Village record. (Waynesboro', Pa.) 1863-1871, November 15, 1867, Image 1
JD -"Vir. 381a,tr.; I ()LUNE XXI: . C>3lErriCtElLi_a. CONSOLATION. BY SIRS. ELLBIY M. IdITCIIELL You cannot poothe my breaking heart, You need_na tell me to be calm Oil aril , there is 110 b a lm. Who else rant the ~riishimx weight That mikes my life so desolate? _nl• ! what are wnr!s when rnuls are wrung ke (1-111--Utt , re , Ll ' IX hen h..p.t. to which we fotO clung 11 pcne, What. comfort tht I. in pity', tone? The I curt w. u'.l rat It. r grieve tonne._ You Cannot tains; illy lost on.-baelt, ;fehd ilnough O k c ay the fleeting breath Nor Ir;::ing tread the graveyard track, ,Cold, rigid lies my darling there— How can you chi le my wild deep ? You:. words are nil in kindness Meant, But grief is deeper far than speech, The lv.art with bleeding wounds all rent No human skill can reach, .ot.! len\ e me,friends my love to mourn, In silence sorrow host is borne. :1 ;lonia that earth wer3•draped in woe. - The cloudless skies a mock'ry seem; You call me selfish—is it so The past is all a dre•im, I only feel this present pain Strike upward swift from heart to brain ~}!® No bairn that mortal lips can speak• ShVe car not M.-,,lberteath Ilia rud In saintly patience meek, Until Ile ilrawt , us near his throne, Communing tsith our sou's alone 711IiiE CMS...Ia-A.1%7 lir. HE BEGGAR. A TRUE TALE One cold winter morning, the last Sun day of Decembet, 1849, a half naked man knocked timidly at the-basement door of a fine, substantial mansion in the city of Brook lyn. Though the weather was bitter even for the season, the young man had no cloth ing but a ragged pair of cloth pants, and the remains of a flannel shirt which exposed his muscular chest in many large rents. But in spite of his tattered apparel and evident fatigue, as he leaned heavily upon the rail ing of the basement stairs, a critical observer could not fail to notice a conscious air of dignity, and the marked-traces of cultivation and refinement in his pale haggard counten ance. The aoor was speedialy opened, and dis closed a large, comfortably furnished room with its glowing grate of anthracite; before which was placed a luxuriously furnished breakfast table; A fashionably attired young man, in a brocade dressing gown and velvet slippers, was reclining on a soft fautenil, busily reading the morning papers. The beautiful young wife had lingered at the table, gitiim , the servant in waiting her or ders for the household matters of the day. when the timid rap at the door aqracted her attention. She commanded it to be opened, but the young master of the mansion replied that it was quite useless—bring no one but sonic thievi.h beggar; hut the dour was al ready opened, and the sympath ies of Mrs. Maywood enlisted at once. 'Collie in to the Eire,' cried the young wife, impulsively 'before you peri,hr The tiled c exibitiiiir guy sur prise at such on usual treatinent of a street begicar, slowly entered the room, 01:111 . 1rehtli , g a prilliftll WeatiqesS at every step On hi , entrance 1)1.. May Wood, Willi a displeased air, withered up his papers anti left, the apart ment. The, eonii.a.s ooate lady iiii*.sely time .d the halt trnzeti roar. heir ti.e fire, while she prepared a boxi of fra.. ! rant c fee—wlrieli with ahund int food w pl a ned before him. Btv not ic,;l4 the parture of her 11114)1;14 5 11,4; ,11, ( yWr•i/ti with a cleuled einuten yieo, ro.nn NV hi— p:ring to the servant to remain until the at ratwer_should leave Site ran hastily up the richly mounted staircase, and paused before the entrance of a small labratory and medical library, and occupied solely by her husband, who was a physician and practical chemist. She open ed the door and entered, the room. Dr. Maywood was sitting at a small table, with his head re s ting on his hand, apparently in - deep thought. -'Edward,' said the young wife gently touching his arm, 'I fear I have displeased you, but the man looked so wretched, I could not bear to-drive himaway,' and her sweet voice trembled as she added—'You. know 1 take sacrament to day.' 'Dear Mary,' replied the fond husband 'I appreciate your motives. I know it is pare goodness of heart which leads you to disobey me, but still I must command—that no beggar shall ever be premitted to enter the house.' It is for your own safety that I insist upon it. How deeply you might be imposed upon in my frequent absence from home I shudder to think.' - The man that is now below may be but a burglar in disguise, and already in your • ab sence taking impressions in was of the dif ferent keyholes in the room so as to enter tome night at his leisure. Your iimiteti perience of city life makes it difficult for you to credit. so much depravity. It is no chari ty to give to streetbeggars, it only_ enoout;• age( vice, dearest.' 