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Dr. T. W. Ross,
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IVaynesburg, Greene Go., Pa.
n i FFIOE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET,
ki cam, and nearly opposite the Wright house.
. Way neebu.g. Sept. 23, 1863,_
DR. A• G. CROSS
WOULD very respectfully tender 'nig services as a
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or
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.
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Public, that having the contract for the carrying otthe
Mali betweett the above polite, lie bee placed upon the
rnnte two nevrataci.COMMOlHOUll Hacks for the ac
commodation of the traveling • t'opunuoite, One wil
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Pioullautougi.
The mean diameter of our globe is
exactly 7,938,889 miles; and were it
solid throughout, its weight would be
equal to five times that of a body of
similar dimensions. But it cannot be
solid throughout, though of the nature
of its-interior we are of course not pos
itive. Some philosophers have main
tained that its interior is tilled with light
only, but the more prevalent and ra
tional opinion is that it is filled with
fire—that the whole heart of the earth
is one vast seething caldron. The rea
sons for this are the rapid increase in
the temperature of the earth, as we pen
etrate into its bowels, and the existence
of volcanoes and hot-springs upon its
surfoce. Earthquakes, too, those
dreadfid visitations that convulse the
earth, and that not unfrequently mark
large districts with ravage and destruc
tion, attest the presence of internal fires.
The rate of increment in the earth's
temperature is one degree of Fahren
heit's thermometer for every sixty feet,
and at this rate we should find at the
depth of one hundred miles a degree, of
heat sufficient to keep in fusion any of
the rocks to be found on the sin-thee,
hence, the solid crust of the earth can
not be more than sixty or eighty miles
in thickness—a mere, brittle shell.
Volcanoes are only vents or-chimneys
to this great roaring furnace over which
we every day walk so carelessly
Through them escape those surcharged
elements, which, if they had no means
of exit, must explode our beautifid
world into a million atoms, and leave
a void in the grand system of creation.
J G. P.ITCII/6
The following is a partial record of
large fires which have occurred during
July and which in most cases are be
lieved to be of incendiary origin :
July 1, Louisville, hospital stores,
$1.000,500 ; July 1, Philadelphia, fac
tory, $30,000 ; July 4, New York, pi
ano factory, $160,000; July 4, Saratoga
water cure establishment, $150,000 ,
July 5, Chicago, cooperage, $25,000 :
July 7, Chicago, fur store, $70,000 ;
July 8. Vassalboro, Me., mills, $30,000;
July 8, Salmon Falls, Vt., " $300,000;
July 11, New York, Steamer John Por
ter, $500,00 ; July 13, Waterford, Me.,
railroad depot, $70,000 ; July 15, St.
Louis, six steamers, $500,000 ; Juy 16,
Brooklyn, N. Y., warehouses, $900,000;
July 17, Lowell, Mass., tanneries, $l3O-
000; Juy 20, Farmington, Conn., store
and barns, 50,000 ; July 22, Chicago,
plaining mill, $60,000. July 22,
Spring
field, Mass., stores, $lOO,OOO ; July 22,
Philadelphia, wagon fitctory, $300,000;
July 22, Defiance, Ohio, woolen factory
$lOO,OOO ; July 23. Lockport, N Y.,
machine shop, $12,000: July 24, Jamai
ca, L. 1., hotel, crops, woods, &c., 830,-
000 ; July 25, Syracuse, Cranger block,
$50,000. Total, $4,566,000.
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(From the Washington Inteiligeneerd
A Curious Case of Burying Alive.
A slight mistake was made day be
fore yesterday iu one of the hospitals at
City Point, which caused a flutter
among the patients. A wounded sol
dier was pronounced dead by a Sur
geon, and the Ward Master caused him
to be put in his coffin for burial.
The brethren of the Christian Com
mission attended the 'remains to the
grave, opened the coffin, and were p'o
ceeding with the burial service when
the soldier's hand was observed to
move, On closer examination it was
discovered that life was not extinct.—
The fatigue party detailed to bury the
poor fellow refused to "let up on him,"
saying that they had orders to bury him
and must do it.
