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CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, I8G0.
THE HUSKEES.
ar jutiV 0. WB1TTIER.
" Hop high tfca furuior'i wintry hoard.
, Heap high the goldon oorn I
N richer jfift baa autumn poured
' From out bar lavish horn.
Lt other lands aiulting glean
Theaple from the pine,
- The orange front Uie glossy green.
The eluater from the vine,
We bet tor lore the hardy gift
Oor ruggad vales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
When springtime came with flow'r and bud,
And grassy grotb and young,
And merry bob'links In the wood
Like mad musicians aung,
Ve dropped the seed o'er hill and plain,
Beneath the sun of May,
And Crigbtoaed from our sprouting grain
The robber erowi away.
A3 thro' the ling bright days of June,
Its leaves grew thin and lair,
And waved in hot midsummer's noon,
1 .Its soft and yellow hair.
' And now with Autumn's tioonlight eves
- ! - Its harvest time has eome,
Xft pluck away the froeted leave
And bear the treasure home.
;" There, richer than the fabled gift
Of goldon shower of o4d,
fair hands the broken grain shall lift.
And knead its meal of gold.
Let vampid idler lull ia silk
Around the eestly board
Give us the bowl of samp and milk
I!y homespun beauty poured.
' Where'er the wide old kitchen hearth
Bends up its smoky curls,
XV ho will not thank the kindly earth,
1 , And bless our oorn-fod girls !
' ' Let earth withhold the goodly root.
Let mildew blight the rye,
' Give to the worm the orchard's fruit,
" , The a heat&old to thi fly
Dot let tho good old crop adorn
The hills our fathers trod
Etill let us for his golden corn
; ' ' Send up our thanks to God.
SHisctlhntous.
,.V MATRIMONY AS A PURSUIT.
From tli Daily Ponsylvanian.
Even as Mistress Sarah Battle took de-
light in whist, and invested that social
pastime with a gravity appertaining to one
of life's most serious avocations, and a dig
nity more commanding than that of any
one of tho learned professions so doth
the but methodic il Mistress Matchninn
ger take an earnest nd unflagging inter
est in the subject of matrimony, and lose
no opportunity of persuading men, and
even women singularly gratuitous as this
last act of charity may 6eem of the pres
ent advantage and ultimate necessity for
entering into the married slate.
" "You see, my dear," she is wont to ob-
nrvo to the school eirl of fourteen Bum
mers, whom she has cause to suspect of
recreative giddiness, and a want ot "per
feot mopriutv" in the street 'you see my
dear, that you should bo ever mindtulof
your deportment j never forget yourself
ao far as to commit trtesmaiiest maiscre
tlon, for you have no notion of what may
come of it.or what may be lost by it. Un--.
dor all circumstances, think of the future,
and compare yourself as you would like
to bo. with what you may be. lie watch
ful that you may nver lose a chance ;
yon can never know who30 eye i3 upon
you." It is proper to observe here, in or
der to prevent a contradiction in the char
acter of Mrs. Matchmonger, and to pre
aerve that uniformity of purpose which
lata much a part of her nature as her
head is a part of her person, that by
'whose eyes,' she meant "the eye of what
man,' and not 'The Eye' to which religious
preceptors refer as forever regarding tho
ways of men and women, as well as of all
the children of rrren.
"As you cannot know this fact, my
dear.be careful of opportunities, don't
forget the widow of the Russian Min
ister, recall th e story of her walk from
school on a certain day, and emulate the
deportment of the lovely and accomplish
. ed Miss Williams."
Thus does this widow of three and a
half husbands the present faction being
not yet in tomb bodily, only spiritually
' embalmed, as it were, in tbe grander in
tellect of his wife commence at tbe foun
dations of society to build up universal
and enduring monuments in honor of 7y
men, the only hero she ever worshipped,
and tho only myth she ever pursued.
. But our philautbropio friend, Mrs.
