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LEMONS, PINE-APPLES, BCTNES, RAISINS, NUTS, AC., AC., Ibd tin tiwir nlqiectim nwiiw'a. i . _-L_. BAKED TO ORDER, ur occasion*. on abort sotlca tad la lh» o«t - tlMi art. ■ : . iilawand prtc* ncratock aad yon will -flwi parefamd elwwlyr, ■ FETTINGER’S lal Sews Ageacy, ►jut, KW. If MAIN STREET |&S ; & TOBACCO, VABBETV wpMJtnT'9» hjuoi. . IBTON, JAOkJ?.GO.. n. 43S T KEBS, . JWwrt*, *et #C.”) »ff 8 ON TEE WiINCtPAI Ejsss'siiSi^igs yr r a MBfeMi mmrn ®www«?ei.. 9* C&i V* * ->■ s «• v OL. 8. !'HE ALTOONA TRIBUNJ oiMUtii. irivjui iM t v in uGVHiat.i $1 £»<• iil pajwrs JliHwntimiwl- «.t lln> *xpir«tH)H of lh>‘. iii«i Jor- * Hnt* or loss. - Sunaro. 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THE BOSE AND THE NETTLE In a country joine where in tin world —no matter where—at the north Pole, probably, or may be at the Souths—or per iiance between the two —there rose, a •urge and flourishing city. Its manufac :ories were notetl for'their extent,, and the merchant-princes of. that place’ revelled •a the wealth those manufactories pro ■luoed. On the outskirts of the town were milt two housfe—alike in form,;in extent, ■ if value. “Two peas.” or “ two nuts-,” ■>r “two pins,” had frequentlj'. described iheir similarity. KoW, in these two houses ■ oed two brothel’s—twins—lhe ; only sons n’the builder of those two houses. If aad been a fancy of the old man to have ’’ the boys,” as he called them, lodged alike, and his means being ample, he had she power of indulging his fancy. “ The boys” married, and on the wedding day the first stone of either home was laid. $B» “ Time enough to get them finished,” •aid the old gentleman, as he rubbed his hands in glee ; “ won't want a jprsery for a twelve-month, at any rate; , Small House do till then.” ' ‘ mv** a* ~ c P-* i he young brides were present when diat remark was made. One' blushed, : nd smiled; the other blushed and frowned, ii was thcfnetlle and the rose again sanding side by side. Six months passed', and the houses -Were Half up—the old gentleman himself di i-ecting all the arrangements of the build- OA.M !/SST *lt is good indeed of your father,, now an old man, to take an interest in onr comfort,” said one of the young wiv«>s to i,cr husband, “Ralph”—tliat .'was the ‘‘lusbitnd's name-—“you can never repay him tor his kind feeling and jiis 'gener osity to us.” - , ' “Uis an absurdity for your father to play the architect, and almost bricklayer,” the other wife to her spouse, doydell—liig mime. “ You sjtduld tell ■am that it is inconsistent with j Ids call in? ! ipd his station. 101& i asp rtAli’S- ' “It is consistent with bis pleasure,” re marked tiie husband, .“and therefore I am < ’witeut.“ , I welve months passed, and the houses w «re linished. _ ready in time,”': said tfie time , man ~‘‘ lea .'; ar le?s. »V THOMAS MACKKU.AH >n the fiMd t*f battle, » Ml the uitfht uhme'i lay. Aacaln watching; o'er me. mot hi Till the breaking of tlo tiny I lay thinking uf you, mother, Au.i tin’ j.jvnii tmt's it? hrtni- Till to our »nn bt* gnhis. mother unshg to * lit* immi’ of t Kiv-i me an ■.!' iM. m\ !Uofb*’i Vjo<* m<‘ nearer u> jour I'i- a-t. Would-1 coiibi repay ymi. motum >ur your liii'bi'a! 1 ’• i- ui;d > ;o< nod Uphold Mid Lie-*'* y«m. mother In this bitter vo*' you bear. rvissiurinf m.\ iitllr-b. otli' r. Kiss my w-ters h-v-il -o well tVhou yon sit together. mother. Toll them ho a th*if brother fell fell to-Them the stoiy, mother. ' When 1 sleep beirctuh iho sml, riiat T die*l to save my cuutn All from love to her and God. Leaning on the merit, mother. Of rli“ out w!|c> for nil. Peace is in my Ijmsom. mother. — Hjirk 1 hear the angels cull ! ton hear them Hinging. irohip; Libtvtt to the muttic's *well! Now i leave you, loving mf*thvr— (it>d Ue with yinj—fwre you well. “I he houses were occupied- hr the course ol' twelve inontlis tla- nurseries were occupied also. “ There are -, unceasing anxieties in a j mother's lot,” said the good wife of Ralph. luit unceasing pleasures, too And she , smih;d at tiie innocent lace, of her sleep- I ing babe. 3 do. I (Ki ‘J tP # ■:«> "How women can like the bore of 1 children! 1 cannot imagine,’' remarked her ; sister-in-law, as her child was hastily given ; to its iiinrse. ■j. !