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• SONG- OF THE OLD FOLKS.
Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray ;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day ;
'Tis rainy weather, my darling,
Time's waves, they heavily run,
But taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more cloud than sun I
We are old folks now, my darling,
Our heads are growing gray,
But taking the year all round, niy dear,
You will always find the May !
We have bad our May, my darling,
And our roses long ago,
And the time of the year is coming my dear.
For the silent night and the snow
And God is God, my darling,
Of night as well as of day ;
We feel and know that we can go
Wherever He leads the way.
Ah, God of the night, my darling'
Of the night of death so grim :
The gate that leads out of life, good wife,
Is the gate that leads to Him.
BiztEllantnu,s.
A• PROFESSIONAL LIAR.
The other day I was riding up
town in a Fourth Avenue car. •By
the side of me sat a young man with
two or three copies of a city paper
in his hand. It was a popular week
ly journal, the character of which
was well known to me, and I also
knew something of its "ways a 7
means." As we rode on we tell i
conversation, and a remark of
led me to perceive that he had so
relation to the papers he had w
him. At length I asked him if
was ouo of the editors
"not an editor, but a regular cont;
_
utor—he furnished an article ever
week, for which he was paid by tl
week a salary, and each c - ommunie4
tion was expected to be about a ce:
thin length." I then inquired win
department he filled, and he opene&
the paper and showed me his produc•
tion. It was entitled "The Rats
Brazil."
I read a part of it, and being filled
with wonuer at the marvellous rat
stories, their numbers, size, ferocity
and power far exceeding anything
thsit I bad heard of before from Bra
zil or any other quarter of the world.
I finally ventured in a very confi
dential and yet knowing manner, to
insinuate the faintest shadow of a
doubt as to the strictly accurate char
acter of the exceedingly interesting
graphic and startling account he had
permitted me to read. Pleased he
evidently was with my simplicity,
"verdancy" ho may call it, when he
serves me up as I am now serving
him; and turning upon me with a fa
miliar smile, he said :
"True! well, that is a joke, to be
sure : true :—what has that to do
with it ? My business is to write an
article that will sell, and sell the Va
per. 1 suppose my department
might be called the 'Exaggeration
Department.' I take a subject and
work it up into a readable, entertain
ing, exciting paper. Who cares
whether the rats of Brazil are a hoot
longer or shorter, or more or less in
numbers? There are plenty of rats
everywhere, and when people read
about them, they want to read some
thing they never heard before.—
Everbody loves a 'big story' and I
love to tell it "
Here I interposed a question as
the line of his studies : "Do you co
fine yourself to Natural History ?"
"Not always, but just now 1 am
mostly in that way. 1 am getting up
a splenosid article on the 'Cockroaches
of Japan."'
" Are there any there ?" I asked
hastily.
_ _
"What has that to do with it?" he
answered. "I take it for granted
there may be, and nobody who reads
will care enough about the matte .
to make any inquiries—so the thi,
will be read, wondered at, and fx
gotton ; it is copied into other
pers that goes the rounds, dies a
and by and by comes up again
Then some traveler, merchant, •
sionary, or what not, pitches in
and sends to the religious pt.
[here I winched a little] a commu,
cation denying the truthfulness of
statement he has seen going tl
rounds of the papers about the Coe
roaches of Japin ; he knows fl
personal observation, having just
turned, that the statemeu;Ja ure ,
together unworthy of credit, and
must have been made by some per
son not himself familiar with the
natural history of that mysterious
and hitherto secluded empire."
Here my neighbor paused to take
breath, and 1 rewarded his eloquence
by telling him that the truth is the
basis of all excellence in a newspa
per, as well as a man, and 1 thonght
it a great pity that a youth with so
much imagination as he evidently
possessed would' lid employ it in il
lustrating and adoring the true rath
er than in leventag the false. The
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1863.
word struck him harshly : the blow
was not expected, and he went upon
another tack immediately. •
"It is bread, sir :it is a question
of meat and potatoes, sir, I must
live, you know, sir."
"No," said I, "I do not see any ne
cessity of your living at all. What
good do you do ? What is your ; life
worth to the community ? What
loss would it be t.) this city or the
world if a man should die who earns
his bread by exaggeration ; by telling
the public what he knows to be
without foundation in fact, and
which misleads and misinforms ev
erybody who reads."
We had just reached this point in
our conversation and Fourth street
at the same time, where he said he
must get out. He looked a little
hurt by the bluntness of my remarks.
