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THE LADY TYPE SETTER.
BT T. B. CURTIS.
See her standing at the "case,"
Looking sweet and bland ;
Gincofully she move her heaJ,
Rapidly goes her hand,
Picking iin the slander types,
Pultintrthem in the slick
Hear them rattle against the steel ;
Click click click !
When the tottering line is "set,"
Shrf "spaces" i. eren and nice;
Nimbly the "lead" goes into it placf,
The "rule" is drawn in a trice;
Then her eye the copy devours,
And firm she holds her "slick"
From box to box her fingers fly,
Pick pick pick !
When "distribution" lime hos come,
She handles well the "inuller;"
The types In II i:ilo the empty "case,"
Scatter scalier scatter.
And steadily and dreamily
- She flings the lellers 'round,
With visions Uancins thiough her brain
To Iho music of the sound.
And thus is growing in her mind
Svveei fruit for cominsr years,
That she in bitterness so lung
Has watered with her tears;
For Thought is Bursting into bloom,
- Beneath ihe rays of Hight,
And love is waking from Ihe chill
Of long and dreary iiiylit,
Select (Talc.
THE FIRST CROSS WORD.
"You seem happy, Annette, always. 1
have never been in a family where Ihe
husband and wife? seemed more so."
"Well done, Kate," said Mrs. Hunting
don, laughing, "you have used the word
iei only twice in that short sentence.
And now you have a begging way about
you, as it you were really in earnest lo
hear something about married life, before
taking the fatal step. It is well Henry is
not here to see the look of sadness in the
eye of his bride elect. He might fancy
her heart was full of misgivings instead of
wedding Iinery.
"Don't laugh at me, Annette; talk with
mo as you used to do. 1 love Henry, you
know, and yet I have many misgivings
about married life. I see so few who are
really happy in this relation. I mean hap-
py as i snouid wish to be. lou seem to
come nearer than any one else. Did vou
ever V
"Quarrel? no, not often now. We had
our breaking in. I believe it must come to
all sooner or later."
"Do tell me about it, will you Annette V
"Yes, if yon are very desirous ol it. You
may learn something from it."
"I was a romantic girl, as you well
know, Kale. Some few friends I had
whom I loved dearly ; but these friendships
did not satisfy my heart. Something more
it craved. I hardly knew what until I
loved my husband. When we were first
married, 1 used, sometimes to ask myself ;
now do I find in this life all which I ex
pected to find t Am I as happy as 1 thought
I should be? My heart always responded
yes, and more so. With us the romance
of married life, if I may call it so, held on
long time, i or my part. I was conscious
of a pleasurable excitement of feeling when
we were together. I enjoyed riding and
walking alone with him. The brightest
hours of the day were those in which we
sat down alone together, to talk or read.
For a long lime I felt a gentle restraint in
his presence. I liked to be becomingly
dressed and to feel in tune. When dull I
made ail effort to be social and cheerful if
he was present. 1 had a great fear of pet
ting into the way of sitting down stupidly
with my husband, or of having nothing to
talk about but the children and the butch
er's bill. I made a business of remember
ing every pleasant thing which I read or
heard or thought to tell him, and when all
these subjects were exhausted, we had
each of us a hobby we could ride, so that
we were never silent for want of something
to say. Thus we lived for a year or two.
I was very happv. I think people were
often surprised to see us continue to enjoy
eacn other s society with so much zest.
Hut there was this about it. As yet I
had nothing to try me. We were board
ing, I had no care, and his tenderness and
interest was a sovereisn panacea for the
little ails and roughness which must fall to
us in our best ettale. This could not last.
however, forever. He became more aud
more occupied in his business, and I at
length had a house and a baby to look after.
Then, for the first time, our mutual forbear
ance was nut to the test. Hitherto we
had been devoled ta each other ; now the
real caret of life pressed upon us so often as
really lo absorb our energies. I was the
rir.t to feel the chance. It seemed lo ma
as if something was over-shadowing us.
