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BREAKING UP A SETTING HEN.
"Timothy, that air yaller hen's settin'
agin," said Mrs. Hayes to her son, one
morning at breakfast,
"Well, let her set," remarked Timothy,
helping himself to a large piece of cheese,
"1 reckon I can stand it as long as she
can."
"I do wish you would try to be a little
equinomical to cheese, Timothy ; I've cut
the very last cf my every day lot, and it's
only the fir-t of May. And now as soon
as you've done eating I want you to go out
and break up that hen. She's setting on
an old ax and two bricks now."
"I hope she'll hatch Vm," returned Tim
othy.
"If she was set now, she'd hatch the
fourth week in May. It's a had sign ;
something allers happens arter it. Stop
giggling. Helen Maria, by the time you
get to he as old as your ina, ye'U see fur
ther than you do now There - was Jenkins*
folk-. tlie.r grev top knot hatched the first
ol May, and Mrs, Jenkins, she had the
conjuction of the lungs, and would have
du d if they had not killed a lamb and wrap
ped her in tie hide while it's warm. That
was all that savi d her lif .
With such a stai tling.proof of the truth
and the omen before lum, Timothy finished
his breakfast in lasie and departed for the
barn, tnm which he soon returned bearing
the squalli; g bidd\ by the legs.
"What shall Ido with In r. mother!
She'll git on again, and she's cross as bed
lain—she skinned my hands, and would
he the death of me if she could only get
loose."
"I've h-er'n it said that it was a good
plan to throw them up in the air," said
Mis. Hayes. "Aunt Pi ggy broke one of
setting only three times trying. Spose'n
\ou try it."
"Up she goes, head rr tailcried Tim
othy, as he tossed the v, .Icano skyward.
"Laud-o-nias-y,"exclaimed Mis. lla\es,
"she's coming down on the pan of bn ad
that I set out on the great rock to rise !
Tim, it's strange that you can't do nothing
without overdoing it,"
"Down with the tiaitors, up with the
s tars," a"g out Tim, elevating biddy again
with something less than a pint of batter
hanging to h-r feet.
"Good gra-i-us me. wuss and wuss,"
cried Mrs. Haves, and Tim agreed with
her, for the hen had come, down on th
wcll pol shed tile of Esquire Bennett, who
happened to be passing, atul the dignified
-Id gentleman was the father of Cvnthia
B nnett. the voting lady with whom Tiin
was seriously enan on red.
The Squire looked dagger-, brushed off
the dough with hi* handkerchief, and strode
on in silence.
•'Yes. hut it's going up again," said Tim.
spitefully seizing the clucking biddy a r d
tosing her at random into the a'r. Biddy
thought it time to manifest her individual
ity, and with aloud ser-am she. daited
again-t the parlor window, broke through,
knock'd town the canary rage, and landed
pbimp ir the silken lap of Mrs. Gray, vvho
was hoarding at the firm house.
Mrs. Grav screamed with horror, and
starting up, dislodged biddy, who flew at
her reflection in the looking glass with an
angrv lii-s. The glass was shattered and
down came the hen, astonish-d beyond
measure, against a vase of flowers, which
upset, and in falling knocked over the
s'and-dish and deluged with wa'er a pair
of drab cdored velvet slippers which Hel
en Maria was embroidering for ber lover,
Mr. James Ifenshaw.
IMen entered the room just as the mis
chief lad been done, and viewing the ru
in. she at one - laid it to her brother-Tim
othy. She heard his step b-hind her, and
the unfortunate hn she flung full in his
face.
There was a smothered oaD, and the
lien came back with the force of a twenty
pound shot. k
Ilel-n was mad. Her eves were neariy
put out with the feathery dust and dough,
and she went at Timothy with a true femi
nine zeal. She broke his watchgnarl in a
dozen pieces, crushed hie dicky, and began
to pull his whiskers out by the
roots, when suddenly she remembered that
Timothy had no whiskers to pull out by the
roots.
