Jfi l BY S. B. EOW. CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1 856. VOL. 2.-NO. 41. - EVERMORE. Tho streamlet mimarcd soft and taw Meandering mid the shadowing trees, And as its gentle tone arose. Uplifted by the slightest breeie, I sat epon a tnost-crow a stone, That served the streamlet fur a shore, .ashI htmt my ear to catrh the tone. As lew it whispered, ''Knimiir." .And 'mid the flowers and through the glee, With careless haste it passed along, 5 or lurking back the rocky steep, Could stay the cadence of its sods; ; A rainbow sat upon the spray, Xhe messenger of harm do more ; Ihe water bounded on its way, Amd still repeated 'Evermore." The streamlet grew a mighty tid. Fed by a thousand mountain rills, And mirrored in its moving wares, The forest of a thousand hills ; f at aj the boatman chant his song, limed to the plashing of the oar, Tnnet'ul notes the waves prolong, And echo sweetly, "Evermore. :l Bo. soft and low in early Jays; Po, roughly tost in youthful strife ; So. broad and deep in later years, Flows on the hastening stream of Ufa. Our bark afloat, the current strong. We drift not slowly towards the shore, And each fre.h gale that waffct along, Repeat more clear the startling song. List! list! what means it? "Evermore.'' THE THREE GHOSTS. BT E. W. DEWEES. Round a cheerful wood fire, in a quaint old country house, three sisters sat talking In the twilight. Tho bright blaze illumined the room, ia which a few portraits were hanging, and cast grotesque shadows from the old-fiubion-ed furniture. The ruddy glow lighted up the lively faces of the sisters, enjoying its cheer fulness. ' . Very charming were they all, but very dif ferent in their beauty. Margaret, the elder she who sits to the right I the firo, 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," tits opposite on a sofa with tho head if little Rose, who Is reclining, on her tap. - Little Hose, the youngest, with neither Mar garet's queenly grace, nor Sophie's brilliant bonify, was what ladies call "a darling' that is, sho was Ioreable, charming and innocent. In fact she was fresh and sweet as a hawthorn i bluasoin. These three young girls were singularly sit uated. They resided in the old homestead, where we have found them, alone, except for the servants who attended them. Father and mother had both died within a fow years, and ns 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 lire in their desolate Louie, like birds who nestle together In the old nest when the parent birds hare left them. Thomas, an old and faithful man-servant and Kitty Cork, (a person notwithstanding her jnvenile name, of middle age and tried fideli ty) wero their only domestics but they suffi ced, for their labors were performed in tho spirit of lore and willingness. Such was the little household of the sisters and there they were settled for life. For, be it known to yon, incredulous reader, that each of the fair sisterhood was under a solemn vow of celibaey. When their father and mother died and left thetu all alone in the world, they took each o ther by tho hand and solemnly promised nev er to desert each other, bnt to live and die to gether. Three years had passed since that time, and tliongh their loveliness had attracted suitors evea to their quiet, lonely home, no wish had ver been breathed by any of the sisters of a uish to break their vow. On tho 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 touching'; th lonely state of the other two should one be base enough to desert and lit tle Rose had declared, "That even if Prince Charming himself should come flying into the room in a ';J.Ien charjot, and were to fall at iher feet all crowned with diamonds, she would jiot waver the least mite but should say very 'coldly, ''Rise,' Frinco Charming, you can't Jaaye mc, I have promised my sisters never to 'marry. Margaret and Sophie laughed at little Rose's sally, and the greatest unanimity appeared to prevail. While they sat over :ne ore umeussmg mu subject, Kitty Cork" entered with a basket of chestnuts, saying, "If you plasc, leddies, Thomas bids mc give yees these nuts. He's alter pickin' them his eelf and he ays as it's Hollow-Are ye'll be 4hryin'yer fortunes, good or bad and its wish in' yo gudc luck and gude husbands he is." "Docs not Thomas know?" began Marga.