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THE WIFE.
UV J. U. KHLTTIRR.
From school, and ball, and rout ahe came,
The city's fair, paie daughter,
To drink the wine of inoantain fair
Beside the Bearcamp Water.
Her step grew firmer on the hills
I bat watch our homesteads over;
On cheek and lip, from summer fields,
She caught the bloom of clover.
Tor health comes sparkling in the streams
I'rom cool Cbocona stealing,
! There' s iron in our Northern winds,
Our pines are trees of healing.
She sat beneath the broad-armed elms
That skirt the mowing-meadow,
And watched the gentle west wind weave
The grass with shine and shadow.
Beside her form the summer heat,
To share her grateful screening,
\\ ith forehead bared, the farmer stood,
L pon his pitchfork leaning.
Framed in its damp, dark locks, his face
Had nothing mean or common—
j Strong, manly, true, the tenderness
■ And pride beloved of woman.
She looked up, glowing with the health
The country air had brought her,
And, laughing, said : ''You lack a wife,
Yonr mother lacks a daughter.
"To mend your frocks and bake your bread,
You do not need a lady;
Be sure among these brown old homes,
Is some one waiting ready,—
, '"Some fair, sweet girl with skillful hand
And cheerful heart for treasure,
W ho never plays with ivory keys
Or danced the polka s measure.'
He bent his black brows to a frown
He set bis white teeth lightly,
lis well," he said, "for one like you
To choose for me so lightly;
"You think because my life is rude,
I take ao note of sweetness;
I tell you love has naught to do
V> ith rneetness or unmeetness.
"Itself its best excuse it asks
No leave of pride or fashion
When silken zone or homespun frock
It stirs with throbs of passion.
"You think me deaf and blind; you bring
Y unr winniug graces hither
As free as if from cradle time
I\ e two had played together.
"You tempt me with your laughing eyes,
Y our cheek of sundown's blushes;
A motion as of waving grain,
A music as of thrushes.
"Tbe plaything of your summer sport,
The spells you weave around me
Y'ou cannot of your will undo.
Nor leave me as you found me.
"You go as lightly as you came,
Your life is weli without me;
What care you that these hills will close
Like prison walls about me?
No mood is mine to geek a wife,
Or daughter for my mother;
Who loves you loses in that love
All power to love another !
"I dare your pity or your scorn
With pride your own exceeding;
I fling my heart into your lap
Without a word of pleading."
She looked up from the waving grass
So archly, yet so tender,
"And if I give you mine" she said,
"Win you forgive the tender?'
"Nor frock nor tan can hide the man;
And see you not, my farmer,
How weak and fond a woman wars
Behind the silken armor ?
"I love you; on that lore alone,
And not my worth presuming.
Will you not trust for summer fruit
The tree in >.ay day blooming?"
Alone the hanghird overhead,
His hair-strung cradle straining,
Looked down to see lore's miracle—
That giving that is gaining.
And so the farmer found a wife,
His mother found a daughter;
There looks no happier home than hers
On pleasant Bearcamp Water.
Flowers spring to blossoms where she walks
The careful aaya of duty;
Onr hard-stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.
Our homes are (beerierfor her sake,
Our door-yards brighter blooming,
And all about the social air
Is sweeter for her coming.
PMnm
.silt. KEECHER AT HOIK.
A Congregational minister from Canada
writes to one of the Canadian papers an in
teresting account of a visit recently made
by him to the country home of Mr. Beecher,
near Peekskill, on the Hudson. Before go
ing to the dinner-table, the subject of Ameri
can politics bad been discussed between Mr.
Beecher and his guest, and the conversation
was resumed as soon as grace had been
said, with an interest which bid fair to
supersede the ordinarily important act of
dining.
