Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 December 1869 — Page 1

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WATCH WORDS OF LIFE. IIops, While there is a hand to strike ! ihire. White t hero's a young haart brav ! Toil, While thert's a task unwronght! Trust, While there' a God to sare ! Learn, That thera'a a work for each ! Peel. That there' a strength in God t Know, That there' a crown reserved ! Wait. Thonjjh 'neath the cloud and rod ! Lore, When ttn-re" a foe that wronjjs ! Help, WUeu there' a brother' need Watch, han there's a tercptcr near ! Tray. Uoth in thy word and deed ! ChritKan Pi: THE WROX; TICKET. One of the many men who came and went as patients in ward six of our hospital at Washington, -was Bernard Heine, a handsome, s'alwart German, fresh, blonde, brave and merry. He was there three months in all; and being a social fellow, and a favorite of mine, told me all his history, in genera", terms, at first, hut gradually growing more confidential as he knew me better and became more assured f my sympathy. I knew what a wild, adventurous youth he had been in the dear fatherland ; by what hair-brained scrapes he had angered his friends ; how, at nineteen years of age, he had run away and come to this country ; how his parents had died during the two years in which he had heard nothing from home, and they nothing from hint ; and how sore his heart was when he thought of them, and knew what j grief he must have caused them. I knew , about tue van uorms, witu whom ne hau boarded two years before he entered the army, and how the young people were lik-- brothers and sisters to him, and the old people like father and mother, and how Liza Van Dorm wrote to him every week. And here I guessed somewhat more than I knew. I guessed from the slight embarrassment, the mingled coldness and kindness with which he spoke of her, the unsatisfactory way in which he accounted for his having entered the army, the faint shade of annoyance which sometimes crossed his face when he read her letters, and hllQ 111 II 111 in answering them, that Kai Um was fonder of him than he of h r, and that, may be, he had entered the amy to get rid of her. I had known Ota What nie-c young men had been cordially received and fondly cherished in families where there were marriageable daughters, and where, in spite of themm i ves, the force of circumstances had obliged them to assume tiei which they took reluctantly. I like to see men do their own wooing, and always respect a man who flics from a wooing snoaan. So my guesses made me like this young soldier all the better. He had made his will before entering the arm-, he told me, and left everything he had, among the rest a life insurance of live thousand, to the Van Dorms. Iii. .?xaggerated his causes of gratitude to them. He had no one else in the world who cared for him ; and beside their general t'riendlin see, they had nursed him through a severe s-ckness, and refused to take any extra pay for it. They are the only ones in the world who would mourn, if I ahoukl happen to get a bullet through me," he id, with a touch of bitterness in his voice which showed that there was something yet untold in his history. Later, one evening, when I was sitting by him to soothe and quiet him, after the tormenting pain of having his wounded foot dressed, I got the rest of the story. Be was fcellag unusually depressed that night, and seemed to wish for a confidant. It was then that I first heard Helen Ay re's name. She was a little yellow-haired schoolmistress who had boarded at Mrs Van Dorm's, had, indeed, known them I nger than he had. I could see how he had loved her from the tone of unwilling, yearning, angry tenderness with which he spoke her name. I could see more than that, what he, like a fool, as men al-w.-ij's are, in such circumstance, could not see, the angry jealousy of the Van Dorms, their insinuations, the seeds of distrust which they slyly sowed; how, while he had not dared to speak of love to the girl, they had made him believe that she had boasted of her power over him ; how he had been made to think her a coquette and mercenary, careful not to give him too much encouragement till she should know how much money he had. When he spoke of her capricious treatment and growing coldness toward him, I could see that they were but reflections of Us own distrust of her, and the effect of their mischief-making. I hinted this to him, but he would not hear to it. Oh, the Van Dorms were the salt of the earth, and his best friends, and they were incapable of deceit. 44 But maybe they wanted you for Miss Liza," I ventured. He dropped his evej. 44 If they did," he said, 44 they would not use dishoneFi. Tieans to bring it about. I ought to consider that a new proof of their friendship far and confidence in me, even though I snould be unwilling to gratify their wishes. ' I liked his reserve and his trust. They were honorable. 44 At last, she It ft the house and went somewhere else to board," he said. 44 1 think they had been a little cool with her for treating me so, and she didn't want to slay. Besides, I suppose she hated t lie -iL,rht of me. When she went out of the door the last time, I came from the parlor to bid her gmxl-by, and she turned her Head away. su dertanding." ' .Master Heine," I said, emphatically, 14 it is my private o; inion thai you have been made a dupe of." lie smiled faintly as he shook his head. 44 Oh. if you knew them, you wouldn't sav so." " Have you ever heard frora her since ' you came here ?" I asked. , " Not a word." , I was silent a moment, wondering if the ; poof little yellow haired schoolmistress j might not have been hi caking he heart ! slowly during the last year, and if sho could know just where I was at the mo- ! ment, if she would not consider me the most enviable woman in the world. "I wonder none of the Van Dornscame out to see you," I said presently. 44 Oh, they wanted to come," was his quick reply; "but Mrs. Van Dorm has ! been sick, and there was no one else who 1 could leave. Liza had to take care of her mother. The boys and their father are driven with business. Besides I wrote them that I was only slightly hurt; and you know I am going to have a furlough in a few weeks.' Our conversation was interrupted here, for more sick and wounded were brought in, and I bad to attend to them. The ward already seemed nearly full; but many were convalescent, and those we wished banished to the convalescent's room, and crowded all the beds we could get into tha ward. The next morning, the man in the bed next to Heine's died. As the custom was, as soon as he died, the card containing his name, age, place of birth, regiment, company, rank and dis ease, was t.ken down from the wall at the head of his bed, and carried to the office to be recorded, and reported. The weather was cool and his funeral was put off till the next af'ernoon. The next day, just after funeral time, , I sat in the ward taking a few minutes rest, after giving the three o'clock medi cines, I glanced toward the door, ami saw two spectres mere, lo be sure, they were men, stout and tanned, but their faces were, in spite or tan, of a sickly white, and their eyes were open and fixed glaringly. 