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F. LEPTIEN,
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I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALT,
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Des Arc, Ark., March 2^, JRt>7—12m
THE STORY OF LIFE.
by John u. sax*,
Say, what of life? *Tis to be born
A helpless liubo ; to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon aud night;
To weep, to sleep and weep again,
With sunny smiles between ; and then ?
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, pulling boy,
Happy, despite his little woes,
Were he but conscious of his joy ;
To be in short from two to ten.
A merry, moody Child; aud then?
And the^in coat and trowsere olad,
To learn to say the decalogue
And break it; and unthinking lad
With mirth aud mischeif all agog;
A truant oft by field and fen
To capture butterflies; aud then ?
And then at last, to be a man ;
To fall in lore; to woo and wed;
With seething brain to scheme and plan ;
Fo gather gold or toil for bread ;
To sue for fame with touguc or pen.
And gain or lose the prize; and then? j
And then in gray and wrinkled Eld
To mourn the speed of life's decline; j
To praise the scenes in youth beheld,
And dwell in mem'ry of Lang Syne; j
To dream awhile with darkened ken,
Then drop into his grave, and then?
from I turton t .uajaunr.\
MR. MOUNTERVILLE.
BT MAY CAKLBTON.
His name was Mounterville—John
Frederick Mounterville. That sounds
romantic, doesn’t it? like the hero of a
high-pressure novel, you know, but for
all that lie wasn’t a bit romantic. Fain
oy thirty-five years, life foot six, two
hundred pounds' weight, a florid com
plexion, aud sandy whiskers, and point'
out out the romance, if you dare. That j
was Mr. J. F. Mounterville; and ho j
kept the large grocery store up the vil- j
lage, and sold kerosene, and hog's
lard, and pork, and butter, and molas
ses ; and if there's anything romantic
or sentimental In all that, I shall be
happy to have you tell me of it. How
he ever came to be Mounterville, the
gods above only know. If ever Smith
—Peter, or Samuel—was written in a
‘‘human face divine, ’ it was ill Mr.
Mountervillc's. lint for nil that it was,
liis name, real and bona fide, and had 1
been ins father a and gmniFraUiei o lie- .
fore him, and was likely to be his s u -
it'he ever got that far, for Mr. John ;
Frederick Mouuterville, grocer, was a
bachelor. And that is how I come to
be writing about him to-day ; for of all
the odd things that ever happened. 1
thought then, and I think now, the 1
oddest whs. (Imt that man should go
aud fall in love with me.
You see ma—tun's a widow, and I'm
her only one, and We keep the village
school; ma used io send mo to the j
grocery store for the butter, and sugar,
aud ten, aud coffee of every-day life,
and Mr. Mounterville used to wait on
mo a good deal, and make pleasing lit
tle remarks about the weather, aud the
priccs-cuncut, and our school, and
things generally. I didn't notice it
myself, at first, that there Was any dis
play of the tender passion in all this,
for ono would as soon have thought of
a kangaroo in love as Mr. Mouuter
ville; but •Phil Marks, one of the
clerks, got into a way of grinning
knowingly whenever 1 appeared, and
dodging oil' to wait on some other cus
tomer, and leaving me to “the bo--."
And then, by-and-by, in a sheepish
and shamefaced sort of way, Mr. Mouu
terville took to making me presents.
Not bouquets of hot-house exotics, or
a',..J .. •• ... ■
liuted sheets of music, but nice little
cakes of cheese, and pounds of roll-!
butter, and drums of tigs, and bottles
of pickles, and such like, until gradual
ly my eyes began to open to lho truth,
aud I realized the staggering fact that
my black eyes and raven tresses had
wrought havoc inside Mr. Mounter
ville's capacious vest.
When the thrilling conviction first
dawned upon me 1 stood stunned,
speechless, for about ten minutes and a
half. Then I sat down in the nearest
chair, and laid my head hack, and
laughed, aud laughed, and laughed, and
laughed, until ma came running up,
and stood before me, with tears in her
eyes, and the camphor-bottle in her
hand, thinking it was hysterics.
‘•Go away, ma,” I said, ns soon as I
could speak, "it isn't that—1 mean hys
terics ; it’s Mr. Mounterville.”
••Mr. Mounterville! Whatever has
Mr. Mounterville done?”
