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' ? aX . . - ' ' ' ^ l ^ BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1S68, VOLUME XVI?NO. 35 V . .rv * The Villflge Sewing-Circle. BY CHRISTINE II. CAUPENTEU. A drowsy summer afternoon bung ovev the dainty little village of Green" \vood. The leaves of the clustering vanes framing the pretty white cottages just stirred in the sunshine, while even tho bees and butterflies crept to shelter in the hearts of tho ^jre&tred and white roses, faintly nodding to some occasional zephyr as it languished by. From the open vin dows of Widow May's "best-room" a .hum of voices stole out upon the scentod air, and within, more than a score of busy hands *fashionod divers fabrics into fail** ahanehness. It was I tho weekly sowing-circle of the Greenwood church, lor which a fair "was in prospect for autimn, a fact that formed the secret of this feminine conclave. Who ever saw a sewing circle without its little titbits of gossip? This was 110 exception to the rule. Preseatly a elicrry face looked up from its owner's glancing needle: "Do you know," said she to her neighbor. "thit IVa m.. o ' 1 ...J opinion of Mrs. Wells, lately? Pray don't start?sle has not arrived yet? there's no one icre one need care for." "How is that'" asked the re-assured little matronthus addressed: "j*ou used to think h?r the most extravagant woman in he village, and I'm not sure but yo\ were quite right. To my certain knowledge she wears the most new dnsse?, the most new bonnets, and bo pstly, to say nothing of the style in vAiich those children of ^rs are primed up! You don't pretend to imagint her husband can stand it so much bitter than others I might mention ?" "Oh! no; Mr. Wills is not rich? only comfortable." "Well, I should t-jy it must tax him awfully, poor fellov! Now I have more consideration hat, although I could impose upon N?d, he's so easy and ' good-natured, lie docs some times say, 'How nice M-s. Wells alwavs looks, and how nmfv rIh> fiv^o r j up those children but when I tell him what a power of uiaey it would cost him for mo and mj children to dress up like that, I gess he don't mind being a little tired if seeing the samd old thing on us. 1 have all I can make off the placa the gardentruck and fruit?quite % round sum, too ; but I can't make sch a show of it, for all that. I can; afford four new bonnets a year, .and' can't afford two new dresses to mv neighbor's one; and when ^get one, it^ got to bo plain, because drcssmitkcn charge no much to trim it." ''May bo you dont know how to economize." "Economise! Well you astojsh me! I shouldn't say it, perhaps, ?ut I'd like you to point out another voman in Greenwood who has the pinciple _ /? * oi economy ijnore at neart, ?r one that cun stretchout a dollar father'n I cau h" . "Yes, I can do it." "Just tell me, and I'll take a lsson right off." "You might profit by it, too s I have." "Do tell 1" "It's Mrs. Wells." "Mrs. Wells! That does beat ny ti no-?to Bet her up as ray inc^l! ' Now,'I dare say, if bno really kcw, ?he spendsjust three times as rami," "No,she doesn't nor in faot any mre .than yotf So." "Oh, nonsense! How do.you tt .over the fomr>bonnets, and the drest^ .and fancy furbelows one always ae* abmt.her?" The little matron shoo .hqr head sagaciously. "No, no, Mrt jRro.wn, you can't tell me! I calculat Awbple matter in plain straight fpRffftTfl figures. Now,, for inatauco * There ?were my two bonnets last year Ned .thought as how I should hav< jsomething bcttec, than the hideout i.Kinera Mvua Hmifh rra*- I? n.. ?:i c>~ gvv III tut; VIIlage, bo I went to New York. "Well there we&e ty/o days lost juet goinf and comwig at itho very time I wai most wanted, besides the cost, whicl I reckoned up would Jiave bought i ,' now drew for the 'baby. When I go there, such a chase as I had! O coarse I was in a hurry. Every thing a tody liked was dreadfu deer; and then I wasn't sore but som <ri1d tbing'd be palmed off on me, jue like JL?ocy Stuart, who thought shedV jf, pfirfooi bargain,and wai someihiuj llMli af~ -at Kan it ?-"? ?- "HWU IV VUIUOI />ot that it wasn't a Jbit JUke ijbe tca . fosbionablesbtsps. The last, tiice . ti) w^ttt I t#ed myself almost to deatl looking for something reasonable, an At last bad to take ibe nearest to m; .means. I tkougfct it wonJJ do we . noiigh till 1 got boooe, And lin . 'itVella oalled on me r&xt tfdf irkb th &6ry loveliest bonnet on be* bead. i?vereaw. It never cosfc less tba twenty-five dollars io tfee city. ,m*an\lb?t gfaj velvet she feftd lac w? . . " ! "tl Jcnow^ll.ebout it. It didnH tot ^ iVdidn'tponis iroj . 