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and Sugar Biscuit; Confectionery, of every description,
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THE POOR.
Have pity an them for life
Is full of grief and care;
You do not know one half the woes,
The very poor must bear.
You do not ace the silent tear,
By many a mother shed,
As childhood offers up the prayer,
"Give ua our daily bread.,
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And sick at heart, she turns away
From the small face wan with pain,
And feels that prayer has long been said
13y those young lips in vain.
You de not see The pallid cheeks
Of those whose years are few,
But who are old in all the griefs
The poor must struggle through.
Their lot is made of misery,
More hopeless day by day;
And through the long, cold winter nights,
No light nor Ere have; they.
But hula children, shivering, crouch
Around the cheerless hearth,
Their young hearts weary with the want,
That drags the soul to earth.
Oh, when with faint and languld voice,
The poor implore your aid,
It runners not how, step Vamp,
Their misery was made; -
It matters not, if sham has laid
Its shadow on their brow—
It is enough for you to see
That they are suffering now.
Deal gently with these wretched ones,
Whatever 'wrought their woe;
For the poor have much to tempt and test,
That you never know.
Then judge them not, for hard indeed
Is their dark lot of care;
Let heaven condemn, but human hearts
With human faults should bear.
And when within your happy homes,
You hear the voice of minh,
%Then smiling faces brighten round
The warm and cheerful hearth;
Let charitable thoughts go forth,
For the sad and homeless one,
And your own lot more blessed will be,
For every kind deed done.
Now is the time the very poor
Most often meet your gaze—
Slave mercy on them in their cold,
And melancholy days.
INVOCATION TO SPRING
Lovely season! balmy Spring!
Come and all thy gladness bring!
Come on beds of fairest flowers,
With fragrance of maignolian bowers!
Come and point the violet blue,
And the lilly's charm renew;
Lovely season! balmy Spring!
Come, and 'round thy beauties fling!
Soon amid the vernal grove,
Will appear the birds we love,
Sweetest notes that mount on high,
Greeting Spring's uncertain sky,
Are the gentle sounds that float
From these warbler's tuneful throat
Lovely season! balmy Spring!
Come and all thy birdling's bring!
Come and give tho rose its bloom,
And the flow'rets !heir perfume,
And the verdant fields bestrew
With thy pearly drops of dew.
Lovely season! balmy Spring!
Come with fragrance on thy wing,
Come, adored In artless style!
Come, and let creation emile.
Biordtantrfuo.
THE ALLIGATOR AND BEAR.
A graphic account of a contest between
an alligator and bear, evidently written by
an eye-witness, appeared many years since.
Every incident is brought vividly to the
mind's eye.
"The witness while fishing on the banks
of a beautiful stream in Western Louisiana
was startled by a roaring of some animal in
the break near by, apparently getting
ready for action. These notes of prepara
tion were succeeded by the sound of feet,
trampling down the cane, and scattering
the shells on the ground. Rushing to the
trysting, instead of their being, what was
supposed, two prairie bulls mixing impetu
ously in battle, there was a large black
bear, raised upon his hind legs, his face be
smeared with white foam and sprinkled
blood, which, dropping from his month,
rolled down his shaggy breast. Frantic
from the •smarting of his wounds, he stood
gnashing his teeth and growling at his en
emy. Ona•bnnk of snowswhite shells, in
battle array was bruin's foe, a monster al
ligator. Ho looked as if he had just been
dipped in the Teche, and bad emerged, like
Achilles from the styx, with an invulnerable
coat of mail; he was standing on tip toe, his
back curved upward, and hie tonguelesi
mouth thrown open, displaying his wide
jaws, two Itrge tusks, and rows of teeth.—
His tail, six feet long, raised from the
ground, was constantly waving like a box
ers arm to gather force, his big eyes start
ing from his head, glared upon Bruin, while
sometimes uttering sounds between the
teeth.
