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Juokhannock, September 11, 1961.
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i use, 3rd, 1863
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my MArmiAGrE,
OR THE DREADFUL. WIDOW,
I was making mv wav through a crowd
in a by-street which I supposed had col
lected tor the contemplation and enjoy
ment of some trilling and contemptible
disturbance, but into which at the time I
was not in the mood to inquire, when rav
course was Arrested by a pair of beautiful
black eyes under a lady's roil, which met
mine with a mute appeal which I could
not lor a moment resist.
"What is the matter ?" I demanded of
the possessor of the black bright eyes.
A remarkably sweet voice replied, ''l
have ventuied to interfere in behalf of a
child I saw the people abusing, but lam
afraid that, without some assistance, my
effort will be unavailing."
"Wasn't abusing it," cried several roush
voices together. "She was only fighting
with little Mike, and she'd got the best of
him, too, if ve'd let her alone."
"It is quite enough," said the lady with
spirit, her splendid eyes flashing as she
spoke, "that your sex should disgrace it
self in this way. I shall not allow mine,
especially such a little creature as this, to
make a savage brute of itself, if I can help
it."
"Y'ou are right, madam," I said. "The
1 •
man who would see your sex dragged into
the prize-ring must have little resp< ct for
his ovn mother. Y'ou are Quixotic, how—
evi r. to assume the dutjes of tins-child's
natural protector. Where arc its parents?' -
"Dead," cried three other little children
in chorus.
"Where—how does the little girl live
tlien ?"
"She lives with M'ss Fanny Flink, and
does errands for her."
"What sort of a person is this? inquired
the dark-eyed lady.
"She dresses finer than you do, ma'am,'
replied one of the ftmale bystanders;
"but she is not exactly the person to bring
up a child in the way it should go, as she
ha* strayed a long way out herself."
The pointed truthfulness of this remark
raided a langh among the acquaintances ol
Miss Fannie Flink.
The lady, in the meantime, had not let
no her hold on a half-clad, sturdy little girl
whose face was Hushed with passion, and
discolored with blood, dirt, and tears. —
She stooped down to Iter, raiding her veil,
and said, "Little ope, if you go with me I
will find you a good home. You shall
nave nice clothes, enough to eat. and be
taught to read and write What do you
say ?'
The sweetness ar.d beauty of ihe lady's
face surprised me ; the child seemed quite
overpowered by her gentle influence, and
replied : "Y'es, ma'am, I will go with you
anywhere."
At this juncture a policeman arrived on
the spot, and the ladv at once addressed
herself to him, explaining the, case and
shortly afterward she walked away, leading
her little charge, escorted by the guardian
of the peace. Although much pressed for
time, I lingered to look after her till she
tinned the corner ; for never had I seen a
face which seenud to me half so lovely as
hers, and it me ever after.
I had, however, at that time too many
troubles of my own, to afford time to look
after those of others. A very lo.ig and
expensive lawsuit exhausted the once
handsome fortune that had long kept my
family in so enviable a position, and left
me nothing but fallacious hopes and illusive
expectations. My father (lied during the
slow progress of the litigation ; the lawyer
who had couducted it also died before its
conclusion ; and it appeared too probable
that my mother, too, would pass away
without the satisfaction of knowing that so
ranch money, thought, anxiety and sus
pense had not been entirely thrown away.
She was very ill; and I foresaw with cer
tainty that the slender thread wjiich held
her to this life would snap, if the final de
ci-ion in our cause, which it was believed
would soon be rendered, should be against
us; for it would necessitate the sale of all
that remained to us, and leave us little bet
ter than beggars. It was our last stake,
upon which all our hopes and confidence
had gradually concentrated ; and if that
were lost we had nothing more to lose
nothing but black despair to encounter,
which we durst not anticipate.
The lawyer who at the time conducted
our suit was an old friend of my father's —
successful, rich, independent and surly ;
and, as he had undertaken the case more
from friendly than pecuniary motives, did
not attempt to disguise the truth and prob
abilities from me. But I could not, would
not look forward to anything hut triumph,
and chose rather to disregard his discour
aging tone as one of the means he employ
ed to enchance the value of his service in
achieving success. He was a good man at
heart, that old lawyer, and his penetration
was wonderful; hut he was not apt to
spoil his medicine bv over-sweetening it,
and my pampered palate rebelled not a lit
tle against its disgusting but unwhol
sorae bitterness.
