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lm?Ww< For the Southern Entorprlse.
"Who Would list to the thrush when
The nightingale is suiging f"-?Waltku Scott.
As through Wild sylvan voles wo rovo,
At twilight's soft ?n?hnnt?ng hour,
And hear, from copse, dark tree and grove,
And vino-wreathed jos'raine scented bowers,
From many a slender, feathered throat the strain
Ofawcet bird melody: I would fain
Pause beside the Btarry-blossom'd hawthorn bush,
And list with rapture to thy merry voice, sweet
thruah!
Thou art the harbinger of spring, sunshine and
flowers,
Thou birdl and of April's soft reviving showers.
In thy strain comes youth's joy, the " sunshine of
the mind"?
'Sing on, sing on, sinoein thy strsinyouth's vision
lost I find.
Nay 1 ocaso poor bird, who, who would li^t to thee
While tho night-bird ]K>urs from yondor ancient
tree;
lis trills of melody, clear, liquid, floating, spiritbreathing,
Waking, blessed bird of lovo I within the heart
the one fond feelincr.
The dearest hope, the prayer, the tear, the sigh
of lore,
For the cherished, the absent one: oh! bear it to
the Throne above,
Thon bird of night, of love, of soft and heavenly
minstrelsy. - .
And oh1 sing on, sing ever, thou that hast the
gift to stir,
flueh pare, deep thoughts within the heart! sing
on, and stir
The wild-wood echoes from the caverns where
they Bleep,
And graceful fawns from forest, aisles and ingles
deep.
And e'er from vine-wreathed bowers, and hawthorn
bush,
And tree, and shrub, drive away, away, the poor
tame thrush.
JE2JETTA.
Woodlarcn, Beaufort Diitrirt.
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I be ?f) nihe i* Sept i 17 e i
A THRILLING TALE.
Jeremy Cosait lived twenty miles west of
Madison City, Territory (now State! of Iowa.
No prettier country has ever been found out
of Eden than that region back of Madison
City. Old Black Hawk, as good a judge of
aoil as any human being, told me in 1837,
while eating with him at Montrose, that the
country styled the 'f&o and Fox Purchase"
was the beet land hewer saw, and he had
but lately returned from his government
tour through the United States, and besides
that was familiar with the lay of land as far
west as the Rocky Mountains. I bear testimony
to the same fact, andf will maintain it
agaitiat alt odds, that Iowa Is tho best farming
country in the United States; and were
it not so extremely cold in the winter, my
four children should have hailed it as their
hirth-piace, instead of ? more Southern clime.
ThJe peculiarity of the country consists in tho
and beautiful distribution of small tertilo
prairies, with tail, excellent thnuC-f adistptwikm
not often, seen ne timber near prairie*
|s general shrubby, and prairies near iiiubcr
usually barren. When I first witnessed Iowa,
iheJUnd was not surveyed hj? gcveinuient,
and consequently was not in tyftarket. The
settlers wore.aU squatters, ana were establishing
themselves, cultivating and building,
, |n hopes that some new pre-emption law
would secaro to them the rights against tho
iraveuous maw of tho speculator. Among
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^ puv it^ii wuu wore wigHgwi mints onierprise,
ra? Uncle Boby Box and bfa nephew, Jeromy
Coaait.
J shall not wNtt the readers with an extended
account of-tBsse worthies; they aria
just such as form tho staple of the stories (A
* Jxmgstreet and I|dl$or, and sooth to
- thoee facetious writers have usod the staple
well. Unola Bobby waa old atnl intemperate
quarrelsome and bS^lemous. Marks
of hard services in (M^atUao of Bacchus were
upon all parts of bis person, and those who
helped ''lay him our in 1830, gave hU
feme in few words: "SVeU, if ibis chap
haa*nt had more bruises lb an any othgf |m
muvt H*? a wonder !n *{,* . v
Bus nephew, Jeremy Gosait. was raked up
X tmry unfortunately, ?? an orphan ; unfortu*
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oatol y for two reasons ; that it was hard to
miss the humanizing* influence of kind parents,
and still harder to fall into such hands
as those of Boby Box. But so it was?the
only education hp ever. got was the foul language
of old Bobby, the only work ho ovei>
did was to walk twice a weok tQ Burlington
to fill old Bobby's jug, the only discipline
exercised upon him was a hearty kick whenever
be was gone too long, or broke the jug.
