Preble County Democrat, 1857-11-05

v to at at no hot and of farmer Danton loved his wtte, in spite of her many faults ; and, dropping his rake, he started for the house at the top of his speed : the house reached, he casts but a single glance on his wife, places his hapd on her heart to satisfy himself that she yet lives, and then, sending May for the nearest neighbor, he mounts a horse and hurries after a physician. For many weeks that room was kept darkened, and often, in those weeks, the stillness of midnight was broken by the incoherent ravings of delirium ; nnd for many, many days the spirit of that strong woman hovered on the brink of the dark valley. And through all those long nights and weary days an angel in human form watched by the bedside, a gentle hand smoothed the aching brow that had so often been bent in anger upon her, and ber light touch seemed to have mere effect in soothing and re restraining - straining restraining her in delirium than all the medicines the physicians could devise. And, at last, when the crisis passed, and the sufferer sank into a deep sleep, from which she would awaken either to health and happiness or in eternity, with whal anxiety did husbaud and friends await her awakening. And when sue open opened - ed opened her eyes, smiled and called tier hus band by name, how sincere was (he Thank God, ' that went up from every heart; and when Mav sank down on her kuccs by the bedside, how quickly thev followed her example, and how at tentively they listened to her earnest, childish voice as it arose in thanks to the Giver of all good. ak ' g - . . "May. come here, if you please." How different that gentle toued re request - quest request from the harsh command record recorded - ed recorded in the beginning of our story; aud to have supposed that both came from the same lips yet so it was. Mrs!' Danton was slowly recovering, but yet unable to leave her bed; aud May was always at hand to anticipate her every want, to prepare the cooling draught and give the strengthening cor cordial, - dial, cordial, to smooth the ruffled pillow, and raise the wasted form; and all done so quietly that no one seemed to notice it. lu ' answer to her mistroas' call, she gently approached the bed, and, lay laying - ing laying her hand lightly on the moist brow of the sick woman, bent over her. With a sudden effort the wasted arms of the sufferer were thrown around her neck, and she exclaimed: "Oh! May, May! can you ever for forgive - give forgive me for treating you as I have? I have not used you as I should. May; but, if God lets uie live, I will do my best to repair my error.." If you have done wrong, to Him, and not to me, should you go for for giveness ; and may lie lorgive you as freely as 1 do, answered May. Mrs. Danton soon recovered her health, and, from that time forward, no child was ever loved and caressed more than Mav. Her gentle care during her mistress' sickness, had completely won the lady's heart ; Mr. Dautou had al always - ways always liked her; and now no expense seemed too great, nothing too much trouble that would contribute to ber happiness. They passed four happy years, during which May had grown from a beautiful child into a lovely maiden. Then a change came. The rich California gold mines had just been discovered, and thousands were flocking to the shores of the Pacific. Mr. Danton determin determin-edto - edto determin-edto go, and accordingly proposed that the farm should be sold, and a house rented in the nearest towii for his wife and Mav to occupy durriug his abseuce. But Mrs. Dunton most emphatically said no to such an arrangement. 'I can carry on theiaiming during your absence," said she, 'aud May must go to the Seminary, in M , to flu- isjLher education. ' - Sir. Danton conclu led that this would be the best plan, aud accordingly, the same day that he departed for the land of gold, May, became an inhabitant ot 81. Seminary. M. was a picturesque tov.n on the sea-shore, of athou.-aud souls, support supported - ed supported principally by the school and the fisheries which kept the male population from home during half the year. -.f ' One worniug about three weeks after May's arrival at M., as she was ascend ascending - ing ascending from t ho school room to her cham chamber, - ber, chamber, she involuntarily paused on hcar hcar-M - M hcar-M r her name mentioned in un adjoining room. 'T don't iic her at all," said a voice which May recognized as belcnging to Kate Emmons, one of her schoolmates. "She Beems to think berselt too good to associate with common people. To me she. appear" kind and amia ble, tho' rather ttniid and reserved, re replied - plied replied Kate's companion, whose name was Fanny Morton. "Timid and reserved: jrroua ana nrudish vou bad better say," contempt uously returned Kate. "She pretends to be a model of purity and innocence; why she actually refused to be intro intro-rWed - rWed intro-rWed to Charlev Hamilton the other day, when we were out walking togeth together - er together just because he is said to be atheist.' 'T an not blame her; no good can come of associating with an nnprinci ntorl man like Charles Hamilton! and vou know that only few days ago Mrs B. expressly forbade you nimng any anything - thing anything to say to hiaa." "I know it; but if wo obeyed all her

