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VOL 15.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 8, 1855.
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"he Old Cottage Clock.
BY CHARLES SWAIN.
;Oji! the old, clock, of the household stock,
Was the brightest thing and neatest;
-ltd hand?, though old, had a touch of gold,
And its chime rang still the sweetest.
Twas a monitor, too, though its words were
few,
Yet they lived thntigh nations altered;
Am! its voice, still ttroiig, warned oh! and
When ;!ie voice and friendship faltered!
.'Tick tick." it said "quick, quick, to bc.l-
For ten I've given warning;
Up. up, and go or clseynu know,
You'll never rife soon in the morning."
A friendly voice was that old, old clock,
As it stood in the corner smiling,
AivA bless the lime with a merry chime,
" The wint'ry houns beguiling;
But a cross old voice was that tiresome clock,
As it called al dnybrcak boldly,
When the dawn looked gray o'er the misty
way.
Ant! the early air blew coldly;
Tick, lick," it said "quick, out of bed
- rr five I've given warning;
Yuif ! never have health you'll
wealth,
never get
Unless you'r up soon in the morning.'"
Still hourly the sound goes round and round,
With a tone that could never;
While tears are shed for the bright days fled,
And the oid friends lost forever!
Ifa hetut beatd on though hearts are gone
TJicl warmer bent and younger;
Its hands still move though hands we love
Are clapped on earth no longer!
"Tick, tick," it said "to the church yard bed
The grave hath given warning
Uj, up, and rise, and Icok to the sk:e-a.
And prepare for a heavenly morning!'
Antiquity of the Earth.
The following sublime description
0f j
the Earth
and argument as to its .proba-
hj antiquity, is from a work on Thcolog-
ical Sceincc, called pre-Adamite Earth,
- t
writteu by the eminent Doctor Harris.
This is the moit sublime description of
the Earth that we have ever read, and
we nope none or our reaaen. xuu lu
peruse it attentively. mnrXen '
Now revelation and science barmon sc ,
with reason, and are decisive on the sub- ,
i ii -l .
i,.f tVi-.f -ia fnr thf. VJ.Sl!jjR ItfllVCrSC IS I
' ;: c motnr?i 1
concerned, he formation of its material ,
1 ' r .. r .fi- !
preceaeu . i io.mai.uu ,
a.
Turning first to the inspired record
to ascertain tue ongiu or tmngs as tuey
now are, we learn of our earth, that it as
Bumed its present state a lew thousands
of year3 ago, in consequence of a creative
t no cess
or of a series or creative acts con-
..l.,?tnr. with n nronfinn nf limn, which ex
tended through a period of six ordinary ,
or natural days. Possessed of this fact ;
rosnccting the date ef man s introduction
on ho oarth, we proceed to examine the
globe itself. Aud here we fiud that the
mere shell of the earth takes us back
through an unknown scries of ages, in
which creation appears to havo followed
creation at the distance of mighty inter
vals between
u..f. tl,nnffl, in tho nronrcsa of our in- '
;r;c ennn fir.n that wc have cfearcd
tho bounds of historic time, and are mov
' bvv" " - . ,
ing far back-among the periods of an pn
ineasur.aed and immeasurable antiquity
the geologist can demonstrate that the
crust of the earth has a natural history.
That'll 0 cannot determine the chronology
of its successive strata is quite immaten-
s-
:il. Wc onlv ask him to p
to prove tho order
of their position from the newest deposit ; character of this vast formation, again,
to the lowest step of the scries; and this ; tells of ages innumerable. For, though
he can. do. For nature itself by a force many thousand feet in depth, it is obvi
qalculablc only by the God of nature ' ously derived from the materials of more
lifting up iu places the whole of the roigh-1 ancient rocks, fractured, decomposed, and
ty scries iu a slanting, ladder-li.ke, direc- ' slowly deposited in water. The gradual
tion to the surface, has revealed to him i and quiet nature of the process, and therer
the order in which they wcro originally ( foro its immense duration, arc evident
laid, aud invites him to descend step by j from the numerous "Platforms of death"
Bfon to its awful foundations. which mark its formation, each crowded
T.ot no nWfnd with him. and traverse :
an ideal section of a portiou of the earth's 1
cru6t. Quitting tho living surface of tho '
grec-u enrtb, and entering on our down-
ward path, our first step may take us be -
low the dust of Adam, and beyond the
limits or recorded time. From the mo -
incnt we leave the mere surface-soil, and
touch even the nearest of the tertiary
beds all traces of human remains disap-
pearpso that let pur grave be as shallow
as it may in even the latest stratified bed,
we havo to make it in the dust of a do -
parted world. Formation now follows
1 clay, and lime, and presenting a thick -
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nest of more than a thousand feet each.