l 'Tlie soup despatched, it was some time
before enough of the joint was carved to
serve the guest, and then a long pause in
the helping came, while my host, wilh
carving knife and fork in hand, expatiated
upon the pending issues of the coming
election
" ' Henry, my dear,' said Mrs. Beecher,
'you're forgetting the dinner.' Another was
helped, then more pausing, and more ear
nest, eloquent discourse about the political
situation; fresh reminders about dinner; a
- proposal from me to postpone politics UDtil
after dinner, which elicited a 'Can't be
done; never mind dinner; we've got into
the subject now, and it's better than din
ner. The negro suffrage question, univer
sal suffrage in the abstract, female suffrage,
the foreign influence in American politics,
and prospects of the Presidential campaign,
were dilated on, and what was said so ab
sorbed me that I couldn't find out how tbe
stuffed veal tasted or tbe egg-plant—a
novelty to me; didn't know whether I bad
eaten enough or too little, and rose from the
table in a sort of bewildering maze, unable
to decide whether I had been taking a meal
or hearing a fascinating lecture. Mr. Beech-
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY. FEB, 5, 1860.
1 eris a splendid talker. On any subject that
interests him, he fires up and corruscates in
j private just as he does in public. His gems
' of poetry are not carefully ground up and
; polished by the lapidary's process, but burst
naturally and brilliantly lite the final eplen
dors of a rocket. As I listened it scented
to me that thoughts, illustrations, and
phrases quite equal to anything I bad
heard from his lip? in the pulpit, or read
| from his pen, dropped front him in coqjrer
j sat ion
| "Some interesting facts about I'lymouth
j church came out in the coUrse of this con
j versation. I asked if it was true the build
ing was about to be enlarged ? .Mr. Deechcr
' said' No.' ' Do you then intend to build
anew?' I inquired. 'Noi' said he, 'the pro
ject is broached every year at pew-letting
time, on account of the demands for seats
and the high prices they fetch, but it
| speedily dies down. We were very near
building just as the war broke out, and had
we done so it would have been a wise move
ment; but everything was so uncertain, and
the future looked so daik, that the thing
fell through. My people feel, and so do I.
! that lam not so young as I once was, and
j if I should drop off, a larger building would
| not be wanted. We can seat two thousand
five hundred, and manage to squeeze in
three thousand as it is.' I reminded him
that he was comparatively yottng, and that
his father before him lived to a great age;'
and that he might have many years of cf
I fective labor before him yet. 'Yes,' he said,
'but my father, though a bard working
man, did not pass through the excitit-g
scenes and labors that have befallen me.
The life of a minister in a country village
or town is not worn and wasted as is that
of a city pastor, liable to innumerable, calls,
and always on the strain. I shall probably
drop down in the harness some day, and
: not live to be old.' 'But,' I said, 'you take I
oxtreise, you believe in and practice muscu
!ar Christianity?' 'Not so much as I ought
to, or as it is generally supposed that I do.
j I have been in Brooklyn nineteen years,
and never in all that time have I wet a
trout line, and beyond an occasional visit
here, ami spending my summer vacation
here, I know no relaxation. The strain on
a city pastor, situated as I aui, is constant
and severe." . . .
TUB FAMOUS ASTRONOMICAL
CLOCK
This clock is in the Strasburg Cathedral.
It was built in the Cathedral, before its
completion, in the year 1439, and was
invented by Isaac Ilabreeht, a Jewish as
trologer.
European clocks were first invented in
the eleventh century, by the Saracen?, and
used principally for monasteries. Tbey
were very rude, simple affairs, and some
times would enly "go" when somebody
pushed the pendulum, which was rather in
convenient than otherwise. So wise mathe
maticians tried to make improvements; and
some succeeded, among whom was Isaac
Habrecht, who in the fourteenth century j
invented the most wonderful clock in the
world, and called it the "Clock of the Three
Sages," because once in every hour the
figuroo of fhp ThrPP of Orient eaiue
out from a niche in its side, and made a
reverential bow before an image of the
Virgin Mary seated just above the dial-plate,
on the front of the clock. It is built of dark
wood, gilded and carved, and is sixty feet
high. In shape, it is somewhat similar to a
church, with a tower on either side of the
entrance; and these towers of the clock are
encircled by spiral staircases, which aroused
when repairs are necessary. When Isaac
Ilabreeht invented this wonderful clock, he
meant it to run forever, always displaying
to the good people of Strasburg the days of
the month, place of the sun and moon, and
other celestial phenomena; and while he
lived it worked admirably; but when he had
been dead awhile, the clock stopped; and as
nobody else understood its machinery, it had
quite a vacation. After awhile however,
the people of Strasburg took it in hand, and
it was repaired and set going—only to stop
again.
