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BLAIR VOLUME2S. elect^ poetru. - • . et:f' t 7 I LIVE YOU -ROM (The following waif expres:es the lamen tation of many a heart diNarpointed 'in its aspirations.] sh.ll not forget you : the years may be t ender, But vain are their efforts to soften my And 'the strone 'hands of 'Me and slender, To garland the . ,graKe .that is :made in any Your - imngeis ever about me-before rne, 'Your voice flows on the wing offhe wind-•, And the spell of your presenee in absence is O'er me, And the (lend of-Abe:Last In the present cannot fnrget yon-: the one - boon ungiv- en, The • boon of-your love is the eros thatl In the inhinhrht of sorrow I vainly have striven To rrn•h in my heart the sweet image hid there. Tn b.iiir•ll the beautiful dreptris that are .Frr+n ,, irr* The h-11R of my memory—dreams worse 'ltnn vain; Tor the one drop withheld I am thirsting and longing, For the one joy denied me Fm pining in I wonll rh-t forget von : I live to iemem, bor Bil!al dpeny. And brighter than JIZTIC glows thu bleakeet December. When peopled with gborts of the dreams passed away. 011Ve lovinz you truly. T loved you forever; T mmirrt not in weak. idle7rief forthe past; But the lore in any bosom can never, oh! Pass ont, or another pass in, fiist or last nisullaurous Pading. TilE DOCTOR'S STORY. "Speaking of dreams, presentiments, -warnings, and the like," said the doctor, as he remov+d•from his mouth the cigar lie had teen smoking, "reminds me of a little incident of which I was the hero, when I was down in Virginia, and which <lid more toward makillg me a believer in such things, than listening to a dozen lectures or arguments 'could have done. I will relate it to you if you wish. and I think you will then agree with me that I have sumo ranson tin hrlievingthat dreams are somt times sent as forerunners or war nings of coming events." "Of course we shall be glad to hear it," I replied. "Who ever heard of a party <tf hunters who were not glad to listen to a story ? Even a poor one is better than none, and anything calculated co throw some light upon the subject. we have been (Hien: sing, will be of special interest at this time." We were sitting just outside of our cab in, enjoying the invigorating air of an August tvening, at the time the above conversation took place. By "we" Imean Dr. Warner, Charles Vincent, and my self; and at the time of which I write, we had left our homes in New York city for a couple of months' recreation at fish ing, and hunting in the Adirondack re gion. On the evening in which the above conversation took place, we had peen en gaged in a discussion on the subject of dreams and omens ; Charles and I hold ing to the belief that all omens, warnings and supernatural sights and sounds were purely im•iginary, while the doctor took the opposite side of the argument, and mnintamei that there were well-authenti cated instances of persons having been warned of some approaching danger to themselves or friends, and that future e vents were sometimes plainly revealed in dreg- s. "S?veral years ago," commenced the doctor, "I resided as you are aware, in a wild, mountainous, and rather lonely re gion of Virginia. There was a railroad but a few rods in front of my dom, and a station and considerable of a village a bout a mile to the west. The nearest sta tion t the east was about ten miles dis tant. I moved to the place with my young wife late in autumn, and about the first of the filming March I Was attacked with typhoid fever, and was sick for about a month. But, thanks to a naturally strong constitution, and the careful nurs ing of a loving and affectionate wife, I slowly recovered. "As' soon as I got strong enough to sit up, and walk a little, I told my wife she had better take the ears, and go and visit her brother, who lived about fifty miles to ,the east of us. She had been taking care .of me so faithfully dnrine• my illnesq, both by day and night, that I feared her health and strength would tail, if she did not rest a while. I knew she had been very anxious to go, and I felt sure that her brother and his family would be very glad to see her, and would try to make her visit a pleasant one She hesitated a bout leaving me, fearing I might need her care; but slier waitingajew. days, and seeing that I continued to regain my health and strength, she concluded to follow my advice, and accordingly, one fine pleas ant morning of April, after doing every thing she could for my comfort, and bid ding rue he careful about taking cold, she started, intending to be gone between one End two weeks. . "The—weather for_ahs eek after my wife left me wa.4 . dry and pleasant. I spent most of my time in sleeping and reading, occassionally varied by some kind neighbor who would conic to inquire after my health. On very warm and pleas ant days I would venture to take.a short walk to gather wild flowers,. which were then in bloom in the forests near by. "Oue day I exercised a little beyond , tree;-`' -nd felt quite tired at night and lay awake for a long time. Mast fell into an uneasy slumber, and dream ed a very curious and startling dream.