THIOLS OV THE "AMCKICAX."
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JOSEPH EISGLY.
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VOS .43
Slum A(nliit 'Wind.
The following clover reply to Allan Cunning
bam's spirited sons "A Wet Sheet anil a Flowing
Sen," was handed u by a friend, ft in a clear
turtii rta: of the table against th rnrrlitopmcn.
We understand the inspiration which produced it
vns a visit a day or two ago, to the "Princeton." i
S. Y. Erjirnm. j
'Oh. tive mo a bunker full of coal,
An engine now-nnd strong,
We'll furl our Fail brace tip our yards,
And drive our ship along,
And drive our ship along
Nor ask for favoring gales ;
Ikit lluonsh the tide will sw iftlv ".lido.
Oh, give me a bunker full o coal,
An engine new and strong,
"'l furl our sails l.raoe np or yards,
And drive the ship along,
for a snorting w'irA lieu art,
1 hear the old tars cry ;
lint give to nie a head of steam,
And then our ship will Ily;
And thou our ship w ill Ily
With the full-oil's speed she'll go ;
Oh. what care we for wind or sea,
Wh n oui steam is not too low.
Oh. give me uu engine now ami strong. &.. j
When our port before us lies.
Though th; witid and tides oppose
Take off the half-stroke, give her stemn,
And then right in sh" goes.
And then right in she goes ;
Xo sails to back r Iil1
Hut on her track w ithout n tack,
She go-n where'er we will.
Oh, give me a bunker lull cl coal, &c.
THE W I F E.
rnoM Tin: i;i:i:miv or STcn.n nii.
Happy lie 1o whom kind heaven,
Uioh in grace, a wife hath given,
Virtuous, wis, mid formed lor love,
ti'entle. guileless as it dove.
i
' Lot him thank his Cod for this
Pure overflowing nip of bliss;
Pain may never linger m ar,
With such friend to soothe and cheer.
Sh", like iiioouliulit. mild and fair,
Smiles away each gloomy care
Kisses dry man's secret tears,
And with flower- his pu'li-wuy cheers.
When his boiluej henrt heaves high,
Flashing fire Irom his eye,
When kind 'riciid.-h;p seeks in vain.
Passion' uildc.-uooj to lein.
Then iikh senile step is near !
Softly diop- her soothing tear.
As when evening dew comes down,
On the meadow scorched and blown.
Some have sought their bliss in gold !
Some for f.mi" their ponce have sold!
Gold and glory in the hand,
('rumble liken ball of sand.
Heaven sends man the faithful wife !
Life without her is not life !
And when life is o'er, her love,
Cilds a brighter scene above.
PT'CK SHOOTING KXTUAORDIN ARY.
"I've got," cried Ai.., with joyful look,
"Two very line fat ducks, my dear "
W-. frowned and said, "Vou have no right
To any 'duck' but st: while here."
Ihig'iih pnprr,
fsTAt.i.im.F. Rti.rsj ix) pinrovFR A nisn.vNO
and wifk If you see a innn and woman,
with little or no in ciision, finding fault, uud
correcting onu or uuoilier in company, you
may bo Hire that they are man and wile. If
you sec a lady accidentally let fall a glove,
and a gentleman lint eiU next her toiling
her to lake it up, she is his wile. If yon tee
o lady presenting r gentleman with eonietiiing
sideways, at arm's length, with her head tur-
ning another way, speamng to nun wun a ;
look and accent (iifferent from that she uses J
towards others, you may De sure lie is ner
husband. In fine, if you see a gentleman and
lady in the same coach, in profound silence, the
one looking out at the one side the other at
the other side, never Euspcct they mean any
harm to one another, they are already mar
ried. Captiin Mac heath, in the Beggar's opera
toys to Jenny Diver, ' I know by your kiss that
jour gin it excellent"
We once heard a western girl, afler giving
her lover a hearty smack, exclaim, "Dog my
cat ! if you haint been takio' a little rye, old
liocs!"
Every man who acquires a fortune by indus
try id a treasure to himself and family, and a
profit to his country, by adding to the common
stock. It becomes a bond which unite him to
eociety.
BUNBURY 'AMEBIC AN.
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL:
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
Ily Zinsser & EIsclj.
Dickens ami ttie t'nltnl St .
