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"ITOCK MB TO SLEEP."
Backward, turn backward, 0 Time! in joar
flight
Make me a child again—just tor to night!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
Ki from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the lew silver threads out ot my hair:
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep—
Rock me to sleep. Mother —rock me to sleep!
Backward, flow backward, O swift tide of
years !
I am weary of toil, 1 am weary of lears:
Toil without recompense, tears nil in vain.
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
I have grown weary of dust aud decay,
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away,
Weary of towing for others to reap:
Hock me to sleep, Mother —rock me to sleep!
Tired of the hollow, the base, tbe untrue:
Mother, O Mother ! my heart calls for you !
Matty a summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and laded, our faces between;
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long 1 tonight for your presence again
Come from the silence so long and so deep—
Rock me to sleep. Mother—-rock me to sleep!
Over my heart in tbe days that are flown,
No luve like mother's 'oat ver has ah wn;
No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours;
None like a mother can charm away pain
From the sorrowing soul and the wc rid weary
brain
slumber's soft calm r>'< r my heavy lids creep,
1 Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep!
Cotne, let your brown bair, just lighted with
gold,
Fall on your shoulder* again as of old:
Let it fall over my forehead to-night,
Shielding my eyes trout the flickering light,
For oh ! with its sunny edged shadows once
more,
Hapiy will throng the sweet visions of yore;
Lovingly, softly its bright billows sweep-
Rock me to sleep. Mother —rock jte to sleej !
Mother, dear Mother, the years have been
long
Since last I was bushed by your lullaby song;
Since, then, again— to my soul it shall seem
Womanhood s years have been only a dream;
Clasp to your anus in loving embrace,
With your solt, lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep;
Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep.
PTETTUAIUOUIS.
SUNSHINE I'OK THE CONSUMP
TIVE.
We have been told by some consumptives
that one of the best prescriptions we have
made has been their removal fiom a noith
room to the sunny south chamber. As we
write, two case* come to mind, strikingly il
lustrative of the sun's benign influence. We
had been attending, at an orphan asylum, a
cirl about f wt-lve years old, who bad been long
ill of severe typhoid fever. She was wholly
prostrated in mind and body, and emaciated
to tl e last degree. It was plain that she
was fa'ling into that depressed condition of
all the powers of life, that so often precedes
consumption. Day after day we vi-i:-d
her. but all recuperative power seemed lost.
Half dead and alive, the little creature
neither spoke nor moved, and ate only on
compulsion. One day on eitr Way to vi.-it
her, we felt, that elastic • thrill which the
watmraysof the sun imparts in the early
cool weather of spring. We iuvoluutarilly
leaped along, and were instantly struck with
the fact that "virtue had gone out of us"
when we left behind us the sun light and
warmth of the street and entered that
northern chamber, the dormitory ofthe poor
orphan. Tbe inspiring influence the inva
lid had never experienced iu tbe slightest
degree during the whole of her sickness, as,
owing to its peculiar situation, not a ray of
direct sunlight had ever entered the cham
ber. We were shocktd, ami for the fir.-t
time considered the depth of her loss, and
our own remissness in regard to her. The
air of the room had been pure, the ceilings
of the infirmary were lofty, the attendants
had bean faithful and sagacious. No hing
seemed lacking, in fact, to restore health.
Yet it did not come. Oa tfie contrary,
there seemed a constant downward tenden
cy. "A sunbath in the warm rays of this
delicious spring day is what the girl needs,"
we instantly sa'd to the -i.-?er superior. This
lady cladiy consented to the change, and
placed the little patient in another toom
having a southern aspect, and consequently
filled with sunlight. The iuvalid immedi
ately recognized the change, and asked, in
her weak way, to have the curtain raised,
so as to let in the full blaze of the light.
Soon she wanted to sit up, and directed that
the easy chair, in whieh she was propped,
should be placed so as to allow her whole
body below her faceto be exposed to the direct
rays of the sun. It was the natural tendeu
cy of disease seeking for all life renovating
influences. And we have never met with so
marked or so rapid improvement as imme
diately began in the body and mind of the
girl. Appetite and strength increased daily,
and with them bur-t forth again all the joy
ousness ofthe cnild's heart.
Another analogous case, which, although
we do not demonstrate by it the influence of
the sun alone, we cannot forbear to mme
because by such examples we impress per
haps on the minds of our readers the real
principles niiderljitig the whole question.
