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Penfleld, G*, Dee. 8,1855.
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From the American Union.
A SHREWD WIFE,
—OB —
An Unprofitable Trip to the Gold Regions.
BT WILLIAM H. THOMAS.
think,” said Mr. Dana v as he j-nshod
back his chair from the breakfast table,
and looked hard at his wife, a pretty little
woman with largo blue eyes, ‘ I think that
I should lik to goto California and try my
luck. Darn it all, everybody is going about
here. Do you think you could spare me
for a year, Nelly?”
Mrs. Dana made no immediate reply,
she appeared to be very busy turning out
a cup of tea, although a keener observe]
than her husband would have noticed an
uncommon tremulousness in her hands, as
Mr. Dana ceased speaking.
“I think I might do well there,” the bus
band continued, as though speaking to
himself. #
“Areyou not doing well here on your
farm ?” the wife asked, at length.
“I’m making a living perhaps, but it’s
only by hard work. Now if Ish ukl go to
California, -and he lucky, why, we could
have a great many more comforts than we
are blessed with at present.”
“We have everything that we could wish
for to make us contented, and I’m sure I
sigh for no luxuries, excepting what we
can well afford,” Mrs. Dana replied.
“Yes, we have enough to eat and clothes
to wear, but can’t buy lots of good furni
tore, and have a pinny, like. ’Squire Bol
ton. Darn if, I want.to be rich as he is,
and then I should be contented,” Mr. Dana
said, rising from his chair, and walking
back and forth the kitchen with energy.
“Mr. Belton is far from being happy,
with all ofhis wealth,” said the wife.
“Well, I know that; but then who could
be contented with such a wife as he has ?
Shu’s either crazy half the time, or else—
“ Hush!” cried Mrs. Dana, with a re
proachful look, “remember if she have
faults, so have we all.”
“But what I meant, Nelly, is that if he
had such a wife as I’ve got, and with his
wealth, he couldn’t helpLeing happy. 1 ”
“And yet you want to*leave a wife yon
think so highly of,” Mrs. Dana said, with
a reproachful look.
“But don’t you see that it is fr your
comfort and benefit in the end. Yon know,
Nelly, that nothing in the world would in
duce me to quit you, unless it was the hope
of making a fortune in a short time, i
wouldn’t be gone longer than a year, and
if Hiked the conn fry, and I thought you
would be contented there, I’d send for you.’
“And what will you do with thefaim
while yon are gone?”
“I will get my youngest brother to come
and live here and carry it on. You shall
be left in full charge, Nelly, with power to
do as you please.”
“Give me a week to think of it,” the
wife replied; “at the end of that time I’ll
make up my mind whether to consent to
your going or not.”
Mr. Dana was too well pleased to obtain
even this concession, to argue any further
that day, and after bidding his “wife read
the accounts in the newspaper, containing
the latest news from California, lie started
off’ to his work.
Mr. Dana owned a farm of about one
hundred acres, near the town of Windsor,
Vermont. He was a young man, and a
person of considerable energy, and bad,
during his minority, saved a small stun of
money, which he had safely deposited in
the saving's bank, until such time as he
should want to use it.
After he became of age, he had added to
his capital, and when he thought he should
like Jane Perkins for a wife, and proposed
fondier, and was accepted, he bought the
farm which we find him occupying, and
was doing as well as any young farmer in
the neighborhood.
lie had been married two years when the
gold fever of 1848 and ‘49 broke out,
sweeping off thousands of our most indus
trious mechanics and fanners-, and leaving
many an hearthstone desolate, and many a
wile to mourn for her absent husband.
_ How few have returned with their anti
cipations fulfilled ? Thousands who left the
New England States, expecting to win a
competency in a short time, have been too
glad to work their passage back in some
slow sailing tub, while others, too proud
to return empty-handed, have toiled on,
barely gaining a livelihood, and now ivjjl
from their cares and trouble? by the bank
of ftome river, with nothing but a rude
board to mark their grave.
