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FORGIVE.
Br all the turmoil thou has felt
Within thy tempted b.east.-
When fiery-passions strove to melt
God's image there ippress'd ;
By all the t.truggles of thy will
To quell their rebel might.
foreire the wretch who, battling- Ili,
Was wortedin the Qght !
Thou knotrest not what cunning snares
Were spread beneath his fret;
What layman lork'd in ambush ' d lairs
'l's w ett est retreat
The weakness thou wouldst harshly chide
Shoold leader pity woo ; -
If thou hadst been as sorely tried,
Thou alights have fallen, too!
Forgive, and breathe a gentle word
Oi sympathy and love,
Like that by gentle Mary heard
From One now throned above;
And thou mayst win from depths of woe
The Soul that went astray;
And light anew Hope's faded glow
To change its night to day.
But IntrEhneis raises higher yet
The waters of despair,
And weave around a stronger net
To mesh the erring there;
Till, settling heavily they sink
Beneath the tumid wave ;
And thou, though standing on the brink;
Didst stretch n* hand to save!
A BULL BEA.T:
OIL,
Streak el' LlErhteilog Ahat Cleared the
Corr-Yard.
MY JACK HUMPHRIES
Blast the criver !" roared Uncle Jess, as he es
pied old Babcock's big red bull lumbering over
gates and fences, and making a " bee-line" for one
eow yard 1, Bias: him, tdo say ! • Thar goes two
panel of the new fence smash, and cuss him, thar
he goes ri-:--ight over the grindstone throi3o the
cabbage-patch—am-m-m-ack into the cow-yard !''
, 1 Why the devil don't you set the dogs on him,
Uncle Jesse!" I ventthed to obterve, as the whole
family, big and fittfLAunt Katy and the whole
co-fluke of the boy's and gals thronged the door to
see Babcock's bull perform his customary destruc
tion to get into Uncle Jess' cow-yard.
Dogs be hanged ! They wont tech him; tenet(
of him as deth!"
"Shoot the ugly cuss, then, Uncle Jess."
i• Shoot him? lir int I tried that ! Peppered
bun one morning with my double-barged gun—pint
of shot , no use, the cussed critter minded it no
more than he does the dies; but I'm dod rotted et
1 stand it much longer; I've complained of him to
Babcock nigh on to forty nines tic; have the neigh
to4; Babcock swears he can't keep the bull in—
ioocks down everything, and clears out just when
he's a mm' to."
" Uncle Jess," says I , " Pll floor hirit, or put him
to his tromps, - if you'll stand the damages."
Damages! Lord bless me, Mint I stood rem
Mese twelve months? Damages! Ef you'll drive
him ofl, Dick, I'll give you the sorrel colt and a par
o• boots, Christmas, be hanged et I don't !"
"I'D try," says I, taking up-my gait, and loading
it with a double handfufl of buckshot and powder,
and calling the dogs, !Started for the cow-yard, met
the two gals : with empty pads, cursing like troop
et!, Old Babcock's buff.
Looking over the fence I espied the bull amus
ing himself with feats of jugglery—tossing up Un
cle less' hay-ricks, Unhinging the barn-doors, and
ioseing them upon his t road horns ai eattiancl de
lighted as a boy with a shuttle-sock.
"Now," says I , " old bull, I'll give you merry
pandemonium in the rear, and then set the dogs on
lOU, while Cousin Jake and the Dutch boy will
charge pitchforks and give you fits, at once."
To make a sure thing of it, I climbed over the
bars, to get nearer to the bull; who, suspicioning
son :lung was going on, turned his ugly face towards
axis came arms. I let her rip, gave him the pop—
batty I had intended for his tear, into his shaggy
flee. , I expected of course, I had done his knitting
— expected to see him fall down ; but, no, sir, he
merely shook his head—the shot rolled ell hie
drops of sweat—he turned up his wilt eyes, Cocked
tp his tail, and giving one roar and a snort, he
charged bayonets at the hors t with hie horns—car
red them _easy ; myself, Cousin Jake, and the
Dutch boy, with the two dogs, were standing by
ihe fence, and before you could say' emearcasi, he
klad as I . One dog was knocked into the middle of
last summer, the other scooted ; Jake fell over the
dutch boy, and I fell—very soddenly, .over the
fence! Babcock's bull.was master of the field and
looking about him, with the ludicrous bravado of a
drunken prize fighter in a Quaker meeting, be seem
ed to say—
" Well, this is a d—;-1 of a fight !"
