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Waynesburg. April 113, 1863-Iy.
DAVID CRA WFORD,
=ay and Connecter u I.aw, °Mee In Sayers'
adjoining the r:w. Cana.
Sept. 11, 1881-Iy.
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lIIIITIZOIALN a sir/Amos,
011110e-3liteklees Butldtstir, Matta at.,
faluo mia
• tarscirrunir announces to the citizens of
'Weysteabstrig and vicinity that he has returned from
Cows of thr army and resumed the limo.
or modicina at this plan.
,WA 4,;, , , tia. June 11, 1361.-I .
DR. D. W. BRADEN,
and Burgeon. Office in the Old Bank
aiamarant. Bev 18611-Iv.
PESTILENCE ADDED TO 'FAMINE.
Fever is added to the famine in the
DR. A. G. CROSS t Lancashiie district. The London
MILD very respectfully tender his services es a ,
: Lancet, a good medical authority,
rEIVIICIAN AND deRGEON, to the people of i
I; and vicinity. Re hopes hy I" due spore- says :—The true spotted typhUs,.the
' s o human life and health. sod strtrt attention to 1 •
lit=suarit a share of public patronage. formidable "} amino lever," the dire
. obituary% !NW
___ 4 pestilential concomitant of wid e _
DM. A. J. EMIT i spread and prolonged dearth, is slow-
EiwnESPECTFULLY offers his services to tbe citizens ly but most surely extending its ray
of wa vre urg and vicinity, as a Physician and ' ages amongst the population of the
opposite the Itep.ittliran office. Ile i ,
=Ldab a due a mina of the Isere of human iite town. Within the past fortnight the
a". an native medication. and strict "'anti" number of eases of the malady 'has
ft MUMS'S, ito merit a liberal share of public patronage.
April 9 , UMW I been doubled ; and the history of the
DRUGS
M. A. HARVEY, •
_Priegibt sad Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and
ladna.l36o moot colabrarod Patent Medicines, and Pura
-Ligeoto for andicinal purposes.
pt. 11,1811-1 .
DIZIRCRJUICTS
WM. A. PORTER,
Wise Was and Royal Denim in Forei g n sod Domes-
GI Dry Goads, Groceries. ?lotions, &c., Main Street.
11, Iddi—ly.
R. • CLARK,
eUtt Dry 00041. Groosrisa, Hardware, Queen..
WINS and node s, in tie Hamilton noose. opposite
Roue. Main strairt. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
MINOR & CO.,
fires ht Panetta and Domestic Dry Honda, Gro
Mateermwara, Ilardwve and Mattoon, opporitc
rtenma. Mats street.
It, tltl—iy,
OLOTRING
N. CLARK,
Dealer in Mon'a and goys' Clothing, Clothe. Casei
egging& alattnaga, Hats and Caps, ko„ Main arLe4. np.
swift the Howe Hew. Sept. 11, 1861—ly.
ot *SO? r►ND UWE MIALBREI
J. D a COSGIZAY,
aloft/end shoe as Maio .trot, tr , orly omelette
di( tillumses and Dnwer's Hank." Every style of
eouetantly on band or nude to order.
)111Z.11161.--4.
N. EL ItoCLELLAN
. Soot moil Shoo maker, Bloch Joy's Cloroor, Maki users.
MOM fad *boos of ivory variety alway‘ on head or
MAI to order on shots sottoil
Dept. 11, Net —l7.
• EFROGIUI7IIII a vaatarrxma
JOSEPH YATER,
orooniss OonGatlniteries. Nntiapa,
, Parantanti, Ithrerpoof Want. be - , GING of
p aims, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glue Platen.
Kaka paid for rand sating ape's.
. 11, 11141-47.
JOHN MU HELL,
Sester in Groceries and Conkictienarine, and Variety
Om& aelle lBl rally. Wily:nes NI.W Building, Main street.
,y/egia. 1-Iy.
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LEWIS DAY,
triersia la SOWN and Mine!Menem* leeks, Station.
attest tad Paaw.
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Its chilling dews upon the tender frame;
No morn is needed there! the light which
fills
The land of glory, from its Maker came.