He was of the same class with the
"Dreadful Accident Makers," who
startle the public with their ingeni
ous fabrications. Just now that set
are writing letters from the seat of
war, and the lies they tell are so
many that the regular correspondent
who values his reputation hardly
stands a chance. It is a fact that
many people love a terrible story,
an incredible story, and its truth is
the last and the least element in it
they care to question. One of the
best women in this city, a noble
Christian lady, once said to me,
He s
A correspondent of the lows
Nromestead, was riding out with a
friend, and observed that one of his
horses has a hole in each ear. On
inquiring the cause, he loomed that
it was to keep the horse from
"Why,"said he, "a horse don't
jump with his ears." "You are much
mistaken, replied his friend, "a horse
jumps as much with his ears as With
his feet ; unless he can have free
use of his ears he cannot jump!' Pk
ties the two ears together, and he
has no more trouble with tbe horse.
JIIIIPING ROUES.
THE TURN OF LIFE.
BETWEEN the years of forty and
sixty, a man who has properly regu
lated himself may be considered in
the prime of life. His matured
strength of constitution renders him
almost impervious to the attacks of
disease, and experience has given
soundness to his judgment. His
mind is resolute, firm and equal ; all
his functions are in highest order.—
He assumes mastery over business,
builds up a competence on a founda
tion he has formed in early manhood,
and pass through a period of life at
tended by many gratifications. Hav
ing gone a year or two past sixty,
he arrives at a stand still. But
athwart this is a viaduct, called the
"Turn of Life," which, if crossed in
safety, leads to the valley of "Old
Age," aroun I which the river winds,
and then beyond without a boat or
causeway to effect its passage. The
bridge is, however, constructed of
fragile materials, and it depends up
on how it is trodden, whether it
bend or break. Gout and apoplexy
are also in the vicinity, to waylay
the traveler, and thrust him from the
pass : but let him gird up his loins
and provide himself with a fitter
staff, and he may trudge in safety
with perfect composure. To quit
metaphor : the "Turn of life" is a
turn either into a prolonged walk
or into the grave. The system and
its powers, having reached their ut
most expansion, now begin to either
close in like flowers at sunset, or '
break down at once. One injudicious
stimulant, a single excitement, may
force it beyond its strength ; whilst i
a careful supply of props, and the
withdrawal of all that tends to force
a plant, will sustain it in beauty and
vigor until night has entirely set in.
--The Science of Life.
JERUSALEM UNDER GROUND.
An account of Signor Perotti's die
7eries in the subterranean topogra
y of Jerusalem has been published.
nployed ny the Pacha as an engin
-, he has discovered that the mod
city of Jerusalem stands on sev-
I layers of ruined masonry, the
lermost of which, composed of
;ply bevelled and enormous stones,
attributes to the age of Solomon,
e next to that of Justinian, and so
till the times of the Saracens and
usaders. Ho has traced a series
conduits and sewers leading from
" dome of the rock," a mosque
tending on the very site of the altar
sacrifice in the Temple, to the
alley of Jehosephat, by means of
ich the priests were enabled to
ih the whole temple area with
mr, and thus carry off the blood
offal of the sacrifices to the
of The manner of
_.,ms was very interesting
an Arab to walk up through
:se immense sewers, ringing a
11 and blowing a trumpet, while he
Aself by following the sound was
tle to trace the exact course they
,ok. About two years ago he acci
.ientally discovered a fountain at the
pool of Bethsada, and on opening
t, a copious stream of water began
flow, and has flowed ever since ;
no one knows from whence it comes
or u hither it goes. This caused the
neatest excitement among the Jews,
lo flocked in crowds to drink and
bathe themselves in it.. They fan
cied that it was one of the signs of
Messiah's coming, and portended the
,edy restoration of their common
ialth. This fountain, which has
peculiar taste, like that of milk
)d water, is identified by Signor
ierotti with the fountain that Heze
lah built, and which is described by
)sephus. The measurements and
rsition of most of these remains
cord exactly with the Jewish his-
Tian's descriptions. Some of the
ignor's conclusions are disputed,
it no one has succeeded in so disin
irring the Holy City.
ANEODOTE.
A very good anecdote is related of
Newfoundland dog owned by Mr.
