The Greensborough patriot [May 3, 1851]

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VOLUME XIII. GREENSBO.ROI/GH, N. C, MAY 8, 1851. WHOLE NO. 025.
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TJLAIJE.
The crimson of the maple trees
Is lighted by the iDOOrt's soft glow ;
Oh. nights like this, and things like these,
li:i ..■ back a dream i : lony ago.
For on an eve as sweet as this—
Upon this bank—beneath this tree—
Mv lip*, in I')" **■ impassioned kits,
Met those ol Clulie.
Softlv as now the dewdropa burned
In the llii*hed bosom* ol 'jic (lowers,
Backward almost seems time to have turned
The polden axis ol the hours.
Till, cold as ocean's beaten surf,
llencith these trailing boughs. I see
The white erosa and the faded lurf
Above lost I'lalio.
From the Boston Trareler.
THE ANGEL
OVER THE RIGHT SHOULDER;
Or, the Beginning of a New Year.
••A woman's work is never dune," saiil Mrs.
James, "I urn sure I thought I should gel
through by sundown, and here i. ihis lamp, now,
tin which [ mu.i go and spend half an hour be-lure
ii will burn."
» Don't you wish you had never been mar-ried
!" said .Mr. James, wilh a good-natured
laugh.
•■ JV.»," rose to Mr*. Jemes's lips, but a glanre
at her husband anil two little urchins, who, with
sparkling eyes and flawing cheeks, were turn-
Mine, o.er him. checked lhat reply.
••1 should like tils good with the evil, if I
conh! have it," she said.
" I am sure vou have no great evil to endure,"
replied her husband.
"Thai is just all you •renilemen know about it.
How should you like it if you could not gel an
iinituerr.iptcil ball hour lo yourself from morning
In night * What would become of your favorite
studies !'
•■ I do not ihink there is any need of lhat. I
know your work could be arranged so systemati-cally
as to give you some time to call your
own."
•• Well, all I wish is." was the reply, •■ lhat
vou could follow me round fur one day, snd see
what I have to do."
When the lamp was trimmed the conversation
was resumed. Mr. Jame. had been giving the
subject some thought.
•• Wife," said he, " 1 have a plan lo propose,
and 1 ariah you 10 promise me lhat you will ac-cede
lo it. Il is an experiment, and I wish you
to give il a fair Ir al 10 please me."
After llMilaung awhile, as she hsd greal rea-son
lo suppose it would lie quite impracticable,
she at length promised.
•• This is my plan. I waul yon lo take two
hours out of every day for your own private use.
Make a point of going up into your room and
locking yourself in and Ml llie work go undone
il it iiiusi. Spend ibis lime in llie way most pro-fitable
lo your-clf. Now 1 shall bind you Mown
lo your promise tor one month; at the end of thai
liirie, if il has proved a total failure, we will try
some oilier Way.
•• When shall I beginI"
"To-morrow."
To-morrow came. Mrs. James had selected
two hours before dinner as iba most convenient
for her: and as the family dined at one o'clock,
she was 10 have finished her morning work, be
dressed and in her room al eleven. Hearty as
licrefTorl, were 10 accompli-di ibis, llie appoin-ted
hour found her wilh her work but half dune:
yet true to her pronvsc, she reined lo her room
ani lurned the key in ihe door.
Afier spending perhaps half an ho'.ir in form-ing
her plans fur study, sjie drew up a table, pla-ced
her books before her. prepared pen and pa-per,
and commenced wilh much enthusiasm.—
Scrcelv was the pen dipped in ihe ink, when
there was a Irauipllng of litlle feet along Ihe ball,
and a loud poun lug on ihe chamber d»or I
" Mamma, mamma, 1 eaiinul find my millens,
and Frank is going out wilh me to slide !"
•• (Jo to Amv, daughter; maiuy is busy now."
"Amy is busy, too, and says she c-in'l leave
the baby."
Upon ibis ihe child began lo cry. The easiest
way for Mrs. James to settle the difficulty, and
indeed the only way was lo go and hunt up Ihe
missing articles. Then a parley musi be held
w t'i Frank So induct bin lo wail foi his sisier.
and the little) girl's leais must be dried, and little
beans meet be set nghlhelorc the children were
sent out to play, and a little lecture given, loo on
Ihe neeessiiy of pulling things where ihey be-longed.
Time slipped away, and Mrs. James
relumed lo her study ; her wairb told her that
one hour was gore.' She quietly resumed her
task, and was g lung well under way again, when
a he.ti ler step was heard, and her door was once
niore Irled. Now Mr. Jjines musl be admilled.
