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A liberal discount, will be made to those who advertise by the year. fiifeßE IS SOU EYHtNU GUOD 1N AEE lu'thu bright blue heavens above us, On the smiling earth below, In the hearts of fr-.-.ds tl.r,' leva U3, ler the thorny paths we know ; There is something sweet to bless us, There is something sweet to cheer, As the ger.tle winds caress us, As the blooming flowers appear. As the gentle breathings meet us, Front some spirit fount, of joy, W1 ila all radiant glories greet us, With their beautiful employ. In the grief dimm'd world without us, In the Spirit-world within, E'er is gathering round about lis, Something good for us to win, Then let hope be bright before us, Let us lasle joy's fountain brim, Tho' dark clouds may gather o'or us, And our brightest dreams grow dim ; From our inmost spirit teeling There is still an angel call, To the heart this truth revealing, Ihere is something good in all! WOMAN'S VV Oil It y It is granted as a principle that .ample ; scope should be given for the man to per- ; form his share of ihe social work, and ample | means of instruction to enable him lo per- i form it well. What provision is made to enable the wo- j man to do her woik well and efficiently? It is not charity, nor energy, nor intelligence 1 which are wattling in our women, any more ] than dauntless bravery in our men. But something is wauling surely, frcm ■0 much good material more positive ard extended social benefits would arise. What is wanting is more moral courage, more ooaimnn sense on the part of our legislators, j If women were belter educated, they would j mpathir.o in the necessity of giving a bet- ! ter education to women. They would per- . reive (ho wisdom of applying, on a largo j and ellicient means of health.: strength, 'artaprogress, which lie in tho gen-1 ' tier capacities of the gentler sex—material ready at hand, as yet wasted in desultory, ' often misdirected efforts, or perishing inert, j or fermenting to evil and despair. Lying at the source ot the mischief wo ! traco a great mistake, and a great want. The | groat rnia'ake seems to have been (bat in all our legislation it is taken for granted that the j woman is always protected, always under ] tutelage, always within the precincts of a home, finding there her work, her interests, ! her duties, and iior huppinces. But is this j, true? We know that it is altogether false. Mrs. Jamison How to Ureak up u Cold Dr. Hail, in his Medical Journal, gives the following directions lor breaking up a cold : "A bad cold, liku measles and mumps, or other similar a'.lmentu, will run its course in about ten days, in spite oi what may be done j for it, unless remedial means aro employed; within forty-eight hours of its inception.— j Many a useful life may bo spared to be in- j creaniugly useful, by cutting a cold short ofT, in the following safe and useful manner. On tho first day of taking a cold there is a very unpleasant sensation of chilliness. The mo itont you observe this go to your room and stay there; keep it at such a temperature us will entirely prevent this chilly feeling, oven ifit requires a hunJred degrees Kali. In addi- j tion, put your feel in water half leg deep, as J hot as you can bear it, adding hotter water! from lime to lime, for a quarter of an hour, ao that the water shall be hotter when you take youi feet out than when you put them I in, then dry them thoroughly, and put on ! warm, thick, woolen stockings, even if it be I summer, (when colds are most dangerous,) and for twenty-four hours eat not an atom of food, but drink as largely as you desire of any kind of warm teas, and at the oml of that time, if not sooner, the coid will be ef fectually broken, w itbout any medicine what ever. This theory is no doubt, good for weak constitution*, but for a hale, hearty person we would recommend the substitute ol cold water drinks in the place of tea. YOUNG GENERALS. —Alexander the Groat died at the early age of thirty-two. Hanni bal gained the battle of Canr.ce at about the same age. Scipio fought at Zatna when not much over thirty. Julius Caesar bad con quered Gaul when ho was fortyfive. Gor maniui was poisoned in his tbirly-fourtb year. At the battle of Plassey, dive's age was not so advanced as that. Napoleon gained his mighty victory at Austerlilz. when he had scarcely completed his thirty-fifth year; and at the time Wellington finished his campaigns in Ihe plains of Waterloo he was only forty-six yoars old. LITTLE GlßLS. —There is something inex pressibly sweet about little girls. Lovely, pure, innocent, unsuspecting, full of kind ness to brothers, babies, and everything.