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BY MRS. IIEMANS.
Answer rae, burning stars of night !
Where is tho spirit gone,
As a swift of breeze hntli flown ?
In light and power on high;
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Ask that which cannot die.
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3'heu art a wandered free;
J'nlf tvin it (hmi iIq nl-inn r.nnflt linn.
Far over mount and sea?
nil ihe wind murmured in rcnlv -
l Thi hlit iJMn 1 hnvr crnss'il
But not what thou hast lost."
o clouds, that gorgeously reposo
Arouudthc setting suu,
Whoso earthly raco is run ?
Wc vanish from the sky;
kU what is ileallilesi in t IV heart.
For that which cannot die,."
Sneak then, thou voice ei fjou within,
Thou of tho deep, low tone,
Where is the spirit flown 1
Enough to know is given;
Ulcutls, wind ana siars iicir pan luiui, .
Thine is to trust in Heaven."
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An Oxford student joined without invita-
Ition a party dining at an inn;after dinit.g,h.
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ty caid, " You have told us enough of what
Eyou can do, tell us something you cannot
fdo." " Faith, I cannot pay my sharo of
liho reekoninf?."
BIiOOMSBWRG, COLUMBIA
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THE FAVORITE FLOWER.
Gustavus, Herman and Malvina, the
blooming children of n farmer, wero ramb
ling on a beautiful spring day over the
tialds.' The nighlingulcs and larks aang,
and tho flowers unfolded hi the Kiild rays
of the sun.
And the children looked around for joy,
and jumped from one flower to another, aud
wrtalhcd garlnnds.
And they praised, in songs, the glory of
spring, and the love ct that omnipotent
Father, who clothes the aarlh with grass
and flowers, aud sung of the flowers, from
the rose that grows on the bush, to the vio
let that blooms in retirement, and tho liclh
cr flower from which the bees gather the
sweats.
For pious simplicity of heart wolcesics
even the small gifts ef nature with gratitude
and joy.
Then the children addressed each other
Lot every an. of us select hi. favorite
flower ! And they were pleased with the
proposition, and they bounded over the
field, each one to cull the flower that deligh
ted him most. Wo will come together a
gain in the bower, cried they.
Thus the threo children rambled in har
mony their different ways, to collect tho
beautiful. A lovely flower gathering!
In a short time all three appeared on
their way to the bower. Each one bore
in his hand a full nosegay, selected for his
favorite bower. When they saw one anotlv
er, they held up thir flowers, and cried a
loud for joy. Then they assembled in the
bower, and closed it with one consent, and
said, now evciy one shall give his reasons
for tho choico of his nocsjay!
Gustavus, the eldest, had selected the
violet. Behold, said ho, it blooms in silent
raodesty ameiig tho stubble and grass, and
its work is as well concealed as the gentle
productions and blessings of spring. But
it-is hor.orctl- nd loved by man, and 3img
in beautiful songs, and every one takes
small nosegay when he comes from the lield,
and calls the lovely violet the first born child
of syring, and the flower of modesty
These are tho reasons why I have selected
it as my favorite flower.
Thus spake Gustavus, and gave Herman
Malviita, each, one of his flowers. And
thov received thesa with inward ioy. Fcr
it was the favorite flower f a brother.
Then Herman camo forward with his
nosegay. It was composed of the tender
field lilly, which grows in the cool shade
ol the grove, and lifts up its bellsdikc pearls
strung together, and white as tine light of
the sun. Sse, said he, I have chosen this
flower. For it is the emblem of innocence
and of a pue heart, and it proclaims to rao
the love of Him who adorns heaven with
stars, and the earth with flowers. Was not
tho lilly of the field estimated more highly
than others, to givo testimony to the pater
nal love of Him, in whom every thing lives
and moves ? Behold, for these reasons I
have selecced the small lily as my favorite
flower.
Thus spoke Herman, and presented his
flowers. And the other two received tham
with sinceiejoy and reverence. And thus
tho flower was consecrated.
Then came Malvina also, the pious, love
ly girl, with the nosegay she had gathered.
