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VOLUME, XXII
JAPON
MACHINE SHOP
LUMBER' YARD r
THE sucaMihers having enlarged their shops
and added the latest improved machinery ifor
workng. Wood and Iron, are now prepared to do
all kinds of Work in their Line and are manufac ,
inring,the
Willonghby's Gam-Spring Grain and Fer
talizer Drill, Greatly Improved ;• The Cel
ebrated Brinkerhoff Cornshelior ; Gibsoas'
Champion Washing Machine; lobn Rid
cliesherger's-Patent-Lifting-Jae4
TEII PROPRIETORS OF THE
WAYNESI3O - Ro'
SASII AND
minininrY
having furni+hed their shops with the latest iin
prove,l NI acnittery for this Branch of Business, they
are now prepared to manufacture and furnish nil
kinds 4
IBUILDINCr_MAT
ouch AR Sash, Doom Frsmes. Shutters, Blinds,
Mouldings, some Eighteen Different Styles; Cor
nice, squiring,; Porticoes, dm. dco., elooring, Weath
erboarding, and
ALL KINDS LUMBER;
furnished at short hotic
We tender our thanks to the community for their
liberal patronage beirowed— upon ua and hope by
attention to Business to rnyrit a continuance
of the same.
Also agents for the sale of Dodge dt. Stereno»'s
liirbir, Valley Chiaf, and' World Combined Reap,
ing and VI , wing Mtichines, and the celebrated
Clipper Mower
sitay:7, 18691
TER ARM NB 8111"
W..kYNESBORO', PA.,
_DR. J.; BAIRNS ANDERSON
PROPRIETOR ;
23 Q N c
ata.—Auld Lang Syne.
If mvorue love was sick to death,
Tra-la, tra-la. tna N,
I'd tell her at her latest breath
Tra•N,rra-le. tra-la;
Her race of life could not be run,:
'l4a:ts, tra-ts, tra-la,
d huitsenae Drugs of Ambereon
At the Drug Store on the Corner.
If f was bald without a hair,
Tra la, tra la, tra 10,
I'd laugh at that, I would not care,
Tra la, tra le, tra la,
I'd bring them back, yes, every one,
. Tra la. Ira la, tra la,
By Drugs I bought of Amberson
At the Drug Store on the Corner .
If I was tanned to darkest dye,
Tra la, tra la, tra In,
I would not care, I would not cry,
Tra la, tra la tra ta.
For soon a bleaching would be done
Tra la, tre la, Ira la
By Drug.; I'd buy. of A mberson
At the Drug Store on the Corner,
Then threeltimes three and tiger to,
Tra ta, its la, tra la,
For what We know that they can do,
'bra la. tra la, tea la,
With chores loud, the vict'ry wont
Tra Is, tra la.
By Drugs, I bought of Ambersoni
At the Drug Store,on the Corner.
DRIIGS-T HE BESTjAND PURESZ AL.
ways on hand at • ,
~A IN TS CHEMICA LI AND MINERAL
Plinix White Lead Nal Colors, the beat assort
ment in town at *
EROSENE OILS. VARNISHES, DYES
all kinds•st
T)RUSHES,PAINT,VARNISH,SASH, HAIR
pond Tooth Unashre at
T RUSSES AND.SUPPORTERS:AT
10 - RANDY, WHISKY, WINES AND, RUM
for medicinal use ona •
11()ATENT MEDICINES-ALL THE;STAND
.1 aid Patent Medicines of the day at •
INTRACTt, FOR FLAVORING, PERFU
4inery, and toilet articles generally at
lIHYOICIA.NS PRESCRIPTIONS CAR
1 fusty compoteroleil at ••The Corner Drug store.
July 16
fleT IA ARRIVAL!"
