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HYMN 'To GOD.
".hat time Bee the Morn up-spring,,
hat time the lark - on the wing,
' hat time thebirdsibtilmatins
nd all the brOoksovitiMlearer-ring,
'6 through the meadows wandering, -
nd nature wears the blush of lapriN „
My soul ascends to Tass .
hat time theßoLan's unclouded gaze
eats on the eartlspetth mellow' rays,
nd fills the alt_ with golden hate;
'. 'hen biiiis.bate‘hushed their morning lays, •
nd woods-and stiiams are all a:blaze
jth-glc of dielumrner days. .
My soil ascends , tp
Ttl'iZK -
' en night , upon the world deiceruls,
d morn and.noon, like wearied friends,
5* darkness 'neat her mantle blends;
hen eveyy_star
o light tteklnoon, 34f -she ascends.
;d Autumn oi , earture bends,
My-Aou.l ascends to Teas!
o Tall. as .warits -- frorn flaming fire
Toward ticai'en noilhoughif, 0 Gon! aspire;
All tl~rie. 11 seasonsAfaw me'higher
Toward Taia, an&pure desire.:: -
_Toward Tali, o.Gon draw me nigher
et me not doubt. for Taint. nor tire
- Till! iiiVost ig Ttpts !
B E :TASty I, STING:
A. w.p.te4 - weititime In letirope.
. ci - find in one of our exchanges in account of
etrociousinitier committed some time since in
itzerlanii, by .-a college professor, upon the per
. of his own-nephew, for the purpose of gaining
.ession of-a manuscript copy of a treatise on the
"ecrof tlectrieity, whictt afterwards - elected him 4
e_Presidency of the cnstitnte qf Wertzburgaß
~,,M- i i*.iu consideration .of the power display- . '
itiereiri,- The g,entletan from .whose account
gatherii facts, w a)**lsiting, M. )' . -Aixem, and
,:i1 tenter,, untie: of the former.,.alse on_ a
there. :1 it % as during his Slay there that-N
renn. read IQ-Said-writer his Treaties on Elec.-
• ty, Which iiiiinitshed him by:-tini greatness of .
.11 'displayed:- We give the remainder of the I I
' . •nt in his own words: -----
had been'hame , 43tilp s ionth after this, I was
:ng, at neon, abiorbed in.,cOpying a Magdalene
. m Correggoei When t wah roused by a hasty tap
the door of_ my-studio. t opened it, and there
.oilpat anXtrembling:a hertrat,..%at I knew to
leng r t my friend Vairenn. ' ife lhaceda 'note in
• hand, Which tad me of-the Midden death of my
'end. I was ine r ,tprehekbly shocked a‘this, iiid
erllo get' Mime infer - minion from tfieifiiiSenger,
t I soon found Yrtim his terrordhit would beim
ssible. I resolved to td out to his sear 'on the'
ke that afiernoent. k sh=rill never forget that _vlsit
'he circumstances' Were, thus: Vairerm had eine
tp his'itudy early in the .thorning, and remained
ere in quiet until'a very late hitiut. A servant
as sent about. five o'clock to tee if he would-not
iitake of some cake and wine. I-to soon retained
Le and breathless, where his sister-and thelitiesti
er were sitting; he informed, them, an Bolin
tutcciald speak, that his mastei'wouldn't speak'
Ma,: and had , a strange -look. They . flew to
room; TaLart was dead. He Was sitting in
chair, an eittaordinary and painful espreSSion
his face ; and lie position indicated that he hrid
led forward-ea if to grasp something. A vol.
1
of Plata's Crito was in his hand, but not held
46 hart pm lei' nirreatliug 11 the iinte of h is
tit. 4sdrvant was dispatched that night for a
slcian, and one at daylight to me, as I wasaLuar. ,
the solo acquaintant•e of.the fareily,,m kayereclo;' ,
tern, his uncle, had left the day befoe . e. ,7 l was
Illt with the doctor when Ite.tarst examined the
It was inflamed as 'flubbed with nettles, on
ak v,
tok of the ne , (half way -rtintiti), down tSe
, and at Eel? erat rtionit of the body. At cute
.1,
It.bettteen the shoulders the inflam MatiorileeM.
to have gatherederand several poqs, on being
led, uxhiblied a hard 'akin_ Ain -Muclotis le
tee beneath. 'The' physician ii = iirliiii wfisentlre
tWault in a a ribino. or attempting to amribtei ‘ho,
dar death to any cause he knew of. That
never met with, or rearrol;tkny sudden demise'
tit such - Symptoins. We -attended the burial of
• Vaitenn's &tdy. ' 6 -' ~.'
