The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, February 23, 1870, Image 1
_ •.. B. HA.WLEY, Proprietor. Ploint,sp tardo. CRADLES N. - STODDARD, Deltic* In Bonin and Sllot a, Mat and Caps. Leather and Finding*. Maki Street. td door below Searle's Hotel. Virg* made to order. and rrirairlog dune neatly. Moutco,e. Jan. 1, 1.570. LEWIS KNOLL, SIIAVING AND lIAIU DRESSING. Shop in the new Postotllce brOlding, where he will be found ready to attend all who may want anything la fat line. Montrose, Pa Oct. I. 1.973. r. ILEUVOLDS, AtiCTlONEfin—Scn. Dr. c.ofi., nml 11,ximnire—atno atteudo al Vea turn. .\l; my receive la.topt eit..ul:ol:. LUCt. 1. 151i.),--lf 0. M. lIAWLEII, DEALlili in I)R'. i.:l to US, IatOCKRIES, CIiorKERY. Hardware. nat.. Cap, Wnrt+.Sltu••, Mad° Cloth, Ink:. Paint, Olt, etc.. New Nlllford. }o. [Sept. 8.'69 DR. I. W. DAITON. rnTstotAa: a srm:EoN, tollttooo Clw oorvlres to the CtOrofitt of (frost 8 4. 44441,1 vt. Italy Other at blo reoldorter, opp-totto I.l.truults llottse, Bowl vt ttage. ttopt. let. PO3 • Of LAW OFFICE enAmiwittus L mecol.Lt M. Attorneys and coon fly. at Lau . . tUL•lce lo the Ilrlck. the Dank. plontrose Ang, t. A. Cwt. xnesiaxr. . • J. B. McCos_l.l: A.,& D. R. LATHROP, DEALERS in Dry Goods. Groceriim, meter, and gleeereare, trillk arid p4mket cutlery. PalutP. 011 .. tlyc Mutt , , hate. hoot. and rhnca, ',Me leather. Perfumery Se. Drtek IU cl.. udi.luing the Dank. Montrorte,Augnerlt, ISMl.—tf - A. LaTuunr, - • - D. R. Le.Lnnor, A. 0. WARREN, ATTORNEY A . LAW. lionoty, Rack Pay. Penatork, and Exam on Claim,' attended to. OfVee d oor Ocloir Bort** Store, 3totztrol.e Pm. [An 1.'69 WM. A. CROSSMON, Attorney At Lau•, Montrose, busn'a Co. Pa., can be found at all reasonable business how, at the Connty Catunnestoners' Office. (Montrose, "Luz. I, 1,4;9. W. W. WATSON, ATTORNEY UT LAW, 7ilwittoiie, P. Office with L F. Fitch. Imuutro- , c, Aug. .1, 180. DI. t'. Sit:TTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, uui nni Prlendvvllle, Pa. C. S. GILBERT . . lirent Bend, Pa a_ s. Auglisa A3l 1 E L 13. SI. .49.3.1.01.14t0r1i.C1(31". Aug. 1. Mg. • 13rooKlyn. Pa JOHN GROVES, F V.111(INARLBTA11011- 31ontrose, Ya. Shop ovet Chandler's Store Al' ttnler, tirsL.ratr et) It • lit ling done 014 short t t" 0: W. W. c I BINET AND CHAIR MA NUT A CTI"/IF Maiu etruct, Montrose, Ta ptug. I 1 biLY. 11. RURRITT, DRALErt In Staple rn,d Fan.- Drl . 1;1.14, 1•r.,; - „., Hardware, Iron. Stoveft, Din ge, Vile , aud Bout.isand Shot,, Hate A. Unpp, Fury, Butlnlo itobi Groceries.ProNislove,...,.. Neu Milford. Pa. DR. E. P. DINES Ilse permanently located at rriend4elile for the pnr pone orpracchAng medicine and •1172.1, an all it. branches. Ile may be found at the Jack non Lit ure Once boors (ruin 8 a. tn., w Sl. tn. Inriendevllle, Pa., Aug. 1 isfa. STROUD dic BROWN, FIBS AM) LIFE INSI7.I.ANCE ACE TS Al' tontdoes.e attended to prornyly. on fnln Irt rr. Omer ant door north of • Montro, Hold," w0..1 Ode •1• PoblleAcenne_ lfontr•..c, Pa. [Aug. 1. BlLLescis nr - aotrb. - C11..:1- Et. L. littown. JOAN %MUTTER TIESPECTMLLIS nnn.nnce, that bn It n." - psred to eat ali ltnd~ oft reneote in the moo. nd wee. Shop over the poet 011100:Muntro.e,..ro WM. D. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ninntrose. J. Uffirc tippo tile the Texhvil Howse. ucar Ihe CuLEI Aug. 1 150. tr DR. W. W. SMITII, DRNTIST. Rooms over Do & Coroln'. Hard ware Stara. Office hours from 9a. m. to 4 p. 161outrosv, Aug. 1, 1.969.—U ABEL 'TERRELL, DKALICR in Drags, Patent Medicine.. chemical. Ltquorv, Paiute, 011a,Llyn ',lntl - , Varnishes, Win Glass, Grocerica, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa, per, Stone•trare, Lamps , . Kerosene. Machinery (Hi, Trillions, Gana, Ammunition, Knives. spectacled Brushes, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perin rn. dc.— being your of tbe most unmerons, extensive, and valuable collections of Goods In Susquehanna Co.— Eetabllabed In 1819. [Monitore, Pa. D. W. SEAULE, ATTOIMEV AT LAW. office over [Le Store of A. Lathrop, In the I;r:ck Moutront,Ta. Isort.V E. L. WEEKS & CO Dealer. In Dry Goode. Clothing. Ladies. and Mivaes doe Shun. kipo. acrutf h.r the gre;j Anm.rican Tea and Coffee Company. iMuniros,. 1 n , nog Dit. W. L. lIICIRLARDSON, Pnirsiettav a, SURGEON. tender' , tar pr,,f,, , nionnl terviees to the cittzemts of Mont rope nuity Office at hisredidcuce, on the corner ea.t of Sny, Itro. FOundry . . tAstn I. 1.59, DU. caAnirvErc, PaYSICIAN and SURGEON, IdontroFe. Pa. Glee, eapecial itt.tvntion to dlseaftel of the than and Luus,a anti all Surgical diacase, Ocoee over W B. Deana Dont& at Searles note!. ' (Aug. I. 1t..0.$ KERNS & NICHOLS, DMA. e.RS, in -Drogg, If7edietnee. Cfiemitale. Dye .l4a. Plana. 011 e, Vortdab, Lignots, Fancy It,. Patent "Misitrittes, Pertom , ry 31•4 A, tit lee. re- Pree cepti e. 3 m•fu II; .o r pr. n ded Partite Arenne, above Searle's lintel, Arnstrose, Pa A. B. !lumen, Axon Nictini-n, 1 . 