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ODE TO HAPPINESS.
Oa say where art thou to be found,
Whom all mankind alike pursue.
In dissipation's madd'ning round,
Or midst the proud exalted few ; .
Say dost thoa with the courtier dwell,
Or In the hermit's lonely cell 1
Residcst thou, as Poets say.
Midst woods and lawns and purling rills ;
Dost thou with nymphs and shepherds 6tray,
O'er flow'ry meads and sloping hill3 ;
With wreaths of olive art thou crowned,
Or are- thy brows with laurels bound ?
Dost thou, with love-sick Ewains and maids,
Repose on banks of scented flowers.
Or seek with them the cooling shades
Of jessamine and myrtle bowers :
With rosy fingers to prepare
A wreath to bind their flowing hair ?
Or dost thou meet the Poet's gaze,
And as he lightly moves along
In Fancy's gay, bewildered maze,
Dost thou attend each raptured song ;
Or dost thou while he wakes the lyre.
Each cord of extacy inspire 1
Presid'st thou o'er the sparkling bowl ;
With ivy are thy vot'ries crown'd ;
Dost thoa expand each joyous 60ul,
While circulates the glass around ;
Dost thou the midnight revel guide.
And eharc the goblet's purple tide ?
Or dost thou midst the awful gloom
01 monasteries with holy maids,
E'er hoTer round the living tomb.
To gild a cloister's pensive shades ?
To whatsoe'er thou dost incline.
Oh lot that state, sweet nymph, be mino !
Tor sure the peevish cynic feigns,
Who calls thee unsubstantial form.
That only in idea reigns.
While youth and health the bosom warm.
Twa Happiness I thus addressed,
And scarce th' intruding tear suppressed.
Harmonious as the Syren's Bong,
In soothing accents she replied ;
To none exclusive I belong.
To none exclusive am denied,
But if my dwelling you would find.
Oh 6eek a calm, contented mind !
lis not with Dissipation's sons,
Kor in the mansions of the proud ;
Their thoughtless joy my presence shuns,
I mingle not amidst tho crowd ;
In courts my form is seldom seen,
It flics to bless the mind serene.
I dwell not with the gay and great,
I wait hot on the Victor's car.
For kings may crouch beneath hia foet,
White Happiness is distant far ;
Delighting in the olive bough,
I weave no garlands for his brow.
Kcar 6omc clear fount or myrtle grove,
With lovers when I deign to stray.
If o'er suspicion, foe toTbve,
Appears, I vanish far away ;
Nor visit I tho hermitage,
If virtue dwell not with tho sage.
Arcadia was my lov'd retreat,
I tuned each pipe, I bound each brook ;
But ah ! I left the blissful seat,
" When innocence their breast forsook :
For never were my gifts bestowed.
If vice approached the sweet abode.
.To me the Bards address their lays.
To mo they pour the raptured strain,
Ev'a while a faded form betrays
The victim of diseaso and pain ;
Or while pale Envy baleful breathes,
16 wither all their blooming wreaths.
Gay Bacchus' sons o'er bowls of wine,
Pretend they are of mo possessed,
That I, beneath the spreading vine,
Alone inspire each joyous breast ;
But dilTrent far tho madd'ning power,
That crowns wild riot's festive hour.
If then, thou wouldst my presence seek, "
Bo thine a heart correct and pure.
Bo thine to dry affliction's check.
And comfort, if thou canst not cure ;
Bo thine the sacred bliss to know.
Religion oaly can bestow.
When ago that chilling damp shall pour.
That mildews all the buds of spring.
Then Mem'ry from her treasured store.
The days of former years shall bring ;
And en'n amidst thy closing scene.
Thine evening sun Ehall beam serene.
The Schoolmaster Abroad.'
' ' . B July 8 53"
' Mr mester sur your gun wnich hap
pened to bo an old cannon, procured to " help
celebrate' the fourth of July,! proved to ho A
bad one we charge It Lite a Hole blod threw the
syde we Plug It up then Bust the one that tuch it
off wars Aurtronsibble be four he is able worko
his wagis wil amonte To 4,00 dollars if you will
pay the above amonte we will Suttell ifl hot we
Shall bo compelled to take sum and more despfute
messures ' Yours In haste " ; .'
