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(For the Bradford Reporter.)
A FRAGMENT.
Breakers ahead! The cry rang wildly out
Upon the evening air; a hundred half
Distracted mortals rushed upon the deck
Frantic with fear ; a hundred voices rose,
And blending into one, gave a wild shriek.
Of deep despair.
All day that noble ship had sat upon.
A calm and waveless ocean; not a breath
Of air had trembled—not the slightest breeze
Had kissed her wide-set, snowy sails that hung ."
Without a motion from her towering masts.
But when the bright, unclouded sun went down
And twilight deepened o'er the sea, a breeze,
Gentle at first, but growing fast—arose •
And filled her sails and sent her on herway rejoicing
On sped that gallant ship
Like a wild bird freed from her pent-up . cage ;
All hearts were glad to see her bound again
O'er the green waves now wakened into play,
For all were wearied with the sluggish rest.
sweet songs went up from happy hearts, and tones
Of mingled symphony trilled light o'er
The freshing ocean.
Anon the breeze grew wild, and stiffened to a gale.
The ship sprang wildly o'er the waves,
That fiercely rose, and roughly lashed her sides.
But soddenly before her bow appeared
A sea of dashing foam. In vain they tried
.To tarn the gallant bark. The winds now roar'd
A tempest ! On, on she swiftly sped
Bound to her own destruction. Craggy rocks
Loomed darkly sout before her. Hark ! one wild cry !
She strikes the rocks, and backwards reels, stunned
By the fearful blow,--then plunges on agairr, •
Borne by the over-powering, mad'ning gale
As if with rage. -
_One wild, terrific shriek
Rose from the foundering wreck, upon the air,
And all was o'er. The wild waves closed,
And buried in its secret depths at once
A hundred fated, unexpecting souls,
Whose friends long waited for them at the hearth
Which they ne'er graced again.
The fierce winds ceased
Their wild, destructive rage; the moon arose
Is all its silver); grandeur, and looked down
Nub sheen of soothing softness on the scene:
And all was calm, not told the tale
Of what had been. 1 Tamass.
Herrick, Pa., June 1849.
THE FATAL TRICK.
" Bounds with one lashmg spring the mighty Bruns
• • • Wide craving to and fro
Me angry tail ; red rolled his eyes, diluted glow."
Where his vast neck just mingles with the spine,
Sheathed in his form the deadly weapon lies.”
Upon one evening a party of collegians and
young bloods of the town had met together at my.
room to play and carouse. In fact it was a regu
lar meeting of the Sub-hunters, who assembled
twice in every week. We kept it up jollily ULlil
midnight, having by that time managed to get full
of Bacchus, when Somers proposed that we should
sally faith and astonish the town by some well
planned and well-directed pieee of mischief. With
out anyone of us having a very clear conception
of our actions or intentions ; we hailed the proposi
tion with drunken rapture and started forth.
A travelling managerie had arrived in the town
the day before ; and among the wonders it contain.
-ed was a young bear. The poor animal had been
so well-beaten, that he had acquired a number ,of
amusing tricks. Of this we were well aware, hay
ing visited the managerie the day befoie. Just as
we passed the spot where the animals were confin
• ed, it occurred to me what rare sport it would be to
capture young Bruin and place him in lie chemi
cal lecturevoom, to astonish on the next day, the
professor and the claw.
do sooner had I made a" proposition to this of
feet than it was adopted and all volunteered their
assistance in carrying it into execution. • The tent
or pavillion which covered the beasts, was erected
in the great yard of the principal tavern. The ca
ges each containing one or more animals, were iron
grated boxes, standing on wheels, by means of
• which they had been dragged into town. They
were ranged round the interior of the tent, forming
a circular array of wood and iron. Not imagining
that any one would disturb the animals, the show.
men and keepers had retired to rest along with the
inmates of the tavern, leaving the tents entirely on
watched. Thus we were afforded a clear field in
which to execute • onr plan. After several of our
number had been posted as sentinels, the rest crept
in under the canvass, and entered the arena. It
was some time before we could in the deep dark
ness of the place, identify the cage in which our
friend Bruin had been placed to sleep. After stum
bling over divers things which lay scattered about
and peeping here and there in the dark, we found
the object of our search. There in a substantial
cage, was the dim outline of the animal, his two
white eyes flashing drops of fire at being aroused
from his quiet slumber.
