OSE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ABVAN&
TOWANDA:
(Etinrs&ap morning, fit-comber 3, 1857.
Stltdei jpoetru.
SONG OF A. GUARDIAN SPIRIT.
OR '■ droop not thou, my gentle earthly love,
Mine still to be !
I bore through death, to brighter lands above,
My thoughts of thee !
Yes! the deep memory of our holy tears,
Our mingled prayer,
Our suffering love through long devoted years,
Went with me here!
It was not vain, the hallowed and the tried,
It was not vain.
Still, still, though viewless, hovering by thy side,
I watch again !
From our own paths, from Love's attesting bowers,
I am not gone ;
Iu the deep hush of midnight's whispering hours
Thou art alone !
Not lone when by our favorite streams thou weepest ;
The stream whose tone
Murmurs of the thoughts the holiest and the deepest,
IVe too have known !
Not lone when mournfully some strain awaking
Of things long past
From thy soft eyes the sudden tears are breaking,
Silent and fast!
Not lone when upwards in fond visions turning
Thy dreamy glance,
Thou seek'st my home where solemn stars are burning
In nights expanse.
My home is near thee, loved one, and around thee,
Where'er thou art ;
Though still the o'ershadowning veil hath bound thee,
Oh. trust my heart!
Hear my low voice, nor deem thyself forsaken,
I.et faith be given
To the still tones that oft our being awaken—
Thev are from Heaven !
HJisrtllantous.
Marl, Coal, &c—The Forethought of Ma
ture.
A long while ago, some laborers, in digging
a well near our Atlantic sea-coast, threw out
a sort of greenish sand, mixed with bits of sea
shells, which strangely puzzled them. The
next year the owner of the farm was surprised
to find that wherever his green dirt had been
washed by the raius, the vegetation was unu
sually rich. Such was the first discovery of
marl, a fertilizer which has already regenerat
ed whole counties of New Jersey, and which
when it comes into more extensive use, will
make thousands of exhausted fields in the East
to rival the rich bottom lands of the West.
Not less accidental was the discovery of
roal. Just when our great cities began to ex
perience a scarcity of wood for fires, just w hen
the astonishing national advantages of this
century commenced demanding an exhaustless
supply of fuel for manufacturers, chance re
vealed. high up among the stony aud barren
mountains of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Vir
ginia, anthracite and bituminous coal. At
the present day, millions of acres which other
wise wouid be unproductive, yield up their fos
sil wood to warm our parlors, cook our din
tiers. drive our steamboats, propel our locomo
tives aud turn our cotton mills.
We owe both marl and coal to the provi
dent forethought of nature countless years ago.
For mar! is but the decayed remains of marine
animals, and derives its fertilizing properties
chiefly from the lime, which forms a principal
ingredient of shells. Far back in some remote
geological era, untold centuries before man
iiad been created, the waves of a shallow sea
washed the localities where we now dig up
our marl, depositing there, precisely as the
fx'ean does in similar places now, the shells
and dead bodies of tiny marine animals. Year
by year, generation by generation, age by age,
I these deposits went on. At last, some change
I in the shore, such as the opening or shutting
I of an inlet, the closing up of a river, or the
I sudden denudation of a bank, stopped the ac-
I cumulation ; the deposit ceased ; sand oroth
-1 cr soil began to cover thera ; in time they dis
■ appeared from sight ; trees began to grow
I among them ; new and strange animals roved
I through these woods ; men Finally came upon
I the scene. But thousands of years passed,
■ and the red Indian had loug given way to the
I fhite Araericau before these marine deposits
I *ere brought to light and used to fertilize our
I fields as marl. Nature was patient and could
I j va 't. She could foresee and was content. —
I before man was created she laid up in her
I under ground the manure with
I which he was to raise his bread when a dense
I population and exhausted soil should make
I corn difficult to get.
