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fl IHfUng Sift.
A trifling gift?ono little rose,
Jast bursting into oloom !
For such the stranger was, ?.
Which came with sweet perfume,
To cheer me in my loneliness,
And drive sad thoughts away ;
A foretaste of those gardens fair,
Whose flow'rets ne'er decay.
One little rose 1 and yet how much
Th? welcome gift I prise 1
No golden treasure ever seemed
So beauteous in my eyes.
The kindly tone and look it bore
To other charms gave birth ;
Enhancing as they clustered there,
Its own intrinsic worth.
How oft one kind nnd gentle word
Will jxjace and joy impart,
And make the warmest sunshine glow
Upon the saddest heart.
IIow oft one trifling gift will speak,
Where words are needed not!
rrl ? Ortrtn li-nrn* the thourrht to read
AIIU - - o
That seeks to soothe its lot.
Sweet memories linger round each flower,
Which friendship ever gave;
A holy incense floating o'er
Each little perfumed grave.
From every withered lenf and bud
Flows fortli a touching strain,
Till voice and luto in memory's car
Echo the toft refrain.
I dearly love such chosen gifts,
For in them all I find
A welcomo bahn most sweet and pure,
To cheer the lonely mind.
And nestling 'mid the velvet leaves,
There seems some fairy fair,
In perfumed whispers breathing forth
The kind thoughts written there.
Still come to in all yonr pride,
Ye blushing roses bright!
Each petal can a page unfold,
My spirit to delight.
I joy to feel your presence near,
Surrounding me with love,
Like holy angels freely sent,
With blessings from above.
,i i
A "Woman's Smile.?One of our exchanges?the
editor of which has evidently
been warming himself in tho
sunshine of a pretty lace?baa the following
:?
"A beautiful smile is to the female
countenance what the sunbeam is to
the landscape; it embellishes an inferior
face, and redeems an ugly one.?
A smile, however, should not become
habitual, or insipidity is the result;
nor should the month break into a
amile on one side, the other remaining
passive and unmoved, for this imparts
an air of deceitful grotescjueness to the
face. A disagreeable smiledistorts the
line of beauty, and is more repulsivo
than a frown. There are many kinds
of smiles, each having a distinctive
character?some announce goodness
and sweetness, others betray sarcasm,
bitterness, and pride; some soften the
countenance by their languishing tenderness,
others brighten it by their
? brilliant and spiritual vivacity. Gazing
and p^lng over a mirrow cannot
aid in acquiring beautiful smiles half
so well as to tgrn the gaze inward, to
watch that the heart Keeps unsullied
from the reflection of evil, and is illumed
and beautified by all tweet throbs."
fir
ffal-fing dJDo lrd3.
The farewell hours are sad, oven though
they may be hopeful. Parents and children i
separate in the vicissitudes of life, friends i
exchange the cordial pressure of hands in t
parting for a season, lovers sepcrato with I
fond adieus, renewed vows, and happy hopes I
of future. There is much for memory in <
the gentle pressuro of the hand, in the soul <
touching glance of tho eye. in tho soft tone
of the voice, but words which fall upon the t
ear and reach the heart with the significance ;
- r t _ 1 * 1 ? . i
oi love nna irienusnip give memory lis ricnest,
sweetest, dearest treasures.
The son leaves his parental roof to seek
his fortune in the wide world. He leaves
behind him the past, filled as it is with the
inanv happy recollections of his joyous boyhood
days, before the cares, perplexities and
responsibilities of manhood have been stamped
upon his brow. (Jo where he may, these
recollections will follow him, and he will often
muse upon his youthful, halcyon days.
At times he may forget those, but the last
words uttered by his loving parents are
never forgotten. If ho is disposed to depart
from the path of duty, and enter into the vortex
of vice aikI dissipation, the last prayer
uttered by his kind and loving mother will
chide hirn for his conduct. Tho last anxious
look, tho tear drops upon her motherly cheek
will thrill him anew, and strengthen him to
resist the insidious wiles of the tempter.