“Nothiug much, only—oh ! good gra
cious!” another paroxysm, "only, ma,
can’t you see through the little cheeses,
and rolls of butter, and figs, aud sau
sages yet ?”
“Sec through them, Lucinda! What
do you mean I”
“Meau? 'Why, ma. look here ; a bat
might see It—Mr. Mountcrvllle’s in
love!”
“What! Lucinda, niv child," with a
look of horror; “you never mean to
say the unhappy man basfalleu in love
with MB?”
“Xo, ma, not w ith you—only with
me.”
“Lucinda!”
“It’s true, nia; it ha* rushed upon
me all at once like an Alpiuc avalanche 1
Cheeses aud sausages are Mr. Moun
tervillo’s way ol breathing his soul’s
deepest feelings. I know what Phil
Marks’ grins mean now ; and I’ve only
to say the word, and I’m certain to
change the piebian name of Thompson
for the high-sounding cognomen of
Mouutcrville—Mrs. John Frederick
Monntcrville; it's lovely, isn't it?”
‘•My dear,” said ma, thoughtfully,
“you might do worse.”
“Yes, die an old maid—the most
horrible of all earthly dooms. And I
was twenty-seven last birth-day; and
when a lovely female comes to bt
twenty-seven, it’s time she ceased to be
particular. Well, ma, I’ll think about it.
And I did. I went slowly and
thoughtfully up stairs to my own room
and sat down by the window to turn
it over. Mr. Mouutcrville was rich;
selling lart^and molasses may not be j
romantic, but it's remunerative—and
Mr. Monntcrville had made money j
out of it. He lived in a handsome
white wooden mansion up the village, j
he kept a horse and buggy in summer,
aud a horse and sleigh in winter, and ;
a cook, and a housemaid, and a boy,;
and two clerks. Could any right
thinking schoolmistress of seven-ami- ,
twenty-odd long for more? Surely!
my lucky star had ridden high in the!
heayens the day Mr. Mouutcrville first
cast upon me the eye of desire. Yet.j
oh! my prophetic soul! was this what;
the dreams of my youth had come to!;
I who had once reveled in the gorgeous
delusion of wedding a Count Lara, a
Corsair, a Giaour, a Veiled Prophet l ■
Iiad not my ideal, all my days, been of
uiiappivitwiuuiv iitaiuii,) 11 iui
swarthy skin, and ferocious whiskers,
and a cim'etar by his side? A gentle
nan who would
“Leave h Corsair’s name to other times,
Linked with otto virtue and a thousand
crimes.”
And here I had fallen to tills- i Come
to think over a two hundred pound
grocer, with sandy side-whiskers, and
eyes like pin-holes, as a very desirable
match indeed.
Nino o'clock struck, school came in,
and X twitched my collar and apron
straight, glanced at my black eyes that
had done sueli execution, ami descend
ed to teach the young idea how to
shoot, l’-ut l was in a slate of pensive
abstraction all day, ami set sums, and
wrote copies, and slapped iittle boy
and girts, in a name of pleasing mel
ancholy, with my thoughts on the
white wooden mansion up the village,
and the cook, ami the sleigh, and the
chambermaid, and Die buggy, and I
piles and piles of new dnae ,. L’efon. j
1 dismissed me icrty cherubs on my
roll-call, (loml of crying as the otic. i.
cherubim,) I had made up my mind,
with a gentle sigh, to bury in oblivion
the image of my I’uypim hero, with the
flashing eyes and th® shining cimctur. ;
and accept Mr. Mouutcrvillc as soon as
he should screw hi* courage to the1
sticking point and propose.
1 think nut must have been revolving ,
the matter in her mind, too, and ar-.
rived a similar conclusion, for just*)
before dusk she says to n;e,
••Lucinda, love, the tnolas-.es i- out.1
and there's no gingerbread. Suppose
you take the pail, dear, and step over
to Mr. Mouutci ville's ?”
1 was nothing loth. 3 put on my heat
bonnet, threw n>v shawl picturesquely
over my shoulders, took the tin paii1
and departed.
