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, n e°t.o•rt°a of the HOILOP, Morse, I rktetll:t , Wade, Qpore.l, and
oroen Lines Under the control of the Nen Vert and 411.1410.
allay Prtjanng Telegraph Compane I tfrive °ter Gouni
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CHANCEY 111 - LBEMT,
cr. H 00111•11, HEISKILL k en., Grrftt Hied Qhar•
urn for lir, Goode, No 21J Market 'tr.et, Jri
Mei'RE.tili, MOTT d BRUNDAGE,
V. 1.1 Medea Lane, Corner 4 Freed greet, let reek
o,nm/um of Triple Relined Campbell', BO k SKr pr rt Alenhol
s od N Kum. Also, bleueufaclurers anti Dealer. to the follow
no; article. of the heat quality, and offered at the lowest market
Burning Fluid, "amnia Turpentine, Tar, Path. Masud,
...ft and Hard Turpentum, kinglet Vannsh, l,oal Tar, and Natal
. tor e., of r% err desenntion
Too' Berra IMnlltrr 3enki ri lyre", Jr
ILLIILOILtITH d DIYENTOIII,
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1 11011T11•T Low, °tee nearly opmrsite the Court House,
Yi • t .r•LBRAITII
Bk:IMBE of; DICKINSON,
1LA,:34 entered into Co-partnerehip, would respectfully oiler their
professional leen 1088 to the eltiseris of Ene and iciuni }Ape
attention will be veto toobstetne.
HILIII.
P. MINNII4 &LUTHER,
is 6rooenes, Pro'neouL, P.Auct. Pork. ?Lai. Salt, Grain,
Lou r. It. AU" Sill., Btw.tmy Palls, Wooden, Wtlio •
L. , ' ' war Wart, tc Terms Cash Pneee low \o 4 Wright .
B" k Mate , treet, 4 door, &twee the Poet °glee. Erie. Pe. .1:1
LYTLE & RUKEIMORE,
raatuo.s•al-a Maireilha&Zaitoaa, on the Public Saitia,, a tea
doors west "(State • L .
TANYEIt \.
im•Let• ur ito,ra, Tin, Copper, Ilem• Sheri Iron Wire Qtatr
greit.t•o (Raab north I B %rem Lichanige ogler,
Lne, Pa
t•••riin Jon, Kin.,
JOIKIBPH
I rio R ,' , fate street, betnetn Sr% enth and Eighth streets.
Lrie, Ya Manufactures to order, and anon keep. conntantly for
are solo, Superior Sync( Mat:eases made upon s neu and el.
reliant pnocaple, Sea I,:nnas Matrenews, Hair itairrnnes with and
eanout apringsAt. ?neer rer) rundeente_ :Li
BARTON II 01:rik,
A 1 J•rzioe, Proprietor Wat. r stmt, Mesdrilts, Nuorylva
au. enuelpal Slav Ofbne MS
WILLIAM TILCIKNTtIiN,
JI .is sOl TVS PIACI, Deeds, Agreement. Hoods au,l M.,rtts
gs., Learns, lc., accurs.tel w amf,%ll, dry eta oth i••• I
ncht's Block, State street, En., P.
THOMHh 110()R11 RA D.
Noq•ltt ILK, all CIO ittbibt4d to Dimw tag th.e.l.. Wortrt,t.
Beals anti other instrunuents o( wrttlog "die, k. , e1k...k t ouo
rt Boon, Wnirbt's Blom corner of k tfth Lott tat. ,, cto et
EMPIRIC !STOKES.
DWILL 1 GanrwoLt., Juldx.rs, and Retad s.rs
crlptlon nr Forekgss and Domestic Drr Gonda ing•
t loth; Ste. So 13, State street, corner o( EMI.. Ens, ra
ICUIRT 33 Wm A GRIM%
*TA KR - PA Y NE,
tot.►toaa ►aa Commiisiox Ysact•rta, Dealer,. ku I “al
Wt, Plour, Wat,r Liar ►u) Mast., l'utAle Uo. k. r►.l t
Arret, Eno, hi-
W StAs.s..
cunt& & METCALF,
Lonuoug LID faciaios Swans, Fmt, Pa. Interest Liluurti
West dapolpita. 11=0 and night Draft, Cheeks and Specie. mi
carnat unsay and Land Warrant/ bought awl sold I
made ea all the pneripal mute in the l noted ..tat. s, m
UUtUKI to EnrOp• 00 our own meponsilehty. 33
aotaltibi,lLllßSlcrot AritsYsroLti-,
Sarmirers i•Owlmeti owl Brasett.,
WOOL...ALS AID MITAIL iknirr• In flanintre. Crock.-rt, Wawa.. am
tad Saddlery, Sos. 11 and 1.2 rruptr« elrrurr a 1. 11th 0.1,1
dew to F.A., P..
L. Itoesaa, J
J. 1.. STEW.IIIT,
riurristnu Pita Moan •alr era.,auv tOM,. ~,,,tan.
Irug Stop, eoroer of Stat. and rirornth ntro, tt 0.,
, erenth street, on. door rant of SarNafran itrert
W. R. MUSHVIOItIf.,
MIA Charchall, Wailasy. Johnson
,1,1114.1 , 1111 66.1 Jobbon, of komra 66.1 I.r, 1”..14, •
' 131 66d 163 BrOalWay NCI/ Yort
E aCIIIII, liaZl.l T.,
ktrvi Y. Jouisox, 33 %% H RI *Nilotic
H. B. lIAVXMATICK,
Carom Sittig Biros, Wholesale and Retell dealer in Flo u r, Me h l
Lensed }eeil, and all kinds of rerun, +td.• .1 the rnt.h,
Sewers Beebe's BLeek, Erie, 1.1 39
MAGILL
DILX7 I sTa, ennuaue their oilier. au Beaty. lIIN-k,
ar - north sae of the Publ. , Square., art. oroparod to
I en ~. with all other operator. in ctees, eAttiria
a1. ° 1116 4 SUng w wt
ork scrordlng t o Ito tool at a nd roal ...Jur
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last raCTl'llinn of itn, Copper, and ',heed Iron Warr. irtinienCe
and retail, corner of French and Fifth street, opposite the I. ar
ced Hotel, Erie, Pa. Eve,' article in the atm.,. line
oa land: together with an ententes anaortment of :Mules and
Looking Ctstiaila, kn. All kinds of lioistlng and Spouting execu
ted intb, mat/am and dispatch nn netuainable term.
CLEMENS & CAII.I3HEY,
aloutaaisi GItOCKILS, and lerdelere in Inntineetic and Imported VI Ines
and UquurS, also Seer, 'Cohere°, Fruit, F ish, 4 , 1{, and Agent.