Matchmonger, does not confine her labor
,ol love to tho ruing generation ; she looks
abroad, and taking a comprehensive view
of the generation which may be said to
tand still for a while, "waiting for some
thing to turn up," as wellasofthe gener
ation which is passing away, she gives ad
vice gratis to all whom it may concern on
the importance of instantaneous matri
mony, without so much reference to tho
permanency of that happy condition, as
' to the necessity of renewing it at every
.occasion ; like a heavy noto, which it U
'impossible to liquidate once and forever,
but which must be renewed, with alight
br ' menu in the principal, whenever it
" Ttgood dame takes a kind of matern
al i:.' rest havine- nnrfirnrt i-iohl to that.
"t. ting sentiraentof the female heart
, J :.: of her three and a half lords
M'tre of very young gentleman
J '-r means and of prospects feebly
:twg in the distance of an un w
tain future. She is continually spurring
on such verdant disciples to hopeless ex
peditions against the calm repose so beau
tiful to behold ia the female mind. And
she seems never to weary of work, and
never to tire of forming expedients by
which young peoplo of opposite sex may
be brought together ; there is scarcely a
pair of unmated young folks in the whole
circle of the good woman's juvenilo ac
quaintance. It has been said that match',
cs are mado in heaven. If so it is heav
en wherever Mrs. Matohmongyr is; and
she is constantly preparing mansions for
guests ot her kingdom, blie does not
spend much time at home, for her occu
pation gives her extensive notoriety, and
tier services are not unwelcome to most
of her young friends of tho female sex
particularly. AtallevenU, it is quite
unavailing to attempt- to exclude Mrs.
Matchmonger from any circle of beaux
and belles ; if not invited, she will be
there all tlm same ; if not tiken in as an
ally, she mkes a Rind of "raid" on t he
select assemblage, and taking the citadel
by storm proceeds to organize ana admin
ister a government of ber own, on the in
stant. Having assumed the proprietor
ship of the cotumuno, she at once divides
the inhabitants by pair, and setts them to
work "petting notions," for each other. If
a young lady is "airacult, the amiable
matron smooths the approach to ber dig
nified presence, by blandishments and
persuasive eloquence, in favor of slighted
beaux; Uayoung gentleman is too mod
est, she impels him by panegyrics on the
charms of his future mate, on her excel
lence, her wealth, and finally oc his own
deserts, and the fact that he alone Is wor
thy to win such a prize.
The best of the story is in the fact, that
Mrs. Matchmonger is, nine times out of
ten, entirely successful, so far as the con
summation'of her part is concerned ; for
a-ben the "match is mated," Mrs. M's.
work is done: when the benediction is
pronounced over the work of her great in
tellect, she turns with a smile of satisfac
tion, and sets off at good speed for anoth
er "catch," as she calls her occupation.
As she never takes the trouble to look af
ter the matrimonial welfare of her rof7",
of course she knows nothing of their
future life, nor does that kinds of inter
est seem to occur to her. If matrimony
is bliss, the consummation has como Jfith
the first moment of the honeymoon ; and
when people have got into paradise, what
more do they want of their friends not
even their prayers.
Porhaps the favorite game of Mrs.
Matchmonger are bachelors of uncertain
age, who are apparently running to seed
in a rather rapid and suspicious manner,
without sny apparent object in life. For
this class of her fellow-beings tho "dear
lady," feels a deep concern, which does
honor to her heart, as well as to her pro
found knowledge of human nature, or her
intimate "aoquaintonees with men's ways"
as she is pleased to express it. There is
no estimating the amount of missionary
duty which this woman performs among
men who have lived long enough to know
better, and, probably, will never leave off
knowing worse, every year of their re
maining lives. It is a matter of regret
that among this obdurate race of beings,
tho good dame's success is by no means
commensurate with her deserts. And
yet we have known Mrs. Matchmonger to
make the happiness or misery of more
than one bachelor, wko thought himself
proof against the machinations of any
"foe to freedom." One of her best levers
on such dead weights, as your forty
ysar obi incorrigibles, is tho fortune game.
