you take off your proper apparial &
(mettyformally speikin) git into pantyln-ms—
when you desart your firesides, & with your
hods full of wimins rites noshunsgo round like
roarin lyons seekin whom you may devour stun*
boddy—in short, when you undertake the man,
you play the divil, & air an cmfattic noosance.
My female friends.” I continued, as they was
indignantly dopartin, “wa, wall what A. Ward
has sed!”
Business is Business. —" Good morning, Mr.
Perkins. Have you some excellent molasses V
“No mam. Our excellent ntulasges aro ail
out, hut we have some fine old St. Flamingo,
some New Orleans, some West Engine, and a
sort of mulasses which is made from inaplo
sugar, and which we call seeryup."
“I want to know, Mr; Perkins, if this seer
yup is acterly made from maple sugar ?” i ,
“I pledge you my word of honor, Mrs. .Horn
by that it is acterly made from the genuine
bird’s eye maple sugar.” )
“Then, Mr. Perkins, I shall'not interroga
tory any mure, hut without further circumcn
tion proceed to purchase half a pound of the
seeryup.” . '
“Beg pardon, Mrs. Hornby, we don.t sell it
by weight, but by measure..’
“Oh, by measure: then I will take half a
yard ?” [Evident sensation throughout the in
stitution.] i
“Where are you going?” asked a little I OT
of another who had slipped and fallen d.iw’j
on an icy pavement. “Going to get up?” was
the blunt reply.
Miss Tucker says.it is with old. bachelors as
with old wood ; it is hard to gat them (dieted ;
but, '•‘ben they do (lam-'. (h=y bum prixjigi .-us
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