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    BY D. A. & C. li. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXIII.}
VALUABLE TIMBERLAND,
FOR SALE
IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans'
Court of Adams county will be offer
ed at Public Sale, on the premises, on
Saturday the 1 sth day of January next,
a portion of the Real Estate of WILLIAM
111. Sam., deceased, consisting of a very
valuable
Tract of Timber-Land,
situate in Hamiltonban township, Adams
county, containing
69 ACRES AND 54 PERCHES,
adjoining lands of Samuel Cobean,
Jacob Plank: David M'Millnn and others.
A large portion of said tract is covered
with valuable thriving
TIMBER,
such as ash. white-oak, &c. The land
will be offered in lots to suit purchasers.
({'Sale will commence at I I o'clock,
A. M. Attendance will be given and terms
made known by
ILIAAM DO UGLA SS,
Trustee.
By the Court—EDEN NO/11218, Clk
Dec. 24.—at
FOR RENT.
11)(7 ILL he for Rent, from the Ist day
v of April next, the
DWELLING •
BO
now occupied by I). A. Bumf- gi
z.ica. Esq., in York street, Gettysburg.—
The property is in excellent repair, and
has every convenience to make it one of
the most desirable residences in the bor
ough.
persons desiring to rent will apply
.to D. A. BUKIILER, or in the undersigned.
WILLIAM RING.
Dec. 24, 1852-31.
GIFT BOOKS.
S
BUEHLER has just received
• from Philadelphia a large and full
assortment of the best
ANNUALS
t-:••
AND
N
- -
suitable fur fkliday Presents, to which
the attentiot: of Parents and others is in
vited. Also, a full supply of Fancy Sta
tionery, Gold Pens, Pencils,
which will be sold, as usual, at the LOW•
EST RATES.
4 ,1 - 11 Y WANTED
lIDERSONS haying Hay tel sell will do
well by millimg on the subseriher, in
'Gettysburg, who is desirous of purchasing'.
The highest Market price will be paid at
;II times. As lie intends haying the
Hay, alter being packed, hauled either to
ll[snorer or Baltimore. the preference to
haul will he given to those from whom lie
flay purchase.
SOLOMON POWER.
Dec. 24. 1852.-0.
NOTICE.
A". persons knowing themselves in
debted to us by Nine or Book Ac•
41!0t11118 will please call without delay, as
it is absolutt•ly neressary that all accounts
should he settled at least once a year.
S. FAD NESTOCK & SONS.
Dec. 31. 1852.
TO THOSE INTERESTED.
ri•IIE notes giver lor at:ticks purchased
at my sate last Spring. and falling
due on the 23(10/January next, have been
placed in the Itandsof D. A. BUEHLER. Es-
quire, for collection. The attention of
those interested is desired, as it is my wish
to have said notes promptly liquidated.
D. M. SMYSER
Dec. 24. 185L-3t
LOOK OUT
/TIDE subscriber hereby gives notice to
thoee who have promised him WOOD
on account. that he is in want of it, and that
unless it is delivered forthwith, without
further notice, t h e Accounts will be placed
in the hands of an officer for collection,
and the money required.
Dec. 24. 1852
WANTED.
Alarge quantity of WHEAT. RYE &
Yellow CORN, for which Hanover
prices will be paid, to be delivered at my
Malls at Locust Grove.
GEO. ARNOLD
sita_FARMERS wanting a barrel of Su
perfine Flour made of 240 POUNDS of
wheat, by Bonnell's new pronese of flour.
ing, will please call at Locust Grove, in
Germany township.
JOHN CHADDS, Miller.
Gettysburg, Dec. 10, 1852.-2 in.
Keep it Before the People
/THAT MARCUS SAMSON has just
- It received one of the largest and most
varied assortment of Over Coats of every
description ever offered in the county, and
at prices that will not only please, but re
ally astonish. Give us a call before pur
chasing.
XOO.B. BERN !
HOSER Y, Gloves, Handkerchiefs,
Collars, Edgings and Laces, Bribi.
netts, Book and Mull Muslins„ Irish Lin.
en, Black Silk Lace and Fringe, dtc., d/c„
to 4e had in great variety, at
SCHICK'S
TRUNKS ! TRUNKS!
IHAVE just received& huge lota Goal
TRUNKS which I will sell chelip.
Oct. I—tt. A. ARNOLD.
tilXr 'Blanks of all kinds for
aide at this othee.
The New Aristocracy.
A title once could only show
Tbe signs of noble birth,
And men of rank were years ago
The great ones of the earth.
