3737 . iElletits. VOLUME XX TN LATEST ARRIVAL ORBS, NES, MY NOB, J. F. KURTZ WISHES to infirm the good citizens of Way nesboro' and vicinity, that he has just receiv ed from the East a large and full assortment o fresh Drugs, Medicines, Oile, Paints, Die Stuffs Window Glass, Putty, Brushes, &c. &c., which he is prepared to sell as cheap as they can he had at any other house in the town, and which, in regard to_ quality, cannot be excelled. He h...s also on him! a large assortment of TOILET ARTICLES comprising in part the following articles, viz : Toilet Waters, all kinds, Eau de Cologne, endless in variety, Extracts for the handkerchief, Fine English Pomades, Bandolines, Bear's Oil, Fine and Fancy Soaps, Tooth Brushes, .Nail " ' - Combs, &c. &e. nv Culinary purposes he-has Corn Starch, Pearl Barley, Pearl Sago, Flavoring Extracts; viz: Limon, Vanilla., Strawbery, Raspberry, Pine Ap plef Orange, Banana, Celery, Pear, Peach, Nut meg, &c. Fresh Spices, Black Pepper tint] all oth er articles is that line. He has also something to please the CHILDREN. A fine stock of Toys of all kinds, a large supply of China ware. Patent Mac? ak.c132.43 He has Drake's Plantation Bitters, Hoffland's German do. Sand's Sarsaparilla, Bull's do. Hiteshew's Cough Syrup, si Diarrhoea_Cordial, Frey's Yermifuge, Vermifuges, doz. kinds right's Spaulding's, Ayer's, Brandreth's, Morse's, McLane's, Ham; Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup 4r. Parishes do. Keroseoe Oil, Lamps and Chim, neys always oh hand. Thankful for kind favors already bestowed upon him, he solicits a continuance of the same, hoping that by trying to please he,may win the confidence of the people. As much care taken in waiting up. on adults as children- Physicians' Prescriptions promptly and carefully Compounded at all hours. J. F. KURTZ. Austaat 19,1864. LATEST PASHIONS_DEMAND - J. W. Bradley's celebrated Patent DUPLEX ELLIPTIC (OR DOUBLE SPRING) SKIRT. THE wonderful flexibility and great comfoat and pleasure to any Lady wearing the Duplex Eliptic Skirt will be experienced particularly in all crowded Assemblies. Operas, a riages, Railroad C ars, Church Pews, Arm irs, for Promenade and Home Dress, as the Ski be folded when in use to occupy a small place as easily and conveni ently as a r.4ilk or Aluslin Dress, an invaluable qual ity in crinoline; not found in any Single Spring Skirt. A Lady having Enjoyed the Pleasure: Comfort and Great Convenience of wearing the Duplex E liptic Steel Spring Skirt for a single day will Never afterwards willingly dispense with the•r use. ro Children, Misses and Young Ladies they are supe rior to all others• They will not bend or break life the Single Spring, but will preserve their perfect and graceful shape when three or four ordinary Skirts will have been thrown aside as useless. The Hoops are covered with double and twisted thread, end the bottom rods are not only double springs, but twice (or double) covered; preventing them trom wearing out when dragging down stoops, stairs, &c. The Duplex Elliptic is a great favorite with all ladies and is universally recommended by the Fash ion Magazines as the STANDARD SHIRT OT THE Tian- TOWABLE WORLD. To enjoy t he following inestimable advantages in Crinoline, viz: superior quality, perfect manufac ture, stylish shape and finish, flexibility, durability, comfort and economy, enquire for J. W. Bradley's Duplex Elliptic. or Double Spring Skirt, and be sure you get the genuine 'article. CAUTION.—To guard against Neomycin lie articular.to twice that skirts offeted as "DITIME" have the red ink stamp, viz., "J. W. Bradley's Du plex Elliptic Steel Spring," aspen the waistband— none others are genuine. ,Also Notice that every ..Hoop will admit a pin being passed through the centre, thus revealing the two (or double) springs braided together therein. which is the secret of their flexibility and strength, and a combination not to - be found in any other skirt. FOR SALEin all storeswhere FIRST mass skirts are sold - throughout the United States and else where Manufactured by the Sole Owners of the Patent, RESTS, BRADLEY & VIM 97 Chamber & 79 & 81 Reade Sts., N. Y. Feb. 1-3m.1 OR. T. D. FRENCII 7:311721%7 4 00T15T, INSERTS Beantiful and Durable teeth 'mounted on Plating, Gold and Vulcanite. -Particulir attention -given to the preservation of the natural teeth. 'Citrons Oxide •Gas':administered for the extrac tion of teeth- without-pain. • - - Office at his residence on Mechanic Street. Feb.