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J. BEA VElt,
DEALER IN
Ladies, Misses, Children, Me and Boys
BOOTS a SHOES,,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, etc.
Begins. Tohnirco, the very same oh kind, of Bop
pee Snuff, Candies, uts. Cloves. • ;innomon, p
p. T . B a king (;roger, ttaking ty,1%..e:
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Soaps, I.llly White, Hair 011, Perfumeries, Mettles,
Kerosene, &c. &c. thivernis..nt Blankets. Also
Gain Blankets. Mai.y more articles needed and
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WAYNESBORO'.
Citizens and persons living in the Country will
-find a hrrge and well 6ml:tett block of first class
Bonus at as law Sores as can be sold in the court-
ry.
Sept. 20 1867.
IN'Fri for F.% lIM F,ltti and othros.—Th , Or tf-
I: tun Mineral Paint Cot, are II m triutaetwifig
the Best, Cheap.•at. and most Durable Paint in lisc:
two coats well put on, mix. J with pure Linseed
01 1 . will taut tO or th years• it 01 a light brown or
heautitul chocolate color, and can be chanet d to
green. lead, *torso, drab. olive or cream, to butt the
coney tiler. It is valualde for themes, dabs, t en
tree. Carriage a. d Car MTACrg, and Weioten
ware, Agri• noun, I Impim..tits. Caliat Boats, Ws
eels, and t‘liaps' gott 1111 l s, Canvas, Menden d
ale Roofs. ( t b.•ing 'ire and Water proof), rio , r
Oil t. ',ohs, (one M thwart ur,r h yam used (.roll
bbls. the pa , t and as a pint lin any purpose
is I.lllCurp.ailti for burly, dur.stlillly,
cb.auerty. and
solt••arv.ness. Winr.mted in tilt cloys as swore,
timid for a circular which gives lull particuoira.
None gebuine unless braided in a trade murk Ural
tun M Merol Paint Adress
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For safe 91, thu linr.lw ire atom or GElsElt
Ell IN Ell Alt r, who aru also agouti
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rriHE suletcribers will pay the Waled cunt price
for Lumber, to be thoiveaell this seueon, and
will •tlso wolf a large lot fn next Or , 0011 •
CElsElt, PRICE & CO.
k: largest assortmeat of CARPES Tio
town at the store 4
Awssasom. BROOM? & CO
PRIME Di. 0. Molasses at the 'tore of
.SWORRROINI. 41L1IKDICT & Or
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for sale cheap by
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Hagerstown.
BIG BELO HAT, Main Street, iThameersburg,
Pa, is a sure sign that 7,w are near the ;Asap
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Speak arugh:ng words and kind,
Breathe tender tones and dear,
I'o the afflicted mind, -•— ---
In sorrow's languid ear;"
Help suffering man across
Life's tottering Bridge tf Pighs—
Count all things else mere dross, :-
But gain the heavenly prize :
speak soothing words and kind.
Wear honor's spotless garb
All through the march of life;
Strike off the poisoned barb
Of envy and of strife;
The true ri former's song
Chant, lark like, on the way,
Till night wears out the wrong,
And all is perfect day ;
Wear honor's *piles* gun!.
Twine friendship's noblest.wreath
Around Illy lituthet's brow,
Who w. are Lis vest beneath
A heart as warm as thou;
The hope. the vin, the star— •
Tie ail that life elides's
-0! let uu trifird mar
The,triendsittp formed of yens
Twine friendship's noblest wreath.
SOW VirMel ' hllllO4 Feed
O'er itae heart' fallow
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Eradicate each weed
That e't r *pintas up around;
Spread gosrl neon about, ,
--- 11 hi re'er thy feet may room.
'Tilt all inaokhol,may shout
A j .3ful harvest home:
Sow tirtue's holy seed.
milsc:lmi_or_lAL - m - k.
