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SIT MIRA FUTURL
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EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMRANY
OFFICE-NO. 74 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
President—JOHN W. CLAGHORN.
Vice President—PETEß CULLEN.
TRUSTEES:
Joseph I T. Thomas, Edw. C. Markley,'
William Craig, Robert Morris,
George N. Diehl; 'Stephen R. Crawford,
Peter Cullen, ' Alve E. Laing,
Wm. G. Alekander, William M. Baird,
Wm. W. Italy, R. F. Loper,
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Clayton B. Lamb, Harry Conrad,
Peter Ranibo, , Franklin Comly.
H. G. TUCKETT, Secretary and Actuary.
Capital s2so,ooo—Charter Perpetual. Make In
surance on Lives at their Office, in Philadelpha,
and at their Agencies throughout the States, at the
lowest rates of premium. Persons should insure
their lives, and do so without delay, whilst they
are healthy and fit subjects to'be insured.
In this Office there are advantages greater than
have ever yet been derived from the system of Life
Assurance; which reason and experience convince
the Trustees may with safety be offered to the
public. It will •be found, on inquiry, that most
offices have in the outset professed to act on some
new principle; or to offer to assurers' some one
particular benefit not to be obtained from other
societies. But policies are-effected under various
circumstances, and with widely different objects,
and what may facilitate the views of one man, af
fords no accommodation to another. It appears,
therefore, to the Trustees of the Equitable, that
the greatest good will be, effected by that office,
which allows such reasonable advantages to every
assurer, as at the time of completing his Policy, he
considers to be suitable to his particular case. On
this principle they act, and a few instances will
suffice to show the benefits derivable from its
adoption—the greatest good of the greatest number.
No policy will be disputed, unless under an act
of fraud by the assured, and after the same shall
have been declared. by referees of undoubted char
acter. In ease of error, either as to age, or in the
form of policy, or -the answers of referees, such
,errors, unless wilful and fraudulent, will not be
deemed to vitiate the policy.
The travelling leave is extensive and liberal.
Persons insured for life have liberty to pass to and
from the States of Virginia and Kentucky, and west
of the rivor Mississippi, between the first day of
November and the first day of July following. And,
to pass from any place or port within the British-
North American Colonies, or United States north
of thirty-four .degrees north latitude ' without pay
ing an extra premium. They are allowed to cross
the Atlantic in first class steamers during May,
June, July, August and September, free of charge;
during remaining months of the year, 25 cents on
each $lOO insured.
The age of the assured will be adm:fted on the
policy. If the insured die in a duel, by his own
hands, or under sentence of the law, such death
will not invalidate the policy; except so far as it
was the property of the deceased.
Thirty days allowed after each annual payment
becomes due, and fifteen days after each quarterly
and half yearly premium becomes due, without for
feiture of policy. Premiums or lapsed policies
may be renewed at any time within six mouths on
the production of satisfactory evidence as to the
health of the insured.
When a party effects a policy upon the life of
another, the Company will be satisfied if the party
had, at the time, a bona fide interest in the life of
the assured. The policy may be assigned to whom
soever the assured pleases, without the knowledge
or assent of the Company (there being•no clause ip
the Equitable policies usual in the 'policies of Mu-
TUAL Companies, claiming a right to be notified of
an assignment and their approval obtained) so long
as the assignment or transfer of a policy in the
Equitable is a legal act, and the party who claims
can give a legal discharge, the amount is paid - by
the Company.
The extraordinary advantage afforded by means
of the Half Credit system, in not requiring, under
any circumstances, an outlay of a larger sum of
money than is absolutely necessary to secure the
amount insured, is pectiliarly applicable to the
CREDITOR desirous of possessing a policy on the life
his DEBTOR. If the debt is paid off during these
five years, he can discontinue the assurance alto
gether, having secured the amount, in the event of.
the debtor's death previously, at a less expense than
would in any mutual office be charged for assuring
the life for seven years. lithe debt is NOT PAID he
would be enabled to continue the assurance for the
'remainder of the debtor's life, whatever might then
be his state of health. Attention is particulary re
quested to the
HALF CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM PER $lOO.
(Without security or deferred note.)
Age. Half Credit. Age. Half Credit.
during 5 years. during 5 years.
20 00 40 $146
25 95 45 175
• 30 1 09 50 • 213
35 1 25 55 • 2 64
The assured has to pay the premium in all cases
in advance, and HAS No LIABILITY of any kind,
sort or description. A deferred note is not neces
sary to per feet any operation, and nemo will be,
taken by the Company.
Persons insuring should bear in mind that a pro
missory note given to a M UTUAL OFF-ICE at com
pound interest, soon amounts to more than the sum
assured. Thus, $lOO per annum for 20 years at 6
per cent., would cause a DEDUCTION from the sum
assured of THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-EIGHToDOLLARS AND FIFTY-FIVE CENTS.
The premiums of Mutual Assurance Companies
being, as they profess, (though the Mutual offices
"do somehow" advertise guarantee capitals) free
fr'om the burdens of dividends to shareholders,
should- be very much lower, than those of stock
companies; YET THE EQUITABLE IS LOWER BY SIX
TEEN PER CENT. THAN ANY MUTUAL OFFICE, and
at- the SAME RATES OF PREMIUM charged by the
"New York Life," "The New York Mutual,"
"Albion," "Worcester Mutual," "Connecticut
Mutual," "Pennsylvania," "Girard," " Penn,"
"New England, ,, '° Hartford," " Baltimore Mu
tual," "Boston Mutual," &c., &c., &c., in the
Equitable the payments cease altogether after
twenty-one years.
Annual Premium payable during Twenty-one years
only, for an assurance of $lOO at death.
Age. An.paym't. Age.An.paym't. Age. An. paym't
20 81 77,. 35 $2 75 50 $4 60
25 . 2 04 40 3 20 55 5 76
30 2 86 45 3 73 60 7 00
The assured being thus entirely relieved of pay
ments (if he is under 35 years of age) before he has
passed the prime of life, and that for the same pre
mium charged by the Mutual Offices.
The premiums charged by the MUTUAL OFT - lets
are all on the highest scale, (and by their own ad
vertisements) much beyond what is requisite for the
purpose of their business.
