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One, if the tight Wer& - e'er sn'bright, I ne7er abroad could roam. - - ."Wittiout the the hon - or; 'of seeing you - safe , home." . But now I go, through rain and, snow, l'ent-ive. and seance Through all theill'a Without n Because I'm Twenty-five: - • l'" ' They .wed fo,,call and ask-me:all .. About:my health,•.so frail; •. • • And thought -a tido would help me side, And turn - inc cheek less palei Butnow,Adatzi If lam ill, : None carts that I revite, :- And my pal&cheek inyain may speak— Because. I'm Twenty-lire.- - • • Now, if a ride impro've• my side, ~ I'm forced to take the 16.11.ige, : • For *at is deemed quite proper for A perstgi of my age. And then no hatid•is - ofeted me Tp help',me,out alive ; : They think it won't hurt rive to - Tall— Beeause•l'm Tw.;nty.,fiVe. • ~. • OE -dear ; 'tis very queer, that every ye.* mote and . more, For not a beau pretends . to show. His head withitpour door; Nore - ritle, nor card,•,nor soft tiddrcfst• • .• spirits now revive, _ And one night near as well be. deaa As sat-I'm Twenty-five! - I?EVEIZIES DY bYLV7.4. A. LAVCSO.N. Summer's FUU is shining -o'er me, Summer's flowers are round me now, . • ,And a bright bird - swinzing o'er me, 'Warbles - Oft a - song 4:6 'cheer me, from th 4 maple's.langing hough ; • • - Soft ,the winds creep through the Jeives, Singing with their voices low, 'Songs that angel minstrels weave • Up arose the clouds of snow, - Where the brightness of an Eden, ties upon the changeless heaven. Dine is nil the ,sky (this ftoiting, green the earth"; fair hills, And the yellow light is streaming •. On it thousand leaping rills, • That with voices of sweet laughter, . On their - v. aver of silver water, Glide down by the rumbling mills. -Nature withlier thousand voices; • NVhisperA in my list'ning ear. And my Spirit glad 1 rejoices, do the' breathings soft and clear. And this morning as 1 wander, - O'er the green old hills, and ponder . On the Lles-ings all so dear, Thai our-God bath kindly given., I, think of what must he in Heaven . , Nyhdrits fadeless leaves aud• flowers, -All its - glorious vine-wreat hod boiverw, •At;d the calm and perfeet rest, That shall make our sphits Alt, if earth is bright - t O-day ;. • - Brighter far iS.lVaVen 'Why do ive: fear to flee awa:v; Where s uchjoys are given, • When an el bands weave love's bright chain; Whose links sliall'beier unloose again I' ALICE INA 17ti.or D THE: BELLE OF: TILE SEASON. There.was a buzz. of admiratio the crowd which thronged the split did ball- 1 room of a line in the: upper part of i • .New York, as , a Jail ; beautiful -girl entered the door alpne,-..but with.an air of the 'most per&vt.epr,fidenie and Nor was. it anywise. surprising that- even :the politeness and - self-restraiat of that soi dissent aristocracy should be , _-utoved out 4 I the fancies- conventional. coldness, and I 'Stirred to:something of 'ttatural..warnith, by I the lovel t icess. ,of :that. fair - being.. For:elle.; was indeed, aii.bkawiful as ever *as Creation-I Of the. painter's art, conception „of the poet'). fancy, nor did she - lack. all . appearances: and Means to bout' o set off her exquisite fea• tUre4 and voluptuous form to the titnaosL She was, as- I have said, very tall, with that I peculiar: swanlike :neck, and - those falling shoulders. which are SE) rare: and . even with the most perfect specimens of wotnanhood.— . Her head small and classically shaped, was admirably: set on a point whit:h.:edits:snore .to that peCuliar kind of gracis which we are. accustomed toicallartstocracy :of figure and 'appearance. _ Nor was the. rest of her. form .less perfect than the neck :and- Shoulders, fog the soft rotindn'essArt..her. swelling bust; the slender, and shapely symmetry of. her islandl walk, and the voluptuous outlinesef.her lower limbs as indicated, by many an ..undulatiog 'line and-sinuous motion of the • riCh.draperies she wore, pot .surpassed by the proportions of any Grecian marble 'that sprana to uncirtilli ty from the touch of the auie chisel. And if her person was incomparable, hew radient was,the beauty of that matchless face the livirimtisio of those regular . .:feititra,,-- "'The ricliledundeni,Waves :of the whiell'paried .;-evenly above her . tale, smooth brow, fell. in . a i flood of golden . ring 7 lets on.either" side : sof . thn '.glowittg :cheeks, and down the 'white iteckand alabastei.shoul dep -the bro Wit arid :nyelashei .as black as . night, strange-Contrast .of her corn pliziOn,, and ; the hne.:"Of. : fair . hair.— the dark - unfithemable. eyee, which seemed black "Soft - 413(171a1k e , -, ;144 viecerryntr ;they were,. .the -,1 ; deipest !inlet bitte n thertniiitiaight .nese 4 Wit.A. Its ttisMtte neatiii..af : OnCe delicstn.atid r f!rouct--- tlte ripe #01:4 .tact ~the: bus, and eft hied wi h: the 441"..".-Of :dam* Were - thoOliaims..t;at - Were„ the faCe it d forth of one the-fairest:a:MAD . battan's daughters. 11eidress,which was well suited to display her glorious beauties, was'a full rube ofPeauli colered satin; shot with the cl►angeful tints of the .ttittle's neck,. - Claboiately einbt'oidered and bedecked with knots of artificiartloWers, e , oexqiiisitely wrought, that :they defied the. eye to distinguish them . from natural bads and blossoms. 