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POETRY.
My Old Woman and I.
DV JOHN BBOrailltAM.
V* have crossed the bridge o'rr the middle of life,
My old woman and 1,
Taking our share in the cairn and the strife.
With the travelers passing by,
And though en our pathway the shadow* arc rife,
There's a light in the western sky.
Some losses and crosses, of course, we've had
My eld woman and ! ,
But, bless you! wo never found time to be sail,
And a very good reason why.
We were busy as bees, and we weren't so mad
As to slop in our work to cry.
On our changeable road as we journeyed along,
My eld woman and I,
The kindly companions we met in the throng (
- Made our lives like a vision fly ;
Aad therefore the few that imagined us wrong
BcrmMy oast us a slnglo sigh.
The weak and the weary we've striven to cheer,
My old woman and I;
For we each of us thought that our duty while here
Was to do as we'd be done by,
la the hope to exhibit a balance clear
When the reckoning day is uigk.
Any business is more respectable that what
is termed loafing. A young man bad better
Bell clams by the pailful than hang around
public resorts, murderiug time and his own
reputation.
A person who was recently c died into court
for the purpose of proving the correctuo?s of a
.doctor's bill, was asked whether "the doctor did
not make several visits after the patient was
out of danger ?" "No," replied the witness.
"I considered the patient in danger as long as
the doctor continued his visits."
Men often lose opportunities by want of self
confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of
some rise up over every event, and they fear
to attempt what most probably will be success
ful, through mero timorousncs*, while a brave,
active man will, with perhaps half the ability,
carry the enterprise to a prosperous termina
tion.
An eigbt-hour-a-day man, iu going home
one evening for his supper, found his wife sit
ting in her best clothes, reading a volume of j
travels. ' How is this'/" he exclaimed
??Where's my supper ?" '*! don't know," re
plied his wife, "I began to get breakfast at six
o'clock this morning, and my eight hours end
?d at two I*. M."
A Canada editor says he hus '*a keen rapb r
to prick all fools and knaves." His friends,
if they are prudent, will take it from him.
He might commit suicide.
The following scutimeut is attributed to
Napoleon Bonaparte: "A haudsome woman
pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the
heart. Tho one is a jewel?tho other a treos
aire."
When a gentleman steps on a lady's train,
the huly should turn rouud and say, politely :
"I beg your pardon, air." The gontluman
should how, and say : ?I accept your apology,
madam."
A lady advertises for sale one baboon, three
tabby eats and a parrot. She states that, bo
iag now married, she has no further use for
them, for the reason that their umitible quali
ties are all combined in her husband.
It is said that when a Russian husband ne
glects to boat his wife for a mouth or two, she
begins to get alarmed at his indifference.
An indignant orator at a recent political
sweeting, iu refuting tin opponent thundered:
'?Jlr. Chairman, I scorn the allegation, and 1
defy the allegator."
The Humboldt monument at New York is
receiving oon r'fi* ?rfj j ^ri st front all parts of the
jountry.
[WRlTTSS FOR TUR OHAXOKDl'HO NKW.1.]
OUR WAGER
- or
with
MISS ILDEKTON.
?o
We agreed to have a "a flirtation," n nico
one, where each would thoroughly understand
that it would be nothing more than n flirtation,
ami the one who was so ridiculous as to fall in
love or anything of that sort. was to bo hearti
ly laughed at and to forfeit and pay the price
of Hie wager?a valuable present.
Miss Lucy Udert on and myself entered
into such an agreement, during the third
or fourth evening of our acquaintance, as a
delightful way of passing the few months that
wo would l>o together iu the village. As \
bade her adieu on tho occasion of our enter
ing upou the arranged flirtation, I asked her
to walk with me tho nest afternoon, to which
she assented.
The next afternoon, a delightful spring af
ternoon, at about five o'clock, we descended
the steps of her father's residence fur our
walk.
She looked stylish and fashionable in her
walking dress, and I Was duing my best to
make the walk as agreeable to her, R? I knew
it would he to myself.
We issued out of the gate, and then hesita
ted as to which way to go.
''She looked at me mid would have said.
'Where nwny ?"
1 anticipated and proposed,''Not a 'dress
parade' through the village, hut a shady walk
in the woods, aud perhaps a scat on a log."