'lt may be so,' responded Mrs. Maywood `but it seems wicked not to relieve suffering and want even if the persons h:ave behaved badly—and we know it 13ut I promise you not to ask another beggar into the house.' At this moment the servant rapped vio lently at ih'e door, crying out thut file beg gar was dying Eilwayil, your skill can save him, I know,' said his wife, hastening from the , room The doctor did not refme his prote,si,mal vanity for he immediately followed his wife's hying footsteps ti.• she descended to the basement. They found the nt ndi2arit lying pale and uneenseioue upon the e.irpet, where he hal slipped hum weak rp,s,• tr ru the chair, _where ,•Ira. MilyWlTOd 11311 •ea led hint. 'lie Is a hondsorne !chow,' muttered the dock,' ho 1..•0t ot , .r lion to zoteertain the state_e_c_h - t, And wel he tw.. 2 .ht ay -o Thetzlossy locks of raven nair had tulle , away t'r .ta a broad white forehead; his closed eyelids were bordered by long raven Ooles, which lay ' - en frin g , ut.on his palo hi oh vod creeks, while a delicate nose, and a square. massive chin displa;ed a model of warily .beauty. • 'ls ho dead r asked the young wife aux no us ly. 'UI', no! it is only a fainting fit, induced by the sudden change of temperature, and perhaps the first strge , ot starvation,' replis.d the doctor,. sympathizingly. He had for gotten for the moment his cold maxims of prudence, and added, the.must be carried to a room without fire, and placed in a comforta ble bed.' The coachman was•ca:led in to assist in lifting the athletic stranger, who was carricd ' to a bed in the chamber, where the doctor administered with his own hands strong. do ses of port wine sangaree The young man - s - ottrybeernre purrly — curracitruse---, vereation orris forbade him, and he sank qui etly asleep.' • 'He is doing well, let him rest as long as he can, should he awake in our absence, give him beet tea and toast ad libitum,' sail the doctor, professionally, as . he lett the room. In less than an hour afterwards, Dr. May wood and his lovely wife entered the gor _geousrehurch of 'the most Hely Trinity.. And the hundreds-or fair dames that en tered its broad portals, dressed with all the taste and magnificence that abundant wealth could procure, not one reveled in grace and beauty, the orphan bride of the rich physi cian. tier tall, graceful figure was robed in a violet silk, that only hightened by contrast her large azure eyes, bright with the — lastre of youthful happinesi-; yet, there was a touch of tender pity in their drooping lids that won the confidence of every beholder. The snowy carmine :nantilla which protected her from th piercing wind, rivaled, but could not sur pass the delicate purity of her complexion. Many admiring eyes followed the faulileis figure of Mrs Maywood, as she moved with unconscious grace up the aisle of the Church but none with more heartfelt devotion than the young, wayward, but generous matt who hid recently wed her in spite of her pover ty and the' sneers of his aristocratic 'acquain tances. The stately organ had pealed its last rich I notes, which were still faintly echoing is th, arches when a stranger of venerable aspee,l who had previously taken part in the serv ,.. -; ces of the altar, rose and announced for his text, the oft quoted, but seldom words of the :Apostle—'lie not forgetful t ‘,i entertain strangers, fpr thereby soma have, entertained angels unawares: 1)r. Maywood felt his forehead flushetlpiritifull); it ap• peared to him for the moment that the prea cher mustinive known of his want of chari ty toward strangers, and wished to tzive him a public Ic•son; but ho soot] saw from the tenor of his discourse that his oN‘n guilty conscience had atone made the application in bb.: particular case. 1 have not spdee, riot indeed Ott. p Ivver to give :Ley, synopsis of the sermon; but that it cold - lied with the incident ut morning, effected a happv revolution in the mind of at least tme , it its defier', So roach so that ou the returnof Dr Ilaywood rim church he repaired at coed of the rOOll.l it the tuedi cant to offer suet. attentions as lie Plight ••,,triii in T.Pe.l 01. Bat the young man seem -1•,1 t o , ihu vi l 11 , rc,lthfi IfV re:+r and mom aad con. , neaced vyaiefnliy thank hi, HS host, for t attention no had rec4'i% \ti:11o111 doubt PNVI'd Ills Ili(' •l will eccompenve you well, for thank God, I ant not the beggar that I seem. I was ship-wrecked on Friday night in the Ocean'AVave, on my return from India. My name was doubtless anion , * the ;ist of ate lost—for I escaped from the waves by a miracle. I attempted tv make my way to New York, where I have ample funds in bank awaiting my orders, but. I must have perished from cold and • hunger had it nut been for you and your wife's provident char ity. I was repulsed from every door as an imposter, and could not get neither food or rest. To be an exile from one's native loud ten years and then, after escaping from the perils of the ocean, to die of hunger in the streets ofa - Christiau city, I felt truly a bit ter fate ' 3 . .1y name is Anther Willett added the stranger. 