,:)PLUR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
finrsday Morning, March 31, 1859.
jstledtb |)oetrn.
NOTHING IS LOST.
Xotbinff i lost; tbe drop of dew
Which trembles on the leaf or flower
fi but exhaled to fall anew
In maimer's thunder shower;
perchance to shine within the bow
flat fronts the sun at fall of dajr
Perchance to sparkle in the flow
Of fountains far away.
Nothing is lost; the tiniest seed,
By wild birds borne or breezes blown,
finds something suited to its need,
Wherein 'tis sown and grown.
The language of some household song,
The perfume of some cherished flower,
Though gone from outward sense, belong
To memory's after hour.
go with our w rds : harsh, or kind,
Uttered, they arc not all forgot;
Tbev leave their influence on the mind,
Paw on, hut perish not!
go with our deeds ; for good or ill
Tbet have their power, scarce understood ;
Then let us use our better will
To make them rife with good!
glisttllantotts.
[From the Knickerbocker Magazine.]
A SCENE OF ARKANSAS LIFE.
TRStIT OF HOSPITALITY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
In the early settlement of Arkansas, a tra
cer, after riding some eight or ten miles
without meeting a human being, or seeing a
:>,MQ habitation, came at length, by a sud
jtn turn of the road, to a miserable " shanty,"
the centre of a small clearing, in what had
been a " Black-jack thicket," wheuce the only
(Mud that proceeds is the discordant music of
a broken-wind fiddle, from the troubled bowels
; which the occupant is laboriously extorting
the monotonous tune known as "The Arkan
<i, or Rackensack Traveller." Our traveller
rides up to within a few feet of the door, which
m ouce the bed-frame of a cart-body, now co
■ rered with bear skins, and hung upon two big
Wooden hinges. After much shouting, the in
flate appears, fiddle in baud, and evidently
I wrathy" at beiug interrupted in the exercises
I J his art. The following colloquy eusues, the
' iadefatigable fiddler still playing the first
train of " The Arkansas Traveller," which in
| fact he coutinues, at sudden intervals, until
the dialogue, as will be seer., is brought to an
conclusion. If this be not " seek
ne lodgings under difficulties," we should like
irokuow what might be be legitimately socon
j udercd :
Tnveller —Friend, can T obtain nccorumo
| dation for the night with you ?
Arkansaic —No, sir, 'nary accommodation.
Tmrrller —My dear sir, I have already tra
-elied thirty miles to-day, and neither myself
sor my horse has had a mouthful to eat : why
ant you accommodate me for to-night ?
I Arkansate —Just 'case it can't be did. We're
piam out of everything to eat in the house :
Bills gone to mill with the last nubbin of corn
on these premises, and it'll be nigh onto the
shank of to-morrow eveuiu' afore he cuius
Some, unless suthin oncommon happens.
Traveller —You surely have something that
1 can feed to my horse ; even a few potatoes
*onld be better than no food.
Arkansaw —Stranger, our eatiu'-roots gin
out about a week ago ; so your chance is slim
liar.
Traveller —But, my friend, I must remain
with you, any way. I can't go any farther,
whether I obtain anything to eat or not. You
will certainly allow me the shelter ot your
roof ?
Arkansaw —lt can't be did, old boss. You
Roe we've got only one dried hide on the pre
mises, and me and the ole woman alius occu
pies that : so whar's your chance ?
Travoller —Allow nie to hitch my horse to
that persimmon tree, and with my saddle and
blanket I'll make a bed iu the fence corner.
Arkansaw —Hitch your hoss to that 'sim
montrec?- 'in a horn, ?' Why, you must be
8 nat'ral fool, stranger ! Don't you see that's
me and the ole woman's only chance for 'sim
mon beer, in the fall of the year? If your
hoss is so tarnal hungry as you say he is, he'd
girdle it as high up as he could reach, afore
morning'. Hitch your hoss to that tree? I
not ; no, no, stranger, you can't come
nar J sich a dodge as that!