But when she came to look closer, she
perceived the man she had nearly annihi
lated was not Timothy, but James Ilen
shaw.
Poor Ili-le.i hur-t into ears and fled in
to her chamber, the usual n fnge for hero
ine* ; and James, after washing his face at
the kiichen sink, went lioine.sternly resolv
ed never to marrv a woman with 6iich a
temperas Helen Haves bad.
The Imn. meanwhile, who is the heroine,
returned to the barn to establish beiself on
the ruin of her nest, determined to set if
the heavens fell.
Mrs. Haves soon discovered her. and she
having heard that dipping in water would
cure "bloodiness." she set forth for the
brook with the fowl in her apron.
Mrs. Weaver, an old ladv of verv quar
elsomc temperament, who resided near,
and was at sword's point* with Mrs. Haves,
was just coming to the hrook for a pail ot
water, and spied the yellow bead of the
bird peeping out from Mrs. Hayes' apron.
"There!" she exclaimed, "Now I've
fonnd out what nuzzled me to death nigh
a week. I've found out where that yellow
pullet has gone to. Mrs. Hayes, I al
lars knowed yon was a wicked, desealful
••TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEKAff'D RIGHT. ** Thames Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1866
woman, but I did'nt think you'd steal."
"Steal !me steal! Who are you talk
ing to, Mrs, Weaver ?" said Mrs. Hayes
on her dignity.
4 I'm talking to you, madam, that's who
I'm talking to. You've stolen my hen
what I got of Uncle Gillies, and paid for in
sasst ngrrs. She's a real Dorking. Give
her to me right away or I will use force."
"She's my hen, and you touch her if you
dare !"
44 1'1l show you what I dare J" yelled
Mrs. Weaver, growing purple, and seiz ng
the ill-starred fowl by the tail, she gave
a wrench and the tail came out in her
hand.
The su lden cessation of resistence up
set Mrs \v eaver's balance, and she fell
backward into the brook, spattering the
mud and astonished polliwogs in every di
rection.
She was a spry woman and wa9 soon
on her feet again ready to renew the as
sault.
4 *Give me my hen," she cried, thrusting
her fist into Mrs. Haves' face, "you old
hag and hypocrite yu !' and she made a
second dive at the bird.
The lien thought it proper to show her
colors, and uttering an unearthly yell, she
fi-w out of the covert square into the face
of Mrs. Weaver which she raked down
with her nails until it resembled the page
of a ledger, crossed and reerossed with red
ink.
Mrs. Hayes caught a stick of brushwood
from the fence Mrs. Weaver did the
same, and a regular duel would probably
have been fought if the bank of the creek
had not suddenly gave way and precipitated
!>oth the beligeraut women into the water.
They scrambl-d out on opposite sides,
and the hen sat perched in an apple tree
and cackled in triumph.
The ladies shook ih< mselves, ard by con
sei t went home. They have not spoken
since.
The hen disappeared and was not seen
until three wet ks afterwards, when she
made her appearance With eleven nice yel
low chickens. She found some othei
fowl's nest and had set in spite of fate.
But although not "broken up" herself
she broke up two matches—for Cynthia
Bennett was not at home the next time
Timothy called, and Mr. Heoshaw never
forgave Helen for having such a t< mper.
OLD THINGS.
Give me old songs, those pxquisite
bursts of melody whieh thrilled the lyres
of the inspired poets and minstrels of long
ago. Every note has borne on the air a
laic of joy and lap'tire, of sorrow and s;d
ness. They tell of days gone by, and time
lias given lliein a voice that speaks to us
of those who breathed those melodies;
mav they be mine to bear till life shall
i nd ; as "1 launch my boat" upon the seas
o r eternity, may theii echoes be wafted on
my ear, to cheer .uc on my passage from
earth to fatherland !
Give me the old paths where we have
wandered anil culled the flower of friend
ship in the days of "Auid Lar.g Syne."—
Sweeter far the dells whose echoes have
answered to our voices, whose turf is noi
a stranger to our footsteps, ami whose rills
have in childhood's daps reflected back our
forms, and those of our n*erry playfellow*
from whom we have pai ted and meet no
more in the old nooks we loved so well.—
May the old paths be watered with
Heaven's own dew, and be green forever
in my memory!
