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THE MODERN BELLE.
The daughter sits in the parlor,
And rocks on her easy chair,
She is dressed in silks and satins,
And jewels are in her hair:
She inks, and giggles, and simpers
And -irripers, and giggle*, and winks;
And though -tie talk* but little,
it's vastly more than she thinks.
ller father goes clad in ru-ets—
All dirty and seedy at that ;
Ilis coat is out at the elbow,
And he wears a shocking bad hat.
He is hoarding and saving his dollars,
So carefully, day by day.
While she on her whims and fancies.
1 squandering them all awav.
fsiie lies in bed of a morning,
Until the hour of noon,
1 hen comes down snapping and snarling,
Because she's called too soon,
ller hair is silli in papers.
Her cheeks still dahbled with paint—
Remains of last night's blushes
Before she attempted to taint.
Her feet are so very little.
Her hands o very white.
Her jewels so very heavy,
And her head so very light ;
Her color is aiatle of cosmetics—
-1 hough this she'll never own;
Her bQdy is mostly cotton,
And her heart is wholly stone.
She falls in love with a fellow
Who swells with a foreign air ;
lie marries her lor her money,
She marries him lor his hair —
tine of the very best matches;
Both are well mated in life;
She'* got a fool for a hu-band.
And tie's got a fool for a wife.
11l t s c c 11 an c o us.
jFrom Diekejis* Household Words.]
DEBTOR ISO CREDITOR.
I suppose we are ail burn with a mission.
Those who do not find one ready-made to their
hands- are never happy until they have created
one; and therefore it comes to the same thing
in tlie end, whether we are b irti with a mis
sion or without one. My mission has been to
srive credit. lam the successor to the Ijte
John Smirker. In whatever books of account
my name stands, you will always find it on the
right side, with a balance in my favor. Alv fa
ther thought the best thing fie could do to settle
me in life was to buy the good-will of the west
end business of the fate John Smirker, with
branches in both the great University cities ;
established in seventeen hundred and fifty, and
largely patronized by the aristocracy. I enter
ed upon mv new sphere in a calm and dutiful
manner : neither desponding nor enthusiastic.
I am naturally of a. quiet and meditative turn
of mind : given to inquiry, and, perhaps, rather
quick in perceiving necessary reforms, though
the last man in the world to have (he robust
energv to carry them out. My predecessor,
the late John Smirker, in giving over the long
list of book-debts that my father had purchased,
dilated very warmly upon the immense value
of customers who quartered, Heaven knows
what, tijion their shields, and never took less
than five years' credit. "What is business,"
he inquired, "without hook-debts/ A thing
without root, sir,— wholly without root. You
have no hold upon your connexion. In fact,
votf hare, no connexion. Without book-debts,
<hev come to-day, and go to-morrow." | did
not dispute I Lis position, for I never argue.
He was the born tradesman, ami I acted upon
this precepts, o' - ar me, what trouble he took
to plant the rants that foliated and branched off
onto every ramification of hook-debts! How
he watered, and dibbled, and forced them !
Ho v lie nursed them up at compound interest,
-tili th- right time came fur him (u Mi an obvi
ous debtor with a post-obit, or to cot down a
slippery one wth a summary judgment With
what a hiarui <m;!e he would refuse the early
tender of a green young debtor, fi>r fear that,
once set free, he would transplant his custom to
another establishment! What decoy-ducks tie
let fly among rich young university and miliU- j
rv noodles, to get them enticed to his shop '
Yet, when lie got them, and any of them did
not pav which was nut often, (for old Smirker j
had a keen scent, and seldom put his fashiona
ble commission-agents upon a wrong* one,) how
he raved at the looseness of the law ! Well, I
cave at it too, sometimes, and with good rea
son.
