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POETRY.
The Old, Old Story.
Summer moonbeams softly playing,
Light the woods of Castle Keep
And 'hero I see a maiden straying,
Where the darkest shadows creep.
She la listening meekly, purely,
To the wooer at her side j
Tis the "old, old st jry," surely,
Running on like time and tide. ,
Maiden fair, oh 1 have a care ;
Vows are many truth is rare.
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He la courtly, she Is simple ;
Lordly doublet speaks hi lot ; J V
She is wearing hood and wimple
Hi the castle, heT the !ot.
Sweeter far she deems his whisper
Than the night-bird's dulcet trill ;
She Is smiling ha beguiling
'Tis ths old, old story," still.
Maiden fair, oh I have a care;
Vows are many truth is rare.
The autumn sun is quickly going
Behind the woods of Castle Keep
The air is chill Ui night wind blowing,
And there I see a maiden weep.
Her checks are white her brow is aching,
The " old, old story" sad and brief ;
Of heart betrayeJ, and left, nigh breaking,
In mute despair and lonely grief.
Maidens fair, oh I have a care ;
Vows are many truth is rare.
. The Wife.
On earth, to man, there is but ont
His heart can lore his soul can own ;
Though myriads flit befor his view,
There is but one to whom he's true
That one can sway him to and fro ;
Can make him drain the cup of woe ;
Can give him joy, or blast bis life j
And that one's1 name is simply wife.
But in that name a world is sphered,
A world by all beloved, revered, ;
Who Lave the sense to know its worth,
And spurn th gaudy joys of earth ;
For that full heart in her dear breast
If rightly prized eternal rest
Is not with blissful sweets more rife,
Than that pure heart a loving wife. .
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Sorrows of a Moneyed Man.
AN triSODC Ot" THE PA. MO.
One morning, not many days since, Mr.
Von Mull' conceived and executod iht idea
of rising at five o'clock. To th great
disgust and indignation of Mrs. Von Muff
he continued the practice ; to use her own
words, he deprived her of bleep, and ex
posed her to a cold draught before it was
light." . ...
She followed him one morning, and
found him in a Maw of extreme dishabille,
reading the Times.
. "So thu is your occupation, is it, that
you deprive um of my rest, and destroy
my health? Are you not ashamed of
yourself, Sir? .Why can't you read the
papers after lrcukfat, like other I oiks,
th?"
Because there's a panic, Felicia,' and
I want to lind out who were attacked with
it yt sterday."
:. ? Fauio, indeed ! you're enough your
seu to give anyone a panto, l expect
you will have to bury me before long, if
this sorl of treatment is continued. Then
1 tuppotse you wilt be overjoyed." .
My dear Felicia, don't agitate yourself.
But really, our financial condition is fright,
ful. Nobody trusts any body. I feel
quite alarmed, for, as you know, my mon
ey is all in the blunderbuss Bank, and if
that should burst !"
' Serve you right if it did. you fool !
Why don't you put it into thu Waterspout
Bank ? that wont burst."
No; but there rnay be a run upon it,"
Draw put the money altogether! then,
ud lock it up iu an iron I'hcst,"
" Why, you see, if I did that, tho peo
plo would luugh nt me ; though, upon tny
soul, if this punic continues, 1 must."
" Really, Mr. Von Mull', you are the
most inexplicable- person I ever encounter,
ed. Hero we are, it seems, on the verge
of ruin, and yet you hnvo the heartless
ncwi to gi t up nt five o'clock, an sit litre
quietly for three hours almost in n stnto of
nudity, reading tho papers. I'm di.-jyu.it.
ed with you, fcir. What uro you gazing
at? Aro you going lo nmke no Hfbrt to
save your innocent family fro :i destruc
tion ? Will you sit there forever doing
nothing but rending tho pnpers everlast
ingly reading the pnpert ?"
Von Mud' tnndu no reply, but dressed,
breakfasted, and took his leave. As ho
opened the front door a well-known voice
called after him from thu top of the suii :
' Josep'.i !"
' Yes, tny dear." '
" Draw that rconey out of the Blunder
buss Bank this very Jay, if you don't want
to fi .d yourself wifeless and childless
within a week !"
