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FREE AS Til!-: WIND. AXO AMERICAN TO THE CORE.
BY II. BUCHER SWOOPE.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 185-5:
VOL. 2.-X0. 18. TOTAL,. 70.
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EXTRACT THE
2? JEW POL3I OF "III VWATnA."
KT LOSGFELLOW.
" When Hiawatha approaches manhood, he learr.a
faetoryof hi mother' wrongs and his heart
burns tarccly against bis father, and he resolves
to aeek and punish him. Putting on his enchant
ed nioccasons. by which ho goes a mile at astride,
and taking with him his magic mivtens, which
crush rotks at a stroke, he journeys to tho domin
lons of Mudjekecwia. The description of that po
tentate of tho West Wind is singularly grand; an I
the Mil-control of Hiawatha, as ho ioa Is his father
gradually to converse about Lis niotbcr: and re
strain all external manifestations of the wrath
that glows like a coal of fire in bh heart, is thoroughly-Indian
in its conception. At last the
hoarded rage breaks forth in a storm of accnaa
..tion. find h Msuila Mudjekeewis with all the
telght of his pasaion and his m;gio :
"And he critd. 0 Mudjckaewis,
'. It was you who killed Wenonah.
Took her voung lifa and her beauty, (
Broke the" Lil y of the Prairie. .
TrainpK-d it beneath your foo'stocs;
Ycu confess it! yoa confess it!"
. And tee iniLty Mu.ljekeewis
Jc?ied his jcray huirs to the West Wind,
, . ored his hoary Lead in aaguiah, -.
..With ftailcst bo J assented. . :
:. ''-Then up surti Jiiawatfca .
And with threatening look ana guVar
Laid his bai.u upon th bja'd; rock,
On the fatal VTawbcsk lid it.
With his fatal mittens, Mir.j. kahwufi,
Jient the jutting crag aurd.r,
fc'uote and erusht.il it into fragment,
iiurlei time madly at bis lather,
The remorseful yudjckecwi.
Tor hh heart was lo: within him,
Uke a living coal hi hcort was.
"tiut the ruler of the West V ind
Hew the fragment backward from hia,
With the breathing of Lis nostril,
With tho tcmpMt of his anger,
Idew Ifceiu bn'ck at his assii'ant;
t-'eizt-d the burnh. the Apukw.v '
2,'ragged. it with its rooU and Corel i '
From the margin tf the meadow.
JYcui its ooze, the giant bulrush; . .
'. Xou:r and loud laughed Hiawatha!
Tha began the deadly couiut, ;
' ITaid to hand atnosg th mountain;
From his cyry screamed the eagle,'
The Keneu. the great War-Eagie;
N(t upon tho eras: around them, '.
Wheeling dipped his wings above them.
. .. -Like a tali tree ia the tempest
litut and lashed she giant bulrush;
' And in masses huge and heavy
Trashing foil the fatal Wawbeck ;
" ' Till tbo earth shook with the tuuTDll" ,
And confusion of the battle.
Jlcd tho u:r was foil of shoutings.
And tho ttunJerof the mountains,
Starting, answered. Eaiui-wawa'. -
Duck retreated MuJjekeewis.
T. tubing westward o'er the inountaics,
'tuniLlm westward down the mountain,
' Three who'e days rotrsatcd fighting,
CtiH pursued by Hiawatha
To to tbo doorways of the West Wind,
T the portals of tho Sunset.
To the eaith's remotest bordar,
Where ititu the empty spaces .
5 ink the has. as a dnmingo . -,
" ' lrcps into her nest at nightfall,
11. tb uielanciioiy marshes.
Hold!' ist length cried MudjaketwU,
'Hold, my son. my Hi.iwaJLha!
'lis imos.-ibie to- kill me,
. , Por you caur.ot ki'.l the immortal.
, "I have tut you to this trial,
', But'to know anl prove your courage;
Jfow rcseivs thy priia of valor !