A lady, aged about thirty resident in the
nonhi-ru part of New England, consulted
us for undoubted tubereular disease ol the
lungs. Her house was wvil situated, and
on the side toward the south was a small
piazza resting on stone steps, which was
rai-*d two or three feet above the ground.
The winter was approaching and rules were
to be given. Having full faith in the di
vine influences of pure air and sunlight, we
directed that she should sit out on this piaz
za every day during the winter, unless it
were too storuiy. It was so arranged as to
shut out the cool air on three sides, and to
admit the full blaze of sunlight in front.
Here, according to our directions, sbe used
to sit, wrappid in furs, reading or writing,
lor several hours each day duting the follow
iug win'er, and with the most excel cut re
sults. She was directed frequently to uiske
deep inspirations, in order to fib the lungs
with pure air She was never chilled, tie
cause the sun's rats and her witai clothing
prevented it, she never '"took cold there-
On the contrary, the balmy influences ex< r
ted upon ber by her daily sun and air hath
were so grateful; her breathing became so
BEDFORD, FA.. FBID IV, FEB. 12- 1869.
much easier after each of tboui. that when
ever a storm came, and prevented the resort
to the piazza, the invalid suffered in conse
quence thereof. Whether these remarks
will prove lo our readers that want ot sun
lie ht tnay he reckoned among the causes of
consumption, may well be doubted, but we
t.Ust they will conriuce some skeptic that
sunlight has a potent influence in raising the
human body from various weaknesses that
sometimes are the precursors of fatal phthis
ic.—Atlantic Monthly.
THE ELEVATION OF LABOR.
The Republican party has, from its very
ineepiion, endeavored a**iduo>t-ly to make
lafor honorable. The Democratic party,
on the other hand, has been led generally
by southern slaveholders, who have svste
uiaticallv sought to degrade toil. At the
very time when the baser demagogues of
that party at the north were deluding many
of the operatives of this section by appeals
to cla-s aud race prejudices, the southern
leaders of the same faction were terming
our laborers "'(be mudsills of society."
Here, in Independence Square. Howell
Cobb, addressing an immense Democratic
ratification meeting, btfuie the war, said to
his hcareis that the difference between the
north and the south was simply this:
'"You hire your labor; we own it.''
That era has pa-sed away. Thi- landed
oligarchy no longer owns its labor. The
slave is emancipated, fie IB not driven to
the eotion field in chain gangs. His wife
and children are not told at the auction
block, lie is not beaten into desperation
and ihen hunted to death with blood
hounds. Ha has shoes to liis feet, a hat on
his head. His wife and children are gath
ered around his owu hearth. lie is paid
for his work. He is actually nut forbidden
to learn to read! Men and women are not
impri-oned for teaching him. Hi-evidence
isrecavtd iu courts olju>ti,e. He stands
feline the law possessed of equal rights with
his oppres-or. His children go to tehooi.
The chattel lias become a citiztn. The
wings of the national eag'e cover and pro
tect him. His freedom, his citizen-hip and
his civil rights are alike guaranteed by the
Constitution, and now he ha> a vote to ena
ble him to protect hiiustlt!
So much the Republican party ha.- done
fir the moat oppressed atid degraded of our
American laborers. So much it was bound
to do by its principles. Rut has not the
free white opeiative of the north been cared
for? The Republican party found him
poorly paid and often idle, because the pro
duction of his industry were subject to a ru
inous competition fiom the immense masses
of foreign goods poured into the country by
the pauper labor of Europe. To keep up
wiih such an opposition wc inu-t cither vig
orcusly protect our own manufactures or we
must reduce the wages ot industry to a mere
seng. The Democratic party, true to its
southern instincts, supported the British
free trade system, because the slavt holding
leaders were ccu.-t"imd to pay nothing lor
their laf or, and therefore regarded 'be- re
duction of the wace.- ot northern operatives
as a matter of no con.-equs-nce in its effects
upon the laborers themselves.
The Republicans, firmly adhering to their
principle of making woik honorable, prefer
red protection, because under that sy-tem,
wlii'e tie American manufacturers could
successfully kiepthe field, their workmen
would be well j aid, constantly employed,
and able to live like civilized human being*.
