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THE Dl'EE
BY E. S. GOULD.
Harry Bradford sat musing by thi
window and was apparently lost ii
thought, when a sudden knock at hii
door aroused him ; but before he coulc
bid tho applicant enter, Fred Stanlej
burst into the room.
“It’s all arranged Harry,” said lie
with a glee in which, however, hit
companion did not seem at all to par
ticipate.
“So I supposed,” replied Harry, qui
etly ; ‘ such an affair is not likely to
remain long unfinished in your hands.’
“And why should it, pray ?” inquired
Stnnlcy, a little nettled at his friend’s
want of enthusiasm.
“Oh, it should not, of course,” said
Harry; “such matters, after all, are
best done when soonest done. Where
do we meet?”
“On the old battle-ground—Wee
hawken,” said Stanley; “no place
like it."
“No, none like it, indeed! What
timo have you appointed?” asked
Harry.
“To-morrow, at sunrise,” replied
Stanley.
“That's rather prompt, too,” said
Harry, “ii one lias to take leave of his
friends and make his peace with God.”
“liah!” said Stanley, slightingly, “we
must not think too much of these
things.”
“I must not, certainly,” replied Har
-y, “if I would just now retain my
lelf-possessidn. Wc use pistols, I pre
sume ?’’
“Yes. at ten paces:” said Stanley.
“A fearful proximity for men of ap
proved courage and skill who are bent
in tnking each other's life!” rejoined
Harry; then after a pause, lie added,
‘Wilson persists in his challenge,
Fred ?”
“Good G—!'' exclaimed Stanioy in
listuay at what appeared to himapros
tect of losing his expected sport, “you
ire not afraid to meet him Harry !”
“No. Stanley,” said Ilarrv, “not in
[•our sense of the word. So long as
tonsequenees arc limited to nivseif, I
inve little thought of fear. But,” lie
mntinued—and lie spoke in a low tone
ind with unwonted rapidity, lest some
remulousness of the voice might be
ray his emotion—there are other in
ercsts. other fears, other considera
ions—”
“Forget them for heaven’s sake, un
it After to-morrow,” said Stanley, in
ert opting him, “or you will never ac
jiiit yourself with honor. If you have
my little affairs to despatch, set about
hem at onee. and don’t fail to be abed
iiid asleep before ten, or you won’t bo
ip in season. 1 would not have Wil
ioii on the ground before us for the
vorld. Goodbye; I must prepare my
pistols, for I see you will never give
hem a thought;” and away went Fred
Stanley as full of bravery, as solicitous
or his friend's honor, and as indifferent
ibout l.is friend’s distress of mind—as
iceoiiils are wont to hi*.
Harry did not move for sgme mi titl
es afl.i r Stanley left him : and when at
ength he raised his eyes from the floor,
tis countenance bore an expression of
unutterable wo.
It was m, wonder. He was the only
•hlld of a widowed mother, ami the
ifilanced lover of the sweetest maid in
Hie land. If he should fall, as lie well
might, w hat, would become of that
mother and of Kate Birney?
He at length aroused himself saying
—“I dare not see my mother: but Kate
—dearest, loveliest Kate! I promised
to call on her at five: and it's live now ;
and, by licaveu, there she stands at her
parlor window beckoning me to hasten ;
yes ! and she holds up that bouquet of
flowers. It was but yesterday I gath
ered them for her—and what has not
happened since yesterday!” Hero he
paused, as if too much overcome liy
lUUU IVVVilCVViVIIO SU vvvvu . I
added in a different tone—“these follies j
come upon us, with both causo and
consequences, as suddenly, M fatally as
the inevitable casualties of life ! A day ;
of promise is changed to a life of
mourning by tlie event of a moment;
tlie act of an instant destroys tlie hap
piness and poisons ths memory of
years! Those flowers were gathered in
hope ; and bofore they—frail, perishiug
mementos—can wither, he who bound
them and she who wears them may be
lost in despair!
With a heavy heart Hurry repaired
to his love's rendezvous, where, full of
beauty and tenderness, Kate awaited
him. They were to be married in a
week; and these interviews of tlie j
lovers now possessed an additional j
witchery from the fact 1liat their com- j
■minings, as lovers, were so soon to
terminate forever.
