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Two bright little angels were watching abnve i
Their faces were shining with Jo) and with I
I worUlered why thus, amid raptures so great,
They:lingering stood beside Heaven's °yeti ga
I said to theie. "Sweet are the songs that ye t.
Awl ientily Ye Join to the chorus of praise;.
All Heaven Is your portion, then why do ye W 3,1
With looks of expectancy, ciose by its gate?" 1
Willi thus I had spoken, the angels replied:
"We'two, w . lien on earth, were a sweet mot
pride;
Ah !dearly she loved us; but we could not wal
And entered without her the fair, pearly gate.
" Deep , . deep was her borrow, while bright
our Joyr.:
And e'Ter OM mourns for her two darling 1)0181
Though we cannot mourn, we impatiently Walt
To wetcome'der first when she comes to the
'• We left:her too soon to rospond to her lore,
And first tintlentood It while passing above;
So now, to reward her, we patiently wait. '
To I:kilter dear lips as sheMsters the gate
"Soon; soon shall we hear the soft funeral chl
Which tells that our mother has left earth
thee:
The aliments pass swiftly which here we s.
Ere nviitter, sweet mother, will enter the gate.'
There were just three hundred aild
one or us as we matched out of the
little inlarnj village that morning,
drum heating, flags flying, and men
shouting and women weeping a fare
well. it *as May. 1861, and Ni)e
were going to the " front."
'A month later when the roll was
ealltafon the heights of Georgetomi,
.there *ere Only an even hundred in
Company O. Death had claimed the
three *even before ,they• had snuffed
war's powder breath:
And a. month later stillAhe roll
was c:itled on. the morning of Mana:,„'
sas. T loot-sore, hungry, excited and
anxioMs, ,the men answered "aye 4 .
and "4tye,li.and there were ninety=
seven respo#ses, making just a
.hnn;
dred With the_ three company officers;
Would - we fi'ff' ht ? I saw our captain
looking down the line. There were
printer, lawyers, mechanics, stn.,
dents, 'lltriners, and daY laborers hi
Company (4 and mot a man knew
what grim War
.was. -
Down across the menciow, up along
.the edge of the wood, and there we
rested and waited till the fight open-
cd—waited half an hour later than!
that, .atid then came the order to
Move.
,i:lt was like a dress parade as
we ' moved 1.6' the left - flank, down
across old pasture and into the
edge of the blue cloud of powder
floatin on the morning air. Only
the men's faces Were white, and their
eves anxious as! they caught the roar
of . small ;arms. and felt the ground
tremble Minder the discharge of the
heavylc?aumon Which were throwing,
:hot Ira shell into the hillside above
TWCANDA,
IMEIME
x Nobte's RIM_ k
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Down went a company to 'the edge
of the forest,, spread out like a fan,
and the - skirmishers were hidden by
smoke. ;_The rattle of musketry in
creased; they, had found'targets for
their 141ets. Standing in a line we
looked down, into the smoke cloud,
trembled a little, and then came the
order tv go forward. March I march !
and the'.smoko hid 'us, and we struck
the confederate line of battle thrown
out in front of an earthwork.
'AVII.hI,-I:ARI:r., PA. t
.111iy '27,'7n
Crash! crack ! 'roar ! The line
wavered. fell baelc, sprang forward
again'with a cheer, and we were all
hu those dead.or wound
ed. It Was like'a wild dream. For
wafti—Tetreatf4orward—now at Lhe
earth-work. now hurled ,back by the
sheet or Ilanie, and filially: driven
back to' stay.: A thou§iind . nien had
been fighting three thousand, - ' artil
there, could be but one result.
.T. N. CALIFF
Jan. 1, 1875
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1 ' branctle, of h''7l
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; aliC.-76'..
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The roll, was called at Arlington
Heights'; and Seventy-four men re
sponded—seventy-four from- ninety
seven=-twenty-three of the rank and
file-.of CompanY G left dead along
the little - Creek which meanders past
banks of willows:. over beds of gravel,
and around gray old trees which
have felt the blasts of half a ceutury.-
We had, no WOun , hd—all dead—all ;
11 inr . miller the smoke-stained leaves
of the dark for9t. It was :4ad and
yet glorious. There -would be thir
teen widows- is the little hamlet., and
ten sons anti brothers would be wept
for. but we had been tried in the bal
ance, and Conipany U had madethe,
whole regimenvfamous.
Winter cam! and war was chained
for _awhile. 1 - hen the south wind
blew the fros't away and war shook
( -or its lashint'e, there were but.sev
7s--wer -
enty men to a roll-call. With
:willed drumS and arms reversed we
hail followed the others to their last
sleep, aild they eared not whether it
was war - ;ti- pence. The Pennsylvania
campaign was not for us,' but the
thunder Of Jacksoa's cannon, as she
swept doWn on to Manassas a socond
time, called us out. lie was the flail;
we. the - grain=it was no longer - a bat
tle. but it slaughter. We heard him
coming. ' There was a Weak brigade
to oppose ten thousand confederate
muskets,': but if we could hold him
one hour ;lover, help would - come.
Company C.l' went 'groping through
q
the woods • that morning to meet
death. ' There *ere sixty-eight of us
then. and . it was 'a poor thin skirmish
line. which crept under the trees and
frightened away the birds just sing
int.' their Morning, songS. We crouch
eddown beside :a fence and saw a
heavy line of gray come over and
half way across the, open field, and
then Death took command. We stag
gered theirline, and as it bent back
and twisted about like a huge serpent
in his death struggles, we cheered
until the :forest : leaves danced and .
tfuivere‘.l. The line straightened, and
with answering cheer it came straight
forward—live !Mildred' muskets to
hi X ty-yllthi! Aud yet we held,' our
own, and let them come,- • and men
fouglt hand to hand over the fence
with i.:lutibed muskets , and bloody
bayonets..., Each- rail had its stain of
blood; each corner bad its burden of
dead and wounded. They hurled us
back, and, then the great battle open
ed alt around us: .
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VOLUME I,XXVII.I
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THE WAITING ANGELS.
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FATE'S CHOICE.
A THRILLING TALE OF THE WAR
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1 was first sergeantthen, and when
we. fell back I was in command.
Along the fence, where death had
struck them down, lay captain; both
lieutenants, and thirteen of the r rank
and file—sixteen out of sixty-eight.