They deemed itjut.t the crowd should shrink
Before the cap and gown ;
They thought it wrong the poor should think,
And right too keep them down.
Those were the dive when books were thing'
..The people" could not touch ;
Made for the use of lords and king's,
And only made for such.
To work the loom, to till the soil,
To cut the costly gem,
To tread the round of daily toil—
Was quite enough for them.
Time was when just to read and write
Was thought a wondrous deal
For those who woke with morning light
To earn their daily meal—
The man a more submissive slave
The lees his head-piece litww ;
And so the mass from habit gave
Their birth right to a lew.
Now look abroad—the light of Truth
Is spreading far and wide,
And that which fills the English youth
Must shame our ancient pride.
'Ti.'Tia>rtxn alone can wield the sword,
In spite of wealth and rank ;
The artisan may lace a lord
With thousands in the batik.
We scorn not Mope of high degree,
For so 't were wrong to do;
But poorer men an rich (tin be.
And quite as noble too.
The prince nub• act a gayer part,
But he'who works for bread
May have, perchance, a warmer heart
And p'ryn a clearer head.
Then grieve not for the •"good old times,"
Behold a brighter day !
The reuses of our fathers' crimes
Are wearing fast away.
Before the Pen, the hew, the Rail,
Must old opinions fall
The mighty project cannot fail—
Theo aid it one and all !
THE LOST AND Tim LIVING.
The husband's tenni may he less and brief,
Be may woo and will another ;
Hut the dautihter clings in unchanged grief
To the image of her mother !
But a fleeting twelvemonth had passed
since the heart that for years had beat a
gainst his own, was forever stilled, when
Walter Lee brought again a fair young
bride to share his widowed home. No
father nor mother, brother nor sister, claim
ed any part of the orphan heart that he
coveted or won. No expense or pain had
he spared to dtx , orate the mansion.
familiar objects, fraught with rho tender
est associations, had been removed, to make
way for the upholsterer's choicest fiineies.
There was no picture left upon the wall ,
with sweet, sad mournful eyes to follow
him with silent reproach. Every thing
was fresh and delightful as the new-horn
joy that tilled his heart.
"My dear Edith," said he, fondly push
ing bark the hair from her forehead ; then
should be uo shadow in your pathway, but
I have tried in vain to induce Nelly to give
you the welcome you deserve ; however,
she shall not annoy you. I shall compel
her to stay in the nurkitry till she yields to
my wishes."
"Oh, no ! don't do that, - said the young
step-mother, tootionsly ; "I think I un
derstand her. Let me go to her,dear Wal
ter ;" and she tripped lightly out of the
Walter Lee looked after her retreating fig
ure with a lover-like fondness. The room
seemed to him to grow suddenly darker,
when the door closed after her. Reaching
out his hand, he almost unconsciously took
up a book that lay near him. A slip of
paper fluttered out from between the leaves,
like a white-winged messenger. The joy
ous expression of his face faded into one of
deep sorrow, as he read it. The hand-wri
ting was his child's mother's. It ran thus :
"Oh, to die, and be forgotten ! This
warm body Cold—these active limbs still—
these lips dust ! Suns to rise and set,
flowers to bloom, the moon to silver leaf
and tree around my own dear borne ; the
merry laugh, the pleasant circle, and I not
there ! The weeds choking the flowers at
my head-stone; the severed tress of sunny
hair forgotten in its envelope; the sun of
happiness so soon absorbing the dew-drop
of sorrow ! The cypress changed for the
orange wreath! Oh ! no, no ; don't
quite forget! close your eyes sometimes,
and bring before you the.face that once
made sunshine in your home I—feel again
the twining clasp of loving arms ; the lips
that told you (not in worms) how dear
you were. Oh I Walter, do not quite for
get ! From Nellie's clear eyes, let her
mother's soul still speak to you.
MARY LEE."
T. WARREN
Warm tears fell upon the paper, as Wal
ter Lee folded it, hack. He gave himself
time to rally, and then glided gently up to
the kprsery door. It was partly open. A
little fairy creature of some five summers
stood in the middle of the floor. Her tiny
face was half hidden in her sunny curls.
Her little pinafore was full of toys, which
she grasped tightly with either hand.
"No, you are not my mamma," said the
child. "/ want my own dead mamma, and
I'm sorry papa brought you hem" .
