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BY I.YDIA 1.. A. VERY.
Let's have the old bend, and not have the new;
Lot's have the bcnd-lhftt onr grandmothers knew;
Over the washtub and over the churn.
That is the bond that our (laughtersshould learn.
Let’s have the bend that fair grandmothers knew;
Over the cradle like good mothers true;
Ovgr tbo table, (the family round.)
Heading tit. Rood Book, mid silence profound.
Let’s have the bend that at church they did wear.
Bowing them lowly in meek, humble prayer;
No sitting erect, with the modern-mi- air,
With the ‘love of a bonnet’ just perched on one
hair.
Leave the camel his hump he wears it for use;
Leave the donkey his pannier and cut your-1
selves loose
From fashions that lower, deform and degrade. :
To hide some deformity most of them's made.
Let our heads ot false hair and hot yam-skeins t
bo shorn;
Lei onr garments b* easy and light to lie worn;:
Tlou't shake in December and swelter in dune,
And appear like unfortunates struck by the moon.
Let’s spend the time in things higher th in dress ! ,
Time that was given ns to aid and to bless;
Time that is fleeting and passes away;
()! let us work while we call it to-day.
Let us have the old bend instead of the new;
Let us have the old hearts, so faithful and true;
Away with all fashions that lower and degrade ! j
To hide some deformity most of them smadc! ,
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1M CONSCRIPT
% (talc of ik Confckratc -SSlar.
BV ftllj. J. H. ST. CLAilt.
(’!(AFTER TH.
Tin: nattlk.
The Pnntnier baa come, with all its
flash i.f green and its glorious lights and
shades of checkered sunshine. Collect -
cd on the banks of the Chickahominy,
theJnrgest armies Hint had ever met in
America. At least three hundred thous-.
and men were collected to decide wheth
er the South should he free, or forever
trampled into ignominious slavery. On
this beautiful summer morning then, just
at dawn, the loud report of a cannon an
bounced that the “Seven Days’ Battle
around Richmond” had commenced. At
first, a few dropping shots could he heard
by the eager, feverish wounded men who
were in hospital iu the city. Soon the
.-pattering picket fire swelled into a loud
long continued roar of musketry, then,
soo a dying away, announced that tire
Yankee “Grand Army” was in full re
treat for their gunboats. We do not
prormse to write the history of the “Sev
en Days' Battles,” but shall follow the
■fortunes of our Conscript, of whom we
have lost sight now, for some time.
During the whole of the first day John
Verimt’s Regiment remained quietly in
camp, and, indeed, many speculative
men, of whom there are many always in
every camp, and lor that matter out of
camp too, who thought that “Our Regi
ment,” would not get a Chance to go in.
to the fight at all. At daylight, came
the order to “fall in," and soon at the
“double quick” the galfant tli South
Iflarolina was on Ihe tattle field Before
■mm rose a hill literally frowning with
lotteries from its base to its summit.—
each battery floated th stars and
Kts, and the gunners could be dis
seen standing with lanyard in
| hand, ready to hurl gi up. -shot and can A
j ter upou the rash troops that should at*
, tempt to storm that appart utly impreg- !
I liable stronghold.' “Attention Battalion !’
rang out in full clear tones upon the j
j summer air. “Forward Mare. 1 ,” and the
’■Battle” opened. Steadily, though the
grape tore through their fast thinning!
ranks, on and up, and the first battery is
taken; steadily, on.und up, and the full
! tide of battle ebbs a;id flows around the j
!second b attery.
| Who can describe a battle ? Who
[can tell pf the sulphurous fires as of Hell
Litaolf, bursting and glaring around his
very feet; of the maddening shrieks of
j the wounded, and the wild, maddening
yells of the living; ot the tramp, the
j surge and roar, the living tide swaying
backwards and forwards; of the charge,
; the* repulse, and the final victory, and
! the unearthly quiet which reigns unbro
ken, save by the groans of the wounded ?
' a battle can best be described by calling
; it a series of small battles.
! And where was John Yeniot ? Pow
j dor stained, blackened, faint of body,*
1 1 ut not of purpose, when the charge
was ordered to take the last battery,
| John Yernot was the first man to seize
| the flag that floated so proudly and defl
' antly in the breeze, and in the very act
| of folding it up, fell, shot again aiijl again,
:by the last retreating body of Yankees
| 11 is com null s wrapped the bloody Hag
| reverently mound the body*of the lorn,
I breathless, bleeding Conscript and bo.ro
him thus to the feet of his Colonel. The
man who had j ined his regiment with
the magic word "bud” opposite bis name,
was now, in bis own eyes, and in the
eyes of bis comrades '.lie hero of his reg
iment.
