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"BY-AND-BY."
Was the parting very bitter ?
Was the hand clasped very tight ?
is a storm of tear-drops falling
From a face all sad and white ?
Think not of it, in the future
Calmer, fairer days are nigh;
Gaze not backward, but look onward
For a sunny "by-and-by."
Were some whispered words too cherished?
Was the touch of Hps too sweet?
Are two souls once linked together
Never, never more to meet ?
Never here, earth's poor, vain passion
Slowly smouldering out must die,
But its ashes shall return yon
Something purer "by-and-by."
Was the priceless love you lavished
Sought for. played with, and then slain ?
Were its crushed and quiv'ring remnants
Calmly thrown you back again ?
Calmly, too, the remnants gather,
Bring them home without a sigh,
Sweet returns they yet shall bring you
In aooming "by-and-by."
Is your frail boat tossed and battered
With its sails ail torn and wet,
Crossing o'er a waste of waters
Over which your sun is set?
To the shore all calm and sunlit,
To the smooth sand warm and dry,
Faith shall bear your shattered vessel
Safely, surely, "by-and-by."
Are the eyelids very weary,
Does the tired head long for rest,
Are the temples hot and throbbing,
And the hands together pressed ?
Hope shall lay you on her bosom,
Cool the poor lips parched and dry,
And shall whisper, "Rest is coming,
Rest forever, 'by-and-by."
And when calmed and cheered and freshened
By her soul-inspiring voice,
Then look up, the heavens are bright'ning.
Cease your wailing and rejoice ;
Cry not out for days departed,
None will hear you, none reply ;
But look on where light is breaking
O'er a brighter "by-and by."
pi.sniUncous.
EFFECT OF LABOR-SAVING MA
CHINERY UPON WAGES.
In a former article, we discussed the effect
upon the relation existing between capital
and labor, produced by the increasing use
of labor saving machinery. Our present
purpose is to show that the substitution of
machinery for manual labor has greatly in
creased the rewards, or wages of labor. In
our former article we endeavored to show,
that in their effect upon the aggregate
amount of labor required to supply the gen
eral demand, improvements calculated to
decrease the particular amount of labor nec
essary to produce a single article of neces
sity or luxury, were rather, on account of
the demand for greater quantities of such
articles caused by the reduced cost of their
nrndtietinn to ho cMcsl.labor creating ma-'
The history of all improvements shows
that the introduction of machine- •
ted to facilitate and cneapen production,
has increased the demand for labor. This
increased demand could, notwithstanding
the increase of population, never have been
met, if some of the improvements referred
to had not been so great as to almost entire
ly remove the necessity for manual labor in
certain occupations, and thus transfer the
laborers from those fields to others where
their services were needed. Another way
in which the increased demand for labor has
been met, has been by the creation of en
tire new classes of laborers. The employ
ment of children and females to operate the
machines which have created certain branch
es of labor, has been the only way in which
such machinery could have been profitably
introduced and worked. Should these and
other classes of laborers, that labor saving
machinery has created, be withdrawn from
the general stock, the effect upon industrial
interests of the world would be crushing.
The increased demand for labor has rais
ed its price in the market. The law of sup
ply and. demand applies to this as to every
! thing else; but if the effect of mechanical
improvement is to increase demand, wages
must increase also with every advance in the
arts. We believe that in the future the
march of improvement will be no lesss rap
id than in the past, and consequently, from
this cause alone we argue contined increase
of wages.
But there is another law of increase that
is just as potent as the law demand and sup
ply, and which should not be overlooked in
forming correct opinions upon this subject.
Wages, or rewards for labor, should not he
I estimated by current value in dollars and
cents. Operatives never fail to see this
point clearly when prices of provisions,
clothing, and rents rule high, that is, they
never fail to perceive it in its particular ap
plication to their own circumstances. When
one dollar buys only two pounds of butter
where it formerly purchased four, and when
other articles have advanced in proportion,
| they at once realize that two dollars per day
| is no better than one was when prices were
only half as high. But they fail, generally,
to see the more general advance of wages
estimated by the amount of the comforts of
life that can be obtained for a given sum,
that has been going on steadily in accord
ance with the constantly decreasing cost of
manufacture. We have shown that with
each new invention which enables a given
| amount of labor to increase its rate of pro
duction, a corresponding decrease of price
! takes place. This decrease of price has
lieen so great within the last fifty years, that
' ordinary mechanics arc now enabled to live
in style that formerly was possible only to
the moderately wealthy. Fifty years since,
a mechanic wore the coarsest fabric, and ate
the plainest food, because he was obliged to
do so. His house was destituto of carpets;
its furniture was such as he now would be
ashamed to exhibit to his friends. A piano
would have been beyond the most extrava
gant hopes of his ambitious daughters.
