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"WALL'S HOTEL,
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Tunkhanneck, September 11, 1861.
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DY AMV RANDOLPH.
Maria Ilarland was alone in the world
—her mother just buried.
She was a beautiful brown haired girl,
with soft, shy eyes of violet gray, and rosy
lips com -ressed to a firmness far beyond
her years. For after all she was scarcely
seventeen, 90 Deacon Grey was telling her
as he sat by the fire spreading his huge
hands over the tardy blaze, and asked :
"But what are you goin' to do to 'arn
your bread and butter, child ?"
"I don't know—l haven't thought—Ma
ma had an uucle in New Yoik who "
"Yes, yes—l've heern tell about him—
he was mad 'cause yous mother did not
marry to suit him, wasn't be ?"
Marian was silent. Deacon Grey wait
ed a tew minutes, hoping she would ad
mit liirn into her secret meditations ; but
she did not, and the Deacon went away
home, to tell his wife that "that Harlan ga'
was the very queerest creature he had ev
er come across."
In the meanwhile Marian was busy
parking her few scanty things into a little
carpet hag, by the weird flickering light of
the dying wood fire.
"1 will go to New York," she said to
herself setting Lei small pearly teeth firm
ly together.
"My mother's une'e shall bear my cause
pleaded through my own lips. Oil, 1 wish
my heart would not throb so wildly! 1
am no longer meek Minnie Harlan; 1 aril
an orphan all aloue in the world who must
fight life's biltle with my own single
hands !"
L>wer Broadway at seven o'clock P. M.
What a babtl of crushing wheels, hurrying
humanity and conglomerate it was ! Min
nie Harlan sat in the corner of an express
office, under the flare of gas lights, sur
rounded by boxes, and wondering whether
the people ever went crazed in this perpet
ual din and tumult. Ller dress was very
plain—gray poplin, with a shabby old fash
ioned li.tle straw bonnet tied with black
ribbon*, and a blue veil, while her article
of baggag-, the carpet bag, lay in her lap.
She had sat there two hours, and was very,
very tired.
"l'oor little thing," thought the dark
baited young clerk nearest her, who inhab
ited a sort of wire cage under a circlet ot
g islights. And then he took up his pen
and plunged into a perfect Atlantic Ocean
of accounts.
"Mr. Evans?"
"Sir!"
The dark haired clerk emerged from his
cage with hi. pen behind his ear in obedi
ence to the beckoning finger of his superi-
or.
"I have noticed that young woman sit
ting here some time —how came she here?"
"Expressed on, sir, from Millington,
lowa—arrived this afternoon."
As though Minnie Harlan were a box
or a paper parcel.
"Who for!"
"Consign 2d to Waltar Harrington, Esq."
"And why hasn't she been called for?"
"1 sent up to Mr Harrington's address
to notify him some time ago; I expect an
answer every moment."
"Very edd," said the gray-beaded gen
tleman, taking up his newspaper,
"Yes, sir, rather."
Some three-quarters of an hour after
wards, Frank Evans came to the pale girl's
side with an indiscribable pity in his hazel
eyes.
'•Miss llarlan," we have sent to Mr. Har
rington's residence "
Minnie looked up with a feverish red
upon her cheek, and her hands clasped
tightly on the handle of her faded carpet
bag.
"And we regret to inform you that he
sailed for Europe at twelve o'clock this
day.
A sudden blur came over Minnie's eyes
—she trembhd like a leaf. In all her.
calculations, she made no allowance for an
exigency like this:
"('an we do anything further for you?"'
qnestioned tilt? young clerk politely.
"Nothing—no one can do anything now.
Frank Evans had been turning away,
but something in the piteous tones of her
voice appealed to every manly instinct
within him.
" Shall I send you to any other of vour
friends ?"
" 1 have no friends
"Perhaps Icar. have your things sent to
some'quiet family hotel!"
Minnie opened her little leather purse
and showed him two ten cent pieces, with
a smile that was almost a tear.
" This is all the mojiey I have in the
world, sir!"
So young, so beautiful, and so desolate!
Frank Evans had been a New Yorker all
his life, but he had never met with an ex
actly parallel case to this. He bit the end
of his pen in dire perplexity.
"But what are you going to do ?"
" I don't know sir Isn't there a work
house or some snch pl|pe, I could go to,
until I could find seething to do?"
"Hardly." Frank Evans could scarcely
help smiling at poor Minnie's simplicity,
"They are putting out the lights, and
preparing to close the office," said Minnie
starting to her feet. u 1 must go some
where."
