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Love's Future Foreshadowed.
BY FLORENCE PERRY.
How strange it will be, love how strange
when we two
Shall be what all lovers become
You frigid and faithless I cold and untrue
You thoughtless of me, and I careless of you
Our pet names grown rusty with nothing to do,
Love's bright web unraveled, and rent and
worn through,
And life's loom left empty ah, hum I
Ah me,
How strange it will be !
How strange it will be when the witchery goes,
Which makes me feel lovely to-day ;
When your thought of me loses its coleur de
rose
When every day serves some new fault to dis
close When you find I've odd eyes, and an every
day nose,
And wonder you could for a moment suppose
I was out of the common-place way
Ah, me,
Hcjw strange it will be I
How strange it will be love how strange
when we meet,
With just such a chill touch of the hand 1
When my pulses no longer delightfully beat
At the thought of your coming, the sound of
your feet,
When I watch not your going adown the long
street,
When your dear loving voice, now so thril
lingly sweet,
Grows harsh in reproach or command
Ah, me,
How strange it will bel
How strange it will be, when we willingly stay
Divided the dreary day through !
Or, getting remotely apart as we may,
Sit chilly and silent, with nothing to say,
Or coldly converse on the news of the day,
In a wearisome, old married folk sort of way ;
I shrink from the picture don't you7
Ah, me,
How strange it will be !
Dear love, if your hearts do grow torpid and
old,
As so many hearts have done
If we let our love perish with hunger and cold,
If we dim all life's diamonds and tarnish its
gold
If wo choose to live wretched and die uncon
soled, 'Twill be strangest of all things that ever were
told,
As happened under the sunt
Ah, me,
How strange it will be 1
Orislnal Tale,
Written for The Alleguanian.
TIIAT SLCIGII-RIUE.
BY TOBIAS TANDEM.
"There's that anxiously expected snow
at hist, thank goodness ! And now I'll
get that sleigh-ride I won so fairly, though
I must say, at a tremendous sell-sacrilice
Hut the ride had to be had, at all haz
ards. Ha, ha, ha ! Hurrah !"
It was a dark, damp, disagreeable De
cember day, and the leaden atmosphere
seemed to benumb the faculties aud op
press the senses of everybody. It was a
dav when a person's imagination would
wander back to the bright, invigorating
days of spring, to the pleasant, calm days
of summer, to the balmy, refreshing days
of autumn and then unwillingly returu
to this particularly uncomfortable Decern-
bcr day, rendered doubly unbearaoie uy
the comparison. It was a day when, had
a person occasion to go out of doors, he
would perform his labors with expedition,
so as to eet back in ajrain ; or, had he
business down town, would stalk silently
and swiftly along, as if the destroyer or
an urirent creditor was after him. It was
a day when even the tricksome little lap-
dog and sportive leiine accompaniment,
treuerallv so full of life, seemed completely
under the weather, and lay coiled up by
the stove, silent and unapproachable.
And no wonder. Everything seemed
wrong topsy-turvy upside down. The
mildest aud most even-temperea ien uis
posed to grumble at the want of discern
ment shown by the clerk in giving us
such weather.
The streets were almost deserted. Save
and except an occasional pedestrian, whose
business engagements, perhaps, overbal-
anced uis inclination, auimauou was sus
pended.
I was aroused from a dreamy reverie
into which I had fallen, by the above ju
bilant and slightly triumphant exclama
tion, proceeding from the coral lips of my
fascinating mend, JHiss Julia Leigh ton
The way it fame was this :
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT TnAN
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH
Miss Julia and I had eaten a philopena
(a double almond) the previous evening,
under the condition that the one who sho'd
surreptitiously kiss the other first should
win the loser, as forfeit, to pay the ex
penses incident to a sleighing excursion
out to the romantic village of C .
I had determined, in the meanwhile, to
take my Julia out sleighing the first op
portunity that offered, so, as the calculating
reader will at once observe, in any event or
under any combination of circumstances, I
would be the fortunate gainer of at least
one kiss by the present operation.
