BY' 1): & C. IL BUEHLER
VOLUME .XXV.
GMT ITTRICTION!
fit. FAMiNIESTOOK & SONS has just
^- 7 * received and are now opening one of
the Isrgest and most complete assortment
of Sprin g , and Sommer Dress Goods 'ever
offered to the public. Our selection bar.
ing been made with great care, i and our
stock lourehasee at reduced prncee, we
feel prepared to present inducements such
es-are'rarely offered. Our stock of Dry
Goods has never been surpassed and',
with' the addition of our last purchase,
comprising as it does Cloths of all pri-1
ce.'and qualities, Cassimeres, Vesting.,
Kentuekv 'Jeans. Plaids for Children,
&rage De Laines. M. De Laines, Be
rages, Berage Alpacas, Calicbes, Ging.
hams, SHAWLS, (Cashmere, Tliibet, &
White Crape of every variety,) we chal
lenge' the county to prothibc their equal,
as regards to quality and price. •
• ',Having added largely to our variety of
G HOC E It I KS,
we are prepared to furnish the finest
dualities of Syrup, Molasses, Sugar, etc.,
dec., at reduced rates; our stock of Mo
lasses and Sugar is regarded as the most
complete ever offered in the counry. We
deem it neediest enumerate, as we
have, always on hand a complete assort
ment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Queensware, &e.
To satisfy you of (he truth of our asser
tion; we only ask you to call and examine
for yourself, if you want bargains. Call
early at FALINESTOCKS.
Sign of the Red Front.
Marc( 31.1854.—tf _
I MESH SUPPLY.
THE undersigned has just returned
from the City, with a large assort
of FRESH-GOODS, which he is pre
pared to sell at prices which cannot be
bait. His Block consists of
- GROCERIES
of all . kinAs, sugars, 31OIasses.. Coffees,
Teis,•Pish, Salt, Crackers, Cheese, Pick.
eled'Cnooinbers, Sze. Also, •
Fruits & Confections,
Oranges. Lemons. Figs: Raisins. Prunes
tisc.—Also. Powder, Shot. Tobacco:- Se
.ears, Gail's celebrated German Smoking
'Mincer'. and a variety of tither articles--
Alto a firat-rate. assortment of the best
qualities of
LIQUORS, •
Wines and Brandies. of different kinds,
.N. E. Rum; Holland Gin. Old Rye, dm.
—all of which can be bad on the lowest
terms at the Store-of the stibsciitier. in
Booth Baltimore street, nest door to the
•••Star" afire.
!CI - Also, always on hand a variety of
Stone Jugs, Sm.—Give us a call.
EMANUEL ZIEGLER, Jr.
Gettysburg. May 19. 1854—ti. .
NW GOODS! NEV GOODS!
ABRAM ARNOLD has just returned
from the City with the •
Largest,Cheapesi. 4r Best Selected Stockof
Spring and Summer Goods,
ever before offered to the town or country,
consisting in part o. German. French and
Domestic Cloths, Black & Fancy Cassi
meres, Satin & other Vestings. Italian
Cloths, Coat Gingham., Tweeds, Ky.
Jeans. Berege De Laittel, M. De Laines,
Prints, Gingham., and a great variety of
Goods too numerous to mention. Also,
a large, assortment of Bonnets, Para
sols. ike. •
• 0:7Tall and see, as I am determined
trEundersell any. establishment in the
Town or County.
March 31 1854.—ff
MODE NEW GOODS !
A';DMOOND r3Z77:a7.
GEORGE ARNOLD
- 1111 AS just returned trom the City with
a 11 , another supply of seasonable Goods,
among which is •
• Ladies' Dress Goods,
ofeiery variety, very handsome and cheap,
Sleeves, Collars and CulTs, in great variety
and of illft latest styles, White and Red
Crape and other shawls, embroidered and
plain tmen Shawls, Ribbons, a beautiful
variety, Bonnets, Trimmings, Calicoes,
Ginghams, Hosiery, Dress Silks, Bonnet
Silks and Setting, Edgings, Inserting.,
Ate.. &e.,—with almost any article in
tfie DRY GOOD line, aslo a lot of
FRESH GROCERIES,
all of which will be sold as cheap as they
can be had at any other establishment in
the place. Please call, examine and judge
fOr yourselves.
May 12, 1854.
ANTI-NEBRASKA
HATh CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES.
.
cOME ONE, COME ALL, and tell
your neighbors to come, to the Store
of the "Two Extremes," and see
the splendid stock -of HATS.
CAPS, BOOTS and
SHOES, now open
ing, of the latest style and_ot evety varie
ty, suitable for the Spring and Summer
season, for Gentlemen, Ladies and Chil
dren.
I, bavis made arrangements to have
biota 'sna Shoes made to order, by the
hest of workinemand of good material, in
the quickest possible time.
W. W. PAXTON.
Gettysburg, March 31, 1854.—tf
TDIRER LAND FOR-SALE.
