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VOL. 46,
HUNTINGDON, PA., JANUARY 18, 1871.
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VriLES   ZENTMYER,   Aftomey-at-
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tT-    ALLEN  LOVELL,  Attorney-at-
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W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law,Hun¬ tingdon, Pa.    Oflico with J. Sewell Stewart, |jan.4,'71.
THALL 5IUSSER. Att<irney-at-L:iw. •    Huntingdon, Pa.     Office,  second  floor  of icister's new building. Hill .«trcet.        [jan.l,'71.
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JW.   MATTERN,   Attorney-at-Law •    and (icncral Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., •Soldiers' claims against the Uovernment for  back >ay, bounty, widows* and invalid pensions attend- .'d to with great care and promptness. Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'71.
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Grandfatlier's Darliag.
(iriindfather is past ninety, nnd litlle May bnt
four; Yet tliey love to sit together beside the cott:ige
door ; And ns the ol'.l man dunces lii.^ iliirling on liis
knee. He tells her of the f.ir back time v.licu lie was
young as she, Tliose long and rambling stories May oft before
has heard, lint slie li.stens with wide-open  e.trs to every
well-known word; And ill her mind she wonders  if lie remem¬ bers too The man who live 1 iu Noah's ark, when   this
old world was uew. Grandfather's   liair   is scanty, aud   white   as
driven snow. While May's rich curls are golden, kissed by
Uic sun's warm glow ; But .13 the yonng head nestles, foadly against
tlie old, Yon see the sunlight blending the silver nnd
the gold. -Grandfather is not book-lcarucd, but from his
early 3-outb He has striven to walk heavenward, and loved
the way of truth ; And now he clasps his darling ns the day  is
getting dim. And both together murmur a simple   evening
hymn. Ilis stalwart sons come round him—and well
advanced iu years— tell  him   how   the   world goes   on, with all
its hopes and fears ; But from their modern gossip he tnrns away
to hear The childish prattle little -May is   whi.^pering
i:i his car. Folks call the old man childish—it may be
even so— His heart is as a little child's, and this we love
to know; And fomewlicre it is written, that not the wise
alone. But  those  who   live   in   child-like   faith, our
Father calls his own. Grandfather is past ninety and little May hut
four, So they will not sit together long beside that
cottage door. But we know wheu the old man from earth Is
called away. His God, and her'.s, will still  protect his  dar¬ ling little May.
Slie f t0ni-1J^?!li;y,
DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his ]trofei<sional services to the community. Office on Washington street, one door cast of the Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'71.
EJ. GREENE, Dentist.    Office  re- •    moved to Leister's new building, HiU street Huntingdon. [jan.4,'71.
K    ALLISON MILLER, Dentist, has •    removed to the Brick Row, ojtposite  the Court House. [jan.4,'7I.
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IN LOVE WITH AN IDIOT.
BY  O.   B.   WELDI.XO.
I do not mean by the singular heading of my article that falling in love with an idiot is at all an unusual occurrence; and I do not mean to hint some degree of idi¬ ocy is not always attendant upon one of the parties in the affairs de couer; nor will I contradict the cynic who said that all people in love are idiots. I only mean to state a few facts, some of which are well known to people hereaw.iys.
Love is a species of insanity none the less potent because it is voluntarily assum¬ ed. AVc have known men of fair attain¬ ments, and possessing good strong sense, who cut capers when under the influence of tlie naked god, which cau.'^ed their friends to stare We have seen men, as straight as an arrow, and as fair as Caucasian blood could make them, bend at the shrine of some dingy divinity, as crooked in tem¬ per aud dark in complexion tis an Ethiop's ear ; and we have seen one of Pennsylva¬ nia's fairest daughters leave the refined circles of literary, scientific and amiable gentlemen, for the arms of a gangling country schoolmaster, too confused to speak, and too ignorant to write his at¬ tachment. In vain did papa scowl and mamma cry; in vain did lawyers sneer and clergymen pray; the belle saw only beau¬ ty in his warty face, grace in liis ill-joint¬ ed limbs, iind wisdom in the head of Mr. Birch—and marry Birch she would, and did, in the spite of the world, the flesh, and, as the lady .said, ''in spite of the dev¬ il."