"Oh, don't say that," said the young
stepmother ; "don't call me 'mamma,' if
it gives . you pain, dear. lam quite wil
ling youhoulil love your own dear mam
ma best." "
Nellie looked up with a pleaunt eur-
prise. •
"I had a dear mamma and papa once,"
she continued, Hand brothers and sisters
ninny, and so Merry ! but they are all
dead, and sometimes my heart is' very sad;
From flu London Leader
BY FANNY FERN.
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1853.
I have no one now to love me, but my pa
pa and yourr."
Nellie's eyes began to moisten ; and ta
king out oue after another of the little sou
veniere and toys from her pinafore, she
said, "And you won't take away this—
and this—that my dead mamma gave me ?"
"No, indeed, dear Nellie !"
"And you will let me climb in my pa
pa's lap, as I used to ; and put my check
to his, and kiss him ? and love him as
much as I ever can, won't you ?"
"Yes, yes, my darling."
Walter Lee could hear no more ; his
heart was full.
What ! Mary's child pleading with a
stranger, for room in a father's heart !
In the sudden gush of this new fount of
tenderness, had he forgotten or overlooked
the claims of that helpless Wile one ?
God forbid ! 'From A'llie's clear eyes
let her mother's soul still speak to you.'
Aye, it did.
When next Walter Lee met his young
bride, it was with a chastened tenderness.
Nellie's loving little heart was pressed
closely against his own. lie was again
"her own papa !" No, he did not 'quite
forget !'
110 W HUSHANU/S 1114)' RULE
EMI/139
"Dear Mary," said Harry to his
little wife, "I have a favor to ask of you.—
You have a friend whom I dislike very
much, and who I am quite sure will make
trouble between us. Will you give up
Mrs. May for my sake, Mary ?"
A light shade of vexation crossed Ma
ry's pretty face, tatshe said, "you are un
reasonable, Harry. She is lady-like, refi
ned, intellectual, and fascinating, is she
not ?"
"Yes, all of that ; and for that very rea
son her influence over one so impulsive and
yielding as yourself, is more to be dreaded,
if unfavorable. I'm quite iu earnest, Ma
ry. 1 could wish never to see you togeth
er again."
"I'shaw ! dear Harry, that's going lon
far ; don't be disagreeable, let us talk of
something else. As old Uncle Jeff says,
how's trade 1" and she looked archly in
his face.
Harry didn't milt.
"Well," said the little wife, turning a
way, Mill patting her font nervously, "I
don't nee how 1 can break with her, Hai
ry, for a whim of yours ; besides, I've pro
mised to go there this very evening."
Ilarry nnule no reply, and in a few Mill.'
IlteS was 011 It is w • aq to his office.
Mary stood behind the curtain, and look
ed after him as he went down the street.—
There was au uncomfortable stifling sen
sation in her throat, and something very
like a tear glittering in her eye. Harry
was vexed ! she was sure of that ; he had
gone off for the first time since their mar
riage, without the affectionate good-bye
that was usual with him, even when they
parted but for an hour or two. And so she
wandered, restless and unhappy, into her
little sleeping room.
It was quite a little gent. There were
statuettes, and pictures, and vases, all gifts
from him either before or since their mar
riage—each one had a history of its own,
some tender association connected with
harry. There was a bouquet, still fresh
and fragrant, that he had purchased on
his way home the day before, to gratify
her passion for flowers. There was a dhoice
edition of poems they were reading to
gether the night before, with Nary's name
written ou the leaf, in Ilarry's bold, hand
some band. Turn where she would, some
proof of his devotion met her eye. But
Mrs. May ! She was so smart and satir
ical ! She would make so much sport of
her-for being “ruled" so by Harry ! had
n't she told her "all the men were ty
rants?" and this was Harry's first. attempt
to govern her. No, no, it would not do for
her to yield.
So the pretty evening dress was taken
out ; the trimming re-adjusted and remod
elled, and all the little et cetera., of her
toilette decided. Yes, she would,go ; she
had quite made up her mind to that.
Then she opened her jewel case ; a little
note fell at her feet. She knew the con
tents very well. It was from Henry,
(slipped slily into her hand on her birth
day, with that pretty bracelet.) It could
n't do any harm to read it again. It was
very lover-liitelor it year old husband.
But she liked it ! Dear Harry! and she
folded it buck, and sat down, more unhap
py than ever, with her hands crossed in
her lap, and her mind in a most piteable
state of irresolution
Perhaps after all Harry was right about
Mrs. May ; and if ho wasn't, one hair of
his head was worth more to her than all
the women in the world. Ile" had never
said one unkind word to her, never! he
had anticipated every wish ; he had been
so attentive and solicitous when she was ill.