Books were few and costly; newspapers were
so rare that when one was obtained the
whole neighborhood congregated to hear it
read. Facilities for travel were few and ex
pensive Family portraits entirely out of
the question. Tho most limited education
was all that he could hope to give his child
ren; and the long hours of his daily toil
were uncheered bv the ameliorations whieh
arc now considered essential in every well
ordered workshop. All these things are
now within the reach of the mass of me
chanics, and it is not too much to gay, that
if the things which were formerly consider
luxuries, but which ate now from long habit
BEDFORD, PA.i FRIDAY, JUDY 21, 1868.
considered necessary, were and
mechanics should limit their expenditures
to the supply of such articles as would have
contented a mechanic's family hall a centu
ry ago, their savings would be more than
treble what artizans could have made at
that period.
In view of these facts, wc believe 1 rades
Unions, as permanent organizations, are, to
say the least, unnecessary, and we believe
them to be hurtful to the best, interests of
operatives, in all branches of mauufucture.
We believe it must soon appear that the
tendencies of such organizations are inju
rious to the best interests of the working
classes. — Scientific A meriea n.
THE STRANGE BLOTCH ON CAL
HOUN'S HAND.
Notwithstanding the long period (some
thirty years) which has elapsed since the
following narrative was given to the world,
it has still a fresh interest, and all the more
striking in view of events which have come
upon the American nation iu these later
years. The "unobserved spectator,' whose
pen made record of the sceue here describ
ed, was a veritable eye-witness of the same:
The other morning, at the breakfast table
when I, an unobserved spectator, happened
to be present, Calhoun was observed to gaze
frequently at his right hand, and brush it
with his left in a hurried and nervous man
ner. He did this so often that it excited at
tention. At length one of the persons com
prising the breakfast party —his name, I
think, is Toombs, and he is a member of
Congress from Georgia, took upon himself
to ask the cause of Mr. Calhoun's disqui
etude. "Does your hand pain you? 'Io
this Mr. Calhoun replied, in rather a hur
ried manner. "Pshaw lit is nothing hut a
dream I had last night, which makes me see
perpetually a large black spot, like an ink
blotch, upon the back of my right hand; an
optical illusion, I suppose." Uf course,
these words excited the curiosity of the
company, but no one ventured to beg the
details of this singular dream, until Toombs
asked quietly, What was your dream like?
lam not very superstitious about dreams,
but sometimes they have a great deal of
truth in them." "But this was such a
peculiarly absurd dream," said Mr. Cal
houn, again brushing the back of hi? hand;
"however it it does not intrude too much
on the time of our friends I will relate it to
you." Uf course, the company were pro
fuse in their expressionsof anxiety to know
all about the dream, and Mr. C'alhouu rela
ted it. "At a late hour last night, as I was
sitting in my room, engaged in writing, I
was astonshed by the entrance of a visitor,
who without a word, took a scat opposite
me, at my table. This surprised me, as I
had given particular orders to the seivant
that I should, on no account, be disturbed.
The manner in which the intruder entered,
: so perfectly self-possessed, taking his seat
opposite me without a word, as though my
room and all within it belonged to him, ex
cited in me as much surprise as indignation.
* T raised my head to look into his fea
tures, over the top of my shaded lamp F
w?fißU\sfylv,tFw.ixauoiiy concealed his face
from my view; and as I raised my eyes he
spoke: "What are you writing, Senator
from South Carolina?" I did not thit.k of
his impertinence at first, but answered liim
voluntarily, "I am writing a plan for the
dissolution of the Amorican Union." (You
know, gentlemen, that lam expected to
produce a plan of dissolution in the event
of certain contingencies.) To this the intru
der replied, in the coolest manner possible,
"Senator from South Curolina, will you al
low me to look at your hand, your right
hand?" He rose, the cloak fell, aDd I be
held his face. Gentlemen, the sight of that
face struck me like a thunder clap. It was
the face of a dead man, whom extraordinary
events had called back to life. The features
were those of General George Washington.