: '"tld bnck to your hnina and people,
I.iTe tmouj them, toil among them,
Clearse tho earth from nil that barms it,'
j Ch-ar toe fishing grounds and rivers,
ly iJl moiiiier and uiai -ianj,
' - All the giants, tbr? Wendigoes.
All the serpents th i Eei.abecLs, ,
A I !cw the Ilishe-Mokwa,
Klew the Great loar of the iaountins.
'And at last when Deaih dr ivrs caar yoa,
When the awful eyes of Pauguk
. Glare epos you in the darkness.
I will share my kingdom with you,
;u"er shall you bo thenceforward
Of the Northwest AVind. Keewaylin,
, Cf the home-wind tlie Kecway.lin.' "
From tho Courier des Etas Unis.
THE POISOK2DBOQUET.
Jl SIOST 07 THE ITAlI-i.V OPEEA.
"Madame La Grange, after, accorcjjlishing
her first brilliant success in tho concert room,
had made, but a abort time previous to our
etorr, fcer debut on the stage with aa eclat
which gave amj.Ie roiiiise of the rieh reiiovn
her nimo fcas iince borne. The second en
gagement she cv?r made in her lyric career
was at Pavja, where her youthful taloni com
pletely eclipsed the reputation of a rival song
stress, ensiged at the sime time. Each rep
resentation wna at once a new triumph to her,
.and a new defeat for the lidy who shared with
her the personation of the leading- prts. This
overwhelming Miperiority against which there
was no rjmedj, lit up in the soul of tho van
quished artiste e ns of those jealousies, which,
us it proceed, increases into bitterness, and
is transformed into a furious thirst for yen-,
jeancc, uo matter at what . price or by , what
means. .. - -
- "TUero are still fr.rious ptasions in these.
Italian brains on which the tun' casts its hot
S'ubko, as on the Shulamite of sacred song.
JJ he prjms dorm , who uS3ie w TvfcMn from
Winj, is d proof of their esisteneo?' ' J,';y..-!.'f!
Shu was one . of thosa dangerous syren
whoso well got up charws, dazzle and fc;uat
the imaginations of youths of twenty. Now,
Pari, aa we know, is the seat of a University,
And it is not a,ruatter of much ditSculty to
find among the students, ardent and ready for
every daring folly, a blind instrument to as
sociate1 in her dark designs. The youth whom
he fixed on to carry out her project was a pa-i
lire of Venice, a city celebrated for its my
itrions deeds ofTengencs and of lore indul-1
ged at tho point of '. the! dagger'. , . lie was . of
high birth and considerable fortune, allied, by
flmo and blood not only to b nobility, who
are bar memory, hut to the Church, which
i s power of Venetian Lombard prorincetC
"Oh, she was a clever woman, this! SI e
knew how to hoo3. her man, and having cho
sen him, knew how to make him "fulfill her
prrpose.' The young Venetian, enveloped in
her net, lost all conscience. lie ended in
having neither sight nor sensation cscept
what came through her, find bydegrees "reach
ed that point of madness in which Ins passion
would stay at no crime. The moment for ac
tion had come.
"Now every evening of teprescntaiion, Mad
ame La Grange reaped her harvest of Cowers
and wreaths, and among the boquc'.s which
fell at her feet was one of small dimentiotts,
but coruposod of moss roses, whoso fragrance
was to her an especial joy. This faithful trib
ute was invariably tendered to her after the
andante of the grand cavatin.i of Nabucco, an
opera which then set ths crown, in all the ab
sorbing interest of novelty, upon the growing
fame of Verdi. Ordinarily, UaJame La Grange
fixed the . Loquet in her ginlle, after having
drawn from its perfume a new inspiration or.
which to sweep away all opposing feelings.
"One night it happened the buqutt r. as more
Tolurninous than usual. The moss roses, ar
rangvrd in a circle, IVn-med the rinvs: roiind a
not of greti leaves which occupied tha Lear:.
