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VOLUME XXIII.
OA 11
JUpT THE TH!NG
MU ALL min RAVE!
VOW is the time to economize when money is
11 scarce, You should study your interest by
supplying your wants at the first class store of 0.
N. BEAVER. North-east corner of the Diamondk
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 and on lino
credits is
EXPLODED.
Cali and examine our fine stock and don't be
RUINED
by paying 20 per cent. too much for your goodeolss
w here. We will chalenge the community to show
forth a more complete stock of
HA I'S, all of tho very latest styles and to suit all,
at C. N. BEAVER'S. •
BOOTS, all kinds and prices,
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
SHOES, of every description for Men's, Ladies',
Mlsees' and Children's wear,
,t- -- C - . — N -- BEA - V ER'S.
CLOCKS, every one warranted and sold
- C. N. BE - A VER. •
TRUNKS.of all sizes, the very best manufacture,
so-warrants Lim -so
by 'C. N. BAEVER.
VALISES; -- orevery kind, also very cheep,
at P. N. BEAVE,I2'S.
HATS, for Ladies, Misses and Children, a fresh
supply received every week and sold
by • C. N. BEAVER.
NOTIONS, a full line as follows, sold
- P-.---11EAVE- 11
PAPER COLLARS, for Men and Boys wear,
the most complete and finest assortment in town,
by
HOSIERY, of every kind, for sale,
. by C. N . BEAVER.
GLOVES, for Men aLd Boys wear,.
a' C. N. BEAVER'S.
SUSPENDERS, for Men and Boys wear, '
at C. N. BEA VER'S.
CANES AND UMBRELLA 6,0 complete stock
at C. N. 13EAVER'1. 4 .
BROOMS AND BRUSHES, of the rely beat
kind, at C. N, BAEVER'S.
TOBACCO, to suit the taste of all,
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
CIGARS, which cannot be beet, for sale.
by C. N.BEAVER.
SNUFF, which we chalenge any one to excel in
quality, for sale
at
C. N. BEAVER'S.
INK and PAPER, of every description,
at C.N. BE AVER'S.
CANDIES, always fresh too, for sale,
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
SPICES, for sale
CRACKERS, of every kind,
at C. N. BEAVER'S
INDIGO BLUE,
C. N. BEAVER'S.
CONCENTRATED LYE, for sale,
it C. N. BEAVER'S.
KEROSENE, of the very beet,—Pitts. Oil,
et C. N. BEAVER'S.
LAMP CHIMNIES also,
fit C. N. fIEAVER'S.
.And many other articles not necessary to mention.
We now hope that you will give ua aishare of your
patronage. We are indeed, thankful to you for past
patronage, and hope a continuance of the acme,
end remain yours truly, • '
CLARENCE N. BEAVER.
Waynesboro', June 2, 1870.
D.Sa,SIWITH
Has a oompleto assortment of
Ladies,
Gentlemen's,
Plisses'
and
Children's
MOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS.
Call and see goods and gee prices.
THOMSON'S "GLOVE PITTING COIL
sars, at SMITH'S.
SCHOOL BOOKS
and
SCHOOL STATIONERY
of all kinds at Surrn's Town Hall Store.
HATS AND P CAPS,
A follotook'now roady, eassiating of all the
latest styles, at
•
PAPERLe'L A
Ties, Suspenders, Gloves,uverything in that
line, at ' SMITH'S
Town Han Store.'
noir 3,
MILLINERY GOODS !
TO THE LADIES!
14 118 :C•via• BOLI4IPMERGER has just re
calved a full supoOf new Millinery goods
Ladies are invited to call and - asinine lher atork.
4.1
rifor3— tf '
The. iiigbeet oaeb_priee,mill be paid Air,
Coat kett.tieteps delixetted• et'the works of the.
GEIBIIR M.;4;0.
iv; I.; •
1 . \
Old in the dimness and the dust
Of our daily-toils and cares,
Old in the wrecks\of love and truth,
Which our burdened memory bears.
