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THE STAR OF THE NORTH.
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VOLUME 7.
TIE BTAK OP THE NOBTH
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From the New Hampshire Patriot.
Tit K INITIATION.
We have seen nothing to cope with the
annexed among the literary productions of
• this remarkably productive age. A foreign
er whom a few old fogy book worm* know
a* Wm. Shakspeare, attempted to describe
a similar scene which once occurred in pre
sence of an excellent individual named Mac
beth ; but the operators in his case being
mere old women, who ought to have been
burnt as witches, Sbakspeare's bungling at
tempt to describe their ceremonies must fall
before the labors of a genius which i* exci
ted by the sublime spectacle of an initiation
eonduoled in impressive and rnanly style by
MEM and PATRIOTS. We borrow the poem
from the Nashua (N. H.) Gaxette :
Set NX.— lnterior of a Lodge of Know-Noth
ings Time, Midnight—Grand Master in the
Can ir— Candidate supported by two ushers-
Tin shaving-pot boiling over a spirit lamp, on
a table, besidt a marrow bone and cleaver.
MASTER OF CEREMONIES, RlStaO.
Brothers I 'tis Ibe mystic Lout
For the exercise of power.
Lo! the sacred fire ia hot—
Boils the sacred shaving-pol.
As within its brim I fling
Every native offering;
Bunch of wool from Afric skull-
Feather from a full fledged gull-
Down new-plucked from callow-goose—
Emblem fit for us to use-
Double, double, toil and trouble
In the tin pot squeak and bubblp.
(OMNES solemnly)
Bubble !
MASTER.
If 1 read the omes clear,
Happy auapices are here.
"> Lei tbe candidate appear.
{The candidate is brought forward.)
Stranger—ere you awear obedience
We rauat know your antecedents.
CANDIDATE.
If it's politics you mean,
Everything by turns I've been—
I bave been a locofooo, '
But I found that that was no go—
Woolly-head and silver-gray,
Putty head in a small way,
Wild-cat, Piszarinctum, too,
And freesoiler.
MASTER.
That will do.
Brother renegade, I greet you—
Joyed I am as such to meet you.
Now mark my words and their intent,
And bow your head if you assent.
Can you a questioner put by ?
And can you on occasion lie 1
(Candidate bows.)
Can you all orders blindly follow ?
And have you a capacious swallow 1
Don't you believe that tome years hence
Popes will appoint our Presidents ?
Don't you believe the Jesuits thrive
Because in secret they contrive f
You bate confessionals I—l see
You do—but you'll confess to me.
Don't yon believe the Romish prießts
Are awom to slaughter us like beasts'
That all the Irish arms are hiding
Ic all Ihe shanties they abide in I
That ail the Irish girls combine
To purchase arsenic and strychnine?
That in know-nothings lies our hope
To fight the Devil and the Pope ?
(The candidate bows repeatedly )
Now left the bone and claaver high in air
And fell obedience to our order swear.*
(Candidate obeye )
The ordeal'a past—and you I hero proclaim
A know-nothing in intellect and name.
•' Around you aee a band of brothers true—
None of these hooest men knew more than
you.
From diflsrent parties they have fallen away,
And now go in for plunder and for prey;
Like yon, they're bound our lead to blindly
follow—
Like you, they have • most ospacious swal
low;
They bolt whatever prodigy we nam*—
A gate or saw-mill, ilia all tha same.
Honors we'll make a* equal as we can,
Were each expects to be a congressman
If not a governor. Our signs are few
And easy to be learned—even by you.
The grip i* this—you'll get it in a minute;
Then yon most shake your head—there's
nothing in it!
Nuxla wise look—for wisdom's our profes
sion—
A good stuffed owl will aid yon in expres
sion—
.. Mineivs's bird acd ours—no soaring lark-
Bat one that goes a mousing in the dark.
But to I the night is vsrging into day—
Freeborn Americans I let's aneak away
Down the backstairs, and than we'll oat and
run,
And vanish through datk alleys, one by
/ ens— ... .
Fittcy you've robbed a hen-roost and trasd
light, >
Then will your skulking gait befit your light.
(Exeunt omnee)
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1855.
The Selection of Bnsinese.