The next difficulty that occurred to us was the
mode of conveying him to the college, which was'
several hunered yards distant. Some of the revel
lers proposed that we should throw a halter around
his neck aid so drag him along. We rejected this,
not from any personal fear, since we arrived at the
point which makes one oblivious of danger, but less
we should be seen by some late straggler, and have
oar fan. spoiled. A better plan was, after much
scheming, devised, and one which met with uni
versal acquiescence.
In the tavern yard stood a water hogshead, with
a sliding lid fastened by means of hasp and staple:
\We had only us roll this in, slide down the box
'from the wheels, open the door immediately in
fi7t of th e 'hogshead and drive the animal in. We
obsld then push down the lid of the cask, secure it
by' meant of it rope passed through the staples, and
roll the prisoner and prison-house to the college.
No sooner was this suggested than we hastened
to put it into execution. Thews with our Invited
efforts, was slid quietly down from the wheels—
Brain growling all the time in anger—the hogs
head was rolled in and placed the open end in front
of the cage, and the animal stirred up.with our
canes.
With a terrific yell he rushed in, and we closed
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the lid suddenly down neon .
fasMitting' it at,
the tame time in a secure manner.. The• yeti
the beat had romped the other maintain, and nursers
were regaled for the next ten minutesWith's
ety of hideous sounds that wakened , ferifully the
sleeping echoes of. the night. The animal in Alm
hogshead growled, and his voice came like distant
thunder, so deadened was it by wood in which
he lay. His fellows had no incumbrance to their
yoices and they howled as clearly as if they were
in their native forests
Fearful of being disedvemd, we remained quiet
for a time, bolding our breaths in -suspense. But
no one disturbed or thought of disturbing us. • The
animals - 81ton started a chorus of strange noises du.
ring the night, thid the keepers thinking nothing tin
usual to be the matter, cursed the unruly bead► for
destroying the unity of their rest, and turning over
went to sleep again.
As soon as quiet was restored, we slit a hole 'in
.the canvass, for we were afraid to emerge by the
aperture which faced the tavern, rolled our hop
head through the yard to the back gate which we
unfastened, and then passing into the road, started
at a quick =tit for our spot of designation. Over
and over went the lagabead, the animal within,
growling at the rough treatment he received ; we
nearly convulsed with laughter at the uncouth noise
he made.
At length we reached the back part of the col
lege, when one of our party climbed over the wall
and unfastened the gate. We rolled in our prize to
the back door of the laboratory, which was the
place where our professor of chemistry lactated.
We found that in consequence of the narrowness
of the door the hogshead would not, enter. Such
being the case we were about to start the animal
through the open door, when an ides more redo•
lent of fun struck the fancy of Somers.
Back of the lecture mom was a small apartment
containing odds and ends, and which was nqt visi
ted perhaps once in a month. He said rightly tha
if we placed Bruin in this apartment, he would not
likely be discovered until sometime during the lec
ture of the chemical professor, when - the noise he
would be apt to make would attract attention, and
the plot would readily be brought to a crisis. We
joined our strength, and upon our shoulders up
went the hogshead until it was placed on a level
with the window. A light young fellow, the smal
lest of the party, climbed up, hoisted the window,
and elided up the lid of the cask. We shook the
hogshead violently, but at first to no purpose. The
animal was thorougly frightened, and lay still, or
with only an occasional growl. We shook it again
and the brute gave . a spring through the window•
There was a cash of glass, a howl, and the terrifi•
ed animal crouching in the corner remained silent.
