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1 CI) XV TA PR A6PCRI
OR, THE FATAL MISTAKE.
i BY A. B. JOHNSON, ESQ.
- Of the few overgrown fortunes that have been
made in our country, the greater number seem to
have fallen into the possession of naturalized cit
izens rather than natives, notwithstanding the su
perior'shrewdness with which our self-complacency
is prone to endue Yankee intellect. Of our
naturalized citizens, the French, with Girard as
an exemplar, seem to have accumulated the larg
est fortunes; and the Germans, with Astor in the
foreground, seem to stand next in the grade of
wealth accumulator, although possibly they may
contend for precedence over the former class ;
while the Scotch, with Robert Lenox at their head,
or Duncan of Providence, or Greig ofCanandai
gua may be unwilling to concede a pre-eminence
to either of the others.
Among the successful Germans, in a moderate
way, one some years ago resided in Baltimore,
who from the humble employment of a blacksmith,
hadiarrived in the possession of a pretty large estate..-.
How his name was pronounced and spelled
in German is uncertain ; but it had become An
glicised into the word 4 Heapupit.' He was an
old man at the period of our last war with Great
Britain, but still occupied in commerce, which oc
casioned frequent visits by him to New York,
where his present historian became accidentally
acquainted with him at a private boarding house.
As his humble origin was known to the boarders,
they took an interest in the conversation of the old
man, although his language and manners retained
many traces of his early rough employments, but
modified by a quickness of perception and shrewd
ness of remark, which are apt to appear in self
made men. He perceived that his conversation
was listened to attentively, and he seemed grati
fied with the homage thus given spontaneously to
his sagacity; and he often remarked to young men,
that the great point for a man to discover was
what he was fit for; when this is learned, the pro
gress of a man toward wealth becomes sure,
though it may be slow. He was fond of adding
in illustration, that he had lost much time fruitless
ly as a blacksmith, before he discovered' that he
was not fit for that business, but was for mercan
tile pursuits.
Hebegan merchandising and matrimony togeth-
er.
and to economise time and money turned a ne
cessarv preliminary journey to Philadelphia into a ;
VOL.
wedding tour. The facilities for travel were not lked- Af,er lhe two had consulted together
good in those days, and as he wished to enjoy the , a moment, one of them put on his hat and walked
journey with his bride, he hired a one horse chaise, out of the shop, while .the other came back and
in -which he and his wife left Baltimore on the j and said he had sent out for change. The mes
mrirning of the wedding. The day was as bright senger soon returned, but brought with him an
as the occasion, and the bride had tasked all her other Pe'son, who turned out to be a police offi
plcuniary resources not to discredit by her dress cer ; and then Heapupit was informed that the
the elevated position of a merchant's lady, into j bill was a counterfeit, and that he must be taken
which she was emerging from a condition as hum- ! to the mayor's office to account for the manner in
ble as'her husband's. She gloried in the posses- i whch he came by the bill, and to ascertain if there
Sinn nf nea-oreen silk Delisse with a silk hat to i were any more in his possession.
match ; and her appearance when thus arrayed
and silting in the chaise, fully justified her judg-nfe'nt"!tn-their
procurement.
The happy husband was perhaps as proud as
his wife, hut.his pride rejected externals and re
w v- i o I
joiced in a purse which, though not very large, yet:
contained what with prudence
would supply the
expenses of the journey and obtain the few special , a sad difficulty at the time, and from which he ex
articles of merchandise whose procurement con-! tricated himself only by going with his accuser's
slituted the great object of the expedition. But! to the milliner's and fortunately obtaining her ad-
everything in nature seems to conspire against
pride. They had not travelled many hours in
their open vehicle over an intensely dusty road,
before the husband .saw with alarm that the dust
was making fearful havoc with the fine habiliments
ofrhis bride, and especially with ber hat. She
had,' unconscious of the mischief, applied repeat-j us inmates, and the survivers of whom had them
edly her moist hands, (the temperature was July) selves become old ; when accidently one of them,
toVdjust the hat, as the current of air or the jolt-j in passing lately a few days at Baltimore, ascer-
ing oi tne cnaise aisiurucu us piupei puaiwv, wu .