j than so many nuns. Why, I rode out with Mr. Hamilton the very next Sun Sunday - day Sunday when she thought I had gone to church." May waited to hear no more; but fearing that she might overhear some disclosures that she should think it her duty to repeat to Mr,'. "B., she hurried on to ber room. . The next day there was great confu confusion - sion confusion in the Seminary. Several of the pupils and one of the teachers had been struck down by a malignaut fever; and the well ones, seized by a sudden panic, were leaving hourly. It was the mid middle - dle middle of the afternoon, and all who had not yet gone, numbering about a dozen, were collected in one of the parlors, some of them donning their bonnets and shawls to go, when Mrs. B. entered the room. "Young ladies," said she, "I will not compel any one of you to remain here ; but there are only two teachers and my myself - self myself io take care of six of your compan companions - ions companions and one of your teachers, in all seven sick ones, all of whom need con constant - stant constant attention night and day. Now we must have more help, but we can ob obtain - tain obtain none in the village, all being afraid of the disaasc ; so I am obliged to ap appeal - peal appeal to you. Who of you will be gen generous - erous generous enough to risk your lives by re remaining - maining remaining to aid me in taking care of the sick?'' There was a moment of hesitation, n glancing from one to another, aud then May quietly stepped forward and placed herself beside Mrs. B. "Are there uo morer?" asked that la lady, - dy, lady, looking inquiringly at the hesita hesitating - ting hesitating group. Fanny Morton and one other Tanged themselves beside our heroine, and Mrs. B , seeing there would be no more re remain, - main, remain, bade them a kind farewell and left the room followed by her three com companions. - panions. companions. One ot the first whom the fever at attacked - tacked attacked was Kate Emmons, and by her side May stationedTicrsclf. And faith faithfully - fully faithfully aud well did she perform her task, never ceasing in her watchful care ex except - cept except to take such rest us was absolutely necessary; ever ready to administer the health restoring medicine, and to attend to every want; and, when Kate began to recover, bearing patiently with her fretful spirit, till by the time she was well enough to begin to talk of going to her home to remain a few weeks she was almost sick herself. "I must go back to Dairy Dell and spend a few weeks, for I am almost worn out with watching; but under the kind care of my good foster mother, I shall soon bo as strong as ever," said she, as Kate rend a letter she hadjust written, informing her parents she should start for home the next day. "You shall do no such thing," re replied - plied replied Kate; "you must go home to Elm Grove with me; and if love and kind kindness - ness kindness will bring back the roses to your checks, you shall soon be as strong as ever; tor, 1 assure you that neither my friends uor myself cau forget that you have saved my life by your self-sacrificing devotion." "I only did my duty, Kate; I should expect others to do the same by mc in like circumstances." "Then you would be apt to be disap disappointed; - pointed; disappointed; not one in a hundred could have acted as you have. If you call such disinterested conduct only doing your duty; but very few do their duty." "True, few do; but that is no reason why I should not." "May, you are the most noble heart hearted - ed hearted girl I ever saw; and I have longed ever since I began to get well, to ask your forgiveness for thinking of you as 1 once did: I thought you proud and selfish, but I never was more mistaken in my life. Say, dear May, will 3-ou forgive me?" excLtimed Kate, throning her arms around our heroine's neek. "I havo nothing to forgive, Kate; it is natural for people to judge each oth other, - er, other, harshly, and some make it a point to consider others their eucmics uutil they have proved themselves to be friends.'' 1 fear what you say is too true ; but you have not yet promised to accompa ny me home, lou will go, will you uot?" "I suppose I must, for I fear you are not strong enough yet to be trusted to travel alone: for just this little conver conversation - sation conversation has fatigued you, I can plainly see by your looks, so now you must rest awhile, or you will not be well enough to go to-morrow." On the day succeeding this conversa conversation - tion conversation May accompanied Kate to Elm Grove, where she won the hearts of all who met her by her gentleness and kind kindness, - ness, kindness, and lost her own to young Edward Emmons, Kate's brother, to whom she wa3 married two years afterward, on the return of her foster father, Mr. Danton, from California, where be had amassed sufficient of the precious nutal to ena enable - ble enable himself and wife to live without la labor - bor labor for the remainder of their lives. In Edward Emmons, May found a husband in every way worthy of her, and with whom she lives happily, beloved by all who know her, for her kindness and benevolence.

