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C., official copies of the several taws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth. ens, which business, (upon due notice] will be attend ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Bank Building:—April 8, 1863. a. w. a. wAsozozirax, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, /AFTICE in Campbell's Row apposite the Hamilton kJ House. Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all kinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, &c., which business if intrusted to his cars will Le promptly attended to. May 13,'63. psTszoiiiss Dr. T. W. Ross, 1 21 112.3risifollar 33 . t SPaatrigocum. Waynesburg; Greene Co., Pa. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET east, and nearly opposite the Weight house. Wa)nesburg, Sept. 23, 1863. DR. A. G. gums WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, plingsist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrates: Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. &pt. 11, 1861—Ly. MERCUANTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes , Pry Goods, Groceries, Notions, Orc., Main street. Sept. IL 1861 —ly. IL CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ene and notions, Di the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO-) Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. Grt! Cerise, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House, Slain street. Sept. 11, 1861—ly, BOOT AND 1371011 DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, Bnot and Snqg maker, Main street, nearly opposite she "Farlitla'@ and Drover's Elv.nk." Every style of 000 us and Shoe;; constantly on hand or made to order. -` ses. 11, 1861.—1 y. OROCIIRM 4 VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notion', taigicimes, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, Ike., Glass at ill slaw, sod Gilt Moulding and Looking Olsen Plates. fafdforgood eating &Wes. 11, 1581-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, in, GI • . and etnifeelimiaries, and Variety • O . O l ll' W Suildina; Man street. E EMI *OOIOII, Sic. LSWIS DAY, Dealer is Ramo-And afineedeuteoss Books. Ikatien f ry, Ink. Ilanputtnes sad IWO* :01011/7, 1 1.4. • l'oner's atom, Mein Street. Sift WM,. • ! I li I LP 1 lILVLi ) J 111-4• L 4 ) - L t ) ) 1= 3; istsilantouo. DEATH OF LORD LYNDHURST. The last steamer from Europe brings inteligence of the death of John Singleton Copley, Lord Lynd • burst, the distinguished jurist and statesman. A son of the famous self-educated artist Copley, he was ; born in _Boston,ll,lllo., in 1772, and I in his third year m ved to England. He was educated at Trinity College. Cambridge, and received the high est honors of the University.— Soon after he revisited America, re turning to England in 1798, to pre pare for the practice of the law, which be commenced in 1804, and slowly but surely toiled his way up to eminence in his profession, leav ing his name upon the records of several of the most important state trials. His success was from this time continuous, and he successively fill ed some of the highest offices of the State, being solicitor general, attor ney general, master of the rolls, and finally, in 1827, chancellor, under the title of Baron Lyndhurst. Originally a liberal, he entered Parliamont in 1818 a tory, but afterward accepted the great seal under the liberal cab inet of Canning, and retained it through three administrations, in the last favoring the Catholic eman cipatien scheme, which he had op posed two years before. Under the administration of Earl Grey he was appointed lord chief. baron of the exchequer, and on the ' nomination of the Peel cabinet of 1834, was restored to the chancellor ship, but resigned soon after, and became an active leader of the oppo sition. By his first wife, the widow of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas, he had three children, and three years after her death he married at the age of sixty-five a young Jewess beauty, Miss Goldsmith, and by her be had a daughter, His power as a sr eaker was very great, and his opinions carried the greatest weight. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly, who saw him in Parliament in 1855, says : "It was singular and some what touching to mark the deference paid by the peers to him, as he spoke upon that occasion." PLANTING APPLE OR OHARDS.- We have long been under the im pression, brought to us merely by observation, that as a rule the trees in our apple orchards are planted too distantly apart. Many farmers look upon the space usually occu pied by orchards as almost so much waste They say, we get so little fruit from the ground taken up by the trees, and we cannot cultivate the orchards as we should like, from injury to the roots, etc., so that we are forced, on the score of economy, to abandon apple raising. Now, practically, an orchard should be an orchard only. Except grass it should be unculti vated, after the trees haVe reached say about four inches in diameter.