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SELECT POETRY.
Prom the Home J urnnl.
THE DIVOIUfcD WIFE.
BT LKLI.A MORTIMER,
My heart will wantler back
To ihy loi pathway ihruuyh I he cokl, cold
wo, Id,
And long to liiul the track .
By which from ilit proud elation it was hurled.
My thoughts about Iho past
Will twine themselves 9 drops of dew at
eren
On thirsty How era are cast.
When, bending low they yield their breath
to heaven.
My yearning soul will drotip
Beneath the chill, harsh gaze of curious eyes,
And Hope's tired wing will stoop
Unto the dust, leaving her starry skies
Amid whose radiant light
Her brow has e'er been lifted up, serene,
And proudly calm and bright
Though in the distf-oe darkest clouds were
seen.
The flowers about my path
That have not withered in their loveliness, .
A Will now go down to death,
And llii'ir pale lips the damp earth coldly
press ;
And tones that sent a thrill
Of ectitey into my heart now mute, . -
Will bn remembered SHU,
Like the last intinnur of a trembling lute.
Oh, it is hartl to take
My drear and lonely way far from thy side,
1 he golden chum to break
That hound my fate to thine a happy bride:
Host thon remember now
Tha shadowy elms close by lhat lowly cot,
Where io thy love's deep vow
I listened tremblingly and doubted not?
Thou dost remember. Years
Have p.tased away bince then, and , eyes of
io-.,
Be;levea! with anxious tears,
My blooming youth that fondly watched
above,
Arc closed in death. Tha breast
Whose painful lhtobbin''s were for nie alone
Is hushed in peaceful rest
Tho freed soul to its heavenly home hath
gone.
Now I am left to look '
My laM upon thy'lovetl and cherished face;
Oh, can I ever brook
The world's cold sneer, or from my soul erase
The biioht and glorious past?
Kind death! mv breuking heart invokes thy
gloom
Around it softly cast .
The rayless shadow of llie voiceless tomb.
Select (Talc.
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MARY CLAVERY'S STORY.
BY MBS. S. C. HALL.
The language ol the Irish peasantry is
invariably strong and metaphorical ; and
when they would describe their distress, or
paint their happiness, it becomes highly
poetical. I will illustrate this remark by
the story of Mary Clavery, in her own
words, as she told it to some very dear
friends of mine, who resided at Ilannow
rarsonage, and who united, in a singularly
happy manner, the kindly feelings and ac
tive exertions that make a clergyman's
family "the blessing of the poor."
One tranquil evening in autumn, a pale,
delicate young woman rested her hand on
the gate that opened to the green sloping
lawn that fronted the Parsonage-house, un
certain whether or not she dared raise the
latch,' as she eazed wistfully on the group
ol children who were playing on the green.
Although in the Veriest garb ol misery, she'
had nothing of the common beggar in her
appearance; and the two little ones that
clung to her tattered cloak were better
covered than their mother. She carried on
her back a young sickly-looking infant,
and its weak cries arrested the attention of
the good pastor's youngest daughter, who
bade hef enter, in that kindly tone which
speaks of hope and comfort to the breaking
heart. How much is in a kindly voice !
When the woman had nartaken of food and
rest, and remained a few days at the par
sonage, she told her tale.
"Mav God reward ve for ye have fed
the huwrrv. and ve have clothed the naked,
and ye have spoken of hope to her who
thought ol it no more ; and ye have looked
like heaven's own angels to one who had
forgot the sight of smiles. . May God's
fresh blessing be about ye may ye never
want! but a poor woman's prayer is noth
ing; only I am confident the Almighty
will grant ye a long life, and a happy
death, for your kindness to one who was
lone and desolate, in a could world. - It
little matters where one like me was born,
only I came ol dacent, honest people, and
it could not be said, that any one belonging
to me or mine, ever wronged man or mor
tal tha bovs were brave and j'ist the
rrirla W ell looking and virtuous: seven of
us under one roof, but there was full and
plinty of every thinz more especially
love, which sweetens all. Well, I married;
and I may say, a more sober, industrious
boy, never broke the world's bread nor r.iy
Thomas my Thomas ! I ask your pardon,
ladieg ; but my b"-' wells when I think
that may be he's gone to the God who gave
him lo me first for a blessing, then lor k
u heart thrial."
