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FOR F.E
VOLUME VIII
THE LEHIGH REGISTER
published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa., every VI cdnesday, by
IFAJBE,
A $l5O per aniintp, payable in advance,
$2 00 if not paid until the end.ot the year. No
paper discontinued, uniil all arrearages are paid
except at the optoin of the proprietor.
1, - N . Office in Hamilton Street, one door Eay of
the German Reformed Church, nearly opposite
the “Friedensbote" Office. •-
ipeum.mluania Cotl)ing ij all.
Breinig, &Ugh and Breinig,
South East corner of HarniltonandSeventh
,Slreet, dillentown.
Inform their friends and the public in gen
eral, that they haVe entered into Partner
ship in the
'Merchant Tailoring Business,
rely followed by Neligh
hd Breinig, and intend to
intinue the same more ex
.nsive than ever. They
ierefore adopt this measure
inform their old customers,
id "hundreds of new ones"
kat they will at their new
itablishment, present the
Fashionable Goods,
ever brought to this place, and having pur
chased in Philadelphia and New Yolk
•
Zor Caste
it enables them to sell boa er than any
other establishment of the kind in A llentown.
They have sekieted their Goods with an eye
to durability and fancy, and have none but
the latest styles in the market. Their stock
of Goods among other articles, consist of
Cloths of all colors and prices, Cassiiners,
of French and American mantifacturers ;
Vestings, Silk Velvets, Satins, Silks Wors
terd and other doscriptions,Ogured and plain,
Shirts and Shirt-collars, Stocks, Cravats,
Handkerchiefs. Wise, _Suspenders, &c., be
sides minx other articles coming in their
line of business, and all will be sold at the
loWesi prices. Their stock of
144dyinade Clothing,
coinprises every thing in the clothing line,
froth an over-coat down to an under-shirt,
made up after the latest and most fashiona
ble styles. Thiel stock being so extensive,
that none Will leave it, unless fitted from the
4 1$. 151 1iora to the 'top"
CdtoE'er Work,
will be done up as usual, and for their work
they are tfiilling to he held responsible, two
of the firm being practical workmen in the
“art of cutting," and all the work is made up
under their own supervision.
la's" They would also particularly inform
Country Merchants, that they are now pro
pared
to sell at Wholesale and Retail, hav
ing the largest Stock of Spring and Slimmer
Clothing on hand ever offered in Allentown,
and will be . sold at reduced priced.
Thankful for past favors they treat that
attention to business, "small profits and
quick sales" will be the means of bringing
new cucitomers to their establishment:
J. ISAAC lJneit9d,
501 IN NELIOH,
JOHN L. BREINI9,
Allehtown, Sept. 7 11—Oth
TEE LEHMG
tausvortatio 4 4 °my.
Give Mice that they tite now prepared
to receive and forward 'MetChendize of all
Minds from Philadelphia to Easton, Bethle
hem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk; find Penn
Haven, and all intermediate places. The
Goods will be received atid ehipped at their
old stand first Mitt abote 'Vine str e et.—
They also forward goods to and from New
York, via Delaware and Raritan Canal and
Delaware Canal. Goods.by this line from
New York will go by A. S. NEILSON'S
line of,vessels to New Brunswick, by Sloops
Pox and-Ckey Hound, which will Be found
at the Albany Basin, foot of Cedar Street,
North Rivet`. . .,_Any information reqdired
can be had of NUM's. Rivuom & CLAIM,
No. 100.: West street, N. Y. at ,Neilson's
Agent office, 88 West street, N. Y.
With great increased facilities, they hope .
le give prompt despatch to all goiids, to so-
lice the patronage of shippers.
DRAKE, WILSON & Co., Proprietors.
AGENTS.
S. Morehead. Philadelphia.
John Opdycke, Easton.
, *rheck & Knauss,:Bethlehem.
A. J. Ritz, Allentown.
A. W. Leisenring. Mauch Chunk.
A. Pardee & Co., Penn Haven,
' - iinaniawn, April 12, 1854. ¶-6m
jot! Printing,
fleetly excepted p!, the ..V.lirre9o!rice
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
CHEAP WATCHES,
Vanlice
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WIDT .4,IOO#I'EIICIGAVIpET,ti LLE NTOWN.
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Glasses 6.4
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Best Watch Glasses 12
YANKEE CLOCKS FROM $1,25 to $6,00
Jokepla IL. llko X. Co.