The humane gentleman of the Com
mission intimated that they "would
make a corpse of him" who should at
tempt to bury the mat. before they were
satisfied he ♦vas dead, and he was car
ried back to the hospital. The Surgeon
who ordered the burial was called for,
who still contended that the man was
dead, and the movement of the fingers
was a muscular contraction sometimes
observed in, defunct bodies.
Other Surgeons, however, discovered
pulsation, and the man lived till the next
niJrning, when he was buried. Our
iut:x•m:int says the case is to be report
ed to the proper officers.
A little girl residing near a pond in
Massachusetts has succeeded in taming
some of the fish, by throwing crumbs of
bread, crackers, &c., into the water.—
The species called perch seem to be the
most tractable and docile. One of
them often takes the end of her finger
in his mouth, while another will glide
gently into her hand and turn on one
aide, and so remain, apparently reposing,
till raised quite to the surface. The
little girl walks out on a plank, sustain
ed a few inches above the water, and
before she reaches the end of the plank,
the fish may be seen darting rapidly
towards their feeding ground. The
larger ones, especially, are disposed to
drive off the smaller ones, but she keeps
Order among them.by means of a stick
with a sewing needle attached to _ the
end of it, and when one picks a quarrel
he gets a stab, and is off at once.;
universal sentiment it "Stop Ais
war if it is tor emancipation oWy."
About the Earth.
Carnival of Fire.
Taming Fish.
thoteb . to Volitio, /gritulturt, Yittrature, foreign, Domestic anb . Oeneral
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, M I WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1864.
The Way to Eminence.
That which other folks can do,
Why, with patience, may not you ?
Long i.go a little boy was entered at Har
row school. He was put into a class beyond
his years, and where all the scholars had the
advantage of previous instruction, denied to
him. His toaster chided him for his dullness,
and all his efforts then could not raise him
from the lowest place on the form. But,
nothing daunted, he procured the grammars
and other elementary books which his class
fellows had gone through in previous terms
He devoted the hours of play, and not a few
of the hours of sleep, to the mastering of
those ; till, in a few weeks, he gradually be
gan to rise, and it was not long fill he shot
fur ahead of all Lis companions, and became
not only leader of the division, but the pride
of Harrow. Yon may see the statue of that
bay, whose career began with this fit of eu
ergetic application, in St. Paul's cathedral ;
for he lived to be the greatest oriental schol
ar of modern Europe—it was Sir William
Jones.
When young scholars see the lofty pinna
cle of attainment on which that name is now
reposing, they feel as if it had been created
there, rather than had travelled thither. No
such thing. The most illustrious in the an
nals of philosophy once knew no more than
the most illiterate now do. And how (lid
he arrive at his peerless dignity ? By dint
of diligence ; by downright painstaking.—
[Life in earnest. •
Now is the Time to Sow Turnip Seed.
An agricultural paper says : Let not
farmers and gardeners fail to sow abun
dant turnip seed this year, where other
crops have failed on account of the
drought, or the first crop has been se
cured. Dig up the ground if it be ever
so small a place, and plant turnip seed.
There is sure to be a pressing demand
for all kinds of vegetables the coming
winter, and a great many can raise a
profitable crop of turnips without ever
knowing that they cost anything.—
Turnips are good both foi the table and
stock—for the former purpose very
pleasantly taking the place of potatoes
with many ; and if a man should by any
chance raise more than he wants for
his own use, we will warrant him a
good price, and cash in hand, for all he
wants to sell. According to the old
saying, "25th of July, sow your turnips,
wet or dry" But the seed can be
profitably sown as late as the first week
in August ; and if we have no rain be
fore, it would probably be better to wait,
as no seed could he expected to start
with the ground parched as at present.
But when there comes a shower, don't
forget the turnips.
ger English officers in India love to
hunt the tiger and the tiger reciproca
ting sometimes loves to hunt them.—
The Bombay Times relates that Captains
Wilmot and Dawson had been hunting
in the lio. odic hills and had killed nine
tigers They were on the point of re
linquishing further sport when another
tiger was seared up and wounded. Di
rected by traces of blood and the roar
ing of the brute, the two officers ap
proach his lair on a patch of jungle on a
hillside when from a height the tiger
sprang upon them, knocked both over,
and seizing Wilmot carried him off
towards his i etreat, trbating the unfortu
nate man as a cat does a rat. He called
upon Dawson to fire, which he finally
did and killed the animal, but Wilmot
was fatally wounded and died that
night
Friendship Between Pickets.
