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Collections and all business ''Attaining to bis office will be attended to prompt- Will also attend te the sale or renting of real eata.- Instruments of writing carefully preptu red. Also vettling up partnerships and othtr ae toanu. April 1, 186 tf. . i IHKBGRKOW A LiTZ, Editors and Proprietors. MM [Train the London Punch.] ABRAHAM I.ISt 01.V.-FOt 1.1.T AWiAS SI MATED APRIL H. 185. You fey a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, Yp, who with mocking pencil wont to traoe, Broad for the eclf-complneent British sner, Hia length of shambling limb, higfurrdwed 'face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please. You, whose smart pen hacked, up the pencil's laugh Judging each step as though the way werp plain; Reckless,' Bo if coald pbint its paragraph, , Of thief's perpixit v. or people's pain. Beeiffe this corpse, that bears for winding-eheet The stars and stripes he lired to rear anew,. Between the mourners at his head and feet, SaJ, scurrlt Jester, is there room for yoa ? Yes. he had lived to shaxne me.from my sneer, To Inuie my pencil, and confute my pen— To moke me own this hind of princes peer, This fail-splitter a true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I had learnt to rue, Noting bow to occasion's height he rose, , How hie quaint wit made home truth seem more true,, How irou-likc his limper grew by blows. ' Ilow hnmble, yet how hopeful he could be : How in good fortnnoa.id HI the same : Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he. Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. He went about his work—auch work.as few Jiver had laid on head and heart and hand- As one who knows where there's a'task to do, Man'fe honest will must Heaven's g6od grace ebirtmand: 1 t Who trusts the strength will with thebnrden grow, Thkt Uod makes instruments to work his will, i If but that will wc can but arriye to knyw, Nor .tamper withthe weights of good and ill. tip he qent forth to battle, on the side That be felt clear Was Liberty's and Right's, As iri his peasant boj'hood he had piled >■ His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights— • ■ ./• - i fa r . r. The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's are, . The rapid, t hat tlie boatman's-toil, The prairie]hiding the mated wanderer's tracks, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear — Sufch were the heeds that heq>ed his youth 'to train: Roagh culture —but such trees largo fruit may bear, . If hut their stocks be of fight girth and grain, t So fee grew up, a destined work to do. And lived to do it: four long suffering years. 111-fate, ill-feeling, 'ill-report, lived through, And then he heard the hissep change to cheers. The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise, And took both with the same unwavering mood, Till, as he came on light, from darkling days. Arid seemed to touch the goal fVoia where he stood. I ■ I >: - - ■':(! ■; A felon, had, between the goal and him, Reached from behind his back, a trigger iprest— And those perplexed ami patient eyes were dim. Those gaunt, long-laboring limbs were laid to rest ! The words Of mercy were upon his lips, Forgiveness in his heart arfi on his pen, IVliori this vile murderer brought swift eclipse To thoughts of peace on earth, good-will tt> racu The Old World and the New,-HOW sea to sea, Utter one voice.of sympathy and shame ! Pore' heart, so stopped when it at least beat high Sad life, cut short just as its triumph catne. A deed accurst! 'Strokes have been struck before By the assassin's hand, whereof men doubt Tf more of horror or disgrace they bore ; But .thy f'sin the whole country. But success in obtaining relief was j'non est inventus;" instead, my case had been gradually growing more and more desperate, besides i had met with inmlt a*i~ •lea to th 'fry-~ in jured by li ßlw ft'U" (for they all with one consent, prescribed it) and insulted by being told that I had the ' 'hypo." Were they blind ? Why my appearance alone guve the lie to that assertion. Hypo, indeedi why I was reduced to the "shadow of a shade," and looked as though I had been picked oft'a wreck at sea and drawn through a gimlet hole. 1 wouldn't cared at that .time if his Satanic majesty had had the whole kit, and stuffed them with "blue bla zes;" as they had me with "blue pills." But I was now in complete despair. 1 went to the "Spamos"—no recuperation, my im poverished system grew leaner and leaner every day until I was not thicker through the abdomen than a. deal-board. At length I w completely "laid upon the shelf " took aiy bed. from pure exhaustion, literally dosed and starved to death. I discovered one Jay, 'whilst in a recumbent posture, that something hard existed in the umbilical re gion of my stomach—l examined it; it was about the size of a goose egg. Whew I what a hiibbub it created when I made it kno\yn. My fripnds immediately sent for' 'the doc tor —the very identical chap who had so frosfly insulted me in the earlier stage of my ise ise. lie came, put on the saftie old "specks,' 1 arid proceeded to—not an autop .siealquite—examination oft lip phenomenon. After a good deal of'pow-wow and pun ching, looking sage as an owl, he pronoun ced it a ''concretion" —of what ? thought I —horror of horrors ! a peck of "blue pills" wedired up in ay gastronomical apparatus ! He summoned,a Consultation of halfadozfcn iiioif of my "Blue Pill" heroes. They oame, examined, pummeled. and punched at the tumour to their heart's content —de- liberated: ahd then passed sentence—"an indurated tumor in the hypogastrium — must be removed by an operation. " Post poned the same for a few days, and then came to the conclusion, unanimously, that it "couldn't be did without killing the pa tient." Just as I expected, and wished, for I was ambitious af a natural death, if .possible, after the amotrnt of "blue pill' I had.swsJKiwed. But, to tell the trath, I did not feel much like dying even then, I felt like cnfin'O. ahd eat I did, occupying one breath with the bolting of food, and the next in denunciation of "blue piUs" and their adthors. And now let the elements be hushed ; let erpry sound cease ; lei the sun and moon stand still, whilst all the inhabitants of Heaven and Earth, with fingers to their lips, on tiptoe, lu-ar what this mighty, majestic and dignified "court of inquiry"—this aus tere, sapient and profound body of medical intelligence had well' nigh done. After I took to eating (for thn/hwl allowed me noth ing but thu shn/l/nc of a pigeon boiled down one half) the tumor began to disappear, and in a few days it was gone. Reader, it was my Ixiclebone! But let me explain: In the spinal column there is a curve about its middle projecting inward towards the sto mach ; l was so much emaciated that there was> little else material in front, and the egg like tumor teas nothing .am, „or less than •one of the most prominent of tin dorsal vert,- rt>r< i. After my stomach assumed its nat ural distension, of eonrse, as I said l>cfore, the thing disappeared. Let it be recorded for the benefit of fu turd generations that a convention of wise acres—a* session of brilliant, magnanimous, and learned (?) physicians of the lllth cen tury of tip.- world, decided on removing the backbone of a patient to cure him of dys pepsia.' i But my troubles were not ended yet, for though materially improved by a bettor di et, my dyspepsia still remained. I now de termined to seek a remedy on my own hook. For this purpose L dived iato medical authors up to Hie eyes. Btit here, too, I was doom ed to fresh torture, renewed disappointment. I Would take up a book, look at the index — run my finger along the same until I oame to the vonl—Dyspepsia —refer to the page, glance over the description of the disease, and hasten on to the treatment. I nvariably tfic first thing that met my sticking out in bold relief, was —"Blue I'iU is be yond all comparison the best alterative that can be given." Indisnailt I would slap to the covers of the book, and mutter to my selfr—' "Blue Devils are beyond all compari son" the worst disease a man can be afflic ted with. "Blue Pills alterative!" 1 would continue,"yes! they'll alter a uian in a very short time so muoh that his nearest friends cannot recognize him —take all the flesh off his bones, ami ail the sense out of hps cranium,' jocosely adding, "providing he has any/n it.' But 'twill never do to give it up so —never say die, thought I, and acting under this suggestion, it occurred to me that the study of physic in real earnest might, pprbaps, enable me to ferret out something for my case. I would then have an intercourse, pumerically, with physicians from the Biddy in physic to the tidiest Shang hai on the apex of the pill. So at it I went, and went right square through, too ; atten ded lectures —gofniy " shcejosh-in : and strut ted off with it in my pocket, feeling "as large as life and twice aT natural.' 1 B ell, reader, J suppose you thiiik now, that I nad penetrated the intricate mazes of physic, hail wound round through every av onue and labyriiith,_ and seen fully every atom of its Elephantipe proportions; I was in possession of what J had so long heen cure. 11a Iha ! I took a cut across the fields of " Physic" —got into the woods in a ngrrow, hriery path—reached the Inroad, followed, it up through the mud till I reached the, turnpike—pursued it — got on to the plank road—struck the rail road —mounted the "Rulgine," and road, like a streak of stiff-burnt lightning right into the courts of old Ksculapius himself only to see as a standing motto, in flaring capitals— "BLLE PILLS LN TORPID UVER V Befeder, bring a cooper, quick, with his hoops—l am enlarging, expanding, burst ing ! If all the artillery that ever shook the earth had been let loose right in my ( face ;Jf the thunders of an earthquake had suddenly rent the ; if the eaith bad opened at my feet, and a volcano qf molten lava had burst forth, I should not have quailed, but this was too mnch for my hor ror-stricken feelings. I could "seek the BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1865. bubble reputation at the cannon',s mouth," but I could not face that motto, I cams, I saw, and "Blue Pill" conquered! I quiv ored in every muscle—mountains of my re morseless and hatedjeneiuy arose before me, rolling and revolving in all their "naked ug liness"-millions ofrmnuti microcosms uutof each of which peered billions of imps grin ning horribly their ghastly smiles. Reader, many years nave passed, but the foeman has stiff kept my track—he scents me out whereso'er I go, stern, inflexible, unrelenting he'll hunt me to 'the last_ of earth." I have practiced my profession cooly, calmly and interestedly, but