THE GHOST ROBBER
A STORY OF TIRE BLACK FOREST
On a fine evening in the spring of 1830,
'stranger, mounted on a.oohle looking horse,
passed slowly over the snow white limestone
road leading through the Mack Forest.
J ust_w hen the-sun-was-going—to — rest - for
the day, when gloomy shadows were 'begin•
int to stalk, he drew 'em, as he said :
•'l'hia must be near the spot, surely. I'll
atop here for a while, anyhow, and see What
I esti learn.'
Ile thereupen.dign , uoted and entered the
parlor of the inn, 'them tie sat down before
small table.
'flew can I serve you meinheer ?' said the
'See to my horse outside,' replied the
guest, carelessly, hut at the same time eye
ing the lamilutd from head to foot, 'and let
me have some wine—Rhine will do.'
The landl...rd was istrniog, to withdraw
from the stranger's preence when•he stop
ped nod said '7 •
hich way meinheer do you travel ?'
Nsuoudt,' replied the guest,.
sir , m will re-A here to-night, I suppose ?'
continued the landlord
..1 mu , t he here two or three bourA, and
then be ~ff, so as to reach my destination in
the morning. lam going. there to purelisee
lumber for the market.'
'And you have considerable money 7 1
you, no doubt'?' asked the landlord ionocen
'Yes, cnnsiderable,' replied the guest, sip.'
ping at his wine disinterestedly.
•Theu if you'll take sty advice,' said tht .
landlord. 'you'll stay here till wonting.' '
'Why ?' replied the stranger, lookin_ up
curiously.
'Because,' whispered the landlord, poking
around as it he were dis'clusing a great secret
ann was afraid of being heard by somebody
else, 'every utan who has ;ifted over the
road between this and Naustadt at night, for
the last ten years, has been robbed or mur
dered under very singular circumstances.'
'What ware the singular circumstances,'
asked-the straoger. putting down his glass
empty, and preparing to fill it again.
..'Why, you see,' the landlord went on,.
while he approached his Feast's table and
took a sPst, have spoken with several who
have been robbed and, all that I could (cant
of them is they remember meeting in the
limestones? p.trt of the wood a s o methi ng
that looked white and ghostly, and frighten•
cued their horses su that they either ran a
way or threw their riders; after that all was
courutiou with them; they felt a choking
sensation and a sort of stuotherinz, and final
ly died, as they thought, but awoke in an
hour or so to find themselves lying by the
roadside robbed of everything
•Indeed ej mutated the stranger looking
abstractedly at the rafters in the ceiling, as
though he were mete intent upon enlacing
them than he was in the landlord's story.
The innseeper looked at him in amaze
ment. Such perfect coolness lie had nut
witnessed in a long time.
'You will remain then,' suggested the land.
hod, aftenwaiting some time for his guest to
speak.
'I r cried the stranger, - etafting from) his
fit o! abstraction as though be were not sure
he wmi not the person addresset 'O, most
certainly not; I am going straight ahead,
ghost or no ghost. to-night.'
Half - an hour later the stranger and a guide
called Wilhelmoirme out on the road. going
at a pretty rapid 'raze toward Nanstadt.
During a dash of lightning the stranger
observed that his guide looked very noessy
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about -something, and was slackening his
horse's-pane as though he intended to drop
behind_
.Lead ou,° cried the stranger, 'don't be a-
'l'm afraid I cannot,' replied the person
addres.ed, continuing to hold back his horse
until he aas at leant a length behind hie
companion. '3ly horse is cowardly, and be
comes unmanageable in a thunder storm,—
If you will go on ihouirh, I think 1 will fol
low close enough to point out the road•' -
The stranger pulled up instantly. A
strange light gleamed in his eye's, while his
hand sought his breast pocket, From which
he drew something. The guide saw the
movement and stopped also.
'Guides should not said the
stranger, quietly, but with fittuness, which
seemed to be exceedingly unpleasant to the
person addteised,
lalleted the guide, 'my horse won't
go.'
