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You mightbe spared much sighing, if yott would•lteep. inznirui • That thoUght that s gooffund evil - Are always here combined. • • There must be something wanting, And though you roll in wealth, You may, bias from your casket: That precious jewel4-health. And though you're strong and sturdy, Xou may have an empty purse,; ; (And earth has Mazy trials ' Which I consider worse!), tut wetlier joy or sorrow ' Fill up your mortal span, your_pathway_brighter To smile .when'er you can SMILE AND BE CONTENTED, The world grows old, and men grow cold To each, while seeking treasure, And what with want, and care, and toil We scarce have time for pleasure ; • But never mind, that is a. loss Not much to be lamented; Life rolls on,gaily, if ice will But smile and be contented. If we were poor, and would be rich, It will not be by . No, steady hearts and hopeful minds Are life's bright sayer lining. There's ne'er a man that dared to hope, Hath of his choice repented;, The happiest souls on earth are those Who smile and are contented. When grief doth come rack the heart And fortune bids you sorrow, From hope we may a.blesSing read, And consolation borrow; If thorns may come and . roses bloom, It cannot be brevented; So make the best, of life you can,, And smile and-be contented. gliscillantous Patting. "DON'T TELL BETSEYJANE." AMUSING LITTLE STORY. "And, for'your life,! don't tell Betsey Jane !". Mr: Nicodemus Harding, having utter ed this caution in mow, , earnest tone of voice, alig,hted from: . a Concord ' wagon in front of his own farm-house 'door, and, stood ; there a few minutes in ,a brown study, watching the figure of his brother-in law and the lawyer, as he drove back towards the village of where the two men had just come. "Now, Betsey Jane was Mr. Nicodcmus Harding's wife, a stirring. notable :soul, who made, more butter - and cheese, and, . took more eggs and fowls to market in :the course oft season; then any. other wo-' :man for miles around. • Strong healthy, :antl:hearty, she made the hous?work fly, to useler own energetic expression ; and if Nicodemus Harding owned hia farm that day, and was well-to-do, in fact arid"' man to boot, it was owing in no small men , surto the skill and energy, and general go-a-hmulativenesiref his Betsey Jane.— What was it; 'then, that the ungrateful man was not about,to tell her ? "It would never do, never?" thought Nicodemus to himsBlf, shaking his head. "She'd be wanting anew carpet, or anew silk gown, or the house,a.ll painted over, or some such nonsense. 50, the woman is the weaker vessel ;it won't do to trust one too far. Their heads won't bear it." So Mr. Nieodemus passed through the house, and out toward - the barn, with the pre-occupied air of a hen who 113 an egg to lay, and don't know where to hide from the eyes of mankind to the best advantage. The kitchen was empty and silent as he went through it,- : But oh, if he could have seen the buxom, good-looking female who stole silently, out of the pantry, and as silently followed him on his way toward the barn. Mrs. Harding c t axn' e tack in about twen ty minutes or so,mith a face,red with sup pressed laughter; "Don't tell. Betsy Jane," she said, gig gling into hei. gingham apron., "You are a very smart man, Nicodethus, and my brother, Tim-Noyes, is another, Dada law yer in.thallargam. Don't tell Betsy Jane, indeed! Two wretches, you deserve all you'll get, pretty . soon!" Betsy Jane mid no more, but bided her time. A week passed, and then brother Min's wagon drove up again to the door, and Nicodemus stepped into it, and was off to the village once more. Betsy Jane had asked in vain to go. Nicodemus was bound on business— "business which a woman could not un derstand," he loftily exclaimed. He, lord and master, well out of sight, Betsy Jane went about that busincis a woman could not understand with a merry twinkle in her bright black eye's. At 4 p. m. Nicodemus returned horle • . , , . , - - , . . , b - •• ' ' ' —... '.— IYAMSIIO 0' c AMCLIN COUNTY,- . P.AtItiIIIIRSDAYi , , JULY 20, 1871. . _ again, looking snite as Importagt as be; fore. ThithAoedliZehrough the kitch en, tei* Jane'. 