Each form May wear to the'parting gtize,
each bloom of life's freshness yet,
--A - nu - beams - may - btighterOurlatvii - .ays
Which the morning never met.
In the far and windimy •
C. N. BEAVER'S.
It was a private parlor of a hotel in the
Provinces. Two men sat at a well-spiead
break fasetable. The younger had just push.
ed back from the table with an impatient
movement.
'No,' he said, abruptly, 'I cannot eat—l
cannot drink. If I believed in presentiments,
I should say I felt a warning of something
disagreeable, if not horrible.'
'Well, thee, my dear nephew,' said the el•
der, 'as you de not believe in such things,
why not make yourself comfortable and en.
joy your breakfast? You are not to start
until to-morrow, anyway you know.'
The young man arose from his seat and
walked to the window, throwing it open and
looking out into the frosty, brilliant, sunshine.
The air was intensely cold, and reddened his
cheeks iestantly. He drew in his head say
ing :
'I shall start this morning. There's going
to be a storm, and I must go. Will you ac
company me to the station ? The train starts
io an hour.'
The uncle shivered, and drew his dressing
gown closer.
, No,' he said, 'l'll not leave the house un
less lam obliged to. I did not leave Eng
land to get frozen by a Canadian winter. I
did not know you were so sentimentally fool
ish. Alice will ant thank you for'eoming a
day sooner. Women don't like a bridegroom
around when the wedding, preparations are
going on, no matter how much in love they
aro. Take my advice and stay here until the
time appointed for you to start.'
Robert rtiussell, the young man addressed,
listened with great civility to his companion's
words.
What was such advice in comparison with
the urgent cries of his whole nature? lie
had left England three weeks before to claim
the woman'of his choice, who had been•
year in Montreal, whither she had emigrated
with her parents,,carrying with her the love
and promise of one in, whom she believed
with utter devotion. ••
Russell's uncle and adopted father had se
companied him, and now sat smiling at the
impatience, the whims of youth.
'There is a Storm in the air in spite of this
'sunlight,' RuPeell said, still standing by the
window. , .1. should not enjoy being block
aded in by snow on my journey.'.
'Probably not ; , • but you might as well ac
cept it in this,Climate ' _ ~ , ,
vrilh j
'Well, I shall lake Alice hick to Reg! d
as son as,poseible,' Resseil said, ' h is
•
baud on • the door. `Good:bye, uncle, t en--;
good bye.' • • • • . , ,
Russell wat(soorrspeeding from the town,
his eyes Molting eagerlyferweid over the vast
etretohee of snow, ap if be would outstrip
even the steam, which bore him.
He was nOt'bilf through. his -journey by
rail when from the West, where it had lin
gered throughout the penny, morning, -roes,
the filmy White
,•,Teit . that 'is :the herel4 - of
snow. _lyesoliter ? wise people , lotked out e
the ea-windows and shoqk tbeitleade, say
ing: •• ' ' , '''
‘ ' grhia will be a herd 011 C. It's itld Sileil t 1
l',Y-WAIIEI4BORO 2 , FRANKLIN COIINTf, 'PENNS, fky AN1A,, 1. 4 ' ' tHOl$OO. 'MON iNfs. MARCH-23, 187.1
imbc;osrric„stk.r_..
WE ARE GROWING. OLD.
We are growing old—how the - thought will rise,
When a glance is backward cast
On home lotig remembered spot,that
silencb of .ths'e l ituit,l '
It may be the shrine of our carry
Or the tomb of eariy.teirs
Bat it seems like a favoli" isle to us
In the stormy sea of years.
0, wild and wide are the wares that part
Our steps,from : its greenness mail
And we Miss the 'o of man a heart, -
And the light et many a brow. ,
For deep o'er many a stately. bark
Have the whelming billows rolled,.