With this brief sketch of character, I may
prudently proceed with my story. About
the first of May, Bobby Box bad a "raising,"
and an extra supply of whisky was demand
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Staring Jeremy on ahead with the jug,
bo followed after, having the keg strapped
to his back, and his heavy rifle on this should
or, looking as mnch like a palmer as a red-ji
faced back woodsman looks like anything
else. Tho precious fluid was duly purchased,
and the amiable pair retraced their
steps burdened with tho loaiJ, but elevated
by a considerable portion of its contents?
for say what you will of old Box, lie would
not refuse others tho comfort that ho took
himself. Tho journey lay everal
small prairies, and then wound up by pas^hg
through Skunk river bottom, a dense thicket
of cane, papaw and other shrubby growth.'
The traveler* left Burlington iu good season
to have arrived home by dark ; unfortunately,
the youth, not being practised in measuring
his Oapaoity for spirits, allowed hiuasolf
to indulge too freely, and was compelled to
step for some hours in consequence, a proceeding
that excited the wrath of tho patriarch
to an unlimited extent: but whether
he was oifended at tho delay, or at Jeremy's
weakness, cannot at this late period bo ascertained
. Sunset overshadowed the prairies
before the boy could be suflRientiy aroused
to proceed on tho journey. UWhultiek now
commenced in right.earnest, for there wig
Egyptian darkness just as thoy entered the
bottom. No moon was in the sky ; it never
is on n dark night, when most wanted ; and
an,tor the stare, though there wore thousands
wfiiking over the beautiful proirieTandscape,
not one*is 'sharp enough to wink through a
apa y0k tree, into the thicket. The road
was A mere pathway, sometimes traveled by
ot wagons it is true?not by such oxen or siflli
wagons usually body ever saw except by
border settlopf?but by oxen that can go
through hardships, and wagons to match.
Our rule in the back woods is the scriptural
ono in its most literal interprotion?"where
the tree falleth there shall it lio"?and when
one blows ncross the road we quietly yield
to the necessity of the case, and turn, the
road around it. It is true that a Dutchman
once innovated upon our custom by cutting a
large tree out of the way, but we sneered at
him so much for his folly that he never repeated
it, and sincd*that time the principle
has been universally acknowledged.
It follows, thorqforo that Uncle Bobby Box
and his nephew, Jeremy Cossit, each nonpariels
in the the tvay of traveling a bec-liuo,
would nevertheless fiud considerable difficulty
in traveling through SkunkJRiver bottom
in the dark;tho more especially as the uncle
had but one eye and the nephew had obfuscated
both of his by getting drunk
three hours before. The tirst catastrophe
waa the fall of Uuclo Bobby over
a swinging gt ape-vino, by which he broke
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UIO guu OiWB. miVI b Vll , iUTj DUWIIU Wit5 a
flying visit of Jeremy dowua sharp a ravine,
which cost him the loss of the jug; the third
was their leaving tho path and finding themselves
beyond their bearings, these three fol
lowing each other in close succession, and
the last capping tho climax of their miseries.
Out of breath at last, the elder withdrew the
cob from b?s keg, and commenced to drown]
his sorrows as rapidly as possible by getting
drunk, a feRt be would have soon achieved,
bad it not been for a sharp, ringing sound
which thrilled through the forest, and caused
him suddenly vo drop the keg and spring
to his feet For a moment all was still, save
the loud breathing of two terrified hearts,
and then arose a wailing sound like the voioe
of many others crying for their lost babes,
that chilled the blood in their veins.
"It's a young one that's got lost," whis
nered Jeremy, to which his venerablo guardian
sternly repliedJ
1 ' foung one, it's A painter."
Another and another scream ^echoed
through tho woods, and by their increasing
loudness gave token that tho animal was
rapidly approaching them.
No time was to be lost if they would escape
; but where could they go i to flee v/as
tmwisaavklo /ma Vv/iiiaul cJ tko uinmcl
t uij/'/nniv/iu | vmo WUIIVI vt nsv? miuuiw
would settle that; to climb was even less secure
in the face of a brute whose leap was
thirty feet.