No parted friends
O'er mournful recollections have to weep—
No bed of death enduring love attends
To watch the coming of a pitleeless sleep.
No withered flower,
Or blasted bud. celestial gardens know :
No scorching blast or fierce descending
shower,
I Scatters destruction like a ruthless foe
No battle word
Startles the sacred hosts with fear and
dread ;
The song of peace, Creator's morning
heard,
Is sung wherever angels' footsteps tread
Let us depart,
If homelike this awaits the weary soul
Look up, thou stricken one! thy wound-
ed heart
Shall bleed no wore at sorrow's stern con
trol.
With faith our guide,
White robed and innocent, to tread the way
Why fear to plunge in Jordan's rollin
tide,
And find the heaven of eternal day
Biortltaitinits.
outbreak throughout, so far as we
have as yet ascertained the particu
lars, is most significant of the future.
In July, oils or two instances of true
typhus .s ero recorded. In August,
eight cases occurred. in September,
upwards of forty were registered; in
October, fifty-one. Now the number
has reached, if not exceeded, one
hundred and forty. It is evident
from the figures, that the activity of
the disease is steadily becoming
greater and its sphere of action wic?-
er; and sooner or later the time
must come, if human help be power
less, or too long delayed to stave off
the disaster, when, from the :lure re
sults of inanition, the famine-strick
en population will become as apt to
receive and propagate the deadly in
fection as tinder to receive and prop
agate flame.
lOWA very talkative person, who
had wearied the temper. of Mr. Abern
ethy, who was at all times impatient
of gabble, was told by him, the first
moment he could get a chance of
speaking, to be good enough to put
out her tongue. "Now, pray, mad
am," said.he, playfully, "keep it out."
The hint was taken. He rarely met
with his match ; but on one occasion
he fairly owned that be had. He
was sent for by an innkeeper, who
had had a quarrel with his wife, and
who bad scratched his face with her
nails, so that the poor man was
bleeding and much disfigured. Mr.
Abernethy consilered this an' oppor
tunity not to be lost for admonishing
the offender, and said : "Madam, are
you not ashamed of yourself, to treat
your husband thus—the husband,
who is the bead of alk—your bead,
madam, in fact." "Well, doctor,"
fiercely retorted the virago, "and
may I not scratch my own bead ?"
Upon this her friendly adviser, after
giving directions for the benefit of
the patient, turned upon his keel and
confessed himself beaten for once.
=
ar An old Scotch minister was
often obliged to avail himself of the
aid of probationers. One day a young
man, vain of ble oratorical powers,
offichated, ea deseeeding from
the doeit, Was infiby the eider with
eatoaded hat*, and eapeoOng high
praise, he said., KNo oeuiplinients,
pritt - -" "It* AO* Lt" eloid tie nis.
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WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1863.
Keep Sheep.
Perhaps this counsel is superero
gatory just at this time. All wool
growers and their neighbors are fully
ware that at present prices, few if
Ly other branches of agricultural
dustry are more remunerative
he unprecedented demand for wool
goods consequent upon the neces
ies the immense armies now in
ke field and being raised, is still fur
.er enhanced by the scarcity of cot:
m, which brings woolen fabrics in
more general use. How long this
.ceptional state of things may c•on
nue, it is impossible to predict with
but there is good reason
suppose. that even if the long
shed for peace should be proclaim
. within the next six months, the
mand for woolens will almost c•er-
inly be such as to give a paying re
turn for investment, in sheep. Ore
fact alone speaks volumes in favor of
sheep raising. There has been im
ported into the United States from
foreign countries, wool and woolen
goods to the average amount of $35,-
000,000, to $-1 )00,000 for the last
three years; equivalent to the yield
of at least 13,000,000 sheep. It is
stated by Daniel Needham of the
Vermont Wool-Growers' CoLvention.
that the average annual increase of
population in this country requires
the wool of 3,000.000, sheep. If
These figures be only approximately
correct, they demonstrate the slight
danger of an overstock of sheep for
many years to come. The present
and prospective high tariff will keep
up the price of American wool to
much higher figures than have pre
vailed hitherto.