That steered with us from that early mark
0, friends, we are getting
The graves that have in our path grown green,
The winters still on our own may spare
The sable or the gold ;
But we saw their snows upon brighter hair—
. And, friends, wo are groWing old.
We have gained the world's cold wisdom now,
ear ;
But where are the living founts, whose-flow
Was a joy of heart to hear ? •
We have wen the wealth of many a clime,
And the love of many a page;
But where is the hope that we saw in' iitnef
But its boundless heritage ?
Will it come again when the vielet *tikes,
And the woods their youth renew?
We have stood,in the light of sunny brakes
When the gloom was deep and blue;
,And OUT souls might joy in the spring-time then,
But the joy was faint and cold;
For it never could give us the youth again
Of hearts that are growing old.
16~11~ C~~i7CaLA~I~TY.
A NIGHT OF STORM.
41!L ix , ExtclerbemicXetaat aml.ly" .I\Tectvespafrweir.
agof mime the terrible snow that blockaded
this train!,
. .
. :
Russell, looking, felt his face grow pallid,
in spite of his hopes, his youthful energy.
He did not fear the storm while' en the
ears. He knew they would arrive at their
destination before the storm, would be Buff'.
ciently advanced to retard them much ; but
he remembered the twenty,miles he must go
in a cutter after the InSt station, for - Alice a.•
waited him at the residence of a relative be•
yond al. , Her aunt had persuaded her
to, ha e the g there, where wealth
could 'ye its glow to the ceremony; and
what girl Could resist such an invitation
`lf she *ere only in Montreal P.- murmured
Russell, and the first few flakes began to drift
downward.
Soon the air was•filled with fien sharp par:
tieles. It grew colder-initead - of apParently
so, for the Wind rose and Whiled the snow
fierce!
Chad snowed two hours whop 'Russell a
lighted at the station in Montreal.
,It was
already dark. save that the'glonni Was miti
gated by a full moon.
He was half benumbed by eold and sitting
so long, but hccould net wait. Reason told
him that he was a day early, and might easi
ly stay in the- city'until to-morrow ; but some
feverish, merhid' haste urged him on—it Was
impossible. for him to rest quiet a moment.
Be stood a few moments by the bright fire
in the waitiagroorn. Then he decided to go
ta_the_hoime oecupied by Alice's parents.
Arriving at the house be learned with dis
may that Alice had left two or three hours
pmevieue—Oppressed with fearful foreboding,:
he hurried on, taking the road which the set
vant-supposed=hlir-driver-h sd—selet ted,--As -
he emerged into the open country the run-
errs- - - - a—th'eleutter=sank=deop-intoLt ci_gpow;_
The_horses strugglee desperately through the
drifts, while the blinding storm and• benumb
ing cold almost overpowered him. To arouse
himself from the lethargy which he felt was
tae precursor of death, he stepped out of the
sleiah and plodded_on beside_it._For-honrry
it seemed to him, he traveled ~ alternately
walking and riding, the animals he drove be
ing almost exhausted.
Suddenly with a snort of surprise . or alarm,
his horses stopped and.threw up their heads,
their eyes started id , their sockets at some
thing indistinct in the gloom ahead.
There is something iofeeting in the alarm
of an an imal * and Russell felt his cheeks pale
as be moved slowly forward leaving the hor
ses standing there.
A shudder like the first chill of en im
pending doom, shook the youn'i i man as he
came upon a cutter overturned in the snow.
He was close to it before he eoeld make out.
what it Was. There were no horses attached
—that he saw at a glsooe, but , the tugs, out
short off,, were fastened there. The snow
bad blown away from one aide of the sleigh,
while the other side was deeply imbedded.—
He leaped upon the rennet, and hurriedly
pulled the buffalo robes away. A fear came
upon him such as he had never known he
fore.
