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BEAUTY AND TIME
Iir MISS I'AltDOK.
Jeauty went out ono summer day
To prove in Pleasure'o bower;
iAnd much she sported in her way
With every opening flower,
.t length she reach'd a myrtle shaded
And through the branches peeping1)
she saw, among the blossoms laid,
P( umej most proiounuiy sleeping.
Ilis head was pillowed on his wings',
. For he had furl d his pinions
Po linger with the lovely things
In pleasure's bright dominions;
Ilis scythe and glass aside were cast,
1 How softly Ije reposes 1"
3ried Beauty as she idly pass'd,
. And dover'd hind with roses;
fime woke :
way !' ho kindly saldj
r.. I-..... .i.. t ., n
',To lo.y with pretty faces,
ris pleasant iirso sweet a clyrta '
To rest awhile from dutyj
sleep a little more," said Time,
" No, do wake up !" said Beauty
fe rose, but he was grim and old
She felt her roses wither,
lis scythe upon hei heart was cold
jllis hour glass made her shiver;
ler ypung clieess shrank, her hair turn'd
gray
'Of grace ho had bereft her;
:id when ho saw iier droop away
ille spread his wings, and left her
And thus I point my simple rhyme,
It is tho Minstrel's duty;
Beauty should never sport with Time,
Time always withers Beauty !
'xlractsfrom an Agricultural Address,
delivered at Duller, Pa. by the Hon.
yohn Gilmore,
Let me here caution our fanners against
common practice of topping their corn,
practice is for want of a proper knowl-
ge ot the nature of the plants, and the
anner by which they derive their nourish-
nt and growth. The leaves are to plants
Wiat the lunge are to animals the sap first
onds to the leaycs; it is there exposed to
e light and air; it is, then elaporated.and
gnverted Into the secretions peculiar to the
cies, and then it descends", ailording
ourishmeut and food to the fruit and tho
antiu it3 downward course. Bv cutting
jC the top and the leaves, you deprive it of
means of communication. It is well
'certainml liv cTnnrimpiifi: thoi ii is An..',.
Wwdly better to cut off the corn by the
gjoid, at the usual timo of topping, and set
p in small shocks to dry. It affords
, re and better grain, and more and better
fcefder. that which is cut off at Iho Ground
fcdll yield at least five per cent, more grain
Ktai wui wim-ii is loppeu tne sap which is
IrtTtho sU'k. when cut off. still nasses and as.
ts in manuring t'ie grain.
It seem3 to mo that our farmers hero dc-
inus too much on their buck-wheat crons.
' be sure its a cheap and profitable crop
ttLOOMBBTOfr, OOEiVlsnsiA. COTOTY, iA.
when it succeeds, but h often fails'; and con
sequently makes other grairt scarce and
dear. I think it would be better for our
farmers to turn their attention more to the
raising of spring wheat. This country is
well adapted for this purpose let the far
mers bo particular in procuring good seed;
a good crop cannot bb obtained without good
seed. And guard cgain3t smut, steep your
seed wheat, either for spring or fall seeding
between twelve and twenty four hours in
strong brine and then roll it in slacked lime
it is ascertained that smut is a parasitic
plant, consisting of minute seeds or dust
which attach to the grain,aalt&lime destroy
tiio vitability of thesnsecds of dust. This
practice has been in successful operation for
n lung lime, by some of the best farmers
in the country. I understand that the Rev.
Mr. Niblock has good spring wheat and
Datton corn to spare.
Let mo advise our farmers to plough deep
their lands will npt be so liable to wash.
During u heavy shower of rain, the loose
earth imbibes the water until it is satured,
then the water will accumulate on the sur
face, and carry off the best of the soil.
The deeper you plough; it will require
the more rain before this can take place
deep ploughing enlarges the pasture of
plants it gives free scope to the roots to
pass in search of food it counteracts the
influence of drought and permits tho sur
plus water to escape. A field of corn with
the ground ploughed deep will survive a
drought that would ruin ;he crops if. the!
same had been shallow. If the plants can
not obtain moisture near the surface if they
meet with no obstruction they will pene
trate deep in search of food and a shallow
ploughing is much sooner exhausted of its
moisture by the influence of the sun than a
deep one by ploughing deep substance
...
the action of the atmosphere become food
tor .plants. .Another important advantage
resulting from deep ploughing is the ease
with which the same-is aftewards cultiva
ted.