I had a long hunt after an important fe
male witness whom I found at last in a gar
iet, dying of consumption. And whom
should I find, sitting like a ministering an
gel at her bed side, but the beautiful black
eyed lady whom I had lately met, the com
panion of the little orphan girl!
"It is in such a place as this, where a
good angel is most needed, and not in the
circles of gayoty and fashion, that I must
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "-Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1866.
seek you, I see," exclaimed I, gazing upon
her with irrepressible admiration.
The lady blushed deeply ; and as soon
as she had recovered from her momentary
confusion, observed quietly, that she was
simply performing a duty to which an old
friend of her mother's was fully entitled.
While obtaining the deposition ot her
patient, I had several opportunitiess ot
conversing with this excellent beauty ; and
her modest elegance and graceful ease cap
tivated my soul.
One evening I was permitted to accom
pany her in search of a conveyance ; and
as I bad resolved to express my sentiments
freely to her on the first available occasion,
I was. as is usual in such cases, much em
barrassed when it presented itself.
"Your patient is dying, I fear."
"She is conscious of the approach of
her deliverance; and as such she regards
it."
"It is an angel's office you fill in smooth
ing her path to the grave."
"Do not flatter me, sir. It is but little
I can do, and flattery seems to me to make
that little less than nothing."
"I assure you I express my admiration
in most stinted terms; were Ito tell you
all I think and feel I might indeed sur
prise you."
"Then let me entreat your forbear
ance."
"It is unkind, not to say harsh, in you
to forbid the utterance of a heart so sin
cere and full as mine."
"It is my kindness, my consideration for
you, that induces me to check this excess
ive language, because 1 know you will re
pent it."
"Impossible! I not only admire you
more than any being I ever saw, but I feel
that you are worthy of my worship, and
that I love you."
"Say no more, I entreat. If you knew
who and what I am, you would confess
the folly of which you are guilty. You
tell me you are unfortunate and unhappy :
I pity you—but there is a gulf between us,
and you would only render yourself more
wretched by attempting, blindly aud rashly
to cross it."
"Are you married ?"'
"Do not ask. Ilere let our acquain
tance cease. Y'ou have no more occasion
to visit my patient; and you surely would
not deprive her of her last remaining
friend, as you will do if you persist in iu
trudiug upon her. Here then- let us part
a id fjprever."
She stopped a cab and allowed me to
help hqfc into it, and left me in mystery and
gloom. She had crossed my path like a
heavenly apparition ; and her disappear
ance rendered everything about me hope
less and dreary as despair.
******
The treacherous law, after having lured
us on to ruin, decided against our claims,
and extorted the last remnant of our prop
erty to pay its costs. To communicate
this fact to ray mother would have been
inflicting her death blow ; and after medi
tating long upon the subject, I found my
self unequal to the painful task, and went
once more to our old lawyer, to ascertain
whether there was no possibility of com
promising the matter so as to postpone the
evil day, and leave my mother awhile in
possession of her home and comforts.
I met a lady descending the strirs who
had just come out of his office, whose phy
siognomy was of that unusually repulsive
eharacted which imprints itself indelibly on
the memory, and ever after, in dreams and
reveries, in sleep and wakefulness, rises
from time to time to our mental vision with
horrid distinctness, shocking us with the
fullest sense of the dread ugliness of human
malformation. I thought of the wonderful
contrast between this creature and the
delicate beauty I loved in vain.
The old lawyer was in, and grasped my
hand with sympathetic cordiality. I stated
the object of my visit.
"Well, my young friend," said he " I
have anticipated your wishes, and have
just been talking with the successful party.
She is by no means inexorable ; but to
tell you the truth, there is no ground of
compromise left Y'ou have lost all—the
widow has won all. If she accords yon
anything it will he simply a donation—
nothing more or less."
"Is there no recourse left by which I
can, for a time, ward off this final, and to
my mother, I fear, fatal blow ?"
"None in law."
' In what, then ?"
"In yourself."
"llow in myself ?'
"In your person. You are young and
handsome. I don't say so to flatter you,
but to make my meaning clear."
"Weil ?"
"Well, marry the widow."
"Marry her ? I would rather lang my
self at once." •
"You should know best how it you are
to die. lam afraid your education and
habits have totally unifittcd you for business
and usefulness."
"But this marriage is absurd ; impossi
ble."
"I am not in the habit of proposing ab
surdities and impossibilities. If you will
authorize me to act, you will find It no
such thing. Will you do so ?"
