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BY BRATTON & KENNEDY.
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LIFT n* YoVK EYES.
Lift up your oycs, yo sons of toil,
Thu clay is Involving bright;
Hohold the "loom before tin* sun
Molt IntoKolclon Il"ht.
Tbo night was Ion" ; (ln» kindly star
Hojimt'd on onv path;
Wo smote oaedi olhor in the* dark,
In ignoranco and wrath.
And Mammon proud looked on and smilod
To sen; the deadly fray;
Tbo more wo battled with ourselves,
The surer was his sway.
Hut see the tyrant toppling down
From oil his golden throne,
And hono.'.l labor mount the seat,
Which Ood had made Ills own.
He sheds a blessing all around,
No hunger dins his oar;
The teaming earth brings forth his store
To give his people ehoer.
Then let ns sing his rogn! worth ;
The worth of hmin and hand—
The king who makes his subjects Most,
. And heaul ilios tile land.
IH’OAi.n CAMi’r.ia.t
THE KOMANT’E OF JSAKHA’O WILL#.
Sonic time ago, I hail occasion to go to
Doctor’s Commons to look at (he will of
a dead man. The haml that signed it was
in lilt. l grave long before—dust, perhaps;
bat tile record of the will which animated
that hand was (here among those dusty
folios, engrossed in an almost undeciph
erable hand, v.'hk-h tell how all I lie real
property in thceounlry lias been disposed
of over ami over again, f had no dilli
eulty in finding it, for 1 had a note of the
precise day the deceased died on. It is
unnecessary to say anything about the
contents of that will, however, for they
have no relation to what lam writing, it
is only the date which 1 haveany business
with." The will was dated the day before
the man died. I, of course, had often
Deni'll of men, mailing (heir wills when
they were just at death's door, without
any particular thought being excited ; but
this time I was surprised, as a single fact
very often does surprise ns, when we have
passed by a host of similar ones unnotic
ed. 1 knew (lie man who had made that
will. He was a shrewd, prudent, sharp
lawyer, who had risen from nothing to lie
a man of immense wealth. If ho was dis
tinguished for any finalities in particular,
it was for punctuality and promptitude.
None of the clerks of his oliiee were ever
five minutes too late. That was an otienee
not to he forgiven. No one ever knew him
to lie behind an appointment, or to let
business go undone. His house-keeper,
who managed his bachelor home for many
years, only kept her place by being exact
to time. Vet this man had not made his
will till a few hours lie fore hisdeath ; and,
therefore, the possession of his properly
formed the subject of a very nourishing
law suit.
When 1 went out of that dark, dismal
catacomb of dead men’s wills, 1 went on
thinking of all the similar cases of pro
crastination which 1 knew or had heard
of —and they were not a few—for this is a
piece of experience of one who was a law
clerk before hequarrelled witli a red tape.
What a curious catalogue they were! —
There was an old lady, a toothless dowa
ger, wlm hail a reprobate and discarded
son, and a pretty, gentle niece who lived
with her. We used to manage all her af
fairs, and it was pretty well known in the
oliiee that the “ nice girl with the earls,”
was to tic the old lady’s heir. Our head
■clerk, a red-whiskered dandy, .who had
no mean opinioiwof himself, built. I could
say, certain speculations on that basis. —
The old lady never came without Eliza ;
and when a" visit was expected, Sir. Catch
pole brushed his fici*y hair into the most
killing curls, and changed (ho out-at-the
elbows coat for the smart one lie wore out
of doors, and beautified himself as far as
that was practicable. Well, a message
came one day that the old lady was ill—
very ill —with an urgent request that some
one should goat once and make her will.
Off went our Adonis as last as a promise
of something liberal over the fare could
urge the cabman.
When he arrived, (ho old lady was alive
—just alive enough to tell him that nil her
property was to he left to Eliza. Bhe told
him tliat in the hissing whisper which
supplied the place of the cracked voice;
hut when she came to the word “ all,” so
full was the poor old creature of love for
tlie niece, or, perhaps, of determination —
let us hope, not hatred against her son—
thatsliolialfro.se up iicher bed and clench
ed out that word again. It must have
hceir a terrible sight—that of life strug
gling with deatli for a will! It was a
short matter to write Unit will down ; and
Catch pole's pen (lew over the paper, and
the old eyes that wereglazing so last star
ed anxiously the while, and the thin lin
gers actually held the pen she had asked
■for beforehand ready to sign the paper.
In a few moments ail was ready; lint what
a difference that fewminutes made. The
clerk had risen from iiis seat and approach
ed the couch, when the surgeon, who stood
on tlie other side, said, with that coolness
which medical practice brings, “ Tl, is too
late and it was too late. The dead fin
gers clenched tlie unused pen so tightly
that they had to be. from it.
Tlie son was heir of all, and Eliza a beg
gar ! Deatli had translated that screamed
out “ all” into none. Tlie sequel is soon
told. The property was soon wasted by
the reprobate son, and Iras long since
passed into oilier hands, and Eliza, in
stead of possessing sonic thousands a year,
and being wooed by Sir. Catchpolo, is a
faded daily governess.