"Bruin, though evidently baffled, had a
grum look, which showed he had not lost
confidence in himself. If the difficulty of
the undertaking had once deceived him, ho
was preparing to go at .it again: Accor
dingly letting himself down on all fours, be
ran furiously at the alligator, which being
ready for him, hrew his head and body
round to avoid the onset, and met Bruin
half way with a blow of that tail that rolled
him on the shells. The bear was not to be
put off by ono hurt; three •times in rapid
succession he rushed at the alligator, and
was as often repulsed in the same manner,
being knocked back by each blow far enough
to give the alligator, before he returned,
time to recover the swing of his tail. The
tail of the alligator sounded like a flail
against the coat of hair on Bruin's head and
shoulders, but Le bore it without flinching,
still pushing on, to come to close bold with
his scaly foe.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CIIMP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLYANIA,•SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1857.
"Finally, he made a fourth charge with a
degree of dexterity which those who have
never seen this clumsy animal exercising
would suppose him incapable of. 'lbis time
he got
,close to the alligator, before he
could recover his feet; Bruin grasped him
around the body, below the four legs and
holding him down on his back seized one of
the reptile's legs in his mouth. The alliga
tor was now in a desperate situation; he at
tempted in vain to bite, for his neck was so
stiff that he could not turn his head around.
Seized with desperation, the amphibious
beast issued a scream of despair; but being
a warrior by "flood and field," he was not
yet entirely overcome. Writhing his tail in
agony, he happened to strike it against a
small tree which stood next the band—aided
by this purchase he made a convulsive floun
der, which precipitated himself and Bruin,
locked together, into the river.
"The bank from which they fell was four
feet high, and the water below seven feet
deep. The tranquil stream received the
combatants with a loud splash, then closed
over them in silence. A volley of ascending
bubbles announced their arrival at the bot
tom, where the battle ended. Presently
Bruin rose again, scrambled up the bank,
cast a glance back at the river, and all
dripping; made off to the cane break."
"INGINS ABOUT."
A Texan correspondent of the New Or
leans Picayune, tells a good story in one of
his letters, of a "surly-faced, grizzly-haired,
snuffy and moon-eyed chap," who persecu
ted a rougish damsel with his attentions,
but was thrown off in the course of true
love by the following ruse:
It being the water melon season, and
Betty's father having a fine supply, all the
youngsters for miles around assembled there
on the holiday to feast on melons. C. was
prominent in the circle, till in the afternoon
when Betty held a private interview with
the other young men, and arraigned that
C. should be decoyed from the house and
frightened by the cry of Indians from some
of his comrades, which it was thought
would wound his pride and drive him away.
Five young men, with C. walked out. A
bath in the river, three hundred yards dis
tant was proposed by one, and seconded by
several. Of course, C. was "in."
They went down to the ford near tne melon
patch, and began undressing. In the mean
time eight or ten others, with guns had
gone down under cover of the bank, and
secreted themselves along the path from the
bathing place to the house. The company
with C. were in fine glee, and in going down
spoke of the recent outrages of the Indians
their increased boldness, &c., and thus ex.-
cited the anti-combative bumps of C. to the
highest pitch.
"Now boys," said one, " who shall be
first to dive in that 'er pool, eh?"
"I will," said C., "ain't I first with the
the gal's? In course I'm first here."
Off went coats, shoes, pants, &c. Just as
C. had doffed everything baring a short red
flannel shirt,—bang! bang! whoo yeh!—
loud and shrill rose the Indian yell in the
dense but and under the bank.
"Oh, I tim a dead man, boys!" said James
Simpson.
"My leg is broken! 014 save me!" cried
George Williams.
"Ran for your life, men ! Run for mer
cy's sake !" cried Jack Parsons ; "one of
my eyes is out and both arms broken !" all
being said in an instant ; when—do you
see that red blaze along the path ?—Look
a moment—what velocity. The jagged hair
all straight out behind—that's C. streaking
it for the house, shirt and all—see him about
the corner of the field by the thicket—bang!
bang! went half a dozen pieces—louder
than ever rose the hideous war cry.