She agreed and we turned to" ards tho
woods not to pick jessamines, or artthing ro
mantic and tiresome, but to avoid the inter
ruption of nccting acquaintances nud to pre
vent the village gossip from interfering with
our arraugemenU.
We chatted until out of the village without
at all mcutioning our proposed flirtation,
p As soon as wc entered n little lonesome piece
?..* woods, I said :
:,M:sa Hdcrton, you remember our arrange
meut of lust night, do you ?"
'?Oh ! yes ! certainly. I? it to go into ope
ration at once ?"
,;I Mipposc so. Did you not understand ii
so?"
"Oh ! yes proceed."
And our flirtation began.
''Miss Hdcrton, do you know that I think
that this arrangement will not prove as pleas
ant as I thought when I first proposed it. I
thought of it last night after I got home, aud
have been thinking of it all the morning. I
think that it is really trifliug with fccliugs that
are too pure and sacred to be made toys and
playthings of?that it is counterfeiting emo
tions that the 'higher law' of our nature con
demns as unlawful aud dangerous. I really
think that the counterfeiting ot these the
noblest and holiest instincts of our nature, if
indulged in, will produce as great a state of
moral confusion in the heart, in depreciating
and rendering totally worthless, the media
through which the expression of its grandest
sentiments finds a currency to the outer world
?a confusion and a depreciation, I say, as com
plete and total aW that which would be pro
duced iu the financial world, if the counterfeit
ing of the currency were not strictly forbidden
and severely punished. 1 think that it is like
tin; impious monarch who held unholy festi
val and reveled and rioted with the silver ves
sels and service of the temple of GimI. I look
upon it as a species of profanit)?'a taking iu
vain' of instincts and sentiments, and emo
tions, 'for which wo would not be held guilt
I* *t
ess.
Imagine if_you can her surprise at this ora
tion ol mine. At first she laughed as though
she thought it u ruse, ot e of the cards in our
new game, as I proceeded the smile faded into
a look of intense curiosity, us if porfectly at a
loss to understand me. and before I had con
cluded, she looked more serious und conscious
than I thought her fushiouable, happy face
could look.
She did look appreciative and serious as she
replied :
'*! ugrco with you fully. It is wrong. I
never thought ot it iu that light. I shall
never thus trifle with those feelings which are
the grandest uud holiest of my nature."
I hud struck the right chord?it vibrated
and responded to thu touch. I had played a
trump curd ; wus about winning the gamu by
tricks, certainly not by honors.
1 saw her whole hand?her heart !
I continued to say :
"Besides, Min* Lucy, after having "acted a
part' like this; after having mutually trifled
with our own and each other's feelings, how
could cither of us ever indulge those feeling*
in their true and real action and spontaneous
expression '.' How could we ever love euch
uther? stay, how respect ounifeg dLha.t.2 Such
an arrangement would d >onj us to mutual sns
picion?would forever prevent our hearts from
trusting nnd loving."
I paused, looked at her to soo the effect of
my words. I could hardly believe my
eyes. There sho was, pale, actually paio
?her cyca suddenly averted as I turned to
her, her lip slightly quivorcd. Sho felt I tho
cold, fashionable "woman of the world," felt.
"Hero is a nice seat: let us rest!" I said
pointing to a log a few yards from the road.
She accompanied me, and wc sat down upon
our improvised seat.
I was at a loss now how to proceed. I hesi
tated to follow up my advantage. Indeed,
what W?S I tu du ? Tell her I ioved her nnd
then break the spell nnd remind her that it
was a pre-arranged flirtation ? Or must I
really fall in love, lose the wager and win her?
Suppose?and the thought startled me?sup
pose that she was acting a part bemeif and
playing even a deeper game than I was. Sup
pose my declaration of impassioned ami ro
mantic love should be greeted with n peal of
merry ringing laughter, proclaiming "victory."
1 was puzvlcd?in a dilemma ! I had got
beyond my depth, had played too deep u game
to know how to continue it. Tho next step
might be a blunder, and lose all.
I looked nt her and mused for a few mo
uicnts, when suddenly a suggestion presented
itself, which 1 put into immediate effect.