— ' I 'seemed to have gone forward into the -fu tare -a—eou pie-of—days, _ang:_iustead_ of :Wednesday, tbe_24.th,_it seemed in my_ ! dream to be Friday, the 26th. It seem ed to me that a heavy rain had been fir.ll - -the most of the day, and all. of the. - day , before,'but the evening was clear and :pleasant, and 'not very dark, though the moon was not shining. I seemed to be wcalzing• along the.rallroad track towards he east. I ••first.passed through a piece ! woods about a 'half a mile wide ; then r about a mile threugh a cleared field • ntaining a ecuple of farm •houses, one habited and the other deserted. I then tered another wood, and, after walking out a mile and a half, I came to a. `ream greatly swollen by rain, which had reakened the railroad bridge so much iat the passenger train, in attempting•to rocs, had broken it down. and the bridge nd ears, completely wrecked, were lying n both sides of the stream, except por-. ions that were floating down. Some of the passengers lay dead or dying among the ruins, some were floating in the water, -o---wfle-trees-and and a-- ew—were c ing busles on the share. It was a fearful an Llicarfrendi - rvi—str,htTtuty-fenrhir tion,ana such as I trust I may 'laver see "Although it was night, I seemed to see all these things very distinctly, and can well remember my feelings as I sur veyed the SC 4110. While viewing the la dies in the water, I suddenly caught sight of the mangled and lifeless form of my wife, and with a wild cry I awoke. "This dream made so great an impres sion on my mind that I lay awake for the remainder of the night. "The next day, early in the morning, it commenced raining, and continued to rain through the day and the following night. I felt very lonely and uneasy all day, which feeling was increased by re ceiving a letter front my wife, saying that she intended to come home on. Friday night, on the express train. I retired late, feeling much worried on account of my fearful dream. And, to add to this fear, presentiment, or whatever you may call it, the dream was repeated, and even more distinct and vivid than the first. "When I arose in the morning, the rain was still falling. This was on Friday, and therefore the day on which my wife was to start for home. There were two passenger trains from the east each day. one at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and the other at nine in the evening. The last wa' the express, and the one in which my wife was coming. "Toward the middle of the afternoon the rain ceased falling,and the clouds slow ly cleared away. The dream made such an impression on my mind that I resolved to attempt to find the stream I had seen so plainly in my dreams, and if it appear ed at all dangerous, to attempt to stop the train before reaching it. Accordingly, soon after the rain was over, I got ready and started. I had never before had oc casion to visit the station in this direction, and therefore was entirely unacquainted with this part of the country. But I found everything just as it had appeared in my dream. "Immediately after starting, I passed through the piece of woods I had seen in my dream, and then entered the cleared field, and found the two farm houses, one inhabited and the other deserted. In fact, everything seemed as natural as if I had been this way before. 