Diikfns, it seems, has not vented nil his
spleen ngntnst this country through the. medium
of his 'Notes' ntid his 'Martin Chuzzlowit.' An
additional effusion has just been put forth in the
leading nrticle ol the Foreign Quarterly Re
view, in which on examination of Griswold's
collection of American Poetry is made the pre
text of an attack on the Poet and Poetry of A
merica, couched in the characteristic style of j
the writer when speaking of men and things in
the United States. The followim? rmsMrrcs.
extracted fr m the article referred to, will give
the render an idea of itsspirit:
" 'American Poetry' always reminds in of the
advertisements in the newspapers, headed 'Tim
j Lest substitute for Silver:' if it In not tho , Iironlil Iiim. Wn.t.i.i, tho New York cones
i genuine thing, il 'looks jin-t na handsome, and , pondent of the National Intelligencer, in his
i is miles out of sight t lies per.' j Inst puhli.shrd letter t litis describes the eircum-
We are for from regarding it as a jtitt ground , fiance under which ho first saw him, while in
j of reproach to the Americans, that their poetry ' similar predicament :
i is I. tile better than the far-ofl' echo of the fa- ! "I am sorry to see by tho F.nglieli pipers that
I therland; Iwit we think it is a reproach to them ; Hickrns has been 'within the rules of the
! that they shmi'J lie ctvmally thnnting their ' Qoeen's Bencli, realizing the prophecy of pe
! pretensions to th; jvy-tical churncter in the face eimiary ruin which has for Fonie time been
of educated nations. In this particular, as in j whispered about for Iiim. II is splendid genius
' -...' I . 1 1 . ...l,n 1 1 . .. .. . .. , :n . t . . r, ftid nnt nnnd thfl m,T nftl.r.lu r, m. .f . I" Imnmni.
.'ill, I , nmii tiU'jr nnilL IU IOC 1 1 II'JJ I I! V Ul j". ...n .......... ni,'i,r
their assumption, they make up in swagger and j dence, and he hns hud wealth so completely
impudence. To liolieve themselves, they are ' .within his grasp, that there seems n particular
the finest poets in the whole world ; beTore wc ' nnJ 'l",l'y neetlk'ssness in his ruin. The
close this article, we hope to satisfy the reaiier worst of his misfortune is, be has lived so close
that, with two or throe cxcejtfioos, there id nut nt ,'1P edge .f his (loixitiilc of prosperity that
! a poet of mark in the whole Fnion. !
The circumstance of America, from the com-
menreuient of her history to the present time, '
have been peculiarly unfavorable to tin: deel- i
j opement of poetry, and if the people were wise
they would be content to take credit for the saw Dickens and I will rerord this phrase of
things they have done, without challenging ' ''is cryu hr ('li e tomb of the caterp.ller and
criticism upon the things they have failed in j 'lie cradle i.f ihe butterfly ,' as I.innrous e ills it)
attempting. They have felled forests, drained , upon the clitmrr of its lieinir as interesting to
marshes, cleared wildernesses, built cities, cut ( future ages as such a picture would now hoof
canals, laid down railroads (too much of this Uxj 'be fintr-duttrrfHiittj of Shakespeare. I was
w th other people's money) and worked out n : following a favorite amusement of mine one
great practical exemplification, in an amazing rainy day in the strand, London strolling to
ohort space of time, of the political immoralities ' wards the more crowded thoroughfares with
and social vices of which a democracy may bn j cleuk and umbrella, and looking at people and
rendered capable. This ought to bo enough j shop-w ir.dows. 1 heard my nnme called from
Ihr their present ambition. They ought to wait passenger in the street cab. From cut the
patiently, and with a bri-tti.ig modesty, for the H"olie rt,,(' w'1 Vntl the head of my
tune lo come when all this frightful rush and j PU"--!'er, Mr. Macrone, (a m.t liberal and no
conflict of w ild energies shall in some measure "ic-hearted fellow, since dead.) After a little
huvctub.-idc(l,to afford repose for the. fine arts j catechism as to my damp destiny loi that iiioru
totake r.,t in their soil and 'ripen in the s-un.' ,m "f'"-'J ""5 'C "as going to vi
h is not enough that there are individuals in the ' Sil Newgate, and asked me to join him.
