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I'll Tli Ink. or Tliee.
At close of day, when twilight dews,
Embalm the scented lea;
And tinge the west in golden hues,
Then I will think of thee.
I'll think of thee when moonlight beams,
Athwart the deep blue sea ;
And zephyrs 'mid the rustling leaves
Disport in wanton glee.
I'll think of thee in winter's gloom,
When nature's beauty dies ;
I'll think of thee, when spring time comes,
And flowers around us rise.
I'll think of thee 'mid summer beams,
When joy birds sweetly sing ;
I'll think of thee when autumn leaves
Lie strewn and withering.
I'll think of thee when music falls
Upon my listening ear,
And every silvery note recalls
The time when thou wert njar.
When fancy strays to elfin bowers,
And come love's witchery,
I'll dream again of vanished hours,
And fotidlv think of ihee.
THE LAST SHOT.
BY WESLEY BRADSIIAVC
The traveler, as his eye takes in with.
deliiilit the beauties oi the scenery in
Ashtabula county, Ohio, with its meander
ing streams, ana sweeping, unauiatiu
meadows, dotted here and there with farm
houses and eottatres, could scarcely credit
the innumerable and fearful hardships to
which the early settlers, the forefathers of
the present generation, were subjected.
A little over nait a century ago, ana in
the very tdace which now teems with
abundance, starvation often stared the pi
oncer and his wife aud little ones in the
lace.
The following real incident of wilder
ness life will therefore serve to show how
fifty years have made the silent, mighty
wastes to "blossom as the rose, ana De
come "a lana nowinsr wun miih. auu
honey."
In the mouth ot -May, liVV, a native ot
North Haven, Connecticut, Joel Thorp by
name, resoivcu to journey ionn imu uib
almost unexplored tract tlien known as
the Connecticut U estern Jieserve. Ills
wife cheerfully assented to the adventure;
and accordingly, selling out what little he
was possessed ol, lhorp obtained those ar
ticles of which he thought he should be
most in need in his future home, and,
loading an ox-team therewith, shouldered
his rifle and set forward, trusting for suc-
cess in an aii-seeing i roviueuce auu ms
his own right arm.
The pioneer, after a few hardships and
dangers, at last reached what was after
ward Millsford, in Ashtabula county, where
he determined to settle. A few days la
ter, and he succeeded in raising a rough,
but comparatively comfortable log-hut,
wherein his wife and childreu found shel
ter. Still, his exertions were not ended ;
and day after day the silence of the forest
was broken b- the resounding blows of his
., i-i u : -i- : .1. l
axe; ana tne iauu, wuicu wa iwu nm
mellow beiran to be cleared. ut, in his
eagerness to accomplish eo much in eo
short a space oi time, ur. inoru uau cu-
tirely overlooked the fact that his provis-
ions were ranmlv iainng.
As soon, however, as Ins wile Drougnt
' . s
the alarniincr fact to his knowlcage, nc
set off, without any guide, save his pocket
compass, to the nearest settlement, wnicn
was fully twenty miles aistant, to ooiain
flour. Very shortly after his departure,
the remainder of Mrs. Thorp's scanty store
was consumed by her three children she
denrivina herself of any morsel oi it m
order that they might have the more.
Soon after, thev bcean to leel tne snarp
pangs of hunger, and asked their mother
for cnstpn.mcG. which she of course was
unable to give them.
Lone and anxiously did she stand in
the cabin door and strain her aching eyes
in the hope of beholding, through the
dimly lit aisles of the forest, the approach
;r fnrm of her husband. And the hun-
rrrv little ones of whom the eldest, Basil
tr9 but eio-ht vears of age as though by
intuition, followed her example, standing
at her side, watching eagerly for papa's
return. Hut still he came not ; and as
th sun went down on the day on which
he was expected, a thousand new and fear
ful emotions swept through the mother's
boor The wilderness abounded with
dangers ; and by turns her fancy led her
;,,to the belief that he was eitner kunea Dy
wild beasts, or murdered, or taken captive
b Rtill wilder men. And a score of times
after she had succeeded in lolling her
v;i.irn tn Klppn. did she imaarine that
6he heard him groaning at the cabin door
And ?ich time impuivcly, almost unron
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 21,
sciously, she bounded forward, and, throw
ing open the door, found that it was noth
ing but the moaning of the wind among
the surrounding trees.
