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VOL 15.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. SEPTEMBER 13, 1S55.
NO.' 43;
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A.T THE OFFICE OF
T5IH JEFFERSOflZAW.
My Early Flame.
Ah ! when I was a little boy"
I deeply fell in love
But whether she was ugly, or
The prettiest little dove,
I don't remember, but I know
I loved her to excess
And it was all because she wore !
A beautiful red dress !
The blandest air that ever breathed "
Along1 the month of June
Bore heavenly odors on its wings
In that sweet afternoon
The clover blossoms looked more red,
The flowers she plucked, alas I
Breathed paradise! and round her spread
A halo on the grass.
I see her now the red, red bird
Tlrot isopped about and sang;
That charmed my eyes and ears, and oh !
That gave my heart a pang.
I locked and loved, and loved and looked,
Impatient to caress
The little angel in her bright
And beautiful red dress.
I know they say that red is Dutch,
And vulg.ir, and all that;
But it was red that gave my heart
lis sweetest pilijpal !
That opened first the fount oflove
Which since has known excess;
But never yet so sweet a thrill
As throbbed to that red dress.
I've liked the color ever since
The lovliest of the seven !
It lends the rose its richest tint,
And crowns the bow of heaven.
1 like it in the ruby lip,
' And in the maiden's blush,
And in the ruddy streams that from
The ripened vintage gush.
I like it in the evening cloud
That hangs upon the west,
Deep-blushing in the crimson flood
As Phoebus sinks to rest.
I like its tints at early dawn,
And at the evening's close;
I like it everywhere, except
Upon the toper's nose.
1
Mother told me not to Go.
Allen was sent to the city when quite
a lad. The new scenes and new objects
which met his eye, so unlike the quiet un
changing life of his native village, filled
hiva with interest and excitement. He
dever felt tired of looking and walking a
bout in the lime .spared from his employ
ment. Among other places of which he
Lad heard much, was the theatre. Some
of his associates went, and there was no
end to the wonderful stories they told him
of what they saw and heard. Allen felt
a rising desire to go too. He manfully
resisted it, however.
'Come,' said one of his companions, 'go
with us to-night.'
'No,' answered Allen, 'not to night.'
'So you always say, not to-night; come,
decide at once to go.'
'No, not this time.'
Not to night,' still replied Allen, walk
ing away.
'Tou shall have a ticket if you'll only
come,' again urged his companion.
Allen shook his head 'No, no,' said he,
'no, no, keep it yourself. I cannot take
it.'
'How obstinate,5 rejoined the other,
why what can be the reason?'
Allen hesitated for a moment. 'My
mother told me not to go to the theatre;
therefore I cannot go,' he at length re
plied. His campanion ceased to urge
him longer; he beheld in Allen's face a
settled purpose to obey, and he left with
out sgying a word more. That was one
of his mother's last injunctions. 'My
son, do not go to the theatre.' Under
such circumstances, some lads might have
said, 'Why, I see no barm in the theatre;
why would I not go? I see no reason
why I cannot. My mother, I fancy did
not know as much as she did; she, away
off home cannot tell what is what; besides
other young men of my age go.' I say
more lads might have reasoned thus, and
disobeyed and gone. Not so with Allen.
His mother bade him not to go that was
sufficient for him. He trusted in her
knowledge and confided in her judgment,
and he meant to obey her; yes, and what
was the better he was not afraid to say
so. It was a wise decision; and if every
youth away from home had moral courage
enough to decide doubtful questions in
tbe same way, there would be many -better
men for it.
Allen Is now an excellent clergyman.
m my
fjmi? Hiiiiii Trifi'im mi trrn 'iimifiiMiii TnrcWiWWffiw
"I Plead for the vital interests of your
Children."
A SERMON preached in the Methodist
7?.crmW rintrrl, nf Sfrn,,l,nrn. h
A.
uuu uj
proverbs. 22. 0.
Train up a child in the way he should
go, and when he is old he will not depart from
it.
CONTINUED.