pvprv.tnnrh had combined with the dust in leav
ingthe .marks of her pretty fingers, distinctly and
(ndelibly; jmprinted on the silk. Nor was that the
whole mischief : the dust had insinuated itself in
tOjalljthe seems and crevices of the hat and rib
bons, and ,aiied by a soft, moisture exuded from
arts beneath, the whole superstructure was so
pitilessly mined, that when they arrived at Havre although owing to the great pumber pT his de
de'Grace, where tlie night was to be passed, and jscendants, the share of each would amount taon
whare some cousins of the bride resided, a new;ly sufficient for an eligible, commencement of
h?became indispensable. The fortune of the wife
fild 'teen expended on the bridal-dress, so the new
hat had jpjbeproc.ured wth the jnopey pf, the nus
bandcausijng .an.inroad thatiheia not anticipa
ted ; but his gallantry ; .co.ngueealijsViirice, and
he determined that the joys of the hoMeyraPon
STHOUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, i860.
should not be Irustrated by the accident. His res
olution 'as happily seconded by finding at the on
ly niilinei's shop in the little village a beautiful
while hat, just suited for a bride, and which in-?
deed had been made for one ; but the ccommo
dating milliner could make another in sufficient
season, and would even allow a trifle for the spoiled
green ; hence, by an expenditure of some nine
dollars, the breach of costume was repaired, and
the bridal twain were again happy, and departed
hopefully in the morning with an immunity against
dust, for its wings had been dampened during the
night, and its flying effectually prevented by a
copious rain.
Bright again was the sun, and gay the leave-la-king
at Havre de Grace ; but the party had no
sooner proceeded onward sufficiently far to ba be
yond the reach of shelter, when the treacherous
clouds began to rally their scattered fragments,
and to open their renewed batteries on the way
farers beneath ; and in spite of a leather top to
the chaise, and a leather apron, the rain confeder
ating with the breeze that seemed to raise forthe
occasion, drenched both bride and bridegnom. In
vain were hankeichiefs spread to shield the new
hat ; they only broke down its artificial flowers,
which, like dying dolphins, emitted various hues,
till the original whiteness of the hat was almost
undiscoverabie, and its paper crown and sides
slouched over the wearer's head and face in shape
less ruin. The result was too distressing for the
fortitude of the bride, and yielding to the last re
sort of female sufferance, she wept profusely and
bitterly.
The poor groom loved his money and had none
to lose, nor had he been before aware of the ex
penses and mischances of matrimony; but his wife
must have a hat, and he accordingly satisfied his
chagrin with a heavy malediction against hats that
were fit for neither rain nor sunshine, and by vow
ing that he would himself select the next hat at the
first proper opportunity. This was not long in oc
curring. They reached Philadelphia in the even
ing without further misadventure, and as they pas
sed a milliner's shop, on their way to their intend
ed tavern, where they desired to make a fair ap
pearance, they stopped, and he selected a Leghorn
which gave sufficient indications of durability,
without being devoid of taste or fashion. The su
periority of his judgment in this selection, over
the frail puschase of his wife, was so gratifying to
his vanity, that with a very mitigate reluctance he
handed to the seller a twenty dollar bill, receiving
in return the new hat and a ten dollar note.
Thus re-furnished, and with rather a craving
appetite, they arrived at their destined hotel,
where, after a warm and bountiful meal, they con
cluded to stroll through some of the neighboring
streets during the unoccupied time that remained
of the evening. They passed several shops which
both Heapupit and his wife looked at with consid
erable interest ; he with reference to the shop,
which he was to open at Baltimore, she with an
eye to the many pretty things which were dis
played at the windows. She at length saw some
gloves, and remembered that hers were utterly
ruined ; she had also money enough remaining of
her own to purchase a pair, but she had left it at
the tavern. With this intimation he offered
to be her banker till their return to the inn, and
they entered the shop and bought the gloves; pay
ing therefor out of the ten dollar bill which had
been received at purchase of the bonnet. The
shopman looked at the bill and then at the queer
customers and called another young man who al
This sad climax of the adventure of the bonnet
was a good joke to Heapupit in all after times,
when, in the known posession of wealth, and the
self-complacency of vanquished early difficulties,
he could repeat it after dinner, as was usually his
wont, whenever a good occasion occurred, and he
wanted to amuse his guests or friends ; but it was
mission mat me note was an oia counieneii which
she had inadvertently, in the twilight, passed to
the gentleman.