Thus it went on till Napoleon's time.
Strasburg, originally a German town, was
ceded to Louis XIV. in 165? 1. So the clock
was French property, and Napoleon decided
it must be brought to lifeagain. Under the
most skilful French and German machinists
this repaiting took place. It was eminently
successful this time, and when completed was
a great improvement on the o'd clock. It
will now give not only the time of Strasburg
but every principal city in the world; also
the day of the week and month, the course
of the sun and planets, and all the eclipses
of the sun and moon, in their tegular order.
In an alcove above the dial is an image of
our Saviour, and every day at noon, figures
of the twelve apostles inarch around it and
bow, while the holy image, with uplifted
hands, admini-ters a silent blessing. Acock,
on the highest point on the right hand tower
flaps his wings and crows three times, and
when he stops, a beautiful chime of bells
ring out familiar and very musical tunes. A
figure of Time, in a niche on one side,
strikes the quarter hours from twelve to one;
aDd four figures—Childhood, Youth, Man
hood and Old Age—pa-s slowly before hint.
In a niche on the other side is an angel turn
ing an hour glass.
The clock is in the south transept of the
cathedral. Persons traveling abroad usually
take Strasburg on their route, to visit its
cathedral, the spire of which is the highest
in the world, being four hundred and sixty
feet high, and to see its wonderful astrono
mical clock; and as Strasburg is but two
hundred and fifty tuiles southwest of Paris,
and on the direct route to Switzerland. I
advise you, if ever you travel in France, to
take this route, and visit the wonderful
clock.—S. B. C. in Our Boi/s and Girls.
THERE is a magistrate in a town in Indi
ana named Helser. A dergt'iuao in the
same place was called upon by a young
couple not long since, who wi-hed him to
join them in the holy bonds of matrimony.
He asked the bridegroom (a soldier by the
way) for his marriage license. The tr.an in
blue responded that he had been engaged
to the girl four years, and thought that
would do. Clergyman thought not, and
remarked, as the speediest way to obtain a
license:
"You had better take your girl and go
to Helser 1"
Yoa go to hell yourself!" retorted the
angry veteran.
And seizing the bride by the arm, he
dragged her from the house, wondsring
what manner of a profane minister he bad
met with.
t ROBERT BROWNING.
BV 51. P. CONWAY.
s .
1 Mr. Browning stands, with few rivals in
t, the past aad none in the present, attbc
! head of what, iu fault of a better phrase,
1 j tnay be called intellectual poetry. There are
1 | poets who rank him in imaginative lustre,
1 there arc more musical minstrels, there are
1 : tin ugh there arc lew—warmer and more
- j delicate coferists; but for clear, vigorous
thinking, perfect sculpture of forms cm
i bodying thoughts (sculptures too tinted with
the llush oflile, with veins of blue ami red),
lor the utterance of the right physiognomic
a! word and phrase, he lias no superior since
1 Shakespeare. \et intellectual as it is even
- j to a Greek severity,—lieycnd even Landor
: here, it wou j by no means express the
. ; charm of bis writings to style them philo
sophical. No theory can quote him, nor is
■ he at all ethical. His religious fervor shows
I in points of white fire on evety page, and
yet no work aims at a moral lesson or object.
He write? neither fable nor allegory. The
j world of n>-;n and women, with their actual
j passions, hopes, and loves, and the vast
arenas for their play opened by these as riv
i ers cut their channel-,—these are enough '
. for him. liis Worship,is for man; his faith i
must find its joy in a divine Man. The
world o! form", the city of bodies, repre
sents tobim the scattered rays of this tnys
- terious humanity; and his art is not to i
j change them into any moral monotony, hut
; to cultivate and guard them in their various
vitality and meaning, and report their dra
tnaiit interplay. To philosophy and science
all is unity; the pioet is a creator of variety
■ out of this unity which shows Faraday but j
j one element, Tyndall one force, Hegel one I
idej, underlying all actual or conceivable I
combinations. How grandly he has treated i
his forms tnav be best learned by consider- 1
iog the fertility of his invention as displayed !
in all his volumes. No poet of his genera j
tion has approached Robert Browning in the !