But, all a long the way of this discus-
steppings of a cautious orthodoxy, saying'!
cussion, l tancv 1 hear behind me the
that these th hps conflict w th oxner en!e
H,t. H. MArn.n of mlmim fnmilins
do not uniformly, nor perhaps, usually or family prayer, or of engaging in games
become pious-while not a few of the sons of chance, or going to a ball or theatre or
and daughters of ungodly and unbelieving! low rowdy circus, or of keeping bad corn
parents are converted. This may be in PanJ or of remaining out at unreasona
a measure true, and yet it does not cast ble bours in tbe evening, than he would
suspician on the soundness of the princi-iof b'i"g or stealing, or cutting a man's
pies advanced. They are 'sustained by!tbroat- Under such an flighted, scrip
obvious facts. Where do the majority of.tural firm regimen, habit comes to favor
those who are member. Mod nnd tnnJP"- The claims of religion are rcver-
of the different branches of Ghrit's church
usually come from I Arc they not gen-
erallv the fruits of christian trninino- in
christian families, while conversions from
Ofhfr niinrfprs nrr vnort?nnQ tn thn rrnn -
eral rule 7 These are facts, and they es
tablish rather thau over-turn our position
It should also be considered that we sel-,esy3 among the members, constant bick
flnm on th c,,Ha nF fi,c c;t crinirs and heart-burmnes. it may be
flnnnpns unnn nliilrl.linnil in n form tn Vio !
mot-strikincr Child-hood is motlv ac-
ted upon by the blcndid influences of good;
and evil example and association. It is !
a painful acknowledgment, but neverthe-!
less true, that the piety of most religious
families is shaincfullv defective, and so s
shorn of most of its power. If the parents
are orderly and tolerably uniform chris-
tians, yet they may lack fervor, or faith,
or affection, and so their influence is lm
paired, if not completely neutralized. If
the father is pious-Mhe mother it may be,
ia aiven to fashion and worldliness. or ini.namc stand connected.
some other respects is careless of the pie-
ty which should ever preside in a chris
tian family. If home be a place of sanc
tity and security, the children most like
ly are allowed to associate out of doors
with wicked companions, and thus the re
ligious influence that should control the
children of professedly pious parents is
greatly impaired, if not lost. So in re
gard to the sons and daughters of irreli
gious parents, they often find a partial
antidote for homeimpiety in out-door asso
ciations, at school in the work-shop
at church or in good books. We answer
this cautious authordoxy then, that the
tendencies of piety or impiety in the pa
rent and at the home circle, are precisely
what we have stated them to be; that these
causes always produce-their proper effects
and no others, however much they may
be modified by other agencies.
But what are some of the causes of a
want of success in realizing the fulfilment
of the promise annexed to the duty en
joined in the text "train up a child in the
way he should go- and when he is old he
will not depart from it?" Doubtless we
shall find that all departures from the
right way, follow tbe cause of not having
been thoroughly trained up in it. And
1st. That disobedience we see almost eve
ry where manifested on the part of chil
dren, and permitted, in many instances,
even by religious parents, is one cause,
and one much to be deprecated, for the
family institution is a Divine Ordinance,
designed to fit aud qualify children for the
reception of religious truth, and the per
formance of religious duty ; and every
thing like success depends upon pre-occu-pying
the soul with right habits, of which
none is so intimately counectcd with, fa
vorable religious developments, as the
habit of strict obedience to legitimate au
thority This, none will deny to be a fun
damental principle of the religion of tbe
holy scriptures, and is the first object in
correct family government.
