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lyifeßY THURSDAY MORNING. BT
ii B. Braltom
TERMS.
One Dollar and Fifty Cents,
j Two Dollars if paid within tlio
Dollars and Fifty-Cents, if not
year. These torips will bo rig
, in every instance. Mo sub
mtinued until nil arrearages are
Iho option of the Editor.
ents: —AocompaniedbythccAsir,
ling one square, will bo inserted
One Dollar, and twenty-flve cents
onal insertion. Thoseofagrcat
•oportion. .
i—Such a? Hand-bills, Posting-,
i, Blanks, Labels, &c.,&c.,eXe
iracy and at the shortest notice.
|WmL
t THE BRIGHT SIDE.
. . prithee, tell me why
t i i vtfs«£SUways wear a smile:
look wan and sad,
‘S<s'sdo you care beguile 7
doomed to care and penury,
adThowing down with age,
•ill light-hearted, blithe, and gay,
tread life’s weary stage.”
,1 thee all, my youthful friend,”
;ood old man replied—
co’er may hap, 1 always look
i tho brightest side,
the land, there’s not a man,
hard soo’er his lot,,
he will, can often find
it and sunny spot.
lived and toiled for many a year
jath the summer’s sun, .
i the winter cold and drear,
labor still went oou
i that varied course *f years
much of ill betide,
ill I always strove to look
ih.tho brightest side. ;.'
m sickness came, and hours of pain'
*ged wearily along,
lournings sad-and murmunngs vain ■
>ped from my feeble tongue,
icarts were there, and kindly words
softly on my ear,
)ving Ones wore always nigh .
tainting heart to cheer.
through a long and wearied life
learn’d this lesson well—
this world of care and'strife,
—.ore's more of good than ill;
And o’er in poverty and toil,
’ Peace with us will abide; .
Jlfan may be happy, if he will
. But see the brightest side.”
TUG ASPIRATION.
.. .
■> ~-KiMy bark is On life’s troubled .sea,
p I care not where it goes; .
ft'V'i KWhat .matter life’s wild storms to me .7
*> Whafmaftor where it close 7
||L(i. ‘ The best ot cartli, its hopes and joys,
Are dreamy, lady things;
SBjjT , V, c wislt, wo sigh, we grasp some prize
(•feZ It flies on magic wings.
V r . is not that I hate the world,
i Or It has hated me; • .
‘' ■' It i s not that no eye hath smiled,
r To light my weary way ■.■■■■
<r not because whate’er I loved,
J « That death has loved it too :
1 " No, ’tis not tills that makes me sad,
And careless where X go. ,
»<■ ;t . ■ i>vo madly loved, yet all in vain ;
M. . still madly, still noblest, ■
mm.: ,- i love, and nurse the growing pam
WBKjU'’;--.-That burnswithiqmy.breast.,
heart must weep, it will not break—
rjiy, soul must writhe and bear— .
Sfflßvi'. '3Lnd none shall know the inward ache,
BHff, By word, or sign, or tear.
P' XTnloved I como, unloved I go ;
|p : , , , < What is there left for nie 7
h. ' What bitterness is yet to know, ■
B '' When gone for'ayo from thee 7
p ' When driven down life’s dark abyss,
f' ■ - And death is hanging o’er, -
S' '. I will not wish.l’d loved thee less,
f I I Blit thou had’sf loved mo more.
£ ' ' •
BY I'. HENRY,
i ffitarcllaneoua.
tub Dorr of owning books.
IT W-ABD BBECIIP'
» N ' * V» form iudgments of men from little things
f ilMut their houses, of which the owner, per
: ‘ Imps, never thinks. In earlier years, when
1 ‘travelling in the West, where taverns Were
fitter scarce, or in other places unknown, and
flMfevelfy settler’s house was a houseof en^ t “"’'
was a matter of some importance and
»%lrihe experience to select wisely where,you put
»®;'.,ihdwe always looked ,for flowers. If
|||p''therewere no trees tor shade, no patch of Bow
H C rs in the yard, we were suspicious of the place.
|S? Bufe-ho matter liow rude the cabin, or rough
?l»Surrouhdiiigs, if we saw that the window held
trough for flowers, and that some vines
strings let down from the eaves,
-confident that there was-somo taste
jind wrefulnessin the. log cabin. In the new
A:"fcountry:V w^ere have to tug for a living,
it no one will take the trouble to rear flowers, un
!l': less tbd love of them is pretty strong—and this
If fciste blossoming out of plain and uncultivated
p kpeople'is. itself, like a clump of hare bells grow
,v fnc*ont of the seams of a rock. We were sel
misted. A patch of flowers came to sigm
• Tv-Biha people, clean beds, and good bread.
(Blit: other signs are more significant in other
Ik slates of society. Flowers abopt a rich man s
&V .houseimay signify only that he is a good gar
ip', ‘denety fid that he has refined neighbors, and
dobs what he sees them do. , ,
: Bufc.nien are not acciistomcd to buy books
want them. If, on visiting the
Ik-. . f'diS'elShk of a man of. slender means, I find the
he hds cheap carpet, and very plain
S®Mbrnilure, to be that he may purchase books, he
iiiK<HjseSsA once ,in my esteem. Books are not
but there is nothing else
Sp'P ilhaclsdiibcautifully .furnishes a house. The
plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever
pfi covere'd’is more significant of refinement than
yT most elaborately carved etagerc, or stde
f' ‘lwanß a houso furnis hed with books rather
thah'furniture! Both, if you can, but books
, rate 1 To spend several days in a
.V ‘ house, and hunger for something to
y° u aro trea , ding . upon u°? tly car ;
sittinir upon luxurious chairs, and
flllhMphig upon down, is as if one were bribing
mr tho sake of cheating your mind,
'"j-sitnot pitiable to see a mam growing rich.