1663. DE. E. L. 114NDRICK, PirrSICIAN & SURGEON. rexpectfral tender. hi. prole tonal ►crsicee to the citizen of Frlenelreille and vicinity. Or - Office Inthe office of Dr. Lee , lioardim at J. liustord's. Aug. 1.110,9. SOLDIERS' BOUNTY, pENsto:ol, and BACK PAY. The andereigned. LICENSED AVENT of the VOA'. ERIIMENT, haring obtained the neccesuy forms, Isc.. will give prompt attention to all claims intrtuted aphis tare. NO charge maces anbcetsfel. Eontroee. Zane fith.GEO. P. LITTLE.. DENTISTR Y An those to cant of falSe Teeth or other dental work ahonld,a4ilat the office of the subscribes, wrine pre paredto do all kinds of work hither line on e notice. rank:War -carnation _paid to making fill an partial setts of tooth ongcdd, siica, or aluminum plate also an WI:SU:ell cast ccanpositloa the two latter preferable to any of thdchesper imbalances now mod for dental plates. Teeth oryonngpersons re:l4 ated, and nude togrove natnral shape. The Advantage abasing work done by permanently 'sated and rosponsible parties. must be apparent to all. • All work warranted. Please call and examine epee-l ine= cf Plate work at our °Mee. orer Boyd 4 Co's hard ware atom' . . R. W. &NMI & IMOTICER. Koairose. Mg, 18.1862:.-41 PEBBLE' SPECTACLES— aIso com Imeabiktadeli, it:mist:TV, • tor apie gOramte. NOV. 10. 1869. azEl, TIMM. syoeK AND THINK. Hammer, tongs and anvils ringing, Waking echoes all day long, In a deep•toned voice are singing Thrifty Labor's iron song; From a thousand fly wheels bounding, From a thousand humming looms, Night and day the notes are sounding Through the misty &eery rooms. Listen ! workmen lo their play— There's advice in every clink ; Still they're singing—still they're saying— " While you labor, learn to think !" Think what power lies within you, For what triumphs ye are formed, If, in aid of bone and sinew, Hearts by emulation warmed. Hinbty though ye woo and cherish, What shall hold your spirits down? What shall make your high hopes perish ? Why shall ye mind Fortune's frown? Do you wish for profit, pleasure ? Thirst at Learning's fount to drink? Crave ye honor, fame or treasure ? Ye the germs have—work and think. Think ! but not alone of living, Like the horse from day to day ; Think but not alone of giving Health for pelf, or soul for pay ! Think ! Oh, be machines no longer--`D Toiling jnst for daily food. Think ! 'twill make you fresher. stronger Link you to the great and good ! Thought exalts and lightens labor, Thought forbids the soul to sink ! Self respect and love for neighbor, Mark the men who work—and think ! Think !—and let the thought new-nerve you Think of men who've gone before ; Leaving lustrous names to serve you! Yours the path they've plodded o'er 1 Freedom tights and wins her charter With the sword of thought—the pen I Tyranny can find no quarter In the ranks of thinking men. Think for thought's a wand of power— Power to make oppression shrink Grasp ye, then, the precious dower! Pr ise it—wield it--- 7 work and think ! Hold your heads up, toiling brothers ; 'Mongst us be it ne'er forgot, Labor, for ourselves and others, 1 , for man a noble lot ; Nobler far, and holier, higher, Than vain luxury can claim, If but roil and worth inspire, And true greatness be our aim ; Power to compass this is given— tirit fqrm. 0)- mrongest link 'Twin: an upright mien Heaven, lii, noblest power—the poWer to think A little crib be-aide the bed, A little face above the spread, A little frock behind the door, A little shoe upon the floor. A little lad with dark brown hair A little blue-eyeil face and fair, A little lane that leads to school, A little pencil, slate and rule. little blithsortle, winsome maid A little hand within his laid ; A little cottage, acres four, A little old time fashioned store. A little family gathering round ; A little turf-heaped tear-dewed mound ; A little added to his soil. A lit Ile' r,t from hard at A little silver in his hair; A little stool and erAsy eimsr, A little night of etrth•lit gloom; A little cortege to the tomb. Better he upright with poverty than unprincipled with plenty. The Bible is a prison in this window of hope, through which we look in to The merit of our actions consist not in doing eNtranrdinary actions, but in doing ord}ziarr actions well. MEM= l'prigidness in all our dealings with olle another is a matter of human con venience, but of divine requirement. The groundwork of all manly charac ters is veracity. or the habit of truthful nes.4. That virtue lies at the foundation of everything said. Amidst all disorders, God is ordering. all wisely and justly, and to them that love Him, graciously ; therefore we ought not to be d:smaved. No person Can be so feeble or so poor that he has not a dutto rrform ; which being performed, maims Ulm one of the higlicet and greatest. Aristotle on being censored for bestow ; lag alms on a bad man, made the follow ing reply : ••I did not give it to the man ; I go% e it to hunutuity." The rays of the sun shine upon the dust and the mud, but they are not soiled by them. So a holy Soul, while it remains holy, may mingle with, the vileness of the world, and yet be Vure in itself. —ln naval architecture, the rudder is