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BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.; WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1861.
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OCR BOTS G0L'G TO THE WiB.
BV MISS E. M OLMSTED.
'As5ow the red October hills
Their swoolen torrents leap their rills
' Past broken flames and wailing mills
With rushing noise
So, hand to hand. ith parting thrills,
Sweep forth oar boys.
Not fierce to hate but strong to dare,
They bant the traitor in his lair;
The lonliest cot has one to spare
rora home's sweet joys ;
Tbe fondest heart still breathes the ptayer,
God speed onr boys !
Nobireling from Oppression's hold,
No,Iawless mob in rapine bold,
.No patriot cast in Freedom's mould
. With base.alloys;
Fresh from the mint, eanh'a finest gold,
Our sterling boys,!
What hopes, what faith engird them round,
"What songs of cheer to heaven resound,
"What prayers that peace may ret abound,
Each heart employs;
While tears fall on the hallowed ground
I", Where sleep our boys. .
One thonght, one prayer to Him all-wise
-At morn and evening sacrifice.
Till Freedom, stooping from the skies,
Beriwing shall poise ;
And one vic'OTion anthem rise,
God bless our bbys !
1 $n?er Slery.
The Philadelphia North American says, at
the head of a fileof men on their way from
New York to Washington, lhron;h this city,
we encountered a mtn who has probably
een as much of real life as any other per
son living, Louis Napo'ean alone excepted.
Captain B ten years ago was a log cutter or
"wood chopper in the Clearfield pineries,
working in the employ of ex Got. Bigler.
He lived in a cabin entirely alone, many
tniie away from any settler, and where the
vildnee of the forest was broken by no oth
er sounds than thetrekes of hi axe or the
baying of hi dog when upon the track of a
tleer. He was bitten one day by a monstrous
rattlesnake, but never losing his presence of
mind, he dug out the wound with his front
ing knife, and pounding into powder his
blackened tobacco pipe he moistened it
with salvia and bound it npon the wound.
Tbe poison was drawn to the surface by lite
pp!icaton,and excepting a rigidity of limb
which still remains, he experience I no fur
Iher ill effects from the deadly bite.
; On one of his few visits to the town of
Clearfield, for a supply of tobacco ad whis
ker, he chanced to save from drowning
the child of a wealthy citizen, who reward
ed him by a present of three hundred dol
lars. The man never returned tohi cabin
but receiving the wages due to him he set
out for Philadelphia, where be encased a
teacher,and in a brief period tanght himelf
to read. He was preaching shortly after this
buf finding himself pursuing a mistaken vo
cation he blossomed out as a cancer doctor,
in which c apaeity be traveled over the en
tire west and south, returning to New York
with about three thousand dollars. He mar
ried a wealthy widow in New York, who
died a month after her marriage, leaving
him heir to every dollar. He made a second
.venture six months afterward, his wife elo
ping at the end of the honeymoon' with a
native of Hamburg returning with a pile to
his own city. Disgusted with the sex he
'eschewed woman's society, and went to
speculating in patent rights, and with a sort
of success that in a year cleaned him out of
tbe last dollar He secured a position upon
the police foreo of New York, and in the
conrsa of hi duty came upon a discharged
ronvicV The convict gave him certain in
formation, the truth of which he could not
doubt A heavy robbery had been commit
ted on tbe continent. The convict had been
engaged in it, and knew where tbe plunder
.was still secreted. The rover purchased tbe
secret from the fellow, went to Europe, dis
closed it to the public authorities, an J was
xn da the possessor of a reward amounting
o about 1 8000. .
With this money he returned to New York
end then to Philadelphia. At the Girard
.Loom one night be met a Texan, who won
:iiSca hici foor thonsond dollars at a single
sitting. The society of the gambler charm
ed him, and he went with him to Galveston
'ukingthe remainder of bis capital with him,
lla west upon a ranche,. and wa engaged
- in sheep grazing, with Hon. Amos Kendall
as a near neighbor; - Secession at last broke
oa and our rover was compelled to fly by
. night, td Galveston, where he got upon a
vessel bound for Cuba without, any other
possessions than the clothes npon his per
ison. He as wrecked twice in returning to
Tew Ycrir, where he arrived a, mere bca
ca of skin and banes.