"Miss Harlan," said Frank, quietly
"my home is a very poor one—l am only
a five hundred dollar clerk—bnt I am sure
my mother will receive you under her roof
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS BVBIY PIBBNAII BIGIT. Irsrs*l.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2. 1867
for a day or two if you can trust me."
" Trust you!" Minnie looked at htm
through violet eyes obscured in tears.—
" Ob, sir, I should be so thankful!"
"How late you are Frank! Here, give
me your overcoat—it is all powdered with
SHOW, and "
But Frank interrupted his bustling,
cherry-cheeked mother, as she stood on
tip-toe to take off his outer wrappings,
" Hush mother! there is a young lady
down stairs."
" A young lady, Frank?"
"Yes rnoiher; expressed on from lowa
to old Harrington, the rich merchant. He
sailed lor Europe this morning, and the is
entirely alone. Mother, she looks like
poor Blanche and I knew you would'nt
refuse her a corner here until she could
find something to do "
Mrs. Evans went to the door and called
cheerily out:
"Come up stairs, my dear—your wel
come as flowers in May ! Frank you did
quite right; you always do."
The days and weeks passed on, and still
Minnie ilarlan remained an inmate of
Mrs. Evans humble dwelling. "Itseems
just as though she had taken our dead
Blanche's place" said the cory little widow;
" and she is useful about the house. I
don't k"ow%ow I managed without her."
" Now Minnie you are not in earnest
about leaving us to-morrow !"
" I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think
—I have been here two months to-mor
row ; and the situation as governess is ve
ry advantageous."
"Very well I shall tell Frank how very
obstinate you are."
"Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don't. —
Please keep my secret."
" What secret is it that is to be so re
ligiously kept?" asked Mr. Frank Evans,
coolly walking into the raidt of the dis
cussion, with his dark hair tossed about by
the wind, and his hazel brown eyes spark
ling archly.
" Secret!" repeated Mrs. Evans, ener
getically wiping her ditn spectacle glasses.
"Why Minnie is determined to leave us
to morrow."
"Minnie I"
" I must, Frank. I have no right further
to tresspass on your kindness.'
"No right, eh? Minnie, do yon.know
that the house has been a different house
since you came into it! Do you suppose
we want to lose our little sunbeam ?"
Minnie smiled sadly, but her hand felt
very cold and passive in Frank's warm
gr>p
I " \ ou'll stay, Minnie ?"
"No."' She shook her head determinedly,
"Then you must be made to stay," said
Frank. "I've missed something of great
value lately and 1 hereby arrest you on
suspicion of the theft!"
" Missed something!" Minnie rose, turn
ed red and white. "Oh, Frank, you never
can suspect me!"
"But Ido suspect you. In fact lam
quite sure the article is in your possession."
" The article!"
"My heart, Miss Minnie! Now look here;
love you, Minnie Harlan, and I will be a
good and true husband to you. Stay, be
my litile wife !"
So Minnie Harlan, instead of going out
as governess, according to the programme
married the dark-haired clerk in Ellison's
Express Office.
They were very quietly married, earlv
in the moraing, and Frank took Minnie
home to his mother, and then went calmly
about his business in the wire cage, under
the circlet of gas-light.
"Evans!"
Frank, with his pen behind his ear as of
yore, quietly obeyed the behest of the grey
headed official.
"Do you remember the young woman
who was expressed on from Millington,
lowa, two months since?"
"Yes, sir—l remember her."
A tall, silver haired gentleman here in
terposed with eager quickness:
" Where is she ? lam her Uncle Wal
ter Harrington. I have just returned
from Paris when her arrival reached me!
I want her; she is the only living relative
left ine !"
"Ah ! but, sir," said Frank, "you can't
have her."
"Can't have her? What do you mean ?'
"Has anything happened ?"
Yes, sir, something has happened : Miss
Harlan was married to me this morning."
Walter Harrington started.
"Take me to her,'' he said hoarsely. I
can't be parted from my only relative for
a mere whim "
"I wonder if he calb the marriage ser
vice and wedding ring mere whims," tbo't
honest Frank ; but he obeyed in silence.
"Minnie," said the man in falteriag ac
cents "you will come to me and be the
daughter of my old age ? I am rich, Min
nie, and you are all I have in the world."
But Minnie stole her hand through her
husband's arm. •
"Dearest uncle, he was kind to me when
I was most desolate and alone. I cannot
leave my husband, uncle Walter—l love
him !
"Then you must both of you come and be
my children," said the old man, doggedly.