first fitted in. and then the ballast is put on board, and, last of all, the cargo and the sails. It is far otherwise in the fitting up and forming of. man ; he is launched into life with the cargo of his faculties abroad,aud all the sails of his passions set ; , but it is the..long and painful work of his life, to acquire the ballast of experi enee, and to form the rudder of reason ; hence, it too often happens that this frail vessel is shipwrecked before he has laid in the necessary , quantity of ballast, or that he has been so long in completing the rudder, that the vessel is become too cra zy to benefit by its application. —Never enter a sick room in a mo ment of perspiration-, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not approach contagions diseases with an empty 'stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, - because the heat attracts the vapor. PreTentives gI9 preferable to powders' ' - ...,. . . . . 0 it 7. . . D Emo ..,_ ...T.,....._ ._ . gort'A Conter. What Is Life i' MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1870. Pioctilautouo. Novel Reading and Manual Labor A True Sketch. BY lIETTIE RILLES Mr. Thornton returned home at the usual hour, and as he passed by the parlor door, he saw his daughter, a young lady of nineteen, lounging on the sofa with a book in her hand. The whirr of his wife's sewing machine struck on his ear at the moment. Without pausing at the parlor door, he kept ou to the room from which came the sound of industry. Mrs. Thornton did not observe the en trance of her husband. She was bending close down to her work, and the noise of her machine was louder than his foot steps on the floor. Mr. Thornton stood looking at her for some time without speaking. "Oh dear!" exclaimed the tired woman. letting her foot rest upon the treadle and straiOtening, herself up, "this pain in my side is almost beyond endurance." "'Chen why du von it killing yourself there?" said' Mr. Thornton. _ Mr. Thornton's aspect was unusually sober. "What's the matter ? Why do you look so serious?" asked his wife. "Has anything gone wrong ?" Mrs. Thorn ton's countenance grew slightly troubled. Things had gone wrong in her husband's business more than once, and she had learned the occurrence of disaster. "Things are wrong all the time." he re plied, in some impatience of manner. "In your business ?" Mrs. Thornton spoke a little faintly. "No. nothing special out of the way there, but it is all wrong at home." "I don't understand you, Harvey— what is wrong at home, pray ?" "Wrung for.you to sit in pain and ex haustion over that sewing machine, while an idle daughter lounges over a novel,in the parlor. That's %%Fat I wish to say." "It isn't Etlie's fault. She often asks to help me.. But I can't see the childput down to household drudgery. Her time will cone soon enough. 1,,t her have a little ease and comfort while she can." "If we said that. of Onr sons," said )Ir. Thornton, "and acted on the word, what efficient men they would make for trials and duties." -You are wikig• in this thing—all wrong," continued - her hu,band. "And if Ellie is a right minded girl, she will have inure true enjoyment in the conscious ness that she is lightening htr mother's burdens, than it possible to obtain from the finest not el eter uritten. Excite ment f.r the imagination is no substitute for the deep peace of mind that ever ac companies and i.noecAls the right AlL— charge of daily' duties. It is a puttrut.- r intteat moral state , ppt,: v that slit.- 311 he tifillent to ,it hands. or to employ theta in light, ft while her 11 . 1,alwr %%oril Lrnn toil beyond her strength. Ile ter. it mu mt not be!" "And it shall not said' a quick firm voice. Thornton and his wife s'arted, turned to the speaker, who had entered the room unobserved. and been a listener to nearly all the conversation we have re corded. "It shall not be!' and Effie came and stood by her father. Iler face was crim son; her eves flooded with tears. through which light was flashing; her form drawn up erect ; her manner resolute. "It isn't all my fault " she said, as she laid her hand on her fathers arm: "Eve asked mother a great many times to let me help her, but she always puts the off. and says it's easier to do a thing herself than to show another. May be I'm a little dull—but every one has to learn, you know. Mother did not get her hand in fairly with that sewing machine for two or three weeks ; I am certain it would not take me any longer. If she would only teach me how to use it, I could help her a r ,vrreat deal. And indeed, father, I am willing." "Spoken in the right spirit, my daugh ter." said Mr. Thornton, approvingly. "Girls should he usefully employed as well as boys, and in the very things most likely to he required of them when they become women in the responsible position of win s and mothers. Depend upon it_ Effie, an idle girlhood is not the way to a cheerful womanhood. learn to do now the things that will be required of you in after years. and then ton will have an ae qu-red facility. Habit and