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VOLUME XXlVXamber 1.
RAVENNA, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8. 1852.
Whole Kmnber 1197
Dr. J. G. Willis, ,
Physician and Surgeon Streetsboro,Ohio;
II. Trail, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ::
Office in F. WV Seymour's building on the public
square, nearly opposite the Court House.
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' 15. P. Spalding.
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sons' Block Superior Street.
I. ill. 8MERVI2,L,E,
TA1LOS,
HAS removed his shop a few doors
office Ravenna,
west of tlie post
Ohio, s-
!A&KAiI!elt :
Dealers in Dry Goods. lroceries. Hardware,
Iron, Nails, Glass. Ac, north side pub.
lie square, Havenna, Ohio.
: . 1 ' :From Gleason'a Pictorial.
" V LITTLE ETA," "'
" AT AMORY HALL, BOSTON.
" ' " BT E. CURTIS BIE, U S. It. .-
By a sculptured marble fountain, . , ...- c. j
Where the waters brightly gleam, "
Like a distantsnow-capped mountain,
Or some wildly rushing stream;
git two beings, sweetly smiling,
- In the moniipgs golden prime, '
And the day 'ajroung hour beguilipg,
- In the sunny southern clime.. . , c
One, a little elf or fairy, .
' With her wavy locks of gold, -:
'.And the other doomed to carry
:r ..- Many a bitter woe untold ; '
. Yet a smile is on her features,
" And the love beam in her eye; -'
For of all earth 'd myriad creatures, '
, Loves she Eva, sitting by. ' '
: Violet eyes and golden treasses, '
' And a form of life and light,
That an ebon face caresses, .
. Like the morn beside dusk night:
. Radiant art, with skilful fioger, '
Hath inwrought with beauty there ;
On which many an eye will linger,
While the earth forgets its care.
INSUBORDINATION:
' - OR,
THE SHOEMAKER'S DAUGHTERS.
'You're both right, and mean the same thing,'
said Bill. Let's lie low until old Lignumvitae cuts
up one of his high tantrums, and then walk into
him like a thousand of brick ' ".
, 'Suppose we maka this rule,' proposed Tom,
'that be shan't flog us, and that we will snub him
up the first time he tries that trick." '
'Agreed,' returned Bill, and . . ' -..
'Agreed, said Ike. ; . - , -
. And the three worthies crossed hands in con
firmation of the contract.- ' " ; ' '
''' This little scene of incipient insubordination oc
curred some twenty years ago in Baltimore, in
the back shop of a neat boot-making establishment,
on Market street, the owner of which carried one
face all smiles and welcome to his customers, and
another all frowns and harshness to his boys. His
name we will call- Hardamor. - As an 'apprentice
he had been hardly used; an having Leon taken
while a very small boy from the almshouse, he had
received no schooling previous-to the time of his
apprenticeship to the cordwaining business. By
virtue of his indentures, he was to have been sent
to school a certain number of months during his
minority. . But, in Lis case, the indenture was
nearly a dead letter, for all the Bchoolii g he ob
tained was at night, during the last year of his ser
vice. In this time he learned to read a little, and
to write a cramped, almost unintelligible hand.
Soon offer he became free, having the love of mon
ey pretty deeply implanted in his mind, he opened
a small shop, in a poor pait of the town, -and took
one boy. By dint of hard work, and close econo-
'Suppose you pack off with her,' continued the
mother; to the other two paragons, and they like
wise swept off in high displeasure.
At tea time the three young rebels were sent
for, and found asleep in their chamber. Oo putting
their heads together.they concluded that an elope
ment, where there was co nice young man in ques
tion, would be rather a poor ousmess, ana ien to
crying, and finally slept the matter pretty well off,
in the usual afternoon nap, which was prolonged
an hour or two beyond the ordinary period.'
When, the young ladies appeared at the tea-ta
ble, their eyes, from which a long sleep had not
stolen the redness,' attracted their lather's atten
tion. . ;
Why, what's the matter with you; you've hot
all been crying, I hope?' hejjai. looking from one
to the other of the three demure faces. .
But neither of them felt like replying to their
father's question.
What's the trouble, Genevieve?' he continued,
addressing the elder of the three.
'Nothing,' she replied in a low moody voice.
'Nothing? Then I should think it was a poor
business to cry for nothing. Come! speak up, and
let me hear what's the matter. Can't you find
your tongue, Genevieve!'
But Genevieve'd tongue had not the slightest in
clination to fill its usual office.
'I don't understand this,' said Hardamer, warm
ing a litte, and looking from face to face of the
three girls 'Can you explain, mother?'
'O, there's nothing particular the matter,' said
-'F,W Seymour
Dealer in Dry Goods, Ready Made Clothing--Groceries,
Hardware, Iron. Nails. Crockery,
Boots, Shoes Ac, north side pud lie square,
' Kavenna, Ohio.
Lowell & I?rohcr,
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Crockery, Ac. Mason's Block, Main street,
; . - . v- Bavenna, Ohio. "
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II L & IS Day
Dealers in Fancy Dry Goods, Bonnets, Hats
r Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ready Made Clothing,
Carpeting Ac;, nt their New b'tore, Main St.,
' ji east of the Puhlic Square.
An American Story of Real Life.
BT T. S. ARTHUR.
Entered according to an act of Conjrress, in the year
1848, by T. B. Peterson, in the office of the Clerk of the
District Court of the I'nited States, in and for the Eastern
District of X Pennsylvania
Published in the Ohio Star by express permission.
