Independent, The (Newspaper) - October 11, 1853, Portage, Wisconsin J A it J C CHANDLER Oa rt jb Oft pit jmr Vy Two yw BATH OF it lay in IvO pat COLUMBIA COUNTY WIS to ali Lou in wid will M- to of titto tod inf and locating Land tug Ac am Batty A Pack's Store 14 of and Dealer in TU OH H W at law POSTAGE CITY JAMES tad in nors Ctam Ac MM Main POSTAGE WIS H B DTT Carpeting Crockery mi Show Caps Fun Clothing etc tLe People's Portage Win in and er Dry Boots Dt Witt DIVISION No 8 of T on ll day of Mb Odd Members of the Order are in- Tiled to attend SEO H HAND E 8 C VAUGHN ARTIST WJS H ATFIELD Dealen in Dry Goods Hardware Crockery Boots Shoes Ac Comer of and streets PORTAGE CITY WISCONSIN Z Hate and Caps Shirts Gloves Clothing made to order Emporium next door to bone A w C BACOX A of Copper Tin and Ware and Dealers in the best Cooking Box and Parlor Stoves Portage City Wis Jobbing of all kinds in the line attended to the notice and B O CAtt New Store DeWitt at The an and elegantly with Billiard Ac Oysters Sardines BARBER SHOP r tan trait upon all who mar fevor Mm with a call HAWD ATTORNEY AT LAW POSTAGE WJS Ofa t D 3 M Attorney and at Law will prompt and Pitiful at- to all to Ms care an tuar i r Stm OOa Books WJS MUw POSTAGE WIB Wm tmi JOB anon AT THIS Or to fis J rf IIL PORTAGE COLUMBIA COUNTY WIS OCTOBER 11 1655 to em t and those who ever ia good old participated ia them we think will appreciate tto fun of tto jag cute description and aud Mamaw you're IT M O It WM a mild day in the latter part of a day which properly be- longed to Indian Summer it WM aot forthcoming at that to it claimed and received a M WM about to hand over hit hooka to the ruler of year Mr laid Mrs standing in the kitchen doorway and looking ward hired man who was taking up hwt cabbage in the garden If r amid her voice to that it might overcome the obstacle by eight intervening I want you to do an errand for this morning I want you to go to Mr Hall's for me Mr Gulic gave intimation by a nod that be comprehended the nature of her wants and proceeded to finish his work I knew something out of the common SS SOOS I heard the Mister It it Ben at er times I have BO objection to going none whatever espec tally since Becky is at home He dingly went to Mrs Jones and received his instructions This said Mr Benjamin Franklin lic was a toll heavy built Yankee about twenty yean old who had made good use of hii eyes as well as his teeth ring the greater part of that period He worked by the year for Mr Jones He was the adviser and to a great extent director of his employer who had not the enterprise self-reliance and talent for command which characterize the most of those whose republican liberties with the King's English mark as belonging to New England Mr Gulic did not move his feet idly on principle that large bodies move but lie moved them a good distance at each step and consequently be was ere long at Mr Hall's door The door was open to receive the rays of the morning sun On the by a dog dreaming with his eyes half open or half shut as the reader may prefer opposite the in a Windsor cLarm tilted against the wall sat Mr Hall a stout gray headed man reading his newspaper which he held out before him at arm's length his spectacles being about twenty years too young for him Mr Gulic paused for a moment and cast a contemplative look at the dog perhaps he was comparing his condition with that of a hired man then applied the knuckle of his middle finger to the producing a sound somewhat loader than that by the of at the blow subsequent to that be- stowed upon her left thumb instead of of UM nail said Mr skillfully com- bining a growl with an articulate Which way t asked Ben Which way you said the old man not taking his eye from the paper Ben walked in and having waited in rain for as invitation to be seated he concluded to take a seat without an in- The chair which he selected as instrument for carrying his sion into effect gave way voder smw of the too stoEd and the kw of gravitation operating with cratic impartiality drew bus towards the center of tbe the strong mapte floor arrested farther progress Treat Tba sad did not divert the old man's attention Ben amused by putting tM of the ia or to use bis own setting the trap for somebody eke had time or also for taw journey of a wasp on tbe wmB Mr folded paper Im on his forehead and uttered tone to words Folks WM I tore I ld taey nek by A alight tto