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T OW A N D A :
aturbdp illorninn, scptunbcr 9, 1854.
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SUNRISE COMES TO-MORROW
True it is that cloud and mist
Blot the'clear blue weather,;
True that lips that once have kissed
(.4pute no. inoreLtogether.
True that, when we would do good,
Evil often follows.;
True that green leaves quit the wood,
Summers lose their swallows.
True that we must live alune,
Dwell with pale dejections
True that we must often mourn
Over crushed affections.
True that man his queen awaits;
True that, sad and lonely,
Woman, through her prison grates,
sees her tyrant only.
True the rich despise the poor,
And the pour desire
Food still from the rich man's dour,
Fuel from his fire.
True the plaMt,.—but if more true,
1 would not deplore it ;
!fan Eden fade from view - ,
' Time may yet restore it.
Evil comes and Evil goes,
But itlhoves me never;
For the God—the God—it grows,
Bud and blossoms ever.
:Ginter 'still succeed, to spring,
Butiresit Sprinis are turning ;
Other kr& are ox the wlng.
.Other bees Are humming.
I hare loved with. right good it i:I,
Mourned tny hopes departed,
Dreistned my :golden dream, and still
Am not Cruken heurte.l.
What chert.hril areas may Isle
` Faith wit! never leave us ;
Gud preserves what God has made—
Nor can truth deceise us.
Let in Light—the huly Light—
Alio'hem fear it liner ;
Darkness miles. and . .trtung roes tight=
Let in Light threvei.
Let in Light! When this shall be
Sa. and pleasant duty,
Alen in 'common things shall see
Cowl ,Truth and Beauty.
'4llisttil antaus,
rroir! tae Littie l'tlean
litobln Hood of Sheisvood Fos eit.
GRACE urcEeiltrovii
1-haVe said that i'i'elestead Abbey Stood in the
heart of old Sherwood forest. This, you will re
member, was the favori . e domain of that prince of
outlaws, bold gobin Hood. 'herd is little forest
land about there now,—none, indeed that we should
so call—all the woods being enclosed in packs, and
tis carefully kept ae gardens. But, as ,1 knarneyed
(hough the cow hi.; solvent back to
the old, old ti expected, whenever
we passed a t t shadowy glen, to be
s l uddettl,y sort Hood's merry men,
armed with I , ;d in Lincoln Breen.
You have a —.essly ad many stories of
Robin.hood ; but if on will listen to mine, I hope
I shall be able to tell You some thing that you have
',ever heard before.
Robert Flizooth, Earl of Huntingdon, Was born at
tocksfey, in the county of Nottingham, about the
Sear 1160, in the reign. of Henri , It. He was lett
an orphan in his childhood, and placed
. under ttte
guardianship of hia uncle, the abbot of St. Illarrs,
York. Thii Priest prilfessed to be a hit and holy
man; but, as it often is when ',apple Make gfeat
pretensions to piety, he was far Cootie) th ei tither
tvay: In those days, priests were greatly feared
and honored, and conld do pretty- much es they
pleased ;se the abbot of St Marjr . 's, Who' Wcie
bard; - avaricious manaound no diffrulty in' taking
advantaged the young Earl Robert'. By such wily,
Wicked ways ai only priests 'know, he took pee.
Session of :ill liii nipfiCw's etiietpuiend revenuei
one after another=Pretendlop, that - he otify meant
to take care of them, lest Robeit,-sehom he accused
of being a wild lad, should squarider them in dis
sipation Robert bore this for awhile, and tried .
hard
, to keep on peaceable terms with his Uncle;
but the otd man was very provoeing. He worth'
sit in the tefectory of the splended Abbey, at a din
ner table loaded with ever, War" in Me , Way of ,
food, served on massive gold' and silv - er.plate,nnd
with ha!l.a dozen bottles of good old wine before
him, and then redline poor Robert upon, temper
ance, self-denial, and sober, godly gait
en would smile grimly, and plat with the hilt of
his dagger in a way that the old abbot did not like.
