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glut ntry.
A PLAIN TALE.
As Amos the blacksmith was working one
Young Joseph the idler was passing that
The door of the shop stood invitingly neat
And Joseph walked thither some new thi
hear.
The blacksmith worked briskly from morning
till night,
And, make what he would, it was sure to be
right ;
When his arm rose aloft with its powerful
awing,
The blow that came down made the huge anvil
ring.
The farmers all round who had horses to shoe,
Asked first whether Amos the business could
do ;
He had jobs from the dawn till the set of the
sun,
For when Amos did work, it was sure to be
done.
Young Joseph stood watching the blows as
they fell ,
Though Amos said nothing, he saw the boy
well ;
But busily shaped he and turned round his shoe,
While hither and thither the shining sparks
flew•
At length said young Joseph, "it seems to me
hard
That a man from all pleasure shOuld thus be
debarred,
Should work all the day through, from morn
ing till night,
Hardly stopping to rest, losing every delight."
Quoth Amos, not pausing to look up or down,
"Better work for your bread than be kept by
4 11
the town ;
faith the Good Book, whose precept you may
not defeat,
"If a man will not labur, then shall he not
"Such labor, I'm sum," said the youth, in re
ply,
"In a fortnight would kill me, if once I should
try !"
"Not a bit of it, lad; you'd grow active and
hale,
Whereas you're now looking puny and pale
"Depend on't, keeph, there's One who knows
best
How much we should toil, and how much we
should rest ;
His ordinance is given, and to it we must bow:
'Man shall eat of his bread by the sweat of his
brow.'
"Nor shall the decree be penal alone,
Since the fall of our world hath such wicked
_
edneas strown
For ofttimes doth labor drive sins from our
head,
And toil proves no curse, but a blessing instead.
"Thus, while I submit to the rule God Both
give,
I cheerfully work, and I happily live ;
At night en my pillow I peacefully rest,
And, by night or by day, sing, 'God knows
what is best !"
Young Joseph, the idler, walked thoughtful
away,
An idler no more to be called from that day,
But to work with his hands, or to work with
his head,
Singing, "Toil is no curse, but a blessing in
stead."
Bisattantnu.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1863.
At this season of the year, says
the Philadelphia Ledger, whooping
cough more or less makes its appear
anci in parts of a large city like this,
and many people are at very great
efforts to keep their children out of
its reach. If one half the - pains were
taken to carry them successfully and
wisely through it, that there are to
prevent the infection of it reaching
them, it would no doubt be found
that in the great majority of cases
the whooping cough is the means of
conferring an actual constitutional
benefit, so that the child will come
out of it stronger and better in
health, and with more fully develop.
ed lungs than before it was attacked.
Even as it is, the benefit to a family
is on the average much greater than
the danger. Not above one in twen
ty are supposed naturally to die of
this disease It may, however, be
doubted if one even dies of the whoop
ing cough, except by its producing
some other secondary affection, not a
necessary part of it, but to which
there tas been some constitutional
tendency, or which is the result of
carelessness or accident. In most of
these cases fatal disease either would
have ensued without, or might have
been averted. The disease itself
seems to produce no necessary- ef
fect upon the lungs at all traceable on
dissection.
Tho coughing may, and generally
does produce more or less inflamma
tion, and this in turn mucus, and all
those things put together, may in
weakly children, or where the symp
toms are neglected, produce a great
number of ultimate evil consequences.
But the cough itself is strictly a spas
modic cough arising from a convul
sion of the nervous system, as laugh
ing or crying, and it is not like most
coughs, a convulsion caused by sonic
inflammation producing irritating ef
fects, though often causing it. It is
a disease, therefore, throughout all
its three stages, whose bark is worse
than its bite, if properly watched.—
Indeed it is only astonishing the
amount of suffering a child will go
through from its [aroxyms one min
ute, and, except fatigue, be perfect
ly free from pain and all inflammato
ry symptoms the next. Many chil
dren are even observed to have a
better appetite and finer spirits and
better general health, even nearly all
the time that the whooping cough is
upon them, than at any other period
of their lives.
