ONE OOLIAS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE, TOW'AXDA : Satnrhrtn fllorninn, December 1, 1855. jlelcctfl* |)octrn. THE HARVEST HYMN. r„j(] of tlio rolling year! to Thee Our *ongs shall rise—whose bounty pour# In many a goodly gilt, with free \:i'l literal hand, our autumn stores ! \'u lirst 1 lugs of our stock we slay, Xo soaring clouds of incense rise, Put on thine hallowed shrine we lay OUT grateful hearts in sacrifice. p,,rne on thy breath the lap of Spring Was heaped with many a blooming flower : And Mulling summer joyed to bring The sunshine and the gentle shower; And Autumn's rich luxuriance, now, The ripening >eod, the bursting shell, The g Men sheaf and laden bough, Tin fullness of thy bounty tell. S<> menial throng, in princely doom, Here wait a titled lord's behest, But many a fair and peaceful home Ilath won thy peaceful dove a guest; Xo graves or palm our fields adorn. S' i tmrtle shades or orange bowers, But rustling mead- of golden corn, And fields of waving grain nre Ours. Safe '- tliv care the landscape o'er, our fl ks and herds securely stray ; Xo tvrant master claims our store— Xo ruthless robber rends away ; Xo tierce volcano's withering shower— No fell simoon with poisonous breath— Xo burning suns, with baleful power, Awake the fiery plagues of death. And here -hall rise our song to Thee, Where lengthened vales and pasture lie, And streams go singing wild and lree, Beneath a blue and smiling sky, Where ne'er was reared a mortal throne. Where rowned oppressors never trod, Here- .it the throne of Heaven alone, Shall man in reverence how to (ion. Ctmcatifliial. [For the Bradford Reporter.] !Y. B. This is not to be read by any to whom ths supposed cases do not apply - MR. EDITOR; There arc many difficulties and perplexities to which the faithful teacher is subjected, that are not generally known or fully appreciated by parents and guardians.— One of the most fruitful sources of troubles of this kind, is the permitting of scholars to stay away from school, a day, or a half day, when a difficult lesson is to be recited. All lessons require more or less close study, all arc impor tant ; hut. some require more labor than oth ers, and some are more important than others, and, in most cases, these difficult but more im portant lessons contiiiu the principles involved n the succeeding ones. Take now a child who ■iMikes to study hard and long, in order to '.aster the elements of a science, who hates the i.oiougli, searching drill of the faithful teach er, while upon first principles : and, when such lessons coine along he finds it convenient to stav homo, or visit some friend, or to run in the >'reet. To stay at home, perhaps, for a sick ness so slight, that it would not prevent att.cn uance at a hall, or party, or theatre, or circus, r a plat e where two shillings could be made, Wti if it were necessary to go through mud and rain to reach those places. A sickness, V>, -o ephemeral, and so accommodating in its nature, that it will disappear the very hoar the which produced it (that is the hard les ha* passed off. without leaving the patient J t all reduced in flesh, or in strength. I'er -1 haps tlie pupil will remain from school a whole Hav. to do something that could and would, tinier ethr whatever it may be. When the work ,|p - it lias become so late, that, at the sug - ot the child, the parent concludes thai 11 a "b as well stay at home the rest of the •or iiu:t day, as the ease may be. When •*""-Elected lesson has passed off. he obtains and starts to school, chuckling to ••a- I"JW he has outwitted his pareuts and the teacher. hat is the effect of this deceiving of [urtnt, A.,,1 , S • < iiu cheating of teacher, upon the who •if' TIN . 71 j•' n " e into the class to ,f,: 1 e Qfcxt lesson, iu which the principles - " trd one are iuvolved, he is wholly ' ' " n( '° rstanf i the subject under cou-j a,'.' n " r tlm simple reason, that, when 'f" the principles upon which the it*.- was uo * P rfeSen t. If the 4 J uri(> "I* 0 " him the absolute necessity ' U ''' s at every recitation, he 11 . and with great assurance, falls U tij ' exeu *® for yesterday's alweoee, l -*'hcr must übmit ; but ie this the THE BRADFORD REPORTER. end of the matter ? By no means ; he may be required to remain after school and recite ; with this he is dissatisfied, and determines to worry out the hard, unreasonable master, as he now thinks he is, and so to carry the cheat ing operation farther, he concludes that he will not study that particular lesson at all, seeing that he is required to stay and recite it, only to accommodate the master. In fact, he has no time to look over yesterday's lesson, for