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'..*:' . -... - 11 . ..„..1.1. 4 ..„': .... .•*,- , 5t,r...... • t.... , 2•-• .....:745,...- , t.'t -; realms of life and light. -' ''' .." -.-- • 'Do you think any of our William's clothes, Once as two ladies were en _ _________ Jerry, with a little fixing?' inquired the Den- entered. The et - ' con, cleaning hits voice, which had grown a religions husky. of a i" ' We will not transcribe gentle Mrs. Gray's-- • ' reply, nor relate the song conversation wt . of the night. Suffice it to st morrow, the Deacon's t. journey to the Iv- The poor ' pallet Al Sli MI • A man who rourr' Who 'inht '- Is .' • i)3 , paying 29 per, xent. too much where. We will chalent , ‘• . forth a more oomph-. EAT'' • VOLUME XXIII. 0 ° WHICH ALL MUST HAVE! NOW is the time to economize when money is scarce. You should study your interest by supplying your wants at the first cities store of D. N. BEAVER. North-east corner of the Diamond. He does business on the only successful method, viz: by buying his goods for cash. The old fogy idea of buying goods at high prices end on long credits is Call end examine our fine stock and don't be by paying 29 per, xent. too much for your goods else where. We wilt chalenge the community to show forth a more complete stock of EATS. all of the very latest styles and to suit all, L. N. WEAVER'S._ BOOTS, all kindsand at C. ' N. BEAVER'S. SHOES, of every description for Men's, Ladies', Misses' and Children's wear, at C. N. BEAV,ER'S. CLOCKS., every one warranted and mid C. N. BE 9 VER. TRUNKS. of all sizes. the very best manufacture, also warranted and soli by_ _ .; BEAVER. VALISES, of every kind, also very cheap. at C. N. EISA V tIR'S. HATS, for Ladies, Misses and Children, a fresh supply received every !peek and sold by U.N. BE N OrIONS, a — falTine as follows, sold ' • bylls. N.DE-A-V-EM. - --- PA - PER - COLLARS, for Men and Boys wear, the most complete and finest assortment in town, by , C. N. BEAVER. H6SIERY, of every kind, for,snle, ; - • I y C. N. BEAVER., GLOVES,,for Men and Bile wear, at. C. N. BEAVER'S. SUSPENDERS, for Men and Boys wear, at (..3. IX. BEAVER'S. CANES AND UMBRELL AS, a complete stock -- - -at— V. — NTH - EA Xilk. WS. BROOMS AND BRUSHES; of the 'yelp best kind, nt ' C. N. BEAVER'S. TOLIACCO, to suit the taste of all, at C. N. BEAVER'S. CIGARS, which cannot be beat, for sale. by C.N. BEAVER. SNUFF, which we chalenge any one to excel in quality, for sale at C.N. DE NVER'S. Id PAPER, of every descripti on, C. N. DEAVER'S. C'ANDEES, always fresh too, for sale. nt C. N. DEAVER'S. SPICES, for sale INK an CRACKERS, of every kind, at C. N. BEAVER'S INDIGO BLUE, at C. N. BEAVER'S. CONCENTRATED LYE, for sale, at C. N. BEAVER'S. REROSENS,of the very l'est,—Pitts. Oil, at C. N. BEAVER'S. LAMP CHIMNIES also, at. C. AN. BEAVER'S And many other articles not necessary to mention. Wo now hope that you will give us a share of your patronage. We are indeed, thankful to you for past patronage, and hope a cont;nuance of the same, and remain yours truly, 131,A. ENCE: INVBEAVER. Waycieaboro', June 2, 1870. GROVER BIKER FIRST fREMIIIIII ELASTIC STITCH SEWING MACHINES, 495 Broadwaj, New York. 730 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. POINTS OF EXCELLENOE • Beauty and Elasticity of stitch. Perfection and simplicity of Machinery. Using both threads directly from the spools. No fastening of seams by band and no waste o thread. Wido range of application without change of ad justment, The seam retains its beauty and firmness after washing andironing. Besides doing all kinds - 45 - Iwork done by other Machines, these Machines execute the most Want'. ful and permanent Embroidery and ornamental work. lEe The Highest Premiums at all the fairs and exhibitions at the United etates and Europe, have been awarded the Grover & Baker Sewing Ma chines, and the work done by them, wherever ex hibited for competition. rir The veil , highest prize, Tea CROSS or Tea LEGION OF !Imam, was conferred on the representa tive of the Grover & Baker Sewing Machines, at the Exposition Universella, Paris, 1869, thus attest ing their great superiority over all other Sewing Ma chines. For sals by D. W. ROBISON, Waynesboro'. NOTICE. The undeisigned having bad 'l7 years' experience as a practical operator on Seising Ma 7 chines wvuld recommend the Grover & Baker Fam ily Machine as the cheapest and best machine for family use., The simplicity of construction and lasticity of stitih made by these machines are two yew/ important points in their favor. 