I And so with coal. Iu another remote geo-
I '>gical epoch, also before man trod the earth,
I Va t pine trees covered the globe, growing
I rankly everywhere as reeds in a jungle. Age
I b. T age they germinated, shot upwards, shed
I b'Cir coues, lived out their centuries, died and
I • Age by age others grew in their places,
I M in turn perished and fell, till they lay pil-
I H one above another, like grass which the
I Oower has cut. Then came a different geo-
I agical epoch. The pine forests became swamps
I ne swamps bogs, the bogs were succeeded by
I s "'i earth ; and all this while, nature, in her
I Secret alembic under ground, was converting
I trees into coal. The mighty
I hY; Uif>roUS era - w hich we have described,
I r ,a i ' ts c ''' e f purpose the providing fuel for
I r' " lztman - Millions of years before a hu-
I Cf t n lived upon this globe, nature, aware
I JL °®ly of his coining but of his future needs,
I We ready tor his wants.
I list follow out thiß thought and fnr-
I now °,^ ier ''lustrations. We might show how,
I rail . our > ce d ar forests are becoming scarce,
I tree, s^in S' es are made from primeval
I Droßt'r 001 swam P s where the tempests
[ mii Ait j tl?eru thousands of years aigo. We
I "fiPce v/ moDstJ " ate nature, long ages
egao to manufacture diatnoDds, iron
HIE BRADFORD REPORTER.
ore, gold, a thousand things expressly for man,
and is manufacturing them still. But we have
enough. Great and benificent art thou, oh
nature.— Baltimore Sun.
The Influence of Science on Business Men
The great mass of the business people of
the world in such an active, bustling ftgg as
our own, when the acquisition of money seems
to be the great object of all, regard scientific
pursuits as bordering a little on the ittsane.—
Who is more dreaded than a poor inventor,
with a patent right in his pocket, obtained af
ter years of study, and at the sacrifice of eve
ry comfort ? What a deaf ear is turned to
his theory and his explanations ? What pro
found nonsense does it appear to too many to
be contriving "cut offs" for steam engines,
spikes, and chairs for railways, cylinder pres
ses for newspapers, hot air furnaces, gas light
and cooking apparatus for our homes ! Did
not the tvorld exist without these ? Is it tttif
better thaw it vtas two thousand years ago ?
What is the good of coutinually building ob
servatories and gazing at the stars ? What
crazy people are these chemists, perpetually
attempting to analyze everything !—these ge
ologists running about and knocking stones
to pieces with their hartlrfiefs ! Why do they
not set themselves down to some honest every
day employment, and earn their living as oth
er people do ?
This is the kiud of remark one hears every
day, and which makes the unhappy votaries of
science indignant at mankind. Why should t
work hard with my own hands, and such fel
lows get along with clear brains, asks many
an inconsiderate, yet good hearted man, who
does not favor the inequalities of life.
This is a one-sided view, however, and (fail
not be justly taken. To no class is the world
more indebted than to what are called scienti
fic men. These are the most efficient friends
of humanity, and to their exertions we owe
nearly all our comforts and our prosperity.
W r hat would we do without the steam en
gine, which converts water into the most use
ful power at work upon the globe, that ena
bles us to travel thousands of miles in a day,
to cross oceans with the greatest swiftness and
certainty, to set millions of spindles at work
to create the fabrics which we wear, to shape
our implements of husbandry, hammer out our
weajK>iis of defence, lift our coal from the
mine shafts, and do the work of hundreds of
men in a minute.
What could we do without the incessant
vigilance of the inventors in detail, who are
continually contriving how to economize the
power, to lessen the friction of machinery, to
devise new forms of motion, and to make it
applicable to every variety of labor.
How could we travel so swiftly over our
iron roads, if the minutest parts of their fix
tures were not accurately considered and sci
entifically arranged. What would a railroad
train do on a curve unless carefully laid down,
having a constant relation to its radius existing
in the mind, and reduced to practice by the
engineer. How would newspapers be so cheap
and so abundant but for such admirable con
trivances as those of Hoe. We take up a pa
per which costs us two cents, and do not con
sider what years of toil and study it has re
quired to produce it. How should we get our
dinners without coal ranges, or live comforta
bly through our cold winters without hot air
furnaces and the economical use of heat ?
