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OLUME XI
1 2 °C)1E/TIC.A.T.a. I
'‘7o-DAir ANDTO=MORROW.
Don't tell me of tomorrow;
Give me the man who'll say,
That, when a good dcas to be done,
"Let's do-the deed to-day."
We may all . command the present,
If we act and never wait;
But repentance is the phantom,
Of a past that comes too late.
DOi't tell me of to-morrow,
There is ninch to do to-day,
That can never be accomplished
If we-throw the hours away
Every moment has its duty,
Who the future can fortell
Then, why put off till tomorrow
What to-day can do as Well I
Don't tell me of tomorrow;
If we loOk upon the past,
How much that we have left to do,
We cannot do at last;
Today, it is the only time,
For all mi-this frail earth;
It takes an age to Corm a life,
A moment gives it birth.
BE KIND TO EACH OMB.
Be kind to ench other !
The night's coming on,
When friend and when brother
Perchance may be gone !
Then midst our dejection,
How sweet to have earned
The nest recollection—
Of kindness returned I
When day bath departed,
And Meinory keeps
Her watch, broken-hearted,
- Where all she loves sleeps !
Let falsehood assail not,
I% or envy disprove—
Let trifles prevail not' .
Against those you love
Nor change with to morrow,•
- Should fortune take wing,
But the deeper the sorrow
The closer still cling I
Oh! be'ki.;d to each other,
The night's coming on,
When friend and when brother
Perchance may be gone !
ACISESC:73OI-sMa.AtL.IVY.
THE - TRAITOR'S CHILD.
The energies of the American troops sta
tioned at Fort Washington after their evac
uation of New York, were fully taxed to re
pel the many sorties made against them by
the "enemy. It required a constant and care
ful watch upon the part of the Commander•
in chief to prevent a surprise, and the more
surely to effect this, a system of observation
was maintained along the road, so that infor
mation passed from point to point was sure
to reach the camp ere the British could car
ry out their designs. The majority of per
sons living on the line from the city to
Kingsbridge gladly aided in this plan of po
lice, and thus rendered essential service to
the cause. One of this number, however,
a Mr. Jeoning, at last took umbrage at some
order of Washington or his subordinates,
and with a reprehensible cunning, he deter
mined to abandon the Americans and serve
the interests of the foe. So secretly were
these plans concocted and carried out, that
no one outside his own family suspected his
disaffection
The British general accepted the offered
services, and pledged himself to pay largely
for them. It was proposed that a number
Of his -troops should march -as far as his
neighbor's, who would of course communi
cate their movements to Jenuing, who in his
turn inwead of passing the warning was to
conceal the forces until reinforcements could
arrive, and a formidable demonstration could
be made against the fort.
"And for this service, in any event, you
shall have a thousand pounds," said the Bri
tish General ,to the traitor. " S hould it e
ventuate in the entire overthrow of the reb
els, the sum shall be trebled, while other re
wards shall be freely bestowed. You are
certain that you have confided the matter to
no one?"
"Not a soul save those of my family know
of it," said Jenning.
"AN, whom does your family consist?"
"Of my wife, who is an invalid, and an on•
ly daughter."
"flow arc they affected by your change?"
"1 know not, nor do I care. But of course
they will fcllow my wishes, which have ever
been law to them. My daughter is the only
one who would think of a difference of opin
ion, and even she would never dare to give
it expression."
"I have heard that the majority of your
American females have imbibed a sort of ro
mantic attachment to Geotgo Washington,
which might lead them to t-ympathy with
him. But of course you are sure of . your
child and can answer for her•"
"With my lifer
"Suppose you allow me to incite her hero.
It would be a rale thing, and, ai the same
time remove her from the Suspicion of collu
sion
should you be discovered! -
"I cannot part with her, sir. She h as aid
ed me heretofore, and can do so ogaib. She
is very obedient, so we need not fear her."
"Enough! manage the matter yourself
I mu ecmtent._Nowlforcur_plans,---At-dus
to-morrow, a company of Captain Trevbee
command will be put in motion and arrive
about midnight -at your bowie. You will
conceal them and await the others. When
all are gathered, you will guide , them 'to the
'attack. The rebels, being off their guard,
will fall au easy prey." ,
So far as the intentions of the British of
ficer were concerned, the meditated plan was
•carried out. A number of picked men were
concealed at Jenning's house, and at the
proper time marched toward their destina
tion. Under cover of the night they had
proceeded to the next station on the road,
when their advauce was suddenly' checked.