Sometimes I would get sentimental and
would think he did not love me n he once
did. As look back now, I am convinced
lure wai my fint wrong Uj. Iudulnce
in mem moons weakened my resolution.
It was an injustice lo him, of which 1
ouht not Id nave been guilty. It left me,
too, with a wounded fvliii, a. if 1 had
broil wrollgej, which beiUfi to affect my
iiiriU.
Once, I had (or some time carried about
this lillle sore xh in my heart. I kri
Ihe mailer all lo mywlf, for 1 was iu. part
aahamed ami m uit loo proud lo pk of
it. Here wis aouHirr wron step. llii
it no trcurny ol hsppinrss in Hurried life
btl m nkut iif-tl cotiltdeoce.
Thvfa cm season of dump, chilly
weather. One nutruiitf t got up, feeling
vry initsUe. I had Isken culJ ; my
bIi lib. J, ttj Hty baby liaJ been Vl
Wutltswm li'iiuij h fcljht. ny
Kitcnen i nad a cross, irnorant servant
girl ; and on this particular morning she
had done her very worst for breakfast.
The beef-steak was burned to a cinder; the
eggs were like bullets; the bread was halt
baked; and the coffee, which was our
mainstay, was execrable. My husband
was very patient wilh all this, until it
came to the cofTee, and it upset him. He
put his cup down, and said in a half vexed
tone, "I do wish we could ever have any
good coflee. Annette, why cannot you
have it made as my mother dors?"
This was the drop too much for me, and
I boiled over. "You never think anything
on your table fit to be eaten," said I, and I
almost started at the sound of my own
voice ; 'you had better live at home, if
you are not satisfied, or else provide me
with decent servants. I cannot do every
thing take care of my baby all night, and
get the breakfast loo."
''I did not know before thrt I was an
very unreasonable," said he, in a tone of
injured feeling. He sat a few minutes,
then rose, left his untasted breakfast, and
went off.
When I heard the door shut behind him.
all my temper left me. I went into my
room, locked myself in, sat down and cried
like a child- This was the first cross word
I had ever spoken to my husband. It
si'erued to me as if some sudden rnlnmifv
had befallen u.. worked myself up to
such a pitch of feeling that I walked about
the room wringing my hands.
"Oh, it is all over with us," thought I ;
"we shall never be happy together again
in this world." This thought mademe
unspeakably miserable. I felt as if a black
pall had fallen around me ; and in the
future there was only blank darkness. In
my misery I sought to comfott myself by
blaming him. "He need not have spoken
so to me, al any rale," said I, out loud ;
"he might have seen how I felt ; it was
too much for nny one to bear. It really
was not one bit kind in him. It is plain
enough that he does not care for my com
fort as he once did.. Then to be always
telling me what nice things his mother
cooks, wlren he knows I am trying to do
my very best to learn how to please hira!
It is really too bad-"
Don't look so dreadfully sober, Kate
My baby cried just here, and I had to run
before I was through my catalogue of grie
vances, yet I had gone far enough to get
well on the wrong track again. I began
to calm myseif with the reflection that it
there had been a great wrong done, I was
not the only one to blame for it. I was
dreadfully sorry that I had spoken cross to
him, but I thought he ought to be sorry
loo. Before my baby had finished crying,
I came to the conclusion that I would not
exhibit signs of penitence until I saw some
in him.
So I bathed my face, that no traces of
tears might remain, dressed myself with
unusual care, and went down to old Brid
get, to give some very particular directions
about the dinner. I did this with a martyr-like
spirit. I meant to try my best to
make him sorry for his injustice. I resol
ved to reproach him with a first-rate din
nergood as his mother could cook. To
whet the edge of my delicate reproof, I
made "with my own hands, a most excel
lent cup of coflee.
One o'clock came at last, though 1
thought it never would ; the door opened
and I heard his q iick step in the hall. Of
all things in this world he was whistling!
He came to the table with a bright face,
from which every trace of the morning's
cloud had disappeared, and as he sat down,
looked around wilh a pleased expression.