4gult, received a fall iiaiortmeat of
e•u Goods, in•his line of business. Bis oti*k
tounial ittlatt, of all the latest ogles of lden'eand
41 )1 6 • •
CAPS,
lah.TS AND .
woo**, Misse's.Doy'le, wad Children's
'BOOTS, SAHIBS, SHOES
`acid • SUPP 4 V ., war • •• ;iiiimipticsa; /addles and
*Om
tiaterlimigy V. 14 659
.11onatiriimeolt4timiniasoySwadownis pad
41 ' *us
011,04 Hal, X*" Ha
n 4oo4 . o , Slielii;nda
ktIOCOnt ttOol,Blokftetat
id*o*
inthietypoods.
A VAN ofttiiiiii ad be MA ii chermas •tbs.thespest•
- '440.. 20 , 4.11. WZIAIII
JACO& PRZV
D. E. IWEISTILt
AND
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LIDY, FRlcg 6 E , Co
iscnvisxoAlhaa.
ME 1% NO MEATH.
There is no death ! The stare go down,.
- To rise upon some fairershorm - - ,-
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for evermore. •
There is no death! The dust we tread
-, 4 10 kihallchangti 'lrma summer showers, -
c 71-doe
le, golden grain, or mellow fruit,
Ofrainkowtintedflowera.
There irt no death ! The leaves may fall;
The flowers may fade and pass away !
They ohly Wait, through wintry hours.
The coming of the May.
There is no death ! An angle form
Walks o'er the earth with sileni tread;
e.cans our best ioved ones sway,
And then we call them "dead."
The bird like voice whose joyous toned
Make glad this scene of sin andstrife,
Sing now in everlasting song
•
Amid the tree of life.
Botn.in that undying lire,
Tl•cy, leave us but to conks again;
IVith joy we welcome them—the mama
Except in sinland
And ever',,near us, though unseen,
The dear i•untortal spirit tread,
For its tho,boundleits universe
—ls life—there-is nu-deatb.
THE 'NEW. YEAR
Joy ! joy ! a year,ie born;
• A year.to man is given,'
For hone, and peace, and love
For faith, and truth, and heaven,
Though earth be dark with care,
With death and aorrow:rife,
Yet toil,,and 'pain, and prayer. •
Lead to a higher life.
Behold, the .fielde are white!
No longer idly atand!
Go forth i love and might
Mem meda thy helping aand:
Thee may each day and year •
To . prayer and toil -41i;tert
Tilt man to Godidrawa near,
And earth becomes hke heaven.
IteiLlAlCLlEll.a..4gLi.altor'N6 7 ".
ALLEN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Johir . ""en sat alone in his study, gazing
thoughtiully into the glowing coals before
him. Outside the storm was raging fiercely,
and the shutters creaked aud groaned be
neath the blasts of the hind. 'The wealthy
hanker rube flout his chair as the storm
grew louder. and, going to the window, rais
ed the heavy damask curtain and looked out.
All was tiara, and sleet and snow 101 l .beavl
ly against the panes. • .
'A dreadful eight,' he muttered, resutn
ing his seat. 'A dreadful night. I. pity
the poor wretch who is cumpotled to lace
this wind and rain. 1 wonder It Agatha--'
a half-sigh fluttered irons his lips, and a look
of pain lingered in his eyes. Alany people
believed Julio Allen to be without a heart,
and supposed that whatever affection he was
capable at feeling trid bpen given years ago
to the shining gold.which lay piled iu girt
tering heaps in his cutlers, anti in so believ
tog were nearer right than the; banter-eared
to have thew.
Once—loug ago—a fair-haired daughter
bad filed the stately. house with sulushine
nod song. A merry voice rang with laugh
ter through
. the wine parlors, raid the puler
of dancing feet re-echoed from stairway and
hall. Agatha Allen was the banker's only
ehild4his•pride and his treasure. In her
he bad centred all his hopes; and, when she
married a poor , hook keeper without his
sanction, and even against his express nom.
manas, LiiB rage knew no bounds, arid ho
oast her off.