" Man ," said he, " do come and pul on a
string for me. Then is not a bosom in my draw-er
h, order. I am in a hurry. I ought lu have
been down town an hour.
Mrs James went for her work basket and fol-lowed
bun. The tape was sewed on, then a but.
ton needed fastening, then a rip in his glove musl
be nienilrd.
Mrs. James look Ins glove and stitched away
al il wnh a smile lurking in lbs enrnere of her
aaeulh,
" TV'hal are you laughing alt" inquired her
husband.
•• To ihink how famously your plan works,
replied she.
•• I declare," eicl.imed he, •• was ihis your
studv hour T I am sorry, but srhat can a man
do?'he cannot go down luwn without a shirt
bosom."
•• Certainly not," replied his wife quietly.
When her liege lord was fairly equipped, Mrs.
Jame. relumed lo her room again. About half
an hour remained lo her, of which she waa de-termined
lo make the most. Once moro was
her place found, and her pen dipped in the ink,
when t lere was another disturbance in the eniry.
Amy hid returned wilh the baby from his walk.
She to ik him into the nursery lo gel him asleep.
Now die only room in ihe house where Mrs.
Jnm could have a fire lo herself was ihe room
adjoining the nursery. The ordinary noise of
llie children did not disturb her, bul llie very ex-traordinary
one which Master Charley fell called
upon lo make, when he was fairly upon his hack
in the cradle, was rather more than could be
borne by most mothers without seriuusly disturb-ing
ihe train of their thought*. Mrs. James
closed her book until the slorm should bs over-past.
Soon alter quiet was restored, llie children
came iri from eliding, crying with cold fiogers.
Just as Ihe dinner bell rung, Mrs. James closed
her book in de.pair.
" How did you .ueceeil with your studies ihis
morning!" inquired Mr. James. •• I am sure I
did not hinder you long."
•• No; youra was only one of a doxen inter-ruptions."
■• Oh, well; you musl not get discouraged.
You cannot expeel In succeed llie first lime. Per-sists
iu il unlil the family learn, ihal if they want
anything of you, they musl come al tome oilier
lime."
The second day of Irial happened to be a
Moray one ; and as the morning was very dark,
Bridget overslept herself, and breakfast waa un
hour late. This last hour Mrs. James could not
recover. Eleven o'clock came, ant" her morn-rg
work was bul half done. Wilh a mind disturb-ed
and depressed, she left things in the suds as
they were, and retired punctually to her study.
She found, however, lhat il was impossible to fix
her allemion upon anything which required
thought. Neglected duties haunted her as ghosts
do ihe guilty conscience. Finding she was real-ly
doing mulling wilh her books, and wishing
liol to lose ihe morning wholly, aha commenced
a letter. Bridget came lo her door before she
had written half a page.
■•What shall we have for dinner, ma'am!
There ain't nu marketing conic, and you did not
lell me what lo get."
" Have some steaks."
•• We han't got any."
" Well, I will semi out for some."
Now there was no one to send bin Amy, and
Mrs. James knew il. Wilh a sigh she pul a-wav
her letter and went into llie nursery.
•• Amy. Mr. Jame. has forgotten the maiket-ing.
I wish you would run oveno the provision
store and order some beef Bleaks: I will slay
wilh baby."
Amv was none loo well pleased lo be senl on
Ihi. errand. She remarked •• that she musl first
change her dress."
•■ lie as quick as possible, llicn," said Mrs.
James," lor I am particularly engaged this morn-
Ng.
Amv neither obeyed nor disobeyed, but man-aged
!■> laku her own lime in reality, though with-out
any direct determination lo do so. Mrs.
James thinking she might gel along a senlenceor
uvo in the nursery, took ihe Gorman book ill i
bul lo disarrangement Charley would by no
means ronseni. Mamma musl show him ihe
Unions in ihe book : whether ihere or not H was
■II one to him—bolemueedhe moot be. Half
her second day's lime of Irial was gone, when
Amv came lot and with a sigh Mrs. James re-lurned
lo her room. Before 1 o'clock she had
been called down into the kilchen twice on somo
important business relating lo ihe dinner, and
by Ihis day, not one entire page ol a letter bad
been written.
Oi. the ihird morning she rose early, made
ever.- provision lor dinner and for ihe comloil of
ihe family, which she deemed necessary, and
eh.ted by success in good spirits and with good
courage she entered hoi slndy precisely al elev-en
o'clock. Now she was lo have a line lime
of il. Her hooks wareopened and a hard lesson
summoned to ihe conllici. Scarcely had she
read a line when she heard llie door bell ring.
