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• NEV 11-MIND.
EV DAVID BARKEit.:
Should roi:3fortune dog your track,
Never mind ;
Makb no rainbow of the back,
Never mind.
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Turn not to the left 'or right—
. Quail not at a menaced blow,
Onward, upward in your might,
Shout.this.motto as you gn :
"Never - mind."
Foes may frighten friends away, •
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Fear not what traducers say,
Never mind.
Single-handed tight it through ;
Trust not in the countless throng,
One a legion may subdue,
With that legion in the wrong;
Never mind.
Should von meet with pointless slurs,
Never mind
Every fool by inxtinct errs,
Neyer mind
Let spawns scribble if they will ;
Men of nerve nre never slain
By one's firing through a (mill
"Paper bullets of the brain ;"
Never mind
Each shall get just what he earns,
Never mind
Roads are long which have no turns.
Never mind
Yeilding up the other cheek,
Dropping humbly on the knees, ,
Clncing lips when dared to speak •
Will not do in times like these;
Never mind
MEDT.E.I :- i:' - ROM THE POETS
Some " funny feller," who does not fear or
respect the copyright laws, " mixes pp" the
poots after this quaint f:,shion :
Thelmo4 was shining Silver bright,
All bloodless lay- the untrodden snow ;
When .Frt.!edom, from her mountain height,
Exclaimed, "sow don't be foolish, Joe!"
An hour passed on—the Turk awoke.
A bumble-bee went thundering by,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
And spread its pall upon. the, sky.
His echoing axe the settler swung,
He was a lad of high renown,
And deep the pearly caves among,
Giles Scroggles courted Molly Brown.
Loud roars the wind in constant blast,
And rloudb , ss sets the sun at even,
When twilight dews are filling fast,,
And rolls the thunder drum of heaven
Oh! ever thus . , from childhood's hour
Ry torch and trumpet fast arrayed
Beneath you ivy-mantled tower, •
The 1301-frog croaks his serenade.
My love is like the red, red rose, ,
De bought a ring with poesy true;
Sir Bartley Bodkin broke his nose,
And. Saxon, I am Roderick Dim I
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now we may Judge Friendship.
1. True friendship can only be made
between true men. licartg arc the soul
of honor. There can be no lasting friend
ship between bad men. Bad , men May
pretend to luve each other, but their friend
ship is a rope of sand, which shall be brok
en at any cunvenientiseason; but if a man
have a sincere heart within him, and be
true and noble, then we may confide in
him. Spencer sings iu hue old English
verse—.
•• Se, vertes can that friendship long endure,
flowerer gav :Ind :rood i.e the style,
That doth ill cause or Civil Civi enure.
For Vertu*: is the baud ttiatitindetli Harts most
sure. • '
*
2. Faithfulness to us in our faults is
a certain sign of fidelity in a friend. ' You
way depend" upon that wan who. will tell
you of your faults in a kind add consider
ate manner. Factuing hypocrites, insidi
ous flatterers, are the sweepings and offal
of friendship. They are but the parasites
upon the noble tree. But true friends put
enough trust in you to tell you openly of
your faults. Give me fur a friend
- the
man, who will speak li.nestiv of we before
my face ; who will not tell first one neigh
bor, and then another, but who will come
straight to my house, and say, " Sir, I feel
there: is such-and-such a thin& in you,
which; as my brother, I must tell you of."
.i. hat man is a true - friend ; he has proved!
himself to be so; for ,we never i get 40)-1
praise fer telling people of their faults ;1
we rather hazard their dislike; aintin will!
sometimes thank you for it, but, he dees
not often like you any better. P,raise is a
thing we all lave. 1 met with :Allan the``
other day who said lie was impervious to!