"Why, Annette," said he, "what a nice
dinner."
"I am glad you are pleased," said 1, in
a subdued tone.
"Capital," said he ; the best roasj
meat we have had this season."
He was so much taken up wilh my deli
cate reproofs as not to notice that I was
out of spirits. I was half pleased and half
provoked, but ' kept rather still, making
little conversation, excepting in reply to
. . .
Inm.
After dessert, I handed him Ills cup of
coflee. He was quite astonished. "Why,
Annette," said he, "I do believe vou went
to work to see what you could do.
He had hit the truth, though without
the least suspicion ol the cause. My first
impulse, was to be honest and out with it
replying is it as good us your mother
makes? This would have given the key lo
the whole story he would have ferrelled
it all out, and we should have settled it
there, but fell ashamed lo. 1 sipped my
coffee in silence. Ihe eolden moment
passed, and my good angel took its flight.
1'ride had the day. 1 even began to be
vexed at his enjoying a good dinner so
much, aud to easily forgetting what had
caused Ine .t much sulKriii'r. He was
very busy on that day, and did not stop
with ine as lou ' as usual lo chat, hut went
off. whirtlin even mote cheerily than
when he came.
i went up into Ihe nurteiy and sat down
lo think il over, llaby was asleep ; the
tain was rtatterin avuinat Ihe windows
the wind was rising, and lo ine Ihe world
looked dreary enough. I had tired myself
all out ertlinit up such a dinner, ami now
the excitement u over, and 1 felt the
reaction, I begun loak myself what I had
gut for it. Just nothing at all. My hu
band either did not or would not see (hut
there was anything to be reconciled about
I blamed him for his insensibility, "Once,"
thought I, he would nave noticed any
change iu my voir or any shadow which
cam ow my spirits, now I can really be
cru io uuu tj n tiori pot miiu it ai an
I bad doUlul afternoon of il. I wai
rrstlirsf enough ; Irving filat on employ
menl and then another, Utl finding nuihiog
wlnih would suit. I (wettl down lo 14
Uitlm.if iii)ihiug, lim ti light niiiiI
than I h4 bfQ al Uvon. Ml dyUJ
miu sneni. xuy nusband tried once or
twice to engage me in conversation, with
out success.
"Annette," said he at length, in a kind
tone, "do you not feel well tc-day ?"
"Not very," sa.d I, with a sigh.
"What is the matter?"
"My head aches; the baby kept me
awake almost all nirht." This was the
truth, but only in pari, and I felt guilly as
I said it. Then he begged me to go and
lie down on the sofa, in Ihe parlor, and he
said he would read anything which I would
like to hear.
I felt this was kind in him. It was like
old times; the new times, you see, had
been but a day, but ta me it seemed very
long; yet it was not what 1 wanted, I
wished to have the trouble cleared away,
not biiilged over ; and I d, t rmin -d to hold
out till it should come to t ti if, and he
should see and feel that I could not be hap
py after a cross word, without a scene of
mutual contrition and forgiveness; so I
would not slay and be read lo, but told
him I must go to bed. 1 left him in his
easy chair, wilh his s'.ndy-lamp and book
and bright fir.-, in regular old bachelor
style, and went off into my nursery, and
then to bed, and cried mpself to sleep.
Yon laugh, Kate, as if youjjiought I was a
fool. I think so myself now."
'How did it all end, Annette?"
'I held out a week, becoming every
day more and more sad, and sulky, as t may
well call it. When I was led alone I used
lo take my baby up and cry over him as il
my husband was dead, and the child was
all that I Ifad left in the world. Dear me!
how unhappy 1 was, and every day added
to it. 1 would find something in his con
duct to pain me every time we met.
Either he was too attentive, or not atten
tive enough : talked too much or too lit
tle."