— We can see no reason why a good crop of grass should not be contin uously produced for a quarter or third of a century without disturb ance. A top dressing of manure once in two or three years we know has produced fine fields of grass an nually two crops. The trees have little or no influence upon the crops of grass, indeed, if they possessany, it is in affording a heavier swath uu , der the trees. Hence, instead of setting out young orchards thirty and thirty five feet apart, reduce tie distance to about twenty feet in the quincunx form, and if at any time the trees should beoomo a little crowded, pre vent it by additional pruning. This is our theory. The leading purpose of an orchard should be to obtain fruit; next the crop that will do the least damage to the trees. This is grass. Grass, however, will not only do no damage to the apple tress, but the contrary. It keeps the soil moist and of a uni form temperature--protecting the roots in summer again& heat and drought, and in winter against the severe effects of alternate thawing and 'freezing. I= THE PRINTER. B. F. Taylor, of the Chicago Jour nal, a writer whose every word is a poetic thought, thus speaks of the Printer, truly, and prettily. In those pretty pictures of language what word painter so artistic, so exquisite as he ? Read it, think of it, and say, for you can't holp it, "it is so." • The Printer is the Adjutant of thought, and this explains the mys teries of the wonderful words that can kindle a home as no words can— that warm a heart as no hope oan— that word "we," with a band-in-hand warmth in it, for the Author and Printers are Engineers together.— Engineers indeed I When the little tiorsioan botnharded Cali:, at the distance of flop %this it was deemed the very trintaph of enginsering-- Bat What is that paltry range to this whereby they bonkhaid the ayes / yet to, be. • Thirehe stasilistaCthw saws 104 WAYWSBITRG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1863. marshals into line the forces arm for truth, clothed in immortali and in English. And what can I more noble than the equipment of thought in sterling Saxon—Saxo with the ring of spear or shiel therein, and that commissioned when we are dead, to move gra( wally on to "the last syllable of r , corded time." This is to win a v: tory from death, for this has no d ingin it. The Printer is called a labore and the office he performs is toil, Oh, it is not work, but a sublime ri he is performing, when he th. "sights," the engine that is to flin g a worded truth in grander-cure , than missles e'er before describe 4 --flings it into the bosom of ag( yet unborn. He throws off his col indeed; but we wonder the ratlu that he does not pit his shoes fro, off his feet, for ch e place whereon ne stands is holy ground. A little song was uttered som, where long ago; it wandered to th twilight feebler than a star; it die , upon the ear; but the Printer takk it up where it was lying there in th , silence like a wounded bird, and b, sends it forth from the Ark that ha, preserved it. and it flies into the f , ture with the olive branch of E peac, and around the world with inclod . . like the dawning of a spring morn ing. TATTL.I.N G. "It is a great thing to mind one's own business," said a certain philos opher; and he was right. •It is a "great thing" to let otber people's business alone, and this much is im plied by the maxim above quoted.-- In fact. there is hardly a class of pests in modern society—and they are numerous—so superlatively-- contemptible as that class known as tattlers, or medlers in other people's business. We don't admire a thief) we have no affinity for gamblers ; we abominate drunkards, and have no respect for misers; but either of these are first class gentlemen in comparison 'With the inquisitive jealous-minded tattler, who goes mousing about in a garb of social re spectability, poking his nose or fin gers into the affairs of his neighbors, and seizing upon every trifling eir cumstrnee that comes within the wide swoop of his remorseless curi osity for the purpose of making cap tal against those whose character he cannot understand because it is pur3 and above impeachment. These mischief-making busy-bodies are simply an unmitigated nuisance, and should be frowned upon by all sin cere lovers of social peace and hap piness. The man or woman who can find no better employment than tattling, had Vetter jump into the nearest body of water, and become food for respectable fishes. In that way the finny.tribe would gain a lit tle in their commissary department, and society above water would be immensely purfied. THE GREAT ENGLISH HARVESTS. All the English papers and circu lars agree that the crops of all kinds just successfully secured in