Our little companion closed the sash and- leaped
down. We rolled the hogshead up into scorner of
the yard, and , returning to our rooms, continued our
revelry till near day-light.
At was about noon when I awoke. I -hurried on
my clothes, passed a wet towel round . my head,
swallowed some soda water and afterwards a cup
of coffee, and then hastened to the college. It was
the hour of the professor of chemistry, and I enter
ed the room just as he bad commenced to descant
wpm the subject. The class were affewrapped in
in attention—for the lecturer was an able man, and
was treating upon ". Light," a matter of interest,
and capable of beautiful illrudrations. He had
scarcely finished his short and eloquent exordium,
before we heard a low startling sound in the next
room. The professor started, stopped a moment,
while those of the class not in the secret, looked at
each Other in astonishment. There was a pause of
a few seconds durationand the professor procee
ded.
I began to be attoed. 1 remembered what bad
been done the nightThefore. Under ordinary cir
cumstances there was no danger to be apprehend. -
ed. The bear was lame enough, and had been
whipped until he had imbibed a proper notion of
the superiority of man. But from the sounds [judg
ed Bruin had worked himself into the room, only
separated from us by a thin partition, full of win
dows, in which were kept the various drugs used
in illustrating experiments. There was a great
many carboysand bottles of acid in that room.
Should he upset any of thesei and their contents
touch his skin, he would be apt to break
through the windows of the apartment, and do
some mischief befote we could secure him. By
the looks of my - companions I saw they.entertained
the same fears.
There was another enialitaild a growl. Thepro
lessor stopped again, and the class looked around
in dismay. Those who were acquainted with the
cause.ot the noise, could 'scarcely keep their coun
tenance. In spite of the alarm under which they
labored, there was something so ludicrous in the
growl, especiilly when we figured to ourselves the
coming consternation of the class, that they could
hardly retrain from laughing outright. The profes
sor could not tell from whence the sound procee
ded, and thought' it a trick of the class, reproved
them severely, and then continued his lecture.
,1 Gentlemen," said he, preparing for a brilliant ex.
periment, " I will show yon it \ most startling of
And he did. Hark ! there war sudden cash, as if
every bottle in the place had been deitroyed at
once---arsmoke rose up—there was a terrible howl,
that made the blood curdle and the marrow thrill—
and through that frail glass—Father Of Truth! we
had mistaken the cage—there leaped''forth, infuria
ted with the burning liquid that streamed overturn
p--horror!--an untamed royal tiger!
No words can describe the consternation of the
class. Not one stirred. Petrified by horror—mo
tionless—breaddess there we eat Not a made
quivered, so rigid were we with our intense fear.
ft was ourpreservation. Maddened with pain, the
animal rushed en with terrific bounde r and meeting
with no obstacle passed down stairs into the great
hall. Thine as he leaped and relied and howled
in his 'May, the eldest daughter of out janitor,
coming *ith a message, unwittingly entered. She
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id, Which weexerting to' his very Serb, beetled her
Le!. On he penned, and. the 4irl lived., ' • '
• Better had she died, 4r.,, never nions....antine
the - light of. reason on her vacant eyes.. From.
that day forth she wace-Oberittr, incurable idiot.
On dashed ihe tiger—on` on! on - ! through the
streets w ith the populace flying to .every side for
shelter—passed hie old prier% where the keepers
stood wondering et hit escape—on he went, bound
alter bound, howling; screaming with agony. On
he went, while behind, before, and around, rose.
upon air, the mingled cry of men, women and
children—" Thetterl the tiger!"
At the extremity oftfie main street, a traveller
was riding quietly to his home.. He beard the
noise behind him, and casting his eyes around, saw
the cause. He spurred 'his horse, who started,
snorting with terrbr i •for he saw the coming of the
mighty animal-as well as his master. It was in
vain. The tiger noted not the man. He only saw
the terrific. steed. One leap, the distance was just
saved, and he struck his claws into the hind. quar
tets of the hone, who unmindful of his 'double
burden, rushed on, bearing the fearful load as though
it was a feather's weight. With the presence of
mind and coolness the most determined, for it resul- '
ted from despair, he drew his bowie-knife from his
bosom, and with a firm stroke buried it to the hilt
in the neck of the tiger. The spinal morrow of the
royal prate was severed and he died on the instant.
