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LEWI
II. C. IIICKOK, Editob.
0. X. W0RDEX, Printer.
1
LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1851.
VOL. VIII NO. 30.
Whole Number, 404.
LEWISBUUG CHRONICLE bIca?notP4Ueinniy narrative no
to illuminate its margins with gratuitous
am iiniraimu rixiLT Joraxai., .
luutd on Wrdncsdtty nuirnings at Ltivitburg, j ,
l uiun cituiiij, l'eaiixylmnic. I The clergyman is entitled to our first
res K-ji.Wrortar. rwii n. tiisiij in .iiwt; : attention. This is the first rear of hit
if paid Wit4iin thror wwllm; $J.Uvl if fiaid withm a I . . ....
yw. if oot paii b f.i-on- yi-ar rxpinK : i mita f..r ministry. lie is a stray slip of Virginia
Sinffl BUIlltira. Sllhai.rtt.tinnu f..r ti r tiiontlia a. 1.... I.I
be ptj in ivni-. ii'.mtmuin'.i .iwnia ith the i aristocracy, who has found scope for his
rMhiither, etoept wben the vear i hh! up. I , . - ,. , . ,
ADumwKitxTs hnn.in-iv iux-rt. j at so ct ir , enthusiasm of religious sentiment, and
f inure, one we k, $1 f..ur wocki. $i a vear: two squares, , ., r . . .. , , .
$i for mi m .uUi. $; f. r a .war. Mercantile a.ir. nise- opportunity for his generosity of solt-donial,
m,nt. n"t exelin? one furlh of a cIiii:iii. $10 a ver. I i- 4i i .
Jon woiik a..a rumi a.ivcru,ututh tj be itKifoV j In rcuit preaching through a mountain
'LZl...,, .... 'nnge of three hundred miles
within the "f l-artv or wtariaii ei ntett. i which he must travprap nncp pvprv month
All letter m.i.l cm- Mt (iil. ucvnmninl by the r-al , C mU!" lraer"Se Once CVCry mUUUl,
lJre of the wribr. n rreriv,. nltcnti.m. iti-TliT-e nrparliinov nn fin iprifT rmH nwrr Ant
t. til he ili. ' 1 C O I -J - J
lie is marked by
s .latin:: .-xrluMTelv to the ivlitorial beiuirtuieiit. tit he lt-
irt.j to hi.mit iiii:aK. i:,.. Aj,tr ana thoe on : and twice on Sundays.
buineMt4. X. W'oit&s. Iil4ttl,rr. .
ois.u M.irkrt dtr.i-u b.-tein sn-i n.i TiiinLoecr ' better education, better manners, and more
i lort-nmr. i. X. WoltliKN. Iwrietnr. ! . .
renncment than the men among bora lie
V'ta Ok StiU.mn C-junly ll.mt.-rat.
THE MAID OF THE MILL.
Thre a Willie UttU maid with a dark rollinfr, eve.
And tin flowinc h..ir of a jot, -do Kf
And lip witii the chrrry that well aouM vompetv,
Aod j-rlw In beauty fmm bad U the ff ;
Aol thoneh 1otW t-he t t.y Datnre (lninh ti
lt fc'Tf IK-r far am the cliarm of ht-r miuU
Ho hnaet in hart and hi constant in will,
ho watch can be Suuod fur the Maid of ibe MiH.
VliCTexwr ihe rwta, or whfrrvrr h goc.
lilow softer tt windc and bloom fairer thmte.
And the plance, in a crowd, of her evn. beuatug fire,
ft1ak0 laiefl tovnxj. and laddies admire;
lint, like all lorelr beinu'. she is Derer o awet-t
Ar wbea li'btine the Um-iq of mioi Ioik1t rrtrrot,
'brti nature without is all tranquil ami iiill.
8a?e the ripple tbat mirror the Maid of Ihv Mill.
1 had met her full oft at tV eloe of tbeday,
Aa alotip the crren mad I wotild nmini:ly rtrar,
And her mo-lrt dt-menn-ir and ifii.om ni air
lireathel atmner of h'tivcn tbnn iBnrul! can fth&rcj
And murh dhl 1 nuicv if ne m-nr native lower
llad blown ntu Intnutj n Inely a flter,
Aud little Z th"ii''hl, as le "rajwd 't th- hill,
6uch beauty UdutieU to the Maid of the Mill.
