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^ i I:VOLUME 3. ' CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, AUGUST 6, 1852. i\ I) MB EH 63. Jj ?? - y ? , THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. published semi-weekly and weekly by THOMAS J. WARREN. .A ? TKRJIS. The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three , v; Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. ' The Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars ? If paid in advance: Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay; ment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not ?? uaid till the expiration of the year. y ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at thcionow- i V ' np terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the I ' semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five U. cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-scf. - ven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Singlo insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. The number of insertions desired, and the edition to be published in must bo noted on the margin of all advertisements, or the}- will be published semi-week."v ly'until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly f - - 1 t x*:? 3i>- . From Vie Balhmore Weekly Sun. LINES ON RURAL SCENERY. : BY T. T. fer v Oh ! tell me not of your city life? Of all its pleasures rare; And of the full-orbed beauties, that ? > > . Glow with effulgence there. Tell me not of its rich array, X And ofits gayety? * r j .One glance at nature's wild display Is worth all these to me. How sweet to view, in balmy spring, .. The foliage ol the trees, And hear them breathe a plaintive air, At every vesper breeze; To see the plants, no longer bound . .Beneath the crusted earth, i Come forth to kiss the rays of Sol, That gave them early birth. ' ' How sweet to view the golden >heaves " The plains that beautify, nd see them wave, both back and forth, At every zephyr's sigh ; To-see the stalks, now bending low, . Down with abundance weighed, - .No longer standing up erect, Yield to the reaper's blade. Then bury me not, when I am gone, 'Stid gay urbanity, But far uffm some lonely vale, _.i .L- : lilt* WBfJJIIIjJ-H IIIUM ucr, Sing not o'tr me with useless pomp ? " *.'- Your anthems loud and long, But let the winds their vigils keep : j. "Arid chant my fuiiocal song. Chesterfield, Va,.July, 1852. A GEM. She died in beauty, like a rose Blown from its parent stem; She died in beauty, like a nearl -> Dropped from some diadem; She died in beauty, like a lay : Along & moon-lit lake; She died in beauty, like the song L Of birds amidst the brake; - Sh" died in beauty, like the snow On flowers dissolved away; r'Sh died in beauty, like a star Lost on the brow of day. ws i ?i Broken Shricies. DY MISS C. W. B. T met a fair haired child, and it was weepinjj. (n i:s hands it held a broken vase, from winch th th-wers were scattered and the fragrance * " Ityd "departed. Poor thing! I said?'do not weep. for earth is full of broken shrines and this i> one , f .-of them. Win i..?vnavnil <-m ?, iiit m/O n 1 ...n 11 f ift11 linrln ..v, j"U.UV-U .. . II r steps was as light as the spotted fawn's and on her cheek there was a glow such as mantles t tie-heart of the ruse. Her careless laugh rung out its wildly sweet and clear as bird music; and : the aged and the young, as they turned :i>ide to 1 let hor pass, murmured, 'How lowly!' Hers ' y;!' was the shrine of a beautilul spirit, which danced ' * in her eyes, rung in Jier laughter, and beautified ' the whole cask'et,containing it. I said, 'Glnd. hearted -being go on, and may earth hold for you ' no Broken Shrine.' g? But I saw her again. In her lap there lay a j 1 : ; lifeless infant. Its eye of blue was half unclosed: j ' |V; its little dimpled hands lay crossed; its whole tig- 1 1 nre was like a waxen toy. The mother wept, ' ^ and 'would not be comforted,' because her darling 'was not.' The shrine of her choicest ati'ec- ' tions lay wrecked on her bosom. 'Boor thing,' ' said I, 'anotlier Broken Shrine!' f Once, again, I looked when a few ei rcling sun had passed. The young bride's lip was mute? f. her eye was lustreless; s!ie neither laughed nor f- wept, and I saw that the shrine of her own beautiful spirit was broken. The weeper had become i ' the wept for, the mourned over, the departed.? Tears were rained into her coflin; and drooping L beads followed her to 'ihe narrow house appointed 'or all who live.' How beautiful the Jirokeii ?81sri.ie! I turned and met an old man. His white 'locks floated like snow over his wrinkled brow ?his weak Steps were tottering and slow?a friendly staff supported his frame and his hands - - (trembled like aspen leaves in a breeze. ]hit. 1 saw