'Six dollar! You must bo dream ng ! And whero, in the name of creation, could any one geteueh a bonnet in Greenwood? Then, aiioiJt when I was in the city I saw a dronB 8>>mot'mig like ihat blue morino of Susie Wells overybody liked so much. 1 thought I'd enough left to buy it for Ada. I know the Bti.il' wasn't more than fourteen shilling* a yard, and il j luitu* ju*t iour yu>aa?innt was seven dollars; but. besides, there was the mating and triimrtii'g. I went in und juiced it. It was eighteen dollars." And Susio Wolls'cuat her mother only about nine.'' ' That beats me out and out?whore ilocs alio go to gutaueh bargains?" ".Nut very olten out of Cyeenville." ' Why, [ never aeo them. Whon 1 go to Miss Smith for anything now, 1 most likely it'e some notion she's borrowed from the Wcllaes. I do believe they sot tho fashions lor this vil'age for dressmakers and all." ' "Well, Mrs. Wollacan do it if 6he ; likes, for the truth is abo has a sure . m.1. ? guiuu. JLiim IE) Liio HuureCj, "Do tell!" auepending bor work to 1 listen. ] * Yes, and what's more, Mrs. Wells 1 docen't buy half those now things roa ' dy-madej alio makes them herself." "Ob! it's all iu gumption, tbon. 1 1 never bad any." * "No, not that alone. I went down to the house yesterday to tako lea, j and we got to chatting, and somebow f we came to talk about cuouonr.y, and ^ 1 said 1 didn't seo how poino fotkn I managed to make such a show, wbon I ( o there, doing quiio as well in the j world, couldn't. *N<?w, you dun'i I ^ I 1 tnean mo?' wr.id Mrs. Wulls, luu^liln^j^ like. 4 Why, yes,' ttai'i 1 bluntly: '1 , do; I can tell 3"<?u, Airs. .Wells,' 1 wem ( oil,'Greenwood people d> think you ate awtul extravagant.' 4 Why?' siti i ( she,'13 cuune j'ou have so mu>iy now. , ihin^?, and uiude bo coHtly, ai>d ihe children are ulway* turbelowed enough to cost a Hintill lorluito.-' 'Kdw, I'll nuuiviii, BU:U BI1U, 'IUUI ail 1111116 Ulltl the children's new thiuga together don't cost mo any more than yours, or any other family in tho village as large as mine.' Why, how ia that?' said I, j 'Because 1 know how to manage/j eaid she. ?I muko every penny toll, ] and just because I've got an invalua- j ble aid to givo mo the very best ad vice, and k-jep me ucquainted with the j newest and beta fashions f.jr every month. It furnishes putter.ie and ideas, and telis what to get, anil how to make up, so cxplii illy, thut a body can't help understanding.' There's . my bonnets.' 'You have four a year/ j I remarked : <n?.n <" .?* ovn"' i j ? ? j | while I am obliged to make one sorvu ) ] for spring and summer, and another i (orfull and winter bo b.' 'True.? ( Now 1 save all tho cost and time and ( trouble ot going to tho city, lor all 1 } have to do in to consult, my Mentor ( for Biiape, style and mutuiial. i'aai. ( 'experience has proved to mo that 1 ( wa? iw; up jii it vyiiuuut a ienr, una it I ( ib always lull a month in advunce, 8o ( ibat I have plenty of lime f.jr eon- , uideration. Send for the neceB&ary ( articles, and tboie are ibo directions | to make up. My gray velvet you ad- { mired only coat me six dollars, when { I'd have bad to pay twice as much ( otherwise. Soyouseeroy four don't , coat any more than your two, and, kabtnnu t kor?/v ? - - * wwoiuvo| x uttw luc |jii/ii9uru ui uiwoyn I feeling fresh and proaentublc. Just iho came with cloaks and drcsaos. i The rule applied all round. Tben | again, Miss Smith, our village oracle, < never can deceive me with anything < ancient. I havo an incontrovertible authority from headquarters, too, | that keops me continually supplied < with pretty fancies . for Susie's ; .and Maggie's clothing. I can , : always dress ray children well and | ..tastefully; because I Bpare myself one , 5 treat expense, that of giving them 3 ut to be made, as I have within my _ jach such valuable and practically *eful instructions, that it is a delight , 1 contive and fashion for myself. 1 a aen I'm never at a loss for the boys 1 eher. My never-failing friond has i a/ays somo valuable and serviceable ! t siXjestion. If my moans aro limited, j >f th>e is sure to occur an idea that I .. holu to make a cheap suit come out! il jaunty aud becoming. There 1 0 are, hundred aud one other notion* j t to 41 effect to a toilet; how to cut j andrnamcnt dresses, aprons, jack* g etg, I any of the indispensable# in a j well^gulated wardrobe, ovon to un- j ^ der-Othing^ It puts to use all the 2 odd jds of materials one may have, j Ij Pjotttg can go to waste when yon 4 are a often of innumerable user to y Urn to.' (I wish you would take II 1 me,' said I, 'and put mo on i. tbj> r^ht traok, for I've got tired pin0 ?wi^nd screwing to no purpose." ' j wtbul my he^rt.I'm afraid ytm n toWlWya b#e?, UUe raanyptfcer*, 1 Wv-wfcw *ud poyni*/opiiali, ,t -Xafip Mr cost of & journey to the cityl ac^bacjk?to which you axe ^ forcal bjtfiM Smith's impositions or n JJtie fwur ^ tbem?three dollars, and year's ajxbscriptioa to A * "** * SUNtUli * ' Demorest's Monthly Magazine That is the aid, cotineellcr, and help mate I've been telling you of." At this juncture Mrs. Brown chanced to glunce out of the window ; "1 have just finished my story in time'' Baiu she, her voice subsiding. "Then >_ -sr. AV..I1- : iL. 1 is iur?. ii vns cuiuiug ??