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BLOOMS BURG. COLUM BIA COUNTY, P A., WEDNESDAY MAY 21, 1862.
NUMBER 20,
VOLUME 14.
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TQB GIRL f I T T II E C A L 15 J D S. eYs.'
A fig (of yur pper ,en ir!s'
Willi their velvets, satins and laces,
Their diamonds rubies and pearl,
And their milliner figure and faces;
They may shine at a piny or ball,
Emhlazvmed with hall they possess,
But give me in place of 'hern all.
The girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as a partridge, and fair
As ihi!. in the earliest bloom.
Her 'eeth will with ivory compare,
And her breath with re clover perfume
Her stee U a tree and as light pre-,
A the Ihwii'k whom the hunter hard
And her eye is a soli and a bright,
My girl wiih ihe calic dres.
Your dandies and foplinas may sneer
At her simple and modest aiiire,
B-.tihe ciiarm she permits to appear
Would sei a whole iceberg on fire.
Site can 4la1.ee but she never allows
. The hujigiru. the squeeze ami caress,
She is savin U the-e tor her spouse,
My girl wiib the calico dress.
She i cheerful warm hearted and true,
Ah1 kind to her Uther undfmoiher.
She studies how much she cau do
For her sweet little listers and brother.
If you want a companion for tile,
To comfort ei liven and Me-s.
ihe i jus; the right sort of a wite,
My cirl with ihe calico die.
lit W II A I BY FELL IN tLOVE.
' AH.the girls in Flowerdale were in love
with Harry Vernon. That is to say," thev
admired htm excessively, and were ready
' to UH in love, if he should lead the way.
Fanny Somer. tbe Utile witch, wa- the on
ly exrepiu.ii. Merry, dancing and pretty
asatatry.it was a queston beir,?r she
had ever yet thought of love; if she had,
she never talked ol it.
Harrj's father was a Senator to Congress,
and hefciraseir was a young lawyer ot bril
liant talents, finished education and hand
some iortune. It wa known that his fath
er wished Kirn to marry and did not, as i
often the case, insist on his seleciing an
heiress. The now gray haired statesman
had made a love match in his youth, and
till worshiped the memory of the wife he
had too early lo.-t "Lt your heart choose,
my son," he said. ' Marriage without -true
affection, holds out 'but a poor show lor
happiness."
Most of those not directly interested in
the event, thought that Isabella Furteqne
Would carry ofl the prize. She was deci
dedly the belle ot the village. Having re
ceived her education at a fashionable sem
inary , there was scarcely an accomplish
ment ot which she could jiot boast. Be
rides the families ot Vernou and Forteeque
had been the leading ones in the cou ity
for two generations; and gossip said that
ih union of the two fortunes, and ol ihe
.1 i
an ted inUuence, wouia give uarry a pooi-
tion almost unrivalled.
(Jeriam 11 lo mai narry ineu isie" j
very often. Those who envied her, accus- j
ed her of maneuvering to win him.
"Throws herself in his way continually."
said one. "Did ever anybody " cried an
otl er, "see a girl make love so bare-laced-lyt"
She ought to get him, I'm sure,"
sneered another, "for she has tried hard
enough ' Nevertheless, as hooesi chron
ieveriueies, as uotiwsi iuiuh-
must record the lact, that someof
iclers we
these very young ladies, such is the iufir- i
imity ot human nature, did their very prel- !
tiest to out-mai.ceuvre Isabel and get "Harry
forthemse!ves. - j
Harry bad uot seen Fanny since she was '
achild. It was only a month since she ;
had left school,- and returned home again-;
and the first time she bad joined in the vil-
lage vocial circle was" at a picnic. Here?
her blooming complexion, gracetul figure'
and wringing Ua-h haJ been the theme of household charm wnicn surrounded ranny unnstian soiuters as ine iioi u. u..u.
admiratioli by ttbeaus, the envy of the forced him to do so, whether or do. He cumci-ed Phillistines melted awa before
belles. Harry had beeo a partner in a, went away, thinking to himselLwhat a the armies of Israel.
dance or two and, ia coumon with each
other, felt it would be only eivil to cad op-
on ber. So the morning alter the party he
sallied forth to make the round of the vil
lage girU.
He first visited Isabel. She was reclin
ing on a lonteuil, charmingly dressed, and
reading a novel. All she could talk was
tier fatigue Yet she looked bewitchingly,
it was incoatestible, in the subdued light oi
that sumptuous parlor, with elegant pic
tures upon the walls, boquets ol flowers all
-v.--. '?.T,n.Th,r- of rnmri
j vr t,.,i urr fait ia mn.h
letted to bein love. He staid nearly an
hour, when he bad intended to stop fo. on-
ly a few minutes ; and would not, perhaps,
have gone then, if other geralemea had not
roptin.