flattery ; I was walking with hitii ht the'
time, and turning round rather sharply, I
said, " At any rate, sir, you seem to haire:
I a high giftim flattering yourself for you,
are really doing so,,in saying yail are ina
pervious in flattery. " You can hot flatter
tne," he said. I replied, "I - can if I like
to try; and perhaps may do so'before the
day is out." I found I could not tatter
him directly, so I be , ran by saying what
a flue child that was of ° his; and he drank
it in as a precious draught; and when 1
praised this thing and' that th;nr; o belong
ing to him, I could see that he, kvas very
(easily flattered; not directly, but indirect
ly. We are all pervious to flattery ; We
I like the soothing cordial, only it must not
be labeled flattery; for we . have 4. religious
abhorrence of flattery if it be 'so called;
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COUDERSPORT, POTTER -COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1859.
ball it by any other name, :and eve drink
it in,. even as the as driiiketh in watek.
a. In the - next place, 'there arc some,
things in his friendship which render us
Sure of not,being deCeived, When wei put
bur confidence in him. Tine friend Ship
inust not be of hasty growth. As qUaint
old Master Fuller says, "Let friend Shi
p gently to a height; if it rush to it,
it .may soon•run itself out of breath."; It
is even so. I think it was Joana Bailie
Said—
" Friendship is no.plant of hasty growth
Though planted in esteem's deep fixed soil,
The gradual culture of kind intercourse
!dust bring it to perfection."
Never mind
In vain thou trustest the gourd over thy,
head; 0 Jonah ; it will not be Of much use I
to. thee; it came up in a night, it may
wither in a night. It is the strong still
Oak, of ages' - growth, which shall abide
he tempest; wnich shall alike put out its
wings to shield thee from the sun, and
shall afterward find the a hovel in its
heart; if necessary, in.its grey o d age,
when its branches tremble in the blast.
Friendship is true when it begins ; but we
Must have a man's friendship long before
We can say of him that he w stick closer
than a brother. * * * *
4. But note, further, the friendship
which lusts dues not take its rise in the
Chambers of mirth, nor is it fed and fat
tened there. Young lady, you speak of
a dear friend whom you acquired last night
in a ball room. Do not, I beseech you,
Misuse the word; he is not a friend if he
Was acquired merely there; friends are
Better things than those which grow in
the hot-house of pleasure. Friendship is
to more lasting plant than those. You
have a friend, have you ? Yes ; and he
ikeeps 'a pair of horses, and has a good es
tablishment. Aim ! but vour,best way fo
Prove your friend is to know that he will
he your friend when you have not so Much
as a mean cottage; and when, houseless
and without clothing, you are driven to
leg your bread. Thus you would make
true proof of a friend. Give me a friend
who was born in.the winter time, whose
cradle was rocked in the storm ; he will
last. Our fair weather friends shall flee
away from us. I had rather have a robin
for a friend than a swallow ; for a swallow
abides'with us only in the summer time.
bht a robin cometh to us in the winter.
Those are tight friends that Will come the
I nearest to us when we are in the most
I distress ; but those are not friends who
speed themselves away when ill times
come. * * •
'5. Again, a friend who is acquired
by Ply is never a lasting friend. Do a
foolish thing, and wake a man your friend;
'tis but a confederacy in vice, and you
will sum) discover that his friendship is.
worthless ; the friendships you acquire by
doing wrong, you had better be without.
how ninny silly friends there are
springing up, the lucre fruit of a senti
ment:ills:in, having no root whatever, but
like the plant 'of which our:Saviour tells
us, It :sprang up because it had no
df.pth of earth!' * **
Under this head may I likewise observe,
that the friendship qf ignorance is not a
I -
row desirahle one. I desire no man to
!call hiwsulf my friend, if ,he cloth Rut!
know we. Let him love me in proportion
to his knowledge of me. If he loves we:
for the little he knows, when he knoweth
more he Way cast me aside. "That man," I
says one, "seems to be a very amiable
[ man." "I atu sure I can love hiw," says
another, as he scans his features. Ay,-
hilt do nut write " friend" yet ; wait a wee
bit, until' you know more of him; just see ,
him, examine him, try him, test him, and !
not till then enter him on the sacred list!
