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THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.
You're tired, dear mother, your cheek is quite pale ;
Won't you lay down your sewing and tell me a tale
Of fairies that sent in the good times of old,
Rich banquets, andjewels, and purses of gold?
And about little Red Riding Hood crossing the
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Was the wolf that she met like our wolf at the door ?
Shall we never walk oat where the holism so tall
Have lace o'er eaoh window, and lamps in each hall ?
Where the curly-haired children play over the gran ?
We might hear their gay laughter and talk as we'd
Pass,
Must you sit here and work till your fingers are
sore?
I think we might steal by the wolf at the door!
I'll lay down your work—oh, how warm it will be ;
My nice little cloak l—why, I thought 'twos for me !
Once, always in garments as fine I was dressed,
But I shan't ask for this, if you think 'twould be
best ; •
Yet I can't understand what you told me before,
That it might, for a while, keep the wolf from the
door.
The clothes I have on are so thin and so worn !
I try to be thankful they never stay torn ;
But I should like some new ones with tassels and
braid,
And stockings not shrunken, nor faded nor frayed ;
And a pair of new shoes—how they oreak on the
floor !
But then he might hear them—the wolf at the door !
And the fire on the hearth, it has died away quite ;
Won't you kindle a new one, dear mother, to
night?
Don't you love the soft flames as they crackle and
glow ?
They would warm your poor hands, that are cold as
the snow ;
And the kettle would sing—hark !
wind's roar?—
Oh, mother !—I fear 'tis the wolf at the door !
Well, hear me my prayers, and I'll lie down in bed,
And while your soft arm is passed under my head,
Won't you tell me again to be trusting and brave,
Though I march over thorns on my way to the
grave?
To keep sin from my heart, lest it eat to the cora—
l/ear mother, is sin like the wolf at the door?
And tell me of mansions still grander than those
Where the rioh children play and the grass greenly
grows;
Where they'll give me bright robes, and a crown for
my head,
And on fruits from the garden of God I'll be fed ;
Oh, mother! to think there we'll live evermore,
And be in no fear of the wolf at thb door.
THE CRIMSON TREE.
I passed through the woods one Autumn day,
And watched the flashing glory
Of oak and walnut and maple and fir,
And heeding their saddening story.
The sermon they preached was searching and deep,
But the beauty of their strain,
The glittering hues on the mountain steep,
Hushed the troubled thoughts again.
Picture worthy of artist divine,
Where splendor heaped on splendor,
Where lightness with darkness, where sombre with
gay,
Where rooks and leafage tender,
Where blue and green, and golden and brown,
Melt into an artist's dream.
And this pictured temple, myriad-hued,
Reared on the faded sod,
Made me inwardly murmur, in emote subdued,
,4 Its builder and maker is God."
As 1 looked, I saw the color of blood,
One tree with crimson dye,
Reached upward above the colored flood,
And touched the gentle sky.
Yet 'twos a hue from God's own hand,
His touch had set it there,
Who could never impose on himself command
To mar a dream so fair.
And so when I look on another scene,
The blessings of Home and Land,
The flashing, golden, myriad tints,
The splendors on every hand,
And see the solemn crimson of blood,
It blends with the flashing glory,
And God's own pencil throws a flood
Of light on the saddening story ;
And though we sometimes sit and weep
At the crimsoned waters flowing,
At the crimsoned leaves on the mountain aide,
At the crimson sod slow growing,
Yet this blending of tints, this sombre with gay,
Reveals the hand of the Lord,
And we gladly, and yet all solemnly say,
Its Maker and builder is God.
The Marriage Altar.
Judge Carlton, in an excellent address
before the Young Men's Library Associa
tion, at Augusta, Me., thus sketches the
marriage scene :
I have drawn you many- pictures of
death ; let me sketch for you a brief but
bright scene of beautiful life. It is the
marriage altar. A lovely female, ,olothed
in all the freshness of youth and surpass:
ing beauty, leans upon the arm of him to
whom she has just given herself up for
ever. Look in her eyes, ye gloomy philoso
phers, and tell me, if you dare, that there
is no happiness on earth. See the trust
ing, the heroic devotion which compels her
to leave country and parents, for a compar
ative stranger. She has launched her frail
bark upon a wide and stormy sea; she has
handed over her happiness and doom for
this world to another's keepiiig ; but she
has done it fearlessly, for love whispers to
her fr t hat her chosen guardian and protec
tor bears a manly and noble heart. Oh,
woe to him that forgets his oath and his
manhood !
Her dark wing shall the raven flap
O'er the false hearted,
His warm blood the wolf shall lap,
Ere life be parted,
Shame and dishonor sit
On his grave ever,
Blessing shall hallow it,
Never! Oh never!
We have all read the history of the
husband who, in a moment of hasty wrath,
said to her who had but a few moments
before united her fate with his—
If you are not satisfied with my con
duct, go, return to your friends and to
your happiness.'
'And will you give me back that which
I brought to yon V asked the despairing
wife.
Yes,' he replied, all your wealth shall
go with you ; 1 covet it not.'
Alas !' she answered, I thought not of
my wealth-1 spoke of my loves ; can you
give these back to me
No !' said the man, at he flung himself
at her feet ; no ! I cannot restore these,
but I will do more—l will keep them un
sullied and untainted,-I will cherish them
through my life, and in my death ; and
never again will I forget that I have sworn
to protect and cherish her who gave up to
me all she held most dear.'
Did I not tell you there was poetry in
aToman's look--a woman's word ? See
it there! the mild, the gentle reproof of
love, winning back from its harshness and
rudeness the tern and unyielding temper
of an ugly man. Ah, if creation's fairer
sex only knew their strongest weapons,
how many of wedlock's fiercest battles
would be unfought ; how much unhappi
ness and coldness would be avoided.
