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HIE t MIMING St EftE.
'' •> BY T. aOCIISNXH ttXKD.
Tr.e North British Review pronooncea this
poem the best that hat ever beau written by
an American author:
Within this sober realm of leafless trees,
The lusaet year inhaled the dreamy air,
Like soma tanned feaper i:i his hour of sate,
When all the trees are lying brown and
bare.
The gray barns, looking from ther hazy hilts
O'er the ilirn waters winding in the vales,
Sent down the air a greeting to the mills,
Ou the dull thunder of alternate flalea.
All sights wera mellowed, and all sounds
Hibdued,
The bills seemed father, and tbe stream
sang low,
As in a dream the distant woodman hew'd
His winter log, witb uiany a muffled blow.
Th' embanled forests,ere while armed in gold.
Their bauners bright witb every marital
hoe,
Now stood like some sad beaten hoste ot old,
Withdrawn afar tu times remotest blue.
On slumb'roua wings the vulture tried his
flight,
The uove scarce beard his sighing mule's
complaint,
And like a star, slow drowning in the light,
The village church-vane seemed to pale
and faint. ,
The sentinel cock upon the hill-side crew ;
. Craw thrice, and all was stiller than be
fore—
Silent till some replying wanderer blew
Hta alien horn, and then was heard no
more.
Where erst,the jay within the elm's tall crest.
Made garrulous iioubfe round the unflbdged
young ;
And where the oriole bung bar swinging
nest
By every light wind like a center swung.
Where sang the noisy masons ot the faves,
Tho busy swallows circling ever near,
Foreboding as the rustic mind believes,
Ail eaily harvest and a pleuteous year,
Where every bird which charmed the vernal
leat,
Skook tbe tweet slumber from its wings at
morn
To warn the reapers of tbe roasy east;
All now was sougless, empty, and luiloru.
Alone, from out the stubble piped the quail,
And croak'd tne crow, through all the
dreary gloom ;
Alone the phesaui, drumming in the vale,
Made echo to the distant collage loom.
There was no bud, no bloom upon the bow
ers ;
The spiders wove '.heir thin shrouds uight
by mailt
The tbistl e-down, the only ghost of flowers,
Sdiled sluwlyfby—passed noiseless out of
sight.
Amid all this—in this most cheerless air,
And where the woodbine sheds upon the
porch,
Its crimson leaves as if the year stood there,
Firing the floor with Ins inverted torch—
Amid all this, the centre of the scene,
The while haired matron, with monoton
ous trend,
l'iied the swift wheel, and witb her joyless
mein,
Sat like H Fate, and watched tho flying
thread. _ .
She had known sorrow. Ha bad walked
with her,
Oft supped, and broke with her the ashen
crust,
And in the dead leaves, still the heard the
stir
Of his black mantle trailing in the dust.
While yet her cheek was bright with sum
mer bloom
Her oonntry summoned, and ahe gave her;
all;
And twice war, bowed to her his sable plume
Re-gave tbe swords to rest upon the wall.
Re-gava the swords—but not the band that
drew
And struck for liberty the dying blow ;
Nor hint, who to Ins sire and country true,
Fell 'mid the ranks of tbe invading foe.
Long, but not loud, the droniug wheel went
on,
Like the low murmurs of a hive at noon,
Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone
Breathed through her lips a sad and trem
ulous tune.
*
At last tbe thread was snapped, her head
was bow'd;
Life dropped the distaff through hi* hand*
serene;
And loving neighbors smothed her careful
shrouds,
While Death and Winter closed (he Au
tumn scene.
Healing the Poker.
After the news of the destruction of the
stamped papers had arrived in England, the
miuiatry sent for Dr. Franklin to consult with,
and ofTered this proposal:—'That if the A
merioant would engage to pay for the dam
age in the destruction stamped pa
per, tus., the parliament would theo repeal
the act.'
The doctor, having paused upon this ques
tion for some time, at last answered as fol
lows ■
'This putt me iu mind of a Frenchman,
who having heated a poker red hot, ran fu
riously into the street, and addressing the
first Englishman he met there—'Ha Mon
ster, will you will yoa give me xe satisfac
tion to run this poker only ene foot In your
body I'.'My body,' replied the Englishman,
'what do you mean ?' 'Vol, den, only so far/
making out six inches. 'Ant you mad V re
turned the other, 't tell you, if yoa don't go
about your business, I'll knock you down.'
