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'PRAYERS I DO NOT LIRE
I do not like to Fear him pray
Who loans at twenty-fire per cent.,
For then I think the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and rent,
And in that Book we all should heed,
— Which says the lender shall be blest,
As sure as I have eyes to read
It does not say "take interest."
I do not like to hear Lim pray
• • 'Jed-knees about an hour
For grace to spend aright the day,
Who knows his neighbor has no flour ;
Fa rather see him go to rnill
And buy the luckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
I do not like to hear him pray—
'•Let blessings on the widow be,"
Who never seeks her home to say—
' If want o'ertakes you come to me."
I hate the prayer so loud and long,
- That's offered for the orphan's weal,
him who sees him crus e •y wrong,
And only with his lips doeth feel.
I do not like to hear her pray,
eur-and-sil-ken-drys •
Whose washerwoman toils all day,
A - WI - Hien is iisked "wort- for lefs.!"
Such pious shavers I Jo despise !
With folded hands and face demure,
They hft to heaven their "angel eyes,7
And steal the earnings of the poor.
I do not like such soulless prayers ;
It wrong, I hope to beforgiven;
No ringers wing them upward bears—
g'he3 're 'lost a million miles from heaven.
--- WH - 0 TAUGHT THEM.
Who taught the bin! to build her nest
-- -wool, and hay, and moss' )
Who taught her how to weave it best.
And lay the twigs across I
Who taught the busy bee to fly,
Among the sweetest flowers;
And lay her store of honey by,
To eat in winter hours
Who taught the little ant the way-
The narrow hole to bore;
And. through the pleasant summer Jay,
To gather up her store l
'Twas God who taught them all the wny,
• And gave their little skill,
And teaches children, if they pray,
To do His holy will. •
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TEE FATAL TEST.
One night, while seated with some friends,
the subject of courage came up for discus
sion, and divers were the opinions advanced
as to what it truely was, and what would be
a proper test to prove the true metal from
the false The ar'ument waxed warm, and
twelve o'clock found us far from any decis
ion.
Albert O'Brien, a scion of the Emerald
Isle, had been particularly boastful, and long
ed for a chance to have his Milesian brave
ry put to the test, boldly avowing that no
Englishman ever possessed one tithe of the
disregard of danger that belonged to his
warmer blooded brothers.
This was, of course, denied ; and Frank
Leslie, a Hampshire youth, cold and passion.'
less, strenulouAy maintained_that—direotly
.
op — te was the case; that the fiery ardor of
the Milesian was like gunpowder—a flash
and nothing more—a furious sound ending
in smoke; while that of the Englishman was
like thrice boated steal, glowing and lasting
to the very death.
dare do anything that you dare,' replied
Albert,' his anger getting the better of his
j udg men t.
'Dare you? We will see, my boy.• Wait
here, all of you, until I return.'
And Frank took his hat and disappeared.
We heard his film step upon the stairs—
heard him open and shut the door, and saw
his tall form for a moment in the street.—
Then it was lost tons, for the night was in
tensely dark and stormy The rain swept
round corners in gusts, and the wind fairly
rattled the windows and howled down the
chimneys. It was just the night to make
one think of ghosts—the dead everything
that the soul shrinks from communion or
fellowship with. ,
I know not if other minds dwelt upon
such thepaos as mine did; but certainty a
spell appeared' to have fallen upon all, for
eUeuce took the place vi noisy discussion,
and the ,room teat a few moments before had
rung with loud debate was undietu;hed as
the tomb. A half whisper, (I wonder where
he has gone?' were the ony Words 'spoken
until--Ertihlc,returned, shook the-sleety drops
Irons his person, conlytoOk. - his eeat, lighted
his pipe, and renewed the-conversation with
an air of pf...rfeet.uoconcern. -7 - -- •
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lave fulfill ,
DOW fulfil yoir
/Well, whal ,erelinvo
you boon ?AU ., t ,ta
'You know, all of you, -the - vault, 'the
old graVe, yard . on the opposite ' corner-'=you
-know: it, for we wore there in it this `very
morning, and .remarked the peculiar manner
in which: tho coffins had been placed. They
furor, as you will remember, three aides 'of
a square, the fourth -being the door at the
loot d e file steps. Well, I• have been there,
tkiit crawled down the long•steps—entered
the Vault in all darkness and fanciful hor
rors, walked to the extreme end, and placed
my_wateh_antLeitain:ot_the4 i I e_Df_decayed
coffins there. You go and bring it, Albert,
alone--- , without a light as I have done, and I
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will Civn that you, at least, are as brave- as
Englishmen.'