After Mr. Dana lett his wile, she wash
ed her dishes and put them-away, and sat
down to read the glowing accounts of the
gold discoveries. The more she read the
more faeinated did she become, until she
at last came to the conclusion that, if she
was a man she would be tempted to go and
try her luck. ( •
Twice during the forenoon did she peruse,
the paper, ami each time her resolution of
not consenting to her husband’s departure
grew weaker, until she finally made up her
mind, if ho asked her consent again, she
would give it.*
Mrs. Dana wa&a woman of considerable
energy af mind. Ever since, a child she
hadi been obliged to labor, and by her con
PENFJELD, 6A, SATURDAY, JUKE 11 1856.
tact with the world she had acquired ;
knowledge of business, which did not how
ever, impair or detract from the natural
modesty of a good woman’s heart or mind.
A week had not passed before the hus
band again alluded to the subject upper
most in his mind. A com pan} 7 was about
to leave Windsor, and many of the young
men of the town were enroling their names
Mr. Dana thought it would b ‘ a good
chance for him, as he would have acquain
sauces to lend him a helping hand, in cast
he was taken sick. His wife thought the
same thing, and delighted her husband in
givingher consent toiiis going.
They were not aware of the selfishness
exhibited in the gold regions, where each
man struggled for himself, and thought ii
waste of time to help his feverish friend to
a cup of cold water, or make him a mess of
gruel, to keep him from starving.
Mr. Dana’s arrangements were soon
made. He had some money on hand, and
with it he determined to cross the Isthmus
in company with his townsmen, as Ik
thought he could make enough in a week’s
time, after his arrival, to pay his passage
They wrote to engage steerage births,
and received answer that the steamei
would sail on such a day, and that they
must be promptly on the spot. This news
caused the party to hurry their arrange
merits and the day before they were to start
Mr. Dana requested his wife to accompa
ny him to a lawyer's.
“I am‘going a long journey,” he sai l,
“and may be gone longer than I anticipate.
I shall leave you the farm, to do with if as
you please. If you get tired of carrying it
on, sell it to the best advantage; I shall
make money enough while gone to buy a
larger one when I return. But I hardly
think I shall live on a farm when I come
back. We’ll get one of the grand new
houses in town, and live like ’Squire Bol
ton.”
His wife thought at the time that there
might be a failure in his schemes; but she
was hopeful: and would not say any thing
to dash his bright anticipations.
The day of parting came, and with it
tears and mournful looks; but it was not
until Dana had left the house, never per
haps to return, that the young wife felt the
loneliness of tier condition.
For a week or two she was low spirited
and sad, but as she received letters from
her husband in New York, written in a
lively vein, and bidding her to be of good
cheer, as he should certainly rejoin her in
course of a year, she became more compos
ed and reconciled to his absence.
We will not follow him in the crowded
steamship, nor cross the Isthmus, where he
narrowly escaped drowning, while ascen
ding the river; nor will we tell ofhis arri
val at San Francisco, and departure for
the mines, where he worked in the bed of
the river, and was quite fortunate, until at
tacked with the fever and agile, which
roasted him at one moment and froze him
the next.
He would lie in his tent, and wish that
the gentle hand of his wife could wipe the
moisture from iiis brow or cover him with
blankets when shivering with cold. All
ofhis adventures might be written out,
and perhaps Mr. Dana will, some flay,
give the world an account of his doings in
tire land of gold. They will, possibly, serve
as a warning to other husbands, and thus
prevent many a heart from mourning for
the absent.
Mr. Dana's fever got no better, and at
last the doctor told him he had better seek
a change of climate, as lie might shake
himself to death. Dana thought the same
thing, for it appeared to I. mi, when the
chills came on, that every bone in his body
would be wrenched apart, and when tin
fever returned, he imagined himself in an
oven.