From Isabel's he went to several other
bouses. Everywhere he found the young
ladies dressed to receive company. Mtne
.. - u i , i r
were reaqmg nove.s; oiB . ww v.
roe:ry open before them; one
' ad a pretty Garni, was coqoe.ii.niy
apurse. .ftoiODo. ..etu -FF. -
and talked as if the fatigue of the day be
fore had nearly killed them.
When Harry reached the pretty, but un
pretending cottage, wbete Fanny resided
with her widowed mother, he found the i
hail door open to admit the breeze, and so, ;
ust uppmg at the parlor entrance, ne en- (
ered bowing. In ihe shaded light of the !
cool fragrant room, be could not for a rno-
ment, see, but he noticed immediately that
to one answered his salutation; and, di
rectly, he beheld that ihe apartmeU was
empty. Jost then, however a fresh liquid
voice, as merry as a bird's in June, was
heard warbling in an inner apartment.
Harry listened, awhile, charmed, but finding
that his knocking was not heard and rec
ognizing, as he thought, Fanny 's voice, fin
ally made bold to go in search of the sing
er. Passing down the hall, and through
another open door, he suddenly found him
sell in the kitchen, a large, airy apartment.
scrupulously clean, with Fanny at the end
opposite to him, standing before a dough-
trough, kueadi.ig flour and carrolling like a
'ark.
It
was a picture an artist would have
loved to paint. Fanny's face was seen
partly in profile, showing to perfection her
long lashes, and bringing out in relief the
P'iuiii, lip and round chin. The breeze
Hew her brown curls playfully about, and
occasionally quite over her face, at which
lime she would throw them back with a
toss of her head. Her arms were bare;
and rnnnded, while, for more taper arms
never were ; they fairly put tr shame with
their ro.y pearliness, the snowy flour pow-
dered over them As she moved with
unick teps at her task, her trim figure
showed full its grace ; and her neat ankle
and delicate foot twinkled in and out. For
a while she did not observe Harry. It was
not till she turned to put down the dredg
ing box, that she beheld him.
Most ol our fair readers, we suppose,
would have screamed, and perhaps have
run out of the opposite door. Fanny did
no such thing. She blushed a little, as was
natural but having no lalse shamo, she saw
no reason to be frightened merely because
a handsome young gentleman had caught
her at work. So she curiisied rettily,
laughed one of her gayest laughs and said,
hold ng" op her hands.
"I can't shake hands with you. Mr. Ver
non, you see. Mamma was kind enough
to let roe go to the pic-nic yesterday, and
pat off some of my work ; and so I'm doing
dooble to-day, to make up for it. If you'll
be kind enough to wait a minute, I'll call
mamma."'
"No no," said Harry, charmed by this
frank innocence, ai d unceremoniously ta
king a weil scrubbed chair, "I've only a
few minutes to stay. My call is on you.
I came to see bow you bore the fatigue of
yesterday."
Fanny laughed till her teeth, so whi e
and so little, looked, behind the rosy lips,
like pearls set in the richest ruby enamel,
' Fatigued ! Why, we bad such a charm-
ing lime yesteiday, that one couldn't ;iet
tired, even if one had been a hundred years
old "
"You'll never grow old' said Harry, sur
prised into what would have teen flattery,
it he had not sincerely thought t ; and his
countenance showed his admiration tor the
bright happy cieature before him.
Fanny blushed, but rallied and answered,
Ijnnltiii rl 4- v 0 r crrtwiff old I Oh ! Minn
-- o -
enough. What a funny bight I'll be, to be
tn almorti double and a can uu niv
'
head, like granny Horn's "
Harry laughed too, so ludicrous was the
image; and thus he and Fanny were as
much at home with each other, at once, as
if they iiad been acquainted lor years. .
The intended five minutes imperceptibly
urew into en. and the ten into hall an hour
n
Fannv continued at her household work.
