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BY BLAIR.
VOLUME 26.
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ME HAUNTBD CHAMBER
Each heart has its haunted chamber,
- Where - the silent moonlight falls !
On the floor are mysterious footsteps,
There are whispers along the walls;
And'mine at times is haunted
By phantoms of the past,
llado•s
By the Silent mow ig
A form sits by the window,
abatis not seen by day,
For as soon as the dawn approaches
It vaniblies away.
It sits there in the moonlight,
Itself as pale and Eitiji,
And points -with its airy finger
Across the window• bill.
Without, before the window,----
There stands a gloomy pine,
Whose boughs go upward and downward
As wave these thoughts of wine.
. is the grave of a little child,
Who died upon life's threshold.
And never wept nor smiled.
What are ye ! 0 pallid phantomsl
That haunt my troubled brain ?
'That vanish when . day approaches,
And at night return again ?
What are ye.! 0 pallid phantoms •
But the statutes without breath,
They stand on•the bridge overarching
The silent river of d.ta,th ?
allisralaurous grading.
THE M TERIOUS FRIEND.
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In the town of , kill, on the Hudson
Jiver, there d %%elk, sow • years ugo, au at
torney of
.the name. o Uason. He was
in considerable priteti e and had 2 clerks
in his office, whose n•tutcs were Mansell
trot! Vau Buren. In bil•ty these young
men were nearly on a par, but they dMr
ed widely in disposition. Vun Buren was
cold, close, and goniewhat sullen in tem
per ; but in business, shrewd, active and
persevering. Mansell, although assiduous
in his duties, was of a gayer temperment
open as the day, gWieruus, evutiunig and
true.
Mason, without being absolutely dis
honest, was what was called a keen law
yer, his practice being somewhat of the
sharpest, and as the disposition of his clerk
Van Buren, assimilated in many respects
to his own, he ;vas a gre,at favorite—more
intimately in his confidence, and usually
employed on those delicate matters which'
sometimes occur in an attorney's business,
and in which the honesty of
might rather hinder than help.
Mason had a niece, who, he being a
bachelor, Bets! with him in the capacity
of housekeeper. She was a lively, sensi
tive and clever girl—very pretty. if not
positively handsome. She had tile grace
of a sylph and the step of a fawn. It was
natural that such a inaiden should be an
object of interest to two young men living
under the same ant, and by no means u
matter of listonishment, that mat or hoth
of them should fall in love with her; and
both of them did. But as the young la
dy had but one heart, she could not; re
tain the love of each.' In making her se•
Jection, the choice tell upon Edward Man
sell.
Matters went on in.this way for some
thin.; a great deal of bitterness and ran
cor heing displayed by Mason and Van
Buren on the one hand, while Kate and
:Mansell found in the interviews they tic
casionaly enjoyed, more than compensa
tion for the annoyance towhieh they were
thus necessarily exposed.
It happened, at the thee when Edward's
engagement was within a month of its ex
piration, that Mason had received a sum
of money as agent ibr another party, a
mounting to nearly three thousand dol.
Jars, of which the greater portion was sol
id coin. As the money could not be ea
sily disposed of until the followinE, , day,
it was deposited in a tin box in the iron
Alai:, the key of which was always in the
custody of Maisel/. Soon after he receiv
ed th t charge. Van Buren (piked the of
flee for a short time, and' in the interim
nu Application from a client rendered it
necessary for Mansell to go up to the
court-house. Having dispatched his bus
iness at the hall, lie returned with all ex
pedition, and in due time took the key of
his safe to deposittherein the valuable pa
pers of the office over night— when to his
inconceivable horror, he discovered the
treasure was gone.
He rushed down stairs, and meeting
Van Buren, communicated the unfortun
ate circumstances. He, in turn, express
ed his astonishment in strong terms, and
indeed exhibited something like sympathy
in his brother clerk's misfortune. Every
search was made about the premises, and
intbrmation was given to the nearest mag
istrate but as Mason was from home, and
would not return until the next day, lit
tle else could be done,. Edward passed a
night of intense agony—nor were the feel
ings of Kate more enviable. Mason re
turned some hours earlier than was ex
pected, and sent immediately for Van
Buren, and was closeted with him for a
long time.
