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SUKPIUSED.
"Ticket, Sir, if ycu please 7
dusk and daylight—the warm
gold of the sunset sky just fading into crim
son, and the train thundered t vtr the iron
track, like srune Rtroriz, furious demon.—
Carl Silver became dimly conscious ot these
things as he started from a brief, restless
slumber, wherein his knapsack had served
as a pillow, and s'ared vaguely into the sharp
Y'ankee face of the obdurate conductor.
"Ticket ! I suppose I've such a thing
about me." he muttered drowsily, searching
first one poeftet and then the other. "Oil
here it is! I say, conductor, are we near
New York?"
"Twenty minutes or so wilTbring us into
Jemy City—we arc making pretty good
time."
And the sh*rrp fuccd official passed on to
harrass the next unfortunate man who had
neglected to put Ids ticket in his hat-band ;
while Captain Silver dragged himself into a
sitting posture, putting his two hands back
of his head with a portensious yawn, and
smiled to remember the famatic dreams
that had chased one another through his
brain during the half hour of cramped, un
easy slumber from which the conductor's
challenge had roused him—dreams in which
bloody battle-fields and lonely night-march
es had blended only with sweet home voices,
and the sulphutous breath of artillery had
mingled with violet scents from the twilight
woods gusts of sweetness from
the tossing clouds of peach blooms through
which the flying train shot remorselessly.
And then Carl Silver began to think of
other things.
"Conductor I" whispered the fat old lady
i pp .site, in the bombazine bonnet and snuiT
c.dured ahaw I.
"Yes'in said the man of tickets, stopping in
his transit through the c.u, and iuchning his
'•Tiiat 3'oung mm in the military cap, con
duct >r—l hope he hain't an escaped lunatic
dressed up in soldiers clothes. I've heercd
' sich tilings, .And I don't, a bit like the
iv;iy he keeps grinning to himself and rub- ;
hiiig his hands together. He's acted queer
ail day. and t in trav'iiti alone, conductor !" i
i
Ti c Conductor laughed and passed on 1
Toe old lady brindled in oiLmied dignity, i
files* her anxious heart! how was she to j
know thut Captain Silver was only rejoicing)
in die glorious '"surprise" he had in store for i
iiis mother and dimpled faced sis'er that
n yht ? Was it not a year—twelve long, j
!<ng months since he had looked upon their 1
fac - I it ? And r.ow
, i
Oh, speed on 3'< ur "ay, express train, j
through quiet villages w here daff >dtls sprink |
le all the garden with gold! Speed over i
the sloping hills, where springing grass!
send* up a laint, debet us -nu-il, and brok> J
babble umler sweeping willows—past lonely )'
church yards, where the hands' of in j
numerable grave stones beckon through the I
gathering 'w,light and are gone; for every J
M rob of your iron pule brings one true j
heart nearer home ! Shot and shell have |
spared him for this hour; fever and pc6ti- |
lenccd an foul malaria have passed him by . I
and now
Suppose there shonhl he an accident! He j
had heard of such things on lightning routes
•Suppose he should be carried home a dead, |
mangle 1 copse, the words of greeting fr< zen
into eternal sile ice on his lips, the glad sight
sealed fotvver under the heavy eyelids !
Strange that such morbid fancies shou'd nev
i
pr have assailed him in the lire and smoke of
Gettysburg, yet come to him now, hke j
guests that would not be given when he was
within twenty minutes of home ? Would it
break his mother's heart ; or would she live
on ? And would Kate Maria m care ? Kate
Mariatn, the blue eyed, shy, littly fairy who
won! ! never look at him save through her
| brown lashes, and whose coy mouth always
made him think of scarlet cherries and roses
dashed in dew.
"To think !"' ejaculated Carl Silver, bring
ing down his bronzed fist on the window
j ledge that ma le the glass rattle ominously
and struck a chill to the heart of the old lady
in the bombazine bonnet—."to think that I,
who would knock down the man who ven.
tured to itII me I was a coward, should be
afraid to say frankly to a sicnder girl that I
lore lutr !"
"To think that the very touch of her
glove, the sound of her footstep, the rustle of
her ribbons, can frighten her self possession
away and m ike a staring, silent idiot of me !" I
After all, what is a man's c mrage worth ? j
There's n > use of thinning of it ! I shall die |
an old bachelor, fori will never marry any j
woman bui Kaie Marium, and 1 never shall
dare to plead tny ca*e with Kate : I wish I
hadu t such an absurd streak of cowardice
through tne."