THE subscriber has still a few more
lots of TIMBER. LAND for sale,
which will be disposed of reasonably.—
For iefortitaoon.apply to
acr Alio for sale, a lot of LOCUST
wiosTs:
4 J. D. 'PAXTON.
Gettysburg, May I 2 113.54.--if •
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given to all Lege
tees and other persons concerned,
that the Sdministration Seconds herein
after mentioned,-will be presented et the
Orphans' Court of Adams county, for con
firmation and allowance, on Monday Me
21st day of Sygust next, viz.: .
249. The account of Jacob Bucher, Ex
ecutor of the last will and testament of
William Reed, deceased.
250. The first account of Joseph Dv
serf, Executor of the last will and testa
went of Harriet Biehl, deceased.
251. The second and final account of
John Hoover, Administrator of the estate
of George Goulden, deceased.
252. The first account of Agnes Sadler.
Administ.iatrix of Wm. It. Sadler, deceas
ed, who was the Administrator of the ca
ate of Thomas McCleary, deceased.
253. 'file first and final account of Ag
nes Sadler, Administratrix of Wm. R. Sad
ler, deceased, who was the Administrator
of the estate of 'Adam • Sower, deceased.
254. The final scapula of Samuel Mar
tin, Guardian of Albert N. Beard and
Athaliali Beard, minor children of Joshua
Beard, deceased.
255. The supplementary and final ac
count of John Brough, surviving Adminis
trator of the estate. of. Peter Kitchen, de
,
ceased. ,
250. Tgit first'account of David Meale,jr.,
Administrator of the estate of John Meals,
257. The first and final account of,Hen
ry A. Picking, Administrator of tlie estate
of Solomon Albert, tferertsed.
- 258. •The second aceountt - -of*:-Wm.-DI
Dimes and Alexander S. filmes, Execu
tors of the last will and testament of
George Dimes,: deceased. -
• .259. The further . account-of Daniel
Geiselrnan and Moses Senit, Executors of
the laet will . and • testament of Abraham
Reiff, deCeased. • -
280: Trio second and final account -of
Dr. John .. Runkel, Executor of the last
will and tea Lament of Runkel, AN
ceased.
201. The aecount of Dr. John Runkel,
Administrator of ihez , estate of, Margaret
Runlcel, deceeieci.
262: The account of George F. Eck.
enrode. •Administrator of the estate of Julia
Ann Eckenrode deceased.
263. The drat and final account of
flenry Hartman. Administrator of the es.
tate of Ann Dorfman, deceased.,
281, The first account ofJohn D. Beek
er. Administrator of the estate of Jacob
Mitt', deceased. • '
285. The first and final account °Men-
Ty Peters, Administrator of the estate of
Heury, Peters. Sen. deceased.
DANIEL PLANK, Register. •
Register's Office. Gettysbutg,
July' 28, 1854. f
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS Hon. ROIIRRT I:FISHER
ESq., President of the several
i Courts of Conimon Pleas e in the counties
composing the 19th District, and Justice
of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and
general Jail Delivery, for the trial of. all
capital and ether offenders in the said dis
trict—and SAMUEL R. RUSSELL. and JOHN
Alsommt,Esor., Judges of the Courts of
common Pleas and Genera; Jail Delivery,
forthe trial of all capital and other offend
ems in the county of Adams—have issued
.their precept, bearing date the 19111 day of
April in the ygar of our LORD, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, Mid
to me directed, for holding a Court of Com
mon Pleas and General Quarter Sessions
of the Peace and- General Jail Delivery,
and Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Get
tysburg, on Monday the 21st of sluguel
next—
NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN• To
all the Justices of the Peace, the Coroner
and Constables within the said County of
Adams, that they be then and there in their
proper persons, with their Rolls, Records,
Inquisitions, Examinations and other Re
membrances, to do those things which to
their offices and in that behalf appertain
to be done, and also they who will prose
cute against the prisoners that are or then
shall he in the Jail of the said County of
Adams, and to be then and 'there to pros
esute against them as shall bejust.. •
JOHN SCOTT, Sheriff.
Sheritra Office, Gettysburg,
July 7, 1854. ' ' to
NOTICE,
ADAMS COUNTY S. S.
The Commonwealth. of Penneyl•
t _ .