Thi. nnne woman wepts and the father
nfihefkmilv ah was addressing, adopted
the figurative language which the Irish so
well understand, observed "Th gardener
prunes the vine even to bieeaing, ana sui
ters the bramble to errw it own way."
' "That's true thanV 'yt, Sir, for that
sweet word orcomfort." she replied smiling
faintlv i "it's haprrv to think of God't care
the only care that's over the poor
though it seems ungrateful to say that to
those who are so extraordinary ktud to -Well
; we had a clane cabin a milk white,
cow a trifle of poultry two or three
jms, indeed wry comioj ,o iu vwm
ing to our station, and thankful we were
for it. Why not! time passed as happy as
heart could wish, and one babe came, and
another, but the eldest now was the third
then, for it pleased God to take the two
first in the leaver ; and bad, sure enough,
was the trouble, for my husband took it, and
there he lay, off and on, for as 'good as lour
months; and ' then the rint pot behind
hand, and we were loreed to Tell the cow
one would think the baste? had knowledge
lor when she was going off to the fuir (and
by the same token it was . my brolher'in-law'e-
sister's son that drove her,) she turned
back and mowed ay, as natural as a child
that was quitting the mother. Well ; we
never could rise the price of a cow agin,
and that was a sore loss to us, for God sent
two young ones the net lime, and be
twixt the both I could never get a minute
to do the bit o' spinning or knitting lhat the
landlord's wife expected as a yeHy com
pliment. She was hot born a lady, and
they're the worst lo the poor. , Riusheroorn
gentry ! that spring tip, and biiy land, hand
over head, from the rale sort, that ore left
in the long run, Without cross or coin Io
bless themselves with all owing to their
generosity.) , Well ;. to make up for that, I.
was lorced to give Up some of my best
hens, as duty fowl lollie lady, on account
that she praised their handsome toppings.
That wasn't all; the pigs got the mea
sels, and we might have sould them to ad
vantage; but my husband says, says he
'Mary, we have had disease and death in
our own house, and don't let us bo the
manes of selling unwholesome mate upon
no account ; because it brings ill health,
and we to answer for it, when nothin' will ,
be to the fore, but the honest deeds and the j
rogueish ones, straight against each other, conversing at the door, as to the best me
and no one lo jud-re them but the Almighty i thod of procuring the industrious woman
the one who knows the rights of all ; I continued employment1, and Iletta, Meri-
that was true for him. Well; we might ! anne, and i.llen (the clergyman's daugh
have got up again, for my poor Thomas ' ters,) busily engaged in arranging new nog
worked like any negro to the full ; but just ' gins and plates, and all manner of cottage
after we had sowed our little field of wheat, t furniture to their own sweet taste; then
(it was almost at the corner of the land-j
lord's park, and we depended on it for next j
gale day,) nothing would sarve the land-
lord but he must take it out of our hands, ' sent, as her offering, a fine fat little pig
widout any notice, to plant trees upon. I J Mrs. Corish presented a motherly, well
went to mv lady, and to soften her like, educated goose, capable of bringing up a
took what was left of my poor fowl the '
cock and all as a present; she accepted ,
them very genteelly, to be sure, and promi-:
sed we should have another field, and com-
pensation money. Wei!, we waited, but
no sign of it ; at last my husband made '
bould to go to the landlord himself, and I
tould him all that hail passed between the r
ladv and me. "Don't bother me, man,' ,
was the answer he. made ; compensation ,
indeed! what compensation am .1 to have
for being out of my rent so long the tune
ye were sick, and ye without a lase? And
I am certain mv wife never promised any
thing of the sort to the woman. 'I ask ' it already, and even the gentlemen have
ye'r pardon, Sir,' replied Thomas, civil of: found it out. The clergyman, without ac
course; 'but she did, for my Mary tould quainting Mrs. Clavery, had written to his
me.' I
" 'She tould ye a lye, then,' said the ;
land lord and my husband fired up. 'Sir,' ;
said he, 'if ye were my equal you dar'n't ,
say the likes o' that of my. Mary fori
though she's not of gentle blood, she's no j
liar!' Then the km J lord called my bus- .
band an iinnudent blaTuard. and Thomas!
m. iiKinr Ihil ha huintr a ironf Ifmin.