And often In chutrh dul her r-refrnre po nreet
XNtcny a strx' Ixnee to li'-r own corner eat.
And my eyes were delihicl. altlmuph at the cost
Of mum- a fmyer. and a m-rmon all lot;
Aud affau 1 nmed in ' ainnyH'n or t
8 lui 11 iant a aVr tffU-iu-1 be pt u ;
And little I though tlsrl mv b-jfum would thrill
ith affet-fi'm for MfTIAit'tba Maid or the M:i
V.ut it rhaned ax I ar.rlM one bright Fmm-r day.
A'btwn th rn madow I happen! to Ptray,
And 1 -atd myself neatlt a bw willow tn-c,
M here the water a: 5till, and the ntltWt-s w. re free.
Hhe a little btark eud brRa the sky's etillv rest,
And mnrt-hallid aelan in th now sr.oomy it,
A iid forced me for flelt-r to hi from the rill
. And knock at the dour of the CM of the Mill.
The wind was full hih. and the thunder did roar,
Aud the fciir, heavy drops 'gm in torrents to pour,
, As hi innt of the cuttaife iuiptteut I sViod.
Aud ksjockfd at the full loudly and rude;
1 knew sot the falryIike Toire frmn within.
As I growled in reply, I'm wet to the skin '
Itut rus of the struu tlmt mw bosom did thrill,
A 1 confronted I tlvA alth the' Maid of the Mill,
Tier maidenly gesture and mul-aoothin strain
Soon rendered my feeble apfto?y Tain,
Atfl I ne'er hall J r-trt the an -( like air.
As she mntMrt'd ftfont in an nld-fahioii-d ehnir: 1
Though simple the chami? ttf tlie oatav my Sttvin,
Yet bright in the saultgUt of beauty they glem ;
And mt-mory sliU aver recall at mv will
The charms that surrounded the Cot of the Mill.
!
Ko yean hare fuue by. aud the bMttie DiTTIcr mrnld
Is grown to a matron both srter and staid.
And many's the time in the shade we're reclined.
Or rored in the froee with our arms intertwined;
And happy the me mine whose jElorious light
; Beheld us m wrdkiek f erer nuite;
Ko pleasure wm ivedt-d my firtune to fill,
' When lord of the heart of the i!aid of the Mitt.
Ltwiiawas. F u BANDY.
to me, at least, that it might somehow
concern the young clergymen whom the
fates fhould favor with appointments to
this circuit for a year or two to come. It
was, however, so obvious, that Mr. Ash
leigh was not a marrying man, that Nancy
made no demonstration in that direction,
and, I believe, his general demeanor ef
fectually irotccted him wherever he went
from the usual liabilities of his exposed
position.
But now that Nancy has had her usual
fore-ground privileges and preferences,
and made her due impreision upon the
company ; and, after she has shaken bauds
with everybody entitled to tbat ceremony
before thi congregation separates; and
while she occupies Mr. Ashlwigh with ques
tions about th result of the last camp-
meeting, followed by inquiries about the
BQuIf we do not greatly mistake, the
cene of the following sketch is laid in
Tuacarora Valley, J uniata county ; where,
We believe, JJr. K commenced his profess
ional career. Ed. Chro.x.
fWm Sartain'i Cnum Sf iganw.
ELIZABETH BARTON.
ministered ; but he subdues his tastes,
and conforms his general demeanor, to
the coarse conditions of his work, with all
the deTOtion, but, happily, none of the
pretence, of a martyr. In good truth, he health of the most interesting members in
is ycry much out of plac in tliis rude the most fashionable parts of the circuit;
region, except for the rare spirits, one in land especially for the health of "Dear old
a hundred or a thousand, who, perchance, j Father Hall," the Presiding Elder, and of
may apprehend him. But became among j Brother Sanford, the eloquent young
us in such singlcuess of heart and cordial preacher, that is the present agony among
devotedness of spirit, that he is as much 'church-gossips all uttered in tones of
disguised, to sellish ami superficial people, unimpeachable meekness and pleasing mcl
as a prince in temporary banishment. And ody, touched with the slight abstractedness
he would have it so, for he wants the dis-; of a devout spirit, 'let me introduce you
cipline of such duty ; nd the concealment : as well as I can to her cousin Elizabeth ;
of his accustomed style of life is necessary whom Nancy's presence has covered and
to the free wording of the experiment
The congregation felt that indefinable
shudowed until the last moment for lin
gering has arrived, and the preacher and
something in him which distinguishes the j the old folks have moved decidedly for
gentlemanbred,but missing all the pretence i the door.
