sr, • ..„ 4 Es' 11023MIVI" WZTTE 7Z=LMTOII.I VUIEB aI6I3aZSIDo -"With sweetest Stowers enrich'd. From various gardens cull'd Ivith care." FROM THE LYCOMINO FREE PRESS. The Walermanii4 Song. HY LYDIA JANE PEIRSON. BROTHERS! the Jong cold winter's past The snow-drifts melt once more; AWay! the streams are rising fast, Bring your lumber to the shore. Look up! our pine clad hills aro gay, Their swelling breasts are bare; We toil'd there ninny a winter-day, And now our works appear. The Pine's tall trunk, tho Oak's rich spoil, Lie on the mountain's side; Away! 't is a hard, but a jocund toil, To launch them to the tide. See how they thunder down the height, With the mighty tempest's sway; Oh! 't is a proud "and a fearful sight, To see them spring away. Away! with your teams, for the timber, boys We want it on the shore; For hear—to swell our boisterous joys The increasing waters roar. Now, brothers, we plunge in the cold, mad stream, And it beats against our sides— We count it as vain a frightful dream, We're able to stein its tides. A moment now to the quiet home, Where our fond affections cling; Where the joys & hopes of our bosoms blooin - And love broods with dove-like wing. Ah! kiss the babe as it smiling lies On its mother's faithful breast; And wake a smile in her swimming eyes, Where her soul is all exprest. Ah, brothers! our hearts are harden'd steel When danger or death are near, But,nh! they most strongly,nnd tenderly feel The ties of affection dear. Say to the dear ones—.Do not mourn, Love will abridge our stay; And if God be with us we 'll glad return.' Then, brothers—away! away! reausi zart2c.lau(i).g3ao THE EMPEROR'S PAGE, OR, A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE IN PARIS It was past midnight, as en individual, closely muffled in a dark military cloak, was rapidly pass_ ing through one of the most unfrequented streets of Paris. It was a black night, not a star being visible in the clouded heavens, a circumstance which seemed suited to the purpose of the prcdcs- Ulan, whose concealed person and hasty movemen pretty plainly indicated his wish to gain his des , tination unobserved. Suddenly, however, his progress was arrested by the hand of a youth, who emerged from the obs'curity, of a portal, and held a pistol to the pedestrian's• head and demand ed his money. . 44Paha," said tho podesttsn, endeavoring to abako off his new acquaintance, “away and do not detain me. oil must have gold," cried the phrenzied youth ,---amy misfortunes have maddened me! 'Refuse me, and this pistaloteuuls a bullet through your bead." The other perceiving his danger, suddenly dia. encumbered his right arm of his cloak, and with the velocitypr lightning laid the assailant pros trate. He then passed on—but suddenly retracing his steps towards the prostrate robber, ho raised him from the ground, and dragging him for some pacesitids a lamp which cast a ' , dim religious light,"ciier a brief part of - the scene, he exclaimed, uAilit! Louis . If clamour!" I.Anr I discovered?" exclaimed the youth, and falling at the feet ot . the other, who again drew his cloak over the lower part of his face, he ejaculated, udo not, do not betriti me!" ""Sir," replied the other, "my duty to the Emperor will compel me to disclose this atrocity." "You will ruin me by ho doing forever!—Hear me, sir, my melancholy - tale, and then say, if I am not deserving your pity. Since I have had •the honor of being in the service of the Emperor, the whole of my ary has beers' dedicated to the support of my poor . and'age'd mother. For three yearit I have been theiele prog:of her weary life, she haii no other hope.htithriOn Heaven. I have brought comfort anti j 11p t in into her humble dwelling; she wee reilußittenury and wretch ednessi,my faiher had 'dieit-.Winsolvent circurn htanceic and My dear rnothit':,iitah too old to work for her subsistence: .IZitgtilired to gain work but in vain. Day after ; day I trod the streets of Paris, and' with all the earnestness of ruin, be sotight- employment; but there with no drop in my cup of misery, and at length I sat down in the garden of the Tuilleries, hopeless and despairing. I contemplated suicide—the thought of leaving my dear'parent desolate, chained me to life—but oven that thought was becoming overwhelmed by my despair, when our, good emperor pas,ed me. Ho was struck with my haggard looks—h, questioned me—inquired into "the truth of my story, and then in the bdnoyolence of his good heart took me Into his suite. Ile saved mo from despair, and brought smiling joyr, again into the widow's hunthle home." ..No, no," hurriedly .exclaimed the youth, am no common robber. Heaven is my witness, until this night--but hear my story out. Among the trudeamen who supplied the palace, there is one having a daughter, whose charms make an impression upon my heart, which reason could not dispel. Long did I strive to master love— but in vain. I struggled against the rising pas sions of my heart, for the more I strove to master the bewilderingpassion, the fiercer did it burn.