How could she grieve him ?
Love conquered.-- Tho pretty robe was
folded away, the jewels returned to their
case, and with a light heart, 'Mary sat down
to await her husband's Mara.
The tamps were not lit in the doming
room when Harty oatne 'up street: da
“FEARLEBB AND FREE.”
had gone. then (after all be had said 1)
He passed slowly through the hall; enter
ed the dark and deserted room, and threw
himself on the sofa with a heavy sigh.—
Ile was not angry, but he was grieved and
disappointed. The first doubt Chat creeps
over the mind, of the affection of one we
love, is so very painful.
"Dear Harry 1" laid a welcome voice at
his side.
"God Wyss you, Mary," said the happy
husband, "you've saved me from a keen
sorrow."
Dear reader, (toon'l you le!!?) there are
some husbands worth all the sacrifices a lo
ving heart can make I—Olive Branch.
Death of the Righteous.
"Many things," said the dying Schiller,
"arc becoming Clearer to me." "Calmer
and calmer," wen his last happy worth.
"Good night !" said a dying mother".
her children, "good night !" and then ad
ded, while a militia smile played upon her
countenance, "tie day breaks !"
The death of nalyburton was like a cor
onation of a king amid music and sunshine.
His spirit seemed to career, as on the wings
of light, amid the rising splendors of the
eternal world. To his wife ho said, "My
sweet bird, are you there ? Deeply have
I loved thee, but I am no more thine, but
the Lord's. De not weep ; you should
rather rejoice. We shall meet agajn, and
be in the same family iu beastmi."—
"James,': he said to his aged elder, "you
arc un old man and I am dying; yet the
child is going to (lie an hundred years old.
lam a shock of corn, fully ripe. I have
ripened fast under the bright sun of right
eousness, and 1 hive .had brave showers."
At eventide u bright sun illumined his
countenance; for at "eventide it was light' .
in the soul. In the early morning -he
passed away. Just before he died, he said,
"I am thinking of the pleasant spot of
earth I will get to lie in, beside Mr. Ru
therford and Prineipal Anderson. I will
conic in as the little one among them, and
get lieorge in my hand, and oh we will
be a group of Willie dust !" At last his
voice failed, but With a countenance all
ebiuent with love and joy, he passed into
eternity.
"Mother, do,,you heur them r said
youthful Christian, lying, worn and weary,
on the brink of eternity. t•llear what,
iny child ?" "Why, the :Angels—the bles
sed angels—
iintk ! they say.
Z•lnier 10 pint. come nvvay
"011" cried Payson, in his last boar,
"I have looked 111.011(10d, 1111111'110, aS a fix
ed star, very bright and beautiful, but at a
distance ; but now he seems to we a slim
cowing nearer and nuttier to one. A, I lie
here I seem to be swimming nit a sea of
glory."—Chrbajan Review.
Love fur Children.
There is not in this world a more love
able object than a young lair
brow unshadowel by care, its clear eye
undimmed by tears, its pure heart untaint
ed by passion. Its every word, look and
fiction bespeak its guilelessness. Its smiles,
its affectionate endearments, its unstinted
confidence—its artless, winning ways, knit
it to your heart with strong and lasting
ties. Without childhood's ringing laugh
and bird-like mush., how desolate the house
hold ! Byron had a heart over-running
with love for children, if there is any truth
in words. What a delightful picture he
here holds out to us :
••Look ! how he loughs. and stretcheanut
And opens wide his blue eyes urn thine,
To hail his rather ; while hie little form
Flutters as "mined with joy. Talk not of pain !
The childlesa cherubs well might envy thee
The pleasures of ■ paten t !"
That wan is to be pitied who has no love
for children—who frowns upon their spur
tiveness, and rebukes their caresses. We
would nut carry such a cold, torpid heart
under our vest for the wealth of the In
dies.
The Festival of Lite.
Life is a ball-room, whose guests are
constantly pouring in at the front door,
and out at the bark door, without apparent
diminutions of the number within ; who
are neither less gay nor more miserable
on account of the perpetual entrance and
exit at the two threshholds of Time and
Eternity. Arid whosoever looks into the
ball-room in ages to come, will find its
youth still as buoyant, as graceful sod as .
beautiful as ever, just as happy and uncon
cerned as if Death never had occurred, and
never would occur upon earth Oh life !
the facinating disguise with which Youth
infests thee, is thy precious amulet, for it
is their hands that encircle thy blooming
fields with those gorgeous curtains which
veil from the eye of consciousness the
rough scenery that lies beyond—its retreat
ing storms, its portentous clouds, its
mournful retrospect, am! its painful fu
ture
WOULDN'T BlTR.—"Mother, " said a
little Phaver, the other day, "I know what
I would do in. was at sea, and the men
were all starving, and they should draw
low to see who should be Killed and eaten,
and it should be jump into the
water."