But he did not release his hold—Still, with the
death grip, he clung to his place, his eyes glassed
and glaring, and his claws sunk deep into the flesh.
On went the horse, snorting, plunging and rearing
in mingled pain and tenor—on he went, until ex
hausted by fatigue and loss of blood he fell pros..
trate. Those who came that way an hour after:cau
tionsly and timidly, saw the three stretched togeth
er. They watched awhile and found they did not
mnve. They stole up; 10, the horse and tiger
were dead, and Aver their lifeless forms was - the
traveller, insensible, though alive,:eill grasping in
his hand the friendly knife.
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The population of the British Empire, including
India, is about 160,000,000.
Constantin Tie contains nearly double the popu
lation of New York city-
In Russia there is one soldier to every sixty in
habitants throughout the Empire.
The Great Chinese wall reaches a distance of
fifteen hundred miles.
The area of France is two hundred thousand
square miles
The Pacific Ocean contains an area of 50,000,-
000 of square miles.
The Antwerp Cathedral, at Antwerp, is tour Mul
ched and seventy feet high.
Washington's monument, Baltimore, is 115 feet
high. Pompey's Pillar, Alexander, 156 feet high.
Portugal has a population of 3,500,000 souls.
The far-famed statue of Memnon at Thebes (seat
ed) is 65 feet high.
The wonderful Porcelain Tower of Nankin ,is 200
feet high.
There are about eighty colleges in the United
States.
The population of the lonian Isles is a little less
than 200,000 souls.
The cross of St. Paul's Chureh, city of London, is
360 feet high.
There are fifteen public libraries in the United
States, containing 202,800 volumes.
The Equestrain Statue of Peter the Great, St. Pe
tersburg, of bronze, weighs 36,640 pounds.
The whole number of known languages of the
earth is about 1000.
The population of Africa is stated at the immense
number of 60,000,000 souls.
Pens, it is sell!, were first made from quills in the
year 635.
Watches were first invented at Nuremburg, in
the 1477.
It is but twenty years since railroads were find
used as public thoroughfares.
The Imperial Library at Vienna contains three
hundred thousand volumes.
The Pyramid of Ghropus (Gazeb,) isSie largest
in the world, and is 460 feet high.
The highest mountain on the globe is Chamoula
tie, 28,000 feet above the lever of the sea.
The falls' of Fugloe, Isle of Fggioe, Norway, are
one thoMand feet high. .
The State of Rhode Island contains an area of
only 1,225 ovate miles.
Thrum tr COOLLY.-.-A gentleman residing in a
village not many miles from Exeter, N.ll, finding
that the diminution of his woodpile confirmed af
ter fires were out, lay airake one night leveler tai
obtain if possible, some clue to the mystery. At
an hour when " all honest folks shmildbe in bed,
hearing an operator at work in the yard, be caw
tiously raised his chamber window, and saw his
lazy brother endeavoring to get s late log on his
wheelbarrow.
You're a pretty fellow, said the owner, -It to
come here and steal my wood while I am asleep."
"Yes," replied the thief, "and i suppose you
would stay up there and see me break my back
with lifting, before you'd oiler to coma down and
help me."
A Cumsx.—" What are you doing, my soul"
mid a farmer to his boy Billy. " Smoking sweet
fern cigar, father; I made it myself." "Throw it
away 'this minute, don't you know that one soloing
sweet rem will smoke tobacco, and if /Or smoke/
lobar= he will drink rum, ended be. Oaks rum
be will lie, and if he lies be will deal, and if be
steals he will murder, and if...he murders he will
be—acquitted." . .