Adopts this method to inform their friends
and tho public in general, that they have
lately established themselves in the above
business at •
No. 21, WEST HAMILTON STREET,
where they will exhibit for sale an assort- I
merit of goods, lately purchased in New
York and Philadelphia. such as
C LOCKS WAICIIES AND JWELRY.
The following is a list of their articles and
prices :
Fide Gold Lapine 'Watches 20 to $24
" " Detached 'l5 to 35
" full Jew'el. Pat. Lever, 40 to 75
Hunting Case 45 to 125
Silver Lupine Watches 9to 12
" Detached 14, 12 to 10
" Patent Lever " 12 to '25
• Hunting Pat. Lev. watches, 20 to 35
Yankee Clocks, 1,25 to 3,00
S day Clocks, 3,50 to 6,00
" Iron Frame splendidly
engraved 5 to 15
Gold .Breast pins, from 50 ct. to $lO 00
" Ear rings 25 cis s . to 10 00
*EYNSL" •He also keeps on hand a full
assortment of Gold and Silver spectacles arid
Spectable Glasess, purses, port monies, &c.
Musical instruments such as violins, vio
lin strings, Musical Boxes, Accordians, , t. 11
of which are sold at wholesale or retail,and
at prices far below what, they ever were
sold in this place.
Persons in want of Jewelry will find it to
be their adiantage to give them a call be
fore purchasing elsewhere, as they feel con
fident of satisfying all who may favor them
with their patronage. Mr. hit°, is well
known in this place as a skillful mechanic,
and all his work will be warranted.
Every article sold by them, is warranted
o be what it is sold for, and no mistake
Clock and 'watch makers throughout the
country, will do well to give them a call
as they will sell at wholesale and retail eve
ry article kept in their line of business.
LV - Through the aid of 'one of Bottum's
Patent improved universal Lathe Chucks,
they are enabled to make repairs on clocks,
watches and all kinds of Jewelry, much
cheaper than the old way of working, conse
quently this particular branch of the btosi
ponotunlly atteridedu and done
up on the most reasonable terms.
Allentown, June 14, 1854.
Attention Customers!
WIEDER & BOYER,
No, 26, West Hamilton street, Allentown
Thankful for past favors and
hoping by strict attention to buss
.,ness and a desire to please, to mer
'' it a continuance of the patronage
so liberally bestowed on them, and wishing
the people to understand the fact, that they
are both PRACTICAL HATTERS—both
having served a long apprenticeship at the
business and understanding the busineks
thoroughly in all its Various branches—they
are confident they can MANUFACTURE
HATS of all kinds inferior to none in the
market, and also a little cheaper, because
they perform a great deal of the labor them
selves and buy their material from the impor
ters for cash, and understanding the busi
ness they employ none but good workmen,
and doing a large business they can afford
to sell at small profits.
These are some of the reasons why you
often hear the remark that "Wieder & Boy
er sell such beautiful Hats at such astonish
ingly low prices. They always have the
latest Philadelphia and New York styles
on hand, et) you need not be afraid of hav
ing in old fashioned Hat stuck on you.—
Owe u`s a pull. Irdon't matter what is the
shape of your head, vie will insure a fit.
rr Country Merchants would do well to
give us a call, as we will,wholesale them
PAP and paps eheap - ei than they can get
them 'in the city. 'Also a large assortment
of all kinds of straw goods which they will
Pell cheap. TERMS CASH,.
'Allentown, March Ifs. •1571.1
To Dteilders.
A splendid assortment ofFront and Parlor
Locks with mineral knobs, german Locks,
Latches, Bolts,Hinges, Bcroiks, Paint Brush
es, and a variety of othity building 'Hard
ware just unpacking, and for sole cheaper
•
than ever by
, 0 & J SAEGER.
January 19, 1853,
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ALLENTOIANJEIIIGH COIJITY,. PA., SEPTEMBER 1
poetical Dcpartmcnt._.
The Model Husband
.13eware young ladies, whom you choose;
Ile cautious, too, whom you refuse;
AU is nut gold that glitters bright,
Nor are all gems that shine with light.
Choose not a book for leaves &gilt,
Nor yet a blade for burnished hilt;
Full many a gem of purest ray,
All dust begritnmed, is hid away.
Full many a flower of radiant bloom
Is kept front sight by weedy gloom—
Thus 'Os with man, too. ott is seen
A noble's heart 'neath rustic green.