,r.t i t
4 W rants to the Sheriirof said county,
. 4 ..._ - ' Greeting :
( "
•,,,,. . • , o command you that you
attach ROBERT holm late of
your county, by all and • singular, his
goods and ohattles, lands and tenements,
in whose hand or possession Beaver the
same may be, so that ho be and appear be
fore our Court of Comminon Pleas, to be
holden at Gettysburg in and for said county
oh the 21st day of 4uguel next, there
to answer 'slum Ittvirt, of a Plea in
debt upon Note under Seal not exceeding
$lOO. And summon all persona in whose
hands or possession the said goods and
chattles, lands and tenements, or any of
them, may be attached, so that they and
every of them be and 'appear before the
said . Court at the day and place afore men
tioned to answer what shall be objected a
gainst them or him, and abide the judg
ment of the Court therein; and have you
then and there this writ. Witness the
Hon. ROBERT J. FisEtER, President Judge
of the said Court, in Gettysburg this 22d
day of July, A. D. 1854. •
WM. W. PAXTON. Proth'y
per A. COBEAK Dept
By the Court—JOHN SCOTT,,Bberlff,
Hherire Me, Gettysburg. j
Jnly 28. 1854,-4( 5
Draw near—Conw and See I
L. SCHICK would inform the Ladies
v• that he nowoffers Ike largest assort,
ment of BONNETS, •Bonnet • Silks• and
Velvets, Ribbons, Flowers 4k, Hair Braids,
ever before opened in this place. • Call
and see thern—no trouble to show
Goode. ' ' - .
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY E
The Old Door Stone.
FRANCIS D. GAGE. to whose pen we aro
indebted for•tho following beautiful poem,
of the "Old Door Stone," has written much
that the admirers of minstrelsy might ap
plaud, and nothing that they can with any
kind of propriety condemn.: Those who are
familiar with rural and pastoral life—that
happy life, whibh neither "town, or over-bur
dened city" can afford, will find in the poem
we copy, tho reflex of a thousand beautiful
scenes, which' all ought to bo capable of
imagining, though few can describe. The
author of the poem in question, has ac
complished all that we could have desired.
N. Y. 'limes.
A song, a song for the old door stone,
To every household dear;
That hallowed spot, where joys a nd griefs,
Were shared for many a year.
When sank the sun to his daily rest,'
When the wild bird's song was o'er,
When the toil and rare of the passing day
Annoyed the heart no more :
Then on that loved and timeworn spot
We gathered one by one,
And spent the social twilight hour .
Upon the old door stone.
How sweet to me do memories come
Of merry childhood's hours,
Wherr:weeped blithely through the tltdde;
. .
In search of.budding flowers,
Or gstheren berries from the bush
Or bending greenwood tree,
Or chased the light winged butterfly .
With pealing shouts of glee '
The freshest hour in memory's book
Was spent at set of sun,
ylb weary head on mother', Itnee, •
Upon the ohl door stone,
That mother's fele,' that mother's . fonn,
Are graven on my heart, • • .
,'ZAnd of life'tholiest memories -
They form the dearerst part
Her counsel and inatructions given,
Of frierolship, love and truth,
Hare been my guanliani and, my gullies.
Through ell the ways youth;
And yet : I teem to hear again ' •
Each I oved and treastned tone,
When I in fancy sit MR dawn,
Upon the old door atone. '
Long years have passed since mother died,
Yel she is with ma still,
. -
Whether a.toller in the vale,
Ora a wanderer on the bill%
Still with me at my morning care; •
Or oiening'squiet rest,
The guardian angel by my aide;
The kindest end the best.
A mother now, I often irrive
To catch her thought and - tone, •
For those who cluster round nirknee,
. Upon my g door stone.
And oft beneith those clustering vines
flaie,kindred spirits met, .
And ably Words breathed softly there—
Vows all unbroken yet—
And friendships formed and plans devised,
And kindly pledges given,
And sweet communions there began,
Far reaching into Heaven !
Oh I these who met in loge,..lang eyrie,"
Wide paths ere thrown, •
Yet many turn with longing hearts,
!het to the old door stone.
'Fears have flown by since those bright days
And all the world is changed,
And some who loved most kindly then
Are by the world estranged
Some fond hearts. too, then full of joy,
Are cold and still this day !
Forsaken plans end withered hopes
Lie strewn o'er all the way,
And strangers' feet tread those old halls
Where pattered once our own,
And spend the pleasant twilight hour.
Upon the old door stone.
The old door atone, the cluttering vine,
Oh ! may they long remain
And may the household band that's left
Meet there but once again ;
Meet, not to weep o'er pleasures past,
Or canvass joys to come—
Meet to revive the sacred loves '
Once centered in that noes.
A brother and a sister sleep
Our parents both are gone; -
Oh ! it would be a saddened hour .
Upon that old door-stone. N •
“I did atthe rest dld.”
This tame yielding spirit...this "doing
as the rest did"—has ruined thousands.
A young man is invited by vicious vim
ponions to visit tho theatre, or,the gaming
room, or other haunts of licentiousness.--
He becomes dissipated, spends his time,
loses his credit, squanders his property,
and at last sinks into an untimely grave.—
What ruined him Y Simply •'doing what
the rest did."
A father has a family of sons. He is
wealthy. Other children in the same situ
ation of life do so and so, are indulged in
this thing and that. He indulges his own
in the same way. They grow up idlers,
triflers, and fops. ,The father wonders
why his children do not succeed better.