Yet Captain Sdver's men had told a differ
ent tale when ho led them over the bridge in
that dieadful charge at / ntietam. Coward
ice ! there are several interpretations to that
word.
lt Carnage ! carriage ! No, I won't have
any carriage !Get awny from me, yos fellowi!
You are worse than the locusts of Egypt, and
ten time 6 as noisy," cried Captain Silver, en
ergetically elbowing his way through the
•warm of WKMTS rho oaklnj
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS FS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jeflersou.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 1864.
night hideous at the fool of Cortland street
Do you suppose that lam going to spoil my
precious surprise with a carriage ?"
Broad wav by gaslight ! How strange yet
how familiar, it seems to the returning exile,
with its stately facade of freestone and rnarr
h!e, seeming literally to rest on foundations
of living fire, and its throng 6 of people, com
ing and going in everlasting succssion, like
the tides of a never resting sea. Carl Sil
ver's heart leaped up in his breast with a
quick, joyous throb a' the old accustomed
sight and sounds. It was good to hear his
footsteps ringing on Manhat'aness ground.
N<. light in the house ! His heart stood
still a moment. This was strange—ominous
But then he remembered that his mother
was fond of sitting in the twilight, and dis
missed the lingering doubes from his mind.
How loruy the door was on the latch, and
swung noiselessly open.
Hush ! not a creaking chsr or clanking
spur must betray him ; through tho old fa
miliar hall he passed and into his mother s
room lighted only by the ruddy glimmer of a
bright coal fire.
"Where the mischief are they all ?" ejac
ulated Captain Silver under his breath, "No
matter—they'll be along 6oon ; meantime
I'll wheel up this big chair and take a bask,
forhlie air is chilly, rf ft is the first week in
May. Won't they be astonished, though
when tin y cume ? Upon my word, things
couldn't have happened nicer ! Faugh ! what
a smell of paint--Whitewash, too, aa I'm a
living sinner! Confound it—l've kicked
over a pail of stuff! 11 the women folks aren't
cleaning house!"
The Captain gave an indignant sniff as he
surveyed the desolate scene.
"What comfort a f-tnile can find in turn
ing things upside down, and deluging the
house with soap and water twice a year, 1
can't imagine. Carpets all up—floor damp—
curtains torn down—not one familiar object
to greet a fellow's eyes after a twelve moot h
absencs Irutn homo, Ileigho! I think 111
light a cigar."
Which he did, and began to smoke and
meditate.
There was ajrustle and tripping foot-fall ou
the stair*. Trie Captain took out his cigar
niid listened.
*' That's Minny," said hn to himself—
Mother doesu'l dance upstairs like that."
lie rose and leaned against the door casing
is t'l ■ di *c. lg feet cnue nearer and nearer
How his heart beat as the firelight shown
on ihe crimson merino dress and the ldtle.
white apron "ii the threshboid ! And the
in xi mono-ill he had caught the slight form
hi his arms, and was showering kisses on
cheek, and brew and lips.
" Caught fur once, Miss Minny !" he cx
claim* d. That's to pay you for presuming to
clean In use without mj* pet mission ! No
-you're not going to escape,"
Such a piercing scream as she rewarded his
Iral c-rmil demonstrations with ! Carl Silver
let go her waist and retreated against the
wall with a faint idea of breaking through
(he la'h and plaster, and hiding himself in
the general ruin. Fur as truly as ho stood
there, quaking in Ins regimentals, the voice
was nc t that of his sister Minnv, but—Kale
Mariam !
" How dare you !" sho ejaculated, with
crimson cheek and quivering hp*. I'll ring
the bell cn l caii the servants if you don't
leave the house this minute."
" Upon my wor,d I'm neither a burglcr or
an assassin, pleaded Carl, recovering his self
possession, in a measure, as he saw Kate's
breathless terror. " Don't you know me,
Miss Mariam—Captain Silver!"
" You are an imposter, said Kate with
spirit. Captain Silver is in tho army of the
Pc tomac!"
"No, he's not; he's here," urged Carl.—
How shall I pruvc that I'm myself ? Kate !
Miss Mariain—
For she had sUnk in the chair and began to
cry. lie knelt beside her with a rough at
tempt at comfcrt.
" No, she sobbed, only—only I was so
frightened.
The little, trembling, thing !
CarlSilaer had never seen her in tear 6 before.
No silly assumption of dignity now—no roy
al airs,only brown disheveled hair and cheeks
like red clover blossoms in a shower. He
was the strong one now—how natural it
seemed to clasp the tiny palms in his strong
hand.