And many a heart of blackest dye
Is veiled beneath a courticr's eye—
Too Ott the good are hid in shade,
While palace lights ilium the bad.
Ttust not to him who humbly kneels,
And on your hand his fealty seals—
Who swears "your eyes are brighter far.
Than Heaven's most brilliant, beaming star—
Your hair more dark than raven's wing,
Yuur breath the sweetest gale of spring,
Your cheek the rose's blushing glow,
Yuur forehead white as Alpine snow."
Be tutc;ded ! Then he swears your eyes
Ate always drenched like April skies ;
Your cheeks arc pie, and all your lace
rs quite bereft of Arnier grace.
You need not say,"'twas late at night,
Watching beneath the moon's cold light,
For /tint that made your eyes so weak,
And chased the roses fiom your cheek,"
No! choose a man sincere and kind,
Whom fortune's favors cannot bind—
Who pledges vows with honest tongue,
And leaves your beauties all unsung;
A man whose heart is brave anti strong,
Vigo loves the eight, eschews the wrong—
Whom worldly honors cannot taint—
No sinner, nor pretended s aint.
Then when your youth and beauty's gone,
And age, with trembling steps, comes on,
His love and truth, undttran'd and bright,
Shall doubly bless life's winrer night ;
Whose virtue, like tiw flower's perfume,
shall last when faded IS the bluonz,
And you shall bless the day you chose
The frugrance, rather than the rose.
Illificalancous
• The Newspaper. •.
The old farm house wore a quiet pleasant,
look, us the setting sun glided its small win
dows, over which the luxuriant grape vines
were carefully trained. in the open door
sat a farmer, with a little morocco•covered
btiok in his hand, on which his attention had,
been fixed for the last half hour. Ile was a
man of method and order—old Richard
Heath—and aside from his regular account
books, which were kept with scrupulous
care,,ho always set down in his little book,
in the simplest manner possible all his ex
penses (no coinplicotvil arcount, by the way.)
and all he received during the yeti., •:., .h..
¶-Om
trade.'
The last account had just been reckoned
up—and the account wa's highly satisfacto
ry; if one might judge from the pleasant ex- j
pression of his face, as he turned to his wife
and addressed her by-her pretty old fashion
cd name. •
'Millicent,' said heothis has been a lucky
year. How little we thought when we
moved on to this place twenty five years
ago, that we should ever (Yet live. hundred
a year of this rocky. barren
'lt does pay for a good deal of hard work
to see how different things look front what
they did then.'
.Now 1 am going to figure up how much
we've spent ; don't make a noise with your
knitting needles, because it puts me out.
His wife laid down her knitting work in
perfect 'good humor, and gazed over the
broad, rich fields of waving grain, which
grew so tall around the laden. apple trees
that they looked like .massive piles of foli
age. Hearing her name thus kindly spo-
ken, led her thoughts far back to the past ;
for, after the lapse oftwenty-five years, the
simple sound of the name she bore in youth
means more than all the puling epithets of
'dearest,' 'love,' and • 'darling, so lavishly
I uttered in a long past courtship.
. Very pleissant was this retrospect to Mil
licent Heath. 'l'he picture of the post had
on it some places, and some hard trials, but
no domestic strife or discontentment marred
ire Sunny aspect. There were smiling faces
on it—happy children's faces, without which
no life picture is beautiful. Soft, blue eyes
shone with unclouded gladness, and wavy
heir fleeted carelessly over unwritten fon.-
heads. She forgot for a montent how they
were' changed, end almost fancied herself
again the yonng Mother, and tiny hands
stole loving,lY . over her bosom, and the
I young hen B nestled there us of old.
• The ilhasion vanished quickly, and site
sighed att she thought of her youngest born,
the reckless boy who had left her, three
years before, fore bonus on the sea. Only
once had tidings reached her of the wander-
GBE=
Miffit
115efut 31Am - illation, 6mo:tit 3ntelliguce, 2unisuntut, SlOthri,S,
icii
er. The letter spoke of hardships and home
sickneis, in that light and. careless wny that
reaches d mother's'heart more surely than
repining Mid complaint. To know that he
suffered with a strong heart, with noble, un 7
yielding resolution; gave her a feeling of
pleasure not unmixed with pride... • '
'He will surely conic back;' murmured
the affectionate mother to herself, 'and I
I read the paper so carefully every week to
see if it said anything about the ship Alfred's
1 sailing in, [ shall
'Mrs. Heath,' said her husband, inter
' rupting her meditations somewhat rudely,
1 *we're spent thirty dollars more than usual
this year—where can it have gone to ?' •
'The new harness. That don't come
every year,' suggested Mrs. Heath.
