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4t4 OfmIenwofic 30ournad, 00-00e to ifly SOW4~ fmvi SoUfl~exn fli84tsp~ttCCt?tJev,%trtue,~~~dh tttAc~ xetu,& "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple Oy, our 1iberties, and i it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruis W. F. DURISOE & 10N, Proprietors. EDGEFIRLD, S. C., MAYO7, 186. -----. (Qaitt gaa E0PR. FOM SCHILLZI. Man ever fondly talks and dreams Of happier days in store, And ever intent on such golden aims, He strives and struggles the more. 'the world grows old and again grows young, Yet amendment is ever upon his tongue. Iope cradles the child in the dawning of life, She dazzles t'e boyish eye, Her promises animate manhood's strife, To the aged she doth not die. For though in the grave his course must end, Still e'ven from the grave can his hopes ascend, It is not a Battering illusion, bred In the void of a foolish brain ; A voice in the inmost heart hath said, " Life was not bestow'd in vain." And the promise that inmost voice both spoken, To the trusting soul shall ne'er be broken. FUITS AND FLOWER. When God first framed this world of ours. For beauty and for love, Each attribute would try its powers, Its varied skill would prove. All, all, but Mercy had a share, And she stood silent by, Gazing upon the work so fair, With earnest, lon eye. The Father saw her darling face, And read her wishes too, Ani said, " It is a sinless place, What is there you can do?" She quickly sent her searching eye Throughout earth's fresh green bowers, Then murmured with a gentle sigh, " There's neither fruit nor flowers." A smile the wished commission gave Then swift as light she flew, Her wings of violet to lave In Eden's morning dew. Up rose the sun, but what a sight Met his admiring view The bursting buds speak their delight, Through tints of richest hue. The flowers on every side look up With wonder to the sky; While nestled in each tiny cup, Fruit germs lay lovingly. New songs were borne upo-i the breeze, New joy earth's dwellers feel; For e'ven the birds and humming bees, Their bliss cannot conceal. But when this happiness to spoil, * The mon-ter sin appeared, Thistles and thorns from out the soil, Their heads as quickly reared. Then Mercy wept, for well she knew She had no power to stay The curse that man upon him drew, By leaving wisdom's way. * But still her work she might pursue, And soften his sad hours Choice Fruit upon the rough thorns grew, Upon the thistles, Flowers. PANUBCIJS PEBBLES. A LITTLES OF EVETYTHING IS NOTHING OF ANYTHING.-A STORY THAT HAS MANY CDUN TaRPARTs. Young men ! Read if and Heed it ! A Jack-of-all-trades and master of none was Panurgus Pebbles: from the birchen * tingle of boyhood to the menial pains of ma" ' estate his shiallowv versatility was his bane: from the first kick and crowv in long clothes to the -silent rigidity in the shroud, his lhfe, a patchwrork harlequin, was ever slapping and flapping him. His mind was *like Jacques' motiely fool, or rather like a kaleidoscope-yet wanted refietion,-the * ~ smoked glasses in that instruument, that by doubling the confused mass of glass splin-. -ters, &c., changes disoraer into a " pattern of neatness." When Pebbles pickea up his scraps of knowledge, A eaven only knows! Pekilus *Pigment, my artist friend, has ever beside his easel a spare canvass whereon he be stows at random the dabs of colour that re main in his brush, while he is working up - 'his great picture for the Academy. On this canvass, upon the foundation thus laid, be terwards depicts such a subject as the pro. iling tints may suggest. Can it be that Nature, when supplying the crania of a num ber of mortals with brains of different ten dencies, cast into the head of Pebbles the superabundant cerebral scraps. Panurgus was the son of an old Squire, whose spouse was a fashionable lady. . .'1e father took him out for a ride ; ,The mother sent him to school; The paternal care taught him to sing, ," Tally ho 1" The maternal drilled him in the " Busy Bee ;" T'he Squire declared that his son should be " a man, not a milksop !" '1' ry lady said hers should be " a gentle. man, nDp a stable-boy." Betweeq $.~e two influences, Panurgus. got off esily. If he did not go to school his :father would screen him from his merited punishment; if he refuse4 to ride a spirited - horse his mother shielded lsiu; from his fath er's wrath; if he failed in the melody of :" Tally ho !" the lady would express her pleasure that he did not take a liking to " a song that was not fitted for polite society." ~To whieb the squire retorted by observing "that as to the matter of that he did not think Dr. Watts was much better. How about that verse l'Abroad in the meadow. to see the young lambs Go sporting about by the side of their--, a proper word truly to he pot in the mouths ~of children !" So far his piebald breeding and disposition did our hero no harm-at least no present