Looking carelessly around. I said :
'?This is delightful weather, Miss Lucy; I
do enjoy the spring very much. It is the
season most eougeuiul to my indolent nature.
I like the music and thj fragrance, of course.
Everybody does. But the lazy iucrtia of my
mittlre enjoys now its high carnival. I in
dulge now iu revels not to Bacchus, but to
Soiuuus. I am iu love with everything, and
care for nothing in Spring. This is the only
season of tho year iu which I can appreciate
and sympathize with the Italian's (folce for
?irnfr. I am always in love in spring. I love
the idea of beauty?pcrsouificd in flowers or
I iu woman. I love woman; then, not any one
in particular, but the ideal just as one loves
Spring, not any oue Spring iu particular?but
every Spring, every year as she conies, iu her^
beauty, her fra^anco, nnd her music. 1?but
you think it is time to return." **'
"Yce ! if you have coucltided your oration,
for which you certainly possess a talent, and
of which you have kindly given uic several
specimens, to my great-"
'?Weariness! you would s.iy. Yes! 1 have
certainly wearied you this evening."
Wc slowly returned to her home, aud I con
tinued :
'?I duubt very touch whether I will have
another chance to exact your audience of my
speeches, under pretence of taking a watk."
-Shall I ?"
"I shall certainly not take another walk
with you, until I understand you better."
"You mean my speeches, you perhaps could
sec no sense in them."
'?They are the causes of my inability to un
derstand you."
"Well, Miss Lucy, since they are the means
of my being misunderstood, I am totally at a
loss to know bow ever to be understood by
'you."
"I entirely despair of ever understanding
you."
"A misunderstanding certainly exists be
tween us. It seems I am fated to be misun
derstood. Did you ever hear the story of the
soldier, who, when bis Colonel, riding in front
of the regiment awaiting the onset of the ene
my, told them 'Now. men, strike for your
homes,' misunderstood him and struck out for
his home V
"No ! nor do I care to hear any more ridicu
lous stories or speeches this evening. 1 think
that 1 begin to understand you, now, sir
and -."
"Then you will walk with nie tgain, Miss
Lucy."
"Never, sir, nor speak to you until you have
explained and atoned for your conduct this
evening "
"I nm ready to apologize, at once, Miss
Lucy, if I have really offended you by toy
thoughtless prattle."
'?Thoughtie s, indeed, cvory word has boon
a studied insult to my feelings 1 Prate about
fine feelings and then exhibit your total want
of them iu yourself?while you invoke them
in others only to ruthlessly trample upon them.
Excuse my not inviting you in this evening.
1 will bid you good uight, here !"
And, although she was uot within several
huudred yards of* her gate, she darted aw.iy
boluro 1 could reply, leaving mo utterly be
wildered aud uot a little uneasy.
I hesitated whethor to pursue nnd overtake
aud inako my peace with her beforo she
reached her home, or to follow her rod insist
upon an interview that evening
Musing, wondering, astounded, I walked
ulong, re: clicd her gate, paused, looked in,
saw tho light iu the sitting-room, woudercd
whether to cuter or not, and, at length strolled
je?. .
Before I kucw it, 1 had reached home.
??? '" ''^XF^^ " " ?
Tiiat night 1? lay awake on niy bed and
thought over oir. evening walk audits iuci
deuta. I thought cf her conduct, her words,
her manner, h$r* locV as sho bade me "good
night." bhe certainly loved me, had been de
ceived by my studied scheme, expected me to
say I loved her und was cruelly disappointed,
terribly mocked, humiliated.
Her eyes, brijpte with tear glitters, flashing
with unrestrained Fury, haunted me there in
the dark night. and her terrible words rung
in my cars through its stilly and silent
watches.
Tho formend face of that wohlan, in her
outraged und'insulted, but really towering nud
majestic, sensibility stood before me, and
frightened sleep from my rcstleBS pillow. The
exhibition of such elevated and high-toned
cmotious, wbdeh I had called forth only to
i rifle with and mock, quelled my sei I-conceit,
disconcerted *S?y self-complacency. TTer m?u1
in all its t ruth and greatness, shone in her eyes,
spoke iu lu r burning indignation, nctcd and
lived ia her'expressive depart ure ami in my
contemptuous dismissal. In a word, I hated
myself, I loved ber. She knew it not, but I had
lost the wager and bad lost her. Then came the
thought, **tho unkiudest cut of all," that she
hived me, believed me, and then found her
love mocked, "the pearl trampled upon,"
found me guilty of such base, deep hypocrisy.