Manell. utterly incapacitated by the
.overwhelining calamity which had befal
. •
len him, from attending to his duties, was
walkuttUguerantly of Mason's return,
when Xatexamo, or rather #iew teWar — & -
him, and exclaimed i
"O'Edward, my uncle has applied for
a 'warrant to apprehend you ; . and, inns).
cent though I -,know you are, that fiend
in human form, Van Buren, has wound a
web around you, that I dread the worst.
I have no time to explain; fly instantly,
and meet me at nightfall, in the Devil's
Hollow, when I will explain all.,
_ Afa.nsell,_searcely_knowing
rushed out of the garden and through
some fields;'nor did he stop. till he found
himself out of town on tile, taaks-of the
river.. Then for the first time, he repent.
ed .of having . listened, to,lhe .well;meant
but unwise eouncil-,ef,his; deux Kate. But
°erg.
trace it sow,. He proceeded until he ar
irired at a. thick grove, in the vicinity of
the Devil!s Hollow, where he lay com
pletely. bid, ;until night closed upon him.
Mansell turned, and lingered on the
,skirts of the grove, until the sound of a
light footstep ou the graveled path which
led to the place announced • the approach
of the loved being whom he felt he was
Ahollt to meet for the last time. The poor
girl could not speak a word when they
met, - bu t_bowing herlead_upon_his_shoul,
der, burst into a flood of passionate tears..
By degrees she became more calm, and
then detailed to him aonversation she I
had ,overheard betweerf4an Buren and
• . , . • .. .11 le
former had succeeded in couvincing Ma
son of Edward's guilt, by an artful com
bivation of tacts which would have made
a prima jade case against the accused—
the most formidable cue being the finding
of a considerable sum of ,specie in Man
sell's trunk. Knowing that, he could not
satisfactorily account forlhe.ixisseseion-of
this money, without ,the evidence of - a
near relative who had departed for ; Eu
rope a week before, and whose address
was unknown and. return, Uncertain,'Ed.
ward, to avoid the horror and-Aisgrate of
lying iu the county jail in t:►e intermedi
-ate time resolved on evading - th - e — oificers - I
of justice, until he could surrender him
self with the proofs of his innocence in his
hands.
The moon had noir risen above the bill
Ala hound the, prospect, and warned
the lovers that it was time to separate.
'And pow, deariit; said he, 'I leave
you with the brand'of thief upon my fair
d i ,
name, to be hunte hke a beast of prey,
from one ,hiding pl co to another. But,
0 Kate, I bear will the me the blest as
surance that one being, and that being the
best loved of,my lieart, knows mato be
innocent; apd 6114 thought shall comfort
we.' . .
"A remarkably retty speech, and well
delivered !" exciai tied a voice, which
caused the youthfn pair to start and turn.
their eyes in the• di action whence it pro
ceeded, when from )(Jihad a solitary tree
that grew in thei ;follow, a. tall figure
wrapped in an aMPIe cloak walked tow
ards them. The.place a.s we have betbre
said, had an evil reputation, and although
Edward and his companion of course
were free from the superstitious fears
which chara2teriz i ed the country people,
an undefluabteleelllgstole over them, as
they gazed ;d :the tall form betbre them.
Mansell, linWever, soon reaovered
him
sel€ and told, the stranger that, whoever
it was, it ill Wwee biw to overhear con
versation which wos not intended for oth
er ears than their own.
'Nay,' was the rejoinder, 'be not angry
with me ; periu:ps you may have reason
,to rejoice in ray presence, since being in
the possession story of your grief,
it might, be in my , ower to alleviale it.—
I have assisted nun it: much greater
straits.
Edward Aid not ike the last sentence,
nor the tone ill arb, it was uttered ; but
lie said : ;
see. not. how you can 'bap me; you
cannot give me a cue by which I can iiud
the box.' , .
`Ye6, here Ls theThie,' replied the oth
er, as he held ford} about three .yards of
strong cord. • 'note is a line; go to the
river at a point extptly opposite the hol
low oak ; wade ouqin a straight line un
til you find the box ; attach one end of
the cord to the box, and the other to a
stout cork, but rentwe it not yet.'
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'The devil !' sal' Mansell. 'Whether he
really believed bin self bo in the pres
ence of the evil on . or that the ward was
merely expressive of surprike, we know
not..
