florthl,FircititAN
LINES TO MY 81STER•
By 1' ♦ *
Dear friend, for indeed bast thou
Forever been to me;
Wilt thou accept these simplo lines,
I pow inscribe to thee ?
'Tis evening's calm and gentle hour,
The winds are hushed iind .till ;
The setting sun his glories throws
Oa yonder eastern hill.
how many sad and lonely byre '
H a re passed since we Imon coot ;
How often I have thought of ther4. 4
So far swag ; and yet,
thy gentle twin seems even near,
•Though hills.between US lifT
I seem to see theVriTrivroile
Light op thy calm blue eyes.
Dear sister, I tiiis boon would ask
KirunaNen tog►nt to thee ;
That thoult Ond many es faithful Wendt
As thou hue keen to me.
And when on earth thy days are
'May bright, bright, angeis come ;
To take thy perfect spirit hence,
And bear it safely home,
The Man on the Iceberg.
reia,tinan !" 'aid( the eaptain, Lan
ling hie ielel.eopo to the mate, afior
long, eleidy look ; wed he Perms frozen,
hard and fast tp the Ride of &he iceberg
.Keep her away!" cried the:siipperr
"So—o---o. "Steady !" and by thus-tat
tering our course we brought tho iceberg
r ight a-head.
The leeherg bad been in eight since
the weather cleare'd at midnight, when
It looked like some high rocky bendland,
exisept that, by watching the bright
stars behind it, we could nee Its gigan
tic outline swaying solemnly and ma.
iestloally up and down ~ There was.
something sublimely-grand in the- slow
stately piorement of such a mass. There
it dotted, large enough, bail it beet' land
to have been the sletelliong-plareasof hun
dreds of Imam° beings. The lower part
was of so clerk a perple as to look al
most black; but, higher up, it shaded
off to a bright azure, then tot, light pale
green, while on its hefty summµ were
long slender spires and pinnacles, and
pieces of thin transparent ice. worked
Into 411 manner of fantastic forma, and
either of a crynsa! whiteness. or tinted
with a beautiful pale pink There were
bays and promontories, cares and grot
toe, bills and dells, with ever+ variety
ortight and shade. The island was al
fungt equally divided by a great valley
running through its centre This was
half filled with snow, which. thawing
slowly in the sun, formed the source of
a waterfall, at a height se great that it
was brOwn and smattered into fine rain
before it reached the sea Around WI
bass--un which ilia ?tea was breaking
with a noise lens booming and more mu gel _
etcal than when it dashes OR the solid 'Perhaps, now. - suggested .i. tkird
'•it's toinie awful cruel skipper, who's
shore—was a broad Kiwi of frozen spray
wt' ob glit er ng in the sunshin-,und look been a basing and ill using of his cqw
till they couldn't he,r with it no longer
ed like the silver setting of nn enormous
and was drove to mutiny ; aol put him
sapphire
:Lahore there. ail alone, to die by hinrseli
Not far from the top, and en the side
nearest
to us. was
t, vast, smooth,
Rl ._ so lIAI they should not lisve hits b lood up
on their hawk; of , mny be he wt.; a
.3 , plane, inclining steeply towards the -
murderer, or a 1 ankee ',biro keeper'
sea. and terminating abruptly in a tre
mendous overhanging precipice. Ill'the " 'ill ' Hill:. growled cl" it pre•t""
ker, '•you've always got. a good word
Teel °eaten of this plane. thcac among''
us who had good eyes could see a small 0
fo illi t
y for eter'y one, you hate."
black spot. It was at this the captain It was a very old man who !Take nest.
one who was looked up to u• A great nu
had been peering through huglitita,when
t
he said, -It Is a man hordy QII all such matters, alitiough he
Every glass in the ship was in requisi I was usually remarkably taciturn, and
would mover enter into au argument
lien, and every eye strained towards
one point. The,
tm,,t.e.,ut, be....,, al - lie poly tfeposited his tp . iiil in his hat ;
most frantic, whc" ono of Thu watchers II Illi, AY this was 0' ways Ihntr preparn•
suddenly exclaimed that lie saw the man tory to his making a /Ipecub, • his ship
move his baud 'nate. waited in silence for him to be-
We approached ; so near at last that
the plaveau above, and its dread ob
ject 'were hidden front view by the
brink of the precipice itself, which seeni•
ed es If about to roll over and ccush us.