Every parent, therefore, who fails to
establish this unquestioned dominion,
does, in the same degree, entail upon his
children, a curse of fearful omen. He
fosters the inborn enmity of the child's
heart to the claims of religion and so rad
icates and strengthens his soul against the
claims of God. The child suffered to do
as he pleases, will most assuredly be long
in yielding to the claims ot (Jhrist,
vcri-
it may be laid down as an axiom that,,. , .f , N e n ,
, c , . , lines (a little more than a dollar) for each
the spirit which refuses obedience to pa- , . ., , . . . ,,
-la n i m i ,
der it to God. The disobedience allowed
in many families becomes a fundamental
vice, well wortny ot our most carerui con
sideration, when we bear in mind the spe
cial form it assumes in its connection with
religion. There are many parents whoso
.! : .i. it. i
" 'rin itiMimW-fa fc' man, omnn,
T.n 1 1 mXrs reS u ol ri-S Wtl ! and obild in ih0 Mli0D-to sopi,or' a sys"
' L?,! "Ti I n 'l0 ' "Et M Z tem of religious instructions ,hi.b p aces
ana practice, uicu ui.uk. a, t .
alone-free irom all control to do as they community, in substantial
please. Hence their chi dren are suffered . inotciiigcnC0j aud whatever else
to grow up in opposition i to .religion if hey, j.fo Bleasaufc and desirablc?
choose so to do though hey may hear lioJlhL
much about it. They go to church when b
and whero they please, or not all if they j "
please. They frequent the Sabbath school I An anecdote is related of the Rev.
If they choose, and only as often and as Dr. Kirk of Boston. Early in life, a lady
long as they" may happen to coincide with of fortune, whose attention was awakened
their own notions. They are absent from towards him by his conspicuous talents,
family prayer whenever they prefer play wrote him a note offering him her heart,
or sleep to devotion. They read what fortune, and hand. The Rev. Doctor
books they like or accident supplies on however, with more terseness than gal-
flio RnMinfli nr nrtrr nthn limn A n( fin -ljntrv rpnliofl tn hnr f hnf. slifi hatter rrivn
r 1MlVlf fill a tn licflmanfc n-nA n ni in mf ' tlmRr l.onrt tn flm f.nrrl hor fnrtnnn tn MiJ
parents it may be, give good advice and
counsel, unui
becomes nauseous.
then they will not exercise control. There
is then, in this state of affairs, a perpetual
conflict between the. religious sentiments
'of the parents and the ungodly propensi-
ties of the children under which the tem-
perissoured the conscience seared the
I heart hardened and the very name of the
bible and of religion made odious. Now
we must think all this wrong fatally
wrong. The parent is bound Cm accord-
ance with the teaching of the holy bible)
to settle all these questions absolutely and
without appeal, and to settle them so ear-
1 iat th cbLlcwl1 no m0T? tbink f
""""B """""'"j U1 """"s "u"
' P1 of DlVlDe Worship, Or Sabbath
t l
cnced nofc scoffed at and the heart may
be expected to open kindly to its genial
influences. The child thus, "trained up
. iu tbe way bo should S wiU not dePart
.lrOm IE.
2d. In some familios, professedly chris
tian, there is a constant clashing of inter-
about the Veriest trifles
yet sufficient to
ceP tne mind m a state ot" constant ex-,
citement, extremely unfavorable for the
success of religious training. The parents
who suffer this state of affairs, at home
need not expect soon to see their children
pursuing a virtuuua aim leugious uuuisu
' of conduct, ihough they themselves may
proiess mucn oi rengioo.
3d. Another hinderance, found in some
sceminclv relicious families, is the con-
stant practice of parents finding fault with
the society or church to
which they in
These faults,
whether real or imagined, are fully can-
vassed in the family, children are fully
posted in the little difficulties and shape
their views and actions according. Now
this conduct must have a baneful influence.
For how can the children receive good at
the place, when the parents have so much
at fault ? They must, in the very nature
of things, grow up ashamed of the sect or
congregation, when their parents exhibit
so much dissatisfaction; and if they con
tinue to attend upon its ministrations, it
will most likely be in such a spirit as will
repel instruction and defy conviction: or
if they desert its courts for some other
form of Christianity, and worship, the se
lection will most probably be dictated by
a worldly spirit, which dares to seek the
gratification of sense and the vanities of
a wicked world in the name of a crucified
Redeemer, a spirit chiefly solicitous to es
cape the rebukes of an earnest ministry
and the restraints of a pure christian dis
cipline. -It is hard to determine what
course could be more effectual in thwart
ing the influences of a vital Christianity
than that of the parents and children here
described.