— They are sweet liitle human flowers, dia mond dewdrops in the breath of morn TVhat a pity they should ever become worn •n—flirts and heartless coquettes! 1 BfXIOMStIUEG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 81. 1856. LVI)I V I.ITTI, IPS LOVEIISj' OB THE RIVALS IN *'A FIX.?' BY BAUL cunyroN. One of the prettiest lasses that ever graced a country dance or turned the head of a lov er, was Lydia Little, the subject of lite follow ing sketch. Nobody could deny it; site was very pret ty. Even her rivals allowed that she was quite fascinating, and her bitterest enemies declared that after all, she was a beauty. ( Although Lydia was really handsome,, it I was a very unfortunate circumstance that she was conscious of tho fact. It is no injury j lo be a pretty girl, if she doesn't know it; but , Lydia had quite as perfect a knowledge of j her charms as even hor warmest admirers, i and the consequence was, she became one, iof the mo*' vein, slire'" t, .rr'. 'n srs no- 1 | queues that evei made a bonfire ol true hearts [ in order to burgh at the flame. I Lydia had ardent admirers, far and near, [ for her beauty was famous in all the villages ; within twenty miles of the town, in which j her father, a very rich old farmer, resided. I Although Lydia smiled %n all, there '.vnre J only two who were known to possess very j great importance to her eyes and who seem od to cast all other lovers in the shade. One of theso young men was named White sud the other Brown. These, it was said, were Lydia's favorite colors, and it only re mained for her to choose between thciti. In deed it was a matter of debate in the village, whether it would bo better to become a little white or a little brown. Messrs. White and Brown both lived at a distance from their mistress, but White had the advantage over his rival—lie lived the nearest. Theso two young meti had never heard of each other, although they had not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance.— White was afraid of Brown, and Brown was afraid of White, so that Lydia*out of pure kindness, was very careful that they should never meet at her house. If the rivalß feared each other, they feared Lydia's fatiier still more. He had tried to put a stop lo her innocent flirtations, and re peatedly threatened to shoot her suiters if they didn't keep aloof. Besides (hat his name was Little, and he was a little fierce and j the beaux were not a little afraid ol his re- : sontment. One day when Lydia's father was gone | from home, and was not expected back un- : til late at night, she determined to Band for j one of her suiters to come and keep hor com pany during the evening. But which shptrld sne'enoosef Here was a dilemma indeed. She reilected that Brown was with her las), and feeling that it would he very unjust for her to allow White to come m his turn, she resolved that While should be the man So she dropped a line to White, and had everything prepared tor bis reception in the 1 evening. i Lydia fell so convinced that her dear White ; would fly to meet her, that she would have been willing to stake her life that he would ' ho there at the appointed time. White was i very punctual, and she felt that ho loved her ' too well to allow anything whatever interfere i with the interview. However, as the litne pasted, and he did not arrive at the moment, she began to change her mind, and to wonder how she ever per mitted While to occupy her heart with such a noble follow as Brown, j "Brown would not have failed—he would j not, I know." I | Such thoughts were running through her j mind, when there was a rap at the door. She | knew White was there, and forgetiing her i resentment, flew to admit him. What was her surprise oil finding that it a\as not White but Brown ! "Don't be surprised," panted the delighted lover. "I shouldn't have dared to come— 'fraid of the old matt—but 1 saw bint—mid dle of the afternoon—he told me—(l'm so out of breath I can't hardly speak)—he was j not corning home till midnight." ! "So you took an opportunity of visiting me j during his absence, eh ? Lydia smiled on him at first, but then she j looked thoughtful and finally appeared quite (perplexed. She was considering what a fix j she would bo in if While should be corning along aboul that tirno. "You rnusl'til stop," said she nervously. Father'!! be home, I expect him every min ute, and if he should find you " "Pshaw! there's no danger," said Brown. "He won't be home yet awhile. And if he comes, lean slip into the kitchen and go out at the buik door." Finding she could not sendjher lover away, I.ytlia resolved to mako tho most of him while he stayed. "Oh,"said Brown quickly, "I've a rich joke lo tell you—" "Do let mo hear it." "As I was coming this way to-night, who do you think I met?" "Who?" 