A young lady lately appeared ia male at
tire in Bal:imore,and one of the editors says
h&i IzrdkTiifB was so perfect that she
rrx'-t fcars passsir a rnaa, "hs.i the had j
A hi 5.' 3 t?.tl3 ttZdetiJ' '
flDshancfs and Wtfes.
The world is filled with singular men and
women, longing and contriving, more or
less, to get married ; and it unhappily ap
pears that there are also a considerable
number of married people who would be
glad to be separated. Some think they
made a mistake, and wish to rectify it ;
some wo n!i! be glad to be quit of it alio
gether. We have many husbands desert
ing the it wives; a lew wives escaping
from their husbands.
Surveyinglhe wffole ground, we find that
1 tliere are, and can be, no marriages which
aTe absolutely and entirely happy. The
imperfections and evils of humanity forbid
it. To have a perfect marriage, the parties
taait not only be perfect in themselves, but
jrerfecdy adopied to each other.which would
he expecting two impossibilities in the
nature of things.
But a great majority of marriages have
certain elements of happiness, and can be
made not only endurable but beneficial if
the parties will make proper efforts to that
end. A man can generally overcome his
bad habits and faults, if he will make an
earnest and preserving effort to do so. A
woman can still moTe easily conform to the
requirements of her position. Probably
nine couple in ten are, on the whole hap
pier than they would be apart.
There are, no doubt, many cases of ex
treme and violent incompatibility. Where,
all things considered, greater harm than
good comes of two persons living together,
they may separate. We do not say they
may be divorced, as that is a theologi
Cal and moral question we do not choose to
discuss. But a woman is not conpelled to
live with an insane man. There are crimes
and outrages which must justify her in re
fusing to live with him. Doubtless, mnch
must be borne. We hare need of patience,
forbearance, charity, ard great resignation ;
but something shrt of actual martyrdom
may be considered the place at which pa
tience ceases to be a virtue.
"Perhaps the ereat mischief and chief
cane of their socialuoubles i, that men
and women marry in haste, and so repent
at leisure. Boys and girls, scarcely ac
quainted with each other, rush into a en
gasemenf for life, withont considering
whether they are ready to assume the du
ties and responsibilities of marriase. or
whether they are adapted to make earh oth
er suitable partners for th loni, and often
weary, jonrney of life. And the reason for
this is, that a vast number ol our young
people never get any proper instruction in
Jbeir doiies- Who is to teach them ? At
school they learn all the scier.ee, except
how to live. Then parents, conscious, per
haps, of their own imperfections, rarely if
ever, instruct their children upon their most
important duties. The clersy seldom preach
on such subjects ; or, if they do. prpach
discourses of fine sentiment rather than
plain rommon sense.
The consequence is. that onr yonng peo
pie are left to their instincts and passions
happy if these are not perverted And
they find, too late, perhaps, that the yonng
lady who was a charming partner at a ball
may make a very Indifferent hoose-keepe',
or that the gallant and fascinating young
centleman who looked and talked like a
hero oComance, is poorly qualified to net
a living and perform his duties a the father
of a family.
In many cases advice is useless; bnt to
the sensible portion of youthful and still
nnmarried readers we may tay. "Be snre
your are acquainted with the partner
of your fnture life. Use, at least, as much
care and forsisht as you would in buying a
houe, a farm, or a horse. Do not despise
good counsel, and thai of people older than
yourself. It is better to suffer a broken
heart single, than a broken head and heart
married. Marry for love by ail means ; but
be sore to love what is lovely. Look ten
or twenty years ahead. Conider not only
what the relation will b next week, or next
year, but all the way along life's troubled
joarney.
And, after reading all our good advice,
and meditatiog upon its wisdom, you will
probably fall bead-over-heels in love with
somebody, and forget all about it. or think
it very good advice for people in general,
but not at all applicable to yonr particular
case. Therefore; we shall not waste our
time farther in giving advice which is sure
not to be heeded.
A Clear Case o Fraud. It is related by
one of the dispatches from the battlefield at
Edward's Ferry, that when our brave boys
were trying to make their way from the trap
into which they had been foolishly led,
back across the Potomac, a poor negro with
a small 6k iff employed himself tbe whole
eight in ferrying over the fugi'ives. He
succeeded, in this way, saving the lives, or
in securing tbe escape, at least of no less
than one hundred persons. His master all
the while was probably on the Virginia
shore trying to send a Minnie ball into the
hearts of our men.