Ho has spent so much money on their ed
ucation, has given them great advantages;
but, alas f they are only a source of vexa
tion and trouble. Poor man, ho is just '
paying the penalty of "doing as the rest
did."
This poor mother strives hard to bring
up her daughters genteelly. They learn
what others do,—to paint, to sing, to play,
to dance, and several other, useless mat
ters. In time they marry, their husbands
aro unable to support their extravagance,
and they are soon reduced to poverty, and
wretchedness. The good woman is asten•
ished. '•Truly," says she, "I did as the
rest did."
Tho sinner, following the example of
others, puts off repentance, and neglects to
prepare for death. He passes along
through life, till, unawares, death strikes
the fatal blow. He has no time loft now
to prepare. , And he goes down to destrue
tion, becaus e was so foolish as to "do as
the rest did.' ,
A XfllB ADIONG Tns PURITANI:-.ln
1050, a friat,,took _placajn • nnecticut,
under the section of the blue laW . e'pro•
hibiting kissing. The offenders were Sa,
rah Tuttle and Jacob Natalie°. It tip:
pears that Sarah dropped her gloves and
Jacob found them. When Sarah asked
for them, Jacob demanded a kiss for his
reward, and se the demand did not seem
to Sarah extravagant, she adjusted it forth.
with. The facts were clearly proved,
and the parties were each' fined twenty
shillings.
'Me was some time before-the eelsk
brated bonnet called the "Kistrbie quick"
was invented.
Who knows what this line iirfoi ?
((FEARLESS A
A LEA
BY ISABEL AT
One sunny day the a
from heaven—a whit
whose dwelling place is ti
of the throne. The golC
breaking softly through
and fragrant blossoms tht
pie village church—a qui
at the edge of a great foi
sunlight rested like a gok
arched &nes, and the sof)
whispered its soothing lul
Gothio windows, lifted
from the unstained brow d
child.
Mother and child knelt
waving light, while the he
pressed on the fair, upturt
ored symbol of the crass.
gathered around in the eh
the baptismal water fell or
—angels' tears of joy for 1
of a new name in heaven
~ V tre will take her, now
to come 1" whispered the
name is Love, and almost
the rosy mouth of the littl
upon whose clear brow Fr
drew near, and, poiuti
said :
'Beautiful to our Fat
of a little child—unsoiled
ed by lime; but groat a
more acceptable is that so ,
tation, who has gone out i
tle, of life, and looking ba
the mist of years on the co
•say; 'The , strife is long p
long won."'
The, sisterhood bent ov
child : Love left her dew
the •parted lips ; Hope
garland over the sinless
dropped a tear among the g
starry Faith laid upon the
priceless jewel, whose vs
know but at the gate of Pa
was '.the 'trembling of angel
ning of seraph harps, and tl
of starlight, up through the
heaven, mute there God's an
at the throne. -
"A shriek rang out on th. troubled air.
Out in the gloomy night, in he heart of a
' great city, fled a pure young.irl—lled, for
the hot breath of unholy p sion was a.
round her steps ; on, and u she sped,
with her dark hair floating ildly out, and
one fair baud pressed licar*V her throb
bing heart as if tostill its fea Id pulsations,
the other thrown imploriu y backward,
fur the tempter was in her pah. Onward,
and still ()ward she flies, Iciking over on
the holy stars cradled above-...siward and
she leaves the great, city behind, and the
peaceful night air, lifting the dirk rings
of lustrous hair, soothingly kisses her ach
ing brow. It is gained once non., that,
old village church, and she it saved t-:-
There, with the quiet umoulitlit smiling
like a sunny child in its dreamt, shekneeLs
at the altar where years befon they gave
her to God, blindly asking lenph ofyears ;
the tempter is forgotten—the half spoken
word—the poisoned breath—the unholy
thought, aro, all forgotten is that low
prayer is meekly sent up in tie quiet star
light; "Lead me not into temptation !"
The angels smiled in the din light, and
Faith bore the faint heart-prai-er beneath
hor sheltering wings to the throne of
God. •
Once more wore the arcliN aisles of the
quaint old church bathed in the mellow
sunlight ; whispering winds tame in laden
with perfume, and angel voicts crept lov
ingly through its dim aisles is the holy si
lence. . .
. Once more the man of God trembling
up before the holy cross, anc whispering
a blessing on tho newly weddgl. twenty
summers gone and she had knelt in that
quiet light at the altar's font, and now she
stood in the shadow of the starry cross—.
the tnissionany's wife. _ She lid her hand
trembling in his the silken folds upon her
bosom, rose and fell with do throbbings
of the heart; again and again she shrank
as she remembered the far.off scene of her
labors—the untried future; like a lovely
dream came up her quiet forest home—
friends, country—but Faith ' and Hope,
and Love were there, with foiled wings in
the shadowy light, whispering in the ear
of the bride wife; she teared no more.--
Steadily she gazed up in the missionary's
faceing murmured ; "I will go; thy people
shall be my people—thy God my God !"