'Why, that is my wife's family name. She will be doubly pleased at her agency in your recovery.' 'Ol what State is she-a native 7' asked An . thur Willett, eagerly. married her in the town of B—,where she Was born.' At this moment Mrs. May wood entered the room, surprised at the loug absence of her husband.. *abut. Willett gazed at her with a look WAYNESBORO(FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA,_FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER. 15, 1867._ A.xi IXICIC,VCI33 dart Family Dreminespetrietr. of the wildest surpriFe, murtmering: 'lt cannot tie—it cannot be. lam doliri• ous to.think Bo' Mrs. Maywood gazed with little less - astort ,, ishment, motionless as a statue. 'What panful mystery is this?' cried Dr. Maywood, excitedly, addressing his wife, who then beCame conscious t,f the singulari ty of her conduct. . 'Oh ni mystery,' she replied,sighing deep ly, 'only this stranger is the image of n.ty long lest--brot her-A-uthar ' And rs May wood overcome with emotion, turned to leave the room. 4 -Stay-one-monient i plcadcd—the—stranger driving a small ring trotn_bis_finger, _an" - holding it up, asked if she recognized that relic. 'it is my father's grey hair and you aro 'His son Author Willett and your broth• Mars Willett Maywood fell upon the med• ieant's breast, weeping rears of the sweetest joy and thanksgiving. I.)“ e iur Maywood retired from the room ± :"Tfiiiiirt - sister and brother alone in flat—s-a- ered of reunion, saying to himself. 'Be nut forgett:pl to entertain strangers, for thereby SOllO have entertained an.gels un• Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake. The Salt Lake Dail 47'elegraph says the new Mormon Tabernacle, about which so much has been said, is nearly litiished. It has already been used for a tneeting of the Mormon conference. The form of the tnb• ernaele was suggested by Brigham Young; whether he was guided by a 'revelation' we are not told. The head builder thinks 'any person whq, has not seen the building can have a very good. idea of the roof' by tinmag ining the back or shell of a common eastern ground turtle, of hugh proportions, but it is more frequently likened to the hell of an old-fashioned ship, without any keel, and turned topsy turvy."fhis roof-is-supporfed by fourty-four_piers of cut sand stone, each - istine-teet-by-411-ree.---Nine-of-theseplara stand in a straight line on each side of" the building, and from them springs an arch of 48 feet. Thirteen piers stand in a circle at each end of the building, from it spring , an equal Dumber of arches Between these piers are windows containing altogether 25, 000 panes of glass, and doors. Of the latter, 14 are for the populace, 1. for the President —Young -1 for the choir, and others for -th - e73is h °psi -and - Prfe4th nod. The interior of the building is thus deseri bed: 4 1 14. e—front of the-stand is the segment of a circle. Before it are a seat and desk for the bishops•and others who administer the sac rament.- The first seat in the centre of the . stand - or platform is for the Presidency of the=-Stake, the next for the Quorum of the Twelve, the third for the First Presidency. Back of these are seats for a choir of one hundred and fifty singers, with the organ, yet unfinished, behind them. On the right and left seats for from•eight hundred In one thousand persons 'The speaker's desk is sixty feet in front of the western piers. In front of the stand for seventy feet, the floor is horiz mtal, to the east end, the floor rises with a grade of one foot in ten.' The room will seat between eight and nine thousand persons. In this Juitdtng there are more than one million five hundred thousand feet of umber.. The roof is covered with three hundred and fifty thousand shingled. he greatest num ber at work upon the Tabernacle ;it any one tune was two hundred and five. About the first of September Young issued a call to the carpenters, maatms and plasterers, ur g-r.g tilt& to as:.ist in finishing the building at "once It was. generally dbeyed. Young, - has, iu fact. shown the detest interest in the work throughout, and has expressed him sell fully satisfied with the 'result: The Teleyraph says: 'lt is a