Every lawyer’s oliiee has plenty of such
stories as this. One I remember of a mi
ser who had ruined more than one family,
and in his last moments vrished lo make
such reparation as bequeathed gold could
compass. Poor wretch! when the will
was brought, catalepsy had seized him,
and ho lay there a living corpse —dead in
all hut mind. Ho could not move his
hand ; his tongue refused its oliiee ; only
his eyes wore free to move ; and of those
eyes - ! have been told a terrible tale. He
was, as misers often are, a man of strong
mind and iron nerve. Passive as he was
in every other part, the eyes told all Unit
was passing within. You cpuld have seen
in them' intelligence when the will was
.road to him; (lie powerful volition brought
to hear, and persevered in, when tlie writ
ten word which was to make it a testa
ment was required ; tlie terror and horror
which came over him when lie found the
right hand which had so often aided him
for evil, would not help him for good;
the despair which hurst tlie unseen bonds
around him, and, with a convulsive mo
tion,let out the last of life. It must have
been a spectacle of horror, when punish
ment came in tlie shape of a prohibition
of tlie one act of mercy which might have
made some amends for a VMioic.life-lime
of wrong. .
Then there was another legend of a man
whoso daughter married against his will.
He lived somewhere in a retired country
house, far oil from any town. This man
was subject to a disease of tlie heart, and
one night, feeling the symptoms of an
approaching attack, and that strange pre
sentiment which so often conics before
death, he roused his household aud sent
off a messenger on horseback, not for a
surgeon, but for a lawyer. He wanted
his ■will made immediately. The mes
senger could not lie expected hack for at
least two hours, and long before (hat the
•spasmodic attack had come on, hut still
in the intervals of his paroxisms, that de
termined man wrote as though against
lime. When the lawyer did arrive, all
Unit was left of the living will which had
been so active and energetic a few hours
before, was that lust piece of writing. It
expressed the deceased’s intentions, in
the strongest terms, utterly to disinherit
Ills rebellious child, and to give his prop
erly to some charitable institution. It
was complete, even to the signature; only
the (lourish usually added to the name
was wanting, as though there the hand
had failed, i’.ul (hat writing was not a
will; it was not in proper form, or attest
ed. In the eye of the law it was hut an
invalid piece of paper, and the daughter
look that which her birthright entitled
her to. — J-'mjtMi jxljifr.
StAXiiKii. —T have known a country
society which withered away all to noth
ing under the dry rot of gossip only.
Friendships once as granite dissolved to
jolly and then ran to water, only because
oflliis ; love that promised a future aseii
duringas heaven and as stable as truth,
evaporated into morning mist that turned
to n day’s long (cars, only because of this ;
a father and son were set foot to loot with
(lie licry breath of anger Hull would
never cool again between them, only be
cause of this; mid a husband and Ids
young wife, each straining nl the hated
lash which in the beginning had been
the golden bondage of a I iod-h!e>sed love,
sal mournfully by (he side of the grave
where all their joy lay buried, also because
of lids. [ have seen faith transformed lo
mean doubt, hope give place lo grim des
pair, and charily lake on itself (lie fea
tures ofhiack maievi ilenee, id! because of
tile spell words of scandal, and tile magic
miittcrings of gossip. (treat crimes work
great wrongs, and the deeper tragedies of
human life spring from its larger passion.--;
imt wofnl and most melanchoiy are the
inieaialogucd tragedies that issue from
gossip and detraction ; ino-t mournful the
shipwreck made of noble natures and
lovely life by the hitler winds and dead
salt waters of scandal. So easy (o say,
yet so hard to disprove—tiirowing on the
innocent all the burden and I he strain of
demonstrating their innoceiicc and pun
ishing them as guilty if unable to pluck
out I lie slings they never see, and to si
lence words they never hear—gossip and
slander are the deadliest and ernelesl
weapons man lias forged for ids brother's
hurt.
A Shake Operation.— I The Chicago
3'rihnnc says : On (lie morning of the ex
ecution of the two murderers, Corbett and
Fleming, a sharp operator of the Board
of Trade, whose deep knowledge of a cor
ner either in grain, stock, or a game of
” match," does no! interfere with ids
keen appreciation ofajoke, visited the of
fice of the “ Traveller's Insurance Compa
ny” and asked for two policies of three
11 mu sand dollars each, fora term o fonc day,
for two friends of his who were about go
ing on a Journey. This company, for an
almost nominal per eentage, takes the
riikof insuring Us patrons against acci
dents or deatli in any form, whether in
the heavens above or upon the earth be
neath, or in tlie waters under (lie earth ;
and its enterprising agent, alert to the
prospect of a little business, promptly and
courteously responded. “ Certainly, sir;
twenty cents, sir,” and handed out two
of the blank cheeks which constituted the
policies of (lie company. The operator,
while paying the required sum, remarked
that Ids hands were very cold, anddosired
tlie agent, to write for Dim I lie names of
his two friends. “Certainly, sir; with
pleasure, sir. What names, sir'.’” res
ponded the agent. “ William Corbett
and Patrick Flaming," answered tlie cold
hand and cheeky Joker. The agent nev
er noticed the self, hut rapidly wrote the
names and handed over the tickets, which
the strange gentleman, with face immo
vable as a stone, pocketed and walked oil'
with. The agent had, by this time, in all
probability, discovered how evlensively
lie was victimized.