! pleasantly chatting the while, both she and
Harry mutually so interested as to forget
time and place alike. At last the entranca the Colonel addressed his men ta a speech
of Mrs. i-omers interrupted the tete a te't. which for brevity, conciseness i nd Tig
Fa nny was a little embarrassed, when 6he or, may bear comparison with my that
found how long she and Harry bad been Caesar Napolean ever addressed to their
alone ; bu: the easy matter-of-course man- troops. "Soldiers," said he; 4'oi r wives
ner of Harry, as he shook hands with her ar.d children are in the rear, the Hessians
mother, restored her to herself. are in front give it to them!'' Tjey did
If the elegant refinement about Isabel give it to them, and that band of foreign
had tempted Harry to fall in love, the mercenaries melted away befoie those
1 cOarmmg wue ranny wouiu maae, -uu
: . ! a
how sweetly sne would iook in uer neai
home dress, engaged in ner uomesuc amies.
Nor is Harry the only young bachelor, who
remembers that a wile cannot be always in
fr.ll iroc anr! vhn natnrallv wishes to
know how she -rould look ia the kitchen,
"A wile ought as much to know how to
manage ber house," be said to himself,-.,
a man to understand business. I don't
wish a wife of mine, indeed, to be maid ol
all work ; . but I should like to have ber ca-
I cable of overseeing her servants; and do -
I mestics discover very soon wnetner weir;
, mistres. ,. competent, and od.j
: gard her accordingly. Besides Fanny
; ed bewitching this morning Ah ! I bad
.cch a dear little wile, how I d her
U nto the kttcheu occastooa.ly, that I
j might see her work.
It .ooa became apparent .hat ,t wouIJ be
no ju.i u.
n Inriniln Never was a man deeper in
I U.rrw'a ,1 KonifT fim MXIB r Jill-
affnrt ' e,i
"''"J 117 rhsh flirt, she
j . . .. feelinrg as
r - r -
only hesitated long enough to be certain; of
the state of her own heart, when she ri ade
Harry happy by accepting him., ;-
Two'persons more fined lor each other,
in fact, could not be. Though always ner-
ry, because always happy, Fanny was i.mi-
able, intelligent and fti'I of sound sense.
She had read and thought a great deal, es.
pecially for one so young. Her heart ran
over wjln .unwrilten poetry." Hat,' Harry
sought for a life time, he could noubave
fouruj a w-,re eo companionable anc so
suitediin every way to him
What a'talk the engagement made when
it came out! The haughty Isabel, vho,
without being half as capable of sin:ere
love as Fanny, bad made up her mini to
have Harry, and whose vanity therefore
was piqued, even degraded herself so much
as to call the bride elect 'ar. artful and in
triguing puss." Other disappointed beau
lies Lad other hard names for Fanny. But
though, when our heroine first heard ol
these slanders, she shed a few tears she
80on dried her eyes, for with Harry's ove,
nnihinu rmilil mskn hpr lrwir nrilinnnv-
It was not till the young couple hatl set !
- o - "a 1 1 J
ofl on their wedding lour, that Harry told
his wile what had first made him fall in
love with her.
"Every other girl I visited that morn ng,'
he said, "was playing the fine lady; and
that, while, as I well knew, their mothers
were often slaving in the kitchen. I rea
soned that the daughter who would neglect
her duty to a parent, could scarcely b - ex-
peeled to be less selfish towards a hus!iand.
Besides, it is a common error with yoi rsex
now a-aays, to suppose mat it is debasing ;
to engage in domestic duties, to a rr an 01 j
sense, dearest, a woman never looks , more
attractive than at such a time. As Words
worth writes :
"Her household motions light'and free,
And str-ps of virgin liberty.
A countenance in which there meet
Sweet record, promises as sweet ;
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily lood :
For transient sorrow, simple wile,
Praise blame, love, kisses, tears
and
snijes "
As he recited ihese line, with ext uisiie
se'.sibiiity, he put his arm around Ft nny's
waist, ard drew her towards him ; at d the
young wife looking np into his lace, with
devoted aifectiOn le&ied her head n bia
bosom, and shed happy tears-
And so we leave them.
Bevuiuliunary Anecdote
One of the regiments in the ba tie of
Bennington was commanded by a Colonel,
who when he was at home, was a deacon, j
He wast a calm, senate, determined man, j
and went to the battle because he wis im i
pelled by a sense of duty. Hi whole par
ish was in his regiment, so was thuir be
loved pastor, without whose presence and
blessing they scarcely thought themselves
iu a way to prosper. The Colonel w as or-
dered by Gen. Stark to re if. force one of the
wings which was suffering severely. He
marched at the instant with his fore !8, but
as slowly and composedly as if he hi d been
marching to a conference meetmj. .The
officer in command of the corps to be re
lieved, loaring that he should be conpelled
to give way sent to hasten the Co onel.
