THE TIMES, NEW 1JL00MF1EL1), PA., MAKCH 11), 1878.
m-ring the gliTa nlinoat fainting romlU
tlon. " Come In-doors, Busy."
Jlcr nunt led lier Into the kitchen, and
I ten, though a curious ns n kitten,
knew enough about liornos to nee that
the one he held must not be allowed to
Ktand with' lils flunks reeking from re
cent exercise ; so he led him oil' to the
stable, and having fastened and covered
Jhn well up, he returned to the house
quickly as his legn could carry him.
At thin moment all were utartled, as
old Jerry came bungling Into the yard
w ith a clattering, ungainly gulloi, etrlp
ed of his usual accoutrements. lie
tnade his own way to the stable; and
.Hen, entering the kitchen, found Susan
hitting by his grandfather In the chim
ney corner, while she recounted the ad
venture she had met with.
" Hen was right, you Bee, and 1 did
-meet a highwayman," she said, as her
spirits began to return. "But I am so
grieved to have lot your money."
" What does It matter, so long as you
ure cafe, my dear V" paid old Mr. Dale,
patting her head.
" Why, the horse you was riding Is
worth more than what you've lost, I'll
be bound," cried Hen. "It's a beauty,
jrraudfathor 1 What a brave clever trick
you played In riding off on him, Husy I
Hut why. was he so vexed about the sad
dle y Why, of course, he thought there
was money In It. That's where robbers
hide their plunder. I'll be bound there's
iHimethlng In his saddle. I'll go and.
fetch It. Hurray!"
Off ran the lad, and calling one of the
men, desired him to unsaddle the ani
mal, Mid groom him down immediate
ly. The saddle, when removed, proved too
heavy for Hen to carry Into the house,
;iud old Air. Dale, who had followed him
to see the horse, aided him to bring It In.
They laid it ou the kitchen table, and
commencing searching It all over.
In the padding they found bank-notes
amounting to two hundred pounds, and
from an artfully concealed leather lining
under the saddle-llaps golden guineas
poured out in incredible numbers on to
the table.
"Oh, my eye!" cried Hen. "Why,
Susy, you're the robber, after all !"
" Oh, don't, Ben !" said Susan, begin
ning to cry.
'J' lie astonishment of the old people
was unbounded. They went on count
ing and counting till they arrived at the
bum. of one thousand pounds, and they
bioked from 'one to the other, scarcely
crediting their senses.
"Weill" exclaimed old Mr. Dale, "the
first thing to be done is to give this up
to the proper owners. Susan's nothing
to do with it, nor have we. ButI think
3ts our duty to inform the patrol where
they are likely to find yonder ruffian.
Deprived of his horse he cannot proceed
far from the spot, and Susan may as
well have any reward that the govern
ment may be ready to give ; and this
fellow is very likely to be the man who
robbed the Yorkshire coach t'other day.
They offer a hundred pounds to those
that find him."
"Oh, pray, don't grandfather pray
don't let me be the cause of his being
taken !" cried Susan, imploringly.
"Nonsense, my dear," replied the old
man ; " when the path of duty is
straight and clear before you, you must
walk up It, though it's hard and un
pleasant. You don't wish yonder thief
to take more money, do you, from those
perhaps that can ill spare it ?"
Without delay Mr. Dale dispatched a
man with a full description of the robber
and instructions to the patrol as to the
likelihood of his being in the neighbor
hood, and early the next morning a
search was set on foot in all directions
by the officials at Hazleton.
Within three days the notorious thief,
Bob Reeve (for such was his name, and
that by which he was known on the
road), was taken. The patrol had been
on his track since his attack on the
Yorkshire coach, and had no difficulty
in securing the villain when furnished
by Mr. Dale with the particulars of
Susan's rencontre with him, and her de
scription of his person.
He was lodged in jail, and was shortly
after convicted and executed. The
money found in the saddle was duly
handed over to the government, who of
fered half the reward set on the man's
head to Susan. She, however, could not
bring herself up to accept it, but en
treated that she might keep the robber's
liorse, Wildfire. This, after much cor
respondence and deliberation, she was
permitted to do, to her great satlsfac
tion, as she regarded the beautiful ani
mal as the cause of her escape from dan
ger nd, perchance, death. The money
oKHd-en the highwayman was restored
o IvJ. Wale, and poor Susan's mind was
therefore relieved on this point.