\ "Hunt out a hollow," cried the old man,
and at it they went. Those of my readers
, who have traveled on the upper Mississippi
have doubtless been struck with the immense
size of the larger sycamores that range from
six feet to twenty iu d iameter. After they grow
to a certain sice they are woivetfcnlly hollow,
1 and then they furnish to the settlers conveu1
ient receptacles for grain,curbs fur wells, and
* with small trouble ofsawing and removing.
1 These cavities are usually open at the ground,
' and give fine shelter to swine in JUMtM;
?*n as to wilder animals, if iu<Wilder
anirarJ can be found in the woffjoTtjuwi nt
* untamed hog. |P
Uncle IM>by knew thesvNhngi well
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enough, a ml Ins wits at this crisis did not
forsake him, so, leaving the keg, precious in<!.:ep,
but not so precious ttt 'lifo, he comme?6tfd
feeling arotmd the biwo of the larger
treefTor a hole, cloeely followed by the bojr, j
who was in an alarming state of nervous apprehension.
It wa9 not long until thoy sue- ^
ceeded in the search. A sycamore stoodJ|MC
HlO ltfirtl/* r^r n ot^ioll neonlr '
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Skunk,^tod leaned considerably into one
water. On iUs upper side was .a hole, / but
little larger than a mnnV body, and nearly
on a level with the ground; into this hole Jeremy
first introduced himself, and After him i
the elder, who had taken the precaution to..
Mocure a chunk of wood as a barrier iu case,
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The few minutes spent in this way .would;
doubtless liave proved fat ill to both, for the
panther iu a few inighty bounds Ui^j, crushed i
through the thick cane likoa tornado, reached
the very 6pot where they had stood when
they first heard the cry, but the smell of the
wklsfet^ caused* the creature to halt, and tire
delay saved thfem. Never did a practised
drunkard inhale the fuiuca of lns^Javorile
-drink with more gusto thrill this unrcfphi^tiCatcd
denizen of the forest. With long sniffs,
that the imprisoned pair could distinctly
hear, lie inhaled the perfume again and
againat times lapping the sides of the cask
with his tongue, then slopping to suifi at tire
bunghole with a delight that would havo
gono to the heart of "Tain O'Sbnnter and
Sonter Johlinv." had the. hnnn thnrn In tnn
This lu xuurious indulgence wm continued
for a considerable time, but was broken oil* at
last by a cry that came ft opt another direction,
and pointed out the positiou to a second
panther, male to the first. The cry was immediately
answered, and in an instant the
two were together lovingly engaged ovc.' i
the whiskey cask.
From the evil eflects which followed, it is
probable that tho two felino lapped up a
"right smart chanbe" of the whiskey as it
flowed from the bunghole of tho keg, for
tlioy growled at each other awfully, and a
considerable tVssle was beard atuong the
leaves where they stood. Old friends hoiycver,
soon, fovget injuries, and so they
lay do down side by side to rest. And now
all might have been well with tho two prisoners,
for tho probability is that tho two
pnnthers would have peaceably departed,
and left them to pray for daylight, but for
an incautious expression of Bobby's who reflecting
on tho various catastrophes of (,he
night, rupture of the jug, spilling of the keg,
breaking the guuttock, and coufinemont ,in
the hollow, which abounded in fleas, as hog
beds alway do, moved by #theso considerations,
and boiling over with'angcr, culled out
sotto voce, "drat their pictors."
The words were no sooner out than both
the animals sprung to their feet with a deep
growl, turned tueir oyos, fairly shooting fire,
toward the hopelea man, and communicated
with each other as to tho cause of the alarm.
An instant sufficed for explanation. By that
mysterious instinct which brutes possess the
tale syas told, tho plan of joiut attack was
laid, and they sprang simultaneously, ono to .
the front and the ether to tho rear of tho sycamore.
