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His last re. lottree in his'olaage arose from the exer- , else Ora talent which he had acquired in hisiyouthi that of bellows mending. This, toe, was.the humble profession which I was: destined to: follow. Being endowed by nature mith quick and lively faculties, both , of mind arid body, I soon grew skil ful 'in my trade, and having an ambitious -spirit;` set off: for Lyons, to prosecute my &tiling 'There. I was so far successful, that I . .became a great ihvorite with the haniber-maids, who were my chief em ployers, and , Whoim my good looks and youth interested is my favor. 'One evening, however, as I was return. I • ina , home after my day's round, I was ac eosted'hy; four well dressed young men,' Who threw out a few pleasantries on my profession; which I answered in a style of good-humored railery that seemed to sur prise and. please them.. I saw them look signifiiantly at one another, and heard one of them say, "This is our man." The words alarmed me, but my fears were speedily:dispelled. "Rouperon" said one, you shall sup:With us. We have a scheme - which may do you good. If you do not agree -to it we shall not harm you, but on ly ask-yOU to keep our secret. Do not be afraid, but come with us." Seeing all ofj th; - ..nr'to be gentlemen in appearance, I did : riot hesitate to accept the offer. They con ducted me through a number of cross streets, and at last entered a handsome house, in an apartment of which we found six other young men, who appeared to have been waitingimpatiently for my con ductors. A few explanatory words pass. ed respectirig me, and soon afterwards we wit down tosupper. Being young, thought less and light=hearted, I gave way to the enjoyment of the hour, and vented a suc cession of pleasantries which seemed high ly to please my chance companions. But they all grew silent and thoughtful ere anil finally, one of 'them addressed me thus: "The:ten persona' whom you ace before you, 'ere all engravers and citi zens of Lyons. We arc all in good cir cumstances„ and make a very handsome living by oar occupation. We are all at tached to one another, and formed a hap py:.society, till love stepped in to disturb us. In the street of St. Dominic there lives a picture merchant, a man of res pectable station, but otherwise an ordina ry personage. He has, however, a daugh ter, a creature possessed of every accom plishment, and'endtiwed with every grace, but all whose amiable qualities are shaded by 'one defect—pride, insupportable pride. As an exn mph. of the way in which this feeling has led her to treat others, I will own that I myself paid my addresses to / her, and was approved of by her father, as one by', birth and circumstances much their superior. But what was the answer which The Msolentgirl gave to my suit 7 'Do , you, think, 'sir, that a young woman like me, was- born for nothing better than to be the wife of an engraver?' "Her greet-charms and her pride have been equally felt by us all," continued the speaker, "and we hold that she has cast a slur.on usand our profession. We, there fore, have resolved to show this disdainful girl that she has not indeed been born to the honor of being the wife of, an engra.. ver. Now, will you (addressing me) ven ture.tci beCome the husband of a charming woman, who, to attain perfection, .wants onlyito have. pride mortified.and her, vani- . ty. punished?" "Yes," answered I, spar red.on bY the excitement of the moment ; "I comprehend what you would have me do, and I will fulfil it in such it Manner that you shall have no reason to blush for your Pupil?' The three months that followed this strange scene were-wholly occupied with preparations for the pert 1 was to perform. Preserving the strictest possible secrecy, my Confederates did, their best to trans- form me .from oplain bellows mender in. to:a fine gentleman.. - Bathing, hair-dres. ses; tte.; ., brought my person :to a fitting degree of, refinement, while .every -day or two one of the engravers devoted,himsolf to'tbe task ofteaching Ine music, drawing and • other accoMplishments; and nature had furnished-me with a disposition to stu dyrind-a- memory so retentive that my friends weieAtstonished at she progress of their discipl6. -Thoughtless -of MI else; I felt the.deepest.delight in acquiring. these new rudiments ofeducittiort. But the time came when .1 was to--be made sensible, for the first Wile, of the' true , nature 'of the . task Litad 'entered upon:. The confederates at length)thoright me perfedt i and in the char tidter,drithe rich fMarimiti .of .Rouperon; proprietor Of•large 'estates in Dauphinyi twad:iikrtalled in the first' hotel in byens:-; lowdsiondoillti's title -that I presented am st3lfAbltlie picture .dealer .in ISt.. Dominic street. I made a few:punbities from- him, and seemed anxious to. purchase more.