A sharp rattle of musket balls, which
seemed to have been designedly fired above
their heads, brought them to an immediate
halt. A second discharge gave them to un
derstand' that their further progress would
be dangerous. Captain Trevor, who was in•
command, immediately gave orders for a
countermarch, and in less than ten minutes
- the-whole-bod_._was in retrograde position.
We can hardly venture to e
feelings of chargrin entertained by the origi
nal plotter of this expedition, when informed
by Trevor of the unsatisfactory result, As
that officer handed him the gold which had
been promised, be threw it to the ground
with a viulent gesture and, with an oath,
swore that he would murder the informer;
whoever it might be, that had thus defeated
his , hopes. In vain the king's o ffi cer strove
to calm him; the dark passions of his nature
were roused, and would not be exercised.—
While he was thus storming and invoking
malediction,' upon the head of the culprit, a
fair girl entered the apartment. There was
a look of intelligent firmness upon her pale
countenance, as her eyes met those of her
father and qailed not.
"Come hither, Hester I" he cried. "Do
you know aught of this matter ? Can you
you tell me who sent word to Washington,
respecting this expedition ?"
Hester eaat an appealing locik upon the
officer, who however did not interfere be
tween them
eif
"Did yon --hoar my question r roared
Jenning. "Tell me, do you know aught of
this 2" "
"I do,". replied the girl, in a low tone.
"I thought so I Now, tell we the person's
tiame." -
"It was I !"
"You! Serpent ! You betray me 1"
"Father ! hear me. I did send word to
our general that the enemy were to. make an
attack upon the fort, but your name was not
mentioned as being a party to the expedition.
No harm can come to you, I knew how ar
dently and long our countrymen had strug
gled againrt oppression; how nobly they had
contended against superior forces; how true
was their devotion , to the. cause in which
they were engaged, and I could nc..t quietly
look on and see their destruction attempted.
I sent word of this, but in saving them I
did not betray you.
"Enough that you have come between me
and my revenge, This be your reward !"
Re drew from his pocket a pistol and de
liberately aimed it at hie child. She moved
not—did not even tremble—but Trevor,
shocked beyond measure at the horror of the
meditated deed, sprang towards the wretch
and raised his arm. The ball grazed her
head, and was buried in the wainscot.
"Shame on you man !" cried the officer
with indignation. "Would you have her
blood on your hands ! Of what are you com
posed ! Is she not your child ?"
"No !" cried Hester; with startling em
phasis, "I am not, or at least shall not be for
the future. I will not own. a parent who to
the 'crime of treason can add that of murder
I did expose your villainy, and would do it
again. Nay, you may frown, I fear you not.
This last base act has frozen up the natural
current of my heart."
Then in a calmer and more feeling tone,
she continued :
"Father—'tis the last time I shall call you"
so—l bid you farewell forever. Your male
diction may be hurled against me, but never
again will you look upon my face. Ere an
other day has passed, Washington shallknow
of your treachery. Your only safety is in
flight. •In England you tuay enjoy the fruit
of your baseness. but here you cannot re
main Farewell forever I"
She passed from the room, as the tears,
which she could no longer control, coursed
rapidly down her cheeks. She repaired at
once to the bedside of her mother, in whose
body the last flickering; of life were fast
failing. She knelt beside her, and even as
she prayed the worn spirit was released from
bondage.
• "Alone I an orphan t God help me !" she
etehlitned, as she pressed her trembling lips
to those which had so often met hers in love.
Jenning lingered not long. Bo,on after he
was on his way to England, where he Jived
as traitors should. in splefilici disgrace.—
Nester became the- wife of a young Revolu
tionary officer, and lived long enough to give
to her descendents the valuable example of
the Christian and patriot mother.
TUE GREAT RULE OF CONDUCT.—The
rule of conduct followed by Lord Erskine, a
man of sterling independence of principle
and serupulousherence to truth—is wor
thy of being engacen on every young man's
heart. "It was a first command and coun
sel of my earliest youth, he said, always to
do what my conscience told the to do, my
duty; and to leave the consequence to God.