Of course the strain of these parox
ysms of itself, apart from all the ex
pectoration, makes a heavy draft up
on the constitution, and hence when
the child is weakly or debilitated by
other sickness, care should be taken
to avoid exposure to it. Young in
fants, not knowing how to expector
ate, should be kept from the conta
gion. It is also preferable not to
have children take it in the fall, as it
is apt to affect them all winter. But
beyond that there is no reason for
'-ing pains to avoid it, where chil
in are of proper age and in good
slth. On the contrary, it is to be
owed to pass through the family,
as a disease so much as some
tg sent probably to produce a
her development of health than
Id be attained without it. W.heth
it is that it takes from the system
certain lymphatic or other peculi
ity which though up to a certain
it is now equally desirable to
)el from the system, or whether it
simply through the expansion of
lungs, occasioned by coughing,
lain it is that it often produces a
'ked constitutional improvement.
lan) person, child or adult, would
take a quill and draw a deep full
dration, so as slowly to expand
lungs to the utmost, and repeat
for five minutes daily, the chest
LI soon measure four or five inches
re in circumference, and in proper
in to the greater amount of 'oxygen
is inhaled, the lungs will be kept
it from disease, the amount of
I digested will be increased, and
vital energy, the being and liv
power of the invididual, will be
tented. Whooping Cough, there
should be looked forward to
in it comes into a family, as a
tnger indeed to make fresh de-
Ids upon parental care and
;Lifulness in every symptom, but
also to prepare, and as it were
d the child to expand its lungs
and on a larger scale, on en
,g on a new period of its exist
just as the cries of its earliest
y' are arranged to give expan
-4013 to its lungs at first.
Mir" am no more surprised that
revezded truths shoed amaze
vemieratending, than the blazing
aboeld daside my eyes.—Harvey.
kg- When 4 ore get GM, oar frienda
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difficult t(
i : o tt ti m,i, o s it !
1. • -
'TER BUILD OF ENOLISH WOMEN.
t a remarkably practical and well
ten article by Dr. R. T. Trail,
fished in the Hygienic Tewher,
iscusses the comparative "vital
tma" 4 4 the two countries thus
Ably : "The better vital develop
lt of the English, particularly of
women and children, has long
a subject of remark with tray
_s; and we have been in the hab
it of alluding to this subject in our
lectures on the health and diseases
of women. Hence, when the oppor
tunity presented, we could not help
studying this subject with much in
terest. We trace the great differ
ence which exists in this respect—
and it is even greater than we had
supposed—to two sources, the great
er amount of sleep and the more ex
posure to the fresh air. English
mothers expose themselves and
their children to the air often and
freely as a matter of habit, while
American mothers exclude them
selves and their children from the
fresh air as much as possible.—
On the cars, on the boats, in the
omnibusses, in the hotels, every
where, we noticed' the almost uni
versal attention paid to ventilation.
Nowhere did we see an English wo
man shut a window for fear her ba
by would 'catch its death of cold,'
and none of the babies seemed to
have colds. All that we noticed
seemed to be remarkably good na
tured. It is almost impossible to
travel on a train in America where
there are several young children,
without hearing continually the cry
of distress from some of them. But
we heard nothing of this kind in
England. We do not absolutely
know, from actual observation and
experience, that an English baby
ever does cry, or can. English wo
men are generally lees irritable. less
morbidly nervous, than American
women, for the reason already as
signed—more rest, more steep, more
quiet—and this circumstance, of
course, has no small influence on the
organization and temper of their off
spring. And we think this view of
the mutter is fully confirmed by a
comparison of the waists of English
and American women. The effect
of early and abundant exposure to
and exercise in the open air, is to
promote free breathing, enlarge the
capacity of the respiratory appara- :
tus, develop the vital organs, expand
the chest, and enlarge the waist.—
And the vital resources of any wo
man, or any man, or any animal,
other circumstances being equal,
mr.ay be measured by the dimensions
of the lower part of the thorax.—
The English women, as a general
rule, will out measure the American
several inches. This rule is well
exemplified ;in the German women,
who exercise much from early child
hood in the open air. and who do
not lace their vital organs out of all
symmetrical proportions to the rest
of the body. On board the Bavaria
were half a hundred women and
girls from Germrny, not one of
whom had not a round, full, well de
veloped chest, so much so, perhaps,
as to be regarded as decidedly un-
genteel, by the wasp-waisted fash
ionables of upper-tendom in Now
York. Another circumstance that
tells in favor of better digestion and
more enduring vitality with the Eng
lish, is a habit of eating more slow
ly. So far as diet itself is concerned,
there is not very much to choose.—
But the American people eat almost
as soon as out of bed in the morning,
swallow their food with very imper
fect mastication, and then hurry to
business, all of which tends toe pre
cocity of brain and muscular activity,
with the inevitable consequence of
early decline."
,4 Not the Lord, but Burgoyue."