comer of Mr Hall's showed WM in tM It tto cellar wanted I Wave tto kettle who wants that it would not bj of procuring a freak prefer Iked forth aad thing W though not So should I said Mr Galio giren to astronomical ly If I knew where to find tt I'd go who set on Tlut laid to to and got a that we do M to to At soon as thit WM fairly on j quote words accurately for we verv and all tto rest of tto fire both tto aad tto to a little more ny good It WM followed to think all tto fm kty in that to tto lady than really up tto i to know bad soft 1 i Miss to borrow you tin pant She can have them are I know o they leaning against the south I quietly out of ito open door and case M the northern farm would by an of which was followed immediately by sundry plays in always tto aad walk ap boldly to a lady aad to tor regarded with Now Mary M I Mid A My of tto frit to neon an ot to OM tion up tto i to know tod why followed immediately by sundry in chimney M steadily M if lad handed and clerk isn't here j which tto intellectual young lady gone anywhere else Tto in tto J she may have him and Me if tape j wily more and more interested nw rJl LH i u ii em to have a side of tto house like a line of M quickly as tkm suns 80 saying to proceeded at once to the locality and gathered up the shining utensils He was moving ward home when a slight torn from hind a sheet hung on clothes line ed him to stop Behind said sheet stood Rebecca Hall called Becky Sto appeared to to busy with tbe clothes pins which however did not seem to need any particular That sto WM standing there for tto ex- press purpose of changing words with him will appear perfectly evident when we proceed with the narrative wath all these Mid Ben pointing to the various ar ray of theeta shirts and various articles and unmentionable which hung on the lines extending from tree to tree and from post to post and from fence to fence I wag tto calm reply of the female They are done first over early won't you Who are coming Everybody Did Miss Ogden wy she would Yes Are Mr Green's coming They are gone away you know 0 so they are I don't like to go where there are so many The more tto merrier All tto young folks will to there Foster is going to shut up store and be there It is no matter whether to or not I suppose I must come or give of- fense Don't forget to come early He then went bis way saying to self You be fierce enough to go now that yon know the white fingered merchant will to is not a chant nothing but a clerk If I do work out by the year I'll have more money at the end of the year than he will hare Take him if yon want him I ask no favors of yon Now Mr Benjamin Franklin Gulic was a man of truth and veracity in all his statements made to others his meats made to himself especially when they related to Becky could not to de- pended upon in fact they were often tto very reverse of truth they were so in the present case did ask most earnestly tbe favor of tor affections and a life interest in tor person How it WM he could speak tto truth so to and lie so to himself we shall not attempt to plain It is our business M to furnish tto for tto philosophers to work wp into will now give Some account ol Tbe northern farm was expected game of hide-and-seek Tto hiding to and the hunting was in couples 1 Tto room was then put in order s come into Mr Benjamin F j Becky and Mr Foster were together and table wms placed in tto and all sesston in spring a sensible j to were Mills and Mr folio Mr tto chairs in tto house except one for man to was desirous of finding some Mr Jones was ranged to each one whom it might to made over to with around tto walk of tto room him jointly By early about I'll let her said Benjamin to were assembled were as j himself and fearing lest his ear should at it may to supposed girls in a room without their mothers or men would to Why don't tbe men was asked mentally by more than one At length footsteps wen heard approaching The girls who to to standing took their All tto chain on the side of tto room were in a moment filled with as demure for tto time being M tto most precise could desire Suddenly there was a loud stamping on the a very energetic mode of one's boots of snow or dust preparatory as entrance Tto stamping and the which succeeded were followed silence which to catch tto remark to repeated it several times with great Jones establishment by wv a Gulic bad two things to attend to OM WM to