'Vel, den, said the Frenchman, softening hie
voice and manner, 'vil yon my good aire on
ly be ao obliging aa to pay ma for the trou
ble and axpenae oi heating this poker 1"
\
BAKfHJM'M SPKI'KII Pit IHJMBUUe.
Delivered at Stanford on the occacion of the
Agricultura I Fair.
''ft teems lobe most unloriunate circum
stance that I should be selected to speak on
Humbug 1 , as looking on ladies whose pro
fession it peculiarly is. I find it hard to ex
press myself in their pretence. Everything
is humbug except our Agricultural Society
—that alone is not.
"Hambug is . generally defined 'deceit
or impoeition.' A burglar who breaks Into
your house, a forger who cheats you of
your property, Or a rascal, is not a humbug ;
a humbug is not an impostor; but in my
opinion the true meaning of born bug is
management—taot to take an old tiuib and
put it in an attractive form.
"But no humbug it great Without truth at
tne bottom l . The woolly Jiorse was a reali
ty. He was really born with a woolly eoat.
i bought bim iu Cincinnati for 9500, and
sent htm on to Connecticut, but for a long
time I doubted what I should do with him,
and laared that he would die on my bands.
Just then, in 1849, Col. Fremont end hta
party were reported to have been lost a
mong tbe Rocky Mountains, the public
were greatly excited, but shortly news oame
that ha was safe. Now came the chance
for the woolly horse.
"It was duly announced that after three
day's chase upon the border* of the river
Gila, an animal had been captured by tbe
quarter master of CoUFremont's party who
partook in a singular degree of tho nature
of the buflalo, antelope and camel. This
•lory was to far true, that I was myself the
quarter master-master, who oaptured him
and I charged a quarter fur the sight. Tbe
piclue outside the exhibrtiJh depicted Ilia
animal at jumping over sledge of rocks;
now if the animal had really leaped, as
shown iu (he picture, he must have passed
over a space of five miles. To have be
lieved that he could have eurvived such a
leap, would have been the grossest humbug.
"But Col. Benton, who understands no
humbug but his own, arrested my toheme,
arid prosecuted me for obtaining money un
der laUe pretences, as the horse was not
what it professed to be; but I think wrongly,
at the people who saw it was satisfied, and
they got the worth of their money.
"Now the scientific humbug should know
the preeise moment to act as 1 did. or the
world would never have been blessed with
a sight ot the woody horse.
'.'When the woolly iuuaa arrived at Con
necticut, he was put in a stable near Love
joy's Hotel. One of tbe boarder* who came
to see him recognized him as an animal he
had seen at Bridgport. 'Good heavens !' he
cried,'l have seen that animal before; it
is really an extraordinary humbug.' He took
a frieud from the same hotel, and after he
had seen tbe animal, let him into the secret,
and in succession Ihirly-seveu persons were
carried up, all of whom took the humdog
ging in good humor except the last man.
"My ambition to be the Prince of Hum
bugs I will resign, but I hope the public will
take the will for the deed; I can assure
them that if I had been able to give them all
the hum-Jugs I have thought of, they would
have been amply satisfied.
"Before I went to England with Tom
Thumb, I had a skeleton preparej Irom va
lious bones. It was to have been made
eighteen feet high ; it was to have been bu
ried a year of to in Ohio, and then dug up
by accident, ao (bat the publio might learn
that there waa giants of old. The price 1
was to pay tbe person who proposed to
put the skeleton together, was to have been
*225.
" But finding Tom Thumb mere success
ful thau I thought, I sent word not to pro
cea d with the skeleton for fifty or aeVeuty
five dollars.
" Seven years afterward I received from
the South en account of a gigantic skeleton
that had been found. Accompanying ii were
the certificates of scientific and medical men
aa to the genuineness. The owner asked
twenty thousand dollars, or one thousand
dollar* a month; I wrote to bias if he bought
| it ou I would take ii if I found it at repia
tented, or would pay his expanse il not;
1 found it was my own old original humbug
come back again; of course I refused it,
and I never heard of it afterward."