For a man need not leave the world for the
church or a monkish seclusion to Jearn patience
and to mortify the passions, while the ranks of
trade are open to him. Neither need a man
who wishes to see the world, as it is called,
and study his fellow-men, spend his money in
travelling through Europe, and his nights in
! the streets, while the ranks of trade are open
to him. Neither need a reflective law-reformer
i reiire with Ins jionderous tomes to some eremit
ical and inaccessible nook in the innermost of
all Inner Temples, there to perfect principles
I which, when forced upon the world, shall pro
-1 mote the greatest happiness otthe gientest num
ber, while the ranks of trade are open to him.
i Christian recluse, student of the world, and
! ardent Benthamite, may all lake their places
behind the glass of my counting-house-door, and
' find their lime not unprofilably expended.
The greatest diliic tilly that I labor under is
infants—slurdv infants. They bristle up in
every other page of my costly ledger (costly, I
call it, because it is nearly all I got lor my ten
■ thousand pounds;) they aie more costly under
the head of Cambridge than London : and more
j fruitful under the head o( Oxford than Cam
i bridge. Physically they seem to he a very fine
(airily of robust, responsible young men ; Jegal
i ly they are held tube weak, and irresjioiisible
idiots. \ isuallv they stand before me a> a
i race cif palpable, moustached, solid giant*: but
when I try to touch them with lite strong arm
! of the law, like the spectres of the Urorkeii they
melt into thm air, and the strong arm id the
j law becomes strangely paralvz-d. \oung I/ird
Merthvr Tydvil is a fair aveiage specimen of
(tie infant debtor. L-t him sit for Ins portrait
under two phases,—out of court and in court.
Out of court, then, he rides a find high-spirited
horse, which he manages with the ease and
grace ofati old patrician horseman. In the
cricket-field he bats like a young IMcuM,
and howls with the velocity of a catapult. On
the river it is a sight to see hon pull the stroke
oar against wind and tide ; and he is the reverse
of contemptible when he puts on the gloves
with a bargeman ofthe Cam. He wrestles and
! does the backfall better than any man in all
Tllvna. His age is twenty years and nine
months. His muscles are well set, and he
looks older. He handles a skilful cue at the
: billiard-table, and makes an occasional bet upon
. horse-races with a good deal of judgment. In
tellectually he seems to know pretty well what
he is about. I don't think his name is across
any accommodation bills, but what he has re
ceived half the cash tor. As to the amusements
and vices ofthe metropolis, lie i< one of the best
judges of them in town, and acts as mentor
to many other infants. His ta.*te in wine is
considered good, and his verdict on the merits
1 of a new ballet-dancer is held to be final.
In court. Lord Alerfhvr presents a very differ
ent appearance. That coilar, which used to
stand up with such unbending parchment-like
stiffness, the admiration and envy of Piccadil
ly, is now, in lire eyes of the law, turned down
over each shoulder with infantine glace, and
fastened with a ribbon of most becoming
j simplicity. That Chesterfield, poncho, sack,
outer-garment, coat, cloak, or whatever it is
called, which had such a mature, distinguished,
Tattersall, club-like air in Regent Street and
H vde Park, is now, in the eyes of the law,
converted into a juvenile pinafore, fastened
! round the waist with a schoolboy's belt, and
conferring on its wearer the much-coveted gift
of perpetual youth. That embroidered cigar
j case—suspicions gift—filled with the choicest
products of Havana, at costly prices, vanishes,
in the eye of the law, or becomes transformed
into a box of sweetmeats, provided bv the
I thoughtful care of a mother or a sister. That
i onvs-handled bamboo-cane, which taps the
i neatest of boots on tiie lounge in Rotten Row,
| is now, in tile eves of the law, a mere roundel
| stick, or an implement used in guiding a hoop.