'The low square - Cut' corsage of:this splendid dress • revealed perhaps' too mui;la . of.a neck; and •a hosom,as white as the drifting .snow, through 'which tnenndered a thousand tiny aitire t'"eins, proving the purity and delicacy of her skin. Mumma also tier° bare almost. to the AhOulders, and so beauti fully rounded, and so softly did they taper &own to the small, rosy' hand, and sl.ender i „ , fingers, that they might well erred for a I sculptor's model. I "Hew exquisitely. beautiful Alice Maitland I looks . to.night,' whispered nnother'fair yenta; girl.?.With sparkling 'bright eye', and a pro-, fusion of black lisieto her partner,•A tall well- . made young man, with an intelligent ancl.a slight dark moustache on bis upper -. . • `.Yes., very beantrful certainly; he answered, gazing on the fair creature with it cool- and critical. eye--' vertu beautifiil, can not be . tle,nied—and.yet—and And yet, what, Sir critic? aske4l the -mat what new lest ntajeste is this tho't you •were one of the fair Alice's most 'laval• maijc. , cts—nri' sworn champion, and per . , . mined . servant,' • • • N.it I, indet-1, (Air replie,l the yottng to n, his by :half crnshing with n bitter .sneer --• you Avete necer more mistaken in eou• `Since when, then most fake traitor, hive you foresworn your allegiance V Could not.finswear that which T hate never sworn.' ~ '.For 'shame! for shame! you him man— there is no truth in ton. 1)o -I not reutem- ber - when you !Ad no oyes ttnt for her, no longue bat to fing her praises, no hope . but to linger at her feet in lowly admiration 3' Iciteinated perhapa . for a little while, by her extraordinory beauty, and spell bound by I; - _ tier seeming artlessness -llrer seeming artiessnes*P which is the perfection of a►t, I Lave fluttered before. the eves of the beauti- ful cold snake for a moment, but the spell was soon broker, and the bird is free again' And heart whole t' • - 'And heart whole., lady.' But do you really believe her so cold and artificial r 'As cold and- arti6cial as anything possi bly can be. Look at the'very- sitly in which She is got up—' . 'Got up! -a pretty way, truly to speak of a fair young lady 'I can term . it-nothing el e. It is. the per perfection of getting up. There is not a single hair in those • exquisitely - trained tirtglets that has not its . own proper end and meaning—there is not a sidelong: glance of those wonderful blue eyes, not a bashful drop of the lids, not a bold open look but has its 'objec,t and its end. The 'very elaborate dis plaY of that beautiful swot: is is s3si-0 6 . issto o d. ed and calculated.' on, beforehand. Believe! me,' APee Maitland .is a cold, calculatlng h e iittesA eispiette. if she he nothing worse. I should he very sorts. Julia, that. you sbotild be intimate with h er .' . 'Should you' replied the gay young girl, raising her quick black eyes to his face, and letting them drop in-tantly, as she met his admiring gate eidently. fived on her features— '.shottld yOu,-indeed. Why she toes once a great friend of mine, and once 1 thought—l feared—no. -1 didn't mean that—l fancied that you loved her.'' `Then she ceased tobe a great friend of yours, hey I' he asked with a significant and speaking Smile. 'Now -von are saucy,' answered Julia Arl ington. With as answering ' and I will not talk to yon any More. "Besides,. the -quedi rine it= over,and ell the wadd is staring, at. us. as we stand here all alone in the middle.---r Come, take me to mamma, Sir Captious Crit ical., and lo 3 if Miss Alice has not planted herself beside her.' • • The young man Said. no , more, but con ducted his fair betrothed, for they indeed, stood one to the other in that relation, to a seat, close to Which the beautiful Alice !tlait land bad enthroned betself, as vet surround ed by adoret . s.- r As Julie Arlington :appeared The blond beans' started -np, and slinking 'her hand earoerlv, as if their were the dear.- "est friends in the 'world,- kissed her first on one . cheek.-anti then on the °the', andwhis pered someting in her ear .that made her smile at fis , ,l,'-and then blush crimson. Thenett moment Alice raised- her deep eyeit.to• the face of Cinrenei. An-on, and inset ing his eves . for a moment with a languid look ; let fall her if.overcome ed. raiwd them again, 'mid again met his _Litre winch, was cold and mouruftil; if two severe., with that same tottnid gate, Nil at i n . tentibitni and olivh;ti-. pa .ion. Then a.- she lOwe , ed the long." - flingerl la,lies fur tiine; de.-p wai m " ince' midi - tied tier eliet:h, her brow, her ho.som—tiay 1 her very arms flushed to the finger; ends. Truly had Clarence Anon said that het artlessness was the very . perfection of art, and yet though .r he knew her; thorong,hly, thmigh he could reall'every thuught of bee ittiferni nine heart,--though.he lied never lOvCd,, and -no or.despiped Lcr, still she had power fur the /foment to. 4:tistrest, nay, _Oven to .euibertass he, - . too, colcired,high. 13ut it was not with bashfulness; but with indignation that his fine face flui.hed, and 'Perchance With Sot:nettling-of shame and pity at'Aliee7s dis play t l fuumitideuly and unladylike - passion. But the artful girl saw : his confusion, and S' sidelong. glance of her .deep - eye also dis- Covered that Julia Arlington had seen it,and •was agitated, if nut-pained by the sight. -Sholated Clarence Anson with-all the con :Centratiid malice:of - woman - slighted, Of an ace.redited beauty :11 . /bire charms had been neglected. :She hated -Julia Arlington, .becauie she bad won Auson's heart, not that. she had cared for that , but, that she deemed herself eclipsed,"iitid . looked -- upon .all,compe :titioii with, hirself as the keenest 'acorn and bitterinitie4. An now She resolved, .to Oct "palit both "tier ,enennet; and to sew 'the seed ;of iliiseusion .and 'roisery,:lietWeen two:fond'and trusting Italiipg . :her genthi Ova; again to the 'fAce ",4Chileuce, she : said in hair rateat - voiee, yat ro distinctly they laGai 16-t not itiglatic`.. Yew 'are a 'sad truant It • lr.Ahseti 'riot ~sad traitor.