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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1800.
1ST0. 39.
DIRECTORY.
Pii:!'Ai;Et ExruEdSLY Koa "tue alleohaxiax.
LIST OF I'OST OITICLS.
P.it O t:cts. Post Masters. Districts.
Delia's (. reeK,
Uv.-tli-l Station,
Onv-town,
Cie-s spring?,
j L:von.
I LVn-b'ivg.
r'V.K'ii Timber,
Ir.L.l.llTl,
O.n Cmuell.
JjUnsi'jwa,
Mil!- :-''- Point.
M.ri-ti r.
Au;ustiae,
S:.i'.: Level,
S -a.
a-.m-m-rhill,
vri'.mii'tf.
Joseph Graham, Yoder.
Joseph iS Mardis, Rlacklick.
Benjamin Wirtner, Carroll.
Daul. Litzinger, Chest.
John J. Troxell, Washiut'u.
Mrs-. II. M'Cii'fue, E liens burg
Isaac Thompson, White
J. M. Christy,
Joseph (Jill,
W'm. M'Gough
3P OETXIY.
Written for Tun Allegiiaxiax.
Time's l-ootstcps.
BY MISS MARY II. T).
II. A. Boggs,
W'm. Gwinn,
E. Wisjinger,
A. Durbin,
Gallitzin.
Chest.
Washt'n.
Johnst'wu.
Loretto.
Conem'gh.
Mu uster.
V
Francis Clement, Conem'gh.
Andrew J. Ferra! Hn?(j'hau.
G. W. Bowman, White.
Joseph Mover, CleitrlielJ.
George Conrad, Richland.
I!. M'Colgan, Washt'n.
Wm. Murray, Croyle.
Miss M. Giliespit- Washt'n.
Andrew Beck, S'nimerhill
csu'kciii:s, 3iimsti:rs, &.c
V '.jterUn Rev. D. Harbison, Taster.
prc.i.-hiiiij every Sabbath morning at 1 0 J
)c:--'k. and in the evening at C o'clock. Sab
hni.i School at 'J o'clock, A. M. Prayer nieet
i: every Thursday evening at C o'clock.
list Episcopal Church Kkv. J. Ukase,
rr-.t-.iier in charge. Rev J. M. tiiiiTii. As
Preaching every .Sabbath, alternately
.- ' 'I o'clock in the morninir. or 7 in the
-Jr.. .Sabbath .School at J o'clock, A. M.
i're. :r meeting everv Thursday evening at 7
o.i'.-k.
H.U Litl-pcnuittRzv. Et. R- Towell,
P..;..,:. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
1 ' ol.ick, and in the evening at tl o'clock.
Si i.ath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
Lie.tiug on the first Monday evening of each
nur.th; aud on every Tuesday, Thursday
Friday evening, excepting the first week
h. B tch mouth.
1'ih-ini'tic .V t'ioJUt Rev. John Williams,
hts-.ur .Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 ea 1 0 o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
A. LI. Prayer meeting every Friday evening
: 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
t'. 7 o'clock.
D flcs Rev. Wm. Lloyd, Pastor Preach-i-,ievrv
Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
l-ru'ultr litptisls Rev. David Jkxkixs,
i -st.-r. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
J .I'v.'lo.-k.. Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P.M.
,-:;:. Rav. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor
FrT:. o3 everv Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock
k::1 Vt.pers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
KIIKXSHL'ltCJ -II .LII..S.
MAILS ARRIVE.
E.;.T!i, d.iilr. at H o'clock, A.M.
V.'t.fTii, - at 10 " P- M-
MAILS CLOSE,
f'-itern. daily, at 4J o'clock P. M.
Western, ' at '' A-
lef The Mails from P.utler.Indian.i. Strongs-tv-r:i.
1-.. arrive on Tuesday and Eriday ot'
ach w-;ek. at .1 o'clock, P. M.
Leivo Ebensburg on Mondays and Thur?