and mannerism which, in their idea, j Elizabeth Barton was something above
marked it, they generally accepted him at i the middle size, and might be taller still,
his own modest estimate, and the secret of i with advantage, if her bearing had but
his family and fortune escaped the gossips, j little pretty pride in it. She was finely
He accepted his hundred dollars a year, ! formed, with such a mould of limb, aud
made up by some thirty little congrega- style of carriage, and rythm of movement,
tions, as composedly as if he needed such as results from the best combination of
a pittance, and he took the hospitalities of strength and grace in form and arrange-
the circuit as contentedly as if their best
was something quite agreeable to him.
Not unfrequently the position of the
preacher, in this nigged region, is a matter
of ambitious aspiration, notwithstanding
the rudeness of the people and the hard
ness of the work ; for some of our moun
tain clergy arc the coarsest men within
meat, the best health and habits, and the
best tone of mind and feeling, which the
laws of correspondence can any way achieve
in actual life. Her hand and foot, especi
ally, were models, and her face, in every
thing but the consciousness of high men
tal powers, was perfect in appropriate
beauty. Her head had that symmetrical
the boundaries of the brotherhood : but ! eleirance that is never wanting in a fine
oftCI, fjftCu," "its g;r?icc.is a sacrifice i character.
of rich sensibilities and a dedication of fine
talents to the most repugnant forms of
duty, gnch was the person, and such the
aptitude to his work, of our friend, the
Rev. George Ashleigh. It were well for j
our new world if the ministerial office were
generally filled by such metftu he.
Among the women belonging to thij so
ciety, there were two girls, whose charac
ters were brought well enough to the sur
face by the evenU of my story to allow the
hope of adequate presentment.
Nancy Barton's general character was
strength and style. Jlcr religious impul
liar complexion was rich and
- . - j .li
very pure, and the features regular and
finished, but tho forms and tints, though
faultless, seemed subdued to the air of a
hard service; and her dark chesnut hair,
checked of its fulness and effect, was almost
hidden from view by tho scTere restraint
of its arrangement. My first sight of her
was such a glimpse as I am now giving to
the reader. I marked then the rich re
sources of physical beanty that lay covered
there and unpronoenced, the serious air of
dedication to some onerous duty, and the
deep religious renunciation of all the de
lights df sense and all tho pride of life.
tree-tops on the mountain range eHfore us
Besides, wc are on the way to Tommy Bar
ton's, and there is nothing in our search
that matches well with grand scenery and
pretty landscapes. We must get down
the rugged pathway, with our attention
sharply employed upon our footsteps, and,
when the feat is well accomplished, we are
on the margin of the little rivulet that
unrolls like a silver ribband between' the
hills. Stepping daintily upon the plank,
that swings and dips till the surface of the
water steadies it, we reach the worm fence
of the little meadow, whieh is crossed by a
stile, made rudely enough of an nppmg
block on one side, and a stump upon the
other. The cabin sits fifty yards before
. . 1 1 CP
us, upon a natural terrace ; a rocsy Diun
rises rapidly behind it, like a giant stair
way, to climb the mountain, which swells
away into the mid-heaven, so steep and
barren, that it eccms built there to dyke
out the northern storm-waves. This cabin
is a rude, unshapely piece of architecture.
Originally it was a square pen, built of
unhewn logs, about a foot in diameter and
twenty-fivo feot long ; but, as a necessity
for room increased with a rising family,
additions of similar log-pens were piled np
at cither end until it stood stretched out
in line, three houses made one, by cutting
out tho end walls of tho first and throwing
all the rooms into one great hall, which.
without partitions, blinds, or curtains to
divide them, served for kitchen, dining
room, and bed-chamber for the old folks,
and cubbies for half a doxen of the young
ones, besides room for a hand-loom and
its appurtenances in the corner farthest
from the kitchen end of the building. A
half-story above this long range of rooms,
accessible by a ladder instead of stairway,
with a clapboard roof for ceiling, divided
into rooms by drop curtains of home-made
can vassfforded the girls a dormitory at one
end and the older boys like accommodation
at the other. The family, all told, reached
the round number of fourteen children, of
whom Elizabeth,the elder, was about twenty
two and the youngest child four years old
at the date of our story.
