VDJUAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: jjarebao fllormun, June 10. 1858. ftlctfii [From tli® London Journal.] - FOR MOTHER'S SAKE " X ikther and his lit'.le son On wintry waves were sailing . fast, from their way, the light of day la cloud and gloom was failing, and fiercely roauJ their lonely hark Tae stormy winds wore wailing. Tire knew that peril hover'd near ; Tlity pray'd—" 0 Heaven deliver !** 8.; a wilder blat came howling past, iaiv'O o with sub and shiver, Tiey struggled in the icy grasp Of that dark, rushing river. - CUa* fa-t to me. rev darling child," ab anguished voice was crying ; W.ie, silvery clear, o'er tcrape*t drear, R>je softer Lines replying— - 0, mind not me, my father dear ; l a afi aid of dying ; 0 ns'.r. 1 net me, but save yourself. Fir mother's sake, dear father ; Ltsve me and hasten to the shore. Or who will comfort mother?" Tns eel forms that ever wait, Usseea on men attendant, y.evr :r. oV; y'd to heaven's bright gate. And th re oa page resplendent, H ,-h over of hero's bold, And martyrs famed in story, fuey wrote th# name of that brave bey. And wreathed it round with glory. God b'ev> the chHd ! ay, he did blcsa That noble self-denial. And safe'v bore him to the shore. Through tempest, to . and trial. $Nn in their I right and tranquil home. Son. sire, and that dear mother. Fur whose - wee. sake so much was done, la rapture uetea7u otlxr. glisttllantoas. Spring. Birds, and Insects. The following " Talk about Birds, dec.," we .. ? v from the Porti in J Pleasure Boat. It i.vrj he rcai or every chiij in the land, and i iesions of hooi-iiiitj and utility enforced by .ecu? -oai parental preueumeuts on the since similar subjects : Well. children, spring, beautiful spring Uss vze t■> war n your shivering limbs, to strew :> earth with dowers, and fill the air with ::.e sweet mu-ic of butterfly, bee, and bird.— ] V - ~tc had a $0- .1 time through the whi ter, with your books, and schools, and sleds, j j*. ssutes. and Lave been cheered with toe nod of sleigh bells, an 1 hare most of j .: iiad the pleasure erf a lid •, now and tin:-:;: j scene lias changed If it were always , ■ vet joa would weary of your sports a? we'i i< tour labors, ami the world would become a ■ft, weary place. But the diaogt of seasons ' soia-nliiac new to cliet-r aad enliven, ci rtke you hippy. 7 e r.' v and ice have disappeared, and the .-••• -. a 4 the sweet, beautiful tk>wvrs ' • ;he barreu earth, which has beeu -i ap a chilling snows. The bee-, the ■-- bird-, and crickets, and other merry greet y a with tber rouse. The on some tall tree, will, if you active, commence his j-ongs before vou k; est of bed. j Hnr sv iig v. .jx J Though I have, for 1 but veurs eea too deaf to hear him, I eau 't; er what he had used to sin 4 when I pa* child, a:;.: I presume he is staging the 3 n-w (y.ie of his songs useu to pzoike t .is: "Farmer, cheer up, cheer! • g's come ; cheer up, get the plow, 1 ' * .'i. happy, be happy, spring's • u there was the blue-bird, fluttering ' '*s f i souse hollow old stump or sir some dead tree, to make a uest in ; and Puttie '. my sputtering, fussing wren, that P T - ; > aed ta sue to feel like some uneasy Phgchil ire-i I have seen. She, also, builds • • some little hole in a stamp or tree, ■te framework of the baru. I hi not r®*rea terv well when 1 was a boy. be to* -ue <, la.rJed with the swallow ; but * s " >be lias improved since then, at.J as Ps bey Ktde thing, she gives JOB a g- •>] I tc itfT : so you uowt forgive her ; 'T tricks, and try to love her. for she " l r in the great family, and is aeces - or 'He would not have been created. -i' of robins, reminds me of a love'y r im? three years ago, and built a ray front door, within the reach cf **• : W :eu strangers came to the unor. ' * l:rd won Id fly from the nest and ,"y - '-■ shrubbery till they were goo? : • 1 ~ A"y 0! our own fam It went in or otr j 7it. t more, for she knew we would i: Her. When hoeing in the garden, j V"" *• N Toald cotne within reach of my ;*P*k up worms, and they seemed as p -• &< though thev were a part of the They reared two families of children [7 ""-y r - sua the next spring they came j ' 1 11 ;.a red the same nest, by building j cher and liniug it anew ; but whec |. • •- ttree eggs, a wicked boy. while pas- I y *" x a tone at aud killed one of the 1 "f other flew about the uest and gar- L." s*' 5 *' Jrn ' n ? wreral days, and tbeu d.sap - re. - leaner the nest and three eggs fe - "s loTf to lire near the habitations of L '■"•'T sre not abused, and uo C'Xid child . 