— - • •. • 11- , II E. - . ' ~, ~, ,‘ , . • , , ••.• ... ,„. . ~.,:„- ~.[„ ~,. -,i, i, !Jr., ,, . . - .. ~. , 7 • lii f ., , __.____ • .. - • . N ti . ~..,.. I, ,„,,,..,.,., :„{-,4irii-i,,,,:i . r!.•• . : ~'...2..„. . „-:•••""I ' - ' •':,, , 1 7 " - -.% . ' ,_; -.' !,_:..- - . ; ......„...,..•', •• , , • ~,.., ..,,- •• . , , ~ . ~ , . . ~ , • ~,, . _ , , ~.. ~. ~.. ; r1 , • ..„ . .1.,‘„ , . r' . . -------- -- A- --- , .1.-. t• , . , •-,,. ~„,. „..,,,- ..,. , , .. .5 . , , , . , .• - • .. • ,-.. ~, , r.„ f • JiHil'A:ji '. ' .-f..- - .. ~ 4..),E,.....,T5,.. , L , . ,:. - !,f ••'.,, .' 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A. new world unfolded itself before my eyes; I soon forgot my borrowed part; one sentiment absorbed my soul, one idea enchained my faculties. The fair Aurora perceived her triumph, and seemed tolis ten. with complacency to the incoherent expressions of passion which escaped my lips. That interview fixed my destirly forever! The intoxication of enjoy ing-her presence buried me on,. blind to every thing else. For several months I saw her every day and enjoyed a state of happi, ness only damped by the self-accusing ments of solitary hours, and by thh neces sity I was under of regularly meeting my. employers, who furnished me 'with money, jewels, and everything I could itquire.— At length Aurora's krther gave a little fbte in the country, of which Lyvas evidently the hero. A moment occurred,. in which, thoughtless of all but my love, I threw my self a suitor at her, feet. She heard, me with modest dignity, while a Tear of jay, which dimmed for 4Anourlent herfinc ayes, convinced me that . pride: Was.bot the only emotion which agitutea her ,heart, yes,,l discovered that I was beloved! I was an investor, but heaven is my witness I deceived her nut witbout remorse. In her presence I remembered nothing but herself; but in tie stillness of solitude, sophistry and passion disappeared; leaving a dreadlul perspective before me. When I associated the idea of Aurora withihe miserable fate which was soon to fall up on her delicate hands, employed in pre paring the coarsest nourishment, I started up covered with a cold perspiration. But self love would come to my aid, and I thought if she truly loved me she yet might be happy. I would devote lay life, I swore, to the task of strewing flowers a long her path. But all my hopes, all my fears cannot be told. Suffice it to say, that her father believed the when I repre sented my estates as being in Dauplii ny, a distant province. I would not allow a-farthing of Aurora's portion to be settled otherwise than on herself. St there was one baseness of which I was not guilty. We were married. At the altar, a shiv ering run through all my veins, a general trepidation seized my whole frame, and I should infallibly have sunk to the earth in a flood of tears had not some one conic to! my rescue. The silly crowd around mis- ' took the last cry of expiring virtue for an excess of sensibility. i A fortnight aller the marriage, as had ' beeli arranged by my employers, at whose mercy I was, we started for Montelmart, ray unfortunate bride believing that we • were going to a Ihr different place. Sev- I eral of the engravers were themselves our', attendants, disguised and acting as court-, iers to our magnificent equipage. The awful moment of exposure had arrived,'& when it did come, it proved more terrible than ever I had anticipated. The engra vers mado the carriage be drawn up be fore a mean and miserable cottage' tit the 1 door of which sat my humble but verierae t: ble father. Now came the awful disclo sure. The poor, deceived, and surprised; Aurora was handed out. The engravers came up ; they pulled off their, disguises; 1 , and ho whom Aurora had so pointedly re-' I fused, exclaimed to her, "No, madam, no, you have not been born or brought up for an engraver, such