That was long before, and be pever heard
front her after; but .often, as the mouths
glided by, and were linked in the 'ohm of
years, memory reverted to the happier past,
and the resolve was half formed to search
and discover% her whereabouts, if is were .
possible.
And now, as he sat alone in his study,
there carne a great rerun% to have hilt,
daughter again with him.
All the night long'John-Alion Sat dream
ing wore the tire, and the chitties of the
4 .3nrisicuas bells awoke him trove the doze in
to, which he had fallen:
Vbtiatmae morning, he maned ea4ly
'Christmas morning. I will begin at once.
Ub God! what it 1 am now ton late l'
• .
tio . upened the door aud stopped out on
the piazro. The air was clear auu piercing
ly oold while all over t h e earth and the
housetops the snow had tallen, wrapping the
whole in a garment of the purest white.
_The banker buttoned his coat inure close
ly around him as the kesu,air:poneitated to
his person.
*A penny, please,. sir: The voicet.lsim
half drowned in ware, and a Hubs, blie„
pidched hand was - held out entriatiNtly;% , •
• Sointhint io the tones startled rind
bending down hg peered - curiousity ‘into the
Argo; lad:eyes, which gavellie-little beggar
wierd, itananny l iuuk. , '
*Wbat is your came, 04e;./te, asked,
kindly.' - t o . _ „ , •
' 4 Agitthalgatha 'Allot* Stewart,' snide'
tremulous' reply.' •
WAYNEBORO',. FIiANKIO 00.10. Y.; tONNBII,I 4 Y ANA FR1.04 - 11' .
.MORNII,I, G, iiNVARY.:."4:I-B:lo±H'7'l-T='t-
Aim -triclie.oo 3 idterwt 0ni3343,3r Newaroe4,ol%
God rotgio . o me I' 'ft d,'tiatoliini; llie
'Child into his orals. he hurried- into the
study.
'Acid your mininia, how It she?' queried
he, as he seated the wee mite before' 'the
afiirordered a generous metti.iti be pre
pared: '
The brown eyes were filled'With tears to
overflowing, and, between the choking sobs,
John Allen gleaned the facts' that his once
beautiful daughter- was starring by inches in
a hired tenement, while hill hoarded gold
lay unused in its hiding places.
When the child was warmed and fed. be
ordered the dainty littlewleig,h and ski& po•'
Wes, packed a basket with good, substantial
boti_and-rivitteoM4-drove-iti-tii-13-diretitiort-o
his daughter's residence of squalor awl pov.
erty hardly to be conceived.
Up, up the creaking stairs, 'through a
narrow, dark passage way, and then pointing
to a door, the child said simply:
'lt's in there, sir. We live hers'
He at once pushed open thi3 door, and
went in.
Upon la bed in one corner of the room lay
n-attenuated-figure. The-everwere-closed
as if iu bleep, and one thin, transparent hand
clasped tightly the worn trouuterpane.
'Wake, mamma, wake! Sea, the gentle
man has fetched us bread, a basketfull,' and
the girl.laid her own small palm upon the
thinner ono of her mother.
But no. sound came from the pale lips,' no
returning glance brightened the glazed eyes.
They .were, indeed, too late, for alone in the
old garret she had died, and the spirit bad
gone to God
The beaker reeled and would have fallen
had he not. caught .at the chair standing
near bins.
.Too late !' he groaned 'too late ! 0
Agatha! my daughter, my daughter 1'
And—fur-the-first-time—in—years _the_old
man knelt in prayer. How long he remain
ed in that position he knew . not, but when
he arose,
there reigned in his heart holy
calm With clearer eyes, he read life's du
ty, and made resolves to amend his deeds.