Tr MAR - Es His HEAD ACHE.—A certain
Sootohman, who is not a member of the
Temperance „Sooiety, being asked by a
dealer to purchase some fine old Jamacia
rum, dryly answered, To tell you the
air, .1- canna say I'm very fond- of
rum, for if I take more than .sax tumblers'
its vary apt to gie a body the headache.
Brom the Logan County (Ohio) Gazette.
A WONDERII7L VISION
What I here relate, is true. That
I which I have seen, I have seen • and that
' which I know, I know. Let a ll the peo
ple read what is here written, and ponder
the wonderful things I have seen in a
vision. For much of that which I have
seen in a vision will be seen in the reality
by all, in the fulness of the evil time
whioh is coming, and which now is. For
a voice hath said, 'that which thou aeest
write !' ,
My sun—our first born—the object of
our dearest love and most affectionate
care—whom we had reared in the ways of
virtue, and educated with the view to an
honored life, was among the dead at
Gettysburg. We brought him home, to
that dear hearth by which he had grown
from infancy to young manhood ; to the
home which he had left but a few months
ago in the glow of health and the enthu
siasm of hope. We had brought him back
a mangled corpse, with a ghastly wound
on his fair brow,—hardly to be recognized
now, even by the loving mother who had
borne him, and who bewailed him with
unceasing lamentation.
Dead ! And my house was filled with
the sad faces of neighbors and friends,
who had known and loved our boy, and
who came now to condola with us in the
hour of overwhelming sorrow.
He was buried. And I returned to a
home which was saddened forever ; to that
familiar room, where in the years that
passed, my boy had so often, from infancy
to manhood, sat on my knee, or by my
side. How dark it seemed ! How dolor
ous :
—Le that the
And sleep had fled from me. My eyes,
which had refused to weep, seemed as if
they were seared, and blessed slumber
came not.
All through the dreary hours—hours
which seemed ages !_of that awful night
I waited and watched, and knew not re
pose. That long night wore away at last,
and a day of fasting succeeded; and the
dolorous night came again.
As I looked out of the window to the
North, a great light, neither of the sun,
nor moon, nor stars, but brighter and
elearer than mid-day, illuminated what
seemed a vast plain, upon which the
minutest object might be discerned with a
clearness which was wonderful.
And as I looked, I beheld the coming
of a great host, marching to the sorrowful
sound of a muffled drum. As they came
nearer, and glided past, I remarked that
there was no sound of footsteps where
they trod. Then I knew they were
spectres—the shadows of the countless
dead, fallen in battle. Their o]armelts
were soiled and torn. And I observed,'
with a shudder which thrilled horribly
through me, that the death-wound was
upon every form, and that each ghastly
face w- s the face of a corpse. Great
God ! here was an arm shot away, and
there a gash on the forehead ; again, and
an eye-ball burst with a shot ; and yet
again, a temple crushed as by a blow of a
gun-barrel. And as the spectre-host
glided by, I heard a voice, saying; 'Weary,
indeed, wilt thou be gazing ; for days and
days must elapse, marching at this forced
march, which thou beholdest, ere this vast
army of the dead can pass.' I turned
away in horror, and prayed that I might
be spared a spectacle which seemed to
freeze the very blood in my veins. But
now I knew, as I had not known before,
what a multitude had fallen in battle.
When I looked again, the vision had
changed ; and lo ! in the place of those
grizzly shadows, I beheld a great pool of
blood. It was so large that ships might
ride on its crimson billows. And congre
gated, by the hundred thousand, all around
the wide circumference of its margin, were
women, pallid and tearful, each clad in
robes of sombre blackness, and having
little children by the hands, who wept
incessantly, and gazing into their mothers''
faces, and called upon these who could
make no response, for their blood was in
the pool at their feet. And far beyond
this horrible pool, my gaze extended to
houses made desolate, and families impov
erished. I beheld these widows in their
struggle for bread. I could see them
chilled and shivering, and crouching in
scant clothing, wretched embers which
imparted no warmth, but which were all
that they could procure. And I beheld
those orphan children, squalid and
wretched, uncared for, and uneducated,
going down into the haunts of vioe, swept
into the vortex of crime, for the want of
the father's guiding and restraining hand.
And I oried out, in the bitterness of my
heart : How long, oh, Lord, how long
And what shall we obtain which will repay
us for all these horrible sacrifices 'P
And the voice answered 'Look to the
left of the pool which is before thee and
see what thou beholdest !'
- .
And I looked, and beheld a vast grove
of trees, which were leafless and dead ;
and on the branches of the trees were
huddled myriads of unclean birds, lazily
flapping their wings, and wiping what
seemed to be blood from their beaks.
And underneath was a multitude of men,
crying, ' blood ! blood ! more blood !'
And the voice said : These are the shoddy
contractors, place-holders, money-getters,
and the ungodly among the priesthood.—
Listen attentively, that thou may'st hear.'
And I heard in loud ald demoniac
shrieks :
Prosecute the war ! Down with peace
makers ! No compromise ! No adjust
ment ! No settlement ! The war must
go on ! Down with the Constitution—it
is a league with hell ! Cursed be the old
Union—it is a covenant with death !
Down with Liberty—except for negroes
Arm the black man ! Fire the torah !
Whet the blade ! Burn cities—depopu
late villages—waste plantations—take the
bread from famishing children—drive
weeping women from the roofs that shelter
them ! Steal books ; steal pictures ; steal
precious plate ; God is asleep ! there is no
hell, neither is there a judgment !'
And as I gazed, I cried out, Merciful
Heaven, are these men, or are they devils ?
