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POSITRT.
Parting.
When friend from friend is parting,
And in each speaking eye
The silent tear is starting
To tell what words deny;
How could we bear the heavy load
01 such heart-agony,
Could not we cast it all, our God,
Our gracious God, on thee ;
And feel that thou kind watch will keep
When we are far away ;
That thou wilt soothe us when we weep
And hear us when we pray.
Yet oft these hearts will whisper
That better 'twould betide
If we were near the friends we love,
And watching by their side.
But sure thou'lt love them dearer, Lord,
For trusting thee alone!
But sure thou will draw nearer, Lord,
The farther we are gone!
Then why be sad, since thou will keep
Watch o'er them, day by day,
Since thou wilt soothe them when they weep
And hear us when we pray!
The Psalm of Life.
DT B. W. LONGFELLOW,
Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And !bins are not what they seem.
Life is real! life is earnest ;
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returned.
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
Lives of great men remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us,
Footsteps on the sand of time.
Footsteps, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate—
Still achieving—still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Dome at Last.
A shivering child one winter's night,
(The snow was deep and cold the blast!)
Hugging her ragged mother tight,
' Mother,' exclaimed 'we're home at last !'
And as she spake, poor little one,
A ruined hut she stood before,
Whence, ever since the morning sun,
'1 hey strayed to beg from door to door.
Ye're home at last ! Sad home as this—
All lone without and cold within ;
The adder here might lurk and hiss,
Her poisonous web the spider spin—
But there's no fire to warm, no light ;
And crevices are yawning wide,
Through which the storm, this freezing night
May lay you, stiffened, side by side.
And yet this wayward child has been
By many a gorgeous house—and past
Where mirth and music cheer the scene,
Nor envies—for she's home at last!
Thus may the heart be trained below
To love the lot wherein was cast
Its fare of poverty and woe,
- Like her who cried we're home at last!
"Al!" said a Dutchman, " ob ell te
shell fish in te worlds, sour trout IA te
pest mit tern oil!" " Och ye fool," replied
Pat, " it's nothing to be compared to a
marley peraty.',
THE XI- URNA .:. .
THE mcir SCHOLJR.
UT T. S. AriTIIIM
"how do you like that Ann Stacy?"
asked one girl of another, at a boarding
school, alludine to a new scholar that had
been entered a day or two before.
I don't like her at all," was the re
ply, accompanied by a slight expression
of contempt.
P Neither do I," rejoined her compan
ion, whose name was Martha Wild,—
She's the meanest looking girl in the
whole house."
" And ugly as sin."
" Did you ever see Rich' a bonnet as
that she had on when she came ?"
"0 dear: Don't mention the thing.
I thought I should have died laughine ,
when I saw it. And then that outlandis h
dress with the waist under her arms. It
looked as if it might have been made in
the year one."
Just at that moment a plainly dressed,
quiet looking girl with a face over thought
ful and subdued for one of her years, pas
sed near the two misses, who so far forgot
themselves at the moment as to laugh
aloud, and throw upon her concealed
glances of ridicule.
" Martha," said one of the teachers,
coming up at the moment, and addressing
the eldest of the two in a grave voice,
" I am sorry to see you thus forgetting
yourself."
" It is wrong I know," Martha replied,
somewhat abashed at being detected in so
unkind an unladylike an act ; " but then,
how can I help laughing at her ?"
" I am sure, Martha, that I can see
nothing about Ann Stacy to excite feel
ings of mirth."
"Not in her old fashioned, hitched-up
dress? ha: ha! The very thought of it
makes me laugh!"
Did you never see a short waisted
frock before in your life?" the teacher
asked, still with a grave lace.
"0 yes. But nut for five years or
more."
"And wore them then, 110 (10.1bt 1"
Of course. They were fashionable at
that time."
"Anti now you so far forget yourselves,
as to be guilty of the unladylike act of
wounding the feelings of a strange young
girl, because she happens to have on a
frock cut in the very style of those you
wore a few years ago, and no doubt
thought very becoming.
" It is not only that, Miss Compton,"
said Martha with a more serious air.—
" Take her all in all, she is one of the
most disagreeable girls in the school, be
sides being not exactly of the right kind
of company to introduce among young
ladies of our standing.
"As to her being disagreeable," re
plied the teacher, " that, 1 presume, is a
mere idea, the result of an unjust preju
dice."
" No, indeed, Miss Compton! It is
not. She is, certainly, the most unpleas
ant in her appearance, face, and manners
of any Oil l have ever met. Indeed, so
much so is she to me, that I cannot fend
or act at all kindly towards her."