Our traveller, seeing that he had an origin
ai to deal with, and being himself an amateur
performer n pon the instrument to which the
settler was so ardently attached, thought he
w ould change his tactics, and draw his deter
mined not-to-be " host" out a little, before in
forming him of the fact that he too could play
f" e " Arkansas Traveller," which once beiug
n owu, he rightly conjectured, would be a pass-
P° r t to his better graces :
Traveller —Well, frieud, I can't stay, how i
#r 1S R to the next house ?
Arakansair —Ten miles ; and you'll think
ie . v are mighty long ones, too, afore yon get
thpKi <vame i| igh outo forgcttin' to tell you,
ig creek is up; the bridge is carried off ;
' mr * V . yeartb 'y chance to ford it, yer'll
ln e i' , a^ out sev eti miles up stream, to ole
th*. "i j S P unc seon bridge, through one of
r „,. , ' arn , bam boo-swam [is ever you see. I
(V- • ' 8 standin' yet—'twas yester
) moruin' : though one end had started
Jwn stream about fifteen feet or sich a mat
\^! rr r ' en d, you seem communicative:
von \ ! S ,10 I .°^ eace ' I'd like to know what
you do for a living here ?
Arkansaw—^ o offence on yearth, stranger:
* e Just keep a grocery. b '
of groc ery ! Where in the name
come r ,S mercant 'le do your customers
disU'' Ur DCarest nei gbbor is ten miles
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
Arkansaw —The fact is, me and the ole wo
man are the best customers yet ; but we 'spect
these diggins will improve, aud in course, busi
ness will improve too. Hows'ever, we do suthin
now even. Me and the ole woman tuk the
cart t'other day, aud went to town : we bort
a bar'l of whiskey : and after we come come,
and 'gin to couut the balance on hand, we
found that thar want but jist one solitary pic
ayune left, and as the ole woman alius carries
the pus, in course she had it. Well, we sot
the bar'l agin the side of the room, and short
ly arter, the ole woman sez : " Snpposin' you
tap your end of the bar'l," and I did ; and she
bo't a drink and paid me the picayune. Pretty
soon, I began to get dry, aud says I : " Ole
woman sposin' you tap your end of the bar'l ?"
—and she did ; and then she sells me a driuk :
and the way that picayune has traveled back
'ards and for'ards over the bung of that bar'l
is a cantion to them as loves " red eye." But
stranger, losses is apt to come with every bu
siness ; and me and the ole woman has lost
some in the grocery line ; and I'll tell how
'twas : That boy Bill, is our oldest son, he see
how the licker was goin,' and he did'nt have
nary red to jine in the retail bisiness ; so one
night he crawls under the house, and taps the
bar'l atwixt the cracks in the puncheon floor ;
and I r'ally believe he got more than me or
the ole woman either ; the good-for-nothing
vagabond, come to " giraff"' over his nateral
born parents : it's enuff to make a mau sour
agiu all creation ; that boy'll be the ruiu of us
yet. lie takes to trickery jist as nateral as a
hungry 'possum takes to the hen-roost. Now,
stranger, what on yearth am I to do ? He
beats me and the ole woman entirely.
Traveller —lt would be difficult for me to
advise iu regard to your sou, as I have no fam
ily of my own. You say it is ten miles to the
next house ; the big creek is up ; the bridge
is carried away ; no possibility of fording it,
and seven miles through a swamp to the only
bridge in the vicinity ! This is rather a gloo
my prospect, particularly as the sun is just
about down ; still, my curiosity is excited, and
as you have been playing only one part of the .
" Arkansas Traveler," ever since my arrival, I
would like to know before I leave, why you
dou't play the tune through ?
Arkansaw —For one of the best reasons on j
yearth, old hoss—l can't do it. I huint larnt ]
the turn of that tchuue, and drat me if I be
lieve I ever shall.
Traveller —Give me the instrument, and I'll
see if I can't play the turn for you.
Arkansaw —Look here, my frieiul, do you
play the turn of that tchuue.
Traveller —l believe I can.
Arkansaw —'Lite, 'lite, ole hoss I— we'll find
place for you in the cabin. Ole woman ! ole
woman ! (a " hallo !" within the shanty was
the first indication the traveler had of any oth- \
er human being on the premises,) the stranger
plavs the turn of the "llaekensack Traveller."