'le, hun t ' frein'the Corner of her - eye-an the-while: 'HO:pass ed .out.intothe shed., A 'fragrant smell .of smoke came forward to greet him--an odor of bintintgetweobsgrucluillly cur ing htun. Onus tinned 'deathly pale, and ranfriStlennito ai lone fire smouldering*the:wilithouse, and Alarge; ham •or two.,;'Cov.ert# over Munk* 7 . ping ;e ane rom ouse in stanter, 'to find , Nifxkleniuii OroVeling,,be fore the ash-house daar,-weepmg and'wailft; ing and tearing hishair, and uttering yell afterl-ell in' despair.' - ' • . -Why, bless me! what's• the tmattert Are punt 4:fit? Let me, run , for the, camphor,", shrieked Bet# Jane. , "Camphor Bring :arsenic! Bring; poison Oftsomekindr-poisp l o" yelled Nied, odemus frantic ally. -' • "Woman, you've. ruinei ' mel; "Twelve! .thousand dollars in government bopds, did I putin that ash,holalor safety just , a week ago, and now. you've gone nnd burned them to cook that anssedbacon.-- Pison I Pison,! Bison! i ltud let me get out of the.dreary . world "Oh 1.-4zi that awes whet you were not oinglotell_33etny4enel . r'n'tlyou ar shamed of rinrseKNicoderaus Harding?" Nicodemus could not answer. He laid prostrate in the ashes a _nd hollowed. Get up anitdon't he a fool !" -said Bet- BY Jane; =ably. •"I heard youand broth er Tim conspiring' at the 'door that day, and I watched you go to the ash-hole, and soon found out what you had hid away there. Woman is the weaker vessel, -no doubt, but she don't put twelve thousand dollars where the Arst match that comes handy' can burn it up! Here are the bonds, Nicodemui3—for ten thousand.— I've• kept' two for my honesty." Poor Nicodemus ! He . gathered him self up out of the ashes, and took his bonds—what was left of them. He rath er thinks it pays best, on 'the whole now to tell Betty Jane - Spltting the Differefice. It is astonishing how 'much the business of the worldis facilitated and made agree-, able 'by the practice of splitting differen ces. The more it prevails among men the more even is the tenor of their way, the more smooth and tranquil the current of their life. In all Oeir relations with Rach other the wise dealing with differences:is of vital import., The poet says, "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ;" and so we do if we,.only get and spend; bat we Cannot do without spending, and -we must get in order to spend: The mischief is that men will get all they can possibly grasp, and are apt to spend even faster than they get, and so sacrifice life for 'the means of living lusurieusly. This is the vice of our . time, 'springing out of the. so cial rivalries which are itecharacteris tic. Brown must keep his 'brougham, for no other earthly reason than because Jones has set up his;,atid both go galloping to ward' insolvency beciase neither. will al low the 'other to outshine him; if they would split the 'difference between parsi mony and extravagance, they would'get at the"golden mean. In splitting the difference care must be taken to do it fairly and honestly. Noth ing is more common than the violation of this rule, and with all of us there is too great a tendency to split differences in conformity with our, own pet notions, pred-• ilections, or creeds.' Hence we are but unreliable judges in matters in which we are personally interested, and in all such cases; when a differenbe is to be split, we should commit'the process to another.—. Still we shall have cases always recurring in which we must deal with differences ' from our own single'point of view; simply because we estmet bring ourselves to cons fide' o ethera the opposing motives that have weight in our secret hearts. -In no case, scarcely, is the decision so difficult, or the difference so hard to split to our own satitiffeetiati,:as 'hi-judging of the claims of 9therii to enttplmiration, regard ,, or es teeth.' Itia'nat - Vetcreditable to us that estimating, the merits nf - .otheni-WO most- invariably, compare-Ahern , with,-a standard -far. hiftieriluin that we Could fairly claim for ourselves; if there is any reason for" our doing so, other than our vanity and' conceit, we confess we are - un able to discover it ; and if 'such be the reasons, then the sooner we descend from our fancied - exaltation the. better. There is a verso of soine German poet, whose name has escaped us, which affords a Very'good • rule - for judging of our,fellow,men, and_ which pradtically splits the difference bo twixt that undue laudation on the -one hand, and detraotion on the other; to iriach all of us areliotie at times. - The verse may be thus, 'done ;into ' . . . , If foes my character inipeach, . • And, warn.thee what my, failingsbe,. Suffer my,friends in turn to teach That virtue