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Di E ALBUM : -
A response to "Irate Rubrum," a poem in the At
lantielionthly.
In that Red Sea ofsuhtle thought
Which through the Atlantic streams and foams,
Among the gulf-weeds I have caught
A funny rish—the species, Holmes.
Our Doctor learnedly - of wine,
Like Tuscan Redi,* : only siring;
His fancy leaps in every line,
His muse must drink at healthy spring.
Good medicine-man, yet tell me more;
Say the whole story—say or sing—
And cry to him that faittwould soar,
Beware of wetting much thy wing!
•
Beware of mingled wine, and red ;
White Una recrulate,thy drank;
She rides alion—guard thy head I
Nor let thought's fountain be a sink.
My friend, McMullen, of Manhattan, • _
A merchant with 'a rciyal heart,
Sends me a white . Wine-soft'ss satin, -
That no delirium doth impart.
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50
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6 00
3 00
The vintage some gray castle claims
L'poft the Rhine, or on the Rhone,
I cannot well remember names—
Bat what of names ?the place is known
This man is mighty to on ale,
Such as good poet Proctor sung,
Great ale of Trinity! dark or pale,
It doth unbend our 4nglish tongue.
And wine of barley, rot too strong,
May better grace a poet's board
Than those more, potent i rlows that long
The poets have too freely poured.
Look not on wine-cups that are red!
For so the sacred, proverb goes
Come Holmes, with Horace, and-instead,
Taste that which from Manhattatflows.
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Light wine, that only cheers the brain,
No dangerous droPping from the'still,
Such wine as might have pleased Montaigne
And leaves man master of his will.
*Redi, the celebrated physician, and antlior
of "Baceo in ToSinna,' was a notorious
wa
ter-drinker. I [Boston Courier.
13V=E!
From the Flag , of our Union ."
THE TABLES TURNED
One evening, not long since, a number
of us old ship-masters, chanced to meet at
a social supper, and after thecloth was re
moved we went in for yarn Spinning.
Among our number was Captain Richard
Nutter, and a finer maa, or a better sail
or, never trod a deck; At length it came
his turn to tell a story, or, what we pre
ferred--;aud what thelest of its had done
—relate some incident of experience in
his own life.
" Well, boys," he• Said, as he rejected
the wine, which was at that.moment 'pass
ed to him for the first time, " I will give
you a bit of the early part of my oeean
life, and it is a, very important bit,
,toli
for upon it I have built the whole of m 1
subsequent manhood." , • •
We prepared to listen to Captain Nut
ter with the most perfect attention, for he
was not only an Old sea -man, bat one of
the most successful notrunanders in our
mercantile marine. We listened, and his
story was as follows
" I was very, young when I first entered
on shipboard, and at the age of fourteen
I considered inset - Nuke a sailor. .When
r was eighteen I was 'shipped on board au
East Indiaman, • fora long voyage. There
were six .of .us. on board • of about the same
age, and [wc had about the same datiaa to
eboteti to fhb of ,Ihte, i), , e,tlioeN c O9,, 475 gi3BAgqolor? of :ZioNlity,' gifeiligto 4'43 tat*.
tritttAr anetrii.
THINK OP um
Minn pleasure's cup is sptskling high,
When friends around thee throng;
When hearts are light with,play or mirth,
And lighter Wakes the song ;
-"Mien counting o'er thy many joys,
Recalled by memory,
If 'twill not dim thy pleasure then,
Oh, give one thought to me.'{
At dawn, when first Aurora's light •
Reflects o'er hill and dale,
And gilds th'e dew-washed lily's head,
That sleeps within-the vale; •
When first the lark shall pluMe his wing,
And soar from bOndage free,
To warble forth some merry notes,
Then give one thought to me,
And when the shades of evening are
Fast falling into night--
AC . I hour that seems well made for thought—
And quiet is delight ;'
At midnight's dead and solemn.hour,
'When on thy beaded knee,
Thy hands upraised, to heaven in prayer,
Oh, then, THEN think of met
If I could claim the richest gem, j .
That now lies in the sea,
I'd rather far than have that pearl,
Have one kind thought from thee ;
If all the joys of this bright world
Were now spread out to me,
And I were told to make a choice,
I'd ask one thought from thee.
WO` a'.l.
Woman is
In Infancy a tender limier—. ,
Cuultivate her;
A floating bark in girlhood's hour-=.
Softly freight her.
A fruitful vine when grown .a lass,
Prune and please her;
Old, she's a heavy charge,. alas
Support and ease her.
gitEttfli Cars.