"Not for the world."
"Understand that I have not urged this
matter on your behalf, but for the sake of
your mother and sister—especially on ac
count of your mother, for whose life you
pretended a moment ago to feel an amount
of solicitude that would enable you to make
any sacrifice."
"For the moment I did not think of
them."
"It is time you did. Since my counse
is so. very unpalatable, perhaps you will
condescend to inform me what you pro
pose to do."
The old lawyer turned his chair round,
and commenced writing at his desk as cool
ly as if he had been an ingenious machine
invented for no other purpose. I thought
on hit proposition till I grew sick and faint.
The recollection of the consummate charms
of her I loved added horror to the aspect
of hate, such as she wore whom I was in
vited to make my own, and I could not
bring my heart and lip to say yes to such
a destiny. At last I roo and said :
"I will call to-morrow and give yen my
decision."
"Very well," replied the old man, with
out turning his head or ceasing to write.
I went home and attempted to prepare
my mother for the ruin that had befallen
us, but in approaching the subject found
it was more than she could endure, and 1
relinquished the effort in despair. To my
sister I ventured to tell the truth ; and she
wept bitterly, not for herself, but for our
only parent, who she assured me would
inevitably expire on hearing the news.
"Is there nothing on earth that you can
do, Edward, to prevent this ?"
"Yes."
"And wont you do it ?"
"I cannot bring my mind to it."
"Is it dishonest ?"
"No, I don't know that it but
very repugnant to my feelings."
"1 am sure I would do anything "for
mamma."
"Would you marry the man vou ab
hor ?"
"To save mamma's life—yes."
"Well, then, I will not be outdone by
you in filial affection. '
"What do you mean Edward ?"
"I will tell you to morrow. In the
meantime cheer up. 1 will save our moth
er and you, but at great sacrifice —Heaven
only knows how great."
My sister flung her arms around my
neck, kissed me affectionately, called me
by many endearing names, and I felt as if
I almost deserved tliepa, exaggerated as
they were.
I communicated my decision to my law
yer the next ay, telling him that since 1
could not marry for love, I would marry
for hate.
He uttered a sort of grunt, and replied :
"Few marriages begin in that way ; but
witli too many love is merged in antipathy
as soon as the honeymoon is well over.—
Y our prospect of connubial happinesis the
brighter, as it cannot cl ange hut for the ,
b.-tter. If vou knew the lady as well as
I do, you would entertain no misgivings on
the subject.
On the second day after this interview I
received Mrs. Harrington's card, and a
written request from my lawyer that I
would call upon her without delay, as lie
had settled the preliminaries in the most
satisfactory manner. I did not fly on the
wings of. love to the stately mansion of my
bride elect, as there had been little choice
in the matter, but walked thither like a
man who had volunteered to be hanged.
On my arrival I was ushered into a
handsome drawing room, in which 1 was
kept waiting fijr about a quarter of an hour
when at last the lady appeared. She did
not look handsomer than when I met her
(Ih the stairs leading to my lawyer's office
On the contrary, the relation in which she
now stood with respect to myself, and the
finer} - she had piled upon her person, ren
dered her, in my eyes, more hideous
ever.
I r-'sponded to her salutation, and re
mained silent for a few moments. She
apeared desirous of manifesting a certain
measure of maidenly coyness, and I was
not indisposed to allow her all the leisure
she required for the performance of the
part. When she had enacted the ro/e to
her satisfaction, and lost a little patience,
she opened upon mo with the voice of a
dying screech-owl, that made me shuddgr :
"Well, Mr. Ingleton, the object of your
visit is, 1 presume "
"Yes, madam, it is as you say, to pro
pose for your hand and heart ; they are
conventionally supposed to go together—"
"My hand and heart ?" she exclaimed
laughing.
What a laugh it was ! a ruined hurdy
gurdy, a maniac's scream, and the sere
nade of a starving cat, combined,jivere mu
sic to it.
"Yes, madam ; and does this appear so
absurd to you ?"
"Extravagantly so."
"My lawyer has been authorized by me
to make a proposition, which he has given
me to understand has been favorably re
ceived. Has he deceived me ?"
"No, not at all; but yon have raade a
slight mistake in the person.".
"Are you not Mrs. Barrington !"
"That is my name ; but I presume you
refer to my niece,"
"This is very r diculous. Shall I have
the pleasure of seeing the right lady ?"
"In a moment. She sent me to prepare
you for her coming."