About a
.month alierwaixis I was Sitting in my
"thinking of this heart-rendingtr4 , dy o . whic h
mted 'my train with its_ghostly features rod
dons. MT•refrvant iniefrupied my revarlec' ,
ringing me nty file of Germin .periodical S—
. very first review I Opetaed to was headed !,t M.
ttem'i ThertvMitnt_tlMVPuttic Agent" =_ 'en
'l surely that:was V.V .- arena's uncle, of Mentz.
it aside .for itienigttekze l ading, tind passed
to'ones nrthir-newspapers. The very first
oda! paragraph That met my eye ln.the Zeitung
•nfife-matemeut that ZenWn had been elected to
l,ary of the 111661;06 . o Wifrtibur4 on the
Maine, in eirsi4ii:ation of the poweedidphiyell by
'tits new irreitile Electfieity, joined with editipli.
its to his work. There seemed, to be some
rague: and agitating latent association mind
With ease announcements. 'picked np the review,
and read op-culla Lha4 linithed two pages, 'Mir.
Panni e rles work was the'game that Sairenn hail read
to me in his shirty 1 With really appalling effect
the truth hashed on me intnitiitefx: t wasconsiec
%at '3l,,Peniim had bikkin siffee-sort'connect-
Ith my friend's death. l determinetlio prose
tete the investigation ; and ftyrthip intent, Sirote,en
to the publisher for the treatise It(ett, in iittlev.-4R,
see the truth of my, fiiit discovery from egtmetsi, iti
the Retitle , condimed_thereby. I immediatettset
tettgoking aver the matter, and sew esSly Ala the
'follniving.daymerefript my late triend's- ieeinage.
I 'ilea settled in my Vairenn taderlied
somehow 6y he uncle's band pauttils:AHoic e of
46eituer ass-tomes the easy. leeeicity, for
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own,';;lneti had probably been react to him ih
crinftclenee. fie 4wae known to have hod seem
ill;feeting totiall his nephew when they were to.
gether at Mentz i there was motive enough, surely.
Btu. it was a fact that M Pentern itad gone of! the
day bifore, Vairenn diet; that, too, according to
his sister's account, in anis gloating. It was true,
also, as-f t learned of the siTie_source, theit)St-Vair
enn had been away to a friend's house, seven nifles
distant, fof tire days before his uncle left, and had
only 47 rebirned the morning he left, (about two
hours blfore),.. I ask'aillils sisteriZow Penterrfwas
occupied diiriog - his absence, informing her of my
:suspicions as to myl-frienifs death; she replied
that he rarefy left the stacy. I asked !weighers
M. Vairerm - Was. on ihecrempant or the day of M.
Pentem'adefiarture—add whether he had been in
he study. She said that having been absent se
'ong he had remained with her in the parlor until
dinner time, that in theArternoon he had gone with
& fishing Tarty on the like - , ; and had not returned
no bed-times-- . -lie had only gone in his
. study a
:futiment for' his tackle, before the next fatal day.
,The body of M. Vairemf bore no marks of via
%fence ; if 31 - r Penternhad been - instrumental m his ,
'death it musizhavtrbeen by means of poison. Hut
.lie must either have administered this by bribing
a servant, or by some indirect method have given
it himself— this part of the trainlii conclu,.ions was
very barre n. I asked Eleann if they had taken. - a .
glass of wine tcrgethiar on the day Ventern's leaving.
No. If M. Vairenti had eaten a , ny)iiingdoring the
day--and what. On reflection'eVe sitt she really
believed he had not tasted a mcnithfutin the house
for five days before his death! He g had eaten no
dinner on the day hie - uncle left, eiciiiing himself
by saying he had taken a lunch aTthe Hotel des
VoyageurS, three milk above, he had come from ,
the, lake it bed-time and iOgone to bed ;on the
next Triormirg he had gonsfirtto his study bcfore
taking coffee and had not cohle out again 2 llisup,'
port t"theory, Then, it must be found That M.
f`Peirte'ro hatf'arran,ged poison df some description in,
the imily, where he knew it •troul - ti have effect in
the regular course of Vairenna cuSioms. Thn sctoll
on which the Treatise tie Electricity was written
wavia a secret drawelk; in all probability he had
arranged it, in connection With t h e eseritoir con
taining this der,U so l 'thati it should have effect.
. only - when the paper was taught. I asked now to
Ilkshown into,thestuily, which they l'ald,Arie waA.
,11
' recis4y as it 'wasythe morning of Vairenn's burial;
1
a I - so:l:found it : I commenced lo dkingjabout.
The escritoir e A it temained untouched, lull "hot
been opened try , Ar,*enn; I approached it; touched
the spring of the drawer, and found it eniply! I
was Convinced of rity suspicion. My thoughts - now
ranged about the room to drover the medium of
death ; I racked my )2 prri vainly, and as twilight
was casting a thick. shadow on the dial of thp wes
tern window, I was almost in despair, To _collect
my thoughts fora final effort, I Omer 'myself in M.