How could we light our dwellings so cheaply
and brilliantly without the ingenious prepara
tion of gas ? How could we find our way
from port to port, without a knowledge of the
stars, the variation of the magnetic needle,
the direction of the currents, and the sound
ings of the deep sea line ? How would we
know what fertilizers to apply to worn out
soils, how to stimulate the growth of plants
but for the labors of the agricultural chemists?
What food to prefer for our sustenance, what
remedies to apply to our disordered frames, but
for the analytical '? What crumbling edifices,
what insecure marine structures would we not
erect, but for the labors of the geologist ?
How little would we know of nature or our
selves, but for the unflagging, yet almost nil-,
honored labors of scientific men ?
The world two thousand years ago, no doubt
was a very respectable world in its way, but
it was chaos, compared to what it is now.—
Houses without roofs, dwellings without car
pets, food without variety, people without
books, without shoes, without hats, without
shirts, may hare been very brave, very com
panionable, very good and very heroic ; but a
mechanic of the present day, with the ordina
ry success of modern life, is better fed, housed,
clothed, and instructed than the greatest prluce
of ancient times, with all their barbaric gold
and silver. Yes, better off in all respects than
even Queen Bess, of a more modern era, whose
apartments were strewed with straw, and who
wore silk stockings as a curiosity.
Science is eminently practical. It is at the
bottom of all our rational and healthy enjoy
ments, it is the foundation upon which all our
modern improvements have been erected. The
press of our day begins to recognize this truth,
in the care it takes to chronicle every advance
they make. Let us then regard with respect
these men of science, the friends of our race
and our country, and give them the place iu
our esteem they so richly deserve. Money is
certainly the prevailing, the almost iusaoe de
sire of the day, but let us not forget those who
help us make it, aud of which too commonly
tbey obtain but a small share for themselves.
CLOUDS. —If it were possible to pass through
life without clouds, it is likely that we should
complain of too ranch light. As it is, the clouds
appear to come, at certain periods of our exis
tence. somewhat too loweringly upon us. The
hope, the joy of youth, as they glide away, car
ry with them so many loves that have been so
bright romances to our imagination, so many
friends that seemed as though they were born
to walk with us through the whole length of
our days, BO many dreams of peace, and proud
ambitious thoughts of winning fame, that we
become sadder, if not wiper
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA,, BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
How to Tell.
Here is but a " bit of advice" to young la
dies, setting forth how they may know wheth
er a young gallant is really " courting " them,
or only paying them " polite attentions." The
confounding the one with the other has been
the source of very much trouble, both before
and since the era of Mr. Pickwick and Mrs.
Burdell :
A young man admires a pretty girl, and
must manifest it. He can't help doing so for
the life of him. The young lady has a kind
heart, reaching out like vine tendrils for some
thing to cling to. She sees the admiration ;
is flattered ; begins soon to love ; expects
some tender avowal ; and perhaps gets so far
as to decide that she will choose a " white
satin uuder that gauze," &c., at the very mo
ment that the gallant she half Icrtes is popping
the question to another damsel ten miles off !
Now the difficulty lies in not precisely un
derstanding the difference between " polite at
tentions " and the tender manifestions of love.
Adrairiug a beautiful giff, and wishing to muke
a wife of her, are not always the same thing :
and therefore it is necessary that the damsel
should be on the alert to discover to which
class the attentions paid her by handsome and
fashionable young gentlemen belong.
First, then, if a young man greets you in a
loud, free and hearty tone ; if he knows pre
cisely where to put his hands ; if he stares
you straight in the eye, with his mouth wide
open ; if he turns his back to you to speak to
another ; if he tells you who made his coat ;
if lie squeezes ycfur hand ; if he eats heartily
in your presence ; if he fails to talk very kind
ly to your mother ; if, in short, he sneezes
when you are singing, criticises your curls, or
fails to be foolish fifty times every hour, then
don't fall in loVe With him for the world 1 lie
only admires you, let him say what he will to
the contrary.