1 tiey Doui were staring at Heine, who sat up in bed reading the Washineton Star newspaper. I approached them, though half afraid. 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volume xv. a wolf or a panther which we expect will devour us the next moment. One of the men never stirred, nor seemed to hear me; but the other, without turning his eyes from their territied gaze, pointed mutely, and with a shaking hand to the man who sat so calmly reading his newspaper. " That is Bernard Heine," I atiid. Did you wish to see him?" The man shuddered. II is dead f he said. " We have just been to his funeral." "Oh, no! it is a mistake," I replied soothingly, beginning to see -what was the matter, though not knowing how the mistake had occurred. 44 He is getting along nicely. There is not the least likelhood of his dying at present." 44 But," the man persisted, still staring, 41 his death was reported with his age, place of birth, his regiment and company, and we have been together the whole year. We heard it, and saw it in the morning's paper, and we came down from CamD Distribution to his funeral By this time the other man had got his jaws together and looked at me 4 Did you get near enough to the chap lain at the funeral to hear the names read ?" I asked. 44 No, we were late, and the names had been read," was the reply. 44 But we saw the paper with all the particulars in it." I could but smile at his persistence. 44 Well, you can go and ask him if he is dead," I said, turning away to attend to my business. They crossed the ward warily, with their eyes still intently fixed on the object of their incredulous fear, and when they were half way across, Heine looked up and sav, them. A bright smile broke over his fact, and he held out both hands. 44 How are you, Herman ? And you, ; Matt ? I'm glad to see you." At the sound of his ringing voice, and the sight of his cheery "face, their last doubt vanished, and they sprang forward i to grasp his hand, and one hung about his I neck and kissed him and burst into tears, while the other stood sih nt, but with brimming eyes and a quivering lip. It made my own eyes till At first Heine listened to their story with wondering incredulity, and suddenly turned ab"ut and readied the card above his bed. He glanced over it, then looked at me. '4Have you succeeded in convincing your friends that you are not dead ?" I asked, going to him. De gave me the card. 44 That explains," he said. 44 You know our beds were pushed along night before last, and we forgot to move the cards. I suppose, in the hurry, when Thomas died, the ward-master took down the card over his bed and sent it to the office without looking at it." Heine seemed moved, not so much at the thought of deat h associated with him, he had become too familiar with it for that, but at sight of his friends' unexpected ' devotion. . I left them, and they sat long with him, not going till the very last minute that left them time to get to camp before their : pass should be overstayed. I found that Heine's name had not bean read out at the funeral, the chaplain, who was acquainted with him, and had seen him that day, perceiving that there must be some mistake. 44 Well, Heine," I said, " you see you were wrong in one thing ; there are others beside thn Van Dorms who would mourn you deuct.' He kx ked up with glittering eyes. 14 Yen, God bless the poor fellows ! I didn't driam they cared so much about me." 44 Learn one thing by this," I said, significantly. 44 It is not the deepest or truest affection that professes the most." He dropped his eyes, and for a moment was silent. Then he said : I 44 They will all hear of my death. Ned Trask, who told these fellows, told them ; he had written to Van Dorm and sent the ' paper." 41 Such an unlucky mistake f I said, and went in a fever of annoyance, toscoidthc ward-master and send the riht card to the ' office. Later in the afternoon Heine beckoned I me to him. There was a little unusual i color in his face, and light in his eyes; i and though ae smiled, it was a merry ; smile. 44 I've been thinking that I will wait awhile before writing," he said. 44 Perhaps I ought not, but I would like to see how they all take it." I agreed with him. Perhaps it was wrong, but I also would like to see how I they all would 44 take it." So we prac- ' ticed a 44 masterly inactivity," and waited. Two days after, as quickly as the mail ! could bring a letter, came an epistle directed to the lady nurse of Ward Six, New Jerusalem Hospital. I opened it, and rend at the bottom of the second page, "Gertrude C. Van Dorm." It was a precious epistle, written ;is she assured me, by a worn in at death's door, though the writindeed had he lived, he would have been a son, being engaged to her eldest daughter. I read it all, then went and sat by Heine, feeling angry enough with hini for this engagement, and fully willing to tease him by tclline him the whole truth. M Heine," I said, holding up the letter before me, 44 Mrs. Van Dorm is anxious that your watch, and any papers and money yon may have died possessed of, should be sent to her forth with." He colored, and looked intently at me, id nothing. " She says that she has done a great deal for you," I went on, 44 and that you ere under great obligations to her." "1 told you what they have done," he 9d a little hastily. 44 For the restl have always paid my board, ami never counted the many presents I have made. I tried to pay them tenfold all the expense they have been at for me, and I guess 1 have 44 She is very far gone," I said, showing him the letter. 44 See how feeble the writing is? It is impossible for them to come after your body. She supposes it will be decently buried here." Heine grew redder in the face, and a !ok of pain and mortification clouded his usual frank expression. 44 She says that you were engaged to her daughter, I said, finally. A spark of tire shot from his wideopened eyes. ' It is a lie !" he cried. I gave him the letter and he read it, his hands shaking and his eyes flashing while he read, and at the last word, he fiercely tore the sheet trom end to end, then turned and hid his face in his pillow. I think the poor fellow shed 1 :tternes of this awakening Mm for a whispered word tears at the I bent oyer 44 Remember the comrades who loved mi so much heller man you inougnv IVrhaps they are not the only ones.' , Then I left him to get over his trouble as j best he might. Once in a while as I went abou j glanced at him eittinir palo and grave, prej tending to read. When I found time I was i about eointr to ask him what I should do alout answering the letter, when one of the nurses came to me saying that a lady was in my room waiting to see me. I went, out immediately. ioingintomy snaoeu room, i saw a small, black robed figure sitting iu my arm Chair, and as she put her veil further back, cau&ht sight of a thin, white face that turned towards me. She said not a word. i and did not rise, but only sat there, as if