The fifty-two retreated behind the
line of battle, joined our Tegiinent,
and again and again before nightfdll
we gave Jackson's'.Veterans shot for
shot. It was to be; and when 'night
fell the brave tik-two were living
unharmed.
MEI
After Manassas they filled us up
to eighty-five,i:but somehow we went
on counting fifty-two, and felt as if
the, strangers were intruders., My
commission as captain came one day,
and the two lieutenapts were men
who had bravely won their shoulder
straps.
At Sharpsburg we numbered forty
nine—fdrty-nine old veterans, I mean
!The other three had been killed on
picket. As we deployed to the left
of the pike and , filed across the fields,
I wondered if the new men would do
us credit. We were eighty strong as
a company, and over thirty of the
men had never been under fire. Lee's
artillery was. pounding 1 at our col;
umus half an hour before our brigade
got the order to move. Meadows;
fields, groves, knolls, fences and creek
—and -we knew that tee, was stand
ing on the defensive, and• a strong
position. When they word came I
could see that some of the•men trem
bled, but the old forty-nine took up
their knapsacks and fell ; into line. as
if they were breaking, (*nip, :Down
across the fields we went, following
the, double line of skirMishers, and
at last
.we struck the eneiuy. Ile had
a fence, a long ditch, and a line of
willows, and he did not yield until
we crushed, hiM by weight of num-,
hers. As he retired we followed, men
fallingdeadevely moment. Unknown
to •us a weak three: thousand were
piercing Lee's line: Ile saw his dan
ger, and a battery wheeled into the
gap, opened upon us, and'the left and
centre of our brigade swung back Un
der the fearful rain of grape shot 'and
shell. The 'order to retreat, and go
forward. Some' 'fell back ; others
leaped the ditch with a wild cheer,
and chargcti the battery. , Company
ll led. 'half way to the guns we left '
the recruits behind, and only the
forty-nine kept on. Men could pause
and retreat from that charge, auttno
one could call them cowards.
{ The smoke and the flame hid us for
a momqpt, and then we reached the '
guns, leaped over them, crawled un
der,
shot, .stabbed, shouted and hur
rahed.- The whole
,battery iwas ours !
We.seized the guns to dra , , , ,,. them off,
when a heavy line bfi bitttle Caine' ,!
down through the pip, .1:loSed it up,
and men fought hand to hand over
the cannon, over the caisons, over
the great, heaps of dead* tl e grass.
Less than three hundred federhls
werii fighting two thousandl confed
erates ! It could not last long. Af
ter is moment we were drivitn baCk,
over the. diti.h, beyond the fence, into
the!fcderal line of battle: i li ' .
Pretty lint in there; ca !'
shouted a , .brigadier, ati the turn and
mangled remnant halted to 'e-form.
" Pretty hot ?" ,My God !'` It was
the work of fiends and devils!
Forty
;nine of ,, the bronzed . old fighters' in
Cornpanykl had dashed' at the can
non; •only twenty-four came back !
Twenty-flv.e were lying dead under
the guns, `Leaned up so that they
blocked the heavy wheels. •
The recruits were there to. answer
aye "at thit, next roU,eall. No one
'thought ill of them=-men cannot
tlirn - to devils at .once. We still had
a' strong company— stronger than'
some, hut we went on counting twert
ty-fo,ur-Lcounting only those who
would stand until touched
. by th 4
flame of death.: Both
were none, and they gave me Men
from the ranks.
We looked down upon the placid
river, from the north bank in front of
Fredericksburg, and when the blue
column crossed tii
. we 'were
near
front. Death had taken some of the
~new men, but old ones had been
: spared. On ,through the curious old
;town, up through the valley behind I
it, and then the line of battle followed
Abe line of skirmisherS on to the. low '
stone walls behind which Lee's veter
ans were panting for the word to
tire. Their sheets Of flame almost
scorched our faces. The battle line
melted, doubled, twisted, and then
we fell back, the living leaping over
heaps of dead. Forward again, back
again, and then the walls Were hid
den from sight by the piles of dead,
in lue,and we did not charge
of the twenty-four were,.
Icri, close to the Wall, and eleven of
the new 10(•11 11:Vt. - 1* answered roll-call
a: , ,dn. It was not war,:,,lt, Was': not
.11111riler: it was butcherki; The order
had come to charge, and we had
charged, although every soldier laiew
that he was charging into the•open
jaws of destruction.
of a soul jn Company 0 had been
wounded ; niht one of those who fell
back to the Liver's bank.could show
a scratch fro bullet or bayonet. It
had , been thus ever since our first
battle. There was milling to report
under the head of " wounded " and
" missingy 'but all the names of
those who had heard their lastroll
call went doWn under the head of
" killed in action." When they
fought it vas to the death,
„ After Fredericksburg more recruits
were sent down to vs. V WC received
them kindly, but ye kept on count
ing eighteen, just as if Company
would be wiped out when the last old
veteran went. And they said that
my company was fated. Other com
panies could shoyi long lists of
" captured " and "Wounded," but no
other company in the brigade. had
suffered like Q.
Then came Oettysburg. The eigh
teen' old veterans were there,. and the
company numbered sixty-eight with
the new men.l Other divisions. were
held in reset4e,•lir escaped the hot
test of the fight, lint burs was to ,beat
back the fiercest OM rge of the bloody
war—the ehafge against hound Top.
Somehow Company was at the
front again, and as the fierce yells of
the coming confederates were heard
above the mighty roar of the cannon,
-.I looked down the line.; Some of the
new men were looking this way and
that, as it seeking pine!, .but,the old
veterans peered coolly through the
smoke, and waited with leveled inns-
ia
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'kets to catch the first glimpse of gray
uniforms. On. across the fields came
the charging, cheering host t t• up . the
steep! hillside, and then a ;sheet of
41amelleaPed out and witheted,them.
The gray line absorbed in that:flame
of death just its water dissolveS salt.
But al second line sprang at us, and
a third and fourth, and they were at
the guns which we were supporting.