Once more the old'ehureh
_viks,oloue in
its shadowy gloom--alone with tho kind,
watchful angels.
Years of stern self-denial, of trial, and
much - temptation passed on. In a far-off
land, in the golden starlight, knelt the
missionary woman, alone, for he bad early
gone home to heaven !
Amid the sunny braids of hair that lay
upon her time•kissed brow, was woven
many a silver thread.• She had battled
nobly, toiled steadily, and now she was a.
bout to receive her reward.
Mercy looked pityingly down from
heaven, and, kneeling at the Father's feet,
murmured : "Shall I bid her come ?"
There was a whisper ran through heaven, a
gentle sound as of many voices, the flut,
tering of many wings, and Faith and Love
whispered in one voice : "It is enough, come
up higher I" Beautiful was the spirit they
laid upon tho throne, for is not the soul
made beautiful through suffering, purified
by trial, and by sore temptation rendered
meet for heaven ?
When the morning broke over that far
land, its warm rays kissed the brow of the
dead woman. A beautiful Hindoo girl
stepped lightly in the missionary's tent ;
she bent over the quiet form with the cold
bands peacefully folded over the hushed
heart, and the nail of sunny hair falling
like a golden clond around the calm. sweet
face. There had been no struggle; the
angels had quietly kissed away the breath,
leaving the face tranquil in its uplifted
beauty as whew it had smiled beneath the
baptismal water inihe old village Chalet!,
thousands of miles away.
The young 'girl wove her clear arms
softly 'around the quiet form, • and pressed•
FREE."
i'NING, AUGUST-18, 1854.
her rounded ear to catch the first faint
fluttering of the pulseless heart, but it was
still, quite still; and When she unbound a
magnificent tiny plume from amid her
bands of shining hair, and prpsiliitk a
gainst the parted lips, not dlik4liglifbst
breath ruffled its gossamer edge ; a wild
cry burst from the Ilindoo girl ; for the
first time she knew there must be a heaven '
where the missionary woman had gone.
WOOD.
els stole away
• inged throng.
bin the shadow
, twilight was
ispering leaves
girdle in a vim
' nook, nestling
It. The fading
, glory amid its
eat wind that
I through the
a , sunny rings
l' i • pure young
Up through the aisles of the old village
church floated a dirge-like strain ; the
moonlight trembled through the window
of stained glass. and rests. 4 on the scroll
that had been newly sunk in the wall.—
Around the hoary altar, and beneath the
starlit cross, the angels folded their wings;
they were no more heavy with the dew of
' tears, for they remembered the frail barque
they had first watched bathed in the baptis
mal water—how they had guided it through
a long voyage, and at last brought it in
safety home to heaven, and surely that
must have been a glad song that swept up
through the clear moonlight up to God's
throne, When they remembered the holy,
happy spirit they had placed within the up
per temple, whose lips now trembled the
"New Song"—a chorister in the orchestra of
heaven, dwelling in the inflates of joy for-
,gether in th©
man of God
I d brow the sa-
God's angels
:owy light as
the sunny face
a registering
ifront the evil
od angel, whose .
or lips pressed
one. But she,
h was written,
heavenward,
is the spirit
sin, unstaiu
glorious, and
tried by temp-.
the great bat
ward through
lot, can indeed
t--the victory
The Blotslngo of Old Age.
• The venerable Josiah Qeiney,Seti.,
President of Harvard University, having
been toasted at the Alumni dinner, made
an excellent speech, from which this is an
extract:
"On every occasion, whether ; public or
private, an old man was sure to be remind
ed of .his years. Why was this? Old
age did not simply consist in length of
days, for as the President had quoted
"Wisdom is grey hairs in man,
'• And an unspotted the is his old - age." -
the sleeping
breath upon
o a rainbow
row ; Mercy
den curls, but
oung heart a
rnone may
disc. There
ings, the tu
n in the qui
dm and holy
els gathered
If it arose from sympathy, there was do
ground for it, the sympathy was absolute
ly thrown away. $e far as his experience
reached, old age was the happiest period of
life. And why not ? Ilad wo not then
got rid of the nonsense of love, (laughter,)
the folly of ambition, the grumbling of
envy, the delusions of hope.? .lie repeat
ed that old age was the happiest portion
of life, provided that in youth and man
hood the individual is obedient to the laws
of nature, rezulating health and strength,
and leads a life of respectability and use ,
iiiiners9. In order to be happy and long,
lived, it was important that there should
be a harmony between the be g inning, the
middle, and the end of life. The young
man should cultivate and foster the qual
ities which he sees to bo respecti.ble and
esteemed in the old ; and the old man, on
the other baud, should retain,
and seek to
perpetuate Crib feelings and vivacity of
youth."
The ex-President closed with this senti
ment :
- Thu hoary bair with which wisdom
crowns the yanng and the unspotted life
which is the crown of man at every point
of his existence (much cheering).