The stranger too - the compliment, and
acknowledging it with a bow, said, 'The
stealing is at the bottom of the river, and
you will find that I.have s.pakea no more
than the truth;''' • -
Alansellbesitated . no longer, but accom
panied the stranger to the spot, and in a
f ew minutes the box, sealed as when he
last saw it, wasisgvin in hi s p ossess i on ._
He looked from di- treasure . to the stran
ger, and 'at last said, 'I owe you more than
life fer in regaining this, I shall recover
my good name, which has been fouly tra
duced.'
He was proceefing towards the shore,
when the other cr d :
`Stop, young gAtletnan ! not quite so
first; just fasten our cord to it and re.
)place it where yo. found it, if you please.'
Edward started, :ilt, the stranger contin
ued : 'Were you , take that ax back to
your employer, t k you that you would
produce any othe effect on him than the
conviction that fiiling your delinquency
discovered, you *bed to secure immuni
ty by restoring the property? We must
not only restore ttit, treasure, but convict
the thief. Hush ll hear a foot-fall!'
As he spoke, h 4 took the box from Ed
ward, who now s. In. his meaning, fastened
the cord to it, an it was again lowered
to the bottom of, e river, and the cork
on the other end I%thr... cord was swim
ming down the ti -,
;;AiT:,!am!..*,:iOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, ETC.
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WAYNESBORO', FRAN r COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1873.1
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`Now . follow ; me in silence," whispered
the stranger, and the 'tliree retired 'and hid
ThemeelfesinigraWThige truri of the
tree, whence by the light of the moon they
beheld , a figure approach the water Jook
ing captiously around. him. _
`That is the thief;' said the stranger, in
a low voice, in Edward's ear. saw him
last night throw'sOmething into the river,
and when he was gone, I took the liberty
of raising it up ; when, expecting that he
would return and ,remove the booty, I re
placed it, and had been 'unsuccessfully'
watching the placejuit before - I - met-1
in the Hollow.
By the time the man' reached , the riv
er's brink, and after groping some time
o:trough the water, he found the box, but
started back in astonishident on seeing a
on'• -end-attached telt. His back-wa:
turned to the witnesses of the transaction
so that Edward and the stranger. had got
him . securely by the collar before he could
make an escape. The surprise of Man
sell and Kate may be more easily, con
ceived than painted, when .as the moon
beam fell upon the face, of the culprit,
they recognized the features of Van Bu
ren, his fellow clerk,
Mausell's character was now cleared '
while. Van Buren, whoin Mason, for rea
sons_oLbis_own,refrained_from_p_rosecul
ting, quitted the town in, merited disgrace.
The stranger proved to be a gentleman of
large landed property in the neighborhood I
which he bad now visited for the first time
iu man rears and havin_ been interest-
ed in the young pair wlunn he had deliv
ered so opportunely from tribulation, he
subsequently appointed Mansell hiS man
of business, and thus laid the foundation
of his prosperity. - It is almost needless
to add, that Kate, who had so long shar
ed his heart, became his wife, and shared
his.good_fortune.
On an , average it requires from three
to foure hours to digest a meal. At the
end of that the stomach should have rest.
But if. during the digestion of a meal,
fresh food is introduced the stomach is
-called-upon-to-exert-itselfinew--betbre—it
has power . to do so. One meal is so blen
ded with another, that the gastric action
is uninterrupted and of course it is well
done. B6side, u der tllese ei Fen msta
the, regularity of the digestive process is
broken up by the °fact that blood is in
troduced in ,a different condition from
that already contained in the stomach.
Almost all persons violate the law of
health in this' particular.
There are' multitudes who to use their
own expression, "are not particular, they
can eat at any time," which, means gen-,
erally all the time. They partake or three
meals a day as a matter of course, Nit
they arc tasting and lunching continually,
between meals. Two men meet having
some business to transact, and although
they have just taken either breakfast or
dinner, yct they must settle the business
over a "stew" or a "plate Of fried."
It is common to confine the term !`itta
temperate," to those who use alcoholic
stimulants, but the truth is that those
who indulge in over-eating and gorman
dizing are just as intemperate as drunk
ards. Temperance means moderation,
hence men who. either cat or do anything
else, immediately, are intemperate.
