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BY JOHN G. GIVEN.
TAKE THE iron LI) AS IT IS.
Ta the world as it is I lliere are good and bad
in it,
And good and bad will b from now to t'ue
end:
Aad they who expect lo r.iako cahits lu n min.
ute,
Are in danger of marring mora hearts than
thev'lt mend.
If je ish to bo happy, ne'er seek far the
faults.
Or you're .are to find tumcihing or other I
' . .
arcisi;
'Mid modi that debase?, and much that eialts
The world's nut a bad one if loft a it i 1
Tke the wor'.d aa it is I if tUo surface be s!ii
niog, Ne'er stir up the sediment hidden below !
There'i wisdom in ih'tt-, bat there's none in
repining
O'er things that can rarely be mended we
know !
There' beauty around ua, which let us enjoy;
And chide not, unless it may bo with a kiss;
Though Earth's not the Heaven we thoug!it
when a boy.
There's somethingto live for, if tucn at it is.
Tnka the world as it i ! with its smiles and
its sorrow.
Hit love and ita friendship its falsehood and
truth
!la isheines, iLat- depend on the bteaih of
morrow !
Uthtpcs, which pas by lihe the dreams
U yOUtU.
Yet oht whiUt the light of auction y
-p. , . ,,. , r . nf i.. !
iie heart in ,..eii hatha, ounu.n un s.
in the worst there aomo sya.k oi .1 iiALiit
, ; r
, -, :
iV inn
Anu i.;e wucai anu oci isai; t.iu vuin as
it IS.
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KXSOBLLAWB
THE WOLF-CHASE.
BY C. WHITEHEAD.
During the winter of 18 14, being en
j
gaged -
in the northern part of Maine, I had much
leisure to devote to the wild sports of a
new country. To none of these was I
more passionately addicted than to skating.
The deep and sequestered lakes of this
State, frozen by the intense cold of a i
northern winter, present a wide field to
the lovers of this pastime. Often wouhl
1 bind on my skates, and glide away up
the glittering river, and wind each mazy
treamlct that flowed beneath its fetters on
towards the parent ocean, forgetting all
She while time and distance in the luxuri
ous sense of the gliding motion thinking
of nothing in the easy flight, but rather
dreaming, as I looked through the trans
parent ice at the long weeds and cresses
that nodded in the current beneath, and
eemed wrestling with the waves lo let j
'.hem
lem go; or I would follow on the track j
f some fox or otter, and run my skate j
long the mark he had left with his drag- j
of
alon
ging tan until me trail entered the woods,
-v ...w... .,j ... . 'r' ii--.ici-iiy it-do largely icpresented there; i-ranee
moonlight, and it was on one of these ; at home on the ice. Many were the days : has heard the shout of welcome, and pours
occasions that I had a rencounter, which j that I hud spent on my good skates, never : in her thousands; England, Germany, lta
even now, with kind "aces around me, I j thinking that at. one time they would be ' ly, Hungary, Poland,and the far off islands
cannot recall without a nervous looking-j my only means of 3afety. Every half ' of the sea yes, even thoso distant lands
over my snouiuer leeimg.
I had left my friend's house one evening
just before dusk, with the intention ol
I ' n t i . I- ..a. I . T l
iv-uiig ;i snori uisianco up uic iiou.e i
".vuyy, tTiiiv.ii gmitu unctiiy uciuit luu j
2oor. The night was beautifully clear. 1
A peerless moon rolled through an occa-i
ionai tieecy cloud, and stars twinkled
from the sky and from every frost covered
tee in millions. Your mind would wonder
t the light that came glittering from ice,
and snow-wreath, and incrusted branches.
s the eye followed for miles the broad
Jleani of the Kenebec, that like a jewelled
lone swept between the mighty forests on
oaniis. And yet all was still. 1 he I
cold seemed to have frozen tree and air.
nd erery living thing that moved. Even
the ringing of my skates on the ice echoed,
back from the Moccasin Hill with a start
ling clearness, and the crackle of the ice
as 1 passed it in my course seemed to
follow the tide of the river with lightning
peed. 6
I had gone up the river nearly two
miles, when coming to a little stream
which empties into the larger, 1 turned in
o explore its course. Fir and hemlock
of a century's "growth met overhead, and
formed an archway radiant with frost-work.
