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VOL. 14
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 16, 1854,
NO.i.52.
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Cants. Oireiilirs. Bill Heads. Notes. Blank Rcr.rh.ts'l
Jiutiw. Lejai and other Binks. Pamphlets, &c. j There are men in our City whose tranS
printcd n 1th neatness and despatch, on reasonable ' . . J
lera actions during the year now closing a-
THE V RFrBMOifZi X. mUDt '. ! d0""3,' "!0J
m ti iiiin navFrci , nowise impoverished or embarrassed,
written for THE jefferpoxian. . There aro others who have done oompar-
Geograpliical Enigma. 'ativcly little business, yet who now find
I am composed of 33 letter. themselves overwhelmed by the extent of
My 14, 28, 22, 13, 3, 30, is an Island in the' their obligations. What has caused the
My 19? 27 "23, 2, is a river in Austria. ' fifferencG ? Not parity of capital a
My 20, 32, 14, 9. is a town in Soudan. ;lone; for men of small capital have come
My 3, 15, 1, 9, 25, is a county in Michigan, 'out solvent, while others who commenced
My 23, 9, 26, 6, 29, is nn island in Malaysia, ii, .., e ,
My 26, 21. 9, 6,4,20,17,i8ariverinOreffon.!thc season mlh far larSer means are un
My 21, 3, 14, 14. 22, 9, is a town in Italy, jder the weather. What is it, then 7
My 33, 22, 10, 26, 2, U 20, is a county in . We answerThe vital causo of pecun-
Virginia. 1 , , .
My 5, 12. 32, 19, 3, 25, is a river in Russia. ar5 embarrassments, personal or nation
3Iy 30, 14, 21, 24, is a city in India. 'al, is not over-Uading but over-buy-
My 24, 1, 13, 30, 11,29, is an Indian tribe in W or if you Diease ovcr-consumine
Mv 31. 28 23 12 3. 29, is an island in Pol-,
united .ci hiui ibui
ynesia. ,
My 19, 6, 127, 14, 30, 2, 1, 32, o, a battle
foupht in Europe.
T u in m in 'A on iociirin Pnnri.
My 2, 23, 15, 23, 33, 54, is a town in Peru,
My 7, 24. 29, 2, 12, 10, 15, is a parrish in
JlUlilM.lll J.
My 10, 28, 13, 22.29, is a country
n ,u,;,.. !
My G, 25, 12, 9, 16, is a river in Vermont,
Sy ?i' ' o9,o1' '3 a C0U" n TcXBS ;
Mv 12, 29, 3, 21, is a mor in Germany. ,
My 1, 24, 19, 15, is a county in Iowa.
My 19, 15, 31, 21, 12, 17, is a Capital in
?.iy 25, 10, 2-1, 13, is an Indian inbe in the
United States.
MylO, 27, 22, 10, 12, 31, 24, 17, U an k-1-
v o"d S5rlfo0of-Ulh Aif r'Ca'r .
My SSd.
Mv 30, I. 11. 20. 10, 29, is a College in
Georgia.
Mv 24, 29, 2, 32, is a county in X. Carolina,
My 9, 31, 3, 27, is a riter in Europe.
My 25, 6, 21, 1, 11, is a pea near England.
My 31, 6, 14, is an island iirGult of Mexico.
nr. -.- c on : a,:
My 19, 9, 16, 27, 6, 32, isa county in Arkansas,
My whole is the name of a Weekly News-'
pa per published in the United States. An-
I.
SlTOudsburgi Pa.
D.
From the Pen?isylva7tia Inquirer.
Wanted A Wife.
I want a wife,
To cheer my life,
Ixarc not if she's minus beauty ;
So I but find
That she is kind,
And knows and practices her duty. 4
I want a wife,
Averse to strife,
'A 'gentle, unaffected creature ;
One who can pass
A looking-glass,
Sam stopping to survey each feature.
I want a wife
With vigor rife,
Whose nerves are never in a fiutlcr,
Who will not roam
But stay at home,
And brew, and bake, and make the butter.
I want a wife,
i Who, through her life,
Was never known to have a flirt ;
Who'll bring to mo
A recipe
To keep the buttons on a shirt.
If such an ono
Dwells 'neath the sun,
And don't mind leaving friends behind her.
4 She'd better write
To Mr. White,
Informing him where he may find her.
Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1854.