Their "profits" can only be realized, if ever
realized at all, after a lapse of twenty years. The
word Profits, therefore, is an abuse of the term, a
WHOLLY CONTINGENT AND REMOTE PROMISE, for
it is self-evident, and cannot for a moment be ques
tioned, they must suffer loss by every insurer who
dies before the amount paid by him in premiums,
with the accumulated interest, shall be equal to
the amount of his policy—nevertheless, in the Mu
tual Offices the "profits" (?l() are to be shared in
by the representative, should the insured die xx-
NEI/lA:TELT after one or two payments.
By the diminution of the premiums in the Equi
table, TUE GREATEST PRESENT BENEFIT IS SECURED
to all p'ersons assured bey, this - company; whilst
thoie who wish to participate in the profits can do
so, bytihe purchaae.df.the reserved shares, (first
'instalment*, 10 dollaiSjivhich at all times afford a
really44oaple investment for capital,
besideWa vote lor.'each - share. - This action the
Trustees conceive Must commend -itself to the judg
ment of every unbiassed irigiijii 2 et,' - being based on the
broad principle of equity; allifts'ecuring to all the
members, the advantages to which they are justly
entitled by their actual payments; without opera
ting to the peculiar benefit of old standing members,
or placing recent entrants at a disadvantage—a
combination presented by no other office than the
Equitable Life Insurance Company.
THE „ACTUAL MONEY BONUS given by the Equi
table; saved, is upwards of 15 per cent., at the time
of effecting the insurance; on in ACCORDANCE with
the SCRIP BONUS OF A MUTUAL OFFICE; TIEY. BAYING
IS EQUAL TO TWO /lUNDRED AND FIFTY PER CENT.
PROFIT SCRIP (7) la' Pamphlets, tables of rates,
lists of agents, obtained at the office, 74 Walnut
Street, or from the agents throughout the United
States.
The public are requested to examine carefully
the Prospectus of " The Equitable" before insuring
elsewhere. JNO. W. CLAGHORN, Pres,t.
FRANCIS WEST, M. D.}
J. B. BIDDLE, M.D. Medical Examiners.
la• In attendance daily from 12 to 2 o'clock
Treasurer—F. W. RAWLE.
Solicitor—Wm. W. HALY
Actuary-H. G: Tuetcra-r. .
GEO. A. MILLER,
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Agent for Lancaster, Penn'a
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ril 17, ,49
Dr. M. M. Moore, Dentist.
STILL continues to perform a. operations on th
TEETH,upon terms to suit the times. Oilier
North Queen street ; opposite Kauffman's Hotel.
'2ll 19
SPRING SUPPLY“
rrHE Subscribers have just received a large sup
ply of
Dry Goods, Groceries and (Ineensware,
to which they respectfully invite the attention of
their town and country friends. To those first coin
mencing House Keeping, they can offer great in
ducements in the way of a NEW and nnAtrztrut.
style of QueenswaraTecently imported, and which
they will dispose of at a small advance. ALSO a
large lot of pal= FEATHERS.
HOSTKTTER & BEATES,
East King street.
N. B. All kinds of country produce taken in ex
change for goods, for which the highetst market
price will be allowed. H. & B.
march 6 1849 6-tf
DR. WILLIAM STEELLING'S
PULMONARY OR COUGH SYRUP,
Superior to any Medicine in the World, for Coughs
Colds, Consumption, Measels, Scarlet Fever, Asth
ma, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Throat Dis
ease, and all Complaints of the Breast and
Lungs. Only FIFTY CENTS a Bottle!
While far, inferior articles are selling for
One Dollar a Bottle !
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MR. ROHRER, a very highly esteemed Mer
chant of Lancaster city, writes as follows :
LANCASTER, Pa., June 9, 1848.
Doctor William Steelling :—lt affords me great
pleasure to state to you that I have used your Pul
monary Syrup with great benefit for Coughs, Pain
in the breast,•and Bronchitis. It is about one year
since 1 begun the use of it. I consider it the best
artidle I know of for those complaints, having de
rived great benefit mysel f from it in those affections,
I have no hesitation in recommending it to all who
labor under similar diseases. I have also given it
to my little son with great advantage.
- REUBEN S. ROIIRER.
Mr. Harman, a respectable Teacher of Laneas
er, speaks thus:—
LANCASTER CITY, Pa., Oct. 2, 1848.
Dr. Wm. Steelling :—I take pleasure in inform
ing you that I have been greatly benefitted by the
use of your Pulmonary Syrup. I had contracted a
very severe cold, and with it a violent cough, so
that I would sometimes spit blood; in thiscondition
you found me when you gave me a bottle of your
Syrup, I had not taken half a bottle before I found
myself much relieved, and in fact felt like a new
man. I would recommend your Pulmonary Syrup
to all who may be afflicted with colds or any other
diseases of the fungs.
R. T. HARMAN.
Testimony of a well known Merchant of Williams
town, Lancaster county, Pa.:—
Dr. Win. Steelling -Dear Sir :—lt affords me
nalich pleasure to inform you of the great benefit I
have received and also in my family, from the use
of your Pulmonary Syrup. I have used it for Ca
taarrh on the Breast, and from a very- few doses
have been relieved. I have also found it a certain
remedy for the Croup and all common colds. 1
have sold it at my store for four year and could
give a great many instances of its success in all
diseases of the Lungs and Throat.
Respectfully yours, R. M. JONES.
Sept. 30, 1848.
Read the following Extract from a full Certificate
dated August 13, 1846, from a Partner of the very
respectable and extensively known firm of Caleb
Cope & Co:, No. 165 Market street, Philadelphia.
" Having used your Pulmonary Syrup individu
ally, and in my family for .the last four years, it
affords me great pleasure to inform you, that I have
in every instance found it highly efficacious in cur
ing Coughs, Colds, &c. Indeed lam so well satis
fied of the good resulting from the use of it in such
cases, that I keep at all times three or four b6ttles
on hand. W. B. JOHNSTON."
Rev. William Heilig, of Abbottsville, Pa., writes
thus, June 10, 1842:
Dr. William Steelling—l take great pleasure in
informing you that I have been much benefitted by
the use of your Pulmonary Syrup; my throat which
has been sore for better than two years, has been
greatly improved ; I think by using a few more bot
tles a radical cure may be affected.
WILLIAM HEILIG.
Rev. 0. Douglass, Pastor of the Mariners Church,
Philadelphia, writes thus:'
I feel much gratified in being able to say to you
that the Pulmonary Syrup you sent, has been used
by several persons with great success. I can truly
say that almost every one who has taken it has
been more or less benefitted. .I cordially recom
mend it to all who are afflicted with a cough.