,Vaireun'l'chair.
"Oh,, God!" cried Eleann, atitat moment enter
ing the do l or, and supporting herself by it ; ~ what
ads you! How much like him you look!"
'l-blitthrown fluted! in -M. Vairenn'e Chair ; but
do sooner had done so f than I found a keen pang
between my shoulders; I sprang lorwantin pain,
and }learnt, entering at the time, was shacked if',
the resemblance betweemlyself, at the time, and
her brother, when she founalAittro dead. The re
mart struck me; I. 'Opt tri'l . Position and observed
it ;19 cide'inistatit the ntire secret was revealed !
I rerti,rip,ilthough in paler; The chair in which 1
tat W. - at dire et velvet cushioning; of curious oaken. i
carving . Onlyi legs,aims and back; the velvet.,
thickly *edited op ail fir as the--hick of the head .
I haVe said that the secret was revealed to my yen
set; which :43y understariding, was at fault in invent
ing:n-4 cailea Eleann, who was still standing pale
•!st the dont.
.•
"Seer said 1,-.e5J this svas the villain's work !"
1 pressed my hantkon ,either side of the velvet
back VI up as Yhatil expetience4 the pain
Flititif:stariedziorth -9?te of those small - weapons,
whiot : rereinvetty a celebrated gang of as
sassins in I.Yoni, and utietkly them fot their
before their supp4ision twenty year's ago. Tt was
best known by the title of J.; She Steer Sting:.' It
is made to perforate the 401'1, aril: being charged:
with subtle voiso, fortes it through a perforated
tissue pithy mital in many different directions in
the body. It was good for me thaTthe entire charge
was expelled at one entrance. This; then, was un
doubtedly the way imwhich , my lamented hie . ;
had been murdered. The appeatance of. the body,
the circomices.olltis and Pentern'a movements,
joined - with the physician's opinion of the body in
contirmidgrni.yhypothesis. My. course - was in
staurly defermiiied on ; of it and Its results
probably fudge-from the subjoined letter: ,
PRErtcr HALL, ‘Vtatvarstan, July 23, 1850.
.REttrecren Sts--The President, M
Ventern, died this meriting at 3 o'clock. hint let
ter -containing certain allegations, was read this
morning to him, for it was known that he could
not live f loug, and it was deemed proper that he
should beiold al_ them even thrmglv so sick. lie
appeared to be under 'great eunitien .during its - pe t
ruA r l,r.--Su see as If was finished he exclaimed, in
the hearirg ofll the faculty -- " It is true, every
tl ,
letter;lie Was a dila, a damned iVitelito find it'
nut." Ile -- Me died. Allow uSoir, la condole
with you cattle law of your friend.hy this singular
and revolting act. '-. We submit, however, that these
Would be scarcely anything. gained by exposure,
although some disgrace might, result to:this instuu
iron, They are bath of the.ennitfamily, beth'dead.
We think it eufticientiltat the most excellent work
orrElectricity should be itimiediately published:on
-WM. Vairenn's name, with a certified conlesskiii
of M. Pentem t to the extent that4t Was not.his.
1-- "By ender Of the;Faeulty. - 11. 11AsstsVti"
I 1 - acknowledge the rightfakreile of the suggestion
I contained in this. **.-. ' f •-• r-...
:o;tr-_, A' promise am) its performance sheold al
wayi proem! a mains! adjnbunca. ,
Eli
--- PUBMHEIt tilKiti SATURDAY AT TOIiANDA, BILIDgORD COUNTY, M., BY E. O'MEARA 6001*AX
" lI,EGAEpLE9 9 OP DpirNcIATIoN FROM ANY QUARTNN.'7,
Written far n South Catalina Doper, liut suited to tam Ine?1,
=I
Newspaper CoUMW..
. Mr Da* SIR t—t have just returned from a trier
through this State, and proceed to furnish you with
an account of my labors and their success. I have
been-. grate for three months, ar d impure you, in all
sincerity, that I am fully satisfied. You furnished
me'with a Het of one hundred and seventeen owing
subscribers; ai you :will recollect. I have called
upon one hundred and four of them, and have the
honor of paying over to your order three dollars
twelve and a hailvihts, being the amount to which
you are entitled; I return you the Wit, numbered
140 117, and no* give you' the reply of each. '4
i ,No I—is a•,minister: He says in the first place,
he never got one hall of ' the numbers, Qt lie ac
cording to the account of the Post-master ; ) and in
the next place, your joker's column was too ticur
rillons. He can't think of aiding to sustain a paper
that advertises horse races and gander pilings:—
Besides, he knows from the tone of your editorials ,
that you drink, anVaying you, would only bethe"
means of your ending, your days irt the kennel.—
Ile teoulers at your impude4p p in send him his
bill after publishing the account of the great prize
tight between Left , Handed Smoke and Battering
till He word.% nothing to do with you---never
wants to hear from yon again.