J.v .-. at 7 o'clock, A. M.
rL. The Mails from Newman's Mills, Car
rji'.tuwu. arrive on Monday and Friday ot
ta.-h week, at 3 o'clock. P. M.
Leave Kbensburg on Tuesdays and Satur
ins, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
B!i. Post Oitice open on Sundays from 0
U Id u cluck. A. M.
RAILROAD SCIIEIITI'E
WILMORE STATION.
Wtt Express Train, leaves at
M.vil Train,
Express Train, "
Fast Line, "
Mail Train, li
8.5') A. M.
H.07 P. M.
7. IS P. M
12.12 P. M
t.03 A. M.
couxty orncKRS.
J,i1,. ,.f i).. ',.!,, President, lion. Gpo.
fayl.jr, Huntingdon ; Associates, GeorgeW
Siiit?y, Richard Jones, Jr.
j'.Konot'trif. Joseph M' Don aid.
CUrh tj rothonotary. Robert A. M'Coy.
R'ltisi.r and Recorder. Michael Hassoi'..
lp'.i!'j Il'gister and Recorder. John Scan-
:in.
SK'riJ. Robert P. Linton.
L ol:y Sheriff. George C. K. Zahm.
lintrkt Anornril. Philip S. Noon.
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('.,. i ' ., ,u.'.vi.ii-r. John iicarer, .vi.ci
loyd, David T. Storm.
Cirri; fit'ommisniowrs. George C. K. Zahm
Cwtnsrl to Commissioners. John S. Uhey.
Tr,'.nurr. John A. Blatr.
V',,r II,,,,,, Directors. David O llarro,
Jlichiiel M'Cnirp. -Irtcnli Horner
f'xjr House Trtusurer. Oeorge K,. iv. w
l'wr Ilonsf Stfucrd. James J. Kaylor.
ihromtile Appraiser. Thomas M'Connell.
Auditors. Henry Dawk, John F. Stull. E
I". Lytic.
County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
Cjiowr. James S. Todd.
S tp-rinteiidciU of C'jmm'iix Schools. T. A
-zuire.
'Tis in a village where our scene is laid,
A village where the citrons bloom and fade
Each passing summer ;
Where orange trees, like watchers fair,
Guard every cottage door ;
Where noontide shadows slowly creep
And sleep upon the floor.
A mirrored lake with waters still,
Winds round the bend below,
And cedars dark upon the hill
In wild profusion grow.
All day the long, long shadows creep
Beneath the welcome shade,
O'er mouldering tombs of marble gray,
Where the village dead are laid.
Where sunsets fade when day is o'er,
And the weary rest forevermorc.
A legend quaint the village has,
Of the Manor on the hill ;
At twilight they whisper their story strange,
When the noise of the "smith" is still.
They tell of a stranger who yearly came,
Where the moon her pale light shed,
Who smiled, and wept, grew sad and gay,
Till all at the Manor'' were dead.
He stood first by the spring, and the myrtles
blue
At each evening drooped further o'er
The rocky ledge ; till their tangled leaves
Formed a green and shaded door ;
Till the pale blue flowers that slowly crept
Along on the green hillside,
Grew bolder, came on to the fountain head,
Aud drank of the limpid tide.
A leafy curtain, a shaded door, more.
Said the stranger, I'll make of you ever-
lr Where shadows stole 'inong the old gray rocks.
Or lay in the dark green lane,
The stranger was seen to come and go,
To go, and to come again.
He would sit for hours by a towering tree,
Silently, sad aud alone, spot,
And 'twas always thought when blcft the
That the tree had taller grown.
How strange that his coming should make the
moss
Grow wilder over the way : form
And his breathing should caa'O each youthful
'Neath the marble white to lay.
It seemed so still when the midnight crept,
When the moon her pale light shed,
When the trreat church-bell on the sieej.ie
tolled,
And they whispered, she is dead.
H-j-.v ihev thev strewed the citron's silverleaves
Where with folded hands she lay,
ud carried her form to the churchyard old,
At the purple flush of day.
Death, a paler stranger than him of yore,
Had claimed the fairest forevcrmore.