secure a good hiding place for himself and partner and tto to ob- serve that of Mm Becky and Mr ter Tto latter took possession of a small which WM known in Mr itry was broken only by the of one whose ideal beauty of form was either the or tto wasp Keziah opened the door and tto young gentlemen found themselves in full view of an unbroken line of silent beauty in the face of which they wen expected to advance They pressed his neighbor to go forward No little confusion was apparent Among truths then and there il- lustrated was the important one that geometry cannot lay claim to a oly of angles After some delay an en- trance was effected Tto chain site tbe girls were secured door WM left open No one seemed disposed to risk the loss of his poet by rising to Having thus bis communications to himself he a basket of apples and returned to the scene of operations In placing it on tto which we have already said WM in tto center of the room tto table WM overthrown This caused tto overthrow of several girls with tin pans full of apples in their laps Tables pans girls and apples wen thus mingled in sweet on tto Boor while shrieks of affected terror and un- La brought Mr Jones to the door of tto apartment A grim smile WM upon bis lips as he sun-eyed the scene and found silence followed his appearance Ben picked up the table the young picked up the girls and the girls picked up the pans and the girls and young men together picked up the ples during which operation many were accidentally brought in contact and what was very remarkable it WM invariably a male and female toad that came in contact It must hare been something in the combs A more definite and satisfactory count of tto cause of tto overthrow of the table can be given During Mr absence Mr Foster entered and seated himself in tto chair left vacant by tto side of Becky Tto sight of him in that had no tendency to close it Some of the ladies wore short compose Mr nerves nor to sleeves that is bad bare crease his physical while it had monumental alabaster smoothness of was seriously affected by the in- gress of the cold evening air A daring fellow at length arose and closed the door Along the lines thus formed there was a as deep almost impressive as that which sometimes proceeds a tle After a while there WM some on the part of tbe girls and a suppressed giggle but the young tlemen preserved a profound and a most praiseworthy The seemed somewhat harder than those to which they had toen accustomed and it WM pretty plain most of them wished had left their at home A rap M with a was beard at tto door preparations strictly appertaining to tto borne department Mrs Jones WM in favor of having tto Bee in the kitchen and brought forward many weighty in support ol tor position But tto result proves there is no arguing against facts Tto fact was Ellen who had spent several mouths in an incorporated city and had thus become tto arbitress of gentility in tto bad at tto last quilting at tor not only pied tbe front but actually Maed tto door leading from tto root room into tto It WM not ed bearer of the Ha was obliged to go round to the front door a large ter heavy Men with crockery cake to walked abottt six feet in a single step There WM a crash of and a loud ut- of Mate very aad expletives and a still er peal of laughter from old Mr who ia tto chimney He WM no friend to genteel EDea example WM therefore having tto young hi tto most r Ito froat Tto roots to prepared aad M tto oti km tips M to to swat aw to borrow sow apple toe evening to cool it WM to have a fire lighted there Tto WM lighted abut Middle fret a of tto it Mr whispered one MIK Secky blushed at tto er of the knock or tto name opened tto door and Mr Benjamin F Gulic stood before tor dressed in his best He walked in with M touch dig- M if tod come from California in- stead of tto chamber tbe He sat down awl for a moment imitated the gravity of his peers He then ed to tto most solemn one present and asked him what WM tto state of the moonshine No answer WM given but tto question greatly lightened tto sure of tto aader which ail labored Conversation began at first indeed ia but spoke tto Mr that to M a tendency to increase both the gravity of the apples and of his Accordingly when the basket was set on the table it overthrew When order was restored paring WM resumed Mr foster retained bis seat by Miss Becky and with a silver knife daintily proceeded in the work