CHAPTER I.
AN INCIPIENT DEMONSTRATION. -
'I'll not stand this any longer,' said Bill Grimes
'Nor I. neither,' said Ike Wilson.
'I wonder how you'll help it?' responded Tom
Peters, hammering a piece of leather to the tune
of Yankee Doodle, and fi ling the shop with a din
that drowned all vo:ces fur the space of the next
five minu"es. -
There are many wnys to kill a dog besides chok
ing him. broke in Ike, as the noise of Tom's ham
mer and iing;ns Inpsione subsided.
'That may be loo, but you'll find old Lignumvita:
hard to kill, or I'm mihtaken in him. He's n
scronmer when once raised; and I. for one, had ns
lief meet a bear, as to cross his pat'i when his nap
is fairly up.' 1 . '
'A hard bit and a steady hand have cured many
a wild colt,' said Bill, 'and 'II do it lo the end of the
world.' ' 1 "
There's no u-e in your talking, Tom,' said Ike,
a little tartly, 'You always were a chicken hearted
sort ui u loner, uiiiiiu oi your own Btiadow on n
moonlight night. Nobody ake for your advice.
nor your help. HardHmi-r's an olJ tyrant, and bis
wife a she-devil. We've stood their kicking and
cuffing lon enough, and will be fools to stand it any
longer, But you can go on your hands and knees
if yoU'Chonpe, and thank them for beating you;
but fur one, I set tny foot down that old Lignum
vitae shan't lay a feather on me, from this day,
henceforth and forever.' " -
Here's my hand to that!' said Bill Grimes, dash-
my. he was enabled to live upon about one-half of Mrs. Hardamer, 'only these young ladies are get-
his earnings, and thus eraduallr to accumulate a ting discouraged about tboir beaux. I hey think
small capital. His progress, however, was very the sound of the lapstone has frightened them all
slow, and it was full twentv vears before he was off.
able to open on Market street. In the meantime,
he had married a girl about as ignorant as himself,
who felt her own importance growing as gradually
as did her husbands' property. . They had been
ten years in Market street at the time of the open
ing of our story, and were blest with a brood of
six daughters, aged from seven to twenty years
These daughters, as they grew up, had been ac-
'The devil Ihey do!' said Hardamer, a good deal
excited on the instant. 'That is, the-y are asham
ed of their father's business, and of course of their
father. I wish in my heart they were all married
to good, honest, industrious shoemakers.'. -
'I'J die first!' broke in Genevieve, passionately.
'Then you'll not be likely to starve afterwards.as
you will if you rrinrry one of these milk-faced
complished in the art of dancing, playing oo the counter-jumping dnndies, about whom your foolish
piano, doing nothing, &c., &c, and in consequence headd have all been turned. Please to remember,
of these superior attainments, had a commendable my ladies, that you are a shoemaker's daughters,
degree of contempt for all young mechanice.and an and that's the most you can make of yourselves,
exalted idea of any one who could write 'merchant' If your mo her had put you into the kitchen, as I
or '3l. D.' after his name. The three oldest. Ge- I wanted her to do. instead of stickin? you ud in the
Etent. firencll & Co
' Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Iron, Nails
Hardware, Glass Ac Franklin. Ohio.
C& J C Premiss
Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Stoves, Hard
ware. Iron, Nails, Glass, Ac; Brick Block,
west side puhlic square. Ravenna, Ohio.
"..-- 13. T. Richardson,-"-
Dealer in English and American Hardware, Sad
1 die, Harness-nd Caaringe Trimmings, Iron, .,
Noils. Steel, &c &e.; nt the old stand
; of Mason 4-Brainerd, Ravenna Ohio.
THK best and largest assortment of Pamphlet
Literature, entertaining and unexceptionable in lone
and influence, embracing works- from the pen of T. S.
Arthur, Mrs, Grey, Jliss Pickering. Mrs- Gore. Mrs.
Mowat, Charles Lever and other distinguished writers,
ver offered in this market, may be found at
' Oct. 27. - Hall's Book Store.
IRON AND NAILS
AT lOW PEICBS. j -f
LA RGB stock for sale in a large or Small
way at wholesale prices for Ready Pay.
V ' ft c, IN 1 , Ulvr. ft . LiLi & Oo.
Franklin, June 8, 1832.
TEA The best in the county you will find at"
. ' ' - Skymoitr's,
nevieve, Genevra, and Gertrude, were of the res
pective ages of sixteen, eighteen, and twenty; and
were looked upon by their mother ns perfectly ac
complished, and ready to make charming wives for
doctors, iawyers, or merchants, which ever might
come forward and claim their willing hands,
We cannot say whether the reader will find
them very interesting girls, but it is necessary that
he should be introduced, and he must be as patient
and polite as possible,
'I wonder, Ma,' says Genevieve, the eldest," one
day after dinner, while lounging at the piano, 'why
Pa don't quit business? Its so vulgar! I don't be
lieve we'll ever get married while our parlor is
within hearing of the shop, and the ears of our
company stunned with the constant sound of the
lapstone. How can Pa be so inconsiderate!'
'That's a fact,' said Miss Gertrude, just turning
the corner of sixteen; 'Dr. Watson has never been
to see me since that night when it was hamnier,
hammer, hammer, in the back shop all the while.