The romance of passion is a bright
episodo in our youth. The hymcnwal
suit, while lie yet clambers toward the
“misty mountain-tops” on tlie morning
of a weddiiig-dav, spreads bis promise
over tlie broad tirmnneiitin a thousand
fantastical images of crimson and gold.
We watch tlio accumulating splendors
of tlie sky and say, cxultiugly. to the
dawn be so gorgeous what will not the
day bring forth? Itut ns we gaze, the
suu heaves his broad disk above the
, horizon—the ephemeral imagery of va
por disappears—and the calm, steady
; sunlight of every day-life succeeds to
1 tlie beautiful vision.
To Kate, this glowing blazonry of
heaven was now at its culminating
point; but Harry felt, as he almost
reluctantly approached her, that a
. cloud—the more terrible from his
uncertainty as to Its dimensions and
progress—was gathering on that glori
, J ous sky.
As he approached, his lovely mis
i tress hailed him with an arch reprool
for his delay; but when she reached
out her hand to welcome him, she saw
that his face was flushed and his eye
disturbed; and, changing her tone of
censure to one of solicitude, she
inquired anxiously:
“Are you ill, Harry ?”
The pressure of the hand—tho eager
look of inquiry—the tremulous tone of
affection which accompanied these few
words startled Harry from his self
possession ; and he replied—
“No—no—not at all ill; 1—I—”
“Harry! dear Heary!” exclaimed
Kate with passionate earnestness “what
j has happened ? Tell me, Harry 1 tell me
all!"
It was instantly obvious to the young
1 man that his engagement for the morn
j ing—which he held himself bound in
■ honor to fulfil—would in some way
j certaintly be interfered with by his
j mistress, if he allowed her to be in
I formed of it; for, whatever might bo
| his notions of cbivalric obligations, and
! however imperiously he mightdeinand
her acquiescence in them, he still knew
that a dread of personal danger to him
self would overbeur, in her mind, all
other considerations. He, therefore,
fell it necessary to equivocate and de
ceive her. The train of argument,
which of course went through his
mind in far less time than is required
to note it down, resulted in his saying
promptly—
“For heaven’s sake, Kate, don’t
alarm yourself in this manner! Noth
ing'has happened.”
T» i a not (a 1,n enimoeail (lint (lue
reply was altogether satisfactory, but
as Harry, iu his attempt to mislead
Kate had broken the spell of his own
forebodings, he was now able to regain
his self command; and he then soon
succeeded in making a jest of her fears.
After an interview such as lovers
know how to protract aud no one
knows how to describe, they parted;
Kate inspired *ith bright visions of
happiness, and Harry, in a state of
wretchedness, the nature, but not the
extent, of which may be-readily con
ceived. lie hurried to his room and
without any preparation for the mor
row cast himself on the bed where his
agony iound poor relief In a fit of
uncontrollable weeping.
In this condition, lie fell asleep.
It often happens, hv some strange
contrariety of nature, that our dreams
have relation to (lie subjects not nearest
our hearts: what lias occupied our
thoughts during the day usually gives
place, in sleep, to something of more
remote interest—as if the soul, when
momentarly disencumbered of the ca'-es
of life, shook oil’its dependence on the
body and pursued the bent of its own
fancy, regardless of the wants and
woes of this tabernacle of clay to
which it is ordinarly hold in subjection,
lint Harry’s experience did not, at this
time, oonfarm to the rule.
After he had slept awhile, lie dream
ed that he was hurrying, stealthily and
nlone, to the scene of mortal strife.
A little in advance of him was an old
man whom lie had several times tried
to avoid by changing Ids route, but tin
stranger, without appearing to be con
scious of Harry's motions, happened
I so exactly to regulate his course l.v
that which Harry took, that tiicimpa
' tient youth found it necessary to brush
past him, at the risk of being interrup
ted, it he would reach his destination
j in due season.
I He had Just overtaken tho old man,
aud was rapidly striding onward, when
the latter, with a promptness and vigor
not to he expected in one of his years,
grasped Harry’s arm, saving—
| “Hold a moment, young man ; you
i arc Harry Bradford, I believe?’’
