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"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. " —Thomas Jefferson.
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left's ©ariter.
THt; ssow!
Oh ! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below ;
Over the house-tops, over the streets,
Over the heads of the people you meet,
Dancing,
Flirting,
Skimming along ;
Beautiful snow ; it can do no wrong,
Tljing to kiss a fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in a frolicsome fruak,
Beautiful saow from Heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love !
Oh! the mow, the beautiful snow,
j How the flakes gather and laugh as thy go
Whirling about in the maddening fun,
Jt plays iu its glee with every one,
C'hasiog,
Laughing,
Hurry irg by ;
It lights on the face and it sparkles the eye !
And even the dogs with a hark and a bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy arou ud ;
: Ihe town is alive, and its heart in a glow,
, Jo welcome the coming of beautiful enow!
! How the wild crowd goos swaying along,
i Hailing each other with humor and song !
How the gay sle Iges, like meteor.-, fl teh by,
i Bright for (he moment then lost to the eye ;
Ringing,
Swinging.
Dashing they go,
, Over the crust of the beau' 'ul snow;
Snow so pure when fat!® a. the sky,
j To le trampled iu -.moi ■ > f. crowd rushing by,
To be trampled aud tracked by the thousands of
feet,
Til! it blends with the filth in the horrible street.
On-e I was pure as the snow ! But I fell!
I I el! nke the snow-flakes from heaven to hell ;
Fell to bo trampled as filth of the street;
Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat;
Pleadiug. ,
Cursing,
Dreading to die,
, S-'llmg my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a msrsel of broad,
H.uir.g the living and fearing the dead ;
M'Wciiul God ! have I fallen so low 7
And yet i was once I;ke the beiutiful snow.
, C'nee I was fair as the beautiful snow,
\\ ith an eye like its crystal, a heart like its glow ;
j Once I was loved for my innocent grace—
| I 'uttered and sought for the cbartns of my face !
Father,
Mother,
Sisters all,
God, uni myself, I hove lost by my fall ;
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
\N ill lake a wi te sweep lest 1 wander to > nigh ;
j 1 or all that ts on or above me I know.
There is nothing as pure as the beautiful snow.
lluw str:mge it shiul 1 be that this beautiful sn. w
; Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go !
llow strange it should le, when the light come*
again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperafc brain,
Fainting,
Frceking,
Dying alone,
Too wicked for a prtrer, too weak for a moan,
To be hear I in the stieets of the crazy town,
G n j mad in fh 3 joy of the snow coining down,
| do J e, aud so die in mv terrible woe,
t With .a bed an 1 a shroud of the beautiful snow.
I Select IHflrg.
TUG HAUNTKI) HOUSE,
lit BIN. FRANKLIN lIOLLIS.
RaJ r, flit! you ever see a prfiost —a real
live ? Ifi'l you ever know of a
hauntet] Louse where hohgoblins and other
unearthly things held their reveries?—
, DuiiT tun nw—• he liim, liare patience
and read. Maiysville is a beautiful citv ;
T might sav, the most so in all the land
! which mirrors the Occidental sea! Her
gard its of clustering vines, bespangled
with rosy petals, poetically termed ' the
; children of the sun," ,sift their fragrant
breath along the shady walks, and the
! thrilling notes of feathered songsters com
mune in exquisite melody. Still Marvs
ville had its haunted house, its hobgoblins
I and ghosts.
The slough which runs through the
j north-westcin portion of tlie cily is not
d fi'crent perhaps, mechanically speaking,
from <'tlier sloughs as the thousands who
have crossed the bridge whieh spans it
will testifv ; there were some, however.who
thought ciitlerent, as this narative wi'l show.
Just above that bridge stood an old dilapi
dated bouse, which, while we knew it, bad
only been inhabited at intervals, and its
tenants invariably left the premises after
on- night of terrible hallucinations. You
will find brave men i< all communities,
and we shall now proceed to show how
the courage of our her or rather victims
was tested.