I tried to apologize to him on account of it, and
said it was so disagreeable;" and that I would per
suade Pa to move away or quit business; that he
was rich enough to do without work. ' I wish, Ma,
you would move up into -Charles street, so that we
mg am uuru u,i imo lue open paim oi tits wormy could live like other people. I'm mortified every father!' she continued, addressin Genevieve, who
D5SOCl)ite. 1 rln nf m xr 1,1a at th nnvpirtv-KtmoV wnv in wViirh I :u ;n o . ..nn-nntin w
I J J i - - v -- j " i etui sad i la uoi Kuuu . ui'uaicuiiy uuiuurou uy iua
.TJ a.i:i..i . i t.l 1 ' "
-a uu.nnhe.ne present state oi imngs any net- we live.' . " Utorm she had raised
.er .ii.... you ou, renmraea i om, wuti oegan to leel Mrs. Hardamer was silent, for she did not know Hardamer resumed his seat, checked bv his
himself in the minority -but 1 can't seo the use exactly what to say. She thought pretty much as wife's interference, but by no means soothed in
ui a lener a purung ms ueau into me iron s moutn. her daughter did about matters and things, but she his feelings.
iir . i tt i I
vv b can i uoia our own against oiu iiaraamer, did not exactly like to brine her thoughts out into 'Il's a nrettv nass inded h went on 'when
A ;. l.i l. C 1 1 3: a i I . I y 1
m.u uu,u UB ioui-.,Hru...eaS io iry. . words betore them. - child beoomM ahamrl nf hr fiithRr. Here
parlor, you'd have been more credit to us and to
yourselves, than you now are. Remember! I'll
have no more of this kind of stuff.'
There was a sternness about the fathei's man
ner, that showed nun to be in earnest; but bis
daugh'ers had beon taught manners in a higher
school than that in which he had been educated;
and they not only felt equal to their parents, but
superior to them.
'I- wouldn't be seen in the street with a shoe
maker!' responded Genevieve, pertly, to her fath
er's positive expression of disapproval.
'Do you know to whom you are talking?' said
Hardamer, in a loud, stern voice. ;-
Yes, sir!' replied Genevieve, in a quiet, steady
tone, looking her father in the face, and drawing in
her lips with an air of self-possession nnd defiance
'Leave the table this instun;:' he said, rising and
j motioning her away.
'No! no! no! father!' said Mrs. Hardamer, also
springing to her feet, and putting her hand upon
her husband's arm 'dou't do thaf! don't! dont!'
'Why, do you suppose, madam, that I'm going
to let a child of mine talk to me in that way!'
'Sit down, sit down! she won't say so again.
Ain't you ashamed of yourself, to speak so to your
Court of Probate.
The State of Ohio
Portage County, ss,
; - Uriah Sawyer, Jr.. Guardian -4i'-
to Hanson H. Moulton, vs. - Petition to sell land.
5 bis said ward. J .
' To Harison H. Moulton, you are hereby informed that
on the 20th day of November, A. D. 1852, said guardian
filed his petition in the Probate Court of Portage Coun
ty Ohio, to obtain an order for the saie of the following
real estate of his said ward, viz: situate in Crimfield
Portage County, being one undivided third part of a
part of Lot No. 42, west of N. and S. 50, 74 acres; also
of one undivided third part of a part of lot No. 4'J, west
of M. of N. 11,07 acres, also of one undivided one fourth
' of one fourth of one half of 26 acres of land in lot No.
41, in said township; bounded east by land late the
property of C. A. Thorndike, on the south by land late
the property of J. M. Twicl.el, on the west by hishway
and said Twilchel and Sim's land, and on the north Ly
Villoma Lots.
' URIAH SAWYER, Jr., Guardian.
By D. LYMAN, Attv. .
. Ravenna. Nov. 20, 1852. 11 95-4 w
The State of Ohio, 1 '. .
Portage County, Ba. 1 roba,e Lourt.
John roraney, Qunrdian of 1
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There were mnny just such ns you, Tom, in
the glorious days of the Revolution;- but all thf
prophesying of faint-hearted croakers, was nothing.
I he 1 uukee boys had right on their side.
But, right don't always make might.'
'Poo! 'Ain't here three of us, and any one a
match for , old Hurdamer? Don't talk of might
ngainst right, if yoii plense. But you' needn't fa
tigue yourself, Tom, about the matter, if you're
afraid! ' Ike Rod I can do tlio thing to a charm.
WoVe. not afraid of the devil, tail and all.' :
'I reckon you'd fiod the Old Boy a queer cus
tomer to deal with. But we'll let his majesty rest
if you please,' responded Tom. 'I, for .one, have
no particular friendship for him; nor a:iy desire to
provoke his ill will by too much familiarity. L't'
henr how you're going to managa affairs, and then
I'll. tell you whether I'm with you or not,
'Comparisons are odious, so says tbe copy-book;
but they are useful sometimes, you know, Toui
and, much as it may offend your ears, I must drag
in your friend, his Satanic majesty, by way of illus
tration. It's nn easy matter to raise the devil, you
know; but as there is no telling how he'll behave
himself, there's no telling how a body will act in
the case. Now, we have determined to raise the
ilevil in old Hardamer; how we shall manage him
afterwards, is yet to be. told. No sailor knows ex
actly how he will net in a storm; but he would be
a lubber indeed if he staid on shore until he set
tled the matter to his satisfaction.