the odi ous compound is expelled from my Pharma copoeia—expunged—obliterated-wiped But! I have never prescribed it for a a patient lest he, like should become a HAUN TED MAN. -r.bgtßphkal J&efccli. OUR LATE PRESIDENT. Character of President Lincoln. BY RALPH W. EMERSON. The following address was delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Concord, Mass., on occasion of the funeral services m honor of Mr. Lincoln : We meet under the gloom of a calamity which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civilized society, as the fearful ti-" dings travel over sea, over land, from coun try to country, like the shadow of aa uneal culated eclipse over the planet Old as his tory is and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so mush pain to mankind as this has causedj or will cause, on its announcement; and this not so much because nations are, by modern arts, brought so closely together, as because of the myste rious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and insti tutions of America. In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb, and saw, at first, only deep, as he meditated on the ghastly blow. And, perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President sets forward in its long march through mour ning States, on its way to his home in Illi nois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us. Yes, but that first despair was brief; the man was not so to be mourned. He was the most active and hopeful of men; and his work had not perished ; but acclamations of praise for the task he had accomplished burst out in a song of triumph, which even tears for his death cannot keep down. The President stood before us a man of the people. He was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea, had never been spoiled by English insularity, or French dis sipation ; a quiet native, aboriginal man, as an acorn from the oak; no aping of foreign ers, no frivilous accomplishments. Kentuck ian born, working on a farm,' aflatboatman, a captain in the Blackhawk war. a country lawyer, a representative in the rural Legisla ture of Illinoios—on such modest founda tions the broad structure of his ftime was laid. How slowly, and yet by happily pre pared steps, he came to his place. All of us remember —it is only a history of five or six years —the surprise and disappoint ment of the country at his first nomination at Chicago. Mr. Seward was then in the culmination of his good fame, was the favor ite of the Eastern States. And when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced (notwithstanding the report of the acclimations of that Conven tion) we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash on purely local repu tation, to build so grave a trußt, in such anxious times; and men naturally talked of the chances in politics as incalculable. But it turned out not to be chance. The pro found good opinion which the people of Illi nois and of the West had conceived of him, and which they had imparted to their col leagues, that they might justify themselves to their constituents at home, was not rash, though they did not begin to know the rich ness of his worth. A plain man of the people, an extraordi nary fortune attended him. Lord Bacon says : "Manitet& virtues procure reputation; occult onesj fortune." He offered no shi ning qualities at the first encounter ; he did not offend by superiority. He had a face and manner winch disarmed suspicion, which inspired confidence, which confirmed good-will. He was a man without vices. He had a strong sense of duty which it was very easy for him to obey. Then he had what farmers call a long head ; was excel lent in working out the sum for himself; in arguing his case and convincing you fairly ana firmly. Then it turned out that he was a great worker; had prodigious faculty of perform ance ; worked easily. A good worker is so rare ; everybody has some disabling quality, in a host of young men that start together, and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age* each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit or by love of pleasure or by lethargy, or by an hasty tem per—each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career. But this man was sound to the core, cheerful, per sistent, all right for labor, and liked nothing so well. Chen he had a vast good nature, which made him tolerant and accessible to all; fair minded, leaning to the claim of the peti tioner, affable, and not sensible to the afflic tion which the innumerable visits iid to him, when President, would have brought to any one else. And how this good na ture became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember, and with what increasing tenderness he dealt, when a whole rac J was thrown upon his compassion. The poor negro said of him on an impressive occasion, "Massa Linkum am eberywhere. " Then his broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk, in which he delighted, and in which he excelled, was a rich gift to this wise man. It enabled him to keep his se cret ; to meet every kind of man, and every rank in society ; to take off the edge of the sevarist decisions; to make his own purpose and sound his companion, and to catch with true instinct the temper of every com pany he addressed. And, more than all, it is to a man ofsevere labor, an anxious and exhausting crisis, the