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Vol. 5.—No. 29,

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

[Write* for The Mail.] .SM IN IIA RBA RA.

HETTY A. MOKRISON.

Hut a tired olil woman, all wrinkled and

Stooping low 'neath the weight of her vears and her cares, Vnd as feebly she creeps on the crowded street way,

With the basket of freshly Ironed clothing she beans, If her clumsy steps hinder the boys in their

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h'r'^Kisfcet should Jostle soma passer, they aav, It Is only old Barbara,

Here's a flue subject truly you think for a

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That clum*y old woman, and enough to

To tlx* mivkest St. Agnes,that grey head to paint. And the Saint with a Are scarcely saintly would flame It would surt« make yoM laugh—did it not make you wevt—

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a nimbus of glory. »ts bright circle sweep Hound the head of old Barbara.

There are .saints, having brows that are both wise and fair, And they bend down upon you with pity

\nd wiih pale hands that cross 'neath the brlKhi (lowing hair, And the eyes, and hands, beckon and lure to the skies There are saint* with black knotty hands, but made to sw«ep The earth's dirt, and their eyes o'er the earth's dirt t« weep,

Of these last, ts old Barbara.

In a time she recalls as a dream vague and dim, In those coarse arms were cradled young tmbes to their rest, \nd the harsh tones fell sort in a lullaby hymn,

For the mother heart beats though but rags hide the breast. Hut the tribes hardly waited for one mother kiss, •'I miss them, but the hunger and cold they will miss," When the seven were dead .said old Barbara.

'T!s th" best that can happen, to have you dead,dead. And her dead that La saddest, is foul breathing clay, Kept alive through hor care, giving curses for bread,

To the sottish Wnip bound to"loye, honor, obey," fjut when urged to unclasp her sharp fastening chains, And so ease her old heart of some weight of

Its pains,

••Hut what would

do," saysold Barbara.

Though the morning may blush as a bride young, and fair, Though the night may bend down with her brow crowned with stars, Though the .lime roses brcatho their sweet life on the air,

And thu birds sing their sweetest through green leafy bars, *he

blind to the beauty of earth or of sky. And but asks a clear day that her washing may dry,

So stupid, Is old Barbara.

It Is but a dull candle Unit lights those old feel, In the path they with tolling and suffering treiul, The lime Ilame lost In tlio width of one street,

Yet the world were no worse if it further might spread She bat works whllo she suffers, and patiently bears, And she diet for her dead,'neath the weight of her cares,

And tlier. fore I say, "Saint Barbara."

Town-Talk.

Tho Mall editor tolls T. T. that Night Hawk, tho now contributor, la after tho boys" this woek, with a sharp Btiek, and so T. T. will sling in a short chapter for tho lionotU of tho girls. Ono of tbo most annoying creatures to old bachelors like T. T. fa

THE OIUI. WIIO OIOOI.HH.

A happy disposition, ho admits, is moro to lo esteemed than great riches, while a hearty laugh to good for the health but there is a vast diflforenco between an agroeablo gayoty of spirit and a chronic state of {giggle with which somo girls are afflicted. Thoy laugh in church, snicker at tho mishaps of others, giggle at funerals, and tc-he at their own common-place remarks. Such fulsomo merriment Impresses no sensible person favorably, but seem* flat and silly. A joke or wittioistn worth laughing at does not occur every Avo minutes in one's natural lifo. T. T. has noticed ono queer feature of those giggling people, aud that is, that embarrassments will set them at it. They booomo red in the face, stammer, make an awkward motion, and then begin a nervous laugh. Self-posession, and the habit of seeing good society, gradually eradicates all such absurdity, but it requires years for many a clever cultured person to attain a comploto compoeuro and repose of manner in the prceenoe of strangers. Girls are' apt to bo gtgglers at sixteen. Tho sky ovor their littlo world is rosetinted by their imagination, and troubles jMUSS away like water from tho back of duck. Happiness and pleasure yield full measure of anticipation and realisation, so why should not sixteen be a laughing age The diflforenco between a constant glggl* **»d a real laugh is this: the latter must bo Intermittent and allow at least a little Umo for thought and work. All nowonae with no variety of earnest anas is bonefidal to no one. Thero are tunea when merrimont Is so ill-timed and out of place that it is absolutely disagreeable. A giggle ®t the pense of others bdoajp to tbo category of meanness. I*ugh wbon thero is anything to laugh at, but girls tako the advice of old T. T., and at any ago or season avoid being a giggter.