“Hint is my name, old gentleman,
replied Harry, with a stare of astonish
ment, “but as 1 have not the pleasure
of knowing j qu, 1 must beg you to
defer vouf civilities. 1 am in haste."
“Stay a moment, nevertheless,” con
tinued the stranger, “or,"—seeing Harry
about to move on in spite of him—“if
you will not. at least walk slower, that
I may accompany yon. I knew your
father, Harry, and I can surely claim of
his son the privilege of a parting word
fust as lie is about to rush unbidden iu
to eternity.”
“Who arc yon, then, and what would
you say ?”exclaimed Harry, not a little
startled to And that his purpose as well
as his iininte was known to the Btrnnger.
“1 am your friend,” replied the old
man, “and my name is Common Sense.
Why arc you determined to throw
avfray your life?"
“Sir,” said Harry, “I am engaged in
an affair of honor—a matter with
which, I jfancy, you can have no‘con
cern."
“I have little to do with honor ns
young men understand it; but I am
desirous to servo you. Teil me, there
fore, what is your predicament?”
\ quondam friend and rival lover,
jealous of my success with a lady,
insinuated something to her prejudice
in the’ presence of goatlenicu. I struck
I him. He challenged me; and 1 mu
bound to tight liimi”
I “Why?”
j “The laws of honor accord full satis
faction to an Injured person.”
[ “Is he injured?”
“No, not in fact; he merely receive!
a just chastiseineut for a wanton iu
suit.”
! “lie says so.”
‘And is it one of the articles of yonr
code of honor that a party to a quarrel
is entitled, also, to be a judge of his
own case ?’
‘That is immaterial. If a man chooses
to consider himself aggrieved, he can
demand an apology, or, personal satis
faction. The apology being refused—
as in my case it must be—the challenge
ensues: and to question his right to
issue it, provided he is recognized as a
gentleman, is, equally with a refusal to
fight, equivalent to an admission of
cowardice.’
‘An admission of one’s own coward
ice is, truly, no alluring alternative.
But let ns understand each other; w hat
sort of cowardice do you mean 1’
‘I know of but one.’
‘Indeed 1 Cowardice, speaking gen
erally, is fear: what fear does a man
betray who declines to accept a chal
lenge ?’
‘The fear—eh—that is—the fear of
being shot.’
j ‘Death, young gentleman, to one
! who believes in a future stato of re
I ward and pAnishmcut, is a solemn
event; and I apprehend thnt a brave
man, or a good man (to say nothing of
a bad man) may fear to meet it without
suffering the imputation of cowardice:
so'that, thus far, your position is none
of the strongest. Does this cowardice
comprehend nothing else than the fear
of death ?’
‘Nothing else.’
‘Then wre have all the argument on
that side of the question. Let us look
a moment at the other. What induces
a man to accept a challenge?’
‘The fear of dishonor.’
‘Ay? then fear oporates on both
horns of tho dilemma: and, for my
own part, if I were forced to act under
the dictation of fear, 1 would choose
that courso which promised the least
UJSUKUUU9 lUSUIl. Dill lltiv, nf
do not perhaps understand each other.
What kind of dishonor is this?’
‘Disgrace, in an intolerable form!
A man tInis degraded would be driven
from society, branded with the stigma
of cowardice, and blasted with the
scorn of all honorable men.’
‘That, truly, wore a fate to be depre
cated ; though a man of sober judg
ment might urge that even such a fate
is nothing compared to what awaits
those who throw themselves, uncalled j
and unprepared, into the presence of
their maker. But is what you say ,
true? Does such dishonor involve
such consequences ?’
‘Unquestionably It docs!’
‘Stop a moment. Let us consider
this. You say the man would he
driven from society; tell tne by j
whom?’ ^
‘By public opinion.'
‘And the same agent would brand
him a coward aiql blast him with
universal scorn?”
“Even so.”
/This public opinion, I take it, is the
united opinion of that class whom you
designate by the phrase all honorable
men ? ’
“It is.”