— We met—l told my love—l found it was return.. ed—arid disdaining any concealment, I 'op en ly avowed to the maiden's father my attachment to his daughter, but he, mall the pride and inso lence of wealth, spurned my humble suit, and told nip that till the Emperor made me worth baying, hie daughter should not think of me! :Seeing that his child's inclinations turned to- Wards me, he introduced a wealthy •suitor, aid insisted upon her wedding him. I cannot vie. with my rival—he lavishes g Id and gems upon the lovely Adaline. I've only a humble heart to offer. B4ihat she deemed preferable to all the wealth of the grosa man of her fatber's choice; end till this night dreamed that I was still he loved. But this night I have seen her at his ableher hand in his—her ear turned to his whispering lips—and the love tributes of gold and gems dazzling before her! I was maddened at the sight. I had clung to the hope that Ada line was constant; that hope was my solace by day, and gave inspiration to my dreams at night. I fancied that the Emperor might one day pro mote me, when I could demand the hand of Adeline in marriage, in the confidence of my being able to support her without detriment to the comfort and enjoyment of my aged mother.— This hope is destroyed—my dreams are all va • inslied,. and I rinly see the despairing certainty of Adeline's affections turning to my rich rival! Oh, sir, if you have over loved—if you have ever known the agony of a situation like mine, your heart may form sonic excuse for me, when I tell you that in my desperation I purchased this pis tol, and determined upon laying contributions up on the public, that I too, might throw jewels into Adeline's lap, and rival the favored one even in his splendor. I saw no other way of recovering Adeline's lost afliction—l could not desert my poor mother—the result is as you ace. you betray me?" The pedestrian was silent. The youth with passionate emotion caught his arm, and exclaim ed convulsively, "Will you, will you betray me?" and again sunk at his feet. will think upon it," said the pedestrian cold ly. "Give me that pistol" "No, cold-hearted roan!" exclaimed the youth, suddenly starting upon his feet, "no, nor shall it be yours till life is out of this wretched body," and he put the muzzle to his forehead: "For heaven's sake hold,", cried" 'the" stranger.— The trigger however was pulled, the priming flashed in the pan. The predestrain then seized upon the weapon, and after a short struggle, wrested it from the youth's grasp. "Mon Dieu!" cried the pedestrian, "your blood •"Go," rejoined the youth: liselose ail you know. I am ready to go out upon the scaffold, I am tired of life, death will be welcome." "Then come with me." Thus saying the stranger took him fast by the arm, and hurried him through the dark and narrow thorough fare, They proceeded along various obscure streets until they suddenly stopped before a doorway in a high and extended wall, and the stranger touching a secret spring, the door flew open, and they entered, the stranger closing up the door after them. In a few moments they were in a neat, and comfortable apartment, wherein two servants were sitting, who arose on the parties entering, and the stranger taking one of them aside, addressed a few words to him and abruptly left the room. It was soon evident to the youth that the ser vants had been commanded to preserve strict silence; he was not in the mood for conversation, and this was, therefore, to him; a matter of more pleasure than grief—his spirit was broken, and he looked upon death as the only refuge he could fly to for relief Soon after, the servants intimated to him that he was to sleep there, and that the bed was ready. He followed them, and as he passed out of the room, ho perceived that two gendarmes had been stationed outside of the door. They followed him up stairs, and when he was ushered into the small narrow bed-chamber, and the door was fas- tencd upon him, he heard the heavy tread of the gendarmes pacing to and fro on the outside. Here, in his loneliness, the thought of self-destruction again occurred to him. ..0 that I could die at once," he inwardly