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~BT MEET A MELGROV,*.
C„,k lo this aching heart, oh winds!
'speak to my heart to-night;
M, Poking spirit always huda,
; r n you some new delight;
t'uur wild and whispering tones at night,
Bong to my spirit groat delight.
Arl , c oil winds, from year chill bed,
In this sully twilight hoar;
For dm dearest hopes of my heart are dead,
And hunt my spirit’s power;
Come then, oil winds I Horn your cold bed,
And tell me of the slumbering dead.
Tell me deep winds! for oft you go,
In darkening gloom of night;
About the chamber dark and low,
Where sleep the dead ; and light
Comes not through all the gathered gloom.
Oh! sleep limy well in the dark tomb 7
Speak lo me roving winds, and say,
*lf in ll.e grave be rest!
for cl) 1 l»fc’ s brief and flirting* day,'
ju a saddened one at best;
Then m tliis still hour speak and say,
Jf death will bring my lone heart rest?
Charlaton, 1656.
Be Polite to All.
Kjlalloi Limpy, tho cars will start in a
Bionic, huiry up or we shall leave you be
bind!”
The cars were wailing at a station on one
c [ out Western railroads. The engine was
puniag and blowing; the baggage master
»u busy with baggage ana checks ; the
men were hurrying to and fro with chests
indvatises. packages and trunks. Menr»o
mn and children were rushing for the cars
ltd hastily securing their seats, while the lo
sßinine puffed, and snorted, and blowed.
iman carelessly dressed was standing on
die platform of the depot. He was looking
around him, and seemingly paid little atten
tion '0 what was passing. It was easy to see
that he was lame. At a glance one might
kaie supposed ihat he was a man ol neither
teaiih nor influence. The conductor of the
mm gave him a contemptuous look, and slap
pa; him familiarly on the shoulder he called
out:
‘■Halloa, Limpy better get aboard or the
cars will leave you behind I”
"Time enough, I reckon,” replied the indi
vidual so roughly addressed, and he retained
4:i seem'ngly listless position.
The last trunk was tumbled into the bag
gage car. “All aboard !” cried the conduc
tor. “Gel on, Limpy,” said he as he pass
ed ihe carelessly dressed lame man.
The lame man made no reply. Just as
llietram was slowlv moving away, he stepped
on the platform of the last car, and walking
in, quietly, took a seat. The train moved on
a few mtiea, when the conductor appeared at
ihe door of the car where our friend was sit
ting. Passing along he soon discovered the
stranger wh >m he had seen at the station.
"Hand out your money here.”
"I don’t pay,” replied the lame man very
tj'jtelly.
“Don’t pav!’’
“We ll see about that. I shall put you
out at the next station 1” and he seized the
nhse which was on the rack over the head
of our Iriend.
“Bit'cr not be so rough, young man,” re
turned the stranger.
The conductor released the carpet bag for
l moment, and seeing he could do no more
it™ he pasted on to collect the fare from the
ttVr passengers. As he slopped at a seat a
ft* paces off, a gentleman who had heard the
conversation jos: mentioned, looked up at the
conductor and asked him :
“Caaou know to whom “you were spea
king just notv V’
~ X | >, sir.”
“That was Peter Warburton, the President
cf the road.”
“Ate\mi sure of that t’’ replied the con
doctor, tning to conceal his agitation.
“I bow him.” |
The color rose a little to the young man’s
face but wub a strong effort fie controlled
himself, and went on collecting his faro as
usual.
Meanwhile Mr. Waiburtnn sal quietly in
his seat, Vong 0 p 11,0,5 w ho were near him
unravel the expression of his counlen
nnr tell what would be the next move
,” cnl m the scene. And he—of what
keen unkindly taunted
*"h the infirmity which had come perhaps
1 rough no fault of his. He could revenge
if he chose. He could tell > the dt
the simple truth, and the yodng man
deprived of his place at once. —
1 hf do it! And yet, »hy should he
ine» knew what he was worth. He
,!** '’ Qw de had risen by his own exertions
' e position he now held. When a little
. he stood bv the street-crossing,
<l«s ~r tlanl ’ a rebuff. He had outlived those
gl,''' hardship ; he was respected now.—
(auntt care or a stranger’s roughness or
no, Those who sat near him wailed
the end.