•• Somebody wishes lo see you in ihe parlor.
Mis. James."
"Tell then I am engaged, Bridget.'
•■ I told them you weic lo home, ma'am, and
they gave me their names, but I did nol exactly
iinderslaud."
Mrs. James was obliged lo go. To smile
when she felt sober, lo he social when her
its were elsewhere. Her friends, however.
hei m'nd. as indeed Ihey did. She wae think-ing
ol fcW disappointed plans. To her, not
only the'past <?m{h- but ,he I"" >""r' "*""!
Have been on. .:.' <"•»'«• •*»l **££
.to h.er.biroken and.i da:i,s,n-.mtil7leTd : even heru.hjo.u.„rs of. re,l.igi-ous med,i,tat.i.on nLau' "b•e•e■n encro, ac.h_e.id up' - ... . ... i i ,-complished no-on
and distracted. She bans "• .■ hou„ ,nri
thing lhat she could see, but keep .'<> _fn ^
family ; and to her saddened thoughts, e< (
seemed to have been bul indifferently uaj..
Yearnings for something belter lhan ihi. aha wa«
conscious of.
What did she need, then f To eee .ome of
ihe reiulti of her lile-work I To be conscious
of some until/ of purpose, some weaving together
of these lile-lhreads, now so broken and aingle !
She felt, she was quite sure, no desire lo
shrink from duly, hnwevci humble; but she
sighed for some comforting assurance ot whal
tea. duty. Her pursuits, conflicting aalhey did
wilh her tastes, seemed lo her frivolous. She
fell there was aomo belter way of living, which
she had failed of discovering. A. she leaned
over her child, her tears uow fell fast upon lhat
young brow.
How earnestly wi.hed lhat mother lhat ehe
could shield her child from the disappointments,
and self-reproaches, and mistakes from which
sue was ihen suffering; thst llie Hide one inighl
take up lite where she could give it lo her.men-ded
by all her own experience. It would have
been a great comfort could she have felt thai the
could have fought llie bailie for both. Yet she
knew lhat il could nol eo be ; dial we musl all
learn for ourstlves what are those things winch
make for our peace. Wilh tears sldl in her
eyes, she gave ihe good night lo llie child, and
wilh soft slep entered llie adjoining room, and
ihere fairly kissed nui the old year on another
chubby cheek which nestled among the pillows;
then she eoughl her own rest.
Soon she found herself in a singular place.
She was traversing a vasl plain ; no trees were
visible save those which skirled the distant ho-rizon
;—on their lop. rested a wreath of golden
clouds. Before her, traveling lowarde lhat dis-tant
light, was a female. I.mle children were a-houl
her, somelimes in her arm., and sometimes
al her side. As she journeyed on, sho busied
herself caring for them. Now she soolhed them
when weary—now .he laughl them how to trav-el,
and again she warned Ihem of the pnfalls and
stumbling blocks in the way. She helped them
over the one and taught them to be wary of ihe
oilier. She talked lo ihem of lhat golden light
which she kepi constantly in view, and towards
ELLA LEE
La* her where the woodbine clingeth
the dark Magnolia tree;
WherO i.he breeze low music bringeth
From the boeom of llie eea I
Wuh a aWlwt/M devoiion.
Lay her where «weet violets be;
Where the leaves keep gentle motion
To the breeihing of ihe sea.
There, there, lay her,
There, there, leave her,
Our fair Ella.
Our young Ella,
Our lost Ella,
Ella Lee 1
,. ,, ... ihe aummer,
Ever blooming... ,lmjb„;
Ever humming In.. .^h, corner.
We believed her .ome b, w - ^ ff^
From the land where sou.
Oh she was so sweet and holy,
Mortal ne'er could lovelier be.
And she left us bright and slowly.
As the aun-sel leaves ihe sea !
Yes, we've lost her;
Ever loel her,
Our sweet Ella,
Our fair Ella.
Our voung Ella,
Eila Lee 1
Lay her whem the long gr... sweepeih
On the bark of many a tree;
Where the lonely willow weepelh,
Like a mourner by the sea.
She was lovely, ehe was gentle,
A. all gifted spirits be ;
Folded in the linen mantle,
Siumb'ring near the eighing sea I
We have left her,
Sadlv left her.
Our fair Ella.