FINN LADYHX.

A writer has a good deal to say about making drudgery dlylnft. T. T. saw it exemplified tho other J»y. A gay crea

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ture, radiant in velvet ribbons, artificial flowers and much flounces, passed by with considerable bustle. A half doubtAil recognition—T. T's. hat was lifted— but who was she? A second look—it was his landlady's hired girl. T. T. had never seen her got up in style before. If she ever had anything in tho Havings Bank this rig would have drawn out the last cent, and she is probably contemplating another strike for higher wages. This scrvantgallsm, however, is only a pretty fair imitation of the fine ladyism, which often runs genteel appearance on inadequate means, to tho great and endless discomfort of the real life. Your real life is what you are, rather than what you seem, and above all, what you are at home. Your style ought to be what ^belongs to you and your incomo, rather than what belongs t® the street and the passengers. But how precious to some people is the consciousness of being geateel—far more than a good conscience, than a sweet home, than neighborly kindness, than any of the heart treasures. Let tho tablecloth be dirty, and the napkins ragged, and the stone china chipped and cracked—oxcept when company is invited. Let the children go dirty or unwashed—except when they go out shopping, or the future husband is expected. Let the table bo stinted, and the newspapor be stopped and tho books unbought and a health-restoring journey be given up, that more may be put upon the back. Let all the rest of tho house be stripped and bare, in order that the parlor be nice and cheerless, where the visitor waits and shivers, and the platitudes are soon said, and the year's social debt is paid, and the poor little unsatisfactory ceremony is over genteelly. Away with such fine-ladyisni.

Husks and Nubbins.

No. 141.

CRUSHED LIBERTY.

Of course we have all stood round the grave of buried Liberty within the past few days, and dropped a parting tear over the remains of that once so beautiful but sadly abused and finally extinguished being. The American tutelary divinity was born in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania July 4th, 1776, and died in New Orleans, on the 4th instant, in the first flush of a promising young life, being a little less than a hundred years old. It is sad to write the words, but liberty is no more. For an account of her last hours, violent death and funeral ceremonies, see the daily Democratic press for the past ten days. Who killed Liberty? De Trobriand gave the immediate stab that caused her young life to go out, but back of him stood the assassin Kellogg, and behind him still the Tyrant! That's his name now. lie used to bo called President, but that was before ho mur-r-dcrcd Liberty. Now thero is only ono appropriate title for him—tho infamous title which Gesler won from tho Swiss cantons, and which men have agreed belongs to ono or two other famous characters that havq, figured in times past, tho natno of tyrant. There can bo no doubt about tho matter, for tho Democratic papers have hurled it right into the President's face in defiant types of the biggest and blackost kind, Democratic (governors (of whom there are getting to be several) have reiterated it to the legislatures, and tho legislatures havo been trying hard to speak it over again, although it is inclined to stick a littlo in their throats. Who would havo thought that, Liberty would have died so soon, and that, too, down in that ugly swampy Louisiana country! Our Impression is that tho frail fair goddess ought nover to have gone to Ixuilslana at all. She might havo known it would bo a hard place for her.

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nativo bills around Capo Cod, or if a change of sceno was necessary, took a trip over to the Quaker City, to see how tho Centennial was getting on, or even came out here to Indiana and gone on to Colorado and Salt Lake, it is very likely that sho would be alive and well to-day, instead of lying prostrato and bleeding and dead on the streets of Now Orleans. Hang it, what docs the average I/nilslanian care for Liberty, anyhow True, he makes a great sniffling and boo-hoo-ing now that sho Is dead, but it is all put on.

merely wants "something to

make a fuss over, and "the prostrate and bleeding form of liberty" Is a pretty good thing for that purpose.

