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I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Henry Clay.
VOLUME 2.
DIRECTORY.
,aEPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE ALLEGHANIAN."
to' postTofpices.
r s Offices. Post MaHlers. Districts.
. "a-3 Creek, Joseph Graham, Yoder.
Ethel Station, Joseph S Mardis, Blacklick.
r rmlltown, Benjamin Wirtner, Carroll.
Chess Spring
Cresson,
Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber,
G.illitxin,
jlemlock,
Johnstown,
Loretto,
jimeml Point,
jlun.ter,
Pershing,
riatuville,
Rosclaad,
St. Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sonraan,
Summer hill,
Summit,
Vilmore,
V - " , f U7inrrnp Timet
John J. Troxell, Wushint'n.
Mrs. II. M'Cague. Ebensburg.
Isaac Thompson, White.
J. M. Christy, Gallitzin.
Win. M'Gough, Washt'n.
II. A. Boggs, Johnst'wn.
Wra. Gwinn, Loretto.
E. Wissinger, . Conenvgh.
A. Durbin, Munster.
Francis Clement, Conem'gh.
Andrew J.Ferral Susrban.
G. W. Bowman, White.
Win. Ryan, Sr., ClearP.eld.
GcorgeCoiirad, Richland.
B. M'Colgan, Washt'n.
Wm. Murray, Croyle.
Mi33 M. Gillespie Washt'n.
Andrew Beck, S'nmierhill.
CHURCHES, 3IIXISTERS, &.C.
rmhyterianR. I. Harbison, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10A
oVbtk, and in the evening at 3 o clock, h il
Jath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer mect
a everv Thursday evening at G o cIock.
thoJist '-icojal Church?. J. fcHANE.
Pr'eacher in 'charge. Rev E. H. Baiud, As
jinmt. Preaching every MuiUath, alternately,
it 10.V o'clock in the morniug; or , m the
renin-. Sabbath School at ! o clock, A. M
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at ,
o clock. t t
Wekk Independent TIrv. Lr.. I.. 1 owell,
"iitor Preachin- every Sabbath morning at
i-j o'clock, and in the evening , at G o clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clocK, 1 - -i. I raycr
.;.,, tho first Monday evening of each
noaVht and on every Tuesday Thur5J.y
aui Friday evening, excepting tne nrst week
ia each month.
CileinUtie jlethodislKzr. Jons Vv illiavs
Pistor.-Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 aud 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o clock,
A Praver meeting every Friday evening
it 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
n 7 o'clock. ,
Disciples Rev. Wm. Lloyd, Pastor Prcach
ioz everv Sabbath morning at 10 o clock.
reticular JJ-jptutaRzY. David Jenkins,
Pastor.-Preaching every Sabbath evening at
l- .l- O.Kbl, CT..h(wi1 ftt 1 o'clock, 1 . l.
Catholic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor
Serrices evrv Sabbath morning at 10Jo clock
ud Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
EKESSISrRC MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Eistern, daily, at 12 o'clock, A. M.
Western, " at 12 " '
MAILS CLOSE.
Eastern, daily, at o'clock A. M.
Western, at ' " A- J-
The Mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs
tawa, &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
tt 5 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg oa Friday of each week,
at 8 P. M.
S3, The Mails from Newman's Mills, Car
roiltown, &c, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
J Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
al Saturdays, at 7 o clock, A. M.
ECU Post 03ice open on Sundays from 9
to lo o'clock, A. M.
RAILROAD SCIIEI5lTEE.
WILMORE STATION.
Tjt Exnress Train leave3 at 0.37 A. M
" Fast Line " 1 r- M
" Mail Train, " 3.16 P. M
lt Express Train, 8.10 P.M.
' Fast Line, " G-39 A. M.
Mail Train, " 10.04A. M.
t'Ol'STT orriCERS.
Juijet of the Courts. President, lion. Geo
iylor, Iluiitingdoa ; Associates, GeorgeW.
-ley, Richard Jones, Jr.
Proihonotari. Joseph M'Donald.
R'jis'fr and Recorder. Edward F. Lytic
Shtriff. Robert P. Linton.
T'pitj Sheriff. William Linton.
to-'lricl Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
Cuiatj Commissioners. Abel Lloyd, D. T.
Storm, Jaine3 Cooper.
CUrk to Commissioners. Robert A. M'Coy
Treasurer. John A. Blair.
W Ilo-ne Directors. David O'llarro,
Michael M'Gtiirc, Jacob Horner
Poor House Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm.
I'anr IT,.,,., .C,,f,7 I imf-a J. IvavlOT.
fi'-rea utile Appraiser. 11. G. Jevine.
A'iiltors. Henry Hawk, John F.
lr ...
Stull.
WR S. Uhcy.
Couut'j Surveyor. E. A. Vkkroy.
Coroner. James S. Todd.
Superintendent of Common Schools. T. A.
3iguire.
fc&FASmiRG - ISOR. OmCERS.
Jwtieet of the Peace. David 11. Roberts,
''irrison Kinkead.
Harness David J. Evans.
Tow Council Evan Griffith. John J. Evans,
''lliam D. Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel
u- Evans.
Cltrk ta Co-.mriT T. D. T.itzinrr.
through Treasurer George Gurley.
V'igh Master William Davis.
wool Directors William Davis, Reese S.
t:10!, Morris J. Evans, Thomas J. Davis,
Uugh Jones, David J. Jones.
Tf'iturer of School Hoard Evan Morgan.
Collector George Gurley
H-igt of L'ltrfir.r, Mcliar Th(
Mge of Election. Meshac Thomas.
Victor, Robert Evans. Win. William?.
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Richard T. Davis.
iki.Kem.ifiA $1.10 in d Vance
EBENSBUHG, PA.,
Iflou Lore 3e, Say So.
BY FIX LEY JOHXSOX.
Your eyes, dear one, are like the stars
Within the hcaven3 shining;
Your tresses f.iir around your brow
Are delicately twining ;
And as they fall upon your neck,
They fairy like do play so,
That I can but this question ask,
"Oh, if vou love me, sav so."
Your mouth is like a rose bud, love,
With rows of pearl adjoining ;
Your breath like the sweet perfume
Of a fair summer morning ;
But as I gaze upon your charms,
My trembling heart does ache so
I can but still .the word3 repeat
'!0h, if you love me, say so."
The fragrant roses, as you pass,
Though in their bloom and beauty,
Within their petals shrink and gaze,
And deem it but their duty ;
j For they are envious of your charms,
i Then whv do vou delay so?
Oh, why not banish all my fears,
And if you love r.-.e, say so ?
A FLEET IMneSHGE.
BY AN IRISHMAN.
Lady C was a beautiful Avoman, but
Lady C. was an extravagant woman. She
was still single, although rather past ex
treme youth. Like, most pretty females,
she had looked too high, and estimated
her own loveliness too dearly, and now the
refused to believe that she was not as
charming as ever. So, no wonder she still
remained unmarried.
Lady C had about five thousand pounds
in the world. She owed about forty thou
sand pouuds; so, with all her wit and
beauty, she git into the Fleet, and was
likely to remain there.
Now in the time I speak of, every lady
had her head dressed br a barber; and the
barber of the Fleet was the handsomest
barber in the city of London. PatPhilan
was a great admirer of the fair sex; and
where's the wonder? Sure Pat was an
Irishman. It was one very fine morning,
when Philan wa3 dressing her captivating
head, that her ladyship took it into her
mind to talk to him, and Pat was well
pleased, for Lady C's. teeth were the whi
test, and her smiles the brightest in all
the world.
"So 3ou are not married, Pat," said she.
"Xiver an inch ! your honor's ladyship,"
says he.
"And wouldn't you like to.be married?"
again asked she.
"Would a duck swim?"
"Is there any one you'd prefer ?"
"Maybe, madam," said he, "you nivcr
heard of Kathleen O'lteily, down bej-ond
Bonerail. Her father's cousin to O'Don
aghow, who's own steward to Mr. Murphy,
the under agent to my Lord Kingston,
and"
"Hush !" says she ; "sure I don't want
to know who she is. But would she have
you if you asked her ?"
"Ah, thin, I'd only wish to be after try
ing that same."
"And wh- don't you ?"
"Sure, I'm too poor." And Pat heaved
a prodigious sigh.
"Would you like to be rich ?"
"iocs a dog bark ?'
"If I make you rich will you do as I
tell you ? '
"Mille murther ! your honor, don't be
tantalizing a poor boy !"
"Indeed, I am not," said Lady C. "So
listen. How would you like to marry
me
"Ah, thin, my lady, I believe the King
of liussin himself would be proud to do
that same, leave alone a poor devil like
Pat Philan."
"Well. Pat, if you'll marry me to-morrow,
I'll give you one. thousand pounds."
"(), whilabaloo ! whilabaloo ' sure I'm
mad, or enchanted by the good people,"
roared Pat, dancing round the room.
"J3ut there are conditions," says Lady
C. "After our nuptials, you must never
see me again, nor claim me as your wife."
"I dou't like that," said Pat, for he
had been ogling her ladyship most despe
rately. "But remember Kathleen O'Beily.
With the money I give you, you may go
and marry her."
"That's thrue," says he, "but thin the
bigamy?"
"I'll never appear against you," says
her ladyship. "Only remember you must
take an oath never to call me your wife
after to-morrow, and never to go telling all
the story."
"Never a word J'll iver say."
"Well then," pays she, "there's ten
pounds. Uo and buy a liecn.se, and leave
THU1
I the rest to me;" and then she explained
! 1 . 7 . . .xt 1 1 .. 1 n li.r. rr TTrliin lift
tU 1111U nUUC 11C .Tils IVS XUU IMIVU ui
was to come, and all that.
The next day Pat was true to his ap
pointment, and found two gentlemen al
ready with her ladyship.
"Have you got the license ?" says she.
"Here it is my lady," says he ; i-nd he
gave it to her. She handed it to one of
the gentlemen who examind it attentively.
Then calling in her two servants, she
turned to the gentleman who was read-
And sure enough, in ten minutes Pat
Philan was the husband, the legal hus
band of the lovely Lady (j.
"That will do," says she to her husband
as he gave her a hearty kiss; "that'll
do." "Now sir, give me my marriage
certificate." The old gentleman did so,
and bowing respectfully to the live pound
note she gave him, he retired with his
elerk ; for sure enough, I forgot to tell
you that he was a parson.
"Go and bring me a warden," says my
lady to one of her servants.
"Yes my lady," and presently the war
den appeared:
"Will you be good enough," said Lady
C. in a voice that would call a bird off a
tree, "will ou be good enough to send
: and fetebjune a hackney coach ? I wish
to leave this prison immediately."
"Your ladyship must pay forty thous
and pounds before I can let you go."
"I am. a married woman. You can
detain my husband but not me." And
she smiled at Philan, who began rather
to dislike the appearance of things.
"Pardon me, my lady, it is well known
you are single."
"I tell you I am married."
"Where's your hu?band ?"
"There sir," and she pointed to the as
tonished barber. "There hestands. Here
is my marriage certificate, which you can
peruse at you leisure. My servants
yonder were witnesses of the ceremony.
Now detain me at your peril."
The warden was dumbfounded, and no
wonder. Poor Philan would have spo
ken but neither party would let him.
The lawyer was consulted. The result
was evident. In half an hour Lady C.
was free, and Pat Philan, her legitimate
husband, a prisoner for debt to the amount
of forty thousand pounds.
"Well for some time Pat thought he
was in a dream, and the creditors thought
they were still worse. The following day
they had a meeting, and finding how they
had been tricked, swore they'd detain poor
Pat forever. But as they well knew that
he had nothing, and wouldn't feel much
ashamed in going through the Insolvent
Court, they made the best of a bad bar
gain and let him go.
Well, 3'ou must know that about a week
after this, Paddy I'hilau was" sitting by
his little fire and v thinking over the won
derful things he had seen, when :is sure
as death, the postman brought him a let
ter, the first he had ever received, which
he took to a friend of hi.s, one llyan, a
fruit seller, because, you see, he was a
great hand at reading writing, to decipher
for him. It read thus :
"Go to Doneraile and marry Kathleen
O'llcilly. The instant the knot is tied, I
fiulfill my promise of making you comfort
able for life. Ant as you value your life
and liberty, never breathe a syllable of
what is passed. Bemember, you are in
my power if you inclose me your marriage
certificate. I sendyou fifty pounds for
present expenses."
O, happy Paddy ! didn't he start next
day for Cork, and didn't he marry Kath
leen and touch's thousand pounds? By
the power he did. And what is'inore, he
took a cottage, which perhaps you know
is not a hundred miles from Bruffiu, in
the county of Limerick ; and i'faix he
forgot his first wife entirely, and never
told any one but myself, under the prom
ise of secrecy, the story of his Fleet Mar
riage. Vanity Fairies.
Song for1 the naval artillery "Coluin
biad, the gun of the ocean."
Going down stares entering a country
church.
It is one of nature's paradoxes that
if you want to keep a coal fire hot you
must keep it coaled.
Lexicographic. Selvage s. A border,
edging. The Border States, for instance.
Salvages. Things saved out ot a ship
wreck. The Border States, for instance.
On-Wiufaix It is said that after an
exciting debate in the Senate recently,
Wigfall was understood to have asked
Seward privately for a chew of tobacco,
and tbat Seward replied that he had none
but Union Twist; whereupon Wigfall
telegraphed to the Southern States that
they must prepare for war, as the Bepub-
lies us would not vield.
MDAY, APRIL
rawnbroliers Their Origin
and Progress.
Somebody, with more money than
brains, asked a philosopher, in derision,
how k happened that meu of wit were so
frequently seen at the doors of the rich,
and that the rich were never seen at the
doors of men of wit. "Because," retorted
the sage, "men of wit know the value of
riches ; but rich men do not know the
value of wit." Necessity, the mother of
invention, teaches the needy devices and
resources in their many hours of trial,
which the affluent scarcely know the names
of. He who has never known want is un
likely to provide himself, beforehand, with
weapons o combat it. The supply will
come to him from somewhere; if the earth
and the sea fail, the skies shall rain man
na. The poor man with his hungry fam
ily has no such expectations. There are
hundreds of thousands in the great cities
of the world, who subsist upon what they
can earn, baud to mouth, from day to day
or week to week. Their toil is like that
of Sisyphus, and apparently as hopeless.
Sad enough it is to see so many'such'cases,
and our only consolation lies' in the fact?
that those" bred and inured to constant
physical labor, carry the burthen less con
sciously and painfully than others. We
speak not now of the class a remore above;
that which owns the ten millions in the
Philadelphia Savings Bank, and who, at
the end of the perspective, see an old age
of comfort in competency. Whoever can
save even a dollar a week from his shop,
his bench, or what not, need not despair
of the latter good fortune, as events have
proved. Not so with him who. earning a
dollar, is compelled by inexorable necessi
ty to spend a hundred cents, for his own
sake or others, for food and fuel and rent
and covering. Then, if the time comes
that his handiwork is in poor pay, or
worse, urtt wanted at all, or if the over
taxed body gives out for a season, aud can
dig or grind no more till convalescent,
where is the remedy, and whence comes
the bread? Here they seek the resource
which the rich know little cf. The poor
wife in her scanty shawl and faded bonnet,
or the meagre child in worn outshoc3 and
pieced out garments, takes the spoons, the
best dres?, Sunday coat, the few bits of
poor oil jewelry, and hurries around the
corner to the sign of the three balls the
pawnbroker's.
Sometimes people much higher in the
social scale have recourse to the same fa
cility for temporary relief; 3'et so seldom,
comparatively speaking, that we can re
gard their cases as exceptional, and the
pawnbroker's institution more .specially
the convenience or necessity of the poorer
classes. Now, the misfortune that the
mere people require a certain convenience
in life, the higher the price they have to
pay fur it; a rule which applies with great
severity to unfortunates requiring small
sums of ready money. ,In the absence of
legislative interference, therefore, and
sometimes in spite of it, the interest charged
for sums advanced on pledges has been
cruelly exorbitant. The clas of persons
iu whose hands the- peculiar business ap
pears to have legitimately fallen are, un
fortunately, not distinguished for a breadth
of generosity in pecuniary dealings, any
more than for exalted estimates of relative
values. It has followed that those, of all
others, who can least afford to pay a high
price for temporary accommodation, have
been made the victims of an usury quite
unexampled iu other contingencies. A
further grave objection to pawnbroker's
shops has been found in the temptation
they afford to thieves, from their facility
of disposing of booty, the risk being in
demnified, iu a manuer, by the extent of
profit. "In view of these considerations,
we must regard as a public benefit the
success of the new Pawner's Bank of Bos
ton, which has now been a year in success
ful operation. This institution is designed
to furnish small loans on collateral security
at a moderate rate of interest, a.id, from
the condition of its existence, militates di
rectly against the objections we' Rave sta
ted. The directors are permitted to charge
"one and a half per cent a month on ad
vances equal to two-thirds of an auction
valuation of articles pawned for any time
up to six months." They are only per
mitted to declare eight percent dividends,
and any profits remaining yearly, after
such declaration, are to be distributed in
the form of fuel to needy persons during
the winter months. Thus the extra inter
est which may be collected finds its way,
in some degree, back to the class from
which it is drawn certainly a most excel
lent method.
Molly was telling an absurd dream,
when her mistress exclaimed, "you must
have been asleep when you dre.uncd such
stuff as that !" "No, indeed, ma'am," .he
replied tartly, "T wa just S3 wide awake
as I am this minute!"
4, J8GJ.
A (aU.dc 32.ista.Ke.
Many of cur readers remember the
stately presence, the dignified bearing aud
imposing manner of Col. William C. Pres
ton, of South Carolina. It was when all
those qualities were iu their prime, and
Preston represented his State in the Sen
ate ot the United States, that business or.
pleasure called him to the West, and to
take passage down the Mississippi river.
In those "flush times," the steamers swarm
ed with hoosiers, greenhorns aud gamblers,
the latter . politely designated "sporting
gentlemen," the term gambler or blackleg
entailing upon the speaker a pistol shot or
a wipe from a bowie knife.
The boat was on the eve of departure,
and our Senator, standiug on the deck and
holding a Email inahogauy box, was ob
serving, with great pleasure and interest,
the busy scene on the wharf, when an in
dividual, luxuriating iu a rather ornate
style of dress, approached him and in a
subdued tone demanded:
"I say, old feller, when are you going
to commence ?"
"Commence what, sir?" asked the aston
ished Senator.
"Pshaw ! none of that gammon with me!
The fact is, a few of us boys want a little
fun, and we won't pile on too strong for
3'ou; so come and open at once."
"Bealty, sir," said Pretton, "lam total
ly at a loss ro guess 3'our ideaning ; open
ffhat ?"
"Open what ! "Why the bank of course.
Ma3 be 30U think our pile isn't hirge
enough to make it an object. But we're
not so poor as all that, anj'how."
The Senator meditated giooniibj-, but all
was dark to him, ha was plunged into a
sea of doubt, and he had never met au3'
problem, not even a political one, ho hard
to solve.
"Perhaps," broke in his pertinacious
friend again, after a considerable pause,
"perhaps you will say1 directly that vou're
not a sporting man."
"I certainly am nothing of the kind,
sir," replied Preston rather angriby; "and I
can't imagine what put the idea into your
head."
"Not a sporting man ! Whcw-w ! I
never heard of such a piece of impudence.
Well, if you are not a sporting mau, will
you please to tell mo why 3-GU cany that
about with you?" and he pointed to the
box, which he still -carried.
A light broke upon Preston's mind.
"The mahogany box!'' he cried. "He!
he ! ha ! ha ! very natural mistake, in
deed, 1113' good sir! very natural, indeed!
my good sir ! very indeed ! Well, I will
show 3ou the contents." And laughing
heartily, he opened the box in question,
which was in fact a dressing case, and
displaj-qd the usual parade of brushes,
combs, razors, soap, etc., which fill that
article of traveling comfort.
Our friend looked at the case, then at
Preston again. Then he heaved a long
sigh, and then he pondered.
"Well," he broke out at length, "I did
take 30U to be a sporting gentleman I
did ; but now I see you are a barber ; but
if I had known it, d 11 me if I had a
spoke to you."
Trying its Col.ok. I had stopped at
a store iu Missouri to purchase some little
article, whan my attention was directed to
an old lady vho was examining a piece of
calico. She pulled it this way aud that,
as if she would tear it to pieces, held it up
to the light in dilfersnt positions, spat oa
a corner aud rubbed it between her fin
gers, trying if the colors' were good. She
then stood still awhile, seemingby not en
tirely satisfied. At last she cut off a piece
with the clerk's scissors, and handing it
to a tall, gawky-looking girl, of about six
teen, who stood beside her, said : "Here,
Liz Jaue, you take 'u cluiio that, 'n fee
ef 't fades !" And Liz Jane, as in dut3"
bound, put it into her mouth and went to
work.
C. An enthusiastic Uuion man in
California thus closes a business letter: ;
"California is upright, downright, outright
for the Union, whatever its Legislature
may say or do. No buzzard, bat, owl,
pelican, nigger, bear or wolf fiag shall ever
flap treason from its folds while there lives
a pioneer to pull it down."
ri The official census of the United
State3 has just bcn completed, and shows a
total population of thirty-one millions four
hundred and twenty-niue thousand eight
hundred and ninet3'-one, (ol,4"D,S91.)
Of these, three millions nine hnndred and
fifty-one thousand eight hundred and one
are slaves.
Some men, after reaching the sum
mit of ambition, pull up the bidder by
which they climbed, and look down
with sc-Arn upon thoc who hold it for
thorn.
NUMBER 33.
IIoi2ic, Svreet JtoniC5'
An exquisite addition to this beautiful
song (and by the original writer of it) is .
kindly sent to us by a gentleman of this
city saith the Hume Journal, lie thus
writes :
"In reading a late number of the ITmie
Journal, I saw a touching notice of How
ard Payne, the author of 'llouie, Sweet
Home,' and it recalled an incident which
may interest your readers. In the winter
of 183-J or 1834, I was dining in London
with an American lady, the wife of au
eminent banker. During my visit Mr.
Payne called and presented her with a
cop3T of 'Home, Sweet Home,' set to mu
sic, with two additional verses addressed
to her, and these she allowed me to copy.
I enclose them for you to print, if you see
fit, without mentioning my name. I
doubt very much whether the lady to
whom they were addressed kept a copy of'
them."
ADDITIONAL VERSES TO HOME, SWEET
HOME.
BY JOnN HOWARD PAYNE.
To U3, in despite of the absence of year'?,
How sweet the remembrance of home still ap
pears, From allurements abroad, which but natter
the eye,
The unsatisfied heart turns, and says with a
sigh,
Home, home, sweet, sweet home !
There's no place like home '
There's no place like home !
Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow,
Butwnehas been checkered with many a woe I
Yet, tho'. different our fortunes, our thoughts
arc the same,
And both, as we think of Columbia, exclaim,
Home, home, sweet, sweet home I
There's no place like home!
There's 110 place like home !
First American Poetry. TKerearo
few boys or girls in this country who have
not heard the nursery rl'me sung by
their mothers while rocking the cradle :
"Lullaby, b'aby, upon the tree top ;
When the wind blows the cradle will rock ;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come cradle, baby and all."
But how many of them know the origin
of the simple lines? We have the fol
lowing account from the records cf tho
Boston Historical Society. Shortly after
our forefathers landed at Plymouth, Mass.,
a party were out in the fields where the
Indian women were picking strawberries.
Several of these women, or squaws as they
are called, had pappooses, that is babies,
and having no cradles, had them tied up
in Indian fashion and hung from tho
limbs of the trees. Sure enough, "when
the wind blew those cradles would rock."
A young man of the party observing this,
peeled over a piece of bark and wrote the
above lines, which were, it is believed,
the first poctr3' written iu America.
A Coming Eternity. 'And Paradise,
Paradise lost, is awaiting you, and stands
before you with unfolded gates; and time
hasteneth past, and eteruity prepareth it
self to roll on forever. And the body
loses its strength for labor, and its relish
for sensual things; and both h.-.steu in an
end ; and rest cometh, and refreshment
in the presence of God; and every bles
sing of our first parents, with superadded
blessing which arises from the sense of
dangers past, from the glorious knowledge
of redeeming love, and from the certainty
of salvation, and deliverance, and eternal
sec u r i t3. Ire in g.
" ' ' " t mm.
A girl going to market with a bas
ket of eggs 0:1 her head, had them knock
ed off b3r a rowdy, for which hi was fined,
and had to paj for the eggs. When asked
how many eggs she had, the answer was :
"Wheu I put them in two at a time,
there was one .over; three at a time, one
over; and when I put iu four, five or six
at a time, there was one over; but when I
put them in seven at a time, they came
even." How many eggs had he to pay
for ?
-
Zv A rough individual, whose knowl
edge of classical languages was not quite
complete, had been sick, and 011 recover
ing was told by the doctor that he might
take a little animal food. "No, sir," said
he, "I took your gruel eay enough, but
hang me if I can go your hay and oats."
ESy A little fellow one day nonplussed
his mothe- b- making the following in
quiry : "Mother, if a mau if a mister,
ain't a woman a mystery ?"
T.r. "I sav, Pat, are vou aslape?"
"Divil the slj.e."
"Then bo aft-r lendin' me a quarter."
"I'ra uslape, be jabcrs."
fiS The partisan newspapers arc got
tinjr move and more begrimed with dirt
! everv dav. Prub:illv that's what they
' c ii 11 caining grofinJ.