that tears as well as age were now dimming his eyes. My only, mv idolized son,' lie said, '1 as hecoin-the victim of intemperance, lie was the ?hrine of mv hest hopes. On him I hoped to , lean i* my dotage; but he has just now with J , oaths and horrid imprecations, driven mo from ' j liis door. I did not think in his proud, beautiful boyhood, that it would ever come to this.? I nurtured him carefully then, and thought that J t in my age and loneliness, lie would repay the j r debt of kindness he owed me.' And the aged j { one 'lifted up his voice and wept.' j ] 'Weep on old man!' I said, 'yours is the most < mournful of all earth's Broken Shrines. The j ^ crushed bud can be replaced?the dead infant j ; lives in Heaven?the sorrowing mother has re-! ( gained her dead. But 0! when the god-like in , j man departs, how fearful the Broken Shrine! j Madison Family Visitor. . A Bold Boy and a Coward.?Two boys wore < onedav going home from school when on turn- < f? c ? ing the corner of the street the largest of the two t called out?"A tight! a fight! let us go and see." 1 "No," said the other, "let us go home; we have i nothing to do with the quarrel, and may get in- i I to mischief." | ( "You are a coward, and afraid to go," said the < other, and off he ran. i "The younger went straight home, and in tlm I afternoon went to school as usual, when the boys i laughed at him a great deal for not going to the i fight. But he had learned that true courage : 1 was shown most in bearing blame where it is not s deserved, and that lie ought to he afraid 0/110- ! thing but sin. j ( A few days after these lads were all bathing, j j when one of them got into deep water and began ; i to drown. The boys were all afraid to go near ; t him, and got out of the water as fast as they 1 s could. The lad would very soon have been lost, j t had not the boy who would not go to the fight, j t and who had been laughed at by them as a cow- j ard, just then come up. He at once threw off c his clothes, and springing into the water, just ! t rrached the sinking boy in time, and by great s effort brought him to shore. The other boys It were now all much ashamed, and confessed he t had more count ye than any them. I I ?-? ??? f A Good Little Story. ! I 11 BV MRS. CORNWALL UAKON WILSON. I r "Please, my lady, buy a nose-gay, or bestow ! i a trifle," was the address of a pale, emaciated ! t looking woman; holding a few wi her* d flowers '] in her hand, to a Iadv who sit on the beach on ] Brighton, watching the blue waves of the rcce . j ding tide. I j "1 have no hal'-pence, my good woman," said j the lady, looking up from the novel she waspe-; | iu-ing with a Ibth ssgaze; "if I had, I would give f them to you." . "I am a poor widow, with three helpless chil- f dren depending on me; would you bestow a small f trifle to help us on our way ?" t "I have told your I have no half-pence," rei- [ terated the lady, somewhat pettishly. "Really," jj she added, as the poor ap| licant turned meekly , nwav, "this is worse than the streets of London; I; th'-y si* -uid have a police on ill ; shore to prevent i , such amioyaiiee." j j These were the thoughtless dictates of the j ( tIKAD. s ".M inima," said the blue-eyed boy, who was i ( I". .,1 tin, Lillet i'.v.t flinifinff i jii'bijlis into the sen, -I wish vhu had a penny ( for the ]M?or old woman does luuk hungry, and e you know we. arc g ting to have a nice dinner j ami vuii promised me a gla-s of w ine." ^ The heart of the lady answered the appeal of ^ her child; and with a blu-h of shame crimsoning | ? her cln-ek at the tacit reproof hi- aril >? words ^ Conveyed, she opeied her reticule, placid half a 1 crown in his tiny hands, and in another moment j he was bounding along the sands on hi?.errand ( of mercy. In a few second-he returned his eyes w sparkling with delight, and hiscoiiiiteiiaiice glow- j ing with health and beauty. j "Oh mamma, the poor woman was so thank- | ful; she wanted to turn back, but I would not let 1 her, and she said, 'God bless the imbl^'adv. and von, too, my pretty lamb, my children will now have bread for these two day-, and we shall go on our way rejoicing." The ryes of the ladv glistened n? she heard 1 the recital of her child, and her heart told her 1 that its dictates bestowed a pleasure the cold roa- * roiling of the head could never bestow. !l I ~? j | Bbaitifi'l Tuornirrs.?God lias sent some I ingels into the world whose office is to iefro-li : ' lie sorrow of the poor, and to lighten the eyes il'" .1!.-... .i.^/.I.On A nil uli.it . rl-. 11 I- lilii-ISlll'l' I ^ JI ill** Mnwu-vmtv .kuu nob s- > ..% j . .. j can we liave than that we should bring joy to ! ,?ur brother, that*the tongue should l.? ;nn- ?l ; with heavenly accents; and make the weary soul | isten for light and ease; and when he perceive.