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T E SCHOOL-HOUSE
HT ). a. nGlCCtla~
Hard by the broad and dusty street,
Where maples throw a cooling shade,
And frequent tread of playful feet 7 :
bare and beaten way Is made:
The school house e
standeth , old and rude,
And there a score of years hat stood.
The wallows, curtainless and bare,
Are marred oft with a broken pane,
Intl the shrill autumnal air,
Or wintry blast, beat through again ;
And the rude benches and the walls
Are rough with uncouth cuts and scrawls
The rill that bubbles sparkling by,
1-11. s not a free, unbroken flow ;
Itt4loods quatnt, mimic mills supply, •
And infant navies o'er it go;
And where it slumbers still and wide,
The boys in winter skate and slide.
And passing by the half open door,
. Y.ou hear the teacher, loud and clear,
Pouring his precepts evermore
Into (hi. young and listening ear.
Patience and hope his toad attend,
.ki,a to his heart their sunshine lend
A plain, contented man is he,
He burns no mean incense to fame;
"l is Ms alike unmoved to be,
londling tlattery or blame.
A husbandman in mind's rich soil,
He deems it pruud delve and toil.
lic 1,, vc ,1 f ,, on coming years.
And watch those boyant spirits climb—
Frad crr,itures of hot cares and fear.—
up the fame-paved mounts of Time ;
Ard thinks, right himerully, to share
Their triumphs and their honors there.
'OW RI the golden wane of day,
lreijoytd to hail their labors o'er,
The hole legions, wild for play,
Ilur.i forth, with frolic andnuprear ;
tVlo le down their mirth's Lethean tide
thoughts of bopk3 and lessons glide
/0 , 1 than Or earth' kingly halls.
'1'!1.‘u.r., , , , 1h old school house, art to me;
Thy tint , '.caned sides and crumbling wiilVs
11. , ar.1 mmy a precious memory
Of that (Jr pas', when fife was new,
:" , easons were day, aryl dreams were true,
Not in 1.;17.h pompous cot - - ts of state,
Proud t icedonils land !,Ihy hopes enshrine;
But whrre for Lf greet ...mnbete wait
Truth's armies, radiant ard d vine,
mitzhtlest a;.• wrought,
When•lhe V1 , 111.Z soul t , taught.
=}ljstctlalCeous.
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TRAVELING IN RUSSIA..
A TOUCHING STORY
I; way a , tormy evening to the month of Novem
ber, that a Russian gentleman, called Jaroetue, 1113
viri;s arid their little daughter Helena, and their
soavant, iii a heavy traveling chariot and
lour, driven by two postillions, drew up at the 011-
, y 11111 Of the little i 0 .71/ of Kobrin, which lies on
borders of Russia and Poliind. They were re•
horn their travels in Europe, and as the
Baron had already overstayed the tune he had in
ciled to be absent from home, and the weather
sits every day growing worse and worse, he was
idioms to press forward with all the speed possi
'if. The lur cap. , of the postillions, the long manes
of their horses, and even the rough leaM
erpurmatueaus were white with frost, clouds of
learn rose horn the weary beasts, as thelarldloril
coining up to the door of the chariot, observed that
6.lintior would not think of proceeding further.
"Not if I were at liberty to follow my own in•
elinations," said the baron ; " but as it is, I am
pressed lur time, and we must get over soother
stage
4 .h is a long one, sir," said the landlord ; rr thir
ty reists at least, and you have the forest of Ros•
le t to pass. The road is bad, and I dare say the
filov is Jeep, and the wolves are getting hungry."
"Oh. I am not afraid of wolves," cried the B&.
they would not dare to attack a carriage so
, nty in the year as this. Let us have four good
arses and we may bean by nine, for it is not more
Wan hall-past six."
