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ii *mm i-j' "Nb^I I "'"' " J1 ?: - , , : . : . '<**?? : A REFLEX OF HOPULAB E V Ekli^S . ' Dcpoletr to Progress, ti)c fiigfyts of tlje ftonllj, anfr tl)c Diffusion of Useful ftuotolefofje oiubngnll Classes of XDorKfH^ iiten. YOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 29.1858. NtTMRF.R *1 4Gjje ?>aui!jeru IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY W, P. PRICE & C M. M'JUNKIN, Proprietors. wxlLiam p. price, EDITOR. * TiimT. ,':A t One boiitr a Year, in Advance* 1.50, JF DELAYED. m * 1mw, , AoBirrtL ~ Frrr.a 9t*aolkt, TUq-i TldeV, flf. C. A. M. Pkofm, Palrview P. 0.< OretndM I>i?t Whuah C Uailkt, PleiN?nt Grove. Grcettyillv. carr. r. q. Asociva.im, Enoreo. SpArtanour^. G. VT. Kt*o, Travellbu Ajjont. The Light at Home. The light at home ! bow bright it beams When evening shades around us full; And from the lattice far it gleams. To love, and rest, and comfort all: When wearied with the toils of day, And strife for glory, gold or fame, How sweet to so- k the quiet way. Where loving lips will lisp our name Around the light at homo f When through the dark and stormy night. The wayward wanderer homeward flies, IIow cheering i* *hat twinkling lighp Which through the forcslglopm he spies ! It is the light of home. lie feels ' That loving hearts will greet him there, And safely through his bosom steals The joy and love th'ht banish care Around the light at home. The light at home 1 bow still and sweet It peeps from yonder cottage door? The weary laborer to greetWhen the rough toils of day are o'er ! Sad is ilie sou I thai dues not know The blessing that the beams imparl. The cheerful hopes and joys that flow, And lighten up ihe heaviest heart Around the light at hotne. Jfitsrrilaufans Trailing. I from Blackwood's Magazine.] PEOPLE I SAVE BEYER MET. 1 have knocked about the world, and allowed observation, with considerable extent of view, to survey mankind, if not from China to Peru, at least from the court to the kitchen, from university to the shilling ordinary ; and, in the coarse of these wanderings and fraternising*, I have naturally met with strange jMsople enough, wise and otherwise; some lovely, and some pas si btm ; some eccentric, and millions implaca bly commonplace. But there are various types of human character which, though .frequently hearing of ibetu and reading of them, in Conversations and books, I have .never been able to get a glimpse of. And this* in nil lJi? mora luilioiuililA luiunta ?lw. type* Are said to be abundant. To call these mythical people would be rash ; no .cautious mind will limit nature to the boundaries of our individual experience, nor pro- i nounce that an auiiqal cannot veritably ex- j ii?t because tbe seeker lias not yet discover ed it; and as nay inind piques itself on be i iing intensely philosophical, it refuses to pro- j nounce tbe unmet people to be myths. I i am ready to give tbe most generous ere- i ^eqce to the reports of others. If they say ' they ln:ve met such pcoph, all I can say is, ) that my researches have not been so fortu- 1 nate. The world ia tvide, nature is various; i let us rather seek than deny. Meanwhile < let us be rigorous In tbe truth, no man care- i lessly saying he has seen the animal which i in truth he has not aeen, and all of us con i feeding our ignorance with great freedom, j Among 44 tbe people I have never met," ft j few may be registeied here as specimens. j THK AUTHOIt OF A REALLY BAD BOOK. A very interesting type, unfortunately to ' jne, quite unknown. 1 have seen end lived ! .with authors of all classes, and of various 1 .degrees 6r 'merit f~profound fhinkert, and .thinkers not so ptoflnmd f'briinfcol wits, and 1 wits of taste; learned pundits; and scholars of imperfect accuracy; laborious compileis, and men witu auie st-wapr*; men wiin grcAi i creative power, and men with a facility in I mistaking old characters for new areations; i but the author of in really bad book I never < did meei. Hoc hi arc written which pub* I lishera water a conspiracy not to pubfish ; I and playa are pfeseuted at the stage door of i every iLa&Uc, to be slwaj*, and in almoat 1 aimiW* tent* fbia it nertrM because the work ia bad. Not in the least. I The 4iieatiof? <?f merit is never raised. Jf I ratad, both publisher and manager are pro- I fuse in acknowledgment* of the talent*, i but ?? < There la much virtue