harm-for in after years the effect of these two counter-influences came upon him. But it was not only in his studies that our hero shone superficially. Was there a game of cricket proposed, who so- ready as Peb. bles to make. one of a side. But without that genuin've of the sport, which would have sustained him during his fielding, lie soon got tired, and the boys, knowing his failing, always sent him in last, being sure that his wickets once down Pebbles would slink off to some other pastime. Not that he was a great loss, for like all who do not enter into the spirit of the game con amore, he was a slovenly player, and went among i the cricket-lovers by the soubriquet of but- I ter-fingers; while among the boating com munity (for the school was near the river Weir and the bovs had a whole fleet of " dingies" on it) he was known as crab Peb- I bles-a title derived from his frequent suc cesses in catching those crustacea while I rowing. To the uninitiated we will explain: i He who would capture a crab must seat j himself in a rowing boat, and taking an oar i pull it scientifically until the vessel gets a I swift onward motion, by seamen entitled I " head-way." When this is accomplished i let our friend turn his oar over slightly and try to lift it out of the water straight. There i is a slight splash-a jerk-aad the operator i finds the handle of his oar in his abdomenal I region, and almost before he can wink, his I head descends and his heels fly up, and the . experiment is concluded-the crab is caught. Poor Pebbles! his heels were oftener in the I air than his scull in the water; for he bad i another way of "capturing cancers," name- I ly, by never putting his oar in the water at 4 all, merely skimming it along the surface, so that, the air not offering the same resistance 4 s water, the force of his own stroke shot I poor Pebbles into the lap of his neighbour f on the next thwart. This evolution was j aalled by the boys " Pebbles's pull," a stroke r of which (as Featherwell, the best oar in the i school averred) " one half was in the air and r the other out of the water." Then what disasters did not Panurgus get I into, when, with the bag of paper shreds, the hare-one of the best runners in the chool-set off across the country ! About c twenty minutes after, the pack would start c elter-skelter, over head and ditch, where r the paper was thickly scattered ; or wan- d lering at fault over a ploughed field to re- c over the scent. Some time or other in the t Jay was sure to see Panurgus pounded in a i eld, or up to his neck in a ditch, or stuck, ied-downward, in a hedge, as if measuring v he wide expanse of heaven with nis legs in I ieu of compasses. But in spite of all this, t Panurgus would often be in at the death. n His plan was to climb a high tree, and try ii o spy out the hare in the distance, or if he I :ould not see him, to watch the direction in which the hounds were going, and draw his li :onclusions therefrom. He knew that the v tare was sure to make for some farmer's v iouse, where he was known, or else to some I ittle village ale-house (for of course the ush- I rs were not " mighty hunters," and did not e oin in hare and hounds), and settling from E he running where the hare was likely to be, t e would set off by the road, and generally tl 'ell in with the pack not far from the hare's ti 'rm (generally a wooden one, on which ;tood a pewter, whence the hare drankge- a reshment in the shape of beer). In d e course of time Panurgus left Bed- C eigh to enter at the University. Durinig his. I tay at school what prizes had he gainedi I; ~one! He was second or third in several ~lasses-poor . Jack-of-all-trades--and the t prinkling of knowledge that he had of C iverything in general, would, if it had beenin pplied to one thing in particular, have gain-. I d him a reward; but no: it was fated thata Pebbles should be a little of everything, ands othing of anything, and so lhe was ! s At College he met several of his old 1 choolfellows, who had the left Bedleigh be- i re him. " Of course among so many old a ~opanions Pebbles did not lack for friends," I ay you. But he did ! "1I say, Fea'her well," said Coxon . of p 3rasenose, " what sort of a fellow is Peb les of St. Mark's; he was at school withi ou, wvasn't he I" "EHumph ! Yes," replies Featherwell, now Japtain of the U. B. C., and immensely pop lar among the boatin,' men. " Awful tmuff! can't pull two strokes without-Matching as nany crabs ; he'd upset the veriest tub on I :e river." I And so the subject is dropped ;-and Pa iurgus too. Four gowvnsmen are strollinig along the igh-street when our hero passes.a " That's an old Bedleigh man," says onec f the quartette. "Horrid stick !" grunts.c Bales, the Sec. of the St. Mark's Coll. (ricket Club. " He can't handle his bat a bit I 'didn't know anything of him at school." "lHe comes from our part of the world," says Snaffle of Merton. " I have seen him I