,T ind becoming to augment the comforts of
V-'homerand lavishing money upon ostentatious
nXolatery. upon the table, upon every thing
hot wh«t the squl needs 1 ■
* We know of many and many a rich man s
hodse whereit would not be safe to ask for the
: ‘commbnest English classics. A few garish an
' 'hbald ’dii'thiß table, a jew pictorial monstrosities
togelhcr with tho stock of religious books of
hia persuasion, and that is all! No range of
poets, essayists, no selection, of historians, no
travels 9P ,biographies —no select fictions or le
: but then, the walls cost three
‘^dollarsftjlroil. and the floors have carpets that
'■ Cost fottCdollars a yard! Books are the win
idoWs throtigh which the soul looks out. A
house without books is like a room without
windows*
- i No man has a right to bring up his children
, surrounding them with Ijooks, if ho has
, f’JhiOßoans to buy them. It is a wrong to his
, ,lMhily. He cheats them! Children learn to
by being in the presence of books. The
‘ of knowledge comes with reading, arid
BT HBKRT W-ABD BEECHER.
aiumraalSP) o I uut f f r
V '" ”UM
BY JOHN B. BRATTON,
YOL. 45
grows upon it. And the lovo of knowledge in
the young mind is almost a warrant against
the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Let us pity- those poor rich men who live
barrenly in great bookless houses. Let us con
gratulate the poor that, in our day, books are
so cheap that a man may every year add one
hundred volumes to his library for the price of
what his tobacco and beer would cost him.-
Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in
clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, _ indeed,
among all that are struggling up in life from
nothing to something, is that of owning, and
constantly adding to, a library of good books.
A little library growing larger every year is an
honorable part of young man s history. It is a
man's duty to have books. A library is not a
luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
How to Bead with Profit.
For tho sake of those who are not accus
tomed to systematic reading, we make some
suggestions as to the best mode of reading, so
as to gain the highest advantage from the books
they peruse; ,
1. Ascertain tho aim of the author. Ton
will thus know what to expect from his book,
and may save, much time, which might other
wise be spent in looking for what you could
not find. An attentive reading of the title
page, preface, and table of contents, will enable
you to judge pretty accurately what the author
is about. Some facts, too, which doat only
among intelligent men, will aid you greatly in
these matters. •
2. Read walccfuUy.md attentively, and with
a determination to comprehend thoroughly the
book yon are perusing. Read neither crcdu
lovsly nor skeptically; but candidly ; ■ endea
voring to go to the root of the matter; if possi
ble. An hour of such reading is worth a
wick of the superficial reading which is so com
mon. „
3. Read mlh n dictionary at youi^elbow,
and consult it freely whenever you word
you are not sure you understand. Webster
and Worcester are the best in general use. We
use Webster. Never pass an important word
Without mastering its incaShg in the work you
arc reading. In this way soon gain a
stock of good words for your own use, while you
.are learning the meaning of the book *yoU are
reading. ....
4. After reading a chapter, close the book
and try to recall- and state briefly in your own
language* the substance of the chapter, id the
order the author pursues- This is one of the
most profitable exercises. It will show you
just how much you have gained by reading.
!f you cannot do this, just read ihe chaptcr
again. The second rending will probably do <
you some good. The first reading has been of
little use to you, if you are unable to state what
the main thoughts are.
5. If the book is your own—bu t not, if itis a
borrowed one—you may mark with a pencil the
most important thoughts. You will thus re
member them more easily, and can refer to them
more readily. . „ : -
Adopting these suggestions, you will read
slowly- but what you read will.become. ynufs.
It will'stir up your own .thoughts, and proba
bly develops your mental power as healthfully
as any other disciple you can have. —Ohio Far
mer.
The Objects of Life.
o Knavery may serve a.turn, but honesty is
best in the end.”
« Let not your tongue cut your throat.
“ False friendsare worse than open enemies. ,
<< Never carry two laces-under one hood.
The Look Haven Democrat ven
ture,,to say that there is ho person, even those
addicted to misrepresentation, and go-between,
busy-body-ism, but will confess that the above
proverbs are true to the letter. • j
We will consider this subject in two respects:
Ist, the person who utters truth or falsehood ;
and 2d, th? person.to whom spoken.. The per
son who speaks concerning any occurrence,
facts or person, should always speak the truth,
because ho can, with the aid of his senses, have
but a circumscribed knowledge of it. There
fore he is under the necessity of putting reli
ance upon others for much of this knowledge;
and otten, he must depend entirely upon the
ipse dixit of one individual.
Now, consider for but a moment how vast and
important concerns of life hang upon those
words Which pass between individuals, and then
you cannot but perceive how enmities, embar
rassments, breaking up of social circles, and
other evils, may often ensue upon a few words
I spoken, perhaps carelessly. As speaking the
1 truth is a virtue of no ordinary merit, so a liar
is held in the utmost contempt. Even the most
degraded regard it is a great disgrace to be
charged with lying. The liar always resorts to
this vice in order to promote his interests m
some way ; or else to injure some one at whom
he has some spile; oftentimes these two motives
are combined . ' No man ever, yet, for a laudible
end, told a lie — it was always to gain a stealthy
pace upon some unsuspecting victim by dishon
est and dishonorable means. _
Both natural and divine law. obviously forbid
wilful falsehood. Whv should men or boys
He ? It rarely happens' that the lie is success
ful. The liar is generally detected, and even
if not, is as injurious to him. Suppose him' to
escape both detection and suspicion he lives id
constant fear that his secret will out. If he
keeps the secret, still he feels that he is a har.
He therefore soon looks like one. If no motive
greater than self-interest prompted a man to
speak the truth, this should; be enough; because
the roan who is known-to lie, cannot bo behoved
even when ho speaks the truth, and the moment
after he has left the social circle, all join in de
spising him.' .