0 ,s .'3-"e or distorb them. They and - 7 h.rds are real frieuds to the far . .. ■ --Udeaer. and protect the grounds rifi ges of insects. ? ir uet*r has another friend that I 7 you aboot. ttiat vou mar treat N I * I • ~ *• - e homely dnnisy-lookiug toad.— 4 L -v so h >meiy nor sj as s me of voa think for. Look at bis eyes ; see bow bright they are ! Wheu the sua shines he creeps under the door-step, or some piece of board or turf. He is not very proud or par ticular about the appearance of his house ; if it protects him, he is satisfied. If you find the toad when the suu shine bright and warm, be looks sleepy and lazv, and some children hate him, and torture and sometime* kill him. This is cruel, and au act that no child should be guilty of. Watch the little, homely fellow, when he creiips from his hiding place, at sundown, to hunt for food.— He hunts and watches for food, as much as the cat does for mice, but most of his hunting is done at night, and this is one reason why he appears so clumsy and sleepy iu the day time. Watch him I say, wheu he creejw forth at night, and you will like him better, for then he is awake. He hops about till he sees a worm, bug, or some ether insect, which he wants for food ; then he hops no more for fear ol frightening the iiraect away, but creeps along softly, like the cat when she sees a mouse, movii g cue foot at a time. When be comes near enough to the insect he throws out his round tongue which is several inches long, something as you would strike with a whip lash. His tongue is covered with gluteu or sKrae, and wheu it hits the insect, the gluten sticks and holds it fast, and the toad draws it into his mouth. You often see the toad out hunting in the daytime, after a shower. The reason of this is, that the rain drives the in sects from their hiding places, aud the toad coaies out to take them. A few of these homely little creatures will protect 3 cabbage yard or garden from the ravage* of insects ; and there is no animal— not even the hore, ox, or caw, that is so much profit to a former, according to his size, as the toad. Give him only a bit of board or a turf to creep under, and he will work all summer for nothing, and " find himself and when win ter comes he does not oak for food, like the \ horse or ox, but freezes un, like a solid lump ' of dirt, aud there he is tni the warm auus of 1 spring thaw him out. II o can do what you cannot. 110 can ?ce • i i the night as well as you cau iu the diy.— ' He can live a'! winter without food frozen up j as hard as a stone, and, it is su d. if he is bu- ( ried up in the earth, he will live for years and j years. It has been affirmed that toads have i been taken out of so'id rocks, a'.ive, far below i the surface of the earth. It is believed they \ became buried up, and there remained until j the matter iu which they were buried chaug- j ed to stone. No.v. children, yon will not hate the birl-. : and the toads, aud the insects, any more, will ron ? Tnev are all u-efu! in their places, and if you wili watch them carefully, and study j heir history, voa will learu to respect even muse taat appear the most worliik'ss or for- j otddiug. Fesnle B3auty. The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers an I toes red, their eye-brows black,..and their lips olue. In Per si i they paint 1 lack streak around ; .heir eyes, and ornament their eye-, and their aces, with various tigur s. The Japanese •vonion rilJ their teeth, and those of the lu lians paint them red. The pearl of the tat too mn-t be dved black, to be be lx*autifu! in Guzurat. The Hottentot women paint the en tire body in compart meats of red IHack In Greenland the women color their faces with blue aud yellow, and they frequently tattoo i iheir bodies lv saturating threads in *>ot. and n.