out with the governor's hounds: he funiked at the first hedge, and I ntever saw him againi!' r " Look at his drass !" drawls the elegant I Pulker. " One would think he-aw-dras ied himself with a knife and fawk-aw. When he was at school he always had five patches about his person ; two-aw-thiat le knelt on ; two-aw-that lie leant on,< and one-aw-that he sat on-aw!, I Poor Pebbles-bad you only entered heartr and soul into onte pursuit at school, how dif-i frent had your reception been ! If you bad given your attention -to aquaties, how proud ly would Featherwell have introduced you 1 to the University eight! Ah-those crabs Ii --truly cancers ale awvay your popularity ! If you had .been a cricketer, Bales .would have been proud of you ;-had you given your ettention to your toilette, Pulker would have honqnred yoiu with his arm down the Broa-walk on 9Mw Sunday ; had you been a hard worker or prizeman at school, Mugger and Grirnd, of Balliol, would have hailed you with joy, and'have proposed and seconded you at the Union. But no; Jael:-i of-all-rades and master of none w'as thy harater, and between the various stools wep hays u~epioned camest thoui to the ground, oh Pebbles ! Nay, aian, never grumble-thy betters have been so tilted up before thee. These stools of thine are but humble joint. stools-three-legged wooden stools-lowly ones; but thy betters have fallen from high er. Did not Lord Thistledown strive to keep his balance and obtain office with Con servative and LiberalI When, lo! away glid the two stools, and down came my Lord upon the fioor of the I-louse, amid peals of " inextinguishable laughter !" Nay, more, when mighty nations were at variance, have not certain little petty, pettifogging Kinglings striven to appear neutral, and to balance between the contending parties? And have not they had their fall, or will they riot soon ?. Aye, Panurgus, and therefore bless thy stars that thou didst fall from a joint-stool instead of a lofty throne I But to return to our story. After a short time Pebbles began to make riends in his college, and before long be. :ame a popular man, because he was a use. l man ! Was a man wanted to make up in eleven at short notice, Bales was sure to ipply to Pebbles. Was a man in the Eight e Torpid laid up for a time, who should pull in his place but Pebbles I Did the De :ating Society wish to give a supper, whose ooms should they borrow but Pebbles? knd so Pebbles was popular, bugged him. telf with the idea that he was liked for him. ielf, and was therefore all the more ready o help Bales, or Featherwell,or DeBates (the ?resident of the last-named Society), on an mergency. So time went on, and Pebbles got through uis " Little Go," as it was called then, in n those happy days when (contraeiction bough it ceem) the examinations were easi r, because they were without Moderations. Pebbles, we say, got through his "Little Yo," but when he went in for his "Great Ditto we are sorry to say that, judging rom his superficial knowledge of all his sub. ets, that Panurgus had not done his duty in eading for the examination (a conjecture in vbich they were not far wrong) the exami iers gave into the hands of the Clerk of the 4chools no testamur for Mr. Pebbles of St. 4rarks. Pebbles was plucked! They call it loughed now, but the sensations after the peration are, we believe, the same. They onsist, we are told, of a kind of desire to neet the examiners in a blind alley some lark night-a conviction that they have onspired to cheat you, and a general in. ense disgust of everybody and everything ii the world. Pebbles was plucked! And no sooner as it whispered in Oxford than the trades eople began to drop in for their pickings, and bey were no slight ones! With his usual aotley disposition, Panurgus had dabbled ri all the pursuits and amusements of a Jniversity Life. * His rooms were hung with proofs-before. etters, that vied in cost (although they were, in a pictorial point of view, not very aluable) with the choice engravings of urin, the great amateur artist of St. Mark's. lis Madonnas, and Oak Crosses, and Saints, xcited the envy of Reredos of Oriel; while inaffie, of Merton, did not turn out in a bet r pink or brighter boots than Pebbles, al Nough the latter seldom did more than ride a the meet and back. Featherwell admired Panurgus's gig, as he floated at her moorings by the barge, nd lie vowed she was well worth the money, ,uch as it was, at which she was valued. ). Villiers, of Ch : Chi:, had not more cost y furniture than our hero, whoses rooms evertheless wvere a conisummation of bad este. Bookstall, of Balliol, did not lay t more on his library than Pebbles, whose umerous volumes were merely costly rub. ish notwithstanding. In short, as Jack of. lI. trades had lie set up in Oxford, and no mall sum did it cost him to purchase his tock in all, so that wvhen lie camie to survey is position, he found himself considerably i debt, and without a