natural restorative, good as sleep, and is the protection of the j Overdriven brain against rancor and insair j ity. , j He is the author of a multitude of good ! sayingSj so disguised as pleasantries that it! is certain they had no reputation at first but, as jests ; and only later, W the very accept- : ance and adoption, they find in the mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour. lam sure if this man had ruled in a j Eeriod of less facility of printing, he would , ave become mythological in a very few j years, like jEsop or Pilpay, or one of the Seven Wise Musters, by his fables and pro verbs. ■ , But the weight and penetration of many passages in hia totters, messages and apeech es, hidden now by the very closeness of their application to the moment, are destined hereafter to a wide fkine. \\ bat pregnant definitions ; what unerring common sense ; what foresight; ami on great occasions what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His speech at Gettysburgh will not easily be surpassed by words on any record ed occasion. This, and one other American speech, that, of John Brown to the Court that tried him, land a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only lie compar ed with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying tbcehair of State was a triumph of the good sense of mankind, and of tlie public conscience. The luiddle-class country had got a middle-class President at last. Yes, iu manners, sympathies, but not in powers, for his powers were superior. His mind mastered the problem of the day; and, as the problem grew, so did his com prehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted to the event. Li the midst of fears and jealousies, in the Babel Of counsels and par ties, this man wrought incessantly with all his might and all his honesty, laboring to find wliat the people wanted and how to obtain it. It cannot be said there, is any exaggera tion of his worth. If ever a man was fairly tested he was. There was no lack of resis tance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The tjmes have allowed no State secrets; the na tion has been in such a ferment, such multi tudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar, and we know all that befel. Then what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was .place for no holiday magistrate, no fair-weather sailor; the new f ilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado, n four years—the four years of battle-days —bis endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and nev er found wanting. There, by his courage, his justice; his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the centre of an he roic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them: slow with their slowness, quickening his match by theirs; the true representative of this continent; an entirely publie mam father of bis country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing inhi3 heart, the thought of their minds articula ted by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbrakcn's port raits of British Kings and worthies, is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture. And who does not see, even in this tragedy so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of -the massacre are already burning into glory around the vic tim? Far happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away; To have watched the decay of his own faculties; to have seen —perhaps, eveu he —the proverbial ingrati tude of statesmen; to have seen mean men preferred. Had he not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his tellowruieu —the practical abolition of slave ry? He had seen Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland emancipate their .slaves. He had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond surrendered; had seen the main army of the rebellion lay down its arms. He had con quered the public opinion of Canada, Eng land and France. Only Washington can compare with him in fortune. And what if it should turn out, in the un folding of the web, that he had reached the term; that this heroic deliverer could no longer serve us; that the rebellion had touch ed its natural conclusion, and what remain ed to he done required new mid uncommit ted hands—a new spirit bom out of the ash es ofthe war; and that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed benefactor, shall make him serve his country even more by death than by his life. Nations, like Kings, are not good by facility and complaisance. "The kindness of Kings enosists injustice and strength." Easy good nature has been the- dangerous foible of the republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should out rage it, and drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages. The ancients believed in a serene and beau tiful Genius which ruled in the affairs of nations; which, with a slow but stemjustioe, carried forward the fortunes of certain cho sen houses, weeding out single offenders, or offending families, and securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven. It was too narrow a view of the Eternal Ne mesis. There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race, makes no account of disasters, conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is called victcfry, thrusts aside cneuiy and ob structions, crushes everything immoral as inhuman, and obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the worla It makes its own in-trumcnts. creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspire? his genius, and arms him for his task. II his given every race its-own talent, aigl ordains that only that race which com bines perfectly withthe virtues of all sbaD endure. MEN FOH THE AGE. —Personal purity, in ner cleanness and sanctity of life, are mat ter? not to b° dispensed with in a reformer. The eye with the b.iaiu is not of sufficient clearness to detect, the mote. The lip of the impure is too feeble to be effective in the ease of virtue. The mote and offensive band will be claimed by those who have lai>- ger bleuii.