Well, sir, a .willul man mast have his own
*II'. I only hope you may not repent your deter-
ImnaMa. Horses on directly, Nicholas. But may
be Soar honor, and your honor's lady will take
rlmething hot, for you will need it before you go
11 BoImo."
So a cup of spiced wino was brought tot the tra.
relent, wait -Erick, bad a double perliOn% 11 9 N
inapt ot) in a huge fur cloak- on a low kind of a
bo in hunt, (or the Baron's carriage, Ilfough , 9 1 0
talhioned had been' built in England. lire few
moments the fresh horses were harnessed, and the
postillions cracked their whips, and amidst the
thanks and good night of the landlord, the carriage
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"It irOinerly cold,-said the baroness,
_ne' s. s . bo
pulled the cloak more completelk,around her, and
look Inde Helena on her lap—it is bitterly oold•and
a fearful night to travel."
11 Ihe'rnoon can but break through the clouds,
as it is trying to rio s we shall have a pleaestat ride
yet," replied the husband;
"What, Catharine, a Russian, and yet aftaia of:a
hale arrow;
" Well, I am glad we came on, loop", said the.
'wde, it is pleasant to think that prlary-itejle we
11 ,kvel, brings ue nearer twine, and my deer liele
Nic`,44 3 and f:retteriCai"'
They Weie no — isveittr, over s wild moor, the
weld tehrifilba morinitatfirdthd
trod chasing the snow before it, for it wait meow-
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ing heavily. The glare of the lampi cast a kind
of a ghastly tisp . op #m ; ipmediate:neghborkood
of the carriage, eni seemed to make the Iliatance
still darker. . ;* .;
"0, mamma!" cliellielerut," let me come
closer toyini,At'matesititi afraid - tO look out of the
windotr."
11 -Whyi whasiitioulti you; beaftsid,of my lovely
onel" -
"One is always afraid in the dark; you know
mamma ; and then just listetvlo,The wind how it
howls l'; .
The donde posed oR the moon Witi walking in
brightness, the wheels rolled, noiselessly along
over the snow, an as far as the eye could see was
one glistening sea of white. 0i passed the car
riage.
~ What is Erick looking at!" asked the baroness,
far the, box was so tow that ills occupant might be
seen from the window.
" I cannot tell," said her husband," bat bemust
have good eyes it he can see anything. ll :
" Hark what is that?" cried his wife, as a long,
low, melancholy; howl, difierent from the wind and
yet like-it, was heard for a moment and then died
away. •
"It is wolves," replied the baron, ((this cold
weather-makes'hed restless.",
There it iii again, his certainly nearer." •
n Erick," said his master, letting down the front
windor, "tell the boys to drive on, 'we must keep
out of the way of the wolves.",
4 ' On with you men," shouted Erick.; and then
in a low voice he said, 4 - I doubt whether we can
altogether get out of the way sir." -
" Bow is that!" asked the Baron, much alarm:
ed. _
" There is a large pack of them, and they are in
scent of us "
" There they are, not more than half a mile off."
"What are we to do?" asked the baron, 1-know
j•ou are a Centland man and more used to those
things than I am."
Why sir," said the servant, " if they come up
with`us we will take no notice of them unless they
attack us. As they are very timid creatures the
glare of The lamps and the sight of us will keel)
them off ; and in an hour we shall be in. But I would
advise you to draw the bullets from your large pis
tols, and load them with swan shot, as it would be
more to the purpose to wound a good many than to
kill one or two."
"0, pa !" cried Helena, as the baron took his pis
tols from the top of his carnage.
" IVe shall do what we can, my dear child, and
God will do the rest for us. There is no great dan•
ger from these wolves except in the very depth of
winter, and if there were, He who delivered David
from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear,
and Daniel from the seven hungry lions, can deliver
us also."
"They are coming," Paid Erick.
The baron looked, and about a hundred yards
back, to the right, in the woods, he could just make
out a grey mass moving through the trees, and
leaping int.) the carriage track. They did not bowl,
but bayed fearfully. They moved steadily, but al
together,and were evidently gaining on the carriage.
The post boys plied both whip and spar, and the
horses themselves, in agony of fear, broke out in a
canter, despite the heavy snow.
" Do you think there is any danger, my dear
husband ? ' asked the baroness.
" I cannot tell." said her husband, 1 they do not
seem disposed to attack us yet, but they are cer,
tainly savage. It is for the horses we have to fear
first."
" Are they gaining. on us'!"