testamur. In disgust nd despair he took his name off' the Col uge books, and returned honme. The Squire, after a great deal of storming, aid his son's debts,,remarking to his wife,! ' Well, Mistress Pebbles, I always said that Vatts's hymns would do the boy no good ' In books. and work, and healthful play, May my first ours be past, That I may give for every day A good aceount at last.' L good account-by Jove, ma'am-he's rought me plenty of accounts to pay for tis ' books, and work, and healthful play.'" " "Pebbles, my dear, you are profane !" vas all the poor lady could say. TIo send 5anurgus to College had been her pet cheme, for she wanted her son to be an ac omplished gentlemen. The old Squire, on the ther hand, had opposed it, saying that he nev r went to College, nor his father before 'him, !et they made good Squires without it, and by should not Panurgus; so that, with the! xception of the bills, lie was not greatly exed at our hero's failure at Oxford. But es did not live long to be either vexed or' >leased at anything ; for the next year Pa. urgus saw him laid in the family vault at ldleigha Minster; and not long after, the nother followed him. So Pebbles came into his property, not a ittle lessened by the payment of his debts; 'or many a patriarchal elm and manty an an ient oak wvent into the pockets of the radesmen in the shape of cheques and bank totes. Not a few old trees, that standing n the Park, had seen generations of Peb les' carried to christening, bringing home >rides, borne slowly forth to burial, felt with tshudder through all their limbs and leaves and fibres, the edge otf the ringing axe, and yowing, rending, falling with a sudden, aul en crash, were borne far away to do battle vith the stormy seas, or to rot and crumble iway in the rich black churchyard mould. But they were soon followed by more ; for ioor Pebbles was so full of new plans forI nanging his estate that, like the Irishmian vho spent his last half-crown to buy a purse: :o put it in, he sold his acres to pay for the mprovements he had made in them, and what is more, sold them for lean, because of hose very idedtical so-called improvements. m.i tea.t left him bnecnus he insisted on their planting cabbages and celery instead ol potatoes-a crol., he said, that was sure to fail. His farmed' gave up their farms be. cause he meddled with their plans, and burnt the fields t4 improve the soil, until he converted all theland Into a large desert of brick dust. Butworst of all, he had dab. bled in rail-way peculation, and so at last came a crash, anutbe Jews got hold of the Pebbles' property' Then what changes took place! The suit of aimour that Sir Peregrine Pebbles had wornlat Agincourt re-appeared in Fitzroy-street; in the- studio of Pcekilus Pigment, and its fortrait was in the Acade my, A.D. 18-in thiat celebrated artist's pic ture of the Battlilof Otterburne, wherein it figured down in front, with Earl' Percy in. side i The old portraiis of the Pebbles of anti quity were cariiedaway to Wardour-street, whence they were removed to the suburban villa of Higgins, tie retired grocer, at which place, they flgured is the Higginses of an tiquity. And so the spoi ed the Israelites Egyp tians. Over the fsea .to Boulogne went Pebbles, there to cOnsider what was next to be done. Was helitted for any profession or trade I We fear not. Did he imagine himself fit for any. Of course he did, there was nothing in the world that, for the short space of perhips an hour, he did not think his special idcation. Like Shakes. peare's Weaver, he.wanted to be Pyramus and Thisbe, and Li' and Wall, but was on. ly moonshine I-But still he tried all; like that aristocratic weather-cock Villiers, he " Was everytbing bf ttrns and nothing long." Pebbles was wanaering on the beach at Boulogne, and turning over in his mind the various modes of making a living, when some one touched hin on the shoulder, and turning round, he saw.a little jovial-looking parson. " Why Pebblis," lelaimed Bales, for he it was, " in the dumla I What's the matter? Stump's down, or r ut, eh I" For be it known, that Bales s retained his love f6r the " manly game," aid he set up the boys of his village with bals, balls, and stumps, much to the delight of the farmers, who found that when the Jlads were better em. ployed, they did notifob orchards or hen. houses so often. Hli~ricket-nania had lost him the good opin of 'the two Misses Hassock, for he once Aentured to express his belief that in mAitfacturing towns and mining districts it would be a good plan to allow the men and liojs a game at cricket on Saint's Daysi In answer to Bales' enquiry, our hero told him his story. The little ecelesiastic was touched, for he knew Pebbles' old failing; it may be his conscience smois him for the way in hich be had made Panurgus useful in the old college dbys. "Cheer up, old fellow," he esclaimed, " what if you are bowled out once, you must have anotheP