The daughter may leave her home to
make the home of him, whom alio has cho- ,
sen for a life companion, happy. Through
all the changes of life, even in her deepest
troubles or in her happiest moments, she
is blessed by the sad, sweet memory of the
long fond embrace, the whispering spirit of
her parents love. Tho soldier, too, when
ainid the roar of cannon, tho rattle of musketry,
and the cries and groans of the woun- ,
ded when shot tly as thick as hail, will think ,
of the last parting words of his kindred, at ,
home, and it will stimulate and renew his
hand to win honors that may be horahled
back to his friends at home. In all the different
characters of life wo may assume, still
the last fond words of those we havo parted
with, fall like gentlo murmurs upon the car
of memory. We will turn away, and muse
as we pass along life's rugged journey over
the parting scene. The last words sink deep
into our inmost soul, and e*pccially so, if
much lime and distance intervene between
the hour of ^operation and hope of meeting
again. The brief futuro may bo big with
fate, and it is this then, why parting words
become impressed so indelibly on tbe mind.
D..? !t si.- _i
DUt It 19 IIie UUMIIIY til IIXUIimMlU |Mil, uwt
for a few days, or a wcelc, or h inontli, or a I
year, but for all earthly time, when the spir-1
it takes its fl'ght to eternity?to another and j
a mysterious world. We part then to meet I
no more on earth. We may cling to this
dear companion, or that dear friend as the
light and joy of our life, but death will tlnp
his funeral wing, and leave usonly the memory
of the past and abovo all, the parting
words of the lost one.
Jo Jhe DJoles qi)0 lo Ibc
Some time ago an English Christian was
travelling in the south of India, and in the
course of his joarney he passed by many deserted
temples. At length he came near to
one of these temples, which was very large,
where in former years, thousands of people
from all parts of the country worshipped a
great idol, which was thought to bo very
holy and very powerful. As he had heard
a great deal about this building, he went to
see it. lie found it was now quite a ruin.
The roof had fallen in, the walls were crumbling
down, an-J grass and weeds and shrubs
were growing from the floor of this onco sacred
spot. Having looked around him for
a little while, he saw the passage which led
to the place where the idol was, and he
went towards it; but no sooner had ho entered
than a large number of bats Hew out
Against bitn. As he did not much like his
company, and found that many of these
creatures were still clinging to the roof and
walls, he went back, got a light, and having
set fire to some drv gross, lie flung it into
tbe place. Immediately u flock of bats came
flying out. Ilis way was cleared, and he
walked through the passage. But on entering
the sacred spot within, the first thing ho
saw was the great idoi fallen from ii? pedestal,
and lying upon the ground covered with
filth. As he looked upon the object, in the
presence of which so many thousands of
poor blinded heathen had trembled and
worshipped, ho rejoiced greatly ; and you
may suppose that, as it called to mind the
prophecy, "They shall cast their idols to the
moles and to the bats," he thanked God that
be had seen his word so strikingly fulfilled."
Enk.roy.?"The longer I lire," says a
great writer, "the more certain that I am
that the great difference between men, tbe
great and the insignificant, is energy?invincible
determination?an honest purpose
once fixed, and then death or victory. That
quality will do anything that can be done
in the world; and no talont, no circumstances,
no opportunity, will make a two legged
creature a rr.au without it."
8i1 SJpHgbf.
"Sit upright! sit upright, my son !'* said
a lady to hei son George, who had formed
* wretched habit of bcuding whenever he
>at down to rend. His mother had told
liim that he could not breathe right unions
ie sat upright. Dut it was of no use ; bend
>vor ho would in spite of nil his mother
:ould say.
"Sit upright; Master George!" cried his
eachcr, as George bent over uis copy book
it school. "If you don't sit upright, like
Master Charles, you will ruin you health,
uid possibly die of consumption."
This startled Master George, lie dhl not
vaut to die, and ho felt alarmed. So after
ichool he said to his teacher:
"Please, sir, explain to nio how bending
>ver when I sit can causo me to have the
jonsumption."
