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f, " A Node ta? S?riai;. BI A ENOTOStKT TA BM EU. Wei), Spring, youv cum at lest; her yen! The pott .?* yow? bip a ai* rm in OUI Win Lap-now aint va? ashamed of yeorseif. Ispose the old fetter's bin a buaem' you. " I should think be bad, fyom your breth A. bein BO cold-but that's the way them Old fellers hevn cloi?. c; Well, aa I Wasleam, Yonv cotas at last witti yout Vbamy 'Bretk" a Mowin frons, the ?Sorthweet Westconstanfc or Newbrasky,1 apoee. Orate Kmrtries for barn, I rekui! Now yon ?un wen Everybody's feetL, and Korn an things, . Hevallbin fed outl Now Ink st. Our Krit tors, w?lye? boorga tel On the lift, S burua to be steddied by Thur tales erhki they gita up a mornings! Luk at ear hossis wats ah rejuioed To SkHetona a weeoi? over a troft; A. hull troft fall of kobs! A hull trott full ov bitter rekellekshuus! JT^IT at them shene a hen iu The fen? kotnurs a'warttn for gras! 11 * Tesl an they bm a waitin sum ov Them for Weexl An ef they wasnt Puld they a bin "sbakin ther lox At vu an ?ed U dun it!" (That thur - Ie fruin, Hamlet, won ov Bbaksjmr's plais. ) As another poit set-"Gras ditfured maks The stumakake'*-so these shepe wil Never open their ii onto gras agin-No! Nur onto fodar! Now lok at them hogs, as has bin A'follerin them Katel what hev bin - Stuft ou hal Se em, wil ye, a ere Mn Hound az if theys tetched with Korns. IiUk at thur eres, will ye-bigur than Enny oabbiteh lefe! Se them shoats - . A lenin onter the fens to squelcl " Luk at them mity eres a hangin pendint Onto ai?h littel hogsl Se a hundrid Qud shoats rejuiced down to a even Kora basket full Yes, that tura o ver doins, U Tardiloiterin-Spring! a hangin back Az youv bin a doini i But now youv cuml We fels yer cherin presenz wen we Git round onto the South side of the barn! Se here the hens a kakiin when thev lid a eg! We Be the horsradish A standin np alongside the garding IFennl The wimmin is a lukin into The old tea-pot, arter garding sedes! AU these things make me think youv cum ? Ef so be iv riled . ^e, Spring, a showiu up ov yer shoit cum? mins. Jes set down to havin a poits beens, (Tho I haint'takin wun out yet; I 'low tu.) [Original. CHARLOTTE BRONTE* BX MISS E. B. CHEESEBOROUGH. The novels of Charlotte Bronte contain no pathos more mournful than that which we find in her own life. A sad drama greets us from the rising to the falling of the curtain ; the notes of her life were all in a minor key; she sings one song of joy, beautiful as brief, then dies-dies with the nuptial strain still on her lips. And as we stand mournful, awe-struck, by the still form of the happy xcife, and gaze npon the pale, dead lips on which linger the smile of happy love, wo thank Heaven that she knew, at least, one short year of of bliss, the purest, the deepest, the bliss of wedded Ufe. This was her earthly reward for the long years of sorrow which had been her portion. In a low, oblong, stone honse, al? most surrounded by a gloomy church? yard, and with wild, desolate moors stretching beyond, dwelt the child Charlotte Bronte. All the associations of this period were sad beyond con? ception; a sick mother, a stern, self engrossed father, a solemn stillness in the honse, "the dreary, dreary moorlands," and the dank, dismal church-yard without. Where were the sunbeams, that they could not ?lay around the home of the little lharlotte, and throw their lustre into the dark corners of the house? Cold, dreary days, that wrapped the young child in its mantle of gloom! With most of us lhere is a golden chain that links us to the days of childhood; there are bright moments in which dwelleth no shadow; there is laugh? ter, love, light, music; and few, very few of us, do not look back with a * thrill of pleasure to "the days that are no more," the happy days of childhood. Not so with Charlotte Bronte. We can see the six young children walk? ing out, hand in nana, over the bleak, black moors, six grave, quiet chil? dren. Un at ural sight! Mirth be? longs to childhood; bot these chil? dren had learned to speak softly by a sick mother's bed, to check the gay laugh, to tread gently through the hushed house. We can very well imagino the timid little things shrink? ing from a father, into whose pre? sence they were rarely called; a father whose wrath was demonstrated, not by words, but by a rapid succession of pistol shots, fired from the back door; who thought it a slight matter, when angry, to stuff the hearth-rug up the chimney. Misfortune tamed ?he fire of the Rev. Mr. Bronte in K-ier years, and we then see him a crushed, broken-hearted man, to pro? mote whose happiness and comfort was the cheif thought of his only re? maining child, Charlotte. The sick mother dies; still the gloom rests on their young hearts; their steps are as quiet as ever; it has now become their nature to be still. Again Death gives another wide sweep of his wings through the house, then another, and the two little girls, Maria and Elizabeth, are laid beside their mother in the quiet church? yard. In a school, where these chil? dren endured not only privation, but actual MoeHjY they sickened, were ^cM?gWwme/?