Wr lindatii BOW° Aie. No. State Lne,
Juin, ('I.& Le, 33 Wx L C•i QUIET
WILLIAM C. WARREN.
hum sad Dealers to htehtmgo, No I Mumma Block. t
ollec
nom. mod. on MI the Principal U.. of the t nitro! Mates .od
l►rWy bawl prommia promptly remitted. Husk , moo, hold
bud Savor bought awl bold Intermit pbui on tau. pepocita Mo
nti rotated to kumpo, Land Warrant. bought. bold and /rK. t" 1
04 the aunt tumbonahle Wing 43,
ALLEN A. CRAIG,
/Lorick or nil I • skrk, °ace mono% rai t 'SO I Holctres Block re
road MK", Stator ntrvet, Enr, .54
ABELL,
( Sarcoma aibermax,,
AitTIET, Public Square, between the k(1 Hoop.. an.l
!Irmo'. a Hotel. Pietuno taken in the hest at, Le .f the , art mid
•amated out to hotly
L. W. oLDs & CD:,
Mat Parrett* and Wholesale and Retail 'tester". to Wril and Cue
tern Pump; or au 'Penn,' .14.1.21 ettenpeat and beat no al 10 U..
• 001, ..0 I W. lite street near Peaelt, Ern.,
rr t.oaduet fur ease, tot water fur Lanni tam ~r narettattleal
purpose. for sale cbeirp .S 4
IRICIIARD (a. HERMON, - -
( MICOMOVI 10 Barton 4 Herr se,
WROLInAI-k and Itetnal Drslrrn to Drugs, 11.4nrineA,
Wtndua Gime, L)ye 4 tufh, ktrushea, Perfumer), nu. "...go and
In.ntotio r Lathuirn, No a n."-I 1bw...0.-tie, K.
D. D. W (I.llint l CO.,
own Vilnitice, and onions...4i )len•Lanta fourth %% am
164,1aar ant of the hanuc nrnnr,l.ro, 1 a Also .tealen in I nal,
•a.t, /limier, STOW% Flak Lune, and Linte '-tune, Iron, Nan.,
S antutga, ♦r, wan iinokurpaar.d .14ippin(
~tb.r h. Steamboats, linunnni
I. I' 111£1.511 1. Iwann•
THOMAS M. AI r*TEN,
/Ate dy the fume or G. Lemma
ateb..m, Jewett,. Stlver NeePoto. 11 tt..Itt , 1
situate...A. I...olusit t. 1550,4 Idattp. abd Facie, tto.itt, • Am...et
wed ett.ti
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ll•srrst•trlitthe of Iroe Fetter Milan Mews Bolters. 1 suit 11."...
In ?nett shutters, ii .u 4 .11 kinds of Mite_bioer, and Fan," t 401•
%Wee to water 3.t
M. CHAPIN,
iti ol o KICIIIDIUrt DIXTI6?-41ett in the AM/MELO liloek,
comer a State street aad the Public •tquart, up
edam Priem treaaaable, !tad all wort • amtated.
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ivrtititiffr 4t. tiILA
isrvasaaa, Jobbers sod Metal: 'killers In VI et sad Dry t•roeerte-e,
Yn.llMooll, Produce, Ponagu sari Unovytit Fruit, thoodeu,
sad Stone Wart, lour, rish. 'kat, Glasi, Nine , Poirlli.t, Sail;
tape, Solely use, tr., ke Freart Ptr••••t, cpruotte the iteell
Homo, Erie, Pa.
WILLIAM Pi. LANE,
TTOTUTIET •ND tot DS L.oa ♦T 4.•lff .-011106 o• er Jackson's .tore
►t North Last corner of the Peak Square.
K. KANDIPORD Jr
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t'►►uY to Gott., mivrr, think Notes, Certtliestes of Deposit, ke.
sight eschaisigs oh tie priseipal cities euturtahtl, for oak t Pete
S Mood Hoses, Pubik Naar*, Erte
T.lfir, MON y7Y'AItT,
.tatafaca an. niTuti..x.--06.., Filth &trust, a feu dawn East of
fesseli; Itsseilsoor. F ourth strost, oos your East of tD. old
apothem, Hall .;.3
Mt PC* MUSD,
la Cagliati, Berman and Amertesa Hardware and utlery
♦Yu, Nails, ASella, Irno mad 3 1:•-•-.1 Hour. Erie,
H. J Mtn' h. IL,
kik.," rot tYt T , •.vt mate ot.t, En" P•.
J. $. tdr,l4i/PleSi,
l.aman la banks, Pititioarry, Mouthly ilaarausea, t beep Pul.lica
tbass,Mbmet Sower/ago" 0414 Pm.. . 11 .'7. Y.
rint ..11 of th• Need Howe, Erse 33
1100111 - -
a nepLas4Ll and llntad threirry Is F'aney and .tapl, 1.4.4
Atilltwen , beg's...nth * . N..+l HMSO.. and Brows Hotel S.l
tikalLuE H. cP*Litir„ --
•1•794.1111 T •T LA., th ••.d,Coubty, ouprt..... • .1
golik•T 11431411•••• Atteuct•-4,1.• • al. prfailfillbri• amid diapai.•
JOKIAN MBLLOI G,
01 ..4113.17.1 Sid Cosa -n Ille.ria tt t, es the robile Urrt, east
teeing., threet 074 ASII, lia•Mr arwl While Flab, eunsianli •
Le to.
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CARTER & IliteMIRR,
1191 1.14 , 14U1 16•66,r6 is Drise.
by, OW. tiemoi, le. , Nn. 6 Reed Rose.,
JO 4. 1 1 ITlWkibir, -
"oro
ironer or no PIACI'. Clam in th. C.norny or+no i rni Ay
Gssar s or, la r Mort
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JOH !A SLUM 400"
roe. aaaNisu sad Caftwianies Illordwaya. &Glen fie
isal hewn for • 4104 Ila• of Ch.r 1w stosaftr., Ymblic
140,-A
*IL O. L. miLiarr.
DElrrinrr.-41fier sad Daethas ia Ana%
I
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ERIE WE['ALY - OBSERVER
tod were ,ou to follow the *tole ‘etn.,
Over the hills to the end, of the earth,
Barbara, a hat would you get for your paw&
Moro than tour true love'; lore ta worth
(ir,ljnict .ffliscrilanti.