exclaimed. "'Tie horrible to be brought out upon a scaffold, to public execu tion, before a gazing million. My mo•her! moth er!" ho inwardly exclaimed, "to the protection of Heaven I leave you! The world is done with me. Oh, Adeline, this is thy work!" He searched the apartment with insane curiosi ty to discover some instrument of death—but the room was bare of furniture save the bed and its clothes. With the latter he busied himself, and tearing some of the sheets into strips, he was rap idly fastening them together, when a man sudden ly entered the room, and sat down upon the bed- sit'e. Louis as suddenly leaped into the bed, and the man remaining in the position he had taken up, the youth insensibly fell into a deep slumber, wherein he remained during the night. It was mid-day when he awoke. The man was still in the chamber. Louis was calm and refresh- ed, and when the man asked him if he would arise and accompany him to the gentleman with whom ho had become acquainted on the previous night, Louie cheerfully assented. Soon afterwards the youth stood again in the presence of the cloaked man, whose life he had threatened. It was a dark antique chamber, and the gentleman had taken his place in a recess, in the depth of which his person was dimly visible. Louis entered, pale and tremb ling, and with downcast tearful eyes, he approach ed the man whom he had, in his moment of frenzy assailed. A chair was pointed to him, into which ho fell and buried his face in his hands. "Young man," said the stranger, "you show a becoming sorrow—hut what avails it! Suppose you had sent a bullet through my head last night —would your penitence awaken me to life again! Yours is the old story. Every- villain is a peni tent when the guillotine stares him in the face." "Oh, sir, spare me, I implore!" cried the youth. 4.Why should IT why shotjd I spare you, You should have thought of the consequences of the crimes you meditated. But you were hcad.strong —a fool—and you must suffer for your folly. “Sir, lam ready to meet my punishment. Do not aggravate it by reproOf." <A will—it is a satisfaction that is due to me I would show you the extent of your folly and your crime. I have made inquiries respecting your sto ry: and find it, in its main point, correct enough; but, Mon Dieu' you were a fool. You adventur- ed in the field of love and could not read the wo man you adventured with! I would be revenged for the outrage of last night, and I am revenged in tailing you, imprisioned as you now are, and in a fair way to the scaffold, that your conclusion res- pecting your 'mistress was a Elise one!" • "False," echoed the youth. - “Ay, hot-brained boy, falre! Your rival, plea sed with your devotion and your attention:. 2...y0ur poor soother, became your friend, abandoned his and even plead. for you with Adeline's fath- He succeeded; the old man had given his con to your marriage with !u daughter for your "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPRAKER OF NY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP NINE HONOR FROM CORRIIPTION.nroIIA/CS. • IClTPZilltaLLEP,Fiteal s zPQa” , a3:2oM ) marta carpraaz zi(o agal„ lie in bed late. Barbers, bakers, and doctors, are seen busy in the• streets as usual. Merchants transfer the counting-house to the parlor, it is no convenient a time and place to settle intricate ac counts and write letters. Young bucks take a ride into the country; apprentices take a stroll. It is a day for dinners, for visits and for walking, with all who pretend to any thing like gentility; and also among what is called the lower class; with this difference, however, instead of dinners, they have drinking bouts. The streets, the commons, and the wharves, are crowded on this day, Gray's and Harrowgato's are generally overflowing. The roads leading to these places, and to Germantown, appear as if the country was invaded. It is the day for mobs and accidents; on it the constables find full employ. We had, many yeas ago, a chief magistrate who used to invite one of the constables to dine with him, in rotation, on every Sunday. Boys and children stroll into the coun try on this day to rob orchards and do other mis chief, mid return h;nne, tired with their scnik.— .rival—the man whom you saw whispering in the ear of Adaline—had bestowed upomyou a marri age portion of five thousand francs. What think you now, rash boy'!" "Oh, Heavens!" exclaimed the distracted youth, "it. is impossible." "Not so; you shall hear the story from the girl's own lips; for justice allows one more meeting.