". F. Strong, of Montreal. Among
`,herthings, the dog has been taught
take a basket and go to the mar
it for meat. This duty he had
•rformed for some time, when the
tcher presented his bill for settle
mt, and, to the astonishment of
Strong, it was double the account
had kept. The bill was paid, but
dog was suspected and watched ;
one day it was found that after
ng the regular marketing, he
•k the basket and did a little on
own account, eating the proceeds
his way home, and on his arrrival
irning the basket to its proper
To put a stop to this, the
.teher was instructed to give meat
only when a piece of paper was found
in the basket. The dog tried the
marketing on his own account sever
.l times, but failed to get anything;
and 6naffy, as though he bad turned
the matter ever in his mind, observ
ing how it Was done, he one day
went in mid tore of a piece of news
paper, plated Ain the basket, and
obtained theimrd=navnet dinver.—
If the whole ot this icons, it shows
A reflectiveness en fflte isrt of the
dog not often seen SIMS dikidimhs,
and namps him as dit Or alibi
sagacious of his kind.
WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY.
One of the most astonishing things
connected with the present war, is
the proof it has furnished of the vast
wealth and resources of the United
States. Instead of exhausting, it has
served only to develope the resources
of the country. In the midst of war,
and in spite of all losses, the nation
iS rich tr and more powerful than ev
er. The reason is obvious. The
wealth of America is not fictitious,
but real ; it is not founded on some
petty branch of industry, some single
manufacture, or local trade • but it
exists in the country 'itself, in its
boundless territory, its soil, its mines,
its lakes and rivers, and has only to
be brought out by the vigor and in
dustry of a hardy and active race.—
Hence it is that while carrying on
one of the most gigantic wars of
modern times, our cities are filled
with the sound of business and the
land groans with abundance. One
of our daily papers, in its money ar
ticle, says :
There is a great deal more capital
in this country than people suppose.
Within a year, though Europe has
sent us back almost all the Ameri
can securities it once held, the mar_
ket has been swept clean of all firs
class railway bonds. It is impossi
ble to purchase a first class first or
second mortgage railway bond with
out paying a preposterously high
figure. Railway stocks have ad
vanced in like manner from 75 to 100
per cent., and secure dividend pay
ing stocks are either above par or
very near it. The leading coal
stocks are selling at 14a20 per cent.
premium Northern State stocks
and the stocks of the leading cities
are all at a premium.
ROBINSON °RUNE'S ISLAND.
The following interesting informa
tion is derived from the San Fran
cisco Times :—While the ship Golden
Rocket was on her last passage from
Boston to San Francisco, Captain
Pendleton determined to stop at the
island of San Juan Fernandez, to
take in wator. On the 24th of
Mar , 3ll he arrived in the Bay of St.
Joseph and anchored on the opposite
side from that on which Robinson
Crusoe—Alexander Selkirk, the ex
ile Scotchman —lived. The casks
were taken on shore, and while the
ere v_pefe at work, the passengers,
=oft whom were fifty ladies, ram
bled about in different directions.—
The island is 23 5 miles long by about
4in breadth. The land is very high,
rising in rugged, precipitous peaks;
one of them called Tuncue, 3500 feet
above the level of the sea. The
valleys are exceedingly fertile, the
grass growing to the height of six
or eight feet. Figs, strawberries,
peaches, and cherries abound in their
season. The Golden Rocket was
there in the season of peaches, and
the valleys and the hill-sides were
full of trees loaded down with delic
iout, fruit' Strawberries flourish
best in December and January.—
There are three remarkable caves in
the sides of the hill facing the harbor,
about 30 feet in length, 25 in width,
and about the same in height. The
inhabitants now number bat four
teen, of whom Messrs. Day and
Kirkaldie, from Valparaiso, are the
chief persons . they have been ap
pointed overseers of the island by
the Chillian government, An im
mense number of goats are running
wild over the island, and an abun
dance of fish are taken on the coast.
GOVERNINO HORSES.
The author of John Brent says :
"Horses I learned to govern by the
law of love. The relation of friend
ship once established between man
and horse, there is no trouble. A
centaur is created. The man wills
whither ; the horse at the will of
his better half, does his best to go
thither. Itecame very early Hip
pudamos, not by force but by kind
ness. All lower beings—fiendish be
ings apart—unless spoilt by treach
ery, seek the society of the higher ;
as man by nature loves God. Her.
ses will do all they know for man, if
man will only let them. All they
need is a slight hint to help their
silly willing brains, and they dash
with ardor at their business of gal
loping a mile a minute, or twenty
miles an hour, or of leaping a gully,
or pulling tunnage. They put so
much reckless, break-neck frenzy in
their attempt to please and obey the
royal personage on their back, that
he needs to be brave indeed to go
thoroughly with them."