A Rich Robber. The Bangor (Me.)
Mercury says, that singular as it may ap-; eral hours in each day, always leaving I
pear, the property stolen from B. K. Dex- before night Sometimes a smaller mem- j
ter & Co.'s store on Saturday night, waster of his tribe, supposed to bo a female,
.. I . ... tt: i it. i .
found this morning by Constable Walker
nA n.rvif QWiflT RlfTfrinq it the bouse
and Deputy bherin liiggms at me nouse ;
of Tbos. J. Guppy of Corinth, Guppy be-
incone of the richest men in town and ,
fli- l,;Wi f.n-r TTe was arrested.
brought before the Police Court, and
bound over in the sum of 1,000 to
pear for trial at tho xXovembcr term of
thc Supreme Court, Ho found sureties.
t the time of tho robbery the firm were
owing Mr. Guppy 1,000,
Our Jim, of tho Boston Bost, pcrpe-
'trated the following on the marriage of
Thomas Hawk, of Mansfield, to Miss
.Sarah J. Dovo.
-It irait often that yon see so queer a kind of
(.v.. lovo; t
I.a16avagl!e.trnnet bc
f aD.cxeC ?m' : "
Over-Tradiug."
'Speech was given us,' says a great di
plomatist, 'to enable us to conceal our
thoughts.' And there is no field of hu-
man research
in which words are used
- ' 111 ore foggily than that of Political Econ-
omy. Let ua consider one of the favorite
terms of its m'stieal vocabulary 'Over
trading.' which is always made to do
yeoman service in case of a general re
vulsion or National embarrassment.
What is meant bv 'Over-Trading?'
iOU mnJ iraao as raucu as Jou P'ease so ;
. i i . i i '
that you keep the balance of payments
anrj of available assets on the rifrht side !
uui me iarmcr wuo nas raisea an
T i .1 r ... i t t
.j fnrnnj
iu lurneu
off $1,000 worth of produce this year,
and meantime runs up bills at the stores
for $1,500 worth of Cloths. Groceries. &c. '
is pretty sure to be embarrassed, unless
liC U35 "serve fund to fall back on: and
,
measurably so if he has built a house
costing $2000 without having accumula-
J .
! materials and labor. His place may now '
be worth enough more than it was a year
iago - lo cover all bis debts; but this don't
!py them; and as he don't want to sell
'out. be tnav be in trouble in snite of an
' r .
"increase of property.
I Thus it is with our country. Her O-
yer-Tradinc is simply Over-Buying. She
, .
is richer to-dav than she ever was before:
but her newly constructed EailroadLako
Steaaicrs Roads Bridge?, Buildings, '
c .
C eannzs. iS.c. &c.. cannot be melted into
anything that will pay debts in Europe
or only at a very creat sacrifice. Had ,
the labor that has stood idle in our market-places
been employed in makind the
Iron, Cloth, Wares, &c, for which we
have run in debt to Europe, we might
have gone ahead as fast as we have, with-
iout incurring any check or embarrass
i ment. We are in trouble exactly as any
intbpr nnnr farmer vnnld be who should
let his boys frolic at the tavern while hc
hired neighbors to chop the wood and .
tend the cattle, paying them with orders
nn the efnre i
Let us use-words which express- what
r : ti i : i !
intr to TCnrnne fnr fabrics that we miVht
"to r- a
and should have produced for ourselves. ;
. , ..... , ... -i
We have nought them cheap, ii is saia,
but nothing is cheap to us if wc have not
the means of paying for it: and it is ruin-
oustobuv even at low prices that which
Home Labor has stood idle for want of a
.b to produce. 0.1,1. a just
equipoise of our sales with our purchases
can we enjoy a true and solid prosperity.
New York Tribune,
A Tame Whale.
An eastern traveler, in a newly pub-
liehed work entitled 'Notes of Travel,' re-
'
latcs the following singular fact which t . . .
, , . f . , ,r t i uable substitute for gum-arabic, which is
came under his observation at Muscat : , . . , .
called 'gum mezquite. Dr. S. writes:
'No visitor to the harbor is better wel- . , , . , , .