" 0 Lord!" shouted C., redoubling his
speed—the red blaze getting larger—buneh
es of his busby hair dropping out as he
"spreads himself"—see himself—see him
leap the yard fence, high in the air, red
shirt and all !"
The porch was full of ladies—off went
two or three guns--C. glanced at the ladiei,
then at his red shirt.
'• Run for your life C.," screamed Betty,
the house is full of Indians ?—father's dead
and brother wounded I run speed?
• In the twinkling of an eye, C. was out of
the yard ; and supposing the premises sur
rounded, off he shot, the red blaze more
brilliant than ever, and striking directly
into a thick, thorny bottom, he reached and
swam the river, and although it was near
sunset, C. got into a settlement fifty miles
distant to breakfast next morning, still re
taining the sleeve and collar of his red shirt,
and reported all the family, visitors, &c.,
among the slain. As for himself, he said
he fought as long as fighting would do any
good.
It is unnecessary to inform you, dear
reader, whether or not Betty was troubled
with C. after that snap.
VALUABLE MANUSCRIPTI3.—It is said that
two volumes of manuscripts are in the pos
session of certain lineal descendants of the
Revolutionary General Morgan, in New
Orleans, which embrace several hundred
original letters of Washington, Lafayette,
Greene, Gates, Knox, Steuben, Sumpter,
Wayne, Smallwood, Hamilton, Jefferson,
Morgan and others. Such a collection, if
its contents are correctly stated, is far too
valuable to continue in any possession but
that of some public institution, - and it is de
sirable that some effort should be made to
purchase them from their present owner.
litY LOST FRIEND
Even while he was courting I kept my
hold on him. Against opposition on the
part of his bride,ind her family, he stipu
lated bravely tha; I should be his best man
on his wedding day. The beautiful woman
grudged me my one small corner in his
heart, even at that time; but he was true to
me—ho persisted—and I was the first to
shake hands with him when he was a mar
ried man. I had no suspicion that I was to
lose him from thht, moment. I only discov
ered the truth when I went to pay my first
visit to the bride' and bridegroom at their
abode in the couitry. I found a beautiful
house exquisitelzkept from top to bottom;
I found a hearty welcome; I found a good
dinner and an ttiO bed room; I found a
pattern husband aadttpattern wife: the only
thing I did not fins was my old friend.—
Something stood up in clothes, shook hands
with me, pressed wine on me, called me by
my Christian name, and inquired what I
was doing in my profession. It was
certainly something that had a trick of
looking very much like my former comrade
and brother; something that nobody in my
situation could have complained of the
smallest reason; something with all the
brightness of the old metal about it, but
without the sterling old rings; something
in short, which made me take my chamber
candlestick early on the first night of my
arrival and say good night, while the
beautiful woman and pattern wife was
present with her eye on that occasion!—'
the volume it spoke in one glance of cruel
triumph! "No more sacred secrets between
you two," it said brightly. "When you
trust him now, you trust me. You may
sacrifice yourself for your love of him
over and over again still, but he shall
make no sacrifices now for you, until he
has first found out how they affect my
conveniences and my pleasure. Your place
in his heart now is where I choose it to
i be. I have stormed the citadel, and I
will bring children by and by, to keep
the ramparts; and you, the faithful old
soldier of former years—you, have got
your discharge, and may sit and snn your
self at the outer gates. You have been his
truest friend, but he has another now, and
need trouble you no longer, except in the
capacity of witness of his happiness. This,
you will observe is the order of nature, and
the recognized fitness of things; and he
hopes you will see it, and so do I. And
he trusts you will sleep well under his (and
my) new roof—and so do I. And he wishes
you good night—and so do
THE DRUNKARD'S DEATH
What a spectacle is this! What a lesson
does it teach! The destruction of man's
corporal frame is not pleasant under any
circumstances. The taking down his "clay
tabernacle," even when he hopes to enter a
"building not made with hands," in the up
per skies, has something melancholy in it.