'Won't he ?' queried 'the stranger with
mock simplicity in his tone,
The guide heard a•sha►p click, and 'Faw
*tionnethiug gleam iu hie companion's right
hand. lie seemed to underataud what it
meant perfectly, fur he immediately drove,
his spurs iuto his horse's flanks and shut .a
bead of his companion without another word
lie nu sooner reached the old -position,
however, than the stranger saw him give a
short turn to the right, Had then disappear,
as though he had vanquished through the
thick foliage of trees skirting the rued.
.The stranger dashed up to the spot, and
saw that the guide had turned down a nar
row lane leading from the road into the heart
vi the wood.
lie heard the clatter of his horse as he
galloped off. Without waiting an instant,
he touched his rein, gave him a prick with
the rowels and off the noble an_ninial started_
like !he wind iu the wake of the flyiug
guide.
The stranger's horse being much superior
to the other's the race was a short one, and
to ululated by the guide being nearly thrown
from his saddle by a h 3 ud which was laid
upon his bridle, stopping_kim.
lie turned in iii± sear, beheld the strang
er's face, dark and frowniug, and trembled
violently as he telt the sumatli ella barrel
of a pistol pleased against his cheek.
'This cursed beast almost ran away with
me,' cried the guide, composing himself as
cou unuer tle circutustauces.
'Yes, 1 know,' said his companion, drily;
'but work my words, young man; if sour
horse plays such tricks as that again he'll be
the weans of injuring — his master's heals h.'
They both turned and cantered back to
the road. When they reached it again, and
turned the heads of their animals in the right
direction, she stranger said to his guide, in
a tone which must have convinced hie hear•
et as to his eat nesinesti.—
'Now, friend Wilhelm; I hope we will un
diTsiand each other for ihe rest of the jour.
ney. Ykot are to continue on ahead of we,
iu the right road, without swerving either
to the right or left. II I see you do any
thing suspicious, I will drive a brace of bul•
lots through you without another word of no
tice. Now pui•h on.'
The guide started on as directed, but it
was evident from his movelueut and his niut
terings, that he was alarmed at something
else losicie the action of his follower.
In the meantime the thunder had Moms•
in its violence, and the flashes of the light•
Wing had become wore frequent and more
blinding.
For about a mile the two horsemen rode
in silence, the guide keeping up to his di
rections while h'e followsr watched his eve
ry !Pavement, as a eat would watch a mouse
Suddenly the guide stopped and loUkcd
behind Again lie heard the click of the
stranger's pihtol and saw his u_p lifted arm.
•Ilave mercy, weiblieer,' he groaned; 'I
dare' nut go on.'
'I give you three seconds to go on,' replied
the stranger, steruly—Ainc
Heaven's naule, spare me,' implored
the guide almost overpowered wiilt lea n
look hetore ute io the road cud you will not
blatue uie.
The stranger looked. At first he saw
ROMP thing white standing tootiouli tit iu the
centre of the road, but pie;ently n tlish of
lightning lit up the sconce, and he saw that
the white fiAare was indeed very horrible
and ghostly and frightful enough looking to
chill the Wood even in the veins of the bra-
,vest man. IF his blood chilled tut a tuo•'
went, iherefore, it was not throughetkny fear
that he felt for his ghostly interceptor, for
the next instant he set his teeth bard while
he whispered between them, jest loud e
nough to be heard by his terror stricken
guide—
. 'Be it man or devil—ride it dawn— fol
low Tyro II
With the cry of despair upon his lips, the
guide urged his horse forward at thu top of
his speed, quickly followed by the stranger,
who held his pistol ready to his hoed.
lo another moment the guide would have
swept by the dreaded sp g, but at that 'in
stant the report of a pistol ratty, through the
forest and rho stranger Liard a horse gallop
through the woods riderless.
Finding himself alone, the stranger railed
his pistol, took deliberate aim at the ghostly
murderer, and pressed hie finger upon the
tr igger.