Give me the old house upon whose
*tairs we seem to hear light footsteps, and
under whose {Kirch a merry laugh seems to
mi..gle with the winds that whistle through
ihe old elms, beneath whose branches lie
the graves of those who once trod the halls
and made the chambers ring with glee.
And oh, above all, give me oid friends,
hearts bound to mine in life's 9unshitiy
hours, and a link so strong that all the
storms of earth might not break it asunder;
spirits congenial, whbse hearts thro' life
have beat in unison with my own. Ob,
when death sha.l still tliis heart, I won d
not ask for aught more sacred to hallow
my dust than the tear of an old friend.
Genius alwavs finds its material ly
ing r-ady to its hand ; it ntver seeks it. —
It does not ask. "Shall I be a hero, or an
artist ?" but it grasps the 6word or the
pencil, and has, without premeditation,
conquered the world or enchanted it. But
genius has, at times, displayed a variety of
talents, employed different materials, spo
ken in several languages. Da Vinci was a
painter, an archit-ct, and a poet; Peter
the Great raised a kingdom from depres
sion, and built ships; Julius Ciesar was
the first of ihe Emperors, and is still, aft
er the lapse of 2.000 years, the writer for
youth. This is what dazzles and deceives
people; they think that genius consists
in many-sidi-duess, and forget that we
may cultivate many abilities, acquire much
expertncss, but can never make for our
selves a genius; genius is the gift of nature.
The good God has it in its own keeping,
and freely bestows it on his favored chil
dren ; bin like all iinpoitant gifts, it impo
ses heavy obligations on the receiver,
though, at the same time, it blesses him.
" Black Stockings of all colors," were
lately advertised in a country newspaper.
u I've bnned my bef.t friend" as the un
dertaker said when be interred the quack
doctor.
a
A TAX NO OM Lixza.—Attacks an one's
pares.
THE BLIND PRINCESS
The blind young Princess of— —was
presented to the Empress Eugenie at
Schwalback a few days ago, and the utmost
interest and sympathy weie excited by her
stoty. The lady is well known all over
Germany; her pr.ncely domain is visited
everv year by crowds of strangers. The
beautiful portrait by Cornelius, in one of
the salons, is examined with much interest,
and every one departs little dreaming that
die large and soft blue eyes, seeming to
look from the picture so full of sweetness
and benevolence, have in life no power to
return the glances of sympathy and kind
ness directed toward them.
The story of the Princess is perhaps the
most touching romance of the nineteenth
century. As a child had been stolen
from the gardens of the very chaieau she
now inhabits. A careless nurse, bent on
her own enjoyment, had suffered her mas
ter's child to stray toward the river, ..ud
when, in answer to the frantic appeals and
the search made in every direction, no
signs of the infant's presence c>uld be dis
covered, it was concluded that she had fall
en into the river and got drowned. The
despair of the mother was beyond all de
scription ; but the idea of the child's death,
accepted by all I resides, was rejected entire
lv by her. The river Lad been dragged,
no trace bad been found, and so, after a
few years' time, when the death of the
prince, her husband, had released her from
the obligation to remain in the chateau,:he
gave up the domain into the Lands of her
brother-in-law, and set out upon a strange
pilgrimage all over the continent, fully
convinced thot she would find, one day or
other, the ol ject of her search. The sura*
of money spent in the pursuit, the tirae.the
toil, the anxiety absorbed upon every high
road, need not be-descrincd. During tho
embassy of Prinee Talleyrand she came to
London, and was received by Queen Ad
elaide, with the utmost kindness and sym
pathy.