By six qualities may a fold be knoin—saget
without cause, speech without profit, change with
,out motive, inquiry without an object, putting trust
in a stranger, and wanting esparto to• dincrizninale
between a friend and foe.
I PBl4,fi;"l
TO my eIeTER.
ieemilung since we 'hate Met
Sister, but I ue'er'forget.
"Novi the tears bailie in thine eye
As you spake the fast "good-bye"—
!' Farewell"--oh ! I soon will met thee
Farewelr =soon I trust to gret thee.;
Asa thousand yedrs would seem, •
Asa half forgotten dreamt •
Now appears the time we partit
Weeping-sore. and broken heaed—
Absent, true, our homes- may be.
But my heart is still with thee.
Summer's flower* have bloom'd and lied;
Autumn's ripened fruits we r shed
Winter's snows were on the plain
Spring put on her charms again ;
Summer's here with flower and bee
Since I left my home and thee.
Yet my beating heart will roam -
To my childhood's early home;
And 'tis all my heart's desire ;
It does all my hours inspire.
Soon topes' my lips to thine
Soon to clasp thy hand in mine.
Where the wood-lark soars on high.
Where the swallow mounts the sky—
Where the scented blossom yields
Odors rich from Bradford's fields; -
There fond memory bids me be
In that sunny home with thee.
Oh! I languish all the day,
Weep my weary life away ;
Hoping soon to reach my home ;
Trusting soon that hour will come— .
Ohl what rapture then 'twill be
To enjoy my home and thee.
Meadville, Pa., July 1849. J. O. P.
The Nether and her Bey.
HT T. B. ARTHUR.
"Tam, let that slogs!" exclaimed a mother pet
ulantly, to a boy of seven years of age, who was
playing with a tassel that hung from one of the
window blinds, 10 the .eminent danger of its de
struction.
The boy did not seem to hear and kept on fin
gering the tassel.
" Let that be, I tell you! Must I speak a hun
dred times? Why don't you mind at once?"
The child slowly relinquished his hold of the
tassel and commenced running his band up and
down the Venetian blind.
-"There ! There ! Do for gracious sake let them
blinds alone. Go away from the window this mo
ment and try and keep your hands off of things.-
1 declare you are the most trying child 1 ever
saw."
Tom left the window and threw himself at full
length into the cradle, where he commenced rock
ing himself with a force and rapidity that made
everything crack again.
" Get oat of the cradle ! Vi'hat do you mean ?
The child realty seems posse Med."
And the mother caught him by the arm and
'erked him from the cradle.
Tom said nothing, but with the most impertnra
ble air in the world, walked twice around the room,
and then pushing a chair up before the dressing
bureau, took therefrom a bottle- of hair lastrual and
pouring the palm of his little hand full of the li
quid, commenced rubbing' it upon his head.—
Twice hat this operation been pekumed, and
Tom was polling open a drawer to get the hair
brush, when the odor of the oily compound reach
ed the nostrils of the lad's mother, who was sitting
with her back toward him. Turning quickly, she
saw what was going on.
" You!" fell angrily from her lips, as she droped
the baby in the cradle. " Isn't it too much!" she
continued, as she swept across the room to where
Tom was standing before the bureau dressing
glass.
" There sir," and the child's ears rang with
the box he received. " There, sir !" and the box
was repeated. " Hav'nt I told you a hundred times
not touch that hair oil! Just see what spots of
grease you've made on the floor. Look at your
hands.
Tom looked at his bands, and seein,g them full
of oil, clapped them quick down upon his jacket
and tried to rub theni clean.
" There ! Stop! Mercy ! Now see your new
jacket that you put on this morning. Grease from
top to bottom! Is'et it too bad ! I'm in despair !"
And the mother let her hands fall by her side,
and her body drop into a chair.
"It's no use to try," she continued. I'll give
up. Just see what a jacket. It's totally mined.—
And that carpet too.. Was there ever such a try
ing boy. Go down stairs this instant, and tell Jane
•to come up here.