-erting theuo through. II 100 females, when ■ iltey w ,-ili to appear particularly ! iveiy, smear ihe.nselves witli a mixture of saffron, tumeric and grease. In nearly a.! ti the face, the lips, tongue, and the whole i>ody. Ia New Holland they cut tuemseives with shells, and keeping the wounds open a ; long time, form deep snars iu the flesh, winch fhej deem h ghly ornamental. Aud another lingular mutilation is nji i? among them by taking off. in infancy, the little finger of the ; left hand at tlie second joint. The modern Pisrmw have a strong aiernM to red hair; :ho Turks, on the contrary, are warm adulters jf it. In Chii.a small ro:r;l eyes are liked, i id the girls are continually plucking their vebrows tlmt ther may be tuin and long Gut the great beauty of $ Chinese la iy is in ier feet, which in chi' iht >l, are s> comprgss- H1 by bnndnges as effectually to preve-1 any ; aether increase iu s'ze. The four san-a'l toes tre bent under the font to the sole of wa:cb J.ev linuir a ihere ; ur: i the jwvvr g.rl not oa y endure* in ieh p-aia but becomes a cripple for life. Another mark of beauty con.*isrs ia having finger Bails so long that cases of bam boo are necessary to preserve them from injiv -v. An African beauty must havesmail eyes, :::i-k . - iarg- 1 fi it no-\ and a ss.n beau tifully black la New Guinea tlie nose is per rated, and large pieces of wood or bone iu •ertcd. Iu the north-west coast of America, in iadsna more than two inches in length i* made m tne lower lip. and then filled with a wooden plog. In Guinea the lips are pierced with tboru. the heads being ir.-.ie the mouth and the points resting on the ebiu. ~7~ f-cv The truths of the Bifc'e arc I k® gold in the soil. Whole generation? waik over it, and koow not what trea-nres are hidden be neath. So centuries of men pass over the Scriptures and know mot what fines lie un der th® feet of their interpretation. Some times when thev discover them they ca.. them new truth l One in ght a* well call gold c?w ly dug, new gold. &2-That was a wise nigger, who, ir. H>eak iog of the happiness of married people, said. " I&t ar pew altogedder oa Low dey erjoy demseire; * is essential to good m rais. or bust .aegbtzg is an unpardonable crime. PUBLISHED EVERY.THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'.MEARA GOODRICH. " R.USARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Mysteries of Howe's Cave. Doubtless all have had at times, the de sire awakened in their hearts to see the mys teries of the " Mammoth Cave to listen to the dull sound of the fulling stone, dropped into the "Bottomless Bit," as it goe9 bound ing and leaping on its way towards that vast sea of molten lava, which geologists tell us ' of, and which must be more easy to imagine ' than to describe, or to engage the services of Charon, and explore the unknown wonders j of the cold, black " Styx." or listen to the ' tales of ancient " Indian towns" iu the iuteri ; or of the cavern's maw, and wonder how the race lived, aud when they died. Indulging such reveries, many have sighed that distauce aud expense reuder a visit to this cave to them impossible, nor seem aware that uear at ! hand a cave of almost fabulous proportions and features is found ; and even a slight and imperfect sketch of it may prove acceptable to ' our readers. " liowe's Tavo " is situated in the town of Coberskill, Schoharie county, in the State of New York, aud deserves the celebrity so gen erally awarded to it of being the greatest uat , ura! curiosity iu the United States ; and many who have visited the cave of Kentucky, prefer | to linger here ! The town is ea=y of access cither from Cher ry Valley or Canajoharie. Having safely : landed, (for not being able to describe na ture's laboratory as it is, mmt ueed give our own experienced,} we booked our names at the "L'ave House," and having donned a suit of clothes that seemed to have suffered in a desperate struggle for existence iu the oid -1 clothes man, we