• When the, Earl of Huntingdon came - asp, there
*as not a handsomer or more gallant young man
=long, the nobl e lny and yeomanry of England. He
Was tall, straighi and atheletiC, with a gni& botine
ing step, and a brave, broad breast. He had a'
commanding but pleasant voice, a hearty smile,
clear honest eyes, ruddy cheeks antrlips, and hid
:head, which be field' rather hkugbtily, was crown,
ed with clustering - light brown curls. Though be;
belonged to a proud, alistocratic family, who, irk
tracing-their pedigree, could go back, back, till, for.
aught I knots, they lost themselves and their red
rulings in the lime of the gist morning after the del
uge—Robert was not anaristocrat. He synipathis
ed with them:minion people, in that day shamefully
imposed upon—taxed and tyranized over by the
bold barons ad& her&theano& priests. He joined
in all the merry-matins, their mattlr and warlike
exercises, He became so skillful! With hie bow
that it is said he frequently sent an arrow the die.
ranee of a mile. Erom among his friends he select.
ed lour comrades', who *ere alWays true In him—
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John Naitor, whom he nick-named " Lille John,"
George-a-Green, Black, a Miller's eon and a jolly"
friar called Tdck—the ortiir priest Robert Could
abide.
fine day, a detail sprig of the nobility, one tir
Roger, of Doncister, saw him mingling with the
honest yeomen in their sports, and fingered it his
vulgar tastes.. Robert replied by challenging him
to a shooting match. Sir Roger's erre* Missed
the target altogether, and stuck last in the trunk of
a tree farther on. Robert took aim at thisshalt and
Split it cleats. up io the middle. Then all the yeo
men shouted and laughed ; and Sir Roger was-110
enraged diet he was frioliih enough to accept a
second challenge to a *reading match, Earl` Rob
erpthrew him so often that he never felt fairly on
his legs, bet seemed always to beb'amping against
the ground. At last his senses were (lithe bump
ed out of him, and he lay stiff and still. Earl Rob
ert revived him anditelped him up--tint he was
mortified and sullen, and ever after had a mean,
bitter Spite against his brave conqirator.
I t was not long alter Robeit became of age before
he was quite cattvinced that it was vain to hope to
get his property outer his reverend relative. There
Was no use in his appealing to .the. king. Henry
11. was now dead, and Richard 1., called the Lion
hearted," had ascended-the throne. Rut iniphott
time he lett the government in the care of 1-lugh
Purisey, bishop of Durham, while he went on a
crusade to the Holy Land to tight the Saracens ; and
no sooner was his royal bark turned than the
treacherous bishop usurped all the power and dig•
nity of a monarch, and rated and tyrai4ed to hie
bad heart's content.
So, getting desperate, Earl Robert Called tined'.
er the bravest ofthis friends, threw up his title, as
same(' the name of Robin Hood, and took 10 the
forest, where he led front that time a daring and
dangerous but independent life I know it is quite
too late to think otinaking my hero out a good,
honest man, though Mr Abbott has done wonders
in that way for Bonaparte—tor long, long ago it got
noised about that Rohin Hood uas a robber and
outlaw. But in those old dam when kings rob
bed, and barons robbed and priests robbed worse
than all, the thieving business was a god deal
more respectable than it now is, and the only dill
erence between Robin Hood and the others was,
that he took only from the rich arid powerful, while
they lobbed the poor and defenceless.
he brave outlaw was joined by the beat arch
era in the country, to the number of a hundred stout
Men and bold. These men he clad all in Lincolr.
gtien, b dress which made it hard to distinguish
them, at a little distance how the forest foliage
amid which tilt*. linked. When any one of these
matt was killed, dt look the attange notion to return
io his friends and turn honest man again, Robin
Hood would set on a recanting expedition. When- -
ever he heard bf a yobttg man of uncotntnon
Strength and hardihood, he would go disguised, and
try him In wrestling or athhery—then, if satisfied,
persuade the yeoman to enlit. this Was most
of en easily done—fur those Were hard times for
the people, and robin Hood had a flattering tongue.
So he kept himself in his hundred =heti, and with
them haunted the merry greetiwtiod=Earnedtile In
torkshire, Plompton Faik, in . Cumberland, and
Sherwood in Nottie. Fast, bt through
those forests ran the highways, whereon
traders, nobles and priests were obliged to travel.