( As wo descend through these, one of the
, most sublime fictions of mythology be
' comes sober truth; for at our every step
1 an age flies past. We find ourselves on
, a road where the lapse of duration is
marked not by the succession of seasons
, and of years, but by the slow esoava-
I uou, p waioi, ui uu ueep vaneys in rocK
, narmc; uy toe return oi a conunenc to
, uie oosoui oi a ocean m wnicn ages ne-
lore it naa neen slowly tormed; or by the
ruu,u Ui uu- uuiw, uuu iuu luluJu-
1 - i? ii ti ! 1 't
1 inn ni nimrnnr. Mm i rf'nrn I n iti tr ,r
, , 11.
jour ui tvp iuui, ua uuiuw me uue
wuicu is consccraiea Dy uuman qusj, we ruu turougu tueir cycio oi generations,
have to take but a few steps more, before and became extinct and of the continu
wc begin to find that the fosail remains of anceof this stratifying process, until these
all those forms of animal life with which thin beds had acquired, by union, tho
we are most familiar, arc diminishing,and
J that their places are gradually supplied
b' strange and yet stranger forms, till, in
the last fossilifcrous formation of this di
vision, traco of existing species become
extremely rare, and extinct species every
where predominate.
The secondary rocks receive us as into
a new fossilifcrous world, or into a now
scries of worlds. Taking the chalk for
mation as the first member of this series,
wo fiud a stratification upwards of a thous
and feet thick. Who shall compute the
tracks of time necessary for its slow sed
imentary deposition! !5o vast was it,and
to widel3' different were it3 physical con
dition? from those which followed, that
only one trace of animal s-pecies still, liv
ing is to be found in it. Crowded as it
is with conchological remains for exam
ple, not a shell of one of the seven thous
and existing species is discoverable.
Tjpes of organic life, before unknown,
arrest our attention, and prepare us for
still more surprising forms. Descending
to the system next in order the politic
with its many subdivisions, ond its thick-
ness of about half a mile, we recognize
new proofs of the dateless antiquity of the
earth. For, enormous a3 this bed is, it
was obviously formed by deposition from
sea and river water. And so gradual
and tranquil was the operation, that, in
some places, the organic remains of the
successive strata arc arranged witu a
shelve like regularity, reminding us of
the well-ordered cabinet of a naturalist -Here,
too, the last trace of animal species
still living, has vanished. Even this link
TTT t t 1 T
is gone, we nave reacneu a point, wnen
the earth was in the possession of the gi-
gantio form3 of Saurian reptiles, mon- , with the succession of worlds wc have
sters more appalling than the poet's fan- passed through; of the slow formation of
cy ever feigned; and these are their cat- J each of these worlds on worlds, by the
acombs. descending through the later J disintegration of more ancient materials
red sand-stone and saliferous niarla of and their subsidence in waters; of the leaf
two thousand feet in thickness, and which ' like thinness of a great proportion of the
exhibit, in their very variegated strain, a ! strata; of the consequent flow of timo ne
succession of numerous physical changes. 1 cessary to form only a few perpendicular
! our subterranean path brings us to the
carboniferous system, or coal formations.
, . , . . jrei f h .,s f suc.
cessive ancient vegetable worlds. But in !
w .
the rank iuncles aud luxuriant wilder-
nesses which arc here accumulated and
compressed, we recocnise no plant of any
existiner snccies. Here, too. we have pass-
uu uuiu w me last tiuuu ui iuuiiiu nit;.