-' S. • • • DIL D. A. STOUFFER,' pEpaisT, ,ciftEENCASTLE, PA. IT rilrET 'extraCted witliont pain. Office in Pup - periger+s 'building, nearly opposite Adana' 'Ha tel,.where-he livill_atteed,to 'Dentistry tvit't care' and attention: Old Gold an t Silver plates taken in part -pay' for mew ones. Teeth inserted .from a single tooth:Wl full set, ineured for one year. • • jan 18-17. • Hair " WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1867. rPoiarriciALxJ. • • 1.-t434--.• • • r.: • 5-271 !•:. ' ; 4 : : ' • It Home of the soull thy Eight appears A star to guide man's gloomy -way, When pilgrim in this waste of yestilf ) , His faltering step is turned astray; Hope lends her pinions to his feet,• Faith sheds its balm within his breast, And, tireless, on he speeds to greet—_ Prize of his toils—the goal of rest. Darkly the night bath frowned on high', Roughly the path.before bath spread., And the fierce tempest, sweeping by, Hath beat upon the wanderer's head, But through the night streams pure and warm Upon the earth a painted ray— A hand is with him in the storm, To guide and guard—his strength and stay. Oh whO would linger here when home Hath bliss that fancy never drew? Oh why should footsteps ever roam, • When Heaven shines o'er our mental view! Home, glorious home! earth's darkest sky And stormiest path we calmly -brave, For the bright wafting wings that lia In waiting for us at the grave. 1-RESTi The child leans on its mother's breast, Leaves there its cries, and is at rest; The bird sits singidg by its nest, And tells aloud His trust in God, and so is blest 'Neath every cloud. He bath no store, he sows no seed, Yet sings aloud, and (loth not neeJ; By flowing streams or grassy mead, He sings to shame Men; who forger, in fear of 'need, A Fath -- The heiat that tarsta-forever-singa, • n se sas eg tas luta 17%rags; A well of peace within it springs, Come good or ill, Whate'er to -day, to-morrow brings, It is His will! No , co ir.4 - 14.Jrn • IN dIFAMW.`II6 IRA ALDRIDGE There is now living in the suburbs of Lon don, in a splendid mansion not far from the 'Crystal Palace,' a man whose career is in di iect conflict with the results of ethnological science as expounded in the Southern States Union. Ethnology has been a favor ite study in that part of the world, and has abundantly proved the natural and hopeless inferiority of the negro race. Scripture and science have agreed in condemning the mod ern representative of Ham to, a life of cheer ful bondage. His facial angel cut him off from all hope of intellectual improvement so completely, that the law restraining him from the Use of the spelling-book seemed lu dicrously needless. His thick lips indica a moral nature so incapable of refinement, ted that the law which put his wife and family in the keeping of another man stood blameless upon the statue.book. His, curly hair indicated a constitution precisely adapt •d to labor in the cotton field or the rice swamp; and hit curvilinear shins and his pro trusive heels served still further, to distin guish him from the human race. Yet, in defiance of the laws Of science and the teach. ings of the Southern pulpit, this 'aggrava ting nigger,' a pure black, with thick lips, fiat nose, curly hair, and all the condemna! tory characteristics of race, not only owns the house in which he lives but five other villas of equal pretensions., has actually been knighted, and bears the title of chevalier for -which some of our Southern friends would sacrifice everything but their 'honor,'—and that too on a pinch, has married a Swedish baroness too; and withal, is said to be as re fined and elegant a gentleman as walks in Piccadilly or drives in Hyde Park,. The perpetrator of these hideodimpro 'prieties was 'raised' in Maryland; if we re member rightly, and went to England about thirty years ago in the capacity of a body servant to a play-actor,—the elder Wallack. Aldridge—that is his name—lra Aldridge was at that time a *little boy' of twenty, and worth, probably, ten or twelve .hundred dol lars, of any man's money. It is impossible to say what he might bring now in currency if he were still a resident of his native coun try, and if the meddlesome, fighting aboli tionists hadn't upset the patriarchal institu tion altogether. The very natural promp tings of his nature, closely allied be it; re membered to the monkey's, made him an hr• itator of his distinguished master. Without instruction in the dramatic art, be became, by the mere force of observation and used anion, an actor himself, and came out in 0. the Slave, and in several other parts for which white players find burnt cork an indispensable preparation. Some glim mering, of reason or instinct induced him to cut his native