"That I will, George," replied his teneiicr,
.vith a cordial smile. "There is an element
n tho air allied the oxygen, which is necessary
to mako your blood circulate, and to
lelp it purify itself by throwing off what is
i ?vi?
;?iiiu cHi ui'ii. ?? iien you stoop you cannot
ake in sufficient quantity of a:r to accoin*
dish these purposes; hence, the blood remains
bad, and the air ceils in your lungs
nfhune. The cough comes on; next, the
ungs ulcerate, and then you die. Give tlto
tings room to inspire plenty of air, and you
sill not be injured by study. Do you unierstand
the matter now, Goorgo ?"
"I think I do, sir, and I will try to sit upright
hereafter," snid George.
if oir 3 e3 shoiilO be Exelrci^cd
fiojjjj.
Ilorses require daily exercise in the open
iir, and can no more be expected to exist
without it, than their owners. Exercise is
an essential featuro in stable management,
and liko well opportuned food lends alike to
preserve the health of the horses. ' (
Daily exerciso is necessary for all horses, |
unless they are sick ; it assists and promotes
a free circulation of the blood, determines
morbific matter to the surface, developed the
muscular structure, creates an appetite, improves
the wind, and finally invigorates the
whole system. We cannot expect much of
a horse that has not been habituated to daily
exercise; while such as have been daily
exercised and well managed are capable not
only of great exertion and fatigue, but arc
ready and willing to do our bidding at any
season. When an animal is overworked, it
renders the system very susceptible to whatever
tnorhid influences may be present, ami
imparts to the disease they may labor under
an unusual degree of severity. The exhaustion
produced by want of rest is equally dan
gerous; such horses aro always among the
tirst victims of disease, and when attacked
their treatment is embarrassing and unsalis
factory.? Vclterinary Journal.
33c 5<j si cln qt i c.
It will add much more to your convenience
than you can imagine. It caves
liine, saves temper, saves patience, and saves
money. For a lime it may be a little troublesome,
but you will soon find it easier to
do right than wrong, that it is easier to act
by rule than without one.
Be systematic in everything ; let it extend
to most minute trifles, it is not beneath you.
Whitfield could not go to sleep at night if
after retiring, ho remembered that his glove* j
and riding whip were not in their usual
place, where ho could lay his hand on litem
in the dark in any emergency : nnd such
inen arc the men who leave their mark on
tbe world's history.
Systcmetic men arc the only reliable men;
they are those who comply with their engagements.
They are minute men. The
mail who has nothing to do is (he man who
does nothing. The man of system is soon
known to do what lie engages to do; to do
it well, and to do at the same time promised
consequently ho has his hands full.
Powkii of tim Hi ole.?The mother of a
family was married to an infidel; who made
a jest of religion in the presence of his own
children, yet she succeeded in bringing
them al! up in the fear of the Lord. 1 one
day asked Iter how she preserved them
from the influence of a father whose sentiments
were so opposed to her own. This
was her answer : "Becauso to the authority
of a father I did not oppose the authority of
a mother, but that of G<xl. From their earliest
years iny children have always seen the
Biblo upon my table. This holy book has
constituted the whole of their religious instruction.
I was silent, that I might allow
it to speak. Did they propose a question,
did they commit any fault, did they perform
Any good action, 1 opened the Bible, and
the Bible answered, reproved, or encouraged
them. The constant rending of the Scripturea
has alone wrought the prodigy which
surprises you.?Adolphe Afniod.
??Blessed are tho young girls who
have no beaux to plague them, for
they shall not bo kept awake Sunday
nights.
?
The fact wo arc about to relate lias
the very rare merit of truth combined 1
with the pleasant excitement ot the
wonderful.