Tlmre resided in Marysville, a beautiful
girl, whom we shall call Rose Beaumont.
In features she was prepossessing, in man
ners courteous and obliging, showing no
distinction between wealth and poverty,
position or profession. Tn her eyes all
men were equal who conducted themselves
with propriety. For the poor apprentice
boy, or honest mechanic, her smiles were
as warm and unreserved as for the "no
j blest lords in the land." Everybody loved
! Rose, and she had reasons to know it.—
, i Like most of girls, she liked fun, and knew
how to on]ov it. .She had heard of the
haunted l ouse often, a.itl formed a plan to
j try the courage of some of her lovers, by
' ferreting out, if possible, the strange and
I mysterious truths concerning the same.—
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 1866.
It was soon known among those it inter- j
ested, that Rose had promised her heart
and hand to whoever might solve the prob
lem ; and as a result, the bouse in question
was literally beseiged on a certain night
by brave men and smitten hearts. It so
happened that no ghosts made their ap
pearance on that night, no raps nor thumps
were heard, save the din and rattle of
voices from those present.
The whole party left at daylight in a dis
contented mood, and in no manner wiser
to. their sleepless adventure in the spirits'
mansion Billy thought a world of
Rose ; so, on the following night, soon aft
er dark, he concluded to visit the ghost,
or whatever they might be—and we shall
let him in here, to tell his own story :
"I moved cautiously toward the building
and entered a side door. There were four
rooms on the first floor, and as 1 wanted
some way to escape if things did not suit
me, I held the impression tlfct I should
stop where 1 was, so closing the door but
still retaining my hold on the knob, 1
stood perfectly silent for half an hour.—
No unnatural sound was heard during that
time, and now that I had broke the ice, I
ventured a little deeper and reached the
middle room. My feet had scarcely cross
ed the threshold, when thump! thump!
thump ! greeted tny ears, followed by a
most unearthly yell which proceeded from
directly over my head, 'ln the the name of
all that is mortal!" I exclaimed, "make
yourselves known whoever you may be,
or 1 shall try the virtue of cold lead in
your case.
Rap! -ap ! rap! was the only answer
which I received, and raising my revolver
I sent a bullet through the ceding. The
report was instantly followed by a he vy
thump, like the body of a person would
cause falling on tire floor. A gleam of
triumph shot from my eyes ; I was sure
I had dispatched the supposed ghost; I
listened again with breathless assurance ;
no sound prevaded the deathly stillness
which followed, and I struck a match in
order that I might ascend the stairs ; I had
almost reached the top when my match
went out, and simultaneously I was seized
bv two separations, bound hand and foot,
and dragged to a side room. I could not
speak, for so unexpectedly overpowered,
the shook stiffled and choked inc.
Presently I opened my eyes, *nd with
the aid of the moon's pale glimmer I saw
one of the strange objects remove a robe
which covered t' e head,and reveal a hu
man face ! and such eyes—they seemeif
like balls of fire moving about at leisure,
stopping occasionally to gaze wildly down,
t.< my terror stricken| vision. Slowly re
covering my self-possession, I raised iny
head partly from the floor, and cried out:
For the love of God, give me liberty or
kill me on the spot!
Then came a voice in a thrill and rum
bling tone, which w ill never be eradicated
from my memory, saying:
'•Silence —silence while you live, for
soon you will die!"'
"Oh,'' I thought to myself, "where was
my courage now ? Lost, lost !" 1 mur
mured, and sank back in despair.
I lay thus completely prostrated for
sometime, when a new sense of my posi
tion nerved me to desperation. * I resolv- '
ed that it I mu9t should not be with- 1
out a struggle, and remembering that I '
had a pocket knife with me. I managed to
get in* hands iu such a position as to reach '
u,which I did, and cut the cords that bound
me, and sprang to mv feet. If my cour- 1
age had been renewed I must acknowledge '
it predominated for a moment only; at the
first glance I observed the ghost preparing '
for my execution ! A huge block and a
glittering axe was all I remember seeing, '
when I fell senseless to the floor. 1
Again I returned to consciousness and
again I raised my head to look about inc.