At last—it seemed to him so long, though
it was hardly a moment--in that snowy moon
shine he saw'the pallid face.of a women ly
ing motionless among her furs,
With a surprising cry he lifted that beau
tiful form to his shoulder, and sat down on
the cutter, bending his lips to the cold one
that could not respond to his caress. And
yet she was not dead—a faint breath just
sighed across her cheek. '
Was it thus he had thought to greet his
promised wife ? iie could not think—he
knew nothing but that he bad found Alice
—and his whole being rose to the resolve
that he would save her--that neither snow,
nor ice, nor cold should take her from him.
She was his and he claimed her despite ev
erything.
But lie could not linger there; be must
be moving en, though ever so slowly.
He bore his burden to his own cutter, ta
king with him the furs that could not save
her afterthat fearful sleep had begun. • His
horses walked on again—they needed no
guiding—they could find their way bettor
than man could direct.
Anything'but intense love would have do
spaired is that tempest of snow, with that
pittiless wind freezing across• the earth, rais
ing no glow on the blue-white face against
his own.
Ile roughly chaffed with snow her hands
and face ; bat be aeon' aw that severer meas
ures mast be tried.; that.the lethargy was
too deep. She dimly felt the deep friction,
for she moaned and' seemed to shriek from it
—a wordless request to be left alone.
Russell had forgotten the cold for himself,
the snow Swept by lain unheeded. Again he
lifted her in his arms and stepped out into
the snow, letting her stand beside him, thee
trying to make her fight her wai`ea,' ktiow
log that if once she could be 'aretised,' she
was saved.
At first she fell down ;bolplessly,,san.k io•
,animately,
..with no, , Wish to stk. But in
moment his eiiimieriiiefforte tt . ad same effect,
and he could entspel her to use ber muscles
slightly, though ber bead drooped.in, an un•
knowing stupor. „ „
• ,Rassell felt that he bad never suffered be.
fore.. He thoirOt the pain and Sorrowti of
all' Millie Were crowded into'tittittine night,
By slow degreca,ahnost hopelessly' slow, con•
seiaseneas sad. horrible, suffering returned.
,klis face was i pale and sick, as he knew the
uvulas she endured. •But . pain weir the aig.'
,nal of life,'and Dot now wOuldhe'despair. '
At last she looked at him with recognizing
eyes, and when .etrerythiorg _elm bad failed,
love reached the lountaio of crimson, and
sent a wave of its red to her face. .
Weak, suffering, she reclined upon his arm,
unable to teiose• or to` Speak ' Could be keep.
the life be had sated, through a much long.
er journey ? •
When :he left tbe.eity :there were a few
houses scattered by the soadsido for -two
or three m' 4 !”, • The dimolimmer of their
lights be lied aeon ;. but shine then he • had
notified nothing , r —it was, a. wide •waste aro'
which be was riding, with no lamp of hope
held out to him.. And the delicate, girl but
half resuscitated, he thought-a-oh, Low: many .
miles before , safety i • • •
• An half hoar passed, and- through Bus.
self's brave soul had already darted the first
doubt: Haman endurance could not last for.
ever, and it isas:more than be could do to
preserve the life be had recalled. Imanoth
er half hour ice end cold might conquer . him
He would die with her; he could not live
when that dear face was beneath the sod,
A quarter of a mile further on, 'and be,
saw through the storm a dark object ~by• the.
read aide. It was a building of sonse•••kind,
and it could shelter them., ;hie • turned his
horses' heads that way nod plunged through
the snoweto the doors There was no door.—
It was a dismantled , lag' hut with its door
_gone, and iteLonelittle_wiadaw_brokeri_out
Bat it was better thaw the fury without, and
in another five tainutes,Alice waa, sheltered.