Our young Ella,
Ella Lee !
was a faithful record, and was to be kept lo thai
jouruey 's end. Those strong clasps of gold on
ihosegoldcii books, also impressed her wilh the
belief ihal Ihey were lo be sealed for a fulure
opening. Her sympathies were warmly exeiled
for ihe traveler, and with a healing hearl she
quickened her sieps that she might overtake her,
and lell her whal she had seen, and enlreal
bdiiy.
2d. The maliriul body hat not of Hutf any
form which is proper/j iis own. This results
Irom llie fact lhat matter has not of itself, any
particular form. This proposition may seem to
you paradoxical, for mailer always offers itself
loour eyes under a form which seems properly
iis own ; bul observe, lhat I have said of ittel).
ll.iv
seemed lo find her agreeable, for Ihey made a
long call; and when ihey rose lo go others
came. So in the most unsatisfactory chit-chat,
all ibis morning went.
On the next day Mr. James invited company
to lea, and .Mrs. James was obliged to give up
die morning lo preparing for it. and did not en-ter
her study. On the day following she was
obliged lo keep her bed wilh sick head ache;
and on Saturday, Amy haling extra work to do,
the charge of die baby .levelled upon hor. Thus
pasted die first week.
True lo her promise, Mrs. James patiently per-severed
lor a month, in her effort! to secure to
herseif ibis fragment of her broken lime, wilh
whal success die week's Inslory can lell. W lib
its close, closed die moulh of December. Be-ing
particularly occupied on ihe last day of llie
old year, in getting ready for Ihe morrow's lesti-val.
il was near die lasi hour of die day when
she made her good night's call in ihe nursery.
She weni to the crib lo look at baby ; there he
lav fast asleep in his innocence and beauty. She
kissed In. rosy cheek gendy. and siroked softly
his golden hair, and pressing his little dimpled
I ,|s within hers, she drew the warm covering
more closely around him. carefully lucking it in,
ihen stealing one more kiss she lell him to his
slumbers, and set down on her daughter's bed.
sin- was also sweetly asleep, wilh her dolly hug-ged
close to her. Her mother sailed, bul soon
II eeomed «« irgrsrer and sadder ihnngh.. tilled
lo be watchful, and faithful, and patienl lo ihe I Lile never ceasing lo exist for a moment In ..
end in her life's work, for she bad herself seen creation, and this life impressing a form upon al.
dial iis rr«w//a would all be known when those bodies according lo ihe present slate ol their sub-golden
books should be unclasped. Thai she stances, mailer protest* nselI to us. clothed wilh
must mil think any duly which il fell in her way a form which seems properly us own ; eonse-
10 do, trivial, for surely Ihere was an angel over qurully, toJune an idea of whal mailer can he of
l.er right shoulder or one over her lell who would
record il all.
Eager lo warn her of ibis, she gendy touched
her. The traveler lurned, and she rrconized, or
seemed to recognize, hernlf. Startled and alarm-ed,
she awoke and founti herself in INN, The
grey liglu of morning struggled through the hall
open shinier, Ihe door was ajar, and merry faces
wcie peeping ill,
" Wish you a Happy New Year, mamma.
Wish you a happy New Year !"
She returned the merry greeting—heartily.
BOYS.
Mrs. Denisnn, the accomplished assistant edi-tor
of fee Olivo Braach, givee Ihe following ex-cellent
exposition of thai queer and inexplicable
creation—:, boy:—
A boy Is \he spirit of laischief embodied : a
perfect teetotum ; spinning rnutid likea jenny or
tumbling heels over head. H» must invariably
go through the ptocess ofleaping o,er every chair
in his reach, makes drum-heads of ihe doors,
turns the tin-pans lain cymbals, Iskts the best
knive. out lo dig worus for bail, and lose, ihem,
hums up the molasses task and leavee the mo-lasses
running, is boon companion lo the sugar
barrel, searchea up all the pie and preserves lefti
after supper and e»ts ihem, goes lo ihe apples
every len minutes, hides hie off. cap in order to
wear hie best one, euls his boots iceidenlally if
be wants a new pair, tears his cloJies for fun.
jumps into llie puddleefortun.andfnrUiiotraeks
your carpets and cuts your famiiure. He is
romping, shouting, blustering, and in all bii his
best estate a terrible torment, especi.||y io his
sisters, lie dw'l pretend lo much unil he '■»
twelre. then ihe r."ee for frock-coats and djgh
.. "lies commences. ~A' .'"urteen he is loo big i.
dl':, . nod or go after waler, am? »',he '»»• lhtte
'"" • offices ought lo be perfori""!,l\''on,n
A HYMN FOR ALL NATIONS.
