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BY S. B. EOW.
CLEABFIELD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 18-56.
VOL. 2.-N0. 41.
EVERMORE.
Tb streamlet miymured soft and low
Meandering 'mid the shadowing trc,
And a its gentle tone a roue.
Uplifted by the slightest breeze,
. I eat. upon a xnocs-grown stone,
"That gerTcd the streamlet for a shore,
And bent iny car to'cateh the tone,
As low it whimpered, F.vcrinore.''
And 'mid the flowers and through tha glen,
With earel59 haute it passed along,
.Nor lurking back the rocky steep,
Could stay the cadence of its song;
-A rainbow sat upon the spray,
The meesenger of harm no more ;
2 be water bounded on its way,
And still repeated 'Evermore."
The streamlet grew a mighty tide.
Fed by a thousand mountain rills,
And mirrored in its moving waves,
1 he forest of a thousand bills ;
But as the boatman chants his song,
Timed tc the plashing of the oar,
Tuneful notes the waves prolong.
And echo sweetly, 'Evermore.1'
Bo. soft and low in early days;
i?o, roughly tost in youthful strife ;
o, broad and deep tn later years,
Flows on the hastening stream of life.
Our bark afloat, the current strong,
Vc drift not slowly towards the shore,
And each freih gale that wafts along,
Kepeats more clear the startling song.
List! list! what means it? "Evermore."
THE THREE GHOSTS.
BIE.TT. UEWKES.
Round a cheerful wood fire, in a quaint old
country house, three sisters sat talking in the
twilight. The bright blaze illumined the room,
in which a few portraits were hanging, and
cast grotesque shadows (rora the old-fashioned
furniture. The ruddy glow lighted up the
lovely faces of the sisters, enjoying its cheer
fulness. Very charming were they all, hut Very dif
ferent in their beauty.
Margaret, the elder she who sits to the right
ol the fire, with her head thrown partly back,
while her hands were crossed upon her knees,
is about twenty-two. She Is tall, stately, and
proudly beautiful. Sophie, "pretty Sophie,"
fits opposite on a sofa with the head cf little
Kose, who is reclining, on her lap.
Little Kose, the youngest, with neither Mar
garet's queenly grace, nor Sophie's brilliant
beauty, was what ladies call "a darling" that
is, she was loyeable, charming and innocent.
In fact she was fresh and sweet as a hawthorn
blossom.
These three young girls were singularly sit
uated. They resided in the old homestead,
where we hare found them, alone, except for
the servants who attended them. Father and
mother had both died within a few years, and
as there was no relation to supply, even in a
measure, their places, the orphan sisters clave
yet more closely to each other, and continued
to liva in their desolate home, like birds who
nestle together In the old nest when the parent
birds have left them.
Thomas, an old and faithful man-servant and
Kitty Cork, (a person notwithstanding her
juvenile name, of middle age and. tried fideli
ty) were their only domestics but they suffi
ced, for their labors were performed in the
spirit of love and willingness.
Such was the little household of the sisters
and there they were settled for life. For,
be it known to you, incredulous reader, that
each cf the fair sisterhood was under a solemn
vow of celibacy.
When their father and mother died and left
them all alone in the world, they took each o
ther by the hand and solemnly promised nev
er to desert each other, but to live and die to
gether. Three years had passed since that time, and
though their loveliness had attracted suitors
even to their qniet, lonely home, no wish had
ever been breathed by any of the sisters of a
wish to break their vow.
. On the contrary, they often applauded their
wisdom in devising it, and swore fealty to it
anew.
Some such conversation had taken place on
the very evening I had chosen to introduce
them to my readers. Indeed, they were more
than usually vehement in the denunciations of
any treason to their code. Margaret's eyes
had flashed indignant at the very thought of
such treachery Sophie had painted most
touchingly the lonely state of the other two
should one bo base enough to desert and lit
tle Kose had declared, "That even if Prince
Charming himself 6houId come flying into the
room in a golden chariot, and were to fall at
her feet all crowned with diamonds, she would
not waver the least mite but should say very
coldly, "Rise, Prince Charming, you can't
have me, I have promised my sisters never to
marry."