» st re ? nl *y 'he conductor came back. With
k Jn ea .' ener §y he walked up to Mr. War
-ol'B' 8 side. He took his books from his
hi * ii'' e ' ,an ' i hills, the tickets which he
b „. C ° , ed i a nd laid them in Mr. War-
J ' lo »shand.
place, sir,” he said.
, * ‘ resident looked over the account for
tt k. rne .°D then motioning to the vacant seat
■',M e ’ Said:
jou.'i dawn > 8 ‘ r > I would like to talk with
tu,S e ypung man sat down, the President
*uj r f ° " lm w hh a face in which was no
lone; W lng and B P°heio him in an under
ksliiJ.y°Ung ( r ' I have no revengeful
h»y e ?, 0 B ral 'fy in this matter; but ,you
had it ve L r y imprudent. Your manner,
° e * n l “°* 10 a stranger, would have
YOL, V.
For the Agitator.
been very injurious lo the, interests of the
company. I might tell ihent of this, but I
tyill not. By doing so I should throw you
out of ypuc station, and you might find it dif
ficult to get another.. But in future, remem
ber lo be polite lo all whom you meet. You
cannot judge of a man by the coat he wears,
and even thepoorest should be treated with
civility. Tithe up your books, sir, 1 shall
tell no one of what has pnssed. If you
change your.course, nothing which has hap
pened shall injure you. Your situation ia
still continued. - Good morning, sir I**
The Irain of cars swept on, as many a
train had done before; but within it a lesson
had been giyen and learned, and the purport
of that lesson ..ran somewhat thus— don't
Judge from appearance*.
VlsjLt to a Powder Magazine.
The precautions in visiting powder maga
zines in Europe are greater than in ihis coun
try, where the “free and equal rights Dem
ocracy” would hardly submit lo Such rigid
rules as are there enforced. It would be
considered quite condescension enough on the
part of an American ‘-sovereign,” particu
larly one of the Young Amerind school, to
throw away a lighted cigar. He would have
to do something more than that before grati
fying his curiosity with a sight of the stores
of powder in some of the fortresses on the
other side of the water. Yet, with a rigid
observance of “the rules,’’ established and
printed, perhaps a century ago, danger of
being blown up, is not always avoided. A
friend tells us an anecdote illustrative of Ihe
fact that old rules are not always applicable
to a new stale of things. He visited s large
fortress in the northern part of Holland, and
being ihe son of an old soldier and an artist,
pursuit of objects of interest to sketch
pencil, he was permitted lo look into
the powder-magazine, where more than a
hundred thousand pounds of powder were
stored. The strong stone building was fenced
around with a strong wall, outside of which
was a little ante-room, where the applicant
for admission entered and rapped upon the
wooden door with a wooden knocker, when
a little wicket opened upon its wooden hin
ges, and the keeper showed his visage and
demanded his pass. This being all right, he
was directed to pull off his bools on the fur
ther side of the room, the wooden floor o(
which was kept free from all possible sign of
dirt. Then after brushing his stockings and
dusting all his garments, he was furnished a
pair of cloth slippers, and then pul through
the course of questions that were lied up with
“red tape” at the “war-office” in the lime of
his great-grand-father.
“Do you smoke! Then leave your pipe
and tobacco, and your flint and steel and
tinder.”
Each of these articles had to be deposited
separate, so as to be sure the (lint and steel
should not by any charm get together, al
though a hundred feel from the powder, and
behind two thick stone walls. Happily our
friend had none of these inflammable articles.
“Have you any knife, key or article of
steel?” He had, as was required to lay
them away carefully in separate places.
“Have you any gold, silver or copper
coins?” Fortunately, although a traveling
artist, he had some of these needful accom
paniments of a traveler. He was required
to show what he had, and make a special de
posit, without retaining a single red.
“Have you any other piece of metal, flint,
glass or mineral of any kind about you ? If
so. you must leave that behind.”
Having gone through with all “the form
alities,” the door opened upon its noiseless
wooden hinges, and the “safe visiter’ 1 was
permitted to enter the courtyard, which was
crossed upon a path of an'i-fi iction materia'
to the wooden door of the magazine, which
he entered and walked up and down with
noiselsss trend between the long rows of
powder casks, piled tier on tier, in quantity
sufficient to destroy ns many lives and as
much property as the late great explosion at
Havana.
“You are very particular,’’ said the visiter
to the keeper, “to avoid all possible chance
of accident ?’’
“We simply nbev the rules,” he replied.