ia a ? bat." Here I the "but" impliep, or pgrfaapa introduce* 1 the statement, that public taste doea pot lie i in the direction taken by this clever performance ; the market ie overcrowded; tbe i peblisher ia not just now extending his en i gagements ; the book trade is in a peculiar j condition, and this excellent work must i therefore ^ decline*]. Tl?e manager grieve# * ibat A comedy so brilliant, a tragedy so po- ; deal, should net ndbrn bis stage, but un- r happily just now the resources of the the- * aire do not admit of hii accepting the work, v It M clear, therefore, that tiro tueie fact of c a work remaining unpublished is no evi- h dencc r,gainst Its quality, and the writer of \ a bpd book is not indicated by such a fact, v Besides, you hnvo only to ask the author, * and be a ill supply you with a hundred rea- o sons why he is atfll in manuscript, not one of which has the remotest reference to any badness. And if you, dear reader, should v ever alight on that serological rarity, the an- f tliof of a book avowedly bad, who lells'yoO e that Paternoster Row declines transactions v ~1th him heCtms^ life work i# not ^ood. i catch him, hurry hiin to the Regent's Park, y cage him, and advertise the novelty in the t Times. e AN COLT, DI8AGREKABLB DADT. r I hAno iiku tnanv babies thrust under ray c nose to kiss and admire, some of them which to my Yftexperienced eyes, seemed like r more lumps of mortality, with the complex- t ion of a Cambridge sausage, and features of 'I a general squasltuesa?fat babies, bloated c babies, brick-dust colored babies, yellow bn I hiss, and skinny babies?but an ugly bnby c. I have never seen. Moreover, I have had t my amiable temper slightly- ruffled-by the e howliug nod fretting of those interesting i embryos. 1 have had my whbker* inerci- ^ lemdy togged by their fat finger* and my t shirt front dabbled by the samoy holding o i well-sucked crust of bread ; but a disagreeable baby baa not yet made its appearance. | Tire MAN WHO WI8HR8 TO (IRAK Tllft TRUTH. ? Wundering about the world, 1 have ea < gerly nought, but sought in vain, for the be ? ing who doea wish to hear the truth. I * have not found liini among philosophers, 1 not even among cabmen. No poet, no pol- 1 ilicinn, no critic, no divine, has been able to * stand the simple test. If I tell Weissnicht 1 that his theory cannot be true, because it is ' in flagrant contradiction with uolorious facts, 1 he gels angry, denies my faots, or tries to i evade their application, shuffles, sophisti | rates, and. if hard jaessed, retorts upon me * some insinuation disrespectful to my moral ? character. If I point out to the Itev. Mr. ' Brimstone'.hat hi* doctrine is unscriptural, 1 Ire grieves over my declension from itis aim- 1 plieitv of vital truth, or perhaps insinuates s that I am an infidel. If Pericles Brown * asks for my candid opinion on his verses, and hears that 1 think them mediocre, he , becomes tny foe forever. t In fact, instead of finding men desirous ? of hearing the truth for truth's sake, I uni* t foriuly And them desirous of bearing it only i w hen it is agreeable, when it flatters their < pride, their prejudices, or their interest. i THK MAN WHO KNOWS BI8 PLACE. ' A rare, a mythical character 1 It is often " advertised, often believed in. but has never 1 yet crossed iny path. 4% Lliggam is an ex- 1 eel lent man ?ho thoroughly knows his 1 placet" I straightway seek liiggam's ac- 1 quaintnnce; for a man who knows his place ( tnusl be oue of eAgle eye, rapid intuition, 1 and rare modesty. He cannot know his 1 own place without knowing that of every ' one else; and as this is the most difficult of ? all social problems, 1 am naturally eager to 1 see the man who can solve it. On investi ' gation, lliggam turns out by no means an * eagle. I find him a man of servile, timid, cringing disposition, acknowledging, with ' great alacrity, the superiority of thoee who 1 are more wealthy, or of more consequence " than hiiuaelf. He is either a Batterer, or a " uiush of conoession." He does not know hie place; he only knows thai it is pleasant for others to have their assumption of supe riority recognized, their opinions uncontra ? licted, their efforts unopposed. One of the j ?4 i ? iuuv* wimiicii won x ever Knew?dial IS to < tny, the man having the most exorbitant t hi id unwarranted estimate of his own ca ? parity ? wai one of these conceding, unop \ posing gentlemen said to 44 know theii >lace." lie knew his place so tittle, that he \ was already ailemptiug to do that for wtiich t le was utterly until,.and always foiling, but 'r rerbally aequieseing in his failure, and say- r ng, 44 1 have not your talents, or success t would have followed." rue man who nas nonsense about him. ii 44 Wardlu is a capital fellow, I assure you '* ?no nonsense about him." Who has not ti Heard of Wardlel Who can honestly say I' ie has the pleasure of Wardie's acquaint 11 xneef 1 got introduced to one of the War- l Jles, fondly hoping that at last I had found v '.he man wii.li n?? notihoni* atiniit l>iin Um r lie illusion quickly vanished. 1 fuund hii.s i' i large man, bald and venlripoient, loud iu >1 voice, coarse in msuner, and narrow Intel 'I It-el. Ho wore niuuou-chop whisker-, and a liad strong opinions about foreigners, who. tin thought were all dirty and exiles, lie < tiad strong views on politics and statesman tl ship, without any acquaintance with history > jr political economy. He thought birth ind blood were nousensical prejudices, and cl refinement effeminacy. He never read nov pi ds; his newspaper sufficed. He despised u poetry and nil tnnt stuff. He bought pic- h tmes as furniture, but pronounced the ?1j cl toasters "humbug." lie knew nothing of pi philosophy or science, bat asked for common In tense. " As long m 1 bare ooromon sense, ct ir, I don't care a button who ha*. philosn i >!iy." ilisont hi .eidesi sou iu collie, *?>d I an into debt to keep him there, not that lie ! aw any good in Greek and Latin, but he I va* an proud of" my son's friend, Lord Fidllefaddle,'' as if lie had a great deal of nen ense about him. In the domestic circle he , vas at once harsh and feeble, self-willed and acillating. He ale, drank, slept and snored, , *ith robust energy; but, on the whole ho | lid pot strike me as being wholly without iOtistHjse. Other people ttesides Wardlo I have met. I vho bore tho same pioud character, but I I ootid them all belonging to one of two class- i a?either they were free and easv people, I vho conceived that taking every possible i '.bert'* Vriilj you, your name, your book*. 1 our horses, and your friends, was proof of < heir having do nonsense about them ; or I .Le thoy were coarse, rude people, who jared upon your sensibilities, and tnado.virtues l .* ik..:. j.c-! - ?- ? ? njtn ?oijr ucncicucies. ' Tbe best mOn I have known have been I nore generous than prudent, more imagine ive than Heniham, less virtuous than (Jato. I L'hey have been fond of children, of animal*. >f poetry, of art, of sentiment, of joking, of < mtfoonery, of extravagance, of go?>d society, I >f honors, of picnics of dances of private t heatriculs?in short, men with no inconsid i irable amount of nonsense mingled in their laily lives ; but oue form of uonsense they vere entirely free from, and that is tbe preensiou of huving no nonsense about tbeiu. UK MAM WIIOHIC WORD 18 ASQOoD AS HIS BOKO. 1 This also is n type which would seem to >e abundant, if we trusted to the unproven statements of lax Hdmircrs. But I have nev>r qiet with it. Obseive, I do not say the nan whose word is as good as his bond is iliogether a myth ; far from it. Men of node integrity I have met, and men of in egrity not so noble?men who would blush it the thought of at) injustice, would be slow o act it. But even the noblest of these men nay die. and be succeeded by a son or repbew of less scrupulous conscience ; and n this case the 44 word " i* unsubstantial v? jor, whereas the 44 bond " is a solid liiigable iocuincnt, udiuiltitig of no equivocation exrepl among lawyers, who, I ain informed, vould detect a flaw in the title deeds of the -...i t -> " woo nun mguc XI. UllOl lor lllti SOI) ill 10011. The bond, then, has a prodigious mpcrioriry over tlie w6rd, even of the hoiitfoi:it of meu. There are other men I have met, whose votd or live pound* would be as good a-, heir boud for thai sum, even allowing for ill casualties ; but, if, instead of live pouuds, he sum in quesliou be five thousand, what i woudrous possibility ia opened 1 llow jasily l',e force of some small subterfuge nay assail the integrity?bow greedily some rregularity, whioli in the ease of a small j ium w?oid never be noticed, is seized upon ' is a pretext for nou fulfillment of the agieenenl 1 Such ia the temper of the mass of men who can only be kept to tieir engagements by tbeir bonds. Thus taking into :onsideration the casualties of life, which nay render the word of the strictly honest mon veruvw an?