|' mu guruur path; you shall have herown testimony." Bonnet and mantle disposed of, and work in hand, the new-comer was prepared for the consultation by an active rehearsal from Mrs. Brown ol a portion of her own and her neighbor's recent discourse. Mrs. AVell'd entrance had been the signal lor the resolving of tho several little groups of talkers into a general conversation. Not a few listened anxiously for her sentence upon Mrs. Crown's narrative. ,lI nm nilitr? niv?'nnrr?l fnimlni-cn oil A J iwt I said ycstorday," returned she at its conclusion, smilingly surveying her auditors, "and I can even say more. Mrs. Brown kindly complimented me yesterday upon the arrangement of tny table, and more than one of j-ou praised tho trifles in the way of pastry and other refreshments I contrib iited to the refreshment table of our last year's fair. The household department of tho Magazine was my .juidc in numberless instances; it in especially devoted to tho discussion scientifically of edibles and items of ntcrest to housekeepers. You have seen such practical illustrations of ^10 value of its various receipts, that [ need scarcely dwell upon it. It utterly dispenses with tho extra expense of cook-books, that are but too jltcn humbugs, composed of mixtures icitber wholesome noi: palatable.? The receipts of my reference will bear Letting." 'Wiittro did you lcnrn of the exis ,eneo of your oracle?" questioned ilrs. Hurt. ' 1 read of it in tho villugo paper.'' ' Oil, wo don't tako thai." "Not tako tho Ab evillo Press ? I'm >urpriaed. Why, it's to every one's nterest to tako tho local papors. You tol your money's worth over and )Vor. 1 should an lief bo out of iho >vorld as to be .vitbout the news. My husband Rays besots as much store by hem as I do by my DomQresi's Monthly. That must have been the oas >n why air. Wells did so much eiler t>y his grain uni liny lb ?n Air. Hart. You see ho bad the advaulago >f knowing bovr Lo soil, and when and whore to ii-id a good customer, an 1 all -his through tho paper, while naig-ibor Llart, even LhoogU ho'? q lite as ehrewd ii bargaining, bad lo trust lo luck lfier all. Mr. Wullssiys ho finds so many items of uao to him about g ir_ ionii.g, and ihon there are lho quia:iona from the city markets. It won't io lo trust lo hearsay. Y ?u want a reliable source lor such inform itio.i, 10 as to kno^vv how lo Bltapoyour own irra?geiiioni.s. Wo al.vaya do woll >ff our iruit, becauso wo d.m't of nosc&siiy, hood to luk.) much ri*k ?>y jursting to got it out. for Sale iu tiron when it it* rejiliy too cany or t->o lato, ind it rauat be Bold at a sacrifice or bo ell to spoil. Wo wai,ch the paper, md are generally just about right tor i very good sale. Just make a trial >f it, and if you don't confer that you wonder how you ever did without it, I'll pay the cost of your subscription." Before any one could reply there was a slight stir at the doorway, and t,he next-moment a chorus of voices Welcomed the tfood shonhfirri nf t.h* Sreenwood flock among hid pooplo. "What have you there?" paid Jennie Kip, the pet and belle par excellence of the villago, as, after tbe greetings were over, the roverond gentleman sat down before the table and begun divesting a small packet he had carried of its wrapping. "Something that I fancied .might be of use and interest to you ladies in the pursuance of your good work j Demorost's Monthly Magazino."? There was a rapid interchange oi ginuues amsng the needle-workers. , "I thought you disapproved ot' lignt reading," ventured Miss K.ip, mischievously. "So I do, except when, like th? literary department of' this magazine, is instructive, entertaining and calculated to exert a strong moral influence over our mfods. . This Monthly is a great favorite at the paraonago. I am a regular subscriber, for I scarcely think we could do witnout it. My yife says it has taught her to love poetry, bocausoof the little gems ol verse she finds therein. Besides, there is a new piece of valuable music each month. As a work of art it if superior to any other published Look at its beautifuV illustrations, its exquisite steel plates ; at the fineness of the paper and the clearness of typo, which at once fasten the attention Sfowy page js smooth and fair to look at. JSven jfo Jooking tbrpugh its ad vertisiog columns I fftntf riotfeiug to offend the most fastidious. patent roedicine* pr other quackery. Qt everal oceasiooa my wife *a4Ifear< ^ ^ ' A * . been in want of articles, and wo - Hhould have been at qyito a loss wbither to turn but for the notices in Drmorcst's Monthly, directing us to [ some first-class establishment, and ' which, in every singlo instance, we i found to be just as represented, rclia? ble and trustworthy. What I proi sumed might bo of special servico i j now, was this department of fashions, : I ; about which I know but little, but ! i i which my-wife affirms always con . tains me most vaiuaoic suggestions < ' respec ting wearing apparel," i i "1 have just- been testifying to that. < i j before you came- in," remarked Mrs. I Wells. "And I remember a rceom- 1 j mendation from a friend of mine in I j Greenfield, ller husband is u builder, and he writes me he is lauding the ! Architectural Department of the 1 Magazine, lie considers this feature alone renders it valuable, because its 1 i plans and diagrams arc good and t ! adaptable. My children hail its ap- i j pcarance quite as gladly as I do. I c ! read aloud to them from its literary t j portion, because I find its general 1 j tone so pure and elevating. I think j it a desirable addition to every house- a | hold." a "And I," chimed in the minister. J "My boys and girls take spccial de- i light in its engravings. It has intul- c Catcd u taste for art among them. 1 vhiiik its refining influence, the variety 2 it combines, mid it's neutdro-?s, render it. an ornament for any parlor-lablo in \ L-ko village." t Any (hio of its ppcu'iarities?its * full-sized patterns, its braid and em- a broidery s'lects for the year, or tho 1 compilation of twelve excellent pic- ? ees of music?is wor<h fur more than 1 tl?e Cost of a year's eiib^cripiion," * HiiiTgo-Hted Mrs. Weils. "And despite c ail this, each subscriber receives a vul-! t Uablu pi OII11 U 111." t "1 Hi.all subi-cribo," exclaimed Mrs. s Brown. i "And I," naid ber neighbor. 1 The words were echoed from all p rts of the room. ' Why not make up a club," euggoB- i ted tbo pastor, "and give your orders I 10 Mrs. VYeils?" i 'I should like that ver3' inuoh," re- f turned the latter. *'I wi.l tell you I why, frankly, Tnero ure great in- i (1'icemeniM otfoied for this purpose. ( For twenty subscription-i at An-o 1 lollars each, while every individual receives a ptemium, I should couie into possession of one of Bar'ram & Fanton's Family Sewing-Machines. S<?ch a treasure I My iriend in Greenfield has bought one recently; the ^ pi ice is $60. Sho has quite onciled ( me by her praise ot it There is no i^uicaio machinery, so bcthorsume toTa women-fok*, and still it can do any kind of work, thick or thin, cloth ' or cambric. Ii 8e?n directly from the npool. There is only one thread, but ibo seam is durable, very elastic, and always seli-l'urtloned. It Embroiders, Turk*, Fells, makes Buxton Hole*. i Braids, Binds, etc, etc., and operates , ho easily that any one of my little girls ^ couid use it. In fact there is a motto ^ 'iiiiniilicii v. nrirl H!'.Ann . w ? , ?which ut once gives you the (Qosl explicit idea of it." "You are quite deserving of such a prize, as tho first to establish the \ merits of the Magazine here," said \ several. In a few short woeks Mrs. Wells' sitting-room boasted of a sew- j ing-maehinc, and each membor of the ] club a copy of the magazine. ' . "How do you like it?bow do you 1 liko it?" asked the various Green- 1 woodites, as they met after this iin- i tant event. "It has all the virtues 1 claimed for it. The fashion gossip i offers really new and acceptable ideas i because they emanate from the actual j depot of the metropolitan modes, and J are not a revised and garbled-ovor J rehash of old styles. It is, in truth, i an actual 'mirror of fashions.' I have 1 discarded the other wishy-washy i counterfeits I have heretofore been ) taking, and find this one Magazine < ' will do me more actual service than 1 a half dozen others put together." < Soon so said all Maysville^ except Miss Smith, who had hitherto been j quite successfbl in palming off her i - antiquated styles upon the villagers, < and who now found her occupation i gone. 1 "What nhall I do ?" said she, wring- i 1 iftg her hands in despair, to a sympa thizing, gentle soul, who chanced to > bo a membor of Mrs. Wells' club. "I can no t^say unless you take Dom- 1 1 orest's Monthly Magazine, when you 1 will be likely to find suggestions to 1 > help, you out of your difficulty, as I > almost always do in my own case. 1 UiQd Hmttl. ?