He was dressed in the Revolutionary cos
tume, such as you see in the Patent Uffioe."
Here Mr. Calhoun paused, apparently agi
tated. His agitation, I need not tell you,
was shared by the company. Toombs at
length broke the embarrassing pause.
"Well, what was the issue of this scene?"
Mr. Calhoun resumed: "The intruder, as
I have said, rose and asked to look at my
right hand; as though I had not power to
refuse, I extended it. The truth is, 1 felt a
strange thrill prevade me at his touch; he
j grasped it, and held it near the light, thus
; affording full time to examineevery feature.
!It teas the face of Washington! After hol
-1 ding my hand for a moment, he looked at
' me steadily, and said in a quiet way, "And
i with this right hand, Senator from South
Carolina, you would sign your name to a
paper declaring the Union dissolved?" * I
answered in the affirmative. "Yes," I said;
"If a certain contingency arises I will sign
my name to the Declaration of Dissolution."
But at that moment a black blotch appear
ed on the back of my hand, which I seem
to see now. "What is thai?" said I, alarm
ed, I know not why, at the blotch on my
hand. "That," said he. dropping my hand
"is the mark by which Benedict Arnold is
known in the other world." lie said no
more,' gentlemen but drew from beneath his
cloak an object, which he laid on the t able—
laid upon the very paper on which I was
writing. This object, gentlemen, was a
skeleton.—"There," said he; "there are
the bones of Isaac Hayne before you; he
was a South Carolinian, and so are you; but
there was no blotch on his right hand."
With these words the intruder left the room.
I started back fropi tho contact with the
dead man's bones —and awoke. Overcome
by labor, I had fallen asleep, and had been
dreaming. Was it not a singular dream?
All the company answered iu the affirma
tive, and Toombs muttered, "Singular;
vory singular," and at the same time looked
curiously at the back of his right hand,
while Mr. Calhoun placed his head between
| his hands and seemed buried in thought.
THE Phiiidelphia "Bulletin" whiclf is
printed upon paper made of wood. States
that in the boat race upon the Schuylkill,
some of the skiffs used were built of paper.
Fifty years ago the man who would have
ventured to foretell the use of paper row
boats and newspapers made of wood would
have been deemed a fit subject for an insane
asylum.
IT is not until the flower has fallen of!
that the fruit begins to ripen. So in life it
is when the romance is past that the practi
cal usefulness begins.
BEAITY nipped iu the waist is like a rose
nipped in the bud. It is the shortest lived
and falls off the quickest.
A TOUCHING SCENE.
I was conversing not long since with arc- j
turned volunteer.
"1 was in a hospital as cursd for a long
time," said he, had assisted in taking off
limbs and dressing all sorts of wounds, but
the hardest thing I every did was to take
toy thumb off a man's leg."
''Ah!" said I, "howwas that ?"
' Then he told me :
It was a young man who had a severe
wound in the thigh. The hall had passed
completely through, and amputation was
necessary. The limb was cut off close up to
the body, the arteries taken up and he seem
t<l to lie doing wall. Une of the arteries
sloughed off. An incision was made, and it
was again taken up. "It is well it is not
the main artciy," said the surgeon, as he
performed tho operation; he might have
i bled to death before we could have taken it
up. But Charley got on fine'y and was a
1 favorite with us all. I was passing through
the ward one night about midnight, when
; suddenly, a,- 1 was passing Charley's bed,
|he spoke to me, saying, "II my leg is
bleeding again." I threw back tho bed
clothes and the blood spirted into the air.
