.... ... „ .10. . .:y1.., + . i til k . ...._ . .. . . 45, i ..',. ....ix,,: ~ *1 . ,. , ~,, ,6 i ~ ~. , ~ A . ,1. , :. . ! ,, lif .. „,..,; •- .. ois ~.1 , ••••.1.„.. . .. • ~.: • , •, 1 I . ..1 ~ .: ~ ;-..; ) ,_ .„,„:„.,, ~, •, ? -„,,, *. ~: t ; • 3 4 04 . 1 ::: • 1:1?. : i .!' .!',. -.! :.!,, .1 Al ~ it, 4 j . : . ; ' f 1 . 1 4 ., : ;...... 3 : : 1 3 ? ' ~, .. • 1 . . .t Z - J ., , „... ~. •, , ... , . , ~... • .. A. c .. . . , BY W. BLAIR. °LITHE 25 tint Vottrg. WEB ARGUMENT. 0, life is short, and love is brief;. Life ends in woe, and love in grief; Yet bothAr bliss are giyen. Ahd wise philosophy will teach, Who one enjoys enjoyeth ea.,h, :And 'comes most near to heaven. Now: Ton and I, clenr girl, w ill know All bliss is fleeting here below, As mornlists do prove. Then let its haste ; while youth is rife, to snatal4he fondest joy in life, And.enly, jive .tolove. O love, it isthe tender rose, • That for a.,little season blows, And withers, fades and dies; Then seize it in its budding grace, And in thy. bosom give it place, lie its pureet perfunie, flies. Love is the, bubble that cloth swill/ ike—wine,autlym=ilowinfrb a , A:3 22 oraMit sparkling there; Then, Lasts thee, dear, its sweets to Bip, And, let them melt upon thy lip, ,Or they will waste in air. O love, is the <l , ?wdrop brig ,t That steals upon the flowers at night, And lingers there till morn ; The flower cloth drop, with Ihe day, The sun dissolves the drop away ; So love is killed by scorn. o„_love_islike_the_lineting-spark 'Midst fading embers in the dark— 'Tie brightest as it dies; But 'fis a l'hcamix with swift wings, And forth from its own ashes springs, And soars for genial skies, Thep taste love's joys, while yet you may ,For they w•iih,ayintry age decay, 4nd coldness with them smother; And if young, love sjmuld.eyer find O]ue maiden's heart to prove unbind, He soon will seek another. 0115allauton ifittslVA:ooA..l3):WAi'qD)VititsiNual "Also, to ray beloved nephew, I 'will :and bequeath my private escritoire, and ,all contained therein, in acknowledge ment of his never-ceasing kindness." This was the only part of the will I es pecially noticed. To be sure, I realized, "in a-sort of a way, that all my forty or fifty cousins had been in some way re inembercu, but for all that, my thoughts had been wool-gathering, or some where ,else, until my name was mentioned. And co the old lady was dead. I re ;membered that Iliad a sort of a sad feel ing that I had not tried harder to have made her life a happy one. Naturally lithlt-finding. and especially suspicious of Sortune-hunters, I had kept a proper .distance, only writing once a year, and ,culling as often. I was quite surprised 'that 1 was mentioned at all, and even when my name was ,mentioned I could .hardly realiie it. But owning a thing raises one's curios ity as to what it is like; so when the rest were at last satisfied, I looked around for my property. Up stairs and down stairs I searched, but no escritoire could be found, until at last I was beginning to think it was all a hoax, when some one suggested looking in the garret. So 'with slow, indifferent steps I crawled up the queer old stairs, and the first thing that' I beheld was my escritoire ; hot, sad to relate, a more dilapidated looking afilcit I never saw. The knobs were bro ken off; and the doors half hanging by a few rusty screws. In fact, my first thought was that my aunt had insulted' me. But, out of respect to her, I had it taken to my "bachelor's hall," as I called it. Perhaps 'with a little fixing, it might be made to look quite respectable. .So 'that afternoon found me, with ham mer and screws, doing the best at it. But even with all my pains -taking, it was not beautiful, and I half fancied my dreary room looked all the more dreary for my new posession. At that time I was a book-keeper in a bank•with a small salary,-and no pros pects of advancluent. Not that I could not have done anything else, but there seems to be a sort of faeination in a bank to one who has been employed for a long time which keeps them there even when they know they could do better some where else. As a gencial thing, I was quite con tented. My pay came regular, and my being economical kept me quite nicely.— Of course, under present circumstances, could never think of marrying, and the prospect of always living in those dull 'MOMS alone was not very pleasant. 13ut I remember this particular night, all the blue devils were let looSe on me. I was completely discouraged. I think there axe times in . the. life of every one when they are left to contend alone with . 