In, the courts of justice, his reputation for ly
ing follows him, because ho who will not speak
the truth in the common affairs of life, can ea
sily be influenced in higher matters—twelve im
partial persons will set his testimony aside. —
Whatever the object be, lying generally fails.
If it be to wrong an innocent man by a false
charge, he falls into • the hands of the law for
malice —or else is despised by the community
at largo. If every criminal enclosed within our
State’s, or other prisons, were asked, what was
your first step from innocence and purity ?
His answer would be, telling n falsehood.' In
fact, the old adage is literally true—" show me
a liar and I will show yon a thief." The boy
or man who will deliberately injure, or attempt
to steal an honest man’s character, will not dis
dain to steal his or other people’s property, and
thus associated ns the two vices are they become
the parent of others. Therefore, let us say to
. rich and poor alike, ■
u Honor and tamo from no condition rise,
,o Act wejl your part, there all the honor lies.”
le-
“Tell me, ye angelic hosts,
Ye messengers of love,”
Shall suflering Printers here below,
Have no redress above 1
The angel bards replied— • „
To us in knowledge given;
Delinquents on the Printer's books,
Can never enter heaven!
OCT" The culture of the social feelings, under
the dew and sunshine of religion, is a duty ns
well ns a pleasure.
CAUDLE LECTURES.
MU. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO A
FRIEND.
You ought to he very rich, Mr. Caudle. I
wonder whoM lend you five pounds? But so
it is; a wife may work and may slave T Ha,
dear ! the many things that might have been
done with five pounds. As if people picked up
money in the street! But you always were a
fool, Mr. Candle! I’ve wanted a black satin
gown these three years, and that five pounds
would have pretty well bought it. But it’s nu
matter how I go—not at all.. Everybody says
I don’t dress as becomes your wife—and I donl;
but what’s that to you, Mr. Caudle ? Nothing.
Oh, no! you can have fine fieelings for every
body but those belonging to you. I wish peo
ple knew you as I do—that’s all. You like to
be called liberal—and your poor family pays
for it
All the girls want bonnets, nntwu... iy
are to cojne from I can’t tell. Half five pounds
would have bought now they must go
without. Of course they belong to you; and
any body but your own flesh ■ and blood, Mr.
Caudle.
The man called for the water-rate to-day, but
I.should like to know how people are to pay
taxes, who throw away five pounds to every
fellow that asks them;
Perhaps you don’t know that Jack this
morning knocked his shuttlecock through his
bed-room window. I Was going to send (or the
glazier to mend it, but after you lent that five
pounds I was sure we couldn’t aflord it. Oh,
no, the window must go .as it is; and pretty
weather for a dear child ,to sleep with a broken
window. He’s got a cold already on his lungs,
and .I shouldn't at all wonder if that broken
window settled him. If the dear boy dies, his
death willbe on hjs father’s head; for I’m
sure we can’t now pay to mend windows. We
might, though, and do a good many more
things, too, if people didn’t throw away their
five pounds. . •
I wonder where poor little Cherub is? While
you were lending five pounds, the dog ran out
of the shop. You knew I never let it go into
the street, for fear it should be bitten by some
mad dog, and come home and bite all the ohil*
dren. It wouldn't now at all astonish me if .the
animal was to. come hack with the hydrophobia
and give it to all.the family. However, what’s
'your family to you, so you can play the liberal
creature for five pounds! ,
" Do you hear the shutter, how it’s banging
to and fro ? Yes, I know 1 what it wants as well
as you —it wants a now fastening. I was go
ing to send for the blacksmith to-day, but now
it’s out of question;, now it must bang of
nights, since you’ve thrown away five pounds.
Ha ! there’s the soot falling down the chim
ney. If I hate the smell of anything, it’s the
smoll'of soot. And you know it is: but what
are my feelings to you ? Sweep the chimney!
Yes, it’s all very fine to say, sweep the chim
ney—but how are chimneys to be swept—-how,
are they to.be paid for by people who don’t care
for five pounds ? • ...
—Do you ...hear tha. mice running--o.bou.t the
room?, I hear theth. If they were only to
drag you out of bed, it. would, be no matter.
Set a trap for them ! Yes, it’s easy enough to
say—set a trap for em. ■ But how are people to
afford the cheese, when every day they lose five
pounds? . . ..
Hark 1 I’m sure there’s a noise down stairs.
It wouldn’t at all surprise me if there were
thieves in the bouse. Well, it may bo the cat;
put thieves are pretty sure to coma in some
night. There’s a wretched fastening to the
back door, but these. are not times - to afford
bolts and bars, when foools won’t take' care of
their five pounds."
Mary Anne ought to have gone to the den
tist’s to morrow. She wants three- teeth taken
out. Now, it can’t be done. Three teeth that
quite disfigure the child’s month. But there
they must stop, and spoil the sweetest face that
was ever made. Otherwise, she d have been
the wife of a lord. Now, when she grows up,
who’ll have her ? Nobody. We shall die, and
leave her alone and unprotected in the world.—
But what do you care for that ? Nothing ; so
that you can squander away five pounds.
“ And thus," comments Caudle, “ according
; to my wife, she—dear soul! —couldn’t have a
satin gown—the girls couldn’t have new bon
nets—the wafer rate must stand over--Jack
must get his death through a broken wmdow;
our fire insurance couldn’t be paid, so that we
should all fall victims to the devouring clement
—wo couldn’t go to Margate, and Caroline
would go to an early grave—the dog would
come baak home and bite us all mad—the soot
would always fall—the mice never let us have
a wink of sleep—thieves bo always breaking m
to the house—our'dear Mary Anno ho forever
left an unprotected maid—and with other evils
falling upon us, all because I would go on lend
ing five pounds!” . - :
The Right Bird,
Odd and good ia bid Dr. Nichols, who for
merly practised medicine. ■ As the calls and
fees did not come fast enough to please him, he
added an apothecary’s shop to his business for
the retail of drugs and medicines. Ho had a
great sign painted to attract the wondering eyes
of the villagers, and the doctor loved to stand
in front of the shop, and explain.its beauties to
the gaping beholders. One of these, an Irish
man, who gazed at it for a while with a comical
look, and then exclaimed: .