How those rules do need amending and
adopting to the present age of the woild,
thought our friend just at that moment, ns he
drew his handkerchief from his pocket and
applied it to his face, more to hide any change
of countenance than for any other purpose,
at the same time hardly declaring’ himself
fully satisfied with what he had seen, and
expressing a wish to retire, and, without
wasting time, making a decided movement
toward the door. “Here,” thought he, “under
the rules, they have divested me of every
harmless copper, lest I might carelessly drop
one upon the floor and igni’e a grain of loose
powder. They have questioned me, ns they
did an old Dutch burgomaster a hundred
years ago, about my habit of smoking so as
to take away my flint and steel. They have
ordered me to divest my pockets of nil me
tallic substances, lest by some possible mis
chance some of them should ignite. I won
der they did not inquire whether “saltpetre
will explode.” Fortunately they allowed me
to retain my cambric handkerchief, and in
feeling in my pocket for that I have discov
ered the box of friction matches that I use
to light my cigars. I think I will retire,
resume my coppers and my keys, my watch
and finger rings, put on‘my boots, and give
the customary coins to the attendants, and
go away quite satisfied that I have conformed
to all the rules, and have visited a powder
magazine with a bos of friction matches in
my pocket. It is all right; but. lhank Hea
ven, I am now on the outside of the outer
wall.”— N. Y. Tribune.
THE AGITATOR, ip
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WHILE THESE SHALL BE A WEONO UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MOST CONTINUE.
WELLSBORO. TIOGA.COUNTY, TA., THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 8, 1858.
Beautify Toor Home.
Every man should do his best to own a
home. The first money he can spare ought
lo be invested in a dwelling, where his family
can live permanently. Viewed as a mailer
of economy, this is important, not only be
cause he can ordinarily build more cheaply
than he can rent, but because of the expense
caused by frequent change of residence. A
man who early in life builds a home for him
self and family, will save some thousands of
dollars in the course of twenty years, besides
avoiding the inconvenience and trouble of
removals. Apail from this, there is some
thing agreeable to our better nature in having
a home that we can call our own. It is a
form of property that is moreihan properly.
It speaks to the heart, enlists the sentiments,
and ennobles the possessor. The associations
that spring up around it, as the birthplace of
children. —as the scene of life’s holiest emo
tions—as the sanctuary where the spirit cher
ishes its pure-t thoughts, are such as all
value ; and whenever their influence is ex
erted, the moral sensibilities are improved
and exalted. The greater part of our hap
piftess in this world is found at home ; but
how few recollect that the happiness of to-day
is increased by the place where we were
happy on yesterday, arid that, insensibly,
scenes and circumstances gather up a store
of blessedness for the weary hours of the
future! On this account we should do all
in our power to make home attractive. Not
only should we cultivate such tempers as
serve to render its intercourse amiable and
affectionate, but we should strive to adorn it
with those charms which good sense and re
finement so easily imparl to it. We' say
easily, for there are persons who think that
a home cannot be beautified without a con
siderable outlay of money. Such people are
in error. It costs little to have a neat flower
garden, and to surround your dwelling with
simple beauties which delight the eye far
more than expensive objects. If \ou will let
the sunshine and the dew adorn your yard,
they will do more for you than aoy artist.
Nature delights in beauty. She loves to
brighten the landscape and make it agreeable
to the eye. She hangs the ivy around the
ruin, and over the slump of a withered tree
(wines the graceful vine. A thousand arts
she practices to animate the senses and please
the mind. Follow her example, and do for
yourself what she is always laboring to do
(or you. Beauty is a divine instrumentality.
It is one of God’s chosen forms of power.
We never see creative energy without some
thing beyond mere existence, and hence the
whole universe is a teacher and inspirer of
beauty. Every man was born to be an
artist, so far as the appreciation and enjoy
ment of beauty are concerned, and he robs
himself of one of the precious gilts of his
being if he fails to fulfil this beneficent pur
pose of his creation.
A Wife’s Influence.
Judge O'Neal, in the Yorkvilln Enquirer,
I**Us ihe following of Judge William of South-
Carolina:—
“He had the rare blessing to win the love
of one of the purest, mildest, and best wo
men, whose character hasever been present
to ihe writer. He married Margaret Duff.—
In his worst days, she never upbraided him
by word, look or gesture, but always met
him as if he was one of the kindest and best
of husbands. This course on her part hum
bled him, and made him weep like achi'd.—
This sen'ence, it is hoped, will be remem
bered, was ihe language-of Judge Smith to
the friend already named, and to those who
knew the stern unbending public character
of the Judge, it will teach a lesson of how
much a patient woman’s love can accomplish.