'That may be all very true, Bill; but a good sail
or will be very sure, before putting to sea, that all
is right and tight alow acd aloft; nod that there is
ballast enough to keep all erect in the worst storm
You know that Hardamer has law on his Bide, and
that if be can't manage us himself, he can turn us
over to a constable. I've no wish to have a taste
of the whipping-post.
Gamaliel L. Moulton. Vii.ln I
B.Moulton.Jt HV.R.Gari- Petition to sell land.
ner. vi. . i
his said wards. J '
- To Gamaliel L. Moulton, Viola B. Moulton and Jonn
. R. Gardner: You are hereby notified that on the 20th
vf November. A. l. 1852, said guardian riled his peti
mion in the Probate Court of Portage Coucty, Ohio, to
'..litnin an order for the sale of the followimr rani obihia
. r hi. nifl wards, viz: situate in Brimfield 1'urlnt.o rn.
I v, the said Gamaliel L. Moulton ana Viola B. Mom ton,
owning each on undivided one third part of a part of lot
fie. 42, .west of N. and S. 50,74 acres; also of one un
divided one third part of a part of Lot No. 49,westof M.&.
N.ll 'u7arres;aiso of one undivided one fourth part of one
hinrth of 26 acres of land, more or less; on Lot No. 41
in said township, hounded east by land late the proper
ty ..f rrha.ia. a ThnrnHike. nn the south bv land laate
.he properly of 3. M. Twitchel, on the west by high
way and said Twichelahd Sim's land, and on the north
I'y-VillageLota- and that the said J.V. K. Gardner owned
me undivided one fourth, and one undivided one fourih
l one fourth of said 2fi acres of land on said Lot No. 41.
JOHN FORSHKY, Guardian to
Gamaliel L, Mooiros,
:" ": . Viola B. Moultof,
1 Joan V. R. Gardner,'
; Kavenna, Nov. 20, 18521 1195-4
A "1 INGIMMS. A few pieces of Dork Ginghams, a
V K good article for ISk cents, just ree'd at
. GlLLETTS.
Urt.23. ' -
The fact is,' again spoke up Genevieve, 'I'm
almost discouraged. I'm twenty, and have not bad
a single direct offer yet. And I never expect to
have while things remain as they are. Pa don't
nppenr to have a bit of consideration! If he'd on
ly move into a bigger house, away from this dirty
shop, or quit business a he ought to do, and then
give large parties, we might get our pick. Bat
we'll get nobrdy that is anybody at this rate," and
Genevieve heaved a long melancholy sigh, as she
laid her head down upon the piano, at which she
was sitting; in abandonment of feeling.
Never mind, girls,' said Mrs. Hardamer, sooth
ingly. 'It 11 come right bimeoy. We can't always
have things our own way. . )
It's a shame, Ma! it is so!' broke in Genevieve,
lif ing up her head, and 'exhibiting a face now cov
ered with tears 'and I don't care what becomes
of me, so I don't! It can't be expected that I should
do well without any chance, and I don't-care who
I marry, there! Just listen now! Rap. rap, rap!
bang, bang, bang! hammer, hammer, hammer!
Oh! it makes me sick! this eternal ringing of lap
stone and hammer. I sometimes wish that the shop
would burn down, so I do!'
'Genevieve!'
'Indeed, and then I'm in earnest. Ma! - If you
will drive your children to desperation, you'll have
nobody to blame but yourselves;' I'm determined
that if Mr. Dimety don't offer himself before two
weeks, I'll accept the first tailor or shoemaker that
comes along. I'll marry, if I have to marry a
drayman, so there now!' '
'You musn't give way so, Genevieve, my dear.
Marrying comes natural enough; and when its the
right time, things will all go off as easy as can be.
Have patience thy dear!'
1 atience! responded the interesting Uenevieve,
jumping up from the music stool and stamping
'This is a free country,' Tom; and a pretty big with one foot upon the floor, while her face glow-
one too. I d find my wny to the Kocky -viount- ed like a coal ot tire. Uiavn't I had patience, I
ains before I'd wax another cord for the old rascal, wonder? It's all well enough to talk of patience,
if he attempted tp play a gome of that kind; and patience, but it's another kind of a thing, I reckon,
I'd tell him so, tco. The fact is, the law wouldn't to see the commonest drabs of girls making the
justify him in the way he bully-rags and beats us best matches, and we sitting at home with hardly
all the while. There are two sides to a question, a decent oeau, and all because we live in such a
always and, of course, there are two sides to this. way. I'll leave home, I will, if there ain't some
If he'll treat us well, we'll treat him well. But change. I'm not going to be sacrificed in this way.'
'wisey-wersey' if he don't, 'And so will 1, chimed in Uertrude.
Well, 1 don t care if I join you,' said lorn, wno -vvill too,' responded Uenevra.
was not quite so headstrong as his fellow appren-1 , ! wonder where my young ladies will go?' said
tices, but who, when he once determined upon do- I tiie mother, in a quiet, sneering tone; for she was
ing a thing, would show as hanging back. used to such exhibitions, and understood precisely
'I thought there was something of the man in i0W much they were worth.. .
you, Tom,' said Ike, seizing his hand and shaking Q0p asked Miss Gertrude, with emphasis, 'Go?
it violently 'If we don't have a tea-party, now, why, go anywhere! ' -
with old Liignumvita I'm a fool.' - 'Well, supppbse you go now,' continued Mrs.
