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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' ' -
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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
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LACON