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► a ~;UML XXI.
3PCIMPICJALIA.
L IF E.
'tis said, is but a vapor,
) Passing quickly from our sight.
Like the hal
Giving but a moment's light
Yes, life is short, they truly feel
VV-ho-are-wevking-for-the-rig
‘l7l - o are striving for the weal
Of the blind devoid of light-
Life! Oh, it is sublime to live,
Not in letter but in deed,
To live a life that we may give;
•Patterns to the world in need
Life is something more than living,
Sothething more than I.r.tathing breath;
It is 'working setrdeath.
Life descended down from heaven,
'Tis the breath of God on high;
To us, from Him, 'twits lent, not given
To improve it till we die.
We are stewards of this blessing,
In the way of trnth keep pressing,
Till, we pass beyond the skies.
There our life will not be fleeting
Time shall cease. Eternity
Ushers in the endless meeting,
Of faith, love and variety
Christ, the Life, will be the centre
Of the life we live above;
to t.roug. aim we rap - ,
In the ates of life and love
GOOD NIGHT.
' Good night. good night— '
How many a thought this simple phrase
The hcsart, by tell-tale tone conveys;- -
How swells its utmost depths to hear,
Fr,)m tiose we hold in friendship dear,
The cheerful word "Good night,"
In evening light,
IVe hear the mother's joyous tongue,
Humming• the song the angels sung;
It tails upon the thirsting ear, -
And stirs tha yearning soul - IS - hear
The loving song, "Good night."
'Neath moonbeams bright,
The lover's linger hand in hand,
Speaking the tongue hearts understand.
D e Wing the hour that draws so near,
When sweetly,sadly to the ear,
Comes that fond won.U_Good night."
With true delight
The trilling form of childoN3 sleeps
And age, its cheerful vigils keeps, _
While lingers devoutly on the etr,
The word to youth and age so dear—
That earnest word "Good n'ght."
• Good night, good night—
The prom Be of another day
Ire cheerful, honest tones convey;
'Tis no Icrilt parting that w•e fear,
But sign of pr: nise when we hear,
The welcome phraso,`•Good night?'
IV/CM.€3CIMI_3IJ. - SZ'i.
"IF WE ONLY HAD A PIANO•"
'This is pleasant? exclaimed the young
husband, taking his seat c -silt' in the rocking
ehait as the tea things were removed. The
fire glowed in the grate, revealing a prettily
and tteally fioi hed sitting room, with all the
appliances of c.;mfor.t.,, ; The fati,tuinc ,
iness of the da_y__Was--ov'et --- ,
which he had all day bren antici
pating, the de ights of his own friends. [lts
pretty wife Esther took her work and sat
down by the table.
'lt is pleasant to h the a home of one's own,'
he said, again taking a satisfuctory survey of i
his snug little quarters. The cold rain beat
against the windows, and he thought he felt
grateful for all his present enjoyments.
Now, if we only had a Piano!' said his
wife.
'Give me the sweet music of your voice
before all the pianos in creation,' he declar
ed complimentarily, despite a certain secret
disappointment, that his wife's thankfulness
did not chime with his own
'Well, but we want one fur onr visiting
friends,' said Esther.
'Let our friends come to see us, and not
to bear a piano!' exclaimed her husband.
'But, George, everybody has a piano now
a-days; we don't go anywhere without see
ing a piano,' persisted his wife.
'And yet I do not knew what we want one
for, you will have no time to' play on one,
and I don't like to hear it.'
'Why, they are so faahionable-1 do think
our room looks really naked without a pi
ano.'
.1 think it looks just right.'
I think it looks very naked— we want a
piano. shockingly,' protested Eather, em
phatically.
The hubband rocked violently--
I,—
lamp FLICIok - Cry dear? said be, a
toy a lortg . pause,_
'When are you going to get a solar lamp?
I have told you a dozen times how much we
need ono,' said Esther,' .quite impatient -
ly,
Those will do,'
, 13ut, you know, everybody, now a-days,
wants solar lamp::
•These Imps arc the prettiest of the kind
I ever saw, and they were bought in Boa
' t
'But, George, I do not think our room is
complete without a solar lamp.' said the wife
sharply - =they - are so fashionable; why, the
D—s, B—s and A—s all have them. I am
sure we ought to.'