811 the horrors of darkness ; when some ,imp, bolder than the others, dares whis per in his ear,- - "Your life is a failure. The world would be better without you ?" I endured such thoughts as long as pos sible. then concluded it would never do, and looked around for something to help dispossess myself of my tormentors. AV eye fell on my newlyacquired property, I had never looked it careful ly over ; so I ..began to pull out the drawers, and soon was quite surprised to find how in terested I was. There were a few old pa pers, and in one drawer I found a pack age of old letters, yellow and wrinkled with age. On the outside of the package was written, in my aunt's well known writing, "Lost at Sea." So even she had her story. I had always wondered why she had never married, and that "Lost at Sea" explained the whole mystery. Put ting them carefully back I continued my explorations until I concluded I had look ed it all over, and was just going to re tire when I happened to think that some times such old-fashioned affairs had secret springs. So I went over it again, trying with my thumb and fingers every place that might possibly open, and at last I was reward ed. Sure enough, there was a slide, and back of that a sort of box form which I drew out a paper. I remember I felt a little ashamed to find my hands tremble as I opened the paper. I glanced at the date. It was only the week before my aunt had died. The words blurred before my eyes, but I managecLto read. It seem ed to be a continuation of the will, and read as follows : • ‘.`Also. to my. mephew I will bequeath the sum .of . forty. thousand dollars, to be _ aid at _the end=of--thre- 'ea —a Nyvizlin-,2•:, itirli at that time own exertions, to add, thereto the sum of ten thousand dollars. At the same time, the greatest secrecy must be preserved concerning his future prospects. Also,at the end of that time, he must be able to swear that he has.never revealed thepos session of the will,, or the money will be left to charitable institutions." Then followed her name in full, and al so that of a prominent lawyer. Well, here was fbod for reflection. I couldsearcely realize, at first, that it could be true r lat f thought-I—knew-enough-a-- bout forms to be sure it was a that would stand balm the oddest thing I had ever heard of: But she was always up to odd things ; besides, I thought she was not pleased with my easy way of tak ing life,•and had taken this means to Wake me up, trusting to my well-known curios ity fur finding the Will. She had certainly succeeded in arous— ing me. Sleep forsook my • pillow that night ; one moment 1 would imagine my serf rich and respected, then, like a grim specter, would come the conditions of the will. How could I, without any help, make ten thousand dollars,was more than I could tell. I must leave the bank, that was sure; but what to do, or where to go, were questions that could not be answer ed that night, or the next, At last, I became so stupid and unso cial that my friends all left me in disgust. I grew poor and haggard, and at the end of g, mouth could hardly realize I was the same person as the gay, careless boy of a month before. I hardly knew how it would have ended for me, if just at that time I had not xeceived a letter from an old friend of my.aunt's living in Wiscon sin, saying his daughter was going to New York to attend school ; that she was not accustomed to traveling alone, and as the place in which I lived was.quite a rail— road center, and to prevenfher making any mistake, would 1 kindly.meet her at the two o'clock train on the twenty-fah of the present month. She would be dres sed in brown, would wear a blue vail,and, to make her still more easily distinguish ed, she should carry a sheet of music. Fun. once my thoughts were taken away from my • fortunes, and I found myself wondering what she would be like, and how long she would have to wait. The two o'clock train found me anxious ly inspecting the passengers as they poured out of the cars. Sure enough there were plenty with brown dresses and blue veils, but none with anything that looked like music in their bands. I concluded she had not come, when I heard a musical voice at my elbow say : "I do l,elieve you are the gentleman papa said I would find here to help me. Arn't you Mr. Collin wood ?" Yes, that was my name, and there was the brown dress, blue veil and sheet of music ; and more than all that, there was the most charming