We have known her in a case of despera
tion on the winning of which she had
staked her reputation as Hymen's faith
ful servant to suggest toan impenitent
wretch oil thirty hve, not only the pro
priety of seeking the hand of a young la
dy of great wealth, but the further in
duccmentjthu as she was in consumption,
the lucky husband might soon expect to
become tbe sole owner of her fortune."
Our bachelor friend to whom this rem
arkable proposition was made, happened
to be rather grave in temper, and not al
ways alive to jokes of so subtle and deli
cate character as that. "Really," he re
plied, " he waj very much delighted to
hear that the young lady poasesed so con
venient a thing as a largo fortune; that
though he was not rich enough himself,
he knew enough of the want of money to
make a pretty good guess of its probable
value; that he onl? regretted that the
condition of her health was such as to
prevent tho enioyment of her fortune for
many years; but that the proposition
which was made to him was not exactly
in his line of business, as he preferred, if
ho was driv?n to get goods on false preten
ces, to seek some commodity of sterner
fabrio and more durable nature than an
invalid heiress."
We do not believe that Mrs. Match
monger evei tried her skill co that sub
ject again.
We have said that our kind friend nev
er follows up her achievements In match
making to see what they come to ; but a
good many people have taken tho trouble
to do this work for her, and they have
come to the conclusion that Mrs. Match
monger's system is wrong; in fact, that
it is following aftor nature by an infrac
tion of nature's laws, and generally fatal
to the happiness which is the reward of
married life.
Marriage being of course the natural
condit ion of the human race, it is best to
enter it in the natural way, and convey
ancers for this kind of estate are not the
best mediums of a bargain for life. Tar
tics who are draw a together by mutual
(attraction one of nature's laws are
much more likely to find agreeable eom
, panions in each other, than if they had
niei, wuiie eacu was on the hunt after
sorabody or anybody. Marriuge is like
what tho patriotic candidato says of
"place," nftt to bo sought, and not to be
avoided- Tho traveller who is on tho
road ol life searching for woalth, or know
ledge, or fame, as circumstances may com
pel, will bo very likely to fall into matri
mony by accident, and ten to one he will
in this way find his accident a happy one.
Marriage is not a garden of flowers, into
which people go with a purpose to cull a
flower whioh, they imagine will be agree,
able to their senses, and will bloom with
undying fragrance and beauty through
life ; nor a market in which men congre
gate to select a fine animal, with good
points, and suflieient strength to run the
course of life. liut more aptly it may be
considered a stream, in which people
drift together by a current of circumstan
ces and the force of mtttuul attraction.
Like all of men's ordinances, this is best
observed when observed with reference to
the duties of afJ'ection, sympathy and res
pect, and untratmiiollod by the arts and
industrious devices of men or women.
Town Trees.
No more is every tree a town tree, than
is every man made to live on a pavement
and amid piles of brick and niortur. Those
trees which grow very largo, are not suit
able, nor those subject to attacks of insects
nor tender trees, uor weeping trees, nor
those which cannot endure smoke and
dust and hard usage generally. Consid
ering the great number of species and va
rieties, native andloreign, one might sup
pose, at first, that it would be an easy
matter to find suitable tretu in aoundance,
but is it not so. Some sorts flourieb well
for ten or fifteen years, but afterwards bo
come large and top-heavy, and are blown
down by sudden gusts of wind. Some
prosper finely when young, but when the
bark happens to get a latie injured by ac
cideut, the growth is suddenly checked,
the foliage becomes sickly, and the tree
unsightly. Others make so rampant a
growth that their foliage hides the view
of the houses behind them, and renders
the wall damp and unhealthy.