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half-fainting, and looked at me. Alas ! in that sorrowful place, I had grown familiar with such sights. On looking more closely, T saw that thh little lady was a young girl, but so pale and hollow-eyed, that at first glance I might have taken her for twice her age. " My dear," I said, taking her hand, 44 you have come here to look for some friend. Do you know whether he is living or not ?" She panted out a breath or two, and her pale lips fashioned the word 44 dead P I turned to the table and poured her a glass of wine. She took it obediently, and leaned her head against the back of the chair, but with her widely searching eyes still fixed on me. 44 Will you tell me his name ?" I said, presently. She strove to speak, but seemed unable to utter the name. Then she put her hand to the bosom of her dress, and taking therefrom a card photograph, held it toward me, but without relinquishing it. I looked and saw a fii-e likeness of Bernard Heine, in civilian's d 'ess, evidently taken two or three years b( fore. The sight electrified me. I glanced up at the wliite forehead, and there were the pale yellow locks drawn back from it, and there was the violet blue of the eyes, in which Heine had never seen such anguish, so that only the color was left true of his description. 44 You dear little creature !" I exclaimed, taking her in my arms, and tenderly removing her bonnet and shawl that I might hold her more closely. 44 So you love Bernard well enough to come here for him." 44 Can I get him?" she whispered faintly, too much exhausted to weep. 44 1 have come for him. I came as soon as I heard, and have not slept or eaten since." 44 Yes, you can get him !" I said, hardly knowing how to temper the news I had for her. 41 You can have him forever. Do you know, dear, there was a mistake made ?" She lifted her head from my shoulder, and clasped my hand in her shaking palms, her startled eyes on my face. " Be happy !" 1 said joyfully. 44 He lives!" The sweet head nodded aside, and she slipt down fainting. It wasn't long before she revived, but it was long before I could quiet her, and persuade her, not only that Heine lived, but it was best she should not rush to him that minute. At length I bethought me of the little curtained window in my room, looking into the ward ; and drawing the curtain partly away, gave her a peep at him, as he sat there reading. Trembling all over, sue stood, and, without removing her eyes, drank in the sight, as one perishing of thirst drinks in water. The tears began to flow fast and the sobs to come. 44 1 loved him so all the time, she said ; 44 and once I thought he loved me. But it seems not, or else they made mischief be tween us. I would never have sought him living, never ! but when I thought him dead, my pride was in the dust. I would have crawled here on my knees, if I could have got here in no other way. How pale and sober he looks ! Is he very ill ?" 'No; his foot has been bad, but it is getting on so well that he can walk about a little with a crutch." 1 1 have suffered so during the last year," she sobbed, but wiping her streaming eyes that she might not lose sight of him.. "It has worn me to a shadow. And I couldn't tell anybody. They thought that I was in consumption, and I let them think it ; but it was only heartache, and that is worse. Y'ou may think it strange, dear lady, that I talk so to you," stretching out a litMe white hand to me, but unable to remove her eyes from him, but this shock has broken my reserve, and I must speak once, or die !" 'Dear child, confide in me, 44 1 said; 44 and trust also the future. Now I must go back to the ward. Will you stay here alone ; or do you wish to go in now to see him ?" 44 Oh, no !" she cried in alarm, the blood pouring into her face. 44 What would he think? I only wanted to go in when I didn't know what I was about. I wouldn't have him know, not for worlds, that I am here !" 44 What ! you will go back without speaking to him, or letting him Know ( 1 asked. 44 Surely !" she said. 41 It is enough for me that he lives, ucad, l might have claimed him ; but living, I am nothing to him." 44 You are much to him," I could not help saying. 44 He has told me of you, and I think he prefers, vou to anv other. Besides, you should pity as well as love hini. He thinks that he has scarcely a friend in the world. That is what he looks so pale and sober about now." 41 But don t tell him I am here ! she pleaded, as I went out of the door ; and turning to promise, I saw the light of a new hope blooming in her face. 1 could think of nothing else, and made every excuse to go often and speak to Heine, tliat she might sec him more and look up. But she nor I could see no smile on his face, though he had seldom more reason to smile. Little did he know whose loving eyes were watching him. 1 went back to my room presently, and the more I sar of this young stranger, the more I admired her, and the less 1 wonder ed at him for loving her. Hhe was so swert and dainty ; and such a strong. true heart beat in her breast. I did not like her leas that she persisted she must go back the next morning, and refused HM permission to tell him of her eoniiag, though I hud no intention of obeying her. Mm stayed with me that night, and was expecting to start in the morning at 10 o'clock. My morning labors done, I went and sat by Heine's bed, mLidful of the eyes that unseen watched us. 44 Heine," I said, " wouldn't you like to know how Helen Ayre took the news of your death? He was sitting pale and gloomy, all his old cheerfulness gone. At my question, he half turned away his head. 44 No r he answered, bitterly. 44 1 have had enough." 44 Oh, very well, then ! I won't tell you. But I thought you might care to know," I said, carelessly." 44 What do you mean," ho exclaimed, turning his eager face to me again. 44 Oh, it's no matter," I said, making a pretense of going away. 44 If you don't feel any interest " A powerful hand grasped my wrist and held me. Heine must have been strongly moved to do that. He did not even aologize when I resumed my seat somewhat disconcerted at such an exhibition before a score or so of men who couldn't know what the matter was. 14 Has she written ?" he asked, trembling with impatience. "No; but I happen to know her. She had business in Washington, and called to see me." 44 Darn these women! What torments they are !" he exclaimed, fiercely. 44 Why don't you tell me?" I forgave him on the spot, for he couldn't help it. 44 The poor little soul was very much fieved, though you don't desvrve it," said. "But I comforted her. Yon were a wretch to desert such a creature, and a fool to let the Van Dorms dupe you so." 44 Where is she ?" he panted out. " Oh, she Is going north tliis morning," f said, carelessly. " Her visit is over. Sinhas friends here (so the had, Heine and I) and she is now going to leave them." 44 Where did you see her ?" he demanded as if I were nobody at all, and hemy master. 41 You haven't been out of the hos