richness and originality .of his plots. While
around hint the gods and goddesses of
Gieece and Rome have been masquerading j
i ;n cotemporary costumes, —while critics [
have been often limited for a generation at a
time to the question whether Smith's Ve
nus or Cupid is finer than Jones's, —while
evety Oriental or Scandinavian or Italian
; legend has been made to do duty like the
professional models whose faces and forms,
now bright, now brown, re-appcar at every j
academy exhibition,—this poet has evolved
a series of the most beautiful frames as well
as portraits, in attestation of which we need
only, for the reader of Browning, mention
I Ptpa, JPtuta, Paraeelsux, The Flight of the
Ducheu, and The Hint on the Scutcheon. —
Atlantic Monthly for February.
THINGS THAT A .MAN CAN'T UO. I
"Jennie T. Haxen," in the Chicagoaa,
says there are some things a man can't do,
as follows;
Some wrmeD, in a sudden burst of in
g-eniousness, have acknowledged that there
: are some things that women can't do, and
expressed unbounded admiration for the
men who do these deftly.
Well, what if they can do two or three
things belter than a woman ? I, for one,
am not going into ecstacies over tbem, nor
will I make a standing exclamation point of
myself because they can "do up" a bundle
and carry an umbrella.
Women can do a hundred things that
they can't but they never think of making a
great fuss over it.
One thing a man can't do is to own up
frankly that he can't do everything better
than a woman. Another thing he can't do
is to carry the "baby." I have tried theiu,
and I know. You ju-t take one —a baby I
mean—and do it up in blankets and shawls,
all snug and nice, aod give it to Joseph to
. carry while you arc putting on your hat and
sacque, just keep your eye on the baby,
and you will see ominous squirmings in the
bundle, and bear certain half-smothered—
I but to you well understood sounds. UpOD
an investigation you will find the baby very
red in the face and its heels where its head
ought to be. You take it and shake it up a
little, give it a soft pat here and there, and i
restore it to him "right side up." j
Will he acknowledge it wa" bis fault?!
Will he confess be don't know how to carry ;
the baby? Not a bit of it. He will insist
that you gave it to him wrong side up, or
that it wa- the proper mode of carrying the
baby.
Thirdly, as cur parson used to say, about
the time that he ought to have said "seven
tacnthly" and lastly—he can't hook up a J
lady's dress, at lea-t he couldn't years ago j
when ladies wore them hooked up in the j
back. There were always three our four .
hooks'and eyes tl at I couldu't reach, and !
time and again have I called upon "my j
John" to hook them. The good clumsy
I fellow would fumble away with fingers that
were all thumbs, while he grew red in the
face with his efforts to make the "plagued
I things hitch," giving it up at last with
! "Hang the things ! Why don't you have
buttons as we do ?"
Let mo think ! What else is there he
can't do? He can't make tetting or crochet;
he can't wear crinoline or manage two yards
of trail; he cau't wear a love of a bonnet, or
a balmoral boot; and last and best of all, he
can't say "no" to an offer of marriage, and
that's the blessed ?t privilege we women
have !
DRESSING FOR CFICRCF. —Very TS'ima- i
ble, t>n 1 we trust very reli-i ius young wc- ,
men, sometimes enier.the ho<e of Ood in
a costume which makes the acts of devotion
in theui seem ;>ln;"st a burlesque. V hen a
bisk litll j creature cot. es nto a pew with ,
herhiir frzzd till it stand- on ends in a
most startling mantes. rattling strinp of
beads and bits of tinsel, she may look ex- ,
ceedinglv pretty and piquant: and if she j
came theie for a came of croquet, or a tab
leaux party, would be all in very good taste;
but as she came to confess that she is a mis
erable sinner, and to renounce all pompe and
vanities—that she has done the things she
ought not to have done, and left undone
the things sheought to have done —as she
takes upon bcr Hps most solemn and tre
mendous words, whose meaning runs far be
yond life into a sublime eternity—there is a
discrepancy which would be ludicrous if it
were not melancholy.— Mr*. 11. B. Stoicc.
"I WISH I had your head, " said a lady
one day to a gentleman who had solved for
her a knotty point. "Ami I wish I had
yonr heart," was the reply. "Well." said
she, ' 'since your head and tuy heart can
agree, Ido not see why they should not go
into partnership." And they did.