1 walked slowly, and late in the afternoon I came to the stream, which flowed rapidly, and seemed much swollen. But the bridge, instead of being broken down and mangled with the broken cars and mangled passengers, was still standing. and though its timber look-. ed quite old and weather-beaten, there seemed to be little danger of its breaking down beneath the weight of a passenger train. There was a heavy freight train due from the west about six o'clOck, and I resolved to wait at least until it came ; and if it passed over in safety, there could be, I thought, hut little danger of acci dent to the lighter passenger train. "In due time it came thundering along, and passed safely over the bridge. But, though it might have been owing to my excited imagination, it seemed tope that the bridge bent and shook beneath the• weight of the train in a manner highly suggestive of danger. At all events, I re solved to wait awhile longer, and see if the stream, which was 801 rising, would have any apparent effect upon the bridge. I took with me a lantern, and also a thick blanket to protect me from the damp night air. "Shortly after sunset, es I was sitting a few rods from the stream, I heard a splash, and, hurrying to the bridge, I saw.that a portion of the bank, on the opposite side, had broken away; and also that the action of the water, or some other cause, had weakened the foundations of the bridge in such a manner that a portion of the track was bent and lowered enough to make it impossible for a train to cross, I immediately crossed the bridge. resole• 4 6' - • k, ' 1 to I e' : •, 'WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN VOUNTY, PA., DECEMBERTOURSDAY,I 12,1872. ed to stop the train, if Possible, before it reached -the bridge and certain destruc tion. "Well, to make a. long story short, I went on in the direction from which the train was to come, and soon found a place which commanded a good view of the track for a considerable distance. • I lit my lan tern wra •sed m blanket closely around me, and sat down to soy wearisort e of two hours. The night was , ' clear, but not very dark, though no moon was shin ing, I suffered none from cold, as it was remarkably warm; even for the climate of Virginia, and I succeeded in keeping a wake, though the task was a difficult one. "Slowly the moments passed by, but at last I saw by my watch that the time had nearly expired, and a few minutes would - dee id fate lhars man (1 - I&human freight. Soon I saw a light far away, and very Small at first, but rapidly grow ing larger and brighter. I arose, trembling with excitement, and commenced swinging . theiflantern above my head; and, as the train drew near, I redoubled my exertions, and shouted loud as I could. "Onward came the train at a rapid speed. It was n terrible suspense to me. Should the, engineer fail to see my signal, or not see it in time to stop the train be fore going a few rods past me, I knew that n - VT,:human power could save it. On it came, and 0, joy unspeakable] just as I gacie up my exertions, and stepped -from the , track, my frantic signals were observ ed and the whistle was sounded, arousing the sleepy brakesnien like an electric shock, ,who flew quickly to their stations. "The train was quickly stopped, and I then informed the engineer and conduc• tor of the danger ehead, while the fright ened passengers left the cars and gather: eel around me. Many a brave man grew pale when he learned What a fearful death he had so narrowly escaped. "Among the passengers I found my wife, not mangled and lifeless hut alive • w-ell r -thougli—s • ••• ands gooc t:rtof=tra. seri OEM tile train backed to the station it had just left from which teierrrams were sent to warn all other trains of tie anger.. "In the morning my wife and I took the stage for home. I have but little more to add, except the company insisted upon making me a handsome present, and also gave me a free pass over the road. Ido not uretend to be able 'to explain this dream, which was certainly a remarkable one, though 'doubtless no more so than others could relate. But I am satisfied that this dream was the means of saving many human lives from a sudden and most terrible death." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Their humble joys; or destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The etkort, but simple annals of the poor." The man who, by the exercise of his natural abilities, rises to a position of emi nence and honor, unless gifted with au un- usual amount of kindness of heart, and. unselfishnei,s of soul, is exceedingly apt to regard with, levity, and affect to despise the lesser doings of his fellow creatures.