Some! one gave an order.:..No, one
exactly understood it, but all rushed
for the guns. Shrieks, groans, Shots',
shout, and then the line of:gray
pushed back the line of blue. They
were :d1 around us—front, right, left
—andL men neither asked nor ;gave
quarter. Back, back went the litie
Of blue, and Round Top, .60 key of
Gettysburg, was won for tho.:ednfed
.
crates ,
1,: ,
But only for a moment. AAdubld
line of blue pushed its way through
i,he lin l e of smoke,
' hurled itself for
ward, l and Round Top was roil again.
And how won ? Men slipped and
fell 'o4 the bloOdy grass, heaps of
dead were piled up like logs, and the
shriekfand groans of the WoUoded
were a :fil
,
l to hear. )
,
And;:when Lee faced • southward,
1 ,
finliti&T as he marched, I. called! the
c, main.
roll aotain. None Wounded; .none q
missing, but upon the' crest of '.Round
Top We le i ft ten old veterans and
fourtee~t new men. , Ten out cif eigh
teen, trenty-four out of sixty eight!
The blood -thirsty fiend who . : wields
the Srord of war shonlil have' been
satisfies with that. Sixteeri more
widows back in the little countryvil
lage, More orphans, more sobs and
tears. r , , ,, ,50t one of the livieg could
show .a. , =mind, but each one of us
would aVe rejoiced at the loss of an .
arm—ar Some grievous wound which
•would lave made the surgeons shake
their heads and look serious. 1
' Only 'eight left ! Only eight men
of the one hundred and three who
marehet out of the hamlet that May
mornin q cThe new men had fought
! .
well. and we respected them,: hut, we
went onleountin:2, - .eight. Three, held
commisions, the other five were iier
.gefint --not enough to otlico the
co m pnny ! , ', i
111 the'
: Jackson
est and
lannock
camps "a
Wilderni
Conir
new men
strong.
musketry:
skeleton
three bun
sand, felt
hrough the stunted pines after it line
of skirmishers. Company O was
the left the skirmish line, and we
found ibex enemy tirst-t-a heav3t line
of gray coming throngh the wilder
iiess at half rue. DOwn we :knelt
among tli vines and knishes, anal of '
tire cracked them. They tired a few
wild shots, retreated a littlex and
then we leaped and drove them---ta
band of fOrty drove a' double lirle of
skirmishers, supported by a line
battle! • Ili Corti has not told lt, to
the worh4but blood was lett on the
vines and corpses on the around to
prove it. They were, feeling iover
strange ground, after a foe Whose
strength was not known, and ;Alit
was the reason of . our success.: We
pushed thiUn back to the line of:, bat
tle, attacked that, and then we `.mere
tossed back,torn and bleeding, almost
blotted but of existence asa company.
Of the Oght old,veterans, six Were
lying dead under the ,trees ; of the
new men, :twenty - five answered roll
call after t te.'l‘,"ilderness! Was: that
war, ou stanghter ?, A captain and
second lietitenant only. were left to
.represent the one hundred andtbree
The end was. not yet, but the' end
Was coming. There were no nsw ( ise 7
cruits for My company, but we were
marching toward Richmond Ber
ingnum
t'wentyrseven. Has the country
forgotten the tierce conflict at Peters'-
r
burg ! Asi, , we fell into line to make,
twenty-sev n in the brigade,' Ic savd
the lieutenant- looking at me. Poor
fellow ! there was no need for him to
speak. Would this fight wipe out, the
old company entirely, or would /one
be spared ? And which one ?; He
had a wife—l had none. I 1140
he might liVe to call the roll after the
battle *as over, and that death would
have•takeume.
The line quivered as it felt the 04,
der coming; and then it dashed at an'
earthwork, went forward with' the'
same old Jeer Which had been its
Own ci - er since its, bronzed veterans
heard the Whistle- Bunt it'
«tas too much for They lua for
-o.otten how weak we were. ; and some
one luidi blundered. The
(Ted livrorc., the storm of shot; - we
fell hack}sere charged - in turn,*d
) went doWn among the heaps Of
dead and Wounded. The roar of:bat
tle died away in a moment; daylight,
changed 1.0 darkness, and when I
opened my eyes again the surgeons
stood by me, and my left arm •iWae,
bone.
There was no one to call the roll.
The stark, stilt 'form of the lieutenant
had been giVen to earth, and the Sef,
en men who', rOresented Company G
looked to themselves. Fate had a
choice who Should be taken and WhO
left .and death passed Ric by. I alone
of the one hundred an‘l three yeter
ans returned to the 'village to :tell
them how this one and that one died;
to hear the I sobs of widow and ()I.=
plian,! until My heart ached.
SometimeS day reverieS-, or
night dreaMs I 'Oil the roll again,
and shadowy forms stand in- a line,
and ghostly ii voices answer, " aye "
and ." aye," 1 . until- I start up with a
sob iu my throat ta the remembrance
of those whO, sleep ; in the trenches
beside the„Pbtomacl 'neath the shad
ow of Round Top, along the Rappa
hannock, and down among the dark
thickets of the Wilderness, sleeping
there never to- know war again.—
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come in the right order. n
IF our hearts were notlso c.;ntirely Per
verted no manin his smises would die in
his sins.
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THERE are, some kinds of Men who can
notl.,
pass their time alone. They are the'
flails of uilocenpied people. ;.
To leave men in orror, may be as wrong
as to lead them into it. Ilene° silence,
on'the part of those charged with testa
** may he as bad as false teaching-it-
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dtiskipf evening Stonewall
eame , down through the for
hiekets beyond the 41-tapint
: and struck the federal
Id opened the battle of the
I ss. The eight old veterans
any G were there, and the
made up a band of forty
As we heard the crash lof
over on the left, - our; pOor
migade, numbering tricky
idred in4ead of four
tlu
into line and pushef-knn
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REQARDL SS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY ,QUARTER.
THE SOAP MIRES OF OALEFORNIa.
The rook soap mine is situated in
the lower mountains. or foothills of
the coast range in Venturaa county,
five miles from the city of the same
name. It was discovered by A. P.
Hubbanl while prospecting for coal.