I shall carry with me the memory, and, I
trust, the practice of this parental lesson, to
the grave. I have hitherto followed it,. and
I have no reason to complain that my obedi•
epee to it has been a temporal sacrifice, I
have found it, on the contrary, the road - to
prosperity, and I shall point out the same
'path to my children for their pursuit. And..
there can be no doubt, after all, that the
only, safe rulnof conduct is to follow implic
itly the guidance of an enlightened con
k-L-scieneo.
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.421.,'-roa,"ixi..ll3:y.-1 4 iremrss"E"apear I N'eruct*A2. o , oll,tikiilei ailci
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1888.
`Adams Fall
' A favorite temperance leotttrer doWe south
Used .to relate the followirit , ineedete'to illus
trate the' ad example ill following
formation of
habits ruinous in their effect:
Adam.and . Mary his wife *ere Very: good
members Of'th'e church; good sell 'of folks
any, way, quite , industrious and thriiiirig' in
the *odd;
Whenever the minister oalled'to make Ma
ry a visit, which was often, she' contrived to
have "a . glass of good toddy midi, .and the
minister never , refused to imbibe. '
After a while Adam got to following 'the
example of the minister to such -in extent
that he became a drunkard—drank up ete
rythinghe had and all he could get. Mary
and Adorn' became very poor in 'consequence
of his following the m inister's example so
closely, but the good minister continued still
to get his glais of toddy. • Ono day he called
in and told Mary he was going away for a
week—should return on Friday—and hand
ed her a book containing the catechism, and
told her when he returned he should' expect
bet to answer the questiotis. Mary said . yes,
and laid away the book carefully. But Ma
ry, like a good many others, forgot it until
the very Friday the good minister was to re
return. "What shall Ido ?" said she; "the
minister is to be here to-day, and I havn't
looked in the book he gave me l bow can I
answer the questions ?"
"I can tell you," said Adam; "give me a
quarter, and let me go over to Smith's and
get some good rum, and you can answer him
with a glass of toddy."
Mary took the advice, gave Adam a quar
ter and a jug, and oil he started. After get.
ting his jug filled, and on his way back Ad
am concluded to taste the' rum. One taste
followed another, until ho tumbled over a
pile of rooks, and broke the jug and lost all
the rum. Adam managed to stagger home.
Soon as he got into the house Mary asked
Very anxiously for the rum.
Poor Adam managed to stammer out that
be stumbled over a pile of rocks, and broke
the jqg, and spilled the rum,
Mary was in a -fix—Adam drunk—the
minister coming—rum gone—and the ques
tions unlearned. But here comes the minis
ter I It won't do for the man of' God to see
Adam drunk, so she for want of a better
lace to hide him put him under the bed.—
By the time e was fairly - under f in came-the_
minister. After sitting a few moments, he
asked Mary if she could answer the ques
tion, "How did Adam fall ?"
Mary turned ber head first one way, and
then the other, finally stammered out:
"He fell over a pile of rooks."
It was now, the minister's 'turn to look
blank, but he ventured another question.—
"Where did ho hide himself after the fall ?"
Mary looked at the minister, then at the
bed, but finally she spoke out with :
'•Under the bed, sir ! There, Adam, you
may come out; he knows all about it."
the good minister retired—not even waiting
for his glass of toddy.
Remarkable Escape.
The following beats all the stories of
remarkable eseapea which we remember ever
to have seen: "On: the passage of the ship
Alexander from New Orleans to New York,
a young lad, about fourteen years of age,
from a naturally frolicsome and mitichieveous
dibposition, became so troblesome i n his
pranks that be was threatened by 'the cap
tain, if they wete continued, that he would
confire him in; a water cask. Our youngster
took no heed, however, and, at his next of
fecce, he was put in the cask, which was
headed up,leaving a large bunghole for the
admission of air. That night the ship
encountered a violent storm, and, in a sud
den lurch, the cask containing the boy rol
led over into the sea. Fortunately, the cask
struck bung up, - and floated about • thirty
hours, when it teas thrown upon the beach
at St. Bias. Here the boy made desperate
efforts to extricate himself from his prison,
without success, and, in despair, gave up to
die. Some cows, however strolling oR the
beach, were attracted to the cask, one in
walking round it, one of them, it being
flytime,switehed her_tail into the bung hole
which th e lad grasped with a desperate reso
lution. The cow bellowed, and set off for
life, and after running some two hundred
yards with the cask, struck it against a log
on the beach and knocked it to smash. The
boy was discovered by some fishermen on
the - Point, • and taken into Appalachicola,
where, a small collection being made for
him, he was - enabled to proceed on his jour
ney homeward."