The scarcity of mutton has, as
would be expected, been aggravated
by the rise in wool. We say aifgra
vated, because year by year betiire
the breaking out of the war, it had
been more and more difficult to pro
cure a supply of good mutton at rea
sonable prices. At present this ar
ticle is one of the luxuries. Very
wisely tew care to sell when pros
pects or keeping are so good. Even
if the wool market should return to
its ordinary level, or below it. there
is abundant encouragement for sheep
raising.
Of course, each must be governed
by the circumstances of his locality,
both in deciding to invest in sheep,
and also as to the best breeds.
Thus, the average cost per head per
annum, of keeping sheep is estima
ted as fullows : In Illinois die. ; Inwa,
75c. ; Miehigan, Sae, ;
50c. ; Maine, $1 ; Califorhia, 75c. ;
Verinottt, 81:30.
In Vermont, alter trying almost
every breect, the majority of teool
growers give the preference to the
Spanish Merino. as yielding the lar.
gest, return for wool. Where mut
ton is the principal object, as in the
largo cities. larger middle wool
breeds, like the Southdown, are pref . -
erable. The hitter breed probably
combine the desiderata of both wool
and mutton in a higher degree than
any other raised in this country.—
With the additional security which
the tax upon dogs will give, we may
safely say the prospects of the:
sheep interest in this country are
better than before. A word to the
wise is sufficient.
AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.
An Oberlin College student, now
Lieutenant in the 105th Ohio Volun
teers, writes as follows from Mun
fordsville, Ky., the last of October :
Arriving the day after the battle,
I found seven of my company in
camp. The rest were killeu, wound
ed, or scattered. Of the six hundred
of the 105th who went into the en
gagement, one hundred and seventy
three were killed or wounded.
On the 10th inst. I helped bury
the dead from our regiment. Among
• the forty-two we buried, I recognized
many who seemed near and dear to
me. One had been struck in the face
by a shall ; there it burst, blowing off
his face altogether, and the inner por
tions of his head through the back
part of it. His right hand was
blown off at the wrist ; his left arm
badly mangled between the shoulder
and elbow, mostly blown away from
the elbow to the wrist, and the
hand just hanging to the poor boy
by one or two tendons.
My mind was filled with anxious
thoughts for my brother, who was
in the same company withi me, and
was still missing since the battle.—
Upon examination, some envelopes
were tbund in this poor fellow's pock
ets, directed to my brother ! Here,
then, lay my brother, without any
doubt ! A terrible sensation passed
over me. 1 sat by him for some
time in great agony of mind. We
had gone into the company together
to share each other's joys and sor
rows : now he was gone forever.--
Finally, looking around me upon the
scattered slain, I said to myself.—
This is not the place fur man to weep
Take.thou, 0 God of battles, the sac
rifice I make. Here are forty-two of
the 105th slain in defending the right.
Ail these we surrender up to thee!
I clipped a lock of my brother's
hair as a parting token. Then with
my own baud el dig his grave,
wrapped kink is his bisuamt, corved
his DEMO upon an oak board, and
iskking ue m. samminamai asw
kmoistaralii ,
A NOBLE BOY.
The spirit that is steadfast amid trial in
I devotion to principle, always commands
the esteem of good men•
The person who is willing to be made
the butt of ridicule, rather than yield to
that which he believes to be wrong„is wor
thy of all praise.
A little drummer boy in one of our reg
iment..., who 'Lid become a great favorite
with many of- the /officers, by his unremit
ting good nature, happened, on one occa
sion, to be in the officer's tent when the
bane of the soldier's life was passed around.
A captain handed a glass to the little tel
, low, but he refused it. saying, am a
ca
det of intemperance, and do not taste strong
drink."
"But you must take some now. T insist
on it. You belong to our tne,-e to day, and
cannot refuse."
Still the boy stood firm on the rock of
total abstitience, and held fast to his.nteg-
OM
The captain, turning to the Major, said:
"I.l is afraid to drink ; he will never
wake a soldier."
•` how is this?" said the major, play
fully ; and then assuming another tone,
added—'• I command you to take a drink,
and you kuovi it is death to disobey or
ders."