A little, but they are not patting out their peed - ,
they could be up with us in a moment if they
Thus the carriage led on; for about two min
utes Erick never took his eyes off the pack, and
the baron thrusting himself oat from the left win.
dow, watching them Carefully.
" Are your pistols loaded, sill" cried Erick.
'• All with swan shot:'
" I have two loaded with ball,and two with shot;
so we shall do."
The pack was now not more Than ten yards be
hind the carriage ; there might be about two hun.
dred in it. At the head 'was an old, sircmg, grey,
headed woll. The leader sprang on one of the
wheel horses, aryl at thersame time received a bul
let through his head from Erick who was prepared
for him.
"Now, sir, if you will let me base a piece of
string we may be able to make something of ii,"
said Eiick.
" A piece of string ?" cried his master, "yes here
it is, but to what purpose?"
"Why, sir," said he, "wolves are cowinfly crea
tures, as they ate always suspecting a trap; so 1
will just tie the string to tliis stick, and let it drag
behind the carriage.' II Will keep them off tenmi
nutes."
Erick was right;:tha stickiWasidragged along
about the &tenni, of fen feet behind, and for some
time the pack kept ' , behind it, and were plainly
afraid of it. At last they began to . groat bolder,
they seemed to have diisefivered the trick, 04E150
the stick, and. were again, making up to the car-
ei They viill:fre trop. us jit a , tritimem," cried ,
" When' ; °cry now sir," be lea* to tire
upon them from one side ; and. 63 will upon the
other." ' I ' . "..
" Very well."
Helena sat with h r fialibb'tei 7 .6tother's, look
ing ap to bet fiee. tier m4tiie , t !titled bi(ti;to(oery l
calm :
: !.!; %104 1, 1 0i .CrigattiCkp ;
Mastetaad servant fired at, the 4arne moment ; ,
theft( smirk ditvegis: j , cl)l from the liiieiticsit of the
fieice pieCand „three :0j -
Leed:ageiii,'!eriecliEtriek:;,if this liste you Wilk
*set au yeespieldli iseeritirt.m= t r
"Alter they .timateii - BeViii raise , ttrB wolves
were no,,,lorger 1 6 :zhteti6d , ty the them and flash;
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TUBLISIED EVERY,,SA,TURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFOIT COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA
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they began tii'eurrOtind the coach op every
side." • • .
*Tiiii . rell . l'bn - rode thing left," said Erick, we
mist cot the traces'of one of the leaden . ' and turn
him off—that will divert them for a little while,"
and erring to thefor'eboy he directed him to' cut
the traces of his•horse. The man obeyed, and the
terrified animal started oft right into the forest, and
with' a tremendous yell the whole pick rushed al-
Of '
'' ,l Thank go a d lei that," exclaimed the baroneaa
Then we may be sale Idler all.
"Ay, rrialim , if it pleases Him," replied the ser•
vent, "but this relief will not last long, and they
will Bonn be upon us again."
How far do yon imat,ine we are from the poet
house now'!" eagerly inquired !lie baron.
"Some half hour," answered Erick, " but they
will chase up to the very door. I never know them
to be so fieree.. Hark! they have got him."
As he qake, there came a scream, or rather a
shriek so horrible in its sound that once heard it
could never be forgotten. Helena and her mother
exclaimed, " what can it be?"
" It is the poor horse," exclaimed the baron, "they
are tearing him to pieces."
A horse shriek is the most horribleof all-things.
" Drive on for your lives," shouted Erick, "they
will be back presently./
But the snow became deeper,and the road worse,
and three horses worn out with fatigue ill supplied
the place ol four fresh ones: On the right hand
the road thirmed a little, opening into a glade, in
the centre ol which was a frozen pond; as the tra•
velers passed it, the wolves appeared dashing up
the valley, and the jaws and head of many were
steeped in blood.
'We must let another horse' go," cried Erick,
"or they will be too much for us; but we must take
care what we are about. You and I, sir, will tire
at once; and then do you, Peter," he added ad•
dressing the foremost post boy, "cut the traces of
your horse, jump down, and leap up here by me.