Fortunately, I knew just what to do, and in
an instant I put my thumb on the place and
stopped the bleeding. It was so close to
the body that there was scarcely room for
my thumb but I succeeded in keeping it
there, and. arousing one of'thcconvalescents,
sent him for tho surgeon, who came in on
the run. "I am so thankful, II ," said
he, "that you were up and knew what to
do for he must have bled to death before I
could have got here." But on examination
of the case he looked exceedingly serious
and sent for other surgeons. All came that
were in reach, and a consultation was held
over the poor fellow. Une conclusion was
reached by all. There was no place to work
save the spot where my thumb was placed;
they could not work uoder my thumb, for it'
I moved it he would bleed to death before
tbe artery could be taken up. There was
no way to save his life. I'oor Charley! lie
was very calm when they told him and re
quested that his brother, who was in tbe
same hospital, might be called up. He
came and sat by the bedside, and for three
hours I stood and by the pressure of my
thumb kept up the life of Charley while the
brothers had their last conversation on earth.
It was a strange place for me to be in—to
feel that I held the life of a fellow mortal in
i my Lands, as it were, and stranger yet, to
| feel that an act of mine must cause that life
'to depart. Loving the poor fellow as I did,
j it was a hard thought; but there was no
! alternative. The last words were spoken,
: Charley had arranged all his business affairs,
; and sent tender messages to absent ones,
who little dreamed how near their loved one
stood to the grave. The tears filled my eyes
filled more than oriee as I li-tened to those
parting words. All was sad and he turned
to me. Now, II , 1 guess you had better
take off your thumb." "Uh, Charley, how
can 11" I said. "But it mu.-t be, you know,"
he replied cheerfully, "I thank you very
j ne tumcj away nis ii"ao." i raised my
thumb, once more the life current gushed
forth, and iu three minutes poor Charley
was dead.
PLANNING WORK ON SUNDAY.
The following is an extract of an inter
esting letter of Sir Matthew Ilale, to his
grand children. The testimony of that
learned and upright Jurist, to the good ef
fects resulting from a strict observance of
the Sabbath, cannot be unimportant. The
original i- deposited in the British Museum.
It was first publi-hed in the Christian Ob
server, in London, ISI3.
I will acquaint you with a truth, that
above forty years' experience, and strict ob
servation of myself, hath assuredly taught
me. I have been, near fifty years, a man
as much conservant in bu-iness, and that ol
moment and importance, as most men; and
I asure you, 1 was never under any inclina
tion to fanaticism, enthusiasm or supersti
tion.
In all this time, I have most industriously
observed in myself and my concerns, these
three things: Whenever I have undertaken
any secular business on the Lord's day
(whieh was not absolutely necessary.) that
business never prospered and succeeded well
with mc.
Nay, if I had set myself that day but to
forecast or design any temporal business, to
be done or performed afterwards; tho' such
forecast were just and honest iu them-, Ives,
! and had as fair a prospect as could be effect
: el. yet I have always been disappointed in
the effecting of it, or in the success of it.
! So that it grew almost proverbial with me,
! when any importuned me to any secular
business that day, to answer them, that if
they suspected it to succeed amiss, then
: they might desire my undertaking it upon
; that day. And this was so ceriaiu an ob
senation of me, that I feared to think of
any secular business that day, because the
resolution then taken would bo disappeint-
I ed, or unsuccessful.
That, always, the more closely I applied
: myself to the duties of the Lord's day* the
more happy and successful were my busi
ness and employments of the week follow
ing. So that I could, from the loose, or
strict observance of that day, take a just
; prospect and true calculation of my tempo
ral success in the ensuing week. Though
| mv hands and mind have been as full of se
cular business, both before and since I was
a Judge, as, it may be, any man's in Kng
land, yet I never wanted time, in my six
days, to ripen and fit myself for the business
. ami employments I had to do; tho I bor
rotced not one minuteJrom the Lord's day,
to prepare for it, by study or otherwise. But,
on the other hand, if I had, at any time,
borrowed from this day any time for my se
cular employments, I found it did further
me less, than if 1 had let it alone; and there
fore, when some years' experience, upon
a most attentive and vigilant observation,
had given me this instruction, I grew per
emptorily resolved never, in this kind, to
make a breach upon the Lord's day; which
I have strictly observed for above thirty
years.
This relation is most certainly and exper
imentally true, and hath been declared by
me to hundreds of persons, as I now de
clare it to you.
IT is a fair step towards happiness to de
light in tho conversation of wise and good
men; where that cannot be had, the next
point is to keep uo company at all.