Hui after Robin !food became sovereign of these
forests, few journeys Cbuld be safely made in their
vicinity, Sometimes, jail *llea traigifers began to
breath freely, and speak above a whisper, thinking
themselves out of danger Robin was down upon
them, and they viers obliged to battle down with
their money, or Steed ai targets for his archers.—
knowing that it wag no t good lot Wily then tb be'
cumbered with tab much worldly wealth, be al
ways made free with the purse of rich priests.—
Thd AIM of fit. Mary's who cm&ri v ent
lured to pass through Sherwood with a rich gore of
gold and silver, guarded by two hundred men fell
inter his hands. &ter helping himielf to the old
miser's ; money, which was rightly his ov:n, he set
his lord t thip on his horse with his face toward the
fail, and So sent him oft toward York, fretting and
fuming, and some of Robini men said, swearing
—but.that could hardly have been. The money so
wrested from the rich monks arid airogint Garotte,
Robin Hood constandY shared crith the loon and
so tilled many a sad borne With mirth and comfort,
and made glad and grateful the heaths of theiidow
and the fatherless. Ile was always tender and
kind to women do f hhittreli. flotrtii ties With
realities and treasdres could pass Sin safety through
his forests. dine time, a dandy young nobleman,
meaning to take advantage of the generous out:
law's gallantry, Undertook to pass through Sher
wood, (eading a traeiriln the diselise Of a tacit ;bat
at the first eight of a band of archers, he show . eS
himself so Mich dude Of of ncriliard thin a aorthiri,
that Little John ittairected birth, tore oithis_hedWid
hood, and velvet mutate, end made him pay nearly
for the Mort Netted phi Orion fOonisithonif.
by the de:land' and one adventeree related of
Robin Rood, 1 hare only room is thiegfictit history
for two ; the first ahriwing how he made a friend—
the second,. he* be *on a wife.
tine morbing, neat Rhelltooir forest, Robin tiood
met a young man walking slowly,' drooping his
bead afddighibg deeply; snit he thotight to him:
self, &tbie poor fellow must be rbelanchoft, mad,
or in love--;in either Cade he is to be pitied." So
he ltitt - dfy qbeskotred tht yotithitAho pitved'te i be
yeoman by the *albs of *ill Scarlocie. tie trott
ed Robill hood front the first, and told him he eras
grieving because a Oair aolibfii love d ;
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slur Who hided' hibri, Watt - that day to be 'deified by
her friends to a rich, old man whom bedelested.--
Robin:Hood Minim' the time and plate td' the
wedding; then Melling *ill to *riff' good heart,
'bounded off into ipeloieet..
About noon thOcit,was a goat ringing of bens -at
he cittnch-then ca;ne t hp_ vie4ding Parry and4bed
fiends.
.Tba.ttfidogrooni loOted very prou'd pod
• nitrous in biegnid-laced, velvet doublet and white
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silk hose; but be was wheezy sad harder hearing,
sod so gouty that he had a little page to lift his feet,
first one, then the other, up the altar steps. The
bride wept and looked wistfully around for her lov.
er, who was hid behind a pillar, waiting for Robin
Hood. The tete:tinny began, and Will was get.
ting desperdto When ti till man M the them of a
beggar,
.standing near the altar, drew a sifter hom
hom beneath his mantle and blew a startling blast.
Instantly, fifty men in Lincoln green burst into the
church and dispersed the bridal party--all but the
now happy bride and the frightened priest, whom
Robin Hood commanded to thirty the faithful pair
at once. It wai done, and ever after, Will 'Scar•
locks was the fast friend of Robin Huod
One day in pursuing a deer, Robin Hood wasted
into the park of the Earl of Fitzwater. There, be
suddenly heard voices aud.trampling of horses, and
soon saw a mail clad knight, followed by all men
at•arms, and leading bt the bridle a paltry, on
which eat a lovely lady, weeping and wringing
her Minds. This maiden robin Hood recognized
at once as the young-Lady Matilda, nrily daughtei
of the Etri of Fitzwater. Thetigh quitti iilone, he
did not hesitate, but sprang forward before the par
ty, crying—" Hold, then false knight I 1 conamand
thee to let that noble lady go freer'
" Stand oil, thou unmannerly churl, or I will
cleave thy skull with thy broadsword—know thou
that I am John, thy prince !"
" And know thou," replied the outlaw, " that I
am Robin Hoed, king of Sherwood Forest."