.
misrht call him what he pleased"; but that
none should say thai ol his wife that she
did not desarve; however, the upshot of
the thing was, that we got warning to quit
all of asuddent; but there was no help for it,
as the neighbors said, true for them that
Thomas was by no means as strong a man
as before the leaver, and the stewart found
out some stranger who offered money down
on the nail for the land, lor we had it in
prune order. Every one cried shame on
the landlord, but sure there's no justice for j
the poor! 'twas a sorrowful parting for
some how a body gefs fond of the bits of i
trees even that grow under their own eye I
and 1 was near my laying-in and the j
troubles came at once and allve could
get to shelter . us was a damp hole of a j
place. My husband got plinty of work,
and though it wasn't in natur not to lament
bygone comforts, yet sure the love was, to
the good, firm ay, firmer than ever, and '
no blight was on our name, nor isn't to this
day ; thank Cod for it, for nobody breathy
mi a n
ing can say, j nomas, or ftiary Slavery, ye
owe me the value ol a 'thraneen.' .
"ine inutile 01 air, aim me ircmu-, aiiu
ti 1 1 ' r .L- l-.-i. ..J-
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auu v c rum 11117 iriiuiT 11.111 11 1110 ut
I, . k.nn f..--h-.J..I:.,,Ju, ohi ;
1 . J Li.i:.. u La
w a.i ileal l-ntuiuitig lu Bi'C It irre,iii auu
neekinc. wasting; and wasting, and to want
the drop of wine, or the morsal of mate,
that mio-ht keen it In he a blessincr to its
narenta'l'rev hairs: it was then itist after
1 j 1 j
my child's death, that to drive the sorrow
from his heart, Thomas took a little to the
drop, and yet he Was'nt like other men
that grow cross and fractious; he was al
ways gentle to me and the young ones, but
n the end it mined us, as it does all who
have any call to it for he was as fine a
voung man, though I bay it, as ye could
see in a day'd walk standing six feet two
in hi stocking vamps, and admired, for Ins
beauty ; and we wont to, the next town to
sell my little spinning, that I had done to
keep the dacent stitch on the childer; and,
as was fated I suppose, who should be there,
but the devil in the sflape or a recruiting
targent nd when the drink's in, the wit's
out and he listed listed And the part-
ins oh i but I thought the life would lave
me twre I followed him to the place ol
embarkment, and there they druv me from
him and I stood on the sea shoreand
saw him on the deck of that black ship, his
arm ;rosed over bis breast Ukf ope mel
ancholy mad ) and it wa long before I be
lieved h was really goue gone gone ;
ad that there was no voice to cheer me
for these did liolhinz but cry for food. It
was wicked, but 1 wished fa die, fof my
heart felt breaking the little left m was
on gone-I was among strangers -I could
not bear to go to my own people or place,
because I was more like a shame, and my
spirit was too high to be looked down on.
have travelled from parish to parish, do
ing a bit of work of any kind when I could
get it, and trusting to good Christians to
gie something to the desolate children,
when all else lailed." . ,
"You have never heard from your hus
band!". '
"Oh ! Sir, he sends his letters to Water
ford to the care of one I know; but I can
not often hear, the distance is so great."
: "Did he not forward you money ?"
"Three pounds but we owed thirty
shillings of it, betwixt rent for the last hole
we lived in and two or three other matters.
I was overjoyed to be able to send the,
money, lor the debts laid heavy on my
heart; and lo be sure the children wauled
many a little thing, and the remainder soon
Wen.." . .. . . . :. :;
'The "good pastor and his fire-side" were
deeply interested in Maty Clavery's simple
talej and oil further inquiry its truth was
ftdly established, atij'it was also found that
he-r husband was in the regiment then at
Jamaica, commanded by the clergyman's
brother, a gallant and distinguished olllcer.