from the wind. With painful and patient
fumbling he succeeded in fastening the buf
fate skins in front of the doorway, thus form
ing a insufficient barrier. Then he drew from
his pocket his cigar case and matches, and
lighting one.-of the latter looked eagerly a
round the room in the flickering light
That glance told him that there was an itti
inense•flreplace at the side of the hut, and a
divine light streamed into his soul at the
eight. ,
Ai his horses had dragged the clutter to
the house, the runne' t" hid grated over the
to rail o f fence and the unseen', on' had_
nearly upset the light •utter-
T-he white-firigeredrfair-faced-English- man
worked with a ,ewer that was like fur .• and
en-at ast-a - _rn 4 y-blazolfte-vvap- - thn=b - road
_chimney,' tears _of joy actually started_from
his eyes. -
Euhausted, happy, he knelt at the feet of
,Alice and hid his face in her hands. With
that reviving warmth dame a little of strength
- -• ary- soul. She leaned forward, a
smile upon her lips and in her eyes, and tune
Mused
•It was Heaven Wolf who lent you here,
Russell.'
Two hours later a gray de** was strug
gling through the olouds a broad strip of
-blue encircled the west; the.wind moaned in
lower, tones. The old lint was golden with
the wood fire; it threw its radiance over the
two hones that had been led in, and stood
mild and grateful In a sooner, their eyes star
ing at the fire.
Renovated, thongh.weak, with a happiness
beyond words, warm in heart. Alice 'Mal
colm greeted her wedding day. She had
told ,her story to Russell—the story of - her
desertion in the snow. As the storm had
come on more furiously. her driver, whom
she believed trust worthy, announced his in
tention of returning. She bad aliscovered
that he was in a semi-intoxicated state, but
she refused to return, and he would not go a
step further, and had out the traces, and,
mounting one of the horses, left her to her
fate.
She did not know when, she spoke that
miles bank, within a few miles of "the city,
be lay frozen to death, the eddying avow
drifting over his body. He bad bend a
fate which his mistreat had escaped.
Backward through a vista of happy years
looked Russell and his wife to that night of
horror in Canada, when peril revealed to
thorn the full depth of their devotion—infin
itude of their love.
Struggle on to Victory.
Never give up when you are right. A
frown is only a muscular contraction, and
can't last long. A laugh of derision is but
the modified bark of a cur. if you can be
laughed out of the good, or the good out of
you, you are weaker in intellect than the fool
whose argument is a gugaw, and whose logic
is a sneer. Are you a cirunkrad? Do you feel
in your sober moments that you are degra
ded? Good thoughts, these; cherish them.—
Ponder on your disgrace though your heart
feels cold, and you would sooner die than
live were you not afraid; but here infinite
goodness has drawn the veil: but struggle on,
upwards and out of these despairing thoughts;
assert your manhood, and 'the demons will en
ter into the human swine who have taught
you to wallow in the filth of drunkenness,
and you will be saved. Struggle oa to vioto
ry. Are you a thief? Steil no mote; strive
courageously to break down the barriers of
prejudice yon yourself have. constructed.—
Be honest, net from policy, but for right°.
(lances sake, Alacl' neither earth nor hell can
prevent yoUr victory. Have you been bum ,
bugged ‘ or,swindled by your partner in. bnai
nese' and have you lost all? Don't ,despair
aria foisivciar alf humeri conipanionsiiip.:— .
Struggle'on yen will at last meet the right
man, inti victory will be yours. Straggle on,
all mou,;for the right, fox, life te but one con
tinuous struggle from the first infantile cry
to• that last sigh, which is the rushing of the
soul to escape from the 'lag' struggle with
death. Struggle above all tbinga—agonize,
if it insist be,--to ascend; let your progress
be ever op hill until 'you' reach that summit
frovii*hich is endless life, 'ever serene and
happy there is but one Step.