At these words all siX of the men-at-tirrna pin
spurs to their horses and fled and the prince was
glad to follow, scowling and cursing as be Went.—
Then Lady Matilda, who seems to have been
rather of a romantic young woman, tainted, and
fell into Robin Hood's arms, And he, not know
ing exactly what to do for a lady in such a CaSe,
carried her to a brook, and was about to dip her
head in the water, then she suddenly came to
herself. She then related to her preierier hoW that
bad prince,whom she bad hated with all her might,
bad long been urging her to go with him to bis
wicked men ; and how that afternoon, While she
was walking in the park, he bad surprised and car
ned her off. She told this story, reclining on
mos
sy bank, with Robin Hood silting at her feet, look
ing up into her face. At fait the tWiligfit shatlow•s
began to fall, then he sighed, and said—" It is get.
ting late late, my lady, shall f conduct you home'!"
But the Lady Matilda bent toward him, blushing
and speaking very softly, and said, " you have sav
ed me from shame and sorrow, henceforth f betong
to you."
Robin Hood started up gladly, then Rank back
sadder than before, and said, " No, lady, no ; you
have been too delicately reared for an outlaw's
wife."
He then told her that thought she might not dis
like forest life in the summertime, yet when the fall
rains and winter hosts came, she would find ill ;
cave in which he lived dark and chill, and woul
sigh for her father's castle balls.
But Lady Matilda was strong and healthful and
had little fears for colds and rhumatism ; she thought
Robin Hood excessively handsome, and fancied
That he would be the best protector against that
Ciaiighty prince she could have; so she ',inked in.
to his face with her beautiful blue, beseeching:eyes
till he echild resist her no longer, but lilting her on
her palfrey, and walked by her side toward Sher
wood forest, talking to her, holding her hand, and
loving her Better and better every step. They
Were Married at the tamp by jolly friar Tuck,
and had a merry weding-feast. The next day Ro
bin Hood and his wife, who hall taken the name of
Marian, sent a Messenger to the Earl of Fitzwater,
telling hirti how they were married, and asking
him it he had any objections. life aerie word back
that he disowned his daughter, and 'swift Would
forgive her; and made some rather unhandsome
remarks upon the character of his son-in law which
roused Mariated spirit. But the old Earl missed
his only child and was so lonely In his grand cas
tle, that at last it seemed whim he moat see her;
or be should die. So he disguised himself as a
mendicant minstrel, and went to Robin flood's
Camp. he was kindly received, and feasted with
good game, and ateetlent Wide. After dinner, Ho
b:n Hood fling himself down on a bank 'of wild
iiolets for a nap, and,Marian began scattering dai
ties over MM. The Earl watched them in their
bappitiesi end thought of his own loneliness till
be could stand it no longer, but bowed hie lead
in his bands and burst into tears. Marian itneik
that soh—she had heard it once before, when her
'mother died. She dropped her flowers, rah to her
father, flung her arms around his neck, and wept
with him. Robin Hood sprang op and joined them,
and all was Made tip arriong the three. Earl Pitz•
water lwatfie mite fond of Iris thotigh
he often warned him that he would Conic to the
gallows if lie did not mend hiri way.. But Robin
Hood never changed for better or worse. He eson.
tint:red' to tat e front die fief; and ere to die piper;
his dicks arid welt adientares in disguise:
to fight the troops of the king and ite sheriff of Not
tingham ; to hate, area writ on alt Weals fb the last.
lie lived to he an old man, loved by the !Vitt*, fiat.
ett by, the rich.
At keg& he red di of a fingering (ever, and tin
luckily, went - forhelp to his aunt—Elizabeth de
Slayntun, P'rierees cirfc Meats nunnery in Yorksh
a wortlikeilielied great 4111 in medicine. late old
IFamy, Sir Over ed . beefeater, bearing adds.
wentio her, acrd 'telling her eke', Nairn her power
a great enemy to the Church, urged her on to a dark
a cruel deed. The
, Priltrete went alone to Robin
- Wird, au he lay toseilfg_andgaspingleithlbe Wet,
and prennidieg greai in pima,. mu d emirsti • e mu bleed
him. He stretched out hicarni and she-opened a
i.lttge vein: - Weird elpouted•out fiercely at oral
and iaif for it longtime fall' and 100'
' ' l4 ltfren't you liken - enough!" 41(ed 'Ridge
Ifixel, agile and again, his voice growing wiejter
and weder.- 'But die stern old woman always an
sneered.;' No." then bi'sankitailk on hie pillow
•and fa'ir'ed Silt rricrear flood and looked on him
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witha CMd, stony face—and still he bled, outdate,
couch on. w hiCli be lair was all afloat with his
blood. At last his white lips Moved and he mur-
Mined one *cud that touched the cruel heart of the
Prioress. It was the name of Elia mother—her own.