those of to-day presses much harder upon him than upon the others of his class. The first principles must therefore be wholly neglected, or the teacher must take time out of school hours to give the same instruction as was giv en to the class ; but with the additional labor consequent upou hearing a lesson that never has been studied. The scholar soon discovers that his class mates are getting ahead of him, and as the lessons grow more and more difficult to one who neglected the first, he soon stays away again because he does not understand his les sons. On his return again, he finds matters worse than before. He soon has a settled dis like to his teacher—thinks he is cross—unne cessarily exacting, unwilling to give him pro per assistance, and partial to the other mem bers of the class who get along so much better than he does ; and finally hates to go to that school. His parents, after talking the whole matter over with him, without hearing a word from the teacher, unless he obtruded himself upon them, conclude that it is of no use to drive the child to a school where he dislikes the mas ter ; and he is therefore kept at home, or sent to some other school, there to re-enact the same scenes, if the teacher is faithful, and leave for the street school, where hundreds of the youth of our village are receiving their only education. In this school he loses no lessons, he is pre sent at every recitation of vulgarity, obscenity, profanity and blasphemy ; he hears all. learns all, remembers all, practices all, and when he graduates, he goes forth to teach all. Now, where was the root of this evil ? Was the teacher to blame for requiring perfect lessons ? For insisting upon the importance of constant attendance at every recitation, when atten dance was possible, uot convenient, but POSSI BLE. I leave these questions for pareuts to answer. But, it will be said, are children never really sick while attending school ? Certainly they are, frequently, really sick, and when so, should be most carefully attended to, and their health should, at all times, be watched over by the parents with anxious solicitude, and all unne cessary exposures and irregularities in diet and hour- of sleep, should be sedulously guarded against ; but iu the ease of the scholar, we would have the parents investigate the cause and degree of the indisposition, as rigidly as they do iu cases where money or pleasure is to be the sacrifice for non-attendance. Parents occasionally, need their children to do some chores after school time ; but, the same care in the ra.->e of the scholar, as is ex ercised in other cases, would make those occa sions, " like angel's visits, few and far be tween." It may be asked again, how do pareuts know when the most difficult, or the most important lessons are to be recited ? They do uot know; hence the impropriety of allowing scholars to stay out of school a moment, if it can possibly be avoided. If they do not know which are the most important, they do know, or they ought to know, that all are of sufficient im portance to require the attention of their chil dren. If parents could be induced to go with their children to school, and to remain through the day and hear them attempt to recite after an absence of a day or two, and witness their trouble and perplexity in endeavoring to keep along with those who recite every lesson—if they would perform, for one or two days only, the extra labor that the teacher has to perform for their scholars, these annoying and discour aging absences would soon cease to trouble the teacher. X. TAT.T. BiuoorsG. —A sucker specimen, whose visit to the State Fair gave him liberty to stretch the truth slightly respecting what lie saw ou his travels, was detailing to u Hoosier the immense business done in packing beef iu the Garden City. Said he, "they kill a mil ion head a week, and the blood discolors the wa ter of the lake half a mile from shore." "That's nothing," replied the I lousier ; " at my uncle's down iu New Albany, they have a trip ham mer, driveu by a forty horse power steam en gine, just to knock the cattle down with ; and there is so much blood, that with it they drive a grist mill of six run of burrs, and never stop ou account of low water." LOVING SIMPLICITY —Upon the conclusion of a marriage in a village church, the bride groom signed the register with " his x mark." The pretty young bride did the same, and theu turning to a lady who had known her as the best scholar in school, whispered to her, while tears of honest love and admiration stood in her bright eyes : " Here's a dear fellow, Miss, but cannot write yet ; he's going to learn of me, and I would not ihamc