bath . some part lame. If slander held sue Up to ,wrath, • • -Or Fame-Weave laurels for my brow., I'd have thee choose the middle path. And deem I am a man—as thoii." in matters of morality there must be no splitting of dare- renew,: The sense of right and wrong is engraved on every heart, and the obligation to do the right, and shun the wrong, if it be not identical with this moral sense, is yet inseparable; from it. In matters of religion, also, there' must be no splitting of differences. Ev- . ery man must be fully pursuaded in his: own mind, and no Mali can refer his de cisions to the control of another without treason against his own "co'nscierice and unfaithfulness to the revealed standard of truth. On some countenances is written a his tory, on others merely adate.---1: P. Rielt _ ter. A Mpuse can drink more than' its fill from . the mightiest river.—Chinese Pro verb. fir ~t7IiI~b';I4IISTAKE. A, Prst.:loicioUs *dstalcnoccured at, a church in a small Eastern, City, during 14t summer. 'lt his alltkeelerexita of a fare incident; Ana must hav# been -e-, qtuilVistenishing to - the scars and .tke audience : , • . - • • .1, - . The **moan service had ended, and the cottaniation were arranging them-. selves foetlie", "etion 2. when to the o t e wo _pens,. the . parson,. wen, ed from the pulpit to the desk below, and said in 'wealth, 'clear 'Lvoide; "Those wishl ink to he united the. holy bands ofinat. trithony will noiso'pleaSe to Come forwaid., A deep salmis heitaritly, fell' over the congregation, broken only. by the rustling' of silk as some pretty girl Or excited'inaz troll' changed ! her position:to Catch the - first view of the 'couple to' , be • married.:—! No - one however. arose, or seemed in the least inclined to arise. Wherenpon the' - worthy clergyman, deemed his first no. tice unheard or misunderstOod, repeated' the - invitation : "let those wishing to be.unitcd in the holy. bends of matrimony now come, for ward." .• , "• Still no one stired. The silence became -almost-audiblernxtd-a—Rainful—sense—of awkwardness of the position was gradual ly spreading among those present, when a young gentlenmn who had t,ccupied a ye,- cant slip in the broad aisle during the service slowly arose, and deliberately walked: to the .foot of the altar. He was good looking and well dressed, but no one present knew him, and' no female •aceom-, panied his travels: When. arrived Within a respectable distance of the clergyman he paused : and with a reverent bow stepped to one side of the' niale;but neither said anything, or seemed at all disconcerted at the idea of being married. alone. The clergyman looked anxiously around for the bride who he supposed was yet to ar rive, and at length remarkedto the young ?entleman, in an under tone : "The lady, sir," is,dilatory." "Very, sir." "Had we not better defer the ceremo- ny ?" • , _ ".1 think not. Do you suppose she - will be here soon?" '". "Me, sir !" \ said: the astonished shep herd, "how should know of your ladies movements ?" This is a matter belong ing to yourself." A. very few ' moments more were suf; fered to elapse is thise' unpleasant state of expectancy; - wham-the clergyman re newed ,his interrogatories : "Did the lady .promise to attend at, the prosenthimr,sir ?" "What lady?" . • • "Why, thelady, to be, sure, that you are waiting here for?" "I-did not hear her 'say Anything a - - bout it," was the unsatisfactory response. "Then sir, may I ask why you are here, and for what purpose you trifle in this' house ?" said the somewhat enraged clergieal. came, sir, simply because• you invit ed all those wishing to be united in the .hol bands of matrimony to step forward ha pened to entertain such a wish. I am ver to. have misunderstood you, sir, and wish you a very goal-day." Odds and Ends. BY JOSII BILLINGS. Nature never makes enny blunders.