country altogether,-and trust to luck under the 'decaying monarchies' and 'effete despotisms' of Europe... Fifteen or sixteen years he spent in Eng land, in what• would be called the study of EV; art;" ifit were allowable --tcr:sti suppose in such a creature tiny capacity for intellectual effort. Then, in 18.52„he went upon the 'continent. ' In Austria; , Germany, : Franae; and' above all,- in Russia, he, achieved the . most wonderful triumphs. • Whatmakes his Rtissian success, doubly disgusting is the air cu urtanece that ,the'Caueasus, the abode' of the very type of the superior race, is etubra• 's name clop exLclozLt Family .Tq'otxreopearo or. ced by the wide-reaohing arms of that gigan tic Power. In Moscow and St. Pertersburg, the students have often unharnessed the hor ses from Aldridge's carriage, and drawn him thetnielvea froni the theatre to his ledgifigs- One fears that ethnology is at a low ebb in the Russian universities. Bayard Taylor heard him in Russia, delivering his• part in English, quite unintelligible to his audience, but nevertheless by look, tone, gesture, atti tude, and movement, completely entrancing and commanding their sympathies. It re minds one of the deaf man's ecstasy at wit- nessing Prentice's oratory: "I can't hear a blasted. word-he says; but, good gracious don't he do the motions splendid!" This phenomenon rose from poverty to op. ulence. The Chevalier Aldridge-wears rings given him by Kings and Queens. He could _loads his breast with the decorations and medals of the different orders he has receiv ed. The elite of the most cultivated nations of Europe have been charmed with what they call his powers,(meaning intellectual powers) and have showered their favors upon biro.— This is too absurd. Nature designed this creature for a boot black, if there is any truth in ethnology, and be has made himself a gentleman. This lamentable perversion of his natural powers ought to serve as a warn ing to all white Americans. It will not do to give this race what the stupid Radicals . persist in calling 'a fair chance.' Unlimited reading and writing, choice of employment, and the ballot, will, we gravely fear, upset ethnology altogether, and give to negroes• the status of human beings.—Main State Press. THE LAST RE VOLUTIONER. The Albany Journal gives the following sketch of Samuel Downing, who died as "al. ready announced, at his home near North ville, in Saratoga,Crounty, on Monday, Feb 19, 1867• ' He was born in Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 30, 1761. He - was therefore in the 106th year of his age when he died—his precise age being 105 years, 2 months and 21 days. He entered the army of the ilevolution when be was -To - do solfe left his employer _in New _ H3mpshire)—without-leaven his first application be was refused, but be isoork - fmrnd a recruiting officer who took him, no wt s analog iis you nn °taunt; tiFE stature. This was just after the surrender of Burgoyne. He entered into the service with groat spirit and enthusiasm. lie may not have understood all the great issues' in volved in the contest, but he served as faith fully and fought as braVely as those who did. Muth of his time was spent in the valley of the Mohawk, guarding trains and fighting Indians and Tories. But lie was also with the army on the Hudson, and took part in the memorable siege of York town. lie con tinued in the, service until the close of the war; and "e'en down to old'age" it was his chief delight to discourse about Washington, whom he had often seen, and the joy of the people when peace was declared and the na tion's liberties achieved. At the close 'of the war he returned to New Hampshire, settled upon a farm in An trim, and soon afterward married Miss .Eu nice George, two years his junior, with whom he lived in perfect accord until 1853. She was the mother of thirteen children, ten of when] preceeded her to the tomb. lie took possession of the farm where he died in 1794 It was then a trackless wilderness. The first son was born in 1782, and the last in 1811. The latter is the father of thirteen children. Th e of his sons served through the late war the Union Army, and one of the daught s is, or was recently, a teacher of freedme at Norfolk, Va., so that patriot blood stil runs in the veins of the family.