. 1 t 1 .t 1 i i f
gpeaking foot.priDt5 ia)presed on tho
preceding rocks, arc absent here. Nor
o Qv; - ;ndication that
fftP4,sfI prhnpA tn i.a
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voice of birds. But between these strata,
beds of limestone of enormous thickness
:nt-flrnoseii. cach nroelaiminrr the nrolom?-
1 j r o - 1- o
ed existence and final extinction of a cre
ation. For these limestone beds are not
so much the charnel-houses of fossil ani
mals, as the remains of the animals them
selves. The mountain masses of stone which
now surround us, extending for miles in
length and breadth, were oncp sentient
living at the bottom of ancient seas aud
lakes, llow countless the ages necessary
for their accumulation; when the forma
tion of onlv a few inches of the strata re
quired the life and death of many gener
ations! Here, tho mind is not merely
carried back through immeasurable per
iods, but, while standing amidst the pet-
"Sed remains of this succession of pn-
, r
meval forests and extinct races of animals
piled up into sepulchral mountains,, we
seem to be encompassed by the thicKest
shadow of the valley of death.
On quitting these Etupendous monu
ments of death; we leave behind us the
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last vestige ot land-piants, ana pass aown
to the old red sandstone. Ihc geological
.
withonranic structures which lived &dicd
where they are now seen; and which, con-
scquently must havo perished by somo
destructive agency, too sudden to allow
j of their dispersion, and yet too subtile
j and quiet as to leave the place of their
, habitation undistrubed.
Immeasureably far behind us as we
have already left the fair face of the ex
tant
, ., . v .
creation, while traveling into the
l c m. i- Lt- i
iof ancient time, we yet fee!, as we.
night
, stand on the threshold of the next, or Si
! lurian, system, and look down towards
J 'the foundations of the earth,7 that we are
I '
! survoying the fossil structures, we are first!
siruoK wun ine total cnange in tue petri
fied inhabitants of the sea, as compared
with what we found in the mountain lime
stone; implying the lapse of long periods
of time, during the formation of the in
tervening old red sandstone which we
. have iust left. I3ut still more are we ini-
' pressed with the lapse of duration, while
, uwoBuuing mo jaug &uoooiuu ui .ira.u,
w wutcu co pi unary lOMiiiieroob lorma-
, won n, compo.ea, wiien we uuu. ot luuir
slow derivation Irom tlie more ancient
, .ywuc, """r1'" """" a"u;rl fTinnrrli if. was .intnmn. The diahilas
j - r ii.. 1 . ; .i r
nnrfssiriTT n run 'niitf nnrmns nr rnnnsp
I J I'll i 1 e - 1
uuiiug u u uuuuivu ui uuiuiai BpucB
immense thickness of a mile and a half.
Next below this, we reaoh the Cambrian
system, of almost equal thickness and
formed by the same slow process. Here,
the gradual decrease of animal remains
aamonisnes u., tnai even tue vast an:
wuuu. uuuju u-o i a -uu la r Bcemed helping us play hide-and-thatwo
are now ,n its outskirts But.J & 'a Wfl ,ooked through them at the
thero is n. so iif.nrlo oreator than lhaf. nr ' . i
the boundless desert, and a dreariness
more impressive than that which reigns
in a world entombed. On leaving the
state rocks of the Cambrian, and descend
ing to thoso of the Cumbrian formation,
we fiud that the worlds of organic remains
are past, and that we have reached a re
gion older than death, because older than
life itself. Here, at least if life ever ex
isted, all traco of it is obliterated by the
fusing power of the heat below. But we
have not even yet reached a resting-place.
Passing down through the beds of mioa
schist, many thousand feet in depth, to
the great gniess formation, we find that
we have reached the limits of stratifica-
tion itself. rIhe granitic masses below,
ol a deptu wnicn man can never explore,
( are not only crystalized themselves, but
the igeneous power acting through them,
j has partially crystalized the rocks above,
Not only life, but the conditions of life,
are here at an end.
row, is it possible lor us to look from
. our ideal position, backward and up-
wards to tue ten mue3 height supposing
l Lrt c I t o f v r v,lrJ rv.v 1 m I . fvrm
which we have descended regularly, with
out feeling that we have reached a point
of immeasurable remotness in terrestrial
antiquity? Can we think of the thin soil
of man's lew thousand year3, in contrast
inches or all these miles; or ot the long
periods of alternate elevation and depres
sion, action and repose, which mark their
formation, without acknowledging that,
the
days and years of geology are ages
WW
and cycles of agesl Let us conceive, if
wo can, that atoms ot one or these strata
havo formed the sands of an hour-glass;
! and that each gram counted a moment,
. -
t Tif rrn mnfr f I, rt n morn cnmn innrATtmn.
