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Tilt EXEMPLARY IVIFL•
O blest is ho.whose.arms enfold
A consort virtuous as fair !
her price is tar above the gold
,_ That worldly spirits love to share
Oh her, as on a beauteous isle,
Amid life's dark and stormy sea,
In all bis trouble, all his toil,
lle rests with deep security.
Even in the night-watch, dark and lone,
The distaff fills her buily hand ;
Her husband in the gates is known
Among the elders of the land ;
Her household all delight to share
The food and raiment she bestows—
Even she with a parent's care
Regards their weakness and their woes
Her pitying hand supplies the poor,
The widolied one, the orphan child,
Like birds assemble round her door,
When sweeps the winter tempest w 11.
Der lips with love and wisdom fraught,
Drop, like the honeycomb, their sweets ;
The young are by her dictates taught,
The mourner her condolence meets.
Her lovely babes around tier rise—
Fair scions of a holy stein !
And deeply shall her bosom prize
The blessings she receives from them
Beauty is vain as summer bloom,
To which a transient fate is given ;
But her's awaits a lasting doom
In the eternal bowers of Heaven.
3Sigrefinlltous.
Anna, the Yoti►ng Wife.
"When thou giceth Chine alms, let not fly
fell hand know what thy right hand dueth."
"Robert, you can't deny me that beautiful
ribbon," said a very pretty and a very amialile
young married woman to her husband, Robert
Kean, a worthy Journeyman Printer.
" And why not, Anna ?" he said, as he
poured the milk into has second cup of tea.
" Because, you have just the swat, and do not
want it for anything."
" Yes, I have a particular use for the very
sixty-two cents and a half you have discovered
lurking in the corner of 'my waistcoat pocket.'
" I can't conceive what it can be," she
answered, without the least air of pettishness
or disappointment, and speaking as cheerful as
a loving wife always will ; " here it is Saturday
evening, and you have' told me that with the
week's pay you received at sunset, you settled
up your weekly bills, at the grocers, the but
cher's, and milkman's, and had bought Sun
day's dinner, and was square with the world,
and as happy as a king. These were your words.
now,-Robert."
" Well, I confess they were, and thank God
that they were true ones. I am, indeed, as
prosperous and independent as you say, though,
as yet, we have not begun to lay up anything.
But that will come, by and by. At present, I
Inn content to make both ends meet at the end
of the week."
" And sixty-two and a half cents over !"
said his young wife, archly. " Now Robert,
what is . the reason you won't let me have it t'o
buy that love of a ribbon I saw to-day ? The
store will be shut up by eight, and I want to
put it on my hat to wear to church to-morrow.
It conies to two dollarS, and I have all but just
the very sum you hold so tightly iu your
pocket."
" But why must you have the ribbon, Anna ?
I think your present one very pretty ; I was
admiring it last Sunday."
DearMe ! I have Worn it fop. months. it is
a winter ribbon. Nobody wears winter ribbons
in the spring, Robert ! Really I begin to feel
quite ashamed to go out again in it." There
was a slight, a very slight protrusion of the
nether lip, as she ended.
•• Why, admire the ribbon more and more
Each Sabbath day that you wear it, I think it
prettier and prettier ; but I suppose it is be
cause you wear it, and loving you, I love all that
belongs to you."
•' You can't get off, Robert,' by flattering
me," she said, laughing ; " I mean to have the
ribbon. Don't plague and pester me, when
you know you Mean to give it to me at last !"
And she held out her hand in a winning way,
that no man but a husband could have resistet!•
" Indeed, Anna, I can't let you have the
money 10-night," he said, tapping the palm of
his forefingers, and looking pleasantly and
kindly in her eyes. ".You must .try and do
without the ribbon till, nest Saturday."
Anna, good-tempered as she was, looked a
little vexed ; for though he spoke playfully, he
.spoke firmly.
" Will you tell me, Robert," she asked,
" what it is you intend to do with that money ?
or do you this only to tease me ?"
" You are such a foe to the. Odd Fellows,
Anna, I fear you will not be pleased to hear
that it is to pay my quarterly dues."'
Your quarterly dues ! And what are they ?
toally, I have reason to dislike the lodge ! so I
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must go without my beautiful ribbon, just to
please the Odd Fellows !"
" Now, don't be angry. Anna !" be said,
calmly, as he buttered his fifth piece of toasted
bread, fur our Journeyman Printers have a
larger appetite on Saturday nights than on an 3
other day. "How nicely this bread is toasted.
and really I think you excel in making tea!
I don't believe there is a Jour in the land that
has a wife who makes such excellent tea, and
then who is so handsome and good-tcmperN,
and hates Odd Fellows, too, so heartily."