Some time ago a iriend of ours pur- l
chased a number of picture frame?,
tastefully made of acorns and hand- <
soinely stained and varnished, which 1
he placed in his library at his country
house, The ensuing season he and <
his family departed on a richer distant ;
tour, and for some months The country <
house remained closed aixbrintenant- <
ed. The season was an unusually i
damp oue during their absence, and s
upon their return it was deemed advi- I
sable to have their rural homestead i
well aired and dried by constant lires
in all the rooms before inhabiting it. 1
_ 0
again. Orders to this effect were there <
fore despatched, and the opening be- 1
gun under the direction of the old 1
housekeeper. Window and door were
flung wide open one after another, letting
in the sunshine to mildewed walls
and hangings, until the "household I
corps" arrived at the library, when, a6 i
the first pair of shutters swung back, i
the breeze fluttered in and played on <
the walls with a sound as of rustling <
foliage, causing a universal and rather 1
startled movements of eyes in tho di
rection of tho mysterious sound. That
tho astonishment of the gazers was by
no means lessened when they beheld
the cause of the rustling our readers
will easily credit, when we inform
them that several acorns on each picture
frame had sprouted, and a'grove
of miniatue oaks were gently waving
their tiny boughs and fluttering their
dark green leaflets around the majestic
brows of Washington, and Franklin,
and Adams, and a half dozen others
of our venerable fathers of the Republic.
Nature herself has broken
through her accustomed laws to crown
these patriot heroes with her own
wreaths of honor, and offer, even in
her dying struggles, this beautiful tribute
to their memory.
Now, is not this fact worth all the
; fabcls of Scherrade or Swift a hundred
id times over?
{Phil. Evening Journal.
Red Fi.annkl Shirts.?Put it on at once,
winter or summer, nothing better can be
worn next the skin than a loose, red woolen
shirt ; "loose," for it has room to move on
the skin, thus causing a (dilution which
draws the bloiul to the surface and keeps
I it there; and when that is the case no one |
can ihkc com ; -reel,' lor while llannel till
up. routs together, and becomes tight, stiff,
heavy and impervious. Cotton wool merely
absorbs the moisture from the surface, while
woolen flannel conveys it from the skin and
deposits it in drops on the outside of the
shirt, from which the ordinary cotton shirt
absorbs it, and by its nearer exposure to the
air, it is soon dried without injury to the
body. Having these properties, red woolen
flannel is worn by sailors even in midsummer
of tho hottest countries. Wear a
thinner material in summer.?Hunt's Journal
of Health.
A Goon Siiot.?A corresj ondent of Tor1
tor's Spirit of the Times tells the following
| good story :
A friend of inine somewhat f.?nd of star
' gazing, whs enjoying the magnificent 'meteoric
shower,' as the sage of Brooklyn do|
scribes it, on the night of the 15th August,
brought, out on his front piazza, his telescope,
to enable him more clearly to witness the interesting
phenomenon. lie had pointed the
instrument towards the northwestern potion
of the firmament; when the motion arrested
the attention of a rustic then passing, who
followed with his eyes the motion of my
friend. At this moment a hiillinnt meteor
shot across the sky, my friend unconsciously
gave utterance to his delight, when what
was his astonishment to hear from the lips
of the aforesaid rustic, the followincr remark :
"Devil! but you've hit him, a light smarj
shot, at that distance."
iscitttasii or Jews.?An intelligent writer
in the North American Review supposes that
no class of immigrants has increased more
rapidly in this country than the Hebrew.?
In 1850 a man might count upon his fingers
all the synagogues in the land ; now there
are at least u quarter of a million Jews, from
eighty to ninety synagogue*, and a multitude
of smaller communities where a nucleus
exists which will soon grow into a synagogue.
The city of New York alone has
twenty synagogues and thirty thousand
Jews?about one-twentieth part of the population
being such. There are synagogues in
all the chief ciliea of the scabbard 'T two in
Uoston, five in Baltimore, three in New Orleans,
two in Charleston, and four iu Cincinnati,
Arc.