Seriously, how much truth ant! sincerity is there in ail this outcry over Louisiana affairs Who does not feel that all these tears and this great gttsh of patriotic enthusiasm Is half pretense,and gotten up for efltect? It Is but another illustration of the disingenuousness of our national politics. It is used as everything is used, for the advancement of party purposes. Doubtless the time will come when all sensible people of all parties, will agree that the President did right in preventing a threatened collision in New Orleans which would have caused blood to flow, and In which, not the vague and shadowy thing called Liberty, but actual and estimable citiaens might havo been slain. Perhaps tho

President did stretch his prerogative a little what of it, if his purpose was for good, and not for evil When two inon quarrel a third has no real right to step between thom, and yet by doing so ho can often prevent bloody noses and battered eyes. Tho result justifies tho moans. No one can doubt but tho purpose of the President has been to do the best for Louisiana that he knew how. He may havo mado some mistakes, certainly he has, but It is pure rant and stage fustian, this hullabaloo about taking away the liberties of the people and exerting tho powers of the go er anient in an arbitrary and tyrannical manner.

Who can read tho long winded speeches in Congress on both aiders and not be impressed with the conviction that ninetenths of it all is for the party, and onetenth, or less, for I^ouisiana and the country? Tho fact sticks out like the frame sticks out of a scare-crow put up to frighten off the birds. The speeches are very long, but not long enough to cover their disingenuousness. That sticks out in spite of thom. It is all well enough to prize our liberal form of government, and to insist on its integrity and perpetuation. Men of all parties feel that. What we object to is this labored attempt to make the masses belibve their liberties are slipping away from them, that the sovereignty of the States is being undermined and that there is imminent danger of some President refusing to leave the White House at the end of his term and seizing the army and navy to maintain his usurped authority —a thing about as likely to happen as that ho will resign before his term expires. It. is a question whether the day has not passed for enlightened and civilized people to be frightened with this bug-bear of tyranny and usurpation. In such a country as ours, or as England now is, it would boa sheer impossibility for any man to control the government who was not legitimately entitled to du so. He could not maintain his position a weok. Nobody would obey him, and he would just simply collapse, like a soap bubble, at the first touch ©f the constituted authority. The danger of this country is not in the direction of one-man-power, but exactly in the opposite direction. The country, if ever it falls to pieces, will do so from tho lack of a sufficiently strong centralizing power, not from an excess of such power. This must bo evident to all thinking people, and yet the professional politician of the Democratic persuasion seizes every opportunity to show hew the Goneral Government is absorbing the prerogatives of the Statos and to p®int out the imminent dangers of a "centralized government." And there are not wanting those who think such warnings the embodiment of political wisdom, whereas they are tho sheerest foolishness. Since the close of tho war tho Southern States havo been an extremely hard subject to deal with. There are numerous reasons for this—the prostrato condition in which they were loft by tho war, tho peculiar feelings which many of their citizens entertained for tho Federal Government, and above all, the sudden change of four million slaves to political equality with their former masters. These are somo of the causes which have kept the Southern States in such a feverish and unhappy condition during the past ten years. That thoy will come out all right in tho end is certain. Meantime lot us not fight so much about the method of treating their disorders, whether by th'o allopathic, homcepathic, eclectic, or some other system. Phil Sheridan ovidently thinks a littlo bluo mass would be an excellent thing, and probably ho is not altogether wrong.

WASHINGTON SOCIETY. This Is tho cynical view of society at the capital, taken by the correspondent of the Pittsburg Leader:

The society season hero Is very well. Tako tho whole business, down to the very dregs of the first round, and you will find scarce anything but enjoyment, That is to say, if you are full of the vinegar of youth, have good looks, good clothes ana can dancer

With this stock in trade, if you area young msu, you may embrace all the beauties that are out, in tho social waltz, and make love to every pair of pretty eyes you meet, with the certainty of a response up to a certain limit. Beyond this certain limit it is not well to go, unless you have a well-stuffed bank account. These young ladies you meet out on the dress-parade of society are for sale, aud are only to be had by the highest bidder.

Colonel Ethan Allen,of Revolutionary fame, though roughly reared, was very courteous by nature, and made every possible effort to improve his manners by observing those of other people, when he was a prisoner of war in New York City, on parole, he was Invited into the best society of the city, and on one occasion attended a large and fashionable dinner party. Olives were passed around during the least, and following the general example. Colonel Allen took one. He was unable to overcome the disgust it caused his palate, and, taking the half chewed fruit in his hand, said with a lew bow to his hostess: "Madame, with your permission, I'll pu^tjbat Ood damned thing on the table."