THE SPIRITUAL BODY.
The ftnul or spirit ofman is a substantial being,
having the human form ; or. in oilier words, ihe
soul or spirit of mar. is . real being having a
sjiiriiu.il body, endowed wilh all llie organs which
constitute Ihe material body wilh which it is
clothed. Thus :he spirit alone receives life, and
if the material bod* seems to live, il is because
... -,»■"> spirit lives in sll Ihe part, which eonsliiule
which she seemed 10 be hastening wilh her hide , this body—Ihe s.nril is die man : Ihe material
flock. Bul what was mosl remarkable was. lhat. I body is but a garment with which ihe Creator
all unknown lo her, Iwo golden clouds floated | has covered il, according to Ihe laws of order,
above her. oil which reposed two angels. Be- that it may perform its lunclionsin llie nuiural
fore each was a golden book and a pen of gold. ! world.
One angel, wilh mild and loving eyes, peered! Thus llie human foim belongs lo ihe spirit
constantly over the right shoulder, and ihe other , and the body has ibis form only because is re-
' over llie lell; ihey followed her from Ihe rising | ceives it from the spirit.
to ihe selling of ihe sun. They watched every These truilia. my dear .ir. will exctle your a,-
word and look, and deed, no mailer bow trivial, lonishmenl; but it will be easy for me forthwith
When it was good, .he angel over ihe right shoul- 10 make you under id, lhat ihe inalenal body
dcr, will, a glad smile, wroie il down in his gol- ! of man can only have derived il. sensibility and
den book; when evil however trivial, the angel f«"» 0<»» UuotpWWal body whose existence
over ihe left shoulder wrole it down in bis boot. I "•» just been established ; and I think il will be
Then he kepi his .orroivful eves on her. until ! euflicienl for Ihis. to prove to you ; lsi. that of
he found penitence for the evil I upon which he I il.elf ihe material body is losensible ; St), dial of
dropped a Ml upon his record and bloiled it: "sell il has no form propeily il. own.
out, and boih angels rejoiced. To ihe lookers- ; |„_ The material body it 0/ iltrlj inttniiblt.
on il seemed as if die taveler did litlle which Chemisis divide matter iiuo inorganic and organ-was
worthy such careful record. | je, |t ,, evident ai once thai inorganic mailer is
Somelimes she did but balhe ihe weary fees of insensible; wilh reaped lo organic matter, M.
her children, and ibeangle over the right thoul- Dumas has lately shown in his lectures on chein-afer
wrote it down. Sometimes she did but watt isiry. thai of elementary bodies there are nol
patiently to lure back some liule truant who had , moie than len or twelve al mosl from which gen-laken
a slep in the wrong direction, and llie sn- \ rr,,| physiology borrows malerirls ; ami thai ol
gel over the righl shoulder wrote il down. . j these leu or twelve bodies there are only four.
Sometimes, wilh her eyes fixed upon thegold- [ viz : oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and azoic, which
en horizon, she became so intent upon her own I eonsliiule nearly the whole ol Ihe composition ol
progress as lo lei the liule pilgrims al her si.le I living beings. The material body ol man is, then
languish or slray ; ihen u was ihe angel over ihe of itself, insensible, since il is only composed of
left shoulder who lifted the golden pen and made oxygen, hydrogen, carbon. and azoie—elemen-ihe
entry, followed her wilh sorrowing eyes. I laiy bodies evidently insensible. II ihen, il ap-seeking
to Wot ilOUt. If wishing la hnateo on ' pears sensible, It is because each of die innumer-l-
rjouruev. she leli die liule ones behind, il was . able parts which compose il is the envelop of ihe
the sorrowing angel recorded her progress.— I same corresponding part of the spiritual body,
Now ihe observer fell, as she looked on, dial this ! Ihe only body which can be gifted with inseiisi-mlereslmg
., , » wh«l.er concealed fc 'h*
ve« lo be iu. , , , ,
garret with ...in.* °''1. ""•'"-«"" novel for a
fompanion. enrconct,-1 l0. ,he ""»*&*> ">""«
to learn legerdemain lri.:'"'«r.,,ou"d ofl",n 'on:e
expedition lhat lurn. out u" ^f1" mo,X c'"'
more deplorable than ezplorahl.,*—,ocoln * ""'*■
Al fifteen he has a tolerable expt,"eoce «" "e
world—bul from fifteen lotweenly—u*V_"? J^
clear from :be track when he i. in •■.. ' ,
know, more lhan Waehinglon and BoojaJ^"1
Franklin together, in oilier word., he know* ,
more then, lhan he will ever know again.
