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ITORNEY .A.T LAW. Coudersport, Pa..
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;an of the County made to order. 9:13
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Acm.:ING PITYSICI.Vi, Coudersport, Pa.,
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dce ou Main st., in building formerly oc
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SMITH & JONES,
LEI'S DIIIIGS, MEDICINES. PAINTS,
Fancy ArLic . les,§tationery, Dry Goods,
Ncerics, Jilin st., Coudersport, Pa.
RS.
10:1
D. E. OLMSTEI),
.ER IN DRY„_GOODS, READY-MADlthing
Crockery, Gruceries, itc., Main st.,
lersiiort, Pa. /U:1
M. W. MANN,
ZOOMS k STATIONERY, MAG-
Music. N. W. corner of Main
coadergrort, Pa. 10:1
GILLOII,
late' from the Citc of
iliop opposite Court
'ter Co.' Pit. • .
iou paid Co CUT
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ILVSTED • , - D. KELLY
OLMSTED &
kft. IN STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON
4t/:, Main st., nearly oppoiite. the .Court
CPudersport, Pa.- _Tin and Sheet
11 4.4 re ablAte to order, iu good style, on
. srt notice. 10:1
couDEEsPORT-HOTEL,
GLASSIIIRE, PrgrOetor, Corner of
in and Second Streets, Caudergport, Pot-
Co., Pa. 9:44
ti HOUSE,
HUMPHREY, Proprietor, corner of
:inn and North St's ' Olean, N. Y. 003"-A
msge rugs to and from all the Pcssenger
' 14 5 on the New York and Erie. tailroad.
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The skater and : glides, ;
Unknowing,that beneath the,ice:
Whereon' lid - ettrves.his fair . deviFe,
A stiffened corpse in silence stands.
It glarethrupWard at his - plaY; •
• Its rold; : blue, rigid lingers steal
Beneath the treadings of his heels;
It floats along and floats away.'
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He has not`sticin iti'hOrror
Heart is blithe ;:• he iillagibears'
His distant la.nediter';, he careers
Fn •festiyc waltz, a-thwart the glass.
Nye are the skaters. 'we wbo'kkkh . "; •
The surface of Life's salmi' flood;
And drive, with gladness in our blood,
X daring dadde from brim to brim.
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Our.feet.are swift, our-faces , ,burn .
Our"hopes'aspire litte.soaring -
The world take= courage from our Words,
• 'And sees the golden time return: , ,
But ever hear Us. silent, cold
Float those who bounded front the bank
- With eager hearts, like rs,: o and sank
_ Because their fel were over-bold.
They sank thro' breathing-holes' orvice,
Through - treacherous sheens of vice.'
They know not their despair and.grief,
Their hearts and minds are turned to ice.
—Atlanticjlonthiy.
BE CAREFUL. OF YOUR MONEY. •
When life is full
busy
health andtlee,
Work. work,. as as a bet 1.
And take this gentle Hint me—
Be your money
You'll find it true, that friends-Are few' .
'When you are short orinonevl
The. single graintnst . in the inonld -
Map spring and give a hundred-fold,.
More precious than. its weight in.gold I
Be careful of your money
The grain yrn sow to treks may grow ;
,Be careful of yournmey
But do not shut sweet Merey'a doors
When SorroW pleads - or.lVant imploree ;
To help to heal Misfortune's sores,
Be careful .of your monef !
To help the poor who,-seek yonrfloor;
Be careful of your money ! :
Would you escape the he , zr,rar' lot„
The death-bed of the tippling sot,
And lire in sweet contentment's cot?
Be careful of your money!
And if von need a friend indeed,.
Be careful of vour money!
JAmEs SMOI ha; written some lines on
Winter. which hese flinch - of the spirit of the
old English poet&
The frozen in the stream;
The church is decked with holly : ,
'Mistletoe hang from-the kitchen beam,
Tn fright,away melancholy;
',Hes clink in the milkmaid's pail,
Younker; skate in 'lie pool helort" ;
Iliazkbirdz perch on the zarden
nd hark how the cold winds' blew
Thee goes the!iire to shoot at snipe.
