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SEIV:Vt'. =lairs
VOLUME XVII
JEFF, DAVIS
AND HIS
©DgEBEEABV
sucked in. His attempts to
close out
JOSE?::PRICE
PROVE
OfiESSEVESMOJS
OTWITHSTKNDING the heavy drains by
"Let me alone" Quartermasters in July.l
am happy to inform my custori►ers'and the public
generally that I sin on board 'again with a large
supply than ever of NEW and FREpSH
filLI, MI ETU
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE,
QUEENS_WARE
BOOTS;
SHOES,
HATS,. &c.
Which I can and will sell as cheap as the cheap
est "or any other man."
331 k. and Fancy Silks,
All Wool Delainee,
Turin Cloth,
Figured Dekinee,
Poplins,
Frenelt and English Merinos,
Alpacas,
Shepherd Plaids,
_
Cloaking Cloths of every glair.
Cy, color and description.
MOURNING GOODS
Blk. French Merinos
Englif do.,
all Wool Detainee,
•
Blethera Cloths,
. Turin ClothS,
English Crape.
" Prints,
French Crape,
Plush lined brauntlets,
Crape Ribbons,
Hoods,
Bahnoralst
and everything to make the sad mourner look beau•
tiful in all her sorrow
ENTS 9
Broad Clothe. illk. and 'Fancy Cassimerce, Boa.
ver Clothe, Silk and Velvet Vesting, Morino Shirts
and Drawers, Fancy Flannel t. 4 hirts, Linen mar.
sand (.ash Shirt Arun - Collare
Handk'fa, Hose, Suspenders, anti anything and
everythig to cause him to break .a ladies heart, or
make him presentable at the house of w. f . Vic.
WOOLEN GOODS,
All colors, Bay State Flannels,
Gray,
Br",
bol ferino,
Red Twilled Flannel,
Gray do. do.,
Green do. do.,
Yellow dn. do.
1at1,151.4 r4,ac/
Bro Muslin,
Tidings,
_
Jeans,
Denims,
----- -- 13 - uctit s
Sliectingir;
Pillowcase muslin,
Hickory Stripes
q UEENS ASR E ,
We have a full and complete stock and will sell
.• • . or-yourselves. To neeis
to buy. Remember the place. Northeast corner of
he Diamond.
Oct. 23
T t.:tt lot of Beautiful 11alniorals jusrle
. .ticeived at. • " (nor 27 ) • ruics's
Oft have walked these woodland paths,
_ _Without_tbehlest forettmawing.
That underneath the withered leaves
The fairest beds are growing.
Tolley tEe south wind sweeps away
The types of autumn's splendor,
And_shOws_the sweet_arbutus flower ;
Spring's children, pure and tender.
•
Oh ! prophet-souls; with lips of bloom
Outvieing in their beauty
The purest tints of ocean-shells—
Ye teach me Faith and duty.
Walk life's dark ways, ye seem to say,
With Joy& divine foreknowing
That where man sees but withered leaver,
God sees the sweet flowers growing.
.•••••
FAREWELL AND WELCOME,
Go ! Winter, go !
Thy frozen locks and tresses white.
I—AntLlooks_that kindle_nataelight
And breath that chills the young heart's glow,
And frown that makes the tcnr-drop 'start,.
No bliss, no pleasure can impart;
Go ! Winter, go !.
Come ! Summer, come !
With genial skies and budding flowers,
And balmy gales and fragrant ehowers,
And smiles that clothe the earth in flowers,
Come ! with thy bright and fairy band,
And scatter gladness o'er the land ;
IVX X Pal fC, 30 T-II XJI A. I t a " fe ••
LAW AND ROMANCE.
"Act as my representative in all respects;
I delegate you full and entire authority ?"
That was what Jack Clermont said as he
leanod out of the carriage window- to light
his cigar from the tip of mine. Of course, I
understood the responsibilities, and accepted
the very good humoredly; for, though I
had never been in lave myself, still I had a
general idea that it was my duty to afford
every possible facility to a young man who;
was going to see his' sweetheart and fix the
wedding day.
