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"I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY."
To THE EDITOR OP THE INQUIRER:
1 here are few hymn-books of the various '
Churches, which do not include in their list
of hymns, the beautiful one commencing
with the words "I would not live alwav; I
ask not to stay," and there are few persons.
Christians especially, who have nut sang,
and admired, and loved it, and been made
happier and better by it, and yet there arc
few, comparatively, who know the author
ship, or have ever scam the original poem,
from which the hymn, as now in use, is
taken.
Having a manuscript copy, many years j
old, in the hand-writing of one, now gone to
"behold the King in His beauty," who of
ten perused it, in full sympathy with its
" longing desire to depart and lie with :
Christ," I transcribe it for the pleasure and
benefit of your readers.
It was written during the early days of
the author, Rev. Wm. A. Muhlenberg, D.D.,
now of New York City; thin Rector of St.
James' Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa.:
*** I
'* 1 would not lire alwav," —Job viii, Hi.
j
I would not live alway; no, n •, holy man,
Not a day, not an hour, should lengthen my span; !
The few lurid mornings that dawn on lis here,
Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its
cheer.
Would I not go the path which the Prophets of
God,
Apostles and Martyrs so joy folly trod?
While brethren and friends uro all hastening
home,
Like a spirit nnhlcst, o'er the earth would lToain?
11.
I would not live alway; I ask not to stay,
YV here storm after storm riteu dark o'er the way;
Where seeking for peace, we bat hover arouud
Like the Patriarch's bird—and no resting is found:
Where Hope, when she paints her gay bow in the I
air,
Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of des
pair;
And .Joy's fleeting angel ne'er sheds a glad ray,
Save the gleam of the plumage that bears hiui
away.
111.
I would not live alway: thus fettcr'd by sin,
Temptation without, and corruption within:
In a moment of strength, if I sever the chain,
Scarce the victory's miue, ere I'm captive again;
E'en the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears,
And my cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears:
The festival trump calls for jubilunt songs,
But my spirit her own miiertre prolongs.
IV.
I would not live alway; no, welcome the tomb;
Immortality's lamp burns there bright mid the
gloom.
There too is the pillow where Christ bow'J His
head.
Sweet, sweet be my slumbers on that holy bed:
But sweeter the morn which shall follow that night:
When the sunrise of glory shall beam on my sight,
When the full matin song, as the sleepers arise
To hail the blest morning, shall peal through the
skies.
V.
Who, who would live alway, away from his God:
Away from yon heaven, that, blissful abode,
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright
plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns;
Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, |
Their Lord and each other, transported to greet;
While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll,
And the smile of Jehovah's the least of the soul,
VI.
That heavenly music ! What is it I bear?
The notes of the harpers ring sweet in the an :
And see ! soft unfolding the portals of gold,
The King all arrayM in His beauty, behold !
Oh, give me! oh, give me the wings of a dove !
I'll hasten my flight to that palace above;
Yea: 'tis now that my soul, on glad pinions would j
soar,
And in ecstacy bid earth adieu—evermore.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, THE STATES
MAN.
BY JAMES PARTON.
Daniel Webster used to say, after his re
turn front England, that "Sir Robert Peel ;
was head and shoulders above any man he .
had ever met." The Duke of Wellington
said of him, "Of all the men I ever knew,
Sir Robert Peel had the greatest regard ibr
truth."
These were high eulogiuuis,—one testify
ing to the greatness of his iutellect, and the
other to the goodness of his principles.
He was a man, too, of admirable bodily
gifts. He was handsome, robust, of sound
constitution, and imposing presence. I
well remember ltitu one evening, about the ;
year 1843, rising to address the House of
Commons. Before he rose, there had been
a good deal of noi-e and bustle in the
House; members bad been chatting togeth
er, and several had been walking across tbo
floor; but the Prime Minister was upon his j
feet, the noise was hushed, and every one
was most attentive to listen. He was a
portly man then, though not corpulent, and ;
his fine broad chest was clad in a white
waistcoat, which was all of his costume
which could be discerned from the gallery of
the House of Commons. He merely had ,
some uninportant announcements to make
to the House, and did not speak more than
three minutes; but every word he uttered
revealed the master. The ease, the ele
gance, the clearness, the courtesy of the
premier, struck with admiration the green
youth who was stretching his neck over the
gallery railings. To all these eminent gifts
of body and mind were added a fortune of
twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling, ;
and a place of all others in the world the
most gratifying to English ambition, that of
ruler of the British Empire.