The mother was one of those indistinct
nobodies who usually figure at the head of
such a regiment of children. The father
- . ..TTishman, and had as much of that
was an a.. V:-.uMr,1M.n tw,ce M
in him as would serve to "sc. K,.k- , . !
many heirs," as the saying is, "in extrk7lr.3't.
two persons was so great that they never
actually touched, even at the borders ; yet
an intrinsio resemblance eould be traced in
every fibre of their respective constitutions.
Tommy could get tipsy occasionally,
talk nonsense mixed up with poetry any
time, and brag like a jockey about every
thing that in any waj concerned him.
He was, moreover, incapable in business,
unsteady in labor, and given to substitute
the sentiment of duty for its practice, and
to content himself with fine speeches in
place of noble actions; and all without a
shade of hypocrisy, for he was in fact so
proud of what he was, and so ready with
reasons and apologies for all that .he was
not, that he needed no pretence He was
not profligate, unprincipled, or insensible
to right : he was only an Irishman ; and
that hindered him from being cither worse
or better, lue raw elements 01 every
human excellence were in him in rich
abundance, and in great confusion, too;
but in Elizabeth they had crystallized into
the most efficient forms and and most per-
feot beauty; for all of texture that was
wanting in her paternal blood was supplied
to her by her maternal grandfather, who
was an unmitigated Scotchman.
With his beggar's complement of chil
dren, and general uuthrif tines of character,
Tommy was, of course, poor to the very
verge of destitution. He had grown
steady that is, sober lately, and he was
not lazy; but it was as much because his
health had failed, and age was beginning
to stiffen the machinery, as from any prin
ciple, that he was amending in his habits.
It must be allowed, also, that he was feel
ing Elizabeth's influence with steadily
increasing force. There was dignity with
its incident authority in her deportment J
not of the imposing kind, nor by afly
means; directly and distinctly shown and
felt ; ii was more like that energy of gen
tleness which shapes the bone to the brain's
steady pressure, the framework of the
chest to the resiliency of the lungs and
heart, the vital power that in the tenderest
flower-stalk pierces and mellows to confor
mity the hardest cloX
The very poor are unapt to respect each
other, or to regard, amid the rude famili
arities of theirdaily intercoune,the noblest
qualities. . Nor, indeed, is it easy for them
to discover them in the coarse dress of
surrender; and, the refractory old fool
would dash the tears out of his eyes, with
the pretense that it was passion, and not
sorrow that moved them ; and with an
oath refuse her permission to return. At
last, when thing9 had become intolerable ;
half a doxen children and the mother sick;
the whole household suffering, and the
were now, on account of their nature, a
well as of necessity, almost wholly contro
verted. Indeed, she was one of those"
instances of adequatencss for the severest
trial and highest duties.ayffor the noblest
styles of life, whew the intellect is only
moderate, but the harmony and richness
of the moral nature supplies it with inept
fitfiar at JiIi it' . at.. v.e.v..lt f,.r.vri ! ration, pi vin f it ranee and strength ana
her way into the wretched hovel.' It re- !certitude,quite beyond its own independent
quired a little more" resolution than the capabilities. Three centuries ago, tL era
old man coahl muster, to make resistance; were peers of England who eould neither"
and he silently and sullenly submitted. It : read nor write ; and the highest fame ifl
was enough; she was installed again, and all the ample round of historic greatness
she had returned strong in purpose, and , belongs to a man, who in epeculativo
very rich in resources for the exigency. j philosophy and general literature was
A year's experience, a larger sphere of j neither proficient nor remarkable for his
thought, and broader observation, had done capability.
wonders upon her earnest character. It j Elizabeth knew everything that hef
seemed natural enough that she should be life demanded, though she had learned so
a littln dtraniri! f,.r a ftw Java after bcr ! little. She could work miracles in thd
c j t
return ; moreover, she was still under ban, domestic economy of that burdensome1
though the banishment was remitted ; and j household. She knew how to rule without
these things together served to explain ! usurpation here authority rather required
her difference of manner and general de- her to obey ; aud the younger inmates,
mcanor to her father, and old familiars, 'refractory to all other force, yielded to the
and to protect her peculiarity from iinper- 'charm of her goodness, and the mixture of
tinent remark. ! gentleness, steadiness, and address which
She left them before her religious en- !she had the grace and patience to employ,
thusiasm had time and opportunity to! A just analysis of her agency in that
settle into form, and take the habitual , family, would make an excellent treatise
direction of her conduct. Residence j upon domestie conduct, though she would
among strangers, with its modicum of lei-! probably have been both silent and inca-
sure and privacy, had invested he with j pable n a discussion ot tne principles ana
. . m . . 1 1 a
proper individualism ) and the severe policy 01 ner system.