North Kingtson October 7th 1853. '-
sir i have not had achance to send
Mr-
aftcr it but i shll send after it as soon as i can.i
wish you would see if thciriseny bunches inside
tho barcls by heating ovthem if you please 1 .'
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- October tho 23
Sir sir i want to new if you hav got pay
for ficking my double gun and it you hav what
is the reason you hav not seat it i hav ben up to
the depot and was up their the 22 and could not
hero eny thing of it i sent the money up to you
by my bootheringlaw ; the 15 i want
you to send me the reason why you hav not sent
it if you hav got your pay send it to night and
direct it to wickford depot pleas send nie word
by Mr ; '
A principal in one of our Public Schools, it ap
pears from the "Ledger,'' has been sending
around circulars to the parents of his pupils,
which, when signed and returned, will aurhorize
him to " inflict such punishment, corporally or
otherwise," as may in hia judgment be proper.
The following answer proves that some of the pa
rents are quite pleased with the idea :
Dere Mr. Rattan Your Hoggin cirklar is duly
received. I hopes as to ray sun John, you will
flog him jist as oftcen as you kin ! 1 lease a bad
boy is John. Although Ive been in the habit
of teachin him miself, it seames to me he will
nevair learn anithing his spellin specially is ot-
tragusly deficient. Wallup him wel, sur, and
you will rcceave my hearty thanks.
Yours truely,
Mosas Spaxker.
P. S. Wat accounts fur John bcin sich a bad
scollwred, is that lies my sun by my wif 's first
husband.
A CALL, .
To the Teachers of Cambria County.
A Meeting of tho Teachers of Cambria coun
ty, will be held in Ebensburg, on Friday evening
24th inst., and continued during the following
day, in the Court House at 7 o'clock, for the pur
pose of organizing a Teachers Institute or Asso
ciation. Addresses win be delivered on the oc
casion by the Rev. G. M. Pile, Principal of the
Johnstown Gymnasium, Cjtus L. Pershing, R.
L. Johnston, Charles Albright, Esqrs., and others.
Whilst such Associations have long been in exis
tence, not only in many of the counties of our
own State, but, also of the surrounding States,
and the cause of Education thereby greatly pro
moted ; no effort of the kind has yet been made
in our own county, and this first attempt calls
for the most unremitting exertions of its friends
to ensure its complete success. That a lamenta
ble want of interest, in Education is manifested
by the people of our county is, we think, appa
rent to all, and one of the principal objects of an
Institute is to awaken that lively interest in the
cause which is so necessary to the success of eve
ry movement whose aim is the public benefit.
As, then, its design is the promotion of General
Education, the Institute will not be restricted
to the Teachers of the Common Schools alone,
we earnestly hope that all who are engaged in
the arduous work of imparting instruction, in
any manner whatever, will assist in forming a
closo and permanent union, in order to efiect
more fully the great object of our mission. The
friends of the cause, who arc not Teachers, arc
cordially invited to co-operate.
In order, however, to illustrate more clearly
tho nature and design of Teachers Institutes, we
subjoin a condensed copy of a Circular issued by
the Pennsylvania Teachers Association, in . rela
tion to tho subject at a Pittsburg Meeting. .
" The subject of Teachers Institutes was deem
ed of the highest importance by the Convention
that assembled at Harrisburg last winter, and
thcExecutivo Committee were then instructed
by the following resolution in relation to them.
"Resolved, That the Executive Committee are
hereby instructed to devise and put into opera
tion, at the earliest date, such measures as will
effect the organization of a Teachers' Institute
in every county in the State.
Resolved, That the Ex. Com. be instructed to
prepare and forward to the Teachers of the State,
a Circular explanatory of the nature and advanta
ges of Teachers Institutes, and urging their im
mediate jormation in ths different counties. In ac
cordance with these instructions the Committee
has prepared the following statements.
- I.
The circumstances that require the organization of
Teachers Institutes. '
- It is already admitted that Teachers in every
grade of a school occupy a responsible position.