- jjaret with a frown. "Ou ay heknows,"interruptedKittywith a slight toss of the bead but immediately re penting this imprudent gesture, she added with roguish demureness . "Ocb, but Thomas is a quarc, headstrong, -ould body. Puir, ould bowI, he has ay his rank, and w hims aui ae is, ye'll a three ' yees be married afore a year's out. Unfor tinnit, detnintid craythur that he is, to take sich an a crazy fancy." . .. , "Crazy indeed I" said Margaret, with dis dain, bnt yet when Kitty was gono, the girls began, jnst 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 liko a wise dam sel she took no note of trifling discrepancies. She on the contrary, proposed that as they were trying Ave ganies, 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 7" 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 friends, and scattering hemp-seed in the moonlight, must say, "Ileinp-seed I sow, llecnn-seed must grow, Whoever will le my true-luve.come after and mow " And then on looking over her right should er, she would see the man sho was to marry, coming 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 j-ces to have no husbands, no husbands will come aDd 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 tho mune's no up the earliest hour iver I seen it tried was ten o' clock, and the midnight hour i3 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 talc 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 altera littlo delay, bringing with her tUrce 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. The' 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." "Thrue for ycz, Thomas, and my heart's in my very mouth of fright at the plunther." "Why, Kitty, what difference can it possibly make ?" inquired the girls. Kitty made no intelligible answer but she mumbled something like, "Gac the right gate, 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 looked very much excited and fright ened. . Each looked at the other inquiringly ; and Margaret began ; "I have really ssen something very extraor dinary very strange. I do not know what to think of it. It could not have been a spirit bnt oh, how frightened I am, I will tell you all about it. I !iad scattered my hemp-seed and repeated my rhyme as Kitty directed, when looking behind me 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 cot 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 does in mowing, and I yet had no power to stir. At last it was behind me -close I felt its touch and its breath on ray cheek and a voice whispered ia mj ear : "Beware how you cast from you the love and devoiLou of a faithful heart. Young Al derthorn truly loves you make him and your self happy." The sisters were silent. Margaret added "what makes it stranger is, that I kucw well the voice that spoke it was young Alder- thorn's and I know well that none but a spir it could imitate those toues so as to deceive me. 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 hand, and when I first saw it, it was alrea dr br ray sido. It was clad in some kind of white mantle, and its. features were quite risi ble in the moonlight. 1 ' Sisters it was tho face of Lieutenant Morton XIc- or it tok coy hand, aad put this ring uponmy finger, say ing solemnly as he did so, "With this ring I wed thee, In death or in life. 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 2nd did not her own experience forbid her to bo incredulous ? With a sick ening sensation ot superstition, horror and ap prehension hhc turned toward little Rose. What had befallen that little child 1 "I have seen a ghost," Rose began Mar garet clasped her bands and closed her eyes. Her 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 mc, I saw tho reapet coming after me with great strides. I started to run, but in my fright I stumbled and fell and tho ghost instantly sprang for ward and raised mo up and and , "And what, Rose V asked Sophie and Mar garet, eagerly. "And it was Robert Bloouiley," said Rose abruptly. "How do you know ? what makes you think so?" asked the sisters. "Because he kissed me?" cried Rose hasti ly. Then overwhelmed by her own blunder ing speech, she hid her blushing face ia her hands. Margaret and Sophie were aghast. Here was a discovery. Rose tried awkwardly enough to profit br the silence to amend her error. 'Ghosts don't kiss, you know," she timidly remarked. "And Robert Bloomley doesV 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 sec that Rose was not the only traitor in the camp. They began also to sus pect Kitty and see through her devices. At last Sophie broke iuto a merry laugh. "The fact is," she said, "mischievous Kitty 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 1 Arc we justified in keeping our vows, when three ghosts como from their graves to bid us break them ?" Margaret turned aside her stately head with a blush and a soule, and gave no explicit an swer. But I fancy sho as well as the 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 "quarc, head-strong ould body, Thomas" was perfectly true. All three sis ters were married within a year. Margaret entered with her hnsband 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. Onco 