Another and the last difficulty (we
name in this connection) is, the unbclicfl
which marks and characterizes all the ef
forts of some professedly christian parents.
They pray for their children it is true !
they control them to some extent incul-
cate often good lessons yet they do not
expect that their children will early be
come pious. They pray that light and
spiritual influences may be given of God
to overcome the evil in the hearts of their
children, that very grace which is prom
ised, yet they do not expect that these
children will be thus benefitted until they
have lived some time in sin. This, to
say the least of it, is most certainly a
strange Christianity; verily, not that of
the blessed Savior. If christians can
pray for other blessings and expect im
mediate answers, why not for their chil
dren? The scriptures evidently encour
ages parents to ask and expect God's
blessings upon their children.
(Conclusion next wcok.)
Cost of Idoltry.
stated that the incense alone,
It is
which is burnt in the Shineso empire, iu
flm worshin of their idols, annuallv costs
Qn nnn nnn Cfi; nu i; cli?!.
HiUU wujxiuu uuu uuiiu. uiai bi&ui,
the estimato appeared to us extravagant,
, ... wn
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All this is expended on a ceremony
which neither informs the mind nor edu
cates the neart. Do the people of the li
nked States expend fifty cents a piece for
i'Ull
relicious purposes? Does it cost
, n dhristifin eoromunitv immeasurably a-
church, and reeorve her hand for him wbor
should at
The Happiest ETan Out of Jail.
A runaway couple, 'true lovers' of the
most fervent Yankee stamp, arrived at a
small inn near Boston, and wanted the
landlord to sond for a minister to 'splice
'em and to bo quick about it.
The landlord complied, and the 'licen
sed minister,' came.
'Bo you the minister?' asked the brido
groom. I am replied he.
Oh! you be, eh? What's your "name? .
Stiggin3.
"Wal, neow, Stiggins, said the Yankee,
du it up brawn, and your money is ready:'
cuooi:ana iortuwitn tuc rcyercuu gentleman
' Jl r i . . i i
commenced :
You will please to join hands.
The Yankee stood up by his lady-love,
and seized her fervently by the hand.
You promise, Mr. A ,' said the par
son, to take this woman
Yeas, said the bridegroom.
To be your lawful and wedded wife?
Yeas Yeas!
That you will love and honor her in all
things?
Sart'in Yeas, I tell ycr !
That you will cling to her, and her on
ly, as long as both shall live?
Yeas, indeed nothin' else ! continued
the Yankee, in the most delighted and
earnest manner.
But here the reverend clergyman halt-
cd, much to the surprise of all present,
and to the special annoyance and discom
fort of the ardent bridegroom,
One moment, my friend, responded the
minister slowly; for it occurred to him
that the laws of his State did not permit
P""'"'" '"1UU' luc Pwiauu"""
of the bans for a certain length of time.
What what What in thunder's the
matter?
Don't stop hero ! . Put her thru !
WThat's splitparson? Anything 'gin out?
Just at this moment, my friend, I have
remembered that you cannot bo marred
in Massachusetts, as the law
Can't ! Wot in naturs' the reason? I
like her she likes me; what's to hinder?
You have not been published, Sir, I
suspect.
That's a fact; ain't a'goin' to bo, nuth
er; that's the reason why we crossed over
into your little Rhody, (the scene was on
the border of Rhode Island,) on the sly,
you see, parson.
I really Sir said the minister.
R-a-e-lly! wal, never mind; go ahead.
'Taint fair don't you see 'taint? You've
married me and haint tetched her! Now
don't stop here! 'Taint the fair thing;
by gracious 'taint, now, and you know it.
I will consult 'said the minister hesi
tatingly. No you won't no you don't! Tou
don't consult nothin' nor nobody, until
this 'ere business is concluded! And with
this he turned the key, and put it (amid
the titterings of the witnesses whom the
landlord had called in) in his pocket.