All wa3 dark within, but I was young
nd fearless, and as I peered into an un
broken forest that reared itself on the
oorders of the stream, I laughed with very
Jyou3uess ; my wild hurra rang through
the silent woods, and I stood listening to
the echo that reverberated again and again,
until all was hushed. I thought how often
the Indian hunter had concealed himself
ofihmd these very trees how often his
row had pierced the deer by this very
Ten, and his wild halloo had here rjng t
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for his victory. And then, turning from
fancy lo reality, I watched a couple of
white owls, that sat in their hooded state,
with ruffled pantalets and long ear-tabs,
debating in silent conclave the afi'airs of
their frozen realm, and wondering if they.
" for all their feathers were a-cold," when
suddenly a cry arose it seemed to me to ;
come from beneath ihe ice it sounded
low and tremulous at first, until it ended ;
in one wild yell. I was appalled. Never !
before had such a noise met my ears. I
thought it more item mortal so fierce,
and amid such an unbroken solitude, it !
seemed as if fiend had blown a blast from :
a:i internal trumpet. Presently 1 heard ;
the twigs on shore snap, as if from the .
-
ireau oi sonic: anunai, ami uie oioou rusueu ;
oacii to my lorcneau witn a oouiiu t.'iat i
made inv skin burn, and I felt relieved :
that J h id to contend with things earthly, ;
and not of spiritual nature my energies
returned, and 1 looked around for some
means ul escape. 1 he moon saonc thro them, and then I would have protectors ( Oregon, Northerner, Sarah Sands, Caro
ihu opening at the mouth of the creek hv that would be peers to the fiercest cenizen ' Una, Columbus. Isthmus, and Antelono.
w hich I had entered the forest, and con-
sidcring this the best means of escape, I
darted toward it like an arrow. 'Twas
it iikc an arrow. i was tueu- mau carreer, ana aner a moment s i,aw s line) traverse tne waters ol the ! luminary ol the world, thus ushered, began
ed yards distant, and the consideration, turned and lied. I watched ! Pacific, arriving and departing 'with the ! to rise majestically from behind a distant
scarcely excel my desperate ! thain until their dusky forms disappeared regularity of a train of cars on the Erie ! range of the Sierra Madrc. I have wit
l lurued my head to the over a neighboring hill. Then, taking off Railroad. Ik-sides thess belonging to the I nessed the same spectacle on the broad
Hard iv a nuuureu
swallow could s
lliirht : vet as
! shore, I could see two dark objects dashing
throui
underbush at a pace nearly
frnni lliP i!ps fri ! it inn pivp'i nf ltmrn I
bul little pleasure in inaking ihcir acquaint. !
, . '
Uic u:mreiag strength which seems part ;
j l)ieir nattltc renders them objects of
nrr I Heir nnt:inin:i i p tiprcpniK -irii :
ureau to every oenigiiiea traveller. ;
It- I ' I . I . tl
; " W'i;h tiieir i g i!-p, which nn ti.-e
j Tiu d..cr hou-id'a lutu, the hunter's fire."
l'iey Plir5Ue their prey- never straying :
from t!e track of their victim and as the
j weaned hunter t.iuitis lie has at list out- ;
, stripped Ih-rn, he hud that they but
watted lor the evening to seize their prey, ;
and falls a prize to the tireless animals.