" Do you know anything about her ?"
"No."
" Did you ever see her before she came
to this school 7"
" Never."
course, then, she has only been
here for a few days, your prejudice against
her is caused by some improper acts on
her part. is it not sot"
"0 I as to that, I've never seen any.
thing particularly out of the way about
her. She's good enough, no doubt, but I
can't bear her."
" And the reason is, if I rightly under
stand yin', because she is not handsome,
and wears clothes not made in the height
of the fashion."
"I didn't say so, Miss Compton."
But all you have said convinces me
that you have no better reason."
The two young ladies seemed half of
fended at this remark, which had in it
more truth than they felt willing to hear.
Miss Compton saw this, and said no more
upon the subject.
About a week from that time, Martha
NV ild awoke one morning with a heavy
chill, which passed oft in the course of an
hour, and was succeeded by a burning fe
ver, accompanied by a most violent pain
in the head, pain in the back, and slug
gishness of the whole system. A physi
cian was sent for, who said that she was
very sick, and he feared would be ill for
some time. H is tears were too true. It
was several weeks before she left her
room, during which time she sulTered
much, both from the disease, and the
violent action of the powerful remedies
which her physician administered.
For the first few days of her sickness,
her young companions gathered about her
bed and vied with each other in their ofil
ces. But as the disease progressed, and
she became more helpless, and the atten •
dance on her more and more unpleasant,
one by one they fell off in their attentions,
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITtITION, ONE DESTINY."
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYVANIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1842
and at last she was left alone with the
hired nurse of the institution. No, not
alone either; fur there was one young,
unobtrusive, and gentle girl, for %%hum
none seemed to feel any interest, who
might often be seen going quietly to her
room, and moving about the bed of the
sick scholar with a stealthy step—now
soothing, or re-adjusting a pillow, now hol
ding a cooling draught - to lips dry and
parched with fever, and now looking
down upon the face of the invalid With an
expression of deep commiseration,
At last Martha became so ill that she
,could not be left alone, 'tight nor day.—
Every night some one or two of the young
ladies of the school had to sit up with her.
At first this was a kind of novelty, and
there were several ready to offer them.
selves. But only a few days had passed
before this one was not well, and that one
had some other excuse, until the whole
task of watching by the bedside of Mar
tha Wild devolved upon the nurse and
Ann Stacy, who performed the task night
after night, alternately.
Skilful medical treatment and careful
nursing, at length subdued the disease, and
the sick girl began slowly to recover.—
For several days during the height of the
fever, she was but imperfectly conscious of
anything that passed around her. But so
soon as she did become able to notice, site
observed that the gentle hand that was so
busy about her, and soothed so ellen her
pillow, and the tender voice that inquired
daily how she felt, were the hand and
voice of the very girl towards whom she
had permitted herself to indulge unkind
feelings— and these, too, without any
real cause. At first her heart smote her
severely, as she remembered how often
she wantonly thrust at her feelings, and
how often she had ridiculed her appear
ance and peculiarities of dress and man
ner; but, as she gained strength to ger
cieve more and more narrowly, and to
feel the warmth of a pure heart going out
unselfishly towards her, that emotion gave
way to one of affection.
When Martha Wild had so far recover
ed as to be able to sit up in bed a little,
and to feel an interest in what was going
on around her, Ann would come to her
room after her recitations in school, and
read interesting hooks to her, and in other
ways exert herself to beguile the tedious
hours. Others were now ready to join in
rendering the time less wearisome to Mar
tha; but no face was so welcome, no
voice so pleasant, as that of Ann Stacy.--
She seemed no longer plain in her fea
tures; no longer singular in her appear
ance; no longer übgenteel in her man
ners.
" You have been with the sick before,
have you not, Ann 7" she said to her on , :
day, after she had beguiled an hour for
her with some ingenious device.
"0! yes; forinontlis—l might say for
years," replied the gentle girl, looking
up with an expression of interest into
Martha's face, while her eyes became dim
med v ith tears. I have been familiar
with sickness since my earliest recollec
tion. When a little girl I cannot remem•
ber how long, how very long my mother
kept her room, and then her bed before
she was taken away. Only a few years
passed after that before my elder and only
sister drooped about for a time with the
same fatal, lingering disease with which
our mother died, and then she was shut
up in a room, and I became her nurse.—
For two years I was with her night and
day. It is now only a few months since
we were separated, and her body buried
out of my sight for ever."