He was'al Inst reformed by an instance of
her patient love and devotion, as he himsell
told it :
“The evening before the Return Day of
the Court of Common Pleas for York Dis
trict, a client called with fifty writs to bo put
in suit. Mr. Smith was not in his office—he
was on what is now fashionably called a
spree, then a frolic. Mrs. Smith received
the writs, and sat down in the office to the
work of issuing the writs and processes.—
She spent the night at work—Mr. Smith in
riotous living.’ At daylight, on his way
home from his carousals, he saw a light in
his office, and stepped in, and to his great
surprise saw his amiable wife, who had just
completed what ought to have been his work,
with her head on the table and asleep. His
entry awoke her. She told him what she
had done, and showed him her night’s work
—fifty writs and processes. This bowed Ihe
strong man, he fell on his knees, implored
her pardon, and then and there lailhfully
promised her never to drink another drop
while he lived.’ ‘This promise,’ says my
friend Col. Williams, ‘he faithfully kept,’
and, said the judge to him,‘from that dav,
everything which I touched turned to gold.’
‘His entire success in life,’ says Col. Wil
liame, ‘he set down to his faithful observance
of this noble promise.’
“No belter eulogy could be pronounced on
Mrs. Smith than has just been given in the
words of her distinguished husband. The
reformauon of such a man as William Smith
is a chaplet of glory which few women have
been permitted to wear. To Ihe people of
South-Carolina, and especially of York Dis
trier, certainly no stronger argument in favor
of temperance, and total abstinence, need be
given.”
We cannot all of us be beautiful, but the
pleasantness of a good-humored look is de
nied to none. We can all of us increase and
strengthen the family affections and the de
lights of home.
eommumcattons.
, For tho Agitator,
Familiar Letters on Geology, Etc.
NUUBBR THREE,
Mir Dbau Marit: Before resuming the
thread of my argument, i would remark that
there are two classes who cling to the Usher
Chronology and the literal theory. The first,
honest and devout it may be, but who do not
let their minds expand so as to see the great
and glorious intent of the Jewish and Christ
ian dispensations, or who perhaps are timid
and conservative, or it may be, have not been
placed in a position to get rid of the contract
ed theories taught them by predecessors,
equally pious, but with equally unexpanded
intellects. The second class, the unreason
able and unreasoning infidel, who from choice
adopts the exegesis which is most unreason
able in order that he may have a stand point
from which to attack the Scriptures, i would
further remark, and more of this hereafter,
that man has a spiritual as well as a physical
history and nature —that the history of both
natures has been progressive—that both the
physical and spiritual natures are still pro
gressive, depending in life mutually, though
mysteriously upon each other, yet separate
and distinct, so much so that we feel an in
ternal consciousness that the soul or spiritual
nature may exist independent of the physical
conformation. 1 would also remark that a
man’s piety does not depend on what is de
nominated his intellect, but upon an individu
al nature, that seems to be, as n were, of indi
genous growth and transmitted by infusion,
which however when so infused is equally
capable of expansion and growth. But to
resume.
You wilt observe that the twenty-fifth and
twenty-sixth verses of the fourth chapter are
entirely disconnected from what goes imme
diately before, nor does the subject seem to
be connected with what follows in the next
chapter. It seems to be a short prophetic
declaration that when the generation known
under the representative name Cain—a name
for national corruption—had overcome and
completely extirpated all righteousness in the
world, then was born unto Adam, nr was
raised up in the earth, a new generation of
people under the representative name of Seth
and Enos, when a new era of righteousness
and an advanced morality was inaugurated,
and under them the people began to call up
on the name of the Lord as they had done in
the Abelian ages. For, observe the phrase
ology of the twenty-sixlh verse—“then be
gin men to call upon the name of the Lord.”
This phrase seems to refer to the days of
both Seth and Enos; it may refer only to
the days of Enos. This according to the
Usher Chronology, would he only about two
hundred ond liftv years after the creation of
man and Adam’s converse with God in the
garden—less than that lime probably by a
handled years, when Cain and Abel both of
fered sacrifices to Him and when Cain talked
face to face with God and bitterly felt his
power to punish. Admitting that all this is
to be understood literally and not as a proph
etic tablet, we have an age of righteousness
—an age when God is enttr' ly banished from
even the language of man, and then again an
age when men begirt In call upon the name
of the Lord, in the space of at least three
generations.