And then, to assuage his irritated bump' of des-
I nximenesp, he pitched into the. fence; and pitched
It Pretty much all over the cow-yard and road ! -
Uncle Jess viewed all these 'prrieeeilings, and in
Spite of the expense roared out'—" Clime in, come,
I r e! He'll kill the whole du4ed team of you. Ha!
41 ha Come in, betore the rain drowns , your
1 00, you.4rnal foots, you I" '
-A thunder-storm had been - coMiiiittis thaitie
eiona hour, and now it burst over es, the rain fall
ing 01 scattered drops, big akhiekori-nuts, and - the
the thunder began to roll long and loud. One sude
den cluck and coax of Heaven's artillery seemed to
m'Prtsa the bull With the notion thtit twas popping
a way at him again ; but seeing notiodi agent, 'he
gave a valorous roar of defiance, pawed up the lif
t"' and strode oft tewaide Smite - of; the eg batiks"
an d "brindles," under a huge . olil while - aalrlicer
ea; the road. .111 , 1 his bullettip must" needs have
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the tree to himself so he intimated to his female
friends, in the most pointed manner—with his horns
—that they must stifle, and they did, leaving Bab
bock's old bull robbing his stalwart sides against
the tkodi of t#ie tree. in the thunder rolled and
roared, and again the bn looked around to see if
any pop-guns, dogs, Dutchmen, or fences were
sneaking rib:in, ready to be knocked into cocked
hats; satisfied that it was all gas, he resumed hie
amusement, and gave a low, sullen roar to each
mumble-rumble of thunder. But now a cloud as
black as ink lowered overthe head of Babel - la's
bull, and bursting with one of those awful and deaf
enirig peals of double-distilled thunder; the top- of
the gigantic tree cracked—was rent asunder, while
a ball of fire seemed to run down the tree, ripping
its massive trunk, and dashing the splinters about
like chaff betore the wind.
" Thar, thar, boys, by Jim and Neddy, the old
bulrs got it I" roarel Uncle Jess.
For my part, the lightning had blinded me—as
stood on the piazza, two s hundred yards from the
tree—but looking over to the spot, there lay gab
cock's bull, stretched flat as a hoe-cake—knocked,
clear as a whistle, through the heavy and high
worm, stake-and-rider fence, into the road. The
rain was now descending in glorious style ;—it te
vived bull, for he got up, alter conside
rable " formality," stretched •himselt very leisure
ly, humped up his back until he looked like 9 cam
el, then up went his tail, perpendicular, he wheel
ed round to see whit he should see—looked at the
fence, then at the tree, smelt the earth, and look
jng all around very vacantly, be seemed to say after
much deliberation— •
‘; Well, I'll be denied il!;ou hadn't me that time !"
And then putting in his best licks, he cut for
hone, over tenses, hedges, and ditches, and never
from that day to this—two years ago—has Babcock'o
old bull ever come within a mile and a half of Un
cle Jess' plantation. That lasi fire rather knocked
About the year 1830, politics ran very high in
Arkansas. Col. A. H. Sevier was a candidate for
the office of Delegate to Congress, and Ben Desha
was his opponent.
Judge Andrew Scott Was a warm friend of De
she, and bitterly hostile to Sevier. He had a neigh
bor living about fifteen miles from him on the " far"
side of the Galley creek, named Logan, commonly
called " stuttering Jim Logan," Who was exactly
wice wersey" in his politics; and so frequent had
been their encounters, that the two neighbors had
come cordially to hate each other.
One pleasant morning in the Spring, when the
sun shone out warmly, and all nature was green
and fresh after a heavy rain of two or three days
'duration, Logan went down from hill:louse, through
the little strip of creek bottom, to the bank of the
creek, and sat himself down on a " lick log," mu
sing perhaps, as Col. Jack McCarty once said, "on
the cranelhenthe of all thublunary things."
