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Dar From a hundred poems sent within a
week to Willis, of the Home Ammo!, be selects
and publishes the following as the best. It is
from the pen of Mrs. Campbell, of Pottsville,
Pa., who is thus placed in the position of a
first-class poet. This poem is beautiful:
Thdu exile from the ocean
Child of the surging sea t
Wherefore this ceaseless moaning
What wouldst thou tell to me?
Wouldst thou reveal the treasures
A thousand fatho l ms deep— '
The golden, gleaming amber— -
The pearls that mermaids weep? .
Or wail of lost, and lovely. •
• That storms have gathered there—
The maiden lowly lying,
Sea-weeds tangled 'mid her hair?
Now moan thy ceaseless murmur
With lips upon my ear,
While Fancy shall interpiet
The melody I hear'.
The sea-shell's tiny caverns
Made answer soft and low,
1, 12,.r murmur is the memory
Of tones heard long ago.
"The song of mother ocean
As she rocked me on her breast.
An echo of her lullaby,
Is the voice of my unrest.
" Thou curious enquirer t
The earth upon thee smilcd
When thy soul came down from Heaven
And became a little child.
" Remembrest thou the voices—
The looks— the namekss things,
That woke, to early music.
Thy heart's unnumbered strings?
1 50
"In weariness and travail,
Thou h:tst watched thy years depart,
But memory intoneth
Their voicings to thy heart.
"One ear is on my sighing;
Turn the other to thy breast
This plaint, so soft and ceaseless,
Is like demory's uarest.
" In melancholy music
Murmur heart and sea-shell fair
The echoes wakened long ago
Shall chime forever there."
I laid the shell aside me.
When lo! a little child
Stood by my knee, and wistfully
Looked in my fate, and smiled.
Then I took him to my bosom,
Singing—oh how fearfully !
For methought . my words might echo
Through his soul's eternity.
A KISS AT THE DOOR
The clock struck ten •. I seized my hat
And bade good night to ull
Except the hiss I courted, who
Came with me through the hall.
She stood within the portal,
And I hazed upon her dorms,
And oh t I lo.l,sed that moment
To clasp her hi my arms.
She spoke about the mono stare,
How cl2rr and br.:.;n:
I said I thought
Unlv! - ,s sooa:
Then I cd , ,red a little ciostr;
Put my orra arOu,..! her Ivaist,
and gazed upon those rosy, hps
I longed so much to
Said I, me dearest Susv.
never rest contented;-
If I leave to night w:thout a kiss,
I'll surely grow demented."
Then up she turned her roky mouth,
And everything was handy,
Quick from her lips I seized a kiss—
' 011, Yankee Doudle Dandy I
Then off for home I Started,
I could no longer stay, .
With light heart and breeches thin,
I whittled all the 'w.ty.
Hence, learn tills truth, each bashful youth
Who for wedded bliss,
No lass will love until you move
Her feelings with a kiss.:
E. A. - JONES
gitftt6 iryatt.
eke End Ufa Woman's Caprices
" Men are never so awkward, never so
ungraceful', never so disagreeable, as when
Lamy are =kin.. kive. ..;friend is a lux
uty, a husbaneditto, I suppose; but that
intermittent class of human beings de
nominated ' lovers' are terrible bores. It
does very well for women to blush and
look flustered now and t4n, when occa
sion makes it desirable; bin to see a man
With his face as red as a ripe cherry, and
.t real parcel of strong-mindedness, self-re
atince, and masculine dignity, done up in
broadcloath and starched linen,_ quaking
from the toe of his boot to the top ofhit.
Shirt collar, his mouth awry; and his tongue
iwisted into convulsions, in the vain: at
r,emptc to say something :swcet-0 gra
ol,ms I"
So said saucy Sophie . Lynn aloud tc.
herself, as she sat swinging backwards fain]
fuiliiardE before the windciw, half buried
in the cushions of a luxuriant arni-chair
and playing with a delicatelvory fan whic:,
lay upon her lap.