After the war nothing further was heard of Hea
pupit at the old house, and his shrewdness and his
story were almost forgotten by all who had been
lamw wiuv m -y r
he had left his proporty to a large family ol chil
dren, of whom two only were sons. When he
found that his end was approaching, he sent for
these sons, and as a last act of paternal .solicitude,
told .them that his estate was.to be divided equally
among his children, according to the provisions of
m will that would be found ampnghis papers; and
business, yet they severally could not fail of erect
ing thereon a large fortune, if they would careful
ly .cLonduot their business c-n the principle of a pre
cept which he duly, for their edification, repeated,
with all the. cunnjng emphasis .that hjs warding
strength wvtjld permit. The precept tljus solemn
ly heralded at the hour of death was sufficiently
.characteristic of the old man's associations and
continued illiteracy. It was nothing but the
homely, vulgar distich :
Tickle me Billy, do, do, do ;
You tickle me, and I'll tickle you.'
He declared its operation was founded in hu
man nature and therefore infailiable, when the
precept was prudently obeyed. ' He cautioned his
sons against the vulgar error of striving to pros
per by practices that are inconsistent with the
prosperity of the persons with whom we deal.
The true golden rule is, You tickle me, and I'll
tickle you.' The man who acted thus would ob
tain wealth if he perseveringly directed his efforts
to that object The maxim was the key by which
could be unlocked all the avenues to prosperity.
The old man spoke to his sons in German, for
that was the languge in which his thoughts flowed
more fluently than in English. The young men
had heard the lesson very many times before, but
as this was to be the last infliction, they listened
to it, as though they had heard it for the first time,
and were astonished at its sagacity and freshness.
Thus comforted in his tenderest vanity the old
gentleman lay a short time silent and was dead.
The literary education of the sons had been sad
ly neglected, not from any censuablc indifference
to the subject in the father, but from his want of
knowledge. They had been taught to read a little
which accomplishments, with some skill in the el
ementary mles of arithmetic, he deemed by a con
trast with his own deficiencies great attainments.
The sons were not, consequently qualified for any
higher employments than the mercantile traffic
which had been followed by the father, and into
which they had become partially initiated. They
possessed, however, dissimilar intentions, for
while Frederick, the elder, determined to contin
ue the old commercial business of his father, and
in the old shop, the other, Peter, intended to see
something of the world before he established him
self finally in any place and in any given occupa
tion. He felt also a strong desire to see Germa
ny, the native country of his forefathers, where
many of his paternal relations were still supposed
to exist ; and as they were known to be poor, Pe
ter's vanity may possibly have desired to glorify
itself a little by astonishing them with the splen
dor of the American branch. His share of the pa
ternal spoils was a tenth of the whole, and when
reduced into money amounting to twenty thousand
dollars, which, after a decent period of mourning,
and with a view of killing two birds with one stone,
he converted into cotton for the French market,
and took passage with it in a ship for Havre, sor
rowfully remarking to some of the cautious old
friends of his father, who disliked these evidences
of a roaming disposition, that grief was impairing
his health, and that a change of scenery was abso
lutely necessary for his spirits. To remain in the
old shop he knew would kill him, and he wonder
ed how his old brother could endure it ; though 1
Fred always possessed strong nerves, and could
bear anything.
The ship in which Peter embarked experienced
a succession of the most favorable winds, but was ,
unfortunately standed on a fatal sandbar, almost in
sight of its destined port, and after all thoughts of
danger had been dismissed from the minds of the
passengers. They were all saved except two who
were washed overboard and drowned ; and most
of the cargo was eventually saved and taken on
shore by the lighters, but it was badly damaged by
the salt water. This was a contingency against
which Peter had guarded by any insurance, for
where-he ventured his life he thought he might
venture his property. His loss was large, and he
felt it severely ; but at the commencement of life
pecuniary losses are much mitigated by an exu
berance of undefined hopes. He could not how
ever, help occasionally reflecting that as yet the
maxim of his father had been impracticable. No
body had tickled him, though he felt keenly dis
posed to tickle in return, according to the injunc
tion of the adage ; that is nobody had conferred on
him any benefit, which was the tickling that the
adage meant, as he supposed, when interpreted
literally. On the contrary, when the ship strand
ed, intead of being tickled, every man on board re
garded himself only, or seemed to vie with each
other in throwing into the sea Peter's cotton, that
the ship might be floated ; and when his damaged
cotton was in a position to be sold, every purchas
er exaggerated its defects and sought to obtain it
ruinously low. His experience thus far, therefore
was anything but propitious to his hopes ; while
the steadily occurring diminution of his patrimony
irritated all the latent avarice which his father's
precepts had constantly fostered in him, and made
him specially anxious that the tickling process
should be commenced speedily.