We sailed along / its cite , hog iently ly
inig In, to explore each nook and corner
as we poised. The farther end of the
island, when t. e rounded it, presented
quite a new feature, the base was sap
ped away nod undermined for about half
lb mile by a suoessien of log/ cavernous
hollows, extending inward farther than
we could see, while the sea, ruching in
and out tumultuously, made the pent-up
air within howl and whistle like a hue-
ricane. Altering nur eourne again, w•
steered almat dun wont under the mouth
ern Mole, where it. rant ohs low I , lp read
out far ■nd wide toter (be ocean
It now looked even grander darker.
more fear insnaring than before, with
the sun beaming over its rugged crest.
ot - shining through the thinner Orli,
and showing all the prismatic colors of
the rainbow. The form of the ioe-island
was that of an irregular triangle. nud in
about live hours we had railed coritple
tely-round it But there W 44 4r single
point at which soy boat could have landed,
even had it been a ilsad calm, and the
"A as still es* Till pond ; muals tees
In hush tR he.vy surf 44 W 44 then form
titg ant cirevhin7 all around it !in
iiign of a living thing vv•l seen, accept
log one great-wleepy seal, that had crop}
into a hole just above watermark, and
lay there as if be were iu comfortable
quarters No sign of host, or spar, or
wank. it,was Is picture of utter deeo
lit ion
W*, 1 !.1 , 0-to tg4in, MI the nehresl iebiut
trope which the teen upoit the iciebarg
( ) -- • •
-17-1
nit 1211 a ftplaw::
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could be seen. We lay on his back with
one arm folded In an unusual mutates
under bin head, the wtole attitude he
lag one of easy - repose; indeed„ had it
not been for the marbly look of hit face
anti band., we could hive fancied thin,
he was sleeping soundly. lie was cloth
ed as one of the better class of seamen
in rough . blue pilot-cloth, with large
horn buttons; ha had no hat, and by
his side lay a small boot hook, to which
was tied, a !drip of red woolen stuff: ap
pnrently a piece of the same which he
wore round his neck. This, no doubt.
the poor fellow had intended planting
on the heights as a signal In such a
thin, clear atmosphere, with the aid of
a powerful telescope, even bin futures
might be plainly traced, and his iron
grey hair seen dmving in the wind.
The second male eion4declared that
lie recognized the man—ho - -vitas quite
ewe of4l—an old chum and shipaietti of
his, with whom he had sailed many 'll
Inntveyage, and some pert of whose
wild. varied history. he told us the next
evening. What seemed to convince him
mars than anything. was the peculiar
way in which the dead man's arm woe
stowed away under his head—his alit
shipmate always slept so. even in his
hammock,
Numerous and strange were the con
jectures aril remarks made by offioree
and men. Who nifi what wag he , flow
long hod he been there' How tli,l
get there? The general cons:usion wee
hot he wll.Ol one of the crew of come ves
sel wrecked upon a f tt iceberg itself. of
which vestige r mined
"Yco,anough," paid one of the smart.:
'•eke run,into the ice in_ the dark, and
went down like a siene.same a we ma
hare done any tune this last Nix weeks "
' , Perhaps he wns aloft when mho airsick
and got pitched up where he t. now "
"As like to he pitched into the moon."