Now, as the "service" of this fellow did
not belong to himself, but, his master, what
right had he to lend his Ubor to our suffer
ing soldiers ! Was he not defrauding his
ownerl : Will not some of our Generals in
sist upon delivering him op," to be prop
erly punished for so audacious a use of bis
muscle ? Of course,' no one will be so in
sane as to propose that he should be eman
cipated for this timely rescue of so many
loyal troops. That would be abolitionism ;
that would be interferirg with the sacred
institution that would be confessing that
negroes are inert and entitled to a decent
Tcrezi."EvJr',T Fo?t. .
the Duke of Atliol's Dairy.
It is not a modern 6how thing; a would
be palace for animals. No, no.it is ch irac
terized by airines, proper temperature,c lean
liness and usefulness. Five of M. Kinnel's
ventilators pour in the pnre air and suck
away the foul. The walls are pannelel all
round, some four feet from the bollota.
Each stall holds two cows ; and tho Mtalls
are divided by low wooden partitions like
small table trevises,so that the cows da not
grind and injure their horns. as where none
is used. There is a strip of wood hall way
between the panneling in face of the rows
and the ceiling, and on the strap is fixed
the name, well printed of each cow, sbove
where she stands.so that a person nna:cus
tomed to cows might think that they went
correctly to their places from seeing their
names. Each cow has a fixed square feed
ing trough formed of slates ; and bet wen
the two feeding troughs is a similar rink
ing trough for both cows. The floor is of
Arbroath pavement, which is covered with
sol t matting on two-thirds forward cf the
space where the cows stand or lie. The
arips in their whole length, are perorated
iron, so that all liquid drains off the ta tk
At each end of the byre is a water tanl:,near
the ceiling in supply water to ihe drinking
trough by a direct communication With each
and also to enable the floor to be flushed
and made thoroughly clean and swupt.
Connected with the byre are placss lot hold
ing hay, straw, roots, meals and alsa the
apparatus (orcrunching.steaming and other
wise preparing the food through which and
the byre, from end to end, is a continuous
railway for the conveyance of food. All the
woodwork is painted with a mixture of as
phalic and linseed oil giving it a fini- glos
sy appearance, and showing distinctly the
natural makings of the wood. A Rmjreto
shire Dairyman.
Sloral Suasion on a Ram.
When a friend of ours, whom we call
Agricola, was a boy, he lived on a firm in
Berkshire-Co., the owner of whici was
troubled by his dbg Wolf. The cur killed
his sheep, knowing perhaps, that hi mas
ter was" conscientiously opposed to capital
punishment, if he could devise moans to
avoid it.
1 can break him of it," said Africola,
'ifyou will eive me leave."
'Thou art permitted,'' said the honest
farmer; and we will let Agricola, t $11 the
story ii his own words.
"There was a ram on the farm," said Ag
ricola, ''as notorious for butting ai Wolf
was for sheep killing, anil who stooi. in as
much need of moral soasion as the -log. I
shut Wolf in the barn with this old fellow,
and the consequence was that the dog nev.
er looked a -heep in the face agair. The
ram broke every bone in his body, liierally.
Wonderfully uplifted was the ram aft reaid
by his exploit: his insotence becams intol
erable, he was sere to pitch into wiomso
ever went near him. I rigaed an iro i crow
bar out of a hole in the barn, point f remost
hung an old hat on the end of i . You
can't always, tell when you see a hat wheth
er there is a head in it or not; hoir, then
shon'd a ram ? Aries made at it fill butt,
and being a good marksman Iron long
practice, the bar broke in between his
horns, and came out under his tai . This
little admonition effectually enred him of
butting.
The Church Militant. A good thing is
told of Father Qu in, one of the Chaplains
to the Rhode Island Regiment, now at
Washington. Father Quin met at the house
of a fiiend, a Soathern gentleman who in
dulged in some severe expression i about
the Northern troops. After listening awhile
Father Quin reminded the gentlen an that
he was attached to the Rhode Islard Regi
ment, and asked if he included them i;i his
censure; to which ihe Southerner replied,
"that he did not see any reason to i lake ex
ceptions."