'We ought to, if we take pattern by other
people's expenses, and I don't see any reason
for that' The husband moved uneasily in
his chair. 'We want to live within our
moans, Esther!' exclaimed her husband.
'I am sure we could afford it as well as the
B—s, or the to —s, and many others we
might mention, we do not wish to appear
mean.'
Geor e's cheek crimsoned.
4 3au.— am not mean. so crie angri-
ly.
'Tlien you do not wish to appear so,' said
his wife. 'To complete this room, and make
it like others, we want a piano and a solar
amp
'We want—we want!'—muttered the bus
band; 'there's co satisfying woman's wants,
do what you may ; ' and ho abruptly left the
room.
--How-many-husbands are in a smiler di
lemma! (low many homes and husbands are
rendered uncomfortable by the constant die
satisfaction of a wife with present provisions
flow many bright prospects for business have
ended in bankruptcy , after fashionable ne
cessities! If the real cause of many a fail
ure could be made known, it would be found
to result from useless expenditure at home
=expenses - to - answer - the demands of fash
ion; and 'What_will_people say of us?'
'My wife has made my foltune,' said a gen
tleman of great possessions, 'by her thrift,
prudence and cheerfulness, wheal was just
begining.'
•And_minelias lost-my-for-tune,' said—his
companion, bitterly, 'by useless extravagance
and repining when - I-was-doing-welt.'
What a world does this open of the influ
ence_w_hich_a_wifepessesses over the future
prosperity of liar family.
trillirelYern
se—rf
well.
ZEIZEI
Mie - cl - totommenee small. It is too
common for young — housezkeepers to - begin
where their mothers ended. But all that is
necessary to work skilfully with, adorn your
house with all that will render it cm:aorta- -
hie. Do not look at richer homes, and covet
their costly furniture. If secret dissatisfac
tion springs up go a step further, and • visit
the homes of the poor and suffering; behold
the dark, cheerless apartments, insufficient
_clothing, and absence of — the comforts and re•
finements of soci:4l life; then to your own
with a joyful spirit.
You will then be prepared to meet your
husband with a grateful heart, and be ready
to appreciate that toil and self denial that he
has endured in• his business world to sur
round you with all the delights of home, then
you will be ready to et-operate cheerfully
with him in so arranging your expenses that
his mind will not be constantly harrassed
with fears lest family expenses encroach—up
on his business.
i Be independent. A young housekeeper
never needed greater moral courage than she
does to resist the arrogance of fashion. Do
nit let the .A—s and B—s decide what you
must have, neither let them hold the strings
of your purse. You know what you can and
ought to offurd; then decide with strict in
tegrity according to your means. Let not
the censures nor the approval of the world
ever tempt you to buy what you hardly think
you can afford. It matters little what they
think, provided you are true to yourself and
Thus pursuing a n even, independent,
straightforward, consistent course o f ad
tioo. there will spring up peace and joy all
around you. Satisfied and happy yourself,
you will make your husband' so, and your
children 'sill feel the warm and genial influ
ence Happy at home. your husband can go
out into the world with aclear head and _a l
self-relying spirit: dome-stir-bitik - iiii - 3g will
not saur-his - h - end he will return to you
again with a confiding and unceasing love
Depend upon it, beauty. wit, grace, accom
plishments, have far less to do with family
comfort than prudence, economy, and good
sense. A husband may get tired of admir
ing, but never with the comfortable consci
ousness that his receipts exceed his de ,
mands.
DISEASE PRODUCED Dr SLEEPING TOGETIT
ER.—During the night there is considerable
exhalation from our bodies, and at the same
time we absorb a large quantity of the sur
rounding air. Tsv - althy young children
sleeping tone or will mutually give and re
ceive halthy exhalation; but an old, weak
person near a child wil, in exchange for
health, only return weakness A sick mother
near her daughter communicates sickly ema
nations to her; if the mother has a cough of
long duration, the daughter wiU at some time
cough and suffer by it; if the mother has )
pul
monary consumption, it will ultinfately be
communicated to her • child. It is, kno n
that the bed of a consumptive is a power ul
and sure source of contagion, as well for men
as for women, and the more so for young
persons. Parents and friends ought to op
pose as much as is in their power the sleeping
together of old and young persons, of the
sick and of the healthy. , Another reason
ought to forbid every mother or nurse keep
ing small children with them in bed; notwith,
standing the advice of prudence - no year
passes that we do not hear of a new involun
tary infanticide. A baby full of life, health
and vigor in the evening, is found dead the
next mornig, suffocated b . y its parents o:
nurse.