— When she makes a phool she means it. . I hay finally . cupa to the konklusion that the majority' of mankind kan be bet-. ter educated on the back. than in the brain for good Clothes wi ll often Make a. phool respectable, while edukashun only serves tew show -his' weak pints. . As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his mor als. Min is my brother, and I know 'dud I am nearer related to him thru his vices than I am thru his virteWs. There is nothing about which the world makes a few blunders, and'the individual so naenny, as a inataielituarimportium among lus,fellow critters. . A. man with a. very :phial head is like a pin - without erin't, - ;veiy ; apt to;:git into things beyond his dopth. ' pashifinfov. an old ltan.are :often like:his teeth,' they cease -to trouble him, simply bekinse - the n e rve is detid, The duly pedidree worth tranimitting is viitewl and that is the'ye4:thir . that kan't be transmitted. Affectasliiin 110 grade moreilea; than the:Lord has. . ' , hay alwuri noticed one.thing,- when a person bekums disgturted with this - world, konkludes to withdraw from , 4, the world very . kindly - lets the mien went. Woman has no friendehips, - ishe either I loves, despizes, or hates. ." A day in the life of an old man is like .one ov the last days in the fall of the year, every hour brings a change in the weather. I like _taw see an oold person joyful, shut not kickuptheheelsful. Human happiness is like the Hotten tott - language, enny . body can talk it well enough, but there ain't but phew kan un,4 derstand it. Gravity is no more evidence of wisdom than a paper collar is of a shirt. Whatever Providence has given tis the fakalty tew do, he has given us the power tew do. There is a great menny folks in this world who arelike little flies ; great bores without meaning or knowing it. Show me a people Ithose trade is dis honest, and I will show you a people whose religion is a sham.—Fraude. The chains of habit aro generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.—. Dr. Johnson. Points ,d,Etiquctte. Don'tveak of.rpota Atli whom you 'are slightly appointed by theit first name. Irritability is a breeeli-,Of good morals as Well as good manners:: • Gentle courte sy we owe to all. • . 4 " Be punctual: It is;always annoyingto be kept waiting, and often a serious 0:6 triment•to one's business. • Answer a Civil question pleasantly pnol . kindl • even. if • u are in hur like gunpowder, with extreme caution. - If pespible, always be at the station at a few minutes befomthe cars start— Get ting al:4min' after the train is in motion is-not favorable to . bodily 'safety; nor to' that calmness of mind which leads us to act , wisely. • , . • Don't lie, disturbed if you find the beat Seats token. As no one knew you were coming, or course they didnot reserve one. — Hive your ticket in your . .ductors haien't always the time to wait till the portmoneau,. pocket and traveling bag are searched before receiving it.. .We once saw. a lady, when , the cxmditetor de, ntailded het ticket, dive to . thelOwerinest depths of her traveling. bag.' where elar clutched something -frantically, and in. blind haste banded the waiting officer a -fine-tooth--comb,—supposing—it-to-be--the- ticket, - which she afterwards found in' the folds of her garments. When a car is crowded, don't fill aseat with your -bundles: True politeness is not amiss, even amid the confusion and bustle of a public con veyance.--If-an open-window provse -un comfortable to another, you will close it 'Don't fidget with the hands or feet.— Let alone the watch chain and ineek-tie. Quiet ease, without stiffness, indicates gen tle breeding. Whispering in church is impolite. Be sides showing disrespect to the speaker, it is extremely annoying to, these who wish to hear. Coughing should be avoided as much as possible. Sleeping with US fre quent accompaniment, snoring, had better be, done at home.—Exchange. A LONG AND WLur SEARCH —TWO years ago a Mr. Nelson married a respect able young girl of Lawrence, Mass. . Two months ago he ran away with another wo man, and as a natural consequence went to Chicago. The wife sold out what little furniture she had, • and with her t infant started for this mode , Babylon. She was, however,just too late, he had,gone to Detroit. ,To Detroit she went, .and. there she learned the trtuatitScainp had went to Jackson, Miss. Her money haying been expended, she set out• on foot, and arrived at Jacks= only to find - that he had gone to Missouri. - Mrs. Nelson set out on foot, carrying the child on her , arms,' and did not pause for:even a day's rest until reach ing Livingston county, 10.. always a few days behind the pair, who were making for a relative of Nelson's, near Downs, in the above-named county. Mrs. Nelson ar rived to find that the two had departed the day before for Kansas, and at this point her courage gave out. She had been without money for a week, her • clothing soiled and torn, her food and lodgings the gift of farmers, and she made up her mind not to follow the husband any fufther.