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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