So I turned with a sigh of resignation, a
way front the fresh, exhilerating air, the viv
id March sunshine, into the close little den
lined with law books, and perfumed with the
odor of Russia leather. which Jack denomi
nated his "office !" On the whole, I felt rath
er as if I were an amiable sacrifice on the al
-1 tar of disinterested friendship. Damon and
thit».l-were--g reat-c iesi-uo-sloulit -- i - fr - we
-were to put faith' in the records; but I never
heard that Damon stayed at' home , to keep
"office" for Pythias,' when he would a great
-deal—rat-her-have-been-out-in-'the- breezy-
March woods, trampling down the first blue
violets under the drifts of dry leaves, with a
gun over his shoulder !
Then I begawto consider seriously what a
lazy fellow I was to•spend my days in this
Robin Hood kind of life; while my old college
mate. Jack, was working away at the law and
pocketing snug little INA., and getting to be
a justice of the peace, and delegate to all the
conventions, and school trustee, and every
thing he could think of'; "some day," resolv
ed 1, whteling lazily round on Jack's old
„leather chair, "I'll - go to work too."
0031
All day long 1 sat there, enacting Jack to
my own 'unbounded admiration, and consid
erably to the astonisement of sober old
farmers, whose preconceived idea of "Squire
Clermont" was widely differerit from the
splendid moustached young fellow'w ho occu
pied his seat of judgement, and pronounced
solemn edicts with all the dignity of Chief
Justice Taney hiniself ! What was the use
. of telling them all that I was 'not Jack, and
that I never had graduated at any law school
- 111 -
bat wy whole knowledge Was confined
to a single reading of Blackstone ? Jack had
-given-explicit-instructions-to-act-ab Lib rep=
resen tative, and was not I doing it to the best
cifTny ability ?
Well, on the whole, I didn't succeed bad ;
ly at first—whenever there was'any mistiness
about the transaction, I took the broad ground
that law Was nothing more nor less . than com
mon sense, (a mistake, that experience has
since rectified for me.) I nipped three prom
:sing-lawsuits in the bud by the conscientious
equity u my opinions; p..rsua•et severa
honest follows to'put their grievances in their
pockets, not in mine, and speaking in
round numbers, must have done poor Jack
out of nearly fifty dollars in retaining fees.
JOS. PRICE
sAL' 3Prit•mily; zirelwso9itifetei.)!.„N,O.4.treti‘,o2:*O
WAINESBIW, FRANKLIN. Ci)Vir . f . y,...,PF l N*olA
. I,4Nl:k.PititlAY, 401M.N . G;_rejilui . * 19,188 t, ::::, 1 :),,,:',C:, ',:
UNDER THE LEAVES.
LOVE.
Oh the lark is singing in the sky,
A bonny;sbonny song ;
But there's a bird in my heart, love,
A-singing all day long.
The soaring lark sinks back to coati—
His song will soon be o'er:
But the bird in my heart, love,
Shall sing for evermore.
Oh the rose is blooming in the sun.
The sweetest flower that grows,
But there's a bonny flower, love,
Blooms faster than the rose,
It Ills life's summer air with joy,
Nor droops when storms• come o'er,
'Twill-flourish in its beauty,
When roses - bloom no more. •
NY BARRY CORNWELL WILSON
Come ! Sumfner)ame 1
"Spiire Clermont in ?" demanded& shook.
headed rustic in a swallow-tailed blue coat,
who made his appearance about noon .
"Yes—what's Wanting?"
"Well, sir," answered the rustic rather
awkwardly_ twirling his hat round and round:
"We'd like to have you come up to Shine--
vine next week and deliver a lecture for our
Young Men's Association, and--;—"
"Twenty five dollars and expenses paid,"
remarked I, at a venture, with an air of such
exquisite assurance that the negotiater was
completely at my mercy.
"rerwell sir. The secretary of the as
sociation will forward you a regular invita
tion; --
"Good day, sir," I said briskly, rubbing
my hands as another individual came in, and
he-edged-out.--u Jack caet-complain-at-this_
way of transacting busirkessrwas my inter
nal reflection, while my last visitor was haw
ing and hemming preparatory to introducing
his . business.