EME=I
Cynthia Susan Simpson, age eighteen, with
the pretty talent of pleasing men, was the ac
knowledged belle of the little Marrow Squash
valley
This little talent of pleasing men is sometimes
given by uature as a compensation for the lack
of every other accomplishment, or the means of
procuring any ; but this was not the case with
Cynthia, who had good Yankee sense, and a vein
of sprightliness in her composition, which latter,
as I take it, requires several other talents for its
support, otherwise it soon degenerates into
Ailli
ness—wbcnce it sours into vulgar ill nature in
the country girl—in the lady of society, into sar
crasm
i lncarao~
Cynthia was pretty, in the freshness of her age.
American beauty comes forth like a flower, and
is cut down The loveliness of girlhood rarely
ripens in the matron And Cynthia was afraid
to risk her loveliness, no doubt ; for whilst she
encouraged the attentions of many "beaux," who,
in the language-ef her s ,ciety, " to see her"
evening after evening, at the snug farmhouse of
her fath, r, whenever any of these swains took
the opportunity to press upon her notice the na
ture of his case, and urge the necessity of its
speedy cure, she cut the matter short with him
Truth tnu , t be +aid, that amongst all her ad
mirers th, re was not one who was u priori—that
is, before a reciprocation of his love to lc pl tee—
a very desirable match for her
The richest was Seth Taggart. who pant II:,
lest visit to b. r one afternoon. in a bran new
?Wit of glossy, fine, black broad cloth Pretty
Cynthia was alone, and prepared by precious ex
perm,— te dies, rn symptoms of an approaching
assault upon the Malakoff of her affectiuns She
pursed her pretty little mouth, and ...wed, with
nimble glancing fingers, on th, , lee%.-.f ot
t he old .quire's *bins, of unbleached cot
thought to h, rself what a fool Seth Taggart was,
and %0•01.1 , red bow he would ! !et out of the fix ;n
which lie found himself, and how he could dare
to think she had given him encouragement— and
looked—very la witching Poor Seth sat on tho
verge of his chair, and gazed through window,
which was open, into the wood., hit hi+ wa. a.
mind like the if Wordissarth'
1!1=ISIMI
I=ll
1k did not find any inspiration in Il,.• woods,
so he begun to look int.) the ashes
" Miss Cynthia," said ht., at length, ‘• did you
ever gee a crow ?"
" Yes, Mr. Seth," said she, folding her gus
set, and looking down at it demurely a+ a mowe
" Black—ain't it "" said Seth
" Very."
Then came a pause " Darn it—l wish she'd
help me out," said Seth in his own thought.
4 . The little minx knows what I want to say, nod
she might help me to say it "
What man has not thought this before now, at
courting time—and wished to borrow feminine
tact, and the larger experience of woman, to help
him out of the slough of despond he is beginning
to sink into ? What man would not give the world
to know how the last man who offered himself to
her, iot through with it
" hver see an owl'" said &al at length, fall
ing back upon his own resources
" Often, Mr. Seth," lisped pretty Cynthia
" It's got big eyes—ain't it now ?"
" Very big eyes," said she
Seth grew angry. Angry with hini.elf.
doubt ; but anger, like Phoebus Apollo at i•uri
set, glows brightest in reflection. He thought it
a " mean shame," she wouldn't " help him out,"
while she sat there, looking " good enough to
Cal and laughing at him, as even his blunt per
ception told him, whilst her attention was appa
rently bestowed upon the shirt sleeve. He wish
ed it were his shirt she wan stitching so reside
ously. He stirred up the ashes on the hearth,
and almost wade up his mind that " be won't
going to gin% her another chance at bitni" but
Cynthia dropped her cotton ball, and Seth, not
rising from his chair, stretched out his long, lank
arm, and picked it up He touched her hand,
as she took it back, and an electric shock thrilled
through his veins, and made him feel "2'l over
—ever ~o," as he some time afterwards ex pressed
the sensation to me
ME
Miss Cynthy, may be you are fond of ample
candy ?"
" Very," said she
" Well, now," said Seth, rising, "the next
time I come, I'll try and bring you a great
gob "
But as he rode home, behind his old farm mare,
be said to himself, " I reckon I ain't going back
to court a gal who sees a feller in a fix and never
helps him." And sure enough, he never did re
turn Miss Cynthia lost her richest lover, and
many folks, even to this day, believe she wished
him back again It is the way of women to want
a thing that can't be bad At least, an men say
(if not in practice, in theory), and Cynthia's
month watered, I dare sely, for many a week after,
for that gob of maple ci - ndy.
Tux NORM.. I. •L every man, oh! pretty girl,
pay cow t to you in his own way, and not in your
way, and help him out at that, being sure, how
ever, OW you are in harmony with his mode of
ptocedulv Never disturb ice-cream when it is
going to trei-se ; nor lift the pot is it begins to
boil ; nor make a false step and get out of time,
when your partner is mediating a revere in the
()Gnu temps, the polka. Many a declaration
of affection has been frightened off by some wrong
note Emig in the treble of the duet, which put it
out of harmony
Cynthia, though so pretty a girl, and so ex
perienced in the art of saying " no," to an offer
of marriage, bad yet a good deal to learn in ber
own craft; and, indeed, no experieoce ever
seitct Vamp,.
BARBARA
BY ALICY CARY
The •iod b Man the snoro's red •ell
With all his breath through the walnut boughs,
♦nd Barham with her radar pa.
Come to the meadow to rail the rows
"The tittle people,that lire hi the air
Are not for my human hands to wrong,
Liars Barbara, and her losing prayer
Takes them up as it goes along—
Toward where the mill is, small and whit e ,
Hang like ■ vapor =mug the rocks
Good spirit. ray to her, day sad sight,
" Barbara, Barbara, keep with roar lock
Gay slags the miller, and Barbara's mouth
Purse. with echoes it will Dot repast,
Sad the roe la her cheek has a Mar•dar's
In the line that ends with "I love tnu, '
‘ever a thought about braver mills'
(If prowler lovrrs :,our drsasming ease'
t world is shut an among these Mils—
,ital, Isk at, Barbara, stay for your ponce
, tar for the trweruAres tau have to keep--
Cherish the lone that )ou know ne true
Though eters may thme in the tears yna wre,
Then DC% • r will roma out of ilesern n-,
SNIP-SNAP.
From Putars'i Vara :nu
'• pelmet,. no the met. . Onm
veil,. printertee try. to Into
ttoti nothing more
primes a woman for the decisive moment Each
case mast be met on principle, and not on prece-
dent It is our business to disater, in this
story of " Snip-Snap," how far• pretty Cynthia
profited by the experience she prided herself upon
in the rejection of ber lovers.