What iscuieHy wanted in a town tree is
that it grows slow, never becomes very
large, be proof against insects, bear pru
ning well, and accidental injuries also,
and in short be very hardy. o tree, to
our knowledge, possesses all of these qual
ities perfectly, yet some do, more than
others. For example, the American
White Elm, the common Knglish Klin,
English Linden, Mountain Ash, Norway
Maple and most of our native maples, the
Horse C'iicsnut, tho Itod and White Beech,
and the much abused Ailantbus. disa
greeable as is the oder of the flowers of
this last named tree, we believe experi
ence shows that it is in many respects very
desirable for planting in towns. It will
bear smoke, dust, and any amount of
abuse. Somebody has styled it 'the Met
ropolitan Tree." This is certainly more
appropriate than the "heavenly" appella
tion with which it sas tirst introduced
from abroad.
The above trees are proper for setting
by the sides of streets. For open squares
or parks, we may go further, and include
the magnolias, tulip tree, larch, collee-trce
yellow wood, Judas tree, various oaks, the
chesnut, and an assortment of conifers.
In some of the Parks in this City, the
Southern Cypress succeeds admirably,
and is a beautiful tree. The weeping wil
low, if sparingly planted, is also suitablo,
and docs well in this Latitude and south'
ward.
By a little care on the part of those
who have control of the planting, the
streets and parks of a city might tie made
to contain a good arboretum .of ail tbo
trees growing in tho Latitude. American
Agriculturist.
Carrier Ticeos Express.- Tho general
ngent ol the New York Associated Press
was in our village a few days sinco for the
'purpose of locating some carrier pigeons
which the Association are about to em
ploy for the purpose ot intercepting the
in-bound European steamers, olf Fire Is
land. The same parties havo, for many
years past, employed pigeons at Halifax,
N. S., and at Sar.dy Hook, where thy
have proved of great service, and have,
doubtless, contributed in no small degree
to the Association's world-wide reputation
for successful enterprise in outstripping
all their opponents whether editors,
news agents or speculators in the early
reception ofEuropenn news. Prompted
by their pat success, and inspirited, per
haps, smicwhat by tho expressod deter
mination of a majority of the directors of
tho American Telegraph Company to
strangle the Associated Press, nnd them
selves control all the news of the old
world and the new, the Association havo,
we understand, decided to extend their
rigeon Express to every pointalong the
seaboard, from New York to Cape llace,
where it is possible to have the steamers
intercepted. Among tho points that are
thus to be covered in addition to Halifax,
Sanciy Hook and Fire It-land are, we un
derstand, Montauk Point, Nantucket,
Portland, Si. John's, N. F.t ond Capo
Race. The breed of birds used by the !
Association
carriers, w
are me ceieoratea Antwerp
. . ... I . , - . rt
uiv.li, niicu MU JCNY irillllB'J
nnu usea, win, we ore rcnaiuy assured, ny
at the rate of one'mile per minuto and
unerringly, from the point where they
are thrnwn up, to their home. Each bird
will carry, when properly adjusted to its
.'eg, matter enough to make a column of
a newspaper. Ixmg hlind Democrat,
Old Master Drown brought his ruler down,
- Uis faoe was angry and red ,
"Now Anthony Clare, go seat you there,
Along with the girls 1" he said.
Then Anthony Clare, with a mortified air,
And his head down upon his breast,
Crept slowly away, and sat all day
liy the girl that loved him best.
tfA man who astonishes at first soon
makes people' impatient if he does not
continue the sama enlivening key.
Muscular Christianity.
We bolieve in muscular Christianity.
We believe that the minister of muscle
will fight a more valliant and stronger
battle with the passions and prejudices of
men. Wo believe that sanammitin tano
eorpore applies to parsons as well as to par
ishioners, ana that saints bodies as well
as sinners' are none the worse for an hour
at the dumb betls or tho weights.