Ihe_wealth_and power he once coveted was
to him now only to be used to do good, and
to alleviate, as far as possible, the sufferings
of others He situ the world now with dif
ferent eyes,
and was surprised to find how
selfish and bigoted he had been through all
his life. And, beside the poor couch of his
dead, as the clear chimes of the Christmas
belle sounded in his ears, he east "away the
old, morose, narrow-minded self, and deter
mined for his own -sake- and that of the one
etill.liviotr, to be a bettet man. And. with
the resolve he telt an inner conviction that,
in the future, which should be higher; holi
er, and therefore happier, the Great—Master
would aid him,.
And John Allen's 'Cliristmak •G+ft' was
a gift direct from Go& of a warmer heart
and higher purpose.
LIFE ; DEATH.
Death, plunge opaque beyond conjecture
—Young's Night Thoughts.
Oh, this restless life; how many fears,
hopes, cares, anxieties it brings to •us
tit ho that lives to maturity eau be exempt
from them Oh, thou • unknown ending to
this life! • What art thou that I must so
MOOO experience I' Death, what art thou,
(head sibilant, that .1 must SO 6900 take by
the hand and walk with intimately ?
How uusaswersbla questions arise !
Why do L live ? Whither um I tending
As tiny nutmeat I may wake that 'plunge
opaque;' then, where, how, what, shall be
this restless, rest•seeking, unhappy, happi
ness pursuing being known to we as my.
sell?
Here I nut confined to a circumscribed
sphere of kuawledge and of action. Here I
grope like a worm in darkness. I easnot
dive beneath the surface of the earth to
pierce its mysteries; I cannot soar upward
to those myriad worlds that mockingly smile
•dowti upon me from the sky But there is
an active ptinciple within me constituting a
part of myself, that can dive into those ()cl
unk depths, picturing their unspeakable
wonders; that can. soar ou tireless 'wings
above, visiting those unknown worlds, giving
to them form and color, peopling them with
mystic intentgencles ; that, passing beyond
these worlds us by the first few milestones
upon a far-extending road, can roam on and
on through the magnitudes of space to the
utmost verge of the universe. Yet here I
am, caged in flesh; here I remain, not hav
ing even moved front my seat in the corner
of my room I This active power belonging
to, coustuatiag a part of myself; this
adventurous something that inquisitively
searches out things hidden from fleshly eyes;
this somethittel call imagination.'
Now I turn back to the past of my life, to
events of yesterday, of last year, of years ago.
picture the scenes I saw agitated. ' I say
to myself, 'Are these picture; more distinct,
wore real, than those you beheld in the
bosom of the earth, or in the, immensity of
space Y'
This other property .of myself, this power
that brings to life the dead past, this I name
Memory.
And Isbell die. Amon , . all the torturing
uncertainties of life, this a lone is sure. It
may bo weight, tomorrow, it will be soon,
It ever so many months or years' ahead ; it
may,-perhaps, brr thr hence, even if etrer ••so
:near iu point of time, 'for the soul, I filiuk,
•whearopon the verge of death. often an a
=meat, lives over a lengthened lifetime,•
passes through almost'tin infinitude of poteep
tion.and.sensation:
Wbewi,die will Metonry and. Imagination'
die'swieli - Withott . tbe'jtil should I be
tnyaelt If,l,lopigetniiry Y In!olden
tity, I no longer tom., tuyaitlf.,,, .1,
Meta in' tonaposies,.no lunge, am•eniseit I.
atn,;,liiiiend,'a new being ; made; - potful ps,
o,tik of;ite disurietu).ke . fed former',
eumpoietftbn uld unn E bttt . ,,noae; tho -wise'
new creation, foe I knots ; nothing, of trly
former self, so that, a ‘ a tar as:iny win. con
813i011811088 is concerned, am 'Sbotber.