HUMAN HABITS —Habits are forming like:
roasonary. 14:very. thought* *metes small, as:
every' brick seems anialL':-'And yet, L notice:
in the building'thatie going up behind ikly
,dwelling that; fonall'aa bricks are, one being
set is mortar day by day, by skillful hands,
the wall thickens and vises; and solidifies,
nod the tinge struettire . ia' piled up at' last.--=-:
Taken singly, these bits of , burovelayare of
no aignifioance,lbeti all of them together are
of tremendous significance. Now, - a man's '
lile is. made up of little thbughta one
*MA is not, nriqb,',lcnt'tVe matitisio of'
`Ore bricks, in' thObande of the.
,builder. The wills of yotir l obsractof going
lop day, by dap, sad yod are, hoildleg,, not, a
lone for time, but for eternity. ,
A ,Story for Husbands.
U men, I will tell you a awry.
Once there was a young man, and be bad
a young wife and a young child, and' a small
puree, and no house at all., Bo be found a
secluded plays where they eo ld hoard,..ato
yet ho quiet and by .themeelvhs. Thue kie
wife was free from the cares of housekeeping,
and hod.nothing to do but tend her baby.—
Barthia , young man,
'inspired with !wisdom
from,above—or with the •inatinota of a long
line of gentlemen, which amounts to the same
thing—said within himself: •
'lt is too much for a woman to be.oometant•
ly with a baby. Patience and nerve cannot
etond it. She•neede variety' and fieedots.'
So be,committed• what uinety.nino men—
and women too—out of a, hundred ,vrould
ealt_unpardonable—extravagance. With —a
small. salary; without fortune, without house•
held cares, he oxeruised the most rigid ier•
economy, but—V.pt a nurse to he
wife to take care of the Why.
• :Well; they have been, married w dozen
years, and have, I should think. abeat
zero children. Ai least, the moment you step
feet into the entry, children swarm over the
baluster, and pour though the doors, and you
can.hardly tell wh,ether it is because there
'M are,
so any of them , there is ce much of what
there are. But 'the mother of ' the whole
brood is, at this moment,, a healthy, happy,
handsotite, charniing woman, as digniSed as
a pun, as fresh and - merry as a girl, and
just Ss fondly and foolishly and- , -if you will
pardon the word—..spoonilyin love with her
husband as she, was the day ehe married him.
Aid=lie-ieras-dkpriwthe-nrud - as - she is in the
mire. • They behaVe perfectly well in compa-
ay, and a stranger might be with them
• at— _sav_si.,, •
Inge, .0 once you ge runt tar wtt t
house, — and you are - constantly in 'danger = of
surprising them• making love to each other in
sly corners, and you,have to put en as much
blindness and deafness as if they wore "en
gaged" only last week.
__Let alone that a happy man has given them
such light hearts and clear brains that they
have fared like Solomon; and received not
only the happiness they asked for, bat the
ricihee acid honor which"they did not ask for.
Go and do thou liketiritie.— Gail Ransil
ton.
A Sensible Resolve.
Did you - ever kear, sis, how it was that
Edwards the mason, gave up drinking ?' said
a workman to my father, one day, when. he
was talking to him about the evils of iutem•
pentim.
'No,' said my father, 'bow, was it. .
'Well, one day Edwards was drinking in
a public house, when the lamdloid's wife
came to call her husband to dinner.
'What's for dinner ?' said the man.
'Roast goose,' replied his wife, •
'ls there apple-sauce fliesoiked.
'No' she answered.
'Well go and make some; I won't eat
goose without apple•sance.'
!When the woman bad left the room to
prepare this delicacy, Edwards was so im
pressed by the scene he had witnessed that
ler the first time in his life he began to
think what a fool he had been.
'Here's this man,' said he to himself, can't
eat his dinner of roast goose without apple
sauce, while my poor wife and children at
borne are glad to get a herring, for their
dinners, and very often can't even have
that.. Whose money I should like to know
goes to provide this fellow's good thingsr—
Mine, and that of other poor foe's like me.—
Well, what's done can't - be undone.
no use crying over spilt milk, but that fal
low shan't dine off toast goose again at my
expense.' So be paid his reckoning, and
walked out of that public house never to
enter it again.'