It was composed of the tender blue forget-me-not.
See, dear brothers, stid tho uil'ec
tionate sister, this flower I found near the
brock I Truly it shines like a bright star
in heaven, and views it:olf in the clear wa
ter, on whose margin it grws, and tiie riv
ulet flows more sweetly along, and appears
as if it were crowned with wreaths. There
fore it is the flower of lovo and lendsiness,
and I have chosen it as ray favorito, and
present it to you belh. She gave it to her
brothers with a kiss, and with a kiss her
brothers thanked her. And the guardian
angel of tUo children sailed at this lovely
league of innocence,
Thus tho favorite flowers were selected.
Then Malvina said, we will twist them inlc
two garlands, and dedicate them to our be
COHJWTY, PA. SATURDAY, SEPTETOIBElfe IS,
loved parents 1 And thov niaie two rar I
lands of the beautiful flowers, and carried
them to their parents, and related their
whole enterprize, and tho choice of favor
ites. Then the parents rejoiced over their good
children, and said, A boautiful wreath !
Love, innocenco and modesty twined to
gether 1 Sec how one flower elevates aud
adorns the other, and thus thov form united
ly the nio?t lovely crown !
But there is one thing wanting, said the
children, and in the excitement of gratitude
they crowned both father and mother.
Then the parents became agitated with
joy, and embraced their children tenderly,
and said, s garland like this is mom spleu
did than tho crown of a prince.
THE HAIIt-DRESS'ER IN LOVE
WITH HIS DUMMIES.
Here's the story,' said Sara. 'Vuncc
upon a time there was a smart yeung hair
dresser as opened a wory smart little shop
with four wax dummies in tho window,
two gentlemen and two ladies tho scn'l-
mcn vith blue dots for their beards, wcry
large visiters, on-tiaciius heads of hair, un
common clear eyes, and nostrils of ama
zin1 pinknens the ladies with their heads
o one side, tneir right tore-lingers on their
lips, and their furms dcweloped beautiful, in
which last respect they had the advantage
over the gen'lmen, as wasn't allowed bu
weiy little shoulder, and terminated rather
abrupt in fancy drapery. He had also
many hair brushes and tooth brushes bottled
up in the winder, neat glass cases on the
counter, a iloor-clotucd curttn room up
stairs, and a wcighin' machine in the shop
right opposite the door; but the great attrac
lion and ornament vos the dummies, -'ich
this here young hair dresser was a con-
s lastly runuin out in the rsad to look at
and constantly iunuui in agin tu toucli up
and polish; in short lie wos so proud on
'em,, that vcnSjaday aatu?, hj. vos. ajvayj
wretched and mis rable to think the vos be
IiiHtl the Miutlcrs, and loo): anxiously lor
Monday on that account. Vun ' these
dummies vos a fav'rite bjyond the cithers,
and Ten any ot his acquaintance asked ira
as vy he did'nt get married, as the young
ladies he knowed in partickler, often did
he used to say, 'Never! never vill I enter
into the bends of vedlock,' he says, 'until I
meets vith a young voinan as realizes my
idea ' that fairest dummy vith tho lijlit
hair. Then, and not till then, vill I ap
proach the altar.' All the young ladies he
know'd, as had got dark hair, told him this
vos wery sinful, aud that he vos vurshippin
a idle, but Ihera as wos at all near the
shade of the dummy colored up very much,
and was observed to think him a very nice
young man.' 'Samivel,' said Mr. Woller
gravely, 'a member o' this atsnsishimi facia
one o' that 'ere tender sex which is now
immediately referred to, I have to rekwest
that yen vill injkc no reflexions.' 'I aim a
making any, am I?' inquired Sam. 'Or
der, sir, rejoined Mr. Wcller with severe
dignity; then sinking the chairmac in the
father, in his usual tons of voice, 'Samivel,
drive en !' Sam interchanged a smile with
the housemaid, and proceedtd: 'The
young hairdresser hadn't been in the habit
o' makin this avowal six months, when he
enconnlered a young- lady as wos the wery
pieter o' the fairest duinaiy. 'Now,' he
says, 'it's all up. I'm a slava !' The
young lady wos not only the pieter o' the
fairest dummy, but she vos wsry romantic,
as the youHg hair dressir wos too, and ha
says, 'here's a commuuity o' feelin'
there's a flow o' seul !' he says, 'here's a
interchange o' sentiment !' The young la
dy did'nt say much ' course but ske ex
pressed herself agreeablt, and shortly arter
vards vent to see him vith a mutual friead.