My friend, hitch your hoss to the 'simmon tree, j
or any where else you please. Ole woman call
Sal and Nance up from the spring-house, and
cut off a good large piece of bar-steak, to brile j
for the stranger's supper : tell Sal to knock j
over a chicken or two, and get out some flour,
and have some flour doin's and some chicken- j
fixin's for the stranger. (Bill just heaves in
sight, twenty-four hours earlier than he was
expected a half hour before.) Bill, O Bill,
there's a stranger here and he plays the turn
of the " llaekensack Traveller go to the
corn crib aud get a big puukin, and bring it to
the house, so the stranger can have suthin to
sit on, and skin a 'tater 'long with me and the
ole woman, while the gals is gettin' supper :
and Bill, take the hoss and give him plenty of
corn : no nubbins, Bill : then rub him down
well : and then, when you come to the house,
bring up a dried hide and a bar-skin, for the
stranger to sleep on : and then, I reckou he'll
play the turn of the " llaekensack Traveller "
for us.
The "punkin " was brought ; the " 'taters"
were " skinned " and eaten; the turn of the
" llaekensack Traveller" was repeatedly play
ed, to abundant edifieatiou ; and the " gals "
finally announced that " supper was ready
and although instead of "store tea," they only
had " saxifax-tea-doiu's," without milk, yet
the repast was one to be long and gratefully
remembered. The traveller remained all night,
and was safely piloted over the " big creek"
early the next morning. Of a truth, " music
has charms to sooth the savage breast."
How COFFEE CAME TO BE L'SED. —At the
I time Columbns discovered America, coffee had
never been known or used. It only grew in
Arabia and Upper Ethiopia. The discovery
of its use as a drink is ascribed to the superior
of a monastery iu Arabia, who, desirous of
preventing the monks from sleeping at their
nocturnal services, made them drink the infu
sion of coffee, upon the report of some shep
herds, who observed that their flocks were
more lively after browsing on the fruit of that
plant. Its reputation rapidly spread through
the adjacent countries, and iu about two hun
dred years it reached Paris. A single plant
brought there in 1614, became the parent
stock of all the coffee plantations in the West
iDdies. The extent of consumption can now
hardly be realized. The United States alone
annually consume at the cost of its landing
from fourteen to fifteen millions of dollars. You
may kuow the Arabia or Mocha, the best cof
fee, by its small bean and dark color. The
Java and East India, the next in quality, is a
larger bean and of a pale yellow color. The
West ludia Rio has a blue, greenish grey
tint.
WOULDN'T BITE SUCH BAIT. —Onr friend
Jones has been doing homage to a pair of
bright eyes, and talking tender things by moon
light, lately. A few evenings since he resol
ved to " make his destiny secure." Accord
ingly he fell on his kness before the fair dulci
nea, and made his passion known. Mach to
his surprise she refused him outflat. Jumping
to his feet he informed her that there were as
good fish in the sea as ever were caught. Judge
of the exasperation of our worthy swain, when
she coolly replied ; " Yes, but they don't bite
at toads !"
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
General JLckson's Duel with a " Dead
Shot"
We extract from a cotemporarv's account,
the chief items of interest connected with the
extraordinary duel between Gen. Jackson and
a notorious gambler named Dickinson, which
occurred on the 29th of April, 1807, near the
State line between Kentucky and Tennessee.
