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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857.
F O E TRY.
•« WOODS!.
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Adveiitun;» of Tip,
A VIRGINIA FUGITIVE SLAVE.
CHAD 1LU I.
And where is Tip? Come with us,
:
ill lake y
the Vei y spot where the
I the deep
der a pile of brush,
gillve is
of
ng:
0 lying
side by side, asleep,
full-orbed
I he
s up,—
id bright. The forest glitters
iu the silvery light,
suj.ivimly
th
rn.
05?r
itf-relHHHad.
veiled far; and they have a long, long
They have been
They have
ey before them.
j 1
obliged
bright daylight, nnd they ought
cordance nith their plan, tobe <
lew tramp again ; but they arc tired
nature exacts repose, and in this
would seem she will have it. They bavo
tried to reverse In r ordir aud sleep by
day; but, despitu of them, she claims the
night for rest. The world of life all around
them is sleeping,—sleeping,—recruiting
the tired energies of yesterday for the foil
and burthen of to
avoid the ope
road und tin
the rost
id
'J hut katydid,
in-t the shield
rubbing his rough hub
of his inner win.s, and the restless
with his everlasting chirp,
watchers hovering around tho lowly pillow
upon which the wand
Afar ofi' is the faint
icl-ct
the only
reposing.—
•too-too-hoot" of
a solitary owl,—the cry lengthening into a
prolongued wail
id sounding sadly in the
liafnitcc.
growing shrill and shrill
prowler approaches the
couch of the slumbercrs. Over their heads
anopy formed by tho spread
ing boughs of a gigantic bcecn. On a dry
twig in the heart of this forest king the
night-bird lias chosen his perch, nnd, ali
enee, it repents
ù lllf
tho re tie
unconscious of tbvi
ife quaint antlioni, trilling out the
!
ful
■•s, and then sinking decrescendo
a pi
'I hi
is a rustle in tho K*
, and Tip
undies w ith a wild acre
ider tho
fro
brushwood, bis frightened
ing up and following, both running, they
know not wither.
nrado start
steered!" exclaimed
Tip, rubbing bis eyes aud shaking his bur
'Golly I but I
"Who was dut, "anyhow?" inquired bis
companion.
" I Fought It
to eotcb Tip !"
a painter, sure, come
Tplied the terrified negro,
nuffin Lut one of dem nu
Is : but «ley's mighty skeory e itturs."
"Ha! hn 1 und I was n-t inkin'it
tho next Fing to a painter 1" rejoined tho
other, whom we beg to introduce by tin
. though, wo grieve to
suy, despite the sober influence of better
counsel ami example, a wicked world per
sisted iu calling him simply Abe.
"Next ting I wha — what's dat?" inqui
red Tip.
"Squire Scrub's bloodhounds, sa 1" re
-ponded Abe.
"Oh, d m Crittun ! Massa Cla
finished dein," said Tip, "and durs
o' dat sort o' varmint in dis part ob Ule
Virginny siuco dey's bad dar ole backs
broke.''
On thoy went, striking a footpath which
wound through the intricacies of the swamp
and converging iu a low, subdued voice,
though th re was
"Ü
of Abruh;
Oily any danger that
elcomo auditor could overhear them
at tbe dead hour of night,
disposed to Jalk much. He seemed to be
thoughts ; and
gradually bis companion became weary of
prompting the conversation, and they strode
onward iu silence. At length Tip began :
" I say, Abe, docs you know what I's
! runniu' off for?"
Abo, who knew that Colonel Lawrenoo
always treated his servants with a liberal
kindness that was the envy of their less
fevered bretbrao in boodRg»\ was at tir. t
Tip w
muiuijinc with Lis
•pmewliat
adopted the Yankee nrnctioe.
" Don' y
iiitorro ntory reply.
" No, I don't," i
«r-of-fe
n loi* for
lie
answer.
.r*
kn
you self,
^ponded Tip, with a
candid,
" Well, does you know whar I'sgwi
continued Tip *
it"
" You
to Ohio.'* said Abe.
responded Tip.
ia ?" exclaimed Abo, i
Tip stood stock atill i
"No. I isn't,"
" Whar den,
astonishment, a
flic road.
phlitieol
11 runuin 1
d if you don' know eider, don
aster
ly. If I don"know what I'
y for,
Tip'- a big fool for leavin'his kind
and Miss Joaimi : 'datVaR I has t> say
'bout dat. But what do you
Maybe you don' know eider, Abe?"