Yet we must admit that the superior taste and love of congruity which distin¬ guishes the fairer ses, induces them to rush with less haste into these mesaliances than men. With women love is a delicate and pretty sentiment, which she will shift, as sho shifts the flowers in her bonnet, ac¬ cording to the varying seasons and neces¬ sities of her condition; with men the mas¬ ter passion becomes a principle. But I am getting prosy, and must give tho do- tails of my story.
In the autumn of the year LS15, the staid inhabitants ofa county town of Fay¬ ette county, in this State, were sot to gos¬ siping by the arrival of a young lawyer named S , who aunounced his in¬ tention of settling in that town. A fine person, genial manners, great industry, and moro than ordinary t.alents, set oS" and
graced by singular modesty, made   S	
highly acceptable to the villagers. Hav¬ ing influential relatives in Wasiiiiigton, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, his company was much sought aftor; but like a ."afe youth, he buried himself in the duties of his office, apparently careless about the at¬ tractions of the society of men or women In one of his visits to Wtishington, he, one fine afternoon in April, left tho pob islied circles who formed littlo eddies about the elegant wife of President Madison, and turned the head of the horso upon whieh he rode tow.irds the Potomac. Pass¬ ing the battle-ground of Bladensburg, he came.after a ride ofan hour to the end of the little bridge made so famous by the attack and success of the English Admi¬ ral Cockburn. The day was sultry, aud stopping before the door of rather a taste¬ ful cottage, he flung the bridle over the fence, and walked down the little path to a well which stood in the yard. Looking over the house, nothing could be seen ex¬ cept a pair of deep blue eyes, which peer¬ ed from an upper story window curiously down upon him, seeming to watch his motions with great interest. Looking at her more intently, he beheld the fair round face of a very pretty girl of about seventeen summers. She had light hair, regular features, and although more than usually prepossessing, the lawyer might have gone away, as he came, heart free, ii it had not been for something in the blonde's deep blue eyes which made his heart bleed.
"Young lady," said he, "will you  assist
mo in getting something from which to drink?" This well is deep, and if I .should drown nij-solf in attcmptirtg to descend for it, it will not add to the attr.ictious of tho water."
The head disappeared from the window, and in a moment the plump figure of the girl appeared at the side door with a cup, and placing it in tlie hand ofthe barrister, he put his lips to the edge of tho ve.s.sel, and peering over the rim at the beivutiful girl he drank a long draught. If he had been impressed before, now, when her fig¬ ure was displiiyod in all its captivatin graces, his heart beat more lou'lly than ever.    Every bullet   had its billet. Young
.'^ had passed unhurt  through   whole
batteries ot bright eyes at Washington, to be wounded beyond help by au accidental shot from the eyes ofa country lass at a well.
Tho girl v.'iilkcJ rapidly into the house,
leaving Mr. S at the well, who mount
ed his horse and attempted flight. He road a few steps and returned. The same face at the window; the same blue eyes seeming to watch him with curious inter¬ est.
"Young Lady will _\ou have the kind¬ ness to inform me of the name of the gen¬ tleman who lives in this hoit.se?"
A long curious look from the young girl, and no answer.
"I am a   respectable   gentleman.    My
name is !:> , aud I ask the name, iiino-
centlj' and honestly."
Again no answer, and again t!ie lawyer turned his horsos head away from the cottage, muttering, 'confijund it I feel very unhappy."
The night was a long ono, and the next day he mounted his be.ast, and with vouch¬ ers for his respectability, presented him¬ self again at the feet of tho girl, to know his fate. Throwing himself from the sad¬ dle, he walked boldly up to the door, and knocked, a faded gentleman app,ared, and, in grave and dignified tones, asked his business. Upon placing the letters in his hand, the host .asked our visitor into a sit¬ ting room, furnished more elegantly than the outward appearance of the liouse would seem to indicate, and asked his business. "May I ;isk, sir, if that young latly whom I saw yesterday sitting at the win¬ dow is your daughter ?"
"It is my only daughter, sir, left to me by my sainted wife, who has ascended, and waits my coming."
"I infer, from your garb and dress, sir, that you are a clergyman."
"In tho cities," said the old man grave¬ ly, "I wo'ald be called by that name. In- dceJ, .-.t one time, I held the occupancy tif Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia, but my falling health rendering lUC incapable of performing the arduous duties of a large parish I resigned my post, and came here to assume control over a small flock, and to attend to the health of my daughter."