*?n?l ??ath \eruiinated. the scene. We can see the three re? maining girl?, Charlotte, Emily and Annie, with this fresh grief on their hearts, pacing the dreary room, when their household work was over, pon? dering mournfully on their present, and sending their glances into the future. They talk and walk in dark rn?s?; for the sake "of economy, the light han been extinguished, for not tho least of the dark shadows that rested on the pur-soiiage house was that of poverty. They turn their thoughts U) tho uncertain path of literature. No doubt these girls, shut oat from all the world, left alone with their own dreams, their own hopes, looked forward with pleasurable emo? tion to a Kterary career. Manya girl has done so before; thorc is nothing more alluring in the distance, hut there ?re few tilings less satisfactory when realized. The road has boen found thorny, the rosea scentless, the beautiful bine lakes only a mirage. Disappointment tracks even the most successful literary career, and fate determined that the Misses Bronte were not to be any exception to this rule. They wrote to Southey fer his advice; no answer came for a length of time; when it did, it was anything but encouraging to their hopes. Thus disappointment attended their first I step; their pinn? for adding to their ? small hoard were frustrated, and they j must look for some other way of en? riching themselves than by literature. ! Then came their first bitter expe? rience of the world. Heretofore, they had moved only in the little arena of home; now they must learn what it is to battle outside of its pro? tecting walls, to grapple with a cold, hard world for a living. In the ca? pacity of a nursery governess, Char? lotte commenced to drudge away her life, serving steadily day by day, teaching the same lessons over ami over to heedless and dull children, and compelled to constant and close intercourse with a race of beings with whom she had no sympathy, and for whom she felt no natural love. Fresh from the solitude of home, whore, if not very happy, they were at least protected from insult, we can fancy the indignant blush that must have mounted to the cheek of one of the Bronte's at the mother's response to the child, who declared that he "loved Miss Bronte." "Love the governess, ! my dear!" Anti-climax of impro? priety! so denounced bj* hard? hearted ignorance. No wonder that Charlotte Bronte, with her whole heart set on a literary career, pined like a caged eagle for tho precious J sunlight of liberty. We eau under? stand that "vehement impatience of restraint" of which she speaks: "The strong wish for wings, such as wealth can furnish; a thirst to see, to know, to learn." Charlotte Bronte was pur? suing a career w Inch, from the very depths of her heart, she utterly de? spised. This state of feeling was not calculated to moke her task any easier. Day by day,, the burden seemed to grow heavier, and yet the adamantine chains of necessity held her fast to the loathed occupation. It was not merely teaching the chil? dren of whom she had the supervi? sion, but all the time not thus occu? pied was given up to the needle. Ah! that needle, it is a cruel bondage when one has no talent or leve for the useful little implement. ! At twenty, Charlotte Bronte goes to tho continent to perfect herself in French. A vision of a school of theil owu dances in the heads of the Misses Bronte. This once accomplished, they can be happy, for then there would be no more weary separations; the duties of the day over, they could sympathize with each other, and take "sweet counsel together." There is a magic souud in that word together, which none but tho long-separated and yearning heart can fully appre? ciate. In the home of strangers, fai away fr. m each other, there was nc tender, loving heart into which tc pour the tale of weariness and sor row; love must be locked in the bo som until it froze there; cold, unan swering faces met the tearful