It appears that Jackson and Dickinson had
staked five hundred dollars on a horse race, and
Jackson proved winner. He took Dickinson's
note for the amount, and was satisfied with the
endorsement. Jackson had many enemies who
feared as well as hated him, aud they natu
rally crowded around Dickinson, and laid in
wait for the first opportunity that might pre
sent itself to briug him iu collision with the
latter. This was the first occasion, aud they
made use of it, in violation of all truth and
mercy, for they forced Dickinson—who it seems
was, in some respects, of an amiable and cred
ulous disposition—beyond his own animosity
aud suspicions, to believe that Jacksou hud
disparaged the character of his note in some
way or other ; and hence the challenge. Jack
son denied the charge entirely, but it failed to
conciliate Dickinson, or even to be believed by
him, against the representations of those who
were thus usiug him to got their enemy out of
the way ; and the challenge was accepted.—
The two principals were accompanied to the
fatal spot by teu or twelve friends each. Six
teen feet was the distance at which the duel
was to be fought, which will be better appre
ciated by reflecting that it is only five paces
and one foot. Now couple this with the fact
that Dickinson, the day before, practicing at
the image of a man, fired four balls instanta
neously after the command each time, into a
space capable of being covered with a silver
dollar, and some idea can be formed of the bar
barity of duels iu those days. It is said, also,
on the same good authority, that Dickinson
was so confident of killing Jackson, that he
was induced to authorize bets to the amount
of three thousand dollars that such would be
the case. All that now remained was for the
attendants to retire to a safe position and give
the words of command. They fired, but no
one fell. But an instant revealed the state of
affairs, and Dickinson's friends ran forward to
sustain him. A dark stream of blood spurted
from his side, and an ominous indication was
afforded in the fruitless endeavors to staunch
it. A bendiug paw-paw bush, standing hard
by, afforded a convenient place to recline him
while undergoing the process of examination.
It was found that the ball had entered the
side above the point of the hip-bone, and be
low the ribs, and, passing entirely though the
body, was retarded by the opposite hip bone,
and lodged just within the skin. The smull
difficulty of extraction but showed the great
danger of the wound ; and all hope was soon
destroyed by the discovery of mingled hemor
rhage and purgings. The first thing, on dis
covering the nature of the wound, was to dis
patch a courier to Dickinson's wife with the
intelligence that he was " dangerously wound
ed." He was then conveyed back to his lodg
ings. Here he was placed in a room, and on
two feather beds, underlaid by two mattrasses.
He writhed iu unremitting torture until he was
too far gone to exhibit his sufferings, and gave
vent all the while to his agony iu the most aw
ful blasphemy. So profuse was the flow from
the wound, that it passed all through his bed
ding, and required it to be cleaned up every
few hours. Thus he progressed uutil nine iu
the evening. The bed stood in the middle of
the floor, and a brilliant light illuminated the
room, when the clock struck nine ; just then
he asked, complainingly, why they had blown
out the candle and left him in the dark. The
surgeon shook his head, for he knew the infal
lible omen. He had gone completely blind.—
The last spark of light went out to him on
earth. Again he commenced cursing, and with
in five minutes from the time of blindness, his
spirit had fled from that suffering body. Dick
inson was a man of great wealth, aud was the
husband of a blooming wife of twenty-five.—
He lived in Nashville, now, as then, the capi
tal of Tennessee. He arose several hours be
fore dawn on the day he left home. His wife
was ignorant of the duel ; and being aroused
by his restless pacing to and fro, asked what
was the matter. He told her that he was to
start that morning, on business, across Red
River, in Kentucky ; but that he would be sure
to be back "by to-morrow night." Then ap
proaching the bed, and taking her checks be
tween his hands, he kissed her for the last time,
remarking tenderly, "Good-by, darling!" and
immeaiately set off with his party. With what
soul-crushing effect the dreadful tidings fell up
on her heart we may endeavor, at heart to im
agine. Suffice it to say that her carriage had
accomplished the long day's ride while it was
yet early in the evening of the day following
his death, and she arrived in the neighborhood
before the news had spread more than a few
miles on the road along which she came. She
first heard of his death about three miles from
where he was ; and at every breath uttered a
piercing shriek, until she reached the object of
her deep distress. Iler youth and beauty ad
ded much to the great sympathy all felt for in
her sad bereavement. When she reached his
lifeless form, she rushed upon it in a frenzy of
grief, aud gave vent to her feelings in kisses,
embraces and wild lamentations. His coffin
soon arrived from a neighboring village, and,
after passing the lonely vigils of the night in
holding an affectionate guardianship over his
mortal remains, she set off, next morning, to
conduct the mournful cortege. Gen. Jackson
was also wounded, Dickinson's ball having
ploughed across his breast to the depth of one
half its thickness.
teTlf yon love others they will love you.
If you speak kiudly to others they will speak
kindly to yon. Love is repaid with love, and
hatred with hatred. Would yoa hear a sweet
and pleasing echo, speak sweetly and pleasant
ly yourself.