Those rooms in Jermyn Street, decorated
with pictures in the chastest taste, and littered
! with boxing-gloves, broker, pipes, and charn
j pagne corks, are, in the eyes of the law, the
j cradle of a child—a child who possesses a char
■ med life, invulnerable to the shafts of the hate
: ful sheriff". Poor, young, innocent, .neglected
infant nobleman—type of some hundreds of
children that I find upon my books, or rather
: the hooks ofthe late John Smirker, mv prede
; cessor—when I hear that thy aristocratic lather
. Karl Merthvr Tvdvil, is in Italy with no
I matter, I will not dwell upon the painful sub
ject, and that the paternal acres are safelv lodged
•it a dingv office in Lincoln's Inn Fields, I feel
: a sense of pity for thee springing up in my
| snobbish, tradesman's heart. 1 have fed thee,
and f have clothed thee, and 1 look upon thee
as my own. Even if the law did not throw its
| protecting shield before thee, I would not touch
a hair of thv patrician, infant head ; although
thv ingratitude were ten times greater than it
is. lam not unreasonable, and can make allow
ance for the feelings of a boy whose ancestors
were descended from the earliest .Normans ; I
do not ask for positive atfection, but only for a
' slight diminution of contempt. Spoiled child
of trade, and chosen one of law, let thy com
mercial father know thy wants and wishes,
and he is content.
But Shadrach, junior, when you stand up in
court, pleading infancy with all the childish
grace of.in Israelite that knows no guile, I ain
amused at so clever an adaptation of Christian
customs, but I am astonished at the learned
credulity of the Bench. It is true that your
people have no registry of baptisiTi, and every
thing, therefore, depends upon your own asser
tion : hut I have known you so many years a
bout town, I have watched your fully develop
ed frame standing out prominently in most (da
ces of public resort ; I have witnessed your
intellectual keenness in (daces where keenness
was no rare quality, that, in my eyes, your t>ack
is beginning to bend, and your hair becoming
silvered with gray* and I marvel much that
a paternal law gathers you as a trusting, trusted
innocent in the folds of its sheltering arms.
There are many octogenarian debtors upon my
books, or rather the books of the late John Smii
ker, mv beloved Shadrach, who are more in
need of legal protection than your youthful
self.
The next rose which the law has planted in
the path of debt—the next thorn which it lias
planted in the oath of credit —is the Statute of
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1858.
Limitations. A man of untutored reasoning
powers, whose faculties hail not been sharpen
ed into an unnatural state of acuteoess by legal
study, would suppose that the longer a debt
stood unpaid, the more would the obligation
fie increased. He would be astonished, there
fine, t > find that ju*t at the moment when he
was about to claim an old debt with interest,
simple and compound, and was probably going
to reproach the debtor with keeping out of the
way so long that what he considered to be a
moral ciiine was ati act ol well calculated
thrift inhaving the fleet of annulling the
claim according to act of parliament. It
would be difficult to explain to such a man
upon what principle an act was framed, that
allowed every debtor to go free who contrived
to keep out of the way of his creditor six years.
The wonderful doctrine that the more you
wiong a man in trade the inor e you may, being
embodied in a statute having legal force, Is en
couiaging to that large class that 1 call deb
tors ; but i- not so encouraging to that other
large, and very useful, tax-paying class that I
call creditors. The inference is, that the Nate
u ish'-s to cultivate the first at the expense of
the second. Or perhaps, it is only a masked
movement intended by discouraging the second
to destroy the first? When the liigbt Honorable
Loitl Had leave, K. C. 8., takes, a* a rule, from
hi*- tradesman, five years' credit, he has only to
stretch the period one year more to carry it into
eternity.