" Yes, I does 1 My massa- guv
switchin' de oder day," said Abo.
away for?
" What for ?" inquired Tip.
"Jes' for miffin.
old Ike
IjM
a-dom' in tho cornGcl'," said
to sco what
Vbo
"Well, what
ho doin' ?'*
lid his
"Niir.nl'*
the laconic reply,
is you doiu' ?" per isted
" And what w
Tip.
■']
wutchin' Ike ?" replied Abe.
"Yah! ynh I Sure eu
gb, you got dal
itchin'Jor nulfiii," shouted Tip, forget
ting all his p
caution
white, e
*• But no
tOtcht
black
my buck, 'eeptin'my
nmtny when I was
a little toller
B y nebor^trikes anyfmdy
;it White Uak,—iiubht-r ! And
l II jes' hid )
I believe
good-by, Abe, and go
<1
, you git out, Tip ! 1 Fought you
an dan uj dat, ' said Abo
for. de
"I'guided yii
com of liberty ! I s', osed you was ubovi
in ashvc,
! 1 s'po'od you had pluc-x
mat r, su ! But
„0 buck !
C 1 *
be yn
I'd b«-<
V\ hut'll nil de folks .say ? Dry il ji s, laugh
besides, dey won t trua'you
d.cei
)ou
!•
Tlu
leets of liberty'' Tip could not
'To ull practical purposes he
Utih Ha
.'uuld permit. There
luciment held
appreciate,
hud b. el, I,
ight he
by those v.iguo *s
As yet, though, ho had not tasted them.
Camping out at night in the woods, outing
st, drinking muddy water,—run
' r by the twinges of
an tii tied.—
i tiling in the
•i ts of liberty.' —
u dry
dered
cle
letice not. nltogcth
i ts he had proved, r
: all
in'
ÜLLMiil
lish them. There was
uncomfortable
text, too, which lie remembered,—one of
many that Jeannic and her father bad
taught him in tho Su day uffornoons, at
tho seliool-hou-m i
graveyard; aud i
«in : "Li t every un
culling wherein I
hud hud no provocation. But had he
continually
abide in the
ho is called I" Tip
up ng
lalicnublo right to be a Iree man?
Did not God design that lie should be free
whou he made poor Tip a man, with all
the thews and oiuews aud tbo mind aud
fatuities of a man? TUetm aro question.*,
Kind reader, which may gravel you some
what. Uur unswi-r may not be sutisl'ac
tory 5 but we will say, ut a vouture, that,
opinion und belief, tbe design ol
idcnce ia to be reached generally by
duo attention to the actual facts, condition,
or results, as tho case may be. What
Providence designs it usually accomplishes.
A man docs not cease to bo a man because
he is u servant or a slave,
have us believe; but there
ference of opinion respecting these innlio,
rmble rights. Those rights aro conferred
by God, where they exist; and tho c
power that confers may, for wine purpo.-es
was done in-the experi
ence of the Canuanites, and subsequently
in the still sadder experience of thiir He
brow masters, and thus there may be a
change of relations. But
Br
would
be a dif
digress
in Abe's remonstrance
Tip appreciated thoroughly. Thoy deci
ded him for liberty.
"Dey 11 jes' laugh at
Tw
id.
mg
, will dey?'
Tip
trus'
•red, sullenly; "and dey won't
mo , won'dey? Dun I'sgwi
Goon, Abel" And Tip
ished his oudgd with an uir of inde
pendence that would bavu k cdificd any ad
vocate ol liberty in tho laud.
"Dar! dat a you, Tip 1 idlers thought
t. Dis pantin'for free
dom's not gwine to be put down, wedder
do wliito folks treats us kind, ns y
uirst'r treats his people, or wedd
hammer us, as my mast'r did sometimes.