1 h j bushes th.it skirted the shore llcw
past with the velocity of lightning as 1 '
dashed on in my flight to pass the narrow
opening. The outlet was nearly gained;
one second more I would be comparative-
dashed madly forward. The
ie wolves ;
:r speed, '
;nded prey ;,
j
jmc. The ;
sprang, but ' miscalculating m
sprang behind, while their intend
glided out upon the river
Mature turned me towards iiomc. 1 lie ;
- ww- I I
uaivua ui snow spun iroui me iron
of my skates, and I was some distance j
from my pursuers, when their fierce howl
told me I was still their fugitive. I did
not look back ; I did not
not look back ; 1 did not leel alraid, or ;
sorry, or glad; one thought df home, of:
the bright laces awaiting my return, of ;
their tears jf they should never see me, !
and then every energy ot body and mind ,
minute an alternate yetp irom my heree
attendants maue me out too certain that ,
they were in close pursuit. Nearer and
I . . . I 1 I i- . . ,
nearer wiey came; j. uearu ineir leet pal-
luting u ins nii niui n. i oim, unlit i uouiu ,
leel tiieir breath and hear their snufiling
scent. Every nerve and muscle in my
lo. ! y!l-ai P1"- ai,u ,ilc s;u)ri e'iS which nicy ; nui even yet, i never see a ;road stieet . trade, and also ttic Uoltl Hunter and tiio tha highest peak of our own stupendous
" occasionally g ive, I knew at once that of ice in the moonshine, without thinking ' Sea Gull, which have recently been upon ; Alleghcnies and in each case deemed that
t I. 1.11 .1 i TJ . . 1 f .
n . , -.' -a ' ' -- , mi- uui3 uctwceu oan i uiitisto una vie- , us gianueur eouia not ce surpasseu. uut
; I had never met with these animals, but things followed me so closely down the ' con. - This number of steamer, running ! ihesa wnrt u-rptchpd pxhihiti.-ms whpn
ly sate, wnen my pursuers appeared on : we rem irked a lew days ago, are in them- tty with which those that wer employed, ' bathed every other object. c were de- ! about three leet above aim; tue squirre;!
the bank directly above mc, which here selves the monuments that establish the were called into requisition, being more or nied the pleasure of beholding the uplifting ; started the lightning had to follow the
rose to the height of ten feet. There was progress and prosperity of California, j less imperfect, insufficient, and temporary. I of the curtain that concealed their recesses j grain, and the squirrel went straight down;
no time to be lost, so 1 bent my head and Conducted widi great ability, abounding : What Iriumohs mnv not be looked for ! from our view; the striking of tenu in the .! So confounded crooked was the tree, air.
"... "
witn a sound truly nornoie, when an in-
voluntary motion on my part turned me
out of my course. The wolves close be-
h:ud, unaoie lo stop, and as unable to turn
on the smooth, ice, slipped and fell, still
going on far ahead; their tongues were
lolling out, their white tusks-glaring from
their bloody mouths, their dark, shaggy
breasts were fleeced with foam, and as
they passed me, their eyes, glared, and
they howled with fury. The thought
flashed on my mind, that by this means I
could avoid them, viz : by turning aside
whenever they came too near; for they,
by the loimation of their feet, are unable
to run on ice, except on a straight line.
I immediately acted upon this plan.
The wolves having regained their feet,
sprang directly toward me. The race was
renewed lor twenty yards up the stream ;
they were already close on my back, w hen
I glided round and dashed directly past
my pursuers. A tierce yell greuted my
evolution, and the wolves, slipping on
their haunches, sailed on, presenting a
perfect picture of helplessness and bullied
rage. Thus 1 gained nearly a hundred
yards at each turning. This was repeated
two or three times, every moment the ani-
nr.
orals getting more excited and baffled.