There w;is something indescribably sol¬ emn in the face and tone of the clergyman as he uttered these last words. After a pau.se, he continued.
"May I ask what I :im indebted for tho honor of this visit?"
With more vehemence than he had ever manifested in his life, tho young lawyer rapidly roltited the events of tho day be¬ fore, winding up by the statement :
"I propose immediate marriage io your daughter, provided the young lady will have me."
The father bowed his head, and looked sad.
".Mr. S ," he said, at   length,    "do
you know that my child has not a penny in the world ?"
"I want to marry the girl herself, not for her money," siid the lawyer.
"Do you know," said the sire, "that my daughter's maternal grandparent was hang¬ ed during the Revolution '!"
"Why do you teli mc of ber grandfath¬ er?" said the lawyer, angi'iiy. "I love the girl, and would many her if all her grandparcts had been hung since the flood:"
Now there was a shade of pain, like the flit of a disturbing cloud over the face of a calm sunset, came and went over the old man's face. Twice he placed his iiand on the red spot on his .sad face, he sighed deeply, and, after an efibrt, he looked long and solemnly in the eyes of his visitor, and i-u solemn tones remarked : '•Your language, your kttcr, aud your enniestness, satisfy me that I am adaress- ing a gentleman. I dare not treat your honest love rudely."
The old gentleman paused, and again the solemn flashes of sadness came over his face, while he looked as if he were survey¬ ing the long, shadowy past.
"I have not always, young man, been buried as you see me, in this remote place. I loved onco, and the woman I loved now wears the crown of martyrdom. At the bidding of her Lord, she sacrificed the luxuries of her elegant Philadelphia home to follow the footsteps ofa poor priest, who followed his Master. And in the labors and the loneliness of this place, she laid her liie on the altar of sacrifice, leaving me with a desolate heart and this girl whom you love. I have never doubted," added the old man, with fervor, "that He would care for her."
"I will give her position, wealth, and everything that money can buy," exclaim¬ ed Mr. S .
"Do you know that my daughter is an idiot?    Come this way, young man."
The lover followed his future father-in- law up a flight of stairs.
"Look at jour bride," said he, pointing to a Ugure on the floor. Half reclining on the floor and playing with a doll, was the object of his attraction. Tho hiv.'yer ap¬ proached the girl, and with the familiarity which sincere love only cau give, rever¬ ently lifted the mass of beautiful but sense¬ less  beauty upon a chair, and placing his
hand upon hor forehead, looked long and intently down upon her blue eyes. Alas I she returned one look, cs men look at things they do not understand. It was all too true. Tlio barrister was looking at vacuity.
For a  moment tho   lawyer  sighed,   as strong men sigh but onco in their lives. "I wish to .speak with  you a  moment
alone," said .S .
"We can speak hero. She will under¬ stand no moro than tho dead."
The two genllonieii parted at a latc hour that evening, the faces of both pale and wet.
Wheu tho snows of the next winter v,'c:o whitening the Potomac   witlr foam,
.S and his bride stood before the altar
of Dr. O'Bryan's Church, iu AV^ashington_ Ho looked ton years older. The sense of an unearthly trust and responsibility was consuming him When the ceremony was over, the bridegroom took his wife in his strong arms, as a father would take a child, and wrapping his cloak tbouther tenderly, placed her in the carriage. lie stooped over her and imprinted oue kiss ujion her forehead. "It is the first," said he, "and it will be the last I" He had loved but once, and it was the last.
The tiaveler who hiiters fnr an hour in the quaint old town of Fayette, may .see the reinniiis ofan old garden at tho rear of one of tho cnnifort.ib'o limi.scs. and he may see the slight bars which surround it jiretty window at the roar. Here, suiroundedby all that luoney and love could buy. lived for forty yeai-s. the child wife of a brilliant lawyer—tho wife of a man wh.i was ap¬ pointed District Attiiriiey by President Monroe, and who, from 1821 to 1827. from 1831 to 1835 and from 1843 to 1847 —eight terms iu all—served as Represen¬ tative in Congress of the United Stat<<s. Strange that in his strong, honest heart, at a time of lifb when passion and desire hold tho ascendency, that this man should de¬ vote his fine mind, his money, his all. to the care of a beautiful idiot. He secured the attention of two Christian ladies, (one of thom an old flame of his.) and nothing that could add to the comfort ofthe singu¬ lar wife was withheld. During his labors as a statesman, the husband always hasten¬ ed back from Wa.shington, his hands full of toys and trinkets, and would sit upon the gra.ss and amu.se her.