This unusual bulS ier.d'.-ri::g it tl itlic.1t to
place the flowers in lhtr accustomed spot in
her g'fdli, Madame La Grange held them for
an instant in her hand, Lowed he acknowl
edgements and passed the boqiu-t to one of
the attendants, begging her to carry it to her
drekaing-rootu the act end--d.
"At the fall of the curtain the triumphant
prima donna descended to her little chamber,
and rather astonished not to find her maid in
waiting behind the scene! She opens the door,
sh uttered a cry of terror. Streched on the
floor lay the maid, to all appearances a corpse.
'Ou hearing the cry of Madame La Grange,
twenty persons ran at once to the room, nis-'d
up the poor girl, who exhibited scarcu any
sign of life, and not know ing how to render
assistance, began to discuss the possible cause
of such an accident. iVo one dreamed of at
tributing it to the boquet, which luy almost
broken under foot in a corner of the room
wfcers it had rolled without any oce caring
about it. " -
"They all continued to hang for five or six
minute rouud thd unfortunate girl, already at
tached by the ins-jiisthihty that pieceeds
dc&th, when a man rushed into the little cham
ber, his features stern, his voic commanding,
and his gestures irresistible. Tho boquet !
theboquet!' he cried, suil'ocated with emotion.
Those around at on;e mado wty for him, and
perceived Dr. Mam-zzi, the regular physician
of tac prima donna. It is heaven which has
sent you here Doctor: she cried, 'see the
state' . But without attending to ought
else, Sfarrnzzi continued to call out, Thu
boquet! the boquet!' The moment he saw
that Madame La Granje !:vl h!!ita,i!ied no in
jury beyond the terror naturally created by
the condition of hvr attest I mt, he hastened t
give his attention to tha dying girl, but StiT
repeating, 'The boquet! the boquet!' This
exclamation, so mysteriously persevered in.
and the meaning of which r.o one present
could understand, at last attracted notice; to
the boquet, which up to th.s tinio had b.-en
forgotten. Some oe took it up and hauded
it to him. lie seized it with a strange eager
nes. 'What possible Bigniticance, Doctor,'
said Madame La Grange, can you attach to
this boquet?" 'Alas,' he auswered, 'it is
poisoned!'
A sensation of terror at once ran round,
and Afadame La Grange, escaped by a mira
clj.from a death which had bl en intended for
her, had scarcely tima fully to comprehend
the horrible truth when the signal for her ap
pearance was sounded. The curtain rose and
she had to appear on the stage.
"She came out. pale even under her coating
of rogue, her heart wounded by an inexpressi
ble agony, and her mind haunted with the
thought that death, in passing by its intended
victim, had almost touched her with its wing.
She sing, nevertheless; her voice full of a
brilliant tremulousness. llur eyes shone with
un lccustouied fire, her gestures were almost
wild; while the'public, attributing these eff
ects lo the inspiration of the part, applauded
with frenzy their favorite Abigail. The cur
tain fell on an ovation of enthusiasm, and the
sinjrer, who scarcely knew what sh had been
singing, or comprehended her new success,
rushed distractedly to Iter room, and there
learned in its fullness tLe hortid truth.
.i.vDr-.Marroz.zi it sterns- traversing one of
the lbbaos in thetxcttemetit preceeding, had
obse?ved in'a isolated spot,' this young Vene
tian, whose 'vXpVVsaioii. siimed to hiru strange.
On aiiud ien the ran-jimhed rival of Madame
La Grange opened. the iloor of lier bos, and
the young wan grasping. her hand in a pecu
liar manner 'quickly uttered in passing., these
sinister words ipukun in Italian: The deed1 Is'
accotnplfsliedshe dies ! ' 'Tiu' boquet raakvd ,
the Italian, songstress.,, Th young .man a
eweredby an affimative nod.and rtirjd quick-:
ly. The doctor had a certain- illumination.
