The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1867-11-01
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CHAP. /.
1t wuz in Moo York city, that gay
metropolis, the sect NV luxury and re-
fnement, and the home NV John Nor
risey aud the Black Crook.
Thithcr had / como, after O how
| many days NV tircsome walkin ez the
rear guard NV drove NV the cattle IVA
| thousand hills NV western Pennsylvany.
wuz in Moo York, and on Broadway
wuz site The rumblin, jumblin, mass
NV wagons and stages and coaches the
sidewalks filed with hurryin mass,
the rich, the poor, the high. the low,
the proud, the humble, the aged, the
yoothful!
| gazed into the winder NV drug
store. Fatal gaze! Umfortnit look |!
That look he'd an infooence into my
fucher life.
| Wat did see?
| A card.
Thus 1t red "Barrett's Hair Restor-
ative!" with picter NV a man with
thin, gray loS afore usin 1t, and the
same man with heavy hair ez black ez
Poe's stately raven NV the days NV yore,
after yoosin it.
Only this and nothin more.
1t wuz enuff. My hair wuz gray. l
brought bottle and applied it ez by
directions on the wrapper.
CHAP. III.
| Home again home again! from a
furrin shore! ! wuz on the threshold NV
my homestid, wich wuz home to me,
humble though it wuz. Looizer Jane,
the wife NV my buzzum, wuz at the
gate gossipin with her nabor ez wuz
her wont.
"Looizer Jane !" shreekt /.
"S-i-rW sed she In a surprised tone.
"Ha," hist /, ais this the treatment II
fond husband receives on his return to
the buzzum NV his family?
Husband! 700? is't possible? Where
is them gray lox? Hast grown young
agin, ez when in manhood's prime thou
woodst and won me? 1t cannot be-
and yit,-that breath! 1t is! it isl"
and She swoondid at my feet. The chill
bren l he'd more trouble with, but they
finally acknowledged me. The nose
wuz the feecher they took hold NV; that
wuz unchanged.
CHAP. III.
Husband mine ~ sed she to me in
her winninest tone, "thy locks is black,
while mine, alas is gray. Buy for me
also Barrett's potent cure, that l may
be ez fust 700 knowd me in loves young
dream !"
Good l resist the entreaty? Nary. |
| bought bottle, and 10! in month she
wuz transformed. Her rusty gray hair
besome ez black ez jet. A new set NV
custom-made teeth, wich cost me fifty
dollars, completed the metamorphose,
and she wuz young agin,-her yooth
costin me fifty-one dollars, cash.
Disastrous investment! Four weeks
from that date, she run off with a yam
kee pedlar, who sposed she wuz but
twenty-four!
Kin sue Barrett and git judgment
for her valyoo? Alas, no! And so l
plod on wearily and alone, mizable
objick. Good marry agin ez young
man, but this fond heart kin never
thump for anuther.
False Looizer Jane! Too eflicashus
Barrett! The eend.
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"The Guardian Angel" by DIR. O. w.
| Holmes.
Opinions of the late President Mott OF
Union College, respecting Books, Stud
les and Orators. BY Prof Sanborn, of
Dartmouth College.
Cretan Days, the first of a series ofar-
ticles by WI. Stillman, U. S. Consul
at Crete, describing the Island, and the
character and incidents of the struggle
between the CretAns and Turks,
Chanson with out Music. BY o. w.
Holmes.
The Rose Rollins, concluded, by Alice
Cary. ................
In the Gray Goth. A story by Miss
L. Stuart Phelps. ...
Busy Brains. \ chapter of Literary
Anecdote, by Austin Abbott.
Part Second, and last, of "The Autob-
Biography of a Quack."
A short essay on the authorship of the
noted poem entitled "The Lie" by
Charles Sprague. ....
The Bowery at Night. BY Charles
Dawson Shanly. ....
Stephen c. Foster and Negro Min
strelsy. BY Robert p. Nevin.
The Feast of Harvest. A poem, by
| l.. G. Stedman.
A Great Public Character. A sketch
of the life, character and services OF
Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts,, by
James Russell Lowell.
The Conspiracy at Washington.
Reviews and Literary Notices. Tick
nor d Fields, Publishers, Boston.
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