. This is a strange world of ours, this
little planet on which we live and move
and have our being. Success is, after
a]l, the only touchstone by which we try
'all ruen. History, the old lying chroni
cler, is full of examples of- the great
truths that success is after all the only
criterion by which to judge of men and
things.
O reader, dost think that if George
Washington hud been unsuccessful, that
he. would have occupied the high niche
in the Temple of Fame that he now oo- j
copies ? Nay would not ho and bis gen-!
ends have been executed as “rebels” j
had my Lord Cornwallis, or Sir Henry
Clinton subjugated the old Thirteen ? j
Are not Napoleon Bonaparte at Liepzig
and the same Napoleon at Austerlitz very
different beings ? Who but knows that
the greatest generals, statesmen, law- ■
yers and divines havo made Their first]
mark generally by the purest accident ?
Was Galileo any greater after the wisest
men of Europe had ackimwle red his
discovery ? wo think not, and, therefore
we low down and worship Sucre: as
the great modern idol of human worship.
No matter how obtained, let it bo success,
anil enough men can he found ly worship
the same though stained with a thous
and acts of the blackest .cruelty; to ex
alt the owner of the gold, though every
piece he coined from the widow’s tear,
and.the heart’s blood of some poor un
fortunate. llovv often, yea, how very
often do wo see the vilest of .earth set 1
up In high places to bo the cynosure!
of every eye, while poor, patient merit j
submits to indignities at which the blood .
of all true men boils with shame arid' in-I
dignation.
How often have we seen some scorn-;
fill belle sweep by her poorly clad sister,
, disdain on lip, and fiery scorn giit-
I tcring in hot eye; sweep by that s stei, ‘
though, perhaps, hi f. -ist of intelligence,
: real merit, and all tru.j womanly quali
ties she is not fit to ti - her shoes; how
. often do we not see a map judged from
t his clothes, alone, who is a gentleman,
:.sans 'pear et xans reproche flow often
! then, in this wooden world of ours do
| we not eoc these things, yet who can sug
gvet a remedy ? No one can, and so
long as "Human nature is what it is, we
must be content to jog along in the same
■ old fashion;
‘•When Adam delv'd and-Eye span,
' Who was the gentleman V”
And, in that word gentleman we find
; the most outrageous abuses current even
among those who ought to know better.
Derived as tbs word very plainly indi
cates from the Latin, gen*, a race, we
link that in all ages of the world there
has be o a secret desire on the part of
those*not belonging to the favored class
to be included in it. From the Roman
knight, whose highest ambition was to
| fce borne in triumph through the streets
\ of Rente, down to the mail clad knights
HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GUO., APRIL 2, 1869.
of the middle ages, the word <jcnUema>b\
| has borne with it a seer and charm for;
which we look in vain to any other word
in any language.
To be courteous to high, or low, or j
, rich, or poor; to succor the distressed, j
the down-trodden, the lowly and the
huroble, were the privileges of the gen-j
tinman in the good old days of feudal
chivalry; to be high bred, polished, in
fined, and to he the very soul of honor, i
are the characteristics of the modern;
gentleman. Cervantes might laugh]
away tile chivalry and the chivalry hooks
of Spain, but ho could not, nor can any j
man laugh away that better, purer, high- ]
or chivalry which springs and lives for
■ over in tiio heart, of the true gentleman.
It-wore a curious and a very instruc.
! live inquiry to malji\ how much change
j the word gentleman undergoes as it is
used and understood by different peo.-
; pies. Among the Esquimaux for in—
| stance, lie would be considered a polish-
I od gentleman who could give his friends
; plenty of .fat seal for dinner, to be wash
ed down with copious draughts of tram
oil. Among the North American Indians
lie doubtless would be thobght the very
pink of gentlemen who could stand the
most fire applied in the shape of red hot
coals to different parts of the body.