We have been led to this subject by
meeting in tho gymnasium, as a regular
attondant, a leading and eloquent divine
of this city. He swings tho dumb boll in
a manner that few even of the adepts can
approach. He is fleet of toot on tho track,
and scores his half mile in belt time. He
climbs the ladder; goes through the bars ;
walks tho treacherous tight-rope, a la
hlondin ; in fine, develops his rnuaclo with
all the ardor and interest of the youngest
tyro. Possibly Mr. Pecksniff or my lady
l'oti pliar, who attend church quite punc
tiliously, may sneer at our roverend friend
of tbe strong arm and chest, and if they
knew who he was would drop their reli
gious patronage ; therefore, wo shall not
grainy their curiosity by mentioning his
nuino, at the risk of lessening the number
ofhisilock.
liut, seriously, are the sinners the only
ones to dovelop the human frame, by in
vigorating exercises r hhall the sheep
gambol all day upon the hill-side, nnd tbe .
shephartl lazilv uozo in the sun I Wusti
he wage his great warlare w:tu tho enemy
ot mankind, tied down with tho immu-
mcnta of an enervated and wasting body ?
Does he not by a vigorous physical regimen
during the week bring to bis pulpit a fresh '
stock of strength, a new activity and vigor, 1
a genial and kindly Christianity, which
sbaii coiiiuind itself to nil men, at all
times, and at all places ? Are not half the
sins of the dRy tho result of a lazy, puny,
good-for-nothing body T I
We verily believe that if all our minis-'
ters would "cultivate their muscle." there
would be less need for voyages to Europe, street to tho door, und tho odge of the
less bronchitis and dyspepsia, and counsill is tho only foot scraper. Mrs. F, long
tenances as white as the neck cloths be- a-'O asked for a closet, with hooks for
low them: that we should have better
sermons of a Sabbath ; sermons with moro
of the
milk of human kindness in them,
lad with a new force and power
and clad
which would at once seize upon and hold
captive that most decoatful of all things,
.' . mi .: i
the heart; that religion would be stripped
of all that Chadbat.dism which, if net a
reality, at least has the outward seeming.
Were not the twelve better nshsrs oi men
because of their previous occupation T We ting room, and mends his harness in the
cannot picture Paul with the bronchitis kitchen, and thanks Mrs. F. for her Con
or dyspejsia, or making long annual plea-1 stant endeavors to be tidy under such
sure trips over into Europe for his health, difficulties, by wishing Ehe would keep a
But one man, miserable Eutychus, slept neater house. If any ono wants further
under his preaching, and he fell out of a evidence tnat the men need a share of the
window in consequence. Of tho eight lecturing, let them visit tho house where
Greek fathers who have come down to us ' tho wife, has been absent a few day-, and
as the leaders but Ambrose, Athanusius my word for it, they will le ready to mako
and AugustinsT They were strong and some allowances for the apparent short
robust, and admirably adopted for the un- comings of tho Holsekeei i-r.
compromising fight they wuged withtho Am. Agriculturist.
Itvzuniino heathen. T. Tr;
"We hope more of our ministers will I Tr . t!tT.IK? , HT0 J?11. nevf:
devote attenlion to tho body as well M heard of that student who, on being told
,i :..4 i i,,f ; r.A Kri that tho cow would sometimes live a bun-
i i nr oninion. a much better sacrifice
r sacrifice
ible body,
it aniroai
e a vigor
than a good heart in a miseral
A certain admixture of innocent
! : - ... : . U l. ;..;. ...1 m-;I1 inrn.a a v. nr
i,:i. i, ;,i;i,t ;i .l.oii
waste. We may ouestion the propriety be.r- St. 1, wo say plant trees. 1 hey
of Peter Cartwrighi's stopping his sermon 1 Jo riant at once, instead of wasting
at fifthly to flog an insulting rowdy, or - breth '". i,s 'complaints of the short
the Allegheny minister w',o funded the c of hfo hni luxuriant foliage waving
grace of Ond into the Methodist-mir.ister- j ?vf l',c ' 8r.""n they expeo
flogning blacksmith ; but we really think ed:( l5u!' whether yoti live o see the ma
a littlemore muscle in the pulpit would i lunly of your trees or not, be benevolent
usure less rieepy heads in he audience, 1 ?"ouSh h"" f ten''' rr:insm'
and that the physical Zion conduces 0 '(ur children the inhe. -.Unco of rural
largely to the grUh and importance of ri T?