rejoined another. coutempitiously
"Why, that ihere ptrriptre im three imt;"4
sit high an lhn Loosest meat ever rig
That thert ice island, - he said to
last, "wasn't launched yesterday, nor yet
lest year, nor tire year before, perhaps
,std, by the looks of him, 11...0 been for
pretty long eruiseiti warm latitude/l—
bw summer. ma.) be—end then "come
back home for the winter. If you look
away yonder—there—just this ride of
that high point like a church steeple,
only lower down, there's a plea: looks
darker than the rest Now, it's just
ttsere I enpeot that a great piece has
broken oat and drifted away; and !cal
culate 'twos lower and more shelving
off- not so strop and rooky-like as it is
now 'Twit+ there thVe pour chap
was colt ashore from sh or host Ile
was trying to make his way sip to the
heights to lake a Welt round, and hoist
a signal, when he lay down and went to
sleep, and never woke again; only,
where he to now, you ere, must live
been covered will, snow then, or h e
couldn't bare kept his fooling
Haring said thus mach. he replaced
the quid In lII* 1.1101111, and spoke no
morn.,
fheCA Wna no earthly -111M1. iti waiting
longer, and yet an: triptain seemed •loth
to give the order to Fill 'nod boar &wee
••If th e pooi• fellow hyd spark of
life in him' he would have moved before
ihir, fat it h six or eteru hours Muer we
first sow him. fiat if he did 11.1011.; it
would only be to slide down over the
precipice, for no living thing could keep
tooting on such s slope as thut Anti
irtinttO•dre nay more Mt tnermwe eitould
nave seen them before Olio inicoilthotigh
we could never get them oft it wM did. -
Then wising suddenly iti hie walk
an the quarirr•deek, ht• gore ou order
"STAMM DZONT* AND TEDZINAL UNION."
BELL'EFONTE, PA
10 get a gun ready forward. sud•presen
ily came the answer:
...All ready with the gun, air."
“Fire.”
In a few seconds the echo of the loud
report resounded trom the icy wall; for
another instant all wan still, and then
came snake like's rattling °fiend thud
der, proceeding from the centre of the
bvrg.
The danger of nor proximity to this
ram object now became more and more
apparent, and all nail wan made to get
a gond den*. Rut we had bare filiiii
ceeded a quarter of a mile when the
same trite was heard again, only fowl
er. more prolonged, and fIOOOME anted by
a rending, crushing sound, the intensi
ty and nature of which in psfectly
in
descrihahle. The rant island wan part
ing in the middle, down the course of
the deep valley beCure mentioned ; and
slowly and majeetioally the eastern half
--e.died over into the sea, upheaving what
had been its bane, in which were imbed
ded buseltoassee of rook. covered with
' long sea wend -- The other pait still re,
niained erect, hart - w;ilrawaylng to and
fro, as if it intuit alma Milrat.xe Thin
corivuhdon caumed less foam and ittrtz L oil
Than might have been supposed, M.:f
ramed a ware of much tremendous mag
' nilude, that wheu it reached our ship
clue seemed about to Tie overwhelmed by
a rolling mountnin of water higher than
nue mast beads. The good ship rode
upon its crest, and before again sinking
itibutte hollow, we saw the men upon
the timber)* still ih the amine rostare—
glut° swiftly down theJlipper,f incline—
shoot osier the edge of the. precipice, and
plunge IWO the raging surf.
A senmation of inexpressible relief was
experienced by all; it had seemed no
dreadful to sail away and leave him
tliere, unburied and ; now; at any
role, we bad seen the lOW of biro
The Eider Duck
Fir ninny in the ley North, to Labra
dor and fireeilland, in Iceland and Nor ,
sr,..x, and other ctr.d etontiteles, lives thin
bird so noted for the soft down it gores
us ; and there it lays tin eggs and hatch
en out its young You nee a mother bird
take her ducklings into the chilly water.
from which the, hrter,Nori hero Summer
t. mn tel 'be tee She is go.ng to feed
them on the shell hill and nem urchins
Unit she emu pick up from the edges of
the rocks and in hollow pliers,
You thioli they must be eery cold,
'not they are 1101 God h.ts covered
them wtill warm down and feathers, nnJ
they are comfortable and happy Shall
I tell you acme thing about the way in
which the eider down is obtained'.