He considered the subject one day, and
determined to start for home. A team was
to leave the next day for Sacramento city,
audits soon as his resolution was formed,
he engaged a passage, sold off* all of hi*
clothes, excepting enough to reach Ver
mont, and found that he was the master of
a capital of only five hundred dollars, after
working in The mines for four months. To
be sure, his sickness had cost him a large
sum, and his doctor’s bill was frightful to
contemplate.
lie started the next day for home. He
determined to live a fanner and die one, if
tlie Lord s|aied hie- life. He had seen
enough of the gold mine , and as he was
going in the cart, and jolted- over the tine
ven roads, he thought what a ninny lie had
been, to leave a comfortable borne, and a
loving wife, for the sake of trying to accu
mulate a fortune.
The joltings of the cart may have bene
fitted him, for the fever rapidly left him,
and by the time lie reached San Francisco
he felt like a different man- Hf had a
mind to turn back and try it again, blithe
thought of his wife, and nature and love
conquered. He went immediately to the
office of the steamship company, and secu
ed a passage for home.
It was a cold blustering day in the mid
dle of winter when D ina reached Windsor,
He pulled his cap over his eves to prevent
being recognized, and then started on toot
for his home. He had heard from his wife
but once since he had been absent, and be
hardly dared to hope that she was well
He quickenedthis pace, and came in sight
of the house in which he had spent so many
hapj y hours. He glanced over his farm,
and saw that everything appeared to be
well cared for. The stone w. lls were in
good order, the barns looked neat and well
repaired, and just as he was thinking that
his wife and brother had done remarkably
well, the train on which he had ridden
.rom Boston whizzed past, directly across
his farm. He groaned in anguish at the
sight. His beautiful meadow was rniiud,
he thought, and it was all owing to his wild
goose chase for a fortnn . His wife could
not be expected to know how to attend to
such things and he had no doubt but the
railroad company had swindled her.
He approached the house and knocked
timidly at the door. It was opened, and
‘there stood his wife, as handsome as ever,
but she looked at him with surprise. IL
had forgot that he had not shaved since he
left her.
He spoke and held out his hand then his
arms. There was a shriek, and then the
latter were tilled. Two hours -afterwards
they were talking seriously and solely up
on matters of business.
“I am sorry that the railroad passes over
utir meadow,” he said, “it renders it almost
useless.”’
“They have the rightof way, but it has
not injured it as much as you think,” she
replied.
“I don’t suppose they paid you more
than one hundred dollars tor the land.”
“There is where you are mistaken. They
gave me twelve hundred dollars for merely
the right of way.”
“I suppose they paid you in stock?’ Da
na said, surprised to think that she had got
so large a sum.
“Yes they gave me part stock and part
cash,” the wife replied, trying not to look
triumphant.
“And the stock, what is that worth, a
mere song, I suppose.”
“I sold mine the very day that I receiv
ed it. at an advance. It is not worth so
much per share now. 1 thought I had
better have the money than trust to an un
certain ty.”
The husband was slightly astonished.
He had received for a narrow* strip of land
as much as he had given for the whole
farm.
“And what did you do with the money,
Nelly?”
“I took six hu and e l and bought the r ch
mowings of Squire 80l ton’s, iouretmin
btr how you used to wish you owned it?”
Dana did remember perfectly well. He
had thought of the land when in California,
and was in hopes ofgetting hack with mon
ey enough to buy it.
“The other six hundred and fifty I placed
in the saving’s bank, where it is nt interest.”
“You are the best wife in the State,” the
husband cried with admiration.
“But I have not given a full account of
rny stewardships as yet. You remember
the forest of pines on the hill just back of
die meadow ?”
Dana nodded an assent. • lie was wan
dering what was to come now.
“ VVell, there is no longer any forest there
I sold every tree just as it stood.”
“Why, who was fool enough to buy pine
wood ? Dana asked with a laugh.
“The railroad company. They must have
wood to get up steam. They gave me lout
hundred dollars lor the privilege of chop
ping down the trees, and 1 was glad to get
rid ol them, for the purpose of making a
sheep pasture.”
“A sheep pasture!” the husband cried in
astonishment.
•‘Yes it makes a very fine one. I
bought one hundred and fifty sheep, and
then had some left, which 1 added to that in
the bank. Last summer i sold lour hundred
pounds of wool, at forty cents per pound.”