Vll":ll"8 been tho notion lllfttnd the rosult will overpay , L labor.
physical strength and spiritual sanctity r
are incompatible. JWjt ! generous food, and guard them from in--
feeble young saints are numbered. 'J'' .ary. And, in the words slightly altered
good die firs ," because the good too often J ' , j J
have poor stomachs and lungs. Mr e arc l r
of the opinion that many may fear "God whilo ,. , , d
and walk "thousand miles ma thonsandl fa . 8lu,ce,sora, work th,t
hours," and that he w.ll fear Ool all tho f ( h d
better for it V e welcome the advent of , t0 youroonlry , 'And the ra-
Kmgsley with hi. stout Amyas Leigh ih , fc , ,
I AM n iKirh Viarf ainAti'il A cm I hnmn tvitil . 1
ni'u " " j "". v.-f."
his dyspepsia-defying frame, and our
Chicago divina swinging his hundred
pound dumb-bell. Cfiieajo Journal.
Fannt Fern's "Aws" r a Ucsbaxd. A
lady having remarkrd thttawo is the most
delicious feeling a wifo can hold toward
bernusrand, Fanny Fern thus comments:
Awe of a man whose whiskers you have
trimmed, whoso hair you h.tve cut, whose
cravat you have tied, whose shirt you have
put into the wash, whoso boots and shoes
you have kicked into the closets, whoso
dressing gown you have worn while comb
ing your hair, who has been down in tho
kitchen with you at eleven o clock ot
night to hunt for a chicken bono, who has
hooked your dresses, unlacea your boots,
and tied your bonnet ; who has stood be-
fore your looking-glass with thumb and
fingor on poscis, scratching his chin ;
,V,,,, l,.,llo.,I mr.
I " MVlll VIA ! UVUHI 1.H I I
you have buttered ana leasea ;- -you
have ?cen asleep with his
i M.i,nm
mouth wide open ; ridiculous.
Censcs or Dilewari. The Wilmington
Giiatte has the complete returns of the
census of the State of Deleware, from
which we learn that there are in the State
110,542 free persons, and 1805 slaves, or
112,317 inhabitants altogether; 19,257
dwellings, 19,264 families, 6,606 farms, 015
slaveowners. There are 254 slaves in
New Castle county, 203 in Kent, and
1,348 in Sussex. Ia 1850 there were in
Newcastle 347, Kent 393, and Sussex
1,549 to'al 2,200. There has therefore
been a general decrease of slaves nil over
tho Stale, reaching ia the aggregate 485.
The total increase in the population of the
Stato is 10,815.
Untidy Housekeeping Women not
Always at Fault.
PmvATS ffoTB. What fullows Is not for
housekeepers to read themselves, but for thorn
to lark, and (ilaoe whore their poorer liulvoi
will be pretty sure to see it.
It's very well, Mr. Editor, to be lectured
about our housekeeping, to bo told of the
comfort, tho felicity, and all that sort of
thing, which a tidy, well-kept liouso will
alloid, but for ono, I'm getting a little
impatient that writers generally take it
for granted that the ladies alone uro re
sponsible in this matter ; that if dust col
lects on tho furniture, if litter is strewn
on tho carpet, if tho tablo linen is not
snowy white and tho cooking stovo jot
black ; in short, if everything is not in the
very best "apple-pie" ordor, it is because
the mistress of tho house is a slattern.