— Failing, to be provided for otherwise, she took the child on her arm and Started for Jackson, walking every mile of, the way, and begging food and a place to sleep.— At Jackson she was forwarded to' Chica go by the poor-inaster, and the same °lry cial in Chicago forwarded the pair to De troit again, where she told her sad 'story, and was kindly furnished with means to take her back to Massachusetts. This poor woman, with a heart worthy the af lection of an angel, said it was nether in tention to prosecute her husband, but try to redeem him if she could. She traveled over 2,000 miles alone and without money to regain his love, and unable to pour her heart into his, she returns to the town of her former happinesawith ler young life blasted by the villainy of a man and , the perfidy, of a woman. , Wonders, of the United States. • The greatest' cataract in the world Lithe falls of Niagara; where the _waterfront the great upper lake forms a river of three fourths of a mile'in width; and then being suddenly contracted, plunges citer the rocks in two columns, to, the.depth Of 1751 feet: The greatest cave in theworld bathe Mam moth Cave of Sentucki, where any one can make a.voyage on the watersof a sub: , terraineanriver, and catch fish without eyes:. • ' • The greatest river lathe known world is the Mississippi, 4,000 miles long.. The largest valley in the world is the valley of the Mississippi. • It contains five hundred thousand 'square miles, and is one of the most fertile regions of the globe. -The greatest grain port in the world is M The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea,ba• Mg 430 miles long, and. 1,000 feet deep. The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Raiboad,over 3,000 miles in length. The greatest natural bridge in the world is the Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek, in Virginia. It.extends across a chasm 80 feet in width, and 250 feet in depth, and at the bottom' of which the creek flows. The greatest Mass of solid iron in the world is the Iron Mountain of Missouri. It is•3so feet high and- two miles in cir cuit. The largest 'nequeduct in. the world is the Croton acqueduce in NeW York. Its length' is 40/ niiles, and it eost $15,500,- 000. The largest deposits of anthracite coal in the world are in Pennsylvania; the mines of which supply, the market with millions of tons annually and appear to be inexhaustible. - ;Not a Miis—A pretty widow. No Hbusehold dod. A little boy lliree years 'old, whose ' fa ther was irreligiow,. Spent several months in the dwelling of a godly fainily whei: - was taught the 'aimple,elemente of divine truth. . The good seed fell into go • od and tender sail, and. thn child learned to note the dif ference between a prayerless and a chtls tian dwelling One da • as some one was con • . s • • • , : r r • h,+ e vett% got,any God at Fay papa's ouse.' . ",Ahus thaw- many-such houses there are in our world and land—louseswhere there is no prayer, no praise, no womhip,no God! And what homes are they for children; ay, and for men and women, to. How much better is the pure atmosphere 'of a christian love than the cold, selfish world liness of a godlearitomert ' Said an ungodly taan,ll - never ' was so near heaven, and probably never shall be again; as when-1431MA a day in the house of Ebenezer godly Scotebman, who guided his houiehol& in the fear of the Lord. ' Would that there were more such homes, I the memory of which might shed a, holy savor over many a wanderer's heart, and -lead-the sad-and and of tears to look forward to the ghichme Of the eternal gathering beyond the toils and' tears and trials of this weary pilgrimage. To such homes the weary come for rest, and the troubledfor consolation. The Son Of Peace is there. Blessed be such homes! ani:Umay o'urs ever be of this- number British Workman. Take.Enonh Sleep. • Said one of the oldest and most success ful farmer in the State: !'