It pasee* all ordinary conception that tbe
man Barnum should have grown rich and
and impudent upon the proceeds of his de
ceptions. bad any individual visitor of
" Joyce Heth" chosen to proseeote her
exhibitor, he could have .recovered
damages under the statute agai list obtain
ing money under false pretences. Yet the
inventor of that abominable deception baa
gone on, contriving similar onal year after
year, and from each reaping an abundant
reward in money, until at last, he comoa
before the publio as a Moralist, delivers
aermont ou Man'a major and minor duties
to Society, and finally with tnblima arro
gance announce hie "Autobiography."—
Buffalo Democracy.
Timely Kcbnke.
Dr. Bethuna, of Brooklyn, in the recent
speech before the "Southern Aid Sooily."
in N. York city administering the followiug
rebuke to those mitiettera of the Gospel who
deem it their duty to meddle with "the
things that ate Caesar's," at wall a* to care
tor the things that are God'#. The learned
divine remark*:
"II this were a political meeting, we
might perbapa allow ourselves to discus*
point* not in place now; but for my own
-I
Truth and Rijtht God aM Mr Coaitry.
• I pa", I do not believe in clergyman: attend
, I iog political meetings, and making political
speeches. [Sensation.] My offloa is to
preacn the Gospel, and 1 was ordained to
. preach the Gospel, end with the help of God,
, that ! mean to keep to. When I have fair
. ly gone through preaching the gospel aad
exhausted el I hi* precious themes, and prt
, vailed with it over every bean; I may turn
my attention to tho law, and perbapa try to
enlighten my hearers on matters of political
1 jurisprudents, is they will consent to Astern
, or tjiiak that I can teaob them anything on
r that point, [Sensation.] Now, air, as
Christians, what it our duly—onr great and
onlycoaitniesion as a church? It is to
"preach the gospel to every creature: no
matter where he lives, ender what laws,
with what color, what hit condition—he is a
sinner, and wo must pre ash to hta. in* goo
pel.
We serve under* captain whose glorious
title is "Captain of our Salvation," and he
says, 'My kingdom is not of this world,''
and add", "If my kingdom was of this world,
then would my servant* fight." The con
verse is obvious—we have no mission to
! flghi, and no right to fight. "Tho weapon,
of our warfare are not carnal." W# may
be thankful that they are not, for if we bad
to fight with weapons faahiooed to the
world's war, the little flock would aland but
a poor chance among the warriors of infi
delity ; but onr weapons are mighty through
God. From htm only our strength comes—.
He has orded and oombinsd us under the
banner of the cross, on which Christ died
fcr tinners. When he sent his churoh forth
on their enterprise to bless the woild, gave
them but one instrument que chores, one
method and only one. Oat of the treasures
ol hit omnipotence, his infinite wisdom se
lected only one gift. His church ha* nothing
else—it is the Bible. It is distrust or pre
sumption which thinks of any other means j
and I believe that the Churoh wtll be
sevorely scourged by tbe Lord for losing so
much lime, and wasting so much effort up
on side issues; which sun der us from tbe
main purpose of our calling. Our duly, sir,
is to obey our master, and such only should
be our aim. , The question for ua is not—
what do we think is right? or what do oth
er men think ia right ?—but what hat the
Lord commded ua to do? The rule of
christian action is, "Not my will but ihine."
We have no other resource.
From the Cincinat Qixeltet, Oct. 24.
Tbe Ituiued Banker, nod the Moral which
Ike Case 1 eacm-s.
We understand thai Mr. Manchester left
this city on Sunday evening. Since the fail
ure of his banking house, on Tuesday, it
has not been safe for him to be seen abroad
alone. We know not his presynt place of
abode, or where he intends to settle himself.
One thing is csrtait:—his days of usefulness
in this city have departed. His properly
has been pissed in the haifds of assignees,
but from what We can gather, the asset*
will not meet the liabilities.' Many of those
who are loser* are har.l working men and
women. They entrused their sir.ill earn
ings in his bank, and we fear Ibey will not
be able to get them back. We learn that
bis failure ia chiefly attributed to slock spec
ulations, borrowing money at large rates of
interest ; and extravagaot living. Some
months ago he brought, fifty thousand dot
lara worth of stock in one oi tho raitway
enterprises in this Slate, which fell en hit
hands very rapidly, and hietarei were hea
vy. In our city there are few, very few,
whoexprett any sympathy for the ruined
banker, while 'oursea both load and deep,'
follow his footsteps like an echo. One of
the sad evils which follow wreeked fortunes
and wrongdoing is the sorrows which fall
upon the innocent family. Wa shall not at
tempt to eneroaoh upon tbe aanotity of their
private griefs.