AN OLD NAN'S STORY.
"I took the pledgl" said an old
man, at the foot or the gallows,
when I saw a young man hung. The
sheriff took out his watch, and said,
'lf you have anything to say, speak
now, for you only have five minutes
to live.' The young man bnrst into
tears, and said, have to die. I
had only one little brother; he had
beautiful blue eyes and film* hair,
and 1 loved him. But one day I got
drunk, and eoming home, found him
gathering berries in the garden, and
I became angry without cause, and
killed him at one blow with a rake.
* * Whiskey has done it—it has ru
ined mei I have but one word more
to ray--never ! sever ! xsysr, l touch
aaything that cin intoxicate "
WHAT LAWYERS COULD TELL.
The writer of the article "One of
my Clients," in the Atlantic _Monthly,
says : "After a practice in the legal
profession ofmore than twenty years,
I am persuaded that a more interest
ing volume could not be written than
the revelations of a lawyer's office.
The plots there discovered before
they were matured, the conspiracies
there detected, the various devices of
the Prince of Darkness, the weapons
with which he fought, and those by
which he was overcome, the curious
phenomena of intense activity and
love of gain, the arts of the detective
and those by which ho was eluded,
and the never-ending and ever vary
ing surprises and startling incidents, '
would present such a panorama. of
human affairs as would outfly our
fancy, and modify our unbelief in
that much-abused doctrine of the de
pravity of our nature." We have no
doubt of this, says the Christian Sec:
retary. Onr, former friend, the Hon.
Hiram Rider, for some time sheriff of
Tolland county, once remarked to us
that "lf any candid man doubted the
Bible doctrine of human depravity,
he not only wished that he might be
sheriff for one term :" And be said
this, as he added, not with reference
to the ordinary run of criminal pro
ceedings, but rather in view of facts
which came to his knowledge in the
history of individuals and families of
all classes and of every standing in
society.
DELIOAO Y.
Above every other feature which
adorns the female character, delicacy
stands foremost within the province
of good taste. Not that delicacy
which is perpetually in quest of some
thing to be ashamed of, which makes
a merit of a blush, and simpers at the
false construction its own ingenuity
has put upon an innocent remark;
this spurious kind of delicacy is as
far removed from good taste, as
from good feeling and good sense ;
but that high-minded delicacy which
maintains its pure and undeviating
walk alike among women, as in the
society of men, which shrinks from
no necessary duty, and can speak,
when required, with seriousness and
kindness, of things at which it would
be ashamed indeed to smile or blush;
that delicacy which knows how to
confer a benefit without wounding
the feelings of another, and which
understands also how and when to
receive one ; that delicacy which can
give alms without display, and ad
vice with assumption, and pains
not the most humble or susceptible
being in creation. This is the deli
cacy which forms so important a part
of good taste, that where it does not
exist as a natural instinct it is taugtit
as the first principle of good manners,
and considered as the universal pass
port to good society.—Mrs! Ellis.
POWER OF GENTLENESS.
No bad man is ever brought to re
pentance by angry words; by bitter,
scornful reproaches. He fortifies
himself against reproof, and hurls
back foul charges in the face of his
accuser Yet guilty and hardened
as he seems, he has a heart in his
bosom, and may be melted to tears
by a gentle voice. Whoso, therefore,
can restrain his disposition to blame
and find fault, and can bring himself
down to a fallen brother, will soon
find a way to better feelings within.
Pity and patience are the two keys
which unlock the human heart.—
They who have been most successful
laborers among the poor and vtcious,
have been the most forbearing.—
Said the celebrated St. Vincent do
Paul, "If it has pleased heaven to em
ploy the most miserable of men for
the conversion of some souls, they
have themselves confessed that it
was by the patience and sympathy
which he had for them. Even the
convicts, among whom I have lived
can be gained in no other way. When
I have kissed their chains, and show
ed compassion for their distress, and
keon sensibility for their disgrace—
then have they listened to me, and
placed themselves in the way of sal
vation."
OLD AGE.