Nis. 2—ls in jail for debt. lie has not seen
half,dollar for a year. Says he would pay with
the utmo cheerfulness, if he only had the money,
but bad to borrow a shirt to put on last Sunday
Admires. your paper womtegully, and hopes you
will continue sending He wishes you to
take a bold stand hi (wan' r of the abolition of impris
onment for debt, as he' thinks it would be a very
impeder moiiirwith gentlemen in his situation. If
you send hiemony . mor° papers he hopes. 300 will
see that the pcsitage is paid, as otherwise he will be
unable to enjoy your Idcubrations, bends his best
res Acts. s
No. 3—Ts a young doctor. Says your paper is
beneath thu,notice of a gentleman. Wouldn't giVe
a--lorr, „. cart load. Sa)er you inserted as article
reflecting on the profession.- Only wishes he coul A k
catch you here—would make you smell —. Ts
going to persuade everybody that takes your paper,
to stop it. Cursed your bill, and says you may
collect it in the.,best way you can. •'"
Maid. Says you ,tare always
Asking a fling.at single ladies of an uncertain jive.
Wouldn't pay you if she was rollin g in wealth,
and you hadn't cash enough to buy arci Ist of bread.
Sent all• thevapers she had back a month ago, and ;
says now that she sent them back, She dont owe
you anything. Says she is'evein with 'you, and in;_
tends to keep so until the judgment. Asked me
not to' forget to tellyou that you are tin gentleman,
or you wouldn't uridialake to slander so large
, atiti
xespeotable a class,of the female population o f the
conutry.
No. s—ls a gambler—a sportinggeotteman:—
Says.he got completely cleaned . oukaist week, at
the 'aces. Couldn't accommodate his grandmother
with a halfditne if she 1.723 starving. tikes youi
peper tolerably—would .like it better if you pub-
II•!Ited more races andAvould occasionalirglve am
account of, a-cock-fight. Liked the description of .
the ptite,fight amazingly—it redeemed a multitude
of your faults. Hopes you weiit think hard of hitt
for riot paying, you tiow—but hai got a prospect/of
soon having serße loose change, as he is after a
rich young greenhorn who arrived here last' week.
Will pik your bill Out aT.the pluckitigri: '
1% .
No. 6=is an old drunkard. n't go anything
and neviticexpects to have. Gatti is up atti the
papers he had and sold them for alta"lf.piut of Atm,
to the iloggerY4eoper to en ap- g roceries in
yo j u Would - send !Art pile, a. they coat
him-no po4age, Ida brother-in-law being postman.
ter, - arid - pennitting him to take nut his papers for
nothing. IVaeill'at me whett,`.l presented your
bill, and int:pined ill wasn't a distant relation of the
mars_ that butted the bull off the bridge.
- Noi 7—ls a magistrate. Swore he never owed
',your ens, - and } .told me I was a low rw•cal for try
ing
to swindle him in seal' . a barefaced" manner
Advised me to make tracks in a little less th'gri„ , no
time, or he woutd , get out a warrant agairust -niejas
la common cheat, and have me sent to prisonl—
')rook his advice. Is, by afoilds, the meangst man
I hiloo seen, yet.. Will best : go near him egain.
No. 8-4 a a Politician. Says although you pro.
less to publiih a-neutral paper, it isnot tie. Thinks,.
)ter r litta seen a considerible"nintlng toWards the
I / sit - 11310 which he is opposed: \ Meant to have !old
I you a year ago to stop his paper, but forgot
Tells yon to do sr; now, and Minks you em gelling
nirriny cheaply: itt•unt losing arty more by him.
Believes you to ,be a rascal, and is too' honorable
*to have anything to-do with you, as it might corn:
pi:Alma him andinjore his prospects.
No. 9--Pail up like a mail. The only one.—
Likes your paper first rate, and means to take . ani.l
pay for it as -long as you publish it or he lives.
Asked me: to dinner \-Anirtreated me like a king.
Art Oasis iii the desert! A man fit for hedven!
No.
.10—Is a. inert:hii t. ttpecni to break short.