The little hero, raising his young form
to its full height, and fixing his clear blue
eyes, lit up with unusual brilliancy, on the
titee of the officer, said—
" Sir, my father died a drunkard ; and
when I entered the artily I promised my
dear mother, on my betided knees, that by
the help of God 1 would not taste a drop
of rum, and I mean to keep my promise.
I ant sorry to disobey your orders ; but I
would rather suffer,• than disgrace my
mother, and break my...temperance pledge."
That major and his associates are still
in the army, but the little drummer boy
is a wounded sufferer in the hospital at
West Philadelphia.—.S. S. Tones.
A Singular Case of Nervous Sympat y.
A singular story is related of an oc
currence in a cotton mill in Lanca
shire, in 1781. A girl put a mouse
into the bosom of another girl who
had a great dread of mice. She was
instantly thrown into convulsions,
which lasted 24 hours. The next
day ti ree more girls were thrown
into similar ‘:.onvulsions, and the fol
lowing, day six more. A physician
was sent for, but beb,re he ;a rrived
twenty-three girls had been seized
in the same way, and one man who
had been employed in holding them
during the first. TLe work in the
factory was stopped, and 'the idea
prevailed that sumo disease had been
introduced by a bag of cotton which
bad recently- been opened. This con
viction spread through the country,
and three mole factories, limr or five
miles distant were infected although
the workers in them had never seen
any of the original patients, but, like
them, were impressed with the be
lief that the plague had been caught
froth the cotton.
The convulsions were so violent as
to require four or five persons to pre
vent the sufferers from dashing their
heads against the wall. The doctor
bethougut him of trying the effects
of electric shocks, and the application
was unifbrthly successful. As soon
as a few had been relieved and the
disorder was thus shown to be a nerv
ous affection easily cured, and not in
troduced by the cotton, no flesh ease
oecured.--Mental Lpidentie" in Fra
zer's Magazine.
Good Receipt for Keeping Sober.
In the rural district in the North
of England, the following dialogue
lately took place between a friend
and a shoemaker who bad signed the
temperance pledge
, •Well, William, how are you ?
"0, pretty well. 1 had only
eighteen pence and an old hen when
I signed, and a few old sciTes ; but
now I have about ten pounds the
bank, and thy wife and 1 have lived
through the summer without getting
into debt. But as lam only thirty
weeks old yet (so he styled himself;)
1 cannot be so strong yet, my
friend."
'flow is it you never signed be
fore?"
••! did sign ; but I keep it different
now to what I did before, friend?"
"How is this?"
"Why, I yae doon on my knees and
pray!"
Bettor informed persons might
learn a lesson in this respect by ap
plying to the aouree of strength now
possessed by William, the shoema
ker.
Ittaxvitutscs.—lle who can enter a
church, or a chapel, or any place dedica
ted to the worship of God, as he does his
own habitation, or that of his horses,
which is a common case, has, in soy
opinion, no proper notion of religious
worship and is never likely to derive
muck edification to his own soul from at
ten r ise upon the ordinances of sod.
•
ilir"Do you wont ;roar sudiouems
i 4 r 4 1" Oa thik ahNed old Dr.
to "Ohoso armoobook wooaohiog
to
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
A letter in the Athenaeum, dated Na
ples, October 18, mentions some interest
) ing discoveries at Pompeii, The writer
says: "In an extreme corner of all inner
room of a small and apparently poor
house, have been discovered some human
bones—a rare thing in Pompeii, where
most of the population had time to escape.
Further researches—and it was interest
ing to observe with what extreme care and
delicacy they were conducted—revealed
yet others, until the skeletons of five per
sons were visible—four women and an in
fant, all crouched up in a corner. The
sex and age of the v;ctims, and the very
form in which they were found are sugges
tive of incidents and sufferings which
would promise materials fur an affecting
tale. The arms seem to have been clasp
ed as if all hope h d been abandoned, and
they had come there to die, while the legs
were doubled up with the agony of their
sufferings. The month of one skeleton
was open, distended, and hard must have
been the last expiring efforts of that poor
person. The infant was in the extreme
corner, where a mother's love, perhaps,
had placed it, in the- hope of its there find
ing greater protection from the storm of
ashes which was raging around tl em, and
penetrating into the most secret recesses
of every building. Poor, helpless women !