Men have physics), moral and mental gifts
thai peculiarly fit tbera for some pursuits,
and peculiarly unfit them for others; and
the taste for, ar.d tha attraction of, certain
pursuits should incline each young man to
look well at hi* chosen occupation, and
when once chosen, to follow it to the end :
and his earlier trainings should have special
reference to bis position and occupation.
Before this choice is made, he should con
sider the obstacles in his path, and his fit
ness to remove or overcome them. Law,
medicine, divinity, mechanics, present an
inviting field. One may thine in the law
wDo would be a driveller in the pulpit; and
| many a man has attempted to mend a bro
ken limb with not talent enough to repair
the leg of a stool.
Young men have marked characteristics
and talents ; these all are well known as
their faces, belter known often toothers than
to themselves. One is quick in figures; an
other would make a capital salesman. One
has a legal mind and would revel in the in-
Iricates of the law; another can only gen*
eralize, and is happy only in active employ
ment. Some have great dirpatoh ; others
are cautious, careful and trustworthy in mi
nute matters. The bent of each mind, the
taste and the talent must be consulted in the
selection of business.
All business has a settled price or marked
value. Success is to be won by obeying the
laws of the calling selecled; and who would
be eminent in auy pursuit, must pay the
market price for success. Two kinds of bus
iness may be found, to one of which the as
pirant lor employment must address him
self. The one is bad and the other good;
the one can be found in a day, the other
may be sought for diligently, and often with
"patience." The one pays et once : for the
other money must often be paid.
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
Principle and integrity are good capital to
begin and continue for life with. In many
large nouses men enter as partners who are
destitute of wealth and can only put into the
firm their business reputation. Each man
has a buiiness repute, and his character is
judged by little things. As Dr. Johnson said
when he condemned a book of which he
had ouly read a few pages : "One need not
eat a whole joint of meat to know that it is
tainted," so you need not be very familiar
with a man of business to know what his
principles of trade are.
It was -said that Cuvier, the naturalist,
could take the bones of any animal, no mat
ter how insignificant these bones might be,
and by its aid construct the entire nnimt.l,
and tell you its character and the climate it
called its home. So out ol small matters,
words spoken, principles avowed, acts dene,
or deeds omitted, you build up the character
of a man and make up your opinion about
him. You say of some one: "I like bia ap
pearance ; 1 will employ him ; he suits me."
You do not analyze your feelings ;but your
mind is made up. Of another you may say:
"I do not like that young man." Perhaps
you satisfy yourself why, if a reason was
called for. You have taken certain acts of
the young man, trivial though they be, and
made up your opinion.
A friend of mine said lo me one day
"I shall dismiss my clerk." I knew the
young man ; he was smart and intelligent,
well disposed and genteel. I asked the rea
son. "I am not quite satisfied," was the re
ply ; "he dresses too well; he has too much
jewelry; his room is too well furnished ;ho
rides too much ; I know his meant; the
salary I pay him will not admit of such ex
penses." The young man thought he was
producing a sensation. He was ; but not of
ihe cliaraoter he supposed.
It is said that men cannot do business on
strict principles of integrity and honor. But
it is certain that they can be conducted on
no other. If it be ttue, or if the statement of
all approximates to the truth, that in Boston
for the last twenty-fire years ninety out of
each hundred of all our merchants have been
successful, how much worse would it have
been if all had conducted their business on
high moral principles t The men who suc
ceed in life and become eminent are few.—
Their characters are well known—almost all
of them have been men of high moral prin
ciple.
It was Daniel's moral character that raised
bim from the slave to the Premiership of
Babylon ; and he maintained his noble pos
ition beoause be conducted the affairs of the
realm with such integrity and honesty that
bis keen-eyed enemies ooohl find no fault
with him at all in the king's matters. And
Cornelius, who had such proof of God's fa
vor, was a most royal captain in the Roman
army. Permanent success is found only in
eonneotion with principle, and integrity in
business, The man who purchases cutlery
from the renowned manufactory ef Rogers,
is anxious only to know that the stamp of
the plate is genuine. Years ago that house
resolved not to send a poot article into the
market. Its work is good; it cannot afford
to sell poor articles. The fame of Day &
Martin's blaekir.g is as wids as cililization.