Some years ago the child wife—now Town old and gray, but still pleasant to look upon—was carried from her home to the place where the grass grows in the vil¬ lage ehnich-j'ard; and often at eventide, the villagers see an old man. with stooping figure and iiirrowed lace, bonding his stops toward the little church in tho calm summer evening and arranging v.ith his h:inds the flfiwcrs which bloom over the grave ofthe Idiot Wifk.
A Word to Stem Fathers.
Tt never can be too strongly impressed upon the mind that nothing releases a pa¬ rent from his duties toward a child. No waywardness, no disobedience, no rebellion, no profligacy can ever justify a father in casting a son or daughter adrift. We hear of sons being cut off with a shilling, of daughters being forbidden their father's liouse, and, without any exception, such cases are proof that, of whatever sins tho children may have been guilty, the father i.i even .i^uac guilty. No person can com¬ mit against society so great a crime as a father commits who is thus false to the trust Viliich he himself has imposed—who thus thrusts oft" from himself the soul which he called into being. A father .should be g ivcrned by no motive but his child's best interests, and a child's best interests can never be served by anything but his fath¬ er's constant and loving care. If a child is .«!) bad that his influence is feared on the othor children, a separation may be ef¬ fected. If it is fciucd that money bestow¬ ed on him wiil be for his injury, provision may be mado against that, as in the i'tise I have mentioned. But when a father, iu a fit of anger, or as a reward for ill-doing, disinherit or refuses to see his child, ho touiuiits a crime which the law indeed do not recogniEc, but whose guilt it would take many a legal crime to outweigh. There should be absolutely uo limit to pa¬ rental forgiveness and forbearance. Seven times seventy times seven should the fath¬ er receive the prodigal son who seeks his face ; and if he never seeks it. if he goes, stubborn and rebellious, iint one atom of fatherly care and interest should ho relax; for the child is his child, his offspring, born of his will, aud no vice or violence can release tho man from his solemn obli- g-ation to guard and guide, so far as po.ssi- blc, the life v.hich he dared to give.
§tikm' §u40«t.
Importance of Sleep.
The cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food, not that it is more important, but because it is often harder to get. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or women, otherwise equal, the ono who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep wiil do mueh to cure irrittibility of temper, pevishncss, uneasiness. It will cure cure insanity. It will restore to vigor an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will do much to cure dyspepsia. It will relieve the languor and prostration felt by con¬ sumptives. It will cure hypocondria. It will cure the blues. It will cure the head¬ ache. It will euro a broken spirit. It will scrrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness, however, is not so easy, particularly in tho.se who carry heavy responsibilities. The habit of sleeping well is ono which, if broken up for any length of time is not easily regain¬ ed. Often a severe illness, treated by powerful drugs, so deranges the nervous system that sleep is never sleep—is never sweet afterwards. Or jierhaps, long con¬ tinued watchfulness produces the same ef¬ fect. ()r hard study, or too little exercise of the muscular system, or tea dnd spirit drinking, aud tobacco using To break up the habit are required: First, a good, clean bed. Second, suflicient exorcise to produce wcaniitss, and pleasant occupa¬ tion. Third, good air, and not too warm a room. Fourth, freedom from too much care. Fifth, a clean stomach. Sixth, a clean conscience. Seventh, avoidance of stimulants and narcotics. For those who are overworked, haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption of such habits as will secure sleep, otherwise life will be short, and what there is of itsadly imperfect—Boy's Jour¬ nal. ^
Occupation.—What a glorious thing is occupation for the human lieatrt! Those who work hard seldom yield to real or fancied sorrow. When grief sits down, folds its hands, and mournfully feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim shadows that a little exertion might sweep away in¬ to a funeral pall, the strong sptrit was shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our master. AVhen troubles flow upon you dark and • heavy, toil not with the wiives, and wrestle not with the torrent; rather seek by occupation to divert the dark waters that threaten to overwhelm you into a thousand channels, which tho duties of life alw.ays present. Before j'ou dream of it, those waters will fertilize the present and give birth to fresh flowers, that will become pure and holy in the sunshine which penetrates to the path of duty iu spite of every obstacle. Grief, after all, is but a selfish feeling, aud most selfish is the man who yields himself to tho indulgence of any passion which brings no joy to his fellow-nion
Influence of Newspapers.