-sister ! She sprang forward to bind np the arm
and stop the bleeding—but too late ! Robin Hood
eras dead!
A Landlord and his crowd Sold.
Christopher Scriggins, the hero of our story, is a
genuine full blooded Yankee, and no mistake, and
lri famous for his " Yankee Tricks."
As Chris , as he is generally called ; was on a
" tout" a few miles north of the city, lie chanced
to spy a country tavern, and as the dark mantles
of evening were being iraWn about the eat th, r an
idea popped into his head, suggesting the practi-
Wily of seeing a resting place for the night. With•
out giving the subject a second thought, our hero
found himself, (or rather was found,) at the bar of
the afdresaid tavern, ordering the various luxuries
generally found at like places, and otter coolly de
vouring, a pretty considerable share of the same,
concluded that he. would abscond to the second
story dud turn in for the night.
Alter having absconded, the " Landlord and his
crowd" were very busy discussing the various to- :
pica of the day, and alter a while, (accidentally of
course,)' the subject of " Yankees" and " Yankee 1
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trick," was brought up, and all parties entered tti_.- 1
to the dismission with uncommon eagerness. - 1
After deciding the very imtiortatit question, all ,
hands were salisaed that the landlord was right in 1
his conjectures, and as a natural consequence, all 1
" tuk a smile"._at his expense, after which the land•
lord informed them thit there iititi a ",genuine
lanliee" in the hodse, and 'if poisible he would
have a trick out of him before he left.
Accordingly, next morning the landloilinticom
pany were ready is snap at the Yankee as soon as
he should make his appearance. Aher partaking
of a hasty plate of soon" etc, Christopher, with
ati air p'eciilidr to his countrymen, strolled into the
baf-rdoei, and was about to pay his bill and depart
Whin the landlord, slapping him on the shoulder,
thus addressed him :
"If I should judge from appearance, t shoed
say you Were a Yankee ; could or *cola you oblige
us with a trick of two ?"
84 !lave dun such things, afore, but dlinno as
tut] now, tho'."
" Oh, do, Jo," eiclaimed ttie anxious crowd,
" come give us a trick, and we witl .settle your bill
for you."
Thiel ddgb s pbser. Yankee 'consented to try his
hand'. , .
" Landlord," says he, " 'spose you have some
darn good liquor in these parts?"
" Yes," says the landlord," got twocasks of the
best wine that the country ever beheld, in my cel
lar."
" Yon don't say so ? Wall, come along all you
that wants to see the miracle performed," and duwn
they all went into the cellar, and the cask was
pointed out.
" Now," saj4 Christopher, taking a good sized
gimlet out of his vest pocket. " I kin draw water
out of one end ot the barrel and 'lam* out of the
other."
" Do it," exclaimed the crowd, " add you can
take our beads for !Cot balls."
Thereupon Yankee proceeded to bore a hole in
one end of the pipe, and requested the landlord to
cover it with his thumb, He did so, soon a hole
was bored in the other end. Christophbr kept on
a " phiz" much resembling that of an old deacon,
during the operation, and requested the landlord to
reach over the top of the other hole, while, as hs
expressed it, he coati] find, something to put the
darned stuff into.
Of course the landlord complied with the request,
While OA Yankee eloped.
TM landlord's back begur r to ache—soon his re-
Strdthed patience began to break forth in curses on
the whole Yankee nation, and as the joke got
around, the wills of the old cellar rang with a
deeming rodr. At last, by a promise to " Wet the
whistle," Of the company, and cancel Yankee's
bill, he Wan released fronl his back•achrng posi
tion, and has never ante Wished re see " a trick or
to" perforthed 6'y Yankee. Doodle.