of friends. Be friendly to all, but make
none your friends until they know you,
and you know them.. Many a friendship
born in the darkness of ignorance, hath
died suddenlyin the light of a better ac.-
quaintatice with each other. You sup
posed men to be different from what they
Were, and when you discovered their real
character you disregarded them. I re
member one saying to me, " I have great
affection for yup, sir," and he mentioned
a certain reason. I replied, "My dear
fellow, your reason is absolutely false; the
I very thing you love me for, I ant not, and
' hope I never shall be." And so I said,
" I really cannot accept your friendship,
if it he founded upon a misunderstanding
of what I way have said."—Spurycon.
Front " Street Thoughts," by the Rev. Henry
Dexter. -
The Old Man and his Son.
I say, Frank, who is that old fellow with
a second-hand hat, and a great scat that
looks as if it had been wade by the Queen
of Sheba's tailor as a present to Solbmon's
gardener, and had been in the family
ever. since, who keeps eyeing you so closely
from-the other side of the street ?"
"I don't know, Late sure. I never
saw. him before.".
" Well, I hope be ain't a policeman in
disguise, who is after you fur sowe of your
pranki. Take care,—good .by,"
laugh
ingly Said the first speaker as he turned
off into a side street, and left his visced
friend' to walk on before us.
From the movements of this "unex
ceptionably got-up!' youth thus preceding
us, we very soon became satisfied that,
despite his denial,' he hail seen the old
man on the other side before, and was in
momentary expectation of seeing him
again. His eyeshot uneasy glances across;
and as that venerable, 'and fine looking,
though ve;y plainly and unfashionably
dressed person, began to show symptoms.
of crossing over, be cast a hurried look up
and down the street, apparently to see if
any of his boon - companions - were in sight
anywhere,—to witness and report the dis
grace of the impending interview. As
the two faces, young and old, were thus
projected in profile betore us, as they ex
changed stares, we made up our mind that
the same blood was in both, and were_
querying the reason for their singular de
meanor, when we heard a loud voice ap
prqachin-g fr3in the middle of the street.
Francis Ebenezer, my son, dew tell
if that are's you. I've been a watchin'
on you this half -hoar; and you've got on
such a kind o' spruced-up riggio', and so
much hair on your countenance that I
couldn't tell, of l'se to be,skinned, wheth
er 't was you or not ; and yet I 'most knew
that are nose couldn't be 'nobody else's.
' How de dew ?"
I A fine young, man that, coolly to deny
! that he ever before saw his own fatherbe.
cause that father happened to be dressed!
mon sensibly (though less a la onoile)
I than himself ! But there are some men
—and women—who appear to think that
the attention of the entire universe is con
centrated exclusively upon them, when
ever they show themselves upon the side
walk. As a matter of course, a proper
respect on their part for the said universe,
I and for themselves, requires that they
exercise the utmost care as to costume,
conduct, and companionspip, that no sus
picion of commonness of any sort may at
tach to them. Three bundled and sixty
five pairs of gloves per annum, are essen- .
itial to their peace t,f mind. Their accu-
Hulation of pantaloons is prodigious.—
Their superfine bats are renewed or iron
! ed with a frequency very gratifying to the
hattes. and extremely encouraging to
that branch of domestic industry. To
see one of them, when he has been fully
prepared, and indulges the town with his
society for a promenade, you would sup
pose that one of tha..f!, dummies—wooden
within, and waxen withbut—which Paris
ian artistes use for the display of their
handiwork had been animated and endow
cd with locomotion, or that Oak 1-Tall had
sent forth
. a promenading advertisement;
i - and you feel a well-nigh irresistible inclin
ation to pin a label, calling attention to
34 North Street, to his coat tail.
dun omuiapossumus onines,, says Vir
gil. We cannot all do everything. It is
a great truth. Peacocks have more tail,
than brains. And if we have read natu-1
ral history aright, those four-footed beasts,
and fowls, and creeping thing's, which have ,
the most astonishing outsides, compensate
therefor by internal leanness, insipidity,)
and uselessness. The same great law pre
vails in regard to humanity. We have
seen old books wherein, by the similarity!