JUST IN TIME;
A young physician having tried in vain to
get into practice, at last fell upon the follow
ing expedient to set the ball to rolling. He
sprang upon his horse once a day and drove
it full speed through the village. After an
absence of an hour he would return, and
carry with him some of his instruments
thinking if he could impress ht3 neighbors
with the opinion that lie had practice, they
would begin' to place confidence in hib abili
ty A wag, who more than suspected tho
deceit which he was practising determined
to know the truth. He accordingly kept
his horse in readiness and the next lime that
the doctor galloped by his door, sprang on
ilis steed and placed himself o'n the young
gentleman's trail. The doctor saw the man
fohowing at his heels, but did not, at fust,
evince any uneasiness, at length however,
he thought it advisable to turn down a har
row lane; The pumuer'followed on like an
evil genius'; but the doctor was not discour
aged, as another road lay a short distance
ahead of him down which he turned, while
the other kept close at his heels, the doctor
grew impatient to return home. There was
no house by the way, at which afforded
any pretext for stopping. In the mean
time his saddle bags were with him, and ho
was otherwise equipped for business, so
that he could not return, in the face of his
neighbor, without exposing the secrets of
the trade in tho most palpable manner.
Every bound of his steed carried him fur
ther from his homo : and the shades of night
began to fall on the hill and tower. Still
(lie sound of horse's hoofs were thundering
in his rear, and he was driven to his wit's
end; but just as ho tinned the angle of a
wood, ho heard a low moan. A man lay
prostrate near tho fence of a meadow, and
blood gushed fearfully from his arm. He
had cut an urlsry with his scy)j. Sail was
in danger of immediate dissoltHgr?"The
young doctor wprang from tyjMhprse illid
stanched the wound. Bandst.(wero ap.
plied and his life was saved.- ji'he'pursuer
had also thrown himself from his horse,
and as the physipan tied the last bandage,
he looked up in his face and 6aid " How
lucky, neighbor, that 1 was able to arrive
just in time."
The wondering spectator was silent with
awe, and after assisting tho wounded man
home, he told such a miraculous tale to the
wondering villages as secured to tho physi
cian a reputation not only for skill but also
for supernatural prescienos. Thus did the
merest accident contribute more to his ad
vancement than years of studious toll could
have done; the impertinent curiosity of a
waggish neighbor opened fur hini a path to
business which the most influentail patron
age might never have been able to provide
for him.
From tho U. S. Gazette.
A MONUMENT TO A MOTHER'S
GRAVE.
Flower Gathering-.
The fhiwers that spring up on the sunny
side of hillocks, beneath remnant? of snow
banks, are very small and entirely scentless
and the little beauty which is imputed to
them, chiefly from contrast with tho desola
tion and coldness in which they are found."
The death of a friend who nuvcr spared a
fault of my character, nor found a viitue
which ho did not praise, had east a gloom
over my mind, which no deprivation had
produced. I remember how sceptical and
heart smitten (not heart broken the bro
ken heart alwaj'3 believes) I stood at his
grave, while the clergyman touched too lit
tle on his virtues, and spoke with n humble
confidence, that ho Would spring from tho
tomb to an immortality of happiuejs and
suggested the promises of Scriptuie, and
argued with logical precision, from text
from the dead. Despond(fccV is not more
the child, than the parent of unbelief deep
grief makes us selfish and the uaturally
.: :.i i , ...
uiiuu aim nervous, lose mat confluence m
promises including their own particular
wish which they yield them, when the ben
ctit of others are alone proposed. A little
learning is dangerous in such matters ; we
antler a mental argument upon theprobabil
lty of an event which we so much desired
to displace the simple faith which would
have produced comparative happiness;
Those who have contended with, and at
length yielded to this despondency, alone
know its painful operation.