" Kate, dearest,! love you! with my whole
heart. Nay, do not be so frightened;- I
would die to save yon one moment's terror.
Only tell me that your heart is mine."
And when the tears were dried, leaving
the eyes like drenched violets,and the cheek*
flushed brightly, Carl Silver had license to
keep one little fluttering hand In his, and he
knew that he was an accepted lover.
" But where is ray mother and sister?—
he a>ked at length. And what i the solu
tion of this strange riddle ?"
" Don't you know," laughed Kate, " they
do not live here any more?"
" Not live here !"
"No ; have you forgotten that yesterday
terday was the first of May 1 ? We occupy
this house now— papc, aunt Millicent and T."
"Oh ! quoth Oarl, "So they've moved.
And I never heard of it. Upon my word they
treat me very coolly."
" Ah, but you would hare heard of it>
said Kate, if you had staid quietly in camp
to get your letter, instead of rovinjf over the
country without a word of warning to your
friends.
" Give me one more kiss. Katie, and I'm
off to see them. Ono more, my betrothed
wife. Does it not seem like a dream ?"
''And you are my soldier now,!' whispered
Kate, playing with the gold buttons on his
coat with tremulous fingers. " Mint to ei nd
out into the battle field to dream and pray
for. Carl, I have always repined that I had
no gift for my country, now I can give my
best and dearest to aid her cause."
" Spoken like a soldiers wife, Kate," said
Silver, with kindling eyes. If you but knew
how much better wo men fight for knowing
that woman's love and woman's prayers en
shrine us with a golden, unseen armor—non
sense ! I'm getting sentimental. Good
night."
So there were three surprises that May
evening—one for Kaie Marriam, (wouldn't
you have been surprised, Mademoiselle, to be
caught and kissed in the dark and not know
who the kisser was?) one for Captain S'lver
(a very agreeable one though,) and the old
original surprise, if we may bo term it, for
his mother and sister. And Carl has not yet
left i ff congratulating himself that his "leave
of absence" occured in the flowery and mig
r.rorv month of May. For if he hadn't blun
dered into Miss Mariam's house, and kissed
her by mistake, thereby bringing matters
precipitately to a focus, the probabilities are
that to this day he never would have mus
tered courage to tell her of his love.
And when the golden armadas of tTlb au
tumn leaves float down the forest brooks,
and the blue mist of Indian summer wraps
the hills in dreamy light, Carl Silver is com
ing hack to seal Kate Mariam's destiny with
wedding ring.
FIFTEEN GREAT MISTAKES
It is a great mistake to set up our own
standard of right and of wrong, and judge
people accordingly. It is a gr.-at mistake to
measure the enjoymept of others by our own;;
to expect uniformity of opinion in thi3 world'
to look for Judgment and experience in youth
to endeavor to *nould all dispositions alike ;
not to yield in immaterial trifles ; fo look for
perfection in our actmns ; to worry ourselves
and others with what Mnnot be remedied ;
not to alleviate all that needs alleviation a-; i
far as lies in our power ; not to make allow, j
mice* fur the infirmities of others ; to Consid- j
er everything impossible which we cannot ;
perform, to believe only what our finite minds j
can grasp ; to expect to he able to under-*
stand everything. The greatest of all mis
takes is to live only for Time, and that when
any moment may launch us into Eternity, j
-4*b-
There is a man in Totness so witty
that his wife manufactures all the butter that j
f ' '
the family uses from the cream of his jokes.
CLtC The fellow who gel intoxicated with
1 delight, has been turned out of the temper*-
ance society.
car exchange says lovers, like ar
mies, get along'quietly enough until they are
engaged.
Water isn't a fashionabie beverage for
drinking j*our friends health, but it is a capi
tal one for drinking your own.
Let a woman bedecked with all the em
bellishment of art and nature, yet if bold
ness be read in her face, it blots out all the
lines of beauty,
It has been said that a clattering little soul
In a larze body is like a swallow in a barn—
the twitter takes up more room than the
bird.
Some mischievous wags, one night, pulled
down a turner's sign; and put it over a law
yer's door; in tb e morning it read, "All sorts
of turning and twisting done here."
A genins named Flaherty, of Washington
city, has the following posted on his window
•' Eggs newly lata here on the shortest no
tice" • • I••
A Western Editor says that in tho town
where his paper is published, 1 a rattlesnake
was killed a few days ago by a man with
thirteen rattles."
A doctor returned a coat to a tailor be
cause it did not fit him. The tailor seeing
the dooior at tha funeral of one of his pa
tients, said, " Ah, doctor you are a happy
man,'
" Why so ?"