Dat'» nufiiu to do wid de bisuess. No sal
My pinion is je*' dnt ebery
worl has je." de same rights as any odor
man ! Bat's do doctrine of de folk« what
lives whar dero a'n't no slaves. Dar all
people's on de same footin' of 'quality
Dats do laud Is a steerin' for; and I's
proud to have de company of a pu son dat
can 'predate de glorious seutimums of de
averlaotin' fourth of Juiy !"
"Ib \ou sure, Abe," inquired Tip, "dat
dey treats de culled folks m de free States
cf dey was white?''
" 'Zactly de same 1 To-bc-suro doy do,"
»ponded Abe, with oracular authority.
dey do any t'ing else ?"
"Well, 1 don't know," replied Tip,
doubtingly; " I allers fed as if de Great
Maker above meant dat llaok and white
i-hould be sc-p'ratc. It seems a kiuil o
ral to me dat dey should. Does de
white folks jes' marry the blaok gnls and
de yellow gale, same as do white ladies ?"
iuouired Tip.
"I don'know 'bout dat," said Abo;
"maybe doy does, and maybe dey don't ;
or p'rhaps
"Bat's a kind o
». fer i
ns de right
J
'Me
: ioy
in de
"11
does'nt."
queer," said Tip.—
"Does do blaok and white folks go
anodder nt daro houses,
quality dut call- o
Wliifo Oak? '
de
" 'Zactly t dey's je«'
ob 'qualify, don' I keep a-lelliu' you?'
replied Abe.
"Does dey ucbcrcill dc culled
ob 'eiety ni £ gas in dem part* V f persfetsd
the iucruduloua querist.
"Of
de :
* footin'
nigga 8 dor ;
dey's all gemmon aud indies,—some culled
do rest i:ot culled,'' was Abés reply.
"When was you dar?'' inquired Tip,
"New, you go 'way, Tip; ghat's dat got
to do will it? Ta gwino dar, jes' as fast as
pogit.
qqeshions ?" said Abe,
by ib j pertinacity of his catei/hiat
" Kasc I'wautJ to kuO'-ri" responded
do host way to findrout is jes' to
d see, ' said Abc. \ I 4 *.
" Zactly : dnt'a what IV about,"
Tip's reply ; but in the Mine breath lie
continued his qn
do culled folks i
I C:
w
a do Use of all dose
«•what worried
lip,
"D n
jrics by another "Does
ote nt do Kctiuua? and
es dey get 'loeted demsclfo*?"
dc-y docs,—jrs' do
same as ds white folk«," replied Abe.
"Jolly 1 Yah I I me
Legislator'; aud if you'll wote for m
I il wotc for you for CongfUs?'' and Tip
laughed somewhat at tbo coifccit, bu
at Ahu's credulity i
was his d'upc.
"Bar's a
you, Tip, Id a
a knowing wink and
e, Î
supposing that ho
"Wole? Of
for de
's to
t fin' <lse, loo. I could tell
1 mind to," aiid Abe, w th
air if mystery
"Tell a feller, Abe, won't you?" replied
Tip.
"Bon' know 'bout dat. I doesn't tell it
to everybody ," responded IJs companion.
Well, l isu t everybody," laid Tip.
"But I dou' know weil dir you's good
nt keepin' a secret," said Abb with a hesi
tating look. j
do best way fur to find out is to
try," replied Tip.
" Well, if I Fought you wouldn't toll,
I'd bab no objection," aiiid_,lbe, assuming
a confidential air.
'D.
"Of
i
't if I ortn't to," replied
Tip.
" Do fac' is Jos' di* yer. De culled folks,"
itinucd Abe, "is jes' about wore out,
d d.y isn't gwinc to eubndt to be slavos
to du white folk? much longer. Atoro long
dcy'H rise agin de masters, and dey'll kill
'em; and of dey spare any of de fuirt sec,
it'll be do best lookin', fur- - —-"
A tremendous blow upon tho month of
the speaker cut short tho sentence, whioh
Tip could not allow him to finish ; nnd his
assailant stood quivering with wrath before
the astonished Abe, whose face was instant
i'ered with Wood, wliieh flowed from
good mine to maKc}^û.fi*r night h
jes' tell yer mast'r what yov's tolu
Ifou varmint 1 you talk to mo about killin'
my ole inast'r, and de toys, and Miss
Jeannic, too!" And here his fury
again, and with a shout of
excoratiou, hn fell upon his companion, and
dealt a shower of
and left upou Abe, which laid him pros
trato and helpless upon the road.