- j ' that their is such a thing in the world, and in *' die order of tilings, as comfort and joy, to begin i to break out from the prison of his soirowsat the 1 .loorof sighs and tears, and by little and little ' . being to melt into showers and refreshment? I , . . t J this is glory to thy voice, and employment tit for j" the brightest angel. So I have seen the >un kiss ^ the frozen earth, which was bound up with the . images of death, and the eolder breath of the ' north, and the waters break from their enclosures and melt with joy and run in useful channels; j. iind the flics do rise from little graves in the walls !1 and dance a little while in the air, to tell that j! joy is within, and that the great mother of crea- , tun s will o)?t*n the stock ot her new relreshinent, i become useful to tuankiiKl, and >ing praises to ' Iter llcdeeiner. So is the heart, of a sorrowful 1 man under the discourse of wise comfort: lie breaks from the despair of the grave, and the 1 filers and chains of sorrow; lie blesses (Jnd. and 1 He blesses thee, and he feels his life returning. 1 One person having asked another if lie he- ( lieved ill t lie appearence of spirits, "No," was the t replv "but I believe in their dixrip/wcmhicr, for I j have missed u bot tle of gin since last night." ! A voting lady at school engaged in the study '] nf grammar. was asked if ;i "kiss" was a proper ], or common noun. After a little hesitation she l replied, "It is both common and proper. j t A Cheap and Good Fence. As the timber in many portions of our coun,ry is becoming scarce, it becomes a n atter of ntieh interest to know how we may ?.ononme, iini do the most fencing with a little timber, [lodging is the remedy to which our minds mo>t generally turn, and perhaps the means which ,ve shall have, at some day, when our n icessitios ire greater, to adopt. We propose a plan ropiiring much less timber than our old fishionod ail fence?equally secuie, and easier k' pt in rcviir. It is simply to cut a ditch three or three 111/1 *1 11 *a If" \virl.? 'it lilt! fA tlliAllt ttfA !ect at the bottom, and three feet deep. Before , jommencing, let posts be set slightly in the ' 'round in a straight row, on the side to which ! .he dirt is to be thrown, and at such distance j roin the edge of the diteh ;es will in-ke the I ow to correspond with the greatest elevation of lie earth which is thrown out. This excavated >arih should be thrown just far enough from the litch not to slide back or be easily washed into t again by rain. The posts thus deposited will jo well planted by the earth which will be thrown iround them, without further trouble, only needng to be straightened up a little to make the inc true- The top of this loose earth should be imoothed to a line or level, with a hoc or rake, io that the first plank shall rest noon it. This i lone tbe plonking may commence. The base dank should be twelve inches wide and one nch thick ; above this a space ot four inches, .hen a plank of six inches wide, then a space of j ix inches. and another six inch plank. Saw ott lie tops of the posts, and the fence is compleed. The posts should be planted at the distance >f eight feet from each other, and the plank sixecu feet long, and the joints should alterant", o that each succeeding plank should join on a liderout post from tlut below. The posts for 1 bis fence may be split like rails from any suita- j >le timber, anu one side straightened, on which j he planks are to be nailed. If greater n- atness i >e dosir d, the p?>sts may be sawed. They should ie about four or five inches square, and will be equired to bo about five and a half feet long, hree feet of which should stand above tlie level if the earth thrown on the side ot the ditch. I'liis may seem to be low, and insecure against >ad stock, but our observation ju-tifies us in sayng, no such danger may be apprehend) d. Wit h dank at one dollar per hundred, the cost of the : euce wutild be two cents a foot. If the j usts j )e split, their cost would be but a small item, md the nails almost nothing. If sawed, the j ulditional cost may be easily estimated, and we ' ipprehend in most cases, in either event, will be bund below the cost of the rail fence. The litching mav seem a formidable undertaking. 