..110." said his niother,"diey would fish
you up."
..Nn." said he,•"but I wouldn't
bile '—
N. B. 7W.
The Legislature of Texas has passed the
Maine Liquor Law.
Wilberforce's Great Speech on,
Potatoes.
The folowing amusing sketch of a joke
(of a Parliamentary reporter, is taken from I
the Great Metropolis :
Abdul Ave-and-thirty veers ago, when
only one sentence of a speech was given
on an average, every five or six minutes.
and when the reporters had to sit for many
hours at a time, they were often at a loss
what to do with themse4ves. On one oc
casion when laboring under en attack of
ennui, and also under its effects,Jack Fin
nerty. a well known reporter of that period,
yawned out, "Mr. Speaker, will yon favor
us with a song ?" A roar of laughter follow
ed from all parts of the house. Ono of
the officers immediately repaired to the
gallery, and inquired who the offender
was ; Jack Finnerty. without opening his
mouth, pointed to a Quaker, of very dimin
utive stature. who was sitting itt.the front
Weal. The officers immediately seized the
unoffending little man by the breast of his
collarless coat and without condescending
p give a why and wherefore, dragged him,
down stairs. and transferred hint to the
elm of the Seargent-at-A rms. The latter.
niter keeping him in sale custody during
the night, and compelling hint to pay near
ly 830 for his lodgings, set him at liberty
on the following day.
About the same time the debate, which
was about English laborers, being one even
ing unusually dull, Jack Finnerty. who had
hot a short tithe before beau imported from
Tipperary, said to the only (oilier reporter
in ilie gallery at the time. that lie felt very
thruway, that he would lie after taking is
little but of a lisp, it he would tell him whets
lie awoke any thing which might take
place. The other agreed, end Jerk. in a
moment. was fast lucked in the nuns of
Morpheus. An hour elapsed, and alter
lislia-dozen yawns Jack opened his
eyes.
••lies anything happened t" was the
first quesoiono to Ilia friend.
"Too he sure • there said the
tither, whose name was Morgall' O'Sulli
••llas there. by the powers ?" exclaim
ed Jack, pricking up his ears in the
plenitude of his anxiety to hear what it
W 55.
Yes., Jaek, shit very important too."
“'flies; why don't you he alter lull
ing it to me al mire I what was it a
bout I"
"Abut!: the virtue of the Irimh potato
Jack."
••Was it the Irish potato you maid, Mor
gan !"
•••I'lie Irish potato ; and a most eloquent
speueli it was."
••'l'hundoritti:and lightning, then. anti
why (inn% vim u•II it me !''
—ill read it from my hum Iviok t Jark.
and tAkr it down as I go oil," snort
Mor
•.(Irll, itP myself, Kure, that's really
ni any time to write what ally 'Demistr
says about our praittus ; are viii realty to
Ileg !"
ready." an.wereil )lof,fr,riii.
"Now lhru, ' said with au viirrgy
that strauvely eopitrastial with the !previous
Languor ut Ills in:timer. "N rt
ow. Nloraa.
uty hoy." atre,tii; to rend
troin los 1111 i,” tuns, "'Mine" e." l :
"The houiprilde member that
"00h, he asy a htlk bit:'
Jack, "who was the honorable mem
ber r'
hlnrgao lu...tinted for a InnlOrlll, ••Wan
it fits name yoti ;irked Sure, it wan NI r.
W
"Mr. Wilberforce ? orb, very well.
then.•
Morgan resumed. "Mr. Wilberforce
said. that, it always appeared to him be
yond RII 111/0;11011, that the great cause why
the Irish laborers were, as a body, so much
stronger and capable of enduring so much
greater physical fatigue than the English,
was the surpassing virtues of their potato.
And lie-"
•`Morgan, my dear fellow !" shouted
Jack, at the mention of the Irish potato, his
countenance lighting up with eestacy as
Ile spoke, "Morgan, my dear fellow, this
is so important, that we must give in the
first person."
"Do you think so ?" said Morgan.
"Troth and I do," anstvered Jack.
•Very well," said the other.
