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" XXVII
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: By nis.
• -Juneorith its Wises—June!
The 'gladdest month of our .capricious year,
Wilhite thick foliage and.its sunlight clear ;
Aid with the .drowsy tune
Oft a bri g ht leaping water., as they paw .
tatighin lon a mi d the ' a rot 'it
8Y s
P
g grass
Earth at her joyous. co mg,
IgMiles as she puts her gayest mantle on
.end Nature greets her with a benison ;
'While, myriad 'voices hit:unlit%
Their welcothe Sprig, breath drdmy music
rimnd' •
Till seethe the air an element of sound.
' The Overarching sky - • • '
Wearethii Wier title,' a lovelier blue, ' •
As if the light of heaven were melting through'
•
Its sapphire home on high;...• •
Hiding the sunshine in,their vapory , breast, , •
The deeds float on:liite spirits to their rest.
. A. deeper melody, , • .
Poar'd by thcbirds, as o'er their callow young
Watchful they , hover,to tie breeze is Bung-r
Olif*tutt, yet not Of glee—
Music hearacitu, like that ;which mothers sing
Above criulled infanta ilumberibg:
On the warm hillside where
, .
The sunshine lingers latest, through the grass
Peepeth the Ituteloiiii strawberry l As they pass
• Young children'gambol there, - •
Crushing the gathered- fruit in playful mood,
And staining their bright faces pith its blood..
A &Mier blush is given
To theheiFnpened cherry, aa the sun •
Day after day pours warmth the trees upon,
• Till the rich pulp is riven ;
The• truant schoolboy looks with longing , eyes,
And perils limb Sod neck, to win the prize.
... , The farmer;in his
Draws the rich mouldarountl the tender maize;
While hope, bright pinioned, points to corning
da When all his toil shall yield
An ample htheit, and' around his hearth,
There shall be laughing eyes and tongues of /
Polio on his rainbow wing, • -
The butterfly, whose life is but an hour,
Hovers coquettishly fiom flower to flower,
A gay and happy.thing ; • . • •
Born for the sunshine•and the simmer day,
Soon passiug, like, the beautiful, away I
.• These are thy pictures, Juno l•
Brightest of summer• mouths-Ahou :month of
First-born of beauty, whose swift-footed hours
Dance to the merry tune
Of birds, and waters, and the pleasant shout -
Of ehildlhood on the sunny hills peen out.
feel it were not wrong,
To deem thou art a type of bearan'a
Only. Suit there the eloiids and storms of time
•
Sweep' not . the sky along; •
The• lloifora--40—.-!)eautl-700110-71611 are
But brighter—purer---lovolierr-more divine!
I.stsil ---77— b of God;
The
The most gigot6l'mi and remarkable
typkititrodueed into the divine ordinances,
as well as into' Istaerebigiory and, ritual,
was the , lamb. Li oven . meets us at 'the
, threshold of Paradise, in the Sacritlco of
Abel, as an 'object particularly acceptable
in the sight of God. Later on, . the lamb; .
with its blood, consearales the commence•
meat of the history 'of the Israelites. The
crinkling cif the door:poste 'with 'the blood
of lambs was the meeast of ier . ael's meet.
ender' in Egypt from ' , the sword 'of the
destroying angal,,and thideparture of the
eople from ~PharaOh's house of bondage.
From that tithe the Lamb continued to be
the moat prominent figure by which God
typified the future Messiah to the Obiddren
of Abrahain. Eleacefaiverd it acquired
an abiding footing Tsrael's sacrificial
rites, in goners!, and in, the yearly passover
in 'particular. In the litter, each house
was enjoined by the.Mosaie law to brinf, 'a
male lama, without blemish , or infitimty,
to the sanctuary, there solemnly` winless
their trausgrolgtons over it, then beteg `it;"
typically burdened, with •their gins, to the
-court, of the temple to "be glain ;,and after
it was
,roitated'consume it entirely in fit.;
tiro ecmeaunion, with joy and 'thanlisgiii. I
ing to , so pro.l
phetleally typical to this toramonY Was's° ,
apparent , thrit even the most sinful mted
(maid not mistake Evers 0941'
only etteeepible 9f tkat r1 . 310h was divinely
symbolical felt impressed with the idea
'that'ibis divine' didininee itouldhaire
-other airti`then to , :koep Israel;
Jong witb•tbe remenglownet.of the promis
-ed Polivepr,,the oottililettee. Iku4 !tope, in
John the Baptist appears
liaise; and 'the firsfgreetigg•Vrith Which he
welootnes jeapi, Which was I renewed when,
ever he saw hie, is, 4 ' Behold , ltio 14aPh: of
(4441.,F4ialli.,tAlketh pw t ty the. sip of, ,the
world I'' thereby 'dlieolinipthe attention of
the lehole world Usiosus,, if,there were
thencefort4 .nothing Also, worth,seeing in
.107.0 13, Pr _ea . earkh this Laltl4 God
sad by. so, doing,ho,oertsiuly directs us to
the gresteat sod • most beautifying of all
mplarigh and; to the pith and marrow of
the eattro Gospel. . For if Christ had been
only,tbe, "Lion of the tribe Judah; ' acid
itot Ist the ism° time the "Lamb," what
weuld,tt have availed us ? As the Lamb.
he ,thaslasire Of all nations, the star of
hor,t:° 4 .exilee.froet Eden, the tun of
YMUSPOI3II in the night of sorrow to
ebose„ wheat, the law condoning, and the
Ileayenly. lamp ~to the wanderer in the
gloomy
_isle of death.77Krtsawnacher.