Ly, sa must save all his small change. Diluted we
a pair of breeches and a cotton handkenstriel for
the debt. Related him with stmt. Hari a long
jaw. Thru#tenied to break my lietui. Dared him
to do it.iAttrow a hatchet at me: I dodgeit it and
•
•
put oat. ,i;'•
fico. into 117—Mean as rot: !tad no tnoney•—
wouldn't owe. 1 ,'wore rd . km
Said I might sue and .be laved: Ctinsed he
tilde ones andttlunied from the big t Nevengol the
drat 'ted tent' Iron:n*6 of them: , •'• • •
•••••the toredoing i 9 a true, extract``Trorn my nate
book. I have-apt ettiveedeal a whit beam WOllllB
paliont of the °Mei pnblications for which 1 am
a;;ent, es it' tit-irrupt:aid:de to'ettiltMtfrotn-tholle who
face determined ,not'M pg. I tiftytt said I . have
been away three months. ! A ttire expendedin
that petted twit hundred • ancl . ,tetiir` Used;
lima, tiild'tiiy Mike Comm tatiottalittiotrnt 10 dttny.:
two...tenant - dud Firtpfire cents.: lam very
ling to do my share towards e propagation of
news, but more than that no' reasonable man oan
ask, This business don't exactly snit me—l can't
stand it
Please accept my resignation and strike my
name from your list of agents. 1 admire 3 out pa
per very mach myself, but it would be a queer
looking sort of a concern., that would come fully up
to the requirements of everybody. One wante.in.
dependence in an editor--another don't want any:
One wants 411 slang—another wouldn't touch a
journal that contained an irreverent line with a ten
foot pole. One sentimental, lackadaisical Miss in
pantaleues wanted nothing but love poetry, another
never.reads anything but marriages.
All kinds of abuse I have to bear, too. I wouldn't
tnind it so much if they only cursed you and your
paper, but they curse m 3 ton! Swindler, mutual,
Lillian, blood-sacker. These are some of the names
they think proper to bestow upon me. I tried
fighting kir a, while, and thrashed several of your
'patrons like blazes, but occasionally I got licked
like thunder myself. Ones I was put in jail for
assault and battery, and only escaped by breaking
out. • -
• Send me a receipt 'or three della-a tvrelle and
half cents, and believe me, yours in despair.
AARON SIX LATIN ELL.
Pitney. roe A Revartsc.—A man knows not
how soon he may be reversed In its unceasing
revolutions, the wheels of Providence may one Jay
place him among the poor. How many et this very
moment are languishing in all the horrors of the
most abject destitut:on, who were once rich in this
world's goods, and on whose lid; dwelt in perpetu-
al sweetness the sell. deluding promise-4 , To-mor.
row shall be as this day, and much more abund
ant !" Remember the poor. In yonder gloomy
prison is one Who made gold his idol. lie fu got
the needy in his prosperity, and the appeals of the
needy_ftwoke no echo an his heart. He was .not
hie brother's keeper, so he hoarded op his surplus
lucre in his coffer; and permittedthe dying and
the destitute to Meet their doom ; but as he has
meted out tdthemi even so has A been meted out
to him. Not a rap ; - of affection ~cheers now the
gloom of his prison walls.. Left.:'slons with the
phantoms of the past, how agonizing. his remorse !
Remember the pot, clothe the naked, feed the
hungry, minister to the distressed, and their pray•
ens and bil*ings, will fall upon your head like rich
incense, more desirable than gold or jewels.
Toe Macro or & ILIVILST STABLIr. Krzeza... 7 .The
" N. Y. Christian Register"Aa. tfiiit following anec
dote, illestrative, as it thinks, of the spiritual knock.
lug plienonema Oupeoevals at Cambridge can
not have forgone/Ili man of livery stable notoriety.
'His customers were often so oblivion* as to the ex
tent of their rides, that he contracted with inn hold
ers of the surrounding country to acme their names
on such of his vehicles as visited , their respective
taverns. - titelhad alto a hone vrbb bad been train
ed to lift hit; fore foot, as often as a 'slight signal
from his master's finger was repeated. A - stupid
freshman onc.ireturned, stile said, horn a ride to
Watertown, but the vehicle bore with it the sign
manual of an inn-holder'm Concord. The youth
persisted utibluslaingly in his - lie. Says the man,
" My horse knows, and he .will tell me , how many
mites he has been driven." The signal was given
and repeated. The horse lifted his loot fourteen
limes in succe. The astounded-freshmen paid
' his full stable fee, and retired, firmly convinced of
the preternatural e dowmems of the horse.
A Goou Tazd.—" My son," sa:d a father, "take
that jug, and fetch me sonte,beer," " . Give me the
money, then fathel."— -,'-;11y son, to get the beer i
with 'Turley, anybody can do that, but taget beer
without money, that's a :rick." So the boy takes
the jug, and out he goes; shoitly lie returns, and !
places die lug before his father. " Drink," said
the son.—" !tow can I drink," says the father,
when there is no beer in the jog?"—" To drink
beer out 01 a jug,"Lays the boy, " where them
beer, anybody Can du dirt ; but to drink beer out
of a jug where there is no Bets, that's a trick !"