The Teacher's calling is one of labor and toil,
whether he presides over the richly endowed Uni
versity, or conducts the first lessons of instruc
tions in tbo Primary Common" Schools. . Each
alike has to deal with the unfolding powers, and
and to shape in a fearful degree tho destinies, of
an immortal being. The Teachers in tho highest
and lowest departments of tho great American
system of schools, that is working itself into
notice,, as well as in every intermediate grade,
are co-laborers in one great work the education
of the future rulers and citizens of tho American
Republic. They are mutually dependent " upon
each other for the proper and efficient perform'
anco of the appropriate duties of each in his
sphere. . They ought to know each other j to
appreciate each other ; and to aid each other.
. What are the facts in regard to this matter in
the State of Pennsylvania ? Has not every Teach
er of Common Schools, and even tho Teacher in
every Academy and. College hitherto moved in
hia own sphere i attracted by none of his fcllows
in other schools, but repelled by all ? Are the
members of any other class of . laborers or pro
fessional, men more jealous of each other's suc
cess in their pursuits ? Has not tho Professor
in College thought. himself to occupy a place a
bove, perfectly distinct from, and wholly inde
pendent of the Common School Teacher ? Has
pot the Principal of the Academy or the Semina
ry dreaded tho access of the rising Sclioolmasterr
lest the liberal range of his instructions would
aspire to the advantages of higher Institutions ?
Have not the patrons of these various classes of
schools been led to feel that there is a clashing of
their interests ; and have they not too frequent
ly acted upon this presumption in recommend
ing their favorite Institutions to the exclusive
attention of the public ? Are not these things
so ? Why are they so ? Is it because all these
classes or grades of schools aro not necessary
to the advancement of the great general interests
of Education ? Is it because that each of these
schools cannot be made to act upon the other,
and bo ro-actcd upon again, so as to harmoni
ously build up the interest of all. No, verily.
The veriest tyro in the History of the schools of
the State knows better than this ; tho veriest
novice in educational econemy has learned other
wise, lue impulses of patriotism and the life-
giving faith of Christianity alike hurl back the
aspersion made upon the fair fame of our flour
ishing schools and Seminaries of learning. They"
are necessary parts of a great whole ; they are
mutually dependent upon each other ; and al
though they may not be fully developed in all
their parts, or nicely adjusted in all their rela
tions to each other, slill they arc progressive, and
under the fostering care of an Association of all
those who are interested in them, they will soon
develope such a grand system of schools, as will
command the confidence of all their patrons, and
the admiration of lh world.
Surrounded by these .circumstances and impli
ed by a desire to hann nize the action of Teach
ers of all grades of schools in such manner as
the nature of their relations to each other dic
tates, is it not the imperative duty of friends of
education, Tand especially the Teachers of these
schools, to form Teachers' Institctes for the
speedy acconipli.-hmttit of this great work. to
which the spirit of the times invites them.
ir.
The Nature aud Advantages of Teachers Insti
tutes. 1. They are Associations of Teachers for mu
tual improvement in the art of Teaching. "Iron
sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the coun
tenance of his friend." "Indeed it has been ob
served that the most useful inventions have origi
nated from the collision of men's thoughts when
earnestly engaged in conversation." "One man
is nobody ; nor will poring upon a book in a cor
ner accomplish a man so as reading and studying
of men's will." No Teacher can sit and give at
tention for an hour to the exercises of an Insti
tute properly conducted, without learning some
thing that will fit him for the better performance
of the dutiesxf the schoolroom. No Teacher
should think that he can plod his way along in
his profession alone, and ever arrive at any great
proficiency in Teaching. In every other depart
ment of business, men can instruct each other
and they do instruct each other, and why should
not Teachers, above all others, avail themselves
of this means of promoting their own usefulness
and happiness ?
2. Teachers ought lo be friends and co-workers.
Who need friends more than the Teacher
of a common school ? In the discussions that
arise in Teachers' Institutes, in regard to the du
ties, the responsibilities, the qualifications, the
trials and the labors of the Teacher ; the sphere
of his influence and the field of his operations ;
the objects to be gained by him and the means to
be used in gaining those objects ; it becomes ap
parent, that in the very nature of things, there
is a mutual and close' relationship among Teach-,
ers of every grade, which it is the duty of all to
acknowledge, to recognise in their intercourse
with each other, and to cherish at all times.