Divorces are not very numerous in England, all things considered. Roughly estimated, there are five millions of married couples, and in 1870, 154 mar riages were annulled, 100 in 1871, 173 in 1872 and 215 in 187X

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1875. Price Five Cents*

People and Things.

Clowns mostly use bismuth to whiten their faces. Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. |_' -f &

Most of the Beecber jury are slowgoIng respectable sort of men. ,/ ^1Thos. Roberts & Sister" keep a barber shop in Portland, Mich.

A. T. Stewart gets up at 0. Who wouldn't for all his money? If "there's a place for everything" where Is tho place for a boil

The professional early riser is naturally a prig.—(Junius II. Browne. Mr. Colfax says that Mr. Lincoln cracked jokes to conceal traces of sadness and anxiety.

Pray for tho poor with all your might and main, and then occasionally throw in a warm meal or an old pair of pants.

The other day, when Colonel Mosby was invited to lecture, ho bristled up and replied: "Do you suppose I'm a fool!"

A Chicago man claims to have discovered an honest gas meter. Understand, a Chicago man claims it.—[Detroit Free Press.

Conkling says that Grant will sign anything that Congress will pass. S'posin' they try tho temperance pledge.— [Boston Past.

Too thin," "gauzy," etc., have become obsolete. "Not sufficiently materialized" is the latest orthographical garb in which this idea is clothed.

A Texas lawyer was fined $150 for telling tho jury to go down to the grocery and help themselves after having given a verdict in favor of his client.

When a Dubuque landlord turns a sick widow out of doors for non-pay-inentof rent,-a crowd waits upon him and escorts him down to the shores of a lovely pond and insists upon his taking a swim.

Theodore Groelzingerlongdoozling has been indicted for embezzling the funds of a Dubuque carriage manufactory. While they're about it they might make him tell where he got that name.—(Worcester Press.

After shooting Colonel Tardy through the heart in an affair of "onab," Dr. Lay, Mobile gentleman, burst into tears, when asked about it, my God-ed, and begged they wouldn't ask him about it. —[Ind. Herald

In the last article which Gerritt Smith wrote occurred these words: "Let mo here remark that whether lager beer be or bo not intoxicating, I would not have tho government array itself against German beer gardens."

It is said that Daniol Webster never was guilty of paying back borrowed money, and if this fact was what made him famous, we know of a thousand men who in. time will become bright stars in tho galaxy of fame.—[Detroit Free Press.

How awkward It is for a gentleman to raise his hand to tip his hat to a young lady'with whom he supposes lie is well acquainted, only to discover that she Is a -stranger, and then attempt to nuke It appoar that- ho only intended to scratch his head.

They were just going up the steps to the President's reom, when tho Senator suddenly turned to the applicant for office by his side, and said, "Oh, by the way, what are your politics?" "Well," says tho office-seeker, "I'vo always been a Democrat, but I can turn."

Senor Mato, a Spanish spiritualist, says that the disembodied hover for a time between tho earth and the moon, and whirl in space so much a longer or shorter time according to their righteousness or wickedness here below. Mato says Mercury is tho inner circle of Paradise and Neptune—the other place.

A Yokomama correspondent saw European ladies, elegantly dressed in" full evening costume, on their way to some dinner party in a baby-cart drawn by stout coolies, whoso only clothmg was the tattooing upon their backs and breech-cloths, four inches wide. One doesn't mind it after a while, but at first it seems very odd. So it did to see a nakdd coolie operating a sewing machine.

All throngh this most painful period of my life, at a time when most men have aright to be at ease, I am unable to be so, -but accept the trial with pa tience, with cheerfulness, and with that trust in God which I preach to you, and it is my desire to go through trouble in 'such away as that I need not blush afterward when I preach to you how to bear trouble and to carry sorrow.— [Beecber, at Auction of Plymouth Church Pews.