He accidentally dislodged some that
fell into water and dissolved. It be
ing a new experience to see rock dis
solve, he gave it his attention, found
it Soapy, took it home to experiment
with, and soon learned its.virtues
yet, strange to tell, his family used it
for'nearly a year before it was given
to the ;public, when Mr. Hubbard as
sociated himself with Messrs. Cronk
and Bickford, forming the i riesent
company, who are sole proprietors of
tliislvonderful mine. It is accessible
only through a !canyon leading to
and opening upon •the beach. The
coast line stage 4 road passes the
mouth of thii canyon three miles be
low the mine. This canyon or ravine
penetrateslone of the wildest possible
volcanic regions. A little stream fol
lows its course. an almost - " lost
cause" in summer, but in winter a
niging, rushing torrent, which, after
drainifig immense heights and many
a rugged mountain side, finds, its
way to the ocean, often bearing along
in its fearful strength huge boulders
and entire trees. Along the side of
the ravine, sometimes in the.bed of
the stream, sometimes high up in its
precipitous banks, winds a little trail
leading to the soap mine, traveled
only by the safe pack mule and hardy
miner., The rock. resembles chalk or
lime. • At' the southern extremity is
an extensive deposit, veined, man
bled and part colored, resembling
Castile soap.:; The ledge at its open
ing is fifteen to twenty feet wide, and
crops out for 2,00 feet to an ,!un
.known depth. 'The lode is well de
fined, 'with wall rocks of hard slate
stone, and has , in common with the
slate and sandstone strata about it,
been , thrown up , from the depths and
turned completely on edge. In its
vicinity is the mountain of gypsum,
also turned up on edge ; indeed, the
whole country bears evidence of fear
ful convillsions,also of some time lain
peacefully alt the bottom of the ocean;
fOr on the highest mountain tops can
be found almost perfect sea shells
and various specimens of marine
matter's
. Hawks can at the rate of 150
Iles an hour.
Pucks can 11y at the rate of 90
ndles an hour.
'lle crow can fly at the rate of 25
mi es.an hour.
• he falcon can fly at the rate of 75
mi es an hour.
Frogs live from 12 to 15 years (if
no .eaten).
12(1,000 little mouths or pores are
found upon One square inch of a lilac
lear. .
. .
sound moves at the rate of 12/
miles a minute. •
3,000 stars are only visible to the
naked eye. Countless millions
. are
revealed by the telescope—some are
so remote that their light, traveling
at the rate of 00,000 miles a second,
cannot arrive at our little planet in
less than 14,000 years. •
The different species of birds is
estimated at 6,000.
The different Species of fishes will
prOably reach 10,000:
The different Species of reptiles
will probably reach 2,000.
There are 250,000 species of living
animali in all. •
The wings of some animals are so
04,1 1 that 5_0,000 placed one upon
another would not form a heap of
more than a qiiarter of an inch in
height. • ,
2,fr000 eggs of a 'silk worm weigh
one-quarter of an ounce. The worm
lives from 45 to 53 days. .• It increas
es in weight in thirty days 9,500 fold,
and: during the last 28 days of its life,
eats nothing. .
\ fikk .
lss windows were first used for
ligh in I-180.
Cliimney first put to houses in 1236.
Tallow candleS' for lights in 1290.
Spectacles invented by an Italian
in 1240. -,..
room can liardlylled
ect.Without drapery of some descrip
tion, It may be applied to doors,
dressers, or as table-covers. The
most natural place for this seems to
he the window. Indeed, its origin
was Probably due to the need otit
theq, for the purpose of keeping off;
those draughts which, found thefr
wayithrough the imperfectly fittiok
=sashts, and the prototype of window
hangings was a simple curtain made
to aelieve this purpose. The nearer
we come to this primitive idea, the
mores satisfactory, I tilink, we shall
find it. The present fashion of elab
orately dressing our windoWs, in
which damask and lace are festooned
and hooped up.vieing in their fullness
withithe fashionable woman's dress,
is inartistic in the extreme. These
absurd, folds, burdeningf',' our case
inent and •shutting out the light,
have a cumbersome appearance,
while a little drapery, tastefully ar
ranged, is suggestive of elegance and
graed.
AV the' present Lbw, When our
workinanship is of that superior or
.
The giant exhibited at Rouen in der aii'to eitlude these unwelcome
18,i) measured nearly eighteen feet. draughts, there is no practical feces-
Gorap,us saw a girl that .was ten sity for curtains at all,,as:shades are
feet ;high. ' sufficient to subdue the light; and,
The giant Galabra, brought from as :wed have stated in a former chap-
Arabia to Rome, under Claudius ter, if the window Mouldings arc
C'resar, was •ten feet high. 'colored darker than the walls, and
Fannum, who lived in , the time of, thus i o for the window what 'a pie-
Eugene 11., Measured eleten and a Lure-f!rame:'does for the canvas, cur
half feet. . tains Fieetii almost superfluous.
. The Chevalier Scrog, in his voyage • The original mode of Hanging
to!th'e Peak Teneriffe, found in one draperies' , was by rings run on a
of the caverns of that mountain the metal; rod, over which, the more fully
head of the Gunich, who had sixty to keep out the draughts from above,
teeth, and was not less than fifteen a slight valance or canopy was ails
feet high.
petled. These valances, however,
The •giant Faragus, slain by Or- are MS longer necessary, nd had bo
tanao, nephew of Charlemagne, was ter, 1* done away with altogether. :
twenty-eight feet high. The metal rod and rings may be
In 1814, near St. Gerna(l, l was: somewhat embellished, and tom an
found the tomb of. the giant Isolent, ornamental crown to the curtain, as
who was not less than think feet Shown in dinning-room of former
high. chapter. But instead of adopting
The giant Bacart was twenty-two. this method, we have stupidly retain
; feet high ; his thigh bones were ed
: this now meaningless .feature,
found in 1703 near the river Motleri. which; has been. developed into a
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, huge and useless border, •callakthe
Ilwas Sound the skeleton of a giant lambriquin, surmounted by a mols
-10114 feet high, and in 1559 another tronsgilt cornice, covering upithereal l
iforty-four feet high: construction ; and indeed the cur.
Near Magrino, in Sicily, in 1816, tains are usually nailed to this, ren
was found- the skeleton,of a giant rendering it imposSible to slide them
thirty feet high; the head was the at lily and snaking it necessary to
size of a hogs head, and each of- his loop them up at the side. The edges
iteeth weighed live ounces; of thefulds thus become preingure
,
_ We have no doubt that,there were ly faded, while the space between
: 46 friantS in those days," and the past, mightietain their freshness were they
perhaps, was more prolific, in pro- not the natural receptacles of dust
during them than the present. and vermin.