Oh, how Uncle Bobby wished for his rifle,
as ho saw the broad forehead of the beast
within a pace of liiin. He fairly wept when
ho thought what a chance he was missing for
a painter akin," that would buy lmlf a barrel
of whisky in Burlington. But now his love
of gain changed into love of life, as the panther,
with n mighty grasp, seized the chunk
which filled the entrance, and ondcavorcd to
drug it out?on attempt which which would
have sooceoded, but for the joint efforts of
.the pair inside. For a while it seemed as if
he would gain thg prize, and had the other
prr.lhor, who came round and stood looking
Cflf bt i did not know enough to assist bun;
attacked them also,4thoy would have l?een a
wail at Uncle Box's for a moral certainly.
As it the old man lost a coat slcvo, tho
i boy a finger nail, both were toru off by the
claws of the infuriated animal.
Disappointed in his efforts, the panthers
exchanged the exercise of pulling for that of
scratching, and if you ever saw a little dog
with wiry aqd rummy eyes, laboring to
scratch out u rat hole, you can form somo
idea of the way the dirt flew before the big
foet and powerful ciaws of the brutcj. U:;el3
Bohbv clung to his chunk however, and although
both eyes, mouth and nose were filled
with the moist earth that flow in clouds,
he kept up a good heart, and stock fast, yelling
like an idiot, in hopes to alarm his assailants.
It is a fact that the human voictg
is generally droaded by wild animals ; but
innow it MUtmcil hi have lost, its unwor !
for the panthers, intoxicated by the taste and
smell of the WhUky, or thirsting for human
blood, seemed quite regardless of tho old
man's voice, and soratchod away harder
than before. Their labor was qui to in vain,
f>r they soon cleared the earth away to the
more Wid roots, upon which their claw*,
made little impretsiOn, and Again they .paused
in their exertions. A moment's consultation,
and one oftham with a lion** boflnd,
went up tho tree, evidently from above. This
was the tqoat trying moment of the whole
night; for had such an entrance e\i-tod the
imprisoned man we'd know that his fife ahd
Jibs lPfe of tho hid wero not rath a moment's I
purchase. V, ^WF
1 It Is a peculiarity, hoover, of these froil-1
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DAY MORNING, JI N
- " 1 1 - - - -- -- - - - U.ey
?ettlchB to fight Against ail emergencies,
hml if they oannot win the game, at least to
*pl#y it out," 1 knew one of this class, when
laying upon his dcath'bed> to order his l?owie-kmfe,
pistols and rifle to bo laid at his
side, that ho might meet" death "with his
own tools," and it was done. Uncle Bobby
was "all game," as they saw. Nono in War
vKfvuunv)' Yv;w uravcr; nono on i?kunk river j
hadlew coward drops; so lie resolutely drew
lliis'trig spring knife, braced himself upright,
and waited for the monster's descent, determined
havo first blow," if he died i
for it. A short suspense, and he was relieved
of this. j|(?cir!ty, fofc the panther returned
bu the outsfao, evidoimy disappointed. Andj.li.er
l?n minutes St Scratching, aed then
another pause.
A chnngo of tactics, and botK sentinel^
shifted position to other side of tlio tree, and
IhjuI tlieiuselyea unitedly to the >sW. Nobody
knows what a hole they made. Uncle
Bobby declared be could liavo buried a
five year old in it without difficulty,and as
Jeremy hear testimony to the same ell'ect,
we must believe it more especially as niy informant,
whose word is worth a host of such,
corroborates the assertion.
The tree as I oliserved was a leaning one,
tlio sheer being toward the water ^ it was
old and rotten, and whether the panther
knew it or not, they were pursuing just the
right plan to make it f ill. Crack went one of
the upper limbs, as it broke off, and with a
loud splash fell into the creek. Snap went
one of the large roots, weakened by old ago,
til At. liflA frvr ?? KunJfAil """
?M iiuiiui^Uf JVUIO UVIJ.'VU L*/ MIS*
tain it from fulling.?Tlie thick cobwebs,
loaded with sliders and piles of rotten, wood
that had accumulated on the inside of the
tree, began to fall upon them, and almost to
smother them with the dust.
