I Ii I IE II IF I It j.TOD" UITTCIIIXSOX, Publisher. I WOULD RATHER BE RIGIIT THAN PRESIDENT. Henry Clay. TERMS: rsa.oo pen axxi'm VOLUME 2. DIRECTORY. FaPARB0 KXPRE3SLY FOR "TUE ALLEUHASIAN." "list or POST OFFICES. Past OTtce. Post Masters District. YoJer. Blacklick. tzai Creek, listhsl Station, urrolUowa, Cans Spring, (.":3oa, tj-aiburj. fillea Timber, wiilitzia, it Joseph Graham, Joseph 8 Mardis, Benjainiu Wirtner , Carroll. Daul. Litzinger, John J. Troxell, Mrs. II. MCague, Isaac Thompson, J. M. Christy-, Joseph Gill, Win. i'Vjough, II. A. Ijogs, W'va. Gwinn, E. Wissinger, A. Durbin, Francis Clement, Andrew J. Ferra! G. W. Bowman, Joseph Mover, George Conrad, B. M Coljtan, Win. Murrav, Miss M. Gillespie Andrew Beck, Chest. Washiut'u. Ebensburg. White. Gallitzin. Chest. Wusht'n. Johnst'wn. Loretto. Ccnein'gh. Munster. Conem'gh. Susq'haa. White. ClearnV.i. KichlanJ. Washt'n. Crovle. Washt'n. S'mnierhill. Glea Lonaen, iiiinlock, Johnstown, r ....tt.t U aeral Point, Maaiter, Nri'iiing, fliiurille, S i!p Level, Samnfrhill, JTiiicors, CIU'RCIIES, 31 1 SISTERS, &c. prflyurian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor. .-.sohia-t every Sabbath uiorniug at 10 auu in me evjuiug :u o o tiutn.. oaw-M-.h School &l 3 o'clock: A. M. Prayer uieet- ;ecrr Thursday evening at C o'clock. Mt.hj'Ls! Episcopal Church Rev. J. Seane, frjiciier in charge. Rev J. M. Smitu, As i.VMl. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately i; 10; o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the ieiin. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M. :rer ueting every 1 huruay eveniug at it';.'.-i Independent Ret. Ll. R. Powell, Fi:or. I'ruaching every fcabbath morning at o'cljck. and in the evening at G o'clock. SbSia School at 1 o'clock, P. 51. Prayer :?:in;.on the first Monday evening ol each La'.h ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday til Friday evening, excepting the first week :eich month. d'.cAiznt Methodist Rev. John- Williams, ?ij::r. Preaching every Sabbath evening at 1 tz 1 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 1 0 o clock 1. If. Pr.iycr meeting every Friday evening i ; ov.or. Society every xucsaay evening n I o'clock. D'.tro'ti He v. Wm. Lloyd. Pastor Preach- :ig f f -rr Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock. Pi'r.ic'ilar lijpliits Rev. David Jenkins, ?n:or Preaching every Sabbath evening at It Jl Kk. Sabbath School at 1 o cloeK, f. ii Ciiviic !!2t. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor Isrri-.-ei everr Sabbath morning at loj o'cloc k ui'.Vpers at 4 o'clock in the evening. MAILS ARRIVE. I r.irn. daily, at 11 o'clock, ffw.t.-ii. ' a", 10.V " ' ma.ilsclo.se! tv.sra, daily, at 4.1 o'clock si'.trn. " at 6 " M. 31. M. M. P. P A t-i rhoM:tils, from Butler.I ndiana. Stronjrs sc., arrive on Tuesday and rnaay O; 5 week, at a o clock, V. M. EWisburg on Mondays and Thurs at T o'clock. A. M. 'tfThe Mails from Newman's Mills, Car- '..wr.. A-c. arrive on .Momlav, vv euncsuaj viiFr.in- r,t" .a.Vi wppV- at 3 o'clock. P. M. av K'jenburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays :1 Si'.ara ivs. at 7 o clock, A. M. Wl Piqf Onii-e nnn on Sunday from 9 ' 19 o'clock, A. M nAII.UO 116 SCIIEDl'LE. WILMURE STATION. it -ETnrpss Train. leaves at 8.55 A. M " Mail Train, " t-Express Train, " '' Fsst '.ino, " " VTail Tia;n, " 8.07 P. M 7.18 P. M 12.12 P. M 6.03 A. M rmv-T"v nrnr rns. 11 in of th Courts. President, Hon. Geo. f..'. i. . . . . n- .'iur, Huntingdon ; Associaics, vjcuic. ll'f.v, Kit-hard Jones. Jr. P'otkonotartf. Joseph M' Donald. - jizi mm tccururr. .uh unci -. . b'pn'y RtjUter an J Recorder. John Scan- 1. .jr. Robert P. Linton. Ipu'y Shrrif. William Linton. D-tlrtct A'trnf Philio S. XoOtl. Commitsionert. John Rearer, Abel -Oyd. DavM r Sl.irm. Ij CommUiioners. George C. K. Zahm. "-!-!,, i0 Commitsiovrt. John S. Ul-ey. Inamrtr. John A. Rlair. rW n rt: , riavid O'llarro. f" limn Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm. r,"r Home Steward. James J. Kaylor. H-rtantile Appraiser. Thomas M'Connell. Ad-'oTs.ntmy llavk, John F. Stull. E. Lytic Surveyor. E. A. Vitkroy. r0,r.jauif.g Todd. Sjp'rinttndent of Common Schools. T. A. "jnire. tBEXSBrR 1JOR. OFFICERS. Jvtticet of the Peace. David II. Roberts, bl-'oa Kinkead. 7ejj.- Andrew Lewis. "fit Council. William Kittell, William K. ,:.Pi Charleg Owens, J. C. Noon, Edward 'soaker. Clk to Council. T. D. Litzinger. Bvouyh Treasurer. George Curler. '5 M.ister. William Davis. School Directors. Ed ward Glass, illiara yl", Reese S. Lloyd, John J. Lloyd, Morris ;Tni, Thomai J. Davis. '"nurer of School Board Evan Morgan. )fitable. George Gurley. ' Collector. -George Gurley. i'V4""" Richard T. Davis. Slettion.U.c Evans. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST to Victory. Loud we answer ! lo we come, Responsive now to Freedom's call! In faith we come, iu strength we come, To do a sacred work for all ; A3 did our fathers, so shall we, Move fearless on to victory. God is our guide 1 From field and wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom, We come our heritage to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom ; All o'er the land from sea to sea, Resounds our watchword, '-Liberty." Hail to our flag ! Let Lincoln bear The glorious standard to the van, Through stripe and star inwoven there, We read the natal rights of man ; Our fathers loved it so will we, And onward move to victory ! THE FALSE FUNERAL. I never liked my uncle's business, the' he took me when my lather died, and brought me up as his owu sou. The p;ood man had co children. 11 is wile was lon dead : he had an honest old woman for a housekeeper, and a flourishing business, in the undertaking line, to leave to some body ; bat he did not leave it to me, and 1 11 tell you the reason. hen 1 had been about eve vears witn him, and had grown worth my salt, as he used to say, a death occurred in our neigh borhood, which caused trrcater lamentation than any we had heard of since my ap prenticehip began. The deceased gen tleman was a Mr. Elswortby. The lamily had been counted gentry iu their day. 1 should have said my uncle lived in York, and all the world knows what Yorkshire milies are. Well, the Elsworthys were of good family, and very proud ot it, tho' they had lost every acre ol an old estate which had belonged to them time out of mind. I am not sure whether it was their grandfather's dice and cock-lighting, or their father's going surety for a friend, who did something wrong in a govern ment office, that brought them to this i . . i ti poor pa.3 ; hut there w:s no noue in an lork where candles went iurtner, ana tea leaves were better used up. There was a mother, two sisters, aud a cousin who lived with them. The mother was a stately old ladv, never seen out of black brocade. The sisters v.ere not over voun or nanu- some, hut tney uressca as unu u.i could. The cousin was counted one ol the prettiest women in Yorkshire, but slie walked with a crutch, having met with an accident in her childhood. Master Charles was the only son, and the youngest of the family; he was ;i tall, handsome, dashing young man, uncommonly polite, and a great favorite with the ladies. It was said there were some red eyes in the town when the story got wind that he was going to be married to the Honorable Miss Wtstbay. Her father was younger broth er to the Earl of Ilarrowgate, and had seven girls beside her, without a penny for one of them; but Miss Westbay was a beauty, and the wonder was that she had not got married long ago, being nearly seven years out, dancing, siuging, and playing tip-top pieces at all the parties. Half-a-dozen matches had been talked of for her, but somehow they broke down one after another. Her father was rather impatient to see her olf; so were her sis ters, poor things, and no wonder, for grow up as they might, tot one of them would the old man suffer to come out till the el dest was disposed of, and at last there seemed something like a certainty of that business. Young Mr. Elsworthy and she struck up a courtship, lie was fascinated isn't that the word? at an assize ball, paid marked attentions at the bishop s j party, and was believed to have popped the question at a j ic-nic, after Lord ilar rowgate, the largest shareholder in the North Eastern Bank, got him promoted from a clerkship to be manager. It s true he was some years younger tnan Jiiss Westbay, and people said there had been something between him and his pretty cousin ; but a Lord's niece with beauty, accomplishments, and a serviceable con nection does not come in every young man's way ; so the wedding-day was fixed for the 1st of January ; and all the milli ners were busy with the bride's bonnets and dresses. It was just a month to come, and every body was talking of the match, when Mr. Elsworthy fell sick. At first they said it was a cold; then it turned to a brain fever ; at last the doctor gave no hopes, aud within the same week Mr. Elsworthy ,i;,l Th wlw.lft neiirhhorhood was cast intr niournin??. A nroniisinjr young man, in n manner "the onlv dependence of his f.n.iilw nourltr nrnninfpil tj a btatlOD Of t rust aud influence, and on the eve of mar ii i i J 1 : ..