— Yet does he never realize in his sober mo ments that to these people he is indebted fby whatever, grandeur or fame he acquires? All cannot be great in this world. Few can he geniuses. A limited number only can acquire distinction in the arts. in lit-, erature, in politics, in commerce and in war. There must be the lesser millions to fill up the chinks and crevices in a mi.; tion ;to give body and strength to-.it; to carry out the most stupendous plans of greater minds, as the artisan rears with toiling hands the structure that the archi tect designs. Though in a humble sphere, and with little ostentation the laborer goes about his daily duties, if he performs them well and faithfully, is he not as deserving of credit and praise'as the master mind that directs him ? Capital cannot live. without labor; labor cannot live without capital. They are absolutely essential to each other. The rich 'are necessary to the existence of the poor; the poor are neces sary to the existence of the rich. In ev ery human heart God has implanted a soul, and the promises of the future are as bright and fair in the lowliest mind as they are in the I.lftiest one. "Life is like a theatre ; during the play we take higher and lower seats, but when it is over, and the curtain falls, we mingle in the com mon stream and go home.'' The annals of the poor are sho*rt and simple. Their sphere of action is necessa rily limited, yet their limit of usefulness is infinite. The most squallid rag picker than wanders amid the garbage of the al ley and street may have a history as in teresting as the annals of a king. How ever low the human soul may sink, how ever much the human body may become degraded, in the bent and stooping form, in the hopel , :ss features and the aching heart is written the fulfillment of a hu man ‘lestiny, and the fate of one short hu man life is no trifling and simple matter. Oh, ye, on whom a fairer fortune has deigned to smile ; whose hearts are pure and free from sorrow and distress, and whose souls are as pure as the newly fal len snow, look not with scorn or a disdain ful emile upon the lowly and unfortimate, who fill the empty corners of this world. Lift up your faces heavenward to thank God , you are not like them, but rather pause to lift them to their feet . when your eyes behold the places -into which they have fallen. No soui may fall So low as to be beyond hope, and there is no human being of strength and intelligence whose life is incapable of being made useful.— Eugene. There are no pockets in shrouds, nor money drawers in coffins. But we accu mulate good or bad capital for the other world, for all that. eeirtg• me mom The 'Poor. iOntER. Forevei and ever:the reddening leaves Float to the sodden grasses. Forever and ever the shriverini trees Cower and shrink to the chilling breeze, - That sweeps from far off sullen seas; To wither them as it poises., orevc: :I. ! t ' • • below grasy is. • , Stoopg over the eorrowful • earth. , Forever and ever the steady .rain Falls on bare bleak hill, and barren And flashes on roof and viiidoilrpiine, And hisses upon the hearth.' Forever and everthe weary thoughts• ' , Are tracing the self Mme track. Forever and ever, to and fro, On the old unchanging road they go, Through dreaming and' walking, through joy and woe, Calling the dead hours back. -Forever and-ever-the-tired-heart • -- Ponders o'er evil done, ForeVer and ever through cloud and gleam, Tracing the course of the strong life stream And dreary and dullas the broken dream, Foreve; the rain rains on. • —All thr Year Round. The Quack ,Doetei. there_are_ many persons in the world who think it impossible to exist without the aid of med icine. lam not speaking of the poor, sickly ones, whose-systems are not sue-, ciently strong to perform their functions' without its aid, but of the strong and hearty who are possessed with this idea, which soon forms itself into a passion as strong as that caused by the frequent use of spirituous liquors, and although it has not the same demoralizing effect upon its victims, it often does as much, or even more, to impair the c,mstitution if taken , •when there is no necessity. --It-is-not-my-intention-to_say_a_won : - gainst-med eine-when-propgly-adm n is tered, but let a quack set up his stand (no matter whether it is in the United States or any Ter - p - m Li ut of the globe) and commence extolling the virtues of his new ly-discovered "Elixir of Life," and hun dreds of those whom I have referred to will flock towards him, to be supplied with a little colored Water, bread pills, or pos sibly something really injurious. About two years ago whilst traveling through Bristol, Tennessee, my attention was drawn towards a crowd of .persons listening eagerly to a young man, who. mounted upon a stool, was exhibiting a bottle containing a mixture which he ex plained by different modes - of applicition, would cure anything, from a corn to' a cc