The hair dresser rushes out to meet her,
but d'rectly she sees the dummies she
changes color and falls a tremblin wiolent
ly. Look up, :uy lave,' says the hair
dresser, 'beheld your image in my winder,
but not correcter than ix my
jmige ?' she says. Vtw'n,'
'art.!' 'My
replies the
hair dresser. 'But whose imige is lhalV
he says, pinting at one o' the gen'lmen.
No vua's, my love,' ho says, 'it is but a
dea.' 'A idea 1' she cties, 'it is a portrait.
I feel it is a portrait and that 'era noble faco
must be in the inillintarv I' 'Wot do I
hear!' says ho, a cruplir.' his curls. 'Vil-
liam Gibbs,' she says, quite firm, 'never
rcuoo tue su.jeci. i respect yeu as a
friend,' she says, 'but my affections is set
upon that manly brow.' 'This,' says the
hair dresser, 'is a reg'lar blight, and in it I
perceive the hand of Fate. Faro veil !'
Villi these vords he rushes into the shop,
break's the dusamy's nese vith a blow cf
his curling irons aud melts him down at ths
parlor fire, and never smiles afterwards.'
'The young lady, Mr. Welles!' said the
housekeeper. 'Why, ma'am,' said Sam,
'finding that Fate had a spile agin her and
every body she come in contact witb, she
never smiled neither, but read a deal o
poetry and pined away by rather siow de
grees, for she an't dead yet. It took a deal
o' poetry to kill the hair dresser, and some
people say, arter all, that it wos moio the
gin ar.u water as cause him to run over,
p'raps it wos a little o'both and corae o
mixing the two. Master Humphrey's
Clock.
From tho Casket.
STORMING OF STONY POINT,
Tho night had already settled down
gloomy and forbidding, on the evening
the 15th of July, 1770,when the advancing
columns of a little army, whoso uniform
betoken it to be American, emerged from
thick wood on the shore of the Hudson, and
in an instant the whole dim and shadowy
prospect, disclosed ta them along the ban!
of the river, opened to the sight. Far
way lay Verplanck's Point, now buried i
a mass of shadow, while on the other side
of tho river, dark gloomy, and frowning;
rose up the craggy heights of Stony Point
Washed on three sides by tho Hudson, and
protected on the' oilier, except along
nerrow road, toy a morass, tnu tsrt was
deemed one of the most impregnable on
the river; and its capture regarded as al
most impossible. Yet to achieve that gal
lain, purpose, this little army was now upon
its march.
A turn in the road soon hid them from
tho river, and alter a silent march of som
minutes duration, they arrived within
mile and half of the enemy's lines; and
haltintr at the command of their officer,
formed into columns for the attack. Be
ginuing again their march they soon reach
cd the maishy e round at the base of the
hill.
"Hist !' said the low voice of tho gener
al, from the front, 'we are nih enough now
HALT.'
The order pasred in a whisper down tho
line, and the column paused on the edge of
the morass. It was a moment of suspense
aud peril. Every man felt that in a few
minutes the fate rtf their hazardous enter
prise would be determined, and that they
would either bs cold in death, or the Amer
ican flag waving in triumph over the dark
promontory ahead, now scarcely discorna
ble through the thick gloom of midnight.