'A our particular friend—Mr. White." "My particular friend!" sneered pretty Lydia. "But how did you know him?" "Oh, I had caught a glimpse at him be fore. But he didn't know roe, and that's the cream of the joke." "How BO?" "Why you sec we fell in with each othor, and as he was coming this way, we got to talking about tho folks in these diggins Says I, "old squire Little lives somewhere here, don't he ?" "Yes," says ho, grinning, for the moot; shone and I could see him grin —"do you know his daughter ?" "I've heard of her," said I; "she's pretty they say."— "Well, she isn't anything else," says White; •nd be looked at me just as though ho was pulling the wool over my eyes completely. "She has plenty of beaux, 1 bear," says I. "Yes," says he, laughing, "there's a fellow by the nan.e of Brown trying to come in there. I suppose you know." "Oh, yes," . says I "but he can't." "I looked very closely at him, and saw that he did not mistrust that I was Brown, gf.d . could hardly keep frcm laughing right nut. "He can't como in," says I. "There's n fel j lotv by the name of White that's goi ig to j cut him out, 1 hear " "Yes," says he,"While j stands a pretty good chance, 1 guess. I know I White." "Do you though?"says I. "Can't ! you introduce mo sometime? In return, I i ' ' ! will do you the favor to introduce you to j Brown, whom 1 atn intimately acquainted ! with. Brown's a pretty nice kind of a fel -1 low, although he may be unfortunate in love lad - lit.Y a good t a'.ttrod iel'c& ; an.lf 1 1 presume if tie were in my place now, ar.d | you were White himself, he'd sooner joKo j with you than quarrel with you." 'That's j just the way with White," says he. "Ho ; would not quarrel with you if you were j Brown." "I talked with the follow In this way for j some time, and kept my countenance so well that he'll be surprised, I reckon when he leams I'm Brown myself. Wasn't it a rich joke, Lydia? "Ah, very," replied tho girl laughing hear tily. "But what noise is that?" "There are footsteps—" "Oh, it is father 1" exclaimed Lydia not a little flushed ! "Quick—quick—you must be gone." Brown did not wait for ceremony, but dodged into tho kitchen in hot hasio. Ho would have hastened from the house in an instant, but he heard a voice which sounded so strangely, that lie had a very great curios ity to know if it was indeed Mr. Little that had just come. He crept softly back to tho door by which he had just made his exit, dropped on his knees and applieu his ear to the key-hoia. At that moment he heard a noise that soun ded so mnch like a hearty kiss, that it made his heart come up into his mouth as large as a pumpkin. He looked; and 0, the faithlesness and fick leness of woman! There was Lydia, blush ; irip aud smiling in tjje arms of his rival, of! ! his new acquaintance, White I "Brown's first impulse waa to bmak through i : the door and eat up his rival, but ltd soon ! j thought better of it, and determined to give • j him a few minutes reprieve before he de- , j molUlied liitn entirely : 'There, stop," etieii Lydia. "You shan't j kiss mo again to-night. "Why not?" asked White. "Because you didn't cotne to see me at tho lima I appointed. It is ail of twenty minutes later. That's why." "You don't imagine what a good excuse I've got, ssid White, laughing. "What is it?" "I met a chap that bothered me." "That was me," thought BroWn, still look ing through the key-hole. "1 did bother him, and bluffed him off very nioely, too. I wish I had rung his neck for him." "You can't guess who it was, Lydia," ssid White laughing. " Do you know?" "To bosuro 1 do—though I didn't mistrust f know him. It was my redoubtable rival, Mr. Brown." "Tho plague," muttered the listener, bi ting his lips in perplexity. "Did yon see that fellow ?" asked Lydia. "0, I wish you knew bow much fuu I've had with him. Why the great fool flatters himself that I am ninny enough to iovo him. "Highly complimentary." thought Brown, grinding his teeth aad looking harmless dag gers through the key-hole. 'You'd been amused to have heard me talk with him and lay on the soft solder. I • got the wool over his eyes nicely.