A POOR MEMORY.
I here are various reasons why some per
sons have a poor memory.
Th"y may have overworked their brain,
and exhausted the energies of the nervous
system. A majority of the people tax their
minds to the utmost, and instead of rein
vigorating themselves after exhaustion,
continue their labors until their systems are
deranged by excessive mental application,
and the brain loses the power ol receiving
or retaining the impression made upon it.
Many have disqualified themselves for la
bor by overcharging their brains with more
than they can do. It requires great pres
ence of mind, much firmness and decision of
character for an at dent and enthusiastic
person to take rest when work presses u|>on
him, and opportunities for labor multiply,
and beifrequentlv continues in business till
sickness entirely disables him from pursuing
his calling.
Inactivity of mind is another fruitful
source of a poor memory. However strong
and vigorous tbe mind may be, origiually,
unless exercised) it is like gold and silver
laid away in a napkin, which soon becomes
tarnished, though if used daily, they would
be bright for years.
Irregularity of life is another reason for
j poor memory. If persons are subject to ex
tremcs, sometimes getting up eatly and
sometimes late in the morning; if they in
dulge in excesses of any kind, or trifle with
their organization so as to impair its power
they cannot expect to have clear ideas on
any subject—especially a good memory. It
is important to live systematically and me
thodically if we would wish to preserve the
brain in a good condition.
Dissipation spoils the memory. When
the nervous system is over stimulated with
alcohol, tobacco, opium, or by anything that
excites the brain, the result is unfortunate.
It may increase the brilliancy for a time, tut
soon the constitution becomes affected by
the over stimulation, and tbe mind will be
consequently more dull and obtuse thn
ever.
ODD YANKEES.
BT JAMES BARTON.
A curious thing about New England is
the variety of eccentric characters to be
found there. In almost every town there is
a farmer or mechanic who has addicted
himself to some kind of knowledge very re
mote from his occupation. Hi re you find a
shoemaker, in a little shop (which he locks
when he goes to dinner or to the postoffiec,
much to the inconvenience of customers),
who has attained celebrity as a botanist. In
another village there may be a wheelwright
who would sell his best coat for a rare shell;
and not far off a farmer, who is a prttty
good geologist, and is forever pecking away
at his innocent rocks. Again you will find
a machinist who is enamored of "large pa
per copies of standard works, and rejoices
in the possession of rarities in literature
which he cannot read. I know ao excellent
steel plate engraver, who, besides being a
universal critic, is particularly convinced
that the entire railroad system of the world
is wrong—ties, rails, driviDg-wheels, axles,
oil-boxes, everything—and employs his lei
sure in inventing better devices.
Then there are people who have odd
schemes of benevolence, such as that of the
Ma.-sachusetts farmer who went to Psle.-tino
to teach the Orientals the true system of ]
agriculture, and was two years in finding '
out that they wouldn't learn it. There are ;
morose men and families who neither visit
nor are visited; and there is, occasionally, a
downright miser, of the ancient type, such
as we read of in old magazines and anecdote I
books. There are men, too, of an extreme I
eccentricity of opinion. I think there are
in Boston about a dozen as complete, im
movable, if not malignant, Tories, as can be j
found this side of Constantinople—men who !
plume themselves upon hating everything
that makes the glory of their age and eoun- 1
try. And, speaking of Boston—solid, I
sensible Boston —what other city ever ac
complished a feat so eccentric as the produc- !
tion of those twin incongruities, George I
Francis Train and tbe Count Johannes ? j
ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER. —In
the somewhat famous case of Bodgcn's will,
which was tried in the Supreme Court some
years ago, Mr. Webster appeared as coun
sel for the appellant. Mrs. Greenoueh,
wife of the Rev. William Greetwugb, late
of Weston—a tall, straight, queenly looking
woman, with a keen, black eye—a woman
of great self-possession and decision of char
acter —was called to the stand as a witness on
the opposite side. Mr. Webster, at a glance,
ha l the sagacity to foresee that her testimo
ny, if it contained anything of importance,
would have great weight with the court and
jury. He, therefore, resohed, if possible,
to break her up. And when she an-wered
to the first question put to her, "I believe,'
Mr. Webster roared out, "We don't want
to hear what you believe; we want to hear
what you know!" Mrs. Greenougli re
plied: "That's just what I was about to
say, sir," and went on with her testimony.