him for the world." PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FRO* ANY QUARTER." HI istiHatttpus. The Husking Frolic. The barn was a vast rustic bower tliat night. One end was heaped with corn ready for busk ing ; the floor was neatly swept ; "and over head the rafters were concealed by heavy gar lands of white pine, goldeu maple leaves, and red oak branches, that swept from the roof downwards like a tent. Butternut leaves wreathed their clustering gold among the dark green hemlock, while sumach cones, with flame colored leaves, shot through the gorgeous for est branches. The rustic chandelier was in full blaze, while now and then a candle gleam ed out through the garlands, starring them to the roof. Still, the illumination was neither broad nor bold, but shed a delicious starlight through the barn, that left much to the im agination, aud concealed a thousand little signs of love-making that would huve been ven tured on more slilv had the light been more i broad. But the candles were aided by a host of sparkling eyes. The air was warm, and rich laughter and pleasant nonsense, bandied from group to group amid the rustling of cornhusks and the dash of golden ears, as they fell from the heap that swelled larger and larger with every passing minute. I nele Nathan's great arm-chair had been placed in the centre of the barn, just beneath the hoop of lights. There lie sat ruddy and smiling, the very impersonation of a ripe liar vest, with an iron lire shovel fastened in some mysterious manner across his seat, a large splint basket between his knees, working away with an energy that brought the perspiration like rain to his forehead. Up and down across the sharp edge of the shovel he drew the slen der corn, sending a shower of golden kernels into the basket with every pull of his arm,and stooping now and then with a well pleased smile to even down the corn us it rose higher in his basket. Our old friend Salina sat at a little distance, with her fiery tresses rolled in upright putt's over each temple, and her great horn comb towering therein like a battlement. A calico gown with very gay colors straggling over it, like honey suckles and buttercups on a hill side, adorned her lathy person, leaving a trim foot visible on a bundle of stalks just within range of Uncle Ned's eye. Not that iSalinu in tended it. or that Uncle Nat had any particu lar regard for neatly clad feet, but your strong minded woman has an instinct which is snre to pluce the few charms sparsely distributed to the class, in conspicuous relief on all occa sions. As Salina sat perched on the base of the corn-stalk, tearing away vigorously at the husks, she cast an admiring glance now aud then on the old man as his head rose aud fell to the motion of his hands, but that glance was quick ly withdrawn with a defiant toss of the head, for L nele Nat's eyes never once turned on the trim foot with its calf-skin shoe, much less on its owuer, who began to be a little exaspera ted, as maidens of her class will be wheu their best points are overlooked. " Humph !" muttered the maiden, looking down at her calico ; " one might as well have come with a linsev woolsev frock on for what any body cares." In order to relieve these exasperated feelings, Salina seized an car of com by the dead silk and rent away the en tire husk at once ; when lo ! a long, plump ear appeared, the very thing that half a do zen of the prettiest girls on the stalk-heap, had been searcliiug and wishing for all the even ing. The discovery was hailed with a shout. Thv possession of a red ear, according to the estab lished usage of all husking parties entitled every gentleman present to a kiss from the holder. The barn rang again with the clamor of voices and the shouts of merry laughter. There was a general crashing down of ears upon the corn heap. The roguish girls that had failed in finding the red ear, abandoned work and began dancing over the stalk heap, clappiug their hands like inad things, and sending shout after shout of merry laughter that went ring ing cheerily among the starlit evergeens over head. But the young men, after the first wild shout, remained unusually silent, looking sheepishly on each other with a shy unwillingness to com mence duty. No one seemed urgent to lie first, and this very awkwardness set the girls off like mad again. There sat Salina, amid the merry din, brand ishing the red ear in her hand, with a grim smile upon her mouth, prepared for a desperate defence. " W hat's the matter ? why don't von begin cried a pretty black eyed piece of mischief from the top of the stalk heap ; " why, before this time, I thought you would have beeu snatching