; But the history of giants. during the 'The!lambreqUin seems to be the
olden times was not more remarkable &col* system,Of a vicious art, and
,that of dwarfs, some of _whom is not Maly to windows, but
Were even smaller than - the Thumbs to doors, mantles, and: oven arranged
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. Nutte of .oar own tithe : islopg not baenp e
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Paper made from linen iri 1302.
Woolen plot!' made in England in
1341..
Art! of printing from movable type
in 1440.
Watches first made in Germany in
MB
Circulation of blood discovered by
- 14irvey in 1610.
Newspaper first established in I 62a1.
First book printed on paper in
England ill 1508.
GIANTS IN OLDEN TIMES
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lIINTSITO:GIELS OONOEBNING
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Don't keep-going to your mother.
You have every one of you probably
'some little independence of money,
or some possibility of economizing
it. Buy your own utensils;; set up
'yoUr own establishment, if only by
slow degrees. You will know the
good of it then ; and you will be set
ting up your character at the-same
time. There will be no sudden violent
;resolution and undertaking, whit%
'Omits aid and encouragement fr6m
everybody alkint"you, getting up prO-
Speetive virtue by subscription, and
.upsetting half the current order of
the household for atr.pncertain ex
periment. Be in earnest enough to
pake your own way, and before you
or anybodyielse thinks about it, you
Will have become a recognized force in
the domestic community; you will
have risen into your altitude without
assumlition,lust as you are growing,
by invisible hair -breadths, into your
°Manly stature. Then some day
you may saY to your. mother, " Let
me have charge of the china closet,
and pantry, please ;" and you may
tinter up6n a new realm, having fair
ly conquered your own queendom.
And I can tell you this new one will
he a pretty and a pleasant realm to
queen in •, an epitome of the .. whole
housework practiced in dainty, easy
'little ways. Shelves to be kept nice,
wiped down with a soft wet cloth
wrung from the suds that cups and
silver have come out bright from ;
clips and silver, plates and dislic i, to
be rangell in prettiest lines and piles
and groups on the fresh shelves;
clipboards to be regulated with light
&ally touches and replacements ;
yesterday!s cake and cake-basket,
fruit or jelly, custards or blanc-mange
tO be over-looked and newly disheii
fdr the next table setting ; the nice
remnant of morning cream to be
transfered to a fresh jug and put in
a cool, clean corner ; to-day's par
cOs, perhapslo be bestowed ; and-the
d6ors closed, with a feeling of plenty
and
,cornfort that only the thrifty,
delicate housewife—who knows and
utelizes the resources, that are but
uncomfortable odds and ends to the
di'so'rderly, heedless lirocrastinating
orie--tver has the pleasure of. All
this is cosily and in minature to the
larger care of, kitchen and larder,
what the little 'girl's baby-house has
been (if she began, like a true woman
child, to "spin and weave" for her
we manly vocation) to the " house of
hei• own" that she — you—began to
talk of ,then, and that you are earn
ing a right to now. And pretty soon
this daily care—this daily pleasure
will have become a facile thing, a
thing =easily slipped into the day's
prOgramme, and never to be a mount
ain or : a bugbear any more, either to
do or to teach •, - because you " know
eve:ry twist and turn of it" and his
mg, a prdeess of conscious detail_ but
a ':rsimple whole that you can dispose
of iwith a single thought and its
,quick mechanical execution. -
a like manner, again, you can
take up cooking. You Can
.learn to
'make bread, until the fifteen minutes'
labOr that it will be for you totoss
up the dough for to-morrow's baking
wilt not seOn to you a terrible inflic
tion, when lit happens that you may
have it to do, any more than the
mending Of a pair of gloves for to-
Morrow's wearing ; simply because it
wilt be an!old accustomed thing that
yore knowthe beginning and the end
of ;not a vague, untried toil looming
in indefinite proportions, that ,are
always the awful ones.—St. - Nicholas.
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mit:that I object to hangings as a
rule ;"; l on the Contrary, Ithink, when
properly disposed, 1 they do niuch , to
believe the stiffness of a room, mak
tng it, cozy :and 1' livable," and I
woulit;not advise their introduction
in windows, - but n niches, and in
place of sliding do rs—in fact, sia I
have I?Cfore Said, or every opening
where :Scrutiny is nit a consideration.
But to* place them unmeaningly on
walls and' mantles, where they can
serve no other ptir)ose than collect
ing duit, seenis in the highest degree
absurct; and one would suppose that
carefutlhousek s eepera would object to
them no that :account; for the only
merit they do ; posseas is . that, in•the
absenc4 of color, they sometimes
form arelief to a white or colditint
ed wall. These ideas; which have
been developed durl'ig an age of per
verted taste, arein a measure becom
ing refOrmed; - "and when we are suf
ficiently advanced to judge for our
selves .:as to what a suitable, bet;
ter things may be expected ; and
the sooner we. free ourselves from
the upholsterers' not ons of elegance,
the better.. . ; ..
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Silk and damask ) we consider as
inapprdjriate for window hangings,
and '' rep," which is a good covering
for furniture, sliould.l not be employ
ed for ciirtaini, There is, an article
of German manufacinre, called "cote
lan,". -*Web-AS a auxture of silk,
wool, WI cotton, and when artistic
ally deslined forms ;
tical stripes should al ays be avoided.
one ot e the best
of materials for, this purpose. Ver
tical
Laternai hands', with zigzag: borders
top andl - bottom, ma. , be used] with
advantage, givi r ing s mewhat the ef
fect of
advantage,
and da o to the wall,.
and, like these latter, may be treated
with ansi degree of elaboration, while
the ceutie, if not entirely plain i ii
best of aNniet funnin e , pattern. Some.
of the' English Material has advanced
to a great.degree of perfection with
in the laiit few years;
. and' the most
celebratid] architects MIT" contribut,
ed designs for this purpose, among
*horn are . BloMfield, Godwin, Bur
gess, Eistlake,i] and Talbert. Mr.:
Talbert deems to . exc I in his appre
ciation Of the loom.. nd his designs
arc excee)lingly; 'satis =tory, as evi
denced iii some !of th labricS mane-,
factured3iy CoWlisih,i, Nicol, & Co.,
of Mancqester i - WhoSe 'superior goods,
are becoming widely 4nown both in
this conittry and - on the - Continent.
jute„ , fo6i cheat) 'artille, has proved
an excellent material for hangings.