"It also seems so strange, nct to,sa .
t; resolve," she - continued, with a . runnin
musical laugh s " after onebitsValtzonci
Debotza to 14 Wiricipies of Ihia qqa tine Dis.setiipptioil of bjoiliitij, 1 1 ..iteNtqlv, isebos
SHELL MUSIC
BY JULIET H, CAMPBELL•
A LOVE STOIIY
COUDERSPORT, POTTER .COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1858
snug, quoted poetry, and talked nonsense,
with anybody, till one is puzzled to know
which one of the two is most heartless,
one's self or one's companion, to hear him
come down plump on the subject of mat
rimony, as though that was the legitimate
result of every such insipid acquaintance
For my part, I never had a lover (here
Sophie fluttered her fan and looked pleas
ed, for she had had more than one) that
I wasn't sick of after he proposed. There
was Capt. Morris; I thought him the
handsomest man in the whole circle of my
acquaintance, until he went on his knees
to me, and swore he - should die if I didn't
take pity on him. Somehow, he always
looked a fright to me afterwards. Tlr:n
there was Dr. Wilkins; he was really
agreeable, and people'said very learned.
I was delighted with him for a time ; but
he spoiled it all with that offer of his—
what long-winded adjectives ! and how
the poor fellow blushed, puffed, and per
spired I He called me an adorable crea
ture,'l and hiccoughed in the middle of
adorable.' Horrors 1 I have hated him
ever since. Then there was a"—
Here Sophie started. She heard the
door-bell ring. With a nervous spring
she stood before her mirror, smoothing
down her brown hair with a taste truly
comical.
4. It won't do to seem interested," she
said, as she took a finishing survey of her
person in the glass,
and shook out, with
her 'dump, jewelled fingers, the folds of
her airy muslin dress.
The moment afterwards, when a servant
entered to announce Mr. Harry Ainslee,
she was back to her old seat by the win
dow, rocking and playing wirh her fan,
apparently as unconcerned and listless as
though that name had not sent a quicker
thrill to her heart, or the betraying crim
son all over her pretty face. Tell him
T. will be down presently." she said.
The girl disappeared, and Sophie flung,
open the window, that the cool fresh air
might fan away the extra rojness from
her complexion. Then . she went again to
the mirror, and, after composing her bright,
eager, happy face into an expression of
demureness, descended to the parlor. A
smile Lroke over her features, and she
reached out both hands to the guest ; she
drew them back again, and, with a formal
bow of recognition, she passed him, and
seated herself in a further corner of the
room.
It was very evident that something was
iwrong with Sophie; that she had made
. up her mind either - not to be ph a_sed, or
not to please. Could it be that she had
'foreseen what was coining ? That a pre
sentiment of that visit and its result Lad
'dictated the merry speeches in her cham
ber? Be that, as it may, a half boor had
not elapsed before Liertry Ainslee's hand
and fortune —which latter, by the way,
was 'lofting, wonderful—w:!re in the same
place where Capt. Morris's and Dr. Wil
kins's had been before them.
"Tie first man that I ever heard say
sueh'things without waking a fool of him
si ft," muttered Sopli.t:einpliatieally from
-behind her fan, as she sat blushing and
evidently gratified; yet without deigning
any reply to the gallant, straightforward
speech in which her lover had risked his
ail of hope.
He ought to do pennance for the pret
ty way in which he manages his tonue.
He's altogether too calm to suit. me."
And Sophie shook her curly head, mean
ingly, bolding her hand before her for a
sereendid she forget what.she had been
saying? "I wonder if-I could snore the
Way oid Uncle dues usod to in church ?"
she soliloquized. " Wouldn't it be tun.
And wi,nldn't it plague Harry if he
thought I had been asleep while he was
talking ?" •
Sophie's blue -eyes danced with sup
pressed merriment as she gave two or three
heavy breathings, and followed them up
with a nasal explosion worthy of an ortho
dox• deacon. It was well done, and theat
rically dune; and poor -Harry sprang bolt
upright—surprised, ah,rtified, chagrined.