Here runs Did: lo ; [p i pe
You'd hrP t h woe the stunke of
In the frosty rivallin g fo g . •
fiod g e is breaki n g i,•e for alp kine.
Oid rind youn g eou tt li as they co ;
The round red sun for g et,: to shit A..
And hark, how the colds winds blow! _
Bi%chug.
From the. IV. Y. Evening Poet
Iniand.Narig:ation of North
- western America..
If an American were asked to number
and name the great river•systems of his
continent, he would probably specify'. tin.
Mississippi. the St... Lawrence and the
Columbia, with their respective, tribnta.
ries. These, he woald sav setting asid,
the lltidson, tie Swinefinial:l and the
smaller streams of the AtlantiC coilst..are
the latee rivers n hieh drain. the three
great agricultural divisions of the contir
nent—thecentral, the northeastbrn and
the western. Subh a division of the Uni
ted States and the - Can:oas is well enough.
but of the continent it is lacking in' one
most important particular.
.It leaves out
of account the inagnificenk northwestern
areaS•of the continent, and the gigantic
river-system by Which they are' watered
and drained. - '
MEM!
The great fact of these areas is this':
North, uf the latitude of Mitwaukie. and
west of, the longitude of, Lake. Itasca: the
source of the' Mississippi," is 'a cultivable
and inhabitable area, as" large as all the
states east of the Mississippiiaken togeth
er—an area of more than 800,000,Square
voiles. : Ilaif a million square miles of this
immense, agricultural.d;strlct lie this side
of the'Rockv It haS a 'ricer
system of ifs- oWn. Its baSe is Lake Vi
nni peg, a lake two handred'dad'thirty`tuiles
long and forty. wide r about tiiesize of-Lake
Erie, mad con . occted, with twO smaller
lakes.— . WitioipegOos,,a,nd. Manitoba
which, taken 'together,' are abonr half; as
large as 'Lake 'Winnipeg. 'three are
enclosed in the trapezium the - flair' sides
of which, arelatitudes 50? and 51°, and
longitudes 96° and, Iol°., ..Into this cen
trallake.(the final
,outlet of ;which is by
Katchewan and NelSon riveraintii Eltidon
Bay) flow-two principal Iribn i taries; the
Saskatcheman from the base ofithe Rocky
Mountains, - at the extreme "
west ; 'arid Red
River; from the undrained plateaus, be
tween thelead-waters of the Mississippi'
and the great bend of the Missouri, at the
, ,
DobotiD
. 0 of, liftio Daii)oet.4e, Qissepiopiioß of, 110 1ce1333.i
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THE' SKATER:
WINTER
001:1D 91SPORT,` , POTTER COUNTY, gA., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, _1859.
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Wren:l:South.. - The Saskatchewan hasl
.two branclies, which unite in tatitudes3°.
aid loUgitude 105, one-third the distance
from Lake W inuipeg. to the Reeky Moan-'
tins. - .The southern branch ot" the Sas- '
kiatchewan, which takes its rise in the'
Lucky Mountains near latitude 49°, (the
international ffontier,) and long:tut:l6lls°,
flows nearly- eat, till, in longitude 107,
ill deflect greatly to the north to, join the
*than branch of the SziskatclieWati.
This= northern branch :takes its rase .lit
ahout, the same longitude as the southern
blanch,•but in latitude.s3, and,flows in-a
nearly Southeasterly direction till, in longi
tude:lo7°, it turns and - flows almost nor,tl- 7
east,, and then, united With the southern
branch,-'it-pours its waters into Lake Win
dreg, forming at its mouth the Grand
1 apids,:three miles in, length, Except
ing this obstacle, which is not insupera
ble-, the Main and upper Saskatchewan is
navigable by'steamboats in a direct ling
ii pre thairseveii hundred 'miles, and by.
t e coarse of the stream nearly double
t at distance-that is, to the Edmonton
I- owe, within sight of the Rocky,Mohn
tlii [is (lat.: - 54, long.' 113,r). The South
Saskatchewan' is eciTuilly well navigable,
it is said, to ChesteHlield lionse iu about
the same longitude. • This `river alone
drains afertile. valley of 363,000 square
tulles- The Red River of the North, the
other principal, tributary of Lake Mani
,
Peg,- flows almost exactly north along the
parallel of l6ngitude 97, from latitude 45°
34,tlic nead of steamboat nevi zation. two .
degrees and a half this side of the inter
national boundary.
