BY W. BLAIR: VOLUME 24. - Gilled loth THE ISLE AND TURA BY GEO. D. PRENTICE In the tropical seas ' There's a beautiful isle, Where storms never darken, zunlight!st-soft-snail • There the hymxi of the breeze And the hyrim of the istieare Are mingled in one:. Like sweet sounds in a dream,: - There the song-birds-at-morn, From the thick shadows start, Like musical thoughts • From the poet's full heart. .There the song-birds at noon Sit in silence unbroken, Like an exquisite dream • In the bosom unspoken. • There the irireralLang like rainbows On wildwood and lea 0, say, wilt thou dwell • - In that sweet isle with me In the depths of the slay' There's a beautiful star, Where no yew casts a shadow The bright scenes to mar. There the rainbows ne'er fade, And the dews are ne'er dry, ,And a circlet of moons • • Ever shinesjn the sky. There the songs of the blest,, • -nd-the,-songs4d 7 the-spherM Are unceasinnly•heard .Through the•infinite years. There the soft airs float down From the amarinth bowers, .All faint with the perfume Of Eden's own flowers. . There truth, love and•beauty Immortal will be 0, say, wilt thou dwell In that sweet star with me ? 'WEDLOCK'S CHAIN. Oh, wedlock's mystic, sacred chain, When worn tnost lightly binds most strong,; And hearts where gentlest it has lain • Are those that will endure most long. • The chain hill wound, the links carode, If worn as captives wear their chain And love grow weary of the load That clop its joy , with woe an pain. ...OhoCeave each link like rarest gold, And tnine its coils so lightly round. That hearts shall never feel the fold • That tells,theni "York are•captiVe bond.' For mortal, when thy graces die, . And beauty no more fills thy breagt, Then love will spread its wings and fly To other hearts in freshness dressed. 'To something else that's bright and fair - Lives filled with wooing, winning flowers; lie scorns to breathe the noisome air Of withered and infected bowers: No bond can bind Love's tender wings, 1)4 Nor nuptial vow, nor pitty's prayer; Love claims a charmed life, mid flings All opposition to the air. And when on injuredxing once It knows. alas! no second birth; No power can light the torch once dead— Restore the tarnished,genes proud worth, Sliste'buns Padinff. A True Story for the Boys. BY BEY. WM. H. FRIES. During the great rebellion it was my good fortune to be chaplainof the Fourth Delaware Volunteers, in which there was a drumnirr boy named Franklin Walker. While stationed at Fairfax Court House, Va., we were assigned to. a divisien of the 22d army, corps, under command of Gen eral CoNoran. The General, having lost his first wife a short time before, while there married a second, and brought her to his quarters, and, according to custom, all the bands of the various regiments ser enaded him. When our band was invi ted into the General's house to lie treated with "Good Irish Whiskey," our little hero, the drummer boy, refused to drink. It was immediately told the General, who took the cup himself and said, "Come my little man, you will drink with the Gener al, won't you ?' "No, thank you, General," replied Franklin, "the last advice my par cuts gave me before I left home was, 'don't touch or taste intoxicating drinks,' and I intend to follow their advice." "That's right, my little man," said the General, "always follow your parents' ad vice." Not long after this, the General, in com pany with another officer, was riding out for display, and being almost always un <ler the influence of liquor,.and especially .so at this time, he attempted to make his horse jump over a wide ditch. The horse being inadequate to this Unreasonable task, missed the opposite side, and, falling into the ditch, broke the General's neck, and thus he. died ! In a few weeks from this sad event, little Franklin took the camp fever. For a short time it was thought that he would recover, but a relapse came on, and it was soon apparent that - he could not long survive. Hci desired to see his Moth cr once more before he died." She Was ac cordingly sent for and e.rrived just in time to take the long, sad farewell of her clarl-. ing boy. The parting scene, though very affecting, was not without a good hope of meeting again in the better country. Lit tle Franklin had been converted, and gave 'evidence at the last that he pleased-God. In conclusion, allow me to ask which of the two was the greater hero, the General, who could not govern himself, or the drum mer boy, who conquered the greatest foe to all