Toward morning, the
eecond eldest
exclaimed in
child, as though dreaming,
its sleep :
"Mamma! papas coming! and Dash,
too ! And then, awakening from its
slumber, it commenced to cry, and beg
piteously of its mother for food, even
though it were only a few grains ot corn.
Y ith a torn and bleeding heart, Mrs.
Thorp, while tears of anguish rolled down
her own pinched and pallid features, en
deavored to console and quiet the little
sufferer with the hopeful promise that
papa would soon come now. The other
two shortly roused up, and impelled by
starvation, joined their complaints and en
treaties with those of the first.
Morning at length dawned without a
single cloud, while a soft pleasant air
stirred through the forest, and the little
birds sung blithely. But all had the same
effect upon Mrs. Thorp. The briirht sun
only rendered her inward gloom the deep
er the wind brought to her no sound of
her husband's coming and the carols of
the birds foil upon her cars like discordant
music. Noon came, but with it no siirn of
the absent one ; and Mrs. Thorp now be
gan to dispair, believing it to be her late,
aud that of her children, to be starved to
death in the wilderness. Jut a single
glance into the pale, bloodless faces of her
children, re-ammateil he: own sinkin
frame, and her mother's heart again grew
strong within her.
A lew grains of wheat, that the boy
Basil remembered hav ing seen in a crack
in one of the logs of which the cabin was
built, were diligently but unsuccessfully
searched for. Still Mrs. Thorp's resolu
tion was not to be overturned; and seizing
a knife, she ripped open the bed, which
was filled with straw. Carefully did she
and Basil examine every stalk of this straiv
for the few stray grains of wheat that it
miirht chance to contain : and durinsr the
course of the afternoon they succeeded in
obtainiug a small quantity of the precious
treasure. After boiling this, Mrs. Thorp,
with a mother's solicitude for the relief of
her children, reserved but a few "rains
for herself, and divided the remuiuder into
equal proportions for her little ones. But
this partial relief seemed to render their
lunirer more acute; and, alter listening
for the better pait of the night to their
hudish and pitiful eutreaties lor more,
she resumed at daylight the task of search
ing the rest of the straw.
This finished, she boiled and divided
the wheat obtained as before. There was
now no other source that she could see
from which she might obtain sustenance ;
and with her heart fairly breaking, she
went to the cabin door, aud gazed vacantly
away into the forest, not so much in the
expectation of seeing her husband, as from
the habit sue had acquired within the last
few days.
As she at last turned her cvc somewhat
upward, doubtless to invoke the aid of
Heaven, she beheld a large bird, that
proved to be a wild turkey, flying over.
Like a flash a happy thought struck her,
and with her feelings strung to the high
est, she watched the bird till it settled
among the boughs of a tree at some little
distance from the cabin.
In former years Mr. Thorp had instruct
ed his wife in the use of the rifle; aud un
der his tuition she had attained considera
ble skill and precision. And now fairly
bounding with delight to wheic, upon the
horns of a stag, rested a rifle and powder-
horn, she grasped the former, but found
to her chagrin that it was empty. Reach
ing down the horn, she opened it, and,
forming a cup-like hollow with her hand,
poured into the latter what powder it con
tained. There was, however, only sufficient
for a small charge; and again the anxious
mother saw disappointment staring her in
the face.
But soon she settled upon her course ;
and setting aside a little of the powder for
ririniinir. she determined to make the re
mainder do for the load. In order also,
that none of it should be lost, she thor
oughly cleaned out the barrel of the rifle,
which she finally loaded with extreme
care, well patching she ball to increase its
force. She now primed the piece, exam
ining the flint narrowly; and then, sinking
upon her knees, she put up a low but fer
vent prayer to Heaven, which she firmly
believed had sent the wild turkey that
way.
"God keep you, my little ones !" she ex
claimed, as, stepping over the threshold
of her humble home, she started on her
mission, either to lose the last chance of
preserving her children, or to save them
at least for a time.
