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[For the Dixocnwra
THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING.
0, the spring; the beautiful sPrlng;-
Inspire my dul soul till everystring
Like angel harps forever in ttme,
To songs as "perfect 'as= daysin
Working. singing; contented to wait;
In this ' beautiful ,wOrld—by the massive
gate." _ - I
Over the-earth light and glory are.sPretid,
A living glory, where God eiqi be read;
Beneath the moist mold the stery prolong ;
Death bursting to lite-r 4 mystical sons.
0 , th e spring,' ,ilebcal4iful spring, • ,
Gladness has come to ever thing ;
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Fragrant warm 'air breath - e i over the lea; .
Waking ireih beauty from thicket and tree ;
Restless, %robing, singing they go, ' : ',, , ' •
Some up in,Plo sunshine, , some hopping be-
Some searching, Eittille building, all chirping
with glee,
Are the bappiett pirtiS"thitt evir'ecould be ;
From innumerous'wings there's a murmur of
. „
bliss, l, . :
Insects joy9usly flittig. from " that- plade to
this. - •
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0, the spring,_thi beautil9 apring,.l
When ev'ry lip should , have songs -to sing,
More rapturous notes, and a holler trust,'
Spring up from the soul as beauty trom dust,
Gleaming, breaking, bursting to View,
Unfolding sweet leaVes, wrinkled tender.and
Theres never-a tendrili:Oki.leaflet so singll;
But this life giving
. 141 . 4ciple runs thrciugh
them all;`
The earth is alive, mountain,. hill and- vale
ring,
To welcome the coming of leadiful
The heart runneth oyeksprilik filla:tvith de•
light- :•
The willow,, soft toftd; . :,dog-iit4x;Os bloom
white, • • .
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Sway& proudly above be heaveitly blue
Of delicate vibleis; Ifritt Liverwort too: .
Ba4zing,treat,hing; wond'rously fair,
Are blood-root, anemOne, close - clustering
there,
And lovingly: o'er them: the birth tassels
blow, ,
Gracefully pendant they whisper so low,
No flower so sweet as the earliest found
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From under dead leaves springing out of the
ground.
0, the spring, the beautiful spring,
Beauty and broom dotb sit •''t vishly . fling : ' '
Over th e wood l and, - and to y hill side,
Where the spotted trout lay in the, waters
that glide,
Gurgling, laughing; sparkling lirook flow,
And sport with the bright shining pebbles be
low ;
Silvery sweet your eontinuelous sOng,
Radiantly, beautiful your banks along,
Delightfully pure the mild air hovering near,
While heaven is mirrored so truthfully . clear ,
No work so obscure or entanglement high,
But some little green life brines light to the
age, I
And num,herlessyuices In sweet silence sing
A weleome to' sprink‘-.--fair, beautiful spring !
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TEE.CHEERFUL FACE.
Next to flie-surdig,tit of heaven is the_sunlight
of a cheerfui face. There is no mistaking i—
the bright eye, the unclouded broW, the sunny
smile—all tell of that which dwells . Within.--
Who has not felt its electrifying inftuence-?--
One glance at this facel- lifts. us at once out of
the arms of despair ; outbf the mists find shad
ows, away from tears and repining, into the
beautiful realms Of hope. 1 • '
One clecrful lace iu "a: lir-usetiold will , keep"
everything bright' and warm within. Envy,
hatred, malice, selfl;ahness, and , a host of evil
passions may lurk around the door ; they may
even look within, tut 'they never enteror abide
there ; the cheerful face will put them . : all: to
shame and flight. 1
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It may be a Very plattoi face,but theo is some
Mug in it we feel we le6not expre ss, and its
cheery smile sends the blood dancinkthrough
our veins for very joy . ; we turn,toward the sun
and its warm, genial influenee refreshes - s and--
strecgthens our fainting is kits. Ali i there is
a world of magic in the pi in, cheerful face I--
il
It charms us with
,a, spell of eternity, and ' we
would not exchangel .it for' all the soulless
beauty-that ever kraced .4e fairest . form on
earth, • 1
It may be a very Attie face--one that we nes-,
tle upon our bosomfi, or sing to sleep in our
i
arms with a low, Sw et lullaby ; but it is such
bright, cheery la 'e
f The scintillstions of a
joyous spirit are. flashing from everi'fiature.- ,-
And 'what a power it,-has over thelitusehold i
binding each heart together in tenderness, and,
love, and sympathy. ,V,hadoWs may "ditikett
around us, but somehow this Jam ever shines
between, and the shining is So bright`ihat the
shadows cannot remain,and silently they creo
away into the dark corpers until the cheerful
keels gone. 1 1 - i
It may be a wrinkled ace, but It is all the
dearer for that,And none the, less bright. - WC ,
linger near it, sod gaze 1 nderly . upon it,'and
Say, "Heaven bless this;happy' face 17) We
must keep it with us as long as we can,forlonie
isill lose much of its brightness when that lace
is gone. \ . ' \'
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Use not, exasic called upon to do. a
good thing,nor e ruses, %vbeb you, are ! reproach
ed for doing a bad one:, ,
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Pert-ons wao'cOntp)ain at I groy,ing of i
. wOl2lO
find fault di 'irnit ripening Qn the'tr -1 t , s.' - Old
age is the perfeetlon of burnaii . life'. • ' -
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Clutritiezi sisould be''' aimed:l'ond!l will _not
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grow if piled in i; bei).' ; ' - it; must be scattered.
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' When autumn .is nairriej to , Winierihe wed
ding cake is always froated. - ., ,
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THE PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND
SCIENCE..._.
It is a truly difficult task to - delineate the
state of mankind in the earlier . ages of the
World, and to:present a perfect record of , events
and the persons concerned in them.
,Even to a
comparatiVelY latedate hist.,Ty is not to be re
lied upon is truthful in every respect, from the
feet' that Superstition and fable possessed fora''
long ttruel firm bold upon the minds of the,
people of that barbarous age s and It was almost
impossible for' them to write the annals of their;
Hine without, representing hs.positive facts thei
leffends taught them by, their fathers. The
mest . entire absence of written records iu thei
earlier ages contributed 'much toward rhalripgi
'the history of early,= events vague, and:uncer
tain'; 'and 'when their: exploits were, in a great:
part, handed nown from memory, from,genera-I
tion•to generation,through the medium.of poet
rY recitedat their games and festivals, it is not
surprising that! the chronicles of. their nation:
are - ffiliedlwith battles that' never were fought:
and comrhltad9ltv439 were.ieverinangurht.ed.l
Yn thier times, liewever as learning prouressed,l
superstition gradually gave way ; and froml
that time :only do we obtain reliable informa-i
mon On historical subjepts. , I
The 'drat retstoreri of learning were tlie`Arab.i
,irtns,.a 'rude and warlike nation even before the
advent of Mhbornet; but which eitended its;
dorninionS, a few years after his death, ove
a considerable part of the Old . 'World ; thes
'people beconiink aequaitted with some of the
Greek auihors, discovered and justly anprecial
ted the, knowledge and improvement to be de
rived from them. The caliphs obtained copiel
of the ancient manuscripts, and . caused them
to be translated into Arabic, holding in great
esteem those treating of mathernaties and
physics. - I They disseminated their lenowledgei
and foun i ded Schtmla and colleges ,in all the
cur tresiwhich they subdued I
T 1 weatern part of Europe became first Lief
l
quainted with ancient learning throngh the
medium Of these translations. Charlernagne,iti
the tighth century, caused Latin copies to be
made, and also °founded institutions promotin4
learning; 'commerce and 'agriculture. From Ina
time we inust date the birth of modern society'.
in England, also, at the same period, Alfred in
troduced a taste for' literature among his sub':-.
jects.
spring
It is wonderful to see with how great rapidli•
ty thelt4f civilized people, by those times, b,*
the influence of learning, became respected and
powerful; and formed themselves into three dia 7
tinct nations—France, Germany and Italy.
In the Middle of the fifteenth century appeared
the distinguished genius Roger Baeon,who pos
sessed a power.of invention fitted to advano
in every j science , which was the' object of hiS
*study. He' made important' discoveries in wi
troriomy, chemistry and medicine; yet . thiS
genius Believed in an elixir of life, and the
transmutation of metals into gold.. A generfil
taste prevailed at this time ,for poeticl compo
sition. The troubadours wrote sonnets and
ballads. and excelled in extempore dialogueao#
the subject of love ; they contended for the
prize of poetry at solemn meetings, and MO
trious ladies attended to decide between the, rIV
al barda. Among those celebrated as-trouba
doure of ;eminence are Richard 1.. of 'England,
and Frederick L, 'Emperor of Germany.
The transference of the papal -seat in the
fourteenth , century familiarized the . Italian
poets with the songs of ,the troubadours, arid
gave a provincial style to their writings, which
is at once noticed in the poetry of Dante. It
was not Until the tall of the Eastern Empire it
the endi of the fifteenth century that - l a
taste for polite Jiteratuie 'extended over ,tie
whole of Europe. ,1 succession of popes pos
sessing a liberal spirit,and above all the discotr
ery'Ail the art of printing, contributed much to
the rapid advancement of knowledge. ,
,1
. In enumerating the ,great changes which
characterized the fifteenth and sixteenth eei -
tunes, the hign state , of advancement in the
'finearts;is\ to be noticed. At tb t is time lived
the distinguished painters Raphael, 4ichafl
Angelo,Titian and others ; 11:na at the same
period the Chureh of St. Peter's, at Rome, ei•
hibited the noblest specimen o f architecture
the wori;d. - ,lV ; e eau see how much lit rata, e
ii
and the' sciences are indebted to the art f
pining for their ittlVance'ment tind dissein i i
nation.
•( From that period Classical learning,
criticism, poetry, and history make. -rapid ad
vancement. I
At this' time appears flacon,:the most prb
_found philosopher, and perhaps the :most,uni
venal 6nitti, that any age has 'produced. Says
ans , Erigliih writer, "We owe to. Bacon the suit ,
methOd tit advancement in knowledge by e
pieriment and observation of nature, instead of
•sirstem and conjecture." • : 1
, 1
In the seventeenth century lived-43alileo add
Napier, ;who made important discoveries in a -
, tronoluy ; and later in the
.day, Locke, and his
contemporary Newton. •The Lyric. poetry of
the sixtOnth century—of Spenser, - Surrey,SYd
ney, and eien. Shakespeare—is somewhat h atilt
and - inlrinonious ; nor is there Mitch improve
ment till the time of Cowley. At a later dify
Drydenicarried lyric poetry to perfection.
The compositions for thoFrench- , stage,at the
end 9 f the seventeenth century, are models oti a
correct and polished taste. The ;nest noted rat
•the French writers were Corneille, Racine,. acid
Mulierel From that_time forward' we notice a
rapid advatiebi - uent in literature and sci nce, iti,
i n
well asi in other branches of learnin nd 1 a
state of"societyreaching a l higher deg! of ciFl
diEL *1)3 4 day.' •It - IS useless tfj edumerate
ture day q _
the poets, the.historians,:nd the Men of science
of the Present day --- persons with whom all ake
familiar, and vihose wort . s every true love!. bf
literature cannot fail. to admire and Cherish f.S
\ratist.4l l l )ieces of thought and composition
The educated man of the present century
not 'cOn l i tent, at once., to pass, his tune in 111XUri
ouS sa_thed Wttil the present, and regard
Isto.of ihc future ; hut is or,e„,uptud.plahs .
tne.advancernem..of society and the prtnioo
th4 Of leilittlye and refinement ,` Add fl tiny ifs
able to ;retire from -the ,, butly, turmoil of V
ohtitaingovith the ancienV , bardiP.l hake rail d
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a monument more lasting_than brass, end more
sublime than the regal elevation of pyrathids,
which neither the wasting rain or innumerable
succession!ot years will be able to destroy.r
rOW THEY HANG A MAN IN CHINA.
I observed orie mode of Chinese capital pun
.. ,
ishment - known 'ili4 - 'Mire cage." The "cage"
used was"between two and three'feet square,
and over six feet high: . Near the bottom w a s
,a
close floor iof plank. Thi foir sides were open
work of pink'palings.• Thee planks composing
the cover were made to fit around a man's neck
close'enough to hang hint,but not close enough
to strangli him.:` ; The' condemned man was put
1
into-this ' - age, }tie bend ' projecting above; the
cover Litt ng round his neck, and under his
feet a nuttier:of 'bricks, one: above' the other,
just enough tofenOle'llim to stand on tiptoe.—
,When.,this position, 'from weariness, became
uiaendurable, his_only relief was to hang by ifie
neck., 'Die design is' to 'make a 'man suffer as
,much as liossible,but not twkill him too quick
, ,Usually! after a , 'criminal has been standing
thus for a 'day or So ; one of the'bricks is remov
ed, and.- tben another, until he •hangs by 'his
neck,altogether. - h is said' that a strong Man
~ordineril3l will endure this torture several days
before.lifd i bedtimes extinct; '':
On the present 1 occasion death was hastened
more quidkly. Theman was put into the cage
on §undaly afternoon,' believe, about I o'clock.
I beard ol* it on Monday morning and went ov•
er to 4.1n0r about to'clock in the afternoon to
see him. i ge had, then been- dead some time.
The guarcl said : that he died just before day
light, ; theot he was conscious of having corn
:mited great crimes, and bad hastened hislivin
death by! kicking the bricks . from under his
feet. - Bui the people 'say, (privately) that the
gua rd wished .to get - rid of their charge that
they migiwprepare to keep New Year's, Day
(the Chinese New Year was near athand;) and
thereforelhad taken the bricks from under his
net during the night. This probably was the
f iCt. H ' -
. A FEW ' WORDS TO OUR. GIRLS.
The pastor of a church in one of our large
'Cities said to me hot long ago . : "I have officia:
ted at tooy weddings since 1 came here;-and in
every-cas save one, I felt that the bride want
-running int awful risk. Young lien of bad
habits and fast tendencies never marry girls o
their own sort., but demand a wife above sus
.picion. I ' • '
Bo pure, sweet, women, kept from the touch
of evil trough the years of tbeii girlhood ;
give themselves with all their costly Cower of
womanhood, into the keeping of men who - in
base assoiations, have learned to•undervalue all
that beldings to them, and then find no place
for.repentance in the sad after. years. •
There is but one way oitt of - this , that. I can
see, and that is for you—the young' women of
the counl,ry—.to require in association and friar
riage,purity for purity, sobriety for sobriety.
honor fof. honor. There is - no 'reason why the
young mien of this Christian land should not
be just 4 virtuous' as its , young women, and if
the 108E11 of your society ~and love is the
price the,- are forced Ito pay for vice, they will
not pay ;it. -
I adreiii sadness that not fall of our
young women are capable of this high standard
for 'themselves or others ; too °fen from the
hand of !reckless beauty has the tectiptaticins to
drink came to men ; but I 'believe there are
enough bf earnest, thoughtfill girls in the socie
ty of our country to work wonders th the tem
perance reform, 'if fully aroused. Will you not
then, dear girls,; be so true to yourselves and
God, so Pure in your inner and outer life, that
you shall have 'right to ask that the young
men with whom you associate, and especially
those ydu marry, shall be the'same
•
Manylyears ago,g a in what is ,now i it flourishing
;
city, lived a stalwart, blacksmith, fond of his.
• ,
pipe and his joke. He was also fond of his
blooming daughter,whose many graces had en
snared tfie affections of a• young printer: The
couple, itfter a season of billing and cooing, en
gaged themselves, and nothing but the consent
of the i•oung !lady's parents prevented their
union.
,',To obtain this' an, interview was ar
ranged, iind the;typo preWtred a little speech to
admonis;ll and convince,
, the . old man, niho sat
enjoying his pipe in perfect content. T+ typo
dilated do the fact of their row , it, friendship their
,
niutuak a t ttachments„ their hopes for the futuie,
and liketopics, and,takindthe daughte by the
hand, 114 said, 4 `.1 am now, sir, to ask y;
ur per
mission to tratnplant this lovely flower from
its iv:relit bed," but his feelings oyercame him
and he lbrgbt the remainder of his oratorical
flourish ,1 blushed, stammered;ml final) , wound
up with 4 "from its parent - bed into my own."—
The fattier keenlyielished this discomfiture of
,the siiit(r, and, removing his pipe; and blon:ing
a cloud of smoke, replied : "Well, Young mail,
1 don't know as 1 have-any objeCtion, provided
you inatry the girl first." ' "
Eveil man `trust - atientlY bile his, time;
nofiii idleness, in . .Useleas pastimo;or'querulouB
dejection, but'intapnatintly - 'aecoinplishing his
task, that TA hen the occasion .comes
.he, may be
it. The talent of.auccess
More than doing What yen rean do..well; ,with-_-
oat a tiought ot , tame, Tr it . : _i:omes at :a14.1t,
will e:lie - beeanse it is desOtied, not beeaUse it
is sought • - iiftee. it is - , a very\ indiscreet. and
trouble4ome ambition so,. much
what the world - says of to be,always anx-;
iiiiig snout the'effeet of what we...c10.0r
be alwaya abontitig to hear the echoes : of our,
voices: . :
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There are more sorrows of women than of
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men, jt4it as in heaven, there are inornectipses
of the loon t i tian of the'slll). - -
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throiigh and ,vevorta -00
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The long continued depression In busineaCcircles call for cub - transactjona by manufacturers , nnd 'goe6
'bought close for cash ;can be sold' at low prices, To satisfy yourselies of this fact, when at Binghamton, call aid
exa mine the general;stock of Fursiture arid prices at 16 Chenango Street . .
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at peces lower than ever known before In suaquehan,
na County. Not excepting prices i before the war. .-
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NO REMENENTS !
Everything New land Friuli at Popular
1 Prices,
3600 yards or best Prints in inarkst;sold during the past
two weeks, at 6 p t,t.ce per, yard, and still there is more
o foll Ow.
Don't be deceived by others- in trade wno represent
on; goods ot • inferior quality, hut e rind 'exsuilite
, for yobrselves. Ppices greatly red ced bat - quality
maintained. ' ; Montrqs , April 26,1878. ,
FußNrruitE.
At W. ,-*. Smiti4r, Son.'to
ExtensiveParniture War sroont you 411111nd the largest
stock of ;
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FIRST CLASS, AND COMMPY
30 -1 1131E1...1V
To be found in this section of the country, of his olira
manufacture, and at Firices that cannot tail i tugive satin
factiou. They make the very best ‘• -
EXTENSION TABLES
In the Country, and WAIIR,6 vT 40m.
17 13 Ix coil is tepze V VP c" : 3tellk
01 till ligndei done in the neetost niat.ner.
SEA Pk rt. ;X N ' ZS 3E3 13 113. , * t"
OR VARIOUS KENDS!
PURE NOLIibi.A.TRASSES,
AND COMMON MATRASRESj
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apecialtVitt his Wetness. .112 lag Jett' eampteted ap•
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We ..have ni; - . 11 bad debts , to:lnake'm
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Our Motto CHEAP ! CHEAP
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'SILVER WARE.
WATCHES
Kept in Nortliern Pennsylvania,
And at the Lowest Prices.
TABLE. OUTLEiIY
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POCKET KNIVES, POCKETBOOKS,
VisapSS,SiRINGS, &c.,
Watcbee, Jewelry, &a., repaired by-
.IP. a AMEIXABICtriart, '
Practiced Watchmaker and Jeweler, successor to Isbell
&%nigh. We hares large stock of Materiel,new
parte, itc..which enables OS to. do work more perfect
etodpromptly than ever. ' •
Nithr.BOSE
STEAM 'MILL.'
OATS.!FOR , SALE BY THE LOAD
at the
,FIIESIEVCIROUNp GRAHAM PLOD*
ferule at the STEAM - MILL
Any qnantiii -of MEAL & FEED of chi:
best 'quality, astlie STEAM MILL:
FINE, - WHEAT, MIDDLINGS at: th'l
STEAM' MILL
WOli.'t - ...isAk'' '
for atile'at the
MiLT.4
WIIEAT!,FLOILIt i MESH GROUND
• at•the EITEA.M MILL.
0 14, WET ,N:. CORN for sowing.
OA account of, the, poor .-quality of new ,
corti 2 it neceB4l7 4 1 40e41 . jillootottl or* for, ftir seed • 200. bu: st,tll/11:31.1141/
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