'Troia this point in Minnesota, therefore,
a Steamboat might sail northward,- : dawn
edltiver and• through Lake Winnipeg;
olt len dragg,ed through the Grand Rapids
the Main Saskatchewan, she.could steam
Westward;: till she was covered by the
shadows_ of the Rocky ,Mountains,,
The enter rising people ,of St. Paul, in
innesota, will place a steamer on the
ed River of the North as early as the
Gming: June. Ohe man . who, in the
yshets of last spring, got his steamboat
fo the waters of Crow Wing river, offers
r two thousand dollars to tate it apart,
'd carry it On sledges ninety miles across
• Brerkenridge, the head of navigAion
Red - River, and- launch it by the 15th
4prd. He will give bonds of-!$5,000
or the performance of his coutract, Al
4idy the $2,090 are nearly or iplite rais
-1
by private persons, and the St. Paul
tambcr of Commerce offers in addition
bonus of SSUO each for three boats to be
livered in the Red River any time dur-!
g.the conitog,summer, and a reward of
,000 to any person who will run a steam- i
at of inc hundred tons burden on Red
,ver this summer, beginning her trips on!
before the lst of June next. . - 1
'l apt. Anson Northrup isnow transport ing
teamboat oi. sivtlgt,4, in eonsider-tha of the .
Paul tin/as, and i-xpets to tc ri-ady tor'
:diriq trio by April Ist t He haul- his bolt
sledges from Gull to Red river, and is pro-
bly tat his - headquarters on the latter river s
this time.—ED. Jotdt.]
Phis is the first public step of a wove- 1
nt which is.yet to diVert the products 1
the industry and wealth of an inland 1
ustralia to tht. United States. lute the;
trt it magnilictMt areas, hardly surpass
in fertility anti bet/ut; in the temperate '
ie. tile steauibual this summer will fete.'
. way, and mai k the chaotic{ thrungli ,
ieh their products wiil dow witch those ;
:duns have become populous: as in a few i
re decades ofyeSrs they inevitably . will:
ueisely what are toe characteristics and'
paeities.of these northwestern areas we
all in a a-üb.sequeLL article attempt to
1
I w. • Enough, however, is known ut them j
point a:comparison of the sagacity of
y inerchan s 'of Si. (Paul with that of the
-esident of these United States. The
e, whose treasury is already depleted,
d who every day 'runs deeper into debt,
minds of the country $.30,M.000 to
ti negotiations fur buying 'an island
at we do not now want, from a country
it will nut sell. The others will spend
4s than $5;00. and make 31inimsota the
iewayto
the northwestern areas tit Brit
a America. -
The prospective results of this enter
;
Ise it way not h,e wise to prediet„ , not at
List .uutil the: cllaract.vri4ics .of thine
as are better. known. , The immediate
111 h is easier to see.. By means of this
eataibuat and * means of. th# railroad,.
I ~
ro hundred tildes lung, between St. Paul
id Breckenridge, sixty [mks of which
ill be, completed theeouting year, the
ade* of' Assinihoia; the distriet . of British
Mcrica occtipiedi by the Selkirk' se tle
but, and embracing the lower or north=
ernseetion of the Red River and the,pro
. r
docti:e Valley of, the Assiniboine, will be
atbuce firmly securLl its the United-States.
Itt is already :concentrating at :St.. Paul,
• I d' duringlasear amonnted tosinilliun
of dollars: There is a community . of : ten'
th usand peuplest-Assiniboia, Fort Garry
.1
and Fort Rouge, situated ou the three
points of
nts of Lni formed by the junction of
th i n Assinibinne
.• with the Red River.