descended a few stone steps and entered with a shudder (perhapsoccasion ed by the cold blast that saluted us) this won drous boudoir of D ime Natu-e. In " Entrance Hall " we found ourselves, and after lighting our torches, discovered it to be a rocky passage, two hundred and sixty feet in length, by thirty-five in width. Being satisfied with our view of stone and smell of dampness, we entered Washington Hall," which is one hundred feet long and thirty w!J? ; here is a beautiful stalactite, resembling j the Father of his Country, or what is really imagined to be his statue. Ilis piantle is fall ' ing in graceful folds from about his command i ing per-on, while his epaulets, removed from \ his shoulders, are hanging on the wall beside j him. On the opposite side of the wall hangs ! " Ladv Washington's hood," every fold in the ample cape distinctly visible. Near by, at au ' elevation of twenty-five feet, is an altar, kneel- I ing ut which many have taken the most holy i ties, that bind for life. The ceremony sole.mn- I ized iu such a place, the waiis blazing with the ' red gin-e of top.-!ie<. the solemn voice of ti>e o.li *.ating m'ni-ter, nrj't stomp the memories of the a>>embled gueeis and produce impres j - :,> la-ting as the granite walls that echoed j their responses A iittle removed is a small j s'atue of a woman, sitting in a char—a ho a ' withered baud, with beautiful stalactite ter- I ruinations. " Heait's Cell " is the nest ob ! j -el of curiosity, but deserves iparticular j meutio i save that a I above u-, attached to i t:ie wills, are inrunes of birds, beasts, trees, a id fishes, until one is almost rea ly to believe that he stands in nature's s; rchou-e of pat : rns, a:, i these are carved oat of black and white marble, in the matchless style of the Creator's hand alone. Passing through the " Tunnel " we enter " Cataract," which is five hundred and forty feet I>-_rh, and thirty five feet wide, through the mid-tof which a stream . ripples and murmurs iu its darksome way to ward a cataract never yet s-.cu by roan. But applying our ear to a figure ir> the wall, the d;steit roar of waters was distinctly ueard, its height or depth Oiikuown. The verv rovstery attending it rend rs additional interest to the hidden waterfall. At the - L ike.'* a large body of witter r -posing in a huge stone reservoir, we step into a large boat, and as the torches' lurid glare falls on the dark w.v.- the sight is bevildcni by the roultituie and beauty of the croups of figures on which the light is thrown. Cornices, statue', men, bin Is. beast' and fishes, are seen on every -1 io, and excite the wonder and adnrlration of a!! who, l:ke us, experience the pleasure of a v'-it to these enchanted .iuhs. In " Mu'ic Ilili, near bv. is a huge formation, called the "Har,), weighing nearly a ton, which, on being struck, sends echoes through the cavern in tones of finest meio ly a .J sounds of deepest pathos ana m st witching tenderness. T.ie intr-ical edu cation of the wa'er sprues, or gen iof > cavern, has not i>eua neglected, and if they • could not go to the mountain, the high and ( towering peaks of the " Alps have come to them, and froiu their summits we look far down into 3 chasm called tne " Pirates Cave, hearing " Mount B.auc " behind us, we toiled j u > the " Rxkv Mountains, clambering over hege rock* and serniabling through Inge ; cl.asr.is. until we gamed a h.g..t os five ..on dred feet a hen we began oar descent i to toe ; - Valley of pa;- r.g the " Wm 1- j ing Way " a narrow passage hewn oat of the so. id rock, or, perhaps, dHundcd by a narrow ; stream, and just wide enough to admit ote {*rou at a time. so crooke-1 that we could see scarcely three feet in advance, while the wails are ornamented with the most beautitiH specs- ' mens of carving. We came to the " Bev;!'* Gangway,** which leads to the " Rota" aa. a room six hundred feet in hr gut. Tais alt;-I tude was ascertained by a fi-ght of rockets Bring sat isSed wita having penetrated four ru ies and a bsif, we commenced oar return ; j ;jeu once again the sun's bright ray; f-e;! on t n oar joy seemed too great for utterance.