Morgan then resumed—•sand I Kaye no
doubt," continued Mr. NV •that
had it been my lot to be born and raised
•Aid the member say raised?" inter
rupted Jack. exultingly, evidently aSsocta
ting the word with the growth of potatoes
in his "own blessed country.' •
"He said reared," observed the other,
who then resumed. "—had it been my
lot to he born and raised in Ireland, where
my Mod would have principally consisted
of the potato—that most nutritious and sa
lubrious root—instead of being the poor.
infitrn, shrivelled and 'stunted" creature
you, sir. and honorable gentlemen, now be
hold me, I would have been a tall, athletic
man, and able to carry an enormous
weight." •
Here Jack Finnarty observed, looking
his friend Morgan eagerly it: the face—
" Faith, Morgan, and that's what I call
true eloquence. Go on."
"I hold that root to he invaluable ; and
the man who first cultivated it in Ireland, I
regard as a benefactor of the first magni
tude to his species. And my decided o
pinion is, that never, until we grow pota
toes in England in sufficient quantities to
feed all our laborers, will those laborers
'be as able-bodied a class as the Irish ?"
[Hear ! hear ! frog bath aides of the
House.] .
"Well, by Patrick. hut that bates
everything,' observed Jerk. on finishing
his notes, "that's rale philosophy ! and
the other members cried, •Hear, hear !' did
they ?"
"The other members cried, "Hear!
hear !' " answered Morgan.
In a quarter of an hour afterwards, the
House arose. Morgan went away direct
to the olfiee of the paper for whieh he was
employed ; while Jack, in perfect etrata-
•Mr. Man*ayes jamotatt appeantace watt
proeiM/• whoa it a aus Atacribell to Was tam.
ties at the eutogium which had been pro- mint who had not Torg . ottenGorl's injone.
trounced on the virtues of. the potato, of thin not to take his name in vain.
*gild Ireland," ran in breathless haste 14 a Serond, ' they showed that he wielt
public house, where the reporters. who led otheri to remedy the same injnitq
shoirld have been on duty for the otheft ant — .
morning papers, were assembled. t He-lAnil third. they , showed, we tiumglill.
read over his notes to them, whieh they , that he had token a very good wity,to give
copied verbatim, and not being at the ionqin ! them a warning to thit very
There wes
the heat possible coed iti 4444 for judging of 1 nothing harsh about it-perfectly i! ,,,,t anii
i the probability of Mr. Wilbertionte deliver- [ mild—Weed something pl en ,, ait ....,.F r i mi o
ing snob a speech. they repaired to their I third! *west: , just as though,a peralisi; in.
respective offices, and actuallygave a copy I tercel Wait felt in each individual -who
lof it into the hands of the printer. Next [ might read it; 'lt might haw," read—orio
morning it appeared in all the papers. ex- iSwearing allowed in,this Room—All. Pro
cent the one with which Morgan :o'Sulli- [ Polity forbidden here; or . any 'other
command, was connected. The stinaation of stir- I peremptory coed, but we d . oart
prise it created in town exceede d every] whether either would have iccomPlitelted
thing. Had it only appeared in one or as meek is the request. *Friend, Dint%
two of the papers; persona of ordinary in- [ swear.' Would it not be well if. iii ie
telligence must at once have concluded : proving all kinds of iniquity, we Were to
that there was anme mistake about the mat.; use more inildnera and not so melt dentin
ter ; but its appearing in all of thejournals , station? One thing we partietilerlY none
except one, and that one so very obseure, [ ed about this little sentence was that it
that scarcely anybody knetv whether the [ never seemed to conntenanee, in the /east.
speech was in it or not, formal, RR it were, ' any epeeles of profanity or irrevenee: 7 -
people to the conclusion that it must have [ Now. we have known some good men,
I been actually spoken. The inference was [ indeed Christian men, who of cones , ,.
l plain. Everybody, while regretting that [ would not for the world @Wear theineitises.
I the necessity should exist, saw that no I hut who nevertheless would seem Mitch
1 other course was WI but to put Mr. Wil- i delighted with a well-told . story, 'cireit
berforce at once into a straight -jacket, and [ though it abounded in Oaths; and would
provide hum with a keeper. lit the even- [laugh heartily at a joke. even though a Ber
ing. the House met as usual, and Mr. %V d- [inns subjeet lay at the butt of it. Rut this
berthrce, on the Speaker taking the chair. [sentence, on the contrary. hint the . iistme
rose, and begged the indulgence of the I iolemn - ,lentle admonition 'for all anch4.
House for one moment, to a matter which ".Pileiiil Don't Sivear.' We were id/wined
concerned it, es ,
well se himself, personally.
