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YE PEDAGOGUE:
A BALLAD— tv JOB* G. SAXE.
Righte learned is ye Pedagogue,
Falle apt to re&dc and spelle.
And eke to teach© ye parte of ipwdHA
And strap ye nrrkins weile.
For as 't is meet© to aoake ye feete,
Ve ailinge head* te mende.
Ve y conker's pate to ariuiulate.
He beat* ye other ende !
Kigbte lordlie is ye Pedagogue
As any turbaned Turk® ;
For weile to rule ye District School®,
It is no idle work*.
For oft Rebellion Hirkcth there
In fcreaste of secrete foe-,
Of ma ice fulie. in wait© to pull#
Ye Pedagogue his nose!
Sometime.} he heares with trembling feares,
Of ye uogodlie rogue
On nmebieffe bent, with feTle intent
To licke ye Pedagogue!
And if ye Pedagogue be swalle,
When to ye batiell led,
In suche a plighte, God send© him mighte
To breake ye rogue his bead© !
Day© after dare for little paye,
He teacheth whathecau.
And bears ye yoke, to please ye folke,
And ye Committee man.
Ah ! many crosses hath he borne,
And many trials fount ie,
Ye while he trudged ye district through,
And boarded rcrande and round !
Ah ! many a * Leake l.aih he devoured,
That,by yeta> c and .sight,
Was in disdaiuc, 't w* very plaine,
Of Dayc his patent righte!
Fulle solemn is? ye Pe4agogne,
Amonge ye noisy churls.
Y'et other while he hath a smite
To give ye handsome girl*;
And one.—ye fayrtst ra yde of al.—
To cheere his waynmge life,
Shall be, when Springe ye flowers shall
bring®,
Ye Pedagogue hi* wife!
pisrrUnnmis.
FINK IN A TIGHT PLACE.
Mike Fink, a notorious buckeye hunter,
was contemporary with tl.o celibrated Da
vy Crockett, and his equal in all things ap
pertaining to human prowess. It was even
said that the animals in his neighborhood
knew the crack < f his rifle, and would take
to their secret hiding places on the first in
timation that Mike was about. Yet
strange, though true, he wa but little
known beyond his immediate 'settlement.''
When we knew hitu he was an old man —
the blasts of seventy winters had silvered
his head and taken the elasticity from his
limbs, yet in the whole <I his life was Mike
never worsted, except upon one occasion.
In his own language, he never ,pin in,
was up to anything that traveled on two or
foar legs, but once.
"That once, we want,'" said Bill Slasher,
as some dozen of us sat in the bar-room of
the only tavern in the settlement.
"Gin it to us now, Mike—you've prom
ised long enough, and you're old now, and
needn't care" continued Bill.
"Right! right! Bi'l," said Mike, "hat
we'll open with a licker all around, fust,
it'll kind o' save my feelin's, 1 reckon—
-1 'Thar that's good. Better than t'other
barrel, if anything!'
"Weil, boys," commenced M'ke, "you
may talk o' your scrimmages, tight places
and sich like, an ahstraet 'em altogether in
one all mighty big 'un. and they hain't no
more to be compared to the one I war in,
than a dead kitten to an old she bar ! I've
fout all kinds of varmints, from an Indian
down to a rattlesnake ! and never was wili'n
to quit fu.-t, but this once—and 'twas with
a bull!
"You see, hoys, it was an awful hot day
in August, and I war nigh runnin' off into '
pure i7e, when I war thinkin' that a dip in
the creek mout save me. Well thar was a
mighty nice place in old deacon Smith's
medder for that particular bizziness. So I
went down amongst the hushes to unhar
ness. I jist hauled the old red shirt over
my head, and war thiukin how sciutupti m
a feller of my size would feel a wallerin'
round in that ar water, and was jest bout
goin' in, when I eed the old Deacon s hull
a marking a bee-line to whar I stood.
"I know'd the o;d CJ.-S. for he'd skar d
more peopie than all the parsoDS of the set- •
tlement, and cum mighty near kill'n a few.
Thinks I, Mike you're in rasher a tight
place —get your fixin's on or he'll be a dri
via' them big horns o' his in your bowels
afor that time! Well you'll hev to try the
old varmint naked, I reckon.
"The Bull war on one side of the creek
and lon the t'other, and the way he made J
the "sile" fly for a while, a> if he war a
diggin' my grave, war distressin' !