There is no disputing this fact, it shines in the face of every little child. The coarse, brawling, scolding woman will have vicious, brawling fighting chil children. - dren. children. She who cries on every occa occasion, - sion, occasion, "I'll box your ears I'll slap your jaws I'll break your neck," is known as thoroughly through children as if her unwomanly manners were oponly dis displayed - played displayed in the public streets. These remarks were suggested by a conversation in an omnibus that noble institution for the student of men and manners between a friend and school schoolmaster. - master. schoolmaster. Our teacher was caustic, mirth mirthful, - ful, mirthful, and sharp. His wit flashed like the polished edge of a diamond, and kept the "buss in a roar." The entire community of insiders and whoever is intimate with those conveyances can form a pretty good idea of our num bers 'inclusive ot the "one more so well known to the fraternity, their heads, eyes and cars one way, and final finally - ly finally our teacher said : 1 can always tell the mother by the boy. The urchin who draws back with double fists and lunges at his playmate if he looks at him askance, has a very- questionable mother. She may feed him and clothe him, cram him with sweetmeats, nnd coax rfrfn with promi ses; but if she gets mad, she fights. She will pull him by tho jacket, she will give him a knock on the back, she will drag him by the hair, she will call hini all sorts of wicked names, while passion plays over her face in lambent tlauics that curl and writhe out of the corners of her eyes. And we never see the courteous lit little - tle little fellow with smooth locks and gentle manners, in whom delicacy does not de de-tiact - tiact de-tiact from courage and manliness, but we say "that boy's mother is a true la lady. - dy. lady. Her words and ways are soft, lov loving, - ing, loving, and quiet. If she reproves, her language is 'my son' not 'you little wretch plague of my life you tor torment - ment torment you scamp." She hovers before him as a pillar of light before the wandering Israelites, and her beams are reflected in his face. To him the word mother is synonymous with everything pure, sweet, and beau beautiful. - tiful. beautiful. Is he an artist? In after life, the face that with holy radiance shines on his canvass will be the mother's face. Whoever Arte across his path Tfrth sun ny smiles, and solt, low voice, will bring his mother's image freely to his breast. She is like my mother, will be the high highest - est highest meed of his praise. Not even when the hair turns silver and the eyes grow dim, will the majesty of that life and presence desert him. But the ruffian mother alas! that there are such ! will form the charac character - ter character of the man. He, in turn, will be become - come become a merciless tyrant, with a tongue sharper than a two edged sword, and re remembering - membering remembering the brawling and the cuff cuffing, - ing, cuffing, seek some meek, gcntlo victim, for the sacrifice, and make her his wife, with the condition that he shall be mas master. - ter. master. And master he is, for a few short years, when he wear's the widower's weed till he finds a victim "number two." Wo wonder not there arc so many awkward, ungainly men in society they have been trained by women who do not care for the holy nature of their trust, lhey have been made bitter to the heart's core, and that bitterness will find vent and lodgment somewhere. Strike the infant in anger, and he will, if ho cannot reach you, vent his passion by beating the floor, the chair, or any inanimate thing within reach. Strike Lim repeatedly, and by the time he wears shoes he will become a little bully, with hands that double to fight as naturally as if especial pains had been taken to teach him the art of boxing.