"You are Mr. Clermont, sir, I s'pose ?"
" W hat's your business with we, my friend?"
said I, amiably. - '
"Well, I'm real glad I've welted yen at
home for once,!!- was the answer with fiend-'
ish satisfaction. "I'd be very much obliged
if you'd pay this 'ere little bill ?"
And be extended a crumbled piece of pa
per—a bill for something or other, I didn't
know or care what, except that the sum total
was twenty dollars, which 1 paid with my
exultation considerably toned down. --Why
couldn't I have said that I wasn't Jack, and
and didn't know when Jack would be at
home.
My most interesting adventure was . yet to
happen, however.
Just as I was beginning to yawn, ancl con
template the propriety of shutting the little
office up fbr the day—just as the level bright
ness of glorious spring sunset was streaming
in long bars of gold through the dusky panes
of glass beside me—the silence was broken
by a tiny tap on the office door.
"Come in V! I said expecting to see a lit
tle bov - •
_ie boy with - aletterior - some — preternatural= -
1y bashful client, as I laid down the poker,
apd wheeled m'y chair• round. What was
my astooishmeut. on the contrary, to behold
a tall slender young lady, with healthy fresh,
brown complexion, just tinged with healthy
pink, that somehow made me think of the
wild honeysuckles in my favorite woods, and
hazel eyes, that appeared perfectly ready
IRS HM fill U trg admit, -
melt into mysty tears.
There she stood, and there' I sat? I nev.
er had heard of Jack's having any female
clients, and eonsequeutly it took several sec
onds for me to recover, as it were, my men
tal equilibrium. Then 1 sprant , up, and
politely proffered her the only chair in the
office, while I enthrened myself on the wood
box.
"Mr. Clermont 7" she asked softly—a very
sweet, musical sort of a voice, I noticed,.even
through all my perturbation.
"I shall be happy to be of service ycOu
ma'am."
Who would have supposed it!, The young
wood nymph didn't want a divorce from her,
husband, (that is, taking it for granted she
had happened to have such an appendage,)
nor did she desire to quarrel with her neigh
bor's boundary fence, or stray bovine ani
mals who had depredated the paternal corn ,
fields. Not at all; she merely wanted a cer
tificate to teach a district school, and the
other trustees_had sent her to Mr. Clermont
to be examined.
Here was a pretty kettle of fish for a bash
ful youno c' man who was sailing under false
colors ! how was I to know whether she
was qualified to be a school ma'am or not?
And how, in the name of all that was des
perate, was I to get myself out of this high
ly embarrassing business, unless 1 confessed
my inequality to the emergency, by running
away .and boatino ° an ignominious retreat
through the back office door into the pine
woods beyond ?
"Never !" quoth Ito myself. "I'll die at
_nay-post scone r r e won-if-for ty-t housand - s - cfroo
ma'am's - come atter certificates
"What is your name, ma'am?" I demand
ed, in 4. business like manner, drawing a sheet
of_paper_towards_me_aud_dippingzny—pen—in
the iuk•staud.
"Jessie Gray, sir."
I knew I could nor stand the arch, half
mischievous twinkle of those brown eyes if
1 looked at her too often ; so I proceeded on
ftrni :
"How old are you ?"
"Eighteen this month."
"Eighteen, hey ?" T Wrote it down, and
hesitated a minute. What next to ask her
I had no more idea than the 'tongs in the
corner, I wished Jack would come home,
catechise his own brown-eyed school teacher
—no I didn't either
"What do you know ?"
"0 plenty of things," re4pondeci the can
didate demurely. (Confound these women
—how quick- they discover when you are at
a disadvantage !) "I. can sew and' knit, and
mend stockings, and make pies and—"
I , tried hard to *own Magisterially, as I
saw the roguish dimples around J ossio's rose
-1 bud mouth, and, interrupted her catalogue
wall the stern query
3 - "-I—tiT
neat rt - Eit,"T - tre your educational quali
fications?"
i_Jesaie_looked-atAsno-lilwa--&t-te-rt
,
mouth agiunine; to quiver. and the hazel
on the wood box, and two or three snotty
pine logs rolled around my ankles.