" Murder 1 murder I bloody
t-creamcd Abe. "Oh ! oh ! Tip you'll kill
and
!—
the
fistod blows right
•dor !"
1"
't do dat," replied Tip ; "but
I'll teach you somefin' you ort to know.-—
You's down
"No, I
; but cf you wants any
', jes' get up." And, spuming Abo
with his foot, he rupoated,—"Uct up ? 1
doesn't ßtrike a feller when lie's down -
Bui you s not got half enougjï yit ! — I isn't
half done wid y- u."
"Ob, Tip. I's gotoneugh J—I has indeed!
'," groaned Abo. "Be
sides, it was all talk, Tip ! Nobody inten
ded fur to do any t'ing ob de sort "
"If dey does, let 'e
Tip; "durs ov
about as stout
std\i
hundred fellers jes'
, dat dey'll hab to
te say nuffiir of the women
tofe-h
folks, afore dey
massa '« white huirs, you bloody brack vil
lain ! I jes' feels like pullifNyou back by
the keels nnd lickin' ye ebery five miuutuH
on de road !"
of my ole
"Oh, Tip, I tel! j
. It
de fftife,
all talk," reiterated Ah«.
"Well, go your way," said Tip, calmly,
"and I'll go mine, and take what you's
got fur de lies you's told me." And.piok
in ,7 up tho oudgel whioh be bad thrown
away whou he fell upon Abe Tip turned
on his heel aud left him still fitting by tbe
wayside
"Ob, Tip, what shall I do?" groaned
Abe. "You's bruised me so, I's all like a
jelly ; and Is got only about two dollars
to take nu to 'Hio Aud now you's gwine
hum to tel!
Tip paused for a moment, and then, re
tracing his steps, he drew from his wallet
four quarter eagles, and said,—
"Hole out yer dirty ban', sal"
Abo held out the band which Tip had
ed with this complimentary invitation,
and clutched the pieoes as thoy dropped
it. "Dat'll sec you ober de line," said
Tip; "sich fellerx as you is no loss to any
body that gets shot ob 'em. You go lon^!
I i-n't gwine wid you no mo'; but I 's not
.wine «0 tell any t'ing bout yîu until I
finds out wodder you's told mo tho trufe.
And if you's got auy Fing to do wid a 'sar
rection, I'll have you brought back, ef I
has to fetch you all He way from 'Hio by
de- heels or wid a wheelbarrow
do trufe is, it's all talk. You's too big a
ooward to dar' any sioh t ing. Bar's jes'
t'ing I's sorry fur, and yet maybe it's
all right. Ef you hadn't met
road de oder day, I should jes' liave been
at White Oak yet, widout any of de trou
ble you'» gnv me to git back. I vas about
puisuadu
as Ole Boss
I
1 -
stupid as a mule to let Y<
run away from hum. B
says 'bout de doctrjne ob election, 'It is
, and it cant be no tisser.' I's guv you
It is,
ar lickin', aud ten dollarafor du priv'lego :
and now yon go *bont your bisuess. or I'll
pay bu^deso ttri
ont ai tight,
s brief re"piU:
give you.nnodir, and
fingers."
In a fe
moments T|p
Pis
ing Abo, who, ai?
resumod his march, and succeeded in
reaching the place of bis diitiuntion afb-r
numerous hairbreadth escaped, we shall
follow Tip in hia lonely walk.
The light of the
dually, a; d there a
ness between ita extinction and the gloam
ing of tbo early morning. Tip formed a
little couch of dry leases, aud core ring
himself up, lay down nt the foot of a
and slept. He dreamed of home. Hu i
in the quarter again. Again, ho i
with Dtuald in the woods, having obtained
a permit for a holiday, to shoot wild pi
geons. Ho has his game-bag full, and is
on his way home. Suddenly he meets u
party of negroes armed with gun* and
pikes, running in a confused crowd, yell
ing and screaming through tbo feras t.—
They aro dragging a heavy weight, like a
log, with a rope which is fastened to it —
nearer. He recognir*» among
of the negroes of a plantation
fudud :iway gra
interval of dark
1 hey
eight or nino miles from White Oak They
hail him. In the distance is a lurid light.