- Did I not at 'the bewailing of "IVE AUE 'JUL' EQUAL BEFORE. GOD AND TUE CONSTlTllTEON."....jandiiiihialial4 Montrcce, Susquellanna VI, on*, feitn'a, VIZV.StatT ( guriting, ,%qttmber . . . 1114 stetson,lialtnit. yttu,to lay your hble adOration,:at my feet;, and have you Dot de- I Retied .me for a 'rival . biiautyl •I'do not Iknow' the penalty l' might to inflict npOn yon for your treason !—oh ! -now I know,' she 1 added as the-band struck; up . the polka, ' I will make von dance this time,with Me,which will be killing two birds with one stone, pun ishing yon by compelling You to 'dance with a person you don't like, and taking' away, from-leer a person she dues like.' ' Oh! Alice I for,,shanto! , Alice Maitland. Bow- ;can you speak so wildly 1' exclaimed poor Julia really grieved, and confused by ._ . the cruel speech. • - ' Why you know, dear,"yon do like him,' :so where's the harm of saying it. And you know that be don't like me. I saw him tell ing:pou as I' came into thC=Morn, !lOW much_ prettier you are than - I'-.said the bold artful girl, casting a sidelong glance itt a tall.mit rotwhich reflected the whole of her exquisite pe#on. ' Well,' she continued, ' why don't .YoU - lins*er• me, Mr.' Clarence Ansoult " Are von not going to dance this polka with mo I' 'nom ..lotl ' h-li t reci ily u t..-1.,, -1,-+ - --'-i'l .1.- loVer - orthe other fair girl sad; • but bow and expres:i ltis Vappiness at being admitted to such an honor. .. . .. Another moment , and the i;oluptnous and amatory strains of the enlivening dance had set halt the company in motion, and with his arm mound the quivering w.tist of the siren, att.l her 'oft hand thrilling between • his tin gerF., Clarence was whirling the light beauty around the room, half reluctant, and ..more than half conscious cf the painlbe.was invol untatily making in another and truer heart. Around and around-they whisked in that close embrace, and even the. beauty's soft Twin' weighed-heavily en the •arm a Clar ence, and her bosom,was drawn nearer to his breast, till now they were almost in contact---, her waving tref-tses fanned his cheek, her fra grant lneath, from those deep led - half parted Jim come like the south wind from a bed of 'violets. perfumed and warm into his face, her &el) bltie eyes languished, .and beamed al ternately with every form -of blandishment, now shunning bashfully, and now encounter- ing- boldly his half-fascinated, half-averted eye. But no man's senses can long resist such a trial even though his heart is true,. and his neadealin and houe-st, and ere long :Anson . yielded himself to the pleasure of the moment and to the intoxication of the enlivening dance,' and so gave.a point- to the perfidy of' the beautiful coquette. And Julia .Arling,ton.sat there gating with a pale cheek and panting heart • upon the painful.speetacle of woman's levity and wo man's weakness, and perhaps she irotild have, given lieiself whop) , to the jealousy (rhieh' was momentarily stealing upon her, Mid not a good angel come to her aid in the sin of a very noble looking man, who was knOin to her as the accepted lover of Alice Mait land. a lie =at down by her side, and .addressine• her a&ctionately,.yet reTectfully withal, fur lie had knem n - Ler family long, and loved her almok as ,i.tAr_ and lie waS an .old friend, moreover, and a utie Blend of Clarence At,- go n. • Well,' he said half merrilv,but with some thing of ineurnftil meaning in his tones 1-evehave changed partners, it seems to me . But con are better off I think, .than I--fur your friend.does not appear to muke much atter uut or the raitf lady's fascinations, while' •slle is doing her best to win hint.' Julia gazed into his fice eagerly and•anx iouslv, and then said in a voice whie.ll show et' di the anguish of her . heal t, 'Oh I she must --she must in him if she wishes it— she is so beautiful—so more than beautiful. But vou—you—what do you Mean when you • si cal.: thus'—are you not engaged inr her 1---- Do you not love her?' . •.‘ ' I was engaged to her—l did love her once' he answered. • And God knows ho* tender ly and truly. . ' Aad are you so—do so; no longer P 'No longer, on - my honor.' - - 'Then I am lost,' cried poor Julia, now-al r tnest fainting, ' If she is free, she must win.. '• • Nev e r,' replied the gentleman emphatical ly..l"She can never win such a heart as Clarence Auson'e, when she Inst such a heart as mine, througWdelibernte and itrborn base. ness. For she is base, Julia, .and cold, even cruel, and should it • be riece , .ssry, I should +event these ir:i Alison. - But it will, not be ueee-sary—for he knows,her even now, and Sees her . in her true light. He couli not help d tucing with her, fur she asked him to d 0 -so, and nu gentleman could refuse a lady, and Anson is only dazzled for. a moment by her. beauty, as by that•of a Sue statue or a. glowing picture . But come, suppose we try l a little counter poison.' Stipposet you take a 1 turn with me, and see if we cannot pique the i -'-s•Old coquette a iitt le.' -. :. • . .