"And you must come now, for the great
house is lonely a9 a tomb."
Frank Evans is no longer an express
clerk, and pretty Minnie moves in velvet
and diamonds ; but they are quite as hap
py as they were in the old days, and that
is saying enough. Uncle Walter Harring
ton grows older and feebler every dav and
"his two children are the sunshine of his do*
1 dining life. *
FIRMNESS OF CSABACTKA.—It is won
derful to see what miracles a resolute and
unyielding spiut will achieve. Before its
irresistible energy the most formidable ob
jects become as cob-web barriers in its
patb. Firmness of purpose is like the
crushing avalanche, which sweeps every
thing before it while in motion. Difficul
ties, the terror of which causes the unde
termined to shrink back with dismay, pro
voke from the man of lofty determination
only a smile. The whole history of our
race —ail nature indeed teems with exam
ples to show what may be accomplished by
intrepid perseverence and patient toil.
It is related of Tamerlane, the celebra
ted warrior, the terror of whose army
spread through all eastern nations, and
whose victory attended at almost every
step, that he once learned from an insect aiv
example of perseverence, which had a
striking effect on his future character and
success. When closely pursued by his en
emies, as the anecdote is related, be took
refuge in some old ruins, where left to his
solitary musings, he espied an ant striving
and tugging to carry away a single grain
of corn. His unavailing efferts weie re
peated sixty-nine times, and at each sever
al time, as soon as be reaehed a certain
point he fell back with his burden uuable
to surmount it. But the seventieth time
he bore away bis spoil in triumph and left
the wondering hero reanimated in the hope
of future victory.
How pregnant the lesson this incident
conveys! How many thousand incidents
there are in which inglorious defeat ends
the career of the timid and desponding,
when the same tenacity of purpose, the
unflinching perseverence, would crown it
with triumphant success. Resolution i
almost competent. Sheridan was at first
timid, and obliged to sit down in the midst
of a spceeh. Convinced of and mortified
at the cause of his failure, he said one day
to a friend, "it is inside, and shall rome
out." From that moment he rose and
shone, and triumphed in a consummate el
oquence. Here was reason and resolution.
Like Coufreea. Like Chaplain.
The standard old Boston atory of the edi
tor who praised the performances of a
young Boston clergyman at a meeting in
Faneuil Hall, by saying "a prayer more
"replete with political information was nev
"er addressed to a Boston audience," may
be very fitly revived for the benefit of the
present House of Representatives. The
elected chsplain of that body, by name Dr.
HOTNTOS, habitaally opens the perform
ances of the day by favoring the Almighty
with his own views of ihe questions pend
ingin the body whose deliberations be is
thus tar rather ludicrously supposed to sane
tify. Thursday, for example, this lecturer
of the Allwise congratulated the majority
on the passage of the bill regulating or ir
regulating the suffrage in the District of
Columbia. If the bill had been defeated,
Dr BOYNTON, we presume, would have re
fused to ask the Divine blessing on the
House at all. Hereafter, when men shall
look back upon the proceedings of the vio
lent and reckless party now in power at
Washington, as we look back now upon
the proceedings of the Rump Parliament
and the Montagus in France, this hideous
clerical indecency will be seen to be in
keeping with the whole tenor of the Radi
cal talk and action. We who stand so
near the actors, and who have not shaken
off our traditional notions of an American
Congress, can still find room for amaze
ment when one or another extraordinary
outburst of fanaticism or folly attracts a
momentary attention to the federal capital.,
But DR BOYNTON is really a very fit per
son to be chaplain of the Congress which,
nnder the leadership of Thad Stevens, is
planning a penitentiary of hell for eight
millions of American citizens. A Chris
tian clergyman honestly and simply asking
Heaven to enlighten such a body would
need to be reminded of the link boj's an
swer to Alexander Pope. "I tell you God
mend me!" 6wore the misshapen little
bard. 4 I tell you, sixpence is enough for
you!" 41 God mend you ?" retorted the
angry urchin eyeing the crooked frame-
God mend you ? He'd rather make six
new onea!"— World.
Statement ot the Public Debt.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The following
is the statement of the. public debt of the
United States on the Ist of December, '66:
Debt bearing coin int. $1,371,068,591.80
Debt 44 currency int. 859,622,890,00
Matured debt not presented
for payment 22,605,794 71
Debt bearing no int. 433,698,598 93
Total debt $2,684,995,875 44
Amount in the Treasury 135,364,637 22
Amount of debt, less cash
in Treasury $2,549,631,238 22
The foregoing is a correct statement of
the public debt, as appears from the books
and Treasurer's returns in the Department
on the Ist of December, 1866.