250,000 of these machites are to• Jay bearing witness to the truth of our assertions and the demand it steadily increasing. We have also shuttle machines on hand for Tail ors and Coach•trimmers' use. Call and see . us. • D. W.,ROBIz9N, Main st., Waynesboro', Pa: Kr. O.I4OLASSEEL—The subscribers have just 1,11 received a prime lot of New Orleans Molasses r the bolitlaysa F$ GE 4 HOBFLIOIf JUST THE THING --..-.0.---. ±PLOIY. RUINED C. N. BEAVER'S. FAMILY E Dt [ui An old farm•bouse with meadows wide ) And sweet with clover on each side • • .rig t-eye_ oy, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day ; "Oh ! if I could but fly away From this dull spot the world to see, How happy, boPPY. hoPPy. How happy Isheald be" Amid the city's constant din A man who round the world has been, Who 'mid the tumult and the throng, Is thinking, thinking all day long : "Oh ! could I only tread once_more__ The field-path to the farm-house door, The old, green meadow could I see, • How happy, happy, happy, . PONY happy I should be." THE DOUBLE BLESSING. Deacon Gray had a habit, and he carried it with him through life, of waking the wants and sufferings of others in some sort his own. The habit, or whatever else it might be call ed, certainly increased with his years—and his worthy help-meet, during the long period of their wedded life, through the influence of assimilation, and, above all, the heavenly fruits of a sanctified sorrow, had grown to be modeled very nearly after the same pattern. So when the Deacon sat down, one wild, stormy evening, paper and spectacles in band, and related the 'news'—which was in every body's mouth, as they seated themselves a round cheerful tea-tables and blazing fires, or gathered in social knots at•the village store—Mrs. Gray ceased to rook back and forth in her arm-chair, cushioned with hen's feathers, and dropped her knitting—work, quite regardless of the little black and white kitten at her side, which instantly put the ball to the use a feline fancy sug.gesttcd. •rind what will become of Jerry ?' Fifty other people that day had asked the same question , but coming from good Mrs. Gray's honest, motherly heart, the very words sounded differently, like the same tune played is dissimilar keys. The Deacon's eye, as it sought the open paper, fell on the shipping list; but it was quickly withdrawn, as it the glance pained him. His answering remark, most persons would have thought a very decided digits sion from the subject. . 'lt is just three years to-night, Mary, since we heard our boy, was drowned. We were expecting him from that long voyage, and you pat on your best silk dress that he bought for you in Canton, and set the tea-table with the china set.' Mrs, Gray's eyes sought•the burning em bers, which flashed, and flickered, and glow ed, as they did' on that never-to-be-forgotten night, and pusa made another tangle in the yarn. A pain, sharp, bitter, choking, strangled her reply. William was their only son, the pride of their hearts, a bright-eyed merry boy. But he was born Within sight of the sea, and from hie earliest childhood, when he built mimic ships, that made wonderful voy ages over mimic oceans, all his thoughts and desires centered on the blue heaving waves, with a strange facination which his fond pa rents much as they loved him, could not re sist, So William went to eea. It almost broke his mother's heart, but when he came home from his first voyage, looking so handsome and manly, with the rich, healthful color flushed his bronzed cheek, it throbbed with such pride an,i joy as only mothers' hearts know. He bad a story to tell. Fay away from Immo, but .with all the sweet influences hov ering around his path like so many, guardian angels, pacing the deck in the starry tropical night watches, God had met biski; not in flame, not in the earthquake, nor the whirl wind, butin the 'still small v,pjoe' of love,— The prayers of Deacon Gray and his wife were answered,,and . William went back to his ship, that most noble sight on God's earth, an open-handed, open-hearted Christian sail or. • Then came the shock. It traced brciad furrows on the good Deacori's kindly lace WAYNESBORO, FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 21, iB7O. PCOMIrLIXO43I-r. TWO PICTURES. BY MARION DOUGLAS. WILL THOU OD WITII lIE? Will tltqu p, dearest g-i, To to heatlca - nirtre mountain Where the violets blow On the brink of the fountain ; Where the soul shall be free As the winds that blow o'er us, And the sunset of