- • Yattien me-, I do not dance the polka.=— hesides whidi it is over--and as she spoke the dancers ceased from revolving in their g.ddy rounds, and Alice Maitland returned leaning on her partner's drm, - all flushed and panting with the•excitement of the voluptu ous dance: . • . • But her cheek turned a little• pale, as her. eye for upon the gentleman who was talking to Julia Arling on, for she had not observed. - that he was in the room before; and she now read. a tale which she liked not in his com pressed .lips and contracted -brow: .She ral lied, however; as she joined: them,' and ad dressee him in•her wxy.sparkling manner,biit he replied but by a cool, courteOns bow. • • What is the matter now,laie sir,' she said half scornfully, hartrierrily, 'are you jealous of only stupid, servant mine?', : •• •' Not jealous and taut stupid, lady fair, nor servant of yours any *more. .. ' Indeed, she replied with a prolid toss ,of • her liend, - ' then lam Well rid of a false tali . tor.' . •. . . ' And I of a, cold cocittettel Sir i Madan' ‘ Axe you. in 'earnest `Perfettly,ia eatnoe.' - " 1 . And wherefnre 'kor reasous,whick shall be yatirs in vale' a t , I Would 'bear thorn now. - You hail better not. You would :mime %tisk - that Julia .A.rlingtob and 'Clarence - An son' shoilld'hiittr theta.' I tare not a,atiltw iitbat 'Arlitikton and Chiretv9i,Aiaithi . .'are, they to "Ciarenco quietly ., ite • withdrew --4 the. Arm' on wilt& gte'had been 'leaning, and -inida _het. a Tory cool, low bow, while. Julia gazOd oi the strange scene half incredulous with wide oyes of wonder... .. And all this :fuss is because tlificed the ',,.!got, all of it, Alice Maitland. Though you well know what, aro tny opinions on that scorp, No I I might panlonthoughtless lev ity, rifts, even 'coquetry, but cold `drucity cannot 'tolerate. - Cold' cruelty, Charles Devereui. :in heaven's name, what mean von . .That dross—that beautiful dress—heart less girl 1' i di , as I 'what of my dress?' cried the astonished betas, I believe you are mad-- or perhaps drank r she aetied.with scornful laugh. 4 Who made it be ettuired sternly. ' Who made it! why the girl who Makes all my dresses I MargarePtsliton. ° And is it paid for?' . • • ' No, it is not, and tIAt is the strange3t part of it.,. She.brou - glit, itliOrne a forthight since, and wanted the money the same night; and was in het, limit troublesome and in. tnongh I tom. her to call again in the morning, she never came agatn. Do you know where she is 1' -• 'She was starring ; the and her bed-rid .den mother, literally starving. They might have beeu-dead ere this, for all your tender mercy 1' . Great God I' and she fainted.' Cot.fusion followed, •the ball•roorn - was.:distnibed • fur a few minutei- 7 our parties left. the room, and in half an hour: the momentary wonder was forgoiteD. But the severe lesien she had learned was never forgotten by Alice Maitiand i - and . tho' . her engagement with Charles Devereux. VMS broken oil for the moment, he forgot all her girlish follies, and.she became his wife at the :rune altar before which -Clarence Anson wedded his black. eyed Julia. Since that, none of the parties, I. believe, had aught to_ repent, fur 'happiness has been their lot in a degree as large as 'evei falls to the account cf mortals. " MAY BE SO." /MO "Next time you go out You'll bity me a wagon, won't you, mother "'..aid my little boy to me one day. • his happydid not want to say no,' and destroy happy feeting , , and - I was not prepared to say ' yes,' and so I gave the evasive repli, so of ten tined under such - circninstatices- 1 May be so,' and which was meaut rather in the neg ative than the affirmative: The child was satisfied ; for he gave my words.the wearing be wished them toliave., •In a little while after I had forLrotten all about it. Not so. the bOy. —To him the c tray be sO,' was the 'yes,' and he had confidently set his heart.on receiving the wnTer the next time I .should go out. This haoened to he on. the ,after noon of the same day. It was toward night when I returned. In a moment I heard his pattering feet and gleeful voice in the entry. Where's my wagon.?" said he as I enter ed a.ll:tile OTtfisJinnointment'falling sudden ,iv on_bla nappy lace. " What wagon, dear . I asked. . "My wagon. The wagon you promised to me.' • I didu't promise.to buy you a wagon my £4:a1: " '.-Oh, yes yon did mother. You_ promised me this morning.", Tears were already in his eyes, and • his, face wore a look of - distressing disappoint mer,t.• . . • " I proinised to buy you a wagon I I am sure ; remember nothing about it." 1 replied confidently. "What in the work! put that in yOur head !" " Didint I ask you I • " said the child, the kits now. overflowing his cheeks. . Yes, I believe you did ask me something about a wagon; but I didn't proroiso to. buy you one."' "'Oh; yes yoli dig, mother. You said May "But may be sol.dosen't mean yes." • ,At this the little•fellow uttered .ii distress ing cry. His heart was almo , t, broken by.the disappointment.. He had interpreted my words according to Own 'wishes, and not according to their real meaning. - • Unprepared. for nn occurrence of this kind I was not iu the mood.tosympathize with my child-fully. To be met thus, at the moment of my return home, disturtd me. • "I didn't promise tb buy year. a wagon; and 'yeti must stop crying about it," said I teeing that•he had given way Io his feelings and was 'crying in a loud voice. But he cried on. I went up stairs to lay off my things, and he follosied,. ". You must hush now," said I more , posi tively; '" I cannot p.Hrmit this, I never prom ised to buy you a wagon." '"llay be so,' and.' ves' two different things, If I had said . l would buy you -a wagon there . would be some reason in I your idisappointiiient, but I :have. Said no; such thing.' - life paused to listen ; but when I ceased speak' : i ing his crying - was renewed. 