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| From Ih* Allantic for January.]
| A GOOD N A TUBED PEMDULOI
An old rlock, which stood ill till
corner of Parson Whipple’s school
• room, suddenly began to tick twice ai
fast as usual. It did so for two 01
“jfhur hou'S, according as you countei
. I time by its beats or by an hour-glass
. J Then it ticked for the remainder of iti
1 life at apparently the same rale ai
usual. This was never a discontented
pendulum ; and on that day, Singleton
i and 1, who were the only boys in its
i counsels, thought it was very good
* naltiled.
Put I do not pretend it was right.
Have I said it was rigid for Hie pen
dulum to lick so? I have not said it.
I have only said that it was good
natured in the pendulum to lick twice
as fast as usual, when it simply knew
that I wished it to do so. Although 1
was llien responsible for what the pen
<Inluin did, I assert that 1 am not now
responsible for it. I was then four
teen, and am now hard on Ally-six, so
I must have changed atomically six
i times since then. I reject responsibil
ity lor all my acts at Parson Whipple’s.
1 do not justify the pendulum. I do not
justify myself, tar less do 1 justily
Singleton. 1 only sav it was a good
natured pendulum.
It happened thus;
We were all to go after chestnuts,
and we had made immense prepara
tion. the old dominie not unwilling.
H e had sewed up into many bags some
o d bed lick, dear, kind Miss Trypho-a
j bad given us: we hud coaxed Clapp's
j cousin Perkins—son ol Matthew Pcr
; kins third, of the old black Perkins
i blond—we had coaxed him into getting
; lie black mare lor us from his father.
| Clapp was to harness him, and we
| were to have the school wagon to
I bring our spoils home. We had laid
,n with llie Varnum hoys to meet us at
i the cross roads in Ihe hollow ; and. in
short, we were to give the trees such a
belaboring as chestnut-trees hud not
known in many years. For all this we
j nail the grant of a half-holiday; we
j lint by great luck a capital sharp trust
on Tuesday, we had everything but —
| ' IIIMi.
Bed Jacket would have told us we
had all the time there was, and. if Mr,
I'hnerson had come along, he might
mve enforced the lesson. But he was
elsewhere just then, and the trouble
with us was, that, lmvinir all the time
here was, we wanted more. And no
mid bestead conductor on a single
rack road, eager to “make the time”
i Inch lie must have to reach the pre
destined switch in season, ever ques
iimied and entreated his engineer
nore volubly than we assailed each
itlier as to how we could make the
hurt allei'uooii answer for the gigun
ic purposes of this expedition- You
•< e there is a compensation in ail
l.lings. If you have ever gone alter
heslinits, you have found out that tlie
nm gels mighty near live o'clock when
-on come to the 20th of October; and
if von don't get through school till
-no', and then must all have dinner, 1
■ ell you il is very hard to slart four
teen boys alter dinner, and drive the
wagon, and walk the boys down to (be
Hollow, and then meet tlieVaiiiums
mil drive up that rough road to Clapp's
•iraud-motlier’s, and then take down
lliu bars and lead the horse in through
the pasture to where we meant to lie
him in the edge ol (lie hemlock-second
growth, and then to carry the bugs
across the stream, and so work up on
i lie hill where the best trees are;—1
i say it is very hard to do all that and
; rulin' oul on tile road again and on Hie
way home before dark. And if you
| think il is easy to do it in three hours
land a half, I wish you would try. All
is, I will not give s.xleen cents lor all
| the chestnuts you get in thill way.
So, as I said, we wanted In make Hie
I time. Well, dear Miss Tryphosu said
tlnil she would put dinner at twe.ve, if
we liken, mid ii we could coax me
dominie to let us out of school then.
So we asked Hackmatack to ask hint,
I mil Hackmatack did not date to, lint
| lie coaxed Sarah Claver» to ask him.
jThe old man loved Sarah Clavrrs, as
everybody did. She was a sweet little
iIon {, and she did her best! Old man,
l call him! That was the way we talk
ed. Let me sep, he graduated in 1811.
— 1 guess lie was in Everett's class mid
Frothinglmtn's. The "old man,” as we
called him. must have been thirtyseven
years old then,—nineteen years youn
ger than I am to-day. Old man in
deed !
Well, little Sarah did her prettiest.