life Smile in beauty before us? There noshing but death Our affection can sever, And till life's latent breath Love shall bind•us forever [Percival MIND WORDS. As stars upon the tranquil sea, In mimic glory shine, So words of kindness in the heart Reflect the source divine ; 0, then be kind, viho'er thou art. -That-breathest Mortal breath, hr thy HP And it shall brighten all thy And sweeten even death, bowed his tall, straight form, and silvered his wife's brown hair but we draw a veil over that fiti - rful night, so fresh in the mem ories of both. Tbeir's was a,sacred sorrow, and it yielded 'the peaceable fruits of right eousness' 'Do you think any of our William's clothes, that you keep in the red trunk, would do for Jerry, with a little fixing ?' inquired the Dea con, cleaning his voice, which had grown husky. We will not transcribe gentle Mrs. Gray's reply, nor relate the song conversation which • of the night. Suffice it to say that on the morrow, the Deacon's horse and team took a journey to the hovel where Jerry lived. The poor boy was crouching on a straw pallet, in one corner, resisting all endeavors, stern or kindly, to induce him to quit his wretched hpme, that was home no longer.-- His father had deserted him when an infant; his mother, in her thirst for liquor, forgot all her maternal instincts, and died one cold stormy night, from the effects of drinking.. Jerry must go to the poor house, the neigh said ; but Jerry had another mind_abottt. aft -Td h.- .te Jail frightene.d at the crowd of strange faces, looked about him with a pinched hungry face, and eyes like those of a wild animal at bay. They pitied him, and disliked to employ force ;.but while deliber. sting what method to pursue, Deacon Gray entered the hut, and made his way through the-crowd straight-to--Jerry,--- 'My poor boy, I am sorry for you. If you don't want to go to the poor house, perhaps you will like to go home with me. I have no little boy, and I want one. You shall have some nice clothes to wear, if you will some.' The Deacon waited for no answer. He saw the quick, ewer look of the boy's face; the yielding, trustful clasp of his little hand, and drove away with him. Mrs. Gray met thorn at the door of the pleasant farm house. 'Take These dirty duds off, the first thing, Mary,' said - her - hush - and, 'and give him his Supper, ard - fhei he'll do' Mrs. Gray was not slow in obeying the ad vice. Her heart warmed, to the.poor fern ken boy, as his eyes rested on her face with a shy, timid gaze, hungry for new draughts of the-love that had never been his before. 'Be would really be pretty,' she said to her husband, after the washing and dressing operations were over, 'it it weren't for his starved look.. But we'll soon remedy that.' And slipping into the pantry, she filled the china bowl that William had liked to eat from Co well, and set it before Jerry. And so warmed and fed as he bad never been in his life before. He went. to sleep that night in a pretty little bed-room, with snowy curtains, and such soft white pillows, on- which to rest his weary little head; that no wonder he thought himself in heaven. One or_ two years passed by, and neither the Deacon nor his wife regretted the step. Jerry's warm, gushing love, healed the sore and aching spots in each heart, and though their own lost boy's place was still vacant, and ever would be, they gave the orphan all the parental care and affection that had once been his. Mrs Gray proposed to name their adopted son IVilliatu, but her husband objected. 'Our boy is not dead, but eleepeth,' he-an swered. 'We do not want two Williams in the family;' and his wife.said no more. One night as Jerry was bringing in wood through the back door, a stranger opened the gate and walked up the locust-bordered path. 'Jerry had grown to he a fine bog. Kindness I and care had worked wonders for him. 'ls Deacon Gray it home ?' inquired the stranger. Jerry awwercd in the affirmative, and ush ered him into the great kitchen ; where the' Deacon was busied with his inevitable corn paniontha-newpaper, while his wife was engaged in preparing the evening meal, Both turned. A 'deadly paleness over spread Mrs. Gray's cheeks, and she would have fallen to the floor, but for the support ing arms of the stranger clasped tenderly a round her. 'Father, mother Words and voice were enought. It was indeed their lost William. 