On the other hand, if he be merry with eve
rybody else, but quiet with you ; if he be anx
ious to see your tea is sufficiently sweetened,
and your dear person well wrapped up when
you go out into the cold ; if he talks very low
and never looks you steadily in the eye ; if
his cheeks are red and his uosc only blushes,
it is enough. If he romps with vonr sister,
sighs like a pair of old bellows, looks solemn
when you are addressed by another gentleman,
and in fact is the most still, awkward, stupid,
yet anxious of all your male friends, you may
go ahead and make the poor fellow too happy
for his skin to hold him !
Young ladies ! keep your hearts in a case
of good leather, or some other tough substance,
until the right one is found beyond a doubt,
afterjwhieh you can go on aud.'love and " court "
and be married and happy, without the least
of trouble.
We consider this advice so sensible, that al
though it is some what open to the charge erf
bluntness, we have no hesitation in pressing it
upon the attention of our lady readers.
COOLNESS. —Sara Slick tells a good story
about an overgrown hulk of a Yankee boy who
was sent to the wood pile by his father one
cold, winter evening, for a " back log" for
the kitchen fire. The youth went out, but in
stead of bringing in a good substantial log,
only brought a thin little stick—or " brail "
as the Pennsylvanian Germans say. His fa
ther immediately gave him a good whipping,
and sent him after another log. But the
youth having his " dander " roused, left the
house, went to Boston and shipped on a vessel
which made a voyage of several years.
In course of time the youth came back and
started home on foot, It was winter, and just
such an evening as the one on which he left
home. So, remembering his father's order, the
young man picked up a huge log, and stagger
ing into the house, threw it down on the hearth
before his astonished father and mother, and
quietly said :
" Father, here's that back log you sent me
for."
The old gentleman, not to be outdrme in
coolness, replied, with a touch of severity :
Well ! you've been a darned long time about
it r
We were reminded of this story by the fol
lowing. which we find floating about uncred
ited :
" A certain distinguished citizen of Milwau
kie, Wisconsin, who has filled the highest of
fice in the State, was once in the employ of a
farmer in Western New York. Among other
things it was his duty to " bring in the cows."
One evening the cows and boy " came miss
ing." Some years after the farmer was pass
ing down East Water street, Milwaukie, and
saw the name of his cowboy over the door of
one of the largest hardware houses in the West.
He walked in and found his boy in the count
ing-room, He stared a moment on the truant
and then broke out with, " Hallo, Len, have
you found them cows yet ?" One can imagine
"what followed—a mutual recognition. It is
said the old farmer was pacified without a
breach of the peace."
AN TNFIDF.L TRICK. —It has been the fashion
of our late innovators in philosophy, who have
written some of the most brilliant and popu
lar treatises on education, to decry the practice
of early instilling religious knowledge into the
minds of children. It has been alleged, that
it is of the ntmost importance to the cause of
troth, that the mind of man should be kept
free from prepossessions ; and in particular,
that every one should be left to form such
judgment on religious subjects as may seem best
to bis own reason in maturer years.
This sentiment has received some counte
nance from those better characters who have
wished, on the fairest principle, to encourage
free inquiry in religion ; but it has been push
ed to the blameable excess here censured,
chiefly by the new pbiosophers ; who, while
they profess only an ingenuous zeal for truth,
are, in fact, slily endeavoring to destroy Chris
tianity itself, by discountenancing, nnder the
plausible pretence of free inquiry, all attention
whatever to the religions education of oar
rontb
LET ME BE QUICKLY RICH.
The prayer of most young men is, " Let
me be quickly rich." Few seeem satisGed to
become so by the once honored mode of indus
try and economy practiced by our ancestors.