July 10, 1843. 0. DOUGLASS.
Rev. H. Miller, Pastor of the Lutheran CIM;Ch,
Trappe, Montgomery county, Pa., writes thus un
der date April 29, 1843.
Dr. William Steelling—My throat having been
sore for some time, by using three bottles of your
Syrup, I found it an excellent expectorant, and
have been much benefiitted. H. S. MILLER.
Mark this from the Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, in Deerfield, N. J.
DEERFIELD, January 25th, 1845.
Dr. Steelling—Dear Sir :—There are sonic things
that 'impress us very favorably at first, but further
acquaintance convinces us that our impressions
were too exalted. There are other things of which
we think more highly as our acquaintance becomes
more intimate. In this class I rank your Pulmonary
Syrup, and Vegetable Anti-Bilious Pills; which
have been kind friends to me and which I take
great pleasure in introducing to the acquaintance
of others. Yours very respectfully,
• J. W. E. KERR.
The following testimonial is from the Rev. Mr.
Raybold, of the Methodist Church, N. J.
CEDARVILLE, N. J., January 20, 1846.
Dr. Steelling—Deai Sir :—The two bottles of
Pulmonary medicine of yours, which you did me
the honor to send, I have used according to direc
tion and have the pleasure to inform you that the
medicine removed my severe cold, pain in the
.breast, and violent cough most effectually. I feel
no hesitancfin recommending the article to those
who. may; : be afflicted with Pulmonary affection.
Very respectfully yours, G.A. RAYBOLD,
Minister of the Gospel.
This very ey.elleht Systißis for sale in Lancaster
city by JAMES SMITH, Druggist,
JOHN GISH & BRO.,
JACOB LONG.
Jan 9 49 Iy-50
DENTISTRY.
DR. JOHN M'CALLA, Graduate of the Dahl
." J more College of Dental Surgery, begs leave
to inform the citizens of Lancaster and the public
generally, that he will continue to practise his pro
fession, at the old stand, directly over Messrs.
Sprecher & Rohrer's Hardware. Store, sth door
from the Court House, East King Street.
He deems it sufficient to say that he practises the
whole of the Dental Art, and is constantly prepared
to supply artificial teeth under every variety of•cir
cionstances, and upon any known approved princi
ple, from a single tooth to an entire set.
February 6 '49 . 1 • -2
Dr. A. G. Hullo' Trusses.
Double and Single Inguinal and Rotary Wedge
TRUSSES.
Also Hulls' Utero Abdominal Supporter.
THE attention of Physicians and the afflicted is
called to these celebrated instruments, of which
a large assortment has just been received by the
undersigned agent, which will be sold at consider
ably reduced prices. J. F. LONG,
Druggist, No. 8 North Queen et..
Feb 27 tf-5
c , THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD.”—BucHAFIAN
CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, MAYki, 1849.
Greatest Agricultural Improvement of the Age
PATENTED, NOVEMBER 4, 1846, TO H. W. Sauna
OF PARADISE, LANCASTER COUNTY.
PATENT LEVER DRILL
Or Grain Planter.
THE advantages of this machine are fully estab
lished by use and experiment, and are:
Ist, A saving of from two to three pecks of seed
per acre.
2d, An equal distribution of any given quantity
of seed covered at an uniform depth.
3d, A saving of labor, as this machine can be
made to complete from 8 to 18 acres per day.
4th, The grain is not so liable to be thrown out
by frost.
sth, It stands stronger and firmer, grows more
rapidly, is not so liable to be injured by the rust,
and overcomes and outgrows the action of the fly.
6th, Where these machines have been used, the
saving of seed and increase-of product amounted
to from 10 to 25 per cent.
The great characteristics of this machine, over
all others of the kind, are its simplicity, durability,
and economy, and the facility and certainty with
which it can, be set or altered, by a regulated index
and gauge, to drill or plant any given quantity of
per acre at any required depth.
This machine is made with moveable teeth at
present, to suit the unevenness of the ground. It
will answer alike for rough and smooth land.
Manufactured by the Patentee at Concord, Lan
caster county. Address to Paradise Post Office.
H. W. SMITH, Patentee.
AGENTS—Wm. KlnKrATritcx, Lancaster City.
A. K. & A. L. WITMER, Paradise.
9 Revolving Horse-Rakes for sale at the above
places, and at J. RUMPE & Co.'s Hardware Store,
Columbia.
April 10, '49 6m-11
Look! Look!
THERE'S a man most splendidly dressed ! that
shining black cloth is surely the best—look at
the turn of his Coat and the beautiful skirt,
Pray what do think such a suit may he worth? now
look at his Pants and that high buttoned Vest—how
nicely arranged to shoW the full chest; the Pants
they hang straight with a curve at the foot and fall
Most gracefully over the boot. He comes, and I
think I know him now he is near. Hold up, John.
How are you my dear,—you'll excuse me, but one
word if you please; your Clothing fits with such
graceful ease (Dm sincere and don't wish to tease)
all of us were struck at the fit and the style,—to
know where you got them is truly worth while.—
Well then, gentlemen, your curiosity soon shall be
gratified—these garment& fit me well can't be
denied; now look at the quality of the Cloth and
tell me what such a suit is worth. Forty Dollars
at least, was quickly said. No, replied John, but
Twenty paid. Surprising, astonishing, is that really
all ! Oh yes, replied John, they come from L;S
caster Hall. How is it he Bella his Clothing so
very cheap made so well, of good materials and fit
so neat? His extensive operations in trade gives
him the advantage in ready-made—he bdys his
goods for Cash, careful in his• selections—never
makes up trash. Besides his Clothing fits as well
as a man's own skin, and, giving satisfaction, in-.
duces him to come back again.. Well, what credit
does he give ? say certainly some. John placed
his finger on his nose—none gentlemen, none,—
when you go-there the CASH must come.
LANCASTER HALL OF FASHIONS by
JOS. GORMLEY,
North Queen Street, between the National House
and Orange Street, Lancaster.
April 3, ,49 3m-10
Notice to Distillers, ,
AND ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
WHEREAS, I, Jacob Weitzel, of the city of .