\U . Years passed on —•«,« they always d(i— -j and the young wives became middle-aged j wtmien. Sons and daughters clustered , round them, and tjie grandfather, old and now leant oh these young things for support. , i lino had worked a wondrous change i in the two brothers—(Ralph told of a home stock of happiness, from which he drew ! largely, while Boydqll looked as it content i .and happiness were not in the world at ‘ At this time, when the lamities ot each I were springing; up, and needed money to be spent on them, in education, mainlain ; ance, and the -different adjuncts ol their j station,*one of'those panics <>t the com , mercial world, which ruin thousands, took I place. Unfortunately, Ralph and his | brother had entered into large specula i lions,'which failing, they were involved I in theprevailing ruin, 'and found them : selves verging on bankruptcy. ".He of good heart, Ralph.” said his wile, " there is bread in this great world for all. Our tine large house, our servants and our carriages, tire not absolutely ne cessary to our -happiness; wc can do its , others do—live without .them ; and the children Ralph! this lesson of adversity may be for their welfare. Take comfort, Ralph I there is plenty of that left for us in the world, if our wealth lias down atvav." 2'; tl», •10 ')'• “ Yes." answered the husband. as he dumped her hand, and dr>-w her w. him. "yes I there is never tailing comfort here. Lucy. God be praised for having gium me one so ‘meet to help' me. both in joy iind sorrow, wealth Kir poverty You should have foreseen this crisis." remarked the wife of Hoydell. “and e..t allowed your children to’be brought to l eu nary at their ago, when just entering on life. Expenses are unavoidable, unless indeed, they be educated as the laboring classes—whidr idea rnav lie worth, jour wise consideration.” She ceased with a sneer on her fjicc. “ Other men would not have been so venturesome with their money,” she ic marked. "The Brownings, lor instance, and the Smiths, withdrew in time, and Lionel Blagdon told nie that your children might thank you, and you only, if star vation were, their fate.” “In mercy cease,” replied the husband, “ or you will drivp me mad-” “I must pat-your Conduct fairly before your eyes —it is ray duty,” she replied. “ Then reserve it until lam likely to appreciate yoait effort at the performance of the duty,” Itir answered bitterly. Poor “ Duty:!” how dreadfully is she mishandled by „thesc ascetic dames. "It is a duty!” and under that plea many a harsh truth is jittered: “It is a duty!” —so says the; evcr-stricl disciplinarian, and cold, stern words are driven forth to tremble on an overworked and wearied brain. “It isa duty!” covers the crud rebuke and the severe rejoinder. It may be a “duty*' to speak plainly and baldly sometimes— but it is a duty to choose tlie opportunity when the; speech ‘may be ac ceptable, and ..;no't fret and chafe the wounded heart by a repetition of the very truths which, silently' recognized, are gall ing U already;: Boydell knew,, quite well, that he might have foreseen find partially have provided for the melancholy event which had taken place. His conscience reproached hint bitterly for parelessnoss, 'and rashness, and his wife’s words were not needed to add to self-reptioach, which left to itself, plight have worked sdme good by produ cing a quiet determination to abide by the more sober councils Of Ralph in future, for Ralph/! voice had; been lifted against the very speculation which had caused the joint failure of the brothers. Fretted and galled, and wearied of life and life’s struggles. Boydell knew not whither to turn,for comfort and consolation. His father hadibeen -gathered to the dead : his brother —Boydell was two proud to betray his lack of domestic peace to. him ; his children, imitating the bad example of (he mother, turned against him. and in stead of clustering round him in the hour of woe, opunly’bhimed him for the course he had adopted. . At ,last lii« mind, torn by a thousand conflicting sorrows, gave way 5 a lunatic asylum became!his home, ■g’hile his wife and children dragged On a life of misery, supported by the mcrc“cljarijty of relations. Far differently fared Ralph. In the humble cottager on the outskirts of the town where he indw dwelt —a smile always welcomed him yrhepi he came home from the city’s foil and; din, tired with the business of the- dayy heart-sick with its disappointments—rest and peace and hap piness awaited hlm in the, little home His children—-dra wing l their tone from ALTOON.A PA., TUESDAY. MAY 12. 1863 that good wife and mother —thought.only how they could sooth the tired wanderer who had returned to'them, and make him forget in the placid joy of tie- present, the misery of tit-- past. “ Ralph.” says his wife one day, •• 1 would scarcely exchange our present lot for the one we held when I first became your wife. There is an earnestness in this quiet lile of strict utility which is lost, iti the gilded clay of wealthy splendor. I am as happy here, Ralph’ as if you had place 1 me in a palace-—happier, indeed—” He popped her as he looked lovingly into her gentle face. " Mot happier. Lucy.” he added, ” not happier, dear wile. Your nature would carry bliss u* perfect as this world can bestow into any phase of lile--nm 'hap pier,' Lucy, but as happy ettiter here, or there, or anywhere on earth—as happ) as such a kindly heart as yours can and should, an i will be anywhere.” Ralph ’.Ued to tin old .me : Ids hair was white, and his steps tottering:' but tlie heart and mind were linn still. His children were married, or otherwise set tled in the world; wealth bad fallen to the share of some, competency only to the lot of othei- lint sorrow, kc.