But the old inan--there it is again—
kissed her, and stroked tier lace, and
said lie had given the school a half
Imlldnv. and he thought his duties to
the parents forbade Ii is g.vittg any
'more. And when little Sarah tried
again, all he would say was, that, it
we would get up earlv and he dressed
when the first bell rang, we might “go
in ' tu school at eight instead of nine.
Then school could he done at twelve.—
Miss, Try pliosa might do as she chose
about dinner, but, if she chose, we
might he off before one. This was
something and we made the most of it.
Still we wished we could make a
little more time. And as it was
ordered,—wisely, 1 have no doubt,—
though, as I said. I do not pretend to
jnst i y the u-e we made of the order,
. —is it was ordered,—that very Tues
day H'ternoon, when we were all at
work in the school-room, Brereton—
I that Southern boy, you kuow—wm
reciting in "Seicntiflc Dialogue” to tli
Parson. I tliink it most have boei
“Scientific Dialogues." but I am no
dire. He was reciting about tin? pen
ililium. The old m in told him aboti
1 Galileo's chandelier I remember.
1 Well, then and there I saw the tvlioli
tiling in my mind as I sec it now
! Singleton saw it too. He was hearing
some little boy* in Liber Primus, bu
lie turned round gravely, and looker:
, me full in the face. 1 looked at bill!
jand nodded. Nor from tlint day li
I tins have I ever had to diseu-s tin
details of the limiter witli him. Onl>
he and I did three tilings in consc
I rjiience of that stare and I hat nod,—In
! did two ami I did one.
I What lie did was to go into tlie
| dominie’s bedroom, when lie went up
stairs after lea. take Ii is watch-key
from the pin it hung on. and put it info
ids second bureau drawer •under his
j woolen socks. Then lie went across
: into Miss Tryphosa's room, and hung
I her watch key on a tack behind her
I looking-glass. He thought (lie would
not look there, and, as it happened,
'she never did. Those were in the
| early days. School-boys had no
watches then. I do not tliink they
even wrote home for them. If they
did. the watches did not come.
I do not recollect that George (lien
told me he did this ; but I knew lie did,
because I knew lie could. I had no
fear whatever, when I went to bed
that night, that the doctor would wind
up his watch, or Miss Tryphocn hers.
As it happened, neither of them did.
Each asked the other for a key, the
master tried the old gold key which
h ling at Ii is fob, wjiicli had been worn
out by the grandfather when lie was
before Quebec with Amherst. Both of
them said it was very careless in Cliloc,
and both of thorn went to lied.
We all got up early the next due, as
we had promised. Blit before break
fast I diil not go near the clock—you
need not charge that on me. I hurried
the others—got them to breakfast—and
ate my own speedily. Then I did go
into tlie school-room ten minutes lie
lore the crowd. I locked both doors
and drew down the paper-hanging
curtain. I took a hrnd-awl out ofmy
pocket, and unscrewed the pendulum
from the bottom of the tod. I left it
in the bottom of the box. I took a
horseshoe front my pocket and lashed
it tight with packthread about a quar
ter way down the rod—perhaps two
inches above the quarter. I pul in a
nail after it was tied, twisted the siring
round it twice—and rammed the point
into the knot. Then I started the pen
dulum again—found to mv delight
that it was very good-natured, and
ticked twice as fast as I ever heard it—
I shut and locked the clock door, rolled
up the paper-hanging curtain, and
unlocked the school doors.
I suppose I was engaged three
minutes in these affairs. I cannot tell,
because the clock had stopped, and.
when weare pleasantly employed time
flies. I was not interrupted. Nobody
came into that school-room before it
was time. In the Boston schools now
they hire the scholars to he unpunc
tual, giving them extra credits If they
arrive live minutes too early. If they
knew, ns well as I do, what nuisances
people are who come before the time
fixed for their arrival, they would not
bribe the children in that direction.
Certainly dear old Parson Whipple did
not. We went in when the clock
struck, and we went otrt when it struck,
lie had no idea of improving on what
was exactly right.
So when the clock struck eight we
rushed ill. IteVerent silence at prayers
I suppose my conscience pricked me,
1 have very little doubt it did—hut I
don’t remember it at all. Little buy*
-called up in Latin grammar. Luckily
I they were all well up, mid gabbled off
their lesson in fine style:
"Amuss!*, a mason's rule.
I "Bui is, the beam of a plough,” &c„
I &c.
The lesson went down—one excep
tion to ench hoy—without one halt;
the muster nodded pleasure, and pass
ed up to the first hoy again ; down it
went again, and down again. These
were bright little fellows; nut one
inistaki—perfect credits all.