'Don't let's b in too much of a hurry about it, Kordamer, who had grown a little irritated 'I
Ike,' suggested Tom, who liked to do things slow don't see as you'll find things very different if you
but sure. ? stay here.-
'Strike when the iron's hot, is my motto,' said I 'And I will go, too, so I will'.' said Genevieve,
sels a shoemaker? , Still, she cared as little to have
hoemakers for son-in-laws as did her daughters
to have them for husbands. This latter consider
ation modified her feelings, and she replied,
Nonsense, giila! your father was Only jestm;-
But you should remember, that in speaking as you
do, you reflect upon him!'
That's not our fault, you know, ma,'- said the in
corrigible Genevieve. If he uill continue to fol
low a business that necessity compelled him to
adopt many years ago, now that there is no occa
sion for it, he must not wonder if his children are
mortified. And then to talk of putting us back to
the point where you and he started from, was too
much for human nature to bear.
' Genevieve, you mustn't talk so ! ,
. .' It's the truth, ma ! and. I must speak it oat.! - ;
'It is not always necessary to b peak eveq the
truth.' '
In this case it is. To talk of marrying me to a
shoemaker ! Give roe patience to bear the
thought!'
Genevieve !'
Ma !' "
I wont put up with this any longer. . So' just
let me heai no 'more of it.
But, ma!' -
I tell you to hush !'
'Yes, but!'
Don't you hear me ?' ' '
Ma, is this the way to con
' Genevieve, I command you to be silent.'
' I can't be silent, ma and I tcon'f be silent !'
now screamed Genevieve, in the hysterical femi
nine octave. Talk of marrying me to a shoe
maker ! Oh, I shull go crazy !'.
A good, honest, industrious shoemaker would
be a fool to have you, let me tell you, you pioud,
lazy, good for nothing hussey,' exclaimed Mrs.
Hardamer, in a voice pitched to the Bame key with
her daughter's. 4 Your father is right ! I've made
fools of you all. But I'll bring you down, see if 1
don't!'
' It would be hard to get any lower, I'm think
ing,' remarked Genevra, with provoking calmness,
I feel disgraced all the while, for isn't the ham
mer ringing in my ears eternally ?'
Yes, and the -whole house is scented with
leather and varnish, said Gertrude. Who won
ders that young gentlemen soon slack off. What's
tbe use of attracting' attention abroad if receiving
company at home spoils it all ?' '
Will you hush, I say !'
' No, ma,-I can't hush ! . Havn't we borne this,
and met with disappointment after disappointment,
until we are driven to desperation. There's that
elegant young Williams, who was jnst on the point
of declaring himself, when, as luck would have it,
he must call upon me here; and then the cake was
all dough, for he never came again. And last week
I saw, him at Mr. L s party, all attention to
Grace Jameson,' a pert minx; and he only gave me
a cold nod. . Don't I know the reason of all this ?
Give me patience !' and the disappointed lady of
Bixteen stamped upon the floor with her little fro",
in a towering passion.
' I can't stand this,' said Mrs. Hardamer, com
pletely subdued by the tempest she hud called
about her ears ; and beat a hasty retreat, leaving
the wounded dignity of the young ladies to hoal as
best it might. -
Upon returning to the breakfast-room, she found
that the young children had finished their meal ;
and set about preparing supper for the apprentices
' What are you going to do with these, Ike V
'That's telling just bow;. Xiet me alone for a
day or two, and then 111 show yon a neat trick.
" But, what is it. Ike?' urged Bill. 1 " ' J
' Never mind, now. Bill. You shall knovy time
enough.'" : --' - : - ; '
Sealing up the small aperture in the top with a
piece of shoemaker's Wax, softened in the candle,
Ike depoisited the box in his trunk for safe keeping.
Three days after he came into the shop with his
prisoners. . :
' There'.l - be. some fun to-night, boys, or I'm
mistaken,' he said.-. : Lol's examine our captives.'
S'owly removing the lid, the little animals were
found lying upon the bottoni of the box, to all ap
pearance dead. Their deep red color had changed
to a light brwb.J,snathey looked more like
thin, dry flakes of bran, than any thing" else. ' '
Thej Ve all dead, Ike.' '
Dou't believe the half of it. Just look here,
and I'll show you if they're dead.'
Picking up one of the seemiugly inanimate, thin
flukes, he placed it on the buck of bis hnnd, where
it could hardly be distinguished, by its color, fiom
the skin. For a moment it lay there motionless,
and then its fine legs began to quiver, and Its head
to move and bend down upon the skin of the hand.
In a little while its head was perfectly distinguish
ed by a small brown spot, and from this spot a thin
dark line began to ran down its back. Gradually
this line widened, and the whole back assumed a
darker hue. .. .
Does he bite, Ike ?'
' Don't he ! See how he is sucking up the blood.
He's about the keenest chop to bite I ever felt.'
Ike still allowed the little animal to draw away,
until he was swelled up with the dark fluid, and
almost ready to burst J then brushing him off he
retnaked in a low, chuckling voice.
Somebody 'ii Know more about chinches to
night than they've ever known before.'
' But what are you going to do with these bed
bugs, Ike ? you havn't told us yet.'
kju, iiuviit a- wen, I'm going to let 'em
have a taste of tho old woman after their long fast.'
' You're joking!' .
The old lady won't think so to-
- ' ' CHAPTER II. . " " '
A JtOVEMEItT HOT TO BE MISTAKE. ""
Did you ever see such a proud, lazy, stuck up
somebody as Genevive is ?' remarked Ike, one day,
to the boys in the shop.