It was a mellow autumn morning and a russet
glow had tinged the woods at the back of 'Squire
Simpson's homestead. It was, Seth Taggart's
wedding di.y. He was to marry, that evening,
Susie Chase—a smiling little rose-bud of a wife,
to whom he found plenty of things to say, as
sweet to Susie's ears as to her lips his maple candy.
Cynthia, as one of her best friends, was to be
bridesmaid; and as she wished to shine that
night, iu all her bravery, and wanted some new
ribbons for her headdress, this want tempted her
abroad, a little after noon, when the harvest-fields
were quiet and the yoked oxen stood relieved
from labor, leisurely chewing the sweet morsel
reserved for that soft, sunny hour of rest, as men
of business use to do the thought of the last let
ter written by the hand they love, till the burden
of the day is laid aside, putting it apart (with all
its woman's nonsense and half unreasonable fan
cies), pure from the contact of the pile of yellow
letters lying on their desk—offerings upon the
shrine of Jupiter Mammon
Our pretty Cynthia tripped along her path,
scattering a cloud of grasshoppers and crickets,
as she stepped ; and in her silly little pride of
bellehood her heart held, though she would not
have confessed the thought, that her relative
value to her crowd of beaux was in the same pro
portion as that of one woman to many grasshop-
Pe".
MEM
At a turn in the path she came suddenly on
ono of these admirers—Frank Handy Frank's
face flushed He had been thinking of her when
she surprised him—thinking of her all that day
and through a sleepless night ; and in those
hours the Cynthia of his fancy had smiled on him,
and laid her gentle hand in his, and had been
gathered to his heart—it was a shock to come
thus suddenly upon so different a reality At
the moment he encountered her, he was indulg
ing himself in an imaginary love scene, in which
be was calling her, in heart, "My Cynthia, my
love," and at the sudden sight of her, all such
presumptions fancies fled in haste, and hid them
aelve, shrinking like varitiated coral polypes
when danger approaches--each into the recesses
of its cell
I beg 3nur pardon, Miss Cynthia," he said,
stammering before be gathered self-possession,
and accustomed himself to her presence " I
was on my way to make you a call If you will
allow me, I will turn around and walk with
you..,
" I am not going far, Mr Frank, only into the
village for some ribbon for my hair, and gentle
men dislike shopping," (knowing pert, etly well
that he would go with her
I know where a wild ho vine grows," •ud
he, it would make a much prAtier ornament for
y , ur hair than any ribbons you could buy in the
village "
end will you get me some'"
Turn this way into the woody and spin ru
half an hour while I twist it into a wreath I am
going away from here to.morrow, perhaps I have
been offered a professorship in a Ike h ail of agri
culture
Indeed, Mr Ilandy "
There WIIS a pawie, and Cynthia raumeil.
little hurriedly : " I should think you would like
goin¢ away from here There i 4 onthin E t.,
tempt tt mtng gentleman 14) retnniti among
Ui
••I shall ltd • it, in s tine r•-y' ,t• I, •it, r ti,an
my to-. sent lit.., said Handy t' This farflier ' .
re tre na higher interests to aee•an•
pang it. dot. nr•t draw out the best u. tire- f a
twin Ills nature, like his thougiih, rui i
and round in th.• r.mtine. !Ike a -.111:rn I
and mak.. no progre!,l "
-This man think. higher things than I
l'3nthia's thought as he said this, an 1 tor
ut 'meat she felt humbled in hi. resew.° ; but
silt ralliod her pretensions. remembered h r
Wiood and 11,r conquests, and the light in which
she always hail been looked upon hy all her lov
ers, and was almost disposed to revenge upon
Frank Handy the passing feeling of inferiority.
Frank tows! in silence, twining the hop wreath
for her head lie did not speak his thouehts
were busied with the words that he would say to
her when he broke silence. He was satisfied to
have her waiting at his side—waiting for the hop
wreath, with its pale green bells, that he was
twinig leisurely ; and Cyntnia grew impatient as
she found he did not speak to her. She address
ed him several questions, which he answered with
an air of preocitypation She wandered from his
side a few yards among the rooks, turning over
with her foot some pebbles covered with gray and
orange moss, and aistnrbing all the swarm of
busy insect life, which made its home there.
The influence of the day stole into her heart, and
made her answers more soft and natural.
At last Handy broke silence, calling her to him
u she stood watching the stir which the point of
her foot had preduced in an ant bill
" Miss Cynthia."
" Is it finished ?" Abe said, quickly.
Not the garland—bnt the struggle in my
breast is finished I have been questioning with
myself whether I should say to yon what I am
about to say."
Cynthia gathered a leaf, and began slowly to
tear apart is delicate veins and fibres
" Miss Cynthia, is it pleasant to you to have a
man say he loves you ?"
" I don't know, Mr. Handy. I suppose so.
That is, I think it is very embarrassing some
times."
Why, embarrassing, Mira Cynthia' " '
Ha was taking her on a new tack. It was dif
ferent from anything she had ever before experi
enced. She did not like this way of having his
offer.
" It is embsrras.ing when I know that my only
answer can be No," she said, looking him in the
face 4 moment, and then casting her eyes upon
the lime leaf she was dissecting.
" It would be more embarrassing, I think, if
you were Dot so sure," be said, "and if you took
the matter into consideration."
"It never wants any consideration with me,"
she answered.
" What! did you never place before your mind
the subject of marriage? Have you been Natio:
fled with the vain triumphs of a belle ? And
did you never look beyond, to see what the hap
py duties of a wife, and the sweet ties of home
might be
Cynthia laughed, but the laugh was affected
and constrained " What nonsense, Mr Han
dy !"
"It is not nonsense," be replied ; " such
though - la are fit for maiden meditation—they ore
womanly—and womanly, above everything Pls..,
I should wish my wife to be."
" I hope she may be all you wish ber, Mr.
Handy. We will go now, if you please, if you
have finished my garland "
"It is not ready for you yet," said Handy,
passing it over one arm while be took ber hand.
"Cynthia, beloved 1 . you must listen to me "
She drew her hand away, but he to',k it again
and resumed. " You must let me feel its pulse
beat against my hand, while I tell you the s•-
eret of my life—of my life, for I h ave a l wa y s
loved you. I loved you wile') you ir-re s hloom•
iag little girl, and we both went to settoo: to
&skies Reed, dear Cynthia. I have hesitatt d
to tell you this, because eseumbrasees on my
Si 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 22,1856,
farm made my position less than that which I
thought ought to be offered to you. I have
watched you with your other wirers; and, in
some tu , ,tnents, have not thottiik that any other
had your preference, so that other men have ta
ken their chance bettiro me. This offer of &pro
fessorship, which adds a thousand dollars to my
income, makes it possible for me to address you.