Seizing the hand of his trembling bride,
he said :
Go on now, straight from where you
left off; put us through and no dodging.
It 'ill be all right, if it ain't right, we'll
make it right in the morning, as the say-
inn is.
Alter reflecting a moment, tuo parson
concluded to run the risk of the informal
ity, so he continued :
You promise, madam to take this man
to be your lawful husband?
Yeas, said the Yankee, as tho lady
bowed.
That you will honor, love and obey
him?
Them's 'cm, said Jonathan, as the lady
bowed again.
And that you will cling to him so long
as you both live.
That's the talk! stick to one another
allers, and tho lady said, yes again.
Then, in the presence of these wituescs,
I pronounce you man and wife.
Hoorah ! shouted Jonathan, leaping
half way to the ceiling with joy.
And what God has joined together, let
no man put asunder.
Hoorah! continued Jonathan. What's
the price? (the parson seemed to hesitate.)
now much? spit it out! Don't be afraid.
You did it liko a book. Hero's' a V.
Never mind the change. Sond for a hack
landlord. Give us your bill. I'vo got
her! Hail Columby!
The poor fellow seemed to be entirely
unable to control his joy; and ten minutes
afterward he was on his way to the rail
road depot with his wife, 'the happiest
man out of jail,' said the cye-witnesse3
who described tho scene.
Frightening a Rogue.
In the St. Louis Recorder's Court, re
cently, Alexander McManus was - fined
S5, & 8t0aling wood from lho fiteracr
Hannibal, and was askod to 'fork up' by
hu bmor
'C-c-c-can't do it,' muttered he; 'a-a-ain't
got th-the p-p-pewtcr, your honor.'
'Arc you a married man?' inquired the
Recorder.
'N-n-n-not exactly s-s-s-eo far gone y-y-yet,
sir.'
'Well, I will have to scud you to the
work-house,' said the Recorder.
"T-t-t-ain't nothin' t-t-t-to go th-th-ihere,'
said Alick, 'I-LI-'m used to it; b-b-but,
when you t-t-t-talked about m-m-roarriago,
old fellow,- you f-f-f frightened
me!'
Bfi? TlierC 18 a man U VcrmOllt.wllO
fSA'Jhis geese on iron filings and gathers
!.'jr una
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From the Hartford Times, Aug. 18.
Curious Adultery Case.
Those who have been in the habit of
reading our reports of the doings of the j
police Court will feel interested to know ;
more of the story connected with the pros
ecution for adultery which was reported ,
yesterday. The history of the parties in ,
this case is, to say the least somewhat rcr- :
mantic. Oliver Wolcott of Avon claims
to have married in August, 1838, Luoy
Ann French, in the town of Harwington. I
The swain at that time was 37 years of
age, and the damsel but 14. (She id but
31 years old now, and has a married
daughter! A fast family that.) Mr. .
Wolcot did not remember who married
him, or what the man's name was, and '
bad never seen him before that time nor
since. He lived with his'wife for several
years, and had a family of four children.
Last winter Salmon D. Chase of Union
ville, a youth 2d years of age, was in the
habit of frequently visiting Wolcot's fam
ily, for the ostensible purpose of 'court- i
ing' Wolcot's daughter. But his visits ;
continued after his daughter had gone a- .
way, and there being conbidcrablc intima
cy between Wolcot's wife and Case, Wol
cott began to smell a rat, or 'something
equally strong, and was somewhat trou
bled. About this time Case made a prop
osition to Wolcott to sell him his young
wife, and the wife was willing to be sold.
Wolcott declined doing anything of that
sort, and advised Case to keep away from
his house, as 'he would make trouble in
the family!' Shortly after Lucy Ann left
her husband, went to her father's house
in Canton, and, as her father says, about
this time Case came there to work for
him. About the last of April Case and
Mrs Wolcott started on a pleasure tour,
and brought up somewhero in Oswego
County, New York. Case went to work
for a man there, who, after hearing his
story about himself and the woman, ad
vised them to get married which they did.