The present oaae of failure, and the dis
attrous consequences, following it, are not
without their moral. The bane of modern
oily life ia a desire to make money and to
live in a style beyond our legitimate means
to afford. Tbe old maxims of home-bred
prudence have lost much of their foroe, and
aw rarely prmclioed. The deaire to outshine
our neighbors, or at least te equal them in
show making and party giving, and fine
dresaee furniture ar.d cosily yet useless or
naments, ere amsng the fruitftll oauses of
light money markets, bankruptcy and do
mestic ruin. N6 history his ever reoorded
the miseries which the slavery of fashion
and Ibe arbitrary demands of society inflict
upon us—a slaver) more galling than that
of the aerritude of the Southern negro—the
many shift* that are mads to keep up the
the appearances, to hide the troth and to
raise money to meet the note* coming due.
No wonder we have eare-wun faces, per
matore gray hairs, and effeminate constitu
tions—tbe legitimate offspring* of e passion
to live bsyond our nutans aad keep up ap
pearances.
As mar.y persons feel a lively interest in
the movement* of this financier, we state
that he waa arrested at Lawreneeburg on
Sunday, just as be was stepping on to the
mail boat Highflyer, by Mr. Crist, one of hi*
depositor*. An bad prnvioutlv registered
himself at the hotel there, nndnr a false
name, for Lexington, Ky., accompanied by
a lawyer of tnia oity. While waitiug in tbe
street for the boat, findiug he waa raoogni
zed, ha returned to the hotel, and entered
hie true noma under his false one. H* had
hod a large trunk witb him, ehioh was at
tached by the Sberif. Ha tried hard te e
vedo the payment, (about $700,) oooly eta
- ting that although Mr. Coal'a case was berd>
I there Ware many widows and orphans' a
j raong hit depositors at Cincinnati much
> worse off; that the trunk contained nothing
, but his clothing, and that h# had forgotten to
. take the key,, having left heme in a hurry •
I by crawling out of tha sky light of his
. house, and going down through his neigh
i bor Uroesbeek'a and out of Sis back doer,
, wbila bit trunk was sent by another roofs.
I The drunken Irishman who drove bim
, down, waa in the meantime officiously de
nying Mr. M.'e indentity, Mating that be
> was a "gentleman who came from New-
York, on the Saturday train of oara"—from
a fact he was tasdy to prove by any reaaon
i able number of oaths. After several hours
, parleying, and a large crowd collecting, Mr.
Crist, a heel working gunsmith, produced
bis tools, ond began tu open (lis trunk lectin
dem artem. Manchester, not liking the looks
of the crowd, and finding he must go to jail,
caved ia, gave op the key, (which bis legal
friend had carried iu hit pocket.) and from
a large package of securities, turned out a
sufficient amount of stock of the Hillsboro'
and Cincinnati Railroad, to amply secure bis
depositor, with power of attorney to transfer
the same, which was prsporly done yeater. 1
terday. Mr. Manchester and bis friend left
Lawreuceburg about midnight, amidst a
heavy ttor.n and pilohy darkness, taking the
road towards Indianapolis. He probably
however, drove round to Aurora, and got on
board the oars or the mail but yesterday mor
ning.
FASHION AND DISEASE.
The editor of the Scalps', in a very inter
esting article iu tha August number of that
excellent work, on the crippled condition of
of the lungs in woman, makes the following
sensible remarks, which we commend to
the attention of every female:
"Only look at the position of a fashiona
bly-dressed woman, sitting in her rocking
chair, embroidering; see the approximation
ot her arms, and the bent neok and body.