A thrill of horror--u sickening, chilling
sensation, took possession of us all as we ful
ly drank in the purnort'of his slowly utter
ed, carefully measured words; and every eye
was turned upon the Irishman to mark the
effect upon tam, Truly he was like marble'.
Ever , 4 - he -IP v blotto thr'
Every drop of the ruddy blooL at usually
glowed beneath hie soft cheeks had been
driven back to hie heart and he stood like
one entraneed. That ho was nerving him
self for the task I plainly saw, and that his
entire nature shuddered at the bare thought
of going alone and in darkness into the moul
dy abode of the ancient / dead, was equally
plain to me. Nothing but his pride kept
him from at once- confessing his fear; and
well indeed would it have been if even that
had failed him. . .
'Frank is but joking.' I said, aniious to
break the stony silence, anci to awake say
self and companions from the dreadful night
mare that had seised every heart in its icy
clutches.
'l.—shall—go—and---see was the reply
from the ably lips that almost refused to do
'You shall not! It is horrid—dreadful!'
was echoed on' every side.
'Cowardp, all!' retorted Frank refilling his
: • : I lin_ us with his cold iron
grey eyes.
'You rui , :itt call roe a coward till dooms
day,' I replied. 'before I'd go. It is simply
a tool-hardy undertaking '
'All afraid o.f ghosts, as I live,' again taun
ted Frank. 'Albert is a medical student,
and therefore, ought to be familiar with the
dead.'
'You shall not go, Albert,' came from half
a dozen pair of lips, and as many hands were
laid upon him to detain him.
°Let me go, gentleman lam no coward
and yet I will not foolishly deny that the
first,thought struck me with the utter deso.
lateness of the undertakin g , and he put a
side our bands and departed.
For a moment all stood still, not knowing
what to do, and then, as if by intuition, we
followed him, without waitini , to listen to
the mocking words and laugh ter of the cold
blooded Frank Leslie.
We saw Albert leap the high fence; we
heard him creeping down the slimy. mossy
steps; and then, even as we, too, had clatn
bered over the enclosure and were letting
ourselves down into the tangled grass, we
heard a rattling sound a heavy fall and a
shreik that pierced our brains
Not another sound—and while one, more
collected than the rest, hurried back to the
room for a light, we' stood there with great
sweat-drops upon our foreheads and tartied
ly beating hearts, but otherwlse as motion
less as the long mouldered dead beneath our
feet. The light was brought; and rendered
desperate by our feeling, we rushed down
the slippery stairs in a body, and saw-great
heaven! will any of us forget it? we saw
the senseless form of our friend, stretched
upon the stone pavement, halt covered by
dead bones and the wreck of rotten coffins!
We tore him from his fearful surroundings,
raised him in our arms, lAEA bore him from
that ghastly charnel house; and we saw as
we laid him on a couch that he had the
watch and chain—the fatal test—grasped
firmly in one hand, while secured to a but
ton-hole of his coat hung- a fragment of a
coffin by the rusted screw!
Of that night, of the day's that follc wed, I
will not write. They were fraught 'with
agony to all; bat amid the whirl of his
delirium we learned, in diF-jointed sentences.
the history of the scene in the vault. Ile had_
safely moiled the w_atela r ta-ken - it - from the
-pile - of - col of d turned to go,when he fount
his coat held as if by invisible bands.—
What was he to think? flad not the outra
ged spirits of the dead clutched him for
thus sacrilegiously invading their home?