"j "rt
tion to the past periods of geology; periods
. in the computation of which tho longest
! huraan dynasty, and even the date of tho
' pyramids, would form oulv an insienifi-
rs . i .1
cant fraction. Ur. remembering that
only one species of animals has, so far as
we know, died out during the sixty or
seventy centuries of man's historic exis
tence upon earth, can we think of tho
thousands, not of generations, but of spe
cies, of races, which we have passed in
our downward track, and which havo all
run through their ages of existence and
ceased; of the recurrence of this change
again and again, even in tho same strata;
and of tho many times over the strata
must be repeated in order to equal tho
vast sum of the entire series, without feel -
1
ing that we are standing, in idea, 011 ' pa as gone into bis grave buforc bis time,
ground so immeasurably far back in tho y. mcrry S0Dg of tu0 iirasf the
night of timo, as to fill tho mind with awe? hung 0f the insects, the piping of the
'How dreadful is this place!' Hero, at as f .and thc sweeping eurges of the
incalculable a saccular distince, probably,' ajj S10W me tbat Qod mcant we
from thc first creation of organio life, a should bo cheerful and merry. 'Who ev
that is from the last creation here, si- qt bcartj of a lack-bird too old to whistle
lence once reigned: the only sound which ja Wfen that coud not cj,jrp and flutter
occasionally broke the intense stillness because of bis years? And why should
being the voice of subterranean thunder: oW mQn fcurn a?i(le fromthat which mado
tho only motion (not felt, for there was; h . , j aJn h.ippy Ifc j, as rigbt
none to feel it,) an earthquake; the only JQ g.no s a j thc acc0rdion at
phenomenon, a molten sea shot up irom
rwv."-" , . -
the fierry gulf below,. to form thc 'gy
framework of some future eontment.
Aud still that ancient silence seems to
: ft4iii jfl,p, uA tn nl-
imyv vjn..w6 ..... , , .
low in its presence the activity oi nothing
but thought. And that thought what
direction more natural for it to take than
to plunge still farther back intb the dark
abyss of departed time, till it has reached
a First Efficient UauseT
A Divine, once praying, said4P4.LordvcrI.0 t0 my work, ' with a shout of
i cive mo neither
povcrty-or-.richos.vand glee, 'Here comes the old man anu uis uuce i.im 10 locai '-i-l
J . ' o . . , .. . a fVfti- luc "pilint and varied
' pausing solemuly a moment, added, 'cspec
( ially poverty.'
From lite Saturday Evening Post.
Threescore and Five.
By Frances Dana Gage.
It was a beautiful autnmn sunset.
rni. . nj - c .1 i i i :j ,i l j
,zling splendor, and sank to
, fa , v , r ' i j
'clear, broad face, glowing and
;f egress his re
J - . .
rest with a
benevolent,
express his regret that so
soon tho chili winds, which were piping
through the trees and screaming round
the corners, shaking every sear loaf from
' f h a nit v nrnnnnf f v crrntr trti rl nnr
- xl ,b s,1 i....iJ-? ri
mg creeper, or stra
from the honeysuckle, should waft the
frost to cut down the beauty of the gar
den, the wood and the prairie. It was
autumn, late autumn. It was the last wan
ing day of tho moon, too,, and, with her
great disk, she seemed answering the
half-regretful smile of the sun, as he went
down; for well she knew that she must
ere ong give p.ace , iue mppuu
1' 1 it.- a: j. t.
afc whicH maidg could look Qm
r - ftrhinh til A tTAHT1n TV1 O 1 n AAU n IAn O .
yer theip ribt sbouIders and breathe out
. fc -aSDiration for fche success 0f
their loves 'Yefc tho earth ooked cheer.