mankind, King Alcohol ? A FAMILY NEWSPAPER---DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, ETC. From the Clinton (Iowa; A SPUNKY GIR4,..MARRIED. • Sioux City last winter had an Old Maid's Society, and they had a dinner, and speech es, and a general vowing all around, that they -would lead a single life, and eichow. the naughty men forever. But it is said there is generally a black sheep in the flock, and so it seemed there vas one in this: • While vowing vengeance on the Male sex these decd g sisters were dumb- founded by one of their number, Miss Pan thea L. Kennedy, who arose and - most charmingly ilunc , into their midst the fol lowing bit of treason to celibacy : "Sisters in, vaitin: forhusbands— we have met, because we can't help our selves, to, celebrate this as a day of thanks giving, as appointed by our Chief Magis trate. But tell,:me,„ is it to us really a day cf thanksgiving ? No, sisters ;,rather should. we call it a clay of , mourning-- 7 and for what ? For husbands ! Yes, sisters, for hus bands, which' we feed we need (at least I do), also much desire. Talk to me of wo man's rights ? We have alr the rights we desire, if the men would only propose.- - "Why ,don't - the men - propose, mamma, why kan't the rien propose ? I don't: know how you all feel about 'it, but I do know if the right man comes along and_makes me an offer, I . won't be at yout next Old Maidl dinner. , No, sisters, you may talk as you independence, it' about woman's his all folly ; we are . always dependent,, and upon man, You may say what you like as to our being man's superior, or man's helpmeet, or ature's noblest work, all efwhich_man—will-grant-us,--But what pleasure or happiness can we have in our weary ; pilgrimage through life with out, a. man's yrotecting hand and care over us? _None, asters, none;, and let ,others do as they .will„for me, I am determined td have'one. _And I will here iralunteer a piece of gratuitous advice, and that is, for each of you,to go and do likewise. What other relation in life so honorable as a man's companion, the wife of a loving, kind, fiffectionate-husband?-None-;-and-in order to become such, let us cultivate and practice all those virtues that so.much ad orn our station, and that man so much ad mires, and my word for it, we will find husbands worthy of us. We know that men love us ; know that in our, smile ex ists the poet's inspiration and the poet's reward ; and we also know that for us pa triots have died. Man is never so happy as when in our company, or rendering us a favor, and why is it that .each of us can't have one ? Let us see to it while it is cal led to-day, so that when another Thanks giving Day rolls round, there will not be, an' Old Maid in Sioux City." Behold her reward 1 IL&RRIED. At the residenCe of Hon. A. W. Hub bard, Sioux City, Tuesday evening, June 27, by Revs E. H. Avery, Mr. William D: Irvine and•Xiss Panthea L. Kennedy. A Great California Orchard. Says the Marysville Standarci, a few days ago it was our pleasure to visit the orchard of John Briggs, located about two miles South of Yuba city; in Sutter coun ty. The proprietors is the owner of 426 acres mostly bottom land, lying along the west bank of the Feather river. The soil is a rich, sandy. loam, and composed of the yearly deposits of the river many years ago. No better or richer land is to be found in the State, and the orchard' we shall briefly notice promises to be the pride of the Briggs Brothers, who have a State reputation as of chardLts and fruit grow ers. Before reaehing ttrb orchard proper we rode through a field) of 150 acres of castor: beans, growing in the most luxurious man ner, which field, by the way, is to give place to a new orchard next year, the fruit trees for the same at present growing in the nursery by the side of the field of cas tor beans, and containing 25,000 one year old budded peaph trees, 16,000 plum trees, 6,000 Eastern walnuts, 25,000 California walnuts, 2,000 apple trees, 500 Italian chestnut trees, etc. Passing along through this forest of young 'trees, we arrived at the present peach orchard, consisting of 600 trees, two years old, and some of them bearing this season 150 pounds of peaches. These trees have made a remarkable fine growth, owing to the rich ground upon which they are planted, and in another year will make a tremendous yield of fruit. Passing the peach 'orchard we reached the apricots, 2,200 in number, which are • also two years old, and have borne a fair crop the present