The same thing is going en in thousands
of pnblie•housos all over the country--the
landlord and his wife and children feasting
on the best of everything, and the poor tip
sy men who pay far it having scarcely enough
to keep themselves from starving.
DOWN THE HILL—The evening of every
maws life is coming on apace. The, day of
life will soon be spent. The son, though it
maybe spin mid heaven, will pass swiftly
down the western sky, and disappear.
,What
shall light up'ina n 's' path when the sun of
life has gene' down? Lie must travel on to
the next world; but what shall illumine his
footsteps after the nightfall of death, amid
the darkness of his journey ? What question
mere important, matzo practical, more seism.
for each reader of our journal to ask himself?
That is a long journey to travel without a
friend. Yet every man Inuit perform it
The time is not tardistaut when all mon will
,begin the journey. There it an evening star
in.the, natural wosld, Its radience is bright
and beautiful, and cheering to the benighted
traveler. But life's evening Star is in a good
'hope' of 'Heaven' Its 'beauty' and brilliancy
are reflected from the no of Righteousness,
whose bright rays light up the evening of
life, and throw their radiance quite across
the darkness of the 'gratis koto Inaniadners
land.% • It Alas illuminated the footsteps 'of
Inany,atraveler into vomit,. It is of price.
leas value. thousand, worlds cannot ,pia
chase it; yet it is offered without money ant
without 'price tohim who will penitently. and
thankfully receive it.
HAD TO FINISH THE - BARN.AO A. far
mer named Jentsoa, Agin in 'Wapello comi
ty, lowa, recently came into, poesesion of, a
legacy of $10,000,000, left, binity a,relatits
in Ettiriaid, which it was necessary for him
to gaafter. When he t'eeeived'the news, he
was hammering on a biro, 'which ha was
bailding.- Be paarad, :scratched his head,
aad finally said: • • •
'I d'on't ace h ow I can go now; I've got
this bate to finish
frivA is nepep,olq,Re;tiJd Jae wig&
X 2.00 isear 'Year
Digging out of a Well.
- At Poplat. Grote,"Grundy eottnty, Mo., on
the 7th lust , Jahn Andraire, a well to•
do farmer, had dng a well Battle forty feet
deep, and walled it, up :abotti fifteen feet,
vu r 11413 n•
bout-to cave in. -Mr. andrews gathered up
an armful of short boards, and went down a
polo ladder festetted to the side of the well
to lay their' aeroas the well's() 'as to proven'
the dirt as it tell Weil filling up that part of
the *ell walled np, Lie had not more•than
reached the bottom, as it is thought, beforo
the well caved in , filling up tu a few feet of
the top.
. The alarm was given and• the oeighbore
gathered,.buf all believing him dead, they
returogi to their homes to wake arrange
mt4tit-io-cOnta—tlis neat morning anci.Allg
hint Out. Nrs. Andrews and two' krowa
dun_ltersnnd ea veral ohild ron_r_e futtad_to_
p his. leave the spot, but eat on a log.near the well
crying until late in the evening, when all at
once they Saw Mr. Andrews emerging from
the well, covered with clay, and cowing to
ward them l The ehildrop all ran, scream
ink to the lanes., bolted - the doors and fasten
ed the Windoirs, believing it to be their fa
ther's • host. - But Mrs. Andrews ran to
meet fain, ,Wtten she, fainting at bis feet.