The story circulated very quickly 'in a
neighborhood where, every little circum
stance is an event, and, to the credit of the
united good feeling of my favorite Baunow,
he it known, that on the very same Sabbath
morning, in the Protestant church and
Catholic chapel, a collection was made for
the benefit of the' distressed family, and
another week sjw Mary and her children
in quiet possession of a small two-roomed
cabin ; the parish minister and parish priest
farmer Corish gave Mrs. Clavery a sack of
potatoes Master lien engaged (o "teach"
the children for nothing Mrs. Cassidy
numerous family respectably. Good Mr.
Billy, as considerate and worthy an old
bachelor as ever lived (how angry lam
with good men for becoming oW bachelors,)
sent her a setting hen and seven eggs; in
short, the little cottage and garden were
stocked so quickly, and yet so well, and
the poor woman was so grateful that she
could harJly believe the reality of what
had occurred. Her kind friends at the
Parsonage, however, saw that something
more was wanting to make their protest
perfectly happy. What lhat was need I
tell ? my lady readers have surely guessed
brother, mentioning all the particulars, and
begging Thomas's discharge ; the last post
had brought him a letter, saying that his re-
quest was granted,
JVeed 1 pursue my .story farther 1
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the frogs.
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I I IIB 10110WH12 IS oil rxiraci
from Bow
We should
ri!''s Plil1 of .,he Myar.'
like to see the original, as we suspect an er
ror in the first six line of the translation.
It is not one, however, which would tilled
the sense. '
"Hrekeke,
" ' I ' Ilrekcke. brekeke! -
Koua, taooo I
Brekeke, koux brekeke, loo'oo !
Brekeke, brekeke, brekeke,
Brekeke, brekeke, brekeke brekeke;
KimoTi hoax too-ooj too.00 1
Brekeke, tyo-ou!
Brekeke, brekeke!
'Tie the dawn of dcliglit to the sons of the pond
From its green bed they l,wk to the bright moon beyond.
Brekeke, lirekeke, ,
Koax, uioKMi ; tl,
koax, koux toooo; too-00!
The Thunderer maile tie the favorites of heaven
'.nuth the greeti vaulted wave how wa thrive aiul liava
thriven S
All h'Jil.ir and praise to his wisdom be given.
Brekeke, brekeke, brekeke;
Kiatx, Voox too-00, toa-00 i1'
A Written Lanuuauc in Wsr Africa.
q,1(I of ll)e Sierie LeoM A,rnnl, f ,le Church
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plUDel consiel Ol aoout ou nuuu.mi icuena,
eaeh renresentina a syllable. Thenewibar.
j v. ' u
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j othui known Wr., Koeite lias taken a pa
saifB 01) board a Tfsse.1 Boius to the nearest
! noitil from which the Vy nation can be reach
. - , ,
ed, Wltu. me resolution to investae tuny una
interesting discovery. -
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' I thought it was Californey that was try
ing to gel in," said Mrs. Partington,' as she
read the last ballotingsfor Cleik in the House
of Bepresenlatives, "but it's Mr. Forney.
Bui I 'sposc it's anonymous lo the same thing;
they've only dropped Iho proviso."
To Keep a Horsd from Straying. --The
Icelanders have a moat curious custom : and
a most cflectual one, of preventing horses
from straying, which is peculiar to lhat coun
try. Two gentlemen, for instance, are riding
together without attendants, and wishing to
alight for the purpose of visiting some object
at a distance from the roadj ihey tie the head
of one horse to the tail of ihe other, and ' the
bead of lhi lo the tail cflbe former.1 In thr
state, it is utterly Impossible that they "can
move on, either backwards or forwards one
Dtillina one way and Ihe blher another, and
therefore, If JispeseJ to mote at all, il ' will
only be in a circle, ana even inen mere must
t- an agreement 'to' tars thelf head He
same war.
AUVH B T VOl.fO LADIES.