Oh. bow she must bate mo, as now I hated
myself.
Then came the remorse, deep and terrible,
the repentance, the humiliation of my self-re
spect, and the high, noble resolution to ?tone
for my insult to her, to retrieve my lost and
sullied purity of thought, the resolution to re
gain her, her mocked but now priceless love.
With' the good thougnt of atonement and
prayer wafted upon the breezes of the night
for her forgiveness, came "balmy sleep." and
dreams of a mind conscious again to ?tsclf of |
right, dreams reconciled und beautiful, yes !
far more beautiful since now I knew her?
dreams, which only the morning sun dissipated
and bade mc realize.
Tho next evening I called at her bouse, and
after some delay, saw her enter the room.
' **
"I Aavc pcrhops compromised myself," she
said ^u seeing you this evening. It is only
that I expect sntuc atonement for yesterday's
exhibition of "fine feeling' that I do consent to
see you."
"That is the object of 1113- call, Miss Lucy
My heart has dictated what was due to you
and to itself. Miss Lucy, believe me, 1 have
just learned you. Knowing you as I now do,
I feel how you must despise me. I hate and
loathe myself. My nature enn atone to itself
for its degraded self respect only by acknowl
edging its own hypocrisy.
"This is the only way I can ever forgive
myself. Oh ! that I knew how I might ob
tain your forgiveness?how I might re
gain that love which I believe ywu would have
bestowed upon me, had I not mocked, scorned
it. Oh ! say one word of forgiveness, one
word of love to inc. Was it only by this
cursed ordeal by which 1 should forever lose
you, that it was destined that I should know
you.
"Miss Hdcrton, Heaven itself forgives after
such repentance. My heart knows how it has
repented, and my conscience whispers Forgiven.
Will you not forgive? I know you now? I
appreciate yon. in your beauty and your worth.
I love you as I love the ideal enshrined iu my
heart of moral beauty and worth.
"I know I talk wildly, but 1 fear, I shudder
to think, perhaps?you will not forgive."
I paused as she remarked :
"Not at all wild arc your words?they arc
very fine?you arc treating me to a dra
matic performance. I really like it. is it origi
nal ? J>id 1 not already know what a con
summate hypocrite and counterfeiter you arc,
I would be astonished ut your histrionic per
formance."
"I expected this, take any revenge you
plcu.se, only say yon ore satisfied, and that I
have atoned, ami I will be content. Miss
Lucy, prolong not this scene, for God's sake. 1
am unequal to it. Believe mc, hear me, and
then strike me to earth with your blighting
scorn. 1 love you as men love uot women but
as angels love and adore the crowned monarch
of Heaven."
"That is very fine," sho exclaimed in ap
plause, "had wo never token that walk, 1
would really have thought you wero in love
with mo."
"Before (iod, I worship you," I almost
shrieked in my madness, and threw myself
upon my knees before her,?
She looked down at mc, smiled plousuntly,
und asked :
"Do you really love mo ?"
"How? How can I provo it more. Hear
me, see mc, and kuow that these Words, this
attitude arc cold, are tame to express my
heart's wild adoring love 1"
Her smilo brightened und grew more merry,
until she said, placing her baud in mine and
bursting into a siioui of sitycy laughter,
"Get up then, and don't bo so ridiculous. I
will believe thut I havo woo the wager without
all this tableau." .
How must I have looked ! She continued
to say:
"I assure you T was not at all offended with
you yesterday evening, nnd hope you will fur
give my rudeness. I had to assume that part ,
to win the game, und will expect a very hand
some pre cut for my trouble. Sit down, now,
und talk. Arc you going to the hop at the
Hotel to-morrow evening. Don't look so fooh
ish and ridiculous 1 I shall never tell any one
of our pre-arranged flirtation."
I felt as if I were disappearing?evaporat
ing?merging into surrouudiog space with ac
celeratiug velocity. I felt as though there
were a chemical affinity between the nothing
ness, into which I had sunk, and the floating
atmosphere into which I would soon be entire
ly fused and merged.
