Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-04-24

and played with her apron-string. Then, as
/ Il still doubling, she, looked up again, her
/ eyes swimming with tears, and said, with
trembling lips: What mast say, thena'
Jonas took courage, and whispered, half
aloud. "DOst tl4ou love me with all thy
! Aeart2p
IIalf aloud, Martha whispered back,
Thy heart knows IT,"
| ''Canst thy heart be satisfied with dry
bread and sali'"
"Ra'ber salt from thee than tears from
me.'
"Marilra, will work for thee; wilt thou
save for me?'
81 will be sparing in everything, except
my own psins,'
''Neil, then, darling here is my handl--
Take il Vii, taou be mae!"
""as not thine eight years ago and
morc' Even as child! Yet no! 1t
ought not to be, Jonas.
| Alarmed, he looked in her face and ask
ed: 'Npt be! and whya"
"fhink well over it, jonas Do thyself
30 injustice. Any other buraher's daugh-
ter in Tie town would be glad to give thee
her hand and heart, and a good dowry be-
sides. Thou might'st live much better"
'sSay nothing about lhat," cried Jonas,
stretching ont both his han Is imploringly.
"Be still; shall feel that am but begin
ning to live, if thou wilt promise to live
with me
'I.ivc, them" said she, il Flushing en-
barassmeat, and gave him her band.
| lie took her hand, and at the same time
clasped bis bride to bis bosom, that heaved
! With uuwonted emotion. She wept on his
breast in silent joy.
/ We would fain, il we had room, add to
this tie marriage sermon, preached by the
bridegroom, and well preached, too; for
onss bad knowledge, although, as he said
himself, Ag never found half 50 much il
books a> is lying everywhere about the
read
Martha was JUS, the wife fer the honest
sensible hand worker; and, as it frequent
! y happens with SUCH characters, lis af'airs
] pyospared from the date Of his marriage
lie took largo house in better situltlon
fer trade, ana, having presented the use
less master piece, which nobody would bug,
TO the Prince, lie was rewarded by the dig
nity Of '.Master girller to tie Court"
Bat still '.uprigh;iy and hardly the court
| girdlcr lived With bis wife, just as before;
active in the workshop aud warehouse, at
markets and at fairs. Year after year fed
though, before the last gulder could be
paid of Of the debt on the house, days of
/ JOY aud of sorrow succeeded each other in
turn. They were all received with grati-
tnde to God, these as well as those"
We now come hastily to the third gene
rationi for Jonas had a son called Veit.
who xss at first apprenticed TO his father.
and then sent to travel as journeyman.
The patriarch had 40 education at all; Jo-
uas had snaiche6 at his just as oppor,uni-
ties permitted; but Yeit> went regularly
| through the brief aud practical curriculum
| fitted foI tradssman's son. He was, cop-
sequcntly, better informed aud more re.
fined than either Lis father or grandfather
and spent so much time in gaining thor
ough insight into the branches connected
with his own business, that honest Jonas
was quite puzzled.
"Where did the boy get all these no.
tions!" said he. ''He did not get them
from me, I'm sure"
| Veit had bad opinion Of the travelling
custom, and for these reasons:--ssHow
should these mon, most Of them badly
brought up, attain to any greater perfection
IN their business If they have left home and
school without any preparation for itl No
one can understand, if bis understanding
has been developed. From one publican
they go to another, from one workshop to
another; everywhere they find the old COM
mon track-the mechanical, mindless life
of labor, just as in the very first place to
which they were sent to learn their trade.
At most they acquire dexterity by prac-
tice. Now and then they learn trick
from master, or get a receipt, which had
been cautiously kept secret; when posses
se3 Of this they think something of them
selves. Even the character CT these RAM
blers Is not seldom destroyed By inter
course with their fellows. They learn
drinking and rioting, gambling and licen-
ticusneas, caballing and debating Many
are ruined before they return to their ma
tive place. Believe the, dearest father, tho
time of travel is to very few true school
for life; one in which, through frequent
change of good and evil days, the head ac-
quires experience, the thoughts strength
aud clearuess, the thoughts strength and