-n sorrow* now tell on Ralph. Lucy died ; and he saw tin- mould fall on .'(lie lowered mffiu until it was hidden from ids view, lie whispered, as it to her who lav there—L know whal • loss' is now. deal' wife—l never felt its meaning before." 1 ioyde.il also lived to an old age. A partial recovery enabled him to return to Ins home—hut he was no welcome guest there. I nklndness and want of care had the result which might have been ex pected — he returned to the asylum, hope lessly mad, and died* there some years in wards, to the very evident relief of Id wife and children. Now, in all iiuiinn probability, these two women worked the sequel to the late of their husbands. The one hy her geii lieiu.-..' soothed the wounded spirit, and in seeking to hl.ss him. sowe 1 a full harvest of hie—ling for iier-cil. Ai, 1 the oil: -r 1 truly did she “ cast her seed iijmii (he Alltels and truly did she " find it aft! r many days." It was like the poisoned Upas berry, taking root and springing till the deadly tree east its de structive influence on those poor wretchc who sat beneath its branches. Looking Urr i on Slights. — 'l he Phil adelphia Lt:d{u.‘r says : There are mjiuc people always looking out for slights. They cannot pay a visit.-they cannot re ceive a triced, they cannot carry on the daily intercourse of the family, without suspecting some offence is designed. • 'i hey are as touchy as hair-triggers. If they meet an acquaintance in the street who happens to be preoccupied with business, they attribute his mental abstractions to some motive personal to themselves, and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on others the fault of their own irritability. fit of indigestion makes them see im pertinence in everybody they' come in contact with. Innocent persons, who never dreamed of giving offence, as tonished to find some' unfortunate word, or some momentary taciturnity has been mistaken for an insult. To say the least* the habit is unfortu nate. It is far wiser to fake the more -charitable view of our fellow, beings, and not supposy a slight intended, unless the neglect, is open and direct. After all, too, life takes its hue, in a great degree,,,from the color of our own minds. If we are frank and generoys, the world treats us ■kindly. If on the contrary, we are sus picious, men learn to be cold and cautious to us. Let a person get the reputation of being touchy, and everybody is under more or less restraint in bis or her presence; t*d in this way the chances of imaginary ofiences arc vastly increased. Your peo ple who fire up easily, miss a deal of hap piness. Their jaundiced tempers destroy their own comfort, as well as that of their friends. They have forever some fancied slight to brood over. The sunny serene contentment of less selfish disposi tions never visit them. 1 Caught.— A lady magnificent cat. Mr?. Jones, a neighbor, ordered her man-servant to kill it, as it alarmed her canary. The lady sent mousetraps to alb her friends, and when two or three hun dred; mice were caught, she had them put into a box, which was forwarded to the' cruel neighbor, who eagerly opened what she hoped was some elegant present, when out jumped the mice, to her great horror, and rilled her house. At the bot tom of the bi-sx she found a paper directed to tier, from her neighbor, saying. ‘ Madam, as you killed my cat, I take the liberty of sending you my mice.’ ijSS* The match-between John C. Kee nan and Tom King, for the Championship 61'England, was completed in London bn the 17 th of March. Both men were present bn the occasion. They are to fight lor one thousand pounds sterling a side and the belt. One hundred pounds sterling a side of the money was put down. fj?ir»Fl*KSf>KXT !