Again : We violate the law of health
by eating late at night. After the day
is over and the stomach° has pertbrmed
the digestive proc. , ?ss for us three times,
it needs a might's rest as well as the-oth
er members of the body. When it is al
lowed this right it is in a condition to per
form its duty on the following day with
power and succe4s. UnfOrttmately a large
number of persons deny the stomach this
much needed relaxation by eating be
tweeatbe hours of eleven at night and
two in the morning; an excessive meal of
indigestible fbod. The man tired and ex
hausted wants rest himself, but asks his
poor stomach to stay up all night and
perform a most difficult task.
If a man treated any other organ of his
body thus he would be called a lunatic.
If he retired at one o'clock in the morn
ing, and would say to his eye—" Eye, good
night—l am used up and want to go to,
sleep. You watch and work and I'll be
up in time for you in the morning," his
friends would recommend Dr. Kirkbride's
hospital for the insane. And yet this is
the implied language addressed by every
gourmand to his stomach under !similar
circumstances : "Stomach; work regularly
three times a day ; work between meals ;
work in the evening ; work all night."—
Is there reader of this paper who imag
ines that the stomach can be treated in
this manner without evil, , misery, and
death resulting ? Don't believe the scof
fers. Gluttony is sensual indulgence, and
soon enslaves a man past all hope of rem
edy, It reduces the power, influence,
and acuteness of the intellect, excites the
passions, provokes gout and appoplexy,
and sinks the individual to the level of
the brutes.—Exchange.
EASTERLY Cunnmrr.—Prof.S. A. King
%fent up iu a balloon from Plymouth last
week, to a height of three miles and three
quarters. He found cold and snow and
ice, but no easterly current. His general
direction was northeast, and he came down
about eighty miles from where he started;
his voyage being made in two hours and
twenty-six minutes. We were never able
to credit much that easterly current the•
ory which was to carry balloon travelers
to Europe, with no means of getting back
except by steamer.
Were the question asked of each indi•
vidual whetherhe would prefer to live long
or die early, it is not difficult to. guess
which way the votes would run ; but it
is, nevertheless, a paradox that practically
!nue out of every ten people act as though
their sole object was to ruin their health
and shuffle off their mortal coil as sPob .
as possible.
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,: If . 1 1 wouLn.
- 11 - we - WoUld - blit - elfeekthorSpeaker,"" •
When ho spoils his neighbor's fame,
If we would but help the erring, ,
Ere we, utter words ofblame ;
If we would, how many might we
Turn from paths of sin and shUme.
Ah, the wrong that might be righted
If we would but see the way;
Ah, the pains that might be lightened
__Every hour ancLevery_ila
yyetaTtit hear the p ea ings
Of the hearts that gO astray.
Let us step outside the stronghold
Of out; selfishness and pride;
Let us lift,our fainting brothers,
en-g 3 - • . • e• • •
Let us, ere we blame the fallen,
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Ah, hove blessed—ah, how blessed
Earth would be if we'd but try
Thus . to aid and right the weaker,
Thua to check each b'rother's sigh,
Thus to talk of duty's path Way.
To Our better life on high."
In each life, however lowly,
'ere at e.seec 8 o
Still, we shrink from souls Appealing
•With a timid "if we could ;"
But a lied who judges all things
Kraiws the truth is, "if we would."
Home
When Abe summer days'of youth are
slowly wasting away into the nightfall of
age, and the shadows of past years grow
deeper and deeper as lied Atetirs to'its close,
if 1.4 1 pleasantlo ' look back, through 'the
-vista- of- ti ru e,L upoit-the-sorrows-and—felic--
,
ities of earlier.years. ; `l'mu what calm
delights, what ineffable joys, are centered
'id the word '`,Home !" Friends are gath- .
ered around our fires, and many hearts
rejoice with us:—then, also, shall we feel
that the rough places of our . wayfaring
Have *n worn aliA smoothed away in
the twilight of life, while the sunny spots
which we havepassed through grow brigh
ter and pore beautiful to memory's eye.