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pital since I died ; and she must have been here. Who is that looking through the window of your room?" I couldn't help laughing, but sobered myself the next moment. For Heine, with his face on tire, and his breath coming like that of a spent runner, was stretching his arm to reach his crutch that lay under the bed and preparing to get up. " Now, Heine" He minded me no more than he would a feather. Staggering rapidly to bis one foot he rested on the unaccustomed crutch, and began crossing the floor with seven league strides. I could only follow him, hoping that he would have some delicacy about entering my room uninvited. Not a bit. Before I reached it, he flung the door open and leaped over the threshold. And there stood the dear little frightened, mortified creature in the corner of the room, vainly trying to hide her face. 44 My dear little girl !" he cried out, "is it you ? and do you care whether I am dead or alive?" She dropped the hands from her face, and looked at him standing there, maimed, radiant, with eager arms outstretched. There was no room for pride in her generous heart. She came shyly forward a step or two, till within reach of his arm that caught and clasped her. I meekly withdrew and closed the door after me, carrying a vision of that yellow head resting against Heine s blue jacket. It was nearly a week before I found myself at leisure to reply to Mrs. Gertrude Van Dorm's letter. My reply was as follows : "My be able Dear Madam : I regret not to to send you Mr. Heine's watch, and papers. He refuses to give money them up, insisting that he has use for them himself. He sends his regards, however, and begs that you will ha . e no uneasiness concerning his welfare, as his wife, Mrs. Helen Heine (formerly Miss Helen Ayre), is here and in constant attendance on him. I have the honor to be, etc." What I wrote was simply true. They were married. Heine," terrified lest he should lose her again, entreated, and I was on his side. He was six feet tall, and I was five feet six ; lie was a Lieutenant in artillery, and I a lady nurse, regnant in the ward ; what could a poor little yellowhaired school mistress do againßt us f 44 Why they had me married in spite of my teeth, the minx would sayif I should ask her now. But the only way in which she showed her teeth on this occasion was in the happiest smiles that ever were smiled. Babies' Rights. BY REV. H. D. NORTnROP. A zealous mother remarked the other day that she did not see why she had such bad children, for she scolded and whipped them from morning till night. This enterprising female, and others of similar disposition, cross and volcanic and sour, ought to take soothing syrup as a common beverage. It were better that the whole juvenile household should have a perpetual hurricane of wind-colic than that they should lie subjected to such a continuous blast of fretfulne8S. The remark of the mother aforesaid is indicative of the wrongs inflicted upon ungrown humanity. It is time these were remedied. Cuba is struggling for inde pendence ; Spain is coming out of her significant revolution ; the land of St. Patrick is clamoring for justice, long delayed; women are up in arms for their rights ; but who is there to speak for the babies? An agitation for their special benefit ought to be got up forthwith, a society formed, a paper printed, and an annual meeting held. It is culpable that such a field as this should have been so long neg lected at a time, like the present, of universal reform. In the name of all the babies, black and white, native and foreign, clean and dirty, cuffed and petted, we alii rm that they have rights sufficient for a Declaration of Independence. One is the inalienable right to be babies. Not unfrequently they are hustled into prematurity, and, like hothouse-plants, are forced to ripen before their time ; and so, as eggs are hatched into chickens by steam, babyhood and childhood get into the next stage of existence without even showing the premonitory symptoms of what is coming. The youngster must be able to walk, and talk, and say smart things, and go to parties, and receive calls, as soon a. possible : so that we have 44 Misses' who have scarcely cut their teeth, 44 young ladies" who really need a nurse to lead them, 44 young gentlemen " who have hardly entered into trowsers children who are older than their parents. If we had the system of publishing births that they have in England, we might see it seriously announced that John Smith, Esq., was born night before last, and the mother and squire arc doing well. Nature is too slow ; the nursery is emptied into the parlor ; young heads are done up in waterfalls, with cascades dribbling down behind ; tender feet are thrust into manly boots, and the airs of maturity are taken on, as if the juvenile period were a disgrace. Now babies ought to be kept such until they naturally grow to something else. The physical wrongs of nu.ny who are so unfortunate s to be born might fill a volume as bulky as Fox's Book of Martyrs. We pity the children of the poor that are half famished ; there is equal need of pitying the children of the rich trat are stuffed like turkeys before Christ nas. If the baby cries, as nature seemed to intend that it should, why it must be fed; if it doesn't go to sleep, it must bo fed ; if it screams by reason of pains in unmentionable regions, it must be fed ; if it is sick, what Battel thing could be done than to feed it ? If it is petectly well, of course it must be fed ; if it is uneasy because overfed already, it must be quieted with another dose of food. I would not be a well-to-do baby foe all the rattle boxes in creation. Think, too, of the villainous motions to which babyhood is subjected. Cradles that are more favorable to sea-sickness than the sea itself perpendicular tossings in nurses' arms jolts and jumps, as if the happiness of the youngster depended upon his beingjvigorously churned who wouldn't get sick, and pour out indignation or something worse r It seems to be the deep-seated conviction of many that children are liorn into the world for the express purpose of bobbing up and down. Hut children are beset with other evils besides those that may be denominated physical. The character, the better nature often suffers. John Brown said he had rather have measles, small-pox, yellow fever, and cholera all in his camp at once, than to have a man without principles. We might reasonably wish all these diseases for a child in preference to that tornado of scolding which rages in some families from morning till night. If things go wrong, and only the parents are to blame, the children are sure to get cudgelled for it. There is just about so much scolding to be done, antl woe be to the lucklessbrat that comes in the way of it 1 Many children who are sour and ugly would be amiable and attractive if it were not for this yerlasting domestic thunder and lightning. It is meant to serve moral purpeses, and make the unfortunate victims of it better in character and manners; so Xantlppe thought to render Socrates more ainiitble by empty Ing .the contents of her soupkettle npou his philosophic head. It is possible to have firmness and love united; and sonn -times a real.thunder blast sweeping through the family, may clear the atmosphere and prove a blessing; but thus