“Och, by tie powers, doctor, if it is not
Bne 1 But there’s something a little bit wanting
in it
. "And what, pray, is that 1” asked the doc
tor. _ . , ,
“Why, you see,” said Pat, “you’ve got a
beautiful sheet of water here, and not a bit of a
bird swimming in it.”
“Aye, yes," replied the doctor,“that’s a good
thought. I'll have a couple,of swans painted
there—wouldn’t they be fine!”
“Faith, and I don t know but -they would,
sir,”said Pat; “but I’m after thinking of
another bird as would be much more appropri
ate.” .
■ “And what’s that V’ asked the doctor. _
‘.Why, I can’t exactly think of his namojist
now, but ho is one of them kind of birds that
when he sings he says ‘quack, quack U’
The last that was seen of Pat and tpe doctor,
Pat was.running for life and the doctor after
him.
Fasiilt Failings. In many families where
both love and good temper prevail, there is
what may ho called an irksome rather than a
sinful mode of carping at and contradicting one
another.
No harm is meant, and no offence is taken ;
but what can ho more irksome than to hear two
sisters, for instance, continually setting each
other right upon some trifling points, and differ,
ing from each other in opinion for no apparent
reason, but contradiction ? And such a habit
does it become that one may sometimes see
persons who hare acquired it, contradict their
statements, just mudo, the moment any ono ad
vances the same opinion. It is generally on
such trifles that this bad habit shows itself, so
that it may seem needless to advert to it; but it
is a family fault, it is an annoyance, though but
a putty one, never to bo able to open your lips
without being harrassed by such contradictions.
<‘ OUR. COUNTRY —MAT IT ALWAYS BB RIGHT —EOT RIGHT OB WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1859.
Young readers, do you. knoi the little am
mals—birds, bgasts, and insects, are good me
chanics, skilled in business apdbuilding opera
tion 7 This is true; and whaV they do is done
systematically, with neatness, and despatch.—
Nor do they idle, lounge about; or stop to play,
till the work is done, and welffdono.
The Otter and the Heron are; the fishermen,
though they use neither lino bor net. The Ot
ter we seldom see, for ho woths his traps-most.
ly under water - ; but .the Herod may often he
seen standing with his loll|ijr*UUi legs in the
shallow part of the atreanf./snddenly plunging
his long bill below this surfacK.’iitid bringing np
a fish, ' . . . , ...
Ants are day laborers, and jyhry industrious
in their calling; in earnest at
thoirwork. Catch thejn daytime if
you can I They set $s an cxaiii jlo of industry.
£(Ants freely work wUhoftlTdliguise,
Their ways consider und bo ‘W'sa. ,)
The swallow is a the nutter
that ho daily catches would astonish you. You
often see him in his yocation.skhoniiug along
tilo surface of the brook or pond.
The bearer is a wood-cutter, a builder ana a
mason; a very good workman ot (ill these trades.
He fells the small trees with hit teeth, and after
ho hnjr built his house, bo it carefully
withhis tail trowel. ■£., , r ‘ '
„ The wasp is a pape#mdker,;lwhis building.-
Hls paper is water-prpof, and Wue of materials
that no other paperr.maker.wftnld use. TLook
at the curious wasps?, paper dwel
lings—not patented are they?:!-. •
Singing birds ana ex
cel all others in harmony. Hardly can wo de
cide which of them excels—theJark, the robin,
the thrush, or the .
id-ft’lero the'
«On the feathery wing the&rovo, ;
And wake with harmony <th(|'grove.
The fire-fly and the glow-worm are lamp
lighters. The hee is a of geometry j
for he constructs his cell so';SCmDtiBca]ly, that
tho least possible amount .of is formed
into the largest spaces, with .waste of
room. Not all the Cambridge,
could improve the .construction;Pf his colls.—
Nor, can the best hermetrical sellers among us
preserve provisions so well. ,v.i / ...
Tho caterpiller is 9.' aills:,spipiior>Tar expelling
.any other in his line of business; indeed we
could not learn an art that wbhld supply any
silk worth the name without him#,
With what wonderful properties and powers
has it pleased our Heavenly to endow tho
lowly creatures! ■ * * ,
Young friends, is not this. marvel
lously wonderful ? Who endowed those animals
with wisdom 7. God! Who,ofvps could make
cells or honey like the bee, silk! like the silk
worm, or. music like the singing .'birds? iruiy
the. goodness of God is sepn in hjl his works..
Be Sure You Are (
The injustice done:.tb,.pBrA'S®ib<>rßas well (
as to ourselves by
tioh of facts, Is perhaps ■ extent ol
its baneful influencejB, J to.anyitem in the
list of man’s inhumanities to map
countless millions
too readily lead, us to embrace ff£ ( without
further ,
perhaps, only to wound
nocont, and to suffer-ddrselvds upon conviotipn
of our error. To, thp motivos.of our
neighbors is a serious matter, and. tends- many
times to very serious results* and they, who
think to censure with impunity without, jpositive
evidence of the wrong done, by the party cen. ;
aured, must oven sutler the.sevcrest penalty^,
Ho who acts deliberately, and conscientious
ly. triumphs as certainly as truth is superior to
error, and the consciousness of right in one a
own heart gives a peace of .mipd; and affords
that sweet rest which malignity cannot disturb.
«Bo sure you are, right, then go ahead, and
though falsified and maligned as you may he,
your course will stand the teat of timoj and they
who draw hasty and erroneous conclusions from
appearances, and misrepresent because they
have not fully examined the facts* must sooner
or later acknowledge the truth and suffer that
mortification which a candid acknowledgement
of their error alone' can cure.
