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VOLUME XIX
racmyrxcid&zih.
I LESSON IN ITSELF SEBUM
.A lesson in itself sub ime;
A lesson worth enshrining,
s-this;="L►ake no heed of ti
Save when the sun is shining."
These'rriotto words a dial bore,
And wisdom never teaches
To but= heart a better lore,
Than this short sentence preaches.
As•life is sometimes bright and fair,
And sometimes dark and lonely;
Let us forget all pain and care. •
And note its bright hours only.
There is'no grove on earth's broad chart,
Buttes some bird to cheer it;
So hope sings on in every heart,,
Although we may tot hear it:
And if to-day the heavy wing
Of sorrow is oppressing;
Perchance to-morrow's sun will bring '
• ' The weary heart a blessing.
'or - life is houlutimeirbright - amd - fair
And sometimes dark and lonely,
Then let's forget its toil and care,
• And note its bright hours only.
We bid the joyous moments haste,
And then forget their glitter—
We take the'Cup of life and taste '
Isi-o-portioa-but-the-bitrer•
But we should teach our hearts to deem
Its sweetest drops the strongest;
As-pleasant-hours-should-ever seem-
To linger found us longest.
And-life is sometimes bright and fair,
And sometimes dark and lonely,
Let us forget its toil and care,
And note its bright hours cm y.
The darkest shadows of the night
Are jukt before the morning;
Then let us wait the coning light,
All boding phantoms scorning;
And ignite we're passing on the tide
Of time's fast ebbing river,
Let's pluck the blossoms by its side,
And bless the Gracious Giver.
As life is sometimes bright and fair,
And sometimes dark and lonely,
We shalt forget its pain and care,
And note its bright hours only.
THE HONE CALL
93ring home the battle flags, all stained and torn
With sunning shell and grimy battle smoke,
The flags that through the fierce tight ye have borne
Amid the hissing lead and saber's stroke,
And place them on each waiting armory wall,
That they may speak of the great past to all.
__Rriiig_home4our-musketarstand-them-one - by - 0
In the vast arsenals, and then leave them there,
The glorious work which called them forth is done,
The din of war is no more in the air;
The battle•echoes fade and fade away, ,
And peace is dawning on a broader day.
Bring back the cannon, let the spidsr spin
Her thin-laced web within them where they stand,
No more their throats shall wake with dreadful din
The drowsy hamlets of our wide-spread land,
Or cabt Ahem into bells that ne'er shall cease
To fillthe air with sweet-toned notes of peace.
Bring home the leathern knapsacks ye have borne
• With bending backs along the dusky ways,
The mounted cross•belts ye've so proudly worn;
A new light shines from brighter, happier days,
The cloud of war is swiftly.paising by,
And on& again the sun shinei in the sky.
Bring back your swords, and lay them by at home;
Ah, is it not a proud, a noble thought
To know your children in the years to come
Snall•point to these and
,say, 'Our fathers fought!'
Bring back your 'swords, and hang them on you;
walls,
To grasp again when'cr your country calls.
Come home, ye veterans ; welcome, welcome home!
"Come," say the lips of mothers and wives,;'
Your childrees
_joyous voices echo "come!"
We,,thank the God of battles for your lives ;
And now the morning dawning on the night
Breaks in the future beautiful and bright.
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POVEII,TY'q. FALSE PIUDE.—A religisus
vonteinpontry says very justly: "The idea
13f 'reipeetable'employmenti is the rock upon
which thousands split and ship-wreck them
selves and all who depeod on them. All em
ployments are respectable that bring honest
gain. The laborer who is willing to turn his
hands to anything, is _as respectable as the
clerk or draper store-tender. Indeed the
man Who is ready to work whenever work
offers, -whatever it may be,. rather than . lie
—id-le-er--beg—, is-a—far—more—zespectable—ma ,
than one who turns up his hose at hard Is
tar, weaties his friends with ' his' complaints
that he cab ' got nothing respectable to do
podkets their' benefactions without tbankful-
Gess, and goes on from 'day to day, a'useless
lazy grumbler." ,
. 'Forty years Israel wandered in the wilder
ness; 'before le entered upon .the promised
hied, and forty years transfers every foi tune
in out l4nd to new owners. And if any, man
is grieved beeautio . of the bigneis of his in !
eotne tax lee bud wipolii eyes. Tea (than.
ea to one his *Wren, won't :have Any :in
eomeito he taxed .up0n.. ...