— The mot er of these three boys was reluct ant to consent to have them all go to the field; but the old patriot insisted, and -noth ing loath,they did what their grandfather de. sired rather than what their mother prefer' red. During the war it was his chief pleas. ure to hear of-Union victories, and to keep note of the battles in which the boys were engaged. He !prayed to live until peace came back to the country, and he was grati fied, although he was disappointed in anoth er wish, that he might see Jeff. Davis hung. Mr. Downing was something of a politi cian. He would always vote, and, always vo ten on the. side of freedom and justice: tie gave first vote for Washington and hip lasp for Lincelriali._ jrrecountiog his politi• cal experienehe was always sure to say that he did not vote' for Buchanan. As his age would indicate, he was a man of an-iron constitution; the result of regular habite and a religons life.: Both himself ,and wife were exemplary members of the /Metho dist Church, and his Bible was his constant companion. , He was always cheerful—look ed at everything pleasantly, and suffered nothing to worry or disturb him. His grand children were his playmates, and ,eontribu ted greatly to the joy of his old age. Although a temperate man, ho was not a teetotaller. He took a glass of liquor occa. sionally, 'but was never intoxicated. lie had not a. very high opinion of the quality of the rum of the present day, and thought if what people drank was as pure as that made in the good old times, there would be less evil re sulting from tne habit, He also used tobacco and tea was his favorite beverage. We are afraid Borne of our dietarian friends will be disappointdd at this revelation of Mr. Down. ink is habite.• -Whiskey occasionally, and to. bocce and tea all the time, and yet. he , lived to 105 years!' This is net the modern „theo ry. But perhaps if be ha.] used neither he might have lived to a hunered and ftttyt Honestitoserty.is no eritoe . , • and God , is no resrieetor'of • per.ons. , '• ! pi t is the mind that mikes' , 'the' -ndto,q , not• worldly honor; wealth.'or station. • • "Ton want nothing, do y0ur 7 40 .• 41 4 at. "Bedad, aq iFit•'e•'nptlog Sou sciot , you'd find it.iajhejo4 sir - het:9 the tihiskey _ , inr The following contribution, from the pen of - a young litdY in this plane, we copy from the Philadelphia Guqrdian, a Monthly Magazine for young Men and Ladies:— 'TWILIGHT MUSINGS. BY NELLIE How sweet is the twilight hour, When ' the mind from care is free, When the heart is filled with holy thoughts, And tho going down of the sun we sea. Yes, the twilight hour is a sweet and holy one. We can then throw off the shackles of toil, which have bound us all day long, and give ourselves up to silent meditation. 'Tis then we love to muse on 'days gone hy.'— Scenes which have been treasured in the 'urn of memory' are brought out and laid upon the' tablet .of thought to be viewed once more. Loved forms of friends, who heve long been sleeping the (dreamless sleep,' come up to us in blissful imagination. AS the sunny eceoes of childhood rise up before us. Where are they, with w h om we wan dered in the green Wood and by the sparkling spring, where we gathered fern, wild honey suckle, and blue forget-mc-not. Whereon they, whose voices rung out clear and free in joyoui laughter? Where are those voices now? And echo answers, Where? Alas! they are scattered like the leaves of some fair rose. Some have grown weary of the march of life and dropped by the way side, Some have gone to live in strangelands; oth ers have broken the ties of friendship and scattered the links which beund us together. 'Stich la life.' To day friends bluster round our pathway, to-morrow they are all gone; we look for them, and they are net.— Oh, twilight!,truly thou art called the 'hour of visions! Bow many are the visions, thou bast brought us at this time! jf we could have thee stay, we would bid thee not leave. No; bat thou must go' and give plate to night. We should live so that all our twilight vi sions might be holy . ones. Then let us-try, and-work- faithfully -for-our—Master's- cause; so-that when our life is - running away, WO_ can look back upon years well spent. Thu; -,when-our sun sets, we can depart without a murmur and ea . farewell to earth with all its rainbows. "Tfotil the evening we must weep and toil. Plough life's stern furrow, dig the muddy soil, Tread with sure feet the rough and thorny way, And bear the heat end burden of the day. Oh! when our sun is setting, may wo glide, Like summer evening, down the summer tide; And leave behind twos we pass away, Sweet starry twilight rou ml sleeping day,' `.The Night of-Aeaven." It is dark when the honest and honorable man sees the results of long years swept cru elly away by,the grasp of knavish, heartless adversity. It is dark when he feels the clouds of sorrow gather around, and knows that tne hopes