I certainly was delighted to find the Rever
end Onsi'-n Bilk, Al. A., whom I—or lather
the late John Smirker—had nursed thiough the
different sla-res of fighting Oxonian, plucked
undergraduate crammed, 15. A. down to the liv
ing of St. Vitus-in-theFens, pleading "statute
run,"' ami declining to pay lor the college
extravagances which he had indulged in with
such vigorous prodigality. Jt is a good sign
when a man especially a clergyman—so far
informs the eirors of his vouth as to turn his
hack upon earlv dissipations, even to the extent
of repudiating payment for them. If ever the
protecting shield of legal mercy was righteously
♦•xtended over ;he prostrate firm of the suffering
debtor, it is in the case of the Reverned Origen
Bilk, Al. A. Me has suffered much from the
ruthless hands of the importunate creditor, who
insisted upon clothing hun with the riches! pur
ple arirl the finest linen, feeding him with the
daintiest viands, and nourishing him with the
rarest wines, and who now would seek him
out in the calm ec fusion of bin clerical hermi
tage, and who—did not a considerate law most
benevolently interfere—would destroy the un
ruffled serenity of that meditative mind, which
now dwells upon things that are higher than
the tailor's hill which perishefh.
The same tenderness to debtors who keep
out of the way, distinguishes even some of the
severest laws which have been the product of
our recent legislation. The debtor is the dar
ling of the law, and it cannot find it 111 its
heart to deal harshlv with him. The new
Bills of Exchange Act, which allows nr." the
tyranny of a judgment in the short period
of twelve days, supposing that my victim lias
no valid plea or answer that he is not indebted
to me, breaks down entirely ifrnv victim keep
out ol the way for six clear months: and my
thirst for vengeance is tantalized with the
tortures of the old, tardy, and expensive mode
of proceeding. It I apply for the more hum
ble assistance of I lie County Court, I find I
have stil! many weeks to wait before the pres
sure of business will allow of mv obtaining a
hearing. When my victim comes up and tells
a plaintive story of his inability to pay in less
than a given time of very bug duration, the
judge, unbued with the proper spirit of the
law, inclines his ear to the dictates of mercy,
checks the eager tyranny of the heartless credi
tor, and grants an order to pay in twelve easy
instalments. When tne time for the first and
second payment has long passed without my
victim making any attempt to keep to his
bond, T have then the option of procuring
what is called a judgment summons, which,
if lam fortunate enough to get it served per
sonally upon my victim, within a certain time,
will fix another remote day for a new trial,
when my victim, will have to show cause why
he failed in iiis contract. If the claim should
lie under twenty pounds, and my victim be a
single young man victim, residing in furnished
lodgings, with no estate, properly so called, he
has merely Jo state this fact to the willing ear of
the court, and leave me, like a baffled tiger, how
ling for my prey- If my victim thinks proper
to set nail for the Cocos Islands, or some other
land, w here creditors cease from troubling,
and the debtor is at rest, I can watch him go
on board his bounding bark, and, like Calypso,
mourn for the departure of Jmy Ulysses ; but
alas! I can do no more, for lie only owes me
nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and eleven
pence. Two pence more, and—shades of So
ion and Lycurgus—l am avenged !
When I turn over the old unpaid bills of
exchange of my predecessor, the late John
Smirker, and find amongst them many under
five pounds, I am reminded of an old act
passed in the time of George the Third,
and never yet repealed, that is a perfect tri
umph of protective legislation. The bill of
exchange the pride and glory of modern
commerce—is looked upon as a modern lux
ury intended only for the enjoyment of the
wholesale trade, and only granted to the re
tail undet rhe most praiseworthy precautions.
Poor Smirker's bills, I need not say, are so
much waste paper; for he had no idea of the
requirements of the law tauching the imple
ments he was dealing with. A bill of exchange,
according to George the Third—l say accor
ding to him, because he was anything but a
royal nonentity in the state—if under five
pounds, must not be drawn at a longer period
than twenty-one days; it must he paid away
on the same day as that on which it is drawn :
its endorsement must set forth the name and
address of the person to whom it is endorsed,
and such endorsement, with every name upon
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
it but the acceptors, must bear the signature
of an attesting witness ! If any one of these
requirements is neglected, it is fatal to the
validity of the instrument. When this cautious
clause was perfected, the old king must have
felt that although he had entrusted a dangerous
squib in the hands of the small ignorant tra
ders of the country, he had taken every pre
caution to issue directions lor letting it off, so
that the case might not burst and injure their
fingers.-" Our present rulers must be of the
same way of thinking, as they allow this clause
to remain unexpunged from the statute-book,
and deny the benefits of bills of exchange as
proofs of debts and negotiable instruments, to
all transactions under five pounds.