With this awful threat ho disappeared,
and Joseph hailed an omnibus.
"Ah ! Von Muff, how d'yo do?"
"Good 'morning, Crokur. Dreadful
times these. What's the news V
"You've seen tho morning pnpers?
Enormous list of fuilures. Can't stand It
much longer, Sir. Every tiling mubt go
you and I must go every thing gener
al smash up."
' " Good God ! you can'l mean It.
Surely the rity banks are safe. I have a
hundred thousand deposited."
.. "Draw it out. al pnee, then. Don't
hesitate don't loso an instant. Perhaps
you're too Inte now. Get gold nothing
but guld or you're lost. That's all I've
got to say."
Von Muff pulled out his largo red pock
el handkerchief, ntid wiped the preparation
from his face. lie remained silent over
como by his reflections. When he left
the omnibus at Stone Street, Crokur put
his head out of tho window, and called af
ter tho retreating capitalist,
" Attend to that at once, Von Muff, or
consider yourself a ruined man." '
' Von Mi'ff en'.ered his odice in Stone
Street terribly! perplexed. He found
Scrummage there Scrummage, who
knew tne financial condition of every in
stitution in tho country.
" ell, Scrummage, how are the banks?
" Bjund to go before long. I givo 'em
a weeic.
" What! do you think so, too, Scrum
mage ? And the Blunderbuss ?".
" No better than the others. Got mon
ey there ?" ,
" Yes." :
" Then draw it out immediately ; thui's
my advice." And oil' ho went to counsel
some other bewildered mortal.
Von Muff began now to realize the
panic. To think was only to make mat
lers worse. He rushed into the street in
frantic alarm ; as he hurried along he
saw an immense crowd of people before
the doors of tho Waterspout.
" What is the matter here?" Ho tim
idly inquired of a by slander.
, " Uuu on tho Bank."
"Good Heavens! you don't say so?"
And onward he hastened. Two men,
talking in an eager, excited way, dashed
by him the next m mient. He caught the
word, " Blunderbuss ;" this wua the cli
max of bis agony. Ho directed his step
at once to the bank where his treasure
was deposited.
The quifl and repose that'surrounded that
veteran institution somewhat reassured
hiin. His fenrs, however, were not to be
dispelled. "This is the calm," he said to
himself, "that invariably precedes the
storm. There is deception iu it. 1 am
just in time." So he entered; drew hi
money in gold, and with the aid of tever
ral porters and a cart, had it conveyed to
his otfiee in Stone Street.'
Anrirof immense satisfaction perva
ded Von MufPs round, good natured face,
when ho saw the last twenty-dollar piece
deposited iu h'a safe ono of CLisselhem's
great iron, patent, everlasting safes. No
fear of that bursting. He lighted a C'gar,
and puffing forth the smoke in a long sue
cession of wreath, he turned to Feekes
and Sturp, confidential clerks of many
yenrs' standing in tho liousj of '( u .Muff
& Co., and whispered :
"All right now, boy t; lot the banks
break if they like, and be to theui 1"
It was, of course, necessary that the
large amount of treasure recently trans,
ferred to Stone Street should be watched
at night, otherwise a burglary hi the third
decree might be as disastrous a the break'.
ing of a bank. Von Muff himself, with
the enthusiasm of a raw recruit, declared
he was ready to moun jruard for a foru
night ; he could obtaiu sufficient sWp in
the evening and the morning before snd
after the fulfilment of his nocturnal du
ties; and those accammodatin; rlerks,
Ftckcs nr.J Sturp, consented io assist him,
on condition that they should bo supplied
with brandy and figure a dixcrttion
These preliminaries being settled, Von
Muff went home to dinner. Ho looked
round upon his fellow citizens with the air
of a man who had just ahiercd a coup
a'ttat.
Von Muff experienced a special glow
of prido that af crnoon on entering the
portals of his spacious intuition in tho
Avenue. In tho evening hu returned to
the office, taking with him, for defensive
purposes, tho musket with which his siro
performed prodigies of valor in tho Hev
ulutionury war. Ho thought it prudent to
inform his wifo, through tho domestics,
thnt he would not return homo until tho
following day.