Th e app'aritiou approached quickly, but
is no hostile attitude. Tue strauger stayed
his nand. At length the ghost addressed
hiw in a voice that was anything but sepul
chral—
'Hero, Wilhelm, ye• mope, out of your
perch this minute and give a telpiog hand.
I've hit the game while on the wing, haven't
I?
The stranger was nonplussed fur a moment,
but recovering himself ► be g►umbled some
thing unintelligibly and !Wiped to the ground.
One word w his bore and the brave anima
stood petleetly mill. By the snow white
trappings on the would be shoat, he was
neat enabled to grope his way in the dark
towards that individual,' whom he found
betiding over a black mass about the.size of
a man in the road.
As the tiger pounces upon his prey, the
stranger leaped upon the stooping figure 'be
fore him stud bore him to the ground.
'I arrest you in theitin,es name,' cried the
(drawer, grasping his prisoner by the throat,
and holding him tight. 'Stir hand or foot
until I have you properly secured, and I'll
send your soul to eternity.'• '
This was such an unexpected turn of af
fairs that the would be ghost could not be
lieve his senses, and was handcuffed and
stripped of his dagger and pistol before he
found breath to speak.
'And you are not my Wilhelm ?' he
gasped.
'No, landlord,' replied the individual ad
dressed. 'l'm not. But Fp] an officer to the
king, at your service, on special duty to do
what I have this night accomplished- Your
precious son, Wilhelm, who thought he was
leading a sheep t.) the slaughter, lies there
in the road killed by hisfuther's haud.
Two weeks later, at Bvua - tale prison, in
Baden, the landlord of the signet the Deer,
and the Ghost Bobber of the Black Forest,
who was the same identical person, having
been proven guilty of nutuaroun fiendish
murders, and artfully contrived robberies
committed at different times in the Black
Forest, paid the penalty of his crimes, by
letting lull This bead before the executioner's
axe, since when, traveling through Sehwartz
waldhas not been so perilous to life ant:
pane, nor has :hire been seen any Ghostly
Knight of the Road in that seetion'of the
world. •
1_ jmLEmliin,wij
a seatarina man called-at a village inn on
the coast of Normandy and asked fa supper
and bed. The landlord and landlady wets
elderly people, apparently poor. Ile entered
jute eonverration with them, invited them •to
partake of bis cheer asked many questions
about themselves and their_fatuk. • ad_ ar-
tieutnrly of a son who had gone to sea when
a boy, and whom they had long given over
au dead. The landlady shawed him to the
room; and when she quitted him he put a
purse of gold in ber band, and ,desired her
to take care of it till the coercing, pressed
• ' etorcia - rety — b,yl e an., an. ale el
girJd night. She returned to her husband,
and showed him the accursed gold For
its sake they agreed to murder the' traveler
in his sleep ,which they accomplished and
buried the body. Jo the morning early came
two or three relations, and asked in joyful
tone for the traveler who had arrived the,
night before. The old people seemed great
ly confused, but said that he had risen very
mrrly and gone away. 'lmpossible,' said the
relations 'lt is your own son, who is lately
returned from Frauer, and is come to wake
happy the evening of your days, and he re
solved to lodge with you one night as a
stranger, that he might see you unknown,
and judge of your conduct toward wayfaring
marinere."-banguage would be incompetent
to describe the horror of the murderers when
they found they had eyed their bands in the
blood of their long-bst child. They con•
le"ssed their crime, the body was found, and
the wietehed murderer's expiated their of
fence on the scaffold.
THINK OF MY SITUATION —Among Dr.
Johnson's friends in his declining years was
3lr Satires, a young and accomplished Ital
ian. Amiable and susceptible, le was a fa•
vorite of the doctor, and he displayed his fi
delity uud affection in a very beautiful man
ner, by frequently visiting the sick bed of
venerable friend. One Sabbath evening
us he was sitting in the tick room, Dr. John
son, peiceiving-thst-death, was near s -said _to
tutu iu u very tender and impressive wan
ner:
There is no ono who has shown ins more
attention than you have dour ; and it is !lOW
rightithat you should claim sumo attention
front me. You are a young man, and are to
struggle through life; you are in a proles.
stun that t dare say you will exorcise with
gloat fidelity and tuutteence; but, let me ex
port ybu alwayi to thiolt of my situation,
whieli must one day be yours—always re
member that life is short and eternity never
ends.'