^ l>A elf intercut, which may rentier the word of >ne less scrupulous in conscience no better, t is clear that the frequent boast of such a >nc's word being as good as his bond, can inly bo accepted with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, I must do mankind the jusice to coufess (hat, from time to time, I have net with a tuan whoso word was absolutely is good as his bond?but his bond was good or nothing. Climate of Jerusalem and Vicinity. Properly speaking, there are but two seaons in Palestine at tbe present time?and, ndeed, tbe Scriptures mention no others? ' winter and summer, cold and heat, seedime and harvest," or wet and dry. As oon as the winter rains set in, all nature tecoine* reanimated, and tho parched ?ur I ace of the earth is " decked in living green ml it ia not till after the vernal equinox 1 hat it becomes arrayed iu its gaudiest flo | al mantle. Then " The winter is past, the 1 aiu it over and gone, the (lowers appear on 1 he earth, the time of the singing of birds t como, nnd the voice of the turtle is heard f it the land." The splendor of a Syrian * ky, and the gorgeous effulgence of the set iv ing rays on its rainless summer clouds, have e ten greatly extolled by travelers; but if t ot excelled in brilliancy by the sky of the ?" Jnited States, it is certainly surpassed in v ariety and softness of hue. The transpa " ency of its atmosphere, however, is justly roverbin!: and the occasional influence of itis charaoteristio* property, in bringing up i isianl objects apparently to one's imiucdi J te vicinity, is quite bewildering. and oooa- r ions the traveler anxiously approaching a h csircd locality a disappointment similar to ( tat resulting from the mirage?making the ? earl sick Uy l?o|>e deferred. I If the present sterility of Palestine be ?i iiargeablo to the absenoe of summer rains, e r of more extensive and copious fall, win- 1 >r and spring rains, on ncoouut of iu do- c uded condition, and it should again I* ?t otbed in verdure, by cultivating In ihe first d lace suoh trees, grains and herbs as ne-d n ut little moisture, and oan be sucownfully h titivated in the present condition of the R .. i i-il ? i ^ a? r country; it tequires no prophet to foretell lu^t the gcliiu! influence* of earlier and later, if not of summer .raius, would suuu he realized. . Absorption of the rain by the ground, would be greatly facilitated, were it once protected from the scorching rays Of the sun, i>y such a mantle of foliage and herbage, ?n'd evaporation being also greatiy checked. Fountains would again Spring forth in places ? where they have loug smce disappeared.? Many model orchards, farms and gardens, 1 have lately been esfablished in Palestine? 1 like so many litth' ciwrs in the desert^-aTid i iho reettlt already justifies the conjecture ' that this is the Divinely appointed tneattVof restoring to the FIoW Land the fructifying' influence of the long suppressed rains, and | sxhaimted fountains and deptlia. at least so | far as to justify a pa'tinl return of the Jews -s-the rightful proprietors of the lend. Bnt i ihnt we ere to expect the direct Divint in < terporition, in behalf of the land, at a later period, is unquestionable. The total average fhfl of rain at Jerusalem, from 1840 to 1854, win 505 Inches.? 1 No appreciable -portion of this rain falls in June. July, August, or September, and very little either in May or October?more than 1 nine-tenths of it falling in December, January, February, and March, and more eopi?n*ly i? February than any other month. The greatest amount of rain tabled in any year dining the above period is 85 inches, which fell in the Reason of 1850-51 ; the smallest, that of 1853-54, 20.0 inches; but this account is ho small, compared with anv other year, that thore is good reason to question its accuracy. The average annual fall of rain throughout the United States is about 45 inches; and, pcihaps, in no one year has so great an amount of rain fallen its in Palestine during tlio winter of 1850. Hut in California, the rain averages only about 20 inches per annum. It is ilius per Delved that the rains ate about one fourth innre abundant in Palestine than in the Atlantic portion of the United Stales, and two ami a half times