-1 have a story to tell, not to make. It
is true to i thought ; true as my senses scs were very active, her social sentiments ! She spoke modestly and kindly to those
receiTea it into my ieeiings and reflections, ; tree and strong, and her selush feelings, who wre nearest to her, while she ad-
uai am very sure mat it has suffered no. alio, sharp and importunate, fcho was justed her bonnet and waited till the corn-
distortion or exaggeration there.
agance. He was one of the Bartons of
tho North, according to his own account,
"of a dacent family, that lived on their own
laud at home, and nivcr a one of the name
was iver known to be a Papist." Tommy's
zeal for the trne'faith, it was easy enough
to perceive, u the old grudge, and only
aa'Uhcr phase of his pride of caste and
boast of blood. He was religions of course,
or he might as well have been born any
where else as in the County Antrim. A
doxen years before, he bad been a member
of the society that worshiped at the school
bouse that sort of a member which can
-u instances which poverty imposes. Ay!
T '"t of Poverty's ten thousand
conditions of
If
it is the bitter;!- -- v
ruriwv tKat it Aanlfa TTT
decorous association and refining intei-'i - .unr "
cour.e ; that it prevents that discipline
which habitual proprieties cf demeanor
only can enforce, &vt& destroys all pure
discipline of mind and feeling undergone
had worked its permanent results into the
texture of her mental constitution, which
was remarkable at once for its aptness and
tenacity. The controlling quality of Eli
zabeth's mind was, very plainly, in its
intense religious devotedness, which, In
her, not only sublimed, but strengthened
her natural affections, held them well ard
wisely to their office, and gave to the sim
plest duty which had anything of sacrifice
in it, the tone and determination of si
sacred obligation.
Her ideal of a religious life is, in the
phrase of her church creed, called sanctifi
eation,perfect love,or Christian perfection.
This conception was her standard. TV
instant aspirations cf her heart wer,
angel purity and excellence; lit n mi
standing, in its enthusiasm, t e"
iogveal mamBurring, by which Berlin ;
ments of the highest law are
habitual delinquencies of II.
felt weakness
6ui3lltiJ
1 he occurrences are now twenty years; life of passion warmed and strengthened
old; the locality is middle Pennsylvania, i her thoughts into grandeur, and her verbal
in a narrow valley, lying between two of ' eloquence was of the highest tone ccn
the easternmost ridges of the Alleghany ceivable in a woman destitute of literature
Mountains. J anj the culture of refined companionship.
I had just finished the usual term of Tho custom of the church admitted of fe
medical study, and attended one course of j male participation in the public devotions,
lectures at Philadelphia. Of the cxperi- and Nancy found scope in a stormy clo
enccs common to my tribe, I had my ! quence of prayer and exhortation, for tal
avcragc an exhausted purse and a dis-j ents that had no match in such use within
appointment in a love affair. Under the the circuit of a hundred mihs.
compulsion of these, and the notion that a She was strongly rather than hand-
defective in imagination proper, but the Jpany gave her room to pass; and, when neither be kept in nor out of the church
little practice of my own with its attendant somcly made. There
she moved, it was remarkable for nothing
so much as its quick directness and unob
trnsiveness. Sho seemed to have no pos-
siping to do, and no timo to spare, as she
stepped rapidly from the door, and, turn
ing the corner of the building, bent her
course toward home. She had two miles
to walk ; roost of it over a rugged ridge,
which separated the little glen where she
was born from 'the valley in which the
Union Schoolhoase stood. It was, in
fact, but a rift made in the hills hj a wa-
resrjrjnsibilitirafTnrwriif.il I T w 1 r i . .
- weignt, ami lorce, wun sucD elecance as
.tC,kuv-u uuau suay wouia dc nne belong to them, in her make and manner,
College, I planted myself at a "X roads"
in the centre of a good settlement. A face, well fitted for the elocution of her
grist mill, saw-mill, distillery, smith-shop, strong thoughts and burning' words, was
....... Blore, uia me ousinees ; stnJjwgly brilliant, and even handsome
me neiguoornooa ; a weekly mail bro't cnou'-h. without bcinir Quite a-erernhU. nr
cur letters and newspapers : and I un-i in aT f.sUnn f.cr.;n,;n t. j :.