And, notwithstanding his repeated efforts to
disconcert her, she pursued the even tenor
of bcr wav till Webster, quite (earful of the
result, arose, apparently in great agitation,
and drawing out his large snuff box, thru.-t
his finger to the very botsom, and carrying
the deep pinch to both nostrils, drew it up
with a gusto; and then extracting from his
pocket a very large handkerchief he blew
his nose with a report that rang through the
hall, and asked: —"Mrs. Greenougli, was
Mrs. Bodgen a neat womau?" Mrs. G. —
"I cannot give you very full information as
to that, sir; she had one very dirty nick."
Mr. W. —"What was that, ma'am?' Mrs.
G.—"She took sDuff." The roar in the
court house was such that the defender of
the Constitution subsided, and neither rose
nor spoke again till Mrs. Greenough had
vacated her chair for another witness, hav
ing ample time to reflect on the inglorious
fate of the man who had a stone thrown
upon his head by a woman.
THE Cornell University paper says that a
few days ago a gentleman from Ithaca saw a
farmer's boy standing by the roadside hold
ing a horse, which he recognized. He asked
the boy who was the owner of the horse, and
the boy replied, "It belongs to a crazy
Dutchman looking for birds' nests over yoo
der in the woods." The "crazy Dutchman"
was Prof. Louis Agassiz.
ALL mankind are happier for having
been happy; so that if you make them
happy now, you make them happy twenty
years hence by the memory of it.
VOL. 42: NO. 5
HOME AFFECTION.
When we think that every house might be
cheered by intelligence, disinterestedness
and refinement, and then remember in how
many houses the higher powers and affec
tiotw of human nature are buried as in
. tombs, what a darkness gathers over society!
W ell may the cloud of darkness deepen and
enlarge, especially after so much boasting of
: eurs that we are in the van of the nations of
the workl for intelligence and refinement
and general culture. How many' homes are
really cheered and made perpetually happy
by the introduction of suitable books, of
music, or of interesting social conversation?
In how many homes might not an almost
miraculous change be wrought by the in
traduction of amusements, the presence of
which gives birth to a brood of new thoughts,
awakens a distinct class of domestic associ
ation*. stimulates the higher and warmer
sentiments, opens the social faculties to the
| performance of a good and healthy work,
and in- uubly draws all member* of a family
together, making one whole and harmo
: i.iou. ait civ, where befcra was, perhaps,
ouly discord. The influences of these little
things are far more potent and ixrmancnt
than people generally have an idea of; they
work actively, even if they are cot seen, in
the very fact of their operation. We greatly
err when we underrate these influences; for
they take hold closely and powerfully on our
lives and our happiness. A family in whose
midst no radiance springs from the workings
of affection, and the exchange of sweet and ■
high and tender sentiment, is a dweller in
regions of darkness indeed and will never
know iheir real capacity for enjoyment until :
they have come out of this valley of gloom ;
and despair. What wonder that our pub- |
lie affairs are in such a state of confusion, '
when private lives are so many of them un
satisfactory and in darkness.
A FARM PICTURE.— What a vivid .-ketch
is that which George William Curtis draws
of some country homes. Alas, that so
many sit for the picture !
"I think of many and many a sad cyed
woman I have known in solitary country
homes, who seemed never to have smiled,
who struggled with hard hands through
melting heat and pinching cold, to hold back
poverty and want that hovered like wolves
over an ever increasing flock of children.