- Ho did I not know me and I chatted with him about you, and myself and him, and it went down like a pill taken in apple sauce." Lydia laughed heartily to think how ihe rivals had fooled each other, and each believ i ing ull the time that the game was on his own fide, and White laughed too at the , thought of having played such a nice game on Brown. Brown was the only one tluit did not laugh. The thought ot having been made sucii a fool of, didn't, by any means, inspire him into a . merry rr.ood. "I can't stand this," thought he, scowling at the key-hole. "1 must have my turn now. While may take my place here in the dirk , if he likes, and 1 will step into the Bitting , room." He stole cautiously out of the back door, , and proceeded around the house. A moment after, Lydia and her dear While, who was having a fine time of it, heard the i sound of foot-steps approaching towards the door. "It's father!" cried Lydia," believing the old gentleman bad really como. "You must not bo seen, White. Bun in there quick and get out of tho house us soon as possi ble!"' Sho pushed White into the kitchen and , j hastened lo tho fror.l door. Having made up her mouth to give her fa ttier a sweet kiss as soon as he entered, she , stood ready to throw her arms around his i nook, when to her astonishment, who should • appear but Brown. > I need scarcely inform the reader that , White impelled by the same laudable curi i osity which led Brown to make the diecov- I ery we have seen already, had his eye to the - key-hole. ; "What! you again !" said Lydia, bestow i ing upon Brown the kiss shs had reserved lor Truth and Rlrht (ujlif If gantry. . ! Iter venerated parer.l. "How glad lem yon . I eart.e buck. But it is rash in you " r j "Lovo makes the heart bold," said Brown, 11 giving Lydia an extra hug, for the express ' I benefit of White, who he expected was at the koy-holo. "I bogan to think tho old man hadn't come after all; so I came back to bid you good bye more deliberately." "Ah ! you aro a good fellow, but I can't let you stop now. 1 really expect father every minute." "Well, I'll go pretty soon, but I must finish telling you bow 1 bluffed off your dear Iriend White." "My dear friend !" echoed Lydia contemp tuously ; I would wish you to know how much 1 detest that fellow " "I thought so: and for 'hat reason when I had tho talk with itiri on ills 1 vjps toiling"}on, out 'for y'onr feelings, 1 determined irai lie shouldn't visit you to-night. So 1 followed hirn until lie didn't dare to como any farther, for fettr 1 would mistrust that lie was coining to see you. Didn't 1 bluff him off, and wouldn't I laugh to see him enter just now?" "What a fool I have been making of my self," said White glaring through the key hole. "Brown is the man Lydia loves after all, and instead of fooling him 60 completely as I thought I was doing, when we met, lie was all the time playing off a contemptible trick on me. I'll rush in and demolish hirn and tell that laughing eancy jade just what I think of her." White was on tho point of carrying this sav age resolution into effect, when an unusual bustle in the parlor caused him lo delay. Ho heard Lydia whisper, "father is coming," ho heard tiie parting kiss, the front door opening —and the uoxt moment Brown was thrust mtoeremopiously into the kitchen, where lie himself was concealed. If the reader imagines that tho rivals on beirg shut up in the dark room together deuced onch other like two wild beasts, I would beg leave to inform him that he is very much in error. The rivals did nothing of the sort, as wo shall seo. Brcwn heard a light footstep, and he know White was in the room. "My dear follow," he whispered. "What the deuse do you want?" growled t the irritated White. I "What a rich joke! ha! ha!" laughed I Browu. Lydia thinks she lias boen making 1 fools of us, but! boiieva we both understand j ! her now perfectly." j "Little doubt about lnot," said White, bit- j I lerly. t ■ I "There is no use of waling sorry about j j the matter," observed 'he philosophical | | Breton. "Our acquaintance has commenced j i under peculiar circumstqr.oes, and I think it is our duty to cultivate it.; I overheard your conversation with Lydia,looking through the , key-holo, and as you witnessed my inlerviow with her just now, wo ars even on that score. Give me your hand and lot us be sworn friends in future." * "I am proud lo make four acquaintance," said White. "We needn't quarrel about her," observed Brown, "for she is not k-ottlr a thought. I I wonder a man ol your penetration never saw j what she was before this time " "If so shrewd a man as you were decoiv-1 cd," replied White, "what would bo expect- j ledoi mo ? But wo both know her now, and we can whistle her off without a pang." "What a sensible -Mhv.x .yog sre ?" ex claimed Brown. "What a pity it is