There is a little story to be found in
! old Scotch story books tliqt so well illns
(rates our idea of a true gefUlemau that
we give it here.as the iud of this long
digression. Once there was a company
of Scotch gentlemen in the service id
one of the German Princes, no matter
what was liis name. I’here was a cor
tain island in tire middle of the River
-Rhine, strongly fortified, which beleifged
jto another little German Prince. AV eIT,
Ia war broke out between these two priu
-11-, , and the Company of Scotch Gentle
men were ordered to take the fort which,
j was so strongly fortified, in the middle
| of the island in the middle of the Rhine
1 River. They (lid not hesitate about ta
j king thvj fortj but they joined their hands
j together, raised their swords on high,
j and singing one ol tins sweet songs of
! Anld Scotia, they marched forward up
<to their shoulders in water, to almost
| certain destruction; the foe met them,
j shield clashed against shield, sword
| rang against swonl as they met in the
I bloodiest conflict that had « ver been j
[fought in that bloody land; the moon |
rose high and full over the ghastly scenes ;
,and fully lit up with her sparkling beaqis
the gory hatt-ld field. Os that Company ,
of brave, high soulod gentlemen, hut five j
were Jiving, of the enemy not one. Far I
: away from the laud of the Thistle .and j
the Rose they slept their last deep sleep
! beneath the blue waters of the'Rhine -•>
!<: Fundi born anil bred they showed, ]
Mo t.:-: last inomcnt*of their lives • that.]
j gentle nurture and gentle training, do
! not prevent a man from being, the very
incarnation of all true manliness arid of
! all true bravery. With a fidelity to
| their promises us unquestioning as it was
| faithful, they yielded up- their young
lives so full of promise, so lull of rain
j bowed hope, as cheei fully as they would
j have danced a measure with lady fair in
[ her father’s hall.
(to'.IE OON'ITXDBD.)
™ s®P’s'¥my.
“Will you buy iny body sir?” I Char
les Markham, a y ung physician, was
-itting aloiiO in the dusky little room,
t int the sign withmt dign'fiod.with the
j title of “office,” when the words foil up
■on my ears. I had -just returned from j
j visiting the few patients- I could boast!
; of thoroughly heart sick at the want of
! humanity in tLe world wet to the skin j
and more than half frozen.
I don’t, remember a worse night in all;
! respects. It was cold as the Arctic blus .
l tcring and the sleet that rattled against j
the windows soon covered them with a|
| coating of fee. It had stormed', heavily !
all tin; day the stores were closed and |
, the sidewalk venders driven to shelter.
“God help any one that fs forced to
be abroad t - nfgbt,' had been my thought j
as 1 hurried along after finishing rny pro
fessional duties and breasted my way j
j homeward. .
But scarcely had I y-ached it, chang I
j ed my saturated garments, coaxed the!
: sparkling anthratic into a cheerful glow
: made myself comfortable and began bail '
I ding’ 'castles in Spain of the time v.m
I should bnyo a lucrative practice rid.- j
hi my carriage, and own a brown stone i
1 front wlnfn the strange and heart chill-!
ing words fell upon rny ears causing all j
: my pleasant fancies tu drift away in an ’
instant;
j “Will you buy my body, sir?”
! I sprang from jny easy chair dropping
: my w olored m : mama In my as
! tonisl.e.ent and turned to- sc* who it
: was that like Foe's raved) had uttered
1 the terrible words
“Will you liny my body, sir?”
The question was repeated for tin
second time h. fore I had snfli.ie itly re
j covered myself-—before 1 was convive
i ed that jt was no ill omened bird hut one
jof human semblance at lor st Yet the
request was so utterly unusual so much
at variance with all pivconvinced in*
! tion.s of barter and sale, that a ! l 1 coil'd
jdo was to push a chair toward the in
truder and stand in silent womlciment.
In a few moments the self command 1
Iliad* learned during hospital practice
; e:im° to my aid; and 1 saw that my visi-
Mur was a woman—girl rather, for she
] could not have bci ii more than nineteen
or twenty at the utmost; and that if it
i had not been for the extreme pqlor of the
i lace, ami pinched up look about the
! month, and the sad sunken eyes she
| would have possessed far more than is
ordinary the case the rare-gift of beau
j >y
j The flickering light of the fire flashed
I upon the soft brown hair, giving it a
! more golden glory and dissolving snow
Hakes that had hedged there, made them
glitter like liquid pearls. This much,
and that "the dress and shawl were of
the cheapest material and hut a poor de
fence against the howling storm and
pi: (ileus cold and the strange request
darird again witlr lightning tapidily
through my brain.
“Draw near to the fire,” T said
“You ure numbed. Warm yourself
and—” ’
“1 have no time—must not stay,” she
answered, with u sigh though she drop
, pod heavily into a chair and brushed u
way the snow drops from her face with
her thin hands.
Without wading for further ren\on -
strange 1 fastened to get some reviving
inelliciue, of which 1 saw she stood so
much in need and with a gentle force
held it to her lips.