season. This orchard presented a sad sight in one respect. The late heavy storm had prostrated many of the trees entire, while in others the limbs had been torn off as if a tremendous tornado had swept over the place. However, the trees were healthy and stout, notwithstanding the mutilal tions here and there. We next rode into the cherry orchard, containing 3,000 of the most thrifty young trees ever seen on any ground. lie different varieties, fif teen in 'number, gave this orchard. a vari ety of aspect, and broke up the usual mo notony of the steeple-like formed cherry orchard. These cherry trees were all Im ported from Rochester, N. Y., about three years ago. Off to the south of this won derful wilderness are two thousand five hundred plum trees of twelve varieties, and - Rie hundred apple trees, mostly of winter varieties. On returning from the orcharhe wagon road we had enter ed, ive—t Briggs Brothers' steam cas tor oil mill. Here we round a magnificent -hydraulic press, with eighty pounds pres sure, and possessing a capacity of com pressing three hundred gallons of oil per day. The mill also contained twenty tons of castor heans, and two thousand five hun dred gallons of oil,,nicely bottled and cas ed, and ready for market. Some tailor's would make capital dra goons, the ` charge so. WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871. 1 L! Occ Irreni !6.- Herald. A gentleman of -Jonesburg, Mo., re cently returned from Texas, relates an ex traordinerpoccurrence which took place short time ghee in the Indian country'. A Choctaw Indian, having- committed willful murder, was arrested, tried and sen tenced to be shot to death. He asked for twenty days in which to prepare and via. it his friends, giving his word of honor as a brave to retu . urn at the appoin'e I time and was allowed to go forth without' a guard or bail. - At the expiration of the v days, according to the appointment, the - Indian, true to his word, at the very hour and minute, galloped up to the place—where sentence was to'be carried out, in compa ty with three of his sisters and three broth ers all• appearing as cheerful Its though they had come to a dance or a frolic. The coffin was then brought on the ground, but some one remarked that it was too small, Alpen---which one of the doomed Indian's brothers told him to lie .down in it and measure, which he - cheerfully did, and laughingly said, "It fits all right." The crowd meanwhile appeared to be in the most cheerful spirits, and cracked jokes and _laughed. At last, when all was ready, the doomed man wee ordered to sit on the ground. A handkerchief was then passed over his eyes by his sis ter. While the sheriff held one hand one of the condemned Indian's brothers held the other on each side of him. The deputy sheriff then stood in an old ous •, a Old - r - f - s - teps in on o tie con demned man, with a rifle. From some cause the rifle went off accidentially, the bullet passing up through the roof of the house. The Indian, believing he was shot, drew 'himself up and shuddered ;- but did not speak or move from the spot. A black mark was then made over the Indi an's heart, — with spittle and powder • by his brother, while the deputy sheriff re loaded his rifle. At the signal he took - steady - aim, fired,, and the centre of the mark. The Indian, with a few struggles, fell back dead, with--th t .• • brother .and the sheriff still holding his hands. No one seemed to be in the least affected except the doomed indian's moth er, who shed tears, but was told to "shut up" by her son, that all was over. On a hot summer's day, I was standing. near a well, when a little bird flew down' seeking water. There . was, indeed, a large trough hear the well, but it was emp ty, and I grieved for a moment, to think that little creature must go away thirsty ; but it settled upon the edge of the trough, bent its little head forward, then raised it again, spread its wings;'and soared away singing ; its thirst was appeased. I walk ed urtes.44l-ork, Isaw a little.hole about the size of a wren's egg. The wa ter held there had been a source of revi val And refreshment ; it had found enough for the present and desired no more. This is contentment. Again I stood by a lovely, sweet-smelling flower, and there came a bee humming and sucking ; and it chose the flower for its field of sweets.— But tte flower :had no honey, This I knew, Tor it had no nectary. 