skill will nutke easy what might come hard, and be felt as very burdensome." "And you would have her abandon all self-improvement," said Mrs. Thornton. "Give up music, reading, society "There are," said Mr. Thornton, as his wife paused for another word, "some fif teen or sixteen hours of each day, in which mind or hands should be rightly employed. Now let us see. how Effie is spending these 1,4 g and ever recurring periods of time. Come, my daughter, sit down ; we have'this subject fairly before us. It is one of great importance to you. and should be well considered. How is it in regard to the employment of your time? Take yesterday for instance. The records of the work of a day will help us to get toward the result after which we are now searching." Effie sat down, and Mr. Thornton drew a chair in front of his wife and daughter. "Take yesterday for instance," said fa ther, "how was it spent; you rose at seven, 1 think." "Yea, sir; I came down just as the breakfast bell wos rung," replied Effie. "And your mother was up at half-past five, I know, and complained of being so weak that she could hardly dress herself: But for all this, she was at work until breakfast time. Now, if you bad risen at sir, and shared your mother's work - until seven, von would have taken a hoar from her day's burden, and certainly lost nothing from your music, self-improve ment, or social intercourse. Row was it after breakfast ? How was the •morniig spent t" "I practiced an hour on the piano after breakfast." "So far so good. What then r "I read the 'Cavalier' .until eleiven o'clock.* • * • Mr. Thornton shook his head, and asked : "After eleven how was the time spent ?" "I dressed myself and went out" "I suppose an hour was spent i n dress ing 'Yes, sir." -Where did you go ?" "& called on *Helot Boyd, and we took a walk down Broadway. -And 6iime home just in time roe din ner? I think I met you at the door ?" "Yes, sir." ."How was it after dinner ?" "T slept from three until five, and then took a bath aud dressed myself. From ttix until tea time I sat at the parlor' win dow." —Afkr.tea ?" "Read the •Cavvalier' until I went to bed." 'At what hour did you go to bed ?" "Eleven." "Now we can make up the account," said Mr. Thornton. '6,4oit rose at seven and retired at eleven—siN.teen hours. Anil from sour own acei l unt of the day, but, a single hour was spent in anything useful— that was the hour ab the piano. Now, your mother was up at hull -past live, and went to bed, from her dice' inability to sit at her work any longer, at half past nine. Sixteen hours fur hit also. How much reading did you do it - that time:'" And Mr. Thornton looked Lt his wife. "Don't talk to me of reading! I've no time to read," Mrs. Thornttii answered, a little impatiently. The cograst of her daughter's idle hours with ter own life of exhausting toil, did not impress her mind very pleasantly. "And yet," said Mr. Thdrnton, "you were always fond of reading: and I eat remember when not one day went by without an hour or two passed with your books. Did von lie down after dinner:'" "Of course not." "And didn't you take a pl,asant walk down Broadway, nor sit at the parlor IN in dow with Effie?" There was no reply. -Now the case very plain one," con tinued Mr. Thornton. "In fact, nothing can be plainer. You sp , ad from fourteen to sixteen hours in hard work, while Effie, tat:Mg yesterday as a sample, spends about the same time in what i little better than idlenes. Suppose a new adjustment were to take place, and Effie were to be usefully employed in helping you right hours each day, she would still have eight hours left fur self-improvement or recreation ; and you, relieved from your present overtaxed condition, might get hack a portion of your health and spirits, of which these too heavy household duties ha% e robhi•d you... "Father," said Ellie. speaking through thr , tears that were falling oven her face, I never saw things in this light. Why 4 1 11 .-- , 1 to me before I've i,rUsTl lOU . Zds% : •1 - 0.1 lau't do er do it myself. Indeed it is taut all my fault." "It may not have been in the pact, Effie." replied Mr. Thornto 11. "lint it certainly ill be in the future. unless there is a new arrangement of things. It is a false so cial sentiment that lets daughters become idlers, while mothers, fathers and sons take up the daily burden of work and bear it through all the businessf hours." Mrs. Thornton did not mine gracefully into the new order of things proposed by her hush:mil and accepted by Effie. False pride in daughter, that future lady ideal, and an inclination to do herself, rather than take the trouble t...) teach another, were all so many impediments. lint Effie and her father were both in earnest, and it was not long before the overtasked mother's weary face beau!) to lose its look of weariness, and her kinguid frame to come up to an erect bearing. She could find time for the old pleasure in books, for a healthy walk in the street, and a call on sonic valued friend. And was Etfie the worse for this change? Did the burden