I was surprised surprised, though, in
a very agreeable manner, and in a manner
which of all others I prefer when, a few
hours later, as I was sitting by her side,
in total forgetf illness of our short-made con
tract, Julia leaned over and gave me a pure
emphatic, unadulterated, and unmistake-
able "buss," not one of the sic kly, second
hand contrivances wherewiih very senti
mental persons are wont to regale them
selves, and wherein the principal part of
the perlormance is the puckering, a la alter
eating a persimmon, but one that sent
the warm blood rushinjr and whizzinir to
my heart, and from thence back to the tips
of my fingers, and even to the extreme
points of my boots.
Shades ol Mcthusaleh!
Words would be powerless to describe
the innumerable charms of my peerless
Julia. Her beautiful golden ringlets hunjr
in profusion over a neck of more than ala
baster whiteness. And such eves! you
should see them. They were not black,
neither were they blue, and I am confident
they were not brown but variable, cha
meleonishcyes,changing with every change
of her impulsive nature And her ,
but, pshaw! words are vapid, insipid, and
when applied to Julia, totally insufficient
to do justice to the subject. Should you
wish to sec just such a charmer, however,
you have only to lull in love witn any
concatenation of hoops, whalebone and cal
icothe effect will be the same. At least
it has with me, and I have the experience
of a dozen encounters to back the assertion.
In the meantime, softly and silently
descended the crystal flakes, covering the
ground with a chaste and beautiful sheet
of white ; faster and faster did they come,
"Filling the sky and earth below,"
and piling themselvc? one on the other,
until a sufficient a mount had accumulated
to form what is technically called by far
mers, "good sledding." The merry jin
gle of the bells was heard in the streets ;
fast horses and handsome cutters were in
demand ; slow horses and indifferent cutters
were well represented j juveniles who
could boast of no turn-out at all, pulled
each other time-about on their little sleds,
and things
natural ajrain
begau to
seem life-like aud
So Julia and I made arrangements to
forthwith carry into effect the true intent
and meaning of the proviso attached to
our agreement of the previous evening.
After supper, a 2.40, a splendid sleigh,
a superabundance of buffalo-robes and other
fixings, and myself, "might have been
seen" drawing up before the Leigh ton dom
icil, and, had the observation been continued
ashort time longer, Miss Julia and myself,
comfortably ensconced in the aforesaid
sleigh, "might have been seen" taking the
initiatory steps toward the fulfilment of
"that sleigh-ride."
To say that sleigh wasn't narrow would
be an assertion open to strong doubts to
the contrary. It teas narrow so narrow
in fact, that Julia and I had to sit in very
close juxtaposition. But, as to a philo
sophical mind, such a state of affairs would
be of trifling import; to me it seemed
decidedly preferable, inasmuch as it afford
ed me the privilege of
"Wo-o-ah !"
Here occurred a small discovery, to the
effect that our horse's qualifications, be
sides that of "fast," comprised that of
"fractious," being an attainment the ab
sence of which could easily be overlooked,
especially by timid drivers and ladies.
Long and devotedly had I loved this
particular piece of feminity now nestled so
snugly by my side : but I had never told
my love. From bashfulness, and a dread
of being thought "too previous," she was
in a very fair way of living and dying in
ignorance of the fact, so far as I was con
cerned. I had determined, . however, to
let concealment no longer prey on my
cheek, but to inform her of the state of
my mind on the first opportunity. That
opportunity had now arrived.
Merrily and swiftly did we glide along
over the clear, crisp snow, the horse's
hoofs scattering a penetrating white mist
over us, causing us to bundle the robes
closer and sit nearer.
Ah ! how delicious is the first
sleigh-
"We had discussed and settled the usual
topics of conversation : the last ball, the
beauty of the late style ot bonnets, (Julia
had one on ; I decided in their favor ;)
PRESIDENT. Henry Clay.
and the various other et ccteras of high
life in the country and for a time silence
reigned.
So to begin :
"Julia, dearest, do you think " I
got that far, and "stuck," so I ingloriously
subsided.
"Think what, did you say?" asked Ju
lia, turning suddenly around, and looking
directly in my face.