COOL —San Francisco boasts of a saloon
called the Bank Exchange, where the finest
wines and liquors are dispensed at twenty
five cents a glass, with lunches thrown in
'free. A plain looking person went in one
morning and called for a brandy cocktail,
and wanted it strong. Mr. Parker, as is us
ual with him, was very considerate, and mix
ed the drink in his best style, setting it down
for his customer. After the cocktail had
disappeared the party loaned over the bar
and said that he had no change about him
then, but would have soon, when he would
pay for the drink'. Parker politely remark
ed that he should have mentioned that 'fact
before he got the drink; when his customer
remarked, etl tried that on yesterday , morn
log with one of your men, but ho would not
let me have the whiskey, so you could not
play that doege on we again II This was
too good,for Parker, and he told the custo
mer he was welcome to his drink, and was
entitled to his hat in the bargain, if he wan
ted it.
A man - boasted last Saturday of having
eaten forty-nine hard-boiled egg's at Levi's.
Vhy did you not eat one more, and maie
it even fifty ?" asked Pete.'
“ffumpli ! you want a man to make a hog
of-himself - ilia - for - owe egg 1"
011rASK 1116' NOT.
Oh ! ask rue not for smiles-to night!
I ran but-only sigh! '
,Do streams ,itetleet the morn'elair light
When clouds o'erspreed the sky T.
Plci! sorrow's 'dote] is on my brow;
Its shadow in my heart,
,And"with.the gay and joyous now
I cannot act a part. •
Oh I•askrno,not for.songe to night I
'Twere all in vain to try;
Can the shattered bells give forth . sweet tone
Along the balmy sky 1
When winter's cold end icy chain
Hath bound.yon murmuring stream,
It sings'not sweetly o'er the plain, •
As in the summer's beam. •
My thoughts are with the loved and 105 t...—
They're thronging round me now,
And with them come on memory's tide
Sweet dreams of long ago,
That cause my lonely heart to grieve'
For topes of by-gone years;
Then ask not smiles or gongs but leave,
Oh! leave me to my tears,
A Romance of Real Life
The following story is told concerning a
party now residing near Rochester, New
York:—
"The narrative I am about to relate is pe
culiarly interesting. Although it may seem
fictitious It is nevertheless . true, as 1 can
vouah, being acquainted .with the parties
3once!ned and the facts of the case.
"About the spring of the year 1850, a Mr.
Garnet, living near Anburn, New York, was
arrested for forgery, He was tried, and
found guilty, and sentenced-to three years in
the State Prison at Auburn. He denied his
guilt to the end, and being a, man of very
sensitive feelings, and having a wife and fam
ily, it bore quite heavily upon him. Ile
served Ilia • time and was releived, a mere
wreck of his former self, despised
.by his
once loving wife, who refused to live with
him, and shunned him as a guilty culprit,—
Sad and broken-hearted, he disposed of his
property and went to Central Pennsylvania,
where he married a beautiful and excellent
young wife.
"They lived happily and prospered. Sev
eral years after his departure, the first wife
became fully convinced that he was innocent
and had been wronged. This conviction
proved true by the death-bed confession of a
man who acknowledged the commission of
the crime of which Mr. Garnett had been
convicted. The sorrowing woman repented
her former act, and with a friend went in
pursuit of her discarded husband, whom she
seemed to expect to find somewhere in Penn
sylvania.
"After a search of several weeks, they at
length arrived in the neighborhood of the
object of their search. Just at dark they
drove up to the door of a snug and pleasant
little cottage, when Mrs. Garnett entered
the house, and there beheld her once.belov
ed husband apparently happy in the socie
ty of his second wife. She rushed up to
him, and throwing her arms about his neck,
wept bitterly. Soon the scene became af
fecting, the two wives clinging to him, each
claime him as her husband."