The Eost'in T'ratc^/erstatcsthat a school teacher, who had enjoyed the benefit of a long practice of his profession, and had watched closely the influence of newspapers upon the minds of a family of children, gives as a result of his observations, that, without exception, those scholars of both sexes, and all ages, who have success to newspapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are:
1. Better readers, excelling, in pronun¬ ciation, and consequently read more under- standingly.
2. They are better spellers, aud define words with ease and accur-.-.cy.
3. They obtain a partial knowledge in geography in almost half the time it re- (juircs others, as the newspaper had made them familiar with the location of import¬ ant places and nations, their governments and doings.
4. They arc better grammarians, for having become familiar with every variety of .style in the newspaper, from common¬ place advortiseuients to the finished and cla.ssical oration of the statesman, they more readily comprehentl the meaning of the test, and consequently analyze its construc¬ tion with accuracy.
¦ 5. They write better compositions, using better language, containing more thoughts and still more clearly expressed.
From these simple facts three important things can be deduced :
1. The responsibility of the press in sup¬ plying literature which shall be under- standingly expressed.
2. The absolute necessity of personal su¬ pervision of a child's reading by his parents.
3. Having once obtained a good, able paper, no matter what the price, don't be¬ grudge it a hearty support.
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A Touching Incident.
The world is full of mournful incidents. How little do we know of the poignant sorrow myriads of our fellow creatures are compelled to suffer. The following touch¬ ing event we take from the Boston Jour, nal :
"An expressman upon reaching his of¬ fice early one cold morning in January, observed on the sido^k, a long, heavy box. which his practiced eye at once identi¬ fied as containing a corpse. Upon the end of the box, shivering with cold, sat a little half-clad boy. about seven or eight years of age.    Addressing him kindly, he said :
"My lad. don't sit there, you will freeze, come in and sit by the stove."
Bursting into tears the little fellow re¬ plied. "No. I cau't come, my mother is in this bii.x and I promised her that I woiild not leave her   until   wo got home."
Deeply aftected with the touching devo¬ tion of this brave little fellow, he finally succeeded in convincing him of the entire safety of bis precious charge, and taking him to a neighboring restaurant, gave him a warm breakfast, and then learned the particulars of his story. His father died iibout a year previously, in a remote vil¬ lage in Minnesota, leaving his mother in poor health and nearly destitute. She died but a few days before the boy's sad jour¬ ney, charged the little hero with the duty of conveying the remains to her friends in a distant State, and furnished him with (all she had) a sum of money barely sufficient to carry them both by freight cirs to their destination. The little fellow had actually ridden night and day in a freight car with his melancholy trust, never for a moment losing sight of it.
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There is a girl in Jersey whose lips are so sweet that they stick together every mosning by the honey tney distil, and she cannot open her niouth until she has part¬ ed her lips with a silvor knife. She will be a treasure to her husband, not ouly on account of her sweetness, but because she can occasionally keep her niouth shut.
Phocra.stination is the thief of time.
Rich music—A million air.
A bad place to get out at—tho elbows.
AA'liat every teetotaler must come to at last—His bier.
A goat is as good as a miller, but suc¬ ceeds better aa a butter.
"Professor of the accumulative art" is the California term for thief.
A Chicago millionaire is traveling all through to find the best hotel in theworld, so that he can beat it when he returns.
"Pa," said a little friend of ours, "what's the use of giving our little pigs so much milk? They make hogs of them¬ selves."    T*a walked away.
A musician, in giving notice of an in¬ tended concert, thus expressed it: During the evening a number of songs may be expected, too tedious to mention.
A St. Iiouis man ia universally con¬ demned by his friends for circulating the report that he was going to Europe, and then merely visited Paris, Ky., and Rome, N. Y.