Tit c TactS•rtccot.E.-44, gifted ones, fol
low your calling, fur, however carious your talents
may be, ye can have but ono calling capable of
leading ye to eminence and remiwit ;. follow testi:
finely the one straight path before you, it is that of
your goad angel; let neither obstacles nor ternpla,
tinny inducts ou to leave it; bound aloua, if yeti
can; if not, on hands and knees to follow it, pettish
iri . it, if .metlful; but ye need not leer that: noione
ever 'yet died in the true pith Of bid telling before
110; ; liail attained the.,piettaele. Turn :1106 other
.paitai.ntitt•toust momentary- advantage or gratin.
catran ye have sold your inheritance, cent immor
tality: Ye will never be heard crafter death.
Norriiik:u; cir Time --Charles Butler, a dip.
tinguiefieii - ,VAglish lawyer anti a line schttlar,
aseriheis his saving of tune to thesis &Wes :-.Very
early rising:_e—systethatic dirision of his tinar;
aisle - nee fn j 1l eoinpany anti from all diversions
not -likt4i ( !to r eititise him highly; tfrOto' reading,
fltAlYeti thirllrn,gon miidern.partypolities;
int/ FtxitlS 1 111,, (toyer per - mining a , bit or scrap of
time to lie- unotripioyed— = have supplied liiin mith
;tui abtuularite of literary tiourd.
. Bats guitic-41ad 'beAs" tireiike anten spi; ifs;
therfutuielt-tteitho 'ffritimeett!: mei 'n'ihe4itine;"
they ars poi,son.'l4 intaticete..ioae the wine,
ibeintief body.;, the thitet foe es& intrealee by
being •fed, aad itt,NNer etal4tedi tiottt toinone
the iteittleet; the ,etiker tbia beahb , end tivettlef, tb4s
sou!. The ineketesed ;tandem bteseh are-equal
-Iy, 'guilty; anti equal* citimipteie of ihecommenity;
and the stit**4 each the game—totat
abstinence f attthat tnfaxwales the igind o bodi
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:tritraithanattla, me* that
malt/ Ikmphatb tout tieiebori . becatmehte Image ,
romithrilen prilltaltyttattr bailed, • • _
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trit P11111 . 1.030P1111* IND 'I'VE FEURI HAN -A Phi
loirikplter rneppeil nn board alerryboat to owes
a stream. On thepassege he niquire‘t of the ferry
man if he understood arithmetie. The man looked
aston)sbed.
"Atithnoetie! No, pir."
"I am very sorry, for one quarter of your life is
gone."
A tew 'ninnies after he ebled—
"Do you understand ma:helvaticeer'
The boatman smiled and replied—'No."
"Well, then," eaitl'fhe ptrilusepher, 44 another
quarter of your life is gone."
Just then the boat rartanii on sisnag was sinking,
when the ferry man jumped up, pulled oil his coati,
and asked the philosopher with Brest earnestness
of manner—
" 3ir can you serial?"
" No so."
" Well, then," said the ferryman, "y Ur whole
Jiro is gone, tot the boat's going- to the bottom."
Comels have always been popular. The chin.
ney Comer is endeared to the hearth from the earli• -
estto the latest hour of existence. .A inug corner
in 'a will ! Who ever objected toisuoke thing'? A
corner in a woman's heart. Once get there and:you
may soon command the entire dorriain. A corner
In the Ternple of Fame! • Arrive at that and you
become immortal!
The Albany Dutchman eay;', "Worpen er,e like
houses, ttre longer thby remain •to tot,' ther
,more
dilapidated they become. To keep eitherlfrem
going to destruction, they should bo early occupied .
An oil gentleman of 84, having taken to the;altai
a young i.l.tioser of abbot 16, the clergyman said to
him', •• The loot is at the other ebd of the church."
"What do t warnyvith the final" saidttlie old gentle;
man. "Oh I beg your pardon," said the minisler,
"I thought you had brought this child to be christ
ened."
"If," sold te. lohnson, " I had' no doties to
perform, no reference to futurity, I would speud my
lila in d:ivitig, briskly in a postchaise with a pretty
woman."
No FL/ trray.—" Caniou tell me where Ittr.
Smith lives, Mister t ' "Smith—Smith--what
Smith ? 'chorea's a goad rnany of that name in these
pane, my;frame is Smith." qi Why, I don't kno w
his other name; but he's a soar, crime, and entbbed
sod' of a fellow, and they call him C:ab Smith."
"Oh, I &appose I'm the , man."
An unkind word from one beloved, often draws
blood from s heart, which would defy the battle
axe of hatred, or the keenest edge of vindictive
satire.