kisses by handsful." " I'd like to see tlieiu try, that's all !" said j the strong minded female, sweeping a glance of scornful defiance over the young men. " Now Joseph Nash, are von goingto stand that ?" cried the pretty piece of mischief to a handsome young fellow that had haunted her neighborhood all the evening, " afraid to fight for a kiss, arc you V " No, not exactly," said Joseph, rolling back bis wristbands and settling himself in his clothes; " it's the after-clap, if I shouldn't happen to please," lie added in a whisper that brought his lips so close to the cheek of his fair tormen tor, that he absolutely gathered toll from its peachy bloom before starting on his pilgrimage, a toll that brought the glow still more richly to her face. The maiden, laughing till the tears sparkled in her eyes, pushed him towards Salina in re venge. But Salina lost no time in placing herself on the defensive. She started up, flung the bun dle of stalks on which she had been seated at the head of Iter assailant, kicked up a tornado of loose husks with her trim foot, and stood brandishing her red car furiously, as if it had been a dagger in the hand of Lady Macbeth, rather than inoffensive food for chicken;. " Keep your distance, Joe Nash ; keep clear of me, now I tell you ; I ain't afraid of the face of man ; so back out of this while you have a chance ; you can't kiss me, I tell you, without you are stronger than I be, and I know you are !" "1 shan't—shan't I?" answered Joe, who was reinforced by half a dozen langhing young sters, all eager for a frolic ; " well, I never did take a stump from a gal in my life, so here goes for that kiss." Joe bounded forward as he spoke, and made a snatch at Salina with his great hands ; but, with the quickness of a deer, she sprang aside, leaving her black silk apron in his grusp. An other plunge, aud down came the car of corn across his head, rolling a shower of red kernels among his thick brown hair. But Joe had secured his hold, and after an other dash, that broke her ear of corn in twain, fcsalina was left defenceless, with nothing but her two hands to fight with ; but she plied these with great vigor, leaving long crimson marks upon her assailant's checks with everv blow, till, in very self-defence, he was com pelled to lessen the distance between her face and his, thus receiving her assault upon bis shoulders. To this day it is doubtful if Joe Nash really did gather the fruits of his victory. If he did, no satisfactory report was made to the eager ring of listeners ; und Salina stalked away from him with an air of ineffable disdain, us if her defeat had been deprived of its just re ward. EASTERN SAGACITY. —The Saltan of TVadai (laudeh, pretending to fly, had marched round in the rear of the Forian army, and inter posed between them and their country. They believed, however, that he was utterly routed, and loudly expressed their joy. One vizier remained silent, and on being asked by his master why lie did not share in the general jov, replied that he did not believe in this easy victory, and offered to prove that the en emy's army was even then marching towards them. " How wilt thou do this said the sultan. " Bring me a she cainel," replied the vizier, " with a man that knows how to milk 1" The camel was brought and well washed, and the milk was drawn into a clean bowl, and placed, with a man to guard it, on the top of the sultan's tent. Next morning the vizier caused the bowl to be brought to him, ami found the milk quite black. So he went to the saltan and said : " Master, they are coming down upon us, and have marched all night. !" " How dost thou know that ?" " Look at this blackened milk !" " In what way has it become black ?" '• The dust raised by the feet of the horses has been carried by the wind !" Some laughed at this explanation, but others believed it, and looked out auxiously toward the west. In a short time the manes of the hostile cavalry were seen shaking in the east ern horizon Then followed the battle in which the Forian Sultan was slain. BtrJ" A gentleman travelling through the most suckerish portion of the sucker state, put np at a log cabin in the " timber," where no visitors of the kind have ever entered before. The old man of the cabin had a daughter, who thought she must' fix up' for the stranger,and look ' like folks.' Accordingly she sat down at the dinner tabic, arrayed in her best bib and tucker, and putting on her newest airs of gentility. Some corn dodgers were on the ta ble, and she was " walking into" these as a sucker girl only can. By-and-by, she cauie across a hair in one of the dodgers, and pulling it out between her two