in the shape of the sixth and nineteenth
letters of the alphabet, the words Appy
and supiw could with difficulty be dis
tinguished. It struck us as. au instruc
tive fact. A fop-head and a "sap-head"
are much alike in several other things be
side their orthography. And that a man
who prides himself. mainly upon "a good
port and beariiig in society" should
nore his own father, if he happen to .be
I unfashionably dressed, is a thing to be
naturally expected, because love to pa
rents is an affair of the heart; and a dan
dy has no more heart than a dummy afore
said, which the carpenter knocks up out
of common stuff, without much regard to
the interior,-out merely to furnish a scaf-
Wing to support the goodly and simper
! ing.outside, upon which the tailor, and
the hatter, and the boot-maker can Aver
tise their wares.
.13ut it is a said thing to see a young man
given over to the clot he:s mania. " Once
a coxcomb, always a coxcomb," was a
maxim of Dr. Johnson; and he who be
gins life by, fearing to go into the street
in any comely, clean, aud common-sense
clothes, lest some fool or other should
think ho is not as well dressed as he ought
to be, will be very apt to die, eventually,
leavint , c the largest part of his assets in
the shape of tailors' bills, the largest part
of his influence among the old clo' men,
and the largest part of his memory among
the denizens of the street.
The Doctor says he Wont Die
We heard this on a door step. A blue
eyed child said it---a bright, glad-faced,
beautiful child. She smiled as she spoke.
Her little hands came together in glad
clasp. There was a look of heaven hi the
sweet expression told of more than
one joyful heart in that house.
g. The doctor says he won't die,"- Was
it the babe ? the tender lisping babe ? If
so. we saiv a vision of the cradle, and the
watcher who had sat wearily beside it all
through the long night. But in each
cheek there was the crimson touch of
hope, and in either dim eye . a'tear up.
springing 'from the deep fount of joy.—
That - was the mother. In what' other
face on.earth could blend that mingliag
of awe—of joy=-of tenderness? And
the babe—his lipS were parted and moist
—and the color _of the rose bud faintly
struggling • out of its green sheath had
crept
.over their delicate outlines. The
darling hands. no longer lay in rigid rest;
the glazing ot•disease bad ' ; fallen from the
Dine orbs = and - he had smiled his fare
well to the angels who had come to carry
him to their. children's playgrotmd„l4here
'
blossoms never fade--litit had been the
Mastees will.
" The doctor says he won't die I"
Oh what a throb in the mother's heart
when these words were speken. She will
press him again to her breast—watch bim
in his fitful sleep—bold his little hands
in her bosom—make the White robe—but
not for leis cojfin ! Did ever. footsteps
sound so gentle as those of the kind phy
isieian as he moves softly from the room ?
I Was ever a mother so bk r ssed before?—
Did God ever seem so great-•—so go:Al.?•
" The doctor says he won't die I" .
It might have been Übe father—the'
strong Man. He came home feverish—
said iris head felt strangely : he could eat
no supper. lle .pushed I the babe from
his knee—he was not wont to do so. • The
wife looked on wondering—and when she
smoothed the pillow on the lounge, felt
an unnatural heat. The 'morning come;
he said he must go to work—but hand
trembled—his limbs ref Used to 'do their
office—the coat was not; taken from the
I wall that day; his cane Mood in the cor-
I ner--a carriage before the gate. Dawn
!after dawn whitened the heavens and•the
earth—there was no
. chaOge. The wife
slept not—her love watched and waited,
and cried yearningly to qod for his life.
But there arc glad tidings; rejoice even
as you trembled, sweet wife : •
roe doctor says he won't die !"
Perhaps we did not hear aright. It
may be the child exclaimed':
" The doctor says she Won't die !"