Just hail one of these young specimens "boy,"
si sixteen, and how wraihy be gels ! If he doe;
not answer you precisely as the little urchin did.
who angrily exclaimed. '• dim'i call me boy, I've
smoked these Iwo years," he will give you a
withering look lhat is meanl lo annihilate you,
turn on his heel, and wilh a curl of the lip mut-ter
disdainfully, "who do you call boy!' and
O! die emphasis.
Bul jesting aside—an honest, bliinl, merry,
mischievious boy. if something lo be proud of,
whether as brother or son ; for ir all his scrape,
his good heart gels the belter of him, and leads
In in soon to repentance; and he sure he will re-member
his fault—at least five minutes.
Glorioua God 1 on theo we call.
Father, Friend, and Judge of ell j
Holy Saviour, heavenly King,
Homage lo Thy Ihrone we bring I
In the wonders sll around.
Ever is thy Spirit lound,
And of each good thing we see.
All the good is born ol Thee I
Thine Ihe beauleoue skill that lurka
Everywhere in Nature'e works—
Thine is Art, with all it. worth,
Thine each masterpiece on earth I
Yea,—and foremost in the van.
Springs from Thee the mind of Man |
t'■' its light, lor this is Thine,
Shed abroad the love divine !
Lo, our <ion! Thy children here
From all ri--.|ms are gathered near,
Wisely galhertl. gathering still,
For "peace on ear.b, tow'rds men good willl
May we. wilh fraternal mind,
Blees our Brothers of mankind !
May we, through redeeming love.
Be -he blesl of GOD above I
RIDICULE.
THE SILENT LOVERS.
"Be not annulled at jest. Hone throws call
at thee, Ihou Irasi receive no harm unlees thou
h. si sore places." The Hev. Sidney Smilh, in
one C"f the ablest of Ms. essays, says :
"I inowofno principle which il is ol more
imporlane.' to fix in the minds of young people,
lhan thai oft'.'* most da.ermined resistance to the
encroachments of ridicule, tilvenolnpto ihe
w orld, nor to the rc'licule wilh which ihe world
enij>r.*c* '" dominion tf»« every Infling question
of 'mn.tni".' and appearance. I-earn from the ear-liest
dai's I? inauw your p./ociplee against the
perils of riJicutV. If you ihin.N it right lo differ
from the lime*, nn'l to make a ah.nd hr.ny«.l-uable
point of mo.-als, do it, howev..-rustic, how-ever
antiquated, however peudanlic t. may »,.
pear; do it, not for insolence, but senou.'.'y anir
grandly, asa man who wears a soul of his iT»n in.
his bosom, and docs nol wail till it shall be brealh-ed
into him by ihe brealh of fashion. Let men
call you mean, if you know you arc jusl; hypo-eriiieal.
il you are honestly religious; pusillani-mous,
if von feel you are firm. Resistance soon
converts'unprincipled wit into sincere re.pecir
and no afier lime can tear from you those leel-ings
which everv man carries wilhin him who
made a noble and .uccessful exertion in a virlu-on.
cau.e."
LADIES' WAISTS.
i .'. ' . ■ i . • , sf 11 i • ■ tin nn.™ *<■ <■» ••!#■ • »•■....- . -....».-»- -j
Uttffi WMRUI recollect wlul mii'ieniiiliciaiis
have done when ihey have lrc;iled uf ihe motion
or bodies: they have ianJ it down. Ml principle.
that a body which has received ai> impulse must j
always proceed in anra.gl.1 line, and never slop.
This proposition is. like our*, in maiiilesl oppu- [
sition to lacw; and yet nobody tins ever dispu- '
ted it, because ni.uhemsiiciiins would hvive re- .
plied:—Abstract for a moment the resia.ance of |
the air, and of ihe friction which results from it,
and you will see dial our proposition in noiio be .
disputed. Well I will say to you, in like man-one
reiurncu UN «■■*... f,w.»t—..b....v. |lf,r; Abstract life (or a moment, andJfOtt Will j
She Memtd to havo entered on a new existence, lclmo-.vledge ihal mailer cannot of iiself have ■*
■hfl bid found her W»jr ihrotik*fa lh* mazes where „v nartjc,,iar form. The four elcineniary bo-
. s, -„. I..I I I...I,, —i.e. N..SSN asLmarsI -* * ^ . . * •,<■•. 1 I
The following touching incident we copy froiil
ihe Liverpool Mercury. Il is saddening and
truthful. Uow many such might be told !