Lev THAT THOME ALONC—An old lady who re.
sides in Sandtitk tetra taken ill a few da}e since,
ilifd to all appearance died. She had been living
alone for some time, and it was thought she had a
Rood deal of money stowed away in secret corner,
as she had always been well to Jo in the world.—
The neighbors attended het dUring her illness, and
when she hitt c:tiiiitui to bieitheonade preparitices
to perform the last office to the dead. The body
was measured for the coffin by the mulertakErr„ who'
went a6out his wore. The Corpse weer washed, and
made ready for th e burial ; yet, the ladies, in per
forming these duties; noticed that the body was un
usually theber, U l na did not exhibit the rigidity of
corpses in general, iftei
e heing deed for only hall
in hair. For IVO pit : Pose of obtaining some clean
linen, which Was 16'6e foikeil ap in a large
trunk in the corner of the robin', one of the worried
got the key and went to' open it. no instant the,
lid of the yink was heard to grits on its hkges,
op popped the olifviom'an in bed, like the " rate
oald Irish gintleman" of the song, and aereeehed
" Let that blink alone." The lid of the trunk
was dropped Plea fiot polaio, and with a univee
sal cry of surprise, the neighbors, gazed upon the
" living corpse" before them. The nervous twiteh'-
ing of the lips, ahr! thb angry gashes - from the liiee
grey eyes, Was sufficient' evidenie that their ser
vices were needed no longer, and with merriment
depleted apou their countenances they fell. The
undertaker watt reit:l:Mindy compelled to give up
CO job, and the !uteri] was due dy!—
.Thepici woman is -alive and
,well, and declares
:that obi was in a- trance ; but it is the general opirt.
ion of the neighbors that the was only playing
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Some filteenyeara.ago,a geniis:lmam of color re
siding StoninglOn, Ct , culled in farrithar phrase
Old Cully honghead. He was a noted preacher in
hie day, and could poiind the extempOre pipit in
country a.;hoolhouse, and roar lorth with great fox:-
lion his e4honations to his poor deluded hecrevs ;
to " torsaka by and
: forbidden ways, afore they tr,dl
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ewep swill away like chaff afore de wind, and
come down sod•dint into the bottdmless pit " Cull
bad been in 'it suite ‘4ridoheot.l two or throe yeah,
when he became acquainted with a but= and
spiky damsel who watt a:Aid/testi° in one of the
first families in the town. A match was soon bar.
gained for by-the 'worthy Couple, and Dr. P—, iu
whose house the damsel was employed, proposed
to makee:grand party, invite a house full of corn
pany, and t put the wedding ill ron.gh' in good at) le.
The Iles. Mr, Lorighead and his intended were of
course pleased with the arrangement which was
to give so much eclat to their nuptials. Esquire
Trumbull, justice 011ie peace, was to tie
thd latal kricit, and as he had a spice of
,waggery in
his composition, he determined to make the cere•
mony as imposing as possible.
The company consisted of all the trieinlS and le
'aborts of the !amity in the borough, and when the
couple stood up to receive their senterite, Jar. T
who is gifted with an ene.ittal command of !en
guage, commended a long harangue to the parties
upon the nature ul the contract upon which they
were about to enter. The company preserved their
gravity indalereutly Wefl for about half ati hour,
but the dusky coupre began ta wax restive. They
were dressed up within an inch IA their lives, and
it.e.3v;eal pot , :!ed horn their !aces in It/Irmo, dor
ing the unusual
- fond eordium.
At leughiti Cully's impatience 'Mast Wilt and
overwhelmed the gravity of the audience, es he
reared out, " Massa Trumbull, it 'pears to me you
have nose to much preangulation ! De company
can't wait all night for de wine slid gnbd things
neidcrl l
Tee ceremony was qnickly finished after this
otitburst—altd tradition that more champagne
was uncorked on that oceasinn, than at any wed•
ding in the town before or since.