grand hu.iiding, Of which the saints have reason to be ['lotto; and we but echo the tee'inigs of every laithful saint in wish ing a lengthened lire to Piesident Young, that he therein may long counnue to in struct and lead Israel to the accomplish ment of the designs and purposes of the Most High,' A Girl not to be Fooled With A \1 eslern paper says: C. and 8., on one of their flit boat trips on the Ohio, when the toeu up lot the nicht, on the Indiana shore, thought they would vary hard diet with a dish of inush and milk, their peculiar weakness _ Accordingly they reconnoitered the hu lls, and .soon cattle across a small house in the woods, presided over by a blooming Hoosier lass of,some eighteen summers, tall and graceful as one (Alter native hoop-poles. They stated their errand, and she, with true Hoosier hospitality, forthwith proceeded to prepare the dainty for the wayfarers. She mixed the ingredients in a huge pot on the fire, and Nich a mush-stick about four feet long she set to work to stir the savory mess. As the two young men sat directly behind her, watching thy operation, B. directed O.'s attention to a small.hole in the waist of she young lalic's dress, and pointed his finger within about an inch of it. Unluckily, just then the damsel made a sudden movement bsetward, and the finger came in contact with the bare skin. The guilty joker broke fur the woods and escaped, The infuriated lass, brandiShiug the huge mush stick, all reeking with the hasty pudding, dealt the innocent, luckless C. a tremendous blow, lay ing, him flat on the floor—a flat boatman in deed. Expianativa or apology was useless,and so. with hair, eyes beard and moustaches all dripping with his favorite delicacy, he gath ered himself up and depaiied for his floating domicil, a Balder and.a wiser man Pay the 'Printer,' A. WI 11. Slowly, - slowly up the wall/ - Steals-the sunshine, steals-the shade,— Evening damps begin to fall, Evening shadoWs are display'd, Round me, o'er me, everywhere All the sky is grand in clouds, And athwhrt the evening air Wheel the swallows home in crowds. shafts of sunshine from thet west Paintilfaatiiidows red; • Darker shadows, deeper rest, Undernerith and overhead, Darker, darker, and more wan, In my breast the shadows fall, Upward steals the I fe of As the sunshine from the wall, From the wall into the sky, From the roof along the spire, AhTttre - smils-of-those-ihat—tlie, Are but sunb.ams lifted higher. he_Mother_of_ , California is a vast, but I;ttle known coun try. It is fatuous as a land wiref-e - gold is to be found, but as a laud of giant trees we will now speak of it In a spot, high up the side o t e ----h2c-atrant-nd The mountain, sort of forest. ..Many persons have visited the place, that they may behold the wonders of the vegetable creation. To a groop - of these trees the name of 'the three sisters' has been given. A single tree standing by itself is called 'the old bachelor ' And another is ithe.old maid.' One is known as 'the — b - ermit,' and two others are 'the mother and her son.' The mother stands three hundred and twenty-five feet high, and her son is rather a big boy. for he at present reaches to 300 feet. Then there aro 'the twins,' 'the bride of the forest,' the beauty of the grove,' besides others, with fancy names which have been given to these mighty trees by' the early settlers of the land. Ooe is called 'the mother of the forcst,'.— - e-g re a e igh - t — OT - 110 — fccr — it — riscs .- without throwing out from its trunk a single branch, and then upward it still springs un til it reaches to 363 feet, that is, it overtops St Paul's Cathedral in London by twenty• three feat measured from the ground. Do you ask how old is this tree? We then answer, it is calculated that it is between three and four thousand years old. So that 'asinits_earjysonth when Isaac was born, and yet a strippling when David kept his fa ther's flock in Bethlehem; and it had not reached to its vigor when the gospel was first preached by the Apostles Even now it seems in its full health and strength. A part of the bark of this tree, a foot and a half thick, was stripped from the trunk to the height of a hundred feet. Uour months were occupied in its removal; every piece was carefully numbered as it was cut down, and it has been put up in the Crystal Palace ex actly'as it tiriginilly grew. The inside of this bark is fitted ,up as a room, with a table and chairs; and as you look np the inside or the outside, and think that the portion of the tree that you gazil upon is only one quarter of the whole height you may form some idea of what this great tree is, as it stands in its Own native forest. ik .. .surely, all the works f God raise