fif-iV” As people prow oliler (hey require
less sleep, and ollen liml it diflieull io
pet as much as (hey do require. A plau
sible theory to account ior the trouble
some persons experience in fallinp asleep
at the time they deem it desirable is the
disproportion between the deprees of fa
tigue of the mind and body at the hour
of retiring. A person of sedentary hab
its, who uses his brain throuphoul the
day instead of his body, will often find
that while the former is wearied out and
requires reposo, the latter, needs exercise
instead of rest and is so restless in bed
that it will not permit its immaterial com
panion to sleep. If a man of active mind
lie employed durinp the day in heavy
manual labor, that thonph requiring no
exertions of wind, must have suliieient
attention to prevent thought upon other
matters, he will find atniphl that his un
wearied dunking apparatus will remain
wide awake in spite of the craving of the
worn out body for rest. The reason of
this and its remedy are quite apparent,
though many cannot understand why af
ter laboring industriously ail day, they
cannot sleep at night. e Jn parsons of ac
tive mind and sound body accustomed to
consecutive thought, the equilibrium of
fatigue must he observed, hut it does not
matter to those who never use tire think
ing faculties suilieienlly to induce weari
ness. The mind, in such eases, is always
ready to fall asleep when the body does.
Ax KiotoI! in Now Suit.—Mr.
Clark, editor of the Kendall (III.) Clari
on, is a man who loves a good joke, and
never lots an opportunity slip that promi
ses a dish offnn. Here is one of his last:
Disguised—We -have lately got a new
suit of clothes, and no man could be more
eHectually disguised. We look tike a
gentleman. Upon first putting it on we
felt like a eat in a strange garret, and for
a long time thought we were swapped
off.
Wo wont to tho house ami .scuml Iho
baby almost into fits ; iril'c asked if wo
wniilod to sou Mr. Clark, and said ho was
at the otlico ; wont thoro ami prolly soon
a man eahio in with a strip of paper in
Ids hand. He asked if the editor was in ;
told him wo thought not; askod him if
lie wished to see him particularly ; said
lie wanted him to pay that bill; told him
wo- didn't believe he’d he, in; business
man left. Wo started to the houswagain;
mot a couple of ynmig ladies: one of them
asked the other,' “what handsome strang
er is (hat?” In our dilemma, wo met a
friend and told him who wo wore, and
got him to introduce us to our wile, who
is now as proud of us as she can be.
Tuy It. —-Keep out of del it. i *ay as
you go. Huy nothin}; except tho money
is in your pdeket. Have no account cur
rent afthe grocers or butchers. Clo with
out now clot lies till you can pay for them.
(t ive your note of hand to nobody, b.s
ehew credit. Heal for cash only, dub
scriho for a good newspaper; pay the
printer in advance; deal honestly with
everybody; support the President in Ids
olibr'ts to" restore the Union; repudiate
Abolitionism; Vote the Democratic tick
et, fear theiiord, andpreparo for I leaven.
jjrj-'lf you want your liens to more
than pay their keeping, feed them well,
and keep broken oyster shells and hones
always iu their yard.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 22,1866.
THE WOMEX OF SPAiy
On tlio Alameda, or Public Walk of
Malaga, such a variety of colors mod ami
dazzle the eye, as to make the stranger at
once conclude that, whatever attractive
qualities Spanish women may possess,
taste in dress cannot lie consideredamong
them. The most sinking novelty, on
first landing in Spain, is the man/il/a, or
black veil, which is generally worn, al
though hero and there bonnets are creep
ing in, ami Spanish women are sacrific
ing the only becoming peculiarity they
have left, in order to imitate the fashions
of their neighbors. There is an elegance
ami a dressy appearance about the man
tilla which'crcatc'surprise at its not hav
ing been adopted by other nations; audit
Spaniards could only lie made to feel how
unbecoming bonnets are to them—the
rich masses of whose splendid hair pre
vent the bonnet being properly worn, —
they woukhehorish the mantilla, as con
ferring on them a peculiar charm, in
which they are safe to fear no rivals.
f know X shall lie accused of insensi
bility and want of taste, when I confess
that my first disappointment on landing
in Spain, was the almost total absence of
beauty among the Spanish women.
Poets have sung of Spain's “ dark, glanc
ing daughters,” and travelers have wan
dered Hi rough (lie country with minds so
deeply impressed with the pre-eonceived
idea of (he licaidy of Jdio woinen, that,
they have found them alt their imagina
tions so fondly pictured; and in their
works have fostered, what I cannot help
maintaining is a mere delusion—one of
the many in which people still indulge,
when they think and dream of Spain.