Happy are they whose intercourse with
the world has not changed the tone of
their holier feelings, nor broken those mils- '
ical chords of the heart, whose vibrations I
are so Melodious; so tender and touching
in the evening of age. As the current of
time winds slowly along, washing away
the sands of life, like the stream that steals
away the soil from the sapling on its banks,
we look with a kind of melancholy joy at
the decay of, things around us. • -To see
the trees under whose shade Ave sat in our,
earlier, years, and upon whose rinds, we
carved our names in the lighthearted gai
ety of boyhood, as if these frail, memori
als of our exiSteuce would icing
'us—to sea these withering eviar like cur;
selves with the , infinnities.of age, excite
within us, tuuurnful.but, pleasant feelings,
of the past, and prophetic ones for the fu
ture.
The thought?: occasioned by' these frail
and perishingireeortis , of your younger
years, when the friends who are now lin
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b er erin like ourselves upon the brink of
the grave, or have long been asleep in its
quiet bosom, were 'around us, buoyant
with the gaiety of youthful spirits, , —are
like , the dark clouds when the storm is
gone, tinged by, the farewell rays of,,tbe
setting sun.
Terrible Scene in a School Room.
The Atlanta, Ga: Herald of Septem
ber 4th, gives•the following account of a
terrible double murder recently commit
ted in a school iu Banks county in that
State :
"The teacher of the school was Mr. Al
fred Alexander, aged forty years, and the
student, Mr. John H. Moss, aged' about
21 years. Mrs. Alexander, wife of the
principal, was, we learn, present of her
own volition, but not in thedischarge of
arty regular duty, as teacher or in any
other capacity. • Her custom, •however,
had been to observe the conduct and de
portment of the pupils, and when she con
sidered them guilty of any-breach of de
corum, to report them to her husband for'
reproof or other punishment. Ou this oc
casion the subject of her refiortorial'eapa
city was the young man referred to, Mr.'
Moss. When his attention was called to
the matter in question, he denied the
charge made by Mrs. Alexander, which'
led to an animated and angay dispute.—'
Alexander' became enraged at the young
man fur the part taken by hint in the con
troversy, and advancing teward Mr. Moss
drew his knife . ,,und, stabbed hint in the
breast. 111.os in turn dreiv a dagger and
stabbed and Plunged it . into Alexanders
heart. This was •a fatal wound and the
Man fell. Just then Moss turned to leave
but Mrs. Alexander, who, was at the side
of her husband, wrung the knife from his
hand and administered one or two severe
cuts in 'Moss's neck, near the region of the
spine. The result was that they both lay
mortally wounded on the scene of the con
flict, and both expired in a short time, the
one within three minutes of the other. It
is not definitely known whether Moss di
ed from the wounds received from the
wife or husband, 'as all were severe and
reasonably sufficient to produce death.
A finished life, a life which has made
the best of all the material. 4 granted to it
and through which, be its • web dark or
bright, its pattern eleur or clouded call
now be traced plainly the hand of the
great Designersurely this is worth liv
ing for. It has fulfilled its appointed
course! and returns t , ) the Giver of all
breath pure as he gave it. Nor will he
forget it when he countoth up his jewels,--.
3/u/oeit.
Too ]ate for the fair- an old bachelor,
How Briggs' Baby was - Treated.
_Thomas h_r_iggs,ofDetroiLhas_a_boy_b: -
by about ten months Old; who is admitted
at the beginning of this article to look
just like his; father and to be the smartest
boy baby, of his age in Detroit. Yester
dal morning the child was sitting on the
floor, playing with five or six big coat
buttons on a string, and taking an occa
sional nibble at au apple, to bring on his
first crop of teeth. Mrs. Briggs and a
neighbor were talking away as only wo
rsen -can-tossi I, when the bab hid the
uttons un era mat and started to finish
the apple. A bit of the skin got in his
throat, and he gave a cough aud, a whoop
and pawed the air and rolled over on his
head. 'Oh, them buttons! he has swal
lowed them buttons!' cried the mother as
!Mg. reTP:ao.i -
`Pound him on the back yelled the oth
er woman, tryidg to hold the baby's legs
still. "Run tbr the neighbors!' cried Mrs.
Briggs. 'Oh, he'll die! hell die !'scream
ed the other, as she ran out. And the
neighbors came in and made him lie on
his stomache and cough, and , then . titrued
him on his back and rubbed his stomach,
and jagged him 'about all sorts of ways
until he got mad and he went tolowling.