'My son. Hath the sea given np its dead?' asked the old Deacon in a husky, tremulous voice. . And William told his story. In a fearful storm which had burst over their vessel in the South Seas, he bad fallen overboard, and all the crew had supposed him drowned, but he was picked up by some^natives in a boat, while clinging to a broken spar, and carried to a. neighboring island. The natives were kind, but as vessels very rarely 'approached . it was two or three years before he-auccee in signaling a ship. Who steal 'aint the scene? They gath ered around'tte tea table, the re united, too happy to do an • thing but look into one a notber's face ; Jerry's eyes" filled with rap turona delight at the return of the new found brother, whose affectionate greeting dispelled all fears that he would regard him as an intruder. And Mrs, Gray laoked from one to the other of her children, feeling that surely God had rewarded her for the hour when, with hot tears blinding her eyes, she had altered William's garments for her.adopt ed son, only thinking of him as lying dead at the bottom of the ocean. Was she not doubly blest, and was not her cup of. joy 'pressed down, shaken together, and running over?' With what emotions did she gaze upon her 600 so miraculously restored. And the Deacon,said, reverently bowing his gray bead, 'O, give thanks unto the Lord, for He isgood, and His mercy endureth for And so 'it came to pass,' that the deolin• in4' years of Deacon Gray and his wife were gilded with a double glory and blessing, till like sehooks of corn fully ripe for the bar. vest, leaning upon a double prop in the Ite,akness and infirmities of age, they 'enter• ed into the joy of-their Lord.' .Almost and Altogether Simple words, yet fraught with how much meaning ! One may close forever the portals of Hope, the other may throw them wide open, and proclaim a joyful entrance into the realms of life and light. Once as two ladies were conversing togeth er in their quiet parlor, an aged clergyman entered. The conversation immediately took a religious turn, and the peace and comfort of a Christian's hope were spoken of. Sud denly the elergyman turned to one of his friendsuunisaid,--rather-abrttptly - . 'Madam, is your husband a Ohristian 7' The lady's face flushed painfully. F'or a moment she did not reply. :Then she said, 'My husband is one of the best persons I ever knew. lie is so amiable and benevolent that I think few Christians can equal him.' 'And yet,' said the clergyman, 'you must feel deeply anxious for his salvation.' don't know,' said the lady; 'I can but think that all will be well with him. lie is so good. Be has such a respect for re • ligion. He is almost a Christian.' The clergyman bent upon her a leok of -tender-eonuern atred - 4T --- itnpathy, as he said, 'But almost saved, is altogether lost. Re. member that.' The words smote her with a sudden con viction of her husband's danger, and from that time forth her prayers for him were con stant and fervent. Moses, after• man _ point from a poim whence he caught a view of the promised land. He was almost 'there, and its fair scones wore spread out be fore him in inviting beauty, 'but he Dever was permitted to go in. Agrippa was _ear, tied by the eloquence of Paul to a-height so far above the wordly influences - around that a full view of eternal truth burst upon his vision. At that moment he trembled, ,and said, 'Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.' But the moment passed, and he never chose Christ as his portion. And how many there are who are reared in our Sunday schools and diuretics, standing, as it were, at the very gato„of_heaven,_year±-after year, who yet never seek to enter, never strive to make the 'almost' an 'altogether.' Why are not Christians more anxious for such, and mom earnest in-prayer and effort for them 'I Why are these allowed to lull themselves into a false security, when one vigorous step might bring to a place of safe, ty ? Is it not because, in our worlily.stupor, we so often forget that to be almost able to reach heaven, is to sink to hell. A Sad Case. The particulars of a case, touching, even thrilling, in its sadness, were related to us yesterday. -In the Fall of 186 G, there ar rived in this city a young man direct from Germany, who had come to the West to seek his fortune, leaving his new made w' .