Anemineni clergyman one evening became :he Mrs. Swisshelm, in a savage article againet
subject ol* conversation, and a wond.T was ex- ' ||,r magazine fashion plates, says.
(Tesseu lhat he had never married. '• Thai won- « We know women no* who are dying; dy-der,"
8iid Mi*s l*orier, •• was once expressed lo I jnfi by their own hands, and piously sayin« their
the rev. gentleman himself in my hearing, and , prayers every day, and for their death the M iga-he
'.old a story in answer, which I will lell you ; | zme publishers arc accouniable n. ihe bar of the
and. perhaps, slight as it may seem, it is the his* Eternal. They are mnrdciiug there as truly as
lory of other hearts as sensitive and delicate as j M0r l)avid slew Uriah by the sword ol the Am-his
own. Soon alter his ordination, he preached j alekiles. ' No human agency can teach those vie-onro
every Sabbath for a clergyman iu a small tima of fashion plate mongers, lhat Ihe long whale-
Villogfl not iweiiiy miles from London. Among hones sticking down in their sides, the light
his auditors. Irom Sunday lo Sunday, he obser- ; afrlof lied around ihe small of the back, and
veil a young !adv, who occupied a certain seal,
and WOOM clos > attiniion began insensibly to
prow to 1111ii an object of .bought and pleasure.
She lell llie church as MOO as service was over,
and il so chanced thai he went on lor a year with-bul
k'lowiug her name, bul hi« sermon was nev-er
written without many a thought how she
would approve it. nor preached with satisfaction
unless he read approbation iu her lace. Gradu-ally
he came lo think of her al other lime than
w,.fn writing ser-nons and tit wish to sec heron
oilier days than Sundays; but the weeks stepped
on, and though he fancied lhat she grew paler
and thinner, he never brought himself 10 the res-olution
eilhrr to ask her name or :o seek to speak
wilh IUT. Uy ihese silent step?, however, love
had worked into hit heart, and he hail made up
his mind lo neck her acquaintance and marry her,
if possible, when one day he was sent for to min-ister
al a funeral. The face of the corps was the
same lhat looked up lo him Sunday after Sunday,
nil he had learned 10 nuke il a part of his relig-ion
and his life. He was unable to perform the
service, and another clergyman present officiat-ed;
and, nftershewas buried, her lather look
hun a«ide, and begged his bofdon lor giving him
p-iin, but could not resist ihe impulse to tell him
that his daughter had mentioned his name wilh
her lasl brealh, and he was afraid lhat a conceal-ed
anrciii.:i lor him hurried her to the grave.
•• Sinre that," said the clergyman in quesiiou,
" inv heart has bren dead within me. and 1 look
forward only. 1 shall speak to her in heaven.*'
weight of skirls dragging on ihem, are crushing
their lives out, and dragging them lo their graves.
They will not believe they ore entailing misery
and disease and death upon their children. Rut
yet many of idem do not know it, and with all
iiV-ir vaunted love for their offspring would mill-er
see their little ones sulTer leu thousand deaihs
lhan lhat ihey themselves should fail lo look 'like
I'romethius iu my picture here'—a long sided
funnel set on "jug.'*
A TOWER OF SKULLS.
Bring your Heart into your Family
Cirole.
We sometimes meet wnh men who seem lo
think ihitt any indulgence in an affectionate fee-ling
i* a weakness. They will return from a
journey, and greet their families with a distant
dignity, and move among their children with the
cold and loft? splendor ofan iceberge. surroun-ded
by ill broken fragment*.. There is hardly a
more unnatural «:;;hi mi earth, lhan one of (hose
families without a heart. A lather had belter
extinguish a bov'l eyoi than lakeaway his hearl.
Who thai has experienced ihojoya of fricudthip,
and values sympathy and afl'rciinn, would not
rather lose all thai is beautilul iu nature's scene-ry,
lhan be robbed of the hidden treason of his
heart! Cherish, then, your heart's best aflec-i
lions. Indulge iu the warm and gushing emotions
of filial, parental, and fraternal love. Think it
not a weakness. God is love. Love Ciod, eve-rybody,
and everything lhat is lovely. Teach
your children to love ; lo love the rose, the rob*
bin ; to love their parents; to love their God.—
Lei it be ihe studied object of their domeslic cul-ture
lo give them warm hearts, ardent affections.