Human nature could stand it no longer,
and Sophie gave vent to her mirth in a
burst of triumpiumt laughter.
u little witch—you mischief—
you spirit of evil !" exclaimed the relieved
Harry, as he sprang to her side, and caught
her by the arm with a grip that made her
scream. " You deserve a shaking for
yourbehavior!" Then, lowering his voice,
he added, gravely :
'"Will you never have done tormenting
me ? If you love me, can •you not be gen
erous enough to tell me . so ? And it' you
do not, am I not at least worthy of a can
did refusal ?"
Words sprang to Sophie's lips that
would have done credit - to her womanly
nature, and mitdo, her lover's heart bound
with rapture, for the whole depths of her
being were stirred and drawn towards him
's they never before had been towards
any Man.
But she could not. quite give up her
mimicry
,then. Sne would go one step
arther from Lim, ere she laid her hano
in Iris, and told him he wa;'dearer than
rtl the world beside. -Soshe checked the
'tender response that trembled on he'r
tongue, and flinging off his grasp, .with a
mocking gesture and a ringing laugh,
danced across the room to the piano.
She seated herself; she ran her fingers
gracefully over the keys, and broke out
in a wild. brilliant, defiant song, that made
her listener's ears tingle as he stood watch
ing her, and choking back the indignant
words that came crowding to his lips for
utterance.
" Sophie, listen to me !" he said at
length, as she paused from Sheer exhaus
tion. "Is it generous, is it just, to trifle
with me so ? To turn into ridicule the
emotions of a heart that offers to you the
most reverent affections ?
" I have loved 'you, because, beneath
this volatile surface character of yours, I
thought I saw truthfulness and simplici
ty. purity of soul, and a warm current of
tender, womanly feelings, that would bathe
with blessings the whole life of him whose
hand was so fortunate as to touch its se
cret springs. You are a heiress, and I
only - a poor student; but if that is'. the
reason why you treat my suit So - scorn
fully, you are less the noble woman than
I thought you."
Sophie's head was averted, arid a sus
picious moisture glistened in her eyes as
Harry ceased speaking. Ab !. why is it
that we. Eogietiutes hold our highest hap
piness so lightly—carrying it carelessly
in our hands, as though it were but dross,
shaking it all upon au idle caprice!
When she turned her countenance to
wards him again, the same mocking light
was in her eyes, the same coquettish
smile breathed from her red lips.
" Speaking of heiresses," said Sophie,
" there's Ilelen' Myrtle, whose faiher is
worth twice as much as mine. Perhaps
you had better transfer your attention to
her, Mr. Ainslee. The difference in our
dowries would no doubt be quite an in
ducement, and possibly she might con
sider your case more seriously than I have
done.c'
Like an insulted prince, Harry AinSlee
stood up before her—the hot, fiery, indig
nant blood dashed in a fierce torrent over'
hi!s face—his arms crossed tightly upon
his breast, as if to keep his heart from
lytirSting with uprising indignation—his
compressed lips, and his dark eyes. flash-1
ing. Sophie, cruel Sophie - You added
one drop too much to your cruel sarcasm.
You trespassed upon his forbearance one
little step further than you would have
dared, had you known his proud and sensi-,
tive nature.
Nut he had gone—gone without a
single word of expostulation, leaving only
a grave " gcudl,y" and the memory of his
pale lime to plead fur him—did the thought
less girl wake to a realization of what She
Thad done. Then a quick, terrible feta
shot through her heart, and she would
have given evel'y curl on her brown head
to have had hint beside her ono short mo
ment longer.
Pshaw ! what am I afraid of? He
will be back again within twenty-four
hours, and as importunate as ever, 7 ' she
muttered to herself, as the street door
closed after him -; yet a sigh, that was half
a sob followed the words ; and could Harry
have seen the beautiful pair of eyes that
watched him so eagerly as he went along
the street, or the bright, face that leaned
away out through the parted blinds, with
such a wistful look, ss lie disappeared, it
might have been his turn to triumph.