It was observed of a celebrated phy
sician, that be never said in company, " I
drink your health," but " My service to you."
CURIOUS ATTACK OF ANTS. —One morning,
during my residence in Trinidad, I observed an
uncommon number of chasseur ants crawiing
abont the floor of the room. They did not
crawl upon my person, but it was surrounded
by them. Shortly after this, the walls of the
room became covered by them, aud next, they
began to take possession of the tables and
chairs. I now thought it necessary to take re
fuge in an adjoining room only separated by a
few ascending steps from the one we occupied;
aud this was not accomplished without great
care and generalship; for had we trodden up
on one we should have been summarily punish
ed. There were several ants on the 6tep of the
stairs, but they were not near so numerous as
iu the room we had left; but the upper room
presented a singular spectacle ; not only were
the floor and walls covered like the other room
but the roof was covered also.
The open rafters of a West Indian house, at
times afford shelter to a numerous tribe of in
sects, more particularly the cockroach ; but
now their destruction was inevitable. The
chasseur ants, as if trained for battle, ascend
ing in regular, thick files to the rafters, and
threw down the cockroaches to their comrades
on the floor who, as regularly marched off with
the dead bodies of cockroaches, dragging them
away by their united efforts with amazing ra
pidity. Either the cockroaches were stung to
death on the rafter, or else the fall killed them.
The ants never stopped to devour their prey,
but conveyed it all to their store house. The
windward windows of the room were glass, and
a battle now ensued between the ants and jack
Spaniards, on the panes of glass. The jack
Spaniard may be called the wasp of the West
Indies ; it is twice as large as a British wasp,
and its sting is in proportion more painful. It
builds its uest in trees and old houses, and
sometimes in the rafters of a room. The jack
Spaniards were not quite such easy prey, for
they used their wings, which not one cockroach
had attempted. Two jack Spaniards, hotly pur
sued on the window, alighted on the dress of
one of my children. In an almost inconceiva
ble short time, a party of ants crawed npon
her frock, surrounded and covered the jack
Spaniards, and crawled again to the floor, drag
ging off their prey, and doing the child no harm.
From this room I went into an adjoining bed
chamber and dressing-room, aud found them
equally in the possession of the chasseurs. I
opened a large military chest of linens, which
had been much infested ; for I was determined
to take every advantage of such able hunters ;
I found the ants already inside ; I suppose
that they must have got in at some opening of
the hinges. I pulled out the linens on the floor
and with them hundreds of cockroaches, not
one of which escaped.
We now left the honse, and went to the
chamber, built at a little distance ; but these
also were in the same state. I next proceeded
to open a store room at the other end of the
house, for a place of retreat, but to get the key
I had to return to the under room, where the
battle was now more hot than ever ; the ants
had commenced an attack upon the rats and
mice, and strange as it may appear, they were
not a match for their apparently insignificant
foes They surrounded them as they had the
insect tribe, covered them over, and dragged
them off, with a celerity and union of strength,
that no one who has not watched such a scene
can comprehend. I did not see one mouse or
rat escape, and I am sure I saw a score car
ried off iu a very short period. I think it was
about teu when I first observed the ants j and
about twelve the battle was formidable ; soon
after one o'clock the greatest strife commenced
with the rats and mice, and about three the
houses were cleared. Iu a quarter of an hour
more the ants began to decamp, and soon not
one was to be seeu within doors.— Sketches of
the I i est Indies.
A DILEMMA. —The following example of ni
cety of conscience is as good a jest as it is a
model of truth :
Dr. Adam Clarke, the author of the celebra
ted "Commentaries on the Bib'e," on being
admitted into full connection with his religious
denomination, was asked, as usual, certain
questions. Among other questions always ask
ed at that time, was the following : " Are you
in debt?" Through rather a whimsical inci
dent, this question was likely to have deeply
puzzled and non plussed Mr. Clarke. Walk
ing in the street that morning, with another
preacher, a poor man asked a halfpenny. Mr.