Taking a direct cut across the clearing,
she poon came in sight of the turkey ; but
in her eagerness she had neglected the
EfOFf.ry precautions, and before the bad
r -
an opportunity to raise her weapon, the
bird flew away, leaving her for a moment
or two the victim of the deepest dasnair.
But an instant after, her hope was revived,
t '111- - -
as sne beheld the lowl wheel and settle
down in one corner of a potato patch.
rcarlul ol again disturbing it, however,
by too sudden an approach, Mrs. Thorp
returned to the cabin, and waited till she
saw the turkey wallowing and tossing
up about it the loose earth. Again she
set forth, this time with the utmost cau
tion, creeping from log to log, and bush
to bush, upon htr hands and knees.
At last she was within range : and de
liberately raising the hammer of her piece
he examined the priming, brought the
rifle to her shoulder, took a firm, cool aim,
and pulled.
As the light blue smoke curled upward.
she leaped to her feet, and saw that the
shot had been well sped, and that the bird
was dead.
With an exclamation of the wildest joy
she was bounding forward, for the purpose
of securing her prize, when, like au arrow
from the bow, there shot past her a heav
ily built dog, that, the following moment,
with the dead fowl in his mouth, was re
turning to her with every inauifestatiou of
delight.
As her e'es lit upon the dog. she felt
herself becoming weak with a new and
happy emotion ; and, scarcely able to sus
tain her feelings, she turned in the direc
tion in which the animal had come, and
there, through an opening in the forest,
she beheld Joel, her husband, striding to
ward her.
A step or two she took in that direc
tion ; and then, with her arms outstretched
and a faint scream, she fell insensible to
the earth.
Not long, however, did she laj- thus ;
for the hardy pioneer soon reached her
side, and raising her in his powerful arms,
bore her into the cabin. Here she socn
revived, to behold herself surrounded by
her husband and children, upon all of
whom the faithful Dash was fawning with
gladness, while the little ones in innocent
joy showed their mother the food that
papa had brought for them.
Mutual and heartfelt were the congrat
ulations of the pioneer and his wife; and
never again did Joel Thorp allow his
humble larder to go un replenished in time
to keep the wolf of starvation from his
door. Emit son JieimetCs Monthly.
The Teuiufyinu Si umisk Nothing
save the essential truths of God's word
can give comfort and true peace, either
livinp or dying. Whilst living, it men
are not resting on the word of God, they
can at least have no rest in denying it.
The very fear lest the Bible be true is
enough to mar all earthly enjoyment. A
celebrated infidel said one day to a friend
of his who had imbibed the same princi
ples : ''There is one thing that mars all
the pleasure of my life." "Indeed," re
plied his friend, "what is that?" lie an
swered, "I am afraid the Bible is true !
If I could know certainly that death is an
eternal sleep, I should be happy ; my joy
would be complete ! But here is the thorn
that stings me. This is the sword that
pierces my very soul. If the Bible is
true, I am lost forever !"
A Witty Jail Bird. A short time
time ago a man named Crandall made his
escape from the Angelica county, N. Y.
jail. For the information of the curious,
he has lately written back to Angelica,
the following account of his escape. It
must be very satisfactory to his custodians.
He says :
"I suppose it is a mystery to sonic how
I got away, consequently I will give you
a brief history of my departure. The mo
dus operandi was this : I got out of my
cell with ingenuity, ran up stairs with
agility, crawled out of the back window
in seereay, slid down the lightining roi
with rapidity, walked out of the Angel
ic town with dignity, aud am now bask
ing in the sunshine of pleasure and liber-
Rules for Goino to Slekp. 1. Fix
the thoughts on some oue thing. If you
can't do that, fix them on two things.
Fix 'cm! You can easily unfix them
after you once get to sleep.
2. Don't go to sleep with your head
down against the foot-board, or 3"our feet
dangling on the floor. It disturbs the
electric current.
3. A writer recommends to suspend a
bass-drum over your bed, within reach,
aud pound on it with your fist. It will
induce sound sleep.
4. Rolling the eye-balls is good, except
for blind people. It may be a permanent
miurv to their sight. Rolling out ot bed
may be substituted in such cases.
tsar - man winds up his clock to make
it run, and his bu?iuess to make it Hop.