Then a boy ran for Briggs, and, Briggs
ran-for-a-doctor,and-theduetor Came-and
choked the baby, and ordered sweet oil
and a Mustard plaster, and told them to
hold him on his back. Everybody knew
that those six. buttons were lodged' in the
• e :'cause-he---Avasd in th'
Ity goo
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face; and because he strangled as he bowl
ed and wept. They poured down sweet
oil, and put mustard across him, and Trept
over him, and the mother said she could
never forgive herself, Boys drove by call
ing out: 'Slab wood for sale I' and the
scissors man went by' shouting 'Sharp
- Sharp - !' — but - that — distressed - crowd - held
the baby down and shed their tears over
his whole length. The doctor was look
ing serious and Briggs was thinking that
he hadn't done anything to deserve such
a blow, when one of the women pushed
the mat and discovered the buttons. Then_
everybody laughed and danced, and they
kicked the sweet oil bottle under the bed,
threw the mustard plaster ;It the doctor,
and Mrs. Briggs hugged the howling an
gel to her bosom and called him her •wop
sy topsy hopsy dropsy popsy little cher
ub.'
Get not your friends by brave compli
ments, but by giving them sensible tokens
of your loVe. It is well worth while to
learn how to win the heart of a man
the right way. We are not to num
ber our friends by the visits that are made
us, and not to coufbund the decencies of
ceremony 'and commerce with the offices
'of united affections.
A friendship that makes the least noise
is Very often the mcst useful : for which
reason I should prefer a prudent friend
zealous one.
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To be influenced by a passion for the
smile pursuits, and to have similar dislikes
is the natural ground work of lasting
friendship.
A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly ;- and there is a friend
that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is nothing that is meritorious
but virture and friendship, and, indeed,
friendship is but is but a part of virtue.
Life is to be fortified by many friend
ships. To love and to be, loved is the
greatest happiness of existence.
Friendship is the medicine for all mis
fortune; but
all
dries up the
fountain dal! goodness.
Old friends are the best. ' King James
used to call for his old shoes; they were
easier for his feet.
Difficulty is not so great to die for a
friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
What friendship
: will not continue to
the end that is begun for an end.
Kindred:weaknesses induce friendship
as often as kindred virtues.
A friend should bear with his friend's
infirmities.
Friendship is made fast by interwoven
benefits.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Faithful are the . wounds okfriends,
Friendship is full of dregs.
EASE IN Socirrv.--"l'd rather thrash
in the barn all day, than go to this party,"
said Reuben Riley to his sister, as he ad
justed an uncomfortable collar about his
sunburnt neck. "I never know what to
do with myself; stuck up in the parlor all
evening. If the fellows would pull their
coats off, and go out and chop wood on a
match, there'd be some sense in it." "Well,
I bate it as much as you do," said his sis
ter Lucy. "The tiict is, we never go no
where nor see nobody, and no wonder we
feel awkward when we do happen to stir
out."
The remark of this brother and sister
were but the sentiments of many other
farmers' boys-and girls when invited gut
to spend a social evening. But poor Lu
cy had not hit the true cause of the diffi
culty. It was not because they seldom
went to any place, but because there was
such a wide difference between their home
and company warmers. The true way to
feel at ease in any garb is to wear it often.
If the pleasing garb of manners is only
put on upon rare occasions, it will never
tit well and seem comfortable.
Those who think most, require the most
Aeep. Time gained from necessary sleep
is not saved, but lost. Mind and body
will both suffer. Most people, however
do not think enough to make early rising
particularly dangerouq. It is hard work
ing professional man, the dose Olden%
or the ;nen of business, with many cares
upon Isis mind, who suffers most from loss
of deep.
temperate in all things.
Friends and Friendship.
THE ATMOSPHERE.—It surrounds us
on all sides, yet we see it not ;_it pressea„
on us with a load of fifteen pounds to eve
ry square inch of surface of our bodies,
or from seventy to one hundred tons on
us in all, yet we do not as much as feel
its weight. Softer than the softest down—
more impalpable than the finest gossa
mer—it leaves the cobweb undisturbed,
and scarcely stirs the lightest floWer that
feeds on the dew it . supplies ; yet it bears
the fleets of nations on its wings around
the world, and crushes the most refine ry
substances beneath its weight. When in
motion its force is sufficient to level the
most stately forest with the earth—to raise
the waters of the ocean into ridges like
mountains, and dash the strongest ship to
pieces like toys. But for the atmosphere,
at once, and at once remove "us from
midnight darkness to the blaze of noon.