Why is love like a tinek's foot? Becuse
it of otter' lies hidden 'in the Beast.
Wittri.ll7' , NcivvosParbei‘ • Neutral .I.lr'k_Nicatt4s,34.4..xk.cl.
WAYMSBOR
-SPELLING4SCHOOLS ,
Have you .f!irgotten 'them? When from
all the region round • about, ,they, gathered
into the log•school house, with' its huge fire
place, that yawned like the main entrance to
Avernus. How the sleigh •bells—,the old
ashioned bells biT in the .tniddle of the
string, and "growing smolt - by - degrees-an.
beautifully less," towards the broad-brass
buckleschimmed-in-every-direction-long
before night—the gathering of the clans.
Then came one to school, "the Mastee—
•ive-him-tbe u for he is entitled to
ft—Master and all bundled into tie
red double sleigh, strewn with an abundance
of straw, and tucked up like a Christmas pie
with half a Beare of good, large buffalorobes.
There was half a dozen -cutters, each with a
young man and maiden, they two and no
more.- And thefe again a pair of jumpers,
mounting a great' outlandish looking bin,
heaped_up,_pressed down, and running over,
Scripture measure, with - m — : -- mill - colleetions-of
humanity, picked up en route, from a dozen
homes, and all as merry.as kittens in a bas
ket of wool. And the bright eyes, red lips,
that one caught a glimpse of beneath those
pink-lined, quilted hoods, and the silvery
laugh that escaped the mufflers, and fur tip
pets they wore then—who does not remem
ber them? Who can ever forget them?
The-school house, designated to be the a
renaof-the-conflict,- has been swept and gar
nished; boughs of evergreen adorn the'smoke
stained and battered walls, The pellets of
chewed paper have all been swept from the
ceiling, and two pails of Water have been
brought from the spring, and set on a bench
in the centry, with an immemorial tin cup
—a wise provision indeed, for 'tis warm in
that-spelling _room.
The big boys have, fanned and replenish
ed the fire, till the old chimney fairly jars
with-the roaring_flames,_add aparks_fiy_out_i
at the top, like a furnace, the on-flame of
the battle.
The two "Masters" are there; the two
schools are there; and such a hum; and such
0 , • • • 'I 1 h ill the , swarm?
The ferule comes docin upon — the deelr'i
with emphasis. What the roll-call is to ar
mies; that "rule" is to whispering, laughing
young company.
The challengers are arranged on one side
of the house; the challenged on the other.
Back seats, middle seats, low, front seats, all
'filled. Some of the fathers and grandfath
ers, who could, no doubt, upon such an oc
casion,
"Shoulder a crutch, and show how field's were
won."
occupy" the bench of honor, nearest the
desk.
Now the preliminaries; the reputed best
spellers on each aide choosen.
"Susan Brown !"
Oat comes a round-eyed little creature,
blushing like a peony. Such a little thing,
and choses first.
"Moses Jones 1"
Out comes Moses, an awkward fellow, with
a. shock of red hair shockingly harvested,
surmounting his broad brow. The oirls lau.h
"Elementary," isn't worth knowing.
"Jane Murray !"
Out trips Jane, fluttered as a bride and
takes her place nest to the caller. She's a
pretty girl, but a sorry speller. Don't you
helir the whispers round the house? "Why,
that is John's .sweetheart." John is the
leader, and a battle lost with Jatie by his
side, would be sweeter than a victory won
without her.
And so they go, "calling names," until five
or six champions stand forth ready to do
battle, and the contest is fairly begun at
last.
Down goes one after another, as words of
three sylables are followed by those of four,
and these again by words of similar pronun
ciation, and divers singifications, until Moses
and Sussn alone remain.
The spelling book is exhausted, yet there,
they stand. Dictionaries are Awned over,
memories are ransacked for.
"Words of learned length and sound," un
til, by and by, Moses conies down like a tre e ,
and Susan flutters there still, like a little leaf
alott, that the forest and the fall have tor
gOtten.
I'ollysyllables follow, and by and by, Su
inn hesitates just a breath or two, and-twen
ty tongues are working their way through
th e-labyri n letters-in-a-twin k ling—Lit
tle, Susan sinks into the chink left for her on
the crowded seat, and there is a lull in the
battle. •
Then they all stand in solid phalanx by
schools, and the struggle is, tb spell each Oth
er down. And down they go, like the leaves
in winter weather, and the victory is declar
ed for our district, and the school is dismiss
ed.