Soon afterward she weDt once more to
the south, still behton finding her lost child
One day, the carriage climbing slowly up
the steep hills in the neighborhood of Lau
sanna, she was accosted by a beggar wo
man holding by the hand a poor blind girl
for whom she was imploring alms. The
girl looked gentle and sweet-tempered, re
sembling in no way ihe harsh vixen whom
she called mother. The inmate of the car
riage had fallen into a doze, and the woman
bade the girl sing to arouse the lady. Ihe
song was a vulgar ditty belonging to the
district, with no romance to insure atten
tion, and yet it wnke the lady from her
trance; something in the voice reminded
her of a sister lost many years before and
she stopped the postillion while she ques
tioned the girl as to her origin. The day
and hour were come at last; ever) word
uttercdjby the maiden confirmed the suspi
cion of identity.
Memory was confused—it had vanished
with her sight—but by dint of threats and
promises the woman was made to confess
that she had purchased the girl when quite
an infant from a beggar woman like her
s'lf, who owned to having deprived her of j
her sight in or-ler to excite compassion.— ,
The Licality whence the child had been ta
ken was proof sufficient of the truth. The
Princess returned home with her poor
blind companion, and devoted her whole
life to ihe prospect of cure,as she had done
before to that of discovery. But all at
tempts failed, and the mother then gave
herself up entirely to the education of her
helpless charge. In this she succeeded
perfectly, and the Princess is considered
one of the most accomplished reciters of
Uhlandand in all Germany, Be
fore dying her mother reaped her reward
in the marriage of her daughter with the
yonng Prince, her nefJhew, and this conso
lation is the greatest which could be felt
by her friends.
The young Princess recited with the
most exquisite clearness and pathos two
scenes from "Count Egmont and "The Di
ver," on the visit to the Empress, while the
imp-rial lady listened entranced, and the
large tears rolled down her cheeks as she
gazed on the wreck which the wickedness
und cupidity of man had made of ene of the
most beautiful work of Gods own creation.
—Loudon Paper.
SMART GIRLS. —At an examination in
one of our young ladies' seminaries, the
other day, the question was put to a class
of little one:
44 IFhat makes the laws in our govern
ment ?"
44 Congress, was the ready reply.
44 How is Congress divided ?" was the
next question; but the little girl to whom
it was put fail-d to answer it Another
little girl in the class raised up her hand,
indicating that she could answer it.
44 Well," said the examiner, "Miss Sail ie,
what do you say the division is ?"
Instantly, with an air of confidence as
well as triumph, the answer came—"Civil
ized, half civilized, and savage V
A lady who had just been
three days, perceiving her husband enter,
stole secretly behind him and gave him a
kiss. The husband was angry and said
she offended against decency!
"Pardon me," she exclaimed, "I did not
know it was you."
.
Never lend money to a man only four
hothigh with the lnwt expectation of hia
paying ton. He is always short.
RAILWAY OVER THE ALPS.
The pass over Mount Ccnis, joining the
festile fields of Sardinia and Savoy, has al
wavs been the favorite of alpine passes.—
Although the military route for ages, the
load was in a deplorable condition till, by
the enterprise of Napolean, a substantial
carriage way was constructed at an expense
to the government of seven million francs.
For a number of years past this road, in
connection wirh the French and Italian
railroads and the Adriatic steamers, has
formed the most direct and expeditious
mail rouote to India and the East. The
slow and tedious mountain passage, origi
nated the project of completing the miss
ing link of railway communication by tun
neling the Alp*.
Whether this gigantic undertaking will
ever be completed, admits of doubt. In
the meantime, a companv has been started
with the design of accomplishing this same
object by constructing a railroad over the
summit of (he mountain.
Mr. Fel\ and English engineer, read an
interesting paper on the subject before the
British Association, and his statements
leave no doubt as to the feasibility of the
plan. Both the French and Italian gov
ernments favor the enterprise; op-rations
have already begun, and in all probability
the road will be completed by March n-xt.
From the d fficulties to be overcome,
the work must fairly be rank-d as one of
Ihe greatest in the records of engine-ring.