" Because, replied the tailor, you never
have any of your bad work leturnpd on your
hands."
Have you a sister ? Then bve and cher
ish her syith a holy friendship. And if you
have none, why love somebody else's sister.
A Greenhorn desires to know why crock
ery ware dealers re unlike all other shop
keeers j And *dd%,very imoceotly. " Because
it wont do for them to crack up their goode."
I) ASH FUG NESS IN YOUTH
Young people, on their first admission to
this outer world, are especially afflicted with
false shame ; so that it inay be regarded s
one of the moral diseases of the mine's infan
cy. It is at the bottom of a great deal of
their shyness. They cannot feel at ease, be
cause they mistrust something about them*
selves or their belonging*, and bare that feel
ing ot bareness und exposure in the presence
of unfamiliar eyes which attaches to sensi
tiveness under untried circumstances. Every
thing then assumes a magnified, exaggerated
characiet, the place they occupy on the one
hand, and the importance uf the occasiou on
the oilier. The present company is ihe woild
the universe, a convention uf men and gods
all forming a deliberate and u reversible judg
ment upon them, and deciding to their disad
vantage on account of some oddness, or awk
wardness, or pa&sin, slip m iheui selves or in
the access *ries about them. But irj must
per*ons, time and experience bring so much
humility as teaches them their insignificance.
It is not, we soon learn, very lively that at
any given time a mixed assemblage is think
ing very much about us ; and then the hotror
ola consp cuous position loses its main stuig !
This on the one Land ; on the other, we are
not as dependent on the award ol socitiy as
we were. Even a roomful comprises, to out
enlarged imagination, by no means the whole
citation. There is something worth caring
for outside those wails. And aleo we have
cume to form a sort of estimate ol ourselves
There is now a third pariy IU tbe question, in
ihe shape of relf-respect. We realize thai we
are t< ourselves of immeasurably more conse
quence thariany one else can be to us. Thus,
either by reason or thenatuial hardening and
strengthening process of the outer air, most
people overcome any couspicuous di&play ol
the weakness. By the time youth is over,
they have either accepted their position or
set about in a business-like way to meud it.
He who waits to do a great deal ol
good at once will never do anything. Life i#
ma le up of little things. It is very rartly,
au occasion is offered for doing a great deal
at once. True greatness consists in being
great in little things, D.ops make the ocean,
and the greatest works are done by littles
li we would do much good in 'he world, we
must be willing to do good in little things.
A Lady, whose style of piety was more af
fected than attractive, once took a friend to
task Lr wearing feathers. -'But," said the
friend, wh} are my feathers any more objec
tionable than the brilliant artificial flowers in
your own bonnet ? "Oh," replied the censo
rious lady. "Christians must draw the line
somewhere, and I draw it at feathers.
your child tubed happy -
Whatever cares press give it a warm good
night Kiss as it goes to its pillow. The
mem-ry of this in the stormy years which
fate msy have in store for the htt'e one, will !
be like Bcthleheui'a star to bewi'dvred shep
herds.
A SOFTENER. —A woman's teats softens a
man'.* heart ; her flatteries his head.
Tom presented his bill to relghbor i
Joe for service rendered. The latter looked
at it. and expressed much surprise at the
amount.
Why Tom it strikes me you have made out
a pretty round bill here, eh ?
"I'm sensible its a round one, quoth Tom,
and I've come for the purpose of having it
tquaied,
llow is your husband this after- i
noon, Mrs. Squiggs ?"
"Why, the doctor says as how as has, if he
lives till the inorniu' be shall have some
hopes of him, but if he don't he must give
him up."
. J.p
MARRIED, at Detroit, Michigan, by the
Rev. Mr. Cnot, Mr. Thomas Hum to Miss
Ella Bug. Who will, after this, say marri
age is a Humbug ?
To be ahead of time—carry your
watch behind you.
—
flpySomc wag has thus defined marriage
—two nod 3 and a five dollai prayer.
cur If yon cannot please without being ;
false to yourself, you had better displease.
rar What part of speech is a kiss ? A i
conjunction. And what form ? A lip tick
le.
C3T The roost curious thing in tho world j
is a woman who is not curious.
•
Qmlls are things that are taken from
the pinions of one goose to spread the opin
ions of another.
C3T The man who never says nothing to
nobody, was married last week to the lady
who never speaks ill of no one.
-
EST The worst feature of a man's face is
bis nose—when stuck in other people's bu4i*
<• - V
now.