. , „,.., , o _
' ly i lMT . 11' nvax Alm' THINK OF
04t4toxt,se,7A.:olergymari of our denoini
amicia who visited a settlement , in 'lowa,
for the purpose of organising a church,
fflOoif , McOsy morning a gentleman se
{,el me, and in tho name of the ceno-
ApyowniCg the plot, offered a lot for a
'Band a personal'' subscription of foie
i
t op
red dollars, towards its • erection it we
~y 1 t io'Cip'Vith:ii: Ido not pretend, Sir;
Bal birill ' dii . aq Motives are the same as
yours; I am not a religious man,' . but I
litqlr,thatifot - d•dollar given for suoh pur-
iiblitli Is over lost.* Whatever builds up
Ilithiibrils of a community buildsoup ev
-erYttitig else."',
" , 4Vhitt animal has the greatest quantity
of bdtiris ,The hog, of course, for he ices
1 hogshead full.
Wild. Beaata add theirWoredeir.;
The Zoological •Girdonh in London are
wOrid.famottseandjustly 14, forrthey eon.
sain--inoomparablr the ',finest °lineation ,of:
animals in .the 'world.:: , At this, Moment
thirteen hundred , livingg :arisaturee'-live •in
the • green slopes the sh'sded•avenues, and
Nunn) lemmata that , , pleaiant plaint and:
since the Ghtrdens were'established—twen.
tyaix years ago—,no- lest than fouiteen
thousand specimens have been exhibited ,
within its inolosures. The Gardens, as
most ,of our , readere. know: .area large
park, in which each animal is kept se far
as possible; in the circninslanties which
surround it in its native wilds.• Thus, the
bear. eve poles to climb; the otters , poolt.
in- wbioh to•swim; the! vultures rooks to• '
perelyupon,, the'• beaiers . 'a running stream
to dam; the weal, a• lake. to swim in:
The-Quarterly Revive continues its se*
rise of articles UpOn what De' Quincy , call•
ed lithe Nation of , Vondon,7 by , a very de:
lightful paper no these marvelous Gardens,
the,writer'of which displays= that happy ,
blending °faecal*. observationand lived
ly fancy which, bus rendered the series an
popular: • From this article we extract
some passages }which ono need. not be a
naturalist to appreciate. ,
A VIEW OW TEICOARDENB PEOE AN ZEE
• ' VATION.
From this elevated situation the whale
plan of the'soutb side of the grounds is
exposed. To his right, fringing a still
pool whine traislizent waters mirror them
atiltheititand, ' the speetator sees the col:
leetioh of Storks and cranes ; more imme
diately' in front of ' him softly tread the
limas and alpacas—the beasts of burden
of the NeW, woad ; farther, again, we "see
the', deer in 'their 'paddocks, and beyond
tbe sedgy pools of the water fowl, set in
the midst cif graceful shrubberies which
close the gardens in from the landscape of
the Regents Park. Passing over to the
northern side of the terrace ho sees the
eagle aviary, tenanted by its royal and
and
solitary
,hibking, occupants, ; , the otters
swimming 'their , merry, ro und, and: pet
*
obi the seal flapping beside his and
while 'the' monkeys, with incredible rapid
ity and constant ehatter, easing' and asap
about their Wire enclosure. 'lmMediately
teneath him the. Polar bears paee to' and
fro,tir, swaying their beach', Walk back
ward with a firmness which a lard,' chain
berlairi Might elttlywith avantage ; and
Oleos at band, the long neck of ' the' "ship
of theAo'4)itieu.iiilfug out from the
of pro* naafi-house: 'my
the dreadMonarith of the forest and thi
Other'sfgreat Cate" 'are beneath his feet, he
iiMade aware by ,angry growls end the
quivering
,sound of shaken iron bare as
thekeeper goes round with his deity beef
barrow. No one can help feeling a^ cer
tain Sense of istran'gqiesa at seeing these
creatures ef, all climes scattered amid a
flOariahipg , garden—to wittiest beasts, en
sanguined in tooth end claw, impatiently
peeing 'to' and fro betiveen banks of scarlet
geraniums or beds brilliant with the count
leas blckniss of early dahlias—or; still more
oddly, to witness birds of prey' which love
to *career in the storm, surrounded' by
monthly - roses. • •
NEEDING - THE GREAT SNAKES IN THE
,
ittpink,
The 'reptiles are offered food once a week,
!but will not always feed'even' at this inter
• val. One huge python 'fasted the almost'
'incredible time of twenty-two mouths,
ins probably prepared himself for his ab
stinence by. a splendid gorge. After 'a
fait of Seven days, however, the majority
Of the serpents regain their appetites.—
Three o'clock ie the feeding time, and the .
reptiles Which are on the look Out seem to
knew full well the errand ' of the man who
enters 'with the basket; againat the aides
of which they heat: the
. fluttering wings' of
the feethereirViatims,,andlhe short stamp
of the doomed rabbits. The keeper opens.