Yet not a lip quivered, nor a cheek blanch
ed in that crisis. About twenty paces in
front of the column, had halted the forlone
hope of one hundred and fifty men, With
unloaded pieces and bayonets fixed, while
farther on a smaller group of shadowy
forms could bt seen through the obscurity,
accoutred with axes, to cut through the
abattis. Each mam had a piece of white
paper on his hat to distinguish him from
the foe in the approaching mel6e. The
pause, however, which afforded this pros
pect was but momentary. The general had
already reconnoilered the approaches to the
still silent promontory and waving his
sword on high He gave the erdsr. In a
nether instant the dark, massive column
was moving steadily to tko attack.
It was a thrilling moment, duiing which
i that devoted band cr.ted rapiily over the
marsh. As yt tfce fteniv hat not diicr'
1840. Wuralua? so.
cred them. Evon the hearts of the oldest
veterans trembled with tko aagerness of
that moment of suspense. Already had
tho foiemost of the pioneers reached tho
abattis, and the quick, rapid blows of their
axes rung npon tho right, when suddenly a
hout of alaim broke from the fort, tho gun
f a sentry flashed through the gloom, and
in an instant all was uproar and confusion
within the astonished fortifications. Not a
moment was to be lost.
'Advance 1 advance I' shouted Wayne as
he pressed rapidly on forward the abattis,
followed in dcath-liko rilcuce by hisiudom
pable troops..
'To arms !' camo borne on the night
breeze froia the fort to arras to armif
and then followed the quick roll of the
drum. In an instant the oncmy ware at
their post, and as the gallant continentals
still maintained their silent but steady
march, a fire, such as only desperation
could produce, burst from every atnbrasurd
of the fort. The incessant rattle of lh6
musketry.lhe roar of the artillery, the crash
ing of the grape shot, and the lurid light
flung over tho scene by the explosion of tho
shells, and tho streams of fire pouring from
the tort, formed a picture which no pen can
describe. Yet amid it all the daring assail
ants steadily advanced though not a trigger
had been pulled in' their ranks. Faithful
to the commands of their general, though
trembling in every limb with eagerness,
they kept up their silent march, amid that
fiery tempest, as if impelled by some god
like power. On on on thsy pressed.
Ihe whirlwind of firs from tho fort ceased
not; yet still they dashed along, charging
at the point of the bayonet, over abattis and
bulwark, until tho enemy, borne back by
their impetuous onset, quaikd befero them.
The works wero foiced. Then, and not
till then, was tho death silence broken. A
sound rung out from the victarious troops
over all tho thunder of the battle. It va3
tho watchword of success. It was heard
by tho head of tho column behind, it pussstl"
down their line; was caught up by tho
rear, and a wild shout,making tho very wollc
in tremble, rungaut as they dashed to tho
attack.
The contest was short,but it was terrific-.
Over bulwark, battery, and prostraio foes
ike gallant continentals headed by Wayne,
passed on, and driving all before them, met
the column cf their little army, with an en
thusiastic cheer, in the very centre of ths
enemy's workn. In another moment tho
starry flag of America waved triumphantly
over the battlements.
The enthusiasm of tho victors cannot bb
described. But though the contest had been
sk bloody, not a man of the enemy fell.afiar
resistance had ceased. Tho prisoners wero
disarmed, a guard placed over them, and
sentrits posted en all commanding positions
around tho works. The raornin? run an
nounced to the British fleet in the river that
Stony Point was won
Juno -JDih, 1810.
A New Theory. Tho cause of ladies5
teeth decaying at so much earlier stage of
life, than those of the other sex, has usually
been attributed to the friction produced by
constant action of the tongue. But accord
ing to the editor of the Hertford courier, ait
English paper, it is owing to the sweetness
of their lips as it is a fact well established
by every body's saying, that sweet things
ruin tho teeth.
Scolding. Many parents, guardiane and
teachers, vent tho impatience of their tem
pers by scolding, while engaged i efforts
t restrain the wayward wills of those un
der their charge. This kind of raanage-
ssent is productive of much evil to bath par
ties Let scolds remember that they must
first learn to govern themselves, beforo they
can establish good government in their fam
ilies, The following is a fashionable merchant
tailor's sign, in the city of London : "B
ppintaient, breeches . maker to tho
Quen."
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