But,if• Memory remain to me after deatb,
I am .ptill mysetf, I shall remember the
scenes of my earthly life, I shall recognize
my old friends, if I meet, them. Yee, that
one aniious query of the human heart is
aitsweee'd ;if ietaiWseifkiioidedge, I shall
know my earthly friends in that unseen world
to which We all hasten: -- -
This mist be so if,l and
identity. But suppose t lose both ? suppose
I cease to remember my former self, what
then has the present myieif tci do 'With the
future one ? The one bears as Close a rela-
• o the other, as ttre - prienvt — lwmg gen.
eration of mankind to the antediluvians.—
The farmer descended frig' the latter; hence
must be 'bone of their bone and flesh of their
flesh; bat what avails it, since they have
never seen, never known, never regarded
each other
Oh, my soul, wilt thou thus bowfin a
stranger to thine own self 1 1 No. Thou wilt
know thyself,,thou wilt recognize thy friends,
thou-wilt-rememberthe—mingled guil
innocence of thine earthly life, thy women
tary relishes of the bitter-sweet morals, sin,
thy tears and agonies of repenteoce and self
13a thing, thy cries to the Infinite for help,
for pardon. Ah, yes, thou wilt remember
all these, else how shottldst thou know thy
Saviour? how shouldest be grateful to Him ?
how shouldest thou perceive from what hor
rible depths of corrnpiion He bath snatch
ed thee? how shouldest thou imagine from
what severity -of suffering He bath saved
thee ?
And if, alter death, memory and imagine•
tion continue to be parts of my being, will
not my other powers of mind continue to be
mine also ? Shall I not be capable of ac.
knowledge, of applying that know'.
edge, also, in some way,e — promotion of
God's glory and perfection of my own be
ing _
_ _
And, the more knowledge, the more pur
ity I attain to here, will not so much the
more_be_my progress there ?
Lost Women.
With all their vagaries and absurdities it
must be admitted that the "strong-minded"
women sometimes say things well worthy
to be read and pondered. Read this from a
speech of Mrs; Burleigh at the Woman's
Suffrage Convention in New- Jersey : 'My
friends, has it over occurred to you what a
commeritary upon our civilization are' these
lost women and the attitude of society to
ward them ? A little child strays from the
house enclosure and a Whole community is
on the alert to find the wanderer and restore
it to its mother's' arms. What rejoicing
hen it is found, what tearful sympathy,
what heartiness of congratulation ?
.There
are no harsh comments upon the poor, tired
feet, be they ever so miry, no reprimand
for the soiled and torn garments, no lack of
kisses for the tear stained face. Bat let the
child be grown to womanhood, let her be led
from the enclosure of morality by the voice
of affection, or driven from it by the strong
scourge of want—what happens then ? Do
Christian men and women go iq quest of her?
Do they provide all possible help for her re
turn, or, if she returns of her own motion,
do they receive her with such kindness and
delicacy as co secure her against wandering
again Far from it. At the first false step
she iA denounced as lost—lost, echo friends
autibrelatives—we disown you, don't ever
come near us to disgrace us. • Lost, says so
ciety indifierootly. How bad these girls are!
And lost—irretrievably:ost—is the prompt
verdict of Conventional Morality, while
_ono
and all unite in bolting every door between
her and respectability. Ah I will not these
lost ones be required at our bands in
__ the
great Hereafter ?'
THAT OM FASHIONED MOTHER.. One
in all the world, the law of whose law is
love; one who is the divinity of our infan
cy, and the sacred presence in .the shrine of
our first earthly idolatry; one whose heart
is far below the frosts that gather so thickly
on her brow; one to whom we never grow,
old, but, in the plumed troupe, or in the
grave council are , Children still; one who
welcomed us going, and never,. forgets us—
never. And when in some cloaca, some
drawer, some corner, she finds a garment or
a toy that once was ours, how does she weep
as she thinks we may be suffering or sad ?
Does the battle of, id() drive the wanderer to
the old homestead at last? fier hand is up
on his shoulder, het' ditn.and fading eyes aro
kindled with something of the "light of
other daye," as she gazes upon his worn and
troubled face., "Be of stout heart, my son I
No• harm can• reach you here s• But some
time that arm-chair is set back Against the
wall, the corner is vaetnt, and they seek the
dear old occupant in the graveyard.