The voice of the young girl had trem
bled as she told br:etly the sad history of
her bereavements. When she alluded to
the recent death of her sister her feelings
overcame her and she gave way to a gush
of teals. Recovering herself soon, with
an effort, she said, " I cannot tell how
much I felt drawn towards you, Martha,
the moment I saw you. You are the very
image of that only sister of whom I iluve
just spoken. Often and often, since you
have been sick, have I bent over you, and
gazed Slid gazed upon your pale fac e ,
scarcely able to convince myself that you
were not really that dearly loved and lost
one."
Then it is because I resembled your
sister so much that you have been to me
so kin , ' a nurse ?"
" That may have influenced me some ;
but I trust not entirely. To those who
need the attentions of a friend, whether
in sickness or in health, we should ever
be ready to offer these attentions."
" And young as you are, Ann, you are
learning to act from such unselfish
principles ?" Martha said, in a tone ut
surprise and admiration.
That dear sister, who so much resem
bled you," replied Ann, looking steadily
in the lace of the invalid, " taught me
from my earliest years to regard others;
to think of their comfort and happiness
even more than my own. And those les
sons, enforced by her steady example, I
can never forget."
" Would that I were like her in spirit
ns well as in features!" wag the fervent,
half-soliloquizing ejaculation of Martha
Vl , Rd.
When she went nut from that sick
chamber, Ahe went out a changed girl.—
She saw with new eyes, and estimated
others by a new and higher standard of
estimation. Por Ann Stacy the ever af•
ter entertained the warmest afrection.
Millerism and Patent
Sermons.
IThe great excitement and confusion
among saints and sinners at the awful
predictions of Parson Miller, that the end
of the world is near at hand, has caused
persons of all sects and colors to devote
some attention to the subject. The last,
and most amusing sermon we have read,
is the following, which we copy from the
N. Y. Herald, said to have been preached
in that city by the Rev. Thomas Snow
ball, of Uncle Sam district :
a Belubbed Bruddren—Dis day ob our
Lord I pose to 'zaminin de proofs ob de
'struction ob de world and massa Miller's
lday ob judgment. We take de text for
dis ebening at de sebenty-leben chapter
oh de gospel oh de apostle Judas The
proof of de puddin' is eating it up." Dis
'lude to de lac dat you must sarch de
scriptur to find out 'bout de eend of the
world. In de fust place, de world have
four corners, as de scriptur tell you ; and
den dare are de eend ob de world. One
eend is de beginnin' ob de world, and (le
odder eend is de finish ob (le whole biz
ness. Now Igo for to prove dat de world
is destroyed in 1843, and, d jlat is the odder
eend ob de world. In de fust place, Eve
says to Adam, a if you eat dis apple you
surely di." Now I spec flat apple was a
punkin, according to scripture language—
becase you all knows dot de scriptur al
ways means ditferent from what it sez.
Now when Adain eat dis apple, he find a
worm in de core, and dot 'splain de olle
gory, which mean dat dare was somethin'
iii de apple dat would eat Adam after he
was dead. Dis is de lust division ob our
subjec, and prove dat men shall (lie, for
de scriptur tell you dat for sartin. Dix
proves to you dat (le world was created,
becase it dare was no world created, it
couldn't be destroyed.
Deli de sun and tie moon was made to
gib light by day and de stars by night.—
Sometimes de stars don't shine in de
night ; dat is because the moon is not out;
but you can see de stars on the bright
moonlight; and dat is de proof dat dar is
stars in de hebins, and thu' I wouldn't
believe it if de scripture din'nt tell us oh
''em. Dis is de proof dat dese tings were
made; and dey was made to be pulled to
pieces and destroyed ; as the scriptur tell
you. In de fuss
in place dare is de rainbow
dat was placed de clounds arter de
flood, and dat prove to you dat de world
has been destroyed once and dat it will be
destroyed again ; like de hot corn dal is
lust put in de water, and cat up after
ward. Since de days of de flood it is just
four thousand years, if you add de age oh
your 'speeted preacher, it will make up
de 1843 years exactly. But we must go
back and reckon from de beast of Daniel.