'What then thought I, will the bee do ? It came buz zing Out of the end to take a further flight but it spied the stamina full of golden fa rina, good for making wax, and it rolled its legsgt, ainst them, until they looked like yellow hose, as the bee-keepers say ; and then, heavily laden flew away home. Then said I,."Thou earnest seeking honey and finding none, has. been satisfied with wax, and hest stored it for thy house, that thy labor may not be in vain. This, like wise„ shall be to me a lesson of content ment." ' The night is far spent, the dark night. of trouble that sometimes threatens to close around us ; but the day is at hand, and even in the night there are stars, and I haVe looked out on them, and been com forted ; for as one set I could always . see another rise, and each was a lamp showing me somewhat of the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God. A Great Farmer's Maxims. The successful lifa of Mr. Jacob Straw, the prince -of Amerrean farmers, is attri buted to the close observfnce of the. fol lowing maxims, originated by himself: When you wake up do not roll over, but roll out. It will give you time to ditch all your sloughs, break them, har row them and, sow them with red .clover. One bushel of clover to two bushels of tim othy is enough. Make your fencing high and strong,- so that it will keep cattle and pigs out. If 'you liave brush,' make your lots se cure and keep . your hogs from -the corn, for if the corn is kept clean they will eat it better, than if it is not. Be gine to get your hand: to bed by seven o'clock—they will rise earlyby force of - circumstances. Pay a hand, if he is a poor hand, all you promise , hini ; if he is a good hand pay him a little more ;' it will encourage him to do still better. . Always feed your hands as well as you do yourself, for the laboring men are the bone and sinew of the land and ought to be well treated. . . I am satisfied that getting up early, in dustry and regular habits are the bestrem edies ever prescribed for health. When rainy, bad weather comes, so that you can't work out doors, cut, split and haul your .wood. Make your rack, fix your fence or agate that is off its. hinges, or the weather-board ing of your barn where the wind has blown the siding off, or patch the roof of your barn or house. Next year twill be leap year. Mar riageble young ladies, rejoice! , Contentment. Circumstintial Evidence. About twenty' year ago there w as a case in one of our .Eastern States where man was tiied, convicted and executed for murder. -It was known that he slept with a friend who had some money—sev eral hundred dollars—in.bills which had been paid him a few days before. In the night the friend disappeared; there was blood on the billow and traces of it all the wa from the door to the river which ran near e ouse ; a oo I y .-erc le e longing to the suspected man was found near the river, and the marked money was in his possession. He could not account for the other's disappearance, and turned both red and pale when accused,of the II • den-Could any strongerproofhe need ed? But after the execution the 'inisSing , man wrote to his parents announcing his safe arrival in California, and as soon as he learned :what had happened he explain- ed all the unfortunate circumstances. He had determined to go to California, :but kept his intention a secret except from' a• person in a neighboring town who was .to accompany him. Before retiring -on the night of his disappearance he had exchang ed money with his bed-fellow because the bills he held were. not the kind he wished to carry. Heltwoke in the night and fOund himself bleeding at the nose; seizing a kerchief, which lay on the table, he went to the river to stop the blood. On his way there he dropped the kerchief, and just as, he was returning to the house his intended companion appeared and urged him to start at once for the Pacific coast. Fearingfo - diiturb some one he Ed not re turn to the house, but proceeded with his friend, who furnished him with hat, coat and boots as soon as they reached his res idence. His bed-fellow slept soundly and .