" Robert, shall I have the money ?" she said
quite earnestly, tapping gently the devil's tat
too with the point of her little foot on the floor
we say floor, because Robert, the printer, was
of rich enough yet to have a carpet, but
hoped to he one of these days. A young hus
band can have nice toast and a nice cup of tea
and a pretty wife, )vithout being rich enough
to have a carpet on the floor cf his little sittin ,
room.
Indeed, Anna," he answered, as he took his
swalloir of tea, and put the spoon in the
as a sign that his demands upon the tea
were ended for that day ; " indeed I must
my dues to night !"
How much are they ?"
Just the sixty•two and a half cents you
want for your ribbon." •
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pay
"Didn't you pay them five dollars when you
were initiated, six months ago ? and then there
was fifteen dollars more fur degrees : and I
recollect you had to wear your old blue coat
urea months longer, just for that ! And 3101
ere's more to pay !"
" Didn't you love me just as well, Anna, in
I blue coat when it was old as when it was
ow ?"
"Ye -% No! I hardly think I did ! I did
wouldn't say so !" 1
I shall love you just as troll in your oh
ikon. I must pay the dues at the Lodge tr.
ight. It is a trilling, tax upon each nu mLcr
inarterly. This is all the expense the I.erlge
ill Itetra2favth be to we, if I should live fifty
KEE!
" And in fifty years it Vol:Id amonnt to a
retly larze sum. I wonder NI - hat good it will
over do to you. It seems to me like tlu•owim•
.Itray money."
"it is a safe investment. By paying my
marterly dues I retain my standing in the
Lodge, and tun entiled to all the privileges of a
member. It is point of honor to sett to them
nromptly. Tc-night is our meeting when they
are to be paid in. I did not, think that 1
should need any money for anything else, and
so I shaved my payments so closely as just to
;aye this sum. I did tint know Anna, you
ranted the ribbon, or I would have in some
way curtailed other expenses this week. Ido
not mean you shall suffer for my Odd. Fellow
:hip."
" Well, I hope it will rain to-morrow, go tha ,
won't have to go to church, and then I shan't
care anyth'ng about it," she answered good hu
moredly: " I suppose you think these Lodge,
are all right, Robert. Butt I don't think much
will conic of them to you and me. Secret
societies cannot have much good in them, it
scents to me. I cannot abide secrets."
" No, I dare say net, Anna ! Ladies are
_r-rat enemies to all such things. A lady once
asked President Adams why he might not ap
point females as commanders as well as own,
for they certainly have quite as punch courage.
Yes, madam," answered John Quincy, "
that I have no doubt but I fern• they would
hardly resist the temptation to own secret
orders before leaving port "
" I don't think any tunic of Mi Adams for
such an ungallant speech," replied the young
wife. "So you refuse to let me get the ribbon,
Robert," she addinr, cOa;:itgly.
" I must pay toy due.;. Ir - 1 shnilid ne g lect
them. and next weak hr taken ill, 1 shoold not
be entitled to the aid of the Lodge.
,Yiat know
I never go in debt, iota would not let my d
ay over 071 any account." .
" Well, let the ribbon go ! If I wear the old
one to morrow, you shall Wear your old coat
beside me :" •
" That I will do cheerfully, Anna," answered
the obliging young Printer. 4 " .
"Nobody can ever provoke you," she said,
laughing. " riot fur all that I wouldn't give
to - o figs fur all the good that your Lodge will
ever do you or others. If we should be burned
out to-night, and everything we had in the
world was burned upfurniture, clothing and
all—l don't think they would aid yon." -
" I hope the test will never be put, Anna,''
he answered seriously. "Do you know I re
cently heard of a very amusing ease in wldch
wife, just such an one as yourself, tho' not half
so good nor half so handsome,. put the benevo
lence of the Order to the trial. Would you like
to bear it ?" he added, as he sat down aftcr`put•
ting on his coat apd hat.
" Yes ; though T dare say it is a lion's story,
-all in your favor."
4, Well; I confess it is ; lint it is a true one.—
There was a young Journeyman Printer, an old
friend and a crony of mine before I was mar
ried, (I have no cronies now, Anna, but you,)
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ALLENTOWN, PA., JUNE 13, 1855.
who left New York lag fall to go to New
leans to work in the Picayune office, I believe.