the door at the batik of the den of the ve:-
leMinous verienti on our 'right—foe - Of
these there is 60 'fetir—'—takes off - their
blanket, and drops in upon the (glittering
pebbles a scampering who bhp, featu
side AO HMO, 'adrickti to inspect his 'hew
habitation; 'presentlf'Satiified, he Sits'on
his haunches, kludieleirely begins taviash
his face. ". the 'rook snake glides
over the stories', tinouiling hii hugelolds,
which like a Oahle'sciem to Move 'as though
by Sorritrageboy !Wrr inthouf;looks for an
insist& upon his unconscious victim; and
'she next'-has aPised him with his cruel
jaivs. His 'eonatrioting folds are twisted
as'swiftly as a ivhip-laSh around
ing'p'rey for ten minutes .the serpent
lies still, maintaining his mortal knot until
his prey is dead, when, seizing him by the
ears, he draws him through his vice-like
grip; crush ing ' every bone, and elongating
the body preparatory to devouring it.—
The boa and the' rock-snake always swal
low their prey head•foremost. how is
that fine neck and delicate head to make
room for that bulky 'rabbit thinks the
spectator. Presently he sees the jaws
gape; and slowly the reptile draws Mur
al' over, rather than swallows, his prey,
as you draw a stocking upon your ler—
The huge lump descends lower and lower
beneath the"speckled scales, which seem to
stare with distenaien, and the monster
coils himself up once more' to digest his
meal in quiet.
HOW TUE VENOMOUS SERPENTS KILL
THEIa VICTIMS
Thesnakestrikesat the guirtenig; again
and again ho dashes at it but misses his
aim; now ho hits it, but only to drive the
poor frightened creature with a score of
flying pebbles before him; when at last he
succeeds in. piercing the sides of his vie•
tim, tete* spasms immediately commence,
and it dies convulsed in a few seconds --
It is said by those , have watched, the
venomous snakes, that the manner of dy-,
ing,exhibited by their stricken prey disel o
sea the nature of the rooile that infliet'ed
the poisoned, wound. It is scarcely ne•
oessary to ataie that the popular idea that
thti tongue darts Jerk the vonotu is a fill
-
149 y.
_The poison is, ocu44tuled in glands
f s"
whkib• lie it the foot of the hogi on' either
side,'and,' by the' vompieision • of the pow
erful:Muscles which Mike the. head itp
peer so'broad and, fist, it is , forced into the
fine tutd which runs at the sides of the
fang ; land finds'iti exit near the' point by
oring: The tobralt present
in the eel mien, with its skin of glossy
black andyellosr, its eye black and angry,
its , motions agile and •gracefulp seeme,•to
be the very, personification of India. ~As '
Wii,wittok it when ready to spring, we
de* temeMber.that onl y a film of it 1999
'stands` between us and "pure destb."-ii
But there'll, nothing to fear;, the python
a the adjoining,oOm, whiSh weighs 'ono
hunfired and twenty pounds; being incensed
on his first arrival at being removed ,from
his Vox, &fried with all his force at a epee
latot. fhe o pain of glass had strength
enough to bring him up, and lio fell back
so bruised.abOutthe head and, muzzle ',14
the itolliiion that he could not feed well
for several months. The cobra that we
see is the same that destroyed its,;keepor.
In a fit of drunkenness the man, agamst
express orders, s took the reptile out, and
placing its head inside his waistcoat, al
levied it to glide round his body. When
it had emerged from under his clothes at
the other side, apparently in good humor,
he squeezed its tail when it struck him be
tween his eyes; in twenty minutes his
Consciousness, wits gone, and in less than
three hours he was dead.
NNAHES SWALLOWING ONE ANOTHER
Every one has heard of the snake . who
swallowed his blanket, a meal which ulti
mately killed him. A python rho had
lived for years in a - friendly manner with a
brother nearly as large as himself, was
found ode morning soles. as the cage
was - seoure,, the keepers were 'puzzled' to
know how i she serpent had escaped ; at last
it was observed- that the remaining ibmite
had swollen remarkably during the night,
when the horrid fact became plain euough ;
thefratricide had succeeded in mellowing
the ebtire person of his brother ; it was hie
last meal however; for in some menthe he
died. A friend• informs per'that he 'once
saw in these Gardens a rawanake of Cey
lon devour'a common orderer natrix. The
rat•anake, however; had not taken the mea-
sure of his victim, as by no effort could he
dispose of the, last four inches of his tail:
which stuck. out rsther jauntily from the.
side of his mouth, with very much the 'oak
of a cigar. After a quarter of an 'hour the
tail began to • eihibit a retrograde motion,
and.- the. Jewallowed.Zsdake: , waa, dieworge4
notatugtheivoisiffrem - tne-rivingaepurener,
with' the exception or the wound made by
his partner' when first he seized him.
THE ECCENTRICITIES OP THE HIPPOPOTA-
The hippopotamus surges Into his hath
in:the enclosure as we pause, and there is
a rush of visitors to see the mighty , brute
perforniing his ablutions. Ho no longer
gives audience to all the fah and fashiona
ble folks of the town. Alas for the great
nese of this world I the noldier-scrab aud
thelsop prawn now draw better 6 houses."