\lost of it contra from Norway and ice
land, and from the Fern Islands lying
~IT the coast of Scotland
The ler dock F otitis her nest Of fine
twilit and mosses on the ground or
'urging rock.r_ wherever they can find a
little ; and there 00116 are often
so elose together that a man 011111 httnlly
walk among them NOli llloUt stepping on
the eggs The breasts of the birds are
covered thickly stith the softest down ;
and as soon as they have laid their eggs
they then pluck out enough of this down
to cover them warmly, for there is not
sufficient hest nt their bodies to hatoli
the ego., without help from the down ;
and hesult , they bair to leave their
nests sometimes to get food, and then, ti
it were not for the covering of down, the
eggs would he frozen
The people who live foray' in the far
Northern countries, whore these ducks .
make their nests and hatch their young,
know about these down-covered eggs.
and as soon ns they find them well wrap
pod up. take away both eggs and the
down Then the mother bird lays anoth
er nest full of t• ggs, and a 'timed tril i rei
strips the down (rent her nest to cover
them and keep thertrwarm.
The second time the eggs and down
ore taken away, Poor bird ! Btill she
is not discouraged, and lays a third nest
full of eggs ; hut she has no more down
with which to protect them front the
cold What is to be done Will the
egge he tTOZaII Not en : for now the
mato bud comes and picks the downy
treasure+ Nom his breast and lays thed
oven the eget. This time the down
oilmene leave the nest unharmed, sic
that a brood of titmice may he hatched
that will lay eggs and supply the down
another year.
Each nest supplier, about half a pound
of down, with which the people of 0 ""
many end Northern Europe stuff bed
coverings that ane need-in winter initnitd
mfblntilteln
This. eider tlnwtr k vo very light that
the weight. of only there ounces will
fill .. hot -R: -
EMI
, FRIDAY FEB. 7, 1868.
Smuggling Oev(dna.
in die days when the high heeled
Frenob boots Were in the pride of fash
ion, there was a shoemaker in London
who made a fortune by the sale of the
beet Paris boots at a pride which all his
fellow tradesmen declared ruinous. He
tinderstond the trade,and obtained troops
of customers. These boots must be stol
en: said his dealt!, ; but there was no
evidence that they were; certainly they.
were not smuggled boots, for nay one
could satisfy himself that the full duty
was paid on thorn at the custom house
The - shoemaker retired 'mtt business
with a fortune. Afterward bin secret
was accidentally discovered—although
he had paid duty for the hoots, be had
nif paid duty Or every thing that wall
in them There was a heavy duty pay
able on foreign watches, and every hoot
consigned to him from parts had con
tained in its-high heel a cavity exactly
large engillgh to bold a watch. The
great profits obtained by the trade in
smuggling watches made it possible for
ibis tradesman, when be had tilled up
their heels, to Nell his boots under prime
cost This is worth while, again, be
cause of course by the extension of his
'oot trade he increased his power of
porttog watches duty free.