•'T rink of my situation, which muat.—mac
day be yours' And the situation of :be dy
ing lexicographer will one day be ours. Our
last cveningli will eiinie, and our Ilion& will
come and will gather mound u 4 for the 1:18
time.. Wu shall tael that the world eau
preuliso us nothing wore.
Mondir, Iteronst-31onAL IDEAS —The
New York Tunes, on teroperacce, comes to
the couclusitm that— atter all—
'lt is toot legislative euuctment that will
make our hard-working people sober end
moral. It is the Young Men's Christian As
sociatiooe and such humanizitr i s societies, got
up to give the aforesaid people places of de
cent and comfortable recreation, where they
miy read journals. magazines and books, and
hear instructive lectures. Such places teach
young men self'•rer poet, and give them no
tions above unathliog and drinking. Make
reading mans only one-hill as plenty as grog
saloons, and the business of the moralists and
temperance lecturers will be nearly done.—
Mere legislation. can never do it.'
An exchange puts one of the wain quo
tione before the country thus :
'lf at the close of the Revolution the tor.
is* had all been' recalled from Nova Scotia
and England to take charge of affiiva, would
the natural results of the war p rap
idly and peacefully eecured
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tnan in New Orleans is under arrest for
ammo& and bacierly upon an olephaor.
BOWMEN; ROUSES.
We form jtitigtente -of men from little
things about their houses, of which the
owner perhaps never thinks.
In early years, when traveling where ions
were scarce, and in some places unknown,
and every settler's house was a house of
'Entertainment,' it was a matter of • some
importance and some experience to select
wisely whore you would put up. And we
always looked for flowers. If there were no
tires-for shade, no patch of flowers in the
yard, we were suspicious of thi. place. But,
no matter how rude the cabin, or rough the
surroundings, if we saw that the window held
• little trough for flowers, and that some
vines twined about strings let down from
the eaves, we were coufident that there was
-me taste and cateruluess in the log cabin
In a new country, where people have to tug
or a living, no one wilt take the trouble to
ear flowers unless the love of them is pretty
•trong; and this taste blossoming out of plain
od uncultivated people is itself like a clump
f hatebolls growing out of the seams of a
ock. We were seldom misled. A patch
- ;•:." • ind people, cle:
beds, and good bread.
But iu other states of society other signs
are more significant. Fiewers abou: a rich
luau's house may signify only that he has a
good gardener,
or that he has a refined
neighbors, and does what he sees them do.
But men are not accustomed to buy books
unless they want them. lf on visiting the
dwelling of a man of slender means, We find
that he contents himself with cheap carpets
and very plain furniture, in order that he
way purchase books, he rises at once in our
esteem. Books are not made fr.r furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully
furnishes a house. The plainest row of
are_e►nce
iffbkrth — a - t - droTh or paper ever cover, to more
eignificaut of refinement than the most Blab
tamely carved etajere eidehoarn.
Give us a house furnished with boobs ra
ther-that fu•oiture! Both, if you eau, but
hooka at auy rate 1 To spend several days in
a friend a house, and hunger for something
id -6i
to read, w. le you are treading on costly car-
pets, and sittiog upoii luxurious chairs, and
sleeping upon down, is us if one were bri
bing your body for the sake of cheating
your wind.
Is it not pitiable to see a min growing
r-iolia-ttguietitiog-the-courforteruHrinut., and
lavishing money an . ostentatious upholstery,
upon the table, non everything but what
the soul needs? We knowrof tunny and many
a rich man's house where it would not be
sale to ask fur the commonest English
classics. A few garish annuals ou t ., the
table a few pietutial monstrosities,' the
hien sensational tKivel, and that is all
No poets, no essayists, no historians, no
travels or biographies, no curious legendary
lure. But the wall paper cost five shillings
a yard, and the carpets ten.