‘■Very well. I wish now to ascertain
tlie practical operation of public opin
ion. Supposing you wero this dis
honored individual: who, as tlie Scrip
lyice hath it, would cast the first stone
at you? Who would take the Initiative
in banishing, branding and scorning
you—would your father have done it ?”
"Nil, certainly not.”
"Would your mother?”
“Xu."
■‘Would the lady you love—or any
ladv on the luce of the earth?”
I
“Would any of the old respectable
i inhabitants—your father s companions
and equals?”
| “No.”
“Would any of those who, by com
[ moil consent, form the respectable and
' _ i! 11-_S I.. ... <1.., A.imnllinitv ? '
“No."
“Would not rather, all these to whom
I have referred, applaud you for refus
ing deliberately to give or receive a
death-wound in a quarrel; and honor
you for daring to practice what every
sensible man lias preached siuee the
world began ?’’
,‘Perhaps they might.-’
“Then will you tell me, identically,
who would inflict on you the penalties
of this imaginary dishouor? Who
would pronounce you disgraced and
point at you as a coward ? ’
“Why, Wilson, aud Fred Stanly, nnd
Jack Smith, and Jim Brown, aud every
body,’
“What are they?”
“Gculleiueu"
“Wfaat is a gentleman ?"
“One who has, or had, or expects to
have a plenty of cash—who has no
particular vocation—who carries a
rattan, wears long hair, and goes to all
tlie fashionable parties."
“1 have but two questions more to ask :
j supposing you are killed in the duel:
j what would be the cousequcuco to
i others?-’
“Jly mother would die of a broken
heart; and Kate—God knows what
i would become of her! ’
1 “Supposing, on the contrary, you
■ should kill your antagonist ?"
i “If 1 were not arrested and hanged
' according to law, I should be obliged
to quit the county aud bear, ever, in
! my- bosom the remorse and on my
brow the mark of a murderer.1’
“One thing more; are you not
heartily ashamed of your present pur
I
! pose I”
Before Harry could reply, Stanley
stood at Ids side and awakened him by
saying:
1 “Come, Harry, you will be too late!
! The brotherly, disinterested zeal of a
second is worthy of all admiration.
How dispassionately he tries tlie flint!
How coolly he squints along the bar
rel to ascertain if the sight is in order!
How carefully he graduates the pow
der, and with what a touching con
noissenrship he chooses a ball! Ob
serve, too, with what a stately air he
paces off the ground—from the pride
of his step you might imagine he was
a prince or a conqueror marching to
receivo the reward of his greatness!
—God in heaveu ! is that man arranging
the ground where his frieud is to be
shot—shot in cold blood—and he, a
silent, premeditating witness of the
deed ?
At the hour designated, the parties
were all in attendance: the ground was
measured and the pistols were loaded.
Harry now interrupted the proceed
ings saying:
“Gentlemen this affair has gone far
enough.”
“It is too late now, sir!” said Wilson's
second, haughtily : “my friend refuses
to accept au apology.”
“He had better wait,” said narry,
“until I offer it. I accepted his chal
lenge under a misapprehension of my
obligations to my friends, to society,
and to what are called the laws of
honor. I now retract that acceptance,
lie iusultedmc and I struck him ; the
reckoning of revenge was thus closed
ns soon as it was opened. If he .dares
to repeat the offence, I shall repent the
punishment; without holding myself
liable to be shot at like a wild beast of
the forest. You are all welcome to put
your own interpretation on my refusal
to fight. My conduct will justify
itself to all those whose opinions ure
imilv Wni'fliv rtf fon-onrl • oti/l no Citi> (hu
bullying denunciation of those few
miscreants whose highest ambition is
to he known as the lump-lighters and
cnudle-snuffers of mortal combats—
combats which the laws of God and
man pronounce to be murder—as for
their denunciation, my now wishing
you a good morning shows how
thoroughly 1 dispisc it."
Was Harry Bradford a sensible man
or a fool ? Did lie, in after years, regret
liis refusal to tight a duel? And will
any one who reads this have tiie good
sense and manliness to do likewise?
The Juwrstonn Colony.