Childhood's Truth.
"I asked God to take care of Johnny,and
then I went to sleep I" said a little boy,
giving an account of his wanderings in the
wood. How sublime 1 how touching !
Holy childhood I Let me sit at thy feet
and learn of thee I How dost thou rebuke
me, with thy simple faith and earnest love I
0 earth, what dost thou give us in ex
change for its loss ? Rainbows, that melt
as we gaze; bubbles that burst as we gnuip ;
dew-drops, that exhale as our eye catches
their sparkle. The warm heart . chilled by
selfishness, flticed le by doubts, and thrown
back upon itself. Eye, lip, and brow
trained to tell no tale at the portal of what
passed within the temple. Tears locked
in .their fountain, save when our own
household gods are shivered. The great
strife, not whith shall "love most,' but
"which shall be , the greater;" and aching
hearts the stepping stones to wealth and
power. Immortal, yot earth-wedded.—
playing with shells upon the shore of time,
with the broad ocean of eternity before
us. Careful and troubled about trifles,
forgetting to "ask God to take care of
Johnny"—and so the long night of death
comes on, and we sleep our hat sleep !
Fanny Ara.
DR. WATTB.—If ever there was a poet
born, he was that man ; ho attained with
out study a smoothness of versification,
which, with Pope, was the result of the in
tetit analysis and most:. artistic care.—
Nor do the most majestic and resounding
lines of Dryden equal some of his in
majesty of ;loam. The most harmoni
ous lines of Dryden that I know of are
these :
tt When Jabal struck the chorded shell,
His listening Itrethren stood around,
And wondering or theirisces fell.
To worshp that celestial sound.
Less than a God they thought there, could not
dwell
Within the hollow of that shell.
That spoke sa sweetly sad so well."
The first four lines of this always seem
to me magnificently harmonious. But al
most any verse at random in Dr. Watt's
paraphrase of the one hundred and forty
eighth Psalm exceeds them, both in tnelo:
dy and majesty. For instance, take tbobv
lines :
ss His cast dominions He,
Let the Creator's name be known
Loud as His thunder shoot his prsWo,
And wend it lofty as His throne,
"Sperdt of the wonders of that love
Which Gabriel plays on every chord;
From below and all. above,
Loud hallelujahs to the
,Lord."
Simply" as a specimen of harmonious
versification, I would place this pliam,-
phrase by Dr. Watts above everything in
the English language, not even excepting
Pope's 3lesiiah.—Mrs. 11. - 11. Stowe's
Sunny Memories.
Saw Dust Pills would effectually cure
many of the diseases with whichrmankind
are afflicted, ifevery individuakwould Make
his own saw-dust.
There are three things you should hav
er take—a °old.* laJy's character;or your
neighbour'. umbrella..
The City of New York Asleep. Preserirlag Fruit With littliallr.l,iz
It is curious to see the circulation of a We have received numeroos appliettsi
great city commence in the morning—the tinnt for information about ,:the ednistor,
great city, that has roared itself to sleep. operandi of putting up knit so as , wino,.
True, there was a feeble pulse all night; ; serve it in a fresh mate, without coollutlsl,
the cars beat to and fro; a canine now drying, of packing them in sugar. •Ith ii,
1 and then gave a flutter; hilt after all business• that cannot so welt be done Ist.
there had been a quiet hour. About half families as in large manutactoriel, White ,
a million of the people had been lying "on 'everything is arranged for contenleneet
a dead level" for four or five hours, some ' but still, with a tittle experience end mires{
on pillows ,of down, and some on curb• flu attention, every family can save enough,
stones, and some, beneath the great blue of the various fruits of the seams to tor-t
quilt of heaven. nish their tables with a' great delicacy
Queer figures they make in the mind's during that portion of the year when they
eye to be sure—four hundred thousand can get nothing of the kind. The *haler
folks lying in tiers or rows, five or, six secret consists in expelling. the air front,
miles long, and three o' four feet' deep; bottles or cans by heating, and sealing opt
in the cellar, that is the "primitive forms- the contents hermetically. Hyou Wish ftt
tion," then first, second and third 'floors, ' preserve peaches select such as you would.
and so on up to the garret. Three bun- for sweetmeats, and pair and eel them so
dred thousand people snoring—what a thee can be put in the bottle, and you{
bun-{
for
I Two hundred thousand- people I must do this with the least possible deter s
dreaming. TwO hundred thousand people !or they will be colored by the atmosphere.
in red night-caps; one hundred thousand in Some persons who wantthem to retain their
white, and here and there a few trimmed ; natural whiteness, put them under water.
with lace. Fifty thousand curls twisted I When the bottle is full, cork it tight and,
up in papers, giving their
,owners an tip ; seal down the cork with a very little pro.