finders, exclaimed, " M other, here's a liar !" " Hush-sh girl, it's only corn silk." " V-e a-s ! I say, c-o-r-n silk to you, with a ml on it." To DIVEST CALVES OF VERMIN. —Tt often happens that calves become covered with ver min, causing them to lose flesh and look very dull. To clean the calf is a very disagreeable piece of work ; but if the following receipt is adhered to. they will become clean with a very little trouble. Give the calf a tablespoon fail of brimstone for three mornings in succession ; if one trial does not completely rid the calf, the second will never fail. 1 have tried it se veral times, and once has been enough in each instance. Let a bachelor get a scratch upon his face, and it is said he has been in an awful fight ; but when a married man appears with two black eyes, a swollen face, and a severe headache, il is only said that he hus fallen in to a little " love spat." AN EXCELLENT REASON.—A lady walking, a few days since, on one of the wharves in New- York, asked a sailor whom she met, why a ship was called "she ?" The son of Neptune replied that it was " because the rigging costs more than the hull!" The individual who tried to clear Lis his conscience with an egg, is now endeavoring to raisc'his spirits with yeast. If he fails in this, it is his deliberate intention to blow out Lis brains with a bellows, aud sink calmly iuto the anus of a young lady. A FEELING UF.l'l.Y. —Milton was asked liy a frtend. whether he would instruct his daugh ters in the different languages, to which he re plied : " No, sir, one tongue is sufficient for a wo man." The Bucks County Intelligencer calls Shanghais " travelingrorncribs." Very truth ful designation. )&r A printer down South offers to sell his whole establishment for a clean shirt and a meal of victuals. Ho says he has lived on promises till his whiskers have stopped grow ing. RECIPE FOR A MODERN BONNET. Two scraps of foundation, some fragments of la<-, A shower of French rose-buds to droop o'er the face, Fine ribbons and feathers, with crape and illusion, Then mix and derange them in graceful confusion ; Inveigle some fairy, out roaming for pleasure, And beg the slight favor of taking her measure, Ihe length and the breadth of her dear little pate, And hasten a miniature frame to create ; Thcu pour as above, a bright mixture upon it, Aud, lo ! you possess " situ A LOVE OK A BOSS A &TAY WHKRK YOU ARE. —In THE West we lmve met with persons possessed for a mania of clearing land. As long as their farms afford unlimited opportunities for chopping down huge trees and burning up huge logs, they work away with the ardor of passion ; but the moment they have made their farms tillable ami their houses iuhabitable, they take uo fur ther interest in them whatever, and are eager to sell out and pluuge deeper into the woods to ply ugain the axe and the brand. Thus the country is cleared rapidly : but the blood of the people is fevered, and the passion for change continues after the good done by it bus been accomplished. Then necessity for a rapid clearing of land has ceased. We have cleared faster than we have appropriated. The Eastern and Middle States present an expanse, almost unbroken, of half cultivated land,dotted with unattractive homes. A large number—probable a rnajori uy—of those who occupy those homes are, at least, willing, if they are not desirous, to sell their farms and try their fortunes in a newer region. They know that the burden of life is heavy to be borne where they are ; they hope it will be lighter somewhere else. They for get that the life of no honest man is easy. Tiiev omit from their calculations ail the un seen and spiritual advantages of a permanent residence. They overlook the fact that the real nut riment of a tree or a man flows in from the minute tendrils of the root, scarcely visi ble to the vjtt, which a removal rudely tears away. They have neglected to make their homes charming, by planting tiie ornamental shrub, the shading tree, the beautiful flower. They have not enlisted in their corps of co-ope rators the next to-omnipotent aid of Science nor bound themselves to the Ileitis they till by the interest of varied, intelligent Experiment. They do not know that new lands, though they give a large increase, yet draw large trib ute from the men who go to live upon then). The forest and the prairie do not yield without a struggle, nor without imparting some of their wildness to their conquerors. It is a game of (live and Take between civilized man and wild nature. The most of men over twenty-five years of age. who have good footing upon their native soil, we believe the advice is good. Stay where you are, and determine to