The women of Spain have magnificent
eyes, beautiful hair, and generally line
teeth ; lad more than that cannot lie said
by those who are content to give an hon
est and candid opinion. 1 have rarely
soon one whose features could lie culled
strictly beautiful, and that bewitching
grace and-fascination about (heir figures
and their walk which they formerly pos
sessed, have disappeared with the high
comb which supported the mantilla, and
Hie narrow basquina—which gave a pe
culiar character to their walk. With the
change in Uieircostuine, those distinctive
charms have vanished. The gaudy col
ors which now prevail,have destroyed the
elegance that always accompanies black,
in which alone, some years since, a lady
could appear in public. No further proof
of this is required than to sec the same
people at church, whore black is consid
ered indispensable, and on the Alameda,
with red drosses anil yellow shawls, or
some colors equally gaudy, and combined
willi as little regard to taste.
Although 1 have not yet discovered the
beauty'of Spanish women, X must say
Unit Ilic Malagucniansare fairly entitled,
in all that does exist, to dispute the palm
with tlie inhabitants of any other town
wo have visited. There arc some very
pretty' faces, and very characteristic (if
the Spanish countenance. They are gen
erally very dark, and almost all have
that peon liar projecting brow which gives
to the face quile'a character of its own.
The women have a -Universal custom of
putting IVesh flowers in their hair. It
strikes one much', upon lirst arriving to
sec those of every class, oven the poorest,
with some (lower or another most grace
fully placed in their rich black hair; the
beauty of which is not a little enhanced
by the bright red rose or snowy jessa
mine, contrasting so well with their ra
ven tresses. The hair is generally worn
plain—curls being seldom seen, for they
do not suit the mantilla; and if flowers
cannot be procured, some bright ribbon
is invariably worn as a substitute. The
love of brilliant and showy colors appear
ing to form a fulling passion in the pres
ent day, oflora a singular contrast to the
fashion twenty years ago—when a lady
who would have ventured into the street
dressed in anything but black, would
have been mobbed and insulted by the
people. Our first visit to the theatre at
Malaga, confirmed my impressions of the
exaggerated accounts generally given of
.Spanish beauty. —Lady Louisa T< nison's
Casiir and Andalusia.
Fxrrnxu Hack with a Runaway
Fxciixe. —An exciting race between two
locomotives occurred recently at Newcas
tle, Ungland. The authorities received a
telegram at the Central Station, Newcas
tle, that engine No. 392 was then tearing
along the down lino at tremendous speed
without any one upon it. It appears that
the engine was standing with a ballast
train at Durham, only the'lireman being
on it, the driver standing on the ground
near it. While thus standing, No. 392
was run into by another engine. The
shock detached 'the ballast engine from
tiie train, threw open Hie regulator, and'
pitched the (ireman upon the ground.—
The result of the regulator being open
was that No. 392 came away at a gradual
ly increasing rale of speed. Meeting no
impediment to its progress, the engine
ran on at a great pace. It is usual to
slacken sliced in approaching and cross
ing Victoria bridge, and when the engine
came rushing on with unchecked speed,
tiie company’s servant at Wash-house at
once saw there was something wrong.—
At this station an engine was standing,
the driver of which, Ralph Gilchrist, at
once detached his engine from the train,
and followed as fast as lie could. It was a
long and exciting race, the runaway go
ing at the rate of sixty infles an hour,
and Gilchrist only succejuled in ranging
up alongside of it at Wash-house lane,
about half a mile oul*h“of Gateshead.—
As soon as this was affected, the fireman,
John Haly, jumped from his own engine
on to N0.*392, and .succeeded in bringing
it up, fortunately without any damage
being done.
PuixTixci. —The art of printing, which
at the present day is one of the most pop
ular and influential modes of communi
cating knowledge to the world, and which
as' a science, is indispensable to the wants
of the age, had many difficulties to contend
with in the commencemonjk.and might
have proved a failure in thejuands of less
determined and energetic men. When
Dr. Faust undertook, in the fifteenth-cen
tury, to dispose of his printed copies of the
Dilile, in the city of Paris, the lowness of
their price, compared with the manuscript
.copies, (the latter selling at live hundred
crowns, and the printed ones at, thirty,)
together with the facility with which they
were turn ished and the uniformity of their
appearance, excited the superstitious ap
prehensions of the. masses,, and he was
supposed to be in league with the devil.
■ 1 nformation wus-lodged againstTn'm-in"
the police court, anil he was charged with
being a magician. His promises were
searched, and all the bibles found upon
them seized. The red ink used lor their
embellishment was mistaken for his blood,
and the fact that he was associated with
his iSataniCfinajesty was universally be
lieved. Faust was obliged to fly the king
dom to save himself from thejndgmentof
Iho Judges of the times; who condemned
wilidies to deal h by tiie most cruel torture,
and with whom demonology was a firm
and cherished belief. The circumstance
gave rise to the story of “ Dr. Faust and
lhe Devil,” with which our readers arc
familiar, and which has been dramatized
and put upon the stage, to the no little
amusement and gratification of (ho play
goers who have witnessed its performance.
I Printers can breathe freer now than they
I could then, and their vocation is the ob
i Joel of far less suspicion, but they are still
the victims of many grievances, and their
labors are not always appreciated as they
should be.