! a SST The following report of "Fash-; ions for Winter, for Ladies," is from the Buffalo Republic: The material, styles and figures for ladies' dresses this year will be older than usual, many husbauds having de declared - clared declared that thev would be blessed' if they'd pay another dry goods bill this winter, in consequence of which, sensi sensible - ble sensible women will wear their "other clothes" until New Years. Good, prudent wives will probably wear morning dresses of bagging, open in front and ornamented with muffin rings. Tho hair "done up" iu the an ancient - cient ancient slop shop style, skewered with carving forks. Economical women will wear their husband's old boots, a la wood amputa amputa-tois - tois amputa-tois xcices, during, the wet weather sea season. - son. season. In laces, the dishcloth style will prevail, with the hair done up curl pa papers, - pers, papers, made of the butchers' and grocers' bills receipted in full. (The latter style wijl not be generally adopted.) Fashionable ladies will wear rich lace berthas, with border eight inches wide, formed of the notes of their husbands protested. This style will undoubt undoubtedly - edly undoubtedly be the most popular. A basquine, made of violated contracts, with trim trimmings - mings trimmings a la jiasscmenticrc, notorial seals will also be much worn. Littler girls will wear their dresses longer than they did last winter. Ser Servant - vant Servant girls, if the times "keep agoing on so," will probably have nothing to wear. There is also a very poor show for chamber maids in the ornamental fab- rics. it the great laaies reaucc me wardrobes so low and to such common materials in consequence of the pres pressure, - sure, pressure, wc do not see but what the poorer classes must come to bear skins, and that would be. beastly. tgWc have heard of a good many frantic lovers, but we think Mr. Toots takes down all his predecessors. "If I could be dyed black," says he to Cap tain Cuttle, "and made Miss Dombey's slaveI should consider it a compliment; or if, at the sacrifice of my property, I could get transmigrated into her dog, I should be so perfectly bappy I would never stop wagging my tail I" Toots doubtless intended this as a piece of waggery. 65 A darkie having been to Califor nia, thus speaks of bis introduction to San Francisco : "As soon as dey land ed in de ribbar, dar moufs began to wa tor to be on de land, and as soon as dey waded to the shore, dey didn't sec goold, but dey foun sich a large supply ov nufnu to eat, dat dar gums cracked like bake clay in a brick-yard." A Negro Verdict. "We, dc Kuruer's Jury, am sittin' on disgust ob dc nigga Sambo, now dead an' gone 'fore us, do sit, an' rendar a vardic' dat he cum to his last, by fallin' off ob a steam -bowt, where he war drownded, an' af af-terwas - terwas af-terwas war washed to do ribbar bank, whar, he subsccotnely froze to deaf." fiST" A young lady was asked recent recently - ly recently how she could possibly afford, in theso awfully hard times, to take music lessons. "Oh!" said she, "I confine myself to the low notes!" HQ,. "Take a ticket, sir, for the ben benefit - efit benefit of the Widow and Orphan Fund o! the Spike Society ?" "Well y-a-a-s! don't care so much, though, for the or orphans, - phans, orphans, brtt I no in strong for ths tci tci-dtnn - dtnn tci-dtnn r

Mixed Grammeh. Great many peo people - ple people find much difficulty in saying what they mean much, perhaps, as soma editors find in meaning what they say. A certain witness in an assault and bat battery - tery battery suit we once heard, mixed things up considerable, in giving his account of the affair. After relating how Dennis came to him and struck him, he proceed proceeded - ed proceeded : "So ycr honor. I just hauled off and wiped bis jaw. Just then hi dog cum along, and I hit him again. "Hit the dog?" "No ycr honor, hit Dennis. And then I up wid a stun an throwed it at him, and it rolled him over and orcf." "Threw a stone at Dennis?" "At the dog, yer honor. And he got up and hit me again." "The dog?" "No, Dennis. And wid that ho stuck his tail betwixt his legs and run off." "Dennis?" "No, the dog. And when be camo bock at mc he got me down and poun pounded - ded pounded me yer, honor." "The dog came back at you ?" "No, Dennis, yer honor and that's all I did to him, ycr honor, and he isn't hurt any at all." "Who isn't hurt?" "The dog, ycr honor." ti" "I say, my friend, are you suffi sufficiently - ciently sufficiently acquainted with the topography of the neighborhood, to direct me to the nearest disciple of Esculapius?" "Wbieh?" "Could you direct mc to the nearest physicinn ?" "Hey?" "Can't you tell mc the way to tho doctor's ?" "Oh, want to find tbe doctor, do yo? YV by didn t you say so r The Albany Knickerbocker give." the following recipe to destroy flies : Take a common boarding-house pie, cut it into thin slices, and lay it where the flics can have full access to it. In less than 15 minutes the wbolo caboodle o.' them will be dead r.ith the colic. SSi 'Sister are you happy?' 