stay as long as life lasts! Persevering toil, guided by thinking head and ennobled by a worthy purpose, Kill reduce the mortgage by degrees, and beautify the old home and fertilize the sterile field, and drain the too fertile marsh, aud convert stones into stone fence, and make the farm the pride of the township and the delight of its owner. Stay where you are, and try it ! There are those who should remove—the young, the strong, the uueapituled the one-too-many in a family, lint, if possible, such should remove but once, seeking not a stopping place, but a permanent home in which, and around which, ail is best in their natures may gather und centre. — Life Illustrated. FATTEN SWINE EARI.T. — Many farmers de ter fattening their swine till the winter season, so as to kill lliem the last of January or the first of February, and sometimes later. The reason given for this course is that the late season affords more leisure for threshing and grinding corn and grain, and more time for at tending to feeding. This is not, however, the economy, as a general thing. The temperature of all warm blooded ani mals is. at most times, higher than that of the surrounding atmosphere, and a constant con sumption of fat in the body is required to keep np this elevation of temperature. The amount of heat given off from the surface of tlie body depends upon the retentive coldness of the air.' In cold weather then, more heat producing ele ments, that is, more fat—is required to sustain the animal than in warm weather : so that the same amount of food there will be less stir- ' plus fat left to increase the bulk of the ani- J mal. To illustrate ; Suppose that in Septem ber aud October an animal eats 15 lbs of corn per day, but requires only 10 lbs per day to supply the loss of heat, there will then be left 5 lbs. of corn, or 33 per cent., to incriase the bulk of the animal. Hut in January and Feb ruary, owing to the increased coldness of the at mosphere, the animal will require at least one fifth more food—that is twelve lbs. of corn— to keep up the natural warmth of the body. This leaves but 3 lbs. out of 15, or 30 per cent., to increase the weight. On this account alone it is quite evident that early fattening is more profitable. The same reason suggests the importance of keeping fattening animals, especially, in warm pens or stalls us little exposed to cold as may be. A W EIGHTY Ann EVENT. -A Ye hear a good ileal about the war being necessary to preserve the balance of power, which is, no doubt, the case : but there is another balance—and a pretty powerful balance it is—which is likely to be destroyed rather than preserved by the existing state of things. There is not a State in Eurc which will not find its balance—if it happens to have any in its treasnry—seri ously jeopardized by the hostilities which have broken out.— Punch. KISSING. —One of the Deacons in Edward Dey's church asked him if he usually kissed the bride at weddings. " Always," was the reply. " And how do von manage when the happy pair are negroes ?" was the deacon's questiou. "In all such cases," replied Mr. Dey, " the uaty of kissing is appointed to the deacons." VOL. XV r.—-XO. 25. [Fruiu the " Widuw Be Jolt Paper 4," edited Nul.} Bedott. He was a wonderful hand to moralize, hus band was, 'specially after lie begun to ei-jpj poor health. He made an observation once, w lien lie was in otio of his poor turns, that I shall never forget the longest day I live. He says to me ono winter eveniu' as we was sittin' by the fire, I was kitten' (I was always a won derful great knitter) and he was asmokin' (he was a master hand to smoke, though the du> ; tor used to tell him he'd be better off to let tobaeker alone ; when lie was well he used to take his pipe and smoke a spell after he'd got the chores done up, and when he wasn't well used to smoke the biggest part o' the time.) W ell, he took his pipe out of his mouth and turned toward me, and I knowed soraethin' was coniin', for he had a partikelar way of lookin' round when lie was gwine to say any thing oncommon. Well, he says to me, sayi he, "Silly," (my name was Prissilly naterally, but he generally called me Siiiv, 'eartse 'twas handier, you know.) Well, he says to me', "says he, " Silly," and he looked pretty sollem, I tell you, lie had a sollem countenance naterally and after lie got to bo a deacon 'twas more so, but since he'd lost ltis health he looked sollem er than ever, and certainly you wouldent won der at it if vou knew how much ho underwent He was troubled with a wonderful pain in his chest, and awazin' weakness in the spine of his back, besides the pleurisy in his side, and hav in' the ager a