Tht whole record ofthe two parties is of a
pi-ee with this. The Democrat* gave the
people the most villainous paper currency
ever itflictid upon a nation, and this was an
incessant means of loss to the laboring class
es who were obliged to use it. The Repub
iieans have given tl em a sound, well secur
ed national currency, with which there is no
possibility of 10.-s to the people. The Dem
ocratic 'and policy fostered land monopoly
and the building up of great latid'-d estates.
The Republican policy has offered a home
stead on the public land* to all actual set
tlers. and so elevat d the condition of the
American poorer cla-scs. Let the people
judge of the two parties by these thirgs.
GENII'S.
Alexander Hamilton said to an intin cite
friend: "Men give uic some credit for
genius. All tbe genius I have lies just in
thi* : When I have a subject iu band I
study it profoundly. Day and night it # is
before me. I explore in it all its bearings.
My mind become- pervaded with it. Then
the effort whvh I make, the people are
pleased to call the fruit geniu-. It is the
fruit of labor and ihought."
Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman
who pressed him to speak on a subject of
great importance. "The subject interests
me deeply but I have not time. There,
sir, pointing to a huge pile of letters on the
table, "is a pile of unanswered letters to
which T mn-t reply before the close of tbe
s ssioo (which was three days off.) I have
no tituo to master the subject so as to do it
justice."
"But Mr. Webster, a few words from
you would do much to awaktn public at
teution to it."
"If there is so much weight iu my words
as you represent, it is because I do not
allow myself to speak en any subject until
my mind becomes imbued with it."
Demosthenes was once urged to speak
on a sudden and great emergency. "I atn
not prepared," .-aid he, and obstinatily re
fused.
The law of labor is rqvally binding on
genius and mediocrity.
WHAT TO READ —Are you dt Beirut in
'asm? Read tbe be.-t Eoeli.-h poet-, such
as Gray and Goldsmith, Pofie and Thuuip
son, Cowper aud Coleridge, fSe u tt and
W otdsworth.
Are ynu deficient in imagination? Read
Milton and Akenside, ami Burke and
Shakespeare.
Are you deficient in power of reason ?
Read Chiilio?worth, and Bacon, and Locke.
Are you deficient in judgment and g,.od
sense in the common affairs of life ? Read
Franklin.
Are yon deficient in sensibility? ll.ad
Gcmlie and Maktnzie.
Are you deficit n> in political knowledge?
Read Montesquieu, the '"Federalist,"
Webster and (J'h un.
Are you deficit nt in patriotism? Read
Denuthrnes. ami the '"Life of Washing
ton."
Are you deficient in conscience ? Read
some of Prcsidt nt Edwards' works.
Are you deficient in piety? Read the
Bib e.
HORACE GREELEY AT WORK.
A writer in Packard's Monthly gives the
fo!!ow;ng PEP and ink potrait of the most
distinguished editor in the world, as Sen
in his private room, prepariog articles for
the press ;
-Mr. Greelev's Lack is towards us. He is
seated at his de-k. His head is bent over
his writing, and Lis round shoulders are
quite prominent. He is scribbling rapidly.
A quire ot foolscap, occupying the only
clear place on his desk, is melting beneath
his pen. A glance at the manuscript re
veals two dozen knotty figures. You may
be sure of a leader on the national debt to
morrow morning. The desk itself is a heap
of cool u.-iou. Here is Mr. Greeley's straw
hatj there is his handkerchief. Iu front of
him is a peck of newspaper clippings, not
neatly rolled up but loosely sprawled over
ihe desk. At his left a rickety pair of
scissors catches a hurried Dtp, and at his
right a pa.-te pot aud half a broken box of
wafers, appear to liave had a rough and
ttin- .ic fight An odd looking paper holder
isjust ready to tumble on the floor. An
old-fashioned sandbox, looking like a
dilapidated hour glass, is baif hidden un
der a slashed copy of the New York World.
Mr. Greeley still slicks to wafers and sand
instead of using mucilage and blotting paper.
A small drawer, filled with postage stamp
aud bright steel pens, has crawled out on
tbe desk. Packages of folded missives ar<-
tucktd in pigeon holes, winking at us from
the back of the desk, and scores of halt
opened letter* mixed with seedy brown en
velopss, flop lazily about the table. Old
papers lie gashed and mangled about his
chair, the debris of a literary battle field.
A clean towel hangs on a rack to his righr.