BY Extvastrs Can, Jit
: ~1 w , THURSDAT I -APRIP•22; /858.
perform. The ship—the old Lady Dun
lap—was a large one, and our erew was
large in proportion; there being' fifty-two
all
_told. We 'boys,' as we were called,
messed together, and in all other respects
were separate from the rest of, the crew,
just as much as the officers were. , Our
captain was a noble-hearted; honorable,
man, kind and generous, biit yet very
Strict. Of course we youngsteis found
plenty of occasion to find fault with him,
and very often were his decisions, arraign
ed before our mess and decidedly condemn
ed. In I fact, we should have reversed
many of his judgments, if we had had the
power ; but as he was the commander, and,
we only foremast hands—and boys at-that
—he had his own way, and the luminous
decisions we came to were consequently
of no avail, and lost to the world.
"Now we boys had . learned,' in the
course of our travels, to drink our grog ss
well as any sailors. We could toss off a
glass of rum and water with as much grace
as any one, and we claimed the right to
do so, not only as a privilege, but as an
honor to which a life upon the ocean en
titled us. But even in this respect our
captain pretended to differ from W 3. When
we could get on shore, we would invaria
bly indulge in our cups„ and not unfre
fluently would we come off; or be brought
I A in a state anything but sober. I said
but there was one of our numher
rwho never could be induced to 'touch a
drop of anything intoxicating. His name
was John Small, and he belonged in one
of the back towns of New Jersey.
" Now Jaek Small not only refrained
reatirely from drinking himself, but used
sometimes to ask us to let the stuff alone.
He gave that job up, however, for we made
such sport of him that he was glad to let
us alone. But our captain had sharp eyes,
and it was not long before he began to
show Jack Small 'favors which he did pot
show to us. He would often take Jack
on shore with him tt spend the night, and
such things as that, while we were kept
on board the ship. Of course this created
a sort of envy on our part, and it ended
in- a decided towards poor Jack.
" Now in truth, Jack was one of the
I best fellows in the world. He was kind,
obliging, honest, always willing to lend a
helping hand in case of distress, and as
true a friend as ever lived,—only he
would'nt drink with us, that was all. No
=that wasn't all. He learned faster than
we did,—he was a better sailor, and had
learned more of navigation. But this we
tried to lay to the captain's paying hint
the most attention, though we knew bet
ter at the time, for we had the privilege
of learning juts as much as we had a mind
to. The truth of - the matter was, we five
loved the ideal of being 'old salts,' better
than we did anything else, and we spent
more time in watching for opportunities
to have a spree than we did in learning
to perfect ourselves in the profession we
had chosen.
"It even got so at length,. that Jack
Small was called upon to take the deck
sometimes, when the officers were busy,
and he used to work out the reckoning at
noon as regularly as did the captain. Yet
Jack was in our mess, and lie was a con
stant eye-sore. We saw that he was
reaching rapidly ahead of us in every use
ful particular, and yet we wouldn't open
our eyes. We were envious of his good
fortune, as we called it, and used to seize
every opportunity to tease and run .
But he never got angry in return. He
sometimes would laugh at us, and at others
he wouldso feelingly chide us that we
would remain silent for a while . .
"At, length the idea entered our heads
that Jack should drink with tit. We
talked the matter over in the mess when
Jack was absent, and we mutually pledged
each other that we would make him drink
at the first opportunity. After this deter
mination was taken, we treated Jack more
kindly, and he was happier than be had
been for some time. Once more we laugh
ed and joked with him in the mess, and
he in return helped us 'in our navigatidn.
We were on our home-ward bound pais
age, by the wy of Brazil, and our ship
stopped at Rio Janeiro, where we were to
remain 'a week or so. One pleasant morn
ing we six youngsters received permission
to go on shore and spend the whole' day;
and accordingly we rigged• up in our best
togs and were carried to the landing.
" Now was our chance, and 'we put our
heads together to see how it 'should be
done. Jack's very first desire, as soon as
he got on shore, was, to go ut) and exam
ine the various things of interest in the
city. He wanted to visit the churches,
and such like places, and to please him . vre
agreed.to go with him if he would goand
take dinner with us. • He agreed to this
at once, and we thought we ho l d hinisirre.
We planned, that after dinner was' eaten,
we would have some light sweet wine
brought on, and that we would contrive
to get rum enough into what he drank to
upset him, for nothing on earth could
please us, more than to get. Jack Small
drunk, and carry him on board in that
shape, for then we fancied the captain's
fitvoritisni would bent an end, and that
he frould no longer , look:npon our rival
with more preference thannpon Ourselves.