3. They lead to the establishment of the Pro
fession of Teaching', as a pursuit equal in hon
or to either of the other learned Professsions.
This is a trreat desideratum. . Tho. character of
our schools can never be greatly improved till
young Teachers can feel at home in them. As it
is at present, the business of Teaching occupies
a medium ground, or stepping stone for one who
is trying to work his way up to the honors of a
professional lite. In most parts of the State.it is
not recognized as worthy of any previous special
preparation to enter upon its duties. There has
however always been one redeeming feature in
the case ; af successful Teacher has never, in this
country, failed to have employment at advanced
wages ; aud just so soon as Teachers shall or
ganize under their own banner, and "magnify
their own office," just so soon will the people con
fer upon it all the honors and emoluments which
it so richly merits. Without such organizations,
one here and there, may break the trammels of
custom, of prejudice and of poverty, that have
ever doomed this class of laborers to mediocrity,
and rise up to assert his right to an equality with
other professions : but by means of. Teachers' In
stitute's, a host pf individuals may be aroused
and led on to noble and manly enterprise in their
calling, whose efficient labors must else have
-been lost to the community forever. ,
4.' Although Teachers of Common Schools may
receive the' immediate benefit of Institutes, they
must eventually work to the advantage of high
er schools. For one of the worst difficulties in
the higher schools arises from the bad teaching in
the Common School. It has been the habit to
complain of this as a great grievance : but would
it not be better and wiser to step forward in a
manly way to correct this evil ? -The Teachers
Institute opens, the widest door fur" the accom
plishment of this object;. and it is hoped that
many of the finished scholars and accomplished
Professors in our numerous Colleges, and the
Principals of our flourishing Academies and Sem
inaries will accept he invitation, and come up
to this, noble work. .' ' ' : '-.:.
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- : The method of conducting the Exercises. -'
1. This must mdet the wants of the Common
SchoofrTciutf"-.' It U ne that needs Institutes.
This fact must never be lost sight of. He wants
to know how to use his Text-books in such way
as to effectually impart elementary instruction.'
The cart ful investigation of this subject will in
jure no Teacher of any grade. Let everything be
planned for this. ......
2. The session .should not continue longer, pro
bably, than two weeks. They usually last about
one week and convene once in the fall and once
in the spring. The organization 6hould be in the
simplest form ; if a constitution., is needed there
arc good furnis on the 105 nd 233 pp. of the
Pennsylvania School Journal, ; Vol. I. Proceed
at once to business. . A
3. The subjects for the daily instruction should
be those taught ia the Common Schools, and no
others, for the first session. If the suljects are
multiplied, the good effects of the Institutes will
be diminished. It is sometimes better to take
but one cr two subjects for the week. The even
ing lectures may introduce the higher studies.
4. Let the Instructors draw up a programme
of exercises for the day and evening. Say at
8.30 o'clock, Orthography, 30 minutes after the
lectures, 10 minutes for asking questions : 9.10,
Arithmetic, 30m.. 10m. for questions: 9.50,
Reading, 30m. 10 minutes for questions : 10.30
Recess, 15m. :. 10.45, Geography, 30m. 10m.
for qucssions : 11.25; English Grammar, 30m.
intermission. In like manner divide the after
noon. One individual may conduct one or more
of these exercises as he may feel able, or the cir
cumstances of the case may require. He should
not attempt it however, if it can be avoided,
without some previous preparation. The exact
divisions of time, fixed upon, must be strictly
observed, if it is expected to keep up the proper
interest in the lectures. The object ought to be
to enlist every member of the Institute, male or
female, in the daily exercises, personally.
V.
The necessity of immediate and decided action up
on this subject.
"He must educate, we mi'st edccate, or we
must perish by our own prosperity." The rising
generation in this great Commonwealth' must be
educated better than they arc now educated in
the schools, or f;cy will be unfitted for the trust
about to be Wqucathed to them. How can they
be better Teachers ? Where are the instrumen
talities now at work competent lo prepare better
Teachers for our ten thousand Common Schools ?
