[r. A. SMILER, EDITOR AND , PROPRIETOR. VOL. XVI.-32. i POETRY. THE USE OF FLOWEES. G I) Might have made the earth bring forth Enough for' great and small ; The oak tree and the cedar tree; . Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And vet have hail no era. The ore within the mountain mine Remtimth none to grow; Nor does it need the loins dower To. make the river'llow. And don& tnigli give abundant rain, The nightly dews might hill, And the herb. that keepeth life in man, Might yet have drunk them all, Then At hereforr, Wherefore were they znadt% And dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with Enpremest lip-springing day and night— :;pringing in valleys green and kw, And on the mountain high, Anil in the silent wilderness, 1% , here- Ito - wan passel h by ? Oor outward life requiro3 them not; Thero%herefore had they birth? To minkter delight to Irian, To beautify the earth— To comfort inAn, to Nclti,per hope, Whene'er his faith is dim; For iv hoso careth for the flowers, Will mach more care for hien. nom riranuna. Oh, there's a power to make rich hour As sweet as heaven designed it; Nor need we roam to !fling it home, 'Though reW ther , , , be that find it ; IVe feek too high for things clo s e by, And loose what nature found its; For hie has here no charms so dear A s .11,*n i e and Friends around us! We oft destroy the present joy -FOr ft!tore hopes—and praise them; IVhilst flowers as sweet bloom at „pur - -If we'd. but stoop to raise them! . Por things af/Jr still sweetest are.. When youth's bright spell has bound us: - But soon Nce're taughLthat earth hath naught Like Ironic and Friends around tis! The friends tivtt speed in ti Inc of need, Wlu.:n hope's la.q iced is shaken, To Ellow us still that. -come what • We are not quite tbrsalten: Though all WVll.' night, it but the light - Thi'font Friendship's altar crowned tu , , "rwo old probe the bliss of eartli-trim this 011 r •IToine and Friends around us! ORIGINAL. For the "Star 4- Rrpubliraa .Banner." Tl' • • An Hour in College during V a cation. Ent. - ron:—Did you ever remark the won_ Brous change that a vacation produe . es at College? In toy pe rigti oat ions through space chance led toe to visit a certain seat of the Armes not a hun dred miles from this place during a vacation. and - I was rnuch struck with the contraA, Indeed it hardly seemed like the same place that it appeared to the but a short tints before. Tile external ar chitecture of the building—the walks, the arbors, -plats, flower beds and shade trees, were indeed same, although giving some sad tracery of the 'de raying touch of Autumn ; yet in the inside of the edifice, how complete the change ! An awful si lence now reigns supreme where "jargon wild" was wont to hold high sway. .13;11 a week of two ago, and these how deserted rooms were vocal. with the wild tidies of youthful Mirth; now they only echo the "soft suspendiA step' of the transient visitor—the melodious squeaking of the fiddle, the wheezing of an asthmatic flute, or the equally soothing hiss of the vengeful *rattlesnake. A week ago, and they were teeming with youths all lire, fun and frolic—all hope, joy and expectation—all health, and s r frcngth, and buoyancy : now it iescla blcs some Mede'val castle—abandoned by its lord ly proprietor, deserted by its retainers, and left in solitary and neglected widowhood, to sink piece meal into nothingness. The sounds of jollity, melody and mirth,that are accustomed to ring in 14301 t-and silvery cadence, - nre - hushed into a death ominout4 silence. 'V& 'thundering sound of the youthful Orator, with soul on fire with bright visions of Dotnostlieninn glory, rolls its startling relines along these aisles. Now there is no "whis ,pering with white lips": "The foe—they come— they come!" No stentor's voice or iron tongue ' , hoots the spirit-stirring, tali manic words: ''To oars—to arms—to arms!" No Bozarris cheers ,his band with: "? trike ; till the last-arnfd foe.expires! Strike, litr the green graves of jour sires! Strike, for your altars and your fires— God mid your native land F' And "this feast of reason and flow of soul" is a wring the things thatwere---' all is still, quiet, and ciiceless: And but a week or so has wrought this mighty change. A Aveckl—short tiMe,.say you; and yet the thrilling incidents of a lifetime may be crowded info it! What pen can record—what language reveal, the startling events and all im portant