"Come on, ye bellerin' old hethin," said
I, "and don't be standin thar; for, as the
old Deacon says o' the devil, yer Dot comely
to look on."
"This kind o' reach'd his understands",
and made him more wishious; for he hoofed
a little likp, and made a drive. And as I
don't like to stand in any body's way, I gin
him plenty of sea-room ! So he kind o'-
pa.-sed by me and come out on t'other side;
and, as the captain o' the Mud Swamp
Rangers would say "bout face for .notber
charge.'
"Though 1 war ready for ,em this time,
he come mighty nigh runnin foul o' me! So ,
I made up my mind the next time he went
; out be wouldn't be alone. So when he
passed, I caught his tail, and he pull'd me
; to the 'sile,' and as soon as we war both at
! top of the bank, old brindle, stopped arid
wer about comin' round again when I begin
j pullin' t'other way.
"Well. I recken this kind o' riled him'
i for he fust stood stock still and looked at
me for a spell, and then commenced pawin'
and bellerin', and the way he made his hind
gtarin' play iu the air, war beautiful!
"But it warn't no use. he couldn't tech
me, so he kind o' to get wind for
! suthin' dev!i.-h. as I jedgtd by the way he
started ! By this time I had made up my
mind to stick to his tail as long as it stuck
to his backbone ! I didn't like to hollor for
| help, nuther, kase it war agin my principles
; and then the deacon had preachin' at his
1 house and it wasn't far off nuther.
"I kuowed if he hern the noise, the hull
congregation would come down; and as I
warn't a married man, and had a kind o'
. hankering arter a gal that where there, I
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOV. 20- 1868.
didn't feel as if I would like to be seen in
that ar predicament.
"So, says I, "you old sarpent, do your
cussedest!" Aud so he did; for he drug me
oveT every briar and stum iu the field, until
I war sweatin" and hlt-tdin" like a fat bear
with a pack o' hounds at his heals. —Aud
my name tint Mike Fink, if the old critter's
tail and [ didn't blow sometimes at a dead
level with the varmint's back."
"So you may kalkelate we made good
time. Bimeby he s'akened a little, and
then I had'im for a spell, for I drappod
behind a stump and thar snubbed the crit
ter ! Now, says I "you'll pull up this 'tre
white oak or break yer taill or just hold on
a bit till I blow !"
"Well, while I was sittio' thar, an idea
sttuck me that I had better be a getieu out
o' of this in some way. But how, adzadk'y.
was thp pint! If I let go aud run he dbe
a foul o' me sure.
"So looking at the matter in ail its bear
ings, 1 cum to the conclusion that I'd better
let somebody know war I was !. So I gin al
yell louder than a locomotive whistle, and
it na-n't long afore 1 seed the Deacon s two
dogs a comin down like as if they war seein
which could gef there fust.
"I kuowed who they wore arter —they d
jioe the bull again n:e, I war sartain. for
they war orful wenrmons and had a spite
agiu me.
"So, says I, "old hriudle, as lideu is as
cheap H walfcen. on this route if you have
no objections, I'll jist take a deck passage
on thatar back o'yourn! ' So I wasn't long
in getiin' astride of him, a*~d then if you d
bin thar you'd ave sworn thar warn t noth
ing human in that er mix! the sile flew so
orfilly as the critter and I rolled round the
field—one dog on one-side and one on the
t'oher tryin' to elinch my fest.
"I prayed and cuas d and cuss'd and pray
ed, until I couldn't tell which I did last —
and neither warn't of any use, they wore so
orfully mixed up.
"Well, I reckon I rid about an hour this
way, when old hriudle thought it time to
stop and take in a supply o' wind and cool
off a little! So when we got around to a tree
that -tood thar, he nat'rally halted.
Now," says I, ' old hoy, you'll lose ooe
passeDger sartaiu!" So I jist clum upon a
branch, kalke!atin' to roost till I started,
afore I'd round in thar ar way any longer.
"I war a niakin tracks for the top of the
tree, when I heard snmthin' a makin' an or
ful lisasio over bead. I kinder looked up
and if there warn't—well there's no use a
swearin" now, it war the biggest hornet's
ne.-t ever built!"
"You'll 'gin in' now. I reckon), Mike, kase
thar's no help for you? But an idea struck
me then, that I'd stand a heap better chance
a riden the old bull than where I war.