a lot/would have done too much honor to you. A bellows rDend- ' er is worthy of ydu, and such is he whom you have made your husband !" Trem bling and boiling with rage, I would have 4 replied; •hut the engravers entered the coach, and like the•ehifting of a scene in . the theatre, all our grandeur dis ppeared 1 with them! „ . • ! I Poor Aurora scarcely-heard A i hat had been said. ' The truth had flash ad upon her and sale sank back in a swoon. Rec ollect that I' had now acquired a consider- able share 'of sensibility and delicacy from my la to life. . At that cruel moment I! trom- I bled alike•at the thought Of losing• The wo. , Man I adored, •and of seeing her restored Ito life. I• lavished' on her the most ten- • der cares, yet almost wished that those I eareS might prove unavailing. She re covered at length hersenses,but the mo._ ment her frenzied eyes met mine, "Men, ster!"she exclaimed, and was again insen siblel!!J Ir , profited by her; condition to re move'. her t from t the sight :of those who: had gathered around, and to; ph . re:, her on an humble straw couch.. Here I remained beside!het till she:opened!. her eyes; mine shrunk !from i , her glance.: • The ..first use she made • of.her Speech was tcl.,- interrupt the broken lexclamations of love, shame, and remorse which foil from my lips, and to •beg to be :101l alone fora time.: The niece of theiCumtn of the parish, however, I Who: chortled to be •by, • remained beside ; her . ; and . the poor young :victitit of my vii. 1 lainy, for: Ei he was;eighieen, , seemed glad 1 itt hiti altentioni:( ; ; • . • ;•• . , : 1 ,• . • ',Heal( shall 4 'describe : theihorrible; knight whielrf If dim , paosedll I ' It :was nat on:my own account that I suffered or feared.— She'alone was in my thoughts. I dreaded • above all, for my love was still predomi mint, to see that heart alienated whose tenderness was necessary to my existence, to read coldness on that eye, upon whose look my peace depended. But could it be otherwise? Had I not basely, vilely darkened all the prospects of her life, and overwhelmed her wilt intolerable shame and anguish? Thatilight was a punish ment which would almost have wiped out i any lesser sin. Frequently, it may be be- i lieN:ed, I sent to know' how Aurora was.— she was calm, they told me ; and indeed, to my surprise she entered in the morning the room where I was. She was pale, but collected. I fell before her on the ground ' and spoke not. "You have deceived me," said she, "it is on your future conduct that my forgiveness must depend. Do not take tuadvantage of the power you have usurped. • • e,,.:lnr : ac.n i Ar e ttidtles n ts r ‘a, i r.s, i lti e cuil c ilenii e tbli ` lN.i o entis f itetb.:T.rt t i, : v4:l l l,lo C eedu _ rra:e: C ti l d.l.s : .t r cii;s, l loo‘i t ltf e iiiolelciirinai h igll. r t,m i i s b:i.l(uylf: o :.,i‘a fP :drit i eet r ii ( cril i liL d ittt m liill.tiil e ssi fir ming 'wild hopes for the future, I received Int once:two letters. The 1164 was from ,the engravers, who posed my exultation `and my fell, T hefwrote to me that try acquaintance had begot in them t friend ship- for me ; that they had'each original ly'subseribed a certain sum for the execu tion of their plot ; and that they would supply me With money end everything necessary me, entering into some business, and enSuririk the creditable support of myself and .Atii•ora. The other letter was ' from Anrora'—"Somo, remains of pity," she said, "which I feel fir you, notw ith standing:your conduct, induce me to in form you that lam in Lyons. It is my intention to enter a convent, hich will rid. me 01 your presence; but you will do well to hold yourself in readiness to avpear be fore every tribunal in. France, till 1 have found one which .will, . dome justice s ;rod break the chain in which i Ontl have bound your victim." This letter threw me into despair. I hurried to the curate's, but could hear no thing of Aurora's retreat, although I he came assured that the curate and his niece, despising my condition, had been urgent advisers of the step Aurora had taken. I now hastened to Lyons where the affair now created a great sensation. I lived unknown, however, and obscure, and saw only the engravers, who, n o twithstanding the base plot which they had through me effecta were men of not ungenerous dis positions. As they had driven me out of my former