Ile lied just been married to a handsome, ro
guish girl, who nearly broke Tom's heart Intl
a dozen times before she would consent to have
him. Poor fellow ! such a game of coquetry
she played him, till really, for fear of being
hanged outright for murder, she married him,
!Ind made him, from the most miserable wretch
to the happiest dog, in the world. Well, as I
was saying, he was going to New Orleans to
live. Ile had lain by nearly three .hundred
dollars, and with this sum, and his beautiful
wife, who hated all Odd Fellows, he started
one bright morning for his destination."
" If she hated all Odd Kllows, Robert, she
was worae than I am, for I don't hate you,"
she said, with a demure simplicity, that made
him laugh outright.
" Don't you hate me, Anna ? %vat I ought to
feel marvellously glad, Anna, that you do not,
seeing lam an Odd Fellow. But I don't mean
to say that Tom's wife hated all the Odd Fel
lows, fur in that case she would have hated
Tom. T mean to say that she did'nt like the
Order any more thait—than you like your old
ri libon :"
" Now, Robert, give Inc the sixty-two a
a half cents—why won't you she asked s
‘• Anal the deuce made Inc Mention the
ibbon again ! Well, hear about Tom, and
or,get it! It so happened that in the stage to
'ittsburg there were several 1)1,1 Fellows, and
two strong opposers of the. Older. They got
to dii4pnting, and, as Tom's wife sided with the
latter, they dh , :mted with the'greatcst energy ;
for when we men can get a woman cm Oily side.
We feel that we are more than half right'.—
Tom's wilb heard so many praises from the
Old Fellows of what .they had done, that she
became ,:t.:;‘• incredulous, and would not listen
with any I:....ience at a long- defence limn Toni.
of the !Ica \ Cpiy eliat ity of the Ortler ; lint with
wit and merry laughter, fairly silenced her le :s
eloquent.
t It.ott;th they reached Cincinnati, at
:ter :,:itylng there one nh.;ht, to lake
Kat in the morning fur Louisville. • About S
)clock in the evening, Tom came running
nto wifv's room aghast, and cried with
EOM
'••1:::tte, I have lost n:y pochet Loo'.;. I have
iny l ni,'. t piched. I niisse;l it alter leav-
g ali I\ - t. , are lo:t ruins
Lacy riot :t atia a 1:a1;' in the !'
nii4 Wife did not seem to feel the I, , ast . concern
Ilex countenance, instead of refh•etin!.7 the hor
ror of his own, was perfectly tranquil. Ha nnr
an instant forgot his loss to gaze on her with
annizetnent;: which was rapidly growing into
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" What is the matter with you ?" he cried.
unable to restrian his indignation at her indif
ference tit his great loss. " Why don't you feel
fu me and say something ? I tell you. Kate.
I ain utterly ruined. Two hundred and thirty
dollars—all we had in the wodd ! and then to
see you so cool about it."
" Don't swear. dear Toni," she said, with
the most provoking serenity.
'• Swear! I don't linen- which T feel most,
my loss or your perfect unconcern."
" Why should T feel concern, Tom ? Von
have only to apply to the Lodges here and gel
double the sum you have lost. Now is an op
portunity for %testing the boasted charily of
your Order ! Our loss will by to-morrow he
more than made. l‘ly indifh•rence 14 my per
lea faith in the liberality of your Order to
members in distress. Why should I fed. con
cern ?"
This was spoken with an nppePrance Of sin
cerity that amazed Tom. lie knew not What
But the end of it was. Olathe
very night, while the I.nd7s were open:
'eat to one of them, and being admitted. laid
i. ease before the .proper of toes. It was at
mee taken into enn.i.leration. ninl he was told
that an answer should be sent him before ten
o'clock next morning.
At precisely that hour a person arrived, and
handed Tom a note in the presence of his
It contained one hundred and fifty dollars,
with the request simply, that he would ay
knowled9_elhe receipt of it to the person who
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did so, and then held the money up to
wife exultingly.
" Stay, sir," 'said she to the Odd Fellow, who
was leaving . : " Tom, look at this," she cried.
displaying his pocket book with the contents
untouched, helore his Astonished eyes.
" What can this mean ? My pocket book
feund ?" be cried with joy.
" It was never lost, Torn. Sir," .she said.
addressing the stranger, " I have been incred
ulous about the benefits , of Odd Fellowship.--
lutSband is an Odd Fellow, and last night
I reiolved I would put to test the benevolence
he •had so much boasted of. Before he went
out I purloined his pocket book. Ile supposed
he lind lost it, nod was Urged by me to apply to
your Lodge, for I Wished to see if he would be
aided, a perfect stranger here unknown to a
human being. If he had his own way, he
would rather have sought work and delayed his
journey. Ile wanted to show me that he would
not make the appeal .to the Lodge in vain.—
Sir, lam satisfied ? Here, sir, is my husband's
money, and he does not need the noble aid you
have contributed. Tom, give it back to him ;
and, sir, I beg you will state the circumstances
to the Lodge a 3 they have occurred. From
this moment, I too am an Odd Fellow."
