Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-10-14

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missing in the New Jerusalem, inquire tor
her at this clearinghouse ] don't mean
t6at; mean that THAT is, you -am--are
--confound it IL mean that you'll be what
mos, people call aslsdy of fortune. Aud |
looked fall in her eyes for the effect of the
ann cement.
l|Isre wasn't any, She said she was
thankful ahat had, what would save me
from drudQery, and that some other time
should tell her about it.. | nsver made
greater failure in an attempt to produce
sensation.
So the last day OF sumner csme- II was
our choice to go to church, but we had a
kind of reception at the boarding house -
The presents were all arranged, and among
them none gave more pleasure than the
rsoasss .ributes &c cur feRow-bodrders,-
for there was not one, believe, who die
not send something. The landIady would
insist on making an elegant bride-cake, with
her own hands; to which Master Benjamin
Franklin wished to add certain embelish-
ments cut of his private funds namely, a
Cupid in a mouse-trap, done in white sugar,
and two miniature flags with the stars and
stripes, which had very pleasing effect, |
assure you. The landiady's daughter sent
a richly bound copy of Tupper's POEMS
On ablank leaf was the following, written
in a very delicate and careful hand:
Presented to - by
On the eve ere her union in holy matrimony.
May sunshine ever beam o'er her.
Even the poor relntive thought she must
do something, and sent "a copy off'The
Whole Duty of Man." bound in very at
tractive vuriegated sheep skin, the. edges
nicely marbled From the divinity student
came thelovelies English edition of "Keble's
Christian year" opened it, when 1t C me
to the Fourth Sunday in Lent, and read
that angelic poem, sveeter than anything
can remember since Xavier's "My God,
love thee" am not a cburchnefi--l
don't believe in planting oaks in flower
pots-out such poemas '..The Rose Bud
makes ones heart proseyte te the culture
it grows from. Talk about it as muchssas
you like--one's breeding shows j'self ag-
where more than in his religion. A Ean
should be gentleman in his hymnssa nd
PRAYERS; the fondness for "scenes." among
vulgar saints, contrasts so meanly with
that
"God only and good angels look
Behind the blissul scene,n-
and that other
.sHe could not trust his melting soul
Bat in his Makers sight, -
that hope some of them will see this, and
read the poem, and profit by it.
Ny laughing and winking young friend
undertook to procure and arrange the flow.
ers for the table, and did it with immense
zeal. never saw hin, look happier thar
when he came IN, his hat saucily on unt
side, and cheroot in his mouth, with q
huge bunch of tea roses, which he said were
for MADAM"
One of the last things, that came was ar
old square box, smelling of camPhor, tiee
and sealed. 1t bore, in faded ink, the marks
"Calcutta, 1905" On opening it, we ioun(
a white Cashmere shawl, with very brie
note from the dear Old gentleman opposite
saying that he had kept this some years
thinking he might want it. and many more
not knowing what to DO with it-that b
had never seen it uniolded since he was I
young supercar go--and now, If she wouls
spread it On her shoulders, it would make
him feeryoung TO look at it.
DtdA n I'M a
maid of al work What must she do bu
buy small copper breast-pin, and put i
under "Schoolma ANS" plate that morning
at breakfast! And Schoolma'a 'am would
wear t-though made her cover it, as el
as could. with tea-rose.
1t was my last breakfast as boarder, an
could not leave them in utter silence.
Good bye-I said-my dear friends, on
and all of you have been long with you
and find it hard parting. ] have to thanI
you for thousand courtesies, and above il
for the patience and indulgence with whicI
you have listened to me when have trie
to instruct or amuse you. My friend tn
Professof, (who. as well as my friend, tn
Poet, eduavoidably sbsent on thisinteres'
I ing occasion has given me reason to sup
pose that he would occupy my empty chal
about the first of January next. If ne come
among you, be kind TO him, as you hav
been to me. May the Lord bless you all
And we shook hands III round the table.
Half an hour afterwards the 6reakta'
things and the cloth were gone. locke
> up aud down the length Of the bare board
| over which had SO often uttered my SEM
ments and experience-and-Y al
e man. like another.
d All sadness uanished. as, in the midst
q these old friends OF mine, whom you know
:, and others little more up in the worl
: perhaps, to whom have not introduced yo
}, took the schoolmistress before the alt
IS from the hands of the old gentleman wi
'i used to sit opposite. and who would insi
y on giving her away.
1t And now we two are walking the iol
path in peace together The "schoolml
ID tress" finds her skill in teaching called
Is again, without going abroad to seek lt'
Of scholars. Those visions of mine have
10 come true.
l. hope YOU all love me none the less
n anything have told you. Farewell!
te
n, Evening.
Il" There are two periods in the life Of m
a in which the evening hour is peculiarly
terestinq-in youth and in old age.