He understood all; rushed to the entrance be
hind "the acenei'aud tber 'found a woman pois
oned by a boquet. , But it was not Madame
La Grange. ' ' . - : ".
j "The deadly boqnet was handed to the po
lic; the contents wers analyzed and found to
hold a subtle and implacable poison. They
arrested the guilty Venetian, and for a whil
it wis thought justice would have had its
course. But in Italy if a culprit is connected
with the nobilit- or the clergy, in the person
of any of the highest dignitaries, or if he pos
sesses a fortune and tho crime is not of a po
litical character, it appears that he is beyond
the reach of the executioner. He w as releas
ed after having denied everything, and the ri
val songstress who had conceived and inspired
tho crimes was never for a moment disturbed. '
It would be interesting tons to know the
fate of the poor girl, which the relator seems
to think of little moment. In recent treatises
on poison too for instance in Taylor's, a
standard authority it is held impossible to
convey poisou iu a boquet, unless tho inhala
tion be very long, though stupor may be
created.
Tho Bobolink.
BT WA3tlI.Gro IXTISG.
"The happiest bird of o:ir st)t ing, however,
and one that rivals tluj European lark, in my
estimation, is the Bohliucon, or Bobolink, as
he is commonly called, lie arrives at that
choice portion of our year which, in this lati
tude, answ.TJ to tha description of the month
f May, and lasts until near the middle of
June. K ir'ijr. th m this, winter is apt to
r.-turn on its traces, and to blight the opening
beauties of the year ; and l iter than this, be
gin the parching, anl panting, and dissolving
heatu of Rummer. But in this genial interval,
nature is in all her freshness and fragrancs:
the rains ore over and gone, the flowers ap
pear upon the earth, the time of the singing of
birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in the land. The trees are now in their
fullest foliage and brightest verdure; the woods
are gay with the clustered flowers of the lau
rel ; the air is perfumed by ihe sweet brier
and the wild rose ; the meadows are enamel
ed with clover blossoms ; w hile the young ap
ple, the peach and the plum begin to swell,
and the cherry to glow among the green leaves.
This is the chosen season of revelry of the
boholiuk. lie comes amidst the pomp and
fragrance of.the treason ; his life seems all
sensibility and enjoyment, all song and sun
shine. He in to be found in the soft bosoms
of the freshest ami sweetest meadows, and is
most in song when the clover is in blossom.
He perehes on the topmost t n i of a tree, or on
some long flaunting weed, and as he rises and
and sinprs with the breeze, pours forth a
succession of rich tinkling notes; crow
ding out npon another like the oufpoiing me
lody of the skylark, and possessing the same
rapturous character. Sometimes he pitches
from the summit of a tree, begins hi song as
soon as he gets' upon tho wing and flutters
tremulously down to the earth, as if overcome
with extacy at his own music. Sometimes he
is in pitrsulf of hi3 paramour ; always with the
same appearance of intoxication and delight.
Of all the birds of our groves and meadows,
the bobvlinl; a the envy of my boyhood, lie
crossed my path in the sweetest weather, and
the sweetest season of the year, w hen all na
ture called to the fields, a::d the rural feeling
throbbed in every bosom ; but w hen I, litck
Ijss urchin ! was (loomed to be mowed up, du
ring the livelong day, in that" purgatory of
bayhood, a sohool room, it saemed as if the
littte varlet mocked at me, a be fl.'w by in
full song, and sought to taunt mc with his
happier lot. Oil, how I envied him! No
lessons, n task, no hateful school, nothing
but holiday, frolic,' green fields and fine wea
ther. Had I been then more versed in poetry,
I mighc have addressed him in the words of
Logan to the cuckoo :
Sweet bird I thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear ;
Thou bust no sorrow in thy note,
No winter in thy year.