means of livelihooti, I consid ed myself at liberty to accept a sum which they o4red me to enter into trade with. '.lieu told me how to dispose of it at once, andiAnid it out in a- way which speedily and ttlthout trouble tp me, augmented it greatly. Meanwhile, the father of Auro ra had made every preparation for annul ling the marriage. This could only be done by publicly detailing the treachery which had been practised. Never, per-, Imps, was a court-house more crowded 1 than that of Lyons on the day on which the case was heard. ~Aurora herself ap pearland riveted the eyes ofall pre.sent,' not to speak of myown. Unknown and 1 ,unseen, I shrunk into a corner like a guil ty thing. The counvel for Aurora stated , the. case, and' plead the victim's cause 1 with set much eloquence 'as to draw tears &Om many eyes. No counsel arose furl me, and,Aurora, who merely sought a di.' vorce without desiring to inflict that pun- 1 ishment she might easily have brought down on the offeuders, wtuld have at once gained the•suit, had not QJIC orison for the. It was one of the engravers, the one who had been • refused, as mentioned, by Au rora. He made a brief pleading for nie, he praised my character, he showed and eenfeSsed -how-1 had been tempted, and how I fell. . AL lust he concluded by ad dressing Aurora. "Yes, madam," said he, "the laws may declare that you are not his wife, but you have been the wife of his bosom-1 The contract may he an nulled, and no stain may rest upon you. But a stain may be cast upon another.— Can you, will you throw the , blot ofillegit macy upon one even more innocent than yourself?" The appeal was understood and .was not made in vain. The tremb ling Aurora exclaimed, "No, no!", and the tears fell fast as she spoke. .. . The marriage was not annulled—was no longer sought to be annulled. But while the contract (which I had signed with my own name, believed by them to be the fam ily name of the Marquia‘de Rouperon) was declared valid, it was also determined that Aurora should remain , unmolested by the adventurer, who had se fur deceived her. Every legal :precaution was taken thatj shoUld have no control over her or her all: fairs.. Alter this event I did not remain long in Lyons, where .I heard my name everywhere branded; with infamy. , Mas ter, by the means I-have related, of a con siderable.sum, I went to. Paris, where I .assumed aforeiga,.name, I. entered bus iness, and, more to drown•remembrance than frOrn .any•other cause,.. ,pursued it .with . an 'ardor which ..few ,haVe ;evinced in , the like eircurnsbances:..The wildcat spec ulationsi..weket Those attracted. me most, and fortune favored me in-a most Clearfield, pa., Novell her 2, 1 549. Markable way. I became the head of a flourishing commercial house, and ere five years had passed away, had amassed con siderable wealth. At times, however, the remembrance of my wife threw me into fits of anguish and despair. I dared not think, nevertheless, of. attempting to go near her, until it chanced that I had it in I my power materially to serve a banker in Lyons, who pressed me much to pay him a visit. After much uneasiness and anx- I iety, I resolvedcte accept the invitation.-- . Once more r entered Lyons, and on this ! occasion with an equipage which ‘‘,as not borrowed, though as handsome as my for- j tiler one. My friend, the banker, on be-1 ing questioned, told me that Aurora still! lived in the convent, and was admired for her propriety of conduct, and for her un remitting attention to her child, her boy ; but he told me her lather had just died, leaving her almost dependent upon the charity of the abbess. This recital exci ted in are the most lively emotions. I took 1 an opportunity afterwards of visiting one 1 ! of the engravers, who scarcely knew me, changed as I was, but who received me warmly. I requested hint to assemble the creditors of the liither of Aurora, and to pay his debts, giving him funds for that purpose. I told him to purchase sonic pie ces of furniture which 1 knew to be high ly prized by Aurora. • Every hour olmy stay in Lyons strength ened my desire to see my wife, and at least j to fold my boy in my arms. The feeling at length became irresistible, and I reveal ed myself to the banker, beseeching him', to find some way of taking me to the con vent. Ills astonishment to find in me the much-spoken of