“That amounts to one hundred and sixty
dollars,” said Dana, after a slight calcula
tion.
“Precisely* without counting the increase
of lambs, l think 1 did verv well by that
trade.”
“You are a better manager than I am,
Nolly. Hereafter you shall be the head of
the house.”
“Thank you, but l am perfectly contented
to resign, now that you have arrived,’
“Then you have no more wonderful bar
gains to relate?” he asked.
“Yes,” she replied, with a slight hesitan
cy. “I have made one more trade, but
perhaps it is one that, will displease you.”
What after my warm welcome? You
cm do nothing in future that I’ll not ap
prove of. Remember, Nelly, I’ve returned
poor in pocket, and none too well in health.’
“I will take such excellent, care ot yon
that your health will be quite restored by
spring, and as for being poor, why that is
absurd when you have a good farm, well
stocked, and nearly a thousand dollars in the
hank.”
“Besides a treasure of a wife.”
“Thank you. But will you step into the
pot joy and see my latest trade?”
Dana followed his wife, and as she open
ed the door, she pointed significantly to a
dark object in one corner ol the room.
“A piano!” cried the astonished.
“Yes,a good, well toned piano. But be
fore you express surprise let me tell you how
1 earned it. I sold all the butter that 1 made
the last nine months, and invested the pro
ceeds in an instrument that f knew you
longed for, and, to tell the truth, I was rath
er anxious to own myself, but I never said
so, and until I found myself able I never
thought of buying one. Now, are vou
angry ?”
“Angry?”
1 iieie was a peculiar sound heard in *he
p.uloi as tnough 1 bin a was kissing his wife.
At any rate when she again enteied the
kitchen, her face looked uncommonly Hush
ed, as though her husband’s rough beard
had chafed lief soft skin.
Mi. Dana lias never expressed a wish to
roam again. He is perfectly satisfied that
he can find more hupp ness on h : s farm, and
the soc.efy of his wile, th n tie could if sur
ioi in fed bv all the gold males of Califor
nia.
DR. WARREN ON TOBACCO.
M mle the general means, for the preser
vation ol health, have been materi illy ad
vanced in our society, by attending to exer
cise, by the external use of cold water, by
moderation in food, by the curtailment in
dinner parties, and, more especially, bv the
Inst extension ol abstinence from stimulant
and intoxicating drinks, there is one in par
ticular, a decided and unhappy deteriora
tion of our social habits—the increased use
of tobacco. Many persons, and some ol
them wise and valuable men, impair their
health, and shorten their lives, by this po •
son. ir we look around in a company ol
our legislatures, judges, and even of our ven
erable clergv. we see a certain number ot
them marked by pallid countenances, relax
ed muscles, yellow-colored lips, and a lan
guid. listless posture. We may set tltes
down as chewers of tobacco. If we foil v
them to their home-, we find some of then,
complaining ot lost appetites, pains m tin
chest., occasional palp’tations, daily ind’ges
tion, and finally, some irremediable disease
which carries them to their graves, jhe
number of persons of intellectual pursuits
who voluntarily place themselves in this sir
cidai list, is too great to he counted; and
this country, we are sorry to say 7 it, exhibits
an immense proportion of such instances
among its best men. in my experience, ;
great number of cases, simulating disease 7
of the lungs and stomach have been expl tin
ed by the discovery of the habit of chewing
tobacco, and the relinquishment of the prac
tice has been followed by restoration t<
health.
“Os the three modes of using tobacco
smoking is that which seems to have insinu
ated itself, most extensively, among tlu
young men of our community. This prac
tice impa.rs the natural taste and relish sot
food, lessens the appetite, and weakens th<
powers of the stomach. As to the pleasuie
produced by it, it is 1 believe a well-known
fact, that a person, smoking in the dark,if
often unable to determine whether his cigai
is lighted or not.