As soon as he realized from the wreck of his
venture all that could be obtained, he hastened to
Paris, in the expectation that a change of scene
would produce a favorable change in the operation
of his maxim; but at Paris his funds diminished
even faster than at Havre, for he could not resist
participating expensively in various novelties of
that city of curiosities, in occasionally uniting in
its more personal dissipations, and in becoming a
victim to the swarm of sharpers, foreign and na
tive, that make Paris their head quarters, and ev
ery stranger their specfal ohject pf attack. Still
he ceuld have bcrne equally these manifold de
predations on his fortune, if he could have seen
amid them a commencement of the process of be
coming rich by reciprocation pf benefits ; and' fer
such a cprnmenceiTjerit hissurgericy increased in a j
direct prepprtfpn tp the decrease of his resources,
X.ike the ancient spinster inynorlaHzed by Russel, ;
the burben of whose Inquiries was, ' Why doiTt!
the men proppse, mamma?'' so cculd he have sung
as feelingly, " Why don't men tickle, papa
His scul and all that in him yearned to exchange
his silver franc pieces fur golden Napoleons, but
nobody would commence the traffic ; and instead
there of every hedy that he gamed with seemed
intent en fleeceing him ; shnp keepers, servants
and restaurateurs impesed pn him tp the extent pf
their several pppprtunities ; while the mass of ppp
ulation, who could in no way use him tu their ad
vantage, spattered him with their equipages pr
passed him witheut regard. Once indeed he be
gan to believe that the tickling process was about
to be commenced in the person of a very agreea
ble young man, whom he met at a table d'hote ;
and who seeing that Peter was a stranger courted
his society assiduously. Peter was determined
that he would interpose no obstacle to this auspi
cious indication, and he repaid the young man's
politeness by copious draughts of wine. The iwo
shortly became inseparable companions, but as the
new friend introduced him to pretty extensive
practices, the tickling with which Peter requited
his friend cost much more than the friend's origi
nal tickle deserved ; and Peter's remaining funds
were soon so far exhausted, that unless he pro
ceeded forthwith toward Germany his chance of
ever reaching it would be frustrated. He accord
ingly lost no further lime, and as he had no cere
monious congees to make, he paid his bills and
stepped into a diligence, was soon on his route to
wards Vienna, the residence of his kinsmen.
The journey was long, and cost him much more
than he had anticipated, and before he arrived at
its termination he would have gladly retraced his
steps homeward, but he feared his remaining mon
ey would not supply the means, and when he fin
ally reached Vienna, he was almost penniless.
He lamented that he had ever left Baltimore, or
that he had not returned thither before all his prop
erty had become dissipated ; although he felt at
his misadventures a degree of shame that might
have restrained him from returning in his present
condition had the ability been presented to him.
He was fortunate in discovering his relations
more readily than he could well have expected,
but they were all situated in the lowest walks of
life ; and although he was himself reduced to an
equality with them in poverty, he almost repent
ed, when too late, that he had acknowledged his
consanguinity to so discreditable a kindred. From
his external appearance, which greatly overrated
hi3 true condition, and from rumors that reached
them of the affluence of his father, they received
him with diffidence and awe and with every de
monstration of grovelling affected, but when, from
indications that could not be long mistaken, they
eventually found that he had as little to bestow
on them as they had to bestow on him, they re
mitted their respect, while ihey increased in good
will and cordiality. Feeling no longer any rea
son to believe that their poor provisions would
be despised, they shared freely what they had with
the necessitous wanderer, and made him as com
fortable as their poverty would permit.
While Peter was thus in the home of his ances
tors, realizing the early condition of his progeni
tors, his brother Frederick in Baltimore was en
deavoring to establish himself gradually and slow
ly in the mercantile business, to which he had been
trained from early life. He, like his brother was
looking hopefully to the precept which had been
enjoined on them by their father, and he com
menced the practice of it by hiring a good pew in
the German Lutheran church, and in sending to
the minister a large ham and turkey as a Christ
mas present. When the good dominie was thus
tickled he thought Frederick a very amiable yeung
man, who merited the good offices of all right min
ded, and he failed not to sneak thus of him to mem
bers of the church, who in turn applauded htm to
others, and his shop soon became the mart for the
whole congregation, from a principle of esprit du
corps, that often actuates small communities.