— Tcose domes and rocked ribbed baHs showed ' scoerhuman skill of the great archichecl's own inspiring. Those sculptured s r d wondrous i forms of store seemed angel's work, and not the work of change—the water-drippings of i ten thousand years. The Lake and Wading , Way excite oar interest ; the Hidden Water fall and mystic Harp stir feelings in car breast that give; us pain, and such pain is delirious. But it I; the sunshine-—the brig \ glorious un sbioe the field', the grass, tbe trees, that ! give such ecstatic 'oy, taat ooiy those who j live with tnem around caa eve: know. [From Dr. Waterbury's Lectures on Physiology and Nat oral Hutory. ] Natural History for tho Yorni^. Fair and softly Miss sit with us a minute. We'll smooth your back until you purr—become ruagetized, as our friends the mesmerists would say, and then you must let us look at your foot, that dainty little foot of yours, that yon take such nice care to keep from the wet. First let us look at the soft pad at the bot tom, on which she treads. How noislessly she steals along through the dark ! When she approaches, the long ears of the mouse, though they can detect the slightest rustle, hear no sound. When the ox or the horse moves as swiftly, the very earth trembles beneath his tread ; but the whole cat tribe steal on their prev and doom theru in death-like stillness. Both these tribes of animals are alike in this—they walk 011 the ends of their toes ; that is, what corresponds to the toes in man. Hence they are called digitigrade* ; to dis'in gu &h them from such tiut footed animals as we, uud the bears—the ylautigrada. The feet of J gitrigraies are made after one plan. In the horse and cow the toe nails are very thick and stout; in fact ar. 1 hoofs, and enclose the pad, which is almost then as hard as horn, aud is called the frog, iu the horse there is but one toe, and consequently but one toe nail on each foot ; but that one is made very large and hard, in order to bear fast travel on firm ground. In this respect the foot of the horse corresponds in structure to the iron rails on a railroad ; while the cloven foot of the ox and other ruminating animals more nearly corresponds to the mechanism of a plank road. Hence the horse prefers dry ground, and shuns wet, swampy places, for when his foot is sunk in the mire is very difficult to draw out. When the ox. however, treads 0:1 soft ground, his split hoof spreads a little as it sinks into the earth, so that when he begins to extract it, it becomes smaller, and comes out more readily. Hence oxeu are better adapted than horses to boggy ground or de.-p snow.and this structure of the foot allows of u habit cows have of frequenting marjLy pools in hot weather. In the reindeer, an animal made to inhabit the polar regious, the two rudimentary toes above the heel, which in oxen and swine are j called due chics, are so large as to be used iu deep snow, like the other toes ; thus making the animal's foot spread over a great surface, like a snow-shoe ; yet when the foot has sui.k into the snow, it is drawn out as readily as that of the ox. The feet of the birds that wade in marshes are made after the same plan nod for tbe same reason. When we place the finger on the pad unler the cat's foot, and press geutiy on tiie upper side of the to-.s w th the thumb, fonr sharp claws protrude. Their joints are like needles. Tae dug, the squirrel, and the wool 'nick also Lave claws, but they are so exposed to the weather and the dirt that they ate dull. lluw are the cat's claws kept sharp ? By a very simple and beautiful arrangement. The .ast joint of the toe, that which support* the law, doubles backward aud to one side, into the space between two toes ; so that when she wa k* she does not, like otl>cr ani mals, put the joint foremost, but ra'ber tin? secoud joint. When tbe nails, together with t:>c !a>t joint, are doubled hack iu this way between the two toes, the cords which run to them are placed at such disadvantage that tin y can only move the toes for tae purpose of walking. When the cat seiz<- l*?r jrrey, how