“It is a very good lesson,” said the
dear old soul. “It's a pleasure to hear
boys when they recite so well. This
will give us a little time for me to show
you— ’
What lie wgs going to show them I
do not know. He turned round as he
said “time," and saw to his amazement
that the clock pointed to 8-30. lie put
his hand to his wateli unconsciously,
and half smiled when he saw that it
Intd run down.
“No matter,” said lie, "we are later
than 1 thought. Seats—algebra hoys."
So we took our places, and very
much the same thing followed. Single
ton and I were sent to the blackboards,
for the dear old inaii was in advance
of the age in lltose matters—and we
did our very quickest. But Hackma
tack had not our motive, and perhaps
tlid not understand the algebra so well,
so that he stumbled and made a long
business of it, and so did the hoy who
was next to hint. That boy was still
on the rack, too much puzzled to see
what Singleton meant by holding up
three Augers of one hand and one ol
the other, when the Parson said, “1
cannot spend all the morning on you;
■it down, sir.” sent another Itoy to the
hoard to explain my work, looked al
the dock, and wus this time lairiy sur
• prised to see tli.it it was a trendy Iml
past nine. He seized the opportunity
, for a 1’arttiian lesson to Brereton nnf
Hackmatack. “Half mi hour eaeli on
one of the simplest problems in the
book. Amt I must put off the other
, boys till to-morrow.” The other hoys
were a little amazed at their respite,
but took the goods the god* provided
without comment. We went to our
seats, and in a very few minutes It was
quarter of ten. nnd we were sent out to
recess. Recess, you know, was quar
ter of hour ; it generally began at quir
: ter of eleven, hut to day we had it at
j quarter often, because school was an
hour earlier. I say quarter often be
cause the dork said so. The sun was
overcast with a heavy Iudian-suinmer
mist, so we could not' compare the
I clock with the sundial.
The little b >vs carried out their
1 lunch as usual, going through the etore
| closet on the rvay. But there was not
j much enthusiasm on the subject of
lunch, nnd a good deal of generosity
j was observed in the offer from one to
i another of nppies and doughnuts—
| which, however, were not often accep
ted. I soon slopped this by saying
j that nobody wanted lunch, because we
were to dine so early, and proposed
i that we should all save our provi*ion
j for the afternoon picnic. Meanwhile.
I conferred with Clapp about the black
! mare. He said she was in the upper
j pastille, which was tlie next field to
jour sugar-lot; and lie thought he
: would run across now and drive her
iUiwii into the lower pasture, in which
ease she would he standing by the liars
as soon as school was over, nnd lie
could take her at once, and give her
some grain wliily we were eating our
dinner. Clapp, you see, was a day
scholar. 1 asked him if he should have
time, and he said of course he should.
Bill, in tact, lie was not out of sight of
the house before the master rang the
iiell out of window, and recess was
over. 1 ven the little hoys said it was
the shortest recess tliev had ever
known.
Cl . tan II a I fnlt mil’ nnviot 1' til'll
it was in the next exercise. This was
the regular writing of copies by the
whole school. Now the wriiing of I
copies Is a pretty mechanical business,
ami the master wasa pretty methodical
mail, and when lie assigned lo us ten
lines of the copy-book lo bo written ill
twenty-live minutes, giving him live
for "inspection,” lie meant very nearly
what he said, as lie generally did. I
ventured lo say to llatuiataek and
Clapp, as we sat down at our lorm,
"Let's ail write like liokey.” Dm I
did not dare explain to them, and far
less to the others wiry thr writing
should he l ipid. Earlier than that,
my uncle had taught me one of the
great lessons of life. "If you want your
secret kept, keep it.”