Tune was me name which me siiauy-i .-v,.v,
Time faded the orange flowers, wept,
Time marked where the dark green cedars
The pa;irig of life's sweet hours ;
Time sent the bride from her father's hall,
Carrv blessings aud prayers away,
' ... .. ,. -n
He marked them all, he claimed mem a.i,
Neath the marble white they lay.
Not one at the old stone Manor house,
Tis desolate and alone;
The grass has hidden each winding way,
The moss each crumbling stone.
The red fox hides in the forest deep,
The deer goes bouuding by,
None heed them now the watchers all
'Neath the dark green cedars lie.
Low droops the moss o'er the marble urn,
Father and mother are there ;
Sister and brother sleep side by side,
Under the myrtles fair.
Cut a chimney tall of that olden house,
Of other days to tell,
Stands where the grass grows wild and deep
Farewell, old home, farewell.
Watt's Hill, May 8, 1SC0.
BLUE EYES BEHIND A VEIL
Mr. Edge was late at Lre:tkfast that
was not ail unusual occurrence ami he
was a little disposed to be cross which
was likewise nothing new. So lie retired
behind his newspaper, and devoured his
eijos and toast without vouehsafin any
ri-rik' save unsocial monosvllables, to the
trentle remarks of the fresh looking little
fady opposite to wit: Mrs. Edire. Hut
she was gathering together for the grand
tin.nl onslaught, and when at length Mr.
Edii-c had rot down to the last paragraph,
and laid aside the reading sheet, it came
"Dear, didn't you sav you were going
to leave me a hundred dollars for my furs
to-day ?"
"What furs?"
'Those new sable, dear ; my old affairs
are cetting shockingly shabby, and I real
think
(Rather shortly it was
TIic rirst 1'i-izc right.
The Ileenan and Sayers fiirht for the
championship of the hemispheres has ta
ken place, and the interesting details are
here. The contest has excited vast atten
tion all over the world, and everything
pertaining to the pr.ze-ring, since the
elf, 'what a slender, lovely little hand ! I
If there's anything I admire in a woman,
it's a pretty hand I onder what kind oi
mouth she's icot? It must be delightful,
if it corresponds with the hair and eyes.
ria-jrue take that veil :
Gut "plague, whoever that mystical
power may be, did not take possession of
the provoking veil, so Air. L,dge s curios
ity about the mouth of the blue-eyed dam
sel remained ungiatilicu.
iII-ii-a T-nu rriivm f'iimio-i "Miss ? T fear
vou are crowded. Prav sit a little closer ut they were all of so contradictory and underpinnings. Cloliath clinched him and
Mr. Goliath summoned his seconds from
among the Philistines, while little Dave
called his from among the men of Israel.
We are unable, at this late day, to give
minute details of the rounds. In the tirst
round, Goliath got his bunch of fives
handsomely into Dave's mug, somewhat
disfigured his smeller, aud drove him to
the ropes. On time being called lor the
tublishment of that benign and elevating
institution, has been eagerly read, far and i second round, both came to the scratch iu
wide. Many accounts of the first prize- o-yod order, though the knowing ones ob
fight have have been given to the public, served a slight shakiness in little Dave's
unsatisfactory a character, that but little j
reliance could be placed upon thoin U e
therefore deem it our duty to publish, a
reliable account of the first ring fight.
llesidcs it is important at this time, when
the 1 . It. is the ah-absorbing question
willi a large class of our countrymen, that
"Oh pshaw! what's the use of being so
extravagant? I haven't any money just
now to lay out in useless lollies, i he old
1'urs are good enough for any sensible wo
man to w ear."
A!,-, r,W o-,,(,,l. meek, little soul that
she was, relapsed into obedient silence ;
she only sighed a soft, inward sigli and
presently began on a new tack.
"Henry, will you go with me to my
aunt's to-night?"
"Can't you go alone?"
"Alone"! 1 low would it look ?" Mrs.