ever, a i.ttle muscle throws th? last joint of the toe, that which supports the claw, ovt-r into tbe same position as in other animals, and then the claw .5 driven by t:;e same muscle and with tbe same power wim which tbe a:H nvil mores t.e foot Tie Tiger wields these terr.ble weapons with as ranch force a a borst kicks : so that a sing'e blow from the front side of one of Lis claws, a> the beast was leap ii>g over, baa bt.cn k„own to fracture the ska., of a man. In a.iireals like the squirrel, made to in habit trees the claws are intended for holding fast to the bark, and so are not retractile 1 ke those of the cat tr.be. Uue of the toca abo .* turned backwards, so as to act l.ke a thumb in clinging to limbs and in holding to nuts By menus of these thnrub like t is, *q frrt-N run down a tree ahu>i as read ;y as up. In the sloth, a South American animal that lives a.most exclusively iu tree*. hanging I y its fore paws, the cliws of the fore feet are i enormously large aud long—quite too large xy[ be retracted ike those of the cat. When on the gr nod, they r.:u=t be doubled directly ai der the foot, so that the animal walks THJ awkwardly, as it were oo its kccvkles. Mr. Je J-rsv), having discovered soma of the claws and bones of the fool of an extinct animal of this *ort. they must have belonged to a kind of i'.ob, as large as an ylo phant. lie sent the bones to M. Civier. tire great French naturalist, who on examining them. cvuM find no marks of the backward and sidewise joint. that exist in the cat tribe, and so coecluoeJ ti.e a nmal to ba?e been rather a Luge sloth, taan a lion. Sterne, who used his wife i!*. w.r* one day talking to Garrick, m a sea* mental manner, in praie of co.ij igai bliss and txiriity. '* Tae husband," observed Sterne, **wi.o be have* unkindly to his wife deserve* to Lav a bis home burned over his head." Gar: *k re phed— I Lope you are insured, then Seme ose says " tbe lobster i? a postborrous work of creation, for it L> only -ti after its death." He who dees hts best, however lktle. is always to be distiogahaec frocn tHia who does nothing. S&- When Charles V. read tqoc *be '.orcb of a Spanish nobleman. " Here Ics oce who nev?r knew fezr," be wittily replied, '"then ge never .-gaffed a caui!? with L-.* ficger* The little needle will draw a loag tail of turead after it. " I Have not Begun to Fight Yet. 5 ' The above language of the gallant and brave Paul Jones, when the British commander asked if he ha 1 struck hi- flag and surrendered, eru memorable words. Although h : s ,_dr -k slippery and streaming with the blood of his gallant crew, his ship was ou lire, Ids gnus were nearly even* one dismounted, his colors shot away, and his vessel gradually sinking, Paul Jones, with an immortal heroism, con tinued to fight. " Do you surrender ?" shouted the English captain, desirous to prevent fur ther bloodshed, and seeing the colors of the Buu Homme Richnrd gone, supposed that the American hero wanted to surrender. And what was, and who can imagine his surprise, so receive in reply to this question, the answer, " / hact not begun to fight vet !*' The scene ! is tuns described : Tuere was a lull in tlu conflict for an instant, and the boldest held his breath as Paul Jones, covered with blood and black with powder sta:in jumped on u ■ broken gun carriage, waving his sword, ex claimed in the never to be forgotten words, " 1 have net begun to fight yet i'' And the result was that the battle changed, and in a few minutes the British ship struck her colors and surendered, and Paul Jones, leaping from his own ship, stood upon the deck o? the Brit ish vessel a conqueror and a hero. What an admirable watchword for the battle y:' life, does the above stirring incident g ~e to every man. Reverse may overwhelm for a time, despair may ask hope to strike her fljg, but planting the foot more firmly, bending the back more readily to the burdens imposed, straining the muscles tothe utmost tension and bracing the drooping heart, let him who is dr.veil to the wall exclaim, " I have not begun to fight yet." They are words of energy, hope and action. They deserve, they will command success. In the darkest hour let thern ring out and forget the past, the years wasted and and gone by, and give them a; an in .neural address of a new era. When tin: misfortunes of life gut er t< o closely around, let your bat tle crv forth from the thickest of the ccufl ct. ' I have not began to an J yon will find your foes tle-iog before the new strength imparted, and yieldiug the vantage a.i you press forward ia the battle strife.