that 1 never made your acquaintance before." , The rivals shook hands and became sworn , friends on the spot. Hearing Lydia's father talking very loud j to her in the parlor, they thought it a good j lime to make their escape, and they glided oat of the house unheard by tbo old gentle , man or daughter. On the following day, as I Lydia was laughing heartily at her adven ture on the preceding night a small neatly iolded billet was brought to her by the post man. "It's Brown's hand-writing," she said lo herself, as siie broke open the letter with a smile of satisfied sincerity. Let's seo what he says." She read as follows . "To Our Dear Lydia,— "As you are now in all probability la-1 boring under the erroneous impression that i you have that iffost admirable trick- off on j us, wo have formed ourselves into a joint committee of two, in order to devise means to set your mind at rest on the subject. The truth is Lydia, we, the undersigned, under stand each other perfectly and see through your entire course of conduct better than you imagine. However, we have formed a wise resolution to allow you to retain your natural colors through life, before we so far forget ourselves in litis respect as to think of indu [ eing you to become either White or Brown. t "Trusting that this official document con tains such an explanation of our views as , you will readily understand, we hereby bid ! you an affectionate adieu, hoping that you may have better success in your attempts on . others. (Sigued,) TIMOTHY BROWN, I OLTVKK WHITE. P. S.—(not official) —Messrs. Brown and ■ White beg leave mildly to suggest to their i dear Lydia, that in fulute, when she is in i wantof victims, she will stand a belter chance I of meeting with success, if, instead of at tempting such sterling colors as White and I Brown, she should try something nearly np ■ proaching Green." Lydia read this important document twice i before she fully understood its import : then in a fit of vexation and rsge she threw it on ■ the floor and stamped it with her pretty little ' foot When the first burst ot rage bad passed, she reflected that slto was no more than just ly punished for her foolish heartless flirta tions. The event proved a salutary lesson to the pretty Lydia, for from that time she gave over her practising anything like coqueiry, and becamo a sensible sort of girl. A year after, Lydia, marrried a respectable young farmer, arid sent to her old friends Brown and White, a polite and pressing in vitation to tho wedding. KUl'll* TO* Vine RIGHT. • "Served him right," sail the Jury, in oth er words, verdict for the Defendant—and so it did. The Law of the Road says, " Keep to,lhe Right!" He did not do it. So his near fore-wheel ran crash (!) into the au yYP'.tre fissvy freigV-'-TAflOtt) and view into spiivters. The fieryTtorses sprang as if a demon lashed them; his best strength, his best skill, could noither turn nor guide the mad creatures; and the trim, slender car riage, shattered and sidoling, slinging for a moment hither and yon across the street be hind the flying beasts; then, as they swerv ed from a tree, whirled; as one kicks over a baekei; upside-down, a splintery tangle of slicks and springs, into the ditch. Away went the fleet beasts ; plunged headlong over the wharf at tiro far end of the street; one was drowned, and one hauled out, strangled ar.d almost dead, scared, wounded, lamed, and worthless. The foolish owner was pitch ed into an area, aud picked out over the iron railing with a great cut over his ear, his nose broken; his shoulder dislocated, and a tre mondous contusion on his side. Five hundred dollars, dead loss; just bei cause lie didn't keep to the right! And not per contra whatever, unless for money caus ed to be spent by the triumphant defendant, whose very triumph would almost rcraur.er- j ate him. Y'es, and if that impudent-looking, light pantaiooti-wearing, invisible-legged little dandy had kept 'o the Right, the butly ath lete of a follow who just passed would not have twirled him round so provokingly with ono has'y knock of his huge shoulder as ho stroJe down the street on his own side the ; walk. Don't swear, young man. it won't] help you, nur hurt him : and If you under take to punish him lie will swallow you alive—if he Wants to—without salt or gra vy. Run along; and next lime, Keep to the j Right 1 ; And there's it right in the Path of life, too. jln business and in pleasure, Keep to the (Right! Green set up in theylrv iroodji I'm, I m trie slm'6 Town with Brown, and under j look to run Brown off. He took pains to j undersell him; longht against