If it was the mother ! She upon Whose
hands, whose feet, whose heart, whose
every faculty a little world depended fo
its sunshine, almost for 'its continuance,
doubly -dear the gentle assurance of the
good doctor
Did you ever feel .a silence more op
pressive and omenous than reigns in the
household when "mother's sick ?" The
babe mourns at his play—the children
look about absently in a hopeless kind of
.way—the, very furniture seems mutely
asking where she is whose care it has so
long known. Every footstep echoes hol
lowly, every heart sighs involuntary, and
seems asking of itself if it has done that
which the sight of a green grave would
condemn. There are prayers going up
.all over the house—the husband comes
iu hurriedly—asks no questions—answers
no queries, but goes stealthily to the dark
ened chamber, and there, perhaps, when
heart and hope almost desert him, he hears
the blessed words :
" The doctor says she won't die !"
1 Ile looks just as grave when he goes;
down; he tells the news gravely to the!
children—but - seems brighter as he leaves
' the house. There is not -a man he callsi
his enemy. He smiles as he enters the!
store; there is a blessedness within his
bosom such as he never felt before, and .
strangers say as they
,leave him :
"There is something unusually pleas
; ino• about that man."
''S'o there is 'They are right there.—
That vision of a grave has gone, and flow
ers, are springing up in its . stead. He
rdoes not shiver as he passes the window
where the coffins stand—" The doctor
says she won't die !"—and he has faith.
- Thus light springs up in darkness—
; and after,the sorrow of night, joy counth.
—Peterson's
How to Cook ,a ilusband.
A lady reader sends the Boston, Olive
Branch the following valuable recipe: '
" The time has arrived in the year, for
the preparation of many good things, and
I ha,ie no doubt but that the followirg.
will prove to be one of the most valuable
in the catalogue of recipes. Tb cook a
husband, as Mrs. Glass said of the hare,
you must first catch him. Having done
so, the mode of cooking him, so as to make
a good dish of him, is as follows::
" Many god husbands are spoiled in the
'cooking; some women go aboUt it as if
their children . were bladders :and blow
them up; others keep theth constantly in
but water, while others freeze them. by
conjugal coldness; some smother-them in
hatred, contention and variance, - and some
'keep them in pickle all their lives. These
women always. serve them up with tongue
1 sauce. Now 'it cannot be supposed that
1 husbands will be tender and good it man
-1 aged in this way ; but they .are, on the
. jontriirv, very• delicious when managed as
follows :—Get a large jar, called the jar
i'of faithfulness, ( which all good wives keep
lon hand,) place your husband in it, o.nd
I riet Mit near the fire of conjugal 'love let
'the fire be pretty hot, but especially let it
I Jpe clear, but above all let the heat be eon-1
FOUR CENTS.
TERMS.-$1;25! PER ADIMP!'.').:
sta nt. Cover hini with affection, kindness
and subjection garnished with modest,
becoming familiarity, and, spiced with
pleasantly, and if you, add kisses and.oth
er_confectioneriei, let them , be accompa
nied with a sufficient portion of secresy,
mixed with prudence 1 . and moderatine.
We would advise all good, wives; Wiry
this recipe, and realize what an admirable
dish a husband,jonakes when properly
cooked.'"
[We highly approve of the above meth
od-L—especially the confectionery.
~ I t
: is
our opinion, however, that wii,es will;be
equally delicious, if managed in the same
way. We would ike to, undertake . the
mana!nment of one—provided the supply
of confectionery was proportioned to ,the
cost managing.—ED. P. Jouitrim..l .
THE Pittsburg Gazette in weontroyet
sy with the Catholic,: of that city, Makes
the following pretty allusion to FlOrenee.
Nightingale :
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"The. Catholic refers to Florence Night
ingale, and we are willing to take as,
in this respect, a true:type of Wiamuntiod.