Tho old homestead is 011 Grc. White Oak
. lie look-at tho object which
tho ocgrooa arc trailing over the road. Ii
is! Can it be? "It i.-,ohOod!'' he groans,
that white head,—that upturned face,
bloody and pale in death, but wearing
t-fill even in its ghastliness and pallor, the
smile rf parental tiffietion 1 He moans,
with a loud wail of anguish, "My dear,
dear ole
"Halloo Tip 1
The alcepir awake«. The bright son
shine is bathing the forest iu its golden light
Tho drops of early dew arc i-pariding
every loaf nnd spray, and the world is
ukp aud up ngniu for the struggles of
another day.
"Halloo! Tip,
His eye follows tho sound of a familiar
voice, cud at his side is Donald MoAjvan,
mounted on a powerful black horse
"Mas-a Douai'! Dut you?" shouted Tip;
d springing to hia Je*t, thu poor negro
towards him, nnd grasped the baud
which Donald hold
!''
"Pair 'l ip ! WhatOU Birth ails yo 1"
.M
Douai !.
"Oh, Massa Dona]', but Is glad to
you!'' said Tip;
his c)cs,
ed, stroking tho neck of tho noble auiuiul,
which responded to his caresses by a low
whinny ; "you's missed Tip from the sta
ble, hasn't yo, poor fellow ? But I w
my way back, aud I'll carry you uge
d tho U'
"jlo ! Juck," ho con
jes' as 1 used to."
Donald 8hook his head aud looked
rowfully at tho poor nogro.
another groom," said Donald.
"What fur, Massa Douai'?" inquire!
Tip. "I reckon 1 knows how to tend him
as well
"Yes. puir fallow ! i dinna doot that at
all, ' replied Donald, in a tono of pity.—
"But I'm thiukin' auld Suundy Larrence
willna ha'o yo at White Ouk!"
"Oh, Massa Donnl', he wouldn't sell Tiy
kase he runn'd away? I was on
hum agin 1" exclaimed the uegio.
"Fuir cratur 1" Baid Donnld. "What
iver possessed you to doit? Na,Tip,
Sautidy Larrence isna that soortl He'Ll
no sell j-o, Tip ; but he'll give ye y
alter ye, to hand
my way
! 1 '
pers; und he's sont
to ye." And Donald took out of
his pocket the certificate of Tip's freedom.
Snatching the paper from the Lai d which
extended it, Tip
flunir tho shreds to the winds.
it into fragments aud
"IV gwine hum !'' shouted the negro.
Donald's rough features twitched with
agitation. .
"Aworl," said he, "ye maun try it.—
But I doot yo'll no succeed. I il do what
for yo, mon ; but auld Saundy is set
iu his ways, and I niver kennen day when
ho turned frao them."
"My ole mast'r may kill mo, but I's
gwine bum,' repoated 'i ip.
"Yu'rc tired, and I in fresh
mysel'," said Donald dismounting,
on Jock's back, for it's a long way to
Oak. But slay: yo'
I've brought ye a bit of uicat and bread,
and seme odd notious to oomfovt ye, that
Je annfe 1 -—bless her blue eye« and her sweet
it till yc. Ye left yer Bible,
Tip, that she gave ye. Ye'll find the bit
'-trip* o' paper, uiorkio places she waufe
remember when she's no wi* yo at
yer Sunday-schuil."
Tip throw himself on 1 ho ground and
groaned aloud, iu tho anguish of a broken
heart. Covering bis face with his hands,
tho stroug man wept and sobbed i
agony.
a oriokut
"Git
White
hungry, Tip, and
I. •
a home of his own. Aud -this is
of all the hard, tinending toil of
of to-day who oro fa st ftp
(TO BÏ CONTINUED.)
Something about Matrimony.
A young lady out West, in a communi
cation to the Sandusky llegLfer, upon the
subjeot of matrimony, says :
It is a mournful tact that this world is
full of young men who want to marry, but
dare not. Deny this, as some will, it ie
nevertheless true, as wo can easily show.