and happiness of. others are fading with his own. But in that hour the memo ry of past integrity:will be a true consolation, and assure him, even here on earth, gleams of the light s of heaven! It is dark, when the dear voice of the sweet child, once so fondly loved, is no more heard arouni.i.in munciers. Dark. when the little pattering feet no more resound wtthout the threshold, or Raped, step by step, the stairs. Dark, when some well.known melody recalls the strain once -so oft attuned by the childish' voice, now hushed in death! Darkness, indeed;' but only the gloom which heralds the day-spring of immortality and the infinite light of heav en! It is darkothen in later life; we tread the scenes of long-vanished pleasures--pleas urea pure and inocent, whose memory has often thrilled our soul—whose voices, like those of some phantom band, are ever sweet and sad; but never sadder than when chi ming with the after-echo, "We return no more." Bing as ye will; sweet voices, there aro loftier joys awaiting in the golden Eden- Land, which lies beyond the sun set of life, and is gladdened by the light above in heaven! It Is dark,- very dark, when the grim hand of sickness has passed fearfully over,ns with its deathly magnetic stroke, and left behind the life-enduring sorrows of blindness, de crepitude, or debility. • It is dark, sadly dark, when We are neglected for the fair and moie ty, who abound in this gay and heartless world. Cheer up, thou poor sufferer, for there be those among angels who love thee, and thou' wilt yet shine fair as, they, when touched by the light above, in heaven! Jt is dark iti.the heart of man all over this fair green world. 'lt is dark beneath the noon day sun—darkla the sun-ray, the' moon beam, the star-light ' But for the true heart and truqing soul, who lives in the light of love' and gentleness, thera beameth ever a light of joy' from Heaven!' ,PVERY WOR D TRUE —lt is 'a . great and prevalent error that children may.be left to run wild io every sort of company and temp. teflon for several years, and theo it will be time enough 'to break them in.. Thii mis take makes half our speodthrilts,' gamblers,- thieves and drunkirds„ No map would deal. so with agardea or lot; no Man wOuld, raise a ,colt or a puppy on such a . 'prieciple. Take notice'Parents- 7 - r unless you, till' the netv'soil nod throw in the good seed,. the devil will have , a crop of weeds before yen' know what" , is taking place. , LOok at the poor dear.chil dren, and think whether 'you will leave their , safety or ruin:nt haiard,, or whether, you nap not train them up. in 'xhe way they sh . ould go. • The") ladva who have a pamiou for tea partiesaitoulcrrataember that 'tittle begins with T. - . ,Matrimony js a game that every young person shoubLtake a band a;. • ' , FT;r4t;r — a's tic - 4. I One of the grandest defects in the educe- Lion of children is in neglecting to accustom them to work. It is an evil peculiar to large towns and cities. A certain:amount of work is necessary to the proper education'occhild rani their future, independence and comfort depend on their being apeustomed to provide for the thousand constantly recurring wants that nature entails' on them. Elea if this necessity did not exist, moderate employment of some' kind would preserve them , from bad habits; promote health, and enable,.thent to bear the confinement of the schoolroom; and teach more than anything else appropriate views respecting their futme welfare. It is too often the case that children, after spend ing six hours of the day in , school, arc per, mined to spend the rest of the day as they please. They do not consider that their sue ceas in after life depends' upon the improve ment of their leisure hours. _ They grow up" in the world without a knowledge of its cares and toils. They cannot apprebiate the lav ers bestowed on them by their parents, as they do not know their cost. Their bodies and minds are enervated, and they are con stantly exposed to what ever vicious associa tions are within their reach. The daughter probably becomes that pitiable object, a fash ionable girl. The son, if he surmounts the consequence of his parent's neglect, does it probably after his plans and station for life are fixed, whew a knowled ge of some of its important objects come too late. No man or woman is thoroughly educated if not requir ed to labor. Whatever accomplishments they possess, whatever their mental training in the voyage of lire, they require some practi cal knowledge 'and experience derived from accustoming ;themselves to useful labor of some sort. A WESTERN / WO ND Elt.