C. had none, but. borrowed one from the preach
er who was walking with him. The preacher
happening to go out of town, he could not see
him during the day to pay this small sum.—
When he stood up with the others, he knew
not what to sav, when the question "Arc yon
in debt ?" should be proposed. He thought, "if
I say 1 am in debt, they will ask me how much!
and when I say I owe a ha If-penny, they will
naturally suppose me to be a fool. If I say I
am not in debt, this will be a lie ; for I owe
one half-penny, and am as truly under the obli
gation to pay as if the sum were tweutv pounds,
and while I owe that, 1 cannot, consistently
with eternal truth, say lam not in debt." He
was now most completely in the horns of a di
lemma ; and which to take he knew not ; and
the question being put to him before lie could
make up his mind—" Mr. Clarke, are you in
debt?" he resolved the difficulty in a moment,
by answering— " Xot one FENNY."
OS?" They who have loved have not existed
in vain. Whenever and wherever this affection
has been bestowed, the noblest privilege of life
has been exercised—its highest ordination ful
filled. It may be that the responseless depths
of the grave have received the form of the lo
ved one—that there is mourniug and blackness
where all was once so joyous and beautiful, that
clouds have settled down npon onr pathway, in
such a manner as to leave us but few joys—
but there is something superior to all these mu
tations in the sweet recollections of having
once been all the world to another : yea a com
fort which ever remaineth even when the cold
realities of life threaten to make ns think that
we have been but dreamers of au oldeu
! dream !
SOMETHING ABOUT ICEBERGS. —Few sights in
nature are more imposing than the huge sol
itary iceberg, as, regardless alike of wind and
tide, it steers its course across the face of the
deep far away from land. Like one of the
frost giants of Scandinavian mythology, it is
sues from the portals of the North armed with
great blocks of stone, l'roudly it sails on.—
The waves that dash in foam against its sides
shake not the strength of its crystal walls, nor
tarnish the sheen of its emerald waves. Sleet
and snow, storm and tempest, are its congeni
ul elements. Night falls around, and the stars
are reflected tremulonsly from a thousand peaks,
and from the green depths of " caverns meas
ureless to tnan."
The visible portion of an iceberg is onlv
about oue-ninth part of the real bulk of the
whole mass; so that if ouebeseen 100 feet
high, the lowest point may, perhaps, be a way
down 800 feet below the waves. Now it is
easy to see that such a moving island will of
ten grate across tbe summit and along the sides
of submarine hills ; and when the lower part
of the berg is roughened over with earth stones,
the surface of the rock over which it passes
will be torn up and dispersed, or smoothed and
striated, while the boulders imbedded iu the
ice will be striated in turn. But seme bergs
have been seen rising 300 feet over the sea ;
and if their submarine portions sank to the
maximum depth, must have reached the enor
mous total bight of 2,700 feet. By such a
mass any rock or mountain top 2,400 feet be
low the surface of the ocean would be polish
ed and grooved ; and'succeeding bergs tle|K>si
ting mud ami boulders upon it, this smoothed
surface might be covered up and suffer no
change until the ocean bid should be slowly
upheaved to the light of day. In this way sub
marine rock surfaces at all depths, from the
coast line down to 2,000 or 3,000 feet, may
be stretched and polished, and eventually en
tombed in mud. It is upon this theory only
that we are able to account for the inanv huge
boulders that lie scattered about upou the
mountain, valley, aud plain.
CAUSE OF THE FIRST MURDER. —We are in
formed in the Sacred History, that Cain slew-
Abel because of the preference shown to the
sacrifice of the latter ; but we have no intima
tion given us of the reason for that preference.
There is, however, an Oriental tradition still
extant, which accounts for it in this wise. It
says that Cain and Abel, hoving each of them
a twin sister, as soon as they all became mar
riageable, Adam proposed to them, that Cain
should marry the twin sister of Abel and Abel
the twiu sister of Cain ; alleging as his reason
for the proposal, that as their circumstances
obliged them to marry their sisters, it was pro
per that they should marry those that were
seemingly the least related to them. To this
proposal Cain would uot agree, and insisted on
having his own twin sister, because she was
fairer than the other. Adam displeased at his
disobedience, referred the dispute to the deci
sion of the Lord ; he ordered his sons to bring
each an offering before him ; and told them
that the offering which had the preference
would be a declaration in favor of him who
presented it. On the offerings being brought,
aud that of Abel accepted, Cain, stimulated by
jealousy and resentment, as soon as they came
down from the Mount where they had been
sacrificing, fell upon his brother and slew him.