This fortunate and richly endowed man
was a son of that Sir Robert Peel, the cot
ton-spinner, who won his baronetcy by his
thorough-going Toryism, and his ardent de
votion to King George the Third. The first
Sir Robert, though he sat in Parliament for
thirty years, was not a man of education.
In his youth he had eaten his dinner from
pewter plates, and had worked hard, assist
ing his father in printing calico; but now
that he had become rich, he was resolved
that his children, especially his eldest son
Robert, should have every advantage of ed
ucation which the world afforded.
That son, born in 1788, early gave prom
ise of further eminence. In hint seemed
happily combined his father's strength and
his mother's tenderness and nobility of
mind. His mother, it seems, was quite as
remarkable for a woman as his father was
for a man. Born and bred in a farm-house,
she was a beautiful woman, of a noble pres
ence and graceful demeanor; and, though
no better educated than her husband, she
was quicker to ie&ru than he, and ibr many
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOV. 13- ISO*.
years served him as secretary, and wrote
most of his business letters. By and by,
when she was called to preside over a great
London house as the wife of a wealthy
member of Parliament, no one saw iD her
manner or appearance anything of the coun
try lass who had steeped her fair arms,
many a time, in her husband's dye pots.
.She did not live to see the greatness of her
son. The stupid custom of the English in
eating their dinner at seven or eight o'clock,
and turning night into day, did not agree
wiih her country constitution, and she died
before her son Robert hud completed his
education.
Harrow, the most aristocratic of the pub
lic schools ol England, was the one selected
by the great cotton-spinner for his favorite
son. Among the lad's fellow-pupils wa-
Lord Byron, who says of him, in one of his
letters:
"There were always great hopes of Peel
among us all, masters and scholars, and he
has not disappointed them."
Others of his schoolfellows tell us that he
was a steady, industrious boy, the best
scholar in the school, and was always ready
to as-i-t the dull ones in writing their ver
ses and learning their lessons. They say,
too, that his school-follows forgave his mani
fest and striking superiority, and that he
was not unpopular among them, I regret
to add that he was somewhat too fond of
~trollir.il off by himself into the country, and
•'id Dot much relish the joyous and health
giving games of the playground.
Front Harrow he went, at the age of six-!
teen, to Oxford University, whore he enter-;
ed the most aristocratic college, and on the !
aristocratic footing of a gentleman common-;
cr. He was a most diligent student, and 1
won, at the end of his University career,
the most splendid triumph ever before ac
corded to a student of an English Universi
ty. At the end of the course there are two!
separate examinations of great severity aud
iong continuance—one in Latin and Creek
and the other in Mathematics. Robert Feel I
was the first student who ever won the first ;
prize at both of these examinations. The j
unprecedented event excited universal inter
est in England, and when the young student I
presented himself upon the platform to pro- '
nounce the usual oration the audience, and I
especially his fellow students gave him a re- ,
ecption which would have overwhelmed a '
person of ordinary temperament and char-'
acter. Thi- student, however, acknowledg- ;
ed the vociferous cheers of his friends with !
equal serenity and modesty, and seemed
afterwards to attach no great importance to
what had occurred. lie was no nervous,
dyspetic student. While working hard at
his books he took care to strengthen and ex
ercise his tall and vigorous frame by walk
ing, riding, rowing and shooting.
iih all his great abilities aud great ac
quirements, his was not a critical or ques
tion asking mind. His father was an ex
treme and enthusiastic Tory, who bad edu
cated this admirable youth in the fond ex
pectation of seeing him one day the leader
of ihe Tory party in England. The son im
bibed his father's opinions, and warmly ac
quiesced iu his father's plans. In 1909,
which was the twenty-second year of his
age, his falher brougt him into Furliament
for one of those small boroughs of the olden
time which rich men bought, sold and gave
away at their pleasure. Lord Falmerston
entered Parliament at the same time. Pitt,
Fox and Burke were dead, and Sheridan
was about to pass from the scene; hut Can
ning, Willberforce, Wyndham, Grattan,
Perceval, Castlercagh, Mackintosh, Romil
ly, Horner and Brougham were members,
and Canning was in the fresh luster of his
talents. The new member's own father sat
conspicuous upon the Tory benches, behind
Castlercagh and Canning.