Whether or no this desertion bas embitter.
ed hie temper, we can not tray, but ho has
certainly lost hie amiability, notwithetand,
ing that. he,etill retains the humorous curl.'
up of the corners of his mouth which Doyle
used to hit off so inimitably. At times, in.
deed, he is perfectly furious, sad his vast'
strength has necessitated the reao,neirue,
tion of his house on a Stronger plan.—
Those only who lave seen him rush with
extended jaws , at the, massive oaken door
of his apartment, returning again arid again
to the charge, and making the solid beams,
quiver as though , they were only of in.
deal,, can understand the dabgerous fits
which now and then are cribited by a crea
ture who was so gentle when he, made ,his
I debut, that he could not go .ttislacip With
oat having his Arab keeper's fed to , lay,
his neck upon.This` affectien for , his
nurse has undergone a great change, for on
Hanle ea co un trym e aand en adj utorbleliam
ned, ,making,his neeond appearance . with
the young female hipPopotammi, Obeyed',
very near killed him . in the oleaao. of his,
rage., He has
,a peculiar dislike' to:the,
eight of working-men, especiallY itthey are
employed in doing any jobs about Ina a
partment, The smith of the establiahnient:,
happening to be passing the other day, a,
long the 'iron gallery which rune acme
one side of his bath, the infuriated animal'
leapedont of the water, at least eight, feet
and: would speedily have pulled .the
whole construction , down bad not the Man
fun rapidly out. of his eight. We trust hie' ,
temper will improve when' his f,i 6 Ang 4 09'
in the adjoining minis presented to him
but ehe is as yet but a baby behemoth, al
though growing fast. The, enormously
strong iron railings in frOnt of hie apart
ments are essential to guard against the,
rushes he sometimes makes at persons he
doca not like. Look at the .bugh mouth.
opened playfully, to receive knicknace :
What is a bun or a biscuit to him ? Down
that huge throat goes one hundred pounds'
weight. of provenner daily. Surely the
dragon of Wantloy had net such a gullet.
The giraffe, in spite of his mild and mel
ancholy look, ~which reminds us forcibly
of the camel, yet fights ferociously with
his kind at certain seasons of. the year.---..
Two males once battled hero so furiously
that the horn of one of them was actually
driven into the head of the other. Their
method of fighting is very peculiar; stretch.
ing out their fore and hind legs like a
rocking-horse, they use their heads, as a
blacksmith would a sledge hammer, and
swinging the vertebral column in a manner
calculated, •one would think, 'to break. it,
they bring the full force of the horns to
beat; upon • their antagonist's skull.'• The
blow is severe in the extreme, and every '
precaution is taken to prevent these con
flicts. •
The fitet rhiuodoros cost ;
Xl l OOO • the
. •
four praifs, groo, wad' their earring!, an ,
additional 471:10. The elephant and, calf
wore bought - in 1851 for £BOO ; and tbe
EVENING, JUNFr 13, 1866.
ROW GIRAFFES FIGEIT.
PRICES OP WILD BEASTS
giFEARLESS, AND,FELgE."
hippopotamus, although a lift, was 'not
brought home• and hound atlas than £l,-
000—a sum which he more han realised
in the famous Exhibition spasm ' when the
receipts wars XlO,OOO aboveth e previous
Yet4'. The llon Albeit was , pirobased for
£l4O ; a Ca) , in 1852 foi gzoo. Tho
.valne of so rilit of ,the smaller birds will ap
pear, however, more startling; thus, the
pair of blacir , neoked swans were purchas
ed (Or £BO (they are now tOt,c seen in the
three-Island pond )' ; • a pair of crowned
pigeons and , iwo'maloos,' '1.0) ; a pair of
Victoria pigeons, 480.; fair mandarin
ducks,£7o., It wo uld be *possible from
thee prices, however, to juflge of the pfes
eat value of the anittials. 'Take the rhi
nenetos, for example , ; the' frst specimen
oost,Xl,ooo, the second, vile as fine a
brit°, • only £B5O, 'Liana, range again
from £4O to £IBQ, and tigersfrom £lO to
A2OO. • -
The price is generally' rilee by the State
of the wild beast market Mit )y the intrin
sic rarity of the cresture.4 tAtfirst appear
ance in Europp,of course htlilely,to draw.
and is. therefore, at the t o p price ; hut it
is wonderful how detiOnd s protimes supply.
Lei any rare animal' bringit ,trowd to the
Gardens, and in a twelve-moath nuitbors
of his brethren .will, he, geserally in the
market. lb° ignorance tilitittayed by some
persona as to the value of ~ e ll-known: ob.
jeets is something Marvelells. ' We hive
already spoken of the ~saalittptain who
ititde
mended 4600 for a 'pair python and at
last took .240 ! Oct ado lir occasion an
American offered the Sects,''ii grisly bear
for 22,000 ; to be delive in the United
States ; and more laughs le .still, a mori
bund walrus, which had; been fed for nine
weeks on salt pork antfroetkl,,was offerea for
the trilling aunt of .4700 yr '
4 i N
WILD-BUS- —Ea 11A TS.