But when we see a mortal stretched upon
his dying couch whose life has been spent
in debauchery and revelry, what is there
connected with him or his, either past or
present, or future, that does not present the
most horrible and forbidding aspect? Life
is gone—property wasted—character blast
ed—wife and children beggared—there he
lies upon his bed of straw, with parched lips,
bloated countenance, and blood-shot eyes,
the very personification of ruin. Tossing
upon his hard and comfortless couch, pant
ing for breath, and calling for help, but all
in vain. Death marks him for his victim;
and now, if for a while he is relieved from
frightful ghosts and demons which hitherto
haunted his disordered imagination, con
science, the sleepless monitor, with redoubel
cd vigor, assails his still conscious soul, and
brings up before him every act of worthless
life, to blast all hope, to plunge him in
deeper agony, and to hurry his affrighted
spirits into the presence of his God. How
loudly and bitterly does he complain of
himself, of life, of friends, of God.
He prays, but it a the angry imprecation
of a doomed spirit, demanding of his Maker
a speedier discharge. Tho wild glare of his
scorched eyes, his restless tossing, his retch
ing hic-cough,and his deep hollow groans,
tell us how hard it is for a drunkard to die.
The very presence of once loved wife and
children, kindle in his bosom, in advance the
very fires of hell. The soothing voice of
mercy and theplaintive prayer of the man of
God kneeling by hs bedside, but add fuel to
the already raging same. Ile calls for water!
water! water! now, ere he takes up his hab
itation
where 'one drop' will not be al
lowed him; but, all! the cool draught only
adds force to the devouring fire. Friends
gather around to take a last farewell, and
his tremulous hand is extended to bid them
adieu; thoughts of the past, and of the fu
ture send their withering arrows, barbed
with the poison of death, to his bursting
heart; and with one strong, agonizing strug
gle, his ruined soulstaggers into the spirit
land to receive its sentence. Pity, com
passion, humanity, would let the veil drop
here, and cover up till the great assize
doom of the deluded, misguided wretch ;
but divine truth has said, "All drunkards
shall have their portion in the lake that
burneth with fire and brimstone.—Spiril
of the Age.
)-Preaching without notes, it has re
cently been discovered, is more common
than it was supposed to be, that is preacb
jug without bank notes.
A DESPERATE CONFLICT
Dr. Livingston gives a very interesting
description of a fight he witnessed in Af
rica between a lion and an antelope :
The Doctor and his guides had just merg
ed from a narrow defile between two rocky
hills, when they heard an angry growl,
which they knew to be that of the "mon
arch of the forest." At the distance of not
more than forty yards in advance of them,
a gemsbok stood at bay, while a huge tawny
lion was crouched on a rocky platform,
above the level of the plain, evidently medi
tating an attack on the antelope ; only a
space of about twenty feet separated the
two animals. The lion appeared to be ani
mated with the greatest fury—the gemsbok
was apparently calm and resolute—present
ing his well fortified head to the enemy.—
The lion cautiously changed his position,
descended to the plain and made a circuit,
obviously for the purpose of attacking the
gemsbok in the rear, but the latter was on
the alert, and still turned his head toward
his antagonist.
This manceuvering lasted about half an
hour, when it appeared to the observers
that the gemsbok used a stratagem to in
duce the lion to make his assault. The
flank of the antelope was fur a moment
turned to his fierce assailant. As quick as
lightning the lion made a spring, but while
in the air, the gemsbok turned his head,
bending his neck so as to present one of his
spear-like horns at the lion's breast. A ter- ,
rible laceration was the consequence ; the
lion fell back on his haunches, showing a
ghastly wound in the lower part of the neck.
Ho uttered a howl of rage and anguish,
and backed off to the distance of fifty yards,
seeming half disposed to give up the con
test, but hunger, fury or revenge once more
impelled him forward. His second assault
was more furious and headlong ; he rushed
at the gemsbok, and attempted to leap over
the formidable borns in order to alight on
his back.