- • ew nothin' g_ofhis.departure. The ex planation was clear, and established the innocence of the man who had been con victed ; but it could not return him to life. SLEEP YArSTING APOPLEXY. -W a man is asleep, his pulse beats and his lungs play, but he is without sense, and If a person faints, he, too, is without sense, but he has no pulse and does not breathe. apoplexy is between the two ; the heart beats, the lungs play as in sleep, and there is no sense as in fainting but you . cannot shake the man backto-f . cannotife, In sleep, the face is natural ; in a faint ing fit, it has the pallor of death ; in apo plexy, it is swollen, turgid ? and fairly liv ed. If.a man is .asleep let him alone ; nature will wake him up as soon as he has got sleep enough. When a person faints,all that is need ed is to lay him down flat on the floor and he will "come to" in double quick time. He fainted because - the heart• missed a boat, failed for au instant, failed for only once to send the amount of blood $0 the brain. If you place the patient in a hor izontal position, lay him on his back, .it does not require much force of the heart to send blood on a level to the head; but you set a man up, the blood has to be shot upward to the head, and .this requires much more force ; yet in nine cases out of ten, if a person faints and falls to the floor, the first done is to run to him and set him on a chair. In apoplexy, as there is too much blood in the head, every one can see that the best position to set a man up, and the blood naturally tends downwards, as much so as water will come out of.e, bottle when turned upside down, if the cork is out. A Romantic Tradition. There is a romantic story told of New port affairs in the last century, which if old to some, may be quite new to many others. It runs thus ; That a Mr. Crans ton, on a voyage to the West Indies, was overtaken and captured by the pirates.— Seven years went by, bringing no news of the missing man to 'his wife, who long be fore the end of that time accounted her, self a widow. Laying aside her weeds, she prepared bridal dresses anew to con sumate.her mariage with a Mr. Russell, of Boston. On the eventful day, the es caped prisoner reached his home to learn the tidings. He called at the house un der the assumed name of a friend of the late Mr. Cranston, but when alone with the bride to be, he pushed back the hair .from his forehead and pointed to a scar once well known to .her. The.lady recog nized him, and though in anything but a groom-like toilette, she flew to his,arms claiming him as indeed hers. Mr. Russell was called in to learn the truth of the old proverb. "There's many a slip betwixt t4.e..clip and the lip;" and to resign his fair prospects. The story runs that the original pair were united over again, and that,Mr. Russell gallantly presented the the bride with a wedding portion. , The Burial of a Bee. A correspondent of the Glasgow Her ald transmits the following curious inci dent : "On Sunday last I had the pleas ure ofWitnessing a most interesting cere mony, Which I desire to record for the ben efit of your readers. While walking near Falkirk, we observed two bees issuing from one of the hives, bearing with them the defunct body of a comrade, with which they flew for a distance of twelve yards. We followed them closely, and noted the care with which they selected a conveni ent hole on the side of the gravel-walk, the tenderness with which they conamit ed the body, head downwards, •to the earth, and the solicitude with which they afterwards pushed two little stones, doubt less memoriam.' Their task being ended, they paused for about a moment, perhaps to drop over the grave of their friend a sympathizing tear, and then flew away to their hives." A dentist can stop a woman's tooth but not her jaw: We scatter seeds with careless hand, ' And dreain we ne'er shall see them more But for a thousand years Their fruit appears, In weeds that mar the land, Or healthful store. The deeds we do, the words we say— Into still air they seem to fleet, We count them ever .ast: But they shall last— In the dread judgment they And we shall meet! - I Charge thee by the years gone by, For the love's sake of brethren dear, Keep thou the one true way. • •Li work and in play, • Lest in that world their cry Of woe thou hear. How thd Darlings_Keep Cool. When the•female mind seta about mak ing the female body cool and comfortable, fun sets , in. If the subject belongs to the better class—the upper two dozen—has on a delicate linen gannentnext_herperson_ called—, well never mind what it is called. It is a garment very low in the neck, brief in the skirt, and deficient in the arms. It is elaborately worked in the bosom. We owe that description to Brown's young man, who is rooming about a mile from the city, looks down upon the grounds of the Hon.