nsumption. ' It was a very unusual thint , for me to notice anything of the kind. but the voice of this professed disciple of "Eseulajpius seemed familiar to my Kir and I stepped into the road to get a clearer View of his face, when I must say I was very greatly astonished to find an old schoolfellow of mine who'll,: I had not seen for four years, at which time he left New York to join several others on a mining expedition. He evidently did not recognize me, so I loitered around a few moments and saw him dispose of at least twenty bottles at the price of fifty cents each. It amused me considerably to hear him descant upon the cures his po tions had effected and (having a great de sire to know how lie had fallen in with the medical (?) profession) I wrote upon the fly sheet of a letter I had in my pock et, a few words requesting him to call Upon me at the St. Cloud Hotel in the evening; and giving a youngster a few cents to deliver it, walked off, thinking of my school days and the many happy times 11. G. and myself had spent together. In the evening my friend made his ap pearance and was extremely •pleased to see me. After the usual salutations and enquir ies were over, I asked him to inform me how long he had been in the profession he was then following, and where he had graduated.. Re looked me full in the face for a few seconds and then burst into an imnioder ate fit of laughter. When, • however, he sufficiently recovered himself to proceed, he said : "You remember me starting from New York for the mines, with the idea my for tune would be made in about three weeks?" • "Perfectly well," said I. "Well," continued he, "I did not suc ceed quite so well •as I anticipated ; our party consisted of twelve young fellows, possessed with the same idea as myself, and none of whom were in the slightest degree acquainted pith the country. "We arrived at Nashua, Ohio, safely, encamped, and commenced work in right earnest. "After five days' toil, under a burning sun, two of our party fell sick and died, and upon the next day another yielded to the same fate. This reduced our number to nine. "Upon the fourteenth day out we hit upon a vein of silver and should doubt lees have made considerable money, but a number of rough fellows got scent of it, asserted a prior claim, and, we not feeling inclined to yield, a desperate fight ensued, in which two or three on each side were badly wounded. "A reinforcement then came to the aid of the rowdies, and •we were forced' to quit our newly found possessions. We, however, all determined not to give up, and commenced once- more; but meeting with no success, and being quite disheartened, we sold our tools divided the proceeds, and disbanded. I then sought for employment in any capacity, and after a time was offered eight dollars per math, and board, to work .on a farm. GENERAL NEWS. ETC. This I accepted, and bad been in the positiOn about three months, when a well dreaseil' man called, desiring 'shelter for the night. lie Awns tqld. he Could share my bed if he. felt 'disposed, which offer be readily ac cepited and 'being very much :fatigued; 'after a rough meal, we retired to ray a partment, (a loft that had formerly been sed-to-stow-ha • This; was the first mart I bad seen, since my arrival,' Who shoWed any signs of edu cation, and we naturally soon got into a conversation , in the course of whichle told me -be= had been brought up to the study of medicine,. but getting into dis grace it home, ran away before taking his diploma, and was at thattime going from place to place Selling Pills; etc., by which, he assmed-me,he gained sufficient to keep him comfortably. , He said he wanted - an assistant, and Offered one-half the profits if I would-ac dept Ole berth. I was plesuied enough at the-prospoOeing-iinite-ti - ..*. dadieu tofirmer Still Well—an- his wife. Doctor Cureall (for so he styled him self) now explained to me the manufac ture of his far-famed boluses, etc., Which were prepared as illlows : The pills were made of flour mired with - a - littlejalap, -- and into. a past6 - hy - the aid of water, and then rolled in the usual man ner_Theliquid_was__a_weak_decoction_of_ licorice juice, to which was added a small quantity of Epsom salts, ,by way of a fla voring Ow people who patronize quacks would not believe their remedies genuine if palatable.) All that now remained to be done was bottling, bcixing, and label-' ing, and they were ready for sale. I now assumed the title of Dr- Walker, and every morning we would start with a .full supply of the articles mentioned, pro ceed in different directions, and set op our stalls in different villages; meeting in the evening to talk over our 'gains, and divide the profits. Ity lt_on_for = -tiro ~is_went_on_tor_a_bisn- s iderable- unt -unt il-one-day---Dr.