trame was stretched to the utmost tenison. channel, converse nearly in the same lan
The trees along the shore seemed to 1 guage, and submit to the same institutions,
dance in the uncertain light, and my brain ; The Future may have greater blessing
turned with my own breathless speed, yet j than this in store for the world- but fifty
still they seemed to hiss forth their breath j years hence, men will recur to'his event
R GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CKASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO
E BENS BURG, THURSDAY,
At one time, by delaying my turning 1
too long, my fierce antagonists came so
near me, that they threw the white foam
over rue as they sprang to seize me, and
their teeth clashed together like the spring
of a fox-trap. Had my skates failed for
one instant, had I tripped on a stick, or
caught my foot in a fissure in the ice, the
story I am now telling would never have
been told. 1 thought all the chances over;
I knew where they would first take hold
of mc if I fell; 1 thought how long it
would be belore 1 died, and when there
would be a search for the body that would
already have its tomb; for oh ! how fast i
a man s mind traces out all the dread col-
ors of death's picture, only those who j
- - i
miu uccii near wiu gum ongmai can itn. ;
mu soon i came opposite trie Mouse, j
and my hounds I knew their deep voices j
roused by the noise, bayed furiously ;
from their kennels. I heard their chains ,
rattle ; how I wished they would break
of t!io forest. The wolves, taking the ;
hint conveyed by the dogs, stopped in '
their mid carreer, and after a moment's
my skates, I wended my way to the house,
wi'di feelings which may be bettere ima-
fri7ii K P-nii-'iP:'
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1 H .im! - nf f., i; f -.?
" J"a- u Luniji -.a i. j
Tho marvels of .Monte Cur.isro are
K,.;,i:r rrui?..,!, ihn c!,rHJ f P;. I
tw I. I
fic. it is not alone tha
splendid fortunes
1 which there reward adventure and enter-
I prise, but the development of athletic civ-
ilization and exemplary order, that stirtle
the civilized world. Men see the statue i
breaking lro:u toe inanimate marble in an j
hour; they see the symmetry and the har- i
inony of political equality and universal
content made actively manifest almost in !
a day. We have before ih at this writing,
the Caliiorni i newspapers by the last '
steamer; and we pure over them with irre-
sisiilde and constantly recurring surprise
and pleasure. These journal" alone, as '
in information ol the rarest chaiacier, 1
hether v( commerce, of politics, or of i
general intelligence, they already bear '
more of the metropolitan character than !
most of the boasted dailies of Li verpool i
.
most at the boasted dailies of Liverpool
ana icv ioik. indeed they are necess
arily vastly different from the newspapers
of any other quarter of the world thns
of London prabably excepted. California !
is not only the nreat seat of Ampricm i
Commerce, on the Pacific borders, but it
is also the point to which the nations of !
the whole world are sending their contri-'
butions of capital and men. China is al- :
were civilization has not vet diwmd ill
nrc tending to the goal where men may
become rich either in possession of wold.
or great in the possession of equality. All
-
nations iiuve as to a c,)(nm:in
j California; and, in a space of
! ibly short, all move alon"-
centre in
time, incred-
I ' VV
as one of the greatest and one of the most
j beneficial to mankind, that has occurred
j since the Creation. A few of the wor-
i ders ot California as we "lean them from
the papers before us will serve to show
how mjich she has advanced in the last
twelve months.
The gold shipped at the port of San
Francisco, in one year from January 1,
1850, to December 30, 1830, amounted
to the incredible sum of twenty-nine mill
ions, four hundred and forty-one thousand,
and five hundred and eighty-one dollars!
For more wonders, let us call the read
er's attention to the following article con
densed from the Pacific News by the
New York Express:
The total value 0f merchandize received
from Nov. Ulst, 1S19, to Sept. 30, 2850,
in domestic vessels, was S737,275,10; ton
nage of vessels, fe-,9 jo tons. Total amount
of merchandize received in foreign vessels
during the same period," $3,351,902 G5;
tonnage of vessels, 151,001 tons. During
the year 1850, as we Icarn from the same
paper, there have entered the port of San
Francisco, from ail foreign ports, 1,713
vessels; in the sitne period the number of
vcsbc-U which cleared was l.Jfil. The
i vessels arriving lave hnded upon the Pa-
FEBRUARY 20, 1851
cific shores, 35,333 males, and 1,248 fe
males. -The number which have left by
sail vessels and steamers during the same
time was 26,593 males, and 8 females.