Some yearn later an elderly,lady and
a - lap dog traveled - a. good deal between
Dover and Ostend. It moue to be gene
rally tioueitlered at the oustatehouse
that her travels were for the sole purpore
of smuggling Brussels lace, then subject
to exceedingly high duty ; but neither
the-examiners of hdr luggage nor the
female searchers at the custom house
who took charge of her could by the oar ,
rowed scrutiny find matter fora single
accusation. At last, when she was
about to resign the einugglibg business,
this lady accepted a bribe from au Mil
err to make him master of her secret
Calling to her aide her lap dog, who was
to sal strangers a very snappish little
our, she asked the officer to leteba knife
and rip the little creature open Like a
few of the dogs (which have sometimes'
even proven to be rate) sold in the streets
of London ft gloried outwardly in a toe°
stun; and between the false skin and
tbe true skin wits space enough to pro
vide a thin deg with the ordinary Ni
nepin to a lady's pet, by means of a warm
padding of the finest lace In the reign
lof Louis the Eighteenth —it nosy be no
ted by the way —fierce digs won / 181171 1 1
to carry valuable watches and small ar
ticles under false skins across the fron
tier They were taught to know and
a•uid the uniform of. a custom-house
officer. Swift, cunning, and fierce, they
wore never to bo taken alive, although
they were sometimes pursued and shot
Not very long ago a great number of
false bank notes were put •nto circulus
Lei within the dominions of the Czar
They could only have been imported ;
but. although the Strictest search was
elide habitually over every vessel enter
ing a Itusniau port. no smuggling of false
looting was discovered. So tam!. is meant
to be the - Nerutiny at Russian militant
lonises !hot the ship tyllin, who is
hound to give art inventory of every ar
ticle 011 board, may I'ol Intl unheard ol
trouble if lie forget even sn moot' as hto
own private dimary bird. Severialorates
load pan't's arrived one day from
Englan I, owl were being examined,
when one of them fell out 01 FL pro:dings.
and the coviotu•humse offzuer picked it
up, out it to a point, and use I it to sign
!the order stools delivered ep the cases
to the consignee. Ite kept the one louse
pentiil for his own use ; and a few days
afterward, beoansa it needed a fresh
pint, cut it again, and found that there
wan no more lead Another chip into
the ocular brought him to a roll of - paper
bested into a hollow place. Thin paper
was one of the false sort, engraved in
London. and thus passed into the domin
ion of the Alusoovite.,—Ex.
.---The Philadelphia Sunday Transom*
au original °rant pa r er, in speaking of
Geo. limit, says that be has "forfeited al I
elatut to.respect is a gentleman, or cont -
.donee as a soldier," and,that "he his sutler •
ered his Nat for alike to eretrlde htt iito
hood,'"and"rewthereapre says, "6 candidate
who °metastases his carver in deceit will not
fall tw find shame, if nothing worse, iu t s
end"
WssILISLIPoIef NATI! —IL iti s 6401
ikot priors Ily known perbsps, that
on drew his hut breaili in the
tea h•inr in the &utility of the tact week
in tlio month ‘if the year, and itt Ibe
ro.l yoAr (4 the century- He flied Sat
, is n(1;1110'_ o'clock, Dec. St, Filkb.
NO. 6
OPEN SECRETS
tir /LIMN C.11111T..
The truth He round about us, ell
Too slosely to he nought—
So open to lur vision that
'Tin hidden to our thought.
We know not What the glories
Of the grass. the Bower, may be.
We need not struggle for the eight
Of what-we always tuba.
Waiting for storm. and whirlwinds,
And to have a sign appear,
We deem; not God is npeak Mg in
The still small voice we hear.
In reasoning prstud, blind leaders of
The blind, through life we go,
And do not know the things we see;
Nor see the things we know.
Single and indivisible,
We pass from chair to change,
Familiar with the strangest things,
And with familiar, strange.
We make the-light through which we see
The light, and make the dark—
To hear the lark sing. we must be
At heaven's gate with lbe 'ark•
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
--The Cbarleston ifer 7 viiiy calls tbo no
gro convention in thatfltate the "great ring
streaked and striped."
—rn the reeent Demneratic Convention
in Connertient, there were seventeen tick.
Kate , . who voted for Hawley, the Radical
candidate, last year
---A party of single gentlemen at War.
renter], Virginia have organized a 'mutual
expense club, rented a house, and gone to
housekeeping.
--The New Orleans mint, which ba
tmen isileleinre the outbreak ing of the rebel
!lon, is atrout 05 - rosunte operation. , It wall
eminence by eolninertiellee.
•
i 4 Iltatedtthat Bdwlß ,Booth's re
-04,0, averaged saooo a week duehag the
past season
"Wood up ." is the r♦ of the Port Mb-
Rog (Miss.) Stungrord to those - subscribers
ho prinsleed to pay in that article.