A hell on earth 2 or rather, has not the
veil been removed, which hides the unseen
from this visible world ! am I not looking
upon fiends already damned I'
And the voice said : 'Listen yet again,
while the ungodly priests are speaking.'
And I listened, and heard : A new com
mandment give I unto you, that ye hate
one another. Turn your plow -shares into
awordii,AMl prtmlpg-hooka into ispeara.—
Thou ehilt hate - thy neighbors. .Do
unto others as you would have them do
"THAT COUNTRY IB THZ MOST PROBPIROUB MUM LABOR OOKIKABIN3 THI OBBATIST INWARD:
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1863
unto you. Accursed be the peace-mak
ers. Christ was the Prince of War. Thou
shalt lie; thou shalt steal; thou shalt bear
false witness against thy neighbor ; thou
shalt kill ! Glory to John Brown ! Glory
to the new Savior ! Hosannahe to the new
Redeemer.'
But I could endure the impious blas
phemy no longer. Turning aw%y, I be
held flitting about, beneath the unolean
birds, yet over the heads of the demoniac
crowd, a phantom figure with a long griz
zly beard, and a rope about his neck.
And the voice said : The phantom
which thou seest is the spirit which be
gets the idolatry, the blasphemy, the fraud,
the rapine, and the crime which thou hest
witnessed.'
And as I looked, I beheld many famil
iar faces, though they seemed disturbed
with evil passions, such as avarice, hatred,
revenge, &o. One whom I saw was dimin
utive in stature and appearance, but he
held a big book under his arm, and on the
cover of the book was inscribed, $3,000
per annum. Avarice was his passion, and
he had bartered his soul for gold. And I
beheld an elderly man with marked fea
tures and lineaments, and iron-gray hair,
and a look which betokened intellectual
power, who with strong speech was goad
ing the frantic multitude to- yet greater
excesses. He had bartered his soul at
the shrine of Ambition. And yet another
younger in appearance, with beard prema
turely white, who had sold himself for
naught, and who pursued the grizzly phan
tom, grasping and clutching at what was
at last shadowy and unreal. And many I
beheld, who looked sad and gave signs of
remorse, and who seemed anxious to es
cape from the damned beings who sur
rounded them.
And the voice said : Look now to the
right, and see that which is to be seen.'
And I looked, and lo ! a great assem
blage of men, many of whom had scrolls
in their hands, and many were bearing
banners. On the scrolls; some were in
scribed in golden letters : The Constitu
tion,' and others, Christ's sermon on the
Mount;' others, The Golden Rule.' On
the banners I read, Constitutional Lib
erty,' The Union as our fathers made it,'
Blessed are the Peace-makers,' ( Com
promise—agree with thine adversary while
thou art in the way with him.' I observed
that the eyes of the assemblage were turned '
toward heaven, and looking up saw against
the sky a bright cross, bearing the inscrip
tion
which greeted the eyes of the first
Christian emperor of Rome: By this sign
shalt thou conquer.' And I thought I be- '
held the heavens opening, and the spirit
descending like a dove. The shades of
departed statesmen and patriots, and of
murdered martyrs were hovering in the
air. There were Washington, and Web
ster, and Clay, and Jackson, and Douglas ;
and as they gazed upon the left, their;
countenances evinced sorrow and indigna
tion. There, too, were the twelve inno
cent men slain by the monster McNeil,
and Mumfurd, who were hanged by But
ler, the beast, and Bollmeyer, with that
sad smile upon his face, which he wore
when dying. And I looked again to the
left, and 1 saw that as often as any one
sought to get out of the infernal circle,
its denizens yelled after him with bitter
imprecations of Craitoo,' Disloyal,' and
similar epithets, or rushed after him with
swords, or drove him back with bayonets.
Yet many escaped, with joy it their de
liverance, and met with glad welcome from
the rapidly increasing hosts on the right.
And from the left they incessantly called
and begged for deserters from the right.
But few responded, and they only when '
promised an enormous price. And those
crawled upon their bellies, through mire
and filth, from one assemblage to the other.
And I noticed that their faces became
black, and their feet cloven, and their
tongues forked and fiery.
And the voice said : What thou be
boldest at the North, is but a counterpart
of what I might show thee at the South.
There marched a specter host ; and there
curdleth a pool of blood ; and demons are
there crying for carnage and for vengeance,
and there, too, is a great host, like unto
that which thou seest i n the right, begging
for Union, for Peace, for Compromise, for
the Constitution. But look yet again, and
thou wilt see the terrible judgments
which are in store for a people who violate
the commands of the Almighty ! '
And I behold a brazen sky, and glaring
sun, and vegetation parched with drought,
and springs whose fountains had failed,
channels rooky and dry. And I saw great
multitudes of men, women and children
hurrying with parched tongues and feeble
footsteps to the great lakes and rivers, to
appease the demands of thirst.
I looked again, and I beheld another
curse, for behold the green fields were
smitten with frost in the summer time,
and yielded not harvests; and the cattle
were dying by the wayside; and the faces
of mothers were wan and bony ; and chil
dren were crying for bread, and there was
famine in the land.
And I beheld yet another curse. For
it grow dark, and I heard the rushing of
heavy wings, and lo ! the angel of the
Pestilence passed, crying wo ! wo ! wo ! to
this people accursed. And strong men fell
down and died on the highways ; and
plague spots came upon every cheek and
breast; and there was none to minister to
the dying, and none to bury the dead, and
the vultures grew fat and usurped the land.