The edilress of the Literary Gnzette, Mrs.
Ljdia Jane Pearson, in an article addressed
to young ladies, upon the subject of murriage
discourses as follows:
"Do not, as you value lile and its comfoitj
marry a man who is naturally cruel. If he
will wantonly torture a poor dumb dog, a cut
or even a snake, fly from him its you would
from cholera. We would sooner see our
daughter dying of cholera, than married to a
cruel-heniled man. If his nnture delights in
torture, he will not pttre his wife, or his help
leys children. When we see a man practis
ing cruelty on any poor helpless creature, or
beating a fact ion horse unmercifully, we
write over against his name devil, and shun
him accordingly
"We once knew a man, ay, a gentleman,
w ho during the ride for pleasure became so
demonically enraged at his horse, which re
fused to go, that he sprang from bis carriago
drew bis knife, and cut out an eye of the
poof brute. The lady w ho accompanied him
fainted j 'suffered a long' nervous illness, and
will never yecover from' the- horror the) out-
rage gave her. And we knew-tht! young la-1
dy who knowing Ibis of him, tas fool-hardy
enough to become his wife.. And we know .
how he tortured her. How ho outiaged all.
her feelings; how he delighted to destroy
whatever she' prized, or took pleaatire in.
How in his fits of passion he! broke up her
furniture, seized her by the shoulder and
shook her till she could not crawl to bed;
how he beat her; how he kept her poor babe
black and blue with blows and pinces until
her parents took her home, and sheltered,
her from his ciuelty. '
"If you have a suitor whom you feel in
clined to favor, look narrowly into the tem
per and disposition of the man. Love may
soften it for a while, or it may induce him
to lest rain, or disguise it, but, be assured, the
natural temper will remain, and the. time
will come, when your presence will be no
restraint upon him. We have heard , wives
complain, "I was so deceived in my hunband
men nte so deceitful," Ac. But we believe
in nine cases out of ten, these women de
ceived themselves. Thej suffered the ro
mance of their own foolish heart, to adorn
their lover with all the excellencies which
(heir fancy attributed to a perfect mnnly char-
aoler, and to diaw a veil over all his vices
and defects, which, if it did not conceal
them, greatly softened or disgniW their fea.
tu res. ,
''Men are not perfect women are not per
fect. In all cases, there must exist i ne6es-
sity to bear and forbear, but it doesnol there
fore follow that you should marry a bad men
knowing him to be a bad man. If you do so
you deserve chastisement; but a life-long
misery is a terrible punishment. A bad
man's wife must either live in a couiii-tal
torment of fear, apprehension, and the bitter
disappointment of her ft uil less efforts to please;
or she must become callous, cold, insensible
lo pain, and Consequently to pleasure. Will
you take upon yourselves cither of these ter
rible alternatives ! We hope not.''
THE OAVGIITER OF THE InESIDET.
A correspondent of the Newaik Daily Ad
vertiser iu the course of an account of a le
vee hold by President Taylor) gives the fol
lowing warm description of Mis. Bliss, who
act as hostess on these court occasions He
"Passing from the old Geneial, we were pre'
sealed to his daughter, the accomplished Mrs.
Hliss. She was . standing in (he middle-of
the same room her back resting againsflhe
centre table surrounded by a hosl of admit ing
friends of both sexes, bhe received us with a
nolile courtesy and Ihe blandest smiles, ilur
pari during the whole evening was perform'
ed with great dignity of manner and with an
ease and grace lhat would well become any
nnucess ot an r.astern Court. Her lace is
remarkable for its complacent beauty; ohd
her figure is rather slight, and faultless. No
one would ever take her to be the daughter
of her illustrious sire, judging from the total
absence and ' want of family resemblance
While the old General's face is very strongly
marked wilh ihe characteristics of his char
acter, with a heavy natural frown, and a rigid
exhibition pf all lUoae wll known traits of
firmness, determination, conmge and benevo
lence, bur's is the sueel and beqiguaiit smile
of iho rain bow itself pure, placid, and
modest, indicating a natural rreitiepieul of
intellect aud moral excellence, sublimo in it
own genlle and lender beauty, j. .... .., , ,
Whilst, iu lignre, (be velttrun of the wars
sborl'liiubcd, long in the body, tersej rigid,
compact, and powerful ; with a fiatno of iron
or adamant, Iter's is the delicate structure of
the fawn, with its grace and gentleness, and
appears as flexible as the gazelle. Her father's
eye is large, lustrous, full of expression, and
black a nighl her's is sufficiently large,
mild in expression, melting with kindness
and sympathy, and reflecting back 1
The glorious lull of Heaven's ethereal blue '."