--i•- hird - rWith the understanding thili eshoul' join him in his new home as soon as he could send for her. tie came here with a willing, patient heart and active hands, and by dint of the utmost energy and attention to busi ness, succeeded in collecting together money enough to sand for his wife, and in due course of time was informed by bis friends in the old country, that she had taken pass. age in the City of Boston. Elated with hope and joy, the husband went to New York with the expectation of meeting her, and there ho is waiting yet, pacing the dock, and looking out on the sound for the vessel, which start ed away with his heart's dearest treasure, but which, alas, is never signaled, for the envie tion has forced itself upon the minds of all that the City of Boston has gone,down.— Like the President she sailed away from port with flying colors, and was 'never heard of more.' Already the underwriters have corn -menced to settle the claims entailed - by het loss. Disasters at sea are terrible, coming in any shape, and death is awful, but there are in most instances some crumbs of comfort for the consolation of mourners. There are the final ministrations given to the dying one, there is the last looktobe bestowed upon •the form that - iiiine liver]and loved; there is knowledge of the whereabouts of its last rest ing-place, where one can go with reverent baud to strew wreaths and dock the sod with plants, typical of our memories. The want of those things makes the grief of the poor husband we have described, the harder to be borne. Dying in his arms be might have some consolation. It is the uncertainty of her fate that makes him inconsolable, and, farces him still to remain. It is a hard heart which would refuse its sympathy to him, or any one rho can say, 'Our beloved one is dead, but we know not where the body lies buried: --Dubuque lierald. A WISE 3.lEunt o tNT.—Tho following in cident is not without its lesson to a large class who think that 'fine feathers make fine birds :' A servant girl went to a leading dry goods house to purchase a cloak. The clerk wbo waited upon ber, after displaying one or two patterns, rudely refused to show her any more, and she left the store. The facts came to the knowledge of her employer, ,who com municated them to the proprietor of the es tablishment. This led to an interview be tween the parties, aud the offending clerk was pointed out by the girl and instantly dis 'missed by his employer . want you, and all in my employ, to understand,' said the dry goods million - aro, 'that a servant girl who comes into my store to purchase goods is of as much importance to me as the richest lady in the city. The people aro my easterners, and it is to their support that I owe my business success.' 'Mother' said a little girl who was engaged in making her doll an apron, 'I believe I shall be a duchess when I grow up.' 'flow do you ever expect to become a'duchess, my daughter r her mother asked. 'Why, by marrying a<Dutchman, to be sure,' the girl replied. • y toilsome wanderings, Curiosities 'G Bzeathing. The laller men are,Lether—things—beial equal, the toore lungs. they have. and the greater number of, cubic inches of they can take in or deliver at a single breath. It is thought that a man's lungs are sound and well develaped, in proportion to his girth around the chest; yet observation shows that slim men, as a ru!e, will run faster, and fart!). er, with less fatigue; having 'more wind,' than stout men. If two persons are taken in all respects alike, except that one measures ITT - velWinches more around the chest than the other, the one havinm , the excess will not deliver more air at one lull breath, by math-, erratical measurement, than the other. The more air a man receives into his lung in ordinary breathing, the more heidth3 ,- he is likely fo be ;' because an important object in breathing is to remove impurities from the blood. Each breath is drawn pure into the lungs; on its outgoing the next instant, it is so impure, so perfectly destitute of nourish ment, that, if rebreathed without any admix ture of pure atmosphere, the man would die. Hence, o of> _of_tdie—cond i tious — totessary to secure a high state of health is, that the rooms in which we sleep shoul.i be constant ly receiving new supplies of fresh air through open doors, windows, or fire plaess„ If a person's lungs - are not well developed, the health will be imperfect, but the devel opment may be increased several inches in a few mboths_by_dai ly outdoor runnings - with , the mouth' closed, beginning with twenty yards and back, at a time, increasing tee yards every week until a hundred are gone over thrice a day. , A substitute for ladies and persons in cities is running. up stairs -- with the mouth closed, which compels very . deep inspirations, in a natural way, at the end of the