AnetherjStutf,'Macle: o raw silk and
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cotton, Mat only wears well ac •4 re
tains its ;color, :but lis a great ad
vantage Over wool, as it is not liable
to Motlisilt:—Harper's tgazine
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SAMARITANS W
When ii Philip Snipe . ) was mor
tallOotinded, he requested a cup of
cold water. LA/is it was being brought
he heard dying soldier make the
same request. !‘ Hand it;, • to him,"
said zthe.o3eneral, "his needs are
greater, than mine.". it Philip was
mighty his' country' service, but,
what act of his lifeappro ches this:one I
in
n grandeur ? He died 'or his coun
try, and lie died --also making willing
sacrificeslior his jfellowil. His name
and the4leed are ;remembered.
0 In theo trying times, when so
fihany areAtnable to find employment,
the first question with generous indi
viduals aid families shonld be: Is it
well withi]till out Irienils? Men are
still falling among thieves as they
journey through life ;a the Sama
ritans on the increase r - decrease ?
This world. wants. nothing, half so
much as, the brotherlines4 exemplified
by Christi whose mission was the
welfare op the . .b4dies tnd souls of
men. When we do mee a Christian
we find a nan who is .4pending and
being :spent in these divine acts of '
self-dy ing4charit3r.. .
The most etfecttial! w y of reform
ing the Idepraved.l and scoffing is' to
be found in liberal acts self-sacri
fice.. Faith and works are never sep
arated. I The maill who has been ha
bitually helping Others through life,
may, in his day of need, ask assist
ance with boldness and confidence ;
but vilnqautlioriies the penurious
arm to 1)651 stretched out , for returns
where tbe7seed ofliberall ywaanever
sown ? What right-1. has it man to ex--
••e
pect assistance in his day. of trouble
frOM frieos or sti!angert, who never'
lilted his little finger whin they were.
calling for help ?
"KS yesow, so shall ye reap."
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—The Romans linte only rewarded
those whf F-,`married,! but decreed pen
altieS forimen who remained in a
state of cidibacy.• Pined were first
levied upOn unmarried men abOut
the year Of, Rome 350; a - id when pe
cuniary fOrfeiturei faile 1 to ensure
their obedience to thest connubial
edicts, theft . contrimaciou neglect of
the fair seic" was phnishd by drne
datiOns, from their tribe Celibacy e
J l.
continued,lmweref', to gain ;round
in Rome ; and to cottnt.mct e '`its ef
fects we ftnil .that in t e year 313
from the fOundatioti of the city, the
censors had resource tohe extraor
dinary measure of obliging all the
ed '
young untnarri , men to pledge
themselveon oathi to m rry within
a certain One. • .
In Babjr,ton an auction 'of nnmar-'
ried ladies[nsed to take )lace annu
ally. Theyirg,ins cif rnarrlageble age
in every district were assembled on,
a certain ',clay of every Year. ' The
most beautiful waa the first put up, •
anti the man who bid the largest sum'
.of money , gained possession of l her.
The second in ' personal ppearance
rollowed ; :ind the pure-ha ers gratifi
ed themselii,es with; hand me wives
in accorian:ce with the dePth of their
purses. When all ,. the beautiful vir
gins, were sphl, the :crier urdered,the
most defotmed to stand up.; and
after he had openly!askedlwho would
marry her tor a small sum,. she was
toadjudged tile' man wll6 would be
satisfied with the leiist. lii this man-
ndr, the innney arising (rim . ' the sale
of the luinitiomest Womeli served as
&portion to: those w4i3 wee either of
disagreeable looks, !or who had any
other fault ror impeifeetion. •-•
I^i - w• 414 • 1
this a sh-
Eirmaigaint is a torChligli •in ish7
eked our de4don. I : .
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"II believed everything I inn told i ,".
said the Caterpillar; with as grave 'a
fate bs it it were fact. I , *
"Then I will tell you something
else," cried the „iiark;, "yon will one
day be a butterfly." •• •
"Wretched s bird!" exclaimed We
Oaterpillar. "Yob; jest with my I'4-
feriority. •Go asay! . I will listen
to 1,1;:ii no more." ' •
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"I' told,yon you, would., not believe
me,"l said the Lark, nettled in her
.turn.l
"I .I believe I everything I am told',
that 'ls," and, she 'hesitated,: "eery-
thine that is reasonable. Mit to - tell
me that butterflies eggs - att , caterr
pillar , and 'caterpillars leave off
crawling and get wings and,become
butterflies I Lark, you are too wise to.
belieVe such nonsense yourself, for
you know it is impossible."
"I.know no such thing," , said the
Lark I warmly. IThether I hover
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over eornflehla of earth, or go upinto ,
the depths of:the I see Kr many
wonderful things know no reason'
why there should pot be more. Oh;
CaterialaNitH is because yon crawl;
becauSe you, never get beyond your.
cabbage leaf, that you call apythina
; "
"Nonsense !I" shouted the, Cater
pillar;l"l know what's possible and
what's' not poisible as well , us you
do.
what's' '
at my long' green body,
and these endless' legs,. and then talk
tei me about, having wings ant paint
ed feather coati! Ilunce—. ll 1 . •
And dunce you I" cried the indig
nant, Lark: "Dunce to attempt to
reasonjnbout what you cannot under
stand Do, yen not hear how thy
song swells with joyi as I soar upward
to the (mysterious 'wonder-world be
-yOnd ?I 'Oh; Caterpillar, what comes
to you from there, 1 receive I do,
upon: trust."
- ,."llow am I to learn that ?" asked
the Caterpillar.''
At that moment she felt something
at her !side:- She l'ooked ;around—
eight or -ten little caterpillars were:
moving about. The' had brokert
from . the butterfly § eggs Shame
and ainazemen.t filled • our ' green
friend'S heart, but jcly soon follbwed;'
for, as :the first wonder was possible
the second nightbe so too.l Anti
the Caterpillar talked all the rest of
her life! to• her relatives about the
time when she should, be a butterily.,--
Parables from Nature.