liitn with light artillery, and the sapping and mining pro cess of spreading reports and stories. Be fore he know it he was upset in a ditch. Ha overtraded, in his furious zeal, couldn't meet his notes, 'burst up" and is now a salesman in the very store he once owned, and labors in the shadow of a judgement obtained a gainst him for slander, and kept hanging over him, by the vindictivo Brown, who wickedly swears that poor Green hasn't aoen , the last of it yet. Green had better have I Kept to the Right! j So had young Wriggle. He had an over i weening idea of his personal attractions and J conversational and intellectual powers. And j .like most conceited men—.and monkeys— ami Oliver Goldsmith—he could not bear to bco anybody do anything without trying to do it himself. Therefore, when lie found that Thomas Strong was engaged lo that pretty litile Flora Ilenning, he forthwith un j dertook to "cut out" tho said Strong; who | being well named, and finding out what the ■ little man meant, actually pulled his nose before Flora's face, when he found him in her parlor one evening and hustled him in a very indecorous manner forth from the dwelling. People who will run on the wrong side of the road catch abundacco of thumps and lit tle pity. You will be sure not be on the wrong side if you Keep to the Right!— Life Illustrated. Oid Dan Tucker in India- A vory curious illustration of Progress in India, was furnished lo mo one day during my sojourn -with Mr. Place. Wo were din ing togelhes in bis bungalow, when u wan ■ dering Hindoo msnstrel came along with his ! mandolin, and requested permission to sit ] upon the verandah and play for us. I was desirous of hearing some of the Indian airs, and my host therefore ordered him lo per form during dinner. lie tuned lite wires of his maudoiin, extemporized a prelude which hod some very familiar passages, and to my complete astonishment began singing, "Got out of the way, Old Da* Tucker!" Tiie old man seemed to enjoy my surprise, and fol lowed up his performance with "Oh Susan nah, " Buffalo Gals," and other choice Ethi opian melodies, all of which he sang with admirable spirit and correctness. I address ed him in English but found that he did not understand a word of the language, and had no conception of the nature ol the songs he had given to us. He had heard somo Eng lish officers sing them at Madras, and was indebted intirely to bis memory, for both the melodies and words. It was vain to ask him for his native born airs ; be was fascina ted wiib the spirit of our national music, and | sang with a grin of delight which was very amusing. As a climax of skill; ho closed with " Malbrook sc vu t'en guerre," but his pronunciation of French waß not quilo suc cessful. f have heard Spanish boatmen on the Isthmus of Panama singing "Carry me back to ole Virginny," and Arab boys in the streets of Aloxandna, humming '• Lucy Long," but I was hardly prepsred to hear the same airs from Ihe lips of a Hindoo in the Great Mogul —Bayard Taylor'* Letters. , LITTLE 31 ADD- ' DV THOMAS BAILEY AI.DIUCII 0 whe-e is cur dainty, our darling, The daintiest darling of all ? 1 O where is tho voice on the stairway, , 0 where is the voice in the hall? The little short steps in Ihe entry, , The silvery laugh in the hall? 0 where is onr dainty, our darling, The daintiest darling of all 1 Little Maud! The peaches are ripe in the garden, The apricots ready to fall; The blue grapes aro dripping their honey In sunshine upon tiie white wall: i O where are the lips, full and molting, , That looked up so pouting aud red, , When wedangied the sun-purpled bunches Of Isabella over her head ? | 0 Maud ! little Maud ! say jvhare are yoa? ♦ {Site never ratios tc- our t r.i!) I 0 where is cur dainty, our darling, ! j Tho daintiest darling of all? Little Maud! | IW A country pedagogue had two pupils, to one of whom be was very partial, and lo the other very severe. One morning it hap pened that these two boys were very late, ' aud wore called to account for it. ' 'You must have heard the boll, boy , why did you not come V 'Please sir,'said the favorite,'l was dream ' ing 1 was going to Californy, and I thought tho school-bell was the steamboat bell I was 1 going in.' 