Iii one personal feature alone she mirrors
forth her sire In a double row of teeth,
strong, white, and beautifully regular. They
are a predominant featore in the President,
and so they are with bis lovely daughter.
, In dress he is a simple and iuiostenlatious
as her republican father. She was neatly at
tired iu a plain' pink ruffs of light muslin,
with4he''hort-arrh'8leeVet' and" nevk edgvd
with" narrow point-lace". Not an ornament, or
jewel of any description was to b seen about
bar person, and In this respect' 'proved' the
truthfuWae br that1 well knowfV maxim,'
"toaOf),'' Voeq 'unadorned, 'adorned 'the
moil."
THE HAMMER.
Ths following appropriate panogyricon this
primitive instrument, which was the first in
vention in mechanics, and perhaps also the
first in war, is taken from Ihe Scientific A
mcriean The hammer is the universal emblem of
mechanics. With it are alike forged the
sword of contention and the ploughshare of
peaceful agriculture the press of Ihe free
and the shackles of the slave. The eloquence
of iho forum has moved the armies of Greece
and Rome to a thousand battle-fields, but Ihe
eloquence of the hammer hat covered those
fields wilh victory or defeat. The inspiiation
of song has kindled high hopes & noble aspira
tions in the bosoms of brave knightnand gen
tle drmes, but the inspiration of Iho hammer
has strewn the field with tattered helm ami
shieldj tlecided not only the fate of chivalric
combat, but the fate of thrones, crowns and
kingdoms. " The forging of a thunderbolt was
ascribed by the Greeks as the highest act cf
Jove's omnipotence, and their mythology
beautifully ascribes to one of their gods the
task of presiding at Iho labors of the forge.
In ancient warfare, the hammer was a pow
erful weapon, independent of the blade
which it formed. Many a stout skull was
broken through the cap and helmet by a blow
of Vulcan's weapon. The armiesof the Cres
cent would have subdued Europe totho sway
of Mahomet, out on the plains of France llioir
progress was arrested, ami the brave at.d
simple warrior who saved Christendom from
the sway of the Mnsclman was Martcl "the
hammer." The hammer, the saviout and
bulwark of Christendom. The hammer is
the wealth of nations. By it are forged the
ponderous engine nnd tiny needle. It is an
instrument of iho savage and the civilized.
Its merry clinks point out the abode of indus
try. It is a domestic deity, presiding over
Ihe grandeur of the most weallhy and ambi
tious, as well as the most humble and im
poverished. Not a stick is shaped, not a
bouse is raised, a ship floats, a carriage rolls,
a wheel spins, an engine moves, a press
squeaks, a viol sings, a spado delves, or a flag
waves without the hammer. Without the
hammer, civilization would bo unknown, and
the human species only as defenceless brutes;
but in skilful hand, directed by wisdom, it
is an instrument of power, of greatness, and
true glory.
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; . LETT EH S. .