It was a lovely evening. The month
was February, and the snow lay piled
high and white. There was no wind, I
and a crystal moon was rising like a
shield of silver over the black pine-'
woods, and the sparkling stars cleft
frosty and keen. The white road glit
tered as if sown with diamonds; and
tlto village lights gleamed and twink
led athwart the hazy blue atmosphere, j
All nature was conducive to tender;
musing Ml went along lor moia*.-. ».
ami juy heart was melted within me.
like a roll of Mr. MounlervUle's butter.
Mi-. Mountcrville’s shop‘was one
blaze of illumination, from three kero
sene lamps, suspended in .raid-air, like
the sword of—What’s-his-iiaine. The
two counters were crowded with cus
tomers, and Phil Marks and Sam Wil
son, the other clerk, were busier than
uailors, and there was au overpower
ing pertume of eoffoc, and kerosene,
and codfish, and apples, that reminded
me of ‘'Ceylon's spicy breczca,” and
“summer isles of Eden in purp|e
spheres of sea.' And there was Mr.
MounteivlUe, waiting with superhu
man energy on three old women at
once, and tying up quarter pounds of
ten, and ounces of starch and pepper.
With a rapidity that was the very poc-1
try of motion, and made me wink,
again. Mr. Mouulcrville, who bounced
awny from the three old women, and ,
was confronting me over the counter \
in a flash, with a heavenly smile ilia-1
mining Ids face.
“Good-evening, Miss Lucinda, good- j
evening. What can 1 do for you thi
cvenitig ?”
Now, if any of my pupils, in making
a remark to me, had put three “even
ings” so close together, 1 should most
certaluly have rapped them over the
head for it. Put Mr. Mountorville was,
different. 1 could boar tautology from
him, and smile ovejr It. A man w ho
keeps three servants and two clerks
need not .stand on trifles of rheforte.
“Half a gallon of molasses, if you
please. Yce, it is a lovely evening, Mr.
Mountei vilie. 1 declare, [ was almost
sorry the walk over was so short.
Why don't you take advantage of this
lovely weather and call and gee us 'i
Ms was just remarking to me, she
hadn’t seen you she didn’t know when.”,
Mr. Monnterviflc s florid complexion
turned absolutely erimsou with delight.
“Did she. Mi's Lucinda? Now that
was real kind of your ina. You see
we've been pretty busy, right straight
along, in the shop here, and I ain't
much of n visiting man anyway.”
“Ob! of course, business before
pleasure; but you must try-and make
an exception in our favor. How do
you sell these pickled mackerel ? Ma’s
so fond of mackerel.”
“Miss Lucinda,” Mr. Monntervllle
cried, trembling with eagerness like a
calves’-foot jelly, “might I send her
over a dozen, just to try ’em ? Sam ’ll
take ’em, and the molasses, too; and if
you'll wait a minute until I wash my
hands and take oil' my apron, I'll see
you homo.”
A dirty apron, worn habitually
round a lover's waist, can hardly be
less than a poisoned dart to the breast
of any young woman of refinement.
Hut I smothered my feelings and
smiled. Yes, I saw Mr. Mounterville
take oil'bis apron and wipe two very
dirty hands on it, and I smiled !
Sam winked at l*hd a* be seized the
mackerel and the molasses. It was
w i tli the eye next Phil; hut I saw it,
and I folded my shawl around me like
a Human toga, and drew myself up,
nid turned my back upon that young
man, with a solemnity and austerity of
aspect, I'm inclined to think, he w on’t
forget in a hurry.
There were dozens of customers in
the shop, hut. with a w ild and reckless
disregard of popularity «nd fractional
currency, Mr. Mounterville shuffled
them over to l’hil, and stalked majes
tically out into the night, with me by
his side. He didn t offer me his arm.
(to take a gentleman’s arm, in our vil
lage, is equivalent to a binding en
gagement,) but we trod along, side by
side, slowly and sentimentally, with
that '-am ahead, stopping every now
and then to shift the molasses and
mackerel from one hand to the other,
and take a backward glance at us.
The night was lovely—I think I made
the remark before. A profound still
ness reigned, and everything in the
firmament above, and the earth be
neath, was conducive to a tender dec
laration. My heart throbbed, as the
heart of a spotless maiden should
throb, the first time the question is
popped; and Mr. Mounterville, with
his hat rather on one side, ns he likes
to wear it, and a pungent odor of cod
ii-h and onions about him, looked up
■ ‘ X ».i . n ... vn.: eye sliUv, ...is: '
■ i.\ e expression of counteuauee.