'Yes, Deacon', I feci as though I was in Bclzcbub's bosom.' Not in Bclzebub's?' 'Well, some one ef the patriarchs, I don't care which.' tt3iWe have often heard of a man "being in advance of his age," but wb .--p.ver heard of a woman being in tbc sanie predicament? ti&'lt wa3 a maxim of General Jack Jackson's, - son's, Jackson's, Take time to deliberate ; but when the hour for action arrives, stoi thinking, and go in." 8gk An old sea captain used to sar he didn't care how he dressed when abroad, "because nobody knew him.'' And he didu't care how he drc scd when at home "because every body knew him." S& Never break your neck to bow to a "sweet sixteen," with a flounced dress, who is ashamed of her old fash fashioned - ioned fashioned mother ; or a strutting collegiate who is horrified at his grandmother's bad grammcr. A Pcnsylvania paper says: "Tbe printer wants grain, pork, talloic cundlrt, ivhislcc!, linncn, beeswax, wool, and any anything - thing anything else that ho can eat." ... Daniel snys he thinks that board boarders - ers boarders who are obliged to cat rossages three times a day dnrinrr doer-dava. ar insti- fied in growling t their for;

home 1 and the faee of the speaker glowed with pleasure, as he thought of the friends who were there to receive him. A few short months be before - fore before he had left his home to enter a dis distant - tant distant college. Vacation had come, and now he was hurrying on to his native village, to meet the warm embrace, the heartfelt welcome, of the loved ones at home. Joy go with thee ; yonng man, pleasant is thy home to thee, may love's sunshine ever gild brightly as now thy childhood's home I Almost home! and the widowed one bnrricd ber face in her bands, and wept bitter, scalding tears, as the little cot cottage, - tage, cottage, half hurried beneath the tall ma maples, - ples, maples, appeared in view, where in her maidenhood, she had passed so many pleasant hours. Memory pictured the scenes of the past, and as its pictures rose one by one before her, thicker fell her tears, as she thought of one whose presence had made those scenes radiant with joy. Scarcely a year ago, a happy happy-bride, - bride, happy-bride, she left her father's home to dwell with one whom she loved with all a woman's devotion. Friends gathered round to congratulate her on her happi happiness, - ness, happiness, but ere their congratulations were over, sorrow had taken place of joy. The idolized husband was suddenly call ed from earth to that unseen country from whose bourne no traveler ever re turns. Bowed down with the weight of her sorrows, she refused to leave the place hallowed by so many tendir as associations, - sociations, associations, but sought in solitude the comfort she so much needed. Then came intelligence of her mother's sick sickness - ness sickness how day after day she was pining away, longing for the soothing care, the loving tones, of her first-born, her only only-daughter. - daughter. only-daughter. Duty bade her to leave the place where no tics bound her save those of recollection, and hasten to her child childhood - hood childhood home to minister to the wants of an invalid mother. And now she was almost there. Home ! she felt that it would never again be home to her, and bitterly she wept, for ber heart was far away. Frail, mourning one, hast thou not learned that this is not our rest ; that here we have no abiding city, but our home is above? Lay up thy treasure there, and seek not in earth's troubled waters that which floweth from the purer springs of life eternal. Almost home ! so are wc all yet whither our Jootsteps bending.' Are we with earnest hearts and active zeal pressing onward in the narrow road that leadeth unto life ? or are we going down downward - ward downward in the broad road which leadeth to destruction and darkness of despair? To-day it is ours to decide where our home shall be: whether with the ran ransomed - somed ransomed one3 of earth at God's right hand, or to be banished for-cver from His presence to dwell with the fiends of darkness. New York Independent.