—, where on Mondays the wearing apparel of the family flutter and kick-upon-the line while them naughty breezes take- liberties with them. • Over this -delicate indelicate garthent a pair of French corsets or stays areclasp ed. The cordage and rigging of this ar ticle are really wonderful. 'What Whale bones, what steel clasps, what cords cross and recross, gathering power in the ar rangement, until the delicate hands of the fair owner can bring about forty pounds .en Ito the square inch. O.• - - Ivor-this-is thrown-the-muslin-wrapper:- And it looks cool and comfbrtable. But we will wager our.best pair of glasses a gainst a Seneca sandstone that a man can not be found capable of bearing that sum mer dress one hour.—However, the female form and constitution' differ materially from the male. We' suppose our fair friends know what they are about, and if they .do not, it cannot be helped by us.— Washington Capital. Saturday Night How many a kiss has been given,. how many a curse, hoW. many :a caress, how ma ny a look of hate, low many a kind word, how many a promise has been broken, how many a soul lost, how many a loved one lowered into the narrow chamber, how many a babe has gone from earth to heav en,. how many a little crib or. radle stands silent now, which ;last Saturday night held the rarest treasures of the earth A week is a life. 'A week is a history. A week marks events of srrrow and glad ness, which people neverheard. Go home to your family, man in business! •Go home to the chair that awaits you wrong ed waif on life's brakers 1 . Go home to those you love. man of toil, and give on e night to the joys and comforts flying by- Leave your books with complex fig ures, your dingy office, your dingy shop! Rest with those you love, for heaven on ly knows.what the next Saturday night will bring ! forget the world of care and the bit:tiles of • life which► .have furrpwed the week ! Draw close around the .fami ly hearth! Saturday night has awaited. your coming in sadness, in tears, and in silence. Go home to those•you love, and bask in the loved presence, and meet to return the loved embrace of your heart's pets, -strive to be a better. man, and bless Heaven for giving his weary children so dear a stepping stone in the river, to thee ternal, as Saturday night. Pearls. Teach self-denial,.and make its prac tice pleasureable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime -than ever issued flora the brain ofthe wildest dream er. It is easy to exclude the noontide light by closing the eyes i • and it is easy to re sist the clearest truth by hardening the the heart against it. In all differences consider that both you and your opponent are drooping off, and that ere long your very • memories will be extinguished. There are moments when petty slights are harder to bear-than even& serious in jury. Men have died of the festering of a 0 0 -net-bite. Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing or ly. finan behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. Public reformers had need first prac tice on their owu hearts that which they. purpose to try on others. Steadfastness is a. noble quality; but unguided by knowledge or humility, it be comes rashness. ' Next to the man who can answer a• question thoroughly, is the man who 'can ask it clearly. The more any one speaks of himself, the' less he likes to any another talked of. No science is speedily leained by the noblest genius without tuition. ' What thou seest; speak of with cau tion. . An idler boasting to a farmer of his an cient family, laying much stress upon his having descended irom_an illustriouS man who lived several g•nerations ago. "So much worse for you," replied thelarmer, "for we find the oler the seed the, poorer the crop. • . A prudent man is like a pin—his 'head prevents him from goina too far. TOO GOOD A RECOMMENDATION.—Apat eat medicine vender in one of our princi pal cities was' dilating to a large crowd upon the wonderful efficacy of his iron bitters, pronouncing them the - great, pan acea,lnd all-patent in building up an i ron. constitutiou." "That is so—that is so," said abysta,nd "What he tells you is a fact,gentleman --every word of it." quack; "Here is a living testimony right before your own eyes— a Man who has us ed the bitters and can recomend them." "No; 'not exactly that," replied the old fellow; I have never used the stuff my self, but, you see Steve Jen kins did, and they *ust saved his life." "How is that ?" questioned some one. • "Well. you see, Stevelad taken the bitters just one week before he wasshoved in pris on for murder. , He was stripped of every thing in the shape of