"Waiting for (10.0(1 men's shoos ia, in
nv?st measures, a bootless affair.
ir ?|
x Dkciof.dly Cool.?Tho editor of the
t. Pottsville (Ph) Miners' Jouin.nl recently viois
) te.l Philadelphia, and while there Ml room
2 at the hotel was entered one night by n light
fingered rascal, who stole from his clothing a
valuable watch and some money. The editor
subsequently received a communication
from the "chevalier," together with a locket
J which was attached to the watch, lie said
he returned the locket, "thinking it might
1 probably be valued on account of aasocia*
i tions," and would have returned the watch,
, but there was such a small amount of enpii
til in the parse that it wotjhl not par for tho
| trouble he look, so the watch had to be sold
. to "pay the expenses." He says he likes
. editors, ar.it if lie makes nuy money soon,
will buy the watch back and return it, and
winds up by advising the knight of the quiii
not to sleep so sound the next time ho visits
the Quaker city?and all of which must be
very consoling to that gentleman.
a bundle of edoprmvvto?th?
, r~
of (he world, as if all lines should meet i
thein and iheir fortunes, without regari
ing in storms what become of the ship <
State, if they can save themselves in tt
cock boat of their own fortunes.'*?Lor
Bacon. . ,
Tub Royal Child.?The young Princes
of England is a little headstrong, as this at
ecilote will show :
"Mr. lirown, a medical practitioner in v
cinage of Windsor's Meads, is a frequent vi
itor, a kind of daily purveyor of domest
medicine at the palace, and the Princess c
ten addressed him tlitifft "Good inoruir
Brown," omitting the 'Mr.' This came i
the ears of the royal Ma,' who forbade i
recurrence, and threatened that 011 its bein
repeated, she would send Miss Guclph I
I?ed. On Mr. Brown's next visit, and in tl
presence of Victoria the royal Princess sail
ted him as usual, with 'Good mornin
Brown,' and 'Good night, Brown,' for I ai
sent to bed, Brown.' The Queen kept lit
woid."
Mkmoky.?"When I reflected," ol
serves Pope, in a letter to Addisoi
"what an inconsiderable atom ever
single man is, with respect to the wliol
i/iuanvu, iiiciiiiii&s H 19 it suiiiue 10 u
concerned at the removal of such
trivial animal as I am. The morn in
after my exit the sun will rise as brigli
as ever?the flowers smell as sweetthe
plants springs as green?the worl
will proceed in its course, and the pec
pie will laugh as heartily, and marr
as fast as they were used to do. Th
memory of a man passeth away as th
rcmemberance of a gust that terriet!
but one day.
"1 was amused," says the biogvapli
or of Montgomery, "with the poet1
ftffttemunt tin tl?A tKal tlialimma ;
which Montgomery was born is now
whisky shop; that Burns' native eo
tage is a public honse ; the Rpot wher
Scott was born occupied by a buildinj
used for a similar purpose; and evei
Coleridge's residence at Neithe
Stowcy, the very house in which th
poet, composed the sweet 'Ode to th
Nightingale,' is now an ordinary bee
house."
Goon Advtck.?Don't get in a flu
ter and go or a buster, nor allow you
self to terrified bo ; but keep a col
hoad, and never b? lcdr to join in
hurrah and spree.
Model Cerrificate.?The following
certificate speaks for itself. It is go
ing the rounds, and wo should liko t<
have it "located," in order to advisi
the owner to take out a "patent":
Dear Doctor:?I will bo one hnn
tired and seventy-five years old nex
October. For ninety-four years I hav<
been an invalid, unable to move ex
Lsept when stirred with a lever; nut i
year ago last Tuesday, I heard of tin
Grranicular Syrup. I bought a bottle
>melt of the cork, and found myself ?
ic>v man. 1 can now run twelve anc
i half miles an hour, and throw nine
:ecn double-suminersets without stop
ing.
P. S.?A little of your Alicumstont
urn Salvo applied to a wooden leg reduced
a compound fracture in littecn
minutes, and is now covering the limb
with a fresh cuticlo of white gum pine
bark.
Overworking the Brain.?An intelligent
writer iu one of our large cit
i-i
les gives a note warning which many,
in the present excitement and rush ol
lur country, would do well to heed: "Ir
ine of our lunatic asylums," he sayt
"there are now several gentlemen, all o
whom were, one j'car ago, in full healtl
and active business, and in each o
these case3 mental aberration is tracen
ble directly to overworking th<
brain. They are incn of wealth ant
social eminence, and until their sad at
diction wero distinguished for useful
ncss in the church- and the communi
ty. But to these we must add pcrhap
thousands of cases in which premc
ture old age, or permanent ill healtl
and mental imbecility, have arson fror
similar causes."