The creek was about twenty yards wide, and the
rain bad raised it so that it was swimming, cover
ed with foam, and running like a mill-race with a
full head of water. Where the road crossed, on the
edge ol which Logan was sitting, was the only
opening in the woods, which fringed the stream on
each side. Above and below the trees bent over,
and their branches hung gracefully in the water,
and swung to and fro in the swift current.
Atter Logan had set there a while, Judge Scott
came riding down the road reached the water's edge,
and looked across Without saying anything, but
looked as if be thought, " Blame you if it's swim
ming, why don't you' say sot" Logan took out his
jack-knife, split a piece from the lick-log and com
menced whittling it, looking steadily towards Scott
all the while. Logan' was a large, stout, heavy
looking Mail ;--.Scott email, wiry, passionate, petu
lant, and as briie as a bulkin..
After waiting a moment—for each hatfd the oth
er too much to speak Scott tightened the reins and
rode into the water. His horse had not taken more
than six steps, before kerchug he plunged in over
head and ears. Ina moment mare Scott was wash.
ed from his back—the rider went one way, the
horse the other ; and the saddle-bags a third. . The
horse turned towards the side on which he went in,
and got ashore a little way below; Scott managed
to reach Logan's side of the creek, and got hold of
the swinging limb of a sycamore which dipped into
the water.
"Freip, LcOn, help!" cried Scott ; "1 Audi be
drowned ! help !"
“5..-say you'll v:v-vote for Sevier !” bawled
EIM
" Help, Logan, 1 shall drown ! Help !"
"S-i.s•say you'll v.v-vote for Sevier!" again
bawled Logan not rising from the lick-log.
Just then the sycamore limb snapped, and' the
same moment Scott sung out,—
" I'll see you huhg first, you infernal old renal !"
and away he swept around the tree and cote of
sight.
Luckily the current made a iwciep below, eddy
ing round in the concavity at the upper - edge of a
sand-bar, upon, which Scott was flung, and scrabbled
out. He walked up the bank toward Logan, spot.
twill with rage, and streaming with water. He
had no weapon but a pike!, and Mat of course,,was
unfit for service ; and Logan was too big to be
whipped by him ma fist fight. .
"Blast you," cried Scotti as he got near him . , do
lott'stolip ask.a man how he's going vot e be
'rore itOdi..ive him horn . droweing'?"
Li:gad:lever stopped whittling, but iookinieom
posed!, up, slowly said, '
" Every g-i-getitleman has' a right to T4i-vote as
bellies, and d &drown' when he , likes r and 144-
, don't Suppose anybody's bound to .dive into. the
creek to I f-fish out a vote to his own."
An excbangeTsper says : 1 4 Never let pee.
?le work for • you gratityP Two years ago, `mutt
earned a bundle for ns to El' tonr• 'and wis have
been lending him two shillings every week since.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY,
.BY O'MEARA ,Goopinci
The Rival Politicians.
_ REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION DEDDI iNT QUARTER."
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Our noble ship lay at arichor in the Bay of Tin.
•r .-
gier, a forti fi ed town in the extreme s north-west of
Africa. The day had been extremely mild, with*
gentle breeie sweeping northward and westward;
bat along towards the close of; the afternoon the sea
breeze died away, and one of time sultry, ma;
like atmospheric breathings came from the great
sun-burnt Sahara. Half an hour before sundown
the captain gave the cheering order for the boat
swain to call the hands to go in swimming, and
,in
less than five minutes the forms of oar tars were
seen - leaping from the arms of the lower yard.
One of the mudding sails bad been lowered into
the water, with its corners suspended from the main
yard arm and the swinging boom, and into these
most of the swimmers made their way Among
those who seemed to be enjoying the sport most
heartily were , two of the boys. Tim Wallace and
Fred Fairbanks, the latter of whom was the, sou of
our old gunner, and in a laughing mood they start
ed out from the studding sail oua race. There was
a loud ringing shout of joy on their lips as they put
off and they darted through the water like fish
The surface of the sea was as smooth, as glass,
though its bosom rose iniong heavy swells that set
in horn the Atlantic,
The vessel was moored wilt a long sweep from
both cables, and the buoy of the starboard anchor
was far away on the starboard quarter, where it rose
and tell with the lazy swells like a drunken man.
Towards this buoy the lads made their way.—
Fred Fairbanks taking the lead ; but when they
were within about twenty or thirty fathoms of the
buoy, Tim shot ahead and promised to win the race.