Tom had reason to know that his mother was in
Co' Mood to be trilled with, so he went off briskly,
end cilia Jane, who was directed toga some ful
ler's earth and put upon the carpet where the oil
had been "paled.
Not at all liking the atmosphere of his mother's
tcom, Torn, being once in the kitchen, felt no in
cl-mation to return. His first work there, after de
livering his message to Jane, was to commence
turning the coffee-mill.
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"Tommy," said ilie,cook mildly yet firmly "you
know-I've told rot that it was wrong to touch the
coffee-mill. See here on the floor where you have
imam* the coffee about, and 1111131! I must , get a
bruise and sweep - it up. if yea do co, l can't let
you come down here.
• The boy stood up and looked at the cook, cleri
cally, whilst she got the broom and swept up the
dirt he made,
"Its all'clean again now," said the cook, pleas.
antly. And now you won't do so any moreyill
yowl
"No I woa't touch the coffee-mill?' And as
Tom said this, he sidled up to the knite-box that
stood aprin the dresser, and made a dye into it
with his band.
"Oh, no, no, Tommy I That won't do either,"
said the cook. The knives have all been cleaned,
and they are to go on the table to eat with."
"Then what can I play with Margaret`?" asked
a. • a, )
the Child its le left the .'.diesser.- 6 ' 'want '-soute- :
thing'to play.wkhp . • .
The cook thought si aliment,' and then• went to
a closet and brought out- af target filled Wiarelothes
pins. At she held ouVherlistul, she said
"Tommy, if you wiltbe careful not to 'break
any of those, not to scatter them sibout, you may
have them to' play-. with. But r remember, now,
that. noon sera begin to throw them about the
room, I will put them up again." ' •
"Oh no, I won't throw them about," the little
Arnow sale, with bightening eyes, as he reached
out for the basket of pins.
In a little while he had a circle formed on the
table which he• called his fort; inside•of this he
had men, cannon, sentry boxes, and other-things
that were sti=esteil his ' Earley.
%Vbere's ThomasF asked his mother, about
the time he had become fairly interested in his
fort.
" I left him down in the kitchen," said Jane.
" Go down and tell him to come up here instant-
7•
Down went Jane
"Come right along op stairs to your mother,"
said she.
''No I won't," replied the boy..
"Very well, Mister! You yen do as you like;
but mother sent tor you."
" Tellmother lam playing here so good. I'm
not in any mischief, am I Margarei"
" No, Tommy, But your mother has sent for
you and you bad better go."
" I don't want to go."
"Just as you like," said Jane indifferently, as she
left the kitchen and went up stairs. -
"Where's Thomas!" was the question with which
she was met on returning to the chamber.
He won't come, ma'am."
" Gy and - tell him, if he does not come to me in
stantly, I will put on his night clothes, and shut
him, in the closet."
The threat of the closet was generally uttered
ten times where it was executed once. It made
but hale impression upon a child, who was all ab
sorbed in his fort.
Jane retumil. In a few moments attevwsirds,
the quick angry voice of the mother was beard
ringing down the stairway.
" You Tom ! Come here this instant."
" I'm not -troubling anything mother."
CoMe up, I say."
"Margaret says I may play with the clothes
pins. I'm only building, a fort with them.
"Do you hear me?"
•
•' Mother !"
"Tom! 11 you don't come tome in a moment
I'll almost skin you. Margaret! Take them clothes
pins away. Pretty playthings indeed, for you to
give a boy like him. No wonder I have to get: a
dozen new ones every two or three months."
Margaret now spoke.
" Tommy, you must go to your mother."
She now took the tlothes pins and commenced
potting them in the basftet where they belonged.
Her words and action bad a more instant effect
than all the mother's storm of passion. The boy
left the kitchen in tears, and went slowly up stairs.
rr Why didn't you come when I told you .!•-•
Say !"
The mother seized her little boy by the eras the
moment he came within reach of her, and dragg
ed rather than led him up stairs uttering such ex
clamations as these by the way :
" I never saw such a child ! You might as well
talk to the wind I I'M in despair'. Eli give np !