Occupied with thoughts resulting from
such an unpleasant train of mind, I follow
ed into a burying ground, in the suburbs of
the pity, a small train of persons, not more
than a dozen, who had como to burv one
of their acquaintance. The olergvman in
attendant, was leading a little bov bv the
hand, who seemed to be the only relative
of the deceased in the slender group. I
gathered with them around the grave, and
when the plain coffin was lowered down,
the child burst forth in uncontrollable grief.
The little fellow had no one left to whom
he could look for afl'eclion or who could ad
dress him in tones of parental kindness.
The last of his kinsfolk was in the grave
and he was alone.
Whqn the clamorous grief of the thild
had a little subsided, the clergyman addres
sed us with the customary exhortation to
accept the monition, and be prepared; and
turning to the child, he added : She is
not to remain in this grave forever; s Hue
as the grass which is now chilled with the
frost of the season, shall spring to green
ness and life in a few months, so ttue shall
your mother come up from that grave to a
notner lite, to a life of happiness, I hope."
Tho attendants shovelled in the earth upon
the colhn, ana some one look little William,
the child, by tho hand, and led him forth
from tho lowly tenement of his mother.
Late in tho ensuing spring, I was in tho
neighborhood of the same burying ground;
and seeing the gato open, I walhod among
the giaves for some time, reading the names
ot, tne ueau, anu wondering what strange'
disease could snatch off so inn) younger
than myself when recollecting that I was
SATTOBAY, lAY 4, 1839;
near the grave of the poor widow, buried
the previous autumn, I turned to see what
had been cone to preserve the memory of
ono so utterly dcstituto of earthly friends.
To my surprise, I found the most desirable
of all mementos for a mother's sepulchre
little "William was sitting near the head of
the now sunken grave, looking intently up
on some green shoots that had come forth
with the warmth of spring,, from the eoil
that covered his mother's coffin.
William started at my approach, and
would have left the place; It was long be-
fore I could induce him to tarry; and indeed
I did not win his confidence, until 1 tld
him that i was present when they buried
his mother and had marked his tears at the
time.
" Then you heard tho minister say, that
my mother would come up out of this grave,'
said little William.
"Idid."
" It is true, is it not 1" asked he, in a tone
of confidence.
" I most firmly believe it," said I.
" Believe it," said the child" believe
it I thought you knew it I know it."
" How do you know it, my dear?"
" The minister said, that true as the grass
would grow up, and the flowers bloom in
spring, so truo would my mother rise. 1
came a few days afte'rward.and planted flow
er seed on the grave. The grass4came green
in this burying ground long ago I watched
every day for the flowers, and to-day they
hav o come up too see them breaking
through the ground by and by mammy
will come again."
A smile of exulting hope played on the
features of the boy j and I felt pained at
disturbing the faith and confidence which
he was animated.
"But my little child," said I, ''It is not
i.m iiTarymu 'moafer' wiirofeet '
" Yes, here,'' said he, with emphasis
"hero they placed her and here I have come
eyqr since tlte first blade of grass was green
this year."
I looked around, and saw that the tiny
feet of a child had trod out the herbage to
tho gijave side, so constant had been his at
tendance. What a faithful watch-keeper-...i.
. . .i , , i .
wuai mower wouia uesjrc a rictier mono
mom than the form of her only son bending
tearful, but hoping, over her grave ?
"But, William," said I, "it is in another
world that she will arise," and I attempt
et to explain to him the nature of that
promiso which he had mistaken. The chil
was confused and he appeared neither
pleasant nor satisfied.
"If mammy is not coming back to' me
f she is not to come up here, what shall I
do I cannot stay without her.
You shall go to her," said I adopting
the language of the Scripture" you shall
go to her, but 3he shall not como again to
you,,'
"Lejme go then," said William, "let
mo go now, that I may rise with my mam
my."
" William," said I, pointing down to' the
plants just breaking through the ground,
" tho seed which -is sown here, would not
have come up,, if it had not been ripe; so
you must wait until your appointed time,
until your end comcth."
" Then I shall sec her?"
" I stirnlv linnfl
j .
" I will wait then," said the child, " but
I thought I should see her soon I thought
I should meet her here.