4 1 do believe she's ashamed of her own father,
because he's a shoemaker, 'responded Torn. ' '
Humph ! I know she is, said Bill. "-' -'
And there's Gertrude, too. She never thinks
of knowing me in the streets on Sundays. Butt
guess I always speak' to her as polite as a dancing
master, said Ike. ; I like to cut the comb of such
people ' " '"' ' -" -
Ain't you afraid to do so?' asked1' Tom. '"'
-' ' Afraid, indeed f "And what should I be afraid "
of? She can't help "herself. ' Suppose "she tells
the old man ? ' She'll only get a flea in her ear for
her pains he's not going to do anything. -1 : j
"- Jim said he beard Millie say, that all three of.
the fine yourjg ladies had a high-top-tea-party
with the old man and woman about tbe nose of
the lapstone' when they had company. ' Old Har
damer was as stiff as you please, and said he'd set
'em all to binding shoes before a week, if they
didn't take care. ' " - , ' - !
I wonder if that's a fact ! Are you sure Millie1
told you so, Jim?'
All I know about it, Ike, is, that Millie said so
and I 'epose she knows,' said the little fellow itt
half apparent reluctance to make any communica- -tion
on the subject;-' - ' '
Ah, Very well !' responded tke. They shall
have lapstone enough after this"; ' Won't I fay. it
on With a vengeance, when the young doctors, and"
lawyers and counter-hoppers are about !' ' -
They're what . they call accomplished, aih'S
they?'' said Bill Grimes. "What do they mean
by that, I wonder ?' ' . ' '
You're green, BUI, if you don't know what ac
complished means. ' . "
I reckon I do know, Ike, what in means. But '.
I can't for my life understand what it means when
applied to old Lingnumvitaes three oldest daugh
ters ! If it means bo play on the pia&o, why the
wife of black Jake, the barber, is accomplished, for"
Jake says she can p!ay the forty-piand to kill.
And she can beat either of our young ladies, if l'nt
any judge of music, for I heard her once, nnd you
know we hear them .until we are sick and tired.
If it means to dress up in all kinds of flim flam
meries, Jake's wife is just as accomplished, for she
sports as tnitch finery as they do. Or, may be it
is to sit ail day in the parlor, and do nothing ; if soj
Mrs. Norton's Spanish poodle is just as much en
titled to be . called accomplished as they are, t
must find some new meaning to the word before t
can understand its application.' .
Nonsense, Bill ! you're soft in the upper sto
ry. To be accomplished mean's to- dance, and1
talk poetry and all that sort of thing? A perfectly
accomglished lady can talk nonsense, and to jav
your life you can't tell it from good sense; it will
come Out so gracefully. She will tell yon that
you are a fool or a puppy in terms that leave yoii
at a loss to know whether she intends to conipli- $
ment.or insult you. ' A queer animal, I can tell
you, is an accomplished lady i .- , -
'Of coarse then,' said Bill, r 'our Dp-stairs'
- ' Humph !
night.'
But the old man '11 come in for a share.' '
Who cares ? If he will go info bad company,
he must take the consequences. But he's as bad
as she is, any day.'
After dinner Ike watched his opportunity, and I misses are not accomplished ladies.
slipped into the royal bed-chamber, while all were ' No, nor never will be in full. They can ape it
downstairs. Carefully turnins ud the bed-clothes few of tbe graces, but can never be accomplished
from the foot, he scattered the two hundred half- inde and out.'- A shoemaker's daughter, Bill
starved bugs between the sheets, so low down, always seems to hear the sound of the lapstone,
that in turning the clothes over from the top to get and it makes her both look and feel awkward.
into the bed, they would not be perceived. She will do well nough, if she is content to bo
' Did you do it, Ike ?' said Bill and Tom eager- herself ; but the moment she tries to step above
the path in which she walks easily and naturally
she will get on uneaven ground, and wabble from
side to side like ft duek, every body will laugh at
her.
That's a law of nature, Tke,'
Of course it is, Bill. Shoemakers daughters
are as good as any body else's daughters, until
they grow ashamed of being shoemakers' daugh
ters, and then they ought to be dispised, and are
despised.1
On that same night it so happened that the girls
' In course I did.' "'' ;
They'll never find out who did it.
No. They'll not even suspect any body.
The garret in whicl the boys slept was directly
over the cBamber of Mr.- and Mrs. Hardamer, and
when they went to bed they left thoir door open,
to hear as much as possible of what should happen
below.
About ten o'clock the old folks retired, and vvere
just about losing thenlsolves in sleep, when they
were each awakened by a burning sensation about had company, and as it was in the summer time
their feet and ankles. They bore it for awhile in
silence, and tried to go to sleep again ; neither be-
Upon the table were two plates, each containing ing aware that the other felt the same annoyance.
Ikev
: passionately, sweeping off to her chamber.
I've been toiling this thirty years at an honest trade
and now ray children must be ashamed of the very
means by which they were raised to a comfortabl
condition in life. I wish I'd had my way with 'em
there'd been other kinds of notions in their heads
I'm thinking.'
'Well its no use for you to talk. Pa. Your bus
iness ain't very reputable, and you know it!' said
Gertrude, unmoved by the excited state in which
she saw her father.
Aiu't reputable, you hussey! what do you moan,
ha?' '
'Why don't you sell out, pa, and quit business;
or open some kind of a store?' said Genevra, fol
lowing up her sister's bold attack pretty closely.