Ibe next thing that troubles me is a linger
ing remnant of feudality. The haughty baron
of the nineteenth century does not despoil his
humble retainer and tradesman, but he takes
credit, which is nearly the same thing. If the
haughty baron is a member of the roval house
hold, the feudal element is increased. The
haughty baron rides roughshod over all human
feelings, and wears out patience of the most i
endurable kind. The haughty baron keeps I
me at bay to the very verge of the Statute ot!
Limitations, and, in self-defence, lam obliged !
to have recourse to the law. The law informs
me tha' I can do nothing without the written!
sanction of lire lord steward of her Majesty's
hourelnld. Igo to Buckingham Palace, and
after tie usual delay and trouble, I obtain an
intervew with an under-secretarv, who tells
me tha my application for permission to sue
must le made in writing, accompanied with
full particulars of my claim: and he kindly j
advis<-i me to make it upon folio foolscap, with i
a iTiargn. I send in my claim upon the haugh- :
ty baroi in the required form, and in a few
days 1 rceive a reply from the lord steward,
slating hat il the money be not paid within a I
certain'iberal specified time fiom the date of :
the ioii steward's communication, I have j
the lorr steward's permission to take legal
proceediigs against the hauglilv baton. It
is amusng to find a royal palace converted i
into a *anctuary for haughty but insolvent!
barons. Jt is possible that i( the rude emissary i
of the lasv was allowed free entrance to tire |
sacred pvcincts of the household, the royal
banquet i the evening would be graced with i
at h ast ae gold stick in waiting less than the
royal eye had whilome been accustomed to i
look upon
T b*lfPvr*th-anbe- bt-sl authorities on govern
ment hdii that taxes are paid for protection to
person aid property. I will admit that my
person isfairly protected ; but it my heroic
statesmai can spare a little time from those
bnllant employments of ornamental govern
ment— Ldiati annexations, colonial extensions,
military :ampaigns, diplomatic subtleties, and
foreign iga'ions—lor the tnore homely task of
protecting my property, bv looking into the
relationsol debtor and creditor, the successor of
the late Jam Smirker, the next time the collec
tor calls, rill pay his taxes with a more cheer
ful cotintrtance.
THKVOICEOF DEAD NATIONS
Mr. Aljer in his recent celebrated oration,
uttered til following impressive passage, which
ought to t written on the statute books of
every Statin the Union : "The dead nations
whose giat skeletonsare now bleaching &, crum
bling on te sands ol time, all died of sin. It
was tlieircrirnes that dug their graves, and
pushed tern in. Licentious luxury sapped
the lountition strength, and rolled the live vir
tue of oe—and it disappeared beneath the
green pot of its own corruption. Brutal war
made abusitiess of and carried in every
direction drew upon another the combined
wrath oftie world—and it was dashed upon
the rock f its own barbarous force. Domestic
enormous, trodden under foot
and goad! to madness rose on another—and
but ted iin the conflagration and slaughter of
. its own pivocation. Infernal antipathies based
jon sect difference, fed by selfish interest
and laurjng debate finally exploded in the
cjuarelsote parties of another—and hurled its
dissever* fragments to ruin by the convulsive
i eruptionjf its own wrong and hatred. Of all
the migfy empires whose melancholy ghost
now pacthe pallid margin of oblivion; not one
ever sun but its own fail was through internal
iniquityn some way or other. Shall the state
ly shaded" republican America too go down to
join the oleful company of crowded spectres,
moving lere beneath to rise up at her coming
witi tbeardonic mock "Art thou also as we 1"
II ve uald avoid their doom of vengeance we
mist nottread their path of guilt.