=an
. Patfirsaws.-i-A woman's work is never
at tin ends
A man's best fortune— or bin worst—is *
wife..
•
Ail . are good hisses, but where come the
i!l•wives from ? • ,
You may know a foolish woman by • her
finery.
Fair fotohed, and dear bought,•is•good for
the ladies.
Three women and a goose make a market.
The rich widow ories 'wit:ll'one y e and re
joices with the other, , • • ,
Lleithat,telle.his wife news is but newly
married. • •
She that, has an, ill-husband shpws it in
bor dress ,:,„ . •••
. .
She who is bbrn,handsome is
,hotn mar
ried:. • • • . : - • •
.
The YOEttliM4l3 OA parts bis Bair ;in the
middle is alma ',to, , t4arry : the: young lady
with the. Greefini flonnd, and obey will be
inatobtid.
BE KIND TO LITTLE ONE*.
On a bright itnd lovely Aay in .the month ,
of Nay, a band Of gayly dressed and blotto
ing girls issued from the house of one of the
party, and proceeding *little fur th er down
the lane, stopped ay the house ,of another
companiou, where they were joined by her;
aid they entered the neighboring' weed to
enjoy themselves in gathering wild fibers .
. 'Scarcely bad they gone when a little pratt
ler of three years) oldAcatie from• the last
mentioned (Welling and following the retreat
lag party, with . a sweet childish voice cried
'Sister Katie, let . tue go ton.'
But sister Katie was too ankh occur
to bear the little '
40 bear the little darling, and agniatheilead...
voiee . iras heard
•Please; sister, iskeirie; I'll be ailed:
This time she Willi heatd, dtid tritnieg from
the rest of the party, Katie went book and
commanded Grace to go home.
Onward they went, joyous and happy,
gathering their flowers and sending. fortb
merry bursts of laughter.; none wore than
Kate, who, forgetting the tearful face of lit
le--firace, tram the brig,-Irtest—ancF-gaye.
among the party
- They sontillued their sport until the dirk
clouds and rolling thunder warned them to
hasten home.
They returned with safety, but • oh, the
anguish which was awaiting Katie upon her
arrival S Grace was nowhere to be band.—
Search bad been made in many •directions;
but in vain. Oh, the belt reproach, the
agony under which she labored when-she re
membered that through her Unkindoess Grace
had been lost-I
At last the searchers returned, bearing the
child in•tbeir arms.
After tieing left alone, she, 'net itnawitii
what to do, fheught she would follow her
sister, but getting into the wrong path, had
- wandered - far - away-until she-eame-to_a,bab•
bling brook, which pleased her childish fancy
very much. There she remained a !beg iiu e
unconscious of the sorrow het absence misfit
cause, until, frightened by the roar of tinted.
-or s -she-tried—to—find—her—way- back. But
that was now impossible, and iitting desire
upon a rook near a stream, the little one
wept as if her heart would break. But
.the
rain coaling with great . violence, and the
wind blowing very Grace *ander•
ed back to the brook, where; after a long
search, she was found by the neighbors.—
She was borne to her home, where for many
weeks she was each hour exp'euted iedie.=-
But,God, in his tnercif;al providence, raised
the deduct child'from the bad'cif sknesa to
cheer the hearts of all around her,
U sisters, learii from this simple story to
be kind to'the little ones. You , know not
how soon your Heavenly Vatber town fit
to cause-you to suffer, in one way or another,
through your unkinduess.
Tat USES OP ADVERSITY.—Yos wear omit
your clothes. -
You are pot troubled with visitors.
Yon are exouerated from making calls.
Bores do not bore you.
Tax-gatherers hurry past your door.
Itinerant bands do not play opposite your
windows.
You avoid the °ileum of serving on
jurieS.
No one thinks of presenting 'you with a
testimonial.
No tradesman irritates, by asking : 'ls
there any other little article you wish to-day,
sir ?'