••Every honorable member," he observed,
..lies doubtless read the speech which I
am represented en having made on the
previous night. With the permission of
the house I will read it." [Here the hon
orable member read the speech, amidst
tlelifeitiaig roars of laughter.]
"1 can assure the honorable fneinbere
that no one could read this speech with
snore surprise than I myself dial this morn
ing, when l found the paper on my break
fast table. Fair myself, personally. I care
hut little about it—though if I were culpable
of tittering such nonsense as is here put
into my month, it iN high time that, instead
of being at member of this House, T were
an inmate of some lunatic say Illtn. It is
for the dignity of this HI/11110 that 1 feel
concerned ; for, if honorable members
were capable of listening to such nonsense
supposing Me eapsble of giving expression
to o. it were much wore appropriate to
this a theatre for the performance of
farees, than a place for the legislative delib-
eratinto4 of the reresentatives of the ea-
11. was proinised by Poore members to
mill Ile pruners of the different papers in
witieli the speech speared to the her of
the limier teem hreAt -or privilege,- but
tho matter was eventually allowed to
tlik time it mein() uncommon thing for all
lhr ripstlrrn, r scrio our ,to alennit the... wives iron)
the v.illety for Irmo; st a tune— thst engag
ing 1.1 tell them all that had happened on hie
IrtlUlll.
M.:outfit', Incident
A writer in the times, having been at
Marsliiicld. tells id' two y g elm trees
simaling star by side. on the lanai, which
were planted there by I1311(1 ut
memory of the loved children villiPreeelliid
him lip the spirit world. One 'nursling a
few months ago. Mr. %Veuster had been
suissing from his study lor an hour or
wore, When lie made his appearance with
two small elm trees and a spade in Ins
hands. SIIMIIII.IIOII/ the Hilend:ince of his
soil, he went out upon the lawn, planted •
the young tree., and then turning to Fletch
er said in a subdued Voice, as tie (I.llllVd
away. "My son, protect these trees after
alter I am guise; let them ever rewind von
of Julia and Edward." Their sear a n d
Galling leaves insw seem to ty pity parlicirt
non ut the mourning that marks this scene
of sorrow. The flower garden—enclosed
with a neat and ornamental wire fence,
on which are trained ehuioa rose vines—
occupies nearly an acre of land. east of
the mansion, and contains the ris hest apd
mist beautiful varieties of plants and shrubs
of every description, including numerous
exotica.
From the same correspondence we get
another incideni, whieli we liiiVe !ward be
fore, but it will bear repetition inithis con
'on :
•• When he [the boy Webster] first ar
rived at the twatleiny of Mr. A !Amt. his
•personal appearance, in his ill-titting •
home-made, home-spun garments. together
with his ally, aukard manners, created,
much tuorrituent among the boys, and
many jokes were cracked at his expense.
Young Daiviera sensitive nature nould ill
brook this ; and, after suffering from it two
or three days, lie went to the teacher and ;
told hint he must go home. The teacher
inquired the cauae,aud Daniel math( a clear
breast of it. The former bade htin not
mind it, but keep quietly at his studies,;
and his turn would come by-and by. He
obeyed, and, itt the end offhe week, ho was
placed at the head of the class that had rid
iculed him. After two months had passed
in hard study, the teacher, at the close
of the school one day, called him up in
presence of the-seholars, and told hint he
could not stay there any longer—to go :mil
get his books and hat, and leavit. Poor
Daniel's heart sank down in his shoe*.
He had studied hard, bearing patiently the
ridicule of his mates, and now to be turn
ed off in disgrace was attire than he could
stagger under. The teacher waited a mo
ment to watch the astonishment of the
school, and then added, •this is no place
for you : go to the higher departotent.'—
That Was probably the proudest hour in
Webster's life. He hae• Oh:molted
over his companinna..and that by outstrip-
Ting them in his 8111111014."
"Friend, Don't swear."
Upon going into a wagon shop few
days since, tbe first thiaig that ,suet our
, gaze was the above sentence, printed in
large cripitals s and posusd up in t isonspie
nous place.
Those threeshorrwotderwere sugges
tive : ,
Firm, thr untioubtood grryttf,that owe
one cuutautted with . . tho sig4o mot *
TWO DOLbARA PER AAlYillit:
INUMBER 44.?
that the effect of this silent yet ever-speak
ing little sentence of truth, wes"-most hap
py ; that although freqtleuted by
clams of men, an oath was rarely heard
in the shop:
As we turned to leave, we could not bet
wish that those three. words might be
posted up in every place of publie business
or resort—in all our shops—on b4tiard oily
steamboats—in our railroad Cam and even
in our Legislative Hallo.
