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VOL. XIX.
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POETRY.
i_ i l2 < TISj3.
BY REV. C. L. STREAMER.
I On the occasion of the Godrn \» edriing <
Mr. William Wick an<l wife Sarah, of Con
cord t*p., th;s - county, May »iUt, I v *--
We have gathered b. r.eath the old roof-tree,
And around the ol<l hearth .-!'>ne,
We have come for a festal jubilee,
And the inercy of God to own.
It is fiftv years since our ps.ri nU dear
In their"youth, their beauty and pride.
Vowed one to the ether to iovc and revere,
And to journey through life side by side.
In the year of our Lord eighteen, thirty aad
two, , , ~
On the la_-t ere of bright, bloom in? May,
The twain were made one and with purposes
true
They started on life's rugged way.
How far they have come ! How much tney
have seen!
What event* have transpired since then .
The mercy of God toward them ever has been
Through their upwards of three score and
ten. •
They haye helped one another, true helpers
they were,
And as true to their conjugal oath,
Through sunshine and storm, through com
fort and care,
The Lord was the helper of ooth.
Our father, our mother, as children, we hail
On this glad Anniversary Day ;
Our love aud esteem for you never shall fail,
We'll be true to you both, come what may.
You were tender and loving, though strict
you were kind.
Your patience was oft solely tried ;
ForP) mischief and sport we were often in
clined,
As we sought our deflections to hide.
We know now as parent* how gnat is the
trust,
What trials a parent must ?ee ;
A« we think o'er the past, we feel that we
m u»t
Own our parents more patient than we.
Your counsels and kindness we will not fir
get,
Your love we will strive to repay ;
Your pleasure we seek, we honor you yet,
And as long as you with us shall stay.
Whatever we are, what we may have attained.
Whatever our station or place,
If the favor of men, if of earth we have gained,
Wo owe it to you through God's grace.
We are here now together; Ho w oft who
can tell
.Shall »e all one another thus meet?
We leave all with Him who all things doth
well,
And submissively bow at his feet.
There are nine of us children who greet y "u
to-day,
And three in the Land of the Blest;
When our pilgrimage ends G'xl grant that
we may
All meet in the Kingdom of Rest.
SELECT.
King William and liis Armies.
From Harper's for June.]
I.
I think it well to announce, right in
the beginning of thin story, that Mil**
Bmikly is not properly its hero, though
some preliminary things must he told
concerning him. Although Miles had
loved Miss Caroline Thigpen long he
fore Mr Hill Williams courted her, yet
be never had told her so in set words,
uutil—well, you may say it was too
late. Vet everybody was surprised.
Miles was a most excellent young man,
industrious, sober, thrifty, fond of
laying up, and had a right good deal laid
up already. Then he was quite passa
ble as to looks. Mr: Bill could not
liave been said, even by Miss Thigpen,
to have any advantage of Miles a* to
looks. As for the rest, all except Miss
Thigpen and his own mother consider
ed him the inferior. Vet Dukesborough
manners, or something else, put him in
the lead on his first entry upon the
field. It was then, and not till then,
that Miles Buokly made one, and but
one, avowed effort, and failing, gave up
the contest, and resigned himself to
what he called molloncholy.
He had never been—at least he had
never seemed to be—a cheerful-minded
person anyway. His courtship even
bad been a rather solemn piece of busi
ness, and the final declaration sounded
somewhat as if he bud invited Miss
Thigpen to go with him to the grave
yard instead of taking charge of-his
domestic affairs. The ludy, ufier gent
ly declining his suit, and claiming the
privilege of regarding him as a friend
nay, a brother—announced her in
tention of ever keeping his proposal a
secret, aud requested him to do the
same.
'No, ma'am,'said Miles; 'no, Miss
Car'line. I f-hall not deny it, nor I
-hall not deny it. I'm mueh obleeged
to you, and I shall IK; a friend to you
aud to yourn. The waound in in my
heart, and it 'II stay thar, and it 'II be
obleeged to stay thur, hut I'll IMJ a
friend to you and yourn."
On his way borne he called to his
neighbor and friend A brain (jriee, who
was standing in his door:
'Mawnin', A bom.'
'Mawnin', Miles. 'Light and come
in.'
'Step out here a minute, A born, ef
you please.'
Mr. (jriee came out to the gate.
'Kicked, Abom.'
'Kicked, Miles? Who?'
Me.'
'Kicked bad, Miles ?'
'Powerful.'
'Vour horse, Miles, or a mule, or a
steer?'
'Nary one. It's here, Abom.'
Then he laid his hand broadly on
his breast.
'ln the stomach, Miles? Isa<l place
to git kicked. What in the thunder
kicked you 'way up thar ? (lit down ;
come in and take a drink, and tell me
about it afterward.'