"I do not see the necessity."
"I presume not. I will explain, altho'
the subject is a delicate one to handle. A
better-hearted girl than my niece, Clara,
nevet lived, but she has some personal de
fects which perhaps only the eves ot affec
tion can overlook, I mean to say, for in
stance, that she does not enj y the same
personal advantages as myself."
I looked at the fipo aker & moment in
amazement, and an involuntary groan es
caped my lips.
"It eafenot be possible !* Is she deform-
Ed ?"
"O, no ; she is as perfectly shaped as I
am."
"Indeed ! What is it then ?"
"A slight obliquity of vision, which adds
a puzzling expression to the eyes. Her
hair is of that color against which there is
a very unmerited prejudice ; hut, for my
self, 1 think I lever saw a finer or more
brilliant red. With these exceptions,there
exists a strong family likeness between us,
especially as respects the width of the
mouth, the roundness and height of the
ahonlder, and the size of the feet.
What an image of horror was conjured
up before me!
"Say no more !" I exclaimed wildly.—
"This suspense is too dreadful. Let me
see the woman herself, though the sight
kill me !"
"Then turn and look upon your death !"
cried a sweet voice behind me, in a mock
tragic tone, followed by a silvery ring of
laughter.
I turned, and to my inexpressible de
light, beheld my adored black eyed beauty.
"And you—you are "
"Not Miss Eastburn. That was my
maiden name; hut Clara Barrington,
widow."
I fell at her feel, half-disposed to wor
ship her —covered her hand with kisses,
and, finding no resistance offered, sprang
to my ft# and clasped her in my arms.
Clara B..rrington, will you become Cla
ra Ingleton ? '
"In what excellent practice you are! —
We shall have you proposing to the whole
family. You. have begun bravely—first to
the aunt and then to tne niece within five
minutes. Aunt lias fled, as well she may,
from so dangerous a creature. \\ hat
would have become oilier had I not rush
ed to the rescue, Heaven only knows!—
I promise Vou I shall he dreadfully jealous
of her and the superior personal advan
tages she enjoys."
"Oh, vou have been playing a rare game
with me!"
"A fair one. I have won your love
fairly, and learnt at the same time that
there was right on your side as well as
mine, and I will be my own court of in
quiry, and do justice more even-handed
than the law.
"May 1 not praise yoitnow ?"
"No; but you may "
"Do what i
"Love me just as much as you please."
47 Not many miles from here, a young
lady of our borough is teaching school.—
She sends us the following rules provided
her by the trustees, for the government of
the school :
"No Swearin
"fitin
"quarelin
"nicknamin
"going into the water
"reslin and jumpin
"going intn any persons vine-patches, or
orchards without the consent of the owner
"no pinch in
"stiekin of pins into each other
"pulling of hair during books
"courting in school
"writin of love-letters in "school
"not mbre than one pupil must go out
at a time, unless for wood or water
"no crack in of walnuts, unless dried
"whisperin
Those rules must he observed, for a vio
lation of those rules, will be punished with
the lash, accordin to the verdic of the trus
ties.
The Lancaster Tntellii/eneer, allud
ing to the fact that a German servant had
lived to the age of one hundred and nine
vears by lying with his head to the north
aud his feet to the south, says he don't
think the plan is applicable to all climates ;
and instances the case of one Forney, who
"ha* been lying with his head to the North
and kicking with his heels to the South
these eight years, and yet he is now a 'dead
duck' at foity eight."
&3T Here is Forney's endorsement of
Mr Clymer. "It gives us great pleasure
to bear testimony to the high personal
character of lion. Heistcr Clymer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania. General Geary may well
say that he has a "foeman worthy of his
steel " Ii is a pity that no Democrat can
as consciously reciprocate the compliment
in relation to Forney's candidate.
To a recent secession ftom the Ex
ecutive coop, may be applied Dean Swift's
lines:
So have I seen within a pen,
Y'oung ducklings, fostered by a hen,
But when, turned out they run and
muddle
As instinct leads them, in a puddle.
An excange gi /es reason for not
publishing a poetic effusion : "The rhythm
sounds like pumpkins rolling over a barn
floor, while some lines appear to have been
measured with a yard stick and others with
a ten foot pole."
At a church collection for missions,
the preacher 6aid : "My christian brethren,
let me caution those of you who put in hut
tors not to break off the eyes. It spods
them for use, and they will not pass among
the heathen for coins."