they were too weak or too feeble to escape,
and had been abandoned by husband, fath
er, brother—by every male friend.—•~
There were bronze armlets or bracelets
round their fleshless bones ; and by the
side of them lay what were evidently the
remains of a purse, in which had been in
closed twenty silver Roman coins and two
copper coins. Of course the material of
the purse was imperfect, and vas reduced
to mere tinder; still the texture was per
ceptible, and (hie, it was which contained
the hurried gleanings of the unhappy par
ty. There were considerable traces of
cloth, too, in the ashes, all around the
bodies or skeletons—that is to say, on the
ashes there were impressions as of cloth
which had been laid over them and expo
sed to the fire. The probability appeared
to be that they were the clothes of the
wretched fugitives, for there were impres
sions, as it were, of folds."
THOUGHT E33Elrm TO HEIL TH
"If we would have our bodies
healthy our brains must be used, and
used in orderly and vigorous ways,
that the life-giving streams of force
may flow from them into the expect
ant organs, which minister but
as they are ministered unto. We ad
mire the vigorous animal life of the
Greeks, and with justice we recog
nize and partly seek to imitate the
various gymnastic and other means
which they employed to secure it.—
But probably we should make a fatal
'error it' we omitted from our calcula
tions the hearty and generous ear
nestness with which the highest sub
jects of art, speculation and politics
were pursued by them Surely in
their case the beautiful and energet
ic mental cite was expressed in the
athletic and graceful frame. And
were it a mere extravagance to ask
whether some part of the lassitude
and wearine's of life, of which we
hear so much in our day, might be
due to lack of mental occupation on
worthy subjects, exciting and repay
ing a generous enthusiasm, as well
as to au over-exercise on lower ones;
whether an engrossment on matters
which have not substance enough to
justify or satisfy the mental grasp,
be not at the root of some of the
maladies which affect our mental
convalescence? Any one who tries
it soon finds out how wearying, how
disproportionately exhausting is an
overdose of " light literature" com
pared with an equal amount of time
spent on real work. Of' this we may
be sure, teat the due exercise of the
brain—ofi thought—is one of the es
sential elements of human life. The
perfect health of 'a mai+ is not the
same as that of an ox 'or a horse.
The preponderating capacity of his
nervous part demands a Correepond
ing life.—Cornhill Magazine.
A GLASS of whisky is manufac
tured from perhaps a dozen grains of
corn, the value of which is too small
to be estimated. A pint or this mix
ture sells for one shilling, and it of a
good brand, is considered well worth
the money. It is drank in a minute
or two ; it fires the brain, sharpens
the appetite, deranges and weakens
the physical system. On the same
sideboard upon which this delicious
beverage is- served lies a newspaper.
It is covered with half a million of
types; it brings intelligence from the
four quarters of the globe. The
newspaper costs less than the glass
of grog—the juice of a few grains
of corn—but it is no less strange
than true, there is a large por
tion of the conanunity•who think ,
g:orn juice cheap and the news—
paper dear.
Dam[ Lam—Many men have relieved
themselves of dyspepsia by not drinking
anything not even water tinting their
meals. Matanimat ineept wan. ever drinks
in wienession witti his food. Man ought
not M. Try.libilnAripittid.yott will '
set wok *ow . nisafty Slim which
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DIETING
Some persons eat themselves to
death, others diet themselves to
death. When a man is sick he is
weak, and ta,ncludes that as when
he was well he ate heartily and was
strong, if he now eats heartily, he
will become strong again ; well
meaning, but ignorant friends are of
the same opinion, and their solicita
tions to eat become one of the great
est alinoyances of a sensible invalid.
Nature purposely takes away the
appetite wilder such circumstances
and makes the very sight of food
nauseating: A' sick man is feeble;
this feebleness extends to every
muscle of the body, and the stole
ad) being made up of a number of
muscles, has its share of debiiity.— .