. j J " -w.tuiwjug. an lUlJiCU, lb
was a firmness, jtercoursc, with a narrow border of arable
soil, raggedly irregular ; in spots atijrding
room for a eottage, a little cornfield, a
garden, and so much meadow" as might
rtook the health cf the vicinity that is j may be, too fully and boldly to
say, of a region of hill and valley forty j it confessed, perhaps, too mucl
ridi on h-iA ninlif ;l.j
us, on tue stream that n.tmn ;n a. t u n. . . .
, 71 """""j 'T"1' U1 l" licue- is obliged to bo abroad, and occasionally
pretty valley, there stood a mnt.. fnr th .tun.. r . L.r . .
, , , ., ....u.uv v. luairisieia znorimni omcr amies 01 iimiucss ana
:u, roUL'U-built. nnn-srnrv : :. : i-i .,".!. .
- 11 j .1. 7t ' I Fass'n uicu corresponded to the courtesy,such as his supernumerary sort of
, which was called the "Union vn -r v . I , . ' . .
tuiuacwr owes ia ucei.u people in tne
miles in compass,
A mile below
watered our
long, Jow-rooft
stone houee,
Schoolhuuoe.
the instruction
trict, but as it was the only public build
ing in the neighborhood, it was used occa
sionally for all sort of public meetings, and
on Sundays regularly, utider some tacit
agreement, by half-a-doien sects, for prea
ching and social worship. There, about
Boon oa a summer Sabbath, might be
fotrnd (at the time I speak of) the persons
whom I with to introduce to the reader's
acquaintance ; and, assuming that evcry-
j anows enough of the general ebarac
... v. buuu auaicnces to answer oar present
eposes, 1 will content myself with de
scribing particularly only three or four
persons in the congregation, whom we are
concerned to know more intimately. They
Me not the only noteworthy people of fifty
r sixty present ; for life is not so poor in
tlilc!; J interest amoDg cur mojataiiu
f Tint Vin.llr-1 fi1iM;rar.A-A tinmi.J U
1 cr, wun tenderness and aflechon. H.t 94 . -. it.
1 - vwn v nu 1. Liz: U U 1' IS L HfZ n I II Iff.
Just where Tommy Barton lived, the riv
ulet was a little more liberal of margin,
and gave space within a raile for three
other tenements ; one, occupied by Eliza
beth's grandfather, another, by her uncle,
one s gaze; nd a third, by John Brown, who rendes
much conscious- us the service of escorting our heroine
1. o--
ncss,ana too much ot the purpose of its own 'across the
Its primary use was for ; The trouble was, that, while her rhapsodies
of the children of the dis- W( U ,.; .1.; j.,-.
1S WCrG in iVin vn.n nf nai..,n VA
,MW ,wm w 1UUII1 iAt.SU u, tiro .jtv, 1 1 v -
ery intruded the feeling cf much study
and large praetiee with an aim.
Nancy was an orphan, and dependent
for her support upon her industry or the
uo-piiamy 01 ner church friends, as she
pleased to choose between thoso two sorts
of reliances. She compromised and mix
ed them as her tastes and purposes re
quired. She made a long visit the vcar
before, to a distant town in one or other of
these characters, and had returned with no
slight advantage of trarel and observation
from the trip. A few weeks in the family
of a lawyer, who had lately joined the
Lchurch, put some polish upon Naeey's
manner, and worked some notions into
her understanding, which were not a littler
available, both for her private and public
world who -a?e their r-y neighbors.