Margaret and Sophie laughed at little Rose's
sally, and the greatest unanimity appeared to
jrevai!.
While they sat over the fire discussing the
subject, Kitty Cork entered with a basket of
chestnuts, saying,
"If you plase, leddies, Thomas bids me give
yees these nuts. He's alter pickin' them his
self and he says as it's Hollow-Ave ye'll be
thryin'yer fortunes, good or bad and its wish
in' ye gude luck and gude husbands he is."
'Does not Thomas know V began Marga
garet with a frown.
Ou ay he knows," interrupted Kitty with
A slight toss of the head but immediately re
penting this imprudent gesture, she added
i-vith roguish demurencss
"Och, but Thomas is a quare, headstrong,
ould body. Puir, ould sowl, be ha3 ay his
ranks and turns and ana is, ye'll a' "three
o' yees be married afore a year's out. Unfor
tinnit, demintid craythur that he is, to take
sich an a crazy fancy."
'Crazy indeed t" said Margaret, with dis
dain, but yet when Kitty was gone, the girls
began, "just for fun," to try the nuts in the
old fashioned manner.- True, no names were
mentioned aloud, but that did not prevent
each maiden from designating her nuts as she
pleased and certainly the most intense inter
est was manifested in the glow on each youth
ful face as it watched the antic manceuvers of
the mimic lovers in the symbolical pantomime.
Kitty returned to find them engaged in this
inconsistent amusement, but like a wise dam
sel she took no note of trifling discrepancies,
She on the contrary, proposed that as they
were trying Ave games, they should at a later
hour, before going to bed, try the famous old
one of sowing hemp-seed by moonlight.
" What is it 1 how do you do it i" cried the
sisters, and Kitty went on to explain, how that
the girl who would look into the future as to
her fate, must go by night, alone, and beyond
the hearing of her frieuda, and scattering
hemp-seed in the moonlight, must say,
"Ilemp-seed I sow,
lIemp-soed must grow.
Whoever will be my true-lore.ee mc after and mow
And then on looking over her right should
er, she would see the man she was to marry,
com ing after her with a great scythe mowing
and who would most surely overtake her and
cut her heels off with the weapon, if she paus
ed too long to look.
"You forgot, Kitty, we are never going to
have any husbands," remarked Sophie, when
Kitty paused in her explanations.
"Och, well, then, no harm done," was the
response "if yees to have no husband, no
husbands will come and ye'll no risk your
heels."
The sisters were in a humor for a frolic, and
would have ventured a trial on the spot, but
the all important Kitty stopped them.
"What an a time's this for such a thing, it's
no yet eight o'clock, and the mune's no up
the earliest hour iver I seen it tried was ten o'
clock, and the midnight hour is better still."
The girls consented to wait a more propi
tious hour, and returned to their fireside chat.
Kitty retired to the kitchen,, where she whis
pered a long talo in Thomas' ear. The latter
listened, nodded his head sagaciously took
up his hat and went out.
Ten o'clock at length struck, and the sisters
as eager as ever for a frolic, called Kitty. She
appeared after a little delay, bringing with her
three baskets of hemp-seed, one of which she
gave to each fair adventurer, with renewed in
structions. Miss Margaret was desired to is
sue from the front door, Rose from the back
and Sophie from the side. They were about
to set ofF, when Thomas, who stood silently ob
serving all, said gruffly,
"That's wrong, Kitty Miss Rose is to goby
the side, and Miss Sophie from the back."
"Thrne for yez, Thomas, and my heart's in
my very mouth of fright at tho plunther."
"Why, Kitty, what dlfl'erence can it possibly
make ?" inquired the girls.
Kilty made no intelligible answer but she
mumbled something like,
"Gae the right gstc, and ye'll mate the right
guist," as the three girlish figures flitted away
in the darkness.
Five ten minutes elapsed, and Margaret
rushed breathless into the sitting-room ; an in
stant more, and Rose and Sophie joined her.