The first night's watch passed off toler
ably well. Cigars un I stiff brandy and
water wero provided, and tho guard were
kept awako partly by tho liquor and part
ly by mysterious noises, lilio the picking
of locks and other burglarious sounds.
Un more than onu occasion Von Muff
brought up lii-i musket lo tho " present,''
and took deadly nim at tho knob of thu
door, und his two attendants nervously
handled thu revolvers they bud borrowed
for tho emergency. They hud no occa
sion, however, to uso thu'r weapons.-
Toward morning, Von Muffloukcd very
haggard mid futigued. Ho felt " con
foundedly dono up" as ho himself express
ed it; so, ab)ut six o'clock, after a shuvo
and a mutton chop, he ensconced himself
in his arm-chair, and fell asleep. But
neither to attitud j nor th"? place were
suited to a comfortable snooze. I'eople,
too, commenced to pour in, . for the news
of his night's watch had by this time ex
tended throughou'. tho whole business
community, and tho utmost curiosity was
manifested to know the result Repor
ter of newspapers, especially, were ur
gent iu their demands for Vou Muff's own
statement of the facts that had trans
pired. " Well, Von Muff, how do you feel af
ter your night's work ?" " Is your mon
ey safe yet? How is it done up in bag
ar kegs?" "Take my advice, and never
lose sight of it again sleep on it." "Good
Heavens! you don't mean lo say that you
deposit your treasure in one of Chissel
hem's safes I Might as well fling it into
tho Hudson 1" "Keep up your spirits,
old boy, tho panic will not last over six
months, and you can watch it out!"
These, and a multitude of similar re
marks, from solicitous visitors, disturbed
the equilibrium of Von Muff' mind as
much as his vigil had disturbed the equi
librium of his body. Ho was, therefor,
ill at easo when, late in the afternoon, he
found himself at home in the Avenue.
Mrs. Von Muff took no notice at first
of her spouso's dejection, but iu thocourso
of dinner sho abruptly broko out:
"Mr. Von Muff, may I nsk if you've
been drinking, for your conduct is inexpli
cable r'
"My Jenr Felicia, I was tip all night,
and am really quite worn out. I must
take some sleep before I return."
" I thought this would bo the result cf
tour freak. A pretty exhibition you are
making cf yourself before your family!
It would certainly be .the wisest step you
could take to go to bed."
Von Muff thought so too, ' A frightful
yawn, that he tried in vain to repress,
rather hurried his movements, and he
withdrew without further remonstrance
He had scarcely been asleep an hour,
however, when ho was roused lo con
siioucneas by Mrs. Von Muff, wfio ap
peared to bo alternately shaking him aud
punching his head.
" Do yiu hoar that ?" she yelled ; " do
you tear that?"
"hat? rubbing his eyes, and fully
awakened to the presence of hi spouse,
if not to any thing cite.
" What?. Why, the fire-bell, you deaf
odder It has been ringing eight this
half hour. A pretty time for you to be
keeping when, probubly, your offjeo is in
ashes, and wo arc all beggar'."
" Good Heavens! you don't tay so!
Where' in v hat and coat?" and out ho
rushed recklessly, leaving his wife in tho
middle cf a sentence.
Yen Muff hurried down town at the top
of his spefd. He asked every body whom
he met, in a wild way, where the fire v a?;
and some wag, wh" recognized him, call
ed out, " Ston fctreet." This answer
Dearly drove him mad. His perturbation,
when he reached the head oi the street,
and found it actually bockaded by fire
men, was overwhelriiinfir. ' He knocked
people about, right and left, and wheu1 he
reachrdhi office, aud found that the fire
was round the coroer, tho reaction nearly
produced an onouleitic fit. He tank into
a chair, faint and exhausted with his exer
tions.
The watch that night was a painful one.
Neither Von Muff uor hi aMistance
could h!p falling asleep. Brandy and
water oniy muuo mv;u m i c drowsy,
NO. 1.