Some one asked the philosopher
Fontenelle, when ninety-five years of
age, which twenty years of his life he
regretted the most. "I regret little,"
he replied, "and yet, the happiest
years of my life were those "between
the fifty-fifth and seventy-fifth."—
At fifty years a man's fortune is es
tablished, his reputation made, con
sideration is obtained, the state of
life fixed, pretensions giving up or
satisfied, prospects overthrown or
established, the passions for the most
part calmed or colored, the career
nearly completed, as regards the la
bors which every man owes to soci
ety , there are fewer enemies, or
rather fewer envious persons who
are capable of injuring us, or be
cause the counterpoise of merit is ac
knowledged by the public voice."
/WA distinguished French physi
cian announces that a shock of elec
tricity given to a person dying from
the effects of inhaling chloroform
counteracts its influence and restores
the:patient.
NEW SERIES.--VOL, 4, NO. 84.
Speaktiot Well of the Evil fie.
A pastor was making a call upon
an old :ady, who made it a habitual
rule never to speak ill of another,
and had observed it so closely, that
she always justified those of whom
she heard evil spoken. Before the
old lady made her appearance in the
parlor her several children were
speaking of this peculiarity of their
mother and one of them playfully
added :
"Mother has such a habit of speak
ing well of every body, that I be
lieve that if' Satan himself were the
subject of conversation, mother
would find some good quality or vir•
tue even in him."
Of course this remark elicited
some smiling and merriment at ten
originality of the idea, in the midst
of which the old lady entered the
room, and on being told what had
just been said, she immediately and
involuntary- replied,
"Well, my dear children, I wish we
all bad Satan's industry and perse
verance."
MISTAKES.
The editor of the Star of the West
furnishes the following modest at
tempt at correcting rather wide
spread mistakes:
It is a mistake to suppose that the
subscription price of a paper is clear
gain to the publisher.
It is a mistake to think that he
gets his white paper for nothing.
It is a mistake to suppose it is
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printed without cost.
It is a mistake to suppose that he
can live by bodily faith.
It is a mistake to suppose it is
easy to please everybody.
It is a mistake to suppose that
money due for the paper would be
just as good to us in a year as it
would be now.
It is a mistake to suppose that he
would not be thankful for what is
due him and for new subscribers.
SLAVES EXEMPTED FROM THE OP
ERATIONS OF EMANCIPATION.
The States and parts of States re
cognizing slavery, exempted from
the President's Emancipation procla
mation, or in which the slaves are
to remain slaves, are :
States.
Delaware
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Tennessee
Louisiana (parishes recon
quered)
Western Virginia and eastern
counties recovered
Total
PRICES OF CORN IN THE WEST.---
HOG CHOLERA.
Mr. Clarlos G. Eggleston writes
from omwood, Peoria Co., 111., as
follows :
"Corn in our State is the staple
product; it brings us from 12 to 14
cents per bushel in currency. As
our taxes are to be paid in gold or
silver you see that it is, and will be,
difficult for us to meet the require
ments.
"We have lost ; by the cholera,
more than half our stock of hogs
for the next year, and they are still
dying."
GOOD SUGGESTION.
Persons having care of horses
ought to cover the bits of their bri
des with leather during the cold
weather, in mercy for the poor
beasts. The cold iron coming sud
denly in contact with the tender
parts of the mouth takes the skin
off, and keeps the animal in misery,
thereby weakening his capacity for
labor. The effects of the cold iron
may be readily tested by touching
it with your tongue on a cold, frosty
morning, and, after that, no merciful
man will subject his beast to the
same experiment.
UNINTENTIONAL JOKE.
The man who makes a joke with
out intending it frequently amuses
us more than the most ingenuous of
professional jokers—as when the
milkman in a play is charged with
putting calves' brains in his milk, he
answered, "Brains! I never had such
a thing in my head !" It was the
same sort of a case when a juryman
having asked the judge too excuse
him from serving on account of deaf
ness, said, "Couldn't you hear my
charge to the grand jury f" Yes,
I heard it," said the man, "but I
couldn't make any sense of it."
FORGIVENESS.
We beard from a Sunday school
teacher lately an illustration of one
kind of forgiveness. Improving up
on the day's lesson. the teacher ark
ed the boy whether, in view of val.:At
he bad been studying and repeating.
he could forgive those who wronger:
him. "Could you," said the teachei,
"forgive a boy, for example, wlau
had insulted or struck yon f" "Yes,
sir," replied the lad, very slowly, ‘‘.l . ,
guess--I—oonld . ;" but he added, In
a much - more rapid manner, "I conlA
if he was bigger than I am r
No. of Slaves.
1,798
- 225,490
- 87,288
114,465
- 275,784
85,281
41,000
830,006