Whereupon Father Quin very pla:nly
saia to the gentleman, 'Then sir, I must
tell yon that you are a liar." Wh reat the
Sou'l-erner became wrthy, and tola the
Reverend Padre that if it vere no for his
coat he would give him a thrashing
"Well, sir," saia Father Qnin, ' If you
don't like the cut of my coat, you can see
me in my shirt sleeves, now or at any oth
er time; and," continued be, lising to
leave, "I shall go from here direct to the
headquarters of my regiment, wheie I shall'
be ready to receive any message f om you,
personally or by the hand of a frier, d."
Tbe matter soon got out, and thn Colon
el spoke to Father Quin about it, O which
he answered : .
'Well, Colonel, if I am a priest I am
none the less a man."
Here the matter rests. The Southerner
ha not as yet sent his friends to 1 ok after
the belligerent prieL
An Irishman who had been tut "a few
months in this country, and in tbe employ
of a gentleman in a suburban tow t, being
sent with a note, with the command to
make all possible haste, found on !is way
a turtle, which he picked up s apposing
it to.be a pocket-book. Deterraini ig to be
faithtul to his errand, he did not stop to
to examine his supposed prize, but placed
it in his pocket, anticipating a tich reward
when his errand was finished. Before he
had reached home the turtle had' made its
way cearly out of his pocket, aril Patrick
quietly reconsigned him to his pocket. On
his arrival at tbe bouse he took it out, and
to his great disappointment, bat fa 1 of ex
citement, he rushed wildly into thn kitchen,
exclaiming to the cook : ''Bessit Bessie
A Weapon of Death.
A Whiskey bottle mounted on a gun car
i riage, as a field piece, is the latest conceit
of Binninger the great, who is welcome to
this advertisment we shall give him. The
design is an excellent one and highly ap
propriate. Never cannon nnlimbered, ot
columbiad brought to bear, that has equalled
Whiskey as a weapon of death.
Talk of long range guns three, four or
five miles. Why, Whiskey once killed a
brave young fellow on the Pacific coast
and the same shot went clear across the
Continent and killed the sailor boy's mother,
in Maine. Thai's a range that will do to
talk of.
We are in the midst of war and prepara
tions of war. An immense activity prevails
in the invention and manufacture of the
weapons of death.
Rifle factories ate busy and huge forges
groan as the columbiad take shape beneath
the hammer. Yet not a weapon shall go
forth in this war more destructive to the
armies of the Government and Rebellion
alike, than that which is before us in the
similitude of a cannon mounted upon a
tiny truck Whilcey.
The list of the "killed and missing" be
fore the war is over, will be wsmething
fearful to contemplate, and what a list of
"wounded" w:ll come back to us, all to be
sit down to this destroyer that will follow
the camp and more than decimate every
company of the brave fellows, who will
meet no fiercer or more relentless foe. It
will entrap and slay tfjem ingly, guerilla
fashion ; it will muddle the brains of the
field officers, whole ranks will be mowed
down sla tbe penahy.
It will do no harm for our soldiers to be
warned of ibis :n time ; for the appointed
power be times to advise of the necessity
that no friend to this enemy of our troops, be
placed in command, where the Colonel
or the General of Brigade or Division rrfay
be wrought upon by whi.-key and brave
men pay '.be penalty.
Gcn. McClcllan's War Horsc A wri
ter in Por.'er's Sphit thus describes the
horse which some gentleman in Cincinnati
bought i'i St. Louis and presented to Gen.
McClellan, when he look charge of the ar
my in Western Virginia :
''Dan Webster, or "Handsome Dan," the
familiar sobriquet by which he was known
to the men, women and children throughout
the city, is a gelding of a beautifully dap
pled mahogany-bay color, with three white
feet and a star, very heavy flowing black
mane and tail, the latter a regular ' siout."