innings I and you mustn't hit so wild,--stick to one thing, and work hard at it; don't try to do everything. A Jack-of-all-trades is master of none, you know; you don't often meet with a good bat who is worth much at wicket-keeping, or a good bowler who gets the score. In the meantime, old fellow, let me have the pleasure of lending an old col lege-mate some of the needful !" Pebbles seemed inclined to refuse the bank note which he offered him. "Pshaw !" he continued, " It's only a loan, you can pay me when you get a b-atch. By the bye, I hope you are a better hand at it than you were when you missed that splendid catch; don't you remember-when we played the Trinity eleven 1" and so they wvalked on, talking of old times and old companions, and before they parted Bales had promised to get our hero a tutorship in a French family. This he did, and one would fancy that Pebbles was at length settled down, at least for a time ; but no, his fate was inexo rable, andi so poor Panurgus at length fell a victim to it, A year after the~last mentioned event, I was at Boulogne on business, when the waitress-I believe they call them "flles" in France-of a little auberge, came to re quest my presence at the bedside of "a com patriot." I followed her to the inn, and then, what the French call mont d'en haut, and there, In a miserable garret, I found Pa. nurgus Pebbles shivering upon a miserable pallet, evidently on the verge of death. I hurried off immediately, and called upon an eminent Enighsh physician who was staying in the place, and returned with him as soon as possible. Too late-when we arrived poor Pebbles was dead ! How he came to leave the Frendh family I do not know: probably he thought he had discovered something that was exactly suited for him as he fancied, and so threw up a good situation to grasp after a shadow. He had not been at the auberge long -before he was taken seriously ill, and, poor dabbler in all things, he had consulted Dr. Vyolant Remmedie and Professor Hlydrus Vasser, a disciple of Preissnitz. The latter recom mended wet blankets, the former prescribed calomnel; and between the two stools, as he had often done before, Pebbles fell to the ground-nay, beneath it. He sleeps in a little churchyard near Boulogne. Featherwell and I visited the place last vacation- It was a bright sumn mer's day, and the shade of the tower lay clearly de-fined across the grass, and the shadoiv of the weathercock seemed, as if in mockery, to rest upon Pebbles' grave. " Man is hut a vain shadow," said Feath erwell; and so we turned away and left him to sleep under the head-stone, with the sim pe inscription Hic Jacet PANURGUs PEBBL~is. WHxAs.,-Tlhe Gorgetown (S. C.) Time. of the 23d ult. says: " Several black whales were seeni distinctly from the pilot boat W. W. Shackelford on Sunday, and also on Monday last, neat thebar of Georgetown, something quite unusual for* this latitude. Capt. L. D. Benton and Isaac Lynch can vouch for the fact of this statement, having been sufficiently near them to observe them olyal and distinctly heard them spoutingr." NEW FABIES. THE UMBRELLA, MUFF, AND FAN, An umbrella, lying on the table with a muff and a fan, thus addressed them: " How strange it is that you do not accommodate yourselves to circumstances, instead of be. Ing fit for certain times and certain places only. You, Miss Fan, are merely used for a few bright, warm, summer days, and are then thrown by. You, Ma'n'selle MuT, are hid in a corner until the cold and stormy winter comes; and when the cheerful sun shows his face, you are considered as an encumbrance. But I am used at all sea. sons of the year; I proltect man from the rain and snow of winter, and am equally'sought for amid the uncertainties of summer weather." " True," replied the muff, who was spokes. woman for its companion, the fan: " but if our reign is short, at least we have the satis faction of knowing that we add to the orna nients of those who use us; while I have never heard the umbrella spoken of save with regret, as a sort of necessary evil." THE APPLICATIN.-If we would only be content to fill respectably the position for which we are individually best fitted, with out indulging in invidious criticisms of the doings of others, we should escape many of those unpleasant rubs-bitter truths, hurled at us in return--which follow as an inevi table result. TE BARBERT BLOCIB Two waxen busts, gaily draped in calico, who prided themselves greatly upon their genteel appearance in a peruquiet's window, took occasion one day to heap their disdain upon a humble beechen block, carved to a very rude resemblance of the human head, and used by their common proprietor to fix such-wigs upon as he intended for sale. Af ter suffering their taunts for a long time in silence, the latter thus addressed them : " If I cannot boast," said he, " of a complexion as brilliant as yours, or such gracefulness of form, at least I may advance the .claim of utility ; for I perceive that, while the tresses you wear-and have worn these many years -are not only artificial, but really worth. less, I have had the good fortune to cover with my wigs nearly half the parish." LuEE APPLICATIN.