THE Emst FEELING OF ‘VIN:ER .delight
ful the first feeling of winter etnnes on the mind ! ;
What a throng •of tranquilizing and affectionate '
thoughts accompany its first bright fires, and the '
sound, out of doors, of its first Chilling winds. Oh,
when the leaves a r e dri'veri in troops through the
streets, at nightfall, and the figures of the passers
by hurry on, cloaked and stooping with thireofd, is
there a pleasanter feeling in the world than to enter
the closed and carpeted room, with its shaded
lamps, and its genial warmth, and 116 cheerful laces
about the evening table ! I hope the' I speak your
own sentiment, dear reader, when I prefer to every
place and time, in the Whole calaudar of pleasure,
a winter evening at home—the "tweet, sweet
home" of childhood, with its unreserved love arid,
his unchanged and emmea•mred endearments. IN;e l
need not love gaily the - less. The light, and music,
of the dance will always br9ed a floating delight in
the brain that has not grown dull to life's fitter in•
fluenees: yet the pleasure of home, though serener
are deeper, and I am sure that the wood may be
searched over in vain for a sense of joy so even
and on mingled. It is a beautiful trail of Providence
that the balance is kept so truly Gomm, our
many And diflerent blessings. It were a melan
choly thing to see tl a summer depart with its su
perb beauty, if the heart did not freshen as it Mtn
ed in from its decay to IsO'cid upon its own fives
ures. The affections wander under the enticement
of all the outward loveliness of nature, and it is
necessary to en vrind the spell,- Mai :lien rich kind
netts may not become scattered an' visionary. I
have a passion for these simple theories, which I
tract will be forgiven.. I indulge in them as people
pun. They are too shadowy for the logic, it belittle
—like the wings of the glut/clover, iu 'Keharna,
gauzelike and filmy, but flyTng high withal. You
may not grow learned, but you surely will drew
poetical upon them. t would as lief be prai3ed by
a blockhead as be asked the reaeori.
CUT IllmTeicua.—While a number of law) era
and gentlemen Were dining at IViscasset a Jew
years since, a jully son of the Emerald Isle appear.
ed and called for dinner. The landlord told him
fie Should dine when the genifemen were done.
"Let him arnodg us," Whispered a !MTh of the
law, " anl we will have sortie fun wi:li inm."
The frii-hriiiin lock a seat at the lathe.
i
" You ,were riot born in ibis country, - my , friend ?"
daiit one., , . •
" No sir ; IWas born iii irefam.f."
" le ynnr biller Irving ? '
"No air,h'e is dead."
. " Vi s h is youi occupation 7"
" A h o se jockey'', sir."
. ..
" %4al Was your lather's occupation 1 •'
" Tra4ng hordes." .
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" Did our 140 Om' i.'tea't any one while here?'
" i su pose hi did cheat many, bit."
" ‘Vhe e ddy6suppese he went to ?.'
1 ' Co eaven, sir."
" kits e . cheated any „one there r
~t ie has cheated one, I believe, sir,"
1
4 Why did they . tiot irosecute him !'
"13eca se they searched the 'whole kingdom of
Heaven; aittlCOuldn't fi'dd a lawyer."
Kricut
Stilly. T 1
the Roos
" Ma l ;
" I mil
a callia' o,
" Who'
ties I '
" Ah !I
coed the
B^oihins 1
ian War,"
i •
! leave me
,my dear. I hears my country's voice
me!"
an' you'd give up all the cold wit-
these you tot chef my fielin's. No, se
ht it: best : guess I'Vont go. The
barhartsr. '
=',MEII!I;IE9
CMS
CONFAB.—" a policeman's i!lo,
ere aim no glory in ii, I ahall be oil to
jw...rN, iw .
IME
You wash to be happy It Then keep ou
good terms with evgrybody, and never allow Old
Nick to geta fonliold with you for his malice and
envy. Whenever y ou feel your anger ris.nt.,
whistle Yahkets boodle, :ur sing Days of Ab
sence, arid think lor a moment what a poor
transient creature man is, " not knowing whence
he comes and whether be go.eth," and instead ut
a desite to apple any one, 4 you will feel your heart
pvetflow with acurrent of sympathy fur all livtv
Creatures. fie - elt to build up, rather than I.i feat
down to heal, rather than to larcerate ;to pour
oil upon the troubled waters, rather than. add fuel
to the flame .of mankind's burning passions , and
tO go about doing good, rather than to be an Ish
mael, with your hand raised against every one, i:i
the irnagiiiition than every one's hand is tidied
against you. 'This might be a happy world, it the
" battle of hie" were fought - won more Clui-'han
principles and the golden rule of " 4tug as yua
would be done by," were more generally
Let us try to improve by it. •
Cl/ARM:TER misstep may denim)/ hie. ' , One
am may ruin your. catiaracter. Did.,you ever rertec:
on - the consequence of a single indulgence in vice /
The best then have fatten thiough the suggest:tic 61
another flow careful you should be /it rLu
free/Linens of your days, test ,rr blight Ii i on yca
ever. If invited fo places of resort, where ft 13 u.th
cult to decide, take the sole cooise, s'a•l away
save your :ell:I/a/ion.