-hcs, as evils oi no consequence. Although there may be something in the adage, "Sot a thief to catch a thief." the thief would be but a sorry teacher of the man after he was c uight. He would be too likeiv to recqgnfre. him as a persecuted brother of his own order. With such aid alone one might pray for the unlimited reign of goodness in the subjection of evil forever, and be no nearer to th answer of the desire of the righteous. We want whole-souled men to help us —those who have wills to work, and hands swift to re- Ijeve the wants of lie poor and needy—men j with strength to di vise and strength to do. ! None of your deal lions. We nave had enough oi' them in those literary, religious | boasters who have leen strong and scholar- I like in language, but very feeble"in what is | far bettar. a whole, heart for the true and ! the right., Those who have made fewer professions and liv ed uprightly, have done lnfinately more Tor us. Indeed, our lion ia | bor has been invariably-against ua; for, not withstanding some have been convince d by it of the soundness of an ism, more have been frozen up in its want of life and love |of the good >ud holy. The confession of oi roi is hut the beginning of repentance, i It is not only our duty to convince of wrong (in doing this the work is only haft : done), we want to intimate the convinced into the right A smart man in argument nan do the first but it takes a. good man to #* the lwt Vol 38: No. 22 Two BA HABITS.— There are two weak nesses in our habits which are very common and which are very prejudicial to our welfare. Ihe first is giving way to the use or indul gence of the moment instead of doing at once what ought to be done. This practice almost diminishes the beneficial effects of our actions, and Often load us to abstain frota action altogether; as for instance, if at this season of the year there is a gleam of sunshine, of which we feel we ought to take advantage, but we have not the resolution to leave at the moment a comfortable seat or an attractive occupation, we miss the most favorable opportunity and perhaps at last justify ourselves for remaining in doors on the ground that the time for exercise is past. One evil attendant upon the habit of procrastination is that it produces a certain dissatisfaction ofthe mind which' impedes and deranges the animal functions, audtendi to prevent the attainment of a high state of health. A perception of what is right, followed by a promptness of execution, woifta render the way of life perfectly smooth. Children should be told to do nothing but what is reasonable but they should be taught to do what they are told at once. The habit will stand them instead all their lives; Therecond weakness is, when we have made a good resolution, and have partiallly failed in executing it, we are very apt to abandon it altogether. For instance, if a person who has been accustomed to rise at ten resolves to rise at six, and after a few successful attempts happens to sleep till seven, there is great danger that he wfll re lapse into his former habit, or probably even go beyond it, and lie till noon. It is the same with resolutions of economy or temperance, or anything else; if we cannot do all intended, or make one slip, we are apt to give up entirely. Now, what we should aim at is, always to do the b6st we can under existing circumstances; and then our progress, with the exception of slight interruptions, would be continual. MAMMA, YOU HAVEN'T PRAYED WITH ME TO-DAY. —Not far from me lives a poor hardworking German mother, who with her six. children, is seen almost every Sab bath in the house of God, but so hungry is she for the bread of life, that summer s sun or Winter's storm seldom prevents her presence with the little ones in the sanctua ry. She is in the habit of going into her room with only a three year old child to offer prayer. If .she fails daily to do this, the little fellow is prompt to call her attention to the omission by the artless rebuke, "Mamma, you haven't prayed with me to day. ' A day or two since, on receiving a piece of tread from his mother, he looked up with loving eyes to the giver, with the remark, < "thankyou mamma," and added reverently, ' 'thank you God.'' "Why do you thank God, my boy?" "'Cause I want to thank all my friends who are so good to me.'' Mothers, who would wield over their lit tle ones, an influence wide as the world, las ting as eternity whose memory is cherished from early ehudhood, to old age, will you not believe as this poor German mother does, that children may be converted even in their infancy ? Lead the little ones to the Savior in the early dawn of their young