It was our good fortune to worship
on Thauksgiving day with our breth
ren at MoKendree. The pastor. Dr.
Young, delivered an eloquent and
appropriate discourse—a few para
graphs of which, of peculiar historical
interest, he has kindly furnished at our
request, for the readers of the Advo
cate. It coucerns the first colonists of
our country:
Northern writers have furnished our
school hooks and histories long enough.
They have related the story of tiie Pil
grim Fathers with such great length
and nice particularity that many of our
children think that tlio Plymouth col
ony was not only first in polot of im
portance, but first, in point of time.
Such is not the fact. It is our duty to
correct the error. Virtue is not a
commodity ; hut if it were, we do not
think the puritans used it ail up.
There is some Iclt..
The English made a permanent set
tlement at Jamestown, Virginia, in
1607. Tiie Dutch settled on the spot
! where New York now stands in 1014.
Tiie Puritans landed on Plymouth Hock
; juat as the year 1620 expired. So tlio
] Jamestown colony was on the soil of
1 the Now World thirteen years before
I the Plymouth.
“But the settlers in Virginia had no
j religion so tlio New England histor
ianftjProulO nave us uwiiutc. owuhbb
theVrilgrlm Fathers cnine over for
“freedom to worship God.” they seek
to leave the impresion that the James
town colonists came over to worship
no God at all. The truth of history
reverses this impression. Even in the
“Articles' Instructions apd Orders” of
the charter, granted by James I. for
the settlcing of Virginia, provisions
was made for the due carrying out of
that which is the highest end of every
Christian colony. For it is expressly
ordered that, “The said presidents,
councils and ministers should provide
that the true word and service of God
be preached, planted.and used accord
ing to the Kites and Doctrines of the
Church of England, not only in the
said colonies, but also as much as
might be amongst the savages border
ing upon them and “That all persons
should kiudly treat the savage and hea
then people in those parts, and use all
proper means to draw them to the true
service and knowledge of God."
The Plymouth colony had no chap
lain.—Their pastor, the Rev. John
Robinson, remained in Holland. The
The Jamestown colonists brought over
their chaplain, the Rev. Robert Uuut.
This pious clergyman, with the zeal
j and earnestness of apostolic times, ac
companied the first expedition. And
j he had the Joy of administering the
j Lord’s Supper to the united company,
on the 14th of Hay, 1G07, the day after
first lauding. Here, on a peninsula,
upon the northern shore of James riv
er, was sown the first good seed of
those Englishmen, who were, in after
years, to grow and multiply into the
* * ■ * ‘ ' *• V
great and numerous American people.
Jt was an omen for good, that almost
the first net on reaching land was to
offer unto God this appointment “sacri
fice of prayer and thanksgiving.”
The first house completed by the
Jamestown colony was “the Church
nnd temple of the rising settlement.
Hunt was succeeded by the Iter. Hr.
Whitaker, a son of the celebrated mas
ter of 8t John's College, Cambridge.
As early as 1613 he was established
“in a handsome church.” With the
name of Whitaker is joined the roman
' tic story of the first Indian convert,
j Pocahontas. In the year 1613 she
| made a profession of faith in Christ,
iand was babtized by Mr. Whitaker.
! The font use on the occasion was
hewn from the trunk of a tree.
It is related of Lord Delaware, one
of the early governors of the James
town colony, that on the morning af
ter his arrival he began his adminis
tration with religious exercises; after
which he caused his commission to be
read. He made it the first business of
each day to assetnblo early in the mor
ning in their “little church, which was
kept trimed with the wild flowers of
the country,” and there to invoke the
presence and blessing of God ; after
which they repaired to their daily
| labors.
In the year 1620, the year when the
Puritans of New Englaud landed, this
Virginia colony numbered one thou
sand, eight hundred nnd sixty souls.
These were divided into eleven par
ishes, and served by five ministers of
the Gospel.
The quill-drivers of the North have
taken great pleasure in stigmatizing the
Jamestown colonists as “vagabond
gentlemen," rakes and libertiues,” etc.