In this town, for instanoe, there
, well to do iu
tho way of salaries aud business, yet they
rcfu'O
thirty or lorty young
take the step which they all
tako, but do not—wby? Tho large
majority of them have salaries ranging
five hundred to seven hundred dol
lars per yoa», and a few have eight hun
dred to a thousand dollars per year. Now,
tho first question to be asked by any
I properly support a wife if 1
? Then bo oouuts tbo oo>t cl
î tbo woman of his preference
take
living, çk
would wish, and lo ! bo finds to his ainaie
meut that hia income is vastly too email
to support
lLliment; aud somewhat maddum d by the
reflection, he plunges into labor and courts
business with an assiduity that takes away
bis health eventually, in bopo of attaining
income that shall enable him to marry
and have
a modest modern e&tab
the secret
tbe young
tl
proachlng »'iirfy year» ef
reason of so many d
waiting women, deny
But, say*
injustice; for any woman who truly loves
, will ndapt herself to bis circum
stances with tlio greatest pie
what
disappointed
or hid« it ai
and
you may.
good woman, you do u>
But
of sensitiveness or high sense 01
honor would take a Woman from easycir
cuUistances, and a pleasant and well fur
nished home, to adorn his four littlo rooms
and to do bio Iioueffork, as the fir.-t prin
ciples of economy would d mnnd of him?
Few will do it; for thorn'll the w
nizes !nr willlugne
a to Nice up
all such ere
c «11 such c
eircutu.-tauUi* that there
plaimugs on her part, eventually, and -.iok
uesrt from ovtr-cxertiou, and unhappiness
from many cares, all of whioh
dor marri ago anything but pleasant. And
so the young men very wisely think—pre
ferring a few more years of sin.lo loaeii
nos», in order to obtain money une
support r modest house of betweoi
and fifteen hundred dollars a year ex
pense, rather than to place a woderoly
educated woman into the house of six hun
dred doll
her own housework.
what is tbo remedy ? Plainly that
it fit themselves 1
ifuri
expert.
9
01 .W ?c tv:.
&
n twelve
'hero sho must do
to bo i ueli wives
asthoy
oung men must have; d 0 the youug
id fit themselves to be such hos
, nnd spend (he
of their lives in the dis
banda a.*, the
very choiees-t y
mal drudgery of a cea8elo*s toil, breaking
down health, happiness and energy, only
to give themselves up to marriage, «hen
the left of tlmir uiauhood is gone. The
women must choose for the
it shall be, for tho matter it solely in their
hand«. Let mother« say to their daugh
ters, put on that calico gown, go into the
kitchen and prepare dinner, take oharge
of this household, und hi yourself to bi^
Let the young
n 0 beer fully consent to sueh service;
and instead of is vj -hing all thought, and
time, and money, upon the adornment o!
the body, seek to accustom the hands to
proper industry, aud to school tbo mind
lou
s'
if
if
is
elves which
mo a wife and mother
stcs, then there w
ger 0 'jinplftinC.tlmt tho youug
afford
11 bo
pro.
marry, and
tif'ul, modest Louses all around
■■
fcc.iu
; and
•n will have loving husbands, and all
0 more have
life shall
clbing of the
truthfulncMB aud virtue which it had in tho
days o! father i and mothers,when it was thf
woman's ambition to become the head of the
house, and the mother ofnoblo ohildr.n.
ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.
qaeraucs w
in high e.-timation, and public
at iuimoii 80
Court
of rejoicing. To
these latter persons oi all ranks, who could
afford to purchase the tioket, were admis
sible; and accordingly rencontres frequent
ly took plaoe at them, aud exhibitions, al
most ns curious in tho way of disguise ks
in the assumption of character
On one occasiou, a dieoe of the Duke of
La Vallier«, a woman
offen giv
days and other
of high rank and fas him, being accident
ally separated from her party upon a very
crowded
, Mad;
, wasoj prtUDcly assi fed
by a stranger of remarkable activity and
address, lie was masked and cloaked to
tho teeth, but he pa-ecued a handsome
and a gentlemanly bearing ; and,
after extricating the lady by main atrougth
from 0 situation of considerable difficulty,
he somoidiat surprised her by addressing
her by name.