WHY' V.v,*RlllOD7 16 CROSS.-- o.la day little John
Wilson came innningin to the home where bison,.
ter Mary was Sewing He held something in his
hand which he had 'bound in the back yard.
"0, sister M:-...y!" said lie, "I•have found a pretty
thing. It is a piece of red glass; and when. I look
through it erreythiug looks red ; too. 'the trees i the
houses, the green grass ; yo.tr face, arid every thing,
is rad."
Mr ty replied, "Yes, it is vei yr beautiful and now
let me show you how to learn a useful lessee from it
"You remember the other day you thought every
person was cross to you.
"Now, you wore like this piece of glass, which
makes everything red because it is red. You wore
cross., so 'oit thought everybody around yen was
CrUSS, too
"It you are in goad lurnor,..„Angl...kio.l.4ci esters?
one, They, too, will ceeal kini,l to yoi."
A bohlier one day blasiing of,theAvonnas he had
received in his face, Julius Cm..ar, kuciAtg,Pirn
to be a, coward, said to hiria, , 4You had better take
care'next time you run away, howyou took back : "
BF.TTF.R As 650 - r.--"Mytilieet Von Stintiii, if I
may be al:owerl the question, how long bade you
been married!"
'• Yaw, dat ish you shall say hoW long time ish
it when I says to the minister dal I shall pelting to
mine v;ow, and tell me no questions!"
"Yes, that is what I mean; which is the same
as asking flew long you have been married:"
Yel, Xi is a ling vot I seldom don't Tikeito
link about, but Ten I does, it seems to be au lung
as never vas."
Xing Henry IV was so punctual in keeping his
word alter it was once passed,' that be was called
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the king at Faith.
Bly dear, what shall'we natnebub?" " Why
husband,, rim Settled on the trzmevof Peter "
''Ott ? -doret," replied, he; "I never. liked Peter,
for he Denied hie Master." " Well, then," replied
theii'ig, "what minis do you like P should
like the neon! ofJoseph." Oh, not that," SUid
his ,better hall ; " I •art't beat . Joseph, for he de.
tiled his mistress!'
A. ripw-liampbhlre filmier 'piing in Thiri.sb
_meeting met 4i,s tinitold hint that his 'so
.riety thought of inereasing.bis — Solery. "I beg of
you not to think of any ouch !tog," said the niin.
i;ler, " - Tot it is_about as tecoi 'bitahtts.. to tollict
ms' present salary as i wish to attemkto; ITitehould
be ittereasW I should be obliged to devote Illy
whole tithe to collect if."
riatne" 13' hoot
ihe lowa iif i rarila„ at the mouth of the strahii ut
Gibraltar.' It was the last, strongliehl
. 4:heti the
Moors tliaritheil with the Chris:Bina ; !matt:rhea the
hifmlor,belifpositefs:iopprboti!_pillrirprlterculis,
h was here that theyleilea contfithidea ` r iessela
entering the Ideditertaneap s whence the . Camila
name.
GOOD ADvicg..-4 tabs buiearly a3gdo:l
for an invalid as healthy weather. ..to make asici
man think he's dying, all ..thit is necessary is, to
fork half dead. oumelf,• ...flopetatud despair ans as
'Citteldrir es -coteneous isonipleints.• Always Ira
sunshiny, therefore, whether you feel so or not.••
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.1)....tr The happiest man la the 'world is esid to be
darky at a dance.
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SINGVL►a C SUL' Mill NCEN.—EILRNT
An, mii n! clirjyrtian one evening- Veognettto
subject of emlyersation, and a wonder was
pressed dial he hid"never married. "Tb&wcn•
der,'' said Mi;3 Porter, " was once expressed by
the reverend gtutleman hiniself, in aiy hitarin4
and he told aitory in answer, which I will tell you;
and perhaps, slight as it may seem, it-is the; histo
ry 01 other hearts as :bcneitive and delicate 116 hW
own. Short after hiiardirtatiau, he preached once
every Sabbath fora cloq,yntaii in a small village ,
not twenty miles front London. Among his audi-
tors limn Sunday to Suritlay, be observed a young
lady, who occupied a certain seat, and %rinse
close attention began insensibly to'grow to him as
.object of thought and pleasure. She left the church
, as soon as service was over; and it so chanced that
he went on for a year without knowing her tame,
but his scru' was never written without mates a
thought bow she would approve it, nor preached
with satisfaction unless he read approbation in het
face. Gradually he came to think otlaer at other
times than when writing sernaons, and to wish to
lsee hew other dayi than Sundays ; but the weeks
' stepped um and though he fancied that she grew
palor.and thinner, he never brought himselt to the
, restilytimi either to ask her name or to speak
1 hcr:' By thou silent steps,_ however, boy
rocked into his heart and he made up his ixt,
seek her acquaintance and matry her, if pc
when one day he was sent for -to minister at a fu
neral, The face of the corpse was the same lip
had looked op to him Sunday after Sunday, until
he had learned to make it a part orbits religion and
his life. He its unable to perform the service and
another clergyman officiated, and, after she was .4
buried, bet father took him aside, and begged his
pardon for giving him pain, but he could not re-
slat the impulse to tell him that his* daughter had
mentioned hii name with her last breath, and be
was afraid that a concealed aflection for him had
hurried her to . the grave. Since that," said the
cfergym.lit in question, •r my heart has been lett
•ithin me, and I look forward only to the ran e
when I shall speak to her in heaven,' "
Tun Boy s4ii 11tr. Nircakricore)--There sal
little boy who spent a good - " deaf o his time ant '
really seemed to find pleasure in (minim; and
killing poor little files. lie would pultAff thew
feet and their wings, and seerned delighted when
when he saw their efforts to escape. Sometirneri,
hervrotild collect a great number of them, and them
destroy thein all al ones. idie father tried to break
him of this dreadful propensity; but be Seemed
to have no idea that they could suffer, or din; diet •
had a right to life or lilarty. So the child confin•
tied idle and cruel, and - determiaisd to torture tiler
poor flies as much as ever.