, , , , , , 'lhe mezquite tree, from which this
corned by the natives than 'Muscat Tom.' gum is obtaed ia by 'far the most abun-
This name has been given by sailors to a j dant tree of the Plains, covering thousands
male fin-back whale which has made an of miles of the surface, and always flour
habitual practice for over forty years to i ishes most luxuriantly in elevated and
enter, feed, and frolic about the cove sev-1 dr?, regions' Thfle ? f UeS Pontane
' . I ously in a semi-fluid ftate from tho bark
eral hours in each day, always leaving , f the trunkand branches, and soon hard-
enter, reed, and troiic about the cove sev-
companies u.m. xii icngtu uwv uuu.
he less than seventy feet, and that of his
j
companion, fifty feet. Since his arrival
signalizes tho departure of the sharks
u,uu lulcat tuc fcUO P""" ,
of sea bathing by the natives, the most
ap-!strecuou3 caution is observcd DOt to IC
rferc with his pursuits and diversions,
' Ho shows no fear of such vessels as tress-
'pass uPon his water field' 0n.e da as
c oame rolling leisurely and jolhly a-
longside of a vessel at ancnor m ine nar-
bor, and on board of which I was, one of
the orow threw with considerable impotus
a Btick of wood into his open mouth as hc,
j. Qut of tho wat(jr Thig
breach of tho cood treatment which he
' - . j.
bad boon wont to reeeivp did not
,any Bigos of displeasure from his
whalo-1
p, although more than one malediction
-
was bestowed upon the impudent tar by
the exasperated natives who bad observed
his censurable conduct.
Days without Nights.
ur. uaira, m a lecture recently, gave
some interesting facts. There is nothing
that strikes a stranger raoro forcibly, if
he visits Sweden at the season of the vear.
when the days are the longest, the absense
r , . , t j 1 j
ol tlie night. Dr. Haird had no conccp-
tion of it before his arrival. He arrived
at Stockholm from Gotteuburg, four bun-
dred miles distant in the momin" and
,1 r. ' . 1
in tne atternoon went to see some friends
had notteken note of time and re -
turned about midnight; it was as light as
is hero half an hour before sundown.
You could see distinctly. But all was
i 1 i. " ' 1 .,. ,
shi
iU tuo "luei 11 huemcu a3 11 uie 1D" al streams to the bay, furnishing the best
habitants were gono away, or were dead.'of water fer ships. The plain is finely
No signs fo lfie stores closed. cultivated, and fishing villages line the
The sun o-oos down nf Sfnpl-Jinlm n 1;. shore. The fishermen dip their nets in a
tie before
10 o'clock Thcro is reat il
. ,
i all night; as the sun passes a-
lummation
round tne earth toward the north pole,
the refraction of its rays is such that you
can see to read at midninht Dr Biird
i yanA n : v r . ot i 1 i
, - - - WMW J.SM. tw I U Vik U Villi
iluu a iclii:i i i.i i! cs . dm: r nrnnk'iin in
., . . . . . . .
31 raiQn,S"tj without artihcial light. -
1Dere 1S a mountain at the Bothnia, where. '
on the 21st of June, the sun does not co swims, and a beautiful species of wild
ei, , n i .i ii. . .i. ...
down at all.
Travelers ffo there toseoiaucK- .any or the doors ot the ns icr
it.
, . , . oi i
t steamboat goes up from Stock-
holm for the PurP0Se of carrying those
wuo are curious to witness tne pnenomo-, ooon alter wo entered the harbor we saw : proper rignts oi uoys, i am equally ap
non. It occurs only one niht. The sun a crowd of people and loaded pack-horses j prehensive lest parents who are not fore
goes down to the horizon, you can see the i i?ravethe cit? and Pass,0vcr the isthmus, j thaughtfull, and who have not habituated
, , P , . , ... We afterward learned that they feared we . themselves to close observations upon
U4 iu, uu i,i uu 4U,uUlv.0 .t us-
nus to rise.
a f hn vr-fl, nn to A,nn-
At the orth Cape, latitude 2 degrees,
the snn does not set in several daJs- In
June h woul1 be about 25 deSree9 above
. horizon at midnight. The way the
PC0Ple know ll 13 midnight, they see tho
sun rise.
The changes in these high lat-
itudes from summer to winter are so great
that we can have no conception of them
at all. In the winter time tho sun disap-
PcarS' and lfc 13 not Secn for several wecks'
Then lfc comes and shows its face. Af-
terwards it remains ton fifteen or twen-
ierarUa " rtmaiua ieu, uueen, or iwcn
auu tueu uusccuub, uuu uuauy
1L uoea uut w a" HU uu& u,aia a UUU1B
aound the heavens. Dr. Baird was asked
how they managed in regard to hired
persons and what they considered a day.