The old gunner watched the progress of hie little
son with a vast degree of pride, and When he saw
him drop behind, he leaped upon the poop, and
was just upon the point of urging him on by a 'haat,
when a cry reached his ear that made him start as
if he' had been struck with a cannon ball.
" A shark ! a shark !" came forth from the cap
tain of the forecastle, and, at the sound of these ter
rible words the men who were in the water leaped
and plunged towards the ship.
Right abeam, at a distance of three or four cables
length, a shark was seen in the water, where the
back of the monster was visible. His coarse was
for the boys.
For a Moment the gunner stood like one bereft of
sense, but the next he shouted at the top of his
voice for die boys to turn; but the little fellows
heard him not—stoutly the swiniMers strove ter the
goal, all unconscious of the bloody deite spirit that
hovered so near them. Their merry laugh still
ranover the water, and at length both touched the
buoy together.
Oh, wiser drops of agony started from the brow
of our gunner. A boat had pat oft, but Fairbanks
knew that it could not reach the
to
in season,
and every moment he expected to see the monster
sink from sight; and then he knew all hope would
be gone. At this moment a cry reached the ship
that went through every heart like a stream of are ;
the boys had discovered their enemy.
The cry startled old Fairbanks to his senses, and
quicker than thought he spring to the quarter deck.
The gins were all loaded and ehotted afore . and aft,
and none knew their temper beuer than he. With
steady hand made strong by a sudden hope, the old
gunner seized a priming wire and picked the
from of one of the qUarter guns; he took his
pocket a percussion wafer and set it in its place,
and sot back the hammer of the patent lock. With
a giants strength the old man swayed the breech of
the heavy gun to its bearing, and then seizing the
string of the lock, lie stood back and watched for
the next swell that would bring the shark in range.
He had aimed the piece some distance ahead or
his mark, but yet a moment would settle tills hopes
and fears., . „
Every breath was hushed, and every heart in
that old ship beat painfully. The boat was yet
some distance from the boys, while the horred sea
monster was fearfully near. Suddenly the air was
awoke by the roar of the heavy gun, and as the old
mail knew his shot gone, he shrank back upon the
combing of the hatch and covered his face with bis
hands, as if afraid to see the result of his own et
forte, for it he had failed he knew that his boy was
_
For a moment after the report of the gun had
died away upon the air, there was a dead silence
but as the derice smoke arose from the surface of
the water, there was, at first, a low murmer, break.
ing from the lips of' the men—that tiaurmer grew
fonder and stronger, until it swelled to a joyous
deafening shout. The old gunnec sprang to his fee
and gazed oil on the water and the first thing that
jnet his view was the huge carcass of the shark
floating with his white belly up—a mangled lifeless
mass.
In a few moment the boat teached the dating
swimmers, and halt dead with fright they. were
brought onboard. The old man clasped his boy,
in his arms, and then overcome by the powerful
excitement, he leaned upon the gun for support.
have-seen men in alt pangs'of excitement and
suspense, but never have I . seen three human beings
more overcome by thrilling emotions, than on that
startling moment,, when they that kheti the effects
of our 'gunner's shot ' .
A " SocKaa."—/I, Speyer ilia:being who may be
found hanging arocd bar-rooms, watching for the
entrance of an acquarntance, who, for miitakelibe
relit!, will ask - biro to .. eat oysters, driniv , toticlY, .qt
smoke a cigar, a fevor ofcourtesy your,sue
kin is never known to reciprocate: If you would
get rid of hinv, lend him a dollar—no irtoris--and
he 'will cease to trouble you forever.
' •
Seri Asittectarrozr —An, Trish borer tinged
had the river and haule d out a gentleman who was
'acCi r denialty drownin g; the gentleman ; rmvarded
Pat frith a sixpence. " sal& the- dripping
mifer," stint you satisfied! 'Do' you ° think' . yort
ought to iteve"cinrer, U Gob anruied Ihe. p oor
fellos, looking hard at the one ho had rescued,
;' I think I'm overpaid !"