L. Reynolds, of Eidora, Iowa, missed some of his corn frequently. He suspected a thief, and tried to get some traps to set for him. Was unable to get any. Devised this plan. Whittled pine sticks and drove into the core of the cob. Treated several bushels of corn in this way. Next day his neighbor's hogs had eaten the corn from many of the plug!law ged cobs. There was a settlement that cost $30. vr?. *5

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A case of sickening cruelty on the part of the sheriff of San Antonio, Texas, toward a prisoner confined in jail, is reported. The prisoner was held for murder, and when a circus came to town the other day the Sheriff refused to allow the man to attend. Public indignation at San Antonio is naturally aroused by this barbarlous and heartless innovation.^'" v%?\ _______________

Feminitems.

It is rumored that hoop skirts will be revived in the spring. J-V There are somo beautiful and wealthy colored belles in Washington^

Nilsson won't sing in GermanV The gutterals tear her tender larynx. ANew Haven woman, whe had a will of her own, left her paster $25,000.

Victoria Woodhull is booked for the Opera House in Elkhart, Wednesday evening, February 3.

Forty girls will run after a snob with a gold-headed cane, where one will shy up to a fellow with sound horso sense.

Ann Eliza says that thirteen of Brigham's daughters sat in the front seats and made faces at her the first time she lectured. V'

A Vermont woman broke an omnibusdriver's noso at one blow, and she was on her way to a water-cure establish ment and supposed to be in adying condition at that.

Miss Jennie Britton, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has gained a reputation as a skater by propelling herself thirtytwo miles on the ice in three hours and thirty-five minutes, the other day.

Mrs. Stowe, according to a writer, is in a perpetual reverie about her characters. "Sho is a literary sensualist," says this scribe, "absorbed in tho happiness of peopling new worlds." She has never assisted to peoplo the present one very much.

From Alexandria comes the romantic story of a love-sick maiden who, because her father forbade the bann, put all her lover's letters into a bushel basket, set fire to them, and then sat down in the flames with suicidal intentions. She was badly burned, but is likely to recover.

The Misses !Plympton, of Now York, whose rather is the inventor of the "roller skates," are said to exhibit its merits to perfection. All the skating world at Brighton, England, are on the qui vive to witness the manner in which these graceful, nervous Americans teach the poetry of motion to tho more athletic muscular, and clumsy English women.

Talmage again "A woman who gives herself up to tho indiscriminate reading of noyels will bo unfitted for the duties of a wife, mother, sister, daughter Thero she is, hair disheveled, countenance vacant, checks pale, hand trembling,. bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover In the daytimo, when she ought to busy, she stares by the half hoar at nothing, biting her finger-nails into the quick."

When tho English Government took tho telegraph system into its own hands, introduced young boys as messengers, and young ladles as operators, it watforgotten to issue a new code of examination. To the young ladies the following questions have to bo put direct as they stand in tho existing code: "Are you in the militia?" "When wiU- you bo entitled to your dircharge?" "How many inches do you measure round the chcst under your waiscoat

The "Katie King" who appeared at the seances of Miss Florence Cook, in London, is still claimed as a true spirit by ardent Spiritualists. Nevertheless, a Mr. William Hipp writes to tbo London Echo that be has detected Mis» Cook in a very impudent trick. The spiritists were to have sprinkled the- believers with water, a tumbler of which was placed on the table, and the lights turned down. Mr. Hipp slyly grasped tho tumbler, and in a few momenta clutched the spirit hand that was dipped in it. A light was then struck, and it was found that he was holding Mia* Cook by the hand.

Donn, Piatt tells it In this wise: That the ladies of the Treasury Department are In the habit of having a daily tea party at neon, and that they have a capacious urn in whieh they boil the exbilerating stuff. One day recently the tea was so deliciously rich and highly flavored that the tea maker was Investigated as to the peculiar method by which she obtained the delightful flavor. She could give no reason why the tea should have been better than usual, and the ladies, by way ef satisfying themselves, proceeded to investigate the leaves in the urn, when lo and behold they discovered tho cause of the delicious and unusual flavor in the presence of a foreign substance, so to speak, In the bottom of the urn. This foreign substance, or these foreign substance®, Consisted of a litter of mice, which had been boiled up with the fragrant gunpowder. For the remainder of the day, it is said I a stranger might have supposed tho g*g had been enforced among old Spinner's girls, but it was only the highly flavored tea. ntw? 4

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Connubialities.