Within the last year ur two, and ever since
the Fraser 'liver 131114:ration, the growth
in population of this section of country is
sa d to-have been rapid and steady.
n
II
The sagacity cf the merchants 'of St.
J'aul, to whom sonic of these facts, were
set forth in a document read before their
Chamber of Commerce by Mr. James - W.
Taylor,-January 22d; is inorethan:vindi
qated, if that were necessary, by the fact
that a Company was utranized.in.Canada
last October; the immediate object of which
was-to carry into effect the - very project
which is. now spurring .the Minnesotans
into such enterprisiag exertion. The
curs and 13oard of Directors were from the
Joust - respectable citizens.of Canada ;
capital £lOO,OOO. They proposed to c,m
strnct the portage roads between Lake',
Superior and- lied River (140 miles
wagon road); t- place sonic small steamers
nu t tlie.,navigable reaches in Rainy river, !
Lake ,of i the: Woods. with freight boats,
and oared boats for shallow water; to place
a steamboat on Red river to run 350 miles
to the G rand Rapids of the Saskatchewan :
near its debouchement into Lake Winni
peg; to bui!d a portage road at the Rap
ids, and.to put another- steamboat -above
the Rapids to run up-the Saskatchewan.
Influential persons are engaged in this
company, who believe' that it not only
opens thewagtillieent agricultural district
east of the Rueky Mountains, and the way
to the.gold fields of:Fraser River and Ore
gon and Washington territories, for- pas
sengers from Europe, and from the popu
lous states and provinces of the St. Law--
, reuce valley, but. that it must inevitably
become the route tbr the tirst.Paeific Rail
, road across the continent.
. .
The merchants of St.. Pauli. hoWever,
are beforehand in the 'matter, or rather,
Nature has been. by : opening up a . high.
way from these northwestern districts in
to the heart of Mintir:sota,,and they are
wise enough td spend tire few thousands
now, which will come back in tens of
tliuus:ands hereafter.
From Ihr Philadelphia Liuactin.
The Diabolus Bang Pa?ers..
E=l
Lux eece suryit aurea !
"Be wide awake, aini catch my drift!
Be r.artv, orthe bridal train
And bridegroom on his bob-tailed nag
May sweep along in rain; ifiterere tad!"
—LADy ALICE lICN rEnuows.
G-o-o-d mor—niug!
You don't know me, i.ey ? But you
will, PleauFautly. I have a name—DIA
BOLUS• SLAM BANG—pretty name, isn't
it?
Wouldn't it be a good name, though,
for a Reverend? Fur a regular Hard
Shell Hunker brother; one of the sort
who sends. out his shuts from a shovel
frum'a cart-tail pulpit at the sinful mul
titude. \Vlreu sintiers are hard to con
vince—bang 'cur : That's the way—,
hang 'cur. The fact 14, I've got some
other wall's name. I kdow I have, Rob
ert
I've always been of the opinion that
every man born is burn to a certain wife
and a certain' name. But the right coup=
le seldom meet, and the right man seldom
gets the name baked foildin when he was
burn The Chinese say that an old man
sits in The moon holding , hur.dreds Uf mil-
of invisible curds, -some red, scene
white. The further end of'every coed is
round a human neck ; the white round
the wmnen's, the red round the men's.—
So, we all dance with our curds—but here,
says the i orear Confucius, the accordance
ends.- For the old fellow is always tr . } lug
to draw the right couple I,,gvther a
"laid old fellow, this lunarian—but the
vagabonds iu red .go running, about so to
right left. and enss-crussing, balanceeing,
over-yondering, this way:kng. serpen tiu Mg,
tip and sifterin, up the middle and down
the sides, dud t hug, ducking and philan
dering, ogling acid flirting, butterflying,
and paying. attention first to this lad} and
then to that, at such a rate that the %Omit:
assortment of strings are. mixed up and
entangled, forever and ever. Imagine a
barrel of milliuns . of eels, oh, beloved, ev.
ery eel, in the barrel as long as from Broth
er to the moon, and these eels ail
Of the croidtcdest and liveliest kind. Lift
Up your imagination it full play to
soar forth ! into the infinitude of Eeidom
and picture to itself the ne plus - ulterior
uss of wiggling entanglement—
and I assufe you; oh, friends, that all this
would be litraightness itself, and seem like
freedom compared to the entanglement of
those. red ,and white lines. et there the
uul,nituf sits driving us . all like horseS,
Iris hands full, Of reins. Such a . tezun !