This was done, and the pack were again drawn
oil. The remaining two horses strained their ut•
most, and the travelers intently listened for any sign
of the reappearance of their enemies. The baron
spoke to Etick„biit received no answer; he seem
ed taken up by his thoughts, At length the carriage
reached the top-of the hill, and at the distance of
apparently two miles before it, a clear steady light
was to be seen.
" Thauk God ! there is Bolisvo;" exclaimed
Erick. "Now, then, air, I believe that you are
eate."
As he spoke the woßes were again heard in the
distance, and though the post light grew lighter and
larger every moment, the pack gained on them,and
at last surrounded them.
" It must tome at last, my dear master," said .
Erick. " I have cleaved you and your father these
twenty years, but I never did you : better service
than I now intend to do. II we all remain togeth
er we shall all be torn to pieces. I shall get down
and with my pistols I r hall, I trust, be able to keep
them at bay a few minutes You go on with ail
speed possible, and leave me here. I know you
will take care of my w ife and child."
"No, Erick," said the baroness, " we will all be
saved or all perish together. I could not bear to
escape at the price of your blood."
"No, indeed, Erick," paid Bole [lntend.
The baron looked at his wife and child, and said
nothing
" Bebides, I will try to climb a tree," said Erick,
"maybe they will give me time. But il l delay
a moment longer we shall all be lost together."
"God bless you, Erick," said his master. " God
bless you, end he will bless you. If you perish I
will look on your Wile as a sister and bring up
your child as one of my own." -
"Thank you, sir," said Erick, firmly. •
"Now God be with you all. Fire, sir, two pis
tols at once:"
And the baron fired t, Eticit: leaped to the ground.
On dashed the horses, We park terrified for a mo
ment, stood still and payed. Almost instantly they
heard the report' of a pistol, and about a minute
after of two close together. Hut they heard no
more.
An I,now they were within a hundred )ards of
the strong log bunk inn; the pack are close behind
them; the post boy etacks his whip; the baron and
'he whole party shout, and as the carriage dashed
up to the door, and •a fresh light pouts into the
road, the wolves turn, and the baron and faintly
ate safe.
Of Erick no trice was found. Ills pistols were
discovered next morning, where he had been left,
threedischarged, one still loaded ; it is supposed
he had not time to fire it before he was polled
down. I need not tell you how nobly the baron
fulfilled his promise to his wife and child.
On the sacred spot now stands a monument, bear
ins on one side of its pedestal the name and story
of Eriek, on The other—" Greater love bath no man
than— that a man may lay down his oven life for
his friend."
cool..—#. ludicrous scene occurred at the New
Englabd_Houss, Cleveland, during last summer
A gentleman called for a glass of milk and tee,
which was promptly brought by the
_ready waiter
arid placed before him , of which he took no notice,
being busy...discussing, the merits of a fine steak,
A green 'an. whobappened to sit 4irectly opposite,
obrierved the cooling delicious beverage, reached
layin'g hold of the gime, deliberately
sipped the contents..
„The gentleman observeing
the movement, bind settling back in - his chair,'
'looked naltnly , al thegreetfritul eiglailued "That's
cooVdecidedlyl 4 The sirepfe tooled at the siren•
ger, and with a face brightening with the grea t
thought of being about to communicate a great truth,
fee er" ?" 7; 1 r
- Lrryt.o.-2— ,, A faciyer."ettid Loid Brbith . am,
Til#ll4V . ll ' Is resc ues
ybur izetotei, and 'keeps it film. ,
self."
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MiMill
The Eating of Arsenii.
While, arsenic, as is well known, is a violent
poison. In large doses, it is what in Medical lan
guage is called an irritant poison, but in very mi
nute doses it is known by professional Men to be
a tonic and alternative. It is rarely administered
as medicine, however, by regular educated placti
tichers, except perlitips;in . tiorricbriatfiic .
and is never used asbousehold medicine by the
people of this country. In some parts of Lower
Austria, however, and Syria, and especially in the
hilly regions towards Hungary, there prevails
among the peasantry an extraordinary custom of
eating arsenic. The common people obtain it un
der the name of Ihdri 4 from itinerant herbalists and
pedlars, who bring it from the chimneys of the
smelting houses in. the mining legions. Large
quantities of arsenic are sublimed during the roaat
wg the ores of lead and copper, and deposited
in the long horizontal or inclined chimneys which
are attached to the furnaces in which this operation
is carried on. The praotiue is one whieh appeariiio
be of considerable antiqui , y,is continued
- through a
long life, and is even handed down hereditarily,
from lather to son.