Introduced into this scene so captivating
lo tho imagination, so stimulating to the
talents of young Englishmen, Robert Peel,
whose splendid university triumphs made
him a marked person aud excited the high
est expectations, sat for a whole session
without making a -peeeh. Two or three
times he uttered a remark or two upon
some unimportant matter, as il to get used
to the sound of his own voice, but attempt
ed nothing like a speech. At the begin
ning of the second session, however, he was
appointed by tho Toty ministry to second
the address in reply to the King's speech—
a duty usually assigned to some promising
young member of the party in power, lie
acquitted himself well, and from that time
forward he was an active and leading mem
ber of the House, never eeasing as long as
he lived to grow in knowledge, power and
influence.
Ho had one great advantage. During
the last fifty years, men of his mental cali
bre, in all countries, have generally inclined
to what is called the "liberal" side of poli
tics, so that when we say of a man that he
; is a Tory, we usually mean that he is a fool.
This young giant, inheriting Tory principles
; from his father, easily took the lead (alter
Canning's death) in a parly which young
men of ability instinctively avoided. His
•tdvanee was both rapid and steady. When
. he urns twenty-fonr ycre of ago he va in
: office, and from that time to the close of his
life he held a place in the administration
whenever the Tories were in power.
| Such a man. however, cannot be a mere
Tory, or a blind follower ol any party what- !
over. The work which he did in his life
i was this: 110 liberalized the Tory party;!
lie taught them the necessity of yielding to i
the best demands of the people, and the 1
| wisdom of doing so before they were com
pelled. Thus he repealed the Corn Laws [
aud emancipated the Irish Catholics, in op- j
position to all that was blind and bigoted in I
England, lie originated the Police system !
of Great Britiun, which we have copied in;
America.
On the 2<Jth of June, 1850, while riding I
in one of the London Parks, he was thrown
from his horse, and was injured so severe
ly that he died four days after, in his sixty
i third year. Few men have been more sin- :
: cerely, more universally, or more justly!
; mourned than he.
Happily married in his thirty-second year,
! and surrounded by a family of five sons and
two daughters, he was in private life as es
timable as he was great in public. Tory as
: he was, it would be hard to name a "Lib
i eral" statesman who has ever conferred
upon a country a greater number of meas
ures practically wise, or who gave his coun-
I try a stronger impulse toward rational free-
I do in—AT. 17 Ledger.
! JENNIE JUNE thinks so far as women's
clothing is concerned, the art of not making
i anything they want, in the way that they
j wankiti has been bro't to perfection.
BEING IN LOVE.
There are a great many mistakes about
: love. .Many people think it one thing, and
some another.
• '"A temple to Friendship,' said Laura, en
chanted,
'lll build in this garden; the thought is di
vine.'
Her temple was built, and she only now
wanted
An image of Friendship to place on tha
shrine.
Bhe flew to a sculptor, who set down before
ber
j Al* riendship the fairest his art could in
; vent;
i Hut so cold, and so dull, that the youthful
j adorer
. .~u\v plainly this was not the iiiol she meant."
This is one mistake. But did Moore's
Laura want something in addition tofriend
ship, or did she want something totally
i different? "L amitie est I'amour sans ailes."
. Is that true, so that, if we add wings to
; Friendship, we get Love for the product?
In the days when Godwin, declining, as
became a republican, the prefix of Mister.
! Mas a sage much sought, a lady visitor, of
, the sniffy, love-in-the-ahstract type, asked
hia for an oracle upon the great subject of
i subjects. "William Godwin," said she, sud
i denly, "what is your opinion of love?" God-
I wir. was too absorbed in meditation to an
swer the question, and continued solemnly
puffing his pipe. "William Godwin," said
. thi determined woman once more, "what is
yuur opinion of love?" And still Godwin
smoked, and kept silence. Not liking to
see a woman snubbed, Oven in appearance,
Shelly, then a young fellow, also in attend
ance on the oracle, hazarded a jest. "I
thkk " said he, "love acts upon the heart
like a nutmeg-grater; it wears it away."
Again the undaunted woman put her ques
tion. Sniffling at poor Shelly, who was then
nobody, she, with raised voice, said:
"William Godwin, what is your opinion of
love?" Roused at last, the oraele responded:
"My.opinion agrees with that of Mr.
Shelly," and relapsed into his thoughts and
his pipe.
This was a case in which the oracle
mobbed the votarist, because the votar
i-t was unworthy. Godwin would no more
tell a sniffy woman what he thought about
love than the lady in "Comus" would ex
pound to Circe "the sublime notion and
high mystery that must be uttered to unfold
the sage and serious doctrine of virginity."