Lancaster, coppersmith, have received by let
ters Patto, recorded in the Patent office in the city
of Washington, certain useful improvements in the
construction of Stills, which improvements consist
of an additional tub, called a dc)2lMg tub, which
is placed partly above the still, in which tub the
doubler is inclosed, the beer which is pumped into
the upper tub passes down by a plug pipe into the
doubling tub, where it is brought to a boiling state
before it is let into the still, ;which pipe is opened
or stopped when requisite by means of a plug made
of wood, copper, or any other material.
What I claim as my improvements are the above
described doubling tub and the plug by which the
beer passes from one tub to the other, or from the
tub into the still.
Having received in formation, amoun ting to proof;
that my patent for the above described improve
ments has been violated by several distillers in this
county and in various other places, I hereby give
notice, that unless those persons who have made
use of my invention, or have it now in use, without
being authorized by me, come forward and make
full reparation for having infringed my patent right,
on or before the first-day of March next, suit will
be instituted against all and every such person or
persons, JACOB WEITZEL.
Feb. 22, 1849
JOHN C. BAKER'S
COMPOUND FLUB EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA,
THIS article is employed with great success and
by the most eminent physicians of this cjty,
for the cure of the following diseases:
Scrofula or King's Evil, Rhenmatism, Cutaneous
Diseases, Bypheletic Affections, Tetter and Ulcers,
White Swellings, Scurvy, Neuralgia or Tic Dolor
eaux, Cancer, Goitre or Bronchocele, (swelled
neck,) Spine Disease, Chronic Disease of the Lungs,
to counteract the destructive effects of Mercury,
Jaundice, Hypertrophy or the Enlargement of the
Heart, Palpitation and Trembling in the Region of
the Heart and Stomach, Enlargement of the Bones,
Joints or Ligaments. Also, all the various diseases
Skin, such as Tetter, Ringworm Biles, Pimples,
Carbuncles, etc., Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints,
Nervous Affections, Dropsical Swellings, Constitu
tional Disorders, and diseases originating from an
impure state of the blood and other fluids of the
body, in short all diseases where a change of the
system is required.
Price 50 cents per bottle.
Prepared only by the Proprietor,
JOHN C. BAKER & Co.,
Wholesale Druggists and Chemists, No. 100,
North Third Street, Philadelphia.
They always keep a good and general supply of
FRESH DRUGS,
also a new article, IMITATION' PLATE GLASS, very
superior, equal to English or French plates, for
about one fifth the price,—any size, according to
order, together with Oils, Paints 4 Glass generally.
The Compound Extract of. Sarsaparilla for sale by
HENRY & CASLOW, Druggists, corner of Market
and Third Streets, Harrisburg, Sole Agent for
Dauphin county.
Dec. 4, 'a. ly-45
CHARLES M. ERBEIV & BRO.
Have this day opened at their
NEW STORE,
In the National House Building, North Queen St.,
AN ENTIRE New and choice stock of the most
desirable kinds, styles and qualities of
DRY GOODS
Ever before offered in this-city. Their stock em
braces a full and most elegant assortment of every
thing in the
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods Line,
And will be sold at remarkable low rates.
Their long acquaintance with the business in this
city warrants them in saying that they will be able
to sell the right kind of goods, and at the
RIGHT PRICES!
They will be constantly receiving every new style
of goods as they appear in the market ; and it will
be their earnest endeavor to satisfy all those who
may favor them with a call.
CHAS. M. ERBEN & BRO.
march 6 t
Agents Wanted.
THE Lancaster County Bible Society wishes to
engage an agent for the purposes of selling and
distributing Bibles and Testaments in the county.
One who can speak the English and German Lan
guages will be preferred and a good salary given
for his services. Call on
J. W. HUBLEY,
Treasurer and Librarian of Lancaster County Bible
Society, 3d door above the Post Office.
February 20, '49 4
CHARLES A. HEINITSH,
Successor to J. F. Heinitish & Son,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DRUGGIST ,
EAST KING STREET, LANCASTER.
January 16,1849. 3m-51
WILLIAM W. BROWN, Attorney at Law,
tenders his professional services to the public.
Office in West King street, a few doors west of the
Lamb Tavern and next door to Col. D. W. Patter
son. [nov 2 43
pottrp.
MILTON ON HIS•LOSS' OF SIGHT
From the Oxford edition of Milton WorkS.
I am old and blind!
Men point at me as smitten by God's frown;
Afflicted and deserted of my kind,
Yet I am not cast down.
I am weak, yet strong;
I murmur not, that I no longer see;
Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong,
Father Supreme ! to Thee.
0 merciful One!
When men are farthest, then Thou art most near
When friends pass by, my weaknesses to shun,
Thy chariot I hear.
Thy glorious face
Is leaning toward me, and its holy light
Shines in upon my lonely dwelling place—
And there is no more night.
On my bended knee, •
I recognize thy purpose, clearly shown ;
illy vision, thou hast dimmed that I may see
Thyself, Thyself 'alone.
I have nought.to fear;
This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing ;
Beneath it I am almost sacred—here
Can come no evil thing.
Oh! 'I seem to stand
:Trembling, where foot of portal ne'er hath been,
Wrapped in the radiance : from thy sinless land,
Which eye hath never seen.
Visions come and go;
Shapes of resplendent beauty round one throng,
From angel lips I seem to hear the flow
Of soft and holy song.
- It is nothing now,
When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes—
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow;
The earth in darkness lies.
In a purer clime
My being fills with rapture—waves of. thought
Roll in upon my spirit—strains sublithe
Break over me unsought.
Give me now my lyre!
I feel the stirrings of a gift divine,
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire
Lit by no skill of mine.
JJUiSfellancous.
A Profitable Trade In Riddles
FROM TILE GERMAN OF MRS. ST. SIMON
Nine persons sailed from Balse, down the Rhine.
A Jew who wished to go to Schalampi was allow
ed to come on board, and journey with them, upon
condition that he would conduct himself with pro
priety, and give the captain eighteen kreutzers lor
his passage.
Now, it is true something jingled in the Jew's
pocket when he struck his hand against it; but the
only money there was therein was a twelve kreut
zer piece, tor the other was a brass button. Not
withstanding this, he accepted the offer with grati
tude; for he thought to himself—"something may
be earned upon the water. - There is many a man
who has grown rich upon the Rhine.
During, the first part of the voyage the passen
gers were very talkative and merry, and the slew,
with his wallet under his arm, for he did not L
it aside, was the object of much mirth and mockery.
as, alas, is often the case with those of his nation.