That may ho the cafo, I admit, but again,
it may not be. Hero is an illustration :
My friend Mrs. F lives in a two-story
house on the main village street, where
there is almost constant travel over the
un paved road. Much of tho time, clouds
of dust fill tho air, and como sifting
through every crevico, settling down upon
the carpets and furniture-, and reducing
everything to a most undclightful uni
formity of color. The good wotsan sweeps
and dusts, to little purpose to keep
cic-an, sue woum nave to oust the air
itself. Now, when that houuo wns built,
se intu ner ueai to navo air. r.iay mo
lounuauon iuriuer obck -rora me b'.reei ;
there was room enough: but no, lie must be
on a line with his neighbors. One would
uhiik jig mignt now nu tno email yard
with trees, to exclude part of the dust, or
cover the road with giavel, or occasionally
spread tan bark over it, to keep it from
fixing; but instead ol that, he wonders
that Mrs r. does not keep tho parlor
neater. When it rains, the dust sottles
nto mud, ond Mr. F. lools had words at
the tracks on the kitchen floor, but he
has never laid even a plank walk from tho
hats and clothing, and shelves for the
children's books; but to this day, these
articles are distributed about upon the
mantel piece, and on nails driven
wall -that is, when the places them there,
for the boys imitate their father, and lay ,
il. .i .i,.:. I
their things on the
in an unoccupied .
urst vacunt chair, or
orner. 11 is lordalnp
uses tho stove for a spittoon, and the table
cloth tor n napkin ; he smokes in the sit-
urou years bought a young cow to try the
i experiment ?" Yes, indeed, wo have heard
0,1 him, tho irony is excellent, and ot
1 )r' Jnilson'8 growl alxut 'the frightful
dro(1 years, bought a young cow to try the
interval between tho seed and tho tint-
;nr ,.. ..-nik s 1 ko in If vnn
have country homes to embellish, be con
tent with iimrilicity. Let your dwelling
places be marked with what painters call
'repose.' Make them the abodes of com
fort and refined enjoyment, places which
will always aflord you agreeable occupa-
tion, but not oppress
JVwrt Atncrican lUviita,
you with care.
Aw iSi.ECTinsFr.Rivn Honns. A New
York paper mentions that some of tho
sharp politicians there have invented n
new dodiie in tho wav of belting. One
of them, for instance, meets a man of tho
opposite party, and says, " ho do vou
vote for this timef" Thu reply is "for
, of course." ''1,11 bet you twenty you
don't" is the answer, ' you'll change, ytur
mind beloro election day." Ice wajcr
is unsuspectingly accepted, when the bet-
ting politician goes in pursuit of another
victim- On election day ho will dial -
lengo every greenhorn with whom he has
made a bet, and each one will, as a mat
tor of course, not only loso his vote but
his money alto
Tns FAsnioNAm.E AmsrHKNT at Na-
ri.Es. Tho Times' correspondent says :
There is a lot ot young men of forluno
at Naples at the present moment, mostly
Englishmen and Americans, who aniusej
themselves by eeing out by rail evry 1
morning to Oanbal irs quarters beroro u
pua, and with valuable guns of long ranee,
wnich they havo purchased for the pur j
peso, pick ofl the men at th outjosts of
tbe royal army all day, and return totlu
cky in tho ovoniDg to boast ; of the nutn-j
ber of game they have "bsggod'' during.
the C ' j
Things I have Seen.
I havo seen a farmer wado up to his
knees winter after winter, through man
ure, in going to his stniible, when for
yiarshis garden has been unproductive
for the want of an articlo so much in bis
way in tho yard.
1 have seen a farmer pavs fifty times by
a breach in his fence and never stop to
aright it, always putting it of till another
day, until thogi eater part of his crop was
destroyed.
I have seen a farmer nlowinc around
bunches of briars until his hold was so ta
ken with lhe.ni, that he was compelled to
abi.nd'. n and give it up to tho neighbors
around him as a blackberry patch in com
mon.
I have seen a farmer but un his slock
fodder in so careless a manner that the
first wind would blow down the stacks;
in which condition they would re-nain
until the fodder was so spoiled that the
Unit nturveu rutllu would refuse to eat it.
and he would wonder why his cattlo wore
so much poorer than his neighbors.
i nave seon a larmer who took great
care of his fodder, but in feeding it to his
cattle would let in the hogs, or not separ
ate them from the cattle, and before they
could mafticate half their allowance, tho
remainder was rooted about, and so filthy
that they must bo more than half starvod
to eat it. He too, is one of tho "wonders
ing" class.