iron about hima'and yet he made a bar and worked his way out." "Probably he bad whiskey enough in him to furnish a bar," suggested a wag, "No he did'nt," retorted the first. "He had been taking this• man's iron bitters, d'ye mind ? and what does Steve do but open a vein in his arm, and takei, ron enough out of his blood to make a crowbar, and pry the gates open with it . and let himself out. Fact!" ' The "medicine man" subsided, and no more was heard of him in that ,quarter. Alphabet of Short Rules. Attend well to youTb - usiiias. Be punctual in your payments. , Consider well before you promise. Dare to do right. Envy no man. .7 Faithfully perform . your duty. Go not in the path of vice. Have, respect for your character. Know thyself Lie_not,_for uny_considemtion Make few acquaintances. Never profess what you do not practice. Occupy your time in usefuluess. Postpone nothing , that you can do now. Quarrel not with your neighbor. Recompense every Man for his labor. _Save something against a day of trou ble. • Treat everybody with kindness. Use yourself to moderation. Vilifyno person's reputation. ' Watchfully guard against idleness. Xamine your conduct daily. ~- • Yield to superior judgement. Zealously pursue the right path. KEEP YOUR To COOL: The closing words of James Parton in his article - on "Artemus Ward" are as follows : ' "He was not a deep • drinker. He was a map of strong appetite. It was the nights wasted in eonviviahty, which, his system needed for sleep, that sent him to his grave forty years before his time. For . men of his position and cast of character, for all editors, literary men, and artists,' there is only one safety—teetotalism, •He should have taken the advice of the stage driver on the plains to whom he offered some whiskey, and I recommended it strongly to countless hosts who read- this paper every week : don't drink, I won't drink,; and I don't want to see any one else drink. I'm of the opinion of those mountains—keep yoUr top cool.— They've got snow and I've set brains ; that's all the differenee." A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.—May up a mong the Alleghenies there is a spring so small that a single ox on 'a summer's day could drain. it dry. It steals its. unob trusive way among the hills, till it spreads out in the beautiful Ohio.. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more, than a hnndred es and cities,.and many a cultivated farm —then joining the Misissippi it stretches away some twelve miles more till it falls into the emblem of eternity. It is one_of the greatest tributaries to the ocean, which obedient only to Fod, shall roar till the angels, with-one foot on the sea and the other on the land, shall swear that time. shall be no more. So with mortal influ ence. It is n rill—a rivulet—an ocean, and isboundlessand fathomless as eterni ty.-21firror. LIFE.—Men who have half a dozen iz roiF in the fire are not the ones to go cra zy. -It is the man of voluntary .or :com pelled leisure, who mopes '.and pines. and thinks himself into the mad house or the grave. Motion is all nature's laiv. Ac tion is man's salvation, physical and men tal ; and yet nine out.of ten are wishfully looking forward to the coveted hour when they shall have leisure to do nothing— the very siren that' has lured to death many a successful?' man. He only istru ly wise who lays himself out to work till life's latest hour, and that is the man who will live the longest, and live to most purpose. A PRETTY RoatANcE.-L-There is a pretty romance, or rather superstition, connected with Lake Copeck, N. Y.. that lingered in the remembrance of a few of the old est persons that frequented the - island in est happiest days ; "On a midsummer night, between the hours—of twelve : and one, and often during the harirestanoon, beautiful lady withxolden curling hair, clad in a white flowing .robe, may be seen quickly rowing a lig 't skiff for a moment only toward the midd e of the lake, where she will suddenly disap ear. It is the spirit of 'a maiden (so t __tory runs) seek ing her lover who was drownded in the lake Many years ago." Franklin said : "A newspaper and Bi ble in every house, and a good school in every district, are the principal supprot ers of virtue, morality and chil liberty":" 82,00, PER 'YEAR NUMBER 7. t t a' nit $ nimat. An early riser--the sth "Katy Did" is here Our devil says the prettiest girls lie .ev er saw live in Waynesboro'. A youn in town -sa W'Akre sulg you can't." An Oregon toast, over a glass