" I cannot, Anna," continued the Journey
man I'i inter, Robert, Kean, " paint Tom's
surprise and joy. I don't know which grati
fied him most, the recovery of his pocket book
or the conversion of his wife."
" Well, it is a eery nice story, Robert, U
until I hare a similar reason fur being convel
ed, I shall be a :I:ET:ie.
That night, Robert Kean, the Journeyman
lirinter, was burned out of house and home.—
Ile lost everything he had. Moreover, he
burned his hands so in trying to save some
things from the flames, that for three months
he wis tillable to hold a composing stick.
During Um': time he was surrounded by a
brothel hood of hive and kindness. There came
to him a band of brothers who put him in a
neatly furnished house, supplied him with pro
visions and even luxuries, placed money at his
!ointuand, and ion•sed him unweatiedly with
the benevolence of the Sammitan. At lenr:th
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when he recovered and went to work, he found
friends who assisted him, gave him credit, and
helped him along heart and hand, until once
more he prosperezl and wiis independent. One
goml lesson was taught to A111)11 by means of
this reverse : it was never to despise a benevo
lent sociely bemuse it wraps about its chart.
tics the inantl;2 of sueresv.
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Front an interestin;: aitirle in the Apt il nun
er of PutnanCA :Monthly fur April, entitle
Nature is 11Qtion," we .clip the followin
For m:wn and fin unknown purposes in the
ly mountain hi oolic and in the witk. ocean
in tinevasing inolion, darting
directlous. traveling now single and now
Their regular journeys arc mostly on
dertaken fur the purpoNe of spawning ; the deli
rate mackerel inwts southward when its I inn
conies, and the beamicul sardine of the Mcdi
erranean goes in the spring westwartl,.and re•
urns iu autumn to the last. The sturgeon of
rthern Europe i.. st , Lit t•in:;ly to ascend t
•cat titer.; of the Connecticut, 811(1 the on
migratory salumn of the polar seas trace'
e know not how, through river and lake. i
to the Baikal, and there swims, in whimsim
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.A on the sulithern and then on the norther
The travels of the salmon are probably bcs
nown, because the th:h was a favorite alrea(l3
n the days of Pliny, and yec, strange enough,
ound in every seain the arctic, near the equ,
or, and elrNew Holland, only hot in the Med.
rancan. They press in large, triangular
masses up n 1 I the great northern rivers 0f..1:t1
rope, Asia and America. They enter Dohetnit
with Shakspettro by sea, sailing up the rivet
Elbe : they approach Switzerland in the green
waters of the Rhine, and e 7.711 the foot of II e
Cordilleras by a j,,urney of 3000 miles ol d ti:e
A ma nn ! 'Their crowds are. not unfrequently
so dense that they actually stern for awl tile the
current of the mighty rivers : still these bands
are formed with rreat retularity. The strong
est awl lar:•,est females lead—a fact which will
rejoice the strong.ininded woman of our age—
followed byanhers of the saute iex, travelling
twO and two at intervals ; afte'r than collie the
males in like order. .
With a like the distant roaring of a
storm, they rush up the stream, now sportim2
in easy. ,cra-etl.l motion. and now darting ahead
with li.d.toing speed tlsat the eve en riot
Do they come.to some rock or wall that impedes
their way, they leap with incredible Ibrce.
;net repeat the earl until they have overcome
the d : it is even said that. at the fool
of the cataracts, they will tal:e their tail in
their maw h. and tben suddenly letting it go,
like tin date slain:7. time twelve or fifteen feet
in the air. and thus they travel ott. undismay•
•,1 and tint ired. until they have found a suitable
place fur de , ,iositing• their and with the
•atne mari.eilom4 instinct return, year After
Fear to die di..a.ant ocean.
The herring is a small, insignifbmnt fish, yet
t gives r,0,1 to millions, ipul employment to not,
ess than 3000 decked vessels, not 'to speak of
ill the ol.en boats employed in the sane fishery.
There their lion is, man 'does not linoi . v . ; it
s only certain that they are not met with be
'owl a certain degree of northern latitude, and
hat the genuine herring never enters the Mcdi-
erranean, and hence remained unknown to the
invients. In April and Jane, all or a suddem,..
rimunerablelaSSCS appear in the northern
seas, forming vast bands, often thirty miles
long and ten miles wide. . Their depth has
never been satisfactorily ascertained, and their
denseness may be judged by the• fact, that
lances and harpoons thrust in between the'
sink not and move not, remain standing ul
right. Divided Into Lauds, herrings also mov
in a certain order.