The variations of cl mate during the
year—always an important consideration
in allowing for adhesion, or bite of the dri
ving wheels on the rail—constitute hce
an important element, and noc-sitates the
employment of a third or center rai 1 . Bv
this m-ans not only is the proper amount
of adhesion produced, but the additional
advantage is obtained of furnishing means
for applying an increased amount of brake
power, and also preventing all possibility
of either car leaving the track.
The engines and carriages have each,
in addition to the usual vertical wheels,
four horizontal wheels, having flanges nn
derlapping the center tail, connected with
brtk- so as to grip the rails; these, in con
nection with the usual sets, give a brake
pressure of 60 tons in an engine meighing
16 to 17 tons.
This principle of obtaining the adhesion
required, in order to develop tractive force
on railways, is equally applicable to an
even much steeper gradient, than any
found on the Mount Cenis mad. and that
consistently with the economical expense
of mechanical power.
LOST. —In regard to colors we arc far
behind the ancient 9. None of the c-lors
in the Egyptian paintings of thousands of
years ago are not in the least faded, ex
cept the green. The Tynan purple of the
entoomed city of Pompeii is as fresh to
day as it was those thousand years ago.—
Some of the stucco, painted ages he'ore the
Christian era, broken up and mixed, re
verted to its original luetre. And yet we
pity the ignorance of the dark skinned
children of the ancient Egypt. The col
ors upon the walls of Nero's f-stal vault
are as fresh as if painted yesterday. So
is the check -f tha Egyptian prince who
was ccnten pr neous > ith Solomon, and
Cleopatra, at whose feet Caesar laid the
riches of his empire.
And in r-gard to metals. The edges of
the statues of the obelisks of Egypt, and
of the ancient walls of Rome, are as sharp
as it hewn but yesterday. And the stones
still remain so closely fitted that their
seams, laid with mortar, cannot be pene
trated with the edge of a penknife. And
iheir surface is exceedingly hard, so hard
that when ihe French artists engraved
two lines upon the obelisk brought from
Egypt, th y destroyed, in the tedious task,
many of the best tools which can be man
ufactured. And yet these ancient monu
ment; arc traced all over with inscriptions
pla-ed upon them in olden times. Thi,
with other facts of a striking chanicfer,
prove that they were far more skilled in
metnls than we are. Quite recently it is
recorded that when an American vessel
was on the shores of Africa a son of that
benighted region made from an iron hoop,
a knife superior to any on board of the
vessel, and another made a sword of Da
masens excellence from a piece of iron.
Fiction is very old ; Scott had bis coun
terpart two thousand years ago. A story
is tol lof a warrior who had no time to
wait for the proper forging of his weapon,
but seized it red hot, rode fowar J , hut
found to hi* surprise that the cool air had
tempered his iron into an excellent steel
weapon. The tempering of 6ttel therefore
which was new to us a century since, was
old two thousand years ago.
Ventilation is deemed a modern art. —
But this is not the. fact, for aperture, un -
questionably made for the pin pose of
ventillation, are found in the pyramid
torabs of Egypt, Yet thousands of years
ago the barbarous Pagans went so far as
to ventilate their tombs, while we yet
scarcely know how to ventilate our houses.
Get married, young womaa! never pause
because your suitor is not handsome. If
he io good that is much better. Few hand
some men are good for much, except to
break wive'* luarts with jealousy, and fail
in business, because too much tempted to
atteed to it arduously.
At a printer's festival lately, the follow
ing toast was given: a VV oman—-second on
ly to the press in the dissemination of
newsl"
tBRMO, sa.oo ran a-kticum
About seventeen years ago, there vm t
fair girl, so pure, so lovely, so refint-d, thaa
she rises to my mind, as almost akin to an
gels. She was wooed and ultimately won
by a handsome man of considerable wealth
He sported a fine team, delighted in hunt
ing.and kept a pack of hounds. He neither
played caids, drank wine, or used tobacco.
He had no occupation, no calling, no trade.