We have nothing adequate to the work. Teach
ers' Institutes present themselves as an availa
ble, practical means of doing much for the ac
complishment of this work. Who can estimate
their value, if they arc entered into with the pro
per spirit 1 Who dares deny their necessity in
order to the well-being and demanded progress
of our noble Public School System ? Can a true
friend of these schools delay, for one hour, to
take action in the case ? . .
Teachers of Pennsylvania, will 3-ou allow a
nother year to pass before a Teachers' -Institute
is organized in every county in the State ? It is
a work peculiarly your own. If it fails to be
done you will beheld accountable. What coun
ty will fail to come up to the work. Will it be
tliat one in which the Teachers are true lo every
impulse to manly enterprise, or will it be that
one in which the Teachers arc satisfied with
their present lot ? We have now a School Jour
nal, ably conducted, in which the passing school
history of the State will be written. Teachers
can no longer live in a corner, each to himself, if
they would. Their doings must come to the
light ? Shall the history of your county, fellow
Teacher, be written for your shame ? ' Action is
honorable, if it be rightly directed ; lethargy
and inaction in these matters, are no longer ex
cusable.
Citizens of the Keystone State, will you have
this work to the poor, half-payed Teacher to
tredge along with as he can ? . The work propo
sed to be done, is a work foryoii and your chil
dren ! Are you not interested in it ? Do you
not see the tide of improvement in these things,
in the East, in the North and in the West, sweep
ing past you ? Even the South challenges you to
an emulation that you must accept or blush at
3-our own stupidity.
Every sentiment of patriotism and every pre
cept of Christianity urge you to second the ef
forts of Teachers to improve themselves ; and
when they fail to make an effort, to lead them on
by every manly inducement to engage in 60 no
ble an enterprise.
, 7 " WILLIAM TRAVIS,
Chaumanof the Executive Committee.
New Castle, Pa., Sept. 7, 1853.
' We have been requested to publish the above
by a number of Teachers of this county ; the
subject is one of vast importance to the commu
nity, and we hope every well-wisher of tho en
terprise will exert himself so as to bring about
a successful result 1 ' 4 ' - :
"I say Bob, what have you got in your carpet
bag pedhng eh V . . .
"I's nothin' shorter." ..:
"Well, what have you got for sale V
"Fools-taps I" and Bob left with a brick-bat in
hot pursuit.
,: ; ,r t LAFXTTE.
So many arguments concerning this celebrated
individual have lately been published, that per
haps the f illowing article from the Philadelpliia
Ledger will bo read with interest : : :
" Circumstances made us acquainted at one
period of our life, with the real facts of Lafitt's
history,, verified in a manner that left no loop
holes for falsehoods to creep in. Since then we
have read most of the novels that have been
written respecting him, and greater libels were
probably never penned ; for they represent La
fittc either as a romantic hero, or as a man who
had been goaded by great wrongs to seek re
venge, which Lo did in that wild Arab way so
often characteristic of seamen, and which is
nourished in" tne blood ' partly by tho loneliness
of the sea, and partly from a life free from the
conventionalities of civilization- For a true sail
or has, as Herman Melville says, a spice of the
wild mortality of the desert, and is, as it were,
the Bedouin of the great deep. ..
" Jean La fit to was born on the Caronne, and
not at Marseilles ; and was, from his boyhood,
accustomed to the ocean, for he belonged to a
family which for many generations had furnished
the most skillful and daring privateers men of
Baycnnc. Ia the great war of the Fiench revo
lution, when the commerce of his native pro
vince was destroj-ed, he embarked as a lieuten
ant on board a private armed vessel, which, af
ter running a brilliant career, was captured by a
superior force, and carried into an English port.
Here Lafitte with the other officers and the crew,
was cast into prison. Time passed his cap
lain, his brother lieutenants, the common men
even obtained their freedom ; but Lafitte himself
remained a prisoner. I lis friends, however, and
relatives too, were active to procure his discharge.
Several times were prisoners of equal rank sent
into the English ports by the agency of his old
captain, in order to be exchanged for him, but it
was not till many long years had passed, that
LafUte had found himself free. . This long deten
tion raised in him an almost savage thrist for
vengeance against England, and on his release Le
returned immediately to privateering, principal
ly for the harm he thus might do English ships.