.l do not care to have my men'get up before five or half past five in the morning, and if they go to bed early and can sleep soundly, they will do more work than if they get up at four or half-past." We do not believe in •the eight .hour law, but nevertheless, are in clined to think as a general rule, we work too many honrs on the farms Thehest man we ever had to dig ditches, seldom worked, when digging by the rod, more than nine hours a day. And it is so by chopping wood by the cord; the men who accomplish themost, work the fewest hours. They.bring all their brain mid muscle in to exercise, and make every blow tell. A slow, plodding Dutchman may turn a grindstone or a fanning mill better than an energetic Yankee, Init this kind' of 'work is now mtetly done .by horse power, and the fanner needs, above all else, a clear head, with all his faculties of mind and muscle light; active and under tem perament; but, as a rule, such men need sound sleep and plenty of it. When a boy on a farm, we were teld that Napoleon needed only four hiairs sleep, and the old, nonsense of "five for a man, sis, for a wo man and seven for a fool. But the truth is, that Napoleon was enabled, in a great measure, to accomplish what he did from the faculty of sleeping soundly—or sleep ing when he slept and working when he worked. We have sat in one of his fh vorite traveling carriages, and ,t. was so arranged that he could lie down • at full length; and'when dashing throigh the country as fast as eight homes, freqimutl changed, could carry him, he slept sound .ly, and when he arrived at his destination, was as fresh as if he had risen from a bed of down. Let flamers, and especially farmer's boys, have plenty to ea,t, nothing to "drink,"' and all the sleep they can take.—American Agriculturist. SHINGLE Yovp OWN HOUSE:--Seellii— Bar-room. Time—Mid-nignt. .Wife—"l wish that man would gohome if he has any one to go to." Landlord—Thish! MIA I , He'll call for something else directly." • Wife—"l wish he would make haste about it then, •foi it's One every honest man was in bed." Landlord—L"kle's taking theshingles off his own house and p,uttingthem_ott-ours." 'At this time James began to come to his senses, and commenced rubbi4 his eyes, and stretching limself, as if he had just awoke, saying, "I believe I will go hoine." "Don't.be in a hurry, games," said the, landlord. ' . • started must go," .saidlames, and he After an absence of some time the land- lord met and accosted , him with, "Hallo, Jim,- why ain't you been down to see us." "WbY," said James, "I had taken so many shingles oft' •my house it began to leak, so I thought it time to stop the leak, and ,I have done it" • Young_ man, whose house are you sting ling! How many bricks have you got in some of the heuses in, town ? aPROVED RanmsG.—The Cambridge Chronicle says of . the recent attempt's of the farmers of Dorchester, at market gar dening The result is astonishing. One man sells the apricots' from a single tree in his yard realizes $46. Another puts down two acres of comparative poor land in strawberries, and clearssBoo the fast sea, son- Another picks the blackberries grow ing wild en his farm, and realizes a little over sloo—enough 'to pay his entire tax for the year. In conversation with one of the-most intelligent and enterprising far mers of New Market district a few days ago, he told us that a neighbor of his in stiff clay ground had, from the saleof small fruits and vegetables ; cleared more this season up to this time than his entire par. eel Oland - would have brought in mrrket five years ago. An exchange says, editors and chickens have to scratch for a living; and pretty lively scratehing most 'of them make of it in order to keep square with the world. The folloydrig stanzas written by Thomas Hood on his:death ed': • • - - arewell, life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing dim; . Thronging shadows cloud the light Like the advent of the night , - Colder, colder, colder still, Upward's steals a vapor at.lll— • 2 . • e-earthly-udoi • the-mold:abuve Welcome, life ! the spirit striveil. Strength returns and hope revive! Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn , Fly like.shadows at the roortr.— . O'er the earth there.comeaa bloom— Sunny light for sullen gloom, *Warm perfume for vapors cold— I smell the.roae above the mould! • Smut En Ts A Coltaan.