It is pretty certain that Godwin himself
knew nothing about it; or he would never
have (for example) published, after her
death, his wife's old letters to the heartless
father of "our little barrier-girl." Bu', per
haps, the majority of liviog men and women
think that love is like a nutmeg-grater; that
most of us must, in the natural course of
things, get our hearts grated; but that, when
we find the process agreeable, nature has got
us in a trap, and the sooner we arc out of it
the better. At the same time, there is al
ways what Mr. Bain, with sueh innocent
surprise, calls a "heated atmosphere" around
the subject, and there is a luminous haze of
superstition about love overhanging all the
literature of imagination. It is true you
now and then come across an essay in which
the subject of falling in love is discussed -
if it came as much within the calculable
province of life as buying a hat, and you are
told tc be sure and do it wisely, because —be-
cause of reasons which might find a place in
Poor Richard's Almanac." "Last night"
said a half-man poet ar.d painter, "I came
unexpectedly upon a fairy's funeral"—and
he proceeded to describe the ceremony as
ouly a poet and a painter could. What
wonderfully good advice might be given in
an essay on Seeing Fairies' Funerals! Be
sure you never see a fairy's funeral, unless,
&c. ,&c.
There is no thoroughly sincere person,
with a grain of spiritual sensibility, who
does not, in his heart, rebel when Poor
Richard takes upon himself to preach about
love matters. What the troubadours called
amour-pouramour, love for love's own sake
is what every human creature with a soul
above buttons goes in for. And we feel a
sub'le pang of disapprobation when anything
"in the round heaven or in the living air" |
is put before love, or turned into a cause or |
a ju-tification of it. There is a legend of a .
distinguished preacher's courtship, which .
Mates how he went down into tho kitchen, (
acd, addressing his maid-servant, said. ,
'Butty, do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?' ,
' Yes, sir," said Butty. "And, Betty," re
sumed the good man, "do you love me?"
Similar in spirit is that letter of Governor ,
\f iuthrop's wife to her husband, in which ,
sle tells him she loves him for two reasons ,
-♦" First, because thus loves God; and ,
secondly, because thou lovest me." The
dullest feels that there is a play upon words; '
ajd there is. Far better was Rowland ,
Bill's courtship. "Iu the first place," he
wrote to the lady, "I think I can say before ■
(itd that I iove your person. Without this ,
stLh a union could never he happy." The ,
ql station is from memory, but it is substan
tillly correct, and we feel in a moment that
R ivland Hill was straightforward aud true,
wlUe the Puritan lady, pressed upon by the
et jiuette of the current talk of her set, and
nt able to disentangle horuoH from a falUoy
wis uutrue to nature and to herself, This
wis nothing remarkable; most people are
uttrue to nature and to themselves.
The most plausible and the most common
of'tlie fallacies about love is that which sup
poses it is the friendship that Laura sought
with something added to it, instead of be
ing, as it is, a thing sui generis. Coleridge
txposed this fallacy in a curious piece called
"The Improvisatory," which is included
among bis poems:
"Coleridge—Love, as distinguished from
friendship on the one hand, and from the
passion that too often usurps its name on
the other—
"Lucius (Eliza's brother, who had just
joined the trio, in a whisper to Coleridge).
—But is not love the union of both?"
"Coleridge (aside to Lucius)—He never
'oved who thinks so.
And then follows Coleridge's own account
ol love, of which it can only be said that, if
he had written it when he was younger, it
would probally have been as perfect in form
and expression as it is inclusive in what we
might call the categories of love:
"Coleridge—But, above all, it supposes a
j soul which, even in tho pride and sumnier
tido of life, even in the lustihood of health
and strength, had felt oftenest and prized
highest that which age cannot take away,
j and which, in all our lovings is the love,
i "Eliza—There is something here (poin
ting to her heart) that seems to understand
i you, but it wants the word that would make
il understand itself.
I "Katharine—l, too, seem to feel what
you mean. Interpret the feeling for us.
"Coleridge—l mean that willing sense of
| the unsuffiiingness of the self for itself which
• predisposes a generous nature to see, in the
; total being of another, the supplement and
j completion of its own—tbatquiet, perpetual
seeking which the presence of the beloved
object modulates, not suspends, where the
heart momently finds, and, finding, again
seeks on; lastly, when 'life's changeful orb
has passed the full,' a confirmed faith in
that nobleness of humanity, thus brought
home and pressed, as it were, to the very
bosom of hourly experience."