The growth of San Francisce, wonder
ful as it before seemed, now appears much
more surprising. That city, with" a popu
lation of 33,000, supports seven daily pa
pers; while New York, with half a'mill
ion of inhabitants, can only keep double
that number alive. Hut a few months ago
there was nothing of San Francisco but
"cotton houses:" now there are one hun
dred and seven miles of streets laid out.
one quarter of which is built upon and oc-
cupted, and over seven miles ol it substari
-
tially planked. Sixty brick houses have
ueen oum, ana one marine insurance com- j
pany has just been started with a capital
of half a million of dollars. There are
forty-seven steamers employed in the river
trade, while eleven ocean steamers the
California, Panama, Tennessee, Unicorn,
(the first eight belong to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, and the last three to
Law's line) traverse the waters of the i
regular lines, arc the steamers New Or-
leans
Ecuador, and Constitution, j
which have been engnged in the Panama j
between San Francisco and Panama, is ;
I greater than the number employed in the i
. l u . rv! v-,. i. r : i
.uii'j ucnuTii new iuijv ana xiv e puui ,
and New York and Havre combined. i
Trnlv. sftflr rPiHiiiff Ihrsfi fiMs. wprminnt 1
but say, with ihe Pacific News, "The j
.'
germ of a mighty people on the shores of j
l-he Pacific has been planted; it has grown
stitely, proud position already, and, '
although ta'e past has witnessed much that
appear- like a dream, the future is uevelo- ;
Petl by time an. I energy, will give birth to :
yet many fold more astonishing results '
within the Golden Gate of San Fran-j
cisco."
One great fact hardly yet considered in
connection with this almost magical result :
is the comparatively imperfect means of !
transportation to California, and the rapid- j
when the railway "over the Isthmus of I
Panama is completed when Mazatlan is j
connected by a good road through Mexico j
to Vera Cruz, uniting the two oceans at
another noint when the Nicaraugua ship
another point when the Nicaraugua ship
canal is completed, bringing them together
at another, thus tapping other regions,
i swarming with people and when, final-
ly. from our Atlantic seaboard, we
reach
tli Po;t;,. Iiv mm unbroken chain of rail-
roads thai by one track pour in upon Cal- !
ifornia the products of thirty stales, and by j
the other receive tiic coveiJd wealth of the i
New Tyres, and Veniccs.and Liverpool,
that will sprin-r Minerva like unto vigor
ous maturity, from the trade of those dis
tant lands heretofore locked against us by
apparently insurmountable barriers, but
opened upon us with the hidden treasures
of unnumbcrcdages! When these arc com-
nletp. thpre willbe other glories to arouse
the admiration and excite the cupidity of
the world. California, under this new
order of things, will be the scene of still
more extraordinary transformations. Ilcr
paliner, but more substantial sister, Ore
gon, will tower into a more mighty man
hood. The whole Pacific Coast will be
stirred by the energy and the successes of
these herculean rivals. Asia w ill move
from her lethargy and lassitude, and
whether she groans under llntish, or
Turkish, or Chinese oppression, the voice
of Young
Freedom will reach her ears,
and fi
fill her with aspirations heretofore un-
vn. Mexico vvill hear it, and find an
known
escape from her weak tyrants, in the road
that leads to her political and commercial
independence. From the Isthmus of Da
rien on the one extreme, to Dehrmg s
Strait on the other, the. victory will be
alike overwhelming and complete; alike
irresistible and enduring. These the con
sequences; and for what a cause? Who
that takes up the map and runs his eye
along the vast range of territory already
conquered to civilication, and observes
how conterminous countries must at last
be affected by the neighborhood of sub
stantial freedom and resistless commerce
who that does this, can fail to be recall
ed bv the sudden rise and rapid progress
of the whole marvel, to the great . nation
which pointed and prepared the way for
this Exodus of the masses of the world,
to a new retreat in the new possessions of
the United States. Two years ago the
experiment was made. Its success is al
ready assured, and we now only ask when
will "its wonders cease to a?t.iiis' mm-khr-1
? Pen n sylvan ian .
FOLLOW."
Suarhe among the Monnlains.