—Tho. zreatest wonder in the State of loWa, arid chaps any other State, is what they call the "Wall ed Lake," io Weight county,. twelve miles north of the Dubuque and Pacific- railroad, and abOut one hundred and fifty mile _of Dubuque city, - The lak_c_is_ three feet higher than the earth'ssurfgel4. - In moStilifeirthe wall is tenfiiiftigh,width at bottom fifteen feet, and at the top five.— Another fact is-tbe-siste-of-tbe-stonea-zsed -in-eantr _truetiont-the-wltolie-ef-stone-very ing in weight from three . tons down to one hundred pounds: There is an abundance of , stone in Weight county, but surrounding the lake to the mot of five or ten miles there are none. No one can form an idea-as to the means employdd to bring them to the spot, or who constructed it. a Around the entire lake is a belt of woodland, half a mile in width, corn• _posed of oakl, with this exception-the counJ try is a rolling prairie. . The trees, therefore must have been placed there at the time of building the wall. In the spring of '56 there was a great storm, and the ice on the lake broke the wall in several, places and the fartisers in the vicinity were oblidged to re pair the damages to prevent inundation -=-- Thl lake occupies a ground surface of 2800 acres, depth of water as great as 25 - feet:— The wider is clear tind'eold;• soil sandy and loamy. It is singular that nonne has _been able to ascertain where the water- comes from, and where it goes, yet it always, re mains clear and fresh. The Family °hole If there be any bond in life which ought to be sacredly guarded from everything that can put it in peril, it is that - which uttites the members of a family. If there be a spot upon earth from which disoord and strife should btkti d ehed, it is the fireside. There center the est hopes and the wont ten der affections. Dow lovely the. spectacle Presented by that family which is governed by the right spirit! - tlach strives 'to avoid giving offence, and is studiously 'considerate of the others' happiness. Sweat, loving dispositions are cultivated by all, rind each tries to surpass the other in hii efforts -for the coMmon harmony. Each 'heart ;glows with love, and the benediction .of • heavenly peace seems to .abide, upon thht. dwelling with such power that no black fiend of pas. sion dare rear his head within it. - Who would not realize this lovely picture? It lit4r bo realized by all who employ the appointed moans. Let , the precepts ; . of the Gospel'be applied as ote r mr re designed to be, and they will be • f o shed a. , holy charm upon the family circle,. and ma = it what God designed it should be, the m. heaven like scene On earth. A BRIEF SERMON —A Rorehester cler gyman made the falfawing remarks in the pulpit on Sunday morning: 14 .1.• am inform ed that a lady who attended a fune:4 l ,in this church last Sunday, lost ,in this house, as she thinks, a valuable breastpin. I hope that the laser was not amen:her of this congrega tion; and that if any,of you' should ,be the owner of such costly jewelry, it , should not be worn when you come to the hot6e of God on the Sabbath, ,but that all would' adorn theMselves fa .ch occasions in a meek. and quiet spiri any,one has limed the ; lost Jewel, they are ".quested to leave . the same with the sexton'." • A GOOD 17vr.—A Richmond , paper thinks that it the present generation of New Eng land* public men had been raoresoundly:flog ged when they were schoolboys, they would probably hare heen better men. To which responds theSpriegfield'Repiiblicani - ‘?.lrthe present race of SoutherW•leadera had :been , flogged at all in theirboyhooti, iestead of a- , musing tbeopelves by flogging young dark io; we should :net have been uoder 4,11 e pain._ ful necessity' flegging them in 'their old ageitrild stalest' the job is not yet bait Abati s ; The following question is now before the Sand Like Debating Society::, • • : ; "W.hich*do womori love , the best.: --to, ba bugged in a polka, or squeezed, iu a iloisb?" ISSI.OO IPor 7teet. Young- Drell. Many great men performed their greatest achievements before forti! • Alexander the Great died at 84. Napoleon had achieved all hie vi&olies at 35, Washington was 27 when:hd Covered the retreat of the British army under Bradtlock, and not 45 in 1776. , At 33, 'Jefferson wrote the Declaration of liideperdence. At SO, Hamilton helped to frame theVcinstitation of the United States. At. 23, blelanethon wrote the Loc . wan, nes, which passed through fifty ditions in Itislife:tiMe. At 33. he wrote t e Ausburg Confession. ' At 29, Ursinus wrot the Hei dleburg Catec ism. Zwingle wrot his chief h oie works before 4 and died at 46. At the Disputation of ipsic, Luther was 35; at the Diet of Worms, 37. At 27, Calvin wrote the Institutes. Moses sent young men to• spy out the.land of Canaan, and J oshua sent young men, as epics, to Jericho. Saul, Da vid; and Solomon achieved their greatest works before they had reachad middle life. John the Baptist and the Apostles did their life=work as young men, and Jesus Christ finished his labors and endured his sufferings as a young man. Not a decrepit, wail-out life, but the warm blood of man hoodlt morning, did he shed upon the cross for the world's redemtion. MARRIAGE.