And I heard a loud voice saying : r "Ven
geance is mine, saith the Lord ! '
And that which I relate, is truth, its
very essence. And I have written it be
cause it is truth. And let all the people
receive it as truth. And I beg and im
plore all who shall read it, to be instructed
in the things which it teaches, and to con
sider well that which they do. Study the
Divine Book. Pray without ceasing, for
heavenly guidance. And let those who
have been lured by false-leaders and un
godly priests, into that infernal convoca
tion, over which the demon spirit of John
Brown bears rule, flee in the name of God,
as they would avoid the just curse of
Heaven, resting neither night nor day, un
til they have set their feet on the hallowed
ground whereupon they stood, when the
blessings of Christ rested upon us all.—
Amen !
11l A negro about dying was told by
his minister that he must forgive a certain
darkey against whom he seemed to enter
tain vary bitter feelings. _
',Yes, yes,' be replied, if I dies I for
gib dat niggs ; but if I gits well dat
niggs must take care.'
AN ADVENTURE.
I never attended but one temperance
lecture,' said our friend 8., with a peculiar
smile, 4 and I don't think I shall ever at
tend another.'
You probably found it dry
Well, yes—but that isn't it. The lec
ture was well enough, but I got into such
an awful scrape after it was over, that I
never think of temperance meetings with
out a sudden shudder. I'll tell you about
it. It was in Jersey City, where I was
something of a stranger, and the night
was one of the worst of the season. Boreas !
how it blew ! It was enough to take you
breath away. Well, the lecture was over
and making my way through the crowd, I
lingered in the doorway, contemplating the
awful scene, when somebody took my arm.
Where have you been ?' said the sweet
est voice in the world. I have been look
ing for you everywhere.'
Very much surprised, I turned my head
and saw—but I can't describe her ! It
makes me mad to think how prodigiously
pretty she was.
Wit h her left hand she leaned on my arm
she was arranging her veil with her right,
and did not notice my surprise.
You have been looking for me,' 1 fal
tered.
Come, let us be going,' was the reply,
pressing my arm.
A thrill went to my heart. What to
make of my lady's address I did not know ;
bat she was too charming a creature for
me not to accompany her. We started off
in the midst of the tempest, the'noise of
which prevented any conversation. At
length she said, with a scream—
, Put .'our arm around me, or I shall
blow away.'
I need not describe to you my sensa
tion as I pressed her to my side and hur
ried on. It was very dark ; nobody saw
us ; and allowing her to guide my steps,
I followed her motions through two or
the short, streets, until she stopped before
an elegant mansion.
Have you your key ?' she asked.
My key !' I stammered ; there must
be some mistake.'
As she opened the door I stood waiting
to bid her good night, or to have some
explanation, when, turning quickly, she
said
How queer you act to-night ; ain't
you coming in ?'
There was something very tempting in
the suggestion. Was I going in / A
warm house and a pretty woman were cer
tainly objects of consideration, and it was
dreary to think of facing the storm and
seeing her no more.
It took me three-quarters of a second
to make up my mind, and in I went.—
There was a dim light in the hall, and as
my guide ran rapidly up stairs, why, I
thought I could do nothing better than
run up toe. I followed her into a very
dark room.
Lock the door, John,' she said.
Now, as if I had been the only John in
the world, I thought she knew me. I felt
for the key, and turned it in the lock with
out hesitation, wondering all the while
what was coming next. Then an awful
suspicion of some horrid trick flashed upon
my mind, for I have often heard of infatu
ated men being lured to their destruction
by pretty women, and I was on the point
of re-opening the door, when my lady
struck a light. Then being an excessively
modest man—l discovered to my dismay
that I was in a bed-room—alone with a
woman in a bed-room ! I cannot describe
my sensations. I said something ; I don't
know what it was, but the lady lighted
her lamp, looked, stared at me an instant,
turned as white as a pillow-case, and
screamed :
g Who are you 1 How came you here ?
Go, quick—leave the room; thought
you were my husband !' and covering her
face with her hands, she sobbed hysteri
cally.
I was petrified. Of course, I was quite
as anxious to leave as she was to have me.
But, in my confusion, instead of going out
of the door I came in, I unlocked the door,
and walked into a closet.
Before I could rectify my error there
came a terrible - thundering at the first
door. The lady screamed ; the noise in
creased, and I felt peculiar, knowing very
well that now the lady's real husband was
coming, and that I was in rather a bad fix.
Well aware that it would not do to re
main in the c'oset, and convinced of the
danger of meeting a man who might fall
into the vulgar weakness of being jealous,
I was trying to collect my scattered senses
in the darkness, when the lady whispered
to me in a wild manner—
What shall I do? If you do not go
he will kill me.'
Oh ! but consider —'
The thundering at the door drowned
her voice. She flew to open the door. As
the wrathful husband burst into the room
I thought I felt a little cold, and crept
under some garments hanging in the closet.
The gruff vtiae roared and stormed—
Othello was jealous and revengeful ; Des
demons innocent and distressed—then I
heard ominous sounds, as of some one
looking under the bed.
I know he is here. I saw him come
into the house with you'. You looked the
d-o-o-r ! I'll have his heart out.'
Hear me ! hear me ! I will explain !'
As I was listening very attentively far
the explanation, the garments under which
I was concealed were quietly lifted, and
fancy my feelings, discovered, in such a
situation, by such a husband.
4 Well, B—n,' we oried, deeply inter
ested, for we knew every word of his story
was true, how did you • get out of the
scrape ?'
I used a violent remedy for so violent
a complaint. Driven in a corner—my life
in danger—perceiving at a glance that
Othello was not as strong as I was, I threw
myself upon him,fell with him,and held him
there until I had given a full explanation
of the error, made him hear reason, and
tamed him to be as gentle as a lamb. Then
I left, rather unceremoniously, and I have
never seen Othello or Desdemona since.'