A Country Schoo noon:
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No one can Ovum Aron& any section, of the
country without !mitts impressed with.the fact, that
schoolhouse 4 dre generally' constructed without
taste coit6nience, or even cordon. Located in
the geographical centre of the district—be that on
the bleak hillside or in a frog pond—erected at as'
little cost aspassible, with nothing without or with--
in to make it attmctive,—withott no groungssave
the publics highway belonging to 4,—like some rel
to of the put, stands the schoolltortse.. Popular
sentiment demands better schools and more highly
qualifit.d teachers, than it did . twenty, years since;
but in iew instances has a correipondingimprove
twat been made in the edifices devoted to the pri
mary, and almost the only education of children.
The Architect- of Nature has not failed to scatter
locations:of beauty thick over our land, and scarce
a school district can be found where a proper site
for a model building does not invite attention. The
additional expense of erecting a building in • this
style, is not worth a moment's consideration in
comparison with the results growing out of the charge
The love of the beautiful is instinctive in childhood
and only the narrow prejudice of self-seeking men
can see nothing to admire in the loveliness of na
ture, of the lair proportions dart. Next to the at
tractions of the home fireside, the school should be
the most desirable and inviting place. Here does
mind receive its first impressions and forms its taste
and Character. Here does the boy fix his standard
of attainment, acquire his notions of gentility and
Propriety, and first learn to compare himself with
others. Au air of neatness and elegance should be
given the schoolhouse, and in point of finish, deco
ration and furniture, should equal the best apart.
tient of a private residence: Children Wodld respect
such a building, love to be in it, and what is more,
would form their habits of propriety which would
save the man many a bitter lesson of mortification-
Children imitate the manners of those around them,
and rudeness is more natural than Politeness. This
is not mere specelation. We have seen 'ti school
house which had been in constant use tor three or
four years, upon whose carpet there were no marks
of the gormandising tastes of scholars, whose neat 7
ly stained desks showed no signs of the Yankee
proclivity to whittle, whose walls were disfigured
with no semi-barbaric artistic designs; yet there
had been no blows struck in that school, there was
no rules to prevent injury to the building. A gen
tleman hid taught the school and as naturally as
effect follows cause, gentlemanly and lady-like
scholars were in attendance. it is needless to re
mark that intellectual improvement was in perfec
keeping with advance in other respects.
Thousands Of dollars are wisely laid out every
year in erecting churches after the best models, and
decorati *„,- them accordingly to the most approved
stands sof taste ; and why should not equal pride
be taken in combioing beauty and fitness in the dis
trict school house ? It architecture be the expres•
sion of ideas of beauty, it it bass meaning, will not
six days in a beautiful school house do more in
impressing the mind with ti correct last, than one
in a beautiful church 1 Each has its appropriate
place, is associated with its Peculiar ideas but iq
point of importance are so nearly allied that they
should not widely differ.
THE PRINTERS TAX ES 'ESI..--011t readers, many
of them, need not be informed that, among the
" lobies" at Lansing, there is a good Jea of tbn to
be had for the asking, in the shape of rich stories,
&c., told over the blazing bar-room fires of an even•
ing, to while away the dull monotony of a back.
wood's winter. eine of the best of these laughter
provocates, is a yarn reeled oil by an old practition.
er, who has seen some fun in his day, 'which hi
somewhat as follows :—Not a tong while ago,, a lm
of idlers were collected in . a cipntrr store, not a
thousand miles from Grand Rapids, where the .
Maine liquor law had never beec heard et, and af
ter the usual " drinks round," betting was hit upon
as a profitable diversion, and various wagers pro
posed and rejected, when a tall, lank, alabsided
specimen of humanity, whose looks denoted him to_
be a tramping jour, and " dead broke" . at that, rais
ed himself on end from the corner, wbere he had
been quietly watching the proceedi ngs, and offered
to bet any man in the room a V that-he could bea t
him at picking up a pound of duck shot, such as
lay in a pan on the counter, each shot fo be picked
,pp separately, and "on the sqUare.', The thing
took at once, and in the generttl eagernees, divers
V's were planked up against our ragged friend,
whose stake happened WINS everldoked, and the
teal commenced between him-and his two or three
antagonists. .Fingers and thumbs work e d merrily
for a few moments, picking up the articles, one by
one, from the Roar, tuld a dead silence prevailed
amongst the bystaneers, when all ;at once, a keen.
eyed chap sung out to the betters, " Jee—migny
its no use crawlin, boys! that's a jour printer's
backbone and elbow that's to , work at them crumbs
—he's bound to win and sore enough he did win,
and, pocketing the staltashe went on Ms way re.
juicing:-4 , elidii Free Press.