ROMANTIC .lII’RDEU TRIAL.
The Murdered Mini Suddenly Appcars in Court — Un
certainty of. Circumstantial Evidence.
Tire Benton (111.) Standard relates a
story of a trial for murder which ended
in romance and not in tragedy. Tire man
supposed to be murdered walked into
court, alive and well, during the trial.
The Standard says: A few ..weeks since
wo noticed the fact of the finding
of a human skeleton in the woods,
about two miles east of this place, by Mr.
Benjamin Williams, and of the verdict of
thq jury,of inquest, designating the skele
ton as the remains of a young xuan by tlie
name of Henry Mahorn, and implicating
David Williams, as tire murderer. The
circumstances surrounding the case were
strongly against the accused, as the miss
ing young man was last seen, in this com
munity, about a year ago in company
with Williams, on their way to enlist jn
the army as substitutes.
Tlie accused, after an absence of a few
weeks, returned home alone, stating that
his comrade, Henry Mahorn, had enlist
ed in the 10th Regiment Missouri infan
try. This appeared plausible at the time,
and Henry Mahorn was almost entirely
forgotten by oar citizens, until the find
ing of the skeleton in the woods. The
suspicions of our citizens were at once
aroused, from the fact that the clothing
was identified ns the same worn by Ma
horn when last seem Their suspicions
that lie had been foully murdered by
Williams was much intensified by learn
ing that his father and family, living in
Tennessee, had never heard from him
from the time lie left this neighborhood,
in company with Williams, to join the
army, although diligent inquiry had
been made to ascertain, if possible, his
whereabouts.
The supposed murderer was immedi
ately arrested upon the rendering of the
verdict of the jury of inquest, and lodged
in the county jail to await his trial. On
Monday, the loth lust., the prisoner was
brought into court, before his Honor .1 udgo
DnlTp/on a writ of habeas corpus. The
court proceeded with the trial. The cir
cumstances, as revealed by the evidence,
pointed directly to the prisoner as the
murder ofMahorn, as the clothing found
was identified as Ins ; and that certain
teeth, which he was known to have had
extracted in his lifetime, were the iden
tical ones that were found wanting in
the jaws of the skeleton.
In fact, the circumstances pointing to
the guilt of the accused were so strong
that nine-tenths of the citizens of thjs
community were fully satisfied of his
guilt.
In the midst of the trial, imagine the
utter astonishment of the court, counsel,
witness, the excited spectators, as well as
the overwhelming joy of the prisoner of
the dock, by the sudden appearance of
Henry Mah'orn, in propria persona, in
tlie court-room, in full vigor of life, hale
and hearty, giving the most unmistaka
ble evidence that he had not been mur
dered, and that the accused was innocent
of tlie henious crime with which he was
charged. The prisoner was so overcome
with joy at this unexpected and apparent
ly providential deliverance from tlie sus
picious circumstances that surrounded
him that lie wept like a child. The judge
at once ordered the release of the accused.
It seems that Maliron had joined the
army under an assumed name, and in
consequence was unable to hold corres
pondence with his friends; and being
discharged but a few days previous to tlie
trial of the young man Williams, as bis
murderer, lie fortunately arrived in Ben
ton tlie very day the trial commenced.
This ease should serve as a lesson to
juries to bo slow in convicting on purely
circumstantial evidence. It would bo
more in accordance with the dictates of
humanity that ninety-nine guilty persons
should escape punishmentof the law than
one innocent person .should suffer an ig
noininous death.
This singularly romantic case, which
appears more like fiction than reality, has
produced a profound sensation in this
community, for the almost universal opin
ion was that the accused was guilty. In
deed, we think had not Mahorn returned,
or been accounted for, that it would have
been very doubtful whether a jury could
have been obtained in the country that
would have acquitted him, in view of the
strong circumstances that pointed to his
guilt.
Notes ok Overwork. —Unwise above
many is the man who considers every
hour lost which is not spent in reading,
writing, or study; and not more rational
is she who thinks every moment of her
time lost which does not find her sewing.
We once heard a man advise that a book
of some kind be carried in the pocket, to
be used of an unoccupied moment; such
was his practice. He died early. There
arc women who, after a hard day’s work,
will sit and sew by candle or gaslight till
their eyes arc almost blinded, or till cer
tain pains about the shoulders comoon,
which are almost insupportable, and are
only driven to bed by physical incapacity
to work any longer. The sleep of the
overworked, like those who do not work
at all, is unsatisfying and unrefreshing,
and both alike wake up in weariness, sad
ness, and languor, with an inevitable re
sult, both dying prematurely.
Let no one work in pain or weariness.
When a man is tired, ho ought to lie down
till he is fully rested; when, with reno
vated strength, the work will be better
done —done the sooner, and with self-sus
tained alacrity. The time taken from
seven or eight hours' sleep out of each
twenty-four is not gained, but time much
more than lost. We can cheat ourselves,
but we cannot cheat nature. A certain
amountnof food is necessary for a healthy
body; but if less than the amount be fur
nished, decay commences the very hour.