eye jam? mere civility-not always that-was all the poor wanderer from home hac to greet a heart sick for affection, and pining for sympathizing compa nionship. At school, Charlotte Bronte per fected herself in the language io: which she had left her native conn try. Lpon the whole, this seems tc have been a happy period of her life though even theu she had her dis quietudes. All the while that thes< remarkable girls were toiling ns go vernesses, and studying themselves a heavy grief was settling on thei hearts-an only brother was running a swift race to destruction. Thei wails and cries of sisterly affection as they saw him day by day Mingin; himself more madly into the fear tu vortex, is most pathetic. Anxiet; for him seemed crushing the very lit out of their hearts. So handsome so gifted, possessing such genial qua lities of head and heart, they co uh not look on unmoved at the harrow iug spectacle. Entreaties, prayers tears, were all in vain, as they gem rally are in such cases; crime dark ened upon the brow of the infatuate, young man, and amidst cries of rc morse for his gu'lty deed and cries c baffled affection, his spirit passe away. Tho lust sad tragedy of hi miserable lifo was over, and thothre sisters, whose loving hearts ho ha well nigh broken, had no word wit which to comfort their wretche father or each other. Such a stor I as Branwell Bronte's preaches a ft; more< eloquent. .temp?rance lecture than ever uimc from the lips of -Father'Mat?hew. It TS a story? alnat . which many ?* smitten household can echo; und tho worst of it is, we can? not hope that there is any good time corni Tig, when tho demon that crushed i lum, and is now crashing thousands, , will bo slain and trampled out of I being forever. Difigeutly devoting themselves to their domestic duties, and at every spare interval working with their petts-shut in hy .the dreary moor? land*-thus passed tho lifo of tho Brontes. They were still dreaming their dream o? authorship, which no rude awakening could quite destroy. But two huge shadows were gradually approaching-Mr. Bronte'? blindness and tho death of Emily. "When the ' father found this terrible disaster j coming on him, he prepared t<> meet it-if not with actual courage, with a calm patience that looked verv much ! like it. In tho meantime. Charlotte's novel I of the "Professor" was going the j rounds of London, looking for a j publisher; and the very day on which an operation was to be performed upon her fathers eyes, tho raauu I script WHS returned to her-it could I find no publisher. Many of ns, at j what we esteem a rebuff, are apt to : i shrink iuto ourselves, and to retire i from the conflict after the first defeat. ! But Charlotte Bronte liad no such j I cowardly element in lier; she would i not be beaten back from her purpose; sim felt the stirrings of a genius that I must be heard, and even with the I returned manuscript of tho "Pro I fessor" in sight, she worked ont lier I novel of '-Jane Eyre." Brave, strong I heart, it met its reward. The weird, ! wonderful production blazed out, an?! ! the name of Correr Bell rang through j the literary world. Her strong wings had borne her aloft in a most success I ful ilifcht. Curiosity was on the tip? toe, but curiosity could see nothing i save a perfectly original work, full of ! pathos aud power-a story almost 1 impossible in the main, yet very pos j sible in many of its details, told with i force and fervor, a half-smothered ! passion, bearing the unmistakable j marks of genius, and telling not liing else save that it was written by Correr Bell. Cariosity had nothing to satisfy ' its cravings with, and could only spe , enlate and wonder, while the writer, I shut up in the close retirement ot the j parsonage, could hear, afar off, the ! din made by her magie pen. The j noisy shouts seemed to come up to I her very door, but they moved her not to any expression of gratified triumph. One of the great shadows was now j beginning to pass away; the father's , sight was in u measure restored, but ! the other deepened the nearer it ap i proached. Emily became ill; but ' with the resolution and energy which were a part of her not altogether ' lovely character, sin* bravely fought j against the universal conqueror. ?She I would riot think herself ill, even when , fierce pains were lacking her body; I one refused medical a? I vice, rejected ? all sympathy, and in silence the brave ; spirit, which had battled with the : fierce bull-dog, and subduing it, made it ever after her loving friend, fought : with equal