The preparations were near completed,the
apparations stood about the same distance
from the stairs as myself—life was precious '
and with one bour.d I cleared the stairs .
and sped out of the door.
****** '
I did no! relate this adventure to anv '
on ft. If I had, I was certain thev would <
laugh at me: I therefore kept rntfni, and 1
concluded that if this was the road to wo
man's affection. I would go the othfer way,
and live and die a bachelor.
The next victim wa* George .who I
being dailv sworn, dcpoeth and avs : T ]
would do anything to win Rose Beaumont (
and I earning of proposition she had (
made, I expected there would beatremen- ]
dons rush for the haunted house ; so I'd ]
wait for a few davs. and then ascertain if (
there be such things as ghosts in the vicin
t.V; and, if so, whether I could not compro
mise with them, in order to arrange things
with the charming Rose.
I waited until Saturday evening, and
about eight o'clock on that evening. I 1
swung a large bowie knife at mv sidp,and
went forth to* meet the foe. I believed j
too, that "a faint heart never won fair la
dy." and feeling mv heart to be in the con
dition to win Rose, T was confident of suc
cess. As I opened the front door, I called
out:
"/f there be any spirit present; they
will please make manifest by rapping three
times."
The response came immediately, for
three decidedly strong knocks on the top
of mv head laid me sprawling on the floor! j
Before I had time to seize mv knife, or de-,
fend mvself in the least, I was bound hand J
and foot, and lifted by two strange-locking
objects. White as a sheet. I was carried
Inp stairs. All the courags I thought 11
possessed was now frightened out of me
and I became docile as a lamb. I did not
9hout murder, or struggle, as most persons
would under such circumstances, for I
knew I was powerless, and deiermined to
use the persuasive plan to be released from
the perilous situation.
In a straightforward manner, I said :
"Whoever you may be, either of earth
or heaven, let me plead to you for mercy
I did not come here to harm anybody, but
at the earnest solicitation of one who is
the life of life—the purest and brightest
hope of my heart, and who alone could
make my life a blessing."
But I was interrupted here by one of
the objects, who exclaimed:
"Silence —silence while you live, for soon
ye will die!"
"Die !" I retorted. "Ob, heavens, you
will not murder me!"
But there was no response.
1 was left alone. They soon returned,
one with a large bowl, and the other strap
ping a keen-edged razor on the palm of
his hand, lt was now evident that I was
to be butchered —slaughtered like an ox ;
a trembling began to crawl over me from
head to foot, my teeth chattered together,
and oh. I cannot describe my feelings, or
utter the thought which passed tny pobr
brain. A box was now brought forward,
on which I was placed in a sitting position
One of the objects now took bis place lie
hind ine, and placing his baud on my fore
head, pressed my head back, which q..tok
ened my breath, and I expected even
breath drawn would be iny last. Judge of
my surprise when I felt the razor's edge
ploughing through my hair, and the lock*
which Rose had so often admired fell upon
my face, and glided to tlie floor ! I was
mute, and never flinched; finally every
vestige of hair was shaved from my head,
and both mv tormentors went to another
room. Casting my eves downward, I saw
the razor had been left on the box at my
side, and with great exertion I managed to |
secure it, and sever the cords which bound
me.
There was aw indow near where I was i
—it was my only chance, and 1 sprung ■
through it to the ground, some fifteen feet;
below. I was not hurt otherwise than bv
spraining my wrist 1 still held on to the j
razor. I found the name of a well known
person written on the handle. The mys
tery was solved, and, although I lost my
hair, 1 spoiled the reign of ghosts in that
house.