“I cannot—Cannot,she gasped half
pushing 1 it away.
“You must,” 1 insisted. “Remember,
lam a physician- that is a prescription
—that your'life may-depend up-on it-”
“Idle ! O God! How long and sad ?
Will it give me strength ?”
“That certainly is the object I have in
urging you 'to toko it ! W hat else
should it he ?”
“Give it to me.”
An i ■■ 'ic s« ailowi <1 it without a . mur
mur'save one of thankfulness.-,
I wheeled her chair up nearer, to the
fire; stirred the coals to.a more brilliant
i glow, hoping that the potion would qui
litlict excileuu'iit wake the chilled blood
j to warmer and swifter flow, and that
sleep would follow. And for a moment
I fancied that I was right. The littfo
hanils dropped nerviously into her lap ;
the •soft, veiled lids dropped over the
deep blue eyes; the head fell forward
upon h r breast. But alitsl it w.as only
a momentary delusion. In another in
stant she sprang to her feet again, press
ed her hands upon her temples as ii to
still their throbbings and looked wildly
around.
“O God!” she exclaimed; “I here amid
warmth and comfort—-and—und.—”
Convulsive sobs choked' any furthet
utterance. .
“Sit down and tell me tho reason of
yous coinins heny' I almost commanded,
as 1 placed her in ft clufir.
“Ah*l rememl or -ill now* Remember!
is there no such thing as forgetfulness ?
Yes, i remember all. • I came here to —
to.”
“Becalm! 1 understand that yo;> are
in need and came lor assistance.”
“1 came,” she replied, and looked up- j
on nfe will) such. Uttar despair, and j
spoke so calmly that it made my blood
r.on’e-ild, “1 came doctor to sell you my |
body.”
Was 1 talking to a sane woman or a |
maniac? The latter was certainly my
thought but J cimld detect nothing in j
the clear blue eyes of thg wanderings of
i insanity. “Sell her bodyl” She spoke!
of it ns :tn every day transaction.
“Great heaven 1” 1 evclaiincd laying;
m\ fingers upon her pulse with -thcrex
pedal ion of finding it bounding j
witn race-horse rapidity ‘but on llioj
contrary finding it far more calm than ;
my own. “Great Heaven! You cannot |
bp in earnest?”
“Jain in earnest. God alone only':
knows liovg much in ’earnest. It w«s j
.in v last vesort. Will you buy it? Will!
you give me some money for it ?
And she reached out her hands to- j
wards she as a miser would -have done
who heard the dear jingling gold.
“flow can 1 purchase it? You are yet;
alive ?”
“But I will soon die, and then—then
you can claim it. For the love of Heav
en give mo a little— -just a liille uion
cy.” And the hitherto (fry eyes were
Ho sled witli tears.
“Why do wish to sell it ? You can
not hut und Tttand that it is an unheard
If proceeding. Our profession never
purchase bodies (how I shuddered as 1
gazed into her face, while I was. fo«sff)g
myself to calmly utter too words) be- i
lore death no matter what we may -do
“I know it—l -know it—but 1 must
have money and thciofis no other means
left me to get it. 1 must have it now
—instantly-!”
And she would 1 j e o arisen again, but
I resolutely held her down.
“For what purpose do von wisli it?”
“To purchase food, fire, medicine.”
“For yourself ?”
! “All ! iia Had that been the case 1
' never would have cor.ic hither. I would
have laul down in the gutter and diet.
God knows how willingly. But tell me,
she continhed almost fiercely, “will you
give me some money? I must have it--
nuist 1 ave it 1”
‘lf not for yoursell in tho name of
Heaven fur whom would you have made
such a fearful .sacrifice? Is it one that
is very near and dear tiryou?”
“It is—is—my little sister - ’
The words dropped from her tongue as
they might from that of an a’ get*;- Trud’
her face wore us holy a light as if she
had been already star crowned.
“Then she is sick?”.
“Dying 1 dying 1 amt I sitting .idly
here !”
“Why did yon not tell me of this be
fore 1”
“Because I Imd begged so long in vain.
I had -no money to pay a doctor ; and
who would go forth upqp such a nigiil
as this without it,?”
My blood boiled so that I could not
answer. Gould 1 icro lie such irten ?
Alas I reason told me in a moment that
her words were hut too true, and 1 al
most cursed my race. Without delay 1
gathered such things as I thought might
he of service wrappeiniio delicate form
in a heavy chfik and with a few words
of comfort we sallied out together into
the black night and"merciless storm and
cold.