But as the vessel sailed onward, and passed Thur
ingen and St. Veit, the passengers one after the
other grew silent, and gaped, and gazed listlessly
down the river until one cried—
"Come„lew! do you know any pastime that
will amuse its Your fathers must have contrived
many a nun during their journey through the
wilderness."
"Now is the time," thought the Jew, "to shear
my sheep!" and he proposed that they should sit
around in a circle, and propound various curious
questions to each other, and he, with their permis
sion, would sit with them. Those who could not
answer the questions should pay the one who pro
pounded them a twelve kreutzer piece - , and those
who answered them pertinently should receive a
twelve kreutzer piece.
This proposal pleased the company; and hoping
to divert themselves with the Jew's wit or stupidity,
each one asked at random, whatever chanced to
-enter his head.
Thus, for example, the first asked—" How many
soft boiled eggs could the, giant Goliath eat upon
any empty stomach ?"•
All said that it was impossible to answer that
question, and each paid his twelve kreutzers. '
But the Jew said—" One, for he who has eaten
one egg, cannot eat a second upon an empty stom
ach," and the others paid him twelve kreutzers.
The second thought—" Wait, Jew! I will try you
out of the New Testament, and I think I shall win
my piece. Why did the Apostle Paul write the
second epistle - to the Corinthians ?".
The Jew said—" Because he was not in Corinth
—otherwise he would have spoken to them." So
he won another twelve kreutzer piece.
When the third saw that the .few was so well
versed in the Bible, he tried him in a different Way
—"Who prolfings his work to as great a length as
possible, and still completes it in tinier
"The ropemaker, if he is industrious," said the
In the meanwhile they drew near to a village,
and one said to the other—" That is Bamlach."
Then the fourth asked—"ln what month do the
people in Bamlach eat the least ?"
The Jew said—"ln February; for it has only
twenty-eight days."
The fifth said—" There are two natural brothers,
and still, only one of them is my uncle."
The Jew said—" The uncle is your father's bro
ther,
and your father is not your uncle."
A fish now leaped out of the water, and the sixth
asked—" What fish have their eyes nearest to
gether?"
The Jew said—" The
The seventh asked—" How can a man rifle from
Balse to Bern, in the shade in the summer time,
when the sun shines?"
The Jew said—" When he comes to a place
*here there is no shade, he must dismount, and go
on foot."
The eighth asked—" When a man rides in the
winter time froM Bern to Basle, and has forgotten
his gloves, how must he manage so that his hands
shall not freeze?"
The Jew said—"He must make fists of them."
The ninth was the last. This one asked—"l-low
can five persons divide five eggs, so that each man
shall receive one, and still one remain on the dish!"
The Jew said—" The last must take the dish
with the egg, and he can let it lie there as long as
he pleases."
But now it came to his turn, and he determined
to make a good sweep. After many preliminary
compliments, he asked, with an air of mischievous
friendliness—" How can a man fry two trouts in
three pans, so that a trout may lie in each pan /
No one could answer this, and one alter the other
gave him a twelve-kreutzer piece. •
But when the ninth desired that he should solve
the riddle, he rocked to and lro, shrugged his shoul
ders, and rolled his eyes. "I am a poor Jew," lie
said at last. •
The rest cried— ,, What ha,s that to do with us?
Give us the answer?"
"Von must not take it amiss, for I am a poor
Jew." At last after much persuasion, and many
promises that they would do him no harm, he
thrust his hand into his pocket, took out one of the
twelve kreutzer pieces that he had won, laid it
upon the table, and said—" I do not know the
answer any more than you! Here are my twelve
kreutzers."
When the others heard these words, they opened
their eyes, and said that this was scarcely accord
ing to agreement. But as they could not control
their laughter, and were tVealthy and good natured
men, and as the Jew had helped them to while
sway the time from Saint Veit to Schalampi, they
let it pass, and the Jew took with- him from the
vessel—let a good arithmetician reckon up for me
how much the Jew carried home with him. He
had a twelve kreutzer piece, and a brass button
when he came on board. He Won nine twelve
kreutzer pieces by his answers, nine with his own
riddle, one he paid back, and eighteen kreutzers he
gave the captain.
Mistakes of the Rich.
From the Home Journal
The Egyptian King, who, swollen with grandeur,
ordered a colossal staircase built to his new palace,
discovered to his chagrin when it was completed,
that he required a ladder to get from one step to
another. He had forgotten that a King's legs after
all, were as short as abeggar's. Aggrandize as we
may, the limits of our senses check us miserably
at every moment. You call yourself proprietor!
House and pictures outlive you, and after taking
your will of them for a short time, you are carried
out of your own door, feet foremost, never again to
enter it. ' - Proprietor" you were, perhaps, of farms
and castles, estates and mountain butnow you
own nothing but a hole in the.:ground six feet by
two!
Then' rtist who visits your gallery while you live
and own it, enjoys-it'inore than you. You are rich
enough
. 'to dine twenty-four times a day, but you
must eat sparingly to enjoy dining even once.—
Your cellar is full of exquisite wined, but you can
only drink one bottle yourself, and, to help you use
your store, you are obliged to call around you
friends, parasites—a little world can live upon your
substance, and who, instead of gratitude, are like
lier to make you a return in envy. You have thirty
horses in the stable; you can mount but one—ride
after but two or four.
To be truly rich, one should have stomachs in
proportion to the number of dinners he could afford
senses excluded, according to stock in banks, sex
tuple vigor and sensibility to concentrate and re
turn all the love he could propitiate with gifts.—
At the close of his life the richest mon has hardly
spent more upon his own enjoyment than the poor
man. He has eaten twice a day, slept in a bed
alone or with one wife, and the poor man can do
as much and the proprietor scarcely more.
Rothschild is forced to content himself with the
same sky as the poor newspaper writer, and the
great banker cannot order a private sunset nor add
one ray to the magnificence of night. The same
air swells all lungs. The same kind of blood fills
all veins. Each one possesses, really, only his own
thoughts, and his own senses. Soul and body
these are all the property which a man completely
owns.
All that is valuable in this world is to be had for
nothing. Genius, beauty and love, are riot bought
and sold. You may buy a rich bracelet, but not a
well-turned arm on which to wear it—a pearl neck
lace, but not a pearly throat with which it shall
vie, The richest banker on earth would vainly
oiler his fortune to be able to write a verse like
Byron. One comes into the world naked and goes
out naked. The difference in the fineness of a bit
of linen for a shroud is not much. Man is a handful
of clay, which turns rapidly back again into dust,
and which is compelled nightly to relapse into the
nothingness of sleep, to get strength to commence
life again on the morrow.