="-ofrineteen United States Songsters re
tire in Mu, six of whom are Degenerate.
irhe eloetions thus far have given the Dem
ocrats a gain of tabu.
--It is related that near Dantaig a
young man of twenty four, wild'has Just
married a widow of lorty two, has discover
ed since the marriage that his wife was his
wet nurse.
-----A few days nip', two men blarked,and
pretending to be serrnnts, knocked at the
door of Mr Tyson, agent of the Internal
Revenue Collector, at Winona, Mississippi,
and, on being admitted, knocked Mr. Tyson
down and robbed hint of $5,440.
-- Brandon, in St. Louie has
recovered a verdict of twehe hundred and
fifty dollars damages against D. J. Jocelyn
a dentist. The plaintiff claims that Juce
lyn broke his Jaw hone and otherwise dam
aged him in the proem, of extracting some
With. The dentist hao asked for a new
trial
-The erhooner hone Star, from §avan ,
sti ilk In Ilead, vrei blown out to era in
a gale on Tuesday. Sind wus round with
three persons, leaving ten persons missing,
the remaining three being ton much worn
nut by olhru,tion to trill what beldame at
their companions.
- --l'aris street railw•ye Lave flat rail/
and the oar wheels have no flange', hu
there IA s small rail in the centre on which
ern extra grooved wheel rune. This wheel .
can be raised by the driver, when the car
wildly runs off the track k turn out fur a
ear morning . from an eppoeite direction.
----A downeieter ►lverti+se r ■ wife in
the following manner .
"Any gal -what's gut a oow, a ggod feath
er bed with comfortable tlx Ins, Bye hoodoo.'
dollars in the hard pewter one that's bad
the meazels and understands tendin' chit.
dren, can and a customer for life, by writhe
small billy (Imo, addressed to Q. Z. and
stiokin' It in a crack of Uncle Ebenesor's
barn, back side, Joinin' the hog-pen•
- -,-Virgin is City, in Nevada, is meeting
with • misfortune not common to American
cities. The announcement is made that in
all probability it will soon be swallowed up
by the settling (deb. houses into the work
ed out mining drifts, which were not prop
. rly eectirad by the miners. Long outs aro
exposed In the street', frame houses ern
twisteg about In every direction, and brick
loicitllnga ere toppling over.
--Paris has a queer ease of kleptoma
nia. An Roglimb lady of high birth has
many tl•aes been before• the eourts on a
charge of stealing, althorgh her chewer
iitanoia are such that she might buy every
thing ■lie hoods. her latest trick was fas
tening a fine silk thread to a one .renopdeor
and when the person by her side in the om.
nibos opened her purse to pay her faro, she
handed her the coin with the remark that
it fell from her portemonnals. By lIIMIDIII ot
the silk thread the portem ,nnais was, aßar
wards withdrawn from the huly's pocket,.
iiiii‘embling Of Congress
The halidayaeason is over, and. soa
r i will reitiatmbletothe Capitol albs
nation to day., Some of -the menthes..
-Lave been at home. among their consti
tuente and heard of hnrillimes; sewn the
closed doomof menufactorlee, and. Wor
kshops. and listened to the talk of toer
,ghants with reference to the future.
Others, during the remits, have had leis
tire to examine °irefully the papers from
all parts of the nation, and thus' leant
into what a state the business of the
country bas been thrown by Radioed
legislation with reference to the South
ern Stelae. During the recess time has
also been affyrded members to ponder
the questions of our national debt, of
the onereoey, of taxes, of a tariff, of re
tretehment, and the many other impor
tent issues indissolubly conneoted with
the politics and legislation of the land.
have they done so, and what effect will
such examination, thought aqd refec
tion have upon their actionT , Will it
induce them to retrnee their steps, re
peal the inflations laws, which base re
dwood the Southern people to want end
beggary, and lb replace them by wise,
and prudent ordinances, national in
their score, tendency and' operations;
or will the balance of the session be de
voted to President-making and ocheites
to advance the interests of the dominant
party f The business men of the nation
are deeply iniereated in the action of
Congress at this timn. Trade,oommeroe
and manufactures are at the eland still.