He is sixteen hands high, and weighs, in
ordinary flesh, 1,260 pounds He was sired
by Gen. Jackson, dam of Sir Archy and
Messenger blood. He has a fine, bony and
intelligent head, delicately tapered car, and
a proud beautifully arched neck, capital
shoulders, very long and muscular arms,
whose sjmetry could not be improved were
they carved to order ; his chest is broad,
and deep, his legs fine, flat and bony, with
his locks and knees well down to his heels,
and his fetlocks almost to the ground, with
a round, well ribbed barrel of tremendous
lengdi, and a line ami hips remarkable .'or
strength and beauty; indeed his fine points
and evenly balanced proportions make him,
in the fullest sense of the term, a mo-ltl hor.se
not only for symetry, but tor speed and
stoutness. As a field horse, I never saw
his superior, being very "topy" when in
action, with a proud and nervous step, his
riders when mounted, and his throailatch
and the tis of his fore feet almoM on a
perpendicular lir-e when in repose. He
possesses many characteristics common to
no other one ot his species I have ever
known. For instance, he will not stamp
his feet nor shake off a fly if there were a
thousand on him, seeming to entertain a
contempt for all lesser animals; and his
confidence in and affection for the human
species is such lhat he will not, under any
circumstances, suffer his attention to be
drawn from his master by any minor object.
To his own species he pays no attention,
passing amotu them without deisjning them
the slightest ioiice,even wlien turned loose
in the same yard rr field. He will foliow
hi ma.Mer up any flight of stairs, or along,
any precipiece where he can get a foothold
relying on his master's judgement for his
safely ; will stand anywhere he is left with
out constraint, and h as brave as a lion and
as discreet as a judge. May he bear his
noble master on to victory conquering and
to conquer until this foul rebellion is crush
ed out and peace and anion once more re
stored to oar distracted country."
The Cow-Bkll Dodge. The rebels have
resorted to an ingenious way of luring our
men into their snares. It is know as the
"cow-bell dodge," and it was very success
ful for a time, especially with newly arriv
ed regiments and companies which were
placed on picket for the first time. Ap
proaching within thirty or forty rods of oar
outposts and concealing themselves in the
woods, they commence the irregular tinkle
of a cow-bell. The uninitiated picket, not
suspecting the rti, and not reconciled to
drinking his coffee without milk, goes out
to obtain a supply from the supposed cow
of some Virginia rebel, flattering himself
that he baa got a "big thicg on Secesh."
Not until he finds himself surrounded by a
half dozen or so armed rebels does he learn
his mistake. In Richmond are nearly a doz
en of our soldiers who are probably now
regretting their ready credulity and appe
tite for milk. .
When does a farmer atft with arreat md-
Cornstalks. Wheat Bran, &e.
Old Hurricane says, "there is a great evil
and mistake in feeding too much coarse ma
terial to animals." If he means musty straw
or mouldy, frost bitten cornstalks, sttchas
farmers had last fall he is right But we
have a farmer here who keeps nearly one
hundred equines, great and small aud many
blood bovines, entirely on chopped corn
stalks, through the winter months, adding a
little corn meal, and I have seen his heifers
leave bay to eat the finely cut cornstalks
without meal. But ail the stalks are cut np
as soon as the com was glazed, but in small
stocks at first. and then two or three ol these
were bound together.
Cut up your garden sweet com as soon
as the ears are plucked, and ihrow the hall
dty stalks in the hay mow. Your cow in
the winter will eat such stalks. bulls and all,
before she will touch a mouthful of la'e cut
timothy hay. 'Tis true that straw and late
cot stalks are poor in nutiiment, compared
with early hay cured in cock with its juices
intact; but in winter coarse material will
supply carbon to support animal heat and
respiration as well as fine. How often you
hear a farmer say, "my cattle won't touch
straw until cold weather sets in," thea ii
they don't have straw, they must have more
hay or suffer.