"Ah ! you knaw mo, lima ?*' «aid Mad
La Valliere, startiug.
Tho stranger readily assented.
"But, perhaps, it is the nauieonl?*'
tinued the lady.
'J'hat was not exactly the ca«e; for tbe
stranger, though he persisted in refus! ig to
uniunsk, alluded at ouoe to details which
could scarcely
itiiin the knowledge
ven of An ordinary acquaintance.
„"This iB truly astonishing 1" exclaimed
the lady. "Will you ically not tell
whom I am so deeply indebted?'*
"Instantly, if your ladyship commands
it ; though should 1 have been so fortunate
ns to be useful to you, grant me tbe favor
not to ask. But oee, Madame, you are al
ready missed—your party is approaching
e to
rch of you."
id Madame Li Yalli
gfatitude
"At lca.-t, sir,"
e, whose curiosity us
strongly arotued, "promise
that I shall boo you to-morrow at my hous»»
to dinner. 1 have only a small select party
of four friends who will dine with ms."
"Tnev «re relatives?"
"You are right—they
bo glad, nevertheless, to introduce you.—
Will you promise?''
"I not only promise, Madame," replied
tho stranger, turning to a beaufet, "to at*
end you with the utmost pleasure, but that
I will present you with a glass of the
kind of wine to-morrow at your onji table
as this which I now offer, on condition that
you will »!rink it with
The lady instantly accepted. with great
gaity; and, sccordiug to the Frcnoh ous*
, pledged the stranger by touching the
lips of his glass wirb that of her own —
Her friends now drew near; and tho st
ger, bowing profoundly,
the giddy multitude.
Madamo La ValHere slept not a wink
that night; the uext morniug found her in
a étalé of the most feverish curiosity. Sur
prising ! that sho was not even able to guess
whioh of all her acquaint
a Dees it could bo. But tbo diuncr hour
approaching—the servants had ordcro
to admit any stranger who might present
himself. A few hour» more, and the my a
tery would be coded.
Tho dinner Lour at length came, butro
stranger had made bi« appearance. Tb«
lady had previously anoo inecd to her
friends that she expected a visiter who was J
unknown to them. The enraged chef dc •
cuisine had already intimated that Lij
•1v Mi ! «- would all he
clT
, but I shall
I:-'- 1
who lie was
'
DELAWARE DEMOCRAT
DOOK A JOB HMKMNO
ESTABLISHMENT.
Wtl
is&as
rrlntiOfJVe«
■U
jiÄÄsassr
I AttarmryH KhJui,
FrafraMw«« *ti
Uooka, Pa
.Uo wellte
vy
Office Xo. 7 East 4th Ü,
WILMINGTON,
spoiled, that his pittance now exhaust
ed, and that his responsibility most «««so.
5till the expo ted visiter did nal ampeer.
' Are you certain, Louis," «aid tb»'t«4f
vant in waiting, **that oe genile
has cnllod ?'»
impossible,'' be raid, "«bat Ed
could iiave callod without Louis ttavio*
seen him."
Dinner r.t length commenced, ao4 Ma
dame La Valliere »11 absent tod fretful.
The fir.t course, however, «•* get UWough,
a ml she called, according to her Ottttoss,
to her
"It
for a glass of wine.
in attendance imme
diately presented her with a glass of gaiat
"How Rapid you aro i" criad-tfc*Mv
Ub lady "Don't you know that fr-i* the
deaax -tho other wine—that I nltrt«
tske ?"
"Oli, yoor ladyship's tmEdax Î" #ubm?s
sively replied Louis, adding, in a low t«mm;
"but it was this sort which your itdysty
'ost nig!.» permitted that I khonld yresswt
you."
Tho T«let who
ruAiix vovr wtrxi
Praise your wife, man ; for pity'a Mnba,
give her a little encouragement; it wou\
hurt her. She has made your borne ootn
fortabh ; ;
your food
her you thank her, if nothiaf Cnre.
don't expect it ; it will make tar «yea f>peo
wider thou they bare for thes« ten year*;
but it will do her gooi for all that, and
you tjo.