It appeared that certain paities had re- j
solved to have sport over the proposition |
of Rose Beaumont, with the result we!
have stated. The evidence was satisfacto-!
ry that George had won the maiden, for i
•the parties whom the lazor exposed had ,
discovered that the peculiar noise, so often j
heard, was caused by the large number of i
rats who held their court within its walls. J
George and Rose still reside in Marysville j
but the haunted house passed away duung
the floods which, a tew years since, sub
merged the valleys of California.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.
It is worth while for all farulers every
where, to remember that thorough culture
is better than three on their
farm.
That good fences always pay better than
lawsuits with neighbors.
That hay is a great deal cheaper made
in the surnme.i, than purchased in the wiii
tet.
That more stock perish from famine
than founder.
That a horse who lays his cars back and
looks like lightning when any one approach
es him, is vicious—don't buy liiin.
' That scrimping the feed of fattening
hogs is a waste of grain.
That over fed fowls won't lay eggs.
That educating children is money lent
at a hundred per cent.
That one evening spent at home in study
is more profitable than ten lounging about
a conntry tavern,
That cows should always he milked reg
ularly and clean.
ulThat it is the duty of every man to take
some good reliable entertaining paper, and
—pay for it promptly —of course
The address from the Council of
the Irish Republic, at Dauphin, was pub
lished yesterday in New York. It says
the work of preparation is done, and that
the goal can be clearly seen, and calls for a
loan to be paid six months after the estab
lishment of Irish independence. The ad
dress is endorsed by Colonel O'Mahony,
who urges prompt action by the Brother
hood.
A fact highly honorable to tvpos is
disclosed by a late report of the New York
Inspector of State Prisons ; while ;dl other
occupations sr- represented in their large
number of convicts, there is not a single
printer. Is it because they are mote mor
al than other people, or are they smarter
and so escape detection ?—well, any way it
is creditable to them.
<s* The lawyer's motto —be brief.—
The doctor's motto —be patient. The pot
ter's motto —beware. The type-setter's
motto —be composed.
The lady who made a dash, has
since brought her husband to a full stop.
"i
People behiud the time should be
fed on ketchup.
THE CIRCUIT OF CARBON THROUGH
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LILE.
Among those operations of nature whicbt
may go contemplated from new points of
view with ever-renewed interest, in the cir
cuit which carbon is perpe ually running
through animal and vegetable organises.
Upon the continuance of this circuit de
pends the existence of all life upon our
globe If it were suspended, all animals
would cease to breathe, and all vegetables
to grow; the sea would become a lifeless
waste of waters, and the earth an uninhab
ited desert, with no leaf or flower, or liv
ing thing upon its plains or mountains.
Here is a piece of eliaicoal that was ve
ry lecently an essential portion of a grow
ing oak tree. If we set it on fire and ex
pose it to a currant ot air, its color chang
es from black to red, and it slowly vanishes
from our sight—vanishes, not by some
trick of legerdemain, but by actually be
coming invisible. The miracle would ex
cite D"r wonder but for the fact that we
have seen it performed so many times be
'fore.
To the imperfect observation of the un
aided senses, it seems plain that the char
coal is annihilated ; but the power ol mod
ern science can follow in its invisible flight
and can ascertain positively that every
ounce end grain of its substance is still in
existence, and that it weighs precisely as
much now as it did when in a solid mass,
before undergoing its miraculous transtor
© o
mation.
The simple explanation of the disap
pe,trance is that the charcoal in burning
combined with the oxygen of the atmos
phere—that the two elements, thns com
bined, constitute carbonic acid—and that
[ carbonic acid at ordinary temperature* is a
colorless gas. The charcoal in its combi
nation with oxygen has been changed from
the solid to the gaseous state, and has, by
this change, become transparent and invis
ible.