Oh I could I fly, I'd fly with thee ;
"tW'd make on joyful wing,
Our annual visit round the globe,
Companions of the Spring ! ' ' '"
Further observation and experience has giv
en me another idea of this little feathered vo
ltipturry, which I will venture to impart, for
the benefit of my schoolboy readers, w ho may
regard him with the unqualified envy and ad
miration which I once indulged. I have
shown him only as I saw him at first, what I
may call the poetical part of his career, when
lie in a manner devoted himself to elegant
pursuits and enjoyments, and was a bird of
music, and song, an Ittsta, and sensibilit', and
refinement. While this 'lasted he w as s tcred
I'roni injury ; the very schoolboy would not
fling a stone.. at him, and the, merest rustic
would pause to listen to his strain. '' But mark
the diffe'ence. - As the year advances,' as the
clover blossoms disappear, and tho spring fades
into summer, j he gradually gives , up his ele-
gaut tasteaand habits ; doll's hispoetical suit of
black, assumes a-russet dusty garb,' and sinks
to the gross enj.tymeQta" of, common vulgar
birds. ,. His notes no longer vibrate oil the ear ;
he is stuffing himself with'the seeds of the tall
weeds on lyhictr hSLtfeiy swung and chanted
so melodiously.' ; ,. A :- .: '
11 has become a "bon ttrcn," a real "gour
mand ;" with him there is nothing like the
"joys of the table." In little while he grows
tired of plain homely fair, and is off on a gas
tronomical tour in quest of foreign luxuries.-
AVe next hear cf him with myriads of his kind
batiqueting among the reeds of the Delaware ;
and grown corpulant with good feeding. He
lias changed his na ne in traveling. Boblin
con no more he' is the Reed-hinl now, the
much sought for titbit of Pennsylvania epi
cures the rival in unlucky fame of the orto
lan ! Wherever he goes, pop ! pop ! pop ! ev
ery rusty firelock in the country is blazing
away. He sees his companions f alliug by thou
sand around him.
Does he take warning and reform ? Alas
not he ! Incorrigible epicure ! again he wings
his flight. The rice swamps of the South in
vite him. He gorges himself among them al
most to bursting ; he can scarcely fly for cor
pulency, lie has once more changed, his
n.im, and is now the famous rice-bird of the
Carolinas.
L'ist stage of his career; behold him spitted
with dozens of his corpulent companions, and
served up a vaunted dish, on the table of some
Southern g istronome.
Such is the history, of the Bobolink ; once
spiritual, musical.' admired, the joy of the
meadows, and the favorite bird of spring ; fi
lially a gross little sensuelist, who expiates his
sensuality in the larder. II is story contains a
mornl, worthy the attrition of all little boys;
warning them to keep to those refined and in
tellectual pursuits which raised him to so high
a pitch of popularity during the early part of
his career; but to eschew all tendency to that
gross and dissipated indulgence, which bro"t
this mistaken littly bird to an untimely end.
MaduS3 of Georgo III.
Little Js known respecting the nature of the
delusions which possessed the king's mind,
but the following passage from Lord Eldon's
papevs indicates one of them: "It was agreed
that if any strong features of the knig's mala
dy appeared during the presence of the coun
cil, Sir Henry llaiford should, on receiving a
signal from me, endeavor to recall him from
his aberrati-fus; and, accordingly, when his
ni;jsty appeared to be addressing himself to
two of the persons whom he most favored in
his early life, long dead, Sir Henry observed,
ywtr majesty has, I believe, forgotten that
and both died many years ago.'
'True,' was the reply, 'died to you and to the
world in general, but not lo me. You, Sir
Heury, are forgetting that I have the power of
holding intercourse with those whom you call
dead.'
Yes, Sir Ileniy llaiford,' continued he, as
suming a lighter manner, 'it is in vain, so far
as I am concerned, that you kill your patients.
Yes, Dr. Baillie bnt, Baiilie, Baillie,' pur
sued he, with resumed gravity, 'I don't know.