Ere long "Wolcott came to the same place,
and found Case and Mrs. Wolcott living
together as man and wife he went into
the room at night where they were sleep
ing together and 'had soire words' with
Case, and remonstrated with him on his
conduct. A day or two after Wolcott
hired out to the same man with whom
Case and Lucy Ann were living at that
time, and the trio lived together peacea
bly, excepting Case and Wolcott would
have a few 'hard words' together about
Lucy Ann. While there Case and Lucy
Ann tried to persuade Wolcott to get pa
pers drawn and sign .them, giving up his
wife to Case. They went to various
places together on the cars, Case and Lu
cy Ann sitting lovingly on the same seat,
and Wolcott sitting by himself on a back
seat. Occasionally the latter would re
monstrate with the former on tho impro
priety of their conduct. At Albany, Wol
cott was minus funds, and Case let him
have enough to come on with them. They
came to Springfield, and went to the same
boarding-house, Caso and Lucy Anu
rooming together, and Wolcott alone.
The next day the trio went to a lawyer
and there told their story. Refore they
left, that lawyer drew up two papers, one
in which Wolcott leases for life the servi
ces of his wife as a house-keeper to Case;
in tho other he sells all his wife's clothing
furniture, &c, to Case; for the considera
tion of one dollar, and confides to his pa
rental guardianship his two youngest chil
dren. These papers were signed and seal
ed by the three, and duly witnessed by
the interesting individual who drew them
up. Then they came to this city the
three together in the oars, and Case and
the woman took a hack and went togeth
er to tho U. S. Hotel, and as is alleged,
took a room together. The next morn
ing Wolcott met Case and Lucy Ann in
Assplum St., on their way to tho station,
and he went out on the cars toward New
Britain with them. The pair proceeded
to the woman's father's house in Canton
and Wolcott came back to this city, and
made the complaint against Case (and not
his wife) which has been examined before
Jukge Collier. There was some interest
ing features about the case, among which
the bringing with other witnesses on the
part of tho defence, to impeach .Wolcott's
charter for truth and veracity Mr.
French, who is Lucy Ann's father.
Charity.
Squeamishncss, of prudery, is a mis
fortune, cither of nature or a false educa
tion, which renders the mind liable to the
intrusion of what some philosopher has j
called 'nasty ideas.'
To bo easily shocked shows an intimate
acquaintance with what is shocking.
Those who mako a business of condemn
ing vico and immorality, and are ready
to believe evil of others, judge them out
of a consciousness of their own habitual
desires; and this may be, and often is, a
false judgment.
The man who thinks another will steal,
or get drunk, or commit any immorality,
becauso ho has tho opportunity, judges
himself with a terrible judgment, because
he judges auother out of his own heart.
Humauity and religion demand that we
exercise tho charity of attributing tho best
motives rather than tho worst ; and a
charitable judgment, while it is hu'mauo
to others, is favorable to ourselves.
jBgy The Journal of tho Academy of
Medioino at Turin states, among other
things, that tall men live longer thau those ,
of shorter stature.
A Snaks in a Hen's Egg".
There are at least some things in hea
ven and earth that have scarcely been
dreamed of in man's philosophy, and are
certainly beyond his capacity satisfactor
ily to account for. We have an instanco
iu point. A hen's egg was shown to us,
at Lauray, a few days ago, which has the
perfect representation of a snake raised
on the shell, in full coil, on tho smaller
end. No artist could have produced a
more exact representation of a serpent.
The forked tongue, the tye, and symme
trical proportions arc as fully developed
as in a rea! snake. Unfortunately, tho
shell of the egg was broken, when it was
discovered that the indention, on the in
side, contained what appeared to be a,
bona fide snake. It was as perfect, in
every respect, as the representation re
ferred to on the shell. It was carefully
taken out, and put'in a glass vial in spir
its, and may be seen at the hotel of A. J.