No man tries it; he aska only if it be a gen
uine article; and a man that can secure iu
the " 97 High Holborn," has his, fortune se
cured. It is said that the stores in that
building will eommiDd almost any rent.
If the United States need in instrument
for the oorps of Eegineers, or glass for the
Observatory at Washington, an order is aent
to England fei one instrument, and to
Frtnse for another and to Germany for a
third—tha reputation of the house that min
ufoctuters ia a guaranty lot toe emeUenoe
of the article.
ID the small town of Douglass, in Ihe Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, there ie • man
ufactory of axet. Immense numbers are
shipped to all parts of the earth. No man
but the marker eeea them till token from the
boxes, pot on Ihe shelves, and swung in the
forests of the West, on our Paoifio posses
sions, or in Africa, or in the islands of the
sea; and if each axe was tried in the man
ufactory of Doqgldsa before the purchase, no
more confidence would be put ic the ex
celltnce of the article than the name of the
maker inspires. The invariable perfection
of the article is the business capital of the
j maker.
We have men among us—now ranking
among Ihe merchant princes of Boston—who
[ began life peor. Some of them were grooms
some waited and tended in families, some
dug gravel, others wheeleJ coals ; but all
(Jiat they did waa well done. When the
late William Gale was taunted by an envi
ous man, who said that he could remember
when the same W. Gale was drummer, his
reply gave the key-note to his success.—
"And did I not drum WELL ?"
The late Judge Chickering, whose memo
ry as yet green among us, and who is a r.o
ble specimen of one who is the architect of
his fortune owed quite as much to the sub
stantial and invariable excellency of his
workmanship, as to his indomitable indus
try and perseverance. And it was no idle
boast of a man m the British Parliament
who was reminded by a noble that his fath
er was a butcher; that be had arison to bis
position by his own labor; and all admitted
the report to be just when he added, " if Ibe
father ol the noble lord had been a butcher,
bis son this day would be slaughtering
calves."
Honesty is the best policy, and high mor
al principle can alone lead lo permanent
success. We admit a man must have other
qualities with these, but without the princi
ple all will not avail.
LOVE AND FAME.
A mother watched by the slumbers of her
first born. Bending over the tiny cradle, its
sweet breath swayed the soft curls on her
forehead ; as she felt their gentle movement
there came to her soul in overwhelmingcon
sciousr.ess of her responsibility. That little,
puny, helpless thing was to live forever !
She had not thought seriously of the start
ling fact before, and realized, for the first
time, that Ihe soul of the feeble creature lo
which she had given being, was as deathless
as the God who made the heavens and earth.
Nothing could destroy its everlasting life ;
it might ba blotted from lime, but never
from eternity. On her she felt depended its
good or evil, its happiness or misery, in that
endless hereafter. And the mother trembled
as she thought of the magnitude of he: trust;
all, all was in her hands.
As sbe sal there looking at the little face
with eyes of mournful tenderness, two voices
assailed her bearing. •
"I am fame; dedicate your child to me ;
I alone can satisfy the cravings of her im
mortal spirit!"
"1 am love," whisftored the other, and the
voice added nothing more.
The mother paused, then cried palionate
!y : "Oh, what is fame to woman!— God cre
ated her to love and be beloved again. Take
her, Love, for she ia yours by birthright!"'
CAUSE OF YANKEE EMIGKA HON.
When Tom. Corwin was a member of the
General Assembly of Ohio, he brought in a
bill for tbo abolition of public punishment at
the whipping post. He made as/ieech there
on, to which an elderly gentleman replied
somewhat as follows:
"Mr. Speaker, the gentleman ia not as old
as I am, and has never teen so much of the
practical operation ol the system of punish
ment which he desires to abolish. When f
lived in Connecticut, if a fellow stole a horse,
or cut up any other rustics, we used to tie
him right up and give htm a real good thrash
in', and he always cleared right out, and we
never saw no more of him. It's the best
way of getting rid of rogues that ever was
tried, and without expense to the Slate."
Corwin rose to reply : "Mr. Speaker, I
have oflen been pnzzled to account for the
vast emigration fiom Connecticut lo the
West; buf the gentleman last up has ex
plained it to my entire satisfaction."