'We have said that the'yaioe .. of animals
&Pond: upon • the state afibi''Avild- beast
market. "Wild-beast metket.l" , exelaims
the reader;
"and whore put that be ef—
Every oneknows that London can furnish
any thing for money, .0,1r..iy lady or
gentleman Wants lions or 'tigers, there are
deafen in Ratcliffe Highaiity and the adja
cont'parts who have them.on the promisee
111311, sell them at five minute!' n6tioe.—
They "talk as familiarly of s lions as ladies
do of puppy dogs ;" and a gentlewae who
purchased a bear of one etthem; lately in r
forineitus that the oulesigg(coolly pro
posed that he should tako,,Airri home with
him in a cab I._ * • 0 4*,. One wild.
jillerchattlinfortue4 skoilso dip!
e • was - iiiVairenen by 'nil wife, who drew
his attention' to a noise in • the back-yard,
where he had placed two lions on the pmy
along evening. On pitting his head
,out
of the window—his room was on, the ground
floor—there were the lions, Aortae, ,and,
with their paws on the window-aill, looking
grimly in upon him. A good whip and a
determined air consigned Leo to his cage
again without further trouble. On anoth:
er occasion ibis same` man; hearing a noise
in his back prey:hies '
found, to his horror
'
that an elephant with his pick , -look trunk.
had let out a h yena and. a allghan from
their oages, and was busy undoing the fait
tenings of a den full of Itous•I The same
resolute apirit, however. vont: restored 'or
dor. Amateurs have not the same
courage or self-Possession. and they ilAMO
diatoly have reeourse to the Girded 'folks
to get thorn out of their ditfienitiei, as a
house-jceeper would send , to: the • station
house on fiuding a burglar. accreted in his
cellar.. Oct one occasion a gentleman, who
hid offered a rattlesnake 'and its young to
the Gardens at a high price, sent suddenly
to theumperintendeni taimploreimniediate
assistance, as•the 'said snake, with half a
score venomous offspring. had esospedfrom
their box and scattered'themselves io his
grounds. • • ' '
A lilliiiii?rtatlcka 41111
. . .
The spicy corresliondent of, the. Paw
tucket. Gazette thus "lets shimsalf out" on
the expansiie subject of hoops in ladies'
dreseasi
"And talking of the ladies, they, are ,
positively , getting bigger aid ,
Ole - petticoat mania .riges
They'fill Up . the sidewalks.; as they brush
14., : i0u, you feel born:ls—whalebones, I
mean, for, there ire no, others : within a
half of You." What 'dreadful re
versal of the order of nstureis all this. 1
dp not,ebjeci to plumpness; and rotundity
in tho,proper places; but ; 'whit lonia is
their in being 'sir tremendoullyorbienlar a-,
bodt the feet? • Between you and me,,
MM. P. T. has, 'fallen into this fashion ,
and 'maugre remonstrances,' has pur
chased one of t ate mostmostrous of these
inventions. I examined it with, much
awe, the other night, after she had gone
to bed. 0, Roberto, it is, "fearfully and
wonderfully made." It is an institution.
In size it is like a small country law of
fice. I think it must have been raised
like a barn. It is latticed and corded and
stiffened with the utmost ingenuity.--
When she has it on. my "gads wife" is
(to to speak) like Hamlet's father, '.clad
in complete still." She is just as safe as
if she were in a convent. , She is entirely
shut from this vain world, Quoad the
earth, she has nothing in it but a large
skirt. So much for the safety of the con
trivance. The question of beauty is an
other matter."
Two CCINUNDRIMIS.—Why is a man
who gets knocked down at an election,
like the world we inhabit ? Because he's
"flattened at the polls." The yoang man
who perpetrated this left for the West on
Wednesday. He trev.elled oh', the wires.
Why, is a man willing to learn, like. a
man under indictment Because he's
pen to" coniiction;
There is a sentiment as beautiful asjuat
in the following sentence
"lie who forgets the fountain from
which ho drank, and the tree un dor whose
shade he, gamboled,,in tho days of his youth,
is a stranger to the sweetest. impression's
of the human heart."
41i 'Affecting' Scene In a Western
Log cabin.
It was nearly midnight of Saturday
night . that a passenger came to Col.
S -,"requesting him to go to the cabin
of a setter, 'some three miles down the
river, and see his daughter, a girl of four
teen, who was supposed ,to be dying.
Col. S awoke me and asked me to
accompany him, and I consented, taking
with me a small package of medic mos
which I always carried in the forests; but
I soon learned there was no need of these,
for her disease was past cure.