Says I. "old feller, if you'll hoid on' I'll
ride to the next station, anyhow, let that be
where it will!"
"So I jist drapped aboard agin, and look
ed aloft to see what I'd gaits in changin'
quarters; and gentlemen, I'm a liar if thar
warn't nigh a half bu. 1...1 of oitngia' tur
mints ready to pitch into me when the word
"go' was given!
"Weil, I reckon they got it; for all hands
statted lor our company! Some on 'em bit
the dogs—about a quart struck me, and the
rest charged on old brindle.
"This rime the dogs led off fu-t. "dead'
beat for the old deacon's and as soou as old
hriudle and 1 could get under the way, we
fo'lowed! And as 1 war only a deck pa -sen
der. and had nothin' to do with steerin' the
craft, I swiw if I had we shouldn't Lave run
that channel, anyhow!
"But. as I said afore, the dogs took the
lead—brindle and I next and 'he hornets
dre'kly arter. The dogs yelliri'—brindle
belleriti and the hornets buzzin' and
stingin'! I didn't say nothin' for it worn't
no use.
"Well, we'd got about two hundred yards
from the house when the old deacon beard
us and come out. I seed him hold up his
hand and turn white. I reckon he was '
prayin* then, for he didn't expect to be
called tor so soon, and it wasn't long, afore
the hull congregation, men, women and j
children, cum out. and then ail hands went
to yejlin'?
"None of"em had the fust notion that brio- i
die and I belonged to this world. I just j
turned my head and passed the hull con
gregation! I reed the run would lie up
soon, for brindle couldn't turn an inch fioni
a fence that stood dead ahead.
"Well, we reached that fence and 1 w tt
ashore, over the old critter's head, laudin' ;
on t'other side arid lay their stuned. It
warn't long afore some of 'em as war not so
scaretL cum round to see what I war! For
all hands kalkelated that the hull and I be
longed together! But when brindle walked
off by himself, they seed how it war, and
one of 'em said "M : ke Fink has got the
must of the scrimmage once in his life!"
"Gentlemen, from that day I drapped the '
courtiu buzziness and never spoke to a gal
since! And when my hunt is up on this
yearth. tbar wou't be any mote Finks! j
its all owiu' to deac n Smith's BrinlU
Bull!"
KtssiNti.
Josh Billings gives a second essay on this
subject:
I have written essays on kissing before
this one and they didn't satisfy me. tor
: dew I think this one will, for the tuori a
man undertakes tew tell about a kiss, :be
more he will reduce his ignorance tew a
science.
You kant analize a kiss enny more than ;
you kan the breath ova flower. You kant
tell what makes a kiss taste so good tnny
more than you kan a peach.
Enny man who kan set down, where it is
cool, and tell how aki-s tastes, hain't got ,
enny mora real flavor tew his uiouth thin a
knot hole haz. Such a phellow wouldn't
hesitate tew deskribe Paradise as a fust rate
| place for garden sass.
The only way tew deskribe a kiss is tew
take one. and then set down, awl alone, out j
j ov the draft, and -raaek your lips.
Ifyu kaut saiisfy yourself bow a kiss 1
tastes without taking another one, ho* en
aith ken you define it tew the next man.
I have heard writers talk about the egs
tattck bliss there was in a kiss, and they
really seemed tew think they knew all about
it, but there are the same kind ov folks who
perspire aud kry when they read poetry,
and they fall to writing sum ov their own,
and think they hav found out how.
1 want it understood that I am talking
about pore emotional kissing, that is born
in the heart, and flies tew the lips,, like a
humming bird tew the roost.
I am not talking about you lazy, milk and
mola-seafci.-sing, that daubs the face ©fenny
booy, nor yure savage bite, that goes around,
like a roaring lion, in search ov sumthiug
to eat.
Ki-sing an unwilling pair ov lips, iz az
mean a victory, cz robbing a bird's nest,
and kissing too willing ones, iz about az un
fragrant a recreation, az making boquets,
out ov dandelion-.
The kind ov kissing that 1 am talking
about iz the kin i that must do it, or spile.
If you sarch the records ever so lively, yu
kant find the author ov the fu>t kiss; kiss
ing, lit much other good things, iz annony
tnous ■>.
But thare iz such a nature in it, sitch a
wour'd ov language without words, sitch a
heap ov pathos without fuss, so much
honey, and so little water, so cheap, so sud
den, and so neat a tnodeov striking up an
acquaintance, that Icon-idder it a good pur
oha \ that A'iam giv, and got, the fust
kiss.