The bill passed without further discussion.
BEAUTIFUL.
It oannot be that earth is man's abiding
place. It cannot be that our life is oast up
by the ocean of eternity to float upon its
waves and sink into nothingness. Else why
is it that the glorious aspirations which leap
like angels Irom the temple of our hearts are
forever wanderiug about unsatisfied? Why ia
it that the rainbow and tho clouds came over
with a beamy that is not of earth and pass
off to leave us to muse on their faded love
liness ? Why is it that the stars who hold
festival around the midnight throne., are set
above the grasp of our limited faculties,,
forever mocking us with their nnapproaoba
ble glory ? And, finally, why is it that the
bright forms of human beauty are presented
to our view and then taken from us, leaving
the thousand stream* ot our affections to flow
into Alpine torrents ? We are born for a
higher destiny than that of earth.
There ia a realm where rainbow* never
fade, wbere the stars will be out before na
like islet* that slumber on the ocean, ami
where the beings that paas before ua like
shadow* will stay in our possession forever.
Cicero says that no bey dance* while so
: ber. If Cicero we* right, every danoe ie a
I reel.
Troth and Sight Clod aid oar Country.
MODERN YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
Is jatt twenty one. First gels a new hat,
wide-rimmed, and savagely furred on the in
side ; a pair of pants with the smallest pos
sible quantity of cloth in their formation ;
exceedingly short, tight boots, a pair of straps
and a "perfect killer" of a frock ooat as re
gards length. Then pompously orders the
baber to "trim his whiskers in the latest im
ported style," and struts home to show mam
ma his freedom suit.
Thinks it bis duty to devote a portion of
his exceedingly valuable time to saving his
country from ruin.
Feels very indignant when closely ques
tioned as to his age, and drawing his dimin
utive figure to its fullest height, and stroking
fondly his budding whiskers, says, proud
iy :
"I am a man, sir; and it needs men to
support-our institutions."
The interrogator feels annihilaled, and lets
him pass.
Comes home feeling very important and
looking very knowing; insinuates to his
younger brother that it was probably in his
power to decide the next election, lo which
they listen in mute admiration, while mam
ma remarks aside to papa:
"Adolphus was always a precocious child."
When the next meeting comes round, it
storm*, and opening the door a crack, be
shrinks back, and determines to let theonun-1
try go till it clears up, and dropping patriot
ism for the present, sits down lo indite a let
ter to one of the numerous young ladies who
have been smitten with his chamrs..
He only does it to please her, for he real
ly pities her; and to console her for his re
cent neglect, feels it his -duty lo writejvery
affectionately.
After he has finished, takes up the even
ing paper, and reads about the war. Thinks
it is all vary grand to be a soldier, but not
quite so pleasant to be killed.
Turns to tho marriages, and sees among
them the young lady he has boen writing to.
Feels rather surprised, but accounts for it,
that she had quite given up all hopes of
having him; and thrown herself away on
some miserable scamp, in a fit oi despera
tion.
Is sorry to cause so much trouble among
the fair sex, but really is not responsible for
being so attractive.
Spends an hour and a half before the mir
ror, racking bis brains trying to determine
the exact length he ought to have an over
coat, to be both becoming and iR style. Is
unable to decide the momentous question,
and resolves to leave it with the tailor.
Is quite fatigued with bis immense men
tal and physical exertions, and after smoking
two or three cigars, retires to bed to dream
of what is his greatest care, asleep or awake
—himself.
SINGULAR COUPLE.
Along with my brother, who waa collect
ing matter for a wwrk he waa about to pub-'
lish, I visited the interesting town of Hex
bam—interesting at least to him, for it was
a fine field for historical research, although,
for my own part, I found little to admire be
sides the ancient Church. The circumstance
which, more than anything else,obiained the
dingy town a place in memory, was our ta
king a lodging with a husband and wife who
were living without child or servant, subsist
ing on the letting of their parlor and two bed
rooms. They were tall, thin, and erect,
though each seventy years of age. When
we knocked at the door for admittance, they
answered it together; if we rang the bell,
husband and wife invariably appearedjide
by side ; all our requests and demands were
received by both, and executed with the ut
most nicety and despatch.