He bore my moody i!l-humnr most pa
tiently, thinking I was ill. One day he
came and told me had obtained a week's
leave of absence, and had engaged a car
riole, and I must pack up myself and baby ;
and be ready to start ofl in an hour. He j
was going to take me home to. my mother's. ;
"We may as well have a journey as pay
ur.s ouis, Annette," said he; "and as to
having you drooping about in this slvle !
any longer, I am not going to. We will
send ofTold Bridget, lock up our house, run
away irom all care and have some fun."
He looked up so kindly 1 could have
fallen upon his neck and went mv heart
out, to think how ugly I had been: but:
there was no time then to talk it over. 1 !
hurried away to pack, bul before I was halt
throngh with the packing, I resolved that
I would tell him the whole story from be
ginning to end. The moment I came to
this determination, the load was gone ; the
expression of my countenance, the tone of
my voice changed. I was conscious of it, 1
and he noticed it as soon as 1 joined him
at ine appointed Hour.
"Why Annette," said h, "getting ready
has cured you. We may stay at home 1
now." ' I
"That will do, Kate. The rest of the
story will sound sentimental to a third '
party." t
"INo, no, Annetta, that would be leaving I
out the very cream of it. Tell me how j
you settled it."
"Well, we rode on, enjoying the change i
until towards dark. Baby then fell asleep, j
Il was a very quiet hour everything I
about us was beautiful and peaceful. I felt
deeply, aud I longed to have all in my
heart pure and peaceful. Tears of real
penitence came into my eyes, and before 1
knew it, they were dropping down upon
the baby. My husband turned and saw them.
"What is the matter, Annette? said he.
"O, I am sorry," said 1.
"Sorry fur what, love," said he, "are
you not happy ? Does any thing trouble
you?"
"I am sorry," said I, "that I have been
so ugly this week."
" hat do you mean ?" said he.
"How can you help knowing?" said I.
Then 1 began at the beginning and told the
whole story. How 1 rose feeling irritable, I
and was provoked to speak Ihe first cross
word, how he told me my things were not
as nice as his mother's and went ofl vexed :
then he got over il, and lorgot all about it,
and would not help me to feel good nat tir
ed by saying he was sorry. How had
brooded over it all the week how it had
festered away iu my heart ami poisoned all
my enjoyment. W hut torrents ol tears 1
had shed when alone, as 1 thought it was
all over with us, and we never .hould love
again as we had once loved.
He heard me through without making a
single remark, and then he burst into a lou J
lauh.
want lo know, Annette," sni.l he, il
this is what aihd vou this week'
"Yes," said I. I 'put this he. checked
our Dobbin, and began lo turn round.
" hut arc you goin to do 1" said I.
"(oing back," mid he, "if this is all
which is lh nutter with you."
I luui'hed heartily as lie did lor now my
sin was confessed, I felt very happy ; but I
nulled Ihe other rein and drew Die whip
mill over Dobbin's eais, and away h weul
like a bird tuwarU my mother's home.
Hut w nude a reMiluliOn then, Kate,
llut il either had ought a;aint th other,
il should be tetlh'd bef.ru the tun went
down ; that w might go lo sleep if no al
"peac with all the world," at ej,t at
peace with eat h other, )or;iving and for
given. This r .lotion we tuv faiihlully
kept, ami I hav never torn another week
ol such misery at I have been (riling you
aboul, and I tiu4 I never thwll. I hi
you will find In your new relation, Kate,
all Ihe enjoy menl we now do. Tbit i Ihe
best wish I can offer you and thai voui
fi.,1 hum woiJ iny alo be )our li."
T'Uiiiy I'kuit-h, Nsw I oik, i! lite U
H, alitl 4.yttiuti.
colo x el joii c. FneMoxT sketch op
HIS LIFE.
From the Indep'ntlcnce (Mo.) Agrarian.
Tlieie is a history of Fremont of very deep
Interest lo every brave and honest American,
lo be related iu tho plain sentences of truth,
which the present is a propitious time to tell.
How nclivo merit of the highest nr.ler be
comes by its iiitiinsio reflections from sound
popular instincts lo be dreaded by tyrants
and limited down till crushed and cxlirmina
ted by such, is well known ever aiuce in Jo
lusalenf the assembled chief priests, ciders,
scribes, pharasees, publicans and hypocrites
shouted against the Redeemer of Ihe world :
'Crucify him ! Crucify him !"