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TUK RULING PASSION,
An eminent French artist posaerseaa tedfl
ey, very intelligent, ugly, but an im-~
roense, pet of her owner's. Madeinoitillff
Nouniqe, however, possesses all the defect*
which the cynic considers to be particularly
feminine. She is lazy, inqiisitve, excess
ively addicted to sugar plums, fruit cake, Ac.,
fidgety, disorderly, touching everything
breaking everything she touches, daubing *
h< r master's pictures, twisting the neclta of
his wife's canaries, and one upon a time,
pulled eve"}' feather out of a splendid parrot'
m imitation of the cook, who she had seen
day before picking a fowl. A Sh<rt titna
since, the arlist, having to go out, and dread
ing lest Nouine sum 1 perform sitor na# '
piece of mischief during his absence, betbo't
himself of a method of furnishing her #tth
something to do until I%is return. He ac
coadingty took the monkey in his lap, dress
ed her in a gay gown which had served M *
model in one of his pictures, in which figuftf
a marquis < f the time of Lotus XiV, painted
her cheeks white and red, with a black
under on# eve, powdered her heatV
tiung a huge string o beads aroundher neck,'
mid then having seated her on the floor, in a
crrer of the atilier, with a small lookiog
glass in her hand, left her, not without soma
misgiving, and promising himself ndf toTii
longrway. But instead of returning early,
the artist was unexpectedly detained, and
only got home the next morn ng. He at;
the atelier went in terror, expecting to find
everything upside down, and half his pictures
spoiled.
"I ready must got rid of Noume," said the
artist to himself, as he anxiously unlocked
; the dt or of his studio, "for I cannot let my
work remain at the little wretch's mercy %
| But to his surprise and relief he found her
asleep, exactly where he had placed her, and
I holding the looking glass in her hands. Not
a thing had been touched by her in the ar'
list's absence,
j "The fact is," continued the cynic, "that
the ugly little beast, as vain as her sex enti
tius her to be, had been so enraptured with
heJ own beauty ar.d that of her finery, that
she had remained through the entire day, ab
sorbed in the contemplation of her charming
| self in the little hand-glass. Now tell ma,"
he added triumphantly appealing to His lis—
teners, "does anybody believe that a mate
monkey would have passed a whole after
noon in gjzing at himself in a mirror, and
can anybody doubt, after such a proof to the
contrary, that vanity is the ruling passion o
the female 6ex ?"
—
At the Brady House, Ilarrisburg, a fa#
days since, two friends were cinrersing, and
one of them asked: 'By the way S———,
what are your politics ?" "A Democrat, ir,
because my father was a Democrat," an
swered the person addressed. "And what ia
' your religion 2" "A Protestant, sir, because
y father was a protestaot." "And why *re
® you a bacheler r" "Because my father wal#
a—" At this moment S happened to
think what he was saving, so he turned away
"Oh, darn! whats the use talking ? Ton't
bother me with your silly questions."
In early youth, while yet we live among
those we love, we love without restrains, and 1
our hearts overflow in every look, word and "
action. But when we enter into the world,
and are repulsed by strangers, and forgotten
by friends, we grow more and timid in our
approaches, eveu to those we love best. Hovr
delightful to us then, are the caresses of ' J
children. All 6mccjity, all affection, they '
fly into our irms; and then only, wo feel the
renewal of our first confidence and firrt
pleasure.
... -eiD L.
Ilavo you ever thought of ii 1 The mem- .\
cry of an eye is the most deathless of memo- J
ries. because there, if anywhere, you catch a
ghmpse of the viable soul as jt sila by the
window.
King George of Greece, during his lata
tour through' his kingdom, requested on hia
arjival at Missoloughi, to be shown Byron'#
tomb. His majesty wai greatly shocked at
its dilapidated condition, and gaqe orders for
the immediate repair of the poets last resting:
place.
i' to®
-a-
Punch savs that the reason why ed
itors are so apt to have their manners spot J
ed, is b cause they receive from one aorre#-
pondent and another such a vast amount of
evil communications, . t
• i
A member of the luzy Society was com- t
plained of for running. His defence waa that
he was going down hill, and that it was more ,
lebor to walk than to ruu. Complaint sras
dismissed with expenses.
In Chester county, Pa., it is stated that
not less than thirty mills are now at work
manufacturing sorghan syrup The price#
, cluirged is 25 to 30 ceuls per gallon.
COST Why is dancing like new milk ?-* * *
Beca use it strengthens the calyes
own
Early rising in the country I# not an ia- 4
•tinct; it ts a sentiment #ud rauit be cu'ti '
vmted. • , < m- s
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