How it was scour in the morning and scrub
"t night, and scold ail day long! How care
blurred the window like a cloud, hiding the
lovely landscape! How anxiety snarled at
her heels, dogging her like a curl How lit
tie she knew or cared that bobolinks drunk
with blind idleness, tumbled and sang in the
meadows below, that the earth was telling
the time of the year with flowers in the
wood above. As I think of these things, of
the taciturn husband coming in heavy with
sleep—too weary to read, to talk, to think—
I do not wonder thai the madhouses are so
richly recruited from the farm houses, 3s
the statistics show that the fatmers daugh
ter hangs enchanted over stories in the
weekly paper of the handsome Edward Au
gustus, with white hands and black eyes—
nor that the farmer'sson hears the city bells
that long ago rang to Whittington, 'Turn
again, WhittingtoD, lord major of .London,
ringing to him as he paused in the furrow,
'Turn again, ploughboy. millionaire and
merchant!' "
THE putting into the bands of the work
ing man imaginatire literature is even a
more important advantage (ban the cheap
eningof scientific books The tendency of
mechanical employments is to exercise the
under-tacding alone; they afford no diet for
the fancy or the feelings. They leave unfed
no small portion of the iutellecr. They do
not enlarge the world of observation or ex
perience They do cot open any one of the
doors of history or biography. The artisan,
like the student, requires the hours of leis
ure to stand in contrast with his daily em
ployment. A few will find recreation even
in severer studies, and will resort to it by a
natural instinct to consider the many who
are used to he led rather than the few who
can guide themselves. And, for the many,
narrative, sometimes historical, but more
frequently imaginative, holds oat greater
attractions than all the publications ot the
Useful Knowledge Society, or than all the
excellent manuals of more recent date of
mathematics, chemistry or natural history.
Ix the dark there is no animal so invisi
ble as a lion. Almost every hunter has told
a similar story—of the lion's approach at
night, of the terror displayed by dogs and
cattle as he drew near, and of the utter ina
bility to see him, though he was so close
that he could hear |his breathing. Some
times, when he has ciept near an encamp
ment, or close to a cattle enclosure, he doe 3
not proceed any further, lest he should ven
ture within the radius illumined by the rays
of the fire. So he crouches closely to the
grounl. and, in the semi-darkness, looks so
like a large stone or a little hillock, that any
one might passclose to it without perceiving
its real nature. This gives the opportuniry
for which the lion has been watching, and in
a moment he strikes down the catele* strag
gler, and carries off his prey to the den.
Sometimes, w hen very much excited, he ao
companies the charge with a roar, hut as a
genera! fact, he secures his prey in silence.
CHRISTIAN LIFE is not only a principle,
but a growth, and the young Christian needs
to be led along the upward path. If he be
gin? right, he is most likely, by God's grace
to keep right, if he is taacht to make a
complete t^inseeration —to follow principles,
and not impulses—he is most likely to be
steadfast and immovable. If lie i< warned
now against fashion and worldliness and
greed, he is less likely to fall into the snares
of the tempter. In a word, now at the start
is the time to commence a life which shall
grow and abound in all that is necessary for
the honor, the usefulness, and the safety of
the Christian course; and it may bo depen
ded upon that, in iuost cases, that course
will be at the end very much ask is now
begun.
Bv THE SPIRIT OF GOD men are in
structed so that it is not extravagant to say
that every thought that tends to struggle
away from the bondage of tbe flesh, every
bearPhunger, is a witness that the world
does not feed to satisfaction: that it does not
nourish tbe soul. It needs the bread that
comes from tbe hand of God to do that.
Every single yearning of the heart ia in an
swer to some silent influence of God.
SOME descendant of SOLOMON has wisely
remarked that those who go (p law For dama
ges are sure to get them '
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THE DEACON SOLD.— As Deacon A ,
on an extremely cold morning in old timet,
was riding by the house of his neighbor B.
the litter was chopping wood, The usual
salutations were exchanged, the severity of
the weather briefly discussed, and the horse
man made demonstrations of passing on,
when his neighbor detained hini wth—
'"Don't be in a hurry, deacon. Wouldn't
you like a glass of good old Jamaica this
morning?"
' Thank you, kindly said the old gentle
j man, at the same time beginning to dis
mount with all the deliberation becoming a
deacon, '"I don't care if I do."
"Ah don't trouble yourself to get off,
deacon." said the neighbor, "I merely ask
ed for information. We haven't a drop in
the house."
A FEW days ago the inhabitants of a
country town were filled with conjectures at
the following sign, painted in large- capitals
on the front of a house recently fitted up
and repaired: "Mrs. Brown, Dealer in all
Sorts of Ladies." All was consternation.