THE DOOM OF THE WOULD
What his change is to be we dare not even
rijectup, but we see in the heavens themselves
sue traces of destructive elements and some
ilical ions of their power. The fragments of
pnets—the descent of meteoric stones upon
or globe—the wheeling comets welding their
lse materials at the solar surface—the volca
n eruption in our own statelite—the appear
a:e of new stars, and the disappearance of
oers—all foreshadow that impending con
vsion to which the system, of the world
doomed. Thus placed on a planet which is
tse burned up, and under heavens which are
toass away : thus resting, as it were, on the
cieteries and dwelling upon the mansolenms
ooriner worlds, let us learn lessons ot humility I
a wisdom, if we have not already been taught 1
i:he school of revelation.— JVorth British j
Jiiew.
'AKE DCE REST AND RECREATION.—I heard a
gd husband at his book say, that to omit study
S'P time of the year, made as much for the in
cise of learning as to let the land lie fallow
fgoine time maketh for the belter increase of
ci. If the land be ploughed every year, the
ci comelh up thin ; so those which never leave
png on their books have oftentimes as thin
irntion as other poor men — Rogtr .Ischam.
NOTHING TO WEAR.
1 was an awful hot day, the sun set the night
j before in a red nest, and hatched out the hottest
day that ever caused an old fogy to "hist" a
blue cotton "umbril"—the earth was parched
| till the cracks could be used lor boot jacks, the
grass wilted tike a toad in a snow storm, the
flies were asleep under the toad stools, and
j molasses was too lazy to run. I bad a cent in mv
pocket, and the heat gave the Goddess of Liberty
ujxm it a rush of blood to the head causing her
to look as if she had the mumps on both sides,
and a wart on her nose. It was some hot. I
was silting upon a box marked IriangleG trying
to keep the corners of my shirt collar from sli
ding down into my hoots. The horn buttons of
my coat had already melted and stopped up the
hole of my night key. I felt so kinder flabbv
that I believe you could have cut button holes
in my ribs' and buttoned them to my toes.
Things were kinder coming focus to me when
along came a friend in a wagon. I call it a wa
i gon, but it looked more like a four-wheeled hen
| coop. It was drawn by two somethings; I
i suppose they call them horses, but I never saw
| more knife-handle material, and les* flesh, than
were inside those two hides. I verily believe
j that if they had sneezed they would have blown
themselves out of their skins. My friend sings
out, "Halloo Jack, you want to go a swim
ming ? "Will a Butcher Boy eat dumplings
j hard ? ' says I, and in 1 jumped. I found four
other friends slowed away under the seat
trying to keep shady, the driver brought down
his stick upon the two hides very manv sever
al times which sounded like a nigger beating a
l carpet, and after considerable of an effort the
apologies got started, and we had a lively ride.
Ihe wheels hadn't been greased since Noah
wore his first night cap, and they furnished us
with some rich, I can't say rare music: while
the Innd wheels were grinding "Dead March
in Saul," the fore wheels were playing "'Jordan
is a hard road to travel;" every time the wheels
would go (lou-n into a rut, the nigli skeleton—
who had the string hall would twitch his
hind leg up giving us a jolt that would cause
our chins to come into juxtaposition with the
toes of our boots. I had just made up my mind
to get out and walk ahead, when wr arrived
at the sea shore, the paradise of long clams,
& the Eden of Crabs. We had nothing to tie up
so we tied to it—and down into the surf. We
j all disrobed and—leaving our clothes in the
j w agon, at a given signal dove into the "mul
titudinous seas." I went undFfhead ind ears,
cut my toe on a clam shell, and came up. I
: spit out sundry pebble slones, scratched a
number of the countless sands of the sea shore
ont of my head, danced on one foot 'till I burst
the bubbles in my ears, when I became aware
that my comrades were shouting pretty lustily.
