Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-08


the Shakers:
I sot down to the table, and the fe
male in the meal bag poured out sum
tea. She sed nothln, aud for five min
its the only livtn thing in that room
was a old wooden clock which tickt in d
subdood and bashful manner in the cor.
ner. This deathly stiffness made me
uneasy, and determined to talk to the
female or bust. SO seq [, ''marraige is
again your rules, | bleeve, marm?"
: "Yay."
''The sexes liv strictly apart, spect?'
"Yay."
@It's kinder siugler,' sez l, putin on
my most sweetest look and speakin in
winnin voice, " that so fair made as
.thow never got hitched to sum likely
gfeller.n IN. B.-She was upward OF
forty, and homely as stump fence, but
Ithawt | "a tickil her.
sI don't like men, she sed, very
short.
aWall, I dunno, sez I, they're a
rayther important part Of the popula-
shun. I don't scarcely SEQ how we
could git along without en-
1Us poor wimHin. folks would cit
along great deal better if there was no
menn'
You'll excuse me marin, but don
think that air would work. 1t wouldn I
be reglers
II m fraid of fmen!' she said.
ssThat's unnecessary, marm. You
amt in no banker. Don't fret Yourself
on that pint.
esHere we're shut out of the sinful
world. Here all is peas. Here we are
brothers and sisters. We don't marry,
and consistently we have no domestic
difficulty. Husbans don't abooze their
wives wives don'tworrit their husbans
There's no children here to worrit us.
Nothing to worrit US here. No wick ed
matrimony here. Would thow like to
be Shaker?'
s.No, sez I. ait amt my stile."
l had now histed in as big load of
provishuns as could carry comfortable,
and leanin back in my cheer, commenst
pickin my teeth with a fork. The fe-
male went out, leavin' mesall alone with
the clock. I hadn t sot thar long be-
fore the elder poked his head in at the
door. you're man of SIM he sed,
and groaned and went away.
Directly thar cum in two young Sha-
keresses, as pretty and slick lookin'
gals as ever I met. 1t is troo they was
dressed in meal bags like the old one
I'd met previsely, and their shinny
silky har was hid from sight by long
white caps, such as | Ispose female costs
wear; but their eyes sparkled like di-
minds, their cheeks was like roses, and
they was charmiu enuff to make man
threw stuns at his grandmother, if they
axed him to. They commenst clearin
away dishes, castin shy glanees at NE
all the time. | got excited. forgot
Betsy Jane in my rapter, and sez I,
''my pretty dears. how are you?'
''We are we'll, " they solumly sed.
tWhar's the old MANI" sed I, in a soft
voice .
"0fwhom dost thow speak-brother
Uriah?'h
II mean the gay and festiv cuss who
calls me man Of sin. Shouldn't wonder
if his name was Uriah.
:s He has retired
Wall, my pretty dears seq I, eslet's
have sum fun. Let's play Puss in the
corner. What say?"
care you alShaker, sir?' they axed.
"WalI, nay pretty dears, haven't ar
rayed my proud form in a long weakit
yit, but If they was all like you perhaps
I'd jine EN-, As it is I'm Shaker
protemporary.
They was full Of fun. seed that at
fust, only they was little skeery I
= tawt EN- Puss in the corner and sich
like plase, and we had nice time;
leepin quiet Of course so the old man
shouldn't hear. When we broke up.
sez |, my dears, ear | go you have no
! objections. hav you, to a innersent kiss
at partin?"
Yay,' they sed, and l yay'd.
Labor-Saving Machinery.
AtHaverhill, Massachusetts,, twenty
five persons, with certain machinery.
produce six hundred pairs of babies
shoes daily. All the stitching is done
by seaeing machines ran Ly steans-a com
bination of the two greatest mechanical
inventions. Every operation, except
fitting the shoes to the last, even to the
final polishing and cutting the pegs out
of the inside to prevent them from hurt
ing the foot, is performed by machinery.
One of the greatest curiosities is the
pegging machines, which inserts the
awl. cuts out the pegs from strip of
wood, and drives them in all at one op-
eration and so rapidly that it will peg
two rows around the sole of shoe in
twenty seconds. The facilities in this
mandatory are such that the raw calf
skin and sole leather can be taken in the
basement of the building, and in half an
hour turned out in the form Of com
plete pair of shoes!
The Hayes Arctic Expedition.
The many friends of this expedition
will be glad to learn that Congress has
passed an act, which has received the
signature of the President, to authorize
the name Omitted States patriotically
adopted by DIR. Isaac I. Hayes. for his
exploring schooner. The Philadelphia
Gazette, in reporting the above, says
ave should be glad to think that, Oh
the return of our 'countrymen from the
frozen zone, they will see still flying
with undiminished stars, the flag for the
honor of which they are now periling
their own lives and fortunes"
n@- Robert T. Lincoln, the eldest son
of the President elect, and who is ac-
campaigning him to Washington, is a
student at Harvard, and will shortly re-
turn to his class. He is a young man
of fine abilities and much dignity of
character. The reports in various pa
pers intimating that his course of life is