continuous drizzle of scolding chills the home, makes the children harsh in temper and barren of affection, and altogether ignorant of that love which softens the heart, and calls out the finest feelings and noblestpurposes of the young. Very often, too, the little prattler asks a question (heaven be praised for all such curiosity !), and is as promptly snubbed, as if the desire to know anything were nothing but intolerable impertinence. When old enough to read, it devours any and everything that comes in its way, and no proper selection of reading is set before it. It is corrected, perhaps, for a certain misdemeanor at one time and not at another. Very likely the parents disagree in their commands, and the household has two heads, or rather no proper head at all. These are only a few of the things which often render it a desperate undertaking to be a baby, a hazardous piece of business to become connected with the human family. We insist that this question ought to be agitated, articles written, speeches made, posters stuck on the curb-stones, and a general fuss inaugurated, until babies get their rights. Ilearth and Home. Traveling on Short Tickets. Ladies who endeavor to travel on our railroads with 44 short tickets " should learn the modus operandi of the conductor, or they may place themselves in a position of suspicion, and subsequently of detection. One of the strong-minded women of the present day attempted to ride with our popular and well-known conductor, Wheeler, the other day, on what is commonly called a 44 short ticket. " As usual, he made his collection of tickets after leaving Boston, one for Headvillc being passed up by the lady in question. All went well "until the second collection, when Headville was far in the rear. On reaching OVt hie hand and demanding madame's pasteboard, the conductor was met with this reply : "I have given you my ticket for Attleboro. I gave it to you when you first came round.", Conductor W. carefully examined his first collection, and showed the lady at the name time that no such ticket was in the package. 44 Oh, well, it could easily have been removed ; I gave you my ticket." 44 1 shall be obliged to collect your fare, madam, from Headville to Attleboro, 3-011 having given me a ticket for that station instead of the other." 44 1 shall not pay you my fare, sir ; I am an old traveler, anil know very well what I am about. You cannot frighten me and

extort the amount from me." 44 You must pay your fare, madam." 44 1 will not, s.r ; this lady here is witness that I gave you my ticket for Attleboro." The lady appealed to replied : 44 You fave him one, certainly, but for what point cannot say." 44 Yes, I gave him my ticket, and if he chooses he may put me off I have plenty of money, but" it is for other purposes ; he can put me out." 44 No, madam, I never put a lady from the cars; there are other ways and means of making them pay what it honestlyjdue. Give me the name of yourself and the friends you are to vi; it, and 1 will settle with them, as I know most of the people in the town where you are going to." 44 1 am not obliged to do that, sir, nor shall I pay my fare; my brother bought my ticket, anil as I shall return with you in a few days, if I find he did not buy one for Attleboro, I will pay you the difference." 44 Very well, madam, I shall remember you." Yes, henceforth, let her travel when she would with him, she was a marked woman, and long-headed must she be to Hank him in the discharge of his duty. The days passed on, no delinquent madam appeared, and Conductor W. was evidently sold. One pleasant morning his train arrived a little too late in Providence, the terminus of the route ; his passengers were nearly all out of the cars, when up came a female with a great rush and bustle and attempted to get on the train. 44 Where are you going, madam tn 44 To Greenwich, sir." 44 Well you had better wait for the Shore Line, which will be along in a few minutes and take you there ; this goes immediate ly to the car house." The lady looked indignant. Conductor W. thought that frown looked familiar, and he suddenly remembered it was Madam 44 Short Ticket." Like a wise general he said nothing to her, but looked up the man who was to take charge of the train from Providence toStonington. lie took him to one side where he could point out the lady, and told him the trick she had played, remarking in conclusion: 44 Now, Conductor Knowles, my opinion is, she will try the same game with you give you a check for a short ride and go the whole way. Take my advice and look out for her." The train came and my lady mounted triumphantly; another conductor was to be duped, and she probably laughed in her sleeve at the small amount on which she accomplished a good deal of traveling. The conductor, in the course of time, came to her; she promptly handed out a ticket for Greenwieh, he quietly gave it to a friend behind her, asking him to hold that until he called lor it. He then told his brakeman to call Greenwieh 1 nully, as a lady was to get oft' there who was rather dead The cars rolled up to the station, and with a loud yell it was announced ; nobody stirred; louder yell : all sat still. Brakeman, very red in the lace, thrust himself into the car and gave a final yell, and as nobody moved, slammed the door in disgust and the train went on. Innocence smiled, ph ased at the beauties of nature and her long ride for thirty cents. The conductor entered the car, anil with a start of surprise, said: "Madam, have you changed your mind, or have we carried you by ? The last station was yours." "Mine! Oh, no, sir! I go to Stonington." 44 Oh, excuse me then ; I will take your ticket." 44 Ticket sir! What do you mean? I fpve it to you when you came around be ore. The stupidity of these conductors grows worse and worse ; it is a real insult for a lady to ride in the cars these days. I have given you my ticket, and that ends the matter." Coolly looking her in the face, as he quietly took the ticket from the passenger behind her, he said: 44 Madam, you are telling a falsehood. Here is your ticket for G. Pav the rest of your fare at once, or out of this train you go, and under arrest." Madam 44 Bhort Ticket" was dumb, utterly confounded. Without a word she drew forth a well-filled pocket lnok and handed the balance of her fare to the stem conductor, who said; "Now, Madam, let me say to you that I was posted in regard to your little game before I left Providern r, by (he same conductor you thought you so nicely outwitted a few days ago. But yon were not smart enough ; he wins in tllC end. Lej me warn you against trying it on again; it will not go down. Our system is more perfect than many suppose." Madam went on her way, not re. job ing, but probably meditating bow to be even with those fearful conductors who had spoiled her little game. Boähm Uaaettt. Ciiahi-ottk Pi -tn am, a colored worn in who was servant in a Troy, N. V., tanfor forty years, died recently, giving h. 1 lifetime savings, $1,300, to the several colored religious societies in that city.

2, 1869.