'lt's not my stomach, A born ; it's my
bres. The waound's inside—'way in
side. Sperrits wouldn't do it any
good ; it wouldn't retch it.'
'My goodness grimjous ! Miles Bunk
ly, what in the dikens is the matter
I with you ?'
'l've been yonder, Abom,' and he
pointed mournfully toward the Thig
|>ens,' 'and my desires is to tell no lies.
I got it from a human person over
thar, and that not of the sect of a man
person '
'Who?—Miss Car'line?'
'Kf I was to name the name, Abom,
that were the name I should name.
Mr. (jriee shouted with laughter.
'Miles Buukly, s*ou skeered me out
of a year's growth. I thought you
been kicked l»y a team o' mules, or at
least a yoke o' steers. Well, looli
here, you ain't a-goin' to stay kicked ?
'lt's done d->ne, Abom.'
'Yes, but, Miles, I've knowed sich
us that oadone. \V by, Sarann kicked
i rue three times han' rannia'; bat I
told her every time she done it that
hicb talk as that didn't phaze me.
That's women, Miles. Tbem s their
ways. They aia't a-goin' to let a fel
low know, not at the first off-start,
that tbev goin' to have him. I don t
know what it's for, 'ithout it's jes
natchellv to try to git the whip-hand
of him at the start. It's the natehel
instinc of the woman sect. You #o
back to C'ar'iine Thigpen, and don t let
on that you 'member anything about
her kickin' of you, and that you ain t
even phazed by it. You're sorter slow,
old fellow—that is, in sich motions—
but C'ar'line Thigpen got too much
sense to give up sich a chance.'
'Xotber person, Abom,' replied Miles,
most mournfully—''nother person, of
the male sect.'
'Who's he?'
'William Williams.'
'Who? liill Williams?' exclaimed
Mr. Grice, in astonishment and disgust.
'That's the name of the name, Abom.'
'Well, Miles Bunkly, ef you can't
whip out Bill Williams, even with his
Dukesborough ways be got by livin'
in town six months, all I got to say is
you ought to git kicked by a yoke o
steers, and run over by the keart in
the bargain
Such and similar remonstrances were
ineffectual to make Mr. Bunkly con
tinue the contest. He retired at once,
leaving the field to h:s rival. At the
wedding, though be did not join in the
dance, nor even in the plays, yet he
partook sufficiently, it was thought, of
meats, cakes, and syllabub. Mr. Bill
and Miss Caroline, her brother Allen
and his voung bride Betsann, were
specially attentive to bis wants. He
yielded with profound sadness to their
persistent offerings of good things, and
the more syllabub be took, the mourn
fuler grew his deportment. I o several
persons, mainly elderly, be said during
the evening that it was the mollon
choliest of all days to him.
'Yit, furthersoraemore,' he would
add, with touching unselfishness, 'ef
her v. ho is now Missis C'ar'line Wil
liams, and who were Miss Car line
Thigpen, be it her or IHJ it hern, ef her
or them might ever want for anything
which it might be her and their good
rights or their desires - , and ef then I'm
a-bvin' —providing, you understand,
I'm a-livin'—they shall have it, ef it's
iri my retch.'
11.
Some four years passed. Mr. Bunk
ly, though plunged in bis dear melun
choly, yet attending punctually to his
business in a gloomy, slow, sure way,
made good crops, sold at good times,
added to his land and plantation stock,
and claiming to despise wealth, heaped
it up more and more, as if to show,
evidently, bow vain are earthly goods
for the happinesa of a man in whose
breast is an incurable wound.
Mr. Bill Williams was getting along
too, better than had been expected and
prophesied. Much of the exuberant
vivacity contracted by Several months
residence in town had subsided in these
four years of living with a wife (a set
tied 'oman, he styled her) who war
probably the most iudustrious woman
in the neighborhood. He well knew
that everybody believed Miss Thigpen
to have made a mistake in preferring
himself to Miles Bunkly, and he had
said to himself at the beginning of hi*
conjugal career that he should take
it upon himself to convince the world
that it was mistaken. When his twin
sons, Romerlus and Rcmerlus, were
born and named, he felt that he wafc
making reasonable headway on that
ambitious road. Then he too had add
ed somewhat to his estate, and his
wife, a famous weaver, had picked up
many a dollar by her extra work. They
diil not rise ns rapidly as Miles, but
Miles remained but one, while Mr.
Bill, so to speak, had been two, and
now he was four. People can not ig
nore figures in such calculations, es
pecially when they represent mouths.
Never mind, thought Mr. Bill—never
mind. Thus the contemplation of a
former rival, with whom, however, he
was on the friendliest of terms, spurred
a nature that otherwise might have
been wanting in the energy becoming
the head of a family. The corning of
the twins lengthened, strengthened,
and sharpened this spur wonderfully.