We read these epithets and smile—
like the English nobloruan docs when
he reads that his Norman ancestors of
106ft worn “a tleef-lnail of thieves and
pirates.” For, from Hint little James
town colony descended the George
Washington, and Patrick Ilenrys, and
John Kgrshnls, and Ilenry Clays, and j
Robert E. Lees, and tho long list of j
patriots, statesmen, and jurists, and
generals, and scholars, and Christians,
that have adorned our Soutlierh soci
ety, and made it illustrious forever.—
Nashville Christian Advocate.
Uow John Wlikes Raoth's Re
main* Lookd.
Washington special Cincinnati Enquirer,
17tli.j
Special dispatches from Baltimore
state that, the remains of Wilkes Booth
were placed in a vault to-day in Green
mount Cemetery, in tho presence of
his friends and relatives. The body,
or skeleton, rather, was taken from the
box in which it had been buried, mid
placed in a splendid metalic cofllu.
There was but, little of tho remains
left, the flesh having disappeared, leav
ing nothing but a mass of blackened
bones. Upon one foot was an old
shoo and upon the other a boot cut
open at the top ; this covered the left foot
the leg having been broken in the leap
j from the stage-box of the theatre after
| he had assassinated President Lincoln.
; The remainder of his dross consisted
! of a rough brown coat, black pauts
| and vest, all of which were rotten wnd
decayed. The hair all remained, mid
: and the silken curls of glossy black re
minded one of the face once so much
admired.
During the aftenoon and night hun
dreds of people visited the place, and
some were allowed to view the re
mains. Aftora short time it wits found
j that the curious ■ crowd bad cut the
blankets almost to pices to get sou
venirs. Many persons also visited
the cemetery during the day, believing
the interment would be made there,
but came away disappointed. Tho
interment will bo made hereafter se
cretly.
Footsteps op Natpke.—“All things
are engendered in writing their "own
history. Tho plant and the pebble
go attended by their own shadows.
Tho rock leaves its scratches on tho
mountain side, the river its bed in the
soil ; the auimal leaves its bones in
the stratum, the fern and the leaf their
modest epitapli in the coal Tho fall
ing drop makes its sepulchre in the
sand or stone ; not a footstep in the
snow or along the ground but priuts
its character more or less lasting, a
map of its inarch ; every act of man
inscribes its memories on his fellows
and his own t'aoe, and every object is
covered over with hints that speak to
the intelligent.”
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Death of the Oldest Mason.
Tho Erie Dispatch states that Joseph
Metcalf, who died in that city on
Wednesday the 3d inst, at the age of
ninety-four, was the oldest Mason in
the United States. Is says:
Mr. Metcalf was horn in Massachu
setts, but early in Jife lie removed to
Vermont, in which State tho prjuie
of his life was spent—-removing to this
oily about twebty years ago. Ills
mind was clear ant) bright to the last,
and his recollection of the past was ex
ceedingly viyiiL reminiscences
extended back jo the days of Shaw’s
rebellion, in 17!Hand had all the fresh
| ness of » narrative of yesterday. Mis
' venerable figure will be missed from
1 the meetings of tire sachems of Ma
sonry, where, as among the extensive
circle of his acquaintances he was held
in the highest esteem
The Editor’* Haven.
From a Washington Paper ]
In December, dark and dreary, sat
the writer weak and weary, pondering
o'er Ids memorauda book ofitems used
before—book of scrawling hand notes
rather, items taken days together, then
the hot and sultry weather, using up
much time and leather—pondering we
these items o’er, While we ponder
slowly rocking (through our mind
queer ideas flocking,) knocking at the
sanctum door. “Sure that must be
Jenks,’‘we mnttered—‘Jenk.s that’s
knocking at our door; Jenks, the ever
lasting bore.’
Ah, how well do wo remind us, in
the walls thnt there confined ns, ‘ex
changes’ lay behind us all covered o’er
the floor. Thought wo, Jenks wants
to borrow some newspapers till tomor
row, and 'twill relieve from sorrow to
get rid of Jenks, the bore, by opening
wide the door. Still the visitor kept
knocking—knocking louder than bc
f(^e.