There was mischief in her eye. I have
since, after looking at the matter on all
sides, come to the conclusion that she
knew more of what was coming, or rather
what tee isn't coming, than she would have
me believe.
"Think? Oh, ah! yes; do you think
it is going to rain soon '(" I said, at a ven
ture for 1 was slightly disconcerted.
She laughed a sly, chuckling little
laugh.
"Rain ! NVhy, yes, I think it will rain
before long. Don't you think we had
better turn back, or have you an um
brella ?"
I was perfectly well aware of the fact
that the was laughing at me, although I
was looking intently in another direction.
But, thought I, this will never do : I,
Mr. Tobias Tandem, Esquire, give up a
fixed and settled determination a deter
mination signed, sealed and delivered,
(only in my mind, though, mind ye,)
because a woman laughs at me. vso-sir-r
I resolved to take a more roundabout
course, and, like the hunters in a grand
circular hunt, come gradually to the point
"Julia, dear, is it not pleasant, on a
beautiful night like this, when the little
stars overhead are merrily twinkling, and
the grand old forest is reverberating with
notes of sweetest melody, and when every
thing else seems hushed in repose is it
not sublime to sit in a comfortable sleigh,
with a spirited steed in front, and a lovely
girl by 3'our side, and glide over the crystal
sheen with the wings almost of the wind ?"
Julia wasn't rendered speechless by
no means. She acquiesced in every par
ticular, except that of the person cited as
companion she said she'd prefer one of
the other sex.
"As I sit by your side, Julia, on this
our first sleigh-ride of the season, memory
takes me back to the many happy days we
passed at school together when young
which term is not to be misinterpreted to
mean that we are "old" now. Doubtless
you remember them also. And the hill
behind the old school house, where we
often coasted together on my l'ttle cutter.
Don't you mind, when one was absent,
how dull and monotonous seemed the sport
that when together was so pleasant ? the
fun was departed. Life, Julia, is only a
long coasting-hill : thinkest thou not we
could glide adown its deseent better and
happier 41 one sled than otherwise ?"
"Do look at that horse, Mr. Tandem; I
am afraid he is going to run off, and per
haps upset us, too : and you know I hate
so to be upset," said Julia, at the conclu
sion of this affecting peroration.
"Upset, indeed I said I, a little mined ;
"not while I hold the reins. Git up,
horsey !"
I do not know whether our fiery Pe
gasus understood my imputations of his
inefficacy for doing bad, but, be that as it
may, he soon undecived me. For scarcely
had my huge boast escaped me, ere he
took the bit in his mouth, cocked up his
ears, spread his mane, and travelled.
I have journeyed in the good old-fashioned
stage-coaches ; in the slow but very
sure canal-boats; in the swift cars; in
four-horse-wagons; in carriages, milk
wagons and carts,, but I do not recollect of
ever taking a trip under such auspices as
just then. Johnny Gilpin's famous ride
wasn't a circumstance to it.
We M ere going along very rapidly.
My whole attention was turned toward
keeping the horse in the road, for I didn't
wish him to run against some tree, or
worm-fence, and knock himself, sleigh,
and perhaps us, into everlasting smash.
My intentions were praiseworthy, but
not ot much avail. For, all at once, the
runner of the sleigh hit a stump, and away
we went and away likewise went the
horse, with some few pieces of the sleigh
attached, but considerably the largest por
tion remaining behind.
Julia and I landed about nineteen feet
from that villainous snag, right in the bo
som of as beautiful a drift of snow as ever
was seen. It was very cold, though, and
occasioned some considerable decline in
our opinion of the magnificence of sleigh-
ridincr ere we extricated ourselves there
from.'
After an exhilerating walk of about a
mile, Julia carrying the whip, and I the
buffalo-robes and other "fixings," we came
up to our "fast" horse and magnificent
sleigh in full anchor in another drift. .
After a great deal of tugging and pu
ling, and considerable repairing, for in-
stauce. tacking the various pieces of the
sleigh together, tying odd enipped off bits
8, I860.
of harness, etc., we concluded to risk it
rain.