"Come, now, don't be-. frightened," I ex
postulated; rubbing my bruised extremities.
All I want to know is, can yini say
andLeast—iterest i —und-a
that soma thing'?" . .
"Let nic sec.--chich school is it yett'svish
to teach r half aloud, conve.
hien tly . pi•etettJiog to . lkp.get, what I had tier
et-knows,'
"At Mtn Grove, sir," 'said Jessie
iy.
"Elm 'Grove'; 'why my child, there are
echolars there twice your height and size,
and unruly as aboriginal Savages !:Wave you
duly considered the consequences of the step
jou _arq_abiout_to_take
"I have, sir," she answered, the long wet
lashes weeping her flushed cheek; buil ant
very poot i and it is necessary for uio t.i 'earn
my daily bread I"
I set my teeth grimly together at the idea
of that young creature, in the trunble-nown
hovel at Elm Grove, at the mercy of dbg.
'eared spelling b ooks and dinner baskets
"Mis Gray," I commenced emphatically.
There—it inevitably_, happened so in my
case! What posSessel,Jack Clermont .to
l_drive_up_to the_deor_atthat_identical_mo-:
meat? Why couldn't he have stayed away
gust five minutes longer ?
"Please favor me with your address, Miss
Gray," I stammered hurriedly; "the certifi
cates are not
,priuted yet. I will call and
See about thernin a day or two."
AndPwhen the quiet brown dress had flut
tered from the room;I discovered, all at once
that the crimson glory was fading gloomily
from the west, and the tire was dying out,
and things were dismal enough to welcome
the noisy entrance of my friend Jack and his
cigar.
"Well, my boy, what luck have you lied
keeping office today ?"
I informed him briefly of my experiences,
laying particular , stress ono the twenty-five
dollar lecture engagement, and slurring over
the affair of the crumbled hill for which
had a receipt in fun.
"All right," said Jack, in a merry, jovial
voice, that sounded like, a cheerful gale of
wind in a pine forest. "Why you'd make
a splendid lawyer, Campford. Bet you have
not told me about the pretty girl who was
coming out as 1 drove up—what did she
wan t ?"
`'Oh, she was after a certificate to teach
school—up in Elm Grove you remember.--I
say, - Jaek, this school maim branch must be
rather a delicate kind of business in your
sphere of duties."
• -"Not generally," said Jack. "But what
did you do with this one ? Give her a cer
tificate?
• •
"No," said I, thoughtfully.
"And why not.. Didn't I invest you with
limitless powers ?"
" / 1 4 1 1÷ 1 1 1 3M
the wood•box, and stretching my six•feet of
humanity to their full attitude, "because
Jack, I mean to marry that girl."
"Vainpfbrd are - you insane ?"
"No--I think not."
"But you never saw her before ?"
"Well, what then ? she suits me exactly
—I never knew before what sort of a wife I
wanted, and now I am fully convinced."
"But suppose she don't have you ?"
"She will or I'll know the reason, why,"
Clermont burst into a laugh. -
"Well, Campforei, all I have to say is .go,
and may Cupid speed you!"
I acted upon his recommendation and call
ed on Miss Jessie the next day, to tell her
that the certificate would certainly be ready
at a certain date. So that it was well into
April before I strode up the walk leading to
the widow Gray's cottage one golden even
ing, with a bunch of wild ezelens in my
hand, and the tardy piece of parchment un
der my arm. Of course Jessie had long
since discovered that .1 was not the trustee,
but it did not materially affect our friendly
relation.
"Well, Miss Jessie, here is the certificato "
She uttered a little exclamation of delight
and held out her hand.
"I wouldn't avail myself °fit, Miss Jessie
—I believe you eau,do better !"
"How ?"
"Marry me ?"
Do you ask what answer she made ?,
have no'distinet recollection of the precise
words—l only remember a sunset more
goldenly radiant by far than. I have ever
-seen before — and Sincez- - -th — o faint odor of
spring blossoms in the air. and my head
bent down to catch the low whispers of the
lips that were hid against my beating heart.