1 >ut any field laborers may soon learn to execute \ t with neatness and despatch, and once done, ! villains permanent?requiring little repairs- - 1 md if hedging afterwards Ik* desirable, tin* ditch vill greatlv :?ki in the siiecJy prosecution of that wrpose. ' hi many farms requiring to be druin'd, the ditches may be so arranged as to answer the doable purpose of drying the land and brining the fence. We have done some little work of this sort? mough :o test its practicability, (hcapness- and security, and therefore speak advisedly in all ,hat we say. Not fir from this city, a f-nce of j Ins kind lias been put up by a wry neat planter, ; vhich is both a protection and an ornament to I lie farm, and will no doubt commend itself to j lie favorable consideration of those who see it. J We have planted, all our days, under the promotion of an old fashioned rail fence, and would lot hastily desert a tried friend, but the eireum , lances of the country are rapidly changing, and t is now at cost of no little timber that our eiices are kept up. and any chang- which shall ess.-n these drafts upon our wasted forests,would >e desirable.?Soil of the South. IMouii:;' iu Green Crops. This subject has been before fully treated, but ii answer to lb S., of Fairfield, in relation to tho I .lowing in of green corn, and its effects on the J oil, we would state that this, in common with i ill other green crops, deposits in the surface-soil i >v it> decay, two classes of substances; the chief j >tilk is organic matter obtained from tlieatmos- ' there, and the green crop which will produce' lie greatest iiumhcr of tons to the acre, will setire the largest amount of this class of material, he chief constituent of which is carbon, abtraded from the carbonic acid gas pervading lie atmosphere and arising from the decay of ti nier vegetation. The next class of sub-tancos re those usually denominated inorganic, and vhich often exist plentifully in the sub-soil; j hose are received by the routs of plants and tf?? j o form parts of their tops :?thus Lime, Soda. | 'otash. Magnesia. Phosphoric Acid. Sulphuric ' i.eid, Chlorine, etc.. arc all taken up by the roots if plants, a"d when green crops arc plowed tinier, these are deposited in tlve surface-soil and in roper condition, and suitable relative proporious for the use of crops which are to follow ,Yhen tit" object to be attained by the plowing n of green crops is to increase the amount of rganic matter in the surface-soil, then clover, or uckwheat, pens haulm, may be used with great dvantage, as these plants receive a very large roportion of their constituents from the atmos here. When the object is to elevato the ittorpinieconst.it units of the sub-soil.and place them n thesiirface-soil. then plants should be selected, he roots of which pass down to the greatest leptb, and the composition of which necessarily oiitain- large proportions of inorganic matter, iii-ecnc Alfalfa. Clowr. and Indian Corn, are lie green crops for this peculiar property, ami hose should he selected most suitable tothesi.il mended to bo improved. Many of the root ; Tops may bo used with advantage as a given j Top for plowing in : thus the Strap leaved lied top Turnip, if sown after summer imps are ta- j ten from the, ground, will make partial growth I K-fut'c winter, and will continue t>? ufr.nv later j lian most other crops. They arc not killed by .. & .. winter frosts, an4, will resume their growth ear- j lv in spring, continuing with great rapidity up ; I to the time the farmer may be ready to plow hi- I j ground. Their power of growth may bo caused to cease bv the application ota heavy roller crush- 1 J ing their crowns, and they may he plowed und-r j supplying lo the surface soil all those inorganic j constituents of the sub<oil which the turnip is i J capable ot taking up. its amount or organic mat tor is always largo, while its raj?id decay. s when placed beneath the surfaces of the soil, ! * will as>ist early vegetation of all kinds. Green crops, as manures, can only be used j 1 with propriety when intended to increase the ; * organic matter of the soil in localities where! peat, muck, river-mud, leaves from the woods, j 1 and other cheap organic materials cannot readi 1 !y be procured ; for where these abound, but few ' 'mads, prope'ly prepared, will furni.h organic matter to the soil more cheaply and in larger : I quantities, than would result from plowing in of i ( the heaviest green crops. Those who are curious j on this subject, will find more minute amounts ! j of the action of green crops and their relative ; J values with each other, in our former volumes. | ( When tlm object is to elevate the inorganic } matter of the sub-soil, green crops become ne- 1 cc-sary in localities w here the requited inorganic 1 constituents can be cheaply added; wherever they abound in any of the cheap forms, they 1 may be added to surface soils with more econo- c my than the bringing up of similar ingredients, * from the sub-soil by deeper disintegration, to be < taken up by saleable crops, is always judicious, 1 and the use of green crops as manures is sel- ? doin called for, where soils have been treated with a strict view to their ch-mieal composition. 