He could not say, but supposed they
worked by the hour, and twelve hours
would be considered a day's work.
Birds. and animate take their accus
tomed rest at the usual hours. The Doc-
tor did not know they learnt the time,
uul luc? Dau anu S 10 rcst etncr tDe
sun goes down or nofc' ?he bcns take to
tue trees about seven o'clock, p. m., and
: ..4.. ..t:i : n . : ..
uuwl luc B"" w"1 UV ,u l'.
mormnz, and the people set into the habit
OI ris?,uS ,dUJ to
The first morning Dr.
,ru oiuauim, ue was ur-
rvrlcorl tn finrl flio sun clilnlnrr Intrv Imc
t:j i. Cii.i. t.
i o
rooiu- ile lokcd at his watch and found ,
11 was oulJ luree cl0CbJ lU0 exi umeuen adorned with rich carving. Iheteni- '
1 t. -i f 11 1 l .,t
was n0D0QJ n tne street. j.ue oweaesj
t- dU aro not idUStriou8 - j
ing probably to the climate.
Important and Valuable Discovery.
The Indian Commissioner at Wasbing-
; ton has received advices that Dr. G. G.1
! Shumardjwho accompanied Capt.Marcy's
expedition to the source of the Big Wa-
oliirfi arr T?rnns r?irer f?!cenvornrl n wol.
' p . fl p, , r
of tf0 and branches, and soon hard-
ens by exposure to the atmosphere, form-
ing more or less rounded and variously I
on nred masses, weifninir. eneh. from a
; ,V " " '
I . . fc. , . ., ' t L,
i bleach, and whiten upon exposure to the
1 1gbt of thc SUDj and finally becoDJe near.
i ny colorless, semi-transparent, and often
Ul," "llu "'
sidered the mo&t valuable discovery since
gold was first found m Ca i forma, and
that the specimen fowarded to the Indian
It 1 1 Tn- . P it
joureau, wnicn, u ic ainers irom tue gum
arabic imported from theEast differs so
slightly as to be beyond the discrimina
tion of aught but chemical analysis.
T
will be a great source of revenue for Tex-'
as, New Mexico and the adjacent Indian
Territory.
I
'May and December.' An old man,
uc awcKC 11 as uve o ciock; pul tuereiptcs one or wuicn isaiieasi two nunureu
aged 60 years, ran away.from Ciocinnati'(o dlffuse around J0U,BUU8hine aad..jc&s
last week, and carried with. him a lass of Tf -im, An ,u;a rffll .;n i,'ern .n. ho.
. . -. . . - . - . . . .
'sweet cixteen,'
A Japanese City and Scenery.
, A correspondent of the Tribune, writ -
"om thc American pquaurou in tne
Japanese waters, thus describes one of the
-
smaller cities of that country: 'At noon,
on the 17th of May, 1854, we anchored in
t ill f O XT s f TT1- tf-tn An 1 n cnnnn1 tY r r
opened to us in Japan. Hakotade is an -
other Gibraltar. It has the same long,
low isthmus, ending in the same mighty
rockt with another city sitting at its feet.
, 1 hc is s5f r mil" w!de' !h
an entrance of two or three miles in width;
jt ;s decp enn02h for ships-of-the-line to
approach to within a mile of the shore,
t
aut 'ts clayey bottom, free from rocks or
suoa3i affords excellent anchorage, while
i3 defended from the sea by a sand
1.1 , c 11 fi
bank, a prolongation of the isthmus.
.Behind the bay the land is quite level,
but at tho distance of six or eight miles it
'rises into a range of hills from one to
i . e thousand feefc hlgh- lbese hills,
: still covered with snow, send down sever-
'ecocon a species of willow, to give
"j them a dusky color, and to render them
esa iaWe to rot We took fiih pienti.
fully one day twenty buckets, with more
. than twenty fine salmon, some weighing
fifteen founds. The naturalist shot many
iiaro uiras very bin an pairiuccs, anu
jvcry large snipes, a loon with a knob a-
bove his bill like an India goose, a min-
lature sca-pye, the smallest bird that
mens houses were ornamented with a
n ru c li at x e i
U equipped, with horns and pitchfork.
lj nniA tn ii. Vpll(Tnnf, nn t ,em fnr
- .
the capture and imprisonment in Mats- i
may of the crew of an American vessel,
which was wrecked on this coast in 1840
In two or three days, however, they were
re-assured, and many of the principal !
men, including the Governor, visited us
on board. Most of the junks slipped a- !
way on our arrival, so that there were not
more than two hundred in the harbor.
