Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-30


publisher was just closing his sanctum,
but he gave the information the widow
required, and, favorably impressed with
Mrs. Glenn's appearance and manner, the
publisher, quaker, interrogated her on
various points of her present condition,
prospects, ETC., and observed that, but for
her children, he had no doubt of the
widows suiting the old man exactly.
But thee must not be neglected, or
discarded from honest industry, because
of thy responsibilities, which God has
given thee" said the quaker. eff thy
lad is stout of his age, and a good boy, l
| win provide for him he may learn our
business, and be off thy charge, and thee
may be enabled to keep thy two female
children about thee"
On the following Monday, the widow
signifed her intention of writing a few
lines as an applicant for the situation of
housekeeper, and afterwards to consult
with the publisher in regard to her boy,
Martin, and then bidding the courteous
quaker farewell, she sought her humble
domicil with a much lighter heart than
she had lately carried from her distressed
and lonely home.
In an ancient part of the Quaker city,
facing the broad and beautiful Delaware
river, stood a venerable mansion but
few of this class now remain in Philadel-
phia, and the one of which we now speak
but recently passed away, in the great
confagration of 1850. In this substan-
tial and stately brick edifce, lived one of
the wealthy and retired ship brokers of
/ Quakerdom. He was very wealthy,
very eccentric, very good-hearted, but
passionate, plethoric, equity, and seventy
years Of age. Mr.. Job Carson had lived
loug and seen much he had been so en-
crossed in clearing his fortune, that from
twenty-five to forty he had not bethought
him Of that almost indispensable appen-
dage to a mans comfort in this world-a
wife. He was the next ten years con-
sidering the matter over, and then, having
built and furnished himself a costly man
sion, which he peopled with servants,
headed by a maiden sister as housekeeper,
Job thought, upon the whole-to which
his sister added her strong consent that
matrimony would greatly increase his
cares, and perhaps add more noise and
confusion to his household, than it might
counterbalance or offset by probable COM
fort in "wedded happiness, so temptingly
set forth to old bachelors.
" No. said JOB, at ffy,"I'll not marry,
not trade of my single blessedness yet
at least, there's time enough. there's wo-
men enough; I'm young, hale, hearty, in
the prime of life no, I'll not give up the
ship to woman yet"
Another ten years rolled along. and
the thing turned up in the retired mer-
chants mind again-he was now sixty,
and one, at least, of the objections to his
entering the welded state, removed-for
a man at sixty is scarcely too young to
marry, surely.
"Ah, its all up" quoth Job Carson.
" I'm spoiled now. I've had my own way
so long, could not think of surrendering
to petticoats, turning my house into a
nursery, and turning my back on the
joys, quiet and comforts of bachelorhood
No, no, Job Carson-matrimony be hang
ed. You'll none of it." And so ter
years more passed-now age and luxury
do their work.
"Oh, that internal twinge in my toe
Oh, there it is again-hang the gout, i
can't be gout. DR.. Bleedem swears I'm
getting the gout. Blockhead-none O
my kith or kin ever had such an infer
nal complaint. Oh, ah-h-h, that tarna
window must be sand-bagged, given me
this pain in the back, and-Banquo-o-o!'
" Yis, massa, here I is" said a gooc
natured, fat, black and sleek looking olf
! darkey, poking his shining, grinning face
into the old gentleman's study, sitting
playing or smoking room.
Here are you ? Where? you blacl
sarpint, come here go to Jackplane, tn,
! carpenter, and make sashes tight, d'y,
} hear 2"
"Yis, massa, denis EN- Use off"
No, you amt come here, Banquo
you woolly son of Congo, you-go opel
my liquor case, bring the brandy an,
some cool water. There, now, clear your
SELF"
: His, massa, Use gone dis time"
i No, you amt, come back go to oil
Joe Wmepipes, and tell him l send M
compliments to him, and if he wants t
continue that game of chess, let him com
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