Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-12-28

SKETCHES BY FANNY Fern. Mems Rights = Wo-
mems Rights throw down the gauntlet for chit
drens Z2agAts Yes little pets Fanny Fern S about
takin' notes. and she'll sprint seln, too, you
don't get your dues. She has seen you seated by a
pleasant window, in railroad car, with your bright
eyes dancing with ght at the prospect OF all the
pretty things you were going to see orcibly elected
by some oYergrownss Napoleon, who fancled your
place. and thought in his wisdom that children had
taste for anything but sugar candy; she knew
that the pretty trees and flowers and blue sky, gave
your little soul thrill of delight, though you could
not tell why; and she knew that great big man
soul was great deal smaller than yours, to sit there
and read stupid political paper, when such glow
ing landscape was before him. that he might have
feasted his eyes upon And she longed to wipe away
the big tear that you didn't dare to let fall and she
understood how little girl boy that didn't get
ride every day in the year. should not be quite able
to swallow that great big lump in the throat, he
or she sat janIned down in dark crowded corner
of the car instead of sitting by that pleasant Win
dow. Yes, and Fanny has seen you sometimes, when
you've been mued up to the tip of your little nose
in wooden wrappers, in close crowded church, nod
ding your little drowsy heads and she has seen you
sitting like little auomatons, in badly ventilated
school-room, with your nervous little toes at just
such an angle for hours, under the tuition of Miss
Nancy Nipper, who didn't rush whether your
spine was crooked the letter S. or not, if the
Great K0guI C0n.mittee, who marched in once
month to make the "grand tour" voted her model
scAool-narm. Yes and that amt aU.. She has seen
you sent off to bed just at the witchng hour of can
delight, when some entertaining guest was III the
middle Of delightful story that you poor, misera-
Die " little pitcher" was doomed never to hear the
end of! Yes and she has seen the line and plum
met" laid to you so rigidy that you driven to
deceit and evasion; and then seen you punished Tor
the very sin your tormentors helped you to commit.
And she has seen your ears boxed gust as nara Tor
tearing a hole in your best pinatore, or breaking
china cup as for telling big lie as Ananias and
Sapphira did And when, by patient labor, you had
reared editce of tiny blocks, airer in its archl-
tectural proportions your nfantile eye than any
place in ancient Romeo she has it ruthlessly
kicked into shattered ruin by somebody in the
house, whose dinner hadn't digcsted. Never mind.
I ,cish sods another to the achole Of you! Such
glorious times as we'd have! Reading pretty books
that lad big cords IN el-going to school where
YOU could sneezc without getting a rap the head
for not asking leare first and going to church on
the quiet blessed Sabbath where the minister, like
the dear Saviour, sometimes remembered to = take
little children in his arms and bless them" Thenif
you asked me question, wouldn't pretend not to
hear or lazly tell you " don't know, or turn you
off with some fabulous evasion for your memory to
chew for cud till you were old enough to see how
YOU had been fooled And I'd never wear such
fashionable gown that you couldn't climb my lap
whenever the fit took refuse to kiss you for fear
you would rutlle my curls, my collar, or my tenn
per-not bit of ii; and then you should pay me
with your merry laugh. and your little contidng
hand slid ever trustngly in mine. Oh! tell you,
my little pets, that Fanny is sick of din, and strife,
and envy, and uncharitabeness; and I'd rather, by
ten thousand live in little world full of fresh guile
less loving little children than in this great
full Of such dry, dusty, SoithGred hearts!
Fern Ledres
"WANrED-A young man of industry, ability and
integrity" &C., &c.
This meets our eye daily in the column of Wants.
and it is as true Pentateuch. Wanted? of course
be overstocked; they will always be called for, and
never quoted dull" "salc." Wanted for
thinkers-wantcd for workcrs-in the mart, on the
main, in the field and the forest. Tools lying
1llo no a nam a IS
to be nhbed tree to be filed pillow to be guild
ed; village to be founded a school to be instruc-
ted
They talk about staples and great staples. Hon
est, Industrious able yoWng the great staple
in this world of ours Young man you arc want
ed but not for Doctor No, Lawyer. There
enough of them for this generation and
tHo to spare. Don't study "A profession unless it
be the profession of brck-layng, or some other of
the manual professions. Don't measure tape if you
help it. 1t is honorable and honest, and all
that, but then you do better Of ali things,
don't rob the women. It's their prerogatiye to ham
die silks and laces, tape and thread Put on your
hat then, like man, don an apron, and go out of
doors. Get good glow your check, the jewcry
of toll upon your brow, and GOOD Set of well deve
oped muscles We would if we COULD but thcnzwe
were young, longer ago than we like to think, and
you know when one is old he cont.
Besides, if you become a doctor, you'll have to
wait-"bccause you haven't experienced" says
cd practitioner " because you are two young" says
all the women. If you are lawyer, and likely to
rise, thcy'n put weight on your head, la Swiss,
to keep you under, or if you make good argu-
ment, some old opponent, as grey rat will kick
it over, by some taunt or other, because you were
not born in the year And so it will 60 until
you grow tired and soured, and wish you had been
tinker, perhaps {" an immortal one, anything
but just what you arc.
BE farmer, and your troubles over, or rather,
they don't begin. You what you stand on,
from the centre of the earth, they used to say
up to the sky" you are Independent all day, and
tired, not weary at night The more neighbours you
have, and the better farmers they are the more and
the better for you.
There's one thing young You are
wanted: young 'eoman wants you. Don't forget
her. No matter if you poor. Don't wait to be
rich. If you do ten to one if you fit to be mar
ried at ali, to anybody's that's fit to be married
Marry while you are young and struggle up togeth-
er, lest in the years to come, somebody shall adver
tse Young mon wanted" and none to be had
Neoo York Tribune.
ALAMANCE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
A meeting was held at the court house in Graham,
on Tuesday the 9th inst for the purpose of organi
zing Society in Alamance county for the promotion
of A oriculture DornpStic Mamma onI Mo-