It is the same with sleep. Any one who
persists in allowing himself less than na
ture requires, will only hasten his arrival
to the madhouse or the grave.
A Rum Customer. —Professor Stowe
delivered a temperance discourse a few
Sunday evenings ago in the Fourth Con
gregational Church of Hartford, Connec
ticut, in the course of which he told
some amusing anecdotes.
Among them was one of a certain Jim
Wilson, a very rum customer, of Cum
berland, Maine, who used to get convert
ed at every camp-meeting, and soon after,
getting drunk again, would keep drunk
pretty much the rest of the year.
The Reverend Mr. Richardson, having
gothold of him at a camp-meeting, made
this prayer : - '
“O, Lord ! thou hast many times con
verted this poor sinner, and now again
hast thou made him a subject of thy sav
ing grace; we pray thee, O Lord, to take
him home, and to do it now, for if h.e re
mains on earth he will be drunk again in
less than a week !”
The prayer was answered to some pur
pose, for it so frightened the poor subject
of it that from that day lie became a re
formed and temperate man.
A Goon On, Story. —Three boys went
bathing in one of the slreaihs near Oil
Creek, and when they came out they
were so greasy that they couldn’t stay in
their clothes’ At last as they slipped
them on they would slip oil’again ; and
one of the lads in a heedless moment
narrowly escaped slippidgoutofhissUin.
On reaching home, their parents being
exceedingly frugal, wrung them out and
extracted about fifteen gallons of pure oil
from the three boys.
m. 52.—N0. 31),
MISTAKES AllOI'T EACH OTTIEH.
Not one man in ten thousand secs t hose
with whom lie associates as they re
ally arc. If the prayer of limns was
granted, and could all see ourselves as
others see us, our self-estimates would in
all probability be much more erroneous
than they are now. The truth is, that
wo regard caeli other through a variety ol
lenses, no one of which is correct. Pas
sion and prejudice, love and hate, bene
volence and envy, spectacle our eyes, and
utterly prevent us from observing'accu
rately. Many of those we deem the por
celain of human clay are mere,dust; and
still a greater number of those we put
down in our “ black books,” are no furth
er oil - from heaven, and purchance a lit
tle nearer, than the censors who con
demn them. Wo habitually undervalue
each other; and in estimating character,
the shrewdest of us now and then make
the true appraisal of the virtues and de
fects of even our closest intimates.
It is neither just nor fair to look at
character from a stand point of one’s own
selection. A man’s profile may be unpre
possessing, and his lull agreeable. We
once saw a young man whose timidity
was a standing joke with all his compa
nions, leap into the Thames, and save a
boy from drowning while .his tormentors
stood panic struck upon the hank. The
merchant who gives curt answers in his
counting-house may he a temler husband
and father and a kind helper of the deso
late and oppressed. On the other hand,
your good humored person, who is all
smiles and sunshine in public may car
ry something as luud as the nether mill
stone in the place where his heart ought
to be.
Such anomalies are common. There is
this comfort, however, for those whose
judgments for their fellow mortals lean
to the kindly side, such mistakes go to
their credits in the great account. He
who thinks better of ids neighbors than
they deserve, cannot lie a hail man, for
the standard by which ins judgment is
formed is the goodness of his own heart.
It is tlie base only who believe all men
base, or in other words, like themselves.
Few, however, are all evil. Even Nero
did a good turn to some body ; for when
Home was rejoiceing over ids dentil some
loving hand covered ids grave .with (low-
Public men are seldom or never fairly
judged at least while living. However
pure they cannot escape calumny ; how
ever correct they are surelo find eulogists.
History may do them justice; hut they
rarely' get it while alive, either from
friends or foes. — Ex.
Ask the Captain.—While crossing
the plains to Santa Fe, General Kearney
was some distance ahead with the ad
vance guard. One of the ollicers belong
ing to the rear division singled Bob out,
and sent him ahead witii a letter to (lie
general'. When ho came up with them
they had camped, and Bob sauntered in
to tlie general’s marque.
“ We’re gettin’ along rigid sharp, (Jen
eral," said he.
“ Yes, sir," answered the commander.
“ 1 wish you’d jist look at that boss o’
mine, General,” said Bob, “ and give me
your ’pinion how he’d stand the racket
elar through to whar we’re goin.”
"Have you a captain at the head of your
company ’?” inquired the general.
"Wall, we hcv, boss, and lie’s some
punkins, too," answered Bob.
" Whenever you wisli to learn anything
in regard to your movements, then’," said
the general, " inquire of him."
“ That’s military, is it’.’" inquired Bole
"That is military, sir," answered the
general.
"Well, General, they gin me a letter
for you, but cuss mo if 1 know whether I
ouglitorgivc it you in pusson, or send it
through your orderly, so I’ll go back and
ask the Cap’n,” and back lie went, sure
enough, with the letter in his possession.
—Ex.