In spite of Sophie's prophecy, twen
ty-foie• hours did not bring back Harry.
Days'matured into weeks, and still he did
not conic, nor in all that tithe did she see
him. And now she began to think her
s: if quite a martyr, and acted according
ly. In fact, she did as.alniost any hero
ine would have done under the circum
stances—grew pale and interesting. Ma--
riana began to suggest the delicacies to
temp tiophie's palate. "The poor dear
child was gettiug.so thin." In vain So
phie protested that she had no appetite.
In vain papa brought dainty gifts- and
piled up costly dresses before his pct. A
faint smile or abstracted ",thank you" was
the only recompense. If sister li,ate sug
gested that Harry's absence was, in any
manner connected with her altered de
meanor Sophie would toss her r a‘lettd
head with an air of supreme indifference,
and go away and cry over it hours at a
'time. Everybody thought something- was
the matter with Sophie. Sophie anion! ,
the rest.
Her suspense and penitence became
insupportable at last. Sister Kate, who
had come so near the solution of the true
mystery, should know all—so said Sophie.,
Perhaps she could advise her what to do,
tbr to give Harry up forever seemed every
day more and more of an impossibility.
• "Will you conic into the garden with
me, Kate?" she asked, in a trembling
voie:P, of her sister, one dayabout a month
after her trouble - with Harry. "I have
something of importance.to tell you."
"Go away, darling, and I will be with
yr, al in a few . moments," replied Kate,
ert-ting a searching glOde at Sophie's
flushed cheeks and bWollenj eyes.
Running swiftly along thb crarden paths,
a s if from fear of pursuit ; Sophie turned
aiide into her favorit2 arbor, and flinging
I,w Seat; Buried her
1 vines, and gave her
of passionate grief.
G approaching, and
tenderly about her
ind wassJaiii caress
bead.
herself down on a
head among the cool
self up to a Paroxyst
Soon she heard stel
an arm was- twined w
waist, and ,a warm
ingly on her drooped
- "0,- Kate, Kate it
agony . of her repenta!
.wretched. You don
you have come very
three times. Harry
' she cried,
.in the
nce, "I am perfectly
't know why, though
near.guessmg two or
ind I" -
sop interrupted her,
er head passed over
with a gentle, Booth-
Here a conculsiv
and the hand upon
her disordered curls
jog motion.
"Harry and I"—'
relied two or three
wilful and rude, jus:
me to be, and he
think. he is going tol
been here since."
'another sob—''quar
weeks agq. I was
as it was natural for
l of - angry. I lon't
forgive, for he hasn't
f drawn in a closer
re Kate pitied her.
Sophie felt hers,
embrace, and was s
• owned-it to anybody,
st as it is," she eon
ittle white hands into
Ink I love hint almost
ter and mother." •
"I would not hay;
if it had not been jL
tinued,•rubbing her . ?
her eyes; "but I th
as I do you and fath
Sophie's glossy head,
held. She wondered
ent, but still kept her
A kiss dropped os
and tiahter was she
that Kate was so si
face hidden in the
REM
'IL) asked meto be his wife," -she
- continued, "asked Inc as nobody else
ever did—in such a manly way, .that he
made me feel as though I ought to have
been the- ow to plead instead of him. I
could not -bear that., and I answered him
as 1 should not. He thought it was be
'cause he was poor and I was rich ; and
all the time I was I would rather
live in a cottage with him than in the
grandest palace in Ithe world with any
other man, only I Was too proud to tell
him so to his face. • What can I do? Tell
me, Katct; you are much better haul am,
and you never get info trouble. Jam sure
I,shall lie if you doift." And poor So
phie.w4t anew.
"Look up, dom., and I'll tell you." .
Sophie did look tip, with a start, and
the next moment, With a little scream,
leaped into the arms not of sister Kate,
but Harry Ainslee !