---? i . ?.Wpju??wj jigu mm weiter ininK of ' u " i The resqlt of thiB counsel was that i Miss Smith sontin her t&bscription. | , ,Early one bright' Monday morning j .' the good t peoplo of Greenwood re: marked that a marvellous change had i - come over the . little taiillinory and > dress-making establishment they had t of late almost utterly ignored. i "How beautifully you have fitted ; ? up, Kits Smith," Mid her friend, who < I H , w . # * '' * 1 ' *' *7 " " ' w ' hud been invited to take a look with in. "I've started anew as a branch o Miuc. Dcmorest's Monthly. I'm verj thankful to you for mentioning tin Magazine to me, for you seo it liai helped me out of, my trouble." "How did you prosper ?" asked th< same friend, some time later in tin mouth, "dropping in" to sec if Mis Smith's hopes had been realized. "Oh I never did so well I Why, 1 iran work with bo much satisfaction t< niyself ami every one of my custom ers, and I have s.:eh a variety o beautiful styles that even tho ladie from tho city, boarding hereabouts Hiul nil tlinv vi?nn!iv? " Time flitted swiftly by, and agnii the sewing ciiclo met at Widov tfays. ""What a vast improvement ther< ias been in oui' village since wo bav< aken Deinoresi/s Monthly!" exclaim ;d Mrs. Brown, during a pause iu tin :onversation. "Mrs. Hart, tiid yot ake Mrs. Well's advice and subscribe or the Abbeville Press?" "Yes, and Imust say, it was just as be said?Mr. Hart and I have reolved never to do without it again le thinks it saves liim a great dea nore than his falBC notion of economy ;vcr did." 'That is my opinion of the Maga ,ine. Besides, we are certainly al >righter, and better, and happier, ant viser through its influence. It it ho general remark. There is now >ue thing for which I have a great rri.\.j. ^ 1 ? ? iuiuiuuii. J. nut 1M, IU IllilKl! lip 21 ClllL urge enough, to get, as a premium in organ for the church. I have al Cttdy set about it by applying tc iome of my friends. I find I havi >nly to show a copy of the Monthly o convince them of its merits, ll ipeaks for itself, and they have beei io enthusiastic in theij appruciatioi is to set their names down upon my ist immediately. "Will any of yot nd me ? Every voice chimcd in assent. Ai vomen always do when they have i >et project at heart, they went t< .vork with will and energy, am ounci their taslc so easy, that in i ew days the entire subscription wa >n its way to tlie Publisher of Dem)rk.?t's Monthly, No. 233 Broadway !ic\v York. The Palm-tree. A stately and beautiful tree is tin Pulm, and perhaps it is, of all tree n the East, the most useful. It come :o its greatest vigor and pcrfectioi when about thirty years old ; an< Prom that time "will frequently y eld year by year, more than three hundred pounds of dates, and eontinu ibis wonderful fruitfulness for sixty o seventy years. The trunk, unlik 3ther trees of bo largo a growth, i lot formed of solid, close graine* svood, but is filled in tire centre wit) i soft puh. It rises to a great heigh rom th? ground, and grows so straigh hat the prophet Jeremiah used ai ;xpre6sion which seems as if it wen i sort of proverb, "Upright ss thi palm-tree." Every part of. this bighly-value< a i ui co 10 ui Duiuo use. large pare o ihe population of Egypt, Arabia, ant Persia subsist almost entirely on th< fruit, which grows in clusters just beow the leaves. Tho date-stones whei ground, furnish food for camels. Th< eaves, which grow from six to oigh feet in length, aud are very broad ire used for covering the tops o bouses. They are also made into va rious useful articles, such as baskets mats, and bags. From tho branchei ire made cages for poultry and fencei Tor gardens. The tough fibres whicl ire found in the boughs ore manufa< tured in ropes, thread, and rigging Tor small vessels, and tho trunk afford 5rewood. #From the sap a kind o boney is prepared, which ig consider sd to be almost equal to that produce< by bees: a kind of wine is also obtain3d from it. In former times the palm was fount in great abundance, in Palestine. Je richo was so celebrated for the abun dance aud richness of its palm-trees.' (Deut. xxxiv. 3.) Fourteen hundred years after thi they seem to hare been equally nu merous and luxuriant! for they an freauentlv snoken of bv tho Jawiwh hio * ^ A - ? "7 " " ~" torian Josephus. Bethany means "th< bouse of dates." At the present timi palms are not nearly so abundant ii the Holy Land as they formerly wer? Reference' is 'made to the palm ii tho journeyin^s of the children of la rael from Egypt to the Land of Prom ise. , They were passing througl what is described as a "waste howlinj wildernessbut.one day they cami lit Vie# of a picture oi verdure atu beauty which must have been ail th more welcome in contrast with th surrounding desolation and barren nose. ' They canje<" says the sacred hie torian, "to JSHm, where were twelr wells Of. water, and three-soore au< ten pilm-treea." (E*od. xir. 27-5 . An. here, for a whUp, ampd. these well of Acfreshiag water, and uader tit '* y ^ -*>?*. * - pleasant shade of these seventy palmtrees, with their rich green foliage, f the weary desert travelers halted, and , pitched their tents. In tho book of Psalma wo meet 3 with these words: "Tho righteous s shall flourish liko tho palm-tree." j (Psalm xeii. 12.) 