VDJUAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
jjarebao fllormun, June 10. 1858.
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[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<e islands of the
Pa Hie a.id Indian Occaus, the women, as well
is the meu, tattoo a great variety of figures
> 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 _- .-<?
observe strict and sol -am -l_-:iee unt ! the
str.k :>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 d<pends on th
delicacy of huoraa skill ; but the most retnar
kable example ever known was broaght for'
ward by I)-. Wollaston. Tnis wis au exam
pic of ? : J gold wire without any silver. lia
j.'cccivd n siiiuil rod ot silver, bored a hula
through it in .a end to end, and inserted iu
this hole ti.t s uai goi J wire he eouid pro
rare } he sol jected tl>e 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 s<een eal
eulatt i that the gold oa the very finest aiirer
w.re : r z d tec is not more titan oas-tmrd
of one todliooth of an inch in thickness ; that
v n*'t ui -ve oce teuth the th.ckriesa of ord;-
: i r itaf -gold.
Tv-r-r rv THi. Lrxcs.—Tr.n E*sor;l!e
J re. .?• v that ay mg -jsa .of that citv
l.sd been for swit months afl ed with a i.
rions en ugh and hemorrhage* from fhe lungs rr
t it .t wh< fart 1 he wis entering into a fatal
consumption. Dot he was relieved in a sinyi
lar wanner. On night be was attacked, w'i'n
;:i bed, with a vioknt fit of coughing, which
wv. | leaved with a Cflniow hen>orrh 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 <!• iicate wig, was foonJ
in it. Tbe bead f • • i *<*rt was cot of pro
jvrti-m to if boi'y ie fon&er was -f it
km of a nA nea, With eye* dstiaetlr per
cpti v'. 't IT ~ I, T,Y W.JS only the s'z* of a
i.c,? gnia 4 ' tviey. • thiiw ras aMre
a* i Br:ir. f'.ve i.iiis oc~;rrecice, the o
p!-as£.:it s?:,vac:- 1 eve peeved off, and the
coo?k be* pirsd. and the 0..1y trouble has
beeM cr.e *i"-ght benmnbsge a day or twoafrer
eepeeSocaling tire bug. The saflbfw is of the
Opnim that he inhaled the larva, or egg of
the itt-eci, awd tr> :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 f<va
bbe tbe cbibim to >ee *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.