more abundant than in California, even at the lowest estimate. The lain sometimes falls continuously for several Jays very gently, hut generally more hastily, and at the tato of half a dozen or a dofcen or two showers per day, and that, too, when but littlo expected. Hut each spell of raitl. Or succession of showers is mr? tn ho tnceeded by several dnya ot fine, bright i weather?" clear sinning after rain." And, tlihough tho rainy season is not marked bv in entire cessation of rain at any time, proJucing as decided an interval as might be uippoaed from llie works of occasional travslers ; yet an interregnum of several weeks' Jry weather generally occurs between the middle of December and the middle of Feb maty, somewhat distinguishing tho 44 former | rains " of tho season from the " latter." The greatest range of thermometer in any ine year of the period through which the | ibove observations extended, was 62 degrees, uid the widest, during the whole period, 64; i ho highest elevation of the mercury, 92, uid the lowest 88, though 143 in the sun >n ouo occasion ; and, under favorable exposuic, no mediately before aunrise on one [>ct3i?ioQ it was only about 28. Pellicles of ice. an eighth- of an inch in thickness, re naiued in the shade the whole day.? , The mean annual average of temperature is 30.5, while that of Boston is 49, Philade) )hia 62, Washington 63, New Orleans 02, Mid San- Francisco, California, 50. July uid August are the hottest months, but ( I tine and September are nearly as warm.? lanuary is decidedly the coldest month in , he year. The climate is remarkably uni brm?though an opposite opinion might "ery naturaiiy r>o arawn, wnen mo relative jositiona of the snow capped Lebanon, and he burning desert of Arabia, are consider *1. Theriuometric variation ift the same atitude on (fie Atlantic const of the United States is nearly aa great. California and lie peninsula of Florida are the only por ions of the United Slates through which he isothermal line of Jerusalem parses. In aiint of temperature and period e. seasons >f rain, there is the closest analogy between 'alestine and California. The sun-stroke would appear not to he so ( atal as it once was, judging from the Scripure allusions to it; though 1 have known 'ery injurious consequences to revolt from i xpoaure to tbo full btaxo of a mid sun. on j he part of ?lrangeni. Sleeping beneath the , avs of a full moon is also supposed to bo < ery prejudicial to health.?jjr. Barclay's i 1 City of the Great JCing" i New Edition o* the Siamese Twins.? > n the iait number of the Virgin'* Medical' I ournal, Dr. Win. U. Ball, of Chesterfield. | eoords the birth in that county, during the < niter part of !**l u)oa|li, of a pait of boy* I colored) something in the order, if not the c tact counterpart of the Siamo.se twins.? t 'hey were about the tame size, seventeen i nohes and a half iu length, perfectly form t d,and weighed eleven pounds twelve ounces, a "he part of the union begins at ensiform v artilage (the end of the hrewt bone, in com u ion parlance) and ooutinues down the mid le of the body to the naval, in whioh it ter linatea. Neither child was alive. They e are been sent to the Medioal Faculty at c iichmohd for dissection. t' Going Honie. " Well* boys, give me your hand, I'm going home." We grasped his honest hand, apd..mechanically stammered a " jjood by a safe return *?4i a happy meeting "?or something of similar signification, I hardly know what now ; for although the one we were about to lose had been a kind and genial eotttpanion, and an honest friend, still the words "going home" were continually echoing in mv ear and filling my mind with other thoughts than those of tho loss 1 was *usiaiiiiug. The eye soon lost the reflection of his form, but "going home" was busily st work upon my brain, with the delicate pencil of thought, tracing pictures both real and imaginary. Yes, he \Va4" going boir\e.?" The toil, fatigue and privation of long and < weary rears wars now .wor un/t ??>" ?>.??