A unions rebel visitor came stealthi
ly into our lines at Petersburg one night
during last week. He was invited to
remain and partake of a bout' . itul re
past—coffee, pork, and "hard tack."—
Consent soon followed the request.
While refreshing his inner man, our
guards were regaled with many a story,
diverted with many quiet drolleries and
quaint sayings. There is something
strange in these meetings—where those
who on the day before cursed each
other in the heat of battle, and before
early dawn, at the sound of the bugle
horn, may slay each other when full of
bread eaten sociably together. This
man came by night, not to gain infor
mation, but to eat his supper. During
the day our pickets had been twitting
them with what they had for supper.
Soft bread, sour knout, and potatoes
had just been issued. The rebels
would not believe this to be a 'true
bill.' Hence this man's visit. No one
in imperfect health could relish food
with so much gusto. He had brought
with hint that excellent sauce—of late
years grown fashionable—hunger. At
ter staying his inordinate appetite with
a marching ration, he took his depart
ure.
For Every Body.
Let the business of every body alone
and attend to your own.
Don't buy what you don't want.
Use every hour to advantage, and
study to make leisure hours useful.
Think twice before you spend a shill
ing, and remember that you will have
another to make for it.
Find recreation in looking after your
business, so that it will not be neglected
in looking after recreation.
Buy low, sell fair and take care of
the profits.
Look over your books regularly and
it you find an error.trace it out.
Should a stroke of misfortune come
upon you in trade retrench, work hard,
but never fly the track.
COnfi•Ont diflic ties With unflinching
orsever,nce; a they will die ' at lAst ;
thoukh yeti she' 44 in the struggle;
you will be bon • but shrink filial
the task and you will be despised.
Restless Nights.
&Me , persons "toss and tumble" half
the night, and get up in the mornig,
weary, unretreshed, and tlspirited,
wholly unfit either in body or mind for
the duties of the day; they are not only
incapaciatted for business, but are often
rendered so ungracious in their manners,
so irritable and fretful, as to spread a
gloom over the whole household. To
be able to go to bed and be in a sound.
delicious sleep, an unconsious delicious
ness in five minutes, but enjoyed in its
remembrance, is a great happiness, an
incalculable blessing, and one for which
the most sincere and affectionate thanks
should habitually go up to that benefi
cient Providence which veuchsales the
same through the instrumentalities of a
wise and self-denying attention to the
laws of our being
Restless nights as to persons in ap
parent good health arise hielly from—
first, an overloaded stomach ; sec o nd,
from worldly rare; third, tivm want of
muscular activities proportioned to the
needs of the system. Few will have
restless nights vi ho take dinner at mid
day, and nothing after that except a
piece of cold bread and butter and a cup or
two of some hot drink ; anything beyond
that, as cake, pie, chipped beef, dough
nuts, preserves, .and the like, only
tempt nature to eat when there is really
no cause for it, thus engendering dys
pepsia and all its train of evils.
Worldly care. For those who can
not sleep from the unsatisfactory condi
tion of their afThirs; who feel as if they
were going behindhand ; or that they
are about to encounter great losses,
whether from thcir own remissness, the
perfidy of friends, or unavoidable cir
cumstances, we have a deep and sin
cere sympathy. To such we say, live
hopeful for better days ahead, and mean
while strive dilligently, presistently, and
with a brave heart to that end.
But the more common cause of rest
less nights is, that exercise has not been
taken to, make the body tired enough:to
demand sleep. Few will fail to sleep
soundly •if the whole of daylight,
or as much thereof as will pro
duce moderate fatigue, is spent in
steady work in the open air, or on
horse back, or on foot. Many spoil all
their sleep by attempting to force more
on nature than she requires. Few per
sons will fail to sleep s,,undly, while
they do sleep, if they avoid sleeping in
the daytime, will go to bed at a regular
hour, and heroically resolve to get up
the moment they wake, whether it is
two, four, or six o'clock in the morning.