We had the matter all, arranged, and in
the meantime we paid; Jack all the atten
tion in our poirer—so,much se that he at
length signified a willinoness tOi go any
where to please us, provided we Would not
go to any bad place.
"Dinner time mine, and a m
dinner we'had. We bad selec
the best hotels, for the prices
higher there than at places: of
pate,_ and, in fact, not so high,
low places fleece a 'sailor- most
fully. The eatables were despati
becoming gusto, andthen the di
removed, and nt a - sign from me
was brought on.
Ah ! what have you here
Jack, betraying some uneasiness
pearance of the glasses and both
(‘ 4 Only a little new wine
as carelessly as I could. g dere
the grape. ,
ig But it's wine, nevertheless,'
he,
• "It isn't wine,' cried Sam .
was one-of the la rdest 2zuts old
ever cracked. . 11
"No,' chimed in Tim Black, another of 1
about the same stamp. 4 It's ony a little
simple juice. Come, boys, fillup.'
" ' The glasses were accordingly filled,
Sam Pratt performing:that duty; and he
took good care that Jack's gl Qs had a
good quantity of sweetened rum in - it;
" ' No,' said Jack, as the g, ss was
moved towards him; ' if you arelgoing to
commence thus, I will keep your ompany
with water while you remain orderly, but
I will not touch your. wine! . 1`;•
1 This was spoken - very mildly, put with
la kind smile, but yet it was spoken firm
ly, and we could see - that 'our plan was
1 about being knocked in the head. We
urged him to drink with usmy one
glass, if no more. We told him how tin
nocent it was, and how happyis social
glass would make us; but we e ould not
move him.
"Then let him go!' cried Tun, who
had already drank some. In ,faet, all of
us, but Jack, had drank more
V or less dur
ing the aforenoon.Let him go. We
don't want the mean fellow with us V
~ , That's it,' added. Sam, with a bitter
I sneer,
"off he goes.. If he's too good to
I drink with •his shipmates, we don't want
him.' - • • ,
"You misunderstand me,' 'said Jack,
in a tone of pain. ''Lam not too good to
drink with you, in the sense in which you
would take. But Ido not wish to drink
at all."
" ' Too stingy—that's all,' said I, de
termined to make him drink if I could.
But Jack looked at me so reproachfully
as I said this, that I wished I had not
spoken as I' did.
" ' If you wish to enjoy your wine, mess
mates,' said Small, at the same tine rising
from his chair, 'you cant do so, bat I 'beg
you will excuse me. I will pay my share
of the expenses for the dinner.'
" ' And for your share of the wine,'
said Tim, 4 for we've ordered it for you.'
" ' No,' returned Jack, 4 I cannot pay
for any of the wine—' - ,
" 'Mean!' cried two or three at ahreath.
" 'No, no, )23essmates not mean, ' I will
pay for the whole of the dinner—fdr every
,article you and I have had in the! house,
save the wine.'
" And as , he• spoke he rang the bell.
He asked of the waiter who entered what
the bill was for the cdmpany, 'without the
wine, and after • the amaunthad been stated,
.he took out his Pnrselto pay it, when Sam
Pratt, who was our 4knowledged l leader,
caught his arm., . 1 ' •
" ' No—not so,' sail Sam. ' You shall
not pay for it,'or we will net eat ,at the
expense of one who ;will sneak out of a
scrape in this way. 'ilVe want nothing
more to do with- ycn4 unless you take a
glass of wine with us .1 , '
" 4 Very' well,' said Jack; and; as he
spoke I could see that his lip quivered,
and that he dared not speak more. 1
" He turned tewara the door then, but
before he reaChed it Tim Black ran and
caught him, at the sane time exelaiming :
"May I be blessed if you go offs°, any
. .
way. - You've commenced, and now
you've.got to stick it out." . _
• "This was the signal for us to corn- .
mence again; and . once more we. tried to
ur g e Jack to drink the wine • ' and; when
we found that urging ,would:not do,"wel
,
commenced to abuse and - scoff. We ac-,
cased hint ,of trying to step, over,,us on
board the ship, and dal! other badthings
of
,which we could 'think_ For awhile 1
the poor fellow seethed inclined to let his
anger get the upper hands; bat at length
he calmed - himself, and stepping back to
his chair,• he said
• o
"Shipmates, 'Will you listen to me for,
'a moment ?"
1 "Silence gave consent, and in la mo 7
merit more he resumed : , ~.-
''Since matters hive came to this' Oss,
I have resolved' to
•' tell you , whatillhad
meant to keep locked up in My own bo
som". . .. .. ~ 1 ' . • i,..=
"We had always, thought, from 'Jack's
3/IFaer,that,.there was .something_,pectt-
Bak connected with his early life, and we
were alLattention in' a moment.