The chest containing the lungs has to sus
lain the whole weight of the head mid arm*;
they hang upon it'almost like pieces of dead
flesh; the intestines are forced down upon
the womb, and the great blood vessels that
supply the limbs are compressed. There is
the beautiful spine superbly arched by the
Great Artirt, with its exquisitely arranged
and graceful eurves, to bring the centre of
gravity between the feef, tho very line of
beauty, its unmatched and unequalled elas
tic substance between each bone, to take
off ttie shock ST~ every step, the cnlar-bonet
to keep the arms apart, tod to allow the
lungs full play, and to show [the beauty of
the breast and throat, with beautiful and
grand muscles on the bark to keep back the
shoulders—th e whole woman—'a dieam of
Eden when the world was yoong; and loak
only look at the best resells of fashionable
socriety. Great heavens! Spirits of Guido
and Raphael, do ye behold her! Shades Of
Hunter and Bell, do not your bones rattle in
your graves at the spectacle ! Such respira
tion with tbe lung* poisoned and irritated in
the atmosphere of the parlor, and the rank
and stifling smelt of a 'magnificent velvet
carpet, filled with dust, for the simple rea
son that it cannot be swept away ; the light
of heaven shut out by blinds and curtains,
will stifle three-quarters of the natural de
mand for air; exercise and food, it will con
gest the hands and eye-lids, rob die color
less blood vessels thai nourish (be window
or pelluciJ cordes of the eye and give ii
its sparkling lustre, and the skiu its fairness,
make the finger nails blue, lake away lbs
capacity and muscular power to bold op the
head and keep the shoulders back, consti
pate the bowels by robing them of their se
oretious and tbe constant motion impurted
by a full supply of air to their mutoulai
COM:, and make the whole women a mere
half-vitalized machine, fit only to live the '
sickly replies of mental insanity to the in- 1
suiting twaddle she expects to receive from
tbe male fool that sits before her. This is ■
th* actual condition of almost every fash
ionable woman, in the oity, and it ia brought
•boot mainly by want of exercise , the is
unable to take from the OonMructioo of her
dress, and the slavish adherence to fashion;
indeed the does not dream of it* necessity ; ■
the feels th* wretohed lethargy that presses 1
with leaden weight upon her sout; she 1
knows that tbe glad earth ia full of musio of
leva and happiness her smothered instincts '
tell her-ah* ought to share them; but a mo- 1
notorious conventionalism threatens her with 1
ostracism if ahe allows a ray of nature to 1
warm the generous impulse into life. Great
Gad ? whan I look upon the beautiful and
fair laoe* of my country woman, as ibay
move before me like so many automata, un- '
der the iron despotism of that bloodless and 1
sickly thing called fashion, my soul i* eiak
at th* spectacle, and I am glad to escape in
to the forest where I oan see the wild bird
byroning tbe praites of his Creator, and lis
ten to the unchecked murmur of tbe wind*,
and the leaping- of th* dancing rivulet , and
when I return to the duties of hie, I look 1
from my window upon the little spot of vov
dure a city prison allows rne, and I hear the 1
murmur of a bee, and tee the little bum- 1
ming-bird sipping the nectar from tbe hoti. 1
eysuokle, my heart yet leapt with childish
delight a* the lovely little creatures swings 1
upon the branches; I return to ray task, and
> feel that if I bad Ihe eloquence and be
nevolence of Christ, I could spend my life
in no better cause than attempting her in
struction In the lewb of her beiug, and
showing her how beauty and truth iov* and
simplicity are inseparable connected with
the sublime soignee of life.
> " AN I Kit—AN ACTIVE LAD,"
Every pepar wa reed proclaim* a want of
of this kind, remarks th* Newark Mercury.
"Active lads" seetn to be in universal d*.
mand, and their aervice* command ike
highest remuneration. This,however, should
excite no surprise. Lads of (hi* character
have of late grown so scarce—the crop for
the last few years tie* *o signally failed—
that somethi'-g more than ordinary exertion
is needed to discover thosa of the proper
Mamp, Out youth have everywhere degen
erated, end where a few yean since we
found active, intelligent lads clustering a
bout every hearthstone, we now see only
idling, vicious youth, growing up in moral
ami intellectual imbecility, aa thistles in the
field.
" Wanted—an active lad I" He ia wan.
tad lor more purposes than one. Not mere
ly to attend the shop, or run errands, or drive
the plough or plane, but to hew out for him
self a path to competence ; to aid in build
ing up good and wise institutions ; to pluck
up by the roots old and hoary errors; to
help on the cause of reform wherever its
banner is flung upon the air. And yet not
I for Ibis alone is the active lad wanted. He
is needded in the path and templet of Learn
ing, that he may become fitted for the p*l-
T'l *ed the forum, and the thousand repocai
biliiiee that man is heir to.