They all locked very much excited and fright
ened. Each looked at the other inquiringly ; and
Margaret began
"I have really seen something very extraor
dinary very strange. ' I do not know what to
think of it. It could not have been a spirit
but oh, how frightened I am, I will tell you
all about it. I had scattered my hemp-seed
and repeated, my rhyme as Kitty directed,
when looking behind mc I Saw, actually a fi
gure in white, advancing towards me with a
scythe, just as I had been predicted. I was so
taken by surprise, and so frightened for of
course I did not believe Kitty's nonsense, that
I had no power to run. I stood motionless
with terror, while the figure approached nearer
and nearer. It advanced step by step, as a
man docs in mowing, and I j et had no power
to stir. At last it was behind me close I
felt its touch and its breath on my cheek and
a voice whispered in my car :
"Beware how you cast from you tho lovo
and devotion of a faithful heart. Young Al
derthorn truly loves you make him aud your
self happy."
. The sisters were silent. Margaret added
"what makes it stranger is, that I knew well
the voice that spoke it was young Alder
thorn's and I know well that none but a spir
it could imitate those tones so as to deceive
mc. But tell us Sophie what happened to
you You are looking as pale as a lily."
Sophie held up her hand, on the third finger
of which glittered an opal ring, which she had
never worn before.
"Listen," said she, "I did just as you did
Margaret ; and looking over my shoulder as
directed, I saw a vision. It was not moving
as that you described, but it held a scythe in
its band, and when I first saw it, it was alrea
dy by my side. It was clad in some kind of
white mantle, and its features were quite visi
ble in the moonlight. Sisters it wag tho face
of Lieutenant Morton ! He- or it took rnv
haid, and put this ring uponjmy finger, say
ing solemnly as he did so,
With this ring I wed thee,
in diattt ortn lile.
This token doth bind thee
Forever my wife."
Margaret shuddered.. What if her sister
were wedded to a demon? She had heard of
such things ?nd did not her own experience
forbid her to be incredulous 7 With a sick
ening sensation of superstition, horror and ap
prehension she turned toward little Kose.
What had befallen that little child ?
"I hare seen a ghost," Rose began Mar
garet clasped her hands and closed her eyes.
Uer pale face grew even whiter than before.
Rose continued,
'I had sown my hemp seed, as you did sis
ters, and when I looked behind me, I saw the
reapei coming after mc with great strides.
I started to run, but in my fright I stumbled
and fell and the ghost instantly sprang for
ward and raised me up and and ,
"And what, Kose 7" asked Sophie and Mar
garet, eagerly. .
"And it was Robert Bloomley," said Rose
abruptly.
"How do you know 1 what makes you think
so?" asked the sisters.
"Because he kissed mc?" cried Rose hasti
ly. Then overwhelmed bv her own blunder
ing speech, she hid her blushing face in her
hands.
Margaret and Sophie were aghast. Here
was a discoverv.
Rose tried awkwardly enough to profit by
the silence to amend her error.
"Ghosts don't kiss, you know," she timidly
remarked.
"And Robert Bloomley ,loesV cried Sophie,
laughing. "Oh, Rose, Rose, you little trai
tor, who would have expected this from you."
She looked keenly at Margaret as she spoke;
Margaret met her glance with a look at once
conscious and suspicious.
A light was begining to break in upon them.
They began to see that Rose was not the only
traitor in the camp. They began also to sus
pect Kitty and see through her devices.
At last Sophio broke into a merry laugh.
"The fact is." she said, "mischievous Kittv
has been playing us a trick, very saucy, and
very clever. I understood it all now, and she
has evidently understood us all this long time.
How say you, Margaret ? Arc wc justified in
keeping our vows, when three ghosts come
from their graves to bid us break them ?"
Margaret turned aside her stately head with
a blush and a smile, and gave no explicit an
swer. But I fancy she as well as tho other
sisters, were more satisfactory in their replies
the next day, to the "three ghosts," who ap
peared in propria persona to plead their cause.