A bound copy of the Tribune Almanac.
from 1838 to 1858, swings from a small
chain fastened to a steeple screwed in tip
si Je of his desk, two other bound volumes
stand on their feet in front of his nose, ami
two more of the same kind are fast asleep on
the book-raek in the corner. Stray numbers
of the Almanac peep from every nook. * *
The room ia kept scrupulously neat and
clean. A waste paper basket squats between
Mr. Greeley's legs, but one-half the torn
envelopes and boshy communications flutter
to the floor, instead of being tossed into the
basket. * *
Pen, ink, paper, scissors, and envelopes are
in unfailing demand. The cry, "Mr. Gree
ley wants writing paper!" creates a com
motion in the counting room, and Mr. Gree
ley gets paper quicker than a hungry fisher
man could skin an eel.
Mr. Greeley can lay Virginia worm fence
in ink faster than any other editor in New
York city. He thinks a great deal on it,
but during an experience of three years has
failed to learn the simple principle of suc
tion without getting his mouth full of ink,
and he generally uses it as an empty re
ceiver. He makes a dash at the ink bottle
every twenty seconds, places the third fin
ger of his left hand on the paper, and
scratches away at his worm fence like one
possessed. He writes marvellously fast.
Frequently tho point of hi* pen pricks
through his sheet, for he writes a heavy
hand, and a snap follow*, spreading ink}
spots over the paper, resembling a wood
cut portraying the sparks from a black
smith's hammer. Blots like mashed spiders
or cru.-hcd huckleberries occasionally in
terven?, but the old vete'an dashes them
with sand, leaving a swearing compositor to
scratch off the soil and dig out the word.-
uuderbeath.
CONCERNING LONGFELLOW,
The family of the poet consists of two
sons, who have arrived at manhood, ami
three bright, uierry charming little daugh
ters. The reader has not forgotten theter -
rible accident by which, some years ago, Mr.
Longfellow lost a beautiful and universally
belovtd wife— a lady of family, of wo.-t
graceful culture, and a kindness of bean
which will long be remembered by tbe neigh
burhood in which she was the most shining,
though most modest ornament. Since that
fright iul ereut, the husband has been a
changed rnau.
Those who remember him in his hap
py married li'e—who recollect the genial
exuberance of his spirits, the cbeerfulne*.-
ot his disposition, tbe warmth of his wel
come, the bright wit which flowed constant
ly, the buoyancy ola soul upon which shone
the sun.-hine of life, and athwart which a
cloud never seemed to pass—note with grief
the expression of settled melancholy, the
love of solitude, and the quickly grown
white focks which one sees to day.
Still Longfellow is not so far changed but
that the kindness of heart, the old waiuitb
of ltit-nd.-hip, tbe old love of tbe bright
a tid beautiful things of the world, and of
letters, still exist. At times, and not sel
dom, that noble and now venerable face
lights up with genial cheerfulness, the
sparkling brilliancy of speech comes out,
and it is evident that sorrow has caused no
decline of intellectual vigor, no bitterness of
temper, no diminution in tbe old love of
mankind.
Let us, without impertinence, take a few
notes of the poet's personal appearance, as
he passes us of a morning on the way to the
"Square." A man above the middleheight,
and although stout, solid and well propor
tioned; head now a little bent, a uoble, poet
ic bead, with long waving hair, nearly
white, reaching a'most to the shoulder-;
fur-head high and -quare, the. hair brushed
I well lack; blue, biibiant, genial eyes —true
eyes of a poet, which observe everything; a
1 long no.-e, a long n oust*', he, which creeps
j down and joins a f wing beard that rests
upon Ins breast; ih,.- hair and biard not too
sprucely arranged, carelessly aud naturally
disposed; the whole countenance strikingly
handsome, ac'ive, wide-awake beaming with
unusual intelligence; of late patriarchal, the
lace of a poet philosopher, a fine and hith
erto impossible study lor the attist, for no
artist has yet fixed a just portrait of Jaong
lellow.
His face needs the touch of an old Master; ;
Titian would have done it worthily. The
broad forehead is wiinkled raiher wi'h sor
row than great age, for the poet is not yet
beyond the prime of life; he is much young
er than he looks to be. But he is a very dif
ferent, and it a more patriarchal, certainly
a far nobler face than that which one sees
in frontispieces, representing him in eaily
manhood. The dress is neat and plain;
tasteful far from ostentations, by no means
car less, or of the silly romantic Byronic or
dr. It is of that character which is not
noticeable in Bnv way; the highest art, as
we conceive of dressing.