— Springtidd Register. Co.VCLUSrON OF A WaTcll-XlGffT SstUTjN 37 Rzv M.s. SPtTßOEu.v.—•' May grace be _ ven you, that ye may be able to pour out your hearts this Dight! Remember, my hearer-, it may .-eeiu a light thing for us to a-semble to-night at such an hour, but 11-ten for one moment to the tie-king of the clock 1— Hen tiie preacher paused, and amid solem i s;.ei:ce every one heard the clock tick with its tick, tak, tick.} —lt is the beating of 'he pulse ot eternity. \ou bear tlx; ticking of that clock ! h is the forMstejw of death panning vou.— Each time the cluck tick-, death's footstep are falling on the ground cluse behind \ >u — V>u will -oou enter another year. T ii y ar will Inve gone in a few seconds, where w i: the next be spent, iny friend ? "In heaven says one, " I tru-t.' : An ithermannars, "i\r h.ips I shaii sj>end nsti.e in hell I" Ah solemn is the tkoogbt Ijot bef<**e that tbeck) k striken twelve, some hr* may be in lie'.! :uoi I. Ed be the name of God some of us may be iu Ileaven I * * * And now I ap preciate tiro power of silence. You w. .Pl _- .-g of that clock ; and each on* -;-en i it as he please-.- [lt was now t*o minutes to twdve and profound siicacu reiga* i, save wbcre sobs and groans could be di-tinctiy L- ard from penitent iip, thing the Sivior. The cltKk having struck Mr. Spurgeon continue 1 You are now where you r.ever were before; aud you never will be again where you uDv; been ta-nigiit." P.ir.s Florra—There are dark hour* that mark the history cf the brigfite c t year. For not a whole mouth in many of the millions of ti c pir, perhaps, has the sua shone hnlii-ntly alt the time. And th re have 1.-cen col ] and *t~ :.rr day® ie every year. And yet the ai . -1 ows of the darkest hour disappear-"d a. ; t. <1 beedlesly. The most croe! Jee-f-tt:-s Lave b -n broken and di-- >lt"hl. n ] :' < most furiuns storm loses i's power to harm. And what a pnraMe i* this in !. -man !.'•— of our ii.-ide world, where the heart work at its destined labors ! H re. t -o, we Lave the overshadowing of the dark I > a many a cold t AS I chills the heart t > con But w-.at iratters it ? Man i* born ah r\ ?.- i it is only in the darkness a: 1 .-tor - ti >t i. r u gains its greatest an i tire -ton r_*- :t more rapidly OJ to it- D.-t.' De-pair not, then. Neither give up ; while oac p | . a tr is yours, use it. D- - • iiitaeat will not rei:r--d. Murtifying fa I .re may at;-. . this effort and that oae—but Oily be honest, and straggle or. and it w.a work we. IVir-r> Ifaiin cr Ttwits Bwhf Inhered yaw call nwl oare-ed htta, fasten hi* -"ar fore foot with s strtng strap round t'.c j-atera and r 't* * *—sr - *' -*. a :i - f.-'-t up - :fe k? hi? 3 !."ri • *" . t j-g* till •:> i< a with T.--r>se round the c? pattern, m .ie a bop. then pe . tie strap that's cn r-fT p-*er and he wiii cc-jie ou hi* knees Mfben on L : - kuees beep the strap tight that he ca;." •:< g-1 h foot -dark to get wp Brir agaii t e burse's shnu'der with your's stead !y cad . - wi.l lie down ia a few minutes. Whca lx •- down stroke him the way the hair fie* Take off the s*runs as sooo he is do*:. You caa BOW do anything with L.ta toj • -n. cr beat a dram aim. Ot>erate on your hon>e u- tali awtae. 1a oftto us c.caicr2 requires. The nti **; o never s iys no: ._r*3 r *h->.p was marr ed lust week to t;* "any **3 never speaks ill of no out-. JgF- H? who lives oa'y to L eccSt Limse'*, g'Tes the worli a tshca be L!