Forney's I'ress.
IDLE BOYS. —He who is idle and vicious in
school, is still more so when he leaves it. He
who fires squibs will in time fire pistols. He
who plays cards for sport, will, if he turns not,
play ere long for money. He who robs hen
roosts aud orchard*, will probably some day
rob safes and pocket books. He may not do it
in the way to expose himself to the peniten
tiary ; he may have his wits so sharpened as
to rob legally, by setting up a wild-cat bank,
or betraying the confidence of his employer; or
obtaining possession of property without the
means of paying for it; or by getting his hand
upon the public coffers, that he may fill his
own, under the soft appellation of "breach of
trust."
I would that you could see with my eyes for
a little ; yon would think with me, that he who
when a boy could not be trusted, cannot now
when he is a man. It would not be proper for
me to mention names, or 1 could illustrate this
by numerous painful examples. But they are
not necessary. Effects will follow causes : as
a mar. sows, so shall he reap : boyhood is the
seed-time of which niunhood is the harvest.
As, therefore, you love yourselves form the
habit while young of employing all your time
usefully. Never be unemployed. The land is
full of idlers striving to live without labor. It
is not to be supposed that yon are never to take
recreatiou ; this is useful, it is necessary ; but
if it come after hard study or productive labor,
it will probably lie healthful and moderate.—
An honorable mind, in the desire for relaxa
tion, will not go forth in forms of mischievous
exertion. It is not to be supposed that a boy
is to be a man, much less an old man ; but in
the midst of his mirth and hilarity he may be
iunocent aud amiable.
Asa?" In 1082, Galileo, then a youth of
eighteen, was seated in a church, when the
lamps suspended from the roof were replen
ished by the sacristan, who, iu doing so, caused
them to oscillate from side to side as they had
done hundreds of times before when similarly
disturbed. He watched the lamp, and thought
he perceived that while the oscillations were
diminishing they still occupied the same time.
The idea thus suggested never departed from
his mind, and fifty years afterwards he con
structed the first pendulum, and thus gave to
the world one of the most important instru
ments for the measure of time. Afterwards,
when living in Venice, it was reported to him
one day that the children of a poor spectacle
maker, while playing with two glasses, had ob
served, as they expressed it, that things were
brought nearer by looking through them in a
certain position. Everybody said how curious,
but Galileo seir.ed the idea and iuveutcd the
' first telescope.
VOL. XIX. NO. 43.
I CURIOSITIES OK HUMAN FOOD —Mankind has
been wonderfully ingenious from its in fa cy, in
the concoction of edible varieties. Apart from
baked human thighs in Feejec, and boiled fin
gers in Sumatra, there are sundry culinary fash
ions still extant which must be marvelously un
intelligible to a conventionalized appetite. Not
that it appears strange to eat duck's tongues
in China, kangaroos in Australia, or the loose
covering of the great elk's nose in New Bruns
wick. Not even is it startling to see an Ksqui
manx eating his daily rations, twenty pounds iu
weight of flesh and oil, or the Yakut compe
ting iu voracity with a boa constrictor. But
who would relish a stew of red ants in Bur
mah, a half-hatched egg in China, monkey cut
lets and parrot pies at Rio Janeiro, and baf s
! in Malabar, or polecats and prairie wolves in
| North America? Yet there can be littlo
■ doubt that these are unwarrantable prejudices.
Or. Shaw enjoyed lion ; Mr Darwin had a
; passion for puma ; Dr. Brooke makes affida
vit that melted bear's grease is tbe most re
freshing potion. And how can we disbelieve,
after the testimony of Hippocrates, as to the
Havor cf boiled dog ? If squirrels are edible iu
the East, and rats in the West Indies—if a
sloth be good on the Amazon, and elephant's
paws iu South Africa, why should we compas
sionate such races as have little beef or mut
ton ? fjr we may be quite sure that if, as Mon
tesquiu affirms, there are valid reasons for not
eating pork, there are reasoos quite unimpeach
able for eating giraffe, alapaca, mermaid's
tails, bustard and anaconda.
