Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-04-13


ifcation of subduing us, breaking us into his
bumors, aud. as he once said, fogging the
rebe1fious devil out of US How he succeeded /
IN this will be seen.
Hitherto we had had. literally, no educa-
ton For when our father sent us to school, I
as he once did, upon the first atrempt at the |
inhiction of punishment we had made I'll gbt /
for it, subsequently escaping and returning
home to be half laughed at, half commended
not ordered back But now there was no
disputing the will of my uncle, even if we
had been. inclined to attempt it. TO board |
ing-scbooi we went accordingly.
Yorkshire schools have. of late years, OBJ !
taiped most unenviable notoriety. In my
dav all schooling was conducted on severer
principles than the more fortunate youth of
this generation have any idea of. Punish
ment by blows and starvation formed an Or
dinary part of it. l do not know that the
school selected by my uncle had savager
master or a cruelle- disciple than many 9th
ers, but am sure that more direct method
for the perversion of every honest and manly
quality could not have beee devised than the
grinding tyranny which, 1nder the name of
an education. wc endured for two years.
Strong boys st transformed into bullies weak
BOYS into towards and liars.
! We experienced enough Of it and to spare.
/ am not going into detail-suifice it to say,
that we were not conquered easily. One thing
oar school discipline taught us-to bear, per-
| haps to inflict. pain.
We never wen: home for the holidays, or
saw our uncle's face, until the expiration of
! two years. He paid the schoolmaster's bills
regularly, aud received reports of US from
! him The word came for Us to return. We
| had mad all the schooling considered necessa-
ry. All we were destined to have, as it
| proved.
Katy was more beautiful, and more con
scious of it, than ever, when we saw her
again. Often as we had talked of her-Jack
was especially prone this, and once tried his
hand at schoolboy letter TO her, which the
schoolmaster confscsted, foggirg hin, for
writing it-we had never pictured to ourselves
such loveliness as two years had developed in
her whom we always regarded as our cousin.
I am not good at description, or [ would
attempt to convey some idea of Katy's face.
Though don't think words alone could do
it. [ see it in my dreams sometimes-dreams
that it is dreadful to wake from-but shall
never meet its sinliitude again, uuiess iu
Heaven
The struggle between US and our uncle
commenced Immediately. He never made
any pretence of liking us. always addressing
as rather IS dogs than human beings. 1
think the spirit with which we met and re-
sented this treatment presented sorne sort of
Internal satisfaction to him. The day after
our return enraged at defiant answer Of
Jsck's, he took horsewhp, and. in spite of
furious resistance, fogged him merciessly.
My turn came soon enough, and after that it
wos all oaths, curses and blows on one side,
and desperate but Intellectual struggles on the
other We should not have remained in the
l.
We we're both in love with her.
| You may smile at the idea of the passions
entertained by boys of twelve and fifteen for
girl of thirteen. But avn sure that nothing
, have since experienced was more real or all
I engrossing The trivial incidents conpected
r with it remain indellibly impressed upon my
memory, while thousands of more important
events which have trapspired since, are for
! gotten. l recollect the color of ribons in her
I hair. the look and scent of flowers she wore
. the precise aspect of the rooms in which She
t sat and worked or moved about, even in The
J. minutest detail. Sometimes this retrospee-
c tier is misery to me.
l loved her with my whole bcyish soul
!, The sound of her g;rlish voice, the very rus
v tie of her dress, affected me with deliciou:
n pleasure which was half pain. l have woke
e up at night from delirious dream to sob ou
a knew, at the same time, that my passion wa
d irrational and absurd, and that she was no
II worthy of it. Belief in the object is no
o necessary to love. man shall be well con
Y vincei in his heart that no good can come o
n his success, that peace and happiness do no
t. lie there-nay. shall be sure of the mora
perversity of her he worships-yet shall b
:, ready to risk life and soul to get her.
is My brother passion was equally vehe,nen
e and he became sayagely jealous of me-
e think he had greater faith in her than /
$, showed his feelings with less disguise, an
1t was therefore more cruelty sported with L
d woing coquette-aDd Katy was born CO
rs quette-he who feels OF betrays least emotio
x will have most chance Of success, for he coul
=. avoid uDpleasing manifestations while his ri
ii val is morbidly sensitive to every look, wor
and action, at once axacting, slavish and re
/, belious.
: KATY cared for neither of US, but her fickl
IN favors were sometimes bestowed upon me
N was considered the handsomest, though a
lr ways with an air seniority which in her on
he years difference in age rendered equally IL
dicrious and exaggerating Tormented b
IN her caprice I found cruel pleasure
fe augmenting Jacks sufferings. Very soon
~ hated me with all the strength of his ferc,
or ungovernabie nature. She knew it, aud III
o. concious of the depth aud danger Of the fee
be ings excited triumph in it.
ce OF course we made no con6dents. [ car
er not tell how my uncle became enlightened
II to the existing state OF affairs. When th
re happened his scorn Of what he considered OF
O. juvinle folly seemed to intensity bis brutal
at ty. Coarse Jibes and singing jeers. altern
u ted with blows and i'll usage, were still ha
UT der to bear, for boys are always sensitive
ke the extreme to ridicu!e. especially on th
be topic He taunted us to our faces befo