The Rev. James Gallagher used to
tell the following annecdote with
great zest . During the Revolution
ary war, reports were circulated as
they are now, either wholly false or
greatly exaggerated. In passing
from ono to another, something was
sure to be added, until the story
would hardly be known to the author
of it. The people in certain sections
of New York were in great con
sternation- from a report that Bur
goyne was marching down with an
immense army from , the lakes, and
going to sweep over the whole court
try, bringing utter desolation to the
inhabitants. An old lady heard the
report, and understood it that Bur
goyne was going to open the Lakes
and let out the water, and drown the
whole region. Full of the terrible
vision, she ran into a neighbor's to
tell her the latest news about the
war. "Do you know that, we are
going to be drowned ? Burgoyne
Is going to let the water out of the
Lakes, and make a great flood, and
we•shall all be drowned ! Oh ! what
shall we do !" Her neighbor, with
more intelligence and more piety,
di4 not seem to be greatly disturbed,
but cthnly replied: "That certainly
matt be a mistake. It cannot be
torne, tar God hits promised in His
Word that be will no more destroy
the: inhabitants of the earth with a
/w o e , .10 1 , honey! t inovw that,
Innoit'onell , the lewd who is .going =to
del it— iformist.h"
.1
riflllll33ll
Day of wrath ! that day of wonder,
Which shall lift the cross up yonder,
And dissolve the world asunder !
What dread quaking shall there be then !
When the Judge approaches, lie then
Sin shall doom, and saints set free then!
Trump of judgment, awful-sounding,
Shall, the buried dead astounding,
Summon all the Throne surrounding.
Death shall tremble, so shall nature,
When the resurrected creature
Answers at the judicature.
Then the scroll shall he unfolded,
Wherein's written what each soul did,
And the world's just judgment moulded
By the Judge, with truth invested,
Secrets shall be manifested,
Nor shall aught eseape untested.
What shall I, a shiner, plead then,
What protection shall I need then,
If the righteous scarce succeed then ?
King of Majesty tremendous !
Whose free mercies aye attend us,
Pity's fount ! acquittal send us.
Holy Jesus! think that even
I'm the cause thou cam'st from heaven,
Lest I, that day, lost be driven
Thou haat sought me—weeping, wailing,
Bought me midst the cross's nailing—
Let not this be unavailing.
Righteous Judge of all olrenses . !
Pard'ning love my sole pretence is,
Ere the reck'uing day commences.
Wretched, guilty, I lie groaning,
E'en with shame my errors owning—
Spare me, God, thus humbly moaning !
Thon forgav'st the frail one crying,
Heard'et the thief beside thee dying,
My hope, too, thou'at been supplying.
Worthless pleadings though I'm sending,
Let thy pity, with them blending.
Rescue me from flames unending.
Midst the sheep place thou my station,
From the goats by separation,
On the right hand of salvation.
Whilst the curet are unforgiven,
Into flames tormenting driven,
Summon me with saints to heaven,
Prone and prostrate, I implore thee,
A bruis'd heart's in dust before thee,
Let compassion then come o'er thee !
A h ! that day of tears and sighing!
When the dead shall rise, undying !
Guilty—face the judicature—
Spare, then, God, spare me, thy et eature !
THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN
IN THE WORLD,
The Empress of France is probably
the most extravagant woman living.
Nor is this all ; she has been the
cause of the ruinous extravagance in
the families of her husband's subjects,
and in all countries where the costly
fashions she has set have found favor.
M. Fould, the Emperor's Minister of
Finance, threatens to resign his of
fice unless her enormous drafts upon
the treasury are curtailed. So cost
ly has she made the toilette in Paris,
that fashionable ladies are utterly
unable to settle their bills for dress,
and it is stated by the English press
that it is as much as many of them
can do to pay the interest on the
debts which following the imperial
modes has caused them to incur.—
The world owes crinoline to the fair
Eugenia; and the rougher half of
its civilized population does not feel
by any manner of means grateful to
her for the introduction of the arti
cle. She has made her apartments
in the Tuilleries as magnificent as the
places one reads about in oriental fa
bles. The doors of her boudoir are of
ivory, inlaid with gold. The furni
ture is of rosewood, inlaid with mir
rors, gold, ivory, and is upholstered
with pale red silk. Srryrnian carpet
ing of the heaviest texture covers
the floor, and the ceiling is splendid
ly frescoed. The desks and portfoli
os are of tortoise shell, arabeequed
with gold ; and the most valuable
paintings of the old masters orna
mental,. walls. The beatitifhl wo
man who has surrounded herself with
these luxuries spends an almost fab
ulous amount annually in rare laces
an d AU the .most expensive aptielof;
of female emanate, bookies, sabeerii-
Wag eahoerd /dams is aid of oar%
taia seat pchitisal 'her she is
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13E!