1 Working Fanner. N m * c rn T P T 1.1 i LO K.VISE KRUIT EVERY YEAR.? II I rigntiy understand it, few trees unless absolutely dead or f rotten, wed occupy ground without yielding a 1 plenteous crop. After a long and varied series ' of experiments, 1 gradually adopted the follow- ' ing mode, as soon as winter has suftHentl.y disa; pea red, and before the sap asctnds, I examine c in % trees; every dead bough is lopped oft; then after the sap lias raised sufficiently to show \vh to the blossoms will he, I cut away all the other bianehes leaving none on, and also the ex c trcinity of every limb the lower part of which ' bears a considerable number of buds thus con- c cen[rating the sap of the tree upon the matura- N tioti of its fruit, and saving what would be a useless expenditure of strength. In the quince, apricot, and peach trees, this is very important, * as these trees are \ery apt to he too luxuriant in leaves and destitute of fruit. You may thin'< > this injures the tieps, but it does not; for you 1 will find trees laden with fruit, which formerly- x yielding nothing. Of cou-se all the other well 1 known precaut'on< must be atttended to; such as cutting out worms from the root: placing old 1 1 iron on th limb which acts as a t >nic to the sap I ' A-/> T it it \t* iv I in h-ivi* iiAan I in v-nonnr ! * t'ruit. ' Art of Swimming.?Men are drowned In* < raising their arms above llie water, the unbuoyed s weight of which depresses the head. Other t animals have neither motion nor ability to act in : :i similar manner, and therefore swim naturally, c When a man falls into deep water, he will rise | to the surface, and will continue there if he does not elevate his hands. If he moves his hands under water in any way he pleases, his head will I rise so high as to allow him free liberty to breathe, < and if lie will use his legs as in the act of walk- I ing, or rather walking up stairs, his shoulders I will riscabov? the water, so that he may use less 1 exertion with his hands, or apply them to some : other purpose. These plain directions are re commended to the recollection of those who have 1 not learned to swim in their youth, as they may < he found highly advantageous in preserving < life. I Curious Caso.?The Paris correspondent of 1 the Commercial Advertiser says: I doubt wheth- 1 or an arrest was ever made on grounds so singular as the following: In one of the suburbs of Paris, at 10 o'clock at night, a young man was attempting to climb into a lady's room, several ' stories high. Rumor does not say whether the ladv was priw to this enterprise or not, but that is nothing to the purpose. The escalade seems to have been attended with difficulties, for when t half way up he lost his balance, and fell into a balcony below. A gei tleman, who was quietly smoking a cigar, was so terrified at the muse, c that he was seized with a fit of approplexity,. and very soon died. The fallen aspirant, who f lay si untied and without consciousness, was arrested for having caused the death of the gentleman ( by imprudence! The court of assizes is threat- i ened with a very delicate case. The lover was certainlv very impudent to fall from so great a i liciuht, but whether ho can be made responsible for the appopletic temper of the person under- ? neath is a point that the jury will be called upon to decide. 1 4 A ....1 *i * .\SKIMi TOO MUCH. 1\ yUUIlT f Ulpie were siltii)T lo;??*t'?cr in a romantic spot, with birds and , flowers about them, when the tollowitiir dialogue , . w ? I eiisu d: "My dear, if the sacrifice of my life would please thee, gladly would I lav it at my feet. | H )li. sir, you're too kind ! But it just reminds ( me that I wish you'll stop u^in?_?* tobacco." I ' Can't think of it. It is a habit to which lam wedded." ] "Verv w< 111 sir; since Ilii~ is the way von lay ? down your life for me, and as you are already wedd d to tobacco. I ll lake jfood care that you are never wedded to me, as it would l)fi bi<^n my." j i Lake Fisii.?More tlian 30.000 barrels ami hall* barrels offish from Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, have been sold in the Cleveland market since the opening of navigation this season. The Tree Soil Convention.?The Free Soil party arc laboring to make an imposing show at .heir National Convention, to be held at Pittsjurg, on the 11th of August. The Messrs. Allen,~ ( jf Mass.; Durkee, of Wisconsin ; Giddings and lownsend, of Ohio, have signified their intention :o attend the convention; and Messrs. Sumner, ' Hale. Chase, and other distinguished Free Soilers * j ire also expected. Twelve delegates from the - 1 Jave State of Kentucky have been already choeu. and the meeting in Madison (Ca*sius M. play's home) is said to have been the largest and nost entlni-iastic ever held in that county. All ,he railroads of Northern Ohio, and all