Sbe married before long a farmer in
tle neighborhood, and never ventured
to market again.
Ben was in due time invested with
the ionged-for dignity of selling the
farm produce. He failed to encounter
any gentlemen of the road, and, as his
grandfather often told him, it was too
much to expect two out of the same fam
fjy to meet and outwit a highwayman.
A Bashful Man's Trouble.
HIH NAME was Jacobus; we used to
call til in Jackass, for short.
Heaven help me If lie should see this
story.
Among many of his misfortunes, for
he was cock-eyed, red-haired and knock
kneed, he numbered that Inconvenient
one of bashfulness. Nevertheless he
was fond of the ladles, although when in
their presence lie never opened tils
mouth when lie could help it, and when
he did, used both hands to help him ; in
fact, ho was a man of "great actions."
Jacobus, one warm day. fell in love J
he had just graduated at college, and
began to think he must seek the ladles'
Bocloty; he was getting to be a man;
and It was manly to have a penchant.
So Jack fell In love with the swectCHt,
liveliest, most !inydenlsh girl In the
town, but how to tell tils love! There
was the rub. He had heard a good deal
of 'language of the eyes,' and he ac
cordingly tried that, but when he look
ed particularly hard at the window
where Emily wbb In the habit of sitting,
some person on the opposite sldo of the
street would Invariably bow to him,
thinking he was endeavoring to catc'u
their eyes. He has despised eyes ever
since then.
At length Jack obtained an Introduc
tion through his sister, and with her he
called several timeR, but she was obliged
to leave the city for a season. and as each
Interval only Increased his ardor, he de
termined on going it alone.
Long before the hour fixed upon by
custom for an evening vlMt, lie found
himself arrayed in his best. Blue coat,
metal buttons, black casslmcre pants,
(suld pants being a little lighter than the
skin), and a spotless vest.
The journals of the day state, as an
Item of intelligence, that the thermome
ter ranged from seventy-five to eighty
degrees. Jack swears It was over a
hundred.
As the hour gradually drew near,
Jack found courage and perspiration
oozing out together and he almost deter
mined to pull off and stay at home. He
concluded, however, that he would take
a walk past the house and see how he
felt. By the time he reached the man
sion, he firmly concluded not to go in,
but on casting his eyes toward the parlor
window, and perceiving no signs, he
thought it possible that no one was at
home, and since he had proceeded so far,
he would proceed further and leave his
card. No sooner determined than con
cluded. In a reckless moment he pulled
the bell; the darned thing needn't make
such a noise. The door was opened as if
by magic, and the servant girl politely
asked him in ; Miss Emily was alone in
the parlor, and would be delighted to see
him.
O, cracky 1 here was a fix. Go in a
dark parlor with a pretty girl alone!
It was too late to retreat ; the girl had
closed the front door, and was 'pointing
to the parlor, where Miss Emily was.
Being perfectly convinced that no
choice was left him, into the dark room
he walked or sllded. All . was perfect
chaos to his eyes for a moment; then
from the deepest gloom came forth an
angel voice, " bidding him welcome and
draw near."
To obey the order was but the work of
of a moment, as he supposed, hut be lit
tle dreamed of the obstacles fate had
thrown in his way. He knew full well
that the stream of love had many rip
ples, but full-grown snags entered not
into his head.
Judge, then, of his astonishment on
being tripped up, almost at the fair one's
feet, by a flat stool with plethoric legs,
which chance or a careless servant had
placed exactly on the road to happiness.
Over he went,and as the tailor had not
allowed for an extra tension of the mus
cles and sinews, he not only procured a
tumble, but also a compound fracture of
the black pants aforesaid, said fracture
extending all across that point which
comes In close contact with the chair.
Having picked himself up as careful
as circumstances would permit, be at
length succeeded in reaching a chair,and
drawing his coat tfiila forward to pre
vent a disagreeable expose, sat himself
down with as much grace as a bear would
when requested to dance upon a pile of
needles.
The young lady was almost suffocated
with laughter at the sad misfortune of
the bashful lover, felt truly sorry for
him, and used all her powers of fascina
tion to drive it from his mind, and
eventually succeeded so far as to induce
him to make a remark. But on this rock
be split.
Just at that moment she observed that
she had lost her pocket hankkerchief.