specimen of humanity I had seen for many a day. I recogniz ed her immediately. She had to wait two hours, and you may be sure we improved every moment. After I had seen the last faint flutter of the blue veil through the car window, I went back to my lonely room more gloomy than ever, and, my thoughts were very much divided between thousand dol lar bills and Miss Dalton. HencefOrth, I wan a changed man. I was ready to work, and willing to do any thing that was honorable,and would bring me money. And it was perfectly wonder ful how well I succeeded. People seemed to help me of their own accord. There is an old saying, "The gods help those who help themselves," and I proved it true. Not that I rose to honor by any royal road, but the end of the first year of my probation found me with a thou-, sand dollars to show for my work, and better yet, I had faith in myself: If I never saw a cent of the forty thousand dollars, I could take Bare of myself, and sometimes not so terrible far in the future, might allow myself to think of something better than always living alone. About this time I found a chance to invest my little fortune on what seemed good security, and it proved profitable, for before I had time to think much a— bout it, my thousand dollars . had doubled twice. I don't believe there ever was a happier fellow then I then. A few days after my goad fortune,bus iness called me to New York. I had not forgotten my pleasant acquaintance, and from her father lied learned she was still I 1u ‘i • Z .." I /Al I C 1 11 ; k :4 1 ,' • WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 25,1872. there. As I had her address, I felt at liberty to call. She really seemed pleased to see me, and I, well, Ido not want to make this a love story,so I won't tell how I felt. At any-rate, my visit lengthened from two days to the week, and at the end of that time she had promised she would be my wife at the end of a year. Fortune continued to favor me, in ac cumulating money, at the end of the year I had my ten thousand dollars all ready. I. hastened to the place I had left my pre cious will, almost dreading to look for fear it had disappeared ; but no, it was there, and I took it to the lawyer who had signed it, asked him to put me in poesess ion of my property, as I had fulfilled the conditions to the letter. He looked it over, then said : "Young man, I am very sorry to dis., appoint you, but this will will never stand in law, for the very important reason that your aunt did not have forty thousand dollars to will to any one. She said She was goiug to make a man of you, if pos sible,and am happy to find she has done it. You have my congratulations." Well, I must confers, at first I did feel pretty badly about it, but I managed _to live through it. ,I determined to' visit Miss Dalton at once, tell her all about it, and see if she was still willing to take me for better or worse. As soon .as_pissil le afterAwtriw' ,- re Ift - Cd — the whole story to her. I was hardly prepared for the way she took it. One moment she seemed ready to cry,the next she could hardly keep from laugh ing. At last - she - found - voice enou-glrfo say, "0 Charley, I knew it all the time. Your aunt told father all about it." The loss of my forty thousand dollars did not trouble me much after that,for one month from that time Miss Dalton became my wife. WORTH BEADING AND WORTH HEED nco.---Let not your tongue cut your The first step towards happiness is to forget one's s.elt: Let it be seen and felt that your aim is to be—not to seem to be. Men may ,judge us by the success of our efforts ; God looks at the efforts them- The chains of habits are generally too small to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. The best charities are those which are daily dispensed in pleasant words and kindly to all round. Blessed are they whose eye is serene ; whose voice is gentle ; whose heart is sweet; whose life makes happiness. Nothing can tend more to the health of the body than the tranquility of the mind and the due regulations of the pas sions. If good people would but make good ness agreeable, and smile, instead of frow ning in their virtue, how many would be won to the good cause. A true religious instinct never depriv ed man of any single joy ; mournful fac es and a sombre aspect are the conven al affections of the weak-minded. Never mind where you work; care more about how you work. Never mind who sees, if God approves. If he smiles be content. We cannot be always SAC when we are most useful. chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to ve..x: one, and in, pru dently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases. ,AN EXAMPLE FOR 'MEN} MEN.