"After calming their feelings, and candid
ly considering the case the second wife deci
ded to give up the husband, believing that
the first had the lawful claim. After a few
days Mr. Garnett and his first wife removed
to the vicinity of Rochester, New York,
where they now reside. The second wife
teakes them an annual visit, and Mr. Garnett
keeps her supplied with all the necessaries
of life." •
=22
The Death of Intellect.
Look at the living drunkard, and you will
fins him but the remnant of his former self.
His immortal Mind is not less blighted by
this withering curse than hie' dying body.—
His memory, once retentive and ready, has
lost its wonted elasticity and power. His
understanding which once could grasp and
wield and elucidate almost every subject, be
comes debilitated and childish. In his cups
the drunkard is generally a temporary fool
or madman. His very horse exhibits the
outward symbols of shame for the load he
carries, his dog ashamed to keep his master's
company. But idiotism and insanity are not
always temporary in the case of the drunk
ard. Both of these effects often become per
manent in the future man. Idiots may be
found almost every day who have brought
this calamity upon themselves by the im
moderate use of ardent spirits From men
of intellect and men of business, and per
haps men of preeminent attainments, they
have debased themselves to a common level
with the swine. In some cases reason seems
to be bloited out; and the miserable victim
of intemperance lives and dies a literal fool.
In other cases still more numerous, there is
a manifest approximation to idiocy where
this deplorable consequence does not follow.
Who has not witnessed the wane of intellect
become obtuse; the arch politician bewilder
ed; the eagle flight of the learned advocate
flag; and the precocity of genius, which, in
the dawn of life attracted - the steady gaze
and promised a giant manhood, dwindle into
mental insignificance and death? The world
may, perhaps, 'stand and wonder at th e
change, and speculate upon the latent cause.
But lift the curtain and the mystery is solv
ed. There-stands the bottle, and the death
of intellect is in it.
'exchangel correetli'remarks that when
a man gets mad and stops his piper, he al
ways borrows the next number of his neigh
bor, to see it' the Withdraw' of his subserip 7
lion hasn't killed the editor, and be bast not
dressed the columns of the paper in mourning.
Such men imagirke:xhat_the_world-,--rests-on
their shoulders
A srafariz.
Jim Ward was a conductor , On the
.eastern,
division of, ite - .Nelrrork], en ral Railioad
rr
yunning.daily . between . Uttea, and AlbriCy—,
Ward had been inAhe employ o f:
,the 0 . E,513p 1 ?1 .
Railroad for a long period of yea* and is
one of the oldest conduotorkin the country.
Invariably_ attedOn ta,thC 104 he Always
Managed to make hitrukelt a. , ..ear °AO with
those of the fair sex aqiimupcnied =n lbe
train ander :hie :direction. .thiffalp ke
public relates the folleivieg enenJoie o f what
happened to Jim, beeitusa he didn't know a
male from a female baby:
A short tiate,since, when a train, under
his direction, was on its way east from Utica,
one of those interesting 'lncidents occurred
on board the train which add to, the visible
number of passengers, but scarcely ever im;
prove the profits of the trip. Ward as soon
as he discovered the, condition of the lady,
bustled about, and with the train Tannin..
forty miles an hour, fixed.up a ,portioe of the
express car and ,had her conveyed 6ereto.—
A physician, by the name of Beecher was on
the train; his services were immediately put
in requisition, and in a shoit time Ward had
the pleasure of announcing to his .auxious
passengers that mother and babe were 'doing
as well as could be expected under the cir
cumstances.'
The'mother was a boor
,woman, and as
soon as it became known, Ward wont round
I — C4th - 1 - I hat, and in a s ort tme a pan. some
purse was collected, and Jim, with his (wan
.teuance actually filtering off happiness, took
it' to the mother. After he reappeared tbe
passe nge re_proposed—that=the=pitlki=,ah-o-ukl-b,
named. No sooner said than .dope.
went in and got the baby, and with, the con
-sent of the delighted mother, brought it out,
when it was proposed that it should be named
'James Ward,' after Jim and 'Beecher,' after
the physician who had professionally attend
ed the mother. It was adopted with accla
mation; amid-a general shout of approbation
the babe was named 'James Ward Becher--;
-Jim, with a smile of ill concealed delight,
was lugging off his little namesake, when
some of the ladies requested to see the 'little
baby.' It was passed from hand to hand a
mong the ladies, all admiring the little bun
dle, but at the, same time.a general disposi
tion to smile and stuff handkerehiefs in their
mouths became manifest among the women.