A woman's tears soften a man's heart;
her flatteries his head.
AN OLD DEMOCRAT ON GRANT.
Hon. Isaac N. Morris, an old and in
fluential JDemocrat of Quincy, Illinois,
made a long and able speech lately in favor
of Grant and Colfax. The conclusion of it
was as follows:
If you ask me to forget the rebellion— if
you ask me to blot out from my recollection
the memory of the five hundred thousand
brave patriots who died that their country
might live—some of whose graves you have
been strewing affectionately to-day with
flowers, sweet emblems of gratitude—if you
ask me to shut my eyes to the widows, and
orphans, and maimed soldiers left by the
war —if you ask me to assist in restoring to
power treason and traitors their auxiliar
ies—if you ask roe to embrace men whose
hands are stained with tho precious blood
of our fallen heroes, and who only wait for
a favorable opportunity to overthrow the
Government, I tell you frankly I am not
with you in that.
If you ask mc to lift my voice against the
Great Captain to whom wc are more indebt
ed for our preservation as a nation than to
any other living man, and who has written
his principles with the point of his sword
ou the national records, and enstamped his
fidelity to liberty on the national heart, I
tell you plainly I cannot do that I claim
to have some little gratitude left. The en
suing four years will, in my judgment, be
the most dangerous and eventful in our his
tory, and we must have one at the head of
tbe Government who will be equal to the
emergency, or we will sink under the weight
of a crushing revolution. No tremulous
hand must be at the helm; no politician who
will seek only his own interest at the ex
pense of national security. I need hardly
add that, if i live until November and can
reach the polls, appealing to the God of
Hosts for the rectitude of my intentions;
and believing I shall be serving the best
im crest,> of humanity and my country —be-
lieving there is a necessity which rises far
above conventional platforms and party de
mands, r> quiring every patriotic citizen to
do his duty—l shall cast.my vote, Democrat
though I have always been for the in
corruptible patriot, the best judge of char
acter, and tho best thinker I know in the
United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and go
thou and do likewise, counting it a great
privilege.
"I would rathc-r have Grant, if he's silent and
still.
Then an empty dcclaimcr of words ;
I would rather have Grant with his good hon
est will,
Than one from noisy political herds.
"His deeds are all written in the face of the
world,
And he who desires can read them afar;
He stands forth to-day with his banner un
furled
In the light of his acts—Our National
Siax."
PARENTAL FAULT-FINDING,
BY J. 3. C. ABBOTT.
Do not be continually finding fault. —It
is at times necessary to censure and to
r.noirX 0 .-g'U.nur.a nutu vucj tIU rfcll. -De
ever more careful to express your approba
tion of good conduct than disapprobation of
bad. Nothing can more discourage a child
than a spirit of incessant fault-findino on
the part of its parents. Acd hardly any
thing can exert a more injurious influence
upon the disposition both of the parent and
the child. There one two great motives
influencing human action, hope and fear.
B at who would not prefer to have heV child
influenced to good conduct by the desire of
pleasing, rather than by the fear of offend
ing? If a mother never express her grati
fieation when her children do well, and is
always censuring when she sees any thing
amiss, they are discouraged and unhappy.
They feel there is no use in trying to please.
The disposition becomes hardened and
soured by this ceaseless fretting. At last,
trading that, whether they do well or ill, they
are equally found fault with they relinquish
all effort to please, and become heedless of
reproaches.
But let a mother approve of a child's con
duct whenever she can. Let her show that
his behavior makes her sincerely happy.
Let her reward him for his efforts to please,
by smiles and affection. In this way she
will ehcri.-.h in her child's heart, some of the
noblest and most disirable feelings of our
nature. She will cultivate in him an amiable
disposition under a cheerful spirit. Your
child has boon during the day very pleasant
and obedient. Just before putting him
asleep for the night, you take his hand and
say, "My son, you have been a very good
boy to-day. It makes me very haypy to
-ee you so kind and obedient. God loves
little children who are dutiful to their par
ents, and he promises to make them hap
py." This approbation from his mother is
to him a great reward. And when with
more than ordinary affectionate tone, you
say, "Good night, mv dear son," he leaves
the room with his heart full of feeling. And
when he closes his eyes for sloop, he is hap
py, and resolves that ho will always try to
do his duty.— Mother's Assistant.