Sophie declares tolthis day that she has
never forgiven eitherr of them, though she
has been Mrs. Aiuslee nearly two years.
el o iDitt r, thing.
A Ration's IGnititude
From the Mount Vernon Record.
The _Abbe SIC . ARD, a distinguished
French philanthropist, and teacher of the
deaf and dumb, relates that on a certain
occasion one of his pupils was interroga
ted --upon a variety Of subjects, to all of
which he replied in a singularly thought
ful and sacacicus manner. To the tines
tion—" What is gratitude —he an
swered
"G - atitude is the memory of the heart."
• The heavenly gifted mute was right—
gratitude is the memory of the heart. Let
us learn wisdom from the deaf and dumb.
No definition of this. gieat Moral quality
was ever more sensible and mise; none
more just, philosophical and true.. -It car
ries with it a piercing and penetrating
meaning. It strikes deep into the soul,
and, probing those laent sources whence
flow our best and pur st emotions and im
pulses, calls them to fifer up .their Bacri
t
flees upon the holy altar of rementlyranee.
"The memory of the heart." how many
thoughts are quickened into a newer,
fresher and holier life, by the 'profound
' and searching wisdomiof the great-soulud
mute ! how many recreated thoughts of
persons, things and events, rise up before
the vision in all theirruth and potency,
at the bare sounds f "memory" and
"heart ! " ‘Tis this the memory. of
11 ,
thoughts and thing that were, which
brings to view the pint, so laden with in
struction, so full of proMpting to that
true and real gratitude, which has its or
igin in feeling and a ection.
Events instruct u . Our history, full
of signal providence, instructs us, if we
will accept instruction. Laws daily de
velupinggood, and ministering to the hap
piness of a.people, are rich with lessons,
if we will only see and heed their point
and purpose. The great fact which ex
hibits to us a nation, less than a hundred
years ago a mere shrub among ibe politi
cal plants of the earth, now grown to a
mighty tree, to which people from all
lands direct their flight, and come to lodge
in its outspreading branches, all this has
deep instruction, and a profound and very'
significant Meaning, of which we should
take especial note in these impressive
ti- ;nes; a sign indeed, if we will observe
it, which plainly declares that. in all this-,
mere is soniething to Call forth in hearti
al
Hess . ,
and fervor a nation's gratitude. -
He! that is faithful in that which is
least, is . .faithful,also in, much. , If we are
grateful to those who serve us with gcol;
Our -b*thren,,the human laborers for our
welfa4i, 4)ve may learn, to be . grateful to I
Him, the author of good Inasmuch as
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TERIUS.--$1.25 PER ANNUM
we proffer our heart's true feelingin grat-I.
itude to them, the men whose happiness
and glory it-was to be the benefactors :of
their country, we are grateful - to aod
Whose servants they were.
Shall we then cherish the spirit of grat.; •
itude, so essential to the•spirit of liberty?
Let us not lose sight of means and oppar
tan ities. Let us not neglect waYs orcOn , '-
demo the instrumentalities through and
by. whiCh gratitude .should be cherished.
Something claims .trom us ,a tribute: a
tribute by way of expiessiog our Bente
and remembrance of the benefactions we - ,
have received. There is a domain we:
would hallow as an enduring remembranc- •
er. A sacred plaCe, made holy by offer
ings? prompted by a people's gratitude,
this we would consecrate a temple to a
virtue born of God, to PATRIOTISM.. ,
Listen then, citizens of this Republic- -
of the United States. Is it tote whis-'
pered—hereafter to be recorded, when all •
may see and wonder—that all the heart
the affection -- all the noble and Igeti
emus memories of -departed worth and vir
tue, with all the appreciative spirit of
goodness and greatness, are alone' to be
found dwelling with the DAUGHTERS of
the Republic? the Sons alas, forgetful
' and ungrateful ?