lives, and let mo/her and Jesus be the "watchword that shall shield them in the coming years of tri al and temptation. Oh, mothers, if you would spare your children many an hour of bitter conflict with the powers of evil, if you would save them from the fearful storms and tempests that so often prostrate a soul not strengthened by a mother's pray ers. lead them to the children's Friend in their earliest years, and commit them to His tender care and keeping. Then only are I they safe. —CongregatimtaHat. DESCRIBING several remarkable caves, in ; what is called the Mo wry Silver Mine, in ; Arizona, a correspondent says : "In exploring the mine with my compan ions, at a depth of one or two hundred feet below the surface, we came into some of those caves or chambers. Alladin's lamp never revealed such sparkling, glories as did our poor, dimly burning candles as their light was reflected back irom what seemed to be ten million diamonds. The moisture and water of those caves had crystalized on the roofs and sides and floors, in every va riety of shape, but everywhere brilliant and beautiful. The white rock sometimes hung in glistening pendants in shape like icicles. Then it blossomed into pure white flowers, with stems and leave?, or grew into small shrubs with a main stem and branches, growing out from the stony sides of the cave from three to six inches long. Then again there were delicate growths of the same sto ny material, looking like the hoar frost of winter, or the feathery, snowy covering o' trees in winter in the North, after a storm It seemed as if those white formations look ing si i like frost work would yield to the touch. But they were firm as needles, and we brought away beautiful specimens of those subterranean flowers that had blos somed out of the rock, as well as of the oth ers that I haye mentioned. CORRECT SPEAKING.—We would advise I all young people to acquire, in early life, the, habit of correct speaking and writing and to abandon as early as possible any use of slang words and phrases. The longer you live the more difficult the acquirement of correct language will be : and if the golden age of youth, the proper season for tug acquisition of be passed in its abuse, the un fortunate victim, if neglected, is very prop erly doomed to talk slang for life. Money is ndt necessary to procure this education. Every man. has it in his power. He has merely to use the language which he reads, instead of the slang which he hears; to form his taste from the best sjieakefs and poets in the country; to treasure up choice phrases in his memdry, and habituate himself to their use, avoiding at the same time that pedantic precision and bombast which show the weakness of vain ambition rather than the polish of an educated mind, s • > —i— m ■ • ENGROSSED IN-WORLDLY CARHSL—WE keep ourselves in such a continual hurry and crowd of caresj thoughts, and employ ments abput the things of the body, that we can fiud little time to be alone, commu ning with our own hearts about our great .•onccrntoents.in eternity. It Is with many of us as it was with Archimedes, who was so intent upon drawing his mathematical schemes, that though all the city was in alarm, the enemy had taken it by storm, the streets filled with dead bodies, the soldiers came into his particular house, nay entered his very study, and. plucked, him by the sleeve, before he took any notice of jt— Even so, inanymen's heartsare so profound ly immersed and drowned in earthly cares, thoughts, projects, o fpleasure, that death must come to their very houses, yea and pull them by the sleeve, and tell them its, errand, before they will begirt to , &n^ come to a serious consideration of things more important. — Flatd, "~7 "EELIGIOH HOT GLOOM. We are of those who kve religion ; and wish to express ir in our daily life ; and, loving it as we do, we cannot push it to one side as a dark and solemn thing, fit only to receive our tears of repentance, and before which we most walk with tong drawn faces. Webce in it the glory, the sunshine of life. When it springs within us it does not con sign us to a life of trembling suspense, passed on the edge of the tomb; cut of our souls, hitherto stumbling among the tombs, groping in dim caverns of the earth, rise into the sunshine of God's love. Thisistbe true life, and no one can truly say he live*, unless, throwing aside his grave-clothes, he walfo forth in this light. We hold that thosle who live in earnest, must of necessity be religious, and that their religion will car ry them above all sorrow and care. There fore we do not like the fashionable sentimen talistn which throws shadows upon religion. We like soberness and revereuce, but also cheerfulness, triumph, joy and gladness.— Esewmgt. ■- t ASKING FATHER.—A gentleman of fine social qualities-, always ready to make liberal provision for the gratification his chil dren, a man of science and a moralist of the strictest school, was skeptical : in regard to prayer, thinking it superfluous to ask God for what nature had already furnished ready at hand. His eldest son became a disciple of Christ. The father, while recognising a happy change in the spirit and deportment of the youth, still harped upon his old ob jection to prayer as unphilosophical and un necessary. ' ; I remember,'' said the eon, "that I onoe made free use of your pictures, specimens, and instruments, for the entertainment of my friends. When yon came homo you said io me, 'All that I have belongs to my children, and I have provided it on purpose for them; still, I think it xcouldbt respectful alwfiyt to adi your father before taking any thing. 