IE YOU CAN EARN A LIVING, STAY
AT HOME.
W e are often addressed by young men aud
persons of family for information in regard
to this, fliat and the other place, with a
view of emigrating from their old homes to
some new place. The most of these letter*
a'E from the South, and their inquiries are
in re.-pect to the West and the Territorie*.
In auswertoall ot these inquiries, we would
say honestly and from experience, in the
words with which we head this article, "If
you can tarn a living, stay at home !' ' And
who cannot do best where he is best known
but a rascal ? It is a delusion to suppose
that ooe can do better somewhere else than
at home, v. here be was raised, or has long
I VED—A delusion which experience fully es
tablishes iu 99 cases iu every hundred,
L'oung men with small MEANS can do no
more in tbe west than in the Fast, North
and South, and as is too often tho case,
much worse. It lakes more money to make
H living in the West, as agt Ur al thing, than
elsewhere; more money aud greater labor,
lor prices of labor are NO greater; wages are
really lower, than elsewhere, If the emi
grant is a farmer, he finds land but little
cheaper, and the cost of ESTABLISHING him
self, and of getting his products to market,
much greater thau in more populous neigh
borhoods. As in the past fortunes are
oot acquired in the West honorably at this
age. Tbe labor in the mines is the hardest
in the world and the return not as great as
that earned by any good citizen in any of
-he cities. To tuakc money easy in the far
West needs a large cash capital, or a stock
of mean whi.-ky ! Few are doing ao well in
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and
Nevada, or cast of these territories -iu lowa
Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota — as those
who follow up the .line of construction on <
the U. P. R. R., and sell rot gut whisky to
the hands employed. What young man,
who reads this, would give up his ftieuis
and home iu the South or East to make
money by such means ? We know ot what
we speak, when we say that all that has
been said of tbe flashy towns cf the West
and the wotidrous inducements held out to
emigrants, are delusions. There is nothing
but deception iu store for all who rely upon
the colorings put upon the West by those
whose interest it is to delude people into
emigrating westward. We say to all, if
you can cam a living at home, stoy there.
If you can make a living where you are, it
is perhaps more than you will make in the
West. Stay at borne— do the best you can
— act honorably — be discreet and judicious,
and you will be happier and wealthier in
time than if you are led about by populai
deceptions. — Watchman.
A .MODEL PATRIARCH.
How completely the pastoral life of the
Ea-t now reproduces the pictures so vividly
drawn for us iu the Scriptures, has been
many times remarked, but it is long since j
we have seen so eloquent and striking a de !
scription of a scene which fulfills these con
ditions as in the following picture of a mod
el patriarch among the Algerines, from Mr.
Henry Blackburn's "Artistsand Arabs:"
"Around the camp this evening there are
groups of meu and women standing, that
bring forcibly to mind those prints of the
early patriarchs from which wc are apt to
take our first, and perhaps, most vivid im
pression- of eastern life; and we cannot won
der at French artists attempting to illus
irate Scriptural scenes from incidents in
Algeria. There are Jacob and Joseph, as
one might imagine theut, to tbe life; Ruth
in the field*, and Rachel by the well : and
'here is a patriarch coming down theuioun
lain, with a light about his head as the sun's
last rays burst upon him, that Herbert
might well have seen vrhen he was painting
Moses with the tables of the law. The ef
fect ia accidental, but is perfect in an artis
tic sen-e, from the solemnity of the man,
the attitude of his crowd of followers, the
grand mountain forms which are partially
it. up by gleans of sunset, and the sharp
-hadows cast by the throng. This man may
have been a warrior chief, or the herd of a
tribe; he certainly was the head of a large
family, who pressed round him to anticipate
his wants and do him honor. Ilis children
s<-emed to be everywhere about him; they
were his furniture, they warmed his tent
aud kept out the wind; they begged for him,
prayed for bim, and generally helped him
ou his way. Looked upon as a colored
statue, be was in some respect a perfect
type of beauty, strength, and dignified re
pose —what we might fitly call a 'study,' as
he sat waiting, whilst the woman prepared
his evening meal: but whether from a mot a!
point of view he quiet deserved alt the res
pect and deference that was paid to him,
is another que>tion. As a picture, as we
-aid before, be was magnificent, and there
was a regal air with which we, clad in the
custom of advanced civilization, coul Dot but
admire and envy. He had the advantage
of us in every way, and made us feel it ac
cutely. He had a splendid arm, and we
could see it; the finer contour and color of
his head and neck were surrounded by white
folds, but not concealed."