considerable part of the time, and bein' broke of his rest o' nights 'cause ha was so put to't for breath when he laid down. Why it's an unaccountable fact that when the man died lie ha-leut ,-eeu a well dav in fif'eeti year, though when he was married and for live or six year after I shoiildent desire to see a rtiggeder man than what he was. lint the time I'm speaker of he'd been out o' health nigh upon ten year ; and, O dear sakes ! how he had altered since the firt time I ever see liiin ! That was to a quiUiu' to Squire Smith's, a spell afore Sally was married. I'd no idee then that Sid Smith was a gwinti to be married to Sam Pendergrass. She'd been keepin' company with Mose Hcwlitt fcr better n a year, and everybody said that was a set tled tiling, and lo and behold ! all of a sudden she up and took Sam Pendergrass. Well, that was the first time 1 ever see my husband, and if anyliody'd a told me then that, I should a said—but lawful sakes I I ino.-t forgot. I was gwine to tell you what he said to ine that eve nin', and when a body begins to tell a thing, I believe in fiuishin' on't >ome time or other. — Some folks have away of talkiu' round and round and round forever more and never corn in' to the pint. Now there's Miss Jinkins, sbo was Poll Bingham afore she was married, sho is the teejusest individooal to teil a story that ever I see in all my born days. But I was a gwine to tell you what my husband said. Ho said to me, says he, " Silly." pays I " What ?" 1 dident say "What, llczekicr !'' for I dident like his name. The first time I ever hoard it I near killed myself a laflin. " Ilezckier Be dott." says I, " well I would give up if I had sich a name," but then you know 1 had no more idee o' marryin' the feller, than yon have this luinnit o' marryin' the governor. 1 'uposo you think it's curus we named our oldest son llezekier. Well, we done it to please father and mother Bedott, it's father Bcdott's name, and he and mother Bedott used to think thai names had ought to go down from.gineration to gineration. But we always called him Ivier, you know. Speaking of Kiel*, he is a blessiu', ain't lie ? and 1 ain't the only one that thinks so. I guess. Now don't you tell nobody that I said so. but between you and me I rather guess that if Kezier Winkle thinks she isgwino to ketch Kicr Bedott she is a Icetle out of her reckouia'. But 1 v.vs going to tell what hus band said. lie sayv t <> me, says lie, "Silly," I says, says I, "What?" If I dident say " what," when he said " Silly," he'd a kept on saving " Silly," from time to eternity. lie always did. because, you know, he want ed me to pay partickeler attention, and I gine rallv did ; no woman was ever more attentive to her husband than what I was. Well, he says tome, says he," Silly." Says I "What?" though I'd no idee what he was gwine to say; dident know but what 'twas something about his sufiferins, though he wa'nt ant to complain, but he frequently used to remark that he would n't wish his worst enemy to suffer one minut as he did ail the time, but tlmt can't be called gruinbliu'—think it can ? Why, I've seeu him in sitivations when, you'd a thought no mortal eouhl a helped gruinbliu', but he dident. Ho and me went once in the de-ad of winter in n one boss slay out to Boonvillc to sec a sistcrof hisen. You know that the snow is amazin' deep in that section of the kentry. Well, the boss got stuck in one <>' thorn are flambengast ed snow banks, and there we sot, onablc to stir, and to cap all, while we was a sittin' there, husband was took with a dreadful crick in his hack. Now that was what 1 call a jre,tic/i --mcnt, don't you ? Most uieu would a svuire, but husband dident. He only said "consarn it."' llow did lie git out. did you ask ? Why lie might a been sittin' there to this day, as fur as 1 know, cf there hadent a happened to cum ilong a mess of men in a double tesin and they liysted us out. But 1 was gwine to tell you that observation of hiscu. Say? he to me, says he " Sillv," (1 could see by theligfet of the lire, there dident happen to he no candle hurnin' if I don't disrenicmher, though tnv meauory is some ruther finrgitful, but 1 know we wa'nt apt, to burn candles exeoptin' wheu we had compu ny) 1 could see by the liglit that his mind was onconunon solemnized. Says he to me, says lie, "Silly." I says to him, says I, " What?'' lie saws to me, says he, " We're all poor crit tersJT The reason why man uas made after everything else, was because, if he had been created first, he would have annoyed the Al mighty by enlesa suggestions of improvement. toS* - VIRTUE makes a ntan on earth famous, in his grave illustrious, and iu Hcavca iium r --tal.