Only one thing interfered with the
happiness of that risiug family, and
that was becoming serious. It would
sting the wife painfully sometimes
when she would hear of the practical
jokes put upon her husband, who had
become rather liable thereto by what
had been considered in the neighbor
hood bis too great forwardness of
Hpeech and other deportment. Too
great a talker, as from the very first
she had told him he was, she would
tell him further that a man who got
into scrapes ought to get out of them.
In these four years he had sobered
much under that benign influence. Yet
when a man has once been the butt of
a neighborhood ridicule, it requires
time to release him even when he ban
ceased to deserve it. Sometimes it
seems that the only way to obtain
such release is to fight for it. I hat
exigency, in the opinion of Mrs. Wil
liams, had now arrived.
One night, when the children had
been put to bed, she said, 'William,
you've got to whip somebody.'
Hhe spoke pointedly.
Mr Bill looked behind him at the
trundle-bed, and asked hiinflelf, Is il
Bom, or is it Heme?'
'Nary one,' was the audible answer
'lt's somebody bigger'n them, hardei
to whip, and a more deservin' ol it.'
Then Mr. Bill peered through the
window into the outer darkness, and
speculated if there were insubordina
tion among his little lot of negroes.
'Nor them neither. It's white folks
it's Mose Grice, that's who it is, am
it's nobody else—that is, tostart with.
Mr. Bill was startled. Colone
Moses Grice had indeed been extreme
ly rough with Mr. Bill on several oe.
oaiions, and (l>eing a childless married
man, and thought to Ije sore on tha
point) had especially and re pea ted I J
ridiculed the father of the twins. \ei
he wttfl a man ol means, a cousiderabh
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 14, 1881
fighter, and Colonel of the regiment.
So Mr. Bill was obliged to be startled,
and bo lo< ked at bis wife.
'You've been joked by ."Mose Griee,
William, and poked fun at, and made
! game of by him, until I den t foel like
! standin' of it no longer, nor 1 don't
i think Horn uni Heme would feel like
standin' of it, not if they were big
i enough and had sense enough to uu
; derstan' his impudence.'
'Why, Car'line—' remonstrated Mr.
Bill.
'Oh, you needn't be a-Car'linin' o'
me !' she said. And never before had
Mrs. Williams addressed her husband
in precisely that language. But her
feelings had been hurt, and allowance
ought to be made. She cried some
what, but tears did not serve at once
to produce the softening influence that
is their legitimate result.
'There's brother A lien,'she continued,
'aad which Betsann to me herself that
Allen told her that the fact of the
business was, if you didn't make Mose
Grice keep his mouth shet, 'specially
about Rom and lteme, he would ; and
then there's Miles Bunkly—'
'Oh, Lordie!' exclaimed Mr. Bill.
'There's Miles Bunkly, and which
Betsann say is about as mad as brother,
and which, ef he ain't any fighter, y it,
when Mose Grice was one day a-makin'
game of him about his molloncholy,
Miles told him that his molloncholy
was his busiuess and not his'n, and
that if be kept on meddlin' with it, he
mout ketch the disease, and Mose
Grice let Miles Bunkly's molloncholy
alone, hedia.'
'And then,' Mr. Bill said afterward,
'Car'liue sot up a cry, ehe did, and it
woke up Rom and Reme, and they sot
up a howl apiece, and I says to my
self, I'll stand a whippin' from Mose
Grice rather'n run agin sich as this.'
111.
After that night Mrs. William 3 did
not again allude to its matter of con
versation, and was as affectionate to
her husband as always. Mr. Bill
gloried in the possession of her, and
he had good reason. lie brooded and
brooded. The allusion to Miles Bunk
ly stung him deeply, usually imperturb
able as his temper was, though not a
jot of jealousy was in the pang. He
would have known himself to be the
greatest of fools ty feel that. Yet,
easy-going, self-satisfied as he was, he
knew that other people, including his
brother-in-law, still regarded his wife
less fortunate than she might of been.
The more Mr. Bill brooded, the more
serious appeared to him the relation of
his case to that of Beveral others, es
pecially Colonel Grhe.
Superadded to a.general disposition
to impose upon whomsoever would en
dure him, Colonel Grice had a spite
against Mr. Bill on account of the
friendship that, since the intermarriage
with Miss Thigpen, had grown up be
tween him and A brain Grice, the Colo
nel's younger brother, whose relations
with himself were not only not fra
ternal, but hostile. The Colonel was a
lighter, and had managed somehow al
ways to come victorious out of combat;
for he was a man of powerful build,
and of great vigor and activity. Some,
indeed, had often said that he knew
whom to encounter and whom not.
His position of head of the regiment
had been obtained at a time when mili
tary ardor, after a long peace, had sub
sided, and leading citizens cared not
for the eclat of the office. He had
sought it eagerly, and obtained it be
cause there was no strong competitor,
and especially because his election was
expected and intended to ridicule and
discourage regimental parades. He
was greatly exalted by his election,
and became yet more overbearing
whenever he could do so with safety.