Tate is Yjewel u; value too pit'o.cous
to be pat in leopattly.. No man never regrets that
he kept afoot hom temptation, and to the close et
file he expresses Ins joy that he was raved t:ont
the path of shame, by giving a 412'C:tied tie;ial,Ve,
when the voice of pleasure beckoned tom on lid
decided and you are safe. Yield and you may
lost. IVatch with c!digence, and guard every a%
Rue through whiLlt sin may Lea you. 1:e us,
other way will you be able to ovetcotne the evil
lie wyld.
T 1111: POWER. OF A 111.711.111CANL PlUreSCOor
in a lecitife delivered epcn
Kuox courtly : lUinone, says:
"The trunk of one of 'he trees blown down was
about dire: ft:Li in diameter. Assuming, however,
, its diameter to be but two and a halt feet, a force
; of 157,000 pounds would be required to break it --
4 the surface of the tree expanded to the action of
tl.e wind has about one thousand feet, which would
I give a pressure the wind of one hundred /tot
Potty-seven po ids per square, which' is nearly one
fourth the in it ai velocity cd a cannon-ball. Allow •
ing the heig t of the hurricane, or whirlwind, to
! hare been sixty feet, the «hole force exerted at
one time along its track was five thousand pound )
—a working power equal to more than' tfalf the
steam power of the globe."
V /10 is A COWARD —The man who attacks
another by surprise or v:ith a weapon in his haild
'when the other has none, is a coward.
The man who carries a deadly weapon about b.s
person in his intercourse an unarmed society,
is a coward.;
The man who associates with hiM, tti!,l so goes
with numbers to overpower and individual or a
sunder or feebler number—he is a coward.
The man, who, being challenged to a dual is so
much afraid of public sentiment that he dares no:
refuse it, is a coward
In general that man is a coward who shapes hia
course of rittion by his fears; and he alone is a man
OT real courage, who always dares to Jo right.
A
TUVO ' II freshly imported Padander
who had engaged him:relies a waiter at one of the
hotels, was ordered b • cue of the guests to bring
him a napkin. Nowt was on article that I'at
novel heard of in his life, nd to save his soul frorn
purgatory he could not tell . what the gentleman
meant. his Irish blocd forbade him displaying
Gie ignorar.ce, so' be went on as if to comply
with the order. Presently a thought struck him,
and he returned to the gentleman saying--" Faix,
andwift ye be pined to take something else—
flie napkins be all ate up:"
(1;:r It is a glorious sight to see two old people,
who have weathered the sienna and basked f! . l the
sunshine of life together, go. band and hand, roving
and truthfully, together down the gentle iletilivt!y
of time with ir.) ringer nor jealousies nor hatred
generated up against each other, and looking with
hope and 'joy to the everlasting yoUth of Leuven,
where they to shaft he one for ever. That is true
marriage—for it is a marriage of spirit with spirit.
Their knits is woven into a woof of gold, that nei
ther time, nor death, nor eternity can sever.
To MASK FRIIiT Pies —No under-crust should bo
made to apple or any fruit pie. It is heavy and
not fft to eat. I'laca a narrow rim of paste around
the edge of the plate, and fill with hull,. either ra'w
or stewed, and cover it. The juices will be retain
ed much bo l ter, and will save a sight of flour and
butter, ulna' is no trifling consideration in these
days, and_ what is of more consequence, save dis•
pepsia, which costs mote. After cuttmg, they ate
taken out with a spoon
CQ-." Josh, I bay, I was going down street t uth
er day, and I seed a tree bark."
"Golly, Sam, I seed it hollow."
" And I seed the same one leave.''
Did it take its trunk with it?' •
" No, it Zeta that for board" ' -
Kr There is wzrertain kind of vice ihat sera:
parsons will shun if they we ever so bad ; that
ad.v ice
Why are country cheeke like w
printed conon ? Because thiy are r+ warrantea
wash aid keep the color."
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