— See, see, rash youth, what your hot blood has driv en you to. Fine love yours must be to doubt a lovely girl who had been constant to you for so many months, and resisted parent's frowns, rival's gold, merely because you saw something which your jealous imagination tortured into a crime." "Oh, forbear, for Heaven's sake forbear," the youth cried. "If you would not see me fall dead at your feet, forbear." "You would have laid me dead, nt your's last mght," rejoined the stranger. "How can you ask for mercy!" "I knew not what I did. Love, despair, a friend- less aged parent all presented themselves before me. I was distracted, I was mad. You know not, you cannot judge of my feelings then. Pray, spare them now?" "Ah, there's your mother, too; when the mad fit was on you. you cared little for her; you tho't not that when the guillotine had done its office aho would be left to starve and die-" "Oh, ho; the Emperor Napoleon is the father of all his people, and he will not let the desolate widow perish." "Hum," responded the stranger. “I believe you may make yourself happy on that score—the Em peror will protect her." "Are you prepared for trial?" "I am." "Are you prepared to meet the girl you level to hear from her own lips the story of her innocence and the generosity of him you hatedl" An inward struggle was evident in the looks of Louis, but after a pause he faltered, "I am." " "cis well," replied the other. "Be firtn,young man. The scene that is about to ensue is no cum- mon one. You will look upon the face of Ada line as you never looked upon it before. You will take her hand, but not as the poor and humble,and innocent lover. She will not mingle her tears with yours over the story of your poverty and con- stunt worship. Yours will not be the language of passion and hope, nor hers of encouragement and expectation. You have served the Gordian knot of your fate. and must endure the issue. Come— she is ready. With these words solemnly and impressively delivered, the stranger pushed open a door and beckoned the youth to follow him. They entered a dark and narrow passage, at the end of which here was a door. They paused. "She is within this room," remarked the stran "You tremble." ..oh, Heaven support me!" murmured the youth. "Give me your hand," replied the otter, and as he took the youth's hand within his, he eclaim ed--"Ilo not craven, Louis, at a moment like this, for the honor of manhood!" And at this moment the doors were suddenly thrown open. The blaze of light which illuminated the apart ment into which they entered, dazzled the eyes of the youth, for it was so different from the gloom and obscurity of the chambers and passages they had previously been in. The stranger hurried him along to the top of the apartment. A warm hand was placed in his; a woman's face was buried in his bosom; it was Moline! They stood before a nuptial alter! They were not alone. The father of Adaline and the rival of Louis were there! The minister was at the altar, and beside the entranced pair stood the stranger, gazing with delight upon their estacy. Louis gazed at the strange scene before him in wonder and astonishment. His eyes wandered from one to another, but they rested upon the stranger, who looked on the scene with a smile. Upon him the eyes of Louis rested, and the stranger, perceiving his amazement, gradually allowed the cloak to fall from his person, and Louis involuntarily dropped upon his knew, as he beheld in the person of the stranger, his sovereign, Napoleon, Emperor of France. "Louis," exclaimed the Emperor, "you have said that the Emperor is the father of his people.— fs your father's mode of punishing the hot-brained folly of his son, satisfactory?" "My sovereign!" cried Louis, “I may not—can not speak—" "You must, Louis," continued the Emperor, "for I have given my word that Adeline shall be come a bride this day; and you must fulfil my promise. Come boy, no tears, no tears; your pun- ishment was ended when you left the dark cham ber; the reward of virtue now commences. The Emperor+Napoleon will not desert young French men, who gild the declining days of aged parents with filial love, and scatter joy upon their gray hairs. Now let the service begin." Tho ceremony was performed. Adaline became the bride of her beloved, and the Emperor Napo leon continued the constant friend of the widow's INUIT IS SUNDAY? —T ho following definition of Sunday, we copy from a Philadelphia paper of 1804, and notwithstanding the thousands and thousands of lectures that have been given from the sacred desk, since that year, on the proper duo observance of this holy day, but little improve ment has been made in the