I need scarce say that, as Sophie had sug
gested, Kitty was at the bottom of these mys
teries. Having, with her usual shrewdness.
discovered the secret of each sister, she had
despatched Thomas to summon the lovers in
time to play the ghostly part assigned them.
Finally I would merely remark, that the
whim of. the "quare, head-strong ould body,
Thomas" wa3 perfectly true. All three sis
ters were married within a rear.
Margaret entered with her husband into
possession of a noblo estate in the neighbor
hood. Sophi accompanied Lieutenant Mor
ton to distant lands. But Rose, with her hon
est farmer settled down in the dear old home
stead. Kitty, now more important and more indul
ged than ever, and faithful old Thomas of
course, remained with her.
Once a year, as often as it is within the
bounds of possibility, the sisters meet under
the old roof-tree. Every Hallow Eve they as
semble, as of old, round the cheerful wood
fire, not perhaps roasting chestnuts, and talk
ing girlish nonsense, but speaking of present
happiness.
Religion and Politics The Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post says "that if politics
arc so bad that religious men and ministers
can not mingle in them without detriment to
themselves and their holy cause, there is so
much the more reason for their reformatory
work. Most of those persons who are shocked
that ministers will occasionally "preach poli
tics," or apply great religious principles to tho
administration of the government, or because
clergymen manifest an interest in moral and re
ligious questions upon which political patties
are also divided, are usually persons of very
bad politics commonly both. Men whose pol
itics will not bear the test of Christian princi
ples are very opt to scoff at any suggestion of
comparison ; and men whoso religion is a
houscd-up Sabbath idol, never to be thought
of or reguarded on a week day, or applied to
any of the business of life, undoubtedly will
have a holy honor of making religion a prac
tical thing." '
The French Doctors have discovered that
ice is safer and better to use in surgical opera
tions than chloroform. By the application of
pounded ice and common salt to the diseased
parts, thns causing numbness and insensibili
ty, a Surgeon lately succeeded in removing a
largo tumor without giving the patient any
.pain, aud occasioning very little loss of blood.
The only inconvenience was, that the Doctor
froze hi3 fingers.
The Steamer Susquehanna has Jjfcgt order
ed to Nicaragua.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MAY 28, 1330.
KANSAS.
Another Letter from "John."
Council Citt, April 14th, 18G.
Rev. J. J. Hamilton : 3y dear brother :
I am just going to write you a short letter, and
a rough one, for I am coming out of an ague
snake, and my hand is unsteady. I have not
had the shakes much this Hprlr.g, but the dis
ease lingers in the fystcm and is ready to
break out at almost any time. It is the re
mains of the sickness of last August and Sep
tember. Do not think that it is now unheal
thy. The air seems so pure that it is a con
tinual pleasure "to drink it in," as one of the
settlers says. I don't look as if I had the
ague, for I am quite fleshy, and proper care
and diet will doubtless cure it altogether.
There are a good many emigrants coming
in this spriug. We hope for an emigration
sufficiently large to determine by their mere
pressure the political character of tho State.
But wc have another trouble, which probably
effects four-fifths of us ; and that is inability
to pay for our claims in July next. Wc have,
many of us, used up enough money in squat
ting, to have paid for our claim?, could we
have done so at first. Many of the expenses
which we encountered, we could not well avoid.
We were obliged to live on our claims to hold
them. The law requires the settler to erect a
dwclliug, live in it, make it his house, and
make other improvements. Wc expected,
however, to get our money back by way of the
crops which we hoped to raise. But the corn j
crop, which is the principal cue ou the spriDg
breaking, was almost a failure last season, on
account of the ravages of a worm. But we
still expected at least another season in which
to raise money to pay for our land. Many,
who had been in other of the western States in
their inception, expected two or more years
yet. But wc have another clement to deal
with, which is chattel slavery a blight upon
humanity and a mockery against God and
those who seek to profit by this element well
know that the great body of us are unable to
meet the demand for payment this season ;
and therefore they employed tecenty-tu-o sur
veying parties, last fall and winter, to rush
through the survey, which we are told is verv
imperfectly done in consequence of such haste.