'That's Mose,' said his brother
A brain one day to Miles Bunkly—
'that's jest him. He'll impose on any
body that 'II let him, arid he'll try it
with anybody that he thinks likes me.
He's been so from a boy. He imposed
on me till I got big enough to whip
him, which I done a time or two, and
then he quit it. Hut he took his re
venge on me by cheatin' me out of
part o' the prop'ty, and he done that
the quicker because he knowed I, bein'
of h's brother, wouldn't prosecute him
for it. That's Mose—that's jest him.'
'I hate the case, Abom,' answered
Miles, 'because 1 has that respects of
Car'line Williams that it mortify me,
and make me, so to speak, git inollou
cholier than what ! natehelly am, to
sec a man that's her husband, and the
father, as it were, o' them two far pinks
of boys, runned over iu the kind o'
style that Mose run over him, nigh
and in and about every time ho come
up along of William Williams. I
never keered no great deal about him,
with them town ways o' his'n, iintell
he were married to Miss Car'line, and
then I knowed that there wereobleeged
to be that in William Williams which
people in general never supposeued.'
'Ah, Miles, old fellow,' said A brain,
'you ought to took that prize, and
you'd 'a done it ef you'd 'a listened to
me, and been perter in your motions,
and hilt on longer.'
'No, no, Abom,'answered Miles, his
arm giving a mournful deprecatory
wave. 'lt were not my lot. I tried,
and I tried honest and far. 1 were
not worth of Miss Car'line, A bom. 1
didn't know it, but (be did. Ami yit
I could see it hurt her to put the
waound where she knowed it were
obleeged to stay. I wasn't a up
poscnen, though, as to that, that \V il
Ham were worth of Miss Car'line
neither, liut Car'line Thigpen—l ain't
a-speakin'o' your wife now, Abom,
and a-leavin' of her out o' the case—
Car'line Thigpen, but which she is now
Missis Car'line Williams, is the smart
est woman, and got the best jedgment,
I ever saw. And sence she have
chooßcd William Williams, I been
certain in my mind that there wer«
that in William Williams that tin
balance of us never BUppotwned, ant
which 'II show itself some day if Wil
liani can ever git farly fotcb to a right
pint.'
Thus that nature, upright, unselfish
simple, fond to persuade itself that i
was unhappy, took its chief solace it
rontemplat tig and magnifying its owi
( disappointments, and iu sympathizing
j with those who had been their chic
I occasion-
IV.
It was mus-ter day for the battalion
i Colonel Grice always felt it hisduty to
beat these occasions, preparatory to,
the re o 'ime&tal parade. The exer-
I cises, after many hours, were coming
to an cud, as the companies marched,
I with short intervals between, down
the one street of the village, prepara
tory to disbandment. Alternately
had the colonel been complimentary and
censorious, as he rode, sometimes in a
walk, other times at full gallop, up and
down the lines.
"I'eerter, peerter, major," he re
monstrated with Major Pounds, re
spectfully indeed, but with a warmth
that seemed difficult to suppress—
"perter ; make them captains peerten
up their lines. My blood and thun
der! my Juberter and Julus Cajsar !
if tha enemy was to come upon us with
fixted bannets— Oh, you've done
your part admarrably, major. It's
them captains."
It was just before the final halt that
the colonel addressed Captain Collins,
whose company was in the centre, and
then immediately in front of Bland's
store. "Ah, Cap'a Collins, look to
your rar. It's so fur behind that it
look like two companies 'stid o' one.
That sergeant o' yourn you'll have to
talk to aud drill in private. He's
arfter makin' twins out o' your com
pany. Sergeant Williams is a great
man for twins' you know, cap'n. But
you better tell him to make 'em keep
bis cubs at home. We want solid
columus when we come to the field of
battle."
The warrior enjoyed his jest, that
had been heard by all in the company,
and others besides. But he did not
allow himself even to smile when at
the head of the military forces of his
country, in order to keep himself ever
on the alert against sudden attacks of
of her enemies. His gloomy brow in
dicated indignation at the thought
that a petty subaltern, from some vain
notion of making his own domestic
status the model of tho nation's princi
pal means of defence, sought to demor
alize it, and actually invite invasion.
"My I jord!" said Allen Thigpen,
when they told him, "if Bill don't
fight him lor that, 1 will ! To think
that Car'iine's feelin's is to be hurt by
hearin' of sicb as that!"
"I don't think, Abom," said Miles
(who overheard the remark), "that it
can be put off any longer. Ef there's
that iri William Williams which I
been a-supposen is oblecged to be {bar,
he'll fetch it out now. Now you go
•right on home, Abom."