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 tho 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 arc shocked that ministers will occasionally "preach poli tics," or apply great religious principles to the administration of the government, or because clergymen manifest an interest in moral and re ligious questions upon which political parties are also divided, are usually persons ot very bad politics commonly both. Men whose pol itics will not bear the test of Christian princi ples are very apt to scoff at any suggestion of comparison; and men whose 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, thus causing numbness ana insensioui ty, a Surgeon lately succeeded in removing a larsro tumor without giving the patient any pain, and occasioning very little loss of blood. Tho only inconvenience was, that the Doctor froze his fingers. - The Steamer Susquehanna has been order ed to Nicaragua. CLEARFIELD, PA., MAY 28, . KANSAS. .Jaoficr Letter from "John." Coc.vcit. Citt, April 1 tth, IS06. Rev. J. J. Hamilton : My dear brother I am just going to write you a short letter, and a rough one, for I am coming out of an ague shake, and my hand is unsteady. I have not had the shakes much this spring, but the dis ease lingers in the tystem 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 uir seems so pure that it is a con tinual pleasure "to drink it in," os 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 spring. We hope for an emigration sufficiently large to determine by their mere pressure the political character of the 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. We have, many of us, used up enough money in squat ting, to have paid lor our claims, could wc 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 tho crops which wo hoped to raise. But the com crop, which is the principal one on the spring 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 lor 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 doal 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 arc unable to meet the demand for payment this season ; and therefore they employed seccnty-tuo sur veying parties, last fall and winter, to rush through the survey, which we arc told is very imperfectly done in consequence of such haste. Xext wc hear that the survey will bo rcadv in June ; and next, before even tho 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 J to pay for the land. And even this three months may be cut short for aught, I know. Now this hasto hardly gives time for thoso who have money east, to procure it, and much less to negotiate for it. Besides, our letters are systematically delayed at least w-e 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, are 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 moans, every means is to be employed to crush us. In the language of Douglass, we, together with the whole North, arc tc bo "suWtterf." Now, we want that Northern men should be awake to these things. We want that capital ists should come here with money, and help us through. Wc will give them a shave, if tt must be so $300, or even $400, for $200, 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 mmt be bought by speculators. We want nor thern men to hold it. It is worth the buying rich and beautiful. Wo do shake a little, but they shako worse in the other western States. And then our living is often enough to make any body shake. I should have said our want of living, for we have but never mind. We 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, and sent the letter by a Doctor Hall cltar through Missouri. I hope he'll get that one. I urged him to come here at onco and take a claim which is still untaken, next to the town. There is still some uncertainty about the town. There will bo a town in the settlement, not far from here. It may not be on the site of tho A. S. C. But the capital will probably bo here. At all events a claim in the settlement cannot bo otherwise than valuable worth several times the $l,2-. 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 havo' had a timber claim, on account of its location. I havo written thus to give you an idea of our condition here, generally: but in my own case, particularly. I am ia hopes that some ot thoso who were friendly to me ia Clearfield, will help mo to raise the money in time. I would come back and work it out, if there was no other way. I could send my noto and bond to George tor him -to raise tho mon ey on. I cannot giro a mortgage nntH I get tho deed. Perhaps I shall bo able to borrow :te money here, but it is uncertain. Ihro arc somo moneyed men coroinj; 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 como themselves. I believe that mon ey is to be mode by having money at theso land sales, cither by lending it or buying land. If George don't come, perhaps his father will, ne 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 ; I would sooner lose my place. But 1 don't think that they would-be. I w ill 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 buy laud, should do so. Much, as I dislike speculating in laDd. yet if it must b so, I want to see it fall into the hands of northern men. I should think that Clearfield might turn out some hundreds of thousands to invest in Kansas. I wish you were hero about a w bile. 