A well built stone wharf with steps to go healthful state of mind bad, vulgar, im
down to the water was assigned to us. ! moral and profane language, obscene
The city has, I should guess, about four practices, criminal sentiments, a lawless
thousand houses, and perhaps five times ' and riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in the
as many inhabitants. Tho two main j
streets are parallel, and run along the foot f
of the mountain. Narrower streets run
from the wharves up the mountain, cross-
ing both the principal streets, one of which
is about thirty feet higher than the other,
The lower of these is almost as broad as
Broadway, and infinitely cleaner. The
houses on it are well built; most of them
have two stories, with shops on the ground
floor.
On the cross street which starts
from our wharf, and above both the prin- ,
cipal streets, stands a temple, which has
been assigned to us for our daguerreotype !
onniiitno Jt cAmnmnilg n cnlpnftwl .
nrn!Snfir.t nf the eitv and harbor. A lit-
j. . r j
tie to tho west of this cross street is an-
other, which seems to be the Fifth avenue
of Hakotade. The manner of building
Ireminds one very strongly of Switxer-
jland. A flat projecting roof is covered
, ,uu i.:..i., c. tA
poles, with stones laid upon them; broad
galleries run quite around the upper story;
before the door is a little wooden porch;
this, toe, with projecting gable, which, as
weJ1 ag pilIar tj)afc aupport 5tj are 0r
Ii r t't- .l -ii 1 J I
-v
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toise-shells and cranes carry the day.
The tortoise-shell is here the emblem of
beauty. The swans of Venus become tor
toises. Great precautions are taken a
gainst fire.
Casks or water stand in tho
house yards and on the roofs; fire buckets
aro hanging near; fire compauies arc or
ganized. The first captain who reaches
a fire plants his standard there, and no
other company can give any aid unless at
his express desire. This insures unity of
effort; but, in spite of all this, I saw tra
ces of several recent fires. One sees but
very few married women; but some young
Sirls who came to our temple to be da
guerreotyped had pleasing faces and
charming manners.
lhe dress or the
.Japanese women consists oi trowsers,
Wlt? af tT K UIL out !E
fn"
fch(j midd,0 d lM- tfae
. .. . .,
"(dress together, except when the wearer
walks rapidly or runs. Then it always
becomes deranged and flies opdn, exposing
the bosom down to the waist. I look for
ward to the time, and not very far for
ward, when our whaling fleet in the seas
ho ArcUo QQeJ fijfd a '8afe hor.
bo lentJful 'vifiions and a hearty wcl.
I' - , , TTntn,j0 ,
iMfli nncf r f Tonnn r r A nniliinc! ri t r n in
IVUU'O 1 u lUW Ui jjubuuuvi
An eminent painter was asked
what he mixed his colors with to produce
so extraordinary an effect. "I mix them
with brains,. sir I" was his answer.
rni ii 1 iil r 11
fSr xaKe cne nana oi tne irienuiess;
smile on the sad and dejected; sympathize
with those m trouble, strive everywhere
Joyed,
a v i -1 r . u n il 1 wi 1, . v i vi t
I To Parents.
: We commend the following excellent
extract to tne particular attention ot par-
ents. We are confident that there arc
very many who may profit by its perusal :
It makes one less hopeful of the future
f r n o eo l i--vn K r-f rnnr kJ r C 11 ft . t . I M rr
1 and listen to the rude and profane speech-
' es which proceed from crowds of boys,
who ought, at such times, to be under the
1
Home root, 1'arents do not realize tne
PO which rests upon them in
these matters. They forget that the fu-
ture character of their children is almost
entirely under their control. We believe
'
that in most cases the parent may mould (
the character of his child as he will, and 1
if, when the child arrives at manhood, he
c j t . ,
is .1 source of sorrow and disgrace to the
parent, the only consolation which the!
parent can obtain, is that it is his or her
own work. Iho parent may, even in a
j village such as this, select the intimate
companions of his children. Fie should,
at least, know the character of those with
' whom they associate on terms of intimacy.
j There are children whose very compan-
, ionship is pollution. You may as well
expect that your children may roll in the
mud without being bedaubed, as that
. they may mingle with bad boys, as com-
1 panions, and not be in some degree
t debased.