Miles said afterward, "My respects
of Abom was that as he wouln't stand
up to bis brother, it wouldn't look
right to be agin' him."
When the battalion was dismissed,
Allen walked rapidly to Mr. Bill.
Tho latter was wiping the tears from
his eyes with his handkerchief. Hav
ing finished this operation, he went
with a resolute step towards Bland's
piazza, whither Colonel Grice, after
dismounting and giving bis horse to
a servant to hold had repaired.
"Ah, Mr. Bland," said the colonel,
about to light a cigar, "you peaceful
men, you who follow in the peaceable
wuva—departments, I might ruther
Hay of dry-gooods, and hardwar, and
molasses, and blankets, and trace
chains, and o.bei sicb departments, so
to call all o' the various warieties of a
sto'-keeper's business you don't
know—l may say you don't dream—
Mr Bland, of the responauability of a
military man whose country's enemies
may be at tho very gates—"
"Colonel Grice!" said Mr. Bill
Williams, in a tone nobody had ever
heard from him before. The colonel
turned to see who called. Mr. Bill
was standing on the ground, Allen
Thigpen and Miles Bunkly by his
side.
"Hello! Bill," said the colonel, with
careless cordiality. "What'H you
hare, my dear fellow ?"
"I'II have satisfaction, Mose Grice.
I'm not a fightin' man, and I know I
have sometimes been kecrless in my
talk, yit I never went to hurt people's
feelings a-pnrpose, and I always belt
myself more of a gentleman than to
insult women and little children, and
which you can't say for yourself with
out telliu' of a lie, and a fightin' lie at
that."
Those words operated tho greatest
surprise that ever befell Colonel Grice.
I'artlv in astonishment, partly in
wrath, and partly in deprecation, he
exclaimed :
"What in this omnipotent wold!
Is the Colonel of the Fourteenth
Regiment got to study his langwid
ges—"
"Come, Mose Grice," said Miles,
Hlowly but distinctly, "the muster's
over now, and William Williams is
your ekal, and he is liable to have liis
satisfaction, onlest you apologizes for
your langwidges."
"I don't want his apologies," said
Mr. Bill. "I won't have his apologies,
lie's got to tight, 'ithout he gits on
his horse and runs away."
"I can't stand that," said the colon
el. Throwing <>ll his coat, he came
rapidly down the steps to where Mr.
Hill similarly stripped, awaited him.
V.
Whoever has not seen a combat
between two powerful, irate men, with
no weapons other than those supplied
by nature, has missed the siirht, though
he may not regret it, of a thrilling
scene. The blows, the grapplings,
the struggles of every kind, are as if
each combatant had staked every dear
thing upon the result, and set in to
save it or to die. The advantages on
this occasion, except the right, were
with the colonel. Taller by an inch,
though perhaps not heavier, agile,
practiced, and in the full maturity ol
his physical powers, he had, besides, a
contempt for his adversary, and ex
pected to prevail speedily. Mr. Bill
himself rather counted upon this re
sult; but he had made up his mind
that such was preferable to what he
would endure without any attempt to
punish this persistent insulting rail
lerv. He had never been a partici
pant in a light of any sort; but he hod
labored habitually at the heaviest
work upon his farm, and had broken,
uuassisted, many a colt, horse and
mu'e of bis famous Molly Sparks—
th • most willful actl indocile of dun?
He had now the special disadvantage
of having been upon his feat during
se\ eral hours of very tireson.e exer
cise s
"He'll try to ride you, Bill," sai I
Allen, hastily,' but you keep him off.
He can (ling yo i, I expect; but yo 1
can outlast him in J : eks. Don't let
him ride you."
As the colonel advanced, Mr. liill—
But, alas I I am not an epic bard,
nor even a Pindaric, nor is there one
whom I can command to duly celebrate
this combat. Mr. Bowden, the village
postmaster, was a person somewhU
addicted to poetry (reading it, I
mean), and he was heard to say sever
al times afterward that it reminded
him, he thought, more than any fight
be had ever witnessed, of the famous
one between Dioinede and Mars on the
plain of Troy. But ibe school-master,
who was a Homeric scholar, rather
intimated to some of the advanced
pupils that Mr. Bowden did not seem
to him quite clear in his mind which
was Mars and which was Diomede.
For a first fight, and that with an ex
perienced antagonist, Mr. Hill conduct
ed himself with surprising dexterity
in the giving and evasion of blows,
and when evasion was not successful,
with becoming fortitude It was,
however, a tiresome business. He
showed that, and once after putting in
one of his best, when lie was attempt
ing to withdraw himself from the return,
he had the misfortune to tread upon a
corn-cob that happened to be lying in
his rear. This turning beneath him.
he lost his balance, and the colonel
rushing upon him, lie fell to the
ground upon his left side.