Cynthia : there are depths of tenderness which
no human eye has ever fathomed, in many a
strong man's heart—depths which, perhaps, are
never, by the shallower nature of your sea, en
tirely reciprocated or understood. It is not alone
my heart, it is my very nature—heart and soul,
tuind and strength—that I offer to you The
love of you, like things which plants absorb and
assimilate into their own growth, has become
part of me This is a tried and true affection,
Cynthia It has waited patiently until the ma.
ment came when it plight be offered to your ac
ce.ptatiet Cynthia, if you will lay this little
band in mine" (and be let it- fall, but stretched
out his hand towards her), "I will strengthen
you, and elevate you, and guide you. You shall
be a woman of higher rank (as God ranks wo
men), for your union with a man's stronger,
steadier, and more single minded nature ; and,
Cynthia, your influence for good on me will be
incalculable. Who can estimate what a man
owes to the affection of a woman? All that I
have in me that is good will be doubled by your
influ , nce You must draw forthl—perhaps create,
the gentleness, delicacies, and the tenderness
that complete the manly character."
Re paused, and Cynthia stood with her hand
hidden in the folds of her mantle
" No," she said slowly ; " I am sorry, Mr.
Handy, but I cannot be what you wish to you "
There was an embarrassed silence between
them for a few momenta, and then Cynthia,
gathering courage with her rising pride, continu
ed
,4 1 am not go.NI enough to answer your expec
tations, Mr. Handy. You must look elsewhere
for the kitid of woman who will satisfy you."
Handy started, and his face flushed eagerly.
lie was about to speak. Cynthia caught the
lightning of his eyes; but when they rested on
he: (see, 11.• said that her words were not wholly
sinc,re, and the look faded.
YOU aro not dealing fairly with me, Miss
Cynthia, nor yet with your own heart," be said
a little bitterly " You are not cofivineed of
what you said this moment You think in your
heart I am a foolish fellow, and that I ask ton
much You do not think that Cynthia Simpson
falls Irt of the reasonable id ea l of any man."
I don't know why you should say such
things," said Cynthia, growing angry and near
ly ready nr era It was the first time nny offer
had been made to her which had not left behind
it a feeling of triumph; and yet here
was Frank Handy, as incomparably sup..rior to
any other .itit,r .he had ever had a 4
no :oat r
\ tithia, - said Frank, `• when •t tutu
lours a w,,itian. as I have hog loved you, he
.4:ugh , her cut from the whole world a- hi• rep
ni.t•lv. of womanhood ; and there is th it in
her I. f which he bows down, doing li utitsg..
to the •c•moitt'• nature within her Bur this
ilf.e• not imply unconsciousness of her f:iults
II.• miy see where she comes short ..f her own
earthilitv And that marriage is true union in
wiooli the husband, tip to whom she looks, and
on whom she should lean, strengthens her
, r in it- -truggle against her worser nature
Th , t wer• walking. towards the homestead,
and w dkin ; z fi-t l'ynthia was angry. disturbed
and mortified Was this n time to dwell upon
h. r f ni;'s adnutted t nat she hid .non .
v ,n by no nb•ans implying that
kn , w that, at that moment, she was
pr Twincore, and petulant, that she was
,”.11-)}111 Z .1 .Tit the Letb.r feelings of her heart,
t.. : I,v •he tory within her to the worst If
Han 11 \yawed her, she thought, he might woo
her with ni r. re-pert to her prefi'msi , ,n- And
he ../1.0.1 won her If he loved her as he said
he did, -he knew her power was great He
sheuld lain. , his homage no: coldly to the woman
ho,,,l within bast , but to herself—to Cynthia
Su-an S:mr.-..n, in spite of the full display ~r all
hrr f nil's, and even in opposition' to his better
rea:on She was not to he defrauded of her tri
umph, and it would be a great one indeed, if she
forced him, by h, r flults themselves, to surren
der At di•eretton
They reached the steps over the stone fence
which led en to the highway In their path lay
a disabledresshonper Prank net his foot on
it and ctyhehed it firmly " Miss Cynthia,"
said he, few w•imen have the courage to treat
rejected Ruiti,r; thus It is the true humanity!!
He helped her over the steps. and paused.—
He took the hip wreath carefully from his arm,
and vivo it into her hands. She took it with an
indifferent air, and, as she took it, crushed some
of the green blossoms. She would have treated'
him with more courtesy (had Frank but known
it), if she had been entirely indifferent to his ad
miration
" Miss Cynthia," said he, now in a grave and
measured tone, which, in spite of herself impress
ed her with a sense of the powerlessness of her
little arts when brought into conflict with his
self possession and sincerity, "I know very well
bow you have dealt by many men, and I am not
disposed to fall into the ranks, and take my chance
among your many other patient suitors It. is
true, that the wound that you inflict on me, will
leave itsscar for life; but I cannot make my
self-re:pect an offering even to you. And if you
have the feelings of true nobleness, which I have
always fancied I discerned in you, you'would re
spect me, esteem me, love me less, for such a sac
rifice. I shall never offer myself again to you.
Cynthia started Slight and rapid as her move
ment
was, he saw it, and repeated, "shall never
offer myself again to you And I leave this
place to-morrow, never to return to it till I have
subdued this love for you. To night I shall be
at the wedding. lam groomsman to Seth Tag
gart, and shall stand up with you. lam going
home to consider fully what has passed, to con
vince Myself (if I can) calmly, whether my love
for you has been an error in my life, for which
my judgment is responsible,
or only its misfor
tune; whether the Cynthia I have loved is really
capable, as I have dreamed, of scattering the clouds
that dim her beauty, and shining forth in her
sweet queentiness upon the lonely' darkness of
the man who can teach her what it is to love.—
Ido not know what I shall think. To-day has
shaken my canfidenee iii you. As I said before,
I shall make you no further offer ; but, if I make
up my mind to renew the one I have just made
you, I shall say Snip ! during the evening; and,
if you answer Snap! I shall understand it is fa
vorably received by you. Mind," he added, "I
think it doubtful whether, notwithstanding my
love for you, I shall think it right to say it I
am going into the fields to meditate till even
tide' upon my course, and I may bring back the
c onvi c tion, that for the present rejection of my
suit I ought to be. much obliged to you Nor
shall I say Snip ! more than otter In this un
ertainty I leave the matter to your considera
tion "
" What impertinence!" thought Cynthia
"I never beard of Bach a thing 1" And she be
gan to cry, standing alone upon the highway,
holding her hop wreath in h. r hand.