Those - who lose Ibeir 'parents are the off
.That's why we don't gal the wives ap
'pointed for us. Now fur the names. My
natural panic,,if I'd ever got it,' would
have been " Alfonso Cherubino. Conyng
liame. de 'ere Esek Short. Still, I've
occasionally doubled even' this. "Folks
who never doubt,"say the Italians, "nev
er know anything." — ,Sometimes I've
Oniuglit' that my name waS S..i.cK'S Then
I offeied' l to change with Fred Cozzens,
and keep the Sparrowgrass for Spring
calls. Then I wanted to trade with Col.
Ilawkes, he said he'd always been "one
of the birds," and intended 'to remain or
nithological as long as they flew kites in
Wall Street T en, I proposed' to,:tein
llver—tand Tom agreed. him Self that Shiin
Bang wa'n't a bad' name - from' 'Anna
det•—but when be leaid that .I;shoi.ild
drop his . cbristian- one,':and call xil . .qelf
Excelsior—Hyei, 'tfecli ped.' .• .
' But I haven't 'yet . toidriiu. 'him it is
that people don't get' their - right: nam . es, '
and why ladies are called AngelioaS, who
ought to be Devilettesi and
called .Josepli sornetiines, .ivlierilthey are
no Josephs at: all.. • ' , •
" Every snow-flake that fills," 'Barthel
Samoyedes, "haS a name."' - No*, the first!
time a snow-flake falls on the 'head of a
child. if the 'child bdbareliediled; and the
flake happen. to fall 'in tlic 'Middle of the
forehedd and melt, why Child gets` the
right name: 'But if he hayel'adap on; or
a hat, for that matter, 'why Flake is•knock.:
ed off,• and: the name is lost.7''
1. have fining ont'ot complete
satisfaction, that the first tithe' I.Wai out
id snow storm,' was'ili a nailor eabload;,
wherein I was brouOt young lady's
to represent TilE CIIILD .
PoLisn. EXILE. — 3.ly virgin ''inaniina
knelt in a graceful zittitudd with uprolied
eyes--,indeed,the 'artistic 'conception was
a 'most immaculate• one, and well .:
. desetV
ing a Triem—and I knelt by her side. X
show storm of torn' visiting cards and mil:.
I liner's bills fell from sn unpitying
upon our defenceless beadS', and gradually
rose in drittsMillie earivit. Of course,
a /flake took? tile—but it 'didn't ':inelt
PaSteboard . seldoaf does'3:- I
mamma wore her hair in What-Were
then called .turrets. :'Of course they
caught the flakes:
"ldieii, fair Stiowdori - , with thy turrets high."
So sang David Lindsay. Poetry, You
know, is often prophecy; and if history
tells truth, the word for pea once meant
Prophetalso. Things, have changed since
then. Poetry is no longer profitable,
while the very worst poetry we see now
a-days, is that of the prophets—especially
of.the ‘astrologists" who show the face
of your future husband, ladies half price,
give love philters for half a dollar. I give
you a specimen of this, poetry, on one of
the cards of a celebrated New York , witch :
" Wimild you your fatal husband view
Or read the mystiek,futiire true
Or find a cure fair drunkenness
I can relieve your fond di.iiress."
As for love philters 7 -wellj never tried
them, but I believe that they have the'
same result in common with water filters
—they triug down the dust. Whether l
they bring'down ail attachmene is another '
matter. But as I have known a great
patron of fortune tellers to be sold out by.
the Sheriff, I am inclined to believe that
such is sometimes the case.