Fortunately the. distance we had to
travel was a short, one. A few blocks
passed, and she led me up several flights
of dismal, creaking stairs into a room.
’ “Florence, if! that you ?” I heard ask
ed by what, my car convinced me was a
pair of childish, almost inftmtile lips.
“Yes, rny darling, lie std! for a mo
meet,”
“1 am so glad. Yon have boon so
long, so very, very long aw :y,_aml 1 am
so sick, ami cold and hungry, and it, was
so dark, and 1 have been so frightened
at. the strange noises.'’
“Excuse me, shy’ she. said, as she
turned and lighted the remnant of a can
die. “Excuse me, hut 1 have been so
long away from ’Bessi--.”
1 answered not. J lor voice had a mel
ody in it, now attuned hy love that 1
win lied to linger upon my earniuhroken.
like the strains of spmo r mgs L have
heard, and which haunted me for yearn.
Ia a mojjymt the candle shed a sickly
ligl t around the little room. Little •'in
i deed and unfurnished to nothingness !
One scanty covered bed was all J J’mf
within .1 saw a sweet, wee face that made
me forget all elso. 1 approached it, and
laid my hands upon the pulse of the little
sufferer. • •
*Wlioare you?” she ’asked drawing
hack in alarm.
“lie is a doctor, Bessie; a dear good,
kind friend,” replied liyr'sk-iter, and from
that moment she became perfectly pas
sive in my hands. •
It did not require one learned in the
science of materia inodica to see what
was required. I made the proper pres
cription saw that it was tenderly admin
istured told the older sister'that I would
he l>aek in a few moments and resisting
all her attempts to light mo down the
stairs groped my way'into the street. I
had noticed an eating house at but a lit
tle distance as m came along, and a
statement of the n 1 •, hacked hy the all
powerful king of .the world gold soon
I procured the loan of a disused stove, a
! couple of chairs, fuel, light and proper
I food, and in a brief hall' hour that little I
j "omn wore something of an air ol com
fort. Another hour and the eyes of. the
I child were closed in slumber, arid I urg-j
ed her sister to seek repos > bill in vain.
“At lean lie down and let me cover !
you witli my cloak," I Urged.
“No doctor’ was the constant reply, *1
cannot. lam so happy. It must have
been God that directed my wandering
steps to yon. _ .
And so we sat with the night wind
roaring without watching the almost an
! gelic laee of the peacefully slumbering]
| child—sat and talked ol what. I was
I most anxious to hear But the c; nversa 1
I tion of those long dark Hours can bo con
i doused into a very brief space. . 'j
She who would have sold' her body 1
for the sake of giving a iittlo longer of!
life to her sister, was the daughter of at i
least supposed wealth. But a few years t
previously she'emiid have held her hea l
rns high as the highest. Both birth and
education fitted her fur it. * But misfor
tune came—a series of disasters upon the
land and sea . against which no human
forethought could guard combined with
treachery and ingratitude of the deepest
dye, swept away all. In their footstep*
followed the death of the mother, leaving
an infant ot but a few months old. lbe
j ibmi lather "struggled against the ti le
! manfully for a Uriel time---when his
j health gave way*-he followed his v/bVj
i through the dark valley and beyond the j
shining river, leaving the older sister to j
i provide for tiie younger.
“go,, a time,” continued the poor gii I, i
:“I wad able to live comfortably 'hy the
' sale of the furniture and articles of va! j
Ino I possessed. Then- but why should |
1 so unbosom myself to a stranger? ’ she
ask and stopping suddenly and looking
me full in too face.
“Because,” 1 replied with a smile at
: her earnestness, “because you have
i found a true heart, and and one that can
; feel for you.”
f “Yes, may kind heaven be thanked!
I [ feel that it .is so. Well, i struggled
j on- -fought on were tiie better words,”
\ she c nt.ausd' with the lines about her
; mobile mouth suddenly becoming hard
! “I fought for life, sometimes twrliiug,
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NO. II
(in private famiti s, sometimes obtain
ing a little sewing - ; in short doing any
tiling that my strength permitted, until
sickness came. Still, I'gave not away
to despair. Truly, I was hound to tins
stake a sweet one- my darling sister.
Ol the insults 1 received while seeking
work, 1 shall not speak. They must, re
main forever locked in my-breast,” and
the pallet lace was flushed to scarlet,
even at the thought:.
“And found no employment ?”