Of the thousands Who make the effort fev be
come quickly rich, and fewer remain so. But
the story of those who prove successful, with
fabulous additions, spreads with telegraphic
speed, inflames the minds of the excitable and
often many others, and they long to become
quickly rich. Forgetting, or not regarding
the fate of the unsuccessful, their whole ener
gies are directed to the rapid accumulation of
a fortune. They vainly imagine that the pos
session of wealth, and living in a style
common with many who have suddenly acquir
ed it, confer happiness without alloy, although
experieuce has everywhere demonstrated the
fallacy of all such expectations. Mau is so
constituted that employment is necessary for
his health and happiness. He who devotes
his energies to business to secufe a livelihood
is fur huppier than him whose employment is
caring for and protecting wealth, while no
system of measuring merit can prove the latter
more honorable or noble.
A false and highly injurious notion is widely
pervading the public mind, that honor and
bappiuess flow from wealth, and that the want
of it indicates dishonor and misery. This fal
lacious theory has led to more misfortune, suf
fering and disgrace than wealth ever prevent
ed. It induces men to engage in the wildest
adveutures, and to hazard, not only their own
accumulated earnings but those of others as far
as subject to their control ; while not one in a
hundred proves successful. The effort to be
come quickly rich is the cause of the frauds
upon merchants by their clerks, and many of
their customers, and upon banks and corpora
tions by their officers aud employees. They
are not content to follow the path trod by As
tor, Girard, and others, and rise to fortune by
industry and pursuit of business, directed with
skill and intelligence. They forget that Astor
commenced his commercial career by carrying
his stock upon his back, exchanging it for furs ;
and that regular business skillfully managed,
conducted him to his immense fortune. They
do not remember that Girard, from a cabin
boy on a vessel, became lirst a small ship gro
cer, and by unremitting attention and great
sagacity, accumulated his millions. They
only recollect them as millionaires. They
wish to approach, or rival them in their accu
mulations without subjecting themselves to
the toil, physical and mental, necessary to ac
complish the result desired. Girard once
made a remark which is worthy of much re
flection.
A young man had been offered a salary
which he thought too small, as he could lay
up but a limited sum after paying his expenses.
Girard replied—" 1 labor far harder than you,
listing all this property to manage and take
care of, and all I shall ever have out of it is
my victuals and clothes." Out of his millions
all he enjoyed was comprised in these two
items. Men are most happy when constant
ly engaged in business, and are most likely to
perform all the duties of good citizens in the
most acceptable manner. Of course they are
gratified if it proves successful, so that it may
guard them and their families against want. —
If well and skilfully conducted, most kinds of
business leads to independence and competence,
which tend to happiness ; whereas the mere
possession of wealth, except with the sordid
misers, never confers happiness on mankind.
Those who become suddenly rich lost all the
pleasure and reputation derived from conduct
ing a successful business. One lucky adven
ture will lead to new hazards, and often occa
sions a total loss of the fruits on the first suc
cess. Among all who engage in mercantile
business, not three in a hundred are computed
to die rich. Among those who seek to become
quickly rich, probably not one in a thousand
dies so. Of the thousands in California who
suddenly became apparently wealthy, or reput
ed so, very few are not even comfortably off.
The rich men there usually become so by the
slow process of regular business. Of the thou
sands who have been suddenly made rich by
stock and other Wall street operations, few in
deed close theif career with wealth. Among
the numerous " operators " in land and other
property, where a regular business course is
not pursued,but a limited number ever come
out with property, mnch less large fortunes.