Who Lan imagin a greater lump ov earth
ly bliss, reduced tow a finer thing, than
kis-ing the only woman on earth, in the
garden of Eden.
Adam wan't the man, I don't beleave, tew
pass sich a bund.
I may be wrong in mi konk!usion=. but
if enny bodily kan date kissing further
back, I would iike tew see them do it.
I duu't know whether the old stoiek
philosphars ever kist enny body or not, if
they did, they probably did it, lik drawing a
thereom on a black board, more for the pur
pose of proving sumthing else.
I do hate to see this delightful and in
vigoration beverage adulterated, it is nek
tar /or the god.-, hut I am often obliged tew
stand still, and see ki-sing did, and not -ay
a word, that haiut got enny more uovelty,
nor meaning in it, than throwing stones tew
a mark.
I saw two maiden ladys kiss yesterday on
the north -iJe of I'enn square, 5 times in
les.- than 10 mintuits; they kist every time
they hid each other farewell, and then im
mediately thought uv sumthing else they
hadn't sed. I couldn't tell for the life ov
me whether the kissing waz the effekt ov
what they sed, or what they sed waz the
effekt ov the kissing. It waz a which, and
tother. scene.
Cross-match kissing iz undoubt dly the
strength of the game. It iz trcw thare iz
no statu reguiasion against two ft malt 9
kissing each other, but I don't think thare
iz much pardon for it, unless it iz done to
keep looks in order; and two men kissing
each other is prima face evidence ovdead
hetely..
Kissing that passes from parent to child, i
and back again seems tew be az necessary az
thin pi asters, to do bizziness with: and kiss
iug that husbands give and take iz simply
gathered ripe fruit from one's own pluiuh
tree, that would otberwi-e drop oph, or be
stolen.
Th. refore I am driven tew Conclude, tew
get out ov the corner, that mi remarks has
chaspil mo into, that the ile ova kiss isonh
tew be had once in a pheliow's iife. in the
original package, and that iz when. * *
Not tew waste the time ov the reader, I
hav thought best not tew finish the abuv
sentence, hopinn that their aint no person
ova good edukashun, and decent memory,
but what kan reckolekt the time which I
refer to, without enny ov mi help.
I'l lit.lt' SPIRIT.
There is nothing that helps a place along j
-o rapidly as a proper exhibition of public j
spirit on the part of its citizen' —especially j
'of that portion of the in who. from theii j
wealth or the magnitude of their business j
o; rations, are in a position to make their
influence felt for good or ill iu the communi
ty A man may be horn, grow up. and pas
through life and die in a place, and yet that
place never received one partielu ©f benefit
frmi his existence. He micht as well nev
er have lived. A turnip or a cabbage would
uxert just as favorable an influence on the
pihiic mind as he does. He exists,
:;reathes. vegetates —makes money, per
imps, invests it where it will pay the best—
! urd dies at last, and leaves his wealth, and
' thit i.- all, to remind any one that he ever
! lived. He did nothing to buiid up the place
i he called his home, he suggested no im
: pnvements. nor made any himself, and only
:1. Mght h I'.V he could add a dollar to hi
bauk account, or make bis investments pa>
j better than tbev bad done before.
On the other hand, are men who realize
that life is given lor some better purpose
than the mere hoarding of money. Tbev
believe that they have public as well as pri
vate duties to perform, ami a portion, at
least, of the wealth which they accumulate
belongs, in some sense, to the community
among whom it is accumulated. A\ itli thi
end in view, they seek investments at home
instead of going air >ad; they purchase land
; and improve it; they erect dwelling houses
' and thus encourage immigration from other
placer, they enlarge their own business as
fast as good judgement would seem to die
' late, and givp employment to a- many me
chanics as possible, they encourage others
i to enlarge their operations by loaning them
' means or furnishing increased aecom:noda.
tions in the way of buildings or machinery.
In these and many other ways they contribute
to the growth and prosperity of the commu
nity to which they form a part. They give
liberally in aid of the charitable and relig
i ious organizations of the place, and do it
! cheerfully, as though it were a pleasure
rather than a mere duty. Such men are a
j blessing in the community, lheir influence
i is like that of the sun and rain upon vege
tation. Everything seems to smile all about
! them; their path is marked with beauty and
i flowers seem to spring up beneath their
i very fcet.