The gemsbok, still standing on the defen
sive, elevated his head, speared the lion in
the side, and inflicted what the spectators
believed to be a mortal wound, as the horns
penetrated to the depth of six or eight in
ches. Again the lion retreated, groaning
and limping in a manner that showed that
he had been severely hurt; but he soon col
lected all his energies for another attaek.—
At the instant of the collision, the gemsbok
presented a horn so as to strike the lion be
tween the two forelegs, and so forceful was
the stroke, that the whole length of the
horn was buried in the lion's body. For
nearly a minute the two beasts stood
motionless; thee the gemsbok, slowly back
ing, withdrew his horn, and the lion totter
ed and fell on his side, his limbs quivering
in the agonies of death. The victor made a
triumphant flourish of his heels, and trotted
off apparently without having received the
least injury iu the conflict.
THE CONSIDERATE DOCTOR.
A poor girl who had just recovered from
a lite sickness, gathered up her scanty earn
ings, and went to the doctor's office to set
tle her bill. Just at the door, a lawyer of the
place passed into the office before her, on a
similar errand.
"Well, doctor," said he, "I believe I am
indebted to you, and I should like to know
how much."
"Yes," said the doctor, "I attended upon
you about a week, and what should you
charge me for a week's services?"
"Oh!" said the lawyer, "perhaps seventy
five dollars."
"Very well, then, as my time and profes
sion are as valuable as yours, your bill is
seventy-five dollars."
The poor girl's heart sank within her, for
if her bill should be anything like that how
could she ever pay? The lawyer paid his
bill and passed out, when the doctor turned
to the young woman and kindly enquired
her errand.
"I came," said she, to know what I owe
you, though I know not as I ever can pay
you."
"I attended you about a week," said he.
"Yes, sir."
"What do you get per week?"
"Seventy-five cents," said she.
"Is that all?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then your bill is seventy-fire cents,"
said he.
The poor girl paid him thankfully, and
went back with a light heart. An old and
rich man of my acquaintance, was once re
marking to the doctor that no one earned
their money so easily as the doctor, or got
rich so easily. The doctor reminded him
of the many losses incurred, as they must
visit the poor as well as the rich.
"Well," said my old friend, "you must
charge the rich the more, and then you can
afford to lose by the poor."
Not many weeks after, the old man was
obliged to employ the doctor for some time.
At the last visit his bill was presented, and
he strongly protested against it as enor
mously high.
"But," said the doctor, "you know what
you told me, and I have only followed your
advice."
Not a word more was said, but the amount
was immediately paid.
aliir - Be kind in your reproofs, and reserve
them till the morning. No one can sleep
who gnes to bed with a flea in his ear.
WHAT MAKES OLD MAIDS AND
BACHELORS.
We will paint a picture—one in which
the lights and shades appear strong, per
haps, but which every one will recognise as
not outraging the truth of nature. There
are two houses built side by side. In the
one dwells a widow and her daughter, fair,
light-hearted, the sunshine of her mother's
declining years, but alas ! not rich. With
all the affectionate instincts of a. woman's
heart, with all the capabilities to create hap
piness in a man's house, she remains un
seen and unchosen. As time passes on, she
gradually deepens into old-maidism. Where
once she was heard singing about the home,
like Una making, a sunshine in the shady place,
her voice is now heard shrill in complaint;
parrots and cats accumulate, taking the
place of a more human love, and her words
are those of sharp reproof and spite against
those very instincts of maternity which have
been so long the master-spirit of her thoughts.