he was evidently afraid of soiling his Benjamin took his place by tbe side of a very quiet girl who was not pleased with the exchange of and partners He did uot sit so near Mills M did to Miss Becky He pared 1 Bat however great may have been bis lost jt WM counterbalanced by Miss gain She was de- the exchange She talked pantry They remained in it for some overbearing tto expressed of tto to search it stok out and entered silently an ment which had already toen examined Mr Gulic shrewdly suspected would return to tto and cordingly to entered it and placed in tto only chair it contained a pumpkin pie which WM not in an ordinary lift but in an earthen which formed depth oi tto pumpkin pie WM an inch and a half in tto center and from which point it shoaled gradually to tto circumference As Gulic had foreseen Becky and tor companion tto pantry A shriek WM soon heard which caused Ben to seiM n candle and rush to tee what WM tbe matter or rather to speak with strict to let others see Tto de- pie and Misa soiled dress revealed tto cause of tto outcry For a moment there WM a contest be- tween a feeling of sympathy for tto poor girl's discomfiture and a sense of the tto latter prevailed though to their credit to it sundry of tto girls were taken with an desire for water which led in search of it m divers very improbable Becky at once for ato WM attended by Mr partial for tor mishap An animated discussion of tto tion How came tto pie in tto chair took place Mr took no part in it Some one suggested it WM placed there taken from the and its weight WM in ito way of elevating h to a shelf As no totter WM offered it was accepted M tto er part of our historical are After this interlude the ame of was renewed with increased Miss Stebbins with s becoming a superior mind to engage ia it heartily In tto ted luelf that mile to walk MOM before a word WM began in m kj m tt ShaU KS sto in a w tor MI that Ii was more than that to arm and though ato accepted is ato kept at a very M tor felt thai to tod a ded i to tay to tor tot Mt kww wtel to togin with tto H M wen walking towards tto tt WM WM well of sto to after his moat solemn thought of many 1 p reached tat Wrt im tto of hk To Hew How long are you Till next spring is too ton to tawi winter aad not tab wMt Don't go Yoa than ia no what Ben If Hi i kill ml had not appeared s i- Good Mil Baft fca to a night Tto next to to of n tor com did ym not toU aw that yon were said lift to Mary told felt any ia Bat I do and I can't toar to you go and a tear hunt aad ran Tto aud air course of the second game Mr Gulic j vent and concealed th Bee bw I Bring tridoM of tto -t tot M turn to do Bea tod brought fall of which were external cellar way descent of A tin pan ww given to each Tto MOB then tto and tto work of ing began wen ao for tto it WM a lady aad drop hia iate tto paa which a of A totter for a WM Mr tod a by tto side of ca sod aad rapidity tto fci iato tto paa which WM ia or tto air ay That and laughed very loudly though nen of gentility led him to speak in a tone little elevated above a whisper This WM both pleasant aad painful to Miss Betty It WM indicative of confidential painful as it complimentary iu to the company WM en to tbe of asking him in a adapted to set ears a littering did you My T aud again to re- peat some of bis with a hi exclamation point after them By t to convey to Bea aad what WM going oa them Ben at length Man of or of to How that nearer tto of pan He forth toat is cod few gen which were replied te to w a very sweat MM of tto date of history ino tto pMt lir to feel totter with tto exchange to tod Md WM to carry two to tto MJM tto to a of tor i MIM Tto to Mm Milb 87 in o'clock M had both he knows what that term means and if to does not tore u positive that to knows lew than a Yankee Bea in a aad of conrK were in total and im very contact Ben felt a great fluttering aed WM point of asking what it WM when to found that it was the poor girl's to him that it WM very fnl whether Becky had any toart to ter Many brain while to WM in c to tbe tide of Mary wtd tod a softer voice and it tye ato did not to without body said WM not tending bet toad Ben by telf mother if eoa hit which ito Mary oa tor tto way Bow ato to to tor akk Holtor ato by Mrs Bea aad a loud voice when are drew a to Mary toart factored MOT Sto a to a littit ham WM panted tto waJ which did aot war tto WM I MB hwt atv tto M toMg n tto I hate M Tto