'Very well, sir,' Baid the master, glad of a ( pretext to excuse his favorite; 'uud now sir,' I turning to the other, 'what have you to sav'' 'Please sir,' said the puzzled boy 'l—l— was a wantin to see Tom off.' Days Without Night. There is nothing that strikes a stranger more forcibly when he visits Sweden at the season of the year when the days are lon gest, than the absence of the night. We ar rived at Stockholm from Gottenburg, four hundred miles distant, in the morning, and in the afternoon went to seo some friends— had not taken note of time, and returned about midnight; it was light as it is fiero half an hour beforo sundown. Yon could see distinctly. But all was quiet in the street It seemed as if the inhabitant* were gone away, or were dead. No sign of life—stores closed. The sun goes down at Stockholm a little before ten o'clock. There is great iihimina i (ion all night;" us the sun passes round the • earjh toward ib.c.n.ll' ylo. •. scUaeSL—r . j of its rays is such that you may sue to read ;at midnight. Dr. Baird read a letter in the forest near Stockholm at midnight, without artificial light. There is a mountain at the Bothnia, wnere on the 21st ot June, the sun dues not go down at all. Travelors go there to seo it. A steamboat goes up from Stock holm for the purpose of carrying those who aro curious to witness the- phenomenon. It occurs only in the night. The sun goes down to tho horizon ; you can seo the whole face of it, aud in five minutes it begins to rise. Birds and animals laki#'their accustomed rest at the usual hours. The hens take to the trees about seven o'clock, s. M., aud stay tliero until tho sun is well up in the morning, and tho people got into the habit of rising late, too. Excrctse In the Open Air. From the Hartsteno's expedition to tho Po lar Sea, wa extract tho following: "Nature has qualified man to breathe an atmosphere 120 degrees abovo zero, or 63 below it, a difference of 183 degrees, without injury to health ; and the doctrines of physi i ciana that great and sudden changes of torn porature are injurious to health, is disproved by recorded facts. There are very few Aro lio navigators who dio m tho Atctic zone; it is the most healthy cl'mate on the globe to : / thoso who breathe tho open air. Wo have among our associate observers one who ob serves and records the changes of tempera ture in Australia, where the temperature rose to 150° at 3 o'clock, P. M., and next morning at 5 was down to 40°—a change of 78° in 14 hours; there the people aro healthy —and another at Franoonia, N. H., where the changes are the most sudden, the most fre quent, and tho greatest extent of any place with which I am in correspondence on the American continent; and yet there is no town of its size that has so great a proportion of its inhabitants who pn6s the ge of three scoro years and ten. It is the quality of the changed air that constitutes the difference that physicians notice, and not the tempera ture." % , Cold and wet Feet n Prolific Cause of Dis , ease. Who, that has practised medicine Jor any length of time, does not feel a crowd of very painful recollections rush upon the mind from the words cold and wet feet ? What a sor rowful catalogue of suffering and misery ex perienced by the once beautiful and lovely, do they not force back upon tho memory. And though woman, tho fairest and loveliest of God's creation, has bean the most frequent sufferer, man, with all his strength and stern ness, can very often point back to the same cause, for many hours of torture and excru ciating pain. No other agency has been more prolific in producing "The languid eye: the cheek Deserted of its bloom : the flaccid shrunk. And withored muscle; and the vapid soul," . nor has the carnage chamber of disease, or 1 the charnel houße of death, scarce found agen cies more certain and faithful in their horrid 1 woik. < rjN? llgliajrajwr Armum. NUMBER 2. Oh, gontle readers, look around you. See this once active and playful child, the joy and hope of doating parents. Yester-morn it was gamboling about in all its infantile "loveli ness and vivacity," last night, in conse quence of cold and wet feel it was seized with the croup; to day it is a corpse. Notice the youthful form of yonder girl; her beauty ar.d gaioiy a fow months ngo gladdened the eye of ovory beholder; alio is now wasting away, in a slotv and remediless decay, we are told, caused by the oxposv.re of her feet to wet and cold. Witness the agonies ar.d suffer ings of hor thai is breathing her last on yon der couch. Why must the grave receive her form so soon 1 A few weeks ago Bhs was a beautiful and blushing bride. Ono evening party after another, in honor of her mattloge, van attended, aud alas, liko so many "bellfes ami beauties" of our age, she was a worshipper at the shrine of Fashion— that destroyer of comfort and that sworn en emy to health. Her feet, which outvied the fairest production of chisel or pencil, dared not be incased in