Anl the influence of such men is not eon
fined merely to what they do themselves.
Man is an imitative creature. He is always
-eeking for models, and apt to follow them,
be they good or had. Genuine original men
are scarce. Therefore he who sets a good
example not only benefits his race by what
he dies himself, hut he stimulates others to
do good likewise, and the influence thu set
in motion goes on extending until it com- j
passe- the whole earth, perhaps. No man •
can tell when or where bis influence
will rod. nor what form it will everitually
put on. Now a public spirited man be 1
comes a motive power, to propel those |
arouid him who are capable, of any motion
at tlb
gome men are not. They are born to fill
a small circle, and they cannot fill a large
ono. Pqblic spirit is not to be expected of
j stub. They are mile-stones on the road to
point the way they never travel themselves,
thus they serve their purpose, doubtless,
but their i>Osition is not to he envied by live
men. who have higher ideas of life. We
have known some such men, of whom it
may bo said they are fifty years behind the
age. They are contented in the possession
of personal comfort and ease; their thoughts
are never troubled abcut public improve
ments, except it be fear that they may be
taxed to pay for them. What was good
enough for their fathers is good enough for
them.
One can conceive what a place would be
if entirely controlled, by such men—a Sleepy
Hollow kind of paradise, devoted to the
pa-t. untroubled about the prcsetft, and
never even dreaming of the future. If such
men ruled the world, always, telugraphs
aud labor saving machines would be un
j known, and all would eventually relapse in
to barbarism.
It is adutv men owe to themselves and
; their fellow men to encourage a liberal spir
it. It is the opponent ot selfishness; en
larges the heart and makes the world better
[and more fit for the residence of beings with
souls. It increases the great sum ot human
bappine.-s, and promotes the best good ol
the community and the world. A public
spirited man is generally a safe guide to fol
low in matters affecting the temporal as well
as spiritual good of the human race. —
| Xyno (Mass.) Reporter.
HENRY WARD BEECBEK ON LOVE.
The following is from a recent sermon by
j the pastor of Plymouth church:
On earth there i? uo'hiog more beautiful
ihan the fir-1 breaking of young, strong, new.
true love. No flower that ever hlos-omed.
| however fair: nor fragrance that any flower
ever emitted, however sweet: no bravery of
the sky; no witchery of art: nothing that
i mnn ever invented or imagined, is to be
compared with the hours of dawning love in
the young soul. And it is a shame that
men -hould be taught to be ashamed of that
which i- the prophecy of tloir high st being
: and glory. Alas, that it should ever perish
in the using! Alas, that men should not
know that to endure it they must rise high
! er. since it is only by growing into its full
and later disclosures tli3t it may lie saved
i from qui"k mort ility. It must grow or die:
! for that which suffices for a beginning is not
i enough for all, and for all time.
Love, therefore, should be a school mas
ter. carrying its pupils up from room t>>
room, through the whole university of the
mind. As the lower begins first, it ends
first. The higher, beginning latest, lasts the
longest.
And, hence, true affection Is strongest in
the latter periods of being. I'erhups it i
less stimulating than young love, but the
popular impression that we love strongest
when we love earliest is not found it truth
or analogy. No one knows the whole lore
of love, that does not know how to love with
reason, the imagination and all the moral
sentiment-. It is the most interior school
that the soul can know. Men may know
how to deal with numbers and solve prob
lems; but that is the rarest, the iunermost.
the deepe.-t knowledge that come- with lov
ing by all the parts and faculties ofthe soul.
They only can love greatly or fruitfully
who are L od. -inee the line, the direction is
from the flesh toward the spirit. It is from
the low toward the high. It is from the sub
stantial toward the invi-ible. And none
can truly love except those whose life is the
unfolding of their who'e nature on the plan
of Christianity.
How pitiful it is to see men buiM too low'
I cannot bear to see the young gathering to
gether and building their nests as the birds
do. I'n my lawn I see the larks aud other
birds building in the grass, and know that
before the younj are fb-dged the remorse
less mower, with revolving strokes, will
sweep the ground, and the nests will he ut
terly destroyed, and the young cut and wast
ed. And do I not see men building their
nu-ts just so? Do I not sec love beginning
to nestle in the flowers? But the flowers
themselves are rooted in the dirt down low.
close to the loot that easily shad crush them.