In less than a week each one will find
how much sleep his system requires ;
thereafter give it that, and no more.—
Ban lowvad of ficaith.
Interesting to Farmers.
Under an order from the office of In
ternal Revenue, the income of a farmer
must be estimated by including the total
value of his crop harvested, and the profit
realized upon a sale of stock. The 117th
section of the act of June 30, 1864, re
quires such income to be estimated by
including the increased value of live
stock, whether sold or on hand, and the
amount of sugar, wool, butter, cheese,
pork, beef, mutton, and other meats,
hay and grain or other vegetables, or
other productions of the estate of the
farmer sold during the past year for
which return is made, not including any
part thereof unsold or on hand at the
close of the year. To ascertain the in
come resulting from a farm under this
provision, it will be necessary to estimate
the value of the live stock on hand at the
beginning of the year, and to add thereto
the amount paid for animals which are
held alive at the close of the year. The
sum thus obtained will be deducted from
the amount obtained by adding the esti
mated value of the live stock held at the
close of the year to the amount received
for animals sold during the year, the
amount received for meats and vegeta
bles, the productions of the farm sold
during the year, or consumed by the
farmer or his family, or consumed by
animals kept for purposes of pleasure.
The difference thus obtained will be
charged as income, and will be subject
to the proper deductions for the cost of
carrying on the farm. No deduction
can, however, be allowed for the cost of
hay or grain produced upon the farm.—
In other respects, the, same rules will be
observed in estimating the income of a
farmer as that of other persons.
Four Children Smothered in a Chest.
A terrible realization of the tale of
Ginevra,. which R , gers has immortali
zed in verse, was discovered in the town
ship of Newburg yesterday. On Wed
nesday afternoon last a man named
Schoger, living near the Buckeye House
(better known as Edward's Tavern,) on
Kinsman street road, left the house with
his wife to go into the field to work.—
Their four children, aged from two to
ten years, remained at. home. On re
turning to the house, the parents sought
in yaM for their children., Search was
made around the premisjs, over the
farm and throagh the woods, the whole
neighborhood turning out to join in it,
but without success. Yesterday morn
ing, however, their own house was
searched; and in it, in an old German
chest, the ehildren were found, smother
ed to death, their faces. black from fatrG_
cation. •In their ,play,the children had
got,into the chest, 4,* t h e lid f a lli ng,
and the spring etching, had bee im
prisoned in * itv . ing tem.
A Sad Story.
Not many months ago, says the At
lanta correspondent of the Mobile Reg
ister, there arrives at a C , /nfederate port,
upon one of the most notable of our
blockade runners, a very unassuming
woman—scarce such, indeed, for she was
hardly out of her teens—of an extremely
handsome person. She had come to
Nassau from Paris, and sailed thence for
the South. She brought with her an
abundant wardrobe, and sufficiency - of
means to last her two or three years at
the present rates of living. Her object
in visiting this country was to discover
the fate of an only brother, a colonel in
our service, who had placed her at Gen
eva at school when the warbegan. She
had not heard from him during six
months, became anxious, and finally set
out on her long and perilous journey
Her brother had be.:ll killed at (-Zettys
burg, and she found herself alone and a
stranger in her native laud. She went
first to Augusta, then to Mobile ; here
she lost a trunk containing all her gold.
At this critical juncture of affair s she
met a very handsome field officer—fell
in love—engaged first in a flirtation,
then in an amour—and accompanied him
as far as Atlanta on his way to the front.
Ile fell at Chickamauga. What her life
became you can guess. She died last
week, and was tumbled into the ground
in the public cemetery. There's a story
for you—weep over it:
"Somebody's Boy."
Alt. yes! the veriest wreck that skulks
along the by-paths of society once be
longed to Somebodx ; and human na
ture, selfish though it be, is too much
bound into one finnily, and interwoven
into a net-work of common sympathies
and feeliags, not to thrill under this con
sideration, if tlathfully pondered and ap
plied. "The good man-," says an ele
gant preacher, "does not. ask who the
sufferer is, what is his name, or religion;
he sees that he is a man, he feels that
he is a neighbor, and he lifts him upon
his knee, and dresses his wound, and re
lieves his wants ; and the Savior says to
us, every one, 'Go thou and do likewise.'