So we all fell to—on
Tune trills fur trflers. hut flies f r thr
futhjul,
which was the copy for the big boys
for the day. The little boys were
still mum-mum-munimiug in very
large letters, Singleton and 1 put in
our fastest—and Clapp and Hacknni
taek caught Hie eonlagion. The mas
ter sal correcting Latin exercises, and
the school was very still, as always
when we were wriiing. How lucky
that you never could hear the old clock
tick when the ease was shut and fasten
ed! 1 should not lie much worried now
1 by llie stint tve had then, but in those
days these lingers were more til for
bats and balls than tor pens, and tlie
up-siinkers hud to be very tine and life
! down-strokes Veils heavy. {Still, we
hud always thought il u bore to be
kept twenty-live minutes on I hose ten
lines, anil so we had some margin lo
draw upon. And as llull rapid, good
uitiured nnnuie-huiid neared llie V. on
tile clock 1 finished llie u ill llie lust
•■.uilhlui '—Imving iiuiortuuatcly no
I'uoiu It'll on llic linu lor the I. Hack
matack was but a word behind me, und
CTa|>|> and Singleton luid but a lew
"I'aitluuls' to tinirdi. Why do hoys
think it easier to write their words in
columns thuu in lines? Is it simply be
cause Ibis is llie wrong way—O shade
of Calvin!—or that the primeval
civilization still lingers in their blood,
and llic Fathers wrote so, (.) Burlin
game and shade of Confuojus ?
We sal up straight, and held our
long quill pens erect, as was our duly
wlivu we had finished. The little hoys
j from their side of the room looked up
surprised; and redoubled the vicious
speed by which already their mums
Imd been debasing themselves into
il.uiui -with i he dots tot lie i's omit led.
Failhiul Brcrdon and Harris and
Wed—lean seu them now—plodded
i ou unconscious: 1 coil.il see that none
of (hem had advanced more Ilian a
quarter dow n his page.
For a lew minutes ihe dominie did
not observe our erected pen-leathers,
so engaged wa« lie in altering a "sense
line' of Single'on s or somebody’s.
The •‘sense" ol 1 his line was. that "Ihe
virtuous father of Minerva always
rewarded green conquerors.” such
epithets and expletives having sugges
ted themselves from Browne s \ irida
mini. Bill Ihe last syllable ol "Palla
dia” had got snagged behind a conso
nant, and the amiable dominie was
relieving il trom the over-pressure.
So we sat like Human senators, with
our quill sceptres poised—not cough
ing nor moving, nor in any way calling
bis attention, that the others might
have the more time. And Ihe little
boy* fairly galloped wilb their muui*.
' But our sedate fellow a oil the otlici
form plodded painfully on—and had
only finished seven lines when Mr.
Whipple looked up, saw the senator*
and the sceptres, and said, re proa'll
fully: “You cannot all have hurried
through that copy I The chestnuts
! turn your heads.” With the moment
he turned to see that the minute
hand had passed a full half-circle.
"Is it half-past?” he said, innocently.
"I beg vour pardon; hut among the
' Muses, you know, we are unconscious
of time. Well, well, let us see.
i Bather shabby. George—rather shabby ;
not near so good as yesterday ;
Softie strains are sho t, awl some ate
shorter
and you too,Singleton. I do not know
when you have been so careless—you
both of yon are in such haste, dee.
Wells and Harris Imre not yet linislied
their lines.”
Wells and Harris I think were as
; much astonished in their way; for it
! was not their wont to come in sixth
ami seventh—fairly distanced, indeed—
on any such race course. But there
was little time for criticism. That
good-natured pendulum was rushing
on. The little boys escaped without
comment, on those vicious m’s, nhd, il
there were anything in the system,
each one of them ought to write "com
monwealth'' now. so tlint it should
pass the proof-reader as “counting-j
house.” Hut there is not much in the
system, and I dare say they are all .
bank presidents, editors, prolessors ol I
penmanship, or other men of letters.
The clock actually pointed a't quarter
of eleven! Now at 10: 30 we should
have been out at recitation, translating
Camilla well over the plain. We had
thrown Iteracross the river on a lance
the day hefore. We slut filed out, and
I, still in a hurry, had to he corrected
for speed by the master. I then
assumed a more decorous lone, his ;
grated nerves were soothed as he heard I
the soothing cadences of the I.alin,— j
and then, of course, Jim the same thing j
happened ns before. The lesson was |
niii(>tv Imt wt> lintl nnt rr»ml Imlt
of them When Miss Trvphosa put in j
her head to look at the dock.
“Beg pardon, brother, my watch has j
run down. Bless me. it is half past
eleven!” And she receded as suddenly J
as she came. *\s she went she. was j
heard asking. “Where can the morning j
have gone?** and observing to vacant
space in the hall, that “the potatoes
were not yet on the lire,** As for the |
dominie, he ascribed all this to our
beginning the V irgil too late; said w«
might stay on the benches and finish I
it now, and gave the little boys another |
“take” in their arilhuietics, while we
stayed till the welcome clock struck j
t wei ve.