What would they do with him?—how long
hold bib? The thought was madness, an
he struggled to break away, when the piled
up rotten shells fell bursting around him
ani the ghastly rotten bones struck him on
every . sidef A shriek of horror-the rest to
him was chaos.
With the dawn of the morrow Frank
Lesslie ili , ippeared, and I never saw him
again. Months after, Albert O'Brien was
taken home to recover amid the verdant
groves of his father's home. They were in
their sweet, summer bloom when he reached
them, and the minim winds whirled their
leaves over his grave. A brave, generous
heart ceased to beat, and a genius-lighted
mind was lost to earth by a vain, foolish test;
and now that more than a score, of years
have passed I write the tale of horror as
a warning.
.People say, They shell' peas when they
unsbell them; thaethey husk corn When they
•iinhu4ir it; that they dust furniture when
they !Indust it, or take the dust from it; and
.that they skin a eAlf when they - unskin it;
and that they soak Liles when they upscale
them. Many men bay - they 'are going to
weed their, gardent'l, When their -gardens are
weedy onough already-
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elan)• merchant, meeting one of hin' own fraternity;the other day, whose pony might
,ho,oonsidered a beahliful apecimen of
skeleton, remonstrated with the- owner,
and.asked him 'if he over fed him. .Ever
feed him! thaLla a good one;' waa 'the reply;
'he's got a bushel and a-half of oats at home
now, only be hain't got time to eat4etn'
contract,
A mail, who has tried it srlys short cuts to
wealth arc 'overcrowded.
WAYNkSBORO", FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLYA - NIA, FRIDAY MOANING, 26.'1867.
Xl3.cl.priecricleeri.t Noniilll* - IVeesrmr•nroar•
I WILL THINK Or IT,
'I will think of it.' This is easy to say
and simple to do; but do you know what
great things come of just thinking ? And
yet thought itself,ithough — very — mighty, is
nothing we can see or smell, hear, taste - or
feel.
A boy named James Watt sat quietly by
the fire one evening, watching the tea-kettle
lid 'dance,' as it moved up and down by•the
steam from the boiling water- 'He did not
say anything, but he was thinking how much
power there must be in steam, if it could
move the heavy lid.
He kep_t tbioking_a,boutt-it r _and—years and
years after, when he was a man. he so greats
y improved the steam engine, as to make it
do as Much work as a great many horses.—
By the steam of boiling water wheels and
reds were moved, which thus moved machin-
boats 'and railroad carriages, you may re
member that they never would have been
1- built if it were not hr thinking.
W hen a man is lying awake at night, very
quiet, would you believe he can be doing
what may change the lice of a million of pee ,
ple ? But he may be planning some terrible
battle that will bring sorrow into a multitude
of homes, and change the fate of a whole
nation.
You have heard of NapolPon, who was
such a great soldier. About the time he
was thinking of the glory he would get to
limb • sad to t . tre - F - retteli — peopliwtiTtfo•
Ding long Marches and victories, there was
a mad living in Gloucester, England, who
vvaz.4 thinkeil just as earnestly, but of some
•'g very—d-illeren-t---11-e—was a good—
and believed that we should work for the
_glOry_of_GmLand the-best-good-of-men-; and-
BJbe was thinking what he could do to pre
vent the rude children who lived in Glouces
ter from taking God's holy name in vain,-
from breaking the Sabbath, and from steal
• no. Som a of tbem hail eidful fathers and
mothers, who 441 these wicked things them
selves, and there was no one to teach the
children any better.
Oce Sabbath day Mr Raikes had ceca•
sion to go to a part of the city where was a
large pin factory, and a great many people
who worked there lived near it. He was
shocked and grieved to see* the swarms of
dirty children in the streets, who were play
ing rough games, fighting and swearing.—
He heard that the farmers who lived a little
out of town were obliged to stay at home to
watch their fruit trees on Sundays. They
said they had more trouble by thieves on
that day than on any other.