I havo seen a farmer feed a horse in a
hollow tree with both ends open, and a
holo in tho middle. "Oh," says ho "the
pigs will get what falls out." Yet strango
to tell he never could account for tho
horsos leing always so poor. I wonder.
I have seen a farmer w.ho seldom wont
to where his boys were p owing, and when
be did, it was tlr sarao thing ; lor they
would fneroly skim tho earth, cut and cov
er and "wonder."
I have seen a farmer (and he a good rough
carpenter,) who had not a door to hu sta
bles ; ho would stop the entrance with
rails laid crosswise, leaving a hole to creep
in and out when feeding, The labor lost
during tho year in pulling down and put
-
I !,woncIerin., how
sumo folks have lima
to do such things.
I have seen a farmer, after all his labor
and expense in growing, cutting, slack
ing, spreading, clow rotting, and taking up
his hemp, thro'v hundreds of pounds in
the corners of the fence ; to mako room
for another crop , again to ba destroyed
in part, like tho preceding one.
I hivo seen a farmer richer then bin
neighbors, and to their gieat detriment,
lose as much time.in borrowing and re
turning the various implements of hus
bandry, ai would pay for them in two
years, if time so spent bad been profitably
employed. Franklin farmer.
"How do you like arithmetic 1" eaid Mr.
rhelps to John Perkins, as ho canio homo
from school, with his slato under his arm.
"Not very well."
"How do you get along with it T"
"Well enough, bam Prico does my
sums for me."
"Why don't you get him t) cat your
dinner for you ?"
"I could not livo without eating. 1
should not grow ony if I did not eat."
"Your mind won't grow any if you do
not use it. It would be just rw reasonable
for you to got Sam to eat your dinner for
vou, as to aide him to do your studying
for you."
A Hint tiiroh-v Away. A few weeks
nfier a lato marriage, the doting husband
had some peculiar thoughts when putting
on his last clean shirt, as bo paw no ap
pearance of a "washing." Ho thereupon
rose earlier than u-uial ono morning and
kindled the fire. When banging on tho
kettle ho made a noise on purpose to a
ouse his easy vf ife. She peeped over tlm
blankets and exclaimed "my dear what's
up tho day?" ho deliberately responded,
"A'v put on mo last clean serk, and am
gaun to wash a one to myself." "Vera
weol," said Mrs. Easy, "ye find bettor
was h mo a no too '." Glaywc Gazelle.
Rrrinirrs xot U.vonATF:FrL.--Tho year
in which Mount Vernon became the prop
erty ot tho Union by the efforts of Ameri
can women consummated the purchase of
the Grutii by the school children ofSwitzer-
land, at aeost of 5d I.OIK). llie drum, near
Aldorf, nnd the birthplace of Tell, is the
spot where, in the fourteenth century,
three bravo men entered into a secret
combination to ri! the country of its op
pressor?, a movrmont which soon exten
ded t the other cantons. Hie sale of thin
place, dear to every swiss, was concluded
- on the cne hundredth birthday .of Scbil
lor
Tub last Thursday (20th) of November,
will be the common Thanksgiving Day
this year. It has already been nlhciaHv
named in New York, Pennsylvania, Mas
j mchusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New
' Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and
Iowa.
Unkind. A female lately jumped into
tho water eff OrmonUsquny. Dublin,
when a Mr. T. Ilarrii threw off bis outer
, gnrrneiU and rescued her : On returning
' t0 iami j18 jound that a thief had btolen
' jg cl0ihes.
j !
If some men's bodies were not straighten
than their minds they would be crookc.
enough to rido upon their own bncks.
flxcre was $30",P00,O) of capital reprc
,on((Vj nt tho lato Kailroid Timo-tabh
Convention ntCincinnsM.
If a nun is dissipated, hi fortune wi-
probably soon be t-o too.