“Certainly a short morning, boys. •
i?o much tor bring quiet and good.
Good day, now, and u pleasant after- 1
noon to you. it is at this point, so tar
as 1 know, that my conscience, for the j
tirst time, tingled a little.
A little, but alas, not long! We)
rushed in lor dinner. Poor Miss
Tryphosu had to apologize* for the tir»i j
and last time in her iite! Somehow j
We had caught her, she said. JShe was j
sure she had no idea how,—but the
morning had seemed very short to her,
and so our potatoes were not dour.
But they would be done beiore long,—
and ol course. We iiad not expected
uiiicii from a picked-up dinner, an
hour early. We all thanked and prais* j
ed. I cut the cold corned beef, and we
tell to,—our appetites, uiilunehed,
beginning to come into condition. !
My only trouble was to keep tlie rest 1
buck till Miss Try phosa's potatoes—the ,
largest a little hard at heart—appeared.
For, in truth, the boys were all
wild to be away. Ami as soon as the
potatoes were well treed from their
own iaekt ts and imnrisoned umlrr
ours. 1 cut the tiiiul slices ol the heel.
Hackmatack cut the corresponding
bread ; the little hoys took galore oi
apples and ol dotighiiuis; we packed i
all in llie luuch-baskct, took the hard
eggs beside, and the salt, and were
away. As the boys went down the
hill,"l stopped in the school-roniu,
locked the doors, drew the curtain, '
opened the clock, cut the packthread, ;
pocketed tile horseshoe, sere.wed on
the hoh, and started the pendulum
again, A very good-natured pendulum
indeed ! It had done Die w ork of lour
hours in two. llow much better that
tbun sulking, discouiculed, lor a whole ;
hour in tlie corner ol a tanner's kitchen !
Miss Trvphosa and her brother had
the feeling, 1 suppose, which scusible
people have about half the days oi their
lives, “that it is extraordinary the
time should go so lust I" Sjo much tor
being intiiiile beings, clad lor only a
few hours in time ai.d clay, nor wholly ,
at home in those surroundings.
Did 1 say 1 would write tile history
ol that chestutilting? 1 ditl not say so.
I did not entitle Ibis story “The Good
Chestnuts,” but “The Good-natured
!’• uduliini.” I will only say to the
little girls that all went well. We
waited at the loot of the hill fora few
minutes till Clapp and Perkins came
up with mare and wagon. They said
it was hardly half an hour since aehool,
hut even the little boys knew better,
because the clock had struck one as we
left the school-house. It was a little
odd, however, that as the hoys said
this, the doctor passed in Ids gig. and
when Clapp asked him wlmt time it
was, he looked at his watch, and said.
, "Half past ten.”
But the doctor always was so queer!
Well, we had a capital time; just
t lint pleasant Inize hung over the whole.
Into the pasture,—by the second
growth,—over the stream, into the
trees,—and under them,—fingers well
pricked,—bags all the time growing
fuller and fuller. Then the afternoon
lunch, which well compensated the
abstemiousness of the morning's, then
a sharp game at hall with the chestnut
burs—and even the smallest boys were
made to catch them bravely—a'ud, as
tbc spines ran into their plump little
| hands, to cry, ‘•Pain is no evil!” A
: first-rate frolic—every minute a sne
j cess. The sun would steal down, but
j for once, though we bad not too much
| time, we seemed to have enough to get
through without a hurry. We big
boys were responsible for the young
sters. ami we had them safely up on
the Ilolderness road, by Clapp's grand
mother’s, Tom Lynch driving and the
little ones piled in—Sarah Clavers in
front—with the chestnut-bags, when
the sun went down.
By the time it was pitch dark we
were nt home, and were warmly wel
comed bv the master and -Miss Try
phosR. Good soul, she even made dip
toast for ottr suppers, and had hot ap
ples waiting for us betw'een the andi
rons. The boys rushed in shouting,
scattered to wash their hands, and to
get her to pick out the thorns, and
some of ottr fellows to put on some of
the chestnuts to boil. For me. I
stepped into the school-room, and, in
the dark, moved the minute-hand of
the clock hack two hours. Before long
we all gathered at ten—the master with
us, as was his custom in the evening.