The arrival of the post is an occasion of
interest to everybody, lhat is, to everybody
for whom the interest of life itself is not al
together gone. Those little quadrangular
mysteries, so unsiiggestive, unmeaning, unconscious-looking
what may not the break
ing of their seals disclose to us 1 What om
nipotence of woe may be shut within the
folds of a sinrrle sheet of paper! It were well
if we thought more of the tremendous signi
(ieanee of written words. They are irrevoca
ble unchangeable eternal j no after-peui-
lence can erase, no reluming tenderness sof
ten, no prayer remove them. Onco written
Ihey are written forever upon the heatt of
him who reads them. Speak harshly to
friend, and it may easily be forgiven and
soon forgotten ; the next tone betrays relent
ing, the merest gesture pleads for reeoncilia
lion ; but let the cold, or bitter, or careless
words be written, and Ihey remain foreter
in their full carelessness, bitterness, or cold
ness; ruthless are they, for though you weep
as voii read, they change not, aud your ut-
rnont shrinking avails not lo make them strike
one wound the less, or one whit the Ios deep
ly. Ono little page has' power fo change s
whole life. Moreover, the spirit which tules
ihera is more powerful for evil than for good
at least, in matters of feeling. Kind words
and gentle thoughts lose half l heir force and
all their charm w hen they lack the voice to
impress, and the look Id sweeten them ; but
the written repulse has tenfold power to
freeze the written reproach has all the bit
terness of unmistakable reality. No power
of self-deception clan withstand them no as
sumed callousness shield you against them.
Still more awful is it to . writo cue sentence
which may tempt to wrong, or throw even a
moment's dillicully juto the path of virtue;
if there be a iu in the forgiveness of wkich
it must be ltard for a dyiug penitent to be
lieve, Ihongh years of repentance lay between
him and its commission, t is this to have
put a weapon Into Satan's hand, which may
last as long as time itself. To the tinner,
perchance, it was but the deed of a moment
is as a pebble cast into the waters, the circle
of whose vibration shall finally embrace the
whole time-ocean. Mrs.- Ellis. " ' -
A WARM STRAIN.
Let him kbsiuo, let him kiss me, , ,
With the kisses of his mouth,
' For his bursting lip is glow ing "
. Wilh the glories of ihe South!
Oh! the rosy wine is luscious,
In his chalices of gold ;
. Bui his lots Id me is sweeter,
Yea, a thousand, thousand fold 1 ..
' And Ihe very air lhat dances
'Neath the numbers of his name,
. Smites my soul ilh dreamy ruusicj.
And my heaving heart with flame,
For I love him, yea, I love him 1
So lhat e'en bis name shall be,
Like ihe bieeise Jht hunts the odor
From some blossom-crowded tree
- To our iieaven'hallowed temples,
.-To the virgius, aud, to we. , . ' :, ,-,
- Dublin Antion..
A Saubath school teaoher asked hiseVMi,
Httpd everywaera fresntilV' ' f'Yes,"
was ihe gotier 0nr, except one utile lad
Sitld ."Jo." , Tto teach- asked, , "Wbfre, Is
not God jjvreseut !" Ha is not 'in all. (he)
thoughts of Ihe wicked,'" was Ibe child's
reoly.
TOO Rl SY TO BE MARRIED. .' !
' A New York correspondent of the Sun tells
the following funny story :
On Friday last, a young and pretty Dutch.
girl entered the Marine Court and requested
ono of the officials in attendance lo inform
her "if dat vas vcre dey married de people 1"'
Being told that it was, she looked smilingly
upon the officer, and holding up her head as;
if impressed with the responsibility of her
position, addressed him with, "Vill you marry
me, den?" "Marry you?" said the officer,'
"oh, I can't do thai, I have a wife already."
"I don't vant to be married to you, but 1 vant '
you to marry me," replied ehe. "Oh! ah,
lhat is a different case; But who do you
want to bo married tot" "To Fritz, but he
vas so busy ho couldn't come, ' and said 1
might get it done." When informed that
his marrying hy proxy would not answer,
iho poor girl left, and the next day returned '
with Frit, who had managed to quit his
work to get married, and the happy pair Were
made one by hi? honor, the Mayor. '' v
THE MITE'S l'RAVER
At an annual exhibition of the Deaf Mutes
in Ihe Indiana Institution, the fact was sta,
ted, that Indiana was tho first Stale in the..
Union to provide for the gratuitous education -
of her deaf mutes. Since the establishment
of thai institution, several other States have
followed the noble examplo. The following.
rrayer was recently delivered, by sigus, by
Mis Orchard, ono of tho pupils iu tho Indiana
Institution : .. .