W hen you have read this you feel that it
is correct, and even affecting. But yet—
"What wants that knave
That a king should have!"
Something is wanted, and in that something
everything.— From the London Review.
TABLE TALK AND OPINIONS OF
NAPOLEON THE FIRST.
Speaking of his early attachment to Ma
demoiselle du Colunibier, Napoleon said,
"We were the most innocent creatures imag
inable. We contrived short interviews to
gether. I well remember one which took
place on a midsummer's morning, just as
the light began to dawn. It will hardly be I
believed that all our happiness consisted in j
eating cherries together."
During the siege of Toulon, one of the
agents of the convention ventured to criti- .
cise the position of a gun which Napoleon j
was superintending. "Do you," he tartly
replied, "attend to your duty as national !
commissioner, and 1 will be answerable for ;
miue with my head."
An officer, entering Napoleon's room, i
found, much to his astonishment, Napoleon
dressed and studying.
"What!" exclaimed his friend, "are you
not in bed yet?"
"In bed?" replied Napoleon, "I have
finished my sleep and already risen.
"What, so early?" the other said.
"Yes," continued Napoleon; "so early.
Two or three hours, sleep are enough for
any man."
Napoleon had a great contempt for the
effeminate young men ot his time. He ex
claimed one day, "Can it be that upon such
creatures fortune is willing to lavish her
favors? How contemptible is human na
ture!"
When Barras introduced Napoleon to tli
convention as a fit man to be entrusted witl
the command, the president asked:
"Are you willing to undertake the defenci
of the convention?"
"Yes," was the reply.
After a time the president continued:
"Are you aware of the magnitude of thi
undertaking?"
"Perfectly," replied Napaleon fixing bii
eyes upon bis questioner; "and I am in thi
habit of accomplishing that which I under
take."
"Good God!" Xapolean said in Italy,
whilst residing at Montebello, "how rari
men are. There are eighteen millions it
Italy, and I have with difficulty found two
Dandola and Melzte."
Just before his marriage, Napoleon re
cetved the appointment of commander ii
chief of the army of Italy; he wasthen twen
ty six. "You are rather young," said ont
of the directors, "to assume responsibility
so weighty, and to take the command ovet
veteran generals."
"In one year," Napolion replied, "I shall
be old or dead."
"We can place you in command of men
only." said Carnot, "for the troops require
everything, and we can furnish you with DO
money to procure supplies."
"Give me only men enough," Napoleon
answered, "and I ask for nothing more; I
will be answerable for the result."
"My extreme youth when 1 took command
of the army of Italy," Napoleon remarked
afterwards, "made it necessary for me to
evince great reserve of manners and the ut
most severity of morals. This was indis
pcnsible to enable mc to sustain authority
over the men so greatly superior in age and
experience. I pursued a line of conduct in
the highest degree irreproachable and exem
plary. In spotless molality I was a Cato,
and must have appeared such to all. I was
a philosopher and a sage. My supremacy
could not be retained only by proving my
self a better man than any other man in the
army. Had I yielded to human weaknesses
I should have lost my power."
At the first interview between Napoleon
and the veteran generals who he was to
command, Ramdon undertook to give the
young commander some advice. Napoleon,
who was impatient of advice, exclaimed,
"Gentlemen, the art of war is in its infancy.
The time lias passed in which enemies are
mutually to appoint the place of combat, ad
vance hat in hand, and say, 'Gentlemen, will
you have the goodness to fire?' We must
cut the enemy in pieces, precipitate our
selves like a torrent upon their battalions,
and grir.d them to powder. Experienced
generals conduct the troops opposed to us!
So much the better! so much the better!
Their experience will not avail them against
us. Mark my words, thev will soon burn
their book of tactics, and know not what to
do. Y'es, gentlemen, the first onset of the
Italian army will give birth to a new epoch
in military affairs. As for us, we must hurl
our.-elves on the foe like a thunderbolt,.and
smite like it. Disconcerted by our tacties,
and not daring to put them into execution,
they will fly before us as the shades of night
before the uprising sun."
Napoleon sent the celebrated picture of
St. Jerome, from the Duke of Parma's
gallery, to the museum at Paris- The duke,
to save his work of art, offered Napoleon two
hundred thousand dollars, which the con
queror refused to take, saying: "The sum
which he offers will soon be spent; but the
possession of such a masterpiece at Paris
will adorn that capital for ages, and give
birth to similar exertions of genius. '
"Different matters are arranged in my
head," said Napoleon, "as in drawers: I
open one drawer and close another as I wish.