We hear much of those who in all these
matters succeed, but lose sight of the infinitely
greater number who fail and fall into obscuri
ty. That father confers the greatest benefit
on his son who educates him to some regular
and respectable employment, and encourages
him to happiness and a reasonable share of
wealth. The aon who devotes his time and
talents to such employment may rationally ex
pect a far greater share of respectability and
happiness than can be derived from fortune
not, actually earned and accumulated but quick
ly from one lucky move out of scores of unsuc
cessful ones. He who prays to be made quick
ly rich, if his prayer proves favorably answered,
will fail in his greater object of becoming hon
orably distinguished and personally happy.—
Tint " BIBLE TWANG." —Once upon a time
an elderly Scotch woman gate her grandson
the newspaper to read, telling him to read
aloud. The only reading aloud the boy had
been ranch In the habit of hearing was at the
parish kirk, and he began to read in the ex*
tract tone in which be had so often heard the
minister read. The good lady was shocked at
the boys profanity, and giving him a box on
the ear, exclaimed—" What ! dost thou read
the newspaper with the Bible twang !"
Many a minister has a twang or tone for the
pulpit that he never nses in conversation. If
a lawyer at the bar should address the Jury
in a preaching tone, he wonld make them laugh
when he wished to make them weep. Preach
ing would be far mure efficient in the ordinary
tone, such ng used between man and man ; but
many preachers pitch on a key so variant from
their natural voice that they wonld not be re
cognized unless tbey could be een. —A* Y
1 THE PRINTER'S DOLLARS. —The printer's dol
lars ! Where are they ? We'll suppose Otic
of thefn is in somebody's pocket in Philadel
phia, another is in Boston, u third in New
York, a fourth in Baltimore, while a fifth is
resting securely in some city or town of the
West. A dollar here and a dollar there, scat
tered all over the town, all over the country,
mile upon mile apart, how shall they be gath
ered ?
The type founder has his hundreds of dol
lars against the printer, the paper maker, the
building owner, the journeyman, the grocer,
the tailor, and all assistants to him in carry
ing on business, each have their demands, un
fortunately hardly ever so small as a single
dollar. But the mites from here and there
must be diligently gathered in, and very pa
tiently hoarded, or the wherewith to discharge
the large bills will never become very bulky.
We imagine the printer will have to get up
an address to his widely scattered, distant dol
lars, something like this :
" Dollars, halves, quarters, and all manner
of fraction iuto which ye are divided, collect
yourselves, and come yourselves, and come
home—you are wanted ! Combinations of all
sorts of men that help the printer to become
your proprietor, gather iu such force, and de
maud with so good reason your appearance at
bis counter, that nothing short of a sight at
you will appease them. Collect yourselves,
for, valuable as you are in the aggregate, sin
gly you will never pay the cost of gathering.
Come iu here in single silent file, that the
printer rnay farm you into battalions, and send
van forth again to battle for him and vindicate
ins credit."
BANK XOTE PAPER.—A Bank of England
note has seine peculiar and interesting charac
teristics of manufacture, the paper being dis
tinguished white, such as neither sold in the
shops or used for any other purpose ; by its
thinness and transparency, qualities which pre
vent any of the printed part of the note wash
ed out by turpentine, or removed by a knife,
unless n hole is made in the place thus practi
ced on ; by its characteristic feel, a peculiar
crispness and toughness, by which those accus
tomed to handle it distinguish the true notes
instantly ; the wire or water mark, which is
produced 011 the paper when in a .-tate of pulp
and which is easily distinguished from a mark
stamped 011 the paper is completed ; the three
" deckle' edges—the mold contains tw) notes
placed lengthwise, which are separated by a
knife at a future stage of the process, this
deckle or wooden frame of the paper mould
producing the peculiar eflVct secu 011 th edges
of un cut paper, and this edging being caused
when the paper is in a state of pulp, precludes
any successful imitation after the paper is made
also by the strength of the paper, which is
made from new linen and cotton. In its" wa
ter leaf," or unsized condition, a bank note
will support thirty-six pounds ; and when one
grain of size has been diffused through it, it
will lift half a hundred weight.
If a little more care was taken by our State
Government in regard to what sort of paper
should be used in the printing of bank notes,
the people would suner much less from the
spurious stud' now in circulation. In some
respects we are a heedless people, and have
yet something to learn from the old nations of
Europe.— Scientific American.