At length, his father one day .took a niicru . sectee,
and acid 64 sop to looLattentive.ly through it, and
observe what fie edu l dl She* him. "See," said
his tithe', "hod hisinitifullt veined with track and
waits, and all covered with delicate silk --the
eyes surrnundoif with a fine circle of eilver,:hair --
Do fdu petielee, the Hale body is formed in tWo
parts, each vying in grace .with the other, and, the
ornaments that cover it; earth:us in beauty the moil
royat attire ; and the linfeilutterin„; winr„sare Mow;
transparent than the finest gauze, whilet.nothingF,
can exceed the ease and agility, Which it
- ,
moves 'its feet?"
Astonished and dilli;;llted,the child asked the
name of diis extraordinary animal. Imagine his
ourpliie when hie father saiti, " This is a poor,
little [fir that biiiity escaped• with its life from
rived virtiO4, T ow o.Oolly osoolooal ataotSt
an hoar ago."
"My falter;' mid the httle bby, , " t s itt never
torture or hartit such d . 'beantithl little &ciente
&aim." • •
tiith your resoluticin,''
his father, 44 remember also never to trier with eru.
•ty any living thing; God has mash; atf living
creatures, and tieedl3sbly to give them pails is very
tvicked.---Verry'sMusezrie.
VEST.—Debt is a perfect bore. Pow it haunts%
man from pillar to postt—luting iu his break fa.t.
cuP—pbitoning - his dinner—embitters his tea :
New it stalks from-him like a liv mg moving Ake! -
etolt, seeming .to'entiounce his presence by re•
coAtiti,g the dmonnt. of his liberties, How it pot -
sons his domestic pis, by tittroduciiE; its intentsl
ialance- into the calculation of madam re,pectin;
tt e price of a new carpet. or a new iliess flow it
limiters dreolhy plansior speculations and acct.,
Mutations. ilotheration ! How it hampers useless
energies, and crippled resolutimis too good to bo
ful
At lietl an,rl b r la
y- , in joy or
grief, it trealtli'M sit knees , at hbrue or abroad—
debt--7,griro, gaunt, and sli dory , fie as an in
c :tid presence is too sacred, no
ground is tbu Goij to detei:tlie . Memory of billy
and notes payable, from taking immediate pos.
liesr4ott, citlielnunkuo reruints
cerice,:mom„ than dm consciousness tita l t
debt ikra knee. iiko a', January rooming t%B eat!. Ina
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degr:es.be!uw zero !
Tne BEST is LEVT......." I *Ma fa - ileti,"ctied Jete.nr . ,
Ta3lOr, into4he hands (.1 publicans and Sgrilitic
tworA, :eid they have taken all (Tote me. What
tiow 1 Let me look about inc. They have left me
sun, and amen, fire and water, a loving wife, and
many trieid3 to pity me, and some to relieve me ;
and can ; and unless I list, they have
not taken away my merry , coonienance, mid iny t ,
cheerful spit its, and a good conscience ; , thothard
- SOFIA me, the 'Pr - evidence et God, and all tha„,
promises of the gospel, and my religion, hod my
hopes of heaven, and My charity to them p 5., And
,atill ; ; bleep, and,digest, and eat, and drh k,li•'iead
ant,Moditato; ;ea% walkin my
ant fields.4itii the 'varieties of naturallipattilis,
and delight wodLthat Ia delighti, that
is, in wisdom in the wholecncatitm, atiJ
ju G 44 hinumlf."..
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