Singing is a great institution. It
oils the wheels of care—supplies tho plaee
of sunshine. A man who sings has a good
heart under his shirt front. Such a man
not only works more willingly, but he
works more constantly. A singing cobbler
will can twice as much money as a cobbler
who gives way to low spirits and indiges
tion. Avaricious men never sing. The
man who attacks singing throws a stone at
the head of hilarity, and would, if he could
rob June of its roses, or Angnst.of f itl
meadow larks.
A TERRIBLE MEAN Mix.—We have
known some very mean men in our time.
There was Deacon Overreaoh ; now he was
so mean, he always carried a hen in his
gig -box when he traveled to pick up the
oats his horse wasted in the manger, and
lay an egg for his breakfast in the morning.
And then there was Hugo Himmelman,
who made his wife dig potatoes to pay for
the marriage license. We must tell that
story of Hugo, for it is not a bad one, and
good stories, like potatoes, are not so plenty
now as they used to be when we were a
boy. Well, when ho was going to get
married to Gretchen Golp, he goes down
to Parson Rogers, at , Digby, to ket a li
cense. Parson,' says he, what's the
price of a license V Six dollar's,' says
he. 6 Six dollars,' said Hugo, ' that's a
dreadful sight of money. Couldn't you
take no less 7' says he, that's
what they cost me at the Secretary's office
at Halifax.' Well, how lynch do you ax
for publishing in church, then 7' Noth
ing,' says the parson. Well,' says Hugo,
that's so cheap, I can't expect you to
give no change bank. I think I'll be pub
lished. How long does it take Three
Sundays !' says the parson. 'Well, that's
a long time. But three Sundays only
make a fortnight, after all ; two for the
covers and one for the inside like ; and
six dollars is a great sum of money for a
poor man to throw away. 1 must wait.'—
So off he went, jogging towards home, end
looking about as mean as a new sheared
sheep, when all at once a bright thought
oame into his head, and' back he went as
hard as hie horse would carrylim. Par
son,' says he, I have changed my. mind
—here's the six dollars. I'll tie the knot
to-night with my tongue that I can't undo
with my teeth.' Why, what in nature is
the meaning of all this says the parson.
Why,' says Hugo, I've been cyphering
it out in my head, and its cheaper than
publishing banns, after all. You see, sir,
its potato-digging time ; 'if I wait to be
called in church, her father will have her
work for nothing ; and as hands are scarce
and wage's high, if I marry her to-night,
she can begin to dig our own to-morrow,
and that will pay for the license and just
seven shillings over, for there ain't a man
in all Clements that can dig and carry as
many bushels a day as Gretchen csn.—
And, besides, fresh wives work like smoke
at first, but they get saucy and lazy after a
while.' He married her and made her dig
potatoes during the honeymoon. We ea
that mean.—Sam Slick,
How NEAR WE ARE TO DEATH.—A,
writer in the Independent thus discourses
on our nearness to death:
When we walk near powerful machine
ry, we know that ono single mis-step and
those mighty engines would tear us to rib
bons with their flying wheels, or grind us
to powder in their ponderous jaws. So,
when we are thundering across tha land
in the rail car, and there is nothing but
half an inch of flange iron to hold us upon
the track. -So, when we are at sea in a
ship, and there is nothing but the thickness
of a plank between us and eternity. We
imagine then that we see how close we are
to the edge of a precipice. But we do not
see it. Whether on sea or land, the par
tition which divides us from eternity, is
something thinner than an oak plank or
half an inch of flange iron. The machinery
of life and death are within us. The tis
sues that hold those beating powers in
their plane, are often not thicker than a
sheet of paper, and if that thin portion
wore pierced, it would be the same with us
as if ry cannon ball had struck us. Death
is inseparable bound up with life in the
very strnoture of our bodies. Struggle as
he will to widen the space, no man can at
any time go further from death than the
thickness of a sheet of paper. '
IT'S WHAT YOU SPENT!. I t's what
thee'll spend, my son,' said a sage old
Quaker, not what thee'll make, which
will decide whether thee's to be rich or
not.' The advice „was trite, for it was
Franklin's in anotgir shape; Take oars
of the pence, and the pence will take care
of themselves.' But it cannot tou often
be repeated. Men are continually indulg
ing in small expenses, saying to themselves
that it is only a trifle, yet forgetting that
the aggregate is serious, that even the sea
shore is made up of petty grains of sand.
Ten cents a day is even thirty-six dollars
a year, and that is the interest of the capi
tal of five hundred dollars. The man
that saves ten cents a day only is so much
richer than he who does not, as if he owned
a life estate in a house worth five hundred
dollars ; and if invested quarterly does
not take half that time. But ten cents a
day is child's play, some will exclaim.—
Well, then, John Jacob Astor, used to
say, that when a man who wishes to be
rich, has saved ten thousand dollars, he
has won half the battle. Not that Astor
thought ten thousand much. But he knew
that ift making such a sum, a man acquired
habits of prudeni economy, which would
keep him advancing in wealth. How
many, however, spend ten thousand ex
penses, and then, on looking back, cannot
tell, as they say, 4 where the money went
to.' To save is to get rich. To squander,
even in small sums, is the first step
towards the poor-house.
AN OLD LADY'S ADVICE TO HEIL SON.
Now, John, listen to me—l'm older
than you, or I couldn't be your mother.—
Never do you marry a young woman, before
you have contrived to happen around four
or five times before breakfast. You
should know how late she lies in bed in
the morning. You should take notice
whether her complexion is the same in the
morning as in the evening, or whether the
wash and towel have robbed her of her
evening bloom. You should take care to
surprise her, so that you may see her in
her morning dress, and observe how her
hair looks when she is not expecting you.