Dis beast hab feet dot was clay ; dat is a
prophecy ob dis berry age oh de world
when Clay is de last president and de
'struction hit de feet oh Clay; it happen
is his reign. De golden head ob de image
show dat de gold currency of general
Jackson happen lust, just before about de
same time. Den de legs oh iron is ale
Tyler dot has been so obstinate and hard
as iron to his old friends. De little stone
is tnassa Miller dat nobody believe in, and
he is so little dat he is 'jected by de buil
ders; and when he prove true, den he find
all de world believe in him, and de little
stone will be a mountain. Den we come
to de beast in de Rebellation dat hab seben
horns, and ten heads on each horn. • . _
Dis great beast 'spress die age ob de
world, tind de tines dat happen now. It
is de Croton water works, and dey spout
out water out ob dare mouth, which is de
thuntain in de Park, and St. John's pine,
and de Blowing Green. De locusts dat
swarm out so thick is the great Croton
procession. Now de prophet Daniel and
de prophet Nebuchadnezzer, and Julius
Ceasar prophecy destruction ob de world
in 1843. De lass prophet tell you to
'member de ideas ob Match. Now M, rch
means April in de scriptur, and one day
means a year, and a year means a day,
and when it say " resist not evil," it
means dat you must 'ploy massy Colt's
machine to blow up the enemy. Now put
dat to dat, and you. find dat de apostle
Judas, de baker, prophecy de 'struction
ob de world when he sell his massy for
thirty pieces ob silver, for if you add thirty
to de time dat you 'spected preacher was
thirteen years old, it will make it just
1843 years.
When St. George and St. Blue Beard
turn de water into wine, it was a wedding.
Now de total absence folks turn de wine
!back again into water, and dat is a type
ob de marriage ob Cain in Galilee, dat
they should be married and gibin in mar
riage, when de Hood came and 'stroyed
them all. In de old country dar was St.
Peter, and St: Juggernot, de one kill two
people to get dar money, and de odder
'drowned all de intents in de ribber Gan•
ges. St. Herod kill all de babes of Beth
lehem, and St. Moses kill all de women
and babes ob Cannon. Dis was all done
to 'struct us 'bout the 'struction ob de
world, and is de type what show dar what
would come to pass in de last day.—
When de debbels enter into the swine dar
was just 460 hogs, and each hog hall tree
pigs, which makes 1840 hogs in all, and
Peter, John, anti James make up de 1843.
Dis is de reckoning of masse Miller. 1)e
scarlet naughty woman in de rebellation
'lode to dat gal dat threatened to slap de
chops oh your 'spected preacher, in Sam
Johnson's sutler ladder night."
Death and the Grave.
" I am hungry," said the Grave—" give
me some food."
" 1 will send forth a minister of des•
(ruction," replied Death, " and you shall
be satisfied."
ii And what minister will you send
forth 7"
" will send forth intemperance, and
he shall carry alcohol for a weapon."
" It is well," said the Grave; " but how
know you the people will fall into the
snare 1"
"I µ•ill demand the assistance of the
tempter," replied Death, " and he shall
disguise the snare under various seducing
forms, such as fond, and medicine, and
pleasure, and hospitality,and benevolence.
The people will then drink and die."
I am content," said the Greve ; so, I
perceive that your scheme is skillful, and
will succeed."
The church bells began to toll, anti the
mourners td walk through the streets, and
the sexton to ply his mattock and his
spade, for the minister of destruction had
gone forth ; and once more Death and the
Grave met together to exult over the sue
cess of their schemes.
And who is this they are bringingl"
asked the Grave.
"This is an old man, who fancied that
wine was necessary to recruit his wasted
strength. He began with little at first,
hut gradually increased the quantity, and
finally drank to excess and died."
And who is this i"
" This is a young man who was fond of
company, and thought liquor was neces
sary to convivial meetings. fie contrac
ted the habit of drinking and is now a
corpse."
" And who are they now bringing, fol
lowed by a train of ‘l, eeping children ?"
" This is a broken hearted woman whose
husband became a confirmed drunkard,
and who left her children to pine in want,
while he spent his time and money in the
tavern. And now they are bringing the
corpse of the husband himself, who has
lost his life in a drunken brawl."
" H ush," said the Grave, l hear a loud
wail, and the subs of grief that will not be
silenced. What is the meaning of this 1"
" AU" said Death, "they are bringing
the body of a little infant, whose drunken
father, aiming the blow at his wife, de
stroyed it at the breast; and the mother,
like Rachel, refuseth to be cotnforted,
because her child is not.'"
And is ho are these 79
" These are the bodies of a female pro.
fligate und her still-born ofnpring. She
was once lair and innocent ; but ligor in
flamed her seducer, and deprived her of
caution. She was soon, however, desert
ed, and after pursuing a short career of
crime, died."
" And these i"
These are the bodies of a murderer
and his victim; they were once bosom
friends; but wine snapped the bonds of
friendship : they quarreled over their cups,
and one having died by the hand of his
companion, the other suftered the felon's
death. But here is the crowning incident
of our scheme. Behold the corps of a sui
cide: This man drank until his property
was dissipated and his mind deranged ;
and so in his di,traction he laid violent
hands upon his own life."