It is thus: In the presidency of Van
Butpii, Mr. Poiuset, of Noith Carolina, being
Secrctaiy of War, tho topographical survey
ul the interior of Iho continent was com
menced, and the examination of the whole
c'liintiy west of the Mississippi and between
it and Ihe Missotni was committed to Mons.
Nioolut a sciomiiio Frenchman, a resident
amongst us. and very learned in topographi
cal knowledge.
It was the wish of the secretary to place
under command of Mons. Nicole!, one or
more nf ihe young graduates of West Pointj
to have iho benefit of his instructions, and
al n fnlure day, on tho retirement or death
of Mons. Nicolet, to fill his place and carry
forward tho work. This being proposed to
s'Jeh, Ihoy sneoringly and unanimously refu
sed, contemptuously selling foith service iu
the outer wilderness under a citizen to be
benealh Ihe dignity ninl privilege of a West
Point pet. Under this rebuff, ihe democratic
secretary turned his eyo to civil life, distin
guished n youth at onco full of talent and
modest, the son of n deceased fiietnl, and
employed in contributing to the support of
his widowed mother, sometimes by teaching
school and sometimes assisting the engineers
upon I lie Charleston and Cincinnati railroad
This youth, studious, full of the fire which
condenses when opposed to ditlicullies and
poverty, received from tho President disap
pointment of brevet second lieutenant of
topographical engineers, and in 1838, joined
Mons Nieolet and proceeded lo the explora
tion of Northern Missouri and Iowa.
Thus commenced, tome eighteen years
ago, ihe public service of John Charles Fre"
monl. Accompanying Mons. Nieolet, three
years were devoted to the complete fe.lnc.
lion to astronomical profile of the whole
country embraced between the rivers Mis
souri and Mississippi from their junction to
the Riitish boundary line.
This celebrated map and repoit, the pro
duction of Nieolet aud Fremont under his
guidance and pre-eminent for accuracy)
coming freely into the hands of the people,
kindled every here an appetite for so deli
cious n country, previously unknown or es
teemed lo bo a desert. The simplicity, tho
accuracy and womleiful completeness of the
woik, at onco sealed the efficiency, skill and
reliability of the consiiuctor in the public
confidence.
About this time Mons. Nieolet died, !eav.
ing to be accomplished, alter the samo man
ner, surveys onward lo ihe western ocean,
the great piairie plains, the primary moun
tains aud the labia lauds aud coasts of Ore.
gon.
To Fremont, as his assistant and successor,
was properly assigned this work in the great
wilderness, lie had iu the mean time mar
ried Jessie, the daughter of Senator Benton,
w ho. appreciating tho abilities of Ihe man
and Ihe national importance of the woik(
stimulated his ardor aud fortified hi in wilh
his experience and counsel,
In 1842, Fiemoul ascended ilia Great
Platte, exploied iho South Puss, and reached
the summit and measured tho altitude, of Iho
Kiiowey crest, beyond which tho waters flow
to tho I'dciiio. lie now produced his first
map and report. These, remaikable for
brevity of language, yet copious in matter,
and true in ihe delineations of nature, attra sl
ed the popular mind and fust kindled that
appetite for adventure in Ihe vast and su
Mime port unit of niir'contineut w hich, during
I Iho twelve years since follow int;, has rc?el
the iill.tirs t.f ihe Ameiieau peoplu on a new
and giaud order of progies., ami has chained
the ndiniratinn of tho vvotld.
The expedition of IS 13 mid '44, made by
Fictiinut through tho comment and marked
I by ihe opening of a wagon road to ihe Pa
cit'ie, the exploiation of the Salt Lake Basin,
llio planting ol" American sclllenientt and
i government u pon the Y ill imetle, and Ihe
w ilder passage of trie Ciudilleiat into Cull
foiuia, ha b.-eu studied by every American,
young so l old, and by millions iu foieign
lauds.