0 Now, when wo consider that all 0 around, almost everywhere where the eyo rested, tbe noble and H graceful palm was seen giving beautj' to tlie landscape, and reminding eve1 ry passer-by of one of the most fruit;) fid sources of national plenty and wealth, wc can easily see how much " meaning the Psalmist would include in his words, "Tho righteous shall 3 flourish like the palm-tree." 'j Ijet. it ulwiiva l?n tont. in minrl tlifit the life of nil those who are good ?nd i and holy is a beautiful thing. God f commands it. We read, "The righteous Lord loveth righteousness; llis countenance doth behold the upright." e (Psalm xi. 7.) Good men esteem it; b and even bad men, though it condemns . them, admire it, and confess that ? there is nothing so truly beautiful and lovely as goodness. And here, t.09, is 1 the secret of happiness. O, if our 3 voung readers wish to be truly happy ?nd go through life with the approval j of God, And to have the inward quiet of a peaceful conscience, they must, above all thfngs .^im to be good. Another allusion to the palm ocl pnrn in nnn r?f thn r-lfxinf' SCCIICS of I ... O r our Lord's life upon earth. In fulfilment of an old prophecy, Christ was - entering the city of Jerusalem, riding ' upon an ass. Hearing of thie, a largo I number of people went out to meet ' Him; and' carrying "in their hands 7 "branches of palm-trees," they "cried, Ilosanna: blessed is the King of Is> rael that cometh in the name of the > Lord-" -(John xii: 13.) They did this with the intention of > showing the honor and esteem in i which they held Jesus, and in token r of the gladness with which they wel t- corned Ilim to the city. Only a few 1 days after, however, instead of the i glad "Hosatina!" another cry went r up, "Crucify Ilim ; crucify him." i In ancient times the palm was the emblem of victory and joy ; and St. 5 John thus speaks of the glorious coip\ pany of heaven : "I beheld, and lo, a 3 great multitude, which no man could 1 number, of all-nations, and kindreds, * aud peoples, and tongues, stood before 9 the tlirOne, and before the Lamb, cloth ed with white robef?, and palms in their , hands." (Itev. vii. 9.) How frlorioiifl Ihft t.rinmnli rvcor sin and death which these ransomed ones thus celebrate! How glorious tho deliverance fro.n all pain, and sorrow, and evil; from all tea'rs and temptationa, of which they sing, and they s cry, "Salvation to our God which eittctli upon the throne, and unto the j Lamhl" "O may I bear mme humble part > In that immortal tongl ~ Wonder and joy nliali tune oiy henrt, e And Iotc command my tongue." r Who does not say, "This prayer e shall be mine?" But how many are a earnestly and successfully seeking to i have it answered ? Let each of our h young friends serionsly, earnestly ask, t "Am I?"?Early Days t i Discipline of the Young. ' The oldest son of President Edwarda, congratulating a friond on i having a family of sons, said to him f with much earnestness, "ilemeraber, i there is bat one. mode of family gov5 ornment. I have brought up and - educated fourteen boys, fvo of whom 1 I brought up, or rather Buffered to 3 grow up, without the rod. One of t these was my youngost brother, and , tbo other Aaron Burr, my sister's only f son, both of whom had lost their pa rents iu their childhood; and from hnt.h mxr nKanrontlnn anH avnaviannn 9 I tell yob, sir, a maple sugar govern9 ment will never answer. Beware bow * yon lot the first act of disobodionce in 5 your little boys go unnotioed, and, un> less ovidence of ropentanco bo mani3 fest, unpunished." f Of all tbe serraonH J have ever beard, long or short, this has been 1 among the most uoeful, so far as the - world is concerned. It is a salutary lesson, to be prayerfully pondered by 1 all parents and guardians^ Tbe Bible - lays down four great rules, involving - the four greut elements of tbe success " iul training of children?prayer, instruction, example, and restraint.? s And it is doubted if a solitary cose can bo found where the child has not d followed in the footsteps of tbe pious i- parent, wben these rules have beon i adoptod; while, on tbe other hand, if o but only one of the four baa been neg? a lecied, it may have heen the ruin of i. the child. a Remember^ Christian parents, it is h not enough to pray for, or even with ? your children, if you do not also ing struct them! if your own exampl^ 0 contradicts your teaching; and in 1 vain iviU be the prayer,, the inSirac^ 8 tion, the example, if,, like JEli, whuq/ * your children do wrong, you uregtrai? , them not." - Bat lev alt bo found untjg v ted, and you may trust xin God tml ?, he will fulfill his promise, and that j your children will grow up tu ,s?j? , bkn, and to bless.you for yotur s to their highest inter sats* The Gathering Home. They are gathering homeward from every land> One by one, As their weary feet touuh the shining strand. One by one, Their biowo ar? cne'.os-d in a golden crown, { Their