I would certainly have made some sort of
"chemical disappearance," but for one palliat
ing eircuujaiauce iu my situation.
At one time, as I icit that I was rapidly
evaporating, I reached out and caught her
band as though for a mute farewell, before I
ceased to be a human being and became a float
ing globule of air, drilling about upon the at
mosphere, and perhaps go down somebody's
throat! .
She withdrew her baud with an impatient
movement.
T groaned in my torture something about "a
last farewell, forever!"
But she replied?and as she did, I saw the
silver-lined circumstance of my position?the
ray of hope in my despnir?I saw u gleam of
the dearest, sweetest kindness in her eye ! That
expression was the brightest thing I have ever
seen on earth. Its starry brightness rained an
influence of light and cheer down from its
?'height of heaven." into my depth of humilia
tion and despair.
She replied:
"Don't think of going until you have
spnkcnof the wager?what is my present to
be ? It must be something very handsome,
desirable and expensive ! I shall be satisfied
with nothing else, for all my trouble to win."
There was something* bewitching?Bcrephic
in her eye. as she looked at mo. That look,
which her eyes expressed, but which no words
can, almost muldcncd tue. I arose in a deli
rium and wildly suhl:
"Oh '. Miss Ildciton. you must hear mo, you
I must know the grand iuccuse of luve that
rises from the holy altar of my heart for thee,
for thee I"
"Is that the present you offer me as the re
compense "f my trouble?that the wager I have
so gloriously won ? Well ! well! But I Bup
posc 1 will have to accept it, and be content!"
I instantly evaporated, became a globule of
?:r nnd floated up?up among the stars, up into
the elysium of inconceived happiness !
Summers have passed since that evening's
walk, aud sometimes my peerless wife says in
I her radiant merriness, aud with an exquisite
archness "I think, dear, you might have given
me a better present for winning thejwager."
-?~mm?mmm> ? - - mm? ?
A TnrtEK Months' Baby Talks.?"We
find in the St. Charles, Minnesota Herald, of
the 10th inst., a letter from Dr. Suddutb, a
respectable physician ofthat place, who says:
I was called upon a few days ago to attend
a sick child, daughter of "William and Mary
Jane Hearsay, living in the southwestern part
of St. Charles township. I found the child,
aged a few days under five months, very ill.
After cdaninistCring medicine to the child,
I was startled to hoar it say very distinctly,
"Mamma, baby don't want any more." Com
pletely nonplussed. I inquired of the mother
how long the babe had talked.
As though it wero no uousual occurrence.
' she coolly said it commenced talking a few
days before it was threo months old! Deeply
impressed with this unheard of and premature
development, I watched the child with the
deepest interest. It docs not prattle, aa is
usual with infants when first trying to talk,
stumbling upon and .-training nt words. It
speaks clearly and cohorently, a regular rcn
tence that clearly exp~esses its thoughts and
ideas.
It seems to think, and then expresses its
thoughts calmly and clearly. It seems to note
the nnxicty and wishes of others. A littlo
four year old brother. was out of the house,
several members of the family inquired where
ho was. He soon came in, when the baby
seeing him, said to the mother: "Otty has
come home."
It will lie quietly in the cradlo while its
mother is at work, and when it is hungry will
say, -baby wants dinner," Or "mamma tako
baby up," as plainly as a child of five or six
years of ago. I may as well mention the fact
that another'of tho children commenced tajk
i?g Weight rhouths ofd. 1 Altogether I con
sider it a phenomohon worthy^ of public rc
eoi5 Nor do I \bm& it ?-.ny the to? iaS?m^we?
hcnsiblc that the talking wbudcr hVa girl.
i;fw i'.i dto sr*r. ?? ?.? ed 4 tx>oai?r) Sv? .q j
AgftlClT L T ?^^/f<^
Don't Come to the Citji^ Wt i-t
?? ? M V "!?.??*rx;J:? adj Jne*9? UT*
Stay away from tho city, young mall.
Why?' Mn**n* ?*???
Because yott are not Wanted '^atMi 'ttJ^
many young men already are there?^too tamaf?
struggling for the fortune that never comc*f
and acquiring, instead, tastes and habits which
lead to perdition. , .