Impostors,know it is no use to bleed you.
You practice temperance.
You swallow infinitely less poison than
Other. 4.
Flatterers do not shoot their rubbish into
your ears.
You are saved many a debt, many a deoep
lion, many a headache. _
And, lastly, if you have a true friend in
the world., you are sure, in a very short space
of time, to know it —Puhela.
LAWYER TAPPIN'S Doo. A certain butch
er of iSteubenvilie (call him Mr. B.) had
been much annoyed by a lam) do.; which
bad several times stolen meat fromhis stall.
Going to lawyer Tappao, be presented his
ease thus :
'Mr. Tappan, I have lied my beef stolen at
various times by. a dug in the town. What
shall I do ?'
'Sue the owner ofothe dog and recover the
price of the beef,' was the answer.
'Mr. 'Tappan, it was your dog,' said Mr.
exultingly.', • .
• 'Ali I it was --well, what is the value of
the beef ?'
'Three dollars,' replied the butcher,
'Very well,' said ,Mr. • Tappet', • and paid
the looney.
With u swilling countenance the butcher
was closing the office door, when 'be was
startled by : • •
6 i iold on, Mr. 11.; ll:barge you are dollars
for Consuls:mom ,
funeral speech' which' 'e Paris
paeern.snres us• was actually pronounced at
Nontruatre the other day by a father, at the
grave of his sou "ti - entiunieu," said the
tither, iu a voice tub ut *mnion, "the:body
before we wan that ut ruy son. : Be sums a
youug' wan iu the priwu of, lite, with •tt
sound coestitutiou whiehoingittlu have in
'cured him a futodied - years, But raiseon
:duet, druokeeness And • debauchery . of, the
,tuottt-diagragetuk kind
. brotuilat, the
flower el •oge, tothe ditch
,which you:, see'
before You: J. this belin eximttle to - you:
and your, childred. Let us go heuoe.
.‘
, 'Seep. your crying I' sai4
, a,Fieprage4 fqthir'
ea' tile goo, lie Sit up - aq iatulacable
'yell tot the. last'aiertoianted :" *Stott 44;
ii k Oiteu tear r!.% , stgaiib Lieo4!:edJ- the ,44t.luie
tevt r coja4te,et;ithe ; OY fitAA cp.
Irp'll:4tim P t 89 prise I oeck 4,.
Va . yqu
, -i -:,1:,. : SAL*? OiA 3 ,4** *ear .
"r• .', r flr 4 3 :,..1 , - ,-'.
Foi;tlie` Village IR+
By 4Rural Behoolle;10 — ir:'
Heil !elan ! thou sacred moiei
W. greet tby kind approach pith giaddeireihisarts
And time, apse thatioiwwilich it inttiai*
TO,alt who welcome thy smarm. , _
Thy - te6olfeitions dear ; , LI 4:—
Vireke s Tan7 a holy.thops4 deep; .difii)
ix; arisfibile bygone, iNfien fiveri
The; world's enniiinied Oificir here.
We celebrate thy days
For thou didet bring the bo
To him we bring, not gilts of spice and gotii 4 ,
But living worship, love and praise.
Ohristines day I The birthday of Christ,
the Redeemer of the world! illemorable
day. Far and side, and, everywhere, is
this day celebrated as - the annitereary birth
day of the Holy Child Jeer's, who -left his
blitisful glory in the Celestittl'Uourte.of.Dei•
ty; aid butebled himself to assumeU human
body, "Wit He might redeem us from eft
id - Tilify unto Himself 'a peoaliiii
people, zealous of good works.-' . .