They nodded at each other lik manda
rins, and cvpry now and then Von Muff
would start from a dream, in which h
lind been nn important spectator of the
robbery of his own safe. Ho passed an
agonizing night; and when morning
dnwnod he looked as though ho had beeu
dragged by tho legs along a corduroy toad.
" Slurp;'
" Yes sir."
" I feel as if I couldn't put one leg be
fore the other. 1 can't stand this sort of
thing any longer. I think I'll take tho
money back to bank this morning."
" 1 hone you will, Sir."
" I'll think over it, Sturp."
Toxin entered the office about leu
o'clock. Toxin was ono of the first vic
tims. Tho panic had left its impress ou
his face, and his solo occupation now was
to alarm other people.
" Von Muff!" ho shouted.
" Is that you, Toxin ?" was the faint
answer from tho inner office.
"How d'ye feel, old feller!"
" Fairly douu up."
Well, 1'vo como to tell you that you
must immediately get a now safe. At
tho fire hist night, one of Chisselhem'a
snfes was burned to cinders, and poor
Fl ipper lost ten thousand iu bard cash I"
" You don't say so!"
" Yes, 'tis a fact.- Good-by."
Poor Von Muff was now utterly be
wildered. His money weighed hiin down
to the earth, and tho fears for its loss that
ho felt in other days were light in com
parison lo the responsibilities and perplex
ities that tormented his soul now. He
visited the banks, to see if any of them
would accept his gold as a special deposit,
but they all refused. lie even implored
the Waterspuut institution, upon which
there had been such a run, to take pity on
him, but without avail. Finally, he re
solved to pocket pride, and re-deposit his
money in tho Blunderbuss. .
His mind was relieved from on appall
ing weight, when this was done. , A se
vere trial, however, remained. How
should he inform Mrs. Von Muff ot the
courso he had pursued?
He approached the subject, timidly, aa
soon as he reached home.
" Felicia, my dear !"
well r
" I havo sent the money back to lank
" What I to the Blunderbuss I"
"Yes."
Upon my word, if you aren't a fool,
and worse, 1 don't know who is !"
" But what can I do ?" .
" Do J Can you sit there and delib
erately tell mo that you don't know what
to do with your money, when your wife
and daughters are positively going about
in rags ? No wonder there's a panic, if
all men are li'te you !"
History sayeth not what response, if
any, Joseph Von Muff made to this par
ticular attack of his spouse. It is prob
able, however, that he was too experienc
ed a h isband not to find safety in flight.
The next morning Mr. Von Muff
learned, to his despair, that all the bank,
including the Blunderbuss, had tvtpetutul
specie payments l
Two Irishmen who were traveling to
gether got out cf money, and being ir,
want of a drink of whisky, devised the
following ways and means :
Trtrick, catching a frog out of a brook.
went ahead, and at tho very first tavern
he came to asked tho landlord what sort
of a craitur that was ?
" Why it is a frog," said the landlord.
M No sir, it is a mouse," said Pat.
" It is a frog," replied the landlord.
It is a mouse," said Pal, " and I will
leave it to the first traveler that ceine
along for a pint of whisky."
" Agreed, said the lnuulord.
Murphy soon arrived, and to him was
the appeal made. After much examina
tion and deliberation, he declared it to be
a mouse ; aud the landlord, in spite of
tho evidence of his senses, paid tho bet.
" Mother, where' Bill V .
" My son, don't let me hear you say
Bill, again. You should say William."
" ell, mother, where' William ?"
" In the yard feeding tho ducks.
" Oh, yes, I see him now. But, moth
er, what makes the ducks have such broad
willinins ?".
" Go out wi;h your brother, directly,
you little scamp, or Fll box your ears."
" Did you say that my brother Jim
didn't know as as much as Smith's yellow
dog I " ;o, I said Bmrth s yvllow do
knew more than your brother Jim. ...
-1 Are thoso bells ringing for fire!"' in-;
quired Simon of Tiberias.
" No, iudocd," answered Tib ; they
have got plenty of fire, and the bells aro
now ringing for water."
A kiss, ays an ingenious authority, is
like the creation, because it is made vt
1 nothinj aud ii very good.
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