_r_think,_however, jts_general purport was fa
vorable, for Mrs. CampfordL-the pretty wo
man yonder, who is wondering why I don't
come to breakfast—has never regretted that
she did not take charge of that school atElin
Grove.
WONIAN'S LOVE.-A man who had strug
gled with a malignant disease approached
that crisis in its stage on which his life seem •
ed to depend. His anxious wife, scarcely
daring to breathe, was sitting by his bed;
her servants, exhauSted by constant watch.
ing, had all left her.' It was past midnight,
a door was open for air, she heard, in the
stillness of the night, a window open below
stairs, and soot) after.approaching footsteps:
A. moment more, and a man with his face
disguised entered the room. She instantly
saw her husbands clinger; and; anticipating
the design of the unwelcome intruder, she
pointed to her husband, and; pressing her
finger upon her rips to ensure silence, held
out to the robber - her pairse'and her keys...
To her great stirpris ; ?, he took neither.—
Vtrether he was terrified or charmed by the
courage of her affection; cannot be known.
• ctt the room,_arld t _without . --robbing a
house sanctified by such . strength of affec
tion, he de .artecl.
„ ,
The witty Sheridan, while visiting at a
country house, was asked . to take a walk by
a rather unscsirable lady coruPanion, but
excused' himself ou account'of the bail weath
er She seo6 after 'Caught' 'hint trying' to
escape without her. • she . : said, "1
see it has
_cleared up_;_! . .) yes,'
swere.,,t‘ it r.is cleared up ennugh c for vac,
but not enough for two I.” This was too
plain to- be plisunderstood Sheridan, tyas
relieved of hei irAuble some attentions for,
ever thereafter:
EMM
• Your Evenbig* .
Greakboya andlittle
ties whiek concerns you all, Hew
,do, yea,.
I spend your evenings. If, year parents or=,
guardians allowyou to go rom home in tiii3
evening, where do yiktgA, and 114*
-- tinre - sputn - brydirritead thirdittl
sad thinkof the Jessup it. teaches .
Joseph,Olark was US_ fine-looking and
'healthy aad,as ovei 4 left the country to go
city store: His elieek Was red With
health, his• arm strOng,:attitt his 'step quick.
Ills master.liked his, looks, and.said "that
boy will make something." He had been a
clerk about six mouths when M. Abbott
observed a change in Joseph. Ms cheek
grew pale, his eye hollow, 'and he always
seemed sleepy. Mr. Abbott. said nothing
fora tv}iile..At-last fiadiug Josepl► iu the
coutiting-rooin one, day, lie asked hint if he
was well.
. "Pretty well, sir,"
answered .Joseph.
"You look tuck, oflate,7 said •Nr. Abbott.
"I have the headache .Somethaes," the
young man said.
"What gives you the headaelit," asked
the inerehunt.
"I do not-know as I know, sir."
"Do you go to bed in good searlott."
Jokpli blushed.
"Aa early .us - most' or the h9rders," he
stud.
"And bow do you spend your evenings,
Joseph ?"
"Oh, sir, not as I » . jr pious )notlitti ap
proves," answered the young 'man, teurs
standing in his eyes. •
"Joseph," said the old merchant, "your
character and all your future usefulness and
prosperity depend upon the way yerti pass
your evenings. Take my word for it, a
young man's evenings will make or break
him."
Hotv Near are we to Death; -
A writer in the Independent 0111.9 dis
courses on our_nearness--to—deittlir-
"When We walk near powerful machin
ery, we know that one single mistep and
those mighty engines would tear us to rib
bons with their flying wheels, or. grind us
to powder in their ponderous ja*s So,'when
we are thundering across the land in a rail
car, and there is nothing hut half an inch
of flange iron to hold us upon the track.—
So, when "we are at sea in a ship : and there
is nothing but the thickness of a plank
be - Ai - seen us and eternitTW,, , ine, t ten,
we see how close• we are to the edge of the
precipice. But we douot see it.