"Have I not offered you every advan¬ tage?" said a doting father to his son. "0, yes!" replied the youth; "butI could not think of taking advantage •f my father?"
Here is one of Josh Billings' late say. ings: The man who spends all he can make in charities, will git his reward here and hereafter—^but his reward liere, will be the poor house."
"My dear," said a sentimental wife, 'home, you know, is the dearest spot on earth." "Well, yes," said the practical husband, "it does cost about twice as mueh as any other spot."
Davy Crockett once graphically describ¬ ed the condition of a party of friends af¬ ter a political jollification who were so tipsy that neither of them could hit the ground at three times throwing.
Mrs. Agassiz wrote: "I am never tired of watching the sloth, he looks so delici- ously lazy." "It was hardly necessary," says the Christian Register, "to go to Brazil to secure this gratification."
An Irishman writing a letter to his sweet heart, asking whether she would ac¬ cept his love, or not, writes thus: "If you don't love me, pleaze send back the letter without breaking the seal."
Miss Pippine s.ays the best thing that most of the young gentlemen who eall at her house could take would be their leave; and its merits would be increased in pro¬ portion to the earliness of the period at which it is taken.
A thirty-two months' girl in AVorcester thus accosteJ her paternal relative a day or two ago: "i'apa, will you buy me some holes to put in my ears, so I can have some ear-rings?" Papa is now look¬ ing for the holes.
A Colorado bush-whacker, with his arm in a sling, explained that a comrade kick¬ ed over his coffee pot, and, when he re¬ monstrated, put a bullet through his fin. "But he has gone where he won't kick over any more coffee pots," he added.
"It's a good thing to have a hansome penman for a beau," said Mary, as she glanced over a billet doux.
"Yes," replied Julia, "if the penman is handsome, I don't care how ugly the pen mauship is."
Waltzing by a new name.—A shoddy young lady surprised her mother on re¬ turning from a dance, saying that she en¬ joyed the "hugging set to the music most bully." She had reference to waltzing, and why isn't that a good name for it ?
The difficulty of expressing one's self in a foreign language is illustrated by the remark of a German girl, who went to see a fine boy baby, and, endeavoring to express her admiration, said, "0 my! what a nice fat babee! How fat she is, don't he?"
A Ma.ssachusetta tradesman says: "A man who is owing me a little bill said he would call last week and pay me if he was alive, lie still appears in the street, but as he did not call it is naturally supposed he is dead, and is walking about to save funeral expenses."
A parson, not "a sea-faring man," ect, thus explained to his hearers the main idea of the text that hope is like an an¬ chor to the soul: "My friends, I suppose you all know what an anchor is. It is a kind of a thing to get a ship under good headway with."
The best anecdote we have heard about the late Dr. G was this: The physi¬ cian had a brother a reverend. A kdy one day said to the former: "I wish you were as good a man as your brother." "A great deal better, madam," was the reply ; "he preaches and I practice."
A Cincinnati lady, who recently found the gas escaping in her servant's chamber, asked her if she had blown it out instead of turning it off, and was told that she "was not so green as all that; she had only turned it on again a little, that it would be easier lighted in the mornin'."
A clei^man, in a recent city, quoted an anecdote of an old merchant who instruct¬ ed his clerks: "When a man comes into the store and talks of his honesty, watch him; if he talks of his wealth, don't try to sell to him; if he talks of his religion, don't trust him a dollar."
A Cincinnati correspondent avers that while passing the AVcsleyan Female Col¬ lege, where young ladies go to "receive the last touch of grace and graoofHilness," a feeble lildy hanging on her husband's arm was cheerfully saluted from the group of misses in the yard with, "Say! what are you holdin' on to him for? He isn't goin' to run off." He thinks they must have finished their education.
Mt Miftat €\xtU.
Nothing Qood Shall Ever Perish.
Nothing good shall everperiib,
Only the corrupt shall die; Truth which men and angels cherish,
Flourishes eternally.
None are wholly God forsaken ;
All His sacred image wear; None so lost but should awaken.
In onr hearta a brother's care.
Not s mind but has its misiion—
Power of working woe or weal; So degraded none's condition,
But the world his weight majr feel. Words of kindness words of vraminK,
Deem not thou may'st speak in TOin ; Even those thy counsel scorning,
Oft shall they return again.