WHAT BREAKS DOWN YOUNG MEN.—
It is a commonly-received notion that hard
study is the unhealthy element of college
life. But from tables of the mortality
Harvard University, collected by Professor
Pierce from the last triennial catalogue, it is
clearly demonstrated that the excess of
deaths for the first ten years after gradua
tion is found in that portion of each class
inferior in scholarship. Every one who has
been through the curriculum knows that
where iEsehylus and political economy in
jures one, late hours and rum punches use
up a dozen; and that two little fingers of
Morpheus are heavier than the loins of Eu
clid. Dissipation is a swift and sure des
troyer, and eveiy young man who follows it
is as the early flower, exposed to untimely
frost. Those who have been inveigled in
the path of vice arc named 'Legion," for
they are many—enough to convince every
novitiate that he has no security that he
shall escape a similar fate. A few hours of
deep each night, high living, and plenty of
"smashers," make war upon every function
of the human body. The brains, the heart,
the lungs, the liver, the spine, the limbs,
the bones, the flesh —every part and faculty
—are over-tasked, worn and weakened by
the terrific energy of passion and appetite
loosed from rcstraiut, until, a dilapidated
mansion, the '"earthly houae of the taberna
ele'' falls into a ruinous decay. Fast young
man, right about! — Kr change.
I DON'T CARE is a voracious bloodsucker
on the happiness of thousands.
VOIs. II: NO. 21.
STF-KLING ADVICE.
A lady makes some sensible suggestions
in a London journal on the subject of Mar
riage or Celibacy, a few of which we annex
and say that there is a great deal of truth in
them:
"When a girl marries, she ought, to a
certain extent, to give up her acquaintances,
and oonsidcr the company of her husband
the best company she can have. The young
wife must learn cooking carefully, if she
docs not already have a good knowledge of
it. There are many excellent cookery books,
but she must not follow them implicitly.
"My own plan of some time after I was
married, was to take some dish and prepare
it once according to the receipt given, and
note carefully what ingredients could be
dispensed with. The second time I gener
ally managed it at half the expense. A
useful plan is to keep a blank book iu the
kitchen table drawer, and whenever a devia
tion from the orthodox cookery book is
made to jot it down. Do not wait till you
have washed your hands; let the book be
finger marked rather than lose an idea.
"You will thus learn more of household
economy than if you trust to memory alone,
and when you daughters grow up, what a
fund of practical information it will be ior
them. To a great extent the celibacy of
our young men is owing to the way in
which girls are brought up. Through
mistaken kindness mothers often do them
selves what they ought to make their
daughters do. Let them teach them house
keeping, on a fine methodical plan, and
they will then learn their history, French,
and mnsic all the better.
"It is natural and right that a mother
should wish to see her daughters well ed
ucated, and even highly accomplished, and
it is a mistake that good and careful educa
tion would unfit a girl for the homely duties
of cooking, dusting &c. On the contrary,
those duties would be better performed, and
if mothers would, at the same time that they
-oek talented instructors for their daughters,
impart to them some of their own culinary
talent, there would be more good wives and
more marriages.
"Little girls should be taught, as early
possible, to perform simple household duties
neatly, and as they grow older let them be
come gradually acquainted with the theory
of housekeeping in such a manner that when
they are married they will be able to adapt
themselves to their circumstances, and be
useful as well as pleasing companions to
their husbunds."
lIOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS.
The wide-awake, hard-working men are
the most successful business men of our
large cities. Neither wealth nor honorable
positions can be picked up in the streets like
lost money. They must be obtained by
steady, uncompromising labor. The New
i York correspondent of the Boston Journal
shows how a young man of that city worked
and persevered until bo became easbier of
the bank where he was first employed as an
j.iitf iXisuier ui uue 01 our leading oanxs
resigned some time since, and the paying
teller was immediately elected to fill his
place. He was quite a young man, and was
promoted over the heads of those who Lad
been in the bank many years in subordinate
positions.
The secret of the promotion is well worth
knowing:
He entered the bank when quite young.