Some time since a gentleman die
town of 13 , who during, life refused to be
lieve in another world. Two or three weeks
after his demise, his wife received through
a medium a commuoication, which rend as
Wows: 'Dear wife, I now do believe. Please
send Luc my thin c!othcs.'
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9. 1867.
Let the wife know
- li3e - y -art
AL3l2k. Iricil.or:oarLcleaont Winicralyr IV'eovvesi:ortrocsr.
Twelve Ways of Committing Su
A Medical cotetnporary thus enumerates
the fashionable modes of doing it. -
Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stock
ings on damp nights and in cool, rainy weath
er. Wearing insufficient clothing, and espe ,
cially upon the limbs and extremities. •
2. Leading a life 'of enfeebling, stupid la
ziness, and keeping the mind in an unnatural
state of excitement by reading trtieb - y - noieTs.
Going to theatres, parties, and balls in all
sorts of weather, in the thinnest possible
dress. Dancing till in a complete • perspira
tion, and then going home without sufficient
over-garments, through the cool, damp night
air.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seven-by
nine bed-rooms, without ventilation at Vie
top of the windows, and especially with two
or more persons in the same small, unventi
lated bedroom
.S
urfeitiog on hot and very stimulating
ditners. Eating in a hurry, without hs.J.f
masticating the food, and eating heartily be-
Jure going to bed, when the mind and body
are exhausted by the toils of the day and the
excitement of the evening.
5. Beginning in chi!dhod on tea and cof
fee, and - going from one step to another,
tbroug'i chewing and smoking tobarco and
drinking intoxicating Helaine, by personal a
buse, and physical and mental excesses of
other descriptions.
6 Marrying in baste and getting an un-.
congenial companion,andliving—the-remain
der of life in mental dissatisfastion; cultiva•
-ting-jealonsies-and domestic broils, and being
always in a mental ferment.
7. Keepicg children quiet T)y giving pare
goric and.and cordials, by teaching them to
suck candy, and by supplying them with
sins, nuti - , - fd rich cake, when they are sick
by giving them mercury, tarter emetic, and
arsenic, under the mistaken notion that they
are medicines and not irritant poisons.
--8. gain-toabsorb-our
miads,_s_a_aa_to_leave-no-time-to-att end-to-our
health; following an unhealthy occupation
because money can be made by it.
9. Tempting the appetite with bitters and
niceties when the stomach says No, and by
. • • ied-ittto-it-when--utti.erre-do - •
mand, and even rejects it; gormandizing be
tween meals.
10. Contriving to keep in a continual wor
ry about something or nothing; giving way
to fits of anger.
II Being irregular in all oir habits of
sleeping and eating, going to bed at mid
night and getting up at noon; eating too
much, too many kinds of food, and Hat which
is too highly seasoned.
12. Neglecting to take proper care of our
selves' •and not apply early for medical advice
when disease first appears; taking celebrated
quack medicines to a degree of making a
drug-shop of the body.
The above causes produce more sickness,
suffering, and death than all epidemics, ma
laria, and contagion, combined with war, pes
tilence, and famine. Nearly all who have
attained to old ago have been remarkable for
equanimity of temper, correct habits of diet,
drink, and rest—for temperance, cheerful
ness, and morality. Physical punishment is
sure to visit the transgressor of nature's laws.
All commit suicide and cut off many years of
their natural life who do. not observe the
means of preventing disease and of preserv
ing health.
The Holy Land in 1867.
The Chicago Jou/ ii«/ has a correspondent
who is strolling - through the Holy Land and
Palestine. He is not particularly impie , ”zed
with the present state, whatever its past may
have been He says:•
"I have not seen a wagon road in Palestine.
Even the stones and timber for building the
houses of Jerusalem must be brought into
the city upon the backs of camels and donk
eys, and the roads over which Abraham, Da
-vid-;-Cliiiitand the.: tiro-tl•2s once trave'e I
are but paths winding over rocks and around
the base of sterile mountains, In fact, this
I'whole land, said to have been so beautiful, is
now but a rocky, barren waste. I think I
have seen more good land •in one square mile
in lowa or • Illinois than in all Palestine.