I have been rather discursive in this '
first paper, rather polygonal and .mixed
up, slightly various and not altogether
unitarian in toy topics. In this I follow'
precedent-41a!-of Oliver Croinwell,.who,
in his first interview with anybody or cod
ies, was 'always accustomed- to flit about,
from subject to - subject, darting from
North-EaA to South-West, from post to ,•
pillar, from West. to S. S. East, and from;
one Toini to another, until his, auditorsi
were not quite certain whetlfer North was,
South, or whether North South was'utl
somewhere between West North and The
ekventh of January. Herein tool
.followed—albeit at a great distande—the.
eminent Napoleon, the Gun can Sybil,
Rev. Edivard Irving, Lord Dexter, Or- t
pheus, Park Benjamin, Francatelli, the'
Angel Gabriel, the Delphic Pythoness,
the musical critic of the—and-4-not!
io inention—and--all of Whom were
or are 'iceit:toined in their introductory'
speeches, or compu s itions, - proeines . , pro-,
logues,Threfaccs, commencements, or be.'
innins, to pleksantly and ingeniously
entwine such a -variety of 'disconnected.
eleuients,, that all who heard, or tasted,
were or are wont to sit iu silent wonder,
I..arvelling what thread . of continuity
would ever be severed from such a hand
ful' of unsorted and' rattled-Up . mosaic
stones.
- For the thread of my discourse, see'my
second :roiiper—l should say . my thread
paper. Here endeth..the first lesson of
your friend Diabblus S. Bang. Go in
pea Ce-. •
EdHOF Dreaming on Wedding
, Cake. -
• "A baChelor ediiur out West, who had
received from the , fair hind , of bride, a
.piece of elegant wedd:ug .cake to dreain
on, thus.gives the result of his experience:
" We put it tinder : the :head..,,of.ont•
low, and shut mit' .eyes,iweetly, ns . in
fant blessed with an easy conscience,-and
soon mired, prodigiously. •.. The . god of
.dreams gently touched us, and presently,
in fancy,! we were married. Never was a
little editor so happy. It was 'my love,'
dearest, 'sweetest,' ringing in our ears
every moment. Oh, that, the dream had
broken . off here t But.no • some evagen
ins(put. it in the 'head, of our (lucky to
have pudding for dinner, just to -please
her lord.
In a hiingry dream we sat down to din-,
ner. 'Well, the pudding moment arrived,
and a huge slice obscured from sight the
plate befue us.
BENTS.
TEltris.-41.25 PER ANNUM.
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41 3ly dear," said we fondly; " did.yon
make•tlais Y•' •
"dies ; rave; ain't it nice
"Glorious-the best .bread puddingi
scsr.mated in .my • ' •
"Plum puddiug,Aucky," - suggnsted my
wife- •
p( - )h I - no dearest`, , bread'ltudding; : h I
as always fond of. 'em." • •--
't Call that broad pudding ?" said .; my ..
l ire, while her lipS „slightly curled' with.
contempt. . ;7 •
Certainly, my dear. i Reckon. rye 'had
,enough - at therSherwood House to know
bread piaddingi , Euy logo; Eby all . means.",'
"Husband! ;this is really too bad. Plunt
pudding is twiee hard to make as bread
puddding, . and is lnore • exp:nsive, arid a
great. 'deal better. J I say this is plum pud
'ding; sir and
. tity :pretty wife's _brow
flushed-with excit6inent„ .