Next wc hear that the survey will ho ready in
June ; and next, before even the land office is
established, wc hear that the President's proc
lamation is on the way, and will be published
between the 20th of April and Is, of May, giv
ing only three months from that time in which
to pay for the land. And even this three
months may be cut short for aught I know.
Now this haste hardly gives time for those
who have money east, to procure it, and much
less to negotiate for it. Besides, our letters
are systematically delayed at least we cannot
otherwise explain it and many of them de
stroyed. In accordance with these things, I
hear that men .around Lawrence even, and all
through the territory, arc selling their claims
for whatever they can get, in anticipation of
their inability to pay in time. The land sales,
I also understand, are to be guarded by a mil
itary force. In short, since bullying has not
overcome us, other means, every means is to
be employed to crush us. In the language of
Douglass, we, together with the whole North,
are te be "subdued."
Xow, we want that Northern men should be
awake to these things. We want that capital
ists should come here with money, and help t:s
through. We will give them a shave, if tt
must be so 5300, or even $400, for T200, at
10 per cent., rather than to lose our claims.
Wc want northern speculators to come and
buy the land which is not pre-empted, if it
mu"(t be bought by speculators. Wc want nor
thern men to hold it. It is worth the buying
rich and beautiful. Wo do shake a little,
but they shake worse in the other wettern
States. And then our living is often enough
to make anybody shake. I should have said
our want of living, for we have but never
mind. Wc want northern people to wake up.
It is getting dark that 1 can't write, and I
must take this two and a half miles before
breakfast. I wrote to George, April 1st, aud
sent the letter by a Doctor Hall clear through
Mistcmri. I hope he'll get that one. I urged
him to come here at once and take a claim
which is still untaken, next to the town. There
is still some uncertainty about the town.
There will be a town in the settlement, not far
from here. It may not be on the site of the
A. S. C But the capital will probably bo here.
At all events a claim in the settlement cannot
be othcrwiso than valuable worth several
times the $1,25.
People need not bo afraid of prairie farms,
even without fire-wood. Coal is abundant.
Three claims joining we have it. My claim is
all prairie, and yet I have stuck to it, when I
could have had a timber claim, on account of
its location. I have written thus to give you
an idea of our condition here, generally : bat
in my own case," particularly. I am in hopes
that some of thoso who were friendly to me in
Clearfield, will help me to raise the money in
time. I would come back and work it out, if
there was no other way. I could send my note
and bond to George for him to raise the mon
ey on. I cannot givo a mortgage until I get
the deed. Perhapa I shall be able to borrow
the ciocoT here, but it ia uncertain. Time
are some moneyed men coming into the set
tlement this spring. A draft might bo safely
sent, and would be negotiable at Kansas City,
Mo. But I would rather have some of our
friends come themselves. I believe that mon
ey is to be made by having money at these
land sales, cither by lending it or buying land.
If George don't come, perhaps his father will.
He has not much else to do ho can let the
boys take care of the farm. However, I would
hate to have any of them come at my solicita
tion, and be disappointed ; -1 would sooner
lose my place. But 1 don't think that they
would-be. I will write to George or you as
soon as the time of sale is positively known.
Any one and every one who hates slavery and
who can come here and bny land, should do
so. Much as I dislike speculating in land,
yet if it must ba so, I want to sec it fall into
the hands of northern men. I should think
that Clearfield might tnrn out some hundreds
of thousands to invest in Kansas.
I wish you were here about a while. I have
cherished the hope, with much satisfaction, of
having you here yet. I would like if you had
a farm beside mc, and next to the town (pros
pective.) There arc two dwellings in it, and
preparation for more shops, &c. The title is
not secured, and this is the main difficulty at
present. We have a presbyterian minister
here a Swiss Frenchman, who can hardly
speak English. Of courso his preaching is not
very profitable, but he is 3n honest little broth
er. He lives next mc, and like the rest of us,
is unable to pay for his claim in time. Every
body thought we would have a year after the
public sale. This was a mistake.