Jim wondered in vain what this subdued
laughter meant, until the.baby was handed
to an old lady. She had not had it more
than a minute,. when she exclaimed—
'Law suz!'
'Well ma'am, what's the matter?' said Jim,
fearfully.
'Why, it's a gal! said the old woman, band
ing the babe to Jim.
TI rose a yell 'of laughter; the men broke
out first, then the women, then they broke
out together, until the universal scream filled
the car. Several gentlemen threw their hats
and mufflers out of the windows, while oth
era endeavored, unsuccessfully, to 'saw their
legs off.' The women blushed and screamed;
the men shouted and held their sides. In
the midst of this storm of fun and. laughter,
Jim made his escape from the car with his
female 'Jim Ward Beecher,' and for the - rest
of the trip, on the platform of• the baggage
car, ruminated on the sudden changes and
mutations of human life.
Friendship' Among yiromen•
Nothing could be more severe and unjust
than this picture of feminine friendship
written by Lady Clara Cavendish:
"Men that is men who aro worth anything
—are capable of a good deal of solid friend
ship for each other, at all events they pre•
governed by a certain principle of honor and
you will baldly ever hear of one of the stern
er sex entertaining a parlor full of gueste
with the foibles and failings of his most inti
mate fiiond, or with sarcastic remarks on' his
personal appearance. , Wo wish we could say
the same of our own sex, but alas! we can
not. Sometimes we doubt the existence of
friendship in female bosoms altogether, and
wonder at the revelations which women make
of their own meanness to each other.
__When Augusta and Amelia seek each oth._
er's society constantly, twine their arms a
round each other's waist, kiss at parting,and
exchange the most affectionate little billets,
the supposition is that they are friends; but
ten to one, if you meet Augusta by herself,
you discover, to your great surprise, that
her opinion of Amelia is by no means a high
one She wonders what you see io her to
admire, assures you she is very vain, and en
tertains you with an account of certain mys
teries of her toilet' which you must not men
tion to any one, but really, the idea of those
curls being her own, and that color. There
is something horrible in treachery. Why ,
need women be false to each other ? They
aro very constant as a - general thing, to those
of the other sex.
An old colored preacher at Port Gibson,
Miss , recently baptized thirty colored con
verts, and charged them a dollar apiece. On
the following sunday he succeeded in indu
cing two to present themselves who were
willing to pay. Becoming indignant at the
parsimony of his congregation,.he refused to
baptize the two candidates for glory, saying,
'he warn't gwine to slosh hisself up
_for no
two dollars.'
Some-highly imaginative chap has diicov
ered the origin of waterfalls. When Noah
and his "family were moving in the ark,
when they were somewhat, crowded up,- of
course, and the women bad no. opportunity
of combing their hair, bagged it up in a great
ball on the back of the neck., Noah did not
like such a shiftless practice as this, and eon.
stautly urged his women to comb•their hair
and their invariable reply was, the
water falls.' And ever since that shiftless __
style-or-bagging — the — hair has been called
Waterfalls. • •
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cortitinoe. ' o'
nAgady, residing within • sixteen •miles'.of+.:
'Raleigh, says the Progress, who has been in •
:thiftirate health Ore'she lost her huibandip
/ died last ( as was suppesed)
•and.heiiriende.in.theneighborhoiod prone
d ed. 10..ta4„, the ,stene _usual- on, such . owe- ,
dons. ,_The coffin was,,,,ursiered; the corpse
sh"rotieillied faid and' alLueedcal pre
pitraticine''eetuitimMaicei'for' the funirif Ore ,
merries - last - Sabinttli77 - Strtro - geta - rit anay_ap
peat is r said • that, while the watchers in an
adjoining room were, indulging in hilarity
.and hot coffee, a noise was heard in the a
partmentwhere the.retnains of the .beloved
,
departed re posed._ ' ."
, •
Supposing a cat or rat'wes playing there
in, a gentleman' went to stop the revelry.—.