bravely that foe which bus but ono conqueror, ll?; who holds ' the keys of heiland death. She died i fighting -died with a fierce determi ! nation not to be overcome, and we stand awe-struck in the presence of this unequal contest; a weak woman, ! who had no shield to hold up against 1 the unerring darts of the destroyer, ; and a foe who hus never known but , one conqueror, and that one a God. : Generally, humanity, knowing that it 1 is powerless, succumbs without a I struggle, when it sees the approach I of death. But not so with Emily Bronte; she'd die, if die she must; but ?die would battle against, oppose, resist the foe to the very lust. But it was over; the shocking warfare had ?ceased; the proud spirit was at rest; , aud as the sisters pressed a kiss upon I the cold, dead brow, they ohing the > closer to each other in loving and ; tender sympathy. ! But another link has to be severed : from the chain of love, and Charlotte ! Bronte was to be left sisterless. Annie ? faded away; she did uot. like Emily, j die fiercely fighting ugainsi her fate. I but, gently yielding herself into the ! arms of death, sweetly sh?' f .11 asleep, j ss calmly as the afternoon passes into the hush of evening, murmur? ing, "take courage. Charlotte, take courage." Courage! well .night she bid that son ly bereaved heart to taki courage, f?>r if required courage tc face the lonely future. "Oh!" ev claims the heart-broken sinter, as sin ! gazes around the desolate house, '-t< j sit in a lonely room-the clock tick ' ing loud throng}) a still roma -ant ? have open, before the mimi's eye, th? i r?'i ord ?>f the last year, with it: j shocks, sufferings, losses is a trial.' It was no common affection tba bound these two sisters inn lovinj ; union; and the grief with which Char lotte mourned her hived one, tel? fearfully upon ber delicate frame; ill , ness ensued, and it was many month: j before sh?, could rally again. ' Curiosity was new somewhat satis I fled with regard to the authorship o I Jane Eyre, and it -as generali; known that the writer of that won derfnl fiction was nothing more o \ less than i woman a woman utter] i unknown to fame and tho fashionabl i worhl of London. We can very we] I fancy tho consternation of Charlott 1 Bronte, by nature painfully timid and broil in deep seclusion, when, fi ouo of Thaekery's lectures in Loudon she found hers<-lf the object of gent rai attention, the crowd forming a linQ on either aide, to gaze at her, as she pawed throng]L. Natural curiosi? ty, but scarcely commendable or po? lite; and timid and shrinking aa shu was, Charlotte Bronte suffered keen? ly from the investigation. ; Now approached a happy era in the life of this suffering and gifted wo? man. Tenderly beloved by ber father's carat?, and tenderly loving him in return, she yet, in obedience to her father's wishes, rejects his offer. A worse desolation of heart n?w oppressed lier; happiness vus within her grasp, yet she must throw it from her, and resign the sympathy and companionship for which she pined. Was Charlotte Bronte never to have one draught from the golden chalice of happiness? were her lips never to touch its jeweled brim? Yes; compensation comes even in this life, and God gives us sometimes for all the misery we have endured a bliss BO exquisite, so full, so rich, that the great mists of sorrow roll back at the appearance of this sun of happiness. Mr. Bronte became reconciled to the marriage;, and now Charlotte was to rind in wedded love a solace for all thc misery of her past life. She hails j the dawning day with gratitude, and after her marriage gives vent to her happiness in quiet, but fervent re-1 joicings. The dark past makes her cling with more of thankfulness to her present bliss; the poor wearied wings have been folded, at length, beside the peaceful streams of domes? tic bliss. See was united to one worthy of her deepest affections, one who appreciated the lofty beauty of her character, and who bestowed upon her a love as fond, as trKe, as deep, as ever man gave to woman. She was fortunate in win? ning such love, and she knew well how to prize the priceless treasure. But this fond union of hearts was i soon to end; death stole in ut the I festal scene; the lights went out, the j flowers died, the music expired in j one long wail. With a heart bursting with agony, the new ly-made husband stood by the death-bed of his wife and prayed silently, with blanched lips, for life-only life! But it was1 not to be; the fiat h : id gone forth love's golden chord was to be snapped by the strong ringers of death. "Oh !" exclaimed the dying wife, "1 am not going to die, nm TV He will not separate ns-wi- have been so happy." j What a piteous cry was that which went up from tho heart, of Charlotte Bronte! 