I pushed the hair out of in)' eyes and w hat a
sight for a nervous man ! I'll be darned if the
animals didn't get scared at the splashing- in
the water or else they had smelt an oat and
they were on the home stretch with all our
clothes. They rapidly disappeared from si<*ht
old st ring halt's hind leg jerking against tht
dash board at every •'turn." We were in an
interesting condition. Five miles from home.
I wish I was a canvass backed duck more than
once that alter noon ; it was romantic but not
very funny, we strayed in the water till our
skins looked like patent isinglass, and the wa
ter soaked through till we could ta.-te the salt,
when we cut stick for a neighboring cornfield,
and had just got fairly hid when down came
two loads ofthe prettiest and sauciest hoarding
school girls that ever wore bloomers. We were
congratulating upon our escape, when we heard
that rich Irish brogue : we heard the corn crash
ing, and a voice crying, "Sake him! Sake
him !" and had just time to climb a tree, when
up rushed the most open countenanced bull-dog
I ever saw, with a homely visaged Celtic gen
tleman behind him. "Sure airit ye a pretty
group of model artists up there, ye blackguards:
ye was alter stealing gentleman's corn, was ye ?"
The damsels were bathing close by us, and
there was not a leaf on the tree, and we begged
hard that the Irish gent would shut his mouth
or the girls would see us; but 'twas no use,
we hadn't a hot potato and we couldn't stop
him ; and good Lord, the dear maidens saw us,
and the way the water foamed for a second
was a caution ; they didn't stand upon the order
of their going but went at once. We told
Pat our story and agreed to pay him to go up
to town and get our clothes. "Divil a bit wiil
f I do it," says he, "if one of ve will go to the
house with a front door at the side I'll give
him some of me own clothes, and he can take
the r.ice walk himself, and to make sure he'll
come back, I'll leave the dog to take care of
ve," and leave him he did. The dog kept guard
and lor three hours and a half we roosted in that
nld tree, fighting the horse flies and mosquitoes.
I got bit till there wasn't a fresh place to bite,
and I looked like a two-legged nutmeg grater.—
Every time we stirred, the dog would growl,
and I didn't feel bad when Sam came back
with the clothes. The anniversary of that
day I always fast. It was wonderful to see
how some young ladies blushed when we met
them on the street after that and how sud
denly a boy about my size became interested
in the number of cracks in the pavement when
he saw a hoop-skirt approaching in the din;
distance.
Smith and Jones, merchants, were rushing
round just ten minutes before two o'clock rais
ing funds, when going round the corner of Kilby
street, Jones cam- in contact with Smith, knock
ing him down. Smith was excited, and exclai
med—
"Do that again and I'll knock you into the
middle ol next week."
"Mv dear fellow," shouted Jones, "DO IT,
and I'll give you a thousand dollars, for if I can
jnlv get through till then without breaking,
I'm safe.''— Boston Gazette.
Raleigh Register announces the ud
den death of James Aleban, Esq., a prominent
ritizen of North Carolina.
WHOLE !\(HBER 977 ft.
SKILL IN EVERYTHING.
The science of agriculture is made up of a
whole group of sciences, whose theory and ap
-1 plications the farmer must understand and
practice, if he would be master of his profess
ion.
He must know something of Chemistry, to
understand the treatment of the soil, and the
composing and use of manures. He must un
derstand Botany, to manage all the vegetables,
grains and fruits which he grows. He needs
Physiology and medicine, to treat his animals
well in health and sickness. If he builds a
house or barn, a knowledge of architecture will
stand him in good stead. If he has a threshing
machine, or mower, he needs some acquaintance
with the principles of motive power. In the
construction of drains, he must apply the prin
ciples of Hydrostatics, and to some extent of
Hydraulics too.
We give these facts as ill ut rat ions of our
meaning, not bv any means as exhausting what
might properly be said on this matter. The
truth is the farmer needs to be a bit of a genius
in almost anything, if he would stand at the
head of his profession.