Mitch of the country is occupied by the
Bedouin Arabs, and for tho privilege of
visiting the river Jordan and Dead Sea,
their Shick requires $2 50 cents for eaeh
person. For this amount he sends a guard
of Arabs with you."
The population of.Jernsalern is now -said
to be but 13,000. The correspondent upon
this fact moralizes thus:
"While looking at the city as it now stands,
with its narrow streets filled with dogs, A
rabs, and filth, it is hard to realize that it
was once the home of more than one million
human beings, and the proud metropolis of
a mighty nation. While looking out at the
window at the Mosque of Omar, where the
Turk bears rule I can but aak myself the
question, is it passible that on that spot stood
the temple of Solomon? Is it there that Da
vid held his court? The pages oC history
answer, ")'es, that spot is Mount Moriall '
Upon that ground stood that temple whore
glory filled the whole earth."
Dr. Arnold, when at La'ehum, lost all
patience with a dull scholar, when the pupil
lotled up - into his face and said, 'Why do
you speak angrily, sir? Indeed, lam doing
the best I can.' Years after the doctor used to
fell the story to his own children, and say,
never felt so ashamed of myself in my life.
That look and that speech I have never for
gotten.' Is not this a very suggestive fact
for many parents and teachers, and for mas
ters, too, who are oftentimes impatient and
unreasonable with youths of this class?
We are curious to know bow many feet in
female arilhme is go to a min ceause we nev
er met with a lady's foot yet w hnsa s h o e was
net, to sny the very least, 'a mite too big fur
her'
A Sharp Trick
Without mentioning names we will relate
a decidedly sharp trick that was played in
Omaha a day or two since. There was a
well. to-do couple residing in the most aristo
cratic part of the city. They were well off
in worldly goods and blessed with a pair of
interesting children—a boy and girl. Lat
terly they bad rather an unhappy life, with
bickering, scoldings, upbraidings and um
nfiderstatidings ; so that an outsider would
hazard the opinion that they were not con
stitutionally created for each other. They
gazed on the dark side of each other's life;
and truly separation would be bettor than
such an existence. The husband bethought
himself of a sharp dodge. Fle went secretly
and sold the entire property, and converted
it into greenbacks,to_the_ amount of $7,
600. The wife got an inkling of what the
husband was trying to do, and resolved to
sold the furniture—the only property the
husband had not disposed of—for some $l,-
200. She had the privilege of the chattels
for a few days, to perfect her game. The
husband had received his money. She knew
the day, and had a nice supper prepared.—
They bad not in a long time appeared as af
fectionate as this evening.
After, supper they indulged in a quiet
glass of' stock ale. •He felt'like a sleep and
retired. 'He was soon in the soundest sleep
he had enjoyed for many a day, for she had
drugged his ale. She then went and ex•
mined his clothes. In his pocket-book
were nearly $4OO. A further search dis
covered to her, carefully-stitched in-the-lin
ing of his vest, the $7,500 he received for
their property. She extracted the green
backs and put in their stead a copy of the
Omaha Daily Bei:a/d,_and_stitched_it_up
the same as before.
Next morning ho awoke and started for
Julesburg. She kept her own counsel, but
was made aware of his preconoerted plan of
e-did-go - t-o - thriebburgTami - on - a - c - an - ce
to invest, opened the treasure, and there
was ather taken back to find the llerald,
on the margin of which was penciled :
"Dearly beloved husband: Thinking I could
: . :It.E :11 . a
money than you,
I have taken'charie of it. Find me now, it'
you can. The children will be all right.—
I wish you - tY - fileasant journey—such as I
expect you to have. rour (leer forlorn
wife, --"
'ad with rage and disappointment he
came beak to Omaha yesterday,_ and his
most diligent inquiries could find no clue as
to whither she went.