I have never been kept awake by an involun
tary pre-occunation of the mind. It I de
sire repose, I shut up all the drawers, and
sleep. I have always slept when I wanted
rest, and almost at will.
THE codfish has been elevated to the dig
nity of oysters and strawberries, and is now
canned for use. It is prepared by clearing
it of skin and bone by desiccation. Ou<
Philadelphia concern puts up three tun;
• daily.
> No wonder railway conductors are fast
They're obliged to have a good time ant
t always to be on a train.
VOL. 41: BTO. i '-i
RULES OF TABLE ETIQUETTE.
Among the rules of social etiquette, many
of which are und lubtediy trifling, a good
number will be found to be based on a sound
common sense. Consider, for example,
that rule of the dinner table, do not ask
twice for soup. This appears at fir-c sight
both silly and arbitrary. It i*, however, a
very sensible ordinance, and it is to be jus
tified by the laws of health and the general
comfort and convenience. The soup, being
a fluid substance, can easily be absorbed iu
small quantities, and thus taken, is a good
preparative for the solidities of the dinner.
If, however, the stomach is deluged with it.
the appetite and digestion becom'-s weak
ened, and there is neither the inclination to
eat nor the power to digest the more sub
stantial food essential to the due nutrition of
the body.
As for the convenience or comfort of the
single plate rule, no one can deny it who
has looked upon an array of hungry guests
whose eager appetite for the coming roast is
compelled to an impatient delay by some
social monster capable of asking for soup
twice. The cook in the meantime is, of
course, thrown out in his emulations, and
the dish, when it does come at last, is either
spoiled by overcooking, or cold from being
withdrawn so long from the fire. The
guests thus are not only tired in temper by
a protracted expectation, but baulked of
their anticipated enjoyment. The advantage
of net putting the knife in the mouth will be
obvious, we suppose, to all who are con
scious that one can cut and the other is
capable of being cut. There is an excellent
chemical reason for that other table rule
which foibids the use of a knife of steel with
the fi>h, the ordinary sauces of which com
bine with that metal, and produce a com
position neither wholesome nor appetizing.
Harper's Bazar.
THE BARNACLES FAMILY.
The exposed ledges of the seaside are
often found swarming with yellow barnacles
that turn white at low tide, by exposure to
the sun. These little sentient animals,
though displaying to the eye at first no sign
of life, closely cocked in these houses of shell,
know well enough how to make their living,
and where to "paddle their own canoe."
In the adjoining pools of clear water we
behold them with their mouths thrown open,
and their feelers out to catch the particles
of nourishment that float by them continu
ally.
This tiny little insect of the seas does not
belong to the order of shellfish, as is com
monly supposed; the young barnicle has no
shell, but a jointed or articulated body, and
swims freely in all directions. But a time
arrives in the life of every barnacle when it
secures a hold upon something or other, be
comes cemented, head downward, to that
object, loses forever the power of locomotion
and of sight, secretes a hard shell around it,
and becomes, for the rest of its inglorious
life, dependent upon the drifting sustenance
brought to it by the flow of the tide.
From this little articulata to the lord of
ncaiiuu A urn ttie barnacle up to man,
what a stride! Yet the life of this insig
nificant and useless little animal is sym
bolical, and many a human barnacle (per
haps of the Tito species, or the office-hold
ing variety, as in Dickens' immortal novel)
can be found, without a microscope, by look
ing among the fossil political formations of
most governments.
WISDOM IN SMALL LOTS.
Ef you air onla a quarter of a second tu
late you won't git thare in time.
We've got lots of men with toweren in
tellex and brillyent genyes and all that, but
then you see we need just a few men with
good common sense like.
There may be sum sweet sadness in chu
ing the bitter end of adversity, but the must
uv' cm in this section would rather hav ter
backcr you know.
Ef wise men never made mistakes this
would be a bard world for fools—nf whnm a
great many are which.
That man who's alius talking about his
fambly is got no mainbly; and tis cbarite to
let him tork. Some men gets proud mighty
quick. The nearer a dominiker is to a
dunghill the wus he krows. It required all
kinds of men to maik up the world and so
you see there had to be sum egotistikle
durn fools for dry goods clerks.
It don't take as much sense to pick a lock
or forge a cheek as it does not to do it.
When it rains puddin, you hold up your
dish, but don't spend your time waiten for a
shower.