Hush-money—The price of a ftendiy. cradle. Mis. Clarke, of Syracuse, lias eloped with base Drum.

Old maids are gradually increasing inr number In Vermont, A suspicious wife, en being asked., where her husband was, replied that* she was very much afraid he was mis#«" ing. s©fc"

A Delaware man wants to mnny the. Empress Eugenie, and it you've any ob-{ jections you hod better rise apand speak now.

A Brooklyn man with a "dub-foot,"1 was much comforted' by a married man who admitted having a clubbed hoad. —[Brooklyn Argus. &

A Paducah (Ky.) merchant offered, as an inducement to matrimony, to give the first couple manned in that oity in' 1875, "a nioe breakfast table.'' 5

An Iowa father, who has succeeded in, raising seventeen of the worst children. in his neighborhood, says ho is bound to' have a representative in IIeaven if it"* takes seventeen more.

Joseph Bagg, of Florida, told the jury that the reason why he killed his wlfo was because she wore out so many siloes, but they concluded that if that was his', sole explanation, it was t»o thin.

A Chicago couple, after living in mat-/ rimonial harmony for thirty two years, were divorced. After a two months'/ trial they decided that single blessedness was a myth, and were reoently married again.

My dear," said a wife to herhusband* "do you know what is the most curious^ thing in tho world "Yes,, madam," gruffly answered tho brute, "tho most curious thing in the world is a wqman£ who is not curious." -"'tttf*'

The fact that twenty-seven men are wanted by the San Francisco police for desertion of their wives, indioates a change of sentiment from tho time the first white womau was received in'California with a procession.

A woman who aspires to be tho presiding genious of her own household must never be in doubt. When her husband is going on lively at the other end of tho breakfast table, it won't do for her to hesitate between the csffoe-unvand the slop bowl.

Sharp littlo Katie Doyle, of Pittsburg^ got out of patience with her bashlul lover's backwardness, and so brought matters to a favorable climax, by saying t« him: "I really believe you are afraid to ask me to marry you, for you know I would say yes.!'

A female Justico of tho Peaco in Wyoming notified her friends in this wise •'I am about to marry Mr. of this county, and he will be qualified and sworn in at my office on Wednesday morning next, at 10 o'clock. A. M. YOH are invited to attend." "Sho walks ln.beauty like tho nlgluL

Of cloudless climes and Starry skies," Cannot always be truthfully sakl of a man's wife who sails nervously across her bed room toward the coal shovel as soon as sho hears him burrowing into ihe front door with bis night-koy.

An Athol merchant, In Massachusetts, has discovered and put into practice a novel way of making love to- his lady customers. Itoonsistsof the following dialogue: Merchant—"Do you love doughnuts?"' Young lady—"Yes iu* deed 1 I love them dearly." Merchant ^eagerly)—1Thencall me a doughnut and love met"

A man fa Michigan procured a diverco from his wife, intending to- marry an* other woman. The latter, howover, got tired waiting and married another man on the day tho divorce was granted* Then the fellow hesitated whether or not to try and make it ap with hia wifo again, aad while he was hesitating hia wifo married another fellow. This is what would naturally be called getting left all around.

The foUowing list of bridal presents is published in the Chicago Tribune: A pair of pebble-goat

shoes

from the bride's

brother-in-law a glass door-plate from her grandmother's uncle a halfdozen case-knives and a keroeeno Imp from tho bridegroom a mop, broom and po-tato-masher from an unknown friend a can of kerosene and a bundle of kindlings from the bride's mother-in-law also a nutmeg-grater and some mantel ornaments Arem her school friends.

Tho son of a devout old Scotch clergyman having married without bis father's approbation, the old man took oocasion in the very first family gathering, when the bride and greom were present, U» insert his opinion of the affair in the midst of a prayer in this wise: "Thou hast added, O Lord, to our family* So has been Thy wi^l, it wad never hae been mine. But if ii is of Thee, do Thou bless this connection. But, if the fule hath done it out o' carnal desire, against a* reason and credit, may the cauld rain o' adversity settle on his habitation,'

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