••"Nice, isn’t it?” remarked Mr.
Mounterville—wo had walked about
■ free dozen yards without exchanging
n syllable. always had a hankering
after moonlight, and then i;'„ a saving j
of kere»euc, too, if • man ouls keeps
hi - -hep-dour open, iiow s the school
yetting on, Miss Lucinda?"
“Tretty well; much the same as
usual.”
"Don't you ever get tired of that |
there? It's sort of wearing to the
feelings. I should think."
"Do you mean le.ui.itjg?"
“Via; its wearing, ain't it?”
I sighed heavily: you could have
heard me a great way off.
"Hu: what can wo do Mr. Mounter
ville? IVe must live, ma am! me, ami
to live we must labor. It is of no use
complaining ; it i- otrr lot. and must he
endured." (Sigh the second.)
"Well, but, Miss Lucinda, look here, ' i
said Mounterville, firmly, "hain't you
ever thought of being married.”
Hood gracious, here it was! I had :
iluuigbt Mr. Mounterville would have,
been embarrassed, and stammer, anti
tremble; but J can't say lie did. He
look it coolly, as though the matter in
baud had been several new tub.- ol
uuuer.
•■Married 1 ()li! dear me, Mr. Moun
tervillel such a fuuny question you
know !” with an hysterical little giggle.
-is it? Now 1 should think it was
time. When a girl comes to be your
re she ought to marry* if ever she
means to.”
Tho odious brute! 1 could have
pounded him, but X didn't. 1 only
giggled more hysterically than before,,
and said nothing,—To be concluded j
next week.
A I.lissit i. Test.—Quaker young la
dies in the Maine Law Slates, it is said,
still continue to kiss the lips of the |
young temperance men to see if they j
have been tampering with liquor. j
.lust imagine a beautiful young girl!
approaching the young temperance i
man, with all the dignity of an exeru- ;
live uiiiv. r, and the innocence of a dove,
with the charge : “Mr.-. the ladies
believe you are iu the habit of tamper- ;
in : with liquor, and have appointed i
tic to examine you according to our i
established rule*—are you willing?” i
You nod acquiescence. She gently,
steps close up to you, lays her soft ;
white arm around your neck, dashes
back her raven curls, raises her sylph
like lor in upon her lip-toes, her bosom 1
tgaiust your own, aud with tier angel- i
ic features lit up with a smile as sweet
as heaven, places her rich, rosy, pouty,
sweet, sugar, molasses, honey, butter, j
eggs, strawberry, sunflower, lily, rose-:
bud, honey-stickle, tart, cream, baby- j
jumper, apple pie, peach pudding,
upplo-dumpling, gluger-bread nectar
lips against yours, and—(Oh. Jerusa
lem !) kisses you ! Hurrah for tho girls
aud tho Main Law, aud death to ail
opposition I
Saif Truth is one of the rarest gems.
Many a youth has been lost to society
by allowing it to tarnish, aud foolishly
throwing it away.
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Messed is he that walketh in the
office of a newspaper, yea, even cn
tereth the sanctum and payeth a year’s
subscription therefor. Seiah.
He shall learn wisdom day by day,
and be exalted above his fellows.
He shall talk knowingly upon all
subjects, and bis neighbors shall be
astonished at the muchness of his
learning.
He shall not contract bad debts nor
loose good bargains.
He shall not pay an additional per
cent, on taxes, for his eyes shall behold
the notice to the collector, and he will
take warning thereby.
Verily, be shall bring his products to
market when the prices are exceeding
ly good, and wlthold them when the
price descendeth.
He shall not lay hold of red-hot po
kers, for knowledge of metallurgy will
teach him that hot iron burns!
His children shall not vex him nor
his wife wear the breeches.
He shall live to a good old age, and
when his dying hour is at hand, his
soul shall not be troubled as to his
future state.
lint' it t.nttni. Crt- Kim t 1. .. t .UtK
refuse to subscribe for a newspaper,
that lie be bound hand and foot, and
east upon a feather bed. He shall not
rest, either by night or by day, for vis
ions of creditors shall dance upon his
stomach by night, and their actual pre
sence torment him by day.