old manner of spend ing it:— Sunday is the day in which people in general The trader, who has carefully attended to his busi. ness all.the week passes this unproductive day at his country seat, or with a friend. What could he do in town? If any invalid wants a carriage on this day, he must wait; they are all engaged by the sons of pleasure and relaxation from business. I have heard of a well meaning woman, in easy circumstances, on Sunday. Her reply was, don't scold me, for indeed, I did not know what to do. The author of 'The Year • Two Thousand rive Hundred' tells in his Tableau de Paris, of a shoemaker, who, on seeing a man druiik in the street., stopped—and after regarding him with fired attention for some time, lifted up his hands and exclaimed with a sigh, 7 -. Well, this is' what I must come to on Sunday.' On Sunday, our hatter, our tailor, and our shoemaker furnish us with new ap peal. Our cook is expected to give us a better dinner than common. We read some work that we had no time to attend to in the week; and with many it is the day to form their most important plans and schemes." STANZAS. Where do the green-wood birds repose. When the winter round us lowers? Have they a home 'mid the drifted snows, Or a nest in leafless bowers? The surly blasts of the stormy north No notes of joy prolong, Nor lure the light winged minstrels forth To breath their mellow song. In the ti.inny South, on the clasping vine, The warblers rest their wing; And chant where the clustering tendrills twine, In .the warmth of the fadeless spring, When the trees in summer's vesture smile, And greener are hill and plain, They tvill hie them back to our own lone Isle. And herald the morn again. When the noontide hour is wormly bright, And the clowds have shed their showers, They will shake the dews from their pinions ligh And nestle amid the flowers. 0! the year is dull while ye are gone, And cheerless the brightest day;— • . Then birds of the green-wood speed yo on, And resume your merry lay. Tui lir.Aar.—Few people hold close commu nion with their own hearts. It is a terrible thing to question it continuously—severely—and feel the truth of its replies, wrung out fraction by frac tion, till the questioner sees himself revealed and humbled at the revelation. There is far more of profound and far-reaching knowledge than most Men are willing to perceive in the exclamation of the Hebrew poet—dile heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked! And yet men need not be thus deceived. It is because they dare not learn the truth—they fear to know them selves. I share in this. fear. Once or twice I have torn the mask away, and looked on the nakedness of the heart—buts shut my eyes and tiled to cheat myself into the belief that there was no devil there. I will confess it now. It is not a difficult matter to know more of our neighbor than ourself, for we do not' fear to study him. We read him an an open book, and though we cannot pry closely into every page, we can peruse the table of contents, and learn more than he would be willing to tell,— I thank God fur the restraining influences which ho throws around man—for Hie monitions with out and within, to keep and cherish the spirit of good in the human heart, that it may not wholly dic!—But for these, how soon would the light of tho inner temple go out in darkness, and a mid night of despair and horror wrap the soul! Temperance. How can this world be reformed, in respect to temperance, without the influence and aid of womAzil The very idea embodies a contradic- Who mould our fashions? Who administer and settle the• rights of hospitality? Who cater for our palates? Who arrange our tables? Who attend on the sick? Who administer cordials?— 'To whom do we look for relief from pain? To whose prescription (whether of balm or poison) does even the learned physician bow implicitly?-- Whom doei man seek to please? Whose smile allures? Whose frown deters him? Who pre sides in the nursery? Who lays the foundation for the future temperance or intemperance of men, by withholding or by administering the doses of artificial stimulus that often times decides their destiny in the cradle? To talk of a temperance reformation without the vigilant and active co-operation of woman, is to talk of the existence and non existence of the same thing at the same time. It is an insult to common sense—an outrage upon the understand ing of all men. To say that females should not join temperance societies, is to say that those who can render the cause the most efficient aid should not join them. That those who are to do the - work, if it ever is done, must by no means attempt it! Is it difficult to understand the import, and discern the origin of such a sentiment? "TRAIN VP A critto," &c.