to;.. o- will. ixldmiT d..sir... i I wiiluiglv agreed, never having seen this
! fort-asc. and wil.tudc, and books, and green ;
j places; such drv-amirs ate only in the way, ami ,
more likely to be tramp'od down in the blind immS I'nragrapln.-t tor ll.e .Horning I lironicSe,
commofron, than, like Orpheus, to still the wished to write a description of it. In
crowd andgrt audience lor their delicate music tlie "0t crowded part ofllolborn, within a door
There must be a national heart, and national or two of the 'null and Mouth' Inn, (the great
sympathies, and an intellectual atmosphere for J aTii"2 8ml f'H'I'ii'? place of the stage coach
poetry. There must be the material to work , cs,) we pulled up nt the enfance of a large
upon as well as to work with. The ground building ued Tor lawyers' chambers. Not to
mutt be prepared before the seed is cast into 1 mo sitting in the rain, Mucrone asked me
it. nod tended and well-ordered, nr it will bo. to dismount with him. I followed by long flights
come choked will) weeds, as American ltteta
tnre, such as it is, is now choked in everv one
of its multifarious manifestations. As yet the
American is hom-handi J and pig-headed, hard,
j perscvr ring, unscrupulous, carnivorous, re;nly
j for all weathers, with an incrdih!e reniuti for
j lying, a vanity elastic beyond comprehension, evening, as the strrnpesl instance 1 Hail ever
! the hide of a buffalo, and the shriek of a rteam ' M'rn of V"1 obsequiousness to employers.)
engine; 'a nal nine-font breast of a fellow, i ,,,e tlogrce to which the poor author was over
j steel twisted, and made of horse shoo mils the C'wcred with the honor of his publisher's visit
' rest of him being cast iron w.th steel springs.' j 1 remember saying to myself as I sat down on
j ja ricket'y chair, 'My good fellow, if yo'i were
j The one thing that goe.i down most success- in America with that fine face and your ready
, fully in America is money. This is the Real I quill, you would have no need tobe condercend
I which has so tfllctuallv stranded the Ideal in i cd to by a publisher!' Dickens was dressed
lis irongr.po. A bag rf dollars is a surer in-
truduction lo the 'best society' in America than
the highest literary reputation. A famous an-
thor will be staled at, and jostled about, mul
asked questions, and have his privacy scared
iitii tro!en in upon by impertinent curiosity:
l . -. i. . . . . t ....
nui a ricn man moves in mi aimopnoro oi awe
and servility, and cnmminds everything that
is to be had in th way of precedence, nnd pomp,
ftm, circic.worslip. M there must he an aris-
Mnry rvrry w1Pre of(lorne inrt 0f b!ood, or
nnt M fn Amcrica nme her CPC.
)p hff oristof raf y f dollars the
basest of all. It would be 'he greatest of ca
lamities were it not also the greatest of bur
lesques, jnd their is hope that its essential ab
surdity may at length bring il into gencrul con
tempt. People are sometimes laughed oul of
their vices, who cannot by any means be in
duced to reason upun them ; and so it w ill hap
pen, doubtless, in the fullness of time, with the
aristocracy of America. It cannot be en lured
for ever. A sense of the ridiculous mu.-t one
day set in, and Ihe whole fabric mus.1 be smelt
ed, and such proportion of ore as it may really
contain will be separated from tho dra-a with
which it is now mixed up. Generals and colo
nels keeping whUkey stores and boarding
houses titles of honor borrowed from the old
world, and labelled upon the meanest of callings
! in the new, suggest such an irresistably ludic
rous association of ideas, that the Americana
majority; the vital principle of Republic, from which
Sunbury, Northumberland Co.
themselves, once tliey begin in bcc things in
tlmt tippect, must hu glad to be relieved from a
motley foul's costume which only excites the
Jorision of other countries making itself felt in
shouts of laughter that may bo slid to come
pealing upon them over the broad water of tho
Atlantic. But in the meanwhile it interferes
fatally with tho culture of letters. The afore
paid bag of dollars, no matter how acquired
utter indifference to the honesty of the means
of acquisition giving additional impetus to the
naked passion for gain is worth a dozen ports
in America."