STARTLING CALCULATION. — If a tobacco ehew
er chews fifty years and consumes each day of
that period two inches of solid plug, he will
consume 6.475 feet, or nearly a mile and a quar
ter in lenghth of solid tobacco, half an inch thick
and two iuches broad, costing two thoosand
and ninety-funr dollars ! Plug Ugly, sure
enough ! By the same process of reasoning,
if a man ejects one pint of saliva per day for
fifty years the total would swell into two thou
sand three hundred gallons ; quite a respecta
ble lake, and almost large enough to float the
great Eastern in 1 Truly, there are several
things we never dream of in our philosophy.
Whether these interesting statics will diminish
sale of-the the juicy weed we are not able to
say.
There arc at least three million of energetic
chewers in the United States. If one tobac
co ehewer consumes in fifty years twothorsand
dollars worth of tobacco, then the three millions
will do in the same time the handy little sum
of six thousand millions of dollars, the annual
interest would be four hundred and twenty
millions, and the interest each second would
be thirteen dollars.
The nnmber of rail-cars or ships that the
tobacco would load, we will leave to some of
our young readers ; but will merely state that
accord ng to the estimate quantltyof saliva rjec
ted by each tobacco chevrer, the whole amount
discharged by three million Americans, would
be a hundred million hogsheads. This would
be more than enough to fill the ftrie canal its
whole length, three times ; or a similar Cai.al
more than a thousand miles long. Bngiuei r
Barrett ascertained that about twenty millions
cubic feet of water poured into the great Falls
of Niagfa erery minute • yet enormous as is
this amount, the estimated quantity of Ameri
can tobacco saliva would keep this great cata
ract in full action for more than two thirds of
an hour.
If the Yankees were compelled to manufac
ture all this from their months by means of
a bitter and poisonctts weed, it would no doubt
be regarded as a tyranny infinitely worse,
than exercised by George 111., or any modem
European despot.
tjSgr- A young and beautiful, but poor wid
ow, was about to marrv a rich old widower.
Her friends wished to know why she wanted
to marry him. She replied, " For pure iove ;
I love the gronnd (meaning the farm, proba
bly) on which he walks, and the very house
in which he lives.'"—There was a platonic lovo
for you ! There is none of your school-girl
romance in that.
fgj- Prayer is a sovereign remedy for sad
ness, for it lifteth up the soul to G n d, who ig
bur only joy and cpso'at'ou
VOL. XVIII. —SO. 26.
A BATTI.R IFROFPT.Sf.—A the battle of the
Thames, a laCghuble incident oceurfed, which
is thus related by one who was in the engage
ment i
The British General had formed his fnen in
open order, with their cannon pointing down
the road by which tne Americans were advanc
ing. General Harrison immediately took ad
vantage of this and ordered Colonel Johnson'*
mounted regiment to charge at speed by heads
of companies—so as to expose the least possi
ble front—pass through the -dpen intervals,
and form in the rear of the British forces.—
This movement was brilliantly executed by tho
battalion under the command of Lieut. Col.
James Johnson, his brother Col. R. M. John
son, at the same time charging the Indians
with the other battalion.
Jt happened that in one of the companies
under James Johnson's command, there was a
huge, brawny fellow, named Lamb ; he weigh
ed about 230 pounds, was a brave man, and
as good humored as big—brave men proverbial
ly are. Luirrb had broken down his Kentucky
horse by his great weight, aud was mounted
instead, upon a short, stout, wild Canadian
pony, from whose sides his long limbs depend
ed almost to the ground, while his bulky frame
towered high above the beast—loooking not
unlike an overgrown boy astride of a rough
sheep.