We turned our horse's head homeward.
I ruminated for a considerable part of
the way on the mutability of things iu
general, and sleigh-riding in particular
on the sudien and somewhat unexpected
termination of my tale of love on how,
instead of popping the question and being
accepted, I had been popped out into the
snow and on my very elaborate exhibi
tion of the rapid and easy descent from
the sublime to the ridiculous.
"Mr. Tandem, if I may be permitted to
inquire, is this a fair specimen of the
beauty of 'coasting down the hill of life
together on one sled?' for if it is "
"Julia "
"For if it is, I propose it's a humbug.
You are, I perceive, quite competent to
assume the reins in such a juncture, and
an adept in the art of steering ; but, for
the present, I will content myself by re
questing you to exercise your peculiar
ingenuity by steering for home as fast as
possible !
And, to stop further colloquy, she be
gan singing :
"Did you e'er go riding,
In a sled
Dancing' flitting, sliding,
In a sled?
Care behind you fleeting:
Flits the time ;
Heart and bosom beating
So sublime !
Spirits buoyant humbled,
As we go,
Tippling, toppling, tumbled
In the snow."
Jul
ia
for a long time, thought I upset
her on purpose, and would hardly believe
otherwise ; but 1 at last succeeded in con
vincing her that it was ali the fault of
that "fast" horse. TMt-m : Don't take
fast" horse when you go out sleiehin
with the gal you intend popping the ques
tion to.l
It is also due Julia to state that I at
length overcame her objections to the
"down-hill" business, and we now double
team it through life together.
We date our happiness from the occa
sion of "that sleigh-ride."
A Thrilling Story. "Is is just twen
ty years ago, yesterday," said our narra
tor, "that a party ot us tellers went up
the river on a skatin match. I he da-
was colder than ten icebergs all stuck to
gether, but the ice was as smooth as glass,
and we made up our minds to have a heap
of fun. Bill Berry was the leader of the
crowd. He was a tall, six-footer, full of
pluck, and the best skater in all creation.
Give Bill Berry a good pair of skates, and
good sailing, and he could make the trip
to Baffin's Bay and back in twenty-four
hours, only stopping long enough to take
a drink at Halifax. Well, we got to the
river and fastened our skates on ; and af
ter taking a horn from Joe Turner's flask,
started olF in good style, Bill Berry in
the lead. As I was tellin ye, it, was a
gol dogoned cold day and so we had to
skate fast, to keep the blood up. There
were little breath-holes in the ice, and
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every now ana men we wouia come near
goin into em. 31y skates got loose, and
I stopped to fasten 'em. Just as I had
finished buckling the straps I heard a
noise. I looked around and saw some
thing shooting along the ice like light
nin'. It was Bill Berry's head ! He had
been going it like greased electricity, and
before he knew it, went into one of them
cussed holes. The force was so great as
to cut his head off against the sharp cor
ners of the ice. "It is all day with Bill
Berry," said I. "And all night, too,"
said Joe Turner. J ust as he had got these
words out of his mouth, I looked at Bill's
head, which had been goin' on the ice,
and all at once it dropped into another
hole. We run to it, and I heard Bill
Berry say, "for God's sake boys, pull me
out!" I looked into the hole, and there,
as true as I am a sinner, was Bill Berry's
body, which had skootcd along under the
ice and met the head at the hole in the
ice.
"It was so thunderin cold that the
head had froze fast to the body, and we
pulled Bill out as good as new. He felt
a little numb at nrst, but alter skating a
while he was as brisk as any of us, and
laughin' ever the joke, we went home
about dark, all satisfied with the day's
sport. About nine o'clock in the evening,
somebody knocked at the door, and said I
was wanted over to Bill Berry s. I put
on my coat and went over. There lay Bill's
body in one place and his head in anoth
er. His wife said that after he came home
from skating, he sat down before the fire
to warm himself, and while blowing his
nose, he threw his head into the the fire
place !
"The Coroner was called that -night and
the verdict of the jury was, that "Bill
Berry came to bis death by skating too
fast.' "
TERMS:$1;ao 1Jf ADyCI
NO. 29.