In this connection observe the second verse
of the fifth chapter and the peculiar phraseol
ogy there made use of—“male and female
created he them and he called their name
Adam.” Now this peculiar phraseology
alone would go very fir to prove that the
name Adam was here made use of as repre
sentative, to denote the first age ns well as
the creation of the human race, and if so
then Seth and Enos and all Ihe names made
use of in the fifth chapter are but representa
tive in like manner, for if Adam was, the an
alogy of the use would imply that all were.
Adopting, 100, this theory or exegesis will
reconcile the apnarenl clashing of the gene
alogies of ihe fourth and fifth chapters.—
Read the eighteenth verse of the fourth chap
ter and compare it with the fifih chapter
from ihe eighteenth to the twenty-fifth verses
inclusive. There is certainly a very singu
lar coincidence of names if they do not syn
chronize—the two last being identical in form
and order, and the three first reversed and
slightly changed in form.
The flood or great general deluge was, ac
cording to the chrqnologists in the year of the
vyorld sixteen hundred and fifty-five. During
this antediluvian period, we have lhe discov.
ery of iron and its various manufactures,'the
combination of zinc and copper into brass,
and consequently the discovery of the ores
of zinc and copper and the art of smelting
both them and iron. We have also distinctly
recognized the occupations nr professions of
the iron-smith, the brass-smith, and hv impli
cation workers in copper and zinc. We have
also the art of architecture carried to a great
slate of perfection, as witnessed in the build
ing of the ark, a vessel to sail upon the wa
ters, and by implication, navigation. We
have also in music, players upon the harp
and organ, and by consequence, manufactu
rers of such musical instruments.
Wu have also the institution of marriage
coeval with man, and after a few short years
the institution overthrown and destroyed, and
polygamy and all Us kindred vices pervading
every department of society—the institution
of sacrificial offerings to the Lord —a true
recognition of the supremacy of Jehovah—
man again so degraded and so destitute of
any religious sentiment that the age of Seth
and Enos was a complete and perfect begin
ning of the worship of God as compared with
the gndlessneas of all men in the past, and
then again, the whole world so sunk in vice
that it could not be renovated except by its
almost total destruction. W e have also the
building of cities, and the gathering together
of population into such cities, and by impli
cation, tracjle and commerce. ',\ ;;
All this,,remember, was in the veyy infan
cy of the world—in the first sixteen hundred
years according to the Literalists; land re
member, too, that when the flood came, it
and destroyed the knowledge of
■aft these arts, except what might be supposed
to have been known by Noah and (its sons,
and that 100 whether the flood was pariial, ac
cording to Hitchcock, Lyell, Miller arid other
geologists, or general, according to the com
mon opinion. For these very geqlngisjs,
while they agree that the flood, happening
twenty-three hundred and fifty years ago,-
could not have been general, admif that it
overflowed and destroyed all the inhabited
pans of the globe, and that no human beings
were saved but Noah and his family. ! So far
as the destruction of the world >ndj Us im
provements were concerned, the flood was a
universal cataclysis, and a new world began
with Noah and his sons. ||, .
Take the exegesis of the Literals, or the
Usher chronologisls, and the whole sieems to
be pinched down into a mere childish narra
tive, unworthy the prophet and derogatory to
the honor of the great Creator. Aqmit the
exegesis that I have indicated, and it is a most
sublime prophetic tableau of the ages before
the flood—of man in his, to us, iVimitive
stale, and of the great changes brought about
in society by man’s,evil passions in his pro
gression from a primitive stale of ienocency
to that state of society, when “eyery limagin
aiion of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually”—man beginning with the
sacrifices, not of the affections jan i of the
intellect, but of lambs and of bullocks, and
ending in murder, debauchery,j ard every
other evil device. ' \ i
But my dear Mary, I must draw I letter
to a close, for 1 do not wish tojcrcwd your
mind with too many facts at once, ort to pro
ceed so fast that you will not find lime from
your arduous duties to exam'inej thoroughly
for yourself all the authorities 1 quo Band all
the arguments I use. Let me [alsij recom
mend you to procure if within your reach—
“ God revealed in the process of Creation,”
by James B. Walker—Prof, Guyot’j|“E'irth
and Man’’—some good work op volcanoes,
Ido not know what one to ret tmend
Smith’s "Natural History of 1 JHuman
Species,” though I would by no ins have
you stumble on a modern delugt id so be
compelled with him to adopt a liilni
for man, as Caucasian, am
—Dr. S. G. Mnncn’s various works
human crania, &0., and—bin I hav'
mended enough for one week al lea
Miller and Professor Hitchcock,
you. will probably consult; and
sion, let me recommend vou to ci
fully Ihe Bible. Yours truly,
Heart-Trials.