she was sharing with her mother depress her shoulders and take the lightness from her step ? Not so. The languor engendered by sickness, which had begun to show itself, disappeared in a few It eeks : the color Came warmer into her cheek , : her eves ginned in brightness. She w.is :.frowing in fact more beautiful, for her mind. cheerfully I , u r d ut y, was moulding every lineament of her countenance into a new expression. I)id self-improvenient stop? Oh, no! From one to two hours were given to close practice on the piano even; day. Iler mind. becoming iizorous in tone. in stead of enervated by idl-nes, chose bet ter order of reading than had been in dulged before, and she was goviving to wards a thought i;orous, intelligent womanhood. She also found time, amid her home ditties, for an hour twice a week with a German teacher: and she began also to cultivate a natural taste for draw ing. Now that she was employing her hours usefully, it seem-d wonderful how much time she found at her disposal for useful work. -- --.1.• The Dome of the Capital The dome of the capitol at Washington is the most ambitious structure in Ameri ca. It is 180 feet high,r than the Wash ington Monument at Baltimore, sixty eight feet higher than Bunker Hill, and twenty two feet higher than the Trinity Church spire of New York. It ie the only considerable dome of iron in the world. It is a vast holkiw sphere of iron weighing 8,000,200 pounds. How much, then is that ? Mote than 4,000 tons or about the weight of 70,000 full grown peo ple, or about equal to a thousand laden coal cars, which holding four tons apiece, Would reach two miles and a half. Di rectly over your bead is a male figure in bronze, " America" weighing 13,983 lbs. The pressure of the iron dome upon its piers and pillars is 14,467 pound to the square foot. St Peter's presses nearly 20,000 more to the square foot and St. Genevieve, at Paris, 75,000 pounds more. It would require to crush the supports of Our dome, a pressure of 755,280 pounds to the, square foot. The cost was about 84 4 000,000. The new wings Cost 86,200, 000. The architect has a plan of rebuil ding the old central Park of the Capitol, and enlarahig.tho Pork which will cost .3,260,00 t. Natural lllstory. Hair Snakes Who that has spent a childhood in the ; country has not heard of the "snake made I out of a horse-hair," and has not tried his own hand at such creation, I wonder? i At tan years old I was told by my young brothers that if I put a horse-hair in wa ter fur nine days I should find it alive on t the tenth day. Su I determined upon making the trial; and looking fur and • finding a nice, long black hair, I “cribbed" an old tin basin from the kitch en, and, filling it with clear well-water, made my way laboriously with it in my hand up the high felted to the top of the wood-house, from thence to the roof at the kitchen. Certainly there must be some special watch and - ward kept upon children's lives. and if so, iny guardian angel had full occupation to keep my I neck whole in childhood. I got safely uP, and deposited my basin behind the chim ney to keep my proceedings out of sight of my brothers, knowing how little chance I had of isuceess if they found out the pos,illilq of mounting to the kitchen- roof Ihty , ttiter day watched my op portunity to 'l.•,cu up to see 1% hat progress my snake aai making . . but the tenth day came and went, and the horse-hair was there, but thesnake was not. Sadly "put out," I Ensured my brothers that it , "couldn't b. , dune ;" still they asserted that it ha of for some of the boys had dune it ; there was some failure in my way of doing it, for most, certainly horse-hair did come to life in water. Years passed away, and I grew to ma turity ; but with added years came stron ger cravings to know more of nattind his tory, and I did not forget my attempt at creation. One day. while spending a sum mer in the country, a small packet of i green moss was sent to in". with a message that I should find something in that I. might care t'r, and, opening it, I (*mind; the object of my childish de•rire. a scerit- Itigly ltve horse-hair. All me old interest re% iyed, and I begat) asking everybody likely or unlikely to know; -Where dot .+ the creatnre come from'" and it wit: amusing to hear how tinnily the old child ish idea had hitien impres , ,ed also upon the generation preceding and f 'Hewing me. Still I refused belief I said, "It is unlike 1111 ice ItllOW of propagating life. and why this exc, pt lull ? I don't believe it." One old num asked. - Can von prove the Cln trary ?" I replied, "Not now, but I will in time ;" but the search of many dit , brought no results. Two years after, a little hit Of stick was !Mted to me, with one curled into a knot about it. and I cage rly asked where it was fi , 1.1111, and wit: told that it had been picked up in the !jute stream, -down by the road, close to • the bridge." "Then; , said 1, "it goes in to my aquarium, that I may learn its' habits. and now I shall know all abort it." So, early ni• t morning I was -down ' chanced to 01 in sup 11 a WIIY 11 , t.' mater every blade ~r grass lln el: wit'er-ed„zii visible, and 1 found.to me ,great joy SeN eral twined 111 a knot about mote than one blad e ~.r ,ater-cover,_! said I, •'ail in a knot together ; are thee ; social in their habits, wonder? Noc turnal, too, I se , T , ct fir so few. c • liaratively, know about them, and most of those I question have heard iil th m, but few speak of seeing them."' Cu I took' my tremnres home iind put them into Illy ininariunl. At night I found thrin swim ming with wary motion, but by day they were coiled about the stems of some wa ti•r-plant. And there for a time Inv knowledge of them rested, and my first question Wa: , 1111a1i6werett. Oh, the pleasure of that aquarium! the delight of searehiug brook, ru nning stream, and canal for all sorts of things to stock it' the interest 'of watching the habits of the creatures that I found ! the sense of something achieved after groping through piles of mud dragged from brooks and streams to find sonic living thing! hitherto unknown to me, and to try to' find in books ;ill thee conk! teach or it'' My room was a chn - rming plave to me.' that one SlllTlttlee in the country. My aquarium so beautifully kyp), and my tkh e s kunitmg utr so well that they came to the Side, whenever I app.:m.ll. to 1w fed liv my hand ; my tables covered with Win• cot ers, borrowed front the kitchi•n, and u.stal as nurseries for caterpillars and worms, !gayly it) my sight, though odious to every one else my little book-case emptied of books that in collection of, insects might be kept nicily till the sum-' vier was over, and the case ready fur them ; my two pet tortoises. and the crane with the broken wing, brought to me for cure. "Not very refined pursuits;'. does, some one say ? Perhaps not, but exceed ingly pleasant, though the sun had small respect for my complexion, and my hands were not over fair nor always presentable ; but all that was more than made up to me by the intense delight I felt while' striving to learn more of the mind of God, and in my nearer approach to him, and appreciation of his goodness every liv ing thing. Many times, when I have been watcThing one of my worms changing in to the pupa, or passing into its final state of the perfect insect, my heart has over flowed with loge for and trust in Him. Oh, how much they lose of instruction and delight who care for none of these things! But lam disgressing. !laving learned all that my aquarium could reveal to me of my hair-snake (Gordias varies), I found myself still farther from my first question. Five years had passed since had said I woulci yet discover whence they came, and I had sought for some account of them in books, but had received no satisfaction, and lilts rather discouraged, but by no means ready to give it up. Some writers must know, if I did not, and they had written of things quite as insignificant; but no authors, to whose works I had access, said a word about the matter. One day late in September, 1 • was "paddling," us often before, in a run:- ning stream, my feet protected by India rubber boots; in my hand a tin cup to collect spoils, and my eyes earnestly searching under every stone for whatever I could find. I 'found an unusually large Gordias, and with. it what I thought was a white one. The white one looked ex actly like a needleful of white sewing cot ton rolled about in the mouth and ejected again, and when," got-home found, to my disappointment, that it broke into eery small bits as I took it up. But a thought struck me. I gathered up Inv hate been ruined - by their, SO treasures and scent to nn' room and shut cants, than by their masters. . .. ._ . .. • myself in. Tenlma my Gorillas into . __Lor,., like the Cold baliji"iiever' a saucer of water, and sat down to watch , negative, it "seldom leaves us Vilierer it finds it. In a little while it began to deposit a i tis: if um , we plunge into it; it will ei ther heighten our virtues„ or inUsme our white thread that soon became another . tangled length of line sewing-cotton. I . v i,„.„ had found it after live years study and ' —Applauseis the spur of noble Minds, search! It was the ova! Only once s. iweak one d end an am of. after did I have such a recompense fur the ~.: , labor of that kind. It was after I had i —ln inos quarrels there is a fauli'.orii triumphed over the laughter and ridicule , both s:des. A quarrel may, be compared, excited by my declaration that I had , to a spark. it Inch cannot" bII - Produced found the origin of water-snails in a bit , witliorlt-a-ffiriE, as well - ris'n 'steel-t - eithee' of transparent jelly, found upon a stone', of them may hammer-66'11' 7 0i' A:kir - 00;v in the stream, and alter sonic day, the nu tire Win failAr• ' ,3.7: ;i ,...i.Z .s..a ' bni-•!?,:...23 microscope had verified my assi•rt ion. —Our wealth is often if-small tifotir= when as yet the snails were Ina \ izible as' selves, and always a temptation to other dark spots pot larger than a dot. v 1 put —To know the pains - cit . -power ? we'roust , the