westfcf Cleveland, will charge delegates to the conven;ion only half price. A Gloomy Prospect.?Mr. Thurlow "Weed, >f ti e Albany Evening Journal, holds the?fol- , y. owing language with respect to the European " It is sadly true that the whole continent of ~Q Suro])e is in k a condition of profound repose.' fhe despots have retracted all, that had been ex- ' orted from them. Martial law, or law scarcely ess rigorous, prevades the continent. Freedom '- , ' s "crushed to earth" and in most places even""* lie ho]>es of freedom have perished. : " Three years ago the European people held heir destiny in their own hands. The Emperor " if Austria, and the kings of Prussia, Belgium, taxony, Sardinia, maples, etc., unable to resist, . _ -jyaaa offered terras to their subjects. The people com- . 'Vasal promised with their rulers. Constitutions were. jiven. To save their crowns they promised to . jfa| urround their thrones with popular institutions. ' VII this was to gain time. When The .popular I'oiee was hushed, and the people returned to thVir ' f MHI iccupations, their rulers augmented their armies, md with the aid of Russia, recovered their pow- ' . JpHH r, and now their rule is more grinding than ev- *:/: ,'^H r. In Naples there is a despotism as unrelening and cruel as any that existed in the darkest . iges. In Australia the masses toil-not for themelves, but to support an expensive court and an.. >ver\\ helming army. In Belgium and Sardinia done have kings kept faith with the,people. everywhere else they were perfidious. ... . " But then- i> 1.0 probability of any " immeliate revolution" in Europe. Despots have it . ill their own war. The sad failure of republK-v. , :anisni in France gave despotism advantages ;! vhich it is improving." American Missionaries akd Sir Stratford :-??s8 Banning.?The distinguished ambassador named " '1^8 ibuve has represented the British Government n Constantinople for many years. He has been o" -.,'i' . eenttv raised to the neera<re. and is soon to re- :'.y.%S9 flouto England, it i< K-'i?1. * - tf"pnri ~ *7I3| ant post in the government.' . The American missionaries in Constantinople * cent 1 y waited on him in a body and delivered * in address, in view of the relations which had =o happily existed between them, and in view of lis anticipated departure from the country. a as art'.'cted to tears, and gave a very feeling anjl ivarni hearted reply. The address of the misfonaries recognized his agency under God in >stabli<hing religious freedom in Turkey, as well is in bringing about many civil and social changes 3f the highest consequence to the welfare of the f-ir S. Canning, in his reply, declared that if Iurkey was indebted to him for any efforts ho had made for the amelioration of the condition if the people, it was indebted teu times more t% the American missionaries, and that his own at* tempts to have a Protestant community recognized could not have succeeded had not the missionaries cleared the way. It is delightful to see, as we do here, eminent men from two distant Christian countries engaged, on the soil of a benighted nation, in united ' yjj i-ttorts to raise the tallen and restore their rights to the oppressed. Here is the civil and the sabred oihce in a church and State combination ihout which none can be alarmed, but in which ill can glorv.?Boston Traveller. v.i "Paddy, honey will ye buy my watch!" "And is it about selling your watch ye are Mike?" "Troth it is darlint. "What's the price?" . "Ten shillings and a mutchkin of the crea"Is the watch a decent one?" ^ "Sure I've had it twenty years, and it never >nce desaved me." "Well here's your tin; and now tell me does it ro well?" . . . ^ ^ . "Bedat an' it goes faster than any watch in ' "V.? '111Mnnctrth /M? T ulhctnl* bor- - ^?Jil 'I t-l 111? ^UUIIOIVI J V^'iotdj Ul -Utmotvii j uvi> v?i ing Dublin. "Bud luck to ye Mike, then you have taken lie in ! Didn't you say it never desaved you?" "Sure and I did?nor did it for I ncvirdipinled on it!" ^jaB "Ephraim," said Simon, "what does a fellow ouk like when gallanting his sweetheart through i shower?" "Why,' replied Ephraim, looking at his boot' he has very much the appearance of a rainH'au" In a town in Connecticut, a loafer was brought before a justice for being drunk in the street?the tine being one dollar for each offence. He paidthe line, and was arraigned again the next day, "No you don't Judge !" said he, "I knows the |aw?one dollar for each offence, and this is the same ??Kl drunk. The Way to rise in the World.?"Strive and thrive" is a pretty good maxim for a business man?wo have a better, done up too in rhyme: Tie that in this world would rise, Must take the paper and advertise. He who lives only to benefit himself gives thft world a benefit when he dies. - V - :.lJ