-It d9es not follow from this fable that a handsome appearance must needs cover inferiority of character; but it is meant to teach that those who are not co highly faou'red as d ourselves in this rospect may nevertheless have the advan tage of us in some other qualities, equally, if nout more valuable. THE BELLOWS BLOWERS. A lad employed to work the bellows of a great church-organ, noticed, one day, what great inconveniences ensued by the non-arri val of the organist; the circumstan. e, being quite unforeseen, creating some considera ble serisation in the church. Putting a very false estimate upon his own services, he de termined to play the parish a trick, and thought that by staying away for once to cause a similar sensation. But stationing him. self secretly in the loft, he, to his disappoint. ment, found that, after the lapse of a min ute, everything went on just as usual; and he then learned, that whateve difficulty there might be to find organists, -bellows blowers were plentiful enough. TEr APLICATIoN.-We may all smile at the folly of the lad in this fable, who, for the paltry gratification of his vanity, would take such a step : but ignorance and vulgarity are continually leading people to make simi lar exhibitions. Airs assumed by such to enhance their seeming importance, in the end only show us how alight a pang is cau sed by their absence. TIE TWO MASKS. In the vestibule of an ancient Greek tem ple reposed two masks, the one comie, the othier tragic, whose whole time seemed to be taken up in a controversy as to which of them was most pleasing to Jupiter. A torch that, unfortunately for itself, had been thrown down near them, and heard the whole dis eussion, at length broke in with this remark: " For my part," said he, "[ifancy that Ju piter is but little moved by the comedy of the one, or the tragedy of the other, since, after all, it is clear enough that both of you are only masks." TuE APPLICA'rION.-A little sincerity is worth a great ieal of learning, Finely turned phrases, and sentences that roll with the grandeur and force of thunder, are as dust in the balance, when compared -with truth in its least-adorned shape. It is cer tain that one-half of the controversies that have distracted the world would never have arisen, had the number of hypocrites been reduced in the same ratio : the face should be the index of the mind ; but it will not do to be all face. TIE LITTLE FLOWER, A LEGEND OF ROLLAND. A little child died, and the guardian angel wvas bearing its soul to heaven. Already they had passedt'tne busy city, the fields of ripe corn, the forest where resounded the woodman's axe, the canals where glided the laden vessels, and the angel had not looked upon them ; but when they came to a poor villige, lie hovered over it, and looked into a (lark alley, running through a cluster of decayed huts. There was grass growing through the stones; there was broken pot tery, and damp straw, and piles of cindera and ashes thrown out. The angel looked long at the deserted spot, when espying sud denly a pale flower in the ruins, which had opened in the shade, he gave a cry of joy, stooped from the air, and plucked it. The soul of the child asked him why he had stoioped for a simple field-flower, without beauty or fragrance. "'iThou seest at the bottom of this alley a cabin, with the roof brokeni by the snows, and its walls seamed by the rain. T1here lived once a child of thy age, afficted from his birth. When he quitted his little straw bed, lening on his willow erutches. he wvent two or three times up and down the aljey it was all. He had never seen the sun 4ut from his window. When the summer brought back its bright rays, the little affi- I ted creature came and sat in their light; he looked at the blood circulating feebly in hip I thin hands, and saji, *I 4m better.' Never had he seen the green of the' meadows or i the forest, only the little ohildren sometimes brought him branches of the popular, which he laid around him on his bet. Then he 1 would dream that he was lying in the shade of the woods, that the sunshine was dancing through the leaves, and the birds singing around. One day his eldest sister brought 4 him a little field flower, with its root. He planted it in an old earthen pot, and God prospered the plant tended by the weak hand. It was the sick child's garden; the litte flow er was to him the meadows, the Woods, the. waters, the creation. As long as he lived he nursed it. He gave it all the air and the sunshine.that his little window suffered to enter; he watered it each evening, and told it good bye till next morning, as if it were a friend. But when God called away the lit tle matyr, his family