Hampden contributes a capital article in'
the last Co. Gent.f on the ''Comparitive val
ue of Wheat Bran and Indian Meal " I
knew a horse fancier who said that wheat
bran was the best substitute for oats, as it
was both oats and hay. Its analysis shows
that it contains much morenitrisenized mat- f
ter, protein compounds wnile it has much
less oil and starch than Indian Corn. But
when bran or oais cannot be had scalded
Indian meal would be a safe substitute even
lor a working animal ; yet as a fast trotter
would have more neive, arid perform better
if fed oais or ev en bran Countiy Gentle
man. r
Didn't Hurt the Boors. Rather racy is
the following incident of life on the cats as
rela ed by a clever letter writer :
Near at hand was a gentleman of a nerv
ous temperament and excitable disposition
who was guilty of the egregrious folly of en
deavoring to transport safely a new and
glossy silk tile.morecommonly denominated
a "plug" bat, and which, through fear its
shining surface might be ruffled, he had
carried in his hand for a considerable num
ber of miles. The hat was carefully wrap
ped in paper and deposited in what was
deemed a safe pla-e, where none wonld be
apt to ste al or molest it. The gentlemarj re
tired. Morning came, and his hat was no
where discernable. Aftersearching long aid
anxiously, it was at last discovered in the
rear of the car, with a brakeman standing
upon it, looking out of the window at the
beauties of the cenery as the glorious ray
of the morning sun darted up from the eas
tern horizon.
The entleman was angry not to say
m'V With a frantic rnh at the offending
employee which nearly upet that individ
nal equilibrium, he seized the orce shin
ing but now dilapidated hat, and holding it
aloft exclaimed, "how dare you. how dare
you, sir, I say stand with your boots on my
hat ?" The employee glanced first at the
gentleman whose properly he had injnred,
next at ihe hat which locked like a tin ket
tie after having passed through a ch&ravari,
and lastly at the boots wMch had done the
deed, then slowly drawled out, "give your
self no uneasiness. sir, the boot are old ones
and I don't think it has hurt 'em an
"Crushed again," groined ihe injured one,
as he settled down in his seat with a look of
agony which would have made the fortune
of any play actor who could successfully
have imitated it.
Familv Troubles Was there ever a
family withou' its troubles ? Adam and
Eve had their troubles in F.den ; and all
families have had their troubles. Every
family has a skeleton behind the door ;
every person ha a thorn in his side. It
is said lhat misery loves company, so take
conrase, hapless man wearied woman.
You are in the majority. "Man is born to
trouble as the eparks fly upward." A use
less family would yours be if it knew no
trouble. Trouble is our great teacher. It
nerve us with strength ; it gives us courage:
it tempers our mental ; it develops our self
control ; it quickens our inventive powers.
Troubles are to us what the winds are to the
oak, what labor is to the muscle, what study
ia to ihe mind. Life is a school and trouble
is oae of the great lessons. Troubles are
not to be coveted, but when they come we
must get over them the best way we can,
or bear tbem with the best fortitude we can
arouse. Take courage, therefore, troubled
one. Not in vain are your trials. Thej
make you brave, strong, and, it is to be
hoped, belter. Be not cast down, cheer
up ; cast aside your weeds and woe. Look
hem in the face ; do y our duty ; take every
trouble by tbe horns, overcome it wiih the
courage of a true soldier in life's great cam
paign, and stoutly contend for the victory
of will and wisdom.
An Editor once, in attempting to compli
ment the now rebel General Pillow, after
bis return from Mexico, as a "baiile-scared
veteran," was made by the types to call
him a "battle-scarred veteran." In the next
issue the mistake was so far corrected aa
to style him a "bottle-scarred veteran."
Why are the rebels Jike pea in the pod
Drigia of the Hat.
We owe the hat, as we owe most of our
manufactures, to AVia. It was in Asia that
men first learned the an of felting wool.srt as
to compose the substratum of the fabric.
Wool,80 long as it contains the natural yolk
or animal grease, refuses to felt that is,its
fibres will rr6t mat t6gether into a compact
and close grained mass, such as constitute
fell. When the yolk has been extracted by
chemical process, the wool has a tendency
to interlace its fibres, and to adhere firmly
to the union thus formed, and fromii very
remote period this secret was possessed by
the Orientals. The hats which are constant
ly alluded to in scripture those,for instance
which were bound upon the heads 6f Shad
rach, Meshacn and Abednego, when they
were cast into the Assyrian furnace were
genuine hais, but probably adorned by tur
ban cloths wound about them. I have seen
the self same ha's tall, narrow cylinders of
gray felt surrounded by a handkerchief or
cloth on the heads of the jews of Asia.