Him, and show His mighty pow r. The Omnipoteni7'------- Go out at midnight; look up into that dread yet glorious concave, and ask your soul whose arm it is that upholds those unpillar ed chambers of the sky; ti,ho fills• that vast domain with organized, and sentient, and doubtless with rational and spiritual life ; and thou reflect that all the galaxies acd collate!. i-hich_yen. can behold with the arms• lations—W sistel eye, are only the "frontispiece, nut to the mighty volumes of God's works, but on ly to the index of the mighty volumes.. Be yond Sirius, beyond Orion, beyond the Ple iades, the azure fields of immensity are all filled with worlds, system beyond system, and rank behind rank, whom God in Ilis mercy has removed to those immense distances from us, lest our mortal vision.sjakuld be blasted by their overft.)wing effulgence. And as you cannot find one inch of our lower earth where God is not at work, so there is not one inch in all those boundless upper realms where God is not at work. Against such a God do you wish to lift, or do you dare to lift your pigmy arm ? His resistless l"iws, that cleave a pathway wherever they are sent, and pun ish the transgressor where they are trans gresseci,—these laws do you dare to break ? If you would shrink from resisting the au thority of a sovereign, who has judges, and officers, and armies, and navies, in his con trol, then how can you ever dare, how can you ever wish to dare to confront the power and majesty of the Eternal One; of that One who can enwrap the heavens with His thun der clouds, and make you the mark of all their volleyed lightening; who can array Ills volcanoes in batalions, and bury 'you beneath their molten lavas; who can sink you in the earth s central fires, to lie, without consum ing, in that seething cauldron,• or imprison you in ,the eternal solitudes of polar ice: or —unspeakably more terrible than ail—can tarn your own soul inwards into retrospec tion upon its past life, to read its own histo ry of voluntary wrong, in its self-recorded Book of Judgement? Nor can you find ref- Cin übn-existence. Yuu may call upon the seas to drown you, but there is not water enough in all the seas. You may dal) upon the fires to consume you, but the fires will say, we cannot consume remorse. You way call upon arctic frosts to congeal the currents of life, but they will say, we have no power over the currents of thought, or. the pulses of iwmoital life. You may call upon the universe to annihilate you, but the universe will respond, 'God alone Call annihilate.' Id God will say, ''live forever.'—llorp- For some time past newspaper paragraphs in reforcnce to a peculiar religious soot in Pennsylvania }lnfe ban" - going the rounds: As many are no doubt : !minus to know more concerning thetio people, who arc known 'as 'Econornites, the following in tetereneb to their history, manners and customs will be interesting. Their town is called Economy, and is lo cated on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and CE . atiO lr 'lf along() Railroad, aboat twenty wiles nom of Pittsburg. It is almost neat to impossi , ble to obtain any information direct from - thumbas - t he y-tirer-very-ietiertrth ey-seem o ave dean ac ti - te - d — by much the same motives as the Plymouth-Putitaus who came to this country to enjoy greater religious- 1 freedom. - These.Economites belonged to a. sect in Germany known as the :Pictists ar j Separatists, which they left because of changes and innovations ma e in the old mode of worship. They chose leaders. and sent them abroad to select an asylum in Amer , ' lea. A large tract of laud in Butler county' en nsylvania,...ia_lBo,whe re—they—settled: They early adopted the principle of coin• munity of good: those who brought nothing to the common fund being treated just the same as those who had contributed much. t • 1 a to - al to LL on gfellow Forest control, and was assisted in his labors by an adopted son. The Econonlites Mintediately set to work, and in less than fiveyi-. - ars had cleared over two thousand acres ot land, and erected Log huts, a sawmill, tannery, grist mill, bates, and that inevitable attendant on civilization, a disstillery. Among theiri members were representa tives of all the different trades, such as shoe makers, tailors, carpenters, cot. In 1814, ten years after their location in Butler Coun ty, they determined to seek another home. , la the Valley of the Wabuch, in Posey coun ty, Id„Bantle they found all that heart could desire, and they immediately purebased,there thirty thousand runes ot land. They then sold out their Pennsylvania land for $lOO, 000, a great sacrifice, the improvements alone warig welrtirifslirifeh more. Miffs Dew