" story is aivery short one,' he
continued, 'and I can tell it in a very few,
words. From the time of my earliest,
childhOod I never knew what it was to
have, a happy home: My father was a
drunkard! pnce
,be had been a good'
man, and a geed husband, but rum ru
ined all.his Manhood, and made a brute
of him. I can remember how cold and
cheerless wasdthe first winter of my life
to which my memory leads my mind.—
We had no -fire—no food—no clothes--
no joy—no nothing; nothing but misery
and woe.!
~3IY poor mother used to clasp
me to her bosom to keep *me -warm, and
once—once - 1 remember—when her very
tears froze on my cheek? - O,'how my
mother prayed to God for her husband;
and I; who could but just prattle, learned
-to pray, too. And I used to see that
husband and father, return to his home,
and I remember how my poor mother
cried and tremhled. ,
"'When I grew Older I had to eo out
and beg for bread. , All cold and shiver
' ing I waded through the deep snow, with
-my clothes in tatters, and my frozen feet
almost bare. And I saw other children'
of my own age, dressed warm and com
fortable, and 14 knew they were happy,
for they laughed and sang as they bound
ed along towards school. These boys had
fathers and mothers. I knew that their
fathers were no better than: mine had
been once, for my mother had told me
how noble my own father could be if the
accursed demon rum were not in his way;
but the fatal power ,was upon him, and
though he often tried, yet be. could not
ese 6 Pe• ,
"'Time passed on, and I was eight
years old, and those eiga years had been
years of such sorrow and suffering as I
pray God I may never see another expe
rience. At length, one cold morning in
the dead of winter, my father was not at
home. He had not-been at home through
the night. My mother sent me to the
tavern to see if I could find him. I had
gone half the way, When I saw something
in the snow, by, the Bide of the road. I
stopped, and a shudder ran thiough me,
for it looked like a ; human form. .Iwent
up to it, and turned the head over and
brushed the snoW from the face. It was
my father—and heWas stiff and cold I I
bid my hand upon his pale brow, and it
was like solid- marble. He was dead !"
it capital
l ed one of
iwere no
lower re
for these
unrnerei
hed with
ijhes were
the wine
asked
t tke ap-.
replied,
Unice of
,pursued
ratt, who
Neptune
1
"Poor Jack stopped a moment and
wiped:his eyes. i Not one of us spoke, for
we had become too deeply moved. But
he soon went on.]. 1
4" 'I went to the tavern and told 1 the
people, there what r l had found, andj the
landlord sent twn Of, his men to carry ] the
frozen ,body of my father home. 0, ship
mates, I cannot I tell you 'how my poor
mother wept and groaned. • She sank
down upon her knees and Clasped that
icy corpse to her beating bosom, as though
she would have given - it life from the'
warmth of her oivia breast. She loved
her husband throngh all his errors, and
her loVe was all poWerful now. The two
men went away, and left the body still
on the floor., My mother whispered to
me to come and kneel by her side. I did
so. 'My child,' slie said to me, and the
bi g tears were yet rolling down her
cheeks, 'you knout what has caused all
this. This man was once as noble and
happy and true as an can be, but 0, see
how he has been stiicken down. Prom
ise me, my child,, Qi promise, here before
God and your dead ather, and your bro
ken-hearted mothet., that you will never,
never, never touch a single drop of the
fatal poison that lias wrought for us all
this misery.' - . .
"'O, shipmates„ T . did promise, then
and there, all that Myr mother asked, and
God knows that, to, this moment that
promise has never ben broken. My fa
ther was buried, , and some good, kind
nerghbprs helped •iiS through:. the winter.
When the next spring came I could work,
ei
and I earned soma 0. for my mother.
At lengthl found a chance to ship, and
.1' did so, and ev time 1, cro home I
have some money ftqi nay mother.'
, e
- " 'And now,' .1" k continued, 'you
know my story. of for all the wealth
of the whole worldl would I break the
pledge I gave my Mother and my God on
that dark, cold moining. And, even had
I made no such pledge I would not touch
the fatal cup,'-for
• 1 know that I have a
fond,'doting mother who would be made
miserable' by my Ait!honor, and, I Would
rather die than to r pting more sorrow up-!
on ,her' head. . erhaps you have n
n
mothers; and if yoi have, perhaps they
do not look to y'etifor support, for I know
you too well to bell+ that either of you
would ever bring 40ini a loving mother's
L e
gray hairs in sorrn Ito the grave. That
is all;shiptuates. .Bet me go now, and
you may enjoy yo , Ives alone, for Ido
pot believe •that yon twill again urge the
,
wine - cup upon me
"As Jack ,thus
wards- the door, b,
him.