MISK IV A BACKWOODS TAVERN—THE LAND
LORD SMELLS SOMETHING. —A short time since
a gentleman and lady were traveling in Michi
gan, and having missed the stage, were com
pelled to take a private conveyance from the
town of Scudcri to Thomnstown. The lady
had with her a beautiful little lap dog, which
she carried on her lap on an embroidered mat.
During the ride the husband discovered he had
no handkerchief, when the lady lent him hers,
which was fashionably scented with mask.—
About half way between the two towns the
carriage broke down, in the mindst of hard
rain, and they were obliged to take refuge in
the half way house—a "one horse" log tavern,
consisting of t%vo rooms—a bar-room acd lodg
ing room. The lady laid her lap-dog on its
mat before the fire, and lur husband and her
self took seats. In a short time the gentleman
had an occasion to use his handkerchief, and
took it out, leaving it lying on his knee when
he got through with it In a few moments tho
landlord opened the door, put his head in, look
ed arouiid, went out, came in, gazed at the dog
—his nostrils a!! the while upturned in intense
disgust. He finally appeared satisfied, went
to the outside door, opened it, came back with
a bound, seized the lap dog by the tail, and
hurled him howling through the open door full
ten rods into the forest. The wife fainted ;
the husband rose to his feet, terribly enraged,
and wanted to know what did that for.—
" That's my dog," continued he furiously.—
" Don't care a cuss whose dog it it," said the
man gruffly and impetuously ; I aiu't going to
have no such blasted smeliing varment around
my tavern." The husband and wife evacuated
the house instantly, and proceeded on their
way in the rain.
teJ- It has been well remarked, that no man
can judge of the happiness of another As
the moon plays upon the waves, and seems to
our eyes to favor with a peculiar l>eam one
long track amid the waters, leaving the rest in
comparative obscurity—yet all the while she is
110 niggard in her luster ; for though the rays
that meet not our eyes are to us as though
they were not, yes she, with an equal and un
favorable lovliuess mirrors herself on every
wave, even so, perhaps, happiness falls with
the same brightness and power over the whole
expanse of life, though to our limited eyes alio
seems only to rest on those billows from wliuh
the ray is reflected back to our sight.
FIDELITY. —Never forsake a friend. When
enemies gather around—when sickness falls ou
the heart—when the world is dark and cheer
less—then is the time to try true friendship.
They who turn from the scene of distress, be
tray their hypocrisy, and prove that interest
only moves them. If you have a friend who
loves you aud studies your interest and happi
ness—be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let
him feel that his former kindness is apprecia
ted, and that his love was not thrown away.
Ileal fidelity may be rare, but it exists in the
heart. Who lias not seen and felt its power ?
They only deny its worth a-d power, who ne
ver have loved a friend, or labored to make a
friend happy.
Doctor Lardner says it is a startling fact
that if tlie earth were dependent alone upon
the sun lor heat, it would not get enough to
insure the existence of animal and vegetable
life upon the surface. It results from the re
searches of Fouilit, thnt the stars furnish heat
enough in the course of a year to melt a ernst
of ice seventy-live feet thick, almost as much
as is supplied by the sun.
Hallow the universal heart of man blesses
flowers! They are wreathed around the cra
dle, the marriage altar and the tomb. Tho
Cnpid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his ar
rows with flowers, and orange flowers nro a
bridal crown with us—a nation of yesterday.
Flowers garlanded the Grecian altar, and hung
in votive wreaths before the Christian shrine,
j —Mrs. Child.
ta&~ Love is like music. Some instrument*
can go up two octaves, some four, aud some
all the way from black thnnder to sharp light
ning. As some of them are susceptible only of
me'o ly, so some hearts can sing but one song
of 1 ve, while others will run in a fuil choral
j harmony.
Jtjr Tears of beauty are like clo ids floating
over a heaven of stars, bedimraing them for a
moment that they may shine with greater ln.-
tre than before.