'There, now!' said Miles Bunkly
'Hadn't been for that confounded corn
cob—'
Unable to finish what he would
have said, he raised his hands on high,
and clasped them in inteuse grief.
Whispering to Allen a few words,
he took out his handkercbif aud cover
his eyes for a few moments.
'Bill,' said Allen, 'Miles says you
hold on as long as you can. If you
git too badly used up, he'll help you to
take care 'o Rom and Heme.'
Then Mr. Bill Williams was worth
seeing, though prostrate on the field.
These words fell upon his ear with a
force irresistable. But for Mr. Bow
den's incertitude as to the impersona
tion of those combatants of the heroic
age, he might have compared these
words of Miles to those of I'alla.s,
when
"Jtaged TydiooM, ItoundlpMs in hit* ire:
Till las commands, and I'ftlluH lends tliee
force.'"
As it was, Mr. Bill pronounced the
names 'llom' 'Reme' once, and then
he gave a groan that sounded less a
groan than a roar. And then iu spite
of the superincumbent weight, ho sud
denly reached his arm arond the col
onel's neck ami drew his head to the
ground.
It was said of Miles Bunkly by peo
ple of veracity, aud those who had
known him longest and most intimate
ly, that this was the only occasion dur
ing life whereon he was known to have
shouted. Then, with the mildness yet
the solemnity of an experienced good
man whoso admonitions thereto have
gone unheeded, he remark-id to the
Colonel, as the hitter's body was slow
ly but inevitably following his head
beneath Mr. Bill, like the stag in the
aDaconda's mouth, 'You see how it is,
Mose ; I told you, if you didn't mind,
you'd ketch the molloncholly yourself
gomo day.'
The Colonel, apparently concluding
that the time had come, said, a* dis
tinctly as he could, 'stop it, Bill; I
give it up.'
'Let him up, Bill,' said Allen ; 'you
got his word.'
'No, sir, not till he's apologized.
He's jest acknowledged hisself whip
ped; lie haint apologized.'
'l'm sorry, Bill, for bavin' hurted
your feelin's and your wife's,' said the
Colonel.
'So fur so good,' answered Mr Bill,
leisurely stretching himself at ease on
his foe, us if he would repose after his
fatigue—'so fur so good; but what
about Romerlus Williams and Rcmer
lus Williams?' Ho never called the
full names of his boys except on iop
pressive occasions,
'Come, Bill,' said Allen, taking him
by the arm, 'enough's enough.'
Mr. Bill rose with the reluctant air
of a man roused from a luxurious
couch whereon he had been indulging,
though not to the full, in sweet sleep
and sweeter dreams. The colonel
arose, and unpitied of all, slunk limp
ing away. Miles Bunkly, the t< ars iu
his eyes, laid his hands on Mr. Bill's
shoulders, and said:
'1 knowed it were obleeged to be in
you, William, ef it could b" fotcli out;
and my respects of a certain person
was that, that I knowed she'd fetch it
out in time. It's done foteh out, and
from this time forrards you and yourn
may go 'long your gayly way down
the hill o' life, and all I got to siiy to
you and them, William is, AN IT! And
now go wash your face and hands, and
go 'long home to happiness and bliss.
I don't sav you never deserved 'em be
fore, but I do say you deserve 'em
now.'
VI.
'My!' said Mr. Bill, when ho had
washed, and was feeling the knots and
bruises on his face, and trying to open
his eyes 'niv ! but ain't it tiresome ?
I rutber iiuiiil rails all day 'ithout my
dinner, or break two o' Molly's colts,
mules at that, than to have to go
through sieh as that agin. I hanky,
Miles, and come and see u fellow.' lie
bade all adieu, and went oil home,
where something in the bosom of his
family awaited him that is worth re
lating. The news bnving proceeded
him, his wife, a pious woman, was a
little troubled in her mind at first for
having given to her husband tins spur
to a feeling that was not entirely eon
sistent with duty : yet when they
had told her the whole story, she rose
laid aside her work, went to her chest,
Hot out her very best frock, and every
thread of her children's Sunday clothes,
including many a ribbon that hud
survived its ancient use, and arrayed
i bcrsell aud them to greet the hero up
cn h's return. The whicker o" oM
Molly at the foot of the lane, and the
answer of the colt in the lot, anno i>ic
ed the joyous moment. Dismount iiir
at his gate, Mr. Hill would fain have
ndulgcd his eyes with 'hat goodly
> ght ; but one of them was entirely
i.ml the other partially closed. He
became aware of the rushing into bis
arms of a persou of about the size of
his wife, and justly guessed to be her,
and the cries of two children which he
rather thought were fami.iar to his ears.
For the boys, when they saw their
father all battered aud bruised, set up
a veiling, and a retreat.