bellows-aVrinder, was be yond description. Happily, however, he was acquainted with the abbess, and as sured me that it was easy at least to obtain a sight of any wife, Ere an hour passed away my tripod had taken inc there. I was introduced as a Parisian merchant, and beheld, with emotions unspeakable, my wife seated in the parlor of the con vent, with a lovely child asleep upon her knee, in conversation with her venerable friend. Aurora, now twenty-three years of age, seemed to me more lovely than ev er. 1 had purposely wrapped myself close ly up, and she knew me not, though I per ceived an involuntary start when she first saw me, ns if my presence reminded her of some once familiar object. I could not speak ; my friend maintained all the con versation. But the bo . wawoke. He saw strangers present, and descended from his 1 mother's knee. Looking at myself and my friend fora moment, he came forward to me. Oh !. what were my feelings v. hen I found myself covered with the sweet ca resses, the innocent kisses of my child ! An emotion winch I had no power to sub due, made me rise hastily, and throw my ' self with my child in my arms at the feet of ray pale and trembling wife. "Aurora! Atirora !" 1 exehlimed in broken accents, "your child clair4t4. from you a father ! Oh, pardon 1" The child clasped her knees and seemed to plead with me. Au rora seemed ready to faint. Her lips quivered and her eye was fixed as if in stupor upon me ; a flow of tears came to her relief; and she atqwered my appeal by throwing herself into my arms. "I know not," she. sobbed, "whether you again de ceive me; btitjlkinr child pleads too power fully ! AtiiirittiS yours " This event closes my history. I found Aurora much improved by adversity, and have tasted a degree of happiness with her such as no penitence for the past could ev er make are deserving of. One only in eident in my history alter my reconcilia tion with Aurora scorns . to be worthy of at (cation. 1 took my son and her with are to Paris, but at the same time, seeing it to be my wife's wish, bought a small country house for her near Lyons. Sometimes we spent a few weeks there, and on one occasion she invited me to go down with her-to be present at n fete for which she had made preparations. Who, were our guests 1 The ten engravers, who were the original cause (dull that passed I It was indeed a day of pride to me, when I heard Aurora thank them for the happiness which, under 1 the agency of a wonder-working Prey i- I dence; they had been the means of con ferring on her. A German professor had collected,a va luable cabinet of curiosities, which he highly prized. One morning a friend came to tell him a very unpleasant circumstance —that ho had seen a man. get,up a ladder ihto a window .ef the professor's Muse.— "Into which window?". cried the philoso pher. "l am sorry to s'ay,!! replied his friend, "It was your daughter's]" "Oh man," said the other, "you almost fright ! . enedloe; I thought. it had,been into .my Edribinet.", THE LAND AND ITSJNDADITANTS.7-4 he land, or earth, in any country or neigh borhOOd, with everything in . on ,the :same, or. pertaining thereto, belongs.nt all , tines to. the living inhabitants, of, the saidrcountry or neighborhood in ,ensqoul manner.. For there •is no living khut.Pll land, and its. productiOns: consequently, what, the cannot. live. without,,we have the scinm.praperty in rts Thomai Spence. Nisinber 19. Scaring a Crowd. Standing nt a post offico in one of pur Southern states, I was introduced to a ve ry respectable looking and intelligent Methodist clergyman, with whom I ,enter ed into conversation. lie.proved a cheerful man, aud the clis course fbll tipon the eccentricities of Area. chers. I owe the groundwork of the, fol. fowing anecdote of the celebrated Lorenzo Dow to this rccontrc. Dow was very exact in, the appoint ments he made, and sometimes arranged them along way ahead. He once preach ed near one of the small towns of upper Georgia, and told his congregation ''on that one day year he would preach to them again 1" The next season, on a Saturday after noon preceding the Sabbath of the appoin ted time, the old marovas jogging along the main road in the - liiiection or his con grebilOictri. He noticed before him a stout little ne gro boy, of peculiar active step and man ner, who carried in his hand a small tin horn, such as are used