He is an anatomist; he dissects his patients;
and then it would not be a resuscitation mere
by, but a recreation, and that, I think, is be
yond my power.' "
The following memoranda of his condition
from 1S12 till his death, is given by an anony
mous writer, but are well authenticated, I Ik.
lieve, and comprise all that I have been a" la
to fin 1 respecting this period, "At ; intervals
he still took a lively interest in politics. His
preemption w-as good, though mixed up with a
number of erroneous ideas ; bis memory was
tenacious, but his judgment unsettled; and tho
loss of royal authority seemed constantly to
prey upon his mind. His malady seemed ra
ther to increase than abate up to the year 1814,
when, at the time the allied sovereigns arrived
in Ehgland.be evinced indications of returning
reason, and was made acquainted with the as- j
tonishing events which had recently occurred.
The queen, one day, found the afflicted mo
narch engaged in singing a hymn, and accorn.
panying himself on the harpsichord. After he
had concluded the hymn, ho knelt down.pray
ed for his family and his nation, and earnestly
supplicated for the complete restoration of his j
mental powers. He then burst into tears, and
his reason suddenly left him. But he after
wards had, occasionally, lucid moments. Ons
morning, hearing a bell toll, he asked who w as j
dead. 'Please your Majesty,' said an attend
ant, 'Mrs. S.' 'Mrs. S. I' r-joined the king,
she was a linnen draper, at the corner of
street, and brought up her family in the fear of
God. She has gone to heaven ; I hope I shall
soon follow her.' He now became deaf, imbi-
bed the idea that he was dead, and said I must
have a suit of black, in memory of George III,
for whom I know there is general mourning.'
In lbl7 . ho.. appeared to have a glimmering of
reason again ; his sense of bearing returned
more accute 'than ever, and be could distin- :
guish persons by their t'ooisleps. He likewise .
recollected that he had made a memorandum
many years before,' and it was found exactly
where he indicated. After 1818 lie occupied
a long suit of rooms, in which ,wert placed se
veral pianos and harpsichords; at these he wo'd
frequently atop during his walkr play a few
notes from Handle, then stroll on. He seem
ed cheerful, and would sometimes talk aloud j
as if addressing some nobleman ; but his dis.'
course bore reference only to past events, for
ho had no kuowdedge of recent circumstanocs,
either political or domestic, i :Toward the end
of 1819 his appetite began to fail: In January,1
1820, it- was found.' impossible ' to keep him
warm, his remaining teeth dropped out, and he
was almost reduced to a skeleton. On the 27th
he was confined wholly to his bed, and on the
29th of January, 1820, ho died, aged 82 yars.
'lmricm Journal of Infinity.
A Profitable Walls.- V;
'.-1 .
Baron Rothschild sat in his olEce (ountng
his gains, and calculating the rislc of. sundry
loans, which had been onVred hinW-'wheti a
- v
spruce, handsome young man cntewrd, aa I re
quested the loan of two thousand pounds.
'What is the security ?". saiJv" the Baron,
without looking up.
"My note," was the reply. -; "' ' : '' '
Thn great monev lender turned and survev
d his applicant, scrutiuizingJiim from head
to foot. ..
There must have been something honest" in
the young mitrs face, foahe Baron was evi
dently pleased with the rHiilt of his scrutiny.
"Would two thousand ..be" sufficient', young
gentlemen ?" said hel'1 f 'I can let you "have
ten as well as two!" "j . '-.. ;
"Two will answer rny" purpose now," said !
the would be borrower .' , . i I
'Though Pdo not say I will lend it," said
tha baron, "but 1 can put you in the way of
getting it. and even ten times that amount, if
you know how to take advantage of your op
portunities.''
'The young man trembled, at the unusual
complaisance of a man who iu money matters
had the reputation of being very severe. He
feared that he was' about to propose some
doubtful operation and stammered
"Honorable proposition V
"I would make no other," sti i the Baron,
with dignity. "Come, we'll take a walk up
the street."