Edge's temper for she had one, though
it didn't often parade itself was fairly
roused. "You are so neglectful of those
little attentions you used to pay me once
you never walk, with me, nor pick up
my handkerchief, nor notice my dress, as
you once ulu.
"Well, a fellow can't be forever waiting
upon the women, can he?" growled Mr.
Edge.
"Vou could be polite enough to Miss
Waters last night, when you never thought
to ask me if I wanted anything, though
you knew perfectly well I had a headache.
1 don't believe you care so much as you
used to."
And Mrs. Edge looked extremely pretty
with tears in her blue eyes and a quiver
on the round rosy lips.
"Pshaw!" said" the husband peevishly.
"Now don't be silly, Maria."
"And in the stage yesterday, you never
W I vvii wr.rin rnoimll. Ol" Mlt
IS IV 4 1 J- i.i.-i ..... a
my shawl on me once, while Mr. Urown
nttnitivi: to his wife. The contrast
was very mortifying to me, Henry it was
indeed."
"1 didn't know women were such tools,,
said Mr. Edge sternly, as he drew on his
overcoat to escape the tempest which he
saw rapidly impending. "Am I the sort
of iivui to make a ninny out of myself
doing the polite to any female creature?
Did you ever know me to he conscious as
to whether a woman had on a shawl or a
swallow-tailed coat ?"
Maria eclinsed the blue eyes behind a
little pocket handkerchief, and Henry, the
savage, banged the door loud enough to
give' Petty," iu the kitchen a nervous
start.
"Paining again! I do believe Ave are
going to have a second edition ol the del-
said Mr. Edge to himsell that eve
ns he ensconced his six feet of iniq-
ili.. southwest corner oi a car at
to me."
"Thank you, sir," was the soft reply,
coming from behind the veil, as Mr. Edges
rapturously reflected, 'like an angel from
the 'l,.om of a dark clou.'.' And his
heart gave a loud thump, as the pretty
shoulder touched his owu shaggy overcoat
in a nestling sort of way.
"Decidedly, this is getting rather ro
mantic," thought he ; and then, how gal
lantly he jumped up to pull the strap for
her by some favoring lreak of fortune it
happened to be at the very street where
he intended to stop. And under all cir
cumstances, we can hardly blame him,
when the car stopped so suddenly that she
caught instinctively at his hand lor sup
port, for the squeeze he gave the plump
snowy palm. Any man in his senses
would have done the same it was such
un inviting little lily!
Out into this rain and darkne-s our two
pilgrims sailed, scarcely more than able to
steer their course by the glimmering re
flection of the street lump on tnc stream
ing pavements.
,..,rl-V,MI. ,it-it Hie- n- """"-I '
hfin in the mn'Xt stilio-in
would have pouuded him to death, not
withstanding the loud and angry crie3 of
"foul" on both sides, had not David drew
a sling-shot and hit the giant on the head.
The giant lell, and David drew his sword
and cut oil his (Mr. G.'s) head. The
head Philistine bottle-holder threw up the
a correct aud impartial report of the first j sponge and then took to his heels, closely
prize light be plated on record.
The tight occurred several years since,
in Ephes-dammiri, between Goliath who
occupied nearly the same position among
his followers as Mr. Thomas II er dues
among his, at the present day, and David,
a celebrated champion of the light weights.
Dave, as he was familiarly called, was ;
backed by the children of Israel, while the j
Philistines went it strong ou Old Goli.
.... ' i til
Goli was a very powerlul man, and nao
been in active training for quite a period,
lie was anxious to damage the constitution
of some son of Israel, olTcring ten to one
followed by the other Philistines.
And this was the first prizs-fight of
which we have any record. It was dif
ferent from the fiirhts of this our day.
j That was a fight of Right against Might,
j the Right winning as it always must in
i the end, while the ring combatants of
: t -day are fought for filthy money aud by
! men who are very little superior to the
brutes of the held.
Afraid eF Snakes. In the course of
the evening, our jolly joke-cracking com
pany got, as usual, on the subject of suake3.
u-itl,nt tat- th .t he drew the first blood, i Many remarkable stories were told, some
-ot the first knock down, and licked his i ol which were interesting, wnue otners
man.
ouiting men
ugc,
nil'.0.
tnsm uc; ison. orrici:ss.