Mr. Raikes thOtight if he could get these
Ivor little degraded,'ignorant ones into a
school on Sundays, they would be kept from
mischief, and taught something which might
make them good men and wo•nen. He re
solved to try. It was very hard work, but
he suceeeded;,and other people seeing what
a good and blessed thing it was, started o
ther Sunday schools, till now, a hundred
years after, there is one connected with al
most every place of worship in England as
well as America. So you . see what Mr.
Raikes brought about by thinking.
Poorest Man in the World
Many years ago, two brothers went. from
Connecticut to Western New York to live.
The country was new and the land was, cheap;
so these brothers, who were young men,
bought a great deal of it. They added acre
to .aBra, and farm to fora' until they. could
go over whole townships without taking their
feet from their own soil. Other emigrants
came about them; and their laud, which was
fertile, became f great value; so, by the
time the brothers were old men, they were
very rich.
At last, the elder brother came to'die,and,
RS he lay upon hi 3 tleathbed,i he asked to be
lifted, so that ho could look from the win
dow.llis-friendaliiised him upon pillows,
and threw open the window.
The dying man looked out over miles and
miles of forest and ,bill and meadow, where
grain was ripening in the sunshine, cattle
and sheep were feeding, and the Genesee
:River- Was friwing, through the midst in its
beautiful valley.
Hill, meadow; and forest were ail his—ev•
erything his eyes lobked upon; and yet in a
tow hours he must go away, and take nano
of his riches with him—go away alone, and
in darkness, and without Jesus, for lie was
not a Christian. Ile had been so 'busy buy.
ing farms and houses and cattle that he bad
no time to think of anything else.
The.rieh man looked_ from the window a
long Limo at his worldly riches—at the wav
ing grain, the shining river, the wide spread
ing trees, and the graziiig cattle—and then,
turning away his head, burst into tears, say
ing, "I am the pooresc• man, in. the world."
A PltdUla MAN'S RoimEs.—Of all the vi
tes-which disfigure tho human soli]; not ane
is wore foolish than pride. Its folly was
practically illustrated by that sully chi cy
nic, Diogenes, who, while examining a heap
of bones, was accosted by Alexander the
Great.
• What nre you looking for?' asked the pram]
monarch. •
'For the.bonen of ,your father, hut I can
not distinguish them from those of his slaves.'
replied: the philosopher.. •
_ _IL the cynic - was rude ho was , Also
In. the end the king and the alavet3 are Alike.
As both eorno alike nuked into the world, .to
both,leave it; alike naked. Both carne end
gO4ith nothing. foolish theh for the
one to lord it over the other during the brief
interval between the cradle cod the gravy
The, proudest man
. on earth is only 'dust.
Wily shOuld he d,espise 'his Cahn's who are
ma'de; of the same maleo.ll, and era' inheti
, 'tors of the sa' tho destiny! Co'ruhler 'thiP, 0
proud beau, and take lessons in the' eehool
of - Christ,. svho_;tras.nte,ek and lolly in, heart.
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Vii tun is lc aOw . • . ,
MODERATE . DRINKING.-The ragged-,
squalid, brutal rum drunkard, who lives in
'the bar- room, consorts
. with swine in the gut
ter, or fills with clamof and dismay the cold
and conifortle'‘S abode to Willa, in the spirit
of a demon, be returns at night, much us he,
injures-himself, deeply. wretched as be ren
ders his family, exerts but little inTienei,
beguiling others into an imitation of his re
volting 'conduct. On the contrary as, far as
his example goes, it tends, to deter, from, ra
ther than allure to criminal indulgence, Froin
his depredation and his woes, the note ,of
warring is sounded both load ar.d long. that
whoever will may bear it, and hearing, 'un
derstund.—But-rcputable,—maderate._ebris,
tian wine•drinkers these are the men that
rend forth from high places of • society, and
sometimes even from the hill of • Zion, an'
unsuspected, unrebuked, but powerful influ
ence, which is secretly and silently doing on
maks, its work of death. It is tf;is repute
ble, authorized, moderate drinking, which
encourages youth in their oe,casional excess- .
es, reconciles the public mind to holiday rev
elries, shelters from deserved reproach the
bar-room tippler, and furnishes a salvo even
for the occasional inquietude of the brutal
drunkard's conscience.--Dr, Nett. - .