We should have no twilight to soften and
beautify the landscape, no clouds to shade
us from the scorching heat, but the bald
earth, as it revolved on its axis, would
turn its tanned and weakened front to
the full and umitigated rays of the lord
of day.
Worrn.u.s.—Politeness to the aged,
it appears,_pays. ln Bennington. Ver
mont, there is a young man named Carr,
who has been "uniformly kind and re
spectful" to an old gentleman named Cun
ningham. This old gentleman was rePu
ted to be poor, as he was no mu "a "
gay . ,sorer. But the other day the kind
and respectful young person was most a
greeably thunderstruck, for he was pre
sented by the gratefuLold gentleman with
the deed of a farm worth $12,000. So it
appears that old gentleman named Cun
ningham was a (pecuniary) angel in dis
guise. Moral: Be good to old people al-,
ways and under any circumstances.
Dr. Draper, of Newark, N. J., was re
cently left $250,000 by a Frenchman who
died in California. He is indebted for
this windfall to the fact that he once sav
ed the life of the Frenchman, who was
- seized - with — a — fit7whileistniiding upon the
platform . of a car, and would have fallen
off if the doctor had not interposed.
SMALL R& MAXIMS.-1. Small farms
are ,cheaper and easier to manage than
large ones, and pay better for the capital
invested. Therefore, small farms are the
b.nt.
2. If you want to make your farm pay,
you must give it your daily personal at
tention. But if your farm is too large
you cannot do this ; hence, as I said above
small farms are the test. •
3. If you don't want your farm to run
away, you must stop the little leaks. We
may expect fewer leaks on a small place
than on• a big one, hence, again, small
farms are the best.
4. Feed your land well, and it will feed
you. It takes less to feed a few acres than
a good many. So you see small farms
are the best.
Loox BEFORE You LEAP.—My young ,
friend, do not make haste to wed. Un
happy marriage is the quintessence, of un
happy' bondage.: It wounds daily our
fondest and sweetest impulses, it trifles
with and buries Our holiest and dear
est affection, and writes over the tomb
thereof, 'No hope.' kembitters the ,vic
tim with the thought that lost, forever to
his' or s her life a glorYakrOalove ; clos
ed forever to him orber,4he'lmrtals of a
happy home—that fountain of freshness
and delight, at which the soul must
needs drink to gather strength for the
heat and burden of the outsine battle.
A sober man was taken with a fit of
laughter, says the Bulletin, at railway sta
tion in Norwich, on Saturday. He laugh
ed and laughed a g ain , nobody knew why,
and the bystanders concluded that he
must be insane. One finally asked him
if
,he was often taken that way. Then
the sufferer arose and turned his gaze up
on his interrogator, and while he fixed
him with his skinny eye and with his glit
tering hand, replied : "No,, sir, I never
was taken this way before, though I'v of
ten thought I'd like to he ; I'm going to
my mother-in-law's funeral."
A railroad engineer_at Boston, having
been discharged, applied to be reinstated.
"You were dismissed," said the Super-:
intendent, austerely, 'for lettingyour train
come twice into collizion. •
"The very reason," said, the other par
ty, interrupting hiat, "why I asked to be
restored."
"How so ?"
"Why, sir, if I had any dcuht before
as to whether two trains' can pass each
other on the same track; I am now entire.
ly satisfied ; I have tried it twice, sir, and
it can't be done, and I am not likely to
try it again."
"lie regained his situation."
The Cincinnati Comniercial says : "A
little son six years old, of Mr. Wake Hub
bell, while enroute to N. Y. with his moth
er, fell out of a car window while the train
was moving at the rate of twenty miles
an hour. The train was stopped and
backed and the little codger was found
unhurt, and trottiqg along the track try
ing to overtake the train from which he
had fallen."
Every parent is like a looking glass for
his children to dress thewselves by.
Men who brag of ancestors and great
descent show a great descent indeed from
their ancestors.
•
A.bore is a ,
mtb'whe •spends so much
time talaking about himself that' you
can't talk about yourself.
Never promise a child and then fail to
perform, whether you promise him u boa
or a beating. . .