"Tel! 'em we're corning," said le, and
marched steadily on. A second messenger
came with the intelligence that th wing
w as
beginning
to fall back. "That will
make more room for us tell 'em we re
I, A I M I I
coming " replied the Colonel, with onmov-
ed countenance and nnaccelosated ace A
third messenger reached bun, just as his
troop-emerged from behind a coppice, in
lull view of the enemy, whose ba Is now
began to whistle about them. " Halt!"'
commanded the Colonel; "loin: into col-
umn and attend prayers." - And there in
the face of the enemy, did the regiment
. .
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Dause. while the solemn prayer wa offered
-
for their success in the deadly struggle they
were about to begin. Prayer benu: ended,
A Soldisr's Burml. A letter from the
field of Shiloh says: On Wednesday evening
we observe J a tew men working on the lace
of the hill not far Irom the boats V'e turn
ed aside to see and found them engaged in
digging a grave for a dead rebel sol I.er who
bad lain there for some time wrapped up in
hi. blanket The work wasdone rith lutle
ceremony, but with decent propriety No
j rabald word was uuered by anybody. Before
he was laid in his lonely resting place we
' u,,co e,BU ,,,'a
I J I.!. In..
It was ghaiitly, but
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.tern's solitary pris
, .adder impre.slon lh ,n wbole
foe PefcIwiM. he had
been forced into lhe onholy eeiTlce ,,
,
for fa.m p - nQ
of ft- fed
opon his mortal -.gonies, and no baud pro!
M"" " 9 .. ' . .
terred to his burning hps a cop o cold wa-
he 001 !
now, and it a teat dropped beside his rune
- " " 3 iTp!. ntth
A Female Editor on Kissing.
Miss Belle .Phillips, evidently a very
sprightly young lady, has, or recently had
charge of a department in the Georgia
Weekly Herald. She is a very dashing
writer, talking just as she feels and feeling,
we guess, about right. Just listen to her:
"We got such a raking about our thoughts
on kissing, that to spite some folks we now
will tell them what we don't; like. We
don't like to be importuned for a kiss until
all our patience is gone. We don't like to
threaten bashfjl men to kiss them. They
turn pale and red, and finally, like j some
simpering ' school girl turn their heads,
aside, as if they really .thought us in earn
est. Well, we'll tell you what, il we were
in their places, no young 'lady under the
sun should threateiijto kiss us and not do it.
We saw a young man kiss a Iady:s pic
ture once, and she present. Now we
wouldn't have done that, and we '.told him
so. Kiss a cold inanimate picture, when
the original was sitting before us,Jwith rosy
red lips and defiant eyes? No, never!
"Jacob kissed Rachel," is the earliest re-
j believe of a love kiss thouah we
feel assured that long belore this the luxury
was indulged la. In olden time peop e
used to greet each other with a real hearty
kiss, but fashioii has substituted the formal
bow or the shaking of bands. Poor ex
change, we say. Mark Antony resigned
the world for a kiss. Our poets have writ
ten some of their sweetest lines in praise of
kissing. We humbly beg our lriend, those
who are insensible as not to leel the pleas
ure ol a kiss, not to pester themselves in
picking us to pieces because. we nave thus
expressed ourselt. If thev do we'll
PaJ' !
them tack. There is one thing pretty cer- !
tain, there's only one objection we would
raie to kissing ; if any one wishes 10 know, j
let them inquire through the Ihrald We 1
do not condemn kissing, but if anj one
was to attempt to kias us well, never mind .
the rest." i
Prentice says : "Ah, Belie you start a t
good many kiss-memor.es to our lip-.. And
we guess you 11 nave 10 'lase a sweet kiss,
('it will io you no hrm') for your sugyes-
' tion. We dotri intend to 'importune you
, till all your patience is gone' on the wings
ot kisses, but you needn't think we'll 'kiss
you qu.ck ami let yoi go.' Go along with
j your kiss winged patience., How much
... 1 . . 1 . 1 - '
patience have you, and does your 'patience
on a monument' smile at kissing 1 Let an
swer 'slip 'twist the kiss and our lip,' now.
''Mark Auiony resigned the world for a
kiss," you say This was a case of 'bills
payable 'lor valuable received,' we doubt
not, and Antony was conscious of having a
kUs pay lor the blow struck by Augu-lns
Ctesar lor Ociavia, Antony's wite. 1
'We agree wiih you that il is a 'poor ex
change, we say,' the substitution of hand
shaking or head inclining for the old hearty
meeting kiss (this was the origin of love
feasts in the churches, we believe.; Bel
ler far an exchange of kisses, we say, than
any 'silver fragments of a broken voice," or
any other currency; better this ringing coin
which cannot be counterfeited than any
earthly minting; belter than any poetry ol
the dead languages this lambric and spon
daic of the living lip-language.