ONa ill a wide-mouthed bottle (the i par . ent died as soon as it had fulfilled the go to those who have it; toknow ittpleas law of nut lure, t•nirrease aim )utitrtiitym ' tiros. ts it must, 1 4 it to those W. 40 Ate., seek±, In a month I emptied the water into my' ing it ; the pains of poweepre.reia, iia. aquarium. In Noverinber I put a light- pleasure imaginary. _ • ed candle, at night, behind the aquarium. —Thrace who are embarked in that and saw multitudes of little hair snakes,: to steal„r all undertakings, the propoica so small and fine that one might mill.) . lion of the gospel, and who do so from a overlook them, attached to the pebbles thorough conviction! otits superior utility and stones by suction of the ni"titli, like anti oxmllence, may indeed . fail in saying• others, but they are engagod.iiktliatlikbot lamprey eels, and while thins anchored. they were wriggling about in high enjoy- o f l ove , h o w hi c h they .are.most likely to, inent• save thamselinis, partioatiy if They pray So I had at length traced them fr,m through Hod's h , ends may be their first state to their last, nut omitting t obtained. that they buried themselves in the mud as cold weather came. I had no particu lar liking fur the creature,—it reminded me too much of a snake, which is an ot.i. ject of detestation to me: but the enjoy. ment I found in my search consisted mostly in searching out the n•urks of God in the creation or li6ng Journal. Triurnyinnit The Triumvirat, was the union of three of the Most powerful citizens of. Hume, in usurping the whole manage ment of the republic. The first Roman triumvirate consisted of Pompey, Cai-ar, and Crassus. Those three men, by their nefarious union fur that purpose, subvert ed the constitution of the Roman repub lic, and divided among themselves . , the whole power of tine state ; yet. as a, sol emn les:!on to usurpers, they all came to a micerable end. Crassus, t, g e t he r w i t I I his army, was cut off by the Part hians, now (Idled Tartars. After the death of Craisits, Ca.sar's unquenchable thirst for empire, and wild ambition of being tile greatest man in the world, prompted hiin to employ his arms to the destruction of Pompey, his son-in-law, who was his only remaining rival. Pompey, defeated eafsar on the plains of Pharsalia, tied to Egypt; where he was sentenced to (lie by a council of slaves, was murdered 4 rest out naliPa. .01u headless Oil tile Egyptian strand; and when the whole earth lead scarce been sir . - ticient fur his ‘ictories, could not tied a spot upon it at last fur his grave. Orisar. having made more desolations in the world than any other man, perhaps. that (ter lived in it; having destroyed about a million and two hundred thousand lives by his conquests in Gaul, and nearly as many more in the civil wars; having at last advanced himself to an unrkallen and astonishing height of power, thruugh a perpetual course of faction. violence. rapine and slaughter, he a as assassinated in the senate-house, after enjoying, th,• (iiiict possession of empire on lyfice (non/kv. Thu tic‘t year after the death of J u l iti : l'icsar. at new triumvirate WaS fornwil bt (lung OetaV * MS, l'aisarls-nepliew, together with Mark Anthony and lApidits: which terminated in the disgrace and nun of Lepidus, the destruction of Anthony, and tine enthronement of Octal ins, as the first Roman emperor. under the name of Au gustus Caviar. The :Saviour of the world was born in the reign of Tiberius, the adopted heir and- successor of Augustus Caesar, and was condemned to crucitisnm be one of his provincial governors, name ly, Pontius Pilate. This material i' generully li c iolseil upon as largcl% r,i-ting the action of fluid , . It is in valoahh• to the eheini-t because of this 1111.1111. 011060 36 , 1 being the only reagen t xi Mel t n;11 attack it des ; met i.rely. It is still true, ever. that nun h of the g l ass i n common use yields some of the constituents of its surface to 601litiOn iii water, and will lose its polish. House wives will toil in vain to restore bright ness to the inside of decanters and tumb lers which have become cloudy by long use. It is not a deposit on the surface which looks so much like dirtiness to the eye of a careful mistress, but a loss of sub stance which has been solved away. Glass is perishable aside from bring so easily broken. It is more easily scratched than many suppose. The continual use of silk in wiping spectacles will be sure to coy, r the lenses with minute scratches till they are blurred. and the troubled wearer k_ gins to think that his eyes are growing dim. To keep lenses from being scratched requires no small care. They should nev er be touched with silk, but only with linen. or chamois skin, and this as fol., from dust as possible. The more subtle effect of light and magnetism upon glass are exceedingly curious. Some sort of change is induced in the atoms, with more or less permanence. One or two cases have been recently reported of landscape pictures being visibly impressed on glass surfaces after long exposure in a bright sun.: These statements remain yet to be verified, but they are not more singular than the well-established fact that a mag netic current sent through a coin, lying on a glass, will leave a copy of the coin on the glass. A hidden light soon becomes dim, and if it be entirely covered up, will expire for want of air. !"