journey. As consumptive people are declining each week is a witness to their inability to deliver as much air at a single outbreathing as the week before, hence the best way to keep the fell disease at bay is to, maintain lung devel opment. I.t_is_kno wn-tha t-in-large-towvicten - th - ou=' sand feet above the - leel - of - fhtT - sea, the deaths by consumption are ten times less than io places nearly on a level with the sea. TwenWive persarts-die-of- consumption in the eitY of New York where only two die of that disease in the city of Mexico. All know that consumption does not_prevail billy countries and in high situations. One -reason of this is, because there is more ascending exercise, increasing deep breath. ing ; besides, the air being more rarified, larger quantities are instinctively taken into the lungs to answer the requirements of the system, thus-atrevery breath keeping up - a high developemeot. Hence the hills should be sought by consumptives, and not low, flat situations.—.ball's health Tracts _ THE JEws —Did you ever think bow re. mark•sble it is that a people so long away from their native country, and so - widely scattered among other peoples, shO'uld - keep their original traits of character, their re• ligious beliefs and their general distinguish ing features, so wholly unchanged ? The Jew in America, in China, in England, in Russia, or in France, believes to day just as the Jew in Jerusalem believed long years since, and looks Piet as he 'looked. Jews seldom marry other than'Jews. They never attend any other than a Jewish church They Ming to their nationality as to some thing sacred. And it is sacred in their sight. Once they thought themselves the Lord's ehos'en people; and they think so still. To mix the blood of any other people in their veins is, in their estimation, to ren der them unworthy of'God's especial regard. —Moore's Rural New Yorker. , ETERNAL LEAP YEAR.—Among the Cos sacks of the Ukraine, leap•year is eternal•— When a young woman feels a tender passion for a young man, she seeks him at the resi dence of his parents, and addresses him as follows : 'The goodness I see written in your countenance is a sufficient assurance to me that you are capable of ruling and loving a wife, and your excellent qualities encour age me to hope that you will make a good husband. It is in , this belief that I have taken the resolution to come and beg you, with all due humility, to accept me for your spouse.' She then addresses the father and mother, and solicits their consent to the mar• riage. If she meets with a refusal, she de clines to leave the house, and such conduct is usually crowned with success. The pa rents of the young man never put the young maidens away, if they still persist in their stay, believing that by doing so they would bring down the vengeance of heaven upon their heads. A GOOD NAME.- 7 .l:Setore all things and beyond all price, is a good name. Eminent wisdom bat declared that it is 'rather to be chosen than great riches.' It sten s for and is the label of a man's characte The name one hears , or the ac credited r potation, represents wanly worth, his solidity, hie virtuo and honor. No power can bring ba'ck the fragrance of a good name once blasted.' No tongue can declare it.:4 value, no mind can conceive the vacuum made by its loss. With it poverty becomes a handmaid, without it wealth is a disgrace. With it the humblest stations of' life are blessed and ennobled ; without it the highest titles, the most honorable positions aau 'the most favorable human relations are marks of humiliation and insignia of worthlessness. A Subscriber informs 113 that peach leaves bruised with old bacon and applied to oats and bruises will give almost immediate relief. This is simple recipe and nearly always at hand. 'A Missouri drm find out where their bk to beat them and judge be hogs so fat that to - it-is necessary y ttto , Eqina . L. • Pat's--Predic - a:men An — trlithnThii - initarted out on a coon Want ing expedition, accompanied by a host of dogs.. After he had proceeded a short die tance through the timber, be Spied the ob ject of his eeareh, a lame neuron, which im tnediatbly took to flight, with Pat 'and the dogs iu fell chase, 'malt mounted a ttee"of immense size. But rho Irishman, nothing daunted, crawi-- ed up after hie), to the bight . of about fifty feet, when the coon took a notion its hie head to crawl out on a limb; and, of course, Pat followed. But, fo I when Pat got oat some three or four feet from the tritoli of the tree, the limb on which he Was standing, broke off close to the tree, and poor Paddy was left hanging midway between heaven and earth, by bra bands, to alimb above,his bead. After he had bung thus fora feW minutes there happened a preacher to come along; be, of course, saw the predicament Pat was in, and that if he should let, go his bold, death would be_h_is_late.