mutations that mark the swift progress of one short week 7 Change—the stern tyrant that subjects all of earth to hie despotic sway, and with inflexible rigor exacts their tributary offerings may (so -Fancy ,suggcsteth) have been "playing his fastastiC tricks" with the fortunes, destinies, and "happiness of the inmates of theme deserted ruoins. Perhapssome of those who on their depar. i nc e ^r^ all p r and vi-lcily 7 -whose skies were and s cry rlcive was thrill ing with the ecstary of unalloyed enjoyaletit; v‘ hose 'every pulsation nt joy and vitmr and rapture tingling through their healthMl veins:. V. hose step was as light, as buoyant and as wild as the un tamed gazelle's; it hose tones w ere the w heat t nnisie-notes of unchecked, gushing transport— are 110 W drooping - , Pining, and de::pnahm : their atleftions torn,.mangled and bleeding; their heart strings shattered with intensest agony; their souls in cheerless. d6solate Orphanage; their eagle ; pltnned hopes blasted by some unexpected, sca thing Bolt of Fate, and one dark and horrid cloud of rayless gloom settling over their whole horizon: their only remaining . satisfaction to be derived front dwelling on the hapless cause pf their hope less ntisery,—their only 'consolation in encouraging , their hearts to break with grief that acknowl edges no anodyne-their only relief to be eought in the gall and bitterness of ceaseless tetirs. We hope thi4 may prove to be only a fancy sketch, that caught its sombre hue from the melancholy gloom of the desolate place. But to return front the digreSsion. Suppose we enter that door, which by chance stands ajar, and An , erve the little world within. A Student's room during vacation !—the very picture of de.olation made more desolate--chaos compressed into a few Bret square. • Every thing around :-cems to utter the heart-chilling language: "I am not now what once I was." Such a medley of curiosities—such a gallimaufry of entities, quhlities a nd oddi tica:, Art could never ellisct, Design never accom plish. Foleless Boots appear to have found-bosom-friend Inexpressibles ; a consumptive "long. ailed Blue" lamed frequent reeo4uitions, me honght, to an invalid GOWII that hung opposite, perhaps the door was not clo s ed.) In short, ow- ing pejliari to the fact that' a fellow feelim.Ymake us Nvondroul kind, - all the individual members of the Wardrobe .appeared to be on termsof a mity and fellowship with each other—altliongli there were some ditlerenees and ill-fccling. Fearful clthqus threatened. if not carefully healed, song , asunder ;_ mit linuldcs were plainly visible to the . discerning, eyoland menaced the speedgilis-yup- lion of the comi)act by which they 'had hitherto been knit togolier:---but long, 1 say, triay those holy individuals hang togetbdr in accord and con. cord, or by any i pther cord. so"it is a 511*03:27 (adopting i ihe Truer Of the Scotchman.vvith re gard to the King and Parliament, but with far less treasonable desires.) But I have only' noticed on e rmiety out of the many that Rued the moils. There was the ink-stained, time-honored Table.-= the old, one-armed, broken-heeled "Arm Chair," while several less dignified memberS of the same fancily—minus the erne—were lumbered around with - every variety of cut bruise, fracture, rupture, puncture, dislocation, luxation, sprain, and exadiculation, that surgery has cognizance of. Add to the foregoing an indefinite quantity of Ink, stands and Boot !racks, Shaving Boxes and Ilia . ton's Mathematics, Eye-shades and Stove Pipes, Crockett Ahnanacs and Blacking Brushes, Band boxes and Looking-glas,es, &c. &c. &c.--now con ceive all these, and much more, to undergo a short earthquake—"to beech shaken," and perhapsyou I may form a remote idea of this chaos in miniature. But out of all this throng of pitifid objects nano alliTted my sympathies more exeruciatingly titan a dilapidated-Beaver, that lay cheek by jowl with the miserable remnant of a pail of old pouts, (what I strange bed-fellows does misery make !) It I possessed the power of giving.a lingual :or gan to this time-worn veteran, although it might not, like the ambitious shilling, till volumes with its adventures, yet I doubt not but that it might -Unfold much that would be interesting, perhaps something that would be instructive. That old rimless hat----what a theme for reflection! Hew apposite its fate to that of many mortals! \ once sleek and resplendent with velvety