-.;xt riage, everybody lamented his untimely death, and raPazedbe relations, and his intended bride. I think my uncle lamented most of all. None of his customers, to my knowledge, ever got so much of his sorrow. When he was sent for in the way of business, it struck me that he stayed particularly long. The good man could talk ot nothing but the grief of the afflicted family how the mother n-ent into fits aud thesisters tore their hair how the cou.-in talked of wearing mourniug all her days and how it was i eared that Miss Westbay, who in sisted on seeing him, wouM never recover her senses, 'lhe co:int3' pipers gave ex pressions to the public grief. There were a im-at many verses written about it- No body passed the house of mourning with out . a sigh, or a suitable remark. My uncle superintended the making of the coffin, as I liad never seen him do to any other ; and when the workmen were gone home, he spent hours at uiuht finishing it by himself. The funeral was to set out for the fami ly vault in the Minster church, at Ueverly, about three o'clock iu the afternoon. It was made a strictly private affair, though hundreds of the towiiMiien would have tes tified their respect for the dead by acc.uii ranviu r it all the wav. The members cf the family, in two mourning coaches, and the undertaker's men, were alone allowed to follow poor Elsworthy to his last resting r.Licc and the colfin was not to be brought 1 till the latest hour. My uncle had got it finished to his mind, but evidently did not wish me to look at his work, lie had a long talk with Steele and Stoneman, two of his most confi Jential assistants in the workshop, after hours, and they weut away looking remarkably close. All was iu train, and the funeral to take place the next d ly, when, coming down his owu stairs they were rather steep and narrow, for we lived in one of the old houses of York my un cle slipped, fell, aud broke his leg. 1 tho't he would have gone mad wheu the doctor told him he must not attempt to move, or mind any business for weeks to come, and I tried to pacify him by offering to conduct the fuueral with the help of Steele and Stoneman. Nothing would please the old man; I uever saw him so far out of temper before, lie swore at his bad luck, threw the pillows at his housekeeper, ordered me to bring him up the key of the work.-hup, and kept it fast clutched in his hand. I sat up with him that tight. Iu a couple of hours he grew calm and sensible, but could uot shep, though the house was all rjuiet, and the housekeeper snoring in the corner. Then he began to grc-t'.n, as if there was something worse than a broken leg on his mind, and "Tom," said he, "haven't I always been kind to you I'" "No doubt of it, un:le," said I. "Well, Tom, I want you to do :ne a great service a particular service, lorn, and I'll never forget it to you. You know 31 r. Elsworthy 's funeral comes off to-morrow at three, and they are very high peo ple." "Never fear, uncle; I'll take care of it as well as if you were there yourself." "1 knew you would, Tom 1 knew you would. I could trust you with the hears ing of an eail's coffin; and for managing mutes, 1 dou't know your equal. But there's something more to be done. Come over besides me, Tom; that old woman don't hear well at the best, and she's sleep iu ji.w iiTiit no ivnsr:iK ill von nrnin- i ii 1 1 ite me" aud his voice sunk to a whisper "that, whatever you hear or see, you'll make no remark to any livirg, and be as cautious as you can about the body ? There's foul play," said he, for I began to look frightened; "but maybe this leg's a judg ment for taking ou such a business. How soniever, I'm to have three hundred pounds for it; and you'll get the half, Tom, the full half, if you'll conduct it properly, and -. . j --, . ? me your solemn promise, j. kuuw '11 uever break." . t : ii . you "Uncle," said I,'"1 11 promise, and keep ..1. !. ! it too; but you must ten me what it is. "Well, Tom, and lie drew a long breath "its a living man you're going to put in that coffin in the workshop? 1 ve made It Illgn auu mil ui au-uoies; ue u lie v. i , i i i l . quite cnmJortahie. iNooouy Knows aoout it but Steele and otoueman auu yoursen : they'll go with you. Mind you trust no one else. Dou't look so stupid, man ; can't you understand? Mr. Elsworthy didn't die at all, and never had brain fever; but he wants to get oft' with marrying Miss Westbay, or somethingof that sort. They're takiug a queer way about it, 1 must say; but these genteel people have ways of their owiu It was the eousin that prepaTed my mind for it in the back parlor; that wo man's up to anything. 