Duties and Pieasckus of Women.—Great
indeed is the task- assigned to women. Who
can exaggerate its importance? Not to mato
laws, not to govern empires, but to form those
by whom laws are made, armies led and empires
governed; to guard from the slightest taint of
possible infirmity, the frail and yet spotless,
creatures whoso moral, no. loss than physical
being must ho derived from her; to inspire
those principles, to inculcate those doctrines, to
animate those sentiments which generations yet
unborn, and nations yet uncivilized, shall leam
to bless; to soften firmness into mercy, to cha
sten honor into virtue j by her soothing cares to
allay the anguish of the mind i by her purity to
triumph over sense ; to cheer the scholar labor
ing under his toil; to console the statesman for
the ingratitude of a mistaken people; to com
pensate for hopes that, are blighted, for the
friends that are perfidious, for happiness that
has passed away. Snch is her vocation. The
couch of the tortured sufferer, the person of the
deserted friends, the cross of the neglected Sa
vior these are the theatres on which her great
est triumphs have been achieved. . Such is her
destiny; to visit the forsaken; amid the forget
fulness of myriads, to remember; amid the exe
crations of multitudes, to bless; whenmonarchs
abandon, when' brethren and disdples fly, to re
main unshaken and unchanged, and to exhibit
in this lower world a fypo of that love, pure,
constant, and ineffable, which m another world,
as we are taught to believe, is the best reward
of virtue. '
Evening Hours for MccHANioa.-Wlmt have
evening hours done for mechanics who had only
ten hours’ toil ? Hatkon to facts:
t 6“ One o« fto best the Westminster
Review could ever boast of,-and one of the most
brilliant writers of the passing hour, was acoop
er in Aberdeen. One of the editors of the
London Daily Journal was a baker, in Elgin ;
nftrhimq one of tho best reporters of tho London
of the Witness was a stone-mason. One of the
ablest ministers in London was a blacksmith in
Dundee, and another was a watchmaker in Banff
Tho late Dr. Milne, of China,.was a herd boy in
Rhvne. The principal of the London Mission
ary Society's College, at Bong Kong, was a
saddler in Huntly. and One of the’ best
arioa that over went to Indiawari a
Keith. Tfio leading machinist on, tho London
and Birmingham railway was a mechanic in
Glasgow, and perhaps the veiy. richest iron
founder in England was a workingman in Mo
rap. ■ Sir James Clark, her majesty a physician*
was a druggist in Banff. Joseph,Hum?.was a,
sailor first, and then a laborer at the jportarand
pestle, in Montrose; Mr. M Gregor, fho memfjer
from Glasgow, was a poor boy, in.Rossniro.
James ’Wilson, the momborfrom Westbury, was
a ploughman, in Haddington,; and Arthur An
derson! tho member from Orkney, carnodhis
bread by the sweat of his brow in tho Ultima
Thule. '
0»lt costs a deal of money to be rich, and
it is a question if so much is worth so little .
After all, is wealth worth the cost, first in ac
quiring it, next in supporting it, and lastly, in
bearing up under it when you have lost it I.
a . ■ Punch.
o*Lifo runfi not smoothly at all seasons,
even with the happiest; hut after a long course,
the rocks subside, the views widen, and it flows
on 1 more equably at- the end. — Landor .
A Lesson for Boys and Citls.
A Practical Memory.
A clergyman in Wiltshire, walking near a
brook, observed a woman washing wool in a
stream. This was done by puttinglt in a scivc,
and then dipping the seive in the water repeat
edly, until the wool became white and clean.—
Ho engaged in conversation with her, and, from
some expressioh 'she dropped, asked her it she
know him. > , T , , ~
« Oh yes, sir,” she replied, “and I hope shall
have reason to bless God to eternity for liming
heard you preach at W- »°w® fears ago.
Yonr sermon was the means of doing mo great
g °«X rejoice to hear it. Fray what-was the
BU “ Ah/air, Ican’t recollect that, my memory
is so bad.”
«How, then, can the sermon have done you
so much good, if you don’t remember even what
it was about 7” . „
“ Sir, my mind is like this sieve; the sieve
docs not hold the water, hut as the water runs
through, it cleanses.the wool; so my memory
does not retain the words X hear, but as they
pass through ray heart, by God’s grace, they
cleanse it. Now Ino longer love sin, and every
day I entreat my Savior to wash mo in his own.
blood, and to cleanse mo from all sin;”
' - A Speech on Scolding Wives.
At a Young Men’s Debating- Society some
where out in Illinois, the question of discussion
was, “Which.is the greatest evil—a scolding
wife or a smoking chimney ?’ After the np
poinlants had concluded tho debate, a spectator
rose and begged the privilege of making a lew
remarks on tho occasion. Permission being
granted, he delivered himself in this way :
“Mr. President—l’ve been almost mart lis
tening to the debate of these youngsters. Ahoy,
don’t know anything about a scolding wife.
Wait till they have had one ! upwards of .eight
years, and-hammered and jnmmered and jawed
at all the while-wait till they have been scal
ded because the fire wouldn’t burn: because
the oven was too hot; because the cow kicked
over the milk; because,the sun shined ; because
the hens didn’t lay; ,because the butter would
not come; because they were too soon lor din
ner ; because they were one minute too late:
because they slapped the young ones; because
they tore their trowaers, or because they did
anything, whether they, could help it or not,
beforo they begin to talk of the evils of a scot
a 'wby[ e Mr, President, I’d rather hear the
clatter of hammer and stones, and twenty tin
pans, and nine brass kettles, than a din dm 01
£ scolding wife. Yes sir ce, thews my senti
ments. To my mind, Mr. President, n smokj
chimney is no more to be compared toasooldmg
wife than a little negro is to a dark night..