On
_.opening the door he was horrified to find
the lady standing on the very incarnation of
perplexity. The brave follow . hastily' re
treated. His . demonstrations - excited the
rest of the party, and the Whole crew,shriek , -
ing• and trembling, .deserted the house for .a
season. An elderly negress, more courage
ous than the others, went into the dwelling,
ascertained the state of affairs, and, with
Christian heroism, administered to the ne
cessities of the dead alive one,
Search was-thou made for the rotreatera,
who, being found at a neighbor's returned
to the domicil they bad so shamefully •aban
doned. '
I
,
Ai r formerly of Greenville, South
Carolina, who has attended the lady during
the past six months, assures us . that 'these
are unvarnished facts, and present no new
truths to the medical profession. It is situ-
Pl' Tar-
Ay a case of trance or suspended animation.
q'he only remarkable circumstance, perhaps,
is the duration of the spell, though after her
presumed decease' tho absence of that per
iod ieyness which is peculiar to the dead
was remarked by the physicians as well as
her friends.
The lady is now able to sit up, And being
in the last stages of consumption, is as well
as she ever will be. She remembers very
little of the hours of her trance, but experi-
enced an almost painful thirst in the first mo
ment of returning consciousness.
In this busy world of strife, there stands
far above all others a goal which man vainly
strives to reach. Press forward with an eye
to fame only, plunge madly into the vortex
of dissipation, or watch nightly beside heaps
of gold thUt 'well might gladden the most mi•
serly spirit, and all will be in vain. Still as
far beyond his reach happiness will taunt
him with visions of supreme blessedness, of
which he may not partake. Though ever
doomed to disappointments, man still vainly
seeks for happinesti, but where will he find
it?
Ask the miser who hoards his gold as if
in it were life, if it bring happiness, His
restless eye and wretched countenance plain
ly tell you that here is no joy. And he
whom the world calls wealthy, who revels in
halls of pleasure, and to whom every Beene
of luxury is but a 'repetition of every-clay-life
ask him if in all this he finds the pearl of
price, and with' a bitter smile he wearily
turns for a moment from the empty mirth,
to tell you that this is not happiness. And
the g ifted few who stand highest in the
nich of fame, pant fur rest from all the anx
ious cares and wild longings that have char
acterized their lives.
flow strange it seems that we should thus
blindly search for happiness, while to us is
given so noble example. The beasts of the
field, and birds of the air, proclaim in every
action that unalloyed joy is•theirs. But man,
though endowed with every noble faculty,.
still sighs for that balm in which the spirit
cap alone find 'relief. Reflection and our
own experience tell us that as the oak deka
deep into the earth for support, so mast the
germ Truth reach far down.ioto .the heart,
if we would have everlasting peace.
We are told that if we ale faithful follow.
ers of • CHRIST, happiness and eternal life
will surely be our reward; and he who would
win the crown, must not weary in well &-
Mg.—Rural New .Yorleer.
TEST of LOVV—As a woman was walk
ing, a man . looked at and followed her.—
"Why," said she,
"do you follow me ?"
"Because I have fallen in love with pu."4,-
"Why so ? My sister, who is-eomino• after is
Much handsomer.than I am, go and make
love to her." Tfar' - nian turned back, and
saw a woman with an ugly face, and being
greatly displeased, turned and said : "Why
did you tell tne a story ?" The woman an
swered : "Neither did you tell me the truth.
If you are in' love with me, why did you look
for another woman ?" ,
An exchange says that money is being
collected among the Copperheads of Luzerne
county, for the relief of J. Wilkes Booth,
who is believed by many of theta to be still
elite. Couldn't they do a little towards e
recting a monument to Benedict Arnold?
I want to buy a sewing machine, said an
old lady. entering a shop. „Do you wish
for a machine with a feller? inquired the
cletk. Sakes, no; don't want any of your
fellows about me.
Ttvollrothers passing a house, one rethark_
ed—".l' have a •brother .re?iding .here; I will
give him a cull." 'The second passed on,
saying—"As I have none there, I will not
stop,' • Who lived in the house?
•revivalist in Binghamton,- N. Y., en
mintered,a large sized • African and asked
him:— My good man, bare you found the
Lurdr To which Sambo replied, in a our
prised manner,--'Golly, Inaba,. is• de Lorci
''''‘Minnia, de anriA nP.' - ' The unto up! why
I only planted it zesterday.' Imo dat,
ut de .b 4 gUp, in last night and guy it a
lift.'
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Happiness-How Attained
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