1 - " You must stop this now. There .is no useiri it, and not jiave it," said I, ,reso-i lutelv. Mv: boy choked down tot a few thoixiOnts at this, and half stitlld his grief; bat over mastering him, it flowed on again- as wildly as ever:- I felt impatient. . "Stop this moment, I say!" and I ".took Vold . of his arm firmly. My Will is strOng, and vtilen a little excited it often leads Me beyoitd where I would go in - Moments Of re flection. By my way of speaking, he saw that I was in earnest, aid if he did not obey we, pnuishment would follow. SO with what must have been a powerful effort for 0ne...50 young, he "titled the utterance or bisgrief.—y 'But the storm raged within none the less' , vi nlentlyi as I could bee his little frame quiver as be strove to repress the rising sobs. • Turning away- from we; he weut and ,sat 'down ou a low seat in the corner of the room. saw hii form 'in.the glass 410 stood before it to - airing&niy hair; titter laying aside' my' •bonnet ; andloi the first -. .time 'my- feelings were touched. Thera was an abandonment ,in his Whole - attitude ; of grief cahoot ,biro ;bat atr4cted me with pity : and. tenth*. Peis• , , Poor cliii4.l . ,"l,sigba. • "Ilia heart istil- Mtist broken. rought to have'sisid . yes or no; and then woild'hirto been settled. Coine;". laid I after a few, mowents,reaolt - ing myshand towards ; tbe'Ph*l; "Jet us - go down andloOk out for father. lie will soon be home." I 'poke kindly and cheerfully. But. he never" moved, looked . np, nor gave a sign that he heard me • a - Oh;siell," . sahl I; with some impatience in my .voice," it doesn't matter at alt. _lf you had rather sit-there than oome - down, into the. parlor and look for dear fither,you can please yourself." Turning as I 'spoie Y left` chamber, and went down stairs. Seating myself atw win dow; I looked forth, and:endeavored feet unconcerned and cheerful. 1: saw nothing but the ace of my drieving child, and could think of nnthing but his sorrowa and disap pointment - • "Nancy," said I to one of my doniestics who tneso ll m ap e pe l n u e es d ti t o O come i w lt i t s o h thi ppu pa w r o lo u r ld to ask run down to the store next block, anifbuy Neddy a wagon. Ms heart is almost broken about °l 3 Cie girl, nowa y .. _ - en to, runoff to obey my wish, and in a Halo while came back with the *tilde wanted '`‘ Now," said I," go up to: my room and tell'Reddy that rye something for "bim. Don't mention the wagon; I-want to -take him by surprise." Nancy bounded up the stairs,. and I set the wagon in the centre of.the , room where it would meet the child's eyes on the moment ".,f his entrance, and then at down to 'await his coming, and enjoyshis surprise and de light. _ After the lapse of about a minute, I beard Nancy coming slowly. _ "Neddy's asleep," said she looking in at the door. - " Asleep-I" I.felt-greatly disappointed. " Yes ma'am. He_ was on' the floor asleep. I tool; hi►n up aild laid him oil the bee. "Then he is Ove.his troubles,7,saal I, at tempting to find relief fur tnfowiiteelings in this utterance. But no such relief carne.' • Taking the wagon in mr.hand I went 'up 'to the chamber - *here he lay, and bent over him. .The signs of grief were still upon,. his innocent fave,and . .every_ now and-I - Hon a Taint or sob gave evidence that even sleep had not yet 12shed entirely, the storm which had g‘Nept over him. ..Neddy I spoke to.hi tn. in .a voice of b.‘-nderne...ls,hopi 4 pg that my words might reach his ears. . . Tint his senses were locked, Taking 'him er, I undroa:ed him, and then, after kissing his lips, brow and cheeks, laid him in -Ids lit tle bed, and placed the wagon en the pillow bride Even until the late hour at which 1 retired on that evening weie tr.y feelings oppressed by the incident I have described. -My May be uttered in order to avoid the direct answer my . child wanted, had. occasioned him far more pain than a .pos itive refusal of his . request by ~: a ny means could hive done. "I will he more careful in'future, said as I lay thinking abont'the occurrence, "how I create false hopes. My yea shall be 'y ea,aod my nay, nay. Of these comet,' not evil." In the morning wlteu I awoke found Ned dy in posstssion. of Ids wagon. Ile run -a as i f *a tear had never teen ,upon looked af him, for many ,minutes witbont speaking- At last, seeing tbat.i was awake he bounded up to the bed aide, and -kissing me said :-- • . "Thank you, my dear mother • for busing me this wagon i You are a goof mother !" I must own to haveelt some doubts on the subject of Noddy's compliment, at the time. Since this little 'experience, I have been more careful how . I answered. the petitions of my children; and avoid the' May' be iso,' - "I'll see about it," and other such evasive answers that come so ready to the lips. The good re sults I have experienced in many instances. -Timms WISE AND OTTIERSVISE.