Though the nind absorbed in pleasure. Holds the voice of counsel light,
Yet doth faithful memory treasare What at first it seemed so slight.
Words of kindness we have spoken,
May when we hove passed away, Heal, perhaps, some spirit broken,
Guide a brother led astray. Thus our very thoughts are living,
Even when we are not here ; Joy and consolation giving
To the friends who hold us dear. Not an act but what is recorded,
Not a word bnt has its weight; Every virtue is rewarded,
Outrage punished, soon or late.
Let no being, then be rated
As a thing of little worth ; Every soul that is created
Has its part to play on earth.
Sons of Zion.
Sons of Zion ! What a title How poeti<»l and significant I Yet, nndSr the proud oppressor's hand, how aro tho mighty fallen ! The purity of hearts and sanctity of souls are nothing in the eyes of wicked rulers. Although estimated by tho inspired penman aa fine gold, good mon are accounted by the world as earthem pitch¬ ers. Men of truth, justice, benevolence— men of holy principles and noble purposes, are genuinely valuable. They have intrin¬ sic worth.     They are the salt of the earth
-the light of the world. They are really ,,T«it and rich, although apparently weak and poor. They covenanted in sacred broth¬ erhood; they aro heirs of immortality.— Angels are their servants. Jesus Christ is their Redeemer. Heaven is their home. For them the universe revolves its shining suns. All things are theirs. Believers of every name and nation are the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold. They who are faithful have a name and a credit for Christ's sake, whioh are honored among the shining hosts above, although they may be often hungry, and hated, and hunt¬ ed down on earth. In all ages God's peo¬ ple have been at discount in the marts of the world. AA'ealth mixes its alms with curses, and tosses the compound toward chill, shelterless pilgrims, as crusts and bones to a dog. The Old Testament saints were thus treated by peers of the realm and sons of estate. The first disciples of Jesus were ridiculed, mocked, and derided as the offscourings of the earth—as the followers of Him who was hanged. The Redeemer himself appeared as a root ont of dry ground. He was despised and rejected of men. Down throngh the whole history of the church, good  men  have   suffered   persecution.—
Workday Cliristianiiy.
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The Bow Drawn at a Venture.
A person well known in Glasgow for superior talent and scientific attainments, but withal for a tinge of skepticism in re¬ ligion, was met by an old companion hur¬ rying to the Tron Church, while the bells were ringing fur the aflernoon seivice.— "Come," said the friend, "and hear Chal¬ mers." "I shall do no such thing," was the reply. "Do you think I woold tronble myself to hear a madman ?" "You had better judge for yourself by ooming ftM- once;" and taking his arm, they were speedily seated in the densely-crowded church. AVhat was the astonishment of the skeptical gentleman when the Dootor gave out for his text, 'I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness!' He fek that his false judgment of tho preacher was rebu¬ ked, as it were, by a voice from heaven ; and the sermon which he heard,—the ob¬ ject of which was to fix the charge of mad¬ ness where it ought to be fixed, on those who, believing in a future world, cotttinne to live without God and without hope; while it was shown that truth and sober* ness were only with those who act accord¬ ing to their belief and profession of tbe gospel—was admirably fitted for deepening the impression mt^e by the text, and for removing the flimsy arguments of "philos¬ ophy, so-called." From that day forth the gentleman bec-ame a constant hearer of Dr. Chalmers, a confirmed believer in the doc¬ trines, and a steady performer of the duties of the Christian faith.
Young man, it is easy to be nobody.— Go to the drinking saloon to ^)end your leisure time. You need not drink mnob now—just a little beer, or some other drink. In the meantime play chequers, dominoes, or something else to consume time; then you will be sure not to read any oaeftil book; or if you do read, let it be the "dime novels" of the day. Thus go on keeping your stomach full, head empty, and yourself playing time-killing games, and in a few years you will be nobody, unless you should turn out to be a drunkard or profSessional gambler, either of which is worse than to be nobody.
TuKKE is no joy so great as that wbkh springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed ; you may feel it at night when you rest, ia the morning when you rise, and tfarougk the day when you are about your daily biLsiness.
TiiKY who but seldom taste the simplest pleasure,  kneel oflenest to the Giver and
the Cause.
A corkuption of morals usually foHowa a profanation of tho Sabbath.