The same combination of carbon and ox
ygen is always going on in the interior of
our bodies, a given quantity of carbon gen
erating, in this case, the same amount of
heat—though not of the same intensity—
as when charcoal is burned in a fire. It is
in this way that the body is kept warm, and
the vital functions are Icept in operation
The lungs are made up of numerous min
ute sells of extremely thin membrane, on
one side of which delicate blood vessels
are distributed, while the air comes in con
tact with the other side. This membrane
has the property of obsorbing oxygen from
the air, and of passing it through by en
dosmosis into the blood. The blood, thus
supplied with oxygen, returns to the heart
and is forced through the arteries all
over the system. The digested food, being
also poured into the blood, is brought in
contact with the oxygen, when the carbon
of the food combines with oxygen, forming
carbonic acid, and generating, heat. On
tlie return of the blood to the lungs, the
carbonic acid passes outward through the
membrane by ex osmosis, and is expelled
through the nostrils into the atmosphere.
This carbonic acid floats in the atmosphere
until it comes in contact with a growing
leaf, when it is instantly absorbed, and un
der the combined acticn of light and veg
etable life is decomposed, the carbon is
carried inward to help build up the struc
ture of the plant, or to aid in the formation
of fruit and grain, to be again used fer food,
while the oxygen is set free in the atmos
phere to be again breathed by some animal,
again combined with carbon to keep up the
slow tire of animal life, and again restored
to the atmosphere.
Thus carbon runs its perpetual circuit
from the animal to the vegetable world,
and from the vegetable back to the animal
keeping up, in its course, both forms of
organic life.— Scientific American.
A BF.AUTIF.UL EMPRESS, —The Em
press of Austria is said to be one of the
most beeutilu! ff the Princesses of Europe,
and, from her description, would certainly
seem to be a very charming woman. She
is tall, slender, graceful, with a very white
skin, a god deal of color, large, limpid
blue eyes, and an amazing head of ligl t
hair, which she wears in eight massive
braid*, wound round and round her head,
forming a magnificent diadem of hair, such
as very few women could match from
their own resources She speaks all the
principal tongues of Europe, and is partic
ularlv fond or the English language, which
she speaks as perfectly as though it w< re
her native dialect. The Empress is an
excellent musician, paints and draws ex
tremely well, and is one of the boldest
horsewomeu of Au*tria. She possesses a '
stud of very valuable horses, and a pack
of splendid hout.ds; and she is said to
take the warmest interest in the racing
and hunting of all Europe, and to know by
heart the names of the heroes of the turf,
biped and quadruped, of all the countries
of Europe. In addition to all these attrac
tions, she is said to have a remarkably
good temper.
A young man somewhere in Chica
go, has been discovered to be heir to SIOO.
000, lie is missing, and they are advertising
for him to come forward. Several young
ladies hereabouts are looking for a young
man just like him.
Punch says that a Yankee baby
will crawl out of his cradle, take survey of
it, invent an improvement, and apply for a
j patent before he is six months old.
TERMS, 52,00 PER AXNUM
;T. ;
I WOKUS IN LSE. —The pcasanls of Eng
land hare Hot tnore than 300 words in
(their vocabulary. The ancient sages of
so far as we know from their hiero
glyphic inscriptions, used but GBS words.
A well educated person in England or
America seldom uses more than about
3,W0 or 4.000 words' in actual conversa
tion. Accurate thinkers and close reason
crs whe avoid vague and general expres
-1 j sions, and wait till they find the word that
' exactly fits their meaning, employ a larger
1 stock ; and eloquent speakers may rise to
a command of 10,000. Shakspeare, who
displayed a greater variety of expressions
than probably any writer in any language,
wrote all his plays with about 15,000
words. Milton's works arc composed of
8,000; and the Old Testament says all
that it has to say with 5,042 words.