—Dear, generous summer is at hand, of all seasons mostlav-- ish and loving. • Her full lap holds the blossoms. of a world : her prodigal fingers scatter flowers' on • every stde,by dusty highways, on mountain tops, itrdeepAeludto The daisy's snow she piliiinthe meadows, and time a million_fleldkatonesivithth gold of buttercup and red clover. But none the less does she find time for • bum ble nooks, unnoticed spots of earth. .And to us who have but a tiny corner, a nar row back yard in which todo her homage, she comes as truly and as affluently as , to' Palace,_garden, or wide Do we drop a few seeds- a , twig? Immediately her warm hands descend in blessing. Flowers have no airs, no pride, rank or plied to .keep up, Mignonette will bloom, and violets nestle, roses Open their perfumed hearts,. morning . glorms climb and twme, and Mies rear thetratate ly heads as gladly in one place as another. Give them but earth, sun, and their beau tiful opportunity, and nothing will they care that the family wash flaps on the lines over their headS, or that but spoor , beard • fence separates from them_the_next_door. ash heap. ustake courage-we who pantin cities ' and narrow lives, ti)el sometimes that the summer is not ferns. The universal Moth er knows no distinctions. We are all a-. like hers, and forevery spuille3t eats her loving mission ahois ready ;to give tenfold recompense, and • "Make the world more sweet." A QUAKER PitmEß's PROVE RBS Never sandeit thou in an article for publication without giving the editors your name, for the name often' secures publication to worthless articles. , ° Thou shouldst not rap at the door of A printing office, for he that answereth the rapsneereth in his sleeve and loseth time. Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques tions, or knock down type, or the boys wil' love thee they do shade trees—when thou leaveth Thou uldst not read the copy on the printer's case or n the sharped and hook ed 'Container eof, orhe may knock thee down. • Never inquire thou of the editor for news, for behold it. is his business, at the at the appointed time td give it too thee without .askirig. It is not right that- thou shouldst ask him who is the author of an article,' for his duty required). him: too keep such things ,: • . When thou dost enter into his office, take heed• unto 'thyself that thon dost not look at what may be laying .open and ecrncerneth thee for this is not.meet in the sight. of good . bceeding. . •,_ Neither extuaine _ thou the- proof sheet for it is not ready to meet thine eye, that thou =Test understand it. , _ • Prefer thine own town paper to any other and subscribe for it immediately. Pay for it in advance and it shall be well with, thee and thine. CamEs..—The fact was not long ago noticed that a diplomatic agent of the "United States had brought to the atten tion of the State Department the suppos ed value of the cuuderango plant, which grows in Ecuador,' in the cure of cancer, In referring to the fact at the time, we expressed ic hope that the anticipations rased by the reported remedy would not, as in so many other instances of alleged cure of cancer, proved illusory. • ° The doubt 'thus intimated has been con firmed by the result of a very thorough in vestigationnt Washington as'to the vir tues of a few specimens of theplant which has been received, The report or the ar my surgeons is againstefficacy ofthat sub stance. Thus far cancer seems to be in curable, and few have any idea of its pre valence. Dr. Bliss, • under whose charge the examina t i ons at Washington have chiefly been, has startled the whole coun try by a statement deduced from inqui ries made that there are one hundred thou sand Conn try, t) hun dred Life day reai every erowd from every day a sol-. itary conversation with yoursel£ This is the way in which to attain thehighest rel ish of existence; and, if we may say so, to cast an anchor in the rive; of life. ZxAmmaxios.—.A. clergyman wishing to know whether the children of his par fshioners understood their Bible, he staled a lad yr hops he found one day reading the 014 Tegument, who was the vAckedest man. "Moses, to be sure, " said the boy. "Moses !" ekelailall the parson, can that be F' "Why," said the lad, "he broke all the commandment at once." • . • $2,00 PER YEAR ,- - NILMBER 4. Uit anti griner. Good country butter—an old rain. Why melt carpenters believe there is no such eong .its stone? Because they never saw it. • , , Irishman,A . ousily-,eugaged,ftt one of V= cherry trees, "by what right you take these cherries'?" "Ifi' faith my , friend," 4 aia he, "by my right hand sure.' ' - In reply, to a young friend leaving a town because some things in it were not exactly to her taste or content, an old la dy of experience said dear, when you have found a place where everybody and everything are always pleasant, and nothing whatever disagreeable, then-let ma know, • d I'll move there too." Somi'One sends to the Washington Cap ital a fairly vrittenpoem,really