THE MUTE'S PRAYER.
G d litem lire Plate whose ifenerons arm sastaiu
With willing otl'erintrs from her spreading plains
Our litrpless band, which else in dirkest uighl
Hurl ever roamed, unMest of science lilrt ;
Had never learned thy aucred Word to love,
Nor hoped to re.'t within Ihy courts abwe.
With g iklen harvest let her fields be crowned,
While pence and plenty spread their joys around.
Hod of all nntioni! irrant her sons may live '
For tier and Thee alone ; aud wilt Thou give,
When eartli no more its annual circuit rolls,
And Angel's timid the knell of ruin tolls,
A peaceful end. with pnrting splendors erovrned,
Plow let her arch of empire crumble to the ground.
Ql f.ir Girls. A paper published at Ak
ron, Ohio, states that some time since a par
ty of gentlemen and their ladies, from that
village, visitoda place of refreshment in Mid.
dleburgr, whore they passed a short lime J
afler they had departed, a boy about the :
house, who had occasion to enter the room
several times during their stay, remarked
that "they were iho queerest Uttls he ever
see:d, cause when there were chairs enough
in the room for them to sit on, thetarnal crit
ters would sit on the boys' laps." 1 '
Love Geocbaphy. "Bob, where is the
state of matrimony V
'It is one of the United States. It is bound
ed by hugging and kissing on one side, and ,
cradles and babies on the other. Its chief
products nre population, broomsticks and
staying out o' nights. It was discovered by
Adam and Eve while trying to find a north
west passage out of Paradise. The climate
is rather sultry, till you pass the tropics of
house-keeping, when squally weather com
monly sets in with sufficient power to keep -nil
hands as cool as cuctjjjibers. For the prin
cipal roads leading to this interesting stale
consult the first pair of blue eyes you run
ngainstf"
Usk of a Mocstache. The editor of the
Midical Timet, in referring to moustaches of
mcdioal students, assures a correspondent
that "moustaches have their uses; and among,
iho most important, they are considered to
point out the idlest, the vainest, (he most
self-conceited, if not, probably, ihe most dis
solute in the class. They are beacons to
warn others."
A friend, lately matricd, but fairly out of
the sweet month, came to Mr. Snooks, with
a sorrowful countenance and said, "Shooks,
I'm the most unfoitunate wretch living. The
fact is, I have married a fool."
"Ah," exclaimed Snooks, with a look of
coiiiinisseration, "but never mind il, my dear
fellow, thai calamity does not excite my
' e
compassion so much as a previous one oi
your'av' r
'Why, v.hat was that''
"That yon vt'ero bom one."
"An," said a mischievous wag to a lady
acquaintance, of an aristocratic caste, "I per
ceive you have beeu learning a trade." , ,
'.earning a Iradi,", replied the lady, in.
dignantly, "you aro very much mistaken'.
"Oh, I thought by the looks of your cheeks,
you had turned painter."
Tile lady waxed wrathy, and the wag
frimoSi'J.
- " . . i
Party Colors in Prussia. The reaction'
ists in Berlin wear black and white cockadast
The Democrats wear black, red and gold. Il
is forbidden to wear simply Ihe red color of
the Republicans. A correspondent of ihe
Boston Traveller says, an Irishman who wore
a pair of red glass studs was stopped by a po;
lice man and ask to move them. 'Wby?r he)
Inquired."' "Becabse ibey are rej.'' "But
is not black also one of the democratic co.
lorsl" he further inquired. "Certainly," said
the otlioer. "Then why -tlon'i you take ofT
your bat, for ih.at is black V .
,'' Matrimonial MsAiu.-TwPulkaamek
one F",;ritioiu . , t.ti, .... ;
' Three Flirtations make one Squeeia of,
Ihe Hand. ui , , , . . .. !t, J
. four Squeezes make one Kite. ... .:
f 'YPV'H!tf make ene Mooi:(iht Meeting,
Two Moonlight Meeting make eoe )VJ.
ding.
Two Wedding make Four Tool
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