Nor was the use of the hat a Hebrew mono,
poly. The Kurks, Persians, Armenians and
some tribes of Turks and Ttrtars wear the
hat, as their fathers did in Saladdin's day
The high lamb's wool bonnet ol the Per
sian is but a brimless hat, with a nap of ex
aggerated roughness. The Nertorian Chris
tians of Kurdistan wear hats almost exactly
similar to a battered Irish caubeen, only of
a brown or dirty white coioj. Throughout
the Fast.lhe dervishes and wandering fakins
may be known by the tall, narrow hat of
liijrit hued felt, adhered by rag, and tower
ing upward like a chimiey-pot.
Ths Force of Lah?riage.
Tt is of language to express whit is con
sciously working in the soul; language is
the express imag of spirit. As soon as
the mind is raised above the obscure fctate
of spontaneous feeling, or the rude percep
lion of sense, it begins to express, its feel
ings and indicate its perceptions in audible
language. In its who!) training, words
thought or uttered, are ihe great instrument
as well as the result of its progress. And
so it cornea to pa-s, that though language
be not life, yet there is not a deed or deli
cate emotion, not a subtle distinction or
large concatenation of hatnan -.bought, not
an abstract principle or simple idea, which
language, by simple words by imagery, by
definition, by description, or by system, in
not adequate to convey. And though single
words, when taken singly, may have many
a seie. yet the single words only give us
the separate parts of speech ; but take lan
guage as a whole, put the word in a sen
tunce, qualify it by adjuncts, limit it by its
relations define by loic, fix it in a system,
and ihe single word may have such an im
movable significence, that ao other term
can be exchanged for lhat simple sound.
It may have had its origin in the regins of
sense; but, the action of the soul upon it,
lias been disfigured ; it has passed through
all inferior stae and at length has been
claimed by or reason for its exclusive use ;
so ttirtt only a philoloist known its earthly
origine, and to all others i: is apt and direct
synbol of ihe highest ideas of reason the
loltiest objects cf fai h.
A Patriotic Nap. Day before yesterday,
as the story goes, a devoted member of the
Church, and a most devout Union
man, attended divine worship, according to
his invariable Custom ; but the weather be
ing warm and oppressive, the worthy cit
zens fell as'eep in his pew during the early
part of the service.
He slumbred plesantly, and just before
he service began, the choir and congre
gation sang a patriotic hymn, that fi led the
sleeper s mind with a love ol country that
could not be resisted. The text was, 'And
what think of ye Christ V repar'ed emphat
ically several times by the minister.
This appeal to the slumberer was too di
reel and his thoughts becoming confused
in his half wakeful, half dreaming state, he
forgot where heas, and the exact nature
of the question, and responded so loudly
and distinctly that he could be heard
through half of the church :
"Think ? I think and I know he's all right;
he's for the Union all the time?''
The effect of this unexpected and alto
gether secular utterance upon the piou s
brothers and sisters may be bettei fancied
than related.
An Explanation Some able and excel
lent men are never able to adapt iheir phra
ses to the comprehension of children. A
man of this class, a learned theological pro
fessor, was once engaged to address a Sun
day School, He read a number of verses
from the Bible, and then said ' "Children,
I intend to give you a summary of the truth
taught in this portion of the Scripture."
Here the pastor touched him, and suggested
that he had better explain to tbe children
what 'nummary" meant. So he turned
around and said to the children : "Your
pastor wants me to exrdain what summary
means, and I will do so. Well, children,
summary is an abbreviated synopsis of a
thing."
The great cry with everybody is, "Get
on ! get on !" just as if the world were a
traveling post. How astonished people
will be, when they arrive in heaven, to fibd
the angels, who are so mnch wiser, laying
no schemes to be made arch angels.
"I'd jost like to see you," aa tbe blind
man said to the policeman when he told
Crate at Dinner.
"For these and "all His mercies once
began Iffr. Johnson, whose good Vosto'th it
was always to thank Heaven for the good
things set belcrre Him ; but he almost inva
riably found fault "with the food given.-
And of thts see-saw process Mrs. Johnson
grew tired ; and on the occasion alluded to,
she stopped her husband by remarking that
it will a farce to ptefend to be grateful for
dishes wh'rch, in two Tninures, be would
pronounce fo be as worthless as the worst
of Jeremiah's figs ! And so there was no
blessing Mrs. Johnson mtoht hive sup
plied the one employed by merry old Lady
Hobartat k dinner where she looked in
quiringly, but vainly, for a gtace-sayer.