travel-staiaed garnii nts ure all Inid dovn, j And c'othed in white garments tiny rest on i the mead. Where the Lamb <loih love his chosen to h ad, Oue by one. Bcforo tlvey rest they pans through the strife, On?r by one; Through the waters of d>-uth tliey enter life. Ontr by one To eotne are th* floods ot the river still, As lhej ford on their way to the lieuvcnly hill; To others the waves run fieicelv and wild. Yct they rcuch the h<?:ue ot the Uudciilsd, One by one. We, too, shall come to the l-ivor side, One by one. We are nearer its waters each eventide, One by one. We can heir the noidc and dash of the stream j Now. and again, through ovir lil'e'a deep dream; j Sometimes the flood* all the banks overflow, Sometimes in ripples and umull waves go, One by oue. Jesus, Redeemer, we look unto Tliee, One J?y one. We lift up our Yoiccs tremb ingly, One by one. The waves of the rive- are dark and cold, Wo know not. the plufce wlierft our foot niny liold, Thou who didst pass btough in deep midnight, strengthen ua, ?end lis the t-ktiT and tho light, Une by ono. Plant Thou Thy feet beside as we tread, Odo by one. On Thee let ua lean e**eh drooping fiend, One l>y one Let but Thy ttrong ai ui around ua be twintd, We ahull enel ?ur fcurs and rares to the wind, .Saviour, Kedcemer, with Dice full in view. Smilingly, gludsomely, aliall we pa?a through, One by ona. From the Lutheran and Visitor. Parents: In addition to the passages frimi Setipture, bearing on thia subject, quoted in our last, wo will now cull jour attention to tlie argument furnished us front Scriptural examples. Wo all know, tho force of example in convincing and gaining the consent ol tho wind ol any one opun to conviction. , tiencc it in, doubt Icps, that the Bible leaches, to uo great an extent, by the use of example. Samuel, whoso birth seems to be in direct answer to tho pra\er of Hannab, liia mother, early became a child i f God?ho-v early. wo hi*vo no pos live tneai.H of determining. But it is our firm be'Iiif?ugd no one can prove the contrary?that in answer 10 the pru) ei & <>f his godly parents, in connection with the' ii flueneo of their pure example, bo -grew up in the lovo and practice of holiness. At the ago of three years he was plact-d in the temple, and the very best account we have of him there, is indicative of the favor, in which he was held by G< d. That be was a sincere follower of the Lord Jenovah, his whole life, from the time ot his entering upon its duties, most conclusively proves. When ho entered upon thai service, is not revoaled, but every thing goos to prove that it was in bis early childhood. Wo therefore, point to the example 01 Samuel as au argument in favor of early pieiy. Jeremiah, and John the Baptist, are also examples of this same precious truth. It- is writtou of them tt>at they ure "sanctified from the womb," and however earnestly and ingeniously some have labored to prove that imis uuiy rwierreu to tneir oeing then tet apart to tboir epeciul and'reepeutive raisaions, there does not appear, in their subsequent history, any thing to teach directly or remotely that this Banoiification did not, primarily, refer to their regeneration. II it be objected that, even admitting this to have been the case, yet it was miraculous, we reply, that every eonvertion is miraculous, whether occurring in oarlg lite or ib muturer manhood. To rui.*>e tv life the dead, ever has been, and' ever will be a miracle. Soott useathe following lunguage concerning John the Baptist: Though "oonceived in 811)" like other (Men, yet a raving change would be wrqagbt in his soul, by the regenerating Spirit of God, even at or before bit) birth; which would appear in his eminent wisdom and piety from his eaflieat youth." In bis "Practical Observations," on the same sui-ject, U^nddslbis additional judicious and appropriate reflection: "We should etfiy devote tbem, i. e. our ohildreu, (ttwd, t^d bring them up fur hxuj tttome have been "filled with fferHoly Spirit from tbeir mother's yfajfeb," we. sBbuld hope and pray that lii may be thus changed, in earlyyoirfcb, by divine grace; and we ought lo instruct them in the truth as soon ft they fire capable ot. knowing good from?vrl.". . The eaee'bf Timothy {a an example in pinnt, "Train u child/' or as Dod?i4ge -render** it, from infancy, "he bad known th* boly Soripiur^," whioh, dtsobvUss, very ea*y made him "wise nnio Si ivunoo." How M<on Timoiliy "? tieie creature in C'hnst Jexu*,n ia.not d, but enuugh ir lovealvd to testify the declaration, that be is V- : an cxaiiplo of e-'irly jricty. '1 a.i llio moHi itiuikcd ibu>irilivo of l li o truth, I hut yountf children muy beccme Christians, lui niched u- 1. <m thu wonl ot God. Jiul thw fact linn no mot e an* u'\ On, l.O tl'oro j roves lhat ihvSo ivt'fo all lliat o-iuld htivo boon fur i-l, <1 llian Ilia) tJ.iii: and Abi-l wore it. only chilinn born to Adam and Jive uji :> ilio time ?