GOOD ADVICE.—The Phrenological Jour
nal for July in its leader gives its readers
the following sound, sensible, and Christian
advice:
Barllariliu ',nest give way to Ch.isti att ,
Every human being lies an. interest at stake.
Each should do something, and come up
promptly to do the work allotted him. There
ts-no-place-€e-Firliers-in-CI-oXis-great-v-drie-yarti
Let each put his shoulder to the wheel and
-help-sot-the-world-ahead, Render,_w_h at_
are you doing? Are your faculties' being
used? Remember the parrable of the hal-
ents! The riAt use of what you have will
be the measure of your- reward. He who
sell or. his fellows will IA little or nothing
to his credit in the Book of Life. You who
have realized the truth, that it is more tiles.
sed to give—and to do—than to receive, will
need no urging from us.
Are you inventive? Give the world the
benefit of it. You will be none the poorer,
but much richer, in gratitude to God. Are
you mechanical? Build yourself 'a monu
ment in the hearts of the people. Are you
a preacher? Exhort, preach and pray. 'Let
thy kingdom come,' Are you rich? 'Let
your light so shine that others may see your
good works and glorify your Father in heav
en.' Arc you a publisher? Print Only good
books. A merchant? Weigh your goods
on the scales of justice. A parent or a teach
er? Remember, example is mote powerful
than precept.
THADDEUS STEVEN'S' GRADE.—Several
years ago, when the Lancaster Cemetery was
incorporated, Mr. Stevens purchased two
lots, for which a deed was duly executed.
Some years later, in looking over his papers,
he noticed, for the 'first time, the clause
prohibiting the interment of colored people
in the cemetery. lie at once reeonveyed the
lots to the company, with his reasons, and
asked that they be put upon• record. •A
short time ago 'ho purchased a couple of lots
in Woodward Hill Cemetery, and when the
deeds were banded to him he noticed a sim
ilar clause excluding the burial of people of
color. The brave old m'n declared that he
could not consent to have his b,enes laid in
a cernetry where any of God's . eltildren were
excluded for no'fault of their own, and he
promptly returned the .deeds, He 'then, on
ly a few days ago ; selected 'a lot in 'Sehri
nor's Cemetery,' where DO such distinction
is made among the dead, and tbeao will the
dust of the o),d commoner repose—not, we
trust, however. until he has seen the great
work of reconstructing the nation on an en
durinc, basis of liberty and equal rights,
which ho has so long arid so.conaintently la
bored ,for,• so triumphantly. consummated.
—Lancaster Ex press.
A gentleman traveling. to Pittsburg' from
ono of the neighboring towns, stopped to see
a friend, and left his horse tietfen the road
On his return tte Mind that the animal had
slippd his bridle, and while in search of him
ho met an Irish pedestriun•of whom he in
quired. c •
'Have you seen a stran& creature any
where 'hereabouts, with a 'saddle en his
bade?'
'Och, by the powers, ye may soy that,' • re
plied Pat
'Where?'.
, 'Just yonder.'
'Will you shtits , me the place?'
'That I will, in less - than no time,' said
the man: approaching a small wood of-youag
timbcr.
-'Ay there he is, euho" enough, — hen
ey.'
The gentleman looked up and said:
'I lio'not see him.'
'Then by,E ! aint Patrick. yez must be blind
Not_see him? °eh, by the towers of blue
mud, wbat's he :abe - ut tiow? 'only - see ''bo
OvrailOws . his
, Why, sir, that's •turth., and not a horse.'