How eventful, then, is this day I , It dates
baekwird through the Jim vista of bygifee
eenturies to a day when the "Word tlieoathe
fleah,.and dwelled among ns." Methiokti , it
rapt have been an interesting and jo)ful
time for all those who anticipated-and waited •
for "the consolation of Israel." The prom
ise of a 3lessiah to redeem "a world lytig
in wickedness" was then fulfilled. Christ
came. Long, long, he did tarry. Four
thousand years had elapsed before the pro
mise of the Savior was realized ; and :Dow
nearly two- thownuel more have passed:llkm
His incarnation. And to day we oelebraqs
His birth. Many; many have anticipated
EMS festal day. Not a few longed for the
jeys - ancl - assoeiations-of—this-Chriattaaa-dai,--
Its pleasant day-break wae weleomedin mho.'
Moe and cottage, by :M L itt.' hyrpour. To
day friende have met who have bean separ.
ated for the space of a long year or more._
I.lrethrerrand sisters, antrpareats, have sur
rounded the bow° table ouoe wore to weak()
the Christmas festival, and- hold .familiar
converse, - Many a hati.lehold was , gladden.
ed tO-day hi the unbroken circle of, home,
-while wady more were made to feel salezen
by the recollection of the departure of those
who have down the valley of Detith'e
dark, quiet shadow. .Parents „hate to day
mourned the death, of ,an ; egeetieeete. chits.
'Bretheis andeistent hasie Wept , the eying: -
10cue tear of love forleiring ogee who, a
year ago, participated with them in Christ.
was *Herta: The , vacant seat in the howes.
circle is - still recognized. One, or more, 'is
missing. And though the graves of the
departed are to-day covered with the pale
sheet of frozen snow, they still live in our
memories, and are dearly remembered
,with ,
iu 'the walls of home'' The scythe of Tithe
out them down "in the midst of life," and
on this day, their oumbruus olod of clay
mingles with the orioles] duet. Do we
think of thed4is we should ? Can we fcir
get them 7 1 think I hear the universal re.
spouse, Ray. And we shou/of not forg et
them. If their lives, were models of char
actor, they, being death speak to us. 4
The day is gone. The shades of - night
shut out the light of day. Darkness bonds
over all surrounding nature. The festiii
ties and colloquies of Christmas are over.
'Tis past, and we must look forward througu
the misty future for another.
Near Waynesboro', December 25,1869.
4- -
A Cumous Taas.—ltt the Island of Goa,
near Bombay, there is a singular vegetable
called the sorrowful tree, because it only
flourishes in the night. At sunset no flow.
era are seen, and yet after half an hour,tho
tree is full of them. They yield a sweet
smell. bat the sun no sooner begins to shine
upon them, than some fall off and others
close up, The tree continues •t 0 tinvier in
the night during the whole year.
Mortot Etna• is on record as an active
and' awe inspiring volcano one theneitUd
Oars' *boforo Christ. Conipared 'with
ireauvius, more seen of tourists, is only a
Eton rises to the bight of eleven
thousand feet, and its base is. ninety . miles in
oireumfergnee. Its lava streams, five miles
wide, and fifty to one hundred feet deep, et
tend to a length of eighteen wiles.
'Flans, where was you born?' Vo der
Halc'erOarrack.' 'Vo oat, always ?' .Yah,
and peters too.' llow ell are you thou.?'
'Vi, yea the old school house is pile I was
two weeks more nor a year, what is painted
red as" you go page wit your back pebind
you, on der rite aide der blacksmith shop
what stands where it was, punt down neat
year will be two weeks.'
Nature toachos us that we are all dept . :
eat; that we are like oog•wheols, *pus lig
each . ottter along by filling up.mutual voids.
=IMMO
A conscript being told th.tt it was sweet
to die for his inniaLry, ;eietaiied himself oa
ebo groundo that be never did • like sweat
things..
,Laulcrs must sleep juore eumlertadd x ly :than
peuple is ::uerai—it iminuieriafee which
Sideithey he; '
appropriate hotel for old maids to stop
(man :r aker:) House.'
:.:Steep is life'synuo, soot from bo2tren to
* mt.*" us onew r pty by thy.
. Motto foesio old bachelor—Be just and
teat Eliot
.• Ito lova to live should live to love
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