"She is a strange child," said the Colo
iel ; "her father is a strange .nun. They
live together on the bank of the r iver.—
They 031138 here three years ago, and no
one knows whence or why. He • has
money and is a keeti Athol. The child
haa beep wasting away 'for a year past.--
I have seen her often, and she seems gifted
with a marvolouit intellect. She 'seems
sometimes. to 'be the• only hope of her
father." ~• , - • • •
We had reached the hut of the settler in
leas -than half an hour, and entered '
it
reverently. ,
_The scene , WWI COlllll7i be easi
ly forgetton, There
. were looksand evi
denees ofluxUry and taloa kying , cin
ride table' flair 'the mien' Vrindo*, 'and
the bed • furniture on • which ihe, dying
girl lay was as ; SOU as the coverng of SI
sleeping cpieen. 1 was of , course startled,
never having heard of these peopla before ;
but knowing it tO • be no Uncommon - thing
for inittanthropes: to go into' the Woods 10
live and..die, , I. was content, to ~.ask no
explanations, more,especially 4,s the tleath
hour was evidently near. „
She ;was (air child,. wit - ft Masses
long, Welt hair lying over the' pillear.--=
Her eyiis were dark and pieroing;‘and
they naet mine they, started slightly, but
smiled
,and, looked, op,ward. spoke a
few, words to' herfather, and turning to
hoe,•ailied if she USW' tier 'Condition
"I know , that my. Redeemer' -liietit,"
said she itn a voice minim melody ,
like the .sweetest tones of an /ERlittri.—r
Nod may imagine` that her answer startled
me, and with a Yew words of like tropnrt:
I turned from her: ' A heir in' hour after
and she 'spoke in the same melt:idiom"
•'Father. 1 am, cold ;lie- down beside
me.!:. the old ;man luy down by hie
dying child. and alui twined tier ertuteiaiell
arme around hie 'neck, and murmured in a
dreamy voiety '4.Dear' father, dear father."
7 7 ' Ulkirrolutte,'' , errittritos,,idyuranr-“--alotb
flopiteeem lieep, to thee t"
"Nay 'tither, my soul is siieng."
"Seest thou the opposite shore?"'
"I,see.it, father, and,ita battha are green
with iminorial,verdere.". '
"nearest thou thei voices of itst
taniti!"
"I hear them; father, 'ea the'vaiSet of
from'efsr -In'•the stilLand
solemn night time, and . 'they toc.4-
Mother's • Snieti,.tivii .fitliet--Oh,' I heard
it then!"
"Mth' !the speak tO thee?"
-"She speaketh in tones ewes heavenly,"
"Doth she striae?" , • .-•
'Aril angel smile , But. eat. cold—
cold—acid ! Father, there's it mist*, the
roem.') You'lrbe 'timely. -Is this' death.
father?' • ' •
The Pin and the Needle;
• A pity aid neeille`being.. neighbors" in a
work basket, and both being begin
to' quarrel, is idle fofka are apt to
"I phould like to know." said' the pin
"what you are good for, and how,you ex
peel to:get - througli the. world . without a
head I" '
..What.iti the ttee of your head," repli•
ed the needle, Tether eharplyogif yOu
have no eye 2" - ' •
"What is the nee of an eye," said the
pin, there te 11111VaylP aonnethingin it j"
: "I am el way/ active; and can go through
more work than you mut," said the, nee=
dle. ' • • •
"Yes ; but you w.il not live long."
t, . not r ,;,
"Because you have: always a each in
3'our said,the
• "You'ro , a imor,, crooked' creature,"
said the needle.. , . , , •
"And you are so proud that you Can't
benti , without breakingyOur back: ,
"I'll pull your. heati . off if you•. insult me
again.''
put'your eye out if you touch me ;
remember., your life. hangs . on' it'single
thread," said the pin. . •
While .they were thus conversing., a
little girl entered, and, undertaking to aew,
she . very soon broke oil the needle at ihe
eye. ' Then she tied the thread around
the neck of the pin;and attempting to sew
'with it, she pulled its head off, and threw
it into the dirt by the sine of the broken
needle.
"Well, here we are," said the needle. '
"We have nothing to fight about now,"
said• the pin. "It seems misfoitune has
brought-us to our senses."
"A. pity we had not ,coma to them
sooner," said the needle. '
"How much we resemble human be
ings, who quarreled about their blessings
till they lose them, and never find out
that they were brothers till they lie down
in the dust together,- us we do."
Queen Victor Woo Children.
The Queen of England may not be a
great sovereign, but she undoubtedly de
serves the higher praise of being a true
woman. Considering the force which is
added to her example by her exalted posi
don, it can hardly be doubted that she con
fers a greater benefit on her subjects by
the model she exhibits of all the womanly
domestic virtues than would result (ruin
great capactty for atraire of State. The
Toronto Globe has taken pains to collect
from •the English, papers an account of
the manner the Queen brings up her chil
dren, from which we make the following
extract:
'•lt would stem that the whole house
hold is u$ betimes, that the young people
breakfttst at slight and dine itt one ; which
hours some people think decidedly vulgar,
During the forenoon they are kipt to theft
books..—Then the boys are drilled in mili
tary exercises, while the girls, we Suppose,
practice calisthenics. After this ' they
have an hour of music and dancing. By
this time dinner is ready, and when 'its
toils are surmounted, the children go to
the riding school, from which .they pro..
ceed. the prince'sses to draWing and musk,
and the princes to a carpenter's shop,
where they hammer and saw, and turn,
till -they are tired, alter which they oc
casiunly spend some time m a laboratory
fitted up for their peculiar use. The
school is now ended, and while the girls
go out to 'play or ride, the boys go out
to walk, play, ride, or shoot, till tea time.
l'hon comes, the preparations for the lea
sons to-morrow, and then to bed.
according to the English papers, is the
daily life of the Queen's children; and
when we add that, morning and evening,
they. are trained in the4ruthii of religion,
wo,belie.va we, have,befciiet us the lam that
the first family in the empire le regulated
in a" fashion, which it were well for a
good many other lainilies if they would
tnikimitate."
The Baby,.