Bind your whole family together by thc«c strong
cords. You cannot make lliem ton strong, Ile-lt
bid been cnlangkd,and light was now about
her path. The angel veer her right shoulder,
whom she had seen in her dream, had assured
her that her life-work wus bound up in ihal gold-en
book, ami iis final results would be known—
bad assured her what was duty—now she saw
>' plainly enough, what she had nol seen before, thai
while il was right and important for her to culti-vate,
as far as she could, her own mind and hearl,
it was equally right ami equally important for
her to perlorm laithfu'ly all those hide house-hoiild
duties and cares, on which ihe comfort or
virtue of bet family depended.
They had acquired a new dignity from the re-cords
of that golden pen—and they could not be
neglected wiihoul danger.
Sad thoughts and misgivings, and ungratified
longing*, eeenud all to have laken their flight
wilh ihe Old Year, and il VM with a new reso-lution,
and a cheerful hope and a happy heart,
tb»t ihe welcomed the New Year.
I.amanine in his » Pilgrimage lo ilia Holy
Laml." writes as lollows :
■• When I was alioul a leagOO from Niata. llie ' |, .j,,,, ,, |olc ; |nvc i„ Qod, love lo man
l.isi Turkish inwu almost un Ihe IroniiiT of Ser-via.
I SJW a large lower rising up l:l the lliiilsl ..I
ihi plain* as while as Parian marble. I look the
path uhi.-li led lo il. I dr-aiml a Turkish lad
who arrtunpiiineil me lo hold my liorse. and ' 1,
GOOD SBHBBI nevor the product of a sin-lc
mind, i-. the fruit of intareonno and col-ny
particular lorm. "llie lour elementary
dies, of which our material hody is compos.'
would nol have been combined Ingolhori so as to
present s human lorm, if ihey did uoiroicr a
spiritual body which has itoofl Ihis lorm.— Dcs
Guay'i Lettera lo a Man of the World.
sion. The owes, ami toils, ami necessities,
sat down under the shade of the tower 10 enjoy ,),,. refroshiii.M - Mid ileli^lilH ef common
a few moments' repose. No sooner was I sealed y^ are tnc ,,,.,..,, toaoh«N of common ncnsc ;
I lhan raisin,, my c. N «• Hie I "">. HI, 1 disco,- ^ t|,cr7, |M. any effective school ofbobcr
! ered thai the trails, which I supposed 10 be buili, fc tm,si.^^i,,,!,.,!. Whoever,
„f marble or ol regular rows o! while sione were , elevation of rank, or peculiarity of
eONpONd of regular row, of humanjku.1. ; j H'lNM 3r.«0 v(j I k.Jof
*»DIMNTEBKSTKD RENEVOLKHCE.—A trav-eller
in Asia Minor, at a period of distress-ing
drought, found a HaM of water under a
little ahod by the road-aide, for the refresh-ment
of the weary traveller. A man in the
neighbourhood was in the habit of bringing
the water from a considerable distance, MM
filling the vase every morning, and then go-ing
to his work, lie could have had no mo-tive
to do this but a kind regard for the wenry
tavellers ; for he was never there to ncci\«
their thanks, much less their money. This
was an example of dis,intore«tH benovolence
selfonlv with a fair average of propriety.
ihnchad by rain and sun, and een.eulcd by a l naoiw, ...e.- .... ■.. ■■ ■■■ - -■■-- -
liule Hod and lime, formed cn.ir.lv the irium- . tuition, rarely makes much prolicieiicy m
phal arch whieh now sheltered me from the . that excellent Quality Of the intellect. A.
i.urnuig sun; ihere night be from fiticcn lo man who has little or nothing to do with oth-iwentv
thousand. In some places portions nl (.r „„.„. „n terms of open and five equality,
hair were still hanging, and waicd like, lichee or nve^ the native sense of live to behave him-moss.
wuh every breach of wind. The moun-tain
breeze then Mowing freeh. penetrating ihe
innumerable cavities of the skulls, and rounded |
like a niournliil and plaintive aigh. These were
skulls ol lifieeu thousand Servians who bad been
nut todealh by the Pacha in llie lasl iiisuriclion
ol Seriia. Servia. however, is now free and
ihis monument will leach iheir children the value
of independents by showing ihem the priee al
r. purehesed It.
Cherub is a Hebrew word signifying knowl-edge.
Seraph is likewise from ibe Uebrew. and
means a flame.
Bells were invented by Pauhnus, bishop of
Note, • etW of C.mpanis. shoot the fear 400>
.». n.
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