After we had told our times, as we
big boys Rat picking over chslnuts. al
ter tin- little ones had been excused,
Miss Tryphosa saitl. ‘•Well, boys, I am
sure I am much indebted to you for
one nice long afternoon." Mv checks
tingled a little, and when the master
said, “Yes. the afternoon fairly made j
np the short-comings of the morning,"
I did not dare to look him in the face, j
Singleton slipped otf from table, and I
think he then went ai d replaced the
w.'Ur ii-key ft.
The next <lnv, as we sat in algebra. |
the clock struck twelve instead ol ten.
The master went and stopped the stl ik
ing part. Did ho look at me when lie j
diil so? lie is now Uishop of New
Archangel. Will he perhaps write me
a line to tell me? And that afternoon,
when lireretou was on his “Scientific
Dialogues,” actually the master said to
him, *T will go hark to the Inst lesson,
lireretou. What is the length of a
second's pcndti'um?” And lireretou
told him. • What should you think the
heat of our pendulum In re?" said the
doctor, opening the case. lireretou
cmild not tell ; and the master explain
ed ; that this pendulum was five feet j
long. That the time of the oscillations ;
of two pendulums was as the square j
root of the lengths. lireretou had
already said ; so he was set to calculate ;
on tho hoard the square root of sixty!
Inches, and the square root of the :
second's pendulum, 30.139. I have
remembered that to this day. So lie i
found out the beat of our pendulum,— j
and then we verified it by the master's
watch, which was going that afternoon.
Then with perfect cold blood the mas
ter said, “And if you wanted to make
the pendulum go twice ns fast, lircre
Iiiii, what would you do?" And
Breretou, innocent as Psyche, but i
eager as Pallas Athene, said, of course
that ln> would take the square root ol
five, divide It by two, and square the
quotient. “The square is 1,225.’ said
lie, rapidly. “I would cut the rod at
one foot two and a quarter inches from .
the pivot, and hang on the hob there."
“Very good,’ said the master, “or.
more simply you move the hoh up
.three quarters of the way.” So saying
lie gave us the next lesson. Did lie
L-imtl' Ski* all.I llik Hot L- Ik ik V CS»asliitna>
and 1 looked calmly on. but showed
neither guilt nor curiosity.
Dear Master, if there Is ink and pa
per in New Archangel, write me, and
say. did yon know, or did you not
know? Accept this as my confession,
and grant absolution to me, being peni
tent.
Dear master and dear reader, l am
not so penitent lint I will own, that, in
a thousand public meetings since, 1
have wished some spirited hoy had
privately run the pendulum bob up to
the very pivot of the rod. A es, and
there have been a thousand nice after
noons at home, or at George s, or with
tlalihurtou, or with Liston, or with
you. when I have wi-hed l could
stretch the rod—the rest of yon uncon
scious—till it was ten times as long.
Dear master, I am your uUVotiouale
Kitten. Inuiiam.
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_Vicksburg lias a musical wonder.
A negro girl, raised in Hinds county,
as black as the ace of spades, 18 years
old. ignorant of the notes, an i unable
to spell the simplest word, can play
exquisitely om the piano. ‘’She can
play any piece, however difficult, after
hearing it played, and her accuracy and
delicacy of touch are really something
very remarkable.” So say Times.
Sad Affkat.—A difficulty of a se
rious naluro occur ted in this city ou
Monday last, between Mr. Ed. Levy of
Camden, and Mr. Joint Haitom of the
country, re-ulling in the shooting of
tlm latter. Tim wound though danger
ous is hoped not to lie latal. We
refrain from a publication of the facts
in the case, unlit after tlm regular pre
liminary examination bv the proper
authorities. The affair is lunch regret
ted bv every citizen.—Camden Demo
crat 14th uit
Strange RuitaVtny Mulch,
A Liverpool paper relates that tin
handsome and accomplished daughter
ol a wealthy Irish farmer became dis
satisfied willi the simple enjoyment
! "I the country, and hcsouglit her fat Inn
j for permission to try city IH'e, wlieri
she longed lo shine and he considered
a belle* at theatres, balls, and assent
j lilies. Her father declined to huuioi
her vain whims, at which she rebelled,
i and one day. in his absence, proceeded
! to Dublin, where she took a stcamei
for Liverpool. After getting to sea
she became lonely and depressed, and
began to repent her rash conduct in
leaving a good home to become a stran
ger in a strange land.