• Augiist was formerly called Sextil
is Or the sixth ,montri, the year be
ginning' with March, but the Roman
Ernperor Augustus, Ito whom .tnany
lucky 9vents Occurred - during this
month, made it sort of pet month of
it,instead of the twenty-nine days it
had under the Old Roman calendar,
robbed 'February anil gave August
thirty-one days. - -•,, :
The harvestsi are ripening. Pro.si
peas of plentiful crops delight the
farmer On every hand. iSummer is
on , the Wane, and even nowi,, the, scat
tering yellow leaves are seen peeping
thrOugb the green, the avant couriers
of earning autumn. 'lora, has deck
ed herself gorgeously, but her chap
lets and wreaths and nosegay's are
fading--:she has' passed her prime.
the fruit's are swelling and changing
their hues, for the ripening process
has", begqn, and the Measure of every
fruit bearing tree is being calculated
by thrifty husbandman. The plums
are Ipurpling, the,pears, are reddening,
the : peaches are brushing, the apples
are ;mellowing, While now ariclithen
beneath the trees, i ' one may pick ',tip a
fully riOned Wind 'fall, and smack
his lips as the old tirne, fruity flavor
is again leaned to his memory. ',The
evenin t ;S , ii@
begin to chill, everiu
m
gust an unless , one be active;' the
mornings hours will seem cheerless
with Out• a fire. i Everything Point§
to departing heat's and coming cold,
and one! is reminded to investigate
the eondition,of ', his heating apparY
tus. The beginningsF of autumn, are
more mnurnful,,in their suggestions,
than, jovial. One cannot welcome
the evidences of ! decAy as he can i ,the
buistini into being, for the one is
death, the other life.
son has its joys, and
threshold of departii
regrets go out fOr, ret
THE ISfEwsrAf*R.—Hl am a farmer.
My !farm is named l'asturefield; • 1
take great pride! in it and work as
steadily as I, can, forLI am sixtysix,-
and Was not hint-Cato farm labors in
early- lit:, but trained to the 'dry
goods busine4. - !Well, no matter! for
this. , I work and enjoy it. l Then I
get tired, then 1 ! smoke,
.and then 1
Kit dnwnito the neWsPaper. Ah, then
my -fatigue is :forgottlen ; I revel; in
enjoyment and., ami l ecreated. The
great„, gOod neWspaper!: I used to
read ! bOOks, but! neglect them now.
What ibecoreeS of IMP the bo'oks
published ? I Used to take agricul
tural; journals; but here was !too
much aaiicultural. I get hints enough
in the ante newspape to satisfy iue.
f‘ll around Me are men who work
'hard f and are honest 4nd faithful in
their! aims and Ways ' who take no
newspaper. lloiv dO they lite ?
I should have died ,tWenty years ago
with Ont them. . I lend and give mine
to my neighbors. i ,
1-I'
. Anti - n
the ewSpaper brows • and
groWst and will !con ',nue to grow.
Better and better, m n continuer to
go into its laborsl 'II best only will
live. Y Olj, men pf tis newspaper,
great! teacher of !the People, accept
the law that " honesty is the hest
policy." Cast out the cowardly, the,
weak,! mean,: and • Wrcsig headed, and
let the brave, the manly, the clear
eyed, iand!eourageous help in making
this great, growing gospel, this. big
book,! this daily teacher, this house
hold !preacher, this hope, comfOrt,
help, !and! enjoyment of the comnon
people; the America n newspaper !
Make! it clean and true l andfaithful.
As t ! I believe the - newspaper has,
already lengthened my life, I &lOU,'
not it Will still lengthen it, to;.the ex
tont, probably,' o 1 twenty-five years,:
which will give me a quite respect
able Span! And - I! think of .what its
diameter !inust ! be to me ! butthen
I lain* , thb strong, the tine, the brave
Will live. ,!and, nourish i . and that the
pueriti, *ash Od'Ailse 'will 844
die .60t1' '
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"The chapper conisista
ilependent iulmonitdrydiseou :
dual length, of (pith . different
and a merely external and nifty
connection (through points of 'CO.
'between 'sleep' and slumber' in,
t',l2e same expression n v. 10; th
triple warn ; aga
4s-11, 15 a#►d 25, 6:c,,
Zockler's Oi vision
chapter is the best RI .
ing against' : lnconsidl big ; 7..
1;5. 2. Rehitke of th is ).6.11:
~1 W arning
.il •
'againstviolent
dealing,' vs., 12-19. , ticin : , to
• •
chastity, v5.',20:35. . - • '
1 ' '
'Our leisonlegins ith the seem d,divi
siton: The Rebuke of ce : Sluggard.l i. I:
1
V. 6. "Go to theiril - , thou slegOrd,
equsider Oser ways, e4lid be wise." " The .
ant has been famous f4om remote antiqui
ty I'M. her inclus4y)lskill, econorey I Mid
kolidence. t Frequentallusions are made„
tO, her by heathen Poets and theialiata.
;Virgil . gives a Aively description off, the
ants at work (Aenid iT4OZ-10 . 7). ' -l• i "
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t E'en as th e ants, the Wintevarlser, are gathered
I whiles to waste I " ' [I II
A heap or - corn. miti toll that same leirieatb4eir
roof to lay, . , 1 . -i" 1 1 11 -
F. 436 goes the black troop mit the meat[ , ituil ear
rTies torth.filoPteYl' • -- ' ' ; i
Over the grass in narrow dine: some strive ;wilts'
I slOuitter-might
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Awl push along a grata Wergreat, some drive the
I line aright; , - '
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Or Iscourge the loiters: hot he work fares all yflong
1 the road." . —Morrie' Translation; '
Long ago, We remember,. Cooper's Yir-i
-,
gll"took exception •to this popular notion
concerning the 'ant.' " But we find ) no
skim of proldsions• la i d up against lap , -,
prciachiro , want. For • during the cold
f ' • i
season of the" . year thy lie in a torpid
1 ,
state, and reqUire no food." This is klud- ,
ly "affirmed by Inaturtlists' .now-a-dais.