pearance of having made a pillow of cigar jection above the glass. When you have
lighters. Twenty tkuUsaud curls hanging bottles' enough to fill a kettle, such us May'
over the backs of chairs, or tossed upon to- Ihe most convenient, put them in and boil.
bles. I with the water all around up to the noeale,
How gently time touches some people ; for about fifteen or tweets , minutes, or niss
they never grow gray at at all 1 Ten thou- ' tit the bottle seems to be full of steams-.
sand people weeping, and now and then 1 the atmosphere having been forced`: out
one dying—dying in hia sleep, dying in a 1 through the cork. As soon as the bottles ,
dream I And then the getting up is ri- I are cool enough to handle, lip the corks,
diculous enough, though•going to bed— lin sealing-wax so as to cover themOuita.
should we say "retiring" in these refined tight. An additional precaution is used by:
times T—is u'eolemn piece of business—. some In putting tin foil over the waft. •
whether people think of it or not. '.But . Another plan is to cook 'the fruit alight•
the getting up, the waking up, is firmly 1 lv in a kettle, and then put in cans or hot-,
enough for a farce ; its process is aspecies , ties and pour but syrup of sugar In to fi ll
of gradualism. Here's one who has slept ! tip the interstices, and cork and seel.ses
"like a top" for nine solid,hours, and nowl The heat of the fruit and syrup answering:
be begins to awake ,;. lint it's a half lurch, Ito expel the air. But the lest) they are
a long breath and a yawn, •and then an cooked, or sweetened, the more natural
arm is thrnat out, then a _foots...the mus- will be the taste, like fresh freilovhen
des are waking , up. Next the rattle of opened. We have eaten peaches a year.
the early wagon strikes his. ear—hearing 1 old, that we could not tell trom,those .
SII,
is coming , too. Then his touguo moves ; gated an hour before. .
uneasily—taste is, returning. Lastly. his Tomatoes are very easily preserved.{
eyes open again, and the man's awake, a- and retain their freshness better than any.
wake all over, awake fOr the day. other fruit, , The small kind are only used.
There's another sound asleep this min- Scald and peel them WilllGlll breaking ths:
uto ; and then he shakes himself like, a flesh. Bottles should hold about a quart
huge Newfoundland, springs up "porous- only, because whet, once opened, the cons.
shin," and the thing is done—the fellow tents must be uaed up at onee. Bottles meths
hasn't a sleepy hair about him. SnoWy lon purpose, with largo Otto:Ito, and a ring.
quilts have just risen and fallen with the, on the inside are the best, and bottles arts
soft bosom beneathheginniug to grow an, I better than cans for all acid fruit. 'rho
easy. The sweet sleepers aro awakening, I cans, hotvever, are more easily secured by
so we'll draw the curtain and. leave them ! solder than the bottles by corks and wax,
to their toilet. Bundles of rags in the I and the air islet out through 5,,,,ema1l pones
dark, damp corners toss and tumble; there (life after the large opining is soldered up,
is something alive' underneath. But it : and , cans, heated, and. Hist bole stopped,,
comes—smote rags. Misery makes no toi- I with a single drop of solder.
_.
let, and there are no curtains to draw ,-.-A: I Every article of fruit , will keep fresh. if,
Y. 'tribune - . • . the air is exhausted and the bottle seated,
"tight, 'the least particle of , air admitted,
through any imperfection of the , sealing ;
will spoil the fruit. If, the air coal& be,
'driven out without heat, there ivould,be no,
need of cooking, and only just enough,
; should be given to expel the air and , not ;
change the taste. Many persons prefer'
to add syrup made by about one ponntl,4
sugar to a quart of wuter, to ell seitablo,
fruits. Green corn, beams tomatoes, pie'
' plants, currena, gooseberries, cherstes,•
strawberries, peaches, are the most , cems
mon things put up in this way. They ,
add greatly Ito the pleasures of the table s
and to the health of }hose who consume
I them ; quite unlike, in that respect, thir.
common preserves. .
We have known fruit for pies put up,
in three quart cans, by partially. cooking,'
in an open kettle in a syrup just arrest ,.
enough fur use, and putting the. fruit in the,
cans hot and soldering immediately. lt,
kept thus perfectly. . ,
Some fruits keep much better and with
less heating than others. Peas are among ,
the hardest article to keep ; they contain,
so much fixed air.
We advise every fitfully in the country
to try his plan of putting up fruit for win.,
ter use, on'a small scale this year, and if',
successful, enlarge upon it next year.
WHIRR Ttll4 STReiVOTIf Lrits..- Where
is the strength and safety nf- a - people ?