And the scattered pile of papers, cut
some very curious capers, being lifted
by the breezes coming through another
door; and we wished (the wish was
evil for one deemed always civil) that
Jenks was to the devil, to stay there
evermore — Jenks, the never-tiring
bore.
Backing up our patience firmer, then,
without'another mnrmur, Mr. Jenks,
said wo, ‘your pardon, your forgive
ness, we implore. But the fact is, we
were reading o’er some curious pro
ceeding, and thus it was unheeded your
loud knocking there before.
Here we opened w ide the door. But
fancy now our feelings—for it wasn’t
Jenks the bore—Jenks the nameless
evermore.
But the form that stood before us
caused a trembling to conic o'er us, and
memory boro us back and to days of i
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J-1-J — ’*- .- - M
anil wlierc’cro this writer went he
picked up items hv tiie score. ’Twas
the dark form of our ‘devil’ thrust his
attitude uncivil, and he thrust his head
within the door with “The Foreman’s
out of copy, sir, and says he wants
more.’ Yes. like Alexander, wanted
more!
Now this ‘local- had already walked
about till nearly dead—ho iiad saun
tered through the city till his feet
were very sore—walked the streets so ,
dusty, and by-ways running oft- into |
portions of tho city, both public and !
obscure—had examined every store,
and questioned every ‘feller* whom
he met from door to door, if anything
was stirring—any accident occuring—j
not published heretofore, and he met i
with no success ; he would: .rather
kinder guess he felt a little wicked at
that ugly little bore, with Iris message
ft om the foreman, that he wanted
‘something’ more.
Now, ‘tis time you were departing,
you young ‘imp,’ cried we upstarting,
get you back into tho office—office
where you were before, or words you
have spoken will get your bones all
broken (and we seized a cudgel oaken,
that was lying on tho floor;) take your
hands out of your pockets, and leave
the sanctum door; tell the foreman
there's no copy, you ugly little bore,
And our devil, never sitting, still is
flitting; back aud forth upon tho lan
ding, just outside our sanctum door;
j tears down his face are streaming,
strange light from his eye is beaming,
and his voice is heard still screaming,
“Sir” the foreman wants some more.’
How to Court In Church.
A young gentleman happening to sit
at church In a pew adjoining one in
which sat a vonng lady for whom he
conceived a sudden and violent attach
ment was desirous of entering into a
courtship on the spot, but the place not
being suitable for a formal declaration,
the case suggested -the following plan.
He politely handed bis fair neighbor
a Bible, opened, with a pin stuck in the
following text becond bpistle ot
John, verse 6—“And now I beseech
thee, not as though I wrote a new com
mandment unto thee, but that which
[ we had from the begiuning, that we
love one another.’
I She returned it, pointing to the scc
j ond chapter of Huth—tenth verse;
“Then she fell on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground, and said to him,
' Why have 1 found grace in thine eyes,
seeing I am a Stranger?”
| He returned the book, pointing to
the thirteenth chapter of the Third
Epistle of John : “Having many things
to write unto you, 1 would not write
with pen and ink, but I trust shortly to
come unto you and speak face to face
that our joy may be full,”
From the above interview a marriage
took place recently.
hearers,” said au enthusias
tic Texas orator, “truth Is mighty and
will prevail; truth beats eggs all hol
low, aud why? Itoeausc. truth crush
ed to the earth will rise agaiiifSdtut
eggs wou’t.
tig-A lady of somewhat dignified do
tneanot*, having lost her way, said to
an urchin in the street: “Hoy, 1 went
to gn to Dover street. .“Well, tuarut,”
replied the b4g coolly walking on,
| “why don’t you go there, then ?**
gsg* An editor thus distinguishes be
tween diHorent sorts of patriotism
“Some esteem' it sweet to die for ones
country ; others regard It sweeter toliVe
for ones country; but most of onr
patriots bold it sweeter to live upon
one’s country." »
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A Cheap Mump Puller.