—In some' succinct, elegant and' forcible arguments, a It reneh writer thus declares the benefits of marriage: 1. Hast thou means? In a wife thou bast one to keep and increase them. 2: Hast thou none? Thou hest one to help thee to get some. ,3. Art , thou in prosperity? She doubles 4. Art thou in adversity? She'will corn; lett, a-ssist and bear thee up. 5. Art thou at home? 6he will drive a• way melancholy., i 6 e Art thou abroad? She prays for thee, ittet wishthee at home, and welcomes thee with joy. ~ 7. .. tithing is so delightsome as home; no l 1 ' is equal to that of a wife and chit- ----- ------ . B—Tha_bond-of-coo-jugitri, The - above "arguments" rest_upon7the-pre.- sumption That is a good one; and in this matter-of-wives-it is wilithattiealty true as in the case of "Job's turkey's," that the good are very good, but the bad are=--.-n)t to be deiired. EARLYll,rsrso.—Dr. Hall, in the Fob. ntimber of hie Journal of Heath, says:— "One of the very worst economies of time is that filched from necessary sleep. The whole sale'but blind commendation of early rising is as mischievous in practice as it is arrant folly in theory. Early rising is a prime a gainst •the noblest part of our physical na ture, unless it is preceded by early retiring. We caution parents particularly not to allow their children to be waked up in the morn ing; let nature wake them up, she will not doit prematurely; but have a care that they go to bed at an early hour; let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found' that they wake up of,theniselves in full time to dress for breakfast. Being waked up early, and al lowed. to engage in difficult or any studies late and just before retiring, has given ma ny a beautiful and promising child brain fe ver, or determined ordinary ailments to the production of water on the 'main." 141 E COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.—The Smith. 4eld Timrs tells a story illu'st'rative of the old sa•w that "the connect' true love never did run smooth." A young couple in Smith- field had laid a plan to outwit the vigilance of cruel parents and eloper. The sequel was thus: the youth stood beneath the window— the lad attempted to climb out—when, oh, horror, edMe one detained her from the rear! 'Why dost thou not come, gentle Amelia?" She answered, in an agitated voice, "1 can't Bill s mum's got hold on my tilterd?" "wow, girls," said Mrs. Partington the other day to her nieces, 'you must get has. bands as soon as possible or they'll- be mur dared.)! "Why so, aunt?" "W hy, I see by the paper that we've got alaiost fifteen thousand post•omces, and near. ly all on 'em dispatches a mail every day.— The,Lord have mercy on us poor• widows."— Here the old lady stepped quickly to the .king.glass to try on tier new► cap. . A shrewd preacher, after . an eloquent charity sermon, said to his hearers: am a fraid, from the sympathy displayed in your countenances, that some of you may give too much.. eautioa-you, therefore, that you should he just before you are generous; and wish you to understand that I desire no one who cannot pay his debts to put anything is the plate.' The collection was a rare one. . A GOOD DESCRIPTID.R.-A., pious divine of the old school says: "a drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of the caterpillar of industry, the tunnel of wealth, s tile ale-house benefacter, the beggar's corn 'Panion,, the constable's trouble, the woe of his wife, the scoff of his 'neighbor, his own shame, the picture of a beast, and the mon :6 ter of a , man." "Harry, taaaot thick,"aais Dick, "W hat makes wy auklea grow so thick." :.91-ott . ' do, not•leeollect," said flurry, • "How great, a calf they have to carry•" tharlts, do you love really love my &tight. -.: - !.lrittt know I do, Mrs. Shaine: Cllowmuch do you. love hat' '1 love her—l love her ell bard—as a horse eau —Atte. tiitukiaa said, 'you may have 'ho s tikes .;uu uoch. • NUMBER 37
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