"Ah ! the poetry of kisses ! All the love
poetry ol tre world Dears itie print ana im-
print ci Kisses : spiritual or umerwtse ;
Love literature is embalmed in kisses. Love
itself is sealed and laid away in the heart
envelope, sealed with kisses and how
many of the treasures laid up in Heaven
are kissed 10 sleep in the dreams of Para
dise. Tennyson sings :
"Dear as remembered kisses after death
And said as those on people's fancy feigned
On lips that are for others."
" Perhaps these last mentioned kisses are
the saddest unrealizations that a heart can
t feel (N. B We have tried these kisses
i , ,, . ...
( 'feigned, on lips that are lor others see
our unpublished 'Reminiscences.') Hood
seems to have appreciated as well as our
greater Tennyson, the sad lover's fancy, in
his most sadly sweet ballad of 'Inez,' for it
is full of the soul of lost kisses feigned on
lips that are for others :'
"Farewell, farewell, sweet Inez,
That vessel never bore
So glad a freight upon its deck
Nor danced so light belore ;
Alas, for pleasure on the sea,
And sorrow on the shore.
The smile that blessed one lover's heart,
Has broken many more."
This should have been :
"The kiss that blessed one lover's heart
Has broken many more."
Kisses'have become historical. Every
man has historical kisses in his lite, but
they embalm unwri'ten histories. The kis
ses that Antony wasted a world so gladly
for 'on a brow of Egypt,' never grew old.
and Margaret's kiss on the sleeping lips of
Alian Chartier comes to the dream of every
poet. Do you remember it 1 Alian Char
tier the poet was 'be ugliest man in France;
but ihe Queen with her maids found him
one day asleep and bent over and kissed
his dreaming lips. M kiss not the man ' she
said, 'I kiss the soul that sings ' So France
kises her children, dead or living; she kis
ses the soul that sings Longfellow makes
old Miss Staudish say that he has stood a
good many bullets, but that a cannon ball
was more easily to be withsiood than 'a
terrible No point blank from the mouth of
a woman.' .'No' shocks one's little world
0, H ,Q the ceDtre at:d poor6
broad-
ol thorn, into the left side, but a kiss,
poin, blank from the mouth of a woman'
delightful is the elecuical earth shock
throned.' It seems as it has been filly ex
pressed :
"A battery of bliss
Let off in a tremendous kiss."
"By the way, if Love is an electrical
fluid, kisses are agreeable telegraphic des
patches though it requires skilful opera
tors. "But, young lady of our text, we must
not lorget you. You beg us not to pester
ourselves in picking you to pieces for your
free thoughts about kissing Well, we
don't pick you to pieces, but it doesn't
feel pleasant no matter how it looks to
kiss 'before folks' shanl we just tuke you
i.pait Vs
Kicking Horses
Horses that are disposed to kick in har
ness may be cured in one half day's time,
by pursuing the following course:
Have a yard of thirty to one hundred feet
tnrtit with a hizh and strong
CVJlWJW-"w- ------ -
fence. Lead ths horse into the yard, then
put on h'.m a regular biting bridle, buckled
back very close, so'that he can have little
or no play with his head; then take a basket
and lie it securely lohis'.tail, and just long
enough so that his heels, when kicking, will
reach it but not go into it. Now let him
kick, meantime, talk to him, but at the
same lime keep out of his way. Should he
throw himself, walk up to him, and taking
hold of the basket, lay it upon him, and all
around his heels.
Alter he f as laid a littl while loosen one
rein of his bridle, and then the other, until
he ran set up. If again he. tries to lick,
buckle the biting reins again, and so keep
him until he is Quiet. When he shows 110
further disposition to kick the ba-ket. take
.( ofl-auJ pQ, or, Uie harness ihen hook a
whiffle ,rt!e ,0 OIie ,ni, and lead him around
,he yarJ ,f he phoWB no fear of u hook
,he olhef e.,d of u anJ ;el h hit hi, heels
al every f,ep very fe001, he wlU nol nollce
Now i00en his buckling lines, and let
Jm )ave reep!ay of his head, drive .him
aroon(j
,f . . w .r,.noirort to kick, buck-
- - - j
le nplthe biting ren again, and drive Inn:
thus a while longer, then Hgain ui
icheck
him, and so continue 10 manage until he
exhibits'no sign of fear or disp si-ion 'o kick ,
110 matter what may hit. hi- heels Hdfses j
disposed to run away when ever anything,'
hits their heels. in.harness, may also be cur
ed in the 6amemanner.