Theso expeditions, unparalleled for ihe
immense legion t-kplmed, the novelty aud
u,iuiidi-nr ul Iho i-uuuliiea revealed, iho In
It-iite and desperate character of Ihe dangeis
encountered und surmounted, served lo lift
t'oinpluleiy the veil of mialery a )e enve
lopnus Iwu-IUwd of our continent, and lo
turn llulhei Ihe olrctulind alle.iliuu of mail
kind, as with the iu.lt uf ail ocean ol alert
lony pen I up
To fill up Ihe details in Ilia ptofil of such
inimeiiM coiiuiiut upidly tiaveised, It
iiutiil again depailed lu Ilia spiiug of Is IS,
eiusstug lh coiilinenl by a line inlsi mediate
belwt iu Itu lo'uiei mploialiont, ivtealing
to ut lit eoiiAguialiuu and chaiavleiiitici ol
lh (lival Mountain Ha. in, lh diievlioa,
llliu l and peculiai puaittott of lh anewy
Awdtfs, and lh ifslieiout chaiaclei of Hi a i ft.
Iiui California.
Whilst n,4j. amiHij Ihe ps.lt of lh
tou chains thai ta-ioun I lh touic of lh
b.tuutsiilu itivi, la ltia ul wti ittihtJ
this ear. He hastened to the field ol rnnflirt.
j rallied around him the pioneers, the Ameri'
l cans dispersed over inhabited California, who
under his commann completed the conquest
of Ihe country, and reduced it, in a few
months, to passive submission to our national
flag.
Such, during ten years of Intense aciiifv.
alleruately losl as it w ere iii the immeasura
ble wasles of plains larger than Ihe ocean ;
among mountains so vast in bulk and num
ber that generations will not count them ; in
laDyrmihs or glaciers overhead and buried
rivers scarce visible benealh; in davs and
nights of cold and heat and storms perpetu
ally desporate wilh death and bristling with
thiist, starvation, the subtle savage always
near in ambush, aud exiled long years in the
wilderness, cut ofl from ihe solace of society
and social lies ; and alternately a prisoner to
his desk in Washington City, supnlvinu Iho
generous and patriotic taste of tho people
with descriptive volumes and maps, unsur
passed for modest language, immerse useful
ness and accuracy ; such stands in Ihe pre
sence of tho American people, al the ace of
forty years, their devoted servant John
Chailes Fremoui, a soldier, senator, patriot.
and man without a blemish.
P o c t r ij .
LAKE SUPERIOR.
bt a. c. coopricii.
"Father of Lakes!" thy waters bend
HhvOIIiI tha nfli'ln' nlmnal viuui
When, throned in heaven, he sees 'thee send
i ..... .i. . . . ' . . .
uauK, me say us woriu ol Dlue.
Boundless and deep, the forests weave
Their twilight shade thy borders o'er,
And threatening cliffs, like giants, heave
ineir rugged lorms along thy shore.
Pale silence, 'mid thy hollow caves,
With listening ear in sadness broods,
Or startled echo, o'er thy waves
oenus me noarse woll notes of thy woods.
Nor can the light canoes, that glide
Across thy breast like thines of air.
Chase from thy lone and level tide
ine spell ol stillness reigning there.
Yet, round this waste of wood and wave,
Unheard, unseen, a Sniril lives
That breathing o'er each rock aud cave,
loan a wild, strange aspect gives.
Tho thunder-riven oak, thai flings
us grizziy arms atnwart the sky,
A sudden, startling immage brings
it) ine lone traveler's kindled eye
The gnarled and braided boughs, that show
uuir uim lorms in me lores! snado,
Like wrestling serpents seem, and throw
rauiasuc norrors inrougn ine glade.
The very echoes round this shore
Have caught a strange and gibbering tone,
For they have told the war-whoop o'er,
nil ine wild chorus is their own.
Wave of the wilderness, adieu !
Adieu ye rocks, ye wilds and woods!