---So-be told him tti. — pray fur mercy. Pat nnawered that he couldn't. . ' 'Say the LUMPS prayed' shouted the preach. er. 'I can't,' said Pat, 'Well, repeat it after me then,' and the divine commenced : .onr Father who art in heaven 'Our latter who , ate, in ,heaFenl.'—yelled 'hallowed be thy name I shouted the preacher. • Came h,olltrin' down the lane !'--was screamed baok - üb - ut -- Pa - t — ZiGiTld u oz no longer.,and shouted, 'Clear away the dogs t by thunder; here goes for a downward trip,' and releasing his hold, down he name with a 'kerehnule on the soft ground experiencing but little injury,. TUE UGLY Sff APED TifiNG.—(You are an ugly shaped'thing. any - way—you will liok like a fright; i never can make anything set .a-youl—And - ttre - moth - er removed the gar• ment, and vexatiously pushed the child away. Little Annie was grieved—who wonders ? She did not cry; but alovvly two little 'feet passed down the garden walk, and a little form knelt in the shady arbour. There was a bowed bead and clasped hands, and a bosom heavin_. No earth' , comfort-for-the tittle 'ugly shaped' child No mother's breast for her to cry herself to sleep on, that she might forgot her aotrows; for was it not her mother who. had spoken the unfeeling words, and driven her from her presence? Gls God good ?' thought the child. Why then did He make me so unlov - tiryl'Att, mother if in after'years thy child loves not Clod her Father, who made her unlovely, re• preach thyself—thou was't her teacher. Flow SOON" WE Fottogn—A leaf tern fain the tree by a rude gale, and borne away to some desert spot to perish. Who misFe3 it from its fellows? Who is sad that it is gone Thus it is with human lite. There are dear friends, perhaps, who are stricken with grief when a lotted one is taken, and for many days the grave is watered with tears and anguish But by-aod by the crystal fount is drawn dry, the last oozes out, the stern gate of forged:limas folds back upon the exhausted springs, and Time, the bless ed healer of sorrow, walks over the closed sepulchre without waking a single echo by his footsteps. An Irishman made a sodden bolt. into a drug store, took from his pocket a soda water bottle filled to the brim with some pure liquor, and handing it across the counter ex claimed : 'There, doctor,-snuff—that,— will you ?' The doctor did as ho was direoted, and pronounced the liquor to be genuine whisky. 'Thank you, doctor,' said the Irish- man. 'Hand it to me again, if you please.' The doctor again did as directed, and asked what he meant. 'Och, thin,' said Pat, 'it you will have it, the priest told me not to drink any of this unless I got it from the doctor. So here's your health, and the priest's health. QUESTION.- What are those sweet-scented, little cooed young men, with hair, patted in the middle, good for ? Answer. —Good for the place where they are generally used, to stand up around church doors and street corners, and gape at those who are trying to go somewhere, or to do Or be something. Every time I see one of these soft attempts . at humanity, I feel as al most irrosistable impulse to clap a band-box down over the tender thing, and set it out of the reach of frost, to harden. • Uncle Sam bad a neighbor who was in the habit of working on Sunday, bat after a while be joined the church. One day he met a minister to whose ehureb he belong ed. `Well, Uncle Sam,' said be, •do you see any difference in Mr. P. since he joined the church r 'Oh, yes,' said Uncle Sam, 'a great differ ence. Before, when he went out to mend his fence on Sunday, he carried hie axe ou his shoulder, but now he carries it unde. his coat.' , The census taker in Davis county, asked a woman at a farm house the age of her oldest child Mid the reply was:' •You bave come aroateklibout a month too soon I.' Brigham Yottrg.has been given the mitres by a 'Visitor whom be asked to be' Mn. B. severity•eighth • Poor Mail. A Witennsia geutteman sat down as a bee hive the otherday; and pawl:waren to fan& • . , A 'ailFer reciOio , ;—muli t an old, All "town are pod', abloatiang or good for a9t4iag, l 4 . IN FABER 2
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