1 stood out against having a hand in it till I heard that tife sexton of Beverly Church was a poor rela tion ol theirs. The key of the coffin is to be "-iven to him; it will be locked, and uot screwed down, you sec; and when, all's over at the vault it will be dark nightly that time. lOr We UOU l move im nutc, time j short-hVll come VelP Mr. Elsworthy out J smufgle an.i . far we don t move till three, ana him off to Hull with his son tli2 carrier. There's ships enough there to take him anywhere under a feigned name." "Could he get off' from the marriage no easier V said I, for the thought of taking a living man in a hearse, and having the service read over him, made my blood run cold. You see I was young then. "There's something more than the mar- riage in it, though they uidu t tell me. Odd things will happen iu my business, and this is one of the queerest. But you'll manaire it, Tom, and "et my blessimr, be sides vour halt ol the three hundred pounds; aud don't be afraid of anything j coming wrong with hnn, lor I never saw any uiau look so like a corpse." 1 promised my uncle to do tne business aud keep the secret. A hundred aud fit- ty pounds was no joke beginning the world in to a young man au undertaking- line-; and the old man was so pleased with what he called my senses aud under standing, that before falling asleep, close upon daybreak, he talked of taking me into partnership, and the jobs we might expect from the Ilarrowgate family ; lor the dowager-countess was uear fourscore, and two of the young ladies were threat ened with decline. Next day early iu the afternoon, Steele, Stoneman, and I were at work The family seemed duly mournful ; I suppose, on accouut of the servants. Mr. Elsworthy looked wom'er- lullv well in his shroud ; aud if one had not looked closely into the coffin, they never would have seen the air-holes. Well we setout, mourning-coaches, hearse and ail, through a yellow fog of a Decem ber day. There was nothing but sad fa ces to be seen at all the windows as we passed; I heard them admiring Steele and Stoneniaii tor the feeling hearts they show ed : but when we got on the Beveily road, the couiu gave us a went a rattling pace ; sigh, imi away we a funeral never rot over the ground at such a rate belore. Yet it was getting dark when we leached the old Minister, and the curate grum bled at having to do duty so late. He got through the service nearly as quick as we got over the miles. Th coffin was lowered into the family vault; it was more thau half filled with Mr. Elsworth v's fore fathers, but there was a go d wide grate in the wall, and no want ot air. It was all right. The clerk ami the clerjrMnan started off to their bonus ; the mourning coaches went to the Crown Inn, where the ladies were to wait till the sexton came to let them know he was safe out the cousin would not go home without that news and 1 slipped him the key at the church-door, as he discoursed to us all about the mysterious dispensations of I'rovidenee. My heart was light going home, so were Steele and Stoneman's. None of us liked the job, but we were all to be paid for it; ind I must say the old man came down handsomely wiih the needful, not to speak of Burton ale ; aud I was to be made his partner without delay. We got the money, aud had the jollification ; but it wasn't right over, and I was just get ting into bed, when there was a ring at at our door-bell, and tho housekeeper came to say that Dr. Darks wanted to see me or my uncle. What could he want and how had he come back so soon '! l'arks was the Elsworthy 's family doctor, and the only stranger at the funeral; he went in the second mourning coach, and 1 left him talking to the sexton. My clothes were thrown on, and 1 was down stairs in a minute, looking as sober as I could ; but the doctor's look would have sobered any man. "Thomas," said he, "this has turned out a bad business; and 1 cannot account for it ; but M r. Elsworthy has died iu earnest. When the sexton and 1 opened the coffin, we found him cold and stiff. 1 think he died from fright for such a face of terror I uever saw. It wasn't your uncie's fault; there was no doubt he had air enough ; but it can't be helped; and the less said about it, the better for all parties. I am going to Dr. Adams to take him down with me to Bev erly. The sexton keeps poor Elsworthy, to see if anything can be done ; and Ad ams is the only man w could trust; but I know it's ot no use." The doctor's apprehensions were well founded--Mr. Elsworthy could not be recovered ; and after trying everything to no purpose they laid him down again in the coffin with air holes. The ladies came back, and we kept the secret; but in less than six months after, a rumor went abroad of heavy forgeries on tho North Eastern Bank. On investigation they proved to be over fifty thousaud, and nobody was implicated but the deceased manager His lamily new nothing about it ; being ail ladies, they were entirely ignoraut of banking affairs ; but they left York next season, took a handsome house at Scarborough, and were known to get money regularly from London. They never employed auy doctor bat Parks ; 28, J8G0. and his medical management did not ap pear to prosper, for they never were well and always nervous; not one of them would sleep alone or without light in the room ; and an attendant from a private asvlum had to be think the ;ot for the o sin. 1 don't matter ever loit inv uncle s mind ; he never would undertake an odd job afrer it ; and all the partnerships in Jngland would not have made me con tinue in the bu"ness, and ruu the risk ol another false funeral. 1 CUlTV OF the CiiAUACiKH. Over the p'uin and apricot there and beaury mora cxo'iis- beauty of n-mw-s : l.l.tmii :ind lip.-m'v iiinrr . . J ite than the rruit itselr a sort delicate Hush that overspread its blushin ; cheek l':N'w if yoa strike your hand oer that, j once. The flower that hangs in the morn- ing imp.earled wiih dew arrayed as no i queenly woman ever Mas arrayed in jcv.--! els ouce shake it so that bauds roll off j and you may sprinkle water over it as I you please yet it can never be made again ! what it was wheu the dew fell silently j upon it from Heaven ? On a l'roiv morning you may see the panes or glass covered with landscapes, mountains, lakes and trees, blending iu a beautilul fantas tic picture. Now la' your hand upou the glass, and by the scratch of your lin ger, or by the warmth ol your palm, all the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So there is in youth a beauty and purity of character, which when once touched and defiled can never be restored a fringe more delicate than frost work, and which wheu torn and broken will never be re-embroidered. A man who has spotted aud soiled his garments in youth, though he may seek to make theiu whiie again, can uever wholly do it, even were he to wash them with his tears. When a young man leaves his father's h.mse with the blessing of his mother's tears still wet upon his forehead, if he once loses that purity of ehara.uer, it is a loss that he can never make whole again. Such is the consequence of crime. Its eilects cannot be contradicted, it can only be forgiven. Ccniois Ai.lkiikd Discovery in Flouicultckk. - is said that ex-Mayor Tiemunn, of New York, at his paint facto ry in Maiibattanville, lias accidentally made a discovery which threatens to revo lutionize horticulture. One of the factory hands having thrown some liquid green paint of a particular kind on a llower bed, occupied by white anemones, the tlowers have since made their appearance with petals as green as grass. The paint had in it a peculiar and very penetratinvr chemical mixture, which Mr. Tieniann lias since applied, with other colors, to other plants, annual, biennial, and of the shrub kind the result being invariably that the flowers so watered took the hue of the liquid deposited at their roots. By com mencing experiments early next year, du ring seed time, and applying different col ors, we shall no doubt soon be enabled to "paint the lily," which was Solomon's ambition. "Mother." O word ot undying beau ty! Thine echoes sound along the walls of time, until they crumble at the breath of the Eternal. In all the world there is not a habitable spot where the music of that word is not sounded. Aye, by the olden llower of the river, by the crystal margin of the rock, under the leafy shade of the forest tree, iu the hut built of bam boo cane, in the mud and thatched cottage by the peaks of the kissing mountains, iu the wide spread valley, on the blue ocean, in the chaii'-elcss desert where the angel came down 'to give the parched lips the sweet waters of the wilderness, under the white tent of the Arab, and iu the dark covered wigwam of the Indian hunter ; wherever the pulses of the human heart beat quick and wirm, or float feebly along the current of falling life, there is that sweet word spoken, like a universal prayer "Mother." Repentance. If there be anything that we suppose men would not admire, it is repentance. It does not seem to be an experience which has much that is ad mirable in it. Men usually think of it as a kind of shame-faced, crying, pocket- handkerchief state of mind ; but it you take it from tiuman infirmities, and pre sent it to men so that they see the thing, rather than the ftctor, ij is beautiful in the eyes of every one. In a wide-mouthed bottle dissolve eiht ounces of the best glue in a half- pint of water, by getting it in a vessel of r.r A Viifttiiwr it fill .HtKnlvAf! Add WillCI UllA lirtllllp, . - - - slowlv. constantly stirriuir, two and a half ounces of strong nitric acid. Keep it well corked, and it will be ready for uso. Tliis is tho celebrated "Prepared Glue, of which ie hear sq raaca. NUMBER 1. American YouusJlcu, American history presents many re markable instances of vounsr men taking prominent and commanding .stations at au age which would be thought very young in other countries. We subjoin a few striking examples from the list of those who have passed off the stage of liumau action. At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Jeffer son was an influential member of the Leg islature of Yirginia. At thirty he was a member of the Yirginia Convention ; at thirfy-tvvo a member of the Continental Congress, and at thirty-three he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Alexander Hamilton was only twenty years of age when he was appointed a Lieutenant Colonel in the army of the Revolution, and aii-de camp to Washing ton. At twenty-nve he was a member of the Continental Congress; at thirty he was oue of the ablest members of the Coa ventiun which framed the Constitution of the United States : at thirty-two he wa Secretary of the Treasury, and organized that branch of government, upon so com plete and comprehensive a plan that no great change of improvement has since been made upon it. John Jay, at twenty-nine years old, was a member of the Continental Congress, and wrote an address to the people of Great Britain, which was justly regarded I as oue of the most eloquent productions of the times. sx thirty he prepared the Constitution of New York, and in the same year was appointed Chief Justice of the State. Washington was twenty-seven years of acre when he covered the retreat of the iJritish troops at Braddock's defeat, and was honored by an appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Virginia forces. . Joseph Warren was twenty-nine years of age, when he delivered the memorable address on the 5th of March, which roused the spirit of patriotism and liberty iu his section of the country ; and at thirty-four he gloriously fell in the cause of freedoru on Bunker Hi". Fisher Ames, at the age of twenty-seven, had excited public attention by the ability he displayed in the discussion of questions of public interest. At the age of thirty, his masterly speeches in defence of the Constitution of the United States had excited great influence, so that the youthful orator of thirty-one was elected to Congress from the Suffolk district, over the Revolutionary hero. Samuel Adams. De Witt Clinton entered public life at 28 ; Henry Clay at 20. The most vouthful signer of. the Decla ration of Independence was Wm. Hooper, of North Carolina, whose age was but twenty-four. Ox Equal Ground. Tom Hobbs was a queer fellow in his 'lay, and lived some where down in what is now Ocean county, New Jersey. Tom would drink like a fish, and when he had taken his fifth glass of a morning, no man possessed more shrewdness. When in this condition and in his happiest mood, Tom one morning met a gentleman on horseback whim he had never put his eyes en before. As is customary in the country, Tom immedi- .ately accosted him. "Ah . here you are, my good Jellotv, how d'ye do? Upen my honor it does me good to see you once more! How's your family and the eld woman ? We haven't seen her this long time. When is Five coming down to see my wife?" "I am quite well, I thank yotf," said the gentleman, ''but indeed, sir, you have the advantage." "Advantage, my good fellow! what ad vantgae?" inquired Tom. "Why, really, sir, I beg your pardon," replied the gentleman, 'but I do not know you." "Know me!" exclaimed Tom ; "well, I don-'t know you ; and I should like to know where the deuce is the advantage, then?" tf- Beau Brummcl once had his pock et picked. The pecuniary loss he bore with great equanimity, but declared he would hang, if he met with them, the un gentlemanly villains who, by neglecting to rebutton the pocket of hid pantaloons, had caused him to walk the length of tho street with his pocket turned inside out. E9u, A sensible writer advises those who would enjoy good eating to keep good-natured ; "for," says he, '-an angry man can't tell whether he is eating boiled cab bage or stewed umbrella." Go down only upou one knee to a young lady. If you go down upon both, you may not be able to escape quick enough in case of the appearance of, au eorsged father. eSF A truly, independent taaa i Le ) -wfco is free from obligations. 1
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