The father was for a moment utterly confound
ed. His business had always been his pleasure,
and it was yielding him a good income. He had
never much liked the accomplishments displayed
by his daughters, nor beea especially pleased with
the foppish, frivolous young men who dangled about
them. Now they had left their own domain and
had invaded his; and he was chnfed to a degree
that made it impossible for bim to command him
self. Springing from the table, he resisted all at
tempts made by his wife to-ceckhim, and, in a
loud, angry voice, ordered the thiee girls to leave
the room instantly. For a moment they looked
him in the face hesitatingly, but they saw some
thing there that they did not wish to trifle with,
and slowly obeyed the order.
'Not reputable! quit business! ha! indeed!
not reputable,' ejaculated Hardamer. pacing the
room rapidly backwards and forwards. 'This
comes of mnking ladies out of shoemakei's daugh
ters. Not reputable! I'd have 'em nlh binding
shoes before a week! I'll show 'em what's repu
table!' .
'H-u s-h, husband, do! said Mrs. Hardamer, in
a soothiog voice.
'Indeed, and I'll cot hush! And it's all your
fault, I can tell you, my lady! You would make
fools of them, nnd now they're ashamed of us.
Quit business! Keep a store! Not reputable! In
deed! Quite a new discovery!' and old Hardamer
hurried off into his shop, in a state of perturbation
such as he had not experienced for years.
'How could you talk so to your father?' said
Mrs. Hardamer, joining the three oldest girls in
the pnrlor, and leaving the three younger misses to
toke care of themselves.
'How could he talk to us about marrying shoe
makers?' replied Genevieve, tart'y, giving to her
face at tbe same time an expression of strong dis
gust.
'If he's got no higher ideas, 1 can assure him hii
daughters have,' said Gertrude. 'Marry 1 shoe
maker, indeed!'
Now this was. almost too much for Mrs. Hard
amer herself, for hadn't she married a shoemaker?
And wnsti't the father of tbes nigu-rmnded dom
what had been once the half of a half pound print
of butter, but now somewhat diminished io size.
One of these plates she took off; and cut the butter
in the other plate ioto two pieces, and removed
one of them. A plate of chipped beef was also
taken off, and a bread basket containing a few
slices of wheat bread. Nothing except the plates
and. tea things were left. From the closet she
now Drought out the half of a large loaf of cold In
dian bread, and placed it oo the table.
Call the boys !' she said, in a sharp, quick
voice, to a black girl, who soon passed the word
ioto the back shop, and four boys, with three of
whom the reader is already acquainted, made tbeir
appearance.- The other was a smnll lad, not over
eleven years of age; a puny child with fair com
plexion, and large bright blue eyes. He was an
orphan boy and the drudge of the whole house and
shop, one whose young heart had known enough
of affectionate regard, to create in it a yearning de
sire for kind looks and kind words ; but few of
these warmed it into even an instantaneous delight.
Placing herself at the bead of the table, Mrs.
Hardamer turned out the lukewarm, wishy-washy
stuff, she called tea, and then sat in moody silence.
while the boys stowed away, with a kind of ner
vous rapidity, tbe cold heavy slices of corn bread,
just touched with'' the butter, which they had to
use sparingly to make it last; and washed the
mouthfuls down with the not very palatable fluid.
It so happened that the warm weather had
awakened into remarkable aotivity certain trouble
some little animals in the boys' beds; and Ike had
been deputed by the others to inform Mrs. Hard
amer of the fact, in the hope that some speedy
remedy, mnde and provided for like necessities,
would relieve them from their annoying visitors
This information, Ike had determined to convey at
supper time, but the lowering aspect of Mrs. Hard-
amer's countenance, fur a time made him feel dis
inclined to perform his alloted duty. Gradually,
however, he brought his resolution up to the right
point, and suddenly startled that lady from her un
pleasant reverie with the announcement
The chinches are as thick as hops in our beds
ma am
Catoh 'om and kill 'em, then,' woj the brief
and crabbed answer.
Ike was silent, but his blood rose to fover heat.
Short and sweet, wasn't it, Ike ?' said Tom, as
the boys met in the shop after supper,
Cutuh 'em and kill 'em, ha ! I'll catch 'em,
but somebody else rnBy kill 'era, if they choose,'
said Ike, giving his head a knowing toss,
That night at bed-time Ike appeared with a little
miner box. in the ton oi which was out a small
r i -
hole.
But the burning increased to a smarting and sting
ing, and soon covered nearly thoir whole bodies.
I feel just like I was on fire,' said Mrs. Harda
mer, who was first to complain.
So do I,' said her husband,
bugs in the bed."
Indeed and there can't be, then, for I looked
the bed all over to-day.'
There -must be, by jingo!' exclaimed Harda
mer, in reply, reaching suddenly down and scratch
ing his leg with all his might
Something's the matter!' said the old lady,
rubbing with a like earnestness, and then creeping
out of bed.
A light revealed about twenty lively fellows,
who had, ; in the short time allowed them, filled
themselves pretty well, and now stood out in full
reuet irom tne snow-wnue sheets. These were
caught and dealt with according to law. The bed
was examined, and in the belief that there was
not another live animal on the premises, the
worthy couple again betook themselves to rest.