Bunks are the windows through which
the soul looks out. A house without books
is like a room without windows. No man
has a right to brio. , up • his dhildren - with.
out surrounding th em r ' with books, if he has
the means to buy them It is a wrong to
his family. Children learn to read by being
in the presence of books. The love tit knowl
edge comes with reading and grows upon
it. And the love of koowleoge in a young
wind is . almost a warrant against the fade
-nor excireuieut of ()moons and vices.
Let us pity these poor rich men who live
barrenly in great, Lookless houses ! Let us
congratulate the pour that in our day books
are so cheap that a luau way every year add
a hundred volumes, to his library fur the
price cf what his tobacco and lifebeer would
cost him. Among the earliest ambitions to
be excited its clerks, workmen journeymen,
and, indeed, optic% all that arc struggling
up in law from nothing to something, is that
ut owniuuytioll cutistantly odditigto'itr library
growing larger every year is an I onorable
part of a young tnuu's history.
It is a luau's duty to have books. A li
brary is not a!ulury, but one of the areas
saries of life. •
SOUTHERN DESTITUTION..—Every one
who has traveled in the South since ttre war,
will recoguis'e the following article, from a
letter to the New York Tribune, as a truth.
lul description of too large a class of South
erners :
'The prime cause of Southern want is the
laziness of the whites. Southern climate is
noterieway enervating, and is made the ex
cuse for not wonting by the .privi eged clas
s.' At every crossroads, doggery; every
shop and - every - at id — ey - cry town and
village, is to be found a cruwd of long - haired,
stalwart fellows engaged in whittling sticks,
cheering tobacco and cursing the negro—
three things which they do well, and indus
triously alow up without a dollar, save what
they make or defsaud their laborers out of,
they Ppeod their time, week in and week out,
in idleuesa regretting 'old times,' instead of
turning to work and industriuuslystriviog to
retrieve their fallen fortunes." They have
latalTu abundance, but the few only will sell,
lest the negroes got a foothold, and buene
property owners. The.Suuill is by,uo means
as impoverished as has' been represented.
The Southern people still have abundance of
the element's at wealth, and :it only. requires
industry ausnog the whites, and encourage
meat and fair' dealing toward this colored
labelers, to raise the late rebel States to even
a higher state of prosperity than they ever
before enjoyed.
Doctor Mott used to say that rowit, beef,
sercuity - of roicd, cold water baths, end an
amiable and pretty wife Would 'maw almost
any 'lima boldly, weultby sad wise,
It is not the work that bilk wen, it is the
wory. It is not the revolution that deotrlys
the nasohiaery, bu' thy trieti4n.
1312.00 iiDer
Wye - ua batik our Dead.
The diimcinsolate Copperheads keep mur
muring, 'Give us the Union as it was
Let the answers of patriots be, 'Give us batik
our dead 1' Into the glassy eye of Lyon put
the electric light that shone when be led the
charge. • Restore to Ellsworth his young life
mid manly beauty. Give the vigor to the
wasted limbs of Kearney. Bring back the
war worn veteran Sumner. Revive tilt Me-
Cooks, twin brothers of valor.•
Heal the savage wounds of Dahlgren...
Reanimate the commanding form of Eller.—
Sede,tviek Iron) his grave, sod Wads
worth from the silent repubhe of the dead.
Breathe the breath of life lute the nostrils
of the gentle Lander, return new strength
into the sinewy arch of Reno. Give back its
musical endence to the tongue of Baker, and
cleanse his hair from the gore which yoUr
fellow Rebels shed Upon it, Restore the
enlivening smile of humanity to the care.
wore 'face of Lincoln, now pallid under the
hand of the rebel assassin, and bring back
dayli?ht to the glassy eyes that were so sleep
less for the Union and Freedom. Take down
the bereavement that hangs io the sorrow-
. . . .
to life and home the thousands of devoted
men who dyed the land of treason red with
blooci,to make it pure. -Do this, 0, thou
thrice damned spirit of rehellion and thou
mayst again have the Union as it was.—
Connorspille Weekly limes.