How lie Kept (lie Wedge.
Old Ben was a jolly old soul, and
much addicted to the use of intoxicating
drinks. He was very well known about
the neighborhood where he resided, and
was most generally to be seen in a "slight
ually corned" condition. As may be Bop
posed, this genius had a number of boon
companions who followed him as leader
and were, under his able tuition, already
adepts in the various arts of "smilinV
"imbibing, etc.
It was just about the time of which wo
are writiug that the temperance cause was
creating a great sensation through the vil
lage where lived our hero. Meetings were
held, the public mind was excited, and
numbers signed the pledge.
JNow leij, hearing of these meeting.
determined to attend one, just to see what
it was like : and. accordin?rlv. th nptt.
evening found him and his companions
seated in the lecture room awaiting the
issue. The lecturer that night was unusu
ally eloquent ; and Ben, who was of a very
exciiauie nature, Decame so enthusiasaio
that when the
usual invitation to sis-n th
pledge was given out, he rushed up to the
stand and affixed his name to the document.
His example was contagious, and all his
friends went and did likewise.
The temperance folks congratulated
themselves on having achieved so glorious
a victory ; for all knew that Ben was a man
of his word and would do as he said. On
the other hand, as may be imagined, Ben's
situation was, if not absolutely unbearable,
very disagreeable; and, now that his ardor
had cooled, he began to deplore his rash
act. But what was he to do? He had
signed the pledge forbidding him to drink
any intoxicating liquors; and his honor
(Ben was a great stickler for honor) would
not allow him to break it.
A few days after this, Ben and his
friends were going on a fishing excursion ;
and the prospect of a hot day, added to
their long abstinence (three days) was
unendurable.
"I'll tell yer what it is, Ben," sagely
remarked one of these worthies, "we've
been and gone and done a foolish thing ia
signin' that ar consarn. Our fun'U all be
spiled to-day because as how we ain't got
nothing to drink."
"Hold on a bit, boys," replied Ben'Tve
got an idea. Wait here till I come back."
And without waiting for an answer, off
he ran to the village store. Presently he
returned with two or three loaves of fresh
bakers' bread and a gallon of "red-eye"
N hat are you goin to do, Ben ?" asked
his astonished companions. "Itcmember
you've signed the pledge !
"I know it, returned Ben, as he pro
ceeded coolly to cut the loaves in two, dig
out a small place in the center, and rour
in the liquor, which the bread absorbed
like a sponge : "I know it : I've promised
not to drink auy more rum : but I didn't
say anything about eating it "
lhey all saw the ruse, and gladly avail
ed themselves of it ; and, as may be sup
posed, they returned that night, rather
wet."
This coming to the ears of the society.
Ben was arraigned before them where.
after having told his tale, he had tlte secret
satisfaction of seeing his name scratched
off the list.
A Bashful Man. Washington Irving
at a party in England one day, playfully as
serted that the love of annexation of the
nglo Saxon on every occasion "proceeded
from its 7nauvauc honte rather than its
of a bashful friend of his. who beinsr ask
ed to a dinner party, sat down to the ta
ble next the hostess in a great excitement.
owing his recluse life. A few glasses of
wiue mounting to his brain, completed
his confusion, aud dissipated the small re
mains of his presence of mind. Casting
his eyes down, he saw on his lap some
white linen.
"Good heavens," thought he '-that's my
shirt, protruding at my waistband !"
He immediately commenced to tuck in
the offending portion of his dress ; but the
more he tucked in, the more there seem
ed to remain.
At last he made a desperate, effort,
when a sudden crash around him, and a
scream from the company, brought him
to his senses.
He had been all the time stuffing the
table cloth into his breeches, and the move
had swept every thing off the table !
Thus our bashful friend annexed a table-cloth,
thinking it was the tail of his
own shirt.
fiSf" The following very good rules have
been adopted in a school down in Maine :
No chewing tobacco in school hours.
No kissing the girls in the entry.
No snapping apple seeds at the master.
No cutting benches with jack-knivev.
No nove-lfl allowed to be bro't to school.
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