•Then comes the hurrahing and bundling,
the whispering and glancing, the pairiog_.off
and tumbling in. There are hearts thailut
ter and hearts that ache; mittens that are not
worn, hcmes'that are not realised, and fond
looks that are not ieturoed: There is a jinn
•ling at the door; one after another :of the
sleighs dash np, receive their nestling freight,
.1 I: go IL.
"Our Master". covers the fire, and puts out
the candles, (don't you remember how be
used to pinch the smoking wick. with fore
finger and Ihumb r and then - thrust such help
less luminary' head first into the socket?) and
we wait for him.
The Ulla ring faintly in the woods, over
the hill, in the valley. They are gone. The
school house is dark and tenantless, and we
are herealone with the night.
Merry, care-free company; Some of them
are eorrowing; some are dead, and all, we fear,
are changed I . SPELL I Ah 1 the "spell, that
has come over that crowd of young Aiream
ert—over -you, over us, will , it, ever., be die.;
solved ? -- it fa "the-white-ratliance-efoternt
ty I'
FRANKLIN COUNTY, -PENNSYLVANIA,.FRIDAY' MORNING, JUNE 23, 1865.
Otir Mist Ores About, ailh` Other
' Not one mail it ten thousand Bens thoie
with
_whom he associates as they really are.
If the prayer of Burns were granted, and we
could see ourselves as others see us ourself
much
more
would in all probability be
more numerous than they are bow. The
truth' is, that we regard each other through
:-variety-of_lenaes,n. one of which is °cot..
reef. Passion and prejudices, love an. ate,
b - on - evoleuee - and - etroyFspeetaclis-our - eyes
and utterly prevent ns from observing aeon
rately. Many whom we deem the porcelain
of human clay are mere dirt and'a still great
er trer-ot-thesi • • 1
IT
"black books," are no further off from heav
en, and perchance a little nearer, than the
censors who condemn them. We habitually
undervalue or overvalue each other, and in
estimating character the shrewdest of us on
ly now and then
,makes true appraisal of ' the
virtues and defects Of our closest intimates.
It is not just or fair to look at character from
a stand-point-of_one's_own selection. A man's
profile may be unprepossessing, and yet his
full face agreeable. We once saw a young
man, whose timidity was a standing joke with
his companions, leap into a river and save a
boy from drowning, while his tormentors
stood panic-struck on the bank. The mer
chant who gives curt answers in his counting
house may be a tender husband and father,
and a kind helper. of the desolake and op
pressed. On the other hand, yoTir good hu
mored person, who is all smiles and sunshine
in public, may carry .something as hard as
the nether millstone in the place where his
heart ought to he. Such anomalies are com
mon. Time is this comfort, however, for
those whose misjudgments of their fellow
mortals lean to the kindly, side—such mis
takes go to their credit in the great account.
Ho who thinks better of his neighbors than
they deserve, cannot be a bad man, for the
standard-by-which-his jildgement is guided
is the goodness of his own heart, It is only
the base who bel:eves all men .base—or, in
other words, like themselves. Few, howev
er, are all evil. Even Nero did a good turn
to somebody, for when Rome was rejoicing
over kis — de - nth BOUM luvely • ,
grave with flowers. Public men are seldom
or never fairly judged—at least, while living.
However pure, they cannot escape calumny.
However correct, they are sure to find eulo
gists. History, may do them justice; but they
rarely get it while alive, either from friends
or foes. •
Kentucky and Slavery.
The Louis Ville Journal has entered the
arena in favor of the constitutional amend
ment in Kentucky with considerable energy,
and is doing most, noble duty. In its issue
of the 30th ult., it says:
Nobody not tit for Bedlam or any asylum
for idiots supposes; that, hereafter, any good
can come of slavery, so called in- Kentucky.