" I don't know what I had better do. I wish
he had taken some other way of speaking to me.
Oh! wby should be be an very unkind? I don't
care. It is his Inas a great deal wore than mine,
if he is really in love with me."
The evil spirit was coming back, and it whis
pered, "Ile will certainly say Snip: but you
had better not say Snap ton readily."
She walked on thinking, imagining a triumph,
when suddenly the thought came to her, that
she was confessing to herself she wanted to say
Snap :—and wby ?', It was riot possible that the
tablitiPof her prides were turned upon her; that
she Was in Frank'Bandy' , power to refus.! or t
take ; that she lotted him ! " I don't care for
him at all," was the suggestion of the bad angel
t only want to teach hint for the future to be
have lle is a presuming, exacting, self conceit
ed fellow."
"Have you ever, in the cotirsc of your expe
rience," twid the good angel; ‘• seen any other
wan like Frank ? Ilas not the conversation ~f
this very day raised him I, a height in your ',-
teem which is which must be
almost . That i 4, hti t•tand% before you in a
light in which n other man has ever stood be
fore ?"
" I don't believe he loves me," said her por
verse heart, " or else be would have taken a great
deal more pains to win me. —
" Alt !" said the good angel, " what better
love can a man give, than that which sees your
faults and strengthens you against them ? P
he has set his ideal of wnmanhoodoo high,
you do not come up to it ; but he sees
capabilities for good, beyond those of er wo.
men, though to the height ~f y
you have never attained."
"Oh ! I shall be a worse woman, and au un
happy woman, if I do not love Frank Handy,
and if Frank Handy does not love me," said her
heart, now turning to its better instincts, as she
threw herself upon her little, white, dimity.cov
ered bed, in her own chamber, and, shutting nut
the light from her eyes, thought what life would
be if Frank never said Snip !—Frank, who was
even then walking in the fields, trying to think
all the harm he cou!tl of her.
Here she lay, and cried, and disquieted h. r
self in vain kod she thought over ail the g iod
she hail ever heard of Frank Handy, and—
strange !—that.though it seemed to her ho had
the good word anti good opinion of every wan
who knew him, no one had ever quite seemed to
appreciate him to his full value. Perhaps he
had never shown his inmost heart to other peo
ple as he had her. Her wounded feeling seized
upon the halm she found in such a thought.—
Frank was not a man to put forth his pretensions.
She had wronged him very much in calling him
conceited and presuming lie bad spoken only
what he had a right to think about his own sin
cerity ; and oh ! bow she wished he could think
a great deal better ~f her
During the burst of tears that followed this
reflection, tho great farm tea bell rang. Cynthia
sprung from her boil and wiped her eyes if she
looked as if she had been crying, might not some
004. say .he was fretted to lose Seth Taggart !
Silt Taggart, indeed! She wasn't going to cry
for losing any man. %nil the evil spirits ro-um
ed their
swa‘
Cynthia went stairir tnwering in prilts
and wrath She had hall a mull not to to
the welling No, eoulif not do that Peop;.•
would eurt..inly is.i) things she would not like
about It. r T.w.rart. if she stall away.
It w ils grekUll.l Wlth L , r, this matter of
Seth Tagl7iresi. beeause Is. hal never node her
any offor •• I !souk tu. 11 !rear wsotwo shause•
fully. " r• iid Cyntlii.i h. , r ilion:4lll 4 ,•uninioning
up all Iss r wron•rs •it ~, sus she sat at tho te.i•
table, primine herself with pride agiiinsi the
vr , .:,km•-• vrbiels - 1 1 e felt h. .r 1.•
tnm way
•' C)Whin, 1r• •k-n ti ,;I'.l two i r, arel
I lt r wr, •oltl • tv
IV• t:.` 'l'l
wa-li up iril: t.i. t .1 1
tim.• to fir If. •tn.l a i.f t.. b. ,
thQrr early, if Ton :tro ,ina t .1,114 np witn
Mil
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said her father
•• Frank !flu •.r
..1 her head
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el. ‘. r is Fr .1.. k Jr'.. !"1"111
he •t Lu.l• up With to h.. warn- 4i
Cynthia eir d t her ewn ewe., ..nd she
gnu t.) ery solo The r. : her fob. r sp..ke well
of Frank ; but nobly e•ruld know him a+ well
as she knew hut] 0h: if he only w. .ul.l ewe
back Why hadn't she known th.. state , d hor
own heart that turning? But be took her .ol,y
surprise, at. I all her it f. elings bad 11pr—r
m.-bat at the moment It would be very cruel of
him—very—not to try her again
Thus she thought until .he was sufficiently ad
vanced in her toilet to put her wreath ou Sheuld
she wear it? Would it u..t be c Infessing
much, if he were to see it in her hair ? She
looked for some ribbons in her drawer, but at
this moment li.r father called her, and .aid, if
she came quick he would drive her over to Suiie's
before he unharnessed his old mare. So she put
nn the hopwrcath in a hurry, giving it the bene
fit of her doubt, and its trembling green bells
mixed with the light curls of her pretty sunny
hair.
Where did you get that thing from ?" said
her father " It's mighty tasty, I declare (live
me a kiss, Cynthy I hope your beaux will think
you look half as pretty as I do. And it's better,
my child, to be admired by your old father, who
loves you, than by a crowd of foolish fell o ws,
half of whom get round a pretty girl just lixe my
flock of sheep out yonder, one following because
another is making up to hey."‘
" Foolish fellows:" they ,"ere "foolish fellows "
But Frank Handy was not. one of them Frank
had never followed in her train sufficiently to be
accounted one of her suitors. It 'was this very
foolish" flock, whose ranks he scorned to enter
All that her father said, seemed to justify her
nascent feeling, She kissed the old man's rad
dy check, and felt as if the callow love than flut
tered at her heart, had almost been made wel
come by his approbation.
" What time shall I come for you, Cynthia ?"
said he, as she alighted at Busy's door.
"Ohl not till late, father," she said, hurriedly.
" Stay—not at all. Some of the young men will
walk hose with me; or, if they don't, I'll come
with Tommy Chase. He's only eleven but he's
tall of his age."