82,00 PER YEAR
lk.llll I ii m im-Lj
Alit anti
liabilities of some
The 1
of all g
dresina gown is tl
meuts ; •it is sell'i
If I we!
of it, what
in . the sun an
,vould the sun
The reasonlM
on its guard.
are the only ladies who have as yetevinc-,
ed much interest in the ''third term," ques
tion:
hen you see a Tale girl with old gai
ters on tier feet, a crownless jockey on her
head, three brown paper packages in her
arms, and a mouthful•of candy, you may
know her • •
A Missouri woman turned her husband
upside down in a milk churn the other
day_ because he swore at her mother.
But it didn't make him auy butter. -
"Vot vedder' vill it 'be to-day ?" asked
a German of-his neighbor "Vell, don't --
know : vot you tink ?" "I tink it. yin be
vedder as you tink." "Veil, I tink so
too."
.0 4 7 - Vell, Pei, which is the way :to iluir
ington ?" "How did you know my name,
waa_Pati" "01,1 guessed it." "Thin
be the howly pokers, as ye are so good at.
guessing, ye'd better guess the way to B ur,
I ington. '
•
An I ish captain of militia received a.
note from a lady "requesting•the pleasure
of his company,' understood it as a com
pliment to the men under' his command,
anal. marched the whole of them to • her
house.
• ••••
A public school teacher in Wisconsin
has substituted for corporal .louniahment
occasional doses of castor 44;011fmiti:
says, makes the pupils much - lituult*i*
than the old plan. . •
An old man- up in Clintifw'_2 - 7.;.: 1 ,12,-;::
when
. asked by a traveling. agelo:l * ,i '
didn't want to buy a "Weed 18#1.11itili.e,,''
Machine," got mad, and said the eonlk
"raise enough weeds without sowing 'eup-..
. The Boston Herald, Mildly expostulates
with a correspondent: " . The• nian who.
writes a letter without signing his real
'name is a coward and an idiot';, and when
he signs his letter 'fair Play,' he is - a
lia,r7
"Och !" says a love-sick Hibernian,
"what, a recreation it is to be dying 'in
love it sets the heart aching so delicately
there's no taking a wink of sleep for the•
pleasure of the pain !"
The 'wife of a colonel, at a ,review iu
Dublin, was stopped. by an Irish sentry,:,
when, with a haughty toss of the head,
she informed him that she was the e4lou
el's lady. jabers, ma'am," refilled
Pat, "if
you were his own wife you would
not pass..
A few morning. 4 ago, Says a Kentucky
rural paper, we meekly approached at
emigrant wagon and inquired: , of its Sus- .
tere proprietor," Whither bound Ate
lord removed his quid to 'the"' larboard
side of his month and cooly remarked
"None of your ti-4 I.),usinesq,", .4pd it
wasn't either. ,
A. Detroit woman wants adivor{..e- , --anit
should have • one,--because her, 'husband
insists upon fleeplpg ,with his feet .upon,
the pillow so - that he can get* her feet
'when she snores. If he had any love, for
his wife, instead of such* outrageous con
duct he would attach a string to her .big
toe and sleep in the nest ,routp.
,
A clergyman was once taken to task
by - a member of his congregation fur not
preaching, more frequently onpreilestina, ,
don. He was yt,ry indignant, and look ,
ing steadily at his celisor for a moment,
replied:, "sir, I perceive you are predes,
tined to be an ass, .and what is more,
see you are determined to makeyour call-.
jug and election sure."
. .
A young Irish servant girl coming from.
Albany recently, in one of the night At a m
ers, hail the ill luck to lose the recommen
dation which had been given her on leav
ing her last place. An Irishnian
tug the cause of her distress, won,: one for,
her, which she presented to'n nicht{ :
•`This is to say that katy o'brien had a
good karacter 'when she left
she lost it on hoard the vessel coming
down from slimily."
A CRUEL ijox.n.:—An Evansville me.
chanic was the victini of a heartless juke
quite recently. His companions counter-,
kited a letter from a young heireas. which
said that his manly bearing bad captiva
ted her heart, and - hoped-he reciprocaoNL
He threw away his tools, invested hie'
money in new clotheNtnd preSented , hiru. ,- .
self to the laqi.WhAlixclignantl,y
that. she ; husband who look
ed iquasti , saiii be'
did.she'd takes.the hair oil' his,
headAit • ."...altetde eft watgt -
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