*\ou Horn ! you Heme!' cried the
indignant mother, laughing the while,
'if you don't stop that crying and
making out like you don't know your
father, I'll skin you alive! Come
buk here, and if you as much as
whimper, I'll pull oIT ell of them
ribbons, strip you to your shirts, and
put you to bed without a mouthful of
your supper !'
They came back, did those boys.
'Look at him, sirs. Don't till me
you don't know him. Who is it ?'
'l'appy,' said Rom, on a venture,
followed by Kerne.
'And ain't he the grandest man a
liviug ?'
'Klh'm,' said Horn.
'Eth'ni,' said Heme.
'Now git behind thar, aud le's all
march in.'
'Aud we did march in,' said Mr.
Bill afterward—'me and Car'line, and
Heme, Rom ; aud as we was n-march
in' along, I felt—blamed if 1 didu't—
like King William at the bead of his
armies.'
Miles Bunkly bad become too fond
of LIB 'niolloijcholy' to let it depart
entirely ; but its severest pains sub
sided in spite of him, now that
the rival who had been preferred to
him hud justified the preference.
'My respects of William Williams,'
he would often say, 'is that, that it
ricouciic me and do my molloncholy
good that he's the husband and the
protector, as it were, of—well, ef I
should name the uamc, it would be
Cat Tine Tbigpen that were.'
For sonic wciks immediately follow
ing the day of the fight he had been
observed, from time to time, in the
intervals of other business, engaged
with a work seeming to take much
painstaking, the result of which will
immediately appear. One morning
Mr. Bili, standing in his door, called
to his wife :
'Come here, Car'line, quick ! Who
and what can them bo youder a-com
in'up to the gate? 'Somebody,'pear
like a-lea liu' of a par o'dogs hitched to
a waggin.'
Mrs. Williams, looking intently at
the comers, cried :
It's brother leading of a par o'
calves yoked to a little cart.'
She was right.
'Good gracious, brother—"
But Allen paid not the slightest at
tention to his sister, not even saying
goodmorning.
'Here, Kom ; here Homo' (his busi
ness being with them), 'here's a pres
ent for you from Miles Bunkly ; and
he in particular charge me to tell you,
aud which ef you weren't old enough
yit to have sense enough, 'twouldn't
be long before you would be to un
derstan' sieh lungwidgcs, that his re
spects of your father was that, that ho
sent you the folierin' keart and steers,
and which bo made the keart
with bis own hands, the paintin' and
all, and likewise broke tho steers, and
which they're jest six months old to
day, and which you moutn't believe
it, but they are tr/in calves, them
steers is, of his old cow Speckle-face,
and which ho says is the l>est and
walliblest cow be ever posessioned,
and which them was the very words
he said.'
Then turning to his sister and
brother-iu-law, he said, 'Mawnin', sis
ter Car'line; mawnin', Bill.' .
Mr. Bill roared with laughter; Mrs.
Bill shed tears in silence, both in their
unbounded gratitude.
'Aml twins at that I' said Mr. Bill,
'jes' like Kom and Keine !' An idea
struck him as with the suddenness of
inspiration.
"Allen,' he asked, vaguely, 'does you
know the names o' them steers V
•No, Bill; Miles did'nt—'
'.Makes no odds ef he did. I names
them steers; and you see they're ad
zaeily alike, exccptiu' that that one in
the lead got the roundest—a leetle the
roundest—blaze in tho forrard.' do
ing slowly to the latter, and laying bis
hand upon his head, he said, 'This
here steer here is name Micrlus. 1 Then
walking slowly down around the cart
and up to the other, he laid his baud
upon his head, saying, 'This here steer
here is name Bunkoiius.'
Then he took his boys, lifted tlieni
into the cart, contemplated all with a
satisfaction that had no bottom to it,
then waved bis hand in preparation
for a harangue that few other things
could have prevented than that which
immediately transpired. Miles Bunkly
himself appeared at the gate, and walk
ed in his lace wreathed in melancholy
smiles
'Why, Miles, you blessed ever'astin'
old fellow!' exclaimed Mr. Bill.
They were people too honest and
plain to feel any embarrassment. Th«
generous donor at once took the cart
lilies into his hands, and led the pro
cession several times about the yard
and the lot, as innocent aud in many
respects as much a child as those on
whom lie bad bestowed his gift. Tho
anlor of Mr. Bill could not be subdued
as he looked upon the scene. Tears
like those in his wife's eyes came into
his own, and hit said, soltl.v, to her and
to A lien:
'1 never speetod to live to see sieh a
skene and sieh a ewent. Thar they
Koe-t, Itomcrlus Williams, and Keiner
lus Williams, and Mierlus ahem !