In this life, so partaken by annihilation, what is
there that is real Is it our sleeping pr our wak
ing—our dreaming or our thoughts Do we arise
(to the more valuable life) when we go to bed, or
go to bed when we arise! No!—man is no pro
prietor! Or lie owns but the breath as it traverses
his lips, and the idea as it Hits across his mind.
And even the idea often belongs to another.
(From the Norristown Register.)
The Age of Progress.
It is the tashion to call the age in which we
live, an Age of Progress; and this chiefly, because
science and art have given new impulses to physi
cal developement. Most men consider the present
an age of progress because steam and electricity
have overcome, to so extraordinary a degree, the
obstacles of time and space, and because the re
public enlarges its borders by conquest ; and stimu
lates the efforts of free inquiry in the_Old World,
by example. These phenomena, however, are the
mere gross, visible and tangible effects of that great
cause, which makes the present an age of progress.
If new discoveries are made in science, new changes
iu govertiMent, and new and wonderful activity is
infused into wars of conquest, it is because a new
mysterious influence has been infused into the soul
of man; making it capable of greater things than
were ever attempted before, and surprising the
nations with its vast achievements.
The spirit of progress has been breathed into
the soul of man by its Creator; and this has been
done, undoubtedly, with a higher end than merely
surprising us with new conquests over matter, new
triumphs in science, art or war. All that has been
accomplished in the last hundred years in discover
ing and developing the powers of nature, wonderful
as it is, forms but the groundwork, the foundation
of some mighty change in the moral condition of
the human race. Our constant destiny is to com
mence an existence here which will last forever;
and of this truth man will become more and more
sensible as he witnesses the triumphs 01 his own
intellect, and feels that these triumphs are insuffi
cient to satisfy the higher aspirations of the human
Soul. All the discoveries of science, all the miracles
of invention which terminate in the material world,
exhibit the mind still plodding on . in circles, and
that too, within a comparatively narrow compass.
But the age of progress demands something
more. Its spirit is already whispering "a still
small voice" into the inmost soul of man. Science
and art are but the sports of the intellect. You
have the nobler part, the immortal soul. This
demands aliment, support, exercise; and these are
only to be found in religion. Knowledge and
wealth and power are dust in the balance, when
compared with true wisdom. They cannot satisfy,
the soul which is full of eardest, albeit unsconcious
longing after communion with the Infinite. When
the whole world of science and government shall
have been revolutionized; when the utmost triumphs
of the intellect shall have been accomplished; when
the arts of life shall be so much improved that
mere physical enjoyment shall be increased an
hundred' fold, the soul will still have to turn back
on its path and place itself in humility at the feet
of the Divine Teacher who was and is always ac
cessible in order to arrive at true happiness—in
order to make real progress. "The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom." II the present
is really an age of progress, it is gradually, but
surely conducting mankind to a conviction of this
truth. Nothing deserves the name of progress
which does not lead to religion and eternal happi
ness.
Beautiful Idea.
"What would we not give" (asks a cotemporary,)
"for a file of a Roman daily during the age of
Augustus? How profitably might we exchange
for it all the histories of Rome which ever have
been or ever will be written? Neither Livy nor
Tacitus, nor Dion Cassius, nor Cicero, nor Suetoni
ous, nor Pliny, nor Beaufont, nor Niebuhr have
told us a tithe of what would have found its way
ihto the teeming journals of that metropolis of
nations. We should then be able to turn to the
date of Cicero's speech for Milo, and read editorial
comments perhaps from the pen of Sallust or of
Horterisius. In another column we might find a
new lyric inspired by the Muse of Horace, or a
new satire from the inexorable pen of Juvenal.—
Farther on we would perhaps read of the first ap
pearance of Rosius in the Andrea of Terence, or of
Asop "lor this night only," in the Amphytrion of
Plautus. The struggles of the foruin and in the
halls of justice, the frequent and curious religious
ceremonials, the daily amusements, the commerce,
the agriculture, the army, the literature, the in
dustry, the very life of old Rome, all might be
found in such a record as fresh, and as full, and as
satisfactory almost as if we had been permitted
ourselves to open the sheet yet (lamp from the
.press, under the shadows of the Capitoline."
Anecdote of Solon.
About the time that Solon returned from Greece
Thespis began to act tragedies, which being a nov
elty, took very much with the multitude. Solon
being by nature a lover of learning, and now in his
old age living idle, sporting and cherishing himself
with music. - and a glass of Wine, went to see Thes
pis himself act. and after the play was over, he
asked him if he was not ashamed to tell so many
lies before such a company ; and Thespis replying,
"lis no harm . to say or do in jest and merriment."
Solon, vehemently striking his staff against the
ground, "ay;' says he, "if we honor and commend
such merriment as this, we shall find it will creep into
our serious affairs."
A Beautiful Extract.
FROM GEN. JACKSON'S VETO OF THE. U. S. BANK
"If I had been ambitious, I should have sought
an alliance with that powerful institution (the
United States Bank) which even now aspires to no
divided empire. If I had been venal I should have
sold myself to its designs; had I preferred personal
ease, to the performance of my arduous duty, I
should cease to molest it. In the history of con
querors and usurpers, lever, in the fire of youth
nor in the vigor of manhood, could I find an attrac
tion to lure me from the path of duty; and now.
I shall scarcely find an inducement to commence
their career of ambition, when grey hairs and a
decayed frame, instead of inviting to toil and battle,
call me to the contemplation of other worlds, where
conquerors cease to be honored, and usurpers ex
piate their crimes. The only ambition I can feel,
is to acquit myself to Him, to whom I must soon
render an account of my stewardship, to serve my
fellow men and live respected and honored in the
history of my country. No, the ambition which
leads me on, is an anxious desire, and a fixed de
termination, to return to the people, unimpaired,
the sacred trust they have confided to my charge
—to heal the wounds of the constitution, and to
preserve it from further violation; to persuade my,
countrymen so far as I may, thatitis not in a splen
did government, supported by powerful monopolies
and aristocratical establishments, that they will find
happiness, or their liberties protection; but in a
plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and
granting favors to none; dispensing its blessings
like the dews of Heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in
the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce."