—One of the greatest mistakes in parental government is that of fright ening children into submission. A correspondent of the Old Colony Memorial gives the following as his experience on this head: “At the early age of eight years, I was sent from home to live with the brother of my father. When I was emit after the cows, or on an errand, my uncle and his wife told me if I than% go directly, without playing by the way, tho bears would catch me. After stop ping a few times, and finding myself unhurt, I bid defiance to the hears. They next told me about the devil. This had the desired effect for a short time. But I soon began to have my doubts about their devil, that they talked so much about. I thought if they would lie about bears, they would about the devil. Ido not suppose they meant to lie exactly—for they were very respectable, religi ous people—but they meant to fill my head full of scarecrow stories to keep me, as they said, from being a bad boy." There are too many at this day, who bring up their children in the same way. If we would live as we ought to do, a must so enjoy the present, that we may look upon the past with pleasure, and upon the future withitopc.:--- The more we can bring ourselves to consider the im portance of the future, the more likely we are duly to regulate the present; and the happiness of this mainly depends upon our reference to that in 7 .11, fq come.. \Y' , AUIZBU'Uo TO AN INFANT. We look upon thee, lovely child, Thy hnppy face we oft survey; And life's corroding toile and cares, Its scenes of trial and its snares, Are half forgot amid the airs That o'er thy features play. We think upon thy innocence, 'rho pureness of thy spotless brow; And earthly scenes of wretchedness, ' A man's deceit and viciousness, Are lost amid the loveliness Of spirits such as thou. We listen to thy notes of joy, Thy tones of fondness touch the heart; And the sad thought, of friends once dear, Estranged by falsehood, or by fear, Is softened, by the accents dear Thy smiling lips impart. We stand beside thy infant couch, We trace the dream-god's gentle power; And Heaven, with all its happiness, Its purity and holiness,- ' Shines forth amid the blissfulness, Of that delightful hour.' MEDICATED Coi , xxx Fon Cannnarr.--Senna COffee—A singular preparation for children is re commended in the Bulletin General do Therapeu tique, as one admirably adapted for the exhibition of Senna without inducing nausea or disgust. An infusion of scans is to be.made in water, and al lowed to stand all night, the liquid is to be filter ed in the morning, and employed instead of wa ter in making a cup of coffee, to which a pro portionate quantity of milk and sugar should be added. /31TOILTA NT To FAnmEn's.—An esteemed cor respondent tins given us some information relative to the planting of corn, which We think must, be highly useful to farmers, and would perhaps, prove a benefit to the corn market generally, were it adopted. • Hundreds of thousand of bushels are annually destroyed by birds, (particularly by the blackbird and crow,) which might be _preserved by a very simple method. The birds pull it up the moment it appears above the ground and eat the seed. In order to prevent this destruction, the I farmer should first soak the seed well in soft water, until the chit is just on the., eve of bursting through, then turn it into a vessel of tar, made soft by moderate warming, and stir it thoroughly, until every grain is well coated, when it may well be separated for planting. Work in some pound ed plaster, when planting, and this seed the birds will not disturb; it will coma up rank and fine, and pay well for the trouble, If the corn•is not soaked well before coating with tar, it will not be apt to come up, as the tar will naturally prevent the necessary moisture from penetrating through it. This has been tried by farmers who never could get a good crop.of corn in any other way,and found to succeed admirably. Foirtrxr.-Tszzrxn.