Williams, and Buukcrlus Williams,
and Miles iiunkly hisself, and the keart
and all; and I'll chaunelge, 1 don't say
I his county, but this whole State o'
(Jeorgie, to pcjuce a skene and pejuce
a ewent a lovely as the present skene
and the present ewent on this lovely
mawnin' like It do look like, Allen —
. it do look like the families is united
and jitided together ' Mr. Bill's
| throat choked up with just enough
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not another word
'Alien,' said Miles, when, the visit
being over, they were on their way
home, 'to think of \\ illiam n-coupiin'
of my name along with them lovely
boys! Well, Allen, 1 never expects to
git intirely over my molloncboly, but
I tell you, Allen, I were never as nigh
ol bein' of riconciled to it.'
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N. V. Tribune, <
The Republican party does not con
sist of the Cameron family. That ia
a fact, it teems, which the the present
Senator of tlst iiame does not know
as well as his father did. Nor does
any man named Cameron own the
Republican party. It is possible that
he may have a bill of salo of some
individuals. Uut the party belongs to
itself. It has a right to govern the
State of Pennsylvania, because it con
sists of a majority of the lawful electors
of that State. It has a right to tum
ble Mr. Cameron overboard whenever
he does not wish to execute its
will, and, with the right, it has also
the power. Moreover, it is the abso
lute right of the party to give free and
full expression to its will in its con
ventions, so that Mr. Cameron and all
ot her persons may understand what it
wishes. If any boss attempts to de
prive the parfy of that freedom in
the expression of its will it is high
time that he should be treated aa
the sailor was treated by the whale.
The Republican party of Pennsylva
nia will lind its task made very much
easier by Air. Cameron's threat in re
gard to tariff. The State ol Pennsyl
vauiohasau opinion on that subject
which no member of the Cameron
family ever created or will be able to
overcome. It was an opinion strong
enough to control the affairs and the
vote of the State before the elder Cam
eron was in public life. Pennsylvania
trusted most foolishly those Democrats
who shouted for 'Polk. Dallas uud tho
Tariff of' 42,' and the elder Cameron
first gained a seat in the Senate as a
Democrat ia 18-15 by reason of that
misplaced trust. His party, false as
usual, repealed the tariff of 1842, and
though it was done without his aid, at
the next general election Pennsylvania
gave a Whig majority, and Mr. Cam
eron was retired from public life, a
Whig taking his seat in tho Senate.
The younger Cameron can easily trans
fer himself to the party from which his
father wisely escaped, but he cannot
yet even tho Democratic party in
Pennsylvania to 'oppose tho tariff,' or
to defend any Senator who opposes it.
lu fact, the Pennsylvania Senator who
opposes the protective tariff simply
cuts his own throat politically, and de
parts from public life forever. Mr.
Cameron's threat that he will Instray
the vital interests of his State unless
he is permitted to be its Boss
will convince a great many practice.)
and sensible men in Pennsylva
nia that he ought to be deprived
of all power as soon as possible. Ho
has been trusted with great power as
an agent of the known Will of Repub
licans of that State. Tho man who
can threaten to be false to such a trust
unless suffered to have his own way
in everything, is an excellent man to
put where treachery by him will be
harmless.
It was Mr. Conkling's opinion, also,
that his party deserved to be beaten in
tho Senate and in this State, because
it did not wish him for dictator. It
may be doubted whether Mr. Cameron
will succeed in u part iu which Mr.
Conkling has failed. Th« New York
Senator did make tho Senate Demo
cratic for a short time. It would havo
been much easier for Mr. Cameron to
turn over his State to the Democrats if
he had not threatened to fight against
the protective tariff. The answer ho
will receive, we suspect, will teach
him that Pennsylvania does not pro
pose to leave its industries at the
mercy of a Boss who threatens them.
An Old I'iii.xlc llmlMt'd.
Professor Tobin, of tho Louisville
Polytechnic school, tho other day,says
the Courier-Journal, at a hotel dinner
table drew tho following diagram on
tho back of a bill of faro :
'Now,'said the Professor to the in
terested lookers on who inquired as to
the object of his sketch, 'the object is to
trace this tirguro of tho circumscribed
square without removing tho pencil
from the paper or retracing any of tho
lines.'
'Can it be done?' asked half a dozen
voices at once.
'You can all see mo do it,' and as ho
spoke the pencil Hew around the
various curves ami angles and the
figure was complete.
In less time than it takes to write it
all the gentlemen had taken out their
pencils and were had at work on the
puzzle. Their micccss was about uni
form—each man found himself one lino
short.
Nervous debility, the curse of tho
American jsjoplo, immediately yields
to the action of Brown's Iron Bitters.
Caiiirroii Kxoomliiv lllniMClf.
If there had been still lacking one
supreme reason frr the dethronement
of this unprincipled machine leader, be
lihh now himself furnished it. * * *
lie has boldly flung down the gauge
of defiance to the entire people of
Pennsylvania.—liAWMMf MM Era.
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