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Parties dealing with us mar depend on having prompt returns, ancf the article drawu will U- immediately sent to any ad? dress by return mail or express. The following parties have recently drawu valuable prizes from the Eureka As? sociation, and have kindlv allowed the use of their names; many other names might be published were we permitted: Andrew Wilson, Custom House, Philadel? phia, Penn., Oil Painting, value $100; Jas. Hargrave?, K21 Broadwav, New York, Oil Painting, value $100; E. F. Jones, Barrett, Marshall Co., Kansas, Melodeon, value $200; P. J. Bvrnes, Waterburv, Ct., Gold Watch, value $125; J. F. Shaw, 224East 24tk street, New York, Piano, value $350; Mrs. Chas. J. Nevis, Elmira, N. Y., Piano, value $300; Miss Lucy Janeway. Elmira, N. Y., Cluster Diamond' Ring, value $200; Mrs, K. Pen nover, Citv Hotel, Nashville, Tenn., Melo dei.n, value $125; Oscar M. Allen, Co. B. 142d Reg. Ind- Vols., Nashville, Tenn., Watch, value $85; Rowland S. Patterson, Co. D, 10th Iowa Vet. Vols., OU Painting, value $100; Mrs. Abbey J. Parsons, Spring? field, Mass., Melodeon, value $150; Jas. L. Dexter, Citv Survevor. Syracuse, N. Y., Gold Wut ch, value $150; Mrs. James Ely. 177 Wooster street, cor. Bleeker, N. Y., Oil Painting, value $100; Mrs. J. C. Coles, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Silver Castor, value $40; Dr. J. It. Sinclair, No. 4 Mara st., Utica, N. i , Framed Engraving, value $25; Hon. Luther Detmold, Washington, D. C., Oil Painting, value $100. Letters from various parties throughout the conn.rv. acknowledging the receipt of very valuable gifts, may be seen on tue at our office. To be Sold for One Dollar Each, Without regard to value, and not to be paid for until you knote tchal you trill receive. 50 Eleg't Rosewood Pianos, EACH. worth from.$250.00 to 500.00 50 Melodeons, Ros'd cases. 125.00 to 225.00 100 fine Oil Paintings. 25.00 to 100.00 100 gold H'g Case \\ atches 75.00 to 159.00 iou Diamond Kings. 5?.?? to 2??.6? 250 Ladies' Gold Watches 60 00 to 85.00 450 Silver Watches. 25.00 to 50.00 200 fine Steel Eng's, fr'md. 12.00 to 25.00 100 Music Boxes. 12.00 to 45.00 100 Sil'r Rev'g Pat.Castors 15.00 to 40.00 100 " F't and C'ke B'kets. 15.00 to 35.00 500 sets Silver Tea and Tablespoons. 15.00 to 30.00 2,500 Vest and Neck Chains 5.00 to 25.00 2,500 Ladies' Silver Porte monaies. 8.00 to 15.00 3,000 Silver Butter Knives 3.00 to 7.00 2,000 pr Ear-riugs,new stvle 1.50 to 6.00 S.OO0 Cold Pencils and Toothpicks. 3.00 to 8.00 3.000 Onvx and Amethyst Brooches . 4.00 to 10.00 3,000 Lava and Florentine Brooches. 4.00 to 6.00 1,000 Masonic Pins. 4.00 to 6.50 2.G?? fine Gold Wch Revs. 8.50 to 6.50 5,000 Children's Armlets . 2.50 to 8.00 2,500 sets Bosom Studs .. 1.50 to 5.00 2,500 En'd Sleeve Buttons. 2.50 to 10.00 10.ooo Plain Gold and Chased Rings . 1.00 to 5.00 5,000 Stone Set A S I Rings 2.50 to 10.00 5,000 Lockets, all sizes_ 2.00 tv? 7.00 10.000 sets Ladies'Jewelrv 8.00 to 20.00 4,000 Watch Charms, each 3.00 to 5.50 5,000GoldPens,SilvEx;C*a 4.00 to 6.00 5,000 lieut's Breast and Scarf Pins . 3.00 to 20.00 2,000 Ladies' New Style Belt Buckles. 4.00 to 6.50 2,0U0 Chatelaine and Guard Chains. 6 00 to 20.00 1.000 Gold Thimbles. 7.00 to 14.00 2,000 set Ladies'Jet & Gold 10.00 to 20.00 10.000 Gold Crosses .. v 1.50 to 6.00 fi,(Kio Oval Band Bracelets. 6.00 to 20.00 4,000 Chased Bracelets... 5.00 to 16.00 2,(MM) Bali Ear-drops, all colors . 3.00 to 5.00 5,000 fine Gold Pens.. . 2.00 to 3.50 2,000 New Stvle Jct and Oold Ear-drops. 3.0?) to 7.00 2,500 New stvle Long Crys? tal Ear-drops. 4.00 to 8.00 j 2,000 Gold Pens . 3.00 to 6.00 \ ay A chance to obtain any of tb? above articles for ONE DOLLAR by purchasing a j Sealed Envelope, for 25 cents. Vt?r Five Sealed Envelopes will be seut for $1.00; eleven for $2.00; thirty- for $5.00; ' sixty-five for $10.00; one hundred for 115.00. ! AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Our patrons are desired to send United ' States money when it is convenient. Long : letters are unnecessary. Order? ft#r Sealed envelopes must in every case be accompa? nied by the cash, with the name of th? j person sending, and Town, County and State plainly written. Letters should b? addressed to the Managers as follows: GOODWIN, HUNT & CO., 1 Feb 10 75* Box 5,706 Post Ottos, N. Y,