Life and Death. —How brief the dis
tance between life and death. Life is but
the vestibule of death, and onr pilgrimage
oil earth is but a journey to the grave.—
The pulse that denotes our life stay beats
our death march ; the blood which circu
lates through our bodies, while it Hows
with the tide of life, floats them onward
to the deeps of death. O how closely al
lied is death to life! Trees do but grow
that they may be felled. Empires rise
and flourish but to decay; they vise to
fall. Death is the black servant who
rides behind the chariot of life. Death
reaehoth far throughout this world, and
has stamped all terrestrial things with
the broad arrow of the grave. Dul, bles
sed be God ! there is a place whore death
is not life’s eiptal, following hard its track
as evening shades the sun’s meredian,
nor life’s companion like a brother stick
ing fast and cleaving close. There life
reigns alone; there death knells are nev
er tolled. Blessed hind above the skies !
To reach it we must die; but if after death
we obtain a glorious immortality, then
“to die is gain.’’— 11. Hpurrjcnn.
AVuitino Epitaphs.—We are all very
busy about that work. We do not let a
day pass without doing something in this
lino; And we are all busy, not in writing
epitaphs for others, hutin writing our
own. And wo are making it very sure
that people will read what we have writ
ten when We are gone. .Shall we not lie
remembered? If not by many, we cer
tainly shall by a few. And that remem
brance we are making sure of by the te
nor of our lives. Our characters are the
inscriptions we are making on the hearts
of those who knew and will survive ns.—
We do not leave this ollice to others. We
are doing it ourselves. Olliers might fal
sify and deceive by what they say of us.
Blit we arc’telling the truth- The - actions
of our passing life are facts visible, plain,
undeniable. We engrave them on the
minds of all observers. How interesting
the question.. What kind of epitaphs are
we writing? Will they bo read with joy
or sorrow? Remember, the epitaph'.w’e
write is not for the marble that tell where
we lie, but for the memory of every one
that knew us.
RATHER Mad.—Till* Drived Adn ,-/!■
•w and Tribune (Radical i, wo should
thinkfrom (ho following comments. is
rather mad over the President's veto :
“The purport of the message is plain,
it is dolianoo to Congress. It is ilelUinee
of tlic popular will expressed through
that body. It seeks an oeeasion fori|iiar
rel aml makes the.]minis of dissenL_so_
broad'that only baseness and treachery
can bridge over the ohasni. The I’resi
dent turns his back ipmji tiie men who
made him, and throws himself into the
arms of the South where lie eame from.
The nod of the Southern aristocrat Ims
turned the head of his violent denouncer.
There is no doubting that he moans worse
than lie says. IIV arr so bd out, dirt chrup,
and a thrill of conscious power will pen
etrate every corner of rebehlom. 117// ,
ConyrcHH yield to thin vnu ryenry it does 1
not seem so. AVe conjure Unit body to
stand firm ! It is now the only reliance !
of the country, and it may >/<’! hr.Domr Ur
solemn duty to impearh the /’resident.”
Mot so far From the Truth. —To be
a .woman of .fashion is'one of the easiest
things in the world. A late .writer thus
describes it: 1 Buy everything yon don’t
want, and pay for nothing yon get; smile
on all mankind but your husband; be
happy everywhere but at home ; neglect
your children and nurse lap-dogs ; go to
church every time you get a new dress.’
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JhVVKSTIorV OS' i'imVHIZliY,
In the month of May, FT,!), a iuav family
moved into the villa,im oi>'aintes, Franco.
The father, Bernard .Falissy, was quite
celebrated for his painlines on iMass. —
They lived comfortable and happy. Ber
nard \v:d indu-irion-. ami earned enough
to ]»rovide for all the want - of hF family.
A Her they had been two years at .Sainted,
I Bernard one day .-aw a very beautiful cup,
ami was determined to make a \ase sim
ilar to it, hut -I render and more u-oful.
So he went to work and mixed different,
kind.-of earth, and kneaded it and halted
it, hut it was not what he meantit should
he.
Me laid aside t lie paint inupU’glass, which
had supported his family so comfortably,
and spent all his lime trying to make tills
vase, which he was verv.-ure he could do.
Kvery day his family arow poorer and
poorer, but he comforted himself by say
iii.a that to-morrow he should have more
than his i-tmnu: box could hold. To-mor
row came, but It brought no relief to the
sullerinir household. Many to-morrows
passed away, but still the strong box was
empty. Mis starving wife and children
clasped lludrlhin hands,and with stream
ing tears besought him to return to his
truth?—hut he would not. Twenty years
glided on in sutlbrini*: and poverty. Ber
naril’s hair was irray, and ins form bowed,
hut still he thought only oj* his darling
object.’ His children were scattered hero
and there, to earn their daily bread. His
neighbors called him madman, fool, vil
lain.
[Suddenly the apprentice, who had serv
ed him patiently for many years, declared
he would not remain another hour. Poor
Bernard was obliged to give part of his
own clothing in payment of his wages,
and was now obliged himself to attend
•his oven. It is in the cellar, and he anx
iously gropes his way down the dark
staircase.
“.More wood! more wood I" There is
none in the lit tle shed ; I hero is none be
side the cottage-door. What is to be done?