“ Tobacco, employed in this way, being
drawn in with the vital breath, convevs its
poisonous influence into every pait of tin
lungs. These organs, by the countless num
ber of cells, which from their internal struc
ture.havea surface, greatly exceeding th.m
ot the whole interior ot the body. The l.n
ing membrane of’these cells has a wonder
tul absorbent action, by which they suck in
the air destined to vivify the blood, if this
air is impregnated with the fumes of tobac
co, even in a weak degree, the great extern
ot surface in which the absorbent nctioi
takes place, must necessarily produce at
impregnation of the blood with the deleteri
ous properties. The noxious flu and isentan
gled in the minute spongy air-cells, and bar
time to exert its influence in the blood, no
in vivifying, but in vitiating it. The blood
having imbibed the narcotic principle, cir
culates it through the whole system, am.
produ es, in consequence, ii febrile action ii
most individuals, and especially in those o
a delicate habit, ‘ihe p euliureffects of flu
narcotic action must of course be develop
ed to a greater or less extent ; and erup
tions on the skin, weakness of the stomach
heart and lungs, dizziness, headache, confu
mo it of thought, and a low febrile action
must be the consequences. Where then
•is any tendency to phthisis in the lungs, the
debil ty ot these organs, consequent on the
use of tobacco in th.s way, must favor the
deposit of tuberculous matter, and thus sow
the seeds of consumption.
Snuff, received into the noslrils. to some
extent enters the cavities opening from them,
fills those cavities, and makes a snuff box oi
the olfaciory apparatus. The voice is con
sequently impaired, sometines to a remark
able degree. 1 knew a gentleman of the le
gal profession, who, from the use of snufl
‘occasionally 7 , lost the resonance of his voice,
and the power of speakmg audibly in court.
Moreover, portions of this powder is con
veyed into ihe lungs and stomach, and exert
on these organs their deleterious effec's.
“The worst form in which tobacco is em
ployed is in chewing. This vegetable is one
of the most powerful of narcotics ; a verv
small portion of it, say two drachms, and
perhaps le. s, might prove fatal. When it is
taken into ihe mouth in smaller portions
and t here retained some time, an absorption
of part ot it into the system takes place,
which has a most debilitating effect. If we
wished to reduce our physical powers, in a
slow yet certain way 7 , we could not adopt
a more convenient process. Who, among
the chewers of tobacco, has not felt that
deadly sickness, which it occasionally pro
duces ? Those who have exj er.eneed these
effects, will not, 1 think, deny its great pow
er of relaxing the system.
“The more hm.ted and local effects are in
digestion, fixed pains about the region of the
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) JAMEfTfT RLaO,
VOL XIIL-NUMBER 23.
st mach. in some cases looseness of t ie bow
els in others torpor of these pruts, debility
oft lie back. & c * * * ‘f<> the cun se
quences al eady mentioned, we will only
add affections of the brain, produc tie verf : -
‘4O. an effect well knovs n to most of those
who ire. in the hah t of chewing tub ecu,
and also affections of the m ) jth, gener 11 ng
cancer.
•‘Tobacco is by some persons recommend
ed as beneficial to tire teed'; but. while it
•an have no ma erial effect in preserv ng
she bony substance of the teeth it has a real
influence on their vitality, by impairing the
healthy action of the gums. These,.- nd al
ts* the adjacent pans, me ve-y subject to
ancer. particularly the t mgue and I ps
For more than thinv y -sirs I have been in
the habit of inquiring of patients who came
to me with cancer of these parts, whether
tftey used tobacco, and if so, whether by
•hewing or nnoking. If 1 bey have some
times answered in the negative as to die
first question. I can truly say that, to the
oest of my knowledge and be I es. such cases
ire exceptions to the general rule. When,
as is usually the case, ones de of the tongue
s affected with ulccnted cancer, it arb.es
from the habitual retent on of the tobacco,
in contact with this part. The imitation
from a cigar, or even from a tobacco- p : pe,
frequently precedes cancer oi the Up. dhe
lower lip is more commonly affected by can
cer than the upper, in consequence of the
natation on th s part by. acrid substances
o n the mouth. Among such suhstan -e-.
vhat is more i fcelv to cause i m.l * A f
‘'ion term n 1 nig ai d.-erse. tin . i\.
j ent application ui to ha :o> jj ce.