THE TWO DIVERS. I, Watts BnoWM, follow a very hazardous calling, or, at all events, a calling in which, if you choose to face dangers for the sake of higher remuneration, perilous adventures are common enough. I am not too presumptuous when I say I am as brave as most men, naturally, and my sense of fear has been further blunted by a constant companionship with danger. The adventure I am about to narrate was horrible enough to me when I was a principle actor in it, and to this day an involuntary shudder of horror accompanies the recollection of it. Some years ago a large vessel laden w ith a mixed cargo was bound to New York from South America. Striking a sunken reef oil the dangerous shore of Florida, she was wrecked, and very few of the passengers or seamen escaped. The owner, who was also captain, was drowned. Iiis heirs lived in New York. It appears the vessel had settled down in the ocean, having escaped the attack of any storm, so as might be supposed her cargo would be pretty well recoverable ; but it was a useless and foolish attempt to try to get anything from her in a lonely sea, and on a dangerous coast. However, one of those men whom nature has formed for the out-of-the-way modes of getting money in this world, having obtained the consent of the heirs in New York, fitted out a large yacht, and promising money only on condition of success, I was prompted to hazard the spec it agreed with my adventurous disposition, and I signed articles, and shipped myself. After a deal of trouble we picked up another diver, a coarse, brutal, drunken rascal, whose conduct, as hereafter seen, will sufficiently justify these remarks From the beginning I had a kind of antipathy against the fellow, and shrank from his society as from some loathsome reptile. His profile was that of a baboon ; his eyes, peering from under hi3 heavy brows, twinkled with a satanic wickedness, and seemed to bo looking all ways at once ; and when he laughed, his satanic majesty himself might have envied his ugly grin. My employer shunned him, ami would gladly have parted with him, but no other could be got to engage in such a foolhardy scheme. Having got the diving bell and other apparatus on board, we at last set sail on this novel pursuit of lucre. The voyage was fine, and having nothing to do, I enjoyed it very much, and was even softening towards my fellow diver when we reached that part of the coast of Florida where the sunken wreck lay, and where our fortunes were buried beneath the waves. We were a considerable time in discovering the wreck, but we found it at last far down in the depths of the still blue sea, where troops of sharks were pursuing each oth ;r about and through it for want of better prey. No pleasant sight, I can assure you. My fellow diver gave them a feartul curse, and took an extra long pull at his brandy flask. As for myself the aflair seemed more dangerous than ever. The vessel would have to be moored above a bed of reefs, and if a storm were to arise, ill fate would catch us, for there is little mercy to be expected for a ship from the cruel and jagged coral. However, I plucked up the very best heart, saying to myself, H My dear fellow, the more danger the more money." Jim Crow that was the diver's name gave utterance to a nowise pleasant oath about having been swindled, muttering at the end, 44 but I'll pay them off deuced sharp, or I'm not " concluding his sentence very suspiciously, w hich did not tend to increase my confidence respecting his intentions. We pulled back to the ship, after placing a buoy to mark the spot. The two next days Jim Crow and I were busy in preparing our things for the attack on the sunken wreck. The tide of my thoughts was checked by my work, but I still noticed that Crow was in an evil mood. After about four days were spent, the ship was anchored. The bell was swung for the plunge, and Crow and I went below and dressed. My suspicions seemed now on the increase, and my readers may think that I was very fearful, but I provided myself with a long and sharp knife, which I stuck unobserved down my long leathern boot. Crow stuck one in his belt, saying with a rather diabolical laugh, " I think it is better being prepared for water sharks," and I almost think he added 44 land sharks." This opened my eyes a little, and some rather curious speculations flitted through my brain. He was a man to be feared, being hugely big and strong, and wicked withai. With many such re lections I took my place in the bell, and amidst the hurrahs of the crew and the excitement of the master we dipped into the sea. Common life had passed away, and, to a novice, a new world opens to his eyes beneath the wave, and even to me the scene Mas fresh. The coral reefs, like grand archi tectural structures, covered with weeds and shells of the deep, of every possible variety of color; the fish, large and small, darting about the water, and flying at the approach of the bell as before the sweep of the sharks, and even they grinned with their long jaws, and fly upon our approach. Down, down, down, till the light was dim, and then we struck the wreck. Armed with crowbars, sharp at one end to repulse the sharks and other monsters- of the deep, we planted our feet on the belL Instantly we separated; Crow burst open the cabin door, ami after a while I joined him. By this time he was in the cabin, searching about. 1 watched him as well as I could all ÜM While. Tims we spent our first journey, and after lading our bell, WkJt the sigiml, and were hauled ud on deck. The sailors j crowded round us, gloating over the vari ous things we had brought up ; they also hauled on deck several things to which we had attached ropes. Thus our first day passed. All were exulting, and the sailors cracked over the galley tire the possible price of money to each, and the master dreamt of princely independence. Several days thus passed over ; we had broken into the cargo, and what we considered of value, and the sea had not damaged, was hauled on deck, and she schooner became pretty well laden. I think it was about the last day of working, as we were down in the bell, that Crow again Headed his way towards the cabin. By this time my suspicions regarding his evil intentions were quieted yet there still lingered about hini traces of obstinate sulkincss, so that I tK)k very little notice of his operations. I busied myself about different things in the hold of the vessel. I think about half an hour must have passed by when I returned to the bell, and I was start-led by the cunning, wicked cast of Crow's countenance ; he was slmllling something beneath his diver's clothes ; as the last of it disappeared I guessed it was a bag, and the thought flashed across my mind a bag of money. 1 quietly asked Crow what it was. "Humph! nothing. What have ye to do with it?" he growled. My curiosity was further aroused by this answer. M Well, you must tell me what it is," I said, keeping myself at quiet as possible. "The devil I will!" he shouted, savagely. 44 Then you shall be forced when we get on deck," I replied, resolutely. "Ha! ha I forced!" Here he quietly drew a long knife. Quick as thought mine was out, too, for I always carried it in my hoot. "1 snenoetei something of this," I said. Honcowtad luavilv at me at the other ot (he bell. Now you must tell me what that is," I kid. But, nothing daunted, the ruffian cried, 44 1 will see you dead first."

NUMBER 13.