Juitms nf the Peace. David H. Roberts,
Harrison vrint-o-nl
llary,t!m Andrew Lewis.
Cunril. William Kittell, William K.
fliitr. r!.)rioo Oupnu. J. C. Noon. Edward
Sir., . 1. '
C!-rk to Council. T. D. Litzinger.
Ii'Towk Treasurer. George Gurley.
W'igh Master. William Davis.
School Director. Edward Glass, William
r,-''-ii, hVpse Movrl. John J. Lloyd, Morris
Kvnns, Thomas J. Davis.
Trtiturer of School Board E van Morgan.
Constable. George Gurley.
T it Collector. George Gurley.
A"for. Richard T. Davis.
'-'.'; ff Election. Isaac L'vans.
l-'t-'on. John S. Rhev. John J Faus.
The Peasant Women of China. It
is said by one who, having seen the Es
quimaux women, supposed that they might
carry off the palm of repulsivcncss that
whether old or young, a maiden or a grand
mother, the Chinese paysanne is the most
hideous spectacle that any one but a m.s-O'-vmst
can wish to witness. Huddled in
. , .... ..IT ... w-itl-
the ra"s that never Knew nwunuwo, ......
years of dirt encrusting face, arms, and
b-s, and with features vilified by penury
and ignorance, they form a sad diUtonc
irw from the pretty pastorals of the Chi
nese books. One could associate some ro
mance with the peasant of any othcr na
tion one could believe in an African
M.l. r ?n :. Fin Pratiska : but sentiment
and a China uilhg,:ohc no, it's impossible !
-
Sy" Praises are valuable only when they
come from lips that have the courage to
condemn.
iii tv in tue so
the City Hail. "Go ahead, eouductor,
can't you ? What are you waiting for?
Don't you see we're full, and it's dark al
ready ?"
"In one minute, sir," said the conduc
tor, as he helped a little woman with a
basket on board. "Now sir, move up a
bit if you please."
Mr. Edfre was exceedingly comfortable,
dirln't want to move up, but the light of
the lamp, just ignited, falling full on the
pearly forehead "and shining golden hair
of the new comer, he altered his mind aud
he did move up.
"What lovely eves!" quoth he mentally,
in he bestowed "a single acknowledging
smile.
"Real violet blue ! the very color 1 ad
mire most. Pless me! what busincs has
an old married man like me thinking about
eyes ? "What would Maria say, the jeal
ous iittle minx ! There she's drawn a
confounded veil over her face, and the
light is as dim as a tallow but those were
pretty eyes .
The fair possessor of the blue eyes shiv
ered slightly and she drew her mantilla
closer around her shoulders
"Are you cold, Mi;
bv wearing mv shawl.
all myself
She did not refuse she murmured
some faint apology for troubling him, but
it was not a refusal.
"No trouble not a bit !" said he, with
alacrity, arranging it on the taper shoul
ders : and then as the young lady handed
! her fare to the conductor, he said to nim-
Pray, honor me
I don't need it at
"Allow me to carry )'our basket, Miss, as
long as our paths lie in the same direc
tions," said Mr. Edge courteously, reliev
ing her of her burden as he spoke "And
and maybe you'd find less difficulty
in walking if you'd just t:.ke my arm I"
Well, was'nt it delightful. Mr. Edge
forgot the wet streets and the pitchy dark
u 3 too he thought he was walking on ro
ses ! Only, as no approaclied his own door,
he began to feel a little nervous, and w ish
that the lovely iucoguito wouldn't hold
on quite so tight. Suppose Maria should
be at the window on the lookout for him,
as she often was, how would fJee interpret
the matter ! He couldn't make her believe
that he only wanted to be polite to a fair
traveller ! Resides his sweeping declara
tion of the morning she would be sure
to recall them.