Roll on, thou element of blue,
Aud till these awful solitudes!
Thnu hast no tale to tell of man-
God is thv theme. Ye sounding raves
Whisper of Him whose mighly plan
Deems as a duduiu all thy waves'.
WOUtOERI'lL IMPROVEMENT IN ARTIFI
CIAL TEETH
We find tho following in the N. Y. Ete
Post's foreign selections:
Great Desideratum finally Obtained.
A patient has been taken out by Mr. Ephra.
im Mosely, dentist, of 61 Grosvenor St., Lon
don, from the application of chemically puri
tied white india-rubber In the construction of
artificial teeth, gums and palates. A long
acknowledged desideratum, by many emi
nent practical deutistt fruitlessly sought for,
is now at leughth happily found, and, by the
patentee's process, mott ingeniously adapted.
The fortunate wearer of teeth constructed on
this principle is astonished to find adhesion
perfect, (a thing never yet perfectly etfocted,
a (it the most accurate secured, aud the use
of those troublesome adjuncts, spiial springs,
cutiiely dispensed wilh.
This alone would be sufficient to stamp
tho merit of ihe patejil ; but, further, the tn
perioiity of Ihe substance employed over ev"
ery other yet discovered it seen in Ilia per
fection with which it can bo moulded lo ev
ery inequality of ihe gums aud teeth, and in
its supplying an artificial periosteum, lis it
were, to Ihe teeth when they become painful
by the waiting away of the gum ; added to
this is the great comfort ihe patient fecit in
being able lo ue any degtee of force in mas
ticating or in stilling the teeth together,
without that percussion or tattling that at
tends lh action in general case. Ihe perma
nent elasticity uf Ihe agent employed obvia
ting this and every other disagreeable nio
lion ; aud iu ilt rendering the teeth, ill fine,
part and parcel of Ihe month itself, it may
be said to be thus truly lo attain the tit yti't
ultra of art "ait of nfiirt urteni "
Ci'ta ro Piii. . Take handful of
strawberry leaves, and poor on tbrin half
puil of boiling staler. I el it ivuiaiu one
hour, and dunk Ihu lc. If )ou caiinul gel
lh boiling water, chew and twaliuw Ihe
loaves. Tint it most valuable and eflicirul
Ivliivdy. Il lately (alls to gite inmiudial
iultf, and poifuini a peniiuueul rum.
Th tholwra it isgii.g uh Laiful tun.
It no al cl. !.us. lh paper of iureds)
Utl, say I bat ittei lud botn l huudirj
tnj ttti dvttbt (lout Ibis In i, Lie diMa
fu lual Cily, duimg lb ttttl Htwot.
limit it lh itl'i.e ! out stuMy dtp
I'intst
THE PEOPLE OF SWITZERLAND.
Thus speaks Ihe travelling editor of tha
New York Observer, respecting Ihe modern
Swiss :
My eslimato of Swiss character has wofnl
ly depreciated since I have travelled among
these mountains. Wilh a history surh n
Greece might be proud of, and a race of he
roes that Romo never excelled in tho days
w hen women would be mothers only to Imvo
sons for warriors, the Swiss people ate now
at a point of national and Fecial degression
painful to conremplole. They are indebted
largely to the defences of nature for Ihe com
parative liberty they enjoy, and peihaps to
Ihe same seclusion is to bo referred their
want of a thousand comfoits of life, w hich
an improved state of society brings, all the
romance of a Swiss cottage is taken nut of a
traveller's mind, the moment he enters one.
of these cabins, aud seeks refreshment or
rest. Tho saddest mark of poverty meet
him at the door. The same roof is the shel
ter of man, woman aud beast. Tho samo
room is often Ihe bed-chamber of all. Scanty
food, and that miserably prepared, is con
sumed without regard to those domestio ar
rangements which make life at home a luxu
ry. There is no future to tho mind of a
Sw iss youth. lie lives to live as his father
lived ; and that is the end of life with him.