Hump ! Clothes pins, indeed ! Pretty playthings
to give a child! Everything goes to rack and
ruin ! Them." •
And as the last word was uttered, Tommy was
theist into his mother's room with a force that
nearly threw him prostrate.
Now take off them clothes, sir,"
" What for, mother! I hity'rit done anything.- T -
I did'nt hurt the clothes pins. Margaret said I
might play - with them:"
" D'y-e hear ! Take off them clothes I say."
"I did'nt do anything, mother."
"A word mere, and I'll box your earl until they
ring for a month. Take off them clothes I say.—
I'll teach you to come when I send for you.
let you know whether I am to be minded or not."
Tommy slowly disrobed himself, while his moth
er fretted to the point of resolution, eyed him with
unrelenting aspect. The jacket and trowsers were
removed, and the night drawers ordered to be pot
on '.50 their stead, Tommy al, the while protestirig,
tearfully that he had done nothing.
" Will yco hush ?" was all the satisfirclion he re
ceived.for his protestations.
" Now, Jane, take him up stairsto bed. He's
got to lie there all the aftemocrn."
It was then four, and the sun did not set until
nearly eight o'clook. 'Up stairs the poor child had
in grr, aid then the mother had some quiet. - Her
babe slept soundly in the cradle,
' undisturbed by
Tommy's racket, and she enjoy a new novel to
the extent of almost entirely forgetting her lonely
boy shut in therchamber abate.
" Where's Tommy ?" said a friend, who dropp
ed in-about six o'clock, a
" In bed," said the mother with it sigh.
" What's the matter! Is be sick?" ;
"Oh, no: I almost wish he w4e."
is What a strange wish! why do you wish
so!" ,
u Oh, because he is like a little angel when he
is sick—as good as he can be. No, !had' to send
him lobed as a_ punishment kir disobedience. :He
is a hard child to manage. - I think, 1 -never saw
one just Pike him. Bet • yon -'know obedience is
everything. It is our dray to require a strict regard
to this in our children."
'Certainly. If they do not obey their parelisi
as children, they will not obey the law of man."
"That is precisely,the view I take. 4nal make
it a point to require im plicit obedienim in my boy.
This is mrdutrase_parent. But iris bmihrotir."
"It is, doubtless. Still-wee must- persevere and
patience passaging our gouts.'
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" Tv° bcPa.liellli‘rialk:a he Me -.,istitie,.kt what&
task. Sometitnes I feel•gtoll would go wild,"
said=lbelnothire . • - • 115 ,1
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gi But under the influence oi r surJi Ikehher . llo: ,
marked the , friend, what we say makis bat tilde
'or no impression. A ealmly tittered 'wordy "I
which there is art expression of iliftlitist' in . Lind
sympathy for the - child, does more, than the stem ,
• est commands. This I have long since discovered'.
I never tvold' my children. Scolding clod
good' but harm. My oldest boy is readmit, ezeitaw
We, and impulsive. If I were not terptereide him
withitte - means of employing himself or in other
ways interest him', his hands would be on every--
thing in the house, and [loth he and P Serenade =-
happy.
" But how can you interest liiiarE •
"In various ways. Sometimes I read to him,
sometimes. I set him. kr doing things by way of
assisting me. P take him out whewFcan ; and let
him go with the girls when I senddir ni n errands;
I provide him with playthingsitiatere ited to his'
age. In a word, I try tcrkeeplinn in r my mind-;
and therefore, find it not very &Fink pannow his
varying states. I never thrust him aside, and. say
I am too busy to 'attend to him wheri he tones
with a request. If T cannot; P try and not say no,
for that word comes to coldly upon the taigas de
sire of an ardent•minded bon."