Pcnuc Morals.?u Learning gives men
true sense of their frailly, the oasuxlty <
fortune, and the dignity of the soul and il
office; whence they cannot think any greni
ness of fortune a worthey end of their living
and, therefore, live so ns to give n clear an
acceptable account to God and their supci
ors?whilst the corrupter sort of polilican
who aro not by learning and virtue estel
lished in a love of duty nor ever look abroa
into universality, refer all tilings to then
selvi'S- nn<l thrust thoir noMfuis inln llin/wmi,
Buffalo Jixpress gives tlie following
chapter oil domestic difficulties: Mrs
King, near Kingston, was recently taken
sick, and her husband seized the
' opportunity to elope with a handsome
servant girl named Martin. On
1 their arrival in Albany, Miss Martin
' eloped with a yonrg man named Cor1
nelius, taking Mr. King's money.? #
' King being penitent, returned home
and found that his wife had eloped
'* with a dry goods clerk named Jefters,
? with all the moveable articles in the
? house?Whereupon King started off
in pursuit, considering himself a deeply
in juried man.
- - ? ...
Flattkuy.?"You flatter me," said
t a thin exquisite the other day, to a
n young ladpr who was praising tlie
beauty of lus moustache.
"For heaven's sake, irmYuu," iuier^
posed an old skipper, don't make that
^ inoiiKcy any flatter tlian lie is now!"
In *** "
l. Tlie lieroic Sir Charles Napier wrote
5, very beautifully and touch 111 gly to a
<1 lady 011 the eve of his great victory
i at Meance?"If I survive I shall soon
?, be with those I love; if I fail I shall bo
i>- with those I have loved.
,d |
1- ???
re A 1.At) came in great haste into a drug |n
store, the other morning, and half out of
I l> read) exclaimed :?"Mother ihent me down "
to tlie hopotliecaiy p?>p to get a thimble
)e full of pallcgolic; Bubb's as thick as the
dickenth, not exthpected to live from one
end to the tollier,"
s Disunion*.?"II." one of the Editors
4 of the Duo West Telescope, a religious
paper, in a lengthy article declares for
j. the Union under any and all circums.
stances, lie Bays he is " Dead down
ic against disunion." Tolerably cmphat>f
ie, that!
to 'Xever i?o critical to laides,' was
I8 the maxin of an old Irish peer, re
k markable for bis homage to the sex,
10 the only way a true gentleman ever
,e will attempt to look at the faults of a
^ pretty woman is, to shut his eyes P
n ^ ...
>r Life, wc are told, is a journey?and
to 6ee the way in which some people
eat, you would imagine they were
j taking in provision? to last them the
1 whole length of the journey.
)' Pmiv.?A lloston woman has writc
ten a very brief letter to a member of
0 Congress from Massachusetts. It
a reads as follows:
P 'Balaam's ass spoke once?can't you ?
- Badi.y Beates.?The Hon. J. Scott Har(1
rison, of Ohio, who voled against the expuly
sion of Preston S. Brook?, Esq., ban been
y boaten bv 0501 majority. He was elected
g two years ago by a majority of 3000 votes.
e A Toast to thk Punas.?Tlie stay and
" leaver of popular government. May it unlock
tbe bars of ignorance and oppression
and cast abroad the rays of truth and toleravion,
6 Ladies generally shop in couples.?
n When a bid;- hns any money to spend,
ft sho dearly ioves taking a friend with
her to see her spend it.
e
g Did you ever want an omnibne in *
11 paricular hurry without finding them
-11
r an running in the opposite direction
0 to where you wished to go.
e Dad words, like bad shillings, arc
1 often brought home to the person who
has uttered them.
The number of poor poets is, if any*
8' thing, greater than tho number of p<*
(j cts who are poor.
a Stray Shot.?There is no adh^fcfra
'jabel like a nickname.
Jm . ^