ANDREW JACKSON.
"Opening , ' a Court.
From the Baton Foot.,
Many pleasant anecdotes have been told of the
bench and the bar of Vermont. The following is
at least authentic, and, to the best °Pour knowledge,
was never before in print. Some dozen or fifteen
years ago, Judge P--, now a Senator of the U.
States, presided at a session of the Supreme Court
in the county of Grand•lsle, assisted by Hon. Ste
phen Royce, the present Chief Justice of Vermont.
It happened that the sheriff, who was newly elected
to his office, was wholly unacquainted with his
duty as " crier," and when called upon to 'open the
court," proceeded in the most awkward and blun
dering manner imaginable. To aid him in his imi
tation as usher, his predecessor in the sheriffalty
had kindly furnished him with a manuscript form,
in which,
.after the words "Hear ye," the words
" three times" were written in parenthesis, to indi
cate to the reader that the invocation should be
thrice repeated. The sheriff, with the paper in his
hand, read off in a loud voice, "Hear ye, three limes,"
when, perceiving the smiles of the court, and sus
pecting some mistake, he began again, repeating
the same words twice or thrice, but coming, with
each attempt to a dead halt at the end of " three
times At last, with a desperate effort, as though
a court were a thing to be opened with a crow-bar,
the poor crier literally forced a passage through
the remainder of his ritual, and sat down, looking
very red in the face, amid the laughter of the au
dience.
"I say, Steve," said Judge P-, turning to his
colleague, and speaking in a low growl, "I have
seen courts opened in all sorts of ways, but this is
the first time 1 ever saw one torn open!"
A New "Theory of Storms."
A peculiar faculty, which is called " smartness,"
is possessed by the hack and cabmen of New York
to perfection. One evening last week a gentleman
and lady, coming out of the Chatham theatre at the
close of the performances, were astonished at find
ing the flags before the house wet, indicating a cu
rious change in the weather ; curious change, as
but an hour before the stars twinkled with unusual
brilliancy, and the heavens were calm and serene
as the countenance of a sleeping infant or a slum
bering young wife.
"Cab, sir?" shouted a score of drivers.
" Yes," answered the gentleman, alarmed for'the
safety of the lady's silks and satins, which had ar
rived from the mantra-maker's shop only a week
previous,bundling into the first cab he encountered.
Upon alighting opposite his own door, he noticed
the dry and dusty state of the pavements, and felt
more puzzled than ever.
" Why, it could not have rained much," said he,
handing the driver of the vehicle his thre.
" Han't rained at all . to-night," said John.
" No ?- said the gentleman, interrogatively.
"No," responded the driver.
"How came the wallcs . wet, then?" inquired our
anxious seeker after the truth.
“ Yon won't blow, sir ?”
" Blow !" mused the gentleman, not exactly com
prehending the meaning of the verb as used by his
interlocutor.
•
" Yes, sir, expose me."
" No ; certainly not."
" Well, sir, we got a watering pot and sprinkled
the' walk."
Wit Auctioneer.
An amusing writer of comic sketches in London
gives the following specimen of wit of one of that
class known as mock auctioneers :
" Who'll buy this padlock and key (holding it
up tp the light and turning it round and round.)—
This is a lock—no sham here. 'Taint a Bramah,
for them can't be picked. Now this is a picked
lock, picked out of ten thousand, my friends, and
picked out by myselfout of the choicest lots in
the country. There's music for you. (Locks and
unlocks it.) Wl4 ; it clicksAiike a gun lock. Its
dog cheap at three shillings, and you may have it
for eighteen pence. Who says? It has as many
wards as London, and holds as tight as a bulldog.
There's real strength in it. Sampson's strength
lay in his locks, but this beats him entirely. Come,
give us a bid. You must have something to lock
up your wife, and keep her from ; gadding about—
save your shoe leather and doctor's bills. Come,
give us a bid. Sixpence did you say, sir? Thank
you, sir. It is yours.
The Selfish Man.
It is the decree of Heaven, that the exclusively
selfish man shall be miserable even in this world.
As he never gives love to any man, he never can
receive a return of love. He is at war with the
general good of his species, and is therefofe the
common enemy of mankind. His money may
command attentions, and procure the outward show
of respect—but he can never receive the homage of
an unbought smile; or the warm tribute of a grate
-flu heart. Wealth is too poor to purchase love ;
and power is not strong enough to enchain affec
tion. The eye may fall abashed in the presence of
grandeur—the lips may chaunt the praise of afflu
ence; the knee may bend in homage before the
splendor of authority—but the heart is above all
bribe, and will give its affections to goodness alone.
The selfish man is therefore shut out from all that
gives grace and value to life, all that makes life a
blessing—for what is extensive worth to him who
has no man's sympathy, no man's love.
The Voice of Wisdom and Age.
In my apprehension, the best way to be useful
and happy in this life, is to cultivate domestic affec
tions—to love home, and at the same time, to be
temperate and just—to pursue lawful business,
whatever it may be, with diligence, firmness, and
integrity of purpose, and in the perfect belief that
honesty is equally binding in the discharge of pub
lic as of private trusts; for when public morals are
destroyed, public liberty cannot survive.
If we are aspiring, we ought not to lose our
diffidence ; and if ardent for reforms, ought not to•
lose our discretion. We ought to listen to the
maxims of experience, and respect the advice and
institutions of our ancestors ; and above all, we
ought to have a constant and abiding sense of the
superintending goodness'of that Almighty Being
whose wisdom shines equally in His works and
His vvord,•and whose presence is everywhere sus
taining and governing the universe.—Chancellor
Kent.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Of old, to debtors that insolvent died,
Egypt the right of sepulture denid ;
A different trade enlightened Christiana drive,
And charitably bury them alter.
SABBATH:MORNING
Fmm the 'Saturday Cornier.
BY F. ntrcscrrunuar MAHAN
How beautiful-the morning 'dawns !
How calmly wanes the night! •
And sloping hills and grassy lawns
Are tinged with rays alight
And dew-drops glitter soft, like pearls,
'Mid a fair maiden's floating curls.
Hushed is the reveller's rude song,
And shepherd's roundelay;
And flocks and herds move slow along,
As conscious orthe day.
And 'mid the bough's the soft wind stirs,
Warble the wOodlakd choristers.