"'Hold on, Jai
his eyes:.und starti
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'You shan't go aloud. I have got a moth
er, and I love hor as -well as yon love
yours, and rur mother shall not be hap
pier than mine, for, by the love I bear her,
I here swear that she shall never have a
drunken son. I will . drink no more!'
"'Give us your hand, Tim,'• cried Sam
Pratt. go with you.
"I waited no more, but quickly start
ing from my. i chair, , l joined the' other
two, and ere long the whole five 'of us
joined.with Jack Small in his noble life
plan. We called- for pen, ink, and pa
per, and made Jack draw up a pledge.--
He signed it first, and we followed -him,
and when the deed was done, I know we
I were far happier than we Lad been be
fore for years. The wine we had drank
during the forenoon was now,all,gone in
its effect.
"Towards evening we returned to the
ship. There was ;frown upon the cap.
tain's brow as we came over the -side,
for he had never known us to come -off
from a day=s liberty sober. - But when
we had all come over the side and report•'.
ed ourselves to him, his countenance
changed. He could hardly give credit to
the evidence of his own senses.
.1
"'Look here, boys,' said he after'he
bad examined us thoroughly, 'what does
this mean ? '
" ' Show him the paper; - whispered I.
i
"Jack had our pledge, and 1 •thout
speaking he handed it to the cap • i
=.
.n.—
He took it and read it, and h face
changed its expression several tim -, and
at length I saw a tear stait l to his eye.
" ' Boys;. he said, as he folded up the
paper, 'let me- keep this, and if you stick
to your noble resolution you shall never
want a friend while I live. •
"We, let the captain keep the aper,
and when he had put it in his pocket he
came and took us each in turn , by - the
hand. He was much affected, ~and I
knew the circumstance made' him happy.
From that day our prospects brightened.
Jack Small no longer had Our enry, for
he took hold and taught 'us in navi"ation,
I and we were proud of him. , On the, next
voyage we all six were rated 'as able sea
men,..ll and received full wages,.and e left
not that noble-hearted captain un • we
left 'to become officers on board other
ships.
"Jack Small is now - one of bes
ters in the world, arid I believe tl
rest of our party are still Hying,
and respected men. Three years
all met—the whole six of us—at t
tor House, in N. Y., and not on.
had broken that pledge' which we,
in the hotel at Rio. Four, of
then commanders of good ships, o
a merchant in New York and th
was just icing out as American co
one of the Italian cities on the
ranean
"You now know why I do not
wine:with you, and of course you
urge it upon me, nor take my re'
_
a mark of coldness or disrespect"
Thus Capt. Richard Nutter clos.
story, and it made much- imprwsii
on us all. So much so, at any rat
we touched not the wine on that - el
but drank cold water with him.;
know that on the next morning on:
were clearer, and our nerves more
from the experiment.
I have spent a long life-in- the
places of the earth, and I havi
enough to cause this conclusion :
I to live my life over wain, I won
er touch one drop of odcoholicas
a leVel I I -
siir The world is full of good. people,
if we were not so childishly taken by the
outside, that we often forget•to look fOr
the kernel.
The extreme pleasure-we take in
taking of ourseltes, should make Mi fear
that we give ye,ry little to those who listen
to us.:—Lci Rochefoucauld.
ser. The world is the book of women;
whatever .knowledge they possess is { :more
commonly acquired by .observatioui than
by reading.—Rosseau.
ler In all the world, in evory circle of
society,' there is' not, cannot be, amore_
miserable, despicable creature than a dis
appointed .womanthe jest of one' Sex,
and the scorn of the other--a.hatied to
herself, and a burden to her' friends.—
Titan.
xag6 I compare the art of spieading ru
mors to the art, of pin-making. •!Thern is
usually some truth which I-call wire; ;as
this passes from hand to-hand, , one gives
it a polish, another a point; otherq *aka
and put_on the head,: and at length the
pin is completed.--Arezeton. :.
se-People who never knew, fnim the
cradlelo the grave, oze hunr of self-grat
ification, can still find time to stretch' out
a hand to help some one more weary than
themselves. Feeling begets feeling .'and
while each year sees some grow moreiler
row-hearted, more self:centered, theisphern
of interest of others is widening, stretch-
I ing to 'hundreds to whom °vett' sympathy
lis grateful.
ike, he turned to-
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