- Those extra nice young men who never wish to soil their hands with manual la bor, but aspire, to professional and lazy 'gentility," can learn a good lesson from the course pursued by the nephew of the late Colonel Holt, of Hartford, Conn., who received from his uncle an immense fortune. At the time of Colt's death, the nephew was learning his trade of machin ist, in his uncle's shop, working diligent ly every day, [subject to the same rules as other apprentices. On his death, he became a millionaire.; but choosing a guardian to manage his property, he continued at his labor and served out his apprenticeship.. Now, when he walks the fine rooms of hi: house, or drives a 'handsome and costly team, he has con sciousness that if his riches take to them selves wings and fiy away, he is with the means of getting an honest livelihood, and can make a fbrtune for himself. He was a great mechanic, and is not asham ed of it again. Labor, with its accom 7 panying dirt, is not dishonorable or -de grading; laziness, and its almost necessa ry evils, are disgusting and destroying. Dirty hands and a sense of independence, are to be preferred to kid gloves and the consciousness of being a mere drone in the human hive. lools rust of neglect —wear out from use. Neglect is crimin al—use is beneficial. So with man's ca pacities—better wear them t. at than let them rust. The men who are working at the boil ing furnaces and rolls, in the machine shops and fitetories, on the farms and a mong the hills, will in ten or twenty years be our legislators, leaders and man ufacturers and capitalists. All men can labor but all cannot save. Those who save and use their savings to the best ad vantage will be the men to stand in the front rank. Those who do not will live and die and be forgotten like the horses that haul the iron. they make or the pro duce they grow. To eat and drink and sleep and work is not all of life. The ur gency of these wants blind the true ob ject of living. There is room in the world for all the good, industrious and think ing men that can lift themselves above the common level of humanity. Silent contempt always is the sharpest reproof: . Patrick 'Henry. In the Atlantic for July Parton begins his story of Patrick Henry. His narra tive begins in October, 1776, when Jef— ferson, having resigned his seat in Con— gress and having declined the mission to France with Franklin_andDeane,sethim , self to the work of reform in his own State —"a slovenly, slatternly old England in the woods, where the abuses and absurdi ties of the old country were exaggerated." There is a clear account of the abuses which Jefferson and his friends sought to do away, and prominent among these was the intolerance of the established church, which Mr. Parton illustrates by the case of three Baptist preachers who were ar raigned as "disturbers of the peace" before magistrates who were determined to con vict them. Patrick Henry rode fifty miles to defend them, and the following account is given of his performance—it was more than a speech—on that occasion : , "He entered the court house :while the prosecuting attorney was reading the in dictment. He was a stranger to most of the spectators, and being dressed in the count: - ntrancp _.ry manner, Ais entrance excited no remark. When the prosecutor had finish ed his brief opening, the,new-comer took' the indictment, and glancing at it with an expression of puzzled incredulity, began_ ora man who LO bpeak --- ni ora man who hak heard something too astonishing for belief : "May it please your worships, I chink [ heard read by the prosecutor, as I enter ed the house, the naperano_w_hold in my_ hand. If I have rightly understood, the King's attorney has framed an indictment for the purpose of arraigning and punish ing by imprisonment these three inoffen sive persons before the bar of this Court for a crime of great magnitude—as dis turpers of the peace. May it please the Court, what did I hear read? Did I hear it distinctly, or was it a mistake of my own ? Did .1 bear an expression as of a crime, that these men, whom your wor ships are about to try for misdemeanor, are charged with—with—with WHAT ?' "Having delivered these words in a halting, broken manner, as if his mind was staggering under the weight of a mon strous idea, be lowered his voice to its deepest base ; and assuming the profound est solemnity of manner, answered his own question ; Preachin 3. the Gospel of the Son of God 1' "Then he paused. £very.eye was now riveted upon him, and every mind intent ; for all this was 'executed as a Kean or Siddons would have perfbrmed it on the stage—eye, voice, attitude, gesture. all in accord to plioduce the utmost possibility of effect. Amid a silence that could be felt, be waved the indictment three times round his head, as though still amazed, still unable to comprehended the charge. "Then he raised his hands. and eyes to heaven, and in a tone of pathetic energy wholly nncescribable, exclaimed 'Great God!' ,`At this point, such was the power of his delivery, the audience relieved their feelings by a burst of sighs and tears. The orator continued: "May it please your worships, in a day like this, when Truth is about to burst her fetters, when mankind are about to be a roused to claim their natural and inalien able rights, when the yoke of oppression that has reached the ilderness of Ameri ca, and the unnatural .alliance of ecclesi astical and civil power, are about to be dissevered—at such a plriod when Liber ty, Liberty of Conscie nee, is about to wake from her slumbering% and inquire into the reason of such charges as I find exhibited here to-day in this indictment —' Here occurred another of his appall. ing pauses, during which he cast piercing looks at the judges and at the three clergy men arrigned. 'Then resuming, he thrill ed every hearer by his favorite device of repetition: am not dweived—ac— cording to the contents of the paper I now hold in my hand—these men are accused of preaching the Gospel of the Son of God!' He waved the document three times round his head as though still lost in wonder; and then, with the same electric attitude of appeal to Heaven, he gasped, 'Great God !' "This was followed by another burst of feeling from the spectators ; and again this master of effect plunged into the tide of his discourse : `May it please your worships,there ara peri ods in the history of men when.corruption and depravity have so long debased the human character, that man sinks under the weight of the oppressor's 'hand—be comes his servile, his abject slave. He licks the hand that smites him. He bows in passive obedience to the mandates of the despot; and, in this state of servility, he receives his fetters, perpetual bond age. But may it please your worships, such a day has passed. From that period when our fathers left the land of their na tivity for these American wilds, from the moment they placed their feet upon the American continent, from that moaleut despotism was crushed, the fetters of dark ness were broken, aad Heaven decreed that man should be free, free to worship God according to the Bible. In vain were all their sufferings Rad bloodshed to sub jugate this new World, if we, their off spring, must still be oppressed and perse cuted. But, may it please your worship; permit me to inquire.once more, For what arc these men about to be tried? This pa per says, For preaching the gospel of the Saviour to Adam's fallen race 'Again he paused. For the third time be slowly waved the indictment round his head ; and then, turning to the judges, looking them full in the face, exclaimed with the most impressive effect. 'What laws have they violated ?' The whole as sembly were now painfully moved and excited. The presiding judge ended the scene by saying, 'Sheriff, discharge these mon.' " DO THE RIGHT. Do the right, 0 child of pleasure ! Let thy heart be free from stain, Spurn from thee each selfish treasure, Love the good and thou shalt gain. In the gilded haunt of beauty _ Oft the demon doth .invite : Bear n mind thy noblest duty -81, in the wrong and do the right. Do the right, 0 child of sorrow? Never let thy hopes grow faint; For the sunshine comes to-morrow— Strive to be a worthy. saint: Even though life to thee seems dreary, And thy prospects dark as night, Never let thy faith grow weary— Banish w.ong and trust the right. Do the right and never falter, Never be ashamed to own, That the right thou wilt not palter, Nor its happiness disown. • Be a good and faithful servant ; Though your station in the fight May be humble, yet, if fervent, -lion - wilt - conkre - r - w;ith - the right. TOASTS AND SENTimEwiik';--May the honest heart never know distress. May we be sla• — duty: - - May care be a- sti n gern where virtue . resides. ; May hemp bins these whom honor can. not. May our prudence secure us filer — rdi: but enable us to live without assistance. May sentiment never be sacrificed by the tongue of deceit. May our happiness be sincere and our, joys lasting. May the smiles of conjugal felicity com pensate the frowns of fortune. May the tears of sensibility never nev er cease to . flow. 1 , 1 -- tiff' iferrnenta - be foffid- _ay tlfe roaa co prei by none but those whe deserve it. May avarice lose his purse and benev olence find it. May the liberal hand have free access to the purse of plenty. ) May the impulse of generosity never be checked by the power of necessity. May we ever keep the whip-hand of our enemies. May we, always forget when we forgive au injury - . May we learn to be frugal before we are obliged to be so. May we treat our friends with kind ness and our enemies with generosity. May reason be the pilot when passion blows the gale. IDLENESS.—Idleness is the nurse of all vices. It moves so slowly that they all .overtake it. The Germans and Italians say in overbially that "Idleness is the dev il's pillow. Some effect to excuse this dydra-headed habit by asking what harm can a person do when he does nothing.— The reply is ready and plain. He who is passive in allowing decay, is himself a destroyer. While standing still and re fusing to help, he obstructs the move— ments of others. We are told in Holy Writ, "By much slothfulness the building ,decayeth, and through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through." And again, it is said, "I went by the field .of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the void of understanding, and 10, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof,and the stole wail thereof was broken down." The words of Cato the elder are, in the proverb, "that one who does nothing learns to*do evil." Idleness has been described to be a moral leprosy which soon eats its way into the heart, and corrodes our happiness while it undermines our health. The Frankfort Yeoman. tells this : "Once upon a time a young Kentucky physician, who had been regularly ed ucated for his profession, was called to the bedside of a patient that he had been attending with his best care for some time but who obstinately grew worse and worse, until now his end seemed very near. "Doctor," said the sick man, "I am dy ing—l am certain I am dying, and I be lieve you have killed me." The doctor seemed to think very earnestly for a mo ment or two, and then quite gravely and seriously replied : "Yes, I see that you are dying ; and, on reflection, I believe that you are right—l believe that I have killed you ; but I here take an oath that if God will forgive me for having uninten tionally murdered you, I will never mur der another—l will never give another dose of physic professionally •as long as I live." And he kept his oath ; he at once quit medicine entirely ; turned his attention to the study of law ; obtained a license in, due course, and, after a • few years' S'ithees:dul practice, became one of the most ensilhent circuit judges of that day'in Kentucky—now, nearly forty years ago." THE SECRET OF HEALTH. —First, keep warm. Second, eat regularly and slowly. Third, maintain regular bodily habits.— Fourth, take early and very light suppers or better still, none at all. Fifth, keep a clean skin. Sixth, get plenty of sleep at night. Seventh, keep cheerful and re spectable company. Eighth, keep out of debt. Ninth, don't set your mind on things you don't need, Tenth, mind your own business. Eleventh, don't set up to be a sharp of any kind. Twelfth, sub due curiosity. how terrible to die unprepared. Yet, every tick of the clock,and one soul some where is launched into eternity. Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them. The last dead lock—the door of a I)ur ial vault. A Philosophical Darkey. An elderly darkey, with a very philos ophical and retrospective cast of counte nance was squatting upon his bundle on the hurricane deck of one of the western steamers, toasting his shins against the chimney, and apparently plunged in a state of I rofoand meditation. His_dres,s_ an • appearance indicated familiarity with camp life, and it being soon after the siege and capture of Fort Donelson, I was in clined-to disturb his - reveries, and on in terrogation found that he had been with the Union forces at that place, when I questioned him farther. His philosophy was so much in the Falstaffian vein that I will give his views in his own words as near as my memory will serve me. Were you in the fight ? I had a little taste of