'A horse! and who in the duce said it was
a horse? Sure a:horse:is-Data strange crag.
tare; but that's,a strange : pra,ytur,e.' . . ha ad -
ded,poin'ting to it with fearfof . t.rerolling;land•
haa; a saddlebut,,bang rob if '1 could.
hitn fu'r the whoto-conothry.
Your chiLiren will be the more' aspzetqed
to, vigor, perseverance, and. self•Ocke4o,?e,
the more they witness your exerticiriro.
vide for your future welfare. 'There are
few, who can, witness theppy display of pa
rental and proVi3ent C,C4*ithout haviag the
desire 'created within tham of 'doing' some•
foe "themselves: '"A thrifty father,'
'sap a Ilindoo proverb, 'may haven!) extrav
agant non, but a dilligeot father rarely has
an idi.e son,'
A Praatioa3•Soke.
A company of young men who were • sup.
ping together at a tavern, found the wino
that was served of very indifferent - quality,
when one of them, whose house was not 'fair
distant, mentioned that he had in his cellar
at home, some wine th t ) 7as particularly
fine, and that ha would o b er to his honse
and 'bring a couple (:) bottlqs, which sag.
sestion much pleased the/company, But
alter he had gone'on hiserrand, one of the
company proposed . td play a trick, by going
out to noiet him on the' way and to 'frighten
him. To fhb practical joke they assented
With great 'glee; and accordingly off' the
planner-went-'on-his
„expedition, which prom.
ised to have so pleasant an - affect. The
night was lark, and a part of the way was
in a lonely road; but 'what heightened the
fun was that 'just at, hand there Was a tan
yard, where there' lay many fresh hides of
• . . .- .. i i • ill 1 Biz i
theso ()lowlier° invested himself in order to
complete tire horror of his figure.
The comphny, in high expectation' Waitedm
some time for the result of the frolic. At
last their companion who hild'been for the
wine, entered with his tivo bottles, according
to promise; but'as their jocular companion
did not appal., and being impatient to learn
the history of the joke; they 'plainly asked
him if he had not met with . ' something of
rather a shocking appearance upon the roll;
Ile answerer:
'lndeed, something of that sort made an
• .•• . I • bly - a - ruirber=in-disguis -,
-
but,' he continued, 'whatever it was I have
done its business, for I quickly ran •my sword
through its body; and it 'dropped instantly at
my-fee t—iv-i th out-u-grotin.'
Terror now seized the whole company; they
-all-rushed_out_in•seatch of their_unfortunate'
friend. whom they soon fonnd enveloped in
the cow's hide, lifeless, and weltering in' his
blood.
I. A praztical joke is always liable more or
•8 3 to be attended by very itstrgereru:
sequences; it;is the resource of foets - wlfo - are
incapable of foreseeing the great risk they
run of involving themselves or the great ob
ject of their unfeeling wit in some fatal ca
tastrophe. It is a cruel hazardous, joculari
ty, which has often turned a comedy into
the deepest tragedy. The proverb says: 'To
the wise it is as great a pleasure to hear coun
sel mixed with mirth, as to the foolish to
have spurt mingled with 'rudeness.'
Fast with the Word Fast
Richard Grant White, Mr. Gould, or some
other writer who is accustomed to play upon
`words and their uses," might write eta in
teresting chapter on the changes which are
rung upon many English words. The ;a
changes terribly perplex foreigners, who are
never sure when tboy get hold of the right
meaning of a word. For instance, a puzzled
Frenchman with the word fast:
'Zis horse, sair, he go queek, what you
say?'
'Yes, he is a fast horse.'
'AU! pardon, monsieur, but your friend
say he make fast his horse, and he tie him
to a post so he not go at all.'
'Very true, ho is made fast by
. being
tied'
'Ah, zat cannot be; he cannot go fast, brit
wiiat you call a man zat keeps fast?'
91i, he is a good man who does not cat on
fast days.