I have been to see the baby;
And ita face was very red, ,
And the down was very beauty ,
On its funny little head.
•• ' • ' '
It had a little tuns up nose,
• And eyes, and'ears, and paws ;
These latter: looked for Au the world
Justlike a chicken's claws. ,
Tbeparenm showed the object up '
, With seeming pride and pleagurer --
No doubt they prize'thelittle imp'•
Above sill earthly , treasure. - •
.• a
I surveyed it at distance / .
- •
Asked what might be,-- •
Fearful lest they might have namd it
Seth, in compliment to me.
. ,
‘'lstit'it 'a pretty baby?"'
••• "Yes'imleed," was my reply
'• Wenn% it a dreadffil ply'• •
To have to tell such a lie. ? '
SO9 the thing became' uneasy:,
•4 '
• Squirmed and Squalled ask in pain
So I 'bade my friehds good morning, •
Promising to call again. 4 •
•
• • ~ •
Preaming - that same night I fancied
'l'bat, the baby. , was my sou • •
I awoke, with terror trembling, . •
F elt—and found I was alone. . • •
Then a while lar there Musing,
On ray bliss dna others' woe, '
Till I found the placid sluintier
'•••• .•• .
And ever since when I refleet
On such sacene as that,
I thank r my stars I ue'er iraS jilessed
With wife or little brat. : ; • , •.
Count them.
Count what? , Why count the mercies
which have been. quietly' falling in your
Dill through every periud of your history:
own they come, every . Morning' and ev
er'''. evening, is'angel messengers'lrOni the
Father of lights, to' tell of, your. best
'Friend in
,heaven. Have you lived these
years, waisting mercies, treading them he:
neath your tees, and consuming them et , .
ery day, • and never vet realized from
Whence they came ? If you have, Hear.
en"pity you.
You have murmured undei' affliction ;
but Who has. heard you rejoice over bless.
lags Do you ask what are these met
cies Y Ask the sunbeam, the rain drop,
the star or the queen of the night. What
is life but mercy ? What hi health,
"trench: friendship, social life, tile gospel
of Christ, divine worship? , Had they the
power of speech. each would say, "1 ant
a reercy. o Perhaps you never regarded 1
them as such ; if not, you have been a dull
student of nature or revelation.
:• What is the proprlety of stopping to
play with a thorn bush when you.
may
just . as well pluck 'sweet flowers, and eat
pleasant lruit,
Yet we have seen .enough of menr to
know that thEy have a morbid (appetite
for. thorns.• •If they • haae lost a friend
they will murmur at the lose, if God has
hair given the m a score of new • ones.—
And , aotnehow, everything assumes a val
ue wheat its gone, which man would not
acknowledge when he had it in his pos
session; unlesr„indeed, some one wished
to purchase it.
Happy is he who looks at the bright
sido of life, of providence, and of revela
tion. Who avoids thorns. aml• thickets.
and sloughs, until his Christian growth
is such that 'he can improve them, he
may pass among them without injury.—
Count mercies before you complain of af
flictions.—Religious Telescope. . ,
The Sailor and the 'Widow. or
Nothing lost by Kindness.
Nearly half a century ago, when it coach
run daily between Glasgow and Greenock,
by Paisley, one furenocM, when a little
past Bishopton, a lady. in the coach noticed
a boy walking bartfooted. Seemingly tired,
and struggling with tender feat. the de.
sired the coachman , to take him up and
give him a seat, and she would pay for it. .
When they arrived at the inn in Green
ock, she inquired of the boy what was his'
object in coining up there. He said he
wished to be a sailor and hoped some of
the captains would engage him. She gave
him a half crown, wished him successotnd
charged him to behave well..
Twenty years after this, the coach was
returning to Glasgow in toe afternoon, on
the same road: When near Bishopton, a
sea captain observed nu old widow lady on
the road, walking very sloWly, fatigued and
weary. He ordered the coachman to put
Ler in the coach, as there was an empty '
seat, and he Would nay for her.
Immediately after, when changing !ter
se& at Bishopton, the passengers "wore
sauntering about except the captain and
the old lady, who remained in the teach.
The lady thanked him for his kindly, feeN
ing toward her, as she was now unable to
pa for a seat. He said, uHe always
. 1110
aympathy for woody pedestrians, sum lut
himself was in that state when a bo.j.iwan.,
iy )ears ago, near thii'very place ,. when-al
•
TWO DOLLARS PER , ANNADic,
NUlll3k .
leader hearted lady, for but
el:Sidman.
to take him up, and paid Itta seat.
"Well do I remember 'that incident."
said she. "I am that lady, hut, my
life is changed: I was then independent.
Now I am reduoed to''poverty, by.tbo do
ings of a prodigal son."' ' •
"How happy am I," said the (*Alin,
"that I have been successful my enter
prise, and am returning home to live on
ray fortune ; and front this day I shall bind
myself and heirs to supply you with' twin
ty-tive pounds por allows till your deatb.
--Briiish Workman.
Republican Meeting.: t
At a mass meeting-of theltepublim As
sociation of New, Oxford,. Adams cotuttyp,Pa.,
held in pursuance , of a public call, 99'0%4.
day, Stine 6th, 1868—the grerident called
the meeting to order, and briefly', but 'for'ai
bly,• stated the object of the'meeting to
among other ,matters, the, election of Dele
gates to represent the County of Adamd, &c.
in the State • and National Conventions to
be held at Philadelphiti on the 18th and 17th.
days of June inst. .'