Frederick lost no time also, in identifying himself
with the German Benevolent Society, and at their
annual festivals talking feelingly and copiously of
the r ader-Land, not forgetting the more substan
tial requirement of a liberal annual contribution to
the society's funds. The members and officers of
the society being thus tickled in a spot that is apt
to be sensitive, failed not to tickle back again
through the medium of his merchandise and cred
it But he unexpectedly received another benefit.
I he President of the society, an honest German
of considerable wealth which he had acquired by
patient industry, and despite ofthe want of all lit
erature. was so pleased with his patriotism that
Frederick ultimately became his son-in-law by a
marriage with the old gentleman s eldest daughter
td the no small increase of the young man's con
sideration in Baltimore and prospective wealth.
Nor did Frederick fail to patronize all the city
newspapers by liberally advertising in their col
umns ; and as no class of men understand better
the process of cyou tickle me, and I'll tickle you,'
than newspaper editors, they took every opportu
nity to allude to him in their respective papers as
their public spirited townsman, Heapupit, Esq.,
whose mercantile enterprise and integrity were an
honor to the city.
In due progression he emerged from the chrys
alis condition of a retailer to the splendors of a full
jobber, and no man was ever more friendly than
he to the country dealers who resorted to Balti
more for their supplies of merchandise. If the
dealers were ynung and gay he attended them to
the theatre, and if they were old he invited them
to a seat in his pew. He seemed to feel toward
all his country dealers the same intuitive love
which a cat feels towards catnip, and they could
do no less in return for so much kindness than to
give him their custom and recommend him to the
neighbors.
As he continued to be economical in his expen
ses and prudent in his credits, and omitted no op
portunity of tickling persons who could tickle back
again advantagepuslv, he gradually but steadily in
creased in property. His family grew also, with
his other possessions, and he came to be surroun
ded with numerous children, while he in the per
petual engrossment of business lost all record of
the flighl of time, and seemed unconscious that he
was no longer so young as formerly. But although
he could josa sight of time, time took care not to
lose sight of him, but stealthily kept tally of the
fleeting years by whitening his hair, imprinting
wrinkles at the outer corners of his eyes, and in
creasing his rotundity, until he was to every eye
but his owp, a portly old gentlemajv His father-in-law
had been dead some years, and he was' one
pf the executors pf the deceased will, and a leg
atee of ho inconsiderable portion of the estate.
; In this Jiabyon period of his existence, when he
aV well satisfied with himself, and by conse-
i -
Nor
quence well satisfied with'the wcrld, and-all that
therein is. he began to think of his brother, of
whom he had not heard since they separated. He
knew tho ship had been stranded in which Peter
sailed, and that some of the passengers were
drowned, and he always supposed his brother was
one one of the lost. By a coincidence which is
far from uncommon, while he was thus musing on
his brother, a letter from him was brought to the
store, announcing that he had long been in Vienna
in the most deplorable destitution, and craving as
sistance to enable him to return to Baltimore.
This was a case in which if Frederick tickled
ever so much he could expect no lucrative return;
still avarice had not rendered him wholly callous
to the ties of consanguinly, and he forthwith an
swered the appeal of his brother by sending him a,
bill of exchange, with the proceeds of which, if
managed prudently, he could come home.
The meeting of the brothers, which in due time
occurred afforded a surprise to both as far as per
sonal appearance was concerned. They had sep
arated as young men, and they had met as old
men. Still they soon recognized each other's ear
ly lineaments, and amused themselves by the re
hearsel of early incidents. But what most aston
ished Peter was the wealth of Frederick; and what
most astonished Frederick was the poverty of Pe
ter, especially as both professed to have been gov
erned in their conduct by the great maxim of their
father. On an explanation, however, the mystery
became solved. Poor Peter had committed a fatal
mistake. He had never tickled any person, but
had waited to have them tickle first ; while Fred
erick had practised on the plan of tickling in ad
vance, and especially those who could tickle back
again with many per cent, of advantage. The op
posite results ofthe two modes were well exem
plified in the different destiny ofthe brothers ; and
in view of this difference, which communicated
an entirely new idea to Peter,he insisted that the
maxim was wrongly worded, and that instead of
reading :
Tickle me, Billy, do, do, do !'
the maxim ought to read :
I tickle you, Billy ; see, see, see !