leather, for that would have boon horrid and frightful! but shoes of the thinest kind; she soon became the vic tim of thivcring ague, catarrh, and paini rheumatic, and now "The lusture of her beauteous eye, Assumes the ghastly stare of death." Then behold that fondest of mothers, from whetico comes her lingering disease, and pain, and suffering ? from what origin the invisible canker thai is slowly but surely eat ing out her vitals? Still the same answer, repeated exposure of her feet to the damp and cold. Much further and wider might this melancholy picturcbe enlarged—but the task Is too painful. But why is the exposure of tho feet a more prolific cause of disease than the exposuro of other parts? Fortunately for mankind, the laws of nature are plain and simple and it requires no medical lore to show the reason All kinda of impressions made on the feet exert a groat influence over the whole body at large. Who can remain composed and "wince none at all" on experiencing the pe culiar feeling produced from tickling ihemj anuvviial punishment on earth is more severe, than tho cruel Turkish bastinado? Thesq show their tenderness and extreme delicacy of feeling. Who, permit me to ask, has not felt a pleasurable glow diffused through tho wholo body, on holding them to tho fire awhile after being chilled and shivering, and what process can wo adopt, 10 30 quick lv coo', .tod alia- the lies' rpwspa *hrop£.' our er cries and veins, as to Immerso them in cold wa'er? Are the internal organs of the body a prey to wasting inflammation, as in the hectic fever of consumption, there is a sensation of burning heal is the feet. Is the body feeble, and the stomach unablo to perform its digestive functions, feet are ha bitually cold. In both health and disease there is a constant sympathy between tho feet and the different organs of the body.— And, gentle reader, wherever the weak spot of thy organization is located, in whatever part tho greatest predisposition to disease is, that part will inevitably suffer from the im pressions of cold and moisture on thy feet,— EXPOSURE OF THY FEET. Remember this— never forget it. Expose the feet, and bow soon may the functions of thoskin be check ed —tho head troubled with undue determi nations of blood, and houco heat and inflam mations—the digestion impaired, and long doctor bills to pay. But allow me to enquire among what class do we find the great number of sufferers from such exposures? Is it among the indigent? Is it the "hardy sons of toil," —those who cannot always watch tho storm, nor avoid tho muddy walks or wet streets ? No, kind readers, 'tis very seldom any of these; but for the mass of pitiful victims, we must look among the affluent, the "fair and lovely of the land," those who need only leave their • chambers and take 'Thoir rural walk O'er hills, through valleys,or by river's brink,' when invited by the "fair blue sky and shin ing sun," or who havo all the means to pro toctuhemsclves against the cold and rain if curiosity or pleasure should prompt them to go forth at ether seasons. 'Tis these that become tho most frequent victims, that suf fer tho penalty for bowing to a cusiom which induces them to neglect thoir feet, and brave both cold and storm with a covering that would make the strong man tremble in fear of what might follow. Is not the line of the poet appropriate here? "Fools rush in whore angels fear to tread." Mothers, wives and daughters! the cold season is her, and with it comes the impor tance of guarding your feet. Leather of va rious kinds, pliable and soft, and yet suffici ently firm to protect your feet, can every, where be obtained. You love your daugh ters; you would not that the winds of heaven should visit their cheeks too roughly, nor the elements too harshly treat their fragile forms; you procure thorn veils, and cloaks, and shawls, but their feet, how many of you neglect this most important part, suffering them to wear shoes with soles as thin as pa per, and yot wondoring why they are always complaining, and never well! Think of it, mothers. And daughters, you that aro beau tiful and lovely; know you not that you are endangering your beauty and loveliness, each time you thus venture abroad ? and however much your "neat feet, neatly dress ed," nsay be admired, remember that they are a poor, a very poor substitute for a clear complexion, brilliant lustra of the eye, oi the roseato hue of health, all these you will, with unfailing certainly, loss by the contin ued exposure of your feet to the wet and 1 cold.— Medical Reformer
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