Her affections, after in vain throwing them
selves out to seek some sympathetic answer,
turn in with bitterness upon her own heart,
and she remains that most melancholy of
all spectacles—a nature with aspirations
unfilled. In the next house lives a bache
lor---young, open-hearted and generous.—
Busied in the struggle of life, he has per
haps no time fur parties ; he sees little of
society, the female portion of it especially ;
a knowledge of his own brusqueness of man
ners at first prevents him from coming in
contact with womankind, and this shyness
in time becomes so strong as not to be over
come. It might seem strange, but we are
convinced it is the fact, that some men are
much more afraid of women than women
arc of men, and fearing " to break the ice"
is a fruitful cause of old bachelorism.—
Gradually age grows upon him, chalk stones
gather in his knuckles, gout seizes hold of
his toes ; served by menials, he is a stran
ger to the soft and careful hand of affec
tion ; and he goes to the grave, his death
not only unlamented but absolutely rejoiced
over by his heir-at-law. A wall of but six
inches thick has this time divided these two
people. Society does not allow them even a
chink, which, like Pyramus and Thisbe,
they might whisper through, although by
nature they might have been formed to
make a happy couple, instead of two miser
able units.
A. BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.
As in the light of cultivated reason, you
look abroad and see a wealth of beauty, a
profusion of goodness in the work of Him
who has strewn flowers in the wilderness,
and painted the bird, and enamelled the
irettect, in the simplicity and universality of
his laws you can read this lesson. An un
educated man dreams not of the common
sunlight which now in its splendor floods
the firmament and the landscape; he can
not comprehend how much of the loveliness
of the world results from the composite
character of light .and from the reflecting
propensities of the most physical bodies.—
If, instead of red, yellow and blue, which
the analysis of the prism and experiments
of absorption have shown to be its constitu
ents, it bad been homogeneous, simple white,
how changed would all have been ! The
growing corn and the ripe harvest, the blos
som and the fruit, the fresh greenness of
spring, and the autumn's robe of many co
lors. the hues of the violet, the lily and the
rose, the silvery foam of the rivulet, the
emerald of the river, and the purple of the
ocean, would have been alike unknown.—
The rainbow would have been but a pale
streak in the grey sky, and dull vapors
would have canopied the sun instead of the
clouds, which, in the dyes of flaming bril
liancy, curtained his rising up and going
down. Nay, there would have been no dis
tinction between the blood of children, the
flush of health, the paleness of decay, the
hectic of disease and the lividness of death.
There would have been an unvaried, un
meaning, leaden hue, where we now see the
changing and expressive countenance, the
tinted earth and gorgeous firmament.
EVERY FARMER GROWING HIS
OWN SUGAR.
The great demand made at the Patent
Office, this year, for the Chinese Sugar
Cane, indicates that the cultivation will be
very extensive, the only difficulty in the way
being the want of cheap and portable ma
chinery for extracting the juice of the cane.
This difficulty, wo see, our own inventors
are already endeavoring to remove. A Mr.
Hedges, of Cincinnati, has a machine on
exhibition at Washington, which is designed
fur a sugar mill. It consists of three verti
cal cast-iron rollers, supported between
cast-iron plates, resting upon a triangular
wood frame, about eight feet on its sides.—
Under each corner is a large truck wheel,
adjusted when working so as to revolve in a
circle, the shaft of one of the rollers occupy
ing the centre of the frame, and clutched
fast to a timber below, Preventing its turn
ing, while the other two, being geared into
it at the top, are made to revolve around it,
as the whole frame is turned by the horse.—
On one corner is a feed table, from which a
man feeds the cane, which having been act
ed upon by the two rollers, passes out upon
a table on the other corner, which is re-
moved as often as a sufficient quantity ac=
cumulates. The juice passes down through
the bed plate, and is received in a vessel
made for that purpose. Cheap and portable
machinery is all that is wanted to test the
great experiment which is now being tried
with the Chinese Sugar Cane.
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SCANDAL
The devil has a wonderful penchant for
rebuking sin. Eyes which are full of beams
have an unaccountable clearness of vition
in detecting motes in others' eyes. Some
people are brought into the world to accom
plish a marvelous mission, and that mission
is to ferret out obliquities in others: Of
Of course it is not expected that these apos
tles have any business with themselves;
their mission is violent, and does not admit
of time to scrutinize their own position.—
What profit is it that they should stop to
consider their own pecadilloes, when the en
ormities of their neighbors loom up like
mountains?