It requires several hours of labor for
the stomach to "Nork up" an ordi
nary meal; and to give it that ,
amount or work to do when it is al
ready in an exhausted condition, is
like giving a man, worn out by a
hard day's work, a task which shall
keep him laboring half the night.—
Mothers are often much afraid that
their daughters will hurt themse.ves
by a little work, if they complain of
not feeling very well ; and yet if
such daughters were to sit down to
dinner and shovel in enough proven
der for an elephant or a plowman, it
would be considered a good omen
and the harbinger of convalescence.
A reverse of such procedure would
restore multitudes of ailing persons
to permanent good health ; namely,
to eat very little for a few days
eat nothing but coarse bread and
work about the house industriously ;
or what is better, exercise in the
open air for the greeer part of each
day on horseback, in the garden, or
walking through the woodlands or
over the hills, fur hours at a time.—
Objectless walks and lazy lolling in
carriages, are very little better than
not hing. The effect of interested,
absorbing exercise is to work out of
the system the diseased and surplus
matter which poisons it ; this relieves
the stomach of the burdens imposed
upon it, and allows it time to gain
strength, so as more perfectly to
convert the food eaten into well
made, pure, and life giving blood. A
weakly but faithful servant, in the
effort to get through with a specified
amount of work, may perform it all,
but none of it is thoroughly done;
whereas, if a moderate task had been
assigned, all of it would have been
well done, so a weak stomach, indi
cated -by a poor LIN etite, may be
able to convert a small amount of
food into pure, invigorating blood;
but if too much is eaten, the at
tempt to "get through it all" is made,
blood is manufactured, but it is an
imperlect blood, it is vitiated, and
mixed with that already in the sys
tem, at every beat of the heart, the
whole mass its corrupted, and "lam
ailing all over" is the expressive de
scription. In
. anotber set of cases
there is a morbid appetite; the un
happy dyspeptic is always hungry;
and finds that he feels best while
eating, and for a brief space after
ward, he is always eating and always
dying. To hear him talk, you would
imagine he could not possibly live 1 1 1
long, and yet be does live and grows
old in his miseries. Such may reas
onably expect a cure; Ist. By eat- .
ing very moderately- at three speci
fied times each day, and not an atom
at any other; then in less than a
fortnight sometimes these distress
ing cravings will cease. 2nd. Spend
a large potion of daylight in agree
able out-door activities.---ildll's Jour.
nal of Health
THE LAST DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZA-
BETH.
Queen Elizabeth dies, and dies of grief.
It has been the fashion to attribute to her
—1 h now not why—remorse for Essex's
death; and the foolish and false tale about
Lady Nottingham and the ring has been
accepted as history. The facts seem to
be that she never held up her head after
Burleigh's death. She could not speak of
him without tears , forbade his name to
be mentioned in the council. No wonder;
never had a mistress a better servant.—
For nearly half a century have these two
noble souls loved each other, trusted each
other, worked with each other ; and
God's blessing has been on their deeds,
and now the faithful God-tearing man has
gone to his reward; and she is growing
old, and knows that the ancient fire is dy•
ing out in her; and who will be to her
what he was ? Buckliuret is a good man,
and one of her old pupils; and she makes
him Lord Treasurer in Burleigb's place ;
but beyond that, all is dark. "I am a
miserable, forlorn woman ; there is bone
about me that I can trust."
She sees through false Cecil, through
false Henry Howard. Essex has proven
himself worthless, and pays the penalty
of his sine. Men are growing worse than
their fathers. Spanish gold is ',ringing in
luxury and sin. The last ten years of. her
reign are years of decadence, profligacy,
falsehood; and she cannot but eels it.—
'fyrotte's rebellion is the last drop that
Silo the cap. Aftes fifty years of war,
after a drain of money all but fabulous,
Upended to keeping Ireland quiet, the
hint. forth again jnat se it atm.
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and the whole work has to be dose over
again, when there is neither time ear is
man to do it. And ahead, what hop is
there for Engload? Wbo will be her
successor ? She knows in her heart it will
be Jamee, ;Jut she cannot bring•herself to
name him.
To bequeath the - fruits of her labor to*
tyrant. a liar, and a coward (for she
knows the man too well,) it is tooilideette
to be faced. This is the end, then? "Oh,
that I were a milk-maid, with pail apbu
mine arm !" But it cannot be. It never
could have been , and she must endure it
to the end. "Therefore, I hated life; yea.