I love the spirit of the good woman
who was running to help some poor boy
that was flung well-nigh lifeless upon
the road, and her neighbors said, 'Why
do you run thus? he is not your boy.'
`No,' she said, 'but he is somebody's
boy.' That is as it should be. 'One
touch of nature makes the whole world
kin.' And this principle," adds the
writer, "should be kept in view pre
eminently with the young."
ekW - A young lady named White, of
Du Page, Illinois, met an untimely end
recently under the following circumstan
ces: In the absence of all the titmily
from home, except a soldier who was
sick hi bed, Miss White wishing to
make the coal fire burn more rapidly,
took the Kerosene can, which contain
ed about one gallon .of oil, and com
menced pouring it on the glowing coals.
An explosion immediately took place.
The fire entered the can, bursting it
open at every seam and making a re
port that was heard at a great distance.
The unfortunate girl was at once wrapt
in a sheet of liquid fire. Inhaling the
surrounding flame at every breath, and
screaming most frightfully she ran for
help. The sick soldier grasping the bed
clothes, followed her to the garden and
attempted to smother the devouring
flames, but before they could be sub
dued the work of death was done. She
expired after about five hours of the
most intense suffering.
"TILL THE WHEELS RUST OFF."—One
of the most careful railroad conductors
that ever took a train over the Portland,
Saco and Portsmoi.th Railroad, Wm.
Aikerman, was inquired of by an impa
tient passenger, while the train was
holding up at a ttirn-out, how long he
intended to wait there. A passing train
was over due, and the passengers were
in a hurry to get on, as all passengers
are. "I shall wait," said Aikerman,
"unless the missing train arrives, or I
am directed by the proper authorities
to go on, until the wheels rust of" These
words should be written in gold for the
guidance of ev, ry conductor. They
tell the whole story in a nutshell. How
many lives would have been saved that
have been cruelly crushed out by rail
road disasters, if the rule of this moJel
conductor had been implicity obeyed ?
or' Lady Wortly Montague, the fa
mous wit and beauty, made the most
sarcastic observation that was ever pub
lished about her own sex. "It goes
far," said my lady, "to reconcilp me to
being a woman, when I reflect that I
am thus in no danger of ever marrying
one 1" What if a man load said that ?
But see how another lady, the unhappy
Countess'of Landstelt, ',averted the sen
timent and turned the satire into the
most delicate and generous of compli
ments. "I never behold. a beautiful
woman," said Lola Montez in one of
her lectures, "but I fall in love with her
myself; and wish I were a man that I
might marry hee!"
iThere are 580 tenement houses
in New York, which contain by actual
count, 10,935 families, or about 85 per
sons to each ; 193 others, which con
tain 11 r persons each; 71 others, which
contain 140 each,
,and finally, 29—these
mu*be most pro fi table—which have a
totaopulation ofno less than 5.449
souls, or 187 to each house.
EX tTIVR M.t sAis,
, -
WaAtiugt. txt„ln3y 1.% '64. j I himself Rut when they came out, be
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : remained in—deliberately went out into
Any propoAtlon which embraces the re-
deep water, and was drowned.
storation ot peace, the 4 intetwity d the.el,ole ! . 1 ----1....."!•-•
tHiENI, AND THE ABANDONMENT OF 1
SLAVERY, AND WHICH COMES BY
AND WITII AN AUTHORITY THAT CAN
CONTROL TILE ARMIES NOW AT WAR
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, WILI:
BE RECEIVED AND CONSIDERED BY 1 The Scholar's Influence.
THE _EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT OF "Good morning, Miss Effie ;can I speak
THE UNITED STATES, and will be met wen you Es moment alone ?" stud a :ttle
by liberal terms en substantial and col- ,
to net teacher, as soon as she entered *le
lateral points, and the bearer or bearers
thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. room. She was one of those rare beings.