—lt is probably known to most of our readers that there is an astrologer, of considerable note, residing in the lower part of Baltimore. That he is no quack in the science, but a real Simon Pure, is as evident from the fol lowing fact,as that the stars pretend human events. A blushing young girl, wooed by two lovers, a tailor and a tallow chandler, was at a loss "which of the two to choose." The tailor was a neat dapper little man, and the maiden was inclined to favor his suit; but she was a pious girl, and on this as on most other occasions, resorted to the Scriptures for direction. The first passage upon which her eye rested, read---4 , Thou art waded in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrol ogers, the star-gazers, the prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things." She re solved to ask counsel of the astrologer, and com municated her determination to the tallow chan dler. "There i• a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the Stood leads on to fortune." thought the tallow chandler, and believing more. over, thut "More wonders typical impress the sky, Than ere were traced by astrologic eye," ho improved the opportunity to tell the stargazer how to interpret the mysterious signs of the heavens, when the maiden should present herself, —promisinghim at the saino time, a liberal fee if the portents had a due influence over. The mai den come—the astrologer drew his horoscope, on which were written "Many rare, strange signs concerning, The mysteries of aetroloric learning " Every thing boded ill for the tailor,—all the stars in the heavens declared in favor of the tallow chan dler. Convinced that "matches are made in lics/- von" she married a few weeks since, according to the direction of the stars, and now lives happily with her husband in Howard street. QCALIVICATIONS FOR CONGRZI3B.— , ‘Why do you, not present yourself as a candidate for con gress'!" said a lady, to her husband, who was con fined to his chair by the gout. "I am not qualifi ed for the station," was the reply. "I think you are," returned the wife, "your language and actions are truly parliamentary. When bills are presen ted, you either order them laid on the table, or make a motion to rise, though often out of order, you are still supported by the chair, and you often poke your nose into measures which are .calcula ted to destroy the constitution." SAGACITY OF .t Fox.—ln the neighborhood of Crumcar, county of Louth, a farmer of the risme of Conner possessed two geese of a peculiarly_ large kind. In the open day a fox was seen sauntering out of one of the covers of Drumcar, and in his route passed close to the farm whore the ,two fat geese were grazing. He seized one by the neck and jerked it in triumph over his shoulder, and was leisurely hearing away his prize, when ho was perceived by the farmer, who gave chase accompa nied by all his cur dole's and his entire establish ment. They speedily gained on the Fox, whose progress was impeded by the weight of the goose and the fluttering of its wings and being hard press ed, dropped the goose, some way from where be had so boldly seized it. The farmer in delight lifted up the astonished bird and carried it slowly back to his house--but the crafty fox was not to ba chesto out of Ida meal of which be had so de• licious n tastat:em thy neck 9f the VMS. He re atem:ewv.i tut thcvliviltr. stilt elaiippo tr ft a: the (VOL. 8...N0i r Z. farm, so;speedily returning by...e.ciiciduinenonliti, seized the other goose. while, the rennet 400 cow. gratulating himself upon the recovery of the Olt: :: one. Judge of his astonishment on big rio(nrui when the second goose was no , where to be found; : he lifted up his eyes and beheld the fox a long way ntr, bearing away his dinner, which ho "sled in carrying to his earth. and no doubt enjoyed ft in quiet satisfaction. . ' ' THE GHOST. THAT HET I.—what in tho world is tho =Uteri' saidairiend • to an old lady whom alio found in 41 wonderfaL flurry. - . Matter? Why that old goose of Mine IWO broke all her eggs. I shall have no gdslins' in the. Spring: 'lndeed! And how did:that happen'!" .Why, it happened just so, After Willi wired the eggs until 'she had eight, I made her a liaised _ set her on it. She did'nt seem to-like it mucch s end wanted to get away, but I shut her up end !Whar f , Next day I went to the nest and there, as she was standing up right over the eggs; tried-, all I could to make her set settin' ',but she would : set standin', do what l•would. 'it Wge... flat stone and put •it on her back arid made. her - squat right down over the eggs, quick ~eninigh,l tell you. In- an hour I went agaiit," and there stood the critter right straight up and all the eggs smashed to pieces. A int it too bad!'—Arlt. ANECDOTX OF A Movsse—The Niagara Demo , , crat relates the following curious experiment s, which were made upon a mouse which was caught : in a glass jar at a store in that village A small.'