1800.
Tiie Uiit Tall Cactus.
The N. Y. Ijrjifrr, in giving a sketch
of the late Mike Walsh, relates of him
when a member of Congress, the following
story, which, though old, is worth repeat
ing, as no one can by any possibility read
it without laughing :
At the foot of the capitel gardens at
Pennsylvania avenue, (on the right hand
side as you are fronting that building,)
is an enclosed space national property
containing one or more tenements and
some conservatories and hot-houses.
Here for some years past, and until his
death, enjoyiug Uncle Sam's putronage,so
journed a Frenchman, learned in botany
and many other sciences. Some compan
ions, while passing these premises, were
vaunting his acquirements to Mike who
from a spirit of contradiction, called them
in question. He doubted whether these
eminent botauists knew the difference be
tween oats and wheat, aud believed, he
said, that a Bowery boy could persuade
them that their corn was clover. Finally
Mike undertook, "butauically," to deceive
the Frenchman with whatever he could
pick up where they stood, in the l;sne
skirting his premises. From a wreck of
flower pots and rubbish, he selected cne
sound pot and a rat King next the heap,
l'lacing the rat in the flower pot, he cov
ered it up with mould, leaving out the tail,
which he fixed perpendicularly b- tying
it carefully to a small green rubbish. He
next called on the Professor, and told him
that a friend, Lieut , (whose ship
having touched at one of the Islands of
the then terra incognita, Japan, had exci
ted some interest,) had presented him
with a very curious kind of cactus. This
he wished the professor to cxnniine. No
one, Mike said, had been able to make it
out, and he might have kept it lor ten
years and not find five people who would : t P"'
so he hardly felt justified in keeping it
out oi the public collection, and vet he
did not like to part with a keepsake from
a "friend."
The Professor cagrely repaired to exam
ine the vegetable curiosity After a close
inspection he determined what it was, or
at least christened it by a fine Greek name
two words, as Mike s:iid, averaging six
teen letters. The Professor exhausted
himself in persuading Mike that the in
terests of science required that he should
sacrifice to them the sentiments of friend
ship, by surrendering this rare production
of the vegetable kingdom to the keeping
of the botanist. The relu?tant Mike
eventually consented, on the willing and
solemn assurances of the Professor that it
would be tended to with the utmost care ;
aud so it was. Placed in hot house, it
was cautiously but carefully besprinkled
with water at a temperature of seventy
degrees by the thermometer. It was I
noticed and described
d in the SVofiowd l
ticc was copied into
Intellhmccr. The notice was copied
other papers. The plant was exhibited
with pride to several eminent individuals
at length with the heat and moisture the
tip of the tail began to excoriate. The
Professor was delighted it was budding.
It was examined with great interest by
one of the chief patrons, "the (Jreat Dan
iel," to whom the botanist promised one
of the first slips for Marshbeld. "it was
too good a joke to keep," said Mike, "es
pecially in a hot house, so before long they
smelt a rat." The wrath and shame of
the Professor was excessive, and so was
the indignation of the Great Daniel, not
at the author of the joke, but at the un
fortunate botanist, whom he stigmatised
as a "d d frog-eating Frenchman,
through whom he had been taken in, and
ought to have known better."
Covlpn't Fool Hr.it. The Layfay
ette Covr'ur tells an amusing story of
some young ladies and gents ot that place,
who were taking a social walk near the
cemetery, when a ghost appeared. They
all ran but one sturdy woman of the strong
minded class, who stood her ground
till the ghost got to her, when she seized
it, and thrust out of his frightful disguise
a mischievous fellow who had heard the
project of walking around the graveyard
discussed, and hid himself there to give
the party a fright. She led him back to
the house, and in reply to the questions
that now poured in upon her side : "Can't
fool me ! I've seen too many men in sheets
to get frightened at them.'"
5$- The finest idea oi a thunder storm
was wheu Wiggins came home tight. He
came into the room where his wife and
daughters were, and just then he tumbled
over the cradle and fell whop on the floor.
After a short time he rose and said:
"Wife, are you hurt?"