There arc a good many stump pulling
machines. All of those which are manu
factured for sale, beingsecured by patents,
are very expensive One of them, how
ever, is so simple that its construction is
within the means of every farmer, and
if we wanted to use it we should take the
risk of the patentee's giving us trouble1
It consists simply of a long, stout pole,
say twenty-five or thirty feet long, with
three strong chains attached to it one at
the butt-end, one about three feet farther
up, and the third about three feet above
that. Each of these chains should be fif
teen or twenty feet long, and armed with
good books. At the smaller end of the
pole there is another chain to which to
attach the team. In nsc it is laid upon
the ground with the fastening of the se
cond chain opposite to the middle of the
stump, the beam lying, say five or ten feet
distant from it The middle chain is then
secured firmly to any-tree or stump with
in reach behind the beam, and the chain
at the butt is fastened aronnd at the back
side of the stump to be drawn.
The team i9 then hitched to the smaller
end of the beam, and is driven forward
so as to produce a strain upon the stump.
When they have gone as far as possible
the third chain is canied around the other
sido of the stump and made fast, and the
direction of the teams pulling is reversed.
When they have pulled as far as they can
in tibia rlirAntinn tliA first Minin is dr.inn
taut and mado fast, and the strain is ap
plied to that. In this way, by successive
pulls, first on one side and then on the
other, a very large stump may be drawn
out
When there is no object sufficiently
near to which to attach the second chain,
the first and third are simply secured as
described above, and the team is made to
rack the stump, first in one direction and
then in the other, until it is loosened.—
New York Evening Post,
An Important Discovery.
A gentleman in town has received let
ters-patent for nil article which, if it does
all that is claimed for it, is destined to pro
duce au entire revolution in the fishing
and provision business. The article in
question is soluble in water, something
similar to salt, and has the peculiar proper
ty of keeping fish, meat, poultry'Ac.. per
fectly fresh for any length of titnt*. It is
almost entirely devoid of smell of taste
and scientific men who have examiued the
article pronounce it a success, and wonder
why some one did not discover its remarka
ble properties before. We have seen cod
which have been in this solution seven
weeks aud the besh was as hard and the
general appearance of the fish equally as
fresh and good as if just taken from the
water A porgic which had been in soak
ten weeks, presented the same remark
able appearance: These fish were cut in
our presence, and the flesh, was as solid
aud as good as any fresh fish that may be
found in any market. If this discovery
should prove as expected, salt and ice—
large items of expense in preserving pre
serving provisions—will be superceded
and poultry, meat and fish can be carried
to every part of the world iua fresh state.
I Sailors will no longer complain of‘‘salt
! horse,” and scurvy will he among the
things that were. It is not very expen
sive; and docs not oontain anything dele
terious, and as soon as practicable will be
introduced to the public —Gloucester
. Advertiser.
How to Break a Mule.
The following suggestions about break
ing the mule are from a new and itcrcstiug
book on the subject, by Harvey lUley
Ks<j, Superintendent of tbo Government
corral, ut Washington, and pablished by
Dick <fc Fitzgerald, New York. “Dont
fight or abuse him. After you have har
nessed him, and, he proves to be refracto
ry, keep yourown temper, slack your reins
push him round backward and forward,
not roughly; then if lie will not do what
you want him to, tie him to a post, and
let him stand there a day or so without
food or water. Take care also, that he
does uot lie dowu, nod be oarefulto have
a person to guard him, ao that he does
I not foul in the harnc -a. if he will not
go after a day or two of this treatment
give him one or two more of it, and
ray word for it he will come to his seq.
sea and do anything you want from that
time forward.
Tho only way to keep a mule from
kicking vou is to handle it a great deal
when young, aud accustom it to tbo waya
and actions of inca. You must through
kindness, convince it that yak are Hot
going to harm or abuse it; and you «u»
do fhat best by taking hold of it in a
gentle manner every time it appears to
be frightened. Such treatment I have
always found more effective than all tho
i beating and abusing you can apply.
! The mule is peculiar in bis dislikes.
' Many of them, when first harnessed, so
'dislike a blind bridle that they will not
I work in it. When you find this, lot
' them stand for a day or so in the blin
ders and then take them off, and and in
; forty-uine cases out of fifty ha will go
at once."
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VOT TJME a DES ABO, ARKANSAS, MARCH g, 1869. _NUMBER 47.