I knew his mighty strength, but I also knew my own anility and skill. Crow said inSn, " 'Tis a bag of gold I found In the cabin, and if vou hold your jaw I shall give ye a third." 44 Never shall I be dishonest," I said, after some deliberation, V ioking pah", I dare say, but perfectly calm. Let the reader imagine the scene in a bell, forty feet under water; it would take at least twenty minutes to pull it up. A fierce tight, perhaps a deadly one. might be finished by then. Suspicion might be hushed ; the bxly could be Hung to the ravenous sharks with which we sometimes had to combat with our sharp-pointed crow-bars; but our frightful, gloomy appearance might have been enough to terrify the inhabitants of the deep. We stood eyeing each other for s me time, he far attack, I for resistance, l of fered to pull the alarm bell, but he cluched it from me. I attempted nothing further. After a few minutes' pause, he said, 14 n ill you take shares ? 44 No !" was the firm answer. 41 Perhaps it is not large enough '" "Allot it is too small." 44 You won't give in !" he said. I expected.something and prepared myself. 41 Never!" I replied, at length. 44 Then to death!" he yelled, spring in g at me. Quick as thought I caught bis elevated arm, poised in the air, for 1 stab. I made a lunge at him, for my blood was roused at tins fiendish attempt on my lite. 11parried it, but it caught him on the shoulder; however, he clutched my wri-t, and there we were scowling at each other; and foam burst from his btoodleM lips, and his passion-wrought face intimidated me more than his bloodthirsty strokes. At last he made a forcible effort to free his arm. but 1 held it with all the strength of desDeration. Amid oaths and car- - he struggled. Sometimes he was quiet, and the only sound was the hurried pant ing of our excited chests. At lasl w renched mv hand from his and stabbed hini in the hand. His knife fell, but with a curse that ring; yet in my ears, be threw himself at me, and grasped my body and arm in his gigantic clasp. I seized him by the throat With the Iiul- of a bear lie tried to break my back; his strength seemed almost superhuman, but shifting oil' the bars of wood by a wriggle, we plunged into the sea beneath. Down, down we s ank! No effort was made to lose the hold of cither. Tighter and tighter we gripped, till we fell on the eoraj reef. Death itself seemed to me trifle. Passion and hate seemed but the consummation of my heart. My strength was that of Hercules, under the influence of this de moniacal conflict. But want of air stilled our efforts. As the tires began to Sash be fore my eyes, and the disc of unconscious ness to creep over me, I released my hold ; Crow also loosened his. 1 know little about this part, but being an excellent swimmer. I struck out with all mv lorce The w ater whizzed hy me. I was stifling, choking, dying. When I reached the BUT face, with a gasp of air I recovered, and was enabled to shriek, "Help! ivly. when 1 fainted away. As a dream, ti ated before me men, ropes, boat, and rescue I awoke; but the pain and dizziness and confusion in my head defv all description After a few hours I or Mild rise, but still 1 was feeble. I inquire. I for Crow ; be was in a delirium. Thev told me when the bell was brought up, he lay ou the bardead, grasping the gold bag with both his hands They also tot! methat they Out rescued me from a shark bo verum near the schooner. Next dav we set sail, and arrived no: long after in New York. Two hum red pounds was my fee, but the master gave me fifty more Vor my honest resistance. Crow was still bad in his head. They put him int. a hospital. I called three months after, and he had gone to the backwoods of the far West. Hair Oil. The frequent use of "oils," "bear's grease," "arctusine," "pomades," "rosemar' washes," etc., etc., upon the hair, is a practice not to be commended. AU of these oils and greasy pomades are manufactured from lard oil and simple laid No "bear's grease" is ever used. If it could be procured readily, it should nc4 be applied to the hair, r.s it is the most rank and filthy of all an mal fits. There are many persons whose hair is naturally very dry and cusp, and in most fismilifS there is a want of some innocent and agreeable wash or dressing which may be used moderately and judiciously. The mixture which may be regarded as the most agreeable, cleanly and sate, is composed of cologne spirit and purecastor oil. The followiug is a good formula: Pure frost castor oil, 2 oz..; cologne spirit (95 per cent.,) 16 01. The oil is t'reclv ditaolfed in the spirit, ami the solution is clear and beautiful. It may be perfumed in any way to suit the fancy of the pun h im r. The oil of the castor bean for many yean has been employed to dress the hair, both among the savage ami civilized nations, and it possesses properties which admirably adapt it to misuse. It docs not noidly dry, and no gummy, offensive residuum remains after taking on'thechemfc cal changes which occur in all oils upon exposure to light and air. ltisUe-i diffused by the agency of Btrong spirit, in which it dissolved. The alcohol or spirit rapidly evaporates, and does not in the slightest decree injure the texture of the hair. Tins preparation, for dressing the hair of children or ladies, will meet nearly or quitc all requirements. A cheap and very good dressing is made by dissolving four ounces of perfectly pure, dense glycerine in twelve ouno I of rose water. Glycerine evaporates only at high temperatures, and therefore und r its influence the hair is retained 1:1 a motet condition for a long time. Asa class, the vegetable oils are better for the hair than animal oil . They do n ot In come rancid and offensive so rapidly, and they are snhject to different and lees objecttonaoie chemical changes Olive oil and that derived trom the cocoanut have been largely employed, but they are inferior in even rapcotto that from the castor bean. Boston Jo' rnal of Chanixtry. food Plain Cookiug. Thkrk Phould be this in every family, and where it is not, poor indeed muat lie the table comforts from which so much enjoyment is to be peited. Where. there is Boms intelligence and common sense in a family, we will almost invariably find two very Important objects, tidinesa and goxl uiain coking. And wher ever these exist, we will likewise find economy and substantial comfort. In my own expcl iener in hSSjat keeping, and my knowledge of others, I have been freU wily pained at the titter ignorance shown in the amy of general cooking. No matter how good Ute mal rial for a dinner may , it is somehow contrived to be mhaed. And when you nunc to bread, pics tea, and coffee, etc., it is still worse. A good article is never seen upon the table of theft poor cooks. A good plain cook will prepare a comfortable meal from ahOSM one half the materials that a poor one will. As nothing is ever mined By an attempt at cooking, hence there is nothing to throw an iy Mothers cannot be to., particular in bring ing up their daughters to a knowh how good cooking ought so be dene ; an I if I hey nr.- not proficient themselves, they should enlist the services of those who are. Germantocn Telegraph.

FACTS AND FItilKES.