It appears that Dickens has fallen into pecu-
ntnry difficulties, notwithstanding the large
s'tnis of money w hich tho lnlvir of his pen has
'hn ebb leaves him at highwater nrirk, and nut
in the contented ooze of supplied necessities
where it first took him up. And, by the -vay,
it vvas in that Fame lowwater period of his lib-
-just heliire he became celebrated that I first
i"-''1" V'-"' ; "!. ' I was seated in the
ca!, l,,J "'''" was to pick upon the way a
of stairs tu an upper story, and was ushered in
to an uncarpeted and bleak-looking room, with
a deal table, two or three chairs and a few
books, a small hoy. and Mr. Dickens for th con
tents. I was only struck at firt.t with one
tiling, (ami I nrnlc i memorandum of it that
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very much ns he lias since itrworibnl 'H.cU
Swiveller' wiinns the Vwi l' look. His ti.-iir
; was cropped close to his head, his clothes sc iu',
; though jaunt!y cut, and, after changing a rig-
'god office coat tor a shabby blue, he s'ood by the
j door, coi!-ir,ess nml huttoneil up, llie very per- j
. . . i,i i.. r .. i i . .i..'
sonuicauou, i iuoii",iii, in miuu i
,'wiiid. e went down ond crowded into the
i cub, (one passenger more than the law allow
j ed, and Dickens partly iii my lap and partly in
Marcroue's,)and drove on lo New gate.
In his works, if you remember, there is a de
scription of ihe prison, draw n from I his day's
observation. Wc were llierc an hour or two,
and were shown some of the celebrated mur
derers confined for life, and one young soldier
waiting for execution ; and in one of tho pas
sages we chanced to meet Miss Fry on her u
sual errand of benevolence. Though interested
in Dickeu's face, 1 forgot him naturally enough
afler we entered the prison, and I do n' t think
I heard him speak during the two hours. I
parted from him at the door of the prison, and
continued my stroll in the city.
Not long afler this, Macrone sent me Ihe
Vheets of Sketches by Biz," with a note say
ing that they were by llie gentleman who went,
w ith us to Newgate. I read tho book wilha-iiiazc-mcut
at the genius displayed in it, and, in
my note of rep'y, assured Macrono that I thought
his fortune was inhde as a publisher jf he could
monoplno the author.
there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle
Ia. Saturday, Feb. lo, IS I.
Two or three years afterwards I was in Ion
don, and present at tho complimentary dinner
given to Miictenriy. Samuel I .over, who sat
next me, pointed out Dickens. I looked up
and down tho table, but was wholly unable to
single him out without getting my friend to
number the people who sat above him. He
w'as no more like the same nian I had seen
than a tree in June i like thesamo tree in Feb
ruary. He Pitt leaning his head on his hand
while I'dlwcr was speaking, and with his very
loog hair, his very flush waiscont, his chains
mid rings, and will al a much paler face than of
old, lie was totally unrecognisable. The com
parison was very interesting to me, and I 1m.'!;
td al him a long tinic.
He was then in his colniin itiimof popularity
and seemed jaded to stupefaction. Remember
ing the glorious work ho had written since I
had seen him, I lunged to piy my lion, age, but
had no opportunity, and I did not nee him again
till ho came over to reap his harvest and upset
his hay cart in America. When all the ephe
mera of his imprudences, and improvidences
shall have passed away say twenty years
hence I should like to see himagain, renown
ed as he w ill be for the most original and re
markable works of his time."
Wlnt vs. Wntrr.
ORK.r A.NTI-1 CM ITU VM K Mt't'.TlNti.
A highly respectable meetUi'X of some of the
most inlliunti.il w iih-f, iK-crs, and spirits, was
held for the purp iso of considering the best
means ol opposing the Temperance movement.
Among those on the platform we particularly
noticed Fort, SI, i rry, and T'laret ; while nt the
lower etui of the room when- Cupe, Marsala,
and a deputation of the 1'iitish Wines, who
were repn seiitcd by the Two-and lwo-pemiy
sparkling Cbsiuipngno, ino-e 'anuhaily known
as the 'Hi nu. no Walker." Most of ihe priu-.
cipal wuu a wore the s ilver collate of the orders
tu which they respectively belonged ; and Perl
having been unanimously voted into the chair,
the business of the meeting was opened by
Corkscrew, in u concise but pointed nnnncr.