But they were soon forced to turn out again'
smarting, burning, and itching all over. Thirty or
forty more of the ravenous little creatures were
discovered and killed, and the bed and bedstead
again thoroughly hunted over,
Again did they seek to find rest; and again were
thpy forced to leave their snug retreat. This time
they abdicated their' chamber" and sotfght for re
pose in another room and in another bed. ' Here
they were mof'e fortunate, and after a few efforts
to drive from their imagination the idea that bugs
were nil the while creeping over them, finally sue
ceeded in falling into a sound slumber, from which
they did not awake until daylight.
At breakfast time, while the boys were dispos
ing of their cold corn bread, and weak, warm, rye
coffee, Mrs. Hardamer asked if they were troub
led much with bugs during tbe' night.
JNot at an, ma am,' said ike, with a grave
countenance.
I never was so troubled with them in my life,'
said Mrs. Hardamer.
'T didn't feel any, did you, Bill? said Ike
I wa'nt at , all troubled,' responded Bill, in a
vcice that trembled with suppressed mirth
Well, I had to go- into another room. I never
saw so 'many in a bed in all my life! They must
have all come down in an army from the garret.'
There's a pretty large army of 'em up in the
garret, that I know,' said lk : but they kept pret
ty quiet last night.' ' '
' Well, I'd thank them to keep on their own
side of the house, responded Mrs. Hardamer,
ing bugs from the boys dirty beds creeping over
her was by no means a very pleasant one.
That day the garret had a thorough overhauling.
The bedsteads were token down and scalded, and
some thousands of bugs slain. Upon a close in-
What are Jou going to do with that, Ike ?' said with an expression of disgust ; for the idea of hav-
Bill. ,
Going to oat eh chinches. Didn't the old wo
man say we must catch 'em ?'
Quite obedient, Ike. You're improving!'
People ought to grow better as they grow old
er.' responded Ike, turning up the hard straw bed Bpeotion of the sheets of her bed, the old lady die
with one hand, and routiog the young colonies of covered a number of what she thought tbe skins of
bed bugs that had settled around the pegs of the bugs. Those she gathered up oaretully and threw
bedstead. With a very small pair of pincers he them into boiling water. She was a little surpris
caught the nimble animals, arid thrust them into edto see many of them stir, which created some
his box. For nearly an hour, he worked away
with all diligence, assisted by the rest, until be had
caught and caged some two hundred.
vague suspicions in her mind ; but there the matter
ended. After ibis the beds in the garret were reg
ularly examined every week during warm weather.
all the doors in the house were left open for thet
free circulation of sir. The boys of course did .
not work at night, and the girls fondly imagined -themselves
freed from the dreadful annoyance of
the hammer and lapstone. But. they were not to
be so highly favored .
Where are you going to-night, Ike V sail, one
There must be ot 018 bo's to tn,s young ringleader of mischief
I'm going to stay at home, I believe.'
Stay at home ! Why what's in tbe wind, Ikef
It's a new kick for you to stay home at night.
' Why, didn't you see that the girls were alt
furbelowed np at sapper time. They're going tor
set up for company doctors, lawyers, merchants,
' Welf, whatof thatf - ' ':v .
' Nothing, only I want a pair of shoes, and must
beat up the soles to-night. ' '
You're not in earnest, Ike r
Indeed and I am though, I want these young
gentlemen to hear the sound of the lapstone.' . -
The old man '11 walk into you,- if yon try thai
trick.-
The Iron Chest Society . meets to-night, you!
know, and be never stays away.'
True enough, but the old woman 11 take it
Well, suppose she does ; the mischief will all
be done before she can waddle into the back shop.
But I wouldn't if I was you, Ike. ,
Wouldn't you, indeed but I would though.'
As long as tbe girls hate tbe sound of the ham
mer so badly, I'd let 'em alone.' , s
Why, what's oome over you, Tom t You're
growing mighty feeling all at once! But -yon ,
needn't preach to' me! I know what I'm about.
Won't I make the old stone ring a merry tune'
though!' - , .
As Ike bad supposed, about eight o'clock, si
young Mr. Willis who bad just opened a dry
goods store, came into see Miss Genevra; nd
shortly after a student of medicine, a wild rake of
a fellow, who had an idea that old Hardamer had:
a few of tbe gooseberries,' as he called thorny
dropped in to renew an acquaintance recently
made at a party with Miss Genevieve. . His name'
was Anderson. A Mr. Wiikios also called, but
as he was a young shoemaker just in business,
who did not think himself above shoemakers'''
daughters, he met with a very cold reoeptioo. -.
' It's quite a pleasunt evening, Misa Gertrude
remarken Mr. Wilkins, the last comer, as be seat
ed himself beside the'young lady.
Yes, sir she replied in a chiling tone, and with)
a face as free from Biniles as a wintry sky.
Not much danger of a gnst, I reckon,' he eon'
tinued, glancing out of the window.
Ho, sir.' - -
It's been rather an oppressive day, ; -'
Y"es, sir.
Have you been to the museum lately?, coo-
tinued Wilkins, varying his attack. They have,
an Egyptian Mummy there, tbe first ever exhibit
ed in this city.' s& - - -
No, sir,' , replied .the monosyllabic lady, as cold
ly and indifferently as possible. - ; , '
Still Wilkins was not to be driven off into si
lence, although ho felt awkward and embarrassed,
That's a beautiful painting there of the death,
of Virginia. ' -
.Ys, sir.' ;
5 Were you ever electrified? . "
No, air.'. - V
You've no idea what a strange feeling It potfu
ces. Ion feel just as ir your anowuww wj.
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