The first night, arriving late by eosch
from Newcastle, and merely requiring onr
tea and a good fire, we were puzzled to un
derstand the reason of this double attend
ance, and 1 remember my brother wonder
ing whether we were always to be waited
upon by these Siamese Twins ! On ring
ing the bell, to retire for the night, tbey
both appeared as usual; the wife carrying
the bed-room candle, the husband standing
at the door. I gave her some directions
about breakfast for the following morning,
and the husband from the door quickly an
swered for her.
"Depend upon it she is dumb," whisper
ed my brother. But this was not the ease,
though she rarely made use of tho faoulty of
speech.
They both attended roe into my bedroom,
when the old lady, seeing me look with
some surprise towards her husband, said,
"There's no offence meant by my husband
coming with me into the chamber—hs's
STONE BLIND!"
" Poor man I" I exclaimed. "But why,
then, does he not sit still ? Why does he ac
company everywhere 1"
"It is no use in your speaking t my Did
wife," said the husband, "she oan'l bear
you— iht'i quite deaf I"
I was astonished. Here was a compensa
tion. Could a pair b# better matched 7
Man and wife were, indeed, one flesh ; for
he saw with her eyes, and aha heard with
bis earslt was beautiful to me, even af
ter, to watch the old man and woman in
their inseparableoess. Thairsympathy with
eaeb other waa as swift ap electricity, and
made thair deprivation as naught.
I have often thought of that old couple,
and can not but hope, that as id life tbey
i were inseparable to aaph other, so in death
[ thay might pot be divided, bat either be
spared the calamity of being alone iu the
world.— Ckimben' Journal.
From Ihi Doily Pennsylvanian.
- TIME AMP THE ACORN.
BT HON. ELLIS LEWIS.
As I stood by a (juiet stream.
And gazed on its silvery sheet,
Realities changed to a dream,
New objects my rision to meet.
Par down through the water appear'd,
(As mirrers their images show,)
A form, which all ages have fear'd,
Thoogb be brings rest as well as woe.
The skeleton frame seemed to tell
Of sympathies gone with his breast;
The fore-lock and hour-glass reveal.
With tho scythe, his mission of death.
In silence he held up to view
AN ACORN, just rais'd from the sand,
Which far o'er the prairie he threw ;
Then wav'd to the glass with his hand.
The sands in the honr-glsss told,
As the soyfhe work'd fearfully well,
That a century pasa'd; ar.d bebold !
Stands an Oak where the Acorn tell!
The Summers to Winters give place:
The foliage puts forth and departs!
But the glass still numbers the days,
.As earth's creatures enact their parts.
The branches are toss'd to and fro,
Rock'd and torn by an unseen pow'i!
The king of the forest bows low,
As the sands are telling the hour.
Lo! it falls ; and its head so high,
In its pride, is humbled in dust;
And the roots now point lo the sky,
That late bad been scorn'd in their dust.
With his scythe, at a single stroke,
He block'd to the heart-growth, to tell
The age of the uprooted oak,
By the circles that mark'd it well.
And those faithful registers told
Ev'ry summer the tree had seen !
'Twas more than a thousand years old!
And still it was vtg'rous and green 1
"Behold it!" cried he with his glass;
The lesson's intended for all:
The lowliest things, as I pass,
Are raised, while the proudest fall!
A Tower, though unseen controls,
And smites, as the wind doth the tree,
And the world, as it onward rolls,
To that Tower shall bow the knee.
FART SECOND.
Lo! the sands still fall in the glass I
The Nations come forth and retire ;
While a thousand centuries pass [fire !
Strew'd with wars and with floods and
The oak is no more ! but, instead,
Where the tree had mouldered away,
Stands a mound which its roots had made
And a pit by the hillock lay !
"Lo !" said time, for 'twas he 1 saw,
"This lesson is taught to your rage:—
All actions bring honor or woe;
The record I never efface."
"All things leave their track upon earth !
The ship marks with bubbles its way ;
The tear, to which sorrow gives birth,
Leaves the salt when it dries away/"
"Tho Sun, as it sets in the Wesl,
Leaves its light reflected behind ;
And the sins of the guilty breast,
Like spectres appear to the mtfld."