If possible, you should be where you can
hear the morning conversation betweeil her
and her mother. If she is ill-natured and
! snappish to her mother, so she will be to
you, depend on it. But if you find her up
and dressed neatly in the morning, with
the same emiles,,,the,neatly combed hair,
the same ready and pleasant answers to her
mother, which characterized her deport
ment in the evening, and partioularli if
she is lending a hand to get the breikfast
in geed season, stie is a prize, John, and
the sooner you secure her to yourself, the
better.'
[um. If you let your throat be seared
with daily lies, your very cravat will
tighten around it.
BUCHANAN
r lig -. One day the fife and drum melon
went out into the 'woods to practice a new
tune. Attracted no doubt by. the 'melody,
a fine shoat of musical proclivities, came
near—alas ! for the Safety of his bacon,
too near—for our bass drummer, by a
change of base,' made a base attack on
his front ; while the fifer, by a bold and
rapid flank movement, charged him in the
rear. 'Twas soon over a few well
directed volleys of clubs and other persua
elves were applied, and piggy went dead
—a martyr to his love for music. But
how to get the deceased pork into camp
That's what's the matter now.
After considerable discussion, an idea
strikes the drummer : We will put him
in the drum.' , Just the thing, by hokey,'
said the fifer. One head was taken out,
and the hog stowed in, and our heroes
started for their quarters, carrying the
drum between them. In the meantime the
regiment went out for dress parade, and
the Colonel, somewhat vexed at the absence
of his principal musicians, no sooner saw
the gents than, in a voice of reprimand,
he ordered them to take their places with
the music. The drum-bearers halted,
looked at each other, then at the Colonel,
but said never a word.
The Colonel repeated his order, in a
style so emphatic that it could not be mis
understood. The dealers in pork felt
that a crisis had arrived and explanation
had become a military necessity. So the
drummer, going up close to the Colonel,
made him acquainted with the state of af
fairs, winding up with, We 'low, Colonel,
to bring the best quarter over to your
mess.' ~ Siok, eh ?' thundered the Colo
nel, why didn't you say so at first ? Go
to your quarters, of course. Battalion,
right face !' The. Colonel had fresh pork
for supper. -`
Row NATURE COVERS UP BATTLE
FIELDS.—A correspondent writing from
near the Bull Rua- battle field, thus
graphically describes the: present appear
ance of that locality : 4 Did I tell yon
ever, among the affecting little things one
is always seeing in these war times, how
I saw on the Bull Run battle field, pretty
pure delicate flowers growing out of emp
tied ammunition boxes,a rose thrusting up
its graceful head through the head of a
Union drum, which doubtless sounded its
last charge or retreat, as the case may
have been, in that battle, and a cunning
scarlet verbena peeping out of a broken
fragment of shell in which strange cup it
had been planted ? Wasn't that peace
growing out of war? Even so shall the
graceful and beautiful ever grow out of the
horrible and terrible things that transpire
in this changing but ever advancing world.
Nature covers even the battle ground with
verdure and bloom. Peace and plenty
shall soon spring in the track of devasta
ting campaigns, and all things in nature
and society shall work out the progress of
mankind and_ harthony of God's great
designs.'
UL" In a chancery suit, one of the
counsel, describing the boundaries of
his client's land, said, in showing the plan
of it :
We lie on this side, my lord.'
The opposite counsel then said : And
we lie on that side.'
The ohaneellbr, with a good humored
grin, observed :
' If you lie on both sides, whom will ye
have me believe 'l'
r_rHE 1. ARICA'S TER. INTELLIGE.NCRII.
JOB PRINTING ESTABLISMIRIVT,
No. 8 NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
The Jobbing Department le thoroughly furnished with
now and elegant type of every description, and is under
the charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.
The Proprietors are prepared to
PRINT CHECKS,
NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS,
CARDS AND CIRCULARS,
BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS,
PROGRA
PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETSMMES AND POSTERS,
BALL TI AND ATI
PRINTING IN COLORSCKETS
AND PLAIN PRIN INVIT TING,ONS,
with neatneee, accuracy and dispatch, on the most reasona
ble terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establiah•
ment in the city.
JOT Ord.ers from a distance, by mail or otherwiset
promptly attended to. Address
GEO. SANDERSON A SON,
Intelligencer Office,
No. 9 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa.
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D
SW.E.E.TIS
INFALLIBLE LINIMENT,
THE GREAT EXTERNAL. REMEDY.
FOR RHEUMATISM, GOUT, NEURALGIA, LUMBAGO,
STIFF NECK AND JOINTS, SPRAINS, BRUISES,
CUTS AND WOUNDS, PILES, HEADACHE,
AND ALL RHEUMATIC AND NER
VOUS DISORDERS.
For all of which it is a speedy and certain remedy, and
never fails. This Liniment is prepared from the recipe of
Dr. Stephen Sweet, of Connecticut, the famous bone setter,
and has been used in hie practice for more than twenty
years with the most astonishing anemias.
AS AN ALLEVIATOR OF PAIN, It is unrivalled by any
preparation before the public, of which the most skeptical
May be convinced by a single trial.
This Liniment will core, rapidly and radicilly, Bleu ,
motto Disorders of every. kind, and in thousands of cases
where it has been used it has never been known to fall.
FOR NEURALGIA, it will afford immediate relief In
every case, however distressing.
It will relieve the worst cases of HEADACHE in three
minutes and is warranted to do It.
TOOTHACHE also will it cure instantly.
FOR' _NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERAL LASSI
TUDE arising from imprudence or excess, thin Liniment is
a most happy and unfailing remedy. Acting directly upon
the nervous tissues, it strengthens and revivifies the aye.
tem, and restores it to elasticity and vigor.