By the way, this was t tr y noble office
that the poor fellow cvt filled, and we
ought to be thankful tbji he was good
enough and good-for-nothing enough, to
be always ready for the duty. Brown,
though a married man, of about forty-five,
is Elizabeth's only beau; but we may
accompany her in imagination to her cot
tage heme in the glen. The footpath
lies straight up the hillside, leaving the
winding wagon-road abruptly and plunging
directly into the thiek bushes. A sharp
struggle with the steepness, a brisk squab
ble with the loose stones which slip and
tumble under the foothold, and we have
gained the flat rock that caps the ascent
But it affords no out-look. The broad
limbed chesnut, scrub-oaks, and under
growth of bushes, hide everything bat
uses a our little ralley. It was evident patches of the sky. and glimpses of the
but by severe measures and the hardest
fighting. Tommy left the brotherhood but
two choices either to put him out, or to
blow themselves up. Accordingly, they
expelled him cm sundry charges, among
which were hard swearing, occasional in
toxication, and perpetual contumacy.- The
injury of this expulsion was nothing, in
the account that Tommy opened with them
for it ; his pride fed fat upon hid injuries ;
everything, everybody, injured him. In
fact, he had all his consequence in his in
juries, iheir greatness served to measure
the magnitude of his rights, and were wel
come to his magnanimity ; but the insult
was too mueh for one of the Barton fami
ly to bear. Tommy was eloquent by birth
right, but, unhappily, he was never genial
except when he was boricg some gentle
man in good broadcloth, with the proofs
and indications, historical and fanciful, of
his family '3 gentility. Ill luck and ill
treatment, ill conduct and ill conditions
(Tommy never had any other sort of either),
had curdled the wit and humor inherent
in his blood, and kept it for ever boiling
and bubbling with fretfulness and passion.
Yet, queer, crazy, and absurd as was the
mixture in this proud-, weak, worthless,
high-spirited old many Elizabeth derived,
it seems to me, her steady nobleness' from
his impulsive aspirations, her fine enthu
siasm from his wild fire, and her generos
ity from his Irish pride.
The chemistry of matter knows how to
convert the elements of charcoal into dia
mond; and the modifying forces of the
vital laws are equally adequate to all the
difference between- this foolish old father
and his noble daughter. There was that
in him which, by looking for it, one could
see might, by better mingling and steadier
drift, be made to answer the best uses and
highest ends ; but, by an accident, or a jog
in the settling, bad produced instead an
Irishman which, I take it, as a rule, is
nearer to a natural nobleman, and yet fur
ther from a reasonable being, than any
other variety of the human race:
The difference in results between these
and healthful self-respect, by the undigni
fied and indelicate personal relations which
it compels. And it is uttering a volume
of commendation in a word, when I fay
that Elizabeth had conquered her father's
refractoriness, and secured from him a
deference which almost inverted the Irish
order of domestic life
Five years before, when she attached
herself to the church, the very church
which had expelled him, he drove her with
violence from the house, with as greet in
dignation as if she had stained his name
and honor with the deepest shaEe. A
weary, wretched year she endured tho
exile, earning her support by labors light
er, indeed, upon her hands than the tasks
which she performed at heme, lit heavier
upon her heart ; for she eould do nothing
for that large family thatneeded her tow
every day, more and more, in every office
which a woman can fulfil to a household
of small children in great' need. The
mother was what the country people called
"a doless creature," and the sister, next
in age to Elizabeth, was delicate in health,
and too feeble iu character for the service.
The werght that lay heaviest upon her
heart, was half a dozen of little sisters, as
beautiful as birds, wanting all things ; and
wanting, most of all things, the governance
and culture cf an elder sister's nursing
love and controlling prudence. They were
crowded there together, like herd of
orphans in an almshouse, exposed to their
father's petulance, and to each other's
selfishness and tempers,and suffering many
things, besides, which childhood can not
suffer without having the very fountains
of its life poisoned by the bitter depriva
tions ; and, all without the mediation of
that wise, good heart, which was aching in
its exile to render its self-sacrificing ser
vices. There were frettings and fightings
there, tears and turmoils, injuries inflicted
and endured, and with all, and above all,
the absence every hour felt, by the hourly
recurring need, of the ministering angel
of the household. Especially throueh the
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Her mind and feelings, more thai! any
other that I ever knew, found their mani
festation in action, duty, practice ; and
less in utterance and social demonstration;
Her reserve, indeed, seemed like an inca
pacity, and its rigidness scarcely escaped
the censure of her kindest friends. N 0 thing
except some household duty could draw)
her from that everlasting loom. No visit
paid there, seemed to include her in its
courtesies or idleness. If a direct question
interrupted the flying shuttle, and a hand
paused a moment in its office, it was only
fdr the interval required by the shortest
answer that eould be made in kindness and
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SO as to KM WQNDEH eT THJJ WORLD
of an appeal from the law of conduct pre
scribed for her by her Divine Father. The
soul held in such a frame,grewand gushed
like the flowers and fountains under the
kindliest influences of heaven. In the
calm of her holy reveries, blessing lay
like dew upon her affections, and in its
exultant moment, the Divine Presence
flooded her whole being with its light and
life, like a sunburst on a mountain top.