I mourn when 1 see a mother loving her
children for time, for time only. I mourn
when I see two natures that should he eter
na'ly affianced, loving each other within the
horizons of time. There tuust be something
higher than the cirelings of this world. No
love is fit to he ealled by the name of love
that has not in it something of the othei
world, and much of immortality. It must
have iu it faith and hope. It must be a
love that is served by the reason, by the im
agination, by all that there is in the soul.
AN ANECDOTE WORTH PRESERVING.— A
Paris correspondent guarantees the follow
ing: "A Frenchman, a prisoner in Edin
burgh. having managed to escape, took
refuge in the powder magazine. \\ hen the
authorities wished to seize him, they found
him sitting on a barrel with a lighted
match, and threatening to blow up the
town. The authorities reflected prudently,
and the result of their deliberations wa>
that it would be better to starve the French
man out. But they nckoued without thrir
prisoner, who loved good cheer, and wa
determroed to live well. In coosequenct
he called out that he would blow the town
to pieces if lie did not get three meals a
day; he would write out the bill of fare,
isawney succumbed and the demands ot
the prisoner went on increasing. Some
titnes he had a serenade under his window;
then a review of the garrison; afterwards
a sham fight, in which the troops represent
ing the French army beat the Highlanders.
At last heex2Ctrd that every Sabbath morn
ing, before breakfast, the Lord Provost, in
full uniform, should make his appearance
and read him an address. This lasted until
the allies entered Paris.'
WORDS FOR BOYS TO REMEMBER.—Lib- j
erty is the right to do whatever you wi-h.
without interfering with the rights of oth- i
ers.
Save your money, and you will find it one 1
of the most useful friends.
Never give trouble to your mother or ;
father.
Take eare of your pennies and they will
grow to dollars.
Intemperance is the curse of nearly ail the
(rouble in this world, beware of strong
j drink.
I The poorest hoy, if he be industrious,
hone*t and saving, may reach the highest
j honor in the land.
Never be cruel to a dumb animal, remem
ber it has no power to tell how much it suf
fers.
Honesty is always the best policy
VOL. 41: NO. 44
ttEODISC RINGS.
There is no ornament made by the gold
smith that has so interesting a history as
the ring. From the remotest antiquity it
has beea in use. Signet rings were used in
Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek and Roman
times. Their devices preceded, and to gome
extent did the work of the modern heraldic
distinctions. Rings were used as symbols
of honor, or types of reconciliation, as in the
affecting narrative of the prodigal son:
"Dring forth the best robe and put it on
him, and put a ring on bis finger."
While many articles of jewelry serve but
to trickle out beauty, or supply the place oi
it, the finger ring, and especially the wed
ding ring, serves a nobler purpose. Ii is a
little circlet of joy, and memory, and pleas
ant thoughts calling up teuder reeoileetion>
and solemn incidents. Its material of pure,
plain gold suggests both the purity and du
rability of wedded love. Just as gold doe.-
not corrode, and lasts longer than any other
metal, so should conjugal affection resist
the corroding of angry passions, aui the fret
of daily anxieties. It should grow brighter
with age and use.
And then the circular form tellsof eodtess
deeds of kiuduess, running in the daily
round of hie without flaw: smooth and
strung should be the bond that unites two
hearts, so that it may not be a fetter to gall
nor a film to break. Look at your wedding
ring, your wile, and let it be your monitor
to suggest all this. And even though it i
no longer the fashion to inscribe it with
quaint devices or loviDg words, it wiii be el
oquent to you; and none the less that your
tears have sometimes fallen on it. They
have not marred the gold or broken the cir
cle. Sometimes they have made both
dearer.
And you, O mourning widow, weeping a
good man's loss, your wedding ring, wheth
er it is now enameled with black, or kept hi
its pristine brightness, what a doubly pre
cious memorial to vou has that little round
of plain gold become? It links your
thoughts now with heaven. It is the pledge
of a spiritual bond here, to be renewed here
after. It tells, according to a favorite coup
let of our ancestors, that
"Death never parts."
Two loving hearts."
However much, theo, we may condemn
tawdry ornaments in general, let uscon-ider
the wedding ring as possessing a significance
deep and even solemn. Its value is in what
it typifies. Bri liant gems of rarest setting
cannot make more precious the golden link
of love.