Champagne was the first to ri.-e, in a state o
great cficrescciicc. lie declared that he was
ficthing over with pure indignation of the idea
of wine buifg excluded from the sccial lio.iid ;
and, indeed, he found it iuiKi:sihie to preserve
the ciHilniss w Inch ought to belong to him.
lie wns not one to keep any thing long lotlled
up; (lle.tr! and a l"gh,) indeed, when he
once let loose, out it must como ; and he did
say that the temperance movement was playing
old goosels-rry with him in every direction,
(cries of shame ! from Genuine Walker.) Cla
ret said that he did not alien get into n state of
fermentation; but on this occasion he did feel
his natural smoothness forsaking him. He bog
god leave to propose the following resolution :
"Th.it the substitution of water for wine is like
ly to dissolve all social ties, and is calculated
to do material injury to the constitution." Kuni
rose, he said, for the purpose of opposing this
resolution w hich he thought of too sweeping a
character. He, (Hum,) so far from w ishing to
get ral of water altogether, w as ul .vavs hupp)
to mett w ith it o l equal terms; and I e knew
that he, (Uuin,) ns w 11 i.s many of his friends
around him, had derived a good deal of influ
ence from being mixed up with water, ami uv
ing as it were halfway, which there could be
no objection to. Gin bog-red leive to differ
from the honorable spirit that had just sat down,
and who was so ntiacou-tomod to he on his legs
at all, that it was not surprising he should have
failed to make a respectable stand on the pre
sent nrca.sion. (Cries of 'order!') lie (flu)
had no wish to create coiiiiihiou. (Iroiii. il
I ,.ioertn" from Marsala) lk umlorato d the
! moanin- P that cheer and would certainU
J r,.n(,. ,,,t ,, ,,..,. ,r ,,0 .v . i;. .
i wou;. n,, t.3 i;lv. ,tion 'er tern ot w ir.u ( i
.ltl was not likely-to create confusion in
nnv ,j,nrt,.ri
No. he (llie honorable lu'verve
was not stroii ' eiiote
h for tint fi' ,iVl. I
laughter.) lie (Cm) had perhaps, sailed
more from water llian all Ihe otiier wines and
spirits whom he now saw heliire l.im put toge
ther. (Hear, hear !) A Frcichw ine, w hoso j
name we could nut. loam, lit something drop,'
but we were unublo to catch it. Cap now j
rose, but was immediately coughej down in u
very unceremonious maimer. Tie' thank of
llie meeting having been voted to Port for Irs
able conduct in the decanter, the meeting so
parated; but tint-until a committee had been
cliioi-n, consisting of a dozen of w ine and a gal
lon of beer, with power to add lo their uumbc,
either by water or otherwise. Cruiks'itinh's
Comic Almanac,
SINE IN A l.OXDON Puiniino Orricc '
"What aie you engaged in I" said Ihe head
printer in a newspaper establishment to one
of his coinjKKjitorH. "In on elopement." "Stop,"
said his interrogator, "I want you to lake a
share in a murder !"
lie who gives himself airs ot importance, ex
hibits the crcdtnlials of impotence.
and immediate parent of desp itiem. Jarrr.aaov.
Vol. 4 Xo. 30 Whole A'o, 1?6.
A Wonderful Clock,
The Rev. Mr. Turnbull, Pustor of tho liar
vard Street Church, Boston, in a letter written
during his recent tour in Europe, gives the
youth of his congregation the following account
of a wonderful work of art. After introducing
his letter, he says :
"There is no subject that I can think of,
which will be so likely to interest you as this
great imlronnmkal clock, which I saw the o
.t i -i .I,,. .
mer nay in tne caineurai at ntrastiurg. Tins
cathedral, by the way, is one of tho oldest and
finest in Rurope. It is very lsrge, ond its tow
er or steeple is the highest in the world. It is
twenty-four feet higher than the great pyramid
of I'gvpt one hundred nnd forty feet higher
than St. Paul's in Imdon and three or four
times higher than the Old South Church in
ISoston, The astronomical clock stands in the
inside, in one corner of it, and is a most impo
sing and beautiful ohj ;ct. Five or six hun
dred people visit it every day, at 12 o'clock,
when it performs some extraordinary feats,
w hich ( shall mention presently and several
mill tons in the course of the year. There bavp
been two or three clocks in Ihe same place, up
on Ihe model of which it is formed ; but it is al
most entirely a new one, and was constructed
by a mechanic, whose name was Schwitue. in
I to whem a nocturnal file or festival
was given, by his fellow citizons, on the occa
sion of its completion. To give you some idea
ol the size of this clock, I will compare it wit.