It needed only a clear insight, to perceive
that her essential life was "hid with Christ
in God j" that there was a eontar.t rap
ture in the sou! under that tranquility of
the semes a fulness of the diviner life
sustaining a level of perpetual calmness
on the surface, which the forces of the
outward and accidental had no power to
disturb. This supremacy of the central,
took nothing from the wonted energy ot
the lrres she owed to the world without ;
it rather adjusted, steadied, and supplied
them with a recreating strength, a constant
freshness and untiring patience. If her
faith and fervor bordered on fanaticism in
sentiment, they nevertheless, in all the
verities of use, flowed like life blood thro'
her mora! system, feeding with vital force
all the faculties which perform the benign
offices of love and duty. A deep peace
ruled her spirit, and wove its quiet into all
the solicitudes which she sustained for
long, gloomy winter, tho days and weeks
and months wore wearily away in that
wretched cabin. All suffered the penalty
of the father's prido ; but none so keenly
as himself, for to him it brought all the
privation, with the sin and folly added.
But he would not yield to the constraint
he felt, and the necessities he witnessed ;
because it would have been in- such cir
cumstances, not a lonoiliatiogw but a
ethers ; and holy rest within, compensated
and repaired the waste of toil without.
She held herself aloof front the coarse
companionship around her, without offence,
for it was seen that she had no leisure for
idle courtesies ; and the restraints which
occupation would not account for, were
credited to her devotional habits. Besides,
however strange it may seem, with all her
dignity, beauty, and efficiency, she was
not especially attractive to tho uudiicero
ing boors about her. Her riddle was
quite beyond their reading; and her
charms were net in direct array to their
apprehensions ; for, in all its proportions,
that saying of the apostle has accurate ap
plication, that "spiritual things are spiri
tually discerned,'' and not otherwise. She
was quiet constitutionally, more so still by
the high occupation of her thoughts;- and
she was, besides, really not eloqueui in
words, nor copiously furnished with tho'ts
and utterance for conversational uses. Her
early education had been sadly neglected
by that improvident father of hers; her
present opportunities for study were abso
lutely nothing, and her mental activities jj
by no feeling but tfieAlut laborioaa and
I have seen but few women wuu
well at the piano, and when the had a fine
linen web in the loom, and the weather
allowed of open doors, dear air and sum
mer neatness in the array of the cabin fur
niture, nothing eoufii be more becoming
than bcr occupation.
It was monotonous; for her face Was
full of thoughtful light and changeful feel
ing. Her perfect gracefulness of motion
and simple elegance of form, her felt
strength and quiet beauty, which, without
challenging admiration, gave deep, pure
pleasure, preserved an air of naturalness tcf
the picture which allowed it to glide un
questioned into the spectator's feelings.
Thus I found her ami her surroundings
when Iealled occasionally as a visiter y
but, when' I went professionally to see the'
children in their little illnesses, difficult as
order was in such circumstances, thef
whole feeling of the scene was changed by
the effect of her changed attitude. She'
stood foremost then,- the mind tbat took
the direction of affairs ; her manner inti
mating the highest qualities,- and her
whole action impressing me with the feel-"
iug, that she was my equal end eomething
more, except in my profsssional office.- In
a thousand women 1 have met nose whose
mental sympathies and intuitions felt
tinner and broader than did that rusti
girl's.
After a year's occasional mJerccurs
but more than occasional interest in her
the relentless severity of her toil and un
relaxing strain of her mental excitation
conspiring with the recurrence of the
epidemio season' and an- unusually wet
autumn, broke down her strength,- aud I
was summoned to her bedside, by her'
faithful old friend and servant, Brown
with a rap on the window cf my shanty, F
know not how long after midnight
"Doetor,you're wanted badiy at Tommy
Barton's. Eliuabcth is down, I'm afeared
with the fever ; and she wouldn't let me
trouble you till, I doubt, we've- waited
almost too long ; bat I hope not."
"Why, Brown, is that you? Are jour
afoot? It must be pitch-dark on l!W
ridge just now."
"Yes, I had no horse ; and I d rather
walk such a night as this than ride, anjy
how. I don't know how you'll gft along
in the woods, Doctor !"
"Don't bother your brains -''" -
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