) -rrn 7 in li117 full CTlloninl
i - . . . -1 . ,
I YUl O 111 LUtli IU11 suiMlum. au iu, uc-
. j , vcrbenag geemed resolved to
look beautiful to the last. The full moon
was cheerful, though to-morrow it would
I be no more. The katydids were cheerful,
though every surge of the chill wind
threatened their destruction. The swal
lows upon the house-tops were cheerful,
as they held the!P family gathering, per-
' chance for the last time. And tho winds
themselves, as they toyed with the leaves
nnof oi-f1 no folnn Ann1 Tinmbnrrlv
f h locust and catalpa and Lorabardy
stars, as thev came ffimtinir out m their
j a w
places, one by one, to bid the departing
glory of the day good-night.
The old man was cheerful too the old
man of "threescore years and five," as
ho sat in his arm-chair, looking out of
tho west windows at the departing sun
light; watching the twirling leaves, and
listening to the piping winds. Aye,
cheerful was he, as he played the old
tunes of his boyhood on the child's accor
dion, a soft smile played over his face,
hi3 eyo undimmed by the survice of life,
looked out clear and brillant; his lips half
moved, and his toe patted time to the
music.
"When did you learn to play the ac
cordion," said Will, as be watched the
time-worn yet nimble fingers.
"Only three years ago, my boy, only
three years ago, and a deal of comfort it
is to me, to be sure, to sit, at twilight,
when my work is done, and play these
tunes it takes me back to my boyhood."
"Did you learn these tunes then?"
"Aye did I. While I was an appren
tice, ray master used to tako me to the
houses of the wealthy and grand; as I
worked in the parlors, hanging the cur
tains, and putting up the papers, the pic
tures and the mirrors, I often heard the
young Misses playing upon the piano,
tho guitar and harpsichord. I worked
all tho more merrily to their cheerful
voices and instruments, and laid the tune3
away in my storehouse, where they have
rested many a year, while I have fought
life's hard battles. But now the garner
ed treasures of my boyhood cheer my old
age, and almost make me feel young a
gain. And tho old man placed the in
strument upon hia knee, and his youth
ful face shone out from beneath his silve-
ry locks and brow, as he touched off, with
nnnfirnf. thn mfrrv airs of the old-
e t:me
"Did you ever eeo such an old man
layinK-rausic mamma, said little Bettie,
; fiT ... cn fnnn- whv rrandnana
ij. buiuu .u u -" " ' J o x I
Jones won't let me play and sing a bit
when he's in the house. He says ho don't
wont our nonsense.
I wonder
if Mr
Johnson thinks it's nonsense?
May I
ask him?"
"Oh, yes, child, I would like to hear
his answer,"
The golden-haired spring blossom, that
had felt the dew and sunshine of six Bum
mers, bounded to the old mans side.
He caught her eye and suspended his
tune.
"What is it puss?"
"Do you think playing accordions ond
singing pretty songs, and playing and
jumping and dancing is nonsense. My
grandpapa says it is!"
"Hoot a toot," answered tho old man,
with a hearty chuckle, "nonsense no I
,. , fch . Q of uf darling; your grand
, sisty.five as :il sixteen, provided we have
1 sisty-uve, as ai s-isiceu, pvoviueu l
tbeabiiit y M o do; which I'm of 1
: pinion we f-hcild more frequently
Jf wQ ,vcJ.c , Q t u t0 supi,res
tlie o-
have,
resa I he
" 'V. . 0 " t"
buoyant lite v. ltnin us uccause nru,
- oroJiufr 0,j. i learned to play when I,
"yaa'an0i,j mau; t an (hwcore and live,'
(an(1 ma a hard days' toil has been
i roumo(1 or and inadl, delightful by a
, JuJrth ald masem J aui' HUro I am
others are
mn. nliiMren wolcomo me where-
accordion. 1 am iireu souu'miiea uuu
ninht comes. But when I get home,. it is'
rest to my weary limbs to see the merry
laughing faces that ran to meet me.
Tommy put by my cane; Nellie draws up
my easy chair; Joe gets my slippers and
puts them on my feet; and then the ac-
fnrnlon la hrniitThf. Fnr rrnriflri no rind I
, 7 --b 77 -r-r-i ;
jorgeo my ions amia ine aance, ana j.
fgrow young again for the morrow.
I "Aye, madam," said tho old man of
threescore and live, turning to tiettie s
mother, "it is not nonsense to be cheerful
and merry, to keep the spirit fresh, whilo
the body bears the buffeting of the winds
of the hour. The whirlwind may tear
the branches, and the lightning scathe the
trunk of the old tree, but if the heart be
sound it will still bring fofth tho bud and
blossom to the last, or put forth the green
leaves of it3 youth till the winds lay it low.