The confined air was suffocating?their
emotions intense, and still hour after hour
the panthers worked on. The end was not
far off?for now slowly and reluctaniiy at
first, then more and more rapidly : then with
the force and rush of an avalanche, down
came the old sycamore, covering tho opposite
side of the creek with rotten wood, breaking
in tho center, so as to throw tho butt of the
troe ' liigh in the air. Head-forward slid
Uncle ldobby, followed eloso by his nephew,
nor ceased his career until brought up in the
midst of a colon v of bats that bad nestled a
foot thick in what wrs formerly the top of
the cavity. That bats can bite had long
been shrewdly suspected, hut the individuals
above mentioned settled the question and
put it at rest forever.
Now Uncle Hobby succeeded in hoisting
himself foot foremost, encumbered as he v.as
by the weight of his nephew, and punctured^
as he was by a thousand ravenous bites, so
that he quite forgot that there was such a
thing as a panther in existence ; and when
ho felt his feet to bo at the entrance, ho incontinently
shook off tho bats, and sprun g
to the ground, glad to gat but on any terms.
Rubbing tho spiders and tho webs from his
one oyo, ho stared around. The morning
was breaking the panthers gone, the keg
lay empty at his feet, tho broken rifled at
his side, and his n??vhl of horror* wm
moat two mugsot coarse brown eartlicrnwiire
formed all the drinking apparatus in ahouse.
Kiefi, gontlemen woro cloths of nn
lined leather. Ordinary persona scarcely
ever touched desk meat, hioble mansions
' drunk little or no wine in summer?a little
corn seemed wealth. Women pad trivial
marriage portions?cvm kdles'tlressed extremely
plain. The chief part of % family's
expenso was what the males spent in arms
and horses, none of which, however, were
either very good or vory showy; and grandees
had to lay out money og their lofty
towers. In Dante's comparatively |>o!ishod
times, ladies began to pnmt their cheeks hy
way of finery, going to the theatre?and to
use less assiduity in spinning and playing
their distaff.?Jlitlory of the Order of St.
John.
In duo season the tirod pair arrived homo
wiiliout a-<uropof whisky, to meet the execrations
of a score of inen asstmbled according;
to appointment for tho "raising." But
the hopes of a "painter hunt" speedily drove
the disappointment from their minds.
In ft few hours a large party on foot and
horseback, with a hundred powerful dogs,
were iu hot pursuit. I cannot toll you the
details?perhaps in my series, I inay include
a "painter hunt," for the present I can only
say that the fhishcd-faced man, with only one
fcoat sleeve and a mutilated nose, who ran
?o fast and swore so hard was Uncle Box,
Esc., that the boy by his side was Jeremy,
and that tho two had tho gratification before
night of measuring tho claws of the two
monsters who hml gnardod them so zealously
tho night hrforo. Until the hour of his
death these tm worthies slept together on
tho tanned skin of tho male, and if Jeremy
is still living?v^iioh is very likely, as the
fever and aguo never kills any body?he will
bo pleased to rolute to you the wholo story
of the Panther Sentinels.
A friend fit West Point tolls us a comical
anecdote of a very diffident young clergyman,
who had been invited to dine with a
profeafciuual brother, who also kept a young
lady's boarding-school. He was introduced
to a bevy of the fair pupils in tho drawing
room, and among thcin to a Miss M , t#
...l.. k .11 i?^?:?1_ .
nuviH uo wuu niniiMiiQrii^ijr
-a?Miss M?, m-a-I-I-I am not
ontirely unacquainted with you. I-I-l had
the honor of sleeping with your father a
short time ago I'
If this isn't a rich Fpocinien of the art of
'scraping acquaintance,' wo have never heard
of oae, It bcati^poor Ppwcr,' in the 'Man
of Nerve,' all to tiotliiug.
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Sardonic Gkis.?Some, of'our reader*,
gay not te aware of the origin of the above
tern, which in j>itxip3v this:
. On the island of Sardinia thera. grows ??
poisonous plant, which when eaten produces
Pcompauicd with moat fiightencd
of featured. The cyee dilate, nosd,
and tho sufferer grins most hor!uce
the term "Sardonic grin."
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iff to JU
E*'?. Ku
-j- - jftliBtftlitufBtis
limbing.
S P if o p est y epbt to Jobc
you. i
JIT IIEIININK.