It is eaten professedly for one or both of two pur
poses: First, that the eater may thereby obtain
freshness of complexion and plumpness. of figure
Fur this purpose, as will readily be supposed, it is
chiefly eaten by the young. Second, that the wind
may be improved, so that long and steep bights
'may be climbed without difficulty of tireathing.—
By the middle aged and old, it is etieemed for this
influence : and both results are described as follow•
ing almost invariably from the use of arsenic).
To improve their appearance, young peasants,
of both sexes, have recourse to ii, some no doubt
from vanity, and others with the view of adding to
their charms in the eyes of each o her. And it is
very remarkable to see how wonderfully well they
attain their object; for these young. peasants are
generally remarkable for blooming complexions,
and a full, rounded, healthy appearance. Dr. Von
Twihudi gives the following ease as having occur.
red in his practice: " A healthy but pale and thin
milk maid, residing in the parish of had a
lover whom she wished to attach to herself by a
more agreeable exterior. She therefore had re
course to the well known beautifier,,ind took assert'
is several times a week. The desired effect was
not long in ehowing, itself, for in a few months she
became stout, rosy eheeked, and all that her lover
could desire. In order, however, to increase the
effect, she incautiously increased the dose of arsen
ic, and fell a victim to her vanity. She died poi
soned—a very painful death !'' The number of
such fatal cases, especially among young persons,
is describe as by no means inconsiderable.
For the second purpose—that of rendering the
breathing easier v.hen going up hill—the peasant
pets a small fragment of arsenic In his mouth, an.}
lets is it dissolve. The effect is astonishing. lie
ascends bights with facility, which- he could not
otherwise without the greatest difficulty of breath.
The rpianrity of arsenic with which the eater be
gins is about half a grain. They continue to take
this quantity two or three limes a week, in the
morn tog lasing, until they become habituated to it.
They then cautiously increase the dose as the quan
tity previously taken seems to diminish in its ef
fects. " The peasant R--," says Dr. Von Tschn
di, "a hale men of sixty, who enjoys capital health
al present, takes for every dose a piece of about two
grains in weight. For about forty years he has
routinued the habit, which he inherited from his
fither, and which he will transmit to his children.'
No symptoms of illness or chronic polsotring are
observable in any of these arsenic eaters, when the
dose is carefully adapted to the constitution and
habit of body of the person using it. Put if from
any caut , e the arsenic be left off for a rime, syrup.
toms 01 disease occur which resemble those of
slight arsenical poisoning; especially a leeling 01
discomfort arises, great indifference to everything
around, anxiety about his own•person, detanged
digestion, loss of appetite, a feeling of overloading
the stomach, increase of saliva, burning Ironi . :he
stomach np to the throat, pain in the bowels ; con
stipation, and especially oppression in breathins•.—
Frum these symptoms there only one speedy mode
of releaf—immediate return to arsenic eating!
This custom does not amount to a passion, like
opium eating in the East, betel-chewing in India,
or coca chewing in Peru The arsenic is not taken
as a direct pleasure-giver, or happiness besiow•er,
but the practice once begun, crettes a craving, as
the Other practises do ; and becume.s a ticcess.ny of
lite.— Blackwood.