> ' . ; 1 - ' ? ? ! isbiug from his mind like the spent clouds id* a summer shower, leaving a blight sky I above his head, and a fragrant, dewy fresh- i ness around his path. M(?oing home!" Home?the roof that sheltered childhood and youth. Home?the well at the door, where so often ho has cooled his lips and quenched his thirst, and the shady old elm beside it, whose leaves and i biancbes have echoed his hursts of joy and i merriment. Home, < "The orchard, the meadow, tho deep tangled \\ ild wood, And all the loved scones which my infancy knew." Home?the glad welcome of father and mo ther, glad even to tearfulness. Home?the fond greeting of brother and sister; a wife's arms around his neck, and eves gazing up into his own in which he reads welcome, love and tenderness, that tind not utterance in words; the welcome of fiiends that have loved him, and companions that havo trust ad him in other days. Homo?in few . words, " where affection calls, And Uie sliriucs the heart has built." These were pleasant fancies to me, and would soon he to him blissful realities. Hut, alas'.for this, our adopted and hitherto almost homeless land, " going home " has a dirge-like sound, that falls upon the ear like the farewell of a beloved one upon the reI I._IJ ?i- t . i. naming iiuuaoiJUIU. r\l&? i lllill, 81)11(1 itli I thy wealth, grandeur, beauty, luxury and health, the knell-like sound of" going home" should so often be heard upon thy shores. I:: thy Homes rest thy hope, prosperity and safety, and it is gladdening to know that thou art fast redeeming thyself from the blighting curse of a " homeless land." . Pr*sckyino nicwbrarurs.? In this fast and frequently inconsiderate age too little attention is given to the preservation of newspapers. Men are eager to read the news and gel information about matters in which they may bo specially interested? perhaps such tilings as relate to their particular business, and may enable them to make a fortunate speculation ; but when '.hese things are glanced at. the newspaper is thrown down and neglected. They forget that newspapers contain, to a great extent, | the history of the places where they are published, as well as of the times, and may at some time be of great importance for reference. They seem to regard them as mere instruments for the dissemination of the news of the day, inteuded to fill up a leisure hour, and when this object is accomplished they have fully met their pnipose. In England the Government has provided for the preservation of several copies of each newspaper published. Three copies arc re- , quired to be transmitted regularly to the j stamp office, which pays full price for them, and after the expiration of a year a complete I tile of each journal is sent to the British 1 Museum, where they are bound in volumes I and preserved for reference. Alluding to j this fact, a cotemporary has suggested that, it would bo a good idea to take some eimi-, lar action in this country. We think, however, it would be better for each person who 1 takes a newspaper to preserve the numbers, j and at the end of each year have them ( bound. Any one who will do this will be j amply paid for his trouble and expense ? The volumes will yearly appreciate in inter- ' est and value, ccltyabof Vioi-kts.?The cultivation of the violet is very simple. It may easily be increased by dividiug the roots in the spring i>r fall, and also b) layers and pipings. To obtain new varieties, the seeds from thob?st norts should be cathered as thev become ripe, ami sown directly. Tlio plants will up | [tear in about fourteen day*. Thoto of the -pring sowing will bloom in autumn, and an umn plants in the spring; And if they are protected from the summer's sun after ten ; >Vlock in the fort-noon, tlioy will continue to ! i doom until the frost la-come* severe. In- | leed, this lovely liltlu dower possesses the i jualily of blooming whilo the coining frosts < >f later autumn have put most other plants I o sleep for the winter, and it is sometimes i oen, in a moderate winter, partially covered vitb snow, will) its buds ready formed to islier in young spring.?Buffalo Republic. < Thkke is a lady dovin oast so irigh mind* i d that she disdains to own thai she has I ommon sense. Tboie are a great many of < he same sort in the woiid. |< " My Clotties are not Suitable fob CiIurch."