As he stopped at the right number and
turned round to bid the blue eyed a re-
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greuui adieu, ne was nsioiiisueci to sec uci
run li'htlv un the sters to enter likewise!
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Gracious Appollo! he burst into a chilly
perspiration at the idea of Maria's hor
ror !
"I think you have made a mistake,
Miss," stammered he, -this can't be your
house ?"
Rut it was too late. see was already in
the brilliant lighted hall, and turning
round threw oft' her dripping habiliments,
and made a low courtesy.
"Very much obliged to you fur your
politeness, sir !"
"Why, it it's woy wife ."'
"And happy to see that you haven't
forgotten all your gallantry towards the
ladies, pursued the merciless little puss,
her blue eyes (they were pretty !) all in a
dance with suppressed roguery.
Edge looked from the ceiling to the
floor in vain search for a loop-hole of re
treat ; but the search was unavailing.
"Well," said he in the most sheepish of
all tones, "it's the first time I ever was
polite to a woman in the cars, and hang
me if it shan't be the last."
"You see, dear," said the ecstatic little
ladv, "I was somewhat belated didn't
expect to be delayed so long, and hadn't
any idea L should meet with so mucii at
tention in tnc cars, and lrom my own
husband, too! Goodness gracious, how
aunt Priscilla will enjoy the joke !"
"If you tell that old harpy," said Edge,
in an accent of desperation, "I never shall
hear the last of it."
"Very probably," said Maria provok
ingly. "Now look here, darling," said Mr.
Edge coaxingly, "you won't say anything,
w ill vou ? A fellow don't want to be laugh
ed at by all the world ! 1 say Maria, you
shall have the prettiest furs in New York
if you'll only keep quiet you shall on my
honor.
The terms were satisfactory, and Maria
vi r.i tnlatod who wouldn't ? And that is
the way she got those splendid furs that
filled the hearts of all female friends with
envy ; and perhaps it was what made Mr.
Edge such a scrupuously courteous hus
band ever after.
The Philistines, being the blooded
of the time, shooic their
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money m tue laces oi tne men u israci.
and taunted them
manner.
Goli abandoned all legitimate employ
ment, and commenced traveling uu his
muscle exclusively, and one dav, while
somewhat inebriated, he actually marched
out into the valley and boldly requested
all Israel to "wade" in." It must be con
fessed that Mr. G., intoxicated as he was,
showed a splendid nerve in thus defying
all Israel. He was six cubits and a span
in height and otherwise well proportion
ed, lie cried unto the armies of Israel,
"Why don't some of yeu fellers come out
here ? Send out your fighting men ! Don't
vou see me here alone, aud .xjuliny for a
fight !" or words to that effect. He furth
ermore stated that he could cave in the
heads of any number of Israel's men in a
remarkable short space of time. He like
wise asscrvated, in clarion tones, that noth
ing could possibly so enchance his felicity
as" to introduce a stupendous number ot
heart-rending funerals among the leau-.ng
families of Israel. Growing bolder and
bolder as the liquor worked into his head,
iie asked, as an especial favor, that sever
al thousand of the game men of the laud
' and conic forth at once, bringing
them several two horse wagons in
which to carry of the dead.
The men ot Israel, it would seem, were
not particularly anxious to grapple with
Old Goli, as the boys delighted in calling
him, for they kept at a proper distance.
Rut at last, David, who had acquired a
small reputation as champion of the local
li-ht weight in Israel, became sick of this
impudent blowing on the part of Old
Goli, and resolved to go forth himself, all
alone, and have a set-to with that gigantic
leader of the Philistine fancy. His friends
did all iu their power to dissuade lam
from (what they regarded as) his mad
purpose, but all to no avail. Efioris woie
indeed made to give him over to the po
lice and have him locked up in the station-house
for intended disturbar.ee, but
the police iu that day closely resembled
the police of the present day, and could
never be found when a row was on hand,
So little Dave "peeled" and went forth.