Next morning, at an early hour, we
climbed ihe high hill which overlooks the
valley of Encerro, to witness the rising of
the sun, which had been described as a
magnificent sight when viewed from that
elevated position. The summit was at
tained just as a few faintly defined roseate
streaks, apparently tipping and resting
upon the luitiest mountain tops, announced
the speedy occurrence of the spectacle we
had come to behold. As yet, the basin
beneath our feet was shrouded in impene
trable darkness; but above and around us
the glories of the new-horn day were be-
gmning slowly to unfold. Gradualh- the
messengers that heralded the approach of J
aurora, assumed a stronger color and an I
increased expanse until the whole eastern
horizon was siitiused with the blush of
morn. Soon this mantle of the sky was
penetrated by thin threads of golden night
which dispersed themselves in shapes of
fantastic embroidery, that rapidly combined
and widened, and finally banished the
crimson clouds to the confines of tiieir
bright circumference. And then the great
luminary of the world, thus ushered bean
ocean, where the waters, converted into a
sea of amber, seemed the great eye of the
universe; and I have gazed upon it from
compared with the scene on which mv
vision now rested. The heavens weie a
n f . i i c i i
wan oi nre, ine reiiecuon irom w nicn sei-
tied upon and wrapped the snow-capped
summit nf OriTihi. nn,l iKo nh-.rro.) or.,1
blackened head of the Coffre de Perolc in
a flood of radiance, while the base of ei-
ther was yet enveloped in niht. Strur-
gling, tiie rays of the sun clambered down
the mountain sides and entered the valley
beneath, their course bein" marked through
the surrounding irlooni by trackways of!
effulgence which looked like seams of
silver upon a velvet mantle. Hut even
when the basin was flooded from the day- j
spring, and animated nature re-summoned
to the labor and the pleasures of life, the l
gorges of the hiiis still rested in a shadow j
that contrasted well with the light which I
camp below warned us that the division
was about to resume its march, and we
quitted the spot where so much rational
enjoyment had been realized, with feelings
closely allied to regret. Reminiscences
of a Campaign.
Leather Tanaiuz New Process.
A new chemical process for tanning
leather has been patented by Harman
Hibbard, of Rochester, New York, and
for which a silver medal was awarded at
the last Ohio State Fair. Ansel Frost,
we believ e, is the proprietor of the patent
for many of the Western States.
www
v e have seen cait skins and sneen
skins tanned by this new process, and j
.
j there is no doubt of the fact that the leath- j
er is greatly superior io mat lanneu oy tne
usual process. The calf skins we saw,
! were superior to the imported French
j brands and the sheep skins were as strong
as the common call skins sold in our mar
kets: and for boots and shoes are better in
many respects than the calf skins sold in
our most fashionable shops.
This new process, is used also for tan
ning all kinds of leather harness and sole
leather, and heavy cow hides for uppers
and this leather will not crack or break
when exposed to the imluenco of the
weather.
Messrs. Ilovvlett & Kellogg, of Colum-
bus have purchased the right for Franklin
county and are now producing the finest
specimens of all kinds ot leather tanned
by this process
In additiou to the superior quality of the
leather turned by this process, it takes only
one-sixth of the time required by the old
process. Sheep, calf, goat, and all kfnds
of light stock, are thoroughly tanned in
three or four days; cowhides in ten or fif
teen days; harness from fifteen or twenty
days; and sole in from thirty to forty days
aud there is a saving in the cost of tan
ning materials of from 15'to 20 per cent.
The process of tanning skins with the
hair on is perfect the leather being thor
oughly tanned, aud the hair left as smooth
and fine as before tanning. We saw boots
and gloves, of sheep skin "wool side in"
- that particularly struck our fancy"
This proeess.of tanning ha been thor
oughly tested, and is rapidly getting into
use. A common "wash tub" by this pro
cess, will do as much tanning as all the
vat3 of an ordinary "Tannery" and there
can be no doubt thai it is destined to crc
ate a perfect revolution hi the business
manufacturing alt kinds of Icathcr..'vKvi
VOL. 7. NO. 19.