Huoh M'Colloch.
49* An English clergyman recently
preached a sermon in which he said that
the newspaper was a part of life a earnest
self culture.
■ ""
43P Speculation is a word that some
times begins with its second letter.
* A GOOD ONE.— During the first year'of
the war, when change waa scarce and some
large firms were issuing currency of their
own, a faimer went to a store in a neigh
boring town and bought some goods, and
gave to the merchant a five dollar bill, of
which he wanted seventy-five cents back.
The merchant counted out the amount and
handed it over to the farmer. He looked
at it a moment and inquired, "What's this!
It's my currency," said the merchant. —
44 Wall, 'jiint good for nobin' where I
live," said the farmer. "Very well," ie
plied the merchant, "keep it till you get a
dollar's worth, and bring it to my store
and I will give you a dollar bill for iL"
The farmer pocketed the change and de
parted. A few weeks after he went into
the same store and bought goods to the
amount of one dollar, and after paying
over the identical seventy-five cents, he
took out a handful of pumpkin seeds and
counted out twenty-five of them, and pass
ed them over to the merchant. "Why,"
says the merchant, "what's this ?" "Wall'
says the farmer, "this is my currency, ar.d
when you get a dollar's worth bring it out
to my placeand I will give you a dollar
bill for it." — Bellow Falls Times.
A MAGIC TRICK.—At a celebrated Pa
ris restaurant in 1861, an extempore bet
was decided, interesting in its way. A
Mississippi gentleman woo a big pile,—
He bet that he could bring five hundred
drops out of an empty bottle from which
the last eupcrnaculem had been drained.
It was done in the fairest way, without any
dodge, on the purest natural philosophical
principles. The secret is this: There is
still a great deal of moisture remaining in
the bottle, only it is dispersed all over the
iuside surface in homeopathic particles, too
minute to be poured out in any way. You
take the bottle, hold it horizontally, shake
it up well, and strike the lower part of the
neck repeatedly on your hand. After you
have manipulated it in this way for a min
ute or two (the length ot time depends up
on the performers skill,) the moisture be
comes collected and condensed in the neck
and then yon can jerk out upon a plate or
a sheet of white paper more drops in quar
ter of a minote|than you can count in quar
ter of an hour.
ASK MOTHER FIRST.
How many pleasant things we can see
and hear every day, if we watch and listen!
I waa walking toward home late one af
ternoon in winter. The country all around
was covered with a deep snow, that seem
ed of a purer white than ever in the light
of departing day. I heard the voices of
children behind me; and their little feet
stepped fast over the bard, crisp snow.—
They passed along beside me, and I saw
that one was a littla girl of about eight
years, and her companion was a boy 4brae
what older. The girl wore a pretty crim
son hood, which was quite becoming to her
cheeks, made rosy by tke fine winter air.
They were each drawing a sled.
44 Come, Annie/' be said, " let's go down
to Pine Hall, now; it's splendid coasting
there; and wc shall have time tor some
firstrate slides before dark."
" I must go and ask mother first, Hen
ry," said Annie. She did not draw out the
words dolefully, as if she did not like to
have to ask her mother; but she spoke in
a very pleasant and cheerful tone. She
hurried along with her sled, and Henry
after her. I soon lost sight of them ; but
I could not forget Annie. I thought to
myself how safe that child will always be,
if she keeps to her rule—"l must ask mo
ther first!"
I know children who have sometimes got
into a great deal of trouble because they
did not "ask mother first" Remember it
is unsafe to do anything yon think impossi
ble your mother would not like to have
yon do. Children, I mean boys as welt as
yon will be saved a great deal of an-j
happiness if you ask mother first
DIATH or THE OLDEST MAN.—The
Bellefont Walehman say's : Christie Tan
Poole, who died at his residence in Half
Moon township, this count} on the 22d ult
was probably the oldest man in the- State,
being born on the oth day ot June, 1754,
and was consequently 112 years, 5 months
and 19 daya old. He assisted to cut and
carry the pott to which was fastened the.
Declaration of Independence, made pub
lic in Philadelphia, and through the en
tire revolution ; drove his father's team,
hauling provisions, clothing, die, for the
rebel troops. At the time of his death he
was sprightly as many a man of aixty five
both mentally and physically, and could
describe events which transpired a centurv
since under his own observation, with a
correctness, that was surprising.