You can't do bizness without sense any
more then you ken start a cooper shop on a
bung bole.
A man that dont kno enny thing will tell
it tbe fust time he gets a chance.— Josh
Billing*.
Healthfulness os Apples.—-There is
scarcely an article of vegetable food more
universally liked than the apple. Why
where the trees will grow at all, is one of
the mysteries. Let every housekeeper lay
in a good supply of apples, and it will be
the most economical investment in the
whole range of cuiinaries. A raw, mellow
apple is digested in an hour and a half, while
boiled cabbages require five hours. The
most healthful dessert that can be placed on
the table is a baked apple. If fre
quently at breakfast, with course bread and
butter, without flesh of any kind, it has an
admirable effect on the general system, of
! ten removing constipation, correcting acidi
ties, and cooling off febribe conditions mere
effectually than the most approved medi
cines. If families could be iuduced to sub
stitute apples—sound and ripe—for pies,
cakes and sweetmeats, with which their
children are too frequently stuffed, there
would be a diminution in the sum total of
doctors' bills, iu a single year, sufficient to
lay in a stock of this deliciuus fiuit for the
season's use. — Christian Advocate.
A llicu nobleman, on showing a friend
bis large collection of precious stones and
gems, that had been gathered by great labor
and expense, remarked: "And yet they
yield me no income." His friend replied !
that he had two stones which cost him but
i ten florins, yet they yielded him an income
lof two hundred florins, a year. The noble
| man was very anxious to sec such profitable
I stones, when his friend took him to his
flour mill, and pointed out the two homely
J millstones which yielded a larger income
j than his jewels.
| BATKS OF •. OVKftTliSIHrt.
All ajvcrti-iemenli fur left than 3 tr hi 10
cent* jwr line fur ca-b inerti' a -"{>' : *
one-half arTJidonil. All rv- uti'-'t* f A .a
lions, eoasmunicaiimx <.f a K. r tctl or
inlereet and n :tit . f inatriagM i>'l ilea - , ex
ceeding fin- n, i per lice All legal noti
ces of - v<f'V kind, and all Ory'iaoi' Co- r: -id
other Joli' ial sales, s:. requited bv law to pis'
lifted in both papers. K'di'oria! N*ot'eet J.' nt la
pei-line. All Advertising d afterfirat fcf mop,
A liberal di<o an' "n.f< to y <r!y advert!-
ii in of* • months. ;"if
One rquare t. i $ 1.0!' - 0.1 0
Two square- fi.Oil 9.80 i.' : o
Three ~,-isr -- .<! IJ.OO SO""
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Half IS. SS.#
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I:\CIIKI.OR .uiMsrtßs BP.MAKE.
We yesterday heard rather a got i ,f >ry
of one of our cily ministers. Pur: !<-'
winter a revival was in progress in n' of
the country churches near the city. Among
the attendants of the meeting was a leiati
ful and estimable, but rather unsop 1 : Sea
ted, young lady, whose friends wt • - very
anxious to have her unite with the < reh.
She seemed, hi wove r. reluctant toil ■■.
and the minister in qu -lion was requec-.jd
to "talk to her." This he d-d several tint# -
on one occasion saying in a jocular manner,
"Miss Myou'll join the chci h I'll
mary you." waning I o wo-a'd perfi )i tl c
ceremony. The fitl soeBed pleased with
the proposition, and a few eveniii-ts after
came up to the alter and united with the
church. Several v. ks alter this the in ot -
ter preached at the church, end alter >, rvi
ces met the v-.ung lad," "Crothn
she said, "you know you promised to ttrir.v
me if I d join the church. Are you -mv
to do to 7 I don't: waof fo waitanv lot
The minister saw ls dilemma, and attempt
ed to exp'ain. " I meant 1 would pe ' .ui
the ceremony," he said, "that's all. I can't
marry you myself, for I am already married,
and love my wife too to cell to swap tor off
for another. " 11 young lady becam in
dignant, declared that she'd leave r!;■:
church, an 1 that site "n;vcr bad much filth
in these town preachers.'' Our minis! rial
friend declares tlx at he wit: never again use
any other than Scriptural arguments to in
duce a young lady to join the church.
SI'KAK KIMtbY TO Hl;*,
A farmer once raved a very poor boy
front drowning. After his resortaticn he
said to him:
"What con I do for you. my boy ?
'Speak a kind word to iuc sometimes, re
plied the boy as the tear -gushed from hi*
eyes. "I aint got a motbrr like some -of
them.'