Nobody thinks that anything but confusion
and agitation and strife and all manner of e
vil can grow out of it. Any attempt of this
State to-remain a . slave State in name and in
law, the only slave State in the whole of the
broad Union, a solitary slave State in the
now in the I midst of thirty-five
.ast of thirty-live or forty tree States,
the
scoff of the whole world, a thing of shame
and odiuin in the eyes of all the nations, a
tract of land to be scorned and shunned • by
every immigrant seeking a home upon our
continent—any such attempt, we say, world
be the very error of direst and wildest luna
cy. If our people wish to make their noble
State a theatre of bitterness and fierce con
tentions for-years whilst harmony and peace
shall be prevailing all around her, if they
want to make her a pariah.yin the midst of
her sisters,
and an object of jealousy. and dis
favor with the Government and the country,
they know very well how to bring these cup
es upon her.
PIETY QUAINTLY ExritEssEn.—At a fu-
neral at St. Augustine, Fla , a short time
since, a colored preacher was enlarging on
the gratitude that the freedmen owed to God
for the marvelous deliverance that he had
wrought in their behalf. llis climax was
somewhat in this wise: '
"My brethren, Gen. Sherman has done
much for us by bringing so many of our peo
ple out of bondage; Gen. Saxton has been
,our benefactor by defending us from being
imposed. on and . giving 'us
. landsi; brother
Lynch has deserved our thanks by his care
for our spiritual welfare; bat remember, my
brethren, that the Lord has. done more for
ui — than any other mass!"
GlRLS.—There are two kinds of girls.—
One is the kind that appears best abroad—
the girls that are good for balls, rides, par
ties, visits, &e., and whose chief delight is in
such things. - The other is the kind that ap-
pear best at home,
the girls that are useful
and cheerful in the dining room, and all the
precincts of home. They differ widely in
character. One is often a torment at home,
the other a blessing; one is a moth, consum
ing everything about her. The other a Bun.
beam, diffusing life and gladness to all around
her.
PaAYER•—In the very moment, when thou
prayest, a treasure is laid up for you in heav
en. No Christian's prayer fills back from
t e c osed gates of heaven; each nutersthtir:
like a messenger dove;,some bring' back im
mediate visible answers; but all enrich , our
store Cr blessing there, and all return to the
heart with the fragrance of petted ou them,
from the holy place where they ' , have been.
The Christian, oven when he is walking for
recreation, in his converse with others, in
silence,.in reading, in all rational pursuits,
finds opportunity tor prayer, And although
he is only thinking, of God in the little chain.
her of his seal,. and calling. on his Father
with,.eileut asperation, God is.near him, and
with him,; for he'is still speaking to him.—
Gregory.
A General shouldn't stand too straight.- 7
fie ought to leau a little upon his staff.
A Broadside Dialogue;
"And so, Squire you don't take a 'county
• '
paper ?"
- "NO,. Major, I get the' citfpaper on tench
better terms; I take a couple of them."
"But Squire, the county papers often prove
a great convenience to us."
"Why, I don't know any convenience i,hey
are to me."
-41Tth-l-fam-you-sold-last-fall-was-advertis
-ed-in-one-of-t hem r and-thereby-you,ob tained
a customer. Did you not ?"
"Very true, Major, but I paid three dol
lars for it."
"And
on made more than three hundred
dollars by it. Now, if your neighbors
not maintained the press and kept it up and
ready •for the use, you would have been
without the means to advertise your . proper
ty?,
"And your brother's death with a long
Obituary notice. And the destruction of our
neighbor Rigg's house by fire. You know
these things , are exaggerated till the authen
tic account of the newspaper Sets th - em all
right." •
- U, true, but—"
"And when your cousin Splash was up
for the Legislature, you appeared much
gratified at his defense which cost him no
thing."
"Yes, yea, but those things are new to
the reader. They cause the people to take
the paper."
. "No, Squire Grudge; not if all were like
you. Now, I tell yuu, the day will surely
come when somebody will write a long eulo
gy on your life and character, and the prin
ter will put it in type with a heavy black cut
over it, and with all your riches, this will be
done for your( grave as a pauper. Your
wealth, liberality, and all such things will be
spoken of, but the printer's boy as he spells
the words in arranging the type to these say
ings, will remark of you—"Pouroneaudevil,
he is even sponging his obituary 1' Good
morning, Squire;"
A Vermont Anecdote.
The Rev. Zeb Twitehell was the most no-
esli e s o is minister m ermont for shrewd
and laughable sayings. In the pulpit he
maintained a suitable amount of gravity of
manner and expression, but out of the pulpit
he overflowed with fun.