.113RAILIM LINCOLN. whose manners and appearance win instart
love and confidence. Always happy herself,
she helped largely in making others, by the
mere presence of her cheerful face. Bat this
morning her teacher saw a troubled look
shading the sunshine, and at once yielded the
desired privacy.
"Olt ! Miss Effie, what shall Ido ? I
said what was not true yesterday. I did
break the rules. Won't you please give me
a bad mark ? And can you forgive me ?
Can you trust me any more ?"
"My dear child," replied her teacher ;
am sorry you have uttered a falsehood, bat
re; ice in the moral courage which enables
yon to make this noble confession. But how
A Soldier in Luck--A Romantic Story
' --A Private falls Heir to a Fortune.
The Detroit Free Press tells the fol
lowing story :
"At the first battle of Bull Hun there
was a ,soldier by the name of Wilson,
who, like many others on that memora
ble occasion, straggled sway from his
command. After walking or rather
running for several hours he became,
very much fatigued, and after taking
good precaution that these were no
rebels either within sound or sight, he
lay down to sleep by the side of a fence
and slept sweetly and soundly during
' the night. Late in the morning when
the sun was near mid-noon, he awoke
to find himself' in a strange land, and
perhaps among the bitterest enemies of
the country But the demand of
hug
get' so! , ri silenced the voice of prudence
and caution. Seeing a maasion on a
hill in the distance, surrounded by parks
and meadows, orchards and evergreens,
artificial fountains and natural streams
of clear running water, in- fact, every
thing to show that it was one of the
first class old Virpinia plantations, the
home of, courtly elegance, our soldier,
tired with a Weary step and a fainting,
famishing heart, knocked at the door of
the mansion.
He was cordially received, for the
old Virginia planter was faithful among
the faithful fc w. He remained long
enough to to recruit his wasted ener
gies and get information as to the most
direct route to Washington. But the
name of the young soldier was 'not for
gotten by the planter, nor his manly
bearing and genial temperament: The
soldier re-enlisted in another regiment,
and at the second battle of Bull Run
was severely though not dangerously
wounded. He was' taken to the hospi
tal at Washington. his old Virginia
friend learned of his illness. He sent
to the hospital and obtained an order
for permission to take him to his own
home. lie was removed, when through
the kindness of the planter and the at
tention of his daughter the young man
gradually recovered. A tender regard
spung up between the young lady and
the young soldier, and to cut very short,
the turn the story in such cases made
and provided usually takes, they were
betrothed. The soldier returned to his
northern home on flulough.
here he learned of the sudden
and severe indisposition of her who was
soon to become his bride. He hastened
to her side and buried her corpse. The
old man before many weeks had elapsed
told the young man that he intended to
make him his heir, that he had no chil
dren left, and no relatives, except those
who were in rebellion, and that he should
now share with him his estates. He at
once gave him a deed to a considerable
property in Chicago. The young mm
a few weeks since visited that modern
miracle and Babylon combined, and
found that his little Chicago fortune
would realize the handsome sum of
$200,000, being offered $60,000 for a
single block to which he had fallen heir.
But this is not all in the strange and
eventful story. The old man has but
recently died, leaving all his fortune to
this young soldier, which is now known
to be over $BOO,OOO.
“This 'over tale' we know will
sound like fiction; but had not the facts
come to us well substantiated, we should
not have given them publicity."
What we Suffer from.
No mail suffers by bad fortune, but
he who has been deceived by good. It:
we grow fond of fortune's gifts, fancy
that they belong to us, and are perpet
ually to remain with us, Lfwe lean upon
them and expect to be considered for
them, we shall sink into all the bitter
ness of grief; as soon as our vain and
childish minds, untraught with solid
pleasures, become destitute even of
those which are imaginary. But it we
do not suffer ourselves to be transported
by prosperity, neither shall we be re
duced by adversity. Oar souls will be
proof against the dangers of both the - ,e
states : • and, having explored our
strength, we shall be sure of it ; for in
the midst of felicity we shall have tried
how we can hear misfortune.—[Boling
broke.