it, sa. Stood your ground, did you ? No, sa, I runs. Run at the first fire, did you? Yes, sa, an' would hab run soona had I knowe'd it was comin'. Why that wasn't very creditable to your courage. profession. Well, but have you ne regard for your reputation ? Reputation ! nun to me de side of ut-our= Do you consider your life worth moth hen other people's ? It's worth more to me, sa, Then you must value it very highly ? Yes sa I does more dan_all dis world more dan a million dollarsiTsa; for what would (lathe to mouth to a man wid de bref out of him ? Self preserbashun is de first law with me, sa. • - But why should you act upon .a differ ent rule from other men? Cause, sa, different men sets different value upon derselves; my life is not in de market. But if ou lost it, you would have the satislat; ib - n — cirknowing that you thafor your country. What satisfaction would dat be to me, when der power of feelin' was gone? Then patriotism and honor are nothing to you ? Nuffin' Whatever, as—l regarded dem as among de varieties. If our soldiers were like you, traitors might have broken up the Government without resistance. Yes, sa ; der would hub no help for it. I:wouldn't put my life in de scales ginst any gubernment dat giber existed, for no gubernment could replace de loss to me. Speet, dough, dat de gubernment safe, if da all like me. Do you think any of your company would have missed you if you bad peen killed ? May be not, sa. A. dead white man ain't much with dese sogers, let alone , a dead nigga : but I'd a missed myself,and dat was de pint with me. It is sane to say that the darkey corpse of that African will never darken the field of carnage. ARE You THERE, MOTHER.-A moth er, busy with her household cares, was oblidged to go into an upper room, and leave two little children alone for a time. So she gave them some books and toys to amuse them, which answered very well for a time. But, by-and-by the house seemed to grow so still and lone some; they began to feel afraid. So the eldest went to the foot of the staircase, and calling ~ith a timed voice, said : "Mamma, are you there ?" "Yes, darling," said the mother, cheer- ily. "All - right, then," ,said the little one, more to herself ,than to her mother. So she went back to her plays for a time.— After a while the question was repeated with the same answer and the same re sult. Oh, how often, in our loneliness and sadness here in the world, we forget that God still is overhead. But if we only send up our prayers to Him, we shall ever get a condoning and quieting answer- WHERE WE ALL BEGET.---Composi tion of a little boy, in the Bishop Scott Grammer School,Portlandi Oregon.— Ver batim et libertaini. Oxen is a very slow animal. They are very good to break up the ground. I would rather have horses if they didn't have" colic—which they say is wind col lected in a bunch. Which makes it dan aerouser to keep horses than oxen. If there were no • horses people would have to wheal their wood on a whealbar row. It wood take them two or three days to wheal a cord a mile. Cows are useful to. I heard some peo ple say that if they had to be an ox or a cow they would sooner be a cow, but I think when it come to be milked on a cold winter morning I think they would sooner be oxen, for oxen don't have to raise calves—lf I had to be an ox or a cow I would be a heiffer but if I could not he a heiffer and had to be both I would be a ox. THE ACCEPTED LOVER.-Emerson preached a whole discourse in a few lines thus: "The accepted and betrothed lov er has lost the wildest charm of his mai den in her acceptance of him. Slut was heaven while he pursued her as a star— she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he." PoLL-Evth.—J. D.. Jefferson county, N. Y., writes, I send you a sure remedy. As soon as the sore is opened, wash with Castile soap, clean; then take lunar caus tic, and be sure to get in• to the bottom of the sore ; leave it in six hours. Then make 4 whash of white vitriol and rain water, not very strong, stirring it bor.!' oughly with the Castile soap, and wash• the sore with it every morning. This cur; ed a valuable horse. fbr me. 82,00 PER, YEAR ~~CI1ry~M~~~,~'~t~:~ Wit and ;tumor. Why does a freight car need no loco motive ? Because the freight makes the car-go. One of our We tern railrmulsi ga4 a - maleeliieemo — tive engineer of the beautiful blonde order. She makes the eparks fly. If a sweet disposition does not come to a lady by nature, it will come to her by express—if the express brings her a new bonnet. - • heard, of a secret which was Ea big that it required all the women in tow . a,': to keep it, and then then could not do Ku without the help of their. husbands. A colored preacher at Sparta, Ga:, some• time ago was heard to say in a funeral sermon of a deceased tkrudder : 'He rumi nates no longer among us; he have exon erated from the syllogisms of this world's discrimination, and when he gets to de cold dry stream of the_river-Jordin, the Heiosmes and Periphens will meet him dare to row him over on' dry land to the silvestering city.' A drunkani_Nvistagpring-islong ingnt the top of_ his voice, "_Rock me to sleep mother,rock me to sleep," when sud denly a voice from the other side of the street startled' lam by exclaiming, "I don't know Oka rocking you to sleep hut.l'll stone you to-death-if--you.-don't dry up." "Fred," said a father to his son, "I hear that you and your wife quarrel and wrang le every day. Let me warn . you against such fatal practice." • "Whosoever told you that, father was totally mistaken ; my wife and I haven't spoken to one another for a month." minister at a colored wedding who wished to be harmonious, said : "On such occasions it is customary to kiss the bride, but in this case we will omit it." To• which the groom replied : "On such oc casions it is customary to pay the minis ter $lO, but in this case we will omit it." A stip] yis told of a Virginia planter who was missing corn from his crib. One night he told a colored boy to set a trap in the crib. The next morning the boy came running to the house exclaiming,— "Massa, if dare isn't a white fellah out dare at de corn crib, shaking hands wid dat steel trap !" — Moon STORY.—The following good sto-. ry, not before related, is told of ex-Secre tary Seward, when a Senator from New York, and Robert Toombs:. Toombs hav ing made a speech in the Senate brimming with abuse of Mr• Seward, the latter, at its conclusion, walked straight from his desk toward the enraged Southerner. It was noticed that his right hand was under= neath the rear pocket of his coat. There was an apprehension that he was conceal ing a pistol, and Mr. Toombs' friends crowded around him. When Mr. Seward reached' him, he drew out his hand, and opening his snuffbox politely invited his adversary, to take a pinch of snuff. "My God," said Mr. Toombs, "Mr. Seward, have you no feelings ?" "Take a pinch of snuff, it will soothe your agitation." Ho then returned to his seat, and with-out a ny allusion to Mr. Toombs or his speech, made an able argument in favor of his measure, which was carried. GOING A FISHING.—The folloWing is an "order of suppleis" recently sent to an American (Ga.) grocer, by a fishing ex.- ciirsion party : DEAR Six : Myself and a couple of friend leave this morning on a fishing ex cursioK, and you will please send us, by bearer, the following articles, which, if you prefer it, you can charge to either Jack Brown or Ben Lockett. Either ,of them is the safest : Four pounds ofsalt and a small keg. of whisky. One pound of peper and a demijohn of • whisky. Ten pounds of lard and a large jug of whisky.. One canvassed ham six quart bottles of whisky. Three good, stout fishing lines and threo pocket flasks of tip top good whisky. One paper of large Limerick hooks and a gallon of whisky in any old vessel you don't use. • Three fishing poles and three . canteens of whisky. Also, send one pound of sugar and a small jug of whisky. P. s.—As we will be gone several days, and as snakes are bad on the river at this ,season, my physician has just stepped in and suattested - that we had better take a long a little Wliisky. Send it, and enter it on your books v, ith other items above. P. C. It is not possible to ask a man to re— turn borrowed goods, books, money, or anything else, without putting in peril the beautiful friendship on the strength of which he fleeced von. He was a shrewd man who said to his friend wishing to bor row, "You and I are now good friends.— If I lend you money and you do not pay it, we shall quarrel. If I refuse to lend you, I suppose we will quarrel. There are two chances of a quarrel, and I think. I will keels the money rather than run , the risk of losing it and von." Ile had in mind the old' saw : "1 bud my tudney and my friend, I lent lay motley to my friend s I tisked my money of my friend, I lost my money and my friend." : - *_lrtirliendoliara in gold, according to the figures at the taint, just about 1103 tuna,
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