However, consolation was at hand,
i and the maiden soon began to smile
through tier tears. A handsome young
countryman of her own, who had led
Ireland to push his fortunes in England,
was in the steamer, and learning her
sorrow and its cause, he hid her “cheer
up,” pointed to his own ease ns quite
as hard as hers, and snid that no doubt
she would he happy in England. Sym
pathy is akin to the softer passion, and
ere the voyage was ended these "exiles
of Erin” found themselves head and
ears in love. They determined to get
married as soon ns possible, but were
not nble to do so on landing, as they
Imd no legal residence in the town of
Fairfield, where they took up their
abode, and they were not rich enough
to pay for a special license. They,
therefore, Imd to wait, and while thus
waiting a messenger from the Indy’s
latlmr arrived, accompanied by two
police officers. She was charged with
some real or imaginary offense and
was to be taken back lo the paternal
roof. But she would not be separated
from her affianced husband. Threats
and cajolery were alike tried without
success. Kathleen Imd become deeply ,
attached to tier lover, and when separa
tion was mentioned she became so
much excited that if was (eared her
life might be endangered if her sweet
lintl 1*1 ltrslC loft Iwtlliml • C n 1,0 inaa .,11,, ...
ed to accompany tier back to Ireland.
At Dublin the twain were met by the
lady's father, to whom matters were!
explained. He acquiesced in what lie
considered a bad'job. agreed to their
marriage, and what was more, gave!
them the means to commence the bat-[
lie ol life in the land of their adoption,
to which they returned soon after be
ing joined in wedlock.
Skeleton Incas and Theik Wives.
i'liere is a fine museum in Lima, and
one can spend a day pleasantly among
its relies and curiosities. Peru was
formerly celebrated for its mineral pro
ductions, and the assortment of these,
the old coins and species of money are
really a great curiosity. Here, too. arc ,
tlie portraits of all the viceroys and
incas, from the year 1780 to the present
President; anil huddled round the
room, some in large cases, and some
sitting on a small stand or table only,
ire dozen of skeletons of the old incus,
who buried themselves alive at the
coming of the Spaniards, Jong years
ago, as they were foolish enough to be
lieve that after the Spaniards had gone
away they would come from the'
ground as fresh as a toad out of a hole
where lie has slept for twenty years.
Nearly every one of them is inn sitting:
posture, his head between his hands |
and the knees drawn up uudei the chin,
and the expression on the skeleton
lace is one of horror, strangulation,1
smothering anil despair, altogether.
I'liere are women, too—the wives of
the Incas—smothered alive in the same
way, and dying in tlie same belief.
Sunn' of the skeleton women clutch
skeleton babies, and it is a singular
fact, in connection with these mummies
tliat the long, black hair of the women
streams from the unsightly skulls, in
I I' ' m
Advice to the Mukhied.—Zchokkk,
in one ol liis tales, gives llie following
excellent ailviie.
In the first solitary hour alter tiie
ceremony, take the bridegroom and de
mand a solemn vow ol' him and give
liiiu a vow in return. Promise each
other, sacredly, never, not even in jest,
to wrangle with each other—never to;
handy words or to indulge in ihc least:
ill-humor. Never—I say, never!—]
Wrangling in jest, and pulling on an
air ol ill-huiuor merely to tease, be- i
comes earnest by practice. Mark that! j
Next, promise each other sincerely und
solemnly, never to keep a secret from
eaeli oilier, under whatever pretext,'
and whatever excuse it might be. You
must continually, and every moment,
see clearly into each others bosom.;
Even when one of you lias committed j
a fault, wait not ail instant, but eoulessj
it. And us you keep nothing from each
other, so, on the contrary, preserve the
privacies ot your house, marriage state,
and heart, irom father, mother, sister,
brother, aunt, and all the world. You
two, with (foil's help, build your own
quiet world. Every third or fourth one
you draw iulo it with you will form a
party and stand between you two.
That should never be. Promise this to
each other. Item ember the vow at
each temptation. You w ill tiud your
account in it. Your souls will grow,
ns it were, to each other, amt at Iasi
will become as one. Ah, it many a
pair had. on their marring? day. known
this secret, how many a marriage were
happier ll^tu. alas, they are!
—
-Iowa lias more tli.m doubled the
length of its railroads in *our years,
and now has more than Missouri,
Michigan. Minnesota nr Wisconsin.
llotv to Spill Wood Easily.