?Then, of course, you do not show yourself in any company, for if you do, your clothes are suitable for church.? To go to other places with the apparel you have, and yet stay from church, must be on the supposition that it is a kind of fair for the exhibition of finery, and each contributor ? candidate for prizes. The in pnhlic worship rent their garments, because of their sins; some of our people, on the contrary, will not go to worship unless thev have a l?onnet or coat just from the maker s hand, thereby showing that they regatd the opinion of their neighbors more than the favor of their Maker. And to make this absurdity more glaring, most of the congro gnuun nro worshiping Uod, rot having come to notice whether clothes were old or new. There may, indeed, bo some few triflers who come to make remarks?but the Btnile or sneer of such will not affect any sensible person. Be neat in your dress, and you will be respected more for wearing clothes that are old, than for wearing new which you have not the meansof paying for, and whether you plcaso man or not, you please God and your own conscience. This excuse which keeps you from church, has its source in vanity, and when you know your own heart and the account to be given to God, you will experience no difficulty in this respect. Should you not have everything exactly as you wish, you will have what is more important,w the clothing of humility." Ijtgion or the Feigned Recuses, hy Rev. Oeo. A. Lealcin. Sympathy fob Apprentices.?Sympathy and encouragement from tho master would often keep the feet of apprentices in the high road of rectitude. The human son! must have sympathy ; and when the apprentice deports himself honorably, and tries to promote bis master's interest, he should be made to realize that his master is his friend, that he has his respect and gratitude. By thus noticing liim, and expressing sympathy, the master makes his apprentice happy, at tho same lime binding him to hit interests by bauds stronger than steel. Masters! notice your apprentices. Talk with them. Learn how they spend their leisure hours, and the character of their amusements, liecoinmend proper amusements, enforcing advice by the mighty influence of your example. Suggest proper reading and study. Let them feel that you are their friend, and if you are a man ot integiity, you will thus make them such, securing for your gray hairs and declining years their honor and their love. [Life Illustrated. A Dkad Shot.?In his 44 Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor," Mr, Burton quotes from a work published in 1/90, entitled 44 Modern Chivalry," the following reply to a challenge : " Sir, I have two objections to this duel matter. The one, lest I should hurt you ; and the other is, lest you should hurt me. I do not nee what good it would do me to put a bullet through any part of your body* I could make no use of you when dead, for any culinary purpose, as I would a rabbit or a turkey. I am no cannibal, to feed on the flesh of men. Why, then, shoot down a. human creature of which I can make no use ? A buffalo would be better meat; for though your flesh may be delicious and tender, yet it wants that firmness nnd consistency which takes nnd retains salt. At Any rate, it would not do for long sea voyages. Yon might make a good barbecue, being of the nature of a raccoon or an opossum ; but people are not in the habit of barbecueing anything human now. As to your hide, it is not worth tut-inn. nff 1 - - ?... uu, uciu^ h nuie Deiter ill an that of a year okl colt." ~ ? in i A Delicate Question.?A legal question of a delicate nature is now exciting extraordinary interest in Westphalia?viz: whether a husband has a right to open his wife's letlei's. The question arose out of a suit for divorce, instituted by the husband, in which he obtained a decree ; but the conclusive pioco of evidence was a letter from the Lothario, addressed to the wife, and the contents of which would never have been known had not the husband been so ungallant as to break the seal. The divorced wife at once prosecuted him for opening the letter, and the tribunal of Unne has decided that ho was wrong, and baa sentenced him to a tine of ten tinders. An appeal is pending, the result of which is anxiously watched by the publio. The Good old Txmee.?"In the early ftges man lived a life of innocence and simplicity," said Tacitus. Upon this a critie remarks : M When was tlua period of innocence ? The first man that was born into I. 1 i I Ml a .a " .no worm Kiueu uie second. H hen did the .iine of simplicity begin f" A modkhn writer says: " It may seem it range, but it is a fact, that men generally ire much more afraid of women, than women are of men." Brown remarks that the "aou are not " strange " at all; for in both ;ases the f?ar is in proportion to the dany.r, Candid, but nngallnnt.