"No."
"Girls, arc vou hurt?"
-No."
Terrible cl ip, wasn't it
NO. 44.
Itarou .llunchauseu.
The "Adventures of Baron Munchau
sen" was a work written several years ago,
for the purpose of putting to shame a clasj
of writers, who, in giving to the world ac
counts of their adventures in foreign lands,
told all sorts of improbable stories in or
der to render themselves famous as travel
ers. The book which professed to give
the travels of the renowned Baron, was, of
course, a work of fiction, and the state
ments it contained so far outstripped those
of all other travelers that it served as a
severe satire upon them. When, therefore,
persons on returning from abroad wero
detected in telling lies, or giving greatly
exaggerated accounts of what they had
seen or done, they were accused of being
disciples of Baron Munchausen.
Perhaps the reader ha.s never seen the
Baron's book. If so, he will be amused
with one or two specimens from its marvel
ous pages.
One evening the Baron declares that he
was overtaken by a snow-storm. So much
snow fell that he was obliged to dismount
and tie his horse to what he thought was
the stump of an old tree, while he wrap
ped himself in his cloak, lay down on the)
snow, and fell into a deep slumber. When
he awoke in the morning, his horse was
missing. He couldn't see him auywhere.
At length, looking up toward the sky, ho
espied the animal suspended to the crosj
of a church steeple. There had been a
free thaw during the night, the snow had
melted awa and what he had taken to be
the stump of a tree the evening before,
proved now to be nothing less than the
cross of a church steeple ! One hundred
and fifty feet of snow had fallen and dis
appeared in twenty-four hours. The Bar
on took his pistol, fired at the bridle, shot
it in two, and when the horse fell to the
ground, his master at once mounted him
and went on his journey
On another occasion he was passing un
der a gate, which fell down by accident,
aud cut his poor horse asunder just behind
the saddle. The Baron didn't know ot
his loss until an hour af.erward, when he
was passing over a brook, the horse took
a drink, and hearing something gushing
out like water behind him, Munchausen,
turned around and saw to his amazement
that, for the last four or five miles, he had
been riding on half a horse instead of a
whole one. The Baron turned back, got
the hind quarters of the animal, and sew
ed the body together with willow twigs,
which afterwards grew to be fine trees, and
proved a fine shelter to him from the sun,
when he was on his journeys.
On one cold day he was playing tunes
on a bugle, when all the tuues froze before
they came out at the further extremity of
the instrument. However, upon hanging
it near the fire, the bugle began playing,
uud never ceased until all the frozen tunes
ere played out in regular order.
Travelers, with all their desire to excite
the admiration of lovers of the marvelous,
were taught a lesson by this book, and, no
doubt, since its publication, many a writer
has been forced to keep the story of hia
adventures within the bounds of truth, by
the exaggeration and cutting sarcasm of
Baron Munchausen.
How to Live Well. Good meals at
moderate intervals, and the stomach left
at rest between. Some interval an in
scrval of active exercise is best between
books and food. A leisure hour for din
ner, and cheerful conversation after it.
A short nap, for those who need or like
it, after dinner. Light occupation in tho
evening literature, or correspondence,
with more or less social intercourse, music
or other recreation. These are each and
all highly desirable ; but the most indis
pensable of all is strenuous and various
exercise. Jfiss Jlortiifau..
" Judge Crain, iu a recent suit be
fore the Circuit Court of Charles county,
Maryland, decided a license was not nec
essary to the validity of a marriage in tht
State that it is a civil contract, and, by
the common law binding, if established
by evidence that it had been entered into
by the parties to operate as a marriage
aud followed hv cohabitation.
EfSV. The old man looks down and think
of the past. The young man looks up and
thinks of the future. The young lady
looks forwaad and thinks of a beau. Thu
child look.- everywhere nnd thjr'ks ot
nothing. And there are a great many
children iu the world.
BJ.A lover once wroic to a lidy who
had rejected him, saying that he intended
to retire to ":o-me secluded Pot, and
breathe away his Hie in sighs." To which
tho lady replied by inquiring whether tln.v
were medium "T large sire. The m;n has
' not since bvoii heard from.
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