"Well," remarked the good ancient dame,
"I think I must say as one did in the like
case, "God be thanked '! -nobody will
say grace !" It is eldom that "grace" is
properly said or sung. The last is a terri
bly melodious crr ery at public dinners;
but then ev,. tn should silently and
fervently make i..anks2iving in his ovn
heait. He is an ungracious knave who sits
down to a meal without at least a silent ac
knowledgment of gratitude to Him, without
whom there could have been no spreading
of then'quet.. Sach a defaulter deserves
to be the bound slae of dyspepsia, until he
learns betfer manners. Come, gentlemen,"
Bpau Nash used to say, "eat and welcome !"
It was all his grace and bad he said,
"Come, gentlemen, be thankful and eat,''
it would have been more 1ie the Christian
gentleman, and less like the "beau."
me First Viclorr. "
Our boys are full ol fight. That is good,
if it is on the right side. But remember,
boys, your first victory must be a victory
over jourself. Some soldiers objected to
their Colonel in command, because, they
said, "he could not command himself."
No person that cannot do that, is not fit to
command others.
Two strands in the threefold cord which
bound together Kane and his little crew,
were the strands of self conquest; they -were
theie no swearing and no drinking.
Mister yourself and you can do brave
deeds.
The heroic officer, Elmer Ellsworth, be
gan his brilliant career with fee if -conquest.
When he and his band of Zouaves emerged
from Chicago, and astonished the country
by their wonderful evolutions, old officers,
with experience in military drill, looked
wiih delight and surpri-e on the precision,
promptness vigor and obedience of their
well-trained muscles. How was it done
Thev had firtl conquered their appetites.
Not a drop of wine or beer or cider was
drank ; Hd smoking or chewing was allow
ednothing to unmanly health and vigor.
These indulgences weaken They slociy
but surely enfeeble the body and mind -Let
your first batt'es be waged against temp
tation to self-indulgence, against bad habits
if they have their claws on yoo. This will
prepare you for a brave and noble life, and
fit you for either camp or couucil. Child's
Popcr.
The Histomt or Hail Columbia. In the
summer of 1793, a young man connected
wi h the theatre at Philadelphia, as a sing
er, wa abont to receive a benefit on a cer
tain Monday evening. On the Saturday af
ternoon previous, he called on Joseph Hos-
kins, a rising young lawyer, 23 yesrs of age
wiih whom he had gene to school when
both were boys. The actor said he had
but twenty boxes taken, and his "benefit"
would be a loss unless he could get a patri
otic song written toth 'President a March,
then a popular air. The poets of th'9 the
atrical corps had tried their hand, but were
satisfied that no words could be made to
suit the air. Hopkins? promised to make the
attempt.
At lhat time there was a grea: discnsion
in the country as to the policy df America
joining either France or England in the war
then waged between those two nations, nd
party spirit ran high. Hopkins endeavored
to write a song lhat should be independent
ot and above the ir.leresis,pasions and poli
cy of both beligerents, and look and feel
exclusively for American honor and rights.
He wrote Had Columbia. Ii was announced
on Monday evening, and the theatrs was
crowded to excess, and soconliuned during
the season the song being encored and re
peated many times each night,the audience
joining in the chorus. It was also sung at
nights in the streets, by Urge assemblies of
ciltf.ens, including members of Congress,
and has now become a National Song.
Sew d tour Child to bed Happt. Send
your child to bed happj. Whatever cates
press, give it a warm good night kiss, as it
goes to its pillow. The memory of this ia
ihe stormy years which fate may have ia
store for the little one, will be like Bethle
hem's star to the bewildered shephards
"My father "-ray mother love me '." Fate
cannot take away that blessed heart palm.
Lips parched with the world's fever, will
become dewy again at this thrill of youth
ful memories Kiss your little child before
it goes to sleep.
A minister in New Jersey one day called
0 6ee one Of his deacons, 'Were 'a your
roaster V asked the deacon's wife ol her"
negro servant. I don't know missses, bat
1 'spect he's at de barn, lor I jist beared
somegody out oar swearing preity hard at
de mtn ! That wife said-'O, no ; it isn't,
him he is not at home, sir, at preu:.'
The good deeds that most eona prefer
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