"No no; it is not nonsense to be mer
ry and cheerful. Let your children bo
iJ "uu
-oyfal Frown not down the exuberance
I " -
of childood and youth beneath the forms
of dignity, or the monotony of utilitarian
ism. Let it bubble and sparkle and glow,
long as it flows in right channels.
"The brook that dances through the
valley, singing its accompauiment to the
birds and the flower?, make all brighter
1 '. T i T -1 1 Z l- L I
Dy its presence. xuc uam us sunorigut j
waters, and they will become stagnant ;
and impure, or overleap their barriers, ;
carrying evil and destruction with them. J
"I am threescore, and five. I have
lived in the old world and the new. In ,
the village and in the great metropolis of j
the civilized nations. My trado led me ,
into the houses of the lord and the peasant, '
the merchant and the mechanic my love ,
of investigation into the prison and the
poor-house, the school and the haunt of
vice. j
"I havo watched the child upon the
street, and in the drawing-room, in the
crowded city, the quiet village and tho
wildwood home. Half of my threescore
years were spent in England, half in the
"Land of the West," in its new houses of
village, town.'city and country; and I
have come to believe that a large propor
tion of the vices of humanity are the out- :
growth of restricted virtues.
The pent up streams of nature have be
come turbid and vile, through unnecessa
ry and uncomfortable bondage. Some
of the worst of crimes, if traced back to
their beginning, will be found to originate I
in thc best feelings or the numan heart.
Cold, unsympathising harshness has turn
ed sweet into bitter,, and rendered life
accurst. Many a boy has found his ruin
in the brothel, or at the gaming-table,
because his father was too dignified to
make himself agreeable to his young com
ions at home, or too severely pious to
shorten the hours and temper the impet
uosity of youth by joining in the cveuing
game, or merry dance at the fire-side.
Many a mother has seen her daughter go
down to destruction, or wean out a miser
able life, because she could not conde
scend to make one of the evening party,
or take an interest in the sport or amuse- ,
ments of her child, thus bringing her in- (
to nearer and closer relations with her- j
self than the endearments of parental love
could over do, while tho cold, formal bar
riers of proud dignity and sobriety are
kept between them. The people of this
country assume old age even in the very
prime of life, and it is not unfrequent to
find men, and women, too, bowed and
broken at thirty-five. Ere sixty winters
have bleachod their locks, or cooled the
warm current of life, they cease to be
useful to themselves or others. This
would not bo so much matter, if they
would cease to be annoying; but their
life is spent in drawing dark lines over
every beautiful picture; and in their deep
groanings and discontcuts, they became
the scare-crows of old age to all the young.
No wonder it has become a popular,
though vulgar saying, often in the mouths
of both young and old in this country
. Go it while you're young;'
and no wonder that Young America rush
es headlong into pleasure, and like the
bee in the sugar-bowl, takes a surfeit at
once. For tho teaching and practice of
aire are too often that
" When you're old you can't.'
"I would rather bo the blind fiddler in
the chimney corner, who gives innocont
life and mirth and joy to the house, than
the sombre statesman or learned philoso
pher, whoso presence Dnngs a hush ot
mirth; whose eye makes tho young heart
tremble; and whose cold stern life makes
laughter-loving childhood exclaim 'Oh,
may I never grow old.' "
The merry old man played
" Life let us cherish ;"
while tho little ones capered with glee,
and the gcntlo mother Hiniled her thanks
for thc lesson of wisdom, drawn from tho
experience of
Tlirccscorc and Five.
St. Iuis, Oct., 0.
t AaninwjiU (Jouricr savs: "Santa
. i r. -i nr cfiv installed in
i
and near Carthairena. Uur roauer.s arc
-
aware that ho has a beautiful residence
but a few miles distant from Carthagcna.
His hacienda was under good cultivation
two years ago, when he loft it at thecall
of his partisans in Mexico. lie now ro-
turns to nrivatc life for the third tune;
and we presumo the little pueblo ot lo-
basco roust have strong attractions to in-
bui-uuw mm, un. ...- v....
career."