Heart-trials I What are they 7
not what the world commonly ca
and sympathizes with as such, j
far deeper, harder to be borne than
which admits of consolation througl
dium of kind words. 1
Perhaps all may not fully com'prf
lerm. Bui lei me for one morhet
to the experience of sensitive, (lot
aspiring natures, and 1 am sure the
me. heart-trials are the hardest tna
There may be sickness, poverty, an
sand other griefs, which friends
presence will lighten of half the
but who will took in'o the inner san
the soul, and read the record thei e,
gles which the heart has known l
The cons'anl strife between
desire to cuhivale, and gratify thuj
lions fur knowledge which our F
implanted in the soul of many, in no
degree, may pale the cheek, and s'?
young life—but who shall knoyv ill
The sensitive heart hides away ii
recesses the withered bud, whichlwi
been a blooming flower, .and mot
“what might have been,” but ajsl
sympathy.
There are records there of unad
friendship; of cold, unkind words, f|
like ice, upon the warm spirit, wh;
self-devotion has striven hard to li{|
way of loved friends; alas! how.dt
ing has been the requital! J
None, perhaps, are better acquai
these trials, than sensitive, diffident]
How often arc we grieved, at J
ifie wanUrf appreciation, the posijivj
ness manifested toward such natuj
ye, who have the care of the yr
are brought into constant companir
children, beware how ye chill
feelings of their natures, how ye
wild, self-destroying channel, (ho
which may bless the world with
fluence. if nurtured with affectionl
There is a want of love, and I
in this great world of ours, there
ness almost unpardonable. And
more from it than the young 1
My heart instinctively goes
children whom I have met wit|
homes, where the light of affcctiq
as scarcely to be visible—so faint
no warmth, to bring to maturity ii
kindness and love, which are itri|
every nature. Would that a voice in
every being so situated, and whispj
“words of cheer”—tell of a bright
• ® |
and bid them, even in an unget
sphere, still keep in existence jti
feelings, which shall yet find heat
and understand them. Though [ij
life is sad, that the way is he'd
which the heart ever turns as the !
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self-denjal shall fail of its reward. “There i>
a silvery lining to every cloud,” and that
lining yet be visible, and the wearied,
overissued spirit will joy m its brightness I
There are some of maturer years, who
look back to the tew, who like guardian an
gels smiled upon them encouragingly in those
childhoojd hours of trial, and bless heaven
for sending into this cold world, noble spirits,
who took not with an unfeeling eye, upon
the trials of children. Their memory is liko
bright stars, forever burning. To them, the
soul returns thanks, grateful thanks, and to
them will heaven send a thousand fold re
ward in |blessings, if the prayers which go
up in ihejr behalf are heard and accepted.
Greenpaslle, lowa. L.
The. following story is acknowledged a
good one,” but we have never before seen it
prinl-1-
A fewiyears since, some rogueish boys in
a (own n'ot a thousand miles distant from the
capitoi of New Hampshire, persuaded Joseph
N , pr, as he was generally called, ‘Joe,’
to a'lenil Sunday School. Joe was an over
grown, half-witted, profane lad, and the boys
had anticipated considerable fun of him; but
the answers to the various queslions propoun
ded were given.so readily and correctly that
no one could for a moment suppose that he
was not[fullv versed in theological lore.
Joe was duly ushered in, and placed on a
sellee in front of the one on which his friends
were set ted, and the recitation commenced,
“My friend,” said ihe teacher, who made
the world we inhabit?”
“Eh r’ said Joe, turning up his eye* like
an expiring calf.
made the world we inhabit?”
Just a|s ho was probably about to give I he
answer, jone of the boys sealed behind insert
ed a pin [into his (Joe's) unmentionables about
nine inches below the ornamental button of
bis coati
“Godl Almighty !” answered Joe, in an ele
vated tone, at the same time rising quickly
from his seat.