It was not our purpose, however, when we
penned the heading of this article, tosav much
on these grave thrrnes. It was an humbler top
ic that tempted our pen.
V\ e wish to exhort our readers to become well
skilled in all the minor operations which the
management of the farm and garden involves.
What we mean, two examples will show :
Mr. A. is a farmer, and nothing else. If a
strap breaks in a harness, he sends two miles
to have it mended. If a horse's leg is bruised,
he will not treat it himself, but sends for a far
rier. His bee-hives need repairing, and he
hires a carpenter to do what a very little skill
would enable him to do for himself. He can
not even mend an old sled, or repair a broken
backed rake, without foreign aid. He is a
good farmer. He keeps his implements in
good condition, too, but it is at a great expense.
Mr. B. is another sort of a man. He is as
good a farmer as Mr. A. But he is limber and
elastic too. All the little jobs about the house
he does himself, or teaches his boys to do. He
can roof a house ; he can hoop a barrel, or he
can dig and wall a well. He can build a shed,
put a spoke into a wagon-wheel, graft or bud a
fruit-tree, or make a new harness out of an old
one, with an awl, waxed end, and a bit of leath
er. If he attends a lair, he sees the po- u * in
the improvements that are on exhibition, ie
can apply many of them to his own work with
out any further aid.
We will go but little further. Our readers
see what we are at. We hope they will them
selves be, and bring up their sons to be, men
who will have some skill in everything.
Here are some reasons for this recommenda
tion, which we will give at the risk of making
this article a little longer :
I. Almost every farmer will need this kind
of skill. .Not one in a thousand will live so
nrar a village where there are skilled mechan
ics, as to be able to. use their aid at all time*.
Fewer still will farm on so large a scale as to
embrace all these trades in the force employed
on their own grounds. He will need some skill
himself.
2. Such skill renders its possessor more in
dependent. The sense of such independence is
a great comfort". Its exercise is sometimes a
great advantage.
3. It saves a great amount of time and money-
We knew a man who lost a whole dav's time
and several dollars in money in the following
way : A part of the harness was taken away.
He had not enough tact and skill to repair "it
with a piece of a rein or halter.
It will develop talent in many persons, where
it now slumbers useless and powerless. The
exercises in mechanical skill furnished by the
farm, has awakened the mind of many a
who has ripened into a noble and skilful me
chanic or aitist.
But we have said enough. Give the boys
and girls a good chance to cultivate their pow
ers in a practical way. You can never predict
what treasures you will find.— Ohio Farmer.
DETERMINATION OF PURPOSE.
The earnest man wins away for himself and
earnestness and truth go together.— Never af
fect to be other than you are, either richer or
wiser. Never be ashamed to say, "I do not
know;" men will then believe you when you
say, - l I do know."—Never be ashamed to say,
whether as applied to time or money, " I can
not afford it," "I cannot afford to waste an
hour in idleness, to which you invite me," "I
cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw
away." Once establish yourself, and your
mode of life, as what they really are, and vour
toot is on solid ground, whether for the gradual
step onware, or for the sudden spring over a
precipice. From these maxims let us deduce
another—learn to say "No," with decision.
"Yes," with caution; "No," with decision
whenever it implies a promise. A promise
once given is a bond involable. A man is al
ready of consequence in the world when it <s
known that we can implicitly rely upon him.
I have frequently seen, in life, a person prefer
red to a long list of applicants, for some impor
tant charge which lifts him at once into station
and fortune, merely because he has this reput*-
tion, that when he says he knows a thing he
knows it, and when he says he will do a thing
he will do it.—Muse, gentlemen, over these
maxims; you will find it easy enough to prac
tice them, for when you have added them to
gether, the sum total looks very much like a
Scotchman.— Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.
new Treasury notes are to be issued
in about one week. The Union says they are
to be executed in the best style of American
art.
Neither act nor speak ill, though free from
witnesses. Learn to stand more in two oftht
self than of others.
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