Young Men
Most young men regard the want of a
rich father as a great misfortune, and as a
sufficient excuse for a failure to succeed in
life. --Iri - mey and the advantages it brings—
education, influence and a 'start' in life—are
regarded as almost essential to success.—
They overlook the feeling of dependence it
cherishes and the enervating effect it pro.
duces. They forget that the proudest and
most hardy oak is ever self-sustaining and
is nourished into strength and power by re
sisting itself the force of winds and storms,
and not by being protected by others. They
neglect, too, the pages of biography which
abound in examples of men who, from pov
erty, have attained eminence in every sphere
of life, whether it bo in accumulating wealth
or acquiring knowledge or in invention, dis
covery or in any of the professions; while
e..mparatively few so distinguished were
nourished in the lap of ease and wealth.—
Their own observation, too, might correct
their erroneous impressions and stimulate
them to energy for self-elevation. All a-
round them they may see young men pos
sessing qery apparent advantage, unambi
tious, indllent, prodigal of time and money,
waiting for the . portion of goods that is to
fall to them, that they may spend it. On
the other hand they may see multitudes of
poor, but industrious, earnest and rising
young men, who, if spared, are certainly des
tined to make a mark in the world. In
stead, therefore, of allowing this absence of
the case and luxuries of wealth to discour
age them, it should give them heart and
stimulate ambition. Parton, who has writ
ten the interesting biographies of Commo
dore Vanderbilt, J. Gordon Bennet, John
C. Calhoun and Ilenry Clay, in one of these
articles says : "Let us never again commend
any one for 'rising' frem obscurity to emi
nence, but reserve our special homage for
those who have become respectable human
beings in spite of having had every advan
tage procured for them by rich futhers."—
Pittsburg Gazette.
The following is published in Goy. Brown
low's paper, the Knoxville Whig:
To Whom it May Concern,—The vindic
tive Rebels and their apostate Union co-wor
kers are asserting from ono end of the State
to the other that ./(177Z dying, or will di.-; tel.
Ham the ; but inttonding to make the
ji4rse impression that Lam now to the act of
departing Ihis life. With those who nre
trumpeting this news abroad, the wish is f:-
them to the thought. Like my political ene
mies, and my friends, and all other human
beings, lam dying, ant will certainly die
sooner or later. With us all, it is only a
question of time. My health, though indif•
terent, through God's mercy, is now as good
as it has been at any time in the last twelve
months. I eat three hearty meals each day,
1 sleep well at night, and asleep or awake, 1
have a good fonscience, and the pleasing
prospect before me of obtaining the largest
majority in the race for Governor that any
man has obtained in the State for the last
thirty years. W. G. BitowilLow.
A, conscript, bctog told that it was. sweet
to die for his country, excused hiurielf cn
the gronud ttat he Lever d_ id like sweet
The Angel Gabriel.
My friend Maj. C. had an old darkey to
whom he was much attached. One evening,
at a party, Peter, from imbibing too freely
of various mixtures, began dancing round
with a waiter containing some ices and cakes,
and - soon became uproarious. Observing his
conduct, the Major publicly reprimanded
him, and at once dismissed him from his
post of waiter for the evening, and appointed
another in his place. The last stroke, was
too much for old Peter, and he retired tb his
bed room in despair. That night Capt. K ,
a jolly young officer is the room adjoining
Pater:s, hearing sobs and groans in the next
room, rose to inquire what was die matter.
He opened the door of Peter's room. and re
connoitered.
Peter was kneeling by a window and pray
ing. Amid his lou d the captain heard
the following: '
vant• His massa, who he used to take upon
hie knees when he was a boy is vexed with
his poor old darkey, and I don't want to live
any longer. 0 dear Lord,• please send the
angels for old Peter. Just send the angel
Gabriel this minute down to take old Peter
-to A bralrtan's-bos leasc--hordT — do. —
Please, Lord, this minute. I am ready to
gel"
Capt. K., ever ready for fun, immediately •I
seized upon a white ceunterpain, and envel
oping himself in it, rapped three times at
Peter's door.
"Who's dart'
"The angel Gabriel, come to take old Pe
ter to Father Abraham's bosom!" replied
Capt. K. in a sepulchral tone
"De who, massataaarfulli
pliant.
"Old Peter."
"Well, I just tell you, massa, dat nigger
don't live here; I don't know him at all!"
Capt. K. ruslted_back to the company con
vulsed with . laughter, and old Peter relates
to thiS day the wonderful answer to his pray-
A Minister Victimized
A most ludricus scene transpired in a place
not a thousand mires from Louisville, one
night recently, which, though a little annoy
ing to the parties immediately concerned,
'was yet so innocent and funny, that we can
not-refrai n-frotn-givin g tire-gen cral—out line • .
Two sprightly and beautiful young ladies
were visiting their cousin, a young lady who,
like her guests, wilt of that happy-age which
turns everything into merriment. All three
who vine fond of practical jokes, occupied
a room on_ the ground floor.