It seems t hat when he get to the bottom
of the Weil he looked up' and saw the
_top
giving wag; and, believing he had no time )
to make his eseape,he aped under the
boards which he had laid across the well,
when the whole-thing fell its upon him.—
All hope at hist gave.away, and he was about
to - le t - trimse lf - drop in Ware - water 7tothite - a - tid --
end at once his miserable feelings, when feel.
log above he found the clay easily crawl)•
lio• LI • I
le po o or, it seems, watt stt stan •
ing, and getting hold,with see band, he with__
the other- scratched away for life, the dirt
falling ieto the water below, as he dragged
his body elotily upward, It seems he did
not suffer, mach in breathing, as freshair___
CMOS down the pole,_around-whieh the dirt
was loosely riaeked. In the incredibly short
time of seven boots besctratehed a hole sone
forty feet long, through which he made his
escape, This is one of the narrowest hair
breadth egospes from .a horrible death on
record.—St: Louis Peptiblican. , „
Tuctranr—ln educating the mind our
first duty should be to teach -it to think, so
that all its powers man be concentrated upon
a single paint without painful effort, When
Sir Isaao•Newton was asked how he made
sues vast diesoveries in the various depart
meats of science, he replied, 'By thinking.
The world in looking at the requite he effect'
ed forget the weary days and nights spent
in patient thought by which those antra
cent theories, the wonder of the present day
were brought forth. In early years he learn
ed to .think, - and as thought: generates
thought, and the mind of man is capable of
almost it:Anita expansion, he went on stop
by step in the labyrinths of science till death
put art end to hie laborti.
The want of earnest thought, rSetoives a
daily illustration in the iastitstiona of learn-
all over our laud., The brains of the students
are crammed with an immonce mass of rub.
bish collected from other minds, and with
this insubstantial repeat they are °unopened
to be satisfied. lslot osee are they taught to
depend into the caverns of thought and gash..
er bright jewels for themselves. . There . are
however, notable exceptions in this general
laxity of discipline, and the light they lthed
forth shines with a double brilliancy.
TEMPERANCE 'FABLE.--The rate .1100 titi•
ambled in a large sonar to devise .some me
thod of safely getting the bait from a, steel ,`
trap which lay near, having aeon numbers of
their relations snatched from them by its
merciless jay*. After many long speeolies
and the proposals of many elaborate hut,
fruitless plans, a happy wit, standing erect
said : 'lt is my opinion that if With 'one
pal we can keep dawn the spring; wo can
safely take the food Item the trap with the
other.' All the .rats present loudly squealed
assent. Then they were itartJed by a faint
voice, and a poor rat, with only three legs,
limping into the ring stood up to speak :
'My friends, I have tried the nsetbodlois
propose, and you see the result. Now jet
me suggest a plan to eiteap42 the trap. Let
it alone.
One fountain there is, sage Miss .Bremer,
whose deepening vail has only jam begun to ,
throw up its silver drops among mankind—a
fountain which' allays the thirst of millions,
and will give to those who drink from it peaeo
and joy. It is knowledge—the fountain ,pt
intetiewu+l cultivatioti . nhich glves health
toinankind; wake, ear the vision; 'brio~*
joy to hie lite, anti breathes over his rout~
destiny a deep re pose . Go and drink there•
from, then who m Portage bas not favored,
and'thett Will find thyselfriCh.' 'Thou may
eat go forth into the &odd aufl find' thynelf
everywhere at bomb, bou.oatist enjo thy
self in thine own littlOhamher: thylMentia
are everywhere amnia thee; nature t apti
pity, heaves,. tire accessible to thee.
A Masseehusetts,paper tells of a colored
women who had been lately converted. but
was so unfortunate as to fly iota a passim'.
ovar the misdoing's of one of her neighbor's
y oungs%oll. mistvet* rem arked—itp r on•
the impropriety of such -ooaduot in the oasis
of one al-oncto join the church, and readived.
this frank response:. •
'I have 'sperienoed.'ligion, aa' , gleio.t,
to jive de ohnreh, bat Mies .13.--... ? - 1 .113 •
eoald dataiggee fast'
=ECM!
A .wicioner in Terre-filinte, eittin
to marry any young, amiable, beautiful, anti
accomplished girt who will take care. of lakija
boaiae,.keep bis elakiirien Oteai). intl. let laiaia•
ioae. , • .
dandy bouk aniters.--aios . awry).
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