“That is correct,” replied the teacher ; “but
it is not necessary that you should rise in
answering. A silting pos'ure was just as
well.” '
?cor
i he
!me;
u
Joe was again sealed, and the catechism
proceeded.
“Whd died to save the world ?’’
The pin was again inserted, and Joe re
plied—“Je-tia Christ?” in a still louder voice,
rising as before, from his seal.
“That is also correc 1 , but do not manifest
so much feeling; do be more composed and
reserved in your manner,” said the teacher
in an expostulating lone.
After Joe had calmed down, the examina
tion went on.
“What willJbe the final dpom of all wick
ed men ?’’ wasphe subject npw up for consid
eration ; and ah the pin was again stuck in,
Joe thundered out, with a higher elevation of
the hodj—“Hell and damnation!”
“My young friend,” said the instructor,
“you give true answers to these questions ;
but whtl; you are here we wish you to be
more mild in your words. Do endeavor, if
you can to restrain your enthusiasm, and give
a less extended scope to your feelings.”
il or!"in
s) on Ihe
;{recom-
and with
oire than
jconclu
ult cure-
J. S.
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Agitator.
fhey are
l 4 trials,
'hey are
Hal grief
jhe me-
thcnd the
r li appeal
' ing, and
'(will tell
i s| of life.
id[a thou
hy (heir
purden;
iptuary of
of strug-
A Speech on Scolding Wives,
At a Young Men's Debaling Society,
spmewhtre om in Illinois, ihe question for
discussion was, “which is the greatest evil
—a scolding wife or a smoking chimney 1”
Afier the appointed disputants had concluded
the debate, a spectator rose and begged the
privilege of making a few remarks on the
occasion. Permission being granted he de
livered himself in the following manner.
“Mr. President—l’ve been almost mad
listening to the debate of these youngsters.
They doTr’i about a scolding
wife ! Wail until they~have-hadjpne upwards
of eight years, and been hammered and yam
mered and jawed at all the while, waif until
they have been scolded because the fire
wouldn’t burn, because the oven was too hot,
because the cow kicked over the milk, be-,
cause the sun shined, because the hens didn’t
lay, beer use the butler wouldn’t come, be
cause they are too soon for dinner, because
(bey are one minute too late, because they
lapped the young ones, because they tore
heir-trowsers, or because they anything,
whether they could help it or not,) before
they speak about the evils of a scolding wife ;
why, Mi. President, I’d rather hear the clatter
of hammer and stones, and twenty tin pans,
and nin<[ brass kellies than a din of a scold
ihg wife Yes, sir’ee, them's my sentiments.
To my mind, Mr. President, a smolty chim
ney is no more to be compared to a scolding
wife than a little negro is to a dark night,”
There was nothing said about drunken,
ill-grain -d, sulky husbands, who come home
when they please and still expect the wife to
be a perfect angel.
ty, ! , and a
s e’, aspira
‘pt.her has
> ordinary
■i(Men the
i its deep
ibid have
rns over
s!nol for
pfeciated
uhg back
Sch, in its
>ht up the
isliearlen-
mted with
l| children.
Jbeholding
ije unkind
irek Oh,
(jung, wiho
with
hd belter
rn into a
i a holy in
line care !
I }
forbearance
is ajselfish
-1 who suffer
Wouldn’t Bite such Bait.— Our friend
Jones tins been doing homage to a pair of
bright and talking tender things by
moonlight, lately. A few evenings since,
Jones rrs'dyed 10 “make his destiny secure.”
Accordingly ho fell on his knees before the
fair duleinea, and made his passion known.
Much lr> his-Surprise, she refused him onl
flat. Jumping to. his feet, he informed her
in no choice terms that there w£re as good
fish in the sea as ever was caught. Judge of
the exasperation of our worthy swain, when
she coo'ly replied : “Yes but they don't bite
at bull-heads /” Jones has learned a lesson.
pit Howard
h io many
or isj so dim
= as jlo shed
re of
[ lamed in
■ ighlreach
• :r io them
er; future,
■r
;ial; almo
hoqe holy
|ts 110 read
pellng that
Ijiei} up, to
Bath of its
fisdeotlWis
A Western Editor thinks that Hiram Pow,
ers is a jswindler, because he chiseled an uo
formna^rGreek girl out of marble,
Early Piety.