Instead of offering his arm to his new ac
quaintance, ho took his, and thus they prom
enaded Lombard St. The Baron learned the
name and business of his companion, and the
object for which he wished the money. Hun
dreds of people met them, and bowing to the
great money king, turned to look at, and won
der who could be his companion.
Some of the richer and more influential dn
izens of that moneyed street, stopped to chat
with him, and to them the Baron introduced
his young friend, with th remark that any
favor they could do for him would be consid
ered a personal favor to himsjlf.
, Many of these were men whose wealth an4
influence were so great that their very name
commanded the involuntary respect of our
young friend. He saw his advantage at once.
Arriving at the end of the street. The Baron
affectionately took leave of him. haying, that
if bo did not obtain the money elsewhere, he
might come in the afternoon and with a
knowing wink he got into his carriage and
drovi
e on. Uur yoanjr friend turned
to walk
back on Lombard St.
He met one of the men a very Cr.Tessus
to whom he had been introduced by the Baron ;
this person desirous of cultivating an acquain
tance , which had such an auspicious com
mencement held him in conversation in the
course of which our friend plumply asked for
the loan of jL'3,000.
The rich man could not lefuse the appli
cant has been introduced by Rothschild ; he
had been as good as endorse 1 by bim, and
then the sum would be doing a favor to the
great man. , T'io notes were counted out, and
the young man's note taken in exchange. The
lender looked at the signer.
True he had never heard of him on Change,
but never mind ; Rothschild would not have
walked arm and arm with him aud introduced
him as ho did if he had not been perfectly good.
ou mxui a. sura
Sard tl,tJ two Part-
So with many assurances of distinguished re-
A lew steps ittrtlicr the young adventurer
met another of his new acquaintances, and
while halting with him, he carelessly display
ed the bank notes he had just received, and
observing that he had a large amount to make
up for a certain great opportunity, anl not
w ishing for private reasons, to apply to his
very good friend, the Baron, be would feel
obliged if he could lend him 10,000.
Tiie latter, actuated by such motives as the
other money-lender, counted out tho desired
amount and took a note, with the unknown
name in exchange. And so the young man
went on borrowing from each of his new
friends, until he had accumulated a hundred
thousand pounds. All this he deposited with
J Rothschild, reserving only the i.'2,000 which
I he originally desired. .
1 Tue next thcrc was great Cutteramong
j the rich men on "Change, and many were the
conjectures they made, as they "compared
! notes" about the Baron's friend. Time flew
on. , 'o one had .reen the unkown money
borrower, and some of the lenders began to
think they bad boon victimized. ' I -' --''-'
. T le Baron was route to all their inquiries,
and they knew not what to think,' when just
before- the time of payment 'arrived, each one
received a no'e from the strange acquain
tance, to the . effect that if - he would present
his note at the banking house of Rothschild, it
would be pajd ; i: ' "i' v. ; '- .J .-yi
One who held a note of -23,000 .went there
but of curiosity, as he said, . w hen lo ! it was
cashed. ' Tho news went like wild . fire. All
came with notes ; and all as soon as present-
ed were paid,' and upon this affair Mr. Cotts
established a credit, which enabled him soon
alter wards to establish tho. banking house of
Cots & Co., whose credit at the present , day
in England is equal to that of the great Roths
child himself, to whose affability it founder
owd his fortun and his snecess.
Influence of a Newspaper.
A fichol teacher, who has been engagsl a
long time in his profession, and witnessed th
influence of a good newspaper upon the mlada
of a family cf children, writes to tho editor ot
the Cgder.sburg Sentinel, as follows s .
I have found it to be a universal fact without
exception, that those scholars, of both sexes,
and ot'all ages, who have had access to newspa
pers at home, when compared to thos4 who
hav-3 not, are: 1. B.-tter readers ; excelling la
pronunciation and emphasis, and consequent
ly read more understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and define words
with ease and accuracy.