containing a bright-idet -- ----- irrepresents a° mean old man marketing, vho reflises to pay more than half price for eggs, because they are the product of female labor. Eggsaetly so. Tim4the-pnneiple-npon—wlach-temal: teachers are generaly paid. A nolorel man was arraigned before one of the Camden courts, a short time time tlince,charged with the larceny of some woad.. When called on to plead to the indictment he said : , "I bought de wood, and dat I knows I did ; but to save my.soul from thegallus,'caunot tall the man I bought it of, kase I bought it in the dark. I guess I'll plead guilty." If a cat (loth meet a cat upon a garden wall," and if a eat loth gweet, a cat, oh I need they both to rival'-? Every • Tommy has his Tabby waiting on the wall ; and yet he welcomes her approach by an unwel come yawl. And if a , kitten wish to court upon the garden wall, why don't he sit Andimeedy_snaile mid not stand up and bawl, and lift his precious back up high and show his teeth and moan, as iftwere colic more than love that made the feller groan ? Counrmo.—ltore is a specimen of the good old-fashioned mode Of courting as it was done in Connecticut: _Deacon Mar vin, a large hunOolder and most mem p!ary man, sectonAlhealhis ina business like way ; Having one...4ay mounted his horse, with a sheep, skin for a tiaddleOie -rode' in front of the house where Bettie Lee lived, and without dismounting, requested Bettie to . come to him. On coming, he told her the Lord had sent him to marry her:— Bettie replied: . "The Lord's will be done." "After Gar 'Exl"—Three of the dir tiest, most ragged littlo.-Tagamulfins in this city.en:tired one of 'the ,magnificent drug stores in our place.. Marching up to the counter, one said: ' "I want a cent's worth of rock candy," "Get out You ragamuffin I we don't sell a cent's worth. of rock - candy." Slowly and sadly they filed out of the store. On the sidewalk a =consultation took place. They the door. "Mister do you sell three cent's worth of rock candy . •4 . • - • "Well, we ain't got em;" and the pro cession moved out again. A good joke is told of a little .fel ow four years old, who, basing disobeyed his father, was about to incur the penalty—a switching. The father deliberately prop pared a rod, while the sonstood a sad and, silent spectator. AS the parent approach ed to the unpleasant duty, the boy started at 'a brisk run to a neighboring hill. The father pursued, and fora short time the youngster increased the distance between them; but gradually hie strength began to fail, -and when ho reached the lull and began to ascend he lest his vantage ground. Nearer and nearer the irate father ap proached, and just na the top of the hill was reached, and as he came within as arm's-length of the fagitive, who was ready to fall from exhaustion, the boy quickly faced about,thopped upon the ground, and with an indeeeribable ,couateuarico exclaimed: "Papa, that—makes a fellow —blow--don't it?" This "changing of the subject" • was so extremely ludicrous, that the father laughed heartily over the strategy what his hopeful son exhibited, and the ma was not used.. The trials of a young . Ividower up .in Windham county, Vt., n trying to get "help," are racily told by an exchange: • At last, ahnost discouraged, he drew up in front of a -small dwelhng among the • hills, and asked the customary question : "Can you tell me where I can got a wo man to do the work in a farm house?" "Where are . you from 2" ,asked the old man, viewing thehandsome horse and laug gy with a critical air. "My 1111116 sir, isp- 7 —, and I am from • "Oh t yes I I'veleard of you ; you Most your wife quite a spell ago. Wall, I have got six galst—goed gals, too—and you may take your . pickwatorig '_eta for a wife ; but they wouldn'tnone of'eni think of going, out 'ter work. I ShoiAtial liesca,you should take Ilatirudi, • "lanusialisrs' the oldest, and her chance skit quite's° good. • seein' as she's nigh•sighted, and can't hear., very well ; but if you don% want her, you, can take your pick of the 'others." Our, friend went .in, selected the bet looking one, drove to the Justice'sand waa married, and carried his bridoliomelb-1. • very night, having liecuredpermaner,#, and efficient housekeeper, who provcsthua far in every way satisfactory, with no ques tion of wages, and no limit to the work she is, expected to do. . every .down ea. It flow Elia
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