fur—once it glistened in the warm beams of prosperity; no - , Beaver was dandled more proudly, or won lucre ja'untily. Wherever it moved, admiring-cy-c , s by hundreds followed—then it was properly respetted by its owner, for he well knew its ‘:alue. He knew it N 1 us the "open sesame" tq'Ladies - hearts, I and be appreciated it accordingly. At home the snugly - Papered box was its salt dwelling-placer— not a particle of dust was perinitted to soil its pu-; rity or rnar its faultless perfections. But oh, what a change—nor it lieth covered thickly over with dust, unforgotten and tincated for, "with none so low to do it reverence"—not -even the heartless, ingrate that it once protected and adorned ! This is the way with the world; man, seltbliand heart-; less—but stop: where. am I going with these homiletics? I must describe what I saw: Can we extract from these silent chronicles no thing by which w:eCan determine the charactet of itS late occupant? Do you observe that melan choly, broken-nosed' pifelter, with those withered, faded, and wilted llowers—don't you see they are, as Burns sayF,'J•ticd round w•i' the silken band o' love," That' rose bud—preciously sweet thing— what a pity that it'should droop so soon! How ever, the arbor vita: retains its hue with much more constancy. Now I would venture a wager that that 'Bouquet drove balmy sleep away from the 'eyelids of the albresaid unknown,hut in disputably loving ; swain on that memorable-et•e ning. Let us see if we can flush any,thrther data: j..00k at the pencilling on the wall , : .:Arrior vintet oninia, et nos cedamus amori." He quotes Latin; I wonder if he is not a Freshman. And again! 4lfe - who would stay a stream with sand, Or fetter fire with flaxen Has still a harder task to prove, .1-3 y strong Te...:(.11.e•t0 cor;riner Lop." GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9.-4?-1-945. 111( speaks from sad experience, no doubt. ,Listen • "In peneo Love tones the shepherd's reed, In war lie spurs the w'arriors steed,. In hall in Lay attire is seen, ; in hamlet, dances on the green; Love rules the court, the can't), the grove, For Love is Ileaven and I lea , . en is Love l 7 And on the other side—in stifi; cramped and, al . most legible characters written, no dotrht,Under great mental depression anti cordial pain : "Alas ! how slight a cause may move Dissensions 'between heath; that love! A something light as air—a look, A word unkind, or wrongly taken; Oh! Love that Tempest.; never shook, A breath, a touch like this bath Shaken !" Poor fellow! lam afraid that his experience would Tiut add another proof to the truth of that oft quoted line, "The course of true love never did run smooth." Ills has been like many others—al , termite sunshine and showers—smiles and tears. We are fully convinced then that a Lover inhabits this desolate abode. A love-sick Student! Under those dreadfUl words, howrmuelt of trouble', rinxi ety, uneasiness,—yes t jeal f i nisery—is comprehend ed! I beg lease to say I speak knoWingly on this topic. I have been a student in timek past. and I have—no, I'll not say that; but this I will say the combined iniseries of a Lover's and Student's 'life are absolutely insupportable by flesh and blood —it infinitely' worse than heir "in love among the musquitoes." Ilowever, I cannot take up this frin ttirl theme at the end of my sheet. October 2-1, 1 S 15, , ANON. j AGTZICULTURAb',„..:, New England and Virginia, A largo number of New England and New York farmers have, within a few years, gone into Virginia, principally Fair fax county;rind purchased the waste land, that'is,- the-land exhausted by bad cultiva tion. .They have gone to work in the New England style, with "their own hi red"help, and. are redeeming the still, and bringing tack the means of wealth, which Providence placed ° in the bosom of the earth. The . success of this enterprise.has bben beyond all expectation, The grateful. earth res ponds bountifully to the kiiidtrn it•i• husband:nem and nor a drop - iti' • brow, that does not. promote the • kr! c•oil, co'rrraperodoi drta Gazette, who is a chive Obse; , inroad upon the Jirannerc and the Virginians, has written a series of: od mirnble papers upon Ilia improvements made, and recommends that Virginians shall adopt the node of life, and encburage the means of labor, which prove to be so eminently successful to their new neighb:irs• lie thus-concluder, one of his essays : [ IT. S. Gazette. "Of late years, we have had freluent appeals to the people of Virginia to imitate-the citizens of the Northern States in the improvement of our natiu al resources, by the construction of railroads and canals, the establishment of manufactures. die improvement of our agriculture, and the extenriion. of our cmumerce. But are we prepared to "adorit the means essential to success? Are we wil4ng to bring up, our childreit to wait upon tlietni . eles Can we iinlistitute hired 'help' for servile depend. cuts l• Will we promote the mechanic arts bY'(ln'• couraging our sons to learn the i n ? And shall we be able to discard thosti prejudices by which bon, I , !st labor has been depressed, and false notions of gentility efigendered among as:" PRESEUVATION OP APPLES Thefollmving practical observations, contained in a letter from Noah Webster, - have been pub lisiud in the Massachusetts Agricultural Reposi tory : 'lt is the practice with dome persons to pick apples in October, and first spread them on the floor of the upper room.' This prac tice is.said to render apples more durable, by drying thorn. But 1 can affirm tile to he a mistake, A pplec, after remaining on the trees as long us safely from the frost will admit, should be taken, directly from trees to close casks, and kept as dry and cool as possible. If suilbred to lie on the floor fur weeks,' they wither and lose their flavor, without aco,wrim , an additional du. rabilitv. The best Intl(' pf preserving ap ples for spring use, I have found to be, the putting of them in dry 3 and as soon na picked. For this purpose, dry sand in'the heat of summer; and late in October, put doWn the apples in layers, with a govering of sand on each layer; The singular ad vantages of this mode of treating are these t rho sand keeps the apples fr om the which is essential to their preservation:• 2d, the sand check§ the evaporation of' the apples, thus preserving them in their full flavor r'nj • the anther time, any moisture yielded by the apples, a i d some there will be, is absorbed by the sand, so that the firi, pies are kept dry, arid all mustiness is pre. vented." • ' GIVING A. PECULIAR FLAVOR TO M EAT.— A little expqrience in fattening or stall feed ing animals; will demonstrate that almost any particular flavor: may be given to meat, by feeding it with different hinds of substan, cp. If you "fatten beef, on pumpkins, you give the meet >1 sweet and jucy character, and the tallow will have a yellow tinge.— If fed uponapples it will have a different fla vor, nod the tallow will be "lightcolored and melt easier. -Indian corn gives The 'tallow more . solidity c and a white color. I{ you ed mild . ; cows upon turnips, you can taste th6n in the milk, and onion& a will give, EARLESS the milk their peculiar taste.- --Sea fowls, that live - upon fish, also have a peculiar flsh• y tante. Part edges are sometirrica render• 0d poisonous by eating poison. 10)C1jes.— Thele is a vai ;my of ducks, in the Chesa peake flay nod vicinity, called irenvailinick' Y.l)idi are famous for the peculiar flavor if their flesh, which is caused hqthe kind r,f food which they get in those Wfite-reH Thia:food i stiTiposed to he !lie ild , A Yinkee, in a tercet Pniffido paper, re commends the manufacture of 'canvasback duck:.',- out of the common domestic ' , cluck, by feeding thrm with garden celery while fattening. There is no sort of doubt that if thiP species of food be given them for come ‘t ( telts before they are th2v tvtll havothe flavor of it in their fl , sh, and per haps ! , (1 Noel to, or getter than, tie famous crinvazheekb above-;:C o ded to. It is an ex periment very easily tried, and 000 nhirh will'no doubt be bath successful and profi table,—Mnine Farmer. • , POTATOEs.—The editor of the Boston Cultivator says :-;•-t‘Bryinty potatoes may 1 -b e - n good method to save !here from the rot, nod it may be well to save tb r iiiihi f i way ; yet by_ exposure to the air they will lose. much of their good quality. If pota toes Tay in a bo:: or hart el, open to the nit, and in n room, shed or other ripe out of hie cellar, they will loose'much of their flood realities in five or six weeks. To • preserve potatoes in a good condition, they yhould he dug with n 9 little exposure to the nix as,,,Rossibity nod put in a cellar in a close kin, cii.9l; or box, and the cellar should be clewed so as to exelUde light and air.