I am told that pro-slavery agents have noted
us and all the circumstances respecting our
claims, so as to be ready to take every advan
tage of us in the claim business. I also un
derstand that they arc endeavoring to put such
a construction on tho law as to prevent pre
empting since the survey. It seems impossi
ble that they can-do so. I don't know.
Do write. I have received no word from
any of you since about the middle of Feb.
We had a thunder shower this morning. The
trees are leaving out o, bow lowly it !s.
Tho grass is up, and tho wheat looks fine
where the cattle were fenced off. I stood in
my cabin door a few days since ami shot three
prairie hens! fat and nice! They are plenty,
but usually shy. I havo found the end of the
sheet, writing by fire-light. So, brother, good
bye. I don't mean to be too much cast down,
If 1 do lose my.claim.
Your own, JOHN.
Kansas Affairs. A despatch from St. Lou
is, evidently manufactured by the border ruf
fian, says that Sheriff Jones was convalescent
on the 14th. Judge Fane, of Georgia, had
been appointed Sheriff, until Jones should re
sume his duties. It was reported that Judge
Fane had been shot at twice.
George F. Brown, editor of the Herald of
Freedom, has been arrested while endeavoring
to leave the Territory. Gov. Reeder had fled,
but it was thought would be re-captured...
It was said there were 1,500 men at Law
rence, armed with Sharp's rifles, with a strong
ly fortified breastwork and two pieces of at til-
lery, who declare that they will resrst all at
tempts at their arrest.
About 1,000 utcn have responded folhe- mar
shal's proclamation and aro encamped in the
vicinity of Lawrence and Lecompten, the a
vowed purpose being to compel the people of
Lawrence to acknowledge the territorial laws.
A despatch from Washington states that the
Kansas Congressional Commission forwarded,
by Gov. Robinson, a large quantity of testi
mony taken by them, enclosing it in a scaled
package addressed to the Speaker. On Gov.
Robinson's detention at Lexington, Mo., his
wife, at his request, continued her journey.
At Columbus, Ohio, she handed the package
to the Hon. C. K. Watson, one of the Com
mittee on Elections, who delivered it to the
Speaker privately.
The Commissioners request that it may re
main with the seal unbroken until their re
turn. This is the testimony which it is said
the Missourians threatened to destroy.
The Lccompton I'tu'on, a Kansas pro-slavery
paper, of the 8th, confirms the telegraphic re
port that Reeder, Robinson, and other Free
State men, have been indicted by the Grand
Jury in the United States District Court foi
the First District of Kansas. They acted un
der the instructions of Judge Lecompte.
A couple of subscribers have addressed us a
letter from Tennessee insisting that we should
devote no more time to the castigation of our
neighbor of the Democrat. Very well, but
we cannot help thinking with the immortal
poet, that
"Things have come to a de'il of a pa
When a man cau't wallop his n jackass."
Louisritle Journal.
"Ah," said a miserly father to his son Wil
liam, "hearty breakfasts kill one half of the
world, and tremendous breakfasts the other
hall." I suppose," retorted William, "that
the true livers are only those who die of hun
ger." A gentleman in a steamboat asked the man
who came to collect the passage raoney.if there
was any danger of being blown up. "Not the
least," said tha sharp collector, unless you
refuse to pay your fare."
A TEAKFUE ADTENTUBE.
The Missouri Republican, in a letter from a
Kansas correspondent, has the following:
At St. Joseph I saw Mr. A.T. Gorman, of
New York, who had just come in from tho
mountains in such a state of prostration and
affliction as could only have been occasioned
by such exposure,' hardship, and suffering aa
porhans no other man ever survived. Id com
pany with a Canadian Frenchman and two
Kentuckiaus he left the country of the Black
Feet Indians last fall to join Cnlverson aud
party at Fort Pierre and accompany them to
the States. They arrived at Fort Pierre two
days after Culvcrson's departure, and hasten
ed on after in the hope of overtaking him.