-Cureal rch widow, who, like the porter we read of in Ainsworth's "old St. Paul's," rejoic ed . •i - . .•dtch chest near, accepted his proposal.of mar triage, and after a'courtship of three weeks she was led to the altar a ,bride. Having now no longer occasion to trav el, he settled comfortably down to.look af ter the property his spouse had brought him. . I was •`then. left sole proprietor of the practice, NV h ich I have kept ever since, and will tell "yotfit this moatent I am not worth less than tiVentythousand dollars, the whole of which I , liiivie realized in the way I have.described to. you. I could not help laughing at these means of acquiring a fortune, although not ap proving of them ; but whenever I see a quack vending his mixtures, I think' of my old friend, his twenty thousand dol lars, and . the many poor deluded mortals who helped him to obtain them. A Phantom Train. A ,corrsspondent in the Albany (N. Y.) Evening Times relates a conversation with a superstitious night watchman on .the New York Central Riilroad : ."I believe in spirits and ghosts. I bow such things exist. If you will come up in April I will convince you." He then told of the phan tom train that every. ear comes up the road with the body ofAbraham Lincoln. Regularly in the mouth of Awl about midnight, the air on the track becomes very keen and cutting. On either side it is warm and still. Every watchman when he feels this air steps off the track and BUS down to watch. Soon after the pilot Pn gine, with long black streamers, and_ a band With black instruments, playing dirg es, grinning skeletons Sitting all about will pass up noiselessly,dtaul the very air grows black. • If it is moonlight clouds :always come over the moon, and the music seems to linger, as if frozen with horror. A few mo- - meats atter and the phantom train glides by. Flags and streamers hang about.— The track ahead seems covered with a black car et, and the wheels are draped with the same. The coffin of the murder ed Lincoln is seen lying on the centre of a . car, and all about it in the air and the train behind are vast numbers of blue coated men, some with coffins on their backs, others leaning', against them. It seems then that all the 'trait armies that died during the war are• escorting the phantom train of the President. The wind if blowing, dies away at once, and . over all the earth a solemn hush, almost stif fling., prevails. If a train were passing, its noise would. be drowned 'in the silence and the phantom train would ride over it. Clocks aud watches always stop, and when looked at are found to be from five to eight• minutes behind. Everywhere on the road, about the 27th -of April, the time of watches and trains is found sud denly behiel. - This, said - the leading watchman, was from the' passage of the phantom train. A plague of butterflies is a Tare occur rence. A short time ago, liowever, the town of Florence was invaded by a prodi gious quantity of these insects. All die distance4if the Lung'. Arno .between the Piazza Manin and the ,Barriers, and in all adjacent streets, the passage was al mostobstruetedby an extraordinary quan tity of butterflies* that had'swarmed in such thick clouds - under this gas lights that the streets were comparatively dark. Fires were immediately lighted by order of the municipality and by private citi zens, in which the butterflies burnt their wings, so that half an hour afterwards one walked upon a layer formed -by the bod ies of the butterflies and inch 'thick 1 ! 1 They were of a whitish color, and some of the streets appeared as if covered with snow ; at leant, so say th.e• Italian papers. The Tables Turned. Years ago, into a wholesale'grocery store in Boston walked a tall, muscular looking, raw-boned man, evidently a fresh comer from some back town in Maine or New Hampshire. Accosting the first per son he met, who happened to be the mer chant himself; he asked.: "You don't want to hire, a man in your e - do-you-?' "Well," said the merchant, "I do not know, what can you do?" "Do: !" said the man, "I rather guess I can turn my hand to almost anything.