— Ye it may he better- to save them with loss of a part of their ;fond properties, than to let them decay but we would milieu the lovers ef4!ood potatmea againsmon much exposure, as it will cause too great a•depre dation in their valt,." . . SAltr As A MANnun.—Gay Lussac, ono. of the highest authorities in agricultut chemistry, maintain:: before life French (n• stitute that cult is nut rr manure, that it does nut contribute to the improvement of. soil. Tun 'At7ot;:;l' or "'Ann nninially mom:- - 7..,"; is 'min 700,000 casks. • )0. This is more in value . • • Mrs. Child's letters from New York, %Oda have lately been publiilied by Wiley and Putnam, son. tain route very interesting remiirkcences, among ri the foltowin'z very callow! incident, which occurred in' the family of the authoress, while the yellow fever was raging in that city : Otte of my fatheCti brothers, residing in Boston at the time, became a victim to the pestilence. When the first symptoms up : valued his Wife sent the children IMO the mum ry, and herself remained to attend upon hiin. filer friends warned her against such rashoese. They told her it would be death to Ler and no benefit to him ; for he would soon be too ill to know who attended upon him. Their arguments. made "no impres sion upon her affectionate heart. She felt if would be lile-long satisfaction to . he.r to know who attended upon him, if he did not. She necoiciingly staid. and watched him with unremitting care; This, however, did not avail to save him.. Ile grew woi.ge.. - and worse, and finally died. Those who went round with the death car had visited the chamber, and seen that the end was near. Theynow etainelo take the body. His wife - refused to let st go.— She told thorn that she never ItneW how le accoput for it, but, though ho was perfectly cold and - rigid, and to every apprnirhnce, quite dead, there was a powerful impres• two in her mind, that life was not eitincf. The inert were overborne by bar conviction. though their own reagriir was opposed to it. The hallThonr again came round, and again was heard the solemn words, "bring out your dead." The wile again resisted their importunittes; but this time the men were more resolute. They said the duty assign. ed to them was a painful one, but.the health of the city recrired punctual obedience to the orders they had received ; if they ever expected tho pestilence to abate, it must be by a prompt- removalmf the,denel, end inune, disk: fumigation of the interned apartments. She pleaded 1:10 pleaded, and even knelt to Them in the agony ni tears, conlinnallysm ing, "I pm surekeis_nat'dearbt - Thernica, represented-the-utter absurdity ors - uCh tin idea; buf finuq, overcome by her tears, again departed,: . , •• With • trembling haste she renewed her efljrts to restore likr. She raised his:head, rolled his limbs in hot flannel, and placed hot onions on his feet. The dread& half hour ago mo-round r and-found-Itim-as cold and rigid us. ever. She renewed her entreatiea Eck desperately; that the messen gore beffan to think n little gentle' force would be necessary. They aeordingly at, tempted, to remove the body against her will ; but she threw herself upon it, and clung to, it with such frantic strength that they could not easily loosen her grasp. Im pressed by the remarkable energy of her will, ihey relaxed their rffortrt, To all re tiivrietrents she answered, "if you bury him J‘i c 4 A Romlice, of iltial Life. -you shall-hury-nie with him." -At lam,* diiit of reasoning on the necessity or the case, they obtained from horn promise, that, f be showed no signs of life ,beforly the) again come round, she would matte no oppo sniop to the rernovei-- I!aving ginne'd this respite, she hung the v...atch upon the lied post, and renewed her H u irts, with. redoubled zeal. She placed jg: , of Ind water film! him, foreed.brandy hm weep his teeth, breathed into his nostrils, l and held harit.hoin to his nose; but still i the body lay motionless and cold. She 'looked anxiously nt the watch . ; in-five mini ute thn promised holiheur would c7;pire, and these dreadful voices would be hoard passing through the streets, Hopelessness came over her ;.alto dropped the head she hod herb sustaining; her hpnds trembled violently; and the hartshorne she had been holding was spilled on the pallid face, 'At cidentolly• the risition of the head had be. come. slightly tipped bockwarde, and the I powerful liquid flowed into his nostrils. 