And now Cynthia found herself in the bride's
chamber. The pretty little rose-bud, blushing
in her wedding muslin, and going to be very happy,
because . . . . well, it takes a great deal more
sense than Susie had to be unhappy in life when
one is blessed with a sweet temper and a good
digestion. A superadded power of suffering is a
proof of an advance in organisation, and we sub
mit the argument to the sceptic: whether this
truth doss not imply the necessity of some pow
er or influence which shall cnunterbalanc.• and
adjust this sensitiveness to suffering io the high
est natures
Cynthia, waited for to put the finishing touch•
es to the bridal toilet, for Cynthia had taste, and
Cynthia among her '° girls" hid a reputation for
good astute. tier fingers failed ber as she pin
ned the wedding wreath, and she trembled more
than the bride did when the boggy that had been
sent fur the minister stopped at the end of the
brick path wieb led up to the hormaitesd. She
saw Frank Hardy in bis hridal , snit going down
to receive the minister.
"Cynthia, you gn ntitl tell the gentlemen they
may some in."
Cynthia shrank hack. But as bridesmaid it was
her osee, and the otbers pushed her to the door
MB
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She didn't want to see Seth Taggart, I reek
oil," said on , of the girls in a half whisper.—
" Don't you }W' how paie she has grown."
Cynthia falsified this speech by looking i•car•
let before the girl addressed eouid turn her head;
and she opened the door of tn.. room, where the
hridegrooin and his men sy,•r, awl', with an air
in which a--unicainaiffi•renee was atr ,, n;:ly mark
ed, and •• Ti. oro ar.• n-ady," with
a t..ss that — , nt the hnp hells dancing in her
Seth, long and 'Dian, and shinty, in his
wrd
ding suit, a:, -uakc in a hew skin, tof,k itt k Susie
on Ili: awkwar arm ; Frank Ilan ly.
kete , l, and s, If p offered 6i. to Ow
maid, and thy I,ll,iwe I th , hrb , and oorn
into the list parlour Cynthia and Frilak were
when they took their piaci-, for iii, e,re
e,,ny In a s.. orily .1 imonent :hat sloi icaned
up in his arm ; but that mume.nt gav,'h r a new
sPins.toon. It was. a aR h woman
nerd be a.lianied 1, in r...ting rip n manly
strongth His artn did mit trernhlo, though all
her nerves wonted twittertur nitro stretched
and suddouly let 1....5e sootn. d strong,
S) self-e4l.etod, snit that sho beglu
to rip' her own unwo rthine.... and to Inii.Vu-t
her p in. r.
ra%t 4;1 . 44 servte4".
t t nag h. r r rvi • an.? r
I:44ard and ‘..4w a ..a. Thc
ter ha,l th-itt both, aria i;;—• 1 the br:4lc
I•:%cryipply cano• lonnd Ow pair with t4alntations
Tl 4, kissing was rath. r indi•critninate Seth
claunt the pi ivele:ze of kissinL: ail tile girls, and
f c.Jur.s, c kissed the brtdesnaaid Ills former
setp•ati.ln of •• over --- , 2vor •.." transferred
itself t to rin a cliff. rent way fit, would as
snnit hare kis...A a 4.lam
'•(!yothil, you an 1 Prank l(riog in tile cafe.
You :wen( tip I , irget all y..(1 hive g (t ',• (lo." said
line of the young giris (if the party
Frank : ffere : Your bridesmaid's waiting,
aril I le•clare. I .lon't believe you hate taken
the privilege of the kiAl von are entitled to "
Frank was called away from the side of a lady in
blue, a stranger from tile city, who had been
brought by some of th.• gu ..,t. Shy• h a d n o
other aequaintane, s, and Frank se med to be at
tentive to her.
" I beg your pardon, )tips Cynthia," 4:lid he,
turning from the lady, and t•ikinr , no notiea of
the latter part of theJspeeeli that wa. addressed
to him, ‘• let us d • all that is expectelof us!'
They went together into the pantry, and were
al )ur Cynthia thought, "if he intends to .ay
Sur' ry I , t h em Ml. fi het' !'rink was in
tcnt .•n arranging the rake on plates. and dispoc.
in:r them on a larze waiter Cynthia felt ready
t•• cry Sb • t•• r•fii , ei in si•enee, au.. the rake.
may hart. been to ••, unwi, one smell
of tee • Ike wh;cla ut.t !• i•er 10. i I ache vio
l( nth
Iti= if"'lh-f 1 Fr.rik, a. they
;arum:, I the tai, " rtttit , th that le•r•uns be
e.itt •••• they are huppy want t., make other
f.,lk- -lei; Rut !It r. L. •I• ' of selfFrii
tio“ 'll tht ti.;tlt.• f n"w• t•
:I. that lot t I :. ri-
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'it ii'• ear' 011' 0 , I I eat' , that lie should
so calmly this
afioin iinil Ittilliti Itua,,r:ll), that he
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or hi , . a•heltment ' 1)11 : • I, r ,I,•• morning
I Ili, I to ni% • r ' .:I my life,
whtm I tale:, him : Uit : 1,..w ein any one
gmipar , any imin with tem : I.Ved me
only 11 , • t.. night his r. ason says
I nm n.,t 1 ,1004 enough t., ; anti he 'IA
afraid of 'being unhappy with me indeed, I
am ti..t onotlgh--:-•-hut I wonl.l try to hp."
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It was Frink Handy's uir She caught the
Word, and I"oked np euyerly Frank .aw her
and stopped, embarrassed. Ito was holding up
a toru fold in the-dr,ss of his partner in blue.
" If I knew where to find a n.eedle and thread,"
said the authoress, with a half look at the brides
maid
" I know Let In- sew it np for yon," said
Cynthia.
All her pride had left her. She felt. humbled
to the dust. It would be a relief to do something
for' this woman—better than her=elf—whom
Frank preferred to her
" Let me do it," qhe said earni.stly
" Mr Handy% depend upon your es
cort."
Frank Handy bowed, and the girls went Li
gether into a bed room.
Escort ?—was it his esoort to the city
had told her he should go there Cynthia sewed
up the hole in the blue dress, very sadly and
quietly.
The animation faded from the young author
ess's face, 114 she looked down on l'ynthia'squi..-
cring lip, and Paw a hig tear fall_ upon her,
sewing. She had heard some one say, she had
heard some one Pay, she had been the victim of
false hopes raised by Seth Taggart ; and had in
her heart despised her for it ; but now the felt
as it the sad heart-broken love bestoivid on him
endorsed him far better than he !ooked It was
a woe, however, to - whieh she weld not openly
allude. 'But, we Cynthia set the last stich in her
dress,-she stooped down and kissed her. " Every
Know has its lesson," she "aid, " as every weed
has a drop of honey in its cup Blessed are
they, who suck that drop, and atom it for good
uses.'•
She bad gone, and Cynthia was left alone.—
Yes, she bad much to learn. This night's ex-
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perienc, 11.1.1 taught her that her reip teas wi t
and h*r eareer r'f h e II e L NK I run. ak, who go
not gomi en..ugh hi keep a good ma's homiteelii
she had w..n it, would set horsed - to her
of sel f-i 1 70 vmnen t She would bare her/1011
old father love, and live at how, sod
c hild re n, too, should learn to love her. AnalliMlil
perhapia some day whe lk they h i gh pe er e it o
Frank Handy might, perhaps, ewe am see AO
he had judged her hastily, AD A 1 1 , l og am
he was now, that she bad ested him. AA
1(.2,4, every improvement in her would be is pe
his influence though unseen ; and so eyes he lir
lonely life, he would not be altogether
ed from her. She sat in the dark, with bee bomb
clasped tightly over her burning braised.