' . On the night in question the two went to
a party and did not get home till after twelve
Half an hour after they had left, however, a
young Methodist minister called at the house
and craved a nights lodging, which was gran
ted, awl he was given the ladieb' room, and
Fannie, the daughter, was to set up for the
party-goers. She stationed herself in the
parlor, but the night being sultry she soon
fell asleep. At the time mentioned the oth
er two young ladies returned, crept softly
into their room by the dim moonlight, and
saw Fannie as they supposed asleep. And
they saw likewise a pair of boots! They saw
it all! It was ono of Fannies jokes, intended
to scare them, so. they would turn the ta
bles on her! Silently they disrobed, and at
a given signal both jumped into bed, one on
each side of the unconscious person, ex•
claiming—'Oh, what a man!' and gave the
bewildered minister such a promiscuous hug
ging and tousling as few persons experience
in a life time.
• The noise awoke the old lady, sleeping in
an adjoining room. •She comprehended the
situation in a moment,-and- rushing-to- the
door she czclaimed—(My heavens! girls it is
a roan sure enough!' there was one prolong
ed scream; a flash of muslin through the door
and all was over. •
The minister was angry, but it is not said
with which, the old lady or the girls.
Repudiation
Bad men, men without moral principle;
men who would borrow pilr money, and
then refuse to pay it; or your coat, er your
horse, and then deny the like favor; ungrate
ful men, very mean men, men with bad heads
and worse spirits; low-lived gamblers, pot
house politicians; and thoroughly corrupt
men may be heard silly whispering., Repudi
ation. But the moral sense of all 7voicsi men
will instantly frown down`any auzli wicked
ness. Whatever person, or whatever party
projects such a scheme, i 3 unworthy ^the
name of American and should have no part
in the management of our public concerns.
No, the NATION will never repudiate its
debts, whatever individuals us mantle ten
dencies may propose. No honest man, no
honorable man, no good citizen; no one wur
thy of any trust will assent to the repudia
tion of a just ti.ebt. We repeat, the man
who even whispers such a thing, is bad at
heart. tie is unworthy of trust. -Beware
of him.— Phrltiological Journal. a -
The Marion (Ohio) Mirror of the 31 inst,
says that Mrs. Richardson near that town,
had missed her little hay; and went out in
to the garden to bunt him. To her horro
she saw the little fellow, eighteen months
old, literally enveloped io the folds of a mu—
ster snake She heroically seized. the snake
in her hands and tore it loose. No sonnei_
w.s he loose, however then he made for the
mother, ferociously, and coiled himself about
her person, atteMpting to strangle her as he
did the boy. She again seized him, and dis i
rr
enaged herself from him and killed him
with an ax. The little child swelled up fot
several days, hut has finally recovered. Tin
snake was what is called the 'blue racer,
which (loco not tile, hut stian6los. It thea.4
ured ten feet.
A church to on oniciuorato Presidout Lin
coln and tho abolition of fil.tyery will be butt.
in 14(mcioti.
A MIstAOLE of HONESTY.—At a party
one evening, several contested the honor a
having done the most extraordinary thing;of
reverend gontlemau was appointed judge of
their respective pretentious.
One produced a tailor's bill, with a receipt
attached to it. A buzz went through the
room that this could not be out done, when,
A Second proved that be had just arrested
his tailor for money that was lent him.
'The palm is his,' was the generous cry
when 3 third put in his claim:
'Gentlemen,' said he, cannot boast of
the feats of my predecessors, but I have re
turned to the owners two umbrellas that
they left at my house.' .
'Ell_litar no ulnre!'_eried_the_astonithe.
arbitrator. This is the very acme of hones
ty; it is an act of virtue which I never knew
any one oipable of. The,prize—
•liold7' cried another. 'I have done still
'lmpossible!' cried the whole company
'Let us hear.'
have taken my paper for twenty years
and have paid for it every year in advinee!
He took the prize.