KEEP WAK.U A.ND SAVE VOIK LIFE
Within thirty days from to-day there will
be many deaths which might be prevented
by warmer clothing. Many a fatal case of
dysentery is caused by the want of a woolen
undershirt, or of an extra blanket at night.
The sudden changes of temperature which
occur at this season of the year are very try
ing to the constitution. People with weak
luugs quickly fee! the effect of them. Pre
H nntly rhe. themometer falls many degrees
within a few ho-aro. Not o=i r foctu.
hut robust and strong persons suffer from
uch great variations of temperature. VI hen
the weather grows cold rapidly, the pores
of the skin are suddenly closed, and the re
-ult frequently is a bad cold, which may
hold on all winter and terminate in consump
tion, or a fatal attack of dysentery, or that
dreadful disease, typhoid fever.
If the day seetus ever HO warm and bright
it is much safer to wear plenty of underclo
thing at this season. In the evenings the
.lews fall, and it grows chilly very suddenly.
At all times, even when it feels the warmest
ore experiences the difference which is so
marked, between the autumn atmosphere
and that of the summer. There is some
thing more than the mere difference of tern
perature, aod it may be in the electricity. An
occasional fire in a room dries the wails and
purifies the atmosphere. A little timely
attention to all these things would prevent a
creat deal of the disease and suffering which
are among the ills to which humanity is
liable.
There are many ready made coffins at 'he |
cabinet shops and undertakers —little, short, |
liny coffins —which are going to be tilled up |
-oon by little children—some of them as
weer. beautiful little children a? anybody ,
but your own; and just to think of it, these
coffins might be left empty, and the little
children might be left in their homes to i
play, and to frolic, and make those hotnes <
bright, if only warm shoes and stockings, ]
which would keep little feet dry, and warm ]
clothes and soft woolen blankets were more ,
plenty. _ i
Do not bother yourself to huut up a mis
sionary. Be sure that whenever you send a
pair cf warm shoes to a needy little child, a
good enough missionary, though you do not j
-ee him, always travels inside of theui. In j
warming feet and warming bodies you warm i
hearts also; and, besides, it warms your
own heart to do this.
IIO.ME POLITENESS.
Should an acquaintance tread on your
dress, your best, your very best, and by ac
cident tear it, how profuse YOU are with
"your never minds—don t think of it—l
don't care at all." If a husbaud does it, be
gets a frown if a child be is chastised.
Ah ! these are little things, say you !
Tiiey tell mightily on the heart, let us as
-arc you, little as they are.
A gentleman slops at a friend's house,
and finds it in confusion. '"He don't see
anything to apologize for—never thinks of
such matters—everything is all right
cold supper—cold room—crying children—
perfectly comfortable."
Goes home, bis wife has been taking cart
of the sick ones, and worked her life almost
out. "Don't see why thing- can't be kept
■ in better order— there never were such cross
: children before." No apologies except
; away from home.
Whv not be polite at home ? Why not
| use freely the golden coin of courtesy ? How
i sweet they sound, those little words, "I
j thank you." or "You are very kind
Doubly, yes. thrice sweet from the lips we
j love, when heart-smiles make the eye spar- |
| kit- with the clear light of affection.
Be polite to your children. Do you ex- j
pect them to be mindful of our welfare ? To !
1 grow glad at your approach ? To bound
! away to do your pleasure before your request
! i< half spoken ? Then, with all your dignity
L j and authority mingle politeness. Give it a
niche in yout household temple. Only then
- will you have the true secret of sending out
- 1 into the world really finished gentlemen and
ladies.
Again we say unto all —be polite.
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KEEP VOI R PROMISES.
We have often been shocked by the reck
less disregard which many persons manifest
for the fulfillment of their promises. They
are over ready to make engagements for the
future, but when the time arrives for their
fulfillment, they seem to have forgotten it
entirely—or at least to treat them as though
they involve no obligation whatever.
Such cooduct is highly injurious in its in
fluence on society, inasmuch as it necessarily
teuds to destroy that confidence of man in
man which is so essential to the happiness
of community. It is especially detrimental
to the interests of the individual himself
who is guilty of it, as he thereby forfeits the
cotijdencc and respect of his fellows. His
word accordingly, is not relied upon, and he
is obliged to suffer all the unhappy con
sequences. This singular and injurious
habit is one of the most inexcusable of which
any one can be guilty. In ninety-nine cases
ontofone hundred, there is no absolute
necessity whatever, "for aoy one to break
! his word.