Gallaktrv or a Pennstlvaman Lieut
Edward 1C Mull, of Capt Richard's com
pany, Third regiment of Pennsylvania Re
serves, while on duiy near the Rappahan
nock river was captured by a party of reb
! and carried off some'distance. where a
, ..l .1.,'. i 1
guard armeu wnn a snoi gun. y...u
over him to prevent him making his escape
while the party went off for more came.-
As soen as the captors were out ot sight
,he
Lieut, pulled a revolver from his coat pock-
ei, and holding il close to the headjo! the
goard; poli'ely informed him that he was
under the painful necessity of .blowing his
braiiis out if he did nol instantly lay down
his gun and go with him. It is needless to
add that the frightened rebel obeyed orders
and il was not lon before the Lieutenant
was back in his own camp, as good as new
accompanied by his prize. Lieut Mull, is
a resiJmil o( Buck8 coonly, Pa
lotercstin to the Human Race.
Tall men live longer than enrol ones
The married are longer lived than the sin
gle ones, and, above all, those who observe
a sober and industrious conduct. Women
have more chances of life previous to the
age of fifty years than men, but fewer afier.
The number of marriages are in proportion
of seventy-six to one hundred. Marriages
are more frequent after the equinoxes, that
is, during tbe months of June and Decem
ber. Those born in spring are generally
"
more robust than others. Births and deaths
. u u. i. . i '
are more frequent by night than by day
The number of languages spoken i, four
thousand sixty-four. The number ot men
:.-K.,.n.i.,h-nnmh-r nt mr,.i
,J H U V U l &.ju, . wiw ....... . . - ..... .
The average of human lile is
it iny-inree
. . t
years,
seven
teen.
One quarter die before the age of i
nr. hitlf hefnm the atre of
seven-
, - - -a
To every thousand persons only one J
reaches one hundred years, and not more
than one in five hundred will reach eighty
years. There are on the earth one biLion
inhabitants. Of these, thirty-four million
three hundred and thirty-three thousand
three hundred and thirty-three die every
year, ninety-one thou-and eisiht hundred
and twenty four die every day, seven thou
sand seven hundred and eighty, every hour,
and sixty per minute, or one in every sec
one. The-e losses are about balanced by
an equal number of births.
A young fellow of our acquaintance,
whose betier hall had just presented him
with a pair of bouncing iwiris. attended
Rev Mr
's church on last Sunday
evening. Dunug the discourse the clergy
man looking right at our innoi ent friend,
said in a tone of thrilling eloquence :
"YounjZ man. you have an important re
sponsibility thrust upon you." The new
fledged dah-dah, supposing the preacher
alluded to his pecular home event consid
erably startled the audience, by replying:
' Yes, -sir, 1 have two of them."
Some country editor gets off the following;
'The Battles of Life Courtship is the en
gagement, the proposal is the assault and
matrimony the victory.'' Then, we con
. dude that a treaty of peace is on the aP
W1XTER IS THE COUNTRY.
BY ISAAC MACLELLAN.
The winter moon rides high,
1 ho yellow moon shines bright;
The frosty stars, like jewels,
Entwine the brow of Night,
Ami the wintry winds are calling,
And the feathery flakes are falling.
The snow shines on the roof.
The snow drifts o'er the street;
Road -side and field are sprinkled
With the sharp ar.d transient sleet.
Big icicles hang from the wall
Like spar in grottoes dim:
And a polished shield is thick enclasped
Around the old oaK limb;
While sparkling crystals on each twig
In liquid lustre swim.
The brook hath lost its merry song,
And ceased its playful chase;
O'e' glistening lake a rosy throng
Of skaters ply their race;
The water wheel 10 choked wilhsice,
Nor tarns its dripping beam;
Mire rests the Irozen water-fail,
Mute rests the frosty stream.
The snow-birds perch on the garden rail,
The earth denies them food ;
Under the hemlock mopes the quail,
Wiih her hall-perished brncd
And the partridge shivereth as ihe gale
Howls through the inclement wood.
The cattle haste to the friendly barn,
The sheep to their folds repair ;
The dame by the fire-si!e spins the yarn
Her good man nods in his chair,
While children crowd to the chimney nook
Intent on frolic, or picturedjbook.
About Packets.
Pockets are a marked feature of civi'ized
life. The history is the history of humani
ty, and a ca alogue ol their successive con-
tents would lurnish a condensed biography.
There, werej no pockets in ihe fis leaf of :
Eden- our first parents had no need to hoard
or appropriate, tor itie trees arm neroage 01
ihe garden offered them freely all their sim
ple wealth There were no pockuts in
Adrfm' first'blouse of skins, for as vet he
r m L J
had no fcnite wherewith to cut tobacco, and
was innocently ignorant of the po'ency of
the marvelous weed But when li'e grew
hard and human interests conflicting then 1
. I I ... a tL. . . A rtniilA.iAll inflif nliArt
, 1 ,' r r 1 1
! incpMnic i"i n- j ,
amenity and convenience It ts a social
not se fih institution. It contains supplies,
not boards. The treasures of the mi-erare
buried in a vanlt, while lite subsidies of the
norkei are anuronriatelv known as change
From its warmest corner comes the penny
lor the street sweeper,ihe toys for the fire
side, and the weekly gratuity for charities
of every kindly name.
Butthemor-t characteristic deposits are
not in money. Children preler he concrete
t the abstract, the end to the means
While the little man wears the dreof his
tUter. his nockets like hers
is filled wiih
, l.
f3lr anil randies. Hul verv soon lie teens
a wider range of activi.ies and the sweet-
meats, not yet ignored, disputes possession j
DJ w"n je . "
. . , -. i ' 1 r. 1.
tops, kite strings, ana Knives. 11 ue is me
chanical the knife gains a companion in an ;
ivory rule if studious in pencils and paper, j
Then comes the biliigetent period, when
the country boy makes investments in pow- j
.lr u.i.l shot, and the vouug citizen is an ,
amateur in pistols and percussion caps. ; and cities will become thef liberaluyersjof
And as war alternates wiib peace, the torn- luxnrie, and those engaged in raising of
.hawk with -he calumet so about this peri- ; small fruits, as well as orchard products
cd, if at all, ii developed a preterence tor will find better markets ihan have occurred
cigars and fine cut, but these are noxious for years while staple crops willJbeVequir
weeds ;hat are liable to choke oat all ed to supply the manufactnring districts,
heatthlul growth. Just as rats leave a sink where unprecedented scccess will insure
ing ship, when these fragrant.lreasures find increased demand
their way to the pocket, indignant mo'hs
leave ihe oung men's wardrobe in disgust.
It will be weil it the odor does not serve
to expel more desirable visitants than these.
Then follows the youth's lates' pocket com
pauion, the watch, pointing with its golden
' .
finger ihe silent moral of the time
For the girl, her early sufar plums give
place to the cheap luxury of parer dolls,
, nii,,.,., 4 K. iKi luimli-.ir imn! erne nt a
- "
thimble. Hard upon tins come the scrio-
. .
bling stage, when the pocket finds room lor
Pencil and paper, for notes ot many pages
crossed, and filled with the fancies
i . ill 1
' 31111 Illlllf I f lllCIKl llli'O nil" . ... ...
cron.
r j sixteen It is oui a sngni cnano uum mo.-o
i mimoc m ihnsK of a warmer hue ,
; "" i
the billet doux of boyish acmirer. 10 ue
followed we trust by the firm lines that
bear the frank avowal of a manly love. She jlte(j hef ,al hanj8 jn tjje altitude of
Yet ther-e last will not long remain in ihe devotion ani, excla',med "See God's big bo
pocket; these are too precious guests lor qoetji Ar.oher child of five having seen
each familiar treatment and shall retire to , h?(. fa,her or ,he first time he having been
some inner sanctuary, set apart lor the ho- I ah(lcJlU n California, was much astonished
liest of all With love come sorrow, with ! . h(J 6hould claim any authority over her.
sorrow religion; so when our crowned wo
man has hidden away her heart's treascres
hallowed by kisses if not by tears, amid a
shower ol fallen rose-leaves perhaps pro
phetic of their fate, the receives a new
friend a pocket-bible in their place. Con
j secrated to labor, love and duty, the pocket
thus meets the whole round ol human need
A story of an enterprising newsboy is told
by a Detroit paper He took the telegraph
ic heading of the news of the Tennessee
battle, and, at his own expense had them
telegraphed to Port Huron and the various
places along the railroad route. On the re
ceipt of such news everybody was stirred
up and eager to get the lull particulars As
the evening train arrived at the various sta
tions he found crowds anxiously awaiting
him, ar.d everybody calling for the papers
At Port Huron a meeting was in progress at
the church, and the choir was singing as
the wi.tle sounded the approach of the train
The meeting at once broke U. th congre
gation dispersed to read the news in a Te
moments every paper bad been disposed
of.