'ln. I stoutly, theme was a sharp, quick gasp—s stru:2l, - ;:s—his eyes opined; and when the death men citine again, they found him sit: ring op in hail. He is still alive, and los enjoyed_ unusnal good ELCCOENT EXTILACT.-A spirit of fault. findinq—anunsalistied temper—a constant irritability4little inequalities in the look, the temper, or thenianner—a brow ci r 6udy and dissatisfied—your husband or your wife cannot tell why—will more than neutralize all the good you can do, and render life any thing but 'a blessing. it is in•such gentle and quiet virtues as meekness End forbear• anee,:that the happiness and usefulness of life consists, far more than in- brilliant elo., quence, in splendid. Inlet - its, or illustrious deeds that *shall send the Vain© to future times.. It is the.hubbling spring which flows gently—the little•rivolet that glides Ihrougb the meadow, and which runs along do/ and night by the farm house, flail is useful, - rather , than the Swollen flood or the war ring cataract. Niagara excites our wonder, and we stand .nrnfized . at the . power rind greatness of God there, as ho !Tours ii from tha lioliow:cd his hand." But OW Niaga ra ;s.eanu -lr jar n world.nriade thOusands and, tens of thousands of silver fountains and curtly flowing rivoleta, that-shall flow on, every day and.night, with their gentle and quiet besAity,- , So with the nets-of 'lives.— It is not . by great deeds only, like thos . o.ef martyrs, that geed is to be done —it is'by the daily and quiet virtues of life—the chris tian temper, the meek forbearance, .the .piriz of forgiveness in the husband and wile, the fattier, the mother, the brother, the sister, the friend, the neighbor, that good is to be done, and-in this way all may be use. .10.-11ev. - Albert Barnes. Tim Wri•c.—lt needs no guilt to break a husband's heart. The' absence of con tent, the miutering , of spleen, .the ,, untidy' dress and careless'home,fhe forbidden scowl end deserted hearth ; these and other name less neglects— without a single crime among' them—have harrowed to the quick' the heart's - core of many a man, and planted there, beyond The reach of cure, the gPrm of drspair. Oh I niay woman, before that sad si4ht arms, dwell nn the recollections of her youth, and cherishing the .dear idea of that toneful time, awake and keep alive the promise she then so kindly gave, And though she may be the injured, not the in juring one—the forgetful site—a happy allusion to that hour of love— a kindly wel, come to - :a comfortable home— a smile of hove to banish hostile words—a kiss of peace to pardon ail the past—and ship hardest heart that ever locked o the breast of selfish man wilrosoften to her charm, and bid„ber live, as she had hoped —her years in matchless bliss ` - living and contented—thV soother of n sorrowing hour —the source of comfort and the sprihg Ofjoy: A PAINFUL SIGHT, The Nantucket Inquirer Says': It is pain- ful to see yriung men . lounging - about, month after month, neither working nor de siring to work, while others—perhaps their poor pa"rents—aro toiling from mormorr to night to save them from a disgrace which' their own thoughileasnestind laziness is fast' bringing' upon them.. But how many such sights do we see in .every community?— How many are to be found, Who have not that_sense_w_hichjs_necesssry to force them out hic - Intthgei'4 - - - seati .but:enottgli-or-Atiat , lals Pride - Wlitcb.. will not allow them to taltelfairetremployment if it does not hap.? pen.to be general or profitable l „Alas! the fate-of--sucht' Ito sealed, they will go to the grave unloved, but: : by their. mothers; up! mourned. but by their companions in idler ness, and soon be forgotten by an. .-, THINGS LOST FOR EvEn.—Lost wealth may be restored by industry -toe wreck of health-regained by temperance;;- 7 forgotten knowledge restored. by study—alienated rS friendship smoothed by . fo , etfulness—oven , forfeited reputation won b. patience and virtue. But who ever . again looked upon his 'vanished tours—ramified his slighted years--stamped them with wisdom—or ef faced from heaven's record the fearful blot of wasted Sigop.nry. TERMS -$2 00 PER ANNUM ; IN ADVANCE.] I . WHOLE NO. 811. Deacon Marvel was asleep in church. At ' every emphatic word in the sermon, as if' the Deacon attended to the disconree‘ even when sleepin ,, , his head nodded, and, every nod seemed to bring him nearer the floor ! ' The parson was dismayet4.what should•ha do? Once already haP4ie Deacon