-A Boston lady, having a drunken husband, resolved to frighten him inter temperance. She therefore engaged a watchman, for a stipulated reward to carry " Phllander"ato the watch-bouse while in a state of insensibility,and to ' fright en him' a little' when be recovered. In, consequence of this arrangement, be WM wako up about eleven o'clock at aieit, and found himself lying, on a: pine bench, in a strange and dim apartment Raising him self on his elbo w , he looked around; until his eye rested on a man sitting by • a store, and smoking a cigar.. here aro I P. asked rhilapaer. Ia a medical college l' said the Cigar smoker.' . • Vhat a-doilig there i' _ ' . _' Going to be eat Up!' .. • . '.Cut up f—bow comes that i' ' _ • ' Why, you died yesterday, while you Were drunk, and we haviybrought you here to Make a inatody l' . '.. `.lt's a lie—l ain't dead I'. I ~ , No matter; we bought you carcass, any hOw,from your wife, who had n right to sell it, fur it's all the good she , could ever make out of you. I you are not dead, it's no - fault of the doctor's, as they'll'eut yen up; dead or anus , • • , ',You will dolt, eh P. asked the old sot.. 'TO be sure we wilt—houi --immediately ; was the regolute reply. . - , • ' Wa!st,look'o' here; - can't you let us tore something to dririk before you begin P-- - ... . r A llz,in Nnouo,--When the cholera was at its, worst in 1849, in New Orl3ins, an old negr6 who had weathered the yellow fever Many titruis, at length got frightened at the initoc which the disease *as making among all classes. Ilia,maiter one night heard him praying to ',de angel, of , de Lord" by the light eta tallow candle. " to spare him die time--* to lef him live `a little tenger den take him to - glory." , But he ceneltided .his prayer 4)y professing perfect submission to, the will nof the " angel , of the Lord," even should. he be called to go immediately on ,his long Jour ney. Samba's Mister determined to teat • the sincerity of this hiit 'profession. Ho knocked at the door; " Who:dart', said Spabo, '. The angel , of the. Lord," was answered."— "_ Who,do you want ft? I have called for gatubo r The toaster _heard the candletind dent), extinguished- with - a tohoof and - Sanitto 'energetically ausritired-" - He not lure .dat 444 , 43rer. 1.4 been dead free • 'The r pnn; a conTorsa lien on Mis. Cunningham is - drawl; riOnell marked that the ittethyt. 'visa a 'decided - fail ure, and has -resulted in nothing but-= cholera morbua. "Pilo P-strid Brownµ You are alto gather wrong, ;it was a decided casciet-lidm:e ra infuntum." ITU THE ~ ODD 'FEL- LOWS.' . . The Lodge Of of 0. F. it Woodstovin, determined tdhavo the Lodge room' done up clean and nice, and: it was resolSed utiant mowily that' Uri. K. should be employed to ao theljob. • • After- the meeting; adjourned; the 'guardian, who knew-the' inquisitive elniraeter of Mrs. , K, procured abilly•gast, and placed it in the closet that •was kept up as, a reservoir for the secret things. IL then informed the lady of the wishes of the Lodge, and requester her to come early next morning is he then 'would ba,at leisure to show her ;hat was and was not tcibe done. Morning Clime, and - with it Madame K., with Ler broom, brushes, .pAls, bibs, (kc.,prepared and armed for , the job, and fotind the guardian waitin,„o . for her. "Now, madam," said be, "I'll tell you what we want done, and how we came_ to cutt - to gut A.:we.. jt urn.% p i % be medling with the-.secrets -in that t closet; we have -lost the key, and cannot find it to lock the door. I assured them you could be•dipended on." "Depended on I" said she, "1 guess - I Can. My poor dead` and gone husband, who be lonvl to the Free Masons, -or Anti-Masons, I, don't know which, used to tell we all the secrets of the e;oncern, and when he showed tne. all. the marks' the gridiron bad made when be was initiated, and told me how they had fixed poor Morgan,.l never told a living sotil to this, day. It nobody troubles—your closet to find out your secrets till I do , they'll lay there till they rot—they will." - 'I thought so," said, the guardian, " and now I want you to commence in that corner, and give the whole room. a decent cleaning, and I have pledged my word and honor for your fidelit' to your promise; now don't go into that Closet ;" and then he left the lady to herself. NO, sooner, bad she heard the sound of his foot upon the last step of the stairs . than , be eiclaimed, - " Don't go into that closetl rit warrant there is a gridiron, or some other nonsense dust like the Anti-Masons for all the world, I'll be bound. I. will just take &peep; nobody will he the wiser as 1." can keep it to myself." - Suiting the action to the Word, she Stepped . lightly to the forbidden - closet—trurned the button—which was no sooner done, than dal, a ent the billy-goat, uith a spring to regain his liberty which came near upsetting her la dyship. Both started to the door, but it waS filled with implenieni for house cleinins,and all were swept to the bottom of the stairs. _ . This ,noise and confusion - occasioned by such unceremonious getting -down stairs, drew half of the town to witness Mrs. H.'s efforts to got from under the Tule . tubs, blooms and brushes into the'streat. Who should be the first on the spot but the rascally doorkeeper, who after relen4og the goat, which was crippled for life, and-uplift ing the rubbish that bound the good woman to the earth anxiously enquired, if she had been taking the dt.'grees_l . "Taking the degrees?" - exclaiined the lady; "if . yousalliumbilicr.from the. bottom tne .ftertl.