He resolved to make himself useful. Liv.
ing farthest away—some miles out of the
city—he was the first at his post in the
morning. Having the farthest to go, he
was the last to leave. He never was afraid
to work, and never hesitated to lend a hand
when his own duties were done. Others
would go out to restaurants and hotels for
their lunch. He brought his with him and
ate it in a little closet.
For his own pleasure he never left the
bank during business hours. If any of the
clerks wanted to go away he was always
ready to take their place. He could always
be found and was prompt at any call. His
spare time was devoted to an intelligent
study of his business. As paying teller he
was very popular. He was never snap
pish or ungentlemanly. Growling, grum
bling, unreasonable customers could not
irritate him. He overstayed his time to ac
commodate men who were belated with
their checks.
As cashier, he is the same genial, agreea
ble, prompt officer that he was in subordi
nate life. Men disappointed in their dis
counts take a refasal from the cashier with
abetter spirit than they do an accommoda
tion from some men. He still keeps up his
habits of close attention to business, and
takes his frugal lunch in his closet, as he did
when struggling for a position. Those who
fail in life, or are desiring success, had bet
ter look at this incident and copy the exam
ple.
COOL. —As General Scott's army was
marching triumphantly into the City of
Mexico, a procession of monks emerged from
the gate of a convent situated on the emi
nence at the right, and advanced with slow
and measured tread until they met the army
at right angles. The guide or leader of the
procession was a* venerable priest, whose
hair was whitened with the frost of many
winters. He held in both hands a con
tribution box, upon which there was a
lighted candle ; and when within a few feet
of the procession halted. As the army pro
ceeded, many a true believer dropped some
small coin or other into the good priest's
box. Uultimately there came along a tall,
gaunt, limber-sided, gander-legged \ ankce,
who, on seeing the poor priest, thrust his
hands into his breeches pockets, as if in
search for a dime or something of the kind.
The priest observed this movement, ad
vanced as usual, while Jonathan, holding
forth a greasy roll of paper, commenced
very deliberately to unfold it. The holy
man anticipated a liberal donation, and put
on an air of the most exquisite satisfaction.
Jonathan continued to unroll piece after
piece of twisted smoking tobacco. He next
thrust his hand into another pocket, and
drew forth a clay pipe, which, with the
utmost deliberation, he proceeded to fill by
pinching off small partioles of the tobacco.
When this was done, having replaced his
tobacco in his breeches pocket, he stooped
forward and lighted his pipe by the ex
pectant priest's candle, and making an awful
inclination of the head (intended, perhaps,
for a bow), he said, "Much obleeged to ye,
squire," and tramped on.
TRUTH is always consistent with itself,
and needs nothing to help it.
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A BEAITIFUI. EXTRACT.
It was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly
amid her hills as a child upon the breast of
its mother. The noiseless sentiuel stood
like a statue at his post, awl the pliiloso
pher's lamp burned dimly in the recesses of
his chamber. Rut a moral darkness invol
ved the nations in its enlightened shadows.
Reason shed a faint glimmering over the
minds of men; like the cold and insufficient
shining of a distant star. The immortality
of man's spiritual nature was unknown, his
relations unto heaven undiscovered, and his
future obscured in a cloud of mystery. It
was at this period that two forms of ethereal
mold hovered about the land of God's cho
sen people. They came like sister angels,
sent to earth on some embassy of love. The
one of majestic statute and well formed limb,
l which her snowy drajxjrv hardly concealed
1 in her erect hearing and steady eye, exhibi
j !ed the highest degree of strength and coufi
; deuce. Her right arm was extended in an
impressive gesture upward where night ap
peared to have placed her darkest pavillion,
while on her left reclined her delicate com-
panion, in form and countenance the con
trast of the other. She was drooping like a
flower moistened by refreshing dews, and her
bright but troubled eyes scanned them with
ardent hut varying glances. Suddenly a
light like the sun flashed out from the heav
ens and Faith and Hope hailed with exci
ting songs the ascending star of Bethlehem.
Years rolled away, and the Stranger was
seen at Jerusalem. He was a meek, unas
suming man, whose happiness seemed to
consist in acts of benevolence to the human
race. There were deep traces of sorrow on
his countenance, though no one knew why
He grieved for he lived in the practice of
every virtue, and was loved by all the good
and wise.