Whether on sea or land, the partition
which divides us from eternity is something
thinner than oak plank or half an inch of
flange iron. The machinery of lice and death
is within is. The tissues that, held these
beating powers in their place are often not
thicker, than a sheet of paper, and if that
thin partition were pierced or ruptured it
would be just the samo with us. Death is
inseparably bound up with life in the very
striucturc of our bodies. Struggle as we
will to widen the space, no man can at any
time go fUrther front death than the thick
ness of a sheet of paper
=CM
The First Gray Hair
This night, when the last days of tho year
are ebbing away, a fair hand playing with my
dark locks has discovered a gray hair—the
first gray Bair ! .1 had , never seen such a
thing— never dreamt of such a thing! At
my age 1 could not believe it. It was laid
upon a band or black velvet, and placed be
fore me. Lean resist conviction no longer.
There it lies blanched and white—white as
the driven snow ! And it is my hair. It
seems but yesterday that I was at school,
wishing I were a man. And now to-day I
am gray and growing old. -What have I
done in all This ? Have I fulfilled a man's
mission upon earth-4ave I made any ate!:
towards. it ? 11ave I done any good in the
most infinitesimal degree, for which the
world is wiser or better ? I cannot answer my
own — questions; — .llfil sifting here
contemplating that white hair, with the sense
that another year is gliding aWayi I feel that
it is time in right good earnest to turn over
a new leaf. I have made the resolution oft
en before, but never udder the sense of
obli
ration which now weighs upon me —L.London
Society. •
FAMILY .COUR,TESY.—FamiIy intimacy
should never make brothers and sisters far
get to be polite and sympathising. to each
other. Those who contract thoughtless and
rude habits toward the members of their own
family will be thoughtless acid rude to all
the world. But let the family intercourse
borne, tender and affectionate, and the man
ner of all uniformly gentle and considerate.
the members of the family thus trained will
carry' into the world and society the habits
of. their' childhood. .They will require in
their associates 'similar qualities; :hey will
not be satisfied without mutual esteem and
the cultivation of the best affections, and
their own character will be sustained by
that faith in. goodness which belongs to a
mind exercised in pure and high thoughts.
SuaIPTIiAILY• LAws.-f-;Mr. , Stevens, in a
recent &bate onthe.whiskey,tax, yemaiked,
that he -should be glad if legislation could
care intemperance, but he:lad - seen it 'tried,
and tried vain. 'He did not b_eliere—that
umptuarkilvirtfeTh - 4. any effect.: to . stop
abuses in any country. When he was a
young man, and helvpuid not object to be
ing no.again, he was in a State lecislapre,
and moved that the sale of liquor should be
'irohibitedin his district; .and the tuition
"was carried: 'Hnliid npt find that he there
y made one drunkard the less--qh
tfleydrink - Ttheworc iv en t,cy lAachance.
There is no other tray" - than by moral suasion,
'for the retlintiatieb 'of thei.worann tho:eub,
jqet.. of . 'drunkenuess,"%.._:
:59,r.tt,ne tie - sun, wake. Voce ts sling
.1
91:1341k , 1 , er , Year,
for the
the "benefit of posterity ,". its Well as
for the In fiirinitiod of tit& penple of tilepres
ent thin Wo 'put Upon •roeold theT,folfoi*lng
schedule of prices for puking and inputting
boots aad.shbes, charged at hri (fstablisbniont
757 - whieb• A -
le account,
is t i is' city w re • is !genera y overrun - wi t
ordefi:—For making boots, $226; for.' foot
ing boots, $l5O ; for ordinary cavalrylhoors,
3,250; for gaiterS, $110; for highlace Shoes,.