" The pacifications of Europe, after the treaty
of Fontainb'cau, deprived liim of the means of
legally carrying on his revenge. But long years
of solitary brooding in prison, and night watch
es afterwards upon the lonely sea had destroyed
to n great extent, his preference for human laws; j
lie had, in a word, become an Arab at heart. He
determined accordingly to continue his career.
Yet he refrained from attacking any but English
vessels, Miice it was only agaiust England that
he sought revenge. His relations ia France heard
of his course with inexplicable pain, and remons
trated with him earnestly, especially one who
had been a srt of a guardian to his youth, and
who now expostulated with him almost with
tears. But Lafitte was inexorable. At last his
early friend called in the aid of religion, and re
minded the erring man of tho awful destiny he
was preparing for himself in eternity. The reply
was characteristic "If I go to h ."wrote
Lafitte, savagely, " I will drag plenty of Eng
lishmen along with me." His relative, aware
how great had been the provocation, could say
no more. But from that hour, for many long
years, the name of the wandering outlaw ceased
to be spoken in the household of his father ; and
the children, whose blood ran kindred to his own,
grew up to manhood ignorant of his very exist
ence. ' The subsequent career of Lafitte is well
known. Though he committed acts of piracy
only on British vessels, he paid no regard to the
revenue laws of any nation. For a long time he
had under him quite a considerable force at the
island of Barataria. But his early education,
which had been strict, asserted its power at last :
old memories re-awakened, and he sighed to re
turn again to civilized lit', to lay down the brand
of pirate, to pass his days in quiet. Tho volcano
of passion, or insanity, for it was as much the
one as the other, had burned out in that fiery
heart. He made his peace with the United Slates,
as is popularly kuown, just before tho battle.
Subsequently, ha ; returned to his native land,
where ho died not loDg ago. His wife, whom he
married in America, is still living, or was at the
time we heard the narration given above.
44 We would have to violate the sanctity of pri
vate life if our authority was lo be given. At
the time we heard thehistoiy of Lafitte we were
told the came of his old captain, who command
ed the privateer in w hich he was captured ; and
other facts w hich we have since forgottpn."
A Remarkable Manifestation.
When Queen Ulrike.of Sweden, was on her
death-bed, her last moments were embittered by
regret at the absence of her favorite, the Countess
Stccnbock, between whom and tho queen there
existed the most tender and affectionate attach
ment. Unfortunately, and by the most singular
coincidence, tho Countess Stcenbock at the same
moment lay dangerously ill, at Stockholm, and at
too great a distance from the dying queen to be
carried to her presence. After Ulreke had breath
ed her last, the royal corpse, as is customary in
that eountry, was placed in an open coffin, upon
an elevated frame in an apartment of the palace,
brilliantly illuminated with wax candles. A de
tachment of Royal Horse Guards was stationed
in the ante-chamber as a funeral watch. During
the afternoon, the outside door of the ante-chamber
opened, and the Countess Steenbock appeared
in deep grief. The soldiers of the guard imme
diately formed into two lines, and presented arms,
as a respect to the first dame of that palace, who
was received and escorted by the commander of
tho guard into the chamber where lay the body
of her dearest friend. The officers were surprised
at her unexpected arrival, and attributing her ei-
lence to the intensity of her grief, conducted her
to the side of the corpse, and then retired, leav
ing her alone, not choosing to disturb the.expro
sion of her deep emotion. The officers waited
outside for a considerable time and the Countess
not yet returning, they feared some accident haJ.
befallen her. The highest officer in rank now '
opened the door, but immediately fell back in tho'
utmost consternation. The other officers present
then hastened into the room, and there they all
beheld the queen standing upright in her coffin.1
and tenderly embracing the countess ! This was
observed by all the officers and soldiers of tho'
guard. Presently tho apparation seemed to wa
ver and resolve itself into a dense mist. When
this had disappeared, the corpse of the queen was
seen reposing in its former position on tho bed cf
state ; but tho countess was nowhere to be found.