XVIII
Empress is thirty-six years of age, (he could but seldom get a moment's
and therefore old enough to have I rest.
learned prudence ; yet she is more "Doctor," said to, "what a delight
prodigal now than in the heyday of ful thing rest is. The bed has be
her youth and beauty. The Queen come for me aplace of luxury. How
of Louis XVI. was as extravagant, fallen am I now, whose activity was
and as fond of meddling in state af- i boundless, whose mind never slum
fairs, as Eugenia, and her fool of a bored, and now plunged in a letbar
husband suffered her to lead him by gic stupor, and must make an effort
the nose. One day they lost their even to raise my eyelid f I some
heads,poor things. Would it not be ! times dictated upon digetent sub
well for Louis Napoleon to take *the jects to four or five secretaries, who
warning to heart ? wrote as fast as words could be
ut
tered. But then I was Napoleon,
ELEVEN REBELLIONS IN THE URI- now lam no longer anything!"
TED STATES. One day he vainly endeavored.
- Since the organization of the Fed- leaning upon another's arm, - to *alk
oral Government, eleven attempts across the room. His llttli,ft sank be
have been made to resist its authori- .neath him. "They are exhausted,"
ry. The first was in 1782—a con- said he, "see, there is nothing left—
spiracy of some of the officers of the mere skeletons. Everything must
Federal army to consolidate the thir- have an end. I am fiat approach
teen States into one, and confer the ing mine; and Ido not regret it, for
supreme power upon Washington.— I have indeed no reason to be attach-
The second in 1787, called Shay's in- • cd to life."
surrection in Massachusetts. The The ne vs came one day - of the
third in 1794, called the whiskey in- ; death of his sister Eliza. It threw
surrection of Pennsylvania. The , him into a state of stupor. His head
fourth in 1814, by the Hartford Con- I fell upon his breast. Deep sighs is
vention. The fifth in 1820, on the ' taped him, and for a long time he
question of the admission of Misson- uttered not a word. Then, fixing his
ri into the Union. The sixth was a eyes intently upon the doctor , he
collision between the Legislature of said: "You see Eliza has jast ah.own
Georgia and the Federal Govern- ,us the way."
ment, in regard to the lands given Death, which seems to have over ;
to the Creek Indians. The seventh ' looked our family, now begins to
was in 1830, with the Cherokees in ' strike it. My turn cannot be far dis-
Georgia. The eight was the memor- taut: I have no longernny strength,
able nulifying ordinance of South activity or energy left. I am no
Carolina, in 1832. The ninth was in longer Napoleon. The first person
1842, in Rhode Island, between the of our family who shall follow Eliza
Suffrage Association and the State to the grave is the great Napoleon
authorities. The tenth was in 1856, who here drags out a miserable exis
on the part of the Mormons, who tence, who sinks under its high
t;
resisted the Federal authorities.— but who, however, still keeps Ea-
The eleventh is the present attempt rope in a state of alarm. As for me ,
at secession_ it's all over. My days will soon enri
on this poor, miserable rock.'
Dr. Antommaechi was an infidel.
One day he ventured to assume a
contemptuous expression of counte
nance, in view of some religious con
versation, which was passing be ;
tweon the Abbe Vigaali and the Em
peror. Napoleon sad to him eevere
ly, "You are an atheist, sir. Be an
atheist if you will. But lut for me, I
will fulfill all the 4uties iii , V3h relig
ion imposes, and seek all the solace
which it administers." Then
!ng to the Abbe he said, "I wish
you to say mass in the chapel every
day and to eitirtifttne to sat it alter
my death. You will not cease until
1 am buried. As soon as I am dead,
I wish you to place a crucifix upon
my bosom and your altar at mytioad.
Ycu will not omit solemnising the
sacrament of the Lord Sapper, and
offering daily prayers until I am bur-
THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
At 6 o'clock in the evening of the
4th of May, 1820, the Emperor Na
poleon died at St. Helena, after a
cruel imprisonment of six years.—
The latter days of his life were al
most exclusively directed toreligious
thoughts. He was exceedingly weak,
suffering great pain, and often in ex
treme dejection. One evening, bat
a short time before his death, he
made the following remarkable con
fession to Count Montholon :
"Upon the throne, surrounded by
generals, far from devout—yea, I will
not deny it—l had too much regard
for public opinion, and far too much
timidity, and perhaps I did not dare
to say aloud, "I am a Scheyer." I
said, 'Religion is a power—a politi
cal engine.' But even ten, if any
one had questioned me directly, I
should have replied : 'Yes, I am a
Christian.' And if it had been ne
cessary to confess my faith at the
price of martyrdom, I should have
found all my firmness. But now I
am at St. Ifelena, why should I dis
semble that which I believe at the
bottom of my heart ? I desire the
communion of the Lord's Supper,
and to confess what I believe: I will
rot force any one to accompany me
there; but those who love me will
follow me there."