that king dom, have not been surpassed in quality, in a long series of years, if ever. The yield of wheat in some portions of England is enormous The people are congratulating them selves upon the fact that the impor: tation of the necessaries of life will be far hel'avi the average. The Lon don Spectator says ; Instead of importing this year much more wheat, than we produce, as we usually do, we shall certainly produce much more than we import. The whole crop will not be less than 8,000,000 quarters, instead 0f6,500, 000,w inch Is perhaps an average yield. The average weight of a bushel bas been usually supposed to be 61i Ihs, but this year it will be at least 67 Its. The potatoes are universally quite free from disease, and very good though somewhat small. In Scot land the harvest will only be a full average one ; in Ireland, perhaps at best only an average, but on the whole we could never say with more literal truth, "Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness." The London _News says: '-Owing to the large increase•in the yield, the harvest is estimated to be worth £'10,000,000 to £30,000,000 more than that of last year, and there will con— sequently be no necessity for the importation of large supples of breadstuffs from abroad. KEEPING GRAPES, We are in the habit of keeping grapes for common use during the winter in the following manner:— Take clean, small boxes, pick off the bunches of grapes carefully and pack them in dry leaves. Keep•the box es in a dry, cool place. being care ful not to let them freeze. We gen erally have grapes till May. Cut the bunches carefully off the vines, dip the stem when cat into melted wr-t, then wrap what paper or cloth. Put a layer of cotton in the bottom of your box, then a lay er of grapes and cotton, and SO on.— Pal, - tbe box Where the grip.* will not freem, and theft may be kis* good till spring. EFFEOT OF LIGHT, Dr. doore. the metaphysician, thus speaks of the effect of light on body and mind :—"A. tadpole confined in darkness would never become a frog; and an infant being deprived of heaven's free light will only grow into a shapeless idiot, instead of a beautiful and responsible being Hence, in the deep, dark gorges and ravines of the Swiss 'Valais, where the direct sunshine never reaches, the hideous .prevalence of idiocy startles the traveller. Itis a strange, melancholy idiocy. Many citizens are incapable of any articulate speech; some are deaf, some are blind, some labor un der all these privations, and are all misshapen in almost every part of the body. I believe there is in all places difference in the healthiness of houses according to their aspect with regard to the sun, and those are decidedly the healthiest, other things being equal, in which all the rooms are, during some part of the day, fully exposed to the direct light. Epidemics attack inhabitants on the shady side of the street, and totally exempt those on the other side; and even in epdemies, such - as ague, the morbid influence is often thus partial in its labors." EFFECTS OF ONE GLASS. On passing through one of the wards of the -Prison, I accosted an elderly looking convict. He held down his head as though ashamed to look me in the face. On banding him a tract, he said, "I knew your voice as soon as I heard you, sir ; have heard you before to-day, sir." After a few words of explanation, I found that we had been at one time members of the same congre gation, and sat under the same faith ful ministery I anxiously inquired how it was that he had fallen so low as to become an inmate of a prison. "A glass of ale, sir, was my ruin," he replied. "flow could that be ?" I asked. 'I was at one period of my life, sir, very intemperate, but was - hap pily led to give up drinking entirely, although I did not sign any pledge, which I now lament. I became a regular attendant at'a place of wor ship, and joined the congregation.— L went on very happily for some years,.until one evening I was re turning from —, when I met with some friends from Hull. They pre vailed upon me to go to the public house to have but 'one glass.' Con science reproved me, but having en tered upon the unchanted ground, I was readily induced to take more liquor, until I became overcome by it. The nest morning I was asham ed to show myself, and left for Leeds. My old appetite for drink bad been rekindled. I became reckless and joined a set of counter feit coincrs. fie were discovered, convicted, and now I am to be transported. Oh that I had never touched that ON GLASS !"