Perhaps ihey may have a gun, and in that
case, to be the best shot in the valley may
fill his ambition ; oi if he is strong in tho
arms and legs, he may aim at distinction in
tho game3 which once a year are held in
some hamlet iu the canlon, where wrestlers
and runners contend for victory, and other
throw weights and leap bars as of old in
Greece when Kings- were not ashamed to en
ter the lists. Many of the youth of Switzer
land are willing to sell themselves into tho
service of foreign powers as soldiers Swiss
soldiers hired to be shot at, and shoot any
body a foreign duspot may send them to
slay ; a service so degrading, and at the samo
time decidedly hazardous (o life and limb,
with to pure a chance fur pay, that nniio bul
a people far gone iu social degradation would
be willing thus to make merchandize of their
blood has been as freely poured out for ty
rants who hired them, as if they were bleed
ing for iheir own and the land of William
Tell.
A CLERGYMAN'S OPINION.
The distinguished aoihor and divine, Rev,
Mr. Bacon, in a sermon recently deliveietl
in Philadelphia, declared that the newspaper
press is only second to the Bible for moral
force in a representative government. With
its twenty-five millions of papers issued
annually, it penetrate every bouse and
reaches every reader. If the preacher, with
his hundred of hearers, has a commanding
influence for good upon hit congregation,
moulding their morals and enlightening their
understandings, how much greater must bo
the influence and responsibility of the press,
which talks daily lo its multitude of readers.
The following remarks from the eermou aro
interesting:
"The newspaper, quite as much as our
public schools, is in America the gieat cre
ator of a tiatiou uf thinkers and debaters.
The American editor aims not al the choice .
diction of an essayist, and pays little attent.
lion to mere abstractions, and vain theories.
He writes as if he would give the greatest
quantity of thbugtil in the briefest space.
He e.voels in paragraphs, which are like the
sharp shooting of riflemen. His heavy artil
lery he reserves for occasional editorials, but
he seldom, plies the cannon where a bullet
will do the woik. Hut, at a characteristic of
our people, he is ever ready to lay aside his
editoiiul mailer to make room for ncu't. Ho
ki.ows men, and nut deeds. Hit language)
posteses a clear aim concise utterance. K very
writer and public speaker might find a mod
el of style in the production of rtio America:!
editor."
'Tho paJpit must first labor to effort an
improvement in the character of the icligieiie
press. The religious newspaper ure tar
behind the secular press, in breadth of views
and roiripTt-hensivuess and liberality of ac
tion, an. I, he might ventur to say, in religion
itself. They lake most of lh. ir newt from
tln daily prets, and even Iheir reports ol
religious ineelingt while it is not iiufreqocjit
for lliem to torn rornu! and charge the repor
ter with irreliion. The religious prrt is
too often narrow-minded it doe nut teem
tu understand its true policy and duties ; and
ihe violence and animosity that rx-ivado it
eoliims are even worse than that of political
edilois on Ihe eve of an election."
M ihk KKKri'i tir Monti t In Tiimhl.'
county, James lliuuch, a man in easy en
eninilances, deliberately murdered hit own
ton by flouting him wilh a rille, ihe ton Imv.
ing provoked him ty tiding with hit mother
iu a dtme.tio .pt.irril. The man reined
hit bed rahulr, after lh deed, and when
next illuming he learned that iho boy was
still alive, e pressed regrelt thai bo did no I
finish hut) Willi bia k rule.
Singular matrimonial mi.iakn -the b n.!i
ing bu le having been MUiile I .t ih yriitlr
nan hutclJw "faihei" on the nr...!..,,
-lo-k plac al Woiih-y rec.i i!y. It,.,
inislai wtt leclllird by llitt ! tu) ,4 p,.,
foi tiling ihu foioimniy otei ag.ni uvtl u.,
Tit iiumbvr of tin. tjianit aim ami I i
Saw Yolk, during h mui.lh of J.i.., .,
',',4J T number el t.Ml. wHkU i
llt4 doling ihe Mint fvii littT . ..
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