Goli laughed outright when he saw the
little man coming, and sarcastically yelled
to the meu of Israel on the Mountain, to
send out some more of their infants, face
tiously adding that he wouldn't spank
them very hard. He then took a tre
mendous chaw of plug tobacco, leaned up
a-'ainst a tree, and asked Dave, addres-
ict:i
with
were dry and dull. 1 can give you but
one at present;
'We have the greatest coward about
snakes up in Calhoun, that lives in Amer
ica He came from the East last spring,
bought a farm close to where I live; and
for the first six months in the country I
don't think he slept two hours a night, for
he felt sure a snake would manage to get
in his beel.
"He sowed a nice piece of oats, but the
snakes prevented his harvesting it. I'll
toll you how it was. Wheu the oats got
ripe he was certain it was full of snakes,
and that he'd get bit if he ventured over
the fence.
"One day he concluded he'd take a
look to see if there were rnauy snakes in
the patch ; so he got the old horse, and
after leading him through the gap, aud
laving up the fence to keep the hogs out,
he took an old scythe snathe in his hand
to fight with in case of an attack, mount-
the horse, and struck boldly out into the
oats, holding up both legs as high as pos-
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"He hadn't gone far when he saw a
whailing big snake slipping along the
oats alter him. Away he went, the snake
right along with him ; something behind
and sometimes before. He couldn't get
out of the lot because the fence was up
aud as the snake kept constantly with him,
there was no chance but to leave the old
horse, and try keep out of its way. IIo
went it iu that way till every stalk of hia
oats was tramped down, aud until the old
horse was just ahoflt dead, when he dis
covered that he'd been running all tha
time from the shadow of his own snathe."
PurU i 's Spirit.
Somebody says that to dream of
soap betokens a combat in which you may
expect too get lathered.
Pick-ss in glazed pans, cross dogs
and delays are dangerous.
sing the little man as -onuy, what he
wanted? "Roes-e ittle darling-parling's
inuzzer know it is out ? Does-e ittle I'd-
ler want-e some sugar-plums ; u ouM-e
ittle lainmy-pammy like a ittle rock in g-hossy-ossy
?" Thus, contemptuously, did
Goliath address David. "No," said Da
vid, "I mean business. I come to tight.
Let the ropes be put up, bottle-holders
chosen, and all preliminaries arranged.
The uiant was dumbfounded. Coull he
believe his eyes? He looked at the un
flinching David again, and wa.s reluctantly
compelled to acknowledge the accuracy of
his optics. Remarking that he had, du
ring the time he had adorned this terres
trial sphere, witnessed several demonstra
tions of u somewhat astonishing character,
but that this completely "knocked the
socks" off everything that had ever before
Indian Women and White Ladies.
General Sam Dale, the Southwestern
Indiau lighter, says, in his memoir just
published, that he paid a vist to Wash
in "ton when Jackson was President, and
adds :
"The ladies of Washington struck m?,
who had so long been accustomed to the
sunburned maidens of the woods, as very
fair and beautiful, very fiscinating aud
refined. Iu one thing they differ froiu
our Indian women, they look one full in
the face, and it is difficult to withstand
their glances. An Inman maid, when a
warrior approaches, bends her head like -a
drooping leaf. It is only in the deepest
recesses, when no others are near, that
her lover sees the whole lusture of her
eves, or even the blurhes that mantle on
her ?heek. Thev love intensely, and
make the most faithful wives and the ten
eterest of mothers."
rf A Yankee from Maine being at Bu-
ena Vista the night before the battle, and
somewhat doubtful of the result, went out
of hearing, as he supposed, and made tho
following prayer:
-O Lord, here we are, about four thou
sand of us, and twenty thousand Mceaus
enough to swallow us without grrasing.
Now if you can help us, do it and if you
cau't, for heaven's sake Uou't help tlui
Mexieaus and just hold on until to-morrow,
ami you'll see the gaui darndest fight
you ever saw in your life. Y'ours, respect
fully, amen."
lfi, Never answer a' calumniator. If
you will only give a rattlesnake time
enough, he will sting himself and die of
j conic under his immediate observation, ' his own venom.
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