2. They obtain a practical knowledge of
ogrnphy,and in almost half the time it requires
others, as the newspaper lias made them famil
iar with the location of the important places. na
tions. their governments and doings on the glob
4. They arc better grammarians, for having
become so familiar w ith every variety of ityla
in the newspaper, from the common place ad
vertisement to the finished and classical ora
tion of the statesman, they more readily com
prehend tho me itiing of the text, and conse
quently analyze its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better composition.usiug bet
ter language, containing more clearly a&4
connectedly expressed ideas.
' C- Those young men who have for yetrs
been readers of the newspapers, are always ta
king the lead in the debating society, exhibit
ing a more extensive knowledge upon s greater
variety of suljicts, and expressing thIr
views with greater fluency, and clearness la
their se of language.
- Three Things.
Three things that never become rusty ; The
money of the benevolent, the shoes 6a a
butcher's horse, and a fretful tongue.
Three things easily done: To allay,thirs
with Cre, to dry the wet with water, to pleas
all in everything that is done.
Three things that are as good as the best :
Brown bread in a famine, well-water in thirst,
and a great-coat in winter.
Three things as good as they aro better
Dirty water Jo extinguish fire, an ugly wif t
a blind man, and a wooden sword to a coward.
Three things that seldom agree Two catj
over one mouse, two scolding wives In oa
houss, and two lovers of the same maiden.
Three things of a short continuance : A boy
love, a chip Are, and a brook's flood.
Three things that ought never to h from
horn?. The cat, the chimney and th Lous
wife. " .'
TLrca essentials to a false story-teller t
good memory, a bold face, and fools for aa
audience. ,.
Three things scon in the peacock : Th
garb of an nngel, the walk of a thief, and th
voice of the devil.
Three things that are unwise to boast of : -The
flavor of thy ale, the beauty of thy wif.
and the content ot thy purse.
Three miseries of a man's house : A smo
ky chimney, a dripping roof, aad
wif.
a scoliiai
Farmers. .
Adam was a farmer while yet in Paradtso,
and after his fall commanded to earn bis
bread by the sweat of his brow.
Job, the honest, upright and patient, was a
farmer, and his enduranco has pass?d into a
proverb.
Socrates was a farmer, and yet wedded to his
calling the glory of his immortal philosophy.
St. Luke was a farmer, and divides with
Prometheus the honor of aul jecting the ox to
the use of man.
Cincinnatus was a farmer, and the noblest
Roman of them all.
Burns was a fanner, and the muse found hits
at the plow, and filled his soul with poetry. .
. Washington was a farmer, and retired from
the highest earthly station to eryoy the quiet
of rural life, and present to tho world a spec
tacle of human greatness.
To these may be added a host of others who
sought peace and repose in the cultivation of
their mother earth; the enthusiastic Lafayette,
the steadfast Pickering, the scholastic JefferT
son, the fiery Randolph, all fonnd an Eldora
do of consolation from life's cares and troub
les, in the gtcen and verdant lawns tbat sur
rounded their homesteads.
EP" -Tho lazy man's bedstead'.' is the title
given to an article of furniture which -attracts
much attention at . the . Fair of the Americas
Institute in Xew York. It is described as a
newley-invented., bedstead attached to thsj
heal of which is a small alarm clck, so con
nected with the led, that at a given moment
the alarm bell will rlng,;andj in -Ave miaat
thereafteri if the sleeper docs not arise the
mattress Upsets, and ho is straightway, snC
without.any ceremony", tumbled OKtfbd -The
difficulty will be . in getting ' the' artielss
into practical use. . Will a lazy man buy ill "
XT'- A person who "was recently called I,
court for the purpose of proving th correct
ness of a doctor's bill, was asked by th lawc
yer whether "the doctor did not make MYsrai
visits after th. patient was oat of danger ?'W
"No," replied ihe witness "I consider tho pa-'
tint In daager as lorj as th doctor continuant
his "visits!"
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