GOETIIE tells the following story, which
amusingly illustrates the capacity of the
Rliinelandrrsfor drink: —"The Bishop of
Mayenee once delivered a sermon against
drunkenuess, and after painting in the
strongest colors the evils of over indulgence,
concluded as follows: But the abuse of
wine does not exclude its use, for it is writ
ten that wino rejoices the heart of man.
Probably there is not one in my congre
gation who cannot driuk four bottles of wtne
without feeling any disturbance of his senses;
but if any n an at the seventh or eigh h Un
tie so forgets him.-elf'as to abu-e and str ke
his wife and children and treat his best
friends as enemies, let bim look into bis
conscience, and in future always stop at the
sixth bottle. Yet if after drinking eight,
or even ten or twelve Dottles, be can still
take his Christian neighbor lovingly by tbe
hand and obey the orders of his spiritual
and temporal superiors, let him thankfully
drink his modest draught. He mu-t be
carefu", however, as to taking any more, for
it is seldom that Providence gives any oue
the special grace to drink sixben bottles at
a sitting as it has enabled me, its unworthy
aervant, to do without either neglecting my
duties or losing my temper.
THE instinctive and universal taste of
mankind selects flowers tor the expression
of its finest sympathies, their beauty and
fleetingness serving to make them the most
fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments
fjr which language itself seems almost too
gross a medium.
VOL. 42: NO. (i.
ELECTRICITY.
Perhaps one of the most novel applica
tions of electricity has betn made by Robert
Houndin, who lives in the villiage of Saint
Gervais, a short distance from the city of
Blois, in France. A visitor presenting him
self before the door sfes a gilt plate bearing
the name of RobeVt Houdin, be'ow which
is a small giit knocker. He raises this, and
no matter how feeble the blow, a delicately
turned chime of bells, sounding through the
mansion announces his presence. Whn
the attendant touches a button placed ID
the hall the chime ceases, the bolt at the
entrance is thrown back, the name of Rob
ert lloudin disappears from the door, and
in its place appears the word "entrcz" in
white enamel. The vi-itor pushes open the
door and enters: it closes with a spring be
hind him, and he cannot depart without per
mission. By a certain Dumber of chimes
which are founded the number of visitors is
announced. When a carriage arrives at the
gate, the movement of the gate is announc
at the house. The letter box, too, has an
electric communication with the house. The
carrier, previously instructed, drops in first
all the printed matter together; then he
adds the letters, one by oDe. Each addition
sounds the chime. And when he is desired
to take away letters lor mailing, another
chime, of a special nature, warns him that
they are ready. An electric current regu
lates the time throughout the house, Mr.
Iloudin's study clock being the standard.
Every morning this cloek sends, at different
hours, electric impulses to awaken three
persons. But in addition, the apparatus
forces them to rise, by continuing to sound
until the circuit is broken by moving a small
key placed at the further end of the room.
To do this the sleeper must rise, and theo
the object sought is accomplished. The
temperature of the green house is also ro
corded by electricity, so that the gardner
cannot neglect his duties without his master
knowing all about it; and he evidently re
gards Uuudin as a sorcerer.
A YOUNG MAN'S CHARACTER.
No young man who has a just sense of his
own value will spoit with his character. A
watchful regard to bis character in early
youth will be inconceivable to him in all the
remaining years of his after life. When
tempted to deviate from strict propriety of
deportment, he should ask himself, Can I
afford this V Can I endure hereafter to
look back upon this ?
It is of amazing worth to a young man to
have a pure mind; for this is the foundation
of a pure character. —The mind, in order to
be kept pure, must be employed in topics of
thought which are themselves lovely,
chastened, and elevating. That the mind
has in its own power the selection of its
theme of meditation. If youth knew how
frightful were the moral deprivations which
a cherished habit of loose imagination pro
duces on the soul—they would shun th in
as the bite ot a serpent. The power of
books to excite the imagination is a fearful
eb'mcnt ot moral death when employed iu
the service of vice.