Passions act as wind to propel our ves
aela and our reason is the pilot that steers
her. Without the wind we could not
movd; without the pilot we should be
lost.
"Isaac, my son, let the Good Book be a
lamp upon thy path."
"Mother," replied the urchin, "I should
think that waa making 'light' of sacred
things."
How does the hair-dresser end his days f
He carls op and dyes.
.
Why are good-husband's like dough?
Becsote woqosn nmd the*.
VOL. 6 NO. 21,
How THE PARSON GOT EXCITE®.— A
few Years since, near the ciiy of N,, in
Connecticut, lived and preached old Par
son 8., who was a bit excitable and near
sighted. *
One day lie had been to the city with
his horse, and among his purchases was a
barrel of flour, one bead of which was par
tially out.
On his way home the old man was over
taken and passed bv a fast young man
driving a fast horse, and putting on aira.
Now, the parson's horse was usually a qui
et, steady going animal enough, but he
couldn't stand that so he started after him
on the fast order in 2:40, in good earnest.
The jolting of the wagon at length jarred
the head completely out of the barrel, and
the strong wind which was blowing direct
ly after pastor, blew the flour all over bim
and the horse.
At last the young man was left behind,
and the village reached ; hut the speed of
the horse was not checked. In driving
through a street to reach his home, he
came in contact with one of his deacons,
who was naturally surprised to see his min
ister driving at such a pace, and signaled
him to stop.
" Why, Parson 8.," sa : d he, "what on
earth is the matter ? You seem greatly
excited."
"Excited !" yelled the old raaD, "excit
ed! who wouldn't be excited —snow storm
in July. Get up, Dobbin."
The deacon smiled, but was silent.
BAPTISING ▲ SINNER. —Poor people
have a hard time in this world of ours.—
Even in the matter ot religion, thereps a
vast difference between Lazarus and Dives
as the following anecdote, copied from an
exchange, will illustrate:
Old Billy G had attended a
great revival, and in common with many
others, he was 'convicted" and baptised.
Not many weeks afterwards, one of his
friends met him reeling home from the
coast ground with a considerable " brick"
in his hat.
" Hello, Uncle Billy," said his friend, "I
thought you had joined the church ?"
"So I did," answered Bill, making a
desperate effort to 6tand still; "So I did,
Jeemes, and vonld a'bin a good Baptist if
they had'nt treated me so overlastiu' mean
at the waters. Did'nt you hear about it,
Jeemes ?"
" No, I never did."
" Then, I'll tell you 'bout it. You see,
when we come to the baptizin' place, thar
was old Sinks, the rich old squire, who
was to be dipped at the same time. Well,
the minister took the squire in first, but I
did'nt mind that much, as I thought that
'twould be just as good when I cum ; so he
led Lim in mitey keerful, and wiped bis
eyes and led him out. AVell, then come
my turn, and instead of liften' me out m
he did the squire, he gave me one slosh,
and left nse crawliu' around on the bottom
like a mud turtle—that's so, Jeemes."
TURKISH PROVERBS. —A small stone of
ten makes a great noise.
A foolish friend is, at times, a greater
annoyance than a wise enemy.
You'll not sweeten your mouth by say
ing "Honey."
Do good and throw it into the tea ; „if
the fish know it not, the Lord will.
If thy foe be as small as a gnat, fancy
him as large as an elephant.
They who know the most are oftenest
cheated.
A man who weeps foe every one will
soon have lost his eyesight.
A friend is of more worth than a kins
man.
Trust not to the whiteness of his turban;
heboi.ght the soap on credit.
Death is a black camel, that kneels be
fore every man's door.
All great dcvelopements complete them
selves in the world, and modestly wait in
silence, praising themselves never, and an
nouncing themselves not at all.
If you are loooking at a picture, you try
to give it the advantage of a good light.—
Bo as courteous to your fellow-heiogs as
you are to a picture.
Cf* Some men keep very savage dogs
around their houses, so that the hungry
poor who stop to "get a bite" may get it
outside the door.
It seems an impossibility for two silly
lovers to agree, seeing that between them
there can be no understanding.
The art of book-keeping taught in on©
short and easy lesson—Never lend them.
1 say friend, your horse is a little con
trary, is it not!"
"No, Sir."
"What makes him stop then ?"
"Oh, he's afraid somebody'lk say whoa
and he shant hear it !"
JPhat is the largest room in the World I
The room for improvement.
Women are called the soft sex, because
they are so easily humbugged. Out of
one bundled girls, ninety five would prefer
ostentation to happiness.
How many peas are there in a pint? -
One f.