- s VOL. XIX. XO. 1. Effect of a Change of Heart. In the Editor's Table of the KnuktrkcJicr for June, v. e lind the following : The incident mentioned beiow actoallv oc curred iu u Jitllo western town, not long SI II Co. "Wv bad, some time ngo, ft protracted meeting held litre ; and an tout; the converted was a certain Mr C who had always beeu considered a "first rate" horse jockey ; in fact, on that subject, he was always " well." At 1 the time of his conversion He vtas proprietor of a very fast trotter ; and what to do with l is " 2 40 nut," he was at a loss to know; hut one day, shortly after he hud become a pillar of the church, he met ids old friend L a noted dealer iu fancy horses. " Friend L he said, I have awakened to a sense of the evil eour-e 1 have formerly pursued ; I have realized a change, and joined the church ; and I intend to hud a different life in future."— L replied that 1-e was glad to hear it, for you know, <_' •, that you have " lifted' luti iu oar trades many a time ; and now I hope you will be a little ea>lir with u poor fellow " •" Well," says C , * you know I am the ! owner of the fastest trotting-horse iu this ! country, an 1 the change that 1 haveexerienced will not admit of iy keeping such an animal. To make a long story short, I will sell him to : you ( ri ice Aire alicuys been good friends) for scveu hundred Jullars !" L objected, and gave as a reason, that be had not that amount of tuoii.y just then to invest iu horse-flesh.— ; "Never mind that," replied C , " X will sell you the horse cn tinu, and you caa un* that tnuca with him before nest fail What IS Gjlo LICE.—GoId Jsce b not gold ; iace. it does not deserve this title, fortln ' gold is applied as a surface to s Iver. It is | not even s.iver I ice, for the silver is applied to ! a foundation of ei.k. The silken threads for making this material are wound round with gold wire, so thickly as to conceal the silk ; a d the tank ug of this gold wire is one of tit* i most singular mechanical operations iinagiaa bie. In tie first place the refiner prepares a solid ;*>i of si.ver, about au inch iu he heats this rod, applies upon the surface u coating vt gold teal, burnishes this down, up ; piies a .other coating, burnishes this down, ami ! so on. until the gold is about one hundretii ; part the thick ie-a of the silver. Then the rod is subjected to a train of processes which brings it down to the state of fine wire, it is passid through a steel plate. lessening step by step i. diameter. The gold never de- FU the silver, but a due res ciosdy to it, and shares all its mntatio's ; it is one hundretii part the thick ne-s of s.iver at the beginning, and it main loins tin; sa.ue rat oto tlxs end. As to tha thinness to .vi.icli the goid-eoated rod of sil ver can be brought, the limit de silver to the usual wire- Jr .Vug pruc.--. until he had brought it to t e fii.-st attai able state —being in fart, a s.. .er re a- fi eas a hair, with a gold vira in thv aire. Fj isolate this gold wire ha subjected it to warm i.kroos acid, by which liie - ver was dissolved, leaving a gild wire o:.c tl; rty ;!. laandth part of an inch in thick ness—pe; caps the tl. :ne>t round wire that the ha tJ of man has yet produced But thi* w.re thootrh beyond a!i corapariaoo finm thai ay employed in taanu fact arcs, docs not arv p-oae 1 : in * n < -* * thai of g-.-!d on tue ear face of sijt. r i.i go! 1 I ice. It has sorrh ig--.end as the blood flowed from h.s lips !je felt a sotij snbstance • some ■- v pes them. Oa exam i .lnc • a bloed t -••• •, ip a bug with six i.or rjy . tad in ■ .i-tt :r *t entered the sobsti'iee of da 1 H la i th-'n iiateiied, as the aenraJiov ■>f espelßeg iiaelii tmbftny a }GTt ?ci of the organ. it sr? y~ i r '*er urr dear *" fv£ a_• f . '*' t-"-v -> ,o was -dang ■ . " V . _* ! • g'uin-es a* 3 p • ;'.:22 . A s 1 vi: T ylug 3 V;s*t. " I a.T3 g. c: •. .1 ... *•> s"a;.'." 1 cat *:t of tl.-s ' r "at [; .t - -rcu* hi a " I k It*.- Oct "* JHV A ■ red inbebatg was risitei v itV. h id "* My dear, would fee *v, exccated J"" Jf#," e. ' Tbat's jus: J.ke you." said she, yoa nevtr the dddi* to ba"re cy -rjajmeut parson once preface*! his eraam with : *■ My fr>nl?. let as -say a few word* before H t bt _ T .is is about tqtil to tbe •p who took a short rep before he feat to sic^p.