1 .Well, that is twenty dollars accounted
for.'
.We had the carriage fixed up when you
bought the harness, didn't we ?' said MIES.
Heath.
• 'Well that was eight dollars ; that is
twenty-eight that we don't spend every year
but the other two—where can they have
gone ?' Glancing his eye hastily over the
pages of his memorandum book be contiu-
ued—
'l'll tell you what it is, the newspaper
costs just two dollars, and we can do with
out it. It ain't anything to eat, drink, or
wear. Ido not do any thing t. ith it, and
you only lay it away up stairs. It may as
well be left out as no', and I'll go and stop
my subscription right away.'
'Oh, you don't know how much I set by
the papers,' said his wife. always have
a sort of feeling when I see you take it out
of your lint and lay it on the kitchen mantle
, piece, as I do when some of the children
come home. And when I am tired, 1 sit I
down with my knittion - -woik and read: I I
ctinlinit just as fast. D I
feel so contended.
I don't believe Queen Victoria takes morel
Solid comfort than I do, sitting at the east
window of a summer afternoon reading my
paper.'
'But you'd be just as well off, without it,'
answered her husband for want of something
wiser to say.
never neglect anything else fur my I
reading,' said Mrs. Heath.
'I don't know as you do,' answered her
husband, 'but it seems to me an extra like.
I shall stop it ;' he added, in a tone that
showed plainly enough that he wished to
stop the conversation too.
shall take the paper,' remarked his
wife, 'even if I am obliged to go a washing
to pay for it.'
This was not spoken angrily. but so firm
ly that Mr.' Heath noticed it, thbugh by no
means remarkable for discernment in these
matters. It sounded so different froni her
1111 usual quiet way, 'as you think best,' that he
actually stopped a moment to consider
whether it was at all likely she would do as
she said. Mr. Heath was a kind husband,
as that indefinite description is generally
understood ; that is he never beat his wife ;
and always gave her enough to eat. More
than this, he had a certain regard for her
happiness, whith always made him feel
half ashamed of his decision, but like many
other men who haire more 'Obstinacy than
wisdom, he 00.,1d not bear to retract any.
thing, and above all, tb be convinced that he
was wrong, by a woman.
However, with a commendable wish to
remove the unhappiness lie had caused he
suggested that as the papers were carefully
filed, and she had found theist interesting,
she would read them all over again. begin
ning at January,and taking one a week
clear through the year, they would come
out even, he concluded, as if - it were a sin
gular fact that they should.
Notwithstanding this admirable proposi
tion, he still felt some
,uneasiness.
lowed hint as he walked tip the pleasant
lane to the pasture, and it made him speak
more sharp than lie was 'wont, if the cows
stopped while he was driving them home ,
to crop the grass where it looked the green
est rind sweetest on the sunny slope. lt
troubled him till he heard his wife call him
' to supper, in such a cheerful lone that he con
eluded, she didn't care such a Wonderful
sight about the paper after all.
About a week after this, as Mr. Heath
was mowing one 'morning, he was surprised
to see his wife come out, as if dressed for a
visit.
am going to spend the day with Mrs:
Brown ; I've left plenty for you to eat," and
so saying, she Walked rapidly down the
road.
Mr. Heath thought about it just long
enough to suy to himself, .she didn't go a
visiting to stay all day once a year hardly;
and it's strange she should go in hay-time.'
Very long the day seemed to him : to go
in for lucheon, dinner and supper. and no
body to speak to ; to find everything so still.
The old clock ticked 'stiller than: usual, he
thought—the brood of pretty white chielt
ens, that was almost always peeping round
the door, had wandered §pinewhere, and
left it stiller yet . ;•he even missed the busy
click of the knitting needles'} that were so
yery.apt to put him out, when he was doing .
any figuring.
.I.'m glad that Millicent don't "go a visit
ing all the time, as some woman do,' he said
, 1854.