CnißOGnAruY.— Good penmanship does not
consist in sprcad-eaglo flourishes and five-story
capitals I . True, there should bo a freenesa-of
movement in the hand and arm, evinced by the
pon-tracings, but never any We
■like a plain, round hand-writing., that is me
boat phase of cbirography which is most easily
read. Affected penmanship, like mock polish
of any sort, is devoid oi grace and beauty.
~We.hear, of some groat men jwhoajenot .good
penmen, hut their faulty penmanship does not
make them great. Wo know of some halfr
hatched- lawyers, and aspiring young men _oi
other vocafions, who claim,to bo greatond dis
tinguished in proportion ,to tho awkwardness
and uninlolligibility ot their scribbling-ship.—
And if such were the gange of guessing at great
ness, how incomprehensibly great some men
would be I ■ , •
A good story is fold of tho wretched writing
of a certain very celebrated. Railroad manager
in Michigan. He had written a letter to a man
on tho Contralrdute, notifying him that he must
remove a bam that !h some way incommoded
the road, under the penalty of prosecution.—
Tho threatened map was unable to road any part
of the letter but the signature! but he took it to
bo a free, pass, over tho .road, and used it for a
couple of years as such, none ol the conductors
' being able to dispute bis interpretation oi tbo
E document! —School Visitor.
The Fiust White Woman in Downikviixe,
Oax..—Downieville, California, being perched
high up in the mountains, was not gladdened
by the sight of a white woman until a long
time after the miners had been there: and ma
ny of them,' hot having seen' a woman for many
months, made the arrival of the pioneer of the
fair sex the occasion for a grand demonstra
tion, which is chronicled by the San Andress
Independent. . The men all turned out. setting
their best foot foremost. Several shirts were
aported on the occasion, and a certain member
of Congress, to mark his high satisfaction, drew
from the bottom of his clothes box. an antique
“ yaller vest,” that bad not seen the light for
many a month. The-boys, dressed in their
neatest duds, were grouped around in every
part of the camp, eager to catch sight of the
first p'etticoat that was to flutter in the moun
tain breeze. Long, and anxious was the sus
pense, but toward evening the new comer hove
in sight. Cheer upon cheer greeted her. The
rooks and hills fairly rang with their joyous
shouts. The lady was pale, and seemed frigh
tened nt the apparent madness oi such a rcccp
tion : and her surprise was by no. means dimin
ished when, again and again, ‘• three times
three” was proposed and vociferated m her lie
nor. Such was the reception of the ‘ • Pioneer
Woman of Downieville.”
\ry m The latest case of faithful Biddyism is
chronicled by the Greenfield, Mass., Gazette :.
An Irish girl was despatched to a neighbor s
with a note, and directed to give it personally
to-the person addressed. On ai rival, Biddy
found that the neighbor bad gonotokorthamp
ton, whither she wended her way. twelve miles,
oh foot, and traversed the streets till she found
the individual and delivered the note. She then
started to return, stopping over night with some
friends, and reaching home next day. when she
told her mistress that she must give up her
place, for she could not go any more such long
errands.
ny “There are few countries which," says
Dean Swift, “if well cultivated, would hot sup
port double the number of their inhabitants,
and yet fewer where one-third of the people arc
not extremely stinted even in the necessaries of
life. I send out twenty barrels of corn, which
would maintain a family in bread for a year,
and f bring back in return a barrel of Wine,
which half a dozen good fellows would drink in
less, than a month at the expense of their health
and reason."
But what would the worthy Dean say could
he Witness the criminal speculators’conduct
now, by by which artificial scarcity id h hun
dred fold increased.
A Lowerin' a" Dilemma. — An unfortunat
swain who has been duped by some fair mai
den, thus"relates the cade:
With whiskers thick upon my face,
. 1 went my fair ,to see ;,
She told mo she coiild never love
A beau faced man like me., ~
I shaved them clean and called again.
And thougt my trouble o’er,
Sho laughed outright, and said I was
More babe faced than bclore.
IX7” Mexico had seven Presidents in
of January.
1&T $2,00 PER ANN
A Boy for the Times.
We like an active boy : one who has the im
pulse of the age-of the steam-engine nf him.—
A lady, plodding, snail-paced Chap, might have
got along in the world fifty years’ ago : but he
won’t do for these times. We live in an age of
quick ideas; men think quick—speak quick
eat. sleep, court, marry, die quick—and slow
conches ain’t tolerated.
“Go ahead if you burst your biler, is the
motto of the age; and he succeeds the beat in
every lino of business, who-has the most of the
do or-die in him.
Strive boys, to catch the spirit of the times:
be up and dressed always, no grasping and rub
bing your eyes; as if you were half asleep, but
wide awake, whatever may turn up—and you
may be somebody before you die.
Think, plan, reflect ns much as you please
before you act; but think quickly and closely,
and when you have fixed your eyes upon an ob
ject, spring to the mark at once.
But Above alf things bo honest. If you in
tend to be an artist, carve it in the wood, chisel
it in marble; if a merchant, write it in your day
book and spread it in capitals in your ledger.
Let honesty of purpose be your guiding star.
Unconscious Influence.
The very handling of the .nursery is signifi
cant, and the petulance, the passion, the gentle
ness, the tranquility indicated by it; are all re
produced in the child. His soul is a purely re
ceptive nature, and that, for a considerable pe
riod, without choice or selection., A little far-
■ thcr on, he begins voluntarily to copy every
thing he sees. Voice, manner, gait, everything
which the eye sees, the mimic instinct delights
to act over. And thus we have a whole gener
ation of future men, receiving from us their
very beginnings, and the. deepest impulses ot
their life and immortality. They, watch us
every moment, in the family, before the hearth,
and at the table ; and when we are meaning
them no good or evil, when we are conscious of
exerting no influence over them, they are draw
ing from us impressions and molds of habit,
which if wrong, no heavenly discipline can
wholly remove; or. if right, no bad associations
utterly dissipate. Now it may bo doubted. 1
think, whether, in all the active influence of our
lives, we do as' much to shape the destiny of our
fellow-men, ns we do in this single article of
uncdnscious influence over children.