" Wanted—an active lad." Life it full of
obligations and duties. No man oah lire to
himself and escape the responsibility. Our
moments are few td f a i beteen, often but
accidental dipping of our red in tiro honey
of the rock as we ai6 hurrying on to battle.
We must all do somethine iu the world for
its benefit. And none are more valuable to
society than the active lads—the boys ol
herve and soul, of integrity . and troth. It
maters not what else may grow valueless,
the time will never cOrne When active lads
will not be wanted iu this world of oura.
<1 DID AS IHE KEBI- DID.*
This lame, yielding spirit—this doing "aa
the rest diJ"—has ruined thousands.
A young inati is invited by vicious com
panions to visit the theatre, or the gambling
room, or other haunts of licentiousness. He
becomes dissipated, spends bis lime, loses
his credit, squanders his property, and at
last sinks into an untimely grave. What
ruined him ? Simply "doing what the rest
did."
A father has a family of sons. He it
wealthy. Other children in the same situa
tion of lite do so and so, are indulged in this
thing and that. He indulges hit own in the
same way. They grow up idlers, trifle* and
lops. The father wonde.s why his children
do not succeed better. He has spent so
much money on tbeir education,' has given
them great advantages; but alas ! they era
only a source of vexation and trouble' Poor
man, be is just paying tbe penally of "doing
as the rest did."
This poor mother strives haul to bring up
her daughters genteelly. They learn what
others do, to paint, to sing, to play, todanoe,
and several other oseful matters. In time
they marry ; their husbands are nnable to
support their extravagances and they are
soon reduced to poverty and wretchedness.
The good woman is astonished. "Truly,
says she, "I did as the rest did."
The sinner, following the example of oth
ers, puts off repentance, and neglects to pre
pare for death. He passe* along through
life, till, unawares, death strike* the fatal
blow. He has no time left now to prepare.
And he goes down to destruction, because
he was so foolish to "do as the rest did."
Tua following ttuthful picture ot life, e* it
exists hi this country, we copy from the
Washington, D. C., Sentinel. In the contin
ual change in the condition of man lies oat
great safety as Republicans. Were a parti
cular family to continue to increase ia wealth
for a few centuries we should have
just such landed aristocracy as tbey have in
England, who would lord it o'er the masses
with insolonl dominion. The absenoe of a
law of primogeniture distributes tbe wealth
of the laud very fairly.
Wao ARE You* AIISTOCRATS?—Twenty
years ago, this one made candles, that one
sold cheese snd butter, another butchered,
and a fourth carried on distillery, another
was a contractor on cauals other* were mer
chants and mechanics. They are acquaint*
ed with both ends of society, at their chil
dren will after them, though it will not do to
say oil loud I For often you shall find that
these toiling worms haluh butterflies, and
they live about a year. Death brings a di
vision of property, and brings new financiers,
the old gent is discharged, the young gent
takes his revenue* and begins to trsvet—to
wards poverty, which be reaches before
death, or his children do, if hedoes not. So
that, In fact though there it a tort of monied
race, it is not hereditary, it is accessible to
all, three good seasons of cotton will send a
generation of men up—a acore ot years will
bring ihetn down, and send children to labor.
The father grubs and grows rich—hit
chilJren strut and use the money. Their
children in turn inherit the pride, and go to
shiltlets poverty; next their ohildrsn, rein*
vigorated by fresh plebian blood, and by th*
amell of th* clod, onme up again.
Thus society, like a tree, its sap from tha
earth, obanges in its leave* and blossoms,
spreads them abroad in great glory, sheds off
in fall book to the earth, again to mingle
with the toil, and at length re-appears in
new dress and fresn garniture.
j Ot Nicholas, et Russia, is mid te he ia
I high spirits. He worn treat.
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A 1 mVK imU HAN, '
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'. (hat hath thai life. which riigtjirelshod Din
. from a fowl ar a i>i '<jr*l Ve aim
s • capacity oext At.> ft t|
•ran a
it long baton bo
• longer yet before he haTT^J|
■ "He (bat ean look open death,
t 0-ce with the same countenance with which
t he hears its story ; thai Can endure all tU
labors of bis life with his soul sopponing
1 his body, that can" equally despise rischee
wher ho hath them, and whan he balh thert
not; that ia not sadder if Iboy lie in his nigh
bor's trunks, nor more brag if they shin* a
round about his otVn Walls, he ihai to never
moved with good fortune comiog to him,
nor going Mtn J that CSS WOI Upon Sllr
other man's lands, evenly and pleasedly ae
if it were hit own, and jet look upon bus
own and use them too, just as if they ware
another man's; that neither spends his
goods prodigally, and like a foot, nor yet
keeps' them avariciously and a wretch .