.. ._ . . ... _,_ . .
to himself, as he began to look down the I with earnest desire for life.' Dim as his •
road at sunset. keen eye has become, be fancies it would •
'There I believe she is just coming.' brighten once more at the sight of his Meth::
'How tired you look,' said he to her. as er, and his failing mind be cleared' could he
she Came up to the house, 'why didn't you lean on her breast.
speak about it, and I'd harnessed up und • l With folded hands the youhg sailor prays,
come after you. his words are confused and indistinct to
'I am not very tired,' she answered : but i those who listen ; but all clear r all earnest.
her looks belied her :. indeed , her husband and plain are they to the Great Listener,'
declared that she looked tired for a day or i above. And when the stately ship has
two after. ...,reached her destined Port, and'the Mindling '
• What was his amazement to see her go voices are all around the sick sailor his corns
away the next Tuesday, in the same man- rades bear him carefully to a home, a misems,
ner as before, without saying much about it ble home-but better to him than the rocking
before she started. vessel in the midstof the soundihg sea.
'l'o his great dissatisfaction, everything •Now if I could see mother,' ho murmured
seemed that day to partake of his wife's new to the strangers aroundrun
propensity of going away from home. She is sitting tine covered window.
6A man don't want cold feed in hay-time,' i patiently reading the Shipping Journal, and
he grumbled as he sat down to dinner alone. thinking meanwhile of her absent boy; thinks:
In the same grumbling mood he recounted ing it is time for him to return,' and hoping'
the various mishaps of the morning ; which that he will never go to 'sea again:* How
seem to have been much after the same man- quick the words catch her eye—Arrived.'
..
ner set forth in a certain legend of the old time ship Banner. Lovell. . .
for he embellished his recital by a dispair- "And it was a week ago; he could have,
ing allusion to been nt home by this time; he Will come to
" The sheep's in the meadow, night," she said joyfully, ab she.went to corns
The cow's in the corn." municate the good news to her husband. ,
adding that they wouldn't have been there They watched for him in vain 'that night."
and then Mrs. Heath suggested what _no
if Mrs. Heath had been at home, because
she'd seen them before they got in, and hol- mother ever failed 'to suggest, when the pro-'
l
lered. She would have seen the oxen, too, longed absence of a child was unaccounted
before they got across the river, and saved for, "he must be sick," and when nightafter
him the trouble of bringing them back. night passed, andshey neithersaw nor heard •
But after tracing all these untoward events anything of Alfred,
S her anxiety would let ,
to her absence, he said to himself consoling- her rest no longer. "We will go "
to him or
ly, "guess she won't go any more, for she, at least go where we may hear of him, anti
always was a home body," and Mr. Heath, now •as anxious as. herself,
Mrs. Heath did go ngain, though ; and readily assented. . Their EimplO VePara
that day she went the fourth time, her has- i Lions for the journey were soon: made, and'
w
band took counsel with himself, as to what with heavy hearts they proceeded in search
he should do to stop hergadd ing. Seated on of their son,with little hope of obtaining more
the door-step, he spent an hour or two de• satisfactory than definite intelligence of his'
vising ways and measures, talking aloud all death: . .
the time, and having the satisfaction of hear- It was a dark and rainy eveningmhen they
ing no one dispute him. ntered the city, and after an hour spent in
"It's hard to think of her getting to be=tr4ruitless ioqUiries, they found the place to
visiting woman," said he, "and it's clear it which Alfred was carried. Little care he
received in the crowded boarding house.—
aim. right. Keep her at home," I've read
in the Bible, (old Richard:a Bible knowl- There was none of the neatness and order
that shows better in the sick room than any-'
edge was somewhat confused, and his quota
tion varied slightly from the scriptural phrase where else;. Rough hands roughly tended .
"keeperi at home,") but it says too," b e him, and pale nnd death like as ho lased, it
added, with the true science of a sincere seemed as if it mattered not what care he had
man, "that husband's must set great store now. In the agony with which the parents
by their wives and treat them well. I won't bent over the unconscious sleeper, and mark
ed the sunken cheeks and wastedform, there
ter her to•night, and coining home I'll talk was but one ray of hope ; they could watch
over him—they should not hear of his death'
it over with her, and tell her how bad it
makes me feel; and if that don't do, I'll— with the sad thought that none but stranger
try something else." bands smoothed his dying pillow.'