In vain they searched the chamber and the ad
joining rooms Dot a trace cf her could bo dis
covered. " -
. A courier . was at once despatched to Stock;
holm with an account of this extraordinary oc
currence; and there it was learned that the".
Countess Steenbock had not left the capital, but
that she had died at precisely tho same moment
when she was seen in the arms of tho deceased
queen ! An extraordinary protocol of this oc
cunence was immediately ordered to be taken
by the officers of the government, and which was
countersigned by all present. This document Is
still preserved in the archives. ; '.' '' - I
The Knickerbocker for February,
The Autobiography of the Country Doctor is
rich. When men are sick, they want to be cur
ed, cost what it may, but when they aro on their
feet, and at their business again, they do not
want to pay, especially if the bill be a littlo one.
The poor Doctor is called from his bed on a stor- .
my night with the stirring summons : ' !
"Doctor want you to come right straight away
off to Banks'. His child's dead."
" Then why do you come V .
" He's p'isoned. They gin him laud'auio for
paregoricky."
' How much have they givon him ?"
" Do 'no, A great deal. Think he won't get
over it."
' The doctor pushes offthrough the storm, mecU
with divers mishaps by the way, and at length
arrives at the house of his poisoned patient. Ho
finds all closed not a light to be seen.
I knocked at the door, but no answer. I knock
ed furiously, and at last a night-cap appeared
from the chamber window, and a woman's voice
squeaked out " Who's there V
" The Doctor, to be sure ; you sent kr Lim.
What the dogs is the taatter V
" Oh it's no matter, doctor. Ephraim is bet
ter. We got a skecred kind '0-. Gin him laud'
num, and he slept kind 0' sound, but he's woke
up now."
" How much laudanum did he swallow !"
" Only two drops. Taint hurt him none.
Wonderful bad storm to-night."
The doctor turns away, buttoning.np his over- '
coat under his throat, to soxk his home again
and tries to whistle away mortification and an
ger when the voice calls :
" Doctor, Doctor ?"
" What do you want T"
" You won't charge nothin' for this visit will
you." .V. F. Mirror.
Ixr-REssiox at First Sight. This subject bo- 5
ing brought up at the supper table, was getting
"talked over," when tho lady who presided
" o'er the cups and tea," said " she always for- '
med an idea of a person at first sight ; and that '
idea she found was generally a correct one."
" Mamma," said her youngest son, in a shrill
voice that attracted the attention of all present.
Well my dear," said the fond mother; "what
do you want ?"
"I want to know," said Young America,
"what you thought when you first saw me T"
There was no answer to this query ; but we
Isarn a general titter prevailed, and that " Char
lie " was taken into the kitchen immediately by
the servant.
The following incident was told by a neighbor,
in relation to her little girl of four summers,
which I think is worthy a place among the say-
ings of the 'little ones in your Table. Emma
had been fretful aud somewhat unruly during the
day, and, as a punishment, had been sent to bod
earlier than usual, with an injunction to say her
prayers, as is her usual custom before retiring at
night. Soon after she entered her room, her
friends heard her at her devotions, ia which she
asked for sundry blessing9 on her parents, and
closed as follows :
" O Lord ! make me a good little girl, and do
try and not let mp be so spunky ; if You'll try,"
I'Mryr ..
Here is somctlung which we Hoosicrs consider
quite tall' for a little girl of three ycara. Her
Sunday-school teacher had told her that we were
all made of dust : arrived at home, f he looked up
in her mother's face with an anxious, inquiring
glance, and 6aid :
44 Ma, has Dod got any more dust left ?"
44 Why, my daughter ? what makes you ak
such a question ?"
44 'Cause if he has, I want Him to make me
little brother!" . -
Gov. Reynolds, the "Old Ranger" in Illinois, ,
when for the first time in his fife he visited the
6caboard, as a representative to Congress from
the back settlements, rose early in the morning,
at Baltimore, and paid a visit to the shipping at
the docks, when the tide was full, and again at
noon, when it was at ebb, and, not satisfied with
the sudden change thai had taken place, visited
again in the evening, when the tide was in. As
tonished, he returned to the hotel and remarked,
"that this w as the curiest country he ever seen
in his life txro freshet in one day and nary drop
of rain.