FOR PILF.S.-,As an external remedy, we claim that it is
the bet known, and we challenge the world to produce an
equaL Every victim of this distressing complaint should
give it a trial, for it wlllnot fail to afford immediate relief
and in a majoritrof Crises will effect a radical cure.
QUINSY AND SORE THROAT are sometimes extremely
malignant and dangerous, bat a timely application of this
Liniment will never fail to core,
SPRAINS are sometimes very obstinate, and enlarge.
ment of the Joints is liable to occar if neglected. The worst
case may be conquered by this Liniment in two or three
days.
BRUISES, CUTS, WOUNDS, SORES, ULCERS, BURNS
and SCALDS, yield readily to the wonderful healing pro.
porties of Dr. Sweet's Infallible Liniment when Used ad
cording to directions. Also, CHILBLAINS, FROSTED
FEET, INSECT BITES and STINGS.
Every Liuree Owner should have thin remedy at band,
for its timely nee at the first appearance of Lameness will
effectually prevent those formidable diseases, to which all
horses are liable, and which render so many otherwise
valuable homes nearly worthless.
Over four hundred voluntary testimonials to the wonder.
ful curative properties of this Liniment have been receive&
within the last two years, and many of them from persMas
in the highest ranks of life,.
To avoid imposition, observe the &knish:ire and Likeness
of Dr. Stephen Sweet on every label. and also "Stephen
Sweet's Infallible Liniment" blown in • the glass of each
bottle, without which none are genuine:
ItICHARDSON ds CO.,
Sole Proprietors, Norwich, Ct.
(June le ly 23
For Sale by all Dealers.
SHILAFFER. , S CHEAP BOOK STORE
No. 32 NORTH QUEEN STREET
IS THE PLACE •TO PURCHASE
SCHOOL BOOKS A" SCHOOL STATIONERY.
COMPRISING ALL TEL VARIOUS
READING AND SPELLING BOOKS,
ARITHMETICS AND ALGEBRAS,
GRAMMARS AND ETYMOLOGIES,
DICTIONARIES AND HISTORIES,
PHILOSOPHIES, Lo., Act.
COPY AND COMPOSITION BOOKS,
LETTER, CAP AND NOTE; PAPER,
BLANK-BOOKS, SLATES,
LEAD AND SLATE PENCILS,
PENS AND HOLDERS, INK,
INKSTANDS, RULERS,
cud the best and most complete assortment of
SCHOOL STATIONERY IN THE CITY.
Liberal dEscounte made to Teachers and Merchants
JOHN BILEAPFER'S
Cheep Cash Book Store,
82 North Queen street, Lancaster.
tl4O
"EOMNITII.B.F. .OF 7G ViCay oinsolup s .
tion, warranted as c ur t as tba beat, and cheaper thin
the abauest— , at SETO Nonotampt : loam, op
posits iffsink's Thitlonsa Hones, bannister.
N. B. To any one Tarabulus $6O worth Ware the Int
a November next 10 percent. will be sllawed tar Clash.
sus 81 tras
ME=
HID ELl'x T. It . " : 4[l Z P
Prepared by the underidgued frith the original re'
celPt, has proved Of universaintility u a Dimity medicine,
and is not surpaseed, if equaled, as a remedy in the follow
ing complaints,
FOR COSTIVENESS,
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION,
MADAME,
PILES.
SDlDlEROotipLgumg.
FEVER...AND
ma.tuo oompuutivriiild
various o th er diseases miming from Impurity
,ofthetbkotl
and deranged digestive organs.
All who have made a trial of Mb Mirdr wilt twit be
without a bottle of It at load. ' • ~
This valuable Family Eibdr, can be . had z vistor
ret ell at the Drug Store of the subscriber, .on.oll Pebble
of South Queen and Vine street', In the Of .of - Duiresilsr.
Pa. of - 1011211 NO.
Numerous tiatimonlals of the - curse perforated by tole
Elixir can be shown from persona whetters weed 01111111:1111,
either personally or in the family, Thicket bw ereglven
as a sample.
CERTIPIQATifit-
The truth of the abovastatament reluitife4Asengfges
from having , given this Elixir • felt Wain u m
I, the undersigned
having fora oqualtbrkile
suffered from Indigestion or Dyiplitildslfeedabbk.
after redone other remedies bleb bind do relief. uatirt.
need Mr. Gehring's Elixir of Life,: - which. loan reau,r
every symptom of the complaint. '
ANTON ISRlL:Lancesteeeity.-:
• -•
Wben any moult/61 . °i* . illy unwell 611 I
have to do is to give a dose of, Mr. %twine; Egigk e g l l o llll *
which speedily 'removes the coMplidif istletell 'Um
patient. . the
BRE/3W Lino
I have exceedingly auffsted, tbs sotnellittmatiblAlGlCOllLla
complaints, and until I need Mr. Gehring's It**
can not be too highly 'ricantmendettY whiali
stored me to perfect health. JULIAN A. 0
sew 16 3m 36] •
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DR* SWEET'SINIF4L,LL4Efaa
MSNT.. • • ••• et'll
THR 0 - BNAr - lez TSBNAL
FOR RHEUMATLRd, GOUT, NINTRALGIA: — LUSIESPFOr
STIFF NEON. AND JoiNn„SPD.4INOODWIIikai
OUTS ADD wouNDB, 'PILES, 'HVADiotik
• AND ALL RHECINATIOJARWL' : . '
VOUS DISORDERS: ; •
DR. STEPHEN SWEET; OP CONNECTIIt ,
The.Gtat SeNtc y ,
DR. STEPHEN SWEET, OF CONNECTICUT, — '
brknown the. l / 9 101:84444
DR. STEPHEN SWEET; OF CONNEITTIOUT;
la the author of Dr: thretittiTuAllibte LflalSl o t'f l;
• DR. SWEET'S INPAijoiDrA LINIIIUT
Cures Rheumatism and fierier fat: , ;• - ' •
-;
DR. avriorii LDP4X.4 I3 L IN. l 4Er f l
Is a certain remedy for Nenthigla. - • - •
DB. SWEET'SINFA.LLII34&,..