On the third day one of those snow atorma
known only on those bleak and elevated re
gions opened upon them. It came down in
solid masses to the depth of four feet, and was
blown about by drifting winds, levelling un
even places, penetrating and filling their wag
ons and clothes, and obstructing their progress.
Evening was approaching, and they resolved
to make one effort to reach a more protected
place before the night set in. They urged
their horses forward, but had not proceeded
more than a few hundred yards, Gorman being
mounted on one cf the teamsters and his com
panion in the wagon, when suddenly he felt
himself precipitated, be knew not how far, in
to an abyss of snow. He was completely cov
ered over, and could not tell which way to
turn. Ho struggled on, however, makings
slow and tedious way, until, he came to tha
surface, he supposed a hundred yards from
where he sank. He looked around for hi
companions, but neither they nor the wagen
could be seen. Tho place where they had fal
len into tho chasm was smoothed over and
presented a plain of snow. lie called aloud
for them, but wa3 only answered by wild and
wailing winds.
A feeling of dread and desolation and des
paircame over him, and he was about to yield
himself to that death which seemed inevita
ble. Already had the cold penetrated" bia'
frame : darkness was covering the skies ; the
increasing winds whirled the falling snow
more furiously; he was alone ia a vast, inhos
pitable, unknown country, without provisions.
without abetter, without ammunition or arms,
and he was fearful to take a step in any direc
tion lost he should be buried in a deep abys3.
His manhood was subdued, he wept like a
child; tho memories of his happy home and
of his mother came fresh upon him. Ha
knew the many anxious hours, the miserable,
years, that his unknown fate would caus her.
If he could only send one word of affectionate
adieu he could dio in peace ; but that could
not be, and he must rouse himself.
Ho offered his first prayer for heavenly aid.
He arose and moved forward through the dark
ness and the drifts. He some times fell of ex
haustion, and felt inclined torcposa; but ha
know that one moment's pause was fatal, and
he struggled on. The ncit day he saw soma
bushes, which gave him hope of rest and
warmth, but when he reached them he found
to his dismay that the matches in his pocket
were et and spoiled, and could not be ignited.
His fet had become so sore and swollen from
constant w alking as to bur3t the eolea from
his shoes, and he was compelled to crawl and
tumble along. Thua he worked his way slowly
but unceasingly through the next eight ani
the day, becoming more faint each Lour, and
suft'eriug athouaand deaths from hunger, thirst,
frosted limbs, sore feet, weariness, and drow
siness, when he descried a hut a short way o3.
Suddenly revived, like a candle flickering
in the socket, he sprang and ran forward a few
steps and screamed for help, and fell sense
less in the snow. Syroe Indians at the hat
heard and saw him, and went and brought him
in, and used all their restoratives npon him;
but it was several d-iys before he returned to
consciousness, and nix long weeks before ha
left his bed. lie lost several of his toes and is
otherwise injured, but, through the assistance
of some generous gentlemen of St. Joseph,
he will be enabled to reach home. His com
panions have never been heard of.
Origin or a Och rest ArAGr. All of onr
readers have doubtless heard the saying that
"Nino tailors make a man." Possibly, how
ever, some of them would like to know the or
igin of the saying. Here it ia; ,
"In 1742 an orphan beggar-boy appeared
for alms at a Uilor shop in London, in which
nine journeymen were employed. His forlorn
but intelligent appearance touched the hearts
of the tailors, who gave him a shilling each.
With this capital the young hero purchased
fruit, which he retailed at a profit. From thia
beginning, by industry and perseverance, ha
rose to distinction and usefulness.". When
his carriage was built, he caused to be pain
ted on the pannel, "Nine tailors made ma a
man."
W once heard of an Irishman who was teen
busy with a file, working away at a piece of
silver. "What are you doing there, Pat 7" in
quired soma one. "Shure, an' I'm tbrying to
tile down a five sint pace into a tip."
An Irish witness was recently asked what
he knew of the prisoners character for truth
and varacita. "Why, troth, einca ivar Ir
known her, she's kept the- hetua-clana and da-
ccut