Boys out at Night. I have been an
uuaci vcr, yes i am a Hympaiiuzing lover
. ot boys. 1 like to see them happy-, cheer
i. ...
j ful' gleesome. Indeed lean hardly un-
derstand how a high-toned, useful man
can be the ripened fruit of a boy who
had not enjoyed a full share of the glad
privileges due to youth. But while I
watch with a very jealous eye all rights
and customs which infringe upon the
this subiect. tiermifc t he r snno indn hren.
j i i - n
cies which are almost certain to result in
their demoralization, if not in their total
ruin ; and among the habits which I have
observed tending most surely to ruin, I
know of none morerominent than that
of parents permitting their sons to be iu
the streets after nightfall. It is ruinous
to their morals in all instances, they ac
quiro under the cover of night, an un-
street after nightfall that the boys prin
cipally acquire the education of the bad,
aud capacity for becoming rowdy, disso-
lute and criminal men. Parents, should,
in this particular, havo a rigid aud iuflex
ible rule, that will not permit a son, un-
der any circumstances whatever, to go ,
into the streets after nightfall, with a (
view ot engaging in out-door sports, or j
to meet other boys tor social chance oc-
cupation. A right rule ot this kind, in-
variably adhered to, will soon deaden
the desire for such dangerous practices,
Boys should be taught to have pleas-
ures nrniinrl the fnmilv eentre fjirile in
reading, in conversation, and in ouiet
- i i
amusements. Boys are seen in the strcts
after nightfall, behaving in a manner cn-
tirely destructive of all good morals.
bathers and mothers keep your children
homo at night and sec that you take
:0 t i.n.nD vO.,
attractive, and profitable to them ; and
above all, with a view of their secur-
ity from future destruction, let them not
become, while forming their characters
for so accustomed to disregard the
moral sense ot shame as to openly vio-
laiu mu uuuuuuc-uuy in eireet, pastimes
l.i. iL. C 1. 1...41. .1 . i i
b j . s
Honor Thy Mother.
e "Come on boys I" shouted Harvey B.t I ... , . c -f
. ri i A permitted to pay for a supper of oysters.
- ! t0 ,afMUP7 ? !raate3' The best of this brief tale of drv goods is
I "Where? where?" . . ,v, , ,
"Lets go down to the river and have a
good skate ; I'll show you how to cut
your names on the ice scientifically."
"Yes come on I let's go 1 let's go !" an
swered they.
"Where are yoi going, Millard ?''
"I am going homo."
"Come on don't back out."
"I dare not go without tho consent of
my mother."
"Coward ! coward 1 coward !" cried the
boys.
"I would not be such a child as to ask
my mother to permit mo to go where I udes spontaneously from thc trunk and
wanted to. ! . . , , , P t, , A ,
"I'm not a coward," replied Millard' P"ncipal branches of the acacia tree. Iu
his eyes flashing and his manly form ahout fifteen days it thickens in the fur
erect ; "I'm not a coward ; I promised rows, down which it runs, either in a vcr
my mother I would not go where there ' micular (or worm) shape, or commonly
was danger without first obtaining per-j . f fi rin.j
. . r , :, ,iTt 1 ?! -1 assuming the form ot oval and round
mission from her.'' "He is right " said
George, "I am going with him to ask tcar ohout tho S1Z0 of FS000 3 eJcs, of
my mother." ' different colors as they belong to the
"You can wait or go on, as you white or red gum tree. About the thid-
choosc," said Millard; "lam going im- di0 0f December, the Moors encamp on
mediately and if she consents, Til join the border3 of the forest and tbe harvMt
you" ; and he turned on his heel and , L . ,
11 j xr .i n ' last sis wecks.
walked off with George. I
"Let them go !" xried Harvey ; "they ; The gum is packed in very large sacks
are the milksops, we're tho bravos !" and of leather, and brought on the backs of
he ran toward the river, followed by bullocks and camols to certain port?,
all the boys. whcre ifc .g w ' fa French and E
It was early in Epnng, and the sun was m ....
thawing tha ice very fast, which made it merchants It h highly nutritious,
dangerous to go on it, and for that rea- During the whole time of harvest, of tho
eon Millard would not go. journey, and of tho fair, the Moors of the
Harvev wna a badboy;hc respected Aacnt. 0i,MK ,.n);,,.!, nnn ik and
prided himself on his manliness, smoked
fenn.fi a. anrl was cominr on ve.rv fnst.
zl l.tc Trtthor nnr his mnlhor V
out" - - - " . i 1 -
Millard respected hia mother, obeyed
her in all things, loved all his playmates
and feared God.