' "The deeds that we think are vain,
Bring their fruits of evil or good;
As the mounds and the pits that remain,
Mark the spots where the trees have
stood 1"
MEMORABILIA-
A DOUBLE CHARGE.
A talkative youth being brought to Socra
tes to be instructed in oratory, tbe sage ask
ed bim double price. "Why,"said the young
man, "do you charge ire double?"—" B
ecause," said Socrates, "I shall have lo leach
you two arts: the one to hold your tongue;
and the other how-to speak."
ROAD TO KNOWLEDGE.
When a king asked Euclid, the mathema
tician, whether he could not explain his art
to him in a more compendious manner?—
He was answered that there was no royal
way to geometry. Other things may be sei
zed by might, or purchased with money, but
knowledge is to be gained only by study
and study t be prosecuted ouly iu retire-'
merit.
CHARACTER OF ENVT.
| Bion, observing an envious person appa
rently very sad, said: "Either some evil
has happened to this fellow, or some good lo
his neighbor."
WHT WE HAVE TWO EARS AND ONE MOUTH.
To a talkative young man, Zeno once said:
—"For this reason we have two ears and
ont mouth that we may hear more and speak
| less."
A BENEVOLENT DISTINCTION.
Aristotle being reproved because he had,
on a certain occasion given alms to a bad
person, said "1 had compassion on the man
not on his manners "
SILT CONCLUSON*
Antisthenes, being once applauded by a
bad man, said :—" lam afraid 1 have been
doing something wrong."
A GREAT DIFFERENCE S
Anacarsis, the Scythian sage, being asked
In what respect learned men differed from un
learned, answered -—"As the living from tbe
dead."
MAN versus MONEV.
Themiatocles being asked why he prefer
red a worthy poor man to a rich one for his
daughter, assigned his reason as follows: "I
bad rather she should have a man without
money, than money without a man."
STIUEE, BUT PIAR 1
F.urybiades, the Spartan, while command
er of the combined Greoian fleet, being fitm
ly opposed by Themiatocles, the Athenian,
in hia desire to weigh anehot and sail to tbe
lattraue, where the land foroea of the Pelop
onnesiuns had been assembled, raised hi*
staff in a threatining manner, aa it to strike
him j whereupon Tbemtatocles, with entire
composure, exolaimed: Strike bat hear.!"
A FOIITTED UUISTION.
Tbemistoole#, being asked by some one
whether he would rather be A chillis ot Ho-
X* • A'M X* •'
mer, replied: Which would you raiher be the
vktor in the Olympic games or the mere her
ald that proclaims the victor) 1"
PRIDE HUMBLED'
Croesus, king of Lydia, who felt presump
tuously proud on account of bis power and
his riches, bad dressed himself in bis utmoet
splendour of apparel and royal ornament, and
seating himself on bis throne, exhibited his
person to Solon, as comprehending within
itself the substance and sum of all worldly
glory. " Have you ever beheld " said he to
the Grecian sage, " a spectacle mors august?"
" I have," was the answer; " there is nei
ther a pheasant in our fields, nor a peacock
in our cnuit-yard, that does not surpass you
in glory."
A DEVOTED STUDENT
Anaxsgoras, the Clazomenian philosOphir
and preceptor of Socrates, being asked for
what purpose he conceived he had come in
to the world, answered: "Tosee sun,moon,
and stars !" The same philosopher being
utterly negligent regarding the politics of his
town of Clazomene, was twitted for his in
difference on that subject by some of his
most zealous fellow-citizens, who asked him
whether he entertained no concern for bis
native country ? "For my country," replied
the sage, "I have always a great concern.-
My native city," pointing to the heavens,
" is perpetually the subject of my thoughts."
A SUGGESTIVE REGRET.
When Ptolemy, the Second, king of Egypt
looked forth one day trom bis palace win
dow, afflicted as he was at that time with
the gout,the oonsequence of his luxurious in
dulgences, and distracted with kingly anxie
ties, he observed a multitude ol his poorer
subjects reclining in festal ease on the sandy
banks of the Nile—"Miserable fate," said
the monarch, "that my fate hath not allowed
me to be one of them.'*
FRUITS OF THE VINE.