-atter you, taing things by degrees, I hare them; -and if. you frighten folks as „you have me, and hurt them to boot, I'll warrant make as much noise as I did:, "I hope you did not open The closet, mad: am !" said the keeper.. • "Open the closet!. Eve ate the apple she was forbidd - en! If you want a vloman to do anything, tell her net to do it and she'll do it certain. I could not stand the temptation. The secret was there. :I wanted to know it. I opened the door, and out popped the tarnal critter right into _ my face. I . thought the devil had me, and I broke for the stairs, as you found me all in a heap." "But, madam," said the door keeper," you are in possession of the great - secret of tt:e Order, and you must go up and be initiated ; 'swore, and then go in, the regular way." "Regular . way !" - the lady, "_then 'do you suppose I ;am going near the tarnal place again and ride that ar critter, without a bridle or a lady's saddleli . No, never ! I don't want nothing to do with that man that tides it. look nice _perched on a billy-goat; wouldn't I l No, never! I'll never go _nigh it again - , nor your hall nuttier= if‘l can prevent it, tte lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows. Why\ lid. sooner be :a: Free Mason, and broil on 'a gridiron as long- as fio could belput under it, and pulled from-g arret to 'cellar with a halter , in a pair .of old breeches and slippers, just as my poor dead husband wire; he lived over it, but I.could never out-live such another ride as took le day." , Zer A man recently purchased ten pounds of powdered sugar, but on examining, it lie found that the grocer had mixed with it",nt least a pound.of Buie. On the following rI4 he advertisedas follows in the public print's "Should the'grocer who sold me a pOund of limalong with nine pounds of sugar, not brig me the pound ho cheated me of, I shall forthwi ? I h disclose his name in - the papers,' The n xt day the man-received nine pounds of su ar frnm different grocers who had sim liar ctions on theii consciences, and feared publ city. .• _ EESALTIMST COLINTRY ,IN TItE WORLD. —De Bow's mortality statistics show that the people of the United States are the healthiest on the globe: The deaths are throe hundred and twenty thousand ,per year, _or oce and One third per cent of the population. Iu Eng land the ratio is over iwo per cot, and in France it, is near three per cent. Virginia rind North Carolina aro the healthiest of the the States,and have six hundred and-thirty eight in habitants over one hundred years of age. • -jui- A shrewd old.tentlenian once said-to his daughter, 4 :13e sure, ny dear, that yen never martra p:g)r, man; =but remember the poorest man in the world is the one that has money and'nothing else." 'There mtieh truth - in this and we noinmendiCto the - la- Spnggins says he:a ways,travels inch •a sulky'-that is, be - always goes With' his, intitrires to'be obstinate and- out humor from the time theyl. leave home till they get where they are vette. The :only tithe sha ever smiled, lie sayi,:was when be broke his Ankle, • _ _ tar' man wlui wide an ipipressloti'iya ttio beaVt of a coquette, ha* Wien •out)i.iat 4lat for stone-cuttioft. -. l :Viiiii;*o4 , ;S'iii4iifl:;o . : LESS NA'OIVIVREAtONS-1 7 0,1t WELL. - . KAYO Mir TRUTHS.' :,`..: - :-- The longei, the heanCerilplow the letri.' -r s 1 power is required to:; draw tha - Phisil lkohiiiKc- rs the beam,is a Ittiet,,,thniugh .whitsh the - PO* ~. ~ ', Ifr is ' eiOrtd-rar4i:Clgie4,Airg..the . ..blew, th 4 -- ..- long of the fever is lengthened,nnd levers :4... , Is thereby increase/1 The - cable is. true (04 !many other inipleinents And , tirOW.;.-.± - stich spades, .pitchforks; -- . - wheelharroirsc 'pia ` screwdrivers, augers., - gimbhits;*c... 1 -, The' grer t ter the diaineter of ilizt,')vi a carman the lesapoier it reqUiree.,4 , come th; :equalities of a . roika n ;k4O t tt b 7 b the leverage- is increased by length th:-.; spoltes„'or radii of tin whiela;*bick are::: :-.-..-;•..- long arms of the leven„ whereby. iffie;pOwer i,a exerted, and becerisis. the' steepness- or abrept tiess of the obstructions present - ea to the wheel - - is lessened:6Y the= greater'- oircituf4enco -- , A. ; the wheels. .13ut, there is; a .near limit to tc:-.-.. . ! size of the wheels, .!woad ihiph no advati , point of draught, on - the sauna ift For ionz . 1 . - the power exerted Mereiraddatn the weigh: or pressure, of the carriageluport . thegrenand ; • • and the_ portion lost ineretiste - With',do.. . . hoisht of the axles abovethe horizontal line - c -- - draught..Besides, the increasing Vol. . enlarged -Wheels. soon more than counteramti - ..., the advantages gained by increasingil.:**: • . ameter. . , • _. ', ~. ... 1 -.,-,',„--,. More carriages meet,than- CiV4rfae::a. p i • destrain, on a road : ~ .'simply talcanififitiot Wngth of road citfering - the opportunity: tO , meet, is the 821176 . of the distance passetrorei, 1 by the opposite trirelleis,While - the length ~ ..4 ' . the road offering the opportunity to overtant..._ . is only the diference ;of - , the.distence.pas4f:l: over by the pedestrairt and the dtivers...