By and by it was rumored that the Stran
ger worked miracles, that the blind saw,
that the dumb spake, the dead arose, the
ocean moderated its ehafing tide; the very
thunder artieulatcd. He is the Son of God.
Envy assailed him to death.
Thickly guarded they slowly ascended the
Hill of Calvary. A heavy cross bent Him
to the earth, i But Faith leaned on his arm,
and Hope dipping her pinions in His blood,
mounted to the skies.
SOCIAL INTKRCOCR.SE. — Without friends
what is man? A solitary oak upon a sterile
rock, symmetrical indeed in its form, beau
tiful and exquisitely finished, out-rivaling
the most lauded pel faction of art in grace
fulness and grandeur, but over which decay
Las shaken her black wing, and left its
leaves blighted; its limbs contract as they
die; its roots, rottenness, and its bloom
death; a scathed, lifeless monument of its
pristine beauty. When the rebuffs of ad
versity are rushing us earthward, when the
clouds are black above, and the muttering
thunder growis along the sky, when our
frame is palsied by the skeleton hand of dis
ease, or our senses whirled in tie
are torn by the separation of some beloved
object, while our tears are yet flowing upon
the fresh turf of departed innocence—in
that time it is the office of friendship to
shield us from the portentous storm, to quick
en the fainting pulses of our sickly frame, to
bring back the wandering star of mind
within the attraction of sympathetic kind
ness, pourthe '"oil and balm" of peace into
the yet festering wound, and deliver the
achiagheart from the object of its bleeding
affection.
FORCIVESESS OF INJUKIES.
It is well known that the Koran of Ma
homet contains maDy passages copied from
the sacred writings. Among others, the
Arabian prophet has give a place to those
precepts of our adorable Redeemer, which
recommend forgiveness of injuries, and over
coming evil with good. One day the Ca
liph Hassan, son of Hali, being at dinner, a
slave unfortunateiy let tall a dish of meat
reeking hot, which scalded him severely.
The slave fell on his knees, exclaiming, in
the language of the Koran, "Paradise is for
those who restrain their anger." "I am
not angry with thee," replied the Caliph.
"And for those who forgive offences against
them," continued the slave. "Iforgive thcc
thine," responded the Caliph. "But above
all for those who return good for evil," add
ed the slave. "I set theo at libeity," re
joined the Caliph, "and I give thee ten
dinars. V\ ill not this Mahometan rise up
in judgment, and condemn many who call
themselves the followers of the merciful
Jesus, but live under the power of a merci
less and unforgiving temper?
WOMAN'S WORD BOOK.
Eden —A garden where bonnets were un
known and scandal uninventcd. Woman
soon gave notice to quiet.
Engaged—Occupied for a time in making
a fool of a man,
Enough—obsolete.
Eve—The only woman who never threat
ened to go and live with her mother.
Face—A -ketch given us by Nature to be
filled up in colors.
ban —An article without which no lady's
dress is complete or decent.
Facination —the art of nailing an admirer
to his seat. Fart of the old Serpent's legacy.
Fashion —The modern Juggernaut, al
ways asking for new victims.
Feather—The only thing she wants to be,
the lightest of creatures.
Female — AB much an insult to a woman
as 'black man' is. to a nigger
Fiction —Tales of constancy.
Flattery—A refreshment she can never
have too much of.
Future—Past thinking about for the
present.
A HOME THRUST FROJI FLAVEL.—"TWO
things a master commits to his servant's
care,' saith one "the child and the child's
clothes." It will be a poor excuse for the
servant to say at his master's return, "Sir,
here are all the child's clothes, neat and
clean, but the child is lost!" Much so
with the account that many will give to
God of their souls and bodies, at the great
day. "Lord, here is my body, lam very
grateful for it. I neglected nothing that
belonged to its content and welfare; but for
my soul, that is lost and cast away forever.
I took little care and thought about it."
1 Jx a uiatTbogioT*to save ten cents a day
when he is twenty-one years oU aod wrntin
ues to do so until he is seventy, he will then
be worth $10,956,37. How oou,
realize a handsome competency for old afi
j by a little frugality.