Occasionally he would, if emergency seem
ed to require, introduce something queer in
to a senile° tor the sake of arousing the flag
ging attention of his hearers. 16 was he who
originated the story of the groat mosqui
toes.
Seeing that his audience was getting slee
py, ho paused in his discourse and digressed
as follows: .
'Brethren, you haven't any idea of the suf
fering of. our missionaries in the new settle
ments, on account of the mosquitoes. The
mosquitoes in some of those regions are.enor•
mous. A great many of them will weigh a
pound, and they will get on logs and bark
when the missionaries are going along.'
By this time all cars and eyes were open
and he proceeded to finish his discourse.
The nexlday one of his_bearers_callad_
him to account for telling lies in the pul
pit.
'There never was a mosquito that weighed
a pound,' said he.
'But I didn't say ono of . would weigh
a pound; I said a great m sy • them would
weigh a pound, and I th . s lc a million of thew
would.
'But you said they barked at the mission
aries.
'No, no, brother. I said they would get
oc loge and bark.. "
A REMINISCENCE Or MR. LINCOLN,-OR
the day of the receipt of the capitulation of
Lee, the Cabinet meeting was held an hour
earlier than usual. Neither the President
nor any member was able, for the time, to
give utterance to his feelings. At the sug
gestion of Mr. Lincoln, all dropped on their
knees and offered,' in silence and io tears,
their humble and heartfelt acknowledgments
to the Almighty for the' triumph ho had
granted to the national cause. The same
day, in the afternoon, the President was in
a frame of mind peculiarly happy. To his
wife he said: "The war is now about over;
we have had a long and wearisome four
years' siege, and we must travel a little this
summer and recruit. It must be without
fuss or display. You must write Bob that
hr lit comeher^ -id — resign his captain-
.e must some home An ! g, cal.
oy and go to his books. Let him prepare to
earn his living as I did, depending on his
own bands and brains." On the morning of
the; day of his death kindred conversations
were held as to the manner.of spending the
simmer ) and what disposition should be made
of "Bob" and "Tad," as be called his two
sons, Robert and Thaddeus.— Wcseern Chris
tian 'Advocate.
=3=
Ammo. FOR PARDON.-- at on. Loagstreet
recently took at Lynchburg, the preliminary
amnesty oath, and is now permitted to come
hither by the Government ter the purpose
- of - making - special-application-for-pardon -and
restoration to full civil rights, Sven should
he not succeed, his example must 'have a
powerful effect on the minds of the South
trbectrmost-active-in-the-retellioa
New York oity ie said to contain 150,000
Germans. Of these 43,000 are Roman Cato•
and . 61,000 are Protestants.
President Lincoln was a member , of a
Masonic Lodge in Springfield a waster wa
son.
A Mt's. Bacon, of Virginia City, who at.
tended the ball recently given by General
McDowell, in San Francisco, wore jowela
worth $lOO,OOO. Well dressed bacon, that
It is enchanting; to see a. soft tem.• in a
lovely wolucu's eye. „Wo cannot imagine a
more beautiful witter'in such a diamond.
Something for' Everybody
When you walk in the 'street with a 'lady
keep your bands out of your pockets; and
your cigar out of your mouth. We would
sooner be caught stealing than in the act of
smoking while milking with a lady. Don't
doge sides with her on'croSsing the street,.
it is quite , as proper that you should fan
through cellar doors and other traps set by
- careless-people,-as-that-she shouid.—Always
7take-the-right-hand-wh EMl — you - meet - another - 1
person, and don't stop. At table take the
dish the host offers you, and don't ,pass it
to the nearest neighbor, even if a lady; it is
ungenerous to reprove your host or hostess
a
ohi - IT fa' Th-F
o lip or her face. _dere is a point want's
self-abnegation becomes rudeness, add' this
id precisely that point. The , person who
gives the entertainment has a perfect right
to lay which shall be served first. Don't offer
your chair to a new comer, unless it is the
only one of the kind and. the best in the
room.. Rise when another guest leaves the
house where you aro entertained, but do nut
follow to - the - door;--Yeu- may thus spoil-a
more cordial leave-taking. Don't sit cross
legged in presence • of ladies, or in company
of ceremony. Keep your fingers 'out o f
your button holes, and your hands from off
your lap. Make yourself.as comfortable as
can without incommoding any one.—
Your host, it a gentleman, always likes to
see his guests comfortable and contented.—
Be neither a pump nor a pumper, but alter
nately resume both conditions. Ask and
answer questions . with diplomatic propriety.