set - - - dement they set' to work, and a town much large than former one soon sprang up. Their tame spread, and they were in consequence continually receiving accessions to their Ger many . and from German settler in this coun ty. About this time the book containing the eon tributibn9 to the , general fund was burnt. After another ten years - had passed away, becanaino dissatisfied, they again cast about them, and finally settled upon 'file - tin= omy,' their present location. So much for, their wanderings; now for a brief description of them in their present home. a The village is situated on a beautiful plain, between the river and hills, with some of the richest land in the country. The locality is health ful and the air is delightful, and is easily reached'hy rail or water from Pittsburg The place reminds one forcibly of Lowell or Manchester, or any other large manuf.tetur• ing town. This is not exaggerated, as there are there to he seen cotton. wollen apd silk factories, made of brick, all of which do a thriving business. The place is laid oat in squares and, the entrances to the houses are at the side or back, but never in front. These people own over six thousand acres ot land, with four miles frontage on river and railroad. In summer the men dress in suits of blue jean, and wear the most ridiou rdshats, bell-crowned, narrow rim, of straw, and tfliostly on the back of their heads. Ia the winter their clothing is • of heavy blue c (All they wear the same shaped beaver t s. Th women's dress is of the same material as the men. They also wear a singabif — hz , with immense rim (ala Quaker.) and a queer shaped brim. 'Their fashions are uniform, however 110 trouble about hoops, chignons, etc. They attend to household duties, - and in their spare time work in the garden'. After their two first years at Economy they adopted celibacy, and marriage was dis. countenanced. 'ltapp did not condemn mat rimony as being unlawful in those who had not within themselves a vocation to what he regarded as a holier state. But in view of the expected near approach of the Messiah's second advent, and of that 'first resurrection,' in which they neither marry nor arc given in marriage,' ect., and in order that they might be numbered among the 'hundred and forty- four thousand' who should 'stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion' and 'who wore such as were not defiled with women,' ;but 'were virgins,' he (Rapp) urged his people to this reformation Ile practiced what he iffeach ed. No more marriage were solemn zed and it became an estaklishcd law that mar- liege was incoluNtuble with membership. If any fall into bad practice they are, first adtuotii.shed, and it incorrigible, exclu led from the society. All attend worship twice on each Sabbath. Tticy have also a serm l n 'twice during the week. The children-are kept at school frontsis to fourteen (this re fers to the younger mem ors born before the restrictions were put pon marriage). and then to be put to trades as hey may choose Sometimes they all work together, reaping, hoeing _corn, &e; and all goes like clock. work. They have now been Hixty•three years in this country. Thli „re beuevol in their character, peaceable,' quiet, in 'is- . triouq. Their numbers are reduced to one huwited and thirty,' although they -have many apprentices and new members not ad mitied to tree ,fellowship. George• ltaPP. lived to within a few weeks of ninety year?. lie died on the ith Of A nett:it, 18-17, and was buried, like the re t, Orchard, and n stone 'marks. hist•grsvet those a bout him, Ile was .succeeded ; by 4.. L. Ilaker and J llenrico, who now ',govern the society. Thnir svcakh ie estimated various , ly from $10,00,000 to 651,000,00.—. The Press. Subscribe fur tI a rcEcon) THE ECONOMITES: 1130.00 Foie "BE DILIGENT_ IN BUSINESS.' Franklin heti somewhere said be owed a considerable share of his success in life to the impression made upon him, While yet a boy at home, by a passage in the book of Kings, that those who were "d►lligent in business" should stand in- the presence of princeA. It is well known that, while he be gan his career as a poor boy, he lived to bo an honored ambassador at tho court of the proudest monarch in Christendom. lie was an example,thereforeiof The life - faTftaliment of the text. But he Was not the only man - who reali eed—its—trath.