Tbe cultivation of au amiable, elevated
and glowing heart, aliva to all the beauties
of nature and all the sublimities of truth,
invigorates the intellect, gives to the will in
dependence of baser passions, and to the
affections the power of adhesion to
whatever is pure, good and grand, which is
adapted to lead out the whole nature of a
man into those scenes of action and impres
sion by which its energies may be most ap
propriately employed, and by which its high
destination may be most effectually reached.
The opportunities for exciting these facul
ties in benevolent and self denjing efforts
for the Welfare of our fellow men are so
many and great, that it is really worth while
to live. Tbe heart which is truly evan
gelically benevohnt may lusuirate in an age
like this, The promises of God ere inex
pressibly good, the main tendencies of things
so manifestly in accordance with them, the
extent of moral influence is so great, aod
the effects of its employment so visible, that
whoever aspires after benevolent action and
reaches for things that remain for us, to the
true dignity of its nature, can find free
scope for his intellect, and all inspiring
themes for the heart.
A STORY is told of an old hunter in Mich
igan. who, when the country was new, got
lost in the woods several times. He wa
told to buy a pocket compass, which he did,
and a friend explained to him its use. He
soon got lost and lay out as usual. When
lound, he was asked why be did not travel
by the compass. He stated that he did not
dare to. He wished to go north, and he
"tried hard to make the thing point noitb,
but 'twant no use; 'twould diddle, diddle,
diddle right around, and point southeast
every time!"
THERE is food for thought in the story
that is told of a young lad, who for the first
time accompanied hi* father to a public din
ner. The waiter a.-ked hftu, "What will
you take to drink ?" Hesitat ng for a mo
ment, he replied, "I'll take what father
takes," The answer reached his father's
far, and instantly the full responsibility of
his position flashed upon him. In amo
ment bis decision was made; and in tones
tremulous with emotion, and to the aston
ishment of those who knew hitu, he said,
"Waiter, I'll take water."
To speak ill upon know'edge, shows a
want of charity. To speak ill upuu suspi
cion, shows a want of hnne>ry. To know
evil of others, and not speak it, is some
times di.-cretiun. To speak evil of others,
aud not know it, is always dishonest}'. He
may be evil himsell who speaks good of oth
ers upon knowledge; hut he can never be
good himself who speaks evil of others uj on
suspicion.— Warwick.
DI KING the late war, after a long march,
a captain ordered, afe a sanitary precaution,
i hat the men should change their under
shirts. The O. S. suggested that half o! the
men only had one shirt each. The captain
hesitated for a moment, and then said :
"Military orders must be obeyed. Let the
men change with each other.
WHAT is the difference between a special
constable and a-u; c-rannuated constable?
; Tbe former's sworn in, and the latter'stoorn
I out.
I FIGHT hard against a hasty temper. An
ger will couie. but resist it strongly. A
spark may set a honse on fire. A fit of pas
sion may give you eause to mourn all your
life. Never reveDge au injury
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ITERS.
IT is a singular fact that no President of
the United States, up to the present time,
has had a child born in the White House.
A little daughter of Mr. John W. Browo,
of Vincentown, N T . J., was attacked by a
gamecock, recently, and picked so severely
tbat lockjaw set in and resulted in her death.
HOPS are down to 10 cents a pound in
interior Wisconsin, and dull at tbat. Last
year's crop was enough tor two years, and
next year the Wisconsin farmers propose to
raise something else.
WORSTED, it is said, was first spun at a
village of that name near Norwich, England;
cambrics came from Cauibray; damasks
from Damascus; dimity from Damietta;
cordovan from Cordova; calico from Cali
cut; and muslin from Mosul.
PHILADELPHIA congratulates herself up
on retaining the lead in the petroleum trade.
From January 1, to November 1, 186$, she
exported 33 665,224 gallons, an increase of
more than 8,000,000 over the corresponding
six months of 1867.
THE rice crop of Plaquetnine Parish, La.,
is said to be this year the largest and best
ever made. The rice planters will ship to
market over 25.000 barrels, 230 pounds each
of clean rice. The sugar crop of that parish
is expected to amount to 10,000 or 12,000
hogsheads.
THE number of miles of line worked by
telegraph in the United States, in IS4B, was
estimated to be about 12,000. In 185S the
number had increased to nearly 40,000, and
before the close of this year there will be
completed and in operation about 120,000
miles of telegraph wire.