John T. Pfeiffer was appointed Secretity
On motion, Wm. Wright, John Ellis,
and Ambrose W. Staub, were, appointed, a
committee to draft resolutions titxpressive
the sense of the meeting.
In' the absence of the committee, the,
meeting was addressed in an able and inter
esting manner by It. G. GuEsAY, f.;sq., of
Gettysburg, and Dr. M. D. • G. PFTIFFIat of .
New Oxford. ,
ildr.•Ehtis from the Committee otillein
lutionsi repor ted the following, which were:
unanimously adopted : .; t
Whereas, The, presentoind unhappy po
sition of public affairs is abundantly , cousin.'
oing to all trini friends of their country, that
the Blare power 'by their arrogant assumP
tion.of tyrannical authority; by their enact
ment of unjust and unholy laws; by degra
ding and protesting the altered name of Lib
erty; by their high-handed infraction o4hase
covenants ever held to ,he sacred the'
entire' North; by their brutality and ruffian
ism, sided,'consoled and suPportati•by the
present wicked and corrupt adudnlstratiom
, T rrbeyend all question or cavil, have forced
upon the heretoforo unresisting North, that
amount of endurance, beyond which des . pair
itself fails not to re-act, and stiniulate 'with
convulsive energy, all that remains of sowid
bodily, and mental Fewer, and ha ve , wickedly
ia„rautonly.fo r aed upon „ the country, to ,
the eXollision of all other considerations, the
single ' 'solo, issue of freedom and equalityids
political position and• power, or the dill
establishment of the . vindictive and tyran
nteal authority, and supremacy of theae
"Lords of 'the South,"---the Slave Arilifoo
, •
racy ;
And whereas, the Repubiicans, having
no other object in view than the real mid
substantial welfare of the , nation, declare
and urge that the truly public mid patriotic:
Principles which they eapouse,, if , hrouglit
into authority, will effeetually secui4 the
management of the affairs' of the natiuh
with wisdom and firmness; with- dignity,
with fairness, and with credit :—ThesofOre
Resolved, That as Republicans, are, bola
and liver it to have been the desire, aim and
intention of the founders dour goVerinnfinl,
that the arts and sciences of urilllixed•life
should receive their highest scope, that civil
and religious liberty should hare • fiettrisb,
unchecked by the cruel hand of evil ,or
eceleaiastical tyranny; that'geniul, lip
all the improvements of former ages, ahoWd
be exerted in harmonizing ; mankind. iti,ex
pending and enriching their minds with mil
gious, political & philosophic:4k newledge,
in improving and,perpetuating afonn of go
verntnent which should iavolve all the'ekeel-
'armies of former goverinnents, and' protect
and preserve the just rights of 'manhunt:
Resolved, That the Slave Aristeontoy, by
the tyranny of their horrible and deicstatile
proceedings,' have well nigh plunged the
country in a civil war with 'all its horrtint
and revolting enormities, and• that• Attie
and the weighty considerations involved ,in
the issue before us, call for thetuned'-
ate action, for the, prompt interposition o
the fiat of the Freemen of this nation:
Resolved, That the time lusk arrived for
a thorough and effective political reformation,
by which wo mean an ovelanow of .that
oligarchy from which the colrutry Juni suf
fered and is suffering afflicting grievances,
and a full deliverance from that foul and
paltry dough-faceisna which fails=to repre
sent the honest bait of the ,Nortli,:and
bows in base submission to the blolookot'
Slavery. ,
Resolved, That'freedom of speech; of this
yreas, and the free exercise 'of religionetili
'lief, are certain inalienable' righta which'
should ever be hold sacred, and preserved
inviolate. „
Resolved, That the late , brutal rufflen-like
and cowardly attack on Charles Sumnei,
the Senate Chamber, furnisheti but' an- evi=
donee of the extent to which the Slaver,
pnapagandists design ,to carry their Wein
dons towards the North. •
Resolved, That the roped of thia Mlistouri
Compromise sustained at its inception; at it
was, by the united waive of Mr. Motiluseti
cabinet, by:the united *Moos ;of, Eleuthera -
Senators, and a majority of Southern , pre l
setatives, was a bold, bad, infraction' of 0,
covenant ever held to bo sacred bylle . mtticti
North. - • • - . •
Resolved, "That_ it is the , ,Benee And tlui ,
determinatien of this meeting, tap Me Mt
no inan'for the Presidentiy,:other than, one
who can present an unspotted page Re.
publican history. • • ....
I Resolved, That the ..proceedinga of thio ,
meeting be published us .the
"Sentinel."
h a a tonOtisint
The meeting% en,proeee e_
and elect delegates as aforesaid, which r
stilted in the unanimous choleie of Winisle
Wright, John. R Hersh,. and John CPIOIIO,
sa RelefSeg fo th" Coovontioo4,l,4l l rlgt
to 4ront. imistitl4.4.l.E34 Ift Att Clqrsk
ThePresideit then ad'iiiisid meth*,
4 raAt ;. , 0 0 7„ ,
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