Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1844-07-18

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determination TO buy it, and | tell you
now that ! will not sell it,
This, Mr. Clifford, needs no repeti-
ton
Ave, bui i, does, and when that Young
lady made The same request ior her piano
my answer was the same. Stop, Sir,
hear me out no man would act so with
nut motive; no one, particularly ii
stranger, would court the displeasure Of
\ crowded room, aud bear up against the
lrowns OF many without an object Now
| had nn oblect--and that was-be seat
| ed, Sir Madam your attention = that
object was, To buy this house aud furnl
lure, for the sole purpose Of restoring
them To you and yours again =
Sir, Is this not cruel Jest /"
is 1t possible ? exclaimed mother and
daughter.
Amazemcnt took possession of Mary,
aud her trunk fell to the floor wlih a
crash, causing her small stock OF clothing
10 roll out, which she eagerly gathered
up, and thrust back, without any regard
to the manner in which it was done.
'Ihe auciioneer, continued Mr.. Cliff
ford, has my instructions to have matters
arranged by the morrow. In the mean
time, YOU are at home, Mr. Sunderland, ,
YOU are IN your own hSuse-and the
INTRUDER
'lnlrudcr, SIR Oh say not that
will tell You what IA relief this knowledge
is TO me, but am to repay you for all
! his and what could have INDUCED you,
tnia! stranger, thus to step forward -
All thought strikes me--gracious
heaven Can il be hook on me Mr.
| Clifford nay, start not The stranger
actually recoiied from the glance of
Sundctand's ese-'luuk on me, Sir :;
has that eIrl-lhat innocent gin-who
stands trembling there, any interest in
this generous act Of yours speak, Sir,
and let me know n, once, that may
spurn Your offer and resent the insult.
i viii not deny, Sir, but she has
'Me, Father, dear Father never
before saw the gentlcman's face
Say not 50, Miss
'Sr-i indeed Father, -
Remember ten years back--call to
mind light haired boy, whom you call
ed
BroRcr -
Gracious heaven Henry my boy
is neHE-.l am your long lost son =
Need we add more Our readers
can readily imagine that more cheer
iuI fire blazed upon The hearth, and that
| Mary, the faithful servant, was not for
gotten in the general JOY which prevailed
un the occasion.
PoTAToEs WITH THE BoyEs IN.-We
are told that "there is reason in roasting
eggs s"-and there ought To be the same
N roasting and boiling potatoes. But
there will probably be few OF my readers
who can readily assign a reason why the
all but universal custom among the poor
OF Ireland is to only hallboll their pota-
toes, leaving the centre so hard that il il
called the bone of the potato Consid-
ering that this root constitutes nearly the
whole of the laboring mans food, il seems
extraordinary that il should not be proper
! ly cooked. especially as the want Of fuel
is hardly ever felt in this land Of boys. -
Ii Is my habit, whenever any unusual
phenomenon presents itself to my obser
valiun 10 endeayor to unravel the my ystcry
myself before making inquiry of others
In the present case | stumbled on the
true solution ot the problem, and found
. Al la e., ft.r
IS scarcely more indIges;ible substance
taken into the human stomach than IA
half boiled potaioe and to a moderately
dyspepic Engli,hman such diet would
be little loss than poison. II Is this very
quality OF indg gestibIIiiy that rec ommends
the par-boiIed potato to the poor lrish-
man. Rarely indeed have the laboring
classes more than two meals Of these III
the twen,y!our hours ; and if they were
well boiled, the pangs OF hunger would
De lnsu!Ierah.e during considerable por
ton of the day and night. Custom, for
tunatrly, is a second nature aud custom
has SO recnnclled the poor iti-hmau's
stomach to this wretched food, that even
the children complain if they find no
"boae ia lie poiaioe.' The simplicity of
their diet, their exposure 10 the open
ar, their pa,IeHl resignation to their fate,
and many other causes, rcuJer them little
susceptible to the mseiies of dyspepsy :;
while the bones of the potatoes protract
the period Of digestion I'LL sleep renders
them unconscious Of the cravings OF
hunger As feather will often show
The direction OF the wind better tBan "A
well poised weahercock, 50 this simple
fact demonstrates more forcibly the
poverty Of the Irish peasantry than II
philosophical dissertation on the subject.
! may here remark, that although the
children OF the cotters look chubby, and
The people healthy, on IA potato diet, yet
when the Irish aborers come over to this
country, and are employed IN hard work
as navlgators, &c, they are found unc-
quail to the task till they are fed Tor some
DAYS on bacon, bread, and potatoes. -
They are like horses taken from grass,
and incapable OF hard labor tlIl fed for a
time on hay and corn Dr. James JOhn-
sons I'Our ~ Eeiand.
A CoLoREp LAWYER Mr.. Macon
b. Allen of Portland (and formerly OF
Boston, Mass. colored, whose applca-
ton for admission to the Bar IN Aprl
last, under the new act, was, as We
stated IN our paper at the time, refused
on the ground chat the applicant was not
citizen Of Maine, in the coOtempla'lon
Of said act, subsequently applied under
Lhr LII Inn in hn nhniilnd hv nNnninn.