A kind word \ Think of it. That far
mer had it in his power to give that boy
money, clothes, playthings, but the poor
fellow craved uo'hing so much as a kind
woid now and then. If the farmer had
ever, so little In art the hoy must certainly
have had his wish gratifi i.
.1 hind nurd! You have many such
spoken to you daily, aD'.i you don't think
much of their value but that poor boy in
your village, at whom every boy laughs,
would think he had found a treasure if some
one would speak cue kind word to him.
Suppose you speak it ? fhe next time you
meet him, in-tead of laughing at him, speak
kindly to him. Then watch him, and see
how he looks. See "if his eyes does not
brighten, and his lips smile. Try it.
Kind words ! They are blessed things.
Speak them, children, every day. Scatter
them like sunbeam- everywhere. They will
bless others, and then return to bless your
own hearts. Kind word- forever !
NEEI> OF BEST. —A writer in Lippm-
I cott's Magazine says : Head worker.- need
i IUUIC itsi iliuu tiaii t worEcis. I'Oe olu saw
precisely inverted the proprieties of the
case, so far as involved them, di daring
"seven hours' sleep to suffice tbe student,
eight the laboring man, and nine tb" fuji."
The hours of hard brain work deauvys, as
before observed, more nervous tissue, and
cause a greater subtraction of the phos
phates from the system tha.i an onlidary
day's work at mere mechanical labor the
proportion of grains (in weight) b.iug as
86:77. Above everything else, brain work
era need sleep, early sleep and late sleep,
and enough in the middle to feel "re,ii >tu
pit! 'at the end of it. Stnpidity is precise
ly the condition into which this class • f toil
ers should manage and devise and strive to
get themselves for a time, longer or shorter,
each tweotv-four hours. Nothing rests tbe
brain, and the whole working system like it.
Narcotic stupidity, the product of ale, tobac
co or wino, is not the thing referred to
though in emergencies this may, perhaps,
bo bad rooourco to ao a roctlioinc, tut tUo
quiet, reposoful readjustment of the uar
vous conditions and the recharging with vi
tal force of the nerve batteries, the contact*
not yet closed, the galvauic currents there
fore not yet set in motion, but only filling
up the system with a blind diffused feeling
of healthy sensations and reserved efficienoy.
THE DITCH JUDGE'S DECISION.—Here
is a decision by a learned Dutch Judge:
"Misder voreman and t'oder juryman- -
DerPrisoner, Hans Vlecktcr, is vir/ heel his
game mit der sheriff, and has peat him, but
I shall dake gare he don't peat me. Hans
has peen dried foe murder pcforc yon, and
you must pring in der vrdick, but it must
pe 'eordin' to der law. Be man he kilTt
wasn't kilt at all, as it was proved he is in
der jail at Morrisdown for sheep sdealing.
Put dat ish no madder. Der law says ven
dere ish a tout you give 'em to der brisoner.
put here dere ish no tout —so you see der
brisoner i.-h guilty. Pe.- ides, he is a great
loafer. I have know'd him vifty year, and
dimes, and dere is no one debending upon
for der liven', and lie ish no use to no poty.
[ dink it would be good blaus to hang him
for de examble. I dink, Mr. vorcmans, dat
lie petter pe hung next fourt' of July, as
der militia is going to drain in anodher coun
ty, and der would pe 110 vun goin' on here."
THE Sicilian Railway Company not long
since bought, in Catania, for the purposes
of its business, a house two stories high, for
merly belonging to the Jesuits. The work
men, in demolishing the walls of the build
ing, found a cavity, within which wore three
human skeletons, still having the decayed
fragments of priests' cassocks clinging to
them.
WE have seldom seen more sense com
pressed into less space, than is contained in
the following sentence, by Josh Billings: "I
am loudly in favor of new things, but I am
opposed to enny man, even wun ov our col
ored associates, thinkin' he has diskovercd
a new truth jest fcekause he haz, for the
fust time in his life, stumbled into an old
one." . ■
OI.E BCLL was once seeking the sights at
Donnybrook Fair, when ho was attracted by
' the sound of a large violin in a tent. He
1 entered and said to the player"- "My good
1 friend, do you play by note? "The divil a
- note, sire.'' "Do you play by car, then?'
e "Never an ear, yer honor. "How do you
s p j ayj then?" "By main strength be jabea!
e IT is not strange that when a man is very
fond of his glass he becomes a tumbler.