In accordance with this praiieworthy rout The sufferer awoke from troubled dream'
elution. Ile might have been seen about to find his aching head supported by his
sunset hitching his horse at Mrs. Brown's father and see his mother's eyes resting
door; for surely enough Mrs. Heath's visits upon hurt with a look of unutterable tenders
had all been made at the same place.— nets. So faint was the smile of recognition'
Going to the door, he stopped in amazement with which he greeted them; that only a pa's
at seeing his wife in' the kitchen, just tak- rent's eye could have caught the flitting;
ing off a great woolen wash apron, and put- expression.
ting down her sleeves, which had been rol- 6 Can't live, can't live," said the actor..
led up as if for washing. He listened and with professional carelessness, as he entered'
heard her say, as she took the money from the house, the next morning.. ' - '
Mrs. Brown, "It wan't bo so that I can do 'But his mother has chute,' said• the lands'
your washing again." lady..
6•lt has been a favor to have you to do it That alters the case ;he may get up
again,' answered the doctor, than whom'
while I've been so poorly." said MN.
-
Brown, "and I'm willing to pay you for it. none knew better, how .mucha' mother
do.
this makes four times, and here's two dot- could •
tars. It is just as well that you can't come But lime fatal seemed the thread that held
again, for I think that I shall be well enough that young and. promising life. For days it
now, to do it myself." - ' . I quivered and trembled with the slightest
'Two dollars—just the price of the news- breath, and the mother tearfully prayed that
paper!" exclaimed Mr. Heath, as the truth it might not be broken. As gentle care and
flashed Upon him. . - kindly matching as ever blessed - a' Rack bed'
Bather a silent ride home they had. A t I had young Alfred Heath, and not in vain ;
last he said— •i gradually he grew better, and' was able to
'1 never was so ashamed." • I talk with his parents, and asked theft how
Of what?" asked his wife.
i they chanced to come to him' in that hour of
•
"To have you go out a washing. I aim . need. '', ' ,
.It was in the newspaPer,'. said' Orr.
so poor as that comes, to." •
" Well. I don't know," replied his wife ; , Heath, just three words in the 'paper told
when a man is too poor to take a newspaper, your ship had come: You didn't come
home, and so we come to see if you were.
his wife ought to feel above going out a
washing." • sick. You'll soornibe well enough to. go
Nothing
some ill fecling lingered more was said on the subject at home my boy.. gedbe thanked,' !Madded
that time, 1
you,' .
ti p " ,
) reverently, 'for sending us to' take Care cr
in the hearts of each. "The making
was no thawkishscene of kissing,embracing, At length Alfred was pronounced .well
finishingsant' old hotnyitead gladdened his sight.—
Heath wasenough to ride, and in a few days the plea
and crying, such as, some of the romance
writers build
her household duties their fabrics with, but us Mrs. I
How beautifuTit looked as the sun shone on
for the night, she said quietly— ' the vines in which it was einbotvered, with
'I don't think I did quite-right, Richard.' their wealth of grapes just purpling iu the
..I don't think I did either; responded the autumn sunshihe.
husband. No one seemed so joyful as Mr.. Heath,
And so the spar
.k
was quenched, which who after being gladdened by hearing Al
might have become a scathing flame, blight- (red say he would- never go . to sea again'
ing all demeatic peace" under their huhable expressed his epinion of newspapers in gen
roof. ' ' • . ' oral, and his newspaper, in particular, in this
wise :
'l'm so glad Millicent, that you took that
paper, for I count a newspaper just the
most necessary thing in ' a family. • We.
Should never have had our boy hers strong
and well,: if it hadn't been for it. ' It 'is an
excellent thing, and' I shall subscribe for as
long as I live. • •
At last the voyage is almost ended and
the sailors talk only of home now. They
talk of those they aro to meet; of the wives
and children to-whom their thoughts have
wandered during these three year's absence.
They Wonder' if the young sailor, Alfred
Heath, who lies so sick, will over. see his
home again, and with their rough tones sub
dued almost to gentleness, they speak of his
anxiety to seo his Mother.
He is so . hopelessly ill, that his heart is
now 'where the worn spirit ever turns in its
hour of bitterest sorrow, of its approach to
the unseen land—to God and his mother.—
I Faintly as his heart beats, it still throbs
NUMBER 5
rlrAn editor in lowa has been fined two
hundred and fifty' dollar for litigging
young girl in church.—Chicago
Cheap enough ! We once hugged a girl
in church 'some ten years ago, and tbo
scrape has cost us a thousand dollars a year
ever since.-- Chicago Smericati.