%' r.VKI^YTIUXO.j ADVENTURES OF A FEDERAL SPY. | in May, 18(51, Arnold Harris visited Buffalo. It was the day of the departure ol' the Twenty-ieighth regiment for the seat of war and recognizing a number of bis friends in the ranks, he enlisted, and marched by their side. Soon after ins arrival at the Army of the Potomac he was transferred to the naval service, and placed in command of the Island Belle, of the Potomac flotilla. A few months later he lost his vessel and applied fur another command. I lie department proposed to send him to Richmond to frustrate, if possible, the projects of George N. Sanders, who had just then secured contracts from the rebel, government for a navy to he built in Eng land. He accepted the perilous mission, and soon made jus way to the Confederate capital. Without tiny disguise of name or poi son, la- succeeded in acquiring the con fidence of the rebel authorities, and estab lished himself on intimate terras with several of the most important officials. His situation, however, was dangerous in the extreme, and he was arrested and confined in Castle Thunder for seventeen da vs. lie was soon recognized hy two Mary landers ns the former commander of the i Island Belle. Upon his trial he ac ! knowledged the identification, claiming to j have done the Confederacy more service, ■ while holding a comiqand in the Federal navy, than lie could have done by openly I joining its cause tit an earlier day. His j audacity triumphed, and he not only ob tained an acquittal, but continued to enjoy the confidence of the relrel authori j ties, or, rather, of all hut Benjamin, who was suspicious of him throughout. soon after his discharge from Castle I bunder he became a participant of the enterprise of Sanders, who had recently returned trom Europe. As soon as Sanders had perfected his arrangements with Jeff. A Co., he was to return to ! England with money and .documents ne cessary to the carrying out. of his schemes. II is son. Beid Sanders and Harris were to accompany him. The aim of the hitter 1 was to secure Sander's mail. He .suc ceeded in having it arranged that George, with his friends, should proceed by way of Mathmoras to Halifax while Beid Sanders and he, with the documents, and despatches to Lie taken, wcrc_ to run the blockade at Charleston, and get to Halifax by way ot Nassau. In accordance with this plan. Sanders, junior, and Harris proceeded to Charleston and purchased a yacht, which they loaded with turpentine, and started gaily out, in January last, to slip through the blockading \fieet, and make for Nasspu. Great interest was taken in the enterprise, and before leav ing, the voyagers were entertained at a dinner .with Beauregard and the leading celebrities of the city. Meantime, Harris bad succeeded in communicating with one of the vessels of the outside fleet,; and puttiilg its comman der on the watch. The yacht,*as she ran out of the harbor was speedily detected, and subjected to a cannonade which frightened Sanders out of his wits, and made him eager to surrender. The mail bag, heavily freighted with iron, was thrown overboard t but Harris had previously abstracted from it a portman teau containing the important despatches an! documents, substituting in its stead his own, which happened, as a remarka ble coincidence, of course, its exact counterpart. - 1 he capture of Reid Sanders will be re membered. • Harris is at present in. Buf falo, on a yisit to his friends. He ranks as a lieutenant in the navy. Mas. Fubbs and Ma Fcbbs— Correct View* of the Former. —“ Fubbs, I want to talk to you a while, and 1 want you to listen while Ido it. You want to go to sleep, but I don’t: I'm not one of the sleepy kind. It’s a good thing for you, Mr. Fubbs, that you have a -wife who' imparts information by lectures, else you would be a , pe'riect ignoramus. Not a thing about the house to read, except a little Bible that the Christian Association gave’yoii, and a tract which that fellow called Porter left one day, entitled ‘Light to the Heathen,' It’s well he left it, for you’re a heathen, Fubbs, you may feel thankful you ain't,, a Mormon! Yes, I understand that insinuation, too, you! profane wretch! You'mean you’re glad you havn't but, one wife. You never j would have known there was a Mormon, Mr. Fubbs, if l l hadn’t told you, ’cause you’re too stingy to take a paper! Now,. Fubbs, I dec.are your name ought to be Fibs, you tell so many of ’em. It's only last week I lost a dollar and a half on butter I sold to a pedlar, because I didn’t know the market price. This would have paid tor the paper the whole year. . And then you, are so ignorant, Fubbs. ,j)u(’t. you recollect when you took the gnh and! walked down to the big marsh a hunting, because some one said that the Turkeys were marchiig into Bushes? Y-e-s y-o-ii d-i-d. You needn’t deny it, Fubbs.