quitted the village, the alley was abandoned, and the simple flower surrounded with ruins. Then the providence of God preserved it where I have just gath ered it." . " Who told you all that I" demabded the soul of the child. " I was myself," said the angel, " the lit. tle sick child who walked on his willow crutches. God has taken me up to paradise, but I have not-forgotten the few humblejoys I had on earth, and I would not give that simple flower for the most beautiful star in the sky I now inhabit." APOIGRAPIIC GLSSES. An ingenious person may. afford no end of amusement to himself and friends by the aid of a few dozen vaporgraphic glasses, on which are invisibly delineated a variety of questions and answers of an appropriate character, such as love questiona; pon In drums, &c. Real dissolving views 'mayAso be depicted on these glasses, possessing an interest according to their artistic value. Glass valentined may also* e ia4e * the ' same way, which may have invisiby im-. pressed upon thi rp any written theme, roe try, or initials. Breath on this glaas, 4# yoal 4iviip T4e pdrtraif'df your Valentle. These vaporgraphic glassesare very easily made, and at a cost not worth mentioning. When finished, they have nothing peculiar in their appearance to indicate their latent a graphic powers; hence, to a stranger to the ,mystery, they only appear like ordinary glass. The secret is this : Procure a few c pieces of window glass, about the size of an ordinary playing card; then write or draw on them whatever may be thought proper a with a quill pen that has been dipped in by. drofluoric acid, using this watery liquid just , as you would ink. After the design has thus been depicted upon the glass for about two minutes, the glasses are to be washed i in clean water, and polished with a silk t handkerchief, or a dry soft cloth. The drawing or writing will now be perfectly t invisible, but if breathed upon the pictures or letters, become " as clear as noonday." c The same effect is observed if the glasses be held over the steam of hot water; hence e their name, vapor, or stean-; graphic, rela- g ting to writing. Hydrofluorie acid, at it eats into glass, is sold in leaden bottles by the laboratorian chemists. Septimus Piesse- t Scientifc American. s FACETIE. ( Plucked from we-knowo-where and several other places.) 'A woutnded captain being obliged to have his leg amputated, saw his servant wveeping for his master's misfortune. " What are you crying for, simpleton," said he, " don't you a see you will have one boot less to polish in t future ?" This philosophic consolation quite dried the poor fellow's tears, TH E SCHOOILIAsTR.-A pedagogue had g two pupils; to one he was very partial, and and to the other he was very severe. -One r morning it happened that those two were t late, and were called out to account for. it. "You must have heard the bell, boys; why did you not come I"t "Please, sir," said his favorite, "I was dreamin' that I was going to Californy, and I thought the school bell was the bell of the I steam boat that I was going in." - " Very well, sir (glad of any pr~eet to c excuse his favourite); and now, air (turniing E to the other), what havo you to say I" a " Please, sir," said the puzzled boy, " i-I I was wvaiting to see Tom off."1 A JUDGE OF PoR.-" No man," says Mrs. Partington, " was better calculated to t judge of pork than my poor husband was; he knew what good hogs were, for he had I been brought' up with 'em from his child-. hood." THE THIRTY BEAUTIs.-Brantome, on female 'oeauty, gives the Spanish version of the thirty "ifs." If-now, ladies, len'd an ear-If Three t'aings yre white.-ikin, teeth, and hands; Three things black-eyeyboan .eyelashes- yeee'os n Three things red-lips, cheeks, and nails; Three things long--waist, hair, and hands; Three things short-teeth, ears, and feet; Three things vwe-breast, front, and brow; Three things narrow-mouth, waist, ied ankle;. Three things large-arm, hip, and calf; Three things fine.-lips, hair, and fingers Three things small--nose, head, and ho som; Then there are thirty beauties in all. AN INToLERLABLE Pur'sTL.-Theodore H ook, once walking with a friend, passed a pastryecook's shop, in th~e windowv of which was the usual inscriptioi,-" Water les, and ice creams." " Dear me," sai ' Theodore, " what an admirable description of the ef fects of hydrophobia."-'-" How can that bet'! said his friend; " What have water ices and ice creams to do with hydrophobia I" "Oh," replied H ook, "you do not read it right; I rad it ihna-water I seeu. and I soaama " HoUsEHOLD TREAsURE.-A treasure of ihusband-Carries the baby. A treasure of a wife-Never spks for qoney. A triasqre o a son- as mp p. ip th0 A t.rpaure of a' daughter-Loo s the amia .. as her mother-if anything, atr lder. - A treasure 9f a servant-Runs to the post a less than half a*n hour. - A treasure of a' co~ok-ls not lvssric whenever there is company to dinner. A treasure of r. baby-Doesn't disturb it lear papa in the middle of the dight. "PAIA, have Mr. Jone's eyes got feet! F Why, my son 1"* "Beeas e I heard. othir - ay that at a party the other evening Mr rones's eyes followed her all over the room. Mna . IA MATcp.