THE bee raisers iu the vicinity of Louis
ville, for a circuit of twenty-five miles, were
recently startled by the discovery that their
bees had all simultaneously decamped, going
no one knew wbitber. The mystery is still
unsolved. The deserted hives were all full
of honey, containing from sixty to seventy
live pounds each.
YALE COLLEGE.—YaIe college has seven
hundred and twenty-four students. This
is the largest number the College ever had.
The acauemical and scientific departments
are larger than ever before, and the Fresh
man classes respectively about oDC-tbird
larger than last year. The College was nev
er in a more flourishing condition.
As an instance of the endurance of paint,
a New Hampshire paper says: ''The rates
of toll over Newcastle bridge have for forty
seven years stood on a board at the toll
house in Portsmouth, and the board is in a
good state of preservation, despite the ex
(Kisure of nearly half a century. The letters
are black upon a white ground, and every
one is as distinctly read as when new."
Six of a herd of 18 cattle, belonging to a
Mr. Dusenberry, of Warwick, Orange coun
ty, N. Y., died in two days from a mysteri
ous disease, and all tne others were seriously
affected. The herd had been turned into a
cornfield on the day before the appearance
of the disease, and are supposed to bare
been poisoned by the "smut" on the stalks,
of which there was a great quantity.
A RECENT medical writer states that the
vices of the American character may be
briefly summed up as follows: 1. An inordi
nate passion for riches. 2. Overwork of
mind and body in the pursuits of business.
3. Undue hurry and excitement in all the
affairs of life. 4. Intemperance in eating,
drinking and smoking. 5. A general dis
regard of the true laws of life and health.
AMONG the recent English patents we no
tice one upon an invention which consists ia
saturating jute, hemp, or other fibre woven
iuto canvas, cloth, or in its manufactured
state, with gutta perclia in a soft or liquid
state, and pressing layers of such saturated
fibre or canvas cloth together while warm,
-o as to form a tough fabric of any required
thickness, which may be used for the soles
and heels of boots aud shoes, and for other
purposes.
AMONG the passengers iu a street ear was
a little gentleman who had possibly seen
five summers. Tbe car being quite full, he
sat in the lap of another passenger. While
on the way, something was said about pick
pockets, and soon the conversation became
general on that interesting subject. The
gentleman who was then holding our young
friend remarked : ''My fine fellow, how easy
I could pick your pocket." "No, you
couldu't," replied he, "I've been looking
out for you all the time."
MB. WIGNER, au analytical chemist in
England, had been studying Leviticus, and
concluded that the "ashes of an heifer"—
i. e., animal charcoal—and blood poured
out upon the ground—i. blood and clay
all mixed together, would make an excellent
purifier. He tried his mixture in thirtysix
thousand gallons of sewage and put ified it
in twenty minutes; the residuum was found
to be worth twice tbe cost of the experi
ment. It has always been a mystery how
the sacrificial court of the temple was kept
pure, and Mr. Wigner's experiment may
explain the method.
A very remarkable feature in the topo
graphy of the country presents itself in
Wise county, Virginia. At or near the
Found Gap, on the Kentucky side, is a
mountain about four miles in circumference
at its base; in ibis mountain head four riv
ers, flowing in different directions, nearly
corresponding with the four cardinal points
of the compass. The four springs can be
-een at one view from the top of this moun
tain, and they are nearly equi-distant from
•■ach other, say a mile apart. These Trvers
are; the Guest river, flowing south into the
Clinch; the Lick, fork of the Kentucky,
running west; the Cumberland river south,
and the Pond river north into the gandy.
They flow through four States, and are all
tributary to the Ohio river.
A Washington letter says. "Among the
valuable patents which have recently expired
and which the Government has refused to
renew, is that of Col. Hoc, whose huge
printing presses may now be manufactured
by anybody with capital enough. Hoe is a
sprightly, ingenious man, already a mill
ionaire. full of fame, undiscouraged, and he
has conceived several new machines, presses
among them. There will probably be no
competition with him in the Hoe press—in
this country, at any rate; for the Bullock
Dress, whose processes are mora simple and
more tborongh, is already the favorite, fh.s
lat'er, as you are aware, prints en both
sides of an endless roil, at the rate of sixty
tfuoe double uuprctwoba a minute.