She hhrd voices in the The gut"
was breaking up. People were I.
Oh why had she maid so long I Pie*. II
ring that hour Frank might have /Waged lie
mind. Sho had deprived herself of the oggesir.
airy.
She started up and hurried qui moo.=
company. They were all getting their
and shawls on. Frank in his great ow, me
standing impatiently at the lipase door.
Please to tell her that sly buggy has iisos
up first," he said to some one, as -Cynthia, p
ted herself in the p
" I am ready," said7helady in btu, loessisd.
ing herself.
Frank raised his hia, ta the compsity; yid Ink
her on his arm.
" Shut that door," said somebody, and des%
let the night air into the house."
So the door closed with a jar that mai ie
Cynthia's very heart. She turned aids god kW
to help some of the girls to And their shorissisd
hoods. Every lassie had her laddis," Cynthia
only had nn,one to take her hp. . She mid
Tommy Chase to walk home 'th her, sad ha
said he would as soon as he bad had sous .
cake and some more supper.
Cynthia went back into the empty parlor, and
sat down by the open window looking= drama.
She hid her face in her hands. ill Mil d
thoughts went singing through her, brain; WI
the one that presented itself Atomic was ea
humble resolution that she would try to' be sash
a woman as Frank Handy wisely nicht Ws
loved.
There was a stir among the vines that dewed
the window frame. She did not look up. IS IMO
the wind. She heard it sigh. She felt its wont
breath near her cheek—warmer,_surely, than tM
night wind. She lifted her haidAnidny.
Sair." paid Frank's voioe at her ad& it
trembled ; and he trembled u he stood Wilk is
great hope and a great fear contemning it hit'
breast. His self possession was all gone. TM
struggle had unnerved him.
" Ob i ; Snap !" cried Cynthia inuidealy.
then, droqing her head, crowned with the lap
bells, lower arid lower--more and more humbly,
till it rested on the window—she said is a bee
ken voice ; I know lam not worthy, heck ;
hut you must teach me."
SAYINGS OF SIDNEY. SMITH. —"Be mid l
-was PO fond of contradictions, that bellemill
throw up the window in the middle fer tim esi lt
and contradict the watchman who W 2/
the hour.
" When his physician advised him to, g lOU S
walk upon an empty, stomach,' Smith wink
'Upon whose ?' "
" Lady Cork,' said' Smith, was own is
moved by a charity sermon, that she Wipe nos
no lend her a guinea for her contribution. rad
Shy never repaid me and rent it on brae-
ini
" said that his ides of heaven wan sating
grris to the sound of trumpets."
I had a very odd dream last. night,' said V ;
I •lreamed that then• were thirty nine Masa
and nine articles ; and my head is still eastased
about them."
A SOFT PILLow —Whitefield and apioes eels
were much annoyed one night, at a pia.
house, by a set of gamblers in in the room
adjoining where the'y slept. Their noisy arse
awl horrid blaphemy so excited Wbitedelire ab.
horrence and pions sympathy, that be mai sot
"I will go in to them and reprove their wink
caneFg," he said. His companion ressosstraisd
in vain. He went His words of reproof tell
apparently powerless upon them. Batt lts
laid down to sleep. His companion asked jig
rather apruptly :
-What did you gain by it r' ,
"A saft pillow," he said, pat4ntly, sad sem
fell sftleep
MAN 'IRAS AT MARSHALL, Mimi. — Ol4 day
since `• the prevalent ice," H— sad W--
where walking upon the main street at lifiwohall,
where - the latter bowed to a lady &quintals%
when H— remarked, " that is no way to bow
to a lady—wait till we meet another, and I Will
show you how to bow." A second lady ISM
a:oug at the moment, and who VMS II
scratch, throwing his soul into the soffit,
raised his hat, but the treacherous ice throw up
his heels, the wind took his scratch far away, Jim
force of the fall jerked the hat out of his hook
and there sat H—, his eyes tilled with Ism,
looking from hat to scratch, from scratch te kb,
like a shaking Mandarin . " Hullo," said W—
" I ~an't do that, for my hair holds tight to my
head " ll collected his personalproptsty,
made kr his o ffi ce, and was " no sore seen."---
Detroit .4cirertiser.
.1 NZGRO DZFENDAIIT IN, A aIDUOTIOX CY&
The African Roseius," as be styles biome, its
England, and who has for years been win is
different parts of Europe as a tragedian ha top
eently been tried in London for aediseisg the vier
of a brother actor, a white man. The mammo of
the negro tragedian is Ira Aldridge, sad be is
tempted to prove his entire into:elm of the
charge; but the color and hair (wool I) °lselin&
born to the plantar. wife went aphid Mu l e
he wns mulcted in damages. These bleak
los have no great trouble is lath% tissilunows
on the other side of the
sfk. Fred Emmons wee known in the.. parts s
in former days u a goidicad fellow and *
He said good things involuntary. One time is
Buffalo a crowd had collected around a body dot
apparently had been in tie canal-for soma' 41hym
Each one wu crowding forward Wes=
recognise the deceased, but one alter
turned away mournfully shaking their bees
Fred was in the crowd as one beholder sentinsi
with an ominous shake of the head, a I deaf{
know him," Fred very cooly replied : allo I be
don't seem to recogaim *we ."'
wig. The following bit of gossip is frau aro
Cleveland Herald : Everybody says that this 41 1
faction which really detained Eissator Dasilass
in this city Belau, was not all al the Mt
that the heart bad something toile with it.
the matter stands, of course nobody haws, Ma
somebody does say that that Neutral ishr 1 . 1
bays, which the Senator Mt MI MIS tial
county, will MCP have a wthassea, as well as a
master.
Ns. A very ozoolloatlody unit to bOred
her grandchild is Wady' to do providos
of Iteared; "Wlteliveeree 'Waite hear
asked she. 14 Dar magi tut 6/1611 ss Ist
Uncle Peter puts the butter NA falai is.'
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NUMBER 46.