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Nothing! and what more would you have,
young giH, when that is all, indeed, arid the
rest -hut little less than nothimr ? Smile on
now, in quiet happiness, for with that blest
nssunjpCc yoil may look with hopo upon the
future; there w ill bo ilia, and griofa, and
heartaches, but still will" throb an hoi^sl
man's heart to love you.
"Nothing! Aro thl^nre devoted love of
an honest heart, the generous impulses of a
noble soul, the virtues which insure your future
happiness to bo' counted nothing ? Ah!
rather let prayer arise on high to liitu who
has given you so much of happiness* How
many as young, us good, as lovely, bcoti the
knee^to ask Almighty God the precious boon
of an honest heart to love them.
A time must come when youth, and graco
and loveliness will- fade away, when hopes
and dreams, and yearnings chango to quiet
all trust in Providence, when earth's surface
will seem void of dazzling roses, and life's
sky unlit by glorious sunbeams, when friends,
and relatives, and loveliness wifr pass before
you to the grave ; but still will bloom sweet
flowers of happiness along life's way, and
softened holier sunlight flood the sky ; if on
j the desert land thoro throbs anMioncst heart
to love you.
. Nothing! There will bean hour in which
earth, with its pomp and showy wealth with
its pleasures, and delight, and beauty, v'th
its charms anJ power, will seem to you like
nothincr: while tho memorv of a love th?t
blest your maidenhood and cheered you mid
the storjus of life, that went before you and
gave your spirit strength to follow, that crushed
the thorns of affliction placed upon your
brow and called each flower that blossomed
on life's way will rise in pleasantness before
you ; and whiloyour spirit quiet and screuc,
awaits death's summons from this world, remember
that the peace, the crown, the happiness
is yours, because of the virtue, truth
and bright example of the honest heart thai
loved you.
2) 3 ft) c 311 c 2ecei p 19.
A Whiter Cake.?Take a half a cup of
butter, two of sugar, three of flour, and one
ot milk, sour cream, (instead *>f eerg*) get it
ready for the oven in the regular way, then
sprinkle and stir in a teaspoo'nful of soda,
bako it slowly.
To Boil Itice.?liico is one of those vegetables
which is easily injured by poor cooking,
and may be made really unpalatable by
a little over toiling. Rico should be carefully
looked over, and thoroughly washed in
two or throe waters. The kern?.! will then
have a pearly lustre. It should he put into
boiling water in which a little salt has been
thrown, and allowed to boil fifteen to seventeen
uiirtnlos. Tho water should then be
drawn off?and the kettle set back from the
violent heat of the fire?when it lues steamed
this way about fifteen minutes, it will be
perfectly soft, of snowv whiteness, and each
kernel will retain its individuality, and not
he lost in one solid mass of paste. A pint
of rico may bo boiled iif three quarts of water.?Amrrran
AyrUufturi*t.
To miikc good Pancalxn.?These are
made of eggs, ffour and milk. Tho just proportions
arc one table spoonful .of flour to
each egg. To make two small pancakes
heat a couplo of eggs thoroughly, and add
' sweet milk. Then take a couple of table
spoonfuls, of Hour, work it into a thin, plastic,
and ductile batter by adding the miik
and eggs, and a slight seasoning of salt.?
Ureftse?tho pan with a piece of sweet lard or
butter, and stir briskly to provent its catching
or ndderring to the bottom. When the underside
is sufficiently browned, turn it.?
laatve tho cakes fokled, with sugar or honey
and butter between tho folds, or sugar alone.
If this is found to bo too solid, add more eggs,
and use a little lesa fl Vur. A slight sprinkling
of grated nutmeg will be an addition.
Man.nkus in tiir Miow.k Ages.?Itude
were the niunnera then ; man and wife ate
off tho same trencher; a few wooden-handled
knives, with blades of rugged iron, were n
luxury for tho great; candlesunkuown. A
servant girl held a torch at slipper; one oral
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Inlibntli 11 citing.:
"ti-tiij 1 V>nt Sct-^o.n"
A young licentiate, after throwing off a ? _
highly wrought, and, ns lie tbo't eloquent
Gospel Pennon, in the pulpit, and in presence
of a venerable pastor solicited of his experienced
friend the Wnofit of his criticisms upon
the performance.
"1 have but just one ronprric to mako," j
was his reply, "and that is to request you to
pray that sermon." jft % .