>f Abi-l'tt murdoi, biciuru oitioiH aro mentioned. Ki.ough, on ull hiibjccth is recorded in tSo? ijxuiv moel tl?? end Bought in it. rwor-i, while it must b eb-ur t'? ovt:r\ mmi that ull ihm could hu htiid on utt > ?-it Hiibjoct has not boon recorded lm them, "llio world iiBclt would nut lain the bOfkn," Tlio examples, then-fore, rcc ?r'U;<] on the buhjoet ?>1' curly # piety arc enough l<? eneou>agu cvciy Ctirisliiin parent to labor in bopj lor the turhj conversion ul' bin or her euiklren. Wo have no di>ub(. thut many ot the anciont worthies, wInitio example baa been (urniobed tor our irritation, were curly the fcubjeets of saving grace. When did ii-noch Mutcti, Daniel and other# enter the servico ol Jebovab? Wbut right bavo wo to -suppose that they served a long apprenticeship in the Hervico ;>!' Lhe l)nvil ii?>>>i>i? ti>?w gave thuir hear la to God? Hny, wo have reason lo bclicvo that the great inusa of ull in tho Jewish Church, who wore true Israelites, becaino such early in life, through tho blessing of God upon tho training of their piouM parcnid. God hud, in the rito of en cumci&ion, acknowledged tiio light uf children to u pUu.e ii? ti.o Churcn p.iilitunt; atid that tiicy ?>.. Hot only be ma children iidih. j bu: really, '>o |>ruvid?ui tut :h :r mrl: rcliyious training. Alust;.- su<d I i ravl:''and tlieb w?.ruo wt.toit i" niund tlit-o Una tlaj bli.ul bu in ih, heart. And iltuu tst>u>l touch tbetu diligently to thy chtldttn, and chull ia*k ol them when thuii bittcm in t<iy huUB^, ai>d when thou walkcet by iho way, aud when thou liodt down, and when thou riaudt, up." Cun any thing tide bo contemplated than the godly uairing of Abraham';* lam fly in tt?in expretssivo language ? ' For 1 know him, that ho will command nio c.<ild.ruti und hi* household aiior hiiu, and ihey will keep the I wuy of the Ijurd to do jasticu ai.d juJgmtmt." laaae, doubuoss, in eons.queiice of U<o timely religious train iug bo received Iron* ihe bunds of his devoted parents knew not tho time that he did not lovo tbo-God oi A'jra* hum hU futheL*. Tub Planet Mar*. ? It appeirj tli'cJ? from Mitt searching semtiny of llie spectroscope, tliat the plan t has an atmosphere und IliuL Iliiit utiniiuitlii'iu tiwk.i .. 8ciiitilco our own in gui?ral constitution. Combining this evidence with that whim we alreud posse-s of the presence of water in its liquid, vaporous, ami solid state* npjti tbe ourlace, and with the ceitainty that tuo I red lint of the parts of the p+anet is due to a teal ruddiness of subs'ance (correspondj ing to tbe lint ol certain soils npuii our own earth), we cannot but recognise the extreme probability I hat in all essential habitudes the planet Mars resembles our own earth. One eircum&lauee my at first 'excite surprise; namely, the fact that in a planet so much farther troui itfi^sun than our c.irtii there should exist so clo^e a respects ulima tic relutions. But if we consider the result* _r m i n - - . - - ui j.jriiunu,s rtsenrL-uod on tlio radiation of heat, aud remember tbal h very moderate increase in the quantity of certain vapours present io our atmosphere would suQice to render the climate of the earth intolerable though excess of heat (just as glas3 walla cause a'hot-houee th be an orer long after the sud has set), wo shall not fail to 6ee that Mars may readily be compensated by a corresponding nrrangement for his increased distance from the vivifying centra of the solar system?Frawr's Magazine ThiNbw Velocipedes.?A shipment of Ihe novel descrpiion ol velocipedes, which have begyme so very popular in Paris may soon be expected in New York. The three wheeled velocipedes, used by boys, have been in use for twenty ye;%rs, but th, kind in question are an invention of bti ihreo years, date, and have but two wheel* one of which immediately succeed* th. other in a straight line. A saddle is elevj; ted above them, aud stirrups are n-n' wtiii-l), by a movement of th? feet, crea:? a rapid action of the apparatus, with au effort far less fatiguing to the limbs than walking The mode of mounting' is first to push it, accompanying the action by a movement of the foot in the left stirrup, and then suddenly to spring into the saddie and use both stirrups. Fully a weeV of practice is required, as the difficulty t J - . ? - * ibi rider of balancing himself is great. / fall, however, ie without danger, as bis fo. i is always near tbe ground, and be bas oul to disengage it n moment fmm the stirrn* to recover himself. The -raovracnt of tli instrument in very rapid. It can bo propelled at Ui6 r?'a of fifteen miles an b'-ur, and races 1n (Paris bv means of it nre very fnquent. ^ .. v*^ . er ' Ringing, says some one,- ffils <L? ( wheels of care and supplies %hfi placo of atmshinc.