Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-08-03
EBENSBuRG, Pa, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1859.

at any rate. Turn your face down hill, and
there will be plenty to help you on the road
Have glass of wine? ct was brought, and
they drank.) That cost me ten dollars bot
tle-or will, when it's paid for. Ha ha
see you stare But I'll wager I'm much
happier than old Milligrubs over the way,
who is rich and counts his mouthfuls'
On the strength of long acquaintance,
Mr. Mark volunteered little prudential
counsel to Mr. Crash; but he saw it was
thrown away, SO he desisted and Departed
But he saw before be went, that behind all
| this seeming gayety deep anxiety was lurk-
ing, and bis kind heart ached for the reck-
| less votariess Of extravagaace.
so goes the world ? thought he 'Bow
much of the misery of which the world COM
plains is made by themselves! All! here is
| Cottages house. I must bid them good bye.'
| 1t was the poorest dwelling in the court
an old wooden tenement, which had crush
cd look, by the side of the lordly dwellings
which rose in towering pride around it, as if
it longed for the annihilation to which rise
in land would soon consign it.
Mark knocked at the weather beaten door,
and a poorly clad, bat bright-faced woman
opened it and welcomed him in. A cheerful
wood fire burned in the ld-fashioned fire
place, and babys socks were drying on the
heads of the andirons, The rosy baby slept
smiling in pine cradle. There was no paint
on the floor, bat it was white with work.
Such kitchen utensils as were visible, preach
ed silent sermons of tidiness and order. Mr..
| Cottage was carpenter, and was drawing
plans for house.
Excuse my bringing you into the kitchen,
said Mrs. Cottage, but you know we are
poor and can't afford two fires
Glad to see you Mr.. Mark, says Mr.. Cot
tage, but sorry to loose SO good a neighbor,
for [ hear you going away. l hope you
will come back rich
Thank you-I hope SO, too; though money
don't insure happiness always
| We are poor enough but we have health,
and food, and shelter such as it is and as
long as we have work, We can keep the vol
from the door, as the saying is, and l DOM
worry for more. As to my wife, she car
speak for herself
Z don't want to be any happier said Mrs
Cottage, and can't expect it. [ see so many
unhappy people, that it makes me Thankful
that we are as well off as we are, though we
do live very humblyH % ;.
You are rich in having such disposition
L think 20, replied Mr. Cottage. W.
every day manage to give something to th'
poor after being turned away from othe
doors.
Mark took his leave, and on the following
day babe farewell to his native land, ove
which as he gazed, he felt he might never SCI
again.
His business bound him for period of tel
years; and then, with eager heart, he re
turned from his long but prosperous exile.
Soon after landing, be repaired to the ole
familiar court. But there were none of hi
aequaintances to be found there. He ascer
tanned the address of them, and called upon
them forthwith.
The carpenter haG become rich man, ant
! lived in handsome mansion after congrat
ulating them, Mark asked what had becom
of the old neighbors.
The Clutches, you will be astonished t.
: : hear, now live in a cellar, in an obscure par
of the city,
And the Crashes? !?
They crashed till about four years ago
when everything was taken from them; the
board some place
: And the Covets ?
Both died of some complaint brought o
by worrying about the affairs of other people
AS Mr. Mark walked to his hotel, he pon
dered seriously upon the changes which ha
occurred to those four families in the shol
G space of ten years and it seemed to hii
= = that if some story writer would be made &C
quanted with the facts. he might deem thel
: worthy of narrative, if only for the NOR,
!, they contained.