to call the people to their meals. The custom among many in the south is to allow married men to go to their wivc's houses, and children to visit their parents, on Sundays, and as negroes are musically inclined, they carry a fife, or a horn, or a banjo, to give notice of their ap proach, and to beguile the way. In oth er cases they whistle or shout. A heal thy cheerful negro of honest intention, u ses generally Sortie 'theans'of association, even if he is obliged to talk to himself! Dow according to his usual manner, entered into conversation with the boy, and found that he was about to visit the congregation he had appointed to meet. It the truth must be told, Lorenzo had an idea that the character of his flock was of a reckless, frolicsome, kind, careless people, upon whom it was necessary to make a veq decided impression, or his time woulkihe thrown away among them. i? your name, my lad'?" asked Dow: "dabriel, sir," said the boy, lifting a new straw ht and showing his ivory, while he actively stepped along to keep pace with the preacher's horse. "Can you blow upon that horn !" "Oh yes, master I can do a little." "Well let me hear you?" So the negro inflated his velvet cheeks, and made the woods resound. "Do you know a large tall pine tree near the stand at Sharon?" said Dow. "Yes, that I does, very well, master." Lorenzo then put his hand in his pocket, and pulling out a silver dollar, showed it to the boy, and told him if he would climb up into the pine tree before the people met at the meeting and keep quiet there until the preacher called out his name, and then blow loudly on his horn, us he had just done, he would give him the silver dollar, if he did not tell any body about it. The negro expressed himself highly delighted at such an offer, and promised punctuality, ccith secresv. On the Sabbath a large meeting assem bled at Sharon to hear the famous Loren zo Dow. Serious old men, wild boys and their sweethearts, almost all on horse back sometiu►es by twos and threes, besides ne grecs from a great distance, on foot, being readily captivated by the naturally eccen tric, for they love anything that has a laugh attatched io it, and they knew that Lorenzo was good for a joke even if it did hit hard. Dow selected a rather brimstone text, and made the application as strong as pos sible, but he liireed his way slowly among the mercifill, healthful honest hearted peo ple who were hard to frighten. Ile enu merated the enormity of the vices ho thought to prevail, but they were so used to them that the words slid over them like water over a ducks back. At length be boldly described, in the plainest kind of language the appearance and character of "the last great day." and what would be their condition when that day came ! "Suppose," exclaimed the preacher suddenly, and then paused— "that this were the day 'I" He saw that some of the woman became a little fidgetty and nudged the fellows into 'silence and attention. "Suppose," repeated he eleva ting his voice, "that Gabriel should blow his trumpet?" At this moment the little negro showed he was "a trump," and from the top of the lofty pine, a loud an clainorous blast over whelmed the audience. The shrieked, the men rose in great surprise, the horses, tied around the camp, neighed, reared and kicked, while tit.e terrified ne groes_ellianged their complexion to i a dull ,purplo'color. Never .was.•sarprise,!tilarm and astonishment morepromptly exhibited. Lorenzo. : , Dew looked ( with gravel ! hut pleased attention upon the: successful result of his experiment, until the - first clamor had subsided, and some began to estimate the character ofithe, artificial an (rel and about tp , apply a little _hick:oly , the pipet- But this, suggestion .by the,lpuci and, s,olenah tones et ; the - ikia• cher, who looking very firnily,'lo Or ra • ces of his disturl?edapdience, 'he teailedn ,Myr therl4 4o . fflPPlineeiltis,disceriejrippres sivelv remarked— • PRICti OP ADITATISINB ___l ----"' . , • ~. 