Them
your hearth bright and
agreeable. For pity'» «ab«, toll
ah*
any women te-iay tUrtuug
d of praise, th« language of « 0 -
courage mint. • Through nunwrr'* bent
and winter's toil they have drudged nr.
complainiiigly} nnd 60 accustomed bawd
their father«, brother* and husbanih bc
to their monotonous Ukors, that th**
look for and upon them as thoy do upon
the daily rising of the «un and Ha daily
going down- Homely, every-day life may
ho made beautiful by «n appreciation of
its very homeliness. Y«a know that if tho
floor i oloan, manual labor ha* boea pet
formed to ipnke it You know that if
take from your drawer a elf»»
s' ht whcuover you want it, eimiebody'«
fiugors have ached in the toil of making «
so froeh'und agreeable, «0 smooth and nu
trou-*. Everything that ptexxes th« «yo
nnd tho sense hai been produced by
stmt work, much thought, great care
untiring ofTorts, bodily and mentally.
It is not that many men do nat appro
eiato these thing«, and
tude for tho numberlc 1 )
ont with a hearty *
you make things look, wifef"
obliged to you for taking se»
much pains." They thank the tailor far
giving them "nt«;'' they thank the mtn fa
tho full omnibus who gives them a scat;
they thank th« joung lady who mote*
along in the conceit room; in short, they
thank everybody u».d everything out of
doors because it is tho custom; and they
come homo, tip their chairs bach and their
heels up, pull cut tho n«wspop«r, gruabio
if wife atka them to fake the baby, scold
if tho fire has got down;
is just right, shut their mouths with »
amaok of satisfaction, but never say to her,
"I thunk you."
I tell you what, men, young and old, if
you did but show an ordinary civility tow
ard tboso common articlos of bons^Map*
ing, your wives; if you gave th« on« huu -
dred and tixtietb part of the cotnpUmahfa
you almoA choked them with before thoy
rried; if you would stop your bad*
inage About w ho you are going to bar«
when number one is dead, (such thing«
wives may laugh at, but they 6ink deep
sometimes j) if you would ocas* to speab
of their faults, however banUriuglr, be*
foro others, fewer women would seek for
other souroes of h
so-Ro-ish affection,
for all good qualities she has, and you may
rest assured that her deficionoics
counterbalanced by your own.
AN IRISH VICfiDlCT.
a alow of gr*li»
to that ft,
but they
They don't
how ji'easant
J.
, if.
rytbfaf
than yoor cold,
'raise your wife, than,
fudy
Bentley's MUoeh
Iri»h story, i
lstiy, a murdered sohool master is said La
have been found dead in tho road, with his
head full of fractions.
thinking it's a sbo»-»W*," «aid
:
"Dn
Larry.
"Tbo home's she?,
"No, allana," said Larry; ,( abo«-tt<ic is
throat. '
"But he didu t out his throat," said th«
widow.
A humorous old man fell ia witb an igs >
rant a: s d rather impertinent youagmfcîHftr,
who preceded to inform tbo o dgeoticsooo,
in very positive terms, that ho would never
roach Heaven unies bo
added —
"I bave ex, cric need that cbang<% aad
uow feel 110 anxiety."
"And have you been beru again !"
J "Yes, I trust I have."
• Well, " »aid the old gentleman eyeing h!u»
ulUnUvely "I don't think it would barf -;n,
y- -.■»;? ujn, to be b;ru ouf? ut-v**
it?"
Latin for cutting y
''said Lnrry, "wbHlwr
his throst, or «
"Sure it's all
ho did it with a raxhir
hummer
hi» head—it's a sho»-«id« all
hammer found."
"But thcro
"No—but lie might have hid tbo ham
after he did it, to
j of the shoe-side."
throw off ^h« dm
C- 1 '
"But
he was found ?"
"Not h taste. Tbo Crowners a«t oolirn,
aud lie uiver said a word, and if b«
alive, ho would "
"And didn't they find anylLing!"
" Nothing but tho vardiok."
it that that kilt bim ?"
"No, my dear; 'twss tbe crack on th*
head. But the vardiok was, *twas doue,
and somebody done it,aud thoy wer« black
.guard», whoever they were."
't t!
any life ia him whan
"And
boro again, and