And every brooklett!liding by,
And torrent bounding free,
Chaunts to the Power Supreme on high,
A Sabbath melody.
And ere the lark unfolds his wings,
A morning hymn he sweetly singe.
Who would not rest on such a morn,
From labor and from care,
Must be indeed a child forlorn;
Unused to praise and prayer.
Blessed day ! Most holy of the seven,
Thy sacred prototype is Heaven !
A Child's Faith,
A beloved minister of the gospel was one day
speaking of that active, living faith, which should
at all times cheer the heart of the sincere follower
of Jesus, and related to we a beautiful illustration
that had just occurred in his own family.
He had gone in a cellar which in winter was
quite dark, and entered by a trap door. -A little
daughter, only three years old, was trying:to find
him, and came to the trap door,
but on looking
down all was dark, and she called:
"Are you down cellar, papa?"
"Yes, would you like to come, Mary?"
"It is dark, I can't come down, papa."
"Well, my daughters I am right below you, and
I can see you, though you cannot see me, and if
you will drop'yourself I will catch you."
, "Oh, I shall fall; I can't see you, papa?"
"I know it,' he answered, "but I am really here,
and you shall not fall or hurt yourself. If you will
jump, 1 will-catch you safely."
Little Mary strained her eyes to the utmost, but
could catch no glimpse of her father. She hesitated,
then advanced a little further, then summoning all
her resolution, she threw herself. forward, and was
received safely in her father's arms. A few_ days
after, she again discovered the cellar door open,
and supposing her father to be there, she called:
"Shall I come again, papa ?"
" Yes, my dear, in a minute," he replied, and had
just time to reach his arms towards her, when, in
her childieh glee, she fell shouting into his arms,
and clasping his neck, said:
"I knew, dear papa, I should not fall."
Affecting 'Scene.
The Boston Mail describes a touching scene •be
tween Pearson, arrested for murdering his wile and
two children. The old man was called as a witness,
awl testified to leaving his daughter-in-law and two
grand-children in good health and spirits at 9 o'clock
on Tuesday evening. Up to that hour he had pass
ed the evening in their society, and spoke of them
as being in unusual fine spirits. Having closed his
evidence, he turned to his son (the prisoner) and
in a voice of strong emotion, inquired— •
" Daniel, can you not give your father some hope
—at least some faint hope, that you are wrongfully
accused ?"
Prisoner—(Cooly, and without betraying the
least emotion.) " I can say that lam innocent
"Oh my son ! my son!" continued the old man—
the tears streaming from his eyes—"could you but
go with nie to see that scene of pre—could you
but see as I halie seen--.." Here sobs choked
his utterance, and for some moments he was unable
to speak. Then tutning to justice Prescott, he
begged that his sdn might be permitted to go to
his home, to the scene of the murder, and look upon
the remains of his wife and children. "It would,"
continued the heart-broken old man, With deep
energy, "make him speak the truth, if he could but
see them !"
But few were present at this scene, but of the
number none could avoid shedding a tear at wit
nessing the old man's agony. Yet there was one
who did not, and that was the prisoner. He main
tained the same immobility of look which he had
worn through the trying scene of the examination.
He seemed scarcely human.
Evening.
How sweet and beautiful is the close of a calm
and clear summer's day, when not a cloud is vis
ible to east the least shade of gloom upon the fair,
tranquil face of the azure canopy of Heaven. All
Nature seems clad in joyous smiles—and odors
sweet and balmy, rising in the greatest profusion,
perfume the atmosphere and bid adieu to the fiery
orb of day. The silvery queen of night, just peep
ing over the summit of yon eastern hill, gilds the
tops of every knoll, and adds much to the beauty
01 the scene ; and the stars following in their train,
soon fill the space above, and sparkle with their
wonted splendor. Oh, how delightful is such a
scene to the reflecting and upright mind. Aspira
tions, pure and holy, arise to him who made them
all, and who guides and directs them in their res
pective courses, in ;such a way as ever to secure
perfect harmony and regularity in all their motions.
Human thought cannot comprehend nor under
stand the power that controls the works of nature;
and rrian can only look on with surprise and asp,
and admire the goodness and love of an omnipotent,
yet a kind and merciful Providence.
Review of the Market.
From the Knickerbocker.
.Askes.—Pots and Pans in great request. Ashes
in barrels are heavy, as the corporation demand has
entirely ceased.
Conis.—V ery ,nu operation in the article,
although several holders, and all limping like lame
ducks. They have made desperate efforts to
change them for some other commodity, but hive
tried large boots in vain.
Coffer—has been going down for some time.
g3oarding-house keepers offer freely at reduced rates.
Horses.—This article,
which has been used as a
'fancy stock during the late fine weather, and driven
into all sorts of holes and corners, has, since the
disagreeable change, asSumed a more stable appear
ance.
Iron.—We are assured, upon the veracity of an
exchange paper, that Missouri pig is quiet. If this
be true, it must be a very extraordinary variety,
and should be extensively cultivated.
Money illarket.—No change.
Tongues.—A light supply, and these are going
very fast.
Maxims.—Persevere against distouragements.
Keep your temper. Employ leisure in study and
always have some work in hand. Be punctual and
methodical in business, and never procrastinate.—
Never be in a hurry. Preserve self-possession, and
be not talked out of a conviction. Rise early, and
be an economist of time. Maintain .dignity with
out the appearance of pride; manner is something
with every body, and everything with some. Be
guarded in discourse, attentive, and slow to speak.
Never acquiesce in immoral or pernicious opinions.
Be not forward to assign reasons to those who have
no right to ask. Think nothing in conduct unim
portant and indifferent. Practice strict, temperance.
I
1.1:r A CURIOUS INSTANCE OF P ROVIDENTIAL
PRESERVATION is mentioned in French history,
which, though insignificant, shows how little men
can foresee the means of theirown safety in danger.
During the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the chap
lain of Admiral Coligny sheltered himself in a hay
loft, where he was supported Tor several days by
means'of a barn door fowl, which laid an egg daily
near the place of his refuge.
Paysic.—"My dear Madam," said a doctor to
his patient, "I am truly gratified to find you yet in
life. At my last Visit yesterday, you know I - told
you that you had but sirhours to live." "Yes, doe!
tor, you did, but I did not take the dose-you left
for me."
A Scazw.Loose.—A Western paper advertises
Ephraim B. Screw, a horse•thief, as. having.broken
jail.
NO. 14.