But notice,- flist; Solomon doe.S7Att;shy
.•
that the ant stares up ocid.for consump
tion during Iteinter. ' • What,. he-does say
is, that the anti with considerable Pre-- •
dence and forOkbenght, repares her broadif
and 40 food, hat gathers' is, suchfocitl •
as is suited to tier, in
i he proper Season,
in summer and harveiiwhee it is Most, 2 .
plentiful; and tlins sholrs a wisdom• , and' , .
prudence worthy of imitationsie,mal4ng -
the:best and Most tinnily use' of the 041 : -
vantages offered td h+." - And notice, . '.
seccinilly, thaV„Solomon is speaking " of. :.
tropical ailts, and not o 4 thoSe of the' ciflci
er European climates. And we have abiin- , •
dank testinionies of travellers that the e s
1. • . •.,
tropical ants (hi Storei: p provisions and .
' proiide against:the futi re. -._ - fi I
To learn indeStry and i r cohomy Boinninti
wisely sends the . sluggard (a man natia
ally And Iliabitnally la4y i and , idle) to the
thrifty ants.. ff Considef her,•.ways."At
is a shame (saga Seneca) not to learlinfiX,
els from; the small animals."Shef 110
"nov.iide, overseer, ail ruler." le thiS
, - •
regard, Aristotle pointed out, ants differ '
freak cranes and bees. They are i.e in
dul
idiious and wise that hey need nocurg'•
,
1,, yin
idleness
'or guiding. '','Theyllosel ino time ma
idleness or indifigenee; While food is plea
tv they gather it 4, nd stoli . . :it up in tills.
Whit a rebuke., to sluggardsl The ants ~
are industrions•liy merei force of instinCt;
theylcannot Le'! made industrious by ill
the PoWer of godlike reason. They hais
no ambition, nO Shame. They will not„,
go tile - ants ;, they would rather the . alits
shoal come, tei; them and creep all over
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their', rags and filth. 4 - 1
,
Arid so Solomon; turns iwith a direct 1, 1
peal,lv. 9. As if to say,l." Wilt thon.con
tinue lying -forever? fiViit thou never
rise';'' The aiiifwer oflthe (sluggard
given in v. -10. i Yawning,' Stretching. ',lit
greaier length and foldlng- i iip his arms
that I should be :extended iin vigorons
labor', ho drawlea out--l'A little sleep,!a .
little slumber, alittle foldingof the hands
to reSt,"—and the indignant sage, ,turn
ing from him exclairriti:l" Then, 'coineth
thy Poverty , like '&robbnr, (1. e., stealtlii
ly) aildthYyrant ii,S - an aimed pan t (i. 4.,:
irrelistibly. -i: . '": . 1 1 ! 1 •
The
The third division contains a leitinfdg
agaizist deceit and ziolen4_dealing. 19. s -
evidently divided into taro parts; the sec;
.ond, i rs. 16-19, being a mere continuation
and hiller exparraion of !the first, vs. 14.1-
'l5. ''A, deceitful; treacherous man is deeh•
eribed. "who walkgth with a froward
Mouth;" 1. e., with pervelseneo ofmouth;
in the sense - of rnisiepreentitig and sl4-
dering the actions' of.- other men, and so _
perverting all to the Worst sense possilthi.
Six thingkarepredicatedlef hint in vs. 13-'
14 e all mischevioils to mian and abolnina
bin te Goa; so that we are prepared fOr
the Stern' conclufflpn-4 therefore' sh.ll'
his calamity (his • destrucitiim) Come sud
denlyi; suddenly shall helbe'brolcerr \ With-,
out remedy," like n. earthen Pitcher that
•• :
cannot bi 3 mended. Thi 13th..v. fis said ,
to refer to the custom aong Oiiehtals of
Making comMunioation.s to each other liy l
ni
means, of signs and gestures with the eyes,.
the liiiiids, and tiro feet. "By sly Itinl'f•-'••
mg, liy signitiCant gestures, they would
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coverlly convey tliehl.lnsdioita meaning,
'soils to incur, no
,danger of detection, or
1 - ,
to be lield to i no just, resp nsibility."
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"These six thing's dotli kiwi Lord hate:
I
yea, S,OVCII are an ids:milli' lion untoliimP •
and then Sol4mon proceet s to repeat what
he hatsjust lid of
,the eceitful 'man ie.
an anlplified ' ( form,; '.' " There is one par
allel well worthy of notice between the,
seven cursed things • beril and the seven,
blessed e tlings in thcfifthichapter - of Mai l
thew:: 'the first and: flast pf the seven are
idential in the two lists. ••'" The Lord,
hates aproncl
l ook," is iireciSely equiva:
; ,_ : • i •
hint to "blessed sin the poor-in spirit ; ' l '
and 1‘ he 'that sewetli - • !discord . arnonik
bretluiff r ' - 'l's the exact' ioni - erse of the
;
"peacemaker"-4r - Uot. L
~ .
.The. fourth ~ division col
:flitionito chit:4l7y.
, : . 4 ,11'h0 1
admonitions of faithful. j
out in(life; are compared'
as, an
r d necklaces," whichl
ally' wOrn'in the east by,
oarticiilarly by irreales,
lecorations of the head am
:•
t7lter. r To those lsho"thi
wear 'then), they are. a .
prosp(rity and joy they i
tehell. l and this speeially
the grOss and hardeniag:
Solon/On goes on to speak.
ing 'which g 1 iovin
earnestly' desire for i thei
purity Of heart and' life;
the bpi who rentein*rs a
tationi c of the world' the
home and keeps hiinself
the flesh ! • !
.
.THE' i poet Street spoke o the, unvinnk-,
ing eagle." This is, nonsense. The eagle;
is aliVays a wing -king.
i'no*Fssou , Rtrv.:.ronT-1-" What im=-
portant change came over Burps' in 114 f
latter 'part of ;his, lifo ?" Sonior=---" RO T ',
died."
Tun fear of God.bogba 'Pith the hiesti - 11 :
- ndpu'ritien and reotideer
beart, ttitts'rectified t a onafsailiq i ,
in tho ,Thlo pityl4ls
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fr
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of •
salt• stan
act,
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the ,
114 Dent,
nst impove
."—(Zuekle
;the
are
f the conton
have seen:.l.
rate saretys
o Sluggard,
deceit and
4. Admeni
titains an admd,
nstractions and;
'lareink carried
to wreaths, tia l r
!alio vet:). gener' i
I ,belth sexes, but
as ornamental,
neck."-Muen+
s treasure atuA'-
euree of great,
ad, protect and
with regard to
prime of which
There is noth4
parents more
'children than
and blessed in
nidst the tempi
linstructions of,
Totted from: