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To my Friends.
Soon will old Time, who presses on us fast,
Stamp his advance in wrinkles on the brow;
Soon shall we Know delicious youth is past,
Although its fire be not extinguished now.
But to see fresh flowers exhaustless spring,
Thicker than those Time tramples into mould,
To feel each hour its calm enjoyment bring
This, my dear friends, this is not growing old.
n vain life's sparkle seek we to excite,
With joy-diffusing wine and. softening song.
Even at the board prolific of delight,
We hear our life has been already long;
But till its last departing ray shall pale,-
To raise the cup, though with unsteady hold,
To wake the song, although the voice may fail
This, my dear friends, this; is not growing old.
Kneel me in worship at a coquett's feet,
Woo me the heart that welcomed once our flame,
Perhaps we hear the mocking low laugh greet
The passion, she will tell us age should tame;
But quietly our later life to spend,-
Indulge less lavishly a heart controlled
To lose the mistress, but gam the friend
This, my dear friends this is not growing old.
It may be some years yet before we feel
The genial warmth of passion" s joy expire,
But since old age at last must on us steal,
All old together be our rfea desire
Each adding strength the future to' defy;
Irr some warm corner chifTping feasts to hold,
To live united and united die
This, my dear friends, this is riot growing 6ld.
Will Nobody Marry Me?
Heigh-ho !' for a husband J heigh -110"!
There's danger in longer delay !'
Shall I neVer again have a beau
Will nobody marry me pray ?'
I begin to feel strange, I declare !
With beauty my prospects will fade !
ld give myself up to despair.
If I thought I should die an old maid'.
I once cut the beau in a' huff. ...
I thought it a sin and a' shame
That no one had spirit enough : .'
To ask me to alter my na'rhe!
So 1 turned up my nose at the'short,
And rolled up my eyes at the tall y
But then 1 just did it in sport,
And now Tve no lover at all l' "
These men are the plague ofjny life;
Tis hard from so many to choose ..
Should one of them vyish for a wife,
Could 1 have the heart to refuse 1
I don't know for none have proposed !
Oh, dear jnel I'm frightened, I vow :
Good gracious! who ever supposed
That ! should be single till now !
Squire Jones's Daughter.
True poetry, says an exchangers as rare as
puineasin a printer's Docket now-a-days; but a
Dwn Easter, smitten with the charms of a
"lovely she," lets off his ecstatic feelings in the
following gush of the "true blue:,
Red is the rnsey-posey' hue,
That grows down in the "hollars,"
And red is ancle .Nathan barn,
That cost a hundred dollarT
Ad red' is sister Sally's aKawl,-
That .cousin Levj bought her. .
But retTder-still the bjoomingcbc.ek-
Of Squire Jones' daughter.
Horrible
"Well. Fawan tew men, there's a darn'd'muss
mr iew bur house." "Why what's the rriatte
li.h.? "Oh darl'H aofa new hat, Moll's
omi K cntih.nnpri hnnnlnfT'CauL'h. and Jake's
W . 1IU j q - ,
Khak'tiiP all to smash with the square toed'mea
Mis. Yes. and that ain't all, nuthcr. ".Oh
dear, what le1" "Old puss is got whole
smidgeon nfpuf8and;moth'er's'got, apple dump
Itnjp and- fopdmnoifr ' "
, THE HOLY LASD.
HARRIET MARTI NEAU.
Rclhlchem Zion Jerusalem.
As I sat oh a tomb in the Turkish cemetery
the next morning (March 30th,) watching the
preparations fqrour departure, I almost dreaded
the int'erest-which every day would now bring,
after the calm and quiet weeks we , had spent
in the desert. Our encampment looked much
the same as it had dune for a month past ; the
Arab servants busy in taking down and pack
ing the tents, and a noisy quarrel going on in
the midst (this morning about a pistol having
been aiolen irom one of the tents :') and the
diffeienctys were only that there were specta
tors btanding by, and that our camels had given
place to horses a'ncl asses. But, instead of the
rock and sands of the desert, Hebron was be
fore rfly eyes, and the hills were Abraham
spread his flocks, and the spot where ne and
his family la'y burned. And before night, I
should bee th'e place where David was born
and lived his, shepherd life, and where Jesus
was born We had only twenty miles to travel
this day to Bethlehem ; but was quite enough,
for we were fcager about every old tree, and
hill ton The shrubs grew finer, and the wild
flowers more abundant, the whole way ; though
he hills of Judah were wild and stony in pans,
and no longer fit for pasturing such flocks as
covered them when Abraham lived among them,
or w hen the Hebrews" drove in their cattle from
he desert, or whert David in his boyhood a-
mused himself with slinging smooth stones
rom the brook while his father's sheep Were
ceding on the slopes. We sat down to rest
and eat under the shade of a rock and a spread-
, i- .i t i - h'rti .i-
ng tree ; ana lor tne nunuream ume since we
eft Eevpt. it occurred to me how liule we in
England can enter into the meaning of David
when, in his divine songs, he speaks of the
shade of rocks, and of the beauty of a' tree
planted by rivers of water," and all such cool
images, wnen one nas ueen siowiy pacing un,
hour after hour, over glaring sands or neatea
rock, under a sun which makes every bit of
eather or metal, and even one s outer clothing;
eel scorching hot, and oppressing one's very
breathing, the sight of a patch of dark shade is
welcome bevond belief ; and when one has dis
mounted and felt the coolness of the rocky wall
and of the ground beneath it, and gathered the
fresh weeds which cluster in its crevices,
phrase after phrase of the Psalms and prophe
cies cdmes over one's mind, with a life of fresh
ness as sweet as the blossoms in one s lap. ,
Our first siffht of Bethlehem was beautiful.
We came upon it suddenly, just when the yel
low sunset light was richest. Bethlehem was
on the rising ground on our right, massive look
ing (as all the villages of Palestine arej and
ihadowv. as the last sun rays passed over it to
gild the western hills, and another village which
there lay high 'up, embosomed in fig and olive
orchards. Th valley between, out of which
we were- rising, lay in shadow. Before us,
nerched on a lofty ridge which rose between
us and Jerusalem, was the convent oi oi. riiias,
. . . . e -r. rit
which we were to pass to-morrow. I was sor
ry to turn away from this view ; but we h'arf to
take the right hand road, and ride through the
narrow streets of the preat convent, built over
the spot where Jesus is believed by the friars
to have been born. .
It was Ibb'late this evening to'see any of the
sacred localities ; but it was quite enough to
have the moonlight streaming in during the
whoje night through the window of my lofty
convent chamber, and to think that on this hill
took" place the greatest' event in the history of
the world ; and tnat in tne neius near wio gen
tle Ruth went about her gleaning, little dream
ingrin those davs of her poverty, that from her
.meeting with tfoaz among tne reapers, oi ma
"harvests, would arise such events to the human
race ; that the shepherd grandchild wnose ui
vine songs were to soothe her old age, should
be the mighty king he was, and the father of
a yet mightier, who should build the great tem
ple of the Lord ; and that a more distant de
scendant should make these glories appear as
childish toys in the presence of his greater
sovereignty over the universal human sou!'. A
wise rrian of a late century has nobly said that
" Prosperity is the promise of the Old Testa
ment arid Adversity that of the New." On
this hill was born the prosperity of the old dis
pensation ; and on this hill" was born the Man
of Sorrows", wTid'knew the secret of true peace,
and taught it in the saying-that it profits not a
man to gain the whole world if he loae his own
soul.
In the morning .we went into the church of
the convent. I cared little for the upper part,
with its chapels for-G'reek, Latin, and Arme
nian worship ; and not much more for the cav
erns under ground, where the friara believe that
Joseph and Mary remained while there was no
room for them in the inn. If the town was too
full to receive them while the people were col
lected for the census, it is hardly probable that
they would repair to an underground cave ; but
in this cave mass was going on this morning ;
and striking was the effect, after coming down
from the sunshine of the crowded cavern, with
its yellow lights nd their smoke, and the ech-
j mo of the chanting; . We'returned when the
service' was over, and saw, the star in the mar
ble floor which marks, as the friars bejeve,.the
precise spot where Jesus, was bo.rn and the
marble slab which is laid in the -place af the
manger. "When I saw,' thfoughoui the country,
how the Arabs now use the caves of the hills
to bed their goats arid cattle, .this belief of the
friars appeared less absurd than it would with
us ; but still, it is so improvable that the prer
cise spot of these transactions (whose, impor
tance was not known" till afterward?) should
have been marked and remembered, that I felt
little interested in them in comparison with the
landscape outside, about whost? leading features
there could be no mistake.
From the bottom of the garden, we dveflboked j
the great valley which expanded to the north
east ; and one enclosure there a green spot
now occupied1 by olive trees was pointed 6m
to us as the field where the shepherds were
abiding on the night when Christ Was born.
Behind it, . to the east, lay range behind range
of hills, stretching off to the north ; and among
these, we knew, Uy the Dead Sea, and the
Jordan, where it pours its waters into thai life
less and melancholy lake, As we left ihe con
vent and village, and descended the rocky road,
with terrace vineyards and olive groves on
either hand, we knew that Joseph and Mary
must have come by this way from Jerusalem
when summoned to the census : and this was
more to us than -all the sights the fnars bad
shown us in their ieal . and kinefnes's. -We
looked in at the tomb of Rachel, and ihe con
vent of Elias ; but our eyes and thoughts were
bent towards Jerusalem. I remember, however,
that here I first saw the waters of the Dead
Sea, lying blue in a little gap between the
hills:
As soon as I had mounted my ass before the
convent of Elias, I saw from our ridge some
buildings on the rising ground which now.
showed itself before us, I was not immediately
certain what they were ; but the news soon
spread among us That rising ground was
Zion, and those buildings belonged to Jerusalem,
though they stood outside the wall. Immedi
ately0 after, the walled city itself came into
view," lying along the hills. Most of the party
were disannointed. I was not partly because
I knew that we were approaching it from the
least favorable, side,, and partly because my ex
pectation's had much under rated the size and
granduer of he cny. What we now saw was
a line of white walls on a mil siue, wnn some
square buildings and' small white domes rising
within. , . . '
I walked the rest . of the way. On our .right
were hills, the summit of one of which was
Aceldama, bought by the priests with the mon
ey which'the wretched Judas returned to them,
when he found too laie what he had done in
his attempt to force his Lord to assert his claim
lo a temporal sovereignty. On our left vvas the
plain of Rephaim. t Wtien we arrived at the
brow of high ground we were on, we were ta
ken bv surprise by the grandeur ol tne scene
Zion now appeared; worthy of her name, and of
hp.r nlace in the hvmns of David and in history.
We were now overlooking the valley olGihoh,
more commonly known by the name of Hin
nom. From ft a depth, and its precipitous rocks
on our side, t should call it a ravine. This deep
dell contains the Jjower Pool, now dry ; and
ihA nmipdurt from So lomon s Pools is seen
crossing it obliquely. Its opposite side is Zi
on. rising, very steeply, still terraced for tillage
in some parts, and' crowned by the city wall
To the right, and sweeping away from the ra
vine of (jrihon, is the deep and giand valley of
Jehoshaphat, clustered with rocks relieved oy
trees, and leading the eye round to the slope
C UI.U I, ... n . . w la kail ctirin (Vnni
Ol WllVei, WHICH, WUVrCUl la uboi iiii
iVin rvthflr side of ihe citv. The black dome of
the tomb of David was the next object; and
after that, the5 most conspicuous roof in the city
the great dome of the Mosque of Omar, which
occupies the site of Solomon s 1 emple.
"Rv this time there was silence among lis. I
walked behind 'our cavalcade, as it slowly as
cended the beautiful rocky way, glad' of the si
lence permitted by each to all ;' for it was not
possible at the momentnor will it ever be pos
sible, to speak of the impressions of that hour.
We entered by the Jaffa gate, arid every echo
of our horses feet in the narrow, stony, ptctur
esque streets, told upon our hearts, as we said
to ourselves that we were taking up our reYt in
Jerusalem". Sharpens Magazine.
ITIarcli of Education.
Not aVreat while ago, the school commit!
ee
of a town in a neighboring State met for the
purpose of examining a candidate who presen
ted himself as a preceptor to. f teach the young
idea how to shoot.' Alter someinierrogaiuriea
the following geographical question was' asked
In what ?npt An VOU IlVO T "
Zone ! zone ! do you think a' man of my
education lives iri a zone ? I lire in a house.
A very romantic young lady, rescued from
drowning while in a state qf insensibility, de-
clarnd nn revivinp. that she must and would
marry her preserver. On inquiring the name
of her generous deliverer, to hef great distpay
he learned that it was a Newjoutumna ong.
Remedy a gainst Mollis
It is an old custom with some housewives to
throw into their drawers every year, a.number
of fir cones, under the idea that theiri strong
resinous sjnell .might keep away the4 moth.
Now, as the odor of the&e cones is due to tur
pentine, it occurred to Reaufnur lb try the effect
of this volatile, liquid. He: rubbed one side of
a ;piece of cloth.wit.h turpentine, and put some
grubs on, the. other ;. the next morning they were
all dead and strange to say, they had' all yofun
tarily abandoned their sheath's. t dn smearing
some paper slightly with oil, and putting this
into a bottle wuh some of the grubs, the weak
est were Immediately killed ; the most vigorous
jggled violently for two or ihree hours, qua
their sheaths, and died, in convulsions. It
was soon abundantly evident that the vapor of
oil or spirits of turpentine acts as a terrible pois
on id the.gfubs. Perhaps it may be said that
even this remedy is worse tnan tne aisease,
but, as Reaumur justly observes, we keep away
rom a newly painted room, or leave on lor a
few days a coat from which stains have been
removed by turpentine, why therefore can we
not once a year keep away a day or two from
roonis that have been fumtgated with turpentine!
It is, however, surprising, how smallaquan-
of turpentine is required ; a small piece of pa
per or linen just moistened therewitn, arm put
into a wardrobe or drawers a single day, two
or three times a year, is , sufficient pieserva-
tion against moths. A small quantity ol tur-peniine-dissblved
in a Tittle spirits 6f wine (the
vapor of which is also latai to tne mom; win en-
irely remove the offensive odor, and yet ue a
sufficient preservative. The fumes ol burning
paper, wool, linen, feathers, and ol leather are
also effectual, for, the insects perish in a very
thick smoke ; but the most effectual smoke is
that of tobacco. A coat smelling slightly of
tobacco is sufficient to preserve a whole draw-
er. We trust our latr reaaers win noi scuiu
us for thus affording their husbands or lovers
an additional excuse for perpetuating a bad
habit. The vapor of turpentine and the smoKe
of tobacco are also effectual in driving away
fleas, spiders, ants, earwigs, bugs and fleas.
l he latter tormentors are so abundant on tne
s 1 . t .
continent, as Irequently to deprive tne weary
raveler of his night's rest. .If he would pro
ride himself w'itlf a' phial, containing turpentine
and spirits .oi wine in equal parts, auu wuuiu
sprinkle a few drops over the sheets and cover-
r ; ; I . -T .'I.!
id before retiring to rest he will probably have
reason to be grateful for the hint. Foreigners
are in the habit of smoking in their bed rooms
a habit which excttes great disgust .in png
and ; it will now be seen, however, that there
is a reason for the practice. --Sharpe's London
Magazine.
The Freak of a Half of a Newspaper
After returning from preaching, on Lord's
day noon, we threw th'e lia'lf of a newspaper,
which wje had in the .crown ol .our naj, into tne
yard. There for a while n basked at full length
in the sun-beam, when all ol a suuuen, it moun
ted upon a twirling current of air, to the great
.. v.." t- t j -'j .. i
alarm oi tne cnicKcns ana uucits, aim up auu.
up it soared rolling" upon the aerial current
and flashing back the sun V beams from its sur
face, until it had ascended, as we suppose,, a
quarter ofmile above the earth. It then bore!
away about N. E. preserving its elevation, f for
half of an hour; visible only wnen irom us
position, as it revolved in the air, the beams 6f
ihe .sun were reflected' from its surface, and
ihen ft shone as brightly and as beautifully as
Venus, when she lights the sun to his evening
rest. It was a oeautuui sigm so cievaieusu
bright and so luminous gathering bright beams
from the sun and pouring mem uown upon me.
delighted spectator, until nothing was seen' of
the paper but the light it reflected. .
Well, thought we, as wo; stood' and gazed
iippn this bright and beautiful, but evanescent
day-starV this is no inappropriate type of what
a newsnaner oushi lo be so elevated in tone
and' marineras to induce its readers to look up
. i i
to it as a model, and so pure in principal anu
luminous in thought and style as lo lead them
unerringly to the truth. Louisville Baptist Ban'
n'er.
A Tbucliiiis Incident.
The New Orleans Picayune says that a1 few
days since a gentleman of that ciiy. saw. in the
streets a'lpvqly little girl, of tender years stand
ing on the banquette bathed in te"ars. The
good rnan approached her, and taking-her by
her hand iriqbire'd the cause of her anguish;---The
dear little cre'atu're continued' to sob bhter
ly, uVtf aiien'gih she excraime'd : 41 My father
and mother haye been taken to Heaven, and I
am left an orphan." There were three or more
persons by at this time, and the feelingly elq,
qtfeni words of the engaging' little one brought
tears from every eye. The worthy gentleman
who first addressed her said a few kind words
with the view of relieving herand then said :
;' 1 will be to'yu, a father, and my wife, (and
no man haVa better one.) will greet, you with
mother's smile:'! He then took her by the
hand and carried :her 'to- his residence.. This
; .n nrhipvtrnrnVon the field of .roerc.y,; of
Oil Iii - - - J
which any gd man should be proud.
ILiEdicroiis Circumsiatice iri Cftiirch
ing of the fust impression at church,
brings to .mind a ludicrous cjrcumstancethai
happened some SO or 60 years ago at church.
The rector, though a man of profound learning,
a'ntf a profound theologian, was of such eccen
tric hr.Giis, as often to creatfea dpubt among ther
vulgar whether het Was at all umeicompps men
lis- Having remarked for several successive
Sundays, a gentleman, .who wTas no parishioner,'
invariably -using a seal in a pew nex't to that in
which a young widow lady sat,r he constantly;
eyed them, antl one time detected the youngj
gentleman slyly.drawing the lady's glovo from,
off the back of. the pew where .she, was-accustomed
to place it, (her hand and arm being del
icately , fair) and putting in it a small, ..neatly,
folded note. By and by the'lady's prayer book
fell accidentally o?f course from the ledge of
her pew into the gentleman a; he picked n up;,
found a leaf turned down, and he hastily scanned
a passage, yhich evidently caused a smile of,
complacency. - . V A
Odr minister saw all their proceeding. and.
continued to watch thfin. forjwq successive
Sundays. On the ihird, as soon as thecollec
lions were made, and while ihe beadfe yet wai--
ted to attend him to tne cnancei, our eccemnc
pastor, in a strong distinct voice, said :--" J.
publish the, bans of marriage between M. and N
(deliberately pronouncing the names of the par
ties,)' if any one of you know? just caue," &c.
The eyes of the congregation were set oil them.
the lady with suflused blushes, and the gentle
man crimsoned with anger,"she fanning herself
wiih vehemence,, the .minister meanwhile pro
ceeding through his duties with the same deco
rum as if innocent of the agitation he had oo-i
casioned.
Tnesermon preached and the services; en
ded, away to the vestry rushed theparties, at
the heels oT tile pastor. . t ;f ,
"Who authorised you, sir, to make such s
publication of tlie banal" demanded they boik
in one breath. s K j
"Authorised me!" said he.'with a statejwHich
heightened the confusion. , ;??
"Yes,-sir, authorised jpu"
("Oh!'vBa'iJ the. mtnisier, with a sly glace al-,
tcrhaielyj at each, "if you don't approve of iv
I'll forbid the bans next Sunday."
"Sir," said the lady, "you have been too of
ficious already ;, nobody requested you to; do
anything; you hatf better mind your own ousi-
nes.
"Why, my pretty dear" said he, pattirig her,
on the cheek' what I have done has been alt
iri the way of business, and if you do . not like,
to wait for three pubjications,Jt advise you sir,"
turning to the. gentleman, to, procure a license,
the ring and the .fee, and then thef whole matter
may be settled a's soon as to morrow.1'
"Well,", replied the gentleman'," addressing
the widow, "with your permission I wII get
them, and we will be married in a day or two."
"Oh, you may both do as you please," pet
tishly,yet nothing loth," replied the lady.
It was but a day or two after the license was.
procured, and the parson .received his fee, the.
bridegroom his bride, and the widnow for the.
fast time ihrew her gloves over the back of the
pew, and it vva's afterwards said that the parties
were satisfied' with their gains.
Hear what Jeffries says.
Jeffries, the great British reviewer, seems tpi
have thought the Yankees were "some." It is.
said he once remarked , that it was his. firm be
lief that if a prernium of a thousand, dojlars wei e.
offered for the .best transla'tion..of iho Greek Bi
ble, it would: be taken by a Yankee, who, lill,
the offer was made,,had neyer.seen a word of.
Greek in his life. He would commence learn
ing the language immediately, to qualify him
self for the great undertaking, and would. finish
the whole quicker than any other rjersonf and
bear otf the premfum.
Decidedly Rich.
Two Cfuakera in Vermont hap! a dispute.
They wished to fight,, but it vyas against, their,
principles.' They grasped, each othe'r -onei
threw and set on the back of the other. anr
squeezHig his head in, the mud, said, On thyj
belly fthalt.,th'oti crawl, dqal shM1 lhou eat ,ajh
the da-;s of thy life!' , The pther soon, gained
the victory, and when fie, had attained the sarno
position, saidj, ft is .written, the seed .of the
woman "shSll bruise the serpent's head !'
New fashion for" Hair.
. A letter from New York, says. "I was',
highly amused at the fash.ion of jvyearing the
hair" which has lately been, .introduced by our(
super-elegants, and which I saw in perfecl;,q
last evening. The pepuliar tlting in it is p re
duce thV whole head to tlie state of a, gfubbla,
field, and hX t lhe moil elegant man who
comes neaf.est haying his head save'd perfectly
smooth. ( One gent, last eventngj wor his. hair.
about a. quarter el an inch long, and its .effect
was
ludicrous enough. The man looked as..
though hit upper works were set thickly afrit
with ahoit, fiery btjatles. However, if pthera
laughed he admired, and boh parties being well.,
pleased, th thing, could not have beetr belter."
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