-mA Scoteh fkre ner, celebrated in his neighbourhod for his mmense strength and skill in the athleti zercises, very frequently had the pleasure if fighting people who came to try'if; they ould settle him or not.- Lord D., a greM bgilistic amato.or, ba4 comns from Loidon in purpose to fight the athletic Scot. 'The atter was *alking in an enclosure, at a little, listance from his house, when the noble ,ord arrived. Ilis lordship tied his horse b tree and addressed the farmer Friend, I have heard a gfeat deal of ta1 bout you, and I have coma, a long way to ee which of us is the best wrestler." The Scotchmap, without answegng, seie4 be nobleman by the middle of the .body oitched him over the hedge, and "ben se( bout workigg. When his lordship had gof imself fairry picked up, "Well," said the farmer, "hae youa hing more to say to me ' " No," replied his ordship; . bpt perhaps rou'd be so good 's dp mpe.mymorse.l Tuz SAr.on's RaTORT.-A sailor was afled lpon the stond as a)%.iss, "Well, sir," 'Said' th'' awyei ", you :now the plainI and defendant " 'I don't kno'w the drift of them w agee OSOie sawpIr, "What! not know the meaning of plain. iff and defendant!" continued the lawyr. - prppy fellow you, to come here as ritness. Can yoh tell tiuewhere onbdi he ship it was that man struck the othet. net" "Abaft the binnacli," said the sailor.. - "Abaft the binnacle," xaid thela' what do you mean- by that I" A. pretty fellow you," responded -m aildr," come here as a lawyer, and don now what abaft the binnacle mesfs." THE GExEAN Fon PLAT.-" Good gra. ious, Anna, what is the German for a platet' '- Teller," I replied, leaning over the *air. " Tell her what 1" returned my aunt, no( upposing that she had heard aright. "Teller," I answered back at the top m$ How can I tell her, unless yoq tell mq ihat to tell her 7" she retorted in a tone that etokened she was gradually becoming hea. 3d, and, indeed, the weather was sultry. "Can't you jear qie tell. you to tell her 'her f'' .r "That's just what I *ant to dd! but how, an I tell her unless I know what to tell her ". I was lapghing so heartily that I col4 nly sbpu4opt; 1' Tell her, teller." Be .aring that :N aunt might become exas; erated, I ran down stairs, and for her edi cation uttered ibmagie *oid. ' course he desired plate wa's produced, to lier great mazement; but she good naturedly joine4 a my unrepressed meripent-utobiogra by of an Actress. ' A GRAMMATECAL Purn,.4 cbpohas. er, arter giving one of his selolars g soun4 rubbing for speakg had gr i'ai, sent im to the other end of the room toInform nother boy that be wished to speak to him' *nd, at the same time, promising to repe4 he dose If he spoke to him ungrammatically. The youngster, quite satisfied widi whag .0 had got, detei mined to be exact, and thus ddressed his fellow pupil: ,r here is a egrponi substantive, otile; 3asculine yender, smgul~ar'nuaker, nomima rye case, and in 'an angry mood,' that sitg erched upon the ominence at the other side f the room,'wisbey'tq' articulate a few sent ences to you il the presblit gensq ' "' SoxE Nos.-The following inciderit *q ad from a friend who knows the party; )eacon Comstock, of Hartford, Connecti: ut, is well known as being provide4 with a iiormo'us'handle to his countenance. in the hape o6f g hqgg nose ; in fa'etit is remarkal ele for its grea' length. '"QE aate gsulo' vhen taking up a "boflptioq n g"ae ciurc o which the deacon belongs, as he passe brough the congregation every person tq whom he presented the bag seemed to be ossessed bya sudden and uncontrollabl@ esire to laugh The deacon did not knoiw what to make Qf it. He had often ae ound befor4, but no such effets as t ail he ever beforegitnessed. The deacod ras fairly puzzled. The ,isre);hdie ~ Baked out. He had bee's afmicted fora a >r two with a slight sore on his uaalh endae, and had placed a small piece w tiplig~ platiter over-it. 'During the morna f'thdayv referr'ed to, the'plaster iddo ed off, and the dedoi seei6 Es sue osed, on the 'floor yicked it up a'n . stug on'agairn. But alas for men who sabe imes diake unfortunate mistakes, he pice p ins'ta' of it, one of-tho4gittle roao4 ieoes of jiaper *hilch (te wpaniisiclurers pool cotton-pas1e o06 the Jnd'of every sol na which reads as roluows;'" Warrantit old out 200 yards." Such' a sign on such ' oye; wai'enough' to upset 'theg'avityo yen a pyritan congregation, t'hde gwe tiung ustihlble. EXTBNDING HErZE.The lonference, at its late sitting in Lonn Iltered tlieir e Vesiastical .regulag~ose allo'w miiters to remamiu gve year~at >Iase1 provided the iedarterly u~e he''erceait niake I yearl dj~ 'ect after the secondyj n the discipline-ofth esit his eountry hsion~ been s