Cures Burns and Scalds Immediately .
. DR BWEET'S•INIALLIBLE LEXISIENT; ;
Is the best known Remedy for Spralitaamilruieps. r
DR. SWEET'S Livrir.r,
Cures Headache lipmediately and was naveirknitovn !A i;
• DR. SWEET'S INFAILIBLii LINT
Affords immediate relief tOr-Pilea, anclaeld;oni% .
• DR. EVE Ars no/2,1.1,18U.
Cures Toothache in one Minute. - . . 9111 0 1
DR. SWEET'S INFA.LLIBLE.II
Cures Cuts and Wounds fainiediatelflindleakiimilitMr
DR. sw,nrs /NgeLLTr!LE Lrri'l.l,llß4 l :
la the beet remedy•for Sores lu the Known warld:• -
DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLEMbiIIERITE- 7
Has bees used by more than a -people, •
prebuilt. '• • _
DR. SWEET'SINFALLIBLE L.THUIV'T
Is truly a " friend in need," and every fainllYelis i alditiVai•-;
It at hand. -
DR. SWEET'S INFATAYBLE uNnaller
la for sale by all Druggists. Price 45 and fe cent+ • t
RICHARDSON - ICA,
Sole Proprietors, Norwich,.(SLA
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CHEAP CLOTHI NO 8T G•R If •
"SIGN OF THE STRIPED COAT,'"
•
No. 42 NORTH QUEEN STRUT, EAST sIDI, NUR OWIal
LANOAESPER, PA,
The aubscriber bee now In store a very large kasOrtrant - '
of FALL AND WINTEB. BEAD —MADE CLOTHING fpr-
Men and Boys wear, principally of his own matiiiantitial
warranted to be well sewed, and tn be of tbq bipss44
Materiel and Workmanship, and which he will sell at Uzi
very lowest prices.
Among his extensive assortment may be found:
Black Cloth Bangaps,. -
Black - Cloth Over Backs,
• Seal Skin Over Sacks
Black Cloth Frock Coate,
Cassimere Sack Coats,
Black Cassimere Pantales
Fancy Caaantere Pantaloons, ,
Valencia Yelha.- " -
Fancy Velvet y . d 4 ,4 :
.Fanoy VlCYosts„
Elsa irldresitlFlVl
Also, a full assortment of Under-Shirts and, Drlt7fetN"r
%nit Wool Jackets , Pine Shirts, Shirt Collars,/ CIISIVAIN
Neck-Tree, Snapenders, Stocks, Gloves, Hosiery, Umbris/.. .
If las, An.
O YB' CL , G4131 - 11rq}.; . ;
Just finished the largest and aheapist assortment of
Boys' Clothing in this city. consisting of HOS . ' OttitOcati;;
Frock, Sack and Monkey Coats, .11oundahorits FintAlO9l44,-1.
and Vests, of all Sixes and quelltitaa • • •
Also, just received a very large end'well selected of -
CLOTHS, FALL STYLE CASSISIERES AND 'TEMP OS,
• SATINETS, Ao., t •
which will be made up to order In the most tiehlonabL
style at very reasonablaprices;
Persons ordering. garments - at, this establisltmeat
depend upon getting them at the Ojai fataciflidl -•' '
Thankful for the very Liberal patronage huretnfore hge.
stowed upon this establishment, the propristerrastiectfallY
solicits a continuance of the same,
JOHN A. iiaßllt, -
Sign of the Striped Coat, No. 42 NOrth"Queen'atrid, lad'. •
side, near Orange street, Lancaster , P a . 29 ei
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ANCY FURS
IJOHV7ARE/d,.IBARO, 8!Ra I
(below Bth mantlLatle,
PHILADELPHIA.
Importer, Hannfaatm
of and Dealer In all kind,
FANCY BMW!
for Ladles' and Children
Wear.
- . •
I wish .to return
thanks to my friends
Lancaster and the e
rounding cone ties„ for the
y.ry liberal patronage -
tended to me during
, _
legit few years, and woe
my to them that r
have in etore, of my - in.
Importation and biennia,
meat of all the different 1
Awe, for Ladles MO Chihli..
the Fall and Winter seasons. ,
Being the direct Importer ofllllmy . *Mali; in illigekk"
and having them all Manufactared under my avg.
vision—enables me to offer my enitonfela_anti'.lW .• •C"
a much handsomer set of Furl: fctrAke .• • •( 1
Ladies please give me a call before• pmehasheg I P
remember the name, number and street, t
JOHN 7.OIIUnIWI, `. •
No. 718 Anti &meet, Pldlndidal
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The only article of the kind ever, preened :eriiiedi will,
withatand.Water. '
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crogley's AmerbalsLOginent Glue , -TNeme, - ,rwk Sew.
It II eo oor4Ontioliave !Atha , pa4o-i-mkr , "rotill
Fixprers. - • • "
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N. it - hukpendent.
"We have tried it, end find it as nenttafin•oui
water."—Wake, Spirit cif the:Tim - 1. ' '
PRICE TWENTX-FTE OENTSTERE ft
Very Liheriel Redactions to Whollials
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sir For oaleby all DoaßclOtopdpcdPMllAfoughont theeonitry taif 7;.; •
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