Even in these solemn hours of ap
proachingdeath ho had no penitence
to express in view of his political
career, for his motives .lid been ex
alted, and his measures beneficent in
the extreme. With gratitude and
well-founded pride he could well say:
"I have hallowed the Revolution
by infusing into it our laws. My
code is the sheet-anchor which will
save France, and entitle me to the
benediction of nosterity. The plan
of leaping the Alps was the one first
formed at the commencement of my
career. I had entered Italy, and
finding that communications with
Pdris occupied • considerable time,
and were attended with much diffi
culty, I endeavored to render them
quicker, and resolved to open them
through the valley of .the Rhone.—
I also wished to render that river
navigable, and blow up the rocks
under which it engulphs and disap
pears. 1 had sent engineers on the
spot. The expense would have been
inconsiderable, and I submitted the
plan to the Directory. But we were
carried away by events. On my re
turn from Egypt, we applied ham
mers to the Alps. We executed what
the Romans had not dared to try,
and traced, through blocks of gran
ite, a solid and spacious road, capa
ble of resisting the efforts of time.
As, restless with pain and burning
with unappeasable thirst, he tossed
on his pillow, he said, to Dr. Antom
macchi : •
"This is not me—it is mere exist
ence.
Death will soon terminate
my sufferings. In what state am I,
Doctor? Everything seems to weigh
upon me to fatigue me. I can scarce
ly support myself. Have you not,
among the resources of art, anything
to revive the play of the machine?"'
He bad some fishes in a pond near
his door, and was thud of feeding
them with crumbs of bread. Sud
denly they all died. Sadly he said :
"You see very well there is a fatali
ty attached to me. Everything I
love, everything that belongs to Me,
is immediately struck !"
- ALt‘ length the hidden disease, wlsice
sikpaantly proved itself to be-s,
isimseer in the stotnaoh, so prestrated
ow
MN' .110 could . rarely lesiva' his
A N . , pain was so great 'that '
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ied."
Thus, day after day, he lingered
sadly along, each one rich with his
toric interest, until the 2d of May.—
The Emperor then was in a burning
fever and his mind was in delirium.
His spirit was wondering through
the scenes of the past, and moved
amid the danger of the delft of bat
tle. At one time he cried out,
wildly . "Steinzal, Douala, Massone,
victory is declaring. Sun, hasten,
press the charge. They are Quer
In his eagerness. with that momen
tary strength which deliriajn give,
he leaped from his bed, l)nt fell pros
trate on the floor. After a few
hours the fever abated and•reason
returned. "I am very ill," said - be
"1 am a going to die. My poor
Chinese servants. Do not let them
be forgotten. I must take leave of
them also." In his will he bad
particularly remembered all his
friends, and all from whom he re
ceived any act of kindness.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of
the 3d of May, after a very touch
ing conversation with the friends
who surrounded his bedside, he sent
for•the Abbe Viwnali and received
the Lord's Supper. After the solemn
ordinance, the placid expression of
his countenance indicated the peace
which reigned within his soul.—
He slept quietly through the night,
and in the morning he said to his
valet, "Open the window, Marchan,
open it w;de, that I may breathe
the air, the.good air, which the good
God has made."
The night of the 4th was black and
stormy. The dying hour had some.
The little household at St. Rehm*
were all gathered around their dy
ing friend. The Emperor lay uneon
ecious and motionless upon his pillow,
breathing heavily, and occasionally
uttering broken and almost inarticu
late words. "Twice I thought," says
Count Montholon, "that I distin
guished the unconnected words,
'Fiance, Army, Head bf the Army,
Josephine.' At 4 o'clock in the even
ing, as he was tying upon his beak
with his right band out of tks !xul,
and his eyes fixed, as in dospeotwasd
itation, he gently, and without a
struggle, or motion, ceased to
breathe.
Just as the sun was descending be
low the horizon, staking behind the
clouds of somber and tompostous,
the spirit of Napoleon took *OS
into the dread unknown Yale of
Alba, Napoleon, were the tail ,ntikoo
&noes of, the true and love Atte:
phine. France and Arwky,,J 'no,
wore the last images w'4 l
inthe heart• and the gi
• .
which trembled . sn tOsitips , •
lug Emperor.—J 6 AO a C. A6btot.
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