Anacharsis, though n Scythian, uttered Me
sentiments as beautiful as those of Plato him
setf. Among hia fine sayings is the one—
"The vine bears three grapes:—the first is
that of pleasure ; the second is that of drun
keduess: the third is that of sorrow."
DRINKING AND RUNNING.
When Mark Anthony was fast fleeing from
bis conqueror after the battle of Mutins, one
of his acquaintances give a reply lo some
person that inquired of him what his master
was about: "He is doing what dogs do in
Egypt, when pursued by the crocodile—
drinking and running." *
JUPITEE'i EMPLOYMENT.
Chilon, the aage of Sparta, inquired ol
dEsop Jupiter's employment—what his reg
ular daily business in the skies 1 "To hum
ble those that are elevated, and elevate those
that are humble." said the fabulist.
LITTLE GIRLS.
" What has become of all the little gtrh
now-a-days ? One sees plenty of miniature
'young ladies, with basque waists and floun
res,dress hats, and tiny w-atcbes,promenading
the streets or attending juvenile parties ; but,
alas ! a little girl ti a rarity—one who will
play baby-house, and live a life-time in a
few hours, making day and night succeed
each other with astonishing rapidity, a fif
teen minutes' recess at school affording plen
ty of time for weeks of play-house life; one
to whom a neat plain gingham Jress and sun
bonnet is the perfection of school dress—sun
bonnets that will not be.injured if they are
wet in river or brook, and sprons strong en
ough to bring home any quantity of nuts from
the woods, in lien of baskets, good strong
shoes that will coma nffwith ease on a warm
summer's day, when the cool brook tempts
the warm little feet to lave themselves in its
waters, instead of delicate gaiters, which
shrink from such rude treatment.
" Well! it is to be hoped the race of little
girls will not become utterly extinct. There
must be eome 'wasting their sweetness upon
tbe desert air,' for surely they bloom not in
our cities, and but rarely in our vifiages.
'At an age when iiltle girls used to be dres
sing dolls, we now see them decked in all
their finery, parad ing ——street, and flirt
ing with young students. Where on earth
are the mothers of these precious flirts 1 Are
they willing to allow suoh folly 1
"Then as to dress —why, little miss must
new be dressed as richly as mamma; and
the wonder to, bow will she be able to out
vie her present splendour when she 'oomes
out.' But in this go-ahead age, some new
inventions will enable her to accomplish her
desire.
''As there are no little girls, so there will
be no young ladies ; for when miss leaves
school she is engaged, soon marries, and
takes her place in tbe rank of American ma
trons. How will she fill her place ? for how
or when has she found time to prepare for
life's duties. Wonder if it would be • good
plan to turn over a new leaf, begin with them
in season, and see if it is impossible to have
again darling little creatures, full of fun and
glee, who can run and jump without fear of
tearing flounces, and finally have a set of
healthy yonng ladies, upon whom the sun
baa been allowed to shine, and active exar
oise in lbs opeu air bestowed an abundant
snpply of life and energy.
"Unite a healthy body to the highly culti
vated minds oi our American wives and
mothers, and they would be the admiration
of the world, instead of being pitted for their
frugality."—Warns Journal.
Cant yon give me a clean towel, oaptoin t
" No, moro than fifty passengers have used
that towel there, and you are Ate first man
that's said a word against it •"
[Two Dollars per Annas
NUMBTER4.
a A SERMON ¥OR TUB PAIR SRX.
"The preservation of her own and her
children's health, moat surely, ought to claim
the attention of every mother. She can lend
, to the physical education of her children
t long before the intellect needs cultivation;
I and let ber begin in season, and bbild a no
( We, solid foundation, then, when graceful
structures are reared, we need not sigh at
their frailty, or morn their early decay.
" The constitution of many a one is ruin
ed by the careless neglect of an hour, in in
fancy or early childhood; and suffering in
manhood can be traced diractly hack to the
. imprudent thoughtlessness of an ignorant
nurse, like the one worm eaten plank which
was inserted in a noble ship, by oarelees
workmen, vhen-*s(lttr passing through
storm and tempest in safety—at last the. wa
ter rushed through the unseen apertute, and
•uddenly, with its precious living freight,
the noble bark ssr.k beneath the waves open
a summer sea.