Rhymes, Curious and True.
I have never before, says the gossiper of the
Washington Stales, come across the annexed
lines. Few, I dare say, have read them. They
are worth remembering,-for they express as
much as roanv poems: ' .
What is earth, sexton 1 A. place for digging
graves. „ , , .
What;is earth, rich man 1 A place to grow
0ll \Vhal is earth, miser? A place for digging
6 °What is earth, school-boy 1 A place for my
What is earth, maiden I A place to be gay.
Whafts earth, seamstress WA place where I
W< What is earth, sluggard ?A. good place to
What is earth, soldier ? A good place for
battle.' . . . .
What is earth, herdsman ?, A place to raise
cattle. •
What is earth, widow ? A place of true sor
row.
What is earth, tradesman ? I’ll tell you to
morrow. _ , ~ .
What is.earth, sick mas? Its nothing.to
What is earth, sailor ? My homo is on. the
sea.
What is earth, statesman 1 A place to win
fame.
Paying Legislators.—An Ohio paper re
lates tte following anecdote, which is certainly
too good to be lost:
Mr. Joe Whitehill, of Columbia, formerly
Treasurer of the State of Ohio, .was a rough jo
ker, even in his office.
Some twenty years ago, a verdant member
of the General Assembly, called at the State
Treasury and said ho wanted * some money.’
How much do.you want ?” said Whitehill.,
“ Well! I—don’t—know,"said the member.
<■ How do you suppose I can pay you money,
then, if you don’t know ?” ■ ,
, “ Well, then, pay me about* what I have
i i) V
earned. , . „
.. Earned! "said Whitehill, “ earned ! You
area member of the Legislature, ain't you?
and if that’s all you want, I can pay you oft
“what you’ve earned" very easy. 'Bob! give
this member that ten dollar counterfeit bill we t c
had so Ion"." ■
(£7" Boys are queer institutions, and have a
happy faculty of extracting fun out of every
thing that comes in their way. which it would
be well lor them if they could preserve and ex
ercise after they arrive at manhood’s estate. A
six year old- will take more genuine pleasure
out of turning summersets in a snow bank,
playing shinney in a mud puddle, or shooting
marbles with the thermometer down to zero,
than his daddy could in a life time, with the
wealth of a Rothschild at his command.
DC7* The wise men of Prussia are predicting
a grand future for the little Prince of a week;
because his birthday is the. same os that of
Frederick the Great; because the constellation
known as Frederick’s honor stood in the zenith
of Berlin at the moment of his entrance to light,
and because, half an' hour later, another con
stellation, “ The Stars in Crown and Sword,"
culminated over Berlin.
Difficulties.— Wait not for your difficulties
to coaso; there is no soldier’s glory to be won
on peaceful Golds, nosaiior’sdaringtobo shown
on sunny seas, no trust or friendship to bo pro.
vod when all goes well. Faith, patience, heroic I
love, devout courage and gentleness, are not to
be formed when there are no doubts, no pains,
no irritations, no difficulties. The highly favor
ed are they who amid rebuffs are meek, amid
chastisements are resigned, amid pains are cou
rageous, amid provocations are gentle, amid
enemies aro full of love, amid doubts hold fast
the faith, amid sorrows And joy in Christ.
t£7* Byron is said to have remarked that “the
greatest trial to a woman’s beauty is th 6 un
graceful act of eating egfes.’' Some Yankee re
marks that the poe£ coaid never have seen a la
dy hanging on by her, teeth to a biasing hot
corn-cob. ■
O' Some tiuie since, a Mr. Michael Brady,
of Philadelphia, was bitten by a white pet fox.
At the time nothing serious was expected to .re
sult from' the bite. Recently, however, Mr.
Brady was attacked with quite a serious ill
ness and exhibited unmistakable symptoms of.
hydrophobia'., Ife suflered tho most intense ag
ony, and died soon afterward.
r ttA child uttered a very beautiful thought
I while looking at the comet. Ho said it was
Hi “God's railroad car, in which ho went riding
(.through the sky ?”
[from 1 the JUckport Mverluer.J
| SihgiM History—A Itlillidnarrc ft a Bnf
falo Work House?
We have had related, to us the- following .fair
gular narrative of an event that recently
pired, which is aiiqost too, remarkable '.for fcrer
denqe. The chain df oircomstanccs .which Ira'
to the fortunate discovery savors of the roman
tic. It adds, however, another proof of the'ad
age that “ truth is stranger than fiction.” , , f
“Some two weeks since, a young, man
of gentlemanly address, and who, from appear
ance, bore evidence of having seen belter days, , -
arrived at Tdnawanda, and, calling at the house
of Mr. Browning, of that place, begged frit
something to eat, and asked for a situation.—
He gave a history of his circumstances as fol
lows : He said his father was wealthy, lived in
France, arid that ho bad left his. ho'me, in that
country, on a pleasure trip to the United States,-
bringing with him 503,000 for spending money
and other purposes. . ' . ..
“ On landing in New York, 4nd after sojour*
ning in that city a short tirne, ho deposited
$20,000 with a banker, who was a Jew, He:
was then led by some.new made acquaintances;
into scenes of dissipation and,gaming, Where,
lost the remainder of his money.. To add. to hiS
misfortunes, the Jew banker also failed! arid
swindled him out of the money he had depost- 3
ted with him. His father, he said, had a- bari
kcr in New York, from whom he might hare,
obtained assistance, but ho determined, from,:
motives of pride and chagrin, not to appeal to-*
him in his extremity, by giving a Statement :of
his condition. On receiving, with some doubts »
of its truthfulness, the above statement, Mr. .