. . _ . _ mot
Are you a farmer s son ;
Be a farmer's son?one of the "bdu? ";&B&
sinew of the land? Don't look etukia?fl
that equipage as it rolls past, bearing that rieb
merchant to his three months' siesta at bia
"country scat." You are as iodcpeuden^^aai
he, and fur more happy. If he lives to ace
fifty, it will bo a wonder, while it will be a
wonder if you don't live to see seventy. If
he has gold and soft raiment, you have more
?you have that consicousness of owocrshifll
in the soil which makes you a very lord iu the
manor aud though that manor, be but a lev
acres, it is enough for your happiness, if con
tent, industry and intelligent use of time rufe
your ways.
Are you a young mechanic ?
Remain iu tho neighborhood where you are
known, and where your services are required j
or if a broader field is necessary, don't come
to the over-crowded Jcity, but go to the west,
where every energy, every talent, h> in <fe*
mand, and every man ie reckoned el Ira? trUe*
worth. Thousands of mechanics in the great
cities struggle for years fur a simple livelihood,
and never hope to obtain a competence, be*
cause tbey see that it is of impossrofe' acqtfoi-'
tion. Can yotf, too, hazard that result to all
your young energies and well grounded ambi
tion ?
Are you a studeut ?
Stay- away from the city as from an evil
genius! Hero arc libraries aud societies and
learned men, it is true; but these are hard to
reach and enjoy ; the learned men are busy an<f
reserved ; the societies are either very exeluV
sivc or very common; the libraries are of
practically little value, save to mere readers.
A email library in a country town, with the
encouragement and aid^which a studious young
man always there receives from the ministers
and doctors and lawyers, ia far more sure of
reward than any influence whicV tl
promise.
If the city is the place where men of talent
rise to the surface, it is equally true that there
men of mediocrity go down; and also true
that not one in a hundred is successful hV db~
taining just the powitHnf fo? which he *? fitted.
Competition is so strong and persistent that
few men even among those who are deemed1
successful, but have changed their business of
calling many times?compelled as they hate
been to avert disasters by abandoning what aC
first seemed promising enterprises.
To come to the [city i% to encounter odds
against your industry and ability which do
not exist anywhere else?the odds of capital,
of combination, of aggregated numbers, of
superior talent; while haunting your footsteps
and dogging your very shadow, arc Influences
and temptations before which even the stoutest
of principles- quail. What nrO these influ
ences? Let the records of ten thousand
wrecked lives tell?wrecked though clear of
head and firm of heart, because the tempter
assumes so many shapes and forms than they
grew weary of combatting him. :
Stay iu the country then ! Or?w, expand,
flourish there, sure of becoming Ont- of ibt
leading men of the village, County, town, or
district, if you really have merit and worth.
You might succeed in acquiring a competency
after years of straggle in the city, but tiln odds
are so heavily against suOh success*, that it is
painful to witness atry attempt to achieve it.
Be content and happy in the country, al
ways doing your best, and the result will prove
the wisdom of your cotfrae.??m?wm'v Rural
Mewngtrr.
A Cskful Tabtlb.?To aid farmers in war*
riving at accuracy in estimating the amount of
land in different fields under cultivation, the
following table is given by an agricultural eon*
temporary : ?
Five yards wide by 978 yards long contain*
1 acre.
Ten yards wide by 484 yards long eonomfou
* *ore? boa wan
Twenty yards wido by 242 yards long con
tains 1 aero.
Forty yards wide by 121 yards long ooafcun*
1 aero.
Eighty yards wido by 10J yards krageoo?
tains 1 acre.
Seventy yards wido by 69 J yards long con
tains 1 aore.
Two hundred and (Twenty foot %ide by }0S
feet long contains 1 acre.
Four hundred and forty feet wide by 90 Jb?*
long contains 1 acre. ?
Eleven feet wjde.,b& 393 feet lotig contains
1 aore. ,
Sixty feet wido by 726 feet long oouteaae 1
l*^qo n?ndred irrj'? twett? Witt* Oy 363
feet long contains 1 nero,
'tlXHPt* :?4r^;*fr?ft%>a' '*id? J*|.?*?f
feet long contains 1 acre<