Tttwre are 173 convicts in the Maine State Prison. : I , Baltimore is to erect a monument to Qeorge Peabody. The loss by lire in the United States during the past year has been $3o,j3I,000. , England has had more coal mine dis asters this year than for the preceding three years. A C BWAJCaW at the Oregon State Fair did the best plowing that was done on the ground. T if k oldest commission in the nrmv is that of General Sylvanus Thayer, who entered the service in 1808. The number of acres this vear in eotton in the United States is said by SoutLcra exchanges to be 6,000,00t. It cost a man n for refusing to pay 11 cents fare on Massachusetts railroad the other dav. J. P. Jewf.tt, the original publisher of M Uncle Tom's Cabin," is now working & a journeyman printer in Philadelphia. In Great Uritain. with a population of '24.:!n3,O00, there re 3H.200 ministers and 01,700 churches and chapels. It is stated tint fiirs were held in near ly every county in the State ot Ohio this year there bei ag 1 :"'y live or six ex ceptions. TnE architect who planned the new Methodist church in Wvlcrville, Maine, made the belfry window so small that the bell cannot be got into it. Ex-President Fii.i.moiu:. with toothers, will repre sent the recent Louisville Commercial Convention at the I' -Exposition of 1VT0. A man .in Waldoboro, Me., sneJosjsjjr cares for a hatchet, which, in the hands of a Stalwart Indian in 1740, was driven into his grandfather's skull. Tue number ot Mormon emigrants that, have gone over the Pacific Railroad In Utah in the hist ten months is 1,62-'?, mostly proselytes from England and Wales. A Bonofi dentist, w ho need a man for $90,000 tor reporting 'that his wife died in consequence of the administration of nitrous oxide gas at his office, has recovered one cent. Tiif Catalogue of the Munich Exhibition of Arts contains nearly fourteen thousand numbers. More than sixteen hundred oil paintings and over five hundred water color paintings are on exhibition. A YorNO Woman of Poston, the otter day. received a gold watch, chain, ringand silk dress, as a present from a California woman, whose life she had saved at a perilous street crossing. TnE late Mr. Peabody accumulated the greater part of his vast wealth during tinlast re fd twenty yiarsof his life. It i said, on trustworthy authority, that at ."J he was worth but little more than $50,04 In a cabinet at Lewiston. Me., is 1 double -headed snae, which lames its Iba I in either mouth, as it seems convenient, the heads being entirely distinct for two or three joints of the backbone. The number of lunatics in France lias increased from 41,000, in 1851, to nearly 100,000 at the present time. This frightful increase is ascribed to absinthe, tobacco, politics, and last, but not least, to stock gambling. Emma Harding, who a few jeers since palmed herself olf on the citizens of Norwich as the widow of a oldier, and sold them fictitious autographs of Washington and other celebritio, has recently been committed to jail, and turns out to be a man. An old African Methodist preacher, living in Lancaster, Ohio, now in his 8th year, has been a ptenehet sixty-nine years. It is said that he had six months' schooling when he was ."7 years old. This is all the educational ad vantage! he has ever enjoyed. The tirst article of tinware manufactured from tin mined in the United States, has recently been completed in San Francisco. It is a case to contain the Pioneers' certificate of honorary membership presented to Wüllens II. Seward. It is now denied that Colonel Drake, who put down the lir-t oil well in this country, is dead, or that tie has ever been an inmate of a Connecticut Poor House. He is living in New .Jersey, and fr.-m pre'iit appoaraners -wrill never need any town to suppori him or his family. The celebrated Dr. Gregory, in the Course of one of his medical lectures at Edinburgh, stated: " One cannot stand perfectly motionless for half an h mr ; that he had once tried to do so, and had fainted at the end ot twenty minutes, the blood requiring the aid of motion from the body in order to retain its full circulating power." PttJUXIMaJtV steps have been taken to celebrate in grand style the centennial anniversary of rJeethovcn, r.- xt year, in New York. A coliseum is to Ihj erected for the special purpose of holding the 1 xercises, and the profits of the entertainment are to Ik devoted to the erection in that cuy of a great music hall, to be both an architectural ornament and a means of artistic education. TnnKE interesting fossils have recently been bond in the township of Seymour. Canada. Thcfirst is apparently a pet ritied human head, which shows the tongue, eye-balls, and muscles of the face, the head having the n. dish brown appearance of an ore of iron. The other relics arc the foot and leg of a young girl, about ten yean old, and a section of meat from the side of au ox, showing three ribs. Two fUOme Bam in Wilmington, Del., proposed to right a duel recently (about a young lady, of Bourse), but when their seeoi ds arranged that tluy should be securely bound, knee to knee, and fight with small swords until one of them, at least, was mortally wouudod, the thing lost its charm to them, and an apology from one and its acceptance by the other arranged the difficulty. Tue cereal product of Europe in 18fjl it, is calcul it d, amounted to 4,7" 1,"1 0,001 imperial bushels, or sixteen bushels to each inhabitant, while that of the United Slates amounted to 1,400,4 ID.OVt, or thirty six bushel-per inhabitant. Of the product of Europe, l,4S4,4:t7.r00 bushels were grow n in the Russian Possessions in Europe. 104,411,100 In North and S mthtJerniany, 717,215.'.Wt in France, 571, 254,70$ in Austria: and Hungary, ft0.SS7.!:W in Great Britain and Ireland, l!U.tii2.4i:t in Italy, U04.s7i,VJO in Spain, 12l,41,i5d 1 Roumanja. and 120,0üo,0(H) in European Turk. jr. Samuel Iessvp, who died in Lincolnshire in 117, took between lTüland 1SIÜ. 226,034 pills, which is at the rate of 10.O I year, or twenty nine pills a day. For the last Ihre years preceding lslti, he took pills at the rate of seventy eight n day, and in the year 1S14 he swallowed not less than 51,5iK). In addition he look 40,000 bottles of mixture, and juleps ami electuaries, extending altogether to fitly live closely written columns ot an upotlu etdej bill. He lived to be sixty live years of age, and the trusty and worthy njMllrcary who supplied him with al! Iii sc deli caeics was obliged to sue his stingy cus tomer for a smalt balance lue him. Some young men of the town of Tt , having " cut up " one night, to the detriment of Certain windows and b 11 pull-, were lodged In the ealahoOOB, and in due time, next morning, confronted with a Police Magistrate, who fined them each $5 and an admonition. One of the three foolishly remarked: "Judge, 1 was in hopes that you would remember ine ; I belong to the same lodge with you." The Judge, apparently surprised, replied, with brolherlv sympathy: "Ah, is it so Truly this "is Brother B. I did not recognize vou. Excuse me for my dullness. Vc, we arc brother M.asons, and I should have though! oftttit, Mr. CI. rk. tine our BtsShu Ii. to. 11. ing a Mason, he knows better the rules of propriety than other men. Fihe him it" Ton will pay the Clerk, Brother." Uh I morning, 13rot her 11 ! Call the next case. Twobunlr. d thuand copies of Uie Chinese Bible, published in Pop Chew, by the British Bible S x tety, have h en db tiibnb d within the last lour yarR. Thr . hundred walled cities, one thousand two hundred villages ami fifteen provinces, have been canvassed by the colorteurs.

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