IW-A boy years old in Hartford,
drowned himself on Monday in order
to escape the cruel treatment to which
he was subjected by his father. It seems
that the latter had long been harsh to
this boy, as to others of his family, and
that the boy told .his mother that • •
should drown . hiniself. lie was agai -
whipped by his father very severely on
Stinday morning. On Monday when
he went in bathing With the oilier boys,
he told them also of his intention to
drown himself—but they thought light
ly of this threat, and did not believe:
even after his refusal to eons out when
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 10.
1 they did, that he really meant to drown
liunit4 Cult
came yon to do it r
"I ought not to have done so but Annie
was saying something fanny, and you kii.ow
I could not help but hear Lw., for she sits by
my side, and then I laughed ; and before I
thought, I talked too. And why I should
have denied it, I cannot tell ; but I have
been unhappy ever since, as you may know
by my waking up last night, two or throe
Macs, and every time chat tireadful story
was my first thought. ! it was a sad
night.”
The poor child's tears were falling fast,
and they gathered thickly in the teacher's
dyes, as she mingled commendation with re
proof. Grieved with, while she rejoiced
over the trtily penitent child,. as her heart
melted iu tenderness towards her, and she,
understood better the fullness of God's par
doning love towards sinners. But presently
a new thought rose in my mind. Annie
had been very rebellions and troublesome for
several days. She was an almost insepara
ble companion of tun gentle Ella. Might not
Ella be made the means of leading her back
to the right ? She determined to try.
"Do you nut think," said she kindly, 'that
if you had been firm in what you now see to
be the right, you might have induced Annie
to do right also ?
"Not then, I think, Miss Effie," replied
Ella ; `•but she loves me so much that If I
spoke to her before hand, and proposed that
both be good, lam almost sure she would.
Sheleannot mean to be to naughty but she is
proud, and when she begins she has to go on
and she will never say she is sorry, ne mat
bow badly she feels." Then as if fearing she
had said Loo much against her friend,she has
tily added, "You know she is very good
sometimes."
"Yes," replied her teacher, "and how
blessed it will be to help her to be good all
the time. Be assured, my child, you will be
happier the more you try to help her to walk
in the right war. Tile task will otttimes call
for a great deal of self-control, but God will
help you if you ask him.
: 31i8s Elle, you may be sure I will
do all I can, replied the girl, as she turned
MEI
No one who has never silently mourned
over a loved objet, who, day by day, has
shown a hard, defiant temper, can under
stand how that teacher's heart was lightened
by a sudden hope. A new power seemed
awakened within het. as she that day per
formed her accustomed duties. She felt
that thg enthusiasm and earnest love of that
child would not be employed in vain. Bet
ter than all, she felt that the force of that
child's mind was exerted by sympathy with
her own. N.A. were her hopes vain. An
nie's proud spirit will forget its accustomed
stubbornness. She yielded to the influence
of gentle fidelity, and ere long Was one
of the best girls in the school.
Blessed be the hand that prepares a plea
sure for a child, for there is no saying when
and where it may again bloom forth. Does
not almost-everybody t member some kind
hearted man, who showed him a kindness in
the diAcet days of his childhood? The wri
ter of this recollects himself, at this mo
ment, a barefooted lad, standirig at the
wooden fence of a poor little garden in his
native village, while with longing eyes he
gazed on the flowers which were blooming
there quietly in the brightness of a Sabbath
morning. The possessor came forth from
his little cottage ; he was a wood -cutter by
trade, and spent the whole week at work in
the woods. He had come into theigarden
to gather flowers to-stick in his coat when
he went to church. He saw the boy, and
breaking off the most beautiful of his carna
tions—it was streaked with red and white—
he gave it to him. Neither the giver nor the
receiver spokeord, and with bounding
steps the boy etWnne. And now hero, at
a vast distance front that homeliktter so
many events of so many years, the feeling of
gratitude which agitated the breast of that
boy expresses itselt on paper: The carsia
tion has long since withered, but it nor
blooms afresh.—[Douglas Jerrold.
serWouldst the !calm to 'die we
learn first to lire well. Aetfil*leage
thy benefits by the return of other-14n
efits, but never revenge injuries:—.[Co n ,
IiCIU3.
Giving Joy to a Child.