$100; for Oxford ties ; 399; for ;fixing, ,halt
soling and heeling hoots, $&?.; fur half soling
and heeling , boots,.s2o; ditto shoes,,M; for
now gores to gaiters, 81.0;, .for half-sOling
boots or Olicies, $l2; for heelingAlo.;s&. If
ealf skins are fainitilied the. charge be
for making boots, 8120; shocs, 4 soo, Where
it will nut be possible to• fill an order iii the
eourim of four teeks - from - tho time it is 'ta
ken no pride will be set, but the price, will
be fixed at the time oFtlelivery.-4itichmond
fivriorENcE.—None so . little , enjoy life;
and are stteh burdsns to themselves, as those
;elm have nothing to do. The active only,
truly have the relish of life, lie who knows
not what it is to labor, knows not what it is
to enjoy, Recreatioto is only valuable as it
unbends us. The idle know nothing: of i%
It is exertion that renders rest delightful,
and Sleep sweet and undisturbed. That, the
happiness of life depends on the regular pros
ecution of some laudable purßose,or caking
whieb engages,. helps and eitlivena rill our
powers, let those bear witness who, after
spending years in active usefulness. retire to
enjoy thernselves--they are' a burden to.
themselves.
Tin, I'ATI AND us EnDlNCL—Every
emit has a path leading to it, Manifa pleas
ant lane have I traveled, little thinking that
the end was a ditch or a quagmire. _Little
things are near relatives to gretiter_dims.---
_An-angry-taunris — tWfirst milp-siono on
' ,road the end of which is murder. An un
derhand trick is a bypath to faun], imposi•
tion'and roguery. A spark of conceit is the
• ~e rm'orsilly pride anti disguSting foppery.
A,sly glance - at tempting evil is often a seed,
of reckless impurity. Sculptors chisel their
mast erpieces stroke,by stroke, and the worst
of men make themselves so by degrees.
The above enigma, says the Portsmouth,
Journal, whioh,should he studied out and
practiced'by ail who wish to begin the year
aright, we saw posted in one of the stores in
the city. That no one may lose the benefit
of it, we give the explanation ; "liana over
what you owe."
Sometimes a girl says no to an offer when
it is as plain as the nose on her face that she
means yes. The ,best, way to judge wheth
er she is in earnest or not is to look straight
into her eyes, and never mind , her noes.
A jockey lord mot his old college tutor at
a great'horso fair. "All, doctor," exclaimed,
his lordship, "what brings you here among
these high-bred cattle? Do you think you
can distinguish a horse from an ass?"—
"My lord,"-replien:the tutor, "I soon perceiv
ed you almong all these horses."
A country editor, praising a successful
politition, called him "one of the cleverest
fellows that over lifted a hat to a lady, or a
boot to a blackguard!'
4fettEs.—Misery assails riches, as light
ning does the highest tower; or as a tree
that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own
bones, so do riches destroy the virtue of
their possessor.
Do your duty, however dangerous. Death
comes to all, and the world does not need
your bodily presence so much as it does your
moral heroism.
- some persons the, thunder is the watch
rattle; waking him out of the deep
sleep of sin.
Men often attempt, by the light of reason,
to discover the mysteries of eternity. They
might as well hold up a. candle to see tha
stars.
The source of the best and h3liest, from,
the universe up to God, is hidden behind a
night, full of too•distant stars.
At a christening, *bile a minister was
making out the certificate, ho forgot the - date,
and happened• to say ; "Lot me see, this is
the 30th." "The thirtieth 1" exclarned the
indignant mother, "indeed, it is only the e
leventh,."
Sweaxing is fearfully - prevalent among the
teamsters of the Cumberland army. The
last achievement in this way was ' , swearing
the hair off a mule's back"—time,, nine min
utes from the work "gas"
The,soul of a young woman. is aripe-rose
as soon as one leaf is plucked all its. mates
easily fall- after. And a kiss may sometimes
break oat the first leaf.
A-FELLOW-FEELING.-A. - yOUSIiAOCtOr
counting a maiden's pulse.
gets hoarse_frona-lot _
- hut - sptakii — aleyes can speak on forever.
There may, be counsels too ireighty;for wo.
men to bear; he knows. little who tegla his.,
wife '
- We. have no prnfessinnal court-fools .- inl
these. times,-but we have thouiands of cour,
fed fools- • •
The. greatest tniracie eeer wronettby tove<-
tho.reforma!ion sir a, corettc. • •
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/View- rete women. Whir", without' we g ift of
genius,;filtour.vasa with wine and roses to
the 'brim, so that the wine runs ovor. amidst
house is filled 'with perfume,
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