The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-17

1ne contest eeLtieo tue question: VI suPre-
macy. Her young master thonghts it best,
however to follow it mp with 7deHniteSSsess
and strictness Of rules. Hence the next
morning, he quietly announced that whisper
ing was thenceforth Forbidden and that the
penalty of afsingle violation would be ferru-
ling upon the hand.
Two hours passed in great quferpde.
- .sBuzzz D." from the corner of the room.
The master looked up All was quiet. 8
- 9 Who whispered 2 = ,-,sd a.
No answer. 2. - &
TIE master became stern. ~.
Z. q sThe scholar that whispered then win come
f6StSArd aud be whipped"
Sweeping his eye across that portion Of the
room Ne could not possibly detect the cufprit
a pale, haifsfckiy fsce looked paler than
usual, but e soatId HHet be her. One face was
flushed and anxious, but it might be for q
friend. One little girl began to cry, and one
the peacemaker or tie previous day-sat
and looked into HIS eyes with q very strange
expression, but it couldn't be Mira, and the
master felt sinking at tie heart as the pos
sibility Mashed upon aiP; T.. -, y
desk and wept.
"The pupil who broke the rule will come
forward and be punished" he repeated.
ait was the masters turn to tremble now;
for Mira, looking like anything but Aculprit-
pale, but with a sort of radiance in her sweet
face, rose from her seat, and walked down the
Poor Mr. Biladgeni Bildi When Bill Stokes
stalked out upon the floor the previous day,
the master had half relished the prospective
conflict. But here was Mira, the light and
life of that village school Mira l-unclasp-
ing the pale girls arm from her little round
waist, and coming easily deXp the aisle, the
little pink-sPottsd lawn, fising gnder her
throat with the least pereeptible fHiter, and
her eyes liked on the master, with . hook
which vent to his soul-Mirai
Mr.. Blagden drew deep breath, felt the
blood forsaking his face, and running and
eddying about his heart He looked around
the room. Every eye was upon hin.
As Mira held out her hand, and the dra-
perry sleeve of the pink lawn fell off from an
arm such as artists watch for It was a little
hand. sfits,, light, velyety. The master held
the tips of the taper fingers and lifted the
ferrule- While, he poised the instrument in
the breathless hush, the little hand twitched
once with the least possible nervousness. His
eye forsook the wrist, down to the elbow. He
now glanced Ut the little round waist, aud
then into the eyes, 1t wis dangerous jour
ney for those eyes of his. The ferirtGile came
down from its eyerie without touching the
hand.
"Take your seat, Mira. ~, :.
The Master stepped to his desk and tapped
the bell. The books were put in their places.
Another tap and the pdpils defled from the
room The pale girl fingered by the desk,
and while they were marching out murmured
through her sobs: is so.lasl .se
sit was me who whispered"
,aYou?" qs.- -
eyes, me; ahd Mira didn't whisper a bit. y
Blagdeh sat At his desk when the school
room was empty and still, and wrote Mr.. Car
ruthers another letter rl.1 r. ri $3.50 sa
"DEAR SIR FL resign my situation to-day:
- Yours, truly, FRANK BLAeDEN."
And then he wrote another: -izs sa>
ssMira, my good and noble pupil I'm GO
| ing away. / shall not teach any more any
anywhere. l shall come and see you by and
by, if you will not forget your teacher while
| he is gone. "a isssiI Ieftnsh.ssTg sdT
| FRANK BLAGDEN."
Mira did not forget him while he was gone
as he knew very well when he came back, the
moment he saw her face, and felt the futter of
| her little hand So s 85ae. =.
When he asked Mira to give Kim that little
hand, she was still long, long time, but al
| last looked iip with an arch smile and through
her tears, she said, ssW ont you ferrule it p
1@The GAINESVILLE Courier, the Republi.
can organ for Muskingum County, thus speaks
of the defeat Of its party in that County al
the late election: -.
awe wish our Bell and Everett friend.
much joy in their new alliance, and hope that
the league of amity now subsisting between
them and the democracy, ahd Irish rail road
laborers, and the drunken rowdies who rent
the air last night with their yells, may Be last
| ing We hope, moreover, that the deas and
other vermin, which they may have caught
1 as well as any cutaseoas diseases they may
have contracted In their new associations, will
not be of much annoyance. Federalism and
Democracy, Paddyism and Loaferism, though
mutually repellant and separately disgusting
have proved to be Az, excellent compound
whose inkfedisnts, being we'll mixed and sha
ken, the Bell and Everet gentlemen can swal
low with gulp, as he would q dose of castor
/ oil, floating little whiskey at top and bottom
to take of the taste, HhiIe paddy can take
hnittnte faN without sc much as gfihhing.
i o ~. stf5 ------.s,..a ---2ne2 g -l...tsi
No MonE stASE srAfEs.-@-This This is one 70, o. O
the points made by the Republicans, some o
1 whom claim to stand by the same principles
as Washington, Jefferson and jackson. lie
| us see. 'aafosEt. - =. - - ~. ~
Washington signed the bill for the admis
sion of Tennessee slave State. sts ssl'.ta
l John Adams signed the bill for the adfnis
sion of Kentucky. y bae '.f5i'92la-'s'5 y
r. Jefferson purchased Louisian. - .,.1,..
| Monroe sigued the bill for the admission o
1 Alabama Mississippi and Missouri. a baa -
Madison sigEea the bill for the admissfo,
This list Of Presidenfs sofhpfiss the mos
llustrious names among the fathers 6f ,thi
government, and they all signed bills admit
ting slave States. 4fiiss4ts 1ls-f fo $3.50 .},of