If perchance he hath a moment's
peace, it is oulv that he may have a lit
tle rest ere the memory of an evil life
lascerates his mind as the goad pricks
the hide of the strong ox. so that the
punishment may he longer drawn out.
Uischildreu shall grow up in wicked
ness ; they shall put their hands to their
noses to vex him to wrath, and his wife
shall ki'-lc him out of bed.
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Sloop.
Sleep is much a habit, especially to
sleep much ; so also to sleep but little ;
and the practice in childhood has
much to Jo with the amount of our
sleeping—the habit is formed and be
.... , ■ ■ • I. Wl. . ■
»ion of the menial faculties is not the
whole secret of the benefits of sleep.
Best is the main thing; rest to the
body ; for the mind, if not part of the
body, is so intimately connected with
it, and dependent upon it, that if one
suffers the other is affected also, par
ticularly i.- this so with the body in
respect to the mind.
Wo sleep too much—though sleep is
enjoined by our wise men—their view
is no doubt much influenced by their
own indolence, loving to dose away an
hour or two in the morning, which is
otto of the easiest luxuries in the world
to fall into. Best the body and the
mind will sympathise. The only dan
ger is in overtasking the mind. But if
the work is regular; with proper remis
sion, and there is no entanglement, uo
confusion, especially no distress in con
fusion, no harm cau result. It is sur
prising how much work can be done by
it well bullauoed, vigorous man.—Title
In iug so, how much will be gained
w here an hour is taken from sleep atul
unruled to use. In a lifetime this
amounts to something. And this can
be done. The habit can gradually be
formed to sleep less. But mitnl you,
it must bo done gradually and per sc
I I . ... ..
be accomplished. A hard day's labor
necessitates sleep, much more than a
day of inactivity. Where a night of
labor, luird labor, is added, the tiling
becomes almost suicidal, insanity is
greatly provoked in this way—and
would surely be brought on, if perse
vered in.
Lot us thou remember that rest to
the person, body and mind, is equiva
lent. in a good measure, to sleep ; and
that wo cun acquire the habit of less
Steep ; six or seven hours instead of
eight or nine. Lying abed tires the
limbs ; long sleeping fatigues the body ;
clouds the mind, and makes a dull man.
The early riser is generally the spright
ly man, because ho sleeps less.
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A Goon Wikis.—A friend of ours
who has been pending a few weeks in
the •qountry.’and who has visited some
■ >f the private dwellings of the rustic
inhabitants, tells of a singular old mail
who lives near llrooktield. lie is some
what noted for his odd expressions.
ILe was one day visited by a small par
ty of ladies and gentlemen who went
to hoar him ‘talk.1 "Nuw, young gen
tlemen," said he, I will give you some
directions how to tell a good wife. A
good wife will be like throe things, and
she will not be like them. She will be
like the suail who stays at borne, and
she M ill not be like the snail who car
ries all it has on Us back. She will be
like the echo, speaok when spoken
to, and she will never be like the echo
always to have (he last word. She
will be like the town clock that speaks
at the right time, and she will not be
like the town olork, heard all over
town."
JsaafAu exchange has the following:
“We yesterday heard a couple of col
ored gents discussing the question of
impeachment, when one of them ex
claimed : “What's de use ‘peachin old
Andy—he’d veto it?”
How Tonng Men are Ruined.
Mr. ( Jrocley pictures tlie process, by 1
which a young man goes down step by
step, from the possibilities of his early 1
life to failure and destruction, in the
. following plain and pungent way.
As an apprentice or minor his means ;
were scanty, and he spent them on his i
; own needs and appetites, at least as
I fast as lie received them. At length
j fie became a journeyman, when his in
' come was suddenly swelled to double i
j or treble its former sum. lie had al
i ready developed expensive appetites,!
he has now the means of securing 1
their gratification, Each mouth, or i
week, puts him in possession of an j
amount at least double hit absolute !
needs ; and tiie surplus ; “burns in his i
poeket” till it is expended. He is sin- |
jgle; be is in the hayday of youthful '
I energy and youthful passion ; lie seems
I to have boundless capacities to earn as
I well as to enjoy ; he fancies that money
j will always come as easily and be as
] unlimited as now ; and is surrounded
I by journeyman older in sin than him
j self. Tims he is insensibly and grad
i uaily drawn into a life of dissipation
! and debauchery, lfalls, clubs, saloons,
| grog-shops, gaming-houses, and even
■ more shameful haunts, allure him to
waste his time and squander his ear
nings until diseased in body, and de
praved in soul, lie is fully enlisted in
the devil's service, and often sinks
through vice into crime. Even if he
escapes this final plunge, keeping tol
matly marries, ho lias disqualified him
self for domestic life, and (lie com
panionship of a pure, true woman; he
has acquired vicious tastes and habits,
which will cling to him through life;
he has entered upon a path which leads,
naturally, to a drunkard’s a pauper’s a
suicide's grave.