Contracts, reaching any distance into
the future, cannot be made with safety
on account of the uncertain motion of
Congress whit reference to reconstruction
%Voile tun States are kept in an unpro
ductive condition, and six millions of
people reduced to the verge of starva
tion, legislation Ibpen ether subjects,
even if proper and right will be shorn
of half its moraines... The lest step
towards a 'Twist° the right path will.
be an abandonment of Om military poli
cy which has prevented • restoration of
the.old.relatimas between tits.. States.,
When that is done, other movements can
be effected, looking to a return to peace
anti•prosperhy in the masa. - Congress
oat. do all these things, but will they?
We suppose not. The peopleatuA puri
fy that body at the next election, and
then reform will follow —Aye.
A Long Voyage in ■ Canoe
Mr F. tiliole a wealthy Englishman*,
bite paddled himself in a sans*, Moue
July last, a distance of 40,000 miles
lie started from Liverpool, and rifler
paddling along the (toast and out in •he
Irish Sea for several days. be touched at
many points on the Lancashire, West
moreland and Cumheriand coasts, 'fai
ring Ole majority of the English lakes In
his frail boat-, then proceeded round the
coasts of Wightnewhire, Kirkeudbright
shire and Ayrshire, ocessioeally land
ing and making • geological survey of
the country, tall reaching the Frith of
Clyde, in which he stayed for several
weeks, exploring the bays and lochs of
the F'r•th, and of some of the western
islands. Returning to-Giaegow.lhe I ad
dled through the Borth moil Clyde Canal
to Grangemouth, whence be sailed to
Leith. The canoe in which Mr Poole
accomplished his voyage was built for
him in Canada, by a tribe lit Caughua
waga Indians. and is aimposed entirely
of one sheet of hireh hick, beautifully
.awed and admirably molded The ca
noe is very light weighing when empty
only sixty pounds, and meseures fifteen
feet six inches, and oae foot three inches •
in-depth.
In ibis frail boat Mr. Poole, as a ge
ologist and mining engineer, voyaged
for eight years amen; the rivers of
British North America to the Rooky
Mountains, across which he married it,
and paddled thereafter down the many
streams arising on the west water shed - '
of the Rocky Mountains down to the
l'acifio. By its means he proceeded to
Queen Charlotte laboid, which be ex
plored, ha•ing been the first white man
whii net foot on the ilii d. During all
his wandering Angier is'4ods of Bridal"
t'gtumbi•, be paddled no lees than 18,-
000 m les, an I a ue • mrse of his geo
logical et , rweis be was the only auntie
log member of •pry of eighty-six,
Europeans ai d Ti. Jilin,
MONIST Or rrien,—.. ma people think
that is weenie-, to I • wen and mis
erly to become wealthy. Thee never
was a greater mietelo. Any man of
o .inmon intelligence stay bd proverons
if he chooses to lab ,r dilig. dtly and
faithfully in • calling obi ,11 i k e thorOugh
ly understands. Qf e , uree, prude WO is
had iepenelble to success prudence,
mindattot niggardiy meannelm. The man,
who eomMentted With little or nothing.
sodium resolvedto ritt,munt else rewtolir•
to saeriffee nothing to appearanoe.
cannot gain one true Mind, nor obtain'
tog popularity that will be really needd
to him in his effort. to sobieve indepen
*Mee, by endeavoring td seem to hare
that with be Man not. The. world /10
shrewder than pretension supposes it do
be. it is irentrlons World—looks stump
ly luta people's private affair', and ifam
individual makes a show beyond hie
Maine, moot discovers and dletroolkOhlml.
No on. who has a fortune to matt, or
who desires to receive even a moderato
oompotoece, bat afford, to incur the
world's dlttruot. Therefora. if yen are
at the font of the lease and want to
mould, go up In your workrday guide
and don't *fleet purple and sno ibeett.--
Er.