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The author of' Sketches in Paraguay"
gives us this iragrant morsel: Everybody
smokes in Paraguy, and nearly every fe
male above thirteen years of age, chews, I
am wrong. They do not chew, bnt put
tobacco in their mouths, keep it there con
stantly except when eating, and, instead of
chewing, roll-it about with their tongues
and suck it. Only imagine yourself about
to salute the rich, red lips of a magnificent
little lli be, arrayed in satin and flashing
diamonds she draws from hdV mouth a brow
nish black roll of tobacco, quite two inches
long, looking like a monstrous grub, and
depositing the savory morsel on the rim of
your sombrero, puts up her face, and is
ready for your salute. I have sometimes
seen an over delicate foreigner turn with a
shudder of loathing under such circum
stances, and get the epithet el *ev tco (the
savage) applied to him by the offended for
his sensitiveness. However, one soon gets
used to this.in Paraguay, where you are •
perforce of custom, obliged to kiss every
lady you arc: introduced to and one half
you meet are really tempting enough to
render you reckless of consequences. You
would sip the dew of the proffered lips in
the face of a tobacco battery—even the
double distilled "honey dew" of old Vir
ginia.
THE DEVIL RIGHT.— Dr. , who was
pastor of the Orthodox church, had been
for some time annoyed by the forwardness
of a lay brother, to "speak" whenever an
opportunity was offered, to the frequent
exclusion of those whose remarks had great
tendency to edification. This had bqen
j carried so far that the pastor, whenever he
stated that an "opportunity would now be
offered fur any brother to give an exhorta
tion," bad always been a secret dread of
the loquacious member. On one especial
occasion, the latter prefaced a prosy, inco
herent harangue with an account of a con
versation he had been carrying on with
the great adversary. "My friends," said
he, "the devil and I have been fighting for
more than twenty minutes; he told me
not to speak to-night, but I determined I
would; be said some of the rest could
speak better than I, but still I felt that I
could not keep silent; be even whispered
that I spoke too often, and that nobody
wanted to hear me ; but I was not to be
put down in that way, and now I have
gained the victory, I must tell you all that
is in my heart." Then followed the tedi
ous harangue aforesaid. As they were
coming out of the session-room, the good
pastor inclined his head so that his mouth
approached the ear of the militant mem
ber, and whispered : "Brother, I think the
devil icas riyht! "
£*T Artemus says: "As for the Wards
they are known all the world over, and ev
ery big city in the blessed Union has its
little divisions called after them. In New
York and Boston there is the fust Ward
and the second Ward, and so on to the
one hundredth Ward, and in Paris and
London and everywhere, we are honored
with the remembrance. I guess that's
some honor. And even down South, its
more than probable,they have some Wards
in their villages ; and we are so popular,
that even the workin' apartments in the
penitentiaries are named in the same way
A short time after the death of
Andrew Jackson, Senator Corwin and a
friend w ho were riding together in a stag*
coach, fell in conversation concerning tba
hero of the Hermitage, and after speaking
of the General's indomnitable persever
ance, Corwin's friend asked him if he tho't
the General was in Heaven. I don't know
said Tom, his marked countenance relax
ing at the conception of the joke. "I dont
know, but if the General made up his mind
to go to Heaven all could not pre
vent him.
A CORRECT ANSWER. —The late Gov
ernor Mattox, of Vermont, was Chairman
ot a Committee appointed to examine can
didates for admission to the bar of Caledo
nia county, Vermont, and reported that
one of them was not qualified for admission
for be had answered but one question right
which.thft Committee bad asked him
"And what was that question, bi other
Mattox?" inquired the presiding Judge,
"We asked him, your Honor, what a
freehold estate is, and he answered HE
DIDN'T KNOW."
A little Sweedish girlj* while walk
ing with her fatheiTon a starry night, ab
sorbed in the contemplation of the skies,
being asked of what she was thinking, re
plied: "I was thiuki.ig, if the wrong side
of heaven was so glorious what must the
right side be!"
§3* A toast at an Irish Society's dinner
at Cincinnati; "Here's to the President
of the Society, Patrick O'Raflferty, au' may
he live to ate the hen that scratches over
his giave."
A darkey's instruct iofor putting
on a coat were : "Fust de rig Tit arm, den
de left, and den give one gencal convul
sion."
In the report of a down east agri
cultural fair occurs the following:
" Best bed comforter—Miss Mary
Hall/' ' t
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