So goes it the world over. Everybody
minds everybody's business, but everybody
neglects his own. What sort of a world
would this be, if we were all without each
other to feed upon? Men have eyes and
ears for some purpose, and what else could
thyy find for them to do, if not to hear and
see each other's failings, derelictions, errors,
transgressions, enormities. They have
tongues which must stand uselessly idle, if
not employed in giving currency to such
delinquencies. So it is with man. The
obliquities of his offended brother furnishes
the chief staple of conversational interest.—
Human error is the current coin of inter
course, and too often the coin comes from
the speaker's brain.
A SINGULAR FASCINATION
An English paper relates the following
unaccountable occurrence: One of the most
singular instances in connection with mate
rial things exist in the case of a young man,
who not long ago, visited a large iron manu
factory. He stood opposite a large hammer,
and watched with great interst its perfect,
regular strokes. At first it was beating im
mense lumps of crimson metal into thin
black sheets, but the supply becoming ex
hausted at length, it only decended on the
polished anvil. Still the young man gazed
intently on its motion; then ha followed its
stroke with a corresponding motion of his
head ; then his left arm moved to the same
tune, and finally, he deliberately placed his
fist upon the anvil, and in an instant it was
smitten to a jelly. The only explanation
he could afford was that he felt an im
pulse to do it, that he knew he should be dis
abled, that lie saw all the consequences in
a misty kind of kind manner, but he still
felt the power within above sense and reason .
—a morbid impulse, in fact, to which he
succombed, and by which he lost a good
hand.
AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN
Under the above caption, an exchange
gives'an obituary of a brother of the quill,
from which we extract the closing para-
ME
"Are we not also glad that such an editor
is in Heaven? There the cry of "morn
copy" shall never again fall upon his distract
ed ears. There he will no more be abused
by his political antagonists, with lies and
detraction that should shame a demon to
promulgate. There he shall be no more
used as a ladder for the aspiring to kick
down as soon as they reach the desired
height, and need him no more. There ho
shall be able to see the immense masses of
mind he has moved, all unknowingly and
unknown as he has been, during his weary
pilgrimage on earth. There he will find all
articles credited—not a clap of his thunder
stolen, and there shall be no horrid typo
graphical errors to throw him into a fever.
We are glad the editor is in Heaven."
"LOVE'S STRATAGEM."
The Shippensburg (Pa.) Democrat relates
a pretty little 'mance of real life, the par
ties in which are young Germans in bum
ble life. Two young men formed an attach
ment for two maidens in their fatherland,
mid desired to marry. The young women
reciprocated the tender regard, and were
willing to marry the swains. But the pa.
rents were not satisfied with the standing
of their daughters' lovers, and refused con
sent. It was then agreed between the par
ties that the young men should come to
America, earn money sufficient to pay the
fare of their sweethearts, and then send for
them, the girls agreeing faithfully to follow
their lovers. The young men found em
ployment near Shippensburg, saved their
money, and last fall sent fer their betrothed.
They came, promptly, without the consent
or knowledge of their parents, and a few
days since were clasped in their lovers'
arms, as they descended from the cars at
the Shippensburg depot.
Rwmors ToLzuArtoz SWEDEN.-At
the opening of the present Parliament, the
King of Sweden, in his speech from the
throne, recommended the abolition of the
old laws which prohibited dissent from the
national church, and conventicles or prayer
meetings among its lay members. Follow
ing up this recommendation, the Govern
ment has laid before Parliament definite
proposals for permitting native Swedes to
become Ditienters, on the mere condition of
announcing this to the parish minister, but
at the same time providing that any person
spreading' error about the principal doc
trines of Christianity, beyond the limits of
a dissenting congregation, or proselytizing,
by persuasion or bribes, shall be visited by
fine or imprisonment.
ler Remenatier all that is truly good and
beautiful in life, blooms around the altar of
domeetie lam.
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