“Nona ! Piece by piece f parted .with
the little furniture! I was' the possessor
of, until what you see is all that remain
ed.”
“My poor c.'iiid !”
“It is true—” i saw that she was ner
ving herself to toll me something that
was painful, very painful, and would
have stopped her, hut she resolutely con
tinued—“lt is true, some money was of
fered mi! by more than one man, hull
instantly and iinligiymtly hurled it hack
in my insulter’s face. Then, groat Hea
ven ! upon Ibis hitler night, with all
licpe gone, 1 determined to sell my body
to so ap surg o i.”
“What in the name of Heaven Could
have put such an idea into your head V
“I do mil know -I cannot tell. Some
vvheie, 1 h i I either heard or read of
sone fliing of the kind.”
“You most have been very desperate.”
“On.the verge of destruction ! I had
but one dream—one desire—to save my
darling even a single hour of pain.”
“Have you no relatives?”
“Not a single one that I know of.—
B >tli ot my parents were only children,
and 'their parents came from foreign
lands.”
She paused, and turned to smooth the
hair of the slumbering Bessie, and im
print a kiss upon the curl-wreathed
and snowy throw; and I thought what
desperate trials one like her 111 hi. have
passed through in order to bring her
mind to look calmly upou giving herself
lo the knife and the ribald jests of tl.c
dissecting room. And I thought, too,
of the nteiiinp truth of her young heart
that could resist the allurements of gold
when so hedged hy want and pain in
llieir most ten Pole shapes, 1 thought,
ton—blit she interrupted me with:
“My kind—judaedvl might say my on
ly Iri ml
the hour when darkness, and mis
ery and black death and si pauper’s grave
were storing "me in the lace. ‘My kind
friend, hut I am, tiavg been kegping you
from rest.”
„ “ill! ! A physician's life is one that
is-consiantly broken in upon and—will
you pardon me ? 1 have never had mjr
heart, so deeply touched, or my feelings
so much interested in all my life.”
A faint rose blush crept up from (lie
exquisitely moulded throat and mantled
tiie soft cheeks. She took my hand, and
pressed it to her lips, leaving a warm
kiss lingering upon it. Hid ,I suddenly
build any castlds in Spain !
When tie morning light nverbj'oko
again the gay city, the storm bad ceased
and natnie smiled—cold, it is true, but
brilliantly. There was a plentiful break
fast served in that little room, but the
dinner, was taken in far other quarters.
As I write l .esn lines, I (with some,
at least, of my dreams ol wealth and po
sition realized) sit i[i a cozy study and
listen to tlu! vvatliful howling of tlio
storm without. There is a beautiful, •
la nviyhairod woman sewing near; a
sprite ofa.gij'l decorating a.snow white
kitten with c iunum ribbons on .the rug
|in front of the glowing grate. I look
up suddenly from the bo >k lain reading
at-the former. Our eyes Meet. Arc wo
both thinking ol the past 1 It, may bo
so. She steals softly behind my chair
and twines her anus around my neck.
“Darling, .do you remember,'such a
! night as this scarcely a year ago?” she
asks. • '
“Yes. I was thinking of it ”
“A id of what brought me to you?”
“-Yes.”
,V:e bends still nearer to me. f feel
ier warm breath upon my checks.
1,.,.| her I'.TVi'i.i kiss— such a one as only
*, young and lovely wife call give; and
I hear, as it were, whispered rather by
spirit, than mortal lips:
“Now, my daiding, I am yours, body
and soul. »
Thank God that is so.
A Trxinei Hiiairr.—Adi*conao!ate wid
ower, seeing the remains of his late wile
j Idwere ! into the grave exclaimed with
tears in-his eyes: “Well I’ve lost hogs.
I and I’ve lost cows, buts never had aiiy
] tliiiig that cut- me up like this !”
An imsiicwssfal lover was asked by
- what means he 1 si his intended. “Alas,”
lie cried, “1 flat tered her until siic gut
too'proud to speak to me!”
jsgr* “I am afraid, sir,’ yon are in a
settled melancholy.,’ “No, madam, my
melancholy won’t settle, it has Joo much
grounds ”
£ v," “Ma, have steamboat boilers got
I wings?” “Oh, don’t bother me —no.”
j “Why 1 heard a gentleman talking about
! a boiler Hue!”
In a fashionable novel the author says
“Lady Emma trembled, grew pale, and
immediately fainted.” The printer, put
ting p instead of t\ rendered it, ‘'i lie“
lady gicw pale, and immediately p tin
ted- ’’