'But I have seen one bon vivant who eat
and drink and ride, and do every sing. 'Le
people say ho is a bad man —he is vere
fast.'
`True, that is called living a fast life.'
eertainment; ze days of , his
life moost he fast days.'
'Certainly they are.'
'Eh bele! Does be cat every day?:
'Certainly ho does '
-Zen how can ho keep fast?'
'lVhy,—he•keepa going to be sur✓e.'.
tenez! ' You7tell me to stand fast
when you want me to keep still; and ,go 'fast
when you wish me to run,—how shall I kauw
what is it you mean by' ze-fast.' •
"I'll Keep 'em Awake!" ;
Near Newark lived a pious family who had
adopted an orphan, tvho, by the way, was
rather,underwitted. Ile had imbibed. strict
views on religious matters, however, and' once
asked his adopted moth& if she didn't think
it wrong for old. farmers to come to church
and falr uldeep,•paying no better• regard to,
the service. She teplicil she did. Ac
cordingly before going to church the next
Sunday, he filled., Lis pocket with apple.
One bald headed old man who invariably
went to sleep clu.ring . t.lac sermon pa'rfiedlarly
attracted his tittentlon. seeiii him,nuditing
and giving the'tisdal evidence of being in
the
~.land of dreans,' he took the iistpoished
sleeper alilow - with an applo the 'top. of
bis.b4l4 pate. The tuiaister 'add ainmed
congregation at once turned urouud and in
dignantly gaud at the boy, wboducreli,said
to Alio preagher as lie-took another apple in
his . haud, with, a sober,,honest expression of.
couacnanc o e, 'You preach; keep 'cai
wake!'
Rs • S tratt,Arr —I i: b ed
quietly for some efficiareirtites•in
. IVashington thia the, riititarjt 'Coptuission
li l y which INlre.: tried' and senten
ced i•ecaninietided, hor_to the inercy of Pres-
Wept Johnson, acid itfizis niw beendefinite
'6'scertained that this,reiiiiit''fs Arno; and
tlist the recommendation' is hi' the hand *
writing of nen- John A- Bighorn, Bina As•
sishint Judge Ailvoc,ve General,
4 . louscreaid who was sent t0;c4.11 a, Ran.
tle/pan t o dinner, f'”und . hlnl ongt,ql:4' In
using n tooth brpill. 'Well, i,,,heieomang?'
saidthe hidy,ot thehonse„as the servant *ye
'turned. 'Yes, , n;:il!..on, directly,', , was. the re
ply, 'he's jest eharpf.ning•his teeth.'
That . rnan oannqt IJe yottt vslio will
ot allow you to teach hialanytkioj
sisvocio ri0 4
02- -seciboti-
One Cause of Failure
No one who is everyday thrown into coil•
tact with a large number of people, says the
Ghicagd Hachinist,, has failed to notice that
individuals are divided into two classes—
those who attract, and those who repel by
their presence. We May not be distinctly a.
Ware ut is at the time s through thoughtless
ness or stipeffreial'observiticin, but a cloSe a
nalysis would reveal the fact at once. The
- qualitiCs which are primary causes of
this effect, are of the heart, rather than the
head.
,Expression given 'to them in the
matmer,",he eye, the voice. As these shot+
thddisposition, we say, Such a man, is good
or ill-natured.
Speaking in a general sense, there are n
large number of people who do not corplidcr
how much this has to do with stincss or IJOI.I-•
success in bu . stu3ss. In saying this, we take
it for granted that energy, Isoltluess, and de
,
termination are ire•rec ui it ••
I failure is certain. But incidental to tflese,
there is no persuo who is not infinenced ill a
- wo_uderfal - degree - by - one who exhibits a hear
ty love urhutnan kind, and a friendly vat
that bubbles over in a merry laugh, or
pleasant speech.