WHAT is Diar?—Old Dr. Cooper of South Caro•
line, use to say to his students : Don't be af taid of a
little dirt ;gentlemen. Whitt is dirt? ‘Vlty, noth.
ing at all offensive, when chemically viewed. Rub
a little alkali upon that '• dilly grease spot" upon
your coat, and it untlergnea a chemical change and
becomes soap Now rub it with a little water and
it disappears; it is neither grease, soap, water nor
Jut.- That is not a vet) , odorous pile of dirt," you
observe there. Well, scatter a little gypsum over
it and Nis no longer dirty. Every thing you call
dirt is worthy your notice as students of chemistry
Analize it ! It willaeparate into very clean elements
Dirt makes corn; corn makes bread and meat, and
that makes a very sweet young lady that I saw one
oryou kisainglast night, So, after all, you were
kissing dirt—parliculatly if she whietted her. skirt
vs itti'clfalk or tiffter'searth., There, is no telling,
geritlernen,.wtat is (lift. Though f may say rub
bing such er ufl upon tite,bhilifitul Miiii!of a young lady
is a ditty practice. 't Pelttl powder, 1 think, is made
of listnuth—uothing but din." • - •
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ertr'" 'Tis strange," muttered a young• man as
he staggered home from-'a -sepper party, " how
evil cam m ohicatiobs comitit 'good liialitteis.'r• I've
been atnong tumbterrall ttitriveftinglad niiwtitv
a tumbler myself.'
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itisetieati Travel.
Henry Clay was a man of great resolution and
considerable daring. Traveling in 'early manhood,
in public conveyance in a South-Eastern State, he
once found himsefy to the company of thiee other
persons, cotisisting of a'young lady and gentleman,
her husband, and an individual muffled in -a cloak,
whose countenance was concealed, and who ap
geared to be indulging in a tete-a•tete will Mor
pheus. 'Suddenly a big, brawny let.turkian, got
into the coach smoking a cigar, and frowned tie.ce
ly around, as Mach as to say : " I'm hall horse,
half alligator, 1119 yeller flower of the forest, all
brimstone but the head and ears, and that's aqua
fortis." In fact he looked as savage as meat ate ;
and pulled forth huge volumes of smoke, without
reference to the company within, especially of the
lady, who manifested certain timid symptoms of
annoyance. Presently, after some whispering, the
gentleman with her, in the politest accent, request
ed the stranger not to smoke, as it annoyed his
companion, The fellow answered: " I reckon
I've paid for my place. smoke as much as I
please, and all hell shan't stop me, no how With
that, he rolled his eyes round as fieteely as a rat
tlesnake. It was evident he had no objections to a
quarrel, and that if it occurred tt was likely to lead
to a deadly struggle. The you,g man who had
spoken to him shrank back and was silent.
Clay felt his gallantry aroused. He considered
for a moment whether lie should interfere; but ex
perience a nainral reluctance to draw upon himself
the brutal violence of his gigaton, adversary. fn
that lawless country, lie knew his life might be sa•
clificed onavenged. He knew himself physically
unequal to the contest, and'thought,efter all ; it was
not his business, Quixotically to take up another
man's quarrel. Feeling pity for the insulted, and
disgust towards the insulter, he determined to take
no notice; when, very quickly indeed, the cloaked
figure in the corner assumed an upright position,
and the mantle was suffered to fail from it without
effort or excitement_ The small, but sinewy frame
of a man, plainly dressed in a tigh.ly-buttoned
frock coat, with nothing remarkable about his tip
pearance,.was seen, and a pair of bright gray eyes
sought the fierce optics of the ferocious Kentuck '-
an. Without a word, he passed his hand under
his collar at the back of his neck, and deliberately
pulled forth a long—extremely long—and glittering
knife front its sheath in that singular place.—
" Stranger," he said," my !tame is James Bowie,
well known in Arkansas and Louisiana, and if you
don't put that cigar out of the window in a quarter
of a minute, I'll put this knife through your bow•
els, as sure us death." .
Clay said he never forgot in his life the express.
ion of Bowie's eyes at that mon.ent. The predo
minant impression made upon him was the cer
tainty of the threat being fulfilled ; aid apparently
the same conviction impressed tiself ere lung upon
the offender. During two or three seconds his eyes
met those of Bowie. lie was die weaker, and he
quail - ed. With a curse, he tore the cigar from be ,
rween his teeth, - flung it, ti:OWlitig, but downcast,
out of the coach window. Upon thie Col. Bowie,
as deliberately repla6ed hit, long knife in ita eccen
tric hiding place, anti µ ithout say ing a void 10 any
one, tefulded his cloak around hun , and did nut ut
ter another syllable to tha end of the jt.urney.