Speak well of people, or speak • not at all.—
Nothing indicates At cater defect of collo
quial ability than vituperation, or angry
declamation. Maintain repose if the earth
quakes... Don't squeeze a lady's hand, for,
besides being a vulgar demonstration of affec
tion, ladies often wear rings. The slightest
possible pressure is in good taste. But there
is a_difference_between_the_respectful_and
the real kindly, scarcely perceptible, press
sure of the whole hand and a persistent grip
that leaves the fingers white for an hour, and
a lady disgusted with you for a week. Al.
ways wear a clean shirt and_collar r and do
not tail to use-a-teet-h-lyrusk ---- A - 11 - rnw
is respectfully submitted to those who would
be recognized as persons of good breeding.
Poisoning of Andrew Johnson.
Our theory of the poisoning of Andrew
Johnson on the day of inauguration, when
it was the original intention of the assassins
.to have slain the President, has received a
singular confirmation in the testimony of one
of the late witnesses on the assassination tri
al before the military court at Washington.
Marcus P. Norton, of Troy, in this State,
testified on Saturday week that he had seen
Atzerodt, to whom had been confided the
murder of the Vice President elect, and O'-
Laughlin, who was to have killed Gen. Grant,
in company with Booth at the National Ho
tel in Washington, on the 2d or tld of March,
and overheard a conversation among these
partieS. in which it was said that "if the mat
ter succeeded us well with Johnson as with
Old Buchanan, they would be pretty well
anan was poisoned at the National hotel at
the time of his inauguration in 1856; and
this allusion by the assassins to that circutn
stance, taken together with Mr. Johnson's
singular illness at the time of his inaugura
tion, and the proofs that Booth had stood
pOsted at the Capitol to shoot Mr Lincoln on
that very morning, seem to be conclusive
that the singular condition of the Vice Pres
ident on that occasion was to be attributed
to the influence of poison. His powerful
physical nature triumphed over the insidious
drug, and hence the allusion in the subse
quent circular which - gave directions to the
assassins. that each of them must ,bear in
Mind that "the cup once had failed."— Wilkes
Spirit of Ike Times. •
From Dubuque, lowa, a friend writes:
A well known lawyer of this city being
sent for' to counsel some men accused of
horse-stealing, in the jail at Waverley, Bre
mer county, in that State, was sent for also
by an Irishman in another room in the same
prison.
"Well, Pat, what do you want with me ?"
"Your Honor, I just heard there was a
lawyer in jail, and sure I wanted to see
him."
"Well, what'do you want with me ?"_
"An' what should I want wid .ou but to
get me out of th - 0"
'And what are you here for ?"
"Just for burglary 1 belave they call it."
"And what is the testimony against you?"
"And mover a bit at all. Only I tould
the Justice of the Peace myself that I did
it."
. "Well i if you have confessed it, I don't'
see but what you'll have to stay here."
"An' is it that you say ? Sure, now, and
in the counthry I came from nivit a bit would
they‘kape anybody in jail on such a thrifliny
ividence as thug ! "
WHERE DID THAI' MAN GO To.—ln a COT
-tain-hotetin-this-village,-there 4r-employed-a
bar tender, who is in the habit of taking his
"tod" pretty freely, but always makes it a
point never to drink in the presence of his
aqui - . A few—dtrys-ago-w-hile-lus--was-i.
the actof drawing ;his "tea" preparatory to
'taking a drink, the employer came into the
barroom rather unexpectedly. rindiog him
self caught in the act, he set the tumbler
and its contents on the counter, and casting
his eyes around with a.190k of surprise, ex
claimed! "- t • •
"Where in thunder the man that or
dered that drink go to!"