— Didn’t kill any, s did you? I): was p, bad day for turkeys,: wasn’t it, Fubbs 1 ! Hit 1 ha! ha!”' FIRST SHOT.nrTHB BEVOIimOH. The first American who discharged his gun run the day of the battle of Lexington, was Ebenezer Lock, who died at Deering, N. H., about fifty years ago. He resided at Lexington in. 1775. The British regu lars, at the order' of Major Pitcairn., having fired at a few Americans on the gi'fien in front of-the meeting house, killing some and wounding others, it was a signal of War. “The citizens,” writes one, "might be seen coming from all directions in the mads, over the fields and through the woods, each witbNiis rifle in his hand, his powder horn hung id his side, and his pockets provided with bullets,” Among the number was Ebenezer Lock. Ihc British had posted aTeserve of in fantry a mile ire the rear, in the direction of Boston. This was in j|je : neighborhood of Mr. Lock, who, instead of hastening to join the party at the green, placed himself in an open cellar at a convenient distance for doing execution. A portion of the reserve was standing on a bridge, and Mr. Lock commenced firing at them.' There was no other American in sight. He worked valiantly for stime ten minutes, bringing down one of the) enemy at nearly every shot. Up to this: time not a gun had been fired elsewhere by the Ameri cans. The British gregttly disturbed at losing so many men by the random firing of ah unseen foe, were notslong in discov ering tiie man in the cellar, and discharged a volley of balls which lodged on the walls 'opposite. Mr. Lock, remaining unhurt, continued to load and--fire with the pre cision of a distinguished marksman. He wid driven to such, close quarters, how ever, by the British on his right and left, that he was compelled to retreat. He had just one bullet left, and there was bur. one way to escape, and that was through an orchard, and not one moment was to be Lost ; he leveled his gun at the man near by, dropped the weapon, and tne man was shot through the heart.— The hails whistled about lam. Lock reached the brink of a steep hill, and throwing himself down upon the ground, fumbled downwards, rolling as if mortally wounded. In this way he escaped unhurt. At the close of the war be moved to New Hampshire, where he resided until his death, twenty years alter. He lived in seclusion and died in peace. An Incident. —A pleasant story is told of the adventures of Mrs. Gray; wife oi a conductor on the New York and Erie railroad, and her baby, while passengers from Cincinnati by the Cleveland Express train. While the lady was procuring some refreshments the heft tapped, and she hastened out to find the train, on. board of wliicli was her darling two-year old and all her baggage, moving; off and already beyond her reach. The shock at tbe sight ort her nervous system ; was terrible! to witness. Not that she was noisy or even wept, but the agony depicted in her‘pale face, the quiver of her Tip, her starting eyes and words of alarm and affection fold of the intense emotion ot a mother’s love. As soon as possible she irab to the tele graph office, and there meeting the officers of the road, who on learning the sad case, directed, by telegraph, the operator of the i dad at Lewis Center, to take the child and baggage in charge until further or-; dered, Mr. Patterson, the resident agent of the Company, .with aft the kindness of a tender parent, placed an extra- train on the track. A half hour of anxiety to the mother, passed, when .the; following was received: “ Child and traips all safe at Dr. . Lady passengers on the train unwilling to part with *o good a child.” In thirty minutes'the extra train reached Ivcwis Center, and the; ruby boy was smiling in tbe arms of his grateful mother. It- should be added that the lady, with whom the child was left, in the train, a Miss Holmes, of Cleveland, got off with it and waited till the mother’s arrival' before she would resign fteii charge. A Yankee boy had a whole Dutch cheese act before him by a waggish friend who, however, gave him no knife: “This is a funny cheese, llncle joe, hut where shall I cut it?” “Oh,” said the grinning friend, “ cut it "where you like.” “ Very well,” said the Yankee, egoly patting it under his arm, -‘ 111 cut it at home.” Of all the articles of food, boiled rice is digested in the shortest time—an hour. As it contains eight-tenths nu tritious matter, it is a valuable substance for diet-, and, singular as may appear, pigs’: feet are digested almost as quickly. lO* “It is a very singular thing,” said a tailor’s apprentice to his master, ‘-that the lets there is of a ihi%,ithe more there is.” “ How can that be ?” said the tailor. “ Why there’s that bobtail coat —the less you make tbe ta* the more bob it is.” Toombs has resigned his posi tion: in the Southern antny, and says he cannot longer hold a commission under Davis with advantage to the country, or honpr tohimself. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS ImpawvlgewUtj. tekpesanct'hamm'ato PE&AVCS EDUCATION. We sometimes question whether a great portion of temperance/ men and women thoroughly comprehend how much is meant by the temperance edvcatim of the young, or folly realize the importance of the subject and their duty with regard tc it. It is a truth which every aduli rentier of these lines will reoognizd that af very considerable proportion of the youth of our communities who become drunkards are the sons of parents who are temperate and respectable people, and in many in* stances professed Christians. Recognising this as a-fact,, we regard it as no less true that no youth reared in a respectable, total-abstinence family, and receiving a proper education in temperance principles, will ever, in the common course of life, become a drunkard. Abe conclusion to be drawn, then, is this ; that respectable parents whose sons become drunkards either neglect altogether to enjoin them to abstinence, or, while requiring them to be ab tainers, negl ct to thoroughly instill into their minds the reasons and princi ples upon which the duty of abstinence is based. To enjoin upon a child a strict absti nence from intoxicating liquors is one thing, and to thoroughly imbue him with temperance principles, in embracing wl ich his reason has been addressed and his in telligence exercised, is another, and both are necessary to his proper temperance training. The one may establish a nega tive virtue, which will leave the youth ex posed to the’power of temptation, but the other will develop a positive principle, which will make him master of himself, and rob temptation of its force, or destroy it altogether. Parents dp not by any moans secure an effectual temperance training for their children, by merely be ing abstinent themselves, banishing all in toxicating beverages from their houses, and maintaining an unexceptionable personal example with regard to total abstinence. There must not be only conformity to,' but living faith in, thb virtue of 'lemperance. And there must be not faith . only, but works. Parents must not only keep their children in temperance habits , under the paternal roof, but they must supply a thorough temperenux education, in order that those habits may be rendered im pregnable, when asailed hfr gilded temp tations, ajvay from the safe preempts of home. , That a boy reared in a' family of ab stainers is a teetotalar till he leave? his father's roof may be a merely negative vir tue, which" gives way as soon as-he fa ex posed to the usual temptations whiclf lead the young into intemperance—a yirtue only the-resrilt of favoring circumstances, and not due to a resolute principle, which has seen and estimated all the considera tions which makes abstinence a duty, and all the temptations and allurements which would entice to indulgence. The j-oOng should not be left thus unarmed to fight the battle with temptation. Patents! who recognize the duty of abstinence should so evince their! allegiance to the cause that their homes may be pervaded by a constant moral atmosphere of temperance principle. When their children 1 are old enough to mark and understand the canto of drunkenness around, them, they should begin to educate them in the prin ciples of abstinence.. They should! be taught that reeling,, falling, losing senses and self-respect, becoming idle, dissolute and criminal, is not all that is to he dreaded from drunken habits, but that d inking at all is intemperance —is poisoning the body and destroying the mind. They shofild be taught what are the effects of alcoholic drinks, arid be made acquainted with all the reasons for avoiding them. They should .be made acquainted with the na ture of fall temptations to drinking habits which assail the young on their entrance in to society, and be forearmed to resist them. Nothing less than this'should satisfy the conscience of parents, and nothing less than this will acquit them of the great responsibility that rests upon them to save their children from the wiles of the “per fidious destroyer.” 9 Death is terrible or beautiful; ter rible when a sinner rashes into eternity into the immediate presence of a ejected ani an offmled God, beautiful, when a Christ it n walks through the valley of the shadow of. death fearing no. evil, and with sins forgiven, and robes made white in the sood of the lamb, . enters ipto the rest that renmins for the people of God. Sudden depth may cut off the impenitent in- the midst of his sins, or take the believer quickly home to glory; lingering disease may fail toJead a hardened soul to Christ, or it may tiepa continued and ever increasing Idesupg to him who through faith goes on fouaSin quering to conquer, until death i* raUed of its sting and the grave of its victory. Oftentimes God [daces the. deaths This children and unbelievers in striking Con trast, as if to shdirhis jpindness to < Ids own, pud the righteous retribution which mtist come upon the guilty tinnier. | ■/ ■ , NO.