Is, it in their. multitude f Look at Europe..
and behold the million the sport of the
feW=look at the nations and races, train
pled by a tithe of their numbers in the!
dust—look at the myriad slaves, whom a
thousand tyrants and taskrnen scourge in:
flelds, and camps and dungeons. The
strength of a people is not alone in multi
wile. Is it in the power of revriiiitions
and massacres, or in the bayonets they
can fling to the gleam of the sun t Did
bayonets save Rome—did they lave Po
land, and Hungary; and; France. and Ger-• 1
many to the people I The strength and
safety- of a people lie: in their knowledge :
of their rights ) and (heir union in defence
of them ! Ignorant and disunited, the
greater the number the greater the den- :
-ger of a people. They 'are' their own
curse. They fall upon and deetroy them
selves. In their hands bayonets become i
suicidal. Give a people a true knowledge
of themselves, and no power can oppose
them. - Liberty . comes with intelligence,
and the:nriarmed, intelligent million are
stronger titan ignorant armed .millions.—
The strength of the American people lies
least in the number of their cannon and
bayonets, and most in their school houses, I
newspapers and books. =These are trade;
structible weapons, to which age adds
edge and might; and armed with these, we.'
are 'safer and stronger than a soil briShig
with murderous steel: Armed with these,
millinns lean together, and strike mightily
buebloncl-lessly as one matt, throughlhe
ballot box, •
weapon surer yet
And mightier than tho bayonet;
A weapon, that comes as still
As enow.flakes fall 'mon the sod.
And executes s inminan will,
As lightning dime the will of God f"
Gum—Holmes In one of his poems
says in a parenthical way : .
"My grantlimpe
Lowed girls when he was young."
No doubt of it, for HO!tiles is a sensi
ble man, and most have had t 4 sensible
grandfather. All sensible men love • girls
when they are young. ant! when they are
• old too. We apply the 'old' to the men,
hot to the girletutinti you, ~Oirlh. o od is an
Institution—a peculiar , institution—which
as lovers of We Ilition we feel bound to
cherish, and as to the girls, large and
email, we hold that no gentleman's fami
ly is complete without them. Of little
girls, an American poet says
••With resy,chrelm, end merry dancing curls, .
And eyes'of tender light, ' ' ' -
0, very beautiful are little et* . .
And gendly.te the eight."
And as to large girls--hig hmincing girls
what ; a pity it is they must soon he
wntnen- ! --stately, matronly, queenly' ern
men, who are only not angels because
they are girls 1-awho by the "by, are not
angels either, hut vastly more charming
than any member of the angelic host that
we reinember to have seen In pictures
or elsewhere ! Indeed they are.—Boston
Post. •
A newspaper may be destroyed at night.,
It may light a segail it may curl a lady's
hair. Oh! only think of that, girls. An'
editor's thoughts completely, sweetly. ex
quisitely wreathed' in . your rich tresses , !
and—yea! nesdeng down,with your mid.!
night slumbers. gently inguird andpsace. i
fully keep watch user your happy dreants:'-:
TWO. DOI4LARi.
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.1;41.:UM . 13,41 . i::',„.'.-.:;;;
Temperanceinterrogationi..
11:7•The Harrisburg Telegraph, a paper.
warmly devoted to Prohibition, suggests
the following interrogations to our temper.
anew friends throughout the State. as auital
ble to be propounded to candidateslor the
Senate and House of representatives,
.FTr al.—Should a majority of the voters'
deposited at the next election, oti that'sub=
Let, be iu favor of a Prohibitory Liquor'
w, will you in the oventof your election; ,
use your best endeavors to secure the pan-,
sage of a law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of all intoxicating liquors as a lievJ
erugo within the Commonwealth of Penn , '
sylvania
Second—Should a majority of the pep.:
ple decide against such law, will yea vete.
for and . strive to secure a law that will of.,
fectually prevent the sale of intoxicating'
liquors as a beverage,,on the Sabbatit
Third.—Will you, in the latter event,
strive to secure the pamage of a law nom !
polling Brewers and large Lager-Beer 6E4 7
lers, to produce : their licenses front the ;
Court of Quarter Sessions, with suitakie,
penalties and reatriations annexed,
Sciatze olr Jnerrlce lady onre i
consulted Dr. Johnson on • the stein* • 9rt
turpitude, to be attached to her eole.S Mkt
bind sln orchard.
c.Madame." said Johnson, ""it; an*
penda upon the weight of the boy, I
,rsa.
' member,my school.fe 11.3*r—robbing, a ;
dozen of orehards with impunity 0%0.
the very first time I chilled up an appled !
tree, for I was, always• s, heavy, boy.„thlt:
hough broke with me. and it teas oelied .
judgment. , I suppose that, is erhY ittglei •
is represented , with a peir,of
LAYING a Griost.-4 plulusophiccussoo
self possessed ship-captain iris Pod,*
through a ehureb yard a 6 raidetiglttilltbint
a sheeted ghost tome ay/behinds actittinNti*
slid approached' him ilia 'est fdj
tares.. The aticint 'twiner . tattifitillslll
his *tisk. sad os& him a crack trawritliuir.
heath aaitiog iiitOvhat be sassy' bradiAlit ) *
out of Isis gram skis lots it . hour. • •
gioneg
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