some other things with which you are familiar,
instead of saying that it is bo many feet high,
and so many leet wide, &c. Well, then, you
remember the Pout O'fire, in Washington
street. It is as high as that, and about as wide,
or nearly. Its top would reach to the cry
summit of our inecting-hon: and its front
would go aliout halt way across tho front of the
meeting-house. On the top of it is a figure of
the prophet Isaiah, about as large as life; on
its two sides arc two stairs to go into
it. Its front is beautifully painted, and has
places upon which the hours of the (lay, days
of tho week, the revolution of the stars, the
motion of the sun in the ecliptic, the days of
the month, the seasons of the year, the phases
of the sun end moon, and a great many other
tilings, are indicated. Here, also, in niches
prepared for them, are immovable images of the
Saviour and his twelve apostles; Death, and
Tune with his scythe ; the four agesof human
life ; and several other forms, which I cannot
mention.
To give you a little farther idea of its magni
tude let rne say that there are means of going in
side of it ; and that some ten or fifteen people,
perhaps more, might stand together in its very
heart, and examine its machinery. Mr. Neale,
two other gentlemen, and myself, with the con
ductor, went into it and spent about an hour
there. We went first into a lower, then into a
high'r, and then again into a still higher apart
ment of it, and saw the various parts of the ma
chinery, consisting, I should think, of more than
a thousand pieces, splendidly polished, and de
pendent, for harmonious action, upon the short,
th e!;, brass pendulum, which swings in the
centre.
Put I must tell you whit this clock does.
It not only points out the hours and (lays, but
the times and seasons, the revolutions of the
tar, the solar and lunar equations, the con
junctions and eclipses of the heavenly bodies,
their posit ons at any given time, and the vari-ru--
changes through w hich they pass for thou
sands of years. It points out apparent time,
niran or real time, and ecclesiastical time. On
its face yon see the motion of the stars, of the
sun nnd p'nnets, of the moon nnd her satellites, j their fears; and joiner, maid, coffin and can
I'lvo little cherub, who sit the one on one side, ! dlestiek rolled over one another from the lop
j t!i. o'her on the other, strike tho quarters of
I t' e hour I.Vath strikes the hour with n mace,
; while 'our figures pass arid repass before him,
r ere-enting the various stages of human li'e.
t .-. , .i. i ..i .i .
1 - " 1 ,nrK every ray, wnen iio-mi strides
i i cie nposurs, wno are ropresenie.i eacn w nu
tl:e t.ai'i'es ot his martyrdom, come on troin
ll.o clock, hikI pass before an i inn up of the Si-
viour, bowing as they piss, and receiv ng his
benediction, which he gives with a movement
ofthe. hand. When the npost'e Peter mikes
his appearance, a gilded cock, which is perched
on one side of tho clock fl ips Ins wings, rai-es
i his head, and crows so long and so loud, ns to
make the w hole cathedral ring agani. This he j house, the English nohlein iii w ho had again
repeats three times, in memorial of the cock louu.l his chamber, had slipped into bed qu to
that erowed three times before the fall of Peter, J out of breath, and his frienJ having atkeJ him
(luring the crucifi vion of our Saviour. Of j where he had been, he answered ; "Jo.sihng
course Ihe Cock makes no further motion till i with u dead body." 'ShlooJl a dead body !
the next day at P2 o'clock, when he repents the J il is perhaps the plague !" cried he jimpiug;
same, loud niul startling crow, flipping his wings, in his turn out of bed, and running to lli'j
and raising his head. i door to call lor a ligl't.
Now I dire sny, yon will all exeliim, "What The landlord, t.'i'j landlady, and servants,
a wonderful clock and what a wonderful man were pissing Ih'ough, tho gallery, and nosoo
he. must have been who made il !" Yen, my ncr saw him than they imagined it was th
young friends but how much more wonderful- ( dead man who 'nd appeared again. Whiit
ly tho mechanism oftho universe, and the God ' rutifijsior, ! w'.ial thrill ! what clamor. Thu
who nude it. How wonderful that being who Engl.'.hnia-.i, teni:ied at tho hideous noise, nu
made yi u and me, and all ninnk.nd, and keeps jny, nll( Rl-i tl.pcd into his bed tJ hi
the whole unit cue going, and etery heart Ua. J 0nisi,hui, w ilhoul the k'Uet ten toT catcU
t ng ficiii (by to day, and fuiii yeai tuyiar. mg t,e i-!fne.