"What qo you mean, w?"
"1 mean just literally what I say?pray it,
if you can. and you w ill (hid the attempt a
bettor, criticism titan anv I ojhi make upon r?
it." .
Tlte request still puzzled t flooring rijfctbeyond
measure. Tlie idea of praying a <
sermon wne a thing lie never heard or. con
ceived of; and the -singularity of the sugges.tion
wrought-powerfully on lii& imagination
I ana reelings. ne revived fgg attempt the
task. lio IniJ his manuscript before him,.
and on his knees before God, undertook to
make it into a prayer, iiut it wouldn't
pray ; the spirit of prayer was not in it, and
that for a good reason?as he then saw for
the iirstiime?that the spirit of prayer and
piety dflf hot compose it. For the first time
ho saw that Ids heart was not right with
God ; and this conviction Wft him no peace
untii ho hud "Christ formed in him the hope
of glory." With a renewed heart, he applied
anew to tho work of composing ser
in'otis for the pulpit; preached again in thepresence,ef
tho pious pastor who had givon
such timely advice, and again solicited his
Critical remarks.
"I liavo no remarks to make," was the
complacent reply. "You can pray that sermon."
I 1)6 ? OtMtf ft! f|.
A fine writer of the present day, vomarks,
"The secret of intellectual excellence lies in
travelling back to tho fountains." Locke
says, that tho water running from tho spring
is tho property of every man , but that the
pitcher belongs to him who fills it. He who
goes to tho original author, the well head
draws from tho public reservoir. The student
should despise the pitcher as much as
hr can."
Is net the secret of great spiritual as well
as niTCiieciuni excellence, tins a;oing back to
that fountain of living water, which our Snvious
declares, that "Whosoever drinketh
shall never thirst; but be a well of water
springing tip in to everlasting life?" ^ "
The Jliblo is the well spring, the living,
ever gnshing fountain. It loses somewhat of
its brightness by any human admixture.?
Sermons are good, commentaries are profitable
in their place ; but when the devout spirit
thirsts, lie gwls to tho sparkling source, to
the words which drop from tho lips of Jesus,
and llow from the pons of his Prophets
and Apostles. There are moments in life
when the Spirit must speak to us as it were
by hi* own lips, when we cannot rest upon
the interpretation of any human expounder.
Blessed bo tbc Bible Society, that places
water to cvorv lip, and invites all to partake
of the unmixed draught in the fulness of its
purity and life*? />. S. Record.
QufcK Work.?It was once tho fashion
to wear coats, tho material for which had
not long before been on tho back of tho
sheep. For rapiditv of work ia this way, I
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mil hauling uihv can compete with tho
achievement of Coxctcr, of Grccnham ^lills,
tioar Nowbury. Ilo had a couple of South
Down sheep 6horn at hi* factory, at five o'clock
in the morning; the wool thus produced
was put through tho usual process; and
by a quarter past six in the evening, it resulted
in a complete damson colored coat,
which was worn at an evening party, by Sir
John Throckmorton. A wager for a ihoussand
guineas was won by this feat, with
three-quarters of an hour to spare. The
sheep were roasted whole, and devoured at
a splendid banquet. In one day they afforded
comfort to both tho inward and tho
! outward man.
1' *My rueaii,' said an anxious futher to a
i bashful daughter, UI intend that you should
l?e married ; but I do not intend that you
I should throw yourself away on nny of tho
wild worthless buys of tho present day.-1?
1 You must marry a mnn of sober and mature
age?one who can charm you with wisdom
and good advice?rather than with personal
attractions. What do you think of a fine
molui'A KisiiKn**.! *' * *
." " v ....nwoiKi in ihiv i xne umui, meeir,
blue eyed little daughter looked, into the
man's face, and with the slightest possible
touch of interest in her voices-answered : *4
think two of tweuty-five would be better,
pa,'
TrtK v>nv tiii no nitfinfi'u-?Among the
many curiosities exhibited to the wondering,
view of the citizens of Tarboro.' N. C., the
past week, not the least attractive, was a patent
"sclf-iocking cradle," which Mr. F. L
Bond seta going in front of his turnituie.
it Warehouse*.