She sheds a genial influence around :her
wherever she goes; she delights:the
hearth by which she sits; she enjnyi,the
beautiful and contributes of that enjoy,
ment to, others;' ; she 'wears no 'repulsive
weeds; she liveS• in society, to blessit and
to adapt herself to whatever condition. of
life, so she may, make the.world better:-
She Aloes not force her benificencOnto
one channel, but permits it to flow' one s :oi
all sides, as the mountain that lifts sun,
crowned head to-the skies, sends abreact
to the extremities ofcontinenti its 'glad'
tributes to bless : , and. fractify the earth:.
Her good deeds are not done in accord;,
ante with a "creed" or a "ritual!" ,Pita.
needs . no "veil," no new name, no
sition of priestly handSono peculiar midi,'
no vows said before men, no stone, walls
behind which to withdraw and, beyond
which to push the world she•was born to
live in and to bless! Bell, book oi,can . ,,
.dle, crucifix, beadsaud genuflexions, stoma
cells and mourning weeds are not.for)nir,
but a glowing heart. a'pure inind,nieady,
hand, a faith in the Great Creator and in,
his Son our Saviour,—these, which are
the gifts of God and,which - need no',con7
ruination of clergy or church cereineniA:
to sanctify or to render effective, are:hers,
and their influence is everywhere,,i6 7 :
spirinr , the good to nobler deeds, soothing,
, and cheering the brok 'n hearted, and en-,
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touring the weak and fallen. To dim or
I conceal one ray of this effulgent character
Would be to deprive this poor world of
wind it cannot well do'without. Put her.
in a Convent, bind her by a creed and the
world loses .a great deal of her influence.
She becomes a' sort of machine, - doing
good by rule, according to certain re,hilf
tions and in certain ways marked out by
men, whereas she now labors in her Lord's
Vineyard, doing whatsoever her hands find
and as her true heart dictates. No Con-.
vent could contain her; for such,:, the
world is the field of labor and the; free.
heart the director." .
THE NATIONkL S. S. CONVENTION.-
The interest of the Convention continued
till the last, if we may judge of the Tfitirs- -
day evening froM the report of the Morm- :
iug meeting.
A great many speeches were made, of .
which the 'papers give us .a close abstraCt.,
The resolutiotis, which Fere all adopt•.
ed, were as follows :-
Resolution I,declares that the Sunday
School, in connection' with the teachings of
home - and the pulpit, is able to bring the youth
of the country under Bible influences. •
2 declares the teacher's love of his work to
be ind4ensable.
declares the. teacher's preparatory 'stn - dy
of the weekly les6:on to be essential to success.
4 urges punctUality and regularity both' in
teachers and pupils. -
5 declares that order must be kept in the
schools. •
G deelares that every moment of school hours
should be appropriately occupied.
7 urges frequent visits of teaohers'to schol
ars at their howies. .
8 recognizes the Holy Spirit in the schools.
3 states that the teachers should set a good
erample:
lu urges that the early conversion of
chil
dren should come nearer the Bible standard.
This resolution livas widely discussed by Rev.
Thomas P. Hunt, of Philadelphia, Mr. Taylor,
of Portland, and Mr. Thompson, of New "Jer
sey.
11 recommends weekly prayer meetings::
12 recommendS weekly lesson reviews. -
I 3 recommends frequent Teachers' Meetings,
Conventions and Association; and local book
depositories.
14 recommends the preparation of lessons
before scholars come to schooL
I 5 recommends the committal to memory of
the Scripture leissons.
WEIAT fits RthNKD TEM KING OF Paussietr- ,
Champagne hag been the ruin . of the King of
Pr . tissia. When he first ascended the • throne
he was an; elegant, accomplished gentleman.
His amiability, high' moral character and
his acqiiiremeuts were known throughout Eu
rope, and in Pritssia he was as popular as a..
Monarch could be. In- 1848, he commenced
drinking champagne, and is now an idiot.—Ex.
The King of Prussia is not the only man .
whom- '-f ha l s hurled into idiocity. The
world it of Such folly, and will be so long
as Mone: interest suborn reason in law
making n legal and GOCiel practices.
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