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\(> Music In tbe bust.
The Asiatic has no ear and no soul for
music. Like other savages and children,
he loves a noise, and he plays on shrill
pipes—on the turbuka, on the tar or tarn
bourine, and a sharp, one-stringed fiddle,
or rahal. Of course in your first oriental
i day, you will decline no invitations, but
| you will grow gradually deaf to all entrea
j ties of friends or dragomen to sally forth
• and hear music. You will remind him
that you did not come to the East to go
to Bedlam. The want of music is not )
strange, for silence is naiuial in the East j
and the tropics. B’lien sitting quietly at i
home in midsummer, sweeping ever sun- ]
I ward in the glowing heats, we at length
reach the tropics in the fixed fervor of a
| July noon ; the day is rapt, the birds are
l still, the wind swoons, and the burning
1 sun glares silence on the world. The
Orient is that primeval and perpetual
noon ; that very heat explains to you the
voluptuous elaboration of its architecture,
the brilliance of its costume, the pictures
queness of its life. But no J/ozart was
needed to sow Persian gardens with roses
breathing love and beauty, no Beethoven
to build Himalayas; no llossini to spar
kle and sing with the birds and streams.
Those realities are there of w hich the com
posers are the poets to lie-icm imagina
tions. In the East you see and feel music,
hut hear it never. The Syrian songs of
the dehort are very sad. They harmonise
with the burning monotony of the laud
scape in their long recitative and shrill
wail. The camel steps more willingly to
that natural music; but the llowadji,
swaying upon his back, is tranced in the
sound, so naturally born of silence.
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A newspaper is a queer institution;
it may bo destroyed at night ; it may light
u caudle or a cigar ; it may curl a girl’s
Itair ! Ah, only think of that, girl*! Of
course we don’t mean"any one in particu
lar! No, indeed. An editor’s thought are
completely, sweetly, exquisitely wreathed
in your rich tresses, and—yes ! noatling
down with you in your mid-night slum
bets, gently to guard and peacefully keep ;
watch over your happy dream 1 Yes, in- j
deed !—That’s the destiny of many a pa
per, we know it, for we have actually been
told so. The ladies tako to it and it to , I
them. First the. damsel, (if the printer
divides this word wo are rumed t) eagerly
read, then repeat the programme, aud ■
then it goes among the soft and beautiful i
tresses, and the daintily embroidered night- j
cap ! Who wouldn’t like to he a paper of
this sort? About half the people, we sits
pact. “Editors are pretty clever folks,
but they don’t know everything !”
Mr. Brady has just published ;
a photographic group of the Managers
of the Impeachment ou the part of the
House of Kepreseutalivos. This will be
an interesting memento of one of the
most important events in our history,
aud we have no doubt that a great 1
many will be glad to possess copies.— i
N.Y'.Tribune,
Very trne!**De gustibus non cst dis-|
putandumi" We wanted the photo-1
Straph of Wilkes Booth who laid aside
the Late Lamented, and now we crave
a glympsc of the physiognomy of those
who have set aside the Constitution and
Laws of our land, and, wo could not!
retrain from taking a running glance
at Apollyon, were ho to visit our sect-1
ion as Agent for his paper, the N.Y’. j
Tribune.
No?*An old maid i6 like a wheel—of
no use without a fellow.
.ULMttinUI.
*9*Nevcr show levity wlion people
treat worship.
19*Bad habits well pursued betimes,
nay reach the dignity of crimes.
(9*Those wito wrong others gener
illy slander the u to cover their owit
nfamy.
JgyNcvcr dispute with aw.an who is
nore than 70 years of age; nor with a
iroman, nor an enthusiast.
*9“NeVer court a favor of the rich
)y flattering cither their vanities or vi
ses.