1 LITTLE~QUAxiRii3~M A HURRY.
An amusing matrimonial story is to and
f 1 lie olden time of New England. Ir so
f 11 out that two young people became very
mich smitten with each other, as young
•>eople sometimes do. The voting woman’s
lt !iti‘ was a wealthy Quaker —the voting
uiau was poo but respectable. Tii.e father
“hid stand no such union, and resoluulv
•pjiwsed ir. and die daughter dare not dis
■ >ey openly. She ‘■•met him by mo<u
glitb _ w bile prrhnding never to have
een him—and she pined and wasted in
pite ot heiselt. She Was reailv in l.,\* •
state of sighs ami tears, which w .imui
1 tenor reach in imagination than reality.
Still the father remained inexorable.
Time passed- on, and the rose ot Mary’s
la mask cheek passed off*. She let no c< n
-- almeut, like a “worm in the hud,' 5 prav
■n that damask cheek, however; but when
h r fatlnr a-ked her why she puied she al
ia \ S told him. Ihe old gentleman was
i wiuuvver ami beloved his daughter deur
•iy T * Had it been a widowed mother who
uid j\faiy in charge, a Woman’s pride nev
u-would have given way before the im
*ol trinities of a daughter. Men are not
lovvever, so stubborn in such matters, and
-vhen the.fattier saw that the daughter's
eart was really set upon the 1,1.1 1 1.,*
|.; So h on,- .I,
•Alary, ratlier (hull m.je Ueatli, in.. u
ad.>t hetier marry as thee chooses and
when thee pleases.*’
And wltaidid Mary ? Wad till the birds
t she aii had told her swam of the change
■r till her father had time to change bis
aind again? Not a hi:of.it. She chipp and
• r mat bonnet on her head, vvaiki-o di
■> ctly to the house of tier intended as the
treet could carry her. She walked, into
ie house without k oyking, for ktiockin ,r
vas not then fashionable, and sh • found
tie family ju.-t. sitting down to bniii-r.
bmie little commotio, was exhibited ; ,t m,
me\j>ccted ; n apparition as tin heije-s in
the widow's 1 o::.age, but she heeded not.
loim looked tij> inquiringly. Js|, e vval-kcd
o him and took Ins hands in herV: ‘Jolm.’
aid she, “lather says I may have. thee.”
Vud John gut directly up from the table,
ml went to the parsonV. In just twenty
<ive minutes they were, man and wife.
—
SOMETHING to be borne in mind.
Neither lovers nor husbands should ever
indei take to enterta n their sweethearts or
wives by extollmg the beauty and accom
plishments of other maids or matrons; and
neitner sweethearts nor wives should ever
urive to render their lovers or husbands
more affectionate bv going into ecstac.es
I bout the elegance and generosity of other
nen. Well—why not? Because, unt.l the
•laws ol nature change,” all such undertak
ings and strivings will always prove most
decidedly I.
The rose of Fonda, the most beau
tiful ot flowers, emits no fragrance; the
bird ot Paradise, the most beautiful of birds
gives no song; the cypress of Greece, the
finest of trees, yields no fruit; dandies the •
shiniest of men, have no sense; and ball
ro m belles, the loveliest of cr.*u r e I eiva-
II ivs, are very often ditto—tud a i,.i e
more sol
#.<,.
0= When a man cannot -‘get a living”
w.tliout selling rum, it is about t.me for hair
to leave this ‘ sphere.” The quicker such
people are out of the way, Ihe better. They
are a curse to themselves, and to the world.
DCr* Wh it is life ? A short journey thro’
time to eternity; then keep your eye and
your heart on the end of your race.
HI/ 3 A family Without prayer i9 like a
house without a door, exposed fb every dan
ger, and offering an entmiice to-every evd,
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