-..,,Th.,), - ...hence-- in the one case -at* reckoned. by f... , .1 sum; and in the other case by the'difireric_ , • of tlespeed of the walker and tbistiffer;4ff. l . , -..; - • 1 The breeze; in the groves, on a - still.'`dsk, , are explained' by. the trunks, branclies,,,wri - leaves of the trees offering the obstruction r;',. their oppoi,sing surfaces" to wlriterer.dintlM `_ the air. may have,tbrireby simply eausinet greater velocity through - the fpaces betWeei-, them. - ' . i ' : -i _1 i'''Myintls produce cold in -several - ways. ".. Thy .-- act of blowing implies the detifut upon, iIY motion over the earth, of ete*t - ' air; to. ocou .. . py the room of -that' which it , displaees. I. also incisaset the evaporation of moisture froze the the earth, and thus conveys, aWaY l eonsideit hie beat.. This increased 'eraporationit:lnt: the mixture of warm - . and cold air, tutteall-- produce a condensation of repent in therni. tnosphere; hence the formation of Ctielidelint the consequent detention of the beat,brongly, by the rays of the'sun. And - whiten* ,al. - . in niei:on is colder than: the nitrth;brin bodies with which it Cornea in : c0nt304. 6 1 4 '4': - tion of their heat is imparted tc - -the air. 1 " Ail signs -- of rain fail •in -- - a dry time ';'' - " wet begets more wet." These• is real :phi , losoPhy ia these proverbs: In. a .dir time . comparatively little evaporation pea:T.:l:4z place from Abe parched card', and the itinetr. 1 !there becomes but slOwly chargeffwitkMoi.• ture--the source of rain. -In vret:thrie era - oration : koes on rapidly 'from- the "saturate . ' - car vui • *iru- inr.n.--,..”. ~ *WI in oistUre:, ...., f - : '= ' ' li; --.- 2 ~ The cold-inederatei immediately puce:lit:4, . *Jell of snow ; because' - the 'ravor. in the at niosphere,, in _the apt' of atengealing intiittinif . par is with many degrees of .heat, - whielithefor! were latent, and which are at once to the . surrountlingatinosphere.. The sarnef..!. ' true in respect to the , condensation oflvaio in rain; but the amoa nt'of latent heat therish - : made sensible is Much ICS'S thin lathe act t - ..-, freezing, and itis g . eneially_ compensated b the loss of ' heat in:the 'evaporationtakir, - place from the,earth'nfter th e rain; falls._:.. ,IF. ring „the fall both of ,rein' and artow,..the s it l i:., mosphere Usually , „tee:tames gradually poltik. - 7 , !because the source - of tkit derived; l'iedi et , sunshine is, for the iiitte„Lentnif,-411" fly: ~ not -supply the loss. , bylivaporatien. anti` r ' diation from, the earth., ..I,tain ant snow' &a:. also, usually accompanied by wnd,_it-coaaitir. : .,. - of heat. , : '..• , . . 2.; - . - -,T It is lesS tiresome to -.w.aik -, thin to - staz.. still a given length Of timel: for in walkir -:- - each, set of muscled is resting half of thntini.,,, but..when standingatill,- the muscles -ate Cir. tinually exerted. The exertion of =mui ciee, - ''.. the effort . of - walking is net twice as great ~-.-; in standing still; benne, the former is ,r!•. 7 equal to th e . double Continuation of the latt , ;',: - . A - considerable quantity-Of food i taken one time; into. the sfomach; ilk:. MOO 441. .etri:: digested than a very, small quitatity; beeetii.._ in the former, case; thelood._coming..lll C(if.',' tact with; the entire inner: - surface ; of,(- stomach ‘ excites the action , of the - organ, )Ir. ' occasions "the secretion of gastric fluid'ord verily sufficient for digesting • but' in the la'. - ter, ease thcre_ is not. ettouih foOd .itv , ta, , stomach, to .excite its action.- This :Setscrew - for the fact - often affording a mat* Of en,: , prise, that persona- are freltiontry . inade Vet 1 ill b y taking into the .i.tornaeit a very -'flim'. 1 - quantity of food; when it is' remarked th the same personsilaye _ frequently taken,nutt. larger quantities- of .the_satue. kinds of-4.: • with impunity'. . ~, '- ~'- • = ' The,fUr Of bait , of animal , effect' tually"pr - tects it. frem cold, not so much by_ coverir .- the body and - abutting in - the heat, as - 'tif p-_, vonting'the circulation of - air it;:- -- r, that the heat. pannot be .rails, otstrioy'.: away... And, thearrati&lettr of. hairs, pf: . pendichlar or,nearly ete,,on the 'suttee° Of . ti .. holly, ~ ,b y the. law _of - .retlictiein - permit* t.. radiratoe ot .. .bnt :verY little - -heat: riaikii..i. body. - - ~ ~. -. ..- . '.....-:?,.: s- - - -.---: _ The himen system, inite,iitta or exinsenty.,r . power, _is' - very analogous to - enr i eli*witrai,..., chine.. Dampness dispels: ' 14 6 , for*ilt4 • ,bk -- apparently- in the - same !Ai, .11 - et4,k9.0-1 1, - bilttating effect.of hot weittper,Canseillainii. pally by excessive pirapirattOir. ElheAlittint...: ty. Ofperspiration can boirrel . fly lessened b:- refraining from ntiziecessary.dralking - ZAtitem can soon. school hiMself tote 1'V0N.4,4,01Y of several tiiiiei iera ) 1 400 1 "t i 11: 6:11 1 1 ,,u 411 - -- iceustothed 'to 40iik; by. taklnkfitilf a tuna qierertitrat- - once,: end- -re* : ttintit - only - 4, often Mk :thirst is felt .- The Pets~ cii4d , tht ..a1.7 - . yi Y 4; term iQrniertY.c- 1 44 Ilia ,er !itt4l.4f tte' paid' foellis, ref aid tbe4l*-ceilie.paelr. 140,r a Tilton -1 it.**Graiit is .4tia l springs the . tree, , • jar Ile wYeAriekikk44 heatkot9i bode' drink* a‘ray - • . • r. • vr ,•••• , - BEM Raw lath •
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