'And so," added the son, "although God has provided every thing for me, I think it is respectful to ask Him and to thank Him for what I use." The skeptic was silent; but he has since admitted that he has never been able to invent an answer to this simple, personal, sensible argument for prayer.—Congrega tion nlist. A WIFE'S PRAYER. —Very beautiful is the following : "Lord bless that dear per son whom Thou hast chosen to be my hus band—let his life be long and blessed com fortable and holy ; and let me also become a great blessing unto him, and a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet helper in all the acci dents and changes in the world; make me amiable forever in his eyes, and forever dear to him 1 Unite his heart to me in all the deargst love of holiness, and mine to keep him in all the swiftness of charity and com pliance 1 Keep me from aH ungentleness, all discontendedness, and unreasonableness of passion and humor, and make us humble and obedient, useful and observant, that we may delight in each other according to Thy blessed word, and both of us may rejoice in Thee, having our portion in the love and service of God forever!— Amen." THE PURE IN HEART.—A little girl hav ing one day read to her teacher the first twelve verses of the fifth chapter of the Gospel by Mathew, he asked ber to stop and tell him which of these holy tempers, said by our Lord, to be blessed, she should most like to have. She paused a little, and said with a modest smile. "1 would rather be pure in heart'' Her teacher asked her why she chose this above all the rest "Sir," said she, "if I could but obtain a pure heart, I should then have all the other graces spoken of in this chapter." And 1 surely this was a right answer. God. Himself has said : "Out of it (the heart) are the issues of life." It is in the heart that God sheds abroad the graces of His spirit: and from thence comes "grace of the lips" which shows forth the right mind within. WORKING AND THINKING.—It is aDO less fatal error to despise labor when regula ted by intellect, than to value it for its own sake. We are always in these days trying to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call the one a gentlemen and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, ana both should be gentleman in the best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, the one envy ing, the other despising his brother ; and the mass of society is made up of morbid ' thinkers and miserable workers. Now it is only by labor that thought can be- made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be happy, an d the professions should be liberal and there should be less pride felt in peculiarity 7 of employment; and more in ex cellence of achievement. AN ENGLISH OPINION.—The last inaugu ral of President Lincoln made a strong im pression in England, The British Standrrd speaks of it as ' 'the most remarkable thing of the sort ever pronounced by any President of the United States from the first day until now. * * * Its Alpha and its Omega is Almighty God, the God of Justice and the Father of Mercies, who is working out the purposes of his love. * * It is invested witg a dignity and pathos which lift it high above everything or the kind, whether m the Old World or the New. * *i The whole thing puts us in mind of the best men of the English Commonwealth; there is in fact much of the old prophet about it.'' B;KLF EDUCATION. —We all have two ed ucations, one of which we receive from oth ers,! the other and the most valuable, we give „ ourselves. It is the last which gives our grade ui society, and eventually on' actual .valtc in this life, and perhap the true 00l- - 1 or of our fete hereof tor. All the professors j and teachers in the world cannot make us wise and without p ( ur own co-operation; and if such we are determined to be, the want of them will hot prevent it. Bi ' WHILE unpacking a bak of Chinese cot ton at Bacup, the other dav, the men so em ployed discovered two gold coins, One about thei size of a threepenny piece, and the oth er smaller, with holes punched through them wrapped up is a piece of rag. Many silver * piefces have also been found amongst this kind of cotton. A BEAUTIFUL thought is thus suggested in the Koran— "Angels, in the grave, will not question thee as to the amount of wealth thou hast left behind thee, but as to what deeds thou hast done in the world to entitle thee to a seat among the blest" A GREAT many of ns are constantly com plaining and growling about the shortness of time, and yet have a great deal more than we know how to dispose of; for the time that is given us is either spent in doing nothing at all, in doing nothing worthy of estimation, or in doing those things that wa should not do. SOUND ADVICE.—If you wish to relish your food work for it; if you would enjoy your raiment thoroughly, pay for it before . you put it on; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you., 1 *)iiiii mi BLANK MORTGAGES, BONDS, FROWISART, AN JUDGMENT NOTES CONSTANTLY CN hand and for sala at the "Inquirer" Office. 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