-Mt. a was a most inveterate punster. • Lying
very ill of the ebolens, hie nurse peoliosecl to pre
pare 'hicka ii9vpdpipciei . 'RhicAeti,
Hatlnii you, hover have an ken
in alma' whisper'', (he was to iU to speak lomter,)l
is for she would , be. more 'apt 16 lay" on my atom
edit'
fell
: back exhausted, and the nurse taint
ed.
Irate like roses have have thorns aboiat then,
E~asty claims bate miden , falls, •
Altenipt nOt wings
whohints two hares ileavesono sail loses die
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Du good With what yotfhate gotcfrlt do*titt
The qf truth is not 11)9;leve of all .the
counterfeit vizarre that have been pot upon her.
The Minislays' Mountains
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The mean height of th e liimalaya is stupendous.
aertlinly not less than from 16,000 . to 20,000 feet,
though the,Ceaks exceeding thateleirsdien are not
to be numbered, espeeially
,at the 'Pewee of the
Sutlej,; indeed from that river to the Kalee the chain
exhibits an endless succeissiob of the inkiest moun
tains on earth. Forty of them surpass the height
of Chimborazo, the highest but one, of the Ander,
and ninny reach the height of 25,000 lest at least.
So rugged in this part of the mageifiCent chain that
the military parade at Sabathoo, halt a mile long,
and a quarter of a mile broad, is said to - be-the on
ly level ground between it and the Tarter frontier
on the north, or the valley of Nepaul to the east.—
'Towarde the fruitful valley of Nepaut
; and Brittle!)
ilia, Himalaya ie . eqeally lofty, seine of the mounts
sins being from 25,000 to 28,000 feet high, but it is
narrower, and the descent to the plains excessive
ly rapid, especially in the ternitory ol Bhotan, and
where the dip from the table-laud is more thao 10,-
000. feet in ten miles., The valleys are crevices so
deep and n,arrew, and the mountains that hang over
them in menacing cliffs are so ;eV that these ails
sea are shrouded in perpetual gloom, except when
the rays of a vertici 1 aim penetrate their depths.—
Frem the steepness of the descent the rivers about
down with the swiftness of an arrow, filline the
caverns with foam and the air with mist. At the
very base of this wild region lies the elevated and
peaceful valley of Bhotan, vividly green and shad.
ed by magnificent forests. Another rapid descent
to the plain of the Ganges. * * Most of the pas
, ses over the Himalaya are but little lower than the
1 top of Mont Blanc. Many are higher, especially
1 near the Suilej, where they are from 18,000 to 19,-
1 000 feet high, and that northeast - cit Khoonawur is
20000 feet above the level of the sea, the high
est
that has been attempted. All are terrific and the
fatigue and suffering from the rarity of the air in the
air iethe last 500 feet is not to be described. An
imals are as much distressed as human beings and
many die. Thousands of birds perish from the vi
olence of the wind ; the drifting snow is often fatal
to travellers, and violent thunderstorins add to the
horror of the journey. The Niti pass, by which Mr
Moorcroft ascended to the sacred lake of Manassa
in Thibit, is tremendous. He and hisietide had no t
only to . walk barefooted from the risk' of slipping,
but they were obliged to creep along the most fright
ful chasms, holding by twigs and tufdtof grass, and
sometimes they crossed deep and awful crevices
on the branch of a tree, or loose stones thrown
across. Yet these are the thoroughfares for com
merce in the Himalaya, never repaired nor suscep
tible of improvement fram the frequent landslips
and tweet& The loftiest peaks being bare of the
snow, gives great variety of color and beauty to
the scenery, which 'in the passes is at all times mag
nificent. During the day-of the stupendous 'size
of the mountains, their interminable extent, the va
liety and sharpness of their forms, and above' all
the tender clearness of their distant outline melt•
rag into the pale blue sky, contrasted with the deep
azure above is described as a scene of wild and
wonderful beauty. At midnight, when myriads of
.stars eparkle in the black sky and the pure blue of
the mountains looks deeper still below the pale
white gleam of the earth and enowlight, the effect is
•of unparalleled solen•nity, and no language can de.
scribe the splendor of the sunbeams at daybreak,
streaming between the high peaks, and throwing
their gigantic shadows on the mountains below.—
There, far above the habitation of man, no living
t hing exists ; no sound is beard ; the very echo ce
the traveler's footstep startles him in the awful soli-
tude and silence that reigns in these august dwelt,
ings of everlastini snow..