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"Ix these are hut a part of his ways ; but tho
thunder of his power who can understand 1"
But suppose some boy should say "That's
all nonsense : nobody made the clock ; it made
itself; it came by chance, and has kept going;
ever since without any help from without."
Why, you would say that the boy was crazy,
would you not ! What, then, shall we think f
those who tell us there is no God ! that thu
earth, the moon and stars, men and women,
trees and tun, flowers, birds and beasts, enma
by chance and that they keep living, and mo
ving, and growing, without help from without
It seems to me, that we must think of these
just w hat tho Bible eays : "The fool hath said
in his heart, there is no God."
My dear young friends, endeavor to sorurn
the favor of that great nnd wonderful Being,
who is ahnvn nil, through nil, nnd in all."
A Imi8;hable Story,
The Count Ilohenlothe on his death bed. gave)
a musquotoer his letter cae, to deliver to a
banker whom the infatuation of pleasure had
prevented him from seeing. He made no use
of his bills of credit, as death had not gi
ven him time to spend the ready money he had
brought with him. The poor young mm ha
ving given his last sigh, the musquuteer made
the necessary prepiration, tor his funeral,
While things were in this situation there ar
rived two I'nglish noblemen at tho same house.
They were placed in a chamber adjoining;
that in which the dead body was laid out, and
out of which it had been removed. They
could only allow one bed for them both, all
the othcis being engaged; but as the weather
was cold, and they were friends, thoy tnado
no difficulty in lying together.
In the middle of the night, one of the two
not being uble to sleep, and growing weary of
his bed, arose in order to amuse himself in
the kitchen where he heard some people talk
ing. He had diverted himself there sometima
when being willing to return whence became,
he again went up stairs, but instead of enter
ing his own chamber, went into that of the
deceased Count, over whose face they had only
thrown a cloth. There is nut so much ceremo
ny used in France in Llie management of their
dead, as in England and Germany ; for they
are there satisfied with showing their affec
tion for tho living.
The English nobleman having put out tho
candle, laid down boldly by the defunct ; when
creeping as close to him as possible in order
to warm himself, and finding his bed fellow
colder than himself, he began fo mutter :
"What the devil's the matter, my friend 7
Vuu are as co d as ice. 1 will lay a wager, cold
us you are, you would have been warm enough
if you had seen what I have, below stairs.
Come, you may take my word for it," add
ed he, "come, zounds ! 6tir.'' While ha
was holding this fine conversation, the dead,
who, detached Irom the things of this world,
did not even give himself the trouble of making
a reply, his chamber door was opened, wliicli
made him raise to see what was Cuming in;
but judge w hat must have been his surprise,
w hen he taw a servant lighting in a jnincr, w ho
carried a cofiin on his shoulder ? lie thought
at first he had been in a dream; but on look
ing around him and seeing tho visage over
spread w ith mortal paleness, he made but one
jump from his bed to tho middle of his cham
ber. The joiner and the maid were immedi
ately persuaded that it was the corpse, who
being unwilling to be shut up in a coffin was
playing his gambols. Their legs were una-
i ble to move with a swiftness proportioned tu
; of the stairs down into the kitchen. 'Zoiindi!
, w hat are you nil ubout !'' cried the landlord.
', "What, is thodevil flying away v ''i t'iO dead
' inn ri !'' "Mercy on U4 !" cri",l the niv.l ; "it
.i i i i i
; is riiier u.e ueau man wouiu run .ijv v.,ui
in a'n l ie sou oi a , hi;
jo uer, "it that dea l man has at.v more oeen-
sion for a ooiTi'i thin I hive. Why he just
j gut un in the middle of th roiin, and ho has
! just struck no a hornpipe."
"Tho devil h- his," cried the laid'.ord," we
j will soon sie that"
! While all the family were trembling n:td
' getting ready to follow the master of ilia
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