Almost wild, Bernard tears down the frail
garden fence, and hurls it into (lie lire.
The Ihimes rise high and hot, but still it
is not enough. A chair, a stool, a table,
whatever the frantic man can seize, is
thrown into tin 1 glowing furnace. Sud
denly a loud shout, rings through the
heated cellar. His trembling wife has
tens to obey the call. There stands Ber
nard, gazing in Joy on the vase so long
desired, at length'obtained 1 The news
of his discovery spread far and wide, and
Henry 111., then king of France, scut for
him io come .to Paris and received him
in his palace. Here he lived for many
years, a rich and honored man. At length
a per.secntion arose against the Protes
tants. Bernard refused to give up his re
ligion, and was therefore placed in prison,
where he died in the yearloit).
SricTiu; in P.wtt.s. —The capital corres
pondent of the Daily 7'imc.i, Hick Tfnto,
in a late letter fiom Paris, thus ridicules
tlie mania for committing suicide, which
pr< vails in the French metropolis:
Three suicides day before yesterday!—
Two by womenon account of gentlemen,
ami one by a man on account of a dog. A
girl bad been cured of a severe illness, by
a celebrated physician ; lie refused to ac
cept any compensation, whereupon she
fell in love with him. She struggled for
a long time with her passion, and at last
wrote to the object of it. She then blabbed
herself withn knife. She soon recovered
from her M ound, and then jumped out of
a three story window, and broke her
hack-bone. The second, .a married wo
man, Mgis, very fond of her husband. One
morning, as he was going to his business,
he asked her fora kiss ; she refused, in
order to he asked again, and perhaps
chased round the room. He did not in
sist, however, and went away. The wife
now began to think that she had been
cruel; and the idea entered her head that
her husband would he unable to bear the
slight, and that he Mould throw himself
into tlie Seine. She resol vedLnot to sur
vive him. Sire lighted of
charcoal, and m licii he returned at mid
night, he lonnd her breathing iter last.
He revived her, momentarily, and im
plored her lo live. She consented; he
rushed for a physician, and when he re
turned, site Mats dead. As for the man, I
am ashamed lo recount the ignoble cir
cumstances of his death, after these heroic
instances. He bad cut oil' the ears and
tail of his dog, and had been lined twenty
one francs for it. This sum lie could not
pay; the lady to whom lie was engaged
had only twelve sous to spare; so, on the
morning when tlie line fell due, ho hang
ed himself with his cravat. His betroth
ed, when she di.-covered him suspended
beiiind the door, fell down stabs and
sprained her ancle. The taste for self
slaughter is decidedly wit tlie increase.
Two lion FES 1 NTEAD OK ONE. —An
amusing incident is related of a woman
in England whose liusbanfi, a wealthy
man, died suddenly without leaving a
will. The widow, desirous of securing
the whole property, concealed her hus
band's death, and persuaded a poor shoe
maker to lake his place while a will could
be made. Accordingly he was closely
mullled in bed as if very sick, and a law
yer was called to write the will. The
shoemaker in a feeble voice bequeathed
half of all the properly to the widow. —
“What shall be.done' with the remain
der?'' asked the lawyer. “.The remain
der," replied he, “i'givo and bequeath
to the poor little shoemaker across the
street, who has always been a good neigh
bor and a deserving man," I bus securing
a rich bequest for himself. The woman
wa-• thunderstruck with the man’s auda
cious cunning, hut did not dare expose
the fraud; and so two rogues shared the
estate.
A Beautifur Idea. —Among the Al
leghenies ihere is aspring so small that
a single ox could drain it dry on a sum
mer’s day. It steals Us unobtrusive way
among tlie hills till i( spreads out into the
beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away
a thousand miles, leaving on its banks
more than a hundred viliagies and cities,
and many thousand cultivated farms,ana
bearing on its bosom more than a thous
and sleainlioais. Then joining the Mis
sissippi, it stretches away some twelve
hundred miles -or more, until it falls into
the great emblem of eternity. It is one
of the great trihutariesof theocean, which
obedient only to clod, shall roll
.till-the angelywilh nnc'■Tnrit'rnr"the sea
and the other on land, shall lift up his
band to heaven and swear that time shall
be no longer, t-o with moral iniiuenee.
It is a rivulet, an ocean’, boundless and
fathomless as eternity.
A few weeks after a late marriage, the
husband had come peculiar thoughts
when pulling on Ids last clean shirt, as
he saw no appearance of a “washing."
He thereupon rose earlier than usual ono
morning and kindleda lire. When hang
ing outlie kettle, he made a noise on pur
pose to arouse his, easy wife. !she peeped
over the blankets and exclaimed: .
‘•My dear, wind are you doing’'"
He deliberately responded, “ I’ve put
on my la-t clean' shirt, and I'm going to
wash ono now I‘or myself."
‘ “ Very well," lepiied Mrs. Easy,
had better wa-h one lor me too!"
j ,-o-A tloverument to be free, must bo
ndmini-tered hyi-Tim; men; not by fana
tics, knaves, or madmen, but by men di
vested of every narrow party prejudice.
“you