—Band of Rope Review. BIG LIFTING. Dr. George Winship, the strong man of Boston, now raises daily the extraordinary weight of two thou sand six hundred pounds. The weight he raises upon a platform suspended from his shoulders by means of a shoulder bar and a quan tity of leather straps. The Doctor thinks be shall continuo his experi ments until he can raise3,ooo pounds, This, he believes, is the practical limit for one of his organization and constitution. Ile was not originally of a robust &Ai e, and was a week and sickly youth when he first be gan his lifting experiments. He is a small man now, not weighing quite 140 pounds. The is of opinion that men superior to him in point of physical endowment may be train. ed to raise far greater weights. air Idlelaaaa tre t eete very /eallaroky, sad poverty eOOll overtakes her. "FATHER WALDO." A writer in the New York Obser ir gives the following account of is most venerable patriarch : 'While at the Synod 1 learned .at Father Waldo was in the city, id that it was his birthday—one ►ndred and one years old I could it resist the desire to see this won mful "old man." Calling with a lend, we expected to see bowed d decrepid age, a slow and feeble T, a trembling voice, and a dim e. None of that at all. At once, elastic step descended from the amber, and a form straight as an •ow was before us—a well-formed, :Rh and vigorous man, we should eve said, of about sixty : cheerful, quacious, ready-witted, facetious, 4 of anecdote and recollections of in and events of our earliest youth: astonishing memory. Ile said : have just come from Oswego, here I have been to help organize new association, and I have writ. to Dr. Sprague that I could ride 'e hundred miles further. I will ow you my letter." At once, with inn step, this centenarian and ire went to his chamber and back sin as quick as a youth, and read his epistle. It was well written d peculiar. 11 c inquired into the habits of our venerable father and of his fam ily. He had always enjoyed good health and great equanimity of mind. He said : "When I was a boy I quar reled with my breakfast, and my father took me to the shed and gave me an appetite in a moment, and I have had no trouble with a stub born will since. I hardly know what anger is." He added :"I have known little domestic comfort. My wife was deranged forty . years, and my son died in the Insane Asylum." I said to him : "Do you know how he died ?" "No," he replied. I gave him a detailed account of the sad end of his promising son, his escape from the Asylum, and entanglement in the salt marshes of Cambridge, and the cold he there contracted, which ended in death. All this, wiith the last weeks of his raving at Andover were new to the father, and he, with wonderful vivacity, said : "How did you know all this''' 1 was in the Seminary with this lovely young man, and among the mourners of his early and sad disso lution. Father Waldo inquired, "1.1.0 w old are you ?" I replied, "Sixty-four." Ab, you are only a boy." With such a specimen of graceful age, vigor of years, and promise of usefulness for time lo come, we concluded to be young; work on, and pray for life and vigor in the cause of our Saviour. From this scene, we would say : all things, study to maintain vigor of health, equanimity of temper, cheer fulness, and trust in God." ADVICE RESPECTING THE EYE- Too strong a light in a sleeping room is bad; especially if the bed is opposite the window; for to wake suddenly- out of sleep, with a strong glaring light on the eyes, cannot but eventually injure the strongest and most healthy sight; and where it is naturally weak, or there be any hereditary disposition towards?" de bility in the organs, this custom must of eoerse exercise very perni cious effects. Persons waking from sleep should have the eyes prepared by a subdued light first, and if the sight be good, the time occupied in partially dressing will be quite suffi• cient to prepare the organs for meet ing a stronger body of light. This is especially to be remembered in summer time, where the chamber has an eastern aspect. Whatever work you be engaged in, let the light fail on it, and always. keep yourself in the shade. Place your back, then to the window, if reading by daylight when the light will of course fad up on the object. When writing get a side light if possible; but if you have a front light, as under 24 window, shade it a little,briuging only its rays on the paper, or let the top of the head form the shade. In the same way, with a candle or lamp, throw the light upon the paper, and do not let the glare of light go direct to your eyes. If the light be above as from a chandelier, so much the bet ter. If in the habit of using the tel escope, try, if possible, to keep both eyes open ; for by shutting the opposite one to that used with the glass, the sight is strained, and ulti mately weakened,—Dr. Ridge's Health and Disease. Petroleum Beudtoial to Health. The Transcript says it is a fact well established that petroleum bas a beneficial effect on health. It has been remarked that no case of sick ness has ever been known to origin ate from the use of, or a proximity to the product, notwithstanding its offensive odor. No district of coun try can be found where the children are so uniformly ruddy-faked and healthy-looking, as they are in the Pennsylvania oil region; nor can a class of people be found who enjoy monopisysiosl vigo, and good heath than those. who are constantly ex posed to litte poltioun ado& at the compound. ttre famitg Cult. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN 'ENGLISH FACTO-RIM Ten thousand children are employ ,ed in the manufacture of machine lace, Eighteen hundred more make lucifer matches. Sixteen hundred others work fourteen hours a day as fustian-makers. Eleven hundred boys and girls are paper-stainers, and eleven thousand work in the potteries. The statistics are part of a remarkable statement recently made in Parliament by Lord Shaftes bury, who produced evidence to show —first, that nineteenth-twentieths of these children work is ill ven file t ted factories; secondly, that the mor tality among them is frightful, in consequence of the poisonous airs they are compelled to breathe: third ly, that the young people of the la boring classes are alike corrupted in mind and enfeebled in body by evil associations, overwork and a total want of educational advantages. tlere are some additional facts likewise given on the authority of Lord Shaftesbury : "In the pillow-making trade, the children suffered very Much, esp ec cially in their eyesight from over confinement in ill ventilated rooms. In many cases they had become ir retrievably and hopelessly blind.— He now came to the climbing-boys ' or chimney-sweepers. Although an act of Parliament has been passed for their peotection, it had been in the country districts systematically, openly, and pertinaciously violated. The act was in itself imperfect, but it was rendered still tore so by the magistrates neglecting to inflict the proper penalties when its provisions were violated. In London there were only one or two climbing-boys, but in the country there were 2,000, and the number was increasing from the fact that proprietors of houses. and mills, in many cases, insisted on having a chimney-sweep instead of a machine. He must do justice to the master-sweeps, and say that they came forward generally to give evi dence against the continuance of this abominable system. It seemed that these boys were subject to a frightful disease called the chimney sweeper's cancer. Mr. Ruff, of Not- tinghttm, a master-sweep, said :—No one knew the cruelties which a boy had to nu:. ergo. The flesh must be hardened. And how was this done ? By rubbing chiefly their elbows and knees with the strongest brine. The child had to be taken before a pow erful fire, and so great was the ago ny of this operation that they had to be driven to the place by the blows of a cane. After this they were sent out to work. Thoy often came back with their elbows and knees stream ing with blood, and in this condition they were again held before the fire, and the brine was again rubbed in." Such -were the excruciating and tor turing agonies which were inflicted on these miserable children. He asked were these things to go on ? Wero they to call themselves a free country, or a Christian country, where these things were prepetrated against persons who were every whit as good as themselves, except in their worldly condition.?" In the United States, with all the heinous faults laid at our door by the Tory Journals of England, there are no children of wham these things can be said. It has been left to the "guardians of civilization" to guard the entrance so well that civilization cannot enter. THE WIFE. The marriage state is the sphere in which we find women exerting the most important influence. -- There is not probably, in the whole life of women an era so particularly interesting as that at which she as sumes this high relation. Up to this period, she bas been under the guidance and protection of those who felt the warmest interest in her welfare, and gratified her every wish so far as was consistent with circumstances But now she feels Oat she is about to leave the dear friends of her youth, and to place her unlimited confidence in one who is to prove himself her best friend, and to supply the place, in point of friendly counsel and sincere affec tions of father, mother, sister and brother, or who may act the baser part of the cool, heartless villain.— Oh, what an experiment : A dan gerous experiment is this for the young lady of warm and generous feelings, surrounded by all the best comforts oflife, to make. She may be deceived—thousands have been. She may be fortunate. Well may she rejoice if she is. But let her not forget that there is much depending on herself as regards this matter.