-1
From the Working Farmer.
Agricultural rrospeels of ISG!.
The disturbed condition of the country
which has prevailed the year past has par
alyzed trade, and agriculturists, in common
with most other classes of the community,
seem to have superceded all energy of ac
tion, beyond that called for by the exigen
cies of the day.
At this time ihe prospect of a speedy
peace may fairly be anticipated, aid we
hope to find at an early date, the energies
of all the States directed agaia toward the,
common benefit, and farmers now, with the
slightest foretho't, must see their interest in
renewed vigor in the prosecution of their
business.
The demand for this year will probably
be greater than that of any previous year.
The general success of business of all kinds
will be unprecedented, and the mere in
crease in consumption consequent upoQ
successful trade, will of itself give rise to
nnnsual demand for agricultural products.
We now see that in all of the southrea
: ports, cotton hss a mere .nominal value,
' whi'e at the north it has greatly increased
in prices; the mere change of position coo
j sequent upon this, will create an immense
amount of transportation Sugar in Louis
iana is worth three cents a ponnd. ard iu
New York has advanced materially. Pork,
fl.inr, and corn, in most of the south ren
I stales bear'exiranrdinart prices, while in
j .he northwest they may be purchased at a
'; very low ra'e Indeed, there is no part of
the country in which some commodity is
not in exce?."whi!n the locality is deficient
in others, to be focr.d elsewhere in plenty.
The amount of manufactured goods which
has been consumed, without being replaced
throughont the south, is very Urge, and
even in the north, the manufacturers "have
been so panic stricken, that it is deficient of
the very clas of goods which il usually
, supplies to other markets,
The very moment the conn'ry is at peace,
! an amonnt of interchange of commoditi
mnt ocenr. creating the mot successful
trade N-'w York has ever known, and in
deed this remark will apply equally well to
every part of the cour.try. The mere move
ment of transportation, giving activity to
the capita', will call or.l all resources of
credit in its varions modifications. Produ
cers, manufacturers, negotiators and bank-
ers, will ail prosper fonder new state of
things, all of which will tend to an increas
ed nse of farm prodncts. 0ir factories have .
sent forth large numbers of their workmen,
as soldiers, while Ihe agricultural districts
havrt parted thousands of their most indes-
! ,r,on "on
Millions of acres of land have
! been neglected, and we anticipate excess-
1 "e demand, wnn remunerative prices mr
i ..lirls hish ms fln.l ii. iv tn ths
j -.- 7
proper markets. As water finds its level,
ro will the laws of trade equalize all the ab
errations from the usual healthy connec
tions which may have occurred doring theie
troubled limes, and this equalization calling
out all the energies of the nation, and giv
ing a'i impetus to commerce, manufactures
and agriculture, will form an epoch in the
history of our coontry Inhabitants of town
Don't Kill Thxm The spring! Birds
have returned. Welcome them don't kill
them TLey are friends. A naturalist vis
ited a farmer, who complained that his crop
of turnips was failing. The naturalist went
K on. I .1 uKAvoru. that lhr vprA
in o the field and discovered that they were
destroyed by worms
"Have you been killing the small birds?'
asked the gentleman
'My neighbor and I" killed 1,500 spai-
rows this spring ' said the farmer.
That explains the mysiery. The farmer
had killed his best friends. The birds would
have destroyed the worms and saved the
A li'tle girl of three years, from beyond
the Miissippi, who had never seen an ap
ple tree m full bloom, behe'd one in Ohio,
and on occasion of rebellion, as he admin
istered punishment, she cried out, "I wish
you had never married into our family!"
A Precocious youth, in a country town in
this State, had arived at the age of nine
years' when his father aent him to school.
He stood beside the teacher to repeal the al
phabet. "What's that ?'' a-ked the master."
"Harrer," vociferated the urchin. "No,
that's A." "A." Well, what's ihe next!"
4 Ox yoke." "No, it'. B " "'Taint 3, nei
ther ! it's an ox-yoke. Crotch all hemlock!
gosh a mighty ! think I don't know V
A wag was passing a. livery stable on
day, in front of which several lean horses
were lied, stopped suddenly, and gazed at
them for some time with a phiz indicating
the utmo-t astonishment, and then addressed
the owner who was standing near " if ha
made horses." "Make horses said the
knight of tbe baroom and currycomb, no,
why do you ask such a question!" "Only,
because I observe you have several frames
set op."
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