No one should ever make a promise un
less he looks well into the cricumstances be
forehand, and has every reason to believe
that it will be in Lb power to fulfill his
promise, and whenever a promise has onoe
been made, it should be his fixed determi
nation to keep it; and with a peculiar
reference to this, his subsequent conduct
should be shaped.
Were this course faithfully pursued, not
only would the serious evils resulting from
a discharge of one's word be avoided, but
also the confidence of those around speedily
gained and enjoyed, and a character tbereby
eveniually established that will be of more
value than 'ermine' gold or princely diadem.'
HE THOUGHT HE NEVER PRAYED.
The Rev. Mr. Kilpin passed a very pro
fane man, and having omitted to rebuke
him, be awaited him in the morning at the
same place.
When he approaced, Mr. Kilpin said:
'Good-morning, my friend; you are the
person I have been waiting lor."
"Oh ! sir," said the man, "you are mis
taken, I think."
"I do not know you, but I saw you last
night when you were going home from work
and I have been waitiog some time to see
you."
"Sir, you are mistaken —it could not have
been me. I never saw you in my We before
that I know of."
■'Well, my friend, ' said Mr. KilpiD, "I
heard you pray last night."
"Now, I assure you that you are mista
ken; I never prayed in ail my life."
"Oh !" said Mr. Kilpin, "if God had an
-wered your prayer last night, you had not
been here this morning. I heard you pray
that God would destroy your eyes and ruin
your soul."
The man turned pale, and trembling,
said:
"Do you call that prayer ? I did, I did.
: Well. then, rnv errand this morning is
to request you from this day to pray as fer
vently for your salvation as you have done
for damnation; and may God in his mercy
hear your prayer."
The man from that time became an atten
dant on Mr. Kilpin'sministry, and it ended
in his conversion to God.— The Christian.
HOW TO SUCCEED.
One of the largest and must successful
shoe manufacturers of Lynn worked seven
years upon his seat to get a capital of one
thousand one hundred and thirty-five dol
lars, with which he commenced business.
His earnings during these years were just
five dollars a week—two hundred and fifty
dollars a year. He paid two dollars a week
for board, and made one dollar to pay all
other expenses, thus saving one hundred
and four dollars each year, which, with the
interest added and small amounts gained in
trade, amounted in seven years to the sum
above named. The first year in business he
cleared five hundred dollars, the second a
thousand, and the third two thousand—all
the time cutting his own shoes, and keeping
his personal expenses down to the old sum
-three dollars per week. As his means in
creased his operations enlarged, and for
several years past he has done a very large
and successful business, and is known as one
of the best and most liberal of the citizens
of Lynn, giving large sums to charitable
purposes. During the year IS6T he did a
business of $300,000, the profits of which
were $40,000, and the total loss, by bad
debts, one case of boots worth $l5O.
DIDN'T WART CURLEW.
The Salt Lake Vedette says: "A way
farer dropped into the Occidental Hotel in
this place on Tuesday to get a square meal,
ilaviug planted himself in a chair at one of
the tables he was confronted by the waiter
with:
'"What 11 you have ?' The hungry, one
fastened his eyes on the attache Ic soup and
said:
"'What have you that a goad ?
" Oh ! we've roast beef, corned beef, roast
mutton, boiled mutton, fried ham and boil
ed curlew !' v
"'What is curlew V said the stranger.
"'Curlew ! —why, curlew is a bird some
thing like a snipe.'
" Did it fly r
'"Yes."
"Did it have wings ?'
'"Yes/
■"Then I don't want any curlew, any
thing that had wings, and could fly, and
didn't leave this country, I don't want for
dinner."'
"I was a stranger, and they took toe in,"
said a D ,!, Q at one of the police stations.
"How much did they take you in?" asked a
bystander. All the money in my pockets,
and all my brains for abont ten hours," was
the reply.
Some one was telling an Irishman that
somebody had eaten ten saucers of ice
cream, whereupon Pat shook bis head. 'So
you don't believe it?' With a shrewd nod,
Pat answered —-'I believe in the crame, but
not in the sareers!'
Why is the bridegroom worth more than
the bride? Because she is given away, and
i he is sold. What a shocking bad oonun
i drum that is.
| A SHIP-LOAD of Indian scalps has arrived
in Paris, to appear oa fashionable head#
next season