BOPILVOLN Ed 9 APO II CA LTD.—The influence of
hope on menial vigor aii•J pity-mat herridi has never
received sufficient attention- from the j hisician Of
metaphysicians 'there is no emotion more condu
cive to success and happines in life and none whose
effect is more favorable to longevry. DI. Alcott
makes the following soundly 'philosophical team' ks
on the itilthence at hope, from which we may in
let the importance of cultivating its organ in the
brain.
Hope moderately indulged, communicates a mild
but delightlul wisesi 0100 :lie whole region of the
heart, and elevates and birengtheits both mind and
body. What we call vital, or nervous enemy is
by its influence diffused equally, ur neatly so,
through every part LI ihe sjstern. The result is a
state of things apprortimale more nearly to what
is usually called perfect health : than anything
known. It preserves the mind from violent erne
nuns, agitations or depre,mons and enables. 116 to
exercise its noblest power with a tranquil vigor_ It
tends to keep the body in a regular and proper die.
charge of its varied linictionsoviihout the least sen
sation of or embirrassoirin. fe In iliese
circumstances,' says Fir. Cogan, in los excellent
Treatise on the Passions," respiration is bee and
easy, neither requiring conscious exeition, nor even
a thought —The , actions of the heart and arteries,
with subsequent eneulation of the blood, is regular
and placid, neither mu rai.id nor too indolent ;
neither labored or oppressed. rerspria.ion is
neither deficient nor too excessive. Aliments are
sought wiih a proper appetite, enjoyed with a high
relish, and digested wiih ease and facility. Every
secretion and excretion is properly preformed
The body is flee from pal oppressions
every species of uneasines, and a cerium vivacity
and vigor, not to be described reign through the
system.
Wosviti's BrArrit —lt is not the mile of her
pit:4ly lace, nor the tint of her cotnplexton, nor the
beauty and symmetry of tier petiron, nor the costly
dress or decoration that compose woman's loveli
ness fkalr IA it the enchanting glance of her eye
with tvliklt she 'darts such lustre Ott the man she
deems wooly of liiendslitp, that constitutes her
beauty-. It is her rt. easing drp ntmeim her chaste
conversation, the sensibility and 'purity of her
thoughts, her . allable and open tl;kpis.ition, her n:
di Ulnae in. att'versty, hot comforting and
feltettog; the adluzied an: distress, and, abuse all,
thri humbleness of her soul, theft eammitutestheittre
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The Bible.
The older We grow, the more we find the Bible
to be a very setisible hook; There are some very
shrewd rides in it for the guidance of onr conduct ;
:mil when we neglect them, we are petty care to
rind ourselves in trouble. There iy one passage
like this, tiz "He who diggeth a pit fur another,
shall fall therein;' How marry times in our life
have we known this wanting to prove true ! We
remember one of the•e just now.
A gentleman thought he.misseil money from his
money drawer. , That drawer was in the table on
which he wrote his letters. To detect and punish
the supposed thief—he placed a loaded pistol in
that drawer, and in such a position that on opening
the,drawer 111 the i!sual manner the'pistol would
bellischarged. To escape a discharge, it was ne•
cessa r y to open only an inch or so, and remove the
pistol from the connection with a suing.
After he had rhos prepared the drawer, for the
detection and.punisliment of the thief, he went out
to a'tend to some business which occupied several
hours. Ile came back, revolving in his mind some
difficulties he had encountered in adjusting this
hosine , os Entirely forgetting his trap, he utifocked
and pullrd open violently the drawer, and shot
himself thiuu4h the body. It was a spring pistol,
of great power :Lod the wound was mortal. •
We have also learned of instances where men
have placed spring guns on their lanJs, to protect
the fruit from depredatiou, and, iu their hotly, for
getting the trap, have themselves rectiyed the
cliar2e
As vie grott• old, ice tbal many things
which, to our youthful temerity and ignorance
seerrftd foolish were indeed, of the utmost impor
tance. And we may be assured, that the only ne
glrcted Book, wherein we have the aisurance of
immortal life, contains not only the rules by x hich
it may be obtained in a blessed eternity, but also
the very best rules of sanctity, and comfort, and
enjoyment of our ltves. He who lives without lak
ing the Bible for a guide, is like one who is walk
ing on the edge of a precipice fast asleep. .