!zo it is with bidden re ligion. It must go out. There asnot be a Christian whose light iu some aspect does not shine. An old maid, in Boston, who was over-nice in regard, to cleanliness about her house, once scrubbed.herfiitting-room floor until she f4ll through into theoellar, VOLUME XXVII, NIIDIBER 8. _Two things, well eonsidefed, would prevent many quarrels ; first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not dis puting about terms,, rather than things and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ, is worth- contending about. - . ---Faith and works tire its necessary to .nn- spiritual lire, as obristians, al3sonland botiv are to our natural life, as men ;,for faith 1,4 the soul of religion, and works, the both-. —Solomon has apt4lng new under the sun ;" and perhnps de struction has cansed as Much novelty as invention for that .is often a TCTIVIII, which we think u discovery. —lf there be a pleasure on rartirwhich angels Cannot enjoy; -find which they might almost envy man the posse....qsiolrof, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devirs might Pity man for erdnring, it is the death be re flection that we have possessed the power of doing good. but that we have abused and perverted it to pnrposes of ill. ! - —Publiccharities and benevolent asso via' Lolls for the gratuitous relief of every speeles of distress, are peculiar to christi anily : other :} - stem` of civil or reli cion= pnliry has orcqinated them ;—they form its highest praise tipd characteristic f-at nr • auof_hcc!eyolence so diein re9ted.:lmie so exaite/t. .1 aml aft, • c.,01d no more in c e al2 pr= It: th.in the light of the sun. -It ;in unfortunate thing for fools, that tleit pr , tensions should rise in an urc , rso Latin ttith their abilities, and their presti rrip 1011 with their weakness; and for the ,‘ Ist., that -diffidence should be the "1 hil,nt, and doubt the fruit —There ,tre three kinds of praise, that A% hi h we vivid, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the ptwerfttl front fear, we lend it to the weak iruut and we pay it to the deser i front gratitude. - NV, niost, covet that partic t ru,t u h trit n e are least likely to tb• that thoroughly knows his friends. might perhaps, with safety, con fide In, wile to the care of one, hie purse to another, arid his secrets to a third; why n rti„permit them to make their own choice, UNild be his•ruiti. • ---Eloquence is the laiignage of nature slid cannot he learnt in the schools ; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence like that of Garrick, goes di re•tly to the soul; but rhetoric i 8 the creature of art, which he who faels least, will most, excel in : it is the qnackery of eloquence, and dents iu uostrunn3 not in cure:. - honors come to us, rather than ti to them: when they meet us, as it Were in the vest npub , of life, it i 8 well if our en emies can say no more against as, than that we itre too tutt ng for oni dignities ; it w•uild nitioll worse for us, if they eould -;:i that we are too old for them ; tone a ill destroy the first objection, but ,ontirn tile l'iuk pockets and beggrau are the best practical phsi.,g,nomists, without having read a !we ~t. („li-ater, who IL is notorious, milsto , il; it philosopher for a highwayman. „e the head are punished in this world. those of the heart m another ; bur - as most of our vices are compound, so als4i is their punishment. sure to lr losers when we (oho n•l tuh ourselves : it is a civil war, and in al! sticd contentions, triumphs are defeats. —Attempts at reform when they fail, strengthen despotism ; as ho that strug gles, tightens those cords he does not suc ceed in breaking. —A revengeful knave will do more than he will say ; a grateful One a ill say more than he will do. .----Fear deliberates and lowers, but hope animates and revives ; therefore rulers and magistrates should attempt to oper ate on the minds of their respectivesub. jests, if possible, by reward father than punishment. And this principle teill be strengthened by another consideration ; he that is punished or rewarded,lvhile he falls or rises in the estimation of others, cannot fail to do, so likewise. in his own. LARORERS SCARCE.—Fanner B. was sitting in the country church. He had been working hard in the harvest field ; hands were scarce, and Farmer B. was do zing. Z The loud tones of the ministe.t fail ed to amuse the farmer until at length, the time waning, the good man closed the lid of the Bible, and concluded as follows: " Indeed, .my- hearers, the _harvest is plenteous, but ,thelaborers era few." " Yeq," exclaimed Farmer 8., " i've of !bred two - dallare' a day ibr - craddars~ acid ain't get'em atAthaf." l,4 ^.; 44-4 53. E ~.r ; LACON