. - . hard twisted linen thread was suspended in thojet, so that the mouse could reach it standing upon - the bottom. It clasped the thread with , its font • foot, but its hind feet would not adhere to it. ,TO. remedy, the little animal gnawed and loosed the fibre of the thread with its teeth, to obtain hold for its hind feet, where it placed them, and ing itself to the top, when the cover prevented;its escape. The same experiment . was tried, with waxed thread, with a similar result., • Greater durability to window glass is acquired, according to recent experiments of Prof. Florio of Turin, by adding lime water during its mariufae. turn, by which means a silicate is formed. The furnace in which it is melted requires pecUlipir graduation, or the sheets will warp. Tot REV. Re wwrn • •Hrt.r..—The following art m ecdote respecting this ernent divine,'.waa related to us the other day by a gentlemtm from London, who was present at the time: • Obseivi c hg that coblore were notoriously back ward in attending Church, Mr. Hill an'one ateti r Bien gave out notice to his congregation / that tie would next Sabliath show them the quickest way to make a shoe. As was imticiPated,: when Sun day came, all the pews and aisles.of the church were crowded with shoemakers, from every part of London, who had come to meeting, (many fOr the first time in their lives,) to learn a thing of so much importance to the craft. Hiving attained hilend by addressing to them a most heart stirring sermon; Mr. Hill taking a boot by the tOliandletinhi - over the pulpit, cut the leg from the foot, and:holding the shoe up to the congregation pronounced his • • benediction. RUNNING; IN Dawr.—The following remarks upon this subject are extracted from D'lsreelys new work “Henrietta Temple." . "If youth but knew the fatal misery that they • are.entailing on themselves the moment they _ cept a pecuniary credit, to which they , are not en titled, how they would start in their career! pale they would turn!. how they would tremble and clasp their hands in agony at . the , precipice an. which they are disporting! Debt is the . , prolth te, mother of folly and crime; it taints the course Of life in all its streams. Hence so many ti4iappy, marriages, so many prostituted pens, and - verta! politicians! It bath a small beginn ing,but a giant's.; growth and strength. When we make the init4, star, we make our master, who haunte us 'et all him's, and shakes his whip of scorpions forever in our sight. The slave bath no overseer ect *o vens. Faustus, when he signed the bond with blood, did not secure a doom so terrific." ADVICT TO WivEs.—We heard a ataxy -„ tho other day of a Signal revenge tairen.int:itila• relsomo husband by the weaker vessei, that in all her contests she came off„ second she one day very affectionately . requesiteil him to get through a trap door in the floor which,. wag';;; laid very near to the ground, and get her thimble which sho had dropped through.a small opening.' The kind husband, cheered on by the unwanted • smiles of his better half, was soon doubled up bo. neath the floor, but while gaping about forthe stray thimble he found himself suddenly envelop ed in midnight darkness. The myetary.Was soon explained, as the loving wife seated herself on the trap door, and called out in exulting tones. nAh! ha! my fine gentleman! who is the bettor man novirr—Balt. Visiter. Qustrrion OF Ex ecntEncr,—A persona tri the town of South Berwick, Me. desirous of getting up a religious exciterrient thus prayed, "0 tank we would not presume to dictate, but would hum bly suggest the propriety of a raTival in this plade." • . , 'Undo John,' said a little urchin to an old gen tleman who was sitting with his head towards the Ere, twity aro you like an Indian his house! 'Wye give it up? Because you ars'undi ing your wig warm!! - [Wigwam:] -• SPLE!:TIT n!—Oliapod, s Writer is Ms Knicker bocker,. sayar--itosy lips ;are only the &mini gateways of beano, pork, and eabbsger - , • The person who corrupts the faith, er taints the motels of another, may commit inch an injtity, as the ,Whole world could not compensate: out ; if ftir draw hie brother into sin, it is hardly to ba Carp crived, much less to be exposited, hate' wide dds ain may extend, and what °Umbers It mar be the cense of rom quids. god ruining hereafter.: not only tided authors, or, ingkid . "eafteem may do great misehiell bet sod all other compardoniorbo aeries StitiiiiiiitC 7 and who insinuate the rhos of rieobjr:fteirslt and mirth, the agreeableness and plsistattor t jeW which they know how to dim:nice, anttrallt A .. '. ....:.,.,.„ ,:.,,.... x , . , ;-%'' ' - -•'-' ~'.:r...'tt.i'0,1,'.:4`;;;
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