Long did these dal k associa:—a thus
converse, and loud was the cry that ascen
tied to heaven from injured parents and
friends, until at last Mercy was sent down
to see what could be done to check the
mischief. And Mercy instantly sent her
healing minister, and she called it Total
Abstinence ; for," said she " they can
' not touch the evil without contamination.
Like the poison of the Upas tree, its very
smell is deadly, and no one is safe that
comes within the reach of its influence."
Thechurch bells were but seldom heard,
and but tow mourners were seen in the
streets. The wailings of the widow and
the orphan were succeeded by hymns of
praise and thanksgiving; for Death and
the Grave were despoiled of all their prey,
—Tribune.
[WHOLE No. 362.
Crab and Snap Sniith.
" Does Mr. Smith live here?"
Which Mr. Smith ? There are many
/if that name in these parts."
" The man I want, is a sour, crabbed
chap, and they call him Crab Smith.
" . 0, the (1-1, I ',pose I'm the
tmm."
This Crab Smith resided at one time in
Fairhaver. He was always finding fault
with something.
" The Medusa brought in a fine cargo
of oil," said Yes," he would answer
but oil is low now." At another time
the Qesniphagen arrived. I met Smith•
" Well says I oil is enormously high."
" Yes says he, " but the Quamphagen
has but 2000 barrels." When the Me
dusa had again arrived, she brought 2500
barrels, and oil was high. I congratula
ted Mr. Smith. " Ah, said he, ' if it we: e
not for the five hundred barrels of whale
oil we might make something."
Co ab Smith had a brother in Hyannis,
who was indeed of the same kith and kin.
They called him Snap Smith. Ile was
the man who kept the tarrapin a year, ex
pecting to hear it sing, under the impres..
sion that he had captured what he called
a " turtle dove." A neighbor of Snap hail
killed and dressed a hog. "111 had half
of that," said Snap," I should think my
self well off."
The neighbor was a good soul, and he
wished to see Snap easy Once in his life,
so he sent Snap half the hog. I met Snap
a day or two after, as I was crossing over
from the Port. "A valuable present,"
said 1, considering the hard times."
dont know about that," said he —.come
to cut it up there was a dreadful little
mess of it. If I'd hail rother half too, it
might have been something worth while.—
80 - ston Post.
WANi'En—A low spruce young gentle
men to stand at the Church door at the
assembling of the congregation, for the
devout purpose of staring the ladies out
of countenance.
No other qualification than a good share
of impudence is requisite fiir this employ.
inept. lf, however, to this should be ad
ded a complete destitution of a sense of
propriety, or a talent for making polite
remarks upon each lady as she passes, or
even a capability of exciting a laugh a.
mong his comrades at her expense, the
applicant will be considered as more em
inently qualified for his station.
.
();:r Persons desirous of engaging in this
business, will please to take their stand at
the ringing of the bell next Sahbath, for
the purpose of giving a specimen of their
powers...4:o
PROVERDS.—Praise the sea, but keep
on bind.
Wolves lose their test, but not their
nature.
A handsaw is a good thing, but nut to
shave with.
Of all wild beasts the moat dangerous
is a slanderer: of,all tame ones a flatterer.
When a man's coat is threadbare. it is
easy to pick a hole through it.
Never scald your lips in other people's
broth.
Kings and bears often worry their kee
pers.
Drunkenness is voluntary madneFe,
A foolish fellow went to the parson of
the parish with a long face, and told him
he had seen a ghost as he was passing the
grave yard, moving along againq the side
of the wall. "In what shape did it ap
pear? In the shape of an ass." On
home and hold your tongue about it."
said the pastor, " you have been frighten
ed at your own shadow."
A GRAVE JORE.—Some wags took a
drunken fellow, placed him in a coffin
with the lid left so that he could easily
raise it, placed him in a graveyard, and
waited to see the effect. After a short
time the fumes of the liquor !eh him, and
his - position being rather confined, he burst
off the lid, sat bolt upright, and, and after
looking around, exclaimed, Well I'm
the first that's riz! or else l'in tl-bly
belated:"
JonN's WIFE." John, how does it
happen that you, who tried AO hard to get
a wife, through a long and hopeless court
ship of four years, now that you have won
the prize seem to caress little about her 7"
Why, Ross, I'll tell you, I've heard of
a man who wanted to jump over a stone
wall. Ile took a good start and run a
mile, and when he got up to the wall he
was so tired that he had to lie down and
go to sleep by the side of it. Now I loved
my wife so long and so hard before I could
get her, that I found my love had run out
when I had her last,"
These are first rate times fur Fettling
owned. Where two persons are tootle
one, of course half the espcnse of living
is taken away,