A Woman's Will. It has been stated,
with some truth, that the genius of woman
lies in writing letters. Here is a queenly
specimen in evidence. It seems that the
Bishop of Ely had promised Queen Eli
zabeth to exchange some part of the land
belonging to his See for an equivalent, but
hesitating about It, she wrote him this
letter:
Pkocd It elate: I understand you are
backward in complying with your agree
ment, but I would have you to know that
that I. who made you what you are, can
unmake; and if you do not forthwith fulfil
your engagement, by God! I will immedU
aidi' nnfrnrt vnii
' Yours, as' you demean' voursc-i
Elizabeth
Heading. Make it a rule to read a lit
tle every day, even if it be but a sicgln
sentence- A short paragraph, will afford
you a profitable source of reflection for a
whole day. For this purposo keep some
valuable book or paper always within your
reach, so that you may lay your hand
upon it any moment when you arc about
the house. We know a large family that
had made itself intimately acquainted with
history, probably more than any other
family in the United States, by the prac
tice of having one of the children, each
one taking turns, read every morniii-.
while the rest were at breakfast.
About 3fod;sy. Modesty, says Alli
son, is not only an ornament, but a guard
of virtue; it is a kind of quiet or quick
feelin? in the foul; which makes her shrink
j.from every thing that has danger in it. It
is such an exquisite sensibility as warns
her to shun the appearance of everything
that is hurtful. In fchott, if you wish to
banish modesty from the world, she car-
rios away with her one half of the virtue
there is in it for modesty has great influ
ence over our actions, and in many c3e
is an almost sure defence to virtue.
Touh Slory. "You are rat
' crooked character, Mr. Jones."
i "Rather, sir; but not quite so crooked
as
a tree I once knew. It was the tillest
butternut I ever saw. Standing close to
it one day in a thunder storm I saw a
squirrell on one of the topmost branches,
The lightning struck the same branch
' that the squirrel, by the watch, get to the
j bottom precisely three minutes before the f
! lightning. . . . I
That's a lie," exclaimed the landlord.
j "A lie! true, sir, as any story ever was. '
alterwards cut the tree down, and made
it into rans lor a nog pasmrc. l ce nogs
would crawl through twenty times in a
day, and so thundering crooked were them
rails that every time the hogs got out they
found themselves in the pasture againl".
Well! that's enough, Mr. Jones," cried
the landlord, "I never heard that before!"
A True-blue Yankee. A Quebec cor
respondent ol the Oangor ranger, tells the
following story of a Yankee, who had been
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"all around that place
Fhe Yankee appi cached a group of
English gentlemen in front of tho hotei,
and flourishing a red bandana, observed
"Wall, I've been all around, and I've
concluded we don't waut ye."
An Englishman addressed him with
j" What do you think of the Citadel!"
Scoti wouldn't make anything of
taking that; he'd land fifteen miles down
the river and starve them out."
"Hut it is stocked with three year pro
visions," replied the other.
"Well he'd stay live, then."
mt
(io it, Anglo Saxon, thought wr.
'Sonny, can you cypher in two sylla
bles!" "Yes sir and spell in the rule of three
all day long."
"Smart Hoy. Now see if you can tell
what a pint of cold slaw will come to at a
cent a vard."
Didn't like the Juz. -A wealthy, pop
ular and gay young gentleman once boas
ted that he could walk home with any one
of the members of a certain'division of the.
Daughters of Temperance, from church,
accordingly he, after services "were over
the next Sabbath, sprned up lo a fair
damsel and with a polite bow tendered
his arm. The young lady, as by instinct,
drew back as from a serpant and exclaim
ed: "Aa sir.', ril never put my arm
through another jug handle an hug as I
live!"
3?A young, man at Niagara having
been crossed in love, walked out to tin
pjecipice, took olf his clothes, gave, one
glittering look at the gulf beneath him, and
then went home. His body was found
.thf-'ncxl morning in bd,
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