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Bpiri - t• of "I. • • • 'A I ' fonfwev acepunt ?f "one of the Thachors,' liom the Yat;inouth ter:; Traditiqn, has preseiled a singular an ecdote oriohn Thacher, a son of one of the earliest settlers of this town. lan was married in 1861, j to A , loe Rebecca ;.Wins low, of Duxbury, in Plymouth county: ? . if we mistake not. On his, way home with his newAiridei he stopped, for , the• night at a house of a friend, a Col. Gorham, of Barnstable, one of the most prominent cit izens ofthe town. Merriment and gayety prevailed, and during the evening a female infant about three weeks old was intro duced, and the night of her, birth • being mentioned, Mr. Thai her observed, 'that is the very night on which we were mar ied,' and taking the child in his arms, he pres4ted it to his bride-,and jokingly said, 'Here, m) dear, is a little lady that was born on the same night that we were mar ried. I you would la's her, for I in• tend to have her for my second wife.'— will, my dear, with great pleasure,' re plied ,she, 'but I hope it will be very long before your Ina 'Thou is fulfilled in that respect.' Mr. That lite and lived harp - ly together for about twenty years, and faithfully fulfilled the scriptural injunc tion to multiply and replenish the earth.— Mrs. T. left a large family of children, mong whom was a son named •Peter. After Mr. Timelier had mourned a rea sonable length ahem he began to think of getting another partner. None of the maidens, young or old, seemed to please him like Lydia Gorham, the little lady of the precceding part of the story, now grown up, if we may believe tradition, to l a fair comfy girl, 'MI of gushing life,' as the poets say. But there was one impedi ment in the way. His eldest son, Peter, had show n a predilection for the girl, and the old man wars at a foes to decide wheth er she favored the 'suit of th sire or the son. The one road a black horse in jris visits, and the other a white. There were a kind of tacit agreement between the two that one should nut interfere with the oth er in their visits; so when the father fouri l d a white horse tied tin front of Col. Gor ham's unlike the good Samaritan he ems bed over on the other side ; and the son, when the black horse was there, retUren ed the litior. Thus things went ,on till the patience of the old gentleman Was well nigh exhatist ed, and he rested on a desperate step to decide the maW. Taking hisson on one side, he said to hint "Peter, are you or are you not going to mitrry Lydia Gorham!" Peter replied that he had not yet made up his mind. "Well," said the old gentleman, "I will make you an offer, if you will give her up and court, her no more, I will give you thirteen pounds in money and the pair of black steers. What do you say to that V' The young man hesitated but a mi.:i ntent. "Tis u bargain," said be. And it is due the parties to say that it was observed by them all with good faith. Whether Lydia knew the bargaining that her charms had occasioned, tradition sa. eth not : but she subsequently . became Mr. Thacher's wife, bore him ten children, from whom many members.of the numer ous and highly respectulile ,family of the Thacher's have spriing,. iptir Venerable townsman, Mr. Peter Thachey, is the g reat grand=son of,Peter, noticed above. . There are 4E3,000,000 . serls in Russia, of which 20,000,000 belong to tha crown, and 26,500,000 to the nebles. , .These serfs tire .bought and sold with the land. Some of thern are mechanics, but the greater part, are. farmers.. Each serf .has as much land r at he eau cultivate, the use of which he pays for in money, or in kind. These rents are vary reasonable, and many of the serfs .Veconne ,vcry"rich, for their property ,is sacredly protected.- -There is no country. in,..1110 world whore-IL man.can rise, so rapidly, as in Russia. „.4. lecturer mentioned tIIQ case of tt n,. who has risen from p...conditin of.serfdom to be the ownerof 100,000 serfs. ,In ,Peter the Greitt's'day;,tlie higher 'offices in` the army Were open to rtlie,Serfs: The dress of serfs, fOil the most most part, is yeryrudi They live . init. cabin,ftllleen'br twenty eet . One ream, in 'the centre of which is tr,table,,and around the tides is a bench,. Miteb; being turned over - at night, fOrnis their bed: .This is kept intenSetr' hot 'by stove, but the`' injuriotis'etreet, of s rent' heat iS'eotutierticted,hy the smoke ' :Which Is , produaed by'sbuttinA o(t tile' line: whop .;he charred. , • :The most pleasingpight to . and' ptrugglitig i 'tO befree ;,—the, tense inAt, that of fieedorn: 'Urb it : fP ( ') " . ridge tr .o tee, • • Eli Serfs in Russ.is, jrtlio yf ,7.sn`dfilee:r.,
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