McKay, in Lauray. This egg represents
to the mind of the philosophic inquirer a
curious question for solution. Various
opinions are entertained relative to this
singular freak of nature. Some suppose
that it is a real snake, but are most pro
vokingly pnzsled to know how it got into
the egg. Others solve the mystery iu tho
same manner that other unnatural devel
opments in the animal kingdom, that are
witnessed daily, are solved. The human
form, for instance, is frequently disfigur
ed by representations of fruit, vegetables,
and even animals that were desired,
dreaded, or greatly feared, so intensely
as to make the most vivid impressions
upon the mind. The snake had no con
nexion with the vital principal or germ of
the ci'". but was formed between the
membranous covering and shell,- and was
entiruly idependent of both. This is a
curious question, and wo submit the facts,
as above stated, for the consideration of
those who take an interest in such mat
ters. Woodstock (Ya. Tenth Legion.
Discovery and Uses of Brimstone.
It is probable that sulphur or brimstone
would never have been known in a natur
al state, had it not been for tho eruptions
of Mount Etna and Vesuvius. In 16S3
thero was a violent eruption from Mount
Etna in Sicily, which was attended by an
earthquake, whereby G0,000 person were
destroyed. The brimstone which is now
sold in the markets of the world is prin
cipally derived from veins produced on
that memorable occasion. The sulphur
is exhaled from the volcanoes at the timo
of their activity, and fills up vacant spaces
in the lava or frothy pumice stone.
When this is quarried or mined, and dug
out, it forms the brimstone of commerce.
When this brimstone is melted and cast
into sticks, it produces tho roll sulphur
of the shops; and when tho brimstone is
boiled, and its vapor is allowed to escape
into an air-tight chamber, the variety
called fiow'er of sulphur is the result.
This is the natural pulphur, and is con
sidered by most chemists as an element
in its primitive condition; some, however,
with good reason, view it with suspicion,
and think it a compound body. Brim
stone in its natural state is only found at
the foot of volcanoes; but in combination
there is scarcely any substance so uni
versally diffused over the world. It is
not only found in combination with all
kinds of metals on the face of the earth,
but it also exists in plants and animals,
and is of so much importance to them
that they cannot exist without it. Tho
exquisite perfume of wallflowers is a pe
culiar compound of sulphur. If a silver
spoon be left in an egg it soon becomes
black; that effect is caused by the sulphur
of the egg unitiug with the metal. A
compound of sulphur is always present iu
the air we breathe; and, although small
in proportion to its other constituents.yet
the air is never free from it. It is for
this reason that Betty's coppers won't
keep bright. Commercially speaking,
sulphur or (brimstone) rules the destiny
of man both in the arts of peace and in
the appliances of war. In fact, brimstone,
for tho manufacture of guupowder, for
dyeing, bleaching, color-making, and med
icinal purposes, is au agent the value of
which we could only estimate by its loss.
Who, at first sight, could conceive so
much good resulted from the eruption of
a volcano.
The Dutchman who refused to take a
one dollar bill because it might be alter
ed from a ten, prefers stage traveling to
railroads. JThe former he pays, rides
him eight hours for a dollar, while thdl'at
tcr only rides him one. 'Dee beeplea
cau't sheat me.'
,,, ,
Tho greatest 'thrashing machine' -;in?
Kentucky, is a duply sheriff, residing-at
Lexington. On Monday last, he 'lickedf
four fiatboatmen and 'a gassy butcher
in eighteen minute3.
JO Bt Lathorp was a man of genu
ino piety, but niuoh opposed to the noisy
zeal that seckcth tho praise of men. A
young divine, who was much given to en
thusiastic cant, one day said to him, 'Djp
you supposo you have an' real religionl
Nonc to sj:cak of,' was the cxccllent-re-
ply- I
None aro so fond of secrets a3 those
who dpnt mean to-keep them ; suchpfr
sons covet seorets a3 a spendthrift covtHi
money for the purpose of circulations