" Bathing, with its manifold advantages,
is often brought forward for public notioe,
as its benefits are equally intended for both
saxes, and all are willing to own the necessi
ty of frequent ablutions; bu: let me tell the
fair lady who may faithfully perform that
duty, that there is one very important one
she often neglects. She does not ahange
her diess in accordance with the changes of
the weather, but obeys the dictates of Fash
ion instead of common sense.
" A street dress is never more becoming
than when, chosen of good material, quiet
colors, and well made, it show* tba fair
wearer it not one dependant upon gewgewa
for attraction, or without a suitable field for
display of dress.
"It is astonishing to tee this utter disre
gsrd for health, as evinced by both young
and old in the careless mode of dressing,
with shawl or scarf thrown off the shoulders,
I leaving throaßand chest covered only wiih
embroidered muslin or Isce. I wonder how
many strong men would think themselves
able to bear such exposure to the wind of
autumn, when it has lost its summer soft
ness. Consumption surely claims its vic
tims with sufficient rapidity, without their
affording any aid: but bow fearfully fast are
the broken ranks filled with those who have
thus prepared themselves, for their fate.
" I know a young girl now, who has bad
'a slight cough' the past year; she has
lately added to it. I have plead with her in
vain to be careful of her health, but she per
eists in dressing the same ae if she was well,
and it were summer. while not an hour
passes by w.lheel ite unheeded warning, in
the hacking cough. She will not be influen
ced by ftiendly advice, but I fear ahe will,
ere long, be convinced of her folly—when
it is 100 late.
" Bathing the cheat each morning, upon
rising, diminishes the susceptibility to cold .
and if 3 oung girls will persist in leaving the
chest so exposed, they can at least strive to
render themselves less liable to be injured
by the change; but Tar wiser would they be,
would they follow the example of the geutle
men—not, I mean, in the pattern of their
garments, but in going as warmly clud, and
as well guarded against atmospheric expo
sure.
"It is very easy, when youth is taken
away, to exclaim. ' what a sad Providence)'
but ia there no impiety in imputing to Prov
idence evils brought on by their own want
of caution 1 How many homes are left des
olate, when, by suitable oara, the vacant
places might yat ba filled by loved ones,
and, as a writer said many years ago,' bow
many more, under the smiling but inexora
ble sway of faabion, are gayly gliding it
muslin and prunella down to the chambers
of death 1'
Flowers I'poo a Mother's Grave.
Four mothsrless little children I Who can
think of them witkout a saddened heart f
True, they are to youog to know how great
.is their loss; but ah ! now. Who will talir
!to them of Jeans) Who will teach than to
lisp hit name* Who will teach them to be
Christiana early 1 The father's business calls
them away during their waking honta—
When he comes home sleep hangs heavy
upon their eyelids. He can pray for them,,
and sometimes with them. But ah ! a moth
er's constact oare and influence are buried
with her in the grave.
Not long siace there was four such little
ones. Their mother had bean home to a
sunny land of flowers, that ahe might cateh
again the bloom, that had faded Irom haf
cheek. But it came not—and there amqpg
strangers, she died- Her soul want to the
spirit land, and her body was bronght to rest
among its kindred. Two of the little ones
weu! to the tomb; with those who bore there
their mother's preciooi form. As thsy pass
ed the grave, and loosed down deep into it,
each one east some flowers open the" eoffin
lid. It was a%weet sight—a pretty tribute
to the memory of a mother—all (key tumid
do now to tall of their deep affection.
Ynung reader, doee your motbor still tieel
How should you eherieh he; affection* end
treasure her words! She may die. Then
you will feel that you have never done
enough lor her 3 sever obeyed bet aa yon
ought ; sever loved ber helf enough. Try
to be more earnest in your attenrioeetowarde
her. Then, should you oome to Mat flow
ers into her tomb, no teem of regret will fell
upon them. -
: The firtt step towards virtue la to abstain
from vice. No man has true, sound sense,
I who is immoral s/>f tutor