Inquiry was set on foot as to whom this
M rs. Brown might be, but no one could tell.
She was a stranger in the town. On the third
morniug the mystery was unraveled. The
house painter leiurned to fiuish his work,
and concluded by adding; "and Gentle
man's Wearing Apparel."
A WRITER in the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal, in speaking of the adult
eration of various articles of food, speaks of
a reputable diacon who kept a grocery store
and who discoursed daily to his apprentice,
somewhat after the following fashion:
"John, have you sanded the sugar? "
Yea, sir."
"Have you watered the rum and molae
ses?"
"Yes, sir.'
"Then come to prayer!"
A YOUNG Cincinnati dentist was intro
duced to a fashionable beauty the other
evtniug, and gracefully opened the conver
sation ly saying, "Mis. , I hope I
may consider that we are not entirely unac
quainted. I had the pleasure of pulling &
tooih for your faiher onlya short time
ago."
A COUNTRY schoolmaster began one morn
ing the duties of the day with prayer, as
usual: but alter prayer he went up and ask
ed a little bey why he had not shut his eyes
during prayer, when the boy sharply res
ponded :
"We are instructed by the Bible to watch
as well as pray."
AT Malvern Hill, when the shot and
shell were singing lively tones around
our cars, a Minnie ball chanced to bit an
Irishman, inflicting a slight wound in the
arm. Pat roared out lustily: "I in kilt!
I'm kilt!"
"Hould your whist," said a brother
Mick, "don't say yer kilt till yr dead."
PAST EXPERIENCE.— We cannot see by
the light of yesteiday, nor subsist upon
yesterday's food. We need supplies every
moment. So long as we feel our weakness,
and 1 ean upon an almighty arm, we are safe,
but no longer.
TUERE are those who know not how to
judge of merit but by success, and who
therefore blame the leader of an enterprise
for a defeat, when the fault was not in him,
but in themselves, the instruments he
worked with.
"BOY, didn't you let off that gun ?" ex
claimed an enraged schoolmaster.
"Yes, master."
"Well, what do you think I will do to
you ?"
"Why, let me off,"
WHEN Rothschild heard that the head of
the Agnade family was dead, "How much
does ho leave 1" he asked. "Twenty mil
lions." "You mean eighty." "No twenty."
"De >r me ! I thought he was in easy circum
stances."
A WHITE garment appears worse with
slight sailing than do co'ored garments
much suihd: so a litt'e fault in a good man
attracts more attention than great offences
in bad men.
FAITH is as necessary to the soul as the
sun is to the world; were it not for these
bright, prolific lights, both the one and the
other mut remain dark and fruitless.—
Charles Howe.
GOD requires that we should work out
our own salvation. He saves as by showing "
us how to save ourselves. It is true salva
tion depends on his grace, but his grace is
proportioned to our efforts.
Two rival bells met at a hop. "How
well you look under caudle-light !" exclaim
ed one, with a strits on, the caudles. "And
IKJW charming you are in the dark!" an
swered the other.
BEFORE an affliction is digested a conso
lation ever comes too soon, and. after it ia
digc.-tcd, it comes too late; but there is a
tuark between these two, as fine almost as a
bair, for a Comforter to take aim at.
No TORCH, no appareltDg, no glory of
art, ever so made the house beauteous, or
so made the household happy, as the simple
presence, morning and evening, of the blea
sed King of Glory.
IT is 1-etter to huve strength of principle
than ol mere muscle, hut better yet to have
both, A man h >is strong in intellect and
instep is on the best terms with nature and
the world.
AT Plicot, in Hamp-bire, England, a
tomtit has built a nest iu the post office letter
box. It laid twelve egas in le-s than a fort
night. and hatched nine of them.
THAT domestic discipline of children may
not end in disapiointment, three things are
needed firmness of put pose, gentleness of
manner, and consistency of example.
JOHN MILTON well said: "Wherefore did
God create passions within us, pleasures
I around us, but that these, rightly tempered
are the very ingredients of virtue ?"
GBEVT men often do small arts, and with
no excuse for them. Small men, per contra,
do great acts, and are never excused for
them _
NOTHING can occur beyond the strength
of taith to sustaio, or trausoendicg the re
source* of religion to reinwe.