Shall it or shall it not be spoken and
recordal thus ? Is your answer NA":1?'
well : then. let us redeem out virtue from
the implication of ceasing to gratefully
remember the bounties and bleSsings giv- •
I - en us : Let us redeem the world of civil- •
ized humanity from the dishonor of in-
I gratitude. Let ns relieve our nation—
' ourselves—a representative State and au
thority of humanity, from the deep igno
rainy attached to the current sentiment,
"Republics are ungrateful."
Brethren and sisters let us all be grate
ful ! Let us have gratitude shown ifithe
outpouring affection of a whole people.
Let us with a ready and willing faith, re.;
solve to use the means and opportunities
to keep in 'health and vigor the great vir
tue Gratitude. It is demanded that the
whole not half of this nation shall be
grateful. . We want not divided. hearts,
but UNITED hearts, and we therefore call
for hands, strong, and hearts earnest,
Men and women, daughters and 'sons, all
united, to help forward a great work, that
the spirit of gratitude andoatriotim smay
I be ONE in our midst—never to'be separa
t-d—departing hence nevermore!
I Aud now ye sons and daughters of
I freedom and blest liberty—move 'to this
consummation—to the institution - of a
temple to great virtue : to remembrance
!of a Patriot and Benefactor of his race.
And you guiding
sons and instructors—
our friends and brethren of the Press :
An honorable, a dignified and worthy
power you are among us—counsellors-to
this free people—have not you a word
`strong and earnest for this great-cause
We want your aid brethren : we. intolee
your patriotic spirit. We would take.ybu
by the hand, and say brethren,: minis
[ trants to liberty and all its holy aids, give
us your Voice. Ye four thousand jour
' nalists, let us all work one way—for the
1 -sake" of doing a great and abiding good to
l our people. _
Let us seek to be united. We lutist
di) something—and it is for us the forty
hundred band to help to keep alive the
holy tire now •burning on the altar of re
membrance. • ‘tis getting low and needs re
plenishing with _fresher offerings. Let
u tuinister to thistfor the sake of the
UNIos We say all hands and all heart's
to this - work, and all work that May save
the people of this republican confederacy,
from forgetting one great truth; that of
all nations now existing on the globe,
they have the greatest cause for gratitude.
Brethren, give us with all true friend
ship and zeal, your hands and your hearts.
SILENT ILFLUENCE.—It the bub
bling spring which flows gently, the little riv;
ulet which runs along, day and night, by the
farm-house, that is useful rather than the
swollen flood or warring cataract. Niagara
excites our wonder, and we. stand amazed at
the power and greatness of God thdre, as Ito
" po..trs t from the hollOw of his hand." But !
"one Niagara is enough for the Continent or
the world, while the same world requires thou=
sands and tens of thousands of silver fountains
and gently flowing rivulets, that Water eyery
larva and meadow, and every garden, and 'that
shall- flow on every day and every night with
their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the acts
of our lives. It is not by great :deeds„ like
those of the martyrs, that good is to be done
—it is by ;he daily and quiet virtues orlife,
the Christian temper, the good .quilities of
1 relatives and friends and all, that. it is to be
done.—Albert Barnes.
•
"SFa.s.it."The Bibliotheed Sacra, in refer
ring to the meaning of the Scriptural word
"Selah," says that the Targunis, and most of
the Jewish commentators, give the word. the
-meaning of eternally, for ever. Rabbi Kimehi
regards it as a sign to elevate the voice. The
authors of the Septuagint translation appear
to have regarded it as a musical or rythmical
note. Render regarded it as indicating a
change. of note; Matthewson, asin musical
note, equivalent, perhaps, to the ward repeat.
according to Luther and others, - it, means
Lace. Gescn'us explains it to menn;-" Let 'the ,
instruments play and the singer stop. -
cher regards it as equivalent to the'expreasiciii
—"up my soul l" Summer, after examining
all the seventy-four .passages .in• which-.the
word occurs, recognizes in every case 'Jan ac
tual appeal or summons to Jehovah."