TVRLS OF GOSSIP. —I have known a
country society which withered away all
to nothing under the dry-rot of gossip on
ly. Friendship once as firm as granite,
i dissolved to jelly, and then run away to
I water, only because of this ; love that
promised a future as enduring as
heaven and as stable as truth, evapora
ted into a morning mist that turns, to a
day's long tears, only because of this ; a
father and son were set foot to foot with
the fieri breath of anger, oidy because of
this; and a husband and hiss young wife,
each straining at the heated lash, •that in
the beginning had been golden bondage of
a God blessed love, sat mournfully by the
side of the grave where all their love and
joy lay buried, and only because of this.
1 have seen faith transformed to mean
doubt, hope gi?e place to grim despair,
and charity take on itself'he features of
blank malevolence, all because of the spell
words of scandal, and the magic mutter
ings Agossip.
Great crimes work great* wrongs, and
the deeper tragedies of human life springs
from its larger passions, but woeful and
and most melancholy are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and de
traction, most mournful the shipwreck oft
en made of noble natures and lovely lives
by the bitter winds and dead salt waters
of slander. So easy to say, yet so hard to
disprove—throwing on the innocent, and
punishing them as guilty if unable to pluck
out the strings they never see, and to si
lence words they never hear Gossip and -
slander are the deadliest and the cruelest
weapons man has for his brothers hurt
All the Yeor Round.
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COMMON* CRIERS. —It is surprising {says
a late wriier) how infectious tears are at a
wedding First of"all the bride cries, be
cause she's going to be married ; and then
of course, the* bridesmaid* cry. perhaps,
because she'll 1 1 lose her d d darling; and
then the fond papa cries, because he thinks
its proper; and then ail the ladies cry, be
cause ladies, as a rule, will never miss a
chance of crying; and t) en, perhaps, the
groomsmen cry, to keep the lauies compa
ny ; and then the old pew-opener cries, to
show what deep pecuniary interests he
takes in the proceedings ; and then per
haps, the public cries, the public being, of
course, composed exclusively of petticoats
But notwithstanding all these Niobes, who
make quite a Niagara of eye water around
them, we own we never yet have seen the
bridegroom cry, and should about as soon
expect to bear the beadle whimper.
Oca TURN MUST COME. —"Generation
after generation," says a fine writer, "have
felt as we feel, and their lives were as ac
tive as our own. They passed like a vapor
while nature wore the same aspect, of beau
ty as when hor Creator commanded her to
be. The world will have the same attrac
tions for our offspring yet unborn as she
had once for us as children. Yet a little
while and all will have happened. The
throbbing heart will have been stifled, and
we shall be left alone in silence and in
darkness to the worms. And it may be
for a short time we shall be spoken of; but
the things of life will creep in, and our
names will soon be forgotten. Days will
continue to move on, and laughter and song
will be heard in the room in which we
died ; vnd the eyes th mourned for us
will be dried, and glisten again with j<>y,
and even our children will cease to think
of us, and will forget to lisp our names."
A SHORT LOVE STOUT —Here isa story
by one Morgan, a sea captain, concerning •
a husband at sea, which may atfoid a om
fortable hint to young ladies :
Single ladies cros> the water under the
special care of the captai.i of the ship, and
if a love affair occurs among the passen
gers, the captain is usually a confidant of
one or both parties. A very fascinating
young lady had been placed under Mor
gan's care, and three young gentlemen fell
desperately in love with Iter. Tltoy were
all equally agreeable, and the young ktJy
was puzzled which to encourage She ask
ed the capt. ins advice, "i ome on deck,"
he said, "the fiist day it is perfectly calm.
The geiith men will ol course be near you.
I shall have a boat lowered, and do you
jump overboard, and see which of the gen
tlemen will jump after you. 1 will tako
care of yon." * A
A calm day soon came, the captain'*
suggestions were followed, ami two of the
lovers jumped after the lady at an instant.
But between these two the lady could not
decide, so exactly had been their devotion.
• She anain consulted the captain. "Take
the man that didn't jump ; lie is the most
1 sensible fellow, arid will make you the best
husband." — Chamber• Journal.
VOL. 5 NO. 27