ofthe ar• dent: "Here's what makes us: wear old clothes." The editor who publishes a paper that makes nobody mad has been dead these many years . He left mt deeendants. Man fishing below the dam: boy comes along and inquires: 'cGot any bites ?" Man replies, "Lots of'em !" Boy drawls out ,—"Y-e-s under your hat!" race be tween boy and stone—boy a little ahead. A man named Oats was biuled up re cently for beating his wife 'and children. On being sentenced to imprisonment the brute remarked that it was ye _bar_ • a man was not allowed to thrash his own oats. "Why do you drive such a pitiful look-. ing carcas as that? . Why don't. you put a heavier coat of flesh on him, Pat?" "A heavier coat of flesh, on him! By the powers, the poor creature can hard ly carry what little there is on him now!" A school teacher asked anew boy "who made the glorious universe?" but.the boy couldn't tell; so the the teacher got a raw hide Sand told the boy •if he didn't tell he would.whip him. The boy looked at the whip itild snivelled out, "Please, sir, I did; but I won't do it again !" An exchange tells of a girl who hated her lover to such - an extent that, when he called to see her on Sunday evening she threw both her arms around his neck and squeesed him almost to death. ,The youth was so allarmed that he didn't call. again until the nest evening. A dandy studdering about a tavern took up a pair of spectacles which lay on the table, put thergrr -- ..c . his nose, and turning to the :tookingglass, said: Lan lord. how do thek become me? Don't you think they improve my looks?" "I think they do,' replied the latillord,"they hide part of your face. Study your interests closely,and do not spend any time in electing Presidents, Senators and other smalter, officers, or talking of hard times when spending your time in whittling store boxes, etc., Take yours time and make calculation, don't do things in a hurry, but do them at the right time, and keep your mind as well as your body employed. As four or five darkies were passing an agricultural • implement store, the other day, one of them, pointing to a .cultiva tor, said : I "A man can jist sit on that thing and ride while he's ploughing." "Golly" replied the other, "the raseals was too sharp to think of dat "fore de nig ger was free." . Not long ago,a religioussociety in Con necticut met to decide what color they should paint their meeting house. Some proposed one color and some another.— At last one said; "I move that we• paint it rum color; for Deacon Smith has had his face painted that rotor for a" number of years and it grows hrighter and bright er every year. • • A negro on , his 'death-bed declared that he wanted to make his peace-with-qt ternity. Said the falter • confesor to him: "Now, Ctesar, are you quite sure you have forgiven, all your 'enemies V Do you free ly forgive your neighbor Brown, for the: great injury be has. done.'‘youl" "I say massa, if I ;dies, dell I forgib' him; but if I' gets well, den dat nigger better look out for•himself, sar; dat's DID - SHE LovE.—"Martha, dost thou loie me?" asked a Quaker youth of ono at whose Shrine' his fondest heart's feel ings had teed 'offered up: "Why; setli, we are .commanded to love - one another are weliot?" she answered. "Ah Martha! but lost thoif 'regard me with that feel ing Whibia . the world culls love?" "I hard ly,knon.whattto tell thee," Seth. I have tried to bestow my love upon all; ' but I sometimes think that perhaps• thou art getting more than your share." A newly-fledged Philadelphia doctor recently settled in Havana, 111., and' his first case was a boy; wilbile shelling, pop-cern, 7 ,got a kernel up ,his nose. The Doctor examined the case, lOoked at the patient's tongue ] and then ordered a fire 'to be built, '-Wh . en, : .that was done, the doctor told them to hold they over the fire until the. kernel,-,got ho't enough to "pop out," heold.znaniweit up stairs and got his gun; but-while he was loadit g it the doctor esealM, •: . An incident is:said have • occurred recently in Chatliani street; ..iNew York, where a countryinan ‘N:a..S . Claraorously be. sieged by a sliopkeeper. `...Have you any lne shirtS?"-:'Said . the countryman. ... - _ "A svlendid aisortment;iii: ;'Step in . sir: Every price atul every - style`,". `.'Are they clean,?" "To be sure. Step in sir." , "Then," said the cguntryn. an with great gravity; "you had.better vat one on for •.. • . - MIEN s : "Gb it en you get married
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