Browning took the young man into his employ;'
for a few days, and sot him to work " packing
shingles.” He afterwards Went to Buffalo.^—
Mrs. Browning, in the meantime, however, out’
of motives of curiosity, wrote a letter to the ’
above mentioned banker, whom the young mad . ,
had stated was doing business for his father,'
inquiring of him in regard W the truth of the
matter.
“ The banker, on receipt of Mrs.B s letter,
immediately repaired to Touawanda, and con- •
firmed the truth of the statement, And also rela
ted other facts in connection With thoease more ,
wonderful still. Ho stated that lie had recent- -
ly learned of the decease of jthe young man's
father, who had died, leaving the young, iriah
heir to 52,000,000, and also that $60,000 had ’
already been remitted, and was in the bands of "
himself. The bariker on receiving.the. nows,
and not finding the unfortunate inheritor ofthtS..
vast sflm, advertised fdr hiin in the papers.- - ;
The banker then gave Mr. Browning $25 to
prosecute the search for him in Buffalo, where
it was supposed he bad repaired. After two ;
days spent, the object of the visit was found in i
the Erie county’ workhouse, where he had been •
committed a few days previous ns a vagrant.;— .
He was very sick, and his disease Was pro
pounced by the doctors to be incurable. He
had two days longer to remain before the lime
for which he was committed would expire.
“ It maybe readily conceived that the neWS ■
of his good fortune, and the certainty not only,
of immediate relief, - but of restoration to the ,
head of a wealthy estate, with all the surroun
dings of case and"luxury, incited the most pdw-.
orful efnotions in his breast. The Ibw days hri
had yet to linger arttong the destitute. seemcd
to him ages; but it was found impracticable to ,
obtain a release, except through the interposi
tion of' the Governor. Accordingly it was ar;
ranged that the Count remaid i
until his time should expire without any fur- ;
thcr effort being made to obtain his release.— t .
After his release from the work house, he wa# ]
brought to the house of Mr. Browning, at Ton-’
awanda, his forriicr place of abode, Where he. ;
still remains very sick, under the medical at
tendance of Dr. Locke. The young Count.has j
since two more remittances fVom his banket and
■his condition is.as good under ■ the circuiristan--
• ces, as could be expected. Thus ends for the,,
' present the first chapter of, this strange, event
r ful but nevertheless true history."
NO. 41.
Death.— Wo thought nothing new could to
BBidib6bti:fleoth, but Tailor ofnthe ebitap?
■/oiirnai.h'nsthcfollowingideas:-:, r 'v
There is a dignity about (hat going away
alone, wo call .dying: that wrapping the mantle,
of immortality about us; that putting aside;
with a pale hand, thcasiire curtains that are
drawn around this cradle of a world: that ven
turing away from homo the first ! time in our
lives, for we are not dead; there is nothing dead
lo speak of and seeing foreign dourtlries hot
laid down on aily maps we know about. Thera
must be lovely lands starward, for none,ever re
turn that go thither, and we very much doubt
if any would if they could.
(£7* A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub
lican says -•• If you die on the Island of Cu-.
ba, it will cost your friends 3600 before your,
remains can he taken away. If you die poor,
and those expenses are not paid, you am taken
in the public dead cart and pitched into a diten
among the remains of paupeis and those who
have been executed.
Q2P"The neat old lady in this place who
scrubbed through the floor and 101 l into the cel
lar, is bat one among the many of the very nice ■
females with which our countiy abounds. Wo
know a good lady in Now Jersey, who white,
washed all the wood she burnt; and another in,
Connecticut, who used three times a day to;
scour the nose of her lap dog to keep him front:
soiling the dish ottt of which he ate his meals;
The same good lady took her own food through
a napkin ring to keep it from coming id contact
with her Ups.
(£7- •• Do you believe in second love, Mistbet*
McQuade?” ,■ - •_ ' ,
“Do I believe in second love ? Humph; if a,
man buys a pound of sugar, is’nt it swatc ? and
when it’s gone, don’t he want ttno.her .pound;
and isn’t that swate. loo? Troth Murphy,'l
belave in second love !” ", ,
The curious student of human nature
should be very careful whilst observing vice as
it is exhibited in others, that he does not him
self come, too-near the influence of its deleteri
ous sphere, and thus suffer his moral vision, M
bo obscured by the murky vapors which envel
op it. ■
'sy “Why don’t you wheel that bafrow of
coals, Ned ?” said a learned miner to onoof his ,
sons; “it is not a very hard job; there is an
inclined plane to relievo you." „“Ah,” replied
Ned. who had more relish for wit than work,
“the plane may be inclined; but hang, me if £
S r min, ng Leaf, Cgvsptfiffi. Con-,
da gross, and Fine Cut Tobacco aha Smill', the best
oc material. . ,
b 6 Peeling thankful to tho
thus .noticed, by
one of our exchanges: ,• % ”
“Married, last week, Lolko Cobb to Miss'
Kate Webb.” What a family of cob-webs may
be the result! .•
{“ Jeff, why BID you iike.de Cedar 1" “Jl
guv’si it up, Sam ; can’t tell you-” ‘‘Casa
you are green both Summer and Winter ' '•
IC7* Shoemakers and milkmen good,
sailors—they are both used to wording af the
pumps'. - -
iry, “if Infs' the use,” asked ah idle,
“of a 1 man’s working himself to death to get a
living.” .. ■
try- Stephen EllMj. «d«d BS. the oldest, of
the " Light house ..tribe", of Indians, died'at
Wirihstead.-Conn., oh‘ Monday, The re
sides in four huts, and is a miserable remnant'
of the once powerful-Narraganetts. ■ .
■ Semsibie.— Aunt Betsy has said many, good
things, and among the rest, that a newapipoyig
like a wife, because every man should have oho
lot his ovrd’, ’ ■ >-
ITT Airs. Partington has bought a horse
SO spirituous that he alwaysgoesott ura dectm
ter.’ '■ —,