He lived on his money, the interest of
which would have supported a man hand
somely. I never saw the fair bride till a
few days ago. Seventeen years had pasa
ed away, and then herb auty and he* youth
her husband's fortune and bis life, during
the latter part of which they lived in a log
cabin on the banks of the Ohio, near Blen
nershassett's Island —a whole family in one
single room, subsisting on water, fat bacon
and corn bread. The husband had no
business capacity. He was a gentleman of
education, of refinement, of noble impulses;
but when his money was gone he could got
no employment, simply because he did not
know how to do anything. For awhile he
floundered about—first t'ying one tl i>g
then another, failure was written on them
all.
He, however, finally obtained a situation*
the labor was great, the corap-msitioo wa
small—it was tbat or starvation ; in his he
roic efforts to discharge his duties
bly, he overworked himself and died leav
ing his widow and six girls in utter destitu
tion, In seventeen years the sw eet, joyous
and beautiful girl had become a broken
hearted, careworn, poverty-stricken widow,
with a house full of children.
Young woman ! if a rich young man asks
you to marry him, and has no trade or
calling by which he could make a living if
he were thrown upon his own resources,
you may give him your respects, but give
him the mitten.— Dr. Hull.
"Meadow's History of the Chinese,'*
lately publ:shed in London, in a chapter on
love, has the following:
A Chinese, who had been disappointed
in marriage, and had grievously suffered
through women in various other ways, re
tired with his infant son to the peaks of a
mountain range in Kweschoo, a spot quite
inaccessable to little footed Chinese wo
men. He trained the l>oy to worship the
Gods, an t stand in awe and abhorrence of
the devils; but he never mentioned women
to him, always lescendmg the mountain
alone to buy the food. At length, howev
er, the infirmities of age compelled him to
take the you'.graan with him to carry the
heavy bag of rjce. As they were leaving
the market town together the son suddenly
stopped short, and, pointing to three ap
proaching objects, cried—
"Father, what are those things? Look I
look! what are they ?"
"Thefather answered with the peremp
tory order—
44 Turn away your head: they are dev
ils!"
The son, in some alarm, turned away,*
noticing that the evil tilings were gating at
him from behind their fans. He walked to
the mountain in silence, ate no supper, and
from that day lost his appetite and was af
flicted with melancholy. For some time
his puzzled and anxious parent could get
no satisfactory answer to his inquiri -s, but
at length the young man burst out crying
with inexplicable pain—
" Oh, father, that tallest devil! that tall
est devil."
EXPANDING THE LUNGS.— Step out in
to the purest air you can find ; stand per
fectly erect with the head and sh*'ulders
back, and then fixing the lips as though
you were going to whistle, draw the air,
not through the nostils, but through the
lips into the lungs. When the chest it
about full, raise the arms, keep them ex
tended, the palins of the hands down, as
vou suck in the air, so as to bring them
over the head jut as the lungs arc quite
full. Then drop the thumbs inward, and
after gently forcing the arms backwards,
and the chest open, reverse the process bv
which yon draw your br.-ath till the lungs
are entirely em- ty. This processs should 1
be repeated three or fonr times a day. It
is impossible to describe to one who baa
never tried it the glorious sense ot vigor
which follows this pxercise. It is the best
expectorant in the world. We know a
gentleman, the measure of whose chest baa
been incr?ased some three inches in so ma
ny months.
in ■ ♦ _
A Bachelor editor, sensitive as to hia
rights, nbj- cts to taking a wif., through
i't*ar that if &he should have a baby, his co
temporaries. who habitually copy without
giving credit, would refuse to give him
credit for the baby,
M I will not marry a woman who can't
carve," said Jones. "Why not?" be wan
asked. 44 Because she would not be a help
meat for me."
44 Why does father call mother honey ?'
asked a boy of his older brother. M Can't
tell 'cept its because she has got a large
comb in her head."
A roan and a woman have been discov
ered living in a hut in the woods near Har
risburg, who wear no clothtag except a
gfedla atennd their loiaa, .
VOL. 6 NO. 13.
THE MITTEN.
S EVER SAW A WOMAJf