THE EFFECT OF PRAYER.—We heard a
few days ago (says the Schenectady Stand
ard) uf a singular case A gentleman who
has been married for a number of years, has
always desired to be the father of a daughter
—his children being all boys. So great in
deed, has been hie desire for a daughter,
that he has • often 're •ed that Providence
might — bless him with one• A kind Provi
dence was not deaf to his prayers, for, to hie
great surprise, he was granted three girls a
few days ago; there being about three hours
difference in their ages. Be don't pray now
so much as be did.
ks - nrrcw:= - -Fashion is a poor vocation. Its
creed, that idleness is a privilege and work
a disgrace. is among the deadliest errors.—
Without depth of thought, or earnestnesqof
feeling, or strength of purpose, living an un
real life, substituting the fieticious tbr the
natural,4lMstakiagen-4-d-for-suelety, ancl= ---
ing its chief pleasure in ridicule, and ex. .
!misting its ingenuity io esped„lenta }or kill•
ing time. Fashion is among the last influ
ences nodet which a human being, who re
spects himself, or who comprehends the great
end of his life, would desire to be placed.
The following conversation occurred „be
tween a graceless boy and his teacher :
'What does your father do when be sits
down at the table -r
'fie asks for the brandy bottle.'
;don't wean that. Well, then, what
does your mother do when you sit dOlvo at
the table ?'
'BLe says she:will wring our,:neek - s if we
spill any grease on the . floor.'
A very smart boy on his return:from 'eel
lege attempted to prove that two were equal
to three. Poietiug to roasted. chicken on
the table ho said:
•Ia not that one 1' and then pointing to"
another : 4 ls not that two? and do (not one
and two make three'?'
Whereupon his old dad said : 'Wife you
take one and l'll take the ocher, and our
smart boy can have the third for his din
ner.'
REMEMBER IN° A BROTIIEIL-A wnll
known and generous citizen of Spencer,
Penesylvania, made his brother a present of
a suit of clothes the other day; and the
brother, who is in poor health and has close
work to make both ends meet, apprecinteci
the gift when he found in a pocket a mort
gage on his house for seven hundred dollars,
which hadibecn paid LIT and discharged by
the douor.
He that will not permit is wealth to do
aoy good to others while ha is' alive, pre.
vents it from doing any good to himself af
ter dtatii; and by egotism ; which is suicidal,
not only puts himself off from the truest
pleasure here, but from the highest happi.
ness herealter.
An ugly old bachelor says the reason why
WORICTI about Wa,ynesborii do Dot cut thew
selves is two by tight lacing, is because they
lace around the heart, and that Is so hard
they catin6t effect it. Thnbrute 1 What
sort - of a - heart Lai,
Little Bobby—l say, is it true that we are
wade out of dust ?
Na—Yea, my boy, so we are told
.be btrigea it I believe it,
'cause if we was, when wu aweat wouldo't it
be muddy ?
Scratch the great rind of a eapliog ► ,,,or
wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred
and crooked oak will tell of the act for years
to conic. How forcibly does this - figure show
the neccabity of giving right tendencies to
the winds and hearts of the young.
Brick Pomeroy having found out that t
largo proportion of his subscribers don's
know how to read, lass gone to publishing
rude wood (MIN in hie paper for their must
went.
Let not every pain Fend thee to :a doctor;
every quarrel to a lawyer, nor every thirst to
the draw-shop. ,
• •
?to wonder that 'Weston is a good !arsilti.",
It turns out that he used to be s eialleatet
for a newapapts, •
Wautoi—.& !ion to la tbis'eeleaa.
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