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 are two dwellings in it, and preparation for more shops, Kc. The title is not secured, and this id the main difficulty at preseut. We have a presbyterian .minister here a Swiss Frenchman, who can hardly speak English. Of course his preaching is not very profitable, but he is an honest little broth er, lie lives next me, 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 agenls have noted us and all the circumstances respecting our claims, so as to bo ready to take every advan tage of us in the cUiin business. I also un derstand that they are endeavoring to put such a construct lou 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 middlo of Feb. We had a thunder shower this morning. Tho trees aro leaving out o, how lovely it is. Tho grass is up, and tho wheat looks fine where tho cattle were fenced off. I 6tood in my cabin door a lew days since and shot three prairie heus! fat and nice ! They aro plenty, but usually shy. I have found the end of the sheet, writing by fire-light. So, brother, good bye. I don't mean to bo too much cast down, if I do lose my claim. Your own, JOHN. Kaxsis Affairs. A despatch frorti St. Lou is, evidently manufactured by the border ruf fians, says that Sherifl Jones was convalesccat on the 1 4th. 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 tw ice. George F. Brown, editor of tho nerald of Freedom, has been arrested while endeavoring to leave the Territory. (Jov. Reeder had fled, but it was thought would be re-captured. It was said there wero 1,500 men at Law rence, armed with Sharp's rifles, with a strong ly fortified breastwork and two pieces of aitil lery, who declare that they will resist all at tempts at their arrest. About 1,000 men have responded to th mar shal's proclamation, and ar-i encamped in the vicinity of Lawrence and Lecompton, the a vowed purpose being to compel the pcoplo of Lawrence to acknowledge tho territorial laws. A despatch from Washington states that tho Kansas Congressional Commission forwarded, by Gov. Robinson, a large quantity of testi mony taken iy them, enclosing it in a scaled package addressed to the Speaker. On Gr. Robinson's detention at Lexington, Mo., hie wife, at his request, continued her journey. At Columbus, Ohio, sho handed the package to the Hon. C. K. Watson, one of tha Com mittee on Elections, who delivered it to tits 4 Speaker privately. VJ The Commissioners request that it may re main with tho seal unbroken until their re turn. This is the testimony which it is said the Missourians threatened to destroy. The Lecompton Union, a Kansas pro-slavery paper, of the Sth, confirms the telegraphic re port that Reedor, Robinson, and other Free State men, have .beeu indicted by the Grand Jury in the United States District Court lor the First District of Kansas. They acted un der the instructions of Judge Lecompte. A couple of subscribers have addressed U3 a letter from Tennessee insisting that wo should devote no more time to the castigation of our neighbor of the Democrat. Very well, but we cannot help thinking with tho immortal ! poet.that . ! "Things have come to a de'il of a pafs i When a man cau't wallop his own jackass." LouisrilU Journal. "Ah," said a miserly father to his son Wil liam, "hearty breakfasts kill one half of tho world, and tremendous broaktasts the other half." I suppose, retorted William, "that the true livers are only those who die of hun ger.". ; ; A gentleman in a stemboat asked the man who came to collect the passage money ,if there w as any danger of being blown up. "Not tho least," said the sharp collector, "unless you refuse to pay your far." A FEARFUL ADVENTURE. The Missouri Republican, in a letter from & Kansas correspondent, has the followicg:. At St. Joseph I saw Mr. A. T. Gorman, of New York, who had just como in from th nrountains in such a state of prostration and affliction as could only have .been occasioned by such erposure, hardship, and snfforicg as porhaps no other man ever survived. Id com pany with a Canadian Frenchman and two Kentuckians he lelt tho country of the Black Feet Indians last fall to join