— In this exalted position, she has a weighty obligation todischarge. It -is her'peculiar duty in this sphere to make home happy. She Will, indeed, be happy it she succeeds in this, and hippier by far will be the 111110 who holds her love. Do we hear you atk, 440 w can won do r 117:11611010 aossiete thlisirrand secret of * inahthg home happy ! We believe that the rirat NEW SERIES,--VOL. 5, NO. 23. great obstacle in the way of domes tic happiness Will be found, in the majority of the cases, to result from a spirit of discontent, The good wife must possess that beet of all qualities--a cheerful and contented spirit. This, in itself, is a source of continual bliss, for it robe life of more than half its cares. It gives a gentleness of manner and a hapti ness of look to her who possesses at. It sheds a halo of brightness around the holy altar of home, and fans con tinually the pure and lovely flame of affection. Contentment is, in deed, the sunlight of the soul, inspir ing with fresh life and beauty every thing which may come in its way.— It shows us how to be philosophers and teaches us how to make the best of life, causing us to tread lightly on the thorns that may beset our path. By all means, then, should the wife cultivate a spirit of contentment in its broadest sense, combined with Christian resignation, amidst the most trying scenes of life.—Amen= can Magazine. HINTS TO MOTHER2---SPEAS LOW. I knew some houses, well built and handsomely furnished. Where it is not pleasant to be even a visitor.— , Sharp, angry tones resound t h 1 them from morning.,;' l Sg , a n d the influence is ascont * nus ea sles, and much more to be dreadndiri a household. The children catch it, and it lasts for life—an incurable dis ease. A friend has such a neighbor within bearing of her house when doors and windows are open, and even Poll Parrott has caught the ! tunes, and delights in screaming and ! scolding, until she is sent into-the r.ountry to improve her habits.— Children catch cross tones quicker than parrots, and it is much more mischievous. Where a nioth er sets the example, you will scarce ly hear a pleasant word among the children in their plays with each oth er. Yet the discipline of such a fam ily is always weak and irregular.— The children expect just so much scolding before they do any thing they are bid; while in many a home, where the low.firm tone of the moth er, or the decided look of her steady eye is law, never think of disobedi ence neither in or out of her sight. 0 mother, it is worth a great deal to cultivate that "excellent thing in a woman," a low, sweet voice. If you are ever so much tired by the mischievous or willful pranks of the little ones, speak low. It will be a great help for you to even try to be patient and cheerful, if you cannot wholly succeed. Anger makes you wretched, and your children also.— Impatient, angry tones never did the heart good, but plenty of evil.— Read what Solomon says of them and remember he wrote with an in spired pen. You cannot have the. excuse for them that they lighten your burdens any; they make them ton times heavier. For you own, as well as your children's sake, learn to speak low. They will remember that tone when your bead is under the willows. So, too, would they re member a harsh and angry voice,— Which legacy will you leave to your children '-1171 Y. Chron. DUTY or AMERICAN MOTHERS. Our highest standards of female culture convey the same idea, and tend to the same end. In an essay on the duties of American mothers our own Webster says; "Mothers are the affectionate and effective teach ers of the human race. The mother begins the process of training with the • infant in her arms. It is she who directs its first mental and spirit ual pulsations. She condwets it along the impressible years of childhood and youth. and hopes to deliver it to the rough contest and tumultuous scenes of life armed by those good principles which her child has first received from maternal care and Jove. If we draw within the circle of our own contemplation the mothers of a civilized nation, what do we see ? We behold so many artificers, work• ing not on frail and perishnble mat ter, but on the immortal mind, mould ing and fashioning beings who are to exist forever. We applaud the ar tist whose skill and genius present the mimic man upon the canvas; wo ad mire and celebrate the sculptor who works outs the same image in endar, ing marble ; but how insignificant are these achievements, though the highest and fairest in all the depart. ments of art, in comparison with the great vocation of mothers They work not upon the canvas that shall fail, or the marble that shall crum ble into dust, but upon mind, upon spirit, which is to last foliever, and which is to bear throughout its du ration the impress of a mother's plas tic band " ice'An hoar's industry will do more to produce cheerfulness, sup press evil humors, and retrieve your affairs than a month's moaning. vet- How all of us would hate and de vise the man who woettl misuse curilditt as we kuhrsuw th ►dvere the poor; bate ptidailti l d iodinate with princes-.
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