When the charge was made, Lamb's pony
took fright and broke Into a run. Lamb pull
ed until the bit broke in the animal's mouth,
and all command was lost. The little pouy
stretched himself out to the work, dashde out of
the ranks, soon out stripped the file leaders
aud pushed on in advance of the company.—•
Lamb was no longer master of his horse or
himself, and he was in a quandary. If he roll
ed off his horse he would be trampled to death
by his friends ; if the horse rushed upon the
er.eniv with him, so far ahead of the rest, he
must be killed. Either way, death seemed
inevitable ; and to use his expression, he
thought " he'd jist say so-mething they could
tell his frieuds in Keutuckv, when they went
home."
lie stuck berth heels into the pony's flanks
mid urged him to the utmost speed. On they
drove, some fifty yards iu front of the leading
file, Lamb's gigantic person swaying from
sde to side, and his legs swinging in a most
portentous fashion—the Canadian " pulling
foot"ali he knew how, his tail straight, his
nostrils distended, his ears pinned back, and
his eyes flashing from under their shaggy fore
tip, with all the spite and spleen of a born
devil. Just as he gat within a stride or two
of the British, Lamb flourished his rifle and
roared out in a voice of thunder ; " Clear
the way, 0 d d——n you 1 for I'm com
ing 1"
To his surprise the lines opened right and
left, and he passed through unhurt. So great
was their astonishment at the strange appari
tion of such a horse, and snch a rider, moviDg
upon them with such Telocity, that they open
ed mechanically at his word of command and
let him pass. So soon as he gained the rear
of their position, Lamb rolled on the grass,
and suffered his pony to go on his own road.
A few minutes more and lie was with his com
rades securing the prisoners.
CCRIOCS FACTS. —Lees are geometricians.—
The cells are so constructed as, with the least
quantity of material, to have the largest sized
spaces and the least possible insterstice. The
mole is a meteorologist. The bird called a
nine killer is an arithmetician. Also the crow,
the wild turkey and some other birds. The
torpedo, the ray and the electric eel, are elec
tricians. The nautilus is a navigator, lie
raises and lowers his sails—casts and weighs
anchor, and performs other nautical feats.—
Whole tribes of birds are musicians. The
beaver is an architect, builder and wood-cut
ter. He cats down trees and erects houses
and dams. The marmot is a civil engineer.—
He does not only build hou-es, but constructs
aqueducts and drains to keep them dry. The
ants maintain a regular standing army. Wusps
are paper manufacturers. Caterpillars are
silk spinners. The squirrel is a ferryman.—
With a chip or a piece of bark for a boat, and
his tail for a sail, he crosses a stream. Dogs,
wolves, jackals and ninny others, are hunters.
The black bear aud heron are fishermen. The
ants are day laborers. The moukey is a rope,,
dancer.
THF: SHADOWS OF CHILDREN*.—N otKinjr SEEMS
to weigh down their bnoyant spirits long, mis
fortunes may fa!! to their lot, but tW shadows
it casts upon their life-path are as ifeeticgas
the clouds that come and fro in an April sky.
Their future, perchance, nupear darX to others
but to their fearless gaze it looms np brilliant
and beautiful as the walls of a fairy palace.
There is no tear whieh a mother's gentle hand
cannot wipe away, no wound that a mother's
kiss cannot heal, no anguish which the sweet
murmuring of her soft, low voice car.not soothe.
The warm generous impulse of their natures
have not been fettered and t>rauiped by the
cold formalities of the world: they -have not vet
learned to ve I a hollow b' art with false, smile*
or hide the basest purges beneath honeyed
words. Neither they constantly on t!w
alert to search o'\t the faults and follies with
Argus eye ; bn the contrary, they experience
tliat Lless'.a charity which " thiuketh no evil."
k oothec'jP, determined to have an old offender
extracted but there being no dentist near,
he resolved todo the job himself, wherenpon
lie filled >*> excavation with powder, but being
afraid to touch it off, he put a slow match to
it, lighted it, and then ran get out of the
way.
A GEF* XIKTOFIT. —" Von are very stnpid",
| Thomas,"* said a country, teacher to a little
j boy eight years old. " You are donkey,
j and what do tin?? do to care biin of his stu
pidity r
i " VYhv thev f*ed him more, snd kick
1 less." the n-ehiß.