Culrerson and party at Fort Pierro and accompany them to the States. They arrived at Fort Pierro two days after Culverson's departure, and hasten ed on after ia tho hope of overtaking him. . On the third day ono of these snow storms known only on those bloak and elevated re gions opened upon them. Itcamo down in solid masses to the depth of four feet, and war blown about by drifting winds, levelling un even places, pouctrating and tilling their wag ons and clothes, and obstructing their progress. Evening was approaching, aud they resolved to make uo effort to reach a more protected place before the, night set in. Ther urged their horses forward, but had not proceeded more than a few hundred yards, Gorman being mounted on one of the teamsters and his com panion in tho wagon, wheu suddenly ho felt himself precipitated, he knew not how far, in to an abyss of snow. He was completely cov ered over, and could not tell which way to turn. He struggled en, however, making slow and tedious way, until, ho camo to tho suifacc, he supposed a hundred yards front where he sank. He looked around for his companions, but neither they nor Che wagon could be seen. Tho place where they had fal len into the chasm was smoothed over and' presented a plain of snow. He called aloud for them, but was only answered by wild and wailing winds. A feeling of dread and desolation and des pair came over him, and ho was about to yield himself to that death which seemed inevita ble. Already had tho cold penetrated his frame ; darkness was covering the skies ; tho increasing winds whirled tho falling snow more furiously; ho was alone in a vast, inhos pitable, unknown country, without provisions, without sheller, without ammunition or arms, and he w as fearful to take a step in any direc tion lest'he should be buried in a deep abyss. His manhood was subdued, be wept liko si child ; tho memories of his happy home aPd of his mother camo fresh upon him. Ho knew tho many anxious hours, the miserable, years, that his unknown fate would cause her. If he could only send one word of affectionate adieu ho could dio in peace ; but that could not be, and ho must rouse himself. Ha offered his first prayer for heavenly aid. He arose and moved forward through tho dark ness and the drifts. He some times fell of ex haustion, and felt inclined to repose ; but ho knew that ono moment's pause was fatal, and bo struggled on. The next day ho saw somo bushes, which gave him hope of rest and warmth, but when he reached them he found to his dismay that tho matches in bis pocket were w-ct aud spoiled, and could not bo ignited. His feet had become so sore and swollen from constant walking as to burst the solos from his shoes, and he was compelled to crawl and tumble along. Thus ho worked his way slowly but unceasingly through tho nest night and the day, becoming more faint each hour, and suffering a thousand deaths from hunger, thirst, frosted limbs, sore feet, weariness, and drow siness, whn he descried a hut a short way off. Suddenly revived, like a candle flickering in the socket, ho sprang and ran forward a few steps and screamed for help, and fell sense less in the snow. Somo Indians at the Irat heard and saw him, and went and brought him in, and used all their restoratives upon him; bnt it was several days before he returned to consciousness, and six long weeks before ho left his bed. He lost several of his toes and is otherwise injured, but, through the assistance of somo generous gentlemen of St. Joseph, he w ill bo enabled to reach home. ' His com panions have never been heard of. Oriois or a CckRKnr Adage. All of our readers have doubtless heard tiic saying that "Nine tailors make a tuaa." Fossibly, how ever, some of them w ould like to know the or igin of the saying. Here it is: "In 1712 an orphan beggar-boy appeared for alms at-a tailor shop ia London, in which nine journeymen were employed. His forlorn but intclligeut appearance touched the hearts of the tailors, who gave him a shilling each. With this capital the young hero purchase fruit, which he retailed at a profit. From this beglnuing, by industry aad perseverance, he, rose to distinction and usefulness. When his carriage was built, he caused to be pain ted on the panne!, "Nine tailors made ma a man. Wo once heard of an Irishman who was seen busy with a file, working away at a piece of silver. "What are yon doing there, Pat 1" in quired some one. "Shure, an' I'm thrying to file down a five sint pace into a fip." .:. : ' :.i An Irish witness was recently asked what he knew of the prisoners character for trntb and varacits. "Why, troth', 'since ivcr I'rsj known her, she's kept the heme c'.ana and da-ceat."
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