"But how can you help saying noir the-re
quest is one you cannot grant Vr , - • •
",Sometimes I ask if something-else .wit not do
as well. And sometimes I endeavored mereate a
new interest in his inind. There are varioas-ways
in which it may be done, that readily suggest them
selves to those desirous for the good•. of their chil
dren. hra 'affection that inspires theught. . The
love.ot children always brings a quick intelligence
touching their foods"
Much more' waa said not needful here tolepest.
When the friend, went awe3r,„ Tommy's 111110ther,
whose heart convicted her of wren to her littlelloy,
went up into the room where she'hed sent him to
spend four or five lonely hours as a punishment for
what was in reality her own fault, and nee his.—
Three horns of weary time had already passed:—
She did not remember to have heard-a sorted hem
him, since she drove him away with angry words.
In fact she had been too deeply ixterested - in• the
new book she was reading, to have heard any noise
that was not of an extraordinary character.
At the door of the chamber she stood and listen
ed for a moment. All was silent withid. The
mother's heart beat with heavy emotion. Op en
tering, she found the order of the MOM undisturb
ed. Tommy was asleep on the bed. Al kis moth
er bent over him, she saw that tears were upon his
cheeks and eyelids; and that the pillow. was wet.
A choking sigh struggled up from her bosom.—
She felt a rebuking consciousness of having wrong
ed her boy. She bid her hand upon his redcbeek.
She caught up his and ; it was also in a booing
glow. Alarm took place of grief for having wrong
ed ber child. She tried to 'waken him, but be on
ly moaned and muttered. The erFitement had
brought on a fever.
When the father came home and laid• bil band
upon the hot etuiek of his sleeping boy,- he uttered
an exclamation of•alann, - and started off instil/iffy
for a phjsician. All night the wretched mother sat
by the aide of her sick child, unable from fear and
self reproaches to sleep. When the =Wiring broke,
and Thomas looked up icto f ber Face with a glance
of affection,: his feyer was gone, anithis-palsecalm,
the mother laid her cheek thankfully against that
of her boy f and prayed 'to heaven lbr strametto to
bear with him, and wisdom to goitre her bet
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straight ; and as she did in the silence of her
overilowipgbeart, the lad rew his arms around/sr
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neck, and kissing her, ' .
gi Mother, I love you !"
That tears came gushin down the. , methir's
face, is no cause to wotider, nor that she returned
halt wildly, . the embrace and kiss of her child.
Let us hope that, in her future stendect towards
her ardent, restless boy, she may be s&e to control
herself: for then she will s not find' it haul: to bring
himunder subjection to what is right.
DOMESTIC Lars.—Pleasare is to woman what the
sun is to the flower ; if moderately enjoyed, k beau
tifies, it refreshes and it improves—if immainate
ly, it withers, it deterorate& ani destroys. Bat the
duties of domestic life, exercised as they mast be
in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities
of the female, are perhaps as aerating to the toll
development of her charms, as the shadow's,e to
the rose, confirming its beauty, and ineresakm its
fragrance.
Cnsur.—lt is a remarkable fact, that chalk has
been found nowhere on the western continent. It
is said that the material .which certain travellers
have found in America, and designated as chalk,
was a calcarious deposite, or ,rlgoric seisms/.
LOVE or IVAIVR.-50Me MOMS shrink from ba
thing, but, when they once get used to it, it is in
dispensable. A medical writer says:
"Let a child wash himselLall over every morn
ing for sixteem_years, and he will as amts go with
out his breakfast as his.bath."
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Hoye is a prodigal young heir, and EXPERIENCE .
is his banker; and his drafts are seldom honored.
There is often a heavy balance against him, be
came he draws largely on a small capital, is im
pel in possession, and if to were there, would die-
1, I'll take my pay in advance s " laid a landlady
who !ridged her friends on straw beds. ,"No, you
don't" said Jim ;. " I always sleep on tick n
A smart boy that,' who . asked' 'his fiber what
kind of wood the board of-health was made oat
of.
Love labor; if .yqa do not want it. fin. food, you
4 ay lot Pbr4ll.
Have the courte to obey your Maker, at the
risk of being - ridiculed by man.
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