What has become of it V She wag sure
she had it when he came in. It must
certainly be somewhere about.
" Haven't you got it under, Mr.
Jacobus V"
Jack was sure he had not, but poor
Jack in venturing an answer, could not
possibly get along without raising his
hands, and of course he must drop his
coat tail. In his anxiety to recover the
missing wiper he even ventured to In
cline tils body so as to get a glance on
the floor. As he did so, the fracture
opened and behold, there loy,as the lady
supposed, her missing property. It was
the work of a moment to catch the cor
ner and exclaim :
"Here It Is, sir, you needn't trouble
yourself about It. Just rulso a little, It's
tinder you," at the same time giving It
a hard pull. Alas, the (all was told, no
escape nothing short of a special inter
position of Providence could save tils
nhl rt. But what should lie do? An
other and another, a stronger pull evinc
ing on the part of the lady a strong de
termination to obtain the lost dry goods,
coupled with the request:
"Get up, sir; you're'siltlngon It," de
termined him, and In the agony of the
moment, and grubbing with both hands
a fust disappearing strip of linen which
encircled his neck, lie exclaimed :
'For pity sake, Miss Emily, leave
my shirt collar!"
The young lady fainted.
Putting the Children to Bed.
WHATEVER may have been the
day's oflcriccs, make It up, we beg
you, before bed-time, and don't reserve
that hour for reproof and correction.
After "Now I lay inu" by lisping tongues
and "Our Father who art in Heaven"
by those of larger growth, seal the sleepy
lips by a good night kiss, and let the
little ones carry out into the shudowy
realm of dreams the blessed conscious
ness of mother-love. The time must
come all too soon, alas ! when these
some faces, matured by cure and sorrow
may toss upon sleepless pillows seeking
rest and finding none. Let them at
least have a sweet memory of happy
childhood to cherish in future years,
which no bitterness of after life can rob
them of.
Whatever you do, don't punish any
sin of omission or commission by refus
ing the "good-night kiss." Take any
other method of correction than that.
If you have once seen a little creature
sighing and sobbing in its sleep for lack
of the accustomed caress you sternly re
fusedwhich to the tender little heart
was a grief your world-calloused nature
could scarcely comprehend you will
never do it again. We know a mourn
ing mother, whose once sunny hair Is at
thirty-live as white as three-score years
and ten ought to make it, whose life is a
perpetual sorrow, and who repeats with
remorseful tears the story of her little
boy's last night on earth ; how in pun
ishment for a series of mischievous
pranks and small disobediences (which
she now knows were born of the fret
fulness and nervousness of incipient
disease,) she refused the good-night kiss
and sent the little culprit supperlcss to
bed, an hour before his time ; how he
begged and entreated for but one little
kiss, and at last sobbed himself discon
solate to sleep she steeling her heart
against him, as she fancied, for his good;
how, as the fever spot reddened and
glowed upon his cheeks, he tossed upon
his pillow, called continually in his
dreams "Kiss me, mamma!" "Kiss
me mammal" "Just one!"
How, later in the night, when the
physician pronounced the sudden dis
ease diptheria, in its most malignant
form, . she pressed a thousand frantio
kisses upon unconscious lips that still
raved ceaseless for "one little kiss !" A nd
now, before the next bedtime came, the
crib was tenantless, and a small corpse
in the parlor below, like an avenging
Nemesis, bad banished happiness forever
from that mother's heart. There are
some brutes in human guise but thank
Heaven! they are few who, having
promised a child a whipping, will re
serve it till the hour of retiring, that
the victim, being undressed, may be
doubly defenseless ; as if its puny weak
ness in the power of manly strength
were not enough. These magnanimous
fathers have sometimes been known to
find the culprits already in bed when it
suited their convenience to administer
the thrashing, when by cruel blows they
have recalled the startled sleeper from
the innocent dreams of childhood to the
wretched realities of such a barbarous
regime ! We do not approve of capital
punishment on general principles ; but
if there ever is a case wherein it may be
righteous judgment, let it be visited upon
such parents as these.