How manv Millards and Harveys are
thcro. I wondrr. who read this paper
7
; every week ? I think not ninny Harveys.
i Dear boys, do vou always obey your
', T rrt
were to say yotdid .not love her, you
would bo very much shocked, would you
( not? Well, you mustprovo your love by
, ooeying ner always.
As soon as a boy thinks he is too old
to obey his mother, scorns her counsels,
smokes scgars, runs with fire companies,
I htands at corners making remarks on all
c m m
who pass, then it is all up with him. I
would not think much of him, but pity
him and think of his poor mother, bia
l -i 11 t 1 1 1
wasted youth and unhappy old age.
Many a ruined man looks back to tho
time when he first disobeyed his mother,
w
when hc wa3 tempted to do wrong,-as tho
steppinc-stone to all his misery.
If you have moral courage, you will
never fear to be called a coward. The
real coward is he who disobeys his mother
from fear of ridicule.
Selling- Dry Goods.
People generally think that it is a very
easy matter to stand behind a counter
and retail dry goods; but a weeks expe
rience in the business would convince tho
cleverest man, that it is much more diffi
cult and laborious than the task of turn
ing a grindbtone twelve hours per diem.
The office of salesman embodies, in its
duties, necessity for the shrewdness of a
politician, the persuasion of a lover, tho
politeness of a Chesterfield, the patience
of a Job, and the impudence of of s pick
pocket. There are salesmen who mako
it a point never to lose a customer.
One of the gentlemen who is in a store
in Chatham street, not long since, was
called to show a very fastidious and
fashionable lady, who ''dropped in whilo
going to Stewarts's," some rich silk cloak
ing. Every article of this kind was ex
posed to her view the whole store was
ransacked nothing suited. The costly
was stigmatized as trash everything was
common and not fit for a lady. Sho
guessed fche would go to Stewart's. The
salesman pretended to be indignant.
"Madam,'' said he, in a tone of injured
innocence, I have a very beautiful and
rare piece of goods a case which I di
vided with Mr. Stewart, who is my brother-in-law,
but it would be useless to show
it to you it is the only piece in the city."
"Oh, allow me to sec it," she asked, in
an anxious tone, and continued, "I had
no intention of annoying you, or of dis
paraging the merits of your wares."
The salesman, who was now watched
in breathless silence by his fellow-clerks,
proceeded, as if with much reluctance.
and with expressions of fear that it would
be injured by getting tumbled, to display
an ancient piece of vesting, which had
been lying in the store for five years, and
was considered to be unsaleable. Tho
lady examined and liked it much. That
was a piece of goods that was worthy to
be worn. How much was it a yard?
"Twenty-two shillings."
"O 1 that is very high."
"There' exclaimed he, beginning to
fold it up, "I know you would say that.''
"btay! stay ! don t be m so great a
i hurry," she cried 'Til give you twenty
! ei.;ii;.,, '
"Madara you insult me again."
"Cut me off yards, and vou can
make up the deduction on some velvet
: which I require for trimmings," almost
j entreated the fair shopper. The sales-
man, alter much persuasion, sold the lady
the vesting for which they had in vain
sought to get five shillings per yard, ac
the price above indicated. The profits
of the sale on vesting and velvet amount
ed to $33 ! out of which the clerks were
to be told. The lady had her cloak
made, and one or two of her friends, de
lighted
with it, bought the, rest of the
vesting at
the same price. I here is a
moral to this anecdote, which we leave
to be discovered by the ingenuity of our
lady readers who occasionally go a shop
ping. Sunday Times.
Gum Arabic.
In Morocco, about the middle of No
vember, that is, after the rainy season,
which becios in Julv. a pummv iuice ex-
, exPerlence ha Proved thllUs onncoa of
gum arc sufficient for tho -snpp.qrt'ofpa man
-' j i -
gum
twenty-four hours