Hut. above all, we long for Stich a purily
of public sentiment, that he face of every
respectable man should bear on its very
lineaments such p legible and uninistskalilet
—.Friend, don't Swear? as should effect
nally awe dovin the terrible prolaniSy
which is so all-bounding—that the awful
swearing, because of which the lanikiour
lied*, might entirely and forever. cillfive.--
Now. Fork Etangdio.
Vim she dtmeriraii Union.
Letter Wiltten Jn 1900.
Ma. Eynon. d- 7 —Now the following frt.
ter came into my possessitin, I leave you
and your readers to conjecture. It Inds
have come through a .omedinart" lrrtii '1
80rit of P 10 0 0 . 0 3' , . but . . l ,),Y; 1 I 4 1.WIRP:,
nut'saitkeithaw 44 , 414,1404;114?*
cured, Mr. Editor. that, should Ibe
favirr
ed with any more commniticatiOns= from
the same source, they shall tranantitied
to you willow' fail. Your friend and cor
respondent, . .
ANNIE ELTON.,'
CITT, Jan. ti, 1900
MY DINAR FRlEND.—Writing to Oil. as
I now dn. commencing at • the twentieth
century I am led to %peak of die wi'Milernil
(deluges which have taken Oaee *Mita
the laet half century knit pant. tetneti)-
ber very wall when malt were einntiikeed
the lords of creation. whop all the'nahiti.
veere in their hands. W o Met, werit'at
time held in subjection by their hiiiightiliii
pressorn, and woinen'n rights were alainet
unknown. Wow thank kleaven ailtilds in
reversed. Instead ut lords. we hatveindiei,
of erection. • • . •
Our navies do not consist of wool war
—they are all women of war. Movit..44P
pity. a woman occupies ou r presidentitil
chair. whale our halls of Onogtest are Al l. O
with a hotly ot intelligent fqfittilel!..frent all
parts of the country. Vora') orl), *0.1,40
professional men—mow weitave fittilessump.
al women.' • , . ,
But, without Gsrther , preface. lime give
you a little sketch of Witshittguiu,,stillieltA
am at present visiting. Every bodyjeptalfr
mg the administration of, gun. 14t , ,c. Bow
Jones, who has jail R6llllOlOll
government. She heti filled her .gehanet
with 110111 e of the most tl i h
WIIIIIOII in the enuntry.l'.Nfltere.: frit iJti
stance, could she havet• (mina a heitet Sce
retary of War than Oen. 'AStgail chase, of
Massachesetta, who covered herself with
glory. in our late war with the kisidwieb
islands ?
went to thes.presitlettee leene k ts raw
winnings since... Among the ,ctit i artl who
were present, I noticed IffiO n t i Airst 411 1 -
i:ins, the distinguished Senator (pint the
new State of Patagonia. TheAtotaion Min
ister. Mrs. Orloff, had on a splen4,l fur
cape. which Attracted the attention of Oil *lto
Wiwi present. I WAS curry not to hayw
seen the Secreiary of State—hut she t jteut
word that her baby WAS 4i04. and she
couldn't come ! ,
I called to see the Attorney General the
other day, and found her husband eettting
the table for tea, and taking care of the
children. Ho said hie wile was au much
occupied with the cares of office. that else
had hut little leieure, tor her family.
'Phis morning arrived the steamer -Amer
ica. Capt. Betty . Martin„ commander—,
bringing the latest pews front -Europe. It
seems ihat the quiet' of Awnria Ims just
issued a woMondafe, ordering all the mon
in .her dominoes to shave far thei r whis.
kqrs. Li consequence of tills very reason
able edict, an Insurrection took place a
mong the men, which.linwever. Wad Souu
quelled,by the efforts of Gen. Polly Ko.-
eiti.skti.
I hearsl last, unday. en eloquent Senora'.
Com Rev. Sally dpresue..totonsier 01 the
first church in 41iis city. I understand it is
to he published. I see by the papers. that
a twill out. West attempted to leeture upon
men's rights, recently. in, which ha tent.
ishty Maimed that men had a right to vote.
was gam , to learn that he was pelted
from the stage by a volley of sunms fritm
the females, whose rights he had assailed.
rage- be- fargutahtd. in due swords a(
1 4 1 00 1 0 14 , ." • "
Aise4 ire* .e*hi old M vie Wow
xi,iuloidol row is teei
t fed
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