Long before their arrival, already their corn
ing is noticed by flocks of sea birds that watcl
them from on high, while sharks are seen If
sport around them, and a thick oily or slim .
substance is spread over their columns, colorin
the sea in daytime, and :Alining with a tail
mysterious light in a dark still night.
Thw sea-ape, the " monstrous chimera" °f lit(
learned precedes them, and is hence by th ,
fishermen called the king of the herrings. Ther
there are first seen single males, often three o
four days in advance of the great army nex
follow the strongest and largest, and after then
enormous shoals, countless like the sand on ti
sca shore and the stars in heaven. They seed
places that abound M stores and marine plants
where to spawn, and like other animals the)
frequent the localities to which they have be
come accustomed at a tegular time, so that the.%
May be expected as surely as the sun rises and .
sets.
Other fishes have strange peculiarities con
netted with their travels. Thus, we are tol
that the mackerels spend their winter in, whit
would appear to others, a most uncomthrtabl
position. In the Arctic as vell as in the Medi
terranean, as soon as winter come:4, they de
liberately plunge their head and the anterio
part of their body in deep mud, keeping thei
tails erected, standing straight out. This po
sition they do not change until 'spring, whet
t ley emerge, in incredible numbers, from the;
hiding-places and go southward fur the purpos,
of depositing their 0"r:2;s in more genial waters
Still they are so firmly wedded to this elemen
that they (lie the instant they are taken out c
the water, and then shine with phosphoreseer.
light. - •
'rho ec is the strangest of travelling fishes ;
o even performs journeys on land. In hot,
ry enouners. v. - hen ponds and pools are cx
austed, he boldly leaves his home, and windinf
through thick grass, make; 1;i8 way by nighiT
to the nearest water. Ile is a great gourmand.
moreoyer, and loves young tender peas so dearl3
that he will leave the river it.; elf, and climb ni
steep banks to satisfy his desire., and,•alas! t
ran into the snares of wicked men. Other
fishes travel in Luse crowds all night long, and
a perch in Tanquebar not only creeps on shore,
but actually climbs up tall fatipahns in pursuit
if certain shell.iish, which lona its favorite
Covered with viseid slime, he glides
tinoothly over the rough bark : spinal, which
e may sheath and unfold at will, serve him likt
sands, to hang by : and with the aid of
mil a powerful tail, he pushes himselt upward.
hus completing the strange picturb of lish and
:hell-fish dwelling high on lofty trees.
siaiN n
Mr. D. Beaton, in die Cottage Gardener, re•
marks that, " although it is quite true that
plants do vitiate the air of a room to compars.
Lively a fractional degree, it is equally well as
certained that they consume and destroy :
very great deal of foul air, and that ‘vithont
foul-air, such as would kill a man, plant:,
could not he kept alive at all. We gardcncl•s
ktow this fact from our tvury flay - experience.
We cannot grow plants so well or so cluiei ly it
Cie sweetest air as in aft sinking hotbed. An,
the animal creation villa le the common ail
every time each one breathes the breath of lin
or lire stn:laining air : and were it not that al
;he ve:;etable kingdom depend on this vitiatec.
air for part of their ;sob , istence, and a grew.
Part too, this 'world trofild have been at an ent
50071 as animals covered the face of the earth
Therefore, and without . the shadow of a doubt
plants are tile bestpuritiers of all the agent,
lat hare yet Lech known to cleanse the air u
a bed-room or ally other room in a house, pro
vitled always that such plants arc not in bloom
at least do not bear bloom with a strop
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lyre is no country in the world where tic
p .ogle are so addicted to the medicine catin
propensity as the United States. It has growl
, o be a perfect mania—a disease of itself. Tic
Nature never designed the human body
to be, such a receptacle of medicine. If met
would but study the laws of nature, diet prop
crlp instead of excessively, be regular in their
habits instead' of regular in their doses,' us
munon sense and cold water freely and th ,
the doctor as little as possible, they would
lenger,sulrer less, and pay little for the privilege.
Lose.
Awe is.a queer article. People fall into it,
are led by it, get into all sorts of trouble for it,
and frequently go to jail on its account. It
swindles the young man and deceives the
young woman. It puts on a fine dress, when
at heart rill is hollow and frigid. It' smiles
•om a cloud, weeps from a laugh, and does va-
rions other matters neither mentioned in Gene
sis or Revelations. It makes people the hap
piest and moat miserable of folks, and comes
and goes in all shapes. Cupid is a riddle.
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estimated popu
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