AN Oty—M - A - zes — A - trv - rou.—Never tiftemp
to strike the guilty, Where, by a misdirected
or too hasty blow, the innocent, the galltint
to exuose a villain if your eff)rts in so .ion;:.
are likely to inju , o I lie unsuspecting dop,
of .his artifices. Never wager more
you carry in your pocket: Never shut)
hands with a man if you are not glad to see
him. Never forget,, when you moot, to
recognize-your-friends i —and-46—even mom
_careful to -ffer_your saluta-tiatta—t-
Tflfcra-ter-p-(
:ALliuLaz
vsfL door: - Never ruo extravagantly in
to debt, for it is the_bypath_which leads _tr,
moral destruction. Never quarrel without
sufficient cause, but if it be necessary that
you take up a quarrel to the end. Never
betray the confidence of any one, especially
of a wouna.
GOD SEEN IN EVERYTLIINO.—There is no
creature in the world wherein we may not F 1.3(
enough to wonder at, for there is no worm of
the earth, no Spire of grass, 60 ifrif, no tw.e.,
wherein we see not'the footstep., i Drtry.
The beet visible creature is tam. N . • .14..
man is be that can make finial, h.. 11
}-uoh—l-ess-an-y-sen-tien-t erea-tun ,
than an infinite power is Been in evr ,
that preEentis itself to our eyes, if, tnelq.
we look on the outside of these budily
stances, and we do not see God in every ,I1)•. 2 ;
we are no better than brutih; make up ,
merely of our sensewithout the least im pro -
went of our faith or reason. Oontrary, the
to the opinion of those men who hold that
wise man should admire nothing, I say thaE
a truly wise and good man should admire ay.
evrything,or rather thatinfiniteness of wisdom
and omnipotence which shows itself in every
visible object.— BiBhop flail. .
A New Ifamshire bachelor, after sevora!
unsuccessful attempts to enter the Bonedic•
tine ranks, finally persuaded an old maid
malty him, the consideration belug a lift
dollar watch. The ceremony. over, he ,ir
ged an immediate return home. 'Home,'
exclaimed the bride, who had been married
in her father's house, 'home! this is my home,
and you had better go to yout'n. I agreed
to marry you for the watch, but I wou:d'ab
live with you for the town clock!'
-A certain negro was so convinced of the
lowliness of his race that he became indiffer
ent as to his future state, believing that
‘dey'll make nigger work in heaben.' A
clergymen tried so argue him out.of this
opinion, by representing this_oot_ to _be the
case, as there was no work _in heaven for
him or any one else to do. His answer was,
'You go 'way mama; I know better. If
dare's no work for the cullnd pussons up
dare, dey'll make 'em shub do clouds along.'
An - Irishman who had loft his native
country, and sought an asylum in America'
because it was a land of liberty, was at
on his first arrival, in December by a furious
mastiff. Ile stooped to pick up a stone to
defend himself, but the stone was frozen
fa e% By my soul,' says Pat, 'what a
swate country, where the dogs are let loose
and the stones tied fast.'
A PLEASANT SE:I.I3IER DruNK.—To 6V6
gallons of cold water, add 1 quart of sound
corn and '3 quarts of molasses. Put into a
kog. Shako Well, and in 2or 3 days-it will
bo tit for use. Bung tight. It may be fla
vored with cameo of spruce or lemon. The
corn will last to make sor 6 brewings. If
it bcc Imes sour, add more rnloasses and wa
ter. It is a cheap and simple boor, and is
called very good. A Yankee) girl says this.
WonTn KNOWING.. - A poison of a,ny et:a
ceivabie description and degree or p
which has been i,wollowed intenti,ually or
by 'accident, mu be rendered h p ; y tars
leis by sivallowleg CWO gills cf
Aa individual with a strong cor.4titatieu
should take twice the quantity. Tni.• ill
neutralize every form of vegetable or tut_ter. , l
poison with which physicians and chc,.i •ta
aro acquainted.
There is a man out %Vest who tl , uilt.s 13 , "
much whiskey that mosquitoes that bitj -
die of delirium tremens
If a husband and wife are a fist c.,up!o.
here is danger in their e!ase, as a task
earn, that the coupling wag
A' 'monster in human fori6 2
only time a woman j t zw , .; 11 ,,f
when oho is talking of hE r o,ticl
• of tUy oxi-tence, tSi ; s:st 7r ; ,-- ; •;, 3
Awl a young printer of 1:1n swee:idact with
an sneli au ? she with; a htw, and
pltutetlivr-gs. ! , ..tw.eu hi, .114,,
in •liltralzt;,, / •::I.4 F.sll-:, 1 0 'in of QT
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