.In this htimauity is clan
nish to. the last deree. The salesman, and
not , roods is often the cause that influ•
, ,
maces a trade. All love to meet a man who
is 'affable and polite., and if he is in business,
love to patronize him. Oa the contrary, we
dislike, even in the commonest affairs, to, rub
against a nature that rasps. and scratches all
- . - • —ensibilitit-lin core, auti-we=a
void such except in cases of necessity. The
advantages therefore, which the first has o
ver the last named, in an even start, where
the abilities of both are eqn9l, are . 7or no or
dinal degree or-kind.
UNKINDNESS.—The moment a friend or
even a were acquaintance is dead, how sure
ly there starts
n ap before us each instattee,of
unkindness of which we have been
. • Tivl V -t.t=thit-ti=a-trt or ward—.
which, while he was in lite did not seem to
us to be unkind at all, now "bites back" . as
if it had been a serpent,and shown 1.0 what
it really was. A lesl 'twas thus we , caused
hint to suffer who now . is Gast, and yet then
we did not pity nor reproach ourselves. There
is ulvt tys a 'bitterness beyond that of death
in the dying of a fellow..ereature to whew
we have been unjust or unkind.
ALARN. DIAT,---A small boy out V17.3.9t One
cold day, was assisting his father to mark
' sheep with paint and brush. He would
catch a sheep and say to the boy,' NI ark that;
titter the job was done, the buy starred 'fur
his home which was at some distance,
and was met a by minister on horseback,
who seeing the boy barefooted invited him
_to ride behind him. After the bey was
seated he began to catechise him thus:
" Yly lad, do you attend the sabbath
schoalr"No,' was the reply.
. "You should attend t'ie sabbath school,
mark that! all good children attend both
church and stabbath school, mark that!''
After many other thing 3 the minister or
dered the boy to do, ho replied:
• "Ihuvemarkud your tuck all ovee, now,
and it looks like thußder!"
One of our Wes!ern.cxellanges says: 'We
notice in an Indiana linter the marriage of
Mr: Thos. N. Lyon to Miss MuLIM Limb.
another Eeiiptural prophecy in process of
fulfillment: "f he lion and the lamb shall lie
down together,' and after awhile 'a littlo
Child will toad them.' ''
Puzzr.r..—There was a blind beggar who
bad a brother and that brother died. the
brotht , r who died had no brother; now ivhat
relation was the blind beggar to the - brother
who died, •
an anybodoy.see the ran,t.
g/eliOy•who writes more truthfully than
angol, without money
not thought eo much of now a days as a
dovil with n hula of greenhseits.'
A little explained, a little endured, , a lit•
tie passed over as a foible, and In,• the jam.
med atoms will fit like month mosaic.-
The vicious die early. They fall like shad
ows or tumble wrecks and ruins' into the
grave—often while quite young, a!most be•
fore lorry. '''The winked lived, not hail his
days! •
'Did yonr'fall hurt your' iaid ono Pot!art..'
der to anithdr, who had faller' from the top
of a two-story house. 'Not in' the least hen
ey, 'twos stoppia' ao quick that hurt me.'
‘lTereg to
. internal iniprorcinentP,' ns
Dobbs said when. he swallowed a dude a
salts.
To ascertain the' millibar of chr.dren in a
street—beat a, big (Arum. To ascertain tlie
number of lualers—stargAt
fight.
- When itro
-When they're pared..•
ec'hy is a newspaper ike
every wan ought to
----
ATver is like a f -lbot horse, wlin being
allowed his.wap,•selfqattla tires hill).
What word is always proaoupcod wrong?
IVrong, of course.....,
' "-
Wliy ti''l7e youngtans like a 'lingo?
'Beeacridio h'. t a du: e.
-. , •
ll'hy is it a slurci to e. ,qt a pretty girl to
candid? ceattio sit& eatiSt be plain.
Bigger an the Maxninotitit •Mtiye- 1 110
VAC° in of t ye rebels.
".) I.
Beware of
Jan .a..„%u iiatcs.a.•w•hoic neigh,
; .
botitood.
NIJMBEIt 2
zeisely alike?
wifd ilt?canzo
no of his 'own.