DIGNITY DOWN —" Hev. %V. T—," writes J. P.
of Indiana, " is a large man, of dignified bear
ing, and when preaching, extremely sensitive to
any its ui bailee, a slight impropriety on :the pail of
the congregation being quite suflieent to throw him
out of the track. He had, acme years ago, to con
nec ion with his pastorate, a small congregation in
the cuuniry, to which he preache4_ setni-oecasion
ally, at a private house. The incident here record
ed happened at this place, when a small but select
audience war I stewing to one T—'s really animat
ed and sensible sermons. As the preacher waxed
warm, he observed: SOME; mysterious movement
among the female gentler, which attracted his atten
tion away froth the sermon. It grew more observ
able, until he discovered the hoinese collecting,
some live coals upon a shovel, and preparing to
march wt'h them to; an adjoining mow It was
late in the unernocei arid by some clerical instinct
lie iiiought the old goo= was about to prepayable
Ile couldn't siand
supper
stop, dicer, Molt' aaitl he; ' I shall not remain to
sapper, and you netn.l not trouble yourself to prepare
any for me.'
•‘ I ain't a pin' to,' said the old lady, in reply;
•th•ir's a woman here got the colic•, and we're jest a
Win' some yaitrs I,r her !'
waseu•t there just at that tune, but I could
discover no daliculty in believing that all the
s'arch was vet y speedily taken out of that sermon."
(*—" Ha? ha! Doan with the tyrant? Death to
the Spaniard shouted Ike, as he rushed into the
kitchen, brandishing Paul's old artillery sivord that
had hung so long on the wall. Ile struck an atti
tude.and then struck the nprtglit portion of the stove
tunnel till a rung with the blow, and Mrs Parting
tont with amazement on her cninnenance and the
glass lamp in her hand, stood looking at him, Ike
had be.m reading the thrilling tale of the " Black
Avenger, or the Pirate 01 the Spanish Main," and
his it teltects," as Sir I lugh Evans fright say,
were ab.mtbed by the horrible:
" Don't Isaac, dear," said Mrs Partinglon, and
she spoke in a gentle, but firm tone, " !ou are very
scarifying, anti it don't look well to see a yodng boy
acting so. It comes, I know, of reading, them yel
low cupboard hook,•. You should read good ones,
and it you won't read that again I will let you have
my big bible, king James' aversion, with the beau
ottil prelates. I declare, I dent know what I shall
du with you if you catty- ou so, I am afraid I shall
have to send you to a geoltywal, cernelety to get
the old sancho out ol you."— Elusion Post.
The following alienduue lei told by the Chi
cago Journal of Governor Reynolds, wboni they
nailed the " Old Ranger" in Illinois, when for the
first time iii his Itfe be v 'sited the seaboard as a
Representative to Congress (fun' the back settle
ments.
Upun reaching Hilt rnore, the Covernor rose ear
ly in the morning ai.d p,ud A . visit to the shipping
at the lucks, when the tide its full, and again at
noon, wfien it was at ebb—and not !satisfied with
the rudder cliatige itrat had taken place, again in
the evening, when the fide was in.
Heretofore he had resolved to keep everything
to himself, and go 41 pursuit of knowledge undet
difficulties, on his own hook—hut now his aston
ishment bloke over its booms, and as he teturued
to his hotel, the old Range; remarked. that this
was Ma curtuusteet couptry lie eves seen in his Ida
—llcoficshefs in one day—and nary a drop of rain."
BLEEDING AT THE NosE Noglei, a Ftencb
Seigeon, says that the uuuple elevation of d
pnr
sou'tiarul'wtlPstup bleeding at the nose. He ex•
plains the fact physically , , and declines it a posi
tive ietnedy. It is certaittly easy of trial.
sgv E nc'-j , 'lBtl44as,4itiiDy4 hopes to):
veil" g,apjaicroga..:aikanfattiAteki
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now r.anqaired a sympathizing friend.
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