If we find .that wo , nro. not much to •him
whose hospitality we have been ett o pying, that
he does not need 114, that we - Ore in no way
essential to. his pleasure,,l.tlreti do we feel
ourselves thrust out ordoors, no matter what
be proffers; us
' "HAVE •YOU PACKED UP?"-We OnCEI
went, upon invitation, to dine with a very
clever and entelligent gentleman of the city,
who professed to beallniversalist, but whose
wife was a deVoted .Christian. While seated
around the table laden with life's luxuries,
the conversation turned upon the subject of
the necessity of personal religion, when the
husband related the following beautiful inci
dent, which, ho said, , had given him much
serious-thought:throne - mreasiwn, wheat e
pious mother had been instructing her chil
dren in the truths of her religion,and telling
them that she"eitfected to go to heaven, a
thoughtful little girl
,said, after musing in
once-for-some. men
"Ma, have you packed up ?" -
"Why do you ask such a question, my
child ?" saici the mother,
"Because you said yo,u were going to heav
en," said the little inaueeut,
"And I sometimes thinki", confessed the
Universalist, "that .there is some packing
up necessary, before we can go to heaven.
__How many poor Sinners are hoping that
they will at last gO to heaven, and yet have
never set about the needful preparations !
The summons to appear before God will.lind
them whelly unprepared, and in that hoar
all their hopes , will die.—Uumberianti Tr es
byterian.
A Boy's LAWSUIT.--thider a great tree,
close to the village, two boys found a wal
nut.
, "It"belongs to me," said Ignatius, "for I
was the first to see it."
"No, it belongs to rue," cried Bernard,
"for I was the first to pick it up," and so
they began to quarrel in earnest.
"I will settle the dispute," said an older
boy, who had just come up. He placed him
self between the two boys, broke the nut in
two, and said•
one —pike -of shell belongs to him
who-first saw-tho-nut,-the-other-pieee_of_the
shell belongs to him who first picked it up ;
but the kernel I keep for judging the ease.
And this," he said, as he sat down and
lausthed,is
---
suits."
During the visit of President Lincoln to
the Woody field of Gettysburg, he entered a
hospital near by, and heard a wounded and
dying soldier taking final leave of his wife.
"Good bye, Carrie," said the soldier, "Meet
we iu Heaven." President Lincoln paused
a moment gave $5O to Carrie, dropped a tear
and advanced to other scenes of anguish.—
As President Lincoln was as good as good
ness could be, wo trust and we believe that
he is now in Heaven, where so many bravo
soldie'rs have gone before him,
EFFACING THE TRACKS OF WAIL.--11 is
a'curious fact that the track of the march of
Sherman's army is already nearly effaced,
and on the very forts taken by Grant vege
tation is already luxuriant. The soil.viudi
cates its fertility oven among the linos of bat
tle. The peopth—or rather the . secesh—aro
very clamorous for the United States Gov-
ernmen ore - tu ei ru ges an ra► ways
at his own expense, and would like to see it
reconstruct Richmond. • This is very much
in the vein of the Frenchmen, who, accord
ing to Dr. Franklin, having failed in making
a deadly assault on his enemy with a red-hot
poker, asked him it he would not at least
pay him for heating it. •
An Irishman, who was once on a journey
said he never liked to see tables full of books
and newspapers -where he stopped at night.
"Fm," said he, "I can never find any whis
key at such places."
The Chicago Times think that as Wash•
ington was known as the father of his coun
try;•Jeff Davis ought hereafter, to be known
as mother of the Confederacy.
An elderly maiden, meeting a.newly'rnar
ried man, who bad once been. her servant,
carrying borne a cradle, exclaimed ) "Ab,
John, these are the fruits of marriage."—
"No, Madam," replied •John, "this be only
the fruit badzet."
Small debts are like small shot; they rattle
on every side, and can scarcely be escaped
without a wound, great debts are like can
non; of loud noise, but little danger.
Harry .Turn married a cousin of the same
namo. When interrogated as to why ho did
so, he replied 'that it had always been a max•
im.of his, that one goad turn deserves anoth
er.'
A Western chap, - in describing a gale of
wind, says. , • ''A white dog, while attempt
ing to weather the gale, was caught with his
mouth wide open, and turned completely in
side out.' .
A all , thin, square-built gentleman was
seen walking down the street a few days a
go, when all of a sudden he was observed to
urn roan
Why is a blazing fire like a generous
hear t? Because it exhibits a grate-ful
ult..
If a lady is asked how many rings she has
she can say with truth there is no end to
them: •
- If a man marries a 'sensible woman, it is
probably afrei a severe disappointment in
not marrying a fools
. ,
Why is a lovely •youn g l a dy hi nge ?
muse she is somothnig to a dun), • • , • • •
Why Wit , absurb, to expect a peetty
to, be. ••• wild'!. • Because shu comuut be plain.
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in et tes.rehO.
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