—Wo—daubt—imle man ever suceee igent - in — business -- The supposedlnitances -to the contrary, so often popularly gnotedy invariably prove fotheious when rigiuly ex amined Curran, the great Irish orator, was said to have ell:it ucoce native born. But on the contrary, he has left it on record that he took the greatest pins to perfect his elocu tion, his gestures, and his knowledge of law. Bui ke, the British Cicero, built up the edi fibe-I,l2liia-2/IWieLby-slase,-persiv.6iink,—labor-ir— ous effort. The late Siephen Girard atuats.._, ed his collossal fortune by assiduous atten tion to business. Clay, Web - and Cal houn all worked hard. And Napoleon the •rsr •ht 'as I borne .enius if ever man was, achieved most of what he did by un ceasing labor, often dictating to several sec retaries at once, and always tiring out every body about him. II these great men achieved distinction on ly by their diligence in business, or even if this, as none can deny, was the principle cause of their success, how can those of in terior abilities expect - to, prosper unless they follow the same example r Etc who - n - e - gieets his business will saon find his business Dog lecting him. Ability, without industry, will not tin. Alen who think to succeed by do ing half a day's work must sooner or later go to the wall. - There is but one way to rise; it is to be diligent, always diligent. The merchant who leaves his store to take a "so ciable drink ;" the mechanic who steps work o Irire — a -- lb - hre - 31 - IMlar — the pro fess tonal man who goes off on parties of pleasure, and misses the chance of client or patients calling —all these fail utterly in life at last, as it is the case in nine examples out of ten, or fall shoft of thweomplete success which they might otherwise have obtained. The old fa ble of the tortoise who beat the hare on the goal, because the latter stopped often, is re alized every day and hour in life. The old adage -1 810w but sure - ,' is verified continually by experience. Even genius itself has been said,by no less a thinker than Sir Jamey Macintosh, to be only autqlier name for in dustry. tio and ask of the scores of beggar ed men who, °BO prosperous, now eat the bread of dependence, what is was that ruin ed them, and they will anwer, if honest, 'be cause we were not diligent.' It is young men just starting in life who should especially lay this truth to heart.— They must not foolishly suppose, because they see their rich employers dining,,Tin fine houses, dressing expensively,, doing . hard work, or lavishing time or money in other ways, that they also may do the same. If' their superiors had not been diligent in • early file, they never would have;earned the, ; means to five luxuriously. A clerk is not the head of a firm or an apprentiee.a master• mechanic). By 'diligenceln business' thous ands of poor lads have risen to opulence,`antl come at last to have all the leisure they de sired. But tens_of thousands who could not wait to enjoy life till they had won the right to it by 'by diligence in business,' have gone hopelessly down, in the full meridian of' ex• istence, like the crew of a leaky ship sinking in sight of harbor 'becaum, they cat and drank anti made merry when they shmild have been at the punQs. A GENTIA If INT.- Tho Rev. Mr. Mink had traveled far to preach to a congregation at Smitliville. After the sermon, he waited inpatient'expectationlor an invitation from 'uwc one of the brethern to dine with bun. But he waited in vain. One after another departed, until the church was ahuost as empty as the rninistet's epigastrie region. Summoning; up resolution, the hungry &or.' gymau walked up to an clierly gentleman, who was just-going out of the door, and ac. ousted him with. 'Will you go home to (Eimer with we to day, brother ? 'Where. do you live?' 'About twenty miles, from this' said the mle , COhlrillZ, go with Inc.' • Tha . nk you-1 will, cheerfully.' Aud he wee. THE SICK ROO ‘r.—A void as much as pos sible, whispering in a risk room In many instances the patient's senses are acutely yitive, and he will hear every word you utter; but when this is not the ce3l, 116 se!chui voi•ls perceiving all mystetiou4 signs between those around him, and they are sure to irri tate and alarm him Let yoir manner to the invalid be kind, frank and cheerful; and whatever private eo.nalutlie,tion you may have to make to your lelluw•ouis , s make it hen you have left the :ick-room. 'Now, gents,' said a katikee ut dinne • 'guess sornethia' that to, critter in this room ever seed afore end not :t critter liviu' ever will see 'gain !rye bet The bot was made, and the Yankee took a nut off the dessert plate, and crackint it, held up the kernel between his fingers and t 'Now, gents, I calculate noun t,f yer ever aced ttfiLkernell afore-, and (swaTmin g: it) I guess you'll never see it again. P.eas fork t ut What is the cittLroneo between a,Duteh man on a feather bed and a Kuow-Necniog? One was hutch on .I'. down and the'other was dAve an the Dutch. let3Jrtri IBER 18 o was no `but you