And he did. In a month, William ceas
ed to wait; and thoy opened his mother's
grave, and placed his little coffin on hers
it was the only wish the child expressed in
dying. Botter teachers than I, had instruct
ed him in the way to meet his mother; and
young as tho little sufferer was, ho had
learned that all labors and hopes of happi
ness, short of Heaven, aro profitless and
vain.
TOLERATION.
What art thou, vain mortal, that dares
intrude thyself bjwecn my god and mel
If I have an account to settle with Heaven,
am I
not competent to Bettle it myself!
Climber S.
WW-
Can ycu be more interested than I ami Or
if you are why insult me; why publish mo
to the world as the vilest animal in exis
tsnco! May I not possibly be right as well
as you1. If so, by what grant cither of
Heaven or eatth, you ho judged in assau!:
ting the purity of my motives! The grea1
God of Heaven suffers me to enjoy liberty;
suffers me to investigate fieely and without
fear, all subjects my mind may chance to
pursue, and informs me by the eternal laws
of nature, that I can only believo as my
understanding directs mc. Yet you dust
and ashes of the earth arrogating to your
self Heaven's power, would do that which.
Heaven refuses to dol you would stay the
progress of my mind, you. would end alt
inquiry which did not exactly euit you
you would prostrate me in the eyes of
society, and send me headlong to eternal
punishment! Away from this land, persecu
ting spirit! Away from this earth) tholl
spoilerl Franklin.
EVERYBODY.
Next to Nobbdy.lhis is the most important
personage known whose place the former
is very often compelled to supply. Every
body, says the political sectarian, known
that the righteousness of our party exceeds
that of the Scribes and Pharisees; while the
wickedness of our opponents is as tho troub
led waters which cast up mire and dirt.
Now it is Nobody, instead of Everybody,
that posesses this-information. In the same
manner, those whoso vocation it is tofarbi-
cate and vindicate creedc, dogmas and fash
ions, in all the various departments of law,
physic and divinity, unformly after that
Everybody acknowledges the accuracy of
these several doctrines and principles
whereas, through the aforesaid transportation
another character is entirely deptived of his1
is placed to the credit of Evryboliy thusf
reversing the established maxim, that Every
body's buisness is Nobody's.
Notwithstanding the consequential char
acter so generally accorded to Everybody,'
there is not a more ignorant booby in exis
tance. A thousaand crooked points and
tangled questions are referred to him for
decision on which occasions he is sur
named the Public, and complimented with
much praise for charity and sagacity; but
in the end, every one of these knotty
matters is resolved 'by Nobody, towhorri
in fact belongs those cry superior quali
ties so courteously ascribed to his would be
coadjutor. Thus Evrebyody runs away
with honors that in truth are the solo prop
erty of Nobody; and the latter is also doomed
to endure imputations and reproaches that
were justly designed to rest upon the broad
shoulders and thick skull of the former.
Multitudes of false assertions are wrongfully
laid to the charge of Nobody; and the very
highest virtues, which are known to belong
exclusively to that individual, are not seldom
sumed and held as tho appurtenances'
of Everybody so prevalent is the question
that " what Everybody says must ba true."
It is indeed high time that the political
vices and the piolessional impositions
which have so long been known to exist,
and which have incrcasjugly been palmed
off upon Nobody, s.foulH' find veir true
owners, and they alono be held responsible;
Until things aro called by their right
names, tlte innocent must suuer, wnue
Everybody that is really guilty is suffered to"
escape. Janlucl:ct jnquirer.
Woman. what can he more admirable
than the tone of the subjoinod note from"
Napolen: ' I have received your letter,
in which you blame me for clp'pojking un-
gallantly of women. It 13 true that I iiate
intriguing women above all things. I have.
been accustomed to a'mimal, gentlo, and
conciliating women; those are the womcri
love. If they have spoiled me, it is nor
my fault, but yo'urs. You will fee that I
ave been very kind to one who proved
icrtelf amiablo and effectionate; I mean!
Madam Ilarlzfield. When I showed her
husband's letter, she wept and oxclaimetl
jwlth deep feeling and sympathy, "Ah: it