Fosse Ala.—Gent!men and ladies, open your
windows and let in . the'-fresh air. Light, physical
or moral, is not more essential to, vision than air,
Iresh air, to health and happiness. Yet stow, care•
ful are most of us to exclude it ! Yon close up the
windows nail list round. the doors ; and appear to
Jo all in your power to exclude Heaven,s free gift
of fresh air ; and the reason why thousands of peo•
ple are not smothered, is that the air is so sublile it
will work its way through every little crevice, so
that it is almost impossible to get it shut out alto
gether. What would you think of a man coming .
down the river on a raft, who wotild get a basin of
water and keep it for weeks to wash himself every
day, when the broad river was runninglevel with
his feet t You would, say he was a fool. Are you
any wiser, who have fifty milas deep of fresh air
above you and
,allow yourself tuft a lew square feet
to be used over and.over main hundreds of times
I wish every one of you knew what a curious pi ece
of machinery your longs and heart are, and how the
atmosphere it adapted to our use. , Keep your win.
(laws open night and day. If you are afruid to have
the night air blow upon you while ,you are asleep,
break a pane out of the top of the window until you•
get used to fresh air, and then a stream of it„hanl.
enough to blow the quilts oft the bed will not hurt
you.
Parcocrous.—ln one of our city !schools, not ma
ny years ago, tunernher of, the committee asked
the members of a class that was under examine. :
tion, 41 what was, the cause of the saltness of the
-ocean 1" Soon Tip little,girl raised her hind, flush
ed witlfthe discoiterY which bad flashed upon her
mind- Yctu may tell said file committee man. " Salt
fish, air l?' said the committee man im.
mediate!? Proceeded to the next class.
O tr. The Dutchman who refuse:l to take keno
becatitiit : might be altered -from :r1 butt
'tier* stage traveling to railroads,. !Iliiifortpeitici
,says„rities , ttint,eight hem car,e„tiollar, , while the
latter °nitrides him one. De beeples can't cheat
-him. ' .
treitv
„, en, ricn(_4 _SA vast exteqt.ot tct l
ritory—there is not a rv3t,nor a burh in it, and thew
never will be.
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The passage of thelgifide Lginiaiw hii env
ded excellent rood for . Abarplo
masticator on. The lollowitais libbut
joke . iiv , iire' bate' yet' read.; No &OW, Wins*,
bpt that we shalltate,ocealiim to laugh ifsvir ma?
ny a similar rum incident before are are many irons
:" ' ' •
About a fortnight since, a tall specimen of Yan
'ice& manufacture grriyo,,irt gie, good city at - Pors.
lantl l i Ate itatdof `Maine, and established himself
arid luggage at the Elm Hotel.
This luggage consimed.ef a small *alias aad a large
oblong box containing, for the inspeetors had axe;
unlined its contunts, a quantity etlarna, end debt
bound, which,lherdprietor had brought for therm
pose of reigilini, abobt the city.
Atter seeing hie Tompeq placed. id•the„toom d.
lotted to him, the pettier made hie appearance •lat
the office with a Email volume in his hand.' R.
glanced his keen, ahnswil eye leisurely arodtd the
room, which Conthined at that moment no one but
the eJetk and myself.'
•- " Fond of reading inquiccd the pedterof the
clerk, when he had anielted his observation.
" Don't get any time to read," replied the clerk
'! I rather gness got a- booktereyou'il like to
read" continued the pedler perseveringly.
" Wks( is it 1"
••gg Welt it's a Tight good book, tmd ;apt right for
!he.times, too, cease it'll give a man spiritnal con-
Potation ; and they do say that's what' a man cant
get very easy in Maine lust about neovr.n '
" That's ye/riftie E. blitionronsobitiott, urifett
unately, my friend; does not happen to be of the
right sort."