(Educational.
Teaching by Example.
The iuflnenc of example upon the
young is proverbial. With the juvenile
mind it is lar more powerful than precept.
Wc may tell a child, for instance that it
is wrong to angry; but in a half an hour
afterwards, he eccs us irritated by some
petty provocation, he will think thero
must be some important exceptions to tho
rule and be likely to conduct himself ac
cordingly. The little ones are in strife,
perhaps about some trifling matter. You
tell them it ets wrong. If you can truly
appeal to them, whether they ever heard
an unkind word between father and moth
er, your descision is established, but if
notj certain luckless remembrancen will
be sure to undermine it; it cannot be so
very wrong to imitate father and mother.
Parents should be careful of their own
conduct.
I was once Young".
It is an cxcllcnt thing for all who ard
enjraged
in givnu:
instruction to
vonncr
people frequently to call to mind what
they were themselves when yonng. This
practice is ono of the most likely to im
part patience and forbearance, and to
correct unreasonable expectations. At
one period of my life, when instructing
two or three young people to write, I
found them, as I thought, unusually stu
pid. I happened about this time to look
over the contents of an old copy-book,
written by me when 1 was a boy. Tho
thick up strokes, tho crooked down
strokes, the awkward joinings of the blot3
in the book, made me completely asham
ed of myself, and I could, at the moment'
havo burned the book in the fire. The
worse, however I thought of myself, tho
better I thought of ray backward scholars;
I was cured of my unreasonable expecta
tions, and became in future doubly pa
tient and forbearing. In teaching youth,
remember that you were young, and in
reproving their youthful errors, endeav
or to call to mind your own.
Euin of two Country Girls A Sad
Warning.
Among the delegates to a recent con
vention at Syracuse, New York, were two
young men well known to the political
portion of this city. These persons wero
taking a stroll through the btreets at
Syracu3o one evening when they met two"
very respectable young seamstresses, sis
ters, aged 17 and 19, of whom they in
quired their way. Thoughtlessly these
"iris walked along together with tho
young men, in conversation, until tho
gathering darkness warned them of their
prudence, when they started to return,
the hour being about half past nine. Ter
rified at the lateness of their stay, and
afraid to compromise their reputation by
returning to their boardinghousc, they
yielded to the pressing invitation of tho
two young men, and accepted an invita
tion to pass the night at the hotekwhere
they were f-taying, not doubting that they
would receive considerate treatment.
But by surreptitious means they wero forc
ed to avail themselves of an apartment
provided with two double beds, present
ing no opportunity for their escape. They
were not molested during the night, but
their companions, underan apparent guiso
of sincerity, in the morning induced them
to accompany them to this city as a means
of averting any exposure, and at the same
timo securing lucrative employment.
They finally consented and came on with
them. Tho unsophisticated girls were
then, on their arrival here, inveighled in
to a house of infamy in Eliabeth street,
where their ruin was accomplished. Af
terwards they succeeded in escaping,
and by selling their jewelry managed to
get board in a respectable house. But
employment was not to be procured ; and
after selling everything they had, except
ing the garments they wore, they applied
toMayor Wood for relief when iu thc
very last extremity. Their betrayers wero
sent for, when the Mayor required them
to pay thc girls' passage home which was
all they iequired. At first they indig
nantly refused, but the consequences of
exposure and prosecution were too for
midable to bo braved, and finally tho
two scoundrels placed tho required sum
in tho bauds of officer Leckcr, who pro
cured the necessary ticket, and the un
fortunate siters wero then dispatched
homeward. Such are thc doings of somo
ot the vermin known nrs stanch support
ers of "the par-r-ty,"io tbia den of office
seekers and political rufliaus, Now York
City.
A deacon who became rich in a groce- i
ry not a hundred miles from Boston State'
louse, used to hbast how much he had
done for temperance, by mixing at least f
a gallou of pure water with every gallouj
of liquor he sold.
A friend who has resided in North Ca
rolina for the last twenty year?, says he
.-till holds his own. He commcuced witU'
nothing aud has got it all left.
Women always want something to lean
upon. As a fatiek is to green pea?, so is
tho masculine gender to the feminine.
EST "If a body hec a body carrying
oil' liU wood, should n body vhale a bodip
if a body could?-" -
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