SsgrNever resent a supposed injury
lutil you know the views and motives
>f the author.
Never think less of another on
account of his differing with you on
political or religious subjects.
19*.Always take the part of an absent
person who is censured in company,
10 far as propriety will allow,
|S^*None but the well-bred man
knows how to confess a fault, or ae
knowledge himself in an error.
S®"If you do things what you should
tot. you must hear things that you
ihould not.
jsiy Never ridiefilo sacred tilings, or
tv hat others may esteem as such, how
jver absurd they may appear to you.
BS2“A man set his sou to studying
aw, because lie said he was such a
a'icky little rascal, and ho wanted to
minor his chief talent.
te^f-lien. r nice, who ausconaeu irons
Kentucky, after squandering a largo
iinount of liia clleut’s money, is one of
ho Senators electof Arkansas.—Louis
rille Courier.
t-sT-When a man and woman are
mule one by a clergyman, the question
s which is the oke 'i Sometimes there
s a loiig struggle between them before
:liis matter is tiually settled.
teg-A little four-year old child, in
Portland, told his father be was a fool.
On being reprimanded by his mother,
uid required to say lie was sorry, ho
toddled up to the insulted parent and
exclaimed ; “Papa, I'm sorry you'a a
tool/’
teg" There is a young lady in Brook
i y ii, so refined in her language, that she
never uses the word “blackguard”, but
substitutes “ African sentinel.’'
*. • •». - ' . w**
reasoning, the mother of knowledge,
the breath of the soul, the commerce of
the heart, the bond of friendship, the
nourshmeut of content, and the oceupa
ion of men of wit.
MOT Of all the gratifications human
lature can enjoy, and of all the delight
t is formed to impart, noue is equal to
hat which springs from a loug and
ried mutual affection. The happiness
rvhicli arises from conjugal felicity is
■apable of withstanding the attacks of
ime, grows vigorous in age, and uni
nates the heart with pleasure and de
iglit when the vital fluid can scarcely
rorce a passage through it.
teg” Sam. Slick says: If yoti want a
ion not to fall in lovo with a splendif
;rous gal, praise her to the skies, call
icr an angel, say she is a whole team
«nd horse to spare, and all that. When
lie critter sees her he is again disap
pointed, says—“Well, she is handsome,
hat’s a fact; but she is not so very,
.'cry everlastin', after all.’’ Nothing
iamages a gal, or a preacher, like over
praise. A tioss is one of the onliest
teS-A waggish journalist, who is of
en merry over his personal plainness
ells this story of himself: “l went to
he chemist the other day for a dose of
norphine for a sick friend. The assis
snt objected to give it to me without
t prescription, evidently fearing that I
ntended suicide. “I’shaw !” said I “do
[ look liko a man who would kill him
<elf?’’ Gazing steadily at me a moment,
10 replied, “I don't know. It seems to
n# if 1 looked like you, I should bo
rreatcly tempted to kill myself.’’
Kiss .Ms.—A very funny incident
iccurrod in a neighboring city, says ait
ixchaugo not-far from lirookhaven, a
Vw days since, and one which is too
food to be lost. One of our composers
ms written a very pretty song entitled
'Kiss Me.” A little pretty, blushing
uaid, having heard of the song, ami
hiuking she would get W, with some
> there, stepped into a music store to
nuke a purchase. One of the clerks, a
widest youug man, stepped up to wait
>n her. The young lady threw back
icr veil, saying:
“l want 'Rock Me to bleep.”
The clerk got the song aud put it bc
bre her.
“Sow,” said the young lady, I want
;he ‘Wandering Refugee.”
“Yes, ma'am,’’ said the clerk, bow
ing, and in a few minutes he produced
:lie “Refugee."
“Sow, ‘Kiss Me,” said the youug
adv, of course meaning the song above
Mentioned
The poor clerk’s eyes popped Arc as
lie looked at the young lady in utter
istotiishmcut, for he was not aware of
the fact that a song by that name had
been published.
“Wh—what did you s^y, Miss.”
“Kiss Me," said she.
“1 can’t do it—I never kissed a
youug lady in my life,’said the bashful
clerk.
And about that time a veil dropped,
a youug lady left iu a hurry, clerk felt
sick, and dealer lost the sal* el some
music.