There ame a cunning leer in the patter's eye as
he inquired.
" Fund of the right sort, Aicy,l" : •
" When I can gel it;" said the clerk i becomlnit
interested.. ti r
dueo I shall sell you this book then," said the
pedler decidedly.
« What is it; you basset told me the name of it
yet r
It's Progress.' i• •
"Oh bother iv'e read it at leas a dozen or mar*
tiines,"
Aut this is an entirely au new etlitiOn."
" Oh ! it's all the earrre."
" Peautifully engraved "
"Oh ! nonsense-•-1 don't tw i t - •
And so saying he commiMed writing spin, eta.
ibly annoyed.
" Say, yeou,'—bettet took at the pictioaecoatiU•
ued the pedler, thrusting .the book underlie tionsi
This movement bad
.att issonishingsffeat•upon
clerk. He jumped,off hit chair and began . to ga
mine the volume eagerly ; but much to my sat.
prise, without Otiening it... Then, seemingly satisfi
ed with the scrutiny he asked the pried and par" ;
chased it. • • • • 1 I • •
" Say, yeon'--said the pedlar, after the bargain'
had been concluded moving towards the door—sar
yeou, if any body else should- see ihat• book atics
want to get another just like it; sehd 'em op' to 13
and I'll accommodate 'em just about as LA &sibs*
please.
And exchangeing a very gime' and Mysterious
look with the clerk, the pedlar vanished.'' ' a
" What on earth made you buy bat bear I
.b clerk, as tiernau scll3o,
See here a moment,
I advanced and looked over kis shoulder. Tuns.
ing up one end of the book,. he removed a small (
slide and discovered a stopple, vr.hioh he unecrevrt
ed and then handed me the book, which I applied,
mechanically roomy month.
U what iis_itlu g asked be laughing. • ••
Ibutylt—by jingo !' exclaimed I, pansies**
take breath, antltben making *tacks lot the dom..—
Hello, ,where are you going V'
ct Up siairr; it bar just struck me that the
rim's Progress will be an excellent addition to toy
library.'
The next day the pedle.'a stock was exhawied.
No cos roa Taouszs.--)0a, the morning of the
ureteric show in 1833. Old Peyton olxnts who in.-
teaded making an early start to his-work,. gat up
just in the midst of the display. On going his
door, he saw with amazement the• sky lighted op
with the lulling meteors,, ands he concluded at ono,
: that the world was on fire and that the judgment
day ,liad come. „ : z •
He stood top a moment:pzing kr speechless les ,
ror and then with a yell of hortar sprang out •of the.
door into the yard, right into the 'midst of 111811[11km.
stars, and here in his eftortata dodge them•henom.,
menced a series of ground and Jolly-terablingstkai
would havedana honor to ;Wight ropitdanoer. His'
wife.awakened In theoneantittreLtrad ening
Peyton jumping and skipping aboat the yank sa lted.
ont to know , xltat in the name olsease he was pla.
danciur, around there without ! hitt clothes en.. :Apt
Peyton heard not; the judgment eoliths long bleak
taccourit he jhad got to settlemlaile,hitn headless • pt.
tall te!rastial thinje, his wife by this tiate.-becoiting
'alattnird-tai stra43:_beltatioar4 spring out of be 1.
and running to the door shrieked out 41 the top of
her lung.— . ,
Peyton, T ray Peytcm, whatde you mean jump.,
in; about otit-thar, come' in and put your trocatra
°"" 1 ; I a 1 ,
~thd•Ve}tcn, wlievasars heil. now Alerpoweredi
him, faintly answored as he tall sprawling on the
:earth. ' • " ,
"Oh ! - Peggy, Peggy, don't you see 4.4 the.
%v..° 8-r•e ; that out no me for tion•oimet
now."
. A Csenous Fst.bow.—Al few days art, ingot.
wick, Me., a goad honest .looking country kllsiar
was lookiag at the telegraph with auttouiehntftit.—,
A passer by asking hint what ' htillieughl:lo:
1 . Wall I
. don't : know exactly,' rephatl' dui
but I am sine they won't gat.tne tit rida..tusdiuk ;
darned thing—thetn wires and posts would Milky
tact:l:hes."
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