"May Lenox, you lazy creature! why aren't you at work? Come into the house aud let those worthless flowers alone." .The child silently obeyed; and while her harsh mistress is venting her ill na nature - ture nature on her defenceless' head, we will take a glanee at May and her past history. Left an orphan at an early age, she passed the first tea years of her life in the Work House; at that time Mr. and Sirs. Danton immediately fixed upon a stout, robust girl, two years older than May, but her husband was attracted by May's graceful manners and correct lan language, - guage, language, and still more by her beauty, and he determined, fur once, to havo his owu way, and accordingly asked her lt she would izo and live with him. "Yes, sir; I will go almost anywhere to cct away from this place, aud these bad people,'' answered she. Mr. Danton sat dowu by herside, and began questioning her about the place, the inmates, Sic. ,'f?be answered all his questions so quietly that he became more aud more interested in her, and did not notice that bis wife was waiting for him till she called his attention by saying : 'Come. Mr. Danton, I have selected a girf, and we had better be going." "You have ! Which, this one?" asked he, glancing at May. "That one ? No ! What do we want of that puny looking, sickly little thing? Here is the child I have selected;" aud she pointed to the rosy-cheeked, health lnoking girl at her side. May's head dropped on her bosom and her eyes fill filled - ed filled with tears ; Mr. Danton saw it, aud resolved that she should go. "We want a daughter, aud not a slave. said ho, -'and I like this one best, so we will take her. iiis wife protested, and declared she would not have any ll she could not have her choice ; but her husband was firm, and she had to yield ; resolving. however, that the child should be used so that she would soon be willing leave. But, though worked hard, and scold ed harder, the fresh country air and ex exercise - ercise exercise brought the bloom of health back to May's cheek, and strength and fal falsest - sest falsest to ber delicate form ; so that, the time she is introduced to the rea reader, - der, reader, two years after leaving the Work House, a more beautiful, healthy look looking - ing looking child could not be found in Dairy Dell than May Lenox. k-

Good. On a certain occasion the council took some exception to tho ru- linr ot the court on a certain point, a dispute arose. 'If the court please,' said the council, 'I wish to refer this book a moment,' and at the same time picked up a law volume. 'There's no use of your referring to any book, exclaimed the court angrily; I have decided the pint.' 'But your Honor' persisted the at attorney. - torney. attorney. 'Now, I don't want to bear anything on the subject,' yelled the court; 'I tell you again, I decided the pint.' 'I know that' was the rejoinder, 'I'm satisfied of that but this is a volume of Blackstone; I'm certain ho differs with your Honor, and I only want to show you what a d n fool Black Black-stone - stone Black-stone was I" 'Ah, that indeed !' exclaimed the court, smiling all over, 'now you begin to talk.' Precocious. Little Sis. "Oh, Bob Bobby, - by, Bobby, I'm a goin' to have a hooped dress, an oyster shell bonnet, a pair of ear eardrops, - drops, eardrops, and a buby !" Little Bob. "The thunder you is Well, I'm going to have a pair ot" tight pants, a Shanghai coat, a shaved head, a crooked cane and a pistol !" B" A subscriber to a moral reform paper called at our post-office the other day and inquired it the "-friend oj vir virtue - tue virtue " had come. "No," replied the Post Post-mastor, - mastor, Post-mastor, "there has been no such person hero for a long time." 'Prodigious I' By a series of inter interesting - esting interesting experiments lately mado in Phil Philadelphia, - adelphia, Philadelphia, a woman's tongue has been found capable of moving one thousand nine hundred and twenty times in minute. Think of that and wesp !