flowril from the gallery, end now it appeared that he was about to repeat the experiment,'and alas. with no subjacent fat woman to breals hisiall. Suppressing if rrlornentary rising of wrath and mortified vanity, Elder Mack resorted to several innocent artifices to arouse and Save the slumbering saint, lie lifted up hie Voice like a trumpeti nod went the head. Ile lowered hie tones to a gentle. murmur; nod, nod, nod, as before. The audience were surprised and delight.. ed with the unwonted energy of the old par-, , eon ; they imagined ho had received from on high a now and sudden inspiration, little fancying where ho borrowed his ardor. And.: now Elder Mack, growing desperate, began to hurl texts - of Scripture at the - unsteady . head of the sleeper. "it is high time to wake out of sleep," cried he.- Pitt in-vaini' the Deacon did not - heed — 'iii 'Me: - them that are at ease in .7..i0rp," he shouted, The Deacon nodded his assent. "Awake,. oh sleeper, and arise I" yelled the madden- 4 ' ed divine. The only .ans_wer was another nod, and a most threatening lurch of the Deacon's - whole body. .liler Mack could stand it no longer, but called Dant the top of hie ioicti„liDeacon . Marvell Peacpn Mgr.kel I it-is hartfpreach i ' ing to a aleeny.eongregation !" The Den.!. eon's head flew up to-its place at once, and' before he could command his tongue,;he thunilered back, "Eider-Mack,-Elder-Mack, it's a darned sight harder listening to sleepl. sermon!" The effect.of this retort was irresistible, and the assembly broke out in a paroxysm of laughter. Smtr.r.: s PROVIDENCE.—We have all_or is heard of the smileiThr Providence: I tvas much pleased with Uncle Joe'd ideas on' that subject. • "Good morning, Uncle Joe." • - "Good mOrning.." "Well.. VOLI'Ve .4141p1 rraVl: you_ u • , • ' , Really, Provideneelmiled upon you: 4 ' oStailed,! no, bless you, she stpieltereci left out /"—St. 'Louis Reveille: . Wirrir.—A noble lord asked a' Clergy.s man once, at the bottom of his table—"whv , the . goose, if there was one, was always placed nest the parson P "Really," said: he, "I can give you.no• reason for it ; but your question is so odd, I shall.never see a, pose again without thinking of your ship." A VETEnAN's REPLY TO A Cumaxxon.' —An officer of distinction and tried valor refused to accept a challenge sent by a young officer, but returned the following characteristic .ansWer ;—"1 fear not your' sword, but the sword of my God's anger.— I dare venture my life ia stead cause, but cannot hazard my soul id a bad , orte. - will charge up to the cannon's mouth for , the good of my country, but rant couri age to storm hell." ' ANECDOTE OF KOSCIUSEO'iI HonsH., Cosciusko wished to send- some bottles of - good wine to a clergyman ofSlothurri, and gave the commission to a young man by the name of Zeltner, and desired him' to take the horse lie himself usually rode._ On his. return, Zeltner said that he never would ride his horse again, unless he pet him his purse at the same time. .Kosciusko salting wliat he 'meant, he answered :—.‘"W hen - a' poor man on the road takes off his hat and asks charity;the horse immediat , ly stands still, and won't stir until some thin!, "s,givert to the petitioner; and-as I had no. •ney, I was obliged to make pretence to . g some thing, in order to•satisfy the horse." LADY SlVOKElM—According to Willis, theprac : tice or street smoking is universal in Paris. He. says : Every man smokes in the street in Paris.. And what is worse, (or better, asyou chance to think about it,) the ladies smoke very generally ! 'I was sitting*by the side'pf lovely English womanlesterdayrotrirm. ning call, when she suddenly threadaher__ lair fingers through-the-profusidii-oiblond .ctirls_upon her cheek r ancLsaid. "I hope mY hair is not distiir Wyou!t" I looked in amazement; of the possibility of course. "Because;' she added, "I have been saw king nil Om i m orning, and it stays n one's hairs° !" The ladies" smoke small paper ctgara,*made of very delicate tobaccor- A HINT TO L.sorps..—Jt pl better. to please but one person with the natural noun• tenancu than to please , a thodsand :by piior tin 3. • • - A lady looking at the review; wee irked if shThe partial to miliraryttsfolitipi; to which she replied - she liked exeeedivglythe officers' salute. -Vermont producee Three milli 4 pe4n i t4 t o. r m a p l e sugar eußiJany. • A RETORT. ~. ~. ,
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