I'll tickle you, and you tickle me V
In his donation to his unfortunate brother, he
seemed to be disinterested, but he derived there
from an intellectual pleasure, which was more
than an equivalent for the pecuniary expenditure.
And now that he had obtained a taste of the pleas
ures that result from benevolence, a desire there
for grew in him fast, and he gradually extended
gratuities to numerous objects where no pecunia
ry return seemed possible ; but very unexpectedly
to him he found that many of these cases would
either collaterally or directly result in larger pe
cuniary rewards than his most selfish ticklings.
This was trikingly exemplified in the assistance
which he occasionally made to his brother, who,
enfeebled by dissipation and disappointed earlyl
hopes, had brought home a constitution as enfee-
bled as his purse. Frederick had long supported
him comfortably, when on-the formation ol a new
settlement made in the vicinity of Baltimore by the
Canton Company, the counsel ofthe company dis
covered that a piece of land, which was essential
to the project, was owned (unknown to everybody)
by the heirs of old Heapupit, and it had to be pur
chased, and it brought a large sum of money.
Peter's share was more than sufficient to repay all
advances which Frederick had made for him and
to leave an ample sufficiency for his own support.
But as usual, when blessings come late they are
not long enjoyed, and Peter, after a very brief re
alization of his new prosperity, was afflicted with
appoplexy and died, but not before he had be
queathed his property to Frederick, who alone
substantially sympathized with his necessities.
Finally, Frederick found himself possesed of a
much larger estate than had ever been owned by hi3
father. He had long been respected as a prosper
ous man with large wealth but with sordid views.
He now began gradually to acquire additional res
pect, by reason ofthe active benevolence that his
later actions developed, and by several disinter
ested benefits he conferred on his city. He even
tually retired from commercial business, resigning
the establishment to his sons, and employed a still
vigorous old age in the various cares that attend
ed the due investment of his property, and em
bracing every opportunity to make himself useful.
He aided all worthy public enterprises, contribu
ted to all useful charities, assisted all meritorious
individuals who resorted to him for counsel or
pecuniary aid, and to his last moment (which
occurred only a year ago) he insisted that the
maxim of his father was a true guide to prosperi
ty ; but that whoever would attain the full benefit
its practice can insure, must perform the tickling
from no mercenary or selfish motive, but simply
fiom a principle of duty toward Goo, and of good
will toward all mankind. He was a good deal
vain-glorious of his discovery, which he thought
entirely new ; and he was almost sorry when af
ter repeating it one day with his usual self-complacency,
he was told that it was as old as the Bi-
ble, being plainly included in the promise, that 'he
that watereth shall be watered,' and ' the liberal
soul shall be made fat.'
SHED NOT A TEAR.
Shed not a tear o'er your friends early bier,
w hen 1 am gone, i am gone.
Smile if the slow tolling bell you should hear,'".
When 1 am gone, I am cone.
Weep not for me when you stand around my crave.
Think who has died his beloved to save,
Think of the crown all the ransomed shall wear, JJ
When I am gone, 1 am gone. . "
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Shed not a tear when you stand round my grave
When 1 am gone, 1 am gone.
Sing sweet song unto him who doth save,
When i am gone, 1 am cone, . ,
Sing to the Lamb who dn earth once was slain -Sing
to the Lamb who in Heaven doth reien,!
Sing till the world shall be til I'd with his namesSMs
When I am gone, I am gone. m g
Plant ye a tree that will wave over me, "... , ,af
When I am gone, 1 am gone-
Sing ye a song, if my grave you should see, , .
hen 1 am gone, 1 am gone. ..
Come at the close of a bright summer's day,.r
Come when the sun sheds its last glimmering ray,
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uome ana rejoice mat l tnus pass away,
W ien 1 am gone, 1 am gone.
The Arabs altaw a man to divorce himself from
wife who dpe3 not make good bread. Were ,
such a law in force in our country, half the younir
married lame, we iear, wouiu De inf uasger ,ot
falling back into single blessedness. ..: 'f
In a.country paper, the marriage ofaJMr. Coap-
er toJVMiasL. Staves announced. Thejsuljpi
will probably be-barrels v' T . 4