I hated all my labor which I had taken
under the sun, because I should leave it
to the man that shall be after we. And
who knows whether he shall be a wise
man or a tool? Yet shall he have rule
over all my labor wherein I have showed
myself wise in wisdom, and knowledge,
and equity. Vanity of vanities, all is van
ity and vexation of spirit !" And so,
with the whole book of Ecclesiastes writ
ten on that mighty heart, the old lioness
coils herself up in her lair, refusea food,
and dies. We know few paseages in this
world's history so tragic as that death.—
Eingsfry's .111jAceltany.
(From the Little Pilgrim.)
SAYINGS Or OBILDREIL
Siio°•One day, Freddie's little sister Car
rie, hearing her father and mother talking
about a name for a new little ball-broth
er, that had been given to them a short
time before, said---Allamtna, why don't
you name hint "'hallowed 1' It says in
my prayer, hallowed be thy name,' and I
think it is a very pretty name too 1"
Mr Little Genie, when a bee had stung
asid—"Tbat bee acted just as if I
was a flower,. and ha was getting honey."
Ohe day Herbie had been told be
must have no more cake, but finding one
piece on a plate by itself, he took it, Ant
s t,i n g behind his mother's chair, stole ono
little arm lovingly around her neck,(eaying,
"Mamma, this piece of cake loo ked' so
lonesome, I thought I must eat it." It
was bard to punish a child for disobe
dience under such circumstances.
tar Johnny, the minister's eon went to
his lather one morning directly atter fami
ly worship, saying, •Tather, while you
were praying, 1 saw a luau is the rusks
stealing grapes."
"Weil," answered the good was, "If
you had been praying too, you would lot
have seen him."
"But father," days Johnny, "don't the
Bible say we ate to watch an well u may I"
AIWA mother trying to get her little
daughter of three years old to sleep, one
night, said to her, "Anna, why don't you
try to go to sleep ?" "I am trying," she
replied. "But you haven't phut your
eyes." "Well, can't help it ; 'saws ow
unbuttoned."—S. 8. Timor.
Mr* Says little three old Ruth , 'Veva,
please buy rue a muff when you go to "Sea
ton." • Sister Minnie, standing by, nys
`•You are too little to haves muff." "Am
I too little to be cold ?" :Ideas indigene,
little Ruth.-16.
war A little boy, wham teethes bad
died, came to his infant-class in Sabbath
school with a sad heart. Young as he
was he felt his loss. His first words were,
"Teacher, my mother is dead." Aud he
began to cry. The teachtr tried to com
fort him, by telling him the Jesus loved
tittle children and would take care of them;
and that his mother had gone to heaven,
where Charlie could see her *pis it ho
loved Jesus. On that Sabbath night alter
lie's father, going into the parlor, awhile
all alone, gaming intently at the heateli.t/
bright moon. Talking to himself, he wen
saying, "I cannot see her ; no, I cannot
see her." "What can't you aee, Charlie t'
interrupted his father. "Why I cannot
see mother. Teacher said to-day that
mother was in heaven, where Jesus was,
and I have been looking, and looking, but
I can't see her. But if I love jeans I will
see her when I die. I must wait."
CHSISTICtS PB,ESENTS.—It is said
that iu New York the money ex
pended this year for Christmas gifts
exceeds by tar, that which has gone
that way in many years. A promi
nent jeweller ou Broadway soki at
retail, on the day berme Cirristinas,
1145,11UU worth of gifts, ranging from
ivory paper cutters to diamond neck
laces; and on Christmas morning he
sold as much more, lacking only WO.
.There is the story of a 54
man, who bad got a situation for Ws
sou. The son expressed-.-rathar too
honestly—his doubts as to hi* qual
ifications for the discharge of the du
ties, when be was silenced with olia
lad, ma lac, every body has sufficient
qualifications for any of he baa
sufficient iuteillbst to get."
DEATH or CLAIBORATI F. Jacirsos.—Reli
able information has been received that
Claiborne F. Jaoksou, the deposed (Ow
nor of Kissoari, iWI at 1 looltidoost
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