Did you ever meet a grown man or
woman whose eyes have suddenly grown
moist at seeing a little child creep trust
ingly to Its mother's breast, and the
quick, involuntary clasp, of responsive
maternal lover" Depend upon it, that
man's or woman's childhood was passed
in a cheerless atmogphere, where severi
ty held sway instead of love, and dig
nity usurped the place of pity. Do you
know the reason why grandparents are
so prone to " spoil" children as we call
It? It Is simply because.from their supe
rior years and wisdom, they realize, as
we cannot, how soon the happy days of
childhood are over, and of how little
consequence the childish pranks really
are which we deem deserve such severe
correction. Having seen their own lit
tle ones so quickly slip away from them
and become self-reliant men and women,
they look back with regret on all undue
harshness they may huve Indulged in,
and on unimproved opportunities for
making the children happier, and with
corresponding satisfaction on all sacri
fices and efforts they make for the chll
dren's enjoyment.
Whatever you can or cannot gtveyour
children, bequeath them the best of all
portions, a happy childhood and a rosy
youth. It costs nothing, and will be to
thnm a better Inheritance than lands or
gold. To do this, you need not involve
" spoiling" them by over-indulgence.
Any Judicious parent understands the
difference between pernicious license and
proper liberty.
Thousands of children have been
ruined by too much severity, as well as
by foolish Indulgence, but never one by
too much love.
- - .
Notes From a Lawyer' Diary.
A CORRESPONDENT relates the
following: While in company a
few duys ago with a leading lawyer of
New Brunswick, we were treated with
a few reminiscences of his early pro
fessional life, one of which concerned a
fumlly once well known and highly es
teemed in Woodbrldge, whose names we
refrain from giving to prevent general
identification, yet we have no doubt
that some of our readers by puting this
and that together will unravel whatever
mystery there may belong to this re
miniscence. About a mile, more or less, from where
the old Liberty role once stood, there
lived a furmer, who had reared an inter
esting and promising family, and for
whom by his thrift and economy he had
accumulated much of this world'sgoods.
An only son upon merging Into his
manhood loved and married a beautiful
city girl. The nuptials being entirely
agreeable to all parties concerned, the
occasion was celebrated with all the
magnificence and eclat of those early
days, which money and a large attend
ance of relatives and friends could con
tribute. On the morning of the second day
after the marriage the young husband
left the house of his bride, to indulge in
the recreation of air and excerclse, but
never again returned to his wife, or was
ever afterwards seen by her. Years
rolled by until they were multiplied to
many, and In the mean time the parents
of both parties died, fumilles separated,
the young wife married again, and took
high rank in city society, and a daughter
of the first marriage grew up to woman
hood. In all these many years, not a
trace bad been found which could throw
a shadow of light upon the whereabouts
of the young husband, nor a fuct ascer
tained to account for his Budden disap
pearance and continued absence.
At this juncture of the story the
daughter sued for his interest in his
father's estate, which had been invested
on bond and mortgage. Her lawyer and
our informant had progressed with the
suit without hindrance except to comply
with the necessary legal forms, up to
within a few days of obtaining the
proper decree, which would transfer the
interest sought after, to the possession of
the daughter.
One day while seated in his office, our
informant was surprised at being accost
ed by the brother-in-law of the long
absent and supposed-to-be-dead husband,
who told bim that he was neither absent
nor dead, butallveand could be produced
within twenty-four hours time. This
information astounded the lawyer, and
rather mixed the legal proceedings in
the case, and a timeand place was agreed
upon, when the Identification should be
made, and the future course of events
to be determined. At the appointed
time and place, and while our Informant
and his opposing attorney were seated
in the room the brother-in-law entered,
pushing before him a man who was
paralyzed in his lower limbs, and who
otherwise bore all the marks of long
sickness and severe afflictions. After a
critical Investigation of the whole case,
there was no doubt left upon the minds
of all present, that this poor paralytic
and the long-lost husband was one and
the same man. Of couse this ended all
legal proceedings, and the mqther and
daughter were duly Informed of all the
facts developed by this strange interview,
which not only accounted for the sudden
and continued absence of the husband,
his whereabouts and all matters connect
ed therewith, but justified him in the
course which he had pursued in the
past.
It is proper to say that bis brother-in-law
was lu total Ignorance concerning
him until the day before he accosted our
informant in his office, and from the
date of the above interviews down to
the present time no one but his brother-in-law
has any knowledge concerning
him.
&3One cannot bo too careful this
weather. A sweU exchanged his heavy
winter cane for a light bamboo, and the
consequence was a severe cold.
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