", My love, my isweet;:my r _dear love r
!exclaimed: we, sapthiegly, .f do not: get
angry,. Is am sure it's Very good, if it is.
bread pudding." ,1 :•', ' ' ,
4' You mean, low wretch," fiercely re
,pliedny wife, in a higher. tone," you yea know
it's plum pndding. ' s, ;•-
,[ " Then, ma'am t v it' 80 meanly put • to
gether,- and so badly burned, that the dei
n hiluselt wduldnttAnow it. I tell 'you,
madam, most distinetlyand emphatleally;
land I will , not, be Icootradieted, -Oat' it , is
, bread pudding, : aid the very meanest kind
,
at that,"
"It , plum ; pudding !" shrieked. my
' wife, as she, hurled a glass of claret in my
face, the 'glass itself tapping the claret
from my nose,
" Bread pudding,!"; grasped we, pluck
to the last, and grasping a roasted chicken
i l by the left leg. I •
" Plum pudding I" rose above the.din,
I as I. had a distinct percaption of two plates
!smashing across t i ny head.
"1/3read pudding I" we groaned in rage,
las the chicken left our hand, and flying
.:,with swift wingslacroas the table, binded
in madam's boson].
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" Pluin pudding V' ; resounded . the' *at
cry frinn the enemy, ; as - the gravy dish
'took uswhere we had deposited .the first
,part of.our. dinner. and a plate of beets
ilanded.npon our white vest. . : • -.1 -•
li . ".tread pudding forever !" , shouted we,
1 stn defiance, dodging the soup tureen, 'awl
• failin„( , beneath its. eon tents...; . :,,. : .-
1 "Plum pudding !" ' yelled the . angle
,
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*use, as, noticing cur misfortune,
'''She determined to keep, us down by piling'
on our head they dishes with.no gentle
hand. Then, in !rapid succession folloWed
the war-cries. i." Plum pudding !" sho
1 -shrieked with every dish. - i
" Bread pudding V" in smothered tones
came up from the.pile. . Then it was "Piunt
pudding' in rapid succession, the last Cries
gr s
owing feebler and feebler,. till; just I.
can recollect, it, had groW4 to' a;.tvlihs er,
" Plum pudding" resounded like than et. - S
followed by :a trmendous' crash, as my
wife leaped npon the ;pile with - her 4eli
cate feet, and cothmeticedjamping upnd
down, when, thank heaven, we : Awoke,
and thus saved our life.
.We!,-aLA never,
dream on wedding cake again. - -; , I
Man's !ninAortpditty.
TIIOI.I SIIALT NEVER DIE. Neither an
you reader 179 u may indulge in skepti
cism, as .to the Divine authority of the
Christian Scriptures, and reject that eter
nal salvation which they bring to light,
but yow cannot thus get rid of the idea ot
your immortalitY. • It is planted -deepl in
your moral - nature. There it is , . Written
on your living heart.! The words name
out, when you look within, I CAN NEVEIt
,um. Whence came :it, if there be' no
reality answering to it ? Is the strongest
wish of our nattire based upon nothing ?
'Fnd the child, Cr the. savage; who ever
thought of there being any ter.ninatioU to
his existence. Isou.rereat,or, in implant
ing an aspiration which gives its highest
nobility to our nature, tuockingAus with a
cbituera 0, no • , • • 1 -
•
immortality deciphers man;
And'opees all the mysteries of his make;
Without it half his inStineta, are &riddle ;
Without it all his virtues area dreamJ'
i
What an .elaborata arrangement' for a
most insignificant end we should havd - if
we could bcdeve that Ciud made theivaild,
and all things ih it, for wait, and then
made man ;fox! ,nothing! - Arck MU the
analogies of nature violated in his case?
Shall all other living organisms; vegetable
and animal, deVelope all thellowers,.`and
fill up all the capacities, of which they'
are capable, before they pass out of being;
and he be the 'only exception, by' being
prematurely arrested,- or cut off in an 6-
'finished state.?; If we had a. tree or a
bush in our garden,: covered with bade'
that never opened, or with blossoins that
were never succeeded by seed or fruit, %ye
should pronounce it worthless and rem ve
it; or if we permitted it to cumber the
ground, it would be merely as a miens'
specimen of
,a freak of .nature. If death
be the end of man, then freak becontes
the law in his ease, the, fixed law of his
entire race. . 'Snub, in brief,. are the nature
and amount of the' argument, from the
light of reason; for itninortality.-24 1 : 1 l:
obSerter. I
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