A great many hard working men, who
lave never been accustomed to commit
heir ideas to paper, understand that any
ind of firewood, or timber that is being
plit into oven-wood, or riven into staves,
r Wagon spokes. Will separate much moro
■.isily when split “slab fashion” than
vlien separated in the direction from the
mart toward the sap portion of the log or
'lick. There i.i a philosophical reason for
hi-. When a stick is split ‘ slab fashion,”
lie parts are separated between the annu
il concentric circles of the tree, one of
which is formed every growing season.
I lie union between these annual layers, or
rings of wood, is not so perfect as it is be •
i ween the particles which form a ring or
circle of the wood. Inexperienced labor
ers and boys do not always understand
how much advantage may be taken cf
heir hard labor, when splitting wood, by
understanding this fact. When a log is
sawed into short cuts, for example, to be
split into firewood, two iron wedges and a
beetle would be necessary to open a cut
through the heart. But by taking off thin
slabs, most of the splitting may be done
with only an axe. Sugar maple some
times is so difficult to split through the
heart, that a laborer may dtive in all his
wedges and gluts without being able to
open a log 1'our foot long; whereas, were
the cut slabbed, the splitting could by
performed with comparatively little labor.
Then, after a log is split into thin slabs,
the labor of spitting the slabs the other
way will be comparatively light—Hearth
and Home.
badlesltliou d nead Newspapers
It is a great mistake in female edu
cation to keep a young lady's time and
attention devoted to only fashionable
literature of the day. If you would
qualify her for conversation, you must
give her something to talk about—givo
her education with the actual World,
with the outer world, and its transpir
ing events. Urge her to read newspa
pers, and become familiar wills the
present character and improvement of
our ractt History is of some import
ance; but the oast world is dead —we
Imvc nothing to do with it. Our
thoughts and our concerns should bo
for the present world; to wit"* it is
and improve the condition of it. Lev -
her have an intelligent opinion, and be
able to sustain intelligent conversation
sonceniMig the mental, moral and re
ligious improvements of our time. Let
the gilded annuals and poems oil the
center table be kept part of the time
severed with weekly and daily jour
nals. Let the whole famMy—men. wo
men and children—read newspapers.—
Exchange.
Well Said.—The Native Virginian
says a friend :n Richmond closes a recent
letter thus:
‘‘By the way, what is to become of the
ladies und gentlemen of Virginia, born to
ufflueuce. with refined tastes, hut now be
reft of means? 1 wish you would treat
the subject, as you cau so well, in your
paper."
’1 here is hut one way to treat the sub
ject We know a young gentleman in
whose veins the best blood of \ irginia
and South Carolina is mingled. He was
a good soldier, for he loves war and hates
farming. On the hottest days iu summer
we have seen him, sleeves rolled up. arms
bate to the elbow, working like a steam
engine from dawn until dark. This mail,
by pluck, by industry, and by prudence
will win back what was won before him
by means of the same qualities. No. the
pride of race, but the strength of blood,
will make him a master again. Such a
man will not be kept down. As for those
. t- 1 .1 .! 11 _A
IUU I IIMil vlli lvlliv.il ..... -.
to conquer, (that fact alone throws a
doubt on the purity of their blood,) th<^
will live and die miserably and their chil
dren wdl be chambermaids and hostlers
to the descendants of Yankee settlers.
mr.V Massachusetts orthodox divine
who was in the habit of playing with his
notes while the choir was singing, acci
dentally dropped them in a crack in his
lesk. After trying for some time to re
sover them without success, he arose, and
iddressed the congregation as follows:
‘My dear frieuds, I brought my notes
with me this morning, have got them in
to this provoking erack, and can't get
them out, but 1 will read two chapters of
the book of Job, which are worth two
such sermons, if I had them.”
A Rhode Island horse fancier who
thought he know a thing or two recently
swapped a white horse for a crean-Colored
one, paying something "to boot." More
l.tely he traded off his cream color for a
beautiful, glossy . coa -black horse paying
"boot" again Very soon, however, the
coal black horse grew rusty, and, in apite
ot all his efforts, has turned iuto the iden
tical white horse which he fi*st traded off!
A Steel Ship—The Mobile Register
Ims the following notice of the arrival
of a bran new novelty in the harbor of
ilie Gulf City.
The “Alea,” from Bombay direct,
yesterday arrived in ballast consigned
to Lcdyard, .Alderton & Co. She is
built entirely of steel, and as a uovelty
attracts much attention among our riv
er people. This is sumi-thing new, un
less our neighboring port of Selma ha*
a few steel ships lying iu her harbor.