that weighs not benefits by weight and nuta?
ber, but by the mind and circtimslauoae by
him that gives them; that oarer
country expensive if a miy| K
receiver; he thai does
sake, bnt ererythig for ae
curious of his thoughts as of his actings in
markets and theatres, and is at much in ate*
of himaelf as of a whole acsembly ;he that
knows Clod looks tin, and cuutriree his tv
crat affa'n as in (he presence of Qod end
his hofy angels; that eats and drinks be
cause he needs it, not that he may serve n
a lust or load his stomach ; he that ia beno
liful and cheetfut 10 his friends, and oberhs
ble attd apt to forgive hie enemiea; tint
loves bis oountry and obeys hie and
desires and endeavors nothing more than
that they may do honor to God:" this (mm
may leckon bis life to be the life of a man
and compute his months, not by the course
of the run, but the zodiac and circle of hi#
virtues ; because these are such things which
fools and children, and birds, and beasts
cannot bavo. These aVe therefore the ao
tions of life, because ihev are the aeeda of
i minortality. That day in wbioh we bare
done borne excellent thing, we may as Ira*
ly reckon to be added to our life, as were
the fifteen years to the days of Hexekiah--*
Ba'top Tuyloi.
Sunday In Parts.
Mr. James Brooks, of ttm TV. T. EtpNSS,
gives the following sketch of Sunday in
Pasis;
" Strange Paris ! It is Sabbath—and the
workmen on a new building just oppOritO
my hotel ou the Boulevards, are at wolk ae
hard as ever? They waked up il ( A M.
couuting brick, "on," "deux," "trioe," he.,
—and they kept on counliag and laying
brick all the day. The Sabbath of Paria
differs as yet only from a week day, in lb
more brilliant exhibition of equipagss. and
the greater devotion to pleasure. I reason*
ed a little on this subject with a French la*
dy, who defended the custom with ed mucit
volubility, that her French, if not her logic;
couafounded me. She defended it all, how
ever, with the greatest real and l ;
Some or the newspapers la Paris; just nAw,
are arguing, purely as a aue*ii."> •< r-tnt
cat economy, that men cannot work aa Walt
seven days in a week as six—that the lawe
of nature require the Sabbath real and re
laxation, and that therefore Sabbath work.
Sabbath shop-keeping, &0., ought net be.
The government, I think, is favormg this my
formation) and so are the olergy, who. are
publicly urging an observance of the Sab*
bath. The appeals have closed some few*
shops on the Sabbath; and til* Another ie
said to be increasing, indeed, the shop
keepers themselves, in the
as a holiday,
ons has agreed to Shut
If. however, this combination
only result for the nonee will be a greater
thronging in the Boie of Boulogne, 'ttte Eijps*
ian Fields, the theatres, the cafes, add aaah
tike plaoea. Vervatles is now thronged en
Sundays Indeed that ie the only day whan
its galleries end places are ail open. And
so is the Park of St. Ckmd. The magnifi
cent jerft d' rata ware this afternoon in full
display, and thousands upon thousands were
witnesses of the speotacle. The Varsities
waterworks play on some Snndsya, and MM
St. Clould waters upon others This water
works play saein* to me to be peculiarly
French."
■ --i,
bashful YolMy^BH^HBSt
te a gay laaa of
despaired of bringmg things to a crista
Yokel called one when she waa aluoe at
home. After aettling the merits of the Wheth
er, Miss said, looking slyly hue his face.—
"I dreamed of yod last night." Hi I
"Did you t why now I"
"Yes, 1 dreamed that yon ktoaad me I"
"Why now! what did yon dream year
mother said!"
"Oh, 1 dieamsd ihe wasn't at hosts !"(
A light dawned on Yokel's intellect, and
direotly something was beard to crack—per
haps Yoket's whip and perhaps nof > bnt ia
about a month mora they were twain, tu. *
Young ladies' schools are efteu pla
ces were female ur.lesrn the good thegrbenp
•tndied end practised at home ami learn
'those ibtngs' whioh add oeithar to the head,
heart, nor hand.