Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-05-26
shall be so happy on once more beholding


my mother"
"Spose likely you will, guess youTl be
about so much ticklcd, about so happy to
see one other of your lady friends, as your
MOTHER v laughed Az.
Here the conversation ended, Azariah
saw that Laman was in no mood for talk
ing, therefore he did not wish to disturb
him; why Laman was not in a mood for
talking, will be accounted for, from the
fact that he wished to indulge in thoughts
of his own.
There were two persons that were the
unconscious subjects of his thoughts his
mother and Carrie Carleton. He was won
dering how he should be received by each
Of them, separately, but above the former,
(tor he could imagine the welcome he
should receive at his mothers hands he
was wondering how Carrie would meet
him.
"And who is Carrie Carleton ~ asks
some of my readers, to such L would say,
"read on and you will sce"
Her father, (by name Mark, was the
only son of well off farmer, who had emf
grated to America, from Germany, living
in dutch settlement, Mark training was
in true dutch style When he came TO
years of maturity he took to himself a
wifc-and then followed the tide of emf
grafton westward.
In beautiful but lonely village in Ken
lucky, he purchased himself home. -
soon others came, and settled around him,
and in a few years it became II beautiful
little village, and was destined to become
Il large and fouri-hing town, in the course
Of Il few more years.
Although this was the case, and Mark
came in contact with those more enlighten-
ed than himself, still he retained his dutch
way of thinking, and his dutch superstition /;
and his own principles and ideas, he in
stillcd into the mind of his only child, Caro-.
ihc, IL SWceI SlTl Vi tcu ycarS.
Her gracctulness of form, and beautiful
features, alone, were enough to give plausi-
bilty to the adage, "all the beauty of the
dutch dcscends to their females but ad
dcd to these were her calm and gentle de,
mcanor, her ruddy checks her rosy lips
her mild blue eye, and her curly auburn
hair, falling i'll waving ringlets over her
ivory neck and shoulders.
OF her the poet might truly have said
THY form is graceful
y Thy fatur's fair;
One might almost suppose thee,
4 sylph of tn air"
. Yes, hers was an almost faultlcss form
She, the littl angel, that cheercd and sus-
tanned her mother in all the trials and af.
fictions in after life. She, the pride and
, the boast Of her father.
Reader, this was Carrie Carleton.
Mrs. Carleton, like her daughter, was
fair and comely; she had the same curly
auburn hair the same mild blue eye and
long lashes; she possessed that gentleness
yet frmncss, which will always command
the love and obedience Of children; and
that bright intellectual countenance which
SO favorably marked her daughter.
1t was from her that Carrie inherited
, that noble frmness of character that SC
> eifectually enabled her to bear with, and
overcome other troubles and trials in after
, life. And that christian nobleness of soul
that almost unequaled venoration for God
the giver of all good.
. Mark, was heavy set man, coarse ant
. stern ia manner, but under rough, uncoutl
4 exterior, there lay as warm heart as evel
4 the body of man contained.
A He really desired to do the best that la.
4 in his power for his child; however far h
J.. may have come from attaining his object
let us not censure him, but rather attrib
h ute it to his want of knowledge.
/. Though Carrie was by no means prod
ICY, yet did all the children in the yillag
n wonder at the knowledge and wisdom o
j. ''lovely little Carrie" Gas she was calle'
n by all who knew her. the more especially
as she could write letter, all of her owl
If composition, to her cousin living in Vir
II ginia.
The letter was one of invitation, inyi,
k ing her uncle and aunt, with himself t
n pay them Il visit.
Alas! poor Carrie! Little did she thin
~ that this same cousin to whom her childis
d epistle was directed, would cause her 3
d much trouble, as in the end it proved tha
he did. Little did she dream that sh
i" should ever rue her acquaintance with hir
SO deeply and so truly as she did.