— What do you want done?" • "Well, if I was td hire a man, it would be one that could lift well, a strong wiry fellow-one, for instance, that could shoul der a sack of coffee, like that yonder, and - early it acoross - the room- and never-lay it down." "There,, now, Captain," said our coun tryman, "that's just me. What will you give a man that can suit you ?" "I ‘v - iirall — iiiti,'L - Aiid—theinerelianti - . "if you will shoulder that sack of coffee, and carry it across the store twice and never lay it down,l will hire you for a year, at one hundred dollars per month?! "Done I" said the stranger, and by this time every clerk in the store had gather ed_around_and were waiting to_ join in,the laugh against the man, who walking to the sack, threw .it acoe.ss his shoulder with i pert ease, as it was norexcfemelTEeiV. vy, and walking with it twice across the store, went quietly to a large hook which was fastened to the wall, and, hanging the sack upon it, _lathed to the merchant and said : "There, now, it may bang there till doomsday ; I shan't never lay it down.— What shall Igo about, mister? Just give me plenty to'do and one hundred .dollars a month, and it's all right." The clerks broke into a laugh, but it was out of the other - side of 'their mouths; and the merchant, discomfitted, yet satis fied, ke it to his' agree a ; an , to-day -the-green countryman ss" 1 :9"" ner in - the - firm,tnd—worth-half-a-m 'dollar& • • rvr.s.—"CoraerP-ar: not confined to Wall Street, New York, or to State Street, Boston. Neither are they made wholly by dealers in .stocks and bonds. The Zulus of South Africa do not need a missionary to teach them to be shrewd. Though a strong and ro bust people, they have a decided weak ness for womankind. They have as ma ny wivesas they have means to,purchase and, unlike many civilized countries, they buy not with gold, or houses, or estates, but with cows. Tw,enty, thirty, fifty or a hundred cows are given for a wife, accor ding as the girl is young and beautiful or otherwise. One bold Zulu ouerator with large capital once bought up all the young and desirable girls in the market of the whole region, and compelled all who want ed to buy to pay him most exorbitant prices for wives. Of course there was much distress, and this disastrous state of dings attracted the attention of theirgov ernrnent, and the recurrence of it was pre vented by a law which fixes the legal price of a Wife to be only ten cows. No man can collect more than this by law. 1443 may receive fifty if he will, but he pan force no one to pay more than ten. People always fancy that we cannot be come wise, without becoming old also ; but in truth as years accumulate it is hard to keep as wise as we were: Man becomes, in the different stages pf his life, indeed, a different being; but he cannot say that he will snrely,, be better as he grows on; ward, and in certain matters, he is as like ly to be right in his twentieth as in his sixtieth year. -A. lady made her Inishand a present of a silver drinking cup with an angel at the bottom; and when she filled it for him he used to drain it to the bottom, and she asked him why ho drank every drop.— "Because, ducky," he said, "I. long to see the dear little angcl." Upon which she had the angel taken out, and had a devil engraved at the bottom, and he drank it off just the same, and she again asked the reason. "Why," he replied, "because r won't leave the old devil a drop." Men may not be on your side, but they mai be going toward the same city where you are going by a parallel route, or even by a circuitous route. Whenever a maul has his face set as though he was going to Jerusalem, you have no right to question the method by which he shall go. Be thankful that your tot has fallen on times 'when, though there may be 1 many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and faggot at com mand. The expectations of life depend .upon dilligence ; and the mechanic who would perfect his work, must first' sharpen his tools.• We see how much a man has, and there fore we envy. him; did we see how little he evjoye, we should rather pity him. As empty -vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Princes are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprave them, and desires to corrupt them. fe'The Grecian ladies count their:age from their marriage, not their birth. A good idea. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about .either courage or honesty. Sin never comes alone. One evil thought leads often to a sad and disgraceful end. $2,00 PER YEAR 11_1111 I ;3 Cit and Initior. Wbat should a ler —About fifteen m • 'Whiskey is said to be a horn of plenty. because it will corn-you-copiously. . An editor asks his subseribersto pay sum .a ie may pay his.creditors. Why is the cou pling _ chain of a locomo tive like love? Because its a tender at tachment. Punch asks: "Why is the man who does not bet as bad as a man who does ? Because he is no better." An elderly gentleman was shocked to learn that every fashionable young lady carries a paper to back her. fellows? Because they "set Up" in bUsi ness without a cent of capital. About this time look out for a change in the complexion of the human nose:— especially if it should get the epizootic. "I know a gal so modest, Sam, dat she ordered her beau out ob de house." "What -forl" -- Bek - a - seTin - conversation on - de sub ject ob de wedder,_ he said de wind had shifted." "I would advise ou to put in dye-tfig, srf==re, , sap a joker to a sandy haired girl. "I would advise you to put yours into an oven, its rather soft," said Nancy. "Husband, I don't know where that boy got his bad temper. lam sure not from me." "No, my ilear;for I don't find that you have lost any." Alap more - humanizing — or, WritiOnquires; " • • IL_ there under heaven ore - hurfianizing; - or, if we may use the term, more angelizin than a fine black eye in a lovely woman?" wo.. act eyes, is the ready answer. An observer says that "children are not well-behaved since the mothers bete ta ken to wearing high buttoned boots."— This is supposed to be a jest on the disuse of slippers for spanking purposes. A gypsy going through a village on 'a rainy day in a pair of torn booth was ac costed by a passer-by, Nilo suggested that his boots were too bad for such weather. "You are mistaken, sir," said the gypsy, "it is the weather that is too bad fbr my boots." A "shabbily dressed genius being disre spectfully addressed by strangers, was ask ed why he didn't resent it. "It was my rusty old hat and coat that were slighted, and not myself," he replied. "If they choose to take it up and make a fuss a bout it they may, but I shall have noth ing to do with it." . A minister nee told Wendell Phillips that if his business in life were to save the negroes, he ought to go South where they ' were, and do it. "That is worth thinking • of," replied Phillips; "and what is your business in. life?" "To save men from hell." "Then go there and attend to your business." rejoined Mr. Phillips. c "Where are you going?' said a young gentleman ti an elderly one in a white cravat, whom he overtook a few miles from Little Rock. "I am going to heav en, my son. nave been on the way eigh teen years."—"Well, good-bye; old fellow, if you have been traveling toward heaven eighteen years, and got no nearer to it than Arkansas, I'll take another route." The Cincinnati Enquirer tells the fol lowing for a naked fact,:, "A ccrreqpon dent saw Miss Vinnie Ream at work in her studio "with her arms bare to the shoulders, and ankles likewise." Ankles bare to the shoulders! For shame, Vin nie ! That kind of costume would have been well enough in Eden before the fall, but now—we can't continue, our modest pen shrinks from the subject." : Two lawyers ia Lowell, returning from court the oilier day, one of them said to the-other, "I've a notion to join Rev. Mr. ---'s church; been debating the matter for Some time. What do you think of it?" "Wouldn't do it." "Well, why?" "Because it would do you no possible good; while it would f;ea very great inju ry to the church." Teacher.—" First class in Astronomy come up.and say your lesson. Thomas, where does the sun rise?" Thomas.—" Away over in the mender, sir." Teacher.—" Hold vour tongue, you duce." Joe.—t.l know, your Block in the east." Teacher.—Thy does it rise in the east?" ' Joe.- I Cos east makes everything rise." Teacher.—